Christmas shopping in Bluefield rich with local deals
Local ads list Christmas roses from Fallon Florist with prices 8 to 20 dollars and other roses 6 to 10. Jewelry discounts at Ellis building 19-31, and reduced goods at Bland Street. Busy Bee Restaurant offers catering, coal and groceries, with notices of operations and local services.
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Richmond
Fallon
Bland Street
Ellis’ Building
Theodore Dilger
Binefield Insurance Agency
Ks’ Beiding
Bland St
Busy Bee Restaurant
Bluefield
Elke’ Building
Bluefield Insurance Agency
Ellis
Santa Claus Delivers Christmas at County Home
Santa arrived a bit early this year and visited the County Home delivering gifts to elderly residents. Volunteers from the Community Charities Association helped, with Mrs Stuart M. Buck of Bramwell contributing $15 and several other local donors giving amounts ranging from five to sixteen dollars.
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Santa Claus
Saint Nick
East River Mountain
Bluefield
Frazee
Community Charities Association
Stuart M. Buck
Bramwell
Theda Buck
Phelps Furniture Company
Peerless Flour and Feed Company
R. E. Bragonier
Keystone
R. BE. Lagenby
Hawkins Undertaking Company
Dr. BE. W. Lomax
Busy Bee
J. Frank Maynard
A. F. Kingdon
Charter study advances with 100-member nonpartisan drafting panel
Home Field Chamber of Commerce board set up a 100 person committee to draft a new city charter under a commission manager plan. Fifty from the chamber and fifty from Rotary Kiwanis Civic groups will be named by officers. The effort targets legislative review in January.
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Homefield Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Rotary Club
Kiwanis Club
Civic Club
Chamber
Alleged Barber Given Close Shave
Jack Randolph a 26 year old self described barber from Cheyenne Wyoming was rounded up by Chief Dill on Monday night at a lodging house with a 16 year old Powhatan girl. They faced a statutory offense charge in front of Squire Postlethwaite and were fined with jail terms Randolph $200 four months in county jail the girl $50 and thirty days the fine and jail terms later remitted for the girl with orders to leave on the first train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Randolph
Cheyenne
Wyo
Squire Postlethwaite
Randolph
Dillon
Powhatan
Welch
Jair
Bluefield Bank Promotes R B Parrish to President
At a Bluefield National Bank board meeting R B Parrish, former cashier, was named president succeeding the late Col Wm Leckie. Parrish also leads the First National Bank of Matoaka and has long served Bluefield National Bank. J D Honaker re elected vice president J C Duncan becomes assistant cashier and Charles L Jenkins named assistant cashier.
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Bluefield National Bank
R. B. Parrish
Col Wm. Leckie
Parrish
First National Bank of
West Virginia
J. D. Honaker
J. C. Duncan
Control of floods proposed in southeastern U S
The Southeastern Water Resources office proposes flood control across the southeast using temporary dams in western North Carolina mountains. Large basins would store rain waters, redirecting streams into basins to relieve high water downstream in Tennessee South Carolina and Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
United States
Southeastern Water Resources Office
United State Geological Survey
North Carolina
Tennessee
South Carolina
Georgia
Operation Turns Hog Wille Burnham Reports a Jersey Red Bog Bristles Turn White
A Hog Wille Burnham operation in a Jersey red bog produced a strange change bristles turning white after a snelt night. The animal recovered from the operation and now weighs 300 pounds.
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Wille Burnham
G Hendren
Jersey
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Coalfield
Wiggins
George T. Crews
MH. G. O'Neill
Thornton
Mercer Street
Raven
Raven Coal Co
Dressmak Ag Tpion Bank and Trust Building
Ketter
Blind Street
Elks’ Puilding
Bluefield National Bsa
Virginia
Longview Farm
Salem
Abshire & Sumpter
Fallon, Florist
Taffetta
Samuel Turk
Honaker
Colonial Orchestra
Sarah J. Caffee
W. G. Caffee
South Bluefield
F. A. Harman
South Bluefield Piarist
Gamue Turk
Altamont
Bluefield Avenue
California
Florida
Kennewick
Washington
Emperor
Malaga
Ames
M. K. Harman
Burgess Electric Company
C. A. Mitchell
Painter
Grace Methodist Church
C. E. Painter
North
Teker & Harrison
Godsey and Son
Bluefeld National Bank
Thos. H. Scott
St. Lukes Hospital
Tucker & Harrison's
Bluefeld Avenue
Alexander Cut Flower and Plant Company
C. A. Mitchell Coal Co
United States Civil Service Commission
Princeton
Goodwill
Alex Austin
Austin
Relief
M. M. Johnson
Freman
Norfolk and Western
Cedar Bluff
Babe Ruth
Stieff
Chas. M. Stieff
AXLE
Manger Lynchburg, VA
Frederick L. Black
Harold Black
Summers Street
Bluefield, W. Va
Charlottesville
D. J. F. Strother
John Marsh Prickett
Nashville
Tenn
Ellen S. de Vault
Frederick Street
J. W. Andreson
Pauline
Curtis
Boones Mills
Alonzo McCue
Bride
Laurel Clarkson
San Antonio
Texas
Baltimore
Gebhardt
J. W. Water’s Co
Jewelers
Law
Kennewick Apples
Rome
Drek
Mr. Yost
Graham
Wash
Bluefield Market Co
R. A. Hale
Midway
Payal
Commercial
W. Va
Matz Cafenet
Matz
Bluefield National
Col. Leckie
Womens
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