Road funds show allocations for four main state routes
State commission reports total expenditures of 16.06 million dollars through June 30 for four trunk routes. Route 1 Northwestern Pike led with 4.72 million, Route 2 North and South 3.54 million, Route 3 Midland Trail 4.16 million, Route 4 North and South 3.32 million. Funds come from bonds and prior aid with plans to place more from the latest bond sale. The Bluefield Automobile Club promotes road signs to lure motorists, ordering 100 signs to be installed by August first to guide traffic into Bluefield from key forks including Bristol, Roanoke, and Charleston roads.
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Parkersburg
Charleston
Nutter Farm
Ellenboro
Harrisville
Ritchie County
Bluefield Automobile Club
Rome
Bluefield
Bristol Road
Abinedon
Roanoke Road
Charleston Road
Bramwell Road
Bluefield Westree
Man Buried Fourteen Hours After Coal Slide
Lemont Illinois resident John Doyle was trapped under a coal slide for fourteen hours before rescue. Fire crews worked overnight to free him, and he survived the ordeal.
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Lemont, II
John Doyle
Buffalo relocation to Fort Smith marks northern experiment
The Canadian government moves 1000 buffalo from Wainwright to a new range near Fort Smith in the Northwest Territories. Cattle cars and river steamer transport the herd via Edmonton and Fort McMurray, with Sixteen-strong crew guarding the herd and a Ranger boat patrolling. Officials expect the project to succeed with potential controlled hunting later if the herd grows.
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Edmonton
Alta
Purple Sage
Canadian Woods
Wainwright
Alberta
Montana
Fort Smith
Northwest Territory
Arctic Circle
Wainwright Range
Canadian National Railway
Alberta and
Ranger Bennettt
Wood Buffalo Preserve
Mar Coves
Northwest
Canada
Forest Rangers
Examinations Held For Mine Foremen And Fire Bosses
R M Lambie head of the department of mines announced examinations for mine foremen and fire bosses. Tests will run two days at multiple locations including Charleston Beckley Logan Wheeling with dates July 27 August 3 August 6 and August 10 after a July 26 session in Morgantown.
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R. M. Lambie
Department of Mines
Weee
Charleston
Beckley
High Schol
Weno
Logan
Wheeling
Auust
Morgantown
Infant Dies in Burns Accident at Williamson
The infant son of Mr and Mrs Russell Damron died after severe burns suffered when a crib fire started by another child at the Varney home in Culross Hollow East Williamson. Neighbors rushed to aid, A R Hess helped extinguish flames, and burial is planned at Weat Williamson comet. The article notes Damron and Varney family ties. A separate item mentions a new men knitting and weaving process in Paris.
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R. C. Blackstock, Jr
Williamson Daily News
Russell Damron
Victor Varney
Culross Hollow
Willlamson
Weat Wiamson Comet
DeNita Varney
Damron
James Damron
Williamson
Paris
Pentecostal camping planned at Tazewell fair grounds
Tazewell Virginia July 25 1925 plans set for the Pentecostal Assemblies Southwest Virginia camp meeting August 1 to 10 at the Tazewell fair grounds. tents seating for two thousand plus a dining tent and scores of campers and workers with services daily and special railroad fare offers from N and W railroad Clinch Valley division for attendees.
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Tazewell
Assemblies of of Southwest Virginia
Tazewell Ses Fair Grounds
D. W. Kerr
Mee EB. Frey
Toronto
Clinch Valley Division
Southwest Virginia cam draws agents from Clinch Valley
Agents of the Clinch Valley division report thousands from Southwest Virginia and nearby states traveling to the camp for a regional gathering.
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Clinch Valley Division
Virginia
Cam
College Paper Honors Dr. Fox With Memorial Bulletin
Roanoke College in Salem Virginia dedicates its August Bulletin to Dr. L A Fox who died July 9 after forty two years as professor of philosophy He is lauded as the Grand Old Man of the college and trustees and alumni offer tributes from notable figures across several states and cities.
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Salem
Roanoke College Bulletin
L. A. Fox
Fox
Roanoke
Tech
New York
H. Powell Chaman
Roanoke Times
Gordon White
Roanoke College
Junior and Intermediate Endeavor Societies Plan Joint Meeting
The Junior and Intermediate Christian Endeavor Societies of the First Presbyterian Church will hold a joint meeting tonight, with plans for programs to engage members and strengthen church activities.
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Christian Endeavor
First Presbyterian Church
Twin program plans debates on China's need topic
Virginia Smythe and Virginia McNeil lead a Sunday Senior Christian Endeavor on a missionary theme. The program features two debates with Hancock and Tate McClung arguing it is more terrible to have era than sleeping sickness, and Sabel Pollock with Mary Randolph Phelps arguing it is better to be in China during a flood than a famine.
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China
Virginia Smythe
Virginia McNeil
Hancock
Tate McClung
Sabel Pollock
Mary Randolph Phelps
Christiess Lands
Cowl Plant to Double Output at Portmouth By-Product Coke
The Portsmouth By-Product Coke Company's mine and camp in Freeburn West Virginia, owned by American Rolling Mill Company and the Wheeling Steel Corporation, will double its output immediately. In June 1925 the plant produced over 38 000 tons and will add about fifty miners and fifty company men to meet higher demand, signaling a strengthening coal market for Southern West Virginia.
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Portamouth
Edearton
W. Va
Steel Corporation
West Virginia
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S.S.S
G.S
Sahn
Russel Damron
Aaron’s
Laird-Schober
J. L Kwass
Pentecost Gamp
Harry S. New
Robert 8. Regar
Regar
W. Irving
DR. Fox
Thacker
Steet
Foster Memorial Home
Huntington, W. VA
Ada van Ness
Huntington
Glen Heights
Union
Wyoming
Union Street
Wyoming Street
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