DAR Meeting Highlights Best of Year Event
The Dar meeting at Mrs. Wet Hale’s Hale avenue home featured Betsy Ross in a colonial scene and a Civil War handkerchief relic. New regent Hartley Sanders led officers’ reports, formed committees, and planned policy changes including three month invitation lapse and summer meeting times.
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Matthew French
Wet Hale
Hale Avenue
Hale
J. A. Downey
Betsy Ross
United States
Hartley Sanders
George P. Mylton
Mra
J. M. Smith
Stuart Garrett
D. A. KR
Alice Epperly
T. Bird
J. R. Smith
EF. W. Early
John K. Ball
D. A. R. Magazine
Jimmy Hopkins
Patriotic Education
Christian Education
Lamar Epperly
J. R. Rich
Rich
8. C. Gleaves
Judeon N. Cross
Ployd
Salie of Cross Lanes
West Virja
Rutherford B. Hayes
Croes
Carnifax Ferry
Wheat Virginia
Gleaves
Babies Strike for Twenty Hour Day Aided by Health Group
A tongue in cheek call for a Babies Union urges longer sleep, better food, and no kissing as a public health stunt. It cites President Hoover and the American Child Health Association, inviting adults to join for better infant health and hygiene nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Child Health Association
Babyville
Bottleland
Cribs
United States
Granta
Herbert Hoover
America
Babies’ Union
Corcoran Thom
National
Seventeenth Street
Washington, D. C
Norma Talmadge Urges Stage Dreams Despite Doubts
Misa Norma Talmadge tells aspiring actors to pursue stage or screen goals. She explains she followed a personal hunch into acting, defying peers, and credits the leap with shaping her career. The actress will appear in Yes or No at The Royal this Thursday and Friday.
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Girla
Misa Norma Talmadge
the Royal
Mitchell Lewis
Dorothy Dalton
Mule
Norma Talmadge
Paramount Picture
Real Estate Transfers Filed for Recordation
Real estate transfers recorded in the county court clerk's office include Montvale Addition lot 2 section 960 in Bluefield transferring to Walter V. Ross for 5 dollars. John M. Wingman and wife convey 8.66 acres north to George P. Stovall.
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Montvale
Walter V. Ross
Bluefield
John M. Wingman
George P. Stovall
Real Estate Transfers in Bluefield and Princeton Areas
Land transfers and partitions across Bluefield Princeton and Island Creek involve multiple buyers and sellers. Notable deeds include Frank P Barry et al to J M McCue and wife for lot 2 section 1001 Bluefield at 3500, L N Chandler to George P Stovall for lot 8 section 1201 Bluefield at 1900, J W Douthat to George P Stovall lot in section with price not stated, George B French et al to Cc R French for lot in Silver Springs Princeton at 600, W C Pollock to Roy T Weber on Luther street Bluefield at 3800, and J Frank Maynard to W H Kitts for lot 69 New Midway Bluefield at 3000 plus H G Woods as special commissioner for 111.5 acres Island Creek estate lands partition managed by J H Lilly. W H Kitts to BE S Duncan for lot in New Midway at 1400.
County Court Advances Road Right of Way Expansion
A brief county court session approved taking extra strips of land from several owners along the macadam road toward Bluefield to widen the right of way. The compensation will be set after road completion under the 1921 road law, with owners to be served notice before adjournment to next Monday week.
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Crockett SS
Bluefield
State Road Commission
Henry Hall Dies After Denatured Alcohol Consumption
Henry Hall a 45 year old resident of the Augusta colored settlement was found dead near the New Hope schoolhouse four miles west. A coroner's jury ruled death from denatured alcohol after two weeks of heavy drinking and declining health. He had been wandering the area Thursday morning seeking his employer and was found along Sandlick road. Remains were released to his relatives for burial in the city’s colored cemetery.
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Henry Hall
Augusta
New Hope
W. T Bivens
Gott Undertaking Company
Henry
Ed Fane
Hiram Henderson
Fane
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Dar
Mesdames Sanders
Marty
Mesdames Hays and
Johnson
Mesdames Hale and Downey
Dorothy
Helen Hale
Maxine
Christine Downey
Virginia
Mesdames Harley Sanders
W.S. Dangerfield
J. _M. Smith
Harry Karnes
E. W. Early
H. C. Hays
T. M. Johnson
George P. Hylton
W. B. Caldwell
Matoaka
R. R. Sage
Athens
L. C. Porter
Mesdames Hale and
Downey
Coachbill Anderson
Red Seat Continental Motor
Westinghouse
Borg and Beck
Rock Hill
Mercer Street
Thern N Auto Sales Company
Nceton
W. VA
Telephone 300
Norma Talmadie
Miss Talmadge
Royal Theatre
Jack Holt
Peter B. Kyne
Max Linder
Wife
Drug Service
Spangler’s
Spangler’s Drug Store
Princeton, W. Va
Busmies Electric Co
Princeton
West Virginia
THOR
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THE
Bank OF Princeton
Shepherd Clothing Co
Princeton, West Virginia
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