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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1908
Page
5
Auction style sale lists Ladies initial handkerchiefs at 48c per dozen, regular 10c each, plus assorted linens and drawn work at 20 percent off. Also offers Queen Talcum Powder 19c a can and Colgate's Talcum Powder 15c.
Filet bands in blue brown and white with varying prices. Rosary trimming in gold or black offered at 2.00 per yard and 0.65 per yard respectively. Near gold lace trimming two inches wide described as handsome at 2.00 per yard. A gold lace trimming five eighths inch wide priced at 0.60 per yard.
The Maccabees of Clarkslinrs and other chapters will field at least 75 members at Weston for today and tomorrow’s stale encampment. The Uniform Rank joins in the competitive events tomorrow. Several Fairmont Maccabees traveled this morning with others from across the state.
The record lists four couples awarded marriage licenses including Joseph Maurice Johnston and Loreny Sayre, Harry J. Jeffers and Emma W. Snyder, Samuel B. Reed and Alice C. Grapes, and Samuel Claypool and Mary J. George. An ad promotes “Tieaith Coffee” as a clear coffee substitute produced by Dr. Shopp of Racine Wisconsin claiming it contains pure grains and no real coffee. The notice dates to 191d and includes a health coffee claim with brief product testing remarks.
Local residents from Fairmont and Clarksburg visit friends in Weston. Riders and students attend events while Miss Athey returns to work after Typhoid fever. Mrs. Sperra Irwin dies in Weston at age about 82, a former resident of Shenandoah County.
President lauds Elihu Root's tour of South and Central America and Mexico. He says Root’s work linked the Americas, uniting republics for common welfare and moral progress in the Western Hemisphere.
The new Harvey Gregory led military and concert band holds a marching rehearsal Saturday at 2 pm in the Glen Elk area. Twenty members strong, in good shape, ready for engagements. Mayor Wood reports two arrests for public drunkenness with fines set at 4.60 each, money forfeited.
The funeral of William Washington, a Black man, was held Monday at 2 p.m. at Trinity Methodist Church conducted by Rev. OW W. Jenkins. Burial followed in Elk View Cemetery. Washington was a member of the large colored lodge at Elk View.
Fragmentary OCR reads lack coherent details but mentions a pond event with worms and Pride A.SC EK chereh. Limited readability leaves unclear organizers, location, and exact timing.
The fragment suggests a discussion of Sweet Melody Flour as a cause of rheumatism and suffering, claiming it brings pain worse than other dressings. It references craftsmen and weather related charges, noting a belief in a permanent effect from "chemie" recuts and brownhght on by demomee.
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