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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1925
Page
2
A hodgepodge of brief items lists coal suppliers and phone numbers, rental offers, a church meeting note, a circus bus schedule, a home for rent, sale notices for horses and land, a barber shop ad, army recruitment pitch, church services, a college ad, travel promotions, and a police court report about fines for gambling and alcohol violations.
Practical solutions of household problems taught by culinary experts. Red Star Flour Free Cooking School at Appalachian Power Company led by Miss Esther Voth runs each afternoon at 2. The lectures focus on home economy and utility with demonstrations. Attend as a guest of Red Star Milling Co.
The Pocahontas division reports a daily average delivery of 2,247 cars for August, the largest month in history with no production cuts expected this week, signaling a new high record.
Prohibition Agents Watkins and Lucas arrested R. C. DeBusk and L. F. Carden on West Virginian Hotel sixth floor as they carried a briefcase and liquor bottles. DeBusk known as the brief-case bootlegger, had two pints on him while Carden had three. Both jailed for trial Monday in magistrate court. DeBusk previously from Bluefield now Salem Virginia. Carden formerly Gary, now Harlan Kentucky.
Promised musical offerings fill the Bland Street Metal Church program this evening with three special numbers aside from congregational singing. Mrs. J Nichols and Mr Barrett duet on a Psalm, a mixed-voice quartet including Misa Bodell and Mrs Shriner with Mr Fo land and Mr Barrett, and a duo of two violins with pipe organs played by Miss Helen Mitchell, Vincent Paollello, and James Elmer Brown performing Schubert. Ruth Bodell solos at the morning service with A Voice in the Wilderness by John Prindle Scott. Visiting choirs will be at Bland Street. Dr Long’s sermon at 11 o clock, Rev J B Anderson preaches at 1? o clock, and the pastor’s brother-in-law is expected to be welcomed back.
Members of the Jackson touring party who visited Europe on a sight-seeing trip landed in New York aboard the Berengaria early yesterday and then returned to Bluefield at night. Mrs. W. H. Thomas and daughter Elizabeth, Miss Lovey Shelton, Miss Elizabeth Shelton, Cleo Cash, Catherine Stahlman, Ruth Lazenby, Berth Ward, Mrs. J. T. Ward, and Frank Smoot were among those listed. They said the ice fielders were glad to be home and will likely share many stories of their experiences abroad.
Mr and Mrs Walter Melcher and children Louise and Webster of Pittsburg are visiting relatives in the city. Mr and Mrs W T Douthat Mr and Mrs J R Gerald and Mr and Mrs J R Melcher are also guests. Mrs Rachael Patton of Norfolk is visiting Mrs W T Douthat on Augusta Street.
A quirky notice suggests beating summer irritability by shedding duties and clothes, then standing under a cold shower. If you lack a shower, it advises calling a listed number to pick out a suitable one.
Evangelist Harvey Bream preached at Midway Christian Church using a baseball themed sermon built around the slogan Play Hall to compare life to a game. He urged unity discipline and cheering as keys to victory with Jesus Christ as the umpire and the Bible as the rule book.
Boyd A. Bennett of Charlottesville Va who has been named city manager of Bluefield visited the city and met with the board of directors and local business people. He said he could not start full duties before mid month but would be on the job by the 16th.
Fez Morocco August 22 A French communique says three days gain in land enemies occupied in three months Marshal Petain arrives at Casablanca meets Marshal Lyautey and travels to Rabat with plans to regroup forces. Tribesmen in Ouled Amrane Sless and Beni Zeroual areas are subdued as troops shift from front to rear for a new strike from recently conquered bases.
The body of Edgar A Hiancroft, late U S ambassador to Japan, was brought to San Francisco aboard the Japanese cruiser Tama in solemn state. Destroyers escorted the ship as guns boomed. Major General Charles Mencher and other officers welcomed the vessel at the transport dock.
