Easter Week Services Illuminate Local Churches
Holy Week schedule includes Baptismal service Saturday at 4:30 pm and Holy Communion Sunday at 11 am with morning prayer and sermon. Easter programs feature Immanuel Lutheran and Presbyterian services, Catholic mission at Sacred Heart, and a large turnout with special music and missions offerings.
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Beeen
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Peery
Roanoke Lutheran College
Presbyterian Church
Sacred Heart Church
Olivier
Mass Convention for Mercer County Republicans Called
A Mercer County mass convention is summoned for May 16 1908 at Bluefield to select 24 delegates for the West Virginia State Nominating Convention in Charleston and to nominate county officers. Voters from each magistrial district will cast one vote per twenty five votes for Roosevelt in 1904 and choose an executive committee chairman and secretary. Bramwell WVa April 4 1908. Place your orders for Kester flowers at East End Pharmacy.
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Mercer County
Bluefield
Mercer
Charleston
West Virginia
Theodore Roosevelt
Said
Unis
Circuit Court
House of Debates
Oxe
Sherif
Rock
Beaver Wond
East River
Plymouth
Jumping Branch
Isaac 'T. Mann
FE. L. Bowman
Bramwell
W. Va
Straw hats and a new Panama on Easter streets
In Bluefield the season's first straw hats spark talk as warm weather arrives and fashion shifts toward light headwear. A 15 year old, Crawford Miller, broke his leg after a fall at a coal house and will miss weeks of work at Pedge's store. The Bluefield Tigers host Russell College on the west end grounds for the season's first local baseball match. Nasturtiums and sweet pea seed in bulk advertised at East End Pharmacy.
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Panama
Bluefield
Sol
Crawford
W._.C. Miller
Dr. Slusher
Pedge’s
Bluefield Tigers
Russell College
West End
East End Pharmacy
Woman Executioner Lundy Betty Rise In Old Virginia Days
A historical note recalls Lundy Betty, a woman who was sentenced to death but spared if she served as public executioner in prerevolutionary Virginia. She worked on the scaffold openly and punished criminals in the streets for many years, a rare premodern role. The item ends with an Easter flowers promotion for East End Pharmacy dated 4-15-41.
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Virginia
Lundy Betty
San Francisco Chronicle
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Vulcanite
Bluefield Implement & Machinery CO
Richlands Brick Co
J. N. Harman, Prustee
Richlands
Daily Telegraph
Christ Church
Bluestone Council No. 110
U. CG. T
White’s
South
North
Carolinas
Wm. A. Stewart
Oliver Typewriters
Sion
Chicago
Stewart
Alabama
Republican League
Blend Street
McDowell County
Welch
Miss Maxwell
Nora Adams
Dewey
Grace Pearseen
Beatrice and
Plorence’ Baugh
Mabel
May Cummings
Julia Edwards
Irene
Mabel Caldwell
Helen Petijohn
O. Terry
Marvin Williams
Flossie Hall
Ireq
Cofer Maddox
Pearl Wallis
Mayme Allen
Lutheran Children’s Meeting
The
James Esum
Iwan
Huntington
Tug River
Miners’ Hospital
Grace Methodist Church
J. W. Rader
Matz
Princeton Avenue
W. M. Seay & Son
Geanifauet
Boyden
Bostonian
Soro
Sis
Rinefield
Telegraph
Kester Flowers
Cardus
Ajaceae
Artistic Stieff
Chas. M. Stieff
Stieff
Shaw and Stieff
Main Street
Lynchburg, VA. C
W. Whitmore
Bluefield Bottling Co
Bluefield, WW. VA
Galt
Windsor Hotel
Wytheville, Virginia
Wytheville, Va
Virginian Railway
Deepwater
Maben
Mullens
HernArn
Matoaka
Chesapeake
Oblo Ry
Matowake
Norfolk and Western
Albit
Norfolk
Holmboe & Lafferty
OFI
Higginbotham and
Princeton Aves
Clarksburg
Empire Building
Athens
Ohio
Elks Opera House
Rusty Aph
Faylsoux
White Pharmacy
Williams & Scott
Raleigh Street
Booker & Grenshaw
Keomsa
Kelly & Moyer Building
B. M. Cohen
Dondelie
D. B. Baldwin
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