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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1934
Page
7
Mercer county plans to reduce the number of cows loaned to needy relief recipients from 250 to 75 after a two day survey. Over 200 applicants sought cows while 62 Bluefield applicants showed only 17 able to care for a cow next winter. The state relief administrator will decide on statewide orders tomorrow.
The county court was directed by state tax commissioner Fred L. Fox to tell all county employees who use expense accounts to refrain from claiming exemptions under the consumers' tax law that exempts state institutions and subdivisions from sales tax.
The order states divisions and relief workers under state direction must pay tax on all purchases and services used in official duty. Commissioner Fox sent the letter containing the directive. The court approved commissions for notaries Henry Rodin Austin A Steele J J Penn C B Bell and E H Bailey. P F Lusk named administrator of Cynthia O Shrewsbury estate posting a $500 bond with Shrewsbury as surety. Glenn Scott Willie Billings and Millard Bailey named appraisers.
Mrs. Maude Strongfort continues site surveys for a proposed health institute using Mer cer Healing Springs Red Sulphur Springs Salt Sulphur Springs and other mineral sites. The plan combines features from famous German institutions with her experience in Newark New Jersey and aims for international publicity through magazine ads.
In an interview, Mrs Strongfort discusses assembling samples of spring water mud and data at various sites. She will travel to Asheville North Carolina after touring local locations. F F Van Court accompanies her as a former advertising manager for Mrs Strongfort. The institute proposal aims to start a broader campaign to capitalize on the region’s favorable summer climate.
Directors of the Princeton chamber of commerce voted to send a committee to Charleston to confer with state road officials about the proposed Athens to Hinton Route 44. A June 26 dinner at the Virginian hotel will honor Carl Burkholtz, president of the Virginian Railway.
Community notices from Princeton include Episcopal Auxiliary meeting at Mrs. R R Sage’s Athens home Thursday at 1 with transportation arranged by contact. Girl Scouts register Tuesday at 2 at Presbyterian church and collect 50 cents for national ties. A December 30 1933 marriage reported for Helen Holden and Darrell Whittaker in Bristol Virginia. Circle 7 Baptist meets Tuesday 2 30 at Mrs H W Straley II Walker Street. Delphian club moves to 6 30. Missionary Society observes study today and tomorrow at 8 30 AM at the church.
Miss Ruth Shumate of Glen Lyn Virginia visits Princeton friends. Miss Lucille Sloan heads to Duke University summer session in Durham. Miss Alice Wallingford returns from Emory after a youth conference. Miss Eupha Bonham leaves for the University of Maine summer session in Orono. Mrs. Wagner shows improvement after illness. George Carr Jr returns from Michigan for the summer with family. Mrs. Sam Goodstein improves after hospital operation. Mr and Mrs A M Traugott and daughters visit relatives for the weekend. The Adkins family travels to Ansted West Virginia for funeral of Mrs. W C Nuckols, sister of Mrs. L C Adkins, with Mrs. Nuckols mother to Mrs A G Newby.
A dense listing of NBC W EAF network programs across regions with time blocks and station codes. Includes morning to late night segments, station clusters of East Midwest West and Pacific, and occasional program notes like Conquest Sun Rise and Dance Tunes.
Prime time listings show Amos and Andy east coast with a late night slot, followed by a government segment, Grace Hayes Musical Comedy, Crime Clues drama, Salter’s Orchestra, Musical Memories and Poet, Eddie Duchin Orchestra, The Red Poppy Ballet, Berger’s Orchestra with Amos and Andy far west, The Poet Prince Songe, Prees Radio News, Brito and Hie Orchestra, Frankie Masters Orchestra and Pete Smythe’s Orchestra across multiple time blocks.
Sixty local women will compete in a beauty pageant at Princeton High School auditorium staged by the American Legion auxiliary. Out-of-town judges will eliminate entrants to select Miss Princeton 1934, with a silver cup and silk wash as prizes.
Four trespassers on the Virginia railway were fined $10 and costs by Magistrate D. T. Carr and jailed ten days for defaulting payment. Three men were fined on drunk charges. R. B. Wright, arrested near Ingleside, paid $10 and costs for drunkenness, plus 30 days for liquor possession. Lillian Shannon and Edgar Stone, both of this city, were arrested Sunday near the Boy Scout camp on Wolf Creek with Bill Mullins, while Mr. and Mrs. Hobart Shrewabury welcomed a son Jerry weighing eleven and a half pounds born Saturday. mother and child doing well.
A brown leather purse lay on the ground as a group of youths snickered at others who tried to pick it up. A embarrassed passerby noted the purse and a woman finally reclaimed it saying she dropped it a little while earlier. The column also mentions Russia boiling water for tea at railway stations.
Dr. William Ghares Schulze of Chicago will be principal speaker at the fourteenth annual West Virginia Chiropractors Society convention in Parkersburg on June 12-13. As president of the National College of Chiropractic and director of the Chicago General Health Service, he has long promoted drugless healing and trained chiropractors nationwide.
McDowell county Red Cross executive committee meeting set for today at 2 30 PM in the Appalachian Community Room Welch and Elk Horn officers named W A Buchanan as chairman Mrs J H Newton as secretary and Frank Wright as treasurer A July road race from Moscow to Triflis will test diesel cars with entrants from twenty foreign firms across eight nations and Hawaii plants netted 700 unique species on the islands.
Jarvis Chandler a Keystone deputy sheriff was arrested after a Sunday morning clash that left Nathan Hale of Powhatan with a broken back and critical injuries. Hale was taken to Grace hospital. Chandler faces a county hearing late this week as full investigation proceeds.
Struck by a passenger train yesterday afternoon at about 3 30 in Welch T B Dillion 53 of Roder field sustained head lacerations treated at Welch Emergency hospital and released.
Thirteen appeal cases were disposed of on opening day of the June term. Six remain to be tried today. Verdicts for defendants in three cases, one verdict for plaintiff, nine settled or judgment allowed by Judge Reno F. Howard. Minor totals and dismissals noted.
Four year old Pred Owen suffered a fractured left foot when a motorcycle he was playing near fell on him. He received a cast at Grace hospital and was later sent home. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Joe Owen of Jaeger.
A Welch resident owns a Rhode Island Red chicken with four legs. The bird hatched late Thursday and walks on two legs while the two extra legs rest above its body and do not touch the ground. The chicken is normal in size and active. Mrs. Carrie Brown, owner, lives in Woodmont.
Ethel Turner, 21, of Arlington, left Stevens clinic and was jailed for a hearing after treatment for wounds from a gun battle she and Jack Hairston allegedly staged Friday night. Hairston remains critically ill and will be jailed for a hearing when he recovers. The dispute over a gun led to three shots from the pistol.
The Nurses Alumnae of Welch Emergency hospital will meet with Mrs Glen Bearoen at her home on The Dowell Street this evening at 6 o'clock. All members requested to attend. The Juvenile lodge Degree of Honor led by Mrs Hattie Mitchell will hold a picnic Wednesday afternoon at Coney Island park. Members and parents are asked to bring their lunch.
Arsa Lee Duncan nine year old girl of Hemphill sustained a fractured left arm Sunday afternoon after a fall from a swing. The fracture was reduced at Grace hospital and she was afterward allowed to return home.
Winer Loses Leg In Mine Accident At Peerless Coal And Coke Works Vivian man Persnaw sustained crushing injuries to his left leg yesterday afternoon. He was rushed to Welch Emergency hospital where doctors arputate the limb above the knee. Red Cross Meet Election Of Officers On Agenda To Open.
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