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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1918
Page
12
Community notes recount an apology for last Sunday's remark likening children to dogs over whooping cough. Other items mention wheat harvest travel, a power plant burn, local soldiers, new Ford car, correspondence from Danville, honeymoons, and local women knitting blankets for soldiers.
Berry Stokes of the small town completes purchase of a Tin Lizzy. The brief notice notes a local sale and identifies the buyer as Stokes, with the transaction described in concise terms.
Free sample bottles offered at East End Pharmacy and Bluefield Pharmacy claim Green's August Flower cures indigestion dyspepsia tepid liver and constipation. Advertisers state the remedy has fifty years of success and gentle laxative effects for headaches tied to stomach disorders.
Obie D Reynolds of Camp Avracom Bustia Va is home on furlough. J M Reynolds recently returned from Coalwood. Mira Helen Williams of Athens visits Miss Ruth Reynolds. John H Parrott, American Coal Co official, stays a few days. Hl I Sizemore Dee Kelly and Tom Stump relocate to Page. Bluefield trip by J P Perkins for business. W C Huffman slight wagon accident. Summer Sunday School at noon with midweek prayer meetings omitted for three weeks. Elbert Lawson spends remainder of summer in Giles county. Jon Parcell supervising new triple for American Coal Co at Widemouth visits home Sunday. Wagner ill after appendectomy. List of attendees at operation hospital event. Nellie Peters from Princeton visited Mrs Peck. Mahood business visit Bluefield. Joe Bensey family visit home. M A Long returns from Bluefield. Ethel Creasy back from Roanoke. Dr C W Lilly and family return from Camp Lee. Dave Bolen Arch Bolen family drive to Pilot Va. W L Peck Ruth Gore and Margaret White attend Princeton dance.
In Northfork a government inquiry asks Mayor Toney for swift details on enforcing the idleness and vagrancy act for the year ending June 18 1918. The Red Cross reports 550 bandages 15 bed shirts and $80.25 raised. Local items include a children’s day program at the Methodist church a sale of a new Chevrolet and travelers visiting Argonaut and McDowell with chores and notices from Swift & Co and Camp Lee transfers.
Sheriff Elliott issued instructions to close pool and dance halls in Glatto for wartime. Local townsfolk react with support while others join in war efforts. Also noted are community visits, medical updates, and upcoming sales and events amid wartime mobilization.
W8 Keystone notes report Little Richard Lee Midkiff Jr celebrated his first birthday with a party on Saturday. Acknowledgments to Mrs. Midkit and Mrs. J B Francisco for hosting. Guests listed include Ida Parker Ellen Cofer Jillian Paris Evelyn Hatcher Marguerite Kien Stewart Raymond Epling Julian Budnick Edro Vecillio and Edward Hatcher.
Mrs. Emma O'Brien travels to Jonson Maryland for the death of her aunt Annie Brough ton aged 101 years three months. W J Peters visits Bluefield for his wife in the Bluefield Sanitarium. Miss Maggie Montgomery Bluefield visits. Mrs W A Jameson hosts a children’s picnic. Dorothy Beals and Alice Evans Bluefield guests of Margaret Jameson. Perry hosts a small dance with punch. Mary Pasley and Hale visit Bluefield. Mrs E Jones leaves for Washington to see her daughter Aggie Jones. Mrs A Whitney visits Bluefield. Mrs Harris Jones of Wilkes-Barre guests of Mrs W J Pritchard. Co W Freeman heads to New York City. Rev and Mrs J T Crowe return from Washington DC. Mrs KE W Coddington and Mrs C J Smith of Newark NJ visit their brother B Moore and niece Minnie Moore. Episcopal Church Holy Trinity Service at Bramwell 11 o'clock. Rev J T Crowe rector. Buy Ww
Mr and Mrs J G McNulty hosted a Thursday evening party for the young folks of Mayeury to honor Miss Madge Wagner and Charles Poffenbarger who will depart soon for Camp Lee. The porch was decorated with vines lanterns and ferns. Many games were played and enjoyed.
Public auction of all of lot No. 2 in section 165 Bluefield Mercer County West Virginia on July 1 1918 at 2 p m for cash. Deed of trust dated February 6 1918 by Bertha M Belcher and C J Belcher to W C Pollock trustee for C O Wright. Prior deeds and map on record.
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