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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1941
Page
9
A Saturday birthday celebration was held for William Childress at his parents home in Lauderdale. Guests included Mrs. Sybil Gullion Berta Hail and the Misses Hannah Bala.
Readable fragments list residents and families including Nina Williams Leila Turley Virginia Matheny Mary Slack Ruth Childress Margaret Childress Loretta Childress Kathleen Childress Ruth Childress Lillie Mae Pauley Tressie Slack and men Aubrey Sands Harry Shaffer Herman Shaffer in an old local notice segment.
A sequence of individuals including Charles Williams Burt George E L Ball Raymond Kidd Charles Hess Love Carlyle George David Comer Orville Riffer Robert Turley Carl Turley George Williams John Williams Charles Hall Willard Sanger Edward Walre Donald Williams Clarence Crawford and Leslie Pauley listed together in the document.
Misses Jo Ann Snyder and Hester Ann Thaxton will host a dance at the West Side Woman's club Monday night with Ned Guthrie's orchestra playing from 10 p m to 1 a m Chaperones are Mr and Mrs Emmett Thaxton Mr and Mrs Alvin Snyder Jr and Mr and Mrs P Whisenhunt Invitations list numerous young women as potential attendees with many names recorded.
State Defense Coordinator Cart G. Bachmann announced he will outline West Virginia's defense coordination plan at 10 p.m. next Monday in a state wide broadcast. He said rationing of automobile tires will be explained then and Germany limits beer served per customer in each beer hall with patrons allowed to move between halls.
The Southern Coal corporation of Bluefield received a charter yesterday from the secretary of state. Incorporators include W. R. Crew, L. C. Crenshaw, and R. W. Rice of Bluefield, with $10,000 capital authorized and $1,000 paid in.
A Kroger Grocery and Baking warehouse and office project valued at 250000 dollars has been indefinitely postponed. Branch manager S. S. Rich stated yesterday that construction work has been halted with no set restart date.
Shortage of essential materials for national defense led the company to postpone the large 607 Washington Street project. Plans are ready and the structure will be built once supplies arrive. Rich Said.
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