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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1923
Page
7
The Christian church program Sunday night featured songs recitations drills and a pantomime by primary and junior children. Hidden quartet sang My Faith Looks Up to Thee as the church crowded despite heat. Offerings totaled about 60 dollars.
A circus arrived in town yesterday with animals listed but did not perform a parade as planned. Children gathered on Mercer Street at 1 pm awaiting spectacle, only to be disappointed after more than an hour, with adults and kids reacting with frustration and tears. The notice also urges a vote to make Bluefield a real city by supporting bonds.
R C Sutherland ticket agent of Princeton West Virginia and W L Woody A G P A of Norfolk Virginia are listed as officials in the notice.
Licenses issued late Saturday and Sunday announce marriages in Princeton and nearby areas. Couples include Ernest R. Sisson to Minnie King, Clarence Hedrick to Ada Hines, Curtis Clark to Clara Saunders, James Higginbotham to Ruth Dickerson, Clarence Bowling to Gladys Kostyal, and Delph McReynolds to Mossie Shell.
For sale a 347 acre Botetourt county farm near the C O R R with river bottoms and upland blue grass. Improvements include an eight room house, two tenant houses, dairy barn for 30 cows, silo and outbuildings. Personal property consists of 380 cows 30 yearlings four horses a new tractor corn harvester mowers rakes ensilage cutter and farming gear. Price 3500 with 10000 cash and balance to suit. CHILDS & BRANHAM Roanoke Virginia.
Mrs. Rhoda Mae Pickel wife of A E Pickel of South Ninth street died Monday at 4 am after a six year struggle with stomach cancer. Survived by husband a sister Mrs Harris five children. funeral at 2 pm at home with Rev W H Wrighton in charge. burial in Oakwood cemetery.
At the spacious lawn of her Tanglewoods residence Mrs. Julia Barberie hosted an annual home coming party with eighty five attendees. The event featured the hostess aged eighty four among the elders and a four week old great grandchild among the youngest. Lunch under oak trees offered lamb ham chicken biscuits pies and more as relatives gathered for a festive family reunion.
A vivid line lists cream lemonade buttermilk sweet milk and coffee among enticing eats, hinting at a display of abundant foods that tempt the inner appetite beyond capacity.
Princeton residents and visitors are mentioned in a collage of social notes. G W Barger of Kambridge Kansas visits relatives in Princeton while his ill son stays at Bluefield Sanitarium. Others travel to Blacksburg Columbus and Abingdon for family, schooling, and leisure.
C M Cox a Glen Falls New York area contractor reports severe rheumatism stomach pain and weight loss improved after taking Tanlac now claims stomach misery pain and fatigue resolved regained weight and energy and can work a full day Tanlac advertised as Nature’s remedy for constipation sold by druggists with over seven million bottles sold.
Lima Ohio resident Mrs G W Hall reports years of illness eased after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound She says she can now do heavy work and walk long distances without draggy weakness and urges other women to try the remedy for weakness and derangements.
One of the largest crowds gathered at the Smith home in Ceres for the burial of L. H. Smith. Born January 11, 1869, he married Cora L. Bruce on August 10, 1893 and had eleven children, seven surviving. He belonged to the M B H Church South, converted in 1921 at a Billy Sund ay meeting. Rev. C. K. Painter conducted the funeral with a tribute to his faithful life. Pallbearers were W. B. Keeling J. W. Thompson Howard Richards Aubrey Dangerfield C. G. Pruitt and L B. Winfrey.
Princeton ships fifty students and five faculty to Concord College Summer School. Faculty members listed include Rev. L. W. Irwin Miss Ella Holroyd J N Hoylman H W Straley and W H Roberts. Student names follow in a large roster.
A plot to kill Kin Fand was foiled as Egyptian guards concealed the conspiracy details. In Publicn a twin ship carrying 300 passengers from Wexford narrowly avoided disaster when a cliff landslide swept away the track two feet from the vessel.
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