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Nine thousand prisoners were taki
I American party's visit. Here are pari
b1 washingtc
r i gossip i
...uij. ...uiU.v, Alio. Hi.?it is an
Ift mooted question in the Nation's Great
I".. Capital whether, if you are thinking
I: J Of calling bp somebody on the 'phone,
f l you wouldn't save time apd wear and
tear on a Christian disposition by takfc
ing a street car. There is another
I hugo faction of the populace that
H doesn't think very much of either the
Street cars or the 'phone service who
declare that tho best and surest way
,! to get your message where you want
it to go is to walk right along there
with it. At first the 'phone company
t, excused its inefficiency on account of
r the war. The boom in Washington
n hgu suddenly and unexpectedly bur',)
dened it with an increase in business
i which it was totally unprepared to
|l take care of. That is true. But it is
[ also true that the service prior to the
war and the local boom was such us
' to goad a member of the Holy Name
i Society to lorget his obligation. The
labor unions said the system was rotlnlous
because the company tried to
nin the switchboards with dollar-a
(I day girls. And when the boom struck
W. the town, the girls got better jobs
Ijj and Quit the soulless corporation
l> cold. It now says that tbe trouble
li; has also been augmented by one Dan
L Cupid. The little love god wooed
I away 100 o? the fairest and best operI
/ ators In the month of July. Although
I wages have been advanced as a lure,
the company claims, girls who want
the jobs are Bcarce. The truth Is that
I the girls are holding down better
I Jobs, and there are better jobs open
to them every day, and plenty of
them, than slaving for the local teler
phrne company. On top of It all
L comes an official report that last .year
I th(s company cleaned up a net profit
I of $1 on every phone it has in service.
The girls who have had the sad experience
of working for it Ire surpr:."(i
that It isn't three Hires that
I much. But it is the subscriber who
Is the helpless nanny.
When your New York business
/ man camarks that the hotel proprie?
tors of his burg should come'over to
| Washington and take a few lessons in
! the gentle art of le grande piracy
V from their fellow tavern keepers
' here, one may know that petty larcency
is - ->t being practiced In the
capital's hotels. There is nothing
petty about it. It iB done on one line,
large 6cale. It must be when the NewYorkers,
who are used to the hotel
holdup gag every day of their lives
L. in the Business Mart and don't mind
It, pause in amazement and admira\
tion at the consummate nerve of the
\ price fixers in the big inns here. It
It hurtful to their civc pride and they i
Show It, that New York hotel men are
i pikers compared to the menulsts ol'
| (his municipality. So gc-nral and unll
versal Is the kick among the thou
I sands of men from all pans 01 me i
, country who are pouring in here on I
\ war business with the government,
! that the Defense Council of the Die-1
I trict has taken a hand and is investi- j
gating. A companion 01 mo ??'?? ??
on the menus ot Washington hotels
H with those of New York and other
H. Jargo cities and with those ot London,
caused the several ^nembeis of the
Council to gasp. J. Eufus Wallingford
never showed a desire to get rich
HI Quicker than .sonic of the hotel neepHI
ers ot the capital show on their
K ' menus. Like the railroads did a de
cade or more ago, they have laid on
all the traffic would bear. And with
all.the extortion, the guests complain
H that the service has deteriorated until
it Is a crime to speak of it as a serH{
rice at all. Two big hotels now building
will Iv open by December, and
/ that may help spme. There is enough
business here now (or a half dozen
Dig hostelerics of the first class.
I t ' Commending Secretary Houston of
the Department oi Agriculture on the
H success of his intensivo canning campaign,
Senator Philander C. Knox, of
Hi the Keystone State, dug this antique
ioggerel out of the moth balls and
sent it along to the Secretary with his
^^H congratulatory bouquet: "A canncr
exceedingly canny, one morning explained
to his granny, a canner can
I can everything that he can, but a can H
ner can't can a can. can he?" Not to
be shown up as rusty on hie Joe Miller,
Secretary Ho-ston fired back a
letter ot thanks in which he ressurrected
this familiar relic: "If a woodchuck
would chuck all the wood he
H routd flhnelr hnw much wood would a
woodchuck chuck It a woodchuck
could chuck wood?" It's bo hot In
Washington that many have gone
crazy with the heat.
