Graduation Honors Highlight Bluefield Va School Program
Bluefield Virginia held a packed graduation ceremony as the final numbers of the commencement program featured the general class in music. Teachers plan to leave town for September and most will return. Graham High School teachers all hold collegiate degrees and local grade teachers are standard normals graduates due to cooperative salaries.
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Bluefield
A. & Greever
Tazewell County
C. L. Alexander
Ella May Nash
Wade Nash
Bailey
Huffard
Helen Smithdeal
Mary Kate Shannon
Eleanor Summers
Lillian Dropkina
George Ritter
Anne Osborne
Margaret McDonald
Lillian Dropkins
Margaret Wallace
Dorothy Hughes
Elder Reynolds
Thelma Lambert
Elizabeth Fisher
Colored graded school closes year in Bluefield Va
The Bluefield Virginia colored graded school ended term with a successful year and large audiences at commencements. All former teachers signed new contracts for the next term and advocates seek a new school building and better facilities for the community. An excursion over Pocahontas airport thrill rides drew Miss Mamie Sexton and Ken Greiser, who praised the experience.
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Bluefield
Craded School
Pocahontas Airport
Mamie Sexton
Miss Sexton
Ken Greiser
Fever Grips Virginia Graduates This Year
Professor A S Greever warned Graham county readers that high school graduations fell short of prior years and urged civic help to reverse the trend. He cited tuition as a suspected cause and pledged to investigate.
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Graham High School
A. S. Greever
Tazewell County
Hie
Revival to Start at Tip Top Wednesday Night
A revival meeting will begin at Tip Top Wednesday night with public invited to attend. Troy Greear of Witten Mills lost about six hundred baby chicks after an oil tank exploded near his brooder.
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Tip Top
Troy Greear
Witten Mills
Marriage at Tazewell: John Sherman Weds Leola Deavers
A Friday ceremony in Tazewell joined John Sherman and Leola Deavers in matrimony. Dr. W W Arrowood officiated at the Presbyterian church. The couple will reside in Bluefield Virginia, with Sherman employed by Barbee Manufacturing.
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Tazewell
John Sherman
Leola Deavers
W. W. Arrowood
EB. V. Deavers
Barbee Manufacturing Corporation
Bluefield
Mr. Sherman
Princeton
Social notes and travel plans from Bluefield area families
Local society notices detail Gilliam family plans to visit Buckingham with their daughter Elizabeth and Nancy Gilliam accompanying them. Mrs. McCurry of Atlanta to visit brother W H Speed. Carr ie Pyle improves after hip fracture. Virginia Osborne earns honorable mention at Farmville State Teachers College commencement. J O Shorter shows slight improvement. David Tenenbaum ill at home. Mrs J M Bailey moves from Bluefield sanitarium to daughter G H Nash's home. Elna Neff to Roan Mountain with brother Walter. Bundy family visiting Mrs Bundy’s nest er W D Larrowe. Don Larrowe leaves Bluefield College for Akron for summer work. Tobacco area facts note 1,250,000 acres in US and over 4,000,000 globally.
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R. B. Gilliam
Greever Avenue
Elizabeth
Buckingham
Nancy Gilliam
Mr. Gilliam
Mrs. Gilliam
A. A. McCurry
Atlanta
W. H. Speed
Carrie Pyle
Virginia Osborne
Farmville State Teachers’ College
J. O. Shorter
David Tenenbaum
International Shirt Company
J. M. Bailey
Dublin
Bluefield Sanitarium
G. H. Nash
Elna Neff
Roan Mountain
Tenn
Walter
K. Bundy
Edith Kelly
Belfest Mills
Russell County
Graham Circuit
Bundy'nester
W. D. Larrowe
Don Larrowe
Bluefield College
Akron
Ohio
Mary Jo Matthews Crowned West Virginia's Most Beautiful
Miss Matthews of Mannington West Virginia wins for the third time this year as the university’s beauty chosen by male students. Col Earl D Church of Hartford named new pensions commissioner by Hoover after long WWI service with US British and French forces.
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Mary Jo Matthews
Mannington
W. Va
Miss Matthews
West Virginia University
Idens
United States
Bureau of Pensions
Hoover
Earl D. Church
Hartford
Ypres Salient
Cambrai
Somme
Verdun
St. Mihiel
Argonne
Soth Division
9Th Army Corps
4Th Army Corps
Army of Occupation
Germany
Park Reparations conference reaches full agreement
A full agreement was reached at a reparations conference in Washington as part of the day’s briefs across the nation.
Four Hundred Boys Enter Agriculture Judging Contest
Four hundred boys from forty schools entered the fifteenth annual high school agriculture judging contest in Lincoln Nebraska.
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Lincoln
Neb
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Virginia News
Virginia
Reynolds Pharmacy
People’s Pharmacy
West Graham
Daily Telegraph
Sunset News
Farmville
W. J
T. A
William Osborne
Louise Spracher
Mona Williams
Lynchburg
Osborne
Farmvile
C. W. Gills
J. D. Johnson
Charles Henry Gills
Knoxville
Robert Hounshell
J. L. Massie
R. L. Gentry
Vew
Ballard M. Stowers
East Graham
Addison Milton
J. D. Hinegardner
Mabel Benbow
Julia Neikirk
Emily Weeks
May Wade Harvey
Fannie Owens
Mary Ellen Lockwood
Harrison Thompson
New York
Thompson
Broadway
George H. Gilmer
Pulaski
Graham Presbyterian Church
Gilmer
The
Presbyterian Church
Pocahontas
Abingdon Presbytery
Abingdon
Mildred Tyler
Toano
John Simmons
Richmond
W. Frank Baylor
Simmons
Baylor
Virginian
Clara Bow
Budddy Rogers
Richard Arlen
Gary Cooper
Sherman
Fastern Star
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic Hall
Blue
Gordon
Thornton- Laird Co
America
Pension Bureau
Conn
Wee Stores
Associated Press
Fensee
Girl
India
Friedrichshafen
Cincinnati
Naples
Barre
Vienna
Washington
Frederick A. Tilton
Detroit
Fort Wayne
Ind
Thornton-Laird Co
Bluefield, W. VA
McCall
Bradley and Pelton
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