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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1908
Page
5
Remnants sale advertised for Ledding Shopping Center in Central West V Parsons SC begins Monday at 9 in the morning. The event features many lengths of silks, fabrics, carpets, and wall coverings with odds and ends from prior sales offered at greatly reduced prices. Shoppers are invited to inspect a large lot of remnants including fancy silks and children's fabrics through the weekend.
Three weeks before Easter, shops promote dressy feet with a broad selection of footwear. Nice new lines include tans patents and dull leathers with oxfords in various styles. Prices range from 1.50 to 4.00 with options like a Golden Brown plain toe flexible sole and two strap patents selling around 2.00 to 2.50.
Flora Harvey returns from Elking for stepmother’s death as Bridgeport bank cashier Harry F Armstrong resigns to move to Colorado. Gordon B. Lute to fill cashier duties until successor, Armstrong praised for years of service and large circle of friends. Local notices mention school visits, social club, baptist sermons, and Dr Shoop Cough Cure advertisement.
Local notes mention Leslie Hawker returning from St Louis after a week for a rare convention, and George A Ferguson heading to New York for several days of business. Reports include several townspeople visiting relatives, job changes, and a child named George Short who fractured none bones after a porch fall.
Miss Nannie Lowe hosted a gathering Saturday evening at her mother's home corner Mulberry and Sycamore streets. Guests enjoyed games vocal and instrumental music and elegant refreshments. Thimble parties at Waldo start Miss Hamrick's lessons with daily sewing and new coloring fabrics. Lessons run 9:20 to 12 and 1:30 to 5 open Tuesday evening.
Washington reports strong talk that Senator Nathan B. Scott will be offered the temporary and possibly permanent chairmanship of the Parkersburg convention to name delegates at large for the Republican national convention in Chicago. A state committee member says Scott may accept. Deputy Sheriff W B Leonard and Fairmont residents Meredith and Fleming are in the city.
In Morxatt county primaries for congressional district and state conventions C. W. Swisher won the governor race by a large majority. Congressman G. Cy Sturgia and Williams H. Tart drew support as delegates. Morgan county elected 258 delegates to the county contention with seven delegates to other conventions, Gordon Late reported from Bridgeport.
Joseph Adams, a well known contractor, lost a pocketbook containing $15 and papers on a Saturday evening trip from the Union bank to Broad Oaks. The pocketbook was later found and the money returned after informants pointed the way at North giow where articles were recovered by boys. Claremore McCarty faced Mayor Crile in police court for five violations and a $5 fine for pe wews.
R Lee Riggs, a former local resident now in Philadelphia, joins others filing for a license to sell alcohol in Satem City for fourteen months starting May 1 1908. The petition by Meyraon Brewing Co seeks a hearing before Harrison County Court at 27th April term.
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