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FRENCI COAL CLUB MS f HUB SET OF OFFICIALS NOW Flprnin?. Jr., Presi- < dent and Clarence D. Robinson, Vice. ' 6. HUTCHINSON SEC. 0 i First Luncheon Was Attend-1 -"T T-.tr /"l-tro+i-f-irinorl-ir T.fit'trp 1 Number. The Fairmont Coal club effected an organization at its first noon-day meeting at The Fairmont Hotel yesterday. electing A. Brooks Fleming. Jr., president; Clarence D. Robinson, vice-president, and Brooks Hutchin-n^JKw. secretary. 9 THSre were more than half a hundred coal men present which C. H. Jenkins expressed as very satisfactory. commenting on the fact that the first meeting had twice as many coal men present as its promoters coulo hope.and twice as many present today as expected. Congressman Stuart F. Reed was | the guest of the club today and TUPIe one of the splendid speeches for which j he is notable. He expressed his in- j terest in Fairmont and praised Con-: ? -.cm-ton Voniv nromisine to co-op- j erate with him on any movement l'or! the good of Fairmont and West Vir- J ginia. He made a strong point with I the declaration that the outcome of the war depend upon coal, iron and gun-powder and emphasized the duty of West Virginia in providing the coal.' He made another strong point | in reciting that at first the heroes of .V the .world came from - the. clergr. Jater from the military but now it was the businessman. i1 Coal Notes. . A mass meeting of coal people op' erators employes all interested in coal, will be held at the Fairmont hotel iTljt-yThursday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock 'when D. R. Lawson. Deputy Distributor of the National Fuel Administra-1 tion.'will make an address. EVERY COAL SHOVEL! WILL BE TAGGEOi K ' i ^ Considerable Ceremony Will | Attend Some Tagging 1 in This City. i ! Interest is being aroused in the "TagTour-Shovel" Day set by the National; Fuel Administration, a campaign for , conservation of coal to be worked through, the schools. On Wednesday January 30, the plan is to "tag" prac-; ctafe whir li llCiUl^ C V CI ? ctuutc* U4 reeds coal into West Virginia fires. The tags are now in the hands of the state county superintendent of schools and will be forwarded to the county, superintendents shortly. Fairmont being the home of J. Walt ~ ter Barnes. Federal Fuel Adminisrra-1 tor of West Virginia, the exercises in 1 the Fairmont schools will take on ex-' tra importance. The program out-1 f lined by Supt. O. C. Wilson, of the; Fairmont 'district schools, is to have ; J. Walter Barnes hold the shovel at the j Barnes chool when it is "tagged," have C. W. Evans, chairman of the county coal commiuc", ruiu uie auv>vi ?.?. ii". , White school, have George M. Alex- j ander hold the shovel at the Miller 1 school. B. L. Butcher (who has been} ill is expected to be able to serve) | hold the shovel at the Butcher school.} . Harry Shaw at the East side school ; and Mr. Wilson at the Fleming school. These men are prominent in educa-1 tional work of the state as B. L. Butch-I er served a term as state superintend- j c ent of schools. J. Walter Barnes was for years principal of the State Nor-; mal here. C. W. Evans was formerly} a teacher in the State Normal here. I George M. Alexander is president of , the board of education and Harry Shaw?occupies a similar position in Union district, across the river. The National Fuel Administration suggests that the boy or girl tagging the greatest numoer or snoveis oe perYoitted to tag these school shovels but s not certain that that plan will be i adopted here as scholarship grading i? being considered. * ? ? AMERICAN SOLDIER WOUNDED. WASHINGTON, Jan. 0.?Gen Persh ing today reported that Private Arthur J. Snedeker. engineer, was seriously wounded in action on December 31. No details of the engagement .were given. Snedeker resided at Colombia, Mo. I SPRI CHURCH CENSUS SETl] FOR JANUARY 20TH; : It Will Reveal the City's Pop ulation as WelLas Religious Enumeration. Several conflicting dates have been * in rrcard to the takin? of | the church census of the City of Fair-} mont and today H. T. Jones, the pub-1 Iicity man for the movement, stated i that it would take place on Sunday,. January 20. A11 of the workers are ' to observe this date and regard it as . final. The plans arc to 6tart the census on that day at 2 