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S*fes4,939i fflfitttitmatt A Quality Newspaper for the Home \^^/<W V V ^ V nlBht; W.dne?d?y filr. Horthern West Virginia's Gretziost ISempxner ESTABLISHED lfc o. member ASSOCIATED PRESS. FAIRMONT, WEST VIRGINIA, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18. 1917. TODAY-S NEWS TODAY PRICE THREE CENTS COAL PI SUPT. I00T1AH IK FOR IS ABSENCE IM ARM! W. E. Michael and T. G y 1 Moore Will Be In Charge of Office. REGULAR OFFICE HOURS Enrollment In the County This Fall Will Be About 11,000. Posted on the door of county superintendent in the court house today wis a notice staling that the business affairs of the office will be looked tar for the present by W E Mic' and T. C. Moore who have been a s!:t ing in the work of the olfice for several years. The regular office hours will be each evening from V to s a ,d all day on Saturdays l.ett'r nay braddressed to box No. b'Sm. Mr Michael will have charge of the regular office work?that of correspondence and do tails of the school work. Mr. Moore will have charge of the tinancisl secretarys work, which Include< the hookkeeping and payroll. In closing llontcr C. Toothman the superintendent ci t "give these men your heartiert < operation." Today Mr. Toothman staled th-t this year's census of young pcyplc, htween the ages of six and twenty one jcaio was xt.o-s nut h nuinner 01 me older ones would not enter the school as heretofore. He estimates the enrollment for the coming year at 11.090. Many of the rural schools will opeu next Monday. oin FOB DRAFTED IN Red Cross Canteen Committee Will Also Give Men Packed Lunch. The townspeople oi Fairmont through the Canteen committee of the local Red Cross society will give a dinner to the thirty young uieu of the city who were recently called to the serivec of the nation and who de part on Thursday evening tor Petersburg, Va? where they will undergo military' training A meeting ol the Canteen committee and officials ul the itcd Cross was held this morning when plans were worked out for the dinner which will be served on Thursday evening at live o'clock probably in the Y. M C A building. Illwlfntlnnc ?-M1 Kn ciiod lUemiwU Red Cross society to the young men composing the Kuirmont quota, and each young man will be given the privilege of bringing two friends to the dinner. Covers will be laid for the drafted men, their friend.-, the local draft board and probably come of the city officials though the complete list has not been made out as yet. It is planned to have several five minute talks by prominent men of the city. An excellent menu will be served which will be prepared by the people of the community under the direction Of the local Red Cross unit. In addition to the dinner to be served the men, the Canteen committee is planning to present each man with a packed lunch to carry with him on the Journey to the training camp The Canteen committee is working In conjunction with the advisory committee of men of the city in their efforts to provide a suitable send off for the young men who go to give their services to their, country. Marion Co, Elks. Get State Offices DEER PARK. Md? Sept. 18?Offl cars ware electee as ioiiows tonay at the Ninth annual meeting of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks reunion association of West Virginia In session here: James Adyson. of Wheeling, president; T. A. Williams of Slstersvllle, first vice president; Dr. C. H. Nelll of Fairmont, second vice president; L. B Huey of Mannington. third vice president; Jay Reefer of Clarksburg, secretary. J. L. Cramer of Parkersburg, treasurer. M. P. Whittea of Bluefleld, A. E. Scheer of Charleston and Lysle Jones of Parkersburg trustees. Long 1 ? 1 i . , RODUCTIQ POLIO SITUATION IS CLEARING UP No Foundation for Report That Case Has Developed In This City. For some reason there was a mis- . leading report circulating about Fair- j | mont last evening that a little colored i child living in the coal run section i | had been afflicted with poliomyelitis. 1 I The suspected case was little Krt-1 j ward Lewis, aged three months. The case was reported to Acting Ci'y ! Health Officer H. L. Criss, who ire; mediately visited the case together i with Dr. C. R. Welrich ot the stilo ! health commission and found the lit: tie child to be afflicted with pneumonia, but no traces of infantile panly1 sis. Colored children are not altogetner | Immune from the malady but it Is j very rare among the colored rada. Out of the entire outbreak in New I York last year, there was but throe colored children afflicted. County Health Physician Dr. L. K. Y'ost said today that not only are : I there no cases ot Infantile paralysis in j Fairmont but the situation throughout' j the county is clearing up. The rase ; | exists at Hoult. Dr. Yost has been besieged wtih I i calls from various parts of the county j j today concerning ihe reported case'l In this city, but was able in each inj stance to state that there was no n ?