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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1925
Page
2
Patchwork notices from Bluefield area papers list service coal and dry cleaning ads, militia and church events, meetings, funerals, and small local crimes. Items include memorial services at Grace Methodist on June 21, reserve officer meeting June 22, and various notices from Merc er Coal, Bluefield Lodge 1079, and Chad vendors.
City Clerk H L Henderson announces registrars and sitting places for the June 23 1925 session to register and correct registration books for the July 7 1925 general election. Listings cover wards and precincts with specific polling locations and paired registrar names.
The body lies in state and crowds from this and neighboring states may pass by the casket. The Line will file past the coffin and doors remain open until 7 o clock tomorrow night. On Monday all entrances will be opened for the funeral procession.
The huge electric locomotive, covered in engineering journals, will move through Bluefield today en route from Norfolk and Western to Salem Virginia. It will then join the Virginian line for tests. Unlike N and W engines, this unit arrives as three connected sections.
Ira Shepherd aged about fifteen from Council Virginia was nearly crushed by a west end train yesterday at 8 20 am. He suffered a badly mashed left hand two torn fingers and flesh loss on his left leg. He was taken to the Bluefield Sanitarium after the accident.
Co S Dehart of Plovd Va was arrested last night near the east corporate limits of Bluefield charged with having one and one half gallons of moonshine. Dehart occupied a Ford coupe which is being held by the state. The arrest was made.
Deputy Prohibition Commissioner Ell Watkins announced last night that Dehart will be given a heart transplant on Monday.
On Newgate Avenue a large property listed by the Commercial Beak Building Company at 96 900 dollars on terms of worth and 40 dollars monthly.
G Clements of Lynchburg and Lara Hancock of Richmond are jailed by Lynchburg authorities on wife desertion and Mann Act violations. Police allege Clements lived with Lula Hancock in Bluefield under an assumed name, deserting his wife and two children. The pair remain in custody awaiting warrants.
A Cape May dock collapsed during an annual excursion on June 20 injuring eight seriously and about thirty lightly. Victims stood on a pier watching a life saving exhibit when timbers gave way, dropping people into shallow water and sending some to the Colonial Hotel converted into a makeshift hospital.
President and Mrs. Coolidge begin summer plans with departure to Swampscott Massachusetts aboard the Mayflower. The White House party includes two books, servants, and dogs Paul Pry and Rob Roy. A Lynn Mass office will handle summer business while Marblehead and Swampscott hosts the Coolidge retreat and renovations begin with a $50 000 appropriation.
Fire alarm stations and public facilities listed with intersections in Bluefield and surrounding streets. Entries include Bluefield Avenue at Princeton, Russell, Thomas, Chestnut, Spruce, Federal and Raleigh, plus City Hall, Southside and Northside phone numbers and station notes.
Congress funds repairs mainly for semi public rooms on the first floor. The presidential party will depart Tuesday afternoon for Massachusetts arriving early the next morning. The president will then motor four miles to Swampscott.
Thirty eight Chicagoans who died in the Delaware Lackawanna and Western wreck at Hackettstown New Jersey were brought back to the city for burial today. Over a hundred relatives gathered at the railroad station as boxes were moved and three bodies were claimed by relatives that night.
Most victims left the city on a brief vacation exercise to Germany less than a week earlier. Authorities are investigating the incident and confirming identities as they assess travel records and flight manifests.
Pontiac Michigan reported two aviators died when their plane burst into flames during flight. Pilot Frank Goddell and passenger pupil Charles Boffey were aboard the aircraft when it went into a tall spin and crashed near Pontiac on June 20.
Nester McComas, 37, was killed when a touring car carrying him and his brothers Bowles and U S McComas plunged over an embankment on the Huntington Logan road. Bowles drove the car and lost control after a tent steering wheel attachment failed. Nester leaves a widow and three children. Bowles lives at Fes Lincoln county and U S McComas is a survivor.
The probate filing in Los Angeles states Grace Grogan Young's will values the estate over $10,000. She left jewels to Charles Patrick Grogan, son by Olive millionaire and Grogan heir. Remainder goes to Patrick Grogan, and her brothers Harry A. and Earle A. Hunt in equal shares.
Federal court adjourned the Ham mitt and Turley Jr vs Limeback Piggly-Wiggly suit after hearing evidence. The case began Friday and was heard before Judge MecClintic without a jury. No decision has been rendered and none is indicated for this term.
New York June 20 Mad Play, fresh from the Brooklyn handicap triumph, raced to another impressive victory at Aqueduct in the Queens county handicap. The winner led Home Suffle Along by two lengths with Wheatstone third.
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