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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1925
Page
1
A cluttered Bluefield area page lists coal prices from Citizens Coal and Supply Company and City Coal Company, plus automotive tire sales, a transplant tomato plant ad, a Ford touring car for sale, and various local notices. Also noted are hospital stockholders meeting, summer piano instruction, a church sermon, a pageant, and community events with names and addresses across Bluefield and nearby towns.
Impressive exercises marked the graduation of six nurses from Bluefield Sanitarium. Rev. G W Moore praised their noble calling while diplomas were presented by Dr K F T Aldley. An informal reception and dance followed with roses, punch, and an ice course.
An evening service at Bland Street Methodist Church features congregational singing and musical selections. Ruth Bodell performs solo with a quartet including Maury Barret John Mastin Norman Crawford and Joe Wills, followed by a choir anthem. James Elmer Brown directs, then Dr EB Northen delivers a sermon. Everyone is invited to attend and participate.
New York May 8 continuing silence of the British steam freighter Fenchurch reported on fire 400 miles southeast of Sandy Hook was read by East Hampton wireless officials as meaning the vessel faced no immediate danger. Chelflals radioed she would reach the Fenchurch early today and is believed to be standing by though no further word was received. The Fenchurch's taat radio message heard at 8 40 last night said the vessel could not be tested and was turning with the wind.
Huntington W Va May 80 A banquet and dance at the Hotel Farr closed the twelfth annual West Virginia convention of the United States Association of Post Office Clerks. Governor How ard M Gore spoke at the afternoon session and Louis P Knoda of Wheeling was elected president, with W B Martin Morgantown first vice president B L Goolsby Huntington second vice president L C Howard Parkersburg secretary Clyde McKinley Weston treasurer F C Duvall Charleston. Wheeling chosen as the convention site for 1828.
One hundred twenty six students will graduate from Marshall College at the eighty eighth annual commencement Monday morning. The BA degree goes to sixty three, standard normal diplomas to forty six, pre engineering diplomas to seven, and pre medical diplomas to ten. Dr Glenn Frank editor of Century will give the commencement address. Dr F H Williams of Boston will deliver the baccalaureate sermon.
Vice President Dawes will use crutches for a few days after injuring his ankle in a fall. He reviewed 500 Boy Scouts in Evanston from a car due to the injury, presenting medals to William O Kesare and David Coss for bravery in saving drowning victims.
Eugene V. Debs presided over a regional Socialist gathering in Cleveland with delegates from New York Indiana Pennsylvania Kentucky Michigan and Ohio. About thirty delegates attended as leaders described the event as a push to strengthen the party raise funds and begin publication plans.
Delegates adopted a resolution declaring the American Appeal the official publication of the Socialist party. The paper is edited in Chicago under the direction of Mr Debs. The move formalizes the publication as the party’s primary organ.
Forty eight students will graduate from Morris Harvey College at Barboursville. Commencement exercises Wednesday include a baccalaureate sermon delivered by Dr. W A Candler bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South Atlanta Georgia.
Bellaire Ohio May 30 Abel Williams thirty five of Gordon Ohio was instantly killed when his automobile was struck by a Halti more and Ohio train at a crossing at Stewartaville Belmont County Ohio late this afternoon Four pas
A garbled note reports seakers with injuries in a Bellaire hospital after a Milwaukee incident where a candy store burned. The fragment asks who can explain the event.
The text touts electric wiring as a high return home improvement, noting costs and current prices have fallen to about 10 cents and that electricity is a necessity. The Appalachian Power Company offers to wire old, previously unwired houses with a new aid, Golden Rod Electric, with a deadline of July 1st.
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