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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1929
Page
20
J Clarence Heldreth of Tazewell won the bid to build a ten room addition plus auditorium gym and library at the Richlands school. Start of work planned for next Wednesday. The old clubhouse will be torn down and moved to a new town site.
Mise M Cope superintendent of Mattie Williams hospital leaves Friday for a tour of Oklahoma then returns to North Carolina where she recently bought a large farm and will take charge of a hoe near her home. She is accompanied by Rev T Erving who has been in Richlands inducting Bible schools for the Presbyterian church.
Yearly work praised with staff changes noted. J. C. Thomas resigns from Glen-Burke Coal Co. tour of the U. S. tobacco experiments, and local farmers plant tobacco on bluegrass land. J. H W. Smith rents a Dalton farm and sets 3500 tobacco plants. Lyle Subblett, burned in January, improves at sister's home but cannot walk. Social event honors hospital nurses bound for Norfolk.
Mine Ava Ball of Chicago visits her mother Mrs. M. O. Warner on North Railroad Avenue. Miss Ball plans to register at one of Chicago’s large hospitals. Miss Ball spends vacations with her mother yearly, last year visiting in Chicago and other Illinois cities.
Robert Wiser a 15 year old from Paint Lick was badly burned on the face and head Friday morning by an explosion of gasoline. A traveling man fixing a flat on his vehicle asked the boy to help and a leak in the tank led to ignition when the man struck a match.
A boy was burned in the face when a lit cigarette and a dropped match ignited escaping gasoline. He was rushed to Mattie Williams hospital for treatment.
Laura Taylor daughter of Mr and Mrs Hueston Taylor Maxwell married Roy Proffit of Maxwell at Roanoke on May 19. Proffit recently moved to Roanoke and works as a farmer while Mrs Proffit has worked in the silk mill there for two years. Proffitt is a niece of Mrs Robert Harman of Roanoke.
Local residents visit relatives across Gratton North Richlands and Washington square while others host guests in Maxwell Richlands Abingdon and Bluefield. Family ties, travel and illness are logged with mention of hospital treatment in Richmond and Randolph Macon college events.
Leeds jeweler George M. Sibbald built a collection of miniatures valued over 15 000 using a fine darning needle. The display includes a horizontal engine in a cherry stone five grains, a gold revolver in an almond shell, a furnished two room home in a Barcelona nutshell, and a golden state carriage at 17 grains.
Miss Lillie Fielder visits Aunt Mrs Ervine Bailey of Rock while Paul Bailey and others travel to local towns. Several families share Sunday visits from Roanoke to Princeton and Bluefield. Shrader ill at home, Bailey attends Concord College, and local chatter ends with a playful birthday aside.
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