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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1932
Page
2
Princeton officials report a raid by Sheriff J Otie Bowling and Special Constable EB Crotty with city police uncovering a mash still. A barrel of mash and the still were destroyed during the operation.
The June session of the county court focused on bills and routine matters. Finances loom as proposed cuts to real estate and public utilities valuations may widen an overdraft near 45000 by July 1 jeopardizing the 1932 budget.
Mr and Mrs H F DeJarnette and daughter Elizabeth return from V M I commencement on Center Street with son Hampton. Mr and Mrs G H Wright visit W M Lexing ton Virginia for Duane Wright senior class. Mrs Wright returns today. Gene Johnston recovers from measles. Dr and Mrs Gordon Todd return from Charlottesville and Richmond trip. Miss Lucy Mae Mil iott visits Norfolk for a week. Coach Lee leaves Monday for Spr Mass for summer session. Waltering of Wytheville visits daughter Mrs D C Rice. T Paul Gore and Howard Thorp return from trip to Washington DC and Baltimore Md.
Merchants and the chamber of commerce finalize plans for an annual goodwill tour. The date remains unset with hopes the Virginian Railway will host the employees picnic during the event. Merchandising improvements were discussed at a Monday night brokers meeting.
A Somerville New Jersey youth born July 1885 left home in 1899 to join volunteers. He served as mascot of the 31st U S infantry in the Philippines then marine corps at Cavite. He later re enlisted in cavalry Fort Myers then field artillery Battery B before returning home at sixteen.
The Princeton School of Music opens a series of student recitals tonight at 8 at the Presbyterian church. Performers include June White Mary Neal Freida Deits Nancy Spangler Susanne Smith Rachel Morrell Peggy Booker Sarah Ann Ballard James Shrewsbury Foster Carr Anna May Justice Ruth Manderville Bernice Borinsky and Charles in a community music event.
The notice lists Reynolds Frances Poston Ellen Lazenby Ira Neal Kathleen White Mary Elizabeth Crumpecker Beat rice Barkakow Mabelle Farley Bernice Vermillion Bernice Armertong Frances Bondurant Horace Booker and Theresa Tobin inviting the public to attend.
Mrs. D. C. Rice entertained the Delphian club at her Forest street home Tuesday evening with a program titled Small European Countries. Members named cities in those nations during roll call and topics on Liechtenstein Luxemburg Albania Latvia were presented. Two guests attended and twenty six members enjoyed salad after the session. Chinese and Japanese use the same written languages though the scripts differ.
Judge B F Howard dismissed M G Cline vs Globe and Rutgers Fire Insurance Co on motion. Margaret J Martin vs Metropolitan Life Insurance Co continued to June 23. June Martin vs Norfolk and Western Railway Co dismissed for non appearance. List of residents and officials in attendance noted. Organizational meeting in County Assessor office elected Otis E Linkous president and J T Franklin secretary. Ira J Partlow named Democratic member. Meetings set for Tuesdays and Fridays at 10 am to review assessments.
Jurors for the July term of the criminal court have been drawn by the jury commissioners. Grand jurors meet July 11 and pettit jurors July 18 as cases are investigated and indictments prepared. Names listed include J A Hall Elbert F H Martin and others. many names appear with towns and counties such as Welch McDowell Ashland and Lexington.
Mrs. W. P. Browning led two tables of bridge at her Hemphill home with Mrs. Sam Harris winning the prize and a plated refreshment spread served to guests including Mrs. Gearhart and Miss Counts. A separate Woodlawn Court gathering honored Miss Madge Slayden from Waverly with Mrs. W. J. Hatfield taking first prize.
Mrs S F Hermon and Mrs P P Kerr will host a joint luncheon at Mrs Harmon home in Yukon on Saturday June 18.
The McDowell County board of review and equalization met to organize its procedures and outline steps for reassessing properties. Officials emphasized accuracy and transparency in the process to ensure fair taxation.
