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BL m. I .? A I ^ | B ^SJ I Ie ^ | S I Fair tonight and I J. f// %F1 M I&jKLfl^ Z9 V ^ ^ I ^wwhMdv. ;; m 9 9 i January, 1918 1 ' ** - f ^ m - ., . ? % i-- /* ' J a - [ j F Northern West Virginia s Greatest Newspaper . - ^^ ' ' f BOLSHI I SAMMIES NOLO THEIR OWN IN ARTILLERY DUEL - i Fnemy Forces Tried Unsuc-, Hj cessfully to Hinder the j Patrol Work I mm ii arcs! r. American Machine Guns \ Fire Thousands of Rounds in Rear of Germans. B I Par 1 r.y AsM^ciatc?3 Pre<*> The artillery duel in the American sector northwest of Toul grows more H ' intense daily. The Germans fired a hundred or more shells duriug the last T' 24 hours and late today began to bom bard violently some of our batteries -with gas and high explosive shells. The American artillery has replied H--1.. constantly doing most effective work K ; against the enemy front line trenches. H Sis battery positions and wire entan glements. numerous enemy working parties also were shelled. American machine guns last night and this morning fired many thousand rounds in the rear of the German positions where marked movements of men and material progresses. The enc-my tried unsuccessfully to hinder the American patrol work by hurling new and powerful flares into the American wire entanglements. j Trench raids along the French front have increased in intensity "during the past month to such an extent that thev have become in some instances battles in which thousands of men have, V' ' _ been engaged and hundreds of prisoners taken. Uuring air raids Sunday night, a j semi official announcement says ' enemy aeroplanes dropped 27 bombs . on inhabited places at Venice. 20 on ' Mestre and five on Castel Franco. Two persons were killed and nine ! Injured at Venice and three were killed at Ifestrs. All were civilians. I ANOTHER FARMER SMITH HOBS BP Bp> BL City Commissioner Interested in Cooperative Plan in Preston Co. With the idea of cooperative farms' iag as a means of solving the field problem and trying to replenish the woo; supply. Commissioner Ira L. Smith, Walter Corbin. S. B.Sehniteer. H 9 Edward Taylor. J. H. Rowand. T.awrence Horn and Joseph H. Ross. Fairxoonters. today made arrangements to K , secure a 190 acre tract of land near Halleck, Preston county. The tract St. was secured at a point that was free of coke so that the wool would not be discolored, and because of the copious supply of water which flows there Py from five small mountain runs. Bu^B It is understood that 100 pigs and 100 sheep will start the enterprise if 4-wflv mh cpctitho have !?* ww . - ..w been secured in Webster county but so far the sheep have not been. Effort will be made to get the sheep in Green brier county. A farmer *111 be secured to raise _ i the feed and in addition a sheep herder *111 be hired. A company will be 'formed and there will be probably as many as twenty Fairmonters in the proposition before it is fully organized |: Miner Injured by . I : Moving Machinery | ?'. Albert Belt, a miner in the employ | sf. of the Jamison coal company at Xo. 9 ! 5?', mine was badly injured yesterday ! * when he accidentally fell into a piece i "T of moving machinery and had one i iharnl and both legs so badly injured . that ampntatioir was necessary. He ' was admitted-to Fairmont Hospital. '5Jo. 2 where he is doing well today. ? The Juice Naturally Followed the Stream While attempting to pour water on : ast electric wire that had fallen near ; her home on State street. East Side, i last night. Mrs. James Baker was severely shocked but was hot burned. ! Ive chief Watkins answered an alarm to come to her home to put out a fire , Which had been caused by the electric Wire- .The fire was extinguished witb? oat any loss. EVIKIM Goes 50-50 On Smileage Does This Chap The following letter, received yesterday at the Red Cross headquarters, tells its own story: Feb. 19, 191S. Fairmont Chapter Red Cross. Friends:?After reading Saturday eevjiinS's West Virginian here in "camp, I take the liberty of sending one of my two smileage books for use for some other chap in arms in a universal oause. My only regret is that I am too far away to do any more. Hoping you will accept same I remain. Pri. j. Friedland. 