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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1908
Page
5
A large shoe department sale clears shelves to make room for spring merchandise. Hundreds of pairs across women and children sizes, including vici kid and patent leather, offered at deep discounts from $4.00 down to 59c. Several hundred pairs in stock with prices from $1.39 to $3.39 per pair. Deals target school girls and bargain seekers with many boys and girls options.
RG Wilsonburg Fei attended Bramer rig matters on Grass Run in Sardis district amid contract talks with Wil son Carter Oil Gun citing. A St Louis soap drummer and Mr Schrader of Washington Fuel Company visited town. J W Carter of Clarksburg conducted Wilson Carter Oil business. Dr Bartlett from Clarksburg attended professional matters. Charles Hall ill. Mra C H Hollister on air. Mc Baker and Samuel A Sturma with Tmensy Galyted.
The body of Mrs Dolly Hawkins who was shot by her husband John Hawkins at their home in Wilsonburg Saturday night January 25 was buried in Elk View cemetery Tuesday afternoon. Funeral services were held at Clifford Osborn undertaking establishment at 3 o clock and the burial followed. The body was held at the morgue pending relatives, telegraph messengers went to several places in Kentucky and Virginia seeking kin but none could be located. The Rev G W W Jenkins conducted the funeral.
A coal company worker about 35 died when an express train struck him as he walked along the track near Simpeanly west of train No. 55. The victim, employed by Rosemont Coal Company, was returning toward his home when the locomotive rounded a curve and struck him.
A Morgantown social column lists a Phi Kappa Page event honoring Mrs Cochran with a dinner and dance, with Joy McGill Dawson and James Smith in charge of entertainment. The chapter plans a morning train trip to Dawson, a Friday chapter house supper, and notes various attendees. Additional items include a large bridge party for Miss Chadwick with Miss Martha Bassel winning top prize, a surprise 52nd birthday for Mrs Victoria Hansford, and multiple club dances and notices for a military ball and a mid winter meeting of the Prescilla Club with a banquet in the Waldo parlor.
Pittsburg guests visit Airs Delson as Tuesday Club meets featuring Prehistoric Italy topics and papers on Etruscan art Founding of Rome and child labor studies. Friday Reading Club hosts Dr and Mrs Holt with discussion and refreshments. Sterling Hive plans grand ball. Grafton youths invited to Clarksburg Mannington Leap Year event on the 14th.
Will J. Hayner, editor of the Burley Bulletin, reports his wife suffered a long persistent cough causing sleepless nights. After trying remedies for years, a triad recommended Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Three doses stopped the cough and it has not returned. The remedy is sold by dealers. Rev. John A. Reynolds traveled to Weston. Mrs. Alma Swager departed for Savannah, Georgia.
An old advertisement touts Bees Lasative Cough Syrup for coughs colds croup and whooping cough. Claims soothing relief for children with gentle laxative and pain relief properties. Mentions price five cents and local seller 7 Barwa.
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