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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1925
Page
7
John W Brooke leaves home with two months away, hiring H Hedge as an efficiency expert. Hedge enforces clocks and standard procedures, provoking resistance from longtime staff and Constance who battles his rigid regime over pet Demosthenes and family finances.
Secretary Goins brings back encouraging Y M C A meeting report from Washington. Mordecai W Johnson praised as outstanding at the convention while Dr. Johnson serves as pastor in Charleston. Local notices mention Prof S A Hance Hance family trip and Epperson to Roanoke for a meeting. Zion Church preacher D Goode urged to attend tonight.
Fredericton report says C. Rogers of Putnam Connecticut secured the season’s largest moose head in New Brunswick with a 64 inch antler spread. He hunted in the Bald Mountain district on the Mirimachi with J. W. Thompson of Terre Haute Indiana who also shot a fine bull moose and a bear.
New York report says the Eastern Alcohol Corporation will be owned by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. and the National Distillers Products Corporation. The plant will produce industrial alcohol with Dupont using part of the output and the rest to be marketed by Kentucky Alcohol Corporation. Construction starts immediately at an undisclosed eastern site.
John B Baskerville and five West Virginia capitalists visited Chimney Rock after a Lakes-to-Florida highway tour that started in Bluefield. The group attended a Charlotte Chamber banquet, toured Mt Airy, Winston-Salem, High Point and Salisbury, and discussed road improvements and bond elections, praising West Virginia’s highway progress. Baskerville spoke on good roads and noted continued development as they travel to Western North Carolina to review proposals.
Rev W D McCraw resigns as pastor of Church of God on South Street after two and a half years to take new call in Ashland effective November 1. Rev C C Rice a Kentucky evangelist is named pastor of Bluefield Church of God and will fill pulpit November 1 at 11 am and 7 30 pm. Tonight at 7 30 McCraw will give farewell address as large crowd is expected. Public invited to all services.
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