Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1911-11-23
THE NEWS on
WEST VIRGINIA


Ellxins Becoming lost within a
mile Of camp. Charles Turner. aged so
years cook In lumber camp IN the
Green Mountains, was frozen to death
Sunday. The remains were found by
felloE-workmen. who had been search
ing for the missing man.
Wheeling. Worried by III health,
Joe Hish, q coal miner, placed q pistol
to his head and fired q bullet through
his brain. Hish was in bed at the time
and when neighbors heard the shot
and rushed into the house they found
him breathing his. last.
Mooreaeld-The monument to the
memory OF Conrad Moore. the FOUNDER
Of Moorefeld, the county seat OF
Hardy county. W. Va, formerly Viz
ginia. has been placed ii Mount Olivet
Cemetery, to which the remains were
recently removed. The monument
overlooks the town which Moore
founded in 1777.
Huntington Governor Glasscock
has pardoned James DurbaF, Hunt.
ington newspaper man, sentenced to
three months in jail and to pay fine
of $3.50 for writing and publishing
-nbelous article rejecting on a man.
and woman of Hinton. Durbar had
served month of his tentence. He is
In i'll health.
Elkins, Senator Henry Gassaway
Davis celebrated his eighty-eighth
birthday, taking his usual early morn
ing walk from Graceland downtown
and taking ride on his favorite horse
Kentucky in the afternoon. He was
born in the little village of Wood
stock, Md. in 1923. The Senator ex-
poets to go to Washington for the
winter within few days.
Elkins.- Announcement was made
at a special meeting of the trustees OF
the Davis and Elkins College of gift
of 100000 from former United States
Senator Henry s. Davis as a perma
nent endowment fund. Vacancies in the
board were filled by the election of
former Senator Davis Elkins to sue
ceed his father, the late Stephen b.
Elkins; DIR. H. T. McClelland, Of
Clarksburg, to succeed DR.. Francis, Of
Petersburg, and R. Chaffey Elkins to
succeed Dr. Irons Elkins.
Elkins.-For the second time within
little more than year the post
Office at Beverly was robbed. Bur
glars effected an entrance through a
rear door and blew the safe, wrecking
it, and secured $50 in cash and $482 in
stamps. Residents of the town heard
q mufied explosion about 2.30 A. NJ,
but paid no attention to it. There is
no clue. The office was robbed No
vember 10, 1910, but ON that occasion
the robbers efforts to blow the safe
failed and only a small sum was
secured.
Bluefield.-At Bondtown, Joe At.
kins, of La Toilette, Tenn, shot and
Instantly killed H. n, Patrick. keeper
of restaurant and store. Patrick
and man named Cox, the latter a
brother Of the murderer's wife, were
partners ID business. Mrs Atkins had
been making her home for several
months with her brother Atkins al
legged undue intimacy between his
| wife and Patrick. Atkins came tt
Bondtown, saw his wife and Patrick il
store sitting close together, laugh
! ing and joking. He shot through the
store window, instantly killing Pat
rick.
| Elkins. Gassaway Davis
! the oldest Odd Fellow in West Vir
| ginia, received tremendous ovation
when he addressed the ffty-sixth an
.nual session OF the Grand Lodge O.
West Virginia. Senator Davis ha.
been an Odd Fellow for 81 years ant
sat with Thomas Wildey, founder O
the order. The Mayor, A. M. Fred
! lock, welcomed the lodge to the city
the response to his address being
made by Rev. W. !. Cantore, Of Phil
ippi. Following brief business SEES
sion, the delegates were rendered |
reception at the State home, near thu
city, which was erected by the orde
at a cost of $250,O0O. Six hundred
delegates and visitors are in attend
ance.
Elkins.-The West Virginia Stat,
Assembly of the Daughters of Rebek;
elected and installed the following Off
GERS: President, Mrs. Estella v. Lantz
BIackyille: yice-Dresident. Mrs. Emmi