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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1933
Page
11
Welch scene features numerous visits and summer plans. Residents including C H Wright family, Margaret Horne, and Clara Campbell travel for summer vacations. Visits span Radford Roanoke Huntington Covington Berryville and Washington DC with attendees at Hambrick Little Carter and Houchins households.
Authorities doubt a telegram claiming Ed Cundiff’s death in an Asheville area car crash. Undertaker Ashworth searched Asheville for the body but found none. Cundiff, sought in Beckley and Mt. Airy on auto theft charges, has a history including a fact of involuntary manslaughter and a prior suicide attempt in jail.
Miss Jackie Mitchell of Chattanooga Tenn will pitch for the Welch Senators against the Bishop Miners this afternoon at 230 oclock. The southpaw famed for striking out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig last spring is expected to pitch three innings amid a schedule of four or five games weekly. Harry Red Cyphers of Welch High School fame will start for the Miners with Charley Gearhart ready to take over pitching afterward. Both lineups feature well known players from the region.
Mary Basso, 5, remained in critical condition after being struck Friday afternoon by a car on Virginia avenue. She suffered a fractured skull and loss of her left arm. Driver Leslie Colmer, 18, Keystone, posted $1,000 bond for a June 9 hearing. Witnesses said she ran into the street and fell as the front wheels passed over her. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Basso.
Sixty three patients were examined over three days at the tuberculosis chest clinic. Thirteen of the Thursday to Saturday group showed early tuberculosis, six were considered suspicious, and eight were ordered to sanitarium treatment. Dr. Fred A. Brown led white patient examinations. Dr. S. A. Crichlow will supervise colored patients Monday.
Baby Jo Ann Burton daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Burton of Raysul swallowed lye two weeks ago and is allowed to return home Saturday. Welch city council will meet in regular session Monday evening at 7 30 o clock in the city hall. Painter Varrant Post No 1021 Veterans of Foreign Wars holds regular meeting Monday night at 8 o'clock in the Memorial building with plans for participation in the state department encount at Clarksburg.
The Welch Tug River Tennis Club hosts Hinton in its first team contest at the local courts. Play starts this afternoon at 2 o clock with six singles and doubles matches planned.
Welch high school begins summer instruction Monday at 8 30 with registration day. Principal G M Hollandsworth heads the program lasting seven and a half weeks. Daily sessions run 8 15 to 11 16. Eloise Beavers and Hollandsworth teach American history sociology and economics. The county high schools emphasize tuberculin testing for students.
The McDowell Women's Club funds a new tuberculin skin test clinic for children through Christmas seal sales. The facility is located on the second floor of the McDowell County Courthouse and aims to detect traces of tuberculosis with one of the latest screening methods.
Mrs. T. S. Eggleston hosted a Saturday theatre party for Telford Jr. sixth birthday with ice cream at a drug estate and cake at home. Twenty two children attended and gifts were given to the honoree. WCTU organized a local unit at Memorial building with Mrs Lily Matheson addressing the group. Officers elected were Mrs T R Reed president Mrs John David secretary and Mrs G M Hollandsworth treasurer.
The Emanuel Sisterhood held a Friday evening reception for Rabbi Nathaniel Share of Bluefield at the Emanuel temple community rooms. Share, who has led services and will spend the summer in Cincinnati and New York, was presented a gift. Rooms were decorated with pink and white flowers and about fifty guests enjoyed refreshments.
Walker Noel of Vivian, injured in an automobile accident, will be allowed to return home this afternoon. He has been a Grace hospital patient for 14 weeks with a fractured knee after the car overturned while avoiding a man on the road near Elkhorn. His sister Evelyn Noel, who also suffered a fractured hip, returned home three weeks ago.
Bible school opens at 10 o clock with Mr Hagg as superintendent. Preaching at 8 with Rev W M Jones of Bluefield. The church extends a cordial welcome to the public.
