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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1915
Page
3
Real estate advertising urges buyers to act quickly as market activity grows and opportunities appear. Agents tout favorable conditions, urging inspections, financing checks, and timely offers to secure deals before rates or inventory shift.
Three lots remain in Colonial Heights offered at 100 down and 15 per month for an 800 dollar lot. Close to the business section and handy to school, inside lots. Act quickly before these outside terms sell out.
Professor Frank MacDaniel headmaster of the Pennington School for Boys at Pennington New Jersey has declined the offer of the presidency of Wesleyan College tendered by the college's board of trustees. He cites Pennington School problems to be resolved and notes the board may meet soon to appoint a successor to Garl G Doney who resigned to join a northwest college. The decision is met with regret by trustees and students.
Albany July 2 Governor Whitman granted Charles Becker former New York City police lieutenant under sentence of death a reprieve until July 26. The governor said he would take no further action beyond the reprieve. If the supreme court does not interfere Becker will have to die.
Police report nearly 2,000 fewer arrests in the first fiscal year of prohibition than the 2,744 arrests in the twelve months ending July 1 1914 when saloons were banned. Two thirds were for drunkenness. The year ended last night marked the first twelve months since prohibition began on July 7 1914.
London July 2. In the House of Commons, declarations show British naval and military losses in the Dardanelles operations up to May 31 total 38 635 officers and men.
Dividend checks arrived Thursday for shareholders of the local banks, all reporting a prosperous six months. The semi annual payments reflect solid earnings and stable growth across the banking group.
A federal grand jury in New York indicted Rudolph Malik, an Austrian salesman arrested here, for mailing a letter on June 23 to President Wilson that threatened a political crime if he did not receive $300 indemnity for being unable to return to his family in Austria.
Washington July 2 government appeals to southern farmers to curb cotton plantings amid wartime demand stagnation led to a drop of 3 871 000 acres from last year. Based on last year’s yield this would cut production by about 2 454 078 bales of 300 pounds each.
The Board of Public Works, under the recent statute, fixed the state tax at fourteen cents per one hundred dollars for 1914 and moved 381000 from the general treasury to the school fund. Collections from the corporation tax reached 76000, and the board authorized transferring 489000 to the general school fund, bringing the total to 750000.
George W. Conley has qualified as administrator of the estate of the late George C. Blair with bond set at 800 dollars. J. Newton Conley posts as the surety on the administrator’s bond.
An advertisement touts a freckle removal prescription named Othine sold by Farrells Drug Store with a money back guarantee. It claims rapid results with first applications reducing lighter freckles and promises a clear complexion. Buyers are urged to ask for double strength ethine for best effect.
London July 2 The appeals of Mrs Emm a line Pankhurst the suffraget leader to widen women’s role in organizing the war effort have won support David Lloyd George minister of munitions agrees to receive a deputation of women eager to serve in roles including ammunition production.
Chief Wolf Plume, head of 3,000 Blackfoot Indians at Glacier National Park, has served as an authorized federal judge on the reservation for twelve years and has never granted a divorce despite many cases. The Chilean section of the Transandine Railway has been cleared and international traffic resumes.
The Board of Review and Equalization of Harrison county West Virginia will meet in Clarksburg at the county courthouse on Monday July 5th 1916 to review and equalize the county assessment returned by the assessor. The land and personal property books will be open for inspection for twenty five days thereafter. Any person may examine the books and correct errors in the assessment of their property. Given under my hand June 28 1916 Clerk of the County Court of Gilbert?
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