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W A Quality Newapaper for the SHI IKK I moss riHPin : . ('iWtlwy 1WO xiuiiuicu Uitu Sixty Dollars Pledged by Noon. IT DINNER THIS EVENING 2 /-' i I -j." ???? \t That Time Plans Will be I >; Made For Second Thirty-two hundred and sixty dollars L had been secured In the Y. M. C. A.Red Cross campaign at noon today 7 and the committees all report that the work which Is barely started, Is meetr tag with the hearty support of the citi? zens of the community. It Is bellovI ed that with the whirlwind start which was made today the goal of $20,000 may easily be reached by WednesThe workers were on the Job bright [s. and early this morning and went at the task with a vim and enthusiasm - which promises well for the success {: of the undertaking. The plans were all.completed at the meeting yesterday and the work is thoroughly organized under the able direction of R. T. Cunningham, general shalrman. A dinner will be served the workers this evening in the dining room of the | "Y" and the committees will at this time report the progress of the work and prepare to take it up again in ~ ~ with rnnawpH vieor and fLIlfc) UlUiUiu0 niw ? determination. The dinner will be served by the Young Women's department of the Y. M. C. A. and is sure to prove a strong Inducement to the workers to provide a home for this department?or perhaps also provide homes for representatives of this aepartment This campaign which is to be In progress for the first three days of this week Is a part of nation-wide campaigns for funds for both Y. M. C. A. Army work and Red Cross work which is fexpected to provide sufficient funds to equip these two organizations to do effective work during the progress of the war when they are especially needed. President Wilson has officially recognized the work of the Y. M. C. A. in the training camps and with the soldiers at the front and has commanded the officials to give it every assistance possible in protecting the norals and health, of the soldiers. The Importancejtof the two organizaions In a time It* the present cannot )e over emphasised and it is bellevid that the people of the entire nation is well as the citizens of this communty will get behind the work and boost ly personal work and by substantial ontributlons. The objective of the campaign has leen set at $20,000, but that is not a Imlt. All money subscribed in excess f that figure will be turned over to Iuib neu v/ro?D. Monongah Gives $75 for Y M C A Work A campaign In Monongah lasting Friday and Saturday of last week to raise money/for the Y. M. C. Aw army work, ended in contributions amounting to $76. J. W. Kight of the local Y. M C. A., was in Monongah early in the " week, at which time heasked the citizens of that town to aid in the nationwide campaign. The campaign there was 3u charge of T. Q. Price. COAL OPERATORS ON TRIAL IN NEW YORK They Are Accused of Sherman Law Conspiracy to Fix Prices. NEW YORK, June 18.?The trial . of 108 corporations and 64 individuals > accused of violating the Sherman antiIf Ttrust law in connection with the mining and selling of semi-bitumonous I coal in Virginia and West Virginia, H\ was begun In federal court here today HKto^efore United States Judge Grubb and J^rMt Is charged the'defendants con |v ; iplred to restrain trade In coal at fixHI ed'prices. J. J. Tlerney, one of tbe tf : defendants who did not appear prevU Ipusly with the others because of 111HM'Sii^s, pleaded not guilty today. wjfc'Amoiig counsel for the defense are ^ former United States Senator James A. ?3 O'Qortnan. William A. Glasgow of B&ennsylvanla, A. C. Burnham of BosL ton, and former Judge J. H. Holt of Heme ???? MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. snfi FAIRMONT COUPLE !