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Problem Pat Up to West
Virginian Readers for
' Snll.fiAfl
i Since May IS flour has fallen from
{17.50 a barrel to $13.70, a decrease ot
fjj {3.80. or 21 per cent.
About the time flour readied Its record
high mark of {17.50, bread prices
were boosted throughout tbe country.
And they've stayed boosted.
Query: If a flour rise boosted bread
prices why doesn't a flour drop cuv I
bread prices?
WHY?
To answer tbls question The West
Virginian bas Investigated bread
11. ^prices in representative cities. This
Investigation shows:
f, f The average retail price of a pound
I bread loaf April 1, 1917, with flour at
71 cents.
') an average vi ?u.?u, ......
The average price (or the same loai
od or about hay 15, ag a reault of the
price ot (lour soaring 38 per cent, to
317.50, was 10.3 cents?an Increase ot
3.2 cents, or 45 per cent.
The average bread'price today, when
' (lour sells at (13.70, a drop ol over 26
per cent, from bread's high mark. Is
19.3 cents, a decrease of?nothing at
all.
The WeBt Virginian had hoped to
find at least one city where breed
prices had (alien proportionately with
(lour prices. Such a city might have
furnished a clow to the answer to the
big "WHY?" But apparently that city
does not exist.
Therefore The West Virginian passes
THE GREAT NATIONAL BREAD
PUZZLE along to Its readers, Address
r your solution to The West Virginian's
Bread Editor.
Here's a list of bread prlcea In 19
scattered cities. It may not help solve
i the mystery, but it surely proves the
mystery is no idle puztle, but rather a
very real and very general problem of
UM1J *? ? ??0?
Bread Price Present
V per Pound Bread Price
Before Flour With Flour
Reached $17.60 at $13.70
Richmond, Va 6.3c I0-o
Bridgeport, Conn.. 10. lo.
Boston T.2 8.7
New Haven, Conn. 8.4 m.
Chicago 6-6 J?Pittsburgh
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Torre Haute, Ind.. 5.7 , 10.
' Louisville 5. SDes
Moines 1?Cincinnati
?*
Evansvllle, Ind 9.0
Reading, Pa 6.4 9 6
Columbus, 0 5.7 10.
Erie, Pa 8.6 15.
Omaha 7.2/ 10.
Wilmington, Del... 5. S.
Memphis 10. 12.
Akron, 0 8. 10.
Cleveland 7.3 10.
The Di cscnt orlce is in each case the
highest price for the year. I
Once before, since the beginning of
tho war, there was a general bread increase?in
the spring of 1915. At the
outbreak of the war in 1914 flour was
$5 a barrel. Tho price after three or
four months started upward. By February
3, 1915. it had climbed to $8.10.
in most cities there was no protest
aguinst slight increasos, enough to
cover the advanced flour prices. But
Immediately flour started down again,
and bread also dropped.
Then August 3. 1916, flour once more
bega nto soar. Once more the bakers
laid their cards on the table. Bread
prices were boosted to their present
figure, and, because the public knew
$17.50 flour necessitated the Increase,
It acquiesced. Then flour prices drop/
ped for the second time. They have
been going down ever since. And ever
since the public has been waiting for
bread prices likewise to tumble.
They Haven't Tumbled.
/ And the mystery Is all the deeper
(Uvj because, whereas flour on any given
day sells at practically the same figure
tho country over, bread sells at the
- same figure in almost no two cities. In
Louisville 8 cents a pound, In Omaha
10 cents, in Memphis 12 cents, and In
Bridgeport 15 cents.
Government (ood control alone can
solve the big mystery. But If congress
can talk and talk why can't West Virginian
readers?
Send in your answer!
NORwnnn
A fine baby boy \va3 born to Mrs.
and Mr. Envin Hawkins Friday last.
Johnnie Hawkins and family have
moved into their new home.
