Grand Jury Recommends Revoking 3 Saloon Licenses
The January term grand jury examined 149 witnesses, filed five indictments, and found 84 inmates in the Insane asylum and 468 at the County Home. It recommends revoking licenses at three saloons including Eagle Hotel and two Windsor Street locations, and urges stronger controls to keep minors out. States Attorney Perdew is thanked. report signed by Frank Watts foreman and Edwin Elias and S. H. Snowden, Clerks.
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Insane Asylum
County Mtome
Eagle Hotel
Corner Mill
Mechanic Streets
Arthur Prantz
Wineow Street
W. L
Stringer and Company Broker Suffers Fatal Crisis
G F Stringer Jr of Stringer and Company shot himself in his 40 Exchange Place office after the firm announced it could not meet obligations. The move follows the Exchange closure caused by the war and signals the first brokerage suspension since opening. The firm reportedly held about six thousand Reading Railroad shares. the son’s heavy speculation allegedly wiped out his fortune and that of his father.
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Pany
Exchange Place
Stringer
Reading Railroad
Ececount
Morgantown executive kills wife then himself in home tragedy
William R. Wood of Mississippi Glass Company shot his wife Petra Taylor Wood and killed himself with a revolver at their Weaver street home in Morgantown West Virginia late Thursday night. The couple, both aged forty, left three children present but on the first floor. The motive remains unknown and the family held high social status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William R. Wood
Mississippi Glass Company
Petra Taylor Wood
Weaver Street
Morgantown
W. Va
Charles Wood
Mr. Wood
Weine
Bourg
Garnett Taylor
Wood
American Express blocks shipments to three counties
The American Express Company announced it would receive liquor shipments for Mineral Grant and Tucker counties in West Virginia from no Cumberland or Allegany county firms except the James Clark Distilling Company. A Jim Clark Distilling Company suit led Judge Rose to set aside Judge Reynolds order barring shipments, a misconstruction said to be corrected today to allow dealers to resume filling orders.
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American Express Company
Mineral
Grant
Tucker
W. Va
Cumberland
Allegany County
James Clark Distiling Company
James Clark Distilling Company
United States Court
Rose
Judge Reynolds
Keyser
Judge
Mrs. Letha Wagner Fultz Visits Berkeley Springs With Children
Mrs. Letha Wagner Fultz and her two young daughters spent the week visiting friends in Berkeley Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Letha Wagner Fultz
Berkeley Springs
Lists of Marriage Partners From Cumberland and Nearby Areas
A grouped notice lists eighteenth couples incl Samuel Stum Hollenberger with Florence Morgan of Cumberland and Claud Wesley Wagener with Daisy Beile Lewis of Cumberland. Also named are Harry Joseph Anderson with Elsie Loretta Ebersberger of Rector Pa and others from Potomac Manor Huff WVa Duquesne and Rockwood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Stum Hollenberger
Florence Morgan
Cumberland
Claud Wesley Wagener
Green Spring
W. Va
Daisy Beile Lewis
Harry Joseph Anderson
Elsie Loretta Ebersberger
Rector
Joseph Bones
Agnes Bailey
Potomac Manor
Clarence McCauley
Huff
Mary Ethel Hartney
Mill Creek
Leslie Stiner Dube
Amanda &. Stevenson
Antoni Rydilewski
Florence Chirck
Rockwood
Norman John Miller
Selena Shefer
Duquesne, Pa
Amos Grover Lewis
Beulah Fay Sutton
Erbacon
Provost Picked for State University by Regents
Dr. Thomas H. Lewis, president of Western Maryland College, was elected provost of the State University by the board of regents in Baltimore. Salary is 3000 dollars with full-time duty and no other position. Lewis will decide before the next monthly meeting whether to resign Western Maryland College. Governor Goldsborough urged support for the university’s aims to reduce duplication and waste. The board will reconvene January 22.
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Thomas H. Lewis
Western Maryland College
The
State University
Board of Regents
Garrett
Baltimore
Lewis
Goldsborough
Maryland Agricultural College
St. John’s College
Subpoenas Issued in Parkersburg Federal Case
Special agents Eisenhauer and Hardy are subpoenaed to appear in Parkersburg West Virginia January 12 as witnesses in the Giuseppe Chiarta case. Chiaria, an Italian, was arrested last summer in Magnolia West Virginia for operating a house of girls for immoral purposes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grazia Pegliese
Peter B. Bradley
John J. Sgurevich
Leo Gibson
James Maisel
Washington
Ciap
K. O. C. TO HOLD FULL DRESS BALL
Invitations have been issued by Chief Justice Taney assembly Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus for a ball at the home on North Mechanic street January 15. Fourth degree members will wear full dress suits baldric and swords. The dance is open to non members. Schmutz's orchestra will provide music.
