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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1935
Page
8
Mrs Lette and Mrs Carl Melton hosted a Wednesday evening shower at Mrs Meltons South Charleston home honoring Mrs May E Francis and Mrs A Lachapelle. Numerous guests attended including Mrs Guy Moss Mrs Minerva Lewis Mrs Ruth Beaver and many others.
Bel Neveat, Miss Isabel Goff, Miss Marle Hall, Miss Myrtle Brack ton, Miss Kathleen White and Miss Jean Marshall are named in a local society notice highlighting debutantes and social standings. The fragment indicates a social event or feature within the community’s society pages.
Lucille Denton Diddle presents first year piano pupils in a recital at Galperin music hall tonight at eight o clock. The program includes dance numbers by Marion Keadle school of dance arts. Pupils: Mildred Hull Dorothy Scrove Betty Louw Hutsinpiller Anni Jee Hallam Robert Singer Margaret Lane Edward Murphy Trabert Guy Gorham Cynthia Cannon Mary Jane Hart Virginia Pearson Jean Dickson Joan Teal Joseph Petersen I ria Anne Crites Betty Lou Slowers Virginia Zell Dorothy Holmbee Betty Jo Bias Patricia Jean Diddle Robert Keadle Phyllis Ann Alien.
Miss Catherine Thornburg of Huntington to wed Dr. Charles Staats of Charleston on Wednesday June 19 at the Thornburg home on Fifth Avenue Huntington. Tea guests will be hosted by Dr Hugh Lewis and Mrs W E Gayle at Mrs Gayle's Sixth Street home with calls from 3 to 5 30. Mrs Robert Thornburg and Mrs Herbert Nash hosted a Wednesday afternoon tea for Miss Thornburg.
Miss Sallie Bell plans an informal evening gathering at her Virginia Street home. Guests include Mr. and Mrs. C Payne, Mr. and Mrs. James M. Payne, Miss Emmy Low Morton, Miss Mary Fuller, Miss Mary Louise Agnew, Miss Anne Matthews, Miss Antoinette Bond, Miss Virginia Cracraft, Miss Laura Virginia Nebbitt, Miss Margaret Austin, Miss Iris Johnson of Richmond, and numerous local residents such as Mr. James Mathews, Mr. Frank Drumheller, Mr. William Matthews, Mr. John Merrill, Mr. Richard Kithil, Mr. Spottswood Preston, and others.
Don Redman and his orchestra will play for a dance Tuesday at the Memorial building Williamson under the Cotillion club of the city Chaperones are Mr and Mrs O W Evang Mr and Mrs Ralph B Maynard and Mr and Mrs F L Lang Dancing from ten to two o clock.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Stone hosted a birthday party Tuesday at their home in honor of their son Master William Willis Stone who celebrated his third birthday anniversary. Guests included Miss Mary Kath Carr Miss Lucile Hamilton Miss Lorraine Bragg Miss Anna Mae Hichards Miss Arbutus Richards Miss Helen Norton Miss Nina Young Miss Nina Mildred West Miss Irene Schmidt Miss Tuth Stone Miss Mildred West Master Jack West and Master Philip Stone.
Mr and Mrs Earl C Shields of Clarksburg announce the engagement of their daughter Miss Virginia Lee Shields to Mr Matice Baker son of the late Mrs Clara Baker of Clarksburg. The wedding is planned for late June. Miss Shields has worked as a secretary in Charleston for a year and is a Washington Irving high school graduate who attended West Virginia business college. Mr Baker is a Washington Irving graduate and a student at West Virginia University law school.
Meadowbrook club hosted a kickers tournament as part of Ladies Day with players including Mrs. Harry Embleton, Mrs. Clarence Cabell, and Miss Christine Coffey among a list of local residents. Also noted are residents visiting relatives, attending conventions, undergoing operations, or traveling to Virginia Beach and other destinations.
Local society notes list numerous Charleston residents and guests. It highlights visits to New York, Raleigh and Wisconsin, summer trips to Norway and Denmark, college graduations, hospital surgeries, and family gatherings among Brabham Mitchell Reed and related families on Quarrier Street and South Hills.
Mrs Sabo entertained at her residence marking the opening of a new home at Lick Branch. Present were Rev. F Sperow and Mrs Sperow, Mr A C Clark, Mrs G Weir, Ernest Henderson, Mrs Mra Joseph Sato, Miss Carrie Sutherland, Miss Virginia Cotton, Miss Gwyn, and Pittee Joseph Sabo. The Lick Branch Presbyterian women's auxiliary met as delegates Wednesday evening.
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