Thoso who were calling nt J. C.
lv Satterfield'e Sunday were Mr. and
Mrs' Owen Moore, of Winfield; Mrs.
Columbus Satterfield. of Fairmont;
six children; Mr. and Mrs. W.
a. Walls, Miss Josephine Moore, Mrs.
Minnie Stansborry, and Mrs. Maud
Dcvault.
Those who attended the funeral of
Brooks Travis from here were, Mrs.
Florence Hawkins and daughtei
Agnes, Mrs. Eddie Staunton and
I three children, Mr. Hugh Harris.
j ( Playford Gmbb of Piney Run is
" boarding at the present time at Eddie
Stauntons.
Clarksburg Gets Appeal Board.
CLARKSBURG. W. V.. Aug. 2.?
.; "" Word was received here today from
Its president, Judge Ira E. Robinson
of Grafton, that Clarksburg has been
selected as tbe headquarters for the
military conscription appeal board
lur ino iNonnern district or west
Virginia. It will bold its neit meeting
in the Federal building here and
will hold sessions weekly thereafter,
unless It Is found necessary to meet
more frequently. The board con>
sists of Judge Iloblnson, of Grafton,
J. B. Huyett and Dr. W. J, Davidson,
of Charleston, A. W. Paull of
Wheeling and W. M. Rogers of Fair'
mont. Mr. Paull has been chosen
secretary of the board.
L., Chariot as Engine of War.
Atii'iag Mime nations of antiquity cliarlots
ho regarded as filling the place
i>f hfi&k'nrtlHcry, so that the military
r bowHr^f ,.i nation might be estimated
by tjfc.umvlter of Its chariots, Thus
Pharorti! In pursuing Israel took with
lira COO charlote,
/
1 pOUGHT
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So U APRIL. J
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DOfir A TOUtfD 'LC
ERFAD WM, ON.
THROUGHOUT THE <
COST. 7.1 CENTS'-j
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RUMANIA'S DEVASTATIO
OF HER B
WASHINGTON', D. C., July 31 ?
Arrival In Washington of Americans
returning from the seat of war, clears
up one of the conflict's many mysteries?the
Rumanian riddle.
The disaster following Rumania's entry
Into the war caused political crises
In France and Great Britain, but politicians
preferred political retirement
to revealing the truth. They had a
complete excuse, but to tell it would
Lave been undiplomatic.
Rumania, dominated by a coterie of
corrupt politicians, with a few rich
land owners and a mass o( ignorant
peons, was ready to join either side.
She was frankly out for loot.
She had played the same part In the
Balkan war?waiting until the contending
parties had reached a deadlock,
then stepping in to decide the
struggle and reap spoils.
All through the war her politicians
had played both sides and taken bribes
running into the millions.
In the fall of 1916 they believed the
dendlock had been reached and Ru
mania's weight would turn the balance.
The higher allied commands were
convinced Rumania would bo wiped
METZ.
Mr. and Mrs. George Campbell and
two daughters, Pauline and Marie,
of Garrett, Ind., was here visiting
friends last week.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Campbell and
Miss Alma Dvo were shopping in
Mannington Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Dye of Steubenvllle,
Ohio, who were here visiting
friends returned home Friday.
The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Danley who has been so seriously ill
is no better at this writing.
E. L. Martin who was real sick i3
better now.
Miss Edna Stephen of Fairmont, is
visiting her grandfather, Joseph
Campbell.
Mr. and Mrs, H. L. Campbell were
calling on friends in Enshaw Sunday
last.
Misses Velna Baker and Paul
Campbell wero the guests of Miss
Vivian Campbell on Campbell's Itun
Sunday last.
Mrs. John Fowand is visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Mose Shanks of near Mannington.
Mrs. Haddle Mllicent is nursing
tho little son of Lloyd Dulaney.
Mrs. Cora llrumago was visiting
her father, Mr. Mathen Tucker on
Campbell Run Sunday.