o'clock in the after- j noon and the workers are to work; in teams. Two workers-will be lined' up with each team. A committee of!" two will have charge of each ward of j" the city and they will be in charge' of a corps of workers. It is calculated that each pair of workers will visit from fifteen to twenty houses on an average. The general census will not only show how many people in Fairmont are affiliated with churches, but will reveal the actual population of the town. menIustcorrect Tiir niirnTtniiKi t mm I lit psiMintdi . i Neglect After Notice Will Forfeit All Rights in the Matter. Fuly one hundred notices informing ; men of defective Questionnaires have been sent out by the local draft board. ' The draft board reports that the percentage of defective questionnaires is gradually decreasing, although they are still finding api>i oxTmtffgTy twen- ' ty five percent of the questionnaires returned defective. i All who have returned defective ' questionnaires are asked to report to i the board and make necessary correc- < tions. Failure to report on the day : specified will forfeit any right to cor- : rect. modify or add to the question-i i naire. j Because of careless work in per-1; fe< ting their questionnaire, many men j; are now compelled to be excused from ' their work for one full day to make V the necessary corrections. i, The postal cards sent by the local board to each registrant with a defWfivo nu<v;(ionnaire reads as follows. You arc required to appear at the J otflce of this board, at Room N'o. 401 j Watson Bid#, on January ISIS, i to correct or complete your question-' naire. Failure to report on or before} the above day set shall remove the j richt to correct, modify or add to! same." j i Plan Speeds Up the Telephone Service t Assuring a speedy telephonic ser- > vice. Fred Shnrpnack. manaser of the I Fairmont office of the Chesapeake & foton.ac Telephone company, has ar-1 ranced a plan whereby certain out of j town calls may bo got direct without I coins through the necessary "long i distance" -routine. When patrons j. want a party at Clarksburg or Mor- ] rantown and arc acquainted with the ; number and are willing to converse j . with any person that answers the rail.i this will prove most valuable in the , vay of saving time. This is techni- i tolly known as a "two number call." ! Within a week or so this will be ef- j ! ctive to Grafton and Mannington ; al=o. This idea fs new to Fairmont. I ( ? ? Girl Nurse Killed j By Insane Patients ? (Br Associated Press, t ] JACKSONVILLE. TIL. Jan. 9.?Miss ; Helen Branstitter, aged i-0. an attendant at the state hospital for insane , here, was billed early today by two ( patients. Marian Menka. of Springfield, and Stella Coppa. of Chicago. The patients overpowered Miss ' Branstitter and choked her to death. Theu took her key. unlocked the doors and escaped. ? i Freight Rates Will j j Go Up iivTariff Change : ^ CEv Associated Press! ! "WASHIXGTOX. Jan. 9.?General re- < adjustment of the country's complicat- < ed railroad rate system to fit the noncompetitive situation will be one of t the early outlooks of government oper- ( ation ef railroads it was officially in- : dicated today. Many readjustments 1 considered inevitable will involve ma-. t terial increases in rates. 1 i Virginian's Value as NG Bit IKE MARION i COUNTY BANKS : HAVE NEW HEADS 1 Conaway and Nuzmn Exchange Places at Home Savings i _ HAUGHT IMMIEW Exchange Bank at Mannington to Have Successor j to Charles Wells Marion county will have three new bank presidents when all the little formalities that follow the annual elections of the corporations are completed. They are: C. D. Conaway. of the Home Savings bank, this city; J. \V. Haught, of the First National, Fairview, and E. F. Patterson, of the Exchange Bank at Mannington. Presidents Conaway and Haught have already been elected and the election of President Patterson will take place Thursday next when the board of directors chosen yesterday will meet for the ournose of electing officers. The vacancy at this hank was created by the late Charles E. Wells. Sara R. Nuzum retired from the presidency of the Home Savings Bank i yesterday after a continuous service i in that capacity with that bank and | its predecessor, the Mutual Home and f Savings Association, of a quarter of i century. It is