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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1913
Page
2
City notes urge thrifty choice in daily offerings from advertisers. Bluefield events include Frank Fox winning a silver cup for best drilling, church services, Eastern Star chapter formation, people touring Europe plans, and local crime fines. Death of Miss Mary Rochrath reported with interment planned.
A Norfolk and Western railroad report notes Prince George, a colored laborer from Williamson, sustained a broken leg while loading rails. At Augusta Military Academy commencement Miss Hilda Wilson of Bluefield served as sponsor for Company B Cadets.
Word from Radford Virginia states B. J. Powell, long ill at home, is gradually improving and expects to travel soon for an extended rest visit with his brothers. J J Goodwill relocates offices to 433 Princeton Avenue Bluefield. Y M C A chapel hosts a Sunday prayer service at 3 pm inviting all women.
A merchants' rest room for ladies is available every day from 8 a m to 7 p m except Sundays. Ladies are invited to use the facility.
The Rev K Y Unberger, pastor, will conduct morning services at Graham at 11 o'clock Sunday and evening services at Bluefield at 8 o'clock.
Mass will be celebrated at 9 30 a m in the church of the Sacred Heart with Benediction and Sunday school following after the service.
Removal Notice announces Ross & Kahle moving from 32 Higginbotham avenue to rooms 507 508 509 Law and Commerce building. The merchants' rest room offers a telephone parcel room and comfortable chairs for patrons.
Wedding flowers focus on white Killarney roses and lily of the valley bouquets. Arrangements are described as well made, properly packed, and priced to appeal to brides.
At the first meeting of the new board of affairs last night, several licenses and building permits were issued. Mayor Peters announced appointments including B. Shumate as police commissioner and J. Kahle as public safety head, with other posts to be decided early next week.
Fallon florist of Roanoke Va advertises 25000 Killarney roses and about 10000 rose plants in crop for June. Write for prices. Also notes Presbyterian Sunday services with Rev Samuel W Moore preaching at 11 am and 6 pm and hymns by Porter and Mrs W S Patterson. Cordial invitation to strangers to worship.
W. and Miss Elsie Bullard recently wed in this city and visited the bride’s parents in Tazewell. They paused last evening en route to Roanoke to visit the groom’s parents, then Petersburg where they will settle. Thompson resigns as traveling salesman to join his father’s construction business.
M. A. Thompson of Sunny Point Virginia talked of Boxley and Son preparing to start the New River Holston and Western extension. A large camp rises on the H. B. Shufflebarger farm near the line’s end. Completion expected around January 1, 1914.
A medical note urges slow eating to prevent indigestion and constipation and promotes Chamberlain's Tablets as a cure for stomach trouble. It claims many cases have been helped, noting the tablets are easy to take and agreeable, with sales through dealers.
Under the new arrangement the first weekly collection will be made today by collectors citywide. Subscribers with no advance payment must cover ten cents for the paper received in the past week and those in arrears will be addressed.
City of Bluefield issues a proclamation by Mayor Francis M. Peters urging citizens to observe June 24, 1913, as a holiday commemorating West Virginia’s statehood. a June 9 meeting at City Hall is called to organize parades services and speeches for the event.
Edmonton reports a Klondike era tale of three prospectors in the Hays river country. One survivor, emaciated, died after recounting a fight with Indians who killed his two partners. He carried samples of exceptionally rich gold, suggesting potential wealth in the unexplored hinterland despite Arctic explorations.
The excerpt recalls the vast uncharted regions of the upper Hays River country and the Dog Ribs tribe in the forested western frontier. It notes long routes from Edmonton to Peace River Crossing and hints at unsettled “bad Indians” in newly explored zones beyond the mountains on the British Columbia side.
Advertised medicine Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy urged for every family to keep on hand during hot weather. The copy claims it is superior and worth its cost and recommends buying now from all dealers.
Mated communications of Bluefold Lodge No 86 A F and A M recon ven fourth Tuesdays at Manonic Hall third floor Laverus Building Princeton Avepe.
A dentist visit is reported at Bloch Co.'s department store in Pocahontas Virginia with brief, unclear details from OCR. No further names or dates are legible.
District Court of the Southern District of West Virginia announces M G Buchanan trading as Buchanan Grocery bankrupt. Creditors to appear June 4 1918 at 10 am in Bluefield Mercer Co West Virginia to prove claims appoint a trustee and examine the bankrupt. Referee H B Lee notes that proofs must conform to prescribed forms and provide supporting documents.
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