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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1915
Page
3
Bargain home with six rooms, bath, pantry, reception hall, front and back porches, good basement. Lot 40 by 120 feet with alley at rear on Orchard Street in Stealey Heights, a good residence area. Small cash payment, balance monthly payments.
The annual Tygarts Valley Presby terial of the United States Presbyterian church, the Southern Presbyterian church, will meet in Clarksburg on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday June 1 2 and 3 with local preparations underway. A separate meeting of the women organizations will also be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Manse inviting all Central Presbyterian women to attend.
Ira D. Starkey returned from Akron Ohio with a plan to hire Fred Stewart, a top tire maker, to join the Clarksburg Tire Company repair shop. Starkey, familiar with Goodyear workers, notes Akron plants produce 40,000 auto tires daily and shortages persist. Stewart, long experienced in tire making and repair, strengthens the Clarksburg plant toward being among central West Virginia’s best.
In Wheeling the United Mine Workers of Ohio sub district ratified the Cleveland scale of thirty nine cents a ton for loaders and eight cents for cutters in a rally before thousands. The scale committee would meet operators in Cleveland within forty eight hours to sign papers ending the year long strike. John P. White and William Green urged acceptance though some favor forty cents for loaders and seven for cutters. Delegates' vote showed strong sentiment for return to work as negotiations proceed.
A damage suit by Mrs. Martha Britton against the city over street drainage was placed on trial in circuit court. The session included dismissals and demurrers in multiple cases, with judgments confirming distributions of sale proceeds and a $485.92 judgment for Bessemer Gas Engine Company against J H Wilson and Company.
H Roy Waugh of Buckhannon former United States district attorney and prominent Republican was a distinguished visitor in the city Wednesday afternoon. Asked if he would run for Congress he said he does intend to run.
Sheriff Ross F. Stout announces Saturday night hours from 7 to 9 for tax payments through mid June. The delinquent tax list will be compiled the last week of May and published the first Monday in June. Pay taxes now to avoid appearing on the list.
Final efforts are under way to recover bodies from the Lusitania disaster after the ship drifted ashore near Blatintore on the south Irish coast. Seventeen bodies were brought to Queenstown with no American first cabin passengers among them. Tugs Flying Fox and Storneck, admiralty patrol boats, and beach patrols from Queenstown to the south coast of Ireland continue the search for remains.
A card bearing a terse suicide message was found in the framework of the Marietta bridge by a Williamstown worker. Dated May 7 with initials EM FE and an address in Clarksburg West Virginia, the card also carried a Braddock liquor store advertisement. Patrolman Wolfe and Chief Purman are handling the address.
Carl Duncan files for pardon on behalf of Sathre Harebs for a 1914 Harrison County attack killing one. crime occurred May 25 1915 and punishment was one year at West Virginia Penitentiary. Request with FG Pardon Attorneys in Charleston WV.
Cumberland Md May 13 C Lee French Cumberland division superintendent of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad is critically ill at his church home and infirmary. His blood condition is due to overwork and offers little hope for recovery. The program lists piano solos recitations vocal numbers by local performers followed by an apron sale and lunches.
Funeral services for 23 year old Joseph Mancheno will be held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception with burial at Holy Cross cemetery. Mancheno, a driver at Corona Coal No 1 mine 2 Northview, died after being crushed between a mine car and the side wall while bringing coal cars to the surface. He died hours after the Tuesday morning accident and was single.
Governor Willis vetoed the Tremper bill approving Ohio counties to participate in the Lake Erie and Ohio River canal project. He said the measure mirrored a Pennsylvania statute and conflicted with Ohio tax limitation laws. The move blocks state participation in the canal plan.
A committee of Americans in London conferred with Ambassador P2G on May 13 regarding holding a memorial service for the American victims of the Cunard liner Lusitania. Mr Pase supported the proposal.
The notice states that the service will probably be held at St Pauls and specifies that there should be no speeches.
May 13 reports the House and Senate agreed on May 20 as final adjournment and to push appropriation measures. House passed state department general appropriation bill for 32,497,405 this session and defeated a constitutional convention bill. Senate approved Crow bill for county solicitors and free open aid schools. Senate also passed other measures and Sproul introduced a joint resolution to submit a $15,000,000 road loan at the November 1918 election.
State jewelers in convention at Parkersburg chose officers for the year and named an executive committee to select the next annual meeting site. President W. J. Lukens of Wheelersville first vice president Olin V. Neal of Parkersburg third vice president A. W. Wallace of Huntington fourth vice president Will L. Fredeking of Hinton secretary and treasurer W. L. Jones of Martinsburg. Oxford RF Bill, chef at Wilsons Restaurant on West Pike, is introduced.
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