Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-04-02
West Virginia
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Charleston Forty miners were kill
ed in the state during February. ac-
cording to report issued by Chief of
Mines Earl S. Henry
Clarksburg-J Walter Barnes, of
for West Virginia, held conference
here with county administrators of
the Fourth Fuel District of the state.
Parkersburg.-The city authorities
state that they have been experiencing
more or less difficulty of late with per-
sons residing within the city limits
who are insisting upon keeping pigs.
This is especially true in the eastern
section of the city ard in some of the
suburbs.
Charleston-Three daughters of
William futile were burned to death
and three other members of the family
were seriously hurt when their home
at Walgrove. near here, was destroyed
by fire. The fire, the cause of which
has not been determined, also destroy.
ed two neighboring residences.
New Martinsville.-One thousand
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of SiIas Yoho, well-Fn1wn Darlington,
Ohio, farmer, while on a Baltimore &
Ohio train on his way here. Jim Jam.
ison and Billy Watson, both of Chi.
cago, were arrested charged with hav-
ing taken Yoho's H. hey. A third con
federate escaped.
Charleston.-Fc-ty teachers of the
Charleston public schools have com
pleted the indexing of the question
naires of more than II 900 men with
In the age limits of the military draft
in Charleston and Kanawha county.
The same work in most of the other
counties of the state is nearing com
pletion, Captain Breckenridge Jones
said.
Clarksburg.-W NJ Foulk, of Char
lesion, state archivist and historian
and state campaign director of the
American Library Association, which
is collecting books for soldiers at the
various camps, established a shipping
center here for books thus collected
Other shipping centers will be estab
lished at Fairmont, Morgantown and
Wheeling
Wheeling.-As Thomas Hardesty
and J. W. Coleman were released from
the state penitentiary at Moundsville,
after serving three-year sentence for
a postoffice robbery in Kentucky, they
were re-arrested at the prison gates by
Detectives w e. Irvine and P. S.
Dowd, of Nashville, Tenn, on charge
of blowing a safe and stealing $4,000
worth of diamonds.
Parkersburg. Rutherford M. Kittle.
who is connected with the State Tax
Commissioners office, was here for
several days securing certain data
from the books and records of the
county clerk. A record is being made
up of the various bond issues of the
county and district for road improve
ment, bridges and all other purposes.
the maner in which the proceeds is
invested and like information.
Charleston.-Seed tests at the State
Department of Agriculture show that
the seeds available for planting in
most parts of the state this year are
far below the average in point of
r1rminati ton, a cord s to IN ann unc
ment by Cecil Wood, chief of the test
| ing laboratories. Forty-two thousand
samples have been tested in the las.
two months and the percentage of ger
mination is 62.17 Ninety per cent is
the minimum for high grade seeds.
Fairmont, Parkersburg and Charleston
will be applicants for the location OF
the $4,000 home planned by the West
Virginia Grand Lodge of Masons, il
was said here. The committee named
by the lodge to decide on the location
| 16, when the cities will present theil
| claims, it was said. The home is in
| tended for the use of orphans of mem
| bers of the order and will be located
| in one of the five cities named.
Parkersburg-Miss May Babcock
| county demonstration agent, has re
| ceived a communication from Morgan
town stating the Lubbock girls can
ming club had taken the second prizt
in the state exhibition of canned good.
al Morgantown a few weeks ago. The
prize was considered on a display o
six quarts of fruit and vegetables, si1
containers of preserves, relishes an,
pickles and the answers to list o
questions. The prize consists of so
strawberry plants, which will be dis
tributed among the club members.
! Parkersburg. - Parkersburg ant
Wood county are away up in the salt
of War Savings and Thrift Stamps dur
ing the campaign which is now on
The sales for the month of Februar,
were s37 1857, and it is expected tina
Parkersburg will exceed this amouh
In the present month of March.
Clarksburg.-Sergt. William Fowkes
popular local boy who has been il