\v | patients. tain? i OF YOUNG BANKERS Many Fairmont Trust Company Stockholders Gv -ts of President Hood I The dinner In honor of Fay M. Denj ham and Fred M. Jenkins, attaches ol I the Fairmont Trust company, who I have been called for the National I army, which was given last evening ! at The Fairmont by Col. Smith Hood, j president of the company, proved to I be a very notable testimonial, for othj er guests of Col. Hood to the number I o labout 40 were Fairmont Trust company stockholders, and under the ; skillful handling of the host the din | tier became a family affair during which the young men were assured | that their careers in the army would be watched with affectionate interest, their places open when they return, and they were each given a cashier's check for $100. Practically every one present bad something to say during the evening, including the ladies, of whom there were quite a number, and there was a strong undercurrent of patriotism and of laith in the ability of the two young bankers to make good in the new environment, to all the remarks. Special interest was felt by all in the brief speeches made by City Commissioner J. Walter Barens, who will have two sons in the National annv? just as many as^the bank will huv*. he said?and C. S. Riggs, who has a son already in France. During the course of the speech making Col. Hood read several leltere or regret which contained express! ju of regret for the honor guest quite as laudatory as any made on the floor, and he announced that the absence of Treasurer Fletcher was due to the fact that he has been summoned to attend Federal court at Martinsburg. a summons which, be added with a smile, is quite as imperative as a call to the army. The dinner party con sisted of the following: Charles L. Wise, W". M. Kennedy, T. L. Blrcblnal, J. C. Fetty, Norman Cordray, Clarence D. Robinson, Fay M. Donham, Smith Hood. Fred M. Jamison, J. A. Jamison, 1. N. Lucas, J. E. Anderson. J. H. Beckman. . E. Watson, r., Smith Hood, Mrs. amison, Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. Hood, C. L. Shaw, John F. Phillips. A. B. Meredith. J. W. McDonald, J. Walter Barnes, A. B. Fleming, H. J. Hartley, Mrs. Anna Morgan, Mannington; Miss Nettle Martin, Miss Edith L. Bryan, Mrs. M. A. Fletcher, Lee Swisher, J. B. Crowl, J. L. Leech. M. E. Fetty, C. S. Riggs. Mrs. A. Howard Fleming. Mrs. James L. McCleary, Mrs. D. N. Snider, Genevieve Cordray, Mrs. Ella Fetty, T. W. Hennen. Ward M. Downs, J. C. Herbert. Joseph Lehman, O. F. Lough, James O. Watson. ' Hoult Child Dies of Infantile Paralysis Olln P. Hoult aged 4 years and 11 months, son or Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hoult of Hoult djed this morning at the home of his parents from infantile paralysis. He had been ill for several days before his case was pronounced to be paralysis. The body will be interred late this afternoon in Meadowdale cemetery by Undertaker Musgrave and Son. Evenings Are Here? IN FALLS MARINES GUARD1 UNION IRKS Hi SAN FRANCISCO Industrial Disturbances Along Pacific Coast Are Spreading. tlGElENJAI GO Striking Carpenters Are Doing Their Best To Spread Strike. (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 18.?Two companies of United States Marines were on guard duty here today at the plant of the Union Iron works, largest of the concerns involved in strike of approximately 25,000 mechanics affiliated with the San Francisco lrjt Trades council. The walkout of workmen followeti the failure of employers to r|ach u setllement o? difference growing out , of demand of the men for an increase of oO per cent in wages. A strike of all union freight handlers employed in the coast division of Southern Pacific railroad will be called at noon today unless company officials here grant an audience to representatives of the recently formed union, according to a statement by Gordon A. Page, an organizer. The workers -1e mand a 15 per cent increase in wages ! and a re instatement of several men ! alleged to have been discharged in for their- efforts in forming the union. WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.?Secretary Wilson has telegraphed W. T. Boyce assistant commissioner of tm migration at San Francisco to tender his offices as mediator conciliator in settlement of the strike of iron workers and ship builders there. Mr. Boyce has been instructed to keep in close touch with the deevlopments and to advise the Department of Labor promptly concerning them. Extension or tlie strike to mills producing lumber for government snips is feared by the sbip building offlci?i:i. Erom Portland and Astoria, Ore., came reports that striking carpenters were trying to persuade other work men to walk out and lumber mills (night be effected. ONE BOMB'S TERRIBLE WORK. