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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>April 7,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>IN CITY AND COALFIELD</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Virginian Builder at Princeton</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> H. H. Rogers and his party arrived at
Princeton shortly after noon yesterday. Criminal Court, which was in
session adjourned for several hours that the attendants might visit the depot
and see the big financier. He was on a tour of inspection of the new
Virginian Railway.</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Making Offices of Hotel</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> Work has already been commenced on the
re-modeling of the old Bluefield Inn, which will be reconstructed and converted
into the general offices of the Norfolk and Western. The improvements on
the building will amount to about $10,000 and when completed it will be one of
the best arranged office buildings on the system. When the new offices are
finished and the various departments transferred to it, the company will
commence to tear down the present building known as the division office, as it
has long been inadequate and out of date.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>I am attaching image ns4630 from the Va. Tech image
database showing the Bluefield Inn, before
conversion into offices. The passenger station is across
Princeton Ave. on the right. This view is before streetcar tracks were
laid along Princeton Ave. in 1904.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>To Improve Summer Resort</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> At a stockholders meeting of the Tip Top Iron
Lithia Springs Company it was decided to expend about $10,000 on improvements on
the grounds and buildings and to make all necessary changes which will add to
this popular resort's attractions. Additions will be made to the present
hotel, affording greater accommodations, and the comfort of the guests is
assured. Chas. H. Johnson, manager of the Mapleshade [sic] Inn at Pulaski
for nine years, will manage the hotel this season, which insures good
service.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>The N&W ran special trains to the opening of this
resort last season, and probably got a lot of resort business on its regular
Clinch Valley passenger trains. The Maple Shade Inn was another N&W
hotel.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>