The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1921-11-17

I'D indianapolis ar the age Of SS, ac-
cordng to information received here.
Huntington-County Commissioner
Thomas Mex. Hays, of Huntington
has been elected presiednt Of the
Cabell county court to succeed L. e.
Adkins, OF Barboursville. .
untingtOn-Tnomas N Neal. Of
Cameron, was elected grand master or
the grand lodge at the convention here
this week. Parkersburg was elected
for the next state meeting in 1922.
HuntingtOn-The Daughters of Re
bekah meeting in state convention here
elected Mrs. Martha Wilson of Follans-
bee state pesident and selected Park
ersburg for the 1922 meeting.
Bluefield-A. b. Brode, gas manufac-
turer, is arranging to pipe natural gas
through the POcahontas coal field and
into Biuefield from new territory he
and his associates are developing.
here in the interest OF the Huntingdon
Williamson hard road which it is pro-
posed TO run along the Big Sandy to
the Wayne county line thence by way
of Crum to Wayne courthouse and on
TO Huntington.
HuntingtOn-Mayor Campbell has
informed Colonel George S. Wallace
chairman of the parks and Fairgrounds
committee, that he will donate
months official salary amounting to
$500 for the uses of memorial boule-
ward
Williamson-Bill Trent, convicted Of
second degree murder by a Wayne
county jury in the circuit court here
for the killing of William Gillian, his
brother-in-law, at Chattaroy last Feb
ruary, has been sentenced to II years
in the penitentiary by Judge Bailey.
CASTOR Junction-A freight train
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
was wrecked east Of here. when seven
cars were piled up. No one was in
jured. but as both tracks were blocked,
trains had to De detOured by way Of
Clarksburg 20 Fairmont.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS costing
about $4,000 VIII be made at the
CheSapcake & Ohio railroad shops here
Immediately. 1t is planned to build
steel shed and platform 500 by 20
feet to be used as storage room and
lay four service tracks each about
LOO feet long.
Morgantown-The plans Of three
buildings to be built on the West Vtr-
ginia university campus were consider.
cd here by members of the state board
Of control. Work on the S25O,OOO law
building will he begun Immediately
while the construction of a S55O.OOO
gymnasium and 100000 chemistry
building Will be started next year.
FairmOnt-The ladies of the degree
Of honor of West Virginia closed its
session here after initiating a large
class Of candidates Delegates and
visitors wore here TO the number Of
200. Mrs Frances Olson, national
president, gave an address also Fl II.
Rose, Of Fairmont. The session was
presided over by Mrs. Mary Under
wood, Of Fairmont state president
Observation-Disclosures for bids were
made by the state road commission for
the first time in connection with the
new state road law and since the sale
of the Sl5.OOO,OOO i'm bonds to New
York brokers. Bids werc requested
for roads i'm Kouawha, Fayette. Put
nam, Wood, Ohio, GImer, Marion.
Monongala, Mineral and Grecnbrier.
The combined cost of all these pro-
Jects is estimated TO be SS99 600. Tho
project IN Grcenbrier will be under the
supervision Of county forces.
Charlc=tDn-Au increase Of 10 cents
per thousand cubic feet has been
granted ly the public service commig-
sion in the gas rates of the Troy oil
and gas company, which supplies c~n-
sumers i'm Gilmer county The commits
sion grant ted the Increase following
hc reccirt NJ q letter from l. n Bay
nett cf Weston. attorney for the cif-
izcns VI Troy, announcing that the
citizens bad agreed 80 accept tho raiss
from - cents 20 81 cents a thousand
cubic feet
Wheeling Due to the industrial de
precision in Wheeling and vicinity.
drive for $4,000 was launched here
by business men. The money will he
distributed 10 thc needy through the
associated charities
Fnirmont-A fellow workman ac
cidcntolly struck Michael Racovlch.
coal miner, with an nxe at the Fair
mont and Cleveland coal company's
mine az Parkcrs Run. The injured
miner was taken TO the Falrmont state
hospital suffering from a fractured
skull and The loss Of an eye