Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1920-08-10

| jured when. struck by taxicab while
crossing the street.
Wheeling. - Wheeling police soon
win present demands to City Manager
Ephlin for an increase In wages Of SIS
month, 1t Is announced.
Logan.-Primary Department Of Lo-
gan schools grew and sold S11 worth
of garden plants during the spring, &C
| cordlng to report made here.
| Rowlesburg-A unidentified man
was run down and killed by a B. & O.
| r. r. passenger train near here. His
body Is being held for identification.
arkersburg.-Efforts are being
made to bring state headquarters of
the Republican party In West Virginia
to Parkersburg for the fall campaign.
Charleston.-After going down for
| the third time, Miss Eulah June Har
mon, who fell from an excursion boat
into the Kanawha River, was rescued.
Montgomery-L. W. Hobert, 20. is
dead of a gunshot wound, sustained
when a shotgun fell from rock and
exploded, the charge entering his
shoulder.
| Clarksburg.-The 100000 good
roads bond issue was lost by major
ity of 416 votes, official figures just re-
ported showed. A total of 1882 votes
were cast.
Bluefield-Mrs Ollie H. Browning
has been awarded $4,000 as back
royalties from the Big Vein POcahon-
tas Coal Co. by arbitrator who heard
the case.
Charleston.-More than 1900 cou-
pons of credit have been issued this
year by the State Department of
Schools to teachers, emitting them to
additional pay.
| misunderstanding to announce
! ment just made here, the new brass
| plant which has been under construc-
ton for year will be placed in opera
ton within 80 days.
Fairmont-Alie Simmons, 3, was In
stantly killed when she stepped
through a hole In bridge while on
the way home from store. Her moth
| er saw the accident.
Nitro.-More than 100 employees left
here by the government after Nitro
had been sold to private interests have
been discharged by the Charleston In
dustrial corporation.
Kingwood The District High
School at Albright, Preston county,
will be discontinued next year and
high school pupils will be transferred
to the local high school.
$4,000 by
her husband, a Huntington attorney,
Mrs. Marguerite MARBLE, for the past
two years resident of this city, has
dedicated this sum and her life to the
is the true religion.
Fairmont.-By discharging a pistol
into her right temple, Mrs. Elsie
| xx,;fo OF Lr,.aI
Graves, prominent Weston contractor,
ended her life here at the home of her
sister, Mrs. William L. Gooding, of
Sixth street. The act was the result
of several weeks illness of melan-
choly.
Huntington. Warrants charging
hundreds of Southern West Virginia
coal operators with violation of tho
Lever act will be issued as a result of
three weeks investigation of the coal
industry which has just been conduct
ed by A. E. Hayes, special agent of the
bureau of investigation of the attor-
ney generals department according to
statement here by Mr.. Hayes.
Observation-Disclosures OF the
instructors for the Kanawha county
teachers institute, which will be held
the week beginning August 80, was
made by NJ. p. Shawkey, state super
intendent of schools. The instructors
will be DR.. c. Z. McDougle, of the
Eastern Kentucky Normal School; o.
G. Wilson, superintendent of schools
of Fairmont; f. r. Hamilton, presi-
dent of Marshall College, Huntington,
and Il. ]. Mcdowell, of Pittsburg, who
will have charge of the singing.
Charleston.-Mrs. c. E. Mitchell.
head of the department of music of
the West Virginia Collegiate Institute,
and wife of C. E. Mitchell, the bust
ness manager of the institution, will
spend the summer in Europe and
Northern Africa, making films OF some
of the dark races for moving pictures.
Mrs. Mitchell spent several weeks In
New York learning the details of film
work. She plans on her return to this
country to give trayalogue lectures
that will give finer ideas of the habits
and customs of the dark races of 9TH
er lands.
Huntington.-There will be no juve-
nile detention home in Cabell county
this year. The fund provided by the
levy for this purpose amounts to about
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in the way of providing a detention
home would cost, in the opinion of D.
I. Smith, president of the county court,
about $4,000. Mr.. Smith is anxious
TO meet the need Of a juvenile deten-
ton home and clings to his previous
outlined dream IF n great county farm