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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1925
Page
1
A mosaic of local classifieds and notices outlines sales, services, and events. Items include coats, coal, hardware, and furniture from Boggs & Goodall and The Reliable Store, with price prompts for Red Ash coal and kitchen furnishings. Community notices cover church events, a new drug store, and a men’s club meeting, plus local transportation and a fish market listing.
Rev J H Whitther pastor of Thé Brathten Church invites all strangers in the city to a Sunday morning service and all day Welch meeting with an afterglow dance at Legion Pagent Hondting. Extension Committee plans travel on No 15 and return on No 16. Police court reports nine vagrants fined $100, one drunk $26, two speeding fined $10 each. Prof Carpenter’s stolen auto was recovered after his son borrowed it for a ride. Dance at Teglon Jaront 7 honors minstrel folks.
Beaver High School presents Springtime a musical comedy praised for its large cast refined dances and strong performances The review highlights standout numbers Mardi Gras Futurist and Rainbow Trail and notes the kids and orchestra led by Velma Carter with director Mr Reppert earned high marks Tickets available at Easley Penn Drug Company or at the door tonight
The Southern Presbyterian church conducts its Every Member Canvass for benevolences and current expenses Sunday afternoon. The First Presbyterian church anticipates one of its most successful canvasses yet with plans completed. H P Dodd, church manager, has appointed team captains and given them a members list with street addresses to canvass.
In Bellaire Ohio on March 13 Eastern Ohio joiners of the fifth sub-district toilers at their 27th annual convention went on record opposing an assessment against miners to fund safety measures. The report notes discussion of steps and general agreement toward improving safety.
William G. Baugh, assistant cashier at Farmers' National Bank in Tazewell, was held in Big Stone Gap on $10,000 bond after a federal examination showed a $9,000 shortage over about three years. Baugh allegedly confessed to taking money in 600 and 1000 dollar sums. The bank insured the loss with an indemnifying bond. no one else will lose.
Mrs Eula Wagner aged 27 wife of T J Wagner of the Virginia Side died at St Luke's Hospital after three weeks ill with kidney trouble. Native of North Carolina she was a Richmond Hospital graduate nurse and a friend of Mrs Frank O'Brien of Bluefield. Survived by her husband and a three weeks old baby. Remains to be taken to Swannona NC for burial.
Nancy Louiss Clair wife of Avery T Clair of United States Coal and Cokes Company Elbert McDowell County died at 5:30 pm at Bluefield Sanitarium from a brain tumor aged twenty four Born and reared Saltville Virginia member of the Methodist Church esteemed in Elbert and vicinity Remains to Saltville for burial funeral on Sunday
Judge Schoonmaker ordered 600 gallons of grain alcohol seized by Prohibition agents released to Postmaster G W Gossner for use with the local motor service of the Post Office department. Gossner petitioned the court stating the plan had approval from the attorney general and postmaster general in Washington to aid governmental economy.
Judges of the national seed corn contest report a woman grew the best ear of corn in the United States in 1924. The Sanctioned event highlighted female growers and the top prize for improved corn varieties.
New York March 14 The Equitable Building at 120 Broadway reputedly the world’s largest office structure was sold today for 38 5 million The deal listed General T Coleman DuPont and Louis J Tierrowitz as owners representatives and Leroy W Beldwig August Heckscher and Empire Trust Company directors as purchasers The 38 story building stands on a site of an acre valued at about 13 5 million with an appraised value near 40 million
New York notices the actress and writer Miss Charlotte Flather ends her life in a fashionable apartment by drinking poison amid despondency over health and unemployment. She had used the name Carter since leaving Washington at eighteen to begin a silage career wrote seven notes including one to her banker father H. B. Flather of Meriden Connecticut. Flather authored many pieces for magazines and syndicates and was allied with Mary Roberts Rinehart who dedicated a book to her. Friends recall a prior suicide attempt after a European trip for funds to cover a hotel bill.
Columbus March 12. Mrs. Mary Barchard Williams chief clerk of the Ohio motion picture censor board receives ten thousand dollars in connection with the death of her husband.
The widow of Edmond Barchard, a British subject and mining engineer, was awarded $10,000 after a court determined she could deem herself a United States citizen immediately following her husband's death in the Lusitanian disaster during the world war, allowing U.S. intervention.
New York March 18 shore leave for all sailors in the United States Navy was forbidden by Rear Admiral Plunkett after recent complaints of rowdyism. He asked police to detain any sailors or Marines seen in Greater New York and ordered nine sailors returned to the Brooklyn navy yard. Sixteen more were apprehended and sent to the yard for questioning, totaling twenty five.
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