Bluefield Virginia road extension near Pocahontas to finish soon
Virginia section of the Bluefield Pocahontas road project will be completed into Pocahontas within days, says a contractor. The highway between Bluefield and Flat Top Yard was opened earlier, while the Virginia stretch to Roseville is being hard surfaced this week. West Virginia crews have worked near Bluestone Junction with steam shovels. right of way is being secured in Namonra, with plans for the entire project. State highway 128.
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Virginia
Bluefield
Pocahontas Road
Pocahontas
Flat Top Yard
Roseville
Mercer Couunty
West Virginia
Bluestone Junction
Namonra
Aong
Tpoeachbontas
Rites This Afternoon for Mrs Holbrook
Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock this afternoon at the Wright’s Valley home for Mrs James W Holbrook 92 who died Monday. A longtime Methodist member she was born in the Hle atone valley as the last of a 12 child family. Interment follows in the family cemetery near the Holbrook home.
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Wright's Valley
James W. Holbrook
Visit of Dr Henry C Beckett and local sports notes
Dr Henry C Beckett of Chase Cuy is visiting relatives in the area and will travel to Peterstown and Pickaway in Monroe county. He recently turned eighty and attended his grandson Sidney Jeffreya’s wedding in Roanoke. Corbet Evans, heavyweight wrestling champion, begins workouts for upcoming Yards bouts and may face a national champ. Timers weather note says cooler today with more warm days ahead before Indian hammer.
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Henry ©. Heckett
Chase
Roanoke
Sidney Jeffreya
Beckett
Bluafild College
Owen
Scottaburg
Chae
Corbet Evans
John Neal
Evans
Bluefield
Virginia Sidelights Bridge Construction and Local Happenings
Local notes report a wooden bridge being built over Beaver Pond creek at the railroad culvert on College Avenue and Walnut. Other items include a henhouse incident with Attorney Sexton’s chickens, wheat yields in Life Greenbriar Monroe, school and PTA meetings, a Logan Street school birth control notice, a Grahwhigh school PTA gathering, a radio program by the Bluefield Businessman's Club, and circus attire mishaps linked to Hagenbeck-Wallace in Bluefield Virginia.
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Beaver Pond Creek
Collage Avenue
Walnut
Relatives Return From Hall Funeral in Chicago
Mrs J W Moore and Mrs Pearl Hale attended the funeral of their brother Howard Chraysott Hall who died in a plane crash near Youngstown Ohio. Hall was a consulting engineer for the Chicago Rapid Transit Co and had a home in Niles Center. A wreath from Samuel Ynsull Chicago traction magazine honored him. The service drew many Chicago dignitaries. He began with the Huntington Traction Co in West Virginia before joining Chicago Rapid Transit.
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J. W. Moore
Pearl Hale
Chileago
Howard Chraysott Hall
Younghtown
Orchivage
Hal
Chicago Rapid Transit Company
Reversal Railroads
Niles Center
Samuel Ynsull
Chicago
Hall
Finll
Hiiestuns Traction Company
Bivafield
W. Va
Inhi+ enzo
Bland County Prepares For Outstanding Fair
Bland Va September 14 Elaborate preparations are underway for Bland county fair to be held September 18 and 19 Exhibits of farming products poultry cattle sheep draft horses saddle horses and hurdle and riding contests will be judged Opening day features the women's department saddle horses pony shows and a male race An afternoon baseball game between Bland and Narrows is planned for the final day The Bluefield band will provide music for both days Grounds are being readied for one of Bland county s largest events anticipated
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Bland. Va
Bland County
Bland
Nuarrowe
Bluefield
Readness
Bland Sgunty tAlls
W Va. child injured in wreck near O'Toole
Little Edgar Mitcham, son of Mr and Mrs Arel Mitcham, lost a finger and sustained a nail wound when a car wreck near O'Toole caused by a wind gust Sunday September 6. He is receiving treatment at Stevens Clinic. Also notes a swimming party hosted by Dr and Mrs W T Cant at McDowell County home.
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Pageton
W. Va
Edgar Mitcham
Teynareold
Arel Mitclon
O'Toole
Claas
Windabies
Stievens' Olinic
Ad Mra
W. TE. Cant
McDowell Country
Lui
B. Freeman
James Hughes
Thorpe
Jack
J. Clay
Princeton
L. Bridgeman
Stevens’ Clinic
Welch
Les Crass
Coalwood
Jim Foster
B. Evans
Canada
Alba
Katherine Gangno
B. H. Bryans
John Gable
Evans
Falla Mills
W. J. Wysor
Jean
Lebanon
Cook
Gary
Harry Hager
Was
Ruth Smith
Southfork
Frlorida
Meadore Dietrich
Lang
William Surface
Pineville
WY. Painter
Keystend
Claude Bower
Benny Wilsby
Arthur Bridgeman
J. W. Hughes
Stevens Cliffe
Welcity
Filzhugh Anderson
James Surface
J. YA. Vance
Don
Helen Vance
Jenkin Jones
Word
Joe Cook
Mite
Marjoria Ann
Hangisonbure
Washington
Pageton School Trench Mouth Treatment and Local Notices
The Pageton graded school and surrounding districts organize care for trench mouth among students and teachers. Local obse rvations note faculty changes, personal visits, and community announcements including church schedule and a long list of resident movements and visits in Welch Gary Keystone and nearby towns.
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Trench Mouth
Pageton Braded
Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Aids Childs Bowels
Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin prescription for bowel regularity is marketed as a gentle, effective option for children and adults. It promises relief from feverishness biliousness headaches and constipation with a long track record in birth cases and broad applicability for men women and children.
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R. Caldwell
Dr. Caldwell
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Harrisonburg
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Wetch
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Stile
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Keystone
Bill Cummings
Wiley Dietrich
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Northfork
Hare
B. B. Evans
Roanoke, Va
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Clear Fork River
Syrup Pepsin
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