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I ' V*r- w 'V j ?4M?<Vi* ""tf:er- ^ o^RfiSS. ' l ^3^?- ot.an-^aitm iC 02* not ^''' "" " Ai^r?rflt?Tg&repubH<attton of special sjff,, Advertising Representative, ROBERT E. WARD. p 526 Fifth ATtnot. New York; 6 S. Wahash Aw*.. Chicago. , SUBSCRIPTION RATES. -- .' ' V..' I BT-KAIL?{Payable Is;advance only.l One year J5.0C; j I ahunoeths. RtD: threetmoaRu. SLSOi.ose month. We. ; f -j^T CARREER?<7n Fairmont:! One year. JTTW: *1* \v ,- I mqajhr. S3. CO; one month. 60c: one week. 15c. Per copy j T B7 CARRIER?(Outside of Fairmont/! One month. TSc: ! :S- I onenr^clc. 18c- By carrier Three Cents. i &g?S* A31,su6ectipt!0Jts payable In advance . When^aMctng for change In address give old as well as LSkxv/r"-' Gg Entered at the PostoSice at Fairmont. West Virginia, as second class matter. ^ j IFYOU CAI-t- i Krr^noiuci oc uiauc iv cvuou uvi C88HBWWH .? B| icy . has .given Pennsylvania a highly important system of ! good roads although road building in that st^le has 'nly begun. . SEPARATE POLLS FOR WOMEN. O OME one has introduced in die New York state Sen' O ate a bill providing for separate polling places for men and women in the town of Peekskill. and while the woman do not like it, it is plain that they do not know whether .they are dealing with a very gallant man who is i sadly misguided, or with an irreconcilable Anti who is ' trying to make equal suffrage ridiculous and ineffective. j it'does-not matter much; there is little danger that such J jgj . =~, ur course, lot c i ; Ruff Stuff jsmss ?? , So. General Wocc n,. ... ... on the French rron :*i Did yon elide to work this morning? a Bet he wasn't hal ' Or did Doe Garfield's ukase spare as a lot of politic! " Ton the necessity of risking your pre- were when thev lie clous neck? * a Some how Lccaa ? Victory bread on all the menus now. does not chime in ' j he Is being "ignon . You may .not like it. but just re-| . * " fx t member that eating it is a whole lot' There is one < rV. better for you than chewing the rag. ab?ut the weather SCSSTJcS Deeper we get into this war busi- wf ^T? had * . xzcs0 the smaller the public patience nca ^ Tarf< gjg- -With the guys who knock. for this latitude ai SgjggRtetr-that can happen to - "**** _we havc hac Officials which ought to clear up any misunderstanding which jnay exist regarding the attitude of the federal gov- I meat toward highway construction and public improve- j ments of that general character during the war. In this ; ' . communication Secretary Houston says: : '' "Sofar ajf it is practicable to do so. this de.* ?artment will urge the maintenance of the fcighwa ys already constructed: the construction and completion of those highways which are vitally important because of their bearing upon the war situation or for the movement t>f commodities: the postponement or all highway construction relatively less essential or not "based upon important military or eco%. - nomic needs.'i g Applying this to the Marion county situation, it means -Ait all of the road work now under contract may go cr> ..v as far as the federal government is concerned, for all of it is important in an economic way and some of it is highly ; important in that the roads are needed to aid in the production of coal. "Moreover the financing of this wo:!: has : bees completed and Ac districts will not be competing with the government in the money market. Good roads have been a wonderful help to Ac country in the war crisis, and they have proved the financial salvation of industrial concerns which would not have been able J to stand Ae strain of Ae collapse of Ac transpo.lation ! plant of Ac country if Aey had not been able to send Aeir ; products to market over Ae improved highways that have ; been' constructed during Ae past decade or so. Most people hare heard of the use that the automobile firms of Detroit and the rubber concerns of Dav-ion arc ! making of the roads t1 at run across the States of Ohio and | Pennsylvania, but little is said about the much more important traffic that is carried on by the small manufac- t tuning