The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1921-12-29

OF Columbus.
Fairmomt-City to spend 5000
investigating filtrations. Rotary club
endorses project.
Grafton-Work on new crematory
being built on Courtney and Kltzrnil-
Ter farm, is nearly completed.
Morgantown Nearly every
ward in Morgantown has been organ
lied by the league of women voters.
MOrgantown - Mrs. Joseph G.
Cochran elected president of local
chapter Of Women's national founda-
ton.
Grafton-Grand jury requests that
steps be taken to compel county court
TO furnish decent furnishings for pri-
soners in Taylor county Jail.
Buckhannon-Lawre Green. OF
Buckhannon, student of law at West
Virginia university, loses power of
speech, when he falls down stairs.
Charleston-C. c. Morris was ar.
rested at a local hotel by the local
police at Columbus, Ohio, where he
is said to be wanted for passing a
bad check.
St Mary's-A C. Headley, mer-
chant, loses sight of one eye as re-
suit of flake of rust from barrel hoop
penetrating it.
Elkins - Chamber of commerce
urging employment of business man
ager for Elkins as the low salaries of
officials forbid their devOting their en-
tire time to the city's business.
BenwoOd-Since construction of
new paving on Marshall street, % au-
tomObilists have been arrested for al
legged violations of the mayors edict
in running on newly laid concrete.
Huntington - Arrests by Hunt
ington police showed considerable de-
crease during October. 395 being re-
ported by Chief of Police John w
Coon. Fines and costs collected
amounted to $1,S5S.
Clarksburg- John c.. South
ern, in charging the Harrison county
grand pury in the criminal court, de-
nounces the Ku Klux Klan, as being
an organization which seeks to usurp
the powers of the courts, grand jur-
les and court officials.
Morgantown-An explosion wrecked
the compressor slant of the West Vir-
g1nia utilities company near here. kill
ing one man, seriously infurinq an
other and doing damage estimated at
100000. 1t will take several months
TO rebuild the compressor plant, Off
cials of the company said and in the
meantime, gas, consumers must de-
pend on the rock pressure of the wells
to give them fuel.
BarbOurville - Two fully de-
veloped front teeth were extracted
from the upper forehead of a little
girl of Floyd Albert's at Martha. The
little girl had been romping with the
young son of VIII King when they
collided, two of the boys teeth being
imbedded so deeply in the girls fore
head that DR.. S. a. McConkey had TO
use surgical instruments to get, them
out.
Charleston-Speeding on the left side
of the Maiden road, just above Por-
ter's hollow, police say, an automo-
bile driven by Delcie White and in
which were also seated Everett Raw
les, the owner, and Jack Gravley. ran
into a huckster's wagon and wrecked
it, injuring one man slightly. In the
wagon were seated w. ii. Pridemore
and John Gunnoe, both of Lick
Branch, who were driving towards
kanawha City.
Charleston-Ten thousand dollars
in West Virginia state road bonds
were included in the mail reported
stolen recently in New York, accord
ing to state Auditor John c. Bond.
who returned from New York. As
the insurance companies. he said. viii
be held responsible, the state will not
lose anything as the result of the
theft furthermore, as the numbers
of the bonds are known, it is believed
certain that they will eventually be
recovered.
Figures compiled I'm the
state tax department show that the
income the state derived from the
excise tax ON corporations during the
calendar year 1920, amounted to ST.
3SIOIj.32, and from the end of 1920
TO July /, 1921, when the collection
OF this tax was suspended, TO an ad-
ditional S2O7, 1926 Approximately. or
q grand total for the year and half
of approximately S1,29i, i,jG7.GS. All
returns, of course. are not yet fin for
the half year, and will probably not
be complete for sometime. This tax
will no longer be collected because II
Us superseded by the sales tax. under
The new law Of last legislature
Morgantown Homer Martin. full
back for the state university football
eleven, receives gold watch from