The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-11-02


Parkersburg OF moon
shine mash cost Tom Herdman a fine
OF 500 and jail sentence OF two
months
FarmingtOn-The Rev. l.. c. Leather
by has been appointed to succeed Rev.
II. M. Malcolm as pastor Of the local
Methodist Episcopal church
Glendale-Rex Hall, IL, son of John
Hall of this Town, died following an
automobile accident in which the boy
sustained a fractured neck
Benwood - Motorists are driving
more carefully here. A speed cop,
mounted on a motorcycle has been
added to the local police force.
Fairmont-Mrs. Jennie J.. Summers.
Al, died in a hospital here following
burns sustained when she poured
Kerosene on a fire at her home.
Wheeling-Fare reductions ranging
from six to % per cent on city and
interurban lines were announced here
by G. S. Wills, general manager.
Sistersville-First injury Of the
local football season occurred when
Gene Thompson was tackled in q
practice scrimmage, breaking his arm.
Piedmont-G. S. Kitzmiller, n farm
sugar tree on his farm that yielded
him 107 pounds Of high grade honey.
Morgantown- Sheriff w. NJ. Yost
confers with members of the county
court in connection with the future
policy of the sheriff's office for policing
the county.
Sistersville-Vlctor Twyford W a q
rendered unconscious when struck on
| the head by rock hurled into the
air by a blast of dynamite. He IS
expected to recover.
Wheeling-He looked for a leak in
gas pipe with a match. He fou.d
the leak. The match lit the gas. Fire
caused damage of $50 in a local store
The mans name is Irvine Keller He
was uninjured
Morgantown-Mahrt, freshman at
West Virginia university, who comes
from Dayton, o., is proclaimed by uni
versity supporters to be the greatest
fullback ever to matriculate at the
university here.
Huntlngton-Claude Johnson and
Stewart Carter were injured, Johnson
fatally, when the automobile they
were driving at the BarboursviIle race
track skidded from the driveway and
turned over three times.
Clarksburg- state board for the
examination Of architects meeting here
reelected Theodore T. Sansbury, Park
ersburg, president and A. f. Wysong.
Princeton, secretary. The board has
seventeen applicants for certificates be
fore It.
Wheeling-Five thousand hot mill
men, tin house and sheet mill workers
In the Wheeling, Martins Ferry, Ohio.
and Beech Bottom, w. Va, plants of
the Wheeling steel corporation were
| granted a voluntary increase of ten
| per cent.
Wheeling-The Wheeling division Of
| the Baltimore and Ohio railroad viii
! be allotted a liberal share OF the
$1GOOO000 worth of new locomotives
and hopper cars which we're ordered
by the road before the strike began.
| 1t was reported here
Wheeling Charles Seider. retired
! business man, was found dead in bed.
He had apparently been enjoying per
! feet health Mr.. Sedler was i'm his
! seventy-tiird year and had been asso-
ciated with the late Henry Schmul-
bach in the brewery business prior to
the state going dry.
/ Huntington-Thurm Moore. five.
/ year-old son Of Burton Moore of Bra
dick, Ohio, died here from burns suf-
fered when kettle OF boiling water fell
on him. The child, alone for the mo
ment, was playing in the kitchen
! The mother does not know whether
the infant pulled loose the leg Of the
! kitchen stove, or whether It gave way.
Bluefeld-Miss Susan Coleman, aged
| 75 years, was killed by a Norfolk &
/ Western freight train at Rlchlands.
Va, according to reports received Mt
the railroad offices in this city. The
woman, reports stated, was picking
coal from the right Of way and failed
10 note the approach Of the train.
Her father, aged 90 years. survives
| her
Wheeling After three unsuccessful
/ attempts to break into q residence
| on the island, william CASHIER broke
/ into the arms OF a policeman as he
| tried 20 make his escape from the
home when he saw members Of the
household had discovered his presence.
/ lie Is now in Jail and is being held
on p charge Of attempting TO break
/ and enter