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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1925
Page
9
Public notices span coal price lists from Allen Street Coal Co and The Coal Co with varied grades and pes cash terms, plus ads for Oriental bug exhibit by David Saleeba at West Virginian Hotel, and bake sale at Appalachian show. Also listings for fish market, synagogue services, and local arrests for possessing liquor.
Chicago says night and day shifts and overtime will drive rail steel reinforcing bars production to 450,000 tons in 1925. The Rail Steel Products Association forecasts a doubling of tonnage in 1924, with activity high in apartment, hotel, office building, and public institution construction as America enters a five billion dollar building year.
A Bluefield committee from the Retail Merchants Association proposes parking changes downtown to curb long blocks. They support a mix of one hour limits on several streets, fifteen minute at the post office, and special rules for out of town drivers to ease access to shops.
The annual blast at the Boxley rock quarries in Pounding Mill Virginia occurred yesterday. Thousands of tons of limestone were blasted from the quarry face into the pit, producing a massive yield for the operation. Thirty six holes ranged 6 inches in diameter and 90 to 160 feet deep. The blast cost about 15000 dollars and caused no injuries. Norfolk and Western Railroad officials attended as witnesses.
A brewery was preserved for conversion into a church by the vicar and wardens of a local church in London Britain. The move reflects ongoing discussions about prohibition and reuse of industrial buildings in the city.
Fire alarm stations listed with cross streets and phone notes. Includes Southside station numbers and multiple cross streets around Bluefield, Princeton, Russell, and nearby avenues. mentions Central Station alarms and general locations for emergency connections.
City warns property owners to display new house numbers by March 30 or the city will furnish and tack up the numbers for a dollar. Clarence Fe Ridley, City Manager.
Friends mourn the death of Harry Douthat aged fifty a Bluefield native and former Norfolk and Western Railway machinist who died Thursday at Elizabeth Hospital Pearisburg after a period of illness He leaves two children Harry Douthat Jr and Virginia Douthat and siblings Jude Abbie Hank Jess Maggie Sallie Relatives traveled from Bluefield to attend the funeral at the Methodist church at 2 oclock today.
Toronto March 19 Amendments to the Ontario temperance act were introduced by Attorney General Nickel to permit the sale of 2.5 per cent beer in hotels restaurants and grocieries and to cut the monthly quota for physicians from fifty to thirty prescriptions. The changes require grocery stores to sell beer only for outside delivery and in hotels and restaurants service at tables.
Miami Florida March 19 Garwood of Detroit piloting his baby Gar LV won three straight fifty mile heats in the feature event on the first day of the annual Miami mid winter regatta securing a second leg on the Fisher Allison gold speedboat trophy.
Relief trains deliver food and medical aid to the damaged region. Two carloads reach Red Cross in Murphysboro with canteens open for meals. Missouri Pacific depot in Annapolis struck. agent W C Gunther and timbers remain upright as victims are rescued from the wreckage. A Desoto mother and two week old baby escape collapse. Illinois Central Zigier branch bridge shifts six feet from pillars per Herrin report.
Members of Bluefield Post No. 6 American Legion outlined a campaign for a five million dollar endowment fund for widows and orphans of World War veterans at a regular meeting. Calvin Coolidge is honorary campaign chairman as comrade Robert Sheffey cited daily wartime deaths and read endorsements from ex Governor Morgan.
After a Bluefield Post No 9 American Legion meeting, members learned Comrade W. H. Porterfield died Wednesday at the Tucson Veterans Hospital. A military funeral was approved with Legion members expected to attend. Watch the Telegraph for further funeral details and arrival information.
Roanoke World News reports Captain Dave P. Copenhaver and Captain L. D. Mastin, long-serving Norfolk and Western conductors, have been temporarily taken off duty due to illness. Mastin joined in 1884 as a foreman and became a conductor in 1888, while Copenhaver started in 1888 and has thirty years in passenger service. Their routes included Roanoke and Williamson, Virginia.
Police arrested M. Gilberson alias Joe King alias F B Allison for stealing a guest's watch and 65 dollars at the Altamont Hotel last Saturday. The watch was recovered at a local pawn shop yesterday, and the suspect said he bought it from an unknown man for six dollars. He had been staying at the Altamont and Mata hotels in Bluefield for weeks.
Officers learn a man previously listed as M Gilberson and another as Joe King claimed Michigan roots but later evidence ties him to the name F B Allison with Roanoke as his home.
Bluefield merchants association held a successful semiannual dollar day drawing hundreds of out of town shoppers. Bargains across lines boosted early crowds with shoes and fabrics selling well. Special article sales were strong and most buyers left satisfied despite busy peak hours.
London reports Lord Hampton announces the sale of his famed Waresley Court estate due to high taxes. The move marks another peer compelled by fiscal pressures to relinquish a historic property.
Little Miss Margaret Schaub is ill at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs N F Schaub on Princeton Avenue suffering from influenza.
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