an action contemplated for two or three years and realized at this time through the exceptional popularity aDd business ability of the rice-president, C. D. .Conaway, with whom Mr, ?sqasuip has ^changed .positions. Mr. Xuzuni has felt that his private | interests demanded all the attention he cares to bestow on business for some time, and although suggestions; of this action would not be taken! seriously by his asscoates at first, he' finally brought thorn to see the mat-} ter as he views it. j The advancement of C. D. Conaway j is regarded among business men as a deserved recognition of a clean bus-' iness man who has settled his affairs as sheriff and now has the time to,' devote to such a position as this. The result of the election at the Home bank yesterday was as follows: President. C. D. Conaway: vice-president, fen R. Xuzum: secretary. J. C. Hall; beard of directors. Sam R. Nuzum. C. D. Conaway, Sim Bright. Robert Talbott. C. C. Meredith, F. E. Nichols! and Thomas K. Jones. ' P. B. Amos, whose retirement made! pcssible the election of J. W. Haught: as president of the First National at"! Faii-view, has been in impairedhealth for some time and he wants to lighten his business cares. Through misplaced punctuation and the omission of one name the officers of the Bank of Farmington were unstated in this newspaper last evening. The officers of that bank I >re: James Campbell, president: John A. Bock, vice president, and W. E. | Maple, cashier. The stockholders of the old First! National bank continue to preserve! the organization and held a meeting; at the Fairmont Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Rev. C. H. Mere- I dith. chairman of the stockholders. I presided at the formal meeting, but' the voting continued all the after-1 noon. Threo new directors were elected. W. E. Watson. Jr.. takes the place of | his father, who is getting old; John J L. Wells replaces Hon. C. E. Wells, j fie'?ased; Harry F. Smith replaces' To' O. Morgan. Directors re-eletted J are: E. M. Showalter. A. B. Scott. H. j W. Showalter and Thomar F. Hall, j When the meeting was held those j present were: E. M. Showalter. C. W. Robinson. C. H. Meredith. O. S. Mckinriiiv Ponf TTomMo Tl'hltp TVil? liam Prickett. F. K. Heck. J. H. j Fleming. The liquidating committee made its j r?port. having collected $200,000 in J (he last year. Chicago Firemen Killed on Duty! i CHICAGO. Jan. 9. ? Four firemen j were killed and four injured, proba- j Sly fatally, early today -when the walls i 3f a moving picture theatre at Cnicago J ivesue and Leavitt street collapsed i VirtTT thft hl.17P. Several hundred spectators who gath- j ?red to witness the fire narrowly es- , :aped injury when the wails fell. The deaths were laid indirectly to :he recent hlirrard by officials. Great Irifts of snow which still blocked the streets prevented fire apparatus from -eacbing the scene of the fire nntil >ome time after the alarm was turned; n. i an Advertising Medi ? 3 SUM ALSO SLIPPERY ON l| AMERICAN FRONT: General Pershing Walks When His Car Refuses to jNangate. ? (By Associated Press) 1 ^ V.'TTH THE AMERICAN" ARMY IX , FRANCE. Jan. 9.?Slippery, ice coat- ; cu roads hare upset traffic between ! tlie camp and headquarters. General ; Pershing himself becoming a victim this morning when his automobile I i stalled between two hills and was tin- , I able to go forward or backward. The J General walked several miles through snow and slush to his destination. A large ward in one of the base i ( hospitals containing many patients j * with the doctors and nurses in at-; tendance has been quarantined be- j cause of a case of scarlet fever. Portuguese Navy w Has Little Mutiny i CBr Associated Press) 3 MADRID. Jan. 9.?Another outbreak i has occurred in Portugal, according to 1 news reaching here from beyond the 1 frontier. Crews of Portuguese warships mutinied and began bombing the 3 Lisbon forts. The army it appears i remained faithful to the government of : Dr. Pazz and tranquility has been re- 1 stored. The rebellious crews were j1 those of the battleships Daste Dej ] Gama, the torpedo boat destroyers < Douro and other war vessels. Their < surrender is understood to have marked the conclusion of the disturbances. ? < 1 Germans Raid An ; ,? Outpost of British : (By Associated Press.) J LONDON. Jan. 9.?At