Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-05-21

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die abornin'. At least 1t is hoped so
Health Commissioner Williams stated
no nsw case had been discovered and
the others were doing as well as could
be expected
Wheefing.-An Overland automobile
burned nearly beyond recognition was
found at Rocky Point, near Rudlersl
out the pike. The license tags had
been taken from the machine, and its
owner was not discovered.
Wheeling passing of another
old landmark of the community was
when the county infirmary farm al
Elm Grove, recently purchased by
Wheeling business men, was sold out
IN building lots and small truck farms
Ciarksburg. is to have
a meeting of council, after a delega
ton from the Young Women's Chris
tfan Association had urged the move
A police matron will also be ap
pointed.
Parkersburg.-Dr. A. K. Ross has
reported case of smallpox to the city
health authorities the patient being e
B. Daggett, aged so years, of 1947 East
Seventh street. The residence was
placed under quarantine by Assistant
City Inspector F. R. knight.
Weights and Measures Edw Brookes
reports three milk cans being used il
Wheeling below the standard meas
urements. These cans were prompt
~ confiscated. The defective meas
ures were of the larger size.
Clarksburg. Sturm, assistant
mechanic at the Baltimore. & Ohio
shops at Weston, suffered fractured
skull while at work when struck on
the head by the nozzle of rubber
hose. F., was operated on shortly
after the accident and the pressure
on the brain was relieved.
Huntington.-Ast the result of an &C.
cident to a young man, in which he
was shot in the eye by a stray ball
from an air rife, Mayor Sehon issued
an order to. the police, instructing
them to confscate all air rifles and
sling shots found in the possession OF
youngsters on the streets.
Wheeling - Official announcement
has been made of the appointment Of
Walter Ware, one of the best known
younger Ohio river men of the up-the
river trade, as captain in the United
States army engineering corps for i'm
mediate service in the inland water
ways of the French republic.
Clarksburg. Evidently confused by
the blowing of whistles. and the rum
BILE and roar of passing trains, Riley
Cline, Of Greenwood, an employee in
the cooper shop of the Hazel-Atlas
Glass Company's plant, was run down
by local freight short distance east
of Barnes Crossing and instantly
killed.
Wheeling.-Audrey the young
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony
Ross, of 1876 National road, Fulton, is
in a critical condition as a result OF
being run down by an automobile. The
girl has sustained fractured skull
The child with a number of compan
ions was playing in street near her
home.
Hinton.-A Hinton family found
some crushed or broken glass in LOAF
of bread. No one knows how the
glass came to be in the bread, wheth
er by accident or otherwise The
bread was made by Huntington and
not a Hinton bakery. The glass was
discovered before the family had
eaten any of the bread.
Wheeling -Stxty-nine men, register
ed with the city draft board, who were
married since May IS, 1917, have been
placed in Glass 1 by the district board
which sits at Clarksburg, w. Va. The
local board received notice to this ef-
feet, and the work of notifying the
sixty-nine men of the action of the dis.
tTict board has already commenced by
the local board.
Huntington.-Dr. p W. McCiung, of
Elizabeth, Writ county, has applied
for a commission IN the Medical Off
GERS Reserve Corps Of the United
States. He has been examined and
found satisfactory and recommended
for commission which will shortly
be issued, according to an announce
ment made at the offices of the Medi-
cal Officers examining board
ington-Anstead, in Fayette
county, claims the honor of being the
banner Liberty Loan town in the state,
and challenges any community any
where to produce better showing
than that which she made in the Third
Liberty Loan drive She submits the