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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1958
Page
9
Local notices list weekly meetings across Beckley including the Beckley Duplicate Bridge Club at Teen Town 7:45 p.m. and Circle events at First Baptist Church and Methodist Temple. Family picnics, class sessions, and club gatherings fill Wednesday through Friday schedules with addresses and hosts noted.
The Friendship Class of First Baptist Church held its annual picnic Tuesday night at Mrs. K. K. Rand’s Harper Road home. Tables on the terrace showcased summer flowers. Rev. Sydney Rowland Jr. and Mrs. Rowland attended with children. Mrs. H. A. Stickler led the business session, and a devotional by Mrs. Calvin Moore and Mrs. Larimore closed with a farewell note as Mrs. Larimore moves to Lake Park Florida. The social hour followed for 36 members.
Look Pencil Slim pattern No. 1413 with PHOTO-GUIDE in multiple sizes and yardage details. Send thirty five cents plus five cents per pattern for first class mailing to Iris Lane Raleigh Register Box 432 Midtown Station New York. Also: returns from vacation Pat Wheeler family visits with Roanoke and Norfolk friends at Nags Head Beach North Carolina.
Ladies Day at Black Knight Country Club featured women golfers with prizes awarded to Mrs. W N Sprague Jr for low putts and Mrs. George Piper for blind. Championship Tournament, the season’s finale, now in progress with first flight results including medalist Mrs. Harry Elis and matches won by Mrs. Melvin Wood and Mrs. Vivian Lilly.
A long list of social visits and returns notes individuals and families visiting relatives in Maryland West Virginia and New York. It notes Ensign James A Estep Jr starting Naval flight training in Pensacola after Annapolis graduation and dance study trips by Emma Beard and Jerry Rose in New York.
A stork shower honored Mrs Buford Wood Friday night at Mrs Jo Danley's home. Co hosts included Mrs Alice Wood and others. Prizes went to Mrs Vernon Canterbury and Mrs Burdiss as attending guests list features numerous local women.
Sunday guests gathered at the home of Mrs Tressie Richmond for a family get-together. The visit included Mr and Mrs Dewey Brunty and son from Oak Hill. Mr and Mrs Obal Canaday and daughters Janet and Kay from Salem New Jersey. Mr and Mrs Cecil Martin and daughter Pat of Sophia. Mr and Mrs W J Morris and child Lester. Miss Christine Harris of Cleveland Ohio. Mr and Mrs Hubert Clay and daughter Shirley of Arnett. Mr and Mrs Phillip Stover of Beckley. Billy Engelbrecht from Thon New York. Mrs Macie Miriam of Glen Daniel. and Mrs Lura Brown with Lester.
A recent guest at Mr. and Mrs. John R. Cook in Fairdale was their son Richard M. Cook of New York City returning from San Francisco en route home. Also visiting were their son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs R N Hiebel and children of Zanesville Ohio. Shirley Bogle of White Sulphur Springs spent the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs Clay Bogle. Roger Clowers of Chicago and his wife are vacationing with her parents and with the Cooks while visits from Mr and Mrs Earl Clowers and Mr and Mrs Ford Dalton continue at the Gilmer home.
Miss Patty Jean Hughes 19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James D. Hughes of Beckley, is named among 38 princesses in the Mountain State Forest Festival court of Queen Silvia XXII. A Winthrop junior majoring in business and home economics, she attended Woodrow Wilson High School and West Virginia University, and is active in Alpha Phi Sorority and several clubs. Her appointment was made by Lt. Col Joseph F. Bangham Jr. in Elkins with the festival set for Oct. 14.
Six Beckley clubwomen will attend the second annual Adult Education Institute August 13-14 at West Virginia University. Attendees include Miss Topsy O'Dell and several society leaders. The program covers home economics club clinic psychology parliamentary procedure education recreation and related sessions led by WVFWC and WVU Extension staff.
Rhodell notices show Mrs. Eugene Huffman and other relatives visiting in Beckley and nearby communities. Several families including Conner Hartley Gombos and Duppee share social visits with kin in Beckley Green Valley Pineville Jacksonville and Lego.
Slab Fork residents Mr. and Mrs. James D. Farley were honored with an outing at the 4H Lake Saturday night. The honorees and their daughter Karen will move Sunday to Ocean City Maryland where they will teach next term. Farley former Stoco High School teacher and Mrs Farley formerly taught at Slab Fork Elementary and is Mona Nicely by birth. Attendees included Darell Brumfield and family, Robert Horton and family, George White, Ken Wheeler, Kindle Rice and son, Linda Nicely and Kenneth Eller.
Mrs. Edna Dickens Bob was admitted Friday to Beckley Memorial Hospital for treatment after a fall. She is the mother of Mrs. Perry Snuffer of Fairdale and Mrs. Roy Hawley of Oceana. R. L. Dickens of Indianapolis and her daughter Mrs. Glendon Hawley and grandchildren live in Cleveland.
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