plants in eastern New York and Pennsylvania. New i . * Jersey and most of the New England states. This traffic j is going to be thoroughly organized by the time the war j ends and it will be a factor which the parts of the country i that are not so far advanced in a highway construction way will have to take into consideration. The proper way to neutralize the advantage the belter roads give these eastern districts is to keep right on building roads in !o? favored sections as fast as possible. Of course only the ' important highwaysshouldbe treated and especial efforts ' T T L 1~ *- -1?manV That Dol- i ' Subscribers on our carrier routes failing 10 ct The West . . - Virginian any evening should call "w tJSTBRNT tiMOS'." state the fact and give name and residence and a messenger -will deliver a paper to your door an once. There Is no - chaste to the subscriber for this service. MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28. IMS. PERTINENT SUGGESTION. 1 RivesviHe to The West Virginian comes the .. JT" ^ very sensible suggestion that an important stroke m j ' the fuel campaign could be made if the owners of : stores which'are kept open on Sunday throughont the coun- ! : ty were compelled to close them on that day. We pass this on to County Fuel Chairman Evans. With j f- * little cooperation upon the part of the police authorities of die county and city it ought not to be hard to do rome ~ : thing for the. conservation campaign and bring about a '. ' more general observance or West Virginia law at one and - ' the sanif time. ^ 0 GOVERNMENT AND ROAD BUILDING. a' SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE HOUSTON recently wrote a communication to the members > ' T of the American Association of State Highway J aBWwwo/' ?? .~~T^?~? ' . in L of equal suffrage ? ffnt k knecessary to perfect oar dem- j* ocracy. The general public knows a Jot mare about dan- } ocracy than it die three years ago. yet bene is a man who thinks an effort to separate the sexes at die ballot box' would get by even after the general theory of the equality ! of the sexes at the ballot box had been accepted. Th ballot is not a geegaw handed, to woman to amuse | her. It isn't a weapon with which die is expected to fight' her battles as a sex or as a separate class. It is a recognition of her share of responsibility in die body politic and j r * r. I the state can only secure the maximum amount or Denem from the arrangement when she exercises it upon exactly j the same terms that every other elector does. That these benefits are many and important every care-: ful observer of political and economic conditions has known j for a long time. We are entering upon a time when these things will be apparent to die average man and then the march of the moveroebt will be rapid no matter what is done about the suffrage'amendment to the federal constitution. o ' GOOD BYE. WHEAT BREAD. GOVERNMENT proclamation issued Saturday j. evening limits wholesalers, jobbers and retailers to j 70 per cent of their wheat flour requirements during j last year and bakers to 80 per cent. Two wheatless days. Monday and Wednesday, and one wheatless meal every' day are also called for. The immediate effect of this order will be the almost j complete disappearance of bread made entirely from wheat flour. That will seem He a hardship to many people, but j . a.; a matter of fact it is not unless they are so "notjonal" j I about their food that they cannot adapt themselves to rvvi conditions. And. it might be added in passing, folks of! that type get scant sympathy at a time like the present. It j i is best to do what you are expected to do and grin about it As a matter of fact breads that are made cf other doers j than wheat are very palatable and nutritious. At The' ; Fairmont for some time the management has been serving' 1 a bread which contains 50 per cent of barley flour and ; it is so good that requests by guests of the house for the recipe are so common that they are taken as a matter of ! course at the office of the hotel. Recently Manager tall in discussing the question of