The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1896-12-25
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here. The country air doth,
make him much stout while with
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ont. rec Press.
A merry crowd Of Seminary
stude nts passed through town
Saturday morning on their way
home for the holiday vacation,
! Among the number we are able
TO mention Miss Estelle Hall, Of
Manning ton. Miss Bessie Mar.
tin of Kingwood, Misses Elliott.
and Raymond Of Harrison coun.i
.ty Miss Minnie Core, Of Mt
Morris, Pa. Messrs. jenkins, of
iUnicntown, Blair, Of Pleasant
Valley Graham. Of Wheeling,
and Freeland, Of Oakland:
GRAMS Life as 8 Cadet at West
Point will be- the subject Of q
paper by Hamlin Garland in the
January NcC Cures. 1t viii con.
tain personal objections from
General Franklin. Geheral Long
street, and General Elrnsf vino
we're cadets with Grant and have
most Interesting unpublished
reminiscences Of him and his
cadet life. Repro nctions Of nm
published drawings by Grant,
himself, valuable unpublished
documents, portraits. and West
Point views, will illustrate the
paper.
The Clarksburg Telephone Co
has secured the services Of 81
practical electrician to look after
their lines and phones; and they.
will be thankful to any of their
patrons If they will report at
once the Central Office any APP.
parent trouble with their instru.
'ments. They now give over 500
free connection to their subscrib-
lers, and within a few days they
will add about six hundred more
free connections. supt Hick.E
man informs us that ali the local
companiesSin Central West vir-
ginia have consoli dated, and will
be known as the Central West
Virginia lephone Go. This
will give all patrons of our local
company free service over all
other lines embraced in this com
ibine.
McC lure's Magoziee will begin
in the Januarynumb q series of
Life Portraits of Great Ameri-
cans with reprod auctions of the
existing portraits of Benjamin
Franklin known to have been
made from life. There are fif.
teen such portraits. and some of
them have never been published.
Mr.. Charles Henry Hart, proba.
bly, the highest authority on
early American portraits, is col.
Letting and editing the material
for the series. and will add In
PRODUCTION and notes giving the
history Of the several portraits
and whatever is interesting in
the circumstances of their pro-
duction. There will also be an
article on Franklin by Professor
Treat, Of the University of the
South.
The melancho holy days are here
the saddest ofour time; the chilly
blasts begin to blow from far of
northern cline. The wood saw
sings, the coal bin groans, the.
tree doth moan with sorrow; the
sun shines bright and warm to-
.day-might snow like hi to-
morrow. We gladly think of
times to come, when we can swift
" soar through mince-pie skies
and nightmare drives and stom-
ach- aches galore. Subscribers
who are fopryears .back' should
to our Office stroll, and soften;
times which sorely try the edi-
toria soul, Trade is fair most
everywhere, if merchants do not
failIt advertise judiciously the
goods they have for sale Glen
vile Patti finder.
The Christmas shopper has the
right Of way everywhere:
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