Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-01-27
West Virginia
NewsCulings
An epitone of most important
eUentS trdnspiring in the state

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Moorefield.--Ben and James See, al
legged draft evaders, we're taken into
custody here.
Clarksburg. Sheriff-elect L. L.
Young named Miss Dora Stout as one
of his deputies
Middlebourne - Harry Fuchs, ID,
died of lockjaw which developed from
an injured hand
Princeton.-Sheds and barns were
unroofed and many windows broken
/ by high winds here.
| Warwood.-Thieves broke into the
home of Edgar Aaron and stole val
liable diamond ring.
Clarksburg. This is the only city In
mounted police force.
Huntington.-C. G o. and B. & o.
! officials will confer with view to plac-
ing alarm signals at street crossings
Elkins.-Bear meat Is being sold by
local butcher. The huge animal was
killed by hunters near Fishing Hawk.
! Elkins-Athur Page died at Durbin,
after laying out all night, the result
of drinking moonshine liquor, it was
said
| Huntington.-The city spent slightly
more than $4,000 in November, the
report of City Auditor Temp1eton
showed
Parkersburg.-Sev fish, weighing
i Up to 20 pounds, were taken from the
city reservoir when it was drained for
cleaning.
Bluefield.-Damage estimated at less
than $1,000 was caused by fire when
heating stove became too hot at the
Nemours school
Duffield. = Mrs. William Grove,
struck by B. & 0. train, remained UNI
! conscious "a hours Physicians believe
she will recover.
| Kingwood.-Fh Penn-Mary Power
Company is stringing light wires into
| this city from Preston county to fur
nish electric light.
Fairmont.-Nicholas Regnier, Sc, B.
and 0. brakeman who was injured
when caught between two freight cars,
died at a hospital here
! Clarksburg riding in taxi
cab between here and Fairmont James
Mathews was set upon and robbed of
$500 by three masked men.
Martinsburg.-Cha f. Favorite
was run down and trampled to death
when his horses became frightened on
his farm near here in Maryland.
Fairmont.- The West Virginia Retail
Lumbermen will hold their convention
here February 1O-11 Two hundre
delegates are expected to attend.
SistersyilIe-Alex Miller and his
wife were cut b. broken glass and
burned while escaping from their home
which was almost destroyed by fire.
Charleston.-Th cost per capita Of
government in West Virginia increased
from $454 in 1919 to $5.01 ip 1920,
the tax commissioners report showed.
1 Clarksburg.- first zone man"
street cars to be operated in this city
are to be placed in service soon. They
are en- route from the factory in st.
Louis.
rleston.-Declaring that the peo-
pie of West Virginia should practice
conservation of gas if they do not wish
to exhaust the supply in a few years,
s. s. Wyer, of Columbus, a gas ex-
pert, who called on the members of
the public service commission. recon-
mended that public utility companies
should rake Immediate action on the
recommendations of the national com.
mittee ON gas conservation.
Char eston.-Little Paul SNYDER aged
l., son of Mr. and Mrs Alvin l.. Sny-
der Of 1858 McClnng street, is lying in
Charleston General Hospital in seri-
ous condition with conclusion Of the
brain, the result of being run down by
an automobile at Washington street
and Kentucky avenue. The automo-
bile figuring III the accident was the
family vehicle of Dr. w s. Shepherd,
whose son, Walter, was driving at the
time
Huntington arrived here
with H. S. Cross charged with embez-
zling $1,000 of the funds of the Sehon-
Stevenson Company. Cross led his
pUrsuers through 20 states, finally be