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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1925
Page
2
A collage of wartime era ads offers coal prices and service notes from Citizens Coal and Supply Co and a Bluefield event. It lists phone numbers, weights, and quality claims, plus a Christmas dine feature at Busy Bee Restaurant and a church schedule at Presbyterian and First Baptist in town.
The funeral for S Frazier Stowers will be held today at 2 PM at Trinity Methodist Church under the Bluefield Lodge of Elks. Rev J F Carter will officiate with Rev J A Baylor assisting. Interment will be at Walnut Grove Cemetery with a long list of active pallbearers.
The piece notes a London paper misinformed readers about famine relief in Europe. It asserts much wheat aid went to charity or was sold on credit, with debt settlements near half the wheat's cost. It claims the American government never enacted production restrictions and cites Justice Department warnings after the Armistice about wheat overproduction.
The steamship President Pierce arriving from Yokohama carried the body of Albert C. Jeffries, vice president of the British American Tobacco Company, who died of heart disease on December 21.
David Shrader of Nemours a Mercer county native and Baptist church member died early Thursday at Bluefield Sanitarium after suffering perforated ilial tumors and oral peritonitis He leaves a widow four children one brother and one sister with funeral in Nemours to be announced and interment there.
The Dawson Sunday school held its Christmas entertainment with songs recitations and plays directed by Mrs Herman Bowes. Santa Claus distributed candy nuts and gifts as Rev G Colline receives a large gift basket.
The East End Sunday school of the First Presbyterian church held a Christmas program yesterday at 6 pm in the church room. Children sang, Santa Claus distributed gifts, and attendees returned hours later on a special street car to the Tolbert street Berryman building.
A brief Christmas worship and praise service is planned for 10 o'clock this morning at the First Presbyterian Church. Musical numbers are arranged and attendees are invited to join in celebrating the birth of the Lord with the community.
In Clarksdale Mississippi Sheriff W Glass and three deputies were indicted by a grand jury for crimes connected to the lynching of Windsley Coleman a Black man. Circuit Judge Alcorn ordered Glass relieved and named H ge son as acting sheriff during the term. Police also report four suspects jailed on murder charges in the fatal slaying near Grover C. Nicholas store.
Gerald Chapman reprieved murderer and mail robber appeals a Federal Judge Thomas habeas corpus ruling. The appeal to the Second Circuit asserts thirty nine reasons the decision should not stand and challenges due process over the transfer from federal to state custody.
A fire at the Carpenter Steel Company wire wall mill in Reading, Pennsylvania, tonight caused extensive damage estimated at about 200000 dollars. Fire officials and company representatives assess the loss and investigate the blaze.
Mrs Cleo Fitzhugh died at home after a long illness from heart leakage. Aged 59, daughter of Henry and Sallie Shrader of Sand Lick, Mercer County. Survived by second husband J T Mitesh, two children, siblings and four sisters. Funeral at 2:30 this afternoon from 409 Fairfax Street with Rev W B Abrams and Rev Frank Y Jackson. interment Walnut Grove cemetery. Automobiles to 1:30 at the home.
New York reporters say city newspapers raised over 32600 to aid the poor. Yuletide workers supplied meals and gifts to thousands, including more than 6000 children and about 26000 people through Salvation Army aid and other charities. Mayor elect James J. Walker oversaw distribution at rag headquarters. Immigrants at Ellis Island heard holiday programs as meals and toy gifts were handed out.
The Church of God in Ottawa Ontario lists Sunday school at 9 46 to 10 45 a m morning worship 11 a m Young People's meeting 6 30 p m and evangelistic evening service 7 30 p m Midweek prayer 7 30 p m The Young People's state convention runs Thu Dec 31 and Fri Jan 1 with 8 a m services through Sun night Pastor Charles H Rice invites public attendance. Owing to corn borer spread North America faces corn crop danger per federal agriculture official Arthur Gibson.
Mrs Elia Briggs an American architect under arrest in Palermo Sicily charged with being a German spy. Her employer Architectural Publishing Co of New York said a cable from her brother confirmed the arrest. State Department ordered inquiry via the American embassy in Rome to report findings.
New York reports Rabbi Stephen Wise urged the Jewish community to study Jesus teachings after a recent sermon. Louis Lipsky of the American Zionist movement released Dr. Wise’s letter, and the United Palestine Appeal executive committee plans action in response, Wise indicating cautious support.
Lipsky said eight organizations affiliated with the appeal sided with Mizrachi in urging Dr. Wise to withdraw his resignation, criticizing his portrayal of Jesus as a moral teacher and denying he was a poet. The Union of Orthodox Rabbinic groups led the rebuke.
Paris reports that M. D. Jouvenal the French high commissioner in Syria and Druse representatives led by Sultan Attrash said no final signature had been affixed to any armistice. The delay keeps suspense over the Syrian warfare and the Quay D’Orsay scene.
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