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Local Negro Groups Plan Meetings and Community Events
Negro groups in Beckley area schedule Sunday meetings at Tams hall and East Beckley homes with officers named, plus Beta Chi Sigma and Octta Theta Sorority activities, Civic League planning, and Pan-Hellenic rosters. Community notes report illnesses, hospital stays, church programs, and upcoming feasts and services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf Temple
Tams Hall
James Arnold
Alexander Barbour
Queen Esther
CBS
Viola Braxton
Russell Street
East Beckley
Bessie Arnold
Alice Roberts
The
Missionary Society of
East Gult
Margaret Brown
Willa Moon
Beta Chi Sigma
Octta Sigma Theta Sorority
Soror Hallye Jeffries
Soror
Anne Bland
Beatrice
Soror Brooks
Flippen
Beckley Civic League
Sorors Brooks
Civic League
Soror Crawford
Soror Davis
Sorors Jeffries
Mitchell
Sorar Flippen
Sorar Hazzard
Evelyn Spradhey
Young Women of
Central Street
Willie Hayes
Jack Preston
Stab Fork
Brooklyn
Lawrence Harris
Sportman
Lefroil
John Herndon
New Salem Baptist Church
Tams
Well Wishers Club
RC. Brown
Lester
Masons Beckley Lodge
Raymond Young
H. F. Brown
Virginia Schultz
Emma Henderson
Church of the Living God
East Park
Harry James Rotan
Fayetteville