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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1925
Page
10
The August 16 Uniform Sunday School lesson frames the inner spiritual war in every life between the flesh and the Spirit. It defines evil as misusing good, stresses liberty under love, and urges consecration to Christ with crucifixion of the flesh.
News of Colored Folk PERSONAL items note Mrs. D. C. Johnson and daughters returning from Bedford county Virginia and others visiting in Bluefield. The piece highlights Arthur G. Free in the city on Treasury business and local visits by Dr. W. C. Mit and Dr. Simpson Brown. It also covers a column about the Interstate Commerce Commission easing coal freight rates from West Virginia to New England, a long effort aided by local editorials and coal associations.
Judge Martin Lueck of Beaver Dam announces he will not seek the senate seat created by Senator Lafollette's death. He previously ran for governor. State Democrats meet in Milwaukee to endorse a senate candidate.
Churches listed include First Baptist Episcopal Street Methodist and Westminster Presbyterian. Details note preacher names, service times including morning 11 o clock, evening 8 o clock, Sunday schools at 9 45 a m and midweek prayer and meetings. Public invited to attend.
Calvary Baptist schedules Sunday school at 9 45 with W J Lilly as superintendent and 11 o clock sermon by Rev R J Tyler of Grundy Virginia. Brenieg service at 7 45 with Rev Mr tye preaching and Junior B Y P U Monday at 3 prayer meeting Wednesday evening Senior B I P U Thursday evening all welcome. First Presbyterian sets Sunday school at 9 30 with Edwin C Wade as superintendent and 11 o clock sermon by Prof M Carpenter of Bluefield College. no evening service with Christian Endeavor Societies at 7. Sunday school also held in Berryman building on Talbot street at 3 with C F Tynes superintendent. cordial invitation to all especially strangers.
College Avenue Baptist lists Sunday school at 9 30 morning worship at 11 and evening service at 5 with sermons on Needy Christian and Obeying Jesus. No midweek prayer meeting due to New Lebanon Baptist Association sessions in Tazewell attendance expected. Grace Methodist at Thomas and Rogers announces 9 30 Sunday school 11 and 7 45 preaching with topics Faiths Great Battle Sure Foundation senior Epworth League at 6 45 and prayer meeting 7 45 Wednesday aimed to grow attendance and make worship feel like home.
Travel report highlights smooth stretches between Radford and Christiansburg and rougher segments near Dublin and Glen Lyn while urging Virginia authorities to address the bad patches. A separate item notes Chief J B Wilson serving summonses to west end residents over a new sidewalk project with abutters to pay three fourths of the cost per state law.
George Waddell of Stony Ridge reports a barnyard fight in which a large rooster battled a copperhead snake. The encounter occurred several evenings ago just before sundown, as Waddell described.
In Bluefield Virginia a Brahma rooster battles a large copperhead, seizing the snake by the neck and thrashing it until it dies. Fowls seek the henhouse as the fight ends with the snake stretched dead on the ground. The copperhead is described as very large and venomous.
Personal notices list regional guests and hosts including the Rader family from Toledo staying with Mrs. J. L. Young in Bluefield. Other visitors appear from Portsmouth Ohio Dante and Roanoke Virginia. Attendees include Mrs. Warren Way, Mr. and Mrs. Helms, Dr. and Mrs. Bowman, and many others, with travel to New York, Martinsville, and Virginia Beach noted.
A note indicates an affiliation with Bluefield College and Mrs Lans who is a few days from Columbia University where she has been taking a special course of study.
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