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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1933
Page
9
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The January grand jury convenes next Tuesday with about seventy cases on the docket including murder and misdemeanors. Many cases from October term carry over, and about fifty to sixty indictments are expected, likely pushing the term into February.
Miss Frances Robertson visits friends in Roanoke and Salem Virginia. Mrs. Stuart Garret returns from Roanoke after holidays with relatives. Bill Custis comes back from Eastern Shore Virginia for Christmas. Mr and Mrs EB Richardson return from a week in Washington and eastern cities. Misses Beryl and Elizabeth Bird guests of Mrs Ada Ellet Hale Ave. Laura Elizabeth Morrel is at the Karnes home Highland Ave. Dormont Austin returns to Logen West Virginia after two weeks with his city parents. Miss Harriet Woolfolk visits Bluefield. Mrs James B Stearts of Mullens spending week with her parents.
Notice of Ma chinista Lodge No. 358 meeting on Monday January 1 at 1 30 p m at Walker Hall for installation of officers.
Mrs. J. C. Carter and Mr. Carter hosted on Park avenue while Mrs. C. R. Hawley of Richmond visits her sister Mrs. J. G. Barber on Hale avenue. Frances Vermillion of Potsdam New York stays with her father Dr. Levi Vermillion and relatives in the city. Mrs. J. M. Bondurant and Mrs. T. H. Teel of Highland avenue entertain Mrs. R. A. Bondurant of Roanoke as a guest.
A three day training school for CWA teachers engaged in adult education is scheduled to improve instructional methods and classroom techniques. The program aims to update teachers on current teaching strategies and provide hands on practice through workshops led by experienced instructors.
Union in Monroe county hosts a multi county education meeting on January 1 2 3. Secretary David Kirby of the state board of education and G J Wood county school superintendent confirmed the event. Wood urged all GWA teachers in the county to attend. A parallel school for colored CWA teachers will occur later in Princeton or Bluefield. Also noted is that Kentucky recorded 539 homicides in 1932.
A party of engineers started a geodetic survey in Mercer County with the first monument placed at North Walker and Honaker avenue corner. The team will set monuments about every 1300 feet along the Raleigh county line and then survey major roads including Princeton Bluefield Oakvale and Athens. Elmer Barton leads the southern district for the federal CWA survey nationwide.
Dr J Frank Marsh and Dr A E McGuire spoke at the weekly Princeton Rotary meeting. Maresh discussed comprehension as a cause of friendship. McGuire, club president, spoke on club problems and surveyed members. A woman was fined $100 for moonshine found at her home. the will of W A Brown was admitted to probate with executors named E M Brown and R W Brown. Tim McCoy stars in End of the Trail at Royal theater shot on Wind River reservation with Arapahoe and Shoshone participation.
The film features McCoy as a ostracized US cavalry officer living with Indians and sacrificing for peace, with Luana Walters and others in key roles. In a separate event, Morgantown beats Princeton American Legion rifle club 883 to 872 in a 50-foot gallery match.
A two headed calf, with each head fully formed, was born on Paul Howell’s Seaboard, North Carolina farm. The creature was normal in other aspects and lived only one day before dying from a severe cold. The article also notes the ocean contains enough salt to form a solid block of 4,800,000 cubic miles.
Local church notices list schedules for Princeton area congregations. Rev Edward Stubblefield leads morning and evening services with themes The Conquest of Fear n and The Works of Friendship. Other churches present sermons, Sunday schools, and midweek Bible study with notices of special elders and youth activities.
Mrs. C. T. Tucker filed a circuit court suit yesterday against B. H. Morrison Carl West W. B. McHaffa and Walter Rolen for trespass on the case seeking $10,000 in damages. Returnable to February rules.
The chamber of commerce collaborates with local shirt factory operators to restore the pre cotton garment code working agreement. Congressman John Kee expresses sympathy with seeking NRA exemptions for the plant. A committee is to be dispatched to pursue the effort.
Washington next week in connection with the matter. Most of the employees of the factory have signed a petition directed to Gen. Hugh Johnson requesting that the plant be permitted to operate under exceptions to the general code. Tanke first were used in warfare by the British.
The Kanawha Court reversed a lower ruling in a tax dispute tied to a 1920s constitutional amendment. The decision declares that the state cannot assume local debts or bind credit for county or district bonds. It limits the debt-assumption plan while affirming state aid for schools must stay within constitutional bounds.
