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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1926
Page
10
Community notices list rummage sale at First Presbyterian Church and local business offers. Carload of strawberries advertised for Bluefield. piano lessons enroll at Warlick Piano Rooms. radiator and tire service promoted. various rental, scheduling, and horticultural ads appear along with police court notes and a traffic incident.
About twenty five to thirty Gary Lodge, Junior Order United American Mechanics members traveled to Bluefield Virginia Sunday to decorate the graves of C. W. Bowling's father and mother. W. J. Murray led the party and Maple Hill Cemetery was chosen for Memorial Day observance. The lodge numbers 254 and ranks among the largest in southern West Virginia.
Geo Ruble and C C Metregory, local youths, were arrested Sunday in connection with a Bluefield auto theft reported Saturday. The car owned by RM Newsbury of Welch was found parked on Bluefield avenue. Ruble faces theft charges claiming the car was given to him. McGregory is a material witness. Both men posted $1000 bonds and await a hearing.
John Tickle, a well known Bluestone Valley farmer in Tazewell county, died Monday afternoon at his Shannondale home after a brief illness. He collapsed while working in the field and died shortly after reaching home. Survived by his aging mother, three sons Charles Sidney and William and two daughters Mrs Will Scott and Mrs M L Lewie. Funeral arrangements had not been made.
New York May 31 the American Civil Liberties Union report calls California the worst state for civil liberty noting 71 of 77 federal prisoners are in California and highlighting West Virginia as another hotspot amid coal miner clashes with employers.
The blind evangelist Rev. R. K. Fennell of Athens Tennessee visits Bluefield after touring sixteen states to reform jails and prisons. He has turned to street and church lectures, sharing funds with inmates and relying on his guide dog Dude. He became blind after optic nerve paralysis and was formerly a paper hanger. He is sixty and a Southern Methodist.
The West Virginia branch of the National Association of Post Office Clerks held its thirteenth annual convention and the West Virginia Association of Letter Carriers met for its first annual gathering. J. P. Knoke was elected president of the clerks. Ralph Wyan was chosen president of the letter carriers. The next clerks’ convention will be at Buchannon on May 30, 1927.
Gayus Whitfeld of Middlesboro Kentucky unearthed buried gold valued at over 100000 on the Whitfield farm in Demopolis Alabama. The coins, minted in 1850 or earlier, were buried by C Boaz Whitfield during Civil War days to protect wealth from Union forces. Eight heirs may claim the treasure.
In Ronceverte Lewisburg area on Saturday night thieves blew the Martin and Jones hardware store safe and took 2200 dollars in Liberty bonds 400 in cash and two rifles. The adjacent freight depot safe was blown with small loss and entry attempted at Snow Flake Fort Springs. A reward is offered for the arrest of the burglars. The break in was not found until Sunday.
Federal and state agents raidedMcDowell County last weekend seizing illicit stills and mash totaling fifty gallons. Nine people were arrested or bonded on charges including possession of whiskey and moonshine. Specific cases include two men from Gary charged with possession of whiskey and bonds set at $1,000, and a 50 gallon still plus 400 gallons mash found on Robert Miller Jump Mountain with a $2,000 bond.
Dave Reedy, seventy eight, was struck and killed by a Norfolk and Western pusher engine backing from a water tank as he walked the tracks in Richlands Virginia Sunday at 1 55 pm. He was the father of Fred Reedy of Richlands.
Tipple workers of the Davy Pocahontas Coal Company near Davy McDowell county found a wrapped infant corpse on the floor of a Norfolk and Western hopper just after loading. An Ohio newspaper wrapper hindered immediate identification. An autopsy in Welch was planned to determine survival.
The Anti-Saloon League plans to ask Idaho Senator Borah to visit New York and campaign for Prohibition ahead of the fall election, the league announced today.
Denver May 81. Pure J's Walker of Denver died when the automobile she drove in a five mile Memorial Park racing program at Overla Park overturned. The entrant used the name the Masked Marvel. Her husband also entered other events on the card.
Tennessee through counsel appeared before the state supreme court to defend a law prohibiting teaching any theory denying the divine creation of man in public schools and universities. Five attorneys attacked the law from various angles while E. T. Seay, for the state in the Scope appeal, argued the state has the power.
Louis Spanos announces his shift from Victory Lunch and Bakery to Busy Bee Restaurant as co proprietor. The Busy Bee invites patrons with a warm welcome and affordable prices, asserting itself as the most popular place in Bluefield.
The article reviews theScopes Trial arguments with Seay defending the law as constitutional while Bryan, Neal, Hayes, and Darrow prepare for courtroom contest. It notes the clash over theology versus science and the portrayal of education under scrutiny, listing leading counsel and supporters.
Howard T. Neal of Parkersburg filed papers today with the secretary of state for the Republican nomination to the state senate in the third district.
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