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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1914
Page
13
Property listing notes an inside lot in Colonial Height Addition with 49 foot frontage and train at 650 to 800. Fair Grounds Lots 819 820 priced as a pair at 600 cash, offering a quick sale in a terse ad style.
Cottage in Stealey Heights with a good lot and residence section offered at 2500 dollars with easy payments. The listing emphasizes a comfortable dwelling and favorable location in a good neighborhood.
Five room cottage with bath hall pantry and attic. Large basement hardwood finish throughout. Lot 40 by 160 feet fenced with a fine lawn. Eight minutes walk to courthouse. Terms include cash down and one or two year payments.
Nearly new Broad Oaks residence offers rooms bath and pantry with porches. Located close to Gof addition, property expected to rise in value. Price 3300 dollars terms: one half cash, balance over one or two years.
An advertisement urging readers to choose a qualified agent for fire insurance. It promises access to top line companies and emphasizes reliability and authority in writing policies that pay in case of loss.
Thomas Dillon confessed in criminal court on a charge of resisting an officer in the discharge of his duty and was fined 50 dollars and costs by Judge James W. Robinson. A warrant against J Verne Jotingen for violating a city ordinance by making a public speech without a city permit was quashed on a technical defect. The constitutional challenge to the ordinance was not considered.
News wires report the North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm II from Southampton to New York collided with another vessel and sought refuge at Spithead amid fog. The incident prompted coast guard skippers to assess damage and navigation status on the Channel. A separate U.S. tax ruling states cooperative dairies and mutual insurance groups fall under income tax rules, issued by the Treasury Department this week.
The ad touts White Seal Toilet Paper as made from the finest jute stock, highlighting a serene and silky feel. It emphasizes quality materials and a smooth texture for comfort.
Police officer Shahan arrested J Rocksberry after he allegedly insulted several women on North Fourth Street. Rocksberry was jailed this afternoon and will be brought before the police court Thursday morning. The report also notes a census figure for Ireland in 1911 totaling 920,371,193 acres with specified water and river areas.
In TELESATES MI, magisterial district delegate conventions were held Wednesday afternoon by the Democrats. Petar noted a vast change among students with sports and rowing becoming universal. Grounds were provided by the Prussian state and cleared at its expense, located in the Grunewald forest near Berlin.
At the Coal district Democratic convention held in the Lyceum theatre charges of fraud and ballot box stuffing were leveled by Thomas Francis as results for two district executive committee seats were announced. Luke Murray won 17 votes, Millard F Bartlett 77, and Horner 42. Francis and allies left in protest. Fred J. Shinn was seated as chairman, J. G. Shaw as secretary, with Murray and Bartlett elected to the county executive committee. Delegates named to county, senatorial, district, and state conventions followed, with several notations of contested nominations.
Heights crowd packs Ik Park as Miss Kate Wilkes famous colored troupe performs two shows nightly starting at 8:10 and 9. An all five piece orchestra provides musical support while Wilkes headlines with a lineup of leading colored artists. The Mothers Club of the Stealey District hosts a Christian service at 8 and urges members to attend. traction cars run every ten minutes to the park with return trips on the same schedule.
Miss Mary Helms of Newberg and Mr William Laughery of Independence wed at 10:30 AM Wednesday in the parsonage of the First Methodist Episcopal church. The couple will reside in Victoria, Preston county. Roy Donaldson and Wilbur Henderson, balloon crew of the Springfield, were found safe after days of search by rangers in Walker's Prairie forest camp.
A party of suffragists carrying sandwich boards to promote their cause was attacked by a crowd of working girls in Whitehall. Two suffragists were knocked down during the incident on June 17 in London.
Elkins was the coldest location in the United States with the low reaching 0.97 degrees. Frost formed but caused little vegetation and no fruit damage reports indicate. Crude oil markets in the Central West fell three tenths of a dollar at the opening, with Lima prices listed at 1.16 for North Lima and 1.11 for South Lima and Illinois at 1.18.
Trustees Frame Hartley announce that rumors of creditors in Fairmont and nearby towns receiving less than 100 cents on the dollar are false. All creditors of the Smith Race Grocery Company will be paid in full, with no grounds for reduced percentages.
June 17 Herlin The emperor and empress attended a May 26 dedication opening an expansive sports field for 14,000 students at Berlin institutions including Her Min University and Charlottenburg Technical University. The education minister praised rising athletic interest among German students as sparked by the emperor's initiative. The Caspian surface has fallen since 1910 hindering navigation at multiple points. In the United States apple trees bearing fruit total over 200,000,000 with 20,000,000 pear and 16,000,000 cherry trees. For Wine of Life see Hy BE works, the dragonet.
Twelve more cases decided by the Supreme court include State vs Cooper Fayette county armed judgment reversed for Corbin vs City of Huntington Cabell county new trial awarded Myers et al from Tucker county affirmed Gas Company vs Brick Company Cabell county affirmed Mitchell vs Bowman Lincoln reversed with decree entered Thomas vs Mott Summers Bank vs Jacobs Cabell county reversed and judgment entered for defendant Bank vs Poteet Raleigh county reversed and re entered for proper amount Campbell vs Switzer Cabell county affirmed Cook vs Lumber Company Raleigh county reversed new trial Kradberry vs Burlington Cabell county affirmed Clarke vs Grither Cabell county affirmed
Wednesday orders in the circuit court overruled demurrers in the chancery suits of Jane Clifford McManaway against Sarah B. Dolan and others and of Mary Angela McManaway against Sarah E. Dolan and others. A chancery order in Frances J L Reeder v Blan C Reader restrains the defendant from interfering with custody of Willian Hoey Reeder Lottie Loratta Reader and Rosalie Reeder.
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