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Daily Average S A J
for Dec. 1916 J JL
A Quality Newapapar for the
Established m
IN Ml SI
COMMERCE BODE
FOB MB ISSUE
' I THE PURPOSE
Present High School Building
is Entirely Inadequate.
Ml FOR BRIDGES
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Chamber Will Urcp Tunisia
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ture to Relieve the
City.
A movement for an Industrial High
school, to be housed In a specially
erected building as an adjunct to the
present structure, and to be the finest
equipped, If not the first, of its kind In
the state, was started last night wheu
by the unanimous voto of the Chami
ber of Commerce It was ordered that
the resident of that body appoint a
. committee of three to report on what
| site structure Is needed, locution, etc.,
. and to go fully Into tho High school
[ 'needs of the city with an eye to the
next few years' growth,
l.f In the motion leading to tho action
by tho Chamber, W. J. VViegel brought
| out the fact that the present building
, is entirely inadequate tor the needs
V of the present student body, and that
{ because there are no facilities or room
for caring for them, students from the
First ward, which lies in Union district,
will have to be denied admittance
to tho high Bchooi from this timo
forward. The order signed by G. M.
Alexander the other day, will not apply
to thoso East side students now in the
school, but will bar any entrances next
. year.
The student body of the High school
I '.baa grown from 200 in 1908 to 010, en'
Tolled This year. Offices, rooms in
jE&lha toanomcnt anil nnaro rnnms in frMa
Hiitchir building are even now filled
to overflowing with the High school
! /pluses.
On this head G. M. Alexander gave
a talk Jam full of surprising revela
tions concerning the inadequacy of
| the present equipment.
' . As soon as the committee reports
on what action shall bo taken, the
i Chamber will see that a bond election
Is held to authorize the new building.
?In the new structure will be an industrial
department which will teach uracil
ttcal things to the young men and woi
men. It is expected that the graduates
from this department will be lilted
to take responsible positions in
;he various mining, industrial and man*
ufacturing industries of the city.
A comittee will also bo appointed
to see that a bill is passed by the present
legislature relieving Fairmont
from taxation for county brldgo work.
It will also be asked that payments
I In the past, amounting to some $50,004,
be recovered.
The equipment of the local fire de{
partment was discussed and it was
recommended to the city Board of Af?
fairs that a truck bearing an arial
ladder be secured. Mayor Bowen assured
the Chamber that its suggestion
was welcomed by the city author!ties
and that action would be taken
in that respect at once.
It was suggested by Secretary Evans
that the traveling men with homes
In Fairmont bo brought into memberihip
ot the Chamber, either individual|
ly or as a body, and that to enlist their
aid in boosting the city a meeting ot
banquet be arranged for them at a
near date. It was found that there
are more than 100 traveling men working
from here.
J. M. Hartley was elected national
I'scounclllor to represent the Fairmont
I < Chamber in the tilth annual meeting
i of the United States Chamber of Comry
merce to be held in Washington Jan?.uary
31 to February 2, Ho was also
instructed to work for the re-election
} of Robert Cunniugbam as director ot
\ the national body. Substitute councillors
were elected as follows: J. M.
Jacobs, Anthony Bowen. T. W. Hennen,
G. S. McKinney, W. J. Wiegel,
) H. J.1 Robs, George M. Alexander, J.
I Walter Barnes, Fred Holmick and W.
Hr-flpedden.
Three referenda were voted on after
discussion by the members, On
f referendum No. 17 there was but one
Hj/>diaaentlng vote. On Nos. 18 and 19 the
. vote was unanimous In adopting them.
Typhoid Inoculation
Being Investigated
(By Associated Press)
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 10.?Tho antityphoid
fever treatment administered
n- topdbral troops was the subject of an ]
Investigation today by a board of phy- j
, flteians appointed yesterday in the Untted
States District court at Kansas
t ?City, Kas., by Judge John C. Pollock.