9ith Co.. f. S. M. C. M. Barracks. Paris Island. Formerlv with F. P. Lip'son, c. in mmf WATSBN CHiLDREH j AH Public School Students to Have Arms Scratched. ???? Urgent appeals by the city authoriJ ties to residents to be vaccinated to| getber with the rightfully anticipated ' fear of contracting smallpox has sent ! hundreds and hundreds of Fairmonti ers to physicians during the past few ; days. There seems to be a tendency I to play safe and one doctor when he | closed his office on Saturday had i scratched 14O arms. The wholesale vaccination in the ' city and county has resulted in the ! supply of vaccine being exhausted as well as the shields. " V Vrt?t hMith officer. t/J . x>- ??. i - yesterday directed the school at Watson to have all of the scholars there vaccinated. This js in the vicinity of some of the mines and this precaution is taken in advarce should any case of smallpox break out there. The work- of vaccinating the prisoners in the Marion county Jail has not been started as yet because of the shipment of vaccine not having arrived. Dr. Yost expects to receive it to1 day jn the event of which he will start' J the work at once. | As physicians make a more thorI ousb study of the local smallpox sit! uation. many interesting discoveries are made. The development of the last ! epidemic of smallpox in this city in i which nine cases were reported, proves ! that smallpox is scattered by a patient j at one certain stage and that after that j time there is no danger of the disease I spreading. The situation in this city even leads physicians to believe thai there is but one day on which smallpox is spreadOf the nine cases reported in the last epidemic each of the nine patients were first affected w-itb the disease on Monday. The first two cases were renrrfoit'on Wednpsdav. four were re ported on Thursday, one on Friday and two on Saturday. A careful investigation of the development of the above cases has been made by city physicians, and have led to the above conclusions. APPflDPRiflTIOH FOR GARBAGE EXCEEBE I : Mayor Bowen Asks Citizens to Make Suggestions on Subject. In an effort to get a response from the public as to the best method of handling the garbage situation in this j cky. Mayor Bowen has prepared a memorandum which he asks the peo| pie of Fairmont to fill out and return I to him. The memorandum proposes j a monthly iate of fifty cents for the | collection of garbage, provided certo in AhliCot^Ans ova carrioil flTlt OR Set I ! forth in the memorandum. On account of increased prices of material, labor, supplies and repairs j the city has already exceeded the apprpriation for garbage disposal as provided in the budget. In order to continue the collection of garbage more money must either be taken from the general fund and from general taxation or a minimum charge he made for the collection of garbage. It is the belief of city officials that three trucks will be sufficient to ocver the city and that these three trucks may be operated by a fee of fifty j cents per month for residents. DEATH OF AN INFANT. Harry, the three-days-old infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fisher, died last; evening at 7:30 o'clock at the home of | his parents on First street. The infant was horn on Washington's birthday. Interment was made today in Wood la wn cemetery by Undertaker Musgrave and Son. merits in The West 1 ALL THM VEIN I MIKES MAE GET SAMEAOVANCE Monongalia Operators Want Territory Extend? * ea. BARNES N~MFHE Fuel Administrator Going to Washington Tonight to Take Up Matter, Why not advance the selling price of coal forty cents per ton in Marion, Monongalia and other adjacent counties. just as is planned to do for Preston? Why not? ; That is the question that is being asked following the meeting at Mor-! gantown last night when a conference ; was held between the Coal Operators' i Association of Scott's run and J. Wai- j | ter Barnes. Fuel Administrator of , West Virginia. I ! The advance of forty cents a ton in j [ selling price was first demanded by I j Preston county "thin rein" operators j j who claimed that it was discrimina-! | tion when the Federal Fuel Adminisj < ration permitted the advance for the ' Upper Potomac field, which includes | Mineral. Grant and Tucker counties i and a part of Preston *in West Virginj ia. j The Preston county operators have : not had an assurance of the advance j as yet but it reasonably sure that their ! i request will be complied with because | ! E. G. Townsend. who is in charge of [ rfco "nmilnrfinn" denj?rtment of the j Federal F"uel Administration. w*-ed ! I