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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1914
Page
13
Colonial Heights seven rooms bath attic porches on a 40 by 136 foot lot priced at 5000 dollars. Virginia Street Vyant lot 33 by 124 feet priced at 750 dollars. Carlisle Court high room house with bath pantry basement finished in oak on a 36 by 52 foot lot priced at 4500 dollars with 2000 cash and balance due in one and two years.
Fronting Hartland Avenue these two lots are offered at 2200 dollars for both. Terms include one fourth cash, balance in one year and three years.
Seven room house with bath pantry and basement, woodwork described as hardwood with cabinet mantels. 2x198 feet lot at Highland Park Lot No 68 Park Boulevard. Prices and terms include 4750 dollars with one third cash and one and two year plans, 1800 dollars for the lot with one fourth cash and balance in one or two years, and a vacant lot No 474 at the Fair Grounds on Pennsylvania avenue for 325 dollars cash.
Readers are told that no dispatches from London or Washington mean nothing of interest occurred. The column jokes that absence of advertising news from a big store suggests the same.
Indiana politics show a pronounced Republican drift after recent primaries. Bull Moose votes collapsed from 5 658 in 1912 to 660 this year in Lake County. Democratic totals fell while Republican gains appeared statewide, with Hays reporting broad dissatisfaction and substantial gains in Lawrence and Henry counties. Also notes a Balt imore dealer James Hoyle Jr welcoming a ten pound baby, the store expected to reopen by the Fourth.
Charles L. Patton qualified as executor of the Luther M. Patton will without bond. M. G. Sperry, B. Sperry, and W. L. Highland were named appraisers of the estate. A marriage license was issued to Howard McWilliams and Mamie Myers.
A brakeman named A B Buch from Paden City died under a Baltimore and Ohio freight near Chestnut Hill three miles below Moonsville. His mangled body was taken to Grizzle undertaking parlors at Moundsville and prepared for burial. He was young and unmarried. Parents traveled from Paden City to claim the body.
A Flemington notes column lists visits by Mrs Hugh Shayer and son Robert of Elk Lings and Mr Tracey Currey of Clarksburg visiting relatives. Visitors include Mr and Mrs Blaine Nixon Graf ton Mrs A P Roach and others with connections to Grafton Philippi Fairmont Wheeling Parkersburg Morgantown and Parkersburg social rounds. An import figure cites India last year matching 2 745 000 dollars in matches.
Social items report local freight agent H. Wells and wife on a picnic to Dunbar and Fairmont with bemused observers and a layover plan to entertain, while Ash Chapel Ladies Aid hold a 2:30 pm meeting and Elk Park hosts a Children’s Carnival with 900 toys and a grand march at 8:30 pm.
Elk Park adds a large colored dance hall titled the largest dignity hall. Ashley Grayson leads the hall with his orchestra providing music for dancing. The hall opens Wednesday evening.
The state council of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics and the Daughters of America will meet in Clarksburg September 16 and 17. The printing craft is said to be better organized in Germany than in any other country, with over 90 percent of German printers as union members.
The article explains a seven day period ending at midnight seven days from today to enforce a statewide prohibition. It notes no expected disturbances, but liquor sellers will relocate or liquidate stock quietly. Vacant rooms may reopen as soft drink shops or restaurants, while others will switch to pool halls or continue similar business.
Downstate newspapers report Senator M. White of Mingo County will serve as warden starting July 1 with Governor Battiala yet to announce official confirmation. The notices present a positive view of the appointment and its timing.
Thomas D. Smith files a habeas corpus action against John L. Haney to require surrender of Nancy Victoria Smith a minor child and granddaughter to Smith returnable Saturday Haney is required to show cause why custody should not be surrendered.
George R. Jackson son of the late Benjamin Jackson railway postal clerk has been granted a law certificate by the county court. He recently graduated from Yale University Law School with high honors and opened an office in the Goff building to begin practice. He is described as an able young man with a bright future.
An adjourned meeting of the city council will be held at 7:30 this evening to adopt a new license ordinance.
John Lawrence Flanigan infant son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence M Flanigan died Tuesday morning at the family home off Virginia avenue after a short illness of stomach trouble. The body will be taken to Grafton for burial Wednesday morning.
We thank friends and neighbors for sympathy and resistance during the illness and death of our baby Catherine Dantel. Mr. and Mrs. D Dantel.
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