The West Virginian. [volume], March 19, 1918, Image 1

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Pff^==iTirnia<;8 ftT-ST VIRGINIA, TUESDA^JSVENP^MABC^^
1 AMERICA
LAKE SHIPPERS j
F OF GOAL TO MEET j
| _ HI CLEVELAND
* General Committee Will
Meet Thursday to Make
j| Plans for Season.
I WEST VIRGINIA MEMBERS
pif Fairmont ar.d Clarksburg
Co. a Sufferer From the
Y Flood. |
y; ? !
At the meeting of lake ccal ship- {
hers, representatives of dock interest?
sad others, to the nambcr of ISO held
E f at Cleveland. Ohio. March 12, for the
Pv ; purpose of giving consideration to
various steps In connection with the
transportation of lake coal during the
coining coal year, a general committee
I tor the revising of the pools for the
season of 191S, disius3iou and action
on price and freight rates, v.-as appointed
by the executive committee,
and this general committee n-iil meet
at Cleveland on March 21. The coal
? vrill be sold at government, price but
ft there will be changes in the pooling
ft necessary, and many important matters
decided upon which led to the
ff most competent committee possible be
" 1? ??^fvmerir nf the i
ing selectea in tli juu^wvo- ? ,
J~ executive committee.
- Among the members of tb? committee
are:
Fairmont Region.
Frank Haas. Consolidation Coal
??/. Company of Fairmont. W. Va.
C. H. Jenkins. Hutchinson Coai Co..
of Fairmont. W. Va.
Kanawha Region.
* Joslah Keely of Cabin Creek Coal
Company. Kayport. VT. Va.
" TV. M. Puckett. of the Cabin Creek
" . Coal Company. Charleston. W. Va.
C. A. Cabell, or the Carbon Coal !
b Company. Carbon. V. Va. '
W. X McGec of the Carbon Coal Co., .
fcv_ ' Cincinnatti. O. *
Guy an Region. I
A. J. King of the Eagle Island Coal
(Continued on Page Four.) j
I 1 CONTRACTS fOB
? FULL MINE OUTPUT
Fuel Administration Drops
a Few Hints About New
Selling Rules.
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WASHINGTON. March 19.?Normal J
movements cf coal have been followed
by the Fuel administration in plan- (
sing the zone system of distribution '
which virtually was completed yester- '
day. and will be announced soon.
L655 loan a CQ^exz zuneo ua>c dcc.^
created. Each community -will he told >
from what field its supplies will corns I
(if during the coal year beginning April, j
. and purchase from any other district,;
t : will be prohibited in an effort to elimV.
; inate cross hauling and other evils;
j ' tending to complicate traffic and fa-1
f * crease the cost to the consumer.
It is the plan of the fuel admints- j
V.. tration that consumers obtain their)
bituminous coal supplies from the:
J. mining district patronized by them in J
the past, except where the zone will!
prevent. Such cases will not be nam
erous it is announced.
If contracts are made, the fuel ad- j
ministration prefers that not more t
I than 65 per cent of a mine's output!
be contracted for. based on last year's j
production. The remainder shouid be
left to move on current orders and in-1
' strnctions from the fuel administra-'
tiop.
Large consumers such as railroads,'
Were told by the administration that;
they should not contract for more'
than St> per cent of the output of 1117:
W~ one mine or coal company. j
f I FOR RENT I
t*--~ Pioyet ty known a? 'Woodland
g-; ; Part with good aix room house or j
pf;- ^' pared road and street car line with >
114 acree of land. 4 acres tinder cnl.
?Oration. Five cent car fare.
ft;-' Utilities Corporation
101 Main Street
I } Thousand Peop
mm
' Where Fre
la*
The man. reproduced from "The
shows bow the French and British <
; Venetian plains, where repeated eff
pa, in the central background, a str
mm LOST JEWELS
Express Packages Stolen at
Pittsburgh Belonged to
Foiks Here.
Approximately one hundred Fair-monteji
owned jewelry which was
stolen 111 the u:g SSi.t'i'u express rob- J
bery which occurred near Pittsburgh ;
a few weeks ago. The jewelry was j
being -^nt to factories for repair by j
the A. B. Scoit company. jewelers of j
this city and while en route to the fac-1
lory was . tc-en. The local store.:
which w;!i stand good Tor the stolen 1
articles, estimates toe loss from Fair-1
mont at 52.00'.'. The A. B Scott com- j
pany wiil replace the stolen articles 1
or will pay the loss.
