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Newspaper
The West Virginian
Location
Fairmont, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1922
Page
7
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Tonight and tomorrow fair weather noted for West Virginia with clear conditions yesterday. Local readings show 62 degrees at 1 am, yesterday max 79 and min 53. The program lists include a home and garden segment by E B Lee, a flute orchestra, church services in Pittsburgh, and a West Virginia delegate to a national lodge meeting. Also mentions Jack Abbott performances, Woodmen services, and a Far midtown accident report with a hospital admission.
At the Baptist church in this city Rev John S Stump of New York will speak at the morning service continuing the pastorate of Rev W J Eddy on its twenty fifth anniversary. Evening talks will be given by Mrs Jennings and EH J Thomas on Baptist history. Also note arrivals and local movements of residents including Henry Tchinski Jr returning from St Johns School and Ruth Rohrbaugh visiting kin.
Miners halted a march near the road as deputies and county officers escorted non union workers away. After a conference the march resumed but arrests followed between 4:15 and 4 o clock with about seventy two others detained in county jail. Names listed of those held and under investigation for complicity in the attack on the Hunsaker mine.
Short Bible quiz answers list facts about John the Baptist, Elijah, John of Patmos, the Old Testament, Naomi and Ruth, and Moses as founder of Jewish religion. Includes numbers on books and chapters.
Annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Methodist Episcopal Church will be held in Fairmont in September. The Western Virginia conference of the M B Church South meets September 6 with over 250 delegates expected from Fairmont Charleston Huntington Parkersburg and Ashland. Bishop A V W Darlington of Huntington will lead the conference and prominent preachers will be in attendance. Later in September the M E Church holds its seventy sixth annual conference in Fairmont, first here since 1914, under Bishop William F McDowell. The sessions run all day with evening meetings and ministers from West Virginia will attend alongside noted speakers.
In Fairmont yesterday Rev. Claude King, pastor of the First M. E. church, was given a traffic case by Rev. W Icen Pritchard, a traffic officer, for allowing an automobile to stay on Main Street for more than ten minutes. The ministers, both Methodists, are acquainted, and the officer ordered the Reverend King to report at police court this morning.
Monongalia County authorities served copies of the injunction proceedings on United Mine Workers officials at the Jackson Hotel Building. In Fairmont, Robert Peters and James McCleary were present. The blanket injunction targets nonunion miners at Mine No. 3 in Everetttsville and covers numerous local union leaders.
Red Chief A L Rykoff along with J V Stali and Leo Kameneff are reported to be administering affairs of Soviet Russia during the illness of Premier Nikolai Lenin. They take charge as the Russian leadership stabilizes during Lenin's illness.
Northern West Virginia shows mixed gains with 173 mines active, up from Monday, and 16 more than last Saturday. Coke district plants resume as Frick reports over 856 ovens lit. strikes persist with tensions and planned deputations.
Malcolm Miller 28 of this city, pursued by Marshland farmers after attempting to hold up Mrs. George H. Shannon at her Fort Foote store, lost the revolver when a courageous woman knocked it away and led the chase. Miller then waded into the Potomac and killed himself as the posse reached the river. Mrs. Shannon, her husband, and a constable joined the pursuit and jumped into the water to confront Miller after he fired a suicide shot.
Governor Morgan returned from New York where the Capitol Building Commission members studied Cass Gilbert designed plans for the new structure. No decision was reached yet but the governor said the question would be settled soon, with some detail alterations to meet commission recommendations.
William Rockefeller oil magnate and brother of John D Rockefeller died at Rockwood Hall North Tarrytown New York from pneumonia after months of illness His children and widow survived He had been in frail health years and was involved in railroads and public utilities He was a director of the New York Central and former active head of Standard Oil in New York City
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court today ruled the 1821 legislative act constitutional, taxing anthracite coal at one and one half percent of its value at the mines.
William S Hart appears in Land at the West Monongah High School auditorium tonight. The run supports a future West Monongah High football team effort this fall with plays to end after July 1. Local stores continue closing amid the strike.
Deeds filed with County Clerk Lee N. Satterfield show transfers in Fairmont Union Independent District and Mannington District with sums from 20 to 1500 dollars. Marriage licenses issued include Pearl Jackson and Henry Watson both of Monongah and Mildred Nicholson of Mannington with Leroy Donaldson of Fairview. Henry P. Gump consented in person.
Heavy damages to be sought as legal values set for human lives in the Herrin mine violence. Suits against the United Mine Workers and Williamson County officials planned, with more than 1 million dollars at stake. Union leaders and mine operators named in potential federal actions. Over 150 miners from Herrin district leave coalfields amid unrest.
The column reviews Tom Mix in Chasing the Moon at Nelson with Eva Novak and de Vivian Martin in supporting roles. Par don My French and The Gray Dawn at Dixie provide satire and suspense, with news and comedy as added features and period costumes noted for appeal.
Robert J. Boreman a longtime Parkersburg business leader and member of a pioneer West Virginia family died at his home. He was a nephew of the late Governor and U S Senator Arthur I Boreman and a thirty second degree Mason initiated May 27 1872 in Parkersburg.
June 24 Fairview hosted a lively chautauqua with Pietsch's Swiss Alpine Yodelers drawing the largest audience of the season. The group performed Swiss dialect songs with yodeling, encores amid applause as Dr. A Domar delivered lectures on Lew Wallace's Ben Hur and the Spirit of the Patriot. Albert Marion Hyde and Jam Hendry were billed for upcoming programs, and a Children's Night with music readings and tableaux was announced for tomorrow.
William H. Smith, 78, Civil War veteran, died at 1 a.m. at his son Clyde Smith’s home, 2309 Maple Avenue. He moved here from Garrett County Maryland and is survived by three sons R A Smith of Blaine Virginia, Hamill Coal Co. president. Keyser, and Clyde Smith of the city. a daughter Ida, wife of Cy Faller. Funeral services will be held at 11:30 a.m. at the Baptist Church in Glade where burial will follow at Gladesville Cemetery.
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