Bluefield Chamber of Commerce to elect eight new directors
The Bluefield chamber plans an annual election this week and next for eight new directors under a by law change that bars terms repeat. All 600 members nominate, with the sixteen highest vote-getters on the final ballot. The current holdovers include F M Archer and C I Cheyney.
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Bluefield Chamber of Commerce
Bluefield Chamber
J. L. Alexander
W. A. Bodell
C. H. Goodykoontz
C. B. Hancock
Bernard McClaugherty
Herbert Markle
C. W. Pierce
H. J. Shott
F., M. Archer
C. I. Cheyney
C. M. Deverle
W. E. FE. Koepler
George Richardson
W. C. Pollock
Chamber
Board of Directors
Chamber of Commerce
Bluefeld
Reverend Richardson to Preach at Bluefield Church Tonight
Rev. R. R. Richardson of Bluefield Va will preach tonight at the church named above. His choir will provide music and William Ward of Maefield Va will sing several selections. The public is invited to attend.
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R. R. Richardson
Bluefeild
William Ward
Maefield
Entries from Bluefield area ads and notices
Local items include music by Gene Austin and Warlick Piano rooms, paint sales and home improvement offers from Bailey Lumber, a Virginia Side PTA and Bluefield Business Men's Club meeting at Municipal Hall, Busy Bee restaurant ads, a Pocahontas dance with Mark Goff orchestra, savings campaigns by Bluefield Building and Loan and graphite paint tips, Masonic notice for Bluefield Lodge No. 85, and Bland Street Methodist Church supper with dancing school enrollments and temporary Granada Theatre office listing.
Wade and Moore Visit Abingdon for Stonewall Jackson College talks
Edwin C. Wade acting president and Dr. W. Moore board president visited Abingdon to hear nominating committee results on a new president. Two finalists were named and will be interviewed, with a permanent president expected within 30 days. The Appalachian synod underwrote 159000 and will seek funding to finish paying debt and build an administration block. Montgomery Presbytery pledged 50000.
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Edwin C. Wade
Stonewall Jackson College
Abingdon
8. W. Moore
Bluefield
Moore
Mgore
BE. C. Wade
Appalachian Synod
Eynod
Montgomery Presbytery
Lynchburn
Prosperity hinges on restrained government costs
President Coolidge warns that rising federal state and local spending threatens prosperity. He cites 1921 1925 and 1926 cost increases totaling billions and urges wiser budgets. He forecasts a balanced 1929 1930 outlook with cautious spending and steady tax policy.
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United States
Coolidge
Congress
Lord
Budget Bureau
Federal Service
Hoover world braces for decisive convention clash
The Hoover campaign firms up strategy in Kansas City as supporters and rivals crowd the streets, debating Andrew Mellon's stance and Hoover's path. Locals report a city alive with talk, promises, and anticipation ahead of the looming convention opening.
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Hoover
Andrew W Mellon
Herbert Hoover
Watson
Lowden
Curtie
Goft
Kansas City
Jim Watson
Jim Reed
Theodore Roosevelt Deneen
Linole
Jimmy Weisworth
New York
Ogden Mills
Reed Smoot
Simeon D. Fess
Gof
Curtis
Coolidge
Eolpy
Ralg
Hine
Outcome of Nomination Race Hangs in Balance
Reports show mixed signals on the 1924 nomination as Sanders seeks guidance from Coolidge and Mellon. Cabinet members and administration allies lean toward Hoover, signaling a pivotal moment in the party’s selection process.
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Sanders
Mr. Coolidge
Coolidge
Mellon
Butler
Hoover
Belton Held to Grand Jury for Robbery
M. J. Belton a 38 year old resident of the Virginia side was held for Mercer county grand jury on robbery charges after being caught in the act of robbing Ames and Watkins drug store on Bluefield avenue and Mulberry street. He admitted three other robberies in Bluefield the same weekend and named McMullin's grocery and West End pharmacy and a residence on Bluefield avenue. Patrolman Purley McComas observed Belton approach, heard crashes, and arrested him as he fled the drug store.
