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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1919
Page
2
The notice lists travel by automobile to Mountain Lake with three Hudson cars on the line and a phone contact for arrangements. Additional items include local ads for Eureka Hardware Co merchandise, floral services, real estate offerings, and various local notices.
Frame Brothers & Company report Baltimore brokers meeting of C A Gambrill Manufacturing. Pat-a-Cake will run a $250000 newspaper ad drive across southern states with no magazine advertising this year. Production is fully automated from dehydrating to carton sealing. West Virginia and western Virginia to receive Pat-a-Cake distribution. New salesmen to work by September 4.
A city listings page details multiple houses and lots for sale on East River Avenue Rock Bridge Street Clark Street Williams Street Bath Street Ellis Street Princeton Avenue Pearl Street Rose Street Fourth Street Fairfax Street Tyler Street Hardy Street Hichland Avenue Preston Street Floyd Street Rogers Street Carroll Street South Mercer Street Spruce Street Carolina Avenue Third Street Gilmer Street North Street Bailey Street Albemarle Street View Avenue Union Street East End Midway Minefield Avenue Wythe Avenue and more. Prices range from about 1 000 to 35 800 with many options including bungalows cottages and brick homes plus several larger parcels. The notice states additional homes exist in other city sections and that buyers can obtain homes on most streets at good figures and reasonable terms.
Mrs J B Alston of Sufford visits friends here. Miss Sallie Reese and Mrs B Bond visit Kekman. Mrs C Rush of St Paul shopped here yesterday. Dr C S Hare and D B French depart for Williamson on business. Miss Sallie Reese of Salem Va visits sisters Mrs J Bond and Mrs Meyer wit. Mrs J C Daily returns to Williamson after days in Bluefield. Relatives of Sergeant J C Moore learn of his arrival in New York June 19 after fifteen months with the A KB. PF Mrs FR J Meyer and children and Miss Mira Meyer leave for two weeks in Roanoke Vinton and Bedford. Mrs Jesse Vaught and daughter Martha of Wellsville Ohio visit Mr and Mrs M B Postheth waite on Ramsey street. Joseph Sanders, son of Judge and Mrs J M Sanders, returns to Morgantown to resume law studies at WVU after visit.
The Rotary Club met yesterday at Busy Bee restaurant with many visitors and several addresses. J. T. Thornton reported on the fifty million dollar state road plan to be voted on at the next general election. A memorial from Maine battleship material was referred to committee. New officers from Salt Lake City convention were reported.
City council last evening awarded sidewalk paving to Sluss & Mabride and curb, gutter, and street paving to Sluss & Parker. Licenses for the new year were granted, and city employees were directed to join the state workers compensation fund. Several building permits and business licenses followed, including hotels, drug stores, and restaurants.
Advertises steady work for experienced coal miners with machine mining 6 to 8 feet high a description of working conditions and amenities. Transportation refund offered at one dollar per week until repaid. applicants to bring proof of amounts spent.
Arrangements for the midway and attractions at the Bluefield Fair spring meeting were completed by W L Otes, secretary of the Bluefield Fair Association. The Famous Broadway Shows are encosed for the occasion carrying a large wild animal circus and hippodrome on the road. The I X L Ranch wild west show is another feature with Garden of Allah Broadway Minstrels Wallace's Trained Goat and Monkey Circus and many other acts. A seven block street parade opens the meeting.
A high noon wedding at the Presbyterian Church united Elizabeth Parr of Honaker Virginia and Willis Reyburn son of the late Dr. J A Reyburn Ravenswood. Rev J W Moore officiated using the ring ceremony. The couple will reside in Bluefield with the bride’s father J M Parr and friends in attendance.
William S. Hart stars in The Money Corral an action packed thriller set in a Chicago underworld cafe. Hart overpowers multiple assailants in a tense on screen fight and leads a vivid feature lineup described as among his best.
Actor Charles Ray promoting The Pusher at the Elks theatre in Los Angeles took part in a carnival game at Venice of America with friends. He won three turkeys in a row before the tout urged a transfer to another competitor. Ray has been preparing pitching for The Busher.
The Public Service Commission of West Virginia orders leave for interested parties to file objections to Bluefield Water Works and Improvement Company proposed rate changes by July 1919. A hearing is set for July 5 1919 at 2 PM in Charleston Capitol Building. The applicant must publish notices weekly for four weeks in two newspapers of opposing politics and serve affected consumers.
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