Rev. Smiley Williams leads first Presbyterian services with Bible school at 10 a.m. under A W Steller. Morning worship at 11 features a sermon titled The Valley of Trouble a Door of Hope. Evening service at Blakely Field chapel at 8 p.m. visitors welcome.
Services will be held in the Memorial Building at 11 a m with the public invited to attend.
Rev D M Dorsey leads church school at 10 with J A French as superintendent. Morning worship follows school, sermon titled The Challenging Christs. Evening worship at 8 includes the pastor's sermon and the Lord's Supper. Senior pioneer and junior B Y P U meet at 7. Visitors welcome.
Rev H Carlton Fox rector leads Whit Sunday with Sunday school at 945 am Holy communion and sermon at 11 am The sermon topic is A Dangerous Pentecost No evening service Visitors and strangers welcomed to all services
The Rev W L Pierce pastor. Sunday echolo at 9 45 p m and 11 a m sermon by Rev James A Burrow D D. Sacrament of Lord s supper at 2 30 p m third quarterly conference 7 15 Young People s meeting 8 00 public worship by Senior Young People s group. The public is cordially invited to all services.
Grace Episcopal Church in Eckman West Virginia with Rev H Carlton Fox in charge invites the public to Sunday evening prayer and sermon. The article notes Whit Sunday services and the minister’s involvement for a community religious observance.
Mrs James French Strother returned Saturday from Duke University where she attended school. Mr and Mrs Strother Tabor and Trigg Tabor left for Chicago for the world’s fair. Miss Jo Ann Rowe left for Columbus to spend the summer. Dr Fred A Brown head of the tuberculosis clinic left for Huntington. Miss Ruth Martin of Peterstown visits Miss Kathryn McClaugherty. Mr and Mrs EB Layne visited relatives in Bluefield yesterday. Mr and Mrs Morris Rosenweig and daughter Lois and Rabbi N Share left for Cincinnati to visit a few days. Howard Harris local policeman.
Visits and illness mentioned in Roanoke social notes include S S Harris of Davy visiting a very ill father, Mrs Robert Kyle and daughter Anna visiting from Roanoke, a tea at Bluefield Country Club hosted by Mrs W A Buchanan, Mrs Dudley Bennet of Vivian undergoing treatment at Stevens Clinic, and Mrs G W Thomas with Mrs Hancock departing for Chicago to attend the world’s fair.
Dr. Joseph Rosier, president of the National Education Association, announced in letters to officers and members that the annual convention will be held in Chicago on July 17 despite protests nationwide. The objections cited unpaid salaries to Chicago teachers as a reason for dissent.
Maybeury Switchback correspondent reports that the Elkhorn district high school senior II class held a wiener roast Monday night. Members of both senior II and senior I classes were invited and the group traveled to Rock for the outing.
Students of private music teacher Paul Lawrence gave a recital at Maybeury grade school on Monday and one at Elkhorn district high school on Tuesday night.
Miss Vivian Meadows of Kimball visits relatives the Shapards. Lawrence Fields visits friends in Alderson. Felda Mae Vawter from Bluefield visits parents. Numerous families host kin from Mont Eagle and Eckman. Schools close for summer. An analytical line about a herring's nourishment ends the column.
Gary West Virginia June 8. The Gary Methodist church led by Rev D Trigg James lists morning worship Sunday school at 10. Sacrament of the Lord's supper will be administered. Epworth league at 645 p m. Evening worship at 8 with sermon Two Seekers Compared and Contrasted. Mid week service Wednesday at 730. The pastor will preach at Filbert at 11. Boys and Girls World club program Thursday evening led by Miss Elizabeth Harman and Mrs Silas David with readings and songs on The American Indians. Also notes of bridge party hosted by Mrs R V Shanklin and many local visits and travel of residents.
