Famous Choir Leader to Arrive Next Week
Gustave Lehmann, renowned choir director from Rochester New York, will arrive in Bluefield to oversee rehearsals of a 100 voice local choir organized by Mrs P S Barrow. Seventy five leading singers from Bluefield Princeton and Bramwell have trained under Barrow with plans to reach one hundred before Lehmann’s arrival. The first child rehearsal is Monday at 3 PM at First Presbyterian church with adults meeting Monday and Tuesday at 745 PM. a large public rehearsal is set for Wednesday July 8 at Ramsey school auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gustave Lehmann
Bluefield
Rochester
N. Y
P. S. Barrow
Princeton
Bramwell
John and
Bernard Lawrence
Fasex Street
North Carolina
South Carolina
Aida Bowers
Galax
Mildred Ainspaugh
Landgraff
W. E. Cofer
Rogers Street
P. S. Dudley
Roanoke
Jack
W. H. Quekemeyer
Henry
Frank Alexander
Williamson
H. W. Speiden
Marehall
A. W. Utterback
Ruth Pope
Washington
Pearle Brammer
Miss Pope
Young Women's Christian Association
Walter Hancock
Sussex Street
Rock Hill
8. C
Equitable Life Assurance Company
Hancock
Davidson College
Davidson
N. C
Tate Bowen
Jack Dew
St. Petersburg
Fla
Huntington
M. C. Blackburn
H. L. Price
Bedell
Addie Vivian Campbell
Louisé Campbell
FE. F. Salt
Wytheville
Ray and
Garnett Miller
W. C. Cline
Ronceverte Street
C. W. Hylton
Chicago
Narrows
Dublin
Y W C A Girls Camp Plans At Christie Site
Registration at the local Y for the annual YWCA girls camp opens for July 24 at the Christie site. Miss Grace Dunman of Mullena will again supervise swimming instruction. If sixty girls are not registered, the camp will be cancelled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christie
Grace Dunman
Mullena
Prayer Service At Davis Home This Afternoon
A prayer service is set for today at 2 30 PM at the home of Mrs A G Davis 107 Thomas Street with Mrs M G White leading the service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. G. Davis
Thomas Street
M. G. White
Sunday School Class Meeting At Thompson Home
Mrs F W Udy leads Grace Methodist Sunday School at 7:45 this evening at 655 Rockbridge Street home of Mrs 8S R Thompson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Udy
Grace Methodist Church
Y W C A Plea For Pledges To Budget Fund
The finance committee led by Pearle Brammer requests that all pledges for the first half of the year to the Y W C A budget fund be paid promptly. The Y needs funds to cover current expenses and urges all donors to remit as soon as possible.
Circle 3 Meeting at First Baptist Annex
Circle 3 of the Woman’s Missionary Society led by Mrs. H. B. Perfater will meet Wednesday at 3 in the church annex.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
H. B. Perfater
Annex
Bland Street church Woman's Missionary meeting date
The Woman's Missionary Society of Bland Street Methodist Church will meet Wednesday at 3 PM in Hamilton Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman'’s Missionary Society of
Bland Street
Hamilton Hall
Stewardship Program Highlights Virginia Asher Council Meeting
A well attended Virginia Asher Business Women's council gathering at the V featured a picnic supper and a Stewardship program. Miss Medeline Gearing led the program with an acrostic verses from scripture and a paper on Stewardship. Harriet Speiden spoke on William Colgate. Edna Stultz discussed God’s Garden. Otie Sumner announced the national conference August 10-14 at Winona Lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Asher Business Women’s Council
T. H. Clagett
Washington Street
Medeline Gearing
Gearing
Harriet Speiden
William Colgate
Edna Stultz
God
Mise Otie Sumner
Virginia Asher Business Women’s Councils
Winona Lake
Next Year's Quota Meeting Set for Memphis
The Quota International convention in Washington chose Memphis as the meeting site for next year. Mrs. Nettie Vase Steele announced the decision after returning Sunday with her mother and daughter. Delegates from West Virginia and Canada attended a record 365 delegates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
International
Washington
Nettie Vase-Steele
Steele
P. E. Vass
Nettie Lee Steele
Pearl Taylor
Bluefield
Quota Club
Alice Zimmerman
Miss Taylor
Eliieon
Mre
Zimmerman
Pulaski
Quota
Canada
Mayflower Hotel
White House
Herbert Hoover
International Board
West Virginia
Mayflower
Lena Lowe Yost
Huntington
National Republican Committee
Clyde
To Honor Bride Mrs William Brown at Tea Shower
Miss Arlene Geordon hosts a two hour afternoon tea and miscellaneous shower for the bride Mrs William Brown formerly Miss Helen Bivens this Thursday from two to four.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Brown
Helen Bivens
Arlene Geordon
Tea in Honor of Cincinnati Guests at Rameey Street Home
Mrs. K E Greiser hosted a Monday afternoon tea on Rameey street for guests Mrs A L Greiser and Miss Lilly Beckwith of Cincinnati. Colorful summer flowers adorned the room and assistance came from Mrs C G Hancock and Mrs Sallie Wade. Guests arrived between 3 and 5 and enjoyed a salad and ice course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. E. Greiser
