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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1915
Page
4
Five room bungalow with bath and porch on a level lot four and a half by one twenty feet close to a streetcar stop priced at 2500 dollars with 600 dollars cash and balance over time. Also two story house on good lots near Hartland stop priced 2800 dollars with 1000 cash and balance over two years. Seven room house with bath basement and oak mantles offers cabinet finish and favorable terms.
Mrs. Josephine Gregory of Mont selio avenue telephoned Telegram to say she was not the Josephine Gregory reported on Monday as arrested for disorderly conduct.
President Wilson declared on May 26 that he had not considered calling an extra session of Congress in October. He said his mind was on other matters and there was still ample time to decide on such a session.
In Charleston on March 26, a special legislative session ended after an all night meeting. The committee found Governor Hatfield did not misuse funds, though a clerk was to be discharged. The session enacted the omnibus revenue bill, restored the national guard, and funded WV University Morgantown and the geological survey, while shaping public service, stream pollution, and road bond measures.
The city church announces welcome for all ladies and public at evening services. National speakers include Rev Homer McMillan of Atlanta Ga and Rev F Ho Barron of Elkins Miss along with Dr James B Graham of China and Rev Thomas P Allen of Be’ersly and Miss Jeabelle Arnold from Nashville Tenn. The schedule includes Wednesday and Thursday talks with further speakers to follow.
Redding California May 26 Lassen Peak subsided into its first period of quiescence since Thursday. The great canopy of smoke lifted revealing the crater. Ranchers calmed and began returning to mud covered farms and damaged homes in the valley as mud in running water and wells hindered livestock return. The Italian post office has suspended parcel post with the United States causing packages in transit to be returned to senders.
An advertising piece claims humors cause dry moist and scaly eruptions and that drying medicines are dangerous. It extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as the old reliable remedy that discharges humors improves digestion and assimilation purifies the stomach and strengthens the system from root to tip. It urges readers to ask for Hood's Sarsaparilla, claiming nothing else works like it.
Alpine Texas May 26 A posse left Valentine for a border area where a night battle between Mexicans and Texas river guards and rangers left two Americans missing. Ranger Bates and Joe Sitters reportedly captured or killed after forced retreat. Bates noted for a prior duel with two Mexicans. Sitters famed for killing Mexican outlaws including Seferino Torres in 1912. No confirmation of Mexican fatalities.
May 26 the second conviction of former Police Lieutenant Charles Becker for the murder of Herman Rosenthal the New York gambler was upheld by the court of appeals. Becker now faces execution unless he wins clemency from Governor Whitman or a reversal by the U S Supreme Court.
May 26 report that wholesale internment of alien enemies began in Vancouver Island coal mines. By noon 115 Austrians and Germans were placed on a special train bound for the internment camp in South Field Cumberland and Nanaimo mines. The alien workers had been used as strike breakers during the Western Federation strike a year ago. the former workers are now to resume their jobs.
Germany hosts a spring meeting at Hoppesarten near Berlin with a near peace-time crowd. Pari mutuel betting is halted while bookmakers may accept wagers without published odds. American trainers face no major protests as jockey Archivald notches two popular victories.
George C Blair aged 72 and a retired farmer died at his Union Heights home at 10 o'clock Monday night after a long illness. He is survived by two sons John D Blair and Daniel Blair two daughters Ida Conley Daily Lawson Minnie Hartley and two sisters Martha Blair and Mary Kelley. Funeral services were held at five o'clock Wednesday at the Blair home.
Bishop Earl Crenston of Washington D C notifies that the annual West Virginia Conference date moved up two weeks from October 6 to September 22. The conference will be held in Parkersburg.
Note from The Hague via London dated May 26 protests the May 7 torpedoing of the Lusitania by German submarines. The Dutch government cites loss of several Dutch lives and says the contents mirror the American communication on the same subject.
A vintage ad promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a well known option for a pleasant bowel cleansing. It touts nightly use to maintain a healthy condition and claims popularity among women and men, with a price per box and local availability through druggists. The Olive Tablet Company based in Columbus, Ohio is listed as the source.
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