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Eh. f - 1 m tM I H^k ' E B* ^ ^w a ^ ^ ,^k *^' * 'wyi^tctfrntCK. I I ? ?*! ?**?*~, ,.' mm-:.. 4 /> I - S | ^^El ^VL S^W ? H j">" *.M> T*~^k V1 V*t? I " 1 .- v *t . a . ,-v.i^'vn- fkl i <? # :" #:1- dji ' . ^k w ar *^p " -c : : mf^m .'^M.'^^m- ^ m m - -.- -. ,7 " ""*i : ' ': v ,' ' | IJ^ Average- ^ p/' 7 \ m IH I E ' Bh^ E I I I B 8 I 111 /# I I GenenlW iir tod w?rn?er t-- I j January, 19.18 -' ) A* ^ i I ^ ??_ >6r W*- "'? * *nd Sunday. ^ 1 ; * Northern West Virginia's Greatest Newspaper K ^TABLISHED 1868. member associated press. FAIRMONT, WEST VIRGINIA, SATURDAY'EVENING. FEBRUARY 23.1918. todays news today PRICE THRSE CElffTSfc Ifg \ i COST FIGURES 1 THE BIG TWIG IS inn nrmnu iifisn II llfft litlilUK Him lljv. '* Operators Are Urged to See; That They Are Turned ] L ; , in on Time. I [ IIFOS COAL CLERKS; Other Items of Interest, About Matters in FairJ mont Region. , ! --emphasize the necessity of the. Operators speeding up their cost tig-1' * ures, which are to be presented, to the ;, t Fuel Administration in anticipation ofi an increase in selling price," is the I message A. Brooks Fleming, Jr., prcsi-! dent of the Fairmont Coal club, gave ont this morning when asked ior a summary of the most important mat-; ters in the coal situation in the Fair-' mont district at this time. Office Forces Busy. I The fact that uttie coat nas ueuu hipped from the Fairmont district recently has not reduced the -work of the ; clerical forces in the offices of coal companies. In fact the work of the office force has been greatly increased with the establishing of the fuel administration and this work has been made laborious by the request for cost of production which requires the prep) aration of all sorts of data and the compilation of figures which require the services of expert accountants. The principal occupation of. coal operators lately has been keeping track of coal that has been lost at some junction point, commandeered, seized, diverted, or sidetracked. Hundreds of : cars shipped out of the Fairmont disjtr tridt in the last few months axe still ; '' > unaccounted for. The cars left-the mines but where they went and where they are now is a question too deep for operators. To straighten out the tangle is keepng a couple of outside men of the Cen-: :ral West Virginia Coal Operators* As- j so'ciation jumping, and Tom Arnett j, lost, patience to such an extent that! he sent a man from his own office to; Grafton. Kcyser. Cumberland and Bal-' umore in search of cars shipped Lroru j his mines or purchased by him. The diverting of coal by the fuel : f- administration has not been done with-! IpV1 out making additional ofCk'e work and j adding to the wprries of the shipper. Tie rulings regarding coal which goes; k through at contract price, which must i be sold at government price and that to which it is permissible to add a ; small amount to cover tbe new billing.} brings extra work and calls for a great deal of correspondence. ; Scott's Run Wants Increase. The coal mines along Scott's run in ; Monongalia county have asked the j same increase in selling price that was ' recommended by j. Waiter Barnes. Federal fuel administrator for West Virginia, for the "thin vein" mines in J all ot Preston county. The commit-1 '' tee named by the Scott's run operators consists of K. fl. Gilbert, chairman:! B. M. Chaplin. Thomas Henderson. . Stephen F? Elkins and R. P. Davis. W ' Wagcn Mines Doing Little. I Wagon mines are not doing much in the Fairmont discrict at present. Only be vaccinated, but all the people j f a few of tbe mines of that description ' !are loading much coal. There are different reasons assigned. Some of the (Continued on lage. Four.) % will vaccinate i ! pioies 18 jaili One Way to be Sure of Inoc-' illation Now Will be to j ? Get Arrested. K."Taking time hj* the forelock the ^laR rlon county hoard of health met tbis j morning in the office of the Prosecuting attorney and directed that all of; K: the prisoners at the county jail be vac dilated against smallpox. Ir-.r- Xot only will all of the prisoners ' [??? now in the jail, which number sixty.' brought there in the future will be Hrai. ~ - vaccinated as soon as they enter. The order making the vaccination Hn compulsory at the jail was made by : H the board, which is composed of Lee Swisher, president of the county court: W. R. Haggerty. prosecuting attorney,: A - and Br. L. X. Yost, county health offi-: i fc/ Sheriff Glover was appraised of the j \ K. ?, action of the board and Br. L. X. Yost j: By expects to start the work 'etc this aft-11 1%.' 