The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-07-08
WASHINGTON
West Virginia News - Notes
and Gossip at the Nations
Capital.

WASHINGTON. l.. c. July '.--pr. I.
G Woodson, dean Of the department "t
arts and sciences at Howard University
has resigned his position here ana haS
accented tho presidency Of the west
Virginia CUlorcd In1 AT institute
W Va. He will feaNc Washington soon
TO take up his new work
DR.. Woodson Is known as ono "i lne
leading negro negro educators OF AMER
1ca He has travelled extensively IN
Europe and the Orient and conducted ed-
vocational Investigations in the fht1lp-
pines on behalf Of the Federal govern
ment. He received degree Of Doctor
of Philosophy from Harvard UniHrsNE
and has written several DoohS' aiionh
which is Education " tn" NcEr" frlor
TO 1851"
commissions. fourth class as post
master. have been ISSUED IN West VIZ
gini. as follows: William r.. Eonsnlan'
nj Al&ol; Isaac b. White At Glen Ferris;
Harry a. Higgins at Star CITY: ASA v
ClIac. at yellow Spring and iI|uS y
Thompson at McGi"n". The hSt nathfu
IS a newly established otf'G" situated IN
Monroe county 49,
Application for \ pension has been
filed at the Pension Bureau by Ssnu'ot
sutherland for Capt W. II. Cobb or
Elk!ns, and for increases for and III be
half OF George McCacv. Of SiS,crsvl!lc.
AMI Da"id /ruher, of Millwood
Benjamin S.$lcr whose home was al
Coriuth. W Va. was killed carly IN NC
war in battle in France. ron arpai,.
alton Tor information to tho war RISK
Bureau his widow wsS Informed tha'
hc- husband had taken out no insurance
Neither she nor Congressman george VI
Bowers WAS satisfied that this was tru"
and for mopths Mr.. Bowers has piticns-
.lv hut zrnlously conducted an investi-
CATION Of thu scaSc. The result is that
il has been discovered IN the records
that tho soldier had insured his HE Tor
tho benefit or his wl(" 10 the maximum
amount. $4,000. The government has
now begun 10 settle this policy at the
ra,e Of $3.50 a month. Mrs. RcsSiC SIS
Ter the widow. has REMARKED she Is
now Mrs. LOWS
Samuel Brooks Blackford Of Shenan-
doah Junction. W. Va. son Of Mr.. J. e.
Rlackford Of that place, has been APP
pointed to cad"tShip at the West
Point Military Academy upon rcCommen-
dalton Of CONGRESSMAN Geo. NJ, Bowers.
The appolntec was graduated from IN"
high school at Charles Town and entered
the Academy on July LIST. subject TO OK
arpinations later.
Al CONGRESSMAN flowers Office an
'nouncemont was made today that the
Post Office Department had awarded IN
creased compensation. amounting 10
S264Sn per anrum, on the star route
contrac, for carrying the mails between
Inwood and GcrradStown. W. Va. he
by G. O Hull and that settlement In
fun Of n liberty bond claim presented TO
the Treasury Department for Ernest l..
stanton. OF Albright. W. Va. has been
made. Stanton. while serving as wag-
oner in the 18th Amt Train \. F.. f..
subscribed and paid for bond out Of
his nav which was never delivered TO
him
Claims for pension wcr" iiled with the
Pension Commissioner today by Senator
Sutherland for George Buckley. Of Boy
erlv and John :. CARRIER. Of ElkinS. The
pension Of Samuel &. Chips. OF Union.
has benn inCrcn Scd to $50 a month. dat
ing from Nav !. 1920.
). J. Paris. Of Charleston. Is Wis
itor in Washington.