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Newspaper
The West Virginian
Location
Fairmont, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1916
Page
2
East Side News lists social tidbits from the community. People host guests, travel to relatives, and visit friends in nearby towns such as Grafton and Weston. Names mentioned include Belle Earle, A D Hutchin, Wendall, W Va, Al Grafton, Grace Stealey, Elizabeth Workman, Hazel Dean, J L Carpenter, Ruth Irons, George Cox, and Ruth Irons.
Mannington residents share travels visits and parties with James I Phillips Myron Snodgrass Dalles Hamilton and Rev Albert Park Jr joining Miss Hazel Reld for a birthday surprise at the Jerico home. Community notices mention license court plans for June 19 and city license details plus upcoming Chautauqua events and local club gatherings.
In Quiet Dell Marion Rudy works at Brady Merediths saw mill near Valley Falls. Neighbors and relatives frequent gatherings with Mr and Mrs George Peer of Wickwire visiting Mr and Mrs Neel. Lind families and friends visit and call, as illness strikes Linn. Meredith plans moving his can and farm crews relocate to Nickolas Jenkins property.
Twelve Mingo county citizens were indicted in Charleston by United States District Court for alleged frauds in the 1914 War Earle precinct election. Names made public include R. L. Simpkins H. D. Copely George Kelly W. S. Hatfield Thomas Maynard Nat Gibson Ben Copely Noah Lester Anton Gau Jot Linko Blankenship Greenway Hatfield and Herman Hatfield. Counts allege ballot manipulation and destruction to fit preferred candidates and conspiracy to block regularly elected Democratic election officials.
Telegrams from New York report German merchantmen en route from the north in the Baltic were destroyed as destroyers torpedo boats and submarines repelled the loop. Official dispatches from Petrograd Berlin and Vienna confirm German reinforcements being sent to aid Austrian armies under pressure from Russian forces. Reports in New York deny Colonel Roosevelt is seriously ill after a coughing spell and a fall from a horse.
70 percent gold bond and mortgage offer on a vast California claim. Hermine Operating Company holds a 99 year lease of 1440 acres in Placer county with a 100 ton mill, opened mine, and thousands of tons of ore valued from $4 to $165 per ton. Investment options include $100 gold bonds and mortgages and 100 shares of Hermine, plus 3100 shares Pennsylvania Gold Mining Company. Officers listed in Pittsburgh with offices at 2001 First National Bank Building. For details contact Fred H. Labimer, Mt Oliver, Pittsburgh.
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