Pierians Humble Alexandrians in Annual Contests
The Beaver High inter society contest saw the Pierians defeat the Alexandrians in multiple events including essay, oration, reading, and debate. Elizabeth Cometti won the essay, Louise Thornhill the debate medal, Wilson Holder and Winters McCue led in their categories as the Pierians claimed a sweeping victory despite rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winters McCue
Wilson Holder
Elizabeth Cometti
Beaver High
Beaver Hi
C. W. Jackson
P. L
Reading
Mr. Jackson
Pierians
Louise Thornhill
Robert Shirey
Hicks Greear
Boone Enocha
Miss Thornhill
Henry Hodgin
W. W. McNeal
Mary Sue Tynes
Myond
Wilson
Andammond Steele
Jim
Beaver Hi Orchestra
Glee Club
Elizabeth Shelton
Alan A. Steinbach
H. S. Shott
The
Thornhill
Joanna Gallagher
Concord Normal School
A. BE. McGuire
Spanishburg High School
R. A. Lansdell
Bluefield College
Senate passes annual army bill with 133000 enlisted
Washington June 2 the senate passed the annual army appropriation bill carrying 341 million dollars for the next year sizing the force at 12530 officers and 133000 men. The measure goes to conference with debate over Muscle Shoals funding and no policy yet on dam No 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Wadsworth
Agriculture Committee
Muscle Shoals Project
Muscle Shoals
Norris
Tennessee River
Two Mexicans Killed Two Americans Held In Mexico Plot
Juarez Mexico June 2 official dispatches report two Mexican citizens killed and two American aviators arrested in a probe of plots to install General Felix Diaz as president. Colonel Ernesto Argias and Rosendo Valdesquez detained at Irapuato on the charge. Mauricio Beltran a former Mexican army officer also held.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jalapa
Vera Cruz
Mauricio Beltramn
Supreme Court backs Huntington water rate order
West Virginia Supreme Court sustains Public Service Commission in fixed water rates for Huntington Water Corp. The ruling allows 24 cents per thousand gallons up to 30,000 gallons with refunds owed for overpayments since July 1, 1921 and fixes property valuation at 1,271,747 dollars. It also upholds related pipeline tax cases and bail forfeiture in Upshur County, plus new trials and suspensions in other county cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Supreme Court
Public Service Commission
Huntington Water Corporation
Huntington
Eureka Pipe Line Company
United Fuel Gas Company
United States Supreme Court
Annie M
R. C. Douglas
R. W. Brake
Upshur
Blake
Oreon
Muror
West Virginia
T. J. Conway
G. W. Bailey
Cabell County
Taylor County
Thomas F. Welsh
Resto Case in Spinoga Trial in Parkersburg
The government rested in the Spinosa case as defense began evidence. William Dick testified he saw Guard Alleman shoot during the Wellsburg subway bridge incident. he did not see Spinosa shoot though he remained on scene for minutes and observed Jose Godey wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkersburg
W. Va
Ramon Spinosa
A. G. Dayton
United Sates District Court
West Virginia- Pittsburg Coal Company
Brooke County
William Dick
le Belle
Wellsburg
Dan Alleman
Witnes
Spinosa
Jose Godey
Miners Refuse Tribunal Plan as Price Talks Proceed
The miners rejected a proposal to ask President Harding to appoint a tribunal to settle the anthracite strike. Labor leaders call for a Hazleton meeting to frame a counter proposal while Hoover considers a wholesale and retail coal dealers conference to extend price protections and benefit the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harding
Philip Murray
United Mine Workers
Hazleton
D. Warriner
Parding
Federal Trade Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Regna Es
Washington
Hoover
Department of Commerce
West Virginia May treasury totals exceed eighteen million in cash
Charleston June 2 The May balance shows total funds 28,505,891.11 with cash on hand 18,078,491.11. Investments include 9,430,400 for workmen's compensation and 997,000 for the school fund. Expenditures and June 1 cash balances are listed by fund, including general revenue, special revenue, counties and municipalities, and road funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Charleston
W. Va
W. S. Johnson
State Road Fund
State Road
Erence
Virginia
Rkmen
Dowler to Continue as Wheeling City Manager
Wheeling West Virginia June 2. City Manager Charlies H Dowler after a special council meeting withdrew his acceptance of a WV state highway commission post and will remain city manager. The council raised his salary from 6000 to 8000 dollars a year at the chamber of commerce request. Dowler said the decision is for civic pride not money. He had planned to leave this month to succeed N P Whitaker who recently resigned from the highway commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
W. Va
Charlies
Dowler
West Virginia State Highway Commission
Wheeling Chamber of Commerce
Mont
N. P. Whitaker
State Highway Commission
Steel merger probe fails to reveal key figures yet
New York June 2. The Lockwood committee pressed the Midvale Republic Inland merger inquiry learning some facts not in yesterday's consolidation notice. It did not obtain details of Kuhn Loeb's bonus or the stock issuance. Chadbourne was summoned to testify. Gary defended United States Steel against domination claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lockwood Committee
Kuhn, Loeb & Company
Consolidated Company
Midvale
Republic Steel Companies
Thomas L. Chadbourne
Elbert H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Samuel Untermyer
J. P. Morgan
Gary
Morgan
Mr. Morgan
J. P. Morgan & Company
Steel Corporation
Untermyer
Cor
Mr. Gary
John A. Topping
Republic Iron & Steel Co
A. ©. Dinkey
Midvale Steel & Ordnance Co
Mr. Untermeyer
Topping
Mr. Dinkey
Race Tensions Erupt Near Kirvin Texas
Reported race clashes at Kirvin and the Powell farm trigger a nighttime mobilization. A white man was killed and two wounded by negroes near Kirvin amid a spate of conflicting accounts and a call for armed intervention from nearby towns.
