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1/ ESTABLISHED 1868. member associated press. FAIRMONT, WEST VIRGINIA. TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 17,1917. today's news today PRTCE THREE CENTS *
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a Equipment Was Being Issued
to Three Companies
Today.
; CAMP LIFE HOW IOEAL
Prospects are Fairmont
Will be Guard Center
for Months.
Biggest Dress
Parade Today
at Five O'clock
Dress parade, la which practically
the entire number of National
Ouardx encamped at Camp Cornwell
will take place tills evening at
5 o'clock on the parade grounds.
This will be the biggest parade
i' since the encampment. All companies
with the exception of that
on guard will participate.
Several more companies of the West
Virginia National Guard First Infan
try will leave camp tomorrow for
northern West Virginia points, probably
Wheeling, according to reports
from Mobilization amp, this morning.
This intended movement may take also
the machine gun company. By the
time the movement is completed the
. entire First battalion will be out of
town.
As far as can be determined from the
present outlook Fairmont will be headf"
quarters for the soldiers for about -star
months, guard duty units changing
depots from time to time. The companies
sent out now will be returned
and others In a few weeks sent to take
their places. Equipment is being furnished
three companies today to enable
them to move as soon as notified.
Car loads of feed for the horses have
been arriving the past two days.
Wagons, trucks, horses, moro tentage,
ammunition, guns, boxes of clothing,
etc., are still being shipped hero and
- ach day an entire company is kept
I busy unloading and delivering mat-:rlals
for use of the men. Those in
camp have grown to know each other
more intimately and many who swore
Ii, uy mi uiu iiiuiiiis aim vuirniuni oooileggers
that they would never join another
army; would get out as soon as
some n physical defect would permit
them, now Btate they are -willing to live
their clean healthful army lives forever.
Camp Ufo without rain and mud
is ideal and though the companies are
drilled from 8 o'clock to 11 o'clock
each morning they Insist they enjoy it.
Each day recruits are being added
to the regulars und each days some
leave. Even some of the married men
I are now asking to remain in the ranks
t having had time, some of them, to arrange
matters so their families are
L being provided for.
CrowdB are beginning to make the
trip to the Fair ground each evening
I at 5 o'clock to watch the boys lu paI
rade and to see the guard mount cereI
money. This Is greatly enjoyed by the
public and the more soldiers partake
in the ceremony the better the people
like it. Therefore those who want to
see it while there Is still a large number
of men in camp should do so today
I anil perhaps tomorrow but after tomorrow
there will be but six companies
I left.
Baseball teauiB are being orgauizI
ed by each company, the Y. M. C. A.
providing outfits, that is baseballs,
I gloves, bats, masks, etc., and in a few
| days the teams will begin slaughtering
Ieacn omer, mere win De no umpires.
the officers feeling that there
is no cause for Immediate murder, especially
of American citizens in time
of war.
Ask Gompers to Stop
Strike at Wheeling
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 17.?Secro'tarv
Rcdfteld tndA?r nnnoolfld tr\ Qnm-I
uel Gompers to ur.o bis good offices
h7o terminating spodily a strike of workI
men at the plant of the Wheeling Steel
I and Iron company at Wheeling, which
I is preventing the output of two milI
lion tins cans per day.
Secretary Redfteld pointed out the
I unusual need for canned goods the
country will face shortly. Attention
was directed to T.Jr. Gompers' recent
declaration that there would be no
strike during war.
The strike which had been in progBresn
for four days already has result^^ ed
in curtailment of the supply of cans
iutHcient, secretary Redfleld estimates i
to contain 24 million meals.
WT~West Virginian V
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WILL HO ON
III0MDRR0W
SOLID SOVS NEED
CORREO! MAGAZINES
Make a Modest Contribution
to the Fund For
Their Purchase.
iiioni jicuini; y* iiu visit. nio r irsi
regiment Mobilization camp arc struck
by the popularity with tlio soldiers of
the branch of the Fairmont Y. M. C.
A., which is maintained in the Poultry
house on the Fair grounds, and the
amount of good that it is doing.
This branch is maintained at considerable
expense to the Y. M. C. A.
but the directors sanction the expenditures
gladly because of the amount
of practical good that is accomplished
with the money.
