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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1935
Page
10
The long dry spell ends as Princeton opens a state rain store on Main Street in Crumcker Bay building at 10 a.m. This marks the first legal liquor shop since Prohibition in the city, though bootleg and moonshine supply had persisted.
N B Hensley former Bluefield post office worker turned freelance artist gains recognition in etchings and portraits. He studied at Carnegie Tech and in Philadelphia, contributes to Journal of Outdoor Life and Two to Teens, designs greeting cards, and publishes Doggie Greeting Cards. He stayed with sister Mrs S P Wiley during a visit to Lashmeet for his mother Frances Hensley's death.
Mercer county rural women show strong self reliance through a farm women’s bureau survey led by home agent Miss Anna M. Roges. The April inventory finds an average of 212 quarts and notes many families storing nearly 1000 quarts for the season. One Pin Oak club member reports 1301 quarts, reflecting purposeful canning to sustain farm living without aid.
Miss Boggs promotes home management as a solution to current problems while detailing a county relief canning program. The list includes green beans, beets, cucumbers, peppers, chow chow, preserves, juices, berries, meats, jams, mustards, grapes, corn, apples, peaches and a total of 1,301 quarts on hand as of April 1. Miss McDonald a Spanishburg home economics teacher will lead relief canning this year to aid self support and improve child nutrition across the county.
The Presbyterian Men's club plans its regular monthly supper this evening at 6 30 at the church. Members are urged to attend and bring friends from other denominations for the event.
The T. E. L. class will meet tonight at 8 o clock at the home of Mrs. Fred Gore. Mrs. D. A. Johnson's group will be hostesses.
The Royal Arch chapter conducts its regular meeting at 7 30 this evening with the annual election and instillation of officers. Other important business will be discussed and the district inspection is also noted.
The executive board of the Woman's Missionary union of the First Baptist church will meet this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home of Mrs Hartley Sanders on North Walker Street.
The Young People division of Kee Street Methodist church will sponsor an ice cream supper at the church tonight at 6 o clock.
Myrtle Bane circle led by Mrs. C. V. Bates will meet tonight at 7 45 with Mrs. Howard Ellison of Highland avenue and Mrs. J. A. Mann as joint hostess.
The Woman's auxiliary of the Melnoese church will meet this afternoon at 3 o'clock with Mrs. Eddie Carriss on College Avenue. Members are asked to bring proceeds from the candy sale to the meeting.
The Business Girl's circle of the First M. E. church enjoyed a pleasant meeting at Miss Myrtle Dickenson's home with several members assisting in the arrangements.
The hospitality was hosted by Miss Ethel Nixon and Mesdames Wilbur Walt hall and Willis Oxley. The leader Mrs Richard Walthall presented a very interesting program with devotionals by Mrs T F Dickenson. Mrs Eric Johnston spoke briefly on the work of women in early Methodism. The Bible lesson reviewed the prophets home labor in Canaan. June and Betty Shumate sang and read, Dorothy Mancini sang Cradle Tomorrow with sister Helen on piano, Thelma Clark welcomed as a new member. A salad course was served afterward by hostesses and guests listed.
The Y W A of the First Baptist church will meet at 7 30 tonight at Miss Ruth McClaugherty s home on Bluefield road.
Kee street circle of the Woman's Missionary Society will meet this afternoon at 2 30 at the home of Mrs Ambrose Waddell on Athens road. Prince ton K of P lodge plans a large delegation to the thirteenth district convention at Montcalm on June 14, with a special meeting tonight at 8 o'clock to arrange details.
Dr Frank Holroyd president of the Princeton Athens Kiwanis club attended the weekly meeting yesterday. He delivered a humorous report on his spring course at Harvard Medical School along with his activities and impressions from the experience.
C Housh of the federal rural rehabilitation and resettlement project is in Mercer county this week selecting tracts for relocation. He toured Lerena and Speedway farms and seeks land offers via county agent Herman M. Bowers. The piece notes land purchases in McDowell Wyoming and other counties for reforestation and park use. A tangential line states the hippopotamus does not sweat blood, explaining its cameline pigment.
