The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
West Virginia
News Cuttings
An epitome of the most
important events transpir-
ing throughout the state

McMechen-A tennis club is being
organized here.
Fairmont-Charged with violation
of state narcotic laws, Pierce Allen
was locked up in county Jail.
Wheeling - Eighty-one marriage
licenses were granted by the Ohio
county clerk during the first ten days
of June.
Hinton - Universal celebration of
July is to be affected here. A COM
mittee has been appointed to make all
arrangements.
RosemOnt = Mrs. Katherine Mick
rowicz, 30, died here Poisonous moon
shine liquor was said by authorities
TO have been the cause
Point PleaSant-Mrs. T. K. Farley
has purchased a tract of land, 80
acres, seven miles from Beckley, which
ds to be converted into an amusement
park.
EuWdTu Daley,
Baltimore and Ohio brakeman. suf-
fered injuries which may prove fatal
when he fell from a box car. His
skull was fractured.
Parkersburg-Mrs Gus Stephens, of
Marietta, Ohio, died in a hospital
here following a self-administered
dose of poison. Dependency is be-
leved to have been the cause.
Bridgeport-Three burglars entered
the a. S. Nickert general store here
and made away with small amount
of merchandise. The burglars gained
entrance by breaking away a small
piece of glass in the rear door of the
store, reaching in and unfastening the
latch.
Morgantown-The fire truck came
out first best in collision between
one of the pieces of apparatus of the
local fire-fghting department and a
small roadster. The pleasure car was
driven by Edgar H Maxwell, who,
like the two men on the fire truck
escaped uninjured. The hivver was
a total wreck.
Huntington - Rev. Billy Sunday,
evangelist, may return to Huntington
dn the near future, it developed at a
commissioners meeting, when Dennis
Mcneil, secretary of the Business
Mems association, asked the commits
sioners to leave the temporary plat
form, from which Sunday spoke on
a one-day visit here, in place.
Webster Springs - In an election
held here, the majority of voters cast
ballots in favor OF issuing bonds for
the construction OF an electric light
plant. The amount of the bonds is
not to exceed $4,000. The vote stood
160 to 48, 30 more than the the neces-
sary three-ffths, and was a record
breaking vote for this municipality.
CharlestOn-Public school teachers.
when they sign their contracts for
the school year 1923-1924 in West
Virginia, must take an oath to support
the constitution Of the United States
This is one provision of new school
legislation which County Superintend-
ent. Miss Emma Simms is calling to
the attention OF teachers. school
boards, school trustees, and school
board secretaries in Kanawha county.
Charleston - Thirty-twO deaths oc-
CURED at mines in West Virginia, ac-
cording to the monthly report issued
by the state department of mines
Fifteen Of the dead were Americans
and II foreigners. Two we're killed
p outside the mines and 30 inside
Twenty-one deaths were caused by
falls OF roof or state two by mine
cars, four by explosives and one each
by motor, mining machine and cleo
tricity.
Char1eston-The county court de-
cided to have Photographic 'reproduc-
tlOns made OF land maps on fle with
the county clerk. These maps are so
large and unwieldy, # was said that
constant handling Is rapidly shorten
ing their lives. The reproductions
are TO be made on a smaller scale.
The original maps will be kept I'm a
vault in the court house In case any
question Of authenticity OF the re-
productions is ever raised.
Charleston-DOn Chain, sheriff Of
Logan county, has purchased the old
Blue Sulphur hotel property, on the
Huntington road, IT. is an
nOunced by T. T. HOggsett. Of Hunting
Ton, Chains attorney The cOnsidera-
tion is placed at $1,000 The hotel
IS an historical one, and was once
the leading pleasure mecca Of this
section. IT Is understood C. at Mr.
Chain will remodel and reopen the
hotel. It IS to be managed by Walter
Frazier, brotherin-law Of the sheriff
Wheeling Missing his footing when
ne tried to board a moving motor
truck, Albert Brown, high school
athlete Of Martins Ferry, sustained
injuries which proved al. No bones
were broken The death was attribut-
ed to internal injuries.
HuGtington-A jury Of twelve men
in circuit court placed a value OF S75