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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1907
Page
5
Department reorganization boosts sale of suits coats wash suits and raincoats. Numerous items across women’s wear including Cravenette rain coats lawn dresses and kimonas reduced to attract customers amid August shopping.
Determined to make business in White Oxfords. 120 pairs Ladies' White Canvas Oxfords selling at 1.25, 1.50, 2.00, 3.50 goat 98c, 1.10, 150 and 2.85.
Classified note offers a 0 by 120 foot residence lot in Clarksburg must be sold at once as a bargain. Interested buyers are invited to write to G L W at the Telegram office Clark stdngafternoon. Also mentions city official Suffolk street committee and various mining stock offers phrased in promotional style with unclear details.
The wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Walters was held Wednesday at the bride’s home in Simpson district. The Rev. Robert B. McDavel officiated, followed by a bountiful dinner. Mr. Walters, a graduate of Brosdue Institute, is a Northview merchant. Mrs. Walters is daughter of James E. Crim. The couple will reside in Northview.
The Coal-Clark Sunday School Association meets this afternoon at Duff Street United Bee church with President Harvey W. Harmer presiding. Rev. Paul Flanigan, secretary, is present as sessions open at 2 with song service and devotions. An 2:45 address on Ben's Bible Class Movement and a paper on Training Young Classes are read, with Taney Harrison delivering an address on The Teachers' Meeting. Tonight features a 7:30 praise service and 8:15 addresses focused on driving home the lesson, with election of officers and benediction.
Large audiences attended the opening of the Welland Family Theatre on Pike Street. The Handsome room was fitted for theatrical use. Program included Optograph motion pictures, Carl D. McCullough impersonator, Anna Mae Kenyon illustrated song, and Bailey and Taylor in koon komedy.
An early morning blaze destroyed a Baltimore and Ohio grain elevator at 4 Josa, with losses pegged at 175000. The entry notes a marriage license issued for Elmer Utterback and Emma Rada baugh and mentions Telegram classified ads offering free employment assistance starting with today’s issue.
A collage of brief items reports Adna Martin's body examination and a gossiped funeral for a girl named Ate Cohan, notes Pastor Smith’s death and a Republican delegation link, plus Persian frontier clashes with Mevan shelling and child casualties. Real estate transfers list multiple city plots, and a public notice invites veterans to the courthouse for a cannon-placing event on August 10 at 2 p.m.
Real estate ads describe 11 room house on South Chestnut with 40x100 foot lot priced at 5200, 5 room house on West Main near business district for 7300, 3 room Broad Oaks house at 1250, vacant lots on South Chestnut and Stewart Addition, 8 room West Main house at 8500, 7 room South Chestnut house, and Glenwood Addition lots with easy payment plans. Also offers for industrial Capitol avenue lot, and general services for buying, selling or renting property in the city.
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