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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1936
Page
8
Welch West Virginia collie kept in a basement amid poverty gains a potential rescue when 16 year old Gra ham High School student Miss Nancy King offers to take the dog. Her aunt and local residents back the plan, signaling a community response to the pet’s plight.
In a rural town the Harold family of husband wife and six children drew sympathy as they slept in a police judge’s office with limited shelter. The mother faces a jail warrant after leaving a welfare facility, while the father is in poor health yet chews tobacco, and the family wanders with no home or food.
Virginia sidelight reports Mr and Mrs C R Crews of Tampa en route to New York visiting Bluefield at the Mintons home. Marlon and Morris visit Marion, describe town growth. Homemakers sponsor Memorial Baptist lawn party for Friday 6 to 8 pm. Rains boost gardens and eggplant growth.
Mrs Yost and J Charles Yost continue to receive congratulations on the arrival of their first born Patricia Ann The baby is very pretty and growing nicely
Mrs Mary Cooper, longtime lodge and eating house operator in Bluefield, resigns to manage the Strickler Coal club house at Garden Creek, Buchanan county. The Cooper home remains on Montrose street. Details on a successor for the Bluefield establishment are unclear.
Former Wise county sheriff J P Adams visited Bluefield Virginia yesterday. Adams rose to prominence during the Edith Maxwell case when she faced a possible new trial as the Wise county teacher waits a Virginia Supreme Court ruling. He now serves as an inspector for the Virginia ABC board and declined interview requests during the Maxwell trial.
The Cards, prominent western ers, visit Southwest Virginia and Southern West Virginia, marveling at the mountains. It is the first stay for several members of the party. Harold W Card, editor of the Reporter and Farmer, a widely circulated prairie states newspaper.
Editor Card and wife, delegates to Republican conventions, predict landslide support for Alf Landon in the west. Harold Card accompanies the party. Mrs Card, formerly Sara Reynolds, left Tastewell county in 1888 and returns to South Dakota for the first time since 1907. The group travels with many relatives in Bluefield awaiting greetings.
Boys aged 10 to 15 are urged to gather this morning at Lovers Lane Park playground near Bluestone river, with Mrs. Poster Thompson supervising and directing activities. Softball and other games will be played in the shaded, scenic site northwest of the Shady Brook area by the Benbow place.
C B Blankenship of Bluefield Virginia becomes the first to receive a bonus certificate. He served overseas one year and was wounded in the Argonne Forest. A native of Russell City he has been a U S mail postman in Bluefield for years and lives on Virginia Avenue. He is an ardent churchman and a member of Graham Methodist Church.
Miss Elizabeth Witten returns home from Bluefield sanitarium after appendicitis surgery. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Witten of Tazewell avenue. Janet Bailey travels to Richmond for a time. Elma Zane Thompson comes home from Battle Creek College to spend vacation with her mother Mrs Zania Thompson Fox. Lucy Temple Willis, a prominent figure, is also noted in the society column.
Local notes list several visitors spending the hot season in Bludfield. Miss Coats of Boston, Ky., visits her finelé John Dittman for the summer. Enid Coats from Boston, Ky., plans a stay. Miss Lucy Temple A. and Mrs. Enid Coats are also noted. Rev and Mrs H A Willis host a musical artist returning from Baltimore for the season. Pierce from Logan and Bud Barbee from Akron, with family, are in town for several days and the summer respectively.
The Convocation club of the N. 8. United Holy church will meet this evening at the home of president Biss AeUet, 604 Park Avenue. Charles W. Johnson died at his Vine Street home Tuesday June 18 about 5 30 a m after a long illness. He was a lifelong Belfield resident and funeral arrangements will be announced later.
The Church of God in Christ at 200 Wilson Street invites all to regular services tonight. Elder N. T. Thomas is in charge and will deliver the message. Elder N. Thomas will oversee the service and deliver the sermon to assemble attendees.
Funeral services for Mrs. Gertrude Hale, who died at Providence hospital, will be held Wednesday at Mt. Zion Church at 2:30 p.m. conducted by Rev. R. H. McCoy. She is survived by seven children: Bernice Foster, Bertha Houston of Ashland West Virginia, Ruby Coffey of Crumpler West Virginia, Dora Burl, Elizabeth Ferguson, Robert Hairston, and Freeman Hale.
Mrs Nancy Rogs of Richmond Ky and Ben Haskin of Covington Va survive a deceased relative. The obituary notes four grandchildren and many relatives. Flower girls and pallbearers named. Car owners asked to arrive at 1 46 p m. Colored pen personsals mention W H Brown and Mrs Mary Parker illness and revival services led by Rev Mrs Mary Glénch.
Raw sugar stayed quiet in New York as prices were nominally unchanged at 3.80 a pot. Futures finished at their lowest level, down 1 to 5 points from the prior close. Sales reached 7,600 tons while refined sugar held at 5.00.
New York poultry markets report steady live poultry with by freight broilers at 26, roosters 13, and other freight prices unchanged. Dressed poultry steady. Frozen chickens 22 1112, other frozen and all fresh prices unchanged. mixed cores and eggs show small variances but broadly hold.
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