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Newspaper
The West Virginian
Location
Fairmont, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1916
Page
2
The text notes that the extraordinary legislature session would not have been called without Senator Chilton declaring intent to contest the election of Sutherland, with Fred G King mentioned in relation to county matters.
Evansville mayor Benjamin Bosse proposes a permanent municipal market to sell directly to consumers, lowering prices and boosting local shops. He highlights prior city ventures, including a large stadium and park, as evidence of municipal efficiency and economic growth.
The piece outlines jockeying for the West Virginia House speakership with J Weir of Randolph popular as a candidate known as Jinmie. Other contenders include J S Thurmond Greenbrier and W G W Renshaw Cabell with Kanawha borderlining candidacy while party dynamics and county counts shape the political forecast.
City officials report the Barnesville and Monongaliela river bridges are being prepared for winter with new boards and patches. Thorougfare repairs transform Robinson Street with bricks and creosote repairs. sidewalks on East Park and Morgantown avenues see improvements. A voting precinct gains the police court room, while walls along Merchant Street and Morgantown Avenue begin to define terrace properties and a Shaw property wall enhances its new home.
At a meeting of the University Athletic Board Loyd Brix of Wheeling was elected student minister for football 1917 over Mose Darst and Robert Brock. Varsity football letters were awarded to Curry Braun Henrie Webster Hutchinson Haile Mager Chenoweth Rodgers King Lentz Brooks Ire and Thodes for the 1916 season. Basketball letters were awarded to Red Kersting for the war year. An aviator added to the score by shooting down two airplanes in four hours, bringing his total to 29. A First M. E. church bazaar ad invites subscriptions to magazines and notes a Turkey Dinner at a plate.
Train number changes alter arrival and departure times for Fairmont. Several trains swap numbers and adjust running hours, with eastbound trains remaining even and westbound odd. Sunday services show minor shifts. overall schedule aims to streamline connections across Palrmon t Connellsville and Clarksburg routes.
John D Archbold rose from a Salem country store to lead a pivotal role in the oil era, aligning with Rockefeller interests through Acme and later Standard Oil. His career featured sharp humor on the witness stand, a fortune built largely on by products, substantial gifts to Syracuse University, and religious philanthropy. He married Annie Mills in 1870, lived at Cedar Hill near Tarrytown and a Southampton home, and died a dominant figure in industrial politics.
West Virginia Overland agents from Fairmont will depart at 4 18 PM on the Monongahela Railway for Toledo Ohio to attend the national Overland automobile convention under Willy Fund company auspices. Pilots Robert and Larney Morgan will lead from their Fairmont garage at Fairmont Avenue and Fifth Street. Joseph and Lloyd New Comer of Clarksburg are among WV distributors attending.
Fairmont council of the United Order of Commercial Travelers launches a membership drive aiming for one hundred by March 1. Meade Post officers are elected for the year. A reception will honor Masonic lodge leaders on St John’s Eve. The First War Regiment unit plans another armory drill and equipment arrival. Publishers of West Virginia dailies meet to discuss high newsprint costs. Weston-bound Delbert Duncan taken for mental evaluation after prior asylum stay. Rev Jacob Koontz to lead Mannington Presbyterian Church. Nickel slot machines banished by county and city officials amid prior gum incentives.
Kemp, a member of the Canadian House of Commons, becomes minister of munitions in a cabinet shuffle. He previously served in the Horden administration and is linked to a sheet metal company.
A special executive board meeting outlined a two day canvass of citizens to solicit funds for the Associated Charities. Leaders J M Marley Tek Brett and others urged liberal gifts to support aid to the poor amid high living costs. Secretary Margaret McKinney reported November work totaling 255 cases including sickness deaths clothing and bedding donations and expenditures of 62 dollars.
A fragment discusses the advantage of benevolence over envy and hints at moral serenity from contemplating others' prosperity. It recalls a humorous tale of three doctors and ends with an ad announcing an apron sale, detailing a wide variety of aprons from large to dainty for December 7 and 8.
Miss Julia Fleming, 79, died at Cook Hospital from burns suffered November 18 when a gas stove ignited her clothing after she fell from a chair. A lifelong Fairmont resident from a pioneer family, she was buried at Bell Run after services conducted by Rev. J. G. Stoetzer and Rev. W. J. Edy. Undertaker I. Cunningham handled arrangements as family and neighbors attended.
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