HK. Harry D. Bord, a letter carrier, had
[appeared before the judge to plead
8 guilty to a charge of theft from letters
f. when he collapsed. Bord's attorney
? attributed his condition to serum Injection
while on the border recently
with Kansas troops. Judge Pohock refused
to go on with the trial aud or<
dered Investigation.
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TODAY'8 NEW8 TODAY
[RIAL Hi
Constituent Thumps
Senator Rosenbloom
DR. GEORGE W. OTTO, OF WHEEL-1
INO, KEEP8 PROMISE TO
BEAT HIM UP |
(Special IMepnt'.-h to Went Virginian)
CHARLESTON. Jon. 10.?Or. George
W. Otto. o[ Wheeling, sergeant-at-arms
on tho lurtt state Senate, today engaged
In a battle with Senator Hon L. ltosonhloom.
of the I-'IrRt district. Otto j
did all the lighting, meeting the Sen-1
ator in front of the Federal building '
he said: "I told you I'd give you a
Hogging, take your hands out of your
pocket3."
"O. go on and plav." said the Sena.
tor. Hut he took Ills hands out of <
his pockets and Otto struck him twice.
| No arrests have been made.
DH. TNOS. S. LEWIS
DIES III Ml
Dead Physician's Wife Was
Former Fairmont
Girl.
A message received here today an-1
nounced the death of Or. Thomas
Smith Lewis, aged 44. which occurred
at his home at Tuscan. Arizona, yesterday
afternoon at 5 o'clock. Dr.
Lewis was united in marriage with |
Miss Madge Booher. daughter of Mrs.
Mary and the late Thomas liooher, of!
this city, twelve years ago last June.
Two children survive, Thomas llamil-l
ton. aged ten years, and Mary Mar-:
gery. ugod S years.
Dr. Lewis has been in declining
hculth for some time though friends
in this city were, unaware that his illness
had reached a critical stage. The
body will be brought to the home of
his father. Dr. IJ. 11. Lewis, at Washington.
Pa.., where interment wil he
made. Just'when the body will reach j
there Is not known at this time. Sirs.;
Booher. mother of Mrs. Lewis, and
Miss Edith Bryan, a sister, will attend j
the funeral. Mrs. Lewis und children |
spent a part of last snmmer in this >
city returning to Tuscan In September.!
Severe Cold Wave
Headed This Way
IT IS COMING FROM THE WEST
PROVINCES OF THE DOMINION
OF CANADA(By
Associated Press)
WASHINGTON*. Jan. 10.?A pronounced
cold wave of several days'
duration Is predicted to overspread
tho Middle Atlantic and New England >
States, tho Ohio valley and lake reg- j
Ions and Tennessee Thursday or Eri-1
nay.
The weather bureau today Kent out!
a warning announcing that a storm has i
moved with great rapidity east, south,
eastward from the west. Canadian
provinces to tho upper Ohio valley
and 1b being followed by the cold wave
The storm will move eastward.
Woman Goes to Jail
to Work Out Fine
Sylvia Iladcliffe, alias Sylvia Thomas,
white woman, of White Hay. was
arrested yesterday afternoon loitering
with colored men in Water street, East
side. She testilied in police court this
morning that she is til years of ago.
married six years ago and that her
husband is in Iowa. Many complaints
bad been made against Sylvia bunging
around tho negro Joints on Water
stroct ao tho mayor lined her $i!0. She
went to Jail to serve out tho fine.
A. L. Cofftnan, charged with being
drunk, disorderly and resisting an officer.
put up a forfeit of $10 for his
appearunce tomorrow afternoon at
three o'clock. When arrested he. hud
tliroo pocket books, two knives and a
rule.
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German Raider
tBy Associated l'rcas)
NEW YORK, Jan. 10.?Persistent
reports that a Gorman raider was seen
in the Atlantic and sunk by a British
cruiser yesterday aiternoon was current
today in well informed steamship
circles. Details arc lacking and as
to identity of the vessels engaged and
location of the encounter.
The Weather
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|> I I Snow flurries toll
U I night followed by
SyJt. 11 _ fair; Thursday,
\ much coldor with
'' cold wuve.
/' aAKT* i Local Readings.
