Daisy Day Promotes Civic Relief and Local Sales
Community notices urge Daisy Day on June 11 to support the Civic Relief Committee and nurses in Bluefield. Ads market painting, auto services, flowers from Fallon Florist Roanoke, Va, and dirt sales. Shrine meet attendees travel from Des Moines and Norfolk to join the Imperial Conclave. local arrests and church announcements accompany the page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civic Relief Committee
Truefield
Bluefield
L. H. Clark
Kyle
Hooker
W. H. Thomas
Des Moines
Iowa
Mystic Shrine
Clark
Mr. Booker
Farge
Wheeling
Mr. Thomas
Norfolk
Lynchburg
Roanoke
W. Kills
C. HL. McConnells
Gate City
Virginia
Local notables travel for health and graduation events
Mrs D Hi Carria remains at Bleefield Sanitarium for medical treatment. Mr and Mrs M R Cecil travel to Altavista Virginia due to Mr Cecil’s ill health. Miss Lacey Mellhany has returned from Farmville after graduating from Farmville Normal. Dr T B Vase left for Morgantown to attend the West Virginia University finale where he will pitch in the alumni game. Mrs C H Berryman and Mrs A Hi Hock also go to Morgantown for their daughters Charlotte Berryman and Nell Hoek’s graduation finale at WVU.
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M. R. Cecil
Altavista
Cecil
Lacey Mellhany
Farmville
Farmville Normal
T. BE. Vase
Morgantown
University of West Virginia
Vass
University
C. H. Berryman
A. Hi. Hock
West Virginia University
Charlotte Berryman
Nell Hoek
Civic Relief Committee Disbursements 1920 21
The Civic Relief Committee lists how gifts from Daisy Dey funded aid for the needy. Items include clothing food coal rents drugs hospital bills and extra nurses. Total disbursements amount to 1550.50 from October 1920 to May 1921.
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Acseas Sire
Sadeuekee Hospital
Civic Relief Committee
Brewster's Millions at Colonial Theatre with Arbuckle
Rosene Arbuckle stars in Brewster's Millions at the Colonial Theatre with Tetty Ross Clark supporting. The film features a man who must spend a million dollars within a year to inherit a larger fortune, a comedic caper that unfolds on screen.
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Colonial Theatre
Rosene
Fatty) Arbuckle
Tetty Ross Clark
Mr. Arbuckle
Informal Responses Favorable to Disarmament Talks
Washington reports informal favorable replies from several governments to US proposals for disarmament negotiations. No formal talks yet, but officials see progress toward a possible disarmament conference. Timing may be lengthy and sources of replies remain undisclosed.
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Washington
United States
Sunday School at Calvary Baptist and Tabernacle Service
Calvary Baptist schedules Sunday school at 9 am under Superintendent H. Lilly with no preaching. A brief Sunday session aims to allow tabernacle worship at 10 am. Similar notices from CC L Cheyney announce 9 am Sunday school and 10 am tabernacle service. Sacred Heart outlines masses at 8 and 10 am with 7:30 pm devotions and 9 am Sunday school. Dues payable to 8 C Douglas, treasurer, and a Wednesday prayer meeting at 8 pm invites new members.
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Calvary Baptist Sunday School
A. Lilly
Tabernacle
L Cheyney
the Tabernacle
The
Bland Street
C. Douglas
Victory Medal Urges Cherished Pride for WWI Heroes
Col. F W Galbraith, national commander of the American Legion, urged World War I veterans to apply for the Victory Medal. He noted about 1.5 million of 3.5 million eligible have claimed it and urged enlistment at the Legion dugout or Red Cross chamber offices. Sweden plans to electrify its northern provinces to power its entire railroad system.
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Col
F.W. Galbraith
American Legion
Legion
American Red Cross
Chamber of Commerce
Sweden
Retail coal dealers endorse Hoover plan
The National Retail Coal Merchants Association backs Secretary Hoover’s plan to publish stock and production data to aid intelligent buying and uniform demand. The committee foresees a trial of the plan but does not expect immediate large reductions in coal prices or freight rates.
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New York
Hoover
National Retail Coal Merchants Association
Moonshine raid seizes whiskey in Mercer County
Mercer County officers led by Prosecuting Attorney H B Lee raided below Athens early yesterday morning, seizing fourteen gallons of moonshine and arresting A L Perry Roy Meadows and Holly Meadows on sale charges. The whiskey was poured into a sewer after arraignment. bond set at $1000 each.
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Mercer County
H. B. Lee
Athens
A. L. Perry
Roy
Holly Meadows
Jerry Akers
Wirt Bailey
Dillon
Barrett
Bluefield
Larrett
Justice of the Peace
James H. Gollehon
Sweet bill sent to Senate after unanimous House passage
In Washington on June 10 the House approved the Sweet bill by 235 to 0, consolidating agencies serving former service men. A veterans bureau would house the war risk insurance bureau and other services, with 140 relief offices replacing 137 local boards.
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Washington
House
Senate
Commercce Committee
Veterans’ Bureau
Treasury Department
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Public Health Service
Miners All Escape Fire At Chicago Milwaukee And St Paul Mine
June 10 report from Peru Tl states every miner at the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul mine in Mark near here escaped a blaze that gutted the facility. Superintendent James Steele said officials verified all men who fled via emergency shafts after the fire began in a machine shop about a half mile from the main.
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Peru
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Mark
James Steele
Seven male graduates in Fairmont State Normal Class
Fairmont West Virginia June 10 Out of a class of eighty three graduates at the Fairmont state normal school today there were seven young men. The male element has decreased steadily in the normal school enrollments in the late years. The commencement address was given by Dr Thomas E Finnegan state superintendent of public instruction of Pennsylvania. Joseph Rosier president of the school gave a short address and the diplomas were presented to George M Ford state superintendent of the board of education of West Virginia.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Fairmont State Normal School
Thomas E. Finnegan
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Pennsylvania
Joseph Rosier
George M. Ford
Board of Education
Wes Virginia
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Coalfield
the Victory Loneh and Bakery
Angel Food
Imbrella
Raleid Street
Ford Automobile Body
Blwefehl Avenue
Stars and Stripes
Raleigh Street
Scott
Concord Normal Summer School
Bulletin
Fred A. Forster
Dai
Paint & Paper Co
Billy Sunday Tabernacle
Fallon, Florist
Va. S
Platnick Coal Co
Hell
Grand Jury
Florence Jarry
Squire J. A. Chambers
Bluefield Lodge
Elks’ Club
Presbyterian
W. &. Knox
Reidsville, N
Northerk
MD Vivian
Nortiferk
Vivian
Altamont
Altamont Hotel
Frederick L. Black
Harold Black
Summers Street
Bluefield, W. Va
West Virginia
D. Hi. Carria
Bleefield Sanitarium
Civic Relief
Daisy
Arbuckle
Mer
Easley-Perkins & 60
Honaker’s Inc
R. W. Honaker
F. C. Goodall
E. B. Boggs
Sublette & Barnes Building
Bluefield Avenue
William H. Carr
Osteopath
Kelly & Moyer
First Baptist
Race Methodist
Sacred Heart Catholic
Sacred Heart Church
Bland Street Methodist
F. W. Galbraith
NEW Royal
Stieff
Earth
Chas. M. Stieff
Lynchburg, Va
Steele
Cherry
Telegraph
Hong Fatenteo
Pele
Henry Rodgin Cw
Nikky
Sheffield
Sterling
J. W. WATERS COMPANY, _ JEWELERS
Law and Commerce Building
the Flower Shop
Brand Street
Alexander Cut Flower and Plant
Criss the Arist
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