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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1925
Page
7
In Bluefield Virginian items recount a Ford car theft near Ironton solved by a telegram lead to the driver’s family, plus local notes on tax day, theater news, and community updates. Virginia Side briefs mention residents returning from Florida, hospital improvements, and social events across the region.
A Ford driven by John Gills reportedly hit a fire plug near Taylor's store on Saturday night, causing the entire west end of town to lose water supply for several hours until repairs. The incident highlights how a single vehicle accident can disrupt essential services in a small community.
A Clinch Valley passenger conductor notes two notable ladies from Tazewell rode to Bluefield and back for a shopping trip, choosing rail over car travel for convenience. He believes the era of automobiles for pleasure and rail for business will bring trains and street cars back into favor.
H M Jewett president of Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company states 1926 production will be at least twice 1925 and more than 50 percent higher for Jewett cars. He notes August and September production doubled the prior year and expects brisk demand through year end.
Gus Brown a well known colored man died Sunday after an operation. Burial will be held this afternoon. His parents were once enslaved by the Bowens of Tesewell county and after emancipation they continued to live on the Bowen place in Bowens Cove. Bowen worked on the railroad for years and was regarded as trustworthy and industrious.
Miss Kate Handy of Welch a telegraph operator and rail road boss at Tog Tower was taken to Luke's Hospital Bluefield for examination and treatment. Friends hope she will recover and return to her post. Handy runs a complex interlocking plant on the Norfolk and Western with skilled accuracy.
Due to the Williamson game at week’s end, the Beaver Northfork matchup scheduled for today is moved to Tuesday October 27. Fullen Thompson buys another Ohio farm near Centerbury thirty miles from Columbus. the new farm spans 140 acres.
Princeton residents were in town Sunday for a visit. Miss Annie Amato is ill with tonsillitis and could not go out Monday. R. C. Anderson spent Sunday at Roanoke visiting his mother.
Trans Lux daylight Picture Screen Corporation plans to add grain and commodity quotes to the existing stock quotations on the New York Stock Exchange and Curb Market. The system, in cooperation with Western Union, will extend to Baltimore Washington Pittsburgh Buffalo Kansas City St Louis and eight other cities with lines from Chicago to San Francisco and distributing stations in San Francisco Los Angeles and Dallas.
Report notes loans soon will reach Charlotte and Atlanta. It states that for every 18 aliens entering the United States legally one is barred, highlighting a stricter immigrant control ratio.
Calotabs offer a quick cold cure claiming a single night dose dissolves the ailment with no salts or nausea. The ad touts calomel tablets as purifying the system and restoring appetite, priced 35 cents for a family package with full directions at drug stores.
Leo Wade admitted in criminal court yesterday to attempting to kill Laula Bodanyi near Roseville. He was sent to the county jail for one year after a judge described the act as an attempted voluntary manslaughter.
The advisory board named by Secretary Herbert Hoover to reorganize the bureau of mines, moved from the interior department to the commerce department, assembled in Pittsburg and inspected the Pittsburg branch.
The bureau schedules a meeting tomorrow with a forthcoming report to Secretary Hoover in Washington. A safety program will be discussed at a November gathering after a conference between the safety committee of the National Coal Association of Pennsylvania and Terre Haute Indiana chairman P. H. Penna and J. G. Bradley as the association’s advisory board representative.
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