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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1925
Page
40
A Bluefield Virginia News bear story recounts Rev C H Logan and companions encountering two cub bears calling for their Mammy while balsam tree hunting in Thompson Valley. With no weapons, they retreated quickly as the cubs climbed a tree, interpreting the sounds as a cubs plea.
Rufus Newton returns from Baltimore with news that I V Lyton is progressing well at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Doctors say no serious illness is found and his condition suggests a nervous breakdown that should improve with rest and treatment. Lyton will stay in the hospital for a period, with hopes of a much improved health upon his return. The chest pain occurs mainly at night between nine and eleven oclock.
Bluegrass is thriving after drenching rains and remains hardy despite cold winds and snowfall. The text notes that cold itself bites only with ice or frost absent, and fruit stayed safe yesterday. It is hoped this cold spell may end spring threats.
Virginia Side residents cheer news that gas mains will extend to the area this summer with work starting soon. The large gas drive had been postponed until just before Christmas and is now expected to bring service by the next Christmas.
W P King of a major brick firm toured Bluefield Virginia Side meeting contractors and builders. He estimated the town will reach about one hundred new houses this year with brick sand and building material piled across sites as real estate activity peaks unseen before in spring.
The Virginia Side will join a state wide educational drive starting this week with activities outlined by the committee and school authorities. The town has led in school matters and hopes to awaken public sentiment in the county and state to aid the movement. Memorial Baptist Church’s Paul and Silas Bible Class meets Sundays at 9 45 a m inviting new members and visitors. A note of thanks by B F Quillin expresses gratitude for support after his wife’s death.
Mrs Mary Wyatt thanks friends and neighbors for kindness during her son Albert Wyatt illness and death. She expresses gratitude for flowers and car owners who offered funeral transport. The note also mentions Mrs J H Sluss and Master Don Flues returning from Ashland Kentucky after illness of her aunt and visiting her husband.
A woman managed sewer works at Morehead Kentucky and a waterworks system at Olive Hill Kentucky while continuing operations. She visited relatives during a return trip, including sites at Nolan and Williamson West Virginia.
A Sunday night temperance meeting at the Falls Mills Methodist church drew a full house with Miss Reena Shaner delivering an hour long address. Falls Mills W C T U welcomed new members and discussed Sunday school work and youth programs plus stronger law enforcement amid liquor concerns. Renting notice follows.
Local readers urged continued push for road upgrades around Bluefield including a new park open to the public and a street through the ridges from Arch Street to the Fair Grounds. Plans call for improved Virginia Side access to the college and a street car loop linking to the fair grounds and East River Park, seen as the region’s premier gathering spot. Leaders hope Tazewell county will fund the route around Sanders place to Bluefield College, sustaining the agitation until completion. The Rev W B Belchee and Mrs Belchee visited the Virginia Side recently. Belchee and Priddy, with their choir, plan a large tent meeting in Trenton Georgia soon. both are Methdist evangelists from Holston Conference, Belchee a Tazewell native and Priddy born in Narrows Ollees county.
Mrs. Ray Barnett has been a patient in St. Luke's Hospital for several days. Frank Byrd underwent tonsil and adenoid removal at Bluefield Sanitarium on Thursday and was improving yesterday. Miss Minnie Miller Cord of East Radford arrived yesterday to spend the weekend with her sister, Miss Kathleen C. Cord, on Embrey Court.
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