The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-02-08


minimum, 81; precipitation, trace.
EVENTS TONIGHT.
Normal School - Basketball, Normal
vs.. Salem College.
NJ. %. Church, South-Meeting of the
Young Ladies' Missionary Society.
East Side Hall - Basketball, Atlas
Y'sters ys. East Side team
Odd Fellows Hall = Lodge No. 144,
Knights Of Malta.
Normal school-Meeting of Johnson
Story Telling club.
Odd Fellows Hall-Seven Sisters lodge
No. "a, D. of r.
Maccabees Hall-Nest OF 1922, o. o. o.
X. of P. Hall-Mountain City Lodge
No. As X. Of P.
Red Men Hall-Setting Sun Tribe No.
16, 20. R. NJ.
Today's Legal Transfers.. NJ.
Musgroye, special commissioner, to
Thurman A. Vincent one sixth inter.
est in 20 acres of real estate. Con-
sideration $500. C. F. Crane and wife
to n. =. Jamison and j. H. Barrett,
lot 3S In Monongahella Industrial Co.'S
addition to Fairmont. 81 and other
valuable considerations.
Lodge Women at Worthinston-Fif
teen or more women representing Re.
bekah Lodge No. "a boarded the nine
o'clock interurban car this morning
and went to Worthington where they
attended the semi-annual convention
of District No. of the West Virginia
Lodge of Rebekahs which is in SEES.
sion there today. A number of women
from Warrington, Metz and Morgan.
town Joined the delegation here and
vent to Worthington also.
Small Coal Operators Meet-A meet.
ing OF team track operators is being
held In the assembly room of the Wat
son hotel this afternoon. A number of
the team track men were present for
the session, which is expected will
effect an organization for the mutual
benefit of the operators in membership.
Flag on New HoteI-A large Amer.
lean flag has been hoisted on the new
flag pole which surmounts the Hotel
Fairmont, and is one of the most con.
spicious In the city. With the bid to
patriotism made in the past few days,
there has been great appearance of
American flags, both big and little.
Postmaster Manley Better Post
master Charles E. Marley has return
ed to his Office at the government
building on Monroe street after an
illness of several weeks. He was con-
fined to his bed with high blood pres
sure and bleeding at the nose.
InNew Coal company-H. B. Long
of this city is one of the incorporators
of the Mudlick Coal company Of
$4,000. The other incorporators are
Charles Long, Martha E. Long. Frank
A. Burnett and Emma A. Burnett, all
Of Shinnston.
Quartet comlns-Under the au.
spices of the choir and musical de-
partment of the church the Aeolian
Qartet, Of .Clarksburg, will give a
musical entertainment at the Pala-
tine Baptist church Wednesday even
ing OF next week.
Eye Injured-Ila Kinsley, two and
one.half years old, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. George H. Kinsley, of Ufling-
ton, one OF whose eyes was accidental
ly burned by hot poker in the hands
of an older sister, probably will lose
the sight Of the injured member.
Splinter in His Eye-Herbert An.
dersor, aged %, of Watson, suffered
the probable loss of one eye this morn
ing when while chopping wood a heavy
splinted few into the right member.
Mr.. Anderson had to pull the piece
ofwood from his eye with his fingers.
Medical attention was secured and ev-
erything possible done to save the
sight.
Again Very lll-Mrs. Pearl Hawkin-
berry, of Virginia avenue, is suffer,
ing a relapse from bad case of grip.
Mrs. Hawknberry was able to be up
and about the first of the week but is
now confined to her bed.
Skater Gets Ducklns-Wilbur Morri.
son, of Barrackville, while skating
along the edge of Buffalo creek where
the ice was rotten, broke through into
water waist deep this morning. He
was able to pull himself out and go to
the home of neighbor and get dried
out.
Has MeasIes-Gordon May, small
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Davis, of
Belleview avenue, is very Ill with
measles.
christner Out on eail-Hoy Christ.
ner, charged with first degree murder
of Free, Buckeye" Shaver, of Mo.
nongah, was released on $500 bail
from the county jail here. His rela-
lives at his home city went on his
bond.
Skipped Board BllI-Douglass Row.
land was arrested this morning by
Constable Tucker on a charge of skip
ping q board bill at Morgantown. He
was permitted his freedom when he
made the bill good.
Isvery llI-Mrs. 3. M. Jones, of Sis.
tersyille, who is a daughter of DR.. C.
+. Boyrs, Of this city, is seriously Ill
and will ba ioneTnted IInnn In q parly