A collapsible rat trap has been addRfied
to the soldier's outfit for the
trenches. Trench rats are also an
Hlni enemy of the soldiers fighting In the
K war. They have no allies, but fight
B^H the Germans as well as the English
B^H' and Preach. They make life In the
*/ < dugouts far from pleasant, and fre
ouently, hungry and vicious, they atKg
tack the soldiers. The traps are eo
f WAY TO REAR UNDER
Bk -'Mf'''Wtfy/V/Jm f99f +^^^^m'-.-M^nL
30 by Oen. Kornlloff from the-Austrian
of them being taken to the rear uadei
)N NEWS II;
[By CHARLES BROOKS SMITH.| j
uulo that they take up little room
and do not add much weight. They
will hold a dozen rats. It la just another
of the many new-fangled things
developed by this altogether different
war.
Senator Pomerene of Ohio has Introduced
a novel bi'l, In which he
proposes to reclaim for their country's
service thousands of men who
have been turned down for the army
and navy because of minor physical
defects which a little doctoring and
surgical work for a few weeks or two
or three months will correct. He
wants $100,000,000 appropriated for
the establishment of a camp for men
of this kind, ar-1 he estimates that
2,000,000 out of every 10,000,000
drawn can be reclaimed. Dr. John H.
Quayle, of Cleveland, is the originator
of the idea, wnich is rapidly gaining
support among the officials. Dr.
Quayle got the Idea by having to turn
down many men who had only slight
defects of the eye, ear, skin, or feet,
which could be cured within three
months, and the men made fit for service.
The Ohio Senator estimates
$50 to reclaim each man.
West Virginia, the War Department
announces, didn't supply the
SPECIAL NOTICES
CITY OF FAIRMONT, E8TIMATE
A special session of the Board of A
County, West Virginia, held in the C
Building on the 14th day of August, 19:
ant/o adjournment of August 13, 1917.
Present: Anthony Bowen, Mayor
and Ira L. Smith, Commissioners, beii
Affairs of said City of Fairmont, and 1
ot Fairmont.
In accordance with section 4, chap
session of the Legislature of the State
Affairs proceeded to make up an estli
levied for the current fiscal year, to ci
payablei during said year, including p
purposes and proper allowances for
1~ ""<1 non4inffnn/>inq' hllf dAdlTP
llbUUUO auu wiinuBvMVi\.?,
treasury applicable to the service of tl
determine and estimate the several am
ESTIM
Maximum levy thirty-five (36) cet
and an additional ten (10) cents on th
to ordinance number thirty, passed by
In accordance with the provisions of se
of said City, passed by the Legislature i
20,1913, making a total of forty-five 4E
tion for current purposes, and an addi
cents on the Hundred Dollars valuatii
accrue for payment, during the curren
and Refunding Bonds, dated January 1
pal of certain of said bonds, maturing
year; all of which said bonds were d'
the purpose on December 6,1916, In a
suant to the law In such case made and
(65) cents on the Hundred Dollars vali
/ ESTIMATED
The amount due the said municipi
due and collectible from every source
made for the current fiscal year.
Redemption of Delinquent Lands
Sale of Delinquent Lands
Licenses:
Pool, Billiards and Bowling
Hotel and Restaurant
Tobacco and Cigarettes
Other Licenses
Dog Taxes
Sewer Taps
Police Court Fines <?.
Interest on Funds
Water Rents and Revenues
Water Taps
Capitations ,
Sale of Real Estate ,
Total Estimated Receipts ,
ESTIMATED Dlf
Debts and demands owed by sale
and payable during the current fiscal
debtness of every kind and character, t
ing fund for General Improvement and
levy la provided, as herein set out.
