The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-05-03

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WEST VIRGINIA
wellsburg-w. T. McCreary was
elected Mayor of Wellsblrg.
Point Pleasant. T. Bell, promi-
hent Democratic politician and local
business man, was found dead in bed
at his home here.
Morgantown-The city health de-
partment has decided to enforce dras-
tic regulations providing for SANTA
tion about restaurants.
SStersville-A gas main was broken
and other damage done when the
floor in the store of the Wells Hard
ware Company gave way under heavy
weight.
ElkinS-Isaac Thompson, ~, well-to-
do farmer OF near Whitmer, saving
down tree, WAS caught beneath it
and both legs were fractured near
the hips.
Wheeling - George Kemp, 50, was
killed when an automobile plunged
4over 40-fOOt embankment midway be
Eween Wellsburg and Follansbee Will
liam Liebfarth of Wellsburg, sustained
painful injuries.
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magisterial district Of this county have
approved the issuance of $4,000 in
bonds for Improvement of the Tug
River highway through the district.
Stafford magisterial district approved
bond issue in February for the same
highway and the Huff Greek district
arrangements complete the last link
in the highway running from Hunt
dngton to Bluefeld.
ClarkSburg- activities of the
Wallace Khan of the knights of the Ku
KluX Khan, described in a notebook
found on the body of Kent w. Ogden,
40 wealthy oil man of Wallace who
committed suicide by shooting himself
I'm an odl we'll derrick on his farm,
f.. Norris, prosecuting attorney, it was
stated 0o a newspaper man by James
Ogden, father of the dead man.
Wellsburg c. & p. Telephone
company of West Virginia has pur-
chased the property of the Wellsbury
Home Telephone company, a local
corporation managed by Claude H.
Wyant. The Chesapeake & Potomac
company will absorb the smaller com
pany gradually by taking over its sub
Scribers and closing down it's present
exchange, at the same time increasing
C. & p. facilities for handling addi-
tional business.
Clarksburg - Statements issued bv
DIR. B. f. Matheny, county coroner :;
James NJ. Deem, deputy sheriff, and
F. S. Estlack, Wallace undertaken,
after they had investigated the case,
were Ito the effect that Kent Ogden
whose lifeless body was found near
mis- home, had committed suicide. The
statement Of the coroner and the
deputy sheriff was made after they
returned from the Wallace community
where they made thorough investiga-
zion Of the tragedy.
Charleston-Dess than $4,000 were
spent out of the various county and
district road funds and bond issues
during the month of March, IT is Shown
10y the report Issued by r. r. Parton,
county road engineer The balance at
the end Of February was 1855. .JO5. 80
and the balance at the end of March
was S346, ,5S6.SS. thus showing an ex-
penditure Of $S,91S.44. This amount
was taken from tine county road fund
the Cabin Greek district road bond
issue and from the Maiden district
road fund. However, only $3.50 were
spent out Of the latter fund. Bond
issues and estimated tax receipts for
the year are placed at S1,SS3, ,255.86
The balance of S346, ,5S6.SS shows that
$1,536,668.9S have been spent on fine
oounty's roads since last August
MartinSburg - Pythtans from many
cities and towns Of West Virginia.
assembled in Martinsburg to take part
an the ceremonies incident to the dedi-
cation OF the memorial in Green Hill
cemetery to the late Rev. William
Gerhardt, -. D.. who had the distnc-
ftOn Of having founded the fraternity
OF Knights of Pytirlas in West Vir-
ginia. The dedication took place un-
der the auspices of the Grand Lodge,
knights Of Pythias, organized fifty
fOtT years ago in Berkeley Springs,
ond local arrangements were in
charge Of District Deputy Grand Chan
cellor Q. y. Burns and other members
OF washington Lodge. No. /, which was
established a few months previous 70
the organization ~ the Grand Lodge
DR.. Gerhardt, in whose memory the
monument was erected by the Grand
Lodge, passed away at his home I'm
this city in December Of 1917, aged
slightly more than 100
Wheeling-G Frank, alias Frank
GlannO, New York City, Italian, ar
rested here for swindling many Wheel
ing merchants, was held for action
by the criminal court jury under 81, 900
bond, which was not furnished