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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1940
Page
5
The Westminster Presbyterian Vacation Church School wraps up this evening at 7 30 with a worship service and a commencement program. About 190 pupils enrolled and the session is noted as the church’s highest attendance on record. A picnic for teachers and pupils near Bluefield college preceded today’s events.
Misses Rachel, Mary and Kath erine Peck hosted an informal bridge party Tuesday evening at their North Street home to honor Mrs Harold Billian and Miss Beatrice Cruise, the bride of Mr Ernest Litz. Mrs Kathleen M Peck and Mrs D T Lowman assisted. Green and yellow collars and summer flowers set the decorations. Mary Hobson won the high prize and the low prize went to another guest.
Mrs G E Edwards hosted about twenty children at 210 Allen Street to celebrate Naomi Ruth Edwards fifth birthday and Linda Mae Taylor ninth birthday. The Edwards home featured summer flowers and gold encrusted china, with carded and white cakes and candles. Prizes were won by Sarah Harris, Louise Caldwell, Lucy Malamasura, and James Jarrett. assistance came from Mrs G R Edwards and Carllie Edwards.
Mrs Billian and Miss Cruise were feted at a dessert-bridge hosted by Miss Virginia Lee Fisher at 801 Bluefield Avenue. Three tables played with high prize to Mrs Roy Hill and low to Miss Katherine Peck. Gifts of Fostoria celebrated the honorees Jane Elizabeth Rhoads and Beatrice Cruise before her July 6 marriage to Ernest Litz.
Counsellors and campers for the annual YWCA summer camp at Camp Roland from June 26 to July 10 are asked to meet at the YWCA rooms Saturday at 2 30 PM. Girls seeking more information should call the Y at 1480.
Miss Elizabeth Bailey daughter of Clyde V. Bailey heads to Pasadena California as official delegate from the West Virginia Alpha chapter to the Pi Beta Phi biennial national convention June 30 to July 6 at the Huntington hotel She will also serve as Rush chairman and has held roles at West Virginia University including regimental sponsor of the Cadet corps and treasurer of the Woman's Pan Hellenic council She travels with Miss Isabel Arling Miss Katherine Bond Miss Jane Nelson and Miss Virginia Koepler En route they will visit the San Francisco fair Afterward they will tour the West Coast.
Mrs Harold Billian of Philadelphia was honored at a bridge party hosted by Miss Mary Esther Stone at her Albemarle Street home. Miss Blanche Lazenby won high prize and Miss Cassie Mae Stone took the low, with a floral decor and a presented gift to the guest of honor.
The display shows ices molded as miniature brides and bridegrooms and individual cakes shaped as small corsages. Miss Stone received help in hospitality from her mother Mrs. J. G. Stone.
Mrs. Clark Fidler of Elkins hosts Mrs. J. T. Harvey and guest. Mrs. E. N. Warden and daughters Anne and Gene return from a week at their New River cabin near Warrensville North Carolina and visit Blowing Rock and the Rhododendron festival in Asheville. Miss Charlotte Gibbes of Seattle visits her aunt Miss Pearle Brammer.
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