B Y P U Meeting Draws Largest Attendance Yet
Pocahontas and Neighborhood notes report a Sunday B Y P U gathering with about 125 attendees. Miss Thelma Whitehead led Group 1 specials including Carlyle Ellett reading Build me a House by the Side of the Road and Virginia Maxey and Charles Maxey performing a piano and violin set. The night featured praise for the social committee headed by Miss Mary Baker and a hearty social spread of mock chicken sandwiches salad and hot chocolate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thelma Whitehead
Carlyle Ellett
Carlyle
C. H. Butt
Charles Maxey
Virginia Maxey
Friendship Club Forms in Pocahontas With Interchurch Ties
The Pocahontas Friendship Club unites young people from Epworth leagues and similar groups across churches. Postponed to Friday March 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Pocahontas Baptist Church, the program, led by B Y P U, will discuss cultivating sincerity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thelma Whitehead
Pocahontas
Friendship Club
Epworth
Final Bond Issue Message From Voters Sunday
The bond issue election is set for next Tuesday and many voters have not yet decided how to vote. Sunday’s issue will carry a final message from both opponents and supporters in a last minute effort to influence the outcome.
Swastika at Palace Theatre in Pocahontas Tuesday
Swastika will be at the Palace Theatre Tuesday March 16 to answer reader questions via the newspaper columns. Mail questions to the Palace Theatre by Monday March 9 and view the replies in Tuesday’s paper. Admission unchanged. initials may be used for responses.
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Palace Theatre
Care Palace Theatre
Pocahontas Personal News From Local Hospital
Guy Boone has returned from Lew is Gale Hospital Roanoke where he had treatment J W Bailey in Lewis Gale Hospital Roanoke is reported as getting along very nicely
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Pocahontas
Guy Boone
Lewis-Gale Hospital
Roanoke
J. W. Bailey
Bluefield Institute Glee Club at Bethel A M E Church
The Bluefield Institute Glee Club will perform at Bethel A M E Church on Thursday March 11 at 8 p m Admission 25 cents for adults 10 cents for children Directed by Miss Warren and Mr Walton the program includes special numbers All are invited to attend. A second notice announces a mock court entertainment at Mt Zion Baptist Church on Tuesday March 10 with music interludes and engaging acts The event promises unique amusement for Bluefield residents Club No 8 hosts a smoker and banquet at New Home Cafe Friday March 6 from 8 pm to 12 am Tables reserved for ladies Ethel Hancock captain Ethel Hillman secretary The ladies auxiliary of A of R T meets at Mrs Maud Taylors on Williams Street at 3 pm each member urged to attend.
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Bluefield Institute
Bethel A. M. EB
Bluefield Institute Glee Club
Bethel A. M. E
Bluefield
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Club No. 8
New Home Cafe
Bland Street
Ethel Hancock
Ethel Hillman
Maud Taylor
Williams Street
Inauguration and Congress End Term Marks 1925 Peace
Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes were sworn in as president and vice president. The sixty-eighth Congress adjourned peacefully after passing the deficiency and minor measures. Speaker Ailett gave his valedictory and became a senator. Everett Sanders was sworn in as secretary to the president.
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Calvin Coolidge
Charles G. Dawes
Ailett
House
Massachusetts
Coolidge
Congress
Everett Sanders
Indiana
Offee
Notable Local Figures and Odd Incident in Virginia News
Personal notices recount visits and travels of lawyers and residents, plus a birth in Day Street. A Campbell county Virginia tale describes Adolphus Humbles, once thrifty and cautious, who pursued a large mortgage scheme on a colored educational institution in Lynchburg and envisioned steady interest income as the venture grew.
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Campbell County
Adolphus Humbles
Humbles
Lynchburg
Little Lillian Webb Edmunds Dies in Virginia Home
In Bluefield Virginia little Lillian Edmunds Webb nearly two dies at grandparents home Pauline Holown died in Caesarean birth of her own baby Lillian dies at 4 pm while in grandmother’s arms Funeral set for Friday time to be announced Newton Edmunds from Chicago expected to arrive Parent Teacher Association to screen Turmoil at Palace Theater Methodist choir canceled due to death of Lillian Webb Edmunds
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Lillian Edmunds Webb
R. Edmunds
Pauline Holown
O. N. Edmunds
Lillian
Littl Lillian
Newton Edmunds
Chicago
Methodist Choir
Lillian Webb Edmunds
Virginia's wealthiest colored man built hotels and stores
The article recounts Humbles rising to wealth in Virginia by running a hotel for his people a theater a drug store and allied enterprises all on sound business principles. His wealth reached about a half million making him the wealth iest colored man in Virginia and he encouraged others to follow his example in business.
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Humbles
Virginia
Bluefield
World oil production in 1924 and US share declines
The American Petroleum Institute estimates global oil production in 1924 at 1 013 159 000 barrels, down 5 761 000 from 1923. The United States produced 714 000 000 barrels in 1922, about 70.5 percent of world output, and 742 407 000 barrels in 1923, about 71.9 percent.
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New York
The
American Petroleum Institute Today
United States
Institute
Mexico Output and US Share in World Oil Production
Mexico produced 149 585 000 barrels or 14 7 percent of annual world output. The 1924 decline reached 9 998 000 barrels or 6 7 percent. United States and Mexico together accounted for 4 3 percent of world production in 1924 and 66 percent in 1920s era data reference.
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Mexico
United States
Record Run by Pennsylvania Train Sets New Speed Mark
A Pennsylvania Railroad special train carrying moving picture crews for the presidential inauguration rush left Washington Union Station at 12 09 p m and reached Pennsylvania Station New York at 3 59 p m covering 225 miles in three hours forty five minutes setting a new Washington to New York speed record.
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Philadelphia
Washington
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
Capitol
Union Station
Pennsylvania Station
New York City
United States
Birthday Party Held By Miss Virginia Sloss At Home
Miss Virginia Sloss hosted a Monday birthday gathering with a pink and white color scheme. Guests included Thelma Hawkins, Helen Hawkins, Virginia Speed, Louise Dawson, Virginia Stuss, and boys Tommy Hawkins, Billie Richardson, Charles Peters, Schell Stuss, and Dan Frederick Stuss who enjoyed games and eolvee.
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Virginia Sloss
Thelma
Helen Hawkins
Virginia Speed
Louise Dawson
Virginia Stuss
Masters Tommy Hawkins
Billie Richardson
Charles Peters
Herschell
Dan Frederick Stuss
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Prep
Pocahontas, Va
Gibson
Universal - Gibson
Clifford Smith
Carl Laemmle
J. W. Waters Co., the Reliable Jewelers
Federal Street
Bluefield, W. VA
Swastika
A. D. Williams
Methodist Church
H. M. Stevens
Baptists
Palace
Alexander Dumas
Hunchback of
Notre Dame
B. Y. P. U. Secial
Baptist Church
Mamie Pearis
Winston Cheatham
J. K. Smith
Keystone
Pineville
Wyoming County
AP Palace
Palace Theater
Booth Turkington
Pennsylvania Train
Sir Walter Scott
Edinburgh
Bradfield Regulator Co. Dept
Majestic
Knox
Anchor
Richmond
Lloyd Baby
McDougall
H. B
Grez
Hot Point Electric Irons
Armstrong
Boggs & Goodall Bluefield
W. VA
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