City and Coalfield Short Items for Helter and More Coal
A garbled page of small ads and notices from Bluefield and nearby areas. Mentions coal, cleaning services, hardware sales, bathing suits, a Shrine Club dance, and church renewal notices. References to M. G. Whitlow Hardware Co., Alien Street Coat Co, and Abney-Barnes Co. Includes a brief fire report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helter
Lesa Money
Call
Alien Street Coat Company
M. G. Whitlow Hardware Co
Roanoke Street
Bluefield Sends Aid to Fireswept Simmons
A fire at Simmons restaurant in Adberry caused about $10,000 in damage. The blaze damaged the restaurant building, Simpkin's barber shop and pool room, and three associated dwellings owned by Ros cos Simpkins. Bluefield dispatched a truck and firefighters to the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adberry
Simmons
Simpkin
Roscos Simpkins
Bluefield
West Virginia Medical Association Opens In Bluefield
The fifty-eighth annual session of the West Virginia State Medical Association opened with a large attendance. Leaders from many counties attended as Dr. Jeffers welcomed guests and Dr. Ogden argued against cult practice while urging scientific medical progress and public health awareness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia State Medical Association
Jeffers
Chester R. Ogden
Clarkeburg
William Jennings Bryan
Ogden
West Virginia
CG. G. Coleman
Richmond
Philip B. Barbour
Louisville
Bluefield Shows Little Interest in Government
Voter tallies listed for Precincts 1 and 2 reveal low enthusiasm in Bluefield politics with names such as Atwell, Cole, Graham, and Troutman appearing across Democratic and Republican committee lines. The long roll of individuals includes many with mixed party ties and multiple wards, indicating fragmented local engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Ward Shvin
Atwell
Cole
Roberta
Cheyney
Graham
MacClaugherty
Stewart
War Lick
Williams
Hancock
Ballabury
Troutman
Jonas
Hale
Francisco
Kesler
Simpkins
Warlick
Looney
Salisbury
Spangler
Ward
Roberts
McClaugherty
Committeaa
Hoge
Shirey
Mrs. Stewart
Snyder
Mrs. Smith
Precinct
Cheney
Trout- Man
Biciey
Bank cashier held on embezzlement charge in Benwood
W B Lanch cashier of the Bank of Benwood and his assistant Leach Ward both of Wheeling were arrested on a warrant charging embezzlement of 125000. The shortage was found by State Bank examiner H A Abbott and ex Secretary Houston G Young. Ward fled. Leach released on 5000 bond. amount likely higher. No official bank statement issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benwood
W. Va
W. B. Lanch
Wheeling
Bank of Benwood
Leach
Joseph Ward
State Bank
H.A. Abbott
Grafton
Houston G. Young
Charleston
Ward
Teach
J. Jdoyd Arnold
Woman's Secret of Beauty and the Pinkham Remedy
An old column extols female health and beauty linked to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It claims beauty comes from self care and avoiding feminine ailments that mar the face, urging women to take the tonic to restore health and vitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia F. Pinkham
Woman blocks telephone pole installation in front of window
Janet Batts opposed the erection of a telephone pole in front of her window. She sat in a rocking chair over an excavation to stop work. In court Magistrate O Connor ordered three men held in bail after a scuffle where the foreman and two policemen lifted her and the hole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janet
Warren
Butts
O'Connor
No Trace Of Indian Heiress 15 Found
Omaha reports an extensive search by federal, state, and local authorities failed to locate Maude Lee Mud, a 16 year old heiress from Miami Oklahoma who married Harl F Gordon of Miami yesterday in Council Bluffs Iowa. She vanished May 21 amid litigation over a fortune valued at more than 7 million dollars and a guardian, William Simms of Vinita Oklahoma, named until she turns twenty one. Sources say the mother consented to the marriage, a factor civil authorities want investigated to learn if it affected the inheritance and guardian arrangement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Neb
Maude Lee Mud
William Simms
Vinita
Okla
Simms
Alex Mudd
Osage
Medical Forum Draws West Virginia Clinicians In Huntington
