Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-12-22
West Virginia
News Briefs
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Baltimore & Ohio yards caused by
defective rail
Fairmount-Mr Anna Carroll, ~,
dies of injuries received when knock
ed down by an automobile.
Paramount F'ifty-three foreign
born men given final examination ON
applications to become citizens of the
United States
Morgantown- Captain Arthur P.
White, q. s. A., has been detailed to
West Virginia university as instructor
III military science.
Elkins-C. A. Collett badly injured
in the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
yards at Belington, when he fell and
was hit by the pilot of an engine.
Huntington Informal approval
given to project to build new parish
house for Trinity Episcopal church at
dinner of mems service chapter.
Keyser-West Virginia D uroc
hog breeders association organized
under direction of Forest G. Hall.
The president is Ira p. Nay of Jane
Lew.
Redwood begun by Cherry
River paper company ON building Of
mammoth new power house for its
big plants here. Smoke stack to be
225 feet high
Peterstown.-T town with a pop
ulation of 500 has just decided by
vote of rs to to be Incorporated, aft
er having surrendered it's former char
ter some years ago.
organtown-Much unwritten his
tory, of more than local interest is ex-
pected to be brought to light next
spring by the essays written in the
state high school contest.
Morgantown - Dispute with
officials Of Chaplin collieries company
over accuracy of tiple scales causes
leaders of-union men working. at Nos.
1 and mines to call out more than
325 employees.
Kelser-Three persons met dhath
here when the automobile in which
they were riding was struck by thel
engine of a Baltimore & Ohio passen-'
ger train. Aristotle Storta and Lloyd
Douglas were killed Instantly and
Miss Mural Decker died while being
taken to a hospital. All of the vic
tins lived in the vicinity of Keser.
WEIGH Terrence MasSwiney
council of Mcdowell county, a branch
of the American association for the
recognition of the Irish republic, or
ganized here after addresses by Peter
MacSwiney, brother of the former
lord mayor of Cork; Councilman
James P. Flanagan and D. J. e.
Strother
Charleston-Mrs. Walter Morrison,
of Charleston, elected second vice
president of West Virginia NJ E. con-
ference home missionary society at
meeting in Wheeling The president
is Mrs. r. B. Nay, of Wheeling; the
treasurer, Mrs. Walter S. Furbee, of
Wilmington, and the corresponding
secretary, Mrs. S. K. Arbuthnot, of
Buckhannon.
Huntington By reclaiming
about seventeen city blocks bounded
by Twelfth and Fourteenth streets,
Charleston avenue and Washington
boulevard, through extraordinary ex-
cavation and grading process and
other means, former City Commission
er w. M. Prindle is realizing the
dream Of years.
Charleston DIR. M. Y. Zeigler,
epidemiologist and past assistant
surgeon of the United States public
health service, has arrived here from
Washington and established head
quarters in the offices of the state de-
partment of health. He has been as
signed by the public health service to
assist State Health Commissioner
Henshaw in the division of preventa-
Bile diseases.
Boothsville- Henry Tucker in
serious condition at Miners hospital
at Fairmont following an explosion
of gasoline, which he had mistaken
for kerocene when he was lighting
kitchen fire. With his clothes on fire
he Immediately ran. to well and
lowered himself to the water After
eXtinguishing the flames he climbed
out and hurried to the home of his