The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-12-06

Wheellng-George N. Jannldes, this
city, has filed claim of $4,000
against the Turkish government. He
alleges destruction of property by
Turkish subjects
Buckhannon - Herbert Schwartz.
we'll known West Virginia Wesleyan
football star, has accepted position as
claim adjuSter for IN insurance COM
pany in the Clarksburg district
Clarksburg- Sixty members of Tau
temple, Dramatic Order knights Of
Khorassan, went to Shinnston where
they assisted in Leading class of can
didates across the burning sands and
into the temple.
HuntingtOn-C. Il. Blagg, a printer,
was found guilty of manslaughter in
charge of causing the death of his
father-in-law, George w. Saunders, IA,
by a blow of his fist.
Beckeley-Coal company officials as
well as employees are taking large
amount of interest in the mining
classes which are being conducted by
the West Virginia university in the
Winding Gulf field near here
Kingwood or Brown is the first
mayor in West Virginia to sentence
anyone to attend church. Five boys,
arrested for being too noisy, were
given this sentence for a month and
instructed to present the mayor notes
from the pastor
MorgantOwn - A man wearing a
mask and carrying a rifle, held up
the filling station owned by Walter
l.. Corey and took the contents of the
cash register. r. A. Shanks, night
manager, fired at the thief several
times while the latter fled.
Parkersburg-Arde Kesling, % en-
plOyee of the National Carbon com
pany at Grasselli, is i'll at his home
near Grasselli, from effects of dead
ly poison which, it is reported, he took
in mistake for headache tablets. 1t
is reported physicians believe the
young man will recover.
Shinnston..M. S. Bredbenner and
w. Fl. Hartman, who organized the
Ridge SILK company here, are now
organizing a company to establish a
$50 loom weaving factory at Buffalo,
company's plant and also the one ar
Port Allegheny, Pa, in which local
people are interested.
Wheeling-Wflliam Frederick Bart
lett, former mail clerk in the Wheeling
pOstoffice, pleaded guilty in federal
court to a charge of stealing letters
from the mails. Bartlett admitted he
had committed two thefts at the post
Office previous to his taking of the de
cOys He was sentenced by Judge w.
+. Baker to- two years at the federal
penitentiary at Atlanta.
Charleston-The city health depart
ment announced that meat is now
being inspected and that customers
should look for the inspection stamp
on it before making purchases. This
is an assurance of getting first quail
ity meat, it was said. Placards with
figures representing the scoring by the
health department will be put up in
the restaurants of Charleston, it was
announced.
Charleston -Kanawha county slanus
second i'm the amount expended i'm the
state for the construction of schools
in 1922, according 10 statistics com
piled at the state department of edu-
cation Mcdowell county leads with
AN expenditure of $354,7 Kanawha
stands second with S22OO2O Harri-
son county spent S191 .Sg7 and Marion
county S139.S23. other counties
spent from comparatively few dol
lars up 90 over $1,000 The entire
amount spent in the whole state last
year for school construction was ST.
717753.
Martinsburg Sheriff William Dean,
Berkeley county. on trial here with
Deputy SheriTs Charles Jack and
Joseph Lord, jointly, charged with
killing Edward SOnners during a raid
on "a card game last August, told the
jury that ne had fired his gun only
after he had seen one of the card
players attempt to draw his pistol The
court denied motion for directed
verdict for the defendants, declaring
that the officers had committed an il-
legal act in discharging their weapons
in IN effort to- arrest persons guilty
yf only q misdemeanOr.
Huntington - Dorothy Davis, 13,
daughter of Mrs EBe Davis, was
burned, perhaps fatally, when her
clothes caught fire from an open CRATE.
She was attending a party at the home
OF a friend at the time
Huntlngton-Cont for the erec-
tion for home for aged women pro
vided IN the will Of the late b. w.
Foster, capitalist, was awarded TO 2
! Huntington contracting firm. This
building and its furnishings will cost
| $4,000 in addition 10 the value Of
real estate on which II Is located.