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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1916
Page
3
A promotional piece describes a bed with a spring mattress and long fibre cotton felt mattress, featuring a patented foot hoard to hold bed clothes, steel bed section construction, removable sides and back for easy parking, and ball bearing castors for easy sweeping. The maker guarantees the product and invites immediate viewing.
Resolutions from the thirty seventh annual Garrison County Sunday School Association meeting praise growth of Sunday schools in the county and state. They call for more efficient teacher training and expanded adult Bible classes, reaffirm support for prohibition, condemn tobacco use, and thank organizers, state workers, musicians, and Boy Scouts for their help at Salem First Baptist Church.
Aldart W. Martin, George B. Hamrick and Mrs James To Hewitt offer prayers of appreciation for Salen’s delegates and electors at the convention. They ask Heavenly Father to repay their efforts in Sunday school work in the city churches.
John Shunk, a miller at Sutter Bootog and Cornles Co, was hospitalized after a fall at a Mulberry Street house shared by Jason Ridenour. He suffered fractures and body wounds, six weeks of recovery ahead, with no danger of fatal injury. Shunk lives on East Pike Hirnet.
August 5 charter notices list multiple incorporations under state authority. The Tardmyn Seeker Lumber Company based in Eling Randolph County is authorized capital 125 000 with Troy P Harman A O Hardman and others as incorporators. Also listed are Mutua Soccorso Truliana a fraternal organization in Clarksburg with no capital stock and several other incorporators from Clarksburg.
Ian Maured and B. P. Erons of Adamington were injured Saturday afternoon when a bull charged as they cleared an old gan well near Adamston. Both injuries are serious though not life threatening. Erons remains under care at Kenslar hospital with hopes for recovery in a few days.
Thirty two prisoners are now confined in the county jail. Twenty three of them are road workers.
Aims to stage a lecture on birth control education by Margret Panner in New York likely in Brownsville district. She seeks exact statistics to demonstrate effects of birth control education while awaiting approval from officials and hopes to engage clergy support.
A melee over a girl led to a shooting injuring a young man. Police and deputies detained several involved as crowds dispersed after the brawl at Meadowbrook. The wounded man was transported to hospital for treatment.
The piece notes birth control leaders expect twenty one affiliates to be established by September while 20 000 inquiries pour in. Mrs Hinger cites many inquiries from households unable to support larger families amid economic strain.
A newspaper piece urges thrift as character building for children. It cites a boy who earned money from a paper route and lawn work, saving a hundred dollars to invest. The text links thrift to avoiding waste, with examples from railroads saving material and using byproducts, and notes thrift education forms sound citizenship in youth.
Deport Undeigols Operation Tornard Boo of Bridgeport underwent an appendectomy at a local hospital last Saturday. He recovered well and is getting along nicely.
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