5g tjrnoon or tomorrow. m ~'* ** ^ UNITY Visitor to City C Mayor Bowe\ Mayor Anthony Bowen yesterd which, was written on the station tor itself: 1 To the Mayor of Fairmont, W, Va My dear Sir:?As you do not inviting prosecution by addressing tJ stranger in Fairmont. I never saw i under cloudy skies it at once impres | and a wholesome city. I have fou: i business people has been marked by 1 lege to be housed in a quiet and resj blance of lav/ violation or of public away feeling that I want to come ag Probably the atmosphere of Fail to me because in the city I have j on every hand and no effort being the community. I congratulate you mast heartily o which seems to stand first of all fi which for n*'h:r::v"? " SOiOPBAISESOn FRANCE AT MEETING Sons of Revolution Have a Very Interesting Annual j Meeting Here. r Attorney Fred T. Martin, of Grafton, delivered a splendid patriotic address at the annual meeting of the We6t Vir- j ginia Sons of the Revolution held yes-: terday afternoon at The Fairmont. Mr. Martin's address was enthusiastically received. James i. Mooreland. of Morgantown.' president of the organization, followed j Mr. Martin with a brief address in which he outlined the spirit of the French people to the United.States dur- f ing the Revolution and stated that allj we could do, would not repay France! for what she did tor the struggling j colonies. ; Mrs. George DeBolt on behalf of the : William Haymond Chapter of the j Daughters of the American Revolution ; v.-hich chapter was entertained yester-' day by the Sons, gave a pleasing talk along patriotic lines and also told the assemblage that the Daughters of the American Revolution have undertaken : to raise the sum of S100.000 in Liberty : bonds of the third issue. Mrs. \V. H. Conaway, regent of the local chapter, gave a brief and pleas-; ing taik. Musical numbers were rendered by Mrs. 11. G. Stoetzcr. a mem-. bor of the local chapter and Miss Kaedel Hentdon. A lunch was served at one o'clock : at v, iiich covers were laid for the .fol-: lowing: Mesdatnes O. S. McKinney, j Hugh F. Smith. James It: Morelantf,' i r. G. Stoetzcr. George DeBolt, A. W. | Sterling. W. T. Black. A. G. Martin-i C. E. Smith. Murray Dicsersou. Frank rt. Lyou, Samuel D. Brady. H. G. i Greer. Z. F. Robertson. Francis E. i Nichols. Joseph Lehman, W. J. Boyd-1 ston. W. J. Wiegel. Henry F. Smith, j K. t". Frame.* W. 1-1. Conaway. James! A. Meredith. J. A: Fickinger. Paul Ham- j iltou. Franklin Field of Washington,, Pa.. Misscsh Florence Cavender, Mary ; Martin of Oakland. Messrs. Fred T. Martin, Charles L.! Hickman. I. C. White. R. Hale. Ray j V. Henncu, Samuel Leeper, W. J. Wie-: gel. Dr. \V. J. Boydston, A. G. Martin, j Henry F. Smith. Francis E. Xicnols. Joseph Lehman. Henry F. Smith. Rob-1 ert T. Cunningham. T. W. Arnett. O-' S. McKinney. James R. Moreland. Har-, vey F. Smith, 0. M. Ritchie, E. C.! Smith. At a brief business meeting held dur-, ing the day the following officers were i clcr.'. J: President. James Rodgers i Mo: m .nd. cf Morgantown; vice presi-j dec;.. W. H. Morgan, of Parkersburg; I secretary and registrar, 7. Ray Dille,! of Morgantown; treasurer, Francis E. j Nichols, of Fairmont; historian. Col. j Henry Raymond, of Clarksburg; board ; of managers, Charles Hickman, of | Clarksburg; Harvey F. Smith, of j Clarksburg: R. L. Bland, of Weston: j Fred T. Martin, of Grafton; O. S. Mc-j Kinney, of Fairmont: delegates to the j national tri-eunial convention to be! held in Philadelphia April 19-20. Har-j very F. Smith, of Clarksburg: Francis! E. Nichols, of Fairmont, and W. H.! Morgan, of Parkersburg. Hon. O. S. McKinney presided as toastmaster during the luncheon and introduced the speakers. The committee on entertainment composed of Mr. McKinney and Frances E. Nichols left J nothing undone tor the pleasure and J comfort of the guests. Sixteen Lose Lives In Michigan Mine CRYSTAL FALLS. Mich.. Feb. 23 ? Revised figures on the ioss of life in the Amass Porter mine accident Thursday show that 16 men were killed when a bulk head gave way permitting water and quick sand to rush into the ; mine. As more water is threatening to pour into the mine it is not known wben the bodies will be recovered. 