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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1938
Page
10
A long list of time marked radio program titles and performers covers a full day. Notable entries include West Virginia services and Caperess coffee shops along with musical soloists and ensemble pieces. The schedule highlights include Rock Cliff Musical Moments and Shoppers Program with varied genres and likely regional interest.
A five mile stretch of Colorado road is paved with rock from mine ore dumps claiming gold value of twenty thousand dollars. The rock, described as containing ore and precious metal, is said to date from local mining operations and could influence road construction costs and mine reclamation plans.
The First Baptist Church at the corner of Mercer and Duhring streets hosts its annual meeting at 7 30 this evening in the main building auditorium. Reports from departments and treasurers will be reviewed. officers and leaders for next year will be nominated and elected. a budget recommendation will be presented. Rev. J R Johnson of Virginia Baptist Mission board will attend and speak.
Local items report on eighth grade activities under teacher Kelly Shutt including a boxing exhibition by Curtis Helmandollar and Junior Evans and a library purchase. Pinnacle and Sagamore circles hold meetings with mission study and officer elections. birthday party for Pauline Burcham. Sagamore circle plans year end events and Christmas charity Flower sales and officer slate for 1939 noted.
Great Plymouth advances promise a larger car with functional styling and a high torque engine. It emphasizes smooth ride, easier handling, and low priced ownership with low monthly installments to finance the purchase.
Mrs. Hazel Riffe returns from Bluefield sanitarium after a minor operation. Mr. and Mrs. Daugherty and children move to town from Amonate. Jennie Grainger returns to West Virginia University while J. C. Grainger heads to Chattanooga after Thanksgiving with the Grainger family. O E Mangus and family join dinner honoring J E Goodwin and Goodwin family.
At Bishop last Sunday a man marked his 79th birthday while Mrs. W D Bond sits beside her critically ill sister Mrs Ollie Blankenship at Bluefield sanitarium. Kathleen Poindexter and her sister Elaine improve and recover at Bluefield sani tarium. Lizzie Combs visits Mrs Hazelwood in Ashe county over the weekend. Alberta Brown of Roanoke spent Thanksgiving with Mrs Albert Goodwin, months after Nazification of Austria.
Vienna on December 6 executed Martha Marek described as a human cobra for killing her husband, daughter, aunt, and a woman boarder. She was the first to face the death penalty in Austria since the previous wartime period during her May trial.
Grafton West Virginia December 6 The Grafton high school basketball team will demonstrate new basketball rules at the central board of officials of West Virginia meeting in Grafton December 12.
A home remedy promising quick cough relief mixes two cups sugar with one cup water, then adds 2 1/2 ounces Pinex to a pint bottle. The syrup is claimed to loosen phlegm, soothe irritated membranes, and ease breathing without cooking. Pinex allegedly contains Norway pine and guaiacol, with a long history of soothing bronchial irritations.
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