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V T OW that the city government has decided to go aher d 'N.\ - 1 sj with the collection of garbage at the expense of the householder the members of the Board of Control are face to face with a few hard facts, and it is time for them to devote a lot of serious thought to them, so that they wiil know how to act when difficulties and disputes -y ^' arise. If they do not think this matter out in advance the V;whole experiment is going to be a failure. To begin with the garbage collection service will have to be a whole lot more satisfactory than it has been in gig**" the past. Thcr are a lot of people in Fairmont who are not at all sure the city ever had a garbage collection, so irregular has the work bean carried on. The people have in the main been unusually good naturcd about it. but now that the city has added six dollars per year to the raunicipal taxes of every householder in the garbage collection Sj'V- _ limits the service will have to be kept upon a high plane of ||=rr efficiency or there will be many complaints of tbc kind thai U* dienrepd of with a smile and an excuse. I To be of any practical use from a sanitary standpoint - the garbage of every householder, apartment dweller, business establishment and manufacturing concern inside ' the garbage collection district will have to be taken care of at regular intervals. Ho v.- to make all sec this who may 0$'*:: object to paying the monthly fee, and how to keep the revr, d. enue from the service up to the point where it will not . an ? a deficit if there are any considerable number who refuse ?. ' to pay will be. we feel sure, one of the most perplexing of die problems which they will have to face at Ciiv hall ; in this connection. But face it they must. |'r.i -' . For a time it may be found necessary to increase the size of the sanitary police force, both to sec that the people . ' who have garbage are preparing it so that the garbage rrsn , can take it away and to check up on the work of the gar- I . " bage collectors themselves. The ultimate success of an M*?. undertaking of this character very frequently depends upon ; . the way in which it is begun. We are not far from the annual spring clean up period and it will be a good plan to start the garbage collection matter off with a sanitary " crusade which for the time being will make garbage and . cftuniciap! hygiene loom almost as large in the Fairmont , mind as does the great war. SECOND NOTICE. ;J. iN another column we print this evening an article from X Charleston outlining the latest effort of Governor Corn- j it.--;!" well to get the so called 36-hour act enforced through- ! llpf . out the state. The most interesting phase of this article ?k? T is the letters setting forth what has been done along that line in Charleston and Huntington, but the big idea in it ^ is that idlers and local authorities might as well make up their mir's now as at some later dc'.e that this year there Ssfe- is going to be no loafing in West Virginia. Here and there there may be loafers who believe they ; It, *? thpir Wal officials do not have the backbone to ; enforce the law. but these mind reader* are overlooking | the fact that before very long the local officials arc going . to be confronted with the alternative of doing their duty j or stepping down and out. When that comes it is quite Bp*V : likely to come so quickly tha' there will be practically no time for the idlers to hunt cover. ' The man who knows that he ought to be at work at ! tome useful job had belter go out and hurt that job. If Rs?~v. be .does not he is quite likely to find himself lined up in Hp??'"} police court some morning and given the choice of going Er-lfe to work for an employer he does not admire on work that he does not like or for the city or county under an armed j KjTgff"' . guard. That has happened at Huntington, and. as we j have remarked before. Governor Cornwell and the West | r ? | any influential frien - i RUFF STUFF I Washington corres I " ^ Virginia Democratic I - ? : complaining that tl "More red wine causes trouble."? s'>ip in this state. ^ Headline. D . .. . ... j But the aforesaid 'Member what thfe Good Book says j 1 about looking upon the wine when it is * , .e redandcoloreththecup. What they want <' The kind sold here seems to color wi"ins to paj" r^e up the whole landscape. Ab(J u lg the bffi Also the police court blotter. 6S the Iea<:^rs^' ihf??her DOt 8ay ?nrthlBK ab?Uf I HneProaSboxTo^ Ast ^ j this Morning. It'a too good to be true, and it may And the editorial turn out to be a dream or something Mars Henry Watter: like that . __ _ _ * . * * No wonder they a rftj; Broun who was 4rregt6d Sat-? when they cac clal nrtf*7 with Jose one quart is paying the j way. ^5.