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Newspaper
The West Virginian
Location
Fairmont, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1915
Page
9
Fragmented OCR reads as a policy debate where finance, oil, and real estate oppose a plan tied to dividends and expenditures. The text is garbled but suggests divisions over a policy impacting property costs and future earnings.
The Columbus Producing Company reports No.5 on the Williams Coal Company's tract near Cabin Creek yielding about 40 barrels per day with good potential after shooting. Other wildcat wells in the Cabin Creek district drill slowly in hard formations. United Fuels Gas tests Pintree Coal tract at ~2000 feet while Berea sand reaches 2500 feet. Carter Oil No.3 on Sinifrede tract drills toward sandy section. OL MARKET mentions Pennsylvania Indiana Kansas & Okla prices.
County clerk records show marriage licenses for Salvatore Disifano and Giovana Dra Poona of Fairmont. Executrixes named for wills: Ivy Dumire for D. N. Dumire with 2500 bond. Mary C. Freeman for John W. Freeman with 300 bond. Trene Potts named administratrix. Clarence W. Corbin named executor with 2500 bond. Birth and death certificates filed, listing Dr. E. P. Smith and Dr. C. J. Holland among births, and Dr. Smith among deaths.
A large audience attended Fairmont High School’s class day program last evening. Cleverly staged by the class, the program featured five parts covering the Puritan, colonial, 1830 to 1860, present, and future ages, ending with a spirited class song that drew strong applause.
Funeral services for Robert Pell will be held Wednesday at 11 oclock from Diamond Street M E Church with Rev J B Workman officiating. Interment follows on arrival in Newburg after No 16 train, with brief graveside rites. Relatives have arrived.
Francis L. Othexiana, president of Simpson College in Indianapolis, Iowa, will head the philosophy department at West Virginia University at the start of the 1915 school year. Dr. Stricklandshag resigns as Simpson College president to assume new duties.
Pharmacists from Fairmont gather in Clarksburg at the Waldo Hotel for the West Virginia State Pharmaceutical Association Ninth Annual Session June 15 to 17 1915. Officials plan lectures contests bowling a card party and a grand ball with prize displays and a closing banquet.
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