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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1906
Page
5
On Saturday night the high school held an entertainment with instrumental music recitations and a Christmas program. The Mc Dowell Recorder appoints Lee Weymouth as manager and editor succeeding W W Logan. Various local visits and illness reported, plus upcoming silver medal oratorical contest at the Methodist Church and holiday ads from the West End Bakery and DeWitt Co. product notes.
Congressman Joseph H. Gaines secures House approval for a act authorizing Thomas J Ewing George B Patton Otto Burger Herbert Hayward and Charles Miller to construct maintain and operate a wagon foot and railroad bridge over the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River at Warfield Kentucky on The Warfield Coal and Salt Company property satisfying the 1906 act on navigable waters and boundary boundaries between West Virginia and Kentucky.
Mrs. Justin Shrewsbury died at her home near Spanishbury in this county on Saturday after a battle with pneumonia. She was 41 and the mother of Captain P. M. Shrewsbury of this city. Interment was Sunday in the family burying ground. She had recently begun to regain strength before a relapse.
Kelly Brothers yesterday finished a contract for 12000 yards of paving on Bluefield Avenue and Bland Street. Despite their numerous handicaps mainly the brain, the work is praised as an excellent improvement for the city and its property owners along the thoroughfares.
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