Beckley Area Events and Meetings Briefs
Community notices list Thursday meetings across Beckley including Electa Chapter No 50 Eastern Star at Masonic Hall S Fayette St 6 p.m. East Beckley sewing class Stratton High School 7 p.m. Beckley Subdeb Council Appalachian Assembly Room 7 p.m. Practical Nurses Association Pine Lodge Home 7 30 p.m. Membership enrollment Beckley Hotel 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Degree of Honor Letee 56 drill practice IOOF Lodge Hall 7 30 p.m. General Mission Society Crab Orchard Baptist Church social room 7 30 p.m. Also church calendar items and city notices.
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Order of Eastern Star
Masonic Hall
S. Fayette St
Letee
Stellie Jarrell
Ioof Lodge
North Kanawha St
General Mission Society of the
Community Club Events Schedule In Beckley Area
A listing of social and club activities across Beckley and surrounding venues for Friday to Monday including Friendship Social Club gatherings at 123 Cannaday St, Rural Acres Garden Club at Beckley Hotel Terrace Room, IOOF Hall on North Kanawha St, Calico and Jeans Square Dance at New River Park Recreation Room, Midway Flower Fund Group enrollment week at Beckley Hotel lobby, Crab Drive Baptist Church fellowship, and other social gatherings. Includes times, locations, and enrollment reminders for local groups and meetings.
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Calico and Jeans Square
New River Park
Calico and Jeans
Crab Orchard Residents In and Out of Beckley Hospitals
Mrs Edna Deck returns home from Key Hospital in Crab Orchard. Mrs Sam Pitters of Crab Orchard is a patient at Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital. Mrs Anna Waddell recuperating at home after surgery. Juanita Cook of Crab Orchard listed as patient at Beckley Hospital. Ury Alderman, son of John Alderman of Orchard, hospitalized at West Virginia hospital Morgan for treatment.
Akers Honored With Surprise Shower in Sophia
Mrs. Sherman Akers and husband were feted with a surprise house warming shower at their new Sophia home hosted by Mrs. Tony Romeo Mrs. Owen Walker and Mrs. Elmer Akers. A seven room tour refreshments games and prizes followed.
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Sherman Akers
Sophia
Tony Romeo
Owen Walker
Elmer Akers
Akers
John Mills
Dan Banker
Tammy Akers
Howard
Thelma) Young
Blowing Rock
N. C
Tony
Jewel) Romeo
Owen
Jean) Walker
MacArthur
John Bradford
James Cochran
Ruby Ruble
John Gilmore
Roland Hatfield
Saul Brown
Grace Edwards
Judge Allen
Clarence Wood
Joe Hale
Russell Pegram
Anna Privett
W. W. Withrow
Cordie Crouch
Food Shopping Guide Highlights Abundant Weekend Buys
A UPI report from Washington notes a fun shopping weekend with plentiful vegetables and meats. Prices jump varies by region with pork prices down in the Southwest and West but steady or up in the East. Southeast bacon cheaper than last week. Broccoli cabbage carrots cauliflower onions potatoes spinach sweet potatoes tomatoes strawberries apples grapefruit and oranges are listed with fish sticks canned salmon and scallops in good supply. Northeast listings include all beef cuts lamb legs and stew pork chops and butt cuts and poultry broilers.
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Washington
UPI
Delaware
District of Columbia
New England
New York
New Jersey
Penna
Maryland
West Virginia
Incidents In The Lives Of People You Know
Brief local notes list visits births and gatherings. Roscoe Williams and Garnetta Buckland returned home from a week in Zanesville Ohio. Mary Smallwood celebrated her 13th birthday with many friends in attendance. Details include attendees and related family names.
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Roscoe Williams
Pike St
Garnetta Buckland
Cranberry Heights
Zanesville
Ohio
The Consumers Question Box Answers Your Queries
Readers write in to The Consumers Question Box seeking clarity on common shopping and household issues. The column provides practical tips, brand comparisons, and shopping guidance from a consumer advocate perspective.
