Bluefield Builds New Business and Apartment Houses
Bluefield sees fresh construction by George P. Stovall adding two new buildings on Chestnut Street and Bluefield Avenue. The two-story complexes feature a central corridor, direct apartment doors from the main hall, and layouts including living room, dining room, kitchen, and bath. Most apartments offer four rooms with private corridors for added privacy, highlighting streamlined access and modern planning.
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George P. Stovall
Doca
Apartments and shops described with period detailing
Descriptive notes cover room sizes and layouts with several 12x21 living rooms, two large outside windows per room, oak floors and gum trim. Bathrooms feature tile floors and walk in tubs. A boiler provides hot water for all units. Chestnut street has two storage rooms 18x50, half of Rogers street level, and two Mulberry street stores facing Bluefield avenue. Stores 29x66, court fronts, concrete floors, and steel wood framing. Buildings designed by Mahood & Van Dusen. constructed by C. W. Hancock & Sona. Mulberry facade uses red brick, limestone trim, wrought iron balconies. Walls brick backed with paving brick and hollow tile. concrete foundations. steel and wood skeletons.
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Chestnut Street
Rogers Street
Mulberry
Bluefield Avenue
Mahood & van Dusen
C. W. Hancock & Sona
Mulberry Street
Walla
Boys Camp to Open Monday at Rocky Gap VA
The Brotherhood Boys Club of Bluefield will send forty boys to the Rocky Gap camp Monday. Appalachian Power Company arranged transport. Doc Owens supervises with Horace Gerry as camp cook and BD H Snemd as director. Plans include a junior baseball league after the first week.
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Big Brotherhood Boya
Bluefield
Appalachian Power Company
Rocky Gap
Doc” Owens
Horace Gerry
BD. H. Snemd
Doc" Owens
Sunday schools plan representative appointment for meet
Sunday schools will arrange and appoint a representative to be ready for the meet when called. The effort suggests organized coordination among local Sunday school groups for an upcoming gathering.
Bluefiel der drives Essex on remarkable journey
D W Short a Bluefield Garage salesman and his wife drove an Essex Six 433 miles in thirteen and a half hours from Bluefield West Virginia to Richmond Indiana. Their trip averaged 21.5 miles per gallon with half a gallon of oil. They stopped 60 miles short of Indianapolis due to hotel shortages and expect to return soon.
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D. W. Short
Bluefield Garage, Inc
Bluefield
W. Va
Richmond
Ind
Short
Western Union Telegraph Office
Essex
Indianapolis
Blue- Neld Garage, Inc
Creek accident marred wedding party at Trockyford
Mr and Mrs Ellsworth Field newly married were in their automobile when a small bridge collapsed into a creek near Trockyford. The couple, guests from the bridal party, escaped unharmed though the vehicle and bridge sustained damage.
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Trockyford
Cole
Ellsworth Field
New Drapery and Onyx Pointex Heel Shipment
A shipment arrived featuring 36 inch dotted silk gauze in rose and blue stripes at 75c. 36 inch silk drapery and 45 inch silk brocade in roses and gold, priced at 1.25. Also new Onyx Pointex Heel styles shown in multiple colors, available in medium weight and chiffon at 2.00.
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