Virginia Side Billy Sunday Club Members Visit Parrot
The Virginia Side Billy Sunday Club flew to Parrot in Giles County on Sunday for a well attended meeting at Back Creek Church six miles west of Radford. The program featured several talks and drew a strong crowd. Attendees included Mr. Collins T. J. Ashworth C. H. Walthall G. M. Goodman F. M. Starling M. K. Vermillion and club president Dr H B Frazier who was summoned to Radford Saturday due to his sister Mrs Eakin’s illness.
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Virginia
Billy Sunday Club
Parrot
Giles County
Back Creek Church
Radford
Mr. Collins
T. J. Ashworth
C. H. Walthall
G. M. Goodman
F. M. Starling
M. K. Vermillion
H. B. Frazier
Browning Visits Tazewell as County Politics Draw Attention
Colonel James S. Browning was in the area yesterday meeting friends and discussing the political situation in Tazewell County and nearby areas. He reports good health and expresses interest in joining the Goodwill trip with the group Friday if possible. Ten Commandments Tonight at Virginian Bluefield. The Ten Commandments screens again today with large crowds praising Lockhart’s production and a special late showing proposed if crowd sizes exceed capacity.
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James S. Browning
Tazewell County
Browning
Virginian Theatre
Mr. Lockhart
Bluefield
Virginia
Mud Fork seeks daily R F D service and local coal mining shifts
Mud Fork residents push for daily rural free delivery as a petition circulates. Farmers meanwhile dig coal for winter, boosting home coal houses since a new field was found. Virginia GOP swaps gubernatorial candidates with S Harris Hoge replacing Henry W Anderson after the state committee decision in Alexandria. Tazewell county prepares for a county fair opening Wednesday with farm exhibits fruits needlework and various items of interest.
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Mud Fork
Virginia
Harris Hoge
Roanoke
Henry W. Anderson
State Committee
Alexandria
Tazewell
Tazewell County
Colored graduates win scholarships at Bluefield Institute
Aaron Page and Lorene Sanders, graduates of the Virginia Side colored graded school, won scholarships at Bluefield Colored Institute, as learned.
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Aaron Page
Lorene Sanders
Virginia Side Colored Graded School
Bluefield Colored Institute
Card of Thanks for Sickness and Death of Child
Acknowledgement from W. C. Barbe and Mrs. Barbe thanks friends for kindnesses and medical staff at Bluefield Sanitar ium during illness and death of their child J. Ruokin Barke. The Virginia Side signs up for the Goodwill trip to Charlotte to show off North Carolina highways and invites others.
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C. H. Hare
Bluefield Sanitarium
J. Ruokin Barke
W. C. Barbe
Virginia
North Caroline
Charlotte
North Carolina
Misses Eva and Lucile Williams to teach at Majestic Ky
Misses Eva and Lucile Williams sisters will teach at Majestic Kentucky this term and will reside there with their sister Mrs J W Hodnett.
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Eva
Lucile Williams
Majestic, Ky
J. W. Hodnett
Four Teacher Allocation Keeps Families Unburdened
In Bluefield and surrounding area officials decide no family will host more than four teachers on Friday night. The plan aims to place one or two teachers per household to avoid slighting any family. Dudley Land Co. advertises loans on improved real estate from one to ten years while A. A. Carter, longtime street car conductor and hose salesman, is noted in this installment.
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Bluefield
Dudley Land Co
Cutie and friends plan save Grubby from crash
Cutie visits Sammy Snake and Prickles Porcupine asking for help to avert a rock collision. Grubby Woodchuck blasts along roads in his small blue car until a curve, a motorless rock, and Mosey Mud Turtle collide. The rock moves out and damages the car as Grubby blames Mosey. Mosey defends the fault. To be continued.