dusk vester- , day ey ?sing_U?a_,epBn)y. fipceeadeii catering two ol our advance posts ; north of the Ypres StaJeo railway but i was immediately ejected by a local ! counter attack," the war office reports.! "Early this morning Canadian 'roops carried out a successful raid south of ' Lens capturing two machine guns. j IIILE JIMMIE GETS cvTcuoinu fie Time LAIU10IUI1 Ul I lillL i i < Angel Now Tells Him He;; Will Live Ten Months I ] More. ? .] Another angel has appeared to Un-: cte Jimmie McWiUiams. this time tell ing him definitely that he will li?e ten : more months. A few evenings ago. the j angel appeared to Uncle Jimmie. say j c ing. "Vou will live 10 more months." j c Without saving anything else the an- : gel disappeared. t Several years ago the same angel, c according to Uncle Jimmie. appeared i to him and told him that he would live ( until 191S. Uncle Jimmie interpreted a the angel's Drophesy to mean that he ; would not live longer than January 1, i t 191S. Since tiie first of January Uncle j J Jimmie lias been completely puzzled ! 1 but since the last appearance of the ;1 angel, he believes that he made a mis-1* interpretation or the original propnesv. | He is firm in his belief that he will | ' live ten more months and then die. He 1 . lias not lost faith in the angel, which | has kept him informed as to the date of his death. Many Patients at Cook Hospital \ A large number of patients are re- i c ceiving medical or surgical treatment i jat Cook hospital at this time and the , hospital attendants are quite husy. y Among the r.ew patients who have a entered recently are Ernest Deitrich.; y Mrs. Emor Saunders. Mrs. W. S. In-i gles .of Mar.nington; Mrs. Floyd Jet- f fors. Mrs. E. It. Hayes. Mrs. John Tulin of Annabelle: R. A. McGuckin. r Mrs. Margaret Eowan of Annabelle; Miss Ella May. Mrs. L. J. Lyttle. of i Rhea Terrace. J J. L. King of Ronceverte. a student at the West Virginia University, who is a surgical patient at the hospital is improving rapidly. Mrs. S. E. Janes ar.d infant daughter have returned to their home. George Kibb of Watson, who recently underwent an I operation remains in a very critical I condition. Nathan Rexrode of Rich- r wood who had been quite ill is also t recovering. A. U- Hooa, a -wen Known resident of Lowes ville who recently 1 underwent an operation is improving e steadily. Mrs. tv. S. Meredith was operated on several days ago at the a hospital and is doing nicely at this I time. ? lum is Attested By tfa 'RISE HIS AGAIN ARE TORPEDOING HOSPITAL SHIPS r? tit O <- In cfccwa ociib i/vttu ui British Channel January 4. \LL WOUN DEDWERE SAVED Ship Was Not in Waters Bar red by German Decree. (By Associated Presa) LONDON, Jail. 9.?The hospital ship rlewa was torpedoed and sunk in the 3ristol channel on January 4 while on ler way from Gibraltar, it is an lounced officially. All the wounded were saved. There were three casual ;ies among the crew. The announcement follows: "His Majesty's hospital ship Rewa was torpedoed and sunk in Bristol channel at ibout midnight on January 4 on her way home from Gibraltar. All the wounded were safely transferred to patrel vessels. There were only three :asualties among the crew, three lastars being missing. "She was displaying all the lights ind marking required by The Hague tonvention. She was not and had not >een within the so-called barred zone is is limited in the statements issuea )y the German government on january 19. 1917. After making several charges of the nisuse of hospital ships which were lenied specifically by the Entente govtnunent concerned, the Germans last '?ar^5'uspcndeS~fhe" "immunity of the -easels in the English channel and :ertain other waters. The British dis ontinued special markings of hospital ships on the ground that they were ncrely rendered conspicuous thereby md were more liable to attack. Last September King Alfonso ot Spain intervened and succeeded in obaining an agreement from the belligerents for the free movement of hos>ita! ships within a specified area. The torpedoed vessel probably was he British steamship Hcwa. 7.30S tons rross and 456 feet long. She was built * J ?~?