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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1925
Page
27
Society notes recount a style show at the Thornton-Laird store, drawing well dressed ladies from Bluefield and nearby towns. The event served as a pleasant social occasion as spectators reviewed the fashion on display along the aisles.
Outstanding benefit af fairs item features a Friday evening card party and dance at the West Virginian hotel in Bluefield hosted by the Quota Club. Guests will play cards or dance from 9 to 2 with dominoes or checkers available for non participants. reservations for card tables are via Mrs. Hillie Petty, Phone 1163.
Mrs. Rith Gosnell and Mr. T. R. Dixon were married at the Princeton Methodist parsonage by Rev. Z B Randall. Mrs. Gosnell is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R L Houchins of Norton Virginia. The groom currently resides in Raven Virginia, where they will reside.
The Woman's Auxiliary of the First Presbyterian Church will meet at 3 o'clock this afternoon for the last church year gathering. At 3 30 a pageant will be presented by many men and children in costume. The public is cordially invited.
J A Bowles remains quite ill while J B Turk returns from a New York business trip. Numerous residents visit Welch and Princeton shops, attend operations, travel to Bluefield Cincinnati and Roanoke, and await hospital treatment for nervous or throat issues.
In Brewton Alabama a sister near death was saved by Mayr's Wonderful Remedy after doctors refused operation. A bottle from Thorne Pharmacy led to recovery in three weeks with walking a mile to church. The simple preparation claims to remove catarrhal mucus and inflammation in stomach liver and intestinal ailments and offers money back after one dose.
Urgo Frigerio, 1924 Olympic walking champion, clocks 25 minutes 21.15 seconds for 6500 metres in Cleveland. Ritola breaks another world mark by running 3.25 miles in 15:08.25. Nurmi fails to beat his mile-threshold. rivals include Balogh, Fagar, Granville, Connolly, Kennedy, and Helms.
delegates and senators arrive for opening, including Foster L Rine and many district leaders. The joint building committee wraps hearings and plans inspections of eastern panhandle institutions such as Shepherds town College Potomac State School Keyser and Terra Alta TB sanatorium.
Four captured German field guns, assigned by the war department to Huntington, arrive to flank the new Memorial Park arch. The group includes one 150 mm mortar, one 150 mm howitzer, and two Winnefarre 75 rapid fire guns, all fully equipped.
Ohio Wesleyan led with 28 points and defeated Wittenberg 28 to 24 as Princeton tallied 20 and Dartmouth 19 while University of Cincinnati posted 21 and Heidelberg 20 in a high scoring college basketball final round.
Dr Thomas, a Welch evangelist, preaches Hell as a necessity likening it to man made laws. The church was packed for sermons on Heaven and Old Time Repentance with a plan for upcoming talks on the Second Coming and a mass meeting to name the meanest man in Welch. Noon meetings will run daily at the Carter Hotel lobby during his stay.
The Kimball Kiwanis Club held its charter banquet in the new Kimball store-room with Welch Kiwanis sponsoring and representatives from Northfork Princeton Bluefield and Williamson in attendance. District Governor Warren A Wilson presented the charter to Dr BK Stevens as guests lauded the new club.
A report notes Charles B. Warren as the sixth cabinet nominee to face Senate rejection. It traces past unfavorable votes from Andrew Jackson through Andrew Johnson, listing names, roles, and vote margins for Taft’s secretary, Porter, Henshaw, Cushing, and Stanbery with dates and outcomes.
Governor Wilson and Dr. Stevens praised ideal Kiwanis membership as the Kimball Club received its charter. A Welch Kiwanis quartet entertained, Paul Lehmann of Parkersburg spoke on state work, and a 10 to 2 dance followed with Linderman's Orchestra providing music. Numerous club leaders and guests attended.
Dr John Fillmore Hayford director of the Northwestern College of Engineering died at his Evanston home after a stroke in December He had inspired the accepted international standard for earth measurements and won the Victoria Medal for proving the earth interior is solid Born May 19 1869 near Rouses Point New York He graduated from Cornell in 1889 and had disputed theories on earthquakes and crustal faults
Rep Henry T Rainey Democrat Illinois says the Ways and Means panel will be summoned to Washington likely October 15 to draft a revenue bill. He warns the Mellon plan will be the measure reported, and attacks Republicans if the program passes, calling it the crime of the 69th Congress in future years.
