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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1925
Page
23
The city started widening a street near Hill Motor Company by fifteen feet to ease traffic. Underground telephone line installation began on McDowell street with Bluefield Telephone Company manager W A Pankey in charge.
Deputy Sheriff Frank Woodyard and Walter Lowe raided the home of Short in Kimball and found Virginia Coral and Short making moonshine with a sixty gallon copper still. Coral admitted aiding in manufacture and gave a bold remark to a reporter. They were bound over to Crider's court under $1,000 bond each. officers seized a small amount of liquor ready for sale and a large mash quantity, which was destroyed with the still.
Dr L Kirkpatrick and J W Edwards led a discussion on diplomacy drawn from 2 Samuel focusing on ambassadors and social functions. The talk noted the first lady's role in guest lists and peace efforts by Samuel, which led to family tension and war. A new six Sunday study plan split the class into Reds led by J L Collier and Blues led by Sam Hunt with BK Swope and Judge Jas A Strother on a committee.
Mrs J A Simpkins of Huntington West Virginia credits Dr Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery with curing her catarrh and relieving mucus drainage. She says the remedy saved her suffering and money on doctors and notes it is available in tablets liquid or by trial mail order from Buffalo New York.
J M Edwards was named to invite speakers for each Sunday talk of fifteen minutes. A panel of judges W J McClaren T A Lambert and L B Harrah will judge usefulness adherence to topic and practical worth. First subject Influence cites Matthew five sixteen Let your light so shine before men. Judges Daniels and Col McClaren speak. reader R C Waldron listed.
The McDowell County American Legion Auxiliary held a well attended dance in Community Hall Eckman Tuesday evening. The Goff Orchestra of Erie Pa provided music and drew dancers from Bluefield Welch Gary and nearby towns with about one hundred couples on the floor.
In Premier West Virginia the Billy Sunday Club from Bluefield visited the M E Church South led by Rev Co B Harman. Members Yeroy Landrum W C Forlines Claude Godsey H L Henley and W S Bowman attended with two Sunday services resulting in conversions. The revival continues at least another week with Rev Urban Barnett and Rev Mr Kirk assisting. H L Butler and J W Daugherty visited Welch Monday night.
Local residents report hospital admissions and recoveries, with several visitors traveling to nearby towns. People mentioned include Charles Roody Davy Mrs Hart Gary and Mrs Gillespie Grace Hospital. Others plan trips to Florida Philadelphia Bluefield Cincinnati and Madison for business and leisure.
The House passed eleven bills while the Senate approved ten. The session contrasted with earlier times when annual appropriations ran about seven million dollars. The Senate rejected two resolutions to let bills be introduced, one tied to Delegate McPherson and another to amend the Buckhannon charter, but advanced a measure to extend Huntington’s independent school district. A fight over a recreation and playgrounds bill saw Sen Hoggs amendment fail after votes by Kee and Johnson. House committees will hear all bills proposing higher county officer salaries.
A busy grid lists NBC network and local station programs for Thursday evening across many markets. It names orchestras, studios, Atwater Kent Artist segments, Home Talent Nights, and Talk segments along with times from late afternoon into midnight, including Philadelphia WEAF and Chicago WGN style listings. The page notes schedule changes at management discretion.
At 9 30 tomorrow morning the senate judiciary committee will hold four hearings on water power development of the state.
A grim scene unfolds as Governor Gore rushes to a mine disaster. Officials vow to aid widows and orphans while investigating the failure and seeking relief for affected families.
Havre March 18 The town gathers for Saint Peter feast as Archbishop of Rouen attends. Fishermen in Normandy attire fill St Pierre church with flags and song. a veteran sailor addresses the crowd and the archbishop answers. The fleet in the docks is blessed and the 1925 Newfoundland banks season is declared open.
The Detroit Free Press plans a new six story base with an eight story tower at avenue and Wayne street. Structural work and basements already house equipment for future production before editors relocate to the new building. The plant, founded by Shelton MacKnight on May 5 1831 near Woodbridge and Hates streets, aims for a grand modern facility.
An advertisement touts S.S.S. as a powerful vegetable cleanser that increases red blood cells, purifies the blood, and relieves rheumatic pain. It promises a cure for rheumatism and claims the product strengthens the stomach and restores a pink glow to the cheeks.
Berkeley program launches a course in critical analysis of the home as a step toward correcting what it calls the divorce evil. The initiative at the University of California aims to study domestic life and its social impacts.
A Buffalo reader reports enduring misery from piles for years and credits Hamadala Tablets with a complete recovery after using a second box. The testimonial states the treatment is an inexpensive internal remedy for blind, bleeding, or protruding piles, offered with a refund guarantee by Goodykoontz Drug Co and other druggists.
On the Fort Shelby site in downtown Detroit a new fourteen story building is nearing completion as the Detroit Free Press new home. The paper founded 94 years ago as a weekly will occupy the entire block between Cavs with occupancy planned in June.
Prohibition officers discovered nearly a gallon of moonshine in the graphophone motor box at Lula Morton’s Keystone home. A bond of $1,000 was posted for her Keystone hearing on Monday as federal agents investigated the liquor storage in the device.
Tornadoes ripped through southern Illinois and surrounding states causing massive destruction. Reports say Murphysboro and West Frankfort suffered heavy loss with hundreds dead or wounded, Desoto Parrish and other towns also hit as troops were mobilized and relief trains dispatched.
Mrs T H Fuccen of Walpole New Hampshire reports weeks of crippling pains eased by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says she regained strength to handle housework and care for two children after trying other medicines. Over 200000 women reportedly benefited. For sale by druggists everywhere.
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