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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1907
Page
4
A brief fire incident occurred at Berest Rove’s News stand on 8i 09. No injuries reported and authorities responded promptly to contain the blaze. Local responders secured the scene as investigators surveyed the damage.
An Evening Echo discusses rat damage nationwide and urges rat extermination using baryum carbonate instead of poisons. It notes rats spread disease, ruin property, and threaten agriculture, while offering practical control tips and referencing a West Virginia legal ruling on railroad car distribution and coal mining entitlements.
The court ruling affects coal car distributions, stating that per centages must include all owned cars and consider temporary stoppages. It favors shippers with no cars and signals a broad win for the Pitcairn company. The piece also notes Harrison county banking growth and local civic concerns about paving Baltimore Street, plus remarks on hogs and street safety in Weston.
The Clarksburg Industrial Company grants a 100 by 50 foot lot at Main Street and Fowler Avenue for a new Industrial Baptist church. Fundraising is underway as the church grows. Rev. R. B. McDanes preached, two were baptized by the water side, and four more baptized in the church baptistry. The congregation reports strong support and favorable outlook.
Mrs Clara McFarlin Patterson of Delaware will give an elocutionary recital tonight at 8 o clock at Adamston M B church under the auspices of Adamston lodge I O C F. Admission is 25 cents. Patterson is an accomplished elocutionist with medals from various public gatherings. This will be her second recital at Adamston.
Italians in the East End organize a dance band named A tras. Thirty members rehearse in the Davis building store room opposite the Nutter house, learning concert pieces and planning weekly practice and future punk performances reaching as far as the fair grounds.
A list of names including B Keen Mannington C B Highland Clarksburg A N Pritchard Mannington Edwin P Clemans Clarksburg E G Smith Clarksburg J C Hall Fairmont and many others across West Virginia and beyond appears to conclude a business section. Names such as Wm H Holaday Wheeling Thos W Ward Clarksburg and J C Jolliffe Littleton are shown amid locations like Clarksburg Fairmont Parkersburg and Bridgeport with scattered city references.
A New Year notice announces Col Cal's Japanese Art Sale at 405 West Main Street Empire National Bank building. The event Saturday afternoon from 2 to 5 features a diverse party of West Virginians and Baltimore connections gathering for attendance.
Tonight the graduates will present a program with musical numbers and readings. The faculty and school community invite all trimmed guests to attend the event.
One of the most beautiful pictures of the life of Christ will be shown tonight and tomorrow at the Grand Opera House in this city. Sweet Melody Flour may be associated with the showing.
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