Birthday Party Honor Grace Radcliff at Blaney Home
In honor of Grace Radcliff, Miss Blaney hosted a surprise party at the Prunty building residence last evening. Guests included Leda Halderman, Vida Richards, Emma Thorn, Normatin, Fanchon Carpentng, Bessie Ervine, Kathleen Burng, Ethel Martin, J A Love, Annie Manley, Tressa Francis of Weston, and Frank Waybright among others.
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Grace Radcliff
J. B. Blaney
Leda
Halderman
Vida Richards
Emma Thorn
Normatin
Fanchon Carpentng
Bessie Ervine
Kathleen Burng
Ethel Martin
J. A. Love
Annie Manley
Tressa Francis
Weston
Frank Waybright
William Mulheran
John Smith
George Thompson
Fred Dalton
Italians Plan Catholic Church In Clarksburg
The Reverend Father Laurenzano has impressed the Italian community in Clarksburg during a week of talks. He organized a subscription drive at East Main Street yielding nearly 1,100 from fifty attendees toward a planned Italian Catholic church, with strong local Italian support expected to reach around 10,000 dollars.
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Father Laurenzano
Clarksburg
East Main Street
Laurensano
Burglars Target Heller's Store prompts bloodhound trail
Deputy Sheriff Lace Wolfe and Sheriff Rose F. Stout deployed bloodhounds to Tygarts Junction in Barbour County to trail burglars who entered Heller's general store Monday night and stole about 250 dollars in jewelry. The hounds recently returned from Randolph County where they tracked suspects linked to earlier farmyard killings and other thefts, with a hat left near Belington railroad yards as a possible clue.
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Lace Wolfe
Sherif Rose F. Stout
Tygarts Junction
Barbour County
Heller
William Durtom
John T. Davia
Dows
Belington
Hood's Earsaparina Health Elixir Ad Promise
An old style medicinal ad touts Hood's Earsaparina as a tonic to prevent illness, improve strength, appetite, and vigor. It claims unique ingredients and year-round efficacy, urging readers to insist on Hood's and note its distinctive formulation.
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Surauparitia
Abyargaloro
Howith
Hood
Unification of Methodist Episcopal Churches Endorsed
The Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South union plan won near unanimous support at the general conference on Tuesday. The report calls for negotiations with the southern church and sets the stage for final action by the southern church in 1818 and the northern conference in 1920.
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General Conference
Ue Methodist
Methodiat Episcopal Elewred
Methosiiat Episcopal Church
South
Army reorganization bill expands peacetime strength to 221000
Review of figures shows the army plan, as agreed by House and Senate conferees, would raise peacetime strength to about 221000 officers and men including 25000 state troops and scouts, with war strength near 240600 combatants and support units pushing total regular army capacity to about 261000.
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Washington
Honge
Senate
Chamberlain
Statroops
Philipinta
Stam Troopa
Sconta
Thonnel
William Welch Dead at 46
William Welch, 46, an agent for Halithiora in Olid Railroad Company at the Total Station, died after a hospital admission. He is survived by his parents and a sister Mina Tara Welch of Gutocin. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Baltimore and Glia Railroad Company after notice to employees. He was a former night freight agent and member of Clarketirg Lodge Knights at Pythian.
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Willian C. Welch
Anke Hokot
Halithioraint Olid
Total
Welelvstines
Slater
Mina Tara Welehic
Guitocnin
Mr Welch
Faltimore
Glia
Wevis
Clarketirg Lodge
Pythian
Nine pupil nurses to graduate from St Marys hospital
Nine pupil nurses at St Marys hospital face graduation after completing examinations at Wheeling. The exam closes Wednesday and the list of successful examinees includes Matha Shays Esther Thoin, Loulae Kearney, Kathryn Rinny, and others.
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of St. Mary's Hospital
Wheeling
St. Mary's Hospital
St. Mary’ Hospital
Aml Hievestri
Thy Girte
King Lin
Aire Misvoa Matha Shays
Esther Thoin
Irker
Loulae Kearney
Mate Mairet
Wage Increase Grabs Miners in District Action
Representatives of the miners in a district employing about 20,000 men said Wednesday that every mine in the district except mull mines granted the five per cent wage increase and recognition of the union.
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Graptos
Ronsday
Shredded Wheat Biscuit Returns Spring Vitality
The Lassitude of Spring titles a remedy for winter weariness through simple, easily digested foods. Shredded Wheat Biscuit, a whole wheat product from Niagara Falls, N.Y., is praised to rebuild tissue, support digestion, and renew energy when eaten with berries or fresh fruit for a few days.
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Niagara
N.Y
Bond Issue Considered For District Road Plan
Tin county court convened Tuesday at 250 o'clock to weigh a petition by Simpson to hold an election on a $200,000 bond for permanent roads. The plan lists multiple road segments including Beridgeport, Philipp cond east of Grasnells, Samuelli arte rod, Fatrindt pike, Simpson's crook, M. R. Lodge renidance, Went Mark river to Meadows brooks toward Henry McCard farm, and Griswald line to Paris road. The court plans to set a date for the election.
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Tin
O'Elock
Simpson
Dlather
Beridgeport
Philipp Cond
Grasnells
Enlisted Men Eligible for Military Academy Appointments
Sergeant A W Johnson in charge of local recruiting reads a War Department letter. The May 4 1916 act allows appointing cadets to the United States Military Academy from enlisted men aged 19 to 22 who have served at least one year, under regulations the President may set. Publicity urged to attract desirable applicants.
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A. W. Johnson
United States Army
Haw
War Department
United States Miliary Academy
War Army
Writ of mandamus seeks primary election officer revival
In Charleston on May 1 an alternative writ of mandamus was granted in the supreme court on petition by Attorney General A A Lilly seeking to compel Cabell county court to revive the list of officials named to conduct the June 6 primary election. The writ is returnable May 23. Lilly contends the chairman appointed officers acted contrary to the wishes of the other members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Supreme Gourt
A. A. Lilly
Cabell County
Lilly
Troops Entrain for Sheridan Duty Near Pittsburg
Brigadier General A J Logan on Tuesday ordered Tyrone and Sunbury troops back from East Pittsburg to Harrisburg duty. Troop HL remains in Pittsburg while other units head home. The transfer suggests a possible relief by week’s end.
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Nn Avodaran
Pittsburg
A. J. Logan
Sheridan
Tyrone
Sunbury
Blood hounds aid pursuit in Painter murder case
In Grafton on Tuesday blood hounds were brought in to help local and state officers search for two men who killed William A Painter and perhaps fatally wounded William Burton. Two suspects were taken into custody after midnight in Gratton.
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Grafton
William “A. Painter
Wiliam
Burton
Gratton
Natural gas almost gone warns official at meeting
Dr. Van H Manning, director of the Federal Bureau of Mines, told about a thousand attendees at the Natural Gas Association convention in Pittsburg that natural gas supplies will not last more than about twenty two years at current consumption. He warned that vast waste and the Cushing field developments have drained reserves, with estimates of irretrievable losses up to fifty percent in the field.
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Bureau of Mines
Pittsburg
Gms
Manning
Cushing
Oklahoma
United States
Lonte
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