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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1908
Page
5
A parade of visitors and residents in Bluefield is recorded with names from Rome Georgia to Welch and Norton. Notables include Capt Walter Perkins departing for Huntington and State Senator W W Whyte visiting, along with various residents moving, returning, or in town for business or hospital care.
Local items report the unexpected death of Mrs. Clyde Carden wife of Engineer Arthur Carden of the Norfolk and Western. She died of heart trouble while visiting Mendota and was buried there. Other notices include deaths of Mrs. Hettie Brooks and a pneumonia death of a Little girl from Norton to New Mexico. A planing mill burglary yielded about 140 dollars in tools. Discussions mention a proposed sanatorium near High Knob at 4500 feet with an artificial lake and woods as site.
From Bluefield relatives describe the burial on a hill beside her daughter in Vivan. Rev Raine of the Presbyterian Church officiated. Meyer worked for the Norfolk and Western railroad, living at Norton during service and earning the community’s sympathy and numerous floral tributes.
Concord State Normal School reports prosperity with a strong faculty and robust departments in music and elocution. It plans review classes for teacher exams and promises top certificates on graduation. Spring term begins March 21, 1968 under Principal C L Bemis in Athens West Virginia.
Robert W. Gott faced the police court Friday after shooting and killing Dr. Danziger weeks earlier. He was held to the grand jury without bail on a murder in the first degree charge.
Elks Minstrel participants are convened at the Elks Opera House this Sunday at 3 PM to plan an event for Bluefield fire department. Also noted is a drug advert for DeWitt’s Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve marketed for piles by local druggists.
An old advertisement promotes Dr King's New Life Pills as a health booster for headaches, dizziness, constipation and malaria with a money back guarantee. It also touts cosmetic tonics and Cham berlain's Salve for itching and smarting, listing multiple drugstores as sellers and prices.
Norman R Coulter of the Delbert D Building in San Francisco endorses Electric Biters as a tonic medicine. He claims it corrects stomach liver and kidney disorders promptly and boosts the system, calling it the best blood purifier sold by druggists.
Norfolk Western tollway agent announces schedules for Roanoke, Norfolk, and Shenandoah division trains. Pullman sleepers and parlor cars operate Roanoke to New York and Roanoke to Norfolk. Plymouths include connections to Philadelphia, Richmond, Lynchburg, and Columbus with cafe and dining cars. Multiple departures and intermediate stops listed with arrival times and routes.
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