The store is now making op a list
: ;ue stolen articles and within the i
next iew flay s claim wili be. ciade^io '
the Adams tixpress company. Inst;"
ance on the stolen articles amounted 1
to only a few hundred dollars.
Three packages sent from the Fair-;
mont store have been missing. One '
package contained approximates- fifty;
pieces of jewelry and was being sent!
to Baltimore. M<5. Another package1
contained twenty pieces of jewelry |
aid with another package of thirty:
articles was hcing sent to Lancaster. ;
Pa.
Among the stolen articles were ser-1
eral diamond rings, watches and other
valuable articles, some valued as higfc :
as S1G0 each.
The A B. Scott store now has an ex- j
pert factory man in its employ and '
from now on -sc ill not send anothei :
piece of jeweiry to a factory by es-:
press. All factory repairs will be done
right in Fairmont.
Those who lost jewelry In the rob- j
bory need not tear that they will lose
anything as the-local store will assume
the responsibility and will make all
loss good.
According to information received j
here many of the. articles hav^ been j
found and will be returned to their j
owners, while there are many other!
articles that v-iil be replaced by money. J
"* I
I. W. W. Secretary
Gets a Suit of Tar
fBy Associated Frcsa)
T A KIM A. Wash.. March 19.?H. B.
Myers, secretary of the Yakima local
of the I. W. TV., was taken a mile out
of town by a mob at midnight last night
and given a coat of tar and feathers
and toid to leave and not return here.
Myers was also told to warn bis associates
that any other secretaries of
the I TV TV. who came to.Yakima to
work would receive the same treatment
accorded "Little in Montana."
Little, it will be remembered, was
hanged by a mob at Butte more than
a year ago. Myers declared be bad
been forced into the order by threats j
of death.
Hot Gross Buns
Sans the Sugar Goat i
?-* I
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 19 ? Hot
cross baas which are sold ar.d eaten
on Good Friday will not he coated
with icing this year, the Food administration
announced today. Rale No. 1
of the baking regulations forbids ess
of icing and limits the amount of oth.1
er ingredients in bread and rolls. The |
use of currants, raisins and spices is j
permitted.
I WANTED I
S Laborers in shipping department. ;
OWENS BOTTLE MAj
CHINE CO.
le Buy West Virgint
rich And Brff&h Tr
Sphere." of London, affords a s.raphicv
>x peditiosarv forces are cove :? the J!
or tr, of the Austro Germans ._ saiasli t
onghold which the Italians tit..* never
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First Snake of
Season Killed
Here Yesterday j
j
Joseph Carpenter kiilefi tt < 'i
black snake of the season yesterday
visile at work on tue Improvement
company's property on the
East side recently purchased from
A. C. Gaskins. The reptile measured
four Teet in length.
CHECKER GAME BOBS
IIP l? JIMS' AlIRi
UI III UUS1LU ItUUI!
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j
Father Swears Brothers!
.. . M>re JJ&me,. That
x Night.
Aa old fashioned gatae of checkers
was used as an alibi in the trial of!
Manuel Jones, indicted i'or holding up j
Isidore ZesloE in Circuit court
terday afternoon before Judge Hay-,
mond- The father testified that hisj
son teas at the checker bo?.:i during;
the night. I
Zesloff identified a watch introduced
in the trial as being bis property, j
He said he was robbed between 7:2f>.
and 8 o'clock near the An: lie trolley
stop.
P. P. Upson, a pa*- r. t: ;'ecr. was
called and" testified that the Waltham
watch exhibited was pawned on December
CTth at hie store by Manuel
Jones. Upson identified a pawn tick-)
ct and also produced a book which :
Jones had signed. He would swear I
that it was Jones* signature.
Mrs. Davis Campbell testified that.
UinitAl Tnnaa tr\l V/ir that ?> tan r? .
his brother bad held up a re an near;
a trolley line in Marion conn -y last
December. Jones, according this,
witness, did not tell her ivf.r .? roo- i
bed. She swore that Jones .:ad 'old i
her that Harry had given the watch |
to his father, and that be Maauei) j
had taken it.
On cross examination Mrs. Cuyn-,
bell was detained in the county ..< j
here as a witness in the cast. I.*?;
admitted she was accused of reing
stolen goods from Mancf Jot- r
last January at the Ritchie .t;s:r
Circuit court term in Harris'-'Ue. ;
husband and her brother were Impit-!
cated in the same robbery. Jones wiil j
have to answer a charge in Ritchie
county when the authorities here dis- .
pose of the cases against him.. Mrs.