Virgil V. Bailey principal of the Davy high school in McDowell county has assumed duties as secretary of the Princeton chamber of commerce for the summer. He began work yesterday and the board will meet tonight at the chamber office to plan activities including paving Mercer street on a work relief project.
Pete Hartley Marshall county agricultural agent will join C C Housh in speaking at the Mercer county farm bureau annual meeting. The event at the courthouse Saturday at 1 30 p m will include officer elections and plans for the farm bureau drive to begin June 17.
Funeral rites for Mrs Frances Hensley conducted at the Lashmeet home of Mrs 8 P Wiley by Rev Alden Barnette of Shawnee Lake. She lived with her daughter and was a 35 year member of the Christian Baptist church. Pallbearers and flower bears were from the Reece Harman Sunday School classes.
Henry Hodge age 83 died at his Piedmont home Tuesday morning. Funeral service will be held there today followed by interment in Piedmont Cemetery. He is survived by his second wife and several children.
Princeton notices report Herman Bowers attending a corn hog meeting in Charleston while L C Porter travels to St Louis for business. L A VanCourt plans weeks of fishing in northern Minnesota and Canada. The Santons and N E Santon spend a week in New York City. Mrs G H Crumpecker visits Wheeling with her husband. The Presbyterian church women prepare to attend a training school for auxiliary workers at Bluefield college. Lucy Jewell visits Roanoke. Edmonde family, Jack, Marie Gillinga, Mildred Roberts and Edna Moses enjoy a Charleston Sunday outing.
The Half Way House in Richmond saved after purchase by W. Brydon Tennant of Richmond who plans a restoration. The colonial era tavern sits on the Richmond Petersburg pike and is slated for revival work.
Eastern standard schedule shows NBC WEAF WJZ and Coast networks with hourly music and variety programs from 12:00 to 11:30 PM, listing bands, orchestras, soloists, news periods and dance music across East, Midwest, Dixie, Mountain, Pacific regions with numerous station references and program blocks.
Missouri faced rising rivers as floods worsened. Officials could not provide firm loss estimates, but property and crop damage ran into millions across Kansas and Missouri. An army of 3,000 laborers failed to strengthen Kansas City dikes, while officers predicted the Kaw and Platte crests would meet around 10 a.m. CST in the city.
Hugo Oklahoma reports Jimmie Love a tire specialist says about 80 percent of punctures he has fixed in recent years come from shoe tacks dropped on highways. He blames hitchhikers' shoes for the tacks.
President Roosevelt seeks federal power over national social and economic issues, asking Congress to settle constitutional authority. He proposes retaining NRA staff to collect industry statistics before and after the debacle and to have government purchases limited to manufacturers meeting minimum wagon and maximum hours standards.
Washington June 6 Representative Ramsay Democrat West Virginia says a majority of Americans favor a constitutional amendment curbing the Supreme Court's power to strike down acts of Congress. He cites England's history to argue nine judges should not veto legislation and warns public sentiment may rise to curb the court's authority.
The War Department proposed 41 work relief projects totaling 27,457,590 dollars to fund barracks hospitals shops and service clubs at army posts in Hawaii the Canal Zone and 14 states. Applications covered improvements at national cemeteries and other facilities as part of a broad relief effort.
Officials reported 27,854,733 in work relief funds were requested for relief projects and 400,000,000 set aside for highways. Half to streets and highways and half to grade crossing eliminations. States must submit detailed plans and meet local relief needs before work can begin, with start after July 1 under Roosevelt’s job program.
New York reports Harry M. Warner, Warner Brothers president, and his wife and two daughters left for Hollywood amid kidnap threats. Mount Vernon Police Chief Michael Silverstein said two calls on May 24 demanded the abduction of daughters Betty May 15 and Lita, nine. Investigators traced none, guards questioned a loiterer who claimed to sleep on the estate, and the party moved secretly to the coast as Bea Warner grew increasingly worried. Lita, adopted after the late Samuel Warner and Lina Basquette’s child, is a Warner kin.