| GOT IN WRONG ROOM1 i But Dan Cupid Has Assistants Everywhere and - liWrilv. i UAlillMUKU, June 15.?Arm inarm.! I with a happy smile playing over their i I faces, a couple strolled Into the detec- ( live bureau shortly before noon yesterday ond asked for a marriage license. Detectives Kahler and Quirk, doing Sabbath duty, hastened to Inform the pair that they were in the wrong room "Marriage license bureau two doors down the hall; turn to yo\r right." Then the detectives happened to think that they might as well act as assistants to Dan Cupid. Detective Quirk called up a clerk of the buroau at his home. The obliging clerk arrived and the license was issued. They gave their names as Frank A. Lloyd and Margaret M. Ratxer, of Fairmont, W. Va. Then, with the nauie of an East Baltimore minister in his possession, the ' prospective bridegroom, with his! sweetheart walking briskly at his side, left the court bouse. riMi TO GMBIIATE SEVEN Interesting Commencement Exercises to be Held Wednesday Evening. The fourth annual commencement of the St. Peter's Parochial school will be held In the auditorium of the St Peter's Parochial school at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday evening. The commencement address and the conferring of diplomas will be in charge of the Rev. A. B. Boutlou, rector of the St. Peter's Catholic church. Diplomas will be given to a class of seven, composed of Mary Fay. Mary Walsh, Frank Prendergast, Golman Sloan, Bernadine Cordray, Cardile Small and John Sander. AU uiioicouug jjiugiaui wuii many of the school children participating has been carefully prepared in two parts as follows: PART I?Birdies' Ball, Little Girls; Piano Trio, Geibel, Margaret Walsh, Mary-McAteer, Madaline Waltz; Song The Jolly Jack Tar, Lewis, Little Boys; Somebody's Mother, Gorman Sloan; Piano duet. Flying Doves, Carl Hiens, Catharine Russell, Rosalie Skiles; Song, Every Boy is a Soldier in the U. S. A., McEvey, large boys; Piano Trio, Joys of Spring, Geibel, Brownie Harrison, Margaret Grottendick, Margaret Larkln. PART II?Little Ikey, Rosalie Skiles; Piano Trio, Dance of the Haymak-t ers, Wilson, Catharine Russell, Frances Haymond, Mary Walter; Star Spangled Banner, Pantomime, Margaret Ruddy, sung by Anna Frank, Helen Tchinski, Lulu Wegman; Rose March, Little Girls; Chorus, Life is Brightest, Pinsuti, Ii3rge Girls. Conferring of Diplomas. Address. Electric Plant Men Draw the Color Line (By Associated Press) SCHNECTADY, N. Y? June IS.?Two thousand machinists at the plant of the General Electric company struck to- I day as a protest against the employment of a negro. Last week. Robert : Dixon, a colored student at Union Col- : lege, was given vacation work in the machine shops. Tho machinists took the position that : this was an initial step toward placing < negro labor in the shops but this was . denied by officials. On Saturday the machinists' union i notified the management tbat unless ' Dixon was dismissed tbey would strike I today. The company reiuaeu to com- I ply with the demands ana tne workers i left their benches tiys forenoon. 1 ? ? i Old Comrade Spoke i at Veteran's Funeral: i Funeral services over the body of . James Baker, whose death occurred on Friday at his home in Wlnfield, were held yesterday at the Hopewell church and Interment was made In the Hopewell cemetery. Rev. J. J. Harris conducted the services assisted by Rev. C. H. Meredith. T. N. Swisher, a comrade in the Union army of the deceased, also spoke at the services which were attended by a large num- I her of relatives and friends. 1 Among relatives at the funeral were Mrs. Matilda Morris of Maple ave- i nue, daughter of the deceased; Mrs. C. W. Hawkins and Mrs. Jonothan ] Hawkins. t Not Wait For a , I M ' Harthern H FAIRMONT, WEST VI DTI airs DOLLAR 91 DEHORS 10 GEIM1II r ifty Per Cent Disburse ment to be Made Soon Says Receiver. BANK BUG SOLD Movement to Have Receive] Ousted Abandoned by Depositors. Within the next two weeks the de positors of the Citizens Dollar Sav ings Bank will in all probability, re cetve a dividend of 50 per cent. State ment to this effect was made by th< receiver of the bank, Harvey Shain at a meeting of tb9 depositors at th< court house Saturday afternoon The meeting was nailed to order b] Chairman M. C. Lough, with R. J. Ab battcchlo acting as secretary. F. K Hnlt chairman nf the Hennsiinrs cnm mittee read his report, giving in detai the action of the committee since i was appointed. It was agreed that Mr. Shain be in vlted to attend the meeting and a com mittee composed of John S. Scott anc Earl Morgan was appointed to notif; him. The report of the committei was accepted and their actions en dorsed by the depositors. Thereupoi Mr. Shain was presented and address ed the meeting. He stated that tin bank building had been sold two day: previous to a syndicate, organized b; Clarence Robinson and W. J. Wiege for $30,000 and that he