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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1925
Page
1
Local coal dealers advertise lower prices on all grades including Raven Red Ash Lump Pocahontas Nut and Lump. Allen Street Coal Company and The Goat Go list contact number 1032 and 13651 respectively for domestic coal deals and discounts.
The Red Cross extends aid to tornado sufferers with local chapter authorized to receive contributions. Mrs. Morton, chairwoman for Kfercer County, pending officials, invites support via the Daily Telegraph for the local chapter. Community appeal and church notices accompany funeral and meeting items.
Liita Thelma Barber eleven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs J T Barber of New Midway died at St Luke's Hospital after several days illness from brain inflammation. She attended Wade School in 5 B grade under Miss Osborne and was a popular pupil. Funeral at New Midway Christian Church Monday at 2 pm conducted by Rev Wm Sneed, interment Walnut Grove cemetery.
A communication signed Plot Genera urges Walnut Grove cemetery owners to act on neglect. It describes public paths over graves, children allowed to play among plots, ruined shrubbery, toppled markers, rotted fences, and no preservation steps. The writer asks what actions will be taken to restore the sacred site.
J G Cyphers longtime conductor on the Pocahontas division of the Norfolk and Western Railway will be buried this afternoon in Tronto Virginia after dying in Forest Virginia from heart leakage following a two year illness. He was born in 1882 in Tazewell County and is survived by his widow five children one brother W S Cyphers of Keystone and one sister Mrs H O Canady of Goode Virginia. He was a member of the First Baptist church at Tronto. Mrs Winnie Belcher and Mr and Mrs J B Reynolda will attend the funeral by auto.
More than two hundred guests gathered last night at the West Virginian Hotel for the annual Dinefield Council No 11 banquet. The event featured music by Repass orchestra, a keynote by Rev Samuel W Moore substituting for Grand Counselor Lloyd C Smoot, and humorous and inspirational remarks praising the order and its traveling men.
Judge J. C. Herndon presided yesterday in Princeton as the circuit court confirmed the sale of the Mitchell coal yard property to City Coal Company of Bluefield for 20 000 dollars. Custard, president of City Coal Company, plans major improvements to create a modern retail coal yard.
A notable real estate transaction was reported yesterday though not officially confirmed. The tract along Memorial Aves Nile, owned by John T Bailey, was said to be purchased by prominent financiers of the state who plan to divide the property and build three suburban residences for their use. Details of the buyers were not made public.
A banquet with a varied menu was served for Blachfield Council No. 110 U C T area leaders and members including Fred A. Harris Witt C. Easty W. C. Easley and Will C. Masley. Out of town visitors attended and flashlight photos captured the imposing gathering at the conclusion of the program.
Hundreds of stone age tools were unearthed during dredging along the canal near Cambridge. The discovery indicates extensive prehistoric activity in the area and adds valuable artifacts to local collections.
Cale Alstead, 38, among 34 victims in the No 41 mine explosion at Bethlehem Mines Corporation in Barracksle, W Va, was father of Mrs. Jlomer Morris of Bluefield. Word reached her that his remains were recovered as one of eleven surfaced. about 23 miners remain unaccounted in the wreck. Mrs. Morris identified four children in a Daily Telegraph mine scene photo.
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