Teachers Dinner to Feature Ashworth and Miss Keyser in Beckley
The Classroom Teachers Association of Raleigh County will host a dinner at Beckley hotel dining room at 6 30 tomorrow with F. M. Ashworth county superintendent and Miss Ethel Keyser Woodrow Wilson High School teacher as main speakers. A group sing, introductions, and speeches follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashworth
Miss Keyser
Sullivan
Clinton Phillips
Julie Smith
Jear Porter
E. M. Ashworth
Beckley Hotel
Classroom Teachers’ Association
Raleigh County
National Education Association War and Peace Fund
Ethel Keyser
Woodrow Wilson
East Beckley Women Meet Three Guest Speakers
The Saint Mary's Methodist Church Women’s Society in East Beckley held a meeting at Mrs. W. E Palmer's home on Wednesday May 19 with guest speakers including Mrs. D L Hill district president Mrs C H Rutledge and Mrs A J Brackman district secretaries. Officers elected included Mrs B P Farley president emeritus Mrs Les Milam president Mrs Palmer vice president and a full slate of secretaries for children, young girls, student work, spiritual life and other duties. Refreshments were served to several members, continuing the society’s community program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women's Society of Christian Service
Saint Mary’s Methodist Church
East Beckley
W. E Palmer
D. L. Hill
C. H.rutledge
A. J. Brackman
Les Milam
Palmer
Zulla Ellison
Brice Bailey
B. T. Donalson
J. W. Gwinn
Faye Farley
Beulah Callahan
Wayne
Martha Givens To Be Graduated From Marshall College
Huntington Miss Martha Givens daughter of Mr and Mrs C Givens 514 Woodlawn Beckley will graduate from Marshall College with a bachelor of arts degree on May 31 She will also be awarded a teacher s certificate in home economics and commerce While at Marshall Miss Givens was a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
Martha Givens
C. Givens
Woodlawn Avenue
Beckley
Marshall College
Miss Givens
Marshall
Givens
Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority
Margaret Ann Cook Weds Elwood Bostic at Methodist Temple
Miss Margaret Ann Cook daughter of Mrs Margaret Patterson Beckley married Elwood Bostic son of Mr and Mrs O D Bostic at the Methodist Temple. Ceremony conducted by Rev Glen W Stewart at 3 pm on Saturday May 15 attended by the couple. Mrs Bostic a Woodrow Wilson 1941 graduate. he Trap Hill 1940 graduate now employed by Crab Orchard Improvement Co. at Eccles. They reside temporarily with her mother on Edwards Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Ann Cook
Margaret Patterson
Beckley
Elwood Bostic
O. D. Bostic
Harper Road
Glen W. Stewart
Methodist Temple
People You Know in Beckley Area Social Roundup
A wide list of residents and relatives visits, leaves, and returns across Beckley and nearby towns. Mentions include Marjorie Cornwell of West U Edwards Palm Beach Florida joining husband Lieutenant Parsons in Alabama, Mrs Norman Williams visiting from Pittsburgh and New York, and Private Mason Eastridge on leave with parents in City Avenue. Also noted are travels to Charleston Lynchburg Baltimore Fort Knox and Washington along with furloughs and upcoming home stays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marjorie Cornwell
West U. Edwards
North Kanawha
Palm Beach
Florida
Beckley
Lieutenant Parsons
Alabama
Norman Williams
Pittsburgh
New York
Harlow Warren
North
Kanawha Street
Mason Eastridge
United States Marines
Lee Eastridg
City Avenue
Pvt
Eastridge
Parris Island
S. C
Quantico
Virginia
Helen Tyree Weds Corporal Glenn Orren Jr
The marriage of Miss Helen Tyree to Corporal Glenn Orren Jr was announced by the bride’s mother Mrs Myrtle Tyree of Grandview. The ceremony was at Rev A S O’Dell’s home on East Main Street. The bride wore a blue and yellow outfit with yellow rose buds as corsage. Best man was Dr G A Dyer and Spencer Lyle attended. Mrs Orren works at the Central cafe. Corporal Orren has returned to Camp Lee Virginia for stationing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Tyree
Glenn
