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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1931
Page
8
Several new projects under way this week have provided work for many men who were unemployed. A stone crusher brick laundry filtration plant and pipeline extensions by Bluefield Gas and Power Co have been under way since the first of the month. Additional labor will be hired as needed and city water plant improvements of 44000 will help.
Mrs Nancy Davis marked her ninety second birthday with a May 31 party at Mollie Harper Tea room. Her son Tom Davis spoke, many relatives attended, and more than a hundred friends paid respects. She recalled Mollie Harper and the Clinch river hole named for her, noting a peach orchard visit and the drowning that gave the site its nickname.
Miss Janet Griffith Bailey from Martha Washington College won the Honaker scholarship medal, a solid gold tribute bearing Martha Washington’s portrait, after her piano recital drew attention. She will likely pursue a career as a music instructor, as she travels home with classmates Louis Marshall and Margaret Gwinn.
Tazewell county school board met at the county seat on Tuesday to transact routine business and approve mailing of application blanks to county teachers. Tuition fixed at 3 dollars a month where applicable. Bluefield pupils attending Graham High School within city limits are exempt. A 1 dollar term fee funds laboratory work for all high school students. Several vacancies expected. return of last year’s faculty to be determined.
Meinhardt, renowned for the Meinhardi Rupture Shield, will be at the Matz zaattte Shield in Bluefield West Virginia on Wednesday June 10 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The public is invited for free demonstrations with separate hours for men only and a warning against fake methods and imitators.
Virginia delegates to the district conference of the Methodist church to be held at Castlewood this week include Mrs. J. E. Wagner Miss Nan Rose Crockett Mrs. Pearle Hall Hale Miss Gertrude Edmunds Mrs. Arthur Hendricks George P. Crockett N. Clarence Smith and Rev. B. T. Selis. A May 30 outing at Falls Mill near Bluefield featured a weiner roast for a group of local youths chaperoned by Mr and Mrs H J Hedrick with many games and a large attendance.
Old friends recall Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bohannon who lived in Ennis thirty years ago with Bohannon serving as store manager for Turkey Gap Coal and Coke.Their son Frank Bohannon now physicians for the Louisville baseball club and Kentucky Athletic board and recently married Miss Louise Salter in Louisville.
Rev. C. W. Browning, new Gra ham Presbyterian pastor, arrived by car from Wythville Tuesday. The unmarried Hampden-Sydney and Union Theological Seminary graduate visited the community meeting parishioners and making new friends.
General K S Fagg of Bluefield Virginia participates in the Confederate reunion in Montgomery Alabama. He holds a number of offices in both Southern and Union organizations. His father served as a Confederate officer. Fagg notes that most Confederate veterans are now 84 and older as the war began 70 years ago and ended four years later.
R L Longworth and Mrs Longworth return from Chicago where they accompanied the remains of Mrs Longworths mother. In Chicago they met Edgar Hall former local boy and official of the Imsull traction interests a member of the Big Twelve. He holds a National Enae society membership and a Northwestern degree and plans to fly home this summer with his wife. In Capels L N Stephenson informed his brother W Stephenson of a new daughter and then a son within a minute. The Stephenson brothers are related to Miss Bissie Stephenson a well known local telephone operator. Mrs I N Stephenson was Miss Hattie Wright Matoaka and Mrs W O Stephenson was Miss Lettie Thompson Matoaka.
Walker Shawver improves after pneumonia at his parents Montrose street home. Mildred Tyler of Toano plans a visit this month to sister Mrs. W. F. Baylor. Julia Blan of Trevilian to stay with Miss Virginia Osborne. P W Davis’s cousin B P Davis of Raleigh visiting. Epworth league at Grace church Bluefield to perform in Palmer hall tonight. Thelma Phiegar of Ohio State University returns home to visit her parents. Mrs. Vale Baldwin and daughter Barbara set for Houston Texas trip to visit relatives. Carl Gillespie, Richmond law graduate, plans to take state board this summer. son of J H Gillespie, educated at Graham high school and William and Mary. Howell Hardy home from Davidson College for summer. R L Longworth family back from Chicago.
Bluefield businessman Ben Baker was seriously injured when his sedan plunged from a 100-foot embankment into the Elkhorn River near Superior. He was found by a passing motorist and taken to his Vineyard Street home after being removed from Welch yesterday morning. He suffered a severe head injury and his car was demolished.
Two men imprisoned for murder escaped the Zanesville county jail after removing bars and prying a screen loose. Louis Johns 22 and Arthur Chelett 28 faced murder convictions in separate cases, with Johns linked to the death of Henry Bay a 90 year old Civil War veteran. Chelett had just been convicted of killing his wife two weeks earlier.
Mrs. Longworth's mother Mrs. Mary McFarlane is mentioned with attending. Crockett Hughes, son of Rev. M. C. Hughes and a law student at Washington and Lee, will teach at the university this summer. Mr. and Mrs. Warren E. Tilcon and their two children visit Mrs. Tilson's mother Mrs. Aliee Peery. Mr. Tilson is associate coach for Washington and Lee and formerly coached at Duke. Mrs. Everett Callaway spends the week in Tazewell with her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Johnson. Mrs. F. J. Thompson is ill with neuritis and cannot leave her room.
Perine a Bellanca monoplane powered by a Deisel engine lands at Jacksonville Florida after a non-refueling endurance flight of 84 hours and 32 minutes over the Southern city. Walter Lees and Frederick Brosay achieved the record without taking on fuel or landing as Dr Ralph Greene acts as official timer.
A jury was sworn in Jefferson Ohio for the first degree murder trial of Maude Lowther 23 formerly of West Virginia for the May 29 1930 slaying of Clara Smith 27 mother of two on a lonely country road near Ashtabula jurors will view the scene tomorrow during the trial and the defendant faces the electric chair or life sentence as prosecutors seek the max penalty.
Charleston West Virginia state board of public works members estimate the assessment of public utility properties will be completed by June 15. The fixing of the assessment began over a week ago after hearings where utilities presented statements. The board will review and reconsider items for each group before final action.
Bluefield Chapter No 20 Royal Arch Masons elected and installed a new slate for the coming year at the Masonic Temple on Federal Street. New leaders include R T Phelps as high priest and J L Albright as king, with I S Nichols and James McDowell presiding at installation. Retiring high priest L M Carter received a presentation.
A fragment from a local notices page references Nichols on behalf of a chapter presenting a titled event. The item lacks clear context, dates, or locations, and reads as a brief organizational notice without details.
Paris reports a 300 year old French Academy will admit Charles le Goffic the Breton poet and novelist as its newest member. At 68 with a long career he authored Breton Love and Morgane and has supported cinema while advancing traditional French literature.
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