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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1925
Page
9
Bluefield College opens its fourth year with a 10 oclock public assembly in the auditorium. The college expects strong athletics and a full slate of academic work plus two years of college and a training school for preachers. A capable faculty is in place as preparations begin for a banner year.
Promoter Kearns discusses Dempsey contracts with Rickard, Fitz, and a Michigan City promoter. He claims Dempsey could sign for September 17 with Floyd Fitsimmons and Mullins, with exhibition and theatrical clauses guiding purse shares and stage work.
Continued from page seven local column lists guests of Mrs. J M Newton and Mrs I B Pitts from Bluefield Tazewell Charlottesville Crewe and Oklahoma. Reports of Mrs Geo Deaton improving. Simmons Bed Company receives six carloads of beds and bedding at local yards after opening Virginia branch this month with one car of twin beds arriving yesterday.
In Berlin three Americans lead an emerging group called the Knights of the Fiery Cross modeled on the Ku Klux Klan. Police report 30 to 40 arrests tied to the discovery with more arrests expected as the movement aims to unite all men to fight for the liberation of the fatherland.
Police discovered a covert organization mirroring Ku Klux Klan ceremonies and bearing a blood cross, antisemitic swastika, and imperial German flag. Officers searched homes of suspected members and found extensive material. members reportedly must swear obedience and risk death.
West Virginia Wesleyan College announced a football schedule including a November 21 game against Duquesne University at Forbes Field in Pittsburg. The full slate lists games with Waynesburg College, Broaddus College, Salem College, Lehigh, West Virginia University, Davis and Elkins, the Quantico Marines, and Peston College, with venue notes across Buckhannon Clarksburg Morgantown and Baltimore.
Ritchie county captured first honors in the Four-H livestock judging contest at the Lewis county fair scoring 1320 of 1350 possible points. Lewis county trailed by 34 points, with Monroe Mineral Upshur and Harrison also placing. Ural Bee and Fayne Winner top individual performers in hog and cattle judging.
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