N&W in 1909--Miscellaneous

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
June 10, 1909

IN CITY AND COALFIELD
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School Girls Pass Through
    Ten young ladies of St. Louis, who have been attending school at Randolph-Macon, passed through Bluefield yesterday morning in a private car attached to No. 15 returning to their homes.  Several members of the beautiful bevy were armed with sheep skins, and the rest declared their intention of returning to complete their college courses.  These young women are very much pleased with Randolph-Macon, and while they did not say so, it could be read in their faces that they like the Old Dominion almost as well as they do the land of Anhaeuser-Busch and Mister Pabst.
[I thought the Pabst was in Milwaukee.]
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Wades River to Save Train
    Eastbound passenger train No. 16, Captain Hutton, narrowly escaped a wreck yesterday afternoon in the vicinity of Davy.  A large tree fell from the mountain top above and slid down the slope just as the train was approaching.  A boy by the name of  E. S. Rose who was standing on the opposite side of Tug River saw the tree fall and took in the situation.  He waded the river and flagged the train just in time to prevent the wreck, which would have inevitably occurred.
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Increase in Traffic
    There is a very decided increase in the passenger traffic of the Norfolk and Western, especially the west bound travel.  No. 3, west bound, last night was loaded to the guards, and according to the various trainmen coming into Bluefield there has been a daily gain for several weeks.
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Gordon Hamilton
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