The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-10-14

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lington. D. G.. assistant superin-
tandent Of the railway mail ser.
wee. was here Monday on Official
business.
Joe Martin was released from
jail last Saturday, after serving
a sentence Of ten months and ten
days for robbing achicken coop
near Bull Skin.
Capt B. B. Doyener viii ad.
dress the citizens Of Harrison
county next Saturday night at the
court house, at 7:SO o'clock. A
cordial invitation is extended to
all.
The people livingin Pritchard's
addition presented a petition to
the council last Friday night
asking that board walk be laid
down the street from Boyles'
store to a point near the old w.
Va. & p. r. r. bridge.
The Post Office Department has
issued an order allowing Money
Order offices to issue an order on
the office from which 1t is issued.
Or in other words, persons may
now deposit money in the post
Office to their own order, payable
on demand. or obtain an order
payable to any one in the same
town.
The street committee reported
to the council Friday night that
it was not practicable pave Third
street until proper sewer pipes
had been laid, as itwould require
a large expenditure Of money to
build a sewerage after the pave
ment had once been laid and sug.
gested that a sewerage be put
down before an effort was made
to pave the street.
The representatives in Har-
rison county of the Pennsylvania
railroad company have. appealed
from the decision Of Judge Ha-
gans in the circuitcourt last week
in which he ordered the bonds
voted seventeen years ago to ex-
tend the road through Harrison
county be delivered in the coun-
ty court for cancellation, and the
case will now be fought in tho
Supreme Court Of Appeals.
A wreck occurred on the B. 6
o. Sunday evening at about five
o'clock, near Colfax, in which
Talton Engle, son Of Rev. Engle,
Presiding Elder Of the Clarks-
burg district. was injured. His
arm was broken and he was brnis-
ed severely. Talton was learn
ing to fire an engine and bad
made twelve trips to learn the
work. and this was his first regu-
lar trip. He wasbrought to his
home at Fairmont on Monday
and he Is now doing as well as he
could unde.. the circumstances.
The public schools of the city
will observe Lafayette day next
Wednesday, October 10Th. A
special program will be prepar-
ed for the occasion, and the ex.
ercises will take place in Chapel
Hall in the afternoon of that day,
The object of this day is to raise
money to erect monument by
Americans to Gen, Lafayette to
cost $3.50, 600, the amount to be
contributed by American school
children. The monument will be
erected in Paris and will be
dedicated July 4th, 1900, United
States day at the Exposition.
Last Sundays issue of the
West Virginia Herald contained
an elegant picture of Mrs. 3. r.
Blackford. of Petersburg, nee
Miss Della Raymond, of this
city. Under the picture the
Herald says: Among the young
married people Of Parkersburg,
none is q greater tavorite in 50.
ciety circles thanMrs. Blackford.
who was Mrs. Della Raymond. of
Clarksburg, before her marriage.
Her charming little home on Ju-
Llama street is the scene of many
informal gatherings, and no social
function is complete without
her..
The W. Va. & P. r. R. in their
posters for excursions to the big