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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1925
Page
1
A dense collage of business notices and classifieds from Bluefield including fuel ads, tire prices, coal company names, paint promotions, dressmaking and dry cleaning services, dance announcements, church events, medical notices, and vehicle sales. Several entries reference City Coal Company, Cash Tire Co, M. G. Whitlow Hardware, Pacard and Cadillac taxis, and local addresses.
It was announced yesterday that Frank T. Geastey resigned as vice president of the Three States Coal Company and is now connected with Bpitier Jess, general agent of Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company, Philadelphia. Beasley Wan with poisered the Three Bates Coal in the city, enjoying confidence of business men in the coal trade across the region. The report also notes wage-sale patterns and a May twentieth date.
A girl and her father were seriously injured when a windstorm caused a fence to collapse, pinning them near a restaurant in New York. The girl and her father were taken to a hospital. the father later died. Other details are unclear due to damaged text.
Winthrop Maine May 23 discovery of Miss Alda Heywood’s body in a locked vacant cottage follows the abduction and shooting of her aunt Mia Towns. Police seek Harry A Kirby of Watertown Massachusetts as principal suspect after a fire and a search through Augusta and trains to Boston. The scene shows a struggle with signs of assault and strangulation as the victim lay between mattresses on a bed, chairs piled around, and the room ransacked. The suspect and his wife were both being sought locally and regionally with no definite lead.
Fairfield star witness Fairman testified for the prosecution while James Boylen, a former student at the National University of Sciences, filed suit for 190000 dollars against the school claiming he paid 185 for a bacteriology course but could not pursue it due to no germs at the school.
Huntington May 23 Negotiations to sell the River and Eastern Railroad serving Boone county coal mines continue with Chesapeake and Ohio Railway offering 260000 dollars and agreeing to 120000 dollars in improvements. Collieries Company officials press to reopen a hearing at the Interstate Commerce Commission to declare the road a common carrier for shared freight rates.
William Ray vice president of the Ohio miners says attorneys for the United Mine Workers have been in contact with Charles Evans Hughes in recent days to interest him in the case now pending. The miners’ lawyers plan to travel to Washington or Richmond for court business, returning Monday. Hughes previously represented the United Mine Workers in an Indianapolis case before his elevation to the Supreme Court.
A garbled OCR snippet mentions an electrification team and local shops. Names and specifics are unreadable, but the core idea is a team action against businesses in the area. No clear persons, places, dates, or outcomes can be confirmed from the fragment.
The American Legion band of Peat No 9 quickly formed to play for visitors and delegates at the Southwest Virginia region meeting after the scheduled band withdrew at the eleventh hour. In under thirty minutes they assembled and performed, earning praise as the "Minute Men" of Bluefield’s civic life for their swift service to the community.
The Bluefield to Deckley route, under paving contract, will be passable all summer. Detours announced by L T Cale, a state engineer, include changes via Princeton to Spanielburg and a route through Mercer Healing Springs to Athens, with a hard surfaced road to Athens and on to Spanishburg. Starting Tuesday, touring traffic will be allowed while work continues.
The Mur Mun Paving Company made good headway yesterday completing asphalt topping on a Commerce Street strip near the Law and Commerce building. Work was delayed earlier because the street was blocked during construction of a six story addition to the building.
Coal loadings on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway surged in the May 11 to 14 week, setting a new yearly high. W J Haraban, president, released figures showing a total of 19 663 8 tons with a daily average near 2 808 tons, marking a substantial weekly increase over the prior period.
R L Ireson a Norfolk and Western freight conductor from Richlands sustained a fractured knee cap and a badly mashed right arm after being hurled to the ground while attempting to board a towing locomotive at Cedar Bluff Virginia. He was taken to Richlands hospital.
Five Calhoun and Franklin county turpentine operators were convicted in federal court of peonage for arresting holding and returning Black workers to peonage. Jurors found M. B. Davis guilty on counts and Charles Land Cave Whitefield William Proctor and Fran Daniels guilty on aiding and abetting counts. Sentences to be imposed Friday. Appeals planned. five others trial date postponed. Witnesses testified workers fled cruel treatment and were forced to flogged at gunpoint.
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