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The Bluefield Daily Telegraph is a newspaper based in Bluefield, West Virginia, [2] [3] and also covering surrounding communities in McDowell, Mercer and Monroe counties, West Virginia; and Bland, Buchanan, Giles and Tazewell counties, Virginia (including the town of Bluefield, Virginia).
Mar. 1—By GREG JORDAN Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD — An artisan crafting three-dimensional history, war correspondent and author who sat at the president's desk and a police detective ...
Mar. 2—By GREG JORDAN Bluefield Daily Telegraph PRINCETON — A local man is facing up to three years in prison after being sentenced in circuit court for attempting to solicit a minor by computer.
In 1928, the Daily Telegraph Printing Co. obtained a license for the only radio station in Bluefield at the time. The call letters stood for his initials – WHIS.In 1948, Jim and Hugh, Jr. started a companion FM station, WHIS-FM.
The station went on the air on July 31, 1955, as WHIS-TV. [4] It was named in honor of longtime West Virginia politician Hugh Ike Shott, who had died two years earlier.It was owned by the Shott family's Daily Telegraph Publishing Company, which owned the Bluefield Daily Telegraph along with WHIS radio (1440 AM and 98.7 FM, now WHAJ).
High school in Bluefield, 1910. The European-American history of Bluefield began in the 18th century, when the Davidson and Bailey families settled in a rugged and remote part of what is now southern West Virginia. [4]
The West Virginian Hotel was WHIS's first home. The Daily Telegraph Printing Company was issued a license for a new radio station to transmit on 1420 kHz on February 14, 1929. [1]
Leon Parker Miller (April 27, 1899 – February 4, 1980) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge, in the U.S. state of West Virginia.Miller served as U.S. Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands from 1954 to 1962.