Mrs. Earl Kennedy o( Messens
AUTO POKER
"Raise you a red!"
"Get your ante In!"
"I called."
Ever play auto pokerT It's simple
at ton miles an hour on low gear, and
exciting at 40 miles with the throttle
wide open.
List for the property man: one
curbstone, not too' cold to sit on;
leisure to sit there; pads ot paper
and pencils; passing autos conforming
to the law requiring tags; poker
chips or substitutes.
Players are numbered In order on
the curbstone. Player No. 1 takes
the first car that passes, player No. i
2 the second and so on.
The license number of the first car i
' n,ayer number one'a hand. Haying <
' ' ' '. . '.'...V, ' .'-'fv ' : _ ' ' '
THE GREAT AMERICAN
'LOU^ J J^L
I ! ? AND IB WHE*
i I // WAS HIGHEST,
1 I .y COST $!7.5C
$12.90
R1L 1,19] 7.
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^ 4
LOAF I ^ *
JAP OP AK?> WHICH, IN
AH AVERAGE MEET THE 1NCR
COUNTi?V; OP TLOUR , VJI
HR.1.1S17 MAT 15,3.917,
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i
iN PRICE i
IARGAINING FOR SPOILS
out by Germany; they knew the army
was rotten.
But they knew she was bound to
jump in one one side or the other. j
With the remorseless logic characteristic
of French warfare and state- ,
craft, the French general staff rea- '
soiled it would bo advisable tor kuruania
to go in with the allies, so in
the retreat, tho ullies might destroy j
tlio oil wells and wheat crop.
liarly in the campaign the allies prepared
to destroy tha oil wells in the
retreat which they saw inevitable. The j
work was dono largely by an American j
wrecking crew?Standard Oil men with
commissions in the British army.
So well did they perform the Gor- .
mails have not yet succeeded in put- '
ting the larger wells in commission. ;
Tho Rumanian -heat crop of 1916 ;
was burned. The Germans have put
in a big crop for this year which Is ap- \
preaching harvest.
Several divisions of the German ,
army equipped with hundreds of trac- j
tors and gang plows have tills task. ,
Tho work was under tho supervision ,
of the same exports who planted tho .
huge crops in the rear of the German J
linos in northern France.
J I
Run was the guest ot Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Kennedy Sunday.
Bill "Wells and family of Cameron, i
were here Sunday visiting J. B. i
Campbell. i
Mrs. Effie Bell of Earrackvllle, Is
hero with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Miller. 1
Robert Campbell nnd Crystal Watson
were calling on friends in Glovers
Gap Sunday. ,
Mrs. Mary Koon was calling on
Mrs. Lucy Kenner Friday last,
FIREMEN RESCUE BOY.
CHEST, Tcnn. ? The fire department
of Decatur, ten miles away, was
called to rescuo Jimmy Blon, young
sr*Mb\ _ |
son of J. iilon, Jr., from the high roof
of lils father's bnm. Jimmy was trying
out a new glider when a sudden
gust carried him onto the barn roof and
blew the glider away while he clung ,
to the ridgepole. Jimmy's father is
now using the glider to repair his wildmill,
OH, CECIL!
anted, he opens and bids. The Hcenao
number of car number two la
the second playcr'i hand, etc.
On the second round, or flight, of
automobiles, thb first car Is the first
player's draw, with which he fills hla
nand, the second cur me second player's
draw.
The same human Ingenuity that
devised poker will furnish variations.
For Instance, the state initial can be
run wild as an ace.
It li the new form of curb broking,
and many fortunes may change hands
through It before aeroplanes supersede
autos.