J. Walter Barnes some time ago that I "we may decide to inclnde territory j [ west and southwest oar present j , definition without formality of requiri ing petition." and requested him to' I suggest what territory Ought to he in- i i eluded. | When the telegram reached Mr. ; ; Barnes he was touring the southern ; part of the state in connection with : ' his duties as Federal Fuel Administra- j : tor, and in order to dispose of the mat- j 1 ter promptly he advised that all of ! j the "thin vein" operators in Preston I county be included. j Preston county "thin vein operators [ j which takes in practically all of the ' i coal mines in the county, held meeti ings and the attitude of the Federal | Fuel Administrator was discussed. ! ; When this activity reached the opera- i tors of the Scott's Run field there was ! a sudden recognition of tardiness on ' the part of operators in other counties not to petition for the same advance in selling price. j .At a meeting held Thursday night | of last week the Scott's Run Coal Op- j j erator's Association, which includes S. ! B. Brady. T. B. Henderson and others i of Fairmont, it was determined to ask i | for the same advance as Preston coun: ty was getting and a committee wa* | appointed to draft a resolution asking ' the Federal Fuel Administration to ex | tend the ruling to include that section. Another meeting was set for last j I night and H. F. Elkins. secretary of 1 the association, invited J. Walter Bar- ; nes. Federal Fuel Administrator for; ' West Virginia, to be present. The tel- i , egram read that the operators "want i : your views regarding the placing of 1 ; the thin seams of Monongalia county j j upon the same basis as Preston county and adjacent territory and are very | ; desirous of meeting you and feel that a j ! short talk would, be of mutual advantage." Mr. Barnes was at Morgantown last night and reports a very interesting meeting. "I see no reason why the re- j quest of the Monongalia county operI ators should not he granted." he said i today, "and for that matter other thin | vein mines in Marion and adjacent counties are operated upon-the same basis and entitled to be included in the ruling." Mr. Barnes* is leaving tonight . for Washington and it is texj pected that the request of the Preston ! county operators will be formally acted upon while he is there and possibly j the territory extended to other north-1 1 era West Virginia counties. The operators ot Scott's Run dis-! trict say that they can turn oat a lot j of coal if they can get the cars and j argue that they are entitled to the (same advance considered for Preston j county operations. The Scott's Rnn , vein is four to four and a half feet | ! thick. There is something like two feet mined in addition to .the coal'' which entitles the producer to extra ; remuneration. In 1917 there were 751.- ; 403 tons of coal mined in Monongalia ' county and the output is expected to I he matorinllx- increased this year as ' there are many new operations. An i i increase of forty cents a ton is esti- j mated to mean something like $250,000 : The mines on Scott's Kun are tipple ; mines and the coal is hauled by steam j to Randall on a trolley line where there is a junction with the Mononga- [ (Continued on rage Four.) 1 Tirginian, The Newsp HSTANI MAYOR BflWEK Tl >| TRY CATCH CHOP | Will Plant Some Spring Wheat and Rye on His Premises. Endeavor in?: to test out the virtue ' of a catch crop. Mayor Anthony Bowen today stated that it -was his intention | to plant spring wheat and rye as an experiment at bis home, Bowenita. on I the East Side. The mayor figures that j this 'will be a cajrch crop of some ad- j vantage if he is successful in produc- j ( ing it. In this section the fall what and rye does not grow any too successful at; times. On some occasions the severe cold weather nips it and again the various pests destroy it to such a result I that decent looking stands are not obtained. Mayor Bowen also expects to raise j enough corn for his own use and suf-1 ficient field corn for his chickens. | 'Yesterday the city chief executive j ^ent his order to a Philadelphia house J for 21 worth of garden seeds. The! mayor is a real fanner and he has,"* : real Indiana farm on the East S?!e. ] which really is worthy of example as \ a means of combatting the high cost , of living and solving the food problem. LOCAL flRAFTEES ' LEAVE MONDAY ' ! Local