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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1925
Page
2
Local ads show coal offers and vegetable plant sales with prices, plus a Davenport schedule and business notices. Items include auction of household furniture, a Florist phone contact, and a note about attendance at a national optometry meeting with Dr. Greenspon as delegate. Also reports on hospital recoveries and funerals from Bluefield area.
On Monday Isabelle Pope testified under oath in the Shepherd trial as Dr. Dwyer sought board intervention. Dr. Rongetti wavered in identifying Shepherd and admitted prior denials of visits while noting plans to alter fronts for 500 dollars and switching sides to aid the state. Judge Lynch reserved ruling on whether to admit testimony about McClintock directing the sale of the Shepherd McClintock home, pending authority. A large crowd filled the courtroom amid reports Pope would testify.
District Attorney Keys reports dentist George Young faced bigamy charges for two known marriages and possibly a third. Women named include Mrs Pearl L Koebig of Riverband near Modesto California and Inez Irene Hughes wife of Attica Ohio. Katherine G Young remains missing. The case, linked to a slaying and divorce actions in 1917, is under renewed investigation with detectives seeking a fourth wife.
Old Sol scorched the area yesterday as thermometers hit ninety by noon and stayed high all day. Citizens sweltered while the heat dominated discussions and wagons operated at double capacity with extra trips across the city.
Miss Myrtle Williams an employee of Norfolk and Western miraculously escaped injury when her car was sideswiped and rolled over a high embankment on the Bluefield Princeton line near Crusher Siding. The other vehicle, laden with youths, fled after the crash, leaving Williams’ car wrecked in the ditch.
An attack ends with W. W. MacKenzie mortally wounded as Chinese snipers fire on a vehicle. Miss Duncan, a first time driver, guides the escort car through the settlement until it crashes into a ditch, waking residents.
The will of American painter John Singer Sargent, who died April 16, leaves the greater part of his estate to his sisters Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs Violet Ormond. Valued at about 125000 dollars, the estate surprised the public by its modest size.
Pig iron sales in New York last week reached about 18 000 tons, up 6 000 from the prior week, with demand broadening. Inquiries for 10 000 tons from a speculative source suggested iron was cheap at present levels, with prices at 19 to 19 50 in Buffalo and 20 to 20 50 in eastern Pennsylvania.
Secretary of War Weeks, hospitalized at Massachusetts General Hospital since May 28, is expected to leave Phillips House Thursday or Friday. A physician bulletin says his convalescence is progressing well, he sits up in a chair twice daily, walks around his room, and eats and sleeps well.
A party from Bluefield and Mullens narrowly escaped fatalities when Norfolk and Western train No 12 from Norton struck their car at St Clair Crossing in Clearfork Virginia. Driver J R Catron of Mullens was injured. his wife brother and others escaped unhurt. Kathleen Keesee, hurled from the car, survived. The auto was wrecked. Catron said he stopped for the crossing but obscured view and lack of warning led to the collision.
In Sydney Mines on June 15 troops man barbed wire barriers and searchlights around the New Aberdeen power station as 12 000 strikers from the British Empire Steel Corporation face labor disputes. 150 miners swear in as special constables while James Murdock arrives to mediate.
Representatives of 18 000 Pennsylvania Railroad employees from lines east of Altoona Renova and south to Washington and Norfolk meet for the fifth annual Shop Crafts Association convention held under the employer representation plan. Officers will be elected to fill expiring terms and rules agreements and other questions will be considered.
In New York on June 15 twelve workers were injured when a sling carrying seven eight hundred pound steel girders slipped a cable and fell fifteen stories at a construction site on Fourth Avenue and 32nd Street. The most seriously hurt collided with the derrick and dropped seven floors to a concrete floor.
Premier Painleve arrives in Touloz from Barcelona after a four day air trip to French Morocco. He completed 1850 miles without incident and looks tired on landing as he heads to Paris. He left Barcelona at 1 05 pm and landed at 7 09 pm.
Steel activity in the Youngstown Valley runs at about seventy percent capacity with summer curtailment. Mills are expected to operate around sixty percent in July, compared with forty percent last year. United States Steel Corp holds seventy five percent activity, independent ingot production at seventy, and tin mill output at eighty percent.
London reports the Aeronautical Research Committee of the Air Ministry has fitted an airplane with a small laboratory. During maneuvers an observer records data from many dials and gauges to test theories in real flight. Horse-breeding remains profitable in England.
White Plains June 16 state rests in county court defending Mrs Randolph Stelle and her husband Newark broker charged with torturing William Holland of Haworth New Jersey to force him to stop pursuing court action over alleged harassment after Stelle announced engagement. Rand testified MacClaymont lured him to his office on June 25 1924 and the men overpowered him tied his wrists with a chain and twisted them. A veteran testified Holland was dazed with bleeding wrists and bruises the chain used in the alleged torture was exhibited in evidence.
At a Bluefield Democratic committee meeting held at Ross & Ross offices, M B Postlethwaite led the session as temporary chair with Mrs Mary D Becker as temporary secretary. W W McNeal was elected chairman, W E Ross vice chairman, Mary D Becker secretary, Olga LaHue assistant secretary, and George EB Hale treasurer. The committee adjourned to meet Friday June 19 at 8 o clock at Ross Ross in the Law and Commerce building.
Friends report Jack Doyle, a Bluefield N and W worker, recovering steadily after a serious spinal injury from a slip in a washroom. He was moved to Richmond hospital on May 15 then returned to Bluefield June 8 and is expected to resume duties soon.
A. J. Cook of Athens drowned Sunday afternoon in New River at Hinton while swimming with friends. The 28 year old, reported a good swimmer, likely suffered a cramp in four to five feet of water. Funeral in Athens tomorrow at 2:30. Survived by widow and two children.
Steve Magyar a miner from Thorpe in McDowell county had stomach cancer surgery at the Bluefield Sanitarium on May 11. The operation was reported very successful and Magyar planned to return home in a few days.
A patient underwent major abdominal surgery leaving about one third of the stomach intact after the operation. The report notes extensive removal of gastric tissue to address a serious condition.
H J Shott editor of The Bird Telegraph spoke to Bluefield Kiwanis on the history and development of newspapers. He described early journalism, its progress, and the local paper making process ahead of circulation. The talk impressed Kiwanians and urged attendance next Monday at 6 30.
The Bluefield Kiwanis Club announces a ladies night affair with a splendid program in preparation. The event is expected to be the best of its kind ever staged by the local club.
Chicago burglars hauled a 500 pound safe from a clothing shop then cracked it to find only worthless documents inside.
A promotional note cites Adlerika as a fast stomach aid using buckthorn bark magnesia glycerine and gas removing action. It claims rapid relief from full bloated feelings and removal of old waste matter, with benefits for chronic constipation. Available at The White Pharmacy and Central Pharmacy in Princeton via Rice Drug Co.
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