^ * penalty Cor being well known. j i . * * i Boss barben? mas JL P P*bkJ also for not having ins on the brahfc _ 'T some i? V ASSIGNED CARS AND RAILROADS. SB INCE it happene^ and the whale country has had to | suffer because of it. many newspapers have been attributing the collapse of the railroads to a mistaken public policy with regard to them and have taken to abasing the Interstate Commerce commission with a warmth and eloquence that -varies in accordance with die breadth and ability of die papers. -The West Virginian has never taken modi stock in that theory. The regulatory bodies probably did keep the railroads upon a margin dial -was too narrow for the good of the whole country, bat the underlying trouble was that the roads were being run upon such a mischievous principle that neither die Interstate Commerce commissioner nor felt that they U1C icp 1UUJU>U'V? v. -?-r, _0 _ cared look beyond the questions right under their noses to the greater ones beyond lest something unforseen and terrible should happen. The result, of course, was that something unforseen and terrible did happen, but the roads will have to share the responsibility. Likewise they will have to reform fundamentally if they want to receive better treatment in the period after die war. and that brings us to the refusal of the eastern roads to agree to the proposal to wipe out the assigned fuel car system which helped to complicate the great fuel problem of the country during the present winter. The roads advance a number of reasons for wanting the assigned car system to be retained, but every one who is at all familiar with the situation knows that it all boils down to a desire to retain possession of an advantage which the roads now have over all other users of fuel. The railroads are strong for treating every one else alike, but they are opposed to it when an attempt is made to apply it to them. Well, they may win for the time being I in this assigned car matter, but in the end in this, just as in the financing which brought on the crisis which threw the transportation plant of the country into the hands of the government practically stripped of motive power, and with an inadequate amount of roiling stock, at a time when the treasuries of the roads were carrying surpluses amounting to hundreds of millions, they are going to find that this is a square deal country and that the railroads arc not a privileged class. In his address at the First Presbyterian church yesterday afternoon J. L. Gillespie, the field agent, of the West Virginia Council of Defense, put the food situation rather cleverly when he said that there must be more food grown or we will be confronted with the necessity of deciding whether we at home or the army in France and our allies shall suffer. There can be no that the people of this country will grow more food when tiny thoroughly understand the situation, hut the difficult part of the matter is going to be to make them understand that the effort in that direction must be made at once. Every farmer must do something and he must do it this spring if we are not to be confronted by a serious shortage next fall. o Marion county's best wishes go with the lads who leave today for the training camp. It really is not a very long time, alolhough it seems as if it trere. since the first contingent marched away amid the acclaim of the public. Most of tbe emotionalism has disappeared from tli? public mind in the interval and in its place iias come a more settled and a deeper appreciation of what these young men are doing for us. May they ail come back, better, broader and more efficient nmn. :?o It is again reported that the Russians and the Germans have sigih'd a peace treaty. It will be time enough to take stock in such reports when the German armies in Russia stop advancing. The signing of a peace treaty will not take place until Germany controls ail the Russian territory she thinks sire can hold when the time for a gener.d peace comes. o Japanese nrtiy officers are reported to hav? saiu that ihe Jaoanese government will act with energy. That is easy to believe. And if thoy can set in direct contact with the German army the little fighters from the far east are quite likely to put in a few etxra licks by way of squaring accounts with Kniperor William, who ori i rated the phrase, "yellow peril." o Another deputy has assailed the government's war pedicles in the Reichstag in Berlin. and in a country that is not used to that kind of performance it may have an important effort upon the popular mind. In France. Britain and the United States an attack on the government in the national parliament is regarded as an ebullition of the political opposition and it does not amount to much. SHORT AND SNAPPY The new dress models from Paris show the return of the slit skirt. Evidently everything possible is being done to keep contented tend satisfied those old men who can't go to war.?Clarksburg Telegram. o "The world is longing for peace." nays Von Hertling. We