Annual Birthday Ball Tickets Mailed
The 1947 Annual President's Ball will be held January 31 at Black Knight Country Club with Ray McKinley and his orchestra. The band will feature three vocalists and play from 10 p m to 2 30 a m admission is 10 dollars. The event supports the U S Payroll Savings Drive and the local March of Dimes campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Knight Country Club
Ray McKinley
WWNR
U. S
McKinley
U. S. Treasury Department
W. A. Burke
March of Dimes
Mrs Myrtle Griffith to Host Ghent Circle Meeting
Mrs Myrtle Griffith will host the Ghent Community Circle on Tuesday February 18. The group convened Tuesday with president Mrs Dorothy Lilly presiding and heard scripture readings prayers and musical selections. Birthday gifts were given to Mrs Dole Whitely and Mrs Norma Mann during a covered dish dinner. Attendees included Mrs Amata Lilly Mrs Bales Mrs Hilda Lilly and many others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle Griffith
Ghent
Gurn Byrd
Dorothy Lilly
Dole Whitely
Basil Cox
Norma Mann
Amata Lilly
Bales
Hilda Lilly
Maude Lilly
Hallie Canady
Virginia Keaton
Stella Eplyn
Martha Lilly
Wennie Lilly
Nettie Lilly
Lema Lilly
Beulah Meadows
Degree Of Honor Lodge to Install Officers Tonight
The Degree Of Honor Lodge will install its new officers at a 7 30 PM meeting tonight. The session occurs in the Union Hall over Watkins Drug with Mrs Ann Coleman and Mrs Radie Bostick as installing officers. Guests may attend and refreshments will follow the business session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Degree of Honor Lodge
Union Hall
Watkins Drug
Ann Coleman
Radie Bostick
Local Birth Notices Highlight Beckley and Raleigh General Hospital
Mr and Mrs K G Libs announce a son born yesterday at Raleigh General Hospital at 10:00 am. Leo O Neil and Mrs O Neil report a son Lacy Lundy born yesterday at Beckley hospital at 1 00 pm weighing eight pounds eight ounces. Donald E Heaberl in and wife announce a son born yesterday at Beckley hospital weighing five pounds five ounces at 9 00 pm. Stephen R Canaday and John Marr announce a daughter born yesterday at Raleigh General Hospital at 5 45 am weighing nine pounds twelve ounces. John Frederick Marr born to Louise Stansill Marr of Beckley and her husband. Clifford Akers and Marie Mills announce a daughter Dorothy Jean born at Widemouth. Carolyn Mae born December 25 to Glen Kirby and wife of Pemberton.
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K. G. Libs
Park Avenue
Raleigh General Hospital
Leo O'Neil
Slab Fork
Beckley Hospital
Lacy Lundy
Donald E. Heaberlin
Maplewood Lane
Stephen R. Canaday
Glen White
John Marr
Osborne
Ohio
John Frederick
Marr
Louise Stansill
Beckley
Beckley Student Named To Office
Miss Martha Covey a Lynchburg College senior English major named president of the Uranian Literary Society at Lynchburg Virginia She also leads the Insignia Club serves as treasurer of Sigma Tau Delta and participates in literary dramatic and music groups while on the CARTOGRAPH staff.
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Uranian Literary Society
Lynchburg College
Lynchburg
Virginia
Martha Covey
H. D. Covey
Yale Street
Miss Covey
Lege
Insignia Club
Simga Tau Delta
Cartograph
False Teeth Stay Put With PASTEETH Powder
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Mabscott Lodges Plan Joint Officers Installations
The White Stick Odd Fellows Lodge 31 and Golden Gate Rebekah Lodge 206 announce joint officer installations at 7:30 p.m. at the Mabscott Odd Fellows lodge. Deputy Grand Master O D Hall will install the Odd Fellows. Mrs B B Chambers will install Rebekah officers. Followed by a dinner, events continue with planned installations in Glen Daniel Oak Hill Sophia in late January.
