Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-05-02
BITS OF STATE NEWS

| On Liberty day all the bells IN
Charleston were rung at noon for a
quarter Of an hour and the Charles
tonMail called attention to the fact
that among the number was one, now
relic in the state department of
archives and history, which did ser
vice for 40 years on the kanawha
county court house.
| The bell was cast in 1925. 1t was
on the steamer Leila, which piled the
Kanawha river, from 1927 to 1887.
The bell then was purchased by the
Kanawha county court and placed on
the court house. 1t was taken down
! in 1897 and purchased to the West
Virginia Historical Society, and came
into the possession of the state de-
partment of archives and history in
1905, where it has been on dis play
ever since.
The bell was brought down to the
cement plaza in front of the Capitol
Annex and there rung for fifteen
\ minutes. lusty young American Of
about twelve years ringing it from
each side. 1t was decorated with the
stars and stripes and was Tabled
"Charleston's Liberty Bell"
Young men from nearly all of the
state educational institutions have
quit their classes, or will do so in
the near future to return to their
farm homes where they will lend
their assistance in the planting and
cultivation of war csops, according to
information which has been received
at the state department Of schools.
In addition to this, Marshal College,
at Huntington, has adopted the plan
of teaching on Saturdays, using six
instead of five days week, for the
purpose Of bringing the school year
| to an earlier close and the releasing
lof many young men for work on farms
Last weeks issue Of the Fayette
| Tribune, printed at Fayetteville said;
deputy U. S. Marshal Lemon was
| here Monday and placed F N. Bacon
well known attorney, under arrest on
a charge of failure to register in the
military draft last June. 1t is alleg-
ed he lacked about month Of being
above the prescibed limited age of 81.
Burke O'Neal, U. S. commissioner
came up from Montgomery and took
| Mr.. Bacon's recognizance to appear
at preliminary hearing set for May
3.
The matter has been the sensation
70 the week about town and tnroug-
cut the county where Mr.. Bacon is
well known For the past few weeks
he has been secretary Of the county
WI S. S. committee and been quite
active and effective in patriotic war
work
at is understood the charge is bas-
ed on the date given by Mr.. Bacon
VIXEN obtaining insurance, joining the
| Masonic lodge, obtaining marriage IL
cense and other, public records. In
all these the date Of birth is given as
July IL, 1885, which would have left
him 80 years old on June 5, 1917, the
date of registration"
| f. E. Winters, railway inspector
for the public service commission,
was slightly injured several days ago
in a train wreck which occurred on the
Logan division of the Guyan Valley
branch of the Chesapeak & Ohio rail-
road while he was investigating COM
plants of inadequate service on that
part of the road.
! The coach in which Mr.. Winters
i was riding received two distinct
| shocks, one forward and the other
backward, and the inspector absorbed
both of them, by his own statement.
BY the first shock he was cataup-
tied over two or three seats and a.
cross the isle where he struck on
shoulder against seat, severity bruis-
ing the shoulder and giving him a
slight scare. He was just recovering
his balance from this shock when the
next one came and he was catauplted
back in the opposite direction and
landed in the seat he had occupied at
first.
Well" friend Of the inspector
remarked when he had heard the
story of the wreck, II suppose the
first thing that entered your mind was
to discover the cause Of the catastro-
pre-, was it not?
my dear boy!" Mr.. Winters ex-
claimed, when hear Of railway
! wreck the first thing that enters my
mind is speculation as to the cause;
but when I am in it place the effect
before the cause everytime."