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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1940
Page
7
A Virginia suggestion to close the quail season is debated by a local sportsman who argues it should not have opened this year. The Game Commission will meet in Richmond on December 12 to consider closing quail hunting in the northern western and central counties.
Sunday evening services at Graham Presbyterian Church begin at 7 30. The Rev C M Sublett delivers the sermon with Sunday school at 9 45. The public is cordially invited to worship with the Presbyterians.
The report notes a Bluefield Virginia resident is detained on an assault charge. It mentions Bluefield and Richmond connections among local families but omits two prominent ones and includes details about the Eatons and Scotts with ties to Bluefield and Richmond.
Funeral services for Mrs W V Litton age 36 will be held at 2 this afternoon at Cleland in the Methodist church. Interment in West Hill cemetery Lebanon. Mrs Litton died at her Jenkins Kentucky home Wednesday. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs W S Richardson of Cleveland.
N Clarence Smith of Bluefield Virginia named member of the Virginia state conservation commission to study forestry. Appointed by Governor J H Price, the forestry commission created in 1940 will report to the 1942 general assembly session.
Pocahontas churches list Sunday school at 10 oclock led by Superintendent Hampton Crawford. Evening prayer and sermon at 7 30 conducted by Rector Rev BE W Hughes. St Pauls Mission Chapel a call at 2 oclock with Superintendent Onry Seaver. Bible class led by Rev BE W Hughes.
Sunday schedule shows Rev. S. Barbery at Ebenezer 11 am and Tip Top 2 30 pm with 9 45 am early service. St Marys Church holds Sunday school at 9 30 am and morning prayer and sermon at 11 am by Rev. H V Clary.
Virginia officials report a policy to admit foreign doctors only if naturalized citizens with rare exceptions. The piece notes wartime pressures sending physicians away and cites Roanoke physician Dr. J W Preston. A separate item describes a warm winter day with temperatures from 21 above to 46 by afternoon and comments on a cold snap across Virginia with readings in Richmond Staunton and Lynchburg.
Weather notes report six below zero in Staunton with few wild ducks seen at Falls Mills dam. Custodian Bill McCoy notes no recent wild geese, ducks appear before storms. The piece mentions migratory fowl stamps required at the post office and asks how many stamp buyers existed in four southern states last year. Ministers invited to Odd Fellows jubilee in Bluefield.
Mrs. R. G. Boatwright of Coeburn addressed the Bluefield Virginia Woman’s club. Former Miss Cynthia Addington, reared in Coeburn, her father a longtime merchant. The couple has a 19 year old daughter at Radford State Teachers College.
Five year old Dana Dean daughter of Mrs Sadie Poteet Virginia avenue has been quite ill over the past week. Bobby Douthat also ill and recovering. Mrs and Mrs J Robert Douthat 502 Tazewell avenue report their daughter ill. C M Nash a well known Blue Stone valley citizen is reported very ill at his home.
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