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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1918
Page
6
The piece urges war-time economy in car use, emphasizing mileage and cost efficiency. It promotes United States Tires as dependable and economical with five tire types and local sales depots to assist buyers.
Trustees will sell at public auction on July 2, 1948 at 2 p.m. at the front door of the Law & Commerce Building Bluefield WV the secured real estate in Glenmont addition Mercer County described as lot No 6 section 1011 with Adams Street boundary. Cash is due at sale. Liberty Bonds accepted in lieu of cash.
The state military department set July quotas for the local draft board with fifty-six white registrants to en train for Camp Meade and ten colored registrants to Camp Dix. An additional requisition increased grammar school graduates for Richmond training to twenty. The district also sent questionnaires to the 25 registrants of the 1918 class in Rock East River Jumping Branch and Plymouth.
Hon Wells Goodstown left for Williamson after a visit. Dr G C Straub, lately married to Annette Nelson, returns for weekend with family. W A Wilson of Vulcan Coal reports 1500 employees and $15 000 War Savings stamps plus $13 000 Liberty Bonds. Mrs J Frank Johnson and daughters depart for Norfolk to visit relatives. Today is final day to pledge War Savings stamps. cards available from local officials. Cheap teaspoons are being produced from compressed cotton fiber.
In a nationalistic wartime appeal, C W Watson argues that the nation needs the skill of successful industrial leaders to guide mobilization, supply coal and food, and ensure tax funds are not wasted. He stresses that Congress should reflect first hand industrial experience amid a grand economic war effort. Public confidence rests on drafting executives into public service for the greater national good.
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