The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-04-06

Parkersburg- bakery damag-
ed by fire to extent of $1,000
Observation-Disclosures men take up
project of building new hotel here.
| Bluefeld.-City council lets contracts
for paving of four miles of streets.
Grafton.-George Fogg, Clarksburs,
sentenced for is years for highway
robbery.
Williamson-Business men here are
undertaking organization of chamber
of commerce.
Bridgeport-The Bridgeport lamp and
chimney company factory here closed
down indefinitely
Richwood.-I. f. Sparks has been
granted permission to erect a building
here to be used as an ice plant.
Clarksburg- survey shows
that of 2674 pupils, 1872 are retarded.
751 normal and 151 accelerated
Clarksburg- jury returned
13S indictments, a record number for
this county, according to officials.
Princeton.-Mrs. Pearl Bailey, of
Bluefield, appointed deputy sheriff of
Beaver Pond district, Mercer county.
Clarksburg- Law, of Good
Hope, leads Harrison county calf club
with calf that gained 10 pounds in %
| days.
Parsons-Flck Summerfeld, 40, i'll.
| jumped to his death from a window
when a next door neighbor's residence
burned.
Northumberland to abolish
commission form of government and
return to city council after July is on
foot here.
FairmOnt-Because he was an alien,
George Lepinske was arrested and fin
ed $50 and costs for fishing in the Ty-
SdTIS NdlIey river.
Parkersburg - Capitalization of
schools here is recommended by rep
resentatives of L. S. bureau of educa-
tion following survey.
Middlebourne - Hilda, 4-year-old
daughter of Walter Philips, badly
burned when his clothing caught fire
from hot water heater.
Welch-Group of men surround resi-
dence of w. IT. Farley, school attend
ance officer, and riddle building with
bullets. Tack sign on gate giving him
five days notice to leave district.
harrisburg Walter Snow. gen
eral secretary of w. Va Sunday school
association, has just returned from
| Florida where he set out a grapefruit
orchard
Observation-Disclosures proceedings
may be instituted against county court
! by citizens who are protesting eXpend
iture of district road Improvement
money on the Fairmont pike.
Richwood.-Jack Clark, of Gauley
river, whose occupation is hewing ties,
despite the fact that he is los years of
age, was a visitor here. His family
consists of % children living, out of a
total of 80.
Morgantown.-Conf with a
| cft
duction in the size of the loaf or an
increase in the price of bread, local
bakers have decided to reduce the size
of the loaf one ounce.
Clarksburg.- Joseph Anderle, a coal
miner of Despard and SeymOre Car
son, a glass worker of Bridgeport.
were sentenced in the Harrison county
criminal court to serve two years in
the state penitentiary for operating
! moonshine stills in their possession.
harleston-Practicauy all the Iarg-
or dairy herds that supply Charleston
people with milk have passed the tu-
berculin test, according to DR.. George
w. Neff, chief veterinarian Of the
state department Of agriculture.
though several small herds have not
yet been tested, owing to lack of men.
CharlestOn.-Praying release from
the payment Of a life insurance policy
amounting TO over $4,000, the Jefrer-
son Life Insurance company. Of Green's
boro, n. g.. entered a suit in United
States district court here against Mrs.
Georgia Davis Mcader and heirs Of
the late Cleveland Mcdowell MeaCor.
Of Summers county.
Charleston-Th amount Of work re-
quired Of the state treasury depart
ment has increased 1.5OO per cent
since 1910 according To- figures COM
piled I'm the office Of state Treasurer
Johnson, who said that this Is a very
low estimate. During the same period
the annual cost OF the department.,
he said has increased less than 100
per cent. The cost of the year end
ing June 30, 1922, is expected to ap-
proximate $4,000. The increase in