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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1925
Page
2
Local items list services and sales in Bluefield and surrounding towns. Notes include barber shop hours, coal company ads, a dance at Legion Hall Princeton, a dry cleaning firm, watermelon arrival, lodging for rent, and church youth activities with dates and locations.
Perryville and Bluefield notes describe Senha Fe ten of the pres in Weare Railroad and Crawford, general manager, spending Saturday in Bluefield on official business during a Western division inspection. Harman Woodward will join family in Richmond and drive home. Robert Williams faces liquor violation charges in Summers County jail after arrest by Prohibition Officer Z L Ferguson. A January federal court term in Bluefield saw Bond in a case re liquor selling. Christian Endeavor upcoming event urges personal faith with “Great of the Bible” talk tonight at 7 15 p m. Onward Court 60 changes meeting nights to first and third Mondays starting July 2 with election of petit officers.
George Hepburn a young attorney from Minton and formerly of Raleigh died in Hinton Hospital early Friday from a fall from a ladder in Hobbs Garage. He had been fishing on New River with Martin Harvey and Frank Boone of Raleigh and returned to Clinton for gear. En route to the loft he slipped, fracturing the skull base, and died despite medical care.
Mr and Mrs H J Bowles and daughters Ernesta and Lillie will spend several weeks in Kansas visiting relatives. Mr and Mrs Frank EB Wykes of Winton are visiting Mrs J R Melcher. Mr and Mrs Joe Wilds drove to Norfolk for a house party hosted by Mrs and Mrs J EB Gerald and daughter Gladys, who left Friday night for Norfolk Washington and Baltimore.
The banking commissioner says he will have the absolute and final say on charter grants. He notes many applications fail after investigation due to motives to employ a friend or relative or to create another borrowing source rather than provide a place to deposit funds.
The article discusses a push for a one cent letter rate and signals possible further hearings as the commission considers new routes and section changes.
Boy Scout Troop No. 4 plans a week at Wolf Creek summer camp starting Monday morning. All boys, Scouts or not, are invited to join under supervision with standard discipline and rules. Pack two blankets, towel, bathing suit, toothbrush, hair comb, and $6 for camp costs in a compact roll.
Westminster Presbyterian Church presents a Sunday evening service of praise featuring a choir singing several numbers. An organ recital and multiple vocal and instrumental solos are planned with Miss Knight and Mrs Nichols among the performers.
Miss Kathryn Galloway of Due West S C will sing at the First Presbyterian Church on Tazewell Street this morning. Her solo The Earth is the Lords will open a program including Psalm arrangements and a duet by Mrs Clarence G Harris and Mrs Walter Griffiths. The choir will perform a Dudley Buck arrangement from the seventy second Psalm He Shall Come Down Like a Rain. The congregation is invited to attend all services.
The 1925 School for Pastors and Laymen of Holston Conference will be held at Emory and Henry College from the 17th to the 29th. Dr J W Perry the dean expects the largest enrollment in school history. The faculty includes notable figures from the church and universities such as Dr Rolvix Hn Dr J W Perry Prof J Richard Spann Dr Obert T Rowe C N Donnelly and platform speakers Dr J P McConnell Dr B H Rawlings Dr Gilbert we Dr Relvix Harlan and Bishop Edwin D Mouzon.
Kazim Temple of Roanoke has reached its $400000 goal to build a mosque in Magioe City. The campaign spanned southwest Virginia and nearby Roanoke territory over several weeks, and the temple has acquired a 100 acre suburban tract for the project.
A fragmented account notes furnace fires on the eighteenth of July with cold conditions and snow. The piece suggests a harsh early century winter and describes clothing changes from straw hats and shirt sleeves to top coats and felt.
The veil of secrecy surrounding 22 year old Albert Robertson under indictment for killing Officers H Morgan and W H Terry will be lifted Monday morning in Roanoke court. Commonwealth's Attorney Samuel R Price will tell the jury what he expects to prove about the shooting during the raid on Jes Witten's cottage on July 1.
More than a million dollars were spent on new buildings and dwellings in Bluefield in the second half of the fiscal year ending July 1, per city clerk disclosure. A full yearly building permits summary with year‑over‑year comparison is due Monday.
Local railroad officials dispute claims the new Norfolk and Western freight depot will create many jobs. They say the modern station, though largest on the system, is designed to reduce labor costs and may employ fewer workers than the old station due to new handling methods and platform trucks.
Firemen received a call from residents on Cumberland Road about a blaze several miles east of the city. They did not enter beyond the corporate limits, and late last night it was unclear if any farm house or brush area was destroyed by the fire.
Early Saturday night saw heavy traffic in the downtown area with many vehicle jams. Police aided the flow and no disorders were reported despite the dense pedestrian and street congestion.
Seattle reports more than 17 million dollars will fund Washington state pay as you go road build for the coming biennium. Estimated 14.5 million from motor vehicle licenses and a two cent per gallon gasoline tax. Four bridges on the Pacific Highway between Everett and Marysville will use about one million. Over 20 years the state has appropriated 60 million for highways and received 16 million in federal aid, with 2,465 miles improved.
London July 18 Britain’s Imperial Airways formed in 1944 recently marked a milestone by flying 1,000,000 miles. In the past year its planes carried bullion valued at 10,000 dollars, 16,000 passengers and 1,000 tons of freight across the channel at about 100 miles an hour.
Fragmentary text notes a shooting of an American and a tax cut forecast by Senator Moses of New Hampshire. Readable pieces mention postal revision and political figures but lack coherent details or dates.
A Bluefield party led by W. C. Warlick and J. T. Thornton with County Commissioner Wade Bailey inspected the state highway project near Spanishburg. Wright & Hays report rapid sub-base progress, laying a mile in four days. Contractors cite robust rock crushers and tramways, with the road built to tested standards and expected traffic readiness from Princeton to the area by September.
Paris hosts a colonial color art show with Moroccan chieftains Algerians Tunisians and Senegalese in native dress strolling among booths. Many visitors attend as tourists paying their own expenses and following personal programs.
Tokyo reports the department of agriculture will send an expert to the United States to study rice cultivation. The mission will assess American farming systems and rice output trends, noting production rose to 270 million pounds by 1923 before declining due to exchange rates.
A newly found document, preserved in the Venetian State Archives after Austrian restitution, outlines a 1820 Neapolitan revolt plan for a six-state federal Italy. It envisages a 300-member diet, annual meetings, state rights, and hereditary rule in most states, with the Two Sicilies under Ferdinand I and Savoy descendants.
London reports King George declines to race to Wg Gente avoiding public expense and political scrutiny. The decision eases tensions over royal spending while highlighting cautious royal involvement in yachting circles.
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