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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1937
Page
5
The Raleigh County district committee will meet Monday at 7 30 p m in the Chamber of Commerce office to nominate officers for the coming year. District Chairman E L Colcord urges all members to attend as selection will occur that night.
Alderson society notes recount a linen shower for Mrs A A McLaughlin hosted by Miss Mary Andrews. Guests listed include Frances Alderson Alice Todd Alderson Ellen Langley Johnson Evelyn Jones and others as gifts and a salad course was served. Additional society items mention hospital treatment in Richmond and travels of local residents to Morgantown and New York City with university ties and trips to Beards Fork and Duncan Oklahoma.
The effort to place a new grave marker at Fort Yates North Dakota reopens the question of whether Sitting Bull was a chief or a medicine man. State historian Lawrence Fox says he was a medicine man, but commonly called chief for lack of a better title.
Monroe notes social visits across Beckley Salem and Sweet Springs with Washington D C travelers Mr. and Mrs. B T Collins, Ida Erskine, B H Coleman, E R Baker, J H Dempsey and daughter Ethel of Lewisburg, H G Gillespie, Prenda Peters White Sulphur, Henry Baker Paint Bank, Ina Pearl Kirby, Cove Creek resident M James Howard Covington hospital updates, and Miss Anna Kate Neel guest at Sweet Springs.
A seeing eye dog guides Louise Shull to classrooms at Occidental College as she works toward a bachelor of arts degree. Mrs Shirl, blind, appeared on campus to pursue a scholarship and study four years toward becoming a writer at the college.
Local church notices list morning services at Beckley Presbyterian Church with a sermon titled Think on these Things and a solo by Henry Herring, no evening service until October, Sunday school at 9:55 a.m. Other churches including First Christian, Methodist Temple, St Stephens, First Baptist, United Church of Christ, Ebenezer Baptist, and St John’s Baptist announce morning prayers, Sunday schools, and evening services with sermon topics and schedule. congregations invited to attend.
A fragment list shows multiple Black churches with pastors and Sunday services. CENTRAL STREET BAPTIST CHURCH and SUNDAY SCHOOL led by Mrs A L Anderson, 9 30 a m, with sermons by Pastor Rev Samuel A Abram. other churches include GLEN WHITE Key Samuel A Abram pastor, NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH Eastestkley J Adams pastor, and CHURCH OF GOD AP AISTONIC Geekiey Rev Mo Gravely pastor. The notes mention Sunday School times, morning sermons, evening services, and active pastor anniversary clubs.
Minden Rev Jamee Railey, pastor, conducted morning worship and evening service at Viam Morning Worship Church. The event featured sermonic readings and congregational participation in a spiritual gathering.
Frank Sprinkle a noted accordion player in Bluefield stores a coin collection valued at about 300 dollars in a bank vault to prevent theft. The AP report notes his strong attachment to the old American coins and his plan to keep them secure.
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