The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-08-17

county totals 25,927 below the last
registration.
Huntington-Charles S. Pettis, OF
the University of Wisconsin, was elect
| ed to the presidency of Morris-H rvey
| college.
Sistersville-A consignment of red
neck pheasants are to be distributed
in the fields of Tyler county for
propagation.
SuttOn-The board of education for
the Sutton independent district has
appointed teachers for the high and
| district schools.
ParkerSburg-Whe an old-fashion-
| ed folding bed at Constitution near
here closed up, Gladys Hall. ten,
| smothered to death.
Clarksburg-Moret than $4,000 worth
of equipment went up in smoke when
boy lighted a cigarette near a gas
well derrick on the Big Isaas.
Fairmont-Madeline Barnes, cham
pion speller of West Virginia, has
been challenged by Jewel Johnson OF
! Oklahoma, champion of that state.
Weston - Luther LOwther, we'll
known resident of Wellsburg was
treated in a Clarksburg hospital for
| gunShOt wounds sustained in a recent
shooting.
Hinton-John Fredeging, who shot
and killed a prohibition agent, shot
his father, held county officials who
sought to arrest him, at bay for sew
eral days.
Morgartown - Henry A. Phillips
Pittsburgh, appeared before the board
of equalization and review to request
50 per acre reduction in his $4,000
| acre coal tract.
Fairmont-The Sacrament of con-
firmatiOn was administered 10 a class
of IS children at st. Joseph's italian
church here. Bishop ]. j. Swint, Of
Wheeling officiated.
Thurmond-One Of the largest and
most modern railroad coal stations N
the country is to be built here by the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad COM
pany, at a cost of $50 900
BuckhannOn-Frank Waiter Brown
was electrOcuted who y, came in
contact with high tension wire at
| hriH
worth mills, where he was working.
Bluefield-A call has been extended
to Rabbi a. a. Steinbach, leader of
the Bluefeld, Princeton and Welch
Jewish congregations, to become the
rabbi of the Berth Israel, of Norfolk,
Va.
Elkins-Rev. Charles George BickIe.
of GlOversville, n. Y, unfrocked
Lutheran minister was sentenced to
serve one year at the Atlanta peniten-
tiary and fined $1,000 on a charge Of
having sent obscene literature through
the mails.
Eighty-eight births and
|
Health Commissioner II. A. Ireland
during the month of June. Contagious
diseases have not been so prevalent,
he reported, and health conditions
have been unusually good.
Point Pleasant-The flaming cross
of the Ku Klr;- Klan invaded Mason
county. With no warning, a process
sion Of white-robed hooded men an
peared on the streets Of New Haven.
The cavalcade was headed by an
automobile bearing burning cross.
Charleston-"The fire loss in West
Virginia for the last fiscal year was
SS7, 1853 less than for the year before"
it was stated by c. L. Topping state
fire marshal. when taking into ac-
count the industrial depression and
unrest which have prevailed so abnor-
mally last year, this reduction is very
satisfactory to me"
Charleston-An increase Of 2i per
cent in the assessments Of public SER
vice corporations in the state shown
in the grand total made public by the
board Of public works. The total for
} all classes this year reached S445, ,5O3,-
: 1871 while the grand total in 1921
was 1868, 1S3, ,269 An increase in the
total Of each class Of public service
corporations was shown, although that
, in the oil and gas division was not as
great as In the other classifcations.
Bluefeld-Angered because their
father had whipped them, Frank and
Will Brown, aged IL and 16, respec-
- lively, poked the barrel OF "A shotgun
through crack between the logs Of
J which their home was built, pulled the
trigger and nearly blew their fathers
head off as ne lay sleeping while a
younger brother of six years stood by
and watched them, according to a con
fession they are alleged 10 have made
to a deputy sheriff Of Mcdowell county.