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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1943
Page
10
Princeton notices recall a man once with a local company and later a watchman for a wholesale house. He leaves a widow and two stepchildren, Mrs Walter Wilson of Louisville Kentucky and T K Hearn of Richmond Virginia, plus eight grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
The Princeton Garden club met at the Elks building with president Mrs. Carter Snead presiding. The late vice president Mrs. H F Toothman Athens spoke on herbs and weeds and distributed slips and plants. Mrs. H C Hadden reported on the state meeting at Charleston May 11 12 and praised Bluefield ladies. Guests included Mrs. Toothman Mrs. Stiedmann Mrs. Thornton and others.
Funeral services for 59 year old Mrs. Hattie C. Pearce of Princeton RFD 1 will be held at Hawkins chapel Bluefield at 10 30 tomorrow morning. The Rev Don R Brandon and Rev C G Gunn will officiate with entombment in Wood lawn cemetery. She is survived by two stepdaughters and a marine grandson, with many relatives noted in the notice.
Joe Dixon of Spanishburg is hospitalized with extensive burns after an incident with gasoline from a state road commission tanker. Chancery orders: Opal Pennington granted divorce from Leander with custody of three children to their grandmother. Prince ton Camp 217 Woodmen initiate fifteen members at Walker hall with entertainment. A list of film showings and Kiwanis talk detail community life and local events.
The War Food Administration and county USDA leader H. B. Barbour announce a revised meat restriction order. It requires wholesale meat stamped with a valid inspection number and introduces quarterly reporting for local slaughterers and monthly reports from butchers exceeding set liveweight thresholds. The rules aim to control slaughtering for military and lend-lease needs.
Funeral service for Lou Emma Rowland, who died Tuesday morning, will be held at the Rowland home in Gardner at 11 o'clock conducted by Rev Z F Mayberry of Matoaka. Burial follows in Rowland cemetery with pallbearers Ted Bivins Basil Robert and Bernard Rowland Charlies Gunter and Bus Ferguson. Nieces and friends will act as flowerbearers.
This afternoon at 3 at Wesley Chapel Trigg Va services will honor Pvt Cecil Stafford Dennis U S Army son of Mrs Minnie Dennis of Princeton killed with several soldiers when a truck overturned near Nashville Sunday Dennis served four years in the Army. He leaves his mother and brother Herbert of Princeton. Friends bringing cars should meet at Dennis home at 1. Funeral attendees include Ed and Junior Stafford Wiley and Preston Johnson James and Clyde Hetherington Nieces will be flower bearers Burial at Wesley Cemetery.
Eric Lindquist 67, Swedish native and Princeton resident for 32 years, died at home on Tuesday evening after an illness. Funeral service held at Memorial Funeral Directory chapel Friday at 2 pm with Rev. J Tommy Wil, pastor of the Church of God. Burial in Oak Hill Cemetery. Lindquist was a blacksmith at Tri City Trac.
Co. H. Workman and Miss Louisa Workman travel from this city with Mrs. Dorothy Jarvis of Narrows and Misses Mildred Elizabeth and Mary Catherine Raines. They will visit Mr. and Mrs. Workman’s parents before leaving Wednesday for Key West Florida to spend a week.
Detroit 6 Chicago 4 as Humphries earns the win. Cramer Wakefield and York contributed key hits while Appling and Stolen bases aided the offense. Newhouser, Hoover, and York allowed runs in a hard fought game with 14 799 in attendance.
St Louis Browns rout the Cleveland Indians 6 to 0 behind Bob Muncrief two hitter performance. George McQuinn hits a homer for the Browns, Vernon Stephens and Mike Chartak drive in runs, while Bagby takes the loss for Cleveland extending his skid to five and one. Attendance reported around 2,000.
Chicago White Sox beat Detroit 2 to 1 in the opener of a five game series at Briggs Stadium. Three unearned runs in the first inning off Hal Newhouser after Rudy York misplayed a pop fly and Luke Appling drove in two. Johnny Humphries earned his fourth win, with Joe Haynes finishing the ninth.
An exhibition baseball summary lists Philadelphia A versus Trenton Interstate with scores 15 to 8 in favor of Philadelphia. The pitching lines name Kuwerisk Fagan Clyde Wag ner Brucker Hennessey Defelice and Shubula. The Pacific end of the Panama Canal is noted as 27 miles east of the Atlantic end.
The McDowell County Board of Education announced selections for the 1943-44 school year. George W. Bryson, superintendent, lists numerous appointed bus drivers across Leckie Anawalt Warfield Maybeury Panther Northfork and other towns, plus janitors for Negro and white schools, detailing many names and assignments.
McDowell criminal court jurors for the July term have been drawn. Grand jurors report July 12, while petit jurors report a week later. The long list names many residents from Keystone Welch Panther and surrounding areas among others.
John Janney 24 of Mohegan a seaman first class in the US Navy died Monday in the veterans home at Huntington from complications. He was born November 23 1918 in Mohegan and is survived by his parents Mr. and Mrs. George L. Janney. Funeral services will be held at Estela Camp’s home in Mohegan with burial there. Logan W Va June 9 Prosecutor Claude A Joyce said Estil Martin 27 after death of W H Steen was released for lack of evidence Steen 70 fireboss at Holden No 21 mine killed by a mine motor operated by Martin. Canning School schedule continues in McDowell county with sessions at Welch Jr High Thursday 9 30 am and Bilkhorn High Friday 9 30 am with S J Price and Mrs T J Livisay extension workers demonstrating drying canning brining storing and sulfuing fruits and vegetables.
Milo W Gray safety director for the Weirton company in Weirton West Virginia will speak at the quarterly sponsored police conference in Welch today at the Memorial building starting 10 30 am. E E Kuhnel Huntington FBI special agent opens the meeting followed by the 1 30 lineup and the inside story of the Carl Streka apprehension by FBI agent Frank D Stanton. Mayors and law enforcement officers from the area are invited. Johann Strauss was the original Wall King.
Ausie Stafford and F. J. Gregory of Capels were arrested by state liquor enforcement officer J. B. Belcher on operating a moonshine still charge. They were jailed pending preliminary arraignment.
McDowell lodge No. 112 A F and A M will elect officers Tuesday evening. Two days later Wyndham chapter No. 45 Royal Arch Masons holds an officers election on Thursday.
First German prisoners of World War I for the United States were taken in Guam aboard the Cormoran. Saccharine, discovered in 1878 by an American scientist, is reported as 300 times sweeter than sugar. Additionally, scattered score-like results from games show Knoxville 6 Littl Rock 4 and Columbus 2 Milwaukee 5.
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