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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1919
Page
2
City and state weather outlook with possible thunder showers for Wednesday and Thursday. Local notices cover union meeting for Farportners Local No 122s, automobile service between Bluefield and Mountain Lake, a flower shop, a hardware ad, magazine arrivals, and community updates including hospital, grand jury, and hotel news. Multiple brief items mention residents, business, and church women's meeting.
J. W. Thornton representing the Rotary Club Rk. W. Lacy of the Blue Stone Automobile Club and Carroll D. Woods of the Bluefield Chamber of Commerce left for Parkersburg for the state road convention today and tomorrow. Two idle United States Coal and Coke Company plants No 7 and No 6 will be started, boosting output. Coal miner Harris of Elk Horn was brought to Bluefield Sanitarium with a broken shoulder after a slate fall at Crozier Coal and Coke Company yesterday.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church will meet Wednesday at 3 30 in the ladies parlor. All ladies interested in missions are invited and members urged to attend. Reminder for the Nations Fair on Friday June 27 from 10 a m to 11 p m next to Flat.
The city lists numerous homes and parcels for sale on many streets including Rock Bridge, Clark, Williams, Bath, Hoge, Ellis, Princeton, Pearl, Rose, Fourth, Fairfax, Tyler, Hardy, Highland, Preston, Floyd, Rogers, Carroll, South Mercer, Spruce, alolia venue, Third, Gilmer, North, Bailey, Albemarle, View, Union, East End, Midway, Bluefield and Wythe Avenues. Prices span from 1 900 to 17 500 with multiple lots and several multi home lots. The dealer notes additional homes on other streets in Bluefield and offers sales on favorable terms.
The women of Bland Street Methodist Church will hold a bake sale Saturday at the Appalachian Power Company offices starting at 10 o'clock to raise funds for Victory bonds. The Quality Shop will close at six p.m. on Saturdays during June, July, and August.
A Birmingham Post notice offers 50 dollars for the key to a house on the Hagley or Bristol roads. The ad signals a shift toward higher end property with longer leases, as fewer homes remain vacant and the fashionable suburb retains appeal despite earlier decline.
In a Scientific American account C. H. Claudy recalls touring the surrendered submarine UCOA with its British commander. He notes the vessel shows no regard for accessibility or easy repair and suggests it was built to be lost or captured rather than serviced, from ventilation to overall fittings.
A farmer contends that education spoils some people while a young man advocates a harsh command to horses with the word arise used as an order. The speakers joke about discipline and progress in a rural setting.
R M Bowling through his father John W Bowling filed a suit in the federal district court against Walker D Hines director general of railroads seeking 10000 damages. He alleges unjust arrest on August 2 on charges of robbing a freight car by C Peerman Virginian Railroad agent. After a hearing in Princeton he was released and the case dismissed. The petitioner says the incident forced him to quit his job and caused great mental distress. The case was moved from circuit court to federal court at defense counsel's request.
A well attended Boy Scout meeting convened last night at the chamber of commerce in response to a Rotary Club committee. Ben H Williams spoke on organization and Tommy Main on scouting benefits while Paul Udy and R B Parrish outlined Rotary support. A follow up gathering is planned next Monday at S o'clock for former Boy Scout members.
A local woman chronicles her thrift method to buy War Savings Stamps. She saves quarters by converting them to Thrift Stamps promptly, noting a shoe sale reduced cost from 10 to 7.75 dollars. She plans a penny bank to store small coins until they become Thrift Stamps. The effort is framed as a game of Getting Ahead with War Savings.
Washington June 17 the house voted 219 to 92 to reject the senate provision in a 22 million deficiency bill directing the secretary of the treasury to take over the Chicago Speedway Hospital.
Judge Harold Ritz granted a writ of error and supersedeas in the supreme court of appeals yesterday morning. The writ is returnable July 7 in the case of the Watson Lay Coal Company against the...
Monroe Coal Company appeals to the Supreme Court from a Kanawha circuit court decision. Judge George Poffenbarger granted the appeal from the circuit court, which refused Turkey Knob Coal Company of Charleston an injunction to restrain State Tax Commissioner Hallahan from collecting the excise tax as interpreted by the law.
Delegates clash over recognizing the Soviet Union and lifting Russia blockade. John P. Frey warns against sending food to Bolsheviks while Samuel Gompers defends American Labor Day as a national observance. The committee insists on a clear position from organized labor in America.
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