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M. J. Belton
Virginia
Squire W. W. McNeal
Mercer County
Grand Jury
Belton
Purley McComas
Ames and Watkins Drug
Bluefield Avenue
Mulberry Street
Bluefield
West End
Chestnut Street
McMullin
Logust Street
M. F Burkleback
McComas
Clase
Attempt to Kill Six Charged in Virginia Side
John D. Meadows Jr. a 24 year old Negro man from the city posted $1000 bond for arraignment on a charge of attempting to kill Beulah Baldwin, a Negro woman hospitalized with knife wounds. Red Baldwin, her husband, is held without bond. The incident occurred Sunday afternoon on East Graham as a car scene unfolded near Maefield. Meadows claims he did not attack and was not present as a witness.
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John D. Meadows Jr
Squire C. T. Benbow
Virginia Side
Beulah Baldwin
Maefield
Lomax
Red Baldwin
Baldwin
Meadows
East Graham
Confessed Hammer Slayer Found Guilty in Utah
Don Solovich once served as butler in Charles Chaplin's Hollywood home. Clark confessed to the hammer killing and was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter by a Utah jury. He faces an indeterminate term of one to ten years with sentencing set for June 15.
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Mant
Utah
Shedon Reid Clark
Hammer
Don Solovich
Butler
Hollywood
Charles Chaplin
Clark
Lowden Delegates Rally Behind Frank Lowden in Kansas City
Frank Lowden dominated the day as his personality kept delegates together amid Hoover sentiment. He greeted hundreds at his hotel and headquarters, urging the fight, while campaign manager Clarence F. Buck avoided reporters and offered no comment on London Illinois delegate defections.
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Kansas City
Frank Lowden
Herbert Hoover
Clarence F. Buck
London
Ilinois
Buck
Yards Virginia Woman Dead After Illness
Mrs. Margaret Alice Butt 55 wife of Bentley R Butt of Yards Va died at home after a three year illness attributed to high blood pressure. Her sudden decline occurred early yesterday. Survived by husband and seven children including William F Butt of Roanoke Mabel Carter Pocahontas Eva Jones Nemours Bentley Butt Columbus Roy Butt Hazard Ky Harry Ervin Elate Butt Yards and three brothers Wede Bostwick Christiansburg W B Bostwick Roanoke Luther L Bostwick Roanoke Funeral arrangements not yet completed last night.
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Margaret Alice Butt
Bentley R. Butt
Yards
William F. Butt
Roanoke
Mabel Carter
Pocahontas
Eva Jones
Nemours
Bentley Butt
Columbus
Ohio
Roy Butt
Hazard Ky
Harry
Ervin
Elate Butt
Wede Bostwick
Christiansburg
W. B. Bostwick
Luther L Bostwick
Two Held in Giles County Shooting Probe
Henry Ketchem and a Miss Maxie of Narrows Va are held by Giles county authorities in connection with the shooting of Walter Helton of Floyd county He was found wounded near Glen Lyn on Hast River mountain and taken to Pearisburg jail awaiting transfer to St Elizabeth hospital The inquiry centers on a Saturday night car trip with another woman who refused to speak and Ketchem's apparent intoxication during arrest.
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Henry Ketchem
Maxie
Narrows
Giles County
Walter Helton
Floyd County
Hast River Mountain
Glen Lyn
Helton
Sherif J. ©. Dickenson
Kkddgar
Pearisburg
J. L. Dillon
Commonwealth Attorney
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Hilton
Ketcheran
Miss Maxie
Ketchem
Frazier Returns From Virginia to Be By Father's Bedside
C C Frazier of Flat Top National Bank on College Avenue came back from Chilhowie Virginia where he stayed with his father Rev J Tyler Frazier for several days. Doctors say no hope of recovery as paralysis struck him last week. Frazier, 65, is surrounded by family.
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Co. C. Frasier
College Avenue
Flat Top National Bank
Chilhowle
J. Tyler Frazier
Frazier
Frasier
W. B. Perdue Recovers Vision After Years of Blindness
W. B. Perdue 70, long a familiar Bluefield street character and newspaper seller, has regained significant sight after ten years of near total blindness. He reports reading fine print again and says his vision is as good as ever.
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W. B. Perdue
Mr. Perdue
Bluefield
Granada Theatre Offers Varied Acts This Week
Granada Theatre presents music dancing and novelty acts by local youths directed by Kennedy and Cortez with Blue City Blue Boys providing band music. The film Surrender stars Mary Philbin and a fresh Folies stage show drew crowds. a complete program change is planned for Wednesday and Friday.
