Scouts Prestigious Jamboree Draws 1000 Plus in Princeton
Scouts from five counties in Southern West Virginia converge at Princeton West Virginia on June 14 for a Boy Scout jamboree HF 1930 with 500 camping on Friday night. The day features a full schedule from 6:15 AM tenting to 5 PM retreat plus a Friday banquet at the West Virginian hotel with leaders from Bluefield Rotary Kiwanis Lions and chambers.
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West Virginia
Princeton
W. Va
Princeton Athletic Field
Bluefield Blow
Assembly
Welch
Coalwood
War
Matoaka
Hiatom
Northfork
Adjutants
Wyoming
Sandy River
J. W. Hobson
Protestant Episcopal Church
Herbert Markle
Bluefield Chamber of Commerce
Harry Weller
Bluefield Kiwanis Club
Albert H. Hoge
Bluefield Rotary Club
W. L. McDougle
Bluefield Lions Club
Steiner F. Geiger
J. Frank Marsh
Concord State Normal
Peery A. Lint
Boy Scouts of America
Columbus
Beaver
Samuel W. Moore
First Presbyterian Church
Bluefield
Princeton Road
J. S. Dudley
S. F. Geiger
T. O’j. Wilson
Randolph Michals
W. F. Boyd
A. R. Kyle
Co. C. Campbell
J. Fran Marsh
C. C. Campbell
Roy A. Cole
J. A. French
J. €. Hunsaker
Bennie Paul
J. B. League
C. A. Pearson
Arnold Bower
J. L. Murray
Grover Worrell
T. B. Wilmouth
Ted Deaumer
Mike Michales
Fred Williams
W. A. Bostain
Orderlies
A. W. Alden
Jesse Ramsey
Gordon Kyle
F. N. Andrews
J. E. Nelson
Sam Worley
Mike Michaels
R. W. Hibbert
R. B. Shront
Dean A. Gatherum
James Gatherum
F. Geiger
W. A. Boetian
Eagle Scouts
Junior Edwards
Donald Fry
West Virginia Bar Convention Dates Shift to July 28
Spencer W Va June 3 The West Virginia Bar Association announces its annual convention in Bluefield is moved from July 7 and 8 to July 28 and 29 due to a conflict with another Bluefield event. AHenry Upson Simms ABA president will still address the closing session.
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Spencer
W. Va
S. Paris Bell
West Virginia Bar Association
Bluefield
Henry Upson Simms
American Bar Association
Special Court Term to End Thursday in Wheeling
The U S district court special term in Wheeling will conclude Thursday per Judge W E Baker. The Elkins term starts June 17 with more than 390 criminal cases and 10 civil actions pending, and is expected to run until late August.
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Wheeling
United States District Court
W. E. Baker
Elkins
Striking Alumni Program at Bluefield Institute Honors Scholars
News of the Colored People reports Bluefield Institute held a medal and scholarship ceremony. President R P Sims urged institutions to support students with loans and scholarships while grads must help society. Prof W W Sanders urged keeping step with progress and urged sacrifice for societal welfare.
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Bluefield
R. P. Sims
W. W. Sanders
Negro Schoole
West Virginia
Moore
W. C. Mitchell
L. J. Are
Rev E N Jarnett to Preach Tonight at Blake Chapel
Evangelist Rev E N Jarnett will preach again at 8 o clock tonight at Blake Chapel A M Zion church. Residents are urged to attend and hear him.
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E. N. Jarnett
Blake Chapel
A. M
Zion Church
Rainbow Wedding rehearsal and missionary society meeting announced
All participants in the Rainbow Wedding are to meet at Scott Street Baptist church on Thursday evening June 5 at 8 o clock for rehearsal. The senior missionary society will gather at the parsonage this afternoon at 4 o'clock for its monthly meeting led by Mrs C C Williams president.
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Scott Street Baptist Church
Senior Missionary Society
C. C. Williams
Community council to convene at Y M C A Scott Street
The Community council will meet this evening at 6 o clock at the Y M C A on Scott Street. All members are asked to be present.
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Scott Street
Missionary Society Meeting At Local Church
Rev Mrs M L Glenn pastor. Woman's Home Missionary society meets this evening at 8 at the church. All members urged to attend. Business of importance. Visitors welcome. Mrs O M McGue president, Mrs M Collins secretary.
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M. L. Glenn
Woman's Home Missionary Society
O. M. McGue
M. Collins
Fairview club meeting announced for June fifth
The men's Fairview club of United Holy church will meet Thursday evening June 5 at 8 o'clock at the home of G. W. Daniels on Church street. Members are urged to attend and prospective members are welcome. W. D. Green is president and O. M. McGue is secretary.
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Men’s Fairview Club
United Holy Church
G. W. Daniels
Church Street
W. D. Green
O. M. McGue
Two Bluefield Playgrounds for Colored Children Ready Monday
Two playgrounds for colored children in Bluefield will be ready Monday with hours to be announced. North side on Pulaski Street supervised by Pauline Elizabeth Watkins. south side on High Street under Annie Shelton Turpin.
