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1 J \ Dally Average A Uj October 1917 ") /' ' V A Quality NewepJier for the ESTABLISHED lbm mew JAPAN r um lis | liiikiimu MRU SEim t War Office at Rome Admits Mountain Positions Lost MB KJI1EUU \ Berlin Report Says It Has Been Abandoned Clear / | to Coast. v tby Associated / j ROME, Nov. 6.?The Italians have t eeen compelled to evacuate territory J In the mountainous area north of the plains ot northern Italy lit order to establish their new Hue, the War office reports. The enemy occupied the territory after the Itallsin withdrawal BERLIN. Nov. 6.?The Italian tine on the Tagliamento river i as been won Ij oy toe AURiro-iieritians. it was jrrtctaily said today by the German general ) staff. . The Italians have evacuated the en. tire line along tlie river to Adriatic coast. The Gorman statement says i that trom the Hellr. valley to the Co! V brlcon, north of tho Sugana valley the l) Italians arc retreating (this region ltv I clude\the Iront along the notomi". -s I and Carnlc Alps). Condagratiors. the German staleJ tnent says, Indicates that the route he. i lng taken by the retiring Italians is . between the mountains and the sea i through the upper Italian plains. WATERCQNSWTION IS LOW JUST NQW Is* |l Ngc itiuch Incentive to I. waste it?mats me Reason. Water consumption in Fairmont 1> lower Just now than It has been for year. At present the water con sumption averages 3,500,000 gaiolns ' per day. The low consumption is due ! to season of the yenr. In the hoi i summer months, spiggots are let run for cooling purposes, while In the winter they aro let run to keep pipes from freezing. For this reason the i season in the year when temperature , la most moderate, water consumers are most conservative in the use ol their water. Although the water consumption Is \ low Just now it is not near as low I as It should he. At this time of the L year 2,000,000 gallons of water pet day should be sufficient for a city ' | the size of Fairmont. 1 It will only be a lew weeks until . the water consumption in Fairmont I will begin to raise because of waste I, In letting eplggots run. It Is hoped H that a large number of the new water ta RlAtprR m?v ho orlrlnH liofnra tho rr\n. [Hon begins to Increase. When :ity Is entirely metered It Is es:ed that the water consumption at no time exceed the minimum int that Is now being used. ss Lindsay Begins Work in Monongah ss Maud Lindsay, bead rur-e and assistant to Dr. Peter N'oe, Jr, at Traction Path Hospital for polioItls has returned from New fork e she has ben visiting friends and Ives for the past few'weeks. mediately upon arriving here she aed her duties as a nurse In the loyment Relationship Department le Consolidation Coal Company. Lindsay Is at present at Monontaklng thn place of Miss Sallle ge. Miss George who was located onongab at the time nf the polloItls outbreak has been transferto Carolina and, Ida May. This Paper is , IBER ASSOCIATED PRES8. AND A MISS M'KINNEY WIL ACCEPT HEW OFFIC Appointment Broadens an Strengthens Power She Already Had. i Miss Margaret Mc Kinney Falrmoni newly appointed police matron yest< day afternoon appeared before tl Board of Affairs and formally acce] ed the office, though she has not bei formally sworn In office. MIsb McKlnnev's new nosltlon w | follow closely the work she has doi | so faithfully for the Associated Cha ' ties organization for several yeai though she Is given broader powe aud will, when Bworn In, be given pc or to arrest and will be eligible wear the badge of Ihe police wonts Miss McKinney's duties will const in looking after destitute women wl come before the City Board of Affal and she will be given power to arre women wner-ever evidence Is such th arrest Is desirable or necessary to t welfare of the women and the cl generally. The work while following out t linen upon which the Associated Cbt itles work is planned, Is considers!] broader. JACK ABBOTT JOIN MILLER Popular Local Young Ma Enlists at Boston Where He Was Working.