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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1915
Page
13
Real estate ad offers a five room house on Terel Tot at 2000 with bath parlor basement cement sidewalks and rear alley. Nearby Owens Borie Factory and church school car line. Also Crawford Place subdivision lists three small farms priced from 1 to 1800 with terms 20 down 20 monthly, no taxes or interest.
In Washington on March 1 Neely proposed sending 200 bass from the Bureau of Fisheries to the Oral Fishing Club in Clarksburg West Virginia to stock its Iske at Oral. West Virginia.
Cottage prayer meetings for the famicom evangelistic campaign are set for Thursday morning from 3 to 10 30 o'clock. Meetings listed by ward and district name leaders and locations including Mrs Burton Atex mersS 129 Oak Street and Rev G B Mitchell at 115 South Sixth Street. Additional hosts include Mrs W C Baylor 466 Water Street Mrs Balkman (address), Mrs Wilson An non g Carr Avenue, and others across wards with leaders Mrs S A Smith Mrs Wines 340 Hickman Street and Rev W Foglesong noted.
Minnie Hartley and Mt. Clare will appear before Magistrate Jack Sop V. Carter next Monday evening at 7730 o clock on a charge of carrying a razor. Hartley was arrested at the interurban station Tuesday evening by Constable C L. Ford under a warrant issued by Belle Whitehair. Burns Fatal in Grafton: Helen Louise Browning, 17, daughter of Mr and Mrs C H Browning of Christian Street, died from burns after her clothing caught fire at a grate.
Andrew Reed and wife of Broadwater flats Glen Elk were tried after a suit case with bottles was presented as evidence. Deputy J H Tenney escorted the couple to Magistrate W E Starcher’s court on Wednesday, with a seized item listed as an exhibit.
Leg loses a fairmont teen after a freight train crushes his left foot while riding between cars on the Short Line branch. He is taken to Fairmont and then to Miners' Hospital where doctors perform a below knee amputation.
Representative Maher of Berks county presented to the House a petition for the immediate impeachment of Judge Thomas M Belridge of Blair county. The petition, signed by Edwin Maher, is said to come from testimony given before the Industrial Relations Committee in Washington, D. C.
In London on May 29 Premier Asquith announced to Parliament that steps are under contemplation to reconstruct the government on a broader personal and political basis.
L R Phillips spent Wednesday afternoon in West Union to handle business matters. C M Shahan will travel to Pittsburg Wednesday night for several days of business. Mrs J K Henderson arrived home from Philadelphia where she spent three months with her ill mother. Henderson’s mother is much improved and near full recovery. M Farmer returned from Wheeling after a week of business bookings.
Mrs Florence Mayes wife of Ash ley Mayes a noted Adamston carpenter and Archie Talkingtor a Wilsonburg car No 234 motorman were injured as the streetcar jumped a Glenwood trestle near Adamston at 1136 am If not for a county bridge over Limestone Creek the car would have plunged twelve feet to the creek bed The wreck prompted hours of work to clear the line with all passengers shaken but not seriously hurt including Mayes who suffered a sprained wrist and minor facial cuts.
Formal opening of a petite railroad in Harrisville promises to ferry fareless passengers to enjoy fried chicken while listening to eloquent orators. Town leaders boast ample funds for public works, sidewalks, and local improvements as they launch the shortest crooked line.
United States war dispatches report the Lancashire territorial division making progress at night and then advancing again the next night. Our howitzer battery aided by aeroplanes blew up ammunition wagons and struck a Turkish heavy howitzer. Enfilade fire demolished enemy trenches and gun emplacements, with daily improvements in Anglo French positions.
Paris May 19 The official statement notes bad weather and no new developments on the front aside from artillery exchanges at various points. To the east of the Yser two enemy attempts were checked by our fire.
Delegates at the Lake Mohonk Conference hear a call not to trade honor for peace and not to ignore distress in pursuit of harmony. Dr John Bessett Moore of Columbia University opens the president’s address on attaining common objectives through international arbitration with remarks by Theodore Marburg and Jonah Barrett.
Will of Mary S Shain probate confirms Lillian Shain as administratrix with a $100 bond and W Gur Shahan as surety. Estate appraisers are T B Willison Ledra Trace and Thomas L Rooney. The will directs $300 for Ruth Selma Shain to be held in bank until age 21, with provisions if she dies earlier, and outlines remainder to other heirs including Charl Lilian Shain. others named Leslie.
Police today seek the owner of a motor vehicle bearing the state license number 0812 as it allegedly drove past a street car. The auditor's office in Charleston has been notified for records.
Rome reports a royal decree published in the official gazette states that all railroad lines and stations in Italy are now entirely under the supervision of military authorities. The decree, dated Rome May 18 via Paris May 19, outlines centralized control of transport infrastructure during the crisis.
A Wednesday morning paper wrongly claimed Miss Christine Fox of Jackson street died Tuesday after a long TB illness. The 23 year old is alive and improving. Relatives demand a correction and public apology in the next issue.
George Murray, manager of the Odeon theater, announced that photographs of the Cunard steamship Lusitania, torpedoed and sunk off the Irish coast with 1500 deaths, would be exhibited Thursday at the paradisade and also shown Friday and Saturday.
Telegram to Chief Brooks says Parsons Police Chief Minear will send an officer to take charge of Flander Twiller, a colored man who escaped a road gang Saturday and was captured Monday night. Twitler faces charges of selling intoxicants and is also wanted for shooting up a Western Xseryland passenger train.
City police raided an alleged house of ill repute on Mechanic street and arrested Carl Green Etta Perkins and Nannie Bowles all colored for assembling for immoral pur poses. They were ordered to leave the city when arraigned before Mayor G H Gordon in police court with a three month order and officers were told to re arrest any of the trio found in the city. The raiding squad was led by Listenant Whyte and included Sims White and Sherman.
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