Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1920-11-02
West Virginia
News Briefs
RI Most important events MI
OF entire state covered
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OF edfff0 STATE COvSsS0
II IL by our correspondents
Sutton.-Thos. Richardson, 10, was
run over and killed by freight train
near here.
Grafton.-Grafton's population Is
S,517, an Increase of 945 persons. CEN
sus figures show.
Fairmont--Lloyd Smith suffered a
lacerated arm while at work in a glass
plant near Clarksburg.
Glen Elk.-The stables of Swift <
Co. were almost completely destroyed
by fire here. Loss $500.
Wheeling-Rafael Alyery was crush
ed TO death in the Belmont Mill Of the
Wheeling Steel and Iron Co.
Newell.-Rev. D. G. Marshall was
elected moderator of the Wheeling
Presbytery, to succeed Rev. Harold 9.
Gaunt, resigned.
Wheeling.-The Fun Book" mag
azine published by local concern,
has made its first appearance.
Bluefield.--O. Woreley, foreman at
the N. & w. shops, suffered broken
h1 foI1 90 al
Wheeling.-Gordon Jayquay's hand
was crushed In one of the big ma
chimes at the Warwood furniture fac
tory.
Bluefield.--Black F. Grist was ar
rested here upon request of Wyoming
county authorities. He is wanted at
Mullens on a robbery charge.
Huntington. Two ministers &C
companied a party of officers on raid
in Ironton, o., near here. Two stills
were seized and nine persons arrested.
Charleston.-Applica for the
Victory Medals, says Field Clerk III. G.
Cheuvront, are not coming in as rap
idly as had been expected. During the
eight days the field clerk has been
here there have been just l01 to make
application for the bronze tokens of
service in the world war.
Charleston.-Compla was filed
with the public service commission by
the West Virginia Metal Products Cor
poration against the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company. The manufacture
ing company claims that two lines of
the railways at Fairmont were aban-
doned without authority from the COM
mission.
Charleston.-Dr. Richard T. Davis,
of this city, former health commits
sioner, of Charleston and a well-known
physician of this section of the state,
has been appointed state health COM
missioner by Governor John ]. Corn
out, to succeed DR.. S. L. Jepson, who
has held the position for the past eight
years.
Charleston.-Littre Mary Lou Ash
worth, the 4-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Ashworth, of Cen
trail avenue, suffered a severely frac-
tured arm while playing at the home
of her grandmother, Mrs. i. w. Run
yon. She was taken at once to a local
hospital, where she received treatment
Later she was removed to the home
of her parents.
Martinsburg. District Attorney
Stewart w. Walker, who, according
TO articles sent out from Washington
and published all over West Virginia,
is to be appointed to fill the late Fed
eral Judge Aston G Dayton's place
on the bench, will not accept the judge
ship under any circumstances, the dis
trict attorney stated. He said to ac-
cept the place would mean to decrease
his income.
New Martinsville-Fred Riggen-
baugh, so, was killed when an automo-
bile which he was operating overturn-
ed The accident occurred near the
dead mans home. According to wit
nesses, Mr.. Riggenbaugh started for a
drive along the road with Lloyd Durig,
a small boy, and as he started the en-
CINE he lost control Of the machine
and it swung around suddenly, turning
over and pinning Mr.. Riggenbaugh be-
meath ii. His neck was broken. The
lad escaped with minor injuries.
Charleston.-Fire destroyed the
building occupied by the Pugh Furni-
ture Company, wholesale dealers, here,
together with the stock, the total loss
being placed at 10000 which was al
most entirely covered by insurance.
No one was injured. The fire started
in the shipping shed of the building
and then climbed the elevator shaft
to the fifth floor, where it made a spec
tacular blaze witnessed by several
thousand shoppers, the building being
in the heart of the business district.
Buckhanon.-Delmar Goodwin was
terribly mutilated by a premature ex-
plosion Of dynamite in coal mine
near here. He dragged himself 2OG
yards toward the pit mouth. but died
few hours after being found
Moundsville.-The centennial ami
versary of Methodism in Moundsville
was celebrated in the First Methodist
Church in connection with the 18th
West Virginia annual conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes delivered
the centennial addr, IS.
Fuirmont.-"Five dollars in each