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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1928
Page
5
Scenes in Suva Fiji show crowds gathering at the harbor to greet the giant monoplane Southern Cross after a 3,144 mile Hawaii to Suva leg. The aircraft then continued to Brisbane Australia in a historic Pacific flight.
Voters in Virginia side head to the new city auditorium to elect a mayor city treasurer and eight councilmen for two years from September. Mayoral candidates are J. W. Baldwin J. H. Holbrook and T. J Ashworth with incumbent Laura Davenport opposing for treasurer Clarence Groover. Ballot list shows eighteen council names. write in T L Smithdeal who filed late at Tazewell. Election begins at canup and ends at sundown with judges C L Alexander G M Bailey and J E Wagner.
Mayor H. C. Calaway leaves for Kansas City to serve as sergeant-at-arms at the national Republican convention after a telegram from Virginia’s C. B. Slemp confirming the appointment. Rev. J. F. Benton also journeys to Pocahontas Virginia for a district church convention with delegates Betty Crockett Nannie Crockett J. F. Benton J. H. Bates W. J. Wagner George P. Crockett and G. M. Bailey accompanying from the local Methodists.
News items left at the Witten pharmacy include a wedding of Clarence Harvey and Miss Bettie Hudson who married recently in Huntington after a YWCA stint in Maefield. The couple plan to live in Huntington after visiting the groom’s home. A Red Cross clinic by Miss Louise Whiteside will be held in the municipal building private room on Thursday and Friday with free exams from 9 to noon and 1 to 3. Presbyterian ladies meet Wednesday at 3 pm with Mrs. B B Richardson. A local farmer visiting the street said he supports the school levy, noting he has seven children.
In a family debate about education residents argue for approving the June 19 school levy. They cite Tazewell county's seven months of schooling, towns paying high schools, and the need to improve the county’s standing in state school ratings and property census.
Dave Cooly, once critically ill with pneumonia and complications, has been brought home from the Bluefield sanitarium and is now getting along nicely.
The J. H. Sluss property in Blue Field Virginia will be offered for sale at the Bank of Graham on June 25. A bargain price is expected and interested parties are invited to inspect the property. G. M. Barger is the trustee.
The Bluefield Virginia Business Men's Club schedules a special Thursday 6:15 pm gathering at Palmer Hall Methodist Church with Governor Byrd as guest. An address on constitutional amendments voting June 19 will be given after a dinner served by the Methodist ladies. The program includes music and urges full attendance.
Revival services at the Christian church begin with Dr J H O Smith of Kansas City as evangelist. Attendance is strong and prospects for a large revival look favorable. Chester F Harris, pianist and chorister, arrives to participate. Public invited and warmly welcomed.
Bluefield Virginia visitors Miss Geneva Mullen Mrs H L Burrows and relatives of Mrs H H Young arrived for several days. After touring Burkes Garden they chose to extend their stay for another week. Frank Pierce returns from Augusta Military Academy. Mr and Mrs Bruce Hanks and Mrs F M McCreary visited workers in Elizabethton Tennessee. Miss Katherine Dudley of Hich?
A woman from Mond, Virginia, who has been staying several days with her sister Mrs. C. L. Shufflebarger, departed yesterday for Pulaski, Virginia, for a short visit before returning home.
Oscar Be Sams argues Bluefield College offers six key advantages for city youth. It is a home environment with local purchasing, accepted by many universities for transfer, small class size, and preserves home influences to guide maturity before broader study.
William L. Gibert, lone surviving Army engineer from Roosevelt era, oversaw Gatun Lock and other canal works. born in Gadsden Alabama. The piece then laments modern youth leaving home for college and argues Bluefield College offers faith aligned, economical options with annual cost about 120 dollars for local students.
The article appeals to families to compare charges with other institutions and make the sacrifice needed to send a son or daughter to the college on September 11. It encourages local students to visit during summer to complete the classifier.
Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton headline the Paramount comedy Wife Savers at the Colonial. The pair play comic Alpine lovers in a Swiss village, with Beery as a gaffe prone baker and Hatton as a duplicitous lieutenant amid postwar adventures and romance.
In Paris a clothing shop displays window models bearing the countenances of famous figures. Lindbergh Coste and Lebrix view the dummies while Georges Carpentier has fallen from fashion, marking a shift in public celebrity display.
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