Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-06-12

ed at once. When the skeleton of the
tipple is completed the mine can be
operated and the screens necessary can
ing on.
Charleston-The state compensation
commissioner made an award of $50
a month to Mrs. Elizabeth Terrell and
children, of Clarksburg, on account of
the death of the husband and father,
Daniel Terrell, who was killed while
working for the Weirton Steel Com
pany. His head was crushed when an
hydraulic press broke, permitting a
heavy casting to fall on him.
Hinton. y What appears to have
been an entirely unjustifiable homi-
eide occurred in the notorious Kline's
alley, between Second and Third
avenue, when Ralph Dotson, colored,
shot and MORALLY wounded a negro
named Edward L. Jones. The fatal
bullet was from a revolver, and enter
ed the side of Jones head, coming out
the other side. He lived about one
hour after he was shot.
Wheeling.-There was an average
daily attendance in the Wheeling pub
lie schools last month of 4,516-2, ia
boys and 2,342 girls-a daily average
absence of 291; Al new pupils were
entered during the month and 159
withdrew during the same period.
These facts and figures were given in
the monthly report for April, submit
ted by Or. c. E. Citizens, superintend-
ent of schools, to the board of educa
ton.
Martinsburg.-After a lull of some
duration due to the war regulations
prohibiting unnecessary building oper-
atoms, real estate and building activi-
ties are springing up on every hand
in Martinsburg. The Rosemont com
pany announced through Col. S. W.
Walker and the Bowers Realty Co. the
sale to II. P. Thorn of forty-five lots
on Rosemont The figure has not been
made public, but the price is rumored
to be in the neighborhood of $4,000 to
$4,000.
Morgantown.-Esti made by
County Engineer Lawrence Cox on the
bids for the construction of the roads
to be completed in Morgan district
show that the figures of the contrac-
tors are entirely beyond the reach of
the court, and that the cost, under the
contracts offered, would be fully dou-
Bile the amount of funds available
The court has about 100000 for the
completion of the roads, and the bids
of the contractors, who bid on all
work, total twice that amount.
Clarksburg-AS the result of a
shooting mishap at Smithfield, Earl
Edgell, six-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bruce Edgell, of that place, is a
patient in St. Mary's hospital with a
bullet wound in his head said to have
been accidentally inflicted by his uncle,
Roy Edgell while the latter was shoot
ing sparrows. An operation was per-
formed at the hospital and it is be-
lived that the chances for the lads
recovery are slight.
Clarksburg.-William Kelley, so
year-old coal miner, of Coon Run, near
Bridgeport, was held up and robbed
at the point of a gun short distance
east of Oral by two men and a boy
Arthur Beardsmore, Frank Phillips
and a 13-year-old boy, whose name
can not be used because of the juvenile
law, are in the county Jail and will be
charged in a warrant with highway
robbery. Kelley identifies them as the
trio who held him up.
Wheeling-To have saved a child
from drowning IN the murky waters
of the Ohio river is the happy expert
enee of Chal Burke, well known young
man of Bridgeport, who rescued Geo,
Evans, Jr., 10-year-old son of Geo. Ev-
ans, of County road, Bridgeport, from
certain death at the mouth Of Wheel
ing creek, emptying into the Ohio at
Bridgeport. Evans was Steamboat
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he lost his balance, he fell into the
water and disappeared. Burke, who
was passing over the bridge near the
creek, saw the lad fall into the water,
and Immediately dove after him.
He rescued him as the lad was going
down for the third time.
Charleston.-Th West Virginia bu-
reau of military census and enrolment,
in charge of Capt Fleming NJ. Alder
son, which had for an object the oper-
alton of the selective draft during the
war, has been officially closed and all
records of the office were forwarded
to the provost marshal's office in Wash
ington. During the operation of the
local office 1926 men were indicted
into the army service through this Of
flee in West Virginia, and 325,266 men
were enrolled. The expense Of CON