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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1913
Page
5
The Bluefield merchants invite Graham ladies to use their rest room during visits to Bluefield. The gesture, praised as a long-needed convenience, highlights Bluefield’s progressive community spirit and hospitality. Several Graham women have already visited and spoken kindly of the facilities.
An advertisement touts Rheuma as a cure for rheumatism scaring pain and swelling. It claims rapid uric acid elimination and compares Rheuma favorably to higher priced remedies. The note urges readers to try the fifty cent bottle and mentions a Bluefield rest room invitation from local merchants and civic groups.
Engineer Frazier Gillespie killed in the Cleveland wreck will be buried at Mt. Or Wit cemetery near the Gillespie home in Grattan. Relatives from Graham including G L Neel Walter McFarlin and Miss Lon Hilen McFarlin will attend the funeral and interment on Clear Fork. Gillespie was a well liked railroad man on the Pocahontas division and died at his post.
The town notes new houses rising in the west end including Tobe Nell and Henry Gills. J C Pruner of Virginia Mason visits to teach Free Masonry at the Masonic lodge. Social visits include Mrs Lizzie Davidson and Mrs A Richardson of Devon. Patients and students move between Roanoke College and local jobs as rail work resumes on Pocahontas division.
Commencement exercises at the Harrisonburg state normal school continue this week with Graham young ladies among the graduates. Eff Garland and Annie Holbrook, daughters of CC Holbrook and J C Holbrook, are in the Graham high school class of 1911 12. Holbrook is elected a Graham school teacher for the next term. U a Garland visits from Harrisonburg for the graduation and plans a short stay in Philadelphia.
Chairman Matthews of the street committee urges a modern concrete bridge across Beaver Pond at the postoffice instead of a wooden structure. He argues concrete is cheaper long term and more satisfactory. Private parties have signed a petition to subscribe toward the cost, and public subscription may cover funds. The town would supplement up to 275 dollars to match a wooden bridge plan.
Harman and Crockett shipped the first load of spring lambs from the Harman place on Bluestone to Jersey City. The early shipment, loaded yesterday at Graham, signals a good market as dealers anticipate fair profits. K K Crockett and J K Routh supervised the loading.
In Tip Top a circuit court case has Russell Compton suing William Brown for damages alleging Brown cursed him during a road work dispute. Brown, from Witten Mill, was a foreman on the project and reportedly never swore before entering road construction.
T FE Nash has started a pleasant dwelling in west Graham and plans occupancy by fall. He relocated to Graham from Bluestone just over a year ago and has made sizable investments there.
Weekly notice lists unclaimed letters in the Bluefield West Virginia post office for the week ending June 7 1913. Names include Vine Banks Martin Ball Nab Pert John Bowman Robert Camel Jess Dobbs and many others with a request to bring a penny per letter and claim advertised mail.
An ad claims thin people can gain healthy flesh using Samese a non drug food promising weight gain. It cites Goodykoontz Drug Co offering refunds if buyers do not gain weight and urges readers to purchase at Druggist Goodykoontz stores.
A college senior and Margaret walk in spring woods after exams and discuss matter and life. A snake startles them and a kiss follows as they drift from philosophy to romance on the log. The tale blends intellectual questions with a playful, intimate moment.
Charles Crotty, a shop employee at the Norfolk and Western tin shop in this city, suffered a very painful injury in an accident. The report notes the incident and Crotty as the victim, with no further details provided in the text.
Yesterday afternoon about 1 o clock Crotty was cleaning a waste press when a passerby pushed down on his right arm crushing it. He was moved to the Bluedeld Sanarium where doctors said amputation would not be needed.
Members and guests of the United Commercial Travelers traveled by train from Bluefield to Lexington for a meeting. The Lexington visit featured entertainment from the Swiss Bell Ringers and reports praise for hospitality, hotel care, and committee efforts.
William Rhea nine month old son of Mr and Mrs H Goodykoontz of Giles Street died Sunday at St Luke's Hospital after a three day illness due to intestinal obstruction. Funeral services were held at the family home and Presbyterian Church with Rev S W Moore officiating. Interment followed at Walnut Grace Cemetery among out of town relatives from Richmond Roanoke Radford and others.
Mastin's Pharmacy in Bluefield earns praise for introducing Alderii ka a buckthorn bark and glycerine mix once famed in Germany for appendicitis relief now claimed to relieve sour stomach gas and constipation in a single dose with instant effect.
A reader urges subscription to the Daily Teleg noting a yearly rate of four dollars and calling it worthwhile. The brief emphasizes value and affordability without additional details.
Woman testimonial from Swarthmore Pennsylvania praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for ending long suffering with change of life and supports its use for female troubles. A Baltimore Maryland reader credits the medicine with ending four months of hemorrhage after childbirth and regaining strength. The notice claims all testimonials published are genuine to persuade others to try the remedy.
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