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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1926
Page
2
A collage of ads and notices in Bluefield shows rent offers seven room houses on Melrose Street and Union Street, grocery deliveries, farm produce, barber services, a county clerk bid, and church announcements. Also noted are a Charleston Champions dance tour and a police court bulletin with fines, plus bankers meeting returns and a $100000 damages case setback.
A one day old girl was found wrapped in a blanket in a market basket on Scott Street. Mary Morton is charged with kidnapping and jailed on a 4000 bond after allegedly placing the infant where it was found. The child was taken to Sanitarium and later returned to the mother.
A dinner meeting closed a year of civic effort highlighting sanitation, health, and church work as key to progress. Speaker Mr Begg urged pride and active help for local improvement, comparing a motorist’s uphill impact with a man’s downhill impact and stressing duty to future generations.
The Bluefield Gun club conducts its regular Saturday shoot this afternoon at the Cumberland Heights traps. An informal discussion will consider plans for the July 3 meeting. Officials urge broader member attendance to share club responsibilities.
Nineteen persons from Vincennes Indiana including Knox county sheriff and his deputy were sentenced in federal court to jail and penitentiary terms for conspiracy to violate the Volstead act. Floyd L. Quane county prosecutor was exonerated. The government alleged he led the conspiracy to solicit money from liquor dealers for protection.
Mrs. Howard, despondent over a relative's death for a year, killed her son and attempted suicide. County officials said a sanity hearing would be ordered and murder and attempted murder charges would be pursued if she is found sane.
John H Warren aged forty two a Norfolk and Western railroad brakeman died in his Maple Street room early Friday morning. His death was attributed to severe complications with no inquest held. He is survived by his parents three brothers five sisters and distant relatives Mrs R L Hubbe of Bluefield. Funeral party leaves Bluefield for Roaring River for burial Sunday at 1 PM.
Milton West and Charles Brown alias Saylor, both colored, were arrested late last night by city police and charged with house-breaking after residents on Giles and Johnson streets reported robberies. Police found eighteen biscuits on one suspect. details of additional entry were provided by a Johnson Street resident.
More than 200 airplanes will compete in the twenty seventh air service meet at Miller Field. Chief among the entrants is Lieutenant Commander Richard E Byrd and the giant three engined Fokker monoplane he flew with Pilot Floyd Bennett over the North Pole.
Senator Sol White and State Highway Commission agents target violators of automobile laws. Several defendants were fined by Squire H B Kitts. Keel Anderson, Charlies Clubb, R B Nunnally, Georgia Lumber Co, and Bailey Lumber Co paid fines plus costs. White notes 1925 license changes require double fees for trucks hauling for compensation, with dealers plates clogging streets. Kitts to hear more cases. dealers’ plates seen since March with July licenses hoped for.
Philadelphia June 25 The Sesqui Centennial open decision led Rev Dr Clarence B MacArtney former Presbyterian moderator to resign from several exposition committees Bishop Joseph F Berry also resigned as program committee chairman The Methodist Church Committee of One Hundred and Philadelphia Sunday School Association urged Judge Pinchot to obtain a state supreme court injunction against Sunday openings at the sesqui grounds A reproduction of Sulgrave Manor George Washingtons ancestral home and the Japanese building were dedicated today
New York reports Norfolk and Western placed an order for 54,000 tons of rails. Of this total 37,500 tons go to United States Steel and the remaining to Bethlehem Steel.
Bombay dispatch describes James Brandon of Georgetown USA attracting large crowds under a banyan tree in Poona. He claims cures for leprosy fevers and other ailments and says a vision of his spiritual powers came to him in Jacksonville Florida.
Two men in a car with a North Carolina license 221 228 attacked Thompson with a club, fracturing his skull and killing him instantly. They fled the scene as police in surrounding cities were alerted to monitor roads for the suspects.
Jacksons Mill West Virginia June 25 campers were inducted into the All-Star Organization from seventeen counties at the closing session of the 1926 Volunteers Conference. The new All-Stars included Apal Galford Braxton Eben Jenkins Maryland Carroll Orr Preston Loleta Stickler Fayette Clarence May Pocahontas Kathryn Hinkle Levi Mrs C D Shoemaker Webster Clarice Williams Upshur Elizabeth West Braxton Virginia Bruner Upshur Sterling Evans Wood Edith Castleberry Cabell cure Williams Lincoln Vermont Anna Sambie County H B Brumsxill Ohio Thelma Hill Tyler Gay Pritt Monroe Nellie Cotrill Gomer Je Hammon Webster Elizabeth Jackson Upshur Lois Garrett Wayne Robert Munchmeyer Wood.
Monday is preparation day at First Christian Church as staff decorate classrooms and assemble materials for the Vacation Bible School set to open Tuesday morning at nine. A 1:30 p m faculty meeting precedes departmental meetings and enrollment events with a free city auto ride for attendees.
Federal officers returning from Richlands Va report capture of a fifty gallon copper still in operation near Middle Fork Big Creek three miles from Richlands. They seized whiskey mash and arrested Bert Caudel an alleged moonshiner. Several others escaped.
Gallons of mash on hand and seven 60 gallon fermenters were found during a federal raid. One man was arrested and held for the U.S. district court at Big Stone after a hearing before Commissioner McCall. Bond set at $500. Officers Lambert Quillen Hood Smith Mellott are federal prohibition officers who conducted the raid.
Large equipment and a hoisting engine imply Virginia Bridge and Iron Company workers will start setting the steel on Monday at the Ramsey Street junior school building now under construction. A derrick is being erected as preparations proceed.
In Chicago a man was fined after threatening a witness, with prosecutors saying the threat amounted to intimidation though no violence occurred. The incident centers on alleged coercive remarks during the case and reflects local enforcement of witness protection norms.
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