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The Progress-Index from Petersburg, Virginia • Page 28

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Petersburg, Virginia
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I Colored News cloud ovendwdov tnM Christian, but hit faith will a rainbow," "TalenU are nurtured in character is belt formed la the stormy billowi of worW." The Alice Roosevelt Auxiliary will meet Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. Susie McCray. This is the regular monthly meeting, and all mem- CLEJUANCE SALE NYLON HOSE 69c pr. 2 $1.25 COATS were $16.95 DRESSES were now $4.98 JACKETS were now $3.99 BERMUDA SOX 79c now 50c pr. ALL WOOL SWEATERS $1:79 MATERNITY DRESSES were now $2.79 OUTING PAJAMAS $1.88 -Men's- FLANNEL SHIRTS were now $1.99 Long Sleeve SPORT SHIRTS were $2.98 now $1.99 FLANNEL SHIRTS were now $1.69 COATS were new $8,95 DIAPERS $1.77 dox.

109 Halifax St. fews I I W251 I sor, ic presenting the Pilgrim Travelers Quartet for your listening pleasure. The. Busy Bee Missionary Circle of Mount' Olivet Baptist Church will meet Sunday afternoon at 5:45 o'clock at the Church. urgently requested to be present and on time.

Elder Lillian Johnson, pastor of Jerusalem Penecostal Holiness Church, Hopewell, will be speaker at tie Apostolic Garden of Prayer Church, Chesterfield, his evening at 8 o'clock. Elder Forrest Randolph is pastor. The Fellowship Holiness Union Petersburg and Vicinity i lold services Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Rose Sharon Apostolic Holiness Church, Wavery. Elder L. A.

Luster is pastor, and Elder R. L. Davis will speak. A bus will- leave the Macedonia Church of Christ, 319 Halifax Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock accommodate worshippers de- iring to attend. Ebony Social Club will hold a peciai meeting this evening at 8 )'clock at the residence of Mrs.

Lucille Roy, 330 North Old Church It. Business of importance i ic discussed. Royal Forty-three Social ill meet Sunday afternoon at 5:30 )'clock at the home of Mrs. Viola 536 Federal St. Mrs.

Alice Lundy will assist as hostess. Musical program will be present- 'd Sunday afternoon at 3:30 'clock at the First Ebenezer Bap- Is! Church. William Peace, spon- GEM THEATRE --Wedaesdaf and Pick-up" And "Oriental Vanities" Funeral services fo'r Mrs. Bertha Masn will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Mount Level Baptist Church, Dinwiddie, instead of the chapel of the Jackson's Funeral Home as previously announced. MRS.

ELIZABETH 1'A It HAM Mrs. Elizabeth Parham, of 512 Hannon died Tuesday morning at 11:25 o'clock. Mrs. Earham was native of Dinwiddie County, but had lived here for about 10 years. She was the daughter of the late William H.

and Elizabeth Johnson. She was a member of the Providence Baptist Church and Missionary Circle of the Church. Surviving are: three daughters: Mrs. Carrie Washington, Mrs. Elizabeth Hobbs and Mrs.

Gertrude Stewart, of this city; three sons: Roger Parham, Baltimore; Wills- pooney Parham, and i Parham, of this city; two sisters: Mrs. Carrie PJunt and Mrs. Virginia Ross, both of this city; 10 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, three daughters-in-law, two sons-in-law, two sisters-in-law, one brother-in-law, and other relatives and friends. Remains rest at the J. M.

Wilkerson Funeral Establishment. The Home Department of the Metropolitan a i Church School will meet this evening at o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Forcie, 540. Pegram St.

There will be a rehearsal this evening at 8 o'clock at the Mount Zion Baptist Church, Ford, for the electrical wedding to be presented under the direction of McDonald Powell. Mrs. E. P. Harris is chairman.

Elder Lillian Johnson, pastor of the Jerusalem Penecostal Holiness Church, Hopewell, will, be the speaker at the Apostolic Garden AT THE BANNER STORE! CHILDREN'S CORDUROYS LADIES' GOWNS LADIES' PANTIES 4 FOR LADIES' COTTON HOSE 3 FOR BANNER STORE 139 Halifax SWffTIf fit chwwakt, Just nice will do!" of Prayer Church, Chesterfield, this evening at 8 o'clock. Elder Forrest R. Randolph is pastor. ALEXANDER WHITE Funeral services for Alexander White were held Wednesday January 25, at 4 p. from the chapel of the J.

M. Wilkerson Funeral Home. The Rev. F. J.

Boddie officiated, assisted by Rev. W. H. Gill. Burial was in the family plot in the Eastview Pallbearers: Honorary i Brown, Charles Royall, Clarence Penn, John Hill, Hubert Hines Clarence Marcellus Heath, Spencer Jackson, Herbert Taylor, Gilbert Thrower, Melba Penn, John Minter, Leonard Nelson Ceasar Allen and Ernest James; Active Robert Coleman, Henry Rivers, Luther Brown, Ernest Jackson, Willie Lee Ruffin Robert Fisher, Roy F.

