Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-02-17
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CULLINGS
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WEST VIRGINIA


Beach Vincent Colletti, mi
ner, had his jaw blown off in prema-
ture blast.
Beverly. Former Mayor K B. Craw-
ford, a prominent stockman, died at
the age of 73.
Hatfield.-Former Governor Henry
D. Hatfield was elected president of
the Ohio Valley Bank
Huntington.-Ata directors meeting
all the old officers of the First Ma
tional Bank were reelected.
observation-disclosures IN a mass meet
ing here decided to float $4,000 bond
issue for town improvements.
Clarksburg Burglars entered the
Peoples Store here but secured only a
few garments and no cash.
Clarksburg 1Brigadier General My
ers mustered ID new company of the
Uniform RaEK, X. of p, here.
Martinsburg-The Chamber of Com
merce voted, to enter the fight to re-
lieve the housing shortage here.
Glendale.-William, the small son of
Charles Blakemore, strangled to death
when a peanut lodged in his throat.
Huntington.-Twe four men were
accepted as recruits in the army in one
day. They were sent to various army
posts.
Fairmont-The Odd Fellows Lodge
purchased the Grand Opera House and
will remodel it into an up TO date lodge
temple
Morgahtown.- Joseph A. Krepps
qualified as executor for the James L.
Krepps estate. He gave bond of
$4,000
Martinsburg.- city is to estab-
fish a bureau of weights and measures,
and an official sealer will be placed in
charge.
Point sant.-Burglars rified the
b. & Q. station at Brosia, but got no
loot The station agent had removed
all funds.
INSTRUMENTATION members of
the West Virginia University football
squad were awarded letters" at
ceremony here.
Bluefield.-At meeting here the
Mercer County Sunday School Associa-
tion was formed and c. b. Hancock
was elected president.
Elm Grove.-Delphino Arman had
an arm severely crushed when coal
car on which he was riding in a mine
here jumped the track.
Huntingdon Nine-tenths of the
S793,S20 of federal funds for road
building in this section has been used
in construction work
ngton.-Reported deaths here
exceed the birth rate, figures show.
Officials, however, say physicians often
fail to report births.
Huntington.-The French depart
ment of the local high school will pre-
sent the play, 'L'Anglais Duel Qu'on lie
Parle," on February 4.
Morgantown.-John Dennis, of this
city, ran into the crime wave in Pitts
burg. He was held up and relieved
of $65 by two masked men.
Morgantown. Monot Mcintyre, for
mer head coach at West Virginia Uni
versity, has signed a contract to coach
at Phillips College, Enid, Okla.
Fairmont-The name of the Penn
Mary Coal Company owned by Bethle-
hem Steel interests, was changed to
the Bethlehem Mine Corporation.
Morgantown.-The factory Of the
Everbright Mirror Company here was
destroyed by fire entailing loss Of
! $4,000. Had water pressure been ade-
duate, it is charged, the plant would
have been saved.
Charleston.-Andy Hathaway, under
Indictment for malicious wounding of
Mark Surface near their homes in
| Newhouse Branch. after a conference
between his attorneys and the prose
cutting attorney entered plea Of un-
lawful wounding in the intermediate
court and after the preliminaries he
was sentenced by Judge Black to serve
one year in the state prison.
! Huntington. -Shoeiess children mum
herring more than dozen have applied
for footgear~ to / Mrs. Neva Forest,
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