In Wheeling West Virginia on March 16 the tenth ward was divided into three smaller wards by official decision. The action aims to reorganize local representation and municipal boundaries.
The ward in a rapidly growing suburban district outpaces other wards in population, prompting attention from city council as planning and services respond to expanding needs.
Cumberland Maryland March 10 The Western Maryland Railway Company was named defendant in seventy six individual suits filed today in the Allegany county circuit court by former shop employees. Total damages sought run about 400 000. The men allege the railroad violated an agreement with the Federated Shop Crafts when it abolished their positions on March 25 1922 and outsourced shop work to a contracting firm. The workers refused to take lower wage jobs and suit claims they are owed wages for lost work under the contract.
The New York Giants opened their spring exhibition in Palm Beach Florida with an 8 to 7 victory over the world champion Washington Senators. Giants surged in the fifth inning with a single three triples and Southworth homer driving in five. Ross Young earned the win in the eighth with a clutch RBI single.
W A Mason won the Philippi mayoral race with a 73 vote majority over W A Crislip. John Ramsey was chosen city clerk by 156 votes over Allen Crislip. Mason serves a third term and is a former postmaster. Council seats went to Hawkins Ward 1 Ward 2 Ward 3 Dyer Ward 4 and at large W B Malone.
Three armed men robbed Anton Pechar, proprietor of the Central Hotel at McKees Rocks, of $8,000 shortly after he withdrew it from a bank to meet customer payrolls. They fled to the Ohio River, hijacked a motor boat ferry, and forced the operator to take them to the opposite shore before escaping.
A spring thunderstorm swept across Cleveland with thirty mile per hour winds, toppling trees and poles and cutting power to parts of the city and suburbs. Streets flooded as storm sewers overloaded and rain drenched the area.
Stockholm reports a 50 000 kroner appropriation in a detailed first hand study of prohibition effects in the United States has been rejected by the committee to which it was referred. The decision notes many conflicting reports on how Prohibition operates in America.
Austin Tex March 10 the house approved a bill granting legislative amnesty to James B Ferguson former governor by a 79 to 53 vote The final passage is expected to occur tomorrow pending a likely vote in the senate after engrossment tonight
A bill sponsored by Swedish prohibition interests challenges the current restrictive system. The group argues the existing framework remains dissatisfied and seeks changes to ease or alter enforcement and penalties. The proposal signals ongoing reform pressure within Swedish liquor policy debates.
A Nairobi dispatch reports Mrs. Green an Irish explorer from Dublin was killed by a rhinoceros near Nanyuki while nearing Mount Kenya. Captain Atkins and his wife arrived later. the rhino charged them and killed the captain before gunmen killed the animal.
Toledo reports an official 72 degree temperature marking the third March reading above 70 in the city’s weather history. A heavy thunderstorm drenched the town with rain and hail, dropping the mercury to 54 as a gale shifted from west to northeast.
Columbus crowd of more than 10 000 will watch Ohio State clash with Wisconsin Saturday night in a Western Conference showdown. Ohio State athletic officials anticipate record attendance.
The Bluefield Fire Department lists alarm stations with assigned cross streets and phone indicators. Alarms are sent from Central Station. multiple locations include Southside and Northside fire stations with numbered cross streets such as Princeton Ave Russell St Bland Jones St Bland Villieme St and others across Bluefield and Mercer County.
New York detectives hunted a gray-haired man with a flat nose as the leader of a masked trio that invaded Mrs Beatrice Fay Perkins home on Fifth Avenue Portland 58th Street and stole jewel loot worth 26000 Milton Abbott a cotton broker aided police by reviewing the rogues gallery while Perkins reconciled with her husband Benjamin Perkins the wealthy restaurateur.
Harold Sonny Willis who surrendered to juvenile authorities faced a motion by the district attorney to strike the murder case from the calendar calling the confession a flagrant contempt of the superior courts. Judge Archbald set a hearing for next Thursday.
About 1500 workers from the Rail and River Company walked out in Bellaire Ohio after a company threat to suspend work on April 1. Four mines are idle as operators and miners dispute the check-off system.
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