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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1933
Page
5
Many residents are paying their poll taxes to the Tazewell county treasurer this week to qualify for the town election on June 12 1934. Three councilmen and a treasurer are to be elected. The deadline to pay capitation taxes is December 11 to vote next June.
Funeral services were conducted at West Graham Methodist Church for Mrs. Vicle Haymaker 67 who died at her niece’s home in Maxwell. Interment followed in the family cemetery on the Tazewell road. She was daughter of William and Mary Witten of Abbs Valley and survived by one sister, Mrs. J C Holbrook.
The town faces a reduced Christmas distribution as many heads of families are on payroll or absorbed by the CWA program. A few families may still lack meals and toys for children, risking deprived holidays without donations from kindhearted locals.
Construction will start shortly on a section of the Tazewell road west of St. Clair's Crossing. Machinery is arriving on site as contractors prepare. The project runs from near the forks of the road west of the St. Clair schoolhouse to 1,000 feet west of Shannondale.
The Business Men's club gathers this evening in the basement of the Baptist church with all members urged to attend. Christmas holly with red berries decorates the local market while mistletoe is reported plentiful. parasitic growth on oaks complicates gathering. Circle 4 of the Woman's Missionary Society met Tuesday at Mrs. A. O. Hill's home with eight members. The group prayed together, elected duties, planned a January Pollyanna party at Mrs. Allan Farris's home with Mrs. J. T. Lampert in charge, and closed with a program led by Mrs. I. V. Holsapple. devotionals were led by Mrs. Hill.
Mr and Mrs Clarence A Shields entertain their bridge club this evening at their Walters Avenue home.
A look at main street storefronts shows holiday decorations in local shops. With everyone working and business steady, Bluefield anticipates a busy Christmas season.
Commonwealth's Attorney Joe Gillespite of Tazewell visited the Wednesday court scene to discuss youths charged with breaking into a poolroom and causing other mischief. A large crowd gathered as the night police fought a running vigil to curb ongoing depredations. Lucy Temple Willis of Bluefield was choosen as a choir singer in Baltimore's First Lutheran church, daughter of the city pastor, studying piano and voice there.
Hr. W. Foltz of Graham avenue was advised yesterday of the death of his aunt Mrs. James Hoover aged 65 at her home in Lawrenceville Virginia. Mrs. Hoover had been in declining health for some time.
Miss Maggie Neals orchestra provides music for tonight entertainment at the St Clair schoolhouse. The show begins at 8 o'clock with a cast of well known young people. Miss Ella Mae Ruble plays the Rose.
The Memorial Baptist church ladies begin Saturday afternoon practice for their Christmas entertainment. Webb Powers is ill at Coeburn hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Greiser return from Cincinnati visit with his relatives. Miss Ruth Johnson visits a relative at Excelsior. Miss Audria Peters returns from Castlewood to visit her sister Mrs. Fred Taylor.
Randolph G. Cook, prominent farmer near Gap Mills, Va., was struck by a car Friday near his Pageton home and died an hour later. He was a brother of Dr. W. E. Cook of Pageton. Funeral services were held at his residence with interment in a nearby cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Dietrich hosted a Wednesday night gathering for Wiley Dietrich’s birthday. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Dietrich, Mrs. Essie Dietrich, Miss Hazel Duffy, Lane Dietrich, W. K. Wysor and Sam Evans. Mary Lambert visits Bluefield Virginia. Donald Cook vacations in Bluefield with Aunt Mrs. C F Wilson. Mrs. James Mercer and Ernest Clark visit sister Mrs. Bill Boone in Arlington. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hughes and
Little daughters and Miss Dora Hughes were visiting in Hemphill on Wednesday. They were accompanied home by Miss Louise Hughes who spent Thursday here. Mrs. L D Yost and son Paul of Mechanicsburg Va were recent visitors here and were accompanied home by Miss Ethel Yost, local teacher.
Coopers West Virginia December 6 The Woman's Missionary society of the Methodist church will meet at the home of Mrs Ray Hill Friday evening December 8 Miss Delphia Cline of Bluefield guests of her aunt Mrs E H Lowe and Mr Lowe Donald Niswander ill at home the past week Dr C Bell ill with rheumatism but able to be out Mr and Mrs S T Adams and son Rudolph left for Wilkesboro North Carolina to attend the funeral of an aunt Miss Pauline Ayres of Glenwood
Park spends Thanksgiving with aunt Mrs Garnett Niswander and family. E W Rhodes and Jonathan Frazier visit Mr and Mrs John S Bennette of Algoma. W T Stanger of Herndon visits Stanger parents T B and Mrs Stanger. Thomas W Rhodes visits Princeton relatives. Mrs Arthur Bell returns home after Bluefield sanitarium operation. James Carey and son William attend funeral of Jeff Caves of Sandlick. Mason Ayres and Carl Harmon of Glenwood Park visit relatives. Mamie Niswander accepts Moskins Bluefield job. Howard J Frazier and sons John and Buddie spend Thanksgiving with George Frazier’s Athens family.
Irish Free State president Eamon de Valera tells AP by cable that Britain keeps Ireland in the Commonwealth by threat of arms. He asserts independence hinges on Britain answering if force would be used to stop an Irish republic. He notes ongoing demand for a clear declaration from Downing Street on force.
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