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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1915
Page
3
Real estate ad lists four vacant lots in Virginia near the business district with prices 2350 and 2250 and terms 10. An East Main Street vacant lot 28 by 106 feet near spared streets and car stop is offered at 1050. Hartland Addition features new seven room houses with bath and basement priced at 2800 with reasonable terms.
Associate Justice William R. Day of the Supreme Court is cited as a proud Washington grandfather. A favorite grandson, Rufus Spalding Day Jr., son of Rufus Spalding Day, shares the Day lineage. The youngest Day, about two and a half, aspires to follow family paths into law like his father and grandfather.
George Blumlein, arrested in New York after pacing police headquarters, is suspected of being the notorious East Side child killer. Police investigators from New York joined local officers, and Inspector Fiurot said there was enough in the case to justify his detention.
County agricultural agent Zinn notes two meetings in Eagle district with 65 attendance and 22 farmers visited. Discussions cover crop rotation including crimson clover and vetch for multi year and one year cycles, soybeans, rye, and hay, plus plans for a pulverizer purchase. Next Saturday meetings limited due to Morgantown agents conference on June 9.
Baltimore and Ohio railroad relief department delegates will gather in Cleveland on June 24 to select three advisory members and one operating member for the year. All relief department members vote. the Monongah division representatives are R T Brooks F W Turf time keeper W H Shafferman clerk J F Tierney engineer Mid Stevens car inspector foreman I A Aikins conductor from Grafston and Fairmont.
Announcement states that a party of local men bought the Wickem Club tract of seventy five acres on the Potomac from L. R. Wickem. The buyers formed a company and incorporated under state law with capital of ten thousand dollars.
Washington reports Fed cross funds for famine relief in Mexico exhausted by Wednesday. About twenty thousand people in Guererro are practically starving. A narrow gauge train south of Vera Cruz was fired on, with nineteen killed near Moncey.
Alma Cremeans three year old daughter of John Cremeans a Chessapeake and Ohio railroad employee was found drowned in a barrel of pickles at the Adkins farm two miles north of Barboursville. Fifteen minutes after she was missed members searched the home and farm.
Chartered is the World War era Wallace Torpedo Company of Clarksburg with an authorized capital of $19,000. Corporators listed include E. Bel Dan Rostalter Ola stead all of Clarksburg and George W Ashcraft and B. D. Orr of Wallace.
A family discovery revealed a person found with feet protruding from a barrel and died when pulled free. Authorities investigate possible foul play and determine cause of death.
Ed wards suspected Allen's wife in the state penitentiary as guard Fred Robinson reported that inmate Chick en Joe Campbell offered evidence of Edwards guilt. Campbell was relocated from solitary confinement after he aided in the effort to rescue Mrs Allen during the Sunday incident.
The Harrison county institute for school teachers will be held here the week beginning August 3 and run five days. Instructors include Edward Rymearson of Pitts gore LL. L. Friend of Charleston and J. Russell Romine of Adamston. The last named will direct the music under Carl S. Lawson, county superintendent, who will enter that office.
In Huntington on June 24 Rev C E McGhee, recently resigning as superintendent of the state colored orphans home on Guyandotte River, is defendant in a $10,000 damage action. Larlean Tinsley of Fayette County claims he seduced her and is father of her two children, stating she was formerly an inmate of the orphans home.
Fred I. Shinn and Frederick Harstmont were qualified before the county court as trustees, each with bonds set at $200, while Cheries A. Sutton acted as surety on the respective bonds.
In Connellsville June 24 The The Frick Coke Company sued orders for lighting 400 additional ovens in this district. This raises ovens in blast furnaces to 2000 in the region, signaling expansion and production increase. President Wilson appointed Jelvis A Degrayier postmaster at Charleston West Virginia. Flaherty Kearns of Cumberland visits bedside of sister Florence who had appendicitis operation Tuesday in a local hospital and is recovering nicely.
June 24 in Fairmont Mrs. Mary Rager aged 19 died from injuries after a February fall when she broke her hip descending stairs in a department store while shopping. She hailed from Greensport Pennsylvania.
June 2 social items show Flora Preston recovering from illness and visits from relatives. Names include Barnes of Lumberport, Bastby Moore Bir, W. H. Richards of Clarksburg, William Bartlett of Clarkshans, Joseph Bartlett of Grafton, and Miss Nelle Comer. Summer term at Steim Colleges and a Huntington meeting of a state association of certified ac constants led by Franka Willzon, with local residents in attendance.
Notice states Susa F Wilms will not be responsible for debts contracted or arising, she having just married and moved. The notice references peace bond and related cause, with details limited by the readable fragments.
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