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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1925
Page
2
Local newspapers list coal sales, rental listings, and business notices. Pocahontas coal prices, office rooms, and a noonday restaurant ad blend with tax, rental, and obituary related items in Bluefield Bluefield area notices.
A North Dakota reader sent a letter to Bill's Teggery after spotting a Bluefield Daily Telegraph ad offering shoes at 1.79. J H Cohen, store manager, filled the order from Sanish via The Telegraph's white space ad. The result shows the ad’s pulling power.
The weekly bulletin shows 990 121 net tons produced the week before Christmas with a loss of 112 263 net tons. Coke output reached about fifty percent of normal at 2377 net tons. John I B Burks of Washington Street, a well known salesman, fractured his arm on Christmas Day while on the street.
Robert Miller, accused of reckless driving and speeding, arraigned for driving without a permit. He previously faced a $20 fine and permit revocation. last night he received a $25 fine and 30 days in jail. Multiple defendants, including Newt Hickman and Roger Candillo, were fined $25 and jailed for 15 days for domestic assault and related charges.
Two fourteen and sixteen year old boys, poorly dressed and cold, were taken to police headquarters just before 11 PM Saturday after being found in Bluefield railroad yards with a gallon tin of moonshine whiskey hidden under their coats. They were held in the detention room pending investigation and were not local youths.
Chester Hurst, constable of Rock district, was arraigned yesterday before Commissioner H. Scott on a federal liquor possession charge. He was held at Scott's home in Wyoming and Boone streets and released on a $500 bond to appear at the January term of the U S court in Bluefield.
Rosenheim, Pemberton & Cruise, the local contractors for the Ramsey Street junior high school project, have started work on the retaining wall and basement. They are operating day and night to protect the embankment on the south side, with the wall construction being advanced quickly to prevent slides and caverns from causing accidents.
Cardinal Mundelein issued the first official announcement of the International Eucharistic Congress to be held in Chicago next June. The letter, translated into nine languages, will be read in 350 Chicago churches and each parishioner will receive a copy. He urged Catholics to prepare for the multitudes and promised about one million communicants at the opening banquet.
Vice President Charles G. Dawes grinned when questioned about a telegram from the No Tobacco League at Indianapolis urging him to pledge a New Year vow not to use tobacco. Dawes, famed for his underslung pipe, told senate pages in Washington to avoid smoking swearing chewing or becoming hip flask boys, and the league asked him to abolish the pipe.
The eight year sentence for murder with solitary confinement was cut to three years after a reduction. The modification also removes the solitary confinement clause. In New York City the number of telephone operators exceeds 21 000.
Prohibition reports describe a rising “high-jacking” trend in bootlegging with bandits robbing moonshine from moonshiners arriving by freight train. Victims are knocked unconscious or threatened, then robbed of their stock near the east railroad yards as authorities gather evidence on the suspected attackers.
Paris reports indicate Captain Gordon Canning, British envoy to Abd el Krim, faces limited reception after a German associate at his hotel was identified. Madrid and Madrid officials deny any peace talks led by Canning with the Rifian leader Abd el Krim and warn against propaganda claims fueling conflicts among nations involved in Morocco.
Pasadena Calif Dec 26 Concentrating on forward passing and place kicking the University of Alabama football squad went through its third workout on California turf behind the Rose Bowl in preparation for New Year Day clash with unbeaten Washington Huskies. The Southerners appear set to rely on an extensive aerial attack to reach scoring distance and then place kick for points if touchdowns prove elusive.
The Colonial Theatre screens His Brother's Keeper, a free Boston Globe praised film about the Printers Home at Colorado Springs and Indianapolis headquarters. It highlights self reliance, craft fellowship, and a model tuberculosis care facility with gardens, cattle, dairies, and recreation for residents.
A woman at Clapham station caused a ten minute delay to Southern railway trains when a gust inverted her umbrella struck by the live rail. The umbrella met the rails, sparking a short circuit and halting all nearby services.
Benton Crumpler known as Ben Crumpler in rail circles died at 9:15 am Saturday in Lewis Gale Hospital Roanoke after a long heart illness. He will be brought to Bluefield by train No. 1 for funeral at Bland Street Methodist Church with a Masonic service. He had been assistant trainmaster of the Pocahontas division since 1910 and lived in Roanoke while in declining health. Survived by wife Beulah Douthat and five children. also two sisters and an aunt in Bluefield and Christiansburg. He was 59.
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