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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1925
Page
2
City notices and classified blurbs from Bluefield area papers list coal companies with contact numbers, bake sales, dances, revival services, and church notices. Entries include Shrine Club and Knights of Columbus events, voter registration reminders, and local shop classifieds with sale offers and merchandise details.
Funeral services for the late David Porter Copenhaver will be held at 3 p.m. Friday at West End Methodist Church Roanoke Va with Bayard Commandery Knights Templar ritual and burial at Byers Green Cemetery He died Wednesday night at his home aged 78 survived by widow Betty L Copenhaver three children Ruth May and F St John and two sisters and his mother He served forty years as a Norfolk and Western passenger conductor and was a member of the Order of Railway Conductors and several Masonic bodies.
The United States Post Office Department announces baby alligators may not travel through the mail as second raters. A 25 cent special handling charge is required due to their character, with priority handling in line with first class mail. officials say.
A May report shows thirty four permits for new construction in Bluefield with an estimated total spend of 101 025 dollars. Nineteen permits were for new houses valued at 86 940 dollars, marking a rise in housing permits over five years except 1923. Compared with four prior years the May valuation was below the previous three years but above 1921. Most authorities say Cleopatra's hair was auburn.
The Stovall apartments on Bluefield avenue and Mulberry street were opened to the public. Fourteen units with three or four rooms, each with a bath, feature hardwood floors and tiled bathrooms. The building includes two ground-floor store rooms and a basement hot water arrangement. many units are already rented. Watkins' orchestra played during a progress dance for visitors with beverages served. Some apartments were furnished by Warlick and Lewis Furniture Companies for display.
Roanoke World News reports thirty four persons were convicted last month for violating prohibition law. One bond forfeited, five offenders sent to the grand jury, and five cases continued. Fifty houses searched and three automobiles seized by the new corps squad led by Officers L. R. Morris W. Terry and C. H. Morgan.
M Gibson Jr son of Federal Judge R M Gibson and W R Beemer son of a Pittsburgh attorney were held in Washi Court House Ohio after a collision near the city. They were en route to Louisville to work for the summer when they side swiped another car causing injuries to three occupants including two women and a boy. No charges filed yet.
A jury in federal court awarded Shannon Brothers $900 in a breach of contract suit against Fordson Coal Company. The trial spanned the day and England versus Fordson was also before the court, with adjournment until morning.
The Norfolk and Western storekeepers hold their quarterly meeting starting at 8 30 this morning with about thirty five delegates from across the N and W system. J W Wade presides as speakers include D E Ball J E B Berry C J Proxter and others. An elegant banquet in Hamilton Hall at 7 tonight features addresses and music by notable system figures and entertainers. An automobile trip to Tazewell is planned for 6 this afternoon before further sessions conclude tomorrow.
A Pavonia avenue trolley car ran out of control down a steep hill and crashed into another car on ninth street. Three people died, including B. Paulson and two unidentified men, while Edward Oleky aged thirteen and William Burns aged sixty eight were critically injured. Thirty five others were injured, mainly factory workers returning home.
In Montclair New Jersey fog and rain delayed morning and afternoon matches as East and West teams narrowed the field for the national intercollegiate golf championship finals. Contenders include Frank Wattles Jr Yale die Held Washington University Burton Mudge Jr Princeton A J Weat land University of Washington and C E Stratton Willams.
Six naval savers in Portsmouth receive medals for salvaging bullion valued at 25 million dollars from the armed liner Laurentic. The Laurentic was sunk by German action during the war off the Irish coast.
A head on collision on the Bluefield Princeton road last evening left two men injured one seriously. KE W Cummings of Princeton a traveling salesman sustained serious injuries and is in Princeton Hospital. Joe Monk of Bluefield suffered a bad arm cut from shattered glass. The parade involved Chrysler and Ford vehicles and was returning to Bluefield when Monk reportedly pulled from the line and struck Cummings' car. Dr S J Kell led the parade and took Cummings to Princeton Hospital.
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