Christmas events fill Bluefield coalfields with charity and skating
The city hosts a First Baptist Sunday school Christmas entertainment with free admission and an offering for the poor. O R C ladies meet earlier due to officer installation. Calvary Baptist holds an orphanage harvest home service. Bluestone pond draw crowds for skating, ice three inches thick. Lectures at Ellis Opera House feature Caleb Powers on Goebel assassination, promising interest. Community aid notes praise scarce poverty, while railroad police report a theft arrest. A New River Holston and Western trackmen’ s delegation celebrates Christmas and returns with stock. Local schools rehearse for Friday program, and Potom county court trims salaries. Bookstore ads promote Xmas goods and Red Cross stamps while a Negro celebration headlined by Booker T Washington runs with multiple speakers.
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Ellis Opera House
Caleb Powers
Kentucky
Wm. Goebel
Powers
Bluefield
Requisition Papers May Be Withdrawn
Sheriff E T Sprinkle of McDowell county travels to Virginia for Christmas with word that requisition papers for Attorney General elect S W Williams may not be honored. He mailed the papers and a four dollar fee after receiving them December 16 and expects a governor’s signature or withdrawal. Sprinkle notes delays in forwarding and recalls Williams’s October term telegraph promise to attend.
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E. T. Sprinkle
McDowell County
Virginia
Sprinkle
Daily Telegraph
S. W. Williams
Williams
West Virginia
McDowell
Welch
Mr. Sprinkle
Old Virginia
Police Judge Joseph B. Crockett Suspended
The board of affairs suspended police judge Joseph B. Crockett yesterday afternoon until further notice. Grounds cited relate to conduct and attention to duties.
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Board of Affairs
Joseph B. Crockett
Emancipation Day in Northfork Celebrated by Coalfields
The colored workers of the coalfields will observe emancipation day in Northfork on January 1. A detailed program is set with all coal operations closing so colored employees can take the day off. Booker T. Washington will deliver the principal address at the opera house as parades mark the celebration.
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Northfork
Booker T. Washington
Opera House
Stolen Portrait of General Mercer Shocks County Officials
County Clerk Bowman secured a portrait of General Mercer for the Princeton courthouse but it was stolen before framing. The picture, presented by the Massachusetts Daughters of the Revolution, had drawn much local interest. Officials fear no replacement can be found under the circumstances.
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F. L. Gallowey
The
Salvation Army
Bowman
Mercer
Princeton
Massachusetts Daughters of the Revolution
Pardoned Wise County man Robert Mullins freed by governor
Robert Mullins, who has served six years of an eighteen year term in the Virginia penitentiary, was pardoned by Governor Swanson. Mullins left Richmond with his lawyer H. M. Bandy for Wise County, where the 1902 Sal gery killing case had drawn statewide notice. Hobson was jailed, Wright also linked to the crime, and Hobson was later freed.
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Robert Mullins
Wise County
Virginia
Swanson
Mullins
Richmond
Virginia Mountains
H. M. Bandy
Norton
William Salgery
Wright
Hobson
Kinzer Assignment Sees New Goods Exchange Drives Specials
A dealer announces five thousand dollars in new goods traded for unsaleable stock. Weekly specials include 114-k solid sold cases and 15-1 Waltham or Elgin movements at reduced prices. Highlights show twenty-one to twenty-three jewel standard watches priced from twenty to twenty-six dollars, formerly thirty-eight to forty-eight. See and compare at J. L. Crockett.
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Kinzer
Waltham
Elgin
J. L. Crockett
Annual meeting notice of Flat Top National Bank
Notice announces the annual stockholders meeting of Flat Top National Bank Bluefield West Virginia to elect directors for the ensuing year and handle necessary business in the director's room Tuesday morning January 11 1910 at 11 o'clock. E T Tyree Cashier. Dec 11 1909. 12-10-1-10 in Foley's Urine Laxative is best for women and children. Its mild action and pleasant taste make it preferable to violent purgatives sold by all druggists.
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Flat Top National Bank of
Bluefield
W. Va
E. T. Tyree
Foley
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Hawley
Mont
Whitlow Paint & Paper Co
Pulaski Street
Christmas Entertainment
First Baptist Sunday School
Ladies' Auxiliary
Orphanage Harvest Home
Calvary Baptist Church
J. H. Franklin
Bluestone
Bluestone Dam
Bluestone Junction
Clinch Valley
Charlie Thompson
West End
New River
Holston
Western Track
Lutheran
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Oton
County Direct
Flat Top Book & Stationery Co
Bland Street
Red Cross
Kelly Miller
Harvard University
W W. Lucas
Tuskegee
Ala
R. P. Sims
Bluefield Colored Institute
Booker Washington
Ladies’ Clothing Store
Matoaka, W. VA
Indian River
Florida
Naval
Malaga
Concord
New York King
Baldwin
Subiett & Barnes
General Mercer
Freedom
Cohen & Baker
Relp
Graham
Apply
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P. O. Box
F. la Black
C. P. Williams
Tazewell
C. H. Smith
Bland St
Virginia Fuel CO
Big Four
Smart
Patent Colt
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Bluefield Ave
Edison, Columbia, Victor
M. B. Postlethwaite
Yonge & Kinzer
Old Stand
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