The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-04-17

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Red Men To 5Meet-The state meet.
ing of the Independent Order of Red
Men will Be held In Huntington May
8 and'9. The initial session Will be held
in the Freerock hotel and members
OF the order from all parts of the state
will be In attendance. Fairmont will
send quite a delegation to Huntington
for the meeting.
Golf Tournament-The fourth an
nual championship tournament OF the
West Virginia Golf association will be
held July IL, Is. IA and Is at White
Sulphur Springs.
Democrats to clarksbura-Hon.
John J. Cornwell, Of .Romney, candi'
date for the g~ubernatorial nomination
on the Democratic ticket. will be IN
Clarksburg tomorrow evening at 1880
o'clock and local Democrats are max.
ing plans to go to that point to hear
him. Mr.. Cornwell will be at the Wa.
do all of tomorrow.
Lecture Postponed - The lecture
which Dr.. Taylor was scheduled to
give this evening at thesC Central Chris
tian church has been postponed for
one week and will be given next Mon.
day night. The sale of tickets for this
lecture has been large.
Paw Paw Meetinss-It was found
~expedient to postpone the good roads
meetings, scheduled for Baxter on
Saturday, until n later date. The exact
tine has not yet ben DAed but viii
10 announced as o as hartman
Hess has had a chance to LOOK into
some OF the details.
Lecture to Pythians-Black Dia'
mond lodge. knights Of Pythias OF Mo-
nongah, is sending out announcements
of a lecture, to be delivered at a smok-
er to he beld in the lodge room tomor-
rom. evening at 1880 o'clock, by Ator-
ney Rollo Conley of this city. Mr.. Con-
ley will tell of impressions made dur
ing a trip through the Orient.
Back on Duty-Simon Kline. Of the
Harrison store who spent last week
at Cook hospital recovering from All
operation upon a carbunCle, has re-
turned TO work.
Presbyterians at Y. M. c. A.-The
congregation of the Presbyterian
church w%orshipped for the first time
at the Y. NJ. C. A. auditorium ycste:-
day and the various services were well
attended and interesting. DR.. II. G..
Stoetzer preached two splendid SER
mons. The subject of the morning ser
mon was Characteristics OF the
Church." and in the evening the theme
was What is Your Plan of Life?
History Soon Ready-The book OIL
the history OF Marion county which tine
j. o. Watson class Of the High school
is editing, will be ready for publtca-
ton ve.y soon. The title Of the hook
is" Pioneer Life in Marion county"
and book will contain many interesting
incidents of the early life and settlers
Of this county. The book is under the
general supervision of Miss Dora Lee
Newman, of the history department
OF the High school.
Sale Postponed-Sale of the First
National bank property. which was Of
fered at auction again by the liQuidat.
ing committee Saturday from the steps
OF the court house, was postponed two
weeks until Saturday, April 20. The
bids for the entire property were en-.
tirely toe low in the opinion OF the
committee, less than $75. 900 being Of
fered for both the banking house and
the adjoining residence.
Mcguire Leaves-M. T. Mcguire. for
some time superintendent of Power for
the Mouongahela Valley Traction Co.,
having accomplished his mission here
left the city last night and will resume
his former position with the Bethle-
hem Steel Company. Mcguire was
sent here by the Bethlehem people for
the purpose of installing and caring
for the powerful Hutchinson Electric
plant.
Mileage Convenience - Following
the announcement that mileage pur.
chased on the Monongahela railway
will be accepted as transportation on
the New York Central lines. the
Pennsylvania is said to be figuring on
doing likewise. The date set for the
Inauguration OF such arrangements is
May ID.
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