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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1931
Page
36
Secretary E C Wade releases the Beaver Pond district report showing 386,738.04 spent on schools in 1930-31 with 4,101 elementary, 1,205 junior high, and 986 high school students. The district lists total school property valued at 2,396,870, 265 reading-circle participants, 207 teachers, 38 PTAs, and 600 hot lunches served in five cafeterias.
The Mercer County 4-H club picnic and field day will be held at the county camp grounds on Princeton Athens road next Saturday. Activities include sports from 10 a m, noon lunch, and field events starting at 1 p m with multiple races and games for youth ages up to 15 and older. Members from 20 4-H clubs will participate along with basket dinners. Jack Ralston and his orchestra have been engaged for the season at Lake Shawnee and will broadcast on WHIS next Tuesday afternoon.
The Elks dance committee led by H B DeJarnette W C Fletcher and Harvey Rice organized a dance at the club house on Douglas Street next Thursday night. Massey's Concordians will provide music. Mrs Harry Karnes is listed with contact number 114 L for details from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
J C Morris Jr won five dollars in gold for the greatest hours practiced in music over the past nine months. The prize was donated by the J Virginia Nelms studio.
Miss Rachel Virginia Browning and Mr. Carter Tyler wed at the Browning home in Wytheville Virginia with Rev J T Huddle and Rev Charlies W Browning officiating. Family and friends attended as decorations featured green and white evergreens and white roses. Mrs Sadie Henderson sang with Miss Ruby Gadd at the piano and Miss Frankie Honaker on violin. The couple plans to reside with the groom’s mother at Belle Alto Estate after an extended wedding trip.
Local hosiery sale lists Good Grade Cotton Perfects and Rayon Plaited Perfects offered at 4 pairs and 2 pairs respectively. Silk Seconds are priced per pair, with Sheer Chiffon-Picot tops at 75 cents per pair.
Miss Ethel White and Roy Combs, both of Bluefield, married Saturday at the courthouse. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. G. W. Talbert.
Circles meet at 8 PM with Circle 1 at Princeton Hospital and Circle 2 at a member's home. topics include The Jews and The Jews As Gods Chosen People. Circle 8 reports 50 sick visits and 14 trays sent. next meeting at Mrs. Redman. DAR Matthew French chapter hosts at Ma toaka with Colonial costumes and flags, notes on school flags and Oakwood cemetery memorials.
Markers for Christian Peters and Henry Hull will be unveiled next Wednesday by Bluefield chapters. Congressmen and local officials attend. A luncheon, papers, and a flag centerpiece mark the event with several thousand attendees expected.
The current city council will hold its final meeting tomorrow night before the new council takes over on July 1. A state water commission hearing on Brueh Creek pollution is planned at the city building Tuesday morning with Hartley Sanders leading property owners seeking an end to creek sewage. The city argues the current sewage system is the only affordable option and that property owners are not seriously damaged. A statistic notes 400,000,000 women in Asia need education.
A black Bakok hat with flowers across the front is missing between Princeton and Bluefield. If found, please call 143 L Princeton to return it.
At a large meeting in Princeton the Mercer County Farm Bureau re elected officers for the year and chose a new county manager G H Bailey. Directors were named by district and plans were made to amend the Huckster ordinance and to establish market shelters and booths for the season. A county livestock shippers association was formed to coordinate lamb shipments and join the Greenbrier Valley Livestock Shipping Association.
George Washington Life Insurance Company sues Albert Clyde White and Andrew Brown White in chancery under July rules. Minnie Hill files a chancery suit against Noah H. Hill under July rules.
Fifty one millionaires appear as extras in Cimarron the Edna Ferber epic shot at the Royal. Chief Bacon Rind and fifty Osage tribesmen travel to Hollywood to lend authentic Indian types while Louis Brave interprets for the troupe. The 1889 land rush romance stars Richard Dix and Estelle Taylor with Wesley Ruggles directing.
Lloyd Delp was fined 25.90 dollars and sentenced to thirty days in jail by Magistrate John E Bailey at Matoaka Friday evening for petit larceny.
The merchants dinner meeting, set for tomorrow, is postponed to Tuesday night at the American cafe. This monthly gathering discusses plans for the upcoming monthly sales.
Princeton residents and visitors are noted in a string of social items. Henry Baum, a student at West Virginia University Morgantown, returns home for summer break while Mary Frances and Elizabeth Cornett of Bluefield are in town. Virginia Douglas of Hinton visits her aunt on Ritchie Street as Elizabeth Bird returns from West Virginia University. Evelyn Bird attended finals at Marietta College and crew races between Marietta and Washington College, with plans to come home. Other callers include Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Gott, Mrs. Lizzie Carr, and families from Bluefield Asheville Charleston and Norfolk as funeral services and visits mark the week.
In Knoxville Tennessee Judge H B Webster hears a case to annul the 1929 divorce of Mrs. Terry from Joe Terry who has been dead about two years. She seeks to cancel the divorce so she can collect thirty dollars a month for her son Joe Jr from government benefits tied to the father's World War service.
Market brief lists sweet peppers sweet potatoes late and early cabbage tomatoes and rutabagas with a price note of 25 dollars for P. Sere and contact N. Walker with a phone number. Exact details truncated.
Cleveland police state Leon Wasilewski, 16, has confessed to fatally shooting Louise Galudig, 17, of Johnstown, as she walked home with a cousin. Officials say he claimed he fired at a tree and hit the girl accidentally while authorities say he was arrested after being located in Chicago.
Miss Helen Giberson of New Midway visits grandmother Mrs. T Perdue. Virginia and Ruth Graham shop in Bluefield. L H Poe and Maye Beasley motor to Pearisburg. Irene Belcher from New Midway visits Laurel Belcher. R W Compton and Will Compton visit relatives in Kentucky. Mrs R E Bryant and children from Bluefield stay here. Vita Janutolo and Mary Kahle from Mills call on friends. Mrs T T Crawford and Gladys Crawford visit Miss Maggie Blake ill at Mrs Maude Belcher's. N B Foote and Mae Ayres shop in Bluefield. J W Morris of Nemours and Irene Bryant of Bluefield visit Tuesday. Charles Caldwell Forest and Gradie Caldwell and J M Crawford visit. Naomi Ruth Caldwell with L H Poe.
Beckley West Virginia June 13 First aid teams from the Cranberry mine captured first place in both the white and Negro divisions at the twelfth annual first aid contest of the New River company at Scarbro. Twenty two teams nine Negro teams competed. Scarbro won white second Mabecott white third. Negro division Skeleton and Whipple took second and third. Prizes were presented by R M Lambie state mines chief and J J Forbes US Bureau of Mines Pittsburgh who served as judges.
Dr. Thomas Lumeden of the London hospital Cancer Research Laboratory explains a serum from animals inoculated with cancer germs. Not yet used in humans, but rat tests reportedly killed living cancer tissue.
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