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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1925
Page
2
A crowded page lists varied items from rentals and sales to church notices and legal entries. Advertisers offer storage for pianos, coal, pears, and Ford parts, while community notices cover meetings, classes, baptisms, and police cases including liquor arrests and a jail sentence.
Governor Farrington greeted Wallace Rodgers and other aviators at the palace ceremonies. The crowd urged speeches as the squadron flew overhead and the pilots thanked supporters before returning to Pearl Harbor for rest.
The article notes heated testimony from General Mitchell challenging admin air policy while Secretary Weeks denies charges. Congress adjourned before findings and funding, leaving the air department bill by Representative Curry unsettled and unfinished. A joint subcommittee planned fresh hearings in the next session to pursue the air department proposal.
Dr J A Bays Bland Street Methodist selects Faith Healing for evening service and The Kingdom of Truth for morning talk. Miss Helen Mitchell plays Cherniawski piece and Huth Bodell offers a fine offertory. James Elmer Brown leads the song service after vacation with choir, quartet and two violin organ pieces.
The funeral for F. C. Blauvelt, who died Friday from acute indigestion at his Union street home, was held at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Rev. Warner DuBose and Rev. S. W. Moore officiated. A B Scouts guard of honor marked the ceremony. Music moved attendees as plans for burial in Schenectady, New York were noted.
A B Rawn general manager of the Kingston Pocahontas Coal Company will leave November 1 to start a Huntington business. He has bought an interest in Wilson Sand and Gravel Company at Huntington. The move surprises many in southern West Virginia coal circles where Rawn is well known for his long association with Norfolk and Western coalfields.
Miss Byrd of Miami sister of Mrs. Sam Hoge visiting this city was stricken with acute appendicitis yesterday and taken to St Luke's hospital for an operation. Report said she was resting well last night and a speedy recovery was hoped for.
Anna Holmes, a colored woman, is hospitalized at Mercer Sanitarium after being shot three times Friday morning by her husband Fred Holmes who then killed himself. Doctors report she is making a desperate fight for life and the prognosis is cautiously hopeful.
The Bailey family of Mercer County will hold a all day reunion and picnic at Glenwood Park on Sunday September 20. H W Straley of Princeton will deliver the main talk sharing data on the Bailey family history and Mercer County pioneers. An estimated thousand relatives are expected to attend from Mercer County and related families.
A small turnout of Bluefield Gun Club members attended the weekly practice on Saturday. Visitors appeared but gun field numbers were limited and traps closed early. With labor season ending yesterday, attendance is expected to rise before the fall hunting season. An all day Labor Day shoot drew more shooters, likely influencing Saturday's turnout.
Two nervous young men robbed two coaches of the Mountaineer on the Minneapolis St Paul and Ste Marie line near Mineot New Hampshire. They demanded money from passengers, collecting about $200 before fleeing as the train left Mineot yards. Conductor Rice was struck but unharmed as shots misfired.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company was awarded 2,000,000 dollars in a federal court decision by Judge A M J Cochrane in Covington Kentucky. The long running dispute over rentals for use of the railroad right of way culminates in this award with appeals pending. A separate case seeks removal of Western Union poles and wires from the railroad corridor.
Washington reports a new memorial organization formed to honor William Jennings Bryan plans to appoint extra vice presidents to manage donations in designated territories. The group will choose officers later and aims for a memorial expressing all of Bryan's qualities rather than a single career phase. Small silver donations from Bryan's friends will be solicited to cover memorial costs.
A National Geographic bulletin describes how rubber comes from many plants beyond Para rubber, including milkweed and gutta percha from Indo China and the Amazon. It explains latex origins, tree defenses against borers, and how balata and chicle support industrial uses from cables to golf balls.
The body of a man believed to be George Dutch Anderson was found near the riverfront. He rented a shack and used the name George Daley. Physicians cited acute alcoholism as the cause of death, with head and finger scars matching police circulars.
Washington September 12 Henry Ford awaits results of experiments with aircraft tied to his automobile business and mail service plans. William D Mayo Ford Company chief engineer says current air mail test between Chicago and Detroit will shape Ford's aviation expansion. Mayo notes Ford aims to develop an all metal airplane, with possible future use in national routes.
In Vinton Iowa Toway Sept 12 the airatory of the fatal shooting last night of Mrs Myrtle Cook Ww C T U president and Bentom county Ku Klux Klan head remained unsolved. Coroner C L Modlin announced the inquest recessed until Monday to allow state agents full inquiry. B Cook who said he was in Grundy Center was questioned after a bullet struck a window at the Cook home. Belief is that the shooting may have involved liquor law violators tied to dry activity.
Police said they would try to locate a man after a woman reported she gave him money during a shopping tour and entrustment of $540 last Tuesday. The fiance did not return, ending with uncertainty about the fate of Miss Duda.
Senator Cole Blease of South Carolina assailed the new prohibition regime calling it the most powerful political organization in the United States. He said its operation could swing any doubtful state to any political column and urged enforcement by the states.
The reform plan directs renewals and expenditures for enforcement to be paid out via state officials, ensuring centralized handling at the state level. This shift aims to streamline disbursement and accountability in federal programs.
Robert A. Lear of Fairmont West Virginia completed a barefoot 400 mile trek to New York to avoid paying a forfeit. The wager required him to vote Republican with an open ballot before two witnesses if John W. Davis failed to win the presidency in 1928.
Paris Sept 12 spirits packed up after the final session of the International Spiritualists. The congress voted that visiting cards be written in Esperanto to ease communication in the international tongue. Spirits who insist on other tongues will not be spoken to.
First Lieutenant Russell L. Maughan, a dawn to dusk flyer stationed at Kelly Field San Antonio, died while en route to Utah to reach his mother who was seriously ill. He will miss her final hours as word arrived that she had died.
San Antonio Texas September 12 Colonel William Mitchell eighth corps area air officer declined to comment on the navy role in rescuing Commander John Rodgers and his crew. He said pending Washington developments he would say nothing on controversial matters while asserting he had not violated military discipline in his four statements this past week.
Thomas Reed Wise aged twenty son of Mrs. Pearl Reed Wise and the late Charles Wise died after a brief illness of quinsy in Fatromat West Virginia. He attended the West Virginia University Morgantown for the past two years and was a junior this year. He is survived by his mother and a brother Charles. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon.
In Chicago on September 12 an alleged jail boss known as Oeene Gan was jailed and ordered to face life imprisonment. Chief Justice Thomas Lyx ant was told by Sheriff Hoffman that Druggan must be kept in a regular cell and watched closely after appearing in handcuffs. Druggan pleaded not guilty to criminal assault. A reporter named John Lovering was attacked while in custody and the warden was dismissed.
A Chinese resident in Boston's Chinatown was shot dead and another wounded in a Tong War outbreak today. Police plan to assign patrolmen to guard key associates as tensions rise after the assault on a Hip Sing leader and others.
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