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\l . *HKK.' ftlI mvl H ;-. '' American Boy in Lafayette WBbSs^z Glonc Gibson. -*~? x ' . ' McCflOSB GIBSOK p?;: ":' -?s?orrt^'Coirfeesi03s of * Wif*~ KWjflias Just returned from s trip BSSfe : ' ito-th'e War Zone under tb? mwpiees I of^the Red Cross and The West aS-iT-o^', 'I. thought he wa? a Frenchmaa : wfeen lie came on the ship until I m&f - ' besjrd him speak French, and then, . .. Hading l}i* "execution," like my own, Hp3:.;. was wonderful, I knew he was an -He-told me be was a member of the SJIr-' Trench flying corps. He belonged to the LaTayette Escadrille?most famous flying corps in the world. He was gsgj..'? about 24, but be told me be had been SIS?:'"'. . a Trench pilot about two years. EgV;'": His name was John Russell Adam?. Wfij&r I soon learned, and he was from New York. -.In his red breeches, riding Me--?- boots:and dark blue coat, be looked - ' ' as if he had just stepped off the stage ?gl;v - of some musical comedy, but one day 1 found him looking with envy on one of BSgfeL'.y . .' those,"American boys proudly sportB&>'y ing a sweater. g?>-. _ ' . . "Would you like one?" T asked. "t sure would," he answered. I happened to hare an entire outfit down in my trunk that my sister had given me to wear while I was gone if MKyfc'V ', "You can give It to some boys when Bp?- ,. you leave," she said. I thought this as good a time to . give it a? when T was ready to come He.> back, so I hurried down to my cabin I and got tne sweater. | The boy put It on Immediately uniSer his coat, and then he confided to me that he bad been cold: that he had no military dress overcoat, and that his flying togs were in France. I met him afterward in Paris, where, he was changing from the French flying service into that of the United States, and I learned a good deal about how the birdmen regard their part in the war business. In the first place, they are greater fatalists than any other soldiers. "They call the air service a hoy's service because most of the men in it are ywtng." said John Adams, "but I tell'ybn it is a man's business if any part of war is a man's businehs. ' ""When you go up in the air. it is up to you. You are absolutely your own boss; you don't obey the commands of any one. Vou must use your own Judgment. "There is no place in the universe whfer a man's courage is so -tried, especially if be Is alone in the plane. Suppose you are up in the air and you see your pal getting the worst of it from the Boches. and you Know It is a-chance?only a chance?that you I ',. can get out from unaer ana a?y uu tf you go to his assistance. If you axe *yelow' you cslu turn tail and sail bade to your hangar, and so one on earth will be able to tell you that you did a rotten thing. "But I vast to tell you. Mrs. Gibson;-that. as the English say. it is not being done this year.' No man I have ever known would leave his pal in ' peril. Se would go and die with him IfES fcohld not help him. That-is v what makes the air service the greatest place In the world to take a man's measure. "I wish I could tell yon my feelings as J have sailed over the battlefields of Verdun?graves, graves, nothing but graves, and you up there in the cloudy all by yourself wonder if those that af? lying so quietly below are any mora lonely than you." T -frrxrrt JTo"hn AdaiDS that I every aviaotr la France expected at last to fall in flames -within the enemy lines. anS consequently his ambition is to "get'* as many Bodies as he can before they*.get him. All soldiers are more or less superstitions. and John Adams asked ot to wear the chevrons of his squadron on g? my arm for luck when I got back home. "It has sailed 20. kilometers over the German lines many times," A friend of John Adams told trie hie had a number of Bodies to his credit, but the boy himself was very modest about showing his medals. He did tell me. however, one funny tory about himself, which showed -iahat a boy he was and that he had a sebnee of humor that is the salvation of tfie .soldier. 'T had not heen home to New Tors for tfcvo years." he said, "when I got my permission for 30 days in the 3 United States. The date of it. how. , ever wap three weeks off, and I must go up often in that time. It made mo *5 mighty niervous. for I did want'to use that 'scrap of paper.