bread said that if the commercial bakers of the city, who so far have not used any of the wheat saving breeds except the familiar rye loaf, do' r.ot know how to handle the new flours he will be glad: to give a demonstration for their benefit in the hotel's bakery. It is the business of the ordinary citizen to make it necessary for the bakers to produce the new breads by refusing to have anything to do with the straight wheat bread. Reduction in the consumption of wheat in this country is | highly essential to the success of the cause in which the! nation is engaged and we ought all to be patrotic enough to do our part. o Director General McAdoo's first retrenchment order directs the railroads to get rid of all their legislative and political agents to get rid of all their legislative ally working. This may be a good thing for the railroads. but it Is calculated to embarrass a lot of state legislatures which will find the ordinary business off legislating for the sovereign people rough sledding without the guiding hands of the unobtrusive hut entirely competent railroad representatives. Reports received in Washington indicate that the Germans have withdrawn many of their submarines from the sea in order to refit theni for a desperate drive at tho American line of communication with France at the same time the expected offensive on the tVest.front is begun. It is now or never with Germany. Charles Schwab, who probably knows what he is talking about.! said in a speech in New York last week that within. IS | months the United States would have more torpedo j boat destroyers, which are death to submarines, than j all the other navies in the world combined. , ' This week the war effort locally will he devoted to j the sale of Smilage books which are purchased by the , folks back home and sent to the men in the camps so j that they may attend the amusements given in the: camp theatres. Great efforts are being made to keep j the men in the camps upon a high mental and moral I plane and one of the essentials to success in such an j effort is an ample amount oP high grade amusement- j The government has built theatres at each one of the ! cantonments and the same kind of companies that fill J the principal theatres in the big cities -will tour the' camp circuit. But the theatres must be self sustain-! ing, and as the men in the army do not have very much j money the government decided to appeal to the country j on. their behalf. A nation wide sale of coupon books : which will pay for admission to the theatres was. devised. The hooks when purchased may be sent to a particular soldier or to one of the camps for the use of some soldier who does not have a friend back home. t?> tr.ke care of him. Paul Lange. the popular president | of the Rotary club, is in charge of the Smilage cam- j paign here and it -will be on all week. Better invest in j a bunch of smiles. They come in two sizes, small ones I for a dollar and large ones for five dollars. o Fairmont is not the only town in the country that has j been confronted with danger of a water scarcity, Louisville, which supplies Camp Zachary Taylor is the latest to get into tronble. But by tho appearance of things this morning.there'is apt to be more water than any one knows what to do with before very long. SHORT AND SNAPPY A Boston girl. Just returned from Berlin, says the Germans feel certain of winning the war. Evidently somebody is mistaken about this matter.?Spencer Times-Record. yj Overheard in the parlor: "Be careful, that's my vaccinated arm."