Thweatt and Clinton Lanier. Mrs. Roberta White, sister of the deceased, of Minneapolis, accompanied the remains from Detroit to Petersburg for burial, and also attending the funeral was Mrs. Virginia Cooper, sister, of Philadelphia. STORK REPORT The following birth was reported in the Petersburg General Hospital: To Mr.

and Mrs. Walter Parham, Rolfe twin sons, January 31. Board of Directors the Sportsman's Civic Club will meet this evening at 8 o'clock. Members are urgently requested to be present and on time. Majestic Temple, No.

109, of Elks will meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock. Members are urgently requested to be present and on time. Charity Board of the Zion Apostolic Church will meet this evening at 8. o'clock at the Church. Mrs.

Bertha Stokes la president. Parent-Teacher Association of the Peabody High School will this evening at 7:30 o'clock. Business of importance will be discuss ed at this time. Improved Bible Class will meet this evening at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Hattie Pollard, 802 Farmer St.

Special invitation is extended to the unsaved. Junior Women's Garden will meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock at the home, of Mrs. Bellie Coleman, 669 Gill St. Miss Addie Coleman will serve as hostess. Elder James Wilson, of Richmond, will speak at the Saint James Holiness Church tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock.

Mrs. Rosetta Norris will have charge of icrv- ices. Evangelist S. M. Williams wil speajc tomorrow evening at i o'clock at the Zion Church.

The Pastor's Aid Club will have charge, and Mrs. Mary Crenshaw is president. Southside and Marathon Committees will, meet Saturday evening at at the home of Mrs a Rebecca Goins, 717 South Jones St. Miss Belle Harris, who was a patient Petersburg General Hospital, has returned to the City Home. Miss Harris is grateful to friends for cards, fruits and other presents given her.

She indeed appreciates kindness shown her by nurses and orderlies on the second floor. MRS. ADEI, 8. WASHINGTON Mrs. Adel V.

(Mickey) Starke of 824 Gladstone died Wednesday at Saint Philips Richmoad. was a native of this city; of Peabody High School, and member of Zion Baptist Jhur-ch. Surviving are: husband. Washington, aiother, Mrs. Ethel J.

Starke; father, William T. Starke; two sisters: Mrs, Vivian Aeuae Frazier and Mrs. Geraldiiie McLaughlin; two brothers: James A. Starke and Vernon W. Starke; three aunts: Mrs.

Mabel Jones, Miss Virginia Petersburg; Mrs. Alease Larkins, Jersey City, N. three uncles: Alfred A. Starke of this city; Everett Starke, Baltimore; Walter Jones, of this city; father-in-law, mother-in-law, 3 brothers-in-law, 3 sisters-in-law and other relatives and friends. Remains rest at the Wilk erson Funeral Establishment.

CXJttY i UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -Psychiatric tes.ts couM do much to'-curtail America's traffic accidents, says Amos B. Key hart, head of the of Public Safety at Pennsylvania State University. Emotionally unstable people are in bad traffic he says. And bad attitudes are important factor in many crashes.

says psycWatric cfceekt xu stability tae an important additioa training as a means of He is an expert oa driver training having conducted the first course in driver training here in 1934. He says a poorly trained driver is twice as likely to have accidents is a well-trained driver. fr CRABS '-OYSTERS URANIUM SEEKERS CARRY GEIGER GUN DALLAS, (INS)--The atom age cowboy doesn't even have to draw his gun these days to get his loot. He simply presses the trigger of his geiger gun, reads the metei and if his aim is good he has found uranium. The new-type gun, looking to all the citv-folk like a real sixshooterl its "tooled leather holster, was' dreamed up by J.

T. Wallace, an Arizona man who needed something compact for his prospecting. The one-pound wonder is a super-sensitive instrument i uses transistors, the new electronic rage, in of tubes. Not only does the gun tell its user if there's uranium underfoot it. assays the percentage of radio actively material in the ore.

Southern Instruments, of Dallas makes the geiger gun, which in its. leather holster and with a year's" supply of ammunition (battery) retails for a little under 5200. ALL KINDS Also Boss, Croakers, Spots, Extra Large Butterfish, Steak Mackerel We Make Our Own Deviled Crabs Resident Beliveries-BE 3-5132 BASS SEAFOOD MARKET 115 lollinjbrook St. Diol RE 3-5032 CLEARANCE! HM'S JacMs 15-M FULLY LINED REG. I10.SS Shoes BEG.

$2.9843.91 Ckildrn's Dresses REDUCED TO Boys' Shoes REG. $2.98 And Many Other Items Throughout HERMAN'S 145 Halifax St. Pctanbwa RE 3-3841 "Winter-tread" your smooth-worn tires now! Don't into winter on dangerous old Get your "winter-trod" recapi now, be prepared for hemry going. You get new tire mileage at bulf new tire WE USE CERTIFIED QUALITY A FBOM UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. LEETE Cor.

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M. to 5 P. M. FRIENDS CREDIT CO 253 HALIFAX ST. OPPOSITE LIBERTY ST.

CASH RAISING SALE! $10,000 Worth of Merchandise MUST GO HUNDREDS of LADIES' DRESSES HUNDREDS of BLOUSES and SKIRTS to 50c to LADIES' SUITS to LADIES' COATS to LADIES' LEATHERETTE JACKETS GIRLS' COATS, Sizes 3 fo 14 200 PAIRS LADIES' SHOES 1.00 and '2. 00 BOYS' LEATHERETTE JACKETS Dozens of Other Hems at Ridiculously Low Prices! Don 9 Pass I This Sale!.

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