DEPARTMENT OF FIRE, POLICE
General and Administrative:
Salary of Mayor
Salary of Commissioner
Contingent Expense
Fire Department:
Salary of Chief *
Salary of Assistant Chief
Salary of Captain
Salary of Eight Firemen
Salary of Relief Firemen
Oil and Gasoline
Chemicals
Cleaning Supplies
Repairs?Apparatus and Equipment <
Uniforms, Clothlnc and Bedding
Contingent Expense
I
Police Department:
Salary of Chief
^feST
GUARD! '
9
; on the Gallclan front during the
guard.
quota allotted her for the regular
army recruiting, which has Just clog
ed, bringing the regular departmenl
above the full strength. Of courst
this doesn't take into consideratloi
the state's two regiments and the mer
It has furnished to every other brand
of the service. When the totals an
all mado up, Wed Vrginia will b<
found, considering her populatlot
and available fighting men, to stanc
well up toward the top of the lists o;
states that have done their part, ant
done it handsomely and spontane
eusly.
Letters are pouring In from oil met
asking for more particulars about th(
government's report of the discover:
of oil on the Island of Angel de It
Guarda In the Gulf of Callforna. Thi
government hasn't any more informa
tion than it gave out at first. Fron
what the government officials have
they say that the find will equal anything
in the way of oil fields tha
Mexico has. A large number of thesi
letters of Inquiry aro from West Vir
ginia oil prospectors.
Put Scored.
An Irishman once met an English
man with an artificial leg. Being o
a sympathetic nature, Pat Inquire:
the cause of the loss of the limb
whereupon the Englishman said: "J
short time ago X dlscoverd that then
was some Irish blood in my body am
that t had settled In my left leg, so
h..d It cut oft."
"Sure, 'tis a pity It hadn't tettlei
In your head," was the quick retort
SPECIAL NOTICES
8 OF LEVY, FISCAL YEAR, 1917.
August 14, 1917.
ffairs of the City of Fairmont, Mario:
ouncil Chambers thereof, in the Clt;
17, held as provided by law and pursu
and J. Walter Barnes, A. L. Lehmar
ag all the members of said Board o
llbert J. Kern, City Clerk of said Clt;
ter 9, of the Acts of the extraordlcar
of West Virginia of 1908, the Board o
mate of tho amounts necessary to b
>ver all municipal debts and liabilitie
robable expenditures for municlpa
delinquent taxes, expense of col
ting therefrom the money in the clt;
le year and municipal claims and doti
ounts to be levied as follows:
ATES.
its on the Hundred Dollars valuatioi
e Hundred Dollars valuation, pursuan
said Board of Affairs, August 6, 191'
ction seventy-three (73) of the Charte
)f the State of West Virginia, Februar
i) cents on the Hundred Dollars valua
tlonal special levy of twenty-four (24
>n for the payment of the interest t
t fiscal year, on General Imp/ovemcn
, 1917, and the discharge of the prlnc
for payment during the current flscs
uly authbrized at an election held fo
nd for said City of Fairmont, and pui
I provided: making a total of sixty-nln
iation for all purposes.
RECEIPTS.
ality and the amount that will becom
, except from the levy of taxes to h
| 200.0
900.C
$ 600.00
300.00
SOO.OO
1,200.00
700.00
3,600.0
760.0
9 nnn n
500.0
62,878.5
1,500.0
7.000.(1
2,500.0
183,828.6
5BURSEMENTS.
1 munclpallty which will become du
year, Including Interest on bonded ii
saving and excepting interest and sinl
1 Refunding Bonds for which a specit
1AW MP&I TUI SNR CH1PITV
y -r. ?. y ? -mi ? ..- , ..
3 600.0
2,000.0
100.0
? 2,600.0
1,320.0
, 1,200.0
1,060.0
, 8,000.0
500.0
250.0
100.01
100.0
600.0
650.0
200.0
113,780.0
1,820.0
spaeui Monm
Salary of Aaalstaat Cfttef
Satan of Mlsht Sergeant
Salary of Tn Patrolmen
Salary at Pollee Woman
Satan of Special Police
Board and Traaiportntlon of Prisoner
Uniform*
Contingent Expenia
Law Department:
Salary of City Attorney
Court Coeta
Contingent Expense
Health and Sanitary Department:
Salary of City Physician
Salary of Sanitary Officer
Salary of Assiatant Sanitary Officer
Salary of Crematory Attendant ....
