Forest Festival Opens With Royal Ball At Davis and Elkins
The four day Forest Festival begins the first weekend in October with Queen Silvia enthroned in the Davis and Elkins College amphitheatre. Highlights include Old English tilting, Cass Railroad rides, fly casting contests, dances, stage shows, two parades, and a Grand Feature Parade. The event emphasizes preserving 12 million acres of forests across West Virginia while maintaining a festive Mardi Gras atmosphere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silvia
Davis and Elkins College
Cass
Royal Forest
West Virginia
Wana Area Personal News Noted Weekend Visits and Guests
A series of social notes from Wana area listing visits and guests. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Calkins of Nutter Fort with others attended a public sale near Holbrook for the late Belle Grinage. Numerous relatives and friends visited in Morgantown, Pittsburgh, Waynesburg, and university hospitals, with names including Calkins, Cross, Howard, Harker, McDougal, Thomas, Cummins, Wiley, and Burnfield among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wana
Leslie Calkins
Hutter Fort
Belle Burnfield
Mary Howard
Belle Grinage
Holbrook
Evelyn McDougal
Vicki
Carol Thomas
Dickie Simpson
Carl Cross
Floyd Hebb
Parsons
Henry Lee Hoffman
Greensburg
Ida Haught
Sara Harker
Dick Westfall
Wheeling
Mildred Westfall
Gail
Richard Cummins
Fairmont
Wayne Cummins
Floyd Howard
Sara Wiley
Monongahela
Spencer
Edith Cross
Karen
Kevin
Kenneth Wiley
Larry Wiley
Mark
Butler
Shirley Smith
University Hospital
Casey McDougal
Morgantown
Nutter Fort
Luther Roupe
Pine Bank
Jack
Pittsburgh
Howard Harker
Herbert
Sonny
Patsy
Hookstown
Preston 4-H camping program opens with 140 attendees
Kingwood reports the 1968 Preston County 4-H camping season begins this afternoon at the Preston 4-H camp near Bruceton Mills under County 4-H agent Clifford Bucklew. About 140 teens attend the older camp July 14-19, with 200 younger youths ages 9-12.
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Betty Carroll Kingwood
Preston County
Preston
D. L. Williams
Police
Kathleen Thorn
Fieldhouse Family Gets Gift From WSCS Group
At Mellon’s Chapel Women Society Of Christian Service meeting a going away gift was given to Mrs Doris Fieldhouse who leaves with her four children for Ankara Turkey to join her husband for two years. Mr Fieldhouse will be technical adviser for US Geological Survey to train Turkish workers in soil drilling with new equipment from the United States.
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Archie Rogers
Christian Service
Kingwood Baptist Mission Society
Nolan Thomas
Rogers
Charles Cassidy
Clifford Thomas
Alderson- Broaddus College
Paul Martin
Lawrence Hoptry
Gibson
Baptist Parsonage
Spring Hill Drive
Thomas
Joe Bowermaster
Mary Gwynn
Grace Reebel
Donald Tennant
Robert Garlitz
Frank Slagle
Dennis White
Howard McNair
Wanda Line Dellslow
Mellon's Chapel Women Society of Christian Service
Doris Fieldhouse
Ankara
Turkey
Caroline
Sherry
Sharon
William
Fieldhouse
U.S. Geological Survey
United States
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Kaaren
Wana Area
Thomas Simpson
Leslie Ann Neely
Frank Areford
Lila Haught
Waynesburg
I.ies
Aea
Drexel
Heritage
Pullman
Henredon
Tomlinson
Beachley
Rowe
Pennsylvania
Ethan Allen
Norwalk
Jackson
Heywood Wakefield
Hickory Chair
Thomasville
Style Craft
Broyhill Premiere
Stanley
Coleman
Drew
Jamestown
United
American of
Martinsville
Kent Coffey
Sealy
Serta
Royal
Forbes
Karpen Konvertibles
Goodman
Inland
Maytag
Hotpoint
Caloric
Tappan
Philco
Admiral
Hardwick
Hoover
Sunbeam
Karastan
Magee
American
Evans & Black
Alexander Smith
Berven
High Street
Minnie Thomas
Greenbrier Almond
Margaret Bailey
Frances Kokochok
Mildred Lindley
Alton Anderson
Cliff Bucklew
Jeff Taylor
Rita Jo Goldstrom
Virginia Wallace
Allen Copen
Pauline Shaver
Pat Pinnell
William Lindley
Margaret Lee Messenger
Fielding Kyer
Barbara Noll
Donna Coy
Ray Fish
Monongahela Power Co
Angela Arnold
Tom Cale
David Glover
Joe Smith
Lynn Taylor
Terra Alta
Neva Harsh
Eglon
Deborah Martin
Church School
Deborah Weltman
Rowlesburg
Shelia Kay Williams
Kingwood
Wscs Group
Ethel Hagedorn
Buchannon
Hagedorn
Mount Vernon
Mellon's Chapel
Burns Chapel
North Union
Bethlehelm
Gladys Hagedorn
Personals Marine Pvt
Robert Wolfe
Camp Pendleton
California
Private Wolfe
Charles Wolfe
Morgantown High
Morgantown Business College
Rock Forge
Canyon
Pursgrove
Bertha Hill
Arthurdale
Chestnut Ridge
Glenna Williams
Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church
Rock Forge Presbyterian Service
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