* Jack Abbott, son of Mrs. J. 11. A bott, of Fairmont, nephew of Fred Martin, of Grafton, and A. G. Mart county clerk of Marion county, onlh ed In the field artillery at Boston th week apd leaves there Thursday moi Ing for Fort Slocum. Mr. Abbott, who is 23 years of a, has been In Boston since June In tl employ of the Burrough Adding Ai chine Co. He has been talking of c | listing for some time but tbe she ' was not lessened to Ills mother whi she received this telegram this moi I ing: ! "Unlisted today In field service ai | go to Fort Slocum, N. Y.. Thursdi | morning. There for the present. Si ; ry I couldn't get home before enlf ! lng. Love." State Workers at Co. S. .S Conventio The Marlon County Sunday sch< convention will be held on Friday this week, November 9, in tbe Chi tlan church at Barrackville. A spl< did program has been arranged a the opening session will be?hcld 10:30 a. m. Among the speakers I the convention will be Mrs. Ella Sni state secretary of elementary wo and wife of State Secretary Sno She will address each session of t convention of which there will be at 10:30, 2 p. m. and 7 p. m. Oth >' speakers who will address the c< i ventlon will be Rev. H. D. Clark : Mannlngton. J. W. Cooper, E. i Thomas, Rev. T. B. Lawler, Rev. ,li > Brown, L. S. Schwenk and Mr. E i ridge. ! Court Grants Two Divorces Toda i Several orders were made In t [ chancery division of intermedia ' court this morning by Judge V cent. In the cause of Tta* TV Mtrhnnl i Bessie Michael a divorce was grant from bed and board. Desertion w 1 the ground. The next cause In which an ord was made was that of William Be< with vs. Ida May Beckwlth. An ab! lute divorce was granted on t ground ot desertion. A ten-year< boy is now in the custody of the mol er. Judge Villcent did not make order in reference to the custody the child at this time. Surgical Patients at Cook Hospite W. G. Gould underwent an operati yesterday afternoon at Cook hospll and today is resting well with go prospects of recovery. Mr. Goi went to Pittsburg where be consult specialists at the West Penn bospti in regard to an operation and cat here and entered the local lnstltutl where the operation was perform yesterday. Mrs. A. L. Lepson. of this city, a Mrs. Mollle Shingleton, of the Et side, nnderwent operations today Cook hospital. Hall Brnmmage ot Sural Route b 1 Is a medical patient at the posit Published in the In . . - A ' FAIRMONT, WEST VIRC MERICfl I SAMMY ISNTFAl L VB&0HA J QHH _ '" I ' . \ \ t rr a \'/ ^ <wji d IV-. Kj 2 j\ tie < J f ' V It I \_V 1 1 U sn j I 111 J no ' / ri- I rs, ! Vi?ur:HAi?Au A m ' T itiKtcoo ?w ! / * to / m. i / 1st / ho ' ' fa grr-w TB iet The revelation that U. S. troops an at shows In what general part of France I he a scouting party ot 12 Americans woro < ty fighting line near the Franco-German the great French fortress that stopper! ho Hnan In tVawaa ?#??_ ik?l. J-? * -4 *V _ ? nuvu iu atici iucu uoicai ai ? CBALDPERATOfiS' TALK V AT All , 1F0RMAL LUNCH Harrison County Producers Gather at the Waldo Each t. Monday a, it LIS . ? | H Coal Situation * Reminds Swayne * of a Good Story "The public does not understand ' the coal shortage." remarked Noah H. Swayno ot Philadelphia at a recent banquet held In Chicago. "The situation of the operators is akin to ''f' that when my namesake was the first navigator. Japhet looked out from the ark at tho fathomless waters and wept. 'Why do you weep?' asked Brother Shem. T'mthlnking,' was the reply, 'of all the fine fishing Dand only two worms." That's the oal man's condition today. Plenty of orders but only two worms. >ol Coal Is being used In several man!n. ufacturlng plants in Clarksburg and nd In many of the priclpal buildings In ,at an efTort to conserve the supply of gas which Is getting low. The Waldo hork tel Is one of the latest big buildings iw. to cut out gas and heat furnaces by h? coal. Incidentally it has required a great deal .more coal to heat that hoier tel than the management anticipated in. I ? -? ^ - - -- ? auu 11 is saia mai mere is no money ot saved In the substitution of coal J- though there is less chance of failure j?- to get supplied with heat. The facla' torles using coal must have It hauled several miles either by team or by freight. There is so much difficulty in getting cars that complaint has arisen on this score which led the yj Baltimore & Ohio to suggest that manufacturing plants have individual cars but the plan does not appeal to the he lesser establishments. Lto Coal mining operators In the vlcinIn Ity of Clarksburg gather every Monday noon at the Waldo hotel for a rs. luncheon at which the topics of the ed coal world are discussed and at the as meeting yesterday the character of the equipment provided for smaller er mines In this region was touched up:k on and it was Interesting to hear jo- some of the operators and superln be tenaeuis aescriDe me condition or ild hoppers sent to them for loading, th- Daniel Howard, president and genan eral manager of the Central Fairmont of Coal Co. and the Fairmont Big Vein (Continued on Page Ten.) Secretary Kight is ^ Back in This State on tai Secretary J. W. Klght of the local od Y. M. C. A., now In charge of the ild Army Y. M. C A. at Camp Sheridan, ed Montgomery, Ala., was in Fairmont tal yesterday evening. Mr. Klght is In ne charge of the big army Y. M. C. A. cam on paign In seven counties of West Virgin ed la and has returned from the south to look after his duties In the campaign nd work. ist After spending yesterday afternoon at and evening in Fairmont looking after local business be left this morning for lo. Martlnsburg where le will make his ah headquarters In the Campaign, terest of All the Peoph KSHHBHBI Mt Virginia's G/e?'o< Mwsp 1IN1A, TUESDAY EVENIN iSETTLI ? FROM VERDUN' t saaseanii I I IIRTMIAN- i || L1OK.IRAJI: r v >v? V ffftfturyky JUSVUtto jfowrauS*1V V ? ) V ( I KA'-at^viVuT.