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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1935
Page
5
A competitive skeet shoot will be held at Gluefield Gun Club on July 4 after a brief officers meeting. Classes A B C tag shooters by season averages and ability, with trophies for each class and high gun overall. Handicap and skeet events begin at 10 30 and run 60 targets each before opening for general shooting.
Officials hunt for the killer of Edward Fewell 19 of Trout Hill Virginia a Bestian CCC camp enrollee. Camp Wyatt Bland county authorities probe gun found near the body bullets footprints of a man and a woman coroner verdict calls it murder.
Twin City council No. 149, N. C, U. A. M. will meet tonight to elect officers for the ensuing term. All members are urged to be present.
Notice appears in this paper from J. C. Fanning Sheriff and Treasurer warning residents about 1934 tax delinquencies and reminding readers to check the paper for further details on property listings and remedies.
Broadcast lineup for Thursday June 27 lists multiple networks and time slots. Programs include Billy and Betty, Dorsey Bros Orchestra, Randy Valley, Shaw Boat, Wakeman and Lou Holt, Jesse Crawford at Organ, National Radio Forum, Ben Pollack Orchestra, Billy Bisnett's Orchestra, Buck Rogers, Carson Robison, Kate Smith, Kate Smith and Company, Walter O Keefe, Waring's Pennsylvanians, Los Angeles Symphony, Dance Music, and more across East Midwest Dixie and West Coast networks.
The Granada Reporter lists a Friday morning broadcast lineup featuring Silent periods at 0:00 and 9:00, tonle tunes and popular dances from 7:45 to 8:16, with 7:30 Correct Time Signal and 7:31 To Be Announced. Also notes station listings for local businesses and musical programs throughout the day.
Stubby Gordon and Orch headline a morning lineup starting at 6:00 with a regional show. At 5:30 Preas-Radio News Period and 5:36 Mary Small perform songs, followed by local program notes and weather outlook.
A continued page eight snippet describes podium prizes and travel kits for state tournament fighters. Winners in various flights receive chrome trimmed leather cases, blue mirror glass crystal trays, and other serving pieces as part of the prize package.
The passage reports on statements by President John Davin of the West Virginia Golf Association about offering more prizes if needed. It mentions an old-fashioned cocktail called Slasaeés and a runner-up receiving a golfer themed leather case, while noting a group wing and a silver man golfer design on a shaker.
Borotra dispatched a registered letter to Paria to meet on the field of honor. A spokesman said in France the matter is serious, while Borotra, exhausted after a 8½ hour duel with Menzel, lost to the Czech in five sets 5 7 6 4 2 6 11 9.
New York Giants defeated the Chicago Cubs 5 to 2 in a drawn out game with key homers by J Collins and Bucher. Dodgers edged Cardinals in another late innings clash while Brooklyn held a 7 6 lead before St Louis tied it in the ninth and fell in the tenth.
A Bluefield Virginia item describes Walter Cox using a terrapin as a living family record. The terrapin bears footprints of newborns and the shell bears names and dates, drawing interest from vital statistics officials for potential adoption in birth records across the department.
The Rev George D West will preach at Falla Mills Christian church this evening at 8 oclock. Groundhog notes, dog quarantine prompts in Tazewell county. Two Bluefield pastors conduct revivals. Red roses bloom with favorable weather. J T Spracher improves and resumes duties as manager at the Bluefield state dispensary.
Large crowd expected tonight for the June gathering of the Bluefield Better Service club in the Bluefield West Virginia municipal auditorium. William B Garrett of Roanoke will discuss air conditioning methods used on Norfolk and Western passenger trains. Marion Smith will sing solo, Frank Sprinkle plays accordion, and the Shupe family of Bramwell will perform. Rev. G W Collins will offer invocation. Program short. refreshments include ice cream pop cigars. Curtain rises promptly at 7 o'clock.
An elderly columnist known as Old-Timer clashes with editors over the longest day of the year. He maintains June 21 is the year's longest day while Washington and Alaska reports mark June 22 as the longest, noting Alaska’s sun behavior.
Virginia politics centers on Representative G A Woodrum of Roanoke who has broken with the Roosevelt administration over the share the wealth tax program. Known as a New Deal ally, he now says he supports gagging it reasonably but insists it be done decently. Observers predict the Virginia delegation may bolt the tax move in reaction to the issue.
Mrs. Cora Dilig Hamilton and Mrs. Mittla Crabtree visit Bluefield and nearby towns in West Virginia and Virginia as Mrs. Eleanor Hash and Yowell Hash from Missouri join Alrg. d. H. McMullin in Bluefield. Miss Nancy Richardson returns from Shl ins College Bristol to serve as secretary of Christian social service in the Appalachian synod. Other locals include Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Miller of Fort Lauderdale hosting George Miller in West Graham, and Miss Virginia Hinton at Harrisonburg for summer sessions while teaching elsewhere. Katherine Clary visits Rev. H. C. Clary at the Episcopal rectory on Logan Street. Ten thousand elephant tusks were bought annually for years by Twendon firm for billiard balls.
Bluefield Virginia physician Dr O K Phiegar advocates regulating how births are reported. He accompanied the stork on his 1,832nd trip and suggests a standardized method for vital statistics across Virginia, aiming to improve accuracy and reporting.
About 1,700 young men from Indiana Kentucky Ohio and West Virginia will attend a thirty day Citizens Military Training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison starting July 2 under Col C P Robingon with a staff of regular army officers The program covers artillery signal corps and infantry with a second camp starting August 2 focusing on infantry only Recreational activities include baseball tennis volleyball life saving and swimming lessons to maximize benefit and ensure youths return home with lasting gains.
Dr. E. G. Kelley of Kansas State College led a campaign against crop eating jackrabbits in Manhattan Kansas. The final count tallied 940,426 rabbits with 782,000 killed in drives during the year long extermination effort.
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