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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1913
Page
5
An old newspaper ad touts Besleyette Rain Coats for children ages 4 to 14 in double texture cloth with plaid backs, plus Coronation rain capes for girls, rain hats, and school umbrellas. Prices range from 50 cents to $5.01, with red and blue storm hoods and variations for Misses.
The store notes a shift in lineups for women with the season. New offerings include light top coats tailored suits shoes sweaters and accessories as leaves turn.
Hats for boys in red blue brown and black priced 50c to 1.25. Fancy girls hats in Ve lour Velvet Silk and Felt in many shades 75c to 8.00. Sweater caps 50c to 1.00 and sweater and cap sets to 2.50. Misses and childrens undergarments in assorted styles 25c to 1.00 per suit.
Children wear sweaters on cool days in school and outdoors. Range from heavy wolf pullovers for rough boys to dainty hand knit styles for girls, with sizes 6 to 14 and prices from $1 up to $3.00.
Theobdy of S N M Walton will be taken on trains at 954 o'clock Tuesday morning to Cuatro where funeral service agints be Held in the Atethodist tGpistopal entred and interment made at tiny place. He died at 80 after a sudden collapse. Surviving daughter Mrs Doman and sons Charlie Walton and M W Walton attend burial in Richmond and Penrith. Walton born in Penrith BAS and son of Dr Nathaniel Walton, a Civil War slave owner, served in Pow nattance and Cumberland cavalry. He was a contractor and architect who built mansions in Riverside California and other states. moved to Clarksburg fourteen years ago. He joined First Methodist Episcopal church in Markeburg and remained religious throughout life.
The morning police court session before Mayor W. H. Cote was brief as one offender faced a single drink charge, was found broke, and released with a warning against future offenses.
Mrs. Julia Anderson of Barnesville South Carolina claims her son Brice Anderson, snatched by peddler W. C. Walters in February 1912, is the boy held by the Dunbars in Savannah. She travels toward Columbia Mississippi to press her claim as Walters faces trial in December. Advertisement notes electric cap lamps and fresh seafood at Ginithy’s.
The Showalter family held an all day reunion on Sunday at church grove on Fairmont avenue with twenty or more relatives, including Mr and Mrs J M Showalter of Fairmont, Mrs H C Showalter and daughter Anna of Kansas City, Mr H Showalter of Denver, Mr and Mrs Arthur Showalter of Mannington, and Mrs Martha Bock of Morgantown. The gathering marked a joyous homecoming for parents once in White County and now in Kansas City, Missouri, with grandchildren contributing to a special program.
The Knights of Columbus Clarkehurst Council No 872 issue invitations for a Columbus Day dance on Monday evening October 13 1913. Committee members listed include A Ferrer T Ward Pallaghan Downs Pax Schulte McGraw and Schulte. A Clarkburg party of Dr J B Smith and family John South Jr and family and A J Fletcher and family motor to Fairmont and visited Mrs Jones home on Gaston avenue with Mrs J B Smith and Mrs Fletcher noted as Mrs Jones’s sisters.
A meeting of the newly organized Clarkeburg City Duck Pin League will be held in the Gore Amusement Company office at the alleys tonight at 8 o'clock. All captains and officers are urged to attend as preparations are made for the league opening. The first game will be played Tuesday night.
Thomas M. Osborn, chairman of the state commission on state reform, entered Auburn Prison Sept 29 to study conditions. He will serve a short self-imposed term in the idle gang, living as a convict in every detail, with his mustache shaved and wearing a convict's uniform.
Circuit Court Judge O'Brien dissolved a temporary injunction that barred picketing by topper mine strikers during shift changes. The ruling marks a notable victory for the Western Federation of Miners. Judge Brien set to hear operators’ motion for a restraining order to curb intimidation and violence this afternoon.
Dr and Mrs W H Hill returned Sunday from a two week hunting trip in Minhas Prairie chickens were very plentiful Mr and Mrs HU report a very pleasant fe rto
John Matkoorh an Italian coal miner with Byron Coal Company and Lindsey and Stephen Lorane employees were fined five dollars and a caution for hunting without a permit Sunday near the Two Lick mines. Deputies Fuller Ward, Frank Gather, and others arrested them and jailed them for the offense. German statistics show that 1912 was Germanys banner twelve month in grain and rye exceeding those of all previous year.
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