Salary of Drivers
Salary of Two Helpers
Oil and Gasoline
Crematory Fuel
Repairs to Apparatus and aquipmant
Medical Supplies and Fumigation ..,
Contingent Expense .
Charity Department:
Provision, Clothing and Duel
Transportation ?.
Hospital
Red Cross Ntirss
Funeral Expense
1 Pensions and Allowances
. Contingent Expense
t
> 8UM
L
i General and Administrative
i Fire Department
Police Department
s Law Department
? Health and Sanitary Department ..
J Charity Department
1 Total, Department of Fire, etc.
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, TA
1 GENER/
a
jr General and Administrative:
i Salary of Commissioner
i Auditing and Accounting
. Premium on Bonds
i Printing and Advertising
, Contingent Expense
t
i City Treasurer's Office:
- Salary of Treasurer
Salary of Office Clerk
Printing and Advertising
Postage
Records, Stationery, etc
' Contingent Expense
f
1
City Clark's Offlot:
' Salary of City Clerk
1 Salary of Stenographer
b Printing and Advertising
1 Postage
I Records and Stationery, etc
Assessor
1 Making up Tax Books V"
Contingent Expense
Interest on General Fund Sonde ...
(Exclusive of Gen. Imj
Special Aeeounta:
Refund of Taxes
Refund of Licenses
Tax Discounts
y
* Delinquencies:
Erroneous Personal Property Taxes
lt Erroneous Real Ectati Taxes
' Personal Property Delinquent Taxes
y Real Estate Delinquent Taxes
y
t
e WATE
s
1 General and Administrative:
j. Auditing and Accounting
y Salary of City Clerk
1
City Treasurer's Office:
Salary of City Treasurer
Salary of Bookkeeper
' Printing and Advertising
Postage
Records, Stationery, etc
Salary of Office Clerk
Contingent Expense
Refunds?Water:
Water Rents
: Tap Charges
Turn-off Charges
e Interest on Water Fund Ordera
Intereat on Water Fund Bondt
SUM
6 General Fund:
6 General and Administrative
City Treasurer's Office
. City Clerk's Office
Interest on General Fund Bonds ....
(Excluding Gen. Imp. and Refund
Special Accounts
Delinquencies
Total General Fund
Water Fund:
I General and Administrative, Water
? City Treasurer's Office, Water ...?
n Refunds Water
: Interest on Water Fnnd Orders
J Interest on Water Fund Bonds
jj Total Water Fund
~ Total, Department of Finance, et
DEPARTMENT OF STREETS, Wl
on
e General and Adminlatrativai
Salary of Commissioner
E| Engineer Expense and Snperintender
" Contingent Expense ,
Department of Street* end Wftarvti:
Street lighting, Electric
0 Street Lighting, Gat
0 Street Cleaning
0 Repairs to Streets and Alley*
- Repair* to Sidewalk*
0 Repair* to Bridge*
Contingent Expense
0
0
0 Department of Publle Building*:
0 Salary of Janitor
0 Light and Heat
0 Insurance
1 Repair* to Building* and Furniture,..
0 Contingent Expense
0
0
0
" SUM
General and Administrative
0 Department at Street* tad Whanrea,.
tpioiiL warn
AMAAMA MM
1400.M D*
1,000.44
... 10,000.04
000.04
000.04
000.04
.. "010.04 fl,
*>.00 si
I1B.T70.04 g
0 000.04
400.04 ??
000.04 j?
I 1,500.04 ?jj
? AAA A A i
HIM *,VWV.U? pL
V... 1,300.00 Re
600.00 Co
140.00 CQ
1,800.00
1,200.00 ..
1,000.00 ?,
600.00 "
I.... 360.00
"? ?? ne
* i '?? #*iv 200.00
$ 0,800.00
I 360.00 a'
100.00 E?
1,200.00 ft.
