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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1957
Page
9
Weekend guests and visitors fill Beckley homes with relatives from Pont Pleasant, Richmond, Philadelphia, and Indiana. Local residents travel, visit, and return from trips to Virginia, Kentucky, and Maryland while others recover from medical care and reflect on wartime service stories.
Design a personalized fashion-suit from this Dobby Original. Choose colors and fabrics like cotton, pique, denim, silk shantung, or sharkskin for a versatile one-piece playsuit. It features a seamless waist, belt option, and a button-front skirt for dress occasions. Printed Pattern M12 accompanies the design.
Pattern listing for Misses sizes 10 through 18 with yardage details for size 16 playsuit and skirt. Includes request to send one dollar to The Raleigh Register Pattern Department in New York and instructions to print name address style number and size. Also notes a hot dog sale by the Christian Youth Fellowship at the Oak Grove Christian Church Community Center on Git Eccles Rd at 11 a.m.
Readers catch a glimpse of Somerset area social life with guests at the Shrumate home and visits spanning from Huntington to Belpre Ohio. Many families host relatives and vacationers including trips to Miami and Yazoo City.
Mr and Mrs James H Creger of 118 Noel Drive Gl ena Morgan announce the birth of a daughter Alma Diana at 5 57 p m DST in Beckley Hospital weighing 7 pounds 1 ounce The Creger family also includes two sons James H II and Thomas Norton Mrs Creger is formerly Alma Gregory daughter of Mrs N S Gregory of 218 Sunrise Avenue
Announcements from local families report Joseph Anthony Harrah Jr born July 8 at 6 20 p.m. weighing 6 pounds 10 ounces. Sandra Mae Gillian born July 10 at 12 58 a.m. weighing 7 pounds 10 ounces. Shelby Jean Brown born July 21 at 9 35 a.m. weighing 6 pounds 2 1/2 ounces. Jimmie Tolliver born July 1 at 5 40 p.m. weighing 8 pounds 3 2 ounces.
True Blue Rebekah Lodge No 3 met in Sophia Lodge Hall with Noble Grant conducting the session. Attendees included Mrs. Pegram and several named members. discussion covered the penny march gift fund and plans to purchase gifts. The Women's Missionary Society of Sophia Friendship Baptist Church held a Thursday meeting with Bible themes and hostesses. plans included selling Christmas cards, markets, and a two day Work period to improve the church kitchen with a sale set for July 25.
The Friday meeting of the Missionary Society of Daniels Missionary Baptist Church at Mrs. James Ransom’s home at 7 20 p m has been postponed. The group will meet July 26 at Mrs. H J Burnette’s home in Daniels.
Among Prosperity First Baptist Church Senior High group members planning to attend the Baptist Camp at Cowan from August 3 to 10 are Katherine Neal, Pat Meadows, Carol Weed, Phyllis Fitzwater, and Don Lowe Jr.
Women’s groups are urged to send meeting notices to Presley Newspapers, with deadlines by 10 a.m. for same day use. Sunday calendars must be at the office by 10 a.m. Saturday. Tonight includes Group No. 1 of the Christian Women’s Fellowship, Executive meeting for Degree of Honor at Mrs. David Heath’s home, and other club activities with times and locations.
Shady Spring Community Church circle members elected officers at a Tuesday meeting hosted by Mrs. Carl Ransom in Shady Spring. Officers named were Mrs. Prema Rich president, Mrs. Frank Skaggs vice president, Mrs. Bill Lowery secretary and treasurer, and Myre Ellen Arthur flower funds chairwoman with Mrs. Elizabeth Terry joining as a new reporter. A wiener roast followed at the Ransom home with several members attending and the next meeting slated for August 12 at Mrs. Terry’s home.
Marriage permits list William W. Carpenter and Shelvin J. Adams and Ralph D. Massie with Julia Delp among others as applicants from Raleigh and Abney. Circle No. 1 of Soak Creek Gospel Tabernacle met in Mrs. Bud Lovell’s home to plan fundraising for refinishing church floors and to send get well cards, with Je Lovell presiding and several members present. An addition advises on shrimp with tomato catchup curry sauce and toast. A correction notes a wedding write-up misprint regarding Nancy Beatrice Wall and Meredith Hall. A club meeting summaries cover Alpha Sigma club picnic plans and housework discussion led by Mrs. Allen, with hostess duties by Mrs. Allen and Mrs. P. J. Wood. Eighteen members plus two guests attended Circle No. 1 at Crab Orchard Baptist Church. meeting opened with song and scripture read by Mrs. L. Crews.
Timothy Dean born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wheeler in Beckley Hospital at 4:35 a.m. on July 8. The newborn weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces.
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