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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1925
Page
1
City items list coal grades Red Ash and Pocahontas with cash prices per ton at several firms incl Gore, Raton, and Mine Run, plus offers on other grades. Also ads note real estate lots, a seven room rental, a grocery sale, and business notices.
W B Cray of Blunfield formerly in Pearlsburg suffered appendicitis and was rushed to St Luke's Hospital where he underwent an operation Monday evening. Hospital reports say he was getting along very well, though his condition remained serious.
Tickets for the Colonial Theatre shows in 1925 row three balcony seats go on sale at 140 and 1.00 dollars. Report ticket availability at the Colonial box office.
City authorities awarded Ford and Harvey the street paving contract after bid analysis showed the lowest bids in three years. The project will use seven inches of concrete with asphalt overlay possible when conditions allow, and tracks for Princeton Power Company will follow the original plan. An athletics field near Wade school was approved, parking restrictions were tabled pending study, and sewer plans for a new addition were proposed by A F Kingdon.
The remains of J Frank Lawart superintendent of Harry Coal Company were brought to Bluefield from Tralee Wyoming county after his murder Sunday night. The body was taken to his mother's home at 212 Princeton Avenue. Funeral services are set for this afternoon at Grace Methodist Church with interment at Maple Hill Cemetery in Bluefield Virginia.
No trace has yet been found of Wm. M. Smith of Roanoke charged with the murder of J. Frank Lawson at Tralea. Circulars are being distributed across the country. No reward has yet been offered. T. J. Burrell, mine foreman who was with Smith, is held in Pineville jail as an accomplice.
Buenos Aires reports American ambassador John Iddis Riddle plans to resign within months at his own request after returning from the United States. He cites difficulty mounting the long voyage and a personal ordeal as a survivor of the Lusitania torpedoing off Kinsdale as factors in his decision.
Cleveland March 9 The sculptor Gutzon Borglum plans a western memorial on Harney’s Peak near Rapid City South Dakota to towering 600 foot statues of Washington and Lincoln visible for ten miles The project will cost over one and a half million dollars and be funded by public subscription and gouvenic coin sales The work follows his Stone Mountain memorial dispute and a perilous sea voyage incident involving his past travels
Indianapolis report states nearly 500000 dollars in damage across Indiana from high winds rain and hail. Homes barns poles and trees toppled. several injuries reported. Rochester Warsaw and northern Indiana saw demolished houses and barns while Terre Haute outlying areas reported multiple demolitions. Interurban service disrupted and telephone lines impaired.
Dr W B Bebout of Wheeling, aged sixty eight, was arrested at his office on a warrant charging him with performing a criminal abortion last Saturday on the daughter of a Marshall county farmer. He is already under $10,000 bond on an indictment accusing him of causing the death of Bertha Cunningham in an earlier abortion case. He faces an additional narcotics violation charge under the Harrison act for accompanying federal officials.
Lord Curzon of Kedleston shows satisfactory progress after a serious operation yesterday. Attending physicians Sir John Thompson Walker and Sir Harry Bruce-Porter report the crisis has not yet been reached and express cautious optimism in the official bulletin issued today.
Baltimore March 10 Indications point to a Baltimore police officer being chosen as warden of the Maryland penitentiary to replace Colonel Claude B Sweezey whose resignation is due to be accepted at tomorrow's welfare board meeting Governor Ritchie has asked three police officers to visit his office tomorrow
The senate late today agreed to a motion by Senator Pepper to take up consideration of the Isle of Pines treaty in open session tomorrow. Grant Hugh Brown died today at Presbyterian Hospital following an operation for cancer. He was about thirty one year old. Trees blown down Findlay Ohio after a storm damaged Findlay College and delayed interurban traffic.
Berlin district court commissioner hears Frau Horn sue bird dealer Herr Kraemer for selling a female parrot named Lora as intelligent and kindly spoken. Lora proves affectionate to Kraemer, bites Hat torn. commissioner finds Horn’s nerves and impatience stirred the bird’s dislike and clears Kraemer of liability.
Geneva March 10 Swiss writer Prof Pauli Seippel of the Federal Polytechnic College of Zurich warns in letters to Swiss papers that Germany is imperialistic and on the verge of fielding a large army. He links his view to a recent England report on German military preparations and says German universities are becoming indoctrinated. He doubts immediate war but foresees a situation allowing German imperialists to lift masks and reveal ambitions.
Constantinople March 10 American women are urged not to send shoes or feet to Greek refugees. H C Jaautth of Near East Relief says American styles in footwear fail refugee needs. Refugee women require larger sizes than available from American old shoes.
Francis P Flanagan aged twenty seven died in Miami Florida Tuesday night. He was a brother of Mrs J F Philips of Bluefield. His mother and another relative had died in the prior week in Miami. He is survived by one son being raised by Mrs Philips in Roanoke. Remains to be taken to Roanoke for burial. Funeral arrangements not learned.
Mrs Martha Ann Houchins aged sixty three wife of Columbus Houchins of Richlands Virginia died suddenly yesterday at her son J V Houchins home on McDowell Street Bluefield She had come to the city two weeks ago for medical and dental treatment.
A woman died quietly after a sudden illness leaving a husband four sons and two daughters. Funeral and burial planned for Richlands, Virginia on Thursday. The United Woolen Mills store will close today in honor of W. R. Hfaneel, a firm member, with services in Parkersburg today. Dawes accepts invitation to speak at Lexington Concord celebration on April 18.
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