Drive on Monday as Bluefield Park Group Opens Campaign
The Bluefield Virginia playground and park association kicks off a week long membership drive starting June 7 to fund a 12 acre park near the Graham Furnace site. The plan includes a Sow for children tennis courts baseball diamonds picnic stands and a future stadium. A July 4 5 park festival will mark the drive with canvassers starting July 7 and a $2 membership to be mailed to treasurer C P Painter.
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Playground and Park Association
Graham Furnace
Benbow
Ridge Road
Bluestone Vet
Graham High School
Bluefield
Association
C. P. Painter
Love Not Reserved for Those in High Places
An observer recalls a simple, affectionate couple walking near a railroad tower in Bluefield Virginia as the Duke of Windsor wed Mrs Wally Warfield. The scene contrasts royal glamour with humble happiness, reflecting that love transcends social rank.
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Duke of Windsor
Wally Warfield
Bluefield
Stowers bids for council vacancy in East ward race
H J Stowers, noted East ward resident and last year’s runner up for council, announces a bid for the current vacancy. He was narrowly edged in June by a few votes. The piece notes local political contest context and Stowers’s prior municipal role. It also mentions other community items and visits, including Maxwell sisters from Maxwell, Virginia, visiting Bluefield.
Virginia Side Churches Chart Weekend Services
Virginia side churches list Graham Methodist Church school at 9 45 with C B Blanksinship as superintendent. Monthly communion at 11 with benevolence offering. League at 7 15. Evening worship at 8 with sermon Conversion in the Early Church. Third quarterly conference Wednesday 8 led by Rev L W Pierce P C. Vacation church school continues. Christ Church Pocahontas Sunday school 10 Superintendent Hampton Crawford. Morning prayer holy communion and sermon 11 Rev E W Hughes rector. St Pauls Mission Chapel Yards Sunday school 2. For sale house and two lots 44 Va Ave Bluefield Va notify H S Lefler Bluefield Va. Cheese boiled ham 1 2 lb 25c
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Graham Methodist Church
C. B. Blankenship
L. W. Pierce
Christ Church
Bluefield
Lefler
Local Grocery Listings With Phone Numbers
Quality Service Stores Wassum s Cash Market and a range of groceries including Pen Mar and McMullen Grocery with listed phone numbers. Other shops include J V Bowman Grocery Poe s Store City Grocery Co Burkhart Carroll Mills Hall Att Ross H T Goforth and West Graham Falls Mills McKenzie Cash Store with contact lines.
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Wassum’s
Pen Mar
J.V. Bowman
Pioneers Recount Heavy Rainstorm Across Town
Pioneers discuss the downpour that hit Wednesday and Thursday evening. Dr. C. M. Fisher recalls a 1917 summer shower flooding a pond while R. L. Gillespie notes the rain was the heaviest in forty years. S. L. Smith cites a failed drain near Hockman as the water surged with little damage, though gardens and lawns suffered. Residents urged city action.
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C. M. Fisher
R. L. Gillespie
S. L. Smith
St. Clair
Hockman
NEED OF HOUSES HERE 15 PRESSING
Bluefield Virginia needs more housing as a building boom is anticipated. Real estate dealer C D Harman notes outsiders request four to six dwellings daily. Construction now underway includes fine homes not for rent, while the town headlines a growing appeal with Bluefield College and business college nearby.
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Bluefield
C. D. Harman
Bluefield College
Business Colleges
Trot Line Blamed For Lad Death In River
Point Pleasant West Virginia authorities blame a trot line for the drowning death of 13 year old Harry Blankenship who tended the line to supply fish for his family. His 10 year old brother Roy witnessed Harry struggle hand over hand to haul in fish before the line slipped and the boat moved away, ending when the line and boat sank nearby.
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
Harry Blankenship
Ohio
Roy
Harry
Cliffield in Tazewell county shines as a modern town
The article praises Cliffield, in Tazewell county on the Clinch Valley, as a thriving locality with electric lights, paved streets, rail and highway access, two stores, a grist mill, blacksmith, post office, Union church, and a local peel concern. It situates Cliffield on Route 19, 35 miles west of Bluefield, Va, highlighting regional progress and invoking neighborly history.
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Cliffield
Tazewell County
Clinch Valley
U. S. Route 19
Summer church services and Bible school notices
Trinity Episcopal Church Richlands hosts Sunday school at 10 and evening services at 8 led by Rev E W Hughes with Superintendent Jack Hyatt and others. Graham Christian features James David Kitchin Jr as minister, 9 45 Bible school, Children’s Day program, and guest speaker George Oliver Taylor. Daily vacation Bible school ongoing. St Mary’s Bluefield lists 9 30 Sunday school and 8 p m service by H V Clary. Stras Memorial Tazewell opens with 11 a m sermon by H V Clary.
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Trinity Episcopal Church
Richlands
Jack Hyatt
E. W. Hughes
Graham Christian
James David Kitchin, Jr
Dudley
George Oliver Taylor
Christian Endeavor
Lucy K. Presley
Little Black Bag Figures In Will Case
John Anderson administrator of C Ed Lukens estate testifies the little black bag with Lukens personal papers rested in a bank vault in Elkins West Virginia They seek to prove a will copy valid after alleging the original was missing The case involves Lukens heirs and a divorcees suit over the estate The paragraph on gasoline overpayment appears unrelated to the case.
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Elkins
W. Va
John Anderson
C. Ed Lukens
Lukens
Elkins Bank
Anderson
Pocahontas Set for Local Liquor Election on August 6
Judge A C Buchanan set August 6 for a local option liquor vote in Pocahontas after a petition. In May Pocahontas cast 390 ballots though qualified voters were fewer. County goes dry July 27, so the town will vote ten days after. In the county election Pocahontas approved liquor by 63 to 48 for wine and beer.
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Pocahontas
A. C. Buchanan
Tazewell
Surprise Birthday Party Honors Mrs Hawkins at Home
Mrs Mary J Hawkins of Reserve street entertained with a birthday party yesterday evening. Guests included Mr and Mrs Jessieimmons of Switchback Mr and Mrs Willie Dickerson Mr and Mrs Martin Mr and Mrs Tiffany Mr and Mrs McCue all Bluefield and Allen Curry Mrs Hawkins brother. Rev H Finney of d Va to speak at Jones Street Christian at 3 with combined choirs. Finney a longtime Piedmont district minister and early schoolteacher.
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Mary J. Hawkins
Reservoir Street
Jessieimmons
Switchback
Willie Dickerson
Martin
Tiffany
McCue
Bluefield
Allen Curry
Hawkins
Jones Street Christian
H. Finney
D. Va
Finney
Piedmont District Convention
Clarksburg Railroad Worker Electrocuted in West Virginia
L T Wilfong 48 year old supervisor for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was electrocuted at Clarksburg while supervising car removal on a rail spreader. Witnesses said a wing struck a high tension line as he rested his hand on metal. Attempts to revive him failed.
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C. N. Petty
Mr. Petty
Clear Fork Creek
Montrose Street
West Union
W. Va
L. T. Wilfong
Clarksburg
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Amog
Metant
Wilfong
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