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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1925
Page
2
West Virginia Ramblers will advance an assured success with ppy music and novelty stunts. Notices include tax assessments, reductions in cleaning prices, a new confectionery store, and a Masonic meeting. Stolen coach found and July snow storm reported in Jacksburg.
The First Christian Church group will spend the day at Walnut Grove Cemetery to cut grass and beautify the grounds. Plot owners and interested members should bring tools and two lunches with a noon meal at the cemetery and an evening meal in Shannondale.
R. M. Baldwin and M. L. Ferguson of this city set a 27 hour record in a Chrysler roadster from Orlando Florida to Bluefield last week. They covered Orlando to Slaton Georgia in 14 hours 45 minutes on the first day and reached Bluefield in about 13 hours on the second day.
The condition of Mrs. A B Underwood daughter of W R Shepherd of McCulloch Avenue in a Baltimore hospital with burns is improving. Her nine year old son Johnie Shepherd died in the same accident. He was well known in the city and had visited here several times.
The defense and prosecution clash over whether teaching evolution violates the Tennessee law. Witnesses including students describe how Scopes taught evolution from Hunter's biology while the state seeks to introduce the textbook and Bible as evidence. Judge Raulston denies defense quash motion. trial proceeds with Dudley Field Malone outlining the defense case.
Judge John T. Raulston announced in Dayton Tennessee that no further action would be taken against William Hutchinson International News Service correspondent. The decision followed a newsroom dispatch alleging his views on the defense motion to cash the Scopes indictment in the evolution case.
Dayton Tenn July 15 The dispute over opening court with prayer in the evolution trial seemed settled with no further objections. Rev Charles Francis Potter of New York offered the prayer as chosen by Dayton Ministerial Association under Judge Raulston. Tomorrow a fundamentalist preacher is expected to open court.
Prohibition officers Taylor and Watkins pursued Kinney Wagner through Kelleyville after a tip from a trial observer. Wagner, convicted of killing two policemen and wounding a third near Kingsport, had escaped Blountville jail with seven others and faces electrocution. Rewards totaling 1000 dollars were offered for his arrest dead or alive by Tennessee and Green County Mississippi authorities.
A Lions Club meeting recalling past members was held with Rev. Tom Eskridge sharing memories from his earlier membership. Plans were discussed for a roof garden dance on July 24 and a fundraising effort to aid Bluefield’s Blue Field baseball team.
State health officials led by E S Tisdale L F Warrick and Rev Dr David Littlejohn arrived from Charleston to Princeton for the trial of C P Claytor Bluefield assistant health officer. Claytor was fined $100 for polluting East River waters with acid and killing fish tied to Bluefield sewage disposal in the east end plant. They defend the city and Claytor in the case set for today.
Perry Cawthorn a colored delivery boy for Easley Penn Drugs was struck by a car just after 9 PM at Mercer street and Bluefield avenue. His leg was broken and he was treated at St Luke's Hospital before being sent home as police begin a full investigation.
In Fairmont on July 15, Mrs. Estelle Satterfield Hampton wife of Z B Hampton a Fairmont businessman drowned while learning to swim at Colfax in the Tygart Valley river. She disappeared after venturing out too far and was found face down. Despite rescue attempts with artificial respiration she did not survive. A ten year old daughter survives. Her girlhood home was in Greensboro North Carolina.
Mrs Ida Manning Blankenberg of Tulsa seeks a share of Lotta Crabtree’s 3 million dollar estate set aside for disabled soldiers and charity. Suffolk probate witnesses testified conflictingly about the actress’s true parentage with Charles Wolters of Rochester placing Crabtree at a Rochester theatre on December 26 1877 near the claimed wedding date in Lancashire.
A city sleeper shares a morning routine that blends brisk exercise with a personal pep boost. The writer notes a half hour pre breakfast walk before eight, enjoying air and energy while others sleep, then returns to a Roman feast of bacon eggs and coffee.
In Fairmont West Virginia R M Lambie chief of the state department of mines arrives to resume the inquest into the Barrackville Mine No 41 disaster that killed thirty four men three months after the March 17 explosion General Manager and Safety Engineer J W Berry also attend along with county prosecutors and the mine inspectorate to hear testimony and finish the investigation.
Washington officials from the Treasury and Federal Reserve agencies, including Assistant Secretary Day, met to discuss how to make the dollar bill last longer. They noted the current average life is seven months with over a billion bills printed last year.
The Repass Orchestra opened the first weekly dance at the Peery Roof Garden last night. Rain threatened early but cleared by 4 PM, drawing a larger crowd than expected and signaling strong midweek attendance for the summer series.
In Williamsport Pennsylvania on July 15, a partly decomposed young woman’s body with three bullet holes was found in brush near a Bald Eagle Mountains tourist camp. Authorities suspect possible link to Jace Martz of Sugar Valley who vanished from the city. The body was located by boys, five feet from the road, with minimal coverings and jewelry removed.
Cardinal Louis Nazaire Bon, eighty three, leader of the Canadian Catholic Church, lies near death in the archiepiscopal palace after a stroke paralyzing his right side. Reports say his condition is very serious and slightly worsened, with prayers requested across Canada and the United States.
New York July 15 Mrs Ethel Jackson Baynes originator of the title role in the Merry Widow in the United States was granted an interlocutory decree of divorce today from George McLeod Baynes.
Ad claims a permanent hair removal method learned through repeated root treatment. Emphasizes painless process, skin remains smooth with no odor. Mentions sale by Bailey Drug Co and Goody locals Drug Co and others.
Petersburg reporter notes three unidentified young white men robbed the Alberta Bank in Alberta Brunswick county while staff including assistant cashier A B Fl were away on launch. They fled in an automobile with unspecified details.
Ford and Harvey advance paving plans from Boone to ridge top with grading done and forms set. Glendale avenue construction connects Union and Wyoming streets to improve access to South Bluefield under private contract. Central mixing plant established on hilltop near the work area.
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