Rameey Street
A. L. Greiser
Lilly Beckwith
Cincinnati
Greiser
C. G. Hancock
Sallie Wade
T. E. Baker
C. W. Pierce
John Tanner
Sheb Gillespie
Spencer Armistead
Laura Davenport
Richmond
June Rice
Carl Thomas
George Brown
T. L. Griffin
Roanoke
Maggie
Julia
Christine Cameron
E. S. Baker
Bramwell
Missionary Special Topic At Trinity League Meeting
Trinity Senior Epworth League met at the church to discuss How Has Our Missionary Special Turned Out. Miss Brock Hamilton led the devotional period with Acts 14 26 28 and the Lord s prayer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinity Senior Epworth League
Brock Hamilton
Elizabeth Warlick
Virginia Bolen
Wolf Creek
Miss Smith to Direct Series Radio Programs
Local musician Miss Marion Smith is named director of a WHIS radio series funded by Bluefield Milling company. under a three month contract she will hire local artists for programs aired Tuesday Thursday and Saturday from 11 to 12 and Monday Wednesday and Friday from 12 to 1, with the first program scheduled for Wednesday July 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Smith
Bluefield Milling Company
Smith
Enjoyable Outing At Falls Mill Picnic
The Thornton Laird store party enjoyed a pleasant outing that evening at Falls Mille. They traveled in several automobiles leaving the city shortly after 6 o'clock. A bountiful picnic supper was laid out at the scene and swimming was the main activity of the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thornton-Laird
Falls Mille
Couple Welcomes Son Willmor Donald Osborne
Mr and Mrs E A Osborne of 407 12 Bland street announce the birth of a son named Willmor Donald born June 27. The infant weighs 8 1 2 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. A. Osborne
Bland Street
Willmor Donald
Westminster Presbyterian Woman's Auxiliary Plans Wednesday Meeting
The executive committee will convene in S parlor on Wednesday at 2 30 PM for a church auxiliary session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Auxiliary
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Social notes of Bluefield area visitors and travels
A long list of Bluefield residents and visitors is noted with trips to Louisville Belfast Mills Galax and Huntington. Meetings at Morgantown White Sulphur Springs and Davidson College are also mentioned along with weddings and family visits.
Mother and son drown in Ohio river near Bellaire
In Bellaire Ohio a mother Mrs Helen Berher 23 and her 65 year old son died in the Ohio river when the child Edward fell in while throwing stones. The father Anthony Berher found the younger son Joseph 2 on the river bank as the rescue effort occurred. The family home sat near the river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellaire
Ohio River
Helen Berher
Edward
Joseph
Anthony Berher
Berher
Twenty-Eight WV School for Blind Students Undergo Operation
Twenty eight of the thirty students from the West Virginia School for the Blind arrived at St Luke's hospital in Bluefield for vision restoring surgery by Dr J E Blaydes at no cost. Several more children were brought in by Mr Dodrill and will be operated on in coming days with expected normal vision outcomes for many.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia School For Blind
Romney
St. Luke's Hospital
J. E. Blaydes
Bluefield
Hershel Ferguson
Webb
Charles Henhorne
Sistersville
Dodrill
Dodril
Don Keifer
Leo Keifer
Margaret Keifer
Leon
W. Va
Freda Pickens
Ripley
Jackson County
Forrest Perrine
Richwood
Nicholas County
Edith Dillon
Logan Copley
Pauline Meek
Wallace Buchanan
Ragland
Wayne County
Franklin Clay
Huntington
Blaydes
St. Lukes
Also Mentioned on This Page
Y. Camp
Mrs. Udy
Virginia Asher Council
Gan
Brooks Smith
E. F. Morgan
Ira Robinson
National Radio Commission
International Board of Directors
Washington Club
Columbia Country Club
Elizabeth White
Katherine Tancill
Catherine Olney
Worcester
Mass
Juliette Southard
New York
Myrtle Duke
York
Margaret M. Hignell
Winnipeg
Tancill
Mies Wilma Bull
Davenport
Iowa
Alice O'Neal
Cleveland
Mies Alice Minor
Wilkesbarre
Bertha Goldthwaite
Boston
Mase
Newcastle
Trinity League
Miss Smith
Executive
Fred Brown
Louisville
Kentucky
S. L. Watson
Belfast Mills
Virginia
Edythe Blake
E.S. Baker
F.S. Richmond
C. S. Scott
College Avenue
B. L. Tickle
Bland Courthouse
Mr. Fleshman
Elizabethton
Tenn
Hylton
Mary Elizabeth Day
St. Lukes Hospital
J. R. Murphy
Peggy Nelms
Harry Nelms
Kingsport
T. D. Griffin
Jimmy
B. B. Harris
Lee Street
W. §. Thompson
Abingdon
H. L. Leonard
Sanford, Fla
Ledge Street
Damascus
Gilbert L. Minton
Emall
Jackie
Misa Desir Gilmore
Holly Hill
Billie
Blanche
Ruth
Pauline Brammer
B. EB. Green
Reid
M. M. Hedrick
W. B. Webber
Green
Webber
Marguerite Cooke
John H. Cooke
Raymond Pierce
J. W. Roberts
Balsam Street
R. C. Fleshman
Robert
Appomattox
C. C. Frazier
L. C. Fowlkes
Beulah Price
West Virginia Bankers’ Association
White Sulphur Springs
Edna Hough
Morgantown
Hugh I. Shott Jr
Armour Creameries
Armour
Armour and Company
Jov' R Bloom
Cloverbloom
KDKA
S.S.S
Ieee Cusses
Poes
Princeton Avenue
Bluefield, W. Va
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