Trunk sale features light flatless Auto-Mobile trunks
A complete guaranteed trunk sale lists a light convenient trunk line with steam er and dress styles priced from 11 to 20 dollars and highlights the Auto Mobile trunk option.
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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1912
Page
5
A complete guaranteed trunk sale lists a light convenient trunk line with steam er and dress styles priced from 11 to 20 dollars and highlights the Auto Mobile trunk option.
Advertisment features wardrobe trunk products for ladies and gentlemen with prices. A complete wardrobe in a room or a portable trunk for travel is advertised as keeping everything in place. Prices listed include 38.00 for a hand comie trunk and 50.00 for a gentlemen or ladies hat trunk.
A complete line of suitcases is offered with grades from the cheapest to the best. Prices range from $1.50 to $18.00.
Ladies and gentlemen receive a complete line of bags in all sizes and leathers including black seal walrus Russia calf pig skin and tan options. New shapes and improved fastenings are shown in the window display with prices ranging from 1.25 to 18.00.
Miss Mildred Lam berd hosts a card party at East Main Street with American Beauty roses and a salad supper. Honor guests Mrs. Fergus O Connor and Mrs. Walter Fleming arrive from Parkersburg for a three table bridge party. A music recital at First Methodist Episcopal Church features Lamberd Kitamiller Roberts Brennan and others to aid New Church Workers Society. Libbie Lee Wiley Newton McMillan wedding announced for May 12 in Ennis Texas. A missionary talk by Mrs. J M Eddy to Ashchapel community, a successful Home Missionary Society bake sale, and a Parkersburg wedding of Lucy A Lasler and W R Hill conclude the social roundup.
City council discussed sidewalk permits on multiple streets including Lae Denham Clark and Lee. Applications by S. A. Smith, BE M Wilson, and C D Sturm were referred to the street committee. The Annex hotel saloon license was transferred to Raymond Coruil. A petition for dirt removal on Jackson Street was referred to the street committee. The mayoral board set a May 3 deadline for a permit dispute and the Kouta side would fire proposal was noted.
Weston reports the death of Miss Flor_thee Fletcher on May 1 after noon on West Fourth Street. She belonged to the Ledles of the Muccabees. Funeral arrangements are set for Sunday from her residence under the order's auspices. Survivors: her parents Mr. and Mrs. Gary Picteter. In other items, Keener Brick Plant will reopen Monday after a fire destroyed the old plant.
Fragmentary note mentions A Williams from Weston and E C Holmboe departing for Washington for a two week trip through the South. The text then drifts into garbled phrases about remedies and suspicious terms, lacking coherent event or reportable detail.
The graduation notices list diplomas for pupils across multiple schools led by Superintendent A B Morrisok. Notable honorees include Zella Anhoratt Wyckot Thelma Scanes Murvil Barth Beatrics Clour pon Harry Gox Laat Drummond Fenton Daugherty Clifton Cottrim Darrell Price and many others across Columbia Mikes Mary Gayolda Mamiso Mortis Charles Gayelde Homeo Arthur Farnum Olive Vernon Glen Falle Mona Golden Chiefton Spain Babo Eimestone Byrd Lang Ason Matheney Frank Lang Northview Verus Mathew Pearl Richards Harle Kelley James Barnes Charles Dennison Cecile Richards Otis Scott Joseph Carmella Wilsonburg Georgia Golden Mary Plant Theodore Johnson Dorasy Cole Hepzibah Foster Wright Howard Drummond. Total pupils in Goal district numbered thirty six.
In the office of Harvey W Harmer last evening a session of Conclave No 325 Improved Order of Heptasophs was held. Four large class were initiated including Dr J B Wanfield Thomas Burke Alex Brown Norman McBride J F Maler John J Flaherty F A Starick H E Davisson Frank Chadwell Wilbur M Swiger Edward Wallis C L Henderson B A Rider Arley Fletcher W C Moneypenny R H Brown Calvin Karling GB Tate Walter Jennings Joseph M Buckner John M Knox H M Lawson R M Batley John C Robinson P F Dargan Philip J Barrett Amos V Jennings H S Thompson Walter W Willis Dr J F Williams W B Alexander H Q Grave R E Wamsley Brooks Hart B W Willems Reve Castile Abraham Horton J B Hill S W Highland M L Freeland Llyvian Ledoux Dr R V Lynch Gilmer Weston Frank Hugill R A Farland Harry W Sheets H E Poorbaugh J J Connell W C Harden J H Callahan J J Coughlin L C Smith
May 18 report from Columbus Ohio says Colonel Roosevelt left for a northern Ohio trip ending in Cleveland where he speaks at night. At Marion a stand collapsed injuring several as Roosevelt continued from a freight car. Taft campaigns in northwestern Ohio while LeFollette meets campaign managers. Governor Harmon to speak in Delaware. Wheat prices show slight gains on closing.
A page one continuation notes a notable gathering of distinguished persons at a shipbuilding company event. Though President Taft was absent in the Middle West, Secretary Meyer attended from Washington with his family and naval aide Lieutenant Commander Palmer aboard the Mayflower. The attendees included Senators, Congress members, and heads of naval bureaus, plus Governor Cofenite of Texas and Governor Lyon.
The item notes a sponsor connected to publicanational committees and mentions a daughter of a colonel in relation to the event. Details remain fragmentary but identify the key entities and sponsorship link.
Jumbled OCR mentions Isaac Welly and Clarkburg events with references to a plant, bonds and witnesses. Details are unclear but imply theft or legal action surrounding a plant and a company. No clear date or full names to confirm a specific incident.
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