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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1934
Page
4
Bluefield Virginia faces job uncertainty as the PWA sewer project nears completion. Several heads of families did not join emergency relief effort due to being deemed unable to work. After project closure, hundreds may seek work in town during the upcoming four and a half months amid rising living costs and coal prices.
The weekly Bland county horse market at Wytheville shows horses selling from 150 to 175 dollars, with top heavy drafts around 250 dollars and mules also making a comeback. The article notes how prices rival memories of fifty years ago and highlights mule demand amid competitive animal prices.
A number of Pocahontas division railroad men are expected at Clem Lane's funeral this afternoon. His death was announced in Friday's Daily Telegraph. Lane worked with Norfolk and Western nearly forty years ago and was famed as a personable, amiable railroad man. He enjoyed returning to Bluefield to renew old friendships.
An ad promotes B. C. as a fast relief for violent headaches arising from inorganic causes, also usable for muscular pains colds neuralgia fever and nervous distress. It stresses a pharmacist prepared blend not dependent on typical relief drugs and claims quick results in minutes. Available in 15 and 25 cent packages at drugstores.
Bluefield Trinity Richlands Graham Be Church South Rev Beard pastor lists Sunday school devotionals at 9:45 and 11 worship 7:30 p m with sermon by pastor. Missionary meetings include deacons trustees election after service. Pearlsburg jail sermon at 4 and jail preaching 7:30 in town.
The Empty Stocking Fund committee plans community solicitations to prevent an empty stocking in Bluefield Virginia this Christmas. A Virginia Side Billy Sunday club met at Mrs. Jennie Barrett’s West Graham home for prayer, with more services planned at Mr Crabtree’s Furnace Hill home next Sunday at 230. Terry Tibbs will lead the service. J F Galloway will lead singing. Members urge attendance and say the club will visit homes within ten miles of Bluefield with a shut-in or crippled resident. A foreign boxcar near Bluefield carried a foot of snow and ice from the west, signaling a big western storm’s approach.
Two of Bluefield Virginia's leading physicians Dr H B Frazier and br O K Phiegar are ill this week. Luther Tolbert Bland county farmer and pioneer reader visited Bluefield Friday. Mrs W M will go to Roanoke today to spend the weekend in that city.
A homing pigeon returned to Tony Horak in St Louis after 2 years and 2 months, covering about 800 miles from Little Rock, Ark. The race began amid a severe electrical storm. Thirty four birds disappeared and were never seen again.
Funeral services will be conducted in Washington city today for Mrs Edward Lyons Ambler 65 mother of Mrs Carl Gillespie of Bluefield Virginia. She died in a Washington hospital Thursday night after several weeks illness. Born and raised in eastern Virginia she belonged to a prominent family. Survived by husband two daughters and one son Mrs G W Thompson of Washington Mrs Gillespie of Bluefield and James Ambler of Richmond.
The Valley Virginia recounts Grey Sulphur Springs near Peteratown as a famed resort a century ago. Guests praised cures for dyspepsia and other ailments, and described a brick hotel ninety by thirty feet with a long hall facing tiered rooms. The property is noted as owned by Spangler of Macon, Georgia, with Mr and Mrs Spangler residing there.
Visitors staying at the Grey as guests of Mr Pangier’s cousin H B Spangler toured a property once owned by the late Col Harrison Eck and related family ties are noted.
Under a new timetable trains No. 24 and No. 15 from Columbus and Cincinnati stop at Bluefield Virginia at 8 18 a m under flag signals. No. 5 on the Clinch Valley shifts to 8 59 a m Sundays, while No. 1 runs six minutes later and No. 8 two minutes later. Officials predict No. 24 will become a popular coal field traveler.
Three Chinese restaurant workers were shot dead in a tenement near Manhattan’s Chinatown by two others. Police sought to determine if the incident signals a Tong war. witnesses said two assailants left quickly after the gunfire.
Relief headquarters in Rhinelander Wisconsin waited for the return of Mark Stockley, the relief effort centered on aiding a man whose wife’s corpse had been found. Authorities described the case as a welfare concern and coordinated aid. The status highlighted ongoing assistance and immediate relief steps for Stockley and family.
The Melody Quartet from Bluefield College under Mrs. Gimbert entertained Bluefield Lions at their West Virginian hotel luncheon. They sang two numbers ending with Bells of St Marys, with Charles Rosa performing Barnacle Bill the Sailor as accompaniment. Members named Ramie Rosa Carr Walters Jr. led by Gimbert.
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