The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1917-07-19
West Virginia
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Parkersburg.-The West Virginia
Veterinary Medical Association held a
meeting here. DR.. j. j. Cranwell. OF
Clarksburg, was elected president, and
DR.. Ernest Layne, of Huntington, sec
retary.
Parkersburg-Ralph Buckley. "a, OF
this city, was fireman on the steam
er Kansan, which is reported to have
oeen sunk off the French coast. He
left here two months ago and the last
heard from him was when the ship
sailed two weeks ago.
Charleston.-Deputy prohibition ON
GERS in West Virginia had a busy time
In their chase of the elusive bootleg
GER according to reports received by
their chief, Prohibition Commissioner
Hallanan. Eight arrests were report
ed, including little girl, Mary Kluza,
OF Laurel, who was arrested at Hunt
ington.
Huntington.-Coal men have fled a
protest with the public service COM
mission. asking restoration of two
trains each way daily on Chesapeake
& Ohio branch lines radiating from
Logan in coal district that is being
developed rapidly. The railroad re-
Gently reduced the passenger service
to one train daily.
White Sulphur Springs.-The annual
banquet of the West Virginia Bar AS
sociation was given at the Greenbrier
at White Sulphur Springs, following
two days of executive sessions and
committee meetings. The speech by
Hon. Sherman l.. Whipple, of Boston,
was accounted the most brilliant pa.
per of the session.
Parkersburg.-Th Western Vfr.
ginia Epworth League Conference OF
the NJ. +. Church, South, elected Off
GERS here as follows President, Rev.
II. G. Howards, Paintsvine. XIV: vice
president. w. w. Hyre, Huntington. w.
va; secretary, Miss Julia Wilson, Bar
louisville, w. Va; treasurer, S. II.
Robertson, Pendennis, w. Va
Notwithstanding upon advice OF
State Health Commissioner Jepson.
City Manager G. o. Eagle has ordered
steps taken TO place armed guards on
the bridges between West Virginia and
Ohio here. The quarantine regulations
against the infantile paralysis in Mar
tins Ferry are being disregarded. Fear
OF the spread of the plague is feared.
Charleston.-Coal operators in the
Kanawha, New River, and other near
by fields may resort to motion pic
lures to get before the nation actual
conditions and handicaps under which
they are laboring adequately to meet
the national and international demand
Tor their fuel. Among the handicaps
are the shortage of cars and paucity or
labor to man the mines.
Huntington.-The county is host to
about thirty-six prisoners, according
to Jailer ]. H. Lewis. Eighteen of them
are performing useful service on the
county road. while the other eighteen
are in Cabell county Jail here. Five OF
with felonies, alleged to have been
committed since the common pleas
court was in session
Wheeling Wheeling faces a seri-
Gus typhoid fever epidemic. according
TO warning issued by the city board
Of health Fourteen cases are being
treated in one hospital and many 9th
ers are in private homes, and other
hospitals. The health department
urged the boiling of all water used for
drinking purposes and also tire pas
teurization Of milk as precautionary
measures.
Parkersburg West Virginia
Natural Gas Association closed it's sec.
ond annual convention here. Officers
were chosen for the year as follows.
President, Fred Paul Grosscup. Char.
lesion vice president. r. G.. DAWSON.
Crawford ecretary-treasurer Edwin
Robinson, Fairmont: new directors.
George B. Riddle, Wheeling: Pat Nc
DOnOugh. Parkersburg: p. J. King
Huntington, and Lynn S. Homer. or
Clarksburg
Clarksburg. Another new scheme
to dodge the stringent prohibition laws
was run to earth at Weston. when 40
gallons Of whisky and wine consigned
TO the clergymen Of Weston was seized
at the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
freight depot there by J. Walter Bee
deputy state commissioner or prohibi