Mrs D Trigg James and her daughter Mary Louise underwent tonsil operations Monday at Bluefield sanitarium and returned home Wednesday. Miss Maude Ketter, student at the University of Missouri, fractured foot last week and resumes duties. Frank Rucker of Gary and Welch, brother of Mrs Gertrude Maloney, is ill at University Hospital Baltimore with tuberculosis of the stomach.
Miss Teresa Broderick, ill for several months, will leave this week for Baltimore Maryland to receive medical treatment as she continues her recovery.
Local society pages detail visits and guests across McDowell and Welch including A T Brown families at English and Roanoke visitors. Notable stops include Concord college students home between terms and summer school attendance in Athens and nearby towns.
Mrs Her man York and son Bill of Kansas visit her parents Mr and Mrs Bill Sebastain in Jaeger W Va. Mrs J W Bingham and daughter Pan were visiting in Welch. Mrs BE W Cook and Mrs J L Keyser were out visiting relatives in Williamson and Mullens respectively. Miss Birchie Vance and Hazel Vance of Roanoke were here Sunday. Villa Pauley of Cincinnati connected with local acquaintances.
Miss Solota and Miss Frances Gatusco hosted a party at their parents home in Kimball to honor the Kimball junior high graduates. The event featured dancing, card games, and refreshments for a long list of students and faculty. It also notes an additional birthday party for Eddie Lee Cook and provides a brief honor roll heading for the school year.
The piece lists students by grade from third to ninth with numerous names such as Stell Neff Keisha Kaufman and Zelda Kaufman. It also records social visits including Miss Ada Barbour returning from Rocky Mount and guests of local families in Keystone and Crewe Virginia.
The luncheon program featured lectures on Drama As A Dramatic Art Origin and Development of Greek Drama Roman Drama Medieval Drama and English Spanish and French drama. Musical interludes included solo piano Romance and vocal pieces What's In the Air Today. The guest list included Mrs. Creager Mrs. Eddy and Miss Thompson among others.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist church meets Thursday at 8 30 pm. The Pocahontas Delphian chapter gathers Tuesday at 7 30 pm in the Masonic hall for its final meeting and officer elections. The Presbyterian auxiliary circle shifts to the first Tuesday with this month’s gathering at Mrs Fred Lowe's home on Tuesday June 6.
Northfork West Virginia June 3 thirty three graduates the largest class in the school history receive diplomas at commencement Dr C G Gunn Bluefield speaks on world challenges Sam Rosen board of education presents medals and diplomas Eleven athletes among the graduates with high scholarship honors awarded to Emma Jane Dooley and Milton Koslow Valedictorian Tony Frances and salutatorian Clarence McCarthy named with four year averages 94.5 and 91.7 respectively The graduates include Gladys Adams Marvin Brown Lena Brown Theodore Bower Youlanda Colosimo Evelie Colosimo John K E Carter Irene Cooke Ira Dooley Tony Francs Clarence Harpe J Damon Helms Beulah Hamm Bernice Honaker Vivian Honaker Thelma Iddings Helen Lambert Agnes Lawrence John Martin Vivian McHaffey Clarence McCarthy James Marshall Marvin Nelson Ruth Pearman Mayme Poole D Richard Sutliff Randolph Sheton John Sheets William Sexton Earl Thornton Eleanor Tosh Elbert Warden Jr James Wright Mrs Elizabeth Combs dies in Finney Va funeral Friday in Finney Va The Delphian luncheon at Elkhorn High School building.
Henry Hutton entertained a small group of friends at the Northfork hotel on Wednesday evening. Present were Dr. and Mrs. Charles G. Gunn of Bluefield, Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Bennett of Algoma, Mr. and Mrs. John Child of Gilliam, Mr. and Mrs. W S. Wray, and Miss Elizabeth Frampton.
Mrs Bohm’s circle of the Methodist church gathered Thursday evening at Mrs C F Dwyer’s home with fifteen members present. Devolution led by Mrs Melvin Combs and a World Outlook article read by Mrs Robert Gammon. Refreshments served by the hostess and Mrs Jessica Grubb to numerous attendees.
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