Weather Hinders Touring In Area Near Tazewell
In Tazewell county Virginia June reports show a drought with scattered showers failing to break it. Pastures brown from dryness threaten cattle weights though wheat and corn show promise. Locals explore caverns like Lost Mills as new highway routes draw tourists to scenic wonders and a developing Crocketta Cove coal camp with 1,700 planned residences over five years.
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Tazewell
Gillespie
North Tazewell
C. Henry Harman
Carter Creameries
Bristol
Tazewell County
Florida
America
Clinch
Maiden Springs
Thompson Valley
W. J. Brown
Crocketta Cove
Ayroll
Tee
Bluefield Telephone Company
Tazewell Exchange
Jacobs Fork
Newhall
Shraders
Highway Department
Instructor and student survive plane fire jump near Cleveland airport
In Cleveland on June 28 an instructor and student pilot escaped a burning plane two miles east of Cleveland airport. The student, Jack Weis, landed safely first. the instructor, Eller Sandorph, followed after Weis’s parachute opened and both survived while the plane was demolished.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Jack Weis
Eller
Sandorph
Weis
Baird to resign as P and W W officer
Pittsburgh June 28 The Sun Telegraph reports the resignation of F C Baird general manager of the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway company will be announced soon Officials declined to comment and Baird said he could not discuss future plans He had led the Bessemer and Lake Erie railway for 38 years and served as prohibition administrator in the Pittsburgh district while on leave.
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Pittsburgh
The
Sun- Telegraph
F. C. Baird
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company
Road
Baird
Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad
Pittsburgh and
West Virginia
Bessemer and
Lake Erie
Bluefield Playgrounds Host Busy Independence Week
Attendance rises across Bluefield playgrounds with 238 at the Scott and Federal corner site over three days. Pet shows highlight 42 exhibits led by High Street and Pulaski park. awards cover volleyball, baseball, and pets with numerous named participants and judges.
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Bluefield
Scott and
Federal Street
High Street
Pulaski Park
Christmas Hill
Maud Woods
John Thompson
James Johnson
Pauline Haireton
Evelyn Coates
Harold Johnson
Carlotta Watkins
Boer Gravely
Joe Booker
Cate
Wilden Spencer
Pansy Cobbs
Edward Brown
Mary Seymour
Theodore Johnson
Elizabeth Miller
Grace Moore
John Seymour
Billy Burke
Ann Turpin
Pauline Watkins
Texas Jim Baker Declared Sane and Transferred
Ossining June 28 Sing Sing officials said Texas Jim Baker convicted of murder and confessing nine slayings has been adjudged sane by prison psychiatrists and moved to Damrenora state hospital for the criminal insane.
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Ossining
N. Y
Three Die In Springfield Plane Crash At Airport
Three people died when a plane nose-dived 300 feet in the air at the Springfield commercial airport. Victims were Norma Sawyer 21 and Emerson Sawyer 23 of Springfield and pilot S L Shu maker of Cincinnati. The crash occurred near the Wabash railroad elevated tracks.
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Springfield
Norma Sawyer
Emerson Sawyer
S. L. Shumaker
Cincinnati
Shrine program at Granada today in Bluefield
The Bluefield Shrine club presents a two part program at the Granada theatre this afternoon. The Beaver high school orchestra opens with an overture and the audience will sing Amorelia. Miss Marion one sings and W. W. McNeal speaks on Shrine work for crippled children. The Shrine quartet performs and the film An Equal Chance shows how Shriners aid crippled children in hospitals. Entry is free. program begins at 2 oclock and lasts about an hour and a half.
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Granada Theatre
Bluefield Shrine Club
Moving Picture
Beaver High School
Shrinere
North America
Shrine Quartet
United States
Shriners
Bluefield
Shrine Club
Canada
Mrs C N West Die at Kelleysville Age 63
Mrs C N Beat 63 died at her home in Kelleysville after a lingering illness. She was mother to Mrs H A Fletcher and other children including Mrs Emma Best Avery John Beat Mrs Wade Famore and F W Best. Funeral at home Monday at O oclock with Rev C F Mayberry. interment Oakvale cemetery. Her husband died in a crossing accident months earlier.
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C. N. Beat
H. A. Fletcher
Kelleysville
Mrs. Fletcher
Mises Emma Best
Avery
John Beat
Wade Famore
Ingleside
F. W. Best
Salem
C. F Mayberry
Oakvale
McDowell County Fugitive Arrested in Bluefield
Charles Spasa, colored, sought in McDowell County for stealing eight suits of clothing from a camp, was arrested in Bluefield last night and will be returned to McDowell today.
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Charles Spasa
McDowell County
Bluefield
Spasa
McDowell
Fugitive Slayer Killed by Posse Near Round Rock
In Texas near Round Rock Jack Robertson a Black man was shot and killed by a posse less than an hour after wounding Mr and Mrs Rr Begar. The Eggars were hospitalized with nonfatal wounds while Robertson was intercepted en route to Austin and killed. The two Eggars were attacked over wage disputes outside their home in front of their 14 year old daughter Willie Mae.
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Austin
Tex
Rr. L. Reger
Round Rock
Jack Robertson
Begar
Georgetown
Texas
Robertson
Negro
Eggars
Hoe
Eggar
Willie Mae
Bird
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Motor Tavern
T. W. Harman
Tazewell Motor Company
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Bank of Clinch Valley
Center Street
Gaa
R. R. Wall
Ruston
Fast Tazewell
R. O. Vandyke
Boston Addition
G.$. Gildersleeve
Fincastle Turnpike
F.C. Baird
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Cora Brown
Bessie Page
Almeda Fountaine
James Smith
Nathaniel Harlson
Tyler Fountaine
Christine Muse
Lillian Matthews
Hattie Welch
Dorothia Jones
Clyde Trigz
Shelia King
Hattie West
Lola Farris
Burtis Page
George Meadows
Hazel Jones
Maxie Hance
Teddy Kibbler
Louise Harvey
William Chatman
William Green
Lena Gibson
Nelson Page
Mary Tolar
Kelton Jones
Junior Haden
Gold Fish
Mollie Hadin
Sam Harvey
Julia Rodgers
Pulaski Perk
Fast End
East
West End Playground
Chautauqua
Redpath
Transatlantic
Mr. and
Mrs
Glen Wells
Mise la Vonne Field
Hugo Brandt
Paul Clark
Smith W. Brookhart
Katherine Costin
Frank C. Travers
Steppes
Cossack Chorus
Laura Forbes
Cossac Chorus
Lura Forbes
Tess Sheehan
G. D. Alden
A. A. Milne
Vierra
Hawaii
Smith
Brookhart
Baker
Granada Today
Crippled Children’s Committee of Club
Ieas
C. N. West
M’dowell
COX
Children’s Union Suits
Voices
Batiste
Coty
Gay
A. W. Cox
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