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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1925
Page
9
Various local notices including coal prices from Allen Street Coal Company and Raven Red Ash promotional pricing. Glass partition wanted. Sale items listed for instruments, hats, incubators, and farm supplies. Real estate offerings and rental notices. Taxes due by April 15 with sheriff's notices. Community events, hospital news, Ku Klux Klan meeting at Matonka, and a non-support case sent to Lynchburg. Card of thanks closes the item.
The city will furnish and install new house numbers for all property owners starting March 80. Owners must pay one dollar for the service as the city manager Clarence F Ridley announces.
Sympathy is extended for a brief illness and death of Mr Bryant. Della Woltz, six months old, died of pneumonia at home on Bluefield avenue. Burial at Walnut Grove Cemetery today at 10 a.m. Funeral service for W. H. Portertfeld held at Grace Methodist. American Legion participated. No prayer meeting at First Presbyterian as Rev Dr Robertson lectures at Bland Street Methodist tonight.
Mrs Wesley Cole near Stony Ridge was struck by a rock flung from a Bluefield Candy Company truck. The rock severed her leg, and she was rushed to St Luke's Hospital where amputation may be required. The incident occurred as the truck passed within a few feet on the narrow rocky road.
Roscoe Arbuckle and Doris Deane wed in a ceremony delayed by legalities tied to Arbuckle’s divorce from Minta Durfee. An Paris attorney advised postponement until April 8, the date when Durfee’s divorce becomes effective. The planned San Marino ceremony postponed until further notice.
A large paint company launches an advertising drive offering five gallons of its best house paint free to one property owner per business office or rural route in the county. The Kern Paint Company of Louisville Kentucky seeks a local salesman in each county and requests interested persons to write for details.
President Coolidge appoints Lincoln C. Andrews of New York as assistant secretary of the treasury succeeding Eliot Wadsworth who resigns. Andrews, a Minnesota native Cornell graduate and WWI provost marshal general, will assume the post immediately. A concurrent Ohio Senate inquiry probes Bolshevism ties at Ohio State University and other state colleges, with possible faculty expulsions for socialist connections.
Two brush fires prompted city firemen to respond yesterday with no damage reported. One blaze on Stony Ridge above Hill Avenue burned across the ridge while nearby homes were not endangered. Residents in the spring clean up are warned to supervise burning trash to avoid property risk.
Moscow authorities rule Sinclair Consolidated Oil Co receives 200000 rubles deposited as security for Saghalin concessions. Court decision, subject to appeal, issued after fifty minutes of proceedings.
Huntington officials favor sending the Huntington High basketball team to the national Inter scholastic tournament at the University of Chicago next week. The team earned the state championship at Buckhannon by defeating Wheeling High School in the finals, and coach Hal Stultz reports the invitation was received tonight.
Frank D Fuller, a retired businessman, was elected president of the Huntington Open Forum at a Masonic Temple banquet. Frank P Swan was elected vice president Fleming treasurer and James B Clendenin secretary. About 200 attended the dinner with two other similar groups in Wheeling and Charleston.
Bluefield Fire Department lists multiple fire alarm stations with addresses across Southside Northside and surrounding streets. Stations include Princeton Ave Russell St Bluefield Ave Mercer St Giles St Princeton Ave Lee Franklin St Talbert St Reese Marshall Allen Powell Pulaski Bland Jones Bland Willams North St South Jefferson St and several cross streets. Means one alarmed system remains inoperative at a training station.
The state road commission released new bids for road projects in multiple counties. Notable entries include Mason County six tenths mile Beech Hill Leon road $35 214. Mercer County 11.5 miles Princeton Wolf Creek road $244 210.25. Mingo County seven tenths mile Justice Wyoming line road $10 641.50. Morgan County 4.3 miles Berkeley Springs Hedgeville road $138 000. Ohio County paving of parts of National Road $31 3 Eston Company. Calhoun County one mile Grantsville cement paving $56 998.60. Bids cover grading draining paving with bituminous macadam brick concrete gravel cement.
A debate in the house over revising the deposit system was postponed to avoid further consideration in this legislature. Delegate Blaine Engle of Harrison County moved the postponement, with opposition from Delegates Hundley on the committee.
Debate split the chamber with Read and a Publican side defense. motion defeated and the bill proceeded to third reading. A second vote yielded passage sixty to twenty four after two members flipped to support the measure, finding it constitutional.
Clyde Morrison of Martha was freed on a $10,000 bond after being charged with shooting his brother in law Lester McCallister in Huntington. McCallister, hospitalized with two bullet wounds in the leg, remains in stable condition. A preliminary hearing is set before Magistrate Levi Jones on April 4.
Paavo Nurmi defeats Jimmy Connelly by a lap in a mile and a half event in New York City. The Finn clocks 7 01 3-5 to cap a career filled with record performances in this venue.
Former Georgetown star bids farewell to New York indoor racing as he embarks on a tour across the country and Canada ending April 30 in San Francisco before returning to Europe. Ugo Frigerio names Joe Pearman of the New York Athletic Club man of the 2 500 meter race, clocking 10 47 4 6. The 244th Coast Artillery meet features these star attractions and marks one of the final New York appearances of the Italian walker who sails April 11. His last race will be a 10 000 meter clash with Willie Plant, America's champion, next Saturday night.
Fairmont West Virginia March 24 The investigation of the Bethlehem mine to determine the cause of last Tuesday nights explosion which killed thirty three men will be completed tomorrow by mining experts under Chief Robert Lambie of the West Virginia department of mines On Thursday Coroner Fitzhugh will hold an inquest with investigators as witnesses Frank Maynard Jr has returned from Hot Springs Virginia where he visited friends from Boston.
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