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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1963
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a champagne bottle prize from a white elephant sale and another arrangement in a gray container with a tropic motif. The incomplete text limits details about event, location, or participants.
Phymosia Garden Club met at 114 Anne St to hear Mrs. Joe L. Smith Jr. discuss landscape design. She explained formal versus informal patterns, site factors, axis lines, focal points, balance, and plant arrangement principles with examples and foundation planting tips.
Local brief notes list neighbors and families with health, travel, and milestone events. Entries include hospitalizations, surgeries, births, deaths, and ceremonies affecting residents such as Mrs. Kathleen Bair undergoing surgery in Huntington and Linda Kay Smith joining Alpha Xi Delta at Ohio University.
PVT Harold Darrell is due Saturday to spend a leave with his wife Phyllis at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs G L Haga in Skelton and to visit his parents Mr and Mrs W T Harold of Odd. He finished basic training at Ft. Jackson S C. C B Thornton formerly of Berkley now in Norfolk Va visits relatives here staying with his brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs Clyde W Meador at 200 Quarry St.
Mrs Mary J Smith of 127 Mills Street has been a patient since Monday at Beckley Memorial Hospital with pneumonia. The mother of Mrs Alfred Scott and Mrs Willia Seay of Beckley is identified in connection with the notice.
Pine Wood Garden Club members led a planters workshop for exceptional children at Cranberry School using milk cartons. They planted seeds, learned care, and prepared dried arrangement displays. President Mrs. Lewis Dunn announced the Wildflower Pilgrimage for May 15 17 at Blackwater Falls.
GFWC president Mrs. Dexter Otis Arnold urges widespread support for the Red Cross annual fund drive in March. She extols the Red Cross as a source of self help, first aid, and war time support, noting its centennial year 1963 and calling on 16,500 GFWC clubs to give time and money.
Simmer pot roast or beef stew in a gravy of four parts beef stock to one part tomato sauce. Reheat well and, for Old World flavor, add a splash of red table wine in the last half hour. Simmer slowly to blend wine with tomato sauce for a gourmet finish.
The shift to meatier hogs shows results with lower lard yield. In 1951 every 100 pounds of slaughtered hog produced 14.2 pounds of lard, while in 1961 the yield dropped to 2.8 pounds.
Dr G M Powers opens a dental office and invites patients to call 253-7696 for appointments and information.
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