The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-04-08


several months ago.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for
adequate increases in salaries for high
school teachers formulated by n COM
mittee of five teachers and arproved
by Superintendent of Schools Clarence
l.. Wright will he presented to the
members of the Board of Education
at Its next meeting with view TO hav-
ing the increases Incorporated in the
school budget for next year.
Wheeling.-As result of three
months work on the matter. Congress
man ID. c. woodward is able TO an.
nounce to the several hundred men in
terested that the government has
agreed to increase the wages of lock
employees on the Ohio river-Wheeling
to Huntington-and both of the Kama
whas. The negotiations have been in
progress for three months.
Morgantown.-State Banking Com
missioner J. s. Hill will recommend
the issuance of two charters TO two
new banks TO be located i'm Morgan
town, according to announcement
made here by promoters of the new
institutions, after a conference with
the commissioners in Parkersburg.
The new institutions will be known
as the Commercial Bank and the
Union Banking and Trust Company.
Notwithstanding men were killed
and ten-year-old boy seriously in
1ured as a result of Il gasoline explo-
sion in n section house near Seth,
w. Va. Seth is on Coal river, 80 miles
south of st. Adams. The dead are:
Mont Hendricks, 40, section foreman,
Orgas, W. Va, and Denny Kirk, Is, a
section hand. The injured boy is Paul
Bird. The boy was standing in front
Of the section house when the explo-
sion occurred.
Observation-Disclosures has
been received from the clerk OF the
Supreme Court of the United States.
Attorney General f. II. England said,
regarding the time desired for the TAX
ing of evidence by the state of West
Virginia in tho smi+s o,,to,.oI -. az
and penpsv,,orio ta..i,,ar ~,
of tha Stantoo oos Io,,, rra a.,.,' .
ohio and Pennsylvania desire more
time than does this state for taking
this evidence, Mr.. England said.
Charleston 1,ha mood ~
mitteee of tbo Cha,,6ou 80 "ua Oolii-
and the Rotorv CInh Tho poanh 'e' &c ne DG'
and number of Wholesalers Who bo,.o
been interested for several voors -
plans to construct hard road fro,,,
Logan county to Charleston viii rooa+
with the County Court of Iogon ot
court house. 1t is pronosed to rrn tbo
road by way of Madison and Racine
and down Lens creek 70 Charleston
Jesse WASHINGTON IN
1910 Maple avenue, a workman ar tbe
Chesapeake & Ohio sbops. was burned
to death when the collapse Of n boiler
breeding on which he was standing
precipitated him into a furnace While
no fire touched Washington bodv. tho
virtually cremated him The body
was removed from the furnace few
minutes later. More than LOO en-
pioyes OF the shop are idle as the re-
suit oil the accident. Until necessary
repairs on the boilers can be made,
several departments of tie shops can
not operate, II. NJ. Brown, general su-
Perihlehueht OF the shops, said
Charleston-Three regional conven-
tions Of the West Virginia Sunday
school Association will be held in May.
according TO announcement just issued
by Walter a. Snow, general secretary,
at Clarksburg. Delegates from the
three regions VIII meet as follows
Southern region, at Beckiey, May 10,
u and -; eastern region, mt No ctins-
burg, May II, - and rs. and nor hern
~. Counties assigned TO the different
regions may be transferred to another
convention, upon permission Of the Ex-
ecutlve Committee of the county and
AFTER notifying the state association.
CharIest .n.-Farm land values in
West virginia have increased ap,rnv.
imately thirteen and n half per ceut I'm
the last year. according to the March
agricultural report issued here low