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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1908
Page
5
The body of 47 year old Jeff Slege, who died in a Welch area mine from falling slate, was moved through the city en route to Bristol for interment. He lived at Pageton and was among a wave of Italian immigrants heading to New York on the Princess drone, sailing February 29 for Italy.
M Bryant of Bramwell is in the city. W L Hecker of Roanoke was here yesterday. J C Boyer of Tazewell visited Bluefield yesterday. N Kearman and H A Miller of Northfork spent yesterday in the city. H G Hammer of Welch was in Bluefield yesterday. 8 Edwards of Northfork visited yesterday. C G McGuire of Tazewell was in the city on business. Maurice Ligum of Northfork visited yesterday. P L Martin of Northfork in the city on business. Harry Jopling and wife returned from Rome Georgia. Alfred DeW Howard received word his father died in St Johns New Brunswick. Mr. Howard left yesterday.
A Cincinnati Enquirer report quotes a librarian describing four classes of library thieves. The umbrella thief hides a book in an unrolled umbrella, the sleeve thief slides a weekly into a sleeve, the installment thief steals pages gradually, and the open thief walks out with a book under the arm, with an estimated theft rate of about two books per hundred.
A Pearson's Weekly item lists three lethal dangers: a tiny Peruvian spider whose venom causes two days of agony before death, the poisonous grain bhat that triggers violent mania and death, and a South American knotter vine whose tendrils burn flesh and crush prey in its heart.
A humorous tale shows a series of exchanges from an $8000 automobile to a secondhand typewriter via trades for a swampy lot a horse and buggy a gold watch a bicycle and a finger injury. The narrator notes the odd chain ends with a question about trading for a good dog. Youth’s Companion advertises Bublette & Barnes evaporated peaches.
Edmund Clarence Stedman the poet banker once threw a book at a servant causing it to be stolen by a passerby. He later bought the same rare volume back for 40 dollars in a second hand shop and found a card inside bearing his name, thus reclaiming his own property.
A London judge with a horror of sporting prophets halts counsel Stammers who starts to quote Jeremiah. The baron quips that no prophet would sell his father for halfpence. A clergyman then ponders selfishness with an art student joke shared by a Vermont Vermonter and a Wisconsin journalist.
The Philadelphia Ledger adds a modern fifth puzzle to Solomon’s list the way of an express company with a prepaid package. The remark frames a humorous contrast between ancient marvels and today’s mail service mysteries.
A dialogue shows approval of a European son in law with gentle relief at avoiding family quarrels conducted in a language not understood by some. Mr Comrox notes the relief of avoiding quarrels in a tongue unfamiliar to some.
A brief exchange shows Mamma urging neighborly love from the Bible while Little Ethel notes people lived differently in flats, reflecting social attitudes in Kansas City.
The quotation notes that those who loudly demand freedom often fail to generously grant it, attributed to Johnsen.
A trustee offers for sale at auction March 7th the entire stock and fixtures of F. T. Bailey bankrupt. Meantime American National Bank at Bluefield West Virginia reports assets totaling 431,166.84 with deposits of 151,814.20 and notes payable of 27,000.00. The report is sworn by cashier J. Lee Harne on February 24, 1908.
E S Lopez of Manilla New York says the salve has healed many severe cuts and saved him suffering and dollars. It also treats burns sores ulcers fever sores eczema and piles. Available at all druggists for 25 cents.
Trustee sale authorized by deed of trust dated January 1908 to satisfy notes for BE Lucas. The sale of all goods and fixtures of the Five and Ten Cent Store at 38 Bland Street Bluefield WV will occur February 25 1908 at 10 o clock a m at the trustee Ross Kahle office. Cash in hand.
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