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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1925
Page
9
Society members of the Fidelis Club met at the Y rooms with Miss Billie Immer as president. About twenty members attended the meeting where supper was served and Miss Georgia Willis urged involvement in a proposed dramatic club project. Members expressed enthusiastic approval and plan several performances this winter.
The Calvary Baptist Church Sunday school girls, led by Mrs. R. J. Tyler, host a Halloween social at Mrs. Tyler’s home. Spooks and hobgoblins will be in full wing as past class members now teaching are invited to attend.
The Junior C E Social of the First Presbyterian church hosts a Halloween social this evening starting at seven. All Junior Christian Endeavors are expected in Halloween costumes and masks with Miss Tess Gilmore of the staff in charge of games.
Mrs Edward Murphy hosts a birthday party at her home on Tazewell street Tuesday evening. The event will be a Halloween style celebration honoring Miss Frances Eskew.
A Hallowe en dance will be held Wednesday evening October 28 from 9 to 2 at B n ai B r ith hall Matz hotel under the auspices of the Sisterhood of Abavath Sholem.
Local society items note a Shrine Club masquerade at the Masonic Temple this evening. Visitors include Mrs J J Walley, Miss Nancy Belle Prickett of Rural Retreat, and Miss Bertha Ratcliffe en route to Bramwell. Brevick departs for a Chamber of Commerce secretaries meeting in Kansas City.
Countess Karolyi of Hungary denied admission to the United States. Government concedes unlawful seizure before the supreme court in a case tied to a Mqueer seizure dispute.
Funeral service for Mrs Maria Anne Bosworth known as Banker will be held at her daughter Mrs W S Becker’s home at 116 Oakhurst avenue at 8 this evening. Rev Samuel W Moore and Rev Dr D Long will officiate with a choir quartet from First Presbyterian Church. Burial in Maple Park Cemetery.
In private audience the Most Rev James John Keane archbishop of Dubuque Iowa was presented a gold medal commemorating holy year by the pope. The pope praised American church support aiding eastern Europe and noted needs for parish priest housing and bishops residences. Keane plans a France and England visit before returning to Dubuque before Christmas.
In Chicago on October 22, ten robbers struck three Federal Reserve Bank messengers and fled with three mail pouches but found no money. They recovered only cancelled checks and nonmoney bank mail. James Phelan, linked by police to the crime, faces $20,000 bond as investigators pursue suspects.
In 1924 Japan logged 1220 personal crisis reports, with 664 men and 556 women. The share of women seeking help or reporting crises is high, contrasting with European trends where male suicides outnumber female ones by three to four to one.
Washington reports the selection of Charles Addison Gordon of Pine Bluff Arkansas raised to 33rd degree aboard the Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction climaxing the biennial session. Officers for the Association of Secretaries were elected with Knowlton Goodwin and Cornell new or reappointed. Jean M Abbott arrived amid events and a cargo fire disruption aboard a Calcutta Boston voyage is noted.
Boston oct 22 the british steamer brockland of the brock land dugard line once reported sunk at oran algeria after a fire was found only partially submerged advices to the tow office of the cunard line said today the vessel lay with her head down and her forward section submerged
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