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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1935
Page
2
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Princeton report states W Payte a former district road engineer turned consulting expert will arrive to supervise about ten days work on municipal relief projects. He is engaged by a committee including Dr. T Bird Mayor M G Harper and Virgil Tailey to prepare plans for relief administration approval.
P R Martin, 74, died suddenly at his Fifth Street home in Princeton from heart trouble and complications. Born December 21, 1860 in Floyd County, he lived with son C. Martin in Princeton for twenty years. Survived by his sons J S Martin of Beckley, seven grandchildren, and a brother in Pembroke, Va. Funeral at Princeton Presbyterian Church at 2 30 pm with Rev W R Smith Jr officiating. interment Oakwood Cemetery. Pallbearers named.
The Virginian shop crafts will hold a big rally at the craft union hall on Mercer Street next Tuesday night at 7:20. Refreshments will be served. The AF L vs Virginian Railway case, over recognizing the union, is expected June 24 or soon after in federal court at Norfolk. Arguments were made June 14 with more testimony allowed until June 24.
Mercer county notices detail Watterson Lodge Athena Woman's club Royal Arch Chapter and Kiwanis events. Installations, meetings, and social evenings are announced alongside a school survey plan, county clerk convention, and a theatre program featuring children at the Royal theatre. Sixty eight federal prisoners are held in Mercer jail awaiting district court action next week.
Miss Julia Covey and Miss Martha Lee Jackson spent the weekend in Bluefield Virginia as guests of Mr and Mrs Freddie Amato Jr. Mr and Mrs A B Croy of Highland Avenue left for Washington DC to visit friends and will be joined by their daughter Kitty. Mr W B Shult and daughter Mary Elizabeth visited Beckley and plan to go to Roanoke Virginia. Nellie Nash of Lewisburg plans several days in Princeton. Mrs W V Peck and Miss Emma Peck visit relatives in Washington. Attending Baptist convention at Buchanan Virginia this week are Mrs Hartley Sanders Mrs T M Johnson Mrs Jim Crodly and Miss Alfreda Fry. Mrs W E Oney and son William Edward Jr and Miss Sue Oney of this city spend two weeks in Richmond visiting relatives.
The snippet shows a radio schedule note with garbled text about program topics and coast to coast designation. It references NBC WEAP network basics and East and South stations with unclear program items. Names of stations appear distorted, but the gist is a nationwide program grid subject to change.
Readable scraps show a multi time zone radio schedule for Bluefield and surrounding regions with programs from 7:00 AM to late night. Entries include music, news, variety acts, weathered station IDs, and network bulletins across WARC WIZ NBC and regional nets.
Thurman E Hodges was fined 100 and costs and jailed twelve months for non support of family after arrest by Constable J P McKinney. Bob Shrader paid 196 and costs and 30 days in jail for issuing an insufficient funds check. Suit filed by Mrs Lillie Agnew against Claude L Aff for 10000 damages. Leonia Thaxton vs Asa Thaxton in chancery returnable July rules. Justice Susong appointed to East River district to serve until next general election. Will of Annie L Hutton admitted to probate. County officials note tax delinquency warnings. Wool grading event in Princeton with WVU extension agent and Col Shaw.
In Mammoth Cave National Park the ancient skeleton of Floyd Collins is guarded while undergoing chemical treatment. Archeologists fear sightseers will damage the find before its origins and details can be determined. The fragmentary text hints at a prehistoric past and the role of celestial figures in planting trees, but remains unclear.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a Tuesday incident involving a man named Elroy Waters and a woman, with references to Welch and McDowell County. The text mentions a failed shooting claim, an open knife, and sounds of a head injury but contains many garbled names and items.
The McElroy man Waters fled into the mountains after pistol threats during a domestic dispute. He was found shot in Welch with injuries to both sides of the head while his wife testified to being kicked from their home. The case mirrors a Tuesday where Roy Roop was killed at Havaco and Dave Wolf surrendered at the county jail. Major Turner announced a welfare camp in McDowell County to aid 400 undernourished colored children from relief rolls for July and August, with 200 campers per month and residency on Harman's branch along LA Route 2.
A colored children camp is to be established in McDowell County West Virginia. An oral report notes the aim to set up a health center for underprivileged youth as part of the camp initiative.
Manuel Chalor, 31, skipper of a fishing trawler from North Wildwood New Jersey, reported to a hospital with four lacerations on his arm after a 15 foot shark leaped into his open dory offshore. He fainted as the shark grabbed his arm and then slipped back into the sea.
A young Chinese American girl, Henrietta Jyong, emerges as a national women’s tennis hope at age 11. Trained on San Francisco playground courts, she is described by tutors as developing into a premier talent with potential to dominate American women’s tennis in the future.
While investigating the slaying of Mose McElroy at War officers arrested Ernest Perry for possession of untaxed liquor. He was ordered held for the federal court in Bluefield next week, unable to post a 1000 bond. Perry was in whose home McElroy was slain Tuesday night. Officers Hall Bruce and Bellany made the arrest.
Last rites for Bob Roop of Havaco were held today in North Wilkesboro North Carolina after his slaying on Monday. Funeral services followed, with interment. Dave W Wolf is jailed on murder charges and remains in custody.
Fragmentary ad claims a liver and bladder remedy offering a 39 year success history and a seven month guarantee. Presents contact details oddly corrupted, urging clipping for more information and purchase.
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