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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1915
Page
17
Four small farms priced from 1009 to 1800 dollars are offered with 320 month payments, no interest and no taxes. A $20 down payment secures each tract, with monthly $20 installments. Properties are conveniently located near the city for poultry business prospects.
Ernest Pinnell and William Hess were arrested on West Pike street by Officer Michael Joyce for fighting and face arraignment before Mayor G H Gordon at 7:30 Friday evening in police court. They posted bonds of $5.60 and were released. Another motorist was fined Thursday for driving past a street car taking on passengers. Mayor Gordon orders officers to crack down on this violation of the automobile ordinance.
A Chicago druggist cure claim touts Mayr's Wonderful Remedy for chronic stomach and intestinal ailments. One dose is said to convince, with guaranteed refunds if the bottle fails to satisfy. The ad urges readers to buy locally from druggists with assurance of money back.
Weston High schedules a Saturday matinee replacing Fairmont High which has disbanded for the season. Coach Arnett’s squad has won most of its games and hopes for a large crowd to support the team with financial help needed. Mickey McMillan, who pitched well against Shinnston, will likely start.
Samuel B. Montgomery announce the Knights of Pythias in West Virginia will not pursue a Pythian home at Buckhannon. The $75 appropriation is likely to be redirected to a pension fund for widows and orphans.
An old medical advertisement touts S S S as a cure for blood disorders causing pimples bone and skin eruptions. It denounces pills laxatives and tonics as ineffective, promotes sweeping claims of cleansing and stimulating blood flow, and urges readers to buy from Swift Specific Co at 102 Swift Ride Atlanta Ga.
May 14 in Morgantown launches Good Roads Day with active committees in every district and push for labor and monetary donations. Counties offer prizes for districts completing the most work. Summers County promises personal gifts to the top district. Governors and civic groups urge statewide turnout to boost road building.
The fiftieth session of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows West Virginia grand encampment closes in Martinsville after a busy meeting with about three hundred delegates present. Elected for the coming year were Alba Wolverton Philippi grand nard Wheeling. Gilbert D. Smith St. Marys grand senior warden. Ed C. Ambrose Marlinton grand junior warden. Co L Simpson Huntington grand scribe. C H Rigsle Fairmont grand Licklider past grand patriarch Shepherdstown.
A party from Consolidation Coal Company led by H F Lyons and H H Watson visited Clarksburg headquarters and several coal mines in Barbour and Harrison counties. The officials traveled by automobile from Fairmont via Philippi to Berryburs and Two Lick mines before returning to Fairmont. In Charleston the same day authorities touted a forthcoming electric railway linking Charleston and Parkersburg with a start date to be announced soon. Also noted are comments on tungsten ore in Portugal and a Paris readied serum for gangrene.
A paper read by Scotland Gdtshland of Clarksburg W Va before the American Water Works Association in Cincinnati made a decided hit. Leading water works men lauded the work on sanitary waterway control and the department’s responsibility for consumer protection. The session closed with next year’s convention set for New York. Kenney Farley was sentenced to county roads three months and $100 fine for violating prohibition. he posted bond and was released after serving two months. J G Shaw, longtime newspaperman, moved to Waywood Junction to continue industrial writing for the Fairmont Times. In Wheeling Judge A G Darion sentenced W F Baldwin to three years in Moundsville penitentiary for counterfeiting and allowed 30 days for possible appeal.
At a Weston function Mr and Mrs John A Barnes announced the engagement of their daughter Maude W Barnes to Charles W Woitle of Washington Pa formerly of Wheeling and Moundsville. Woitle recently became general manager of the Washington News. The wedding is set for Thursday evening June 10 and will be elaborate with many attendees from across the state.
Governor Hatfield amended the May 14 call for the ex session to meet May 13. It authorizes restoring vetoed items in the general appropriation bill and allows amendments to strengthen the prohibition law. Senate leader E T England and House Speaker Vernon E Johnson head the session, with John T Harrie and John Guy Prichard as clerks.
A baby boy arrived Friday morning for Mr and Mrs Wyle A Smith on Hickman street. Stith of Southern Pine Lumber offers a wagon load of lumber free to friends. Mrs Odell of Wyatt dies aged widow left several children. In Detroit, motormen and conductors settle labor dispute unanimously restoring street car service.
Railroads slash California fares enabling a single ticket to include both the San Francisco and San Diego Expositions. Return trip offers a coast voyage to Portland and visits to Tacoma Seattle Spokane Glacier or Yellowstone. Offer invites plan details and itinerary from Burtinston representative at 606 Smithfield St Pittsburg Pa.
A runaway horse and wagon hit John Dolan's Overland on West Main near Fourth Street at 2:30 PM Friday, denting a fender and bending a wheel. The牼horse and wagon from Frank Cavalla’s Fourth Street stable were unharmed, with the hitching strap breaking and the wagon dashed up Fourth Street past Howard and Forest’s millinery.
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