1 i Want Ad in The M MEET! Compliments n on Moral Tone ay received the following letter. ery of The Fairmont and speaks rainnont, W. Va., Feb. 21. 1918. know me, I assume that I am not lis communication to you. . I am a t until day before yesterday. Even sed me as a fair city, a clean city, \ ad it to be so, my contact with its 1 rare courtesy. It has been my pnvijectable hotel. I have seen no semdisorder anywhere, and I am going ;ain and stay longer. | niont has made an especial appeal ust come from I found lawlessness made to build up a moral tone in n being the chief executive of a city or righteousness and for the things I (ours very truly. JOHN P. McCREA. mar WHO IS WILLING 10 TALK or rucrj ? I The Chesters Happen Upon a Man Whose Mind is Made Up This is the sixth article by George Randolph Chester, famous novelist, and his -wife and collaborator, Lillian Chester, who wont to France especially' for The West Virginian ' to tell the . story of Franee Today exclusively ""in this city to oar readers. The Chester articles are being published daily. By GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER. and LILLIAN CHESTER. (Copyright, 1918. by the Newspaper 'Enterprise Association.) PARi~. Feb. 23.?We have just been dte> -issing peace with Andre Fuelot. and'we have arrived at a very satisfactory conclusion. Andre is altogether a man of peace, although at times one might seem to detect a ferocious opxression in his left eye. and a still more ferocious expression in the place where his ] right eye used to be. Andre's plan is very simple, and > docs not include haggling over terms. ! Any kind of a treaty will do. be- J cause tlie important point lies ' in ! when the document-is signed. t He wants to continue the war until only one German remains, conclude a! peace with him, they try him with i due decorum, and hang him for the ? - . _ TT I crimes ui me nuua. i To some this view rear seen* more ! or less radical: but if your sister had j been in the captured and evacuated j district, and bad seen her fahter and ! husband and son hilled and if" she and | her daughters had been for 1S J months the slaves of German beasts. (Continued on Page Twol KITCHEN sliEN FOR THE FAIRMONT ? i Manager Fatt is Going to Make Vacant Lot Do Its Bit. The latest undertaking at The Fairmont. where everything in conection with food conservation seems to begin. is the hotel garden which Manager R. H. Fatt is planting. The Fairmont will, have a garden of its own this summer which will help in supplying food for the hotel. Manager Fatt has a large vacant lot in the rear of the hotel which he thinks ought to be used for something.! He has 'decided to clean it off and j have a real garden this summer. Just j as scon as the weather is warm J enough be will have the soil tested j and will plant the land In vegetables j best adapted to the soil. - ; It is not the plan to have the garden j nroduce. all- the vegetables necessary.) to keep the big hotel going, but merely to help in the movement for a booster crop for 191S. Woodward Leaves nospital?Howard Woodward, who recently underwent as operation for appendicitis at Cook hospital returned today to his; home. v st Virginian. It Ri \ % '?' > NGS VI Vast Russian Te?ti * I * - ' i _ * - ' - * o so too v5o " Germany's seizure of practical there is Poland, and the Ukraine; co German Empire. Including the Ukraine and Pol; added approximately 35.000,000 souls The two large cities which Gem and Lutsk (2). FOP. PHYSiCAL TEST' ' ?- -l One Hundred and Fifty Up For Friday and Saturday. . About one hundred and fifty more Class 1 men will be examined at the Y. M. C- A. on Friday and Saturday of ; next week by the. local draft board.; The one. hundred and tifty men called j for examination on these two days will | be the one hundred and fifty Class l. men nolding the lowest order numbers j; and not already examined. The men ' called are likely to be those holding: orders numbers 6S9-1200 inclusive. , The examination next week will he | held on the third floor of the V. M. C. j A. as usual. v Calis for physical examination will I be mado ont by the local draft board j: the first of next week. There are six delinquents from the ,. examination held by the draft board j; yesterday and today. The six men are |: as follows: j; Order No. 355 ' Joseph Brock Cox. 370 William Henry Bassett. 