* "I tell you X never went up that I did not see my permission lying right in front of me. and I'd get cold with the thought that I might be killed before I had a cirancp to see the Statue of -Liberty again. Consequently the' lint thing I knew I'd he seeing that darned permission. az>d I'd say 'Home James,* and gently slide down to my J v ? >? ?- T to sao that borne i oncemore. "As fact would have It, I didn't get ] pfcTiSff- . ? Crowns $5X0 Brtdflowcrk^ Se por - offtM jRumf Mi JOHN RUSSELL. ADAMS. into any tight places.and I did seel home once more." ! By this time John Russell Adams I probably has discarded his red i breeches for khaki. and the next let- 1 ter I write to him will be addressed ! "Lieut. Adams, U. S- A-" God grant the cherron I am wear- i ing will bring Mm as good lack with I th? American flyers as it did 'with the j French!' pMONONGAH [j Strickler-Dean. Miss Mass-ie Strickler. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Strickler. of Monongah, will be married to Jerry Dean, also of Monongab ax tae iat-j ter's home in Moundsville today. Dean I has been in Monongah in the em-! ployce of the Consolidation Coal'Company for the past few years and Is well known here. Miss Strickler is likewise -very popular' in local circles. Examinations Completed. Examinations for the pupils of tho 1 seventh and eight grades of the Monongah public schools are now* complete. The eighth grade pupils are taking the examination to secure their diplomas from the graded schools. ' The seventh grade pupils are passing off certain subjects in order that they will sot have to take them again | next year. Results or tne examina- > : tion will not be announced for sever-! al days. Those not passing will bo ' given one more opportunity to do so later in the year. Coast Artillery. f Milliard Leeper. for sevyptl years manager of the Mononpab baseball team and a very pojmllr Toupff mas is Monongah, left this morning lor Columbus Barxaclcs, Columbus, O., ' where he has enlisted in the Coast Artillery. He will arrive in Columbus late this afternoon. PERSONALS. I Mrs. W. J. Psrfcbill. of Ciarksbu*. | was in Monongah yesterday aiternoBn. ] Wolf Lee per was among the local | callers out of town this morning. Mrs. E. R. Shuttlesworth, of Clarksj burg, was in Monongah yesterday ati tending to business. ' Miss Blanche Killeen. of Clarksburg, ' has: been in Monongah for the past few days visiting friends and relatives. Morris Silverman was among the ' Monongah business callers to FairI moct yesterday evening. Mrs. Tony Chirmo was in Fairmont for a sbort while yesterday evening, j Mrs. R. Dollison. of Fairmont, was i in Monongab yesterday afternoon attending to shopping. Miss Toye Hupp, of Fairmont, was in Monongab yesterday. " Mrs. Louis Janes, of Fairmont, -was in Monongah yesterday calling on friends. - . - . What Doctors tee i i for Eczema 4?5&rasss"?agsyas i f x <tSb5? **** t * TheLiouidWcsh ; Mountain City Drag stoge and Hall's 1 Dm* Store. i i PHY? I i that b*ve such coed roots? E*v>e swned and yon -will ba.no a lifetime 9sTO the missing teeth' bridged in. tal methods are up to date sod sB aranteed. Examinations free. PEETH 'EXTRACTED SSa. HE UNION DENTISTS ov?r McCfor/? 6 and 40* Stda'fe # Board SERVED GOVERNMENT FAITH. FULLY WITHOUT LEAST j,, COST TO IT. (By Tj < ?) CHARLESTON*. W. V*., March 18.Caplate Breckinridge Jonas aaaooaced yesterday thar he has been notified of Preeident "Wilson's acceptance of the resignation of former Judge Ira E. RoWnson. as a member of the Northern district ooarc lor wen v mini*. Jndge Robinson' was released because of the press of business affairs. Hs has served 6n the board since its creation, and had not only borne all of his expense in connection with attending the meetings of the board at Clarksbnrg but declined to accept any compensation for his services to the government. The board still has five members, W. H- Taylor, of Clarksburg, bavins bees appointed a sixth member several weeks ago. If MANNINGTON [ Critically III. A, L. Frichard has received a message from Colorado Springs. Col., telling of the dangerous illness of bis son, Hujh W. Prichard, who has been in that city for the past Jew mnoths. Private Gill