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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1925
Page
5
The junior choir led by Mrs. David Littlejohn will perform at the regular service at 7:46 PM. This marks their first public appearance under her direction before her upcoming move to Charleston. The choir recently pleased the congregation two weeks ago.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. EB R Thomas of Falls Mills an eight pound baby girl Frances Louise. Mrs. Thomas was formerly Miss Bion.
The Bramwell Town Council proposes a special election to decide a levy of five cents per one hundred dollars of property value to fund street improvements on a main thoroughfare. The measure accompanies a petition seeking 20 percent of mayoral expenses as security, with a sinking fund and bond details outlined. Officials are set to publish notices in The Daily Telegraph and post copies at the town hall and voting precincts.
Substituted trustee H. M. Tanner will auction the trust property in Mercer County West Virginia to satisfy a 600 debt secured by a 1921 deed of trust. The sale occurs at the front door of the Commercial Bank Building Bluefield on the 28th day of May at an hour to be announced. The tract covers about two and one half acres along Brush Creek bounded by D. A. Thompson, railroad right of way and adjacent parcels.
In Bluefield, Mr. and Mrs. Y Hill and their attractive child leave after twelve years here to make a new home in Salisbury North Carolina. They are bid farewell by hundreds of friends who wish them well.
Campers for the second week at Pisgah YMCA settle into camp life. Friday they hike to Tazewell for fun and food. A Fourth of July party and fireworks are planned. Miss Elinor Ritz invites visitors bearing watermelon and sweets. Girls named include Lillian Lansdell Helen Scott Katella Eldridge Freda Sutherland Vernie Gordon Frances Morgan Harris Eula Eu banks Brownlie Sutherland Virginia Elizabeth Kersey Nancy and Lillian Harmon Elinor Ritz.
The Busy Workers' Club of Brush Fork met at Miss Josephine Hawley's Bramwell road home on July 2 to discuss salad making. Members sampled various salads, with Mrs. Brock discussing the county camp and the new county fair dining hall. Visitor Mrs. Robert Harmon from Brush Creek Hustlers attended. The hostess offered brick ice cream and the group planned to meet with Mrs. Robert Graham on September 3.
Dr P H Killey of Vivian and his son Philip will leave Bluefield for New York to sail on Wednesday for England and the Isle of Man where he was born. Killey came to America in youth and has visited his birthplace before.
The couple married on Thursday in Princeton. The bride wore a brown canton crepe gown. Mr Bailey is a carpenter. They plan to live on Toledo street in this city.
Bluefield Quota Club directors plan a noon meeting next Tuesday at the Y quarters on Federal Street to discuss club affairs.
Rosalie is a historical romance by Charles Major author of Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall and When Knighthood was in Flower outlining a young woman’s trials and triumphs in a period setting and celebrated by readers of serialized fiction.
An advertisement touts Ferraline as a guaranteed cure for poor appetite heart burn gas nausea and biliousness. It claims the first bottle starts permanent relief or a refund from the druggist and sells a one dollar bottle as equivalent to many gallons of mineral water treatment.
Patrons at the Bluefield Library show interest in a new Major novel about a homeopathic physician exiled as a quack then shipwrecked with Rosalie and life in Canada ending happily. The piece also describes a club program directed by James Elmer Brown featuring artists Miss Ginla, Miss Elizabeth Bond, Miss Mary Hermann, Miss Maude Medley and others, with a cornet solo by Spdieler and a farewell song to Mrs. Becker. Visitors from Lynchburg and Abingdon are noted.
Mr and Mrs E Scott Hale will serve as chaperones for the regular Saturday evening dance at Bluefield Country Club this week.
On Tour Ma and Mrs. F. M. Hurst and daughter Miss Hazel of Guthrie Oklahoma are guests of Mrs. Irene Kane. They began their trip March 16 and have toured ten states so far. They plan stops in Pennsylvania and Ohio before returning home.
The Bluefield Public Library will be closed today in observance of Independence Day. Patrons are advised to plan accordingly and return borrowed materials after the holiday.
In observance of Independence Day there will be no noon lunch at the Y today for business girls. The action is due to most business houses closing and many young ladies spending the holiday out of the city.
At Bluefield Bluefield Quota Club luncheon Mrs Becker announced a two months tour of Canada Alaska Old Mexico Yellowstone Park and other sites. Effie Loudermilk delivered telegrams of best wishes and a diary gift while the music group from Newport News offered burlesque entertainment. Several local residents and visitors were listed as preparing trips and travels for July and August.
Nick and Nancy, trapped by a rolling pebble wall, seek Pixie Cave to recover the Fairy Queen's honey. The Bean Shooter Man blocks escape, tests their resolve with a challenge, and finally allows a path after the twins use his bean shooter to remove a daisy petal.
The Bean-Shooter evaluates Nancy and the Twins as they blow a long pipe to create a clear route through a pebble wall. The scene includes a dramatic show of nerve and a continuation tease. A note claims less than half a gram of radium has been found worldwide since Madame Curie discovered it in 1898.
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