The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-06-29

Clarksburg A full-tlme county
health officer for Harrison county has
been asked for by Clarksburg citizens.
Wheeling-Earl Mcfarland, 16, Is
dead. He suffered four operations to
relieve suffering from bullet wound.
Elkins-Women of the Methodist
church are contributing all the eggs
their hens lay on Sunday towards the
church building fund.
Huntington-Therc has been
slight Increase in employment here
according to the report by the United
States department OF labor.
Parkersburg-William Eatons, rural
carrier confessed to charge of en-
bezzlement OF money orders. accord
Ing to Postal Inspector Hunt.
Fairmont-A friendship that ex-
listed for years between horse and
COW came to a fatal ending when
the horse kicked the COW to death.
Wheeling-Permit to build a new
public school at Parkview at a cost
of $4,000 has been granted to the
Triadelphia district board of educa-
ton.
Weston-The Keener oil. natural gas
and fuel company has been granted
an IL cent increase in rates. The
new raIn ic captS
feet.
Wellsburg-Registrars have begun
a canvass of the entire county to OBJ
tain names and party affiliations of
all entitled to vote In the August
primaries.
Knottsville-Dan Ray, colored, was
sentenced to serve two years at the
state penitentiary at Moundsville and
fined $500, for making and selling
moonshine whisky.
Wellsburg-Fourteen men living in
the home of Sam Sparto narrowly es-
capped with their lives when a bomb
exploded under the building. Cause
for the explosion is not known.
Observation-Disclosures of BatelIe
district, Monongalia county, are urging
a special Lection to pass a proposed
bond issue of $375,000 to build a
road to the Marion county line.
Bluefeld-The unwritten law was
said to have intervened between J.
j. Huff and punishment, when HUFF
was declared not guilty of the charge
that he had murdered a Welch mer-
| chant.
Clarksburg-A decree confirming
the sale of $3.50, ,43O worth Of properly
Of the late John T. McGraw, of Graf
ton, former Democratic national COM
mitteeman, was entered in the Harrt-
son county court.
Keyser-The Ku Klux KIan made
their first appearance here when five
members, in full regala interrupted a
Sunday school meeting and presented
| an envelope, containing a fifty dollar
bill towards financing the regional
| convention here.
oundsville-AttOrney J. Howard
Holt declared In an address i'm Nor
gantown that more than 1000 of the
inmates Of the state penitentiary are
as good as the average man on the
outside and should be freed or put on
suspended sentence.
Wheeling that mean thev're
going to hang me?" Elmer Austin
asked his counsel, when found guilty
Of first degree murder for killing Her
man Bartles, policeman. The penalty
FOR first degree murder i'm West Vir-
| ginia Is death by hanging.
CharlestOn-G. NJ. Gadsby, vice presl-
! dent Of the West Penn power company
and Of the West Virginia and Mary
land power company, n subsidiary cor
! poration supplying Grafton with power
| and light, has declared before the
! Grafton Chamber Of Commerce that
the new rates now promulgated by the
company and soon to be submitted to
the public service commission for con-
hrmatlon' carries general sweeping
! reduction Of 33 1-3 per cent.
Misunderstanding on petition
signed by G3 voters, the city council
| at special session voted to hold q
second bond election July IS. resub-
/ mitting the proposals voted ON June
| ]. The proposed bond issue for S75O-
900 is to be used in installing new
sewer system and erection OF citv
hall. At the first election the issue
carried by three-ffths Of one wore.
according TO official returns. This
fractional majority, city council de-
cided was too small.
huntington Thomas Jones PhiIIips
witness in a damage suit "admitted'
/ he IS nephew of David Lloyd George
/ British premier lie said his mother
and the premier are brother and sis
| ter.
Point Pleasant-Marklng their third
escape from Jail within a week three
/ youths held on charge Of breaking
into railroad cars went through four