24 Aug 1930
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1930
Page
1
The article highlights John B Watson’s view that mothering is a difficult profession and details how nursery schools for ages eighteen months to four years provide physical development sensory training and social adjustment. It notes rapid growth from five schools in 1923 to 157 today and anticipates nursery schools becoming part of every public system.
A bridge party hosted by Mrs. J. Newman Wittenberg in East Pineville drew guests and prizes with Mrs. C. E. McLaughlin high and Mrs. Henry Blakely low. Birth of a baby girl announced to Azell Brown and wife. A list of local visitors and returns notes recent travel to Baltimore New York Welch and Charleston.
Bluefield police and fire departments sponsor a two day September 1 2 fireworks event at Bluefield Airport. Proceeds benefit the police and fire emergency fund with half directed to the fund. John W. Haldren and G W Harris tout the show as a premier Bluefield spectacle produced by Baldwin Fireworks Display Company of Chicago.
In East Pineville and Cardwell areas families hosted guests and planned trips. Worrells travel to Hillsville Virginia to visit former home. Mrs. McCue visits Wittenbergs in Cardwell. Mrs. Morris and Mrs. Smith accompany Mrs. Howard on a Glen Rogers luncheon outing. Porter family headed to Norton Virginia to visit relatives. Mrs. Hochins, guest of the Hochins, departs for Hotcoat to visit her daughter.
P L Grant Angus Merritt and Harve Davis of Webster county were arraigned on charges of censoring to cause bombs to be dropped on Webster county to intimidate government witnesses in mine labor disputes. A September 3 preliminary hearing date was set with bonds of 5000 dollars each. Ewing Riley and Noble Harris were being sought. warrants for two Illinois aviators were referred to federal authorities.
London reports the newborn daughter of the Duchess of York at Glamis Castle is a twilight sleep baby weighing seven pounds two ounces. She measures eighteen and a quarter inches with dark hair and blue eyes and may be named Cecilia Victoria Margaret or Cecilia Victoria Anne amid Scotsmen’s push for Margaret.
Especial interest to Bluefield and vicinity as Thornton-Laird ads in The Daily Telegraph present value messages on merchandise. The store’s departments prepared to serve visitors and invite everyone to visit the store for bargains in coal field region.
Earl Jensen, state director of institutions in Sacramento, says inmates, regardless of mental state, still apply powder lipstick and cosmetics even if they forget faces of friends. He asserts women in institutions maintain beauty routines.
Bramwell West Virginia April 23 During the lunch hour on Tuesday the railway station was robbed entry to the office and safe by someone who took a large sum of money. The Pilgrim Holiness church held its annual camp meeting ending with several conversions and baptisms in the Bluestone river. Local church notices include Holy Trinity Episcopal Presbyterian Baptist and Methodist services with times and mid week prayers. an important board of stewards meeting is set for Monday evening in Harry Bowens office.
A parade of names notes stays and visits from Cincinnati to Roanoke and Bluefield. Families and friends travel between North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland with brief reports of guests, returns, and a hospital operation, highlighting social ties and community life.
Universal's production White Hell of Pitz Paul screens at the Colonial Theater this afternoon and again Monday.
Gaston P. Walker 77 died at his daughter’s home in Pinoak after 7 p m Friday. Survived by wife Harriet White two sons Forest and Dale six daughters including Keaton Walker of Pinoak and Ora Hawley of North Carolina. Buried at R B McComas cemetery Matoaka. Funeral conducted by Rev Steve Woods. Local notes include weddings moves church property purchase and congregational meeting outcomes.
Horace suspects the girl he has been seeing is deceitful. Herbert reveals she is married to the driver, changing the dynamic of the affair. The brief exchange underscores a twist in a melodrama style dialogue.
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