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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1937
Page
14
In Changsha China engineers completed a half mile railroad bridge across the Siang with a reported 200 workers. Local superstition claimed souls must be trapped in each pillar, fueling vigilante fears as an elderly woman was attacked after a misinterpreted incident and two fishermen were found innocent.
Community notes from Pounding Mill Virginia dated June 26 record church services and lay activities led by Rev P M Blankenship Rev M T Lankford and others plus missionary meetings and young people's gatherings at Union and Church of God. Local visits and travel to Richlands Bluefield and Cedar Bluff are noted along with health vaccination work by Dr Rex E Steele and social visits of residents including Miss Catherine Brooks and Miss Anna Riley and several families with updates on homes and farms. A prowler incident near a resident is also mentioned with a garden hose turned on sleeping occupant.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the home for George Belcher 56 who died Monday at Bluefield sanitarium after a fatal shooting at his residence Saturday night. He is survived by his wife Cora Davidson Belcher a son Lewis and a daughter Cora Watson plus three brothers. Burial was in the family cemetery near Switchback.
Washington reports June figures with receipts of 30 217 203 22 dollars and expenditures of 26 777 861 72 dollars leaving a balance of 2 568 984 922 88. Customs receipts for the month total 34 022 962 91 and fiscal year receipts since July 1 reach 5 213 031 412 80 with expenditures at 7 986 350 221 80 including 2 793 582 398 00 of emergency spending, resulting in an excess of expenditures of 2 773 318.
The report shows gross debt at 36,393,949,647.45 dollars, up by 5,464,865.32 from the prior day, with gold assets totaling 12,271,519,672.59 dollars including 1,040,160,200.14 of inactive gold.
The Bland Presbyterian auxiliary Business Woman's circle met at Rocky Gap on June 22 with Miss Elizabeth Tuggle presiding in the president's absence. After a brief business session, the meeting closed with prayer and a salad social hosted by Miss Louise Tuggle and June St. Clair.
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