5SS Faure Dellegatti. t 62S GcserveRecrisci. " " 639 Vernon Clemmon Kelley. 641 Frederick LeRoy Morris. None of the above-men appeared for !: physical examination and nothing: whatever has been learned of their j whereabouts. Others did not appear ! because they were" out of town "and un- : able'to get here. I Sr.fl.lrls Prove Fatal For Little James Tork I .... . i? ; James Tork. the two year old infant; son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tork, died j this morning at Fairmont' hospital as ' a result of bums he received on Thurs-. day when he fell into a pail of scald-' ing water at the home of his parents ; on Hamilton street. The body was j prepared for burial by Undertaker R.: C. Jones and this afternoon was re-1 moved to bis home. No funeral srrangements bare been made. j eaches Twice as Man + - - >. : . s_l *' . a _4 J . tuCj ' ? tory Ta ||| -iooMUes ' t ?i?i?i? 1 in i?rmTWTra :iy all the Baltic provinces of Russia gi vering about S5.000 kilometers; which and. Germany lias more than doubled 1 to her population. lanv added to her aread after, the resum slefliill STOP BANK m ? i Was Not Disposed to Interfere With Receiver For J. v. xnompson. ? I PITTSBURGH. Feb. 2U-?Judges W. H. 3. Thomson and Charles P. Orr, in United States District court here to-; day refused a petition of G. R. Scrag- j hatn..D. M. Hertzog and R. M. Hite. ' trustee of the estate of J. V. Thotnp-. son, former t'niontown banker, to stay i the receiver's sale of the First Nation-, al Bank of Union town, scheduled to ; tak.e piace in that city this afternoon, j The court in handing down the order stated it .was not disposed.to inter- i fere with the action of the receiver in j bringing about a -final adjustment of i the Thompson affair. The petitions filed .today by the trus- j tees was supplemental to the one filed ; January 11 and declared the individual i sale of the bank's property including J an adjoining theatre would be disas trous to the general stockholders in- j asmuch as there were ample funds to I pay off all the indebtedness of the in-1 stitution without selling the real prop- j erty. The petitioners also set forth that the sale of the stock of the Wet- j rel Coal and Coke company and the ' Liberty Coal company were worth approximately S750.000. was about to be made and the funds thereby derived could be utilized in meeting obligations. * It also declared that negotiar tions are under way for the blanket sale of the entire Thompson estate to a ;xew. iuift i.uuvdu ? . tions might be successfully concluded J should the sale of the bank proper! y i be deferred from 60 to 90 days. Pneumonia Plague I Again Breaks Out 1 BOSTON. Feb. 23.?The pneumonic | pldgue has broken out in Shansi province in China and assumed such pro- i portions that all North China is -seriously threatened. Advices to this ef-1 feet -were received today by the American board of commissioners for foreign missions from members of its I staff in North China. j y Fairmont People i 110 su many and Austria ' o N^" o<r y 4 -o t-ir ?i v .*./ -~H: c : r V * f- T V '""O >'1 it . y V MOS ^A* *S K>^>\ fJ oatL cey* ^ ^ E-ves-her. a-huge - legion. -In addition is 50 per cent larger than the whole :he area ot the German Empire and has ption of hostilities are Dvinsk (1> ISTto" On III HAPiDLY Production in This .Country Already Ahead of England. fpv Associated Press* WASHINGTON". Feb. 23?Seven hun ; dred thousand army rifles have been j produced in the United States since j this country entered the war. accord-} ing to a statement made public today ; by the ordnance bureau of the War] department. During the week ending i February 3. the total production was j 7.S05 Enfields and 1.442 Sprinfields or j a total of 9.247 sen-ice rifles added to : stock every" day. In addition the gov- j .pnmAnt *2.115 Russian armv 1 rifles during the week making a total i output of 72,132 weapons of this class, j This production, the statement says, is the greatest ever achieved by any j country in a similar period of ten i months. It is four times greater than j the British output after ten months ! of war pnd twice as large as the British output after two and a half years of war. "We have today" the statement says "a total of 1.300,000 service "rifles. Only about fifty per cent of the troops carry rifles. "We have in addition 160.000 Krags. 