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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1914
Page
2
Various notices and ads headline community updates from Roanoke to Princeton. A music shop promotes a Marshall and Wendell player package with twelve rolls of music and delivery included. Other items report a house fire, medical operations, an accidental shooting, a strongest-man exhibition, an agricultural conference, and dance events.
H B Lee Jr announces retirement as bankruptcy referee for the Southern District based in Bluefield West Virginia. He will devote his time to law practice focusing on bankruptcy and federal courts and has moved offices to Kelley Moyer building rooms 12 and 13.
Dr J A Campbell and County Chairman W Sullivan of Beckley were in the city en route home from Bramwell after attending the senatorial committee meeting. Campbell seeks the Republican nomination for the state senate to succeed Senator French. The committee plans a Beckley convention on August with official notices to follow.
Linotype operator A Pryant of the Daily Telegraph fell ill last night and was taken to Whitefield Sanitarium after a quick exam suggested possible kidney trouble or appendicitis. Dr Hare was summoned to attend him.
The 133 people included physicians and families. Dr. Gooch of Cleveland Virginia and others from Tazewell Pocahontas Keystone Matouk were listed. The party would reach Portsmouth and transfer to Cincinnati for the sixth annual conversion. Two men Charley Cummins and Bogle Payne were arrested on a warrant for beating an elderly pauper woman, destroying provisions and windows, and burning the stove. a hearing was set before Squire Chambers.
Delegates from the local lodge of Kiks including George W. Fioyd J M Parr C T Neel Wallace Johnson W H Harry H K H Hale J M Bailey W A Hancock W H Spansler M G Witten Jame McDowell I L Cohen H R Hunter Bb M Mc Culloch I S Witten M L Austin and Mare Jones left last night in a Pullman car attached to train No 3 for Parkersburg to attend the annual state reunion. Cleve Gibson a white miner at Hensley McDowell county was shot in the left leg by store manager Scott Sunday night. He was drunk and Scott tried to arrest him. the ball entered above the ankle and Gibson was taken to Miners Hospital at Welch yesterday morning.
Pinefield Chapter No. 20 calls all members to attend an 7:30 p.m. meeting at the Masonic temple. Visitors are invited. The session includes election and installation of officers.
A full docket of yesterday police court proceedings shows fines totaling 127.50. The notice lists buyers at No 16 Federal Street with an allusion to “Buying Baby Farms.”
At a regular meeting the Bluefield Ministerial Association voted to invite the people of Bluefield and Graham to cooperate in a grand municipal picnic on the Fourth. Ministers emphasize civic unity and local participation to showcase community spirit between towns.
City pastors plan a liquor free event with an automobile parade and floats from railroad secret and commercial groups. A central committee will organize dinners or lunches, athletic contests, and humorous car tests at Placield Graham Fair grounds, with Pow er Company cars extending to the far end of the route.
About two hundred Knights of Pythias gathered at Matoaka for a Friday banquet. Rev. P. K. Baker of Princeton Lodge gave the main address. Toastmaster W. J. Elliott entertained as Charles K. Wheeler and others spoke. Music by the Matoaka Citizens Band preceded a moving picture show.
The Blair P. Wilson Co. states Bowling Realty Company of Bluefield was incorrectly used as its agent in ads appearing in the Bluefield Daily Times and the Bluefield Daily Telegraph. Bowling Realty disclaims endorsement and asks readers not to view them as affiliated or endorsing the proposition.
Philadelphia resident Harry Fisher recalls relief from displacement and backache after six bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Providence resident Abril Lawson reports renewed health after using the cure for bearing down and fatigue. The ad cites backache headaches nervousness and the blues as signs of female derangements that the product aims to address.
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