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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1924
Page
2
Mixed ads and notices list coal prices and services from City Coal Co and Pocahontas Fuel Co. Real estate offers include seven room heated houses on Highland Avenue Augusta Street and Mary land Avenue with garages. Community notices promote a sand pile for children and a Legion Adjusted Compensation info drive.
H Tyree of Los Angeles California Special Representative of Mason and Hamlin Piano Co. is the farthest from home visitor in Bluefield today. The Board of Review and Equalization will meet at Princeton on July 6 1924. Two illicit stills and 120 gallons of mash seized at Peerless Coal and Coke Co. property. Whiskey confiscated in Bluefield railroad yards. Non support case against James C Blackwell heard. witness money turned to his wife. City improvements at Rogers and Chestnut streets and Princeton Power Co bridging tracks to ease transfers between Bluefield and Graham.
Rochester man James H. Allen describes a personal cure for rheumatism after years of study. He asserts uric acid deposits in joints and muscles are dissolved and expelled. He offers Allenrhca through Central Pharmacy with a money back guarantee if the first pint does not show recovery.
J. T. Tatum of Winston-Salem traveled to Montcalm to identify a body held since last week on Norfolk and Western tracks at Cliff Yard. He questioned a possible match with his brother, noted slight resemblance, and cited a man named Hollard linked to a check found on the deceased, while the undertaker maintains the name G. W. Lawton.
San Pedro California June 18 Battleships gun turrets protect crews yet can trap sailors as shown in testimony at the U S S Mississippi explosion inquiry Forty eight lives were lost and the court of inquiry may demand escape hatches or rear openings from turrets The hearing adjourned for executive session with findings pending against risks of turret design and handling room conditions
Testimony in New York recounts John W. Hubbard of Trenton losing 16000 seeking whiskey through government ties with Thompson Astillery warehouses. Hubbard linked Charles W. Johnson to Means and Jarnecke in an alleged liquor law conspiracy, with Mellon implicated in remarks.
Jacob Stein testified that Means asked him to find buyers for bonded whiskey at 200 dollars per barrel to repay money advanced by Secretary Mellon for the 1920 campaign.
The record lists multiple defendants receiving jail terms ranging from sixty days to eighteen months. Individuals include John Johnson three months in Mercer county jail and Thomas Hoke nine months in Summers county jail, with John H. Martin sentenced to eighteen months in federal prison at Atlanta. Additional notes cover guilty pleas, case notations, transfers to Huntington and Charleston, and a car returned to the defendant after government confiscation.
Interest in the Bluefield Lions Club weekly luncheon centered on yesterday’s annual election of officers and directors for the coming year. The newly elected slate includes well known local business and professional men, indicating continued civic effort from the club as it enters its third year. Provident Judge Joseph M. Sand- continues the leadership.
The club elected first vice president C Douglas and second Hieponte Dr. David Littlejohn as residents Clarence Amonette as secretary Herbert May as treasurer Charles Oliver as lion tamer L H Layne as tall twister Robert Lowder and Dr O B Hare along with A G Fox named as directors for two years S N Rangeley Jr and Dr Harold W Black to serve one year terms P J Kelly remains on the board as the other two term director Installation is planned for late July with a ladies night committee formed and visitors J G Barrow and Hunter Hancock of Bluefield attended the meeting.
The article notes Duncan McDonald as a possible nominee with a push for immediate Philippine and Porto Rico independence. It quotes a final plank opposing intervention to safeguard investments or debt of financial interests. It also reports the death of W A McDearman, railroad agent, who collapsed while parking at Reusens after arriving from Lynchburg.
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