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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1903
Page
4
Holiday goods feature Tealing novelties priced 25 50 75 cents and a dollar and up. Includes fancy boxes of various kinds, toilet and manicure sets, opera glasses, bronze figures, gilt frames and mirrors, vases, albums, and select line fancy china.
An advertisement highlights silk umbrellas with imported handles for the holiday trade. It also promotes dolls, air rifles, tool chests, toy stoves, furniture sets, doll carriages, trains wagons, mechanical boats, drums, toy banks, tops, wagons and sleighs offering a range from cheapest to best.
An advertisement lists complete stock of handkerchiefs plain and fancy with extra values at 5 10 15 and 25 cents. Mufflers priced, items guaranteed for one year. Nickel finish watches 95 cents gor and gon metal finish 1.00 8 stem winding 1.50.
R W Adair of Monroe county visits the city. R A Figgat returns from Roanoke. J W Anderson spends holidays in Roanoke. Mrs R E Shirey visits relatives in Monroe county. Hatcher to Salem to visit parents. W A Glasgow of Roanoke in the city. Miss Legoria Crowley arrives from Roanoke to visit friends. Mrs J P Hendricks back from Eggleston. Eugene Shelton returns from Bristol. Benton Mosser, Norfolk and Western agent at Wayne, in the city. Norman and Miss Nan T McDowell return from Wytheville. Mr and Mrs Joseph F Shelton back from Princeton. James D Johnson of the Banner Publishing Co passes through city to Gra ham after Abingdon visit. Miss Rose Coglan and company at Opera House in The Best Thing in the World. audience praises her performance.
Rev. R. E. Holder preached his farewell sermon to a large congregation at Calvary Baptist Church. He and Mrs. Holder left for Pocahontas and will move to Maysville Missouri, as friends extend best wishes for their future labors and happiness.
In Lynchburg a suit in equity targets 400 shares of Norfolk and Western Railway stock held in the name of L Laflin Kellogg of New York. Kellogg is alleged to be the attorney and trustee for Benjamin D Green, a Connecticut resident in Quebec. The case accuses Oberlin M Carter Green and John F Gaynor of defrauding the United States. the court issued a temporary injunction to prevent transfer and to seize the stock for government recovery.
The Huntington Advertiser reports W R Ballard, formerly a Bluefielder now living in Huntington, allegedly has four wives in ten years. His fourth wife Naomi Ballard sues for divorce, claiming Ballard married at twenty two and is now thirty two, with cannibal felicity among four wives. Attorney Jean F Smith represents her in Circuit Court Judge Doolittle docket. Ballard’s present wife Gardner separated in November over alleged ill treatment.
In Huntington circuit court an order moved the H. C. King case to Marion County’s circuit court with Judge John W. Mason presiding. Judge Doolittle noted he aims to place the case before a judge acceptable to all parties and heard no objections from any attorney. Milton Mason, former internal revenue commissioner and current second circuit judge for Marion Monongalia and Harrison counties, is highly regarded and may seek reelection. The full record will be transferred to Judge Mason for further adjudication.
Found watch charm lodge emblem. Reward for its return to M. Reid or to the Daily Telegraph office. Contact to claim and pay for this advertisement.
An anxious inquirer asks what Jeems Caldwell did to be called great. The Pennsbor News recalls a prodigy born in Ohio, credited with drafting early documents, shaping the Monroe doctrine, and adventures with notable figures. It depicts him as a naturalist and a central, controversial figure with various honors and ambitions.
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