?Wheeling Intelligencer. T the well known men t of Smilage books. have moved over Better kick m tor about a dollars t count was made, worth at any rate. I has been wounded Then your conscience will not hnrt it. you the next time you take in a show yourself. If as badly shocked - ans in Washington Just the same belonging to the ard the news. crews of those U-boats that are to ' make'a determined Aiid upon Ameri rd Wood in France can transport is not going: to oc uie K-ith the claim that most healthful Job in the world. ;d." " It's a long way to France, but your mcouraging thing Uncle Sammy is going to see that the situation. road is kept open. > . . sample of pretty Ho may lose a few ships hot that stiae that arc made not be a circumstance to what the id about the worst Tents will lose before the game is . us is more of the called. L m^o ob the ahto-J lf the peogfr J?iB8PL * - - - - - ' V ? -* * * *>ecc, u.e -'HAVCM'T* TffetKAUSfcR Yer/yqi ,<SOINQ TO r*t?iKe>TMe j^OlCT lO M iTHAT ? ? Jost ecfj-riisjue. Re MY <5:00^5 "FRJCSNili J *fpr^tif c:tiof\rs:! au ivAR. PROpMe. St <? RS HAV /qwi> vr's a tvA5t<s or TO CtTrce: T<VO-3Y?FOOR I WASHINGTX GOSSIP WASHINGTON". D. C.. Jan. "S.?A letter received today by Congressman Geo. M. Bowers from Secretary McAdoo may be taken as indicative of the administration's opposition to any public buildings bill at this session cf Congress, or so long as the -yar lasts. Mr. McAdoo wrote with particular reference to a bill which Congressman Bowers is sponsoring for a site and a government building at Charles Town. He explains that at this time, he hopes that Congress will not press for improvements of this kind, however worthy they may, and he does not doubt in the least but the bill of Congressman Bowers is a worthy one. He aSR5 Uldl iae (WCiuiucubo tint Vil may be laid before the people of Charles Town by Mr. Bowers, and that they will appreciate the government's attitude in this, and all other proposed appropriations for improvements not directly connected with winnig the war which is. he says, the all important and paramount thing at this time. Applications of two young West Virginians who would be taken and trained' to be aviators were filed todav by Senator Sutherland. Their names are Claudius Terrell, of Keyser, and Jack Frank Lyons, of Elkins. Paul Savre. of Evans. Jackson county. has been recommended to the Xaval officials for a commission as paymaster In the navy. Sayre is now at the naval training station at Hampton. Va. A special pension bill in behalf of Joseph Crite. of Buckhannon. was introduced in the House yesterday by Congressman Reed.* It specifies a pension of ?50 a month. ^ The fosr uiiice u?i?ui.u?.-iil ...... promised Congressman Woodyard to send an inspector to make a survey of a new star route, which Mr. Wood yard is requesting to be established between Mattie and Walton in Roane county. At "the Post Office department yesterday. Congressman Reed had up with officials the matter of establishing an office at the plant of the Dawson Coal Co.. located she miles from Clarksburg. to be christened Marson. At the Pension Bureau, he called up the application of Mrs. Xancv J. Knignr. of Pennsboro. and ordered prompt action thereon. Senator Sutherland has filed an application for an original pension for Lavton F. Slater, of Williamson. T.&te arrivals in the Capital?D. W. Brown and L. R. Reed, of Huntington; Virgil R. Strader. of Philippi; and Dr. M. A. Haning. of Wheeling.' They were among Senator Sutherland's cal 1CJO West Virginians in the Capital are interestingly discussing a persistent rumor that the president of one of the railroads which crosses the State in the southern part of it. Is likely to be removed or demoted-by Director General McAdoo. The rumor in circulation is to the effect that the change Is to be made on the grounds of inefficiency and lack of loyal cooperation. The forty 2r charge covers a considerable period before the railroads were taken over by the government. The story further has it that & pile of charges and complaints against the management of this paricular railroad president has accumulated.. many of these furnished by large shippers in the West Virginia territory. How uracil or trura mere is in this report cannot be stated, but it persists. f To date. Director McAdoo has made no charges in railroad iVesidents, but ever get thoroughly angry about this war there will be the devil and all to pay. ? Aud one- of the ways to make them angry will be to go gunning for the' SMSSSjfcfW ssett* ~ | - ayWiiyy{yn iwrt j&BeL . -DOcnj'T =* r-1/<*K.