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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1916
Page
2
Miss Gertrude Watts presents her annual class recital this evening at Bland Street Church. The public is cordially invited to attend.
Trick photography highlights the climax with Maurice Costello playing two roles facing himself in a flawless double exposure. The Colonial presents The Crown Prince's Double today. Also tonight at First Baptist church Bluefield hosts a top tier musicales led by Miss Simpson and Miss Smith, praised by the Herald-Courier in Bristol.
Curry Carter of Augusta Military Academy and a member of the 1914 Bluefield baseball club spent yesterday in the city while en route to Sonega Virginia to play baseball this season.
The Woman's Missionary Society of Bland Street Methodist church announces a rummage sale starting June 24. Congregation members are urged to bring donations for the event.
Mrs. J. B. Shumate, confined to the Bluefield Sanitarium for three weeks after an operation, expects to return home today as she leaves for hospital follow up and recovery.
The funeral service for Rev. Peter H Edwards a well known colored preacher of this city was held yesterday afternoon at 1:30 oclock.
C E Chambers, a Bluefield railroad conductor, testifies in a public opinion piece that Tanlac cured his nervous indigestion and allowed him to eat freely. He warns readers not to rely on medicine alone and emphasizes restoring health through proper living. Tanlac is available at Bluefield Pharmacy for $1 per bottle.
A parent dinner in Charleston will read President Wilson's message received in Bluefield. Limited long distance lines prevented direct audience access for all guests, with over fifty cities turned away. Invitations indicate a graceful, informal event with numerous ladies expected to attend.
One package proves it say druggists 25c. CG left yesterday afternoon for home. George Melcher recently returned from West Virginia University has gone to Roanoke to visit his mother.
The Lewis-Oliver Players staged Tempest and Sunshine at the Elks opera house to a good sized audience. Miss Grandin and Jack Lewis delivered strong performances in lead roles with the ensemble also strong. Slim Taylor excelled in the blackface comedy. Next week the company will present Jesse James followed by The Devil for a varied program to please patrons.
A string of short notes lists visitors and local residents in the city. Names include G. T. Thompson of Bastion Virginia and L. H. Bess of Huntington along with others from Tazewell Lynchburg Portsmouth Cincinnati Princeton and Raleigh visiting for business and to see friends.
Dr. J. C. French died suddenly in Kenova West Virginia Thursday morning. His home was Huntington where body was prepared and carried for burial. Body then went to Giles County and Narrows for church service. Funeral conducted by Rev H S Mabie. Buried in Mason cemetery Narrows beside family plot.
A sequence of car crashes near Wilcoe reports three vehicles badly damaged with one driver suffering broken shoulders. One car cut around another and went over a bank into Tug Fork, while a second collision sent a small Ford over the bank. All other occupants escaped injury. The incidents occurred Wednesday night.
The Scott Street Baptist Church conducted by Rev. Mitchell saw large attendance. The service was in charge of the colored Masonic lodge of which he was a member. Interment followed in the East End Cemetery.
Local railroad officials say a circulated report that Norfolk and Western considered leasing part of the Panhandle's central division from Columbus to Sandusky is baseless. Coal men discussed it, but railway circles here know nothing of the plan. A move could benefit N and W by providing a direct route from coal fields to Sandusky docks.
N Wickliffe who has managed the Western Union tele graph office in this city for a year will transfer to Huntington to take charge of that office. The successor for this city has not yet been named and the change will take effect in the next few days.
Essanay presents Edmond Cobb and Ruth Stonehouse in a two act comedy Angels Unawares at 3 40 and 7 40 followed by the three act Knickerbocker star paying the toll.
Preparations advance for a West Virginia birthday dinner at the Masonic temple next Tuesday evening. The chamber of commerce assures perfect long distance telephone arrangements through Bluefield Telephone Co and Bell lines. Music decorations and other fixtures receive attention for a successful event. W A Pankey assisted manager Bluefield Telephone Co in coordinating the telephonic messages.
In 1788 the first British settlement reached Botany Bay with eleven ships carrying a large convict transport and establishing the early colony.
Advertisement warns of increasing rheumatism this year and advises wearing rubbers in damp weather and reducing alcohol. It promotes Rheumat, claiming a half teaspoon daily relieves sharp twinges, gnawing pain, and swollen joints in a few days, priced at 50 cents and sold by White Pharmacy and Central Pharmacy.
A large concourse of relatives and friends assembled for the funeral. He was the son of the late Senator Wm. A. French of Narrows. Survived by his wife and two children, two brothers Mayor K. S. French and Wm. A. French, and a sister Mrs. W. R. Davis of Narrows.
Clint Bailey offers forty lots in south Bluefield along the car line and on Augusta Street near the new school, formerly the baseball park. Land not traded for over a hundred years. Buy from owner to save commissions with easy terms. Also selling additional land by the acre in Bluefield West Virginia.
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