Orren, Jr
G. S. Orren
Ellison Avenue
Myrtle Tyrée
Grandview
A. S. O'Dell
East Main Street
G. A. Dyer
Spencer Lyle
Orren
Central Cafe
Corporal Orren
Camp Lee
Virginia
RFE
Glenn S. Orren, Jr
Doris Arnold to wed Fayetteville man in June
Doris Virginia Arnold, daughter of Mr and Mrs Denver C Arnold of Mount Hope, will marry Staff Sergeant Robert Dummitt of Fayetteville. The ceremony is set for June 8 in Altus Oklahoma. The bride is a Woodrow Wilson high school graduate and Beckley College student member of Beta Theta Mu sorority. Dummitt, Fayetteville High School class of 1939 graduate, enlisted in 1941 and is stationed at Altus Field Oklahoma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver C. Arnold
Mount Hope
Doris Virginia Arnold
Robert Dummitt
United States Army Air Corps
A. L. Dummitt
Fayetteville
Altus
Oklahoma
Woodrow Wilson High School
Beckley College
Beta Theta Mu Sorority
Denver
Arnold
Robert Pummitt
United States Army
A. L. Dummill
Dinner Honored Lieut Pitman By Beckley Women
Lieut Virginia Pitman, a recruiting officer for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, departed for Cleveland Ohio after a farewell dinner hosted by the Beckley Business and Professional Women’s club. The event included piano solos by Mrs Emery Taylor, a red white and blue theme, and attendance by several local residents before the group attended theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Pitman
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Cleveland
Ohio
Beckley Hotel
Business and Professional Women’s Club of
Beckley
Emery Taylor
Missie
Lillian Lilly
Everal Winehell
Billy Bowyer
Irene Hambrick
Midge Lee
Thelma Martin Engaged To Wed Charles Browning
The engagement of Miss Thelma Mae Martin daughter of Mrs Pearl Martin of Lester is announced to Seaman Third Class Charles H Browning son of Mr and Mrs C V Browning of Bolt The couple plan a wedding but details remain unsettled Thelma a Trap Hill high school graduate class of 1942 recently worked for Triumph Explosive in Elkton Maryland and now works in North Carolina Browning a 1939 Trap Hill graduate enlisted as a navy man February 7 1942 and is stationed in New Orleans Louisiana
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thelma‘ ‘Mae Martin
Pearl Martin
Lester
Charles H. Browning
Bolt
Miss Martin
Trap Hill High School
Triumph Explosive Corporation
Elkton
Maryland
North, Carolina
North, Carolina. “Seaman Browning, the Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Browning
Trap Hill School
Navy
Glen Rogers Coal Company
New Orleans
Louisiana
Thelma Mae Martin
Mes
United States Navy
C. V. Browning
4-H Camp Set At Camp Campbell
The county Four-H camp will be held at Camp Campbell on the Greenbrier river during the week of August 9. Miss Mary Elizabeth Wolfe, new county Four-H leader, announced at a Blue Ribbon club meeting in Prosperity. Wolfe said government support shows Four-H members are valued. Frances Toney presented a program on Christianity at Work. A quiz on birds and animals followed led by Mrs. Wayne Stewart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Campbell
Greenbrier
Mary Elizabeth Wolfe
Four-H Jeader
Four-H Club of Prosperity
Wayne Stewart
Orams Celebrate 25th Anniversary in West Virginia
Mr and Mrs H J Oram of Lester observe their twenty fifth wedding anniversary on May 21. They wed in Omaha Nebraska May 21 1919. Mrs Oram born Mt Ayer Taws taught in Morrison and Dows Iowa. Mr Oram born Clairton Iowa worked for Rock Island Railroad at Jas per Minnesota. They have lived in West Virginia 17 years and have two children Mrs Iowa Shumate a Raleigh County teacher and Buddy Oram a Beckley College student.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J. Oram
Lester
Omaha
Nebraska
Iowa Shumate
Raleigh
Buddy Oram
Beckley College
Mrs Underwood Weds Pa Man In Wilmington Ceremony
