The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-07-29

| W SoI 'Ststto
| NeuUsCuuings
| An epitome of most important
eUents tTdnspiring in the state
ClarksDurg.-Mayor Joe n. Grad
dock Is 10 take the stump for the four
million dollar good roads issue and
will make several talks throughout the
country districts.
Martinsburg-F. F. Burdette, super
intendent of the school for deaf and
blind at Romney, offered his resigna-
ton at the initial meeting of the state
board of education ut Charleston, the
board being In annual session.
Philippi.-That the persons arrested
in connection with the robbery of the
{. NJ. Elliott Company chain stores
would be tried at the September term
or circuit court at Philippi, was the
statement made by Sheriff E. w. S.
Kennedy
Charleston - Announcement was
made by DR.. William Edwin Smith, e1-
ecutive secretary Of the Near East Re
lief in West Virginia, that local bank
Ing institutions had contributed fund
of $1,000 TO carry on the work among
starving people of Armenia and the
Near East.
MorgantOwn.-The fourth annual
short course in coal mining, under di-
rection of the department of mining Of
West Virginia University, opened with
an enrolment of fifty-seven men. Min
ers who complete the course are quail
fed as fire bosses, mine foremen and
superintendentS.
CharlestOn.-Mr. and Mrs. Jess Il.
Miller have gone to Kentucky, where
Mr.. Miller is to take charge of the op-
Grafton of his fathers ore mines. Mr..
Miller's father, Il. b. Miller, has re-
Gently purchased half interest in the
Red Mines, one of the largest pro-
ducers of fiuor-spar ore.
HuntingtOn.-A complete sanitary
survey of the city, with a view of elm
mating disease-breeding conditions,
will be undertaken by the Chamber of
Commerce, with the aid of the city
schools, early in the autumn, according
to decision reached by the chambers
committee on sewers and sanitation.
Bluefeld. - Miss Polly McJoyant.
known here and in Pulaski, Va, as
Miss Ada Joint, is receiving great
prominence in her activities as an avi-
atriX. Miss McJOynt has declared that
she intends to beat the records set by
those French flyers,' and will make
the trial flight from Detroit, Mich.
Wheeling.-Edward Lotens, a Bel
gian coal miner employed by the Ohio
and Pennsylvania mine at Yorkville,
was instantly killed by fall of stone
in his entry while at work. Several
men working with him had close calls
when masses of stone and slate fell
from the roof almost without warning.
When Lotens was extricated life was
extinct.
FaIrmont-A munlfcent gift for the
proposed Masonic home to be erected
at Parkersburg was received by Hon.
o. S. Mckinney, treasurer of the board
OF trustees of the Grand Lodge of
West Virginia, when the grand com
maDdery Knights Templar of West
Virginia, presented a check for $4,000.
PrlncetOn.-Followlng the interest
ing of local business men In the cree
tiOn Of a foundry by G. w. Hall, Of
Keystone, a large tract of land adjoln-
Ing the Hines Lumber Company has
been purchased, and with the begin
ming of the work at once, It Is expect
cd that the foundry will be completed
about October 1.
HuntlngtOn.-Elza Irwin, 21, arrested
several days ago on a federal warrant
charging him with postofice robbery,
was dismissed following n hearing be
fore United States Commissioner J. c..
Douglass. Irwin was charged with
breaking into the Yates drug store in
Twentieth street, a sub-pOstal station.
He was released on the recommenda-
tlon Of F. Witcher Mccullough, assist
ant district attorney, who held the
evidence was insufficient to hold him
to the grand jury
Huntington.-COnfesslng to a charge
Of forgery, Carl Damron was sentenced
to two years in the state penitentiary
by Judge j.. u. Matthews, i'm common
pleas court. DamrOn is alleged to have
secured a number Of pay checks signed
by the paymaster of the American Car
& Foundry Company, and to have filed
them I'm, I'm various amounts. He ls al
legged to have cnshed several before he
was apprehended. Andrew Mlser. al