had concludec a sale of stock for $20,000. In hii address he brought out that within tin next two weeks the depositors wouli receive a dividend of 60 per cent. Hi seated that his report shows, tha about $29,000 worth of assetB/whicI were not charged to htm. He furthei stated that in hi sopinion the deposit ors would be paid in full, and that hi would be glad to answer any questioni propounded to him. At the conclusion of Mr. Shain's re port Frank Thompson moved that thi motion previusly made and carried accepting and endorsing the action o the committee which had recommend etl that efforts be continued to havi Mr. Shain removed from the receivership be reconsidered. After a fev remarks the motion carried. Ear Morgan then moved that the report o the committee be laid on the table wnicn motion carnea. j. o. rnre leu dered his resignation as a member o the committee. PEflFtcfsii AT 610 CAAIf Hundreds Witnessed the Mi! itary Ceremonies and Heard Concert. The weather yesterday brought hun dreds of visitors to Mobilization camp where the various ceremonies were en joyed. Guard mount, band concert and pai<.de on review grounds was pleasing ar.d the hundreds who came to visit brothers and sons, besides their happy meodngs were greatly elated with tne finesse with which everything martial was carried out. There In no morn fnnltv steD here Mid there in the ranks, the recruits are drilled to perfection before allowed to |oin in tine parade and the old timers, those who have been in the guard for months, have become as machines, all working iu unison as each command is given. The concerts given by the First Regiment band are getting better all the time though there always has bepn nothing but the best music rendered by this organization. Rev. J. W. Brown conducted the re tglous services at the Y. Id. C. A. at 11 o'clock in the morning. The boy.' crowded Into the "Y" building to be present at these services. In the evening a sacred concert was given and the regular Sunday school discussion. Portuguese Prove First Class Fighters (By Associated Press) PARIS, June 18.?The Portuguese Forces on the western front having lean initiated into the art of modern warfare by progressive stages have low received their baptism of fire. The Matin says that today they are perfectly organized and have proved heir worth in exemplary fashion. K. M. C. A.-Red~C - ' -- s / "i -WVirginia's Greatest ISewsp RGINIA, MONDAY EVENT BSlfi GETTING & liililis I RAID OKJAIIERS I Proprietor and Four Men 1' Caught Promptly Post | cd Forfeits Police court this morning produced 7 but throe drunks there being many forI fcits. Mayor Anthony Bowen, Chief f of Police Fred Harr and Sanitary Officer Dent Holdcn pulled the old gambling C joint in the Us Union building above the Palace pool room on Main street. This netted the city $55. Lot Austin, charged with running the joint was soaked $25. Caught in the raid were John Douglas, George Keen and John Keyser each of whom paid $10 for I forfeits for their appearance this morn| ing in police court. None of them appeared. C. Mott, drunk, was fined $5. C. J. Chapan was fined $5 on a drunk charge. John Dago. drunk, was nnea $5. John Dago, a different wop from ' the first John Dago, was fined $5. These two men were unable to give their proper names on account of thick tongues. W. M. Winston, colored, is being held in the city jail on a charge of carrying whiskey on the streets of Fair( mont. Winston is employed in a coal mine at Downs. ! Hundred Million in Week for Red Cross (B.v Associated Press) i WASHINGTON, Juno 18.?The big drive for the 9100,000.000 Red Cross war fund began at sunrise today every where in the Unlteo States with elaborate organization plans for making it a reality within the next seven days. In great cities and small towns organized machinery began gathering in I thn fnnH wrJilnh la *n ofLrrv nnt nnlv fnr American troops of the firing lines in Europe but for the destitute of the war zones of France, Belgium and Poland. Cycle Cop Hurt in Evading a Woman i Carl "Shanghai" Kern, motorcycle policeman, was thrown from his machine at Fairmont avenue and Fifth street yesterday afternoon and badly ! injuied about the legs. The shoe was i torn from the right foot, the trouser leg was torn off and the leg badly cut and bruised, the ankle sprained. The , machine wan