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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1915
Page
3
Cottage with four rooms and large basement on a paved street. Cement block foundation, cabinet mantles, rough-in bath, good well water, nicely painted. Lot 50 by 120 feet. Price 1900 dollars with 900 dollars cash and balance on time.
Traction Company routes cars daily except Sunday from Clarksburg to Grasselli O Neil Clare Weston Shinnston Felicmont Fairview Farmington Mannington and intermediate points. Shipments for Mannington and intermediates due in station by 9 00 a m Fairview and intermediates by 11 00 a m Weston and intermediates by 12 00 m. Quick service reasonable rates and careful handling offered by Monongahela Valley Traction Company.
The Clarksburg Business Men's League will meet at the Masonic temple Friday at 8 pm for its annual officers election. Local newspaper and wholesale house representatives will discuss city business and civic welfare. County agent W. D. Zinn will speak on county agricultural conditions. A sumptuous repast will be served and a general good time anticipated.
In New York on July 22 a 50 year old woman calling herself Mrs Zor Emma Flagler faced 5000 bail for examination on a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. Frank Mahoney said he paid 800 after she claimed to be the widow of Henry M Flagler who would receive 15 million from the estate. Lawrence Heines of Brooklyn, representing the Flagler estate, backed the affidavit, confirming the widow claim was false.
Washington July 22 News reports Jefferson county West Virginia is released from foot-and-mouth disease quarantine effective July 19. Berkeley county remains partly restricted within five miles of Martinsburg or an infected North Mountain farm. Restrictions in the remaining Berkeley area are notably lenient.
In St Louis on July 22 the property franchises and all rights of the Wabash railroad, a $220 million corporation, were sold for $18.06 million to the joint reorganization committee of the road creditors under foreclosure to satisfy a $41 million mortgage held by Equitable Trust Company of New York.
Chief Troyer of Far go North Dakota holds 145 dollars belonging to Franky Semrad a Bohemian miner. Semrad previously worked in Columbia mines and later vanished after seeking recovery of funds deposited with a bank. Troyer has tried for four years to locate Semrad who after discharge from a Minnesota reform school asked him to guard the money. He sent a note from Check 37 Columbia Mines Clarksboro West Virginia claiming 15 dollars but has since disappeared.
Lyle L. Jones of Parkersburg presided as Elks state convention and reunion board met with Huntington lodge members on Tuesday to finalize plans for the three day antlered herd gathering in Huntington starting September 1. Exalted Ruler J. B. Pedigo led the push and credited for much of the progress with Huntington Elks aiding the effort.
A fragmentary OCR passage describes a cosmetic treatment involving a chemical solution and bathing to reduce freckles tan pimples and wrinkles with references to a product or procedure and a possible hall method, but many words are garbled and unclear.
Washington notes that further loss of American lives due to German submarine actions will be treated as an unfriendly act. The note asserts Germany admitted the rule that passengers must be removed to safety before sinking civilian ships. Officials expect the message to reach Berlin by Friday.
Charles Becker's last plea to Governor Whitman to save him from the electric chair was delivered to Whitman's private secretary Wednesday by John B. Johnston, Becker's counsel. The governor said he would not comment until he could study the document.
The annual state championship game between West Virginia and Wesleyan will be played on Thanksgiving Day at South Side Park Fairmont with joint management by the two schools. H A Stansbury and L M Peake will oversee arrangements. expenses shared. The game drew 5000 plus fans in 7 years and will seek seats for 7000 as sales start in October. Hiram Chapman, 21, married, died from a cramp while bathing in the Guyandotte river after being rescued from the water.
A 19th century traveler recalls a severe cholera morbus episode in 1888. Two doctors failed to help him. he substituted with Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy bought from a hotel porter for fifty cents and slept, then awoke improved and continued his journey despite lingering shakiness.
Paris July 22 The legality of military and civil actions in a military district prohibiting spirit sales has been questioned. Minister of the Interior Malvy was introduced in the Chamber for Deputies a bill to empower prefects during the war to restrict or prohibit the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages beyond natural wine beer and cider when in the interest of national defense.
In vacation court Judge Haymond Max restrains James P Ry man Atel M Ry man Thompson H Williams Onie Williams S A Blanch Smith Dr Carter trustee and A Smith H Williams beneficiaries from continuing construction of a house on lot No 1 Stealey Hebbts. The town asserts the structure sits on Fair avenue and the River road.
Frank Platt aged 14 from Covington Va was found unconscious on a Chesapeake and Ohio line near the Altier farm after falling from a moving freight train. He was hospitalized at Huntington General and is expected to recover. In other news South Wales coal miners accept terms and end strike.
Police sought a tall man and a woman in a white dress with a wig after the body of a five or six month old boy was found in a lake near Belmore outside O Conhelsville. The child's head was damaged.
In Kenton Ohio on July 22 Governor Willis and Adjutant General Hough planned relief for hundreds marooned and destitute in Hardin county marsh lands. Assistant Adjutant General Bryant reported the food supply near Kenton nearly exhausted and arrangements were made to remove those in peril and send food to others.
Reports from Kenton say eleven Kentucky farm laborers in the onion fields embarked in a canoe during high water and attempted to escape. The canoe was later found capsized and it is feared all eleven drowned after hitting a snag. The marshes remain underwater as residents fear another flood amid continued rain and deteriorating sanitary conditions.
Huntington July 20 Rolla Ferguson 21 a well known young man at Louisa shot himself with a revolver and died His mother vanished about a year ago and grief over her loss and a failed romance are blamed for the act
On motion of the state, W. M. Oldaker and Wayne Riddle were discharged Tuesday night in Magistrate R. Edward Kidd's court after being placed on trial for violating the anti weapon law at Union Heights No. 2 where all related residents were involved.
Ezra Matheny was fined 100 dollars and given sixty days on the county roads for selling whiskey. Magistrate T G Nicewarner also imposed a 10 dollar fine and a penalty for failing to appear as a witness in a related case. Additional costs and a related sentence followed at the Tugeday hearing session.
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