F. P. Hall. Ob.
J X\Z7U Temperature at
S a. m. today. 47.
I \rjr^\ Vesterday'a wcoth1
or, cloudy; temper
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r. Milium, ">; precipitation, .03.
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FAIRMONT, WEST VIRG
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OF CHILD Pitt
REPORTED III CUT
George Arthur Carr Stricken
Yesterday, Died Last
Night.
DIAGNOSIS GONFiRMED
Disease Seldom Attacks
More Than One Child
in a Family.
Coorgo Arthur Carr, the six-year-old
son of Mr. anil Mrs. Frank Carr, of
1031 Carluton street, died yesterday
evening at six o'clock, a victim of Infantile
paralysis. The child was sick
but three or four days, the disease itself
developing early yesterday morning.
As soon as it became known in the
Locust avenue section, the most densely
populated residential section of the
en* iliut the disease had been dlscov
ereil consternation retimed, wild ru.
inors found their way into many homes
uud it took extraordinary efforts on
the iui> city Physician C. M Ram
age and the several doctors in the city,
with the aid of the police department
to convince tne puuiie that the one
case had been Isolated aud that there
was little danger of a sprend.
Doris, the 11-year-old sister of the
dead boy. was in class at school at the
time the parulysls was diagnosed and
for this reason it became necessary to
Uosc White school until Monday, January
29. unless more oases develop,
in which ease the time of shutdown
will lie Indefluite. The attending
physiciun at tho bedside of George
Carr was Dr. C. L. Holland. Dr. Holland
lust year took a po?i-Bi?..ate
course at Harvard in Infantile paralysis
which at that time wus cpi-juiic
In Boston. He was ill attendance at
ever 200 cases last summer and was
absolutely certain that his diagnosis
in tho Carr ease was ngui. i.uwcver,
he called Dr. J. D. Clinton, of i-niladclphia.
into ronsultation. and notified
City Physician C. M. Homage. Dr.
Clinton happened to he visiting Rev.
.1. C. Broom field and gladly assisted.
Ho did the laboratory work In ...- afantlle
paralysis ep..., at Philadelphia
last year in atuc..,.,.. noo,...-..
Drs. Clinton. Holland and P.amngc
made both chemical and microscapio
tests of the spinal fluid of the child
nftnr It/a (lentil mid nrn\-n?l rntt.
clusively tliat ho (llert 01' respiratory
infantile paralysis. Infantile paralysis
does not .,o froru child to child in tuniilies
as doos measles, fevers, etc.,s
seems to affect out one member of
each family in most cases. Out of
1,002 cuseB in Philadelphia during the
plague last summer there were but six
cases where more than one child In the
same family took tile disease.
Just where the Carr child got the
infection cannot be ascertained. There
are no children under suspicion at tills
time but the school will bo fumigated,
and all the books exposed to a good
ileanslng. after which the children will
be allowed to go to their clnssrooms.:
Dr. Itamage. Mayor Anthony Bowen,
Chief of Police Fred Harr and forco
are working In connection with the
quarantine and will keep It in etfect
until there are no signs left of any
paralysis.
The children who attended the
school which Is located nearer to the
the neighborhood in which the cast
developed as a precaution that should
any of them by chance be lntecteA
they will be unable to sprcau u.
Ten New Paralysis
Cases at Elkins
(By Associated Press)
MORGANTOWN. Jan. 10.?Dr. S. L.
Jepson, stato health commissioner,
said hero today that ho had received
a message from Ills office at Charleston
stating thore were 10 new cases
of infantile paralysis at Elkins, W.
Va., and requesting that he tako stops
to prevent a sale of railroad tickets
for the transportation of children to
or from Elkins.
He wired the general passenger
agents of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
company and Western Maryland
company asking that no tickets ho
Bold for chlldron hound for Elkins
from points on these lines.
Leak Probe Hearings
Have Been Suspended
(By Associated Pressl
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1ft?After another
brief Beeslon today the House
Rules committee suspended public
bearings on representative Wood's
resolution to Investigate whether there
was a stock market leak on President
Wilson's peace note. Many congressmen
believe the committee will report
against an Investigation.
