The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-01-12

A'NNN' N'iiihiilNOC VI jews StlttleQ
raise funds to build synagogue here.
Mingo JunctiOn.-Two-sto apart
ment house burned and four families
made homeless. Loss estimated to be
$25,OOO.
Clarksburg-M J, Henderson cleo
ted president of Kiwanis club over Po-
lice Court Judge Glenn +. Williams
and w. 1. Tibbetts.
Bridgeport.-Stout gas company or
ganized by 9. A. Lawson and others to
drill Immediately on farm of William
Gray, near here. The company is capi-
talized at $4,000.
le.-Improvements to cost
about $4,000 are to be made to the
Tyler county court house, which is to
be remodeled and an addition built.
The contract will soon be let.
FarmingtOn.-Fire destroys general
store and pool room owned by Charles
Stewart, restaurant and store owned
by John Ciatto and repair shop con-
Quoted by Rocco Bovo.
Huntington.-William Maier, Jr., of
Huntington, who recently won the
Rhodes scholarship for Oxford at Har-
ward, has won the Wayman scholar
ship. He is % years old
Huntington-It would cost $3.50, 900
to construct a sewer system that would
take care of Huntington's needs, ac-
cording to a rough estimate made by
John II Sanborn, former city engin-
eer.
Wlheeling.-The congregation of the
First English Lutheran church here
accepted the resignation of DR.. T.. G..
Howard that he might accept the call
from the Fourth Lutheran church Of
Springfield, o.
CharleSton.-The general municipal
code so many years in course of pre-
paration and the building code which
has been before council and its COM
mittees the last two or three years
were finally adopted by council on sec
ond reading of the ordinance embody-
ing them in one book
Morgantown.-A gift, estimated by
geologists to produce total revenue in
excess of $3,OOO,OOO was made to West
Virginia University and the city Of
Morgantown by DIR. /. G.. White, state
geologiSt. 1t consists of 1000 acres Of
coal land in Marion county The re-
venue is to be divided equally between
the university and the city.
Elkins.-Negotation which have
been in progress for some time are
about to be closed, which will result in
Halliehurst, the home of hte Elkins
family here, being presented to Davis
Elkins college. The mansion was built
by the late Senator Stephen B. Elkins
and crowns hill top in the estate Of
300 acres now in the center of the
thriving city of Elkins.
Observation-Disclosures July 26 and
December1, 36 arrests for violations
of the game laws were made by game
wardens, according to the records in
the state game and fish commissions
Office. OF these, 80 were convicted. One
Of the violations was the killing Of a
deer in POcahOntas county. Two hun
ters we're arrested and before the COM
missioner were fined and sentenced to
Imprisonment
larksburg-AlthOugh two passeng-
er coaches the dining car and baggae
car turned over on their sides in
ditch when westbound Baltimore &.
Ohio, railroad passenger train No 3
was wrecked as the result of broken
rail at Independence, eight miles east
Of Grafton, nobody was hurt All the
physicians of Grafton were called to
the scene when first news Of the accl-
dent was flashed.
st. Albans-The organization Of the
st. Adams saving and loan association
with a capital of SjOO,OOO, was per-
fected by a number Of local business
men at a meeting I'm the city hall The
object Of the organization, it is said,
is to encourage and help citizens to