100.000 Russ rifles- and some 20.000 Ross rifles or a total of about 2SO.OOO training rifles. Rifle cartridge production is on a similar scale the statement showing that a total of 7.300,000 was the daily average output in Jannary. - ? income'ta: . We have secured the 5 kinson for Monday, Tuesd ruary 25th, 26th and 27th, and friends in making out t This servicers free. We ask that you assen to take as little of Mr. Will The Nations' Ba is Any Other Newsp . i CCESS | GOOD A1IEN0ANCE AND INTERESTING mm m Those Who Attended* 4 That More Gatherings' |? v^|i Should be Held* : IWENn-SlPffiS _____ " America Be Sung Was Marion county, celebration igf-Wtdu B ington's birthday was successful Tfej 38 yond the hopes of those who planned : 3sE| and prepared for it. .At practteaHy < every one of the community gatherings the attendance was large and .at "one of them was there a small crprrdi . jJSa )5t encouraging feature about . the arrair is that everywhere the gram was pleasing and those * :' *?$& turned out went away feeling, t^at Vj3&3 more of this kind of meeting* should Charles W. Svans who did the hard work in recruiting the'speak"' *-3|a ers and assigning them to the various, meetings said this morning''' twenty-six speakers had re^poridjiJE his appeal and all of them prepawi^Es special addresses suitable tot thelpiu?-rjjSS ticular occasion. Mr. Evans thrM^jS this record alone Is a pretty good^m^Sig dicaiion of the patriotic spirit'Ofthe" people of Marion county. Another feature of the cetehi#Sm^ which was the subject of mtrchifawfej^jB able comment today -was .the patriotic! instrumental duet which Mrs.. Donham and Miss Katharine rendered at three of the meetiaKfedBring the^eVMhg: THgfiTWfiite *35r JECpo ler schools. ' At most, if not all of the- meethM#*g^i Governor Cornwell's requestshould join in serving Americs-'ii^i^^^l complied with. At some ' meetttgw The Star Spangled Banner also sting. At the High school last nitft: speyJaa cial vocal music was rendered dresses were delivered by Judge W-^3i Haymond and Hon. O. S. McKfnrierj A large crowd attendedthe meetingj . -. j which was held in the Centralschool'-VjSS building on the East Side. * If. Hustcad. of the East Side schools^'ac^v ^ ed as chairman of the meeting.: 'Jj/mfigS dresses were delivered there" by Mrs> ^|sj J. "Walter Barnes. Attorneys H. * ;S Lively. Harry Shaw and Major Carskadon and Leri B. Hztrr. 3ESMSferfM|j otic driHs were given. At the Dunbar school the palrtotWT;.3ffi meeting was held -in the afteraoont.i-:^ at 3 o'clock. Attorney B. F. Bamtiw.VtS and Attorneys Ross A. Watts, seerai'..'..^ tary of the board of education, ;deHv- ** ered addresses. , " V.'-S^Wj At the Miller school .addresses were-'' delivered by Attorney Ira L. Smltlt -r and C- W. Evans. The other meetteg^SS^S were addressed by the followingi'V'T^S J. Walter Barnes and Mrs. J.. ;A-y Meredith at the White school, Jacobs and Henry S. Lively st--^&?^"; Fleming school and Rev. H..G. Stoet-_* v'fij zer at the Norwood school. , Stoetzer was also on the program v/5 the Norwood school where she A fair sized assemblage gatheredy the Worthington mass meeting; .which?VA> was held in the Christian church rl*st"-? night. Patriotic songs were HaSepia^M with enthusiasm. Addresses wwn,?B-??j? livered by Mrs. George DcBolt, prs|Ident of the Woman's club. mont. and H. H. Rose: executive-: retarv to J. Walter Barnes, fedbr^^i^ fuel administrator. At Fairview. FAIR VIEW. February 33.?Paepjfjjfgjj triotism was maniloet at & gathertWBgi lield last night in the Metfcodizt:EpIp: copal church. Sootb. in this pleceSssB ? u.. iAA AHll.il Has dUCUUSU?u.- -.vv ! was 'one of the series of gatherings held over the city and county in^pojri-J^ uiemoration of Washington's btrttjiliqfc-^ Quite frequently tears filled the,-?s?^ of those assembled as the speaSew-jpt discussed the -war aims. The meeting was arranged by committee composed of X T. Hnmil- 1 ton. chairman. W. H. Coontz,' C. E. j Morris and Rev. C. N". Coffman. .aadijg the revival service for last night (Continued on Page (4)'. ;ervices of Mr. A. J. ay and Wednesday, Feti- Z to assist our customera-|3| T" ~~~~ ~ T ,Pav.A^K?v^? xucuiuc xa.a. xv^vx us? | ible your figures in ordergsi dnson's time as possible. ^;' nk of Fairmont 119 ' . : ? aper *W. 4jy?%S#SSK& j WSk - M 6 I