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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1925
Page
1
Local business notices list several coal dealers with phone numbers and product lines, plus prices for holiday footwear. A church service reminder and a Sabbath sermon topic follow. Community items include a meat market sale change, concrete garden furniture ads, a house fire report, an American Legion meeting, a car theft arrest, and city fire alarms with brief damage notes.
Mrs Loyd retired from Trowroke to attend the funeral of her mother Mrs Wuftman in Elis tan Virginia Burial was made there Mrs Loyd was at her mother's bedside when she died after a short illness following a surgical operation Her mother’s death came as a shock to family and friends during the Christmas holidays
A Supreme Court ruling on January 12 directs McNowell County to appoint a receiver to run the Clark Development Company. J. Kaufman of Minefield may receive $100000 or more in settlement after bond of $1000. The long running dispute with L. Kaman and Aaron Katzen centers on a real estate partnership dating to 1907 and property that became the town site of Clark across from Northfork.
Organization to entertain state docs perfected. Dr Andrews notes Bluefield gathering will foster better understanding between sections of the state. A Mer cer and McDowell county talent show opens the eve ning with Mrs W D Stevens of McKman sang three solos. Musicians Vincent Paotiello and Jones Filmer Brows perform. Mrs David Vitticiohn and Miss Jela Holroyd provide piano and vocal numbers. The event aims to boost Mercer and McDowell County Medical Societies toward a grand success for the State Medical Association meeting.
Wheeling West Virginia January 15 discussion plans emerged to call a mass meeting in four counties to consider moving West Liberty Normal School fifteen miles to Wheeling. Influential locals aim to have state education and board of control officials address the gathering. The Charleston meeting of northern West Virginia legislators and public works members sparked the push claiming relocation would secure growth.
Balek and Jank Winslet, brothers, were robbed of $2,000 by two Negroes who then locked them inside the Windsor Provision Company ice room at Beech Bottom, near Wheeling. A customer freed them minutes later after hearing they were trapped. Sheriff Lowe of Broaka county investigated.
A Parkersburg crew for the Parkersburg Creamery Company struck an oil pocket near downtown while drilling a water well for a new plant. The quantity is described as small but the find caused a local stir as work continues on the site.
A thorough inquiry is expected to determine if any saltwater intrusion exists in the area. The discovery prompted halted drilling and a brief flow of saltwater, delaying operations on the fresh water well project.
Mrs Gilbert Scott of Randolph county was elected president of the West Virginia Farm Women's Club during farmers' week at West Virginia University Morgantown January 15. Miss Jennie Bonar of Wood county became vice president and Mrs George F E Hilsheimer of Mercer county was named secretary. Scott defeated Bertie P Rhodes of Lewis county for the presidency. Reports on club activity were presented and a butter judging contest was held as part of the program.
In Moundville West Virginia January 15 bills proposing a merger of charitable institutions in Marshall Wetzel and Tyler counties have been sent to Charleston for representatives. Judge Morris announced the measures aim to create a tri county tuberculosis sanitarium in Marshall county a children's home in Wetzel and a home for indigents in Tyler county with no new buildings required and substantial county savings.
Washington January 16 Secretary Gore of the department of agriculture issued an appeal to the farmers of the United States to cooperate with the commerce and agriculture departments. Respondents were urged to answer census inquiries promptly as the data will support crop estimates and reveal farm acreage land use and livestock figures. A second item reports a thwarted bank robbery plan in Shepherdstown West Virginia as two youths Jack Lillis and Ernest Forester were arrested with masks drawings cartridges and a pistol found at their home. Lillis had scouted the Farmers and Mechanics Bank and planned a trip to Europe with the money.
Henderson Kentucky June 16 Henry Murphy was killed and five men were imprisoned and are believed dead after an explosion at Diamond mine No 1 near Providence in Webster County. The Palmer Brothers mine employed 125. six stayed to fire shots and all but those six left the pit before the blast.
A National Geographic bulletin recounts Bakhtiari tribesmen in revolt and a biannual epic migration across Iran. It follows their trek with cattle and families through rivers, snow, and mountains, noting tribal chiefs rule, women carry infants and rifles, and youths learn riding and swimming by age ten.
C E Davis, about forty, of Dott, died at St Luke's Hospital Thursday afternoon from influenza. Doctors said the illness was the killer form that appeared in the 1917 18 epidemic. He was mine foreman for Turkey Gap Coal and Coke Co and a brother of R L Davis of Bramwell. Funeral and burial will be in Bramwell on Sunday.
Rear Admiral John S R Robison chief of the Navy bureau of engineering and one of the officers questioned in the Senate Teapot Dome Inquiry has been passed over for promotion by President Coolidge. Three captains with temporary rank of rear admiral, all ranking below Robison, have been nominated by the President as permanent rear admirals. No explanation for the White House action available today.
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