Montvale and Bluefield Short Items Summary
Local notices from Montvale area promote lots for sale with space and drainage benefits offered by Stone Securities Company. Advertisements urge coal purchases from West End Coal Co. and feature meal offerings from Mrs. Strom at Oak Grove Princeton Road. Community items note a Forty and Eight ceremony plan in Williamson, a Pearlsburg heart failure death, and a St Luke's Hospital smoke alarm incident with minimal damage.
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St. Luke's Hospital
Trials halted as three plead guilty in West Virginia court
In the Southern District of West Virginia trials slowed after defendants in three cases chose pleas of guilty. John Stratham and Dewey Johnson admitted theft of a registered letter with judgment deferred to the next term. Nannie Waldron was found guilty of prohibition violations and sentenced to ninety days in Mingo county jail. The jury found Jim Lowe guilty on national prohibition charges, with fines totaling $1,725 for the day and $10,775 for the first three court days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Court For
Southern District of
West Virginia
John Stratham
Dewey Johnson
Bond
Nannie Waldron
Mingo County
Williamson
Jim Lowe
Joseph O'Donnell
Mercer County
John Henry Lilly
Bruce K. Nobles
M. W. Brown
Harry Kennedy
Monahan
Kasen Ameen
Emmet Blivens
Nolle
W. H. Ballard
Huntington
Aeley Gathrop
Washington National Training School
Louis Love
George W. Meadows
John A. Workman
Bob Simpson
Claude Johnson
W. M. Spencer
Joe Crenshaw
George Mitchell
Fayette County
Chas. Wonchak
Hardings Enjoy Reception At Coliseum Stop In Kansas City
President and Mrs. Harding toured a hotel reception with tickets mostly unused. After a quiet dinner they addressed the Coliseum audience where Woodrow Wilson had once been nominated. The party then watched part of an opera at an open air theatre before overnight travel toward Kansas City.
MINERS AND ENGINEERS NEAR SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTE
Differences between the United Mine Workers of America and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers over the Coal River Colleries Company mine in Boone county West Virginia are near settlement. J C Lewis of Des Moines Iowa and president of the Iowa State Federation of Labor says a conference arranged by John L Lewis and Warren S Stone led to a temporary withdrawal of the union’s objection to operation on an open shop plan and plans for a joint policy conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
W. Va
United Mine Workers of America
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Coal River Colleries Company
Boone County
Locomotive Brotherhood
J. C. Lewis
Des Moines
Iowa
Lewis
Iowa State Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
Warrens. Stone
Mine Workers’ Organization
Police Officer Roach Dies of Pneumonia at 46
Thomas E. Roach a Bluefield police officer died at St Luke’s Hospital from pneumonia after an operation. He was 46 and recently married Vivian Mitchell. Survived by his father C F Roach brothers R L and J J Roach and a son T E Roach Jr. Funeral in Summers County with pallbearers named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas EB. Roach
Bluefield
St. Luke's Hospital
Officer Roach
T. E. Roach
Summers County
Washington
Vivian Mitchell
North Street
Roach
Bland Street
J. J. Roach
Arizona
Jerome Mitchell
T. S. Hamilton
P. P. Hasselvander
Jergen
N. D. Dillon
R. O. Carter
L. L. Williams
Frank Bean
John Litchford
A. B. Lilly
R. J. Bowen
J. C. Kitts
C. M. Scott
Charles A. Easley
T. A. Wood
W. C. Easley
W. 8. Phelps
W. W. McNeil
P. J. Alexander
J. Frank Maynard
Longest Day of Year Brings Heat Across Multiple Cities
Record June heat hits Ariz to 100 degrees and climbs to 98 in Washington and Harrisburg. Boston and New York reach the upper 90s while Atlantic City tops at ninety. Cooler weather expected in New England and interior New York tonight with warmer conditions spreading to the Ohio Mississippi valleys and Plains states tomorrow.
Hull comments on forecast of surplus
Washington figures show a projected treasury surplus of 200 million dollars by year end as Hull criticizes the administration for small regualar cuts while noting Democrats reduced the public debt by 2.5 billion in the prior eighteen months. He contrasts GOP claims with historic Democratic achievements in 1920.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harding
Lord
Budget Bureau
Treasury
Hull
Guy Gundaker Assured Election As Rotary Head
Guy Gundaker a Philadelphia restaurant owner was assured of becoming Rotary International president after delegates at the fourteenth annual convention in St. Louis voted to close nominations with Gundaker the sole candidate. Formal balloting set for tomorrow. The afternoon program featured talks on the organization’s boys work by Everett Hill Frank D Slutz and Edgar A Guest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Guy Gundaker
Philadelphia
Rotary International
Gundaker
Everett Hill
International Boys Work Committee
Frank D. Slutz
Dayton
Edgar A. Guest
Detroit
Train Dispatchers Get New Working Rules
The United States railroad labor board set rules for American Train Dispatchers Association members after hearings with 55 railway companies. Relief on seven holidays or seven days pay is required, seniority dates from last entry, official positions do not forfeit seniority, and discipline requires a proper hearing. Baltimore & Ohio was among the roads in the dispute.
