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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1925
Page
11
A. G. Fox announces emblems on about 170 cars in Bluefield and surrounding territory. About 75 signed memberships unpaid. dues are $10 yearly, payable in advance, before emblems and cards. The piece promotes joining the Bluefield Automobile Club to support motorists and oppose a proposed 30 percent auto license tax.
In Hackettstown and Rockport details emerge of a deadly wreck on the Lackawanna line. Barney Edge of Scranton, sole survivor, crawls from the coach, lights fusees and torpedoes, and signals emergency crews as trains halt and hospitals are alerted.
County detectives investigated the drowning of Marie Fancy twenty one whose body was found in the Monongahela River near Jefferson Beach. Her clothing was found on an excursion steamer and the body was in a one piece bathing suit. The corpse rests in the morgue as inquiries continue.
President Calles issued a statement denying reports that Mexico would modify its agrarian policies in response to Secretary Kellogg's recent remarks. The note, released this evening, affirms Mexico will not alter its land reform stance.
Cleveland June 16 The sixteenth annual Rotary convention opens with a universal peace theme as delegates from around the world greet each other and honor founders. Messages from King Victor Emmanuel and Gerardo Machado mingle with reports from Chesley R. Perry Rufus F. Chaplin and Everett W. Hill as committees are presented and several addresses follow.
Senator Smoot urged a meeting of state and federal officials to discuss sharing the tax burden before Congress revises the revenue law. He expects to meet Secretary Melton and believes administration leaders may support the plan. President Coolidge doubts broad repeal of state income taxes and federal withdrawal from inheritance taxes would work, given state revenue dependence.
Uniontown Pa June 16 A coroner s jury ruled that Bessie McCoy mother of five died from a gunshot wound inflicted by unknown persons. She was found dead on a bed in Grays Landing after a noise drew John Beddinger to the room. McCoy said the woman killed herself and that the shot woke him.
Mrs Edith Nourse Rogers widow of John Jacob Rogers was overwhelmingly nominated to succeed him in a special primary election Returns from twenty nine cities and towns in the district gave her 145086 votes to 1939 for James W Grimes and 663 for George H Brown The final election will be held on June 30
A grand jury in Los Angeles returned murder charges against Dr. Thomas W. Young for the death of his wife Grace Grogan Young. Investigators seek a "young and handsome woman" said to have aided him in administering the lethal gas. Leads also tie Young to prior deaths in Pennsylvania and a possible link to Liberty bonds allegedly given to his wife.
Reports from Peking and Shanghai describe rising anti foreign sentiment and armed factions. Feng Yu-Hsiang and Chang Hsuan command forces with suspected Soviet aid while Korea events and student protests ripple to Hankow Foo Chow Amoy and other ports. A British diplomat W. W. MacKenzie was killed in Shanghai prompting further clashes. Local banks halt Chinese exchange sales from China as tensions mount.
Pittsburg reports a study of 167 773 children finds 45 369 with enlarged thyroids. Dr H J Benz cites age twelve as peak and endorses prophylactic treatment in early childhood, noting iodine salt as the best general preventive measure for communities.
Yale defeated Harvard 25 to 15 in a lopsided college baseball game. Amherst and Williams also played, with Amherst scoring 2 and Williams 1, in a separate result noted in the same summary.
Princeton reports include Fourth of July planning by a post and possible military maneuvers, a card of thanks from Groach family, a Virginian Shop team trip to Tazewell with a minstrel show, speeders fined by local justices, Concord summer school work by Prof. Hollandsworth, funeral for Hobart Cook in Athens, arrests and fines in Princeton, a booster trip car decoration committee, advertising booklet progress, and local real estate and lodging notices.
Rev. Thomas Priddy and his daughter Miss Ernestine Priddy returned from Bluff City Tennessee where they led a revival. The daughter organized children's service work while the father preached. He plans two weeks at home then a series of services in Richlands Virginia. Miss Priddy will assist through the summer.
Mr Priddy has consented to fill the pulpit at First Baptist church next Sunday morning and evening in Pastor Ogle’s absence. The congregation welcomes the chance to hear Mr Priddy again after he endeared himself to the entire membership during a meeting he held in the early spring.
A special meeting of the Princeton Merchants Association will be held tomorrow at the association office to finalize arrangements for a booster trip to adjoining counties next Monday and Tuesday. All city boosters are invited as tickets sell steadily but many buyers wait until closer to departure, and dinners at Peterstown and Peace Springs hotel require advance reservations.
Chilly Petry a farmer near Athens was jailed 30 days and fined 100 dollars after arrest on liquor possession and operating a still. His granddaughter remained in custody on a still charge with bond set until Friday. possession charges against her were dismissed and the still case to go to the grand jury.
Billy Evans argues the fee is minor and cites Walker's refusal to meet Dave Shade as the true cause of the confusion. He questions why a supposedly top flight champion should challenge Sante, whom he calls a capable contender.
Nathan Brown aged 28 of Ashland an electrician for Archland By-Product Coke Company died from an electric shock after contact with a high voltage wire. He fell from the pole and died within minutes.
Pittsburg June 16 George Grantham Pittsburg first baseman was fined fifty dollars for throwing his bat at pitcher John Scott of the Giants yesterday after being hit by a pitched ball. The incident occurred here and the league action was announced today.
A jumble of notes mentions New Jersey’s famed bootleg figure marrying amid a rum ring’s use in the ceremony. The piece riffs on laws for women’s rights, White House cats and Senate seats, boxing stars, flea races at beaches, and quirky showbiz tidbits with a wry, satirical tone.
Pittsburg report says Virgil Barnes of the New York Giants was suspended indefinitely by manager John J. McGraw for breaking training rules by not being in his room at 11 36 p m. Barnes claims a hotel bathroom fall injured his ankle. injury received Monday night outside the hotel as the Giants left for Cincinnati.
Clarksburg 5 Johnstone 6 Jannings Wheeling 6 Cumberland 4.
Indianapolis reports a wreath ceremony at Crown Hill cemetery honoring Thomas Riley Marshall, wartime VP and former Indiana governor. National Legion leaders and department chiefs plan ceremonies for the new national headquarters at a half mile Municipal plaza, with space for trophies and a defense test on July 4.
Twenty three persons named in Gettysburg reports as alleged to have defaced a bronze tablet at Little Roundtop. The United States attorney for the middle district of Pennsylvania will present the names to the federal grand jury for action. Defacement charged as unlawfully and wilfully mutilating and injuring the tablet of the forty fourth New York regiment.
Frankie Genero, American flyweight champion, won by decision over George Marks of California in a ten round bout. Genero weighed 111 pounds while Marks weighed 117.
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