The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-01-29

ST AlbanS.-As yet the police an
thoritteS have found no trace of the
thieves who broke and entered the
butcher shop in West Main street.
The parties made away with Il ham
and several shoulders of meat.
Hurtington.-Har Johnson. 26.
colored, living at HOG rear of Seventh
avenue. was arrested by Detective
Spencer charged with raising a $40
b'll to so bill Johnson was trying
L" pass the bin when he was caught
10y the officer. The counterfeiter was
taken before L. = Commissioner ]. y.
Douglas for hearing and held for the
action of the federal grand jury under
bond.
Fnntington.-Because the man from
whom II is claimed she stole $3.50 Is
dead. Millie Blankenship. -. held on
grand larceny charge i'm the Cahel
county Will be tried The man who al
legged the BlankenShip girl had robbed
MN of his roll was John X. Creates
IS native of Greece and formerly n
merchant of Williamson, w. Va. He
was aSphyNated in a New York hotel
by 'rtilicial gas.
lIuntington-A federal revenue
agent Is now investigating the bogus
butter situation in Huntington the as
SIStant United States district attorney.
+. w. Mccullough, announced CITY
officials recently analyzed a pound OF
butter and found It vas fifty per cent
moisture. According To telegram
from Washington received by Mr.. Nc
Cullough, such butter may be in vio-
iation of certain federal pure food
statutes.
Huntington.-Two automobiles driv-
en- by Walter Sliger, Seventh street
and Washington avenue, and A. NJ
Taylor, 1873 Eighth avenue. came to-
gethcr at Fourth avenue and Tbir-
teenth street No one was Injured. AL
though the Taylor car was badly dam
aged by the smash The cause of tha
accident was unknown. Mr.. Sliger was
driving east on Fourth avenue when
Mr.. Taylor suddenly came out Thir-
teenth street and hit the SIiger car.
St AlbanS.-As n result Of n freight
wreck on the Chesapeake K Ohio rail-
road, when several coal cars were do
rallied at Wilson's switch. a short ais-
lance west of Huntington, st. Adams
ana points west of Huntington wero
not included i'm the schedule of Train
NO. ). The regular train was detoured
from Charleston TO Huntington over
the kanawha * Michigan to Pt Pleas
ant and from there over the Baltimore
Ohio TO Huntington.
New Martinsville.-C. +. Kettee. OF
New MatamOras, o., was run down nv
S0uth-bound passenger train, No. 73.
ana one leg was severed just below the
knee, ana he was otherwise Injured
The man alighted from the north
bound train and 1t is said stepped di.
rectly in front Of the train. He was
taken to the Reynolds Memorial Hos
pital at Glendale. Mr.. Kettee Is about
80 years Of age and is a prominent live
stock raiser of that section.
HuntingtOn.-To cause the issuance
of warrant against two boys for dis
turbing church worship, to appear
against them as chief witness and Their
to be himself sentenced to ten dayA
in the county jail was the experience
of Harry Pulley, IS, Third avenue
west. Following the trial of the bows
in police court, they we're discharged
and Pulley was taken before Squire
sam g. Wright for hearing. He was
charged with passing bad checks and
was given ten days i'm the county taiI.
CharlestOn.-The controversy over
the establishment of the Kanawha
county Class A road up the Elk river
has finally been settled. The road will
be constructed on the north side of the
Blk instead Of the south side Of the
river, and it will enter the city on the
west side instead OF through Ruffner
hollow into the eastern section. This
became known upon the announce
ment by the state road commission
that the federal aid project for the
building Of two and six-tenths miles
ON the Elk River road just outside OF
the corporation line or the north side
Of the river, had been approved by the,
United States Bureau OF Good Roads.
The cost Of building this stretch OF
road Will be approximately S138,OOO.
CharlestOn.-Brnest Moles, OF Artis.
Raleigh county, alleged army deserter.
was brought TO Charleston on a
stretcher and with serious bullet
wound ia his body, being arrested at
his home by a party of five United
States deputy marshals and ten state
police MOlcs is charged with having
deserted from Camp Lee I'm virginia
two years ago, and since that time his
home has become a stronghold against
attempts Of officers TO arrest him.
Sheriff Foster and his deputies OF
Raleigh county were driven away
from the premises when they tried to-
serve warrants against him He was
accidentally shot by companion a
few days ago, the bullet lodging in
the left breast below the heart, and
H. hon N.r. O..