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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1915
Page
3
A brief housing entry describes a real estate listing near Owens Botte with a level lot and 120 square feet. It notes a fixed price of 2,000 and mentions proximity to a streetcar line. The text is unclear but presents a small fixed price property with basic details.
Property listing for an eight room Milford Street house with bathroom pantry and basement. Describes level lot about 220 feet deep with alley at rear, paved streets cement sidewalks and proximity to church school and streetcar line. Encourages buying this good property at an affordable price.
Prices listed as 1 00, 31 300 and 31 300 with terms of 20 dollars down and 20 dollars per month, plus monthly taxes and interest. Opportunity advertised to potential buyers to secure a small farm in Cranford Place subdivision.
Eaton Bee, recently arrested as Sheriff Ross F Stour in Best Thing for a Bilious Attack, claims chronic indigestion and liver trouble. After a severe attack, he credits Chamberlain's Tablets with a quick recovery, per H C Bailey editor of Carolina News Chapin S C.
Bee faces arraignment before Magistrate Jackson V Carter at 2 PM Wednesday after Sheriff Stout found a whiskey bottle in his pocket while Bee visited a friend in the county jail.
Barrisepurs March 15 report on a moving picture bill granting examination and advertising regulation for films with a 1 per film fee. A bill repealing the 1973 cold storage act was vetoed alongside a measure governing health and safety in coal mines, criticized as a waste of time and money.
Harrisburg reports immediate steps by the state live stock sanitary board to compensate for cattle and property losses due to foot and mouth disease. The bill approved authorizes a million dollars already paid and indicates a larger sum will be sought in the general appropriation bill.
Edmard Ho Kintzer reports from Chicago after attending a national Socialist party committee meeting. The discussion covers wartime policy, anti militarism, and calls for workers’ solidarity while condemning pro war propaganda and the destruction of lives in Europe. The party states its opposition to militarism and urges Americans to prevent escalation and support peaceful resolution.
W. D. Zinn reports six meetings last week with 240 farmers in attendance. He intends four to six meetings weekly and visits to 20 to 40 farms. About twenty to twenty five demonstrators have been appointed to grow alfalfa soy beans corn and improve pastures. He invites farmers to meet him Saturday at the county court room or Monday at 304 in the Union Banks building.
The insurance committee presented proposed policy changes at the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers convention in Cleveland on March 15. A key draft would pay forty percent of face value if death occurs within six days of joining and sixty percent within ninety days. Grand Chief W. S. Stone urged faster progress this week.
London May 38. With few cars running most drivers and conductors of the London County Municipal Railway Street Car System walked off the job after a solidarity pledge to return only when a permanent pay rise is granted beyond a wartime bonus.
In the House of Commons, parliamentary secretary Thomas J. McNamara said 460 653 tons of British shipping excluding warships had been sunk or captured by the German navy since the war began.
Constable Reuben J Bartlett arrested Charles White of Mount Clare and served a warrant on Dorsey White a county prisoner for stealing 12 dollars worth of copper wire from the Byron Coal Company at Mount Clare. Warrants issued by Magistrate R Edward Kidd require trial in the city at 7 30 oclock Tuesday evening.
Thousands of miners and workers in the Black Country, the mining and manufacturing belt between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, went on strike Monday over a war bonus question. Names and places cited include LOXDON and the area around the Worders of Staffordshire and Warwickshire. Mr and Mrs George Rosen are noted in the fragment.
251 West Main street are the proud parents of a dor blez who is brouzht to an2tr home Sunday. It is their fourth ehna s but their first son. Mother and babe are doms nicely.
Brown and Nett, John Bennett and sister Linda Davis visited Clarksburg friends. Delpha Swiger and Earnie visited from Adamston. Miss Genevieve Swizer from Laurelton andMiss Hazel Knox visited relatives. Miss Nela Knox stayed with her sister Homer Rectine. Pearl McIntyre from Calwell noted. Molli e Harbert and Lizzie Harbert of Rock Camp, with Dr Harbert and Guy Marsh, traveled to Clarkshore. Andrew Heflin of Dola and Denzil Criss of Rosebud were in town. many locals attended singing school and social gatherings near Wallace.
Residents and visitors gather for church and social events across Clarksburg and Wallace. Clerksbur and Laurel participants attend singing schools, pie socials, and family visits on Sunday, with several locals staying for meals and informal gatherings. Notices mention Karl Jones, Tressie Smith, Forest Suns, and Leland Fleming among those seen in town.
Ror Shook was convicted on bootlegging charges and sentenced this morning by Justice Jackson Vascarter to sixty days on the roads and a ten dollar fine. Shook was arrested recently in Broad Oaks by deputies. Vannort amd 3fathener.
Dr J B Sunghans national organizer of the Junior Order United American Mechanics will visit Clarksburg this week. He will attend Clarksburg council meeting Thursday night and Lumberport council Friday night to lecture on the beneficiary degree. The visit promises a valuable treat for members attending.
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