<S A*JY >. TH6. G>r?. <~Vp<S?.T CE 66?N "DfSCOUNTSO 5v/<S FORCE TO) Ct^TCM r pe /'k ? I rM ~ i / 3N NEWS 1| | By CHARLES BROOKS SMITH. { it is known that strong pressure is being brought on him to make certain specified changes. The pressure upon him to reduce salaries of some of the railroad heads, whose salaries range along in region of 550,000 and 5100, 000 IB more wraespreau uuu ? uui characteristic of any one section of the country, but is very general. This is one phase of the many involved in the railroad problem which Mr. McAdoo hasn't yet found the time, nor felt the inclination, to take up and consider. There have been -42 chapters of the Red Cross organized and down to hard work in West Virginia,-according to a statement made today by an offi'cial at National Headquarters. This is a good showing, when the population is considered. Texas leads all the States with 196 chapters. "Yes, Texas," said the official; Texas of which Mark Twain said, 'if I owned hell and Texas. I reckon I'd rent Texas and live in hell. Texas of which a Michigan woman wrote on the door of the house she was leaving 'Goodoyk God, I'am going to Texas, and a one Star editor changed the meaning of by separating "goodby' with a coma; Texas, the much abused and misunderstood, leads in this great work for stricken humanity. The resurrection of these relics of humor seemed to amuse the official much, and the reported was compelled to stand for them as the price paid for the really- interesting item about the Red Cross growth in West Virginia. Major Heber If. Rice, of Hiintingj ton. W. Va.. of the 150th at Camp Shel: by. Hattiesburg. iliss., has been orI tiered to appear before a board of officers to be examined as to his "capacity. qualifications, conduct and efficiency" under section 9 of an act of I May, 1917. On the 3rd inst.. Major i Rice sent in his resignation, but withciew it on the 16 inst., claiming to mmW B? STOMACH, 1 ""iMAlir AAI I\0 maim, uuLitt They Liven the Liver and Bowels Mid Straighten You RightLjpT Don't Be Bilious, ConstiafRed. Sick, \ With Breath the ^ . C<nftjv7jA ^ORK W^ILE Y^ SU&ft Tonight dure! Take GeScarets and enjoy the ntSast. ge?*fest liver and bowel cleansing^M^ver experienced. Wake up with jidn^jead dear, stomach sweet hreatb rig^t and feeling fine. Get ria M sick headache, biliousness. constipation, furred tongue, sour stomach, bad colds. Clear your skin. hrtrMm rnnr eves, onicked voar step and feel like doing a foil, day's work. Cascarets are better than salts, pills or calomel because they don't shock the liver or gripe the bowels or cause inconvenience all the next day. Mothers should give cross, siclc. bilious .feverish children * whole Cascaret any- time as tbey-carr not Injure the thirty -feet of tender hbwclfc> w- ----- - _ . ^ can border prior- to the- start -of die -war with Germany. t) ! EAST SIDE i! NEWS ' ? : ! . W. C. T. U. The Woman's Christian Temperance ; Union will meet at the home of Mrs T. 0. Harden in Water street Tuesday afternoon at tiro o'clock. The members are all urged to be present. Sunshine Circle. The Mitchell Sonshine Circle of tfce; First M. P. church will meet this even-1 lug at 7:30 o'clock at the church. A.; fall uX*end#nce is desired. From Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rich arrived in the cjty Saturday evening from Bal- j timore wjiere they had their infant i son operated upon at Johns Hopkins hospital for -stomach trouble. The I operation was successful and the child | nas about recovered. \/ RrntHpr. I , Prof. W. T. La-wson. of the Alta I J Vista school. Clarksburg, sbpent Sun-t! day with his brother. Rev. C. C. Lawson. pastor of the First Methodist < rrotestant church. At Little Falls. Rev. L.