Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-01-06

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II BY our correspondents II
Wheeling The Pennsylvania line is
/ replacing it's 100-pound rails with 135
Founders In the yards here.
Huntington This city will fight a
proposed increase III water rases, city
officials notified The company.
Wheeling, Local Rotarians went to
Tttsburg for the tenth annual cele-
bratiGn at the Pittsburg Club.
Wheeling The Wheeling steel Com
pany started construction on a $780,
600 addition to its Yorkyilie plant.
Fairmont Clyde S. Holt. postmas-
ter here. resigned and Jesse p. vii
son was appointed as his successor.
Fairmont- The C. & p. Telephone
Company plans to spent Sl,000,00O in
improving exchanges in West Virginia
Wheeling. Louis Philips, employed
in newspaper plant, had a foot
crushed when form fell on the mem
Der
Farmont.- Odd Fellows lodge
plans to build new home here IF
W uld be the most pretentious in the
state.
Wheeling Cool, cafe proprie-
tor, lost on the street package con-
tanning several hundred dollars in Lib
erty bonds.
Morgantown.-The week of January
1921 has been set aside by the col
lege of agriculture of w. V. U. as
Farmers Week
Warrington. - Samples OF water
used for drinking here, subjected to
chemical analysis in Charleston, was
shown to he pure.
Charleston.-F. II. Young, brake
man employed in the freight yards of
the K and M. Railway Company, was
seriously injured when he was caught
between two freight cars in the yards
near the Charleston Lumber Company
Martinsburg w. II. Corners. chief
of the Bureau of Markets in West Vir-
ginia, is back from convention of
market officials in Chicago and stated
100000 barrels Of apples are IN stn7
age III afhis state0eHe said there has
been a constant, although mot. heavy
shipment to the markets.
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Wheeling Alberts Marion Ricards
an alleged ex-captain Sins the U. S.
Army, said by police to- be an escaped
prisoner from FIT. LeavenWorth prison
where ne was sentenced for conduct
unbecomng an officer in 1919. has
been arrested here in the roundup of
undesirables launched by Chief of Po
lice Frazier. g
Williamson. - Receipts for tooth
some things, such as are found on the
'women's pages and in womens mag
azines, are eagerly read by the fed
eral soldiers on strike duty in this re-
gion, and then passed on to the com
pany cook. This fact was discovered
at headquarters here when a lieuten-
ant came in from one of the outlying
posts for supplies
Charleston.-In the study of educa-
tional conditions in West Virginia,
conducted by the Executive Commit
tee Of the Education Association, the
committee finds that other states have
similar conditions and like problems.
Some of these states, however, have
been able to meet their problems Il
little more satisfactorily than West
Virginia has.
Williamson The grand jury SUM
moned for the special term of circuit
court here completed its work after a
session of two days and half. A
number Of indictments of minor inn
portance were returned. One of the
last acts Of the jurors was to indict
William Dozier for shooting with in
tent to kill and wound George Bur
CESS il The railroad yard here. Speedy
action was taken by the jury upon the
request of Judge Il. d. Bailey to in
vesti.ate The affair
Wheeiing.-C W. Chambers, who
! was sentenced to the state peniten-
f; tary at Moundsville for nine years
| from Ohio. county, after having been
convicted of defrauding local mer-
chants by representing himself to be
advance purchasing agent for a cir
/ Gus and later paroled, is in prison
! again. Warden Terrell announced tina,
after securing his release on account
OF bad health, Chambers went to the