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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1926
Page
4
Bluefield presses notices and ads show coal firms Park Coal and Mercer Coal promote services and contact numbers. Local offerings include fruit and vegetable plants, tailoring, Kodak services, farm prices, milk delivery, and real estate exchanges. Public notices confirm delinquent tag payments and community church events.
Continued from Page One the shooting of Captain Walton I McGregor and his assistant Eugene Reilly, who were fatally wounded. Salvation Army headquarters described Captain McGregor as having a long creditable record and ability to handle unruly persons. He previously served as day clerk of Salvation Memorial Hotel on the Bowery before 1923.
The plan allocates funds under the 165 million public buildings law for 57 cities this year. Williamson, West Virginia, is slated to receive 95000 of 195000 total project cost. Applications will go to Congress to start work after July 1.
Several cases heard in the city police court included T Thompson fined fifty dollars for assaulting his wife while drunk. Sam Marmack and James Alexander were fined twenty five dollars and jailed five days for drunkenness. F Noble J W Austin T KE Bradley Dan Goodykoonts and C M Carroll each paid two dollars for running a stop sign.
James Pearcy a forty two year old blind resident of Lawrence Alabama lost his right arm in a Friday night railroad accident at Richlands He had crawled under a car in the Richlands yard and slept there Time freight No 84 moved a car while setting off or running in cars and Pearcy was injured He was taken to Mattie Williams Hospital for treatment.
More than 1 000 colored people from Bluefield and vicinity attended the Norfolk and Western colored picnic at Radford Virginia yesterday with about 4 000 Negroes at the annual event. Two special trains ran from Bluefield and three from Roanoke. Regular trains from Williamson and Bristol carried special coaches for Norfolk and Western colored workmen and their families.
Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas will deliver the principal address at the Democratic Ninth District convention in Bristol Tennessee on June 15. Congressman George C. Peery is expected to be renominated, with Governor Harry F. Byrd planned to attend and speak. The gathering aims to boost the party's candidate in the upcoming campaign.
Guay Ferguson son of Mr and Mrs R B Ferguson of Pine Street will graduate from Butler College Indianapolis June 9 with high honors He led his law class as vice president and finished with a 945 average the highest in Butler Law School He recently passed the Indiana state bar and will join a prominent Indianapolis firm after graduation Ferguson attended Beaver High School class of 1921 and worked in Bluefield city engineering before Butler He is well known in the city and has many friends awaiting his success.
James Perdue Virgin Pennington Carl Woods and another man were arraigned by Commissioner A J Hearn on liquor possession and transportation charges. Each was held on $2000 bond for the June term of the United District Court at Bluefield. They were arrested on the Oakvale mountain road after midnight Friday and brought from Princeton around noon. An automobile they occupied was confiscated by federal authorities.
John A Danley father of a Fallsville youth killed during a raid by prohibition officers thanks supporters who funded the prosecution. Danley, blind and broom seller in the coalfields, notes a collection from a coal camp store and contributions from workers across the region.
E. D. Phillips and Miss Beulah Piata residents of the Virginia Side were slightly injured last night when Mr. Phillips automobile collided with a Princeton Power Company street car on Bluefield avenue near Pine street. Phillips had a gash over his right temple and Miss Piata was bruised. car was nearly demolished. Cause not determined.
Miss Rose Warren aged ninety seven a lifelong Ohio county resident died at Altenheim Home for Aged Women Wheeling after three days of pneumonia. She taught at Beech Glen Open Air School forty years ago and spent life in daily letter writing.
The treasury post office building program was announced as the senate adopted the Borah resolution to probe British land grants in Panama. Six senators urged Iowa voters to greet former Senator Brookbert in Monday’s primaries. President and Mrs Coolidge attended the Maryland wedding of William Hodges and Mrs Charles Thomas Low. The Senate judiciary subcommittee found the Coolidge order legal for federalizing cats as dry agents. Vice President Dawes met farm bloc leaders to push agricultural legislation as railroad unions warned of wage claims before the mediation board.
Unusually cold weather returned after forty eight hours, prompting rekindling of fires in Belfield. Citizens, including men women and children, wore winter wraps and summer headgear. Furnaces that were cooled more than two weeks ago were reignited in many homes, boosting demand for fuel and forcing city offices to heat tenants.
Former Victory Launch and Kery proprietor Louis Spanos announces he is now at the Busy Bee Restaurant as a co proprietor. The note promises the same service as in the past and invites customers to Bluefield where prices are reasonable and the place welcomes all patrons.
The regular annual election of Officers of the Billy Sunday Club will be held this afternoon at 2 30 in Hamilton hall Bland Street Methodist church. Nominations are from the floor with open participation. all members are urged to attend and take part in voting. The club enters its sixth year as a vigorous soul saving group with active laymen extending outreach.
Anderson Smith, colored, released from the city jail yesterday morning, landed in his berth last night when he was arrested on a charge of threatening to waylay Callie Hairston. Smith was arrested last Thursday a week ago, charged with assaulting the Hairston woman, and was
The man was fined 26 and given sixty days in jail on the city police court ruling. On a Smith recommendation a veteran city official suspended the jail sentence and released him yesterday morning. Last evening he was seen hiding behind a hedge on Williams street carrying a heavy club. police found him and jailed him pending trial.
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