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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1915
Page
24
Fire Chief S R Huffman warns merchants and housewives to use nonflammable decorations for stores and Christmas trees. He urges careful placement away from gas jets and offers to provide safety suggestions. central fire station is contact point.
Dee Weston of Covington Virginia buys the general store of Rymer and Truman on West Second street. The store, known as the Moffett stand, will be renamed under new ownership while Rymer and Truman remain in Weston and shift to automobile business in a room they rented in the Hickman brick. Governor Hatfield visits Weston for an address in Fairmont, with Sam Montgomery, and other local notes include a railway clerks incident, grange plans, and Lewis county real estate ventures.
Marie Kaiser, a leading American coloratura soprano, will give a private recital at the Masonic temple auditorium Tuesday at 8:15. The young artist has toured nationally and performed with the Russian Symphony at Chautauqua, earning acclaim for her lyric coloratura range and "America made" voice. She has been engaged as soloist by the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston for spring events.
A committee of forty Fairmont businessmen led by HLJ Ross will raise funds to build a 390000 dollar hotel at Jefferson and Washington streets. George T Watson pledged 150000 dollars toward the 300000 needed if others raise 15000, with possible extra 50000 if required. The drive runs Monday and Tuesday. Governor Hatfield spoke against railroad freight rate hikes and defended coal industry laws during the West Virginia Coal Mining Institute session.
Joseph J. Emerick, a Charleston printer, has completed years in the printing trade. He began work at Terre Haute in December 1865 and now resumes employment in Charleston. He hopes to work until called to join eternity. South Africa is projected to be a major beef producer globally.
The public service commission reviewed several accidents under its jurisdiction and issued recommendations to prevent recurrences. Highlights include blocking freight billets to prevent shifting after a Cairo depot incident that killed Mayor F C Petty and injured others, and strengthening cranes on wrecking repair cars at Ripley Landing to add safety ch x amas. The report notes a Parkersburg teacher Dora Allman died after a car lacked fenders, and other incidents at Logan and Wheeling prompted railway track and signaling safety upgrades. Additional items cover job placements from Fairmont post office layoffs and legal actions over Buckhannon and Northern railroad damages.
Paris December 10. American consuls and commercial agents in France Italy and Spain gather information on the French cooperative comptoir system at the request of the US Federal Trade Commission. The study compares it with the German kartell system and suggests the French model could aid American manufacturers in foreign trade without violating the Sherman Act.
In Denver Colorado hundreds of saloons prepare for the January 1 1916 start of prohibition. About 3 5 million dollars of liquor will be sold before the deadline December 31 1915. A physician prescription will be the only legal means to obtain liquor after the ban with private import allowed. Sales and deliveries will be recorded and liquor kept in private club lockers will be legal.
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