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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1944
Page
9
For sale one hundred acre farm offered in two tracts. A six room cottage with water in yard and a one room house with a well in the yard. Includes outbuildings and orchard. located on hard road miles from Narrows on Wolf Creek. Interested parties call 6396.
The Fifth War Loan bond campaign starts in Princeton and county with a rummage sale and bond booth by the Junior D A R and Junior Woman's club opposite the post office. Royal and Mercer theatres show bonds selling seats and listing service members on charts. The Elk lodge buys 10 000 in bonds, Virginian Railway adds 50 000, totaling 60 000 for the city.
Fire destroyed the back porch of G. W. Seaver at 205 College avenue with smoke damage reported. Firemen traced the blaze to trash under the porch. Court actions include Andrew R. Mathena vs Myrtie Mathena in chancery with June rules and Edson King Shupe vs Helen Meat Shupe in chancery with July rules.
Glamorous native siren Tondelayo in White Cargo today at the Royal Theatre. Hedyer teams with Walter Pidgeon in a drama of human emotions as Richard Carlson plays the plantation owner amid conflict.
A list of real estate conveyances includes A and Booker fry to Corinne Booker in Bluefield Lot 2 Section 6. Max Turk and others to George and Dai are for a lot in Bluefield adjacent to Roe Neal Lot, price 196. A four acre tract and a three fifty area noted. T. and Eley transfer a lot to Fletcher and wife in Bluefield for $10. Vance and wife to Boris Ray and An Gon lot one mile west of A. Doris and G A Coeburn. Lee Johnson and others with numerous parcels, including 16 acres and 1 acre in Rock district priced at 990. Maida Lankford to R J Johnson and wife for 4 acres Beaver Pond priced 19.
A brief classified item offers a beautiful wooded lot at the corner of Cliff Court and Longview Avenue in Cliffmount near South Wood Avenue. Phone contact shown as 8847.
Fragment mentions an overseer charmed and enslaved by Tondelayo with actors Frank Morgan and Reginald Owen in the cast.
Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne star in A Guy Named Joe at the Mercer theatre. Lio nel Barrymore Van Johnson Ward Bond and others fill the cast. The air force romance centers on Tracy's heroic pilot role and Dunne as a ferry transport pilot in a South Seas setting.
H. J. Manderville and William Stevens of Koppers interests in Pittsburgh visited Princeton yesterday. They are touring Koppers mines in the southern part of the state.
Mrs Roy E Johnston of Pulaski Virginia received a telegram from the war department stating her husband Private Johnston has been missing in action in Italy since May 13 while he served as a produce salesman for Christiansburg Canning company and resided with his wife in the Brown Apartments in this city.
Judge F. Morton Wagner will be the principal speaker at Princeton B P O Elks flag day services tonight at 8 o clock in the lodge room. Members are urged to bring their families and the public is invited to attend this meeting.
The Marke Memorial Woman's Missionary Society will meet this afternoon at 2 o'clock in Memorial chapel Thorn street. Hartley Sanders local attorney will speak at the midweek prayer service in the First Baptist church tonight at 8 o'clock in the pastor's absence Rev Warren T. Carr.
Mercer selective service boards Nos. 2 and 3 sent delegations to Huntington for preinduction medical exams. The East River Plymouth Jumping Branch districts listed many men with K Billmyer as escort, including Gore, Goad, Lucas, Thompson, Karnes, Trivette, Eplin, Poley, Foley, Borinsky, and others.
A partial roster lists multiple individuals including Leroy Wright and Thur man Watkins with transfers to various boards and notes Donzie Hobert failing to report. The document mentions last five men moved to another board and Allen Ratcliff reassigned elsewhere.
The county court finished recounting primary votes in Beaver Pond and Rock districts for the Republican nomination for county court member. The court hopes to complete the canvass by this afternoon.
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