One Hoboken firm 1b thinking of
;olng into the business of supplying
:urb cushions for auto poker players. I
.. ?ai 4
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PUZZLE OF THE YEAI
TTTTt
1Z.90 \ ^ I
JOHT ONLY j /TV f
1 MUCH FLOUI?L 1? E
ftY 15,1917m Att1
ITS* PRICE
ris,1T .*%
AUD 03
HA9 GOUE
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.1 CENTFJj
ought f
us size 1
ORDER TO TOW,W>
FA5ED COST AGAIN , ? TI
'NT UP ABOUT SAME OL
TO 10.3 CFNTJ
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WASHINGT
GOSSIP
WASHINGTON, L). C? Aug. 2.?
Michael J. Lauglilln has been appoint:d
postmaster at Otsego, Wyoming
county, succeeding R. V. Leftwich, deceased;
Edward L. Dunn at Greenjricr
Springs. Summers county, succeeding
T. S. Taylor, resigned; Michlol
J. Prendergast at Nuss, Marshall
county ; Andrew C.Darnold at Big Isaac
lndiiridee cotintv; Ausuct E. Davis at
Sock, Mercer county; Charles E. Giv?n
at Wills, Kanawha county; Lucius
Tlppett at Kimberly, Fayette county;
Vlrs. Margaret Cullinaii at Dean, Wot:el
county, and Martin V. Boner at Elk,
Tucker county. Tostnjastership comnisslons
have been sent to Wallace J,
roluiBon at Lencie; Asa L. Matthew at
tlanayka, and James E. Kesler at
Samp. Star service has been estabished
at Paynesvlllo via Bradsbaw to
Jan, 8 miles and hack, J. H. Payne, oi
Jan, contractor; Morrisvale to Woodrllle,
three miles, C. C. Thompson, ol
\1 orrisville, contractor.
Mr. and Mrs. Loe McCallister, of Elk
ins, are visitors in the city.
Justin Barger. of Petersburg, Granl
county, has been recommended by Sen
itor Sutherland for admission to the
second officers' training camp. Also
Charles Clifton Mayhall, of Parkers
burs, for the samo thing by Senate;
Sutherland, and Representatives Wood
yard, Bowers, Reed, Cooper and Neely
An application for a pension in
crease was filed at the Pension Bureai
yesterday in behalf of Mrs. Nancy A
Kemball, of Mt. Claire, by Senatoi
Sutherland.
The formal engagement of Mis;
Florence Farrlngton Flynn and Col
John E. Dana, of Charleston, W, Va.
was made at a dinner at the hote
Buckingham In New York City yester
day. Miss Flynn is well known lr
Washington .where she spent her girl
hood, For the past eight years she hai
made her home in New York with he;
nunt. Col. Dana Is a member of ;
wealthy and well known West Vir
glnla family.
There is evidence recently placed 01
file at the Patent Office which goei
to prove that 'Squire C. P. Corbltt, o
Waverly, W. Va., has not given all hi!
thought to intricato litigation and the
application of the best brand of mag
Owing to'the lack of room we
are going to discontinue the
Phonographic line.
Our last $100 demonstrating
miftltlriA with 171 rtK wnrfS r\f m.
cords and albums, we wiH offer
hi the window >5.00 lee8 each
day until sold.
\
The Bethephone 1> unquestionably
the best tone Instrument
on the meritet and It plays
aH make of words.
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ON NEWS .q:
I By CHARLES BROOKS SMITH.
isterial jurisprudence to be found In
I Wood county to the same. There is a
; | new-fangled dinuer pail to prove it.
j The 'Squire has been granted a patent
on this practical and simple device, and
if an army of laboring men in the United
States does not rise right up and
shower blessings on the inventive
Squire of Waverly, wo miss our guess.
The idea of this dinner bucket is to
. furnish a layout of red hot victuals by
means of a false bottom where the
heat is kept. The contrivance is tech,
nically described under the number
1,232,227 in the Patent Office Gazette,
. and it reads to a layman like a good
thing commercially.
Congressman Geo. M. Bowers today
' recommended Frank a. rieaiey, 01
1 Blaine, for a position In the commissary
department; and Harry Lee Best,
| Jr., of Davis, for a position as government
mechanician.
