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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1917
Page
4
A devotional excerpt proclaims allegiance and service to others as central to faith. It honors liberty, concludes with a vow to daily kindness, and imagines future bliss after crossing the river. The piece closes with the label Selected.
An editorial urges patriotism through sacrifice as war fund contributions rise. It contrasts small earners donating five dollars with wealthy investors giving larger sums, arguing true liberalism is giving until it hurts. It calls on readers to pledge by Monday and notes political turnout in McDowell County. It ends with a satirical aside about a divorce suit involving a patent attorney.
The president proclaims a recruiting week urging un married men aged eighteen to forty with no dependents and not in essential wartime work to join the regular army. The service is 70 000 men short of its needed strength and seeks recruits from thirteen age brackets beyond the prior registration. Those enlisting are promised earlier action and care in the early campaign days.
The Daily Telegraph misprinted a price comparison between England and the United States. The corrected figures show higher U.S. costs for flour and other staples, triggering calls for regulation. The column also notes proposals to use volcanoes for cheap electricity and critiques postwar profits and leadership turnover in Europe and the United States.
The article notes the draft will base quotas on the last federal census figures rather than registration. It cites underregistration among men aged 21 to 31, liquor-induced age misstatements in dry states, and racial prejudice affecting negro soldiers. It asks what claim a citizen has on the country as the war unfolds.
A collage of editorial snatches from multiple papers comments on wartime food policy, Pershing’s leadership, labor and bond scandals, and international refunds. The quotes show cross‑paper attitudes, wartime humor, and curiosity about constitutional influence in Russia.
The Charleston Mail notes that West Virginia’s new vagrancy law requires males aged sixteen to sixty to show means of livelihood or productive work or face jail. It questions constitutional scope and enforcement, suggesting initial action targets obvious loafers while broader cases await interpretation.
A reflective verse asks how one answers the nightly tally of deeds done. It honors the humble worker who ministers to others and can truthfully reply that they gave their best and helped a friend. The voice of the Master challenges one to account for unfinished tasks and the worth of the day.
The supreme Court of appeals sitting in Charleston denied HalLanan’s mandamus to force Ripley Building and Loan to list stock for taxation, ruling building and loan associations are not taxable. It also upheld lower court decrees validating road bonds in Crown's Creek and Adkins districts and granted or refused several petitions for writs of error and supersedeas in related cases.
Thirteen of twenty eight mining deaths in West Virginia during May were from falls of coal or slate at mine roots. Four occurred on mine cars inside, five on cars outside. Two deaths were from electrocution, one from mining machine, explosion, incline, and motor each. Fatalities spread across Raleigh Fayette McDowell Kanawha Boone Logan Marion Mingo Ohio Preston Putnam and Wyoming counties.
The American Red Cross will send a commission to Russia to work behind the battle fronts. The team will operate similarly to the commission in France and Belgium to supply ambulances and other relief to the Russian army.
The American destroyer, escorting a food ship, altered course to aid a torpedoed merchant vessel reporting a submarine attack thirty miles away. The ship exploded as the destroyer closed in, then rescued the crew before returning to protect the food ship.
In Carmine Street New York four people were shot during a gang battle with two school children wounded. Authorities say a gambling feud may have sparked the clash as residents sought shade from the heat and a lone officer fired at fleeing gunmen. The wounded were reported to likely recover.
The Northfork Red Cross chapter formed May 23 with about twenty five members. Officers include Mrs J W Baldwin chairwoman and Mrs B Fr Frame assistant chairman. Membership totals 215 with $1278.05 in the bank. Donations from coal companies reach extensive sums and auxiliaries form among colored communities in Indian Ridge Arlington Roanoke Crumpler Ashland. Grand Theatre offers 50 percent of Thursday proceeds through July and Star Theatre dedicates July 2 benefit night to Red Cross with all proceeds donated.
Petersburg Virginia postmaster Richard P. Barham died at his Union Street residence after about a month of declining health. He served as postmaster for Petersburg and was noted for his long tenure and public service.
Death came unexpectedly to a man about seventy five who was serving his second term as postmaster. Around 1875 he bought the Petersburg Index Appeal, which he edited for six years before selling it to its current owners.
Washington reports the regular army recruiting week begins today after a presidential proclamation calling for 70,000 volunteers. The army faced shortages of 45,000 infantry and 25,000 reserves, with 10,000 men already accepted as the drive aims to exceed the 70,000 target. Returns from day one will come in Monday.
At a British port in British waters on June 23 Vice Admiral Sims acting commander of allied naval forces in home waters served hot coffee to survivors of a torpedoed ship. Fifty five crew members of the British merchantman were brought ashore by a destroyer as Sims greeted them, helped comfort the injured, and aided ambulances. Among survivors were Charles Dalton of New York and several American negroes.
The Russian and Belgian war missions will go to Mount Vernon tomorrow for a pilgrimage of respect to George Washington. They will travel down the Potomac on a naval vessel and may tour principal cities before returning home. The state department may issue an official announcement soon.
Alfred Le Gallienne quotes express longing for country life among city dwellers. Men plan to swap luxury and youth for modest competence, returning to old streams, woods, and countryside pleasures to recapture youth before aging.
California schools install novel fire escapes that serve as amusement for children. Tropico near Los Angeles features long sheet metal chutes with separate boys and girls slides, ending in sand beds to cushion falls. Venice, California uses a spiral enclosed chute accessed from an upper platform, also used by a hospital as a similar design.
A French inventor patents a boat motor powered by an explosion of hydrogen and oxygen mix. A New York inventor owns a fountain brush on small wheels designed for painting or floor oiling tasks.
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