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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1925
Page
2
A collage of notices from Mercer Street to Bluefield lists piano and violin lessons, rental homes, store notices, public sales, and background blurbs. Local businesses advertise coal grades and delivery, while residents seek stenography work, concert enrollments, and car incident reports amid upcoming events and community notices.
Tonight at eight o clock a concert on High Street near Federal Street invites all. A splendid program is planned and after the outdoor show the band will hold a social in the Dug out with refreshments provided by the Women's Auxiliary of the American Legion. Members should come with their families.
Preparations are under way for a county Kiwanis meet by clubs from Bluefield Ma toaka and Princeton. The event occurs September 22 at the 4H camp between Princeton and Athens, with a county fair ongoing that week and a special program plus a dinner served by county women. Lieutenant governor William F. Taggart will be principal speaker.
The Rev James J Kennedy of St James church McMechen blessed the new structure and Father Burk and Father Kennedy said the first mass in the Pather Olivier Memorial Church. Bishop John J Swint arrived and will attend the dedication in Bluefield on Sunday.
Caldwell Ohio September 3 Lieutenant Commander Charles E B Rosendahl said a craft could not have weathered the storm the Shenandoah faced last night and daylight would not have helped. He dismissed fake news reports blaming the disaster on attempting to shave the ground. Colonel C G Hall aboard the ship noted wireless communication might have prevented the encounter.
Caldwell Ohio reports two injured men from Freehold and Lima in Marietta hospital under local care aided by three navy physicians who arrived by air. McCarthy is reported resting easily while Cole’s injuries are less serious. Other crew members suffer minor bruises and lacerations. Looting near Ava prompts armed guard action by Jerome Williamson of Caldwell American Legion post.
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur disclosed that Henry Ford was invited to ride in the Shenandoah dirigible as it tied up at Detroit and travel over Michigan before returning to Lakehurst. The invitation came at W. B. Mayo's suggestion but Ford had not accepted.
Baron Ago Von Maltzan, the German ambassador stationed near Swampscott, visited White Court to convey the sympathy of the German government after the Shenandoah disaster. The Shenandoah’s sister ship was built at the Tercelein factory in Germany.
Robert P. Bass called on President Coolidge to attack Senator Moses stance on the world court. Bass supported US adherence to the executive form of the proposal and noted New Hampshire voters favor it. He was accompanied by Charles Summer Bird.
Witnesses describe the airship Shenandoah’s perilous flight path before the crash. Celestino Mazzucco dies. four more bodies found in a garden and eight in fields on the Gammary farm. O Davie Frank Nelson and others recount sightings from near Ava and Cambridge. Radio log from Lakehurst details preflight checks and route over Pennsylvania cities.
The class one railroads earned 99.46 million in July, a 25.0 million rise from July 1924, with seven months income totaling 637.17 million and a 4.53 percent annual return based on carrier property values. Gross revenue reached 522.43 million, up 40.60 million year over year, while operating expenses rose to 2.905 million. Freight traffic rose about 14 percent over July 1924, and 24 roads operated at a loss in July across regions eastern southern and western.
Nine signatory powers to the 1922 Washington treaty inform Peking they will appoint commissioners to relinquish extraterritorial privileges and to investigate China’s judiciary system They will also send delegates to a tariff conference and consider Chinese proposals to revise tariff treaties They stress enforcing protection of foreign lives and property amid anti foreign agitation and note mere courts and laws are not enough
An atmospheric disturbance is described as a mild tornado high above the earth. Winds veer and whirl along the line creating a partial vacuum that could lift ships like the Shenandoah. A weather map review suggests a different course might have avoided the disaster.
Rev J M Carter of Trinity Methodist returned from Knoxville Tenn where he preached to the Centenary and Broad Street churches. The two former Episcopal churches will join to build a quarter million dollar church and sell the old structures. A homecoming week precedes a fund campaign with former pastors invited to preach nightly. Local pastors Carter Watson Jackson Neighbors were featured in turn.
F G Pick of Ashland Ky presented seven Bluefield shippers with evidence of unfair competition and the cost of meeting it in their trading territory. He showed Virginian field shipments were mostly trucked to Princeton and shipped at about twenty cents per hundred pounds.
Bluefield officials and traffic bureau witnesses testified on routing and a proposed through rate from the Virginian field with a transfer charge at Matoka. The hearing ended with Lynch Younger seeking abeyance until Virginian road leasing decisions are made. examiner Wings did not grant it.
The water situation remains at a serious stage with the plant shut down temporarily. other towns’ plants continue to supply demand, indicating strain in local supply despite continued operation elsewhere.
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