Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-08-11
West Virginia
NetusC Cuttings
An epitome of most important
epenfs hdnspiring in the state

fdTulCuC.--lSDSS VI lilG WIS HdIlOW-
ly averted when three telephone poles
fell in the crowded business district.
West Union.-Real estate sales are
booming here. A plot of GA lots
changed hands to home seekers in one
day
Observation-Disclosures the new state
birth registration law, f. r. Knight
has been appointed registrar for this
district.
Parkersburg- To permit farmers to
sell their produce more easily curb
market will be installed behind the
city hall.
Parkersburg.-A full-blooded setter
dog here has become the mother Of
q litter of IL pups. The setter belongs
to John A. Singer.
Huntington.-Eric N. Pyle, prom
lnent real estate man, has been arrest
ed here charged with embezzlement of
$500 from his employer.
Morgantown.-Th first relief for
the threatened tie-up of county road
construction work has been received
here in the sum of $4,000.
Mathias.-An apple seed, lodged for
II years in the ear of Miss Neva Sher-
man, has been removed and found to
be as perfect as the day it lodged.
Morgantown.-John Tudor, age "a,
was shot through the heart and in
stantly killed at his shack on the OUT
skirts of the city by three negroes.
Fairmont.-The farm of Paul G..
Armstrong, with frontage of 1000
feet on the Tygart river, has been
purchased as a site for summer re-
sort.
Clarksburg.-Feeling the need of an
assistant to help him "shoot trouble"
City Manager H. G. Otis has asked
council to create such a position and /.
TO fill it.
Elkins.-A mercantile bureau of the
charmber of commerce has been form
I'D here under the jurisdiction of the
BOARD of directors of the chamber of
commerce.
Parkersburg.-Rob who broke
into the First National Bank of Rip
ley here secured about $4,000, accord-
ing to reports received after an audit
found that much short.
ClarkSburg.-YOuths of this city
have been warned that the age for adj
mittance into poolrooms is IS years
under the new state law. They have
been informed that the law will be en-
forced here.
here warning the people who use wa
ter from the Fairmont Springs, to boil
all water before using it. 1t is said
to contain impurities from a cavern
around a broken main.
Fayetteville.-Estill Allen, "a years
Of age. miner in the employ of the
Long Branch Coal Co., was run over
and killed by motor car. He died in
a half hour after the accident The
body was horribly mangled.
Charleston.-Tonie Lupine, a Syrian
about 45 years old, was killed by fall
ing slate in the Easley Coal Co.'S mine
at Ecolco, Boone county. While at
work he set off blast that brought
down about ton of slate on him.
Charleston.-Th legislature failed
to make any appropriation to cover
the expenses incident to putting in
effect the law authorizing additional
allowances to judges of circuit courts
This was announced by State Auditor
John G. Bond in response to inquiries
from the judges of several circuits
The bill provides that a circuit judge
may be allowed $40 month for office
rent, $50 month for stenographer,
and $25 for stationery and postage.
harleston.-Inmates in state penal
and eleemosynary institutions in
creased in number PA from June 80,
1921, to June 80, 1921, according to
the quarterly report of the Board Of
Control. The population of the vari-
Gus institutions June 90 this v-eer 60
low: Industrial school for boys 396,
increase of 20; industrial school for
girls 115, increase of 20; state hos
pitfalls for the insane 2,5O1, increase of
20; state penitentiary 1000, increase
of 1872; orphans home Is, decrease of
10; schools for deaf and blind $50, de-
crease of 3; tuberculosis sanitariunl
POP. increase Of IS; emergency hospi-
tails 119, increase of 20.
Charleston. The sentence of State
Policeman J. e. Boggs has been COM
muted from two years in tha state