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Taney
Knights of Columbus
North Mechanic Street
Schmutz
Kiowa Tribe Officers Installed for Ensuing Term
Kiowa Tribe No. 143 Improved Order of Red Men installed officers for the ensuing term. Names include Sachem Charles W. Cox, senior sachem James E. Judy, junior sachem Daniel Wimes, prophet Charles W. O Donnell, keeper of wampum James Keedy, marshal James Keady, and trustees George W. Winevrenner, Robert St. Prye, and C. W. O Donnell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. W. Cox
James E. Judy
Daniel Wimes
Chas. W. O'Donnell
Clagette L. Loy
WY. L. Loy
James Keedy
R. M. Breighner
Canadians Arrested Over Fort Erie Shooting Incident
Canadian corporal Archie Kay and privates Edmund Macintosh Leslie Kinsman, with constable Thomas W. Delaney, were arrested in Toronto on manslaughter charges for the December 28 shooting of American Walter Smith and wounding of Charles Dorsch at Fort Erie. Ontario Attorney General I. B. Lucas said warrants were issued locally and that the case will be handled in provincial courts without imperial or dominion direction.
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Toronto
Constaule
Province of
Ontario
Walter Smith
Charles Dorsch
Fort Erie
Thomas W. Delaney
Archie Kay
Edmund Macintosh
Leslie Kinsman
I. B. Lucas
Imperial
Robber Hunted by Bedford Police and Hampshire Sheriff
Officer Flannagan and Sheriff in Virginia arrested William Bucklew in Bedford Pennsylvania for robbery. Bucklew had escaped from Constable Lindsay last week and was traced to Bedford before being taken to Romney this morning.
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Flannagan
Hampshire County
Virginia
Bedford
William Bucklew
Buucklew
Lindsay
Romney
Brigadier Escott to Commission Salvation Army Officers Tomorrow
Brigadier William Escott of the Salvation Army opens siege at the Army Hall tomorrow to commission officers in two meetings with an afternoon guard appointment and a large turnout. He also speaks at Trinity M. E. Church South. Jere H. Wheelwright of Consolidation Coal and B F Bush of Missouri Pacific head delegations to a Foreign Trade Convention in St Louis January 21 22. Big Bear Attacks Skaters Near Magnolia W Va as two men fight off a bear with an iron pipe. Alfred A Whitman suit against Firlie Brothers to be argued in city court this afternoon with verdict not expected until evening.
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William Escott
Salvation Army
Seige
Army Hall
Escott
Trinity M. E. Church South
Jere H. Wheelwright
Consolidation Coal Company
American Mining Congress
St. Louis
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Magnolia
W. Va
John Furlow
James Hite
Alfred A. Whitman
Joseph TH. Firlie
Edward Firlie
Firlie Brothers
Real Estate Transfers Continental Trust to Rooney
Real estate transfer lists Continental Trust Co transferring a parcel of land at Green Ridge to E Rooney for a sum noted as ten dollars and other terms.
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Continental Trust Co
Rooney
Green Ridge
Mortgagee Sale of Property in Cumberland Maryland
Public sale of a lot on Broadway Street Cumberland MD to the highest bidder on Wednesday January 27 1915 at 10 00 am. The parcel sits on the southerly side of Broadway Street and is identified as lot number seven in Broadway Addition Cumberland described by its starting point on Broadway Street near the Primero Avenue intersection and the Third National Bank.
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E. Ginneman
Allegany County
Maryland
South Center Street
Third National Bank
Broadway Street
City of Cumberland
Broadway
City of
Cumberland
iPrimrease Allav
Curtains and Pillows Sale with Goose Feathers
Fragments show a sale listing curtain prices at $1.50 with cream color and feather insertion, pillows at $1.00 to $1.50 per pair, and goose feathers packages at 75 cents to $1.00. Text is garbled but indicates a fabric and pillow goods sale with feather fillings.
Land parcel description in Cumberland Maryland deed details
A legal land description details a subdivision in Cumberland Allegany County Maryland. It cites parcels of Lots Eight and Nine on Broadway Addition and a subdivision of land conveyed by M. F. O Neal to C. C. Shriver, referencing deeds dated September 1 1873 and various bearings and lines near Broadway Street Verbena Alley Primrose Alley and Woodside Avenue.
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Broadway Street
Broadway
Charles C. Shriver
Fred Ginneman
Allegany County
Verbena Alley
Woodside Avenue
City of
Cumberland
Mary‘land
Broadway 5
Redt
City of Cumberland
Primrose Alley
M. F. O'Neal
C. C. Shriver
Maryland
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Mining Laws Committee
Frostburg
New York
G. F. Stringer, Jr
Stringer and Com
Eisenhauer
Hardy
S. A
Mr. Wheelwright
B. F. Bush
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
Western
Cumberland, MD
McMullen Bros
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Oxford
Larce
Jardinieres
Storm Serge All Sharls
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All Shades
W. F. Frederick Piano CO
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Louis ‘Stein
North Centre St
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Rland
John A Fulton & CO
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Cumberland, Maryland
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