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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1935
Page
12
Bluefield seeks its top amateur entertainer to appear as a guest artist with Major Edward Bowes on WHIS. Contest run by Bluefield Milling Co and WHIS opens to those 16 or older with auditions Thursday and Friday at WHIS studios.
A playful morning scene describes hot oatmeal with cream and toast and vivid praise. The piece also notes a meteorite with gold found in New Mexico years ago, blending food delight with a rare astronomical tidbit.
A Sunday and Monday lineup lists 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. shows including Dancing Music and Reading Comics at the start, with First Presbyterian Church and Rescue Mission entries, followed by various musical and talk segments. The schedule extends into afternoon hours and continues into Monday with a long list of music programs and station features.
There will be a pageant The First Christmas Sunday at 6 30 at the Church of Christ with a Christmas tree after the program. A surprise birthday party honored Mr. B B Hurst with fifty six guests. The infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Pat Pickett died shortly after birth and was buried Thursday in Johnson cemetery. Lana Gene Pickett has diphtheria at home. Several locals visited Bluefield and Arista. Joe Harris moved back to his farm. H S Gillespie and families visited Bluefield.
Twelve member lvanna party with two guests Mrs H E Yost and Mrs Jamee Shrader. Families move in and out for work and shopping with local visits to Grundy Bluefield Bristol and Richlands.
Charleston officials revoke eight beer vendor permits and charge four others with sales law violations. E A Hansbarger sets hearings December 27 unless charges are disproved. Accused include Joseph Jalwan Clarksburg A B Hare Bluefield Deck Ward Huntington Wise Baldwin War and others.
Bluefield Post Office processed over 4000 parcel posts with 806 insured and thousands of letters and cards. The office stayed open all day despite Saturday hours, with added staff and trucks. trains ran off schedule due to heavy mail. Police assisted traffic near the federal building as shoppers packed stores all day.
Philip Lambert waived preliminary hearing after arraignment before Magistrate A. A. Browning in Pineville and was held for the February Wyoming circuit court grand jury. Lambert posted $1,000 bail. Fred Perdue was fined $30 and ten days in jail for drunkenness after an incident in which he allegedly attacked Mayor Otis L. Allen in a Pineville lunch room. Allen’s condition remained serious.
Joe Bassetti of Kimball and John Main of Algoma, students of the Pocahontas Flying School, earned licenses after an Roanoke exam by a commerce department inspector. Bassetti secured a limited commercial license and Main a 26 hole private license. They were accompanied by Harvey Amos, Pocahontas Flying Service manager, and flew the Bellanca and Fleet training ship to Roanoke.
The Sun Rise Bottling Company in North Tazewell Virginia switched to a new WHIS program on Thursday featuring Mr. Jim and Smokey hosting with audience laughter. Listeners are urged to tune in at 12 30 PM on Thursday December 26 to hear the Sun Rise minstrels and a special announcement.
Rock West reports social visits and travel among residents. Aubrey Bailey and family were in Beckley, Ruby Hardin from Sevierville visited Mrs Grim, C F Hughes shopped in Bluefield, Rev C F Lundy and Mrs Lundy visited in Montcalm, and M S Grim hosted relatives.
Special shoppers lunch offered at Jimmy's Restaurant for 25 cents. Patrons can park packages there until leaving time, with many travelers dining there daily. The piece also notes a claim about birds as cotton boll worm predators.
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