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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1933
Page
3
In Bluffelds Virginia on June 2 1933 Mr Smith criticizes state policy as opposing the transfer of school tax burdens from gas estates to wealthier subjects. He cites candidate Mr Peery as linked to the opposition.
In Tazewell County towns resist added state and county school financing. The piece notes contracts lack pay supplements, cites Bluefield as an early example of teacher salary supplements, and predicts a full eight month term with no major handicaps. Meeting led by J. B. Muncy with officials Walipsey Tolbert Honaker Mustard in attendance.
Senator Harry F Byrd reports 8000 applications for jobs and 40 seekers in his ante room as he and Senator S J Thompson back candidates for federal posts in Virginia The two senators endorse Joseph H Chitwood for U S district attorney western district of Virginia with appointments like collector marshal and internal revenue still unsettled and speculative
The Bluefield Virginia Business Men's club meets at 6 15 in Memorial hall. President A Ralston will explain his plan to expand the club.
Mr and Mrs Max Matthews and family visit Mr and Mrs O G Yost on their way to Huntington to visit relatives Matthews spent months at Fort Benning Ga and heads to Camp Custer Michigan for duty Mrs Robert Repass of Norton visits her parents on Logan Street Mrs J F Baylor and daughter Mrs Jimmie McNeer return from Richmond praising mountain air after lowland sojourn.
Soak feet in hot water with 3 tablespoons of Radox for about 20 minutes to relieve pain burning and inflammation. Radox is advertised as a new treatment that penetrates foot pores to drive out acids causing itching odor. Big package priced at 45 cents available at Goodykoonts Drug Co and other stores.
Senator W Worth Smith a Democratic primary candidate outlines a six point program for Virginia voters He calls for a $5 automobile license tax breaking the school book trust with free texts legalizing 32 beer repeal and liquor control measures abolition of the poll tax and voter qualifications based on education and residence and regulation of power trusts to cut utility rates This item notes Smith says the public is anxious for change.
The auditorium stage at Graham High School is being transformed with drop curtains wings and a back drop to resemble a contemporary theatre stage under renovation.
The Bland county Republicans elect delegates to the state convention in Lynchburg on July 3 and 4 to nominate the state ticket. Named delegates include J. R. Repass J. B. Muncy J. J. Richardson Mark Blessing C. A Faulkner W. T. Lambert W. A. Wad dell O. B. Stafford B. R. Nicewan der Azia Calkiwell Roy Thorp son. Alternates listed as Minor Money T. M. Baker M. A. Dillon G. G. Golle horn C. H. Neel M .H. Bowen A. E. Morehead R. H. Kitts J. C. Tug-
Charleston June 22 officials say fifty five county boards of education under the county unit system will be named late this week The delay was due to a two day state board meeting delaying W W Trent state superintendent of schools He had planned to announce Tuesday and said the action would come at week end The act abolishing district boards directed Trent to name five member county boards to serve until the 1934 general elections Yellow butterflies over cabbage rows indicate cabbage worm presence.
The latest Newsreel shows President Roosevelt steering the schooner Amberjack II from Marion harbor en route to his vacation with famed Boston reception and Groton visit. It also covers Peiping bridge burnings, Harvard beating Yale in the varsity race, and other dramatic weekend clips.
An old advertisement touts Thedford's Black-Draught as quick relief for constipation. It claims the product prevents poisons from piling in the bowels and has helped thousands of men and women. Insist on ford's BLACK-DRAUGHT.
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