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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1924
Page
1
Madame Louise of Chicago hair dresser unveils the new Merry Widow bob with authority. The headdress is praised for both married and single women as school girls also adopt the short style. Miss Agnes Verne showcases the cut front and back.
Local notes record Rev. C. H. Phipps’s return from Greensboro after his father’s death. Reginald Downey starts a summer post with Rusmisell Electric Car. several residents plan visits to Bluefield Virginia and Washington for family and teachers conventions.
A major corporation starts preliminary work for a dam across the New River at Bluestone mouth near Hinton to impound water and generate electric power. Engineers drill river bottom, plan a sixty foot tall dam spanning nearly a mile, blocking the river and flooding adjacent land as a new recreation and transit route develops with a proposed bridge and state road integration. Construction to begin this year includes cofferdams and a temporary railway to move concrete and equipment.
Several new players will appear for Princeton in a game against Elkhorn-Northfork on McNutt field next Wednesday afternoon. Manager Sem Hall traveled to Bristol and Kingsport, Tennessee seeking recruits to shore up weak spots. A meeting of contributors to organize a permanent baseball group and discuss strengthening the team will be held at the Merchants Association office tomorrow night.
The Swarthmore Chautauqua closes a splendid week with William Sterling Battis in Life's Portrayals and the Oceanic Ladies Quintet. Miss Lindsey and her educated pony Sultan entertained youngsters and adults. Union services at 11 and 8, free to all, feature A R Spath on The Little Israelitish Maid and Essie Bailey singing. A church choir will perform at both services. Evening vesper, then Battis address and Oceanic Quintet selections. Mrs J T Cassell reports a lost package. reward 440-L.
County records list four marriages including Dewey Michael to Mary E Krown and Jess L Perdew to Margaret Bane. Circuit court actions proceed in chancery. many state licenses expire tomorrow as the fiscal year 1924 begins. Community events include theater, bridge work, Chautauqua, church activities, and a boxing-style doctors vs lawyers game.
Delphian department of the Women’s Club hosts Mrs. Sutton and Mrs. Hoge at Mrs. Poston’s Walter street home with Mrs. Merrill leading and Rome as the roll call cities. Junior Chautauqua Boosting Club forms with Effie Thornton president Dinah Lisagor secretary and Virginia Woolfolk treasurer.
Mrs. J. G. Barbour issues invitations for a Tuesday afternoon bridge party at 3 30 to honor her sister Mrs. Ray Hawley who is visiting as house guest.
Raymon Barnett of Calgary Alberta Canada visits the city for the weekend as a guest of Mr and Mrs W M Good on North Walker Street. Barnett, in the aviation corps, has been stationed in Honolulu eighteen months and came east to compete in the Olympic games in New York in the mile run and high jump. If successful he would have represented Uncle Sam at Paris in the international contests.
Caesar Ronconi Miss Holroyd and Cecil Johnson spend the weekend in Welch as guests at the Barley home to finalize plans for an upcoming concert in the city.
Mrs E B McNeer and Mrs R P Beard return after visiting relatives at Union. They bring Mrs A P Johnston and her two sons Duncan and Stephen Johnston who will stay at the McNeer home on Hale avenue and visit Mrs J H McNeer in Bluefeld.
Mr and Mrs Frank Thornton of Montgomery Alabama came to the city for a week with Mrs R E Thornton on Highland avenue. Mr Thornton says he set a record time from Atlanta to Princeton leaving Friday morning and arriving at midnight the same day covering about five hundred miles.
At Madison Square Garden New York on June 28 the Democratic convention raged over the Ku Klux Klan plank during the roll call. Officials reported the votes were very close with multiple challenges from delegations as they sought to resolve the outcome.
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