300.00 i,
160.00 Co
; 1,000.00
60.00
u.
I 3,060.00 Ss
MARY. s*
M(
$ 2,600.00 Sh
13,780.00 Pt|
15,770.00 Co
1,500.00
9,300.00
3,060.00
(46,000.00 8e
iXATION AND PUBLIC UTILITIES. 84
4L PUND. E?
To
R(
? 2,000.00
700.00
350.00
100.00
100.00 Q(
Pu
$ 3,250.00 R;
w
? 760.00 ?.
720.00 o,
200.00
, 100.00
200.00
180.00
I a.'ioo.oo p|
Ei
I 1,000.00 0>
900.00 Cl
260.00 ft
100.00 T<
200.00
860.00
200.00 Ei
100.00 Fl
F1
I 3,100.00 H
| 860.00
p. and Refunding Bonds)
v.-.. .$ 200.00 *
200.00 ?
2,000.00" ?
I 2.400.00 ?
I 180.00
100.00 ?
2,000.00
660.00 S
12,800.00 ?
R FUND,
I 700.00 M
600.00 M
? &
n. ii nan no
ra
..v.,y. v.r.f 750.00
1,080.00
100.00 p
300.00 E
200.00 y
720.00 s
100.00 j]
3 3,250.00
I 300.00
75.00
25.00
, ? w
'"- 'A'evT*-**--' r- I 400.00 J8
.......T. .5 1,500.00 ?
J 3,400.00 Is
MARY.
I 3,250.00
2,100.00 E
3,100.00 n
350.00 E
ing Bondi) n
2,400.00 u
2,800.00 j,
114,000.00 ?
9 1,100.00 .
3,250.00 ^
% 400.00
1,600.00
._ 3,400.00
9 3,750.00
e 933,750.00 |j
-4ARVES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND ?'
lOUNDB, ?
B
*1
9 3,000.00 li
tee (00.00 1?
100.00 fl
tl
9 3,700.00
b
..918,000.00 pi
300.00 (i
4,000.00 ?l
1,000.00 oi
500.00 a
1,000.00 n
1,000.00 01
125,800.00 tj
tc
I 720.00 tl
v.- 1,000.00 ?
300.00 8
.....*. 200.00 0
280.00
I 'l,500.00 ft
01
MAAY,
*
r? *? ^ (? * 2,700.00
26,800.001
1 "1 -i
picial yontai j i
partartst of fvMtt WMtnge
Totals Deportment Of fttreetc, eto
dcmntmcnt or watir t
WATER FUN
nerel and AtoMoMrtttvei
lery of Oosrttieeioaer
?ineerini tad Raperlntondenee
ntlngent Expense
mp SUtl?n:
lary of Engineer! and Firemen
el and Light
olt and Supplies
brlcanta, waste, ate.
lorlne Gs# '
pairs and Replaeemants
nUngent Expense
ervolr:
lary of Tender
ght and Heat
ola and Supplies
palra and Replacements
ntlngent Expenae
iter Unas:
lary of Foramen
iglneerlng Expense
ola and Supplies
pairs and Replacements
fveenaa
UliUgOUV
iter Department and Shop:
lery of Plumber
lary of Inepeetor
iter Repairs and Supplies
op Tool*, etc
pe Valves and Fittings
ntingent Expense
GENERAL.
were?General Fund:
lary of Foreman
iglneering Expense
iols and Supplies ,
pairs to Severs
SUMMARY:
neral and Administrative
imp Station
iservoir
ater Llnea
ster Department and Shop
vers
Total, Department of Water and Sewers
CLASSIFICATION OF IMPR
ivad Streets
iglneering and Superintendence
ading
irba and Sidewalks
tving, Labor and Material
tola and Supplies
juipment:
trniture and Furnlsblngi
re Department Equipment
ealth Department Eqnlpment
'ater Mains:
iglneering and Superintendence
ew Lines
ools and Suppllee
urchase of Water Lines ,
jntingent Expense
irvice Lines: ,
ugiucenug auu ovpoiiuwJUBUva
ew Service Lines .
sola and Supplies
satin gent Expense
Iicellaneovs Equipment:
eters
bop Tools
X* SUMMARY.
ived Streets -..v.
qulpment .
