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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1972
Page
13
A reader asks how to locate her birth parents, feeling a deep need to know why she was given up. Ann cautions that such searches often bring trouble for adoptees and families, advising to focus on productive, safer goals instead.
Community notices invite women to send announcements to Beckley Newspapers Women’s Department by 10 am for same day use. Friday and Sunday events include senior chorus practice at Shady Grove Baptist, Eastern Star meeting at Masonic Hall, Raleigh County Historical Society dinner and bazaar, Alcoholics Anonymous open meeting, Calico and Jeans Square Dance Club workshop, and various church and club gatherings.
Dr Ivy Celender offers colorful nutritious meals from the Basic Four Groups for kids age 1-3. Plan a week of menus with varied flavors textures shapes and colors, using meat milk bread fruits vegetables and soups with simple fun touches.
Margaret Blake led the Nellie Price Circle at Hollywood Missionary Baptist Church MacArthur in a Thanksgiving themed program titled Therapy of Thanksgiving. The group chose to donate 5 to Mac's Toy Fund and 20 to a Burma mission project, planned a rummage sale, and scheduled a Christmas dinner and farewell for retiring pastor Rev. C R Brooks on December 31. Thirteen members attended.
About Town notes say Mrs. Robert L. (Devon) Davis of 132 Dexter Ave. has been released from Raleigh General Hospital where she was admitted Friday evening for observation and treatment after suffering an apparent heart attack. She is the wife of Beckley Newspaper Corp. circulation manager Roscoe Kilmer. The Kilmer family spent 10 days with Mrs. A. H. Epperley of 121 Huffman St. before traveling on to San Deigs, California and then to Spokane, Washington.
The Monday Music Club met at 419 Woodlawn Ave to explore new sounds through recordings. The program featured mbira, Poeme Electronique by Edgar Varese, and Harry Partch's Barstow, with business led by Mrs. Wilts and Mrs. Jones in Mrs. Daniel’s absence. A guest from New York City and hymn history by Mrs. Isabel Morton were also noted.
Twenty cigar box doll beds were donated to Mac's Toy Fund after judging by Mrs. W. C. McMahan at the Progressive Homemakers Club meeting in Mrs. C. L. Crews's home. First place went to Mrs. Cam Thompson with second to Mrs. Nancy Meadows. A West Virginia Heritage lesson was given by Mrs. O. D. Hall, followed by the Progressive Trio's rendition of West Virginia Waltz.
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