-L. Lightner. Mrs. Lightner and son. Eugene, are visiting Mrs. Lightners parents* Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Jacobs, at Triune, near Little Falls. Rev. Lightner is recuperating from a recc.it operation at Cook's hospital before going to his home at Newcomerstown. O. Returned to Brownsville. Hermis Goodnight, of Brownsville. i Pa., was the guest of his brother. Walter Goodnight, over Sunday. He was I accompanied home today by his sis-! ter. Miss Ovid Goodnight, of Barnesvine." O., who with her sister. Miss Nellie. have been guests of their brother ; the past week. Cottage Prayer Meeting. A cottage prayer meeting in con-1 r.ection with the Brooks-Lewis revival meetings at the Central Christian : church will be held Tuesday afteii noon at two o'clock in District No. 1 j } at the home of Mrs! Luther Jacobs in j GuEey street, a iuix ancuiuui\.a w*. the membership in this district is especially desired. Members of other districts and of other churches will be welcomed. Personal. Engle Tichnell, of Hoult. was a Tisltor of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tichnell Saturday nightMrs. McCann and children, Elton THE MONONGAHELA ] GENERAL G. B. OBEY. BRO' General Superintendent In R ?^yfy#y#y^y!syty^tytytyt ^ to take lire oLg^x^evexy need i 3Jc by men St lp4fg\nd suffesstnl ex r X ^ jC? J- M. BrownfleHf PiVdddi? 2* C- Richard Hall, CasbSr l S2 A. F. Sands. At 35 oifigc 2X Geo. E. Amos rs__v 7.** S J. M. Broxmfield u t c.. 3g Z. F. Davis ? T Howard R. Furbee I The People's J All Agents: 5Tour attention is calk issued by the Pittsbur^rCc Railway Association_jund< 1917, relative to patrons c freight from warejpuses a "Mud/ of bjre freight is due to ^aihpe of some freight awawrom freigbt promptly/ / * f "ThmjDperating Comm thority of the Director Gei calls upom shippers and c< i-TA.'- -C ;^U4- ? ana remove ireful < dispatch, to/he end that t form all their functions ol r Yours/ ywt?rt#y. y?-- Mrs. Clarence Fisfafer retarited fronafWoston today -where' ate' tltlM W-grM and Mrs. John Ttmr and Mr. aed^Jj "~ '*""" *"-? rrmmt ??jlr,'W8 Mrs. Stella Thompkins. "orbo' "*Wp3 the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Sam^uMittiH Columbia street, returned yesterday .-J to her home at ZancsviUe. .O-' . '* Mr. and Mrs. Larue? Radford ar*>jj moving this -week into the property va- s cated by Mrs. Yost in Leona Court. ??9 Miss Delphla Knight, of Annabelfe. * is visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. A.- S?fter-^;i field in State street. Mr. and Mrs. William Stealey araUi moving from East Park to East Fhrrs^] street. Miss Georgia Radford is risitfag friends at Mannington. M/UUCi. Ross Wads-worth has been employed as a subscription agent, of; The West Virginian and Farmers-' Sri Free Press and he is authorized to receive payments on subscription^ accounts and make receipt forthem. " 5 "-ft ' V I Fairmont Printing <t PublishingCompany. I [roa. Voo^vwHu a=s4 CDalntW Mx lfcary .1 Heir Ad second tu*d Maefctee tools, etc. Ga>S* -J Hu^ior. Gas sad Gasoline ? njesi - fmgi. i ?!?ctri|jCoton(. tt^aefa Boiler*. 1*1 .iiiciP.Bud saws. K. Sa^roiil outfit*- Beltiaf Polkyi. Shufty. ^Cometof,> | nrov- SrTjWPHess. ? , ' .a. i 1 yiKD UACHTtTEgT OO- Fltahcrsa. re. ^ For Your Complexion's Sake ;. Nyal'sFaceCream < A Favorite for More Than 15 Years. Kval's Far? Cream (with Per- I oxide) a delightful tilet luxury for womeuf and men. Being gneaseless^t is quickly absorb- j ed\ ? M disappears leavng a npaqtmnl. fresh, rosy bloom. IdeA t<W chapped skin, cracked lipslfrckle*.* Does hot soil the-* mo JMelicnje fabrir*. Its. fra- i Krajtr flo^yjBiy odow is fasdaat- 1 inglK reeling. (Tgie . Peroxide man* antiseptic) Xyal's Faoe Crejm?For men after shavioft restores the healthy tone of the skin. Keeps tba face jovfully clean. Piyt 25c .and 50c. 11 1 1 ~ r| ' ' > . ' '' C ; /_? ' ??\~" * - * p':$ -. ./.r" RAILWAY COMPANY v OFFICES ^ J ?| WNSVILLE. JANUARY 24. 1918. . A epJy? P!c?s? Refer to File No. Mf :*^5j|5 " * V : ' ?l -- "- -^1 V >< .'. * id to the following notice, immittee of the American ^ ;r date of January 22nd, >f the railroads removing nd team tracks promptly: ; . torfgestion in this district ^Pon?gnees to take their statics and team tracks : '% vi' ... ittee, acting under theau Poads, hereby ' j load, unload test possible . r better per* -; ; on." General Superintendent QUIPPED n the banking line and officered M perience. ire solicit your patron- J <|| 3eo~ 4- Amos. Vice PresfcM(t isfsta*. Cashier. togd c. E. Hutchinson Raymond ^ Nation ^ r S200?900e6u V:$.^SsS