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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1909
Page
2
A brief praise of DeWitt's Little Liver Pills called the famous small gentle and pleasant pills with a strong reputation. The text notes they are sold by many druggists and are well known locally.
The Ladies' Aid Society hosts an ice cream and strawberry supper at Hotel Graham tonight with planned contests and games for guests. The event starts at 8 o'clock and invites the public to attend. Then note: Graham Grocery store burglary on Saturday night. Ten boxes of tobacco stolen. back window entry. nothing else taken. Rev J Greaver from Five Oaks visits relatives, leaves for Tazewell to chaperone Drake's Garden picnic today. Albert Litz Jr. named shipping clerk at Graham Bakery Co. Various local notices follow.
F A Spencer, a Charleston milkman aged 75, credits the Quaker Doctor with curing his long rupture. Advertisements claim a permanent, knife free cure available at 113 Raleigh Street Bluefield, with a call by Saturday June 19 for current low price.
An advertisement offers Retail "93" Hair Tonic with a money back guarantee if unsatisfactory. It notes two sizes 50 cents and $1.00 and urges trial at risk. The notice also advertises bids for a Mullins West Virginia two story residence project with June 20 1909 deadline.
Isaac N. Yates, white, condemned for assaulting his fifteen year old daughter, pleads in a death cell letter to Mary to save his life and asks his daughter to appeal to Judge and Governor Glasscock. He claims innocence as he faces execution next Friday alongside Brown.
Leslie Ellis of Richmond and Miss Eunice Ballard sister of Mrs EB Baker wed at Bramwell Presbyterian Church. Rev Dungling officiated. Maid of honor Florence Ballard and best man Ned Scott attended. Out of town guests from Richmond Maben Philadelphia and Peterstown joined. couple left for Norfolk New York Albany and Niagara Falls after a wedding supper at Hon KB Baker’s home.
Secretary Fisher of the Y M C A is arranging the dedicatory program for the new building. Principal speakers will be President Johnson of the Norfolk and Western and International Secretary Williams of the Y M C A. President Johnson is in Columbus and will return today on a special train with N D Maher.
The vice president and general manager of the railroad company will participate in exercises. The new building opens in the afternoon for tours by city ladies and the public. Secretary Fisher moves from temporary quarters to the new offices. The piece then pivots to a discussion on facial repose and quiet manners, urging readers to seek a calm, restful look amid modern distortions.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only guaranteed cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and offers a $100 reward for failure to cure. Includes address F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio and notes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Bert R Lean of Cheny Washington escaped a near fatal lung collapse after failing with a Spokane lung specialist and unsuccessful California treatment. He credits Dr Kings New Discovery with a full recovery. Bee's Laxative Cough Syrup billed for colds coughs and bronchitis sold by Goodykoontz Drug Co.
Weekly post office letter list for week ending June 12 1909 includes numerous names with several duplicates and title phrases. It notes returning and advertised letters for residents and mentions a penny per letter and a Royal Arch Masons note about Jewish Shekels at Diiger's.
Mercer Electric Railway Company invites all local citizens to a stock sale meeting at the courthouse in Princeton on Saturday at 1 30 PM. Shares are $20 each with no minimum and the company plans to begin surveying between Princeton and Athens and push grading before cold weather. About seventy five local stockholders hold one to seventy six shares each and attendees are urged to bring friends.
The undersigned will apply to the circuit court of Mercer county on June 21, 1909 for a license to carry a revolver under section 7, chapter 148 of the West Virginia Code as amended by the February 16, 1909 act. R. T. Bowen of Bluefield, occupation Passenger Conductor.
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