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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1971
Page
11
Polly Cramer answers readers on consumer habits and wedding lace care. The column discusses Sunday shopping, candle holder ideas for fall weddings, lace cleaning and repair tips, and cautions about fragile old lace requiring expert attention.
Crochet poncho cape in red and white two color option with sizes Small Medium Large. Pattern No 5498 includes crochet directions and comes with postage handled for 60 cents. Advertises Fall Winter 71 album at 65 cents and crib quilts patterns with nursery designs priced 65 cents.
Rhodell residents Mr and Mrs Kenneth McKinney and their son from Florida were guests of his grandmother Mrs Laura McKinney last weekend. Harold Lester is listed as a patient in the Veterans Administration Hospital at Beckley. Bentley Flinchum visits relatives in Wytheville and Christiansburg Virginia this week.
Women groups may submit notices for regular and special meetings via telephone or mail to Beckley Newspapers. Notices by 10 a.m. are published the same day with Friday items listing Stotesbury McAlpin Tams, Queen Esther Court No 53, Shady Spring and East Park Community Action groups with times and locations.
New Era District Choir No 1 at New Hope Baptist Church at 3 p.m. Social Saving Club meets at the home of Mrs Lorene Pinkard on Mool Street at 7 p.m.
Sunday activities include American Legion Auxiliary Unit 70 at South Fayette Street Post Home at 4 p m Quota Club executive board meeting Beckley Hotel at noon Friendly Few Savings Club at Mrs Katherine Seay Mills Street 8 p m Shady Spring Garden club annual picnic Table Rock area 6 p m Welcome to Beckley Newcomers Club at Elks Club 7 30 p m Quota Club Beckley regular meeting Beckley Hotel noon Alcoholics Anonymous Mountain Air Rest Home 1921 By Pass 8 p m Beckley Garden Club at Mrs Grover C Hedrick 708 Northwestern Ave 1 p m Newcomers Club sack lunch New River Park 10 a m If rain occurs the meeting will be held Thursday
Alcoholics Anonymous meets at the Episcopal Church dercroft on Virginia Street at 8 p.m. Calico and Jeans Square Dance Club hosts a caller dance with Harry McColgan at the Square Dance Hall on Prince Street at 8 p.m. Donations accepted at the door for the Beckley Swimming Pool Fund.
The descendants of James Ellison III will hold a reunion Sunday at the Golf farm near Lee's Tavern on Sewell Mountain. Attendees are asked to bring a picnic basket and the event starts at 10 a.m.
Rosie Galen known as the cat lady shelters 65 rescue cats in her one room Hawaii home. She feeds cleans and cares for the cats daily, keeping them in cages and preventing breeding while raising a personal menagerie with dogs on a shared property. She notes kittens flood shelters but few find homes, and she sees herself providing a needed service.
The second annual Pittman descendants reunion gathered at Crab Orchard Campgrounds on Pluto Road to honor George and Martha Pittman. Attendees included many Sprague families and numerous out of town guests from states such as Virginia, Indiana, New York, Michigan, Maryland, Ohio, California, and West Virginia.
Maynor Williams and Becky Williams returned to Azo Arizona after visiting Woodrow and Mrs Aliff in Cittsville. Billy Miller from Cleveland stayed with his mother Thelma Miller during a Beckley Hospital trip for a foot injury. Uncle Bill Blankerbecker rests in Raleigh General. Godbeys from Elkton Md visited Gauldin in Cittsville. Mrs Gauldin’s sister Elizabeth Hager is a Charleston Memorial patient. Madeline Aliff remains at Beckley ARH post surgery. Sue Williams of Houston and Lena Hammer with J B visited Claude Williams in Cirtsville.
The Raleigh Register plans an Aug 22 Salute to College Students featuring area youths enrolling or returning to college this fall. Submit name, address, parents’ names, college, year of study, course, career plans, high school, and summer activities to Brenda McDaniel in Beckley or in person on Prince Street. Photos up to 5x7 inches accepted. Deadline is Aug.
A miscellaneous shower was hosted in the Bank of Raleigh social room for Mrs. Richard Pauley of Beckley the former Harriett Lively daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Lively of Beckley. Hostesses included Mrs. Lively and Mrs. Tennis Halstead with Mrs. Betty Stanley. The Pauleys wed April 14 in Orange Texas and Pauley is the son of Mr. and Mrs. S A Pauley of Sulphur Louisiana stationed with the U S Navy at Great Lakes Tl.
Raleigh General Hospital reports five births. Carol Annette Prince arrived July 21 at 2 p.m., seven pounds two ounces. Roy Erskine Crouse Jr. born July 21 at 2:45 p.m., six pounds 12 ounces, Beckley residents Roy and Mildred Crouse. Kevin Leigh West born July 22 at 3:10 a.m., seven pounds 11 ounces, Everette Dale West and family. Anthony Shane Bolen born July 22 at 2:10 p.m., eight pounds, 12 ounces. Den nifer Lynn Calvert born July 23 at 4:14 a.m., nine pounds, Sophia Beach area couple James Franklin Calvert and spouse.
Mrs. Gladys Johnson Mrs. Blanche Walker and son Robert Lee return to Baltimore from Bradley after a week with Mrs. Thelma Bowles and Mrs. Delia Bowles. Equina Asuncion returns to Mabscott from Orranton after attending granddaughter Janet Corrells wedding to John Shaffer with Virgil Beasley and Junior Billy and Tammy Beasley of Mabscott.
Columbus named the island Tobago after its fancied resemblance to the tobacco inhaling tube of the aborigines, from which the word tobacco is thought to be derived.
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