violate no confidence in stating that it is also fighting for it.?Charleston Loader. We don't know who put the "rush" in Russians, but we do know who took it out.?Uniontown Evening Genius. o Hawaii is going dry unless all signs fail. Well, 1t might be easily possible to cut the booze out of Hawaii without deleting either the romance or the wickedness that prevails 'Here.??unuugiun w? ?? Although it made a gain of 25 per cent last year. High Cost of IJving is not being placed in the big dividend earner class by the stockholders.?Coanellsville Courier. ds. ) Or they think the intelligence of the * i whisker growing sex in this taarg is of ipondents for West [ a low order. r newspapers are i lere is no leader- But if tbey do raise the price of the , excuse that It has been done in Man: Washington cor- i"n5t?n there will be a large row. not know a leader! ? " * *. . , ? face. What Mannmgton thinks of Falr ; moot could not be printed in a family is a boss who Is ' newspaper. Ills. j ? , * _ ! Therefore we'll have nothing to do !jj?ay'n? en(* . with folks who mean to follow Mannington's lead. ***?? rTJlfati' ' Especially when that lead is in the onubers ed direction or higher prices. .. was written bv POLDS *3 >p so many of 'em w..jn-rKrri. -rriril, ??3 ia credit in that ^ t have price rals- J ViCffiSYAPORCBSS Mr* __S U/aSi LI' -Zs===u=- "JX^T" D8SK C =^_i- i=j IN THIS O' =- =,^3 FILTHY i What People Say and Some Side Remarks 1 J. r.. Gillespie. ficM ar.er.r for the rtate cqttnc ii m dou'ii o. is * he organization of county councils of <ieS Tense end says: "The county councils of defense should superintend cvi ry war at- { tivity and ought to censor all propaganda." In some interior counties Mr. Gillespie found that German agents slipped in on the v.ar work and Tor this ; reason emphasizes the need of strong : county organizations. \ mC. J. MeKinnev. one of the govern- ; : incut men uh-j is engaged in watching i 1 ho movemen' of con! from the West [ ; Virginia Northern and along the Balfimore and Ohio, with headquarters a! ] Tunnclton. spent Saturday and Sunday , in Fairmont. He had a word of praise ' j for the Baltimore and Ohio: "The Baltimore & Ohio is doing its share in moving coal east. The , activity bet.vera Grafton and fen:bcrland is all that could he desired. 1 have counted as martv as thirty tivc ttair.loads of coal moving eastward past Tunnetton in a day and thev would average 4:1 curs each." I Harvey VT. Marnier who is urged to become a candidate for mayor of1 Clarksburg. which is soon to elect a J head to a government including sur- I rounding towns, but rumors of his do- i termination to enter the race are set i -iside by a recent statement: "You can s3y for me that 1 am i not a candidate for mayor audthat it is not my intention of becoming one." BiTSOF^" j STATE NEWS j A referendum is being taken among j members the Cadet corps and other | students interested, at West Virginia j University, on the question of conductj ing a summer military camp projectt hv tlta wuv donartinrnl. Tlie camp will be authorized if there j ! is a sufficient number of volunteers. Uniforms have been ordered for the Huntington High school military company and as soon as they arrive the high school boys will hold a military j parade through the city. The boys are quite enthusiastic over the introduc- j tion of military training in the school. . It is being carried on by a board con- j ! sisting of John G. Graham, principal: jL. H. Mills and A. E. Stoddard, in-, st rue tors. David S. Reay. prominent young attorney. has given up his practice at ! Morgantown and moved to Washington. D. C-. to take an appointment as auditor in the federal department of j the interior. Apple growers of the eastern pan- i handle are greatly concerned over re- j ports received by them from cooper-! | age manufacturers that a barrel fam-' ! z #C_5\n >. If,' ii'/t00^- f S f 'ffcffl 'M Our dent ? f: % rk su: 5 j'jlw ft 1 U ft \J \ U f Si wi T | ^,w- M i ~ Crowns S5.00 J Bridgeworb 5c per Tooth. ' a H TOUR S fOU TOUCH S-^- f* ^THlNC gt-Sg ==^= rf*lCG, TOW I E~~-=SLCB ?.< ^ ^ I ine exists in the country and than there wiil be an insufficient supply' to pack this year's apple crop in this section. The growers are trying to ar j range for. shipment of their crops in l bulk. | ("harsv'.l with soliciting money from1 the public under the false pretense that it was to be sent to suffering Syrians and Armenians. David Silvan, and William Samuel, natives of Persia. have been jailed at Klkins to await action of the next grand jury. At die instance of the city council W. A. .Mason, mayor of Pliilippi. has is sued a proclamation designating Marcli 14 as ihe time for holding the annua! city election here, at which a mayor, city cleric, police chief, councilmanat-larse and ward councilmen will be : elected. ; 1 It sounds like a joke to say that an oil well can be broken in two. hut tliatl is what has happened to the Silver, Hill Oil company's well No. 5, in Wetzel county. The derrick and machinery are on a hill. p3rt of which is slid-; 1 ing down into a valley, carrying the!' outfit and a large section of the hole! intact with it. The lower part of the!' tveil will have to be drilled over again.'