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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1932
Page
4
The city council debated immediate upgrades to South Walker Street and Honaker Avenue after a letter from H. W. Straley urging action. With funds tied to other projects, work may wait until after July 1 though a ten cent street levy potential was noted.
C W Bingham leaves today for Hot Springs Arkansas to spend three weeks. Mr and Mrs H L Glenn and daughter Patty Lee return from Ashland Kentucky after visiting relatives and attend dedication ceremonies at the state capitol in Charleston. Miss Mary Margaret Eakin, Concord college student, weekends with grandparents Judge and Mrs Hugh G Woods. Hardy Sanders a business visitor in Athens yesterday. Robert Bruce returns home from Bluefield after visiting Dr and Mrs O'Brien. Miss Catherine Emick of Concord remains for the current term.
College students from Concord attended gatherings in the city. Several residents and visitors, including Mrs. Stuart Garret and Mrs. BE McNeer, traveled to Bluefield and Blue Ridge areas. Major McDonald from Herradura Cuba arrived to visit, while families note travel and bereavement as D L Beidler’s funeral was held in Stanley, Va.
Welch West Virginia man Ed Cundiff of Kimball was arrested Monday night at his mother's Carswell home after a two month self imposed absence from the county road gang while working on the Coalwood mountain road. He had been disguising himself with colored goggles. Cundiff was sentenced by Judge G L Counts to serve a road sentence for manslaughter from the January McDowell criminal court term after a car strike killed William Caney of Maybury. He had eluded police for weeks following the accident.
Miss Helen Fair public health nurse for Consolidation Coal at Coalwood is transferred effective July 1 to the Pennsylvania division where she will oversee several plants. She earned strong results in Coalwood and was active in county community work and the Coalwood Civic club. Miss Ruth Anders of Caretta will replace her and manage both operations.
James Robert Zeigler an 18 month old son of Mr and Mrs John Zeigler Premier died at 10 15 oclock Monday night at Grace hospital Funeral services will be held this afternoon at the home of the parents conducted by Rev D T Miles Interment will follow at Premier
Mrs Cecil Johnston returns home after a three week visit with relatives in Wadesboro North Carolina. Mrs Tommy Reese and Miss Ruth Reese of Davy shop in Welch Tuesday. Mayor J W Blakely Gail Carter and W J Hatfield attend to road surfacing business in Charleston. Mrs W H McCullough and Gons Hugh and Charles Howard return from Brookneal Virginia after a weekend with relatives. Mrs M C Hammond visits Fairmont to see her daughter Mrs R Moore Roberts and family.
Mrs George Leckie delighted her Maple Terrace home Tuesday night entertaining the bridge club. Attending were Mrs G M Kyle Mrs W R Keyser Mrs M C Hutson Mrs Robert Farris Miss Lou Stevenson Mrs J B Royar and Mrs M E Crisp.
Mrs James J Walker wife of the mayor underwent an abdominal operation today at Polyclinic hospital in New York. The patient came out of the procedure in excellent condition according to Dr.
W H Pennington was appointed administrator of the Lewis A Pennington estate in a fiduciary order filed in the county clerk's office. Bond $800 with F H Kessel as surety. Appraisers named L F Hale T C Tanner and A C Johnston. Fannie Mills appointed guardian for Albert Jimmie and Woodrow Mills with bond $150. Revival services at Pisgah church led by RE Eliia of Glenwood Park circuit assisting Rev W S Lyons. Services daily at 10 am and 8 pm nightly. Public invited.
A riotous Parisian bedroom farce titled The Passionate Plumber leads the Royal theatre program today. The production features one of the season’s strongest comedy casts with leading roles highlighted by a notable ensemble.
William Schroeder Jr. said the mayor postponed his departure for the Democratic national convention in Chicago until he was assured of his wife's recovery.
Harold L. Menjou twenty, adopted son of actor Adolphe Menjou, held on murder and driving while intoxicated charges in Los Angeles. Bond set at ten thousand dollars after a crash that killed his companion Marjorie Gauthier sixteen, a Beverly Hills high student. Officer Perry Jones, riding from Manhattan Beach, filed the complaint.
Paris reports three prominent continental society figures, Lady Louis Mountbatten, the Comtesse Elie de Ganay, and Madame Rene Fenwick, selecting a printed chiffon evening gown. The dress features a pointed decolletage and a soft bow, with Lady Mountbatten styling a red and white print over a red crepe foundation slip.
The piece notes Buster Keaton as a superhero plumber in a romantic plot with Patricia Alden while Jimmy Durante pursues Polly Moran in a comic subplot. A separate notice reports the birth of Barbara Dolores Stovall on Monday, June 20 to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stovall of 902 Front Street.