Gase McGuire, 41, a CWA worker of Squire, remained in critical condition at Grace hospital after a shooting described as friendly. He said the foreman and timekeeper, named Reed or Reedy and Gallion, arranged his transfer and McGuire struck first. The timekeeper fired, fled, no arrests reported. Separately a seal sale telegraphing tuberculosis drive notes McDowell County raises funds for local and state TB programs.
Funeral services were held at 10 a m in Sacred Heart Church Powhatan for Mrs Clara Mosko 67 who died Thursday at her daughter s home in Kyle Burial followed at Pocahontas She was born in Austria and her husband John Mosko perished in a Powhatan mine accident in 1908
John Harold Dotson, 15, son of Mr and Mrs J B Dotson of Bradshaw, died Thursday in a local hospital and funeral services were held today at 2 o clock at the Com an church in Bradshaw. Interment followed in the family cemetery near their home. He was a Taeger High School sophomore.
A total of $750 was raised from selling Christmas seals yesterday. Each envelope contained 100 seals and the sale supported local charitable efforts. Seals sold at one cent each, contributing to the fundraiser.
Seven year old Nancy Hammond of Welch was injured running along the street. She was taken to Grace hospital where several stitches were needed in her head. She was released after treatment.
Announcement reports the marriage of Miss Grace Alice Hurt of Welch to Mr Raymond Gullett of Hemphill on December 25, 1932, at Saeger. Rev Blaine England officiated before close friends. Grace Hurt, daughter of J C Hurt Sr, Welch, a Welch High School graduate and National Dollar store employee, and Raymond Gullett, son of Henry Gullett of Ashland, Ky, Centre College graduate, Kingston Pocahontas Coal employee, will reside in Welch.
Charleston December 29 eight acts of the legislature became law at midnight after the governor did not veto. The measures include capitation tax collection by assessors, public works funding for sewer systems, and general revisions. Specific projects cover infirmaries and workhouses in Kana wha Wetzel for hospital New Martinsville, Tucker for a gymnasium at Parsons or Thomas, and Doddridee for a high school. Barbour county can move road funds to the general fund.
Delegates in Huntington and legislators push for state assume county and school bond financing. Norton notes no opposition and favors indirect taxes to fund operations. The plan aims to take over roads and schools with a court decision pending, as lawmakers seek to avoid panic and ensure continued school operations.
The measure would allow local units except municipalities to use their direct property tax for current needs, overturning a prior tax amendment. A proposal to form an emergency debt corporation to aid municipalities has been discussed but has not yet reached the legislature.
Senator Huey P Long says he will not involve himself in the quarrel over Mrs Kemp's seating as representative from the Sixth Louisiana district. He supports administration measures in Congress and notes Kemp and her husband did not back him. He criticizes the Sanders faction and stresses he will aid the president if beneficial.
Charleston agency announces the enlistment of Paul B. Swiger of Salem as a state police trooper attached to B company in Charleston. The notice came from the West Virginia Department of Public Safety.
Reppin is scheduled for execution the week ending January 6 with the chamber timing around 8 p m on Friday January 5. The device mirrors the Nevada design and has been tested by the prison warden and staff. Tests with a 30 pound pig showed death in 47 seconds while rabbits dies soon after exposure. Reppin showed interest in the tests and said he did not want to be an experiment.
Long cold snap grips the north area as vessels are iced in from Albany to Poughkeepsie and the Cape Cod canal freezes. In Worchester Massachusetts a hydrant bursts flooding streets and halting streetcars, forcing hundreds to walk miles to work in twenty below zero conditions.
The proposal to seize all gold as backing for a revalued dollar draws opposition from Republican leaders Senator Reed of Pennsylvania and Senator Glass of Virginia, with federal reserve officials likely to oppose. Governors met privately. plan would halt minting gold coins and keep gold in bars. Professor Warren warns against overestimating benefits and urges strict controls. Treasury orders remove the $100 private gold coin limit.
Huntington West Virginia. Homer Gebhardt secretary of the West Virginia Bankers association testified that the bankers code set to take effect January 1 will create a sound basis for banking without increasing costs to the public. Key provisions include near uniform banking hours across regions, maximum time deposit interest rates capped by Federal Reserve Board rules, and service charge schedules deemed fair to banks and customers.
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