7eit Virginia's Greatest Newsp
INIA, WEDNESDAY EVEN
Lawson on the Stam
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Thomas W. Lawnon, sketched 10
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Key Found in k
Traced to Asylu
tJ5y Associated Press) I
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10?Oscar |
i Brown, detective sent to Home, N. V.
to trace the former possessor of a
J key found In the apartment of Mazle
I Colbert. the murdered art model, reported
to detective headquarters here
today that It was used at the Rome
custodial asylum end that one of the'
i employes of the asylum was missing. |
| Efforts to liml this employee are'
imlii]
nitQ at unununAu
uilu hi muiiuiiUHii
Brief Illness of Asthma
Proves Fatal to Well
Known Woman.
: Mrs. Mollic Davidson, aged So years,
[wife of F. S. Davidson, sunerhitemlent
of No. S mine at Monongah, and
one of the best known women of that
community, died last evening at eight ,
o'clock at her homo at Monougah after
an Illness with asthma and complications.
Mrs. Davidson had only been ill for
a few days and her deuth came as a i
severe shock to her family and friends, i
Besides her husband she is survived ,
by seven children, five boys and two
girls.
The funeral is nnnounced to take
place on tomorrow afternoon from tho ,
family rcsidenco in Monongah. Funeral
services will be conducted by '
Rev. W. J. Eddy, pastor of the First
Baptist church of this city, and interment
will be made in the Deeper cemetery
by Undertaker R. D. Cunning- ,
ham. ,
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Police of Many Towns !
Searching for Thaw j
(By Associated Frees) j
NEW YORK. Jan. 10?Search for
Harry K. Thaw. Indicted on cbargeB
of kidnapping and assaulting FrederI.
.1, n??,,. T- rtf Canaa. CI... \T?
*\.t\ uuuij'i w VI^JI iuui)
was particularly active today In New
York, Philadelphia. Pittsburgh and
Washington.
Thaw was know to bo in Philadelphia
Monday, but it was said there he
had left Monday night for Washington
and that he intended to leave Washington
last night tor his home in Pitts
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ING, JANUARY 10,1917.
OVEME
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lodel's Ro
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being made to learn whether 'lu ha<'
nncuiiuulnti r\P ?lm !??* ??
I'uruvuuivu \/?. nn- i\v? ?>nao vnu
of a bunch o? eight found in the apartment.
A reeuuetment of the niuretl so far
as details of tho crime are known was
planned today by detectives to learn
whether any one outside of the Colbert
room could have heard quarreling
Paul Sheltman to
Be Buried in Va,
DELEGATION OF TRAINMEN ACCOMPANIED
RELATIVES
WITH THE BODY
The body of PhuI Sheltman, uged 24
years, Baltimore and Ohio railroad
brakeman. who was run over at
Uarnncsvllle, Ohio, and who died later
in a hospital at Bellaire, Ohio, was
taken at 1 o'clock this afternoon to
Beuna Vista, Virginia, tho former
homo of the dead man. where inter
uiciiL win laitu inui:*?. ruiu-iai services
were held this morning at 9:30 o'clock
by Rev. W. D. Reed ot the Diamond
Street M. B. church. Undertaker Musgrave
is la charge.
Two brothers. Harry Skeltman, ot
thlcs city, and Edward Sheltman, of
Morgantown, and Mrs. Paul Sheltman,
Widow ot the deceased, accomt>anted
the body to Virginia. BcsidcB the rclitives
a delegation ot the brotherhood
ot Railroad Trainmen wont along,
Sheltman at the time of his death having
been a member of that organization.
Fluke Verdict in
Hinterliter Case
OLNEY, 111., Jan. 10?The Jury In the
case of Roy Hinterliter, charged with
:he murder of Miss Elizabeth Radr.llfte,
his sweetheart by an illegal
iperatlon brought in a verdict of mandaughter
at 3:30 this morning, but on
being polled one juror declared he was
not satisfied with the verdict. Judge
Miller sent the jury back to deliberate
further.