Campbell formerly lived at Worthing-;
ton. this county. She swore that she j
was not forcibly detained In the pail.
James Campbell, convicted of being.
Implicated In the Ritchie county case
and now serving time In the Harris-j
ville jail, was then called. Campbell j
testified that Jones told him be and ,
his brother bad beld up a man at tbe
Annabelie trolley station. Froseeut- ;
ing Attorney Walter R. Haggerty
ashed Campbell If Jones bad men- 1
tioned what nationality tbe man was
that he had robbed. Campbell replied
"he said he was a Jew." Campbell
said- the watch' exhibited in the trial :
was not tbe one Jones bad stolen
from Zealot?, because be had seen It
on a number of occasions. The state
closed its case.
J. W. Jones, of Helen's Run. father
or Manuel. was ciuec ana iraoueo i
that he had seven children. He said i
Manuel vu 17 Tears old on February j
8 last. Jones claimed that Manuel *
was home on December 14. fixing the >
date by the Illness of bis wile, who
sustained convulsions. He sent Man- [
uel<to the company store for his other
son. Harry, at 4 o'clock and he retained
about 5:30 o'clock. After a
checker came Harvey and Manuel retired
at 9:S0 o'clock.
J. W. Jones claimed fcs beaabt the
watch on December 32 la Clarksburg
from a foreigner for .$3. Hta wife, he
testified, was with htm when he made
the purchase. Jones said it was his
CConttnaed on Face Four.) !
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* - ?ha Ptai-o l'nn 'r.-firr tVlO iiv3 .1
hri>ach were repelled last autumn Tl
elintujihed and which cow constitute:
MILITARY PIGEONS !
ILL LOCAL eon CARE
y "
Camille Nay's Parents Receive
Letter Announcing:
Arrival ''Over There."
i
A. J. Xey. of 12S Marion street, res-1
terday received a letter from his son'
Camille. who went to France some i
lieu ~ laie id January or eariy id reo*
ruaxy -with a somewhat unique body i
of Cncle Sam's fighting forces, the f
pigeon detachment. This body, which ,
consists of less than eighty men. has !
charge of the pigeons used by the ar-1
my as message carriers.
Young Xey's letter was dated Feb-1
ruary 27 but it gives no hint as to J
what part of France be reached, the j
date line merely saying. "On active '
service with the American Expedition-:
uy force." The letter aiys:
bear Modier and Dad:?I am well
and' having a fine time How are the
kids? Beached my journeYs end in
good style, but was awfully tired. Am
having a good time now. Let your
worries be smiles, for smiles are of
great value to any one. Remember <
that to receive a letter from home is
i great thing, but find out bow much-;
postage to put on my letters for I j
want to receive them.
Private Camille iN'ay.
SERVICE FUG FOR
THE COUNTY Ml
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Placed in Conspicuous Posi-1
tion on the
Bench.
On tee beach in tbe Circuit court;
room tins morning a service flag vas ;
placed in position by Attorney Trevey
Nutter, secretary of the Marion CounLy
Bar Association. It shows bow
many of the members of the legal proiessioa
are in Uncle Sam's service.
There are five stars in the flag. The
lawyers inducted into the service are:
i"raak C. Haymond. Brooks Deveny.
Captain. Roilo J. Conley; Captain John
Will Mason, Jr., and Curtis Amos.
The Gag presents a pretty appearance
and later'vrill he suspended from
the walls of the court room.
Eight Turn Up to
File Questionnaires
Sight registrants who were delinquent
in filing their questionnaires and
who read their names in the newspaper*
the other day have appeared before
the local draft board to state ont
questionnaires. A variety of excuses
have bees offered but in most cases
the registrants desired to ehfft the
burden on the mails. The delinquents
must give an exceptionally good, excuse
for the delay In completing a questionnaire
or they are placed in Class .1.
nrr'ii Tk.Jll 'r:_ rt'l
will jjrm iur uu
In Merrie England
'By Assodated Pr??s>
LONDON, March 19.?Acttra tests
to discover oil will be made soon In
England with the government's apprpr- .
al. according to morning newspapers.
The Dally Express says that drilling
operation* mast await' the arrival 'from'
the United States ot machinery or- .
dared last Jn!y hot which is still: hi
storage in New Tor*.
Lord Cpwdray, owner of important
British petroleum Interests. according
to the Dally Mail 'will spend $600,909
Eq d^QQof'for oG Is BogtettdL
This is From Five to
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i -y ' .
