The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-08-09

| Parkersburg Warden J. z.
Terrell, of the state penitentiary at
Moundsville, will enter the real es tate
business T. Parkersburg, friends here
say.
Clarksburg-Whlter Smith, OF 136
West Main street, former city police
sergeant, has been appointed a guard
at the state penitentiary at Mounds
vile by S. p. Smith, warden, 1t was
| announced
Wheeling-Thomas Eaton, who suf-
fered injuries to his eyes while work.
ing at the Whitaker-Glessner company
plant here, is improving at the Ohio
Valley General hospital. He Is a fire.
man and was struck by hot Goals.
MOundsville = Final joint examina-
tion Of the Richland-Marshall coal
mine, wherein an explosion occurred
costing one life, resulted in its being
pronounced safe, State Deputy In
spector A. E. Lafferty announced.
'oltppllS lIllO nDle
while wading in the Ohio river here,
Anthony Mickey, aged s, of this place,
was drowned before persons, attracted
by his calls for help, could reach him.
The body was recovered an hour later
in eight feet of water.
Clarksburg-Albert ResObsky, aged
36, a Slavish coal miner of Katherine
mines, near MeadowbrOOk, was shot
and killed at the home of a neighbOr
A Serbian known only as Dan" was
sought by officers as the slayer An
argument over a shotgun is said to
have caused the killing.
untingtOn-William NJ. Hall, as
sistant engineer from the United States
Engineering offices in Cincinnati, o.,
visited the Huntington offices on Off
cial business in connection with the
dredging of pools in this district A
report of the pools where dredging is
| necessary will be made by the Hun
tingtOn Office by Engineer Hall.
Observation-Disclosures in this local
ity have more sense than do most
chickens. This has been proved by
the fact that they refuse to put up
| fight when their rival is an airplane.
Local poultrymen say that their
chickens have absolutely laid down on
the job and refused to lay while such
a monstrOus bird as the airplane flies
unmolested through the sky.
Huntington-City speed limits must
| be observed at all times by the police
patrol and by fire apparatus on re-
! turning from calls, it was announced
by Mayor Lloyd S. Chapman. More
over, the police and fire department
cars are to use their gongs only as re-
| quired by necessity in the future, the
mayor Indicated in letters to Fire
Chief Rush Burke and Chief of Police
! c. A. Midkiff
CharlestOn-The state road commits
| sion has no legal right to sub-let to
| individual contractors cOnvicts en-
| ployed by the commission, when such
! individual contractors are engaged in
the construction of state roads in West
! Virginia, Attorney General England
holds in a very important opinion af-
fecting prison labor rendered at the
request of Major Fortney, the road
commission chairman.
harleston-AttOrney General Eng
land came to the defense of his opin-
ion handed down in 1919 that out
going boards of education had the
legal right to employ teachers before
! the term of Office Of the members ex-
/ pire on July l. The controversy has
arisen because a number of boards in
Guiding that Of London district before
July l hired teachers this year and
the new boards have questioned this
authority.
arleston-COmpletio Of the Mid
land trail in Kanawha county through
the expenditure of 1858, ,693.79 Of fed
eral aid and state road money, and ex-
pendture Of S45j,52116 on the Elk
| Rlver-Parkersburg- C Cendenin road in
this county are contemplated by the
state road commission. Tn addition
the road commission stands ready to
spend $4,000 of the reserve fund
Of the state on the Charleston-Logan
road In Kanawha county.
Charleston The West Penn com
panv pays the largest license taxes
OF any corporation ln ,he state, &c was
stated by Secretary OF state Young,
who bad iIst granted the company
| perm tO file certificate OF re-
organization The company has a
capitalization for taxation purposes OF
] SG26OOOOO and irs license taxes in
West Virginia now amount 90 S9,56j.
Us main offices are in New York city,
and there are mo- chief works
| Clarksburg Increases NJ SO per
week for NEWSPAPER work and ~
cents an hour fpr jDb w1rs bias been
asked hy le local typographical
union in contracts submitted The de-
mands would increase fhe wages 0f
newspaper printers from s3l t1 St5
per week Cor dHy 1nI from s5 f0
SIS per vr-s f1r nigh. vH-s Job
work 8ugr. would Boz increased from