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Bluefield
Pulaski Street
Park Street
Baldwin Avenue
High Street
Pauline Elizabeth Watkins
College Department
Bluefield Institute
Annie Shelton Turpin
Concord Citizen’s
Miss Marie Jones Returns Home to Charleston
Miss Marie Jones returns to her Charleston home after spending two weeks with Misses Minnis. Miss Ruth Minnis visits Miss Marie Jones in Charleston West Virginia.
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Miss Marie Jones
Charleston
Misses Minnis
Bland Street
Ruth Minnis
W. Va
All Lies First Motorist Quip Cited in Gaies Page
A brief verse from Pages Gaies in Yverdon records three motorists boasting about speed with humorous exaggeration. Each ditto lines describe trees as a fence milestones as a wall and the car’s number blurred by rapid motion.
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Gaies
Yverdon
City Board Approves Street Widening Projects
City directors pass ordinances to widen Russell Monroe and Raleigh streets and authorize bidding with bids opened June 17. A concrete sidewalk on Raleigh from Scott to Monroe is also proposed for final reading next week.
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Russell, Monroe
Rale
Russell
Monroe
Raleigh
City Board of Directors
Elmer C. Barton
Bluefield
Lilly Brothers
Raleigh Street
Scott Street
Monroe Street
C. A. Bailey Highland
Dearborn
Rockbridge
8. J. Sublette
Water Company
Jefferson Street
Sublette
Dearborn - Rockbridge
W. R. Gott
Woodlawn Avenue
Tom Thumb
North Street
Barton
T. O'J. Wilson
Bluefield Playground Association
Ohio
Fry
Plane carries Richlands man to Philadelphia for treatment
D. C. Lowe and son Lawrence, both of Richlands, traveled by plane from Bluefield to Baltimore for medical treatment at Burnham hospital. The Belanca, owned by Pocahontas Air Transport and piloted by H. S. Howard, departed from the local airport early yesterday and returned shortly before 8 p.m.
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D. C
Funeral Rites Held for W F Brown at Beckley
Funeral services were held at Beckley for W F Brown who died last Friday at his home near Beckley. The Rev W E Stump conducted the rites with assistance from Rev George Moore. He is survived by his widow and son W H Brown of Hansonville Virginia. Mrs Brown, before marriage Causley McFadden, is mother of W M McFadden of Bramwell.
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Beckley
W. F. Brown
W. E. Stump
George Moore
Brown
W. H. Brown
Hansonville
Causley_ McFadden
W. M. McFadden
Bramwell
Clyde Returns as Morgantown Sport Boss
Morgantown West Virginia reports A. H. Clyde of Beaver Falls Pennsylvania is reappointed athletics coach at Morgantown High School. He will begin his ninth season next fall.
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Clyde
Morgantown Sport
Morgantown
W. Va
A. H. Clyde
Beaver Falls
Morgantown High School
Radox Footbath Promises Relief for Corns and Callouses
The ad extols a footbath treatment promising to loosen and lift corns with roots and callouses removed. It urges nightly soaks for several days and notes availability at Goody Koontz Drug Co. and other drugstores to restore strength and vitality to feet.
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Goodykoontz Drug Co
Turley withdraws from Bluefield treasurer race
Oscar E. Turley, a candidate for city treasurer, requests his withdrawal from the race. He will remain on the ballot but asks friends to regard him as out of the election. The contest remains between incumbent Laura F. Davenport and C. P. Painter with election due next Tuesday.
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Oscar E. Turley
Bluefield
Turley
Laura F. Davenport
C. P. Painter
Lively Named to Succeed Judge Burns in Virginia
Attorney Alonzo Grover Lively of Lebanon is named to the twenty seventh judicial circuit after the death of Judge W E Burns. The announcement follows forecasts from the Bluefield News and shows support from Democratic leaders in the ninth district. Lively was born in Fayette county West Virginia in October 1888 and educated at Marshall College.
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Alonzo Grover Lively
Lebanon
Twenty-Seventh Judicial Circuit
W. E. Burns
Bluefield
Lively
Virginia
West Virginia
Fayette County
Marshall College
John Garland Pollard
H. C. Stuart
E. B. Combs
G. C. Peery
Ninth District
Sheen
Clintwood
Wise
Buchanan County
Bob Williams
Judge Skeen
Slemp to Visit Ninth District Late This Week
C B Slemp returns from the Pacific coast and plans a possible visit to the ninth district late this week or early next. On March 29 he was nominated by Republicans to run against Democrat John W Flanagan. Slemp did not attend the nominating convention and may issue a statement in coming days.
