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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1925
Page
11
Want ads show multiple rental offerings including furnished and unfurnished rooms houses and apartments. Listings mention locations such as Bluefield Cedar Street Mercer Tyler street Mulberry street and railroad area with phone numbers for contact and terms ranging from immediate occupancy to three month terms. Several entries specify steam or hot water heat and some include references to board and housekeeping facilities.
Real estate listings in Bluefield and nearby areas show multiple properties for sale or rent. Five to six room houses in south Bluefield with terms or cash offers, plus a barn, garage, and additional outbuildings. Also furniture and household items from Warlick Furniture Co listing prices and contact details.
A jumble of classified items: agents, car sale inquiries, sewing work, furniture upholsterer needed, a railway inspector course, home study refund, address service ads, detective and firemen posts, office bookkeeper position, and various job and service requests. Key names include Daily Telegraph box references and locations like Raleigh Bluefield Welch and Kansas City.
Public sale of a six thousand square foot land parcel on Bluestone River at Band Lick Junction Mercer County West Virginia with improvements and store equipment. Purchaser pays one third cash and two deferred payments with notes and security. Sale date August 25 1925 by C R McNutt trustee with terms set and notices recorded in Mercer County Clerk's office.
Beaver Pond District Mercer County West Virginia invites sealed bids for six hundred thousand dollars in serial school bonds. Bonds dated July 1 1925 mature over 20 years at 5 percent interest semiannual payments. Bid deadline 11 am on the fifth day of May 1925.
The Jos. Hanna's Smoke Shop space at 108 South Jefferson Roanoke Va closes and all gear is taken for rent by Go W Payne owner. Equipment includes marble soda fountain pool and billiard tables cash registers safe electric fans and fixtures. Sale to occur within twenty five days and bargains offered by W Payne First National Bank of Roanoke.
Real estate notices describe several properties including a brick home on Logan street priced around 45000 with easy terms. Also listings on ers street and North Frederick continuation, rooming houses new apartments on Oakdale and Bluefield avenues with heat and services, rental options from 50 to 80 monthly, and land on Princeton Road for sale or trade. Call Flat To Realty Co room 116 phone 673.
A $150 reward offers return of a gentleman's ring left in the washroom of the City Cafe Princeton West Virginia on the evening of August 30. Contact R M Holland Princeton Police Department or Mr George Blankenhip Beckley WV.
Listing shows multiple properties for sale or trade across Ohio and West Virginia. Includes 87 acres near Emnee with 500 fruit trees, 5 acres of timber, six room house, running water, and proximity to railroad and village. Also offers a six room house with dairy and servant quarters, a lot with front, and a new six room home in Washington Street ready to move in priced at 5000.
Lost Saturday evening a sapphire and diamond setting from a ring. Return to 16 Princeton Avenue and receive reward. Phone 1804-L.
Classified fragment advertising monogramming for autos and wool coats, with price and profit notes, plus a district salesman wanted for a wage manufacturer. Mentions Worchester Monograms in Massachusetts and a Chicago address fragment.
Classified notes request housing and furnishings offers. Boarders wanted at 331 Third St and at 124 Giles Street. Also seeking small lease items, display cabinets, dressmaking and miscellaneous items with contact details.
A trustee sale under a 1923 trust deed by Ollie D. Powers and C O Powers is set for September 24 1925 at 9 00 a m at the Law and Commerce Building front door Bluefield Mercer County West Virginia. The property begins at a North street stake 53 5 feet east of Devilbiles Lot corner and runs along street and alley lines to a beginning point. Cash must be paid August 20 1925. Walter V Ross is the trustee.
The Mercer County Teachers Institute opened a week session at 9:30 a.m. in the John Stewart M. E. church auditorium with Prof. J. L. Hill in devotionals. Forty eight teachers enrolled the largest number in years. Instructors include Fred Raymond of Martinsburg Va and Rose Yancy Maria Robinson W W Saunders and Fannie Dobbs Carter from Charleston W Va. The public is invited to attend all meetings. Also noted is the German Ball at Simmons Hall September 2 with Watkins Orchestra from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Fire alarms triggered at a long list of streets and intersections including Maton Northside Princeton Ave Ruarell St uefield Ave and Cherry St Federal Sta and Stewart St Wyomning Monroe Giles Princeton Lee Franklin Talbert Reese and Marshall Sts College Ave Walton Ave Clark Sta and Henry Greenbrier Logan Sts. Central Station also referenced.
Public auction in Mercer County West Virginia to sell a parcel in Bluefield described as part of section 6 and bounded by Bland and Cooper streets with church lot as a landmark. Terms require one-third cash and rest in two equal installments over one and two years secured by lien. Special Commissioner Luther G. Scott to conduct sale on premises September 2 1925 with bond filed August 10 1925.
United Press compiled schedule lists early evening and late night radio in New York and across the country with programs on WEAF WJZ WABC and more. Notables include Vincent Lopes Orchestra Eveready Hour with Howard Prince and a Mayflower Orchestra set in NYC. regional listings span Philadelphia Detroit Chicago and Los Angeles with concert music talks and baseball coverage. The lineup notes time zones station identifiers and occasional weather and market updates.
Ada Jones visits grandparents Mr and Mrs Lewis Jones before accompanying her mother home. William Crowell of Glatto assisted in transporting Slade Pearson’s body to Morganton NC for burial. Delegates to the Richmond Elks convention praised the meeting and treatment.
Mrs. Martha Poindexter of Worth visited her rents this week. Evelyn Harman hosted about thirty friends at a Grayson street birthday party Tuesday evening. Thirteen candies lit the cake. After games and music a menu of sandwiches chicken salad pickles potato chips ice cream and cake was served. She received many gifts. Mrs. Griselda Lynch of Wilmington Del and two children visit here for a few weeks. Cc Bannister of Hanover Va arrived Tuesday and is visiting.
The Common Council of Princeton West Virginia invites sealed proposals by September 1925 for labor and materials to construct Straley avenue pavement 30 feet wide with concrete base and asphaltic top. Includes 10 000 square yards paving 4 000 cubic yards of lime 6 500 feet of curb and gutter. Plans at city engineer office. Bid bond 1500 dollars, performance bond 50 percent. Council may reject any bid. Signed by Mayor A Brown.
The region hosts visits from Alex Franklin with Oswald and Mrs Roaste Brown of Worth visiting Mrs Solomon Madison. Lola Franklin of Detroit comes to see relatives joined by two Elbert brothers for a family gathering. Samuel Gibson returns from Detroit and Sheffield Alabama. Sandy Moore of Bluefield visits from North Carolina. Prof and Mrs R Sam Bell stay two days at Winding Gulf. Tacoma Snowball, a house cat of G H Jensen, mothers twin baby foxes.
Public auction to sell an undivided six ninths interest in multiple parcels in Bluefield Mercer County West Virginia under a deed of trust dated July 1920. Trustee Paliack to offer the properties at cash on the premises September 29 1925, with bids opening at 2 o clock.
Default on payment of notes secured by trust leads to a public sale on September 21 1925 at the front door of the Scamparetal Building in Bluefield WV. The described tract lies south of Bluefield along River Pond District, bounded by Abshire Gap Road and adjacent land formerly conveyed to Wille Cadle and L C Cadle and May Johnston Will by deed of trust dated July 6 1923.
Under authority as trustee, on August 19 1925 at 11 00 am in Bluefield Mercer County West Virginia, the trustee will sell at public auction the property described as three lots Nos 1 2 and 3 in Mercer county Bluefield mapped by Wim Ford to satisfy notes secured by R L Linkous deed of trust. Cash in hand due.
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