Roanoke Danville Rain Postpones Baseball Match
Rain halted the Roanoke Danville game in the third inning with Roanoke leading 1 0. Norfolk Portsmouth game was postponed due to Portsmouth park flooding from late night and morning rain.
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Newspaper
Bluefield Evening Leader
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1909
Page
3
Rain halted the Roanoke Danville game in the third inning with Roanoke leading 1 0. Norfolk Portsmouth game was postponed due to Portsmouth park flooding from late night and morning rain.
The Ladies' Home Mission Society of Grace Methods church will hold a bazaar in the Kahle Atoche room on Bluefield Avenue, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons and evenings. Fancy articles will be offered for sale and refreshments served. The public is cordially invited.
We offer ready made and made to order footwear from Julia Marlowe and other brands. If you have foot trouble our shoes can relieve pain and save 15 to 20 percent on all purchases. -17-261.
Excitement grows over a sick man quarantined in a shanty near Winding Gulf along the Virginian line. Contractors Boxley & Co finish road work and store outfit, while Italian fish dynamiting rumors circulate. Local court terms and new county license talks reach Pineville as Virginian schedule changes frustrate travel.
A cloudburst washed out over two miles of Virginia Anthracite Railway track in Blacksburg and damaged bridges. The Merrimac mine flooded and service will be restored after at least five days, with mail and passenger traffic moved by back line. Damages to crops and widespread phone outages were reported in the three mile stretch between Blacksburg and Christiansburg.
Charleston May 27. Official returns show that the May examination in the state’s Free Schools system drew the largest turnout yet, with estimates of 2500 to 2000 applicants. State Superintendent M P Shawkey announced the grader staff including Senator J W Mantes, Prof A Pleming, Supt C R Murray, Supt George B Hubbs, Supt J N Moylman, and others across multiple counties. Grading began yesterday.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad through W. B. Hevill notified agents that July August and September 1907 Virginia ticket claim coupons issued with other roads are void per a U S Circuit Court decree. The company will not refund amounts paid for tickets with those coupons. Monitor Pulverized flour ad text follows.
Sealed bids will be received by the Board of Affairs of Bluefeld until the 8th day of June 1909 at 8 p.m. for the construction of geranolithic airwalks in the city. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. J. T. Akers, Auditor, by order of the Board of Supervisors.
On May 29, 1909 I will apply to the circuit court of Mercer county West Virginia for a state license to carry a pistol and police mace. I am deputy sheriff of Mercer county and reside in McComas. Name A H Hatfield.
On May 18, 1909, Lewis Hall of Coaldale Mercer County, deputy sheriff, will apply to the Circuit Court of Mercer for a state license to carry a pistol.
Notice states on 2 May 1909 I apply in Meter County West Virginia circuit court for a state license to act as deputy sheriff. Residence Bramwell WV. Affidavit by George Vance 20-10. Wadley G H 54-10 referenced.
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