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Washington
C. B. Slemp
Pacific Coast
Slemp
Ninth District
Congress
John W. Flanagan
Revival Grows at Falls Mills with Crowe Sermons
A series of revival services at Falls Mills draws growing attendance. Dr. John M. Crowe of Nashville preaches splendid sermons each evening at 7:30 this week through Sunday. Lectures titled The Tell Tale Tick of Time and Sweet hearts and Sourhearts run Monday and Tuesday evenings. the public is invited.
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Falls Mills
John M. Crowe
Nashville
Cherries Bloom Again as Frost Fails to Stop Tree
A cherry tree on Rev. H. A. Willia’s front lawn in Gratton, Virginia, blooms for the third time this spring despite repeated frost. A simple wedding took place at Graham circuit parsonage with Miss Georgie Repass wed to Dr. Dexter L. Caldwell. The couple will reside at Yards, Virginia, as the bride’s teaching career in Tazewell County ends and the groom works with the Norfolk and Western railroad at Bluestone. Moon position headlines weather note predicting warmer, rainier days ahead.
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Jack Frost
Graham Circuit
Georgie Repass
Gratton
Dexter L. Caldwell
Falls Mills
W. D. Larrowe
John M. Crowe
Nashville
Tennessee
A. L. Repass
Tazewell County
D. L. Caldwell
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company
Bluestone
Yards
Frazier Demands Resignation of Veteran Motor Vehicle Cashier
In Richmond Virginia T M Frazier the new motor vehicle commissioner asked for the resignation of Bernard E Robertson veteran cashier of the motor vehicle department Robertson a Richmond councilman and Democratic figure had served eleven years The Times Dispatch notes the resignation request came at close of business with no comment from either man Frazier previously said office staff would drop by 25 percent by year end cutting sixteen or seventeen clerks from the force
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Virginia
Richmond
T. McCall Frazier
Bernard E. Robertson
Motor Vehicle Department
Times Dispatch
Robertson
Frazier
Dynamite Blast Planned To Blow Down Mountain
The Walton Sudduth Construction Company plans a major detonation on the Jacob's Fork project to blow down a mountain using a carload of dynamite. The report cites biblical faith as a motive and describes a single blast expected to move the mountain.
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Wal
on-Sudduth Construction Company
Walton-Sudduth Construction Company
Massive blasting planned to topple county mountain in railroad work
A giant blast near Newhall in McDowell county under Bluefield Virginia News reports a 90 foot deep cavity and twenty five holes prepared for a railroad project. R H Tabor of Falls Mills confirms the setup while a July 4 timing suggestion is studied. Local contractors call it the largest blast in the area with plans to allow public viewing.
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Newhall
McDowell County
Tazewell Line
R. H. Tabor
Falls Mills
Euerintendent
Bluefield
Tabor
Moving Picture
Prize egg from Jenkin Jones hen yields double shell
James Atkinson of Jenkin Jones reports a speckled hen laid a freak egg with two hard shells. Inside the first shell lay a normal egg also with a hard shell, the outer shell as large as a goose egg. Amos Wade forwarded the find with permission to publish.
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James Atkinson
Jenkin Jones
Atkincom
Amos Wade
Virginia Side Personalities Highlight Vacations and Injuries
James F. Galloway of the American Coal company in the Mercer coalfield plans a vacation spent with his family. W. F. Harman, seriously injured in an automobile accident, remains a local mention in the same note.
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James F. Galloway
American Coal Company
Mercer Coalfield
W. F. Harman
Bluefield area notes on recovery and visits
Last Sunday week on the Clear road a Bluefield sanitarium patient continues to improve and aims for home recovery. L. J. Barbee, in Bluefield sanitarium for the week, also improves and hopes to return home soon. Miss Louise Graham finished school at Yukon and will vacation at her home. Mrs. Ellen Cantrell, former Gratton teacher, is home for summer. Eva Gillespie returned from Oak Hill after visiting her brother Dr. W. T. Gillespie. Pearle and Mary Ball came home from Roanoke where they taught. Mrs. W. F. Baylor with two children visits her parents at Toano Va and will be joined later by Mr. Baylor for summer fishing. Mrs. Fred Taylor and daughter Margaret Jacqueline left for Winston-Salem NC after visits here and at Castle Wood. Mrs. G. M. Goodwin returned from Salem. Miss Virgie Poe and Betty June of Bluefield and Bramwell road were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Poe of Bluefield Va.
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Bluefield
L. J. Barbee
Louise Graham
Yukon
Ellen Cantrell
Gratton
Eva Gillespie
Oak Hill
W. T. Gillespie
Pearle
Mary Ball
Roanoke
W. F. Baylor
Toano
Baylor
Fred Taylor
Margaret Jacqueline
Winston-Salem
N. C
Castlewood
G. M. Goodwin
Salem
Virgie Poe
Betty June
Bramwell Road
W. B. Poe
Diver Challenges Smoking Advice In Vienna
A diver from Vienna refuses a worker's suggestion to smoke at work, claiming the habit would soothe nerves. The banter highlights stress and professional discipline in hazardous occupations.
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Faun
Vienna
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