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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1915
Page
17
Traction Company express cars depart from Clare Weston Shinnston and intermediate points for Grascelli O Neil Farmington Fairview and Mont Mt intermediate towns. Service operates Sundays with shipments to Weston and intermediate points at 11 00 am and 12 00 pm plus 9 00 3 00 pm. Reasonable rates and careful handling billed as ideal for shippers.
Cantrell has been appointed superintendent of the Cumberland division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad with headquarters in Cumberland. He had served as assistant superintendent, filling the role when Mr French moved up, and the position is now permanent.
A woman identified as Mary Doyle was jailed on drunk and disorderly charges after arrest in Roaplar street. Officers Shalen and Donahue detained her Friday morning for a police court hearing tomorrow morning in the session at police courts.
Be Mumaugh, recently appointed factory inspector, spent a week in Clarkaburg examining factories including 60 Parkersburg. He plans to cover towns from here to Keyser and all south of the Baltimore and Ohio line with headquarters here. His notable finding is widespread cooperative safety measures. many establishments already follow a safety plan, leaving few new suggestions.
Charleston July 23 The board of grade school teachers taking the present examination in the state has been appointed and will begin its work here next week The list includes Superintendent KF Haught Shinnston W H Ketbough Sandyville Miss Susan E Abernathy Keyser Harold W Pigot Parkersburg Miss Carrie Keever Belleville Park City Orville Hackney Walton Principal J W Cole Cameron Miss Hazel Smith Huntington 905 Ninth Street Miss Mildred J Snider Spencer L G Hoover Cairo K B Richardson Carbondale Miss Mabel Rowan H R Slack Pinchton A B Marple Huntington and Mrs Marguerite McClelland Huntington
Examination for clerk and carrier set at the post office in this city on September 4. Age 18 to 45. Married women barred except divorced or separated women seeking self support, eligible for clerk only. Applicants must be sound. men at least 5 feet 4 inches tall and 125 pounds. For blanks and details contact Clarence L Gardener, Secretary, Board of Civil Service Examiners, Clarkeburg, W. Postponed examination: J M Saunders’ mental condition assessed by county lunacy board delayed to Saturday 10 AM. Saunders jailed. Put under peace bond: Wesley Woodford, East End, $100 bond for four months by Magistrate R Edward Kidd on a peace warrant by Nannie Woodford.
Russian Red Cross notes gas mask insufficiencies as German gases grow denser and quicker. Reuter’s Petrograd dispatch quotes Marshal French condemning enemy brutality and the use of advanced chemical weapons causing paralysis and slow, agonizing deaths.
The young people of Glen Falls hosted a surprise party for Miss Mona Golden with attendees including Muriel Koon Mabel Griffith Ethel Huffman Grace Griffith Kate and Mona Golden and Frank and Malden Griffith John and J Neri Kenney Joe Swiger and Berl Lynch Berthner Golden. The evening featured games and refreshments before guests departed late. Also noted are Staley Heights Ladies Aid selling ready cooked food Saturday at the Chicago Dairy on Fourth Street from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mrs DL R Charter of West Union visits Stealey Heights, Lloyd Hursey of Shinnston visited Friday, LM Hustead from Sardis was here Friday, and Mrs W A Batten and daughter Marguerite of Nashville Tenn., visit Mrs Clarence Gardner in Milford Street Stealey Heights.
J G Hogue resigns after years with the Central District Telephone Company as salesman and will move to Baltimore to enter the wholesale tobacco business. His resignation becomes effective August 1, followed by a Philadelphia visit to a brother before heading to Baltimore where many friends wish him success.
A muddled clipping ties civil service appointment plans in Salem led by Clarence Gardner with an eventful note on free clinics and a drugstore freckles guarantee. Nearby, Berlin reports an American note delivered to Germany and Mexico City portends muted U S contact as military conditions loom.
Industrial notes list visits: Larder of Wendell with Eonest Love, Mrs. Henrietta Nutter Schmidt with her mother Mrs. Flora Nutter of Broadway, J. Mason ill, Mrs. Lovina Hayes of Clarksburg visiting, Boya Maya on business, Mrs. Virgil Johnson of Parkersburg with mother-in-law Mrs. Arthur Barron, Mr. Holler and son Carl visiting parents in New Martinsville, Madge Love staying in Wendell with sister Mrs. H. M. Corder, William Cunningham of Morgantown visiting relatives, Misses Mayme Bush and May Gap of Despard visiting Mrs. Paul Johnson Union Heights.
A comparative statement for operations January to June shows the Monongahela Valley Traction Company figures with 1915 totals and 1914 figures. It lists gross earnings, operating expenses, and net figures, highlighting differences between the two years.
Andrew Tillman faces a magistrate court in Jackson V.Carter for alleged whiskey possession in a public place. The trial began around two o clock with all evidence to be heard this afternoon after his arrest last Saturday in Nojak for drinking wine.
A convicted murderer identified as W. Helly Griffith alias S F. Rose, who killed police chief J. O Thamp, was moved in shackles from Suttoni county jail toward the state penitentiary at Moundaville. A curious crowd gathered at the rail station during the transfer. The ship Hennava carrying immigrants from London to Australia later reported smoke from its hold after a fire.
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