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Newspaper
The West Virginian
Location
Fairmont, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1922
Page
4
Last week coal shipments rose with the Baltimore and Ohio showing a 101 carload gain from the prior week and Monon and other lines posting improvements. Coke loading edged up, and industry officials note continued activity with meetings planned among coal associations in Morgantown and Pittsburgh as the market remains tight.
Miss Holland Fitch is among four artists in a Terpsichorean entertainment on the Old Normal School grounds under the Railroad Folks Chautauqua and Jubilee. Witeh comes from Chicago to perform. she trained under Hester Bailey of Indianapolis. At 14 Fitch headlines theaters nationwide and will dance at Governor Ralston’s summer home in Indiana. Mrs Jeannette Falconer, local vocalist, and Katherine Moore, city pianist, join the program with Frank Deligatti of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra as the fourth entertainer back from Philadelphia on vacation.
Five city leaders including Mayor William W. Conaway, City Engineer Shrewsbury B. Miller, and Directors Zachariah F. Davis W Arnett and J Clyde Morris toured Fairmont addressing complaints. They persuaded Henry Barker to relocate a garage, debated a Talbott court boardwalk, and inspected a marshy Ninth street Gaston avenue lot where an underground spring and disconnected sewer caused flooding. a fix will connect the sewer and remedy the spring.
Fred Brown says he captured two women after finding hidden jewelry in Omaha and planned to fence it. He claims the women snooped, threatened to alert police, and he chained them to prevent disclosure while he disposed of the jewelry and other items. Brown, wounded, is in custody at the state prison hospital and will be returned to Omaha for charges.
Three people died and twenty were seriously hurt when an express train struck the rear of a local near Cuneo Italy. The local train had halted to pick up a passenger who had fallen out and the three carriages were smashed. Escape by the express passengers was reported with only a severe shaking.
In Morgantown area last week Morton Van Voorhis of Maidsville bought 250 acres of coal land for 10000 at a receivers sale near Percy Fayette County. The parcel, once held by Morgantown men, was taken over by Jacob Steinberg of Pittsburgh who paid 100000 to the Federal Savings and Trust Co Morgantown. Developments seen as likely after Secretary Hughes return to Washington in the Chilean Peruvian conference context.
On June 20 the steamer Thomas Beal from the Pacific Coast collided with the Norwegian steamer Victo at Cramp's shipyard. Victo was damaged while Beal appeared uninjured and steamed away. The Victo remained at anchor after the incident.
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