The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-10-24
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STATE NEWS /
The biggest consignment Of honey
ever shipped out Of the Eastern Pan.
handle. was loaded at Bunker Hill by
Oscar See, well.known .jobbing grocer
OF North Queen street. Martinsburg.
The total amount loaded was approx.
imately 11.000 pounds and the value
about $1,400. OF this 400 pounds
by A. r. Carter, of Vaudeville, Va,
and the balance by Berkeley county
bee fanciers-3,620 by o. B. LeFevre,
and the balance by w. A. Thatcher, o.
A. Weidman and H. B. Cline. The
honey was shipped to western town
in the gas and oil belt Of this state, &C,
cording to the Martinsburg World.
II. ]. Lilly, a former merchant OF
Beckley. who runs store at Flat Top.
sent to the Beckley market last week
wagon load Of chestnuts. Mr.. Lilly
buys up the chestnuts at Flat Top and
hauls them to market. He sent In the
week before over seven bushels and
last week his wagon was at Beckley,
having sold - bushels on this trip.
The nuts average $500 per bushel
wholesale, and s6.40 retail.
According to the Buckhannon Delta
Miss Emma Casio, one Of the. best
business women of the county, brought
several bushels of very fine roasting
ears to town Saturday. The husks on
the corn were as green as II there
mad not been frost this year. We
fail to see how they escaped the frost
but they did. Miss Casio is a maiden
lady. who lived with her father ON q
farm in Warren district. but her faith
er died several years ago and Miss
Emma has run the farm ever since.
Some years ago she took two small
orphan girls that had no home and has
furnished them good home, and they
are now young women. Miss Emma
has always appeared to think as much
OF them and take as much pains with
their training as If they were her Own
daughters.
A lodge OF B'nai Birth, an inter.
national organization for the promo.
ton of benevolence, patriotism and
self-respect among Jewish people. has
been organized in Charleston, and
forty men were given the initiatory
degrees Of the order at the Elks Club
Sunday afternoon. The lodge already
has membership OF seventy, and this
is expected to be increased to include
| all the Jews in the capital city.
Walter Benjamin Meiller, aged 33.
the phenomenal indoor walker. Of
Huntington recently walked from
Marietta, O., to Parkersburg, dis.
lance OF - miles in hours 40 min.
utes. Meiller, who is Frenchman,
has made remarkable record dur
ing his short career He has partici.
pated In siXty-ore matches. winning
! OF this grand total fifty.two-three
were tied, with eight defeats. Just
before the kickoff at the Marietta West
high. CT Columbus, at Marietta last
Saturday Meiller gave a very graceful
and clever exhibition Of his skill! II.
that branch OF sport that has made
him famous.
J. Frank Marsh. secretary of the
West Virginia board Of regents, has
returned TO Charleston from trip
through the southern part of the state.
where he has been visiting the schools
of that section. One Of the schools
visited by Prof. Marsh While on his
trip was the Concord normal school.
This school has Just moved into the
new addition recently erected which
almost doubles its capacity. The part
recently erected consists of new au.
diturilnl. library. reading room, man.
ual training shops and laboratories.
w. A. Hersh. president OF The Uni.
ted Wooden Mills Co.. which has head.
uarters in Parkcrsburg. and Branch
stores in many West Virginia, Ohio
ana Kentucky cities, has closed deal
for his concern involving the purchase
of fnur.story building iE the heart OF
the business district Of Charleston,
the property being located at FOG Cap.
itol street, diagonally across from the
new postoffice building, three doors
above Quarter street. The purchase
price was $4,000. The building pur.
chased is q solid stone structure. TWEEN.
ty-five foot frontage and one hundred
and twenty-six feet deep. 1t Is now oc.
cupied by the Goshcrne Hardware Co.
The United Wooden Mills Co., now
occupies building in Charleston
owned by the Capital Realty company
which is to be torn down early in 1917
20 make way for new sl:yscraper and
COR that reason was Obliged to seek
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