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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1925
Page
3
The Odd Fellows and Daughters of Rebecca unite for a Walker Hall social tonight at 7 30 with entertainment and refreshments. All Odd Fellows and families invited to attend and bring guests. Princeton social item notes local visits and hospital news among residents.
Local items include rental and sale notices for apartments and houses, a chancery suit in Mercer County Circuit Court, and a report of a city damages case over surface water. Also listed are farm mushroom blooming in Crawfish Valley, water and heat details for rentals, and church services alongside community events.
The Church of God on Traley Avenue and Ake Street invites worshippers to Sunday morning and evening services led by Rev. Mr. Kim. The earlier service drew the largest crowd yet. Sunday school begins at 9 46 a m and continued gospel sermons. The Protestant Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest on Mercer Street beside Mercer Street School lists Rev J Edmund Thompson as rector for the eighteenth Sunday after Trinity with Sunday school and adult Bible study.
A three days cough warning ad promotes Creomulsion an emulsified creosote remedy. It claims two fold action soothing inflamed membranes and inhibiting germ growth with absorption into the blood to stop irritation. The ad guarantees satisfaction and offers money back if relief is not found with directions followed.
The Women’s Club plans to take charge of the city cemetery and beautify its grounds with a stone wall and driveways, terraces, gravel walks, trees, and shrubs. Funds will be raised by bake sales and plays, with the community urged to contribute. a note warns men to help or seek another place.
Citizens are asked to help clear weeds brush and debris on a day to be announced for the grounds cleanup. The effort is described as everyone’s work and all able bodied residents in Princeton and nearby areas are encouraged to participate.
Funeral services are planned for Jennings Severn and Thomas J Nichols, victims of the Virginian Railroad wreck near Rock Thursday. Severn’s service at Kee Street Methodist Church begins at 1 p.m. with interment at Oakwood Cemetery. Nichols is to be buried at 9 a.m. at First Methodist Church as brotherhood members and pallbearers escort the body from train No. 12.
Mister Drake and his wife decide to buy a car and enlist Nick to help at the store. The cheapest yellow and white car lacks lights and a horn, which Mister Drake later buys separately. He then tests the car, proudly returns home, and the horn arrives the next day amid a voice ailment that nearly causes a mishap with Granddaddy Frog.
Four speakers urged Mercer Country Club support to sell seven per cent gold bonds to raise twenty thousand dollars to relieve indebtedness by November 1. Wilford McCutcheon outlined the plan while Dr EK Peters George Brown and Hartley Sanders spoke on benefitting Princeton funds. W H Witt proposed bond sale to coal operators and a club delegation for the Appalachian Scenic Highway meeting at Hinton.
Oakton Ky Mrs la N Neville describes back weakness and fatigue eased by Cardul a tonic for women. She credits two to three bottles with lifting pain and enabling easier work. Cardual ingredients and purity stressed with claims of safety and widespread female benefit.
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