Here. Private James Gill, of Camp Lee, Petersburg. Virginia, is here for a 6bort furlough which he will spend with relatives. Mr. Gill expects to he scat to France in the near future. Private Thorn Here. Private Snowden Thorn arrived Sunday-evening from Camp Shelby. Hattiesburg. Miss. He has been granted a ten-day furlough which he will spend at the home of his mother, Mrs. S. C. Thom. near the city. Go to Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Howard R. Furbee left yesterday morning for Rochester, Minnesota, where Mr. Furbee will be treated at the Mayo brothers sanitarium, he having been unwell for some time. " Return to HomesMrs. Mora Dailey, of Buffalo, X. Y.. and Miss Anna Ryan, of New York City,returned yesterday to their homes after a week's visit at the home of their brother, Michael G. Ryan, in Locust street. Mi?ei?a Bav Lneaterf, The fourteen year old 60n of F. W. Grimes, of Fairmont, who ran away from tie home of hie parents there last Friday, was located here yesterday by the father who returned to Fairmont with the hoy on train No. 52 last evening- The police of this city had been given a description of the boy and told to keep a look-out. and were looking for the boy when the latter was found. Leave* for Kineas. FraaJt F- Gerrard, of Monroe street, will leave soon for the oil fields of Kan us, where he expects to be employed the coating gammer. Hotfl Inspector Here. stale Hotel Inspector Phillips, of ClarliharV' was here Friday examining the hotel*, restaurants, boarding house* and the premiiez connected with game. Most of the places were found in a sanitary condition, while several proprietors were advised to clean up at once. In a few cases the proprietors asked for a day's time to make the start, but this was not granted. Hotel Arrivals. Bartlett ? E. T. Thomas. L. W. Young, Jr.. Pittsburgh. Pa.; J. H. Jenkinsos, Toledo, O-: F. M. Blake, Wheat. W. V*.: F. E- Way. Jackson. Mich.; J. T. Adamson, Baltimore. Md.; L. M. Osbome. Pasedena, Cal.; Chas. D. Duraa, Marches. O.; O. C. Porter. Salehm; J. B- Brennan. E. X>. Marquis. V-evlr - T? T7* Vonfllno T. TV "Hlltch. issos. Cameron. Well*?J- D- Hammond, Glens From. Clarksburg; C. Osborne, Annabelle: SERVICE D] Service difBcoi mean wrong nrnnfr emit* in error?do i tmj ,daf. Jfe o cirtftil, cam be absol r"-- Abate aw on aaiainr comrd,. km Uteee who wee the me jmt bsMa ?rw i9 employee j aapwU ?f diffimhw ^MitfpMiUetopN OHHUl jrXSK' " 711191 " - ". ? a ^ t -.'- ? V . ' ' * - ?. " ~^ : . fij ' > -\VA ... .. J-L 3Crs.-M.-A- Brookefrer is taw fawn Sistersville for a visit with liar granddaughter. Mrs. E. C. DeTore. Fred W. Harriett left yesterday tor a few weeks' -visit is Berkeley Springs. Mr- and Mrs. Ira P. Davis and little <l?iT.g>if?r- spent Sunday with relatives in Fairmont Charles F. Kunst spent the week end with his parents in Prantytowa. S. X. Elliott has returned from a business -visit In Pittsburgh. P*. George Orth bae returned after spending the week end with relatives i in Wheeling. i Fred A. Prichard returned last even: ing to Baltimore after a few weeks' j -visit with relatives here. J Mrs. Charles L. Burgess arrived, i from Wheeling Sunday evening for a : j visit with relatives in Main street. ! J Mr. and Mrs. Orville E. Murray spent ( | Sunday in Hundred. HOULT j Mrs. Evr Hess spent the week-end {v isitiog her mother, Mrt. Garley, at I : Worthington. j -- -- "??j I I jvirs. v? . f - noun ftuvutiw ] ters -were visiting lier parents, Mr. and i Mrs. Cephus Tichnel, at Little Falls, at the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Harry McElfresh was : the guest of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Casteel ? at Fairmont Saturday night and Sun! day. B. E. Wilson went to Mannington ; Satorday to visit relatives, f Roscoe Phillips went te his home in ; Barbour county Friday where he wes : called by the iltnes of his mother, t Mrs. Dora Hoult was the spest of I Mrs. Mary Thomas at Fairmont Saturi day. James Drake and Miss Bessie Mc! Elfresh. of Lowesvilie. were guests of j Mr. and Sirs- C. E. McElfresh here! ; Sunday. I Lester Hoult. one of the boys who ' ; left here to join the Coast Artillery.: ! has returned to his home here, being sent back because he is not quite eigb-! teen. He expects to