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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1939
Page
25
Mercer county will assemble and grade wool at Princeton on June 19. Farmers must deliver by 2 pm. Col B L Shaw will supervise grading. The effort aims to preserve wool quality, with shearing care emphasized to protect a crop valued around last year’s 575 419 pounds.
Beery appears in the title role with Alan Curtis as his son who schemes for quick promotion and faces a final reckoning. The scene emphasizes family conflict and ambition in a moral tale set within royal intrigue.
Seven truck drivers were fined twenty five dollars and costs in local magistrate courts Saturday for overloading timber trucks. State troopers checked loads near Onakvale on Friday and arraigned Freddie Hylton Charles Hlyton George Mann Ray Shumate J J before Magistrate Carl Jones and Russell Bostic Robert Dillon before Magistrate D T Carr.
Directors of the local chamber hold a meeting at the chamber offices Monday night at eight o'clock.
Mercer and Wyoming county farmers have until June 15 to express intentions to participate in the 40 farm program by completing and signing farm plans. County agent F. L. urges all farmers hoping to qualify for payments to finalize their farm programs before the deadline.
Allen born citizens of the town and community numbers by our town talent will be rendered at both services during the Flag Day observance in Princeton churches.
Fragmentary OCR item mentions the Episcopal Church with names Hobson Gravatt and a time stamp 7 46. The readable portion is incomplete and lacks actionable details or context.
Local church groups report weekly gatherings. The Katherine Davis circle meets Monday at 7 30 PM at Mrs. Jack Crockett Harrison street. Circle 3 of the Woman's Auxiliary met Thursday with 23 present at the church. The Delphian and Forum clubs announce Tuesday gatherings. Coalfield Mission Board to meet Tuesday at First Methodist church beginning 10 30 AM with leaders from Bluefield and district representatives.
George Woolfolk Jr. and others return home for summer from V. P. I and Greenbrier Military Academy. Bob Gatherum, home from Richmond, to Huntington for substitute work. Mrs. J R Aht travels from Bluefield and Lashmeet to Princeton. Hundley family guests in Straley area. Edward Lockhart and son Edward return from Clifton Tennessee, with Billy Neff visiting ten days. Inez Wysong visits Charleston and Gallipolis. C D McIntosh recovering from Memorial Hospital operation. Harold and Abe Tomchin head to Lexington for University of Kentucky summer term.
Real estate notice describes Blue Field Bramblel road county home with modern features on 8am basement and pool. Also lists 200 acres with 10 room frame house large barn tenant house 40 acres tillable land 168 acres prime Monroe County land 60 rolling acres on Highway near VU WV priced at 10000 terms to responsible party.
Arrangements are set for a laymen’s meeting at the First Methodist Episcopal church at 7:45 this evening. L laymen from local churches will take part in the program with musical numbers by Chambers of Glen Lyn Virginia Henry Fortune of Bluefield and of Princeton.
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