Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-03-12

a deserter from the 150th Infantry, U.
S. N. G., who was arrested here some
time ago. Battlagia was sentenced to
four years at hard LABOR and ordered
sent to federal prison, according to
Seletyn's statemen .
Wheeling federal state food
administration has issued an order
that hereafter no retail dealer in flour
in this state shall be permitted to sell
at profit exceeding $120 on the bar
rel. 1t has been complained to the ad-
ministration that in number of in
stances in this city and at other points
in the state, larger profit has been
exacted by retail dealers.
harleston.-Though the number of
assessors for each county in the state
are determined by the number of vo-
tiers in the Jurisdiction multiplied by
be determined on a basis of popula-
ton of the counties fixed by the United
States census and not otherwise, ac-
cording to an opinion rendered by At
torney General E. T. England.
Wheeling.-In compliance with the
recent enactment of the state legisla-
ture, Fred W. Sonderman has been ap-
pointed district agent here of the free
employment bureau maintained by the
state There has never before been
such great scarcity of skilled labor
in the Wheeling district, and the local
employment bureau will be swamped
with applications from employers.
Wheeling production in the
central West Virginia field fell off
1,285,075 tons in the five weeks from
January Is to February 16, according
to figures given out by the national
commission. The figures were taken
from government returns in the main,
supplemented by estimates from the
territory in question. The decrease
was caused principally by car shortage
Clarksburg-Onet rainman- was kill.
ed outright, and two others were in
jured one perhaps fatally, when a
heavy freight train drawn by two loco
motives plunged into creek between
Cogar and Burnsvillo, Braxton county,
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. The
bridge had been washed out by floods.
Worth, D. Moore, of Weston, engineer
of the first locomotive, was killed.
Miner T. Hall, of Weston, engineer of
the second locomotive, received prob
ably fatal injuries, and G. W. Firth, q
fireman, of Weston, was badly hurt
BeIleville. Benjamin Y. Penny
hacker, one of the oldest and most
prominent farmers of Wood county.
was drowned four miles back of Belle
Vile. when he in some manner fell
from his buggy into the water stand
| ing in the road which had backed up
from Pond Creek. Mr. Pennykacker
had started to the mill in buggy and
had some. grain in the vehicle. He
reached the place where the water had
backed across the road and attempted
| to ford it,
harleston.-Holding that a prose
cutting attorney who lives at place
other than the county seat and who
thus is csepelled to travel back and
| forth to try cases and perform other
official duties at such county seat is
entitled to compensation, Attorney
| General England made ruling at the
request of Mercer county authorities.
| Mercer is said to be the only county
in which this condition exists. The
prosecutor lives at Bluefeld and the
county seat is Princeton.
harleston.-Herbert p Beck, fore
man of construction for the contract
| ing firm engaged in erecting the Gov
eminent projectile plant in South
| Charleston, was taken before United
States Commissioner John A. Thayer
here to answer charge of violating
the espionage act.
Chester.-Robbers attempted to
blow the safe in the Panhandle rail-
road station here. They set two
charges of nitroglycerine, one of which
failed to explode They were frighten-
ed away before securing any valuables
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