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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1922
Page
4
Community classifieds and notices featuring parcel delivery ads from Thompson & Boyd, local Christmas shop promotions, turkey and fruit stands, flower shops, and holiday events at Bluefield and Hadleys. Includes police and hospital notices, and a gun at large incident report.
West Virginia and Virginia see mostly cloudy skies Friday into Saturday. Light local snow possible in northeast West Virginia. temperatures remain steady with little change.
Miss Beulah Phelps of Elon College and Miss Jennie Phipps of Farmville College spend a night in the city with Mrs. N. H. Edwards before heading to Clintwood for holidays. Several students from West Virginia University and Washington and Lee University return home for Christmas vacation, with others from Augusta Military Academy and John Hopkins on recess.
Chief Dillon announces Bluefield police will wear pocketless overcoats as a uniform. The city bought the overcoats but had to return them for misfits. alterations are done and officers now wear them amid some grumbling. The chief insists on a fully uniform department with no half measures.
The funeral service for Engineer Newton A Mills was held at his Springdale addition home with many friends and relatives in attendance. Rev J M Carter of the South Bluefield Methodist church led the service in a ceremony noted as impressive. A large turnout from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Loyal Order of Moose attended, and Walnut Grove Cemetery hosted the burial under the engineers' arrangement.
Mrs WW S Ripley, a former Bluefield resident, left St Luke's hospital two weeks after a serious operation and returned to her Roanoke home yesterday. She traveled with Mr Ripley aboard General Superintendent Blake's private car, which had arrived Wednesday with Mr Blake and Superintendent J W Cook aboard.
Readied tonight at 7 30 for Christmas entertainments at two Presbyterian Sunday schools. In Tazewell street church the event features C B s class and Miss Elizabeth Gwinn s class with a large student cast and Paul Thomas leading a fine orchestra. At South Bluefield on Washington street, a simpler program promises a full house with attractively decorated trees and Santa helpers distributing gifts to members of the Sunday schools.
W A Counts and Miss Hannab Udy wed yesterday at 1 o clock in Bland Street Methodist Church assembly room. Rev T S Hamilton performed the ring ceremony as a hundred friends witnessed the vows. The bride, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs John A Udy, wore brown panne velvet. groom from Russell county Virginia is with Crozer Pocahontola Coal Co and will live in Bluefield after a trip to Washington and northern cities.
The Bluefield community music committee plans a Saturday night caroling tour starting from the Christmas tree at 7:30. BE Waterman will lead with J E Brown on organ. cars will await at the tree and participants are urged to bring flashlights.
Norfolk and Western reports a seasonal rise in passenger travel with several trains running in two sections. Eastbound No. 16 second section arrived Biluefield about one hour twenty two minutes late, over two hours late overall, prompting extra coaches for over two hundred passengers while through service to Roanoke was cut. Heavy mail contributed to the delay.
Dorothy Tate seven daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Tate of Davey died at Bluefield Sanitarium yesterday afternoon at 3 50 due to spinal meningitis. The remains will be taken to Davey for interment today with her father at the bedside at the time of death.
A Riga dispatch reports A Stulginski has been elected president of Lithuania, per a Times cable. The announcement confirms the leadership change amid Baltic affairs.
A spirited meeting established officers for la socrete 40 with Dr. J. B. Blaydes as chef de gare and Dr. H. G. Steele as chef de train. Louis Zaulzman named commissaire intendant, others listed as guards and locales. A crowd on Federal street saw festive mood and urged enlistment with calls to wear the army hat and support Americanism.
R M Smith assistant superintendent of the Radford Division of the Norfolk and Western Railway was named to succeed J W Cook as superintendent. The change takes effect December 26 at Roanoke offices. J B Catron of Norfolk was appointed roadmaster and supervisor of bridges and buildings on the Norfolk Division to take over Smiths old post, with a successor for Catron to be named soon.
Physicians treating R. C. Buchanan, renowned World War hero from Bluefield, after a mine accident at Panther, report hopeful prospects for full sight in one eye and partial sight in the other. Buchanan remains a patient at Bluefield Sanitarium as friends and local residents await further good news.
Thomas C Nollin was arrested yesterday afternoon by Prohibition Agents R L Taylor and Eli Watkins at his Bramwell Coal Dale road home charged with possessing moonshine whiskey.
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