BLAST KILLS MINER.
CLARKSBURG. W. Va? Jan. 10.?
Injuries .and bunts, received when a
charge of blasting powdor exploded
In tho Francois coal mine northeast
of the city, caused tho death of Peter
Rezzo. coal miner. Rezzo was tamping
the charge when it exploded. Death
resulted In a few hours alter the accident.
which was the first fatality In
the Francois mine. The victim leaves
a widow, two children and a brother,
the latter a resident of Pittsburgh.
MNtiift
ences aro attending the meetings held
by Rev. Mr. Jackson at Williams Memorial
M. 13. church on .Fairmont avenue.
This evening the theme of the
evangelist's sermon will be "Tbo
i Power of Personality."
Much Interest Is being manifested in
the theme for the sermon to be preached
Saturday evening which Is, "On
How to Get Married." Sunday afternoon
at 3 o'clock a mass meeting for
men will be held at the Princess thea
tre on Jefferson street. (
This morning at 10 o'cIock Kev. Mr
Jackson and Mr. Webb visited the Normsl
school and tho former delivered
an address to the student oody by invitation
from the Y. W. C. A.
In Arkansas there are a lot of razorback
hogs but as yet there are no
safety-razor-back bogs by Luther Bu.tnank.
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MEMBER A880CIATED PRE88.
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BUTCHER SCHOOL
ATTENDANCE DROPS
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inlaut .Plague Scare Not
Felt in Other Parts of
the City.
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Nlnety-soven pupils (ailed to report
at roll cull at the Butcher school tills
morning, this uumbcr representing 3i
per cent, of the average enrollment.
The enrollment at this school is normally
27-">.
The decrease in attendim- e at this
school is attributed to the eonsterna-'
ilon caused throughout the cl-.y yesi
torday when city health authorities reported
the existence of a case or infantile
paralysis, the victim dying later |
in the day.
City school officials anticipated a
decrease in attendance at all the ward
schools, and especially at the Batcher
school which is loctaed nearer to the
White school which was ordered
closed for a period of two weeks, and 1
were gratified that lite percentage of
decrease was not target.
, Other schools in Uie city were cut
down some in attendance though the
percentage In each of the other schools
i was very small.
The kindergarten ut the Butcher,
school was suspended by tile, teacher.
Miss Edna Rlnoburt. until further noj
lice.
School oificialr. believe that today
win nun. the lowest aitcnduuce at
tho schools and mat after the wiarr
' dies down to some extent, and if 110;
lurthor cases develop, thai the varl.
tus schools will resume normal con :
'lit ions.
The ,\V school where the iiifon '
tile paralysis victim was u pupil will,
renin In closed for a pern., of two
weeks nud if no new cases develop will
at the end of the two weeks resume 1
work. The other schools will not he
dosed unless coses of the disease
i lioulu develop in those schools.
Aecordiug to grades the n'.lendaiic i
was cut down today us lonuws at the 1
II..I .Us. .
puuuui ncuuui.
Decreased Attendance.
First grade
j second grado
, Third grade I;
fourth grade I"
' Fifth grade J., li
. Sixth grade *
' Seventh grade !
Eighth grade .. .. !
j Total Hi i
VERDICT OF 5,375
j FOR J.W. FLEMING
Long Drawn Out Suit Ends j
in Compromise on Dam- J
age Claim.
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A verdict for John \V. Fleming in the i
; sum of $5,375 was returned this morn-j
' lug by the jury- which has been sitting
since before the holidays on the case]
of John \V. Fleming vs. The Monon-I
gnhola Railway company. The sultj
: was for S12.000 which sum is said lo1
I havo been the amount of damages to
l the plaintiff because of the grading
I of Diamond street Incident to llie
! building of the defendant's lines in
the East side.
The case roachod the jury at It: 30
yesterday afternoon. The plaintiff {
was represented by Attorneys Tusca
Morris and Harry Shaw, and the defendant
by Attorneys \V. S. Meredith
and Frank Cox, the latter of Morgantown.
