Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1920-12-14
West Virginia
N lew 5 Briefs
RI Egosf Important events m
Of entire state covered
. BY our correspondents ~

| Eluefield. Ducks are reported plen-
| tiful on Mud Ford Dam. near here.
Wheeling-Forty new homes are 10
| be erected at Birch LYNN, near here.
princeton.-Many wells and springs
are reported going dry in this vicinity.
| Bluefield.-An unknown person walk
! ed into the Penny Profit Store and
made away with bag containing $50.
| Bluefield.-Tentative plans have
been made here for the organization of
the Mercer County Sunday-school As
ISOLATION.
Huntington-Agr Agent II.
| G. Castrup estimates West Virginia
win have a 11.400. 0o0-pound tobacco
crop this year.
Bethany-The Pittsburg- Cleveland
Coal Company is said to be optioning
hundreds of acres of valuable coal
lands near here.
| Wheeling.-In expectation of a coal
shortage. residents of Eastern Ohio
are eauipping with oil and coal cook
Ing and heating stoves.
Princeton-Alex. Hoch has present
| ed to Judge Herndon, of the Circuit
Court, beautifully carved cane, made
| from as wamp maple.
Fairmont-The body of Joseph l.
Van Glider, killed in France with the
A. u. r., was brought here and buried
with military honors.
Blueiield-R. III. Williams, of Pear
isburg, Va, near here, has signed a
contract TO play ball with the Chicago
White Sox next year.
Huntington Two sticks of dyna-
mite were found by workmen in a pile
Of sand at the tipple OF the Wilson
Sand and Supply Company.
Biuedeld.-G. S. Caldwell, ar en-
ploye Of the American Coal Company
at McComas, died in hospital here
following injuries in the mine.
Bluefield-Yeggm believed to
have been amateurs, raided number
of places here, including the local
wafer Office, but got no swag.
Bluefield-An officer standing on
the station platform here picked up
a bag left By N. & W. passenger
1t contained six quarts of fine apple
brandy.
Huntington.-Chai H. e. Ma
| thews, of the Chamber of Commerce,
said membership in the Chamber is
wide open, only burglars and anarch-
lists and 'such" being barred.
| Charleston.-T. E. Martin, Chares
ton justice of the peace, arrested cleo
ton day on a charge of attempting to
buy the vote of Joseph Brigode, ST.,
| was given a hearing before United
| States Commissioner Joseph n. Rudd-
| ner, pleaded not guilty and was held
to the grand jury under $1,000 bond.
| Wheeling.-In Criminal Court here
Charles Miller, As, porter at the North
| Wheeling Hospital, was found guilty
| of .maliciously Withholding informa
ton" from the police in the murder of
/ G.. f. b. Grandstaff, Baltimore & Ohio
railroad storekeeper, to which Samuel
| A. Blevins, of Little Rock, Ark, has
since confessed.
Clarksburg-Afrs. II. y. Curtin, of
this city, director of the recently re-
habilitated West Virginia tuberculosis
| Association, announced the appoint
ment as its executive secretary ut Its
| state headquarters at Charleston, of
| George c. Rowell, lately field secrc-
tary of the New Hampshire Tubercu-
| losis Association.
| ST. Albans-The st. Adams High
| School for the first time in its history
now has an energetic organization Of
the student body working for the uplift
| and development of the school and
community. Three times each week
they collect the school news and have
/ it published. The name of this body
Is the Publicity Club, recently organ
| lied.
! Charleston-Little Billie Dawson
| SOP of the late Governor w. ~ O
| Dawson, was run down by an automo-
bile while riding his bicycle in Hale
street, between Quarter and Lee
streets. He escaped injury, but his
wheel was badly smashed, much to
| his grief, and his lamentation, ''Oh, my
bicycle, "Oh, my bicycle" speedily
attracted little gathering of passers-
by. The sympathizing pedestrians
were relieved to learn that the lad
| was not hurt.
Clarksburg@In a pistol duel with
| two unknown foreigners in a road near
| Lost Creek, John Stephen Singleton,
| 10, coal miner, was killed and a com
| panion, Ray Longenette, IS, was
wounded in the left hand. The battle.
began when the foreigners met the two
young men and are said to have insult
| ed them.
Fairmont.-Claude Metz lost control
of his car and ran into crowd Of
| people. Potter Warner, Ellis Werner
and Mamie Warner were injured
| Metz was arrested.
| Williamson.-The battalion of fed
Il.