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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1925
Page
2
Lost baggage reported at Pearisburg yesterday. An army khaki container fell from a car running board containing two ladies suits, two coats, and a man's coat. Liberal reward offered for return or information. Also notes on coal firms, meetings, rentals, and local notices.
Captain A. P. Tyler of Princeton and members of the Officers Reserve Corps meet to perfect plans for a July Fourth defense test in the city. A registration tent will be set opposite the West Virginia hotel July 1 to 3, and Bluefield observers may join a National Guard visit to Princeton to promote enrollment. Attendees include Dr. H. G. Steele Dr. Toy Nelson Sergeant E. Zimmerman Captain R. B. Dunn and Corporal Smith.
H. J. Linkous and Elmer Downum of the city were driving to Roanoke Saturday when a dust cloud on a stiff curve near Christiansburg Va forced their Jordan sedan off the road and over a bank. The car was damaged and towed to a garage while the men continued to Roanoke on train No. 16.
The Bluefield-Princeton Ministerial Conference meets today in the colored department of the N. and W. Y. M. C. A. rooms at 607 Scott Street for an open discussion on the subject of Scientific Evolution. Visiting ministers are welcomed to join the weekly session.
Robert Sims twenty two son of Prof R P Sims of the Bluefield Colored Institute drowned at Rennin Wisconsin while vacationing after attending Rippon College. Reports say he drowned while bathing or died when a boat capsized. His mother departed for Harper’s Ferry as news reached Bluefield.
J C Herbert J W Butler of Richlands and H C Beavers D E Beavers of War were arrested on the Tazewell road for liquor influence and transporting it. About a half gallon of moonshine was found in their Star car. A hearing before Squire B M Newman led to fines and a transport to Tazewell on related charges. H C Beavers is noted as a barber and cousin to D E Beavers.
Yesterday afternoon T M Gravely and F Buchanan arrested Turner Lerner and Lucy Horne after locating two barrels of mash on East River Mountain. The pair were brought to town and jailed. Horne is from Five Oaks.
Mrs Herbert Yost suffered serious injuries when she fell from a moving car while trying to catch a child slipping from the vehicle. Her head hit the curb in front of the Baptist church at about 8 30 Sunday night.
Mercer Garage sues R L Alfred over a Ford touring car confiscated by the state in December 1924 after Claud Belcher was arrested for liquor transport. The sheriff sold the car to Alfred December 30 1924. The court held the sale ad failed to include the car number, undermining title, and ruled for Mercer Garage. An appeal followed to the circuit court.
Frances Bradshaw, a colored woman, was arraigned before Laurie H. B. Kitts on shoplifting charges. Police say she took three dresses from Ira A. Watson Company and one dress plus shoes from A. W. Cox Department Store. She was held by Kitts for grand jury action in 500 dollars bond and remanded when bond failed. Three colored girls fined 10 dollars each for courting stolen goods, linked to Bradshaw arrest.
Milwaukee. Emmanuel L. Philip wartime governor of Wisconsin died last week and a probate filing shows his estate valued at 3.2 million dollars. The will was filed in probate today.
Members of the Mercer County Bar Association will convene a special meeting in the federal courtroom to pay tribute to the late Judge Charles A. Woods of Richmond Virginia who died Sunday in Florence Delaware. A June 26 business meeting was announced by president A F Kingdon.
Loyal Order of Moose members gathered in Baltimore for the thirty seventh annual international convention. Mooseheart Alumni Association held its annual dinner in the Emerson Hotel as lodges chose between a theatre benefit and a street dance.Governor Hitchie and Mayor Jackson welcomed visitors, with responses from Supreme Director Markle and Director General Davis. Mrs. James J. Davis hosted a Mooseheart Legion luncheon.
New York June 22 Talbot Chambers who admitted on the witness stand last week he had improper relations with Mrs Ida May Symington was arrested at his home tonight on a warrant charging him with adultery. Chambers was named as a co respondent in a divorce action brought against Mrs Jon by Thomas A Symington a New York and Baltimore clubman. The warrant for his arrest was issued by the judge in the divorce trial today on request of Mrs Symingtons counsel.
Dan O Caswell Cleveland financier died at St Luke s Hospital after about a month of typhoid pneumonia. The casualty was announced from Cleveland noting his mother Mrs Elizabeth Caswell as the bereaved.
Caswell, twenty five, died in New York while traveling with his mother to Cleveland. He was twice married, first to Jensie Reed of a touring chorus, whom he met on a train and wed two days after meeting her. they separated six months later and divorced two years ago. His second wife was Miss June Castleton, a chorus girl. He was sole heir to about half a million dollars from his father’s Cleveland real estate estate, but the bequest was placed in trust, leaving Caswell to rely on his mother for funds.
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