One of the most popular forms of
entertainment offered the soldier boy
visitors to the Y'. M. C. A. quarters 1s
magazine and other periodical literature.
There are great piles of back
numbers on hand but the supply o(
current numbers is very much limited.
The only practical way in which this
need can be supplied Is to create a
magazine fund with which Secretary
Klght and his assistants may buy current
issues of the periodicals the boys
like best.
The West Virginian will receive subscriptions
to this fund and make acknowledgment
through the columns
of this paper of all contributions. The
amounts given need not be large.
What is desired more than large
checks is a lot of modest gifts from
people who want tn show in th(? nr.,,,,.
tical Way that they have the best interests
of West Virginia's young soldier
heroes at heart. The West Virginian
has been sending twelve papers
a day free to the reading room and to
start the ball rolling the following has
been subscribed:
The West Virginian $1.00
NQRMALSiQLBOYS
ARE PLANTING CROPS
Seventy Acres of Greater
Fairmont Investment
Land is Gone.
About 70 acres of the more than 300
acres of good farming land offered Saturday
for fanning by the Greater Fairmont
Investment company, had been
taken at ten o'clock this morning, and
today numbers of persons who wanted
to put in a patch of something were
making arrangements with Clarence
ltoblnson, president ct the Investment
company, and in charge of the distribution
of the land.
On? of the interesting features of the
lottinir of the land ia (ho tart fhnt a
number of boys who are going to school
this year at the Normal, tntl who hate
been In the habit of working at various
things (luring the summer months,
are this year planning to put in crops
on the Greater Fairmont Investment
company land and live by the side of
their allotments in tents. This is being
encouraged by the officials of the
company and they behove that sevetal
of the boys can make neat little sums
from their crops this year.
Unknown Negro
Fatally Mangled
An unidentified negro was struck by
a Baltimore and Ohio train near Hammond
last night at about oleven o'clock
and was brought to Fairmont Hospital
No. 3 about two o'clock. He diod shortly
after being admitted to the hospital.
The body was tak-n to the Musgrave
undertaking establishment and prepared
for burial. So far nothing has
been loarned to establish his identity.
The body is at the morgue awaiting
identification.
Woman Suffrage is
Beaten in Penna.
(By Associated Press*
HARRISBURG, April 17.?The Whitaker
resolution proposing a constitutional
amendment giving the vote
to women was defeated in the House
today after debate by 101 to 94. three
leas than the number of votes necessary
to paBSt The galleries were
crowded with advocates and opponents
of the amendment.
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FRENCH NO V
FIGHTING ON
Entente Making Gains in Ti
tery of the L
Fri
Along a 150-mile front battle line the
French and British are pushing back
the German army in a titantic struggle
for the mastery of the western
front.
Stepping into the fray after the British
have been hammering the German
line in the Arras region to bits for a
week, the French struck along a 25mile
front along the Aisne. carried the
German positions to an average depth
of from two to two and one-half miles,
captured more than 10,000 prisoners
and maintained all the ground won.
The total casualties of the Germans
in the 24 hours' fighting are estimated
at 100.000. Both British and French
reports today indicate the continuation
of operations is being hampered by bad
weather. Nevertheless the British
pushed forward In the region of St.
Quentin and Cambria, advancing cast
of Ephy and La Tomvols within two
and one half miles of LeC'atelet where
they threaten to cat the St. QuentinCambria
main line of communication.
The strategic outlines of the AngloThomas
Madden Is
Found Dead in Bed,
Thomas Madden, aged 4S year3. of
2X2 Diamond street, was found dead In
bed this morning by his sons when
they tried to awaken him. He had
been ill during the night, Dr. Offner re- j
maining until midnight at the house.'
At midnight he was thought to be!
resting quietly and after the house re-1
tired passed away. The hour of his!
death is unknown.
He is survived by his two sons, Al l
bert and Thomas, Jr., and has several1
sisters and brothers in Ohio. They
have been notified and funeral arrangements
made upon arrival of these relatives.
Musgrave & Sons are in charge
of the funeral.
