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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1922
Page
4
Funeral services for Mrs. Rachel M. Hunt wife of Sheriff Bramwell B. Hunt were held at the First Street Church in Princeton. The service featured singing by the choir and tributes to her Christian character before her burial at Oakwood on a hillside grave surrounded by flowers.
George Witten is said to have confessed to stealing 35 dollars from a barber shop cash register after being grilled by American Express and Virginian Railway agents. The suspect, employed at the barber shop poolroom, allegedly used a screwdriver to lift a marble, remove screws, and take 35 dollars before losing about 14 at a Crap game. He remains jailed awaiting trial with a written confession in agents’ possession.
Princeton notes report a Saturday party at 110 Kee Street for Maxine Stafford, with many friends attending from local families. The column also mentions upcoming bridge invitations, school awards, a gift from the senior class, and local civic events including a meet with Pussyfoot Johnson and other community notices.
Rehearsals for the D A R benefit How Betsy Ross Made Old Glory began yesterday morning in the high school auditorium. Admission is twenty cents for children thirty cents for adults. The program features the Virginia Reel Minuet Indian and Spanish dances with authentic costumes and a Revolutionary soldiers drill. The flag history drill displays flags used before the national flag was adopted. Costumes and wigs ordered from New York. Misses Dunn and Straley train the children in what is described as a highly attractive program.
World reformer Pussyfoot Johnson arrives in Bluefield at 12 30 pm to address a World League Against Alcoholism mass meeting at the First Methodist Church. An informal reception precedes the event, drawing a large crowd eager to hear his travel tales about India and the fight against liquor.
County registrars started listing voters ward by ward as home to home canvassing for the primaries expands. The piece notes political mudslinging to come and reform calls while marriages issued by the County Court Clerk include Buckland Harless in Princeton and Kinzer Henderson in Thessalia.
Rev S B Vaught announced his Sunday night sermon will address Flappers and Flapper-jacks. The congregation awaits his expressions on this much discussed species of mankind featured in the news papers and magazines.
Mrs W M Hamilton is at her sister Mrs W T Mathews bedside in Warfield who has been ill for days. Robert Bingham of Front Street spends a week visiting Roanoke Norfolk and Pearisburg. G EK Kiise leaves for Richmond for his daughter's high school commencement. Mrs B Vaught goes to Bluefield on business. Lawrence Miller Jr. has mumps with grandmother Mrs Victoria Carr. Hartley Sanders and daughter Sara return from Roanoke. Red Ball in Mullens on Bodell Heating business. Essie Bailey leaves for Port Tenn to bring back Mrs Bailey and baby. Mrs R B Belcher is ill with appendicitis. Mr and Mrs R B McNutt of Frithback visit J G Barber Sunday. W J Harman and family of Schott Ky visit Harmans on Harrison Street. A H Willis and family of Vulcan visit Mrs Willis mother Maggie Booth. W J Duncan and Neal of Union Auction Co in Princeton on business. Mrs L A Kirby returns home to Tralee after Memorial Hospital operation. Judge I C Herndon returns from Welch to wind up court. will hear Pussyfoot Johnson this evening. Miss Eloise Dyson leaves for Duboise Md via Washington. Mr and Mrs James French and daughter Dorothy visit Ira Walker family on South Ninth Street. L A Kirby of Tralee was in the city yesterday. P Jones in Pineville on business. Joseph Hunt and Welch buyers visit for prospects.
Travelers and locals are noted passing through Princeton on their way to Beckley to cover the Lilly Land Co Addition. Several residents visit friends and travel for events including Concord Normal commencement and studying at Athens.
Rev J W ncheloe of Rocky Mount NC will reach the city this morning to conduct revival services at the Baptist church. The meeting will start Wednesday night due to the Pussyfoot Johnson lecture at the Methodist church. Julius Rushing a gospel singer of the Home Mission Board will arrive next Sunday to take charge of the music.
Circuit court focused on chancery matters and motions to set aside verdicts in law cases. In the case P Jones v Belcher the motion to set aside a 756.74 damages verdict was overruled with a 60 day suspension to allow an appeal. Redeemption orders were issued for delinquent lands and school fund sales scheduled.
A reader from 1002 Harrison Avenue, Boston Mass, reports relief from indigestion and biliousness after using Cathartic Tablets. He claims no pain or nausea, and describes the product as a wholesome bowel cleanser that sweetens the liver and invigorates digestion.
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