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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1936
Page
8
Miss Calloway and Hugh B. Moore married Saturday morning in the Lilly apartments. Dr C L Calloway and Mrs Calloway presided with Dr Ritchie Ware of the First Christian church officiating. The couple plans a honeymoon to the east and residence at Athens for the summer months.
Miss Freda Martin of Brooklyn and Mr Russell Pennington of Kaymoor wed in a simple ceremony at 10 AM in Fayetteville. Rev M Homer Cummings conducted the single ring ceremony at his home. Pennington works for the New River and Pocahontas Consolidated Coal company at Kaymoor.
Local society item reports the marriage of Miss Lillian Margaret Keyser to Mr. Willard Lawrence Bodkin on May 14, 1936 at St. Marys Ohio. Mrs Bodkin is the daughter of Mr and Mrs W L Keyser of Kilsythe and related to several Keyser family members in the city.
Miss Margaret Bledsoe entertained Miss Mary Diehl of Norfolk Virginia with a one o'clock luncheon and bridge at the Black Knight Country Club. Guests included Miss Peggy Barwood Miss Blanche Hutchinson Miss Ann Louise File Miss Nancy Wickham Miss Frances File Miss Eileen Jarrell Miss Ruth Clifton and others. prizes awarded for high and low scores and a guest gift.
Mrs. Roby Blevins hosted a Friday gathering at Calloway Heights to honor her son Harald Lewis on his seventh birthday. Guests enjoyed games and contests followed by refreshments and a large seven candle birthday cake.
Miss Iva Underwood served charity refreshments to a long list of Mabscott residents and friends including Mrs. W. C. Underwood Mrs. CG L. Walker Mrs. Frank McManaway and many others at a hospitalities event. The gathering featured numerous local families such as the Bobbits Hollidays Pachutas and Arnetts.
Essie Stephens entertained many friends Friday evening at her Sophia area home with an old fashioned square dance. Hillbilly music provided by local musicians accompanied the evening. refreshments followed for guests including Naomi Ray Nell Shanlin Ruth Houck Lucille Clarice Stephens Nannie Lovell Ora Stone Minnie Smith and others along with Mr and Mrs P O Malone and several families.
J. Q. Hutchinson, former Raleigh County Bar Association president, hosted a six o’clock farewell dinner at the Pleasant Inn for David G. Lilly who departs for Charleston to join Lilly and Lilly. The event featured brief talks from intimate friends and a guest list including Ned Ragland Ben Ashworth K Douglas Bowers Floyd Sayre Z A Petty Fred Lilly Grover Trail George Ballard Beverley Wren Clay Crouse Kermit Locke Robert Ashworth WA Riffe and J Q Hutchinson.
Mr and Mrs C Tongue plan to sail on the S S Aquitania June 11 for a three month stay in South Wales and England. They will attend the Welsh National Eisteddfod at Fishguard and visit Birmingham and London. They intend to take their car aboard and return in late August on the Queen Mary.
The June gathering of the Monday Music Club will take place Monday at 3 o clock in the Siab Park home of Mr and Mrs W G Caperton. Mrs Austin Caperton assists as joint hostess. A charming program has been prepared and members are urged to attend full.
Major Harley M. Kilgore will be the costmaster at a banquet to be given by the National Guard Service Company, 150th Infantry, Tuesday evening at seven thirty.
The banquet honors Captain A W Jenkins now adjutant of the 75th Brigade and Captain William Holroyd McGinnis named commander of Service Company. All men of Service Company are asked to meet Tuesday at six at the Armory and attend in uniform.
Mrs. Sr. V. McCollam hosted a birthday gathering at her Ford Street home for her daughter Deloris Ann's sixth birthday. Guests included Elizabeth Ann Yago Frances Brooks Shirley Barbour Charlotte Lou Irwin Mary Katherine Loflin Tommy Bowman Johnny Yago Billie Brook Jackie Williams Billy Deloris Ann McCollam and Charles Walker.
Mrs J Bumgardner won low grass prize while Mrs J E McKenzie and Mrs A H Grigg tied with Miss Eleanor Payne in the putting contest as part of Friday Ladies Day activities at Black Knight Country Club.
The Ann Rose Memorial class at the First Baptist Church has been postponed until further notice for Monday evening.
Mrs. G. R. Hutchinson and her niece Miss Wanda Cook spend the weekend in Huntington as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Hutchinson. Frank Prince of Charleston and James Prince of Prince visit Beckley on Saturday. James Salango, a Davidson College student, returns home for summer vacation. Joe Boiarsky Abe Boiarsky and Mrs. Fan Crafton are guests of Mr. and Mrs. N. Berman. Miss Henrietta Berman is visiting.
Relatives and friends from Beckley and surrounding towns plan weekend visits and trips. Attendees include Eleanore Payne heading to Philadelphia for commencement, Mrs. E M Payne in Harrisburg, and others visiting Washington, Bowling Green, Mammoth Cave, Wheeling, Charleston, Athens, Chicago, and New York. Families attend graduations, funerals, and college events while residents travel for business and leisure.
James Cannon Hobson of Raleigh, C and O Railroad agent, received a donation to the conscience fund from L B Snead of Flat Top. Snead handed a note and 98 cents claiming he once evaded fares on trains 158 to Prince and the Virginian to Winding Gulf and now repents by paying 51 cents and 47 cents plus 8 cents in fare.
A long list of Beckley area residents and guests are noted to be traveling or visiting relatives. George and a grandmother head to Pittsburgh, several plan trips to Clifton Forge and Wheeling for events, conventions, and family visits, with others staying in Charleston, Beckley, or nearby towns for weekends and holidays.
Brazil reported wood exports totaling 167177 metric tons and about 2064800 dollars last year, up from 30989 tons and 389040 dollars in 1934. The figures reflect the country's export activity and market value for timber products in the cited period.
A giant panther prowled Cate in Minas Geraes Brazil frightening residents. It leaped on Sebastiao an elderly traveling peddler and decapitated him before vanishing.
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