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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1925
Page
8
Princeton social notes show the Gleaners Sunday school class choosing Mrs. B W Gentry as teacher to replace Mrs. John K Ball who leaves Princeton for the winter. The group subscribed ten dollars for beginners work and held a social hour after the meeting with hostesses serving ice.
Fire heavily damaged a Reo truck on Judge Smith's Princeton Bluefield road property yesterday afternoon. Frank Keatley was in the rear when it burned. chemicals put out the blaze. A marriage license was issued for James G. Keeley and Georgia M. Maire. Royal Theatre remodeling delays push Powder River show dates toward Armistice week. Funeral notices for Mrs. Cleo Fink and R. R. Brown. Labor Day holiday planned by Princeton Merchants Association. Arrests in Camp Creek theft case. Moye in jail, Bowling bailed. Mercer County Republican Club to meet. Oscar Bashler fined for speeding. Rotary brief on Vision by Rev J B Thompson. Real estate ads and rentals listed.
Community notices list services and events at Mud Center churches with times, speakers, and topics. Revivals led by W. T. Rimmer and Gypsy Smith appear, plus Sunday school and choir details. A London fashion adviser earns about $10 000 yearly guiding men's attire.
Creditors are required to present all claims against the estate of Wm B Lawek to M Sutton Commissioner of Accounts at his Princeton West Virginia office by September 1 1938. Handed this 14th day of September 1938.
The Protestant Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest at Mercer Street announces services on Sunday with communion and sermon at 11 am and evening prayer at 7 30 pm. Evening service time set to 7 30 pm until further notice. Guild meets Thursday at 3 30 pm. Girls' Friendly Society meets Wednesday at Miss Evelyn White's Circle Street home. G F 3 candidates group meets Saturday at 3 pm.
About 100 Princeton citizens attended a Seneca Trail Association meeting at the high school auditorium. W. H. Witt presided, F. I. Clark was elected secretary-treasurer, and Bernard McClaugherty urged rapid road building noting its impact on prosperity. Melodic opening and reports from Lewisburg preceded calls for road projects from Princeton to Logansport.
A city meeting drew about 100 attendees, but organizers saw strong interest in backing the Seneca trail project with Princeton showing support for advancing the plan.
Mrs J W Blakely hosted a Thursday afternoon bridge event on Riverside Drive honoring Mrs Stuart Aldhizer of Harlan Kentucky and Mrs J H Newton of Stone Kentucky. Aldhizer won high score and a guest prize. Newton also received a guest prize. A salad and ice course followed.
The McDowell County Teachers Institute ended its final session at noon Friday in the Welch High School auditorium. Officials report the event as very successful with about 600 total attendees. Superintendent W. C. Cook was authorized by unanimous vote to appoint delegates.
Gates announced for the State Education Association convention to be held in Huntingdon on November 5 6 and 7. The notice emphasizes access to the event and related sessions through designated gates.
The mayor appoints a special officer to arrest cows horses and mules running at large at night in Woodmont and Houston Second Additions. Residents complain of damaged lawns trash on steps and disrupted sleep and warn owners to avoid fines by keeping stock confined.
Under Lord Curzon's will a large collection of Napoleonic relics and empire furniture is left to Oxford with the condition they be housed in the Bodleian library or a museum. The university must decide if it will accept, given prior refusals of stamps and non art objects.
More than 100 Kiwanis and Rotary members gathered at the Welch Baptist Church basement for a joint program led by Kiwanis president C Morfit and Rotary president Graham Sale. The evening featured music by a jazzy orchestra, a welcome by Rev E D Worley, and plans for a Salvation Army Salvation Army picnic with about 150 youths to be transported and entertained by the two clubs.
Washington bulletin compares Christchurch and Dunedin on New Zealand s South Island. Christchurch features Canterbury Plains Avon River and church heritage with inland setting seven miles from the sea and Port Lytelston. Dunedin reflects Scotch Presbyterian culture with a 75000 population and a harbor key to frozen meat exports from 1881 onward.
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