City-Coalfield Shower of Toilet Articles and Sales
A collage of small ads and notices including perfume Garden of Allah at Easley Penn Drug Co, sweet potato plants price, a June recital at First Baptist by Blanche Simpson, tax collect ion notices for Mercer county 1916, and a Bluefield auto taxi service expansion. Additional items announce recital, pauper farm sale plans, hotel remodeling, film showings, road openings, and local police notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer County
Princeton
West Virginia
J. ©. Pack
No Prayer Meeting At Immanuel Lutheran Tonight
Owing to the pastor’s absence from the city there will be no prayer meeting tonight at Immanuel Lutheran church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Recital of Miss Gertrud Watts Music Class
The annual recital will be held at Bland Street Methodist Church on Friday evening June 16 at 8 o'clock. The public is cordially invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Blanche Simpson
Josephine Smith
Ladies’ Aid
Ladies’ Aid Society
Gertrud Watts
Bland Street Methodist Church
Weaver Wiggington Wedding Surprises Friends
Miss Ethel Weaver of Bramwell and R. M. Wiggington of this city quietly married at the county seat yesterday afternoon. The couple returned to Bluefield and left on train No 3 for the bride’s home, after a spur of the moment ceremony in Princeton. Wiggington, once in the livacy business, recently bought the Corvin coal mine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel Weaver
Bramwell
R. M. Wiggington
Miss Pearl Harmon Visit and Water Works Chief Return
Miss Pearl Harmon of North street hosted a visit. Miss Lulu teaches at Marion College Missouri where Miss Laura is a student. Wm. McCarthy of the Bluefield Water Works and Improvement Company returned from New York after attending the American Water Works Association meeting and stopped in Philadelphia to visit company home offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Harmon
North Street
Lulu
Marion College
Laura
Wm. McCarthy
Bluefield Water Works and Improvement Company
New York
American Water Works Association
Philadelphia
The
Bluefield Water Works and Improvement Co
Funeral of Miss Bailey Draws Large Crowds
The funeral for Miss Mabel Lara Bailey daughter of Mr and Mrs George Bailey of Carroll street was held at 2 30 pm in the Christian church with Rev C H Bags and Rev J M Carter officiating. The church was crowded and theatres closed in tribute. Burial followed at Walnut Grove cemetery with six pallbearers and eighteen flower bearers. Relatives from several towns attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabellara Bailey
George Bailey
Carroll Street
Christian Church
C. H. Bags
J. M. Carter
Grace Methodist Church
Elks Opera House
Walnut Grove Cemetery
Frank Bell
Joe Lynch
Pete Donahue
Reuben Donahue
William Culliney
Arthur Heller
S. E. Lawson
Lara Lawson
Marshall Street
A. H. Lawson
Beasley Street
John Pailey
South Bluefield
Onnie Worley
C. J. Bailey
Graham
J. A. Tabor
Falls Millis
C. F Shelton
Richlands
Frank Shelton
J. F. Lawson
Caretta
A. E. Lawson
Raleigh
Nannie Bailey
Benjamin Evans
Princeton
George G. Parish
Lyncburg
Lloyd Fenchtenberger
Catlettsburg
Double Wedding at Stimson Home in Rocky Gap Va
One of the season's prettiest weddings occurred Wednesday June 7 at the Stimson home in Rocky Gap Virginia. Rose Eva and Laura Lieu Stimson wed John Daniel Davis and Samuel Robert Ashworth with Rev. S W Bourne officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. E. Stimson
Rocky Gap
Rose Eva
Laura Lieu Stimson
John Daniel Davis
Round Bottom
Samuel Robert Ashworth
Cove Creek
Lohengrin
R. W. Robinson
S. W. Bourne
Eckman
W. Va
Elizabeth Jarrell
Thomas Jefferson Higginbotham
Rose Higginbotham
Rufus Ashworth
Bland
S. W. Pourne
