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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1925
Page
1
A mixed page of small ads and notices including sale offers on livestock and goods, announcements of public meetings, a hospital update on John G. Gilmore, a Ku Klux Klan meeting notice in Matonka, and local thanks. Items mention coal pricing, hat and hardware sales, real estate offerings, and a job or boarder notice. Also reports of a patient at Huntington Hospital and a Lynchburg non support case transfer.
Sympathy expressed for the Bryant family during illness and death, and thanks for mowers and floral tributes. Della Wolte, six months, died of pneumonia at Bluefield Avenue home. Funeral at Walnut Grove Cemetery. W. H. Potterfield service at Grate Methodist Church. burial at Walnut Grove Cemetery with American Legion. No prayer meeting at First Presbyterian due to lectures by Dr. A. T. Robertson at Bland Street Methodist Church. churches cooperating.
Mrs Wesley Cole near Stony Ridge home when a rock dislodged by a tire on a Bluefield Candy Co truck was thrown, nearly severing her leg. She was rushed to Saint Luke's Hospital where doctors fear amputation as a result of the badly broken limb.
In Paris, Roscoe Arbuckle and Doria Deane postponed their planned marriage after Arbuckle’s attorney advised delays. Divorce proceedings involving Durfee loom, with a new wedding date set for April 7 or 8, reflecting transatlantic legal complications.
A Louisville Kentucky paint company runs a promotional offer giving five gallon cans of paint free of charge to one property owner on each rural route in the county this season. It seeks local salesmen in each county and asks interested persons to write to the Paint Company in Louisville.
President Coolidge nominates Lincoln C. Andrews of New York as assistant secretary of the treasury, succeeding Eliot Wadsworth. Andrews, a Minnesota native and Cornell graduate, served in France in WWI and led the New York transit commission 1921–1923. The change may shift railroad and tax duties and is expected to be temporary as internal reorganizations unfold.
Two brush fires yesterday required calls from city firemen but caused no damage. A larger fire burned on Stony Ridge above Hill Avenue, yet no homes were endangered as the blaze moved along the ridge. Neighbors are urged to supervise spring cleaning burnings during the city wide cleanup campaign and avoid endangering property.
In Moscow on March 24 the district court ordered the Soviet government to return 200,069 rubles deposited by Sinclair Oil Co as security for Saghalin Island concessions from 1923. The ruling is subject to appeal to the Soviet Supreme Court and was delivered after a fifty minute session.
Huntington West Virginia May Enter National Interscholastic Basketball Tournament at the University of Chicago next week after winning the state championship at Buckhannon by defeating Wheeling High School. Local officials favor sending the team and expect entry.
Huntington W V March 24 Frank Fuller heads the Huntington Open Forum at a dinner in the Masonic Temple. About 200 attended as Frank P Swan was elected vice president Fleming treasurer and James B Clendenin secretary. The organization has two other chapters in Wheeling and Charleston.
Fragmented listing shows multiple Bluefield fire department alarm stations with street intersections and contact notes. Includes Southside station on phone 1444 and Northside on phone 72, plus various cross streets and avenues such as W-Princeton, Russell, Bluefield Ave, Spruce, Monroe, Giles, Pulaski, Park, Bland, Lee, Franklin, and others. The text resembles an old city notice of fire stations and locations.
State road commission released new bids for multiple road projects across counties Raleigh Mercer Mingo Morgan Ohio Preston Wetzel Greenbrier Galax and others. Firms from Monongahela Wheeling Huntington Clarksburg and Kentucky quoted prices from 10 thousand to 244 thousand dollars for grading draining paving and brickwork.
In house session delegates clash over in house motion to postpone revision of a deposit system. The delay would block consideration during the current legislature. Delegate Blaine Engin of Harrison county urged delay while Delegates Hundley and others debated procedural steps.
Vote taken yesterday on a bill to extend confines of the first Judicial district. Two members changed their votes after being convinced the measure was not unconstitutional. The hill passed sixty to four amid debate and party lines.
Huntington, W Va March 24. Clyne Mortison of Martha released on $10,000 bond to face a preliminary hearing. Magistrate Levi Jones set April 4. Mortison had shot his brother in law Les ter McAllister during a domestic dispute. McCallister is hospitalized with two bullet wounds. not believed to be serious.
Paavo Nurmi won his last New York race in a mile and a half event, defeating Jimmy Connelly by a lap with a time of 7:01 3-6. The Finn added another record performance to a storied career.
OCR text fragment mentions an event with names and dates but is garbled. It references a person and a plan, with scattered terms like April and a street or group, yet no coherent facts or outcomes emerge from the unreadable source.
Fairmont West Virginia reporters say mining experts led by Chief Robert Lambie of the state department of mines will finalize the investigation into last Tuesday night’s explosion that killed thirty three men. On Thursday Coroner Fitzhugh will hold an inquest, with investigators summoning witnesses. Frank Mayhard Jr. returns from Hot Springs va after visiting friends in Boston.
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