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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1925
Page
3
Bluefield Virginia news highlights holiday whimsy with wool socks as preferred giftware and Santa’s old fashioned image. Local merchants stock warm pairs for all ages as families prepare for Christmas. Also notes gymnasium fund drive tickets selling fast and a wedding trip returning couple. Mayor tours Richmond for telephone rate hearing while Christmas bazaar items arrive. Court adjourns for Christmas holidays in Pearlsburg.
Bod Nee and his wife with children were badly shaken when their automobile rolled over on the Divides Curve along the Tazewell road Wednesday afternoon. It marks the fourth or fifth flip at this curve this fall and winter, a location locals describe as peculiarly treacherous and hard to explain. Motorists are advised to be vigilant at this point.
A meeting of Interest is set for Friday night at the Christian church with headliner Miss Nora C Brown of Bloomington HI. She appears under the auspices of the Flying Squadron Foundation and law enforcement authorities.
The organization is praised for having a speaker who is both highly capable and entertaining, noted by observers for engaging presentations and strong rhetoric. The description highlights effective communication and stage presence as standout qualities.
The Gillespie-Dudley stringed musicians head the auditorium program tonight at the nasium benefit. J B Graham W R Graham and J Grat Ss ae play violins with Gillespie on banjo and Dudley on guitar. The high school orchestra and a male quartet add pieces. The program begins 7 3 o'clock with a public expected to respond generously.
The Bluestone Power House crew congratulated Harry Pring on his move to chief clerk to the master mechanic at Bluefield. A plan was laid and carried out delivering a set of gifts and best wishes. Pring has been at the power house for several years and is well known in railroad and fraternal circles.
Representative George Peery returned from Washington on Tuesday due to his mother Mrs. Mary Peery being seriously ill. He arrived home early Wednesday, and reports say Mrs. Peery’s condition showed some improvement. The family resides in Cedar Bluff where Peery was raised.
Congregation hopes Rev. W. M. Lorimer will tour King Tut’s tomb on his Orient visit. He seeks first hand info on the tomb, gold sheets, and mummy observations. Placed art placards received compliments, and Miss Berguson studies art. East River fog shrouded Virginia Side, snow asks if it will come. Schools dismiss Friday for holidays, resume January 4.
Nancy and Nick ride two blue geese piloted by Inch o Pie as they depart their home toward the North Pole. The elf explains his name origin while skirting space and stars, promising a stop at Santa Claus’s workshop. The family at home senses frost and wind as the magical journey continues.
Wanted notice seeks to connect with a person in Bluefield Virginia who is involved in retail. The ad mentions a grocery business at a corner location and provides the clue name Groceryman. Contact through the Bluefield Daily Telegraph in Bluefield, West Virginia.
New York Dec 16 arrangements completed to transform part of the Italian Saia Viscosa capital into American shares. No new financing. depositary receipts will be sold in the market through Harvey Fisk & Sons and BEF Hutton & Company. The company has 5,000,000 common shares with a total par value of one billion lire and has expanded into a synthetic textile.
Wool mud discussed as a substitute material akin to rayon replacing silk in certain uses. The note highlights comparable qualities, suggesting wool mixtures may mimic the luster and drape of silk while offering different properties suitable for textile applications.
Grand Rapids December 16. John W Blodgett wealthy lumber dealer sues to recover 62003.52 gift taxes paid under protest on gifts totaling 850196. His attorney Mark Morris argues the 1924 act is unconstitutional as direct tax an invalid take of property without due process as it taxes states or state agencies and invades reserved powers of the estate.
New York December 16 James A Stillman former president of National City Bank received bequests of only two rings in the will of his mother Mrs Sarah C Stillman It became known today Minas Josephine E Tucker friend and companion of Mrs Stillman shared largely in the estate The amount of the estate was not disclosed Mrs Stillman died last month.
An old fashioned home cough remedy touts 2 ounces of Pinex in a pint of sugar syrup or substitutes, claiming quick relief within 24 hours for throat tickle hoarseness croup bronchitis and bronchial asthma. It urges readers to ask druggists for 20 ounces of Pinex with directions and guarantees satisfaction or refunds from The Pinex Co Ft Wayne Ind.
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