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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1926
Page
2
City and Coalfield items list is a jumble of notices. Advertisements announce coal prices and furnaces, a county superintendent candidacy, supper at Trinity church, piano lessons, a house for rent, a missing-boy alert, illness updates, a meeting rescheduled, and police court fines. The mix reflects a small town newspaper page with local business, politics, events, and crime notes.
In the Southern District of West Virginia the M. H. Tomb vs J. B. Clifton and the Rayan Red Ash Coal Co case reached a verdict late yesterday with a decision expected today. The court then moved to the George Neal vs First National Bank of Matoaka suit seeking $3,800 in deposits, with jurors empaneled and court adjourned until 9:30 this morning.
Construction on the Ramsey Street junior high school stalls until steel workers and materials reach Bluefield. Brick masons have done all feasible work, and contractor H. A. Lucas expects steel arrivals today. Fifteen ton beams for the auditorium roof will soon be placed, signaling resumed progress.
London reports a planned July 7 mass meeting by forty women’s societies to press for granting voting rights to women aged over twenty one and under thirty. George Bernard Shaw declines to join the event as leaders weigh the political impact of enfranchising 5 million women.
Under cross examination Officer Pator testified Colosi could not frame an answer in appropriate language during questioning about alleged relations with Mrs. Gesualdo, a woman seventeen years his senior, as the hearing continued on page one.
City officials approve paving on Groveland and Roanoke streets and Fairfax from Roanoke to Craig. Will Hunt pool room license rejected after neighbor objections. Grace Pearson restaurant in Oliver building and J D Meadows lunch room license approved. Board asks city manager to coordinate with Bluefield merchants for out of town parking during Trade in Bluefield Week. Stewart street sidewalk and lighting upgrades discussed. owners narrow request to sidewalks and whiteway lights. Further talks held after adjournment with property owners.
In a stadium packed with more than 175000 men Bishop Hoban presided as the Divine Praises opened the night session. Speakers included David I Walsh Cardinal Von Faulhaber Cardinal Casanova Cardinal O'Donnell Bishop Palica Rt. Rev. Seipel and Rt. Rev. Hloand as diverse languages rang out in praise.
Morgantown West Virginia June 22 nineteen certificates issued to registered pharmacists and three for assistant pharmacists after state exam June 10 and 11 announced by Alf Walker secretary of the board certificates issued to Jonn W
Brockton AP says two brothers will don prison robes tomorrow with one serving a term and the other by court order. One man began a drunken crime taking $25 from a friend, and was sentenced to five to ten years in the Concord armory.
A fragmented roster lists many individuals by city such as Huntington Fairmont Charleston and Cumberland with roles like clerks and assistant pharmacists. The text names George E Teel Oscar Scranz Delmer T Anderson Clarence J Morrison W Donald Talbott and others across multiple towns.
London reports the government advancing two mining bills with voluntary amalgamations under a government body and a permissive 8 hour workday option for five months. The Labor party will oppose the measures.
San Francisco reports Philp N Westcott a forty two year old golfer hunter and capitalist shot himself in a club Mia room. He was a Williams College graduate and son of the late Howard Noyes Westcott a New York banker and author of David Harum. He was unmarried and had complained of illness days before the tragedy.
Washington reports the British government won no concession over Panama's public lands or natural resources. A private English citizen secured gold prospecting concessions, per a secretary of state reply to a Borah resolution. The American minister at Panama views concessions as politically insignificant.
Leave Princeton 4 30 p m final limit to depart Norfolk by 10 p m Tuesday July 6 1926. Children half fare. Low fares from stations east of Princeton. Holders of these tickets cannot book sleepers nor have baggage checked. R C Sutherland ticket agent Princeton W V L W Woody A G P A Norfolk Va
The Daily Vacation Bible School workers held a second session at Westchester Presbyterian Church with several new attendees including Rev. and Mrs. Ben Johnson and Dr. J. T. Stinson. Leadership covered DVBS administration and promotion plans, while missions teaching was praised by Mrs. W. K. McDowell. The next session will be at First Presbyterian Church.
A special committee report to the House urges Canada to end foreign fuel dependence by promoting domestic coke from Canadian coal. It backs Alberta coal development, maintains a fifty cent duty on certain slack coal to anthracite, and calls for port facilities, bigger freight loads, and broader scope for the Dominion Fuel Board. It also suggests aiding marine coal markets and rescinding duty exemptions for foreign coal used on ocean-going ships.
Thursday evening at 7 30. Dr Moore could not be at the meeting last night due to sickness and all present expressed regret.
New York June 22 The board of directors announced Will H. Hays will remain as president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America until 1936. His term is extended by ten years with a salary reported at the time of his election as 150000 dollars.
The Rotary club held its regular weekly gathering with four members delivering five minute talks about their classifications. L A Jackson spoke on the dry goods trade, Sid Angel on bottling soft drinks, L L Burgess on the electrical business history in Bluefield, and P D Bratton on care of the dead. E C Reiger of New York outlined an inter dependent canvassers and distributors association. Other visitors included Chas Draper Matoaka Walt Rouse Welch Rev, and E.
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