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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1925
Page
10
A mixed bluefield listing covers coal prices from Citizens' Coal & Supply, trade offers, vehicle sales, and service ads. Notes include Edwards' Collisions Bluefield June 14 tour, a Masonic notice, a bake sale for Beaver High, and theater showings Over the Top and June 2 at Palace Theatre in Pocahontas.
W. D. Garvin a former Bluefield resident now of Weleetka Oklahoma returns to Bluefield for a minor operation at the Bluefield Sanitarium. Friends are surprised by his fine appearance and some take a second look to confirm his identity. Mrs A H Hoge has returned from Norfolk and hosts her mother Mrs Ellen Jones of Dallas at Union street.
Bluefield residents are urged to observe Memorial Day on Saturday May 39 with an American Legion led program. The parade will precede a morning memorial service at the Colonial theatre and later proceed to cemeteries to place flowers and decorate graves of veterans. Businesses will generally close for the holiday.
City directors OK paving Orange Warren and Sussex streets with assessments to abutting property. Orange paving exceeded estimates due to heavy rock. A $2000 sewer extension plan to Tugzle farm areas allows up to fifty free connections, then $25 each. city assumes ownership when area annexed. Ordinances for Groveland Wyomin g streets paving and alley vacate passed on final reading.
Abney Barnes Co of Charleston opens a Bluefield wareroom to distribute Armstrong Cork Company goods including linoleum and felt floor coverings. The operation, supervised by O. W. Frazer, offers stock to local merchants to reduce delays and freight costs, with carloads already distributed in Bluefield and nearby areas.
Heavy frost and freeze devastated grapes flowers and early garden vegetation across southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia. Residents rushed to cover plants but most gardens were lost with only partial save possible. One man credited victory over frost after an all night battle using fires to keep away the chill.
A near serious accident occurred at the Stewart street and Princeton avenue intersection when W. Lcott swerved to avoid a man and rammed his auto into a marble and glass covered steel support at the Altamont Cafeteria entrance. The car sustained little damage as the marble casing shattered. A man in a small truck approaching from the Norfolk and Western depot appeared as Gott entered Stewart street.
Jens Kates, twenty five, a Huntington river man, escaped drowning when his gasolene launch plunged over the bear traps at dam 28 on the Ohio River. A broken rudder rope caused the accident. Trapped in the cabin, Kates broke the glass and swam to the surface, rescued by lock employes as searchlights shone on the submerged craft.
Fire department station locations and contact notes appear in a garbled listing. It mentions stations near Princeton Avenue, Mercer Street, Bluefield Avenue, and others with partial street identifiers and cross streets.
London May 24 The Derby at Epsom Downs will be managed by portable wireless units to control the expected 300000 or more spectators and traffic by car donkey cart and on foot The system will also broadcast race movements enabling Britons at home to hear the Derby for the first time.
A guest at a royal court observes the sovereigns and jokes to the old king that his daughter does not know many people there. The remark brings surprise and amusement to the circle as introductions begin.
William N. Davis uncovered a very old copper cent in Marblehead Massachusetts dating from 1787. One side shows an Indian with a bow and arrow while the other bears the inscription One Cent.
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