The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-09
BITS OF
STATE NEWS

You can get haircut at Morgan
town for fifteen cents on any day but
Saturday.
today.
shinnston has weekly paper.
Every indication Of some fine hunt
ing this fall in Preston county.
Scoop" Oaks is porter Of the Capt.
toll hotel at Clarksburg.
It will require ten months work to
connect the Coal @ Coke railroad with
the main line of the B. & o.
Morgantown banks close on Saturday
evenings.
Clarksburg's new street car depot
is not yet completed.
There's bad spot of road at st. AL
bans which makes an auto trip FROM
Huntington to Charleston disagreed
BILE.
Officials of the Phillips Sheet and
Tinplate Co., of Pittsburgh, recently
inspected the plant Clarksburg.
Governor MacCorkle is touring the
state making addresses on the Liberty
Loan.
An act of the 1917 legislature, regu'
lar session, requiring railroad COM
panias to provide suitable space lot
the transportation Of sick and injured
has become effective. 1t concerns only
a few of the railroads Of the state as
the majority of them have provided
all the accommodations required.
The new law specifies that all rail-
road companies operating regular
trains in the state are required to fur
nish suitable space for the transporta'
ton Of sick and injured persons VINO
present themselves for travel on cots
and stretchers and who declare them
selves to be unable to travel in any
other manner. The charge for fare,
the law stipulates, shall not be in ex-
cess of that Of the regular ttrst-class
fare.
The Smith.Hughes act Of Congress
to provide for the promotion OF Voca-
tional education and cooperation with
the states in the training both of teach
ers and students in the vocational sub
iects of agriculture and the tradeE and
Industries, provides West Virginia with
considerable aid watch begins this
year, according to information receiv'
ed by the state department OF schools.
The amounts given will increase grad
ually until 1926 when this states share
will DO approximately 100000 a year
The state mus spend dollar for dollar
for the same purpose. The federal aio
for 1918 is $1O,O50 for salaries of
teacher supervisors or directors OF
agricultural education, S., 1000 for teach
ers OF trade, home economics and vo-
cational subjects, and $3.50 for train
ing of teachers of vocational subjects.
Both timber and coal development
on 5000 acres Of land on the east sido
Of Gauley river from Horseshoe creek
10 Woods Ferry, Fayette county, Is pro
posed by Huntington capitalists who
recently acquired three additional
tracts to their already large acreage
In that vicinity. The Fillmore, Masters
and Clark tracts are included in the re-
cent purchase. A great deal Of the
land is we'll wooded and most Of 1t Is
underiand with a heavy seam Of coal.
The thirteenth annual commence
ment exercises Of Davis and Elkins
College will begin Sunday, June 10,
with the baccalaureate sermon by DR..
A. H. Barr, of the First Presbyterian
church Of Baltimore. DR.. Waldo b.
Dunn, Of Wooster College, will deliver
the commencement address, Wednes'
day night, June 13.
The West Virginia Supreme Lodge.
Order Of Golden Links, will hold its
annual session in Wheeling Tuesday,
June 10. The Supreme Lodge officers
will be entertained by local lodges ct
q reception held the preceding night
Coal and Coke Railroad company OF
ficials say it will require about ten
months in which to construct the con-
meeting link between the main hne-of
that railroad and the Baltimore and
Ohio by which direct passenger traf
&c will be carried between Charleston
ana lTSftfahur0h Whi1e.the new linRiDt