- v, n liHJb una *3 wnt'u ui,uicu^u?? anu uuu )Cen in the service of the British government. The Bristol channel is an arm of the Atlantic extending into the southvestern part of great Britain between A'ales and southwestern countries of England. Medical Examiner to Visit Local Boards An officer from the medical corps >f Camp Lee, Va.. will be in Fairmont in Jnnaury 19 to confer with the medcr.l examiners of the local boards and he medical advisory board for this listrict. The function of the meeting s to inspect the present methods of . xaminajion and to give instructions is to the proper methods. Announcement of the meeting was eceived by Dr. W. C. Waddell. chairnan of the district medical advisory joard Vd Captain Kemble White, hairn *> of the local draft baord this norning. The meeting will take place it 9 o'clock in the office of the local j-o<?? C-ahirHav Tannan* If) iiuii uuaiu v?? <?. , ?- ? Physicians from Preston. Monongalia. Marion and Taylor counties will atend the meeting. injured Lumberman Has Lost His Leg John Forquer. the young man who cas brought here from a Preston ounty lumber camp yesterday, where le had sustained serious injuries a eeek ago when a tree fell on his leg, .adi-p rrusbinir the member, was oper ited on this morning at the Fairmont lospital. Tr.c leg was removed from ibove the knee, gangrene having set n. Eis condition is critical and it is lot believed he will recover. Vtamaux and Grimes Traded to Brooklyn (By Associated Press) PITTSBURGH. Jan. 9.?Barney ireyfuss president of the Pittsburgh National League baseball club anlounced today that arrangements had >een completed whereby Mamaux. iVard and Grimes are to go to the Jrooklyn National League clubs in xchange for Stengel and Cutshaw. Mamaux and Grimes are pitchers ind Ward shortstop, while Cntshaw s an infielaer and Stengel an outielder. 2 Large Amount of ON GEI 1917 WAS GREATEST j PETROLEUM YEAR Almost 342 Million Barrels' Were Produced Savs Geological Survey. ? i ' (By Associated Press) * j WASHINGTON. Jan. 9.?The pe-! | troleum produced and marketed in! ' the United States in 3917 reachc_ tbe | j record breaking total of 341.S09.000; ! barrels, tbe geological survey an-! : nounced in a preliminary yearly esti- t mate. The quantity exceeds by 14 per cent ; the 1916 record production. 1 Record levels were reached and . firmly maintained by prices of crude : i oils at wells and the enormous de-j I maud absorbed not only the current1 output but necessitated net graft of j about 21 million barrels of oil in storage, principally In California and Illinois. The surface reserve of crude oil at the end of the year ts estimated at 153,000,000 barrels. GEWMI OH GEORGE SPEECH Vorwarts Says People of AIsaCe-Lorrain Belong in German Empire. i ! : 1 -BERLIN. Jan. 9.?Vorwarts, the < principal organ of the Socialists in commenting on the war aims speech of Premier Lloyd George declares the premier masqueraded in carefully selected disguise. The Vorwarts says the speech was framed in some parts so as to meet the approval of German working men. The newspaper adds ! that the premier's abandonment of the j attempt to interfere in Gcrmanys internal affairs is gratifying and that bis i demands that the states which have been overrun in the course of the war , be restored to complete independence will not call forth contradiction. Referring to Alsace Lorraine the newspaper says the inhabitants oi"} these districts are not foreign or alien; | peoples within the German states. [ "If the natives of the German colony i are to be protected from exploitation | by European capitalists why not also j those of British colonies it asks. It would be underestimating t! I good sense of the British workingmen j if one assumed that these contradic- i | tions escape their discernment. This obviously incomplete synopsis.! which bears marks of having been | I censored carefully, is first indication I to reach the outside world of the at- j titude of the German Socialists toward j Mr. Lloyd George's outlines of war] a.ms. . I Although other German newspapers? denouncing the premiers attitude have! reached neutral points adjacent to? Germany a dispatch from Amsterdam j yesterday said no copies of Vorwarts j had been received and apparently the; , editions containing comment on the! , Premier's statement had not been ! permitted to cross the border. (Trying New Plan to -Get Freight Unloaded;; ?