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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1915
Page
6
Manager Turner said most players to join the locals have been contacted and will report by week’s end. Donations via petitions circulate among fans and businesses with several large gifts recorded. New uniforms ordered. diamond to be playable in a week and grand stand work begins with a 100 foot first section seating 2,000.
Mishop T. C. Carter of Chattanooga argues that the great American blunder is the failure to live within one’s means, urging frugality and restraint in spending.
Notice announces Mercer county board of equalization meeting on July 6 1915 at the courthouse to review and adjust the 1915 assessments. Citizens wrongly assessed may appear to present grievances for redress. Clerk Lowery G Bowling signs the notice dated June 5 1016.
Miss Lucile Meadows of Athens visits sister Mrs Perfater in Lae street. Mrs Joe Stephens of Roanoke stays with Mrs H L Stephens on Walnut street. Miss Marie Edmunds returns from Farmville. Lovett of Castner Curran Bulletts Philadelphia visits on business. Mrs G A Bonham leaves for Blackstone Va. Beckley visitors include Mr and Mrs T H Lally and children. Rutie Whitlow returns from Roanoke. Lillie McCray heads to Cedar Bluff for Blue Sulphur Springs. Payne returns from Confederate Veterans reunion in Richmond. Thacker returns from Ashland Ky. Lazenby family to spend weeks in Halesford Va. Susie Masley visits Pearisburg then returns home. Scruggses visit Roanoke, Nat back in city. Francisco and Hutton to Hot Springs Ark for a month. Nancy Holland returns from Roanoke and Lynchburg. Harry Keenison arrives from Columbia Univ to spend summer with parents. Floyd heads to Bristol with Mrs Floyd. Isador Matz to Cincinnati for baseball games. Lettye Cox leaves for Richlands then return to eastern Virginia. Howard of Lynchburg visits city. staying with F J Holland. Hannah Edwards of Welch travels with Pansy Meadows to Athens for Concord Normal finals. Mrs H G O’Neil returns from two weeks in Louisville and Worthville Ky and attends social functions. Rev C L Snead of Morristown Tenn visits B F Snead. will go to Bland Courthouse to see daughter. Snead wounded in Richmond reunion after chest injury. others report a shooting incident near Stony Ridge and a boy’s injury. Summers flees to Graham then Midway. Wood’s condition serious but improving.
Miss Beatrice Clements daughter of T V Clements 80L Tyler street died Sunday evening at 6 oclock after a period of ill health though she had recently returned home from a Philadelphia hospital. Born Wilmington Del March 18 1895 the funeral will be at the family home at 10 this morning followed by interment at Walnut Grove cemetery.
A warrant was issued by Squire Chambers for Kirk Summers, charged with shooting a twelve year old boy, Jerry Woods, near the Virginia state line. Summers allegedly drew a 22 caliber revolver and fired twice, threatening to kill the boy as local officers investigated the scene.
Washington June 7. Freight rates on carload lots of cast iron pipe from Anniston Alabama to Charlotte North Carolina and Rockhill South Carolina were held reasonable by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The commission dismissed the complaint by Charlotte and Rockville that the rates violated the long and short hauls clause.
The county court in Keystone convened with many applicants for licenses. President Dr R K Bragonier and officials presided as most requests were granted. A key issue was licenses for houses in Cinder Bottom, sparking debate and a vote to decide by month end. A push to improve Keystone followed, with community meetings and varied local notices continuing.
W L Day of Filbert returned from Richmond where he attended the Confederate reunion. Miss Carol Taylor of Landgraff visited friends, and Mrs J T Watson of Hemphill left for Blacksburg to visit homefolks. In London, the British prize court began delayed consideration of large American meat shipments to Norwegian ports, detaining Norwegian ships including Alfred Noble and Bjornsterne Bjornsen pending investigation.
The notice touts That Terrible Backache as a sign of organic trouble and credits Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with helping forty years of women. It claims the remedy, made from roots and herbs, speeds the cause’s removal and restores the system to health.
Bilious attacks disrupt liver function and digestion causing constipation, nausea, vomiting, and headaches. Chamberlain's Tablets are advertised to tone the liver and cleanse the stomach, promising quick recovery for only a quarter and available everywhere Tu-Sat.
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