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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1923
Page
10
A shade tree spectacle on Highland avenue featured an alley cat captivating birds and destroying several nests. The Virginia Inland Game and Fishery warns locals to kill stray cats to protect song and game birds, urging immediate行动.
The Graham fane will wait for a game on the new Harman stadium as Princeton visits Monday for a return engagement. The series is even. Monday’s game could decide the rule. The Red Sox sat with weak lineup at Princeton Wednesday yet Princeton won with ease. Outfield mix and new infielders show potential. Sharpe shows promise as a left hander and Dr. A B Sutton joined the travel party.
Mrs. Robert Gillespie hosts Rebecca Lipscomb from Farmville and Katherine Embrey for the summer. Ella Hodnett, formerly Ella Williams of Graham, welcomed Mary Alice Hodnett born in Majestic Kentucky. Red Sox beat Pulaski 4 3 with Sharpe on the mound. teams meet again today and tomorrow.
Graham Virginia June 20 1922 Thad Mullin seeks the office of supervisor in Clear Fork district promising a road from Graham to Pocahontas to connect coal fields and a repair of the Graham Cove Creek road He pledges diligent oversight of public funds and asks for support.
The city of Graham Virginia invites sealed bids by the mayor and council for street paving including 15 000 sq yd hard surface pavement 800 lineal ft curb and gutter 12 street inlets 400 lineal ft vitrified clay sewer pipe. Bids due July 5 1923 with plans from city attorney W L Sexton and a 16 purchase deposit refundable on return.
A two horse team hitched to an empty coal wagon ran wild down the main street yesterday after 5 pm. Automobile drivers pulled aside as the steerage horses sped through corners. Prohibition agent T. 8S. Gravely leaped into the wagon and halted the runaway pair near the Graham tower.
A community fellowship service is to be held at Graham Baptist church this evening with a 6:30 picnic lunch where each person brings a basket. The Bluefield Rotary quartet will sing. Rev. W. E. Abrams will speak and congregational singing will follow.
A long tater special train passed Graham yesterday as part of No 29 the Norfolk and Western express. Rail workers note the service is brisk and the schedule includes freight and passenger movements boosting potato shipments while signaling rail traffic intensity.
The West Graham Methodist revival led by Rev. E L McConnell has drawn over 100 adherents by Wednesday night and is hailed as the greatest awakening in Graham's western section. In Five Oaks area a cloudburst washed ballast under the railroad, tying trains to local tracks overnight. The town council approved steps toward free mail delivery with W F McDonald hired to mark streets and number houses, aiming for July 1 start.
The Radford district M E church south session in Princeton heard Rev Lowery report over 20000 raised for Emory and Henry training school to be built in Princeton Ground breaking planned today Dr Lowery praised Hiwassie College and its mission Rev I P Martin urged paying 200000 by August 1 to reclaim 75000 from Rockefeller Foundation July was set for raising The Holston conference Christian education program has subscribed 881000 with 425000 for Emory and Henry Several delegates were elected to the annual conference including J C Scott M H Jackson Bratton Princeton and others
The Valley Woman's Missionary Auxiliary celebrates its silver anniversary with reports on membership growth, mission gifts, and upcoming memorials. Mrs. R A Henderson urged love faith and giving as arrows guiding women’s work while Rev. Richard Owens urged right relations with God, praising Valley women’s achievements.
Miss Eva Chang, a 22 year old Chinese journalist in Chicago, plans to lead Chinese sisters into journalism. She hopes to bring American methods to China and start a women’s section in Chinese papers, becoming the first Chinese newspaperwoman. She was born in Shanghai, studied at Oberlin and Missouri, and received a Boxer Indemnity scholarship.
A reflective line notes that God stands on the parapets of heaven looking down on people as they go about daily tasks and expresses a sense of divine satisfaction.
Local society notes recount visitors from Bluefield for the Valley W M A meeting. Guests include Mrs J T Stinson Mrs P W Post Miss Kitty Overtstreet and others. Details cover travels visits and a ton silectomy at Memorial Hospital with Miss Vera Payne reported improving.
Bremerhaven June 21 The Lower Weser Branch of the Scissors Club vows to snip the hair of German girls seen with foreigners including Indians Africans Chinese and Japanese to fund Ruher relief. A separate note says Munich-Friedrich von Loerber left his estate to his son on one condition the boy must avoid war service.
Gothenburg Sweden June 21 Thousands visit the jubilee exposition with daily attendance around fifty thousand. Visitors are most impressed by the iron steel and machinery exhibit showing ore mining steel making and Swedish products such as ball bearings micrometers cutlery cream separators turbines oil motors artillery.
Lisbon police and republican guards raided homes in the city during the night searching for explosives after two months of nightly bombings. The operation covered peasants dwellings to the Duke of Palmella residence. one bomb and a rifle were found at the communist's union. Pekin Ling Chuen, the former executioner who beheaded over 10 000 people, has died in Tientsin.
Harrison Jones explains Coca Cola advertising as a guiding string to the drink, linking national campaigns to in-store signs to steer thirsty consumers to Coca Cola. He notes the policy keeps ads constant, backing merchants with continuous, attractive promotion. The 1923 campaign is described as larger than ever.
In Goettingen a wedding carried a grim aura as the bride, daughter of a man sentenced to death, wed a groom condemned to twenty years in prison. The best man and bridesmaid also faced similar sentences while all four, fugitive Flemish convicted by Belgians for Flemish tendencies and pro Germanism, stood under a gallows shadow.
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