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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1925
Page
46
A quirky note on rain wear and a lyric moment leads to Co-op store happenings. Stockholders met April 29 to announce dividend payments and a plan to fund scholarships for high achieving secondary and junior college students, with the board's recommendation approved.
The Bluefield Colored Institute advances plans for its closing scholastic year with sermons by M W Clair of the Methodist Episcopal church and a graduates address by Prof N B Allen, plus alumni activities, a June 3 speech, music week events, and a tentative program featuring Dett, Burleigh, and Walton works performed by mixed and girls choirs.
Fred Lewis of Hawley's Department store won a first prize in a national contest for the best dressed window featuring Humming Bird hosiery. Four thousand stores competed, and judge L. C. Gordon of Display World praised the bluefield man's attractive and original display. A suitable prize was awarded locally.
Columbus Ohio May 2 Fif th Corps leaders under Major General Omar Bundy aim to enroll 1050 more boys in Citizens Military Training Camps by May 5 as applications near five thousand and training shifts toward Indiana which holds just over half the quota.
Ohio still needs 1850 minus 600 to go while Kentucky requires about 100. West Virginia accepts alternates as its quota has been exceeded by over 200. Latest Mercer county applicants include Rudyard EB Cooke Ath ens Jesse BH Dally 112 Giles street Bluefield Robert Perry French Cumberland pike Bluefield P W Massie Athens Arthur Shields 1520 Highland avenue Bluefield.
London May 2 It is largely unknown that sailors from all nations bring grievances to the Admiralty Court in the Strand a small legal complex housing a president and two Trinity brethren The court rules on collisions damages towage arb itration and disputes between captains of foreign vessels It is common for a disabled ship to be towed and the tow price may be left to the admiralty meaning the Strand court
The Strand justice house is noted as the hub where long‑standing sailors can converse freely with contestants in their seafaring tongue. Dutchman’s breeches, among early spring flowers, carry a poison harmful to cattle, underscoring agricultural risk.
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