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Chicago
United States Railroad Labor Board
American Train Dispatchers’ Association
Baltimore & Ohio
Widow petitions over alleged estate stock defraud
Mrs. Mary Walker Boggs, widow and ex ecutrix of the estate of the late R. 5, files in common pleas court alleging millions were diverted before death. She names Pittsburg, Butler, Harmony and Newcastle Consolidated Railway and Power Company and several McCahill heirs among the defendants for pressuring transfer of unpaid stock while Boggs was in poor health.
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Pittsburg
Mary Walker Boggs
Common Pleas
Pittsburg, Butler, Harmony and Newcastle Consolidated Railway and Power Company
David J. McCahill
Marie Kaye McCahill
McCahill
Eva Ames McCahill
H. Etheride
R. M. Glick
Edward O. Taber
Powder impervious to moisture developed
Washington reports the War Department announced the successful development of a new smokeless, flashless powder for small arms and artillery. Itisa moisture proof propellant that preserves driving power and enables night firing without revealing positions.
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Washington
War Department
Department
Turc threatened to kill Fred Schneider in Bronx case
Two women on trial for murder of Frederick Schneider testified that William Turc, brother in law to Mrs Buzzi, threatened to kill Schneider on several occasions. Mrs Dickie said Turc drew a revolver and shouted I want to kill that Hun Fred Schneider. Mrs Ture said Turc had threatened to kill the wealthy Bronx contractor over four years due to alleged advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Anna Bunzi
Frederick Schneider
Wm. Turc
Ture
Fred Schneider
Bronx
Schneider
Smiling Woman Bandit Husband Remanded in Psych Hospital
Frank Carrick, husband of Fred C. Thompson who is held as the smiling woman bandit, was moved to a psychopathic hospital in ravings tonight. He had been jailed after Thompson and Marie Clark, claimed by Thompson as his wife, were involved in the Teamer murder. Detectives doubt Carrick’s confession due to his mental state.
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Chicago
Frank Carrick
Fred C. Thompson
Richard C. Tesmer
Phychopathic
Thompson
Marie Clark
Carrick
Teamer
State rests case in trial of Mrs Best
The state finished testimony in the murder trial of Mrs Josephine Best, accused in the death of Carl H Dufford, by introducing a letter allegedly written by Best to Dufford. The missive signed Your Broken Heart Joy urged return to her and described extreme distress over the relationship.
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Newcastle
Pune
Josephine Best
Carl H. Dufford
Dufford
Carl
Forty and Eight Meeting Unique
The American Legion 40 and 8 Society held a unique gathering at the dugout with strong wartime spirit. They stressed Independence Day festivities at the fair grounds and planned to support legion activities. Twenty Mercer Locale 310 voyageurs will travel to Williamson for the first initiation, with an oratorical on the program and an army mess served by Jimmy Rantis.
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Willamson
Society of
Bluefield
American Legion
Williamson
Williamson American Legion
Fair Grounds
Legion
Mercer
Dave Lowman
Dave
Army
Jimmy Rantis
Busy Bee
Jimmy
Mesa
Ke Slifkin
James
Bill Coles
Bob Sheffey
J. E. Blaydes
Hank Clarke
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F. L. Black & Sons
Summers St
F. L. Black
H. W. Blac
F. W. Black
J. B. Eades
Osteopathic
Mayer Building
W. VA. Res
Bluefield Foto
Biand
Maefield, W. Va
William J H. Carr
Osteopath
Abrams
Kelly & Moyer Bidg
Bluefield, W. Va
N. E. Rierson
Princeton Ave
Our
Altamont
Lcross
H. G. O’neil
Bland St. Bluefield
Montvale
Stone Securities Company
West End Coal Co
California
Meadow View
BE. W. Price
Ing. R. T. Baker
Comnph Club
C. B. Hancock
First National Bank
Franklin Touring
Morton Motor Company
Elizabeth Kersey
Ene
Bluefie
Robins Rest
Princeton Road
Linderman
W. D. Pearson
Pearlsburg
Palmer & Fowler Studio
W. H. Sperow
Pocahontas
New River
Chicago Norioth Western Coal Co
L. C. Sieber, Secy. Fisher Bldg
Easley -Perkins & Co
Temple OF Fashion
TLE
Roagh
St. Luke’s Hospital
Clyde C. Sarver Ocer
College Ave
Goodykoontz Drug CO
Three Good Drug Stores
East End Pharmacy
Princeton Avenue
Bluefield Pharmacy
Bluefield Ave
Fairview Pharmacy
Bland and
South Streets
Say Turc
Ropra reMves
J. P. Andrews
Commercial Bank
Bridg
Seth Thomas Clocks
J. W. Waters CO
Federal Street
Law & Commerce Bldg
Wm. Greenspon, O. D
Optometrist
W. Virginia
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