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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1965
Page
5
Women's organizations are invited to submit regular or special meeting notices. Send by telephone or mail to Beckley Newspapers Women's Department. Notices received by 10 am will be used the same day. Sunday calendar announcements must be received before 10 am Saturday.
Beckley Alcoholics Anonymous Group No 1 meets at Mountain Air Rest Home at 8 p.m. Supper Circle of Beckley Presbyterian Church gathers at 6 15 p.m. Mrs Virgil Sarrett chairs. American Legion Auxiliary Unit No 32 meets at Memorial Building Room 6 at 8 p.m. Melvola Chapter No 1 Order of Eastern Star at Masonic Hall G Street at 5 30 p.m. Quota Club of Beckley hosts a covered dish dinner and welcomes new members with Mrs Gladys Carney hosting at the Flat Top Lake home of Mr and Mrs John W Eye at 6 p.m. Raleigh County Unit American Cancer Society board of directors meets at Glass House at 7 30 p.m. Public invited. Academy of Friendship meets Moose Hall at 7 30 p.m.
Circle No 1 Crab Orchard Baptist Church holds a 1:30 p.m. meeting at the church. Hillcrest Home Demonstration Club annual picnic at Mrs. Harold Blake’s home in Cabell Heights. Past Matrons Club of Bethlehem Chapter No 71 OES holds a noon covered dish dinner at Sam Thompson Camp on Glade Creek. Briarcliff Garden Club meets at Mrs. I. B. Alderson’s home, 517 Highland Dr., 1 p.m. Eagles Auxiliary meeting at Eagles Aerue, 204 Woodlawn Ave., 7:30 p.m. All members urged to attend.
A sequence of community notices includes events at St Stephen’s Episcopal Church Ellison and Virginia Streets. St Francis de Sales Parish Hall Beckley. Crab Orchard Baptist Church. IOOF Hall Sophia. and YMCA Beckley. Groups include Women’s Improvement League, Licensed Practical Nurses of West Virginia District 3, Mission Circle No 5, Orchard Valley Women’s Club, True Blue Rebekah Lodge, Vision Day for pre schoolers, and Prosperous Hills Garden Club with times ranging 1 p m to 9 a m to 7 30 p m.
The article notes primitive men kept curls to show higher social rank, with kings’ curls signaling nobility. Hair was cut to fit armor and over time women adopted these trends when permitted, following men's fashion changes across eras.
Merriman Archer of Flat Top announces a family reunion for James Archer and Rachel Haz elwood Archer at Rich Creek Park in Giles County Virginia on August 22. Relatives and friends are invited to attend.
About 300 women are expected at the 8th annual Democratic Women's Day this weekend August 13 and 14 at the Daniel Boone Hotel in Charleston. The event is sponsored by the West Virginia Federation of Democratic Women and the West Virginia Council of Democratic Women with 30 plus clubs involved. Governor Smith and Congresswoman Patsy Mink will speak at the banquet honoring Mary Alice Smith. A Head Start report will be delivered during the convention. Mrs. Hazel Scott of Beckley chairs the Raleigh County Democratic Women.
News from Glen White notes Ard Daniel convalescing at home after ARH treatment. It reports the death of Mrs. Monono Ross of Detroit and lists surviving relatives in Glen View Beckley Dearborn New Jersey Rio Grande Akron Norfolk and Germany. Also mentions family visits from Gar land Snuffer Jeff Hatcher Don Humphreys and others. Lacy Farley left for Germany to serve with the U S Army.
A string of births announced from Raleigh General Hospital and Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital. Gregory Loew, Teresa Lynn, Hazel Darlene, Susan Kay, Gary Wayne, Andrew Jason, Kelly Lynn, Cheryl Annette, and Janet Louise are the newborns named with birth times, weights, and parent names or hometowns such as Eccles, Lanark, Cottageville, and Danese.
Members of the Prosperous Hills Garden Club prepare specimens and floral arrangements for the Dry Hill Prosperity Community Fair Pet Pony Cattle and Horse Show at the community center on Aug 1921. Left to right are Mrs. W. C. Bowyer Prosperity Mrs. Howard Earehart Dry Hill and Mrs. Russell Gene Smith Dry Hill. The club has historically made all floral works for fair tables and guest corsages and will hold its annual workshop at the home of Mrs. Wayne Stewart Ogden St Prosperity on Thursday Aug 12 at 5 30 p m.
A collage of social notes lists residents and visitors: Mrs Charlotte Daniel of 201 Vine St Mrs Chester Starkey at 201 and 12 Vine St and Miss Nancy Smith Daniels attended the Virginia Highlands Arts festival and Barter Playhouse production in Abingdon Virginia.
The Clay Chapel Methodist Church in Cameron held its annual Homecoming on Sunday with Rev. Sam Sink speaking at 11 a.m. Lunch followed at noon and an hour of fellowship and singing. The afternoon sermon at 2 p.m. came from Rev. Homer Stewart of Sophia. The Mattsville Choir participated, and Rev. Robert Davis of Glen Daniel is the host church pastor.
Basil H. Workman announces the Huffman reunion for descendants of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Huffman set for Sunday August 15 at the community center on Old Eccles Road. All Huffmans urged to attend and bring a basket dinner for the all day event. Mrs. Geree Richmond serves as secretary treasurer.
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