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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1925
Page
1
A jumbled Bluefield page reports police matters, business ads, and community notices. Injuries from a road collision, a gun charge, counterfeit medical claims, a recovered bicycle, and a Boy Scouts meeting are listed alongside coal and upholstery ads.
Curtis Doyle, eighteen, was accidentally shot by his brother Herman Doyle, twenty five, at their mother Mrs Charles Doyles East Princeton Avenue home yesterday afternoon. Curtis is hospitalized at St Luke's with a serious wound after a .28 caliber bullet struck his left breast, ricocheted through a rib and into his arm. The brothers and a brother in law were target shooting. the incident occurred when Curtis entered a barn to hang a target and Herman fired at the area thinking his brother had left.
A joint recital will be presented tonight at the West Virginian Hotel by two orchestras, Repass and The West Virginia Ramblers. Known in Bluefield and surrounding coalfields, the program begins promptly at 6 30.
Pittsburg May 4 Police arrested a girl who gave the name Mickey Trevor of Cheatnut street Washington Pa in a restaurant. She claimed she left home a month ago to walk to New York. Suspected items bore the address Delphine Taylor.
An advertisement touts McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Tablets to men described as gaunt and underweight. It claims the product will add firm flesh within weeks and offers a money back guarantee if no gains in 30 days.
The annual commencement at St Luke's Hospital featured Dr Charles M Scott as host and Dr J Howard Anderson as speaker. Miss Frances Headspeth led the class receiving diplomas from Dr Thurman Wass amid music by Mrs Henry Rodgin and Miss Ruth Bodell. Dr Wass urged lifelong service to alleviate suffering, noting nursing as noble and demanding.
Mrs Oberndorfer leads the General Federation of Women's Clubs in crediting English colonists and early settlers with music, noting lute virginals and viols as favored instruments in Elizabethan times. Queen Elizabeth the Virgin Queen inspired practice while children sang traditional folk tunes like London Bridge is Falling Down.
A weekend revival at the Church of God featured sermons by Mr. Rice and Mr. Carter. Eleven sinners came forward for prayer as the congregation rejoiced, with songs and prayers continuing through the week and into Sunday services.
The Bluefield district conference convenes at Keystone at 9:30 AM with Rev. J A Baylor presiding elder in chair. Local and travelling preachers plus four to eight lay delegates per charge assemble from twenty seven charges. Drs Bays Carter and Jackson represent Tucheid churches. Lay delegates and leaders, including Prof Jos E B Avent, will speak as the conference elects its laymen for the annual meeting. The event runs through Thursday with lay participation emphasized.
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