Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-03-08

Bluefield-Several rooms OF the
new Highland school building have
been opened for use. More rooms viii
be opened soon.
Morgantown.-Geor T. Bell, ex-
ecutiye vice president of the North
ern West Virginia Coal Operators As
ISOLATION, has resigned.
annington.-Charles Marshal was
attacked by large rat in the base
ment of his store. He had to call for
help to beat the roden off.
Morgantown.-Prof r. L. Morris Of
W. V. q. faculty, bought valuable
apartment property in Pittsburg. The
consideration was s150,O00.
New Northumberland has been
broken for the new Hancock county
court house. following the destruction
by fire of the old building.
untingtcn.-Employes of the local
erecting shop of the American Car
and Foundry Company returned I'D
work after a wage adjustment.
years chief electrician with the c. & o.
railroad shops, is TO join forces with
the International Nickel plant here.
Huntington.-Dr. II. 4. William
son, of Kenova, was named president
of an organization contemplating the
building of a sanitarium at Kenova.
New Conference.-The National
Steel Castings plant here was sold
to the Cutler Steel Company, Pitts
burg and will soon resume opera
lions.
Fairmont-The proposed new city
charter provides for two councilmen
from each ward with the mayor and
two commissioners as an executive
committee.
Huntington.-Harry Clayton. an EN-
ploye of the Main Island Greek Coal
Company, died in a hospital here as
result of drinking contaminated moon
shine whisky.
Wheeling-When he plead guilty to
a charge of felonious cutting, Nick Mo-
SELF was fined $50 and costs by Judge
Aalan H. Robinson in criminal court.
Moselli is alleged to have cut a GUS
toner in his shoe repair shop on the
South Side, following an argument
over some change given the customer
in payment of bill. During the alter
cation the customer, youth of II
years, knocked Moselli down.
Charleston.-E. f. Franklin was
committed TO jail and held without
bond for grand jury hearing in
Squire c. E. Jarretts court. 1t is al
legged that Franklin gave to w. FL.
Holsapple a check for 500 on the
Huntington Bank & Trust Company,
of Huntington, and that there were
no funds to meet the amount of the
check The check, it was stated, was
given in payment of gambling debt.
Charleston.-U. Calvin Grose and
Melton Grose, who have been held un-
der bond by the police here for sew
eral days, on charges of larceny of
automobiles, were arraigned before
United States Commissioner J. A.
Thayer, and were held to answer to
the United States grand jury next
June, under $4,000 each. The two
men were charged with stealing the
car of Robert Gibson, of CINCINNATI.
ParkerSburg.- Lemon, arrest
ed recently on a charge of threatening
an officer and lodged in the county jail
here, confessed to the killing of Sted-
man l.. Bryan, prominent Parkersburg
business man who was shot to death
as hes entered his home at the country
club on the night of December 20. &C
cording to a statement given out by
the prosecuting attorney. Lemon has
also implicated another youth, Glenn
Devol, of Belpre, o., it is alleged. De-
vol is in custody here also.
Wheeling-Three miners in the
Windsor mine of the American Gas
and Electric Company at Beech Bot
tom, w. Va, twelve miles north of
Wheeling, were killed. The accident
was caused by weakened timbers sup
porting a thickness of twenty feet of
earth. The great weight of this was
too much, and the timbers broke with
crash and buried the three miners.
Other miners engaged in a frenzled
rescue and succeeded in recovering the
bodies of Randall and Chandler.
Wheeling.-Four Baltimore & Ohio
railroad employees were killed when a
locomotive exploded near Littleton, w.
Va. The men who lost their lives were
Matt Walsh, road foreman Of engines,
of McMechen; G. J. Carpenter, engi-
| neer, of McMechen; p. Grogan, fire.
man, of Benwocd; ]. Wilfong, brake
man, of HoIley's Grove. The accident