The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1919-11-06
WEST VIRGINIA\
NEWS CULLINGS |
An cPitomS Of most
important events tran
\spiring in the state.

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Fairmont-For the purpose of re-
leving the shortage of teachers
throughout the state of West virginia.
the Fairmont State Normal school has
established a teachers employment bu-
reau.
misunderstanding guilty in fed
eral court "a ownership Of l32 quarts
OF beer found recently in an automo-
bile near the Pennsylvania state line
10y Prohibition officer Bert Philips.
William zimmerman was sentenced by
Judge Dayton TO serve 80 days in iaiI.
South Charleston. - Miss Mary
Stewart, of Huntington, has arrived i'm
South Charleston to replace Miss
Grace Willis. resigned. as superintend-
ent in charge of the local hospital
Miss Stewart is graduate of the
Sheltering Arms Hospital AT Hansford
Huntington.-Whn crankinC the
Ford delivery car used i'm CARRYING
mail from the postOtlice TO the trains.
Earl Langdon, % Sixth avenue. sui.
Tered broken arm. The hackiirinr
of the car was the cause A doctor
was called ana set the arm, after as
certaining the extent OF Luugdun'S in
Juries.
Charleston.-Th board OF educat.on
or Frnnktord district, Grccnhrier coun-
~, has notified the state departmput
of schools that the citizens of that
district voted six To one i'm favor of an
issue of $4,000 for the erection of ,
high school building and the estab-
liShment OF n high school at Frank
ford, in an election held in the district
Huntng;on.-By n unanimous vote
the West Virginia Association amend.
ed its constitution to make the mem
bers of the official family of the Won
ems Missionary Society ex-offcio mem
bers' OF the state executive board Tie
new members met with this board for
the first time. They are to be known
rs the fourth class of members I'm the
board
Huntington. The dlphtheria situa-
ton in Huntington continues to he
serious, two new cases having been
reported, making a total Of 30 under
quarantine. AT the city health Offices
1t was felt rigid quarantines of the
y days duration would minimize the
epidemic, but the end OF the critical
situation does not yet seem to he i'm
sight.
Charleston.-An agreement entered
into between John Flint and Isaac and
Samuel Howard has been fled for rec
ord in the county clerks Office Tn.
der the terms OF the contract Flint as
signs 4 SiXty-fourth interest i'm the oil
and gas production of three and q
SIKH acres of land at the mouth Of
Three Fork or Jordan creek i'm Big
Sandy district, Kanawha county. to the
Towards
Charlcston.-There are now four
road camps in West Virginia In which
prisoners from the state penltentiary
are employed, as follows: Kanawha
county, with as prisoners; Fayette.
with 40 prisoners; Lincoln. with 40
prisoners, and Marshall, with about
40. This information was announce
by the state board Of control. under
whose authority the prisoners are
hired out TO the counties.
Clarksburg. Resulting from her at-
tempts 10 start kitchen fire with
lamp oil, Mrs. Alfonso Muta, wife OF
Dola coal miner, and her two-year-old
daughter. Rosa, are both dead. The
child was almost instantly killed and
the mother expired I'm Clnrksburg
hospital The oil ignlted from an EN-
Der In the stove aud caused the can
of oil to explode. The house was set
nfire, but the blaze was extinguisheG.
Misunderstanding organizers from
the Kanawha coal field. who left Hunt
ingtOn for Man, Logan county. whore
they Intended TO establish tented
city to serve as union headquarters
while continuing their work of orgaui-
zation among the miners. returned 10
Huntington without having set foot
from the train. The men declared the
train was run one mile above Logan.
where 10 was stopped boy armed men,
Charlcstou.-Judge Henry X. Black
IS continuing his arraignment of per
SONS under grand jury indictments fu
intermediate court, setting their cases
for future hearings and disposing of
pleas of guilt Walter White was son
icucc1 90 two years iu the Uouitom.ar,