President J. W. Hobson calls the quarterly meeting of the Southern West Virginia area Boy Scouts of America to convene Friday after noon June 24 at Camp Roland Bland county Va. The 2 PM session will run through the Camp Fire program to about 9 PM. Dinner at 6 PM for those registering, 50 cents. Wives are invited and attendees may bring a picnic basket.
Boy Scout troop No. 9 led by E. W. Cullen left Welch early this morning for a mud turtle hunt in Wyoming County. The group has excelled in outdoor sports and contributed to the Red Cross by assembling food bags distributed to nearly 2,000 county families.
The Virginia avenue section from the tunnel to the Presbyterian church is completed and will be opened to traffic within the next few days. The widening project ends and provides a great help to motorists.
Welch residents report visits from Mr and Mrs Fred Dyer of North Ya and Mrs R F Gammon with Mrs Tom McCoy of Northfork. Hunter Glasscock leaves Welch for Ma toake to take a job with a coal company. Mrs Wayne Bradshaw of Williamson visits Miss Gladys Counts in Welch. Miss Elizabeth Edwards returns from Ohio State University to spend time here.
Mercer county fair directors will meet at 1 30 PM in the county agent's office at the courthouse to adopt the 1932 fair week program. They will vote on selling season tickets and outline plans to improve grounds buildings and the open air theatre.
Slim Summerville and Zazu Pitts star in The Unexpected Father at the Royal theatre today. Slim plays a gawky rural man who finds oil in his backyard and rises to wealth, while Zazu portrays a nurse from a dog hospital who interns at the millionaire’s home and bonds with a waif he adopts.
The Presbyterian auxiliary meets at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the church. Members will bring quilt pieces to donate for an orphanage in Lewisburg.
The Willing Workers class of the First Church of Christ hosts a lawn fete at Mrs. W. L. Piper’s Lowell Avenue home tonight from 9 30. Everyone is invited and a silver offering will be taken.
Mr and Mrs Irvin Lilly hosted a gathering on Sunday June 12 on the Akley Princeton highway to honor the eighty seventh birthday of R M Blankenship the guest list included C M Wood and family Bud dy and Janice G E Harvey Harold Harvey and G E Jr Hoke J Monroe and family B C Snudow and family John Owen and family and two grandchildren J B Monroe and family J P Campbell H H Ball S B Cheatwood Ray Cheatwood and family Mis Lougle Cheatwood Nancie Blankenship Estel White Claudie Bowling and many friends noted that Mr Blankenship remains in good health and spirits.
The Gala club spent Wednesday at Rockview pool for a large picnic and swimming. Chaperons were Mrs. G. I. Crumpecker and Mrs. W. H. Foster. Members enjoying the affair included Maude Carden and Zelma Hunter.
Joseph Scott, Los Angeles attorney, places the name of President Hoover in nomination at the Republican convention in Chisago. Scott is shown in a posed picture to depict his role during the G. O. P. gathering.
Dorothy Carden Julia Covey Marty Sue Shufflebarger Helen Lawrence Mary Lee George Margaret Secrest Helen Foster Sis Crumpecker Rowena Peters Ruby Bondurant Lorraine Rogers Hazel Lawrence Adelaide Wallingford and Mrs Dub Harman along with Eleanor Epperly of Goodwill were hosted as guests.
Members of Miss Roberta Laren's Girl Reserve meet at First Methodist church at 2 15 this afternoon for an outing. Each girl brings her own lunch.
The Lake Shawnee dance night runs Friday June 17 from 9 to 1 30 with Eddie Galloway and his Rhythm Boys. Admission this week is $1.00. Dancing continues every Friday. On Thursday June 16 the pool opens 12 to 6 p m with free admission for ladies.
