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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1922
Page
4
Public notices and small ads list sales, services, meetings, and community events in Bluefield and nearby towns. Items include shop ads for shoe repair and furniture, election registrar settings, knights Templar conclave, house furniture for sale, upcoming dances, church activities, and local obituaries notices.
R M Weaver travels to Roanoke on business. W A Bode to Petersburg by train. Mrs W P Cecil improves after illness. J J Weaver, Cumberland MD, visits his son R M Weaver. A J Flanary of Norton formerly Bluefield visits. Sam and Mrs Young of Mullens visit W P Cecil. Dresslers depart for White Sulphur Springs bankers meeting. Mrs James H Ellis visits Rockbridge Street parents. Mrs M H Pedigo returns from Roanoke. Mrs W L Davis of Columbus arrives to spend summer with O K Hillock at Hotel Matz. Mrs R L Midkiff and son return from Northfork area visit. Mrs B J Warsham and Mary Katherine go to Abingdon Virginia to visit relatives.
The Covenanter boys plan their yearly trip leaving Monday morning July 3 for Wolf Creek. They will camp at a familiar swimming hole with ample provisions and good meals, and expect the largest group yet with thirty six or so others joining.
Thomas Larned traded a bead necklace his child used as a plaything, assuming it was worthless. He later learned the piece was valued at $10,000 and received a substantial reward.
The Presbyterian Sunday schools plan an annual on the lawn at C. B. Hancock’s on Princeton avenue. Younger members arrive ~3 or 3:30 pm, adults by 6:30 for supper. Food includes watermelons and ice cream. all church members and friends are invited with baskets.
The assistant secretary of labor will address Southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia at the Colonial Theatre on Sunday afternoon July 2. Henning is described as a gifted orator and appears under the Loyal Order of Moose sponsorship. James Elmer Brown manages the event with a planned program and special music. The meeting opens at 2 30 p m and all are invited.
The Daily Telegraph prints a correction for Dr. Lester J. Jones display. An error swapped the fraction in the description of M. D. course from about one half to about one third. The correction clarifies the accurate proportion.
An advertising blurb presents Madam Altreso as a clairvoyant adviser who can straighten family matters resolve love troubles and give business guidance. It claims she can reveal hidden causes of illness and personal disputes and invites people to seek her at Bluefield on the Graham Trolley Line near East Graham Virginia.
A severe electric storm hit this immediate section late Tuesday afternoon causing lightning in three city areas. Minor property damage followed while telephone lines were briefly disrupted. Two Bluefield youths on the Country Club golf course narrowly escaped injuries after sheltering under a tree when the tree was struck. Bricks were knocked from the Masonic Temple corner on Federal Street and windows in the Morton garage area rattled as lines carried the bolt. A smoke stack at a plant was struck in the west end with no damage reported. Rain arrived heavily in Bluefield and Montcalm neighborhoods. Mountain streams swelled flooding several homes. The storm was largely confined to the local area with lighter effects toward Matoaka Oakvale Welch and Tazewell. County prosecutor H. B. Lee noted cars halted by the downpour. Additional cloudbursts in the area could not be verified.
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