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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1925
Page
1
Coal price notices from various firms list cash prices for Pocahontas, Raven Red Ash, and related grades. Also announces summer price ranges and special offers on bulk orders, plus smaller ads for glass partitions, jewelry repairs, bake sale, and a fish delivery list. Community notices include synagogue services and a liquor possession arrest.
Chicago March 19 The Rail Steel Products Association forecasts production to reach 450 000 to 500 000 tons of rail steel reinforcing in 1925 with overtime orders and heavy labor. They expect a doubling of tonnage after the postwar lull, citing strong construction activity across apartments hotels offices and public buildings.
A city committee from the Retail Merchants Association presented revised one hour and fifteen minute parking rules for downtown Bluefield. Proposed changes cover Bland street Federal Street Princeton avenue and Raleigh Street with lenient enforcement for out of town drivers to keep spaces near stores available. The plan aims to aid local shoppers while reducing long occupancy by nonresidents.
Thousands of tons of explosives blasted at Boxley rock quarries in Pounding Mill Virginia. The largest blast in quarry history shattered the rock, produced vast fragmentation, and will fuel operations for a year with no injuries. Observers included Norfolk and Western Railroad officials.
City requires all property owners to display new street numbers by March. If not, the city will furnish and tack up the name for consideration of one dollar. Clarence E. Ridley City Manager.
Death notice for Harry Douthat aged fifty a longtime Bluefield railway machinist born Pearisburg Giles county. Survived by two children Harry Jr and Virginia plus siblings Jude Abbie Hank Jess Jennie Maggie Sallie and others. Funeral at Pearisburg Methodist church at 2 pm with Bluefield relatives attending.
Toronto March 19 amendments to the Ontario temperance act permit sale of 2.0 per cent beer in hotels restaurants and grocers and reduce physicians monthly liquor prescriptions from fifty to thirty. Grocery stores may sell beer for outside delivery only and hotels and restaurants must serve at tables.
Garwood, racing the baby Gar Lo at Detroit, wins three consecutive fifty mile heats to claim a second set on the Fisher Allison gold speedboat trophy during the first day of the Miami Beach mid winter regatta in Miami Florida.
Relief trains arrived today with food and medical supplies for the disaster zone. Two carloads of food were sent to Red Cross headquarters in Murphysboro where canteens opened to dispense meals. The Missouri Pacific depot at Pekin was damaged as the storm struck. The station agent W C Gunther survived in a damaged bay window, using his cash drawer to fetch water and extinguish a fire. A mother in Desoto and her two week old baby survived as the home collapsed and timber blocked the bed. The Yliness Central bridge on the Zigler branch shifted six feet from its pillars near Herrin.
A fragmented list of Bluefield Fire Department fire alarm stations with street intersections and nearby landmarks. The details include station names such as Southside Northside Central Station and various cross streets like Princeton Ave Russell St Lee Franklin St and Bland Sts. The text also references locations on Greenbrier Ave Midway Jones St and Upper Jones Ave, indicating a centralized inventory of alarm station sites.
Bluefield Post No. 6 members heard the push for the American Legion five million dollar endowment fund to aid widows and orphans of World War veterans. President Calvin Coolidge named honorary campaign chairman as ex-governor Morgan urged WV to meet the quota.
After a Bluefield Post No 9 meeting the American Legion announced a military funeral for Comrade W H Porterfield who died Wednesday at the Veterans Hospital in Tucson Arizona. Post members will attend the service and relatives consented. watch the Telegraph for funeral details as arrangements are finalized.
Roanoke World News reports Captain Dave P. Copenhaver and Captain L. D. Mastin, veteran Norfolk and Western conductors, forced to rest due to illness. Mastin began as a section foreman in 1884 and has served as conductor since 1888. Copenhaver joined in 1883 and has thirty years in passenger service. Their runs operate between Roanoke and Williamson.
Police arrested M Gilbertson alias Joe King alias 7 B Allison for stealing a guest’s watch and $65 at the Altamont Hotel last Saturday. The watch was recovered at a local pawn shop and he said he bought it from an unknown man for $4. He had been staying at the Altamont and Mata hotels in Bluefield for weeks.
Police pursued leads on a man who used aliases including M. Gilberson and Joe King at the Mats, claiming Michigan origins. Further inquiry linked him to the name F. B. Allison and Roanoke as his home, as officers sought verifiable identity.
Bluefield merchants report a large success as hundreds of out of town shoppers visited for the semi annual dollar day. Early crowds were heaviest with bargains in shoes price goods and special items proving strong. Merchants noted high sales across lines and general buyer satisfaction among shoppers.
Lord Hampton, a prominent London aristocrat, announces the sale of his renowned Waresley Court estate due to heavy tax burdens. The decision follows rising levies affecting his property holdings and financial obligations.
Little Miss Margaret Schaub is staying at her parents home on Princeton Avenue. The child is suffering from influenza.
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