Local residents and visitors frequent Fairmont days
MANNINGTON NEWS ROL. Hamilton and J. A. Lawson visit Fairmont on business while many others from Billy Wright Metz Metz Farmington Wheeling and Spencer travel for work or to visit relatives. Community events include a church dedication in Spencer and a Presbyterian Ladies mission meeting. A local court case sent Jack Quinn to jail for liquor violations and several residents recover from injuries or attend social events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
Wairmont
Washington
J. A. Lawson
Smithfield
L. Thomas
Metz
W. K. Mason
Moundsv
W. Waldman
Chicago
Hyman Katz
Fairmont
John Ramstead
C. E. Goodwin
Cty
Spencer
W. Va
Mex Jaffe
W. M. Hess
AL. Thomas
Dave Caplan
Farmington
iThomas Haggerty
William Michaels
Wheeling
Mary Butcher
Hundred
Frank Dunkle
Burt
A A. Burt
J. W. Root
Uses Court House For Speakeasy
Andrew Smith an Afro American was fined 100 and given six months in county jail after confessing to Justice of the Peace M T K Musgrove that he sold a half pint of whiskey to a customer in the basement of the court house. Three quarts and a half pint of whiskey were confiscated from his room in Hull alley. Constable Charles Satterfield made the arrest last evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Smith
Justice of the Peace
M. TK. Musgrove
Court House
Charles Satterfield
Smith
Hull Alley
Arraign Negro On Gun Toting Charge
Afro American man in French Mason faces arraignment for carrying a revolver in violation of the state gun toting law. He is set for trial this afternoon at five before Justice of the Peace M R Musgrove. Mason was arrested yesterday by Night Police Chief Albertt Seaman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason
Justice of the Peace
M. R. Musgrove
Albertt Seaman
East Side News Briefs Exchange and Local Notices
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Diamond Street M E church will hold an exchange Saturday morning in Smonse's Grocery on Market street with home-made delicacies for the Fourth of July dinner. The Ladies' Missionary Society of the Palatine Baptist church meets tonight at eight at Mrs. D C Prunty's home. Master Albert Merrifield on Wilson street breaks his right arm on a playground see-saw. Mr Fred Hoult returns from Wheeling hospital after an operation. At Miners' Hospital O E Hudgins suffers a bursted knee cap. Misses Gertrude Criss and Dana Jacobs visit Cassville today and Morgantown with Mr. and Mrs. T Bennett. Miss Nola Reed visits with the McMillans on Columbia street. Mrs Hoult visits her son in State street. Mrs Arthur Brown and daughter return from Masselon Ohio. Magdalene Steele goes to Morgantown to visit her aunt. Mr and Mrs Ross Musgrove return from Ohio trip. Bessie Snider returns from Newbury. Mrs E L Sams returns from Little Falls after visiting relatives in Owings, Watson and here. Mrs John Baker returns to Keyser after time with her parents.
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J. R. Wilson
Glover Gap
Andrew Rushford
A. Lavey
Newark
Ohio
C.F. Ross
Wheeling
A. S. Rushford
F.G. Turner
Dunkirk
W.va
McWhorter
Cambridge
James Willison
Bellaire
Father Sullivan
Littleton
John SN. Kuhn
Wyatt
W. Va
D. G. Wheeler
WN. Roach
Elkhart
Ind
West
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
Presbyterian Church
Hamilton
Fairmont Society
Jack Quinn
Justice Baryack
Quinn
Yost
Jack King
Circuit Court
James Wilcox
Blackshere
W. J. Leahy
L. C. Firbee
Center Street
Parker
G. A. Brown and Son
Jobstown
C. L. Cottrill
Burt Hil
CC. Clutter
Sey
Virginia Hewitt
Monroe Stre
Helen Prichard
Morgantown
Mary Jolliffe
Clarence Augelmyer
Isuday
Charles Coover
MeMechen
R. B. Ash
Bee Gum
Wis
T G. D. Meneken
Burton
W.S. Bare
Ladies’ Aid Society of the
Diamond Street
M. E. Church
Smonse
Market Street
Cassville
Gertrude Criss
Dana Jacobs
Mrs. T. Bennett
Nola Reed
Fifth Ward
McMillan
Columbia Street
Hoult
Monongah
D. D. Hoult
State Street
Arthur Brown
Masselon
Magdalene Steele
Jerome Brand
Ross Musgrove
East Side Woman Ellen Woods Hostetler Dies After Illness
Mrs Stephen Hostetler of Diamond Street died last evening after a four month illness from dropy. She was 40, formerly Ellen Woods of Wirt County, twice married, with husband employed at Owens Bottle Works. Survived by children David Frazier Elizabeth Emma Frazier Mrs Ray Eisner Jessie George Nora Lucy Hostetler and brother John Woods. Funeral Thursday at 2 pm from Diamond Street M E Church. Burial by Jenkins Undertaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Hostetler
Diamond Street
Ellen Woods
Edward
Nancy’ LeMasters ‘Woods
Wirt County
Ome Frazier
Hostetler
Owens Bottle Works
David Frazier
Hundred
Elizabeth
Emma Frazier
Ray Eisner
Preston County
Jessie
George
Nora
Lucy Hostetler
John Woods
Parkersburg
J. B.workman
Diamond Street M
Jenkins
Education boards repair track meet next week countywide
Marion county boards of education plan annual meetings on July 5 and 6 to appoint teachers and trustees for the upcoming year. Some districts may shift to Tuesday due to a national holiday. Also noted are large contracts for crushed rock ballast by Monongahela Valley Traction to improve tracks at a total cost exceeding 125,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boards of Education
Marion County
Board of Education of
Fairmont Independent
Monongahela Valley Traction Company
Fairmont
John T. Hunter
Mannington
Traction Company
Worthington Hews Highlights and Local News
Local visitors include Mr and Mrs William C Wadsworth Fairmont with hosts Mr and Mrs John Gillingham Others visit from Fairview Clarksburg Kingwood Barnestown and local residents receive pension benefits Mrs Sarah L Smith widow of John L Smith granted 12 per month from Feb 24 1915. Children’s Day program at Baptist Sunday school praised. choir led by Beatrice McIntire with solos by Pearl Sandy and a duet by Mrs Howard Shaver. War revenue tax blanks delay complaints from merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William C. Wadsworth
Fairmont
John Gillingham
Claude C. Snyder
Fairview
Nellie Long
Clarksburg
Elizabeth Snyderly
Wesley Work
Kingwood
Ellen Parsh
King Everson
Barnestown
Joseph Kann
Sarah L. Smith
John L. Smith
Chas. S. Davis
J. M. Kingsworth
Baptist Sunday School
A. L. Mason
Beatrice McIntire
Pearl Sandy
Revenue Department
Prisoner Countered With Eyewitness During Hearing
A police court scene features a defendant who struck a person, with the prosecutor claiming an eyewitness will testify. The judge presses for witnesses as the accused’s alleged aggression is weighed amid tense remarks.
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Wilson Street
Fred Hoult
Miners’ Hospital
O. E. Hudgins
Maryland Avenue
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Crstobia
A. B. Smith
Marietta
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