Sheriff J Otis Bowane and State Police Sergeant F Crawford encountered a still in the Plymouth district as a thunder shower struck Monday evening. The operation was interrupted by law enforcement and weather during the disturbance.
Fire destroyed a 100 gallon still and 250 gallons mash at the site after flood waters went out. The Red Cross distributed 347 bags of flour to residents from East River Plymouth and Jumping Branch districts at the courthouse yesterday. A flour day was halted two weeks ago but resumed due to crowd demand. with a new supply of 590 barrels from the national Red Cross, no more flour days will occur until next month.
With a week left in the fiscal year a large portion of 1931 taxes remain unpaid and the county faces low cash. Property unpaid after June 20 will be certified as delinquent to the state auditor, adding costs to the taxpayer who fails to arrange payment. Taxpayers are urged to pay 1931 taxes now to relieve county need.
Cecil Edmonds denies knifing Eater Shorter with a pocketknife claiming Shorter attacked him on the Ingleside highway, slashed his car tires and wounded his arm. Edmonds obtained a warrant and both men waived to the grand jury before D. T. Carr. Each posted $500 bond. Edmonds was treated by Dr. Fred Holroyd for a healing arm wound.
Silver Springs W M U met with seven members present. Mrs Courtney led Bible lesson in absence of Mrs Meador. Sewing circle has made twenty seven garments for needy children and aided Sunday school attendance. Mrs Wynner earned a gold star member honor. Mrs Gadd dismissed in prayer after an ice course social.
The Junior Christian Endeavor society will go on an outing the morning at 6 o'clock. Breakfast will be provided.
We express sincere appreciation to friends and neighbors for kind acts and expressions of sympathy during the illness and death of Mrs. Eula Bingham Co W Bingham and family.
A transatlantic society wedding links Miss Vivien St George of New York and A F Stanley Clarke of the 14th and 20th Hussars. They depart St Mary Abbot's church in London after the ceremony as the bride, sister of George B. St George, joins the New York club set.
Mrs. Marie Ahnighita Peary Stafford, daughter of the late Admiral Robert E. Peary, plans a call from New York to Greenland for the dedication of a monument at Cape York to her explorer father. She is joined by her mother and Captain Bob Bartlett, Peary’s first Arctic skipper, once called the Snow-Baby for her Arctic birth.
Misses Louise Susong Emily Poston and Helen Ball will be guests at a spring gathering on Beck ley road. Chaperones include Billy Davis Elizabeth DeJarnette Belissa Rich Frances Mastin Dimple Jones Jack Vermillia Nita Vermillia Arthur Green Elizabeth Ann Wolford Elizabeth Woolwine Arthur Redman Juanita Thornton Billy Stally Beth Rice Rose Tinder and Misses Hortense League Buford Tinder. Thirty 4 H club members and leaders camped Monday for Gypsy songs and games guiding a marked trail to the camp by a Gypsy clan.
Florida students at Rollins College gathered tiny spherical dust particles on diving tower pans in Lake Virginia for two weeks. The specimens resemble cosmic dust with glassy structure and dark lines, and Smithsonian tests suggest similarity to meteoritic crust. Observations indicate a drop in solar color radiation during the test period.
Colorful costumes opened the event with a Gypsy tent and fortune teller on site. County agent W H Roberts led games after supper as members gathered by the camp fire. Gypsy songs and a history filled the evening with storytelling.
A special feature titled History of the Class by Mrs. W R Kidd is planned for the D T Carr Sunday school class and husbands at the church Friday at 8. Data from Mr. Carr covers 25 years of teaching. The G I A will meet this afternoon at 2 in Walker hall with a covered dish social at the end. This will be the last meeting until September.
The Sewing club of the Woman's auxiliary of the Presbyterian church will meet today for an all day session at the church.
The Sunbeam band of the First Baptist church will meet this afternoon at 2 30 at the church. A commerce department survey finds one third of failed St Louis drug stores were located on sites with prior store failures.
The West Virginia Anti-Saloon League, led by Rev. O. M. Pullen of Charleston, will not issue a statement on prohibition until after the Democratic convention in Chicago. He announced this while addressing northern West Virginia Methodists at a district gathering.
The Rev. Mr. Pullen urged church leaders to back dry candidates for Congress as a fundamental defense of the eighteenth amendment. He claimed wets had support from a “wet piece, radio, wealth and motion pictures” and warned liquor would return without organized dry action.
Nine light shocks were felt in Mexico City and Ixtapalapa last night causing panic. Oaxaca City reported a sharper quake than recent Colima quakes that damaged property. Colima noted light quakes that forced business closures and residents to parks as the state palace sustained heavy damage and government activity moved briefly to alternate quarters.
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