Draft Board Receives Definite Orders Toi day. , 1 Fairmont will furnish 17 men as her remaining quota in the last drafUi < all ol wnom win leave tois cny vu mc ; morning oi Monday. March 4. at 10:30 j ' o'clock, according to information re- j I ceived by the local draft board this j morning. L The telegram announcing the above M reecived from. Breckinridge Jones, of ;J Charleston, reads as follows: 1 To the Local Draft Board. Fairmont, "W. Va. fou will entrain Monday. March 4. at 10:30 a. m.. yonr final increment present one hundred per cent quota, consisting of 17 men. Schedules following by mail. JONES. The men leaving Fairmont will go to Camp Greenleaf. Fort Oglethorpe. Ga. The local draft board is still nn- > certain as to what seventeen Class 1 men will be select-ed to go in the next I quota as there are three cases pending f in the Medical Advisory board, which have not yet been passed upon. How- ! ever, the men selected will be the first 1 17 Class 1 men. holding the lowest or- 1 (lr numbers, found physically fit. who 1 have not been otherwise inducted be- 1 fore the call was issued. It is improb- 1 able that any men holding order mim- . ' bers higher than 190 will be called at : ' this time. i I * i Pittsburgh Broker in Uncle Sam's Clutches \ i i (By Associated Press' CHICAGO. Feb. 26?Frank B. Ham- ' '.in. a broker, is under arrest here to aay oy reuerai cuinais lur removal to Pittsburgh where he is charged with : tiring the mails to defraud. It is alleg- 1 eil that Hamlin and others promoted 1 a scheme by which they had sold more ' than $800,000 in a rubber manufactur- i ' ing company. Officials said they had : ] telegraphed orders to Pittsburgh to 1 have three more men arrested. ? ? |? German Spy Caught j? Tying Up Sugar Trade j < . CBy Associated Pressrt -i HAVANA. Feb. 26?Julius Messer. 1 a German mining engineer of Santia- 1 go de Cuba was arrested today by < Federal officers and Interned in the ; 1 Cubanas fortress charged with espion-1 age and propagandas among laborers }: In an effort to interrupt the handling t of the sugar crop. Messer is said to j t be as intimate frend of George HU- j i derbrant. German chemist and alleged 11 spy who is also a prisoner. j j One Killed in B. & 0. ! Wreck at Cogar ] CBy Associated Press! WASHINGTON. Feb. 26.?One train- , man was killed outrignt ana two otners < i were injured, one perhaps fatally,; j when a heavy train drawn by two loco- j < motives plunged into a creek between j Cogar and Burnsviile. Braxton county, l this morning on the Baltimore and i Ohio railroad. The bridge had been j .washed out by floods. "Worth E. Moore, of "Weston, engineer; 1 of the first locomotiTe, was killed. * i taper That Goes Into D AGAII PRICE REGULATES SOUL Mill 3EGLARES SENATOR Government Must Permit Reasonably Remunerative Selling Price. MEME?0F FACTS" Senator Reed .of Missouri, Gives His "Individual Conclusions" WASHINGTON. Feb. Responsibility lor the coal shortage was placed squarely on the fuel administration by Senator Reed of Missouri today in a "statement of facts" subnitted to the senate sub committee on manufacturers as a basis for a report of its recent investigation of the fuel situation. Senator Reed's statement was not the report of the sub committed which investigated the food and fuel administration tint a statement of his indi vidual conclusions on the facts. "The chaos now existing in the coal business" the statement said "must1 give peace to stability or we will in! the near future be confronted by a coal shortage of the most disastrous character." The statement also adeocates the announcement of a fixed time in which the business world mayl safely adjust itself to the new con-j tracts and added. 'It is claimed that the prices allowed to be charged must be reasonably remunerative. If this is denied the tnnximum of production cannot be expected." s fiffilii , SOON THE HEBE Robins and Snow are Both With us at the Same Time. I j What could have ordinarily been inisrprej d as harbingers ol spring were iffs two thunaer storms that broke aver Fairmont last niglit. The first aroke at 6:20 o'clock and the second ana about 10 o'clock. Both wfiaje ac-: aomapaied by heavy rain. The mer-| :ury dropped to 29 early this morning and fanned with a stiff gale the air! proved to be exceptionally cold. Ac:ording to the official forecaster 1.05 nches of rain fell. Snow flurries were apparent during the early