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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1919
Page
2
A string of vintage film and stage notes features Mhetin Farnum in The Lights of Western Stars, Dorothy Dalton in The Hornbreaker, Alec Ruth Roland in The Tiger's Trail, Rex Bart Williams in A Gentleman of Quality and the comedy Tooties and Tamales.
A notice offers a $85 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the thief or thieves who stole a bicycle from 22 North Mercer Street. The item is followed by multiple local notices about auctions, church bids, flowers, and community events in Bluefield West Virginia.
Nick Pideig an Indian resident on the north side was fined 200 and sentenced to 60 days in county jail by Justice M B Postioithwaite on a liquor selling charge. Officers HH Bh Watters Akers Pitman and Calloway arrested him at 140 Allen Street Tuesday night for selling eleven quarts of liquor for 100. He was jailed at Princeton yesterday afternoon.
Charles M Kidd a car repairer with the Norfolk and Western Railroad and Miss Annie G Roland were married yesterday at 11 am in Ada. The ceremony was conducted at the Roland home by Rev Samuel W Moore. The groom resides on the Princeton road and has farm interests in Mercer county aside from his railroad work. The bride is described as the second attractive daughter of Mr and Mrs Roland.
The ladies golf committee met at Mrs. O. M. Deverle residence to draw partners for Saturday afternoon mixed foursomes at the country club. Pairs include Mrs Liebold with J B Pearson and Mrs J H Hardy with T M Gibbs among others as listed.
Listings show multiple houses for sale across many streets with prices ranging from about 1,200 to 8,000 dollars. Properties include eight room cottages, seven to nine room dwellings, and various single and two dwelling homes. Aimed at buyers in the city offering several streets in one market.
A line of parties including Mrs J J Devine and John Poote, Miss Elizabeth Watson and William Barger, Mrs A W Hancock and Douglas Miller, Miss Helen Jordan and J T Wilson, Miss Lucille Lammers and Lathrop O Keefe, and others appears in a Virginia Realty Loan Co notice. The fragment lists multiple paired names across a long column.
The document lists paired names of voters or officials such as Pollock with Mrs Hooper and W C Tracy with Mrs Waugh plus numerous other couples and partners. It also names substitutes including Frank Hewitt J Brunner John Thomas J J Ton ey and others.
Albert Mills, colored, was held for the grand jury in the county jail at Princeton in default of bail after Justice of the Peace Me OB Postlethwaite raised the charge of shooting Henry Glasco, also colored, on Tuesday afternoon. Mills and Glasco had quarrelled over a four dollar pool game earlier that morning. Glasco was struck in the left chest but sustained only a flesh wound and recovered after medical treatment.
Mrs. FF Hurt of Richlands shops and visits in Pinefield while Miss Eva Kendrick of Bristol visits friends in Bluefield. Mrs Eva Martin returns from Randolph-Macon College, and Mrs V Kendrick of Meadoow View arrives to visit. Mrs J W Vernon from Williamson guests in Pinefield. Lewis Taylor of Northfork shops here. Families from Norton, Pardee, Dante, Coalwood, Roanoke, Lebanon, and Charlestown visit relatives in Bluefield and Raleigh Terrace. Several locals travel to Richmond, Fincastle, and French Lick for visits and trips.
The V P 1 encampment under Maj Skuse ends at Hegleston Springs amid 3000 cadets. A violent storm disrupted tents but the group regrouped in the dance hall and hotel, preserving discipline as they prepared for departure at 5 30 am.
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