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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1946
Page
9
Weekly production reached 703157 tons with last week at 660600 tons as mines regain pace after a 59 day strike. Absenteeism is at multi year lows while food shortages threaten continued high output.
In the southern West Virginia coalfields food scarcity is at an unprecedented level. If the situation does not improve soon it could seriously impact coal production and economic activity in the region.
R J Repass of Patterson Ohio travels to Roanoke Virginia for a family reunion while William Beary of Algoma Coal and Coke attends meetings and conferences in New York and eastern cities leading to a District No 7 Advisory meeting in Washington. A large coal field delegation visits Asheville for the North Carolina Retail Coal Merchants Association convention. L Alexander of the Pocahontas Association spends June at Glenartney farm Kentucky. John Davis of Peoples Coal Erie Pennsylvania buys low volatile coal in southern West Virginia. W J Richards of Pottsville Pennsylvania plans a week in Bluefield visiting mines. Jill Stras of Cardinal Kentucky passes through Bluefield en route to North Carolina. The West Virginia Coal Mining Institute holds its summer meeting in Huntington drawing engineers and officials. W E E Koepler heads to Minneapolis for the Smoke Prevention Association meeting, stopping in Asheville and several midwest cities.
The notice covers two marriages: Beatrice Pardue to Thomas Luthert on May 20, 1946 in Annapolis Maryland, with the couple planning to reside there, and Belva Reynolds to Marvin Bostic at a June 16 ceremony at a local Methodist church. It lists attendees, outfits, and family connections and updates several community activities and visits.
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