Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-01


Parkersburg-The citys new fire |
truck has arrived after a year and
half delay. The new $4,000 freight !
ing apparatus came in from st. Louis |
and the car containing the equip |
ment was moved to Second and Juli- |
ana streets where it will be unloaded
heeling-Private Charles Quar-
rier, Of this city, died at sea on board
the transport Roma on March 10, it
was learned when that vessel, bring
ing S75 officers and men, mainly of
casual companies, locked in Brooklyn.
His death was caused by heart disease
and was very sudden.
Charleston.-Fanned by high wind,
fire wiped out the entire business sec
ton of Smthers a mining town of
1000 population in Fayette county, 10
houses being destroyed. The village
had no fire protection, but little in
surance was carried, and the total
loss approximated 100000.
Clarksburg-Bacled by bankers and
the city's leading financiers. business
men and those particularly identified
with the building industry, the Home
Building Company was organized at a
meeting of the chamber of commerce.
Its purpose is to solve the housing
problems in Clarksburg.
Clarksburg-A gas well producing
19,753,157 cubic feet a day, believed
by many to be the largest in the state
at the present time, has been drilled
in at NIiletus in Doddridge county.
The well is the individual property of
Robert S. Monrie, manager of the
Eastern Petroleum Company of Clarks-
burg.
Morgantovn.-Se Seven hundred and
seventeen votes were cast in Morgan
towns annual election, and but for the
single contestant for school com
missioner, the number would not have
been half so large. There was but one
candidate for each office, and people
see but little to be gained by going to
the polls when the result is known be-
forehand.
Bluefield.-Lieut a. f. Evans, who
spent eighteen months in German
prison camps when he was captured
after his airplane was shot down and
himself wounded four times, passed
through Bluefeld, en- route to Bran
well, where he will visit l.. Whitney.
Lieut.. Evans enlisted in the British
Royal Flying Corps shortly after the
outbreak of war.
Bluefield.-Word was received here
by Mrs j. X. Reese that her oldest
son, Sergeant-Major Forest A. Reese,
had arrived in this country after sew
eral months service overseas and now
is stationed at Camp Mills, /. |. He
is with the thirty-seventh division and
participated in actions in the Argonne
Forest, st. Mihiel and other places.
He was gasSed, but has fully recover
ed, and was cited for bravery
Wheeling.-Lieut. Charles Tough,
former local real estate man, has re-
turned from a southern camp and
will soon again be engaged in bust
Lieut.. Tough was severely wounded
when a machine gun exploded and a
shell entered his thigh. He is not in
any way disabled, however, nine
months treatment in a military hos
pital having restored him to normal.
Morgantown.-Gra district is final
ly getting into line for improved roads.
The petition which was prepared some
weeks ago by the prosecuting attorney,
for an election on a bond issue of
100000 in that district, was not ac-
ceptable to the New England Coal
Company and others in the Louisville
section, and they refused to sign it,
stating that they would oppose bond
issue which provided for the building
of the roads set forth.
Morgantown-S. P. EmswelIer, a
well known glassworker of this city,
left for Japan. where he has accepted
a position as Instructor and manager
of large glass factory now under con-
struction. The glass industry is just
being introduced in Japan, and mem
bers of the firm which is establishing
this factory near Osaki spent some
time in this country to secure an
American artisan who could teach the
native workmen the various processes.
Huntington.-Twom men, whose names
were given as Martin Farley and Bill
Spicer were lodged in the county Jail
by q. S. marshals. No commitments
were filed but the jailers were inform
ed that the men We're charged with
moonshining. They We're brought in
from the Norfolk & Western terri