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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1925
Page
1
Bluefield items list specials for coal, automobiles, clothing and services, with notices for trades, sales, bake sale, theater showings, and local business openings. Includes public notices, classified ads, and upcoming events from May through June with various addresses and phone numbers.
W. D. Garvin, a well known former resident of Bluefield now living in Woleetka Oklahoma, is in the city for a slight operation at the Bluefield Sanitarium. Friends are surprised by his appearance and many must take a second look to confirm his identity. Mrs. A. H. Hore has returned from Norfolk to stay with her mother Mrs. Ellen C. Jones in Dallas Texas.
Bluefield remembers Memorial Day with a large Legion led observance at the Colonial theatre in the morning. The parade will precede the service and veterans from all wars will be honored at cemeteries after the ceremony. Gardens suffered heavy frost losses across southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia, with many residents replanting.
City directors authorize assessments on Orange Warren and Sussex Streets as paving finishes this year. Orange street cost $3.42 per foot vs $3.28 estimate due to rock. Sewer extension plan grants 50 free connections with $25 per extra, and city ownership of lines after annexation. Groveland Wyomin g streets paving ordinance and a four foot alley vacate ordinance passed on final reading.
Abney Barnes Co, a Charleston wholesale dry goods house, opened a Bluefield wareroom to handle Armstrong Cork Company products. The stock includes Hao lowin and felt base Moor coverings, linoleum, and felt base. They have shipped carloads to Bluefield and district this year, and hold a large warehouse stock to speed local merchants’ orders. The wareroom is led by O W Frazer, sales manager, with an office at 612 Law and Commerce building.
Yesterday at the intersection of Stew art street and Princeton avenue W Lcott driving a car veered to avoid a man and struck the marble end glass topped steel entrance support of the Altamont Cafeteria. The car was not seriously damaged and the other man with a hand cart appeared near the depot, suggesting a near serious accident.
Huntington West Virginia May 2 1925 Jess Kates a 25 year old river man narrowly escaped drowning when his gasoline launch plunged over bear traps at dam 28 on the Ohio River. A broken control rope on the rudder caused the accident. Trapped in the glass enclosure of the cabin the craft sank but Kates was rescued by lock employees after the glass broke and he rose to the surface.
A fragmented list of fire alarm stations and phone connections in Bluefield including Central Station, Northside, South Midway, Greenbrier, Logan, and surrounding avenues. Mentions addresses such as 14 Bluefield Ave and 13 Bluefield Ave, with multiple cross streets and nearby streets cited.
London May 28 1926 wireless will direct Derby Day traffic as 860000 followers head to Epsom Downs for the Derby. Portable wireless outfits will manage traffic south of London and broadcasting will relay every key move in the race. Stay at home Britons may hear the race for the first time. Fashion notes include watercress green and ostrich feather trims as Ascot season nears, with Prince Kapurthala among noted visitors.
A guest at a royal court, after attending the proceedings, approached the sovereigns and, with a wink to the old king, joked about not dancing much and introduced his daughter who knows few people there.
William N. Davis dug up one of America's oldest copper cents near Marblehead Massachusetts. The piece, struck by the state in 1787, bears an Indian with a bow and arrow on one side and the inscription One Cent on the reverse.
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