James W. Steadman prominent Wheeling glass manufacturer and former Central Glass Co. general manager died after a protracted illness in Wheeling. Survived by four children James William Robert and Gertrude all of Wheeling. Born in Harpers Ferry and a Wheeling resident since 1862.
The Central of Georgia Railway announced plans to place orders for 1000 ventilated boxcars and 19 locomotives. The total cost of the new equipment is 2,750,000 dollars. Cars are being built by Tennessee Iron and Railway Company of Birmingham and locomotives by Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia.
An article cites Dr. C. E. B. Kelligg of McGill University arguing the average person reaches peak mental development around age 14. He notes that while a man may know more than a 14 year old, Army recruit experience shows thinking ability does not rise significantly past that age.
Erie report states two clergymen died when their auto collided with a Buffalo and Erie trolley near Forsythe New York. The victims are Rev. J Mcintosh pastor of Cascade Methodist Episcopal Church and another local preacher from Wesley Methodist Church.
Hartford Aug 23 Gerald Hance, dying witness in the Indiana murder near Muncie on Aug 14, named George Dutch Anderson and Charles One Arm Wolfe as shooters. He exalts Anderson as incapable of such a crime and recalls Mrs Hance's kindness. Chapman, sentenced to death for a police officer's murder, defended Anderson in court.
In Los Angeles on August 22, fluctuating weather upsets routines and fills the lost and found at streetcar depots. Alfred T. Clothier reports 1,800 umbrellas left on cars in one day. A rainy morning increases patrons with umbrellas, while bright sun boosts staff workload as people abandon cars. For the first six months of 1925 the department logged 13,371 miscellaneous articles with $3,883.57 recovered to owners.
A new fire extinguisher designed for petrol store houses and oil tankers uses very cold dense carbon dioxide to block oxygen and extinguish flames. Tests show even burning oil cans succumbing to the device, leaving fires to die without oxygen.
In Cedar Falls Iowa a tablet will be erected to memorialize William 8 Pitta, composer of The Church in the Wildwood, at the Nashua church that inspired the song. Rev Mr Pitts left Wisconsin in 1867 to lead the Little Brown Church parish now at Nashua. A second tablet honors the church first pastor Rev John K Nutting.
Fire alarm signals were reported across severalBluefield and Southside locations including Bluefield Avenues Chestnut Union Streets Lee and Franklin Streets and Midway areas. Specific street names include Northside Wecoke Avenue Runsell Street Morrow and Cherry Alleghany Feeral and Talbert Streets with areas near Henry Greenbrier Upper Jones Forest and Union Streets affected.
A testimonial dinner for Clarence Ridley, city manager who recently resigned, is set for Thursday at West Virginia hotel with tickets via the hotel desk. The program includes speeches by Bernard McClaugherty and Syney, musical selections by local artists, and a chorus, reflecting community appreciation for Ridley's work in Bluefield.
The Rev. Dayton Bairdstor of Boundary Avenue E p Church drowned while attempting to rescue his eleven year old nephew Frederick Ridenour after the boy fell from a motor boat on the South River near Annapolis. Mrs Miller and a six year old daughter were aboard the boat as the elder pastor swam with the child until the craft tangled and a hedge appeared. The minister, a former United States army chaplain who served in France, had previously led churches in Washington.
James Dodson was shot and killed in his real estate office in Tuscan Aziz. Albert Shackelford, a former mayor candidate for Douglas Arizona in 1931, surrendered to Chief of Police Jack Dee after the incident. Shackelford also attempted to shoot two brothers and another man, but the revolver failed to explode.
Affidavits released in Providence show foreman Howard Cassidy testified the boiler on the steamer Mackinac could not be repaired due to a tight drum and proximity to the floor. Walter A. Parent of Wholey Boiler Works corroborated that Chief Engineer John Grant said repairs were impossible. The August 18 trip ended in a boiler explosion causing multiple fatalities.
Fire destroyed a fashionable hotel on Rumford Main in The Birches with adjacent lodges damaged. Guests from Gore, Baltire, Philadelphia were lodged in nearby hotels as crews battled the blaze tonight.
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