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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1918
Page
8
Officials continue to unravel a broad fraud scheme tied to war orders. Letters from manufacturers indicate widespread use of middlemen and contingent fees. Investigators say most contracts are cheap and fair but seek to end middleman payments. Mercer’s quota is cited as $990,000.
A spillover from the Virginia coal region reports two thirds of the New River Collieries workers at Eccles going on strike Monday seeking higher wages. Americans joined, foreigners prominent among strikers, with hopes of a quick return to work within days as management aims to resume full operation.
Kluefield residents rely on Doan's Kidney Pills with railroad engineer 249 Bluefield avenue testifying their relief for lame backs and irregular kidney action. He purchases them at Goody keontz Drug Co and calls Dean's Kidney Pills a household remedy. National War Savings Day is noted for June 28.
The director general of railroads urges railroad workers to invest in war savings stamps. Officials cite back pay increases from general order No. 27 and stress stamps earn 4 percent interest, with full government repayment on ten days notice. The appeal links funding for soldiers on the Western Front to patriotic financial support at home. Charles W. Rogers receives a call to report to Welch and Camp Sherman in Ohio after a brief vacation.
T Draper drove a merry auto mobile party to Mountain Lake Sunday leaving Pocahontas about 6 o clock Sunday night. The party consisted of John A Carter with Miss Debra V McCann Joseph Boray with Miss Bertha M Szevenyi and Coler Pennington with Miss W R Lub liner. Mrs T W McCann chape-
Condemnation proceedings filed in federal court in Charleston to seize seventeen and a half acres adjoining the Nitro plant. Owner Enoch Brough of Charleston refused to accept the offered price.
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