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 18? In the re- j cent raid by Entente airmen on the Belgian town of Roulers, says the' Courlere Dla NeUBe, a newspaper of I Maastricht Holland, a bomb fell on a building near the market and killed or wounded 900 Germans. TO RAISE $1,000,000 FOR CAMP LIBRARIES 1 WASHINGTON, D. C.. Sept 15.? The Liberty War Council of America wants $1,000,000 to supply our boys in tbe camps and on ships with gooa reading matter. Harold Braddock of Montclair, N. J., in charge of the campaign for this fund, is urging American citizens to coiunouie. Money, rather than old hooks, Is wanted?to erect library buildings, ship books and furnish a trained library in each camp. The Liberty War Council, appointed by Secretary of War Baker, is under the leadership of Frank A. Vanderlip. famous banker, and co-operation to raise the money is promised by the churches, libraries and leading publishers throughout the country. Have The West Vin ; OFF 3, FRENCH VICTORS CEL r fj\. ^Kf I >^>_ \ BWy HH M .-' '*;IVK' . The tri color flew gaily to the breeze In the Alsatian town of Masscvaln on the third aniversary of the Frnech reoccupation of this town, which has been under the Prussian heel since STsjBirW TERM THjSMOHNING Every Indication Points To Record Breaking Enrollment. Students from all parts of the stato enrolled today at the Kairmont State Normal school, for the first r" astei of the year 1917! and students will ontinue to enroll during the week tad the full quota which will attend ibi Normal for the semester will not he known for several days. Several of the stuuents who have signilied their intention of attending the Normal this year were detarioa at home to help with the fall wcrk about the farms, but will be in during this week or next. While the greater number ot the students who enrolled this morning were young women yet the number of young men who have enrolled is a gratifying surprise to the faculty. The large building was a hive of industry today the various members of the faculty endeavoring with the aid of the students to properly classify and register the students so that routine work might begin tomorrow. It is believed the enrollment this years will be larger than that of last year, all indications pointing to that fact. The various members of the faculty who reside out of the ctiy were in their places this morning as well at, the local contingency and according to President Joseph Hosier, things are starting otf with a vim which bo-ICS well for the semesters work. The first chapel exercise for the year will be held tomorrow morning at eleven o'clock. The students wilt assemble in the auditorium and short talks will be given by members ct the faculty who will outline the work which will be carried on this year. Patriotic songs will also feature the program for the chapel exercise. Each incoming train and trolley today brought its quota of students for the Normal. The girl3 dormitory is full and many of the young wo.vn students will be obliged to take rooms elsewhere throughout the ctiy. ? Minnie Jean Reed Dies In Harrison Co. News was received here today of the death of Minnie Jean, the eight months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. T5 nnj UUU 1 ' ivc7t_-? wuivu uucuu ru yesiernay ai their home at Benson Harrison county. The child had been ill for two weeks apd her grandmother Mrs. Mary Reed had been called to Benson by her Illness. She returned home a week ago, however, when It was thought that the child was recovering and no further news of her illness had been received. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Reed and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Redd and Miss Thelma Reed, the latter a half sister ol the baby motored to Benson today and attended the funeral services. Mrs. Mary Reed is in Wheeling with her son John Reed and family and could not reach Benson In time for the services. The baby Is survived by a hall sister and brother. Miss Thelma and Chester Reed, and by two sisters Lll llan and Beatrice and a brother Toten. linian Sent Regulari 000,000 EBRATE IN GERMANY! 