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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1925
Page
2
Local ads list coal companies and prices, room for sale, rental notices, a mine for sale or trade, theater and dance events, and community notices in Bluefield and Pocahontas areas. Items include loading coal quality, bakery offerings, employment, tax and building notices, and social events with dates and locations.
Contined from first page lists numerous names and places including Northfork Bluefield Welch Princeton and Bluefield with affiliations to individuals such as Dr L H Clark Kyle Hufford and Ray Evans. The item notes Friday as shrine day for the section.
The Rally Day program at the Presbyterian church begins at 10:30 this morning. It features songs such as I Love to Tell the Story and This I’ll Do for Jesus, readings, prayers, and talks by Virginia Woolfolk and John Hampton Hoge. Promotions move cradle roll to beginners and beginners to primary, with various department songs and exercises led by Miss Georgia Clark and Charlie Henry Phipps.
Funeral services for Harold L. Ramage who died Friday night will be held Monday at 2 PM from the First Presbyterian church. Rev. 3 W Moore D D to officiate with active pallbearers and a long list of honorary pallbearers and flowerbearers named.
Philadelphia district attorney requested postponement to Monday for a bail hearing in the homicide case of Maurice Felt. Lilian M Emanuel, held without bail, seeks release as arguments await additional evidence. lawyer William A Gray pressed for immediate hearing. Felt was found shot. Emanuel claimed Felt shot him.
In Louisville on October 3 Baltimore, the American Association champions, beat Louisville 11 to 6 in the third game of the series. Earnshaw pitched well for the Colonels while Holley’s speed ball impressed the Orioles. Archdeacon led off with a two-base hit, and Porter hit a three-base drive for Baltimore. The fourth and final game is set for tomorrow.
A listing of fire alarm signals and locations appears across many streets and avenues including Fire Station Southside and Northside, City Hall, Princeton and Russell, Bluefield Avenue numbers, Monroe Street, Lee and Franklin, Talbert and Princeton, Reese Marshall Streets, Bulnreve and a4 Streets, Wray and Phlend Streets, River and College, Welton Avenue, and other cross streets. The garbled OCR notes numerous addresses and station pairings with scattered punctuation.
Whitt aged seventy two, former Merer county resident, arrived from Amarillo Texas after travelling over 2100 miles. He left Merer county twenty years ago and plans to visit Devil's Fork Wyoming county again. Beginning June 7 he journeyed through Texas Oklahoma Arkansas Tennessee Virginia and southern West Virginia on the same horse, wearing out four and a half pairs of shoes.
Frederic I. Thompson of Mobile Alabama resigns as commissioner for the gulf states in protest against proposed abolition of the shipping board. His resignation, effective November 1, was accepted by President Coolidge. Thompson cites loss of regional voice and authority in the merchant marine.
London reports a major prohibition effort planned in Great Britain after months of secrecy. The Daily Mail outlines a local option strategy aimed at women, with Manchester the kickoff on October 19 and rallies in other cities. Speakers include Mrs David Lloyd George and Philip Snowden.
Atlantic City N J Oct 3 The American Federation of Labor departmental conventions closed with a clean slate for the forty fifth annual federation meeting to begin next Monday morning William J Meckerley in Cleveland was elected president of the building trades department to succeed George F Hedrick Washington who did not seek re election W J Tracey Washington was secretary and treasurer J W Hays Indianapolis and J J Manning Washington were re elected president and secretary treasurer of the union label Undies deprayacn
Motor vehicles registered in the United States during the first six months of 1925 totaled 17 716 709, up 13.9 percent from the same period in 1924. The report, from the Bureau of Public Roads, notes 70 200 official state vehicles with unpaid fees not included. The table lists state by state registrations and totals including passenger cars, trucks, and taxis or cars for hire, with gross receipts of 226 899 709 dollars.
Opera stars singers and musicians will air Sundays from October 4 to May 1 1926 at 9 15 PM on WEAF and affiliates A Atwater Kent arranged with top artists to present premier musical offerings to radio listeners nationwide
The dispatch, sent from South Greenland via amateur radio 1MY, profiles the glaucous gull as a superior Arctic bird, a stern burgomaster figure among dovekies, yet a bold thief who preys on young ducks and eggs. It notes two-way radio reception by Donald C. Mock and Comstock at the sea shore, with vivid observations of its flight, behavior, and the vigilant parent birds atop rock pinnacles near Brother Glacier.
In Florence a church edict prompts visible enforcement as two women, deemed immodestly dressed, are seized in a dark corner by Catholic Youth members during noon Mass at the great Cathedral. They are kept as prisoners until Mass ends and finally escape in a carriage amid cries of shame.
London residents and many summer visitors have called on the Automobile Association. The secretary estimates six tours have left the office at a rapid rate, implying a busy period for members calling for guidance.
The statement notes past handicaps due to small quarters and less central location. It announces a move to a new site at the corner of Federal and Raleigh Streets, expected in the latter part of the month, to improve prominence and service.
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