The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-04-20
BITS OF
STATE NEWS

According to figures on record at
the headquarters Of the state road bu.
reau, counties and districts of West
Virginia, since the new statutes went
into effect. have voted a total of ST..
74S,5OO in bonds TO be used III the
building Of permanent roads. Pend.
ing to be voted on in the state before
the 10th of June, 1916. are bonds in
the amount of $4,125,000. In bond cleo
tions held Saturday. April Is, bonds in
the sum Of $493,500 for building perm.
anent roads were voted, and issues
amounting to a total of $4,000 were
rejected. This total includes tho
100000 of Grant district, Mononga.
liza county.
With fresh country eggs selling at
wholesale along the Ohio river at q
and % cents a dozen and chickens %
cents a pound, heavy shipments of
eggs are being Sent to Pittsburgh.
Tuesday the Steamer Pell City passed
up with 1000 of eggs. Accord
ing to egg dealers the price of eggs
will hardly drop much lower for some
time, as they are now being gathered
up and put in cold storage.
Engineer Fred Slaughter of the
Peerless Mills has not yet decided in
what trade he will enter his new boat,
the Dakota, which he constructed dur.
ing the past few weeks in odd mo.
ments when he wasn't engaged in run.
ming the big engine at the mill, and
before deciding he will place 1t on
exhibition in one Of the display win.
dows on Market street, says the Par.
kersburg Sentinel. The boat, which is
eight feet and four inches long, has
a beam Of twenty inches and is four
feet from the keel line TO the top Of
the ~smokestacks, a perfect model Of
a stern.wheelt boat. equipped with boil.
ers, cabins and everything found on
a frst.class boat, including an cleo.
trio light, bell, ~lifeboats, ganGplank,
etc.
The Weston Independent says Birk
S. Sathers left Thursday noon for Mt.
Clemens, Michigan, where he will take
the baths at that place. 1t is thought
that he will be entirely recovered with
in ten days or two weeks, and able to
take personal charge Of his campaign
for Attorney General, which Gems to
be making splendid Roadway despite
his inability to get out over the state.
The idle Wheeling municipal gas
plant will be converted back into a
works 10 manufacture gas from coal,
IL the city accepts the proposition laid
before tho board OF control by the w. j..
McClurg Gas Construction company,
of Pittsburgh. The plant is at pres.
ent equipped for the manufacture OF
water gas and the Pittsburgh inter
ests who propose to lease the concern
plan to eliminate the oil required by
this process and re.substitute bitumin.
GUS coal and incidentally dispose OF
the coal tar and coke as by.products.
Nat T. Frame, OF Charleston state
agricultural agent for West Virginia,
and G.. l., Oliver. an expert from the
dairy department of the agricultural
department OF the agricultural college,
are in Berkeley county. They were
accompanied by P. F. Graf, an agricul.
tural expert from Staughton, Wis. Mr..
Oliver and County Agent Bewick will
devote several days this week to the
dairy interests OF Berkeley county.
One by one the idle breweries are be.
ing put to work at something useful.
In Parkersburg the stockholders of the
Parkersburg Brewery company are re-
ported to be fixing up a deal with the
National Cold Storage company. which
obtained a charter some time ago, and
at that time It was rumored that It
was the intention Of the new com.
pany to take over the holdings OF the
brewing company. But the latest ru'
NOR Is 70 the effect that the new com.
pRny will take over the brewery build.
Ing proper and the grounds surround.
ing It at a tigue said to be in the
'neIghborhood OF eighty thousand dol.
lars but that this will not include the
equipment Of the brewery building or
the other property. business houses
and dwellings owned BY the brewing
company.