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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1932
Page
3
A report notes that some believe a peach tree twig can locate underground water in Russell county where oil drilling is planned. Scientists dismiss the claim that oils or minerals respond to the twig, but many veteran drillers say the sign works for water and use the limb in uncertainty to find underground flows.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Baldwin travel to Lynchburg for the graduation of their niece Miss Jessee Philpott. Miss Philpott and Miss Margaret Dudley will return with the Baldwins to their home.
A Norfolk and Western signal gang on a siding north of the tower features banjo artist G. W. Dixon and violinist J. T. Hall known as Shootin' Creek. Their music is said to cure rheumatism. Mr and Mrs L. G. Mathena announce the arrival of a daughter Jo Ann on June 3.
The Rev. E. Gibson Davis of Memorial Baptist Church presents The Detective Who Never Lost a Case as the revival theme this evening. He will end the ten day series Wednesday night after morning services at 10 and an 8 o’clock evening service. Visitors from out of town join the Beckley pastor for the messages.
Stars of the Order of the Eastern Star rehearse this week for a Friday auditorium performance of See You Later. Miss Edith Goode directs with high praise from Mrs. Glenn Dudley, lodge president, noting the Bluefield Virginia group as among Virginia’s largest and most active.
Telegraph operators report an intense heat wave sweeping the Carolinas and Tennessee. Thermometers reached 110 in Spartansburg South Carolina at noon while St Paul Virginia recorded 92. Bluefield enjoyed some relief from the heat with a cooling breeze in parts of the day.
A large gathering of Knights Pythias members met Monday night in the lodge room of the Odd Fellows building with several grand lodge officers in attendance. Attendees came from Tazewell Pocahontas and nearby areas. Dr. W. E. Ritter of Bluefield Virginia is a past grand chancellor of the order.
A minor blaze in the excelsior room at the Graham Mattress company broke out Monday just after noon. Firefighters arrived quickly, with shavings suspected to ignite from a spark from a burning alley trash pile. Only slight damage occurred.
The Rev and Mrs M C Hughes travel to Lexington for their son Crockett Hughes to graduate with a law degree from Washington and Lee University. He completed high school at Bluefield college after Ohio schooling, earned a degree at Lynchburg college, taught two years at Athens, and finishes law studies at age 26.
Numerous camps line Wolf Creek with visitors from Bluefield enjoying the outdoors at Camp Christie. Among those present last week were Mr and Mrs Base Perkins Miss Marea Jane and Nancy St Clair and Cloyd Martin.
Elmer Thompson, 30, received a life term after a jury convicted him of first degree murder for shooting neighbor James Horvath, 40, in a quarrel over a cat at Peach Creek. Horvath died March 6, Thompson fled and was captured May 12 after buying the cat from a neighbor, then claiming it.
Lewis Jefferson Sparks of Elko Nevada learned his mother was alive in Wheeling West Virginia after believing her dead for fifteen years. Sparks traveled from a western ranch to Wheeling to be reunited with his mother who disappeared when he was nine and was thought dead since 1917.
Mrs Willie Carter was detained in Raleigh County jail charged with fatally shooting her husband George Carter 35 at their Slab Fork home. She told officers they had been drinking and quarreling and that he beat her before she fired.
Mr and Mrs L G Little returned from Bloomington Tennessee where their son Gordon and a guest, students at the Junior Military academy, earned a ring star and gold medal for attendance military record and grades making history as the first student to win these honors in his first year at the school.
Pocahontas pride shines as Virginia Intermont College administers a standardized intelligence test to all students. Miss Sara Ward achieved the highest score while Miss Daily Kelly Butt ranked second among graduates from the class of 1930.
Mrs Clyde Otey and Virginia Ann of Crumpler visit Mr and Mrs Caryle Rees. Miss Helen Yeatts returns from Tazewell, visiting Miss Emma Yates for summer. Families from Bluefield and Meadow View hosts gather with relatives. Several locals in Bluefield and Wytheville for visits and summer plans.
Bluefield residents and guests enjoyed a busy weekend visiting relatives and friends in Radford Welch Fries Lynchburg and Fries Virginia Folk attended Virginia Intermont college events and summer programs while several moved or returned home including the Flannigan family to Bluestone and the Dunns back to Pocahontas local visits by Lubliner Harritt and Ward family members noted amid travel to Richmond Bedford and other nearby locales
Johnson notes his wife shifted from chasing tea to golf with daily play. Jackson jokes that she now chases from tee to tee, framing their playful exchange as a lighthearted quip about changing hobbies.
C. H. Ham and Willie Hammet of Bluefield were held for Mercer county grand jury on a moonshine operating charge after waiving preliminary hearing before Magistrate W. W. McNeal. Bail set at 1500 dollars each. arrest made Sunday in Falls Mills by Constable J. Earl Bailey and Deputy Prohibition Agent William Snider.
Charley Watkins of Charleston West Virginia was arrested last Saturday on a warrant accusing him of stealing a car. He waived preliminary hearing before Magistrate H. B. Kitte and was bound over to the Mercer County grand jury. Unable to post bail Watkins was sent to Mercer County jail.
The Public Service Commission approved consolidating trains 23 and 11 between Grafton and Parkersburg into train 11 leaving Grafton at 3 50 p m and arriving Parkersburg at 7 p m The Baltimore and Ohio railroad was also authorized to substitute train 30 for train 38 between Parkersburg and Grafton.
Frazier Harris a U S Navy man stationed at Hampton Roads Va visits his father John R Harris and brother Sidney G Harris at 316 Allen Street during a two week furlough. He plans a cruise that will include a visit to the Hawaiian islands upon return to Hampton Roads.
John Henry Meyers, 68, a Martinsburg resident and Spanish-American War veteran, was found dead beneath a tree on the city outskirts. Coroner H G Tomkincaid ruled death from excessive alcohol use. Papers in his pocket show his government pension rose from 13 to 35 dollars monthly.
Lightning struck the Spencer residence of Captain H. J. Simmons, one of the town’s show places, causing a fire that Simmons estimates at thirty five thousand dollars in damage.
W A Light urges Bluefield citizens to push city officials to tap nearby natural gas lines. He notes artificial gas costs 2.00 per 1000 cubic feet vs 0.29 elsewhere in West Virginia and invites residents to a June 7 meeting at 2 pm at City Hall to press for action.
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