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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1948
Page
10
A fragment mentions pecan direct serve stuffed sprunes and a bed of unspecified greens. The wording is fragmented and lacks clear context or full nouns. This brief item appears as a curios culinary note viewed in a historical newspaper fragment.
About 75 attended the annual Baptist church dinner in Beckley First Baptist downstairs auditorium. Aubrey Halstead led the choir and service group as Glenn Webb served as toastmaster. Mrs. Robert Thomson supervised banquet service by the Ann Rose Class. Miss Martha Eileen Saider and Mrs. Earl O. Saider performed, with a magic act by John Earle Lilly Jr.
The Beckley Presbyterian Church hosts a Friday council gathering with four one day sessions. Members Paul Wassum and Betty Shank are active in the Speai church and serve on the presbytery council.
Miss Emily Humphries of Hinton, bride elect of Lacy Warden of Charleston, was honored at a Kaffee Klatsch hosted by Mrs. R. L. Reardon and daughter Virginia at their Beckley home. Area residents including Mrs. Everett Keyser and Mrs. C. M. Bruce attended along with numerous Keyser and Humphries relatives from Hinton and Marietta Ohio.
Mrs. C H Earehart hosts her daughters and their families from Covington Virginia in Beckley with several other families visiting relatives. Army Sgt Ray Bandy Jr on leave from Fort Knox visits Mead relatives before a Fort Lewis assignment. Various locals welcome guests from Baltimore Philadelphia Morgantown and Scranton with recounts of recent travels and weddings.
Eleanor Privett and Mary Low from Mark Twain High School are named to represent the school at the All-State Chorus meeting in Charleston. The event runs two days of intensive practice under a guest conductor and includes a dinner with the high school principals association.
AP News notes Paris fashion settles into a spring backbone of pencil slim and knee flounce skirts. Mermaid and narrow sheath silhouettes dominate with length around 12 inches from the ground. Front emphasis shows aprons and peplums protruding before tapering at the side seams.
Beckley Hadassah Chapter gathered funds at Beth El Temple to finance transport of additional Jewish children from Europe to Palestine. Money will be sent to Hadassah headquarters in New York City. Mrs Sidney Fink reviewed Ruth Gruben’s book about the 1947 Jewish exodus from camps to Palestine. Afterward, members met at Mrs L J Fink’s home on Woodlawn Avenue for coffee and cake.
West Virginia Synod of the Presbyterian Youth Fellowship held a mid winter council at Beckley Presbyterian Church to map financial goals for 1949 1950 and plan summer conference arrangements at Davis and Elkins College June 16 23 John Witherspoon of Beckley presided and announced a spring rally theme. Lois Fillmer reported on the Grand Rapids North American Youth Conference and Blake Breitenhirt presented on the Southern Regional planning conference at Junalaska North Carolina last summer. Attendees included John Witherspoon Gray Hampton Eleanor Shiffler Barbara Wallate Mollie Clifford and presbytery presidents Dick Curry Jean Wasserman and advisors Harold Reed D B Wathall and J W Witherspoon. Equal parts pineapple make a salad with black olives and mayonnaise served on escarole lettuce or potatoes.
The Senior Baptist Youth Fellowship of the First Baptist Church invites members to a party in the church lower auditorium at 1 40 p m Thursday.
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