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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1937
Page
12
Basil White was honored at a surprise party for his eighteenth birthday last Friday night with games and refreshments. He later crashed a motorcycle into a parked car causing a serious cut requiring seventeen stitches.
Congressional wives and daughters organize social groups including The Daughters of the House and The Daughters of the Senate, hold tea outings and outdoor activities at venues like the Venetian pool. The Ladies of the Senate picnic at Annapolis and travel to Jefferson Island Club aboard Waneka II for a Chesapeake Bay day of meals and games. A Justice exhibit tour for G-Men attracts visitors, highlighting crime history and advanced FBI testing. President Roosevelt receives a unique foot tall fishing pose sculpture from a New Orleans artist.
June reports from Lurich Virginia note Mrs James Turner breaking an arm in a cherry tree fall. Visitors include Bascom Williams to Bluefield and Roanoke. Guests Blanche Perdue and Mrs Jimmy Ewers visit Mr and Mrs James Perdue. Infant Nancy Robertson suffers whooping cough. E B Robertson of Lurich attends cherry cann ing contest, 1937, with 130 cans preserved.
Circles No. 1 and 2 held a joint meeting at the home of Mrs. B ley i dia of devotionals. A six month report was given and new business discussed. Twenty one members and four visitors attended. Pollyanna gifts were exchanged and the flower fund prize drawn by Mrs. Dunn ane. A social hour followed with refreshments. Next meeting set for the church with Mrs. Eugene Shrader leading.
The Church of Christ revival led by Rev. B. F. Sublett draws good attendance as sermons grow more forceful and the meeting is set to close on Sunday.
Dinner guests included Mrs W S Carner and daughter Mrs Russell Cooke with Alma Carner a student nurse from St Luke's hospital Bluefield visiting home, Mrs Walter Mahaffey and daughter Alma of Clift Yards and her son.
Local residents and relatives from Princeton visited family in Sinai and Bluefield this week. Names include Louis Staten Jr and Sr with daughter Margaret, Brenda Jean Kane, Pat Pickett and Myra Jean, and Miss Pearl ton. Ed Gardening and 4-H club activities were also reported with Joe Harris and Jack McKinney seen in recent visits. Edgar Garrison recovers from a serious illness, and Missoe Mae Watkins and Clara Hurst spend vacation time with Hurst family in Bluefield and Burlington, N. C.
The Winnipeg resumed service in New Orleans after a sandbank grounding caused ten days in drydock for repairs. A fire in the hold postponed a sailing, and a later departure was delayed to 1 p m to accommodate a woman passenger finishing a beauty parlor treatment.
A reported incident near a movie theater led authorities to intervene and collect three children. No further details were provided on their condition or the exact location.
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