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Newspaper
The West Virginian
Location
Fairmont, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1920
Page
7
A jumble of quiz questions and arcane notes sits amid weather data and local happenings. Items mention the Smithsonian Institute, Dodo, Gulf of Guinea, and various personal notices, with weather forecasts and community events threaded through.
A Trinity M I church audience filled the venue for Johnson Taylor trio aiming to educate on high form music. Burleigh and Dett pieces drew strong applause while Johnson and Taylor offered a mix of songs and descriptive works that failed to sustain interest.
In Sistersville West Virginia a strict quarantine was ordered as the smallpox outbreak grows with twenty eight cases reported and no deaths. Dr Carl Raver from the state health department arrived to oversee the measures which close all heaters and churches while schools stay open after vaccination of children. The piece notes a separate Brazil move toward workers compensation adoption.
A dense timetable excerpt detailing travel connections from Gratton to Cumberland Washington Baltimore Philadelphia Yorktown and Morgantown with Pullman services and multiple through trains. It lists departure times from various stations, connections to Wheeling and Pittsburgh routes, arrival times at Geation and Morgantown, and notes about limited service hours and summer adjustments. The fragment emphasizes intercity links across states and cities, with frequent hourly or near hourly departures and noted transfers.
Judge W H Migannon of Cleveland city courts is indicted for first degree murder in the killing of Mavold C Kagy after an auto party. John W Joyce, charged as accessory, was acquitted. Joyce testified he did not fire. McGannon pleads not guilty and left the party before the shooting. Miss May I Neely’s testimony is pivotal in the indictment.
The report details daily coal shipments and rail loadings along the Monongah division and Western Maryland lines to Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan, with totals for coke and coal, fuel loading, and east west distribution. It notes market prices in Pittsburgh, demand fluctuations, and mentions notable personnel movements and the lake cargo outlook for Lake Erie ports.
The George's Creek and Upper Potomac Boat Operators plan a meeting at the Goathern Hotel in Baltimore next Monday to decide on a course for a conference with District 16 United Mine Workers officials in Cumberland Md. The aim is to avert a strike, with dead work and related conditions to be debated. District 17 officials will send two members to investigate Northern West Virginia dead work, and findings will go to a joint committee awaiting further action. Meanwhile coal traffic on the B and O movement remains heavy with about 1,200 eastbound loads and 200 westbound roads, including 174 loads among 700 coal cars, as talks and movements continue in the region.
The article notes the women’s side of decorating work for the hospital project is postponed until after the campaign. Monorial Work includes notable effort at all hospital wards. Mrs. Yost will lead assistants and other women named today. full details to come when Mrs. William Asher arrives.
City observers call for new interchange at Hickman's Run and Rivesville to ensure through rates benefit Fairmont shippers. Officials debate express delivery, coal and street logistics, with J M Scott promising action and committees formed to coordinate river bridge entry and public utility matters.
The obituary notes James W Nichola born September 20, 1846 near Uteelty, son of James W and Mary Hem ing Nichola. He attended public schools and Dr William FR White’s private subscription school, then worked as a bookkeeper for many years before retiring from business to enter service.
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