. Close organization among the worn- 1 on of Charleston is being effected, un-jj dor the leadership of the Woman's Lili-jJ erty I.oan committee, to be in readiness for their part in putting over the third issue of Liberty bonds when th" campaign opens. Mrs. George F. Coyle is chairman of the committee. Because of the great growth in the population of Charleston and herj suburbs in the last few months the chamber of commerce of the city has recommended that the city's police force, which now consists of sixteen patrolmen, be increased to thirty-one.' The great industrial development in and near the city, it is declared, hasi made the duties of the present force! at least twice what they were before.1 U MILLIONS USETI TO STOP A COLD a "PAPE'S COLD COMPOUND ENDS o SEVERE COLDS OR GRIPPE s IN FEW HOURS. c Relief comes instantly. a A dose taken, every two hours'until 0 three doses are taken wi^l end grippe v misery and break up a severe cold eith- h er in the head, chest, body or limbs. T It promptly opens clogged-up nos- j trils and air'passages in the head, f stops nasty discharge or nose running, relieves sick headache, dullness, fev- j, erishneac enw rhronr MTiss7ir.r sore. ness and stiffness. Don't stay soffed-up! Qnit bloving : and snuffling! Ease your throbbing head! Nothing else in the world gives such prompt relief as "Pape's Cold Compound." which costs only a few cents at any drug store. It acts without assistance, tastes nice, causes no 1 inconvenience. Be sure, you get the ] genuine. ? - I /HY?|! h that have such good roots? Have J wncd and you will have a lifetime j lave the missing teeth bridged in. , al methods are np to date and all I iranteed. Examinations free. S rEETH EXTRACTED 25c. . ] HE UNION ! DENTISTS || over McCrory's 5 and 10c Stare. |J Sd ' ; O0WS THE KAISER Amusing: Stories That Crop Up in Internal Revenue Offices. WASHINGTON". I>. C? March 4.? What is the Govtrnment to do with a taxpayer -who overpays his income tax and refuses to accept a refund? Tfeis is the problem which confronts the 3ureau of Internal Revenue. Several such instances have come to the attention of the Burnti through collectors of internal revenue. One man in California overpaid his tux and when reminded of it said he didn't want it back because "it was in a d good cause and 1 hope they l;i!5 the Kaiser." Another man in Kansas paid $4S more than his due. The collector wrote to him tv.-ice about it and the last time itriciicu nuiii wix= a stating that "he didn't want to be bothered about these sT.a!! amounts, and wanted the Government to buy ammunition with it." Tie also expresscd a hope for the Kaiser's sudden demise. The Bureau of Interna! Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, has extended the time for filing income and excess profit returns from March 1 to April 1. Taxpayers, however, are tinted not to put off this important duty, as $o delay until alter April I renders the delinquent subject to n tine of not less than S20. nor more than $1,000 and an additional assessment of T.O per cent of the aino'unt due. Humphreys Goes i With Draftees Bert Humphreys, former constable at Grant Town, passed the physical examination at Jlannington on Saturday and will go away with the drafted men today. Humphreys had been charged with bootlegging and in evading arrest he exchanged shots with a posse composed of deputy sheriffs. His arrest followed a sensational dash by automobile to Pennsylvania, he being pulled across the State line at Blachviile. Judge Haymcnd sentenced liitn to re.-ve six months and that had e'apserl except eighteen days so he war. discharged. | T77" REPORTS. S. UNION. Av At. Attend. Per rear to Dee. Ifi. cant Mar. : 191$ of j 1917 gain : t'ir^t M. F aOr. 494 niartoTid St. M. K. -SfT : '.l 4 S.O'it'-. M. E - 1" : 7 Pre bvtorinn ' Kirst M. I* V-." Pirst Baptist 27N 2.'-! 6 Palntine Baptis' .. 