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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1931
Page
35
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The article urges re creation through both body and spirit. It asserts recreation requires intense delight in a chosen game or sport and notes top players fully invest energy and enthusiasm. It champions selecting a preferred activity and playing to win.
The American Automobile Association seeks to enlist motorists in a countrywide campaign to reduce highway casualties among animals domestic fowls and birds. Debate continues on whether animals think but drivers are urged to act.
Fred Hubbard, 19, suffered a broken leg and a broken toe at Briquette plant when caught in a crusher Tuesday morning. He was treated at Grave hospital Welch. condition improving. Local meetings noted include Ladies Missionary society at Mrs W H Robertson home with participants T L White J Williams I BE Morgan and Bluefield visitors.
R B Jackson and Ted Jowell of the local League left for Ab to attend a young people's assembly at Martha Washington college. Grace and Helen Law, graduate nurses from Kessler-Hat hospital, Huntington, spent the week with their parents. Mrs Woolwine and son Carter of Blacksburg Va visited here. L C Jarrett and family of Loulan Ky visit relatives here and at Twin Branch. J Sneider of Baltimore is here on business. Mrs Pressley Thomas of Greensboro NC and R G Bailey with Vernon of Drift Ky visited S A Hawkins.
The brick house overlooking the Potomac, occupied by many noted figures, has been leased by Senator Dwight Morrow of New Jersey and Mrs. Morrow. They plan to reside there after congress opens. The property dates to the early 1800s and was once owned by Col. Corbin Washington, a George Washington relative. Its latest occupant was Col. Arthur Woods, head of the Presidents Emergency Employment Committee.
State road commission reports completion of multiple projects across Upshur McDowell Greenbrier Ritchie and other counties. Paving concrete and bridge work on routes 20 8 28 60 2 47 with detours and traffic advisories from Bluefield to Pittsburgh.
The state road commission lists routes where oil or tar will be laid this week. Work starts midweek on several stretches including Route 2 Blair to Ethel Logan county and Route 3 Arnett to Harper Raleigh county, with other segments on Routes 3 Whitesville to Arnett, 5 Ripley west Jackson county, 7 Reedsville to Kingwood Preston, 8 Wayne to Kermit Wayne, 8 Justice to Saeger Mingo Wyom ing and McDowell, 16 Smithville to Calhoun county line Ritchie, US 19 Swiss to Summerville Nicholas, 23 Moorefield to Wardensville Hardy, 25 Charleston to Nitro Kam awha, 25 Plymouth to Rumer Putnam, 25 Leon to Ambrosia Mason, 33 Sandyville toward Ravenswood Jackson, 45 Maysville to Scherr Grant, and 94 Craigsvi le to Richwood Nicholas.
On July 4 the Altoona speedway will host a 200 mile Independence Day Classic featuring the National AAA championship. Gates open at 7 a.m. with final time trials at 9 a.m. The first race begins at 1 30 p.m. and the championship events start at 3 p.m. EST, offering a holiday motor trip and eastern speed classic action.
The Bluefield Automobile Club will hold its regular monthly board meeting Monday June 15 at 4 30 p m on the mezzanine floor of the West Virginian hotel. Directors are urged to attend as several important matters will be discussed.
Mary Elizabeth Guranus, known as Aunt Bet, 72, enrolled in an Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs opportunity school to learn reading and writing. She initially doubted she could learn but walked two miles to classes and later spoke at the federation convention, saying she is glad to learn though she wishes she had started sooner.
A Paris aeronautics institute conducts a novel test with a helicopter placed on trucks on rails to measure how upward thrust from horizontal propellers affects forward truck movement. The setup aims to isolate vertical lift from horizontal motion to study propulsion effects.
Virginia resort welcomes visitors for the season with a 125 room hotel and cottages overlooking Mountain Lake, discovered in 1751 by Benjamin Gist party. The lake lies eight miles from Pembroke and about 57 miles from Bluefield, with two routes described and forest scenery noted. The item also oddly mentions 55,000 doctors registered in Great Britain.
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