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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1949
Page
3
Readers send questions on freckles dry skin and eye care. Lois Leeds offers tips, suggests softening creams with hormones, jewelry choices for mature skin, and exercise leaflets. Requests for stamped self addressed envelopes are noted for mailers.
A Charleston public notices section lists Moses Brown diploma events and numerous birth announcements dated May through June. Entries name families from Charleston and environs, noting the parents and newborns with scattered dates and locations across a community record.
The Charleston Business and Professional Women's club meets at 12 30 p m tomorrow at the Greystone restaurant for an emblem breakfast. New officers will be installed by Miss Mildred Hiehle with Emma Neal Boxgess as guest. Various members receive roles and new members will be presented, including Ann Fox and Alan Wagner.
Billy Smith 13, of Shady Spring, WV, drowned near a Wilcnxen Coal Co strip mine in Raleigh County. State police said he stepped into a deep water hole after wading out with four friends who heard his call for help but believed it a joke. Coal company worker and Beckley firefighters recovered the body, attempts at revival failing.
Doilies in filet crochet offered with pattern charts and directions by Laura Wheeler. Send twenty cents to The Charleston Gauge Needlecraft Dept to receive the improved pattern. Also notes Queens College Degree for Misa White and graduation details for Mary Jo White of South Charleston.
The Charleston agency of the Ohio State Life Insurance Co. under manager T. S. Holcomb ranked fifth among 21 agencies in May in insurance volume. Holcomb and Oscar Darby are named among the company’s May honor men. The annual agency convention will be held in Columbus next January.
The 40 voice cappella choir of South Charleston High School under Lucy Jackson will perform at a West Side union service at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church yard. The program includes Jesus Priceless Treasure and other sacred works. Dr Joe Overmyer will speak on Sure Foundations to members of five cooperating churches and friends.
Reverend Byron W. John will lay the cornerstone of the new Methodist church at Charlton Heights at 2 30 p m tomorrow. Participants include Dr J B F Yoak Jr superintendent of Methodist churches in the Charleston district and Rev R Moorman Farker executive secretary.
Secretary of the Wes Virginia Conference Board of Missions and Church extension Rev Austin Bagshaw of Gabley Bridge Rev DU G Clark of Boomer and T Campbell lay leader of the Charleston district.
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