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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1906
Page
8
Bluefield reports residents visiting and traveling to nearby towns. Notables include Judge Martin Williams, Mrs. Walter Harris, J R Osborn, Mrs. H W Shepherd, Mr. and Mrs. H B Thompson, and many others visiting or returning home. Church services, concerts, organ tests, and lectures noted along with illnesses and deaths in the community.
Handkerchiefs and linen initial items priced from six for a box to 1.50 per box. Fancy colored silks at 50 cents each, plain silks 75 cents to 1.00, cotton and linen plain from 10 cents upward. Silk mufflers and dress protectors offered.
Local column lists guests in Pocahontas and nearby towns. Mrs C W Yancie and Mrs C B Cook host in Welch while visitors come from Rogjoke Tevewell Maury and Radford. Notables include Dr S L Craige named assistant surgeon at Pocahontas Collieries and Judge Martin Williams visiting Pearisburg.
Mrs. John M. Anderson filed for divorce in Princeton circuit court alleging undue intimacy with a city woman who left Bluefield weeks before Mr Anderson's disappearance. The missing husband is believed to be at the bottom of the Ohio river or the Canada, and the cited woman is said to be mad.
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