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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1917
Page
6
A devotional verse and emblematic plea closes a page with religious sentiments and patriotic symbolism. The text blends a flag tribute with Christian exhortation to charity and kindness, ending in a personal note about hopeful deeds and humble service.
A column praising modest Red Cross gifts from workers with small salaries while contrasting large gains by investors. It urges readers to donate half their money or more, to endure sacrifices and join a national conscription effort. It also defends McDowell County voting and mentions a Washington patent attorney facing divorce.
The president designates this week as recruiting week for the regular army urging unmarried men aged eighteen to forty without dependents and not in vital war work to respond to the colors. The army is seventy thousand men short of its war strength and the call applies to thirteen ages beyond the standard registration. Those enlisting are promised earlier action and officer supervision for welfare.
The Daily Telegraph cites a misprint in a food price comparison between England and this country. It highlights England selling flour at half the U S price, calls for regulation, notes California proposals to use volcanoes for cheap power, and comments on war profits and ex rulers in Europe. Uncle Sam vows to continue the fight on this line into winter.
The Charleston Mail discusses West Virginia’s vagrancy statute, noting it applies to males 16 to 60 showing means of livelihood or productive work, with no exceptions for the idle rich. It questions enforceability, potential court review, and the discretion in enforcement while predicting focus on obvious loafers first.
In a reflective poem the speaker asks what one has accomplished in a day as the Master of tasks questions the deeds left undone. It concludes that true blessing lies in a humble life where one can truthfully answer I did my best.
The army bill uses the federal census to set quotas rather than registration. Only about half of men ages 21 to 31 registered in one state. Drafts may fall heavily on whites in some states while many negroes risk being drafted if locals try to keep them home. The piece questions what claims citizens have on their country.
A collage of editorial lines cites wartime sentiments and opinions. Tennessee as volunteers, a food bill delay, Pershing praised as resourceful, liberty bonds funds noted, and notes on holidays, propaganda, and Russia’s constitutional interest blend across papers.
The Supreme Court of Appeals in Charleston denied Walter H. Hallanan's petition for a writ of mandamus to force the Ripley Building and Loan Association to open its books to state tax officials for stock taxation. It ruled building and loan associations are not taxable under the statute. The court also declined appeals in H T Graham and L F Woods cases on road bonds in McDowell County, affirming the lower court's validity of the bonds. A writ of error and supersedeas was granted in William S Ingles v Harmet E Stealey and denied in John W Haught v Clyde F Crane. Alexander White Flourney and David C Howard were admitted to practice law. An appeal and supersedeas was allowed in May in Stealey Height v Hyman et al from Harrison County.
Thirteen of twenty eight May fatalities were from falls of coal or slate. Four died in mine cars inside, five outside. Two by electrocution, one each by mining machine, explosion on incline, and motor. Raleigh county had nine deaths, Fayette five, McDowell four, Kanawha two, and one in Boone, Logan, Marion, Mingo, Ohio Preston, Putnam and Wyoming.
The American Red Cross will dispatch a commission to Russia to work alongside and behind the battle fronts. A similar mission will operate in France and Belgium to supply ambulances and other relief for the Russian army.
A American destroyer, escorting a food ship, sped to rescue a merchant crew after receiving word of a submarine attack. It arrived just in time, rescuing sailors swimming near the torpedoed vessel, then returned to shield the food ship from a second threat.
In Carmine Street New York two school children were among four people shot during a gunman clash between rival gangs. Police believe a gambling feud sparked the incident as bystanders fled the heat crowded tenements and a hurdy gurdy musician played. None of the gunmen were hit and all wounded were expected to recover. A lone officer fired at the fleeing figures.
The Northfork Red Cross reports rapid expansion since its May 25 formation with 214 members and $1,278.05 in the bank. Donations from coal companies exceed $600 with multiple firms pledging $100 each and various company employees contributing, plus scheduled benefit events boosting funds for continued relief efforts. The group plans auxiliaries among Black communities and thanks local theaters for charitable show proceeds to July end.
Petersburg Va June 238 Richard P Barham postmaster of Petersburg died this morning at his Union street home after about a month of feeble health continuing.
The death was unexpected. He was about seventy five years old and during his term served a second term as postmaster. Mr Barham previously purchased the Petersburg Index Appeal from its owners who edited it until six years ago when he sold the paper to the present owners.
Washington announces a presidential proclamation initiating a nationwide recruiting week for the regular army. The drive aims to enlist 70,000 men for war service, with prior shortages of 45,000 infantry and 25,000 reserves noted, and cavalry and other branches already filled. First day returns won't be ready until Monday.
At base of American Flotilla in British waters on June 23 Vice Admiral Sims acted as commander of allied naval forces and greeted and helped comfort survivors of a torpedoed British merchant ship as a British destroyer docked with fifty five rescued crew members. Charles Dalton of New York was among the survivors along with several American negroes.
Washington June 23 The Russian and Belgian war missions will visit Mount Vernon tomorrow to honor George Washington. They will travel down the Potomac aboard a naval vessel and likely tour major cities before returning home. A state department announcement may follow.
Richard Le Gallienne in Harper's Magazine recalls city settlers yearning to escape urban life. He notes country memories tugging at heartstrings and a wish to trade fortune for modest competence, rest youth as nature returns each spring, and hunt in old woods.
California schools install novel fire escapes that double as amusement structures. In Tropico near Los Angeles, long sheet metal slides with reinforced framing lead from a second floor platform to ground, ending with a sandbed. Venice California uses an enclosed spiral chute, also used as a play outlet. A local hospital employs a similar design.
Washington reports warm weather with occasional local thunder showers forecast for the coming week in Tennessee, the south Atlantic and east gulf states as issued by the Weather bureau.
A French inventor develops a motor for small boats powered by the explosion of a hydrogen and oxygen mixture. In New York a separate inventor patents a fountain brush on small wheeled mounts for painting or oiling floors.
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