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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1908
Page
5
A city listing of visitors residents and illness notes includes c G Hite of Narrows and W B Hensel of Gary in town. Typhoid illness flags several entries with H O Wiles convalescent and Mrs F M Bennett ill. Others travel through or visit relatives in Roanoke Princeton Midway and Berwind while Dr Dan T Graham and C A Graham appear.
From Baltimore she will visit homefolks then Washington for a short visit. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Denny and children left for Saltville to visit relatives. Mrs. J. W. Witten and children from Berwind returned home after visiting friends. Mrs. Stimson of Adkins left for Falls Mills with Mrs. G. F. Dougherty and daughter. Judge Harold A. Ritz returned from Charleston and soon left for Roanoke to hear Hon. John W. Kern’s speech.
The R. of L. EB hall hosted 125 friends of L. H. Phetteplace the retiring train master who will become superintendent at Johnson City Tennessee The event was a smoker with railroad officials B of L F members and others in attendance Mr Gillette presented a gold watch chain with Knights Templar charm to honor his years with the Pocahontas division Phetteplace thanked the group and pledged remembrance of their days together
The article lists expected promotions following H C Weller's rise to trainmaster. It names H C Weller of Bluefield as train master and outlines moves for J M McIlhaney Williamson Reese T Edmundson James O Keefe G W O Keefe R A Nelson and H C Crigger among others with new roles and locations across Bluefield Williamson Northfolk Vivian and related yards.
A primary teacher introduces selections from the Hiawatha story and the Hiawatha Primer. When asked the poet’s name, eager pupil Sarah shouts Mr. Longlegs, drawing amused reactions from the class.
A noted woman teacher prepared a week long speech on literature and read it to her class with high hopes. The next day a mother asked her child what happened at school and the boy replied that the lady talked to herself on a piece of paper, downplaying the event.
A short vignette shows Bessie finishing her breakfast and wiping her father's kiss with a napkin, then declaring she is rubbing it in with a sweet smile before he heads downtown.
A playful quip recalls Poor Jack unable to spell causing trouble in love. He wrote a verse to an heiress he loved and muttered “bonny” as “boney” in a miswritten line. The light anecdote captures a writer’s error and its comic consequence.
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