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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1925
Page
5
The city council discussed fireworks rules and Mayor Kenneth P. Patty’s note clarifies that the town ordinance prohibits setting off fireworks except on Christmas Day with fines of 1 to 5 dollars. Officers may allow use on December 25, 1925, under the ordinance, to avoid disturbances.
Judge Fulton Kegley refused A. J. Williams's petition to block the city from laying a concrete sidewalk on Highland Avenue without prior compensation. The hearing, in the Twin City National Bank building, was before Williams's counsel Sexton Roberts Sexton and city attorney Mayor K C Patty. The judge ruled the court would not issue an injunction that would interfere with municipal policy, finding irreparable damage unlikely to be shown by the petitioner.
In Florida near Tavares a seven foot nine inch rattlesnake weighing forty six pounds was found by workers in a field. Kent Witten, wintering there, sent the account noting locals call heavy snakes chunking a snake and remarking on the creature’s nerve during the Christmas season.
The remains of Private Fred Smith who died in a Honolulu air crash arrived Thursday evening. The funeral will be preached at 2 o clock this afternoon from the new Methodist church with Rev R E Barry and Rev Bourne officiating. Burial will take place at Cooper. The young man was a son of Mr and Mrs G L Smith of Bluefield Virginia. The body arrived in San Francisco December 10 and was shipped here by railway express.
Two coal field performers nicknamed Cocaine and Blow Bottle Bill entertained locals with improvised music made from a vinegar bottle and a vinegar jug. Cocaine played guitar with a type attachment while Blow Bottle Bill produced bass by blowing into a jug neck. Their crude methods drew large crowds and sparked vaudeville interest.
A note in the Daily Telegraph of Bluefield Virginia seeks a party with substantial capital to back a retail grocery venture. The ad requests contact through the groceryman, addressing interests to the Su Daily Telegraph.
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