The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-02-28
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TO Be HELD IN
MOUNTAIN CITY
| Grand Council Of West Virginia
Royal Arcanium toGathef
insEIkins March e.

ELKINs. Feb. 27The Grand
Council Of West Virginia Royal AR
canum. will meet In annual conven-
tion In Elkins Tuesday, March 2.
Delegates from all sections OF the
state will be in attendance and the
local committee is making arrange
ments for pleasing entertainment for;
the guests. Charles Fox, supreme
Representative for Ohio, will be in
attendance and will act as Installing
officer. The grand ofIcerss - West
Virginia are us follows: Harry
Kemp, Huntington, supreme repre-
sentative; s. B. Haffner, Elkins,
grand regent: Il. H. Cooper, Blue,
field, grand orator; w. e. Jones,
Huntington, grand secretary; A. F.
Payne. Charleston, grand treasurer;
A. a. Heckler, Parkersburg, grand
guide W.. Stevens, Martinsburg,.
grand warden; w. y. Cochran,
charleston, grand sentry; A.. A. Mar
shall, Charleston, =. H. Right. Par
Ikersburg. and B. b. Adams, Wheel
ing. grand. trustees; w. H. v. Mason,
Winfield, and G. w. A. Reed, Elkins.
committee on laws: Nat Monford.
Wheeling. acting grand past regents
w. Il. Riggs, who died in Fairmont
hospital this week from injuries re-
lceiyed in the strike riots at Farming
ton, was granl sentry Of the order.
A fetNire of the convention will
be the, banquet 20 be held Tuesday
night in the dining rooms of the
Methodist Episcopal church, at
which brief addresses will be made
by the grand and supreme officers
and others prominent in me organ
zation. A. n. Walner viii represent
Elkins Council. No. 900.
Captain Levi Smith, aged moro
than ~ years, a.yeteran Of the Con-
| federate army, was found dead near
iJerusalem school house, two miles
from Mil Creek, Randolph county,
! Tuesday. Captain smith made his
home with his laughter. Mrs. p. =.
fShifiet. and left her home Sunday
evening, saying he was. going to the
home OF another daughter, .s.ss. Lin
! coin Cnrrence, some distance away.
I On Tuesday it was learned that the
aged man had not reached his
intended destination and a search
was instituted, resulting in the ln-
cation OF his dead body. Captain
Smith was born in Barbour county
(; December IA, 1921. and cS.ne Of 4
iIlong-lived family, one OF his brothers
having lived to the age OF o 3. One
son and seven daughters survive.
1 Eikins Elks instead OF giving .
minstrel performances as the local
Il H. t&oe,. 1nft1 o
ANNUALLY, have secured Klaw and Err
hangers Robin Hood e which villa
4 be presented at the Elkins opera
house Friday night. n a
4 Davis and Elkins College has
1 added TO lis teaching forca County
superintendent Troy B. Wflmoth.
who will begin his difsies about the
middle Of March.
!! The death Of Mrs. Elizabeth, tsra-
ham, ut the home of her son. John
w. Graham, Monday, was the third
death to occur in Mrs Grahain,s fam
III within five weeks, all. having re-
suited from pneumonia. Mr.. Graz
hams wife was the, first to succumb:.
1.-TWO weeks later his broth law.
Reeves Suit, died and following this
I his aged mother answered the cali.
MRS. Graham was the widow OF Cap.
tain James Graham, q disting uished
( citizen Of Hillsboro, N. G., to which
place the body was taken for burial.
j. G. Flanagan, aged 40 years, q
!, veteran OF the Confederate army,
.idied Monday. at his home at Flint,