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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1964
Page
5
New entrants enter first grade in September with colors and pictures shaping their world. Suggestions include pencils, crayons, notebooks, erasers, school bags, and optional items like a pocket dictionary, loose leaf books, rulers, globes, and a briefcase. A quiet study corner, blotter, lamp, and pencil cup foster concentration and good study habits.
Seventy five persons attended the Sophia Methodist Church annual picnic, moved to the church from Tams Mountain due to bad weather. Attendees gathered Sunday afternoon for the church event.
The National Geographic Society states Ecuador is among the region’s least developed countries. It notes about two thirds of its 4.5 million people reside on a central plateau covering one sixth of the country’s 104,506 square miles.
Sophia News Briefs reports multiple travel updates with Detroit residents Harold Richards and family visiting Norval Polk in Midway. Pvt. Jack Lavis leaves Fort Sill after a ten day leave. relatives visit Akron and Glen White. Essie Rowland visits in Beckley. Calla Taylor and son Thomas visit relatives in Beckley and Glen White as they plan local visits including various listed names and towns.
The column gathers personal notes from readers and friends. Reports include Mrs. M. L. Humphries returning from a week at Kure Beach North Carolina. Bladene Pickle and relatives attending the Lindawood family reunion in Marion Virginia. visits by Glenn Bucklin and family in Daniels. extended family travel to Klamath Falls Oregon and Whitehall Maryland. Isabele Morton attending a Presbyterian Bible Conference. and various notes about homeowners, visitors, and patients in Beckley and Parkersburg areas including Dr. Witherspoon, Dr. Smithwick, Mrs. Ellison, the Browns, and Sharon Keatley preparing for nursing duties. The piece also describes a divider in a room used for storage and decor, with notes on materials and durability.
New Citizens Mr and Mrs John Archer Wright Fayetteville are parents of Reginal Todd born at Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital at 5 28 p m Aug 11 weighing 7 pounds 13 ounces Mr and Mrs Cecil Blaine Bennett Princeton announce Renee Colette born at 4 07 a m Aug 11 weighing 7 pounds 15 12 ounces Born to Mr and Mrs Lynn Arrington Page a six pound four ounce daughter Lisa Lynn at 10 20 a m Aug 11 Mr and Mrs Lovell Redden Prince name their daughter Tammy Lynn born at 11 31 p m Aug 11 weighing nine pounds seven ounces Mr and Mrs Prentise Paul Trump Fairdale parent eight pound one ounce daughter Robin Lisa born at 6 59 p m Aug 11 in Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital Mrs Wilmer Thomas Bailey Jr Beaver announce Sue Ann born at 7 02 p m Aug 11 weighing 5 pounds 7 ounces
An ad lists Danna Wadler Designs and Crochet Heirloom Accessories items with transfers and motifs for embroidery, crochet, and quilting. It offers 1965 pattern purchases, mail prices, and a request to send 25 cents for a new Needlecraft Catalog plus 50 cents for a Quilt Book. Includes address for Laura Wheeler at Beckley Post Herald Needlecraft Dept in New York.
James Lawrence Aurednik and Carol Sue Smith, both nineteen, of Mount Hope and Eccles, wed with families listed. Robert Earl Berry and Emma Plumley, twenty three and twenty one, of Beckley. Delbert Treadway and Shirley McComas, thirty one and nineteen, of Artie and Midway. Milton Crookshanks and Marco Moon, twenty two and eighteen, Beckley and Glen Daniel. Harold Howerton and Phyllis Clinton, twenty and eighteen, Washington DC and Crab Orchard. Johnson Wood Jr. and Mary Harvey, twenty six and twenty five, Mac Arthur and Beckley.
Ten members of the Junior High Methodist Youth Fellowship of Sophia Methodist Church attended Camp Sophia at George Washington Carver Monday through accompanied by Mrs. C. J. Kirby Jr and Mrs. Bernard Cline. Names include Bernard Cline Nancy Cline Nanette Cher Twana Wetsel Lisa Wetsel Karen Thompson Regina Thompson Libby Young Michael Kirby and Sammy Roberts.
