Invitations Issued for Christmas Matinee Dance at Waldo Hotel
The Delta Kappa Club issued invitations for a Christmas matinee dance at the Waldo Hotel on December 25. Kember’s Orchestra will perform from 2:30 PM with out of town visitors expected and patronesses to be announced. Also notes a Macedonian Bible class meeting at St Paul’s Methodist with a social hour after. Assembly Club to issue invitations Wednesday.
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Delta Kappa Club
Waldo Hotel Kember
Kember
St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Thompson
West Pike Street
Assembly Club
Hood's Sarsaparilla Claims Rheumatism Aid
The ad asserts Hood's Sarsaparilla corrects the blood acid condition and builds the system. It says the remedy drives out rheumatism by cleansing blood and has been successfully used for forty years for rheumatism stomach kidney troubles general debility and all illnesses from impure blood. Get it from your druggist today.
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Hood’s
Royal Neighbors Officers Elected in Knights Hall
Royal Neighbors of America held officer elections in the Knights of Pything hall. Elected officers include Oracle Flora Kline Vice oracle Julia Wine Past oracle Flora Nutter Chancellor Tizra Zinn Marshal Irene Sharp Assistant marshal Mabel Huber Tower sentinel Elizabeth Riley Outer sentinel Cora Lafferty Recorder Sadie Guinn Receiver Margaret Sayer. Installation of officers chosen will be held next month.
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Knights of Pything Hall
Oracle
Flora Kline
Julia Wine
Flora Nutter
Tizra Zinn
Clarksburg Gas Shortage Spurs Public Service Appeal
The Charleston papers report Clarksburg facing gas shortage and appealing to the Public Service Commission for relief. A telegram from W T Ford to PSC head E F Morgan asks for help to secure relief as the gas supply from Clarksburg Light and Heat Company remains strained. Morgan replies that all efforts to relieve the situation are expected regardless of expense.
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Charleston
Clarksburg
Public Service Commission
W. T. Ford
E. F. Morgan
Eyes Focused on London as Stock Market History
In New York on December 20 associates report Wall Street watching London's response to Britain's peace stance as steel shares plunge from 116 3 to 113 4 amid heavy selling. Investors pulled from commitments amid widening foreign uncertainties.
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London
New York
Germany
Wall Street
Steel
Wheat Soars on British Premier Speech Reports
Wheat prices jumped more than seven cents a bushel Tuesday as reports of the British premier’s parliament speech supported the response to Germany by Russia and France. The surge neared the peak reached before Germany’s peace proposal last week. A marriage license was issued to Walter G Siron and Alma M Carothers.
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Chicago
Germany
Russia
France
Walter ’G.'Siron
Alma M. Carothers
Rabies Report Near Mannington Details Investigation
Dr C RU Weyrich of Wellsburg with the state health department was directed to Mannington to investigate a rabies report. A mad dog ran loose in a rural area, allegedly biting several persons and many head of livestock.
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Charleston
RU Weyrich
Wellsburg
State Health Department
Mannington
Certificates of Incorporation Issued for Several WV and VA Firms
The secretary of state issued certificates of incorporation to Wetzel Oil Company of New Martinsville West Virginia Morgantown Broom Company in Morgantown Rector Barham and Taylor Inc in Bluefield The Buffalo Standard Coal Company in Wheeling and The Family Supply Company in Thurmond Each lists authorized capital and the names of incorporators from New York Morgantown Bluefield Wheeling and Thurmond with various counties noted.
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Virginia
Wetzel Oil Company
West Virginia
New Martinsville
Greenbrier
Wetzel County
Ohio
J. P. Ryan
E. Edmund Fay
Willard T. Higgins
M. Leonard Berk
New York
Benjamin PF. Grifith
Brooklyn
Morgantown Broom Company
Morgantown
Monongalia County
L. A. Mauat
Charles Sutherland
S. C. Cappel
T. Frank Burk
A. B. Maust
Mannington
Rector, Barham and Taylor, Inc
Bluefield
O. A. Rector
H. L. Barham
R. L. Pike
H. L. Robinson
Clarksburg
Icy L. Taylor
Elkins
Buffalo Standard Coal Company
Wheeling
Brooke County
H. O. Wells
H. B. Lockwood
Lunacy Commission to Review Former Mayor Pell’s Mental State
The county lunacy commission met to examine William C. Pell former mayor of Bridgeport at 2 PM. Pell has been in poor health for months after a trip to Florida and a later hospital escape leading to a complaint before the commission. He is 50 years old. The Citizens' Progressive party of Stealey Heights chaired by George W Bland and secretary Howard Robinson will hold a convention at the F. I. Day building Milford Street at 8 PM Thursday to nominate a mayor recorder and five councilmen for January election.
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County Lunacy Commission
William C. Pell
Bridgeport
Pell
Florida
Lace M/ Wolfe
Citizens’ Progressive Party
Stealey Heights
George Wbland
Howard Robinson
Milford Street
Probes Accident Under Baltimore and Ohio Rail Line
EE Winters chief railway inspector for the Public Service Commission conducts an inquiry into a Baltimore and Ohio railroad accident between Salem and Parkersburg.
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EE. E. Winters
Public Service Commission
Baltimore and Ohio
Salem
Parkersbureg
Unidentified Raider Sighting Near Adriatic Affair
An unidentified ship resembling a German raider profile with one funnel and two masts was reported in New York by passengers. It followed the White Star liner Adriatic into port after arriving from Liverpool, amid recent wireless warnings of such vessels.
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New York
Liverpool
Notice of bankruptcy for Homer S Snodgrass
In the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of West Virginia Homer S Snodgrass of Adamston is adjudicated bankrupt. A creditors meeting is set for December 20, 1016 at 10:00 AM at the Law Office of Frank Stout in Clarksburg to examine the bankrupt and present claims.
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United
Snodgrass
Ranean
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