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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1937
Page
3
Mme Amelita Galli Curci fully recovered from goiter operation sang for farm folk in a tiny hall at Wadena Minnesota and received an ovation as hearty as any she ever gave at the Metropolitan.
The Pinecrest sanitarium in Raleigh County lists 148 patients from across southern West Virginia. Notable newcomers include Samuel Houston of Blue Sulphur Springs and Denver Casto of Charleston, with several others from Pineville Switchback and Fayetteville. Discharges include Lonie Chapman and Sallie Duty.
Miss Eloise Walls Harvey, a 1934 Mark Twain high school graduate, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at West Virginia University. Principal Cormany described her as an excellent English major with an A record. Her family moved from Tams to Delbarton near Logan, where her father T. B. Harvey is a mine superintendent.
The Young People's Bible class met Sunday night at Hot Coal church with Jess Ashley as leader. The group planned the next meeting at Big Stick church and will study Genesis chapters 25 26 and 27.
A VapoRub claim describes immediate warming action on skin acting as a poultice. Medicinal vapors rise with body heat and travel to irritated air passages, loosening phlegm, easing irritation and coughing, and reducing congestion.
Personal notices document residents from Canyon City to Charleston with travel plans, hospital statuses, and family gatherings for Thanksgiving. Included are Mrs. Harry Pinkney who fractured a foot and underwent ligament surgery, W T Lilly illness in Princeton, and numerous relatives visiting or traveling between Beckley, Charleston, Wheeling, and other towns.
Mr and Mrs Verne Whitt have started housekeeping on Harper road near Beckley Mrs Whitt formerly of Rhodell is a nurse at Beckley hospital and Mr Whitt works for a Stonecoal mining company in the area
Mr and Mrs Woody Emery of Tams announce the birth of a daughter weighing nine pounds on Wednesday November 17.
The Teen Age club met at Miss Cleo Smith’s home to finalize a buffet supper and a Thanksgiving tea dance at Miss Mary Alderson’s house on North Oakwood avenue. About 40 invitations were issued for the supper and 75 for the dance. The event features music from a nickelodeon and follows a Beckley Hinton football game with attendees including college students home for the holiday and local youths. Afterward couples will attend the Student Council dance at Woodrow Wilson High School.
About 65 students from Trap Hill Junior High will stage a Thanksgiving operetta and minstrel at the school Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Proceeds benefit the music department. Mrs. Cary Ward McClure, high school music director, will direct.
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