Many Roads Tender
Road Making StuS
oiua iur materials to De used ID
the construction ot roads throughout
the county were still heing received by
the county court today. The good
roads committees from Lincoln. Grant
and Paw. Paw districts met with the
court this afternoon to paBs upon the
hlds submitted and the contracts will
probably he awarded this evening. A
number of firms, among them the
Fairmont Wall Plaster company, the
Crystal Sand company, of Moundsville
adn the Fairmont Mining Machine company
have made bids upon materials.
?arly Every One in
IRES
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WEST FRONT
tanic Struggle For the Masong
Western
int. vl. ;-l\
I French attack have heen worked out
in complete harmony by the stalls of \
\ the two armies. The dispatches intli-;
cato eutire co-ordination for placing
and timing blows delivered so as to in-.
sure the greatest possible effective-1
ness. In a broad way it may be judged i
the French now have for their luinie-1
diate objective the isolation of the
| important railroad center of Laon to .
i turn the southern end of the Hlnden-|
burg line. The British already liavo |
pierced this line at the northern end.
The joint operation apparently is
I aimed at the roling up of the present
German front In an effort to compel
' a retirement on a greater scale than
any yet witnessed on the west front
since the battle of the Marne.
Operations in other sectors of this
front and in other war areas are at j
present of secondary importance al-1
though French activities further west;
in the Champagne and in the Alsaco- i
[ l.orraine apparently will bear close
I watching for possible important developments.
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BUY AflNE HOME
The local lodge Loyal Order of
Moose, Xo. 9. has purchased the High
Meade property at 316 and 318 Jefferson
street and will immediately begin
to remodel the property and convert
a portion of it into a club house and
meeting place for Its members. Part
of the property will be made into a
store room and rented. The consideration
was $5,500.
The local lodge has a membership
of 35? and at the time of the purchase
of the property had $3600 In Its treasury"
and is at present in the midst of
great activity.
The lodge has applied to the grand
body for a special dispensation to re-;
main in force during May and June,!
which, if granted will be the incentive;
for a campaign to increase its mem-i
berslilp to COn
(in next \\\ lnesday evening there
will he an Installation of officers and
an e[for: wil bo made the same evening
to establish a Mooseheart I.eglon
for men and also a separate legion for
women. These legions are a comparatively
new fpature of the organization
but the success which has attended
the efforts of lodges in other cities
has imbued the local branch with the
desire to help in a great national movement.
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No Premium Realized on
$1,175,000 Worth Sold
Yesterday.
Marion county road bonds to the
amount of $1,175,000, were sold to the
State of West Virginia yesterday afternoon
by the County Court, the state
paying for the bonds the sum of $1.189,375,
which was principal and accrued
interest at 5 per cent. Twelve
bond brokers also bid on the issue, but
their bids were very unattractive.
When the Paw Paw district bonds
were first bid upon, the same companies
who yesterday refused to offer
premiums ottered principal and interest
plus from $3,375 to $125 premium
for the issue of but $330,000. The
county court was expecting a premium
of several thousand dollars ou tbe sale
yesterday.
The bond men declare that the
change in bids made since last month,
was caused by the pending government
issue of $7,000,000,000. The bond men
are all holding off planning to make
bids on the big government issue.
The state made the purchase of the
bonds as an investment and it is the
cpinion of those who are familiar with
bond values that they got a great bargain.
The bonds were issued lor paving in
the following districts and in the following
amounts:
Linocln district. $650,000; Paw Paw
district, $330,000; Grant district, $195,000.
New Wage Scale for
Soft Goal Miners
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, April 17.?A tentative
agreement to advanco wages of 225,000
minors in the bituminous coal
fields ot Ohio. Indiana, Illinois and
Western Pennsylvania by about 20 per
cent, at the expiration of the present
contract was reached today by a subcommittee
consisting of operators and
employes of the four states. Operators
and miners' delegates in conference
here must ratify the committee
agreement before it becomes effective.
The existing contract expires on March
31. 1918.
Doesn't Worry Them.
Shortage of paper does not worry
the persons who visit the hostelrier
only to write letters on hotel stationery.
)on and They Cost
J. s.
THREATENED I
AMERICAN PO
ON NOW, SAf!
Shot Was First Re(
many That Stato
Between The 1
GERMAN BOM
Government Has Made Prepa
Submarine Activities
Side of the
(Bv Assoclal
WASHINGTON. Anril 17
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fired on the destroyer Smith al
of New York.