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White Stick
Odd Fellows Lodge
Golden Gate Rebekah Lodge
Odd Fellow Lodge
Mabscott
O. D. Hall
Odd Fellows
B. B. Chambers
Rebekah Lodge
Odd Fellow
Donald Miller
Noble Grand
H. E. Melton, Jr
J. B. Kirk
English War Bride Honored With House and Stork Shower
Thirty two women from Shady Spring and Beckley attended a combined house and stork shower at Mary Willis’s home in Shady Spring in honor of English war bride Mrs. D. D. Thompson. Guests served refreshments. gifts were given by numerous attendees and some sent by others.
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Shady Spring
Beckley
Mary Willis
D. D. Thompson
Lester Willis
Theris Ball
Frank Skagges
S. T. Bays
Louise Dance
W. H. Sanderson
Everett Underwood
E. H. Hunter
Blanche , Griffith
John Clark
W. D. Jones
M. H. Cook
John Griffith
W. B. Farley
Agnell
Tuberculosis Christmas Seal Drive Reaches Halfway Mark
Raleigh County Tuberculosis and Health Association reports $3,500 raised toward a $7,000 goal. Executive secretary Mrs. Bate Wilson says the official closing is March 31. Workers plan reminders to 2,000 county residents who have not acknowledged receipt of seals. Funds support county state and national TB drives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County ‘Tuberculosis, and Health Association
Bate Wilson
Helen Woman Hosts Friendship Lunch in Helen
Mrs Dale Hawley hosted a friendship luncheon at her Helen home yesterday afternoon. Attendees included Mrs Carl Campbell Beckley Mrs Zella Meadows MacArthur Mrs Felix Schleenveigy and Maud Lively Mount Hope. Women planned monthly meetings and organized a bowling team.
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Dale Hawley
Helen
Church Women Plan Box Luncheon Today
The Woman's Auxiliary of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church meets at 1 p.m. in the Guild Room for a box luncheon with coffee provided. Rev. Andrew B. Jones leads the program on Church Unity. all women are urged to attend, with a 1:30 p.m. meeting for those absent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
Andrew B. Jones
Incidents In The Lives Of People You Know
Dr R G Broaddus hosts and addresses nurses at the Raleigh General Hospital Alumnae meeting on Woodlawn Avenue. Mrs Sabine Mead is ill at home. Fern Broaddus, student at William and Mary, to visit from Williamsburg. Corproal Clay McDaniel to visit family in Beaver before rejoining Fort Jackson. Numerous hostesses listed for the gathering.
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French Lucas
Woodlawn Avenue
Charleston
Clay McDaniel
Texarkana
Texas
Beaver
Fort Jackson
South Carolina
R. G. Broaddus
Miss
Raleigh General Hospital
L. G. Houser
Madelyn White
Irene Reynolds
Virginia Donaghue
Margaret Prince
Alma Daniels
Edna Richmond
Iris Bardin
Sara Brown
Huntington Pastor Weds Buckhannon Woman in December Ceremony
The Brotherhood of St. Andrew will hear the Rev. Edward Blum officiate at a December wedding between Miss Virginia Carpenter of Buckhannon and Leo Bizaro of Huntington. The couple will marry at the St Stephen's Episcopal Church with the ceremony at the parsonage. Mrs. Carpenter is a bookkeeper for Buckhannon Builders Supply Co. Mr. Bizaro, a World War I veteran, is manager of the Cannon Shoe Store in Beckley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Huntington
Wilma Carpenter
Brotherhood of St. Andrew
Eee
St Stephen's Episcopal
Virginia Carpenter
Leo Bizaro
Edward
Abalpa
Hittites Introduced Iron to Near East
A historical note highlights the Hittites as the first to introduce iron metallurgy into the Near East, marking a pivotal shift in ancient technology and trade networks.
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Near East
West Virginia Episcopal Boys' Camp Rector Heads Home
The rector of the West Virginia Episcopal Boys' Camp plans to return to Huntington after the camp season. He will resume duties in Huntington and oversee campus activities and youth programs.
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West Virginia
Episcopal
Huntington
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Beckley Hotel
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T.B. Seals
Hortense Phillpott
Inal Daniels
Louise Graybear
Mildred Farris
Frances Gallager
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Aldene Fox
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Velva Kincaid
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Immaculate Meat Department
Pat Salinan War
Pork Chops
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Waldrof
Indiana
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