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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1907
Page
5
A stream of visitors and residents travel for business and leisure from Bluff, Bramwell, Narrows, Pittsburg, Jamestown, and Richmond. Notables include Judge B. F. Keller and Capt H. R. Karnes, with many others visiting or returning home to Ohio, Kentucky, and Virginia towns. A local death occurs as Mrs T. J. Spradlin dies, and Ww. G. French plans a Jamestown exposition trip amid a busy regional social calendar.
Miss Mae Pettrey of Kimball visits cousin Miss Farley while Mrs. Edward Lyons travels to Philadelphia. Fred Jennings, Cooper telegraph operator, visits locally. Frank Watts travels to Bluefield for business. Miss Mary Wickham of Salem visits sister Annie Wickham then goes to Kimball to see her mother. Miss Lacey Herndon visits Switchback. Temperance club progresses under Bingham and Heyser. Upland Sunday school supper raises funds. Dr. H. R. Farley returns from Richmond and Jamestown Exposition. John Moore and grandson Joe Lewis go to Harrisburg for summer. Alice Neal of Philadelphia visits Dr. S. H. Neal. W. W. Wood returns from business in Baxley.
A baseball game will be played at Bramwell this afternoon between the regular Bramwell team and a picked Bluefield team. Bluefield will field players signed this season with vacancies filled by top locals. The probable Bluefield lineup includes Lynch catcher Kitts pitcher Shumate first base Anderson second base Taylor shortstop Burton third base Prince of Robinson left field McIntyre or Robinson center field Godbey or Smith right field.
Hunter & Co. lease the Red Sulphur Springs Hotels promising an ideal retreat for rest and pleasure. At 1600 feet elevation the mountains surround Indian Creek offers bass fishing and outdoor recreation including rowing, bowling, tennis, hunting, driving and horseback riding to tempt visitors away from business worries.
Water-ground corn meal advertised at Sub lette and Barnes with price listing 66 1 3t appears in a brief classified notice.
Rev Alfred Harrison Burroughs known as the pistol’s marrying parson conducted a May wedding for James Duncan and Annie Clark from Bluefield at 12:20. The couple returned home Friday night. Burroughs began his matrimonial work seventeen years ago in Bristol and has married 2270 couples totaling 4540 people.
Able bodied unmarried men aged 21 to 35 who can speak read and write English are invited to apply at the recruiting office in the Thornton Building Bluefield West Virginia. Signatures count toward ad length and must be prepaid. Advertising rates are one cent per word with signatures included.
Miss Margaret Melick of Pittsburg arrives at the Bluefield Inn to train a local tent for Bland Street Methodist Church’s Scenes at the Union Depot at Chicago. She brings strong credentials and plans engagements in Pocahontas Nothfork Bluefield and nearby Masodist Churches, with past runs in St Albans Fayetteville and Covington drawing packed houses and return dates.
Hosea Bolling, ninety, born in 1817, traveling from the Confederate reunion to Dewey Wise County Va, was in Bluefield yesterday. He walked thirteen miles from his home to Norton to catch a train and plans to return this morning. He visited the Jamestown Exposition but saw little. Almost all his life has been near his Wise County birthplace.
The 10 year old daughter of David Ratliff, a well known Black man, died at her father's Peck street home on Sunday. The remains were shipped to Pulaski Virginia yesterday for interment.
Advertising copy for DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills offering a week’s treatment for 25 cents. Claims relief from backache weak kidneys bladder inflammation and urinary troubles. Sold by all druggists. Strong Plants Fallon Florist Roanoke Va. June 28 1907.
W R Ward of Dyersburg Tennessee testifies that Urine Laxative Fruit Syrup cures chronic constipation and is a thorough practical remedy. For sale by G H Wade in Mt Vernon Flour advertisement.
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