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Bluefield Daily Telegraph

Location

Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Feb 08, 1908

Page

5

Epworth League Night at Grace and Local Notices

Epworth League takes over the 7 30 evening service at Grace Methodist with a program on junior league work and hymns. The issue also reports on local development plans, coal shipments, a death in Pipestem, a legal case, a German Club event, and a city hall mass meeting for Bluefield voters.

Grace Methodist Church Epworth League Holston Conference Prayge Bailey League Roach Armour and Little Thomas Priddy Co V. Foland Greater Bluefield Virginia Polytechnic Institute German Club Blacksburg Virginia West Virginity Gilkerson Minnie Mann Willa Norris Mattie Becker E. M Mercer County Binefield W. LB. Smith R. H. Bailey Grove Commandi Ng

Wanted house with modern conveniences in good location

Classified notice seeks a house with modern conveniences in a good location. Contact W. B. and BE. L. Shufflebarger at their office above Comfort Shoe Store for details. Dated 1-31-1f.

W. B. and BE. L. Shufflebarger’s Comfort Shoe Store

Three Meet Death In Western Mines In Separate Accidents

In Cambridge’s Roderfield tunnel two colored men were killed by a dynamite blast. details of the cause remain unknown. In Marytown trapper Alexander Turner was dragged under a train of cars and ground to death after his clothes were caught. Turner’s exact age is disputed between 17 and 19.

T. B. Reach Pipestem Summers County Charles J. Hill Wedsell Farley Pipestein Hill Norfolk & Western Coaldale Tunnel Baltimore Coaldale Holiness Josie West Coloeredo Roderfield Cambridge Mountin Alexander Turner Marytown Turner Wze

Knocked From Train, 22 Dies After Fall at Dingess

John Baker of Barrytown fell from an east bound freight near a covered bridge at Dingess Wednesday. The 22 year old was on top of the car when the lantern failed and he lay unconscious with severe head wounds. He died later after medical attention at Watts.

John Baker Barrytown Dingess Hakey Baker Watts

Telegraphers protest eight hour law changes

The Order of Railway Telegraphers condemns any port of congress action that lengthens operator work hours and issued a nationwide message to telegraph operators stressing firm opposition to changes affecting the current eight hour rule.

Congress

Railroad workers eight hour law pressure from district member

A district member of the organization sent messages to the Interstate Commerce Commission and to Congress urging no extension of the eight hour work day under the law. Railroads claim a wage cut would hurt profits, fueling a fierce fight as March first deadline approaches. The piece ends with a reflection on demand ads as a tide of reciprocal needs.

Interstate Commerce Commission Congress Railroads

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