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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1915
Page
2
Local notices describe diverse events from a Red Men powwow at Princeton to sermons and meetings at Altamont hotel, plus visits by Dr Stuart and Prof Gillespie. Fire losses at Stony Ridge cottages noted, with insurance details and a later bridal tour report. Community notices cover baptisms, memorials, elks events, flower sales, and tax reminders.
An advertisement promotes Sentanel Laxative Tablets as an old time remedy for constipation sour stomach and related ailments. It touts may apple root aloes and jalap as a safe non griping alternative to calomel and highlights the soldier pictured box as the original form. The Sentanel Remedies Co of Covington Kentucky offers a physician sample package free to respondents.
Catholic Mass at Sacred Heart at 9 30 a m. First Baptist Sunday school at 9 20 a m. Morning worship at 11 on themes Come out from among them and be ye separate Oil and Water. Evening service at 6 on Repentance. B Y P U at 7. Presbyterian Sunday school at 9 30. Morning sermon Two Attitudes toward a Gift John 11 3 5. Evening sermon The wrong basis for happiness Jonah 4. Christian Endeavor at 7 inviting all especially visitors.
An old advertisement promotes Best Drugs and Sundries offering a prescription department with a competent pharmacist and a soda fountain boy ready to serve. It says Wide-A-Wake Pharmacy opposite the post office and mentions Don Godbey leaving for Chattanooga to open a cigar store in Tennessee.
The Appalachian Power Company shows a clever blizzard scene at its general offices on Princeton Avenue. Thos J Combiths designed the display to highlight staying warm with electric fans. Mr Godbey is noted as well posted in this business line and enjoys support from local friends.
Eugene R. Long departs this afternoon for Hickory North Carolina where on Tuesday of next week he will wed Miss Clara Finger farmers of this city.
The Elks announce a May Day style flag day program on Monday June 14 at 8 pm in the lodge room. The event honors fidelity symbolized by the American flag and will feature Judge Harrold A Ritz delivering the address with limited seating for spouses and female relatives of members. Saturday is daily day in Bluefield Bay one.
The N.1H. Smith division No. 448 B of L. E and Invincible Division No. 11 G. 1. A hold their annual memorial service at Grace Methodist Church next Sunday June 13 at 11 AM. The program includes hymns prayers anthems offerings and a sermon titled Craft Fraternity. A list of mourned members is published.
Leonard a Bluestone Council member won the grand sentinel post in the grand council of U C T for the Virginias Maryland Delaware and DC by a two vote margin. Bluefield members jubilant and many U S T attendees came in from Bluefield. Next meeting site is Staunton Virginia.
Calvary Baptist holds Sunday school at 9 30 a m and services at 11 a m and 8 p m led by Rev Jas H Franklin. Baptism available. B Y P U meets at 7 p m. Midweek prayer 8 p m Wednesday. Christian Church offers Bible school 9 30 a m and services at 11 a m and 8 p m led by Rev F K Wiley D D. Memorial service noted for R L E. Epworth and Knights activities listed. Christ Episcopal at Tazewell and Duhling streets with services 11 a m and 7 45 p m and Monday Brotherhood meeting. preacher Rev Guthrie Pitblado. Sunday school 9 45 a m. sermon themes include Man's Dominion and What is your Life. All welcome.
Secretary T Boykin of the chamber of commerce returns from New York and Norfolk with news that the Virginian railroad line will be extended from the present line into the Buchbananam fields. Officials and other parties forecast developments in a few days. Come, be a sport, and buy a daisy.
A Bristol whaling ship Endurance is spotted among shifting icebonds after a gale fractures a Scotch bark. Survivors swap crews, then resume whaling at Nuweek, finding each ship even in loss and gain as seasons brighten.
A scientific palmist clairvoyant and astrologist offers reading by mail. Send birth date and five two-cent stamps to 4500 Fourteenth St NW Washington DC for correspondence readings and tests.
Special commissioner Harold A. Ritz will auction three Bluefield parcels in Mercer county West Virginia on June 26 1915 at 10 am The properties are Lot 49 in the Rover tract Lot 1 Park Place Addition and Lot 6 Park Place Addition with detailed metes and bounds The sale proceeds split as one third cash one third in six months and one third in twelve months with a bond required and title withheld until full payment.
Norfolk and Western schedule lists departures from Roanoke to Lynchburg Roanoke to New York via Hagerstown and Philadelphia connections. It shows Pullman sleepers to Norfolk Roanoke Richmond New York and Chicago with cafe cars at Bluefield Shenandoah and other routes. Contact W B Bevill and W Saunders in Roanoke Virginia for details.
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