Han Flank
SM|^^^2gCQtt?m -
reen the Brcnta and Piave rivers and
ier at those vita! points nearest the
le front is dominated by Monte Grap?
the Italian and French lines.
A Story of
Twins, And
A Coincidence
Mrs. Harry Satterfleld. living at
1310 Chamberlain avenue, and Mrs.
Claud Wright, living next door at
1312 Chamberlain avenue, are
twin sisters.
On St. Patrick's Day Mrs. Wright
gave hirtb to twin sons and the
same day Mrs. Satterfleld gave
birth to a daughter . All are doing
nicely.
UADTI CV OTflDr ttCUl
[Will ILL I dIDIIL RLn :
DEPARTMENTS RfAOY:
i
Firm Will Have an "At t
Home" Friday 4o Introduce
Them.
Bigger and better than ever, will be
Hartley's department store -when on
Friday of this -week it will be informally
thrown open to the public after hav- j
ing undergone extensive repairs and j
improvements in the way of paint, i
carpets, equipment, and after having :
added to its already large floor space !
an additional ten thousand square '
feet. <
Harney's store became a department!
store when it moved into its present!
quarters ia the year 1902. since -which |
time it has seen steady growth each;
year.- something new in the way of j
equipment or additional floor space [
added. Then the store moved to its :
present location the Hutch tason build-;
ing covered the entire store. Soon this I
became inadequate to meet the de- j
mands of a rapidly increasing trade'
and the building adjoining, known as
the Jacobs-Hutchinson building was secured
and the entire space utilized.
During the past year the corner building
which bouses the Peoples bank,
was secured with the exception of the
banking floor and also the room' and ;
basement in the Jacobs building on
Monroe . street formerly occupied by
tbe Knight and Haas establishment
were taken over and utilized by the
Arm.
The firm of J. M. Hartley and Son j
Co. "having great faith in tbe growth ;
and tuture of Fairmont as a city has i
' ?? ?=*-- -ur?w. i
I TEUTO
GREAT AWE?
MISTAKEN EON I
NEW FOE TOj
Fifty Persons Killed
Done By Bombing
On the Twel
TRAVELER TELLS JFK
People of Unmolested Neigh 1
Been Waiting in Anxi
the Liberty 1
By Associa
LONDON, March 19?F:
great material damage was c
allied airmen when they rai
March 12, according to a n<
Monday at the Hague, The Ti
'"The people believed th<
the traveler said, "I was in tl
nitlon works at Mulheim (no
Enine) at ten minutes past no<
tory whistles started blowing
ed. Many women rushed fr<
proofed shelters, while passii
as the crews bolted into hous
were visible in the clear sky.
"Presently some one excl
another person screamed aloi
big-.' A Dutchman I knew n
'Dicbrt I tell you the America]
er?' "
The neutral traveler adde
es merely passed over Mulheir
was not until 4 o'clock that
sounded.
Indian Fighting
In No Man's Land
AMERICAN PATROL TRIES FOR
HOUR AND HALF TO CAP- j
TUBE SOME GERMANS.
*By Asfeociuted Press?
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN j
FRANCE, March 19. ? An American J
- - j j".
patrol cerween Kenmeres wood ?nu :
Jury wood encountered an enemy pa- |
trol early this morning. For an hour
and a hair the American patrol tried i
to make some of the enemy prisoners,
but without result, although a 1
number of fights with pistols and rifles ;
occurred as the Germans retired. Jump- j
ing ftom. tree to tree American snip- j
ers made a number of lucky shots to- :
day and Germans were seen to fall. '
The American telephone -wires with- j
in the German lines were tapped again .
during the night not far from where j
the patrol encounter occurred The!
enemy artillery fired a number of gas
shells at our lines.
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Ten New Cases at
Fairmont Hospital
Physicians, nurses "and attendants
at Fairmont Hospital No. 3 hare been
turns nail? busy during the past 34
boas, ten eases baring been admitted
for treatment. Of these eases three
were for hernia operations, two for
removal of tonsils, two with broken
leg* and one typhoid patient, one suffering
with slight barns end the other
with an ununited fracture of the
collar bone. Of theee men six were
foreigners ssd foor Americans from
the am rounding mining towns.
Bank Bobbers KilP
But Get No Money
OSr Associated Pm?)
