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prospectors for test wells The Blue
Ridge Oil Co. will drill the first two
wells at Bingess Run. Many Of the
leases are in wildcat territory
Maiden Schafer, supply sergeant in
Co. K Of the First regiment OF the
West Virginia National Guard was
struck by an overhead bridge near
Clarksburg, and killed as the company
was being moved by train.
At the recent meeting Of the state
pension board 50 pensioners were add
ed to the rolls, So soldiers and 46
widows. Deaths reported for the
period were 124 soldiers and 45
widows.
Enforcement Of eight new prohibit
tion laws nf the state, the organiza-
tion of th"'r association, and how to
handle se.ective laws were the prin-
cipal mat RS before the state meet
ing of West Virginia Sheriffs in Park
ersburg.
B. F. Ball, of Elizabeth, the last sur
vivor of the delegates to the First
Wheeling Convention which met to
take steps to form the new state of
West Virginia during the Civil War,
died at his home at Cedar Farm. He
was Sc years old
c. R. Tirlow, director of the West
Virginia University agricultural sta
ton at Morgantown, addressing the
convention of agricultural agents at
Elkins, urged the necessity Of the
agents multiplying their influence to-
ward increasing the production of
crops throughout the state.
George elmer, So, Bethany con-
ductor, was killed and eleven were in
jured when an interurban car, Bethany
to Wellsburg, jumped the track while
descending Buckhannon hill Many Of
the passengers were either students or
members of the faculty of Bethany
college.
| Martinsburg authorized the city to
issue $250,000 in bonds for street i'm
provements, extension Of the water
system, the building of a subway under
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the
erection Of bridge over the same
road, and other general municipal i'm
provements.
Colonel Charles e. Morrison isSask-
ing for more recruits for the Second
Regiment. The strength of 6he regi-
ment now is l, 1877 trained men,s with
100 unassigned recruits, flaEfNN Its
total strength 1887 In or4r id8iring
the regiment up to its ma wal
strength one hundred more mefPs7afs
needed.
A summary of the May crop report
for the state of West Virginia as com
piled by the bureau of cropN stinatas
of U. S. Department of Agriculture, il
as follows: State--May forecast
100000 bushels; production last veal
final estimate) 4,640,000; two years
ago 100000; 1904 average !, 144,00(
bushels
One unit of the Hayden Corbet
Chain Company factory is to be moved
from Columbus, O., to Huntington a
once This was authorized by w. c
Brown, president, following his arri
val in Huntington to inspect a 5-acrt
site they have taken over there. Thu
Hayden-Corbett Chain company, which
now employs two hundred and twenty
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five men, is capitalized at 100000 AM
is of the highest financial rating.
Wheeling Lodge, Daughters of lisa
bella, is the first in the state to talk
up military training, They hav
started a study of the military cod
Q and will start drilling soon. Effort
are being made to secure government
cooperation. Mrs. e. Earl, head Q
;, the organization, declares that wome
: are just as capable of handling gun
, as the men. There are 100 women i
, the company.
e The West Virginia Sunday SchoC
l. Association, in convention in Parker'
J. burg, adopted the budget plan Of fir
ancing the Sunday school work In tn
state, and providing a budget Of SIS
600 for the coming year. The report
Of the executive officers show the ass
= citation in the state has grown matel
tally in the past year, and the wor
= is to be expanded along various line
in the next IL months
81 Attorney George |. Neal, represen
ing the Ohio Valley Electric Railwa
connecting Huntington, and Ashlan
Ky, told the Board of Public Work
during hearing on the valuation I
public utilities, that the revenues I
interurban line were $4,000 lower du
Ing the firht week of May than durin
the same week of May, 1915, due
operation of new law against impo
tation of intoxicants.
Y Conservation of the nations grai
supply and promotion of industri
r. efficiency, through national prohit
ton, were urged in resolutions fc
warded from Fairmont BY officers
the Central West Virginia Coal Ope
ators Association to members OF Il
West Virginia delegations In the Co
gfess. Members of the associate
toDerate holdings which produce i
OGo,0GO tors of coal annually.