The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-11
AIRMEN BRING WORD BACK
FROM NATIVES SAYING so
MEMORIAL OCCASION
IN THE FEEDER AL COURT
Feeling Tributes Of Respect
Are Paid the Late John ].
Davis, of This City.

The opening of the April term Of
federal court here Tuesday morning
was an impressive memorial occasion.
Short tributes were paid the late John
j. Davis. member Of the court bar
many years and set Of resolutions
the same as those adopted by the Har-
rison County Bar Association was
read and ordered spread on the court
records.
The court then had the names of
the jurors to serve during the term
called and then adjournment was
taken until 10 o'clock Wednesday
morning. The following jurors re-
ported for duty:
Lloyd A. Anderson. Pages B. Ben
nett, Earl R. Pigott. Waiter w. Mills.
David w. Timberlake, William I.
Winfield, Ferdinand Gore, Charles NJ.
Ernst, Macus v. MILAN, John D.
Thomas. Levi NJ. Harris, John o.
Morgan, James L. Rinehart, Camden
Mollohan, Mortimer Langford. Be
mona Barker, George Lee Bush,
James Frame. Isaac N. George, Alon-
20 Adams. Truman A. Mason, Charles
Bee. John w. Hit. A. ~ Carlow,
Hough Bayless, II. w. Fleming, D.
N. Morris and Samuel A. Shafer.
Additional jurors were drawn as
follows:
B. Frank Horror, Edward j..
Doyle, Mortimer w. Smith, Benjamin
F. Robinson, ]. Horror Davis and
NJ. D. Garrison. ~ q
Bernard F. Butcher, of Fairmont,
was reappointed referee In bank
ruptcy.
Opening the memorial part of the
session. Captain NJ. G. Sperry adj
dressed the court as follows:
IF the court please, since the last
regular session Of this court at this
place. the nestor Of the bar at Clarks-
burg answered the summons which
must inevitably be answered by all.
The members of the bar met upon
that occasion and adopted resolu-
lions making brief resume of the
services rendered by the deceased
brother memeber of the bar, and !
now, on behalf OF the bar of Clarks-
burg, desire to present to your honor
and ask to have spread upon the rec
by the bar Of Clarksburg in order
that brief memorial of the dis
tinguished man may be perpetuated,
Hon. John j. Davis. the Oldest men,
Der of the bar OF Clarksburg."
Judge A. G. Dayton, presiding
said:
1.-THE request OF the bar will be
granted. and 1T is with profound and
deep regret that this court .recog'
nizes the loss that the bar has sus'
tanned in the death Of Mr.. Davis. Hi
loss comes to me as a personal one
go back fifty years IN vivid mem
: DRY to the time when, as a schoo
boy. entered the court room Of my
native county adjoining this, and re
call so well his kindly interest in me-
: as school boy, in the studies tina
was pursuing, in the ideas that
entertained as to my future life
From that day to the time Of shii
I death there existed a tie of persona
friendship that shall not cease t,
9 remember until the hour shall com,
!. for me to depart. During all thes'
years he was an active practitione
not only in this county, but in tn,
3 counties surrounding this, and ! wa
associated with him In many Of thu
CdSes. ! EeAlSulpel Will WAdt d uV
! gree Of reliance entered upon tn
q trial OF cases wherein he was asso
!, ciated with me. and in which 'ha,
: the benefit of his learning and of hi
remarkable powers as an advocate
and I remember also the feeling Of ap
prehension J. experienced when
found myself aligned against him Il
the trial Of causes for. the same rea
: son-that I recognized what ire
Q mendous force and ability, and per
r suasive powers were his.
think can say truthful
: ~, that as an advocate, Mr.. Davis. ha,
scarcely unequal in my judgment
Ino superiors, and the contests tina
have been made by him will stan
out in the history of the bar Of thi
y state as both remarkable in charac
!! ter and in the success that he achiey
q ed in these contests.
i "But to- me there is an
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