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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1910
Page
4
An advertisement promotes the Daily Telegraph mail service for summer readers. For 46 cents per month, subscribers can receive home updates by mail at any U S or Canada address.
A Roanoke Times commentary tracks Fifth versus Sixth district shifts in Floyd County after a gerrymandered move by Virginia’s Democratic legislature. It notes contested elections, party strategy, and calls out the irony of political tricks and cross district voting. Italy’s return of an American murderer adds to the political critique.
The passage critiques a political machine’s unyielding stance, defending its actions as right while denying others. It contrasts era by era forecasts, invokes eminent statesmen, and hints at ethnic land fears regarding Choctaw and Chickasaw property. It then shifts to leisure and travel images including yacht races and Bluefield’s cool nights.
This note encourages strengthen your resolve in the final week to keep your part of the period safe and sane with prudent actions and steady behavior.
Circuit Judge Burdett dissolves injunction against the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad enforcing the two cent fare law. Railroad ordered to refund excess fares collected over two cents at Charleston Huntington and Huntington offices. Stay of sixty days granted to pursue appeal.
One hundred dollar reward offered for an uncured case of catarrh by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co of Toledo endorsed by Walding Kinni Marvin as trustworthy druggists. Cure taken internally, claims to act on blood and mucous surfaces.Testimonials free, price per bottle. sold by all druggists. Also Hall's Family Wills for constipation.
The regular annual stockholders meeting of the Bluefield Manufacturing Company Bluefield West Virginia will be held at the company's offices corner of Lee street and Princeton avenue Thursday July ith at 2 o clock p m for the purpose of meeting a board of directors and changing the date of the annual meeting from July to January of each year and the transaction of any other business that may properly come before said meeting 8 Eh Payne president Attest G W Slicer secretary 6 22 29 Chamberlain s Stomach and Liver Tablets will brace up the nerves banish sick headache prevent despondency and invigorate the whole system Sold by all dealers.
A fragmented letter from Charteston discusses Charleston building 150 houses and a ten month period without saloons. It mentions a petition by leading Charleston firms protesting liquor licenses for 1910, claiming improved peace and business, county tax savings, and reduced crime. It also notes Ruffner Bros. opposing saloons and a charity auto parade proposal for July 4 to support Salvation Army children.
W L Dennis is appointed Buchanan County Clerk to fill the vacancy from the death of Clerk Hubbitts A M Hibbitts declines deputy role. Dennis takes office in Via and will serve as the county clerk.
July originated as Quintilis in the old Roman year later renamed for Julius Caesar. The Saxons called it hay month and meadow month while Romans linked it to heat and the Dog Star Canicula giving rise to the term dog days. Canicula now rises later, but the phrase endures as weather lore.
A feature of the new railroad bill extends government oversight to telephone and telegraph firms operating interstate. The bill subjects three companies to the same rules as railroads, expanding the Interstate Commerce Commission’s reach and aiming to shield the public interest.
The city of Bluefield plans to adopt the stock law already voted by the district. Owners whose cows roam freely may be arrested and fined with half the fine going to the city and half to the informer if damage results.
Hiram Szemore a Wyoming Republican county committee member from Slab Fork resigns saying the rule could not be enforced. He notes his departure in a card printed in the Wyoming Tribune.
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