Diamond pins to be awarded to six railroad veterans
Six Norfolk and Western veterans will receive fifty year service diamonds at a Roanoke ceremony on June 21. The 1900s era records total over eight and a half centuries of service among the seventeen honorees. Names include Hiawatha McGhee Garland Edwards H M Smith J A Jennings Robert W Clifton and G A Riley with others from Roanoke Bristol and Portsmouth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Veteran's Association
Roanoke
Western
Hiawatha McGhee
Garland E. Edwards
H. M. Smith
J. A. Jennings
Radford
John F. Davis
Bristol
H. J. Sauter
Portsmouth
Ohio
Gus W. Dyer
Vanderbilt Univer
Scioto and Pocahontas
Pocahontas
Robert W. Clifton
Maintenance
Winston-Salem
G. A. Riley
Norfolk and Western
Ten Admitted To Citizenship In West Virginia Court
Judge George W. McClintic admitted ten persons to citizenship in the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. The oath of allegiance was administered to Nasside Across Jeber of Bluefield Stefan Zapoteczny of Montcalm Teresa Riga Galati Edith Massaroni Rudolf Moller of Princeton David and Alexander Grant Taylor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. McClintic
United States Court For
Southern District of
West Virginia
McClintic
Nasside Across
Jeber
Bluefield
Stefan Zapoteczny
Montcalm
Teresa Riga Galati
Edith Massaroni
Rudolf Moller
Princeton
David and
Alexander Grant Taylor
Federal court term begins with juries impaneled
The passage notes the regular term of federal court will start Monday morning with juries to be impaneled and Judge McClintic delivering the charge to the federal grand jury. It names Princeton, Ethel Grainger of McComas, John Hubert Ridge of Bluefield, and Antonietta Levis Peraldo as linked individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Ethel Grainger
McComas
John Hubert Ridge
Bluefield
Antonietta Levis Peraldo
Virginia Sidelights on Draft Policy Train the Uneducated
A Virginia reader, a prominent coalfield mother, opposes the policy denying draft eligibility to the uneducated and removing college students. She argues educated vs uneducated is irrelevant to battlefield ability and calls for training the uneducated in war tactics. The correspondent agrees with her stance.
Local couple feeds lone wild duck at Mills dam
Mr and Mrs William McCoy of Mills Bluefield yesterday fed a lone wild duck at the Falls Mills dam pond, while 17 children swam nearby. McCoy works as dam caretaker and was previously known through a telephone acquaintance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William McCoy
Mills
Bluefield
Fa. Mills
McCoy
Falls Mills
New England Prosperity Roots in Cod Fishery Origins
New England's early wealth and capital investment in factories and industries trace to the cod fishery, shaping the region's economic base and growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Virginia Senator Page Boosts Governor Race in Bluefield
Senator Vivian L Page urged Virginia voters Tuesday night pledging support to Governor J H Price while criticizing the Byrd wing and Colgate W Darden. The meeting covered ABC boards liquor control and adult education with remarks from Dr Abner Robertson and Mrs Berry D Willis and a PTA forum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vivian L. Page
Virginia
Page
Roosevelt
J. H. Price
Colgate W. Darden
Darden
Congress
BE. R. Combs
Richmond
Combs
Raymond L. Jackson
the Commonwealth
Price
Byrd Machine
Price Administration
Interesting Talks Heard At PTA Meet
Dr. B. B. Bagby of Richmond urged an Institute of Parents and Teachers session in Bluefield Virginia to back Virginia general assembly candidates who will push state high school education on alcohol harms. He proposed the information be compiled truthfully by the state board of education with expenses funded by the ABC board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ABC
Bagby
Nquor
Virginia
Per Geere
Board of Health
Tazewell
Clarence Spain
Abner Robertson
Richmond
D ® Robertson
Cooperative Education Association of Virginia
Berry D. Willis
Suffolk
B. B. Bagby
Institute of Parents and Teachers
Bluefield
General Assembly of Virginia
Home for Vacation Miss Mae Smith Returns from Madison College
Miss Mae Smith is home for vacation from Madison College. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Br N Smith of Virginia Avenue, she is a member of the Madison College orchestra and formerly played with the Graham High School band. She is doing well in college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Mae Smith
Madison College
Miss Smith
Br’ N. Smith
Virginia Avenue
Graham High
Prosperous West Enriched By Chicago Ties McCall Family
John W. McCall, a West City pioneer, received a warm Father's Day greeting from his son Herbert McCall of Chicago. Herbert heads a Midwest hotel chain including a Topeka property, Sweet Hotels, once part of the Sweet corporation. He left town in 1907 after Mr. Sweet's death, flourished in the West, and still remembers his roots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
John W. McCall
Herbert McCall
Chicago
Middle West
Topeka
Kansas
Alf Landon
Sweet
Corporation
The
Peach Tree Limb Tips Water Supply
In Mercer county W H Edmunds sought drilling, recalling O P Walker of Bluefield Virginia. Walker used a forked peach tree limb to locate water and they drilled seventy five feet to strike a stream. Edmunds, a retired Virginian railroad conductor, paid one hundred dollars an acre for land on the Hurricane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Edmunds
Mercer County
Limestone
O. P. Walker
Bluefield
Walker
Edmunds
Virginian Railroad
Frost in Burkes Garden Reported After Warm Period
A Tazewell woman attending a PTA institute in Birefield Va reports frost in Burkes Garden Wednesday morning noting past frosts occurred in every month of the year. She attributes the cold spell to unseasonable blackberry weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tazewell
P.T.A. Institute
Birefield
Burkes Garden
Women’s Society of Christian Service Meeting
The Women’s Society of Christian Service at the First Methodist Church will meet this afternoon at 2 30 in the ladies parlor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Womans Society of Christian Service of
The
First Methodist Church
Great June flood of 1901 reshaped Elkhorn area
In June 1901 a devastating flood hit Elkhorn and the Norfolk and Western railroad washing away tracks and homes. A night shift worker at the N and W tower raced to Benbow and nearby houses with a lantern to wake families as thunder roared and the waters rose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkhorn
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Benbow
Great Flood Recalled In Bluefield Va Flashback
Residents remember a historic flood that struck Bluefield Virginia sending furniture across rooms and even pigs onto pianos as the skies opened on a Friday night forty years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Mrs Roscoe Dudley of Bramwell Recalls Fox Hunting Hobby
The narrator meets Mrs. Roscoe Dudley in a local drug store and recalls their past acquaintance eight to ten years earlier. She discusses fox hunting as a hobby, noting her husband owned forty fox hounds at Toms Creek and her role feeding them. She mentions the upcoming beach show in Princeton on August 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roscoe Dudley
Bramwell
Dudley
Toms Creek
Princeton
Julia Burton
Wytheville
Norfolk and Western
Graham High School Annual The Cracker Distribution
The Graham high school annual The Cracker will be wed and distributed this afternoon at 1 o clock by Miss Mamie Lee Baldwin at her home. More than 15 percent of army draftees are 22 years old, the largest single age group. Fourteen percent are 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graham High School
Mamie Lee Baldwin
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Vanderbilt University
Norfolk and Western Railway Veterans Association
du Pont House
du Pont
DuPont
Bluefield Supply CO
Virginia News
PUTO
PTA
Frost
Cawapa
Eveny
Saul
Paul Jones
Frankfort Distilleries,Inc
Lewisville
Baltimore
Ley Yune
Tim
Ney
Montgomery Ward
Federal Street
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