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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1922
Page
19
The Telegraph reports mayor and council results from Tuesday with J K Salt winning mayor and several councilmen named. It notes a rumored Ku Klux Klan presence, lists local church services, and mentions returning residents from Wake Forest Oxford Wheaton.
Nomination for officers for the semi annual term begins July 1 with further nominations likely at the June 22 regular convention and election on June 29. Revival at the Methodist church moved to Pocahontas opera house due to crowd size and closes today with many converts. attendance will gauge success of spiritual impact. Ice and Cold Storage plant in Pocahontas reopens under E G Cummings and John Stupalsky. public invited to tour and learn ice making processes. Local notices list visits by Jas Jackson and Annie Jackson, Rev J Alderman and family at Baptist parsonage, Rev W R Motley preaching in Jenkin Jones, Dr M J Alexander and W B Owens to Lynchburg, Mrs Gene Winsley returning from Shawnville, Ralph Motley visiting from Richmond, and Monito hose and Hummingbird hose offered by Ellett and Frazier.
A labor shortage across all mines served by the Norfolk and Western railroad curtails production even as demand rises. First week of June saw output up about 20,000 tons, with Pocahontas and Tug River fields leading gains while Clinch Valley and Kenova-Thacker lagged. Shipments split roughly between eastern and western points as tidewater business and New England demand strengthen.
Following a Washington conference, conditions in the New River field are more stabilized than any time since April. This stabilization has boosted buying and driven an increase in activity and investment in the field.
Mrs Lula Vann of Fulton Arkansas claims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieved monthly side and waist pain and backache enabling her to work. She offers her testimonial to encourage others with female troubles to try the product and improve health.
A Pullman statistician reports 1921 averages showing four and a half round trips daily to the moon and eight and a half to the sun. The year’s mileage totaled 700,572,465 miles, with each car averaging 118,976 miles. Passengers totaled 31,204,922 with roughly 85,500 daily riders.
London reports a self acting lighthouse installed at Barry Holmes Swansea coast. It automates lighting at dusk and extinction at dawn requiring no keeper attention and only periodic gas chemical fills for two years.
A burst ammonia pipe in Glen White presses residents and workers to evacuate as Pauley fights to close the valve. He is burned but saved by a safety rope and gas mask. The town prepares a Fourth of July picnic and a Sonic ball, while field reports show coal output rising to 3,000,000 tons monthly.
A man cornered by a stray bull was sheltered by a herd of cows that shielded him, preventing further assault. Local livestock observed the incident as bystanders contacted authorities. No injuries reported at the scene.
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