morning. It was accompanied by a heavy rain, which increased in volume until it fell n torrents at 6:45 o'clock and everyBody was scattered and doing their Best to reach a dry place to avoid a "duckin." The temperature was 57 when th storm was at its height. The flashes of lightning were sharp mrt the thunder roared a half dozen :imes or more. This is the third thunderstorm this month. Janitor Harr, who follows the weather probably :loser than any man except the government observer, thinks that the backbone of the winter is broken and that we are scheduled to have an early spring. He follows the actions of Jupiter Pluvius about as close as the goose bone men do in some sections. About a week ago a flock of wild geese were seen flying" south, which ooks more like cold weather. At vari>us times there w*ere robins in the city luring the winter. The Little German >amd is a thing of the past since the war broke out and now practically all >f the harbingers of spring are not to >e depended upon. Blue birds, robins and snow drops ippeared simultaneously in one secion of the city yesterday and brought o the residents the hope that winter i weather was on the - wane and that nore pleasant weather would he ex-J >erienced in the near future. Big Rock-Ties Up Monongahela Railway A huge seone on the tract near Molon station on the Monongahela railray kept the passenger train due here it 9:25 from reaching the city until sarly this morning. After some delay m engine and cahoose were ran from tere and the passengers transferred, reaching Fairmont about 3:30 this norning. The trade is now clear. The noon rain arriving here from Pittsburghvas about fifteen minutes late. More Fairmont Hoi -i-- -1 ; . : 1ST GB I Barnes to Call Meeting to Discuss ! i" Plans For Defense Editor The West Virginian: Replying to your open letter ad| dressed to me as chairman of the J Marion County Council of De- ' fense: I I will be out of the city the rest | of the week and will be unable to take up the matter at this time. I Upon my return I will endeavor to arrange a date some time next i week at which time this mattet j i can be thoroughly discussed. In the meantime a meeting of all I j interested In the work of the Ma- [ rion County Council of Defense i xrilt hnld *t the First Presbyter- i i&n church next Sunday afternoon | at three o'clock at which J. L. Gillespie, field agent for the West j Virginia State Council of Defense, wilt make an address. Yours respectfully, i J. WALTER BARN'DS. i Chairman Marion County Council of Defense. KifiHT BEST MAN SAYS CAMP PAPER I Popular Fairmont General; Secretary Soon to be Transferred. Soldiers at Camp Sheridan. Montgomery. Ala., are especially anxious that J. W. Kight of this city, return to that camp permanently, according to reports in "Trench and Camp." the weekly publication at Camp Sheridan, and was giyen a hearty welcome upon his return. The weekly describes Secretary Kight in the write-up as being the "best Army Y. M. C. A. secretary at the en- I j tire camp." Secretary Kight has been j aiunatea wun - aunuing 01. wmtu u? , " become the big center of Y. M. C. A. activities at the camp. The camp Uax. become so popular that the soldiers who frequent it are called the "Picklers.* Secretary Kighf is now located at Camp Sheridan, but will only be there about ten days as he will be transferred to some other southern canton ment. Fn i vm on t lvyr,-. en m r? vi CirXX XXXV/XX t itj. ctuivxvvju Here From Long Tour Harvey Adams, who left here several months ago for an extensive tour of the West has returned to this city and while he enjoyed his stay in 'he West he is glad to get back to his native state. Mr. Adams was located | in Los Angeles. Cab. and for the grcat! er portion of his time was stationed | at Borsolvay in the Desert on a Lake I where is located the largest potash I plant in the United States and which I is government owned. Mr. Adams; states that he was so far as is known] j he is the only West Virginian to visit J this lake town. While in the West j Mr. Adams was dubbed the Far Eart' ern Tourist and the Virginian and seldom went by any other name. He is a member of the famous Hay! den band an dsince his return plans | have been made for the reorganization j of that band which will probably take | place Saturday or Sunday of this i week. Mr. Adams' friends are glad | he has decided to come back to his ! native heath and he