The presence of enemy sul
i ters indicates that the thre;
blockade of American Atlanti
nouncement was made at the
"Reported from Fire Island light
and New York at 3:30 a. m. on the 171
by the United State ship Smith run i
rino fired a torpedo at the U. S. S. S i
The wake of the torpedo was plainly s i
disappeared."
First mfbrirfation of the e
department in a roundabout
yard which picked up the Sn
been fired on by a German UThe
navy department afte
Island. Boston, New York ar.
Atlantic coast announced the
encounter had been substant
tion.
At noon no other details we
Whether the presence of th
foreshadows a sporadic raid
off the New England r?f>nst. nv
o w
the beginning of a general
Atlantic coast is not known.
The attack by the U boat is
of a State of War declared by
It was stated in Germany s
gress that no aggressive ste
the United States. Practically
ed this statement however ai
steps were at once taken. Th
attack on unprotected sea boa
1 shipping within sight of Amer
j blockade of the principal Ath
| of terrorizing shipping and p
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WASHINGTON'. April 17.?All per- 1
sods in the United States, citizens (
and aliens, are warned in a proclama
tlon issued today by President Wilson
that treasonable acts, or attempts 1
to shield those committing such acts. (
will be vigorously prosecuted by the j
government.
The proclamation defines treason, '
citing statutes, provisions of the consitution
and decisions of the courts, t
and declares that the acts describee <
will be regarded as treasonable I
whether committed within the borders i
of the United States or elsewhere. i
The proclamation is regarded as a t
warning that the government moans to t
enforce the laws to the limit and that
persons caught conspiring against the =
nation may expect to be shot.
Big Fire Truck is
Slightly Damaged
One of the fire trucks was slightly
damaged this morning when one of,
the firemen who was taking a lesson
in handling the big truck forgot to re-I
lease the brake before putting It in;
gear and damaged the transmission.
A call was sent Into the department!
for the other truck which towed the
damaged truck back home where it
Is now undergoing repairs.
Only One Cent a V
SHIP
[OH OF
RIS MAY BE
i DEPARTMENT
cognition By Gers
of War Exists r'i
"wo Countries
BS1MIP BAD
irations for Reception {
by Germans on This
Atlantic.
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-A German submarine today
jout one hundred miles south
omersibles in American wa- .C J#
itened German submarine
c ports has begun. This annavy
department.
Bhtp to the naval stations at Boston
Ih an enemy submarine was sighted
ulng apparently submerged. Subma- .??
nltb which missed her by 30 yards.
een crossing the bow. Submarine v, 3
ncounter came to the navy ^ i
way from the Boston navy (J
lith's report saying she had
r communicating with Fire
id some other points on the
it the report of the Smith's
iated by official innvestigaL_
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:re avanaDie nere.
e German submarine merely
such as the U-53 conducted
whether it is the signal for
submarine blockade of the '
Germany's first recognition |i$
the United States,
oon after the action of Conps
would be taken against
no American official believid
steps to meet aggressive || J
e probability of a submarine
rd cities and towns, raids on
lean shores and a submarine
intic ports with the purpose
teople were expected. ;|9fl
People Want Peace 3
ThrrmcrVirm'l- Ano+wn
XlUDUlia
fBv Associated Press!
BERNE, April 17?Peace and spring
soother are what Austrian and Hon;arian
people want. During a star
n Vicuna when an Associated Press
correspondent has Just come there
vas every indication that the governnent
and people are willing to ac-<
:ept any peace terms leaving Anstro fjfcj
Hungarian territory Intact and makng
no claims (or war indemnity.
By the same token there appears
o he no doubt that the monarchy will
ontlnue fighting unless these mininum
conditions are met. While the ' :i2
jublic is weary of war its mind Is
nade up to persist in the struggle to
he end, rather than accept humiliative
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SOL MARCOSSON AND COMPANY,
to be at the new Normal
School Auditorium Tuesday evening.
April seventeenth, beginning at
eight P. M. Tbose who love a high
type of music and a first class entertainment,
take advantage of thla
rare opportunity. Tickets on sale
at Martin's Drug Store. Single admission,
fifty cents, reserved seats
ten cents.
VordL Try Them [/