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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1915
Page
13
Vacant lots advertised with lot 40 by 120 feet and alley behind. Paved street and cement walks. Near school and church with rear line access. Price 3500 on payments. New Fair Grounds vacant lots No 471 on Pennsylvannia avenue priced at 275 with 100 cash and balance over time.
Traction Company express cars depart Clarksburg and Manhattan for Grasselli and intermediate points including O Neill Mt Clare Weston Shinnston Fairmont Fairview Farmington Mannington with daily service except Sunday shipments due at stations by 9 00 am 2 pm and 12 00 pm for dealers Monongah Valley Trade Tradition Company
Local store advertises value driven specials with the slogan asserting quality at every price point. This brief notice highlights shop emphasis on affordability and customer satisfaction.
The obituary recalls Rand's five decades abroad with family, his return in the centennial year to business, retirement to East Milton Massachusetts, and summers on Martha's Vineyard. It praises his role with the Mergenthaler type and his philanthropy, church loyalty, and community leadership. He leaves five children: Charles E. Rand, Mrs. Otto T. Freer, Mrs. Charles E. Springer, Mrs. Henry W. Chappell, and William Hand Jr.
The upcoming issue of Puck will carry a tale by two local newspaper men titled Picture Piffe or What Editors of Movie Magazines Have to Read. Sam Tallison, a member of the editorial staff of the Teelram, is named as author. The portions of the story were on sale at the newstands Monday.
Harry A. Howell, recently in charge at Elkins station, has arrived in Washington to join the weather bureau chief’s office. He will conduct special evaporation research, selected for his proven work in Elkins. Meanwhile Mr and Mrs Thomas G Ross welcome a baby boy at New Fair Grounds weighing mine and a half pounds. both mother and child reportedly doing nicely.
A vintage advertisement touts Hesinol Ointment as a proven remedy for skin ailments. It claims rapid relief from sores and burning, praising doctors and nationwide endorsement, with druggists widely selling the product.
A mass meeting for the Tuna and West Fort window glass plants will be held tonight at Head Dalli Lovelock. William G Birenen dower of Pittsboro as president of the Window Glass Cutters and Flatteners Association will speak along with other officials. Discussions will cover summer production conditions and possible adjustments in workers duties. The two plants employ twenty flatteners and thirty two cutters.
The Moose Lodge plans a Saturday gathering at Norwood Park with a full afternoon program including a five mile motor cycle race, a five mile marathon, a mile run, a base ball game, and five events for members only. A band will play all day with morning, afternoon and evening concerts and a special evening program being arranged by the committee.
A group of high officials from the Philadelphia Gas Company conducted an inspection tour of company property in this section. They traveled in two automobiles from Pittsburgh, stopping at Warnesburg and other places on the way. The party included HB Guinness, B Starling, H B Slake, M R Case from New York, and Joseph F Guffey and W T L McCoy from Pittsburgh.
The county lunacy commission will hear J Irvin Kidd on sanity at & o'clock tomorrow morning in the county court room. Belle Kidd is the complainant. A lunacy warrant was issued for Peres2i¢toria of Mead fowbrook, with arrest and hearing planned within a day or two.
Washington reports June 21 as State Senator James Suvther of the Sixth district rejects repudiation talk. He cites Supreme Court rulings on debt, assures state will meet obligations, possibly via twenty year bonds. He argues West Virginia’s wealth and high assessed valuation lessen burden against Virginia.
Reported from the front today that German forces resumed attacks against Austrian positions with greater force. Italian units face stronger Austrian resistance as defenses are described as well organized, with concealed artillery and rock-cut works.
Advices from Valdivostok state munitions for Russia are reaching Tokio port in large amounts. Rail forwarding through Siberia cannot keep up. Russian authorities have ordered cars and locomotives from the United States to improve supplies.
Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie Walker wife of George L. Walker will be held at 2 o clock Tuesday afternoon at Warne Undertaking Company's mor tary chapel The Rev W T Kenney will lead the service and burial will be in Greenlawn cemetery A street car will convey the funeral party from the undertaking establishment to the cemetery
The Elite Musical Comedy Company of fifteen pretty girls and two comedians will open a week at Norwood Park fairgrounds Monday night with two free performances. The troupe, with new scenery, costumes and electrical effects, will change programs twice weekly. Lovers of singing and dancing should visit the park this week.
Memorial service for Maned Jodee No 172 Knights of Pythias held at First Methodist Episcopal church Sunday afternoon. Members marched from lodge to church, with Pythian band leading. Charles J. Schuck of Wheeling gave a memorable address, followed by choir selections and an encore. The hall was decorated with poles ferns and plants, and after services members returned to the lodge room for a second address and music.
In a West Virginia circuit court suit, William A. Abbott Jr. claims Governor Henry Hatfield caused false imprisonment of Abbott and a Philadelphia colleague in Point Pleasant in March. Abbott seeks $10,000 damages, alleging they were detained by lawmen under governor's instructions and charged $48 for petty larceny before release.
Ly Rego and the state of Oregon clashed over railroad land forfeiture with the state seeking to stop loss of about two million dollars in annual taxes and the railroad’s sale for government benefit. Pulon Trust Company intervened under a New York mortgage securing 20 million dollars in bonds used to build the line. The district court ruled lands forfeited and the case went to the Oregon Supreme Court of Appeals after arguments in late April 1976.
Miss Mabel Bee of West Milford Miss Mary Swisher of Lost Creel and Misses Charlie Cassell and Hettia Young of Clarksburg depart for No 5 Exposition routes through San Francisco and San Diego to attend the exposition event with plans to exhibit and view the displays.
Charlie Eines and a second painter paid 660 in police court Sunday morning for being drunk and disorderly at a West Main Street saloon Saturday night. Arrested by Officers Donohue Alkire and Riley, they confessed in criminal court Monday to living together unlawfully, Judge James W Robinson fined each 50 and sentenced them to jail for two days. Morreis on Trial for merchandise misd.
David Thomas, a Welsh coal magnate and munitions supervisor for David Lloyd George, has frequent ties to southern West Virginia coal properties. He and his daughter were aboard the Lusitania when torpedoed but escaped. Also reported, Robert C. Peterson of Bunda, Pa, was killed when his car hit a trestle support near Coal Valley.
Ed ward Claypole is jailed awaiting a police court hearing before Mayor G. H. Gordon after being arrested Monday morning by Officer Sherman for vagrancy. The case proceeds Tuesday morning in city court.
Reginald Sie Kenna, exchequer, announced the authorized loan of 1.25 million pounds by the House of Commons for war needs. The loan will be issued tonight at par value and bears four and a half percent interest.
Fragmentary 19th century style debate arguing whether certain clauses abridge the right to vote. The text references the Fifteenth Amendment and alleged implications for qualifications, suggesting tensions about eligibility and race.
A man identified as John Beews was charged with drunken and disorderly behavior at a Chestnut Street home. He was fined $6.60 after police, including Sergeant Tracy and Officer Shermaz, were called by a household member to the scene where dishes were broken and household disruption occurred.
Mane 21 preparations for the White House arrival as observers await President Wilson. Cornish travels via New York to see Colonel Exe House, a personal friend recently back from Europe. Plans include leaving here Wednesday and spending Thursday in New York with Catone House Peddicord, secretary to Solicitor General John W. Davis, who has gone to San Francisco for the exposition.
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