Mr and Mrs Leon Mitchell of Roanoke Virginia announce the birth of a daughter Leah on August 13 at 5 PM at Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Leah weighed seven pounds one ounce. Their other daughters are Lisa and Lori. Maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs R H Neal of 470 Vance Drive are visiting in Roanoke.
Mrs John B Hurt of Roanoke Virginia has named their first child John B Jr He was born Thursday at 12 20 p m in Roanoke Memorial Hospital and weighed seven pounds The mother is the former Carol Jean Huffman daughter of former Beckleyans Mr and Mrs Frank Huffman now living in Roanoke The great grandmother is Mrs Mary Ellen Hern of 201 Parkway Drive Beckley
Miss Pauline Zeigler Tinney Jones and daughter Jennifer and Pamela Creagh of Detroit Michigan returned home Saturday after a week with Mr and Mrs James Zeigler They attended a performance of Honey in the Rock toured the Beckley Exhibition Mine and visited Blue Stone Dam Also a note on drying celery tops and storing them in a jar.
Daily Calendar Club notices invite Beckley women to submit upcoming meeting notices for the next issue. The Monday items include the Beckley Chapter Women of the Moose executive board at Moose Lodge Dining Room at 7 p.m. with ritual practice at 8 p.m. and a Flowering Hills Garden Club workshop at 10 a.m. at 2216 S. Kanawha St. for Mrs. Earl A. Hall.
Beckley Chapter Women of Moose holds regular meeting at Moose Lodge Ballroom at 7 30 p m Fernwood Garden Club conducts workshop at Coca Cola Social Room at 1 30 p m Laurel Business and Professional Women's Club hosts covered dish dinner at Appalachian Assembly Room at 6 30 p m Beckley Woman's Christian Temperance Union meets at First Baptist Church Fellowship Hall at 1 30 p m
The Crab Orchard Woman's Christian Temperance Union held a covered dish luncheon at the Church of the Brethren picnic grounds starting at 11 30 a m. Local attendees planned fellowship and community outreach activities.
Gamma Gamma Chapter hosts a convention workshop at the home of Mrs Charles Lane 534 Temple Street at 7 30 p m Tryouts for Mary Mary presented by Curtain Callers at The Playhouse also at 7 30 p m
Guests at the Williams home in Cittsville include their great granddaughter Mrs Geral A Amburgey and two daughters Pamela Sue ten months and Denise six, with Amburgey’s brother J B Hammer III visiting from Babbitt Nevada. They travel to Columbus Ohio to join Lt Sgt Amburgey assigned to Offutt Air Force Base after living in Omaha where he is stationed.
Parents Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Charkwood of Menomonee Falls Wis welcomed their first son born Sunday in a local hospital. The baby weighed seven pounds eight ounces and has not yet been named. The couple also have two daughters, Cynthia eight and Vicky six. Patty Noel Beckley is named as the mother of Cynthia, daughter of M. F. Noel of 115 Virginia St and the late Mrs Noel.
The first reunion of Lewis F. Hunt and Margaret Peggy Hunt descendants was hosted Sunday at Elder and Mrs. Lowell Lilly in Coal City. Attendees included numerous relatives from Coal City and nearby towns. a future reunion was agreed to be held next year.
Knit a lightweight, warm coat in easy stitch for year round wear. Pattern 607 covers sizes 32 34 26 38 and suggests big needles with mohair or worsted yarn. Includes capelet option and button detail for breezy evenings. Herald Needlecraft Dept. New York 11 NY ad offers pattern 902 directions and mail order info.
The First Lady Lyndon B Johnson embarks a four day Western tour covering Utah Wyoming and Montana beginning August 4. Her packed schedule includes dedication of Flaming Gorge Dam visits to Indian reservations and recreation areas with state and local officials joining from Green River Rock Springs and nearby communities. The journey features diverse travel by land sea air and raft and ends with a late arrival back in Washington.
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