enlist in about j ; two weeks when he will be eighteen, j Robert and LeRoy McElfresh were i j visiting relatives at Little Falls Sun-1 j day evening. ; Miss Alma Johnson has been visit- i j ing her sister. Mrs. Harry McElfresh. ! j at Hopewell. Guy Hoult. of Fairmont, spent Sun-1 i day the guest of his mother. Mrs. Flor-: \ ence Hoult. here. j John Byrley. of Pennsylvania, is vis- j | ? intiiiivp TAiiniir uiilim lunuuc j ! BECOMES COATED i i IF CONSTIPATED; ! WHEN CROSS, FEVERISH AND j SICK, GIVE "CALIFORNIA i 1 SYRUP OF FIGS." ! Children lore this "fruit laxative" j and nothing else cleanses the tender i stomach. liver and bowels so nicely. A child simply will not stop playing to empty the bowels, and the result is. they become tightly clogged with waste, liver gets sluggish, et? toads sours, then your little one becomes < cross, half-sick, feverish, don't eat, ' sleep or act naturally, breath is bad. j system full of cold, has eore throat, stomach aclie or diarrhoea. Listen, mother! See if tongue is coated, then ! give a teaspoonful of 'California Syrup of Figs," and in a few hours all the ] constipated waste, sour bUe and undi- j gested food passes out ol the system I and you have a well, playful child again. 1 Millions ot mothers give "California I Syrup of Figs" because it Is perfectly | harmlofs: children love it. and it nev: er fails to act on the stomach, liver and bowels. Ask your druggist for a bottle of "O'ifomia Svrup of Figs." which has i full directions for babies, children of j all xtg-^s and for grown-ups plainly j printed on the bottle. Beware of coun-! terfcits A">'d bore. Get the genuine, j made by "California Fig Syrup Com- j pany." Refuse any other kind with j contempt. I mmm?m??? - . i mi i ^mmmm??a 1 | t nrtxriTT" ~r>TPC? r r ii>u juiiao ties?and By these vn era. anussal delays, vise, a few of them rgamzstioo, however lately error-proof. i: I ! ed 'by eocfirfoos we Be are the fonlt of telephone aad some sis that even a high a cannot prevent. ire ready to vdoome 4y t* ?orwct tb?m, Hot their leemrrenea. * M :*T -- j nun iip poroiur >Boan ooHPAinr ^ ?H&" . ' ^ i . * *. - " ' - ' * -"Vs* tetttoc st tit* boo* of J. H- Snider Several of the jaanc people of HonZt fcara been attending the revival aeo> Tiees ax the V. B. church at Montana conducted by the Revs. Allenger and Brake and report a splendid re viral and many conversions. Several people attended' the flag . raising at the school house Friday, j The flag was procured by the children ! by selling badges A splendid talk on ! ~Wb& the flag means to ns"' was made: by Mr. J. TValter Barnes, of Fairmont, and a poem, "The Banner Betsey J Made" was read by John Bowman, and Banner" and "America." and gam the ' the school sang "The Star Spangled : *1 1 -^11 SOJULV CO CUO 1 ;ag auu OW^VI Post Mail Earlier I And Avoid the Rush j If the patrons of this postoffice." said Postmaster C. E. Manley this morning-, "and ?specially the business; men and firms with large outgoing; mail, would make an effort to do all their mailing at or about noon of; each day, they would greatly facilitate the work of the office and at the . same time make it lighter on the dis-j tribuung clerks. Some of the local j business houses bare already adopted this plan and it has greatly helped j us here in the office. "Several of the clerks in this office ( are in the service and it leaves us ; considerably hampered in this partic-j ular. Still, if the public will follow;1 I the above suggestion, it may be pos-; ! sible for us to -get by' without great t trouble, by facilitating the work of. i distributing the mails. Another thing j t i: How's This? e offer One Hundred Cellars Reward for any caae of Catarrh that cannot bo cored by HalFo Catarrh Medicine. Hall's Catarrh Medicine has been takes by catarrh sufferers for the past thlrtySve roars, and has become known aa ths most Tollable remedy for Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Medicine acts thru the Blood on the Macom surfaces, expelling- the Pol son from the Blood and beaMny the dieeawd portions. After you have taken Bell's Catarrh Medicine for a ehort time you wID aee * great Improvement In your seneral health. Start tmJclnr Ball's Catarrh HedJctae at onee and set rid of catarrh. Seed for testimonials, free. *. X CHENEY 4 CO.. Toledo, Ohio. _ Sold hy aQ Drusslata. 