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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1925
Page
4
Community notes from Princeton record church circles meeting at 3 o clock with changes from Thursday to Wednesday. Presbyterians plan auxiliary meeting at Bramwell with 2 90 executive board. Local residents, hospital cases, and births are listed, including twins born on Bluefield avenue and relatives visiting Roanoke and Richmond.
Funeral service for Vivian Farley aged thirty two was held at his sister Mrs. Carrie Stafford's Park avenue home yesterday afternoon led by Rev. B. Randall. Interment followed at Oakwood cemetery. Remains arrived from Huntington hospital where he died Sunday May 1. He leaves father H F Farley two brothers Kyle of Eckman and Bernard of Victoria and sister Carrie Stafford of this city. A local remark references ruffians from a different note in the Indianapolis Star.
A blend of small ads and county court notes from Princeton covers local rentals and bargains at a Florence store, marriage licenses issued for five couples, a circuit court car wreck suit with $10,000 claimed damages, street and streetcar improvements underway, a local baseball preview, and a Paramount film at the theatre. Also features church programs and civic notices.
A sensational claim touts Evang Triple as a nerve tonic that purports to restore energy appetite and ambition. The ad promises rapid health improvements, claims to banish pimples and impurities, and offers a money back guarantee with pharmacist assurance.
After a lengthy discussion the Roanoke Chamber of Commerce took no action on the proposed lease of the Virginian Railroad by the Norfolk and Western. A adjournment vote ended the session. A prior committee had gathered data, and letters from Virginian president C. H. Hix and Norfolk and Western president A. C. Needles were read. The Roanoke chamber had not voted on the lease and referred the matter to today’s member vote. The Virginia State Corporation Commission brief opposed the lease and supported consolidation with Detroit Toledo and Ironton or New York Central.
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