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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1951
Page
3
The July term of criminal court opens next Monday morning with Judge F Morton Wagner presiding. The grand jury, expected to review 40 to 50 cases, is to report indictments on Thursday July 5. Christeen Osborne faces an homicide charge for the fatal shooting of her husband William at Giotto.
Maiden Farm Dragons meet Red Demons this evening in city league play. On Tuesday Murphy faces Giles Lassies, while Red Demons play Murphy Cubs on the same night and Thursday, Demons take on Lassies.
For rent a four room apartment with both features. Contact dial 2434 or see Noel Shrewsbury in Princeton for details.
Eleven room house completely furnished and ready for rooming use or easy conversion to an apartment. Overhauled with two baths and weather stripped. No money needed to spend. Apply at 608 Mercer St Princeton.
Sixteen persons were committed to Mercer county jail by county district and city officers on Saturday and Sunday. Ten were booked on the county side including two drunk drivers a parole violator and a Marine AWOL. Princeton police booked six men including three on grand larceny charges and one on a drunk driving charge.
Bluefield police learned yesterday that a felony warrant has been issued against Bob McPherson of Princeton charging him with grand larceny. J Earl Bailey, Princeton justice of the peace, said he issued the warrant for McPherson's arrest on the information that he was trying to sell two stolen cases of eggs and also took $50. Details were not available.
Mercer Post 2703 VFW will meet at the Memorial building for a regular evening gathering.
Weatherboarded frame house on stone foundation with pine floors and trim. Full basement with well water and electric pump, lights, and septic system. Includes cabinet sink and built in cabinets. Priced at $8800, Property No 11171. Princeton WV office details for information.
Independent grocers of Princeton area will meet Tuesday night at 7 30 in the Appalachian assembly room. It is the first meeting of the newly formed association of independent grocers. A representative of a wholesale grocery firm will speak.
Robert T. Cummings 42, a West Virginia state police veteran, died of cancer at his Beckley home after 11 months of illness. A Charleston native and Fairmont recruit, he served in South Charleston, Com pany B, and postings in Fairmont Morgantown and Wheeling. He leaves a widow and two children.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Luther Stiff of Main street spend a week at Nag's Head North Carolina. Miss Carol Anderson and Miss Dorothy Bray from Durham depart today for Nag's Head to join the visit with Mrs. Anderson's Walnut street family.
Six persons injured in a head on crash between an automobile and an ambulance on U S Route 11 west of Radford Virginia. Eight year old Ernest Rhodes of Cokeville Pennsylvania suffered a fractured skull and brain injury and was moved to a Roanoke hospital. Others listed include Cameron Musgrove and Mrs Musgrove of Cokeville plus Bonnie Warden Dan Devilbiss and Robert St Clair Jr all hospitalized with various injuries. The Musgroves were returning from a visit in Sparta North Carolina and the ambulance was responding to Claytorake emergency call.
Richmond Virginia June 24 T Coleman Andrews called any congressional delay in enacting post office reforms from the bipartisan Hoover commission indefensible and wasteful. He stated the commission shows how the $200000000 post office deficit could be cut while improving service.
Andrew N. Branscombe of Welch will be installed as worshipful master of McDowell Lodge No. 112 A F and A M at the Masonic Temple meeting tonight at 8. Other elective officers include Bruce J. Riggins and Gary E. Muncie Mitchell Welch and T A Johnston Welch as senior and junior wardens, with Turney R. Reed Welch as secretary and Paul H. Duncan Gary as junior deacon.
Elwin Delphan of 525 Albemarle street reports to city police that his car was broken into after 11 30 p m Saturday while parked in front of his home. Items taken include a 40 portable Emerson radio a 10 Ansco 616 camera a flash attachment and bulbs totaling about 50 dollars.
Richmond Virginia June 23 Joe Jernigan of Norfolk top stock car racer at Royal speedways died after his 4 A car crashed into a fence overturned and was struck by three onrushing rivals He was 36 and died of head injuries at the Medical College of Virginia hospital.
A 14 year old Falls Mills Virginia girl Shirley Jean Tabor suffered minor injuries when struck by a car on Bluefield avenue while leaving a morning church service. The driver was 19 year old Robert G Groseclose of Boissevain Virginia. She was treated at Bluefield Sanitarium and released.
Cape Charles ferry workers reached 52 hours with no talks as the strike continued. Red Cross distributed food to nearly 300 migratory laborers at Little Creek while Alabama and Florida harvest crews awaited ferry service to reach the eastern shore. Navy landing ships to cross Chesapeake Bay were not available before tomorrow morning.
Mrs. Bercha Lee Cain 54 of Nitro died from burns after a Flaming Saturday night crash into a gasoline pump at a Red House service station on U S route 35 Putnam county. Her husband Lawrence W. Cain 56, principal at Plymouth grade school, was treated for burns and discharged.
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