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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1906
Page
6
Bluefield merchants report record Christmas buying with seven days left. Shoppers favor early purchases and higher quality wares, keeping dollars local as stores restock for peak season and ads drive sales.
C C Powell died at 12 50 yesterday at the Altamont Hotel from cerebro spinal meningitis. A 24 year old Bluefield resident, he had served five years as head clerk of the Altamont. Son of G W Powell, he was born in Dallas Texas in 1882 and reared in Virginia.
Air Point near Bent Mountain will receive the remains for interment on Monday. The deceased is survived by his father who was with him at death, his mother, three brothers and three sisters.
Sissuretta Jones is described as the original Black Patti and in good health with her troupe of about forty, touring southern cities. Flora Battson of Philadelphia is noted as having died, but whose husband’s actions led to the use of the Black Patti name. The group will perform at the Ikes Opera House on Saturday December 22 to settle any doubts.
City ordinance in Bluefield prohibits firing fireworks or firecrackers within three hundred feet of homes and streets inside city limits. The measure will be strictly enforced through the holidays. Officials named are Mayor E. E. Carter and Chief of Police G. R. Newkirk.
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