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Cutie Cottontail
Mosey Mud Turtle
Cutie
Mosey
Sammy Snake
Sammy
Prickles Porcupine
Prickles
Grubby
Dale
Handsome new home completed in west end
The resident will move in this week. Presbyterian annual meeting begins September 24 with Dr. Gray of Bedford to conduct a ten day meeting. He will be assisted by Rev. W. M. Lorimer. Sunday school met in the basement of the new Methodist church. Virginia Side gardeners report two potatoes on a hill with earlier plantings.
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Dr. Gray
Bedford
Gray
W. M. Lorimer
New Methodist Church
Night Life of New York at Colonial features stars
The Colonial presents Night Life of New York with Rod La Rocque Dorothy Gish Ernest Torrence and George Hackathorne in leading roles. The plot follows John Bentley who fails in New York moves west profits marries another and holds a grudge. Ronald Bentley is drawn back to New York for a cure and ends up in trouble before things are resolved.
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New York
Colonial Today
Rod la Rocque
Dorothy Gish
Ernest Torrence
George Hackathorne
John Bentley
Ronald Bentley
Bentley
Ronald
Rod LA
Dorothy Gierwest Torrence
Broadway
Royal Household Entertaining Costs in England Rise
London reports entertaining expenses for the royal household from May to August total $400,000 for public functions. It notes costs about $5 to serve a guest tea at Buckingham Palace and excludes family entertaining the king.
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England
London
Royal Household of
Buckingham Palace
Upshaw Praises Prohibition Moral Leadership in West Virginia
Hon. Will D. Upshaw of Atlanta spoke at Westminster Princeton and Memorial churches about a Christian citizen on the job. Rev. James J. Seder outlined the Anti-Saloon League’s work and urged united action to defend prohibition. Upshaw tied his sermon to constitutional law and warned that wets would fail when dries quit.
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Will D. Upshaw
Christian Citizen
Atlanta
Westminster Presbyterian Church
West Virginia
Memorial Church
Virginia
Methodist Church
Princeton ‘N
Upshaw
Georgia
James J. Seder
Charleston
Anti- Saloon League of
Seder
Congressman Upshaw
New York
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan
Unshaw
Congress
Lady Be Good to Open at Maryland Theatre in Cumberland
Cumberland Evening Times reports a gala opening night for George Gershwin musical Lady Be Good at the Maryland Theatre with Nicolas Welch-Demitt, Inc. guiding a New York style debut. Local interest included George W Hobart and cast relatives as producers and managers observed the performance.
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Cumberland
Evening Times
Colonial
New York
Maryland Theatre
Nicolas Welch-Demitt
Local Stars Shine in Leonard Sillman Show Cast
The principals and chorus deliver strong performances with Leonard Sillman and Lolita West top billing. Sam A. Burton and Richard LaMarr contribute notably in comedy and romance while Wilfred Jessop Irene Goodrich Helene Piterlot and Jack Stanley provide solid support. The chorus, ukulele numbers and elaborate scenery add to the show’s bright appeal.
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Leonard Sillman
Fone
Lolita Westman
Sillman
Sam A. Burton
Richard LaMarr
Wilfred Jessop
Irene Goodrich
Helene Piterlot
Jack Stanley
Bert Bennett
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Canuregs
Gee Ree
Olive Roberts
Virginia Side
Mr. Ashworth
Mary Rice
Gary
J. 44. Bates
C. B. Reynolds
Night Life
Evening & I
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Ulda
Strathmore
Packard
Detroit
H. E. Mattox
Bluefield Avenue
W. VA
Moral Forges
Tazewell, VA
Olga
Nova
Tom Patsy Watkins
Royale
Columbia Record
Odhiulie
Nicolai-Welch-Demist, Inc
Cood
Nate Ll Ele Yall Lyrics By
Ira Gershwin
Liberty Theatre
N.Y
Juanita
Tick Wardell
Allan Dwan
AO Roe
Comedy and News
Anchor
AL Hoxie
J. P. Msgowan
Wester
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