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Christmas Play and Parties At Local Schools
Local schools host Christmas program events with plays from Dickens and carols. Skelton School presents The Christmas Fairy and Scrooge Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the school, with listed cast. Big Slick! School stages a Thursday afternoon performance. Rising Sun Baptist Sunday School plans a Christmas tree on December 22 at 7:30 p.m. and Dorcas Society circle meets with noted changes. Funeral services for Charlie Davis are held today at noon at First Baptist. Community notes include pre Christmas rallies and local visits.
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Big Slick
Flossie Monroe
Skelton School
Grace
Robinson
Ebenezer Scrooge
Earl Harbison
Ard Harbison
Loris Harbison
Bob Catchett
Ernest Withrow
Mrs. Cratchett
Elzada Brown
Martha Cratchett
Emily Glasco
Belinda
Delois Glasco
Peter
James Garrett
Fanny
Bernice Withrow
Rupert Glasco
Tiny
Tim
Robert Harbison
Little Town of Bethlehem
Rising Sun Baptst
Adelaide Robinson
Fannie Ashe
Simon Turner
Grant Street
Beckley Hospital
Central Street
Pastor's Aid Club
Lucile Bates
Dorcas Missionary Society
Edna Payne
First Baptist Church
Charlie Davis
R. J. Patterson
Corinne
Galilee Baptist
N.C. ‘Lewis
Brooklyn News
Ernest Crockett
Logan
Shirley Kemp
George Jasper
Evelyn Smithers
Annie Jasper
Page
Miss Craig
Fayetteville
Valentine
Greenstown
Otha Hargrove
James Wood
Robert Paige
Spencer
Mosely
Beckley