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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1920
Page
9
The Bluefield Institute practice school will stage a Christmas play The joys and sorrows of Santa Claus with forty seven students performing in the auditorium Wednesday at 1 30 pm Admission is free public invited The program features dialogue music and costumes in a festive showcase.
Officers halted three Ford cars on the Princeton Bluefield road near the city, arresting five people including a twelve year old boy. About eighty gallons of moonshine whiskey were seized, with sixty gallons in the first two cars and two ten gallon barrels found in the third. The arrested men W O Miller G A Goode S L Cottle and Hardy Maye were jailed. the youth was allowed to stay with a friend overnight. The case will be reviewed by Prosecuting Attorney H B Lee.
Lt. Pat O'Brien veteran of the British royal flying corps killed himself in a Los Angeles hotel room after telephoning his wife through friends who said she believed he was unbalanced. He left a note blaming a troubled home life and referenced a German escape. The widow Virginia Livingstone Allen-O'Brien, once a Washington newspaperwoman, denied third party interference.
Twenty three Ohio State University players travel by special train from Chicago to Pasadena to face California on New Year’s Day in the Tournament of Roses. The group includes seven train cars and a trained nurse, with Columbus water supplied locally to prevent illness. A banquet for alumni was held in Columbus before departure. In Pittsburg, detectives search for Rose Morse who notes she is held by moonshiners in Port Perry hills.
Testimony from former tenants on the Cutts plantation in Wilcox county suggested the state sought to prove that Mrs Annie Cutts attempted to employ a witness in connection with a case heard in a Macon preliminary hearing today.
Testimony shows a twenty year old farm hand allegedly poisoned Fred D. Shepard in his kitchen to secure funds for a $12,000 mortgage. Experts stated poison was found in Shepard's viscera as the case unfolded this week. Meanwhile M. M. Cochran of Uniontown pledged $200,000 toward Bethany College's $750,000 endowment at the annual Bethany football banquettoday.
Pittsburg, Dec. 18 campaign for a $1,250,000 permanent endowment fund for Allegheny College was launched at a banquet. Officials, students, alumni and pastors of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Ohio New York Pennsylvania and West Virginia will participate.
Paris reports the Franco British plan to withdraw allied ministers from Athens before Constantine arrives will be dropped. Britain France and Italy will abstain from ceremonies and official relations with allied warships as Constantine sails to Greece. No honorary degrees are awarded at Stanford University.
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