-: % V.y. ?t 0 \ >' 1/ ; EH1WL K ; j\|i s fighting near the Marne-Khine canal they must be. The canal along wh'ch captured by the Germans crosses 'he border, east and south of Verdun, the Germans from straightening tholr battle of the Marne. iTMTRlcES~ REVISED UPWARD Government Announces Charges Today for Three Buckeye Counties WASHINGTON. Nov. Coal prices in the Palmyra, Massillon and Jackson fields of Ohio were increased today by the fuel administration as follows. Run of mine from $2.35 to $3.75. On prepared sizes from J2.G0 to $1; slack and screening from $2.10 to $3.50. - - Modification of prices also was announced for certain counties In Kentucky, Tenessee and Virginia. IATE SUFFRAGE mm hfrf uuii UII IVIV hiik Call Went Out Today for a Meeting at The Fairmont November 20-21. The anunl convention of the Went Virginia Equal huRTuge Association will be ne.ld In this city on November 20 and 21 and tho sessions aB well as the headquarters will be in the Fairmont hotel. The convention will be of a business nature and officers will be named to servo the ensuing year. Mrs. Lena Lowe Yost, president of the organization, who has Just returned to Washington, D. C? her winter headquarters, from Huntington where she presided over the sessions of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention will Issue the call for the convention today. This will be the first convention since the election of last fall and many Important matters will come up for consideration. SpeciaLServices at Williams Memorial Special prayer service will b? observed tonight from seven to eight o'clock at the Methodist Episcopal church. South, In observance of missionary week. Mrs. S. F. Pollltt will have charge of the service which will deal with medical work In ChlnB and V3UII V_UUBl WUI K. /V KU?U UI fZt>,UUU has been set by the denomination for mission work and this matter will be discussed at the various services during the week. Special music will ! feature the service by Miss Relnwald, Miss Eiser Hoffman and Mrs. L. N. Yost. Red Cross Buttons For School Children Red Cross buttons will shortly be given out to the schools of the city which have become auxiliaries of the Red cross society and as soon as they can be procured banners will be floated from the roofs of the auxiliary school houses. The White and Butcher schools have already attained the goal while the Miller school as well as the other schools are making rapid strides toward It.- The East Side schools have become interested in the project also and It Is thought these schools will be organised as auxiliaries in the near future. I ?of Fairmont?You i _ mmfe aper 0 G,~NOVEMBER 6,1917. i nuiNl b villlll nfiuii ALONG n RIVER CHANGES HANDS New England Fuel Buys the Empire Coal and Coke Holdings. WILL DEVLLOPjIPERTf Transaction Engineered by Brady and Hite Means Much to Fairmont. Ten thousand tour hundred and forty acres of both the Pittsburgh and S'i wickley coal in a tract which lies along the Monongabela river in Marion and Monongalia counties almost from Paw Paw creek to Point Marlon have been bought from the owner, the Empire Coal and Coke company, by the New England Fuel and Transportation company, of Boston. This is one of the largest and most important coal deals that has taken place in this section of the state in a long time, and it means a great deal to Fairmont. It was swung by S. D Brady, of this city, who was assisted in arranging the details by R. M. Hlte. Negotiations were in progress for a long time and the transaotlon involved a large amount of work cn the part of both Mr. Brady and Mr. Hite. The coal sold is familiarly known in this section as the Elkins-Davis tra t. It was bought up many years ago by the two late United States Senator? and the Empire Coal and Coke company was merely a holding concern. While they were alive they did uol take mnch interest in efforts to buy tbo tract as a whole or in part. It is understood that tpe new owner will Immediately dovelop the tract. The New England Fuel and