brought back to the po lice department by Fireman Doolittle and Policeman Woodward. Shanghai , was going out the avenue when a woman stepped in front of the machine. In an effort to evade injuring the woman. he swerved and the accident was (he 1 esult. He is confined to his home. >oss Solicitor- fUSt I I ^1 H HI Hfi m w H m M H M ym ^ -T ^ ^ ^r NG, JUNE 18,1917. iliu ACQUAINTED WITH THE I!!! I ?i| ymgmm ram Miss Blanche Price Assumed the Duties This Morning. Miss Blanch Price has been secured to supervise the Girls' Club work o? this couuty and today began ber new I duties. Miss Price has just completed a course at the West Virginia Univer-. sity, taking an A. B. degree and majoring in Home Economics, she has haa some experience in teaching domestic art and is thoroughly competent to handle the work tor which she has been selected. Miss Elzie Gay Zinn, from the Exten? ta if tlm TTnlvoraltv haa FlOU ljepui LUiCIll ML LLLM , (or the past few months devoted a greater part of her time to the Girls' Club work in this county and now has the work well organized and ready to turn over to Miss Price. Miss Zinn will remain here for a few days assisting Miss Price and acquainting her with the work in the various communities. With Miss Zinn and Miss Prico are Misb Maude Warren, from the Iowa State Collego, and Miss Grace Dulaney. from Wisconsin, who are preparing to take up the home economics work in other counties of the state. These four have just come from Morgantowi. where they attended a conference of I home economics workers at whicn fourteen girlB from this sine and other parts of the country were present and at which plans and methods relative to the work were discussed by able and experienced men and women from the Extension Department and other friends of educational and agricultural work. The former club worker for thi6 county was Miss Cora Price, who for fn-r, vonrfl snnnrvised the work and who was forced to resign because, or the illness of her mother, but the new worker, Miss Blanch Price, is no relative of the former worker and is a resident of Monongalia couniy. The club work In this county is rapidly growing In Importance and people of the yunty are coming to realize that in a situation-such as the nation is facing at present a work which has for Ha aim not only the growing of toon stuffs but also preservation, through the rcedium of the Girls' Canning Clubs for luture uso, may be oi great service to the country. The government has recognized this fact and Is sending experienced workers to the various counties where they are most needed. * Hunt One Up an> . A A p. ' SS|' ?P' r -J 1 I I ' Tue* ^ 1 I Warm TODAY'S NEWS TODAY i 1 FACTS ^ j| Lilies need p* Help! ~~^K. I F i I *N?> Kance . s I America B * hsreiKEjlgj I hw49 s ^ LSfU " -^^SSSS | ILEUS FULL ' IS HPS NET' Some Well Known Booze Merchants Were Caught PJ Saturday m ut bC Kid Lewis, Howard Curtis, Bootley Shclion, Oscar Downey and Henry Buelow, all colored, were caught in ttlj the net of Sheriff A. M. Glover over Saturday night and Sunday and are all 1>1< in jail awaitng hearings on charges ot 1111 violating the prohibition law. w* T .....J., lU-Ho 1\? - ^ !h JJCWIO, v-.ui tia aiiu J-JUYVUvy \YUIC ?.HJJ turea at North Fairmont, the next sta- re lion out of the city on the Monongahela railway. They were brought to the sc county jail where their contrabard wa., &r counted and found to contain ju9t a little more than the permitted quart ut each. Lewis only had 24 pintb of whis- j ftl1 key. Curtis had 25 pints and Downey |al had 17 pints and 1 quart of gin. Boot . icy Snellen was arrested by Policeman |111 Holt charged with violatirg the prohl-|abitlon law by dispensing the goods. Henry Beulow was captured coming ch into the city with only two pints but *' the quart a month law seems to have lel been violated by these two pints because of previous trips. Buelow is from 111 Morgantown. c" Maude Koons and Harry Hail, white, were arrested at Skinners Tavern with la a suit case of whiskey. The case con- j u.c tained five quarts of whiskey and two 1,0 bottles of beer. They will be given a su hearing later. The woman is said to | en have brought the whiskey to the city; U1! and banded it over to Hall. i i>r Besides these few, there are slill In IC jail awaiting bootlegging charges Arch sr and George Lilley, James Hardway ana Lovell Gray, all white. pr ? ini New Army Won't be g Training by Sept. 1 (By Associated Presal WASHINGTON, June ^.