The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-12-23


Huntington Fleeing after he had
completely demolished their buggy and
crippled their horse. an unidentified au-
tomObile speedster left Miss Norman
Thompson and Mrs Matte Porter.
hOth OF Ceredo. by tho roadside. cut.
bruised and crying for assistance
Both we're taken 90 Guthrie hospltah
where their injuries received attention.
MartinSburg Sherin-elecr william
Dean created record iu this section
Of West Virginia when he announced
the list OF deputy sherins for Berkeley
county during the ensuing four years.
The list contained the name 81 Miss
Jane Henson, who has the distinction
of being the first woman appointed 10
such a position In West Virginia. Her
salary is to- be 81 800
CharleStOn.-Plans for establishing
one or more factories in West Virginia
TO manufacture boxes for fruit and ths
question of uniformity In the fruit
packing laws Of various StuteS were
considered at meeting OF fruit grow
ers at MartinSburg. The conference
was attended by Commissioner OF Agri-
culture James II. Stewart and by rep
resentatives from Virginia, Maryland
and Delaware.
Charleston.-James B. Menager
brought suit in Kanawha circuit court
A a
others, on a claim for $4,000 damages
on account of dissatisfaction with
treatment in setting a fracture OF the
leg. In the same court J. o. Roberts
brought suit against the Kanawha- Elk
horn Collieries Co. on claim OF 1922
Indebtedness and $50 damages. Sam
uel Greenbery Jones sued the county
court for 5000 damages in case.
FOllansbee.-While 10 men were
wooing the tickle goddess Of chance in
two poker games being played at a
local resort five masked bandits enter
ed through n rear door and with drawn
revolvers held up the proprietor and
players. Four of the bandits kept the
10 men lined up against the wall with
| their hands above their heads while
the fifth went through their pockets.
Approximately $4,000 in money, dia-
mond ring, eleven watches and other
articles were taken by the robbers.
Morgantown.-A flaming meteor,
more than six feet in diameter and
weighing several tons, fell from the
skies at Howesville, five miles south
of Kingwood, in Preston county. An
explosion took place as the meteor bur
led itself in the earth, the report being
heard for several miles Windows
were shaken in KingwOod and the flare
of the flaming body caused much ex-
citement for time. The meteor fell in
the town of HoweSville, near the rail-
road station.
WilliamsOn.-A party of unidentified
men, secreted in the hills on the Ken
tucky side of Tug river fired a number
of shots at the tipple of the White
Star Mining Co. at Merrimack, which
is within the Mingo county coal strike
region. Employees at the tipple escaped
injury. Shortly after the shooting oc-
CURED Sheriff Stewards, Of Pike coun-
ty, Kentucky, announced that ne would
recruit a force OF deputies to patrol
that section of the country bordering
on Tug river Only a few deputies have
been on duty since the detachment OF
Kentucky militiamen was withdrawn
some time ago.
Parkersburg.- total cost OF the
election i'm Wood county was slightly
over $4,000 according to the figures
compiled by County Clerk Edgar Pahl,
This included the payment Of the elec
tiOn officers, the advertising. printing
the ballots and furnishing other equip.
ment, as we'll as the amount paid ~
the registrars. The average cost OF
holding the election I'm each Of the Gc
precincts in Cabell county was 1872 %
The average cost per voter for the %,
O0O who voted in the county was "a
cents. The Kanawha county election
cost the county $4,000, including the
expenses Of a special registration and
the primary election. The cost OF the
general election in The III precincts ir
Kanawha county averaged so.
WillamsOn.-Ervin Elyins was sho
and killed and his brother. Joe. wa,
wounded in a fight on a Norfolk &
Western train between Chattaroy and
Nolan, Mingo county. Two men have
been arrested in connection with the
shooting. Munccy, one Of the men ar
rested, i'm a statement made To Captain
Brockus, Of the state police, said, ac
cording to Brockus, that he and
Dutch" Frost boarded the train at
Nolan, where a tent colony occupied
by strikers and their families Is 10
Gated Muuccy and Frost, who hav,
been employed as miners, were protect
cd while waiting for the train by statt
troopers, MunCcy said, but when thcy
got on the car party Of men, whC
also boarded the train at Nolan, at
tackled them
Charleston Since the good road,
amendment TO the state constitution
was approved i'm the last election, thos,
interested are wondering as to wha
the legislature will do i'm regard 10 is