TAMPA. Fla, March 19.?Bank robbers
early today blew the safe of the
state bank at Zephyr Hills. Fla., and
shot and kSQed one man and wounded
another. They got no money. Posses
are searcbbig for rwjrm The robbers
eat telephone wiree leading to the :
town and details are meagre.
an 1he Street Sales o
y '
NS CRY
Of!
IE FATHERLAND
r ' ^?rB I
[ and Much Damag<r |
Visit to Cobeland- ;l|
fth of March ' ^
iC MOcn I
joring Town Evidently Hav# g
ety for the Advent of
ifty persona were killed and *.||i
lone by bombs dropped" by
ded Cobeland, Germany on
jutral traveler who arrived--.
> raiders were Americans,'*
le neighborhood of a big
rth of Cobeland, also on the |
on when suddenly all thef&e^;;
and the sirens were soui^;''/^|
ns would come sooiier or
u.s. ciiis blow
up mine throw?!!
' ''
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Many Gas Shells Hurled at
Positions Occupied by' ;
CBy Associated Presn J?1WITH
THE AMERICAN AKMTE* ^??H
PRANCE. March 18.?It is now p?(nBto-t^?'
Bible to announce that American arts- j|s
lerr in the I.uneviUe sector has
ed and blown np a battel?' of mJawiv' .Jg
throwers, one of which, a tow day*
ago, obtained a direct hit on s dliait . :':J?
in which were a number of AxaeBimcn^;^!
soldiers, most of them of
scent. , .
A patrol of 24 men. half Americana
and half French, last night weat.lBrto./yj
cne u-ermazi i:ues truui <m ibui&teu yui" h
tioo of the sector. It.<^mipIetedy-itar/>^
mission of reconnoisance brfan'tug <he/^'|
desired information. The patroI-^M^^S
a short skirmish but obtained no pris* oners.
Yesterday, St. Patrick's dsr. Irish* .. jr
men of a certain legimcnt.eerrfiie^hse^
the LtmevDle sector, held an -appro- j
priate celebration. Last year.
Patrick's day these men held theiri -- B
celeration tn and yesterday.
. ??-i
UlttlKS VTCTC 11 UUULICT^'^^MMMB
something like this: "Well thii
last year I was strolling down -?~ |
now 1 am strolling down the narrow,
way of duck boards 1b the mad." *
Yesterday extraordinary artfflerw
activity developed In the l~liiiin'Tii iho
dames- where some troops ttbna>2S|SK$g
England are in training. 23m
began a gas bombardment late fs.~
day sight and continued It tiilin
terday. Massachusetts rii?^i^7Tij^ff*l
the brant of a portion of the bomhsrifr^JI
meat.
81x thousand shells were awfisj
terday from the sector in which
Americans are stationed, a large
portion of them being gas shells. : |35i
Her Choice, \ J??wSi
Kind words are more than -Wsh'Ja
nets.
Give me the coronet and OeSQdlm
girls can-make u mens unbind leVj
marks as they like.?SoutuwdbMaiH
tnaa-Kerview.
0 W'..^ Sf-?
5y^ffl@S8H
KCpt |KKe HILU UiC WfcJ ouu uc j
ley department store, has come to be
recognized, as an important factor in
the mercantile situation in the state.
With the new floor space taken over
recently the store now has a floor
area of between 35,000 and <40.000 feet.
The new floor space as taken over
at this time consists of the corner
main floor room and basement of the
Jacobs building en Monroe street and
in this space is boosed the annex to the
Men's department. While men'* readyto
wear garments.are largely boosed
in the eld location on Main street yet
trunks, suit eases, workisgmen'i clothing.
rain coats, hoys1 wash 'suits and
men's shoes have been removed to the
Monroe street rooms which have-been
handsoulely outfitted tor their reception.
New- equipment has bees placed
in these rooms, the walls prettily decorated
and the- department win pieecnt
an attractive appearance wb? thrown
open to the public en FHdny. .
The luge room* directly over the
Peoples bank has been utilized for the
Millinery department sad the additional
windows on the Maqxoe street side
09V9 WQOQ a1**1 I fj w iAQ . WIMJgw
n?ss of thl? already tBTttluc department.
The room vacated by the M0lJnery
department is. ntfltaed tor tie
Corset department and the.moilin and
woven underwear for women. In addition'to
theses dresses and Wearing
apparel tor cbOdreo from tie intent
op to ttie girt ef fourteen are ftrr sale
on tbte-floor- Owing
to tie teet tint the elevator
service fc'inadeqnate at-tUe ttaje toe
In creels el duties and that ft wwrjd be
(Coailnue* on Page Fear.)
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