Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-08-26

ing Associated Charities and one OF
the best known social workers in the
northern panhandle, has resigned in
order to take a similar position with
the Phillips Sheet and Tin Plate
Company, at Weirton, w. Va.
CHARLESTON years ago.
in the fall of 1886, James Campbell
Mathews, then resident of Tarboro,
n. c., ordered two drum heads from
New York musical supply concern.
They have just arrived in Charleston
by United States mail. They were
encased in the original package which
was posted in New York shortly af-
ter the order was sent. At the time
of mailing the order, Mathews was a
member of a minstrel company. The
supplies did not reach him at Tar
boro, and were forwarded from time
to time, but no one knows where
they have been all this time.
WHEELING - Although there is
an abundance of hay in the harvest
fields surrounding the city a hay
famine exists here and the price is
jumping up. Farmers are too busy
working in the harvest fields to
bring the hay in.
DAVIS.-While at work on an
electric light pole, James S. Lambia,
an electrical engineer who formerly
lived at Fairmont, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed He
was a thirty-third degree Mason.
CHARLESTON than fifteen
school houses were either washed
away or wrecked by the recent food,
following cloudburst in Cabin
Creek and Coal River head waters.
Eight of these were in Kanawha
county, according to information OBJ
tanned by the superintendent of free
schools, who will direct that an cleo
ton be held in Cabin Creek district
for the purpose of voting on a levy to
get sufficient money with which to
replace the buildings.
ELKINS.- Two little Italian chill
Gren, boy and girl one of whom
will die, are in local hospital. one
man is perhaps fatally wounded and
a woman shot in the face as the re.
suit of a fight yesterday with shot
guns between rival Italian camps On
a lumber railroad near Winterburn,
Pocahontas county.
CHARLESTON received
at the capitol today indicate that
every person on Cabin Creek who was
left without food and clothing by
the flood has been supplied with
everything that is necessary for the
next few days. Ten thousand gar
ments will be distributed along this
valley and tributaries of Coal river
during the next few days The citi-
zens of Charleston and outsiders,
contributing through local agencies,
have donated $4,000 in all for use
in relieving the stricken citizens.
HUNTINGTON. - The bell On the
Inflated Sam Brown, a towboat, which
was destroyed here last February by
a boiler explosion, when eleven men
were killed, has been given to the
Blue Sulphur Baptist church here by
the boats owners, the Monongahela
Coal and Coke Company.
MARL1NTON. - A strong chain CT
circumstantial evidence is being forg-
ed by the authorities here against DIR.
Oliver A. Howard, the physician ar
rested on the. charge of numbering his
wife, although the accused ,stutly
maintains his innocence. Mrs. Howard
wasm found dead in her apartments ly-
ing across the bed. The neck was dis.
located and three finger marks were
plainly discernible on the throat.
HUNTINGTON.-Irvin Hamlin. age
AZ, we'll known Huntington business
man, died in a local hospital of injur-
les received when run down by an
automobile. He never regained con-
seriousness. Hamlin is survived by a
wife and four children.