/iter Mains *
srvlee Lines ....
:iscellaneous Equipment ......
Total (or Improvements .
BOND BINKINO RUN
r
(Exclusive of General Improvement i
liter Fund Bonds:
isue 1910, 168,000.00
eneral Fund Bonds:
isue 1910, $7,000.00
Total, Sinking Funds
r.ICAFITULATIC
epartment of Fire, Etc
rpanmtrai ui rianaue, oio,
epartment of Streets, etc
epartment of Water end Sewers
nprovements
Inking Funds (Exclusive of Gen. Imp. and Eel
Total Estimated Expenditure#?Current j
ess estimated receipts?Current purposes...
Amount necessary to be raised by levy
amount necessary for General Impro
lng Bonda)
It appearing to the Board, of Affairs that tl
roperty in this municipality according to t
19,112,302.00; being real estate to the value i
rty to the value of <4,816,(82.00, and railroad
is Board of Public Works to the value of <
novil iffalot k? 4V* AMsa* wKaia. /liltw It
VO'U VI OUBUD V/ lil? VWVGi T> HVUO vuv/ ??
?pearing from thi foregoing estimates that H
Iter deducting all oredtts, tl7.86C.3S for mi
. determined that a levy on each One Hnndi
re (46) cents for mnnlclparpurposea will bi
mated amount, as aforesaid, for the entuin
And it further appearing to the Board of J
> lay a sufficient additional lory for the purpt
eynent of the interest which will become d
ilng fiscal year on the lssnt of bonds of this
ral Improvement and Refunding Bonds, dtted
t the whole thereof, to-wit, the sum of $7(0,01
sinking fund tor the discharge of the prln
aturing for payment during the current flsci
I this city and the law la aucb case made ai
irttlned thgt a apeelal levy on each Ono Hum
' four (24) cents la sufficient and la necassar
i most and discharge aald Interest and said
te Issue of bonds aforesaid.
late of West Virginia
ounty of Marion, To-Wit:
I, Albert J. Kern, City Clerk in and for
ounty of Marlon, and 8tate of West Virgin
iregolng Is a true copy from the records of
E Affairs of aald municipality cn the 14th day
Otven under ay band thli 16th day of Aug
AI
. City Cleric of
Marios C
BPXOZiX KOTTCn
WW.IMMI" .>?????
kNO tlWRRI
?'5jaS? '.-SH
JVV.W
' ' *"
v ^ IlM
T7
J,000,oj j . ,'$
1,000.00 ' ; '1
- IW.W
"i I
wd Refunding Bonds)
sit.tt - 9
Funding Bonds) 2,484.00
Pwpoiu |nO,l?M4
si ssi W '
(Exclusive of (he
vement and Refund- ^ ^ ^ ^ 1 *|
he total valuation ol all taxable
he last aaaeasment thereof ii ' ./y
?f J12,280,606.00, personal propand
other property assessed by -. J
3,354,765.00, as certified to the . $
Is to mike such report, and it a
t Is necessary to raise by levy,
inlclpal purposes; therefore It -ft
red Dollars valuation of fortye
necessary to produce the ee- , -0t
affaire that it will he necessary
see of providing a fund foe the .:|||
ue and payable dorlm the en- |
city, called and known as Qen- <
January x, 1317. betas interest j
10.00 bondi, and the croatidft or
elpal of certain of laid bond!
il row, pursuant to wflimil . ;j
id provldad; therefore It to do- - JS
Ired Dollari valuation of twos- .^jjgg
r and will be required in order -Z
maturing bonds In relation to
the municipality of Fairmont ,
la, do hereby certify that the
an ofder made by tbo Board
of Auguet, 1917.
wt, i9i7. , mum
BERT J. KERN, , . |g?
the Municipality ot Fairmont, -
nnntv Vlrffip**