The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-01-17

creek last week.
The family of Judge Reese
Blizzard is quarantined at his
home in Parkersburg, on account
of diptheria.
Two children of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. K. Morgan, of Philips run,
were dangerously sick last week
with pneumonia.
Mrs. S. G.. Barr has been con-
fined to her room for the past
several days. with a severe spell
of sickness. Her daughter, Mrs.
K. G. Hardman, ofMapleview, is
at her bedside, aud will remain
until Mrs Barr is recovered.
Hardman & Gamer will start
their broom factory in operation
this morning. They estimate
that they will have enough corn
on hand to make ten thousand
brooms. The veteran broom
maker j. G. West of Nobe will
be head workman in the fact tory.
The House passed the Sullo-
way general pension bill. which
grants pensions ranging from
S12 to $50 month to soldiers
who served ninety days in the
United States army in the Civil
War or sixty days in the Mexican
War. The bill if it becomes a
law would increase the pension
roll about $45, 600, 900 a year.
The circumstances surround
ing the appointment of Davis
Elkins are such as to forbade ex-
tended public comment inasmuch
as his tenure of office will be so
brief as to be worthless. Never
theless the fact remains, that
there is no good reason either in
sentiment, or in the young mans
capabilities or conduct or in ally
political service he or his have
rendered the state, to justify his
enrolment for even two weeks
in a body which has included
among its members most of the
glorious names in American his
tory. - Sentinel.
Take your Fur to Chenoweth,
he pays cash.
State Geologist l. C. White has
just transmitted his biennial re-
port to the governor. 1t is an
imrortaAt document, and in it he
again calls attention to the ruth
less waste of West Virginia's
fuel resources, especially that of
natural gas, and urges legislation
to stop the same During the
past year the waste has amount
ed to hundreds of dollars in val
ue, and this arises not only from
the loss of gas but from the care
less and unskillful coal mining
operations, the destruction of
valuable timber and young trees
through forest fires started prin-
cipally by the railroads, and the
loss of thousands of acres of our
most valuable coal beds through
the unregulated drilling and
abandonment of oil and gas wells.
These statements by Prof. White
are certainly worthy Of the very
serious consideration of our leg
islative body. The danger which
threatens the state is not an inn
aginary one, but is so real and
self evident that delay in avert
ing it is positively criminal.
The next President tf the
United States will be a Demo.
crat. Norman E. Mack.
That is no certainty. The next
president of the United States
will be a Democrat provided the
Democratic party gives a gooc
account Of itself in the next two
years, and not otherwise. Tn,
Democratic party is on trial. II
the people find that the trust.
and special interests are success.
ful in their present ill-concealeC
effort to place the reactionar,
element Of the party in the sad
die, the people will overthrow
the Democratic party two year.
hence with the same cheerful
and forceful unanimity will
which they dislodged the Repub.
lican party in the late election
The people have had their eve,