The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1917-09-13
West Virginia
News Cuttings

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Huntington.-Mrs. Dina Shelf Reese,
aged So. OF Blue Sulphur Springs, was
struck by passenger train No. 2 on
the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad at
Ona and instantly killed.
Wheeling.-Osceola c. Statler. local
business man, was sentenced under
the new state road law to pay a fne
OF $25 and costs for driving an auto
mobile on the wrong side OF the road.
and was fined 800 and costs and sen.
fenced to 80 days in Jail for reckless
driving.
Parkersburg.-The following sum-
mary OF weather and crop conditions
for West Virginia was just issued.
"The drought in practically all Sec
tions OF the state was broken by copi-
Gus rains. Corn, buckwheat and pas
huAO co are huCu Improved. potatoes
continue in good condition"
Charleston.-An unusual picnic was
held at Luna Park in Charleston. in
celebration OF Labor Day, on Septem-
ber 3, when all the deaf mutes OF
Charleston, with several guests from
Huntington, making a party OF forty
in all, carried out a regular program
OF entertainment at the park.
Wheeling-The case OF Thomas
Woods, who shot and killed Mike Ma
loney, mill worker in Woods home
is being presented to the Ohio county
grand jury, which is at present In ses-
sion. According to the authorities,
Woods claims he killed Maloney who
threatened harm to Mrs. Woods.
Wheeling.-The semi-final round OF
the West Virginia Patriotic Golf Tour
nament was played on the Wheeling
Country Club course here. w. e.
Rownd, OF Wheeling, defeated Walter
Stockley, of Fairmont, in the first
flight. In the second flight, his son,
Robert Rownd, defeated DR.. e. A. Hill
dereth
Charleston. = Announcement was
made here that Rev. David c. Bayiess,
secretary OF the Charleston Young
Mems Christian Association. has been
appointed by the National War Coun-
Gil of the Y. M. c. A to represent
West Virginia as general secretary in
charge Of the association buildings at
Camp Lee, Petersburg, Ga.
Wheeling.-The longest cross-coun-
try flight ever made in this section of
the country was made when Captain
Louis Bennett and instructor Frank
Stanton OF the West Virginia Flying
Corps, few from the Beech Bottom
aviation school to Uniontown, Pa,
distance OF more than sixty miles, di-
rect route, and return.
Morgantown.-Errett Rodgers. West
Virginia's stellar backfield performer
on the gridiron has written to those in
charge of athletics at the West Vir-
ginia University that he will be on
hand for the first day OF the training
camp although he doesn't like foot.
ball" at which he excels and at which
he gets "madder every year he plays"
Clarksburg.-More rigid quarantine
regulations are prescribed for the pur-
pose of stamping out the epidemic OF
infantile paralysis here in a proclama-
ton Issued by Mayor G. Fl. Gordon and
effective for two weeks. Children un-
der 16 must remain of the streets alb
solutely and none under that age may
come within or go without the cor
porate limits of the city.
Beckley.-The Raleigh County Sheep
Breeders and Wool Growers Associa-
tion believing that Attorney General
r.. T. England and State Tax Commits
sioner Walter Hallanan have miscon.
strued the new dog law. in ruling that
the killing OF stray, untagged dogs
need not be paid for by the county
court. voted to bear the expense OF a
test case in the circuit court
Wheeling. WheeIlng's hrst con-
signment OF men for tho National
Army has already reached camp at
Petersburg, Va. When the drafted
men departed from here for the first
time did many Wheeling people come
TO the realization that the United
States at war means as much to this
city and as much 90 them as France
az war means to the people OF France.
Wheeling Gov. John J. Cornweii.
president OF the state council Of de-
fense. is I'm receipt Of letter from the
army central department at Chicago.
asking for the cooperation of tho
state council In establishing classes I'm
schools and institutions throughout the
state for training as telegraphers
young men who viii be included in
the second and later calls Under tho
| draft
Fairmont.--Word has reached here
OF the accidental death Of Uldor q.
Snodgrass. a former resident OF Fair
mont. which occurred at Cleveland.
Ohio He fell down an elevator in
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