Transportation company is a large corporation Interested in public utilities in the New England states. It is the owner of the Federal mine property at Grant Town, one of the largest coal operations in the state, from which great quantities of coal are shipped every day to Boston where it is used in producer gns plants and in other ways by the New England company's subsidiaries. H.C. BRAKE JOINS unimPART* Popular Normal School Teacher Expects Early Call to Camp Sheridan. Expecting & call at any time to report at Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Ala., Prof. H. C. Brake, registrar at the Normal school is preparing to leave Fairmont within the next few days. Mr. Brake has volunteered his services In Army Y. M. C. A. work and will be located at Camp Sheridan with J. W. Kight. Rev. J. C. Broomfield, and John Reed. Prof. Brake will be In charge of the educational department and will go under the title of "Educational Director." He takes the place left vacant by James Faw of Cumberland, Md? who enlisted in the marines shortly ibefore the Y. M. C. A. party left for the south. Prof. Brake is from Auburn, Ritchie county. For the past five years he has been a member of the Fairmont Normal faculty. Arrangements have been completed whereby he may leave Just as soon as he receives his call. This is expected to be within the next four liflvg ???? (?ity Hall Notes~ Checks (or e month's labor are being distributed among the employes at the city hall today. It Is pay day in every department. Reports (rom the Irwin Livery station this morning that the two mulca arrested Saturday by Policeman Ward were eating more than they wore worth. Someone from the livery stable asked tbe Mayor this morning what should be done with item. J. I. Michaels, a termer resident ot Fairmont and especially well known here has written to Mayor Bowen. He Is located at ElDorado. Kansas. He tells the Mayor that he likes the country and la having a great time. He sent a picture ct an oil well making 22.000 barrels a day with a dally income ol 135,000. Can't Be Well Intor Itl iiL nnday T0PAV8 NEWS TOOAV fsf nui ARMOUR SCO. WILL HAVE BRANCH HERE' GreafPacking Plant Leases Part of ^Marion Products Plant. Expecting to do halt a million dol- 1 lura' worth ot business a year. Armour & Company, the world-lamed packers, of Chicago, will open a branch in Fair mont about December 1. The city is especially fortunate in having a plant ol such magnitude and importance locate here. Announcement was made on Mon- I day that the Armour firm had leased a I portion ot the space occupied by the I Marlon Products company. Its floor space will be 40 feet by 100 feet in dimensions and Arthur J. Bock, the com- s psny's builder, of Chicago, Is born ' putting thlngB Into shape. He expects to have the necessary Improvements completed by December 1. The tlrm will deal In meats on a wholesale basis only. W. N. Ball, of Grafton, the district manager, on Monday afternoon said that Fairmont would have meat served to it in the most sanitary way. The a meat will be shipped here from Chicago c In refrigerated cars. They are dispatched with speed leaving there on Monday and arriving la Fairmont c.n Wednesday night. The meat will be removed from the cars and placed In the refrigerator rooms of the local plant from which plant it will be conveyed In anto trucks to all of the surrounding towns where it will be furnished to stores. The most sanitary precautions will be used in handling the meat after It reaches the trucks and It should reach the con sumer In perfect shape. J. C. Deck, cashier of the Grafton plant, will act as the local manager. The cars will be shipped over the B. & 0., coming here via Benwood. eSVje Cop Happened to be Close When Row Started in Kitchen. Because he wanted to be good to his wile by helping her with housework, ( Shirley Hannigan, of Jefferson street, 1 spent the night hi the city jail. This c morning a nine o'clock Hannigan wns f before Mayor Bowen and told the story . of his trouble. * Yesterday at noon Hannigan gave his wife money to go to the movies. Without washing the disheB she left early for the picture show and did not | return until almost six o'clock. In the meantime Hannigan and one of the boarders came in forthelr supper. Desiring to have something to eat, they washed the dinner dishes, got out the frying pan and proceeded to cook their own meal. The wife was very angry to return home and find her husband at the stove nnd Immediately an argument ensued | It was not long until the argument na<! turned into a sham battle and then to a real fist fight. Hearing the girl screaming. Policeman Woodward