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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1925
Page
17
Delegates and ministers praised Richlands as a convention city for the two day district conference. The city welcomed numerous visitors Thursday and Friday and received many compliments on how the event was conducted and promoted.
Bluefield Post No. 9 plans a full Fourth of July program at the fair grounds with a Poca Bramwell Bluefield baseball game, Old Virginia tournament, and riding events. The event will close with a large fireworks display and a band concert. Civic groups vie in a tug of war while committees organize races, show events, and entertainment.
A Dexter resident identified as May had for 20 years faced personal troubles. In a despondent act he shot himself with a rifle, ending his life in an apparent suicide.
The Tazewell district conference closed in Richlands with Bishop E D Mouton of Nashville delivering sermons and licensing preachers T B Jackson Carle Looney Clyde Douthat from Richlands. Grundy was chosen as next meeting site. delegates elected for the 1926 session favored church unification.
Glacier National Park opens its sixteenth season in 1930 with plans for a surge in visitors. Local operators expect over 490000 visitors and have added auto stages and saddle horses to meet demand, forecasting a peak summer traffic boost.
Ten musk oxen brought from Greenland on a sailing vessel are summering on Kistholmen island off Norway. They roam freely, resist human contact, and form protective rings when alarmed. Their Arctic habitat may not suit a southern European summer and overfeeding could threaten their survival.
In Newport England the heart of George Watkins who died from pneumonia stopped breathing after death.
A Mingo Republican sketch honors Hon. H S White of Mercer County as the sole surviving member of the West Virginia legislature that met in January 1872. The article recalls White’s Civil War service, public life since, and notes other members from that era and their later roles.
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