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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1913
Page
2
A dense list of Sunday services across multiple churches in West Pike and Sixth Streets area. It covers First Baptist, Ash Chapel Methodist, St. Paul’s M.E., Central Christian Church, First Methodist Episcopal, and United Brethren Church with times for Sunday school, sermons, Epworth League, choir, and special events.
Stealey Heights DUFF STREET UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH offers Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and services at 10:30 a.m. with a 7:30 p.m. Christian Endeavor. St Mark's Lutheran on Park Avenue near Main Street lists Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning worship. evening service at 7:30 p.m. with Woman's Home Missionary Society meeting midweek and prayer meeting Friday at 8 p.m. First Presbyterian Church at Second and Main, led by Rev. Henry T. McClelland, D.D., holds Sunday school at 9:45 a.m., morning sermon at 11 a.m., and evening sermon at 7:30 p.m. Also noted are Bethel Episcopal Church at Sixth and Main with Rev. Charles Baird Mitchell as rector.
A compact notice lists weekly services across multiple churches including Weslayan Methodist, Wilsonburg Methodist Episcopal, Catholic, United Brethren, Northview Baptist Mission, Grasshills Baptist Mission, Vincent Chapel M P Church, Adamston Methodist, and The Salvation Army. It provides service times, Sunday school hours, and event notes for each, inviting attendance.
District No 1 lists residents in East Clarksburg including Broad Oaks Alto Vista Union Heights and Tinplate with names and addresses. District No 2 covers west Clarksburg includes Stealey Heights Highland Park Hartland Point Comfort Northview and Pike Street with numerous residents. District No 3 covers Harrison County outside vision listing many individuals by name from Shinnston Bridgeport and other towns. District No 4 includes Lewis Upabar Codaridge Wetzel Marion Taylor Barbour Braxton and Braxton area with several listed residents.
A list of multiple church services and schedules is presented. Methodist Protestant Chapel at Sycamore and Locust invites all with Sunday School at 9:45, sermon at 11, teachers class at 6:30, and a 10 p.m. service. Other congregations include Central Prae Tertan Crutch led by Rev. Alexander Blake, Wesleyan Methodist, Reorganized Latter Day Saints with 9:30 a.m. Sunday School, Industrial Baptist with 9:20 a.m. class and 7:30 p.m. sermon, Christian Science Society in Golf Building, Church of Christ Union Heights 10:30 a.m. worship, Mt Zion Baptist with Easter sermon at 11 and 2:30 Sunday School, Pride Chapel United Methodist with 10:45 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. sermons, Trinity M H Church class and Epworth League, all extended a cordial invitation.
In Marion county Barren North of Shinnston and Grant district see South Penn Oil drilled tests on Marseen farm and Minnie Patton farm. West Fork river Clay district reports Philadelphia Company drilling Nos 21 and 22 on Aleas brothers tract while Hope Natural Gas tests No 4 on Hood farm and near No 3 on Henry Lens farm through sand formations.
Popular soda fountain clerk Robert Harris at Stone and Mercer’s drug store on Third Street is recovering well after surgery. Friends expect his return to work soon.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a colt named Bachins with a small dose and a loan amount in numeric form. No clear event, date, or location is discernible.
Favorable weather sets a Sunday double header at Union Park with four City League teams. Bowlers face Scholastics at 2 pm in a chiefly fresh lineup for both sides, then Goff Building and Bike duel as league leaders seek a decisive win.
The body of Bartley Burns who died at Patrick McGann's home on Cherry Avenue after a battle with tuberculosis was transported by 6 o'clock train to Weston. Funeral services were conducted at St Berandine's Church and burial followed in the church cemetery, with a large turnout of friends and relatives from the city.
Judge Samuel Littlepage of the circuit court upheld the governor’s order to arrest and imprison Pris Merrick under martial law. Merrick, editor of a Socialist publication, faced habeas corpus demands amid alleged inflammatory articles against militiamen and state authorities. The ruling sides with the governor.
Miss Elfen Hoffae qualified as administratrix of the estate of her mother Mrs Lydia Hot with Nora H. Albright as surety on bond of HOG The approver of the estate are A. M. Donahue and Herbert Kellar.
Salvatore Blient of Clarksburg Harrison County West Virginia requests a license to carry a revolver as a special officer and guard for Hutchinson Company. Hearing set at Harrison County Circuit Court courthouse on May 27, 1913 at 9 o clock.
A fragmented OCR snippet mentions Elliott Building Company as contractors for a major ballad project, with figures 821-822 referenced. The readable text implies a large pay or project scope, signaling a significant contract win for the firm.
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