The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-23


as his present wife, were among the
mourners. There were many floral
tributes. Four children and two
brother survive. DR.. Durrett' had
been in Ill health for the last six
months. He was subject to violent
nervous headaches and is said to
have threatened to take his own life
several times. The body was found
by a daughter, with a shot gun lying
beside 1t.
Mrs. Sylvester Arnett, aged 60,
died at her home In Arnettsville.
Thursday afternoon. e ~
The Marion County Teachers AS
ISOLATION met today in the Fairmont
high school auditorium.
Charles Routzohn, Of Water street,
walked to Fairmont from Point Mar
ion, Pa, arriving last Wednesday
evening. He carried four quart bot
ties Of whiskey. He was arrested for
drunkenness and fined IS.
It is estimated that 10000 extra
gas fires were kept burning In Fair
mont residences during the recent
cold weather. Two degrees below
zero, the coolest weather Of the win
ter in Fairmont, was reached last
Monday morning. The river was
closed with ice and skating on Buffa-
10 creek and other streams was a
popular sport during the early part
OF the week.
Drivers leaving horses stand In
Fairmont streets without blankets
during the cold weather will be ar
rested, the local police say.
Miss Lavina Engle, national suf-
frage organizer for the national suf-
lfrage organization, has been holding
a series Of meetings during the last
week in Fairmont and other cities
of Marion county. Mrs. Lena Lowe
Yost, Of Morgantown. vice president
of the West Virginia Equal Suffrage
League, and Miss Margaret McKln-
ney, Of Fairmont. are assisting Miss
Engle. '
The body Of a baby, badly decoln-
posed, was found in trunk in the
A. D. Simon flats, on Jackson street,
last Sunday by county officers. No
prosecutions will be made 1t Is said.
Mrs. Frederick Randall, daughter
of S. L. Watson, is in hospital in
Santa Barbara, Calf, suffering from
a broken arm sustained In an auto
mobile accident. "
William Arnett, veteran Of the
Civil war, and pioneer resident Of
Arnettsville, died at his home in Ar
nettsyille last Saturday morning.
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An Injunction has been granted
| by Judge w. S. Raymond in circuit
court here restraining the Buckhan-
non and Northern railroad from car
rying labelled liquor into the state
as personal baggage. The injunc-
ton was granted BY the local court
following the report from Charles
ton that the Supreme Court of APP
peals had refused an appeal from a
similar injunction granted against
1.-THE Chesapeake and Ohio railroad by
the circuit court Of Kanawha coun-
Ity. 'si.f s
CT. Miller, structural iron work.
er, who fell sixty feet from a steel
bridge being erected at Worthington
last Wednesday, died the following
day In Miners hospital. He was d
native Of Roanoke, Va, where the
body has been shipped for burial. u
Marion Yeater, aged 49,, Of. Mon
roe street, died in Cook hospital last
Thursday evening from pneumonia
Mrs. James F. Gump. Of Manning
ton, died in the Ohio Valley hospital
Wheeling, Thursday evening. She
was operated on for cancer. n
Eleven applicants for citizenship
in the United States were refused
naturalization papers this week by
Judge George A. Vincent in circuit
court. Nine applicants including
eight Italians and one Englishman,
were granted papers.