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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1911
Page
5
Kent Tibbs, who shot himself Tuesday evening, remains living with doctors giving an even chance. Surgeons did not locate the bullet, believed to be in the left lung, with infection a risk. Tibbs lies at his brother Terry Tibbs’s home as his wife and family grieve amid rumors and village shock.
Mrs. William Henchey of Buffalo guests with Mrs. James A. Henchey on Maple avenue. Joseph Topham of New Orleans visits his niece Mrs. R. B. Bernheim and plans Indiana trip. Miss Wellman returns to Elk Horn from Maple avenue visit. A Presbyterian Sunday school picnic was held at Jed with Rev A. H. Clarke and Billy Wilson in charge.
R Brinn Owen of Raleigh and James Elmer Brown of Bluefield were in the city yesterday. W A Lee of Bluefield was a business visitor. Rev and Mrs T Cameron and children returned from Tennessee after a missionary conference. Mr and Mrs C W Freeman returned from Lynchburg after a month away. Prof T H R Christie of Bluefield and Dr G H Zimmerman of Pocahontas were here yesterday. WC Lammers moved into the former J E Wagner residence during remodeling. H W Shields in Princeton on business. Ke Freeman returned from Christiansburg where he visited relatives. Mrs Freeman will stay away longer. Mrs W H Shuff of Coopers visited Mrs Edward Cooper yesterday.
A tall flag flies from the summit of a newly built schoolhouse in Pocahontas. The building adopts a military style and the flag’s presence signals a strong ceremonial display.
Miss Elizabeth Stewart teaches music in Bramwell while Norfolk visitors Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Galway stay with relatives. Col. James Browning of Roanoke visits on business as Pocahontas prepares a new ball park, leveled ground and clay top with a game planned for the Fourth funded by Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company.
A Roanoke World notice reports a Virginian passenger train decorated with white and black streamers arriving from the west. A bride Grace Sharp and groom AKE Horton wed at the bride's Gardner West Virginia home with Grace Sharp's father, W. M. Sharp of Gardner, East Virginia coal firm, present. The groom works for a company. the couple left for New York after the ceremony.
Real estate activity surges with large deals. L and N M Wigington, Raleigh street livery stable owners, purchased the B M Cohen property fronting eighty four feet on Raleigh street. The price is undisclosed but rumored to establish a new market benchmark in the area.
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