Shoes for the whole family at re'
reduced prices at Shurtleff & Wehon's
?Adv.
; HOW TO ANSWER
WANT APS
Telephones
Bell 1105 Con. 250.
In answering blind ads in
' The West Virginian ulaselfled
columns, please bo careful to
use the precise address given in
the adv. Write the address
' plainly. Letters brought to The
West Virginian office do not re
nulre stamps. Always inclose
1 your answers In sealed envelopes.
Advertisers or others in1
quiring about a classified ad.
must designate the ad. number
3 at tbe end of the ad., as we have
r no other means of referring
i to It
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Has Made It
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TKese flags are splend
long, double stitched stri
START i
if you have not already
and get one of these fla;
coupons and 98c gets yc
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I BITS OF II
H STATCNEWS.il
The West Virginia State Fair AsaoI
elation which open* Labor Day through
lite management has taken a treat InI
terest In the "Every hack yard a vege
I table garden" movemant and the nat- I
lurnl sequence of that movement, the J
crusade to Induce tho women to pre- j I
serve the products of their gardens. [1
To encourage this and to show Its ap- I
preclation of the Importance of thl! I
the West Virginia State Fair has adit- I
ed to its already large number of prom- I
iums which are ,to be awarded at the I
Wheeling Fair, to be held the week ot I
September third, for best exhibits In I
culinary skill, a silver loving cup to I
the woman who exhibits the lsrgeat I
and best collection of preserved vege- I
tables from the home garden cultivat- I
ed by tho exhibitor or some member I
of the family . The competition will be I
open to >11 women who restao m mo
tri-tate radius covered by the Wheel'
lng Fair and will be governed by the
same rules a* are the other competl
tions. For second and third prize silk
ribbons or diplomas will be awarded.
A letter from Governor John J. Corn'
well waa received by Mayor Edmund
Sehon, of Huntington recently, relative
to the enforcement of the idlers' law
in that city. Governor Cornwell in the
letter inquired whether or not the
statement made by a local newspaper
to the effoct that the Idlers' law is a
"dead letter," so far as the Huntington
officials are concerned, was correct,
The statement was published with sta
tlstics showing that although sixteon
men have been arrested since July 1
nnd registered as having no occupation,
no prosocution under tho provision ol
tho vagrancy law has been inaugurate
ed.
In accordance with an act passed
recently in a regular session of the
legislature, which provides for tho
creation of a state tuberculosis snub
tarlum for the colored people, Gov.
ernor John J. Cornwell has appointed
three colored physicians to act with
the board of control in selecting a site
for the sanitarium and adopting plans
for its establishment. The Governor
appointed the following physicians:
Dr. A. B. Crichelow, of Charleston; Dr.
T?. P. TTurrfnnn. nf Kfmhnll nnH Tlr Q
F. Clay, of Lewlsburg. Dr. Crichelow
has been engaged In anti-tuberculosis
work in Charleston for some time. Dr.
Harrison was recommended for his appointment
by the West Virginia Medical
Association, and Dr. Clay was recommended
by many prominent people
of both races.
The Pittsburgh and West Virginia
Gas company has asked permission of
the Inter-State Commerce Commission
to raise its rates for gas furnished to
all public and industrial Institutions,
The company asserts that It Is paying
more for the gas than it is getting
from the sale. The proposed changes
will affect the following counties:
Lewis, Doddridge, Marion, Monongalia,
Taylor, Tyler nnd Wetzel. Thert,
will be no Increase In the domestic
rate but the rate of sixteen cents which
is charged to public schools, hospitals,
public buildings and churches, will bo
increased to nineteen cents if the commission
grants the jprmission to
change. Gas used for Industrial purposes
which fa sold by this company
now at rntes ranging from eleven to
twenty-two cents will ho sold at from
sixteen to twenty-two cents.