1 /V I /vl^s ! / 1 / i ^ -y>-?tg.wflp < tfibTywgr 11S70. Not the Alsatian girls in their | picturesque native dress, and the 1 French poilus walking down the vil-| lage street confident that this partj of France's former glory has been re-: I won to the tri-color forevtr. OliEiTi BANNER WHEAT CROP More Wheat Will Be Sown In Marion County This Fall. Probably the banner wheat crop threshed out in Marion county is that of W. H. Manly near Kilarm. Grant district, which averages 34 bushels to the acre on a tract of ten acres. Mr. Manl ysold his product to the Shinnston Mill Company at $2.20 a bushel. H. L. Smith, the county agricultural agent states that he regrets that he did not get at least some of this grain for seed purposes. The general indications point to more wheat being sown in this section this year. Some of the best wheat grown in this section of the state is procured from the Hoffman seed house at Landlsville, Lancaster county, Ta., having been purchaesd from that firm for ten years or more. In his travels over the county. Coun ty agent Smith has learned that Thomas Pritchard o? R. D. No. 4. Monongah, has 120 bushels of seed wheat for sale at $2.50 a bushel from his home. It is clean wheat and only one fanning will be necessary. Mr Smith has a sample of the wheat in his office at the court house. MORGAN CQNIINUES TO DENY SHOOTING ?_ I Talk Indicates That He Will Pin His Faith In An Alibi. Another day's developments in the fox hunting murder of Saturday ni$ht finds William S. Morgan, the accused continuing to deny his guilt. He is endeavoring to prove that he was seen at other places at the time of the murder. Deputies have visited the scene of the murder but have been unable to add anything further to the evidence. For some reason an impression pre vuueu yesieroay mat juuu ivnigni was among those arrested and brought to Fairmont and later released. This is not true, however, as Knight had no connection whatever with the happenings of Saturday night. Charles Musgrave the member of the fox hunting party that was wounded about the face and neck is not at his home rapidly recovering from the younds. He is able to get about. TYPHUS PRISON CAMP.* PARIS, Sept. 18?Albert Champion a French soldier who on his third attempt has just escaped from Germany brings information according to the Paris edition of the New York Herald that 3700 French and British soldiers and 15,000 Russians have died of typhus at German concentration camp at Cassel, 90 miles northeast of Frankfort on the Main. ly to Your Home?It IONS fl 116 QUESTIONS FOR COALJflODUGERS National Association Making Wide Inquiry Into Costs of Mining. W ith tlie object of proving to tl>e Federal Trade Commission that c-.il cannot be produced at per ton. the National Coal Operators Association is sendin all the subsidiary coal associations large circulars to be lilted out and returned. These will show the cost, income and tonage of the bituminous coal production Irom every mine affiliated with the national organization. The circulars were received at the office o? the Central West Virginia Coal Operators Association, which is one of the charter members of the national organization, yesterday, and are being mailed out to each of the members today. The reports when complete will show exactly the coBt of operating the mines and putting the coal Into "?rs ready for shipment. The reports contain in all 116 Items giving the most detailed information regarding the cost of production. The memberB of the Central West Virlgnia Coal Operators Association wil make out their reports Immediately and mall them to the local office in the Jacobs building. Here the reports will be compiled and sent to the office of the National Coal Operators Association at Washington and later submitted to the Federal Trade Commission. foormbI BRIDGE UfllHC East Side Approach To Structure Across River Quite a Problem. . % Jut where the new Monongahela river bridge will land on the East Side is the principal problem that the members of the Board ot Affairs are now confronting. Plans were received in Fairmont yesterday giving four different versions of the bridge. They are being considered and one of the four plans will likely be selected within the next few days. Two of the plans shown the bridge landing at the corner of Newton and Water streets. One of these show I the driveway on the west side ap j preaching the bridge i a direct line from the corner of Jefferson and ' Washington streets and passing through property at the corner of Jcf ferson street and Cleveland avenue benolgnig t oht eVane herls . Thsl plan would make the street and the bridge in almost a direct line troir Washington street to Newton street Another plan with the bridge land ing at the corner of Newton streel cuts off less of the Vance property and makes a slight angle between the two streets. * The third plan which is the choice of many shows the East Side landing on Water street Just above the Penn j sylvania railroad station and aboul ISO feet from the corner of Newtoi and Water streets. This would make the street and the bridge in a straighl line from Washington street