>. ieeAAlatnl i WASHINGTON. Jan. i?.?Pooling oi ; I delivery facilities by merchantile es-1 i tablishments for use in unloading I : freight is being experimented With : here to determine whether commer-11 cial trucks and vehicles can no' solve i the terminal congestion problem, if successful. Director General McAdoe probably will extend the plan through ' out the country. Retail stores are being restricted tc . : one delivery a day. their vehicles be- 1 ing used at other times for hauling freight. It is row proposed that instead of each man hauling for himse'r , | all facilities be pooled and reasonable , ? Vio mn^o to the* smalJpr < !wai uxfec v.i?..&v - ? stores -which will set considerable j j freight on the move. i. . , City Hall Notes Commissioner Ira Smith is in Man-; (1 nington today performing his duties in connection with the Legal Advisory J. Board. , Miss Ruby Gatrell. stenographer for . City Clerk Albert J. Kern was called j to Grafton yesterday afternoon be- ( cause of the death of relatives. Sanitary Officer Carl Kern assumed : his new duties this morning. At present there are Just nine offi- , } cers aoing ponce auty. meuiueis ui ^ j the day and night forces are as fol- j ' lows: Day. Chief Fred Harr. Boggess. | ' Djgman. Xight: Assistant Chief Sea- ? Imon, Eckles. Ford. Fleming. Holt and ( Xight Desk Sergeant Deveny. National Advertising \ RMANS 1 GERMAN UiE IS I PENETRATED FOR 1 iiraniii A nnr NtAlfLTJ MILE 1 French Did Not Attempt to ! Hold the Terrain Overrun. almost Prisoners 1 Assault in Champagne Sector Was Repulsed Last Night. 5 "'3 fBj- Associated Pres9> PARIS. Jan. 8?In a surprise attack cast or St. Mlhlcl today French troops penetrated the German defenses on a front of nearly a mile. After de mOIIBlllUg LUC UU3LUVLU UWU UUUkiVJ ing shelters they returned to their own line with 150 prisoners and a nun ber of machine guns, the official state ment issued tonight by the war office ,'JH says. The French repulsed an enemy attempt in the Champagne. In the Verdun sector and in upper Alsace the artillery battle continues. PARIS. Jan. 9?A total of ITS prisoners were brought back by the French from their raid upon the German lines east of St. Mihiel yesterday the war office says today. PARIS. Jan. 9?The Rome correspondent of the Matin says that by 9H order of Field Marshal von Hlndenburg. according to reliable information which has reached him. 130 villages k.Vf.J <!>/> fuvariom WTIMrflv 4lt UC1UIU U1V 1 CDVV* ** v? the region nf-Ct' QucdUp. have been. leveled to the ground so as to afford better opportunity for defense of the German line. jr Xot-wrrthstandinj^ denial* the corre- fp spondcnt says only one third of 300.000 Belgians deported to Germany have been permitted to return homo. MISIebs I TO JOIN GAS MOVE I Costs Only a Dollar and It Will be a Great J9 The West Virginia Gas ConsumersAssociation which was recently organized in Clarksburg, following a preliminary meeting at Charleston will embrace manufacturers and corporalions known as "industrial consumers "domestic consumers." The membership fee is 525 for the former and only $1 annually for the latter, howev-r or it is feared that the trouble is going to be to line up enough domestic consumers to make the movement a ?ene-al one on the part of the people of the state rather than in getting the $25 memberships. ' Jj8 The public is so good natnred that It .soon lorgeis its injuries ana comes up smiling, too indolent and careless to light for its own rights, and this fact has impressed the leaders in the movement. C. W. Evans, secretary of the Fairmont Chamber of Commerce is" a proper person to approach in Fairmont to join the organization. A membership can be secured either" through him or by mailing a check or money order direct to George W. Dudderar. the secretary-treasurer of the * association at Clarksburg. ? ? Coasting Good on Fairmont Hills |9 The Fourth and Fifth street hills were very popular yesterday evening. Coasting was unusually good and a large number of young people were out to enjoy the sport. The temperature of tho weather was just right for coasting. The snow melting on Monday and freezing on Monday night covered the street with a lay^r of :cc. The snow which has recently fallen is jnst sufficicnt to keep the sleds from sliding frome one side of the street to the other. ?-j , Laborers Wanted in Shipping Department. Apply OWENS BOTTLE MACHINE CO.] itCatries v [ ? | ^