rushed to the scene and arrested the husband. "Hubby" had been in jail only a few I minutes until the wife called the pn< . lice station and pleaded for his release, i The wile was summoned to court tnis ; morning and after a talk by Mayer Bo wen, both were released. Before i i the hearing was over both had made J up and left the police station apparcn' j ly trying to forget the trouble of the j night previous. BRITISH ROLLER IS ! ASM ITS WAY; LONDON, Nov. 6.?British attacked this morning .on the Flanders front in the neighborhood of Passchendaele. The War office reports that satisfactory progress is being made. LONDON. Nov. 6.?Canadian forces in their offensive against the Germans this mnrninf tiftrthfloat nf Ynron nn thu Belgian front have established them- j selves at a point-100 yards beyond the J village of Passchendaele, says a tele- gram from Reuters correspondent at : the British headquarters In France. j BERLIN, Nov. 6.?After drum f re ! today, says the German official state- | ment, regarding the western front. J strong English infantry forces attic'.:- [ . oil the German positions on both sides ! j : | of Passchendaele and at the Mentu- j j I Vpres bend. { mat Unless You Real T? BE WEATHER. and warmer tonight; Wed PRICE THREE CENTS- ' STION ffiJll fill GRANTED 3ut Japs Assent to Chinese Independence and the Open Door. s. JLEARS UP BADSlTilATHM 1 Viped Out Work of Years of ^ German Disturbers in :'|f (By Associated Preu) V WASH1NGTO, D. C., Not. 6.t Jap?f?:Vi| nd tie United States have reached omplete agreement in regard t# Ch'tta JJ; nd at the same time lrnve arrived it clear understanding aa to miUtarjV '' aval and economic co-operation lr. 7 ha war with Germany. * ; :-j This momentous development auounced today by Secretary Lansing vho made public notes exchanged by ilm and Viscount Ishll, special Japan as ambassador, formally recording ? he agreement recognizing that Japan las a special Interest In China but uc; aiowledglng tbe independence and teK J s ltorlal Integrity of the great east era lepablic and reaffirming .tyta doctrl-w J if the "open door" for commerce^atiu^^ In a statement accompanying thb >-J lote Mr. Lansing said Viscount lihll inri Ihp tnomhom nt hi. WM| *? ? iSli >n the way home, had performed.a ?? . . Ice of the highest value to the United States as well as to'Japan by cledMit* ,j ;way rnlsurderstgudtngg Which "tf^ilP" hacked promised to develop * serious iSfiwI Jtuatlon iu the far East. Hsi spoke.<X , m he attitude of constraint and doubt ;" ostered by the campaign of falsehood" , idroltly and secretly carried on by the lermans and said that through the rankness and cordiality of the Japs- ?.d tesc commissioner, the propaganda of ears had been undone in a few days. The following is the official statement rom the department: "On Friday, November 2, 1917, the v:j; Secretary of State and Viscount IthU : he special Japanese ambassador, as? ,r hanged at the Department of State the ollowlng note dealing with, the policy if the United State- and Japan in re;ard to China: " 'The Department of Stale, " 'Washington, Nov. 2,1917. , j 'Excellency: " 'I have the honor to communicate lercin my understanding of the agraonent reached by us in our recent con ersation touching the question of mu " ual Interests to our governments leatlng to the republic of China. In orler to silence mischievous reports taot lave from time to time been circulated t is believed by us that a public au . - ? '' twuiiv^uiCUb U?bG lUUIt3 UL UiO ucoirni ind Intentions shared by our two gov- ; a >rnments with regard to China ia advisable. The governments of the Tinted States and Japan recognize'that tel.-itorial propinquity creates special re-' ations between countries and conse luently the government of the United States recognizes.that Japan has sp.-. y :ial interest in China, particularly the 'Hj. iart to which her possessions are con- : iguous. j $;?? " 'The territorial sovereignity irf Chi (Continued on Page Ten.I Laborers Wanted J in Shipping Department. Apply OWENS BOTTLE MACHINE CO. : Notice to Taxpayers^ ?| The tax books tor all ot the '* Districts ot the County are now ready tor collection. 1 will give - : % a discount of 2% per cent on ';# all taxes paid on or before November 30tb, 1917. There is si- - * ways a rush during the last few -ftS days ot discount, so please call ' at mv office at your earliest con- /renience and avoid tbis rush.* .'-fsj Save TIME and MONEY. ?|s| A. M. Glover, Sheriff. J || CITY TAXES. A discount of 2% per cent will { be allowed on City taxes for prompt " u payment. Ortlce open evenings 7 J. C. ROBINSON. City Treas. ; I it Regularly