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Granada Procram
Kennedy
Cortes
Mary Philban
Blue City Blue Boys Orchestra
Cortez
Chorna
Clifton Jennings Dies After Mine Slate Fall
Clifton Jennings, 25, a coal cutter for Pocahontas Fuel Co at Pocahontas, died after a slate fall crushed his pelvis in a Sunday morning accident. He was injured Saturday afternoon and died at Bluefield Sanatorium. Funeral services are planned at Pocahontas. He is survived by his widow and children.
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Pocahontas Fuel Company
Pocahontas
Clifton Jennings
Bluefield Sanitarium
Jennings
S M Church Faces Mann Act Hearing
S M Church aged 25 of Knox ville Tenn was committed to Pinefield jail after default bond to await grand jury action in the Mann act case. Ethel Williams 21 held as witness. They were arrested at a Princeton avenue boarding house by officer C W Green. local police traced them from Knoxville.
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S. M. Church
Knoxville
Tenn
Pinefield
Thomas H. Scott
United States District Court
Church
Ethel Williams
Tennessee
Bluefield
Princeton Avenue
C. W. Green
Colored Club Women Assemble at West Virginia Federation Session
The West Virginia Federation of Colored Women's clubs held its twenty first annual session in Charleston with forty four delegates and visitors. Mrs A L Spaulding presided as James Weldon Johnson led the Negro national anthem to open. Mrs Charlotte Hawkins Brown of Palmer Memorial Institute spoke on The Negro Woman at the Cross Roads urging service and civic engagement. The meeting continued with officer elections to follow.
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West Virginia
Federation of Colored Women's Clubs
A. L. Spaulding
Charleston
James Weldon Johnson
A. J. Stewart
T. G. Howard
8. L. Wade
M. T. Sinclair
Professor Moore
Bluefield Institute
Annie Bailey
Palmer Memorial Institute
Sedalia
N. C
Federation
Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Palmer Memorial Institute of
Brown
Cross Roads
Mrs. Brown
Negro Club
Mrs
Senate investigates platform planks amid school influence
A senate ordered investigation targets how utilities try to sway public opinion by involving schools and colleges. American Legion planks push defense focus, civilian army components, navy ratio under treaty, and universal draft in wartime.
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Senate
American Legion
Navy
Party Aims to Withdraw Benefits Not Granted to Veterans
The proposal seeks no current benefits for veterans but promises increases aligned with veterans' needs in the future, signaling a shift in policy toward adapting support to demand.
Dokkies to Meet Ten Plan Ceremonial in Temple Hall
A special meeting is called tonight at o oclock in Pythian hall Dramatic Order Knights a Khorasean. The agenda is to complete plans for a ceremonial at the temple to be staged in Bluefield next Friday. All Dok kies are urged to attend.
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Fl Katas
Dramatic Order Knights
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News OF the Colored People
Kellogg
Graham
Gene Austin
Warlick
Gene Auguetin
Bailey Lumber Company
Parent-Teacher Association
Business Men's Club
Municipal Hall
Busy Bee Family
Dig-In
Amer Jean Legion
Mark Goff
Bluefield Building and Loan Association
Honaker Building
Bluefield Lodge No
Masonic Temple
Lester M. Carper
Normal Business College
W. Va
Bland Street Methodist Church
Hamilton Hall
Kennedy and Cortez
Granada Theatre
Wade
Moori
Stonewall Jackson
Thrift
U. S
Hoover Star
HY Phes
Cheney
Pedigo
Bland Street
Bluefield, W. VA
Virginia Side Lad
Princeton
Norfolk
Sutherland
Pracewa
Floyd, Va
East River Mountain
C. C. Frazier
Father
Lerten d Cp
Hatcher-Hodles C ° Car CO
Bvanual, VA
Colored Club Women Assemble
A.J. Stewart
Charlotte Brown
The
Lemkuhl Shepherd Co
Royal Standard
Royal Portable
Mangus - Phillips Shoe Co
Goodykoontz Drug Co
Three Good Drug Stores
Castoria
Pepsin Ag
Pepsodent
Vick
Jergin
East End Pharmacy
Bluefield Pharmacy
Bluefield Avenue & Mercer
Fairview Pharmacy
Uland and
South Streets
Trowns
J. S. Compton
Olhr S and mm Store
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