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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1936
Page
5
Junior activities in the Legion Auxiliary include a Christmas party led by Mrs. F. W. Roschi. Junior members arrive at 7:30 PM for a program around the Christmas tree with colored baubles. Each attendee brings a gift for two girls at the Industrial School in Salem adopted this season. there will be an exchange of gifts and refreshments.
Miss Freida Harvey arrives home for Christmas from Battle Creek College while many others plan holiday travel. Hal Scott drives to Morgantown with Miss Mary Scott and John Hawley Jr to spend Christmas with family. Mercersburg Academy student John Hodel returns from Mercersburg to his parents. Laryngitis keeps Mrs. C Dawson Phillips home briefly. Christine Sullivan West visits Mabscott. Buckhannon Wesleyan students Lewen Wilkes and Charles Ward to spend holidays at home. Huffman to join family in Fort Defiance. Carl Tishler and son Ward from Cleveland to visit relatives. Bobbie Bair from Greenbrier College returns to Lewisburg. Charlotte Jones heads to West Frankfort Illinois. G C Hedrick returns from Huntingdon with son Tom Hedrick of Marshall College for holidays.
Mrs Dana M Conner took office as president at a Womens Missionary Society meeting with Dr H L Clay presiding. Other officers were named and Circle No 6 led a Christmas program featuring a playlet The Guests at the Inn and a Christmas story by Hume Vogt. Refreshments followed as outgoing president J A Brackman received a gift of appreciation.
London Wallis Warfield Simpson a rush wax figure will take her place beside the royal group at Madame Tussauds at 10 o clock today. Produced in just over a week this living likeness of the Duke of Windsor s betrothed stands in a secluded alcove. Officials call it their masterpiece with a crimson Paris gown rubies and white satin backdrop.
The first submarine cable linked Ireland and Newfoundland. This year peanut acreage in North Carolina is the largest in history.
The Womens Missionary society of the First Baptist church held its regular monthly meeting in the Philathea classroom. Circle No. 3 led by Mrs. Bolen presented an impressive program with devotional reading from Luke by Mrs. H. T. Caffee, prayers, and readings by several members. A paper on Essentials of High Standard Missionary Societies was given, projects for helping Needy at Christmas were discussed, and refreshments were served during social hour. The United States produced 17 518 flasks of mercury in 1935, extracted from cinnabar ore.
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Burmeister and son Ray depart for a Christmas voyage aboard the S S Britannic, sailing from New York for a West Indies cruise with stops at St Thomas La Guira Caracas Curacao Cartagena Panama City and Havana. They expect to return January 3.
Mary Christmas aged 50 becomes a grandmother when her daughter Mrs Edmund Krakowski gives birth to a one pound boy in South Bend Indiana. Mrs Christmas, wife of Steve Christmas, says this really will be a Merry Christmas and beams at the tiny grandson.
Washington D C leads with 35.8 telephones per 100 residents, San Francisco follows at 35.08 per 100 in a national comparison of urban telephone density.
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