Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-07-08
WEST VIRGINIA NEWS.

STATISTICS HOH SIidIicStOl ohO" uiS
enumeration of youth of school age in
West Virginia to be 372.3l1.
The State Board OF Control says that it
will save S25, 0G0 this year in the opera
ton of the various State institutions.
Well, show us.
The board of education of Charleston
has appointed George S. Laidly superin-
tendent OF the city schools for the 10Th
consecutive term.
Howard Sutherland, real estate agent,
of Elkins, who few days ago sold
large tract of spruce in West Virginia to a
syndicate headed by Edward W. Mealy,
banker. and William Kealhofer, of Hag-
erstown, il is stated, received $4,000 as
his commission in the deal, which aggre-
gated 81, 100000.
Three thousand men in the employ OF
the American Sheet and Tin Plate COM
pany at the La Belle plant in Wheeling,
and two plants at Martins Ferry, Ohio,
went on strike last week because of the
order that after July all plants of the
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
would be operated as "open shops"
The Board of Control of West Virginia
has begun a good work in applying the
pruning knife to the several State institu-
lions. AT the school for the deaf and
blind ATTORNEY the board not only de-
clined 70 fillthree vacancies in in the fac
ulty, but in addition cut off two more
teachers and reduced the salaries of most
of the others.
Because he crowed too soon, Kirk Pier
son, serving prison term at Moundsville,
for pocket picking, had his pardon re-
voked. When he heard that Governor
GlaSScock had signed his pardon he told
a prison guard that he would Immediately
resume operations and add to the list of
500 "suckers" he had already trimmed"
Governor Glasscock was notified and re-
scinded the order pardoning hin.
Warden J. E. Matthews. of the State
penitentiary, has placed a gang OF con-
victs at work about the prehistoric Indian
mound at Moundsville, recently purchased
by the State, preparatory to converting
the property into public park. The
plan is most extensive one and will in
volve months of hard work by large
force of convict laborers. II is the aim TO
restore the mound to the State just as
il stood 300 years ago, before vandals de-
faced it. A beautiful State park is to be
laid out on the grounds surroundingit.
H. p. Creemans, wealthy farmer living
on Beech Fork, in the vicinity OF Hunting
ton, was taken to hospital in serious
condition, the result of savage torture.
While going home late Tuesday night he
was waylaid by four or five men, and al
ter severely lasting him with hickory
switches they bound him hand and loot
and with tweezerS proceeded to pull out
every hair of a luxuriant beard. He was
left more dead than alive, but was found
some hours later and was hurried to a
hospital Creemans is good citizen,
and had been making an effort to break
up a gang of lawbreakers in his COM
munity. His punishment of Tuesday
night is traced to some Of the men he has
been attacking.
The last of the list of properties assess
ed by the Board of Public Works has
been published, and shows an increase
in the assessed valuation by the board to
be S263, 2S4, S57, or $10,652, 934 in excess
of the amount fixed on the properties
last year. OF all the clasSficationS, only
in one is there reduction this year
that OF car lines, with reduction OF 1884,
$50. The oil and gas companies are in
creased over six and one-half millions.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is re-
duced two millions, but the Virginian, the
new line from Deepwater through the
eastern portion of the State TO tidewater,
is given an increase of three millions.
More than one-half of the increase in the
water and light companies comes from the
Kanawha Water and Light company,
which had its valuation doubled oyer
1908. The percentage in increase is al
most the same this year as it was last
year, there being difference Of only
about one-tenth OF one per cent.
AT midnight last Wednesday nearly all
the boards OF directors which have been
in charge of the State institutions in West
Virginia passed out of existence and the
new State Board of Control assumed
charge of them. AT the last session OF
the Legislature law was enacted pro-
viding for board of control of three
members, which should have charge OF
all the State institutions, instead of hav-
ing one board for each institution. The
following boards are dissolved: Board OF
Regents of the State University; Board
of Regents of the State Normal Schools;
Directors of the Keyser Preparatory
School; Directors of the West Virginia
Colored Institute Directors Of the Blue
field Institute; Board of Regents OF the
School for Deaf and Blind Directors OF
the Reform School for Boys; Directors
OF the Montgomery Preparatory School;
Directors of the West Virginia Industrial
Home for Boys; Directors of the West
Virginia Industrial Home for Girls; Di-
rectors OF the Insane Asylum Directors
of the miners hospitals; Directors of the
State penitentiary. The following boards
remain in charge of their respective in
situations The State Board of Health,
Humane Society, trustees of the Berkeley
SnriuoS State DroDerty. State vaccine