Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-04-23
West Virginia
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Charleston.-Ths German language,
as course of study, has been dropped
by % West Virginia high schools in
the last year, according to the annual
reports of principals just received Dy
the State Department of Schools.
Clarksburg.-John e. Raikes, arrest
ed on a federal warrant charging him
with violation Of the Mann white slave
act, was arraigned before U. S. Com
missioner A. L. Lohm, and on waving
q hearing was placed under $4,000
bond with John Duffy as surety.
Clarksburg-So liberal have been
subscriptions to fund started by the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
| in West Virginia to endow a bed In
| the Red Cross hospital at Neuilly,
France, that the organization has been
enabled to endow two entire wards In
| the institution.
Morgantown.-Laws of inheritance
IN guinea pigs are being worked out
| by Prof. H. R. Hunt, Of the West Vir-
| ginia University, and number OF in
vestigations on the distribution OF the
pigment ganules In the hairs Of the
various varieties of guinea pigs have
| been conducted.
Fairmont-J Walter Barnes, fuel
administrator of West Virginia, Is adj
vised that one of the main purposes OF
| the United States fuel administration
| in adopting the rules governing the
| licensing Of distribution of coal was to
| give the consumer or retail dealer a
definite and specific option as to en-
ploying purchasing agent
| Observation-Disclosures her husband
| flirted with another woman, Ethel
Elkins, 33, shot herself in the temple
and died almost Immediately after
wards When neighbors heard pis-
| toll report in the Elkins home they
rushed in to find Mrs. Elkins lying
| MORALLY wounded on a bed with her
husband bending over her
| Huntington.-The Masonic Home
| proposition, which has been before the
| Masonic Grand Lodge for several years,
will be given great impetus at the
meeting of the Grand Lodge in Hunt
| ington on May Is, when the Masonic
| Home Committee will receive the
offers of the various lodges of the state
for providing a suitable site for the
| home.
Wheeling.--An appeal was made by
| the Panhandle Agricultural Club for
money to carry on the work of the club
in the county was refused by the coun-
| ty commissioners. The commission
ers would not promise the members
that they would be able to give any
pecuniary assistance towards the pro-
| duction Of bigger crops owing to the
shortage of finances.
| Fairmont.-Thomas G. Aultman,
| local mechanical genius, has perfected
a flying torpedo which may be the an.
swer to the German seventy-fve-mile
| gun. The torpedo, the inventor claims,
can be sent any distance and dropped
at any desired point. 1t is controlled
by wireless. The torpedo is propelled
by small gasoline engine and has a
| ia 1f 4 dc
| Wheeling.-The Wheeling city coun-
Gil has acted favorably on the applica-
ton of Wichita (Kan.) firm for the
| establishment Of Wheeling municipal
hog pen. 1t is intended to acquire a
| city proper, with facilities for the rails
| ing of several thousand hogs annually
| The firm will receive all of the city
garbage at a railroad siding. whence it
will be transported to municipal farm,
and use it as feed for the hogs.
Charleston. - The West Virginia
board of public works, at meeting
| held here, appropriated $4,000 from
the treasury for the purpose Of build
| ing two units to the state sanitarium
| for tuberculosis patients at Terra Alta,
| the units to be devoted to caring for
| tubercular patients of the army and
navy from West Virginia. The board
| at the same time subscribed 100000
| from tie workmens compensation
| fund to be expended for Liberty bonds.
Wheeling.-Albert Mullen, employed
as waiter at the George Crumbacker
restaurant, S@>eA and Sixteenth street,
has disappeared with $500 belonging
| to the firm. Mullen was a stranger In
| the city and had been hers but three
| months, and was working at night
turn, when Louis Bowers. the day man,
reported for work, Mullen was gone
and it was discovered that the money
had been taken. The police were no
| titled and a search is being made for
| the fellow
| Huntington.-The very important
matter of food substitutes as wartime
aid, is coming to the fore in Hunting.
| ton in practical form, and in capable
| hands. The job Of enlightening con,
sumers as to foods which may be sub
stituted or those our soldiers must
| have, without any impairment to ap-
petite and health, has been undertaken
| by the economics department Of the
| Federation of Women's Clubs, and