Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-06-05

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Wheeling.-The Wheeling Kiwanis
Club held the best meeting in its his
tory at the Windsor Hotel when sew
eral celebrities of national repute were
in attendance. The Kiawanians also
took $4,000 worth of Liberty Bonds
to help put the Victory Loan over the
top.
Clarksburg. - Bloodhounds were
brought here from Fairmont to aid a
sherih's posse in trying to run down
burglars, who spent most of the night
trying to break into the vault of the
Bridgeport Bank at Bridgeport, near
here, but without result. Their efforts
were frustrated by heavy inner steel
casing of the vault.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS was elected
as the next meeting place of the
twelfth annual convention of the Wom-
ans Foreign Missionary Society of the
Morgantown district of the West Vir-
ginia Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, which came to a
close here at the First NJ E. Church,
IN Fairmont avenue.
Fairmont-The Consolidation Coal
Co. suffered a severe loss when the big
tipple at Berryburg burned. Already
plans for permanent tipple are under
way and the construction will be start
ed at once. When the skeleton of the
tipple is completed the mine can be
operated and the screens necessary can
be installed while the operation is go
ing on.
Charleston.-On the ground that she
was irresponsible mentally when she
shot and killed Mike Waldron, of
Hansford, and that she was not re-
sponsible for her signature to signed
confession of her guilt, which was i'm
PRODUCED In evidence by the state, Sa-
mona Weaver, % years old, Crown Hill,
was acquitted of charge Of murder
by jury in the Kanawha intermediate
Court.
Charleston.-John d. Steele, of
Charleston, was reelected president of
the West Virginia Sunday-school AS
sociation at the annual session held at
Huntington. Miss Katie Bell Abney,
also of Charleston, was elected to the
office of Bible study director for the
state. Upwards of 80 people from Ka-
nawha county, fully 200 of whom were
from Charleston, were in attendance
upon the convention.
Martinsburg-After lull Of some
duration due to the war regulations
prohibiting unnecessary building oper-
ations, real estate and building activi-
ties are springing up on every hand
in Martinsburg The Rosemont COM
pany announced through Sol s. w.
Walker and the Bowers Realty Co. the
sale to III. P. Thorn of forty-ffve 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.
Charleston-Sixt corporations or
gained for profit and three for fra
ternal purposes were chartered by the
West Virginia secretary of state dur
ing April, with a combined capital of
$3,596,000, is the report issued from
the state department. During the
same period existing corporations in
the state increased their capital stock
to the extent of 81, 5O550O, making the
gross increase in business capital for
West Virginia in April of 5000, 800.
In the same length of time IS corpora
tions were dissolved and decreases in
capital stock of existing corporations
amounted to $4,000.
Weston.-Although feeling is still
running high there was little excite
ment here following the wild riot when
a crowd of service men gathered for
a Victory Loan parade battled with
Baltimore & Ohio police officers when
the latter refused to grant them per-
mission to board a car and inspect a
"baby tank" Three shots were fired
by the officers in the excitement, but
they were soon diSarmed by soldiers
and sailors who threatened to chastise
them The officers were Bruce Stout,
of Weston, and Friend, of Parkers-
burg Both were given hearings before
Magistrate M. " McCarty, and were
held for the action of the next grand
Jury under bonds of $500 each, which
they furnished and were released.
Charleston.-Mrs. M. E. Goodwin, of
Taylor Mountain, was arrested and
brought to Charleston on a charge of
having thrown acid in the faces of her
son, ]. f. Goodwin, and his wife,
while the two were asleep in their
home She was arrested on infor1na-
ton given by Mrs. J. E. Goodwin, who
said she saw woman with hand
kerchief over her face leaving their
bedroom Immediately after the acid
had hoan throyn Roth Mr. and Mrs