City and Coalfield Short Items
Patchwork of notices from Bluefield area businesses and services. Advertisements for coal, hardware, groceries, meat markets, and catering mingle with local events, sales pitches, and a Shrine Club meeting notice, all dated around May 1923.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shrine Club
Bluefield Patrol
Masonic Temple
Harry G. Mays
Trinity Methodist
Washington Street
College Avenue
Bluefield
J. M. Carter
James
Kahle
D. L. Coale
J. Bailey Richardson
Local ads mix sales and notices across town
A crowded page features bargains from M. G. Whitlow Hardware and The Reliable Store, with reduced prices on coats, dresses, shoes, and shirts. Community notices report Mother's Day flowers, church services at Trinity Methodist, and updates on Chief Don Dillon and Attorney Dillard, plus new electric signs brightening business districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bland
Raleigh
Beaver B Banquet a Big Beaver High Event
The annual Beaver B banquet at Christ Episcopal church drew over one hundred guests with a polished program and a strong turnout. Toastmaster Ralph Millar led with witty remarks as Catherine Stahl, Philip Smith, and others spoke on themes like Ugly and Insane. The high school orchestra, a flavorful menu, and athlete pictures on place cards created a festive mood preluding Beaver High School’s closing exercises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ Episcopal Church
Ralph Millar
Beaver
Jardinieres
Mies Catherine Stahl
Philip Smith
W. Jackson
Samuel W. Moore
William Wade
Claude Wade
Conrad Brevick
Helen Lawrence
Beaver High School
West Virginian
Beaver “B" Association
Wm. Alexander
Blondell Akers
Harry Atkins
Earl Armentrout
Otis Biens
Cabel Blackstock
Harold Black
Fred Black
Elizabeth Bond
Kyle Bruce
William Buckhannan
Carlysle Bolen
William Claytor
Earnest Coles
Lake Cook
Corum Cunningham
Mary Penly Caffee
Harry Cash
Harry Collins
Paul Croy
Anita Cometti
Caroll Coen
Shannon Carr
George Corvin
Sidney Dearing
Victor DeVault
Mabel Donkin
Cathleen Donkin
Jack Easley
Boone Knochs
Paul Edmunds
Edith Faulkner
Marvin Ferguson
Carlysle Floyd
Ruth French
Edwin French
Dave French
Twenty Death Sentences Passed on Conspirators
Bulgarian military courts issued twenty death sentences against conspirators in recent uprisings. The king has not yet approved the verdicts, and it is believed most sentences will be commuted to life imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sofia
List of Citizens Named in Local Notice
A long roster of residents and families is listed, including Fulford Gibson Gills Greenspon Groseclose Goodykoontz Gott Harman Lawrence Lazenby Lowder Matz McCue McNutt Nabinger Nunan Nichols Otey Page Peery Pan key Perkins Pastore Rangely Rathrock Rice Rathrock Saunders Scott Shedd Shirey Shelton Slitkin Smith Snyder Spangler Spangler Stowers Stowers Staley Stahlman Stowers Smoot Smith Wasner Wilson Wingfield Wingfield Winborne Walker Williams Willis Weddell Willis Yearout Zimmerman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Fulford
Ora Gibson
Lawton Gills
Harry Greenspon
Hicks Greer
Alley Groseclose
Harry Goodykoontz
Rufus Groseclose
Robert Gott
John Gott
William Gibson
Pisie Gibson
Claude Odsey
Dan Goodykoontz
Aldine Hamilton
Clara Harman
Eva Harris
Lois Hasselvander
John Foote
Roy Hawley
William Hawley
Ralph Hefner
Ruby Honaker
Virena Harman
Virginia Harman
Witt Hancock
William Jeffcoat
C. W. Jackson
Robert Jesse
Bert Kahle
Eva Lawrence
Margaret Lazenby
B F. Looney
John Lowder
Virgin Lowder
Clyde Lazenby
Clarence Light
Charles Lambert
Melvin Lucas
Wiliam Lawrence
John Lamanca
Albert Lazenby
Ralph Lawrence
Thomas Main
John Mastin
Isadore Matz
R. F. McCue
A. G. McCue, Jr
Winters McCune
Tate McNutt
Ral Millar
Ray Mitchel
Dan Morris
