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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1925
Page
3
In Bluefield Virginia this October reports claim a bumper chestnut crop across Burke's Garden Pembroke and surrounding peaks. James and Ancil Davidson gathered a bushel each while others tote chestnuts in market baskets. A strong harvest follows an unusual warm spell boosting yields statewide.
Allen Dwan presents Night Life in New York with Ernest Torrence and Dorothy Gish. Comedy Ble Game Hunter screens. Tomorrow features Percy Marmont and Alice Joyce in the bill at the Virginian.
Flat Top Yards and Falls Mills boosters press for a hard surfaced road to improve Falls Mills road suitable for winter and summer use. Pocahontas residents echo demand for a durable road. Politicians are cautioned against taking promises at face value as voters grow disillusioned.
Virginia voters face a general election on November third with all state offices from governor downward up for grabs. A cinema reader asked after catching Fox News highlights at the Virginia Theatre, noting a weekly roundup of world events shown Tuesday night.
Brick work started this morning on a new two story block at the corner of Greever avenue and Fairfax street opposite the homes of J C ae and George A Reynolds. The forty five by sixty foot building will be a modern garage and store on the first floor with an apartment above. Promoters are T Walthall and J N Morris.
Miss Sallie Litz, famed Virginia Side singer, travels with the Student Prince Company now playing at Shuberts Theatre in Boston and expected to join the Colonial Bluefield tour. Shuberts presents multiple companies on tour and the Student Prince is in New York, Boston, Chicago and other cities. Litz, after months in New York, is now a headliner in the Boston cast. A representative of the Atlantic and Pacific chain discussed store expansion in the area.
The A and P company plans to open a store on the Virginia Side with a suitable location being sought. Bluefield Virginia already hosts self service Piggly Wiggly and Jamison’s groceries, indicating a lively market.
Peter Janutolo son of Mr and Mrs Joe Janutolo plans an Arizona winter trip for a milder climate. He has been bedbound for months due to illness and recently returned from eight years in South America where health deteriorated. His wife and children will stay behind.
Farmers from Tip Top report land sales along the railroad right of way varied from 1000 to 1700 dollars per acre depending on location and frontage. Rail line expansion work continues as contractors excavate and haul material along the Clinch Valley corridor.
The Athletic Association and the domestic science class at Graham High School are jointly conducting a campaign to raise needed funds. The effort aims to pay existing debts and provide value for every donation, with subscriptions being collected.
The page details fund drive for the Athletic Association and home science debt relief, a Parent-Teacher Association picture night featuring Jance Meredith at the Virginian Theatre, and social notes on Mr and Mrs Armstead Armstead’s Broadway stroll. It also reports water main valve installations in West End, a Christmas card engraving order event, and the opening of the New Midget Meat Market on Morton Street.
Falls Mills school remains closed due to scarlet fever in the neighborhood. Nine of ten cases reported, patients recovering under Dr Kahle's care. Promoters D R Pruett and Peb Lewy are in charge of the business.
A Virginia side teacher writes a verse dropped in a straw vote box last night asking if she will meet someone and if fortune reading is possible. The poem hints at eyes color and a possum bringing something as part of its riddle like mood.
Local agents report an embargo on all perishable shipments intended for points in Florida via the Atlantic Coast Line Railway. The notice cites an existing constraint affecting transit from the Atlantic region and enforcement details remain limited.
The note in Virginia side personals mentions a planned possum hunt Friday night with teachers reportedly protected. Virginia Fratzner returns home from Fredericksburg for a short visit with family. Mrs G W Brewster of Rodefield and Welch visits the area this week with daughter Mrs Clay Callaway. Mrs R B Baldwin hosts an afternoon gathering on Tazewell Street. J C Dittman, Norfolk and Western agent at Rodefield, has departed.
Tuesday night for a visit to Kentucky, Indiana and Missouri. Mrs. Alice Morton Johnson, from Seattle visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Morton, has returned home. It was her first visit here in eighteen years. W. H. Speed injured in an automobile accident continues to improve slowly, but his shoulder remains sore and painful.
New York Oct 21 Republic Iron and Steel Company reports a net profit of 846461 after taxes and charges for the third quarter, reversing a deficit of 45280 in 1924. Nine months 1926 net profit hits 2499327 versus 1766004 last year, or 3.95 a share after preferred dividends.
Unfilled orders of finished and semi finished products on September 30 totaled 123 824 tons versus 102 320 tons on June 30 and 77 998 on September 30 1924. The period shows $1 50 a share on the common in the same period last year.
An old advertisement touts Antiseptic Itic Liquid for skin relief including rash blackheads and itching. It claims rapid disappearance of minor injuries and promises a soft clear healthy skin with Zemo antiseptic liquid priced 35 cents small, 1.00 large, plus Zemo Soap at 25 cents.
An advertisement touts Allenrhu Special Formula No. 2 capsules from Goodykoontzs Drug Co as a cure for neuritis rheumatoid arthritis and nerve pains. It claims rapid relief within 24 hours and denies any opioid content.
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