MEEK FN IN
HI THE fflllKSS
Address Will Be Delivered
Sunday by Evangelist
Jackson.
Lareo and deanlv interp?tf?d audi
ADVERTISING IN
IE WEST VIRGINIAN
BRINGS TRADE #
PRICE THREE CENTS fl
NCHED !
IFCISMFM }
L.LUIULIIIUIIL
CONVENES FOl
1917 SESSION !
Mrs. E. 0. Murray of Marion
County Made Opening
Prayer in House.
IS LATE GETTING START 1
Guodykoontz Presides in Ser
ate and Thurmond in 'M
Associated Press* _ '^rVV'
CHARL.ESTON. \V. Vu.. Jan. 10.?
Thu West Virginia legislature as- j
scmbly al noon today in regular aessliion
was moro than an hour in got- 1
tiiii: oritauir.nl. The caucus selection
from last night, word elected as fol.
Senate. Wells Goodykoonts, of Mln
go. president; John T. Harris, of Par
kcrsburg, clerk; O. A, l'lttjr. of Charles
ton. door keeper; Jack Smith, ol
Wayne, dour keeper.
House J. K. Thurmond, of Greenbrier
county, spc-ukcr; II. L. Hamilton. o(
Calhoun, clerk; John Kenna, of I
Charleston, .argennt at arms; J. W.
KlilJ, of Uraxton. door keeper. . ( - 3$
In the Senate the minority nominated
Senator Fred L. L. Fox for presl- .
Tho Secretary o? State presented
hcili houses with a list of members I
elected to the legislature. From the
same stmiv- the returns from the varl- I
nus counttca on the state offices in the
last election were submitted, nece ssi- m I
tat lug a Joint session of the two bouses jl
Clerk Harris called tho Senate la
order a\id Guy Prlchard performed
that function In the house. In the Senate
an agreement hsd been made to
call Senators C. C. Coulter to the chair,
three members of this branch having
tho same length of service to their
credit. Hy reason of being old est I
member I11 servleo In house Septimus
Hall, of Wetzel county, was called to 1
Itcv. W. li. Hurting, or Charleston,
eft 1 oil 1 tie invocation In the Senate
and Sirs. I". O. Murray, wife of a member
from atarlon county, prayed in the
In "accepting the presidency Senator ]
Goodykoontz gave expression to
thanks and called attentiou 10 ...ctia- I
hie important legislation that will bo
infrmlitno/l ??rwl 4W? I7r-?I-'- ' *
JJUUUUUlAci UllU lUll'UUU tiV UiC VUdUlia
debt problem which will probably be
BUFFALO BILL DEAD. .* 'M
DENVER, Jan. 10. ? Col. Willlmm
-'tH Cody, Buffalo Bill.. eoldier,
huudcr and scout died at 12:05 p. m.
here today at the home of his sister.
REFINED OIL ADVANCES.
NEW YORK, Jan. 10.?The Standard
Oil company of New York todayumiounced
ail advance ?> points in
the price of roilued petroleum for export.
making refined 12 cents per gallon
In cases .the tanks 14.75 and Stand- * ?
ard white in barrel, 18.90. V-**
HEALTH NOTICE
There is on<| case of Infantile parlysis
in the city. It Is located on
Carleton street, Eighth ward. The
child's condition orfers no hop# for
his recovery. Several children were
exposed to tho case and for this reason
tho school he attended has been
closed. All children who attended the
school must stay oft tho street until
Tho source of the contagion has not ' ffl
been discovered. The subsequent action
of the Board of Health will be
letermlned entirely by developments.
TDK UttUl mines t6 do to proven t
your chiljl from suffering If there la
i spread of this disease Is, to keep the,
towels loose, keep the child on a carerul
diet, spray the throat with listerne,
or Dobell's Solution and keep the
child drinking lots of water.
BOARD OF HEALTH,
By DR. RAMAQE.
Christmas Savings Club
The Peoples National
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of members. 9
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Corner lot Bellvlew addition. 3
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