Durbin Framing Charge Surfaces In Senate Debate
Washington reports Senator Watson accuses for framing Andrew T. Durbin of Columbus Ohio son of Ohio Democratic chair man of a bid to jail him. Durbin had been arrested on a check forgery charge and held for preliminary hearing with extradition requested. Durbin claimed Durbin informed Watson about alleged release by Attorney General Daugherty and Thomas Felder involving the British steamer J. M. Young.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Andrew T. Durbin
Columbus
Ohio
Wm. Durbin
Daugherty
Thomas
Felder
New York
Senate
Watson
Georgia
Young Durbin
Presmont
Durbin
Cleveland
Senator Watson
Burns
J. M. Young
Miners in Morgantown District May Resume
In Pittsburg on June 2 a conference of Monogahela Coal Operators' Association and railroad officials from Pittsburg Lake Erie Pennsylvania and Monongahela met to plan resuming coal mining in Morgantown West Virginia. B B Chaplin presided and said miners supported returning to work with possible union dispensation. Reduced freight rates and transport facilities were discussed as immediate steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Monogahela Coal Operators’ Association
Lake Erie
Pennsylvania
Monongahela
Morgantown
W. Va
B. B. Chaplin
The
Coal Association
United Mine Workers of America
Chaplin
March of Miners Without Violence in Uniontown
About 1,000 miners from Belmont county gathered at Uniontown Ohio to march and hold a mass meeting at the Katherine stripping mines. Sheriff Richard Lynch and deputies reported no disorders as a committee sought talks with mine guards regarding operations during the strike. Warrants exist for a dozen guards over alleged threats and gunfire, but service has not occurred and the judge has not set action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
W. Va
United Mine Workers
Belmont County
Katherine Coak Company
Uniontown
Ohio
Richard Lynch
Katherine
Lynch
St. Clairsville
Ed Harris
Erif Lynch
J. B. Baker
River Refuges 10 Give Up Its Dead
Wheeling West Virginia June 2 Early tonight Moundsville police were unable to recover the body of an unknown man who either leaped or fell into the Ohio river after being shot by Patrolman John Lehew of Moundsville The wounded man vanished in the river after a confrontation near Higgs Moore Bakery Two men were approached by Lehew one tried to surrender the other drew a pistol and fired twice both shots missed Lehew fired twice striking the gunman in the mouth The wounded man disappeared into the river while the other man was captured under a false name Mer Rayil police say the captured man gave the name John Brown as the man in jail may have used a fictitious name
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
W. Va
Moundsville
Ohio River
Lindsay's Bridge
Lower
John Lehew
West Virginia
Ohio
Lehew
Higgs & Moore
Ohio River Division
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Lindsay
John Brown
Abante
Mer
Virginian coal tonnage heavy and still climbs
The Virginian Railroad reports a daily haul of 550 coal cars as output climbs with labor shortages easing in Winding Gulf fields. W. M. Ritter Lumber plans a 15 mile standard gauge line from Mullens to Pineville to export timber, with Virginian Railroad to maintain the new subsidiary line. Wyoming County coal prospects and Virginian’s 1921 year results are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Ritter Lumber Company
Mullens
Pineville
Weckley
W. Va
Virginian
Gulf
Rowells Point
New England
West Virginia
Wyoming
Ritter
Virginian Railroad
Wyoming County
Virginian Railway Company
Shooting Mystery Still Hanging Fire in Westchester County
White Plains New York June 2 The Peters case remains unsolved as investigators pursue a new lead. James J Cunningham a race track regular has been jailed as a material witness and a claim of a separate shooting at a Connecticut hospital for a man named Joe Jackson is being investigated. District Attorney Weeks says a definite breakthrough may come soon. Ward a wealthy baker faces blackmail threats and a phonographic device is alleged to be involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Plains
N. Y
Westchester County
Clarence Peters
Haverhill
Mass
Kensico Reservoir
James J. Cunningham
Walter
Ward
Baker
Connecticut
Stamford
Joe Jackson
Cunningham
Peters
Weeks
Peerless Wheel official pleads guilty in mail fraud scheme
Frederick La Brot, Peerless Wheel Company official, pleads guilty to using the mails to defraud and conspiracy in U S district court. Judge Thompson sentences him to one year and three months in Atlanta federal penitentiary. Inspector Craighead testifies James Powers of Steubenville Ohio lost $25 000 buying Peerless wheel stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Frederick la Brot
Peerless Wheel Company
W. H. S. Thompson
United States District Court
Atlanta
Inspector Craighead
James J. Powers
Steubenville
Ohio
Peerless Wheel
Frederick E Castle Will Declared Question in Probate
Newark New Jersey June 2 Frederick E Castle’s will admitted to probate consists of a brief quatrain and lacks clear bequest details. The text reads I all my earthly goods I have in store to my dear wife I leave for ever early gl no mit do I fix this is my will and the aes eutrix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
Frederick FE. Castle
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Rodgin
City of
Resto
Spinoga
NOK
Coal Inquiry Co-Operative
Commerce Department
Indiana
Steel Trust
Midvale-Republic-Inland
Mexia
Freestone County
Fort Worth
Texas
Jack Marshall
Texas and Pacific Railway
Texas and Pacific
Kirvin
Powell Tract
Marshall
Grand Prairie
John King
Kula Owsley
Mr. King
Miss Owsley
Dallas
Leroy Gibson
Fula Ansley
Powell Farm
Corsicana
Streetman
Wortham
Teague
Winding Gulf
Frederick E. Castle
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