Anna Tee Underwood daughter of J W Bailey Prosperity married Eugene P Balderston Philadelphia in a single ring ceremony at the Methodist church of Wilmington Delaware conducted by Rev Robert Conner. The bride nurse graduate from Chester Hospital wore navy blue and white with orchid corsage. Groom Cornell graduate and former basketball captain played football in 1925 26 27 and later coached. now attorney at law in Chester. They will reside in Swarthmore, Pa after a wedding trip up the East Coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Tee Underwood
J. W. Bailey
Eugene P. Balderston
Eugene P. Balderson
Philadelphia
Methodist Church
Wilmington, Delaware
Robert Conner
West Virginia War Nursing Council seeks nurse trainees
Miss May M. Maloney chair of the War Nursing Council of West Virginia will visit Beckley on Wednesday with the Civilian Defense council and the Red Cross to recruit for nurses training. She will meet interested girls between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the Beckley hotel or by telephone appointment, Mrs. L. G. Houser announced yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss May M. Maloney
War Nursing Council of
West Virginia
Beckley
Civilian Defense Council
Red Cross
Miss Maloney
L. G. Houser
Phyllis Ann Harvey Is Given A Party
Mrs. H. H. Harvey of Laurel Terrace hosted a party for her daughter Phyllis Ann to celebrate her sixth birthday at 1 pm yesterday. Games and music were provided by Warren and C. O. Meadows. Refreshments served to Keith Preuitt Norma Lee Miller Bobby Kosnoski Norma Harvey Buddy Kettle Phil Harvey Elaine Thompson Marie Foster Delmer Allis James Allis Peppy Prince Deanna Lee Harvey Patty Ann Samson Katherine Beavers Patty Lou Phipps Warren Meadows Billy Andrews John Meadows Ruth Ann Dickerson Sandra Lee Waybright C. G. Meadows Tommy Waybright Mrs. D. Homer Harvey Mrs. Eugene Samson and the hostess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Harvey
Laurel Terrace
Phyllis Ann
Warren
C. O. Meadows
Keith Preuitt
Norma Lee Miller
Bobby Kosnoski
Norma Harvey
Buddy Kettle
Phil Harvey
Elaine Thompson
Marie Foster
Delmer Allis
James Allis
Peppy Prince
Deanna Lee Harvey
Patty Ann Samson
Katherine Beavers
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Ranawnar
Betty
General Store
Selwood
Louise Koiner
West Palm Beach
T. C. Moorefield
Watts Apartments
James Lee Moorefield
Fort Knox
Kentucky
Carolyn Jones
Clarence Burdette
Elizabeth Poole
Charleston
Nancy Ballangee
W. H. Fite, Jr
Young Nice
Martha Winston Rizos
Mary Wilson
Baltimore
Bessie Carroll
Dessa Floyd
Richwood
Clarence Lee Taylor
South Kanawha Street
John Schulte
O. H. Meador
Freeman Street
Tennessee
Elmo Jennings
Bluefield
Nathan Pickus
Woodlawn J Avenue
New York City
Delores
S&p, A. RS
Boston
Massachusetts
Johnson Leach
Ann Street
Raleigh General Hospital
J. E. McCreery
Sarah
Washington, D. C
Clarence Lee
Mrs
S. E. Taylor
H. C. Smith
Henry Jr
Paintsyville, Kentucky
Edwin J. Murray
Los Angeles
California
Rosalind Funk
John Canneen
William Tittle
Akron
Mabel T. Taylor
Lynchburg
Katherine Raffalovich
M. M. Gladwell
Norforlk
B. B. Richmond
North Kanawha Street
William’ F. Richmond
Camp Adair
Oregon
William Graham
United States Marines Corps
New River
North Carolina
Dorothy Graham
Margaret Ann Sessler
Saint Luke's Hospital
FE. W. Wood
Edward Howe
Billy
Ethel Greene
Flat Top
Gladys Burgess
Daniels
Burgess
Leona Coble
C. F. Cox
Keith
Clarice Hurt
G. C. Hurt, Jr
Ann Berilla
Fort Devens
Claud Kelly
Delma Epperly
Ralph Whitener
J. G. Beard
Burgess Street
St. Petersburg
Army Air Corps
James Tucker
Mercer Street
Mabscott
Geraldine Lucas
Harper
Grace Patton
Metalton
Ada Richardson
Reeles
Daniel Field
Augusta
Georgia
Patton
Richardson
Grover L. Sweeny
India
Furs Sian
DIAL
CORP
O'Dell
Lieut
Pitman
Thelma Martin
Charles Browning
Orams
Modern’s Fur
Conservation Service
Neville
Beckley Theatre
Angeline Saunders
William Saunders
Aunt Farrelly
Lillian Hellman
Wesleyan
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Buckhannon
Miss Saunders
Trap Hill
Wesleyan College
Phyllis Ann Harvey
del Mar Beauty Shop
Feather
Awwu
Commete Guarant
Spode
Billingsley Rose
White Cross Pharmacy
Neville St
President Hotel
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