Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-01-11
STATE NEWS

now under construction will not be
in time for the opening of
the basketball season. Bethany Col
lege will have no representative bas-
ketball team this year.
Four more arrests were made by
Wheeling police in 1916 than in
1915, according to statistics at police
headquarters. The total number of
arrests reached 1,761 during the past
year.
More marriage licenses were is
sued in Ohio county during 1916 than
were ever before granted in any
county in the state in year. The
record shows that 1000 marriage
permits were issued nearly 300 more
than Kanawha county's record of l.
334.
To prevent forced suspension Of
operations because Of possible gas
shortages in the future Mounds
vile glass company which operates
one Of the largest glass factories in
the world has installed new gas pro
ducers. Similar arrangements are be-
ing made by hundred other con-
Germs in chat district
Walter B. Miller, Of Huntington,
who has achieved considerable motor
iety as long-distance walker, has
arranged for two years. walk from
Huntington to Sacramento, Cal. He
plans to carry communications from
city officials Of Huntington and Char
lesion to the mayor of Sacramento.
The prosperous condition Of the
state is responsible for the small
number Of enlistments in the United
States Army during the past few
months in West Virginia, according
to Captain M. A. Baston, in charge
of recruiting stations in West Vir-
ginia. The enlistments have been
far below the average for several
months.
Adjustments of claims for damages
by shippers car service charges and
demurrage must be made by railroad
companies in West Virginia within 60
days afssT the claim is filed if bill
proposed by the various chambers of
commerce of the state passes the 1917
legislature. These organizations al
lege that complaints against railroad
companies are numerous and many
months frequently pass before sottle-
ments of claims are made.
The legislature will be asked to en-
act a law providing for the certifca-
ton by the state of shorthand report
ers according to a decision of the
West Virginia Shorthand Reporters
Association at a recent meeting in
Huntingtsa.
Reports of Jean F. Smith, county
divorce commissioner, just made pub
lie show that during 1916 the number
of divorces granted in Cabell county
decreased 60 per cent over 1915.
Officials connected with the state
department Of weights and measures
are of the opinion that the public has
not been sufficiently infozmed on the
Importance of demanding measure by
weight instead Of by the so-called
dry measure. The change has net
been extensively introduced into the
interior counties and it will require
an act of the legislature providing
for sales only by weight before the
change can be made general, accord
ing to ]. H. Nightingale, ex-officic
state commissioner of weights and
measures.
Professor A. B. Brooks, State En-
tomologist W. E. Ramsey, of Nor
gantown, Commissioner of Agricul-
ture Inward E. Williams, Commits
sioner-elect ]. H. Stewart, State
Forest Warden j. A. Viquesney and
many timber owners in West Vir-
ginia will attend the meeting of the
American Forestry Association in
Washington, JanuarJy Is and 49,
Agents of the state department of
agriculture are fearful of a spread of
white pine blister from the affected
portionsof Virginia, Maryland and
Ohio to plantations of white pine in
West Virginia, particularly in Poca-
hontas, Tucker and Morgan counties.
This disease, following closely on the
dread chestnut blight, is aid to be
rapidly destroying the white pine in
the eastern part OF the United States.
Investigation by agents of the de-
partment of agriculture and the State
Experiment Station have, thus far,
found no traces of the blight in this
state. However, the department of
agriculture is urging that he state
Legislature authorize more thorough
examination to determine whether
the disease hoc ontoroJ o,o -.