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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1939
Page
4
Virginia voters face poll tax deadlines as Bluefield and other towns prepare for municipal elections on June 10 1940. Delinquent tax payers risk losing voice in local choosing while age old Democrats resist changes to the six months clause.
An 18 day successful revival at Havace Methodist ends with Rev J B Trent of Wilcoe and Rev D M Neese assisting. Trent, Norfolk and Western agent at Wilcoe, is praised as a capable preacher in this brief Virginia column.
The Old Dominion Club at Bluefield Virginia gave a Pollyanna style evening in honor with Mrs. Wyatt serving an elaborate turkey dinner. Members present included Mrs. A L Hawkins Bluefield Mrs M L Wagner Mrs Jas Garwood Mrs Roset Hatchett Mrs C B Linkou Miss Sallie Greever Miss Jessie Graham Miss Sallie Graham and guests Mrs John Porter Tusewell and W R Wyatt.
Dr Robert E Speer will address Bluefield State Teachers College students on campus today at 2 30 joining Genoa and area high schools in attendance to hear the international speaker.
Senior Sewing circle at Mrs Jane Abcott’s home 215 members at 3 30. Junior Parsonage club at 700 Calhoun street 4 o clock. Scott Street Baptist junior chorus at 5 church. Philathea class at 6. American Legion auxiliary unit 39 at 8 00 home of Mrs C W Tiffany 300 Vine Street. Junior Missionary society broadcasts at 8 00. Junior choirs gather 10 o clock Sunday at John Stewart church hall. All city junior choirs invited.
Miss Sarah Rock and Mrs Sarah of McComas are listed among relatives of Mr. and Mrs. A L Wil ees in a brief obituary snippet noting holiday references.
Bluefield Virginia families kept to tradition choosing November 30 for Thanksgiving. They held reunions with turkey or chicken and pie while dressing and cider accompanied the feast. Apple juice was scarce in town and Whit tier’s verse is recalled about moving with the past.
A dream vision portrays the dove of peace ruling Europe with an armistice and ceasefire. The dream notes no agreements were reached yet, and that fighters quit. Allies ponder why lives are sacrificed over one man while cannons lie idle and mines lie under the ocean.
Mrs. Howard Hoge died Wednesday and was widely known in Bluefield Virginia. She fed the community and spoke at Graham Methodist Church in support of prohibition. For years she served as president of the W C T U with home in Lincoln Virginia.
T B Ogle, longtime Norfolk and Western general foreman of the electric zone on the Poca hontas division, has retired to 801 Frederick street Bluefield W Va with his daughter Mrs D R Witherspoon He returned recently from Hot Springs Born in Fearmanage county Ireland he came to the States at 19 first in Cleveland then Norfolk He has four daughters and one son and his wife is dead years.
The Great Big Hog club expands as local breeders Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Boone of Abbs Valley feed prize hogs with care. A weighed hog reportedly reached 600 pounds on the scales amid notes of sick hogs and unbalanced diets in Tazewel.
At Hot Springs Ark every morning when the mail arrives two gentlemen of leisure living in the Chapel hotel sit in easy chairs and pull the wrapper off the Eld Daily in Ratcliffe. Both are well known in the section and send regards back here via B Oxie.
A regular stated communication of Harman lodge No. 222 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons will be held at 7:30 pm in Mac Hall Bluefield Virginia. Worshipful Master Raleigh H. Tabor urges all officers and members to attend due to outstanding business before the lodge. Secretary J D Hinegardner listed. In 18th century France every window was taxed.
Randolph Norton, columnist for the Raleigh Register, faced contempt charges over a criminal court trial article. In Beckley he appealed the citation and asked for dismissal. Judge Kilgore took the demurrer under advisement until tomorrow.
The text notes an office is closed as of November 30 and mentions the county Republican committee doing business as usual. It then oddly describes a man weighing 150 pounds lifting 150 pounds to ten feet in the air, with conflicting phrases about work and meters, suggesting damaged OCR from the page.
Spencer West Virginia November 30. The Roane county courthouse is described as a house divided between Sheriff Phil D. Phillips and another party amid local tension and conflict at the courthouse.
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