172 110 '.Tiristiain lot 1*9 Lutheran 9i> 103 1; The schools should hare been more J largely attended yesterday. Tlio ?'f;v Lher was the finest during the winter. An awakening is very necessary i:i! the schools of tiie city. 11 too soon mm your ! BODY tor SPRING j With the Season's Change i Near at Hand Urgent j Reasons Arise for Tak- j \TA IIT^^U Illg HCfV" V* U1 Ub it is not in thn least necessary for j .he reader to carry into the coming ' spring those burdensome ills or the j 'lesb. which the long and trying Winer has loaded upon the system. In Xerv-Worth the tonic and N'erviforth the new laxative tablets winer-weakened mortals have a comblnttion unequaled in its power, first to leanse the system and then to whet j lie appetite, and digestion, add flesh, j ouse the liver, regnlate the bowels, j lanish sick and nervous headaches nd other aches and pains, repair disordered nerves and build up run-down y stems. Don't wait for the season's actual hange. Summon Xerv-W'orth?Tonic j aid Tablets?to your aid now. An unce of prevention is worth a pound f cure. Nip the spring chills and feers and varied weaknesses in the ud. Spike the guns of disease. Make our vital organs so strong that disase will be powerless to drive them rom their trenches of health. Crane's Drug Store sells Nerv-TV'orth ! n Fairmont. Yout dollar back it this [ arnous family tonic does not help you. j Bell-ans Absolutely Remeve^ Indigestion. Druggists refund m<5ney if it falls. 25s.' | Business ^ The successful man has a sy: S sonal affairs. You will find th; 5b hank and pays his account by chi 2? H you hare not applied gystei j? checking account here; deposit a payments by check. 5b The benefits will soon be a] 2b .? Make the test. i The People's I g CAPITAI 2b - * " " ' "o. l" , ' ''*. - ' >?':.-V : '?' " ' l- - AN APPRECIATION. -1 ' Onr attention is* fo'cibi^caUed*"' the co-operation of the two nevrsp*-^ : pers published wiih the coal iadostct- 1 The Fairmont West Virjinlaa and the'Si Fairmont Times, which paper* ?tjn> -jM a large circulation at the rninei* in tki r-^E West Virginia Division, do mucin to ?>? lighten the miners and others living j in our vicinity of the issues ot the day .. i and of what is going on in the outside , .1 We appreciate the accurate informs- x4* tion secured through these channel* :/l and wish to take thi? oportunity te ,-M congratulate both Fairmont papers os -i'j their excellent publications and np-to- -;j the-u:inute news Those of as living i;a at the various mining plants eager!? sj| watch for the arrival ot these Tn papers. : County Court j Grants Letters I ! Much business -was transacted by -J the county court late Saturday- after- M noon, there having been seven letters : granted m as many estates. These appointment s were made and. con- I J firmed: v J Katherine TdcDonough, executor' of M the estate of Anthony McDonough. J.-B ! The bond was fixed at $590 and the I j bondsman is >irs. Catharine ?? 1 Donougli. J. J. Heiskell. executor of.the estate - "il ' of Sanford Hayhurst. The bond was 'I tixed at $4,000 and the bondsmen atfe- -,tl Frederic VanGilder and Luke Rogers.' F. R. McClelland.' executor of the i estate of Malisse McCray. The bond ."I was fixed at $300 and the bondsman .1 is D. B. Snider. " Mabel L. Hall, executor of Sarah :-M Elizabeth Hall. The bond was flxdd -sjl at $5,000 but the security is waived by , ;1 ; the will. v Elizabeth Harris, administrator ol ' rJ j the personal estate of Albert Hall. . ? The bond is fixed at $800 and the, 1 I bondsmen are: A. B. JollifT and 0. A. ' ; Harris. ,. WB A. Howard Fleming. administrator J of the personal estate of Arlington. '-.J ; Fleming. The bond was fixed at $6.-' .'-.jM ; 000 and Glenn F. Barns is the bonds- I I man. OLD FOLKS NEED I "GASCARETS" EON LIVER, BOWELS salts. calomel. pills act ON bowels like pepper acts . in nostrils. enjoy life! don't stay blut ous. sic:-:, headachy and constipated. Got li)-cent box novr. ? ^!o:.r old pcopi" on:?;! sive to the ii-.tvoi". in mo rosrular helD. else they suffer from constipation. The condi- I tioa ir. perfectly natural. It is Just I as natural as it is for old people to I walk slowly. For age is never so mo I tive as youth. The muscles 'are less J clastic. And tlie bowels are muscles. 31 So all old people need Gas carets- .-.fil One might as well refuse to aid weak . jj eyes with glasses as to neglect this - J gentle aid to weak bowels. The bow- :M els must be kept active. This is Im- ^ portant at all ages, but never so much || as at fifty. ?e^S Age is r.ot a time for harsh physics. Youth may occasionally whip the bow- ' '-.;i els into activity. But a lash can't bm ; used every day. What the bowels t?? . f the old need is a gentle and natoral tonic. One that can be constantly nsed without harm. The only such tonic' 'A is Cascarets, and they cots only 1? cents per box at any drug store. They a work while yon sleep. MSimplyfrazef | in Warm Weather J A cold Is no respecter of season. Even in warm weather you can be almost frozen by a -v cold which reaches yonr mar- 8,-23 raw and shakes your body. I*or a fine cold remedy and one thai . -'3 will give immediate relief and '-'.I a positive benefit by breaking - Up <t UI1U quivivi; I'UV uy wuuvu;* u -W.1 our own label and earil^ iwfchased by simply saying Cran?"?-:'H rRANE*sll Drug Store^ ~ * -*?> v ^-*8S8H ysy^ysycy^s^ysy^cyty^yo^o^c r^C^i i System ,:-i|H stem in the handling of his* at he deposits his income in- tUa 22 ? ecfc. n to yoor own affairs, open r* XJ | 11 earning and make all monthly > '- M iparent ^ 3g?8 ' ' National Bank ^ 11 . -: % \ v ?&\ %