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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1925
Page
2
Bluefield notices cover auctions sales religious events and community updates. Harold Oxley and his orchestra headline a Shrine Club dance at Masonic hall while Dr Northern announces school opening. police court notes report fines and a jail stay for drunkenness.
Reports describe heavy rainfall in Tazewell and Bland counties and Mercer County's northwest, but Bluefield and its water sheds remain dry. The Bluefield fall was light and hardly noticeable, despite a striking electrical display that could have benefited local water sources.
Forest rangers are battling to save the town of Erwin in Johnson City Tennessee from advancing forest fires on Unaka mountain. Locals and visitors fight new fires threatening the Unaka Springs hotel and the village as the fires rage for days.
A Bluefield city health reform proposal gains favorable view from the city board after a special committee from the medical profession outlined a full time Health Chief, sanitary engineer, bacteriologist, and two nurses. The plan envisions modest salary levels and a new charitable care fund to be funded by the department’s budget.
The Virginia Presbyterians conferred a signal honor on Rev Samuel W. Lees D D pastor of the First Presbyterian Church by electing him moderator of the Synod of Virginia now in session at Farmville Virginia politicians will be scored even after baseball ends.
A testimonial ad touts Dave’s Mentha Pepsin as a powerful stomach remedy for indigestion gastritis and related stomach distress. Calvin Dilks of Alloway New Jersey reports relief from a catarrhal stomach condition and urges readers to try it with a money back guarantee. Sold by Bluefield East End Fairview Princeton Hale pharmacies and agents.
The 20 year old Harrison Noel is jailed in Montclair New Jersey awaiting charges for the murder of Mary Daly a child and Raymond Pierce a taxicab driver.
National Geographic notes Bayreuth rose as a music city from Wagner's festival era. The Festspielhaus anchors two summer months of bustle as audiences travel long distances to hear his operas in a carefully integrated theater setting and park spaces alongside the master’s grave and Villa Walenfried.
Street by street alarms list locations in Southside Northside City Hall Princeton Avenue Bluefield Avenue Mercer Street Raleigh Giles Lee Franklin Talbert Reese Marshall Pulaski Bland College Avenue East River North Midway Henry Greenbrier Logan Forest Union East Bland Street Jefferson South Midway and more alarms noted across urban grid.
New Orleans reports that a federal court temporarily enjoined Mississippi from pursuing in state courts the revenue agent W. J Miller’s suit against Ford Motor Co for 12 million dollars under anti trust laws. A hearing on the injunction is set in Jackson during the November term to decide on permanent status.
In Paris on September 94 a report to the scientific committee of the international spiritualists congress claimed ectoplasm has weight. An electrical scale registered movement from a vague mass of ectoplasm, prompting a reporter to ask its weight. Pascal, secretary of the French spiritual group, quipped it weighed about as much as a mosquito's eyebrow.
Detroit September 9 The National Association of Letter Carriers decided not to ask for a wage increase from the next Congress. The union will press to raise pensions from 750 a year to 1 200 and to extend eligibility to all service employees after thirty years, regardless of age. Currently retirement requires thirty years of service and age sixty five.
In Swampscott Massachusetts President and Mrs Coolidge were nearly involved in a dog fight as a Newfoundland attacked Rob Roy the president’s white collie. Secret Service men Sterling and Haley restrained the animals while the Coolidges watched and Mrs Coolidge scolded Rob Roy after the scuffle.
Chicago Sept 9 Edgar A Bancroft United States ambassador to Japan died in Tokio in July leaving an estate estimated at 1 750 000. Plidg e Bancroft Pierce a nephew and heir filed a petition for letters of administration to authorize administration of the estate pending will location.
In San Francisco on September 9, Californians celebrated the seventy fifth anniversary of California’s admission to the union with Vice President Dawes attending. The pageant depicted key historical incidents and showcased crops, wealth of manufactured goods, and state splendor.
Geneva reports on the League of Nations assembly with Senators Walah and Jones touring the secretariat. The council adopted a vote of thanks to Walker D. Hines for wartime railway work and discussed extradition treaty studies with the United States and Canada. A Russian envoy may attend unofficially to monitor security talks with Germany.
Miss Helen Mitchell, a Peabody Conservatory student and violinist with broad training in piano theory and harmony, will open a studio in the Peery building on September 15. Her instruction under Van Huleteyn and Gustav, Baltimore Symphony conductor, highlights a high Peabody standard as she joins six peers awarded teachers’ certificates this year.
Col Be D Scott, attached to the inspector general, is at Fort Sam Houston and outranks Col yn by 159 files. The text notes a possible general court martial if ordered.
Eleven year old Roy Kruger of Rockford Illinois swallowed an iron bolt over an inch long and a quarter inch thick. Surgeons removed the bolt in four minutes using a bronchoscope at Jefferson Hospital Philadelphia. The boy had suffered pneumonia and diphtheria prior to the operation.
Col. Mitchel states a sufficient number of ranking officers are stationed at Fort Sam Houston to form the trial body. Three brigadier generals would also be available for duty on such a trial board.
The Bluefield motto The City That Cooperation Built frames a report that water use fell to about 750,000 gallons daily, roughly half the normal 1,500,000 gallons, as residents conserved and drew water from alternate sources.
At the Harrison Doddridge county W C T U meeting Mrs C B Cook of Vinton Iowa, alleged to have been shot by liquor law violators, was named in memorial services. The union adopted resolutions urging Bible reading in public schools and a state home for the treatment of diseases and delinquent youths.
In New York on September 9, three high officials of the On Leong tong were arrested and charged with acting in concert with the killers of two Hip Sing tong members. The arrests fulfill District Attorney Danton’s pledge to hold tong officials responsible for tong murders.
Mrs. Luetlle Haeck, nineteen, is on trial for the murder of her twenty one month old Wahy last July. She claims temporary insanity from her husband’s abuse and that she ingested poison herself. She described beating and dragging by the husband two days after their pay. She found a bottle of acid and left letters asking to be buried with her baby and asserting she is not mad. The defense plans to prove temporary insanity by alienists.
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