Nancy Allen
White Gate
Jean Honaker
Emma Davis Carpenter
Boy Scouts Honor the Flag in Flag Day Meeting
Tonight at 8 in the Chamber of Commerce rooms Thorn ton building the Bluefield Boy Scouts observe Flag Day with talks on Old Glory. Scoutmaster Williams is away. assistant leader leads. Speakers include Shaffer McClaugherty Thomas Honaker and Fisher of the M G A.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Thornton
Boy Scouts
Bluefield
Scout
Williams
W. L. Shaffer
Bernard McClaugherty
W. H. Thomas
C. A. Honaker
Fisher
M. GA
Junk dealer M Cohen arraigned on stolen goods charge
M Cohen of Huntington was brought here on a charge of accepting stolen metals. He was arraigned before Justice Chambers and posted bond for trial next Friday afternoon as detectives continue probe into metal thefts from a yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Cohen
Huntington
Justice of the Peace Chambers
Bond
Wire theft ring tied to coal region metal losses
Detectives link a barrel of aluminum wire stolen from Appalachian Power Co to a wider scheme targeting metal from coal fields. Barrels tagged for Huntington and Bluefield show D. J. Green, a local junk dealer, is held on 500 dollar bond for trial. Warrants and grand jury bindings suggest several suspects in custody or under charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. KE. Coates
Matz
L. Oppenheim
L. V. Draypool
Mr. Coates
Oppenheim
Draypool
Charleston
Chief Morrison
Morrison
Bluefield
Daily Telegraph
Coates
Ack Draypool
Dan Jackson
Justice of the Peace
Grand
Jackson
William Ross
Bluestone Power House
Rious
Appalachian Power Company
Huntington
M. Cohen
In. Va
D. J. Green
Green
Diplomas Awarded at St. Edward's Seventh Commencement
Four graduates received diplomas at St. Edward's College Huntington with prizes for proficiency. Bishop P J Donahue presided and delivered the closing address. Huntington mayor Hon Edmund Sehon gave an eloquent opening speech as city officials attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Edward’s College
P. J. Donahue
Wheeling
Huntington
Donahue
Edmund Sehon
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Fallon, Florist
Roanoke
Virginia
Union Bank and Trust Company
R.&. Goodrich
James Elmer Brown
Union Bank
Hiedelburg Company
Airdome
A. J. Sterne
Altamont Hotel
Elks’ Opera House
Julian Lamoth
Myra
the Elks' Opera House
Marie Doro
Famous Players Film Company
Marcus
Edith Barnard Delano
Paramount
Rex
Japan
Lee Street
Colonial Theatre
Italy
Atlantic
D. Morgan
C. D. Morgan
Fanny
Craney
Norfolk and Western
Stieff
Lynceburg
Whitmore
Ber
Honaker
Bluefield's
Bluebird Photoplays, Inc
Louise Lovely
Alexander Cut Folwer
C Paramount Cpictures
Marie Cord
Pearl
Richard
White Pharmacy
Hast River Avenue
South
C. C. Freis
Robert
Cincinnati
McGinnis Hatfield
Northfork
Harry’ Matt
B.C. Banks
Chicago
W. F. Bane
Bane, Va
S. K. Langhorne
Roanoky
Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company
Josephine Sadler
Placksburg
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Hoge Mason
Earleston Springs
Mason
Packie Anderson
St. Luke's
Villa Marie Academy
Guthrie Pitblado
W.J. Strickler
Ellenboro
Grand Tribunal
Knights of Pythias
F. E. Bastian
New River, Holston and Western Railroad
Narrows
Pocahontas
Mabel Bailey
Roy Mowles
J. A. Mowles
Bluefield Avenue
St. Luke's Hospital
George Richardson
Berwind
Dry Fork
Imecen Davis
Wytheville
Vida Marie Academy
Hazel
KE. BE. Wiley
J. B. Ward
Emory, Va
Emory and Henry College
Laura ‘Robertson
Pulaski
Stimson
Huntington Junk Dealer
Bell-Ans
St. Edward's College
E. F. McKinney
Watchmaker
Henry Rodgin Co
Isadore Cohen GD
Princeton Ave
America
Union
Wilson
Isadore Cohen
Princeton Avenue
Bluefield Taxi CO
Phanceton
Tazewell
Thedford
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