A regional medical program in Huntington features speakers from Charleston Morgantown Fairmont Bluefield and Huntington. topics cover syphilis treatment intramuscular approaches respiratory infections chlorine treatment and dietary management of non diabetic acidosis with discussions by Drs. Waddell Slusher Hare Ramage Robertson Sloan Hoge and others. evening sessions include a public health and medical progress panel and a surgery section addressing fractures ureteral strictures and urinary calculus with demonstrations and expert discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. S. Hare
Bluefield
Chesney N. Ramage
Fairmont
Harry L. Robertson
Charleston
Rudolph Reudeman
Huntington
Geo. M. Lyon
Nu Va
Robert M. Hoad
Clarksburg
West Va
Raymond ‘Sloan
Keasel
University Health Service
Morgantown
John Nathan Simpson
Duff ‘D
Daniel
Keetes
A. H. Hoge
J. D. Willis
Roanoke
T. G. Tickle
Walter E. Wast
Bainbridge Colby to Defend Scopes
John T. Scopes face trial next month on teaching evolution in Dayton Tennessee. Bainbridge Colby chosen to assist in defense joining William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow in a bid to dramatize the case for national attention. Dr John R Neal remains Scopes' senior counsel as the defense lines up scientists and clergymen to testify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wilson
John T. Scopes
Dayton, Tenn
Bainbridge Colby
William Jennings Bryan
American Civil Liberties Union
Scopes
Clarence Darrow
Chicago
Forest Bailey
Tennessee
John R. Neal
Bailey
Dudley Wighd Malone
Charles Evans Hughes
Supreme Court
Woman claims husband forced plow using horse
In Philadelphia, March 9, Mrs Victorian Samody, 48, sought a divorce from Joseph Samody, 48. She alleges he made her hitch to a plow with a horse and tramp the fields, whip the animal, and perform chores including driving hay, milking cows, and cleaning stables as punishment for slow plowing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Jane
Victorian
Samody
Joseph Samody
One Man Dead In Mulitple Injuries In WV Car Crash
Huntington West Virginia June 9 one man killed another fatally injured and three others injured when a speeding car crashed into a telephone pole at a busy intersection. Ernest G Williams 42 is dead Vance Saunders 24 taxi driver hospital with fractured skull not expected to live Mrs Violet Saunders 19 bruised and Robert Perkins 26 unconscious later arrested on moonshine possession charges Warrants issued for Saunders and Mrs Saunders for whiskey possession Saunders charged with driving while intoxicated The car reportedly struck another vehicle then somersaulted into the pole leaving the other occupants unharmed
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
W. Va
Ernest G. Williams
Vance Saunders
Violet Saunders
Saunders
Robert Perkins
Charleston High School Makes A Clean Sweep
Charleston High School dominated the state tennis tournament at Princeton sweeping singles and doubles. Haley of Charleston earned standout status by winning the singles title and contributing to the doubles win with Hale. Lowry and Hale boosted Charleston with strong doubles play, defeating Thornton and others. Harlan, last year’s champion, fell to Haley in the third round. The Gott brothers of Bluefield did not enter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Princeton
Haley
Thornton
Lowry
Hale
Harlan
Gott Brothers
Bluefield
Pth
Ecb
Large pile of cross ties found on track near Freeburn
Norfolk and Western westbound train No. 3 from Norfolk to Columbus narrowly avoided wreck after unknown parties placed a large pile of cross ties on the track at Freeburn in Mingo county. An eastbound freight crew flagged the approaching train as police open an investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk and Western
Norfolk
Columbus
Freeburn
Mingo County
Americans Fired On by Yunnanese Gunners at Canton
A Daily Express dispatch from Hong Kong reports Mr and Mrs Frank Crampton and Mr and Mrs Montgomery Ogden, Americans fleeing a war zone, were fired on by Yunnanese machine gunners at Canton. Mrs Crampton was wounded and the party had to turn back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Daily Express
Hong Kong
Frank Crampton
Montgomery Ogden
Canton
Crampton
Medical and Surgical Clinics This Morning
Clinics to be held at St Anke's Hospital and the Bluefield Sanitarium start about 6 36 a.m. and run for roughly an hour and a half. Medical and surgical services are offered at both sites this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Anke’s Hospital
Bluefield Sanitarium
Real estate transfers filed in county clerk's office