Rivers Johnson entertained the Princeton Athene Kiwanis club with several vocal numbers at the weekly meeting Wednesday. He was accompanied by Paul Gore at the piano and plans were discussed for the ladies night at Lake Shawnee on June 27 featuring a dance. Recreation facilities of the park will be opened to Kiwanians. The Matoaka Kiwanis club has assured the local club that
The report notes strong attendance plans and states the Bluefield club has also been invited to participate, signaling broad support and collaboration for the gathering.
Garden crops arrive early this year with Pisgah resident Mrs. R L Brown serving cooked peas beets and cabbage from her February planted peas and frost proof cabbage. Last Sunday Mrs. J Sackett offered potatoes and beets from her own garden.
E H Vickers faced a 32 45 fine and 30 days in jail from Magistrate J O Mangus at Montcalm for beating a board bill. H C Moore, special constable, escorted him to the county jail. Officers destroyed a 100 gallon copper still at the foot of Black Oak mountain near Kings Siding as a run had just been made and the still was hot.
Eight year old Felix Nigro son of D Nigro of Welch was struck by a car driven by Edgar Little of Welch. The boy ran from the McBride Harold Motor company on Wyoming street and the collision was deemed unavoidable. He was taken to Welch Emergency hospital by State Police Co E Hawks and suffered no serious injuries.
Gunfire disrupted the Belgian chamber as a bullet pierced the visitors gallery narrowly missing officials and triggering a tense security response amid a calm session. The incident left at least one official slightly wounded while evacuations were underway and investigators began examining the scene.
In a chamber ruckus deputies faced a socialist member Uytroever who was slightly wounded. A sergeant-at-arms and assistants nabbed a man named Vene in the gallery and handed him to police. Vene claimed personal revenge, saying he aimed to wound, not kill, after losing his lamplighter job for wartime Flemish independence activity.
Rumors of Turkish drift toward state capitalism are reinforced by official word that Turkey will build and operate a group of cotton goods factories in Adana. The plant will use part of $8 million in machinery obtained from Soviet Russia to produce enough cloth to replace about $25 million in annual imports.
Debate continues on a bonus payment bill as supporters push for debt revision and fair treatment of World War II veterans. Patman argues the law is sane and sound, comparing veterans to profiteers, while Nelson of Maine warns passage would wreck recovery efforts.
M. M. Jones of Bennettsville D C has succeeded E F W Cummings as representative of the Purina mills in this section. Jones, married with three sons, expects to make his home in Princeton.
The Princeton Grays, a local colored team, defeated Vanwood 5-0 on the Winding Gulf Sunday. Howard pitched for Princeton.
Everett Karnes is held under $1000 bond for a preliminary hearing at 3 p m Saturday before Magistrate D T Carr. He was arrested after county and city officers raided a moonshine still at the foot of Black Oak mountain following a report by two young men who were driven off by a pistol armed man.
The jury verdict sentences T Morris Means after a career filled with gun lore and trials. Counsel hints at an appeal to the District of Columbia court of appeals as Means is taken to jail awaiting bail decision. Previously he drew two years and a $10,000 fine for conspiracy to violate the Volstead act and for swindling buyers of whiskey out of bonded warehouses.
London reports Baron Konstantin von Neurath becomes Germany’s foreign minister. At 56, a veteran diplomat, he spent three decades in service, with a prior role as Wuerttemberg chef de cabinet before serving as ambassador recently.
The piece surveys a veteran German diplomat who spent youth in a German court atmosphere and later served across major capitals from Constantinople to London. It notes his reluctance to public speaking, roles in Rome 1922 to 1930, efforts to restore German Italian ties, and a close rapport with Mussolini. He prefers hunting and country life, is married with one son in Berlin's foreign office and a daughter married to a Mackensen.
Winston Churchill recalled fierce attacks in the House of Commons over 1926 economy measures. He cited terms like robbery and confication used against the chancellor and noted ongoing vitriol toward the current chancellor for a post election critique including the phrase pinched the babies milk.
In Dublin the undertakers of Lifford Donegal switch to coffin making as a tariff on Northern Ireland imports raises costs. Ulster coffins now cost more than locally produced ones.
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