The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-05-17

p1 SlSdHllc DuuulHS DoOIu, reports
from the city permit clerk Indicate
Twenty-Five permits were issued in
one day.
RchwOod-Walter Rose, three year
old child, fell into a tub OF scalding
water at its home in Tannery Town,
near here, and was so badly burned
that he died a few hours later
Charleston - Between $1,000 and
$4,000 in unclaimed bonds are being
held by the police department, it IS
announced by Chief Britton. 1t was
known that some money and checks
were still uncalled for, but the amount
was not thought to be so great until
a preliminary check was made re-
Gently.
Clarksburg-Trees, shrubs and vines
can be made the basis for landscape
gardening by which home eXterors
can be beautified, T. f. Gray, land
scape expert with the agricultural ex-
tension department of West Virginia
university, told members of the Calti-
veil Community club, in a meeting held
in the school house.
Huntington - While attempting to
escape the alleged prosecutions of an
unidentified woman, whom he claimed
had annoyed him, julius Ivankovitz, a
Hungarian, nearly lost his life when
he jumped into the wheels of a switch
engine at the Chesapeake and Ohio
station. IvankOvitz was taken to q
hospital for treatment
Morgantown-The wheels of justice
were slowed down because seven inno-
cent children were involved. Ignatz
Jarvis and his wife, Helen, pleaded
guilty in criminal court before Judge
Grant LaZzelle, to having operated
four mOOnshine stills. When it was
established that the couple had seven
children, Judge Lazzelle postponed
sentence of the pair.
Moorefeld - George Marong, aged
aged about 20 years, was drowned in
the south branch of the Potomac
river at Petersburg Gap. He was cross
ing in n ferry boat while the water
was high. The waves sank the boat
The body, recovered several hours later,
was sent to his home in Virginia. He
was employed by Chandler & Stover,
state road contractors, between Moore
field and Petersburg Gap.
Charleston-A fire supposed to have
been started by some boys destroyed
a barn at 1850 Charleston street The
barn, which was a frame one-story
structure containing a quantity of hay
and some chickens, was owned by
III. G. Miller, and was not covered by
insurance. The building was valued
at $500, and the contents, which were
not saved, were placed at a value of
$50.
Charleston-Lewis Scott Evans, 10
years old, son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
l.. Evans, of High Lawn, st. Adams,
| died in the Dunn hospital, South
Charleston, from injuries received
when he was hit by an automobile on
the Charleston-St. Adams road near
High Lawn about an hour earlier in
the evening. The automobile which hit
the boy was driven by DR.. w. A..
GrosclOse, a veterinary surgeon Of St.
Adams
Martinsburg-Federal Judge w. r.
Baker dismissed the U. S. Harness
| company's injunction suit against the
United states government, effective
since July 10, 1921, restraining the
| cnfzyrro fc
terlal at the plant Of the company
at Ransom. At the same time, the
court dismissed the governments cross
suit which sought to restrain the com
pany from interfering with the re-
moYal Of the harness.
Observation-Disclosures alumni OF
West Virginia university have ap-
| preached Newton ID. Baker of Cleve-
| land, former secretary of war, to de-
| termine whether he would entertain
| an invitation to become president Of
] that institution il became known. Mr..
! Baker is native Of West Virginia.
! No official Overtures 10 Mr.. Baker
have been made by the state board
Of education, It was said, but r. Roy
| ] OKe, alumni secretary, had an inter
/ view with the former secretary of
war in Cleveland
Charleston Condition of wheat and
rye in West Virginia as a whole is
below average; there are 3 per cent
more brood sows in the state than
/ there were this time last year; and
! although the hired farm labor supply
| is 10 per cent below normal the de-
mand for such labor is also s per
/ cent below normal. These are the
chief points Of interest in the April
crop and livestock report for West
Virginia just issued by the Charleston
Office Of the United States bureau OF
/ agricultural economies.
Martinsburg - wage increase OF
approximately 10 per cent, effective
at once, was announced here by two
woOlen companies. -Four hundred day
and piecework employees are affected
The new scale was not made public
Petersburg Solomon Meyers, a
young man, who lived on North Fork
about eight miles west OF here, died