Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-01-20

/ foOtDAli team, as c0ach OF the 1871
team, but added that 1921 coach had
not yet been selected.
| Clarksburg.-W Goff McIntire
was arrested for being drunk officers
in searching his clothing found a most
unique weapon. What appeared to be
an ordinary pocket knife suddenly dis
charged small steel jacketed bullet
through the hand Of a policeman. No
such pistol ever had been seen here
before
Clarksburg. -Antonio Martin, q,
WAS burned to death, Harry Jacobs
and Samuel Mucka were injured, per
haps seriously. and half a dozen others
had a narrow escape from death when
fire destroyed twostory frame
boarding house at Ocean mines, near
Bridgeport. Fourteen men were sleep
| ing in the house when the fire started.
Its origin is unknown.
| arleston.-Regardless OF strikes,
and all the other wailed-about causes
for non-production in the country, the
mines OF West Virginia, handicapped
rs they have been by q serious lack
of cars, have surplus of 1857 1858
tons of coal over the total tonnage pro-
duced in 1919. What the total might
have been under favorable and normal
conditions no one can begin to guess.
! rleston.-Declaring that the poo
| Pile Of West Virginia should practice
conservation Of gas il they do not wish
to exhaust the supply in few years,
s. S. Wyer, Of Columbus, gas ex-
pert, who called on the members Of
the public service commission, recon-
mended that public utility companies
should take immediate action or the
recommendations of the national com
mittee on gas conservation.
| Wheeling-A reduction in wages Of
laborers from 48 to 38 cents an hour
with only straight pay for overtime,
affecting approximately 5000 men, has
| just been announced by officials OF the
Wheeling Steel Corporation. The new
wage scale will affect every laborer in
all of the plants of the concern, In
Guiding the Whitaker-Glessner, Wheel
ing Steel and Iron, and the Labelle
companies, which recently merged into
the Wheeling Steel Corporation.
Wheeling flag raising incident at
the Greek Orthodox church here pre-
cipitated riot in which the priest was
knocked down and many members Of
the congregation joined in attacking
his assailant The United States flag
had been raised as usual during the
service, after which the Greek nation
al flag was hoisted but owing to the
! freezing weather the halyards stuck
and the flag remained at half mast.
| Chardoris Soflous construed this as an
insult to the returning King Constan-
! tine of whom he is an adherent and
refused to accept the priests explana-
ton.
Charleston.-H. G. Scott, president
of the Charleston Industrial Corpt ra-
ton, has returned to Nitro from New
York where he has been on business.
With his return and the opening up Of
the new year it is expected that new
industrial activity will be noted in Nj
tro. The Charleston Industrial Cor
poraton has number of factory prop
ositions on hand that have been held
up awaiting the turn of business con-
ditions. Several large companies have
had their representatives come to Nj
tro during the past six months to go
over the situation here with the idea
of locating when industrial conditions
throughout the country warrant it,
Montgomery With the appearance
OF the fall issue of the West Virginia
Law Quarterly, the official organ OF
teresting to note that the faculty Of
( the West Virginia University College
of Law now has the assistance of a
| staff of student editors in the prepa-
ration of the Quarterly. These stu
dents, selected from the leading sec
ond and third year law students, in
clude the following A W. Laas, Ben
wood, chairman; S. c. Morris, Morgan
town w. f. Glasscock, Morgantown !;
W. r. Keefer, Wheeling; w. F. Ball,
Grafton NJ. I. Valentine, Parsons
The editor is george f. Osborne, as
sistant professor Of law
! Mannington.-A loss of S615,000 is
sustained in Marion county annually
through the ravages OF tuberculosis
which slowly and steadily fastens it
self on its unsuspecting victims and
has them beyond all hope of physical
reclamation before they are aware of
the form of Illness which has caused
them to slow us, according to Stats
ties compiled here. The West Virginia
tuberculosis Association is making an
extensive survey throughout the state
| in an effort to ascertain just what
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