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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1920
Page
2
Price cuts at the Central Meat Market include pork chops 35 cents, round steak 35, porter house and sirloin 40, boiling beef 2, roasts 30, and sausage 30. Other local ads note flowers, jewelry, pianos, pens, and home goods reflecting postwar shopping.
John Holdren leaves on a Richmond business trip. Waltz of Big Stone Gap is in the city on business. Dorothy McCall at 53 Third Street is slowly improving after typhoid fever. Annie Dearing goes to Knoxville to be with her son Curry who is ill. Mrs. W P Mann and her son James W visit Princeton Avenue and head to Pulaski. Rev D H Carr and wife plan a winter stay with relatives in New Martinsville, new address 208 Maple Avenue. Private Lee Aliff returns to visit his parents after a thirty day furlough. W A Bodell heads to Roanoke Rapids on business and expects early completion of contracts.
Miss Blanche Corvin and Robert F. McCue were married October 17 in Tazewell Virginia. Rev John Crowe officiated in the Methodist church with William Smith present. The couple, both Bluefield natives, will reside in Bluefield after a ceremony kept private until last night.
Dr. Castillo stood some distance from the machine when the collision occurred. Street lights were off and the automobile had no lights while rain on street car windows obscured visibility. The auto was heavily damaged according to the motorman’s report.
Charley Watkins suffered a serious beating in a Central Larber Shop area apartment after a debt dispute with W C Buchanan and others. Witnesses say Buchanan slashed and chewed Watkins’ face as he arrived to lend ten dollars to Carolina Meade impersonating Buchanan’s wife. Police arrested Buchanan Stevenson and two women. court fines followed for unlawful cohabitation and associating with an ill famed establishment.
Norfolk and Western prepares for holiday surge by splitting trains Nos. 3 4 15 and 16 into two sections between Norfolk and Portsmouth. Sections carry passengers baggage and mail in shifts from December 16 to January 1 with added Pullman cars and extra equipment on other trains.
Williamson reports Dr Hi D Hatfield and Dr Kessler of Hatfield Kessler Hospital Huntington are negotiating with Alex Bishop to buy the Vau ghn hotel at Williamson to convert into a hospital. The deal prospects are said to be very good. The hotel, now occupied by soldiers, was remodeled as a hospital plan but the project was later abandoned.
The Mother Goose Carnival will be staged as a continuous performance at the West-Bluefield Parcont-Teachers High School, promising value for the price and ongoing family entertainment.
A Mother Goose play runs nonstop as shown in the program with a midway of booths run by the Mother Goose family. Food stalls offer sandwiches tea and coffee while The Old Woman of the Shoe sells dolls. Mary Quite Contrary features potted plants and bulbs for Christmas gifts. Mother Goose greets attendees for a pleasant time.
The Kiwanis Club of Binefield met at Hotel Mats for a regular lunch and meeting. Members mourn the illness of Dr. KBUH Thompson, a leading organizer, and a committee was named to draft sympathy resolutions. Secretary Jack Wright announced the charter receipt, to be officially presented by the district governor soon. Attendance reached ninety five percent with no visitors.
Reports from Norton say Dig Stone Gap Virginia police chief was killed in a pistol duel with Wise County deputy Kenode who was seriously wounded and in Norton Hospital in critical condition. The conflict began when Kenode tried to forcibly seize a prisoner from the chief, a friend of Kenode.
The Bluefield Rotary Club placed about fifty two foot square concrete boxes along the Princeton avenue wall from the Norfolk and Western station to Mercer street. The boxes are designed to endure winds and stand ten feet apart. Details on shrubbery and other beautification steps beyond the Bluefield Chamber of Commerce pole removal plan are not given.
A Nash automobile owned by Dr. Dh del Castillo of Graham was struck by a westbound streetcar at Midway just after nightfall. The car toppled about fifty feet down an embankment. no one was inside the vehicle at impact. Officials say the streetcar was east of the state line at the highest point on the Bluefield Graham road where workers reported the auto was broken down for repairs.
A report notes that a pending project has progressed with boxes placed only as far west as Federal Street. The status remains uncertain, with no further details on completion or implications provided.
The session directs a special offering at next Sunday's service for starving millions in China and Central Europe. Members should give by plate or check, not in envelopes, and may hand gifts to designated stewards if absent. Funds go to relief agencies per Wilson’s appeal.
The community plans Christmas gifts to feed starving Bons during a Sunday School Christmas entertainment. Children will bring offerings to help the needy and a generous contribution is hoped to be sent forward promptly.
In Portsmouth England parishioners at Forton report tombstones from the parish church graveyard were removed to clear space for an army hut to be used for parochial and social purposes. They accuse the hut’s opening of dishonoring the dead with a dance.
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