76c. s3j ; 177( THESE are the times th shine patriot will, in t he that stands it NOW dese ny, like hell, is not easily con harder the conflict, the moi we esteem too lightly: "lis < j knows how to put a proper ] [ so celestial an article as FE BUT the right is more pr we have always carrie those who submit to author rights and liberties of sma concert of free peoples as si world itself at last free. T tunes, everything that we a those who know that the da blood and her might for th peace which she has treasur Buy Wai i - anu Do Your Bi U. 8. War ?> gahela V Savings Stamps EH XT. S. War Savings Stamps an a government obligation to pay the holder $5 on January 1, 1933, for each, stamp atached to the 0 V eereificate or a total of B jT H $100.00 is tbe twenty spaces on the certificate are vK/ fiSeC. Tbe sooner yon boy War Savings Stamps tbe more yon save, because they cost one cent more each month after the 31st of January, 181S me follows: March $4.1* April $4.15 May $4.16 June S4A7 July $4.18 MM August ............ $4.18 September S4.20 October $421 - 7 November *4.22 December $423 ?/ T" v.." ' * ' ? i.ii" j? ???SPECIAL I VALUES I la Men's New , Spring NECKWEAR 1 A rich showing of doz< ful silk four-in-hands, the i New York. The wise mai for the future in the neck1 instead of more later. Originators and Leaders o bat Tvdalcl help, in this respect, would j >e for the large business houses to! ry and send out their mail so far as , possible, in letters or packages of' mifora size." After Easter Coir Determine now what 8 T n rnt4oinc HT JUC> v C V> VCaJLA**?) will want cleaned, fresher Superior Methods. Remember4 ' IS ALWAYS SAF CumberL RICHARD GIL] 5- 1 at try men's souls : The sun his crisis, shrink from the s< rves the love and thanks of quered, yet we have this coi e glorious the triumph. W deamess only that gives eve] price upon its goods, and it v tEEDOM should not be high] ecious than peace and we sh; d nearest our hearts?for de ity to have a voice in their il nations for a universal do lall bring peace and safety t< o such a task we can dedica ire and everything that we y has come when America is e principles that gave her bi ed- God helping, her, she ca r Savings Hirift Sta it In Winning avlngs Stamp* and Thrift Stamps can I every post office, bank trust compa ourrty, it the rait read ticket offices, M alley Traction Company offices. Belt noes, from any Consolidation Coal C< 'Intendent or store manager, and at a tef and store. WS.S WARSAVINGSSIAMPS 18 SUED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Ms tpaoi authorized and paid for by T. S. NEPTUNE, Coal. ^r^mm mmm H I r r? jllJB W ;ns upon dozens of beatrfS^ newest designs direct fr<>ri^l n will anticipate his needa^B n ear line and pay 50c ncnr l iff ni HIMI'l f Low Prices in FairmoiAj Bridgeport where be -was called by the I serious illness of Mrs Jackson's hroifljtM er. w. K. Thompson. Mr. Thompson-?! is somewhat improved at this t&OK > Carpets. Rugs, Linen iEI aperies, Covers, etc^ you ?^ ted and refinished by our :'8|| 'FOOTERS" |l ITCT A\*n BEST" A WAV 'ISPSHI KESON, Agent. " "' '** 917 1 1 I imer soldier and'the suo> I jrvice of his country; but|EW man and woman. Tyraa^ I lclusion with us, thatr t&e?:jp| haf w#> nhf.flin fnnr*hpJtr>_ H M rything its value. Heaven II vo'uld be strange indeed, if I ^Woinas Paine, 1776. '. j||ji all fight for the thing thstAjf imocracy, for the rights of '"ip? own governments, for thefTf minion of right by rach.i>| ^| > all nations and make the-If j ite our lives and our for-ifl have, -with the pride of ^ ] 5 privileged to spend herM fi rth and happiness and the If >1 n do no other. President Wilson, 1917. Stamps! I imps I'E the War^fl . r ' ,I ; >mpi* II 1 be 1bad at 2Sc each. One I or more of these Ta*Ti.ti3jM pnrehased and sttiittSjimM ~ Uet.tr TKrfff fatJltf' ;.wSwU"^3l on without extn xagt^ I I rnt r Tirm ni ||?ijn| I I may be parchaaea iu^^M I the Thrift Card. Wheriwi^j I teen spaces on the T&cffixjl I Card are fined, thsSctSdfl I with 14c in caih a?5 I exclmiged during I" month, of March toTyoaajgjS the War Sawing j and ow on'tenfl savigjt the- "War . Stajnpa, which earn 4 cent interest co?npoimdedfl| quarterly. .