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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1933
Page
8
More than five hundred people visited the J. W. Waters Company jewelers store opening in Bluefield. Waters, in business seventeen years, moved from the Law and Commerce building to the new premises featuring a large stock and praise from attendees.
Thoroughly renovated and redecorated, the store compares favorably with any jewelry shop in the state. A rear balcony houses the office with a workshop behind the display and sales room. The stock includes diamonds watches silverware glassware novelty foods and other articles forming an exhibit likely to attract Christmas shoppers. C A Roberts expert runs the watch repairing department. On opening day callers received rosebud favors.
In Chicago, Municipal Judge Leon Edelman dismissed a noise complaint by Marie Waterman and tenants against Pal the water spaniel. He ruled that mere barking is not a legal infringement and that the dog’s barking is protected speech, suggesting the owner find quieter hours for Pal.
Frank H. Jarrell, a Bluefield general delivery clerk, is at St. Luke's hospital with a fractured pelvis. He fell from a tree at his Bethel home while felling wood near a telephone line and rope rigging, and was struck by a limb that broke.
Richmond reports Virginia will remain dry after Tuesday as the eighteenth amendment is repealed by the twenty first. Although voters supported repeal and a liquor control law, enactment hinges on the January session and possible months of transition. Attorney General Saunders pledged to uphold the dry law as repeal becomes certain.
City and coalfield items list promotions from New Rainbow Cleaners and Eureka Hardware. Includes dry cleaning and laundry offers, linen curtains sale, Cocoanut cakes and nut bread, and a used upright grand piano for sale with terms.
Funeral services are held at 2 30 P M at the Pentecostal Holiness church Montcalm for Mrs. J W Caves 63 who died Thursday at her Montcalm home after a long illness from cancer. The Rev Mr Smith of Princeton and the Rev Mr Baker of Montcalm will officiate. Interment at Woodlawn cemetery. She was a Cabell County West Virginia native and widow of John Henry Booth before her marriage to J W Caves. She is survived by eight children and her second husband. Active pallbearers and flower bearers named.
New York reports the longtime pickpocket trade fading nationwide says Police Commissioner James S. Bolan. Captain William J. Raftis notes fewer cash transactions as citizens rely on checks. The Welfare Island inmate known as The Crying Dutchman marked his 178th birthday and 123rd arrest among 867 squad arrests last year.
The Murray Teachers college Thoroughbreds, a team with six married men, defeated Mississippi Teachers 30 to 0 to win the Southern Collegiate Athletic Association football title. Murray ends its season undefeated in conference play at seven wins, no losses, having scored 255 points in nine games while allowing 25.
rugged end Geisler of Centenary and Skladany of Pittsburgh anchor the first team with strong defensive play. Smith of Washington and Petoskey of Michigan contend for flanker spots. Schammel at guard and Schwammel at tackle gain high praise, while tackles John Schwammel and others fill key roles across major programs.
Washington reported a small drop in the number of families on public relief in West Virginia for October, with 89 000 families aided versus 91 437 in September. Total relief costs rose to 1 313 370 dollars in October from 1 230 893 dollars in September, attributed mainly to higher aid levels.
National figures show more families on relief and higher total costs in October. Across the country, 2,851,804 families received aid, up from 2,794,640 in September, with total relief costs reaching 63,352,021 dollars versus 57,568,480 dollars previously. Six states had not yet reported.
Benton Ark Dec 1 Mark H Shank Akron Ohio attorney was found guilty of murdering Alvin Colley in a picnic poisoning that killed three other family members last August 15. The verdict follows a trial focusing on Colleys death and the tied charges.
The court issued a verdict that carries the death penalty. A reference to the “threed count” explains it as the number of threads to the inch in a piece of cloth.
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