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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1919
Page
2
The New Mont Alto Cafeteria will open next Tuesday July 1 in the former hotel dining room. Phil Cohen and G F Baker manage the serve-yourself restaurant with a deli luncheon, open all hours for business travelers and workers seeking a quick meal.
The notice lists numerous homes for sale across streets in Bluefield with prices ranging from 1 900 to 17 500 including multiple properties per street. It ends with an invitation from Christ Episcopal for worship and church membership inquiries.
Roanoke resident Miss Lucille Garrett visits Miss Rosell Chariton on Tazewell Street. Several locals tour Bluefield visiting friends and relatives including the Quillens and Macom family. Mrs Whit Perkins recuperates after surgery at Bluefield Sanitarium.
A Friday night dance in the Tug River Hotel dining room drew town youths and visiting young ladies. Mesdames L. Brindley and W. H. Moss served as chaperones while Waltman's orchestra provided music. Ice cream and angel food cake were served at midnight.
The Mcdonel County equalization board will hold its first sitting on Saturday, July 5, to hear taxation cases. The board will remain in session for twenty five days with sittings at intervals, allowing any property owner who believes their assessment is too high or too low to appear for review.
Sergeant Walter B. Kiser arrives home from Camp Lee after discharge and France service and plans to visit relatives in Tazewell. Sergeant Robert M. Kyle recently back from overseas travels from Roanoke to Welch to spend days with brothers F. J. Kyle and F. I. Kyle. Mrs. W. W. Hughes heads to Columbus for the Missionary Centennial. Others from Welch attend events in Columbus and Bluefield. J. Byrd Keller returns from overseas and greets friends in Welch and Hemphill. A. C. Kiser and W. E. Kiser visit from Tazewell for the weekend at Brock Fo W.tones home.
A railroad worker fell from the top of a freight car shortly after nine o'clock. His right leg was severed below the knee. Dillard, married and living on East Princeton Avenue, had been with the railroad about two years. The excerpt references Virginia Realty Loan Co. with contact numbers.
Local churches list mass times Bible school and Sunday school hours with sermons by pastors J Taylor Stinson W M Morrell C C Bailey George F Phillips and Samuel W Moore. midweek prayer meetings and Epworth League sessions are scheduled with notices for Greenville Orphanage collections.
Fifteen recruits were enlisted at the local recruiting station last week and sent to Parkersburg for final physicals. They will train at Norfolk. Listed names include Raymond Stevenson Grigg Willie J Grigg Silas Dotson Jason M Riggins Roy Canada George Callahan and others from Bluford Bluff City Jenkin Jones Miles Booker Bluefield Kimball and more.
W. M. Dillard a brakeman in the local railroad yards was in a serious condition at St Luke's Hospital last night from injuries sustained in a fall from a car. The accident occurred late evening as the crew was working yard duties near the depot. Medical staff said his condition was critical but stable and he was undergoing treatment for injuries to his head and chest.
A mine worker named Brown, employed at Malens, was transported to Princeton General Hospital after his throat was cut between Mullens and Princeton. Reports say he became insane days earlier and his brother from Princeton was summoned. The attack occurred while awaiting a Virginian train No. 4.
In Elkborn last Tuesday at 5:30 PM Miss Blanche Worley married Joe Lewis with Rev. Ravens officiating. The ceremony featured a ring exchange, daisy and laurel decorations, and a Mendelssohn wedding march. The couple left for a honeymoon trip to Norfolk, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Niagara Falls.
The ad touts Earle's Hypo Cod as a reliable medicine for run down conditions made in a large American laboratory. It emphasizes open formula on each bottle and approval by physicians, with a price of $1.20 plus five cent war tax at local druggists.
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