24 May 1923
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Newspaper
Middlesboro Daily News
Location
Middlesboro, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1923
Page
1
Four armed men robbed ten card players at the Watterson Hotel in Louisville. Victims, mainly from St. Louis, were ordered to surrender cash and jewelry. The heaviest loss was C. M. Mabroker of St. Louis, who lost 700 dollars in cash and 750 in diamonds.
Several out of town contractors have visited this week to inspect the city streets plan for bids. Knoxville firms were here yesterday and Louisville representatives will return Saturday. No bids are expected before Saturday or Monday. Local owners in Cumberland Avenue business section discuss delaying construction until East End funding is secured. The East End project is tied up by state funding but will proceed to avoid rural boycotts. The business district modernization is also described as necessary to improve access to Pineville Pike and earn respect. Some fear obstruction from individuals unwilling to fund street repair.
City Lumber and Supply Co begins work on a cement storage warehouse on Nineteenth Street with excavation underway for the foundation. Plans call for additional warehouses from other builders and completion of the spur track from the yard to the railroad. The firm emphasizes ample supplies and yard improvements.
Middlesborg tonight hosts Community Chest teams at Central School and a church social at the Christian church. Rural Order of Lions holds a regular meeting. Encampment No 80 T C O F meets at L C F Hall. Quincy Adams Lawyer and Red Bird Settlement School program at Manning Theatre at 3 p m.
A May 24 dispatch says Chinese politics complicate efforts to free American and other foreign captives held by bandits. Officials allege hostile factions used the outrage to discredit Tasos Kun, a presidential hopeful, while noting captives are unlikely to be killed but could die from exposure, starvation, or disease.
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes reported rum runners in Maryland using smoke screens to hide evasion. Two vehicles were seized with devices releasing dense clouds. fumes forced authorities to abandon pursuit. Also notes a weather forecast for Kentucky with mainly cloudy skies and possible showers.
A Big Six Studebaker prize offers a car from the Mid Melboro Motor company garage to anyone who can make mecheano smile. Lee's Drug Store offers a fault line of toilet articles and 60 in cash. A Baldwin piano 650, a 200 Columbia phonograph, and a 205 Edison talking machine are offered. The Busy Bee Cafe and the Wabash Restaurant provide free meals for a year.
High rents do not deter Ar and Mrs W F Gibbs who travel in a large bus home with eight artisans from a New York ornamental glass firm. Wy Winchester Wenn is the artist. they paint art glass church windows and frescoes. The party has toured many states and plans to work in Pineville today. Their bus converts to a compact home with folding furniture and a coop of chickens carried along.
George J. Lewis and Mrs. Lewis were called to Chattanooga by the illness of Mrs. Lewis mother Mrs. S. B. Catron. Mrs. Catron died Monday afternoon after visiting her daughter here and leaving many friends grieving. Mrs. Lewis plans to return home early next week.
The Cincinnati Good Will Party, a hundred wholesalers and manufacturers, will visit Middleshore tomorrow from 12:40 to 1:40 p.m. A parade, concerts, souvenirs, and entertainment are planned as the group tours the Appalachian region and meets local customers and friends. The party left Cincinnati May 20 and will return May 25, with stops in Knoxville overnight and continues its itinerary through the week.
Louisville May 24 The Presbyterian General Assembly voted down Williams Jennings Bryan antievolution resolution but Billy Sunday unchanged in his stance he would not support any teaching contradicting God's creative power He preached at Kosair Auditorium to 2000 plus in attendance and revival crowds expected to grow in the last days
Post office inspectors pursue a missing registered mail pouch reported to hold about four hundred seventy five thousand dollars in currency and negotiable securities. The pouch vanished on a train traveling from Lexington to Cincinnati ten days earlier.
In Bell county a devoted educator, Prof J J De Wall, established the Red Bird Settlement School to transform a moonshine plagued district into a learning community. With no building or funds, he and his wife started classes that year for over 235 children, offering ten months of school with seven months free tuition funded by the county and three months at $2 monthly. An extension on Jack's Creek spans ten miles higher in the mountains. A dormitory costing $20,000 is needed, with $10,000 from Northern friends and $6,000 from Pineville citizens. Middlesboro must raise at least $2,000. Prof DeWall will speak at Manning tonight at 8:00.
In a letter to chambers of commerce, Herbert Hoover urges industries to work with railways to boost car capacity, load handling, and coordinated movement. He argues improved railway efficiency could prevent price inflation and support full employment during wartime disruption.
P V Cole president of the Harlan State Bank and owner of the Cote hotel received an appointment as aide de camp on Gov Edwin P Morrow s staff with the rank of Colonel This marks the third Tiarlan appointment in two weeks and highlights local political shifts
Twenty five million pieces were lost last year due to improper addressing at Middlesboro post office. Community Chest drive begins tomorrow with a morning parade led by school children and bands. City solicitors, led by captains of four districts, will visit every residence to seek donations.
George Colson, sentenced to seven years for killing Tra Ball in Middlesboro last year, has appealed to the court of appeals. The case was argued here on a change of venue.
Michael Sullivan of Salem Mississippi and Tray Facobs of New York city were detained on arrival from Europe on charges of possessing counterfeit money. they learned the notes were genuine after a shock revelation. Sullivan claimed he threw fifteen hundred overboard and said they obtained the money in England where counterfeit American bills were reportedly used to buy liquor.
United States commissioner James Glass released W. A. Roy Peter Walker and Marion Hall on $1000 bonds each for removal to Louisville. They face charges tied to an attempted robbery of a distillery in Deatsville Kentucky and awaited arrival of officers from Louisville.
Notices posted in town announce the sale of the Crabtree bottling plant to the highest bidder. Administrator Ben D. Chitter, with Sheriff Martin Green advertising, sets June sale at H. W. Br. Oaks store to settle the Tralt Newakun estate obligations.
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