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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1925
Page
13
The notice directs that the road construction must start at a point near Giotto and be underway no later than July 1, with the actual building of the road to commence by that deadline. The page also prompts the reader to turn to page nine for further details.
Princeton notices recount PT A officers elected at Mercer Street school with Mrs C R Hare as president and Miss Minnie Sue Barger as treasurer. Bake sale by Circle No 3 set for Saturday at Central Meat Market. Circle No 4 hosted at Mrs J H McGlothlin’s Bluefield Road home with 17 members. Local personals note healings, visits, and travels of residents.
A license was issued for the marriage of Webster Clay Counts and Bessie May Puckett. A guardian was appointed for Marvin Davis and two others with bond of 1600. A maintenance suit in circuit court may end with a hung jury. Organ recital by W. E. Pilcher scheduled at Presbyterian church. Minor fire damages on Highland Avenue. Quick Sales Grocery moves to Masonic building and Sell-Rite Cash and Carry opens on Mercer Street. Sandra starring Bert Tytell at Royal Theatre with new fashion gowns described. Election officers listed for June 2 municipal election. The Last Laugh film, new to area, features John Jansings and no subtitles, with general admission 25 and 50 cents.
The council accepted AC. Allyn & Co. to refund all city bonds totaling $167000 at five and one quarter percent with a $1800 bonus, effectively five and one eighth percent. A Nashville bid was received by telegram. Other items included curb market plans for Princeton, nuisance abatement on Lazenby avenue, sewer connections for Bratton and Bay, and several building permits.
The Rotary Club weekly luncheon featured an address by H. E. DeJarnette, chairman of the Rotary Education committee. The public affairs committee arranged the program with W. M. Poston and J. W. McNutt. Members discussed making Princeton a cleaner town, with talks from Dr. W. W. Rixey, H. C. Hadden, W. Gentry, and L. H. Swaim, R. W. Brown, and J. M. Smith. Music included two piano duets by Dr. Bill Rixey and Merel Calloway, plus Dr. Rixey on Hawaiian guitar with Bill Roberts on the ukulele.
The county court met to decide building and improving the Glatto to Wyoming county line road, with State Road Engineer H J Spelman present. The court ordered a full survey, plats, and reports on route lands, damages, and costs, and directed assembly of machinery and supplies to advance the project.
The body of Little Billy Stephens of Havace will be laid to rest in Prestonburg Kentucky after he fatally shot himself in his mother’s home. C J Douglas prepared the body for burial and train No 16 will carry it to Prestonburg. Also in the county clerk’s office a marriage license was issued for W H Kennedy 36 and Mary Muney 25 both of Bradshaw.
Votes pour in from thousands reshaping standings for the diamonds ring contest at the Fun Festival. Boxes in drug stores move to the Armory by 6 pm with post deadline votes cast there. The festival ballot boxes close at 10 pm and winner announced at 11. Leading candidates listed include Miss Virginia Doss, Miss Bess Sowers, Miss Zelma Gralt, Miss Dot Legalley, Miss Iris McCue, and others with varying tallies.
Local Rotarians L. E. Woods Bert Downs and Gail T. Carter visited Gary yesterday. Bluefield visitors Andrew Leckie and L. A. Osborne will go to Bluefield today to see Walter Hagen play golf. Mrs. Frazier plans a Roanoke visit then Harrisonburg conference on state roads. Doris Offsa underwent a minor operation in Grace Hospital.
The Welch Gun Club invites all county trap shooters to an all day open house with instruction for first timers. Members will participate and a two man team will be chosen from the most inexperienced attendees to compete for honors. Shells lunch and soft drinks will be available on site.
Geneva May 15 military and naval representatives at the conference on traffic in arms and munitions decided gunpowder and explosives should be placed in the category of arms with no military value and thus not subject to any control.
Welch Rotary Club announced essay contest winners with Beulah Boyd of Welch High School taking first prize for The duties of a Citizen Others honored were Sarah Bell and Kermit Grogan with honorable mentions. The event featured a student program including songs and violin duets and concluded with encouragement to pursue college. A separate report details a late night Ford coupe crash near Davy injuring several occupants but none severely.
The grand opening of Bank's Department Store in Kimball drew one of the largest crowds ever seen. The doors opened Friday morning and remained crowded well into the night with hundreds of customers. Colonel Bank greeted guests at the entrance as the store featured flowers and new fixtures and announced ongoing sales.
Washington on May 15 President Coolidge favors limiting the use of poisonous gases in war through a international agreement. He offered no plan for enforcement nor any view on Geneva arm traffic conference action. He stressed that restrictions should not hinder legitimate chemical trade or sales for lawful uses.
In Moundsville West Virginia on May 15 a miner named W E Weems sought an injunction to halt eviction by McKeeffrey Coal Company The court denied the request noting the case proceeding and parties involved remain unresolved
Judge P D Morris sustained the demurrer in the Weems eviction dispute over a company house. He said adequate remedy at law exists and a suit for damages should proceed before a jury. Weems alleges mine guards nailed up his wife and family and refused to vacate. Attorneys included J Howard Holt W W Walker and J T Miller. Coal-field loadings totaled 19 275.4 cars for the week with Logan field at 7 1047 cars and New River field shipping 60.8 cars of coke.
Two Loening amphibian planes bound for a north pole dash are flown from New York to Mitchell Field for official Navy testing tomorrow. Lt A M Shur and Chief Boatswain Earle E Reber pilot. Lt Cmdr R E Byrd to command the Navy unit. If accepted, planes go to Philadelphia for instrument fitting, then to Boston to board the mother ship Peary, leaving June 17. A third spare plane, to be piloted by Byrd, will join at Wiscasset, Maine, around June 24.
Huntington May 15 coal loadings on the Chesapeake and Ohio during the week ending May 9 were the heaviest for many months and reached a new high mark for the year, the weekly report of W J Harahan president of the Chesapeake and Ohio made public here today showa.
New York May 15 Acting District Attorney Ferdinand Peeers announced the autopsy on William Winters infant who died at the baby farm run by Mrs Helen Auguste Geisen-Volk. The infant is said to have a skull fracture occurring hours before death and may have been swung by its feet against a wall.
Rangeley Maine Mrs Mia Walter Anderson reports two years of suffering with pains and fatigue eased after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She says she can now sew wash and farm chores and recommends it to friends. Drugstores supply it nationwide.
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