BCCA Membership Drive Reports Enrollment Progress
Beckley Community Concert Association officials report renewed member interest and record enrollment as season plans grow. Goldovsky Grand Opera Theatre Rigoletto and Zurich Chamber Orchestra are slated, with Presti and Lagoya guitarists also planned. An Artists Meeting Friday evening will finalize contracts. Memberships cost 10 dollars for adults 3 dollars for students with season subscriptions required for concert access.
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Beckley Community Concert Association
Fred Richmond
BCCA
Goldovsky Grand Opera Theatre
Zurich Chamber Orchestra
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Iengey
Presti
Lagoya
Sol Hurok
Beckley
M. A. Johnson
Bluefield
Lewisburg
Charleston
Hula Dancer’s Hands Tell the Story on Stage
A hula dancer communicates through hand movements and gestures that resemble saying hip hip hooray during a quiet stage moment. The performance captures rhythm, grace, and cultural storytelling.
Kidney Danger Signals and Kidney Tonic Claim
An advertisement warns of kidney disorders with symptoms like waking at night burning and frequent scanty flow. It touts Bukets as a tonic diuretic that allegedly lifts kidneys and promises improvement within four days, urging readers to buy at Coren Drug Store today.
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Coren Drug Store
Odrinex Advertisement Promises Fat Loss Guarantee
A vintage ad touts Odrinex as a fat reducing tablet priced at 3.00 with a money back guarantee. It promises easy swallowing and invites customers to return unused packaging to their druggist for a full refund no questions asked. Rist's Pharmacy at 314 Neville Street offers mail orders at 3.25.
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Rist’s
Neville Street
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Oes Department of Beckley
East Beckley
Stratton High School
East Beckley Persons United
Appalachian Assembly Room
Practical Nurses Association of West Virginia, Inc
Pine Lodge
Beckley Hotel
Friendship Social Club
Emma Barksdale
Cannaday St
Rural Acres Garden Club
Silver Star
Rebecca Lodge
IOOF
Midway Flower Fund Group
Midway Elementary School
P. m
Crab Dr
Social Savings Club
Cleo Gray
Barber Ave
Beckley Community Concert’ Association
The
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Felowap
Church of MacArthur
Gulf
Chris Hall
Resoco
Beckley Legal Secretaries Association
Terrace Room
L. T. Durrance
Beta Rho
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Regues
Coca-Cola
Shelby Goodson
Seateen
Club
Appalachian
H. L. Watp.m
Amenca
Deral & State Od
Mrs. Akers
Food Shopping Guide
U. S. Department of Agriculture and Interior
United Press International
Feu
Mary Smallwood
F. W. Smallwood
Linda Lilly
Brenda Kiblinger
Gloria Smallwood
Jackie Goss
Donnie Kiblinger
Judy Kesler
Webb
Robin Zingo
Laura Carnaday
Darrell
Donald Price
Jones
Darrell Carman
Danny Lilly
Lois Shrewsberry
Gary Thompson
Gary Witt
Owen Carl Fitzpatrick
Steven Carl Smith
Lloyd Bays
Michael Jones
John Smallwood
Michael Mills
Billy Jones
Nancy Simpson
Katie Mae Levels
Willow Lane
Spring Institute
Cedar Lakes Conference Center
Ripley
Andy Reid
James ‘Norris
Whitby
Jon Everett Carroll
T. Miller
Miller St.uent
Andew
David Dixon
Arnett, Okla
Willson Miller
Baltimore, Md
Raymond Miller
Niagara Falls
N.Y
Beatrice von Charleston
Ieee
James D. Polis
Winchester, Il
William Cook
Boone, N.C
Lawrence Hunter
Bartlesville
Okla
Mary Jane Hunter
Oklahoma City
Consumers’ Question Box
Bank of Raleigh
Melody iShop
Modern Mortgage Service Company
W. Va. Corporation
Mein Street
After & P.M
Neville ST
Sieps
Ena E Etebert, Inc
Baltimore
Oie
Valley Drive N
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