The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-01-04

! by thieves when they broke into the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad dero' at
| Friendly, near here. This is the
second robbery OF the station within
the past few months.
ntington-Answering an anony-
nous telephone call into police head
quarters Patrol Driver Rutherford and
City Jailer Strobel Fulweiler iourneyed
! TO the Pentecost church on Il street
where they unearthed complete
moonshine still from its place of hid
ing under the building.
Wheeling - The winter of 1929
claimed its first gas CRATE victim, when
| Virginia Bittman, siX-year-old girl Of
Glencoe, Ohio, died at the Glendale
hospital. The child was burned while
| playing in front of the CRATE with an
older brother. The father wrapped a
rug around the victim, but not before
| she was fatally burned
Wheeling-Omci of the LaBelle
| Iron works, subsidiary of the
| Wheeling steel corporation, have con-
tirmed the report that they expected
to build the largest nail plant in the
| country here as soon as their plans
are approved by the city council. The
building will be erected on the site of
the old factory on the south side
which was erected in 1852
Morgantown-From II pupils the
| first night to &c within six weeks. the
night school being conducted in con-
nection with the Morgantown schools
has been pronounced success by the
city superintendent, II. c. Smith. The
age limits run from 16 to Al years.
Everything is being taught from the
alphabet TO special high school work.
Many foreigners taking their first les
sons in the English language are en-
rolled.
Logan-Mike Sidebottom, % years
old, was shot and fatally wounded
after, it is alleged, he had threatened
TO kill John +. Farrell, president of
the Logan planning mill company The
shooting occurred in front of the Far
rell home here. Farrell, who formerly
employed Sidebottom. was arrested
| and later released under bond. Ac-
cording to authorities, Sidebottom
made threats before several to kill
| Farrell.
Mannington-Usually the husband ia
sent to jail or otherwise punished for
beating his wife, but a case disposed
| of by Magistrate j. NJ Harrack here
reversed this procedure The magis-
trate sent Mrs. Katy Peccola, of
Downs, to Jail for beating her husband,
Thomas Peccola. When officers ar
rived at their home the woman had
turned her husband out of doors in
his bare feet and was threatening him
with a gun.
untington-Edward Grover and
Hugh Thompson, of Peach Creek.
were brought here to await arraign-
ment at the March term of the United
States district court on charge Of
| burglarizing the Peach Creek post
office and rifling the United States
mails. Both boys confessed, according
! to Deputy Marshal Il. f. Buskrk, who
brought them here following arraign-
ment before United States Commits
sioner Hagar at Logan.
Clarksburg-T Hope natural gaA
company through J. ]. Evans, general
superintendent, voluntarily became the
first of the larger corporations operat-
! ing in West Virginia TO declare in favor
! of eliminating pollution from the
streams Of the state Mr.. Evans told
| David Frame, district game protector.
! and Captain j. II. Cox, president of
the Weston wild life league, that the
Hope would Immediately stop throw
ing poisonous waste into streams.
| Wheeling Announcement was made
| at the general offices of the Liberty
| transit company operating upper Ohio
| river steam boat lines, that the Louis
! vile and Cincinnati packet company
| viii enter the Queen City one of the
/ largest steamers ON western waters In
| the Cincinnati and New Orleans pqs-
/ senger and freight packet service.
/ The Queen City will leave Cincinnati
| for ..ew Orleans on its initial irip
! February .. Each round trip viii
| consume three weeks
/ Clarksburg Alone in the world.
/ without q mothers protecting arm 10
/ guide him and father TO provide MIN
! with home, thirteen-ye Johnny
| Fluharty forgot his worldly troubles.
and smiled his broadcst smile after
seeing his first picture show. The
little Fluharty boy, who Is alleged
| To have been deserted by his parents.
/ and has wandered from one farm
/ house to another for eight months.
saw his first picture show at Mount
/ Clare, with Dorsey w. Cork. presi.
dent Of The county court. who is car.
Ing for him until a guardian is ap-
pointed
Porkersburg Thirty business
men have organized the Parkersburg
progressive club
MoundsvlIe- The annex" at West
virginia penitentiary, where nearly 10
men doomed TO pay with their llvcs
for capital crimes against the laws Of
the state haye spent their last hours
has been converted into sleeping
quarters for prisoners. and eocb Mich.