Mayor Lilley to Welcome Driver on Bluefield Welcome
Bluefield hosts the Elks goodwill courier arriving at 5 pm in a Studebaker President convertible. Miss Bernice Studebaker, Bluefield College graduate and Stude baker descendant, fronts the parade through Glenwood Park along a route via Pratt on avenue Federal and Bland Street to the Elks lodge. Mayor Lilley will greet Driver Joseph Downing on the Elks steps before a WHIS radio broadcast explains the pilgrimage purpose.
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Elks
Joseph Downing
Bluefield
Lilley
Downing
Elks Lodge
Chicago
WHIS
Cour Brevick
H. B. Smith
F. M. O’brien
C. L. Shufflebarger
Wade Harry
John Land
Rev. M. C. Hughes
G. W. Dalton
W. J. Hutton
J. D. Hinegardner
F. M. Peters
W.B. Motley
W. M. Keister
Louis Magrill
Fred Sanders
Lodge
Bernice Studebaker
Studebaker
Bluefield College
Asene
Dr. Stinson
Goodwill tour feature at Elks convention gains traction
The annual Goodwill tour reaches thousands of Elks nationwide as three Studebaker President cars travel from Boston to Seattle promoting attendance. The trip, guided by the Elks Magazine, measures fuel use and wear with a separate engine mileage readout.
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Elks Magazine
Downey
Boston
Seattle
Studebaker
American Automobile Association
Lincoln
Elks-Studebaker Goodwill Car To Carry Miss Bernice Studebaker
Miss Bernice Studebaker of Frederick Street will ride in the Elks-Studebaker Goodwill car. She began her education with an Elks club scholarship at Bluefield College and is a direct descendant of the South Bend Studebakers, a family linked to American transportation history for eight decades.
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Bluefield College
Studebaker
Bluefield
Eilk
Goodwill Courier
South Bend
Ind
Elow
Frederick Street
Elks-Studebaker
Elks Club
South Bend Studebakers
Courier Car Timetable Highlights Local Route
The schedule shows a courier car meeting at Glenwood Park at 4 30 p m then travel along Princeton avenue Federal and Bland streets past Bluefield college reaching Bluefield Va 5 10 p m short stop then back to West Virginia via Bluefield Ave official greetings on Raleigh street Elks building 7 00 p m broadcast on WHIS with Mr Downing and Conrad Brevick in charge public inspection of a Goodwill Studebaker car at 1130 Bland street 6 00 to 10 p m
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J. T. Thornton
Ray Evans
Frank Peters
John Land
Conrad Brevick
Commie
Goodwill
Glenwood Park
Bluefields
Mise Studebaker
Elks
Princeton Avenue
Federal
Bland Street
Bluefield College
Virginia Side
Elks Lodge
Raleigh Street
Downing
Bland Streets
Bluefield
West Virginia
Bluefield Ave
Elks Building
WHIS
Mr. Downing
Goodwill Studebaker
Woode- Brevick Showroom
Bluefield Elks Lodge A Proud Community Pillar
The Bluefield Elks Lodge 269 has long shaped Bluefield's life with a historic opera house on Federal Street and modern quarters renovated in 1927. The charity ball funds neighborly aid while scholarships aid graduates such as Bernice Studebaker, linking civic service with regional education.
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Bluefield
Bluefield Elks Lodge
Norfolk and Western
Corvin
Elks Opera House
Federal Street
Higginbotham Avenue
Mid- South
Chamber of Commerce
A. C. Heilman
EIGHT MEN BELIEVED KILLED IN DERAILMENT
Eight men are believed dead after a Santa Fe fruit train derailment near Castle Rock Colorado. The collapse of a flood weakened arroyo bridge sent eighteen cars into a pile, injuring about forty itinerants and blocking the line for two days. Names include Harry Pirtle and John Horvath among the injured.
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Castle Rock
Col
Santa Fe
Denver
Pueblo
Harry Pirtle
St. Genevieve
John Horvath
Oregon
Benjamin Madoski
Hollidays Cove
W. Va
Organ evolution and street name duplicates in Berlin
Earliest authentic pipe organ record reaches to 200s BCE while bagpipes and pan-pipes have ancient roots. In Greater Berlin nearly one third of the 9000 streets have duplicates, with Bismark appearing on 30 streets and Wilhelmstrasse on 26.
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Greater Berlin
Bismark
Wilhelmstrasse
Studebaker President Chosen for Elks Tour Cars
The Woods-Brevick Motor Co. says the Studebaker President eight is the logical choice for three goodwill cars en route to the Birmingham Elks convention. The cars will display at 1130 Bland Street Wednesday 6 to 10 p.m. as Mr Downing lends his President convertible sedan for inspection.
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Studebaker
Birmingham
Elks
Conrad Brevick
Woods-Brevick Motor Company
Downing
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Mexico
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India
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Elks Courier
Paul Whiteman
Elke ‘Goodwill
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al” Freidman
the Elks Good Will Studebaker
B. P. O. E. Lodge
the Elks Magazine
Pe Mey
Elks Good Will
Brother Downing
Walter Greenup
Pocahontas, Va
H. H. Ball
Princeton, W. Va
M. R. McMillion McComas
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