-Unless . there are unforeseen developments to I. hurry construction of the 1G canton- fo monfo *? - " - ?' usuu iui naming me new national sci army tbe first increment of G50.000 ye troops will not be in training by Sep- to< tember 1 as generally had been sup- an posed, and in fact It may not get into tb< training for six weeks thereafter. ne: War department officials said today wt that no specific date ever had been Co set for 'opening of the training camp, thi The first body of officers for the thi new army now being trained in camps int troughout the country Is to be turned Ed out In August to make room for the ng next body. This was arranged on the I. plan of having the draft completed alt and exemptions dlspbsed of and troops Th ordered into training camps by Sep- tei tember 1. clc ? GERMANS LOSE A ZEP. ] BERLIN. June 18. ? Tne Zeppjl* w Z-48 was lost with all on board lu Sat- Ml urday night's raid on southern England, go tho admiralty announces. en l_ dHave It Over Wit I " 11 II DUIdl I orrS I NEEOED 01 Mill I edcral Trade Contmisgfon | Will Say How Much It. ;^|lM OW WORKING" Oil flAAES ? teel for the Navy Building J Program to be Bought < ! (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 13.?SecretM^ffiffl inlela has ordereu coal and oil pro. icprs to supply the enormous quantity Vi] leded by the navy at prices to be j ted lator by the President when the jderal Trade Commission has de-, The navy will use 1,750,000 tons of al and 50,000,000 barrels of oil pur lased under this application of au- & ority granted by Congress. $1 Sijniiary steel for entire navy build' g program is belnr bought at a rate 5 ted when Secretary Daniels rejected * oposals of the steel makers as too | ISSds (ERE OPENED TODAY J bout 150 Children in AtA 1 -A AI TSJ .A. *I*SI lenuauce at uie rirss Under the direction of the Falrmojit-vf ay Ground committee of thtf Woau's club, the play grounds located Tenth street and at the Miller cl h'iol were formally opened this morag lor the sdason which will lastprob- ' I ily for a period of six weeks, xv large number ot children assem- v em at each of the locations this, 'j ornmg at i>: ao o'clock where they v jro giveu instructions and wftert&tt ey enjoyed several hours of play and j creation. ii. E. Moore, of the Fairmont High | hool taeulty, is in charge of the'play | uunds and his assistants ar? Miss iroline Barnes, who will be assistant?! tie Miller school, and Miss Laura T re Bunnlngton, who will be asststa|it';l tne Tenth street ground. The grounds will be open each day ?B the week from tlo'clocu until twelve i m. and from 5:30 until 8:30 p. m. LSsI it is aeslred that the parents of the | ih'ien will visit the grounds and sgMjl lat is being accomplished and that id their approval to the methods be- a g employed to strengthen and aid,in 1 e 'development ot tne youth of the | livery precaution possible will 'be < Hen to sateguard the children from ciUent or harm, though the associain does not assume liability for injur; ' stained. If the children are obetu- . | t and thoughtful no accidents, will lr the season's work on the playounds. Parents are requested! to nil their children to the nearest playound. Approximately 150 children were j?. fll escnt at the two grounds this morn ? . 'nai B'rith School Closed for Summer |H \ mceiiilg of the Fairmont otfeivof i 0. B. B. and the closing exercises S r the local B'nal B'rith religious J 100I were held at the K. of P. hallVB sterday evening.- Several out of vn speakers were on the programS il gave Interesting addresses altntx.Ci > school work. Among the pronj}-il it men who addressed, the asseth^^^ s J. Marcus of the Hebrew Union | liege of Cincinnati, 0., who is among. { > prominent Hebrew educators O^Q i country. Richard S. Rauh, a prom-J nt young member of the order auMea ward Hempie. chairman of the prop- ' anda committee of District' No. 3, I 0. B. B., both of Pittsburgh, o present and gave interesting talks## o mooting was especially well ^tftjg ided and appropriately mark?fftraH sing of the religious school diss Mabel Myers, of Summsrvllle, <| Va., who had been the guest arJ ss Olive Davis tor several dkya-lii^H ae to Morgantown where she tor the university summer schPolflB