Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-02-12

Huntington.-The Huntington chap
Ser of the American Red Cross is COM
posed of 1883 members, according to
Information given out at the headquar-
ters in the Elks' Club building.
Clarksburg.-Fire originating from
defective flue in the Outright hotel de-
stroyed virtually the entire business
7ection of Alexander lumber town
near Buckhannon. The total loss is
estimated at $4,000.
Huntington.-Mrs James F. Lorfng,
wife Of the Chesapeake & Ohio engi-
peer killed was in wreck near Rus
eel, KY, unable to attend her hus-
bands funeral here because of in
iuries received at nearly the same
time in Havana, Cuba
Charleston.-Bee raising on an eX-
tensive scale will be started in West
Virginia at an early date by an Amer
lean now engaged in this husbandry
In Porto Rico, according to the state
ment made by Commissioner of Agri-
culture James H. Stewart
Fairmont.-The West Virginia Coal
Operators Association has distrib-
uted 10000 appeals to mine workers,
urging upon them the necessity of ev-
cry man doing all that he can to win
the great war Three appeals are
printed in English, Italian, Slovak and
Russian.
Charleston.-J. A. Viquesney, for ten
years in the state service as chief for
est, game and fish warden, and whose
term will expire soon, is here from
Belington making arrangements to
open a business office in Charleston
and retire from public office on that
date
MISUNDERSTANDING what she de-
bcribed as grunts, the small daughter
of Mrs. John Mayer FASTENED into the
mothers room and discovered her
closed up in a folding bed with her
e.
she said she was not hurt, but de-
manded the arrest of her husband for
putting her there.
Huntington.-In fit of drunken
rage, Galley Ball attacked and stabbed
his wife at their home here. Ball used
two-baded pocket knife and inflicted
, serious flesh wound twelve inches in
length Mrs. Ball was not removed
from the home, but was attended by
DE-. C. T. Taylor, who stated that the
wound was not fatal one.
Charleston. - The collection of
gloves to be made into vests for the
soldiers in France has been quite
success so far. Up to the present time
several hundred gloves have been
brought in. The leather is cleaned and
sewed on the inside of the vest, so
that any kind of soft leather can be
used irrespective of color or kind.
Gharleston-The auditors Office has
collected about five million dollars in
the last ten days, representing one
half of the state tax due from sheriffs
amounting to about 100000 The pub
lie service corporations pay their tax
es to the auditor, and this year the
total, including fee for the support OF
the public service commission, is
s4,425,000.
Observation-Disclosures from a
number of sources, including the Of
fees of the Kanawha Coal Shippers
Association, indicated that the effect
of the first four days of the national
fuel administration shutdown order
on production and the use of fuel by
industrial concerns, had not been to
improve conditions in so far as the
supply of coal cars at the mines was
concerned.
Observation-Disclosures in gas rates
amounting to approximately IL to 20
per cent were allowed by the West
Virginia Public Service Commission
when President E. r. Morgan, of the
commission, made public his opinion
based on the application of the West
Virginia Central Gas Co. and the West
Virginia and Maryland Gas Co. and the
Northern Natural Gas Co, which sup
ply numerous towns in Central West
Virginia with natural.
Parkersburg.-The West Virginia
Manufacturers Association will have
as it's major topics of discussion the
federal tax law, the state workmen's
compensation fund and the general at
titude of the government to business
of the commonwesllh at its meeting