The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-08-05
Mrs. W. A. Powell Il spending
q few days &c Mt. Lake Park this

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week.
You can get all the new shades
in mats for pictures at Cakes
Art Studio. 1885,,
Mrs. John r. Green left Tues
day evening for q short visit e
friends at Grafton.
Mrs. W. T. Bird and son Roy,
are on a ten days visit to At
lantic City.
Mrs. M. S. Chorpening and
daughter Bessie, are spending 9
few days with friends at Oakland
and Mt. Lake Park.
Three hundred and two tickets
were sold at Clarksburg for the
EXCURSION to Oakland last Sun
day.
DR.. Jos. E. Ellis, of Grafton,
was Thursday appointed assist
ant surgeon in the army and has
been ordered to report at Camp
Alger, Va, for duty.
Howard Lohm, a young Graf
ton boy who enlisted at Clarks-
burg in the Second West Vir-
ginia regiment, now at Camp
Atkinson, has been appointed
bugler.
Valuable farm for sale, locat-
ed on Shinn's Run, containing
200 acres; $50 acres underlaid
with fine coal. Orchards of Sc
lected fluit, well watered, and
improved. Dwelling with out.
buildings, etc. Address Box s67,
Clarksburg, W. Va 37-tf.
We have received a number Of
letters this week speaking very
kindly of the different candidates
for county superintendent. The
TELEGRAM would be glad to pub.
lish them all but lack of space
forbids it.
The old adage that if it rains
the first day of dog days 1T will
rain for forty days is about cor
rect SO far. Dog days commenc-
ed Saturday July 9th and will
end Saturday August goth. 1t
has rained nearly every day since
dog days commenced.
Judge Hagans refused the
motion to dissolve the injunction
heretofore awarded in the case Of
the county court of Harrison
county, against the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co., which IN solves the
validity Of a bond issue of $780,
600 in that county, and continues
the same until the September
term OF that court with leave TO
the railroad company to take and
file dispositions in the case. The
case IS a very important one and
it will be remembered that the
arguments were made before
Judge Hagans at the last term OF
the Marion county circuit court
at Fairmont.
Captain N. A. Shuttleworth,
the subject of this obituary, was
the son of Motley and Frances
Shuttleworth. and was born in
Clarksburg, Va, on the 18th day
of November. 1928, and was con-
sequently at the time of his death,
which occurred on. the Both day
of July, 1898, SO years, 8 months
and II days old. HIS life was
spent IN Clarksburg, except 5 or
6 years. and they were spent near
Clarksburg and in the United
States army, which he entered as
a private in 1861. At the com.
mencement of the rebellion he
raised company and was elect
its Captain, and was engaged in
several hard battles. Returning
from the army to his home he
went into the mercantile business
| with his elder brother B. F.
Shuttleworth. the two having
been continuously partners fol-
AZ years. The deceased was fol
many years consistent member
Of the Episcopal church, and was
a very liberal supporter of all the
benevolent enterprises of his
church. He was also for about
40 years member of the Odd
Fellows organization of this city
and from his brethren during his