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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1933
Page
5
Bluefield merchants purchased the Christmas street lighting display at public auction by the Bluefield Business Men's Association. The group plans to lease parts to participating merchants who helped fund the original cost, with aims to redeploy holiday decorations next year.
Mrs. J. M. Couch 92, long time Russell County resident and mother of Mrs. J. F. Yearout, died Sunday at 2 a.m. at her daughter Mrs. A. F. Chafin’s Castlewood Virginia home after weeks of illness. Funeral at son A. E. Couch’s Cartertown Virginia home at 2 p.m. with burial in the family cemetery. Survived by brother B. L. Rasnick of Honaker and eight children: Mrs. A. E. Chafin, Mrs. Alice Couch of Castlewood. Mrs. J. V. Couch, A. E. Couch of Carterton. H. P. Couch of Jonesboro Tennessee. Mrs. M. E. Foster of Pamplin. Mrs. J. F. Yearout of this city.
The Bluefield Junior American Legion Drum and Bugle corps traveled to Beckley for a Santa Claus pageant staged by the city. Several thousand people attended as schools were dismissed and a holiday mood spread. After a one hour parade, the corps performed an exhibition drill at the courthouse square and memorial building.
Wayne Cubbedge, former Bluefield resident and Huntington Herald-Dispatch employee, was injured Saturday night when his crutches slipped on wet pavement as he exited a taxicab in Huntington. He suffered a fracture of the right hip and is the son of former Ramsey Junior High principal Mrs. R. W. Cubbedge.
Upright grand piano for sale at 700 dollars suitable for church school room studio or home. All wool handmade shoulder shawls in several colors priced at 1.48. Christ Church Guild to serve turkey dinner Thursday December 7 at 6 o clock for 50 cents. Royal Arch Masons Bluefield Chapter No 20 holds stated convocation Tuesday at 7 30 with R D Payne secretary.
Rufus Ferguson of Danville Virginia was fined 50 dollars and costs and sentenced to 60 days in Mercer county jail for a drunken driving charge. He was also held for grand jury action on a separate charge of stealing a truck owned by C. L. Wright of Charleston. Ferguson arraigned before Magistrate W. W. McNeal. The truck was recovered after Bluefield police arrested him when he crashed it into a ditch near the county bridge at the east corporate limits.
Mrs Alice Wiley Johnson 65 of Bane Virginia died Monday morning at 5 at her home after a week long pneumonia illness. She leaves husband Estell S Johnson two foster children William Roberts US Army and Perry Munsey of Bane two sisters Mrs C S Thompson and Mrs H G Holden Glen Lyn and Lewis Wiley Glen Lyn. Funeral at Pleasant Hill Methodist church at 2 pm conducted by Rev I N Munsey with interment in Pleasant Hill cemetery.
R Dudley Chandler of Green Valley was slightly injured when struck by an automobile driven by Ray Bailey of this city on Princeton road. Bailey took Chandler to the Bluefield sanitarium for first aid and then to his home, giving police a report after the treatment.
Birth announced in Duhring W Va Earl Gullion and wife welcomed a daughter Lora Lee on November 27 In Matoaka visits by B B Hurst to his brother Carl Delp Thanksgiving gatherings at McComas and Athens patients and families mentioned including Bertha Lowe in Bluefield for surgery and recovery and other social visits by residents of Goodwill Sand Lick and Macadam school were noted with several names omitted in error Carl Foy and Marie Shutt identified among Goodwill residents
The couple, both well known locally, were wed at Princeton on November 29. Mrs. Tracy Dillon spent Thanksgiving with relatives here. Mrs. R. J. Shrader reportedly cracked a rib in a trough fall last week. The Ladies Aid met at Mrs. Jake Scott's with refreshments after the business portion. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Olinger and three children from Bluefield, Va, visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bailey for Thanksgiving. They returned with Mrs. Bailey, Hazel, and Howard. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Arrington and Helen of Beardsford are visiting relatives nearby for the holidays.
Clennon Compton son of Mr and Mrs R F Compton sustained a broken arm while cranking a car near his home in Nemmirs West Virginia on Wednesday according to local correspondence.
Mrs Bryant of Falls Mills visited relatives here Friday. Miss Myrtle Rigney and Alma Riley shopped in Bluefield Friday. Miss Dorothy Moore and Margaret Lowe of Bramwell visited friends Thursday. Mr and Mrs H F Tabor were relatives at Yard Wednesday. Mrs Jack Workman remains at home here. Mrs Joe Davidson shopped in Bluefield Tuesday. Miss Juanita Riley ill at her home. Miss Faye Quesenberry remains with her parents at Oakvale. Mrs Mary Neal of Bluefield spent weekend with her son D H. Miss Bessie Poe spent weekend with her parents on Bluefield Bramwell road. G E Barrett and son Oakley visited Falls Mills Friday.
McDowell West Virginia December report lists social visits across towns. Elsie Otey of Crumpler visited Miss Mabel Reynolds. Ethel Armbrister spent Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. George Sluss in Tazewell. many locals hosted relatives and friends in Worth Princeton Roanoke Keystone and Gilliam.
Mrs. F. L. Black, president, spoke Sunday on WHIS in elation over the Christmas seal campaign. Pianist Miss Bima Gillespie performed pieces by Liszt Schumann Delibes. A follow up radio program is planned for Wednesday at 2.
The Marion Peterkin junior auxiliary of Christ Episcopal church showcases a fully furnished 36 by 28 inch doll house in Eureka Hardware window. It sits on castors, has electric lights in every room, a living room fireplace with tiny andirons, a water color dining room painting, yellow tiled kitchen, orchid bathroom fixtures, and a four poster bed in one of two bedrooms with made up beds and linens.
The Christian Endeavor society of the First Presbyterian church holds a 7 30 p m meeting tonight at the church with a large attendance urged.
Harman Woodyard Lloyd Feuch tenberger Jr and William Deverle, Davidson college students, spent the week end at their respective homes. Miss Blanche Delott returned from a visit with Miss Polly Levine in Greensboro. Miss Virginia Belcher Richlands shopped in the city. Eloise Peery Pocahontas visited with Mrs W C Harry and Miss Florence Harry Boissevain Va among Saturday shoppers.
Coal men gather for the twenty-ninth annual meeting with papers on electric power lessees in mine haulage safety organization data on coal sampling and oxy acetylene welding. Officers and speakers include Garvey and Wade with other institute members and committee chairs listed.
Mr and Mrs Ray Shrewsbury of Kempston Maryland visited relatives in Rock over the weekend. Mrs Virgie Brown of Matoaka spent Sunday with her parents Mr and Mrs Andrew Reed. Mrs J B Neal is ill after a paralytic stroke. Miss Gladys Corvin of Matoaka visited Miss Violet Bailey. Mr and Mrs N H Long visited their daughter Mrs George Scott of Leckie who is very ill. Mr and Mrs Babe Blevins and Claren Hurst of Wenonah were guests of Mr and Mrs Conwell Bailey. Violet Bailey and Gladys Corvin with Bernard Johnston of Goodwill dined with Miss Katherine Gonano of Pageton. Mrs S A Parks and Mrs G T ...
In Los Angeles on December 4 the county grand jury returned an indictment charging Harry Veiler Morris Cohen and Edward H Fried man with robbing Mae West the film actress of 20400 in money and jewels over a year ago according to police.
Mercantile firms link retail weakness to inventory reduction while both wholesalers and retailers expect little price relief. wool goods remain firm though demand slack, some jobbers quote near March levels. chemicals show moderate activity with narrow price swings and denatured alcohol for anti-freeze moving well despite weather shifts.
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