City and Farm Plant Sales and Local News
City and Coalfield florist advertises early and late garden plants including June Pink Chalks June Hearlyanna Early Detroit Acme tomatoes pepper and assorted bedding plants with transplantation noted. Bluefield Market reports berry season near end fresh produce fish and vegetables with prices. Local notices include delinquent taxes, cash market, meat market ads and Moose Lodge activities. Seven recruits accepted for U S Army. Pythian Lodge installation planned. railroad trespassing rules warned. car struck by lightning delays service. Chamber of Commerce discusses utility pole removal and labor shortages.
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Ato
Detroit
Acme
Brimer
South Bluefield Florist
F. A. Harman
Colored men urged to join Raleigh Street drill meetup
June 5 registrants are summoned to Raleigh Street Church basement Friday at 8 30 p m to attend a home guard drill. Colored Home Guard, A E Goodwyn president. P W Harman returns from Washington with praise for Confederate reunion crowd in the capital.
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MIL
Raleigh Street
Home Guard
Colored Home Guard
A. E. Goodwyn
Freight Conductor George P White Dies of Apoplexy
George P White, 52, longtime Radford division freight conductor on the Norfolk and Western, died at his Highland Avenue home last evening from apoplexy. He had been in poor health, suffered high blood pressure, and had just returned from his run when he fell ill. White lived in Mercer County and left a wife and four children. He was active in the Elks and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and was a familiar figure in Bluefield as the rail line expanded.
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George P.white
Radford
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Highland Avenue
White
Mercer County
Bluefield
Ontree
Nel
Charley White
Ers
J.S. Thompson L. Booth
Field
Radfor
The
Elks and Ayes
Suspect Held on Treason Charge With $5060 Bail
Ton Litz remains at large on five thousand sixty dollars bail after an arrest Monday at Cochlin on charges of making treasonable remarks against the flag and President Wilson.
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Ton
Litz
Cochlin
Lag
Wilson
Harman Nears Completion of New Corner Building
Harman is completing a handsome building at the corner of South Bland and Williams Street. It will house a business room on the ground floor with flats above. The project adds a notable improvement to that city section and reflects progressiveness.
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Mwk. Harman
South Bland
Williams = street
Harman
Children’s Day Exercises at Caffee’s Chapel
The community will hold Children’s Day exercise 8 at Caffee’s chapel on Sunday June 10 at 7 30 p m. All ATL are invited to attend and a good offering is expected to support mission fields in need.
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Caffee
ATL
Chicago Men Buy 42000 Acres for California Cattle Ranch
A group of Chicago men purchased 42,000 acres near San Francisco for a cattle ranch venture. The deal transfers large property holdings to establish a ranching operation in Northern California.
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Chicago
San Francisco
Miss Watts Pupils Recital Set for June at Bland Street Church
Miss Gertrude Watts will present her annual pupils recital on Tuesday evening June 12 at Bland Street Methodist Church at 8 o'clock. The public is invited. Litz Mearing Today a farmer from Clinch Valley has a preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner Vicar at Nor-
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Gertrude Watts
Bland Street Methodist Church
The School for Husbands At Colonial This Saturday
Fannie Ward of Lasky Paramount brings The School for Husbands to the Colonial on Saturday with filming plans in Tia Juana. She tours the casino and dresses for the imagined scene, only to find locals and cowboys in daylight reality. The program also features The Blue Streak and Her Beloved Enemy from Thanhouser with Doris Grey and Wayne Grey, plus the fourth episode of The Neglected Wife.
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School For Husbands
Fannie Ward
Lasky
Lasky-Paramount
Nice
Monte Carlo
Tia Juana
Thanhouser Film Corporation
New Rochelle
New Rex Theatre
Philip Jonergran
Ernest Warde
Frederick Warde
Doris Grey
Boston
Wayne Grey
Pathe
Three Mercer Boys to Get Sheepskins at WVU Commencement
One hundred forty eight graduates will receive degrees and diplomas at West Virginia University’s 50th annual commencement with Hon. John W. Davis as speaker. Degrees include 61 BA, 19 BS Agriculture, 16 Law, 9 Medicine, 14 Engineering, 5 Masters, and single BS Pharmacy and Home Economics. Notables include J. W. Easterly earning LL.B. and Geo. W. Melcher and L F. Hale named among graduates.
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West Virginia University
John ‘W. Davis
The
United States
College of Law
Engineering
West Virginia
CommonWealth
J. W. Eastey
Geo. W. Melcher
Bluefield
L F. Hale
Princeton
Stop Fast and Careless Driving in Mercer County
Sheriff W J Eliott calls for action on fast and careless driving across Mercer County roads. He cites numerous complaints about speeding, horse and wagon traffic, and dangerous driving by automobile operators. He warns drivers to heed chapter 66 sections 117 to 142 and vows to punish violators without regard to persons.
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Mercer County
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Bailey-Anderson & Co
T Hem
Sanitary Meat Market
Bland Street
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Moose
W. H. Wade, Jr
Princeton Avenue
Stewart Street
Europe
H. (. Weller
Pocahontas
War Department
Weller
Pythian Lodge
Richard C. Pell
Record and Seals
R. M. Witten
Grand Lodge
Knights of Fythias of Virginia
Grundy
Thomas H. Scott
Piluefield Lodge
W. Gillenwater
Tazewell Lodge
BE. W. Rutherford
Sealer
Chamber of Commerce
Trotley
Bluefeld
Gluefield
Army
United States Regular Army
Infantry
Columbus Barracks
Ohio
Elders’ Conference
KF. &. Wiley
Helston
Emory and Trenry College
Bell-Ans
Chas. M. Stieff
Lynchburg
C. TH. Manhood
W. K. Graves
Graham, Va
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Richmond
Pullman
New York
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Philadelphia
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Charleston
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Por Iseger
Williamson
Gary
Cnl
Egent Norfolk and Western Railway
Ww. B. Revill
Hinton
John D. Abshire
Alexander Cut Flower & Plant Company
Bluefield, W. Va
P. W. Harman
Washington
Honaker’s
J. W. Waters Co
Jewelers
Law & Commerce
Bluefield Transfer GO
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Norfolk and Western Station
C. B. Whitlow
Matz
George Richardson
Hotel Matz Turkish Bath
Pan An Ag
Crystal Shoe Shine Parlor
Princeton Ave
Geo. P. White Dead
Nebraska
Isceach Ogforoos
United Shirt
Callar OO
Vincent Paeliello
James Elmer Brown
Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf
Marion Garrett
Elizabeth Hooper
Frank la Forge
Edith Greenspon
George Koepping
Alfred Moffatt
Bernard McClaugherty
Bennie Greenspon
Edwin Lameth
Rom Jocelyn
Godard
Edith Mabie
Gabriel-Marie
Antonio Lamanca
Beethoven
Myrtle Hock
Frank Pollock
Frim
Dvorak
Kathleen Jancers
Leo Strang
Antonio Lamanea
Lizabeth Hall
Louise Witten
Kathleen Sanders
Lucille Garrett
Ruth Lazenby
Margaret Bane
Mercer
Sherif
Daily Telegraph
W. J. Eliott
Henry Rodgin
Tawlet
Briday
U.S
First National Bank
the Bluefield Bank
Commercial Bank
Flat Top National Bank
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