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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1950
Page
9
Purim services will be conducted at Beckley Beth El Temple. Rabbi Norman Kahanowitch will lead in a festive program with a rim play scheduled for Sunday afternoon at 1 80 o'clock.
Local notices list residents returning from vacations in Hollywood Florida and travel updates. Several names from Beckley Huntington and Charleston report illnesses hospital visits influenza confinement and recoveries. Individuals include Harold Harris pursued music honors and others visiting relatives or recovering at home.
An informal dance is sponsored by the Princes of Syracuse junior auxiliary to the Knights of Pythias. It runs 8 p m to midnight at Union Hall on Heber Street with Robert O'Dell as regent and Duke Ramacy as vice regent. Knights of Pythias governors include W. Stover B. B Taylor Morri R. Weln and J. A. Blake.
Readers can order pattern 7376 to make movable arm bunny toys with clothes patterns. Central claim describes improved pattern visuals with charts and photos plus complete directions for easy needlework. Send twenty cents to The Raleigh Register Household Arts Dept OC Box 163 New York.
Mrs W McCutcheon hosted Circle No 3 of the First Baptist Church at her Queen Street home for a luncheon meeting. Two guests and 14 members attended with devotion by Mrs T L Maynor and prayers by Mrs Ida O'Dell. Arrangements featured multicolored spring flowers for the buffet luncheon and a Lenten menu including Avocado and Crabmeat Salad with celery radishes and a lemony mayonnaise dressing.
Beckley Auxiliary to the Eagles Club schedules initiation for the March 14 meeting. Joseph Muehner of Kansas City addresses 39 members on auxiliary work and benefits to veterans, hospitals, and the Red Cross drive. Officers plot membership growth and review charity activities including visiting ill persons and donating clothing and food.
First Methodist Church Circle No 1 met at Mrs B F Burleigh 109 Maple Ave on Thursday March 2 with eight members and one guest present. Rev W Bruce Peck and Mrs Burleigh led discussion on World Outlook and Methodist Woman articles while Mrs W W Honaker presented the Phoebe theme from Women of the Scriptures and plans were made for a new circle project.
Highland Garden Club outlines its April meeting with plans to name a delegate to the state garden club convention held May 12 and 13 in Parkersburg. Members discussed soil preparation, blue ribbons for best house plants, and a floral arrangement featuring penquils lavender stock and magnolia leaves.
Mr and Mrs Woodrow Bales of 1405 Fast Prince Street announce the birth of an 8 pound daughter Beverly Sue on February 28 at Beckley Hospital. Plainly NAME ADDRESS ZONE AND PATTERN NUMBER. Just off the press our new Alice Brooks Needlework catalogue. Sent fifteen cents in coins for your copy. Illustrations of designs for crocheting knitting embroidery toys quilts children's clothes. Free needlework pattern is printed in book.
The Women of the Beckley Presbyterian Church plan a March 23 luncheon to install officers including Mrs. R. D. Kemp and others. An all day Bible study on Hebrews will be led by Rev. William Benfield Jr. from Louisville, with reports and a sandwich lunch included. The group also noted an honorary life membership in memory of Mrs. Ollie W. Brown.
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