A freakish growth from a hickory tree near C. T. Moody's filling station resembles a human hand with five small branches like fingers. The unusual sight draws curious travelers as the tree limb and bark form appear to mimic joints and digits.
A Welch city planning conference in Charleston discussed bridging Elkhorn river to add highway capacity and parking, potentially linking as a U S Route 52 project. If built, parking on Wyoming and McDowell streets would be restricted to one side with one way traffic Rules.
Judge B F Howard announced at a Southern West Virginia Boy Scouts meeting that a fundraising drive will open tomorrow and Saturday to support local scouting. Six contributions totaling 250 dollars were reported, including 25 from the Masonic lodge 50 from the Kiwanis club and 25 from Saturday's Conley Island pool admission receipts. City districts and canvass teams were organized and subscription cards distributed with plans for the drive laid out. A follow up meeting for canvassers and committees is set for Monday at 7 30 in Judge Howard's office.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o clock this afternoon at the Roderfield church for Arthur Lee Parker 26 of Marytown. Interment will follow in Roderfield cemetery. Parker was injured in a mine accident at Kingston Pocahontas Coal company shaft mine in Hemphill Tuesday and died after admission to the hospital. He was a member of the local community.
The Welch Emergency Hospital admitted Mrs Stella Hyder Capels Mrs Clyde Harvey Mohegan Mrs Horseclaw city Sylvia Moxley Lec kie and Charles Culp Hemphill. Grace Hospital admitted Mrs B K Willis city Mrs 8 W Gillespie Marytown Harless Lester Hurley Va Helen Marie Shirley Roderfield Mrs T M Laxton As co Judah Siegal Northfork and Harvey Gentry Elbert. Grace Hospital charges include Mrs Malinda Pennington Premier Mrs Dewey Brown Powhatan Bill Smith Raysal C S Bridges Jaeger R D Brown English Lorene Hagerman Jolo John Kibby Bartley Ruth Kitchen city C C Roberst Hemphill Lawrence Whitney Elbert R E Rutherford Coalwood. Stevens Clinic admission lists include Mrs Ramsey Belcher Caretta and Mrs Ber
Mrs. Howard Wetzel Coretta shopped and visited in Welch yesterday. Mrs N A Steadman president of the McDowell County Woman's club leaves for Detroit to attend a General Federation of Woman's clubs convention. Robbin Nelson Sayre School student arrives Welch to visit mother and plans to enroll for summer term in Athens. Mrs Ted Reynolds of Alexandria Va visits her mother Mrs Sarah Barrett. Rhodes Realty apartments Mrs Reynolds attends Mary Barrett and Joseph Stevens wedding yesterday. Connie Hall Louise McBride Randolph Macon students arrive to spend summer with parents. Belle Martyn Ina Hughes and Sue Roberta Graham leave after visit with Dr and Mrs G L Straub. J W Blakely Jean Mae Hall leave for Virginia Beach for vacation. Richard Stevens Tuscaloosa and Tomb Lincoln Elkhorn attend Barrett Stevens wedding yesterday. Rev R W Hubbert Moundsville leaves after officiating wedding. Colonel Ballard spends day in Charleston on business. Frank Russell Bluefield spends days in the city on business. Mrs W G Williamson Vivian shops and visits in Welch. Frances Davis Randolph Macon student arrives to spend summer with her parents.
Welch district scouts plan a two day camporee at Coney Island Park featuring campcraft swimming and various contests. Teams from Premier Hemphill Carswell and Welch enter with judges J A French Roy B Shrout and C H Atkinson presiding. Anthony Horden of Australia ships 18 head of cattle from Wichita Falls to Australia after buying bulls and the San Angelo fat stock show grand champion for 1200 dollars.
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