Beaver Lions Banquet Daughters Attend Father Son Affair
Beaver Lions Club held its first annual father son banquet at the Shady Spring High School. Six members without sons brought daughters as guests, all under seven months to seven years. Attendees wore blue jeans, a humorous reading and talk on boys featured the program. Lions voted to enter a float in the centennial parade and Beaver Grade School art class supplied hatchet favors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaver Lions Club
Shady Spring High School
Lowell Lilly
Linda Louise
Mason Anderson
Kay
Cecil Cook
Janie
Peggy
James Bucy
Winifred
Linda Louise Lilly
Frank Gans
Lawrence Pruett
Shady Spring
Beaver
Gary Douglas Okes
Kermit Okes
David Pruett
J.T. Pruett
Deana Lee Harvey
Peggy Cook
Beckley Couple Honored by Sophia Choir
Mr and Mrs Paul McClure were honored by the Sophia Choir at First Baptist Church Beckley on Thursday night. A surprise birthday cake and refreshments were provided, with gifts presented to the couple and about 50 attendees from the church community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Sophia Choir
Paul McClure
Highland Street
Luther Hyatt
the Sophia
Way West Chapter 11 Nearing Laramie Amid Sage and Buffalo
The caravan nears Laramie in 1845 as the wagon train pushes toward Oregon. Death shadows the path, Brownie Evans hides a quiet love for Mercy McBee, while Mr Mack wrestles with an inappropriate advance. Dick Summers guides the route as tensions rise and the prairie hums with buffalo and unsettled futures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
Laramie
le Evans
Mercy McBee
Dick Summers
Mr. Mack
Mercy
Mr Mack
East Beckley Circle Meets With Miss Faye Farley
Nineteen women attended the Tuesday night meeting of Circle No 2 of the Woman's Society of Christian Service at St Marys Methodist Church East Beckley. The February gathering at Miss Faye Farleys home admitted nine new members and included a devotional on Our Faith for Building a World Christian Community. Members voted to hold a bake sale this month to raise their missionary pledge. The next meeting will be at Mrs Martins Kayser home. Don’t shell fresh peas until just before cooking to preserve flavor and nutrition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circle No. 2
Woman's Society of Christian
iService
St. Mary’s
Martin
Kayser
Beckley VFW Auxiliary Plans District Meet
Mrs Anita Dillion of White Sulphur Springs District 10 president will lead the Beckley VFW Auxiliary district meeting Sunday. Guests from Oak Hill White Sulphur Springs Rainelle Hinton Smithers and Ansted are invited. Mrs Sam G Rahall chairs arrangements with committees for reservations decorations refreshments favors and hostesses. Music by Bruce Peck and Shirley Tanner and a buffet salad course will follow the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anita Dillion
White Sulphur Springs
Veterans’ of Foreign Wars Auxiliaries
Beckley
Oak Hill
Rainelle
Hinton
Smithers
Ansted
VFW
Sam G. Rahall
Clude
Willian Loving
Blaine Tanner
John Krammer
Damon Starcher
James Littlejohn
William Fink
Claud Meador
Dan Geary
Bruce Peck
Shirley Tanner
Spring Flower Show Tentatively Scheduled for May
Garden Council plans the 1950 Spring Flower Show before May 24 with committees to be named in April. Area garden clubs discuss promotion and cooperation as Beckley Junior High hosts a variety show that funded a school projector payment. Proceeds from the show, held in Beckley’s auditorium, supported Lincoln Elementary School activities with about 300 tickets sold. An executive PTA meeting at Lincoln is set for Tuesday at 7 30 to nominate officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden Council
Homeroom Mothers Club
Parent-Teachers’ Association of
Lincoln Elementary School
Beckeley Junior High School
The
Lincoln Pta
Hill Park Drive
George Bright
Lea Vecellio
Highland Garden Club
AL Radsten
Azalea Garden Club
Ted Stover
Rural Acres Garyiden Club
Clement L. Schultte
Chocodendron Garden Club
Mountain Top Garden Club
State Rehabilitation Officer To Address Local BPW Club
The state director of the State Board of Education Division of Vocational Rehabilitation will be guest speaker at Beckley BPW Club. Ray Power will address members at 7 PM in the Beckley Hotel private dining room, presenting Personal Impressions Gained Abroad. Mrs. Morgan Hughes chairs the international relations committee. co chairwoman is Mrs. Nellie Strachan with committee members including Miss Betty Gunter and others. Group singing will accompany the program before a business session. Decorations will reflect a George Washington theme on the dinner tables.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Education
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Beckley
Ray Power
Beckley Hotel
Brazil
Morgan Hughes
Nellie Strachan
Betty “Jane Gunter
Nannie Lee Delaney
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Beaver Lions
A. B. Guthrie, Jr
Clifton Fadiman
Hig
Brownie Evans
Brownie
Mgr
Mack
Evans
Buffler
Laramie Land
Hank McBee
Botter
Buffalo
Ben Terry, Jr
South Heber Street
Raleigh General Hospital
Lorenzo ‘Torlone
Locust Drive
Korina
Alma Hughart
Lawton
W. R. Witzel
West Virginia Street
Raleigh County
Red Cross
Vergil Cox
Dexton Aven
Dora Landers
Foca
Inlaw
L. A. Landers
Kanawha Street
Andather Beckley
C. F. Ratliff
Sprague
Paul J. Fourney
West Virginia University
Blue Jay
E. N. Swarthout
Wyoming Avenue
Patty Swarthout
Johnny Walters
Ray Walters
Miami
Joe Marble
Schnectedy
N. Y
Richard Lewis Aly Hilterest
H. Gui ‘McKee
Huntington
McKee
Joe Herrera
Elkins
Joe Pallares
Pallares
K. C. Stewart
300
Temple Street
F. L. Conway
Murs
Doify Daniel
W.R. Fugitt
G. Lester Hash
Cincinnati
Ohio
H. M. Hart
Herbert
Mercer Street
Marlinton
Ben G. Rhodes
Daugh- Nee
Susan
Lila Morehead
Wheelersburg
Elizabeth James
Reservoir Road
Richmond
Lewis
Wickham Ave
Nue
C. S. Lewis, Jr
Nancy Hamlton Lewis
Virginia Street
Charleston
Glane
Ana Sivs
Clark Kessel
Bellevue Lane
Hayiera Beach
Fila
T. M. Harris
Woodlawn Avenue
Blacksburg
Koy
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
J. M. Page
Eccles
Alrs
T. L. Page
Big Stone Gap
M. A. Johnson
Granville Avenue
Leslie Gates
College Avenue
George M. Harvey
Johnstown Road
Uniontown
Harvey
Carey Storyer
Raymond Cook
Oceana
Norval Cook
Orchard Avenue
Cook
J. W. Cheer
Montcalm
James SicNeish
Mankin Avenue
Benson
N. C
East Beckley Circle
Faye Farley
V.F.W. Auxiliary
Philco
RADIO
Beckley Music & Electric Co
Colin Meluckey
Mer
Fayette St
San Juan
Betty Jo Wickline
iMullens
Puerto Rico
Mullens
Edith C. Cook
Wyoming County Health Department
C. C. Clark
Iola
Clark
Fort Buchannan
Joseph
Funnis
MOME
Neville ST
Post Office
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