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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1925
Page
1
A cluttered landscape of coal price drops, shop ads, and community notices fills the page. Listings include reduced domestic coal rates from The Coal Co, contact numbers, a partition sale, hat shipments, farm supplies, a charity bake sale, church services, and a charity luncheon.
Rescue teams recovered the bodies of forty-seven miners from a Merlehach mine shaft in Lorraine after a cage failed during lowering. The incident left thirty-five men aboard the four deck cage. among them, four died as rescuers reached the scene. Preliminary inquiry points to a counterweight malfunction in a second cage.
Calvary church schedule lists morning and evening services with sermon topics led by Rev. Samuel W. Moore and Rev. Wilson Holder plus Junior and Senior Christian Endeavor meetings and prayer times. Lt. John Williams confiscated four gallons of moonshine whiskey found on a Norfolk and Western freight train entering Bluefield yards from the east. no arrests reported.
The Bluefield Gun Club met at the Hotel Virginian and elected Harry Weller president, J G C Walters vice president, and B B Boggs secretary treasurer. Dr A W Hoge and E R Burks were named field captains with Burkes and Walters as coaches for the coming season. The club voiced strong opposition to bills aiming to bar automatic loading guns and double barrels, and urged action with lawmakers. Dues remain unchanged, season plans discussed, and traps open April 11 with Saturday sessions for spring months to accommodate workers. The club aims to boost membership and include ladies centers if interested.
Philadelphia. Edward Z Stotesbury of Drexel Co testified before the Pennsylvania public service commission on the 52.2 million hydro electric project by Philadelphia Electric Company at Conowingo Maryland. Drexel would take 1.17 million in fees plus any commissions depending on market conditions when bonds are floated. The hearing included C O Morrell of the federal power commission and Maryland officials. Philadelphia Rapid Transit opposes the plan claiming rates would not fall.
District Governor Roy Yoke and University of West Virginia official Nat Frama spoke at Bland Street Methodist Church to explain the community scoring program Bluefield will undergo next week. An hour and fifteen minute meeting outlined aims, with committees preparing a city inventory and industrial labor data for the scoring event.
William McCarthy dies after a lengthy illness. Eugene McQuade of Dunmore and Mrs. Zang of Sacramento attend the service. Remains were moved by Hawkins Undertaking Company to Hawkins Chapel then to Sacred Heart Church for mass at 10 AM conducted by Rev Father Burk. Burial set for Wytheville Virginia beside wife and son after viewing at the Elks Club. Active pallbearers include J A Akers and J J McAnany. honorary pallbearers listed. Funeral arrangements and attendees reflect a large community turnout.
In Chattanooga Tennessee March 27 defense attorneys argued that bones found in a house once occupied by Mr and Mrs W H Bennett were not the remains of Augusta Hoffman the aunt of Bennett and that the defendants could not have placed her body under the basement floor The state contends Miss Hoffman was murdered in 1916 and the Bennetts face a jury trial with verdict expected the next day as panels were seated and opening speeches delivered in court
Pittsburg March 27 Prison terms ranging from four to ten years were imposed in criminal court today on George Schreiber and Leo Linkiewicz of Pittsburg who pleaded guilty to robbing two Standard Cigar Company employees of payroll totaling 8200. Schreiber drew five to ten years in the Western penitentiary and Linkiewicz four to eight years in the sine origon. The robbery occurred last November.
New York March 27 The Interstate Commerce Commission set an April 18 hearing on the Van Sweringen proposed Nickel Plate merger. Railroad officials expect the four major trunk line system plan around New York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore and Ohio, and Nickel Plate to clarify construction in the East in weeks ahead. Objections by Pennsylvania to some features may be aired before the ICC when Nickel Plate consolidation is reviewed. The Van Sweringens may need to compromise to gain Pennsylvania support for the Lehigh Valley or Lackawanna, and for the Baltimore and Ohio to protect its Reading acquisition.
Captain David F. Copenhaver, one of the oldest Norfolk and Western passenger conductors, has been ill for months and is en route to Mayo Brothers Hospital in Rochester Minnesota for treatment.
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