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Newspaper
Bluefield Evening Leader
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1909
Page
4
In the spring the firm extols high quality writing papers ideal for love letters and all peculiar correspondence. The passage notes superior stock for esteemed recipients and invites inspection of their extensive line at Baton Crane and Pike, promising satisfaction to buyers seeking fine stationery.
New York May 19 Hawley syndicate members returning from a tour of the Chesapeake and Ohio announced plans to use the line as a nucleus for a trunk system into the interior to rival freight markets. The group, including Edvin Hawley Theodore Shonts Rack Vanderlip and Harry Mack, visited the road and praised its condition and the coal traffic while hinting at broader railroad consolidations to reach wheat regions and Newport News.
McCulloch R M Garrett Ir and G J Savage plan a trip to the Yukon Exposition in Seattle. They will travel via St Louis Houston and the Southern Pacific with a return route through Portland Lake City Denver and the Grand Canyon. They expect to reach Chicago in about five to six weeks before heading home. In their absence Dr Claud Fisher will manage White Pharmacy business.
Perconal birth notice for a girl and widow Walter Adams mentioned. W. H. Duvall at Mint Top on a hunting and fishing outing. Moses Henry of Keystone and H. O. Moses of Roanoke on business. Col. L. B. Tierney of Powhatan in Bluefield for Flat Top Bank affairs. George Pitzer of Norfolk and Western in Bluefield on official business. Lost white mare mule from Virginia Fuel Co mines Big Four W. Va. Reward offered. Housekeeping rooms wanted. two or three rooms in city requested. MR and Mrs KR Edwards of Roanoke, returning from Western trip, passed through Bluefield. In Bluefield today for business.
Huntington W V May 19 The Wayne county grand jury has indicted players of the Territorial State Athletic Association team after they played Sunday baseball in Huntington and nearby areas.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist church meets tomorrow at 3 o'clock at Mrs. W. L. Fleshman's Summers street home. All members urged to attend as many matters of importance are to be acted upon.
The $300 premium watch voted by Washington Herald readers is on display at Randolph and Mittendorff in Princetonville venue. Made by Water, Phillips & Co. of Geneva, it is among the finest movements. Capt. McCullough will receive the watch on the 2nd instant and host a banquet for friends.
Col Coffman advised Mr Matz to name the new hotel The Mainfield, merging Matz and Bluefield. He praises Matz as a leading city businessman and advocates including Bluefield in the hotel's name, aiming for a top city building.
Miners at the Black Betsy mine on the Kanawha and Michigan line will resume work Wednesday morning after a brief strike of a couple of days. The workers reached agreement to return. no operator or contractor name is provided.
Washington May 18 President Taft will sail the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans in a water cavalcade of steamers during the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterways convention plans. Elaborate preparations are under way and the trip may exceed any seen during Roosevelt’s 1903 river procession. The date of the three day gathering will be adjusted to fit Taft’s western trip schedule.
Coal notes report Tidewater Coal and Col Co receiving yearlong output orders, Virginia Lee Coal Co contracting for two years, and Queen Shoals Coal Co forming in Charleston with $20000 capital. Lowell Colliery Co of Fayetteville lists $20900 stock. Beary Interests place Absalom as Mines Superintendent. Glen White Coal opens on Virginian Railway with two shafts. Legal case: Branteg Thacker Co. v Norfolk and Western heads to state courts. Lehigh Coal and Navigation refine waste wash into marketable coal products. Haute plant turns fine coal particles into domestic sizes at low cost. Flat Tap Fuel Co plans to handle Crystal Coal and Coke and W H Thorne output, with extensions and new haulage infrastructure cited in Virginia project notes.
A Richmond decree refuses a rehearing in the McCue heirs case against Northwestern Mutual, forcing payment of $20,000 on McCue life policies. Judges Priverd Waddill and Dayton sat. The suit followed McCue’s hanging in Charlottesville years ago, with insurers arguing non natural death voided liability. The district court previously ruled the company liable, and the appellate court’s action appears to sustain that decision.
Johann Salvator, called the alleged Lost Archduke of Anetria, resurfaced in Chicago on Monday after disappearing from Painesville Ohio. He met with Austrian consul Otto Graf who doubted his claim and said he would take no further action. Salvator planned to return to his machine shop job in Pain.
Dover May 19. The 1908 great strawberry crop is expected to yield rich returns for poor farmers in Delaware. Estimates place the three counties’ crop value between 750000 and 1000000 dollars depending on season prices. A million is possible if steady prices prevail.
Washington May 11. Vice President Sherman occasionally leaves the chair of presiding officer in the senate and sits among the seats on the floor to listen and discuss. This departs from recent years when Fairbanks seldom left the chair. Sherman adopts a tactic likened to the House.
New York May 19 The National Bowling Championship tourney at Madison Square Garden opens Monday May 24. Several matchups are set including two man events featuring foe and Tony Schwoegter Maison Wis and John McGuirk and Johnny Gently Patterson N J. Secretary Wymantow arranged a schedule with minor changes to days and feet of course.
A seven story power block in Akron was destroyed by fire yesterday evening causing damages estimated at fifteen hundred thousand dollars. The blaze wrecked the warehouse contents and left several occupants including two girls with narrow escapes. Local firefighters battled the flames for hours, with the loss pegged at a wide figure.
Forert a two story brick office building turnkey job for the Northfork Realty Company with specs and terms apply. L T Clark, secretary and treasurer, Northfork West Virginia. Dates 6 14 to 25.
New York May 19 Special master Charles KE Ituefield says the Virginian against West Virginia case will not reach the Supreme Court before October. He cannot render the report by May 31 as evidence collection is incomplete and a June 22 Richmond hearing will precede counsel arguments.
Newark Ohio May 18 The body of six year old John Altmeyer, once believed kidnapped, was recovered from the river Monday ending the mystery surrounding his disappearance. The tragedy settles the case with authorities noting no abduction motive found.
The Washington Herald notes a resin trust is forming and warns that public opinion will shift toward higher costs. Analysts say the new trust could drive major policy changes and affect industry pricing.
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