The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1894-08-03

Squire Riley and committed TO
the Asylum on Tuesday.
During the wind storm Thurs
day evening while Miss Maggie
Flynn was passing down Third
street, a board blew from off the
roof of one Of Irwin's new build
ings and struck her on the head.
linficting a painful but not fatal
cut.
The Home Builders Building
and Loan Association will com
mence business Saturday. Aug.
4, 1884. without fail. Everyone
wanting to carry stock should
come in by that tune. Once at
d. K. Reed & Cos hardware
store.
Company X. returned from the
annual encampment at Martins
burg last Wednesday evening.
They report lively timein camp
and were well pleased with the
cordial reception given them by
the people Of Martinsburg The.
TELEGRAM willhave more to say
on the subject of camp life at
Martinsburg in its next issue.
Mr.. John 3. Staley, of this
city, was nominated for Con-
gress by the Populists at New
Martinsville on Tuesday. Their
vote in this district in 1899 was
over ], 400, and they claim a great
increase in the last two years,
Mr.. Stealey is a popular man
throughout the district.
Lightning struck the new cleo
trio light plant last Saturday
night, and for a time the lights
were in an uncertain state. Mr..
Leonard Peck is the efficient
electrician, and he was soon able
to dispell the darkness, notwith-
standing the fact that consider
able damage was done to the
building and the wires.
The radiant linguist and salient
rhapsodist, Col. Mat. NJ. Cooper
has again taken up his editorial
quill and the Crisis, a semi-week-
I.ly newspaper at Ravenswood is
the result. Those literary pyro-
technics that have made the
Colonel famous in otherdays still
flash from his pen and we hope
the Crisis will gethere twice each
week and just as soon as it can
make the trip.
Miss Belle McGoEan is il
Pittsbdrg taking special course
in music, including piano trning.
She is studying under the ablest
musicians of that city and will
be gone about six months. Miss
McG owan is already a fine per
former on the piano and her
friends will admire her determi-
nation to excel in this art. She
has the bestwishes of her legion
of friends in this city.
Prof. Trotter very kindly Sc
lected the news matter for the
TELEGRAM last week, and had
he not taken the advantage of
our absence to publish a number
of clippings relating to US indi.
vidually, we would be inclined to
say that it was a very good mum.
Der. We hope our friends will
pardon the apparent egotism.
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Col. Ben Wilson is now being
urged on al sides to become the
Democratic nominee for Con.
gress. The convention meets
at Clarksburg, Tuesday. August
21st, and the thing looks very
much like it would hit Col. Ben
square in the stomach We
think it an outright shame. too.
for that party to place the gen
ial Colonel right in the Republi-
can cyclone that will surely pass
this way in November.
There viii be a children's sun
day school celebration given by
the White Oak Chapel Sunday
school at the Chalfant Grove on.
Robinson's Run, Saturday, Aug.
IL, 1894 The Battle of Life
win be the principal program of
the day. All neighboring sun
day schools are cordially invited
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