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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1925
Page
8
Local notices advertise coal deals at Allen Street Coal Company and service coal. Businesses list hot weather foods, dry cleaning, rent, and shop services along with lodging and pen rewards. A job seeker from Roanoke adds a hiring note, while agricultural hints describe drought impacts on crops.
The Bluefield convention drew many visitors and concluded in the afternoon with commendations. A committee directed the West Virginia State Medical Journal to increase its size to six by nine inches to match other major publications. Some attendees left before adjournment, while others remained for the 1926 session ending.
Warren S. Stone, longtime labor leader and financier, died after shaping railroad wage negotiations and leading the engineers brotherhood. He expanded organization size from 38,000 to about 90,000 members and grew its insurance portfolio to roughly $200 million. He built a 14 story Cleveland office and supported compulsory life insurance for engineers. His career blended tough bargaining with a reputation for keeping his word.
Mr Stone presented a plan for an engineers co operative bank at the 1918 triennial convention and was authorized to start such a bank in Cleveland. It opened November 11 1920 with 500000 capital and 100000 surplus. Resources grew to nearly 25000000 in three years. The Brotherhood Holding Company and Brotherhood Investment Company followed, with main stake held by engineers. A 21 story bank building in Cleveland and a 17 story Brotherhood Building were erected. Stone helped engineers invest in coal mines and financed a mail order store. He was born February 1 1860 near Ainsworth Iowa and joined the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in 1884. He married Carrie E Newell in October 1884.
Walter O'Donnell a beer-runner and gang member was buried in Chicago with modest flowers and a smaller crowd than past gangland funerals. His death followed a Capitol Inn hold up in Evergreen Park. the shooter remains uncertain as Tony Mallon denies killing ODonnell while investigators, led by Sheriff Peter Hoffman, pursue leads.
Edwin A. Brast today was named collector of internal revenue for West Virginia succeeding former Governor A. B. White. Brast, Parkersburg Publishing Co. president and Chancellor Hotel proprietor, has long been active in Republican politics and will assume duties soon. He will return to Parkersburg Sunday morning amid congratulatory telegrams from across the state.
New York reports the Appalachian Power Company shows surplus for the period ending May 31 rising to 34, after depreciation adjustments, compared with the previous year.
The annual Elks meeting in Williamson WV drew large attendance. Joseph Parson of Keystone was chosen grand exalted ruler with aims to excel in numbers and accomplishments ahead of the Charleston conclave next June. New management at Drewry Building rooms for rent. Spurgeon A Smith manager. Personal notes include Prof B S Bell of Princeton visiting Bluefield and Miss Marie Franklin of Pocahontas at summer school.
Walter P. Chrysler, president of Chrysler Motor Corp, cites crime statistic that one car in forty two is stolen within two years. He urges a counterfeit proof car mark easy for police to read, argues insurance costs rise and thefts waste resources, and predicts thieves will be thwarted as innovations arise.
Senator Oscar Underwood called for restoring pre war income tax rates at two percent normal and thirteen percent maximum surtax at a Alabama Tax Clubs meeting in Montgomery. He proposed estate taxes cut from forty percent to ten percent and noted the Mellon plan's higher rates.
More than 110 insignias of the Bluefield Automobile Club were placed on cars yesterday under Miss Pearl Brammer. A mechanic fixed the tags on radiators for a day’s work, boosting new memberships and renewing several dues. remaining members will receive tags by mail.
Thomas B. Sweeney Jr. of Washington DC, a Yale junior, was fined 25 dollars and costs for a technical aviation violation in New Haven. He admitted flying within 2000 feet of the Yale field during the Yale Princeton freshman baseball game on May 23, but denied piloting over the field during play.
An acacia tree in Paris’s Jardin des Plantes traces to a 1635 planting begun from a North American cutting brought by Jean Robin. The historic tree is supported by a cement belt and two pillar sets, preserving a living link to early botanical exchange.
Brussels June 12 The Belgian aero club will withhold final rankings in the Gordon-Bennett cup balloon race until pilot M Veenstra of the Prince Leopold returns with official landing documents. No word yet on where he descended. Wade T Van Orman Goodyear III may claim victory if Veenstra is disqualified for alleged deck landing on a German steamer Vaterland.
In Washington on June 12, Charles Craig a Black man, was rescued by police from a mob of Black peers who attacked him for allegedly assaulting a nine year old Black girl. A rope was readied before officers intervened. The event marks the first lynching attempt in the capital in twenty five years.
The Dorothy Perkins murder trial paused when the defendant fainted in court and was carried out for medical care. The prosecution presented a letter from her jail cell to rival suitor Mickey Conners. Conners, recently jailed for wife beating, declined to answer questions. Letitia Dunlap testified Templeton struggled with Dorothy and her parents over a revolver before the fatal shot. Harold Perkins denied his sister declared she fired.
New York June 12. Pittsburg Steel Company directors propose to acquire Pittsburg Steel Products Company. Plan includes 20 million dollars more capital stock and 2.5 million in unsecured notes. Stockholders vote August 20 on thePrine Phi. The firm has 17.5 million in common and 10.5 million in preferred stock with no bonded debt.
A crow strike on 33 000 volt lines near Towanda PA caused a series of fires in Milan destroying a Farmers' Supply Company store and a barn with about 9000 dollars in losses. Fires jumped to a dozen homes as the line fell on a telephone wire. three cows were electrocuted. Several residents were shocked and utilities interrupted. Messengers were sent to Sayre for help as telephone service failed.
In New York John T Scopes on his way to Dayton Tenn where he will be tried for teaching evolution refused offers totaling about 150000 dollars A motion picture firm offered $50000 for rights to the trial and his appearance and other syndicate offers raised the figure beyond 150000 dollars a friend said Scopes declined all offers
Pittsburg June 12 Mrs Fad ward Moore wife of the Pirates second baseman their two year old daughter and Thomas Nichols narrowly escaped serious injury when the car Mrs Moore was learning to drive plunged over a fifty foot embankment and was wrecked against a bath house wall Nichols was teaching Mrs Moore to drive
The list items 6 13 14 16 17 18 21 12 32 23 24 31 82 823 34 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 62 64 188 212 214 412 416 418 detail Bluefield fire alarm stations and locations. Means one alarm and alarme sent from Central Station.
The text outlines a daily menu for breakfast lunch and dinner with items like poached eggs spinach lamb chops and cheese. It includes a recipe for a black cherry pudding with milk butter eggs spices and cherries and advice on portions for different household members.
Wallace Sayre a Marshall College student in Huntington arrived at 1 am at 1217 Seventh avenue West Charleston to surprise his father. He was mistaken for a burglar and shot in the hip by resident R W Harvey. A neighbor Ernest Anderson leaning over the porch balustrade fell twenty feet to the ground breaking both arms.
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