to the landing on Wattr street. The fourth plan shows the east sidt j landing at the corner of Newtor | street, cutting through very little o ! the Vance property, but with a con j siderable angle between Wasliingtor | street and the east aide landing. City Hall Notes { The second consecutive peaceful da> prevailed in Fairmont yesterday re suiting in an absolutely blank progran: for the nine o'clock police court ses sion. Chief Harr proved himself an effi cient teacher on moral3 yesterdaj when he brought two youngsters tc the city hall building for fighting. At ter fatherly advice they were dismiss ed. The city officers are looking for a Ford with license number 11,017. A telephone call was received at the local station asking the officers to lool out for the car which was stolen or Saturday evening. As yet they havt been unable to locate the theif of tht car. City Engineer S. B. Miller and Streei Commissioner A. L. Lehman are it Pittsburgh conferring with represen tatives of the government relative t( several matters pertaining to the con struction of the Monongahela rivei bridge. ?? ANOTHPB LVNCHINO IN GFORGN ATHENS, Gsu, Sept, IS.?Ruiu Moncries, a negro 30 years old wa lynched early today near Whitehall The usual crime was charged. Hi I body was found hanging beside th I road. Interests th Whole - . MONTH FUEL III IS i CERTAIN UMLESS i cum mm. I Ullf IIIUL UUUUIIU Homes of the East Will Have Hard Coal To Keep Them Warm. tndusiry 10 suffer Will Not Be Enough Soft ' Coal To Keep Them Running. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. IS?Report* to the Geological survey on the prtv . ductlon or bituminous coal showing * decrease during the month of August at the ratae of more than 3,000,000 tons a month Indicates a shortage of coal this winter, feared by many government officials, may be a reality unlets * production shows a decided Increase. Indications are that while there will be sufficient anthracite for domestle consumption In the east there may Insufficiency of bituminous to keep.lnr dustrial plants going at the preeent car parity. MS MADE OF mimic mill i UllUUIIIIVU IIILIIIk ' Tube Dug Up After Quartex of Century Is Good As New. | ? -SB | The Gas department of the Jlonoty* | gahela Valley Traction Company made i an interesting discovery last week I garding the durability of the pipe that ! is laid under the city for the gas liue^. | By removing a piece ot the pipe trotyl j one of the six inch mains that have | been under the ground for over twenty ' live years, the local authorities fount) | the pipe to be in the best of 'dohdl! 'Ion. ; The oldest of the lines have bpijty a 'v; | in the ground for almost thirty years i and it was the opinion ot the gas db- "if".; ! partment that before many years they ; would have to be replaced with Bef? ' - lines at a considerable cost. The ptece 'f of steel that was removed from .the ' i main after a tap for the new (jaW' mont investment building on Cl^vfr 'I land avenue was weighed and found < to weigh exactly the same as the toy ?3 ;i it was put into the ground. It is, lha | opinion of the gas experts thai ' all 'I of the local lines wilt be good for at I least a hundred years. ....... -.j NICDLn SALVAtr : I WRITES DF THE WAR 1 >lre. Anna Clrmo, of Monougah. y??j , . J terday received a letter from tier brother, Nicolo Salvlti, who li with i. the Italian army lighting for pospesalou of rieste. The letter was writ| ten on August 13, and foresh'adowii | the brilliant Italian offensive which 1 won for the Italian army the profound i admiration of the whole world. F&a letter shows the writer, and indeed i:.) the whole Italian army, to be tngplreu with loftiest courage and patriotism and ready to make any sacrifice* hccessary to win Trieste "the shining city where our brothers are suffering under the Austrian rule." Nlcolo Salvltl, the writer of this.lil! , ter, is well known to many Fairmont . and Monongali people. His father i? Camlllo Salvltl a prominent Motiongab merchant and he himself weat to the Fairmont schools and was graduated from the Fairmont Business ttl \ ?11L juuiuu uiu iuiiuu aiiny jusi-SrS j a few weeks previous to the breaking j.lji ?a| out of the war and has seen some very . hard and hazardous service tins* / 31 Italy entered the struggle. ' i GERMANY APOLOGIZES I STOCKHOLM. Sept. 18.?The Gep . man minister to Sweden today formali ly expresed to the Swedish govtAment Germany'a regret hi consequtn| ce of the Swedish-Argentinian tele- I i BLOODY DISORDERS IN FINLAND HELSIXFORS, Sept. lS.^In th? i course of dlsordeds at the Flnnith fortified seaport of Viborg, 74 miles gf < J i northwest of Petrograd in which sol ; diers wer inrolved twenty offfcffi*' 'mm , were killed and sixty others missing .Ha ^ l j-: ' j