is being greeted j warmly. Mr. Adams states that when he left the West he told his friends he was going back to West Virginia with the robins and blue birds and his predtc! tion came true as the first blue birds i of the season appeared here yesterday j and the robins only preceded him a ' few days. j ; This Fellow Sure |Was Caught Napping Just a little intoxicated Tom Monroe dropped into the City Building about 9:15 o'clock this morning to take a little nap. Before he had been in the building long, even before he had gotten comfortably located, he was nabbed by an officer and transferred to ]; the sleeping apartments of the city,; city jail He will remain here until j; tomorrow morning' when he win come I; before the Mayor for a bearing. Police Hunting Express Robber j i CBy Associated Pre*?t PITTSBURGH. Feb. 26?Special j j agents of the Adams Express Com- j pany throughout Pennsylvania and West Virginia and Fosters Ohio today ! instituted a search for a clerk of the Pittsburgh office o? the company, who , disappeared here late Saturday fol- j lowing the .reported robbery of ap-1 proximately *585.000 in currency from ; the office here. nes Than Any Other RMANS SB'm Red Guards are Now B#* 1 sisting the German HA SO PETRBG8A0 SMS ' Peaceful for Som# '* Time. ' (By Associated Press)' LONDON*. Feb. 26.?Pskov. 175 mfle#(. southwest of Petrograd. has been re-. . . captured by Bolsheviki and itrlit;. fighting is going on there, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch fram.-^'^qgH Petrograd dated Honday. The Bed. Guards are resisting the German vance everywhere. An Amsterdam dispatch says: The ' Central powers intend to give self fdr-, ernment to the provinces of Courland and Lichuania. Imperial Chancellor! von Huhtling declared in his address1 to the Reichstag yesterday. The opier- ' Jt ation of the Central powers in the e?*fc',.:'r$aH the chancellor said, were being carried out with the sole aim of securing tlie- s;: fruits o* the peace with Ukraine.; added. "We do not intend to establish ourselves in Estbonia or Livonia.** , fin* v iianr^iinr asserted ths Central powers had freed Poland with intt?-._CSjBB t ion of calling an Independent into existence. The constitutional". : & problem involved was still being,, dfe-r cussed in its narrower sense, he said, by the three countries involved.- ..:;Saj Arrangements, have, been made toi . move the Americans in Moscow 'tfl- jSs Samara. 50o miles to the east. No imf" mediate occupation of Moscow man troops is expected but it ww;;.f~f3| thought advisable-to move the &mjSji4<g??9 cans. "the consul general at Moscow I*-; porting the arrangements to the department today added that all Aines^?<v^ icans there were well. i American Aviators Soon. to y .r,;/ (Ry Associated Press^- -/r^Sal WASHINGTON. Feb. 26.?The.tint?, *c . .y, ?' ~TT jrffijBBWBB public night of an aeroplane with a Liberty motor will be "jnade.?^ here probably next week. Kepres?B?7>^ live Hull, of Iowa, said todayy in %Jg nouncing that arrangements had beM ^ySS^^^^^^^H completed to give Congressmen-eaarwfej^ portuniiy to see the new engme;U?d&^p?9 tion. - ?>. OA?wkcen(oHvo Hull. flight yesterday' with Coionel,Lee,<of jjj the British Royal Flying Corps, aWb'.'^S announced that an American: iav^ aviator will be chosen by the War partment to pilot the American chine and congressmen who have been. g watching the recent flight of Colohiel^ Lee will have a chance to comp!d#iSegS British Hollf-Royce motor with'-* Slag? American product. Firms msnriftVfe%? turing Liberty motors, he , said, had j> promised an assembled en gine' ??*?? nest week. ^ruwjwtruWL--- -_r_r_n_ru-.-i_-.n_-_ _ JXT.VlAfrr it VACCINATION NOTICE. In view of the prevalence ftAsem Smallpox in and throughout the* county and city, the Board SfcKjsS Health of the City of Fairmisnt^a hereby urgently suggests and ad--i; j vises that all citizens submit-3jii$s|| vaccination at once, and that ev?yf;i^| precaution be used . against ; t&jfejjs spread of this loathsome disease,$|s The Health Board will do everyy? thing in its power to take piu^er^SjS care of all cases 01 iniecuon. will promptly segregate and antine establish::! care;. Let tfcag citizens themselves use every caution and care. BOARD OF HEAT.TTT>': City of Fa:r- ,=rtfgH| By H. L. CRISS. City Phy^c'tX ^ ANTHONY BOY."EN. :.Ta>vrw .1 .1 W ? ^ l"ji Daily Publication - . ".' -iv. * ' _ > f".. .. tPIfifi ! - v'-; - .. -. t .