As a health resort Parkersburg It
BALTIMOF
SEASHORE :
FROM FAIRMI
$10.00 I VI
Good In Coaches only, fl I
$12.00 11
Good In Pullman Cart '
with Pullman ticket.
CAPE MAY, SEA ISLE CITY, 1
WILD
August 9 and!
TICKETS GOOD RE"
Eecuxe Illustrated booklet giving
more ana Ohio nii.unu.
.
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CAN NAF
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One ? If Not Do Yo
If Yew, Do
VEST VIRG
fnr Ynu fro
ticficvdousiy Smafl Co
[id quality, heavy cotton bun
[pes and double hem. Guar;
CLIPPING COUPO
begun, and bring them to t
gs before the supply is exh;
>u the flag.
O IT NO)
Improving and Is acquiring s rather
good reputation. The toformattoa haa
been riven ont to the department of I
public safety that at present there to |
sot a single case of typhoid fever to
the city, and that so far this summer
there have been only three cases at , '<1
this disease, two of which are known
for a certainty to have been acquired :M
elsewhere. r
According to e letter received by 8.
P. Duffer, secretary of the Charleston
Chamber ot Commerce, from T. R,
Moore, vice president ot Warren, . 9
Moore and Company, Philadelphia, tha
latter is planning to visit Charleston
this week to complete arrangements Ji
for the construction of the naval pro
Jectile plant. The firm vhlch ha will >-3
represent has secured the contract for
the construction of four of the build.
ia" "f >hn c"""'- I
Guard Officer* Named.
Bruce S. Cook of Charleston, senior Ifl
second lieutenant In the Second Reg- \'J
lment. National Guard, haa been pro
moled to tho first lieutenancy to sue. I
ceed Lieut. Albert Peyton, who r? , Si
cently resigned to accept a second
lieutenancy In the Reuglar Army. 9
Reglmontal Scrg. MaJ. Ben C. Mo . J9
ComaB of Huntington has been pro
rnoted to bo second lieutenant to
succeed Cook. These appointments
were announced today by Adjt. Gen. , ?$
John C. Bond .
All summer footwear and odd Ms,
CO per cent to 50 par cent eff at the M
'^Vnr Economy" salo at Shurtleff and
iSiir I
ENDORSEMENT BY 1
mmm 1
"I've Been Able to Take My
Engine Out Every Day
for Two Months," Says
Locomotive En
gineer.
m
Tliis convincing Norv-Worth state
ment recently was given by Mr. J. V,
Layne, well known arid highly esteemed
engineer on the A. C. & L. rait - jH
road at Ashland, Ky. It Is most la- 'j
terestlng and useful reading:
"For the past four years I have 9
been troubled with rheumatism and
kidney trouble. Have only been IS
working about one third of time. I
have spent quite a sum of money .trying
everything I could hoar of, buti
failed to get any relief. 1 saw NervWorth
adverllsed In the Independent . -3
and decided to try it. I have now taken
tho third bottle and con truthfully
say that I have gotten wonderful results.
In fact, I feel perfectly well
and have good appetite. I have been
able to take my engino o*t every ^.ay a
for the past two months, j can KO M
ommend Norv-Worth to anyone. " ;3fl
"J. W. LAYNE,"
12th and Carter,
Ashland, Ky.
Crane's Drug Store selh Nerw M
Worth In Fairmont. Your dollar
back if this superlative family tonls
does not benefit you.
Johnson's Pharmacy sella NerrIE
& OHIO I
EXCURSIONS - pi .
3NT, W. VA, TO /'I
iantip. m I
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OCEAN CITY, STONE HARBWt Jp ,
WOOD " /J
23, September 6.
rURNINQ 16 DAYS. "
full detail! from ticket'agents, BaMt ^
riONAJU I II
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Secure One at
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ttinsr, 4 feet wide by 6 tot
inteed fast color*
NS NOW .'1 1
he West VhtginJari office
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