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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1906
Page
6
Afternoon crowds filled the tent in Bluefield as Jones' big railroad show drew out of town visitors and sold out both performances. Review lauds frontier exhibition, Sioux tribe, riding acts, and overall orderly, well patronized shows despite a harshly run menagerie.
A large fire swept the Middle Norton business district destroying six store buildings and a hotel. The blaze started from a defective flue and tenants lost belongings. Owners include Paul Hagan Scott J D Dorton O J Wise and others. Insurance partially covered the lots.
Theodore Dilger, Princeton avenue jeweler, travels to New York and other eastern cities to buy fixtures for his Red Sot holding. He plans to stock his new store with up to date fixtures and a broad jewelry line, aiming to be the city’s leading jeweler and to have the shop ready by late September.
Dorchester records report Patrolman Pikiesman Wm Renfro killed on Saturday around 9 PM during an attempted arrest. He confronted three white men from Kentucky, who fled after a pistol shot lodged in his spine. Renfro, a longtime officer from Wiss county, died hours later leaving a wife and large family.
Judge Joseph M Sanders arrived from Charleston. Several residents and visitors are named with travels illnesses and recoveries including A C Need heading to Columbus and typhoid illness of James Estill Brown. A B McKinney injured at Panama Coal and Coke Company plant. Norfolk and Western President L E Johnson rode in new car No 100 on maiden trip. multiple local social and travel items.
Wi E Fowler president of the American National Bank has returned from a Virginia Bankers Association meeting at Old Point where by laws were amended allowing continued membership after relocation to Bluefield. He left for Eiking to attend the West Virginia Bankers Association meeting.
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