Local Happenings In Graham From A Telegraph Roundup
A Graham Daily News column reflects on social notes and community items gathered by Telegraph reporters. Highlights include personal milestones and small events shaping the town’s social fabric.
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1910
Page
2
A Graham Daily News column reflects on social notes and community items gathered by Telegraph reporters. Highlights include personal milestones and small events shaping the town’s social fabric.
Nine lines describe three couples departing Graham on Train No. 15 to Ironton Ohio where Myrtle Keister Lena Taylor and a Miss Tate wed M. J. Austin Munsey and Thompson with brides. Weddings take place in Ironton and Cincinnati honeymoon planned.
Mrs. DL Lindsay and Mr Lindsay depart for Johnstown Pennsylvania. Mrs Thornton returns from Lynchburg. Mr and Mrs Watson back in Philadelphia. Miss Emilie Schoen home from Hollins. HW Shields in Cincinnati. JT Bradley to Princeton. F L Schoen on business to Pluefield. J J Lee and family plan Lynch's Station move. Inefield District Conference M E Church south opens with service at 9 am. J Biegs travels to Covington Va after brother Charles Biggs’ death. Mollie Craft returns from Princeton.
Yesterday at the home of Mr and Mrs H H Barnes on Bluefield avenue Rev W S Bullard joined in marriage Mrs Lalla Griffith Pairfield of this state and James Cummings Barr of Boston The ceremony was quiet with Barnes family present The bride from St Albans W Va is descendant of Gouverneur Morris and wore crepe de chine The groom son of the late George Lyman Barr of New Ipswich N H is a Harvard graduate and Boston club member They will reside briefly in this city before proceeding to New York and then Boston Beach Beacon Street Boston Beacon Street address mentioned
A note recounts Sir Thomas More asking the executioner to move his beard aside before the axe claiming it had not committed treason. It recalls Simon Lord Lovat’s last wish that the executioner cut his throat to prevent a botched beheading and spectacle on Tower Hill.
Yonkers students recall a lecture where the professor counted eight, sparking questions about his timing and methods. The exchange highlights classroom dynamics and attention during yesterday’s session.
A humorous exchange ends with Mr. Youngwife claiming chronic dyspepsia as proof of his love, prompting the judge to respond. The brief quip showcases light domestic humor in a courtroom setting.
A stark message urges action as a stark warning to act now to alleviate hunger. The text emphasizes urgency and compassion to improve global food distribution before time runs out.
Local agents in Bluefield market Dewey’s Best Flour and guarantee fresh stock of every sack and barrel. Available for sale only through BLURPIRLD PRED CO, promising reliable supply for bakers and households.
Two pieces unfold from a late 19th century page: a chilling note by Professor Koopman on photographing spirits via a radium plate and a risqué London to New York smuggling yarn. The Koopman fragment ends with him stating he photographed his wife in the chair she used, before his death in a sanitarium. The second tale recounts a grafty customs inspector’s tale of romance with Emily Robinson and a London jeweler, culminating in a marriage and a trunk of diamonds planted by the wife for a duty evasion scheme.
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