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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1925
Page
15
Various job notices urge readers to contact Milton Gordon in Cincinnati for distribution of free samples and advertising material. Other items include local social notes, church events, a death notice, Virginia side society briefs, and a delinquent tax list with holiday announcements and births in Bluefield area.
Miss Bertha Deaton will travel to Memphis Tennessee as a delegate from the Pocahontas Methodist church to the Young Peoples Convention. She represents all local church organizations and was unanimously elected by the November convention committee. The church will help with expenses and notes this is the largest youth gathering the Methodist Church South has hosted with about 5000 delegates. Also named is Rev F B Shelton as a delegate from the Tazewell district, with church support for his expenses, giving Pocahontas two representatives at the epoch making event. Delegates are due back January 6 and may submit material for publication. the paper pledges reliable sourcing and full dates.
Multiple rental notices list a two family house on north Mercer street with pipeless furnace heat and $40 monthly, rooms on Bluefield avenue and a furnished front room in a private home, a four room apartment with bath and hot water heat. Phone numbers and names provided for inquiries.
260 acres blue grass land on National Highway in Taze well county near Springville includes dwelling, five room cottage, out-buildings, barn and dairy equipment. Dairy cows horses tractor and farming gear. price 637,608 with easy balance. trade possible in Bluefield from 7k to 9k valuation. Also single homes and trades offered with flexible terms and rental options.
50 acres with four foot four inch vein drift coal, smooth grass surface, 60 acres timber, good buildings, near railroad line and bus road, 140 acres wood and timber, six room dwelling, barn, outbuildings, fruit, loamy soil, two acres orchard, 2000 cords wood, price 3600 dollars with 1500 down, J A Jones and Salisbury Maryland Realty notice.
A garbled classifieds snippet lists job postings including male help wanted for firemen brakemen positions, a mine foreman, and a first class auto mechanic. It directs applicants to coal company postboxes and Berwind Garage in Berwind West Virginia for quick applications.
Classified notice offering at home envelope addressing work with earnings from 15 to 845 weekly. Claims no experience needed and promotes dignified, honest work. From Franklyn Products at 1932 Van Buren, Chicago.
The article notes continued stock price gains in 1925 with weakness in textile shares due to poor trade conditions and several companies passing dividends after long on-time payments. Sugar producers suffer from low raw sugar prices amid European competition.
Butter shows no receipts and market unchanged. Eggs likewise have no receipts and stay steady.
Job listing seeks salesmen with capable hands on experience and leadership to organize and manage a team. Full opportunity for a territorial manager position based in Cincinnati Ohio. Apply with sales experience and strong organizational skills.
Bluefeld reports two more voices join the Virginia Side church choirs. Rev. Victor Hugo Harrell, Baptist pastor, brings a strong tenor and musical mastery, while Rev. Trigg James of West Graham Methodist adds a former Emory and Henry Glee Club member to the ensemble. Pastors who sing can uplift services and reinforce sermons with a solo if needed.
Classified ads advertise SALDSMEN jobs selling cigars with no experience required and a self addressed stamped envelope for details. Other listings push sales roles for clothing and tailoring firms with high commissions and large territories, including Davis made to measure suits and a money back guarantee.
The funeral for Clyde Haynes, who died in a Welch hospital from locked intestines, will be held this afternoon at 2 from the Christian church conducted by Rev. M. C. Hughes. Haynes, eight months married to Frances McReynolds, lived in the coalfield and was a Graham High School graduate.
Carlisle Kentucky December 26. Though twelve year old Jimmie Blien Barr is the direct daughter of Confederate veteran A J Barr she cannot join the United Daughters of the Confederacy until adulthood. Barr was sixty five at marriage and his daughter is deemed the youngest Confederate soldier's daughter in the United States by Kentucky statisticians.
Funeral services for Robert er, who died Friday evening of tuberculosis, will be held this afternoon at 2 30 at the home of his mother Mrs C C Bell of Cooper s. Rev Bowden of Pocahontas Baptist church will conduct the service. Burial is in charge of the local lodge of Pythians of which he was a long time member. The Pythians assemble at castle hall at 1 45 to depart for Cooper at 2. Interment will take place at the home burying ground near Mrs Bell s house.
The notice thanks contributors who helped make the page readable over the past year and expresses hope for continued support and added sources of news in the coming year.
Shareholders will meet in the directors room at 4 ow Boe street to elect correctors and transact other legal business. The gathering is set for January 1 at 10 oclock a.m. in the city.
The Mercer County sheriff will auction the Ford roadster with serial 11943425 and license 41064 seized December 11 1925 in Bluefield for liquor trafficking. Vehicle is in sheriff custody at Princeton West Virginia and can be inspected before the January 6 1926 public auction for cash to the highest bidder.
Mercer County Court invites sealed proposals for a road from Bluestone Junction to Roseville West Virginia. Bids due January 16 1926 at 10 am in Princeton office. Plans quantities include excavation clearing masonry masonry and corrugated metal pipe. Bid bond 5 percent. Cadle county road engineer to supply forms specifications and quantities. Right to reject any or all proposals reserved.
Mr and Mrs L A Carter of Yards Virginia with Pocahontas friends gave a large contribution to the Episcopal Christmas tree set up in Yards on Christmas night. It was described as the finest in the section. Mrs Andrew Staford and daughter Ruth from Maefield West Virginia joined Christmas celebrations with her mother Mrs Rufus Shaw.
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