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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1928
Page
9
The regular-say ladies' auxiliary to the BT will hold a 2:30 p.m. meeting today at the Red Men's hall. A grand lodge report will be presented and full attendance is requested.
An appreciative audience attended at First Christian church for a recital by Miss Gertrude Watts pupils. Featured contralto Miss Marion Smith now studies with Madame Schumann-Heink. Performances included Virginia Thornhill, Ruth Lee Smith, Marguerite Cooke, Mrs. Gilbert Owens, Geraldine Ashworth, J B Wagner, Cleo Harris, and others with selections by Bach, Gounod, Brahms, and more. Watts aided Bluefield youth in musical growth and public appreciation.
Mrs H H Haggart presided at a luncheon and bridge event at the Blue Field Country Club on Tuesday. The gathering honored guest Mrs E G Platt of Wellsville, with Mrs John T Wilson winning the high score and Mrs Platt receiving a guest gift.
Mrs Bailey directed a recital at Trinity Methodist Church featuring pupils of L Al Bailey. The show pleased attendees who praised her teaching. Prizes went to Hazel Crowder and Lorraine Gillenwater for top practice records. Hazel Crowder, Vivian Lloyd and Mattie Sue Horne opened with a trio.
J. Eves, a veteran street car conductor for the Ohio Valley Electric Co., reports relief from rheumatic pain, stomach distress, and kidney weakness after using Konjola. He says symptoms disappeared within days and have not returned for 18 months. Konjola is sold in Bluefield at Easley-Penn Drug Store and Hale Pharmacy in Princeton.
The UMHE greatest airport in the New York metropolitan district is being built at Newark New Jersey to serve numerous rising transport lines from the South and West. A photo shows centered hangars and a circular field crisscrossed by landing avenues in all directions.
Miss Bessil Trail and Mr Owen I Phelps are to be married today in Bristol Virginia. Rev M Melver will perform the ceremony. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Trail of Salem Virginia, recently earned a nursing diploma at Bluefield Sanitarium School for Nursing. The couple plans a trip through Memphis Knoxville Cincinnati and other cities before settling in Bluefield.
Evelyn Robertson and Lil lie Bowles opened with beautiful piano solos. Louise and John Manley performed a piano duet, a highlight of the evening, followed by solo numbers from Dottie Lawrence Hazel Crowder Wanda Lee Day Mary Louise Long Virginia McCroskey Vivian Floyd Louise Manley Beatrice Sisson and Ernesta Bowles. A Mary Louise Long Dottie Lawrence duet preceded further piano solos by Lorraine Gillenwater Mattie Sue Horne John Manley Margaret King Mabel Sisson and Virginia Powell.
An advertisement touts Asper-Lax as aspirin in laxative form that banishes sick headaches instantly. It claims quick relief, safety for the heart, and availability at all dealers.
A week’s 6 at Shipman in Nelson county Virginia reports relatives visiting. John Griffin and Miss Patsy Gilkeson return from St Hilda’s Hall in Charles Town West Virginia. Bailey returns from Jenkins Kentucky to handle business. Bowen attends Moose convention in Chicago. Elizabeth Pool of New York City visits her mother on Jefferson Street. Mrs W H Pool and daughter Betty Lee return from Newport News and South Boston Virginia. Bodenhamer at Bluefield Sanitarium is in critical condition awaiting transfusions. Elizabeth Bond enters St Luke’s Hospital for appendicitis treatment. Daley Harrison and Anna Withers, guests at Bluefield College, depart via Winchester to Clarkeburg where Burr Harrison is a cadet.
Certificates of stock liberty bonds and other securities valued at 105000 were mailed by Union Trust Co of Cleveland to First National Corp of Boston at 100 Broadway New York. The securities were registered and both firms were insured. The insurance company began an investigation today.
Shanghai reports Chiang Kai-shek orders no cigarette smoking around army headquarters. Feng Yuh-siang bans smoking by his troops as an allied precaution.
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