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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1918
Page
5
An old vegetable medicine, S S S, is marketed as a reliable blood purifier. Drugists praise its long history and urge customers to seek medical advice free from the Medical Director of Swift Specific Co. at Atlanta, Georgia. The ad emphasizes S S S as a trusted blood remedy sold for over fifty years.
Walton Construction Company wins contract to enlarge the Roanoke West yards. Equipment from Falls Mills Carterton and Mateb to Roanoke, work to take a year or more under the supervision of vice president and general manager Clyde Rodgers. Crushed limestone and dust suitable for concrete awaited at Castlewood Quarry.
Unnecessary suffering from eczema blotches ringworm and rashes can end with Zemo sold at drug stores 5 cents or 1 00 for a larger bottle The solution cleanses soothes and heals skin quickly It is non greasy easy to apply and inexpensive The E W Rose Co Cleveland O прив
Sudwe Lodge No 16a and Knights of Pythian hold Monday night meetings at 8 in Poocshontaa Coal and More building opposite a pot. Entrance on ee street. Visiting nights urged. Ancient Order of Woolmon of America and Sumneet Lump No. 6696 meet in Red Men’s Hall on Blue. Visiting members welcome.
James F. Pendleton longtime Richmond aide and former Tazewell county figure dies in Richmond. News also reports a fatal shooting of Fox at a Pocahontas ball game, an abandoned Maxwell with West Virginia tags, patriotic entertainment in Graham, and church and social notices across Graham and nearby towns.
In Caswell Margeret Smith plans a covert trip to meet Marshall in a hotel parlor to obtain a large sum of money. A detective discovers her role as Minnie Smith, but the plan shifts as Marcell captures the criminal Buggs and Margeret resigns to wed him, with a South Carolina honeymoon planned for July.
An advertisement touts GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as day by day relief for backache promising permanent freedom from pain. It claims Holland government sanction since 1696 and markets the product through W. S. Semenati’s Cossacks division note. Also reports a U.S. dispatch about Semenati defeated by Bolshevik troops in Siberia. W. C. Thompson elected president of International Sunday School Association. HK. execell named treasurer.
Thelma Phiegar writes a Graham Daily News fiction featuring Graham schoolgirl narrator. Reporter Margaret Smith contributes background on newsroom practices as the story unfolds.
A wartime campaign message calls for the county to intensify War Savings Stamps drives in June. It urges pledges from all adults, enlisting wage earners and taxpayers, and aims for a fully pledged quota by June 29, stressing no conflicting campaigns and strong planning.
Mrs Kate Pitts of Wolf Summit, West Virginia credits the Dreco herbal remedy with reversing her stomach troubles and aiding her husband who suffers rheumatism. The ad touts Dreco as a safe, mineral-free root and herb medicine, easy to obtain from local druggists.
Prisoners report the swollen river halting Austrian advances on the Montello plateau and along the Treviso Mestre San Dona di Piave line. Italian small arms and naval float cannons harass Austrians while fighting rages across the waterway all week. A unrelated note mentions a Shanghai church organ still functional after fifty years.
This notice records a trustee sale under a 1918 deed of trust secured by four Bluefield area parcels in Mercer County West Virginia. The property owned by the Carter heirs and Cleo S Garrett runs via court decree with terms demanding cash payments totaling 3000 dollars plus installments of 15000 and 2600 dollars on set dates. The sale occurs at the Law and Commerce building Bluefield at 2 PM on July 1 1918 and is conducted by George P Crockett special commissioner as trustee.
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