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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1925
Page
8
A collage of 1920s ads and notices lists coal firms like City Coal Co and Mercer Coal Co with contact numbers, lime and concrete products from Limestone Product Co, rentals on Bland and North Streets, and a notice for Elkhorn Hazard Coal Co annual meeting in Bluefield. Also advertised are car displays, a Shrine Patrol Dance, barber legislation meeting, bankruptcy sale for War Produce Co, and a thanks card from the Davis family.
Missionary to Japan Dr Fulton will address the regular Wednesday night prayer service at the First Presbyterian Church this evening. The event is open to the public and all are invited to attend.
WTAM Cleveland announces Saturday January 31 program devoted to the Bluefield Show with a live announcement from the station. Atwater Kent Corporation sends Jaud and Atlee to attend all week at the Flat Top Auto Supply Co booth. RCA also plans a special exhibit for the Supply Company booth as the Chicago national show approaches. John Hall of Flat Top Auto Supply Co fronts efforts in Chicago to bring back features for Bluefield. The event aims to attract regional visitors for first hand demonstrations of radio’s four year public use and progress.
A list of ten prospective directors will be presented at the YWCA annual meeting Tuesday evening to select five new directors from among Mrs. Alexander Mrs. Graybeal Mrs. Quinlan Mrs. Swingle Mrs. Jackson Mrs. Hancock Mrs. Mason Miss Udy Miss Ratcliff and Mrs. DeBrick. The current board met last evening with Miss Loudermilk chairing and announced a tea for February 24 in honor of visitors to the state conference of social workers. The January 27 meeting at 6 pm will report on the organization’s work and all members including businessmen are urged to attend.
The young baritone artist Frank Harrison appears at Bluefield Colored Institute with strong recommendations from teachers critics and the public His program includes Handel Xerxes aria Schumann pieces Rachmaninoff Dett works and Burleigh Sinner Please Dont Let Dis Harvest Pass and My Lord What a Morning among others
Rotary held an unusually interesting meeting at noon with Herbert Markle speaking on electric power C B Hancock outlining Wild Life League aims and Fred Christie recounting a Mercer county story. The Methodist quartet and Mr Barrett provided music and a Barrett solo received praise. Visitors included Frank Helms Bristol VA Wm Halfish Baltimore Ralph Smith W Koepler H S Slocum FE Barton and W A Richards.
An agreement was signed in Peking at midnight confirming the resumption of diplomatic relations between Japan and Russia. The treaty was announced by the Rosta Agency, the official Soviet news agency, on January 20.
City officials heard bids for furniture and equipment including window shades library equipment vault files and auditorium seating. Bids will be boiled down by the city manager and re discussed at a special meeting.
Real estate transfers recorded include Elbert S Hogan and wife to Virgie Doyle for part of lot 35 Bee Addition Princeton for 600 dollars Co A Hylton and wife to J D Long and wife lots 1 and 3 section 1108 Bluefield for 10 dollars I E Bee and wife to T G Brown lot 13 section 101 Bee Reservation Princeton for 1 dollar Tom Brown to Frank Dickenson and wife lot 13 section unspecified for 750 dollars Flat Top Insurance Company to EF T Oliver lots 38 and 38 section 208 Bluefield for 1000 dollars.
State Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn announced a first degree murder indictment against Gerald Chapman by the extraordinary grand jury. He plans to travel to Washington for a conference with Colonel William J. Donovan to arrange Chapman's transfer from federal jurisdiction to state custody for trial in the killing of Policeman James Skelly of New Britain.
Jim Cox, a colored taxi operator, was arrested at the Travelers Hotel Raleigh street after a search warrant found sixteen pop bottles of liquor in his hotel room trunk. Federal Agent KR. L. Taylor Deputy State Prohibition Agent Eli Watkins and Patrolman R. J. Bowen seized the items. Cox, held in the city jail, faced trial before H. B. Kitts.
Peoria Illinois January 20 Mary Eltenmiller twenty was shot today by her sweetheart Fred Lichtenberger in an automobile where they had spent two nights according to a police confession. Lichtenberger attempted suicide after the shooting and doctors say Mary has little chance of recovery while he is expected to recover. He says he shot her after she asked him to kill her and that they had planned marriage but her parents objected. Miss Eitenmiller is the daughter of Mr and Mrs William Eitenmillar South of Pekin.
The central executive committee dismissed Leon Trotzky as Soviet war minister. The Bolshevik press said the Soviet military cadet corps and the public reacted with calm indifference as the news spread from Py of the Bolshevik press.
Two tablets every three hours for three doses. First dose relieves, second and third doses break up the cold. Pleasant, contains no quinine or opioates. Millions use Pape's Cold Compound. Price thirty cents, druggists guarantee it.
Critics hail Land of Joy a spectacular twenty scene musical comedy produced by Anton Scibilia. The Colonial hosts the show Wednesday January 28 with Matilde Corpus and tango duo Carmela and Vincent Martinez, plus Moroccan jewel cave and other novel features.
Birmingham plumber Ralph Locker inherited a rich uncle's full dress suit but uses the formal evening clothes for home chores. He works in a sar torial splendor while firing his furnace weeding the garden and mowing the grass. The Dead Sea water is five times saltier than the ocean.
Gary Council No 1795 Knights of Columbus adopted a resolution honoring Mary Rucker Maloney wife of Hugh G Maloney. It offers condolences and prayers for her soul and orders minutes copied, a copy given to Maloney, and publication in Welch Daily News and the Bluefield Telegraph. Committee: Rev John J Hahnley T 1 Nolan Chas H Patterson.
Private Jose Grandez faced execution for insulting a superior officer and sang popular songs for several minutes. The firing squad, impressed by his bravery, initially hesitated with several men refusing to shoot.
Diamond Dyes promise beautiful color with simple cold water tinting or boiling for permanent shades. Each 15 cent packet includes clear directions for dyeing lingerie, silks, ribbons, dresses, coats, and home furnishings. Consumers are advised to tell the druggist the fabric type wool silk linen cotton or mixed.
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