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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1959
Page
5
Fayetteville reports a 4 H ham and bacon project demonstration at Ernest Ellison Farm Lansing with hog butchering and trimming. A second hog will be butchered Thursday at C R Jones Farm, with a March show and sale planned to promote high quality home meat and uniform curing.
Miss Betty Marshall bride elect of John Mullens was honored at a Friday shower hosted by Mrs. Oza Stewart in Matheny. Attendees included family and friends from Matheny and Pineville, games were played and prizes awarded.
The five circles of the Woman's Society of Christian Service at Fayetteville Methodist Church will host a 6 15 p m covered dish dinner in Friendship Hall. Circles will decorate for Christmas and sing carols after dinner before brief business sessions led by each circle chair.
Pax PAX area social notes list weekend visits by Mrs. Jack Murdock and son Ronald Sophia to her parents the Janneys. Ida Hancock hosts Matt Jones and John DeLaing. DeLaing visits his wife Gay and parents in Dothan. Grace Beckley guests of sister Quentin Stover. Alfred Humphrey Emergon Stover visit Tams. Ewell Davis brings Elwood BeHealer family. Nell Humphrey attends Pax dinner. Joyce Plumb departs for Colorado Springs with husband Jackie after Army Korea tour.
Mrs Zu la Kountz spent weeks at Moss Run visiting sisters Mrs V C Troxell and Mrs G E Christley and her father Arch Morris. They also visited Miss Ruby Morris in Lynchburg Virginia. At Bill Kountz home Sunday were nephew Melvin Matheny Ietha N Y and her brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs Harry Kincaid Boomer. Bermand Wilkinson of Charleston overnight guest of Rev and Mrs Curtis Whaley. He and Whaley spent time decrapling.
The Woman's Society of Christian Service of Matheny Methodist Church set for a December 18 Christmas dinner at the home of Mrs. Lala Graham. Hostesses were Mrs. W S Easter and Mrs. Miley Adams. A Christmas story by Mrs. Ruby Duty and group singing framed the meeting. The group voted to donate 25 to help pay insulation costs recently completed at the church. Bak ing money was turned in with Mrs. Lala Graham donating the largest amount. total receipts reached 136.
Funeral services for Maloney Morgan, 79, will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Church of God in Clear Fork. The Rev. Elva Mullens and the Rev. Ike Mullens will officiate. Burial follows in the family cemetery. Morgan died Monday at his home after a two year illness. He was born March 16, 1880, at Guyan. Survivors include his wife Armint a Hunt Morgan, eight sons Dotson Alvin Roscoe Herbert Hobart Verner Barnes Calvin, a brother Floyd Morgan, and a sister Elsie Lester. The body was taken to his home from Evans Funeral Home in Oceana.
Funeral services for Woodie E. Jarrell will be held at 7:00 p.m. Wednesday in the First Baptist Church Whitesville with Rev. O E Stump officiating. Burial is in Jarrell Cemetery Mordue. He died Friday in South Charleston apparently from a heart attack. The body will be moved to the church at noon Wednesday from Degnan Mortuary South Charleston.
Funeral services for John McCoy aged 62 will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home Chapel East Rainelle led by Rev. Herbert Parker and Rev. Robert Moxley. Burial follows at Wallace Memorial Cemetery. McCoy died at home Monday from a heart attack. He was janitor at Crichton High School and a Quinwood Methodist Church member. Survivors include his wife Lola and brother Albert of Charleston.
The Whitesville Business and Professional Woman's Club will host its second annual Anniversary dinner at 7 30 p m Saturday in Whitesville Junior High School. President Mrs Polly Ann Moore announced the event and Rotary and Lions members are invited with their wives as special guests. Reservations chair Mrs Kenneth Salters asks attendees to call Whitesville 3161.
A gospel singing concert sponsored by the Madison Veterans of Foreign Wars Post will be held at the Madison Community Building at 2 p.m. Sunday. The Nobleman Quartet from Huntington will perform. Proceeds fund Christmas baskets for the needy.
Fayetteville Garden Club members showcased original Christmas decorations at a Friday meeting. Floral arrangements, wreaths, a candy tree, a marshmallow castle, and a kissing ball were presented while Mrs. Frank Love spoke on winter garden care and preservation. Publicity chairman Mrs. J C Clay announced redecorated flower boxes along city business fronts for winter.
Milton Smoot of the Social Security Administration will be in Madison every Tuesday in December to assist eligible people with applying for Old Age and Survivors Insurance and handling other Social Security business. The temporary office opens at 10 a.m. in the courthouse. those unable to meet in Madison may visit the Charleston office in the Medical Arts Building.
In 1752 Benjamin Franklin developed the lightning rod to protect buildings. The invention aimed to attract lightning away from structures, preventing fire damage and improving safety.
The statistic notes that the typical freight train in the United States carries about 1430 tons. It highlights the broad baseline for freight capacity and rail logistics in the U.S. economy.
A combined meeting of Women of the Fayetteville Methodist Presbyterian Church circles is at 6 30 p m to plan the annual Christmas covered dish dinner. Each circle decorates a table and Mrs Vivian Beck leads the Joy Gift program funded by gifts for retired ministers and widows or dependents.
The annual Christmas crippled children's party will be held December 20 at 2 p.m. in the Oceana Methodist Church. Invitations to the event will be mailed this week, sponsored by the Oceana Rotary Club for six years. General chairman French Manning will name other chairmen at a weekly club dinner today at the church. Rotary members plan, provide food and transport for the children and arrange entertainment refreshments and gifts.
A brief note states the Community Chest idea began in Cleveland Ohio highlighting the city's role as the origin point for the fund collecting system. The sentence mentions the early adoption and regional impact.
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