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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1912
Page
3
Local residents from Welch Elkhorn Princeton Bramwell and Roanoke were reported in the city yesterday. Names include D J F Strother J J Lincoln Ernest Freeman Victo ria Coles and Misses Genevieve Quinn Catherine May Virgie Hall.
Roanoke visitors and residents travel for illness visits and leisure in the city. A. M. Pyle of Graham underwent an operation at Bluefield Sanitarium and rests well. Miss Pearl Brammer returned home after a few days in Roanoke visiting her ill sister. Mrs. H I Shott and Rev Frank Y Jackson hosted Nell Pratt before she left for Knoxville. Catarrh is described as a constitutional disease with Hall's Catarrh Cure offered by F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio as the solution with a one hundred dollar refund promise.
J Robinson Phelps and Miss Emi Burnley were married Monday at 3 pm in Bristol. The groom is son of E McG Phelps. the bride is daughter of C E F Burniey. Local friends extend best wishes as the couple begins married life.
An old advertisement for TIZ foot care remedy is featured among local notes. The blurb promises relief for tired feet and mentions sales by Walter Luther Dodge & Co. in Chicago. Local social items list guests, entertainments, and visits in Bramwell Pocahontas and Gary.
Miss Hattie Clark of Roanoke visits Miss Bertha Mitchell. Miss Rachel Waldron to visit with Mrs. G. P. Beavers. Dr Ok Pyatt of Tip Top seen in town. Miss Earl Hutson heads to Ashland Ky for a visit. W. H Beale of Leckie plus J. W. Butterfield of Marytown in Welch. J J Rutledge B J Price and G H Deike of Pittsburg in town. Gertrude Keister of Graham calls on friends. G Paris Beavers of Kenova in town. Carl Donovan of Berwind visits Bramwell. Mrs Isadore Katzen of Keystone visiting her parents.
Manner ing Casper Dewese and Jess Evans of Williamson visit homefolks here. Sallie Shockey returns home from Roanoke after visiting cousin Rhoda Shockey. John Harris and family visit Harris' parents at Davy. Nelson Goodwin spent Sunday with friends in Pocahontas. Mrs Watts returns to Gary. Tom Davis of Pocahontas on business here. Willie Mae Sentz of Princeton returns home from visit with Mrs Craft. Mrs R G Bailey leaves for Tazewell after brother Willie Hawkins death. Fletcher Dewese in Bluefield on business. Ed Evans in Pocahontas Sunday. Bill Cook and Jim Mullensa here on business. Mrs Bpling of Athens and sister Mrs Lyons of Gardner visiting their parents Mr and
In Coeburn on June 26 the Peoples Band of Coeburn was organized with members including J. D. Bond T. F. Hans Jt Moore Edward W. Cumbertson KE. 3. Kien W. J. Kilgore Dan McCown Robert P. Litz Pettie Myers Huart Steele W. N. Carico Ernest Davis L. O. Carpenter and J. W. Ashworth with L. O. Carpenter as president and W. Carico secretary and treasurer. Funds for instruments have been raised and new instruments will arrive soon. Burglary occurred between 2 and 4 a m Sunday at John P. Miller and FI Hensley’s rooms. over fifty dollars and ten dollars were taken. Trousers were under pillows and later found on the back porch with watches left in pockets. No arrests yet. Jesse James A. R. Richardson Show Company presented Jesse James to a large audience last night and will perform at Toms Creek Thursday night.
The United States Geological Survey released a second edition of its Fayette Alabama natural gas field report by M. J. Munn. It covers about seventy square miles and notes restricted development to date, proposes a test-well location that later proved to be the region’s only successful well among about a dozen tests, and suggests nearby counties may hold small paying oil and gas areas. The bulletin is free via the USGS director in Washington, D.C.
K. 8 Sutton of the federal bureau of mines arranged a special car to travel from Bristol to Big Stone Gap Virginia before the Fourth of July celebration. Experts will demonstrate safety appliances and mine rescue work and the car may stay in Wise County for days. Many miners and operators are expected to attend as the move spurs talk of a mine rescue station in the coal fields and a related bill pending in Congress.
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