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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1907
Page
6
Orpha Chidester, bookkeeper at the Telegram office, will leave for Washington and Lee University this weekend. A city high school graduate this year with honors and a scholarship, he is a bright young man with many friends awaiting his success.
Prof. Howard Blake and his orchestra returned Tuesday morning from Webster Springs and tied a summer engagement at the Webster Springs hotel. They performed Monday night at Westott for tors dance and for the Powhattan club. The orchestra remains here for the winter for dai ee and other engagements.
Davis and two relatives from Shingiehense Pa arrive and stay with friend Robert Stitt in Steatey addition. They plan to work at a local dairy and warm weather business this coming winter. Mr Davis intends to make the area his permanent home. He purchased a valuable horse with tim.
Seven year old Claude Grady wandered from home in Glen Elis Monday evening. Neighbors and police searched for hours until he was found after 11 o clock at a woman’s home in Adamston who cared for him and put him to bed. A separate bank advertisement touts high interest on time deposits with a guarantee of 100 percent value growth, offered through West Virginia Business College with G C Finly, president.
Information for new students outlines large demand for rooming and boarding for the coming year. Students may contact Charles Moon or Miss Crystal Courtney in Morgantown to arrange lodging and, for women, Miss Susan Maxwell Moore, Dean of Women. Fall quarter begins September 16.
An old advertisement extols Sweet Melody Flour and DeVils Little Early Risers as reliable household goods. It touts Bees Laxative Cough Syrup for coughs and colds, claiming it tastes good and clears phlegm, with age groups described as young and old and a guarantee offered. Sold by local druggists and Burke.
A Boston man G Burton and companions Miss Comstock of Springfield and Miss Gould of Philadelphia ride from Plantsville toward Waterbury Connecticut in a foreign automobile. Miss Comstock faints when a snake is found in the car. Scoville, driving a horse wagon, is injured and paid $60 to avoid further claim. The snake was killed and later confirmed as the cause of the fright.
Mrs. Charles Jones of Smyrna Delaware investigated a loud crowing hen and found a large snake gripping a broiler hidden between bricks in the poultry yard. Both released the bird and hot water poured down the hole to settle the incident.
A Clarksbury resident, WM Cross of 340 EB Pike Street, credits Doan's Kidney Pills with curing his long kidney trouble. He describes prior back pain and weakness from kidney issues, notes relief after taking the pills, and confirms the earlier endorsement from 1902. Sold by Wells Haymaker and Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Dean's.
In the Northern District of West Virginia Ford Crim of Adamston is adjudged bankrupt on July 1 1907. The first meeting of creditors is Sept 9 1907 at 10 am in the law office of W Frank Stout Clarksburg WV to prove claims appoint a trustee examine the bankrupt and transact proper business. Dated Aug 24 1907. W Frank Stout Referee In Bankruptcy Hamrick Strosnider Attorneys for Bankrupt.
The notice directs Laura E. Wilkins to appear at the Coffman law office in Clarksburg on September 21, 1907, for depositions of Willie N. Wilkins and others to be read at the hearing in Harrison County West Virginia. If not completed that day, proceedings will adjourn until finished.
An advertisement touts King's Dyspepsia Tablets as a remedy for indigestion and stomach trouble with quick results. It promises two days of treatment free and lists H. F. Burke as the seller.
A reader recalls a superb fish supper enjoyed at Smithy’s restaurant located on Fourth Street. The note compliments the meal and the establishment’s service.
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