Jack Munsey
Samuel W. Moore
Edward Mc Quail
Raby McLaughlin
James McQuail
R. W. Nebinger
James Nunan
Karl Nichols
Richard Otey
George Page
Harriet Peery
Margaret Pankey
Guy Perkins
Pete Pastore
John Ramage
Nelms Rangely
Joe Rangely
John A. Rangely
Barnes Ratcliffe
Eric Rierson
June Rice
Jack Rathrock
W. F. Saunders
John Scott
Fred Shedd
Robert Shirey
Buford Shelton
Ike Slitkin
Clarence Smith
William Snyder
Hugh Spangler
Ruth Vases Stanley
Charles St. Clair
Tyler Stowers
Aubrey C. Stowers
Nancye Wingfield
Bernice Winborne
Iris Walker
Luther Williams
Georgia Willis
Cecil Weddel
Weston Willis
Bernice Yearout
William Zimmerman
Unusual Quiet Coal Strike Zone
Morgantown West Virginia May 8 Justice of the Peace Martin Moore fined Emanuel Porta and George Traytor 50 dollars and costs and sentenced six months in jail each after state police arrested them in a Rose Dale Coal Company mine disturbance. Unable to post 500 bail, both were committed to county jail pending appeal to the circuit court. The judge ruled a club becomes a deadly weapon when used to intimidate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgantown
W. Va
Justice of the
Martin Moore
Emanuel Porta
George Traytor
Rosedale Coal
Moore
the Coal Company
R. N. Masel
Rosedale Com
Men Charged in Mine Gate Incident Ignite Legal Action
Witnesses say two men forced another from the road to a mine, carrying large clubs deemed dangerous weapons by the company attorneys. Porta and Traytor face intimidation charges. six others charged with conspiracy to disrupt peaceful mine operations. District court session opened amid unusual quiet after a tea price note from history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porta
Traytor
Vote On Warships Question At International Arms Conference
Geneva May 8 British proposals to exclude warships from armaments control met opposition from French and Scandinavian delegates in a secret naval committee session. The American delegation stayed neutral. The committee may vote on warships tomorrow and outline other materials subject to supervision. Smaller states insisted on limits to arms exports and sovereignty concerns dominated the day. Brazil and Yugoslavia backed Salvador’s licensing idea. China opposed it as a threat to its political system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Romania
Brazil
Jugo Slavia
Salvador
China
Also Mentioned on This Page
Street Coal Company
A.L. Cross
Bluefield Upholstering & Top Co
Bland Street
Et J. L. Allen
South Mercer Street
Jersey
Pearl Street
Mercer Coal Co
Big City
M. G. Itloware Co
M. G. Whitlow Hardware Company
Hoanoke Street
LE. G. Whitlow Hardware Co
Timorrow
East End
Mother
Tomorn
Commercial Bank
Blueid
Lon
Well Street
Miss
M. G. Whitlow Hardware Co
Bluefront Cash & Tote
Princeton Avenue
Gilea Street
Clyde C. Sarver
Brookfield
Annie Brown
Beaver High School Cafeteria
Cae
Gooda
R. L. Stephens
American Legion
Sisterhood
Ahavath Sholen
W. Va. Ramblers
Preston Fish & Vegetable Market
Altamont
Harry L. Greenspon
Peery B
N. Y
Jas. G. Litz, Agt
Nixon
North Side
Joyce Cs
Ewelers
Virginian Bidg
Rogers ST
J. B. Eades
Osteopathic
Ww. VA
Res
West Virginia
Bland St
Mercer Funeral Home
Stand Street
Modern Funeral Establishment
R. L. Morris
Bluefield, W. Va
WM. H. Carr
Abrams
Coal & Coke
United Shoe Repairing Posite Puccine
Leon Blag
Roanoke Street
Highy
the Reliable Store
E. T. Oliver
EB. T. Oliver
Thornton's Flower Shop
Matt Barber Shop
G. C. Cockerhem
Don Dillon
Dillow
St. Luke's Hospital
Dillard
John R. Dillard
Dittard
Edgar A. Guest
Bluefield Furniture Company
Brace Aia
Warlick
Mahare
France
Easley-Perkins & Co
Temple of Fashion
Goodyhoontz Drug Co
Three Good Drug Stores
Bluefield Pharmacy
Cinefield Ave
Pairview Pharmag
Bland and
South Streets
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