The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-07-15


state board of education. He said he
was reSigning because of the press of
personal affairs.
Wheeling. - Information confirmed
Is 10 the effect that j. Harold Brennan
of Wheeling, who has resigned as fed
eral fair price commissioner for West
Virginia, Will be succeeded hv w &.
McConnaughey, of Parkersburg. for
mer president of the West Virginia
Wholesale GrOcers' Association.
Huntington. - Jefferson Champion,
I2, one time mayor of Central City,
and one of the prominent residents of
West Huntington, died on the Ashland
lronton ferry as the result of n heat
stroke. He was driving his automobile
on the ferry at the time of his death.
intending to 90 TO Ironton an bust
ness trip.
ParkerSburg. sheriff of Harri-
son county arrived in the city and took
). L. Brannon, the young man arrest
ed here ON charge of stealing an au-
tomobile, back To Clarksburg. Par
kerSburg seems to be the mecca of all
men wanted in Clarksburg as Brannon
made the fourth To be removed To the
Harrison county seat within week.
Observation-Disclosures by the
the city of the Sixteenth street DUMP
was productive of three more damage
suits in which a total of $4,000 is
asked by property owners who charge
that inSanitary conditions permitted
by the city has injured them To the
extent of $1,000 each. The plaintiffs
are Mary Wood, Floyd Hunt and Rus
sell Hunt.
Charleston.-The body Of Morgan
Larson, 10, drowned sometime at
Dunbar, five miles from Charleston,
was tiShed out of kanawna river, be-
low Lock 6 by an angler. He was
drowned when attempting to cross the
kanawha in a skiff from Dunbar 10
South Charleston where he worked.
His body was found as Searchers were
about 10 give up the hunt
Huntington.-Appointment Of a
commission TO appraise the value of
certain lots in Fifth avenue between
Eighth and Ninth streets, where the
city administration is seeking to es-
tabIish a Government Square" will
follow a decision handed down by
Judge Graham in which he upheld the
right of the city commission to con-
denim the property for public use.
Fairmont.-So deeply bereaved were
| the parents of Shahan Ford. young
Assyrian boy, over his death, the only
son in the family, that their life's earn
ingS, $4,000, were spent on his fu-
neral. Nearly $500 were spent for fio-
raj offerings, and they were borne TO
the grave in a large conveyance on
which The coffin was placed, and on
which was seated the fancee Of the
dead boy. The father is a local mer-
chant.
CharlestOn.-That over half of the
children in the rural school of Kama
wha county were affected by disease
DIR. f. f. Farnsworth, of the United
States public health department, in his
address TO Kiwanians at the noon
luncheon of that organization. Eight
| children in another small school were
found to be affected, he said, while
| some were found In nearly every
school in which an investigation was
conducted.
Clarksburg While a party of Sal
walton Army workers were conducting
services in the corridor Of the Harrl-
son county Jail six prisoners sawed the
bars protecting a second story cell win
| dow and escaped. Hundreds of per-
sons were passing the prison on the
| Mechanic street side Of the Jail when
the prisoners lowered themselves along
| the wall. BlOodhOunds were sent from
Fairmont and posse composed OF
federal, state and county officials took
up the chase.
Wheeling.-The Greater Wheeling
Pure Water Commission, which for the
! past several months has had under con-
sderation the problem Of solving the
! water question for Wheeling, butted
! into a stone wall I'm the form Of a let
! ter from Charleston TO the effect that
| the Division of Sanitary Engineering.
which is branch of the State Depart
ment Of Health, wherein declared that
| the department would refuse to ap-
prove any system for Wheeling other
| than a mechanical chemical
Charleston.-Wes Virginia contin-
ues TO buy automobiles, according to
! figures Of the automobile department
Of the state road commission. Thus
! far 6O,JOO automobile licenses have
been issued since July I, 1919, and be-
| fore the first Of next month, the num-
ber will approximate 81 900 The rate
OF increase for the last year has been
about 30 per cent. II the same rate OF
increase is shown during the next year.
there will be 10000 automobiles in
West Virginia by July /, 1921.
Huntington Orders placing an cm-
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