The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-12-05
INSTRUCTION.
SCHOOL VERY
SUCCESSFUL
Public Health Councils Meet
ing at Elkins Proves Very
UsefM to Many.

Useful 10 Many.
ELKINs. Dec. THE school Of in
strnction conducted by the public
health council adjourned Tuesday. The
attendance was large and consisted Of
representative physicians from a
large number Of counties and towns in
the northern part Of the state. The
program was carried through as puf,-
lished. Some well prepared pape;s
were read and a beneficial discussion
OF them followed. An extensive code
OF regulations was discussed. They
will be submitted to the United States
Public Health Service at washington
for approval IA campaign for accur-
ate vital statistics has been deciJed
upon. A special committee reported
on the state tuberculosis sanltarllm
at Terra Alta and commended that m
stitution for its good management and
good results. Appointment committee
was appointed to supervise the med.
ical management OF the institution,
The matter OF licensing physicians
was also taken up. OF the nineteen
candidates who were recently exam
ined for license to practice medicine,
fifteen proved successful, DR.. Updyke
of this city, being among the latter.
3 Davis and Elkins College brought
to close Thanksgiving afternoon its
most successful football season. Be-
sides winning eleven Of the nine games
played, Davis and Elkins accompl ished
the unique feat Of defeating In the
same season two Of its old rivals,
Bethany and Marshall. This Is the
first time Davis and Elkins has de-
feated either team. In the nine games
played Davis and Elkins scored q to-
tai OF 205 points. its opponents ninety,
and in no game did Davis and Elkins
fail to score on Its opponents.
Miss Virginia g. Russell and John
Ellsworth Morris we're quietly married
Tuesday morning, November 80, at
$3.50 o'clock at the Davis Memorial
Presbyterian church by DR.. r. n. Bar
ron. The bride was given away by
her brother, G. Preston Russell, d
Mill Creek. Only a few friends were
present. "A wedding breakfast was
served at the home Of DR.. and Mrs. II
s. johnson. They will reside In
4 Washington this winter, returning Stc
4 Elkins next summer.
I. William g. Cook, charged with at.
\ tempting to cut Miss Marie Har.
woods throat on. Wednesday night
/ October 81. was released Tuesday
from the county jail on Sc, 100 bono
and left with his father for Their
home in Frostburg. Md. Cool
waived a preliminary hearing before
4 Justice M. NJ. Smith, who fixed the
amount of his bond. !:
Pat Wamsley, OF Mill Creek, was
lodged in the county Jail here on "a
charge Of having stolen $256 from
Lewis Conrad's store. Wamsley was
suspected Of having robbed the store
once before of about $50, and trap
/ is alleged to have been set for him
with the. result that he nibbled the
bait and was caught with the goods.
Elkins's magnificent new theater,
the Hippodrome, was opened to the
public last week by r.. a. Talbot,
manager Of the Grand theater,. 81
this city. The building is owned by
DR.. g. B. Harvey, and is undoubted-
lly one Of the finest structures Of its
kind in the state.
The Rev. T. P. Allen. pastor Of
the Beverly .Presbyt erian church, sus-
tanned a badly fractured left arm
Tuesday evening when his car skid
ded on the Beverly pike and turned
over. s8,Tt ~
The annual union Thanksgiving
service was held this year IN the
Methodist Episcopal church, the SER
mon being delivered by the Rev. r.
Cary Montague, Of the Protestant
Episcopal church. 4, q Z ],
The first snowfall Of Importance