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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1908
Page
4
Publication details for The Daily Telegraph of Bluefield West Virginia list advertising rates and mailing addresses. It notes Associated Press membership and directs all communications to Box 721, Bluefield, with no individuals connected to the paper expected to receive mail.
The slate includes Jas n A Hughes for Congress Cabell. judges Ir a E Robinson W N Miller L J Williams. State Senate L W Holmes Summers. Sheriff I J Ellison. House W P Haw ley R C Lilly. Prosecuting A M Sutton. Clerk Circuit W L B Honaker. Clerk County K L Bowman. Commissioner Davis Thorn. Assessor Geo P Hylton. Surveyor Forest Walker. Justices of the Peace K P God bey J L Kersey. Board of Education G A Shirey. Constables W H Pennington F C Haley.
The Telegraph suggests designating a square for teams for hire to stand while waiting for work. The idea aims to ease congestion on the main street without harming owners or drivers, who could be placed at a convenient point similar to the current waiting area.
In Wood County the expected strength test faltered as Seher and Swisher compromised. The primary plan could have yielded a clear result. Dr. L. H. Clark heads to Denver while Isaac T. Mann and Col. T. E. Houston head to Chicago representing Southern West Virginia.
A Chicago professor urges abolishing the Constitution and denounces the current political system. He suggests that government by such theorists would be a conglomeration, and mocks the idea by proposing abolition of the Chiemyo professor.
The passage notes banns to be published for a fortnight, announcing the marriage of Anna and a prince whose title is mocked as empty. It comments that many will be glad mainly that the affair ends, viewing the match as an example of lack of wisdom in international alliances.
State and national authorities seek harmony to settle farm labor supply issues. A growing movement targets cities like New York to place unemployed workers on farms. Schools may recruit public high school boys for summer farm service.
The Postoffice Department and the Department of Commerce and Labor are promoting a plan to aid farmers and boys by distributing information to recruit immigrant workers. Postmasters and rural carriers will send out postal cards with instructions to secure help from immigrants under the department’s supervision. Cards collected will show the type and number of workers desired.
An obituary notes William P Boardman who built the first street railroad in the United States in New York. It traces progress from horse cars to electric transit and notes the trolley car as the era’s dominant local transport while horse-drawn railcars become rare.
The passage touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease, taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces and strengthen the constitution. It offers one hundred dollars for any case not cured and directs readers to send for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
The Beaver Pond district board of education invites bids for a high school building in Uluefeld West Virginia. Bids are for the complete building, with or without heating and ventilation, or heating and ventilation separately. Bonds and certified checks are required, and the board may reject any or all bids.
Mercer County seeks sealed bids for grading and macadamising a 24.1 mile road from Princeton Avenue cisterns in Bluefield to Stoney Ridge near Princeton West Virginia. Bids opened June 1 1908 with $100 certified check. contract requires $25 000 guarantee bond. Plans available at Bluefield committee offices.
In St Petersburg an American diplomat invites me to a state dinner with the emperor and empress. A noble girl across from me appears to seek help as she hides a powdery note under a nut pick. I thwart the plot, escape by train, and learn later the note aimed to aid revolutionary activity.
A candidate announces run for Justice of the Peace pending Democratic convention support and asks party friends for backing.
A candidate announces seeking the Mercer County Clerk position, subject to Democratic convention action. The notice asks friends in the convention and at the county seat for support.
A Russian noblewoman favored by the emperor is saved from death in Siberia. Her dinner companion was a man despised by revolutionaries. She went to the palace to poison him but was watched by a government official disguised as a waiter. One official asked about the girl but gave no information. The rumor is she is in a Siberian prison.
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