Transfers include Floyd J. Newberry et al to William H. Newberry for Lot Section 11 Bee addition and 21 acres near Princeton for 1. B. C. Snidow and wife to Georgia P. Brown for a small tract at Black Oak Mountain for 4,500. Cumberland Heights Inc to Carl Ferguson for a lot on Wyoming Street in Bluefield for 192. Axis location noted with case report, time five minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd J. Newberry
William H. Newberry
Bee Addition
Princeton
B. C. Snidow
Georgia ‘P. Brown
Black Oak Mountain
Eadie Johnson
C. W. Billings
Bluefield
Cumberland Heights, Incorporated
Carl Ferguson
Wyoming Street
Doctors Invite Public to Tonight's Session in Weat Virginia
Public invited to the general session of the Weat Virginia State Medical Association at city auditorium tonight at 8. Dr A T McCormick of Louisville Ky will speak on Public Health and Preventive Medicines. Dr Harry M Hall of Wheeling, rep of Medical Progress Inc, will discuss Agencies that would clip the wings of medical progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Municipal Building
Hamssy Street
A. J. McCormack
Lewisville
Harry M. Hall
Wheeling
West Va
American Association For Medical Progress. Inc
Ramsey Street
B. H. Swint
A. P. Bult
Elking
Lee Olt
Charleston
W. W. Golden
Elkins
Chae
F. Hicka
Welch
O. D. Barker
Parkersburg
J. &. Krump
Stuntington
Weat
Virginia State Medical Association
A. T. McCormick
Louisville
Medical Progress, Inc
Medical Progress
Lot Merchandise Found On Bailey Lot
Bailey J. D. Bailey was arrested in McRoberts Kentucky on multiple charges after deputy Ira Blevens received circulars from Baldwin Felia Detective Agency. He allegedly possessed merchandise valued between 900 and 900 dollars identified as staff stolen from Pocahontas Fuel Company Sagamore Mercer May 24. Items include barber tools from San Tabor McComas, a .351 Winchester rifle, postage stamps, a brace and bit from a McComas post office robbery, watch repair tools, watch springs, and five traveling bags including a Northfork tagged bag. A hearing is set for Bailey before Squire H. B. Kitts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. Bailey
McRoberts
Ira
Blevens
Baldwin-Felia Detective Agency
Bailey
Pocahontas Fuel Company
Sagamore
Mercer County
Bud and
Herndon
Kentucky
San
H. B. Kitts
Erases Wrinkles in Less Than Fifteen Minutes
The Tarkroot method offers immediate visible smoothing of wrinkles with a paste of tarkroot powder lemon juice and water. It claims realtla like results in under 16 minutes and costs less than three cents per treatment in the original package at any drug store.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Coalfield
C. L. Seyler Lumber Co
Bluesald
Lea
M. G. Whitlow Hartware Co
Service Coal Company
Shrine Club
Masonic Temple
Christian Advocate
Methodist Advocate
Bilwefield
Sivbaeriber
Rreara
D. H. Carr
R. F. BD
Totato
R. S. Hart
Salem
Royal Arch Mason
Binefield
R.A. M
H. Ec
D. Payne
Abney-Barnes Company
O. W. Frazer
Bales
Law & Commerce
Loosa
Central Station
Fireswept
Altamont
J. B. Eades
Asa
Harry L. Greenspot
Igftbertising
Ady Written
the Joyce Co
Rotel Wie Sori Ridg
Southern Association
Nashville
Atlanta
Chattanooga
Birmingham
Little Hock
New Orleans
Memphils
Mobile
Charles A. Wasley
Puttaylvania County
N. ¥. Life Ins. CO
Ns, G. Lite, Agt
Hinefeld
Wiotto
Bland St
Mercer Funeral Home
Bland Street
Modern Funeral Establishment
R. L. Morris
Bluefield, W. Va
Wm.h. Carr
Oateopath
Abramy 405
Coal & Coke
United Shoe Repairin Corporation
Bradman
Saliabury
Dunn
Got
Mrs. Farts
Mrs. Fisher
Republican Committee
J. W. Brown
Carrie Ball
H. J. Shott, Jr
Ray Balloogee
R. M. Corvin
Missis Mae Maynard
Fred Hawley
Rosemary Wilmore
J. C. Akers
Fannia
Bond
Q. A. Got
FP. Faris
A. Francisco
G. A. Spangler
E. W. Francisco
Ollie Smith
Democratic Committee
G. T. Thornhill
Effie Loudermilk
M. B. Postlethwaite
Mary D. Deckner
W. H. Warman
C.B. Wilson
W. ©. Ross
Vera Easley
J. A. Whitlock
Olga B. Lane
Armestrout
Mra
Melaughlin
W. F. Jonas
George Wi. Hale
Sue P. Stewart
Kodaks
Eastman
Kodak
South Bluefield
Harmac
Maud Lee Mudd
Earl F. Gordon
Prsident Wilson
Charleston High School
C. A. Latham
John E. Cannnday
Wade M. St. Clair
A. G. Rutherford
H. K. Buford
G. D. Johnson
R. J. Wilkinson
Hugh J. Carr
J. W. Kennedy
Price Hospital
Dr. Kennedy
Virginian CO
R. H. Johnson
Falymout
A. K. Hoge
J. A. Arbuckle
R. 4
Weat Va
Thomas B
Perry
John McGuire
Bluefield Weat Va
W. Qharatog Booker
Wellsburg
West
A Sr ‘Oia Beere
T. W. Moore
Tucker
Jackeop
Lot
J. S. Compton
Goodykoontz Drug CO
Three Good Drug Stores
Princeton Avenue
Airvirw Phar Bland Ang Gouth
Bluefield Pharmacy
Biverald Avenue
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