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??gbi*:~- MmniKOTpn^y - I It OrlteaMOt PrlOTtn?- *a<l PobUi g|?=??''.. , ygfaUcatSon Ogee. Monro* -W. J. "EVTCGEL. Geaenff M S I XUBS C HEBBEET. CZXABUB Editor. Ctr Sg* } JL KAY KAPEL. J. MCSBi l@S^ . Adrertlalna Manager. Mi$irMEMBER OF THE ASSOC I AT I V?!-f-| J. The Anociated Proi Is exclusively en fe- -I rwpnbUcatiou of all ne?'* dispatches cr KiV. l otherwise credited In Ale r.rwepaper J*7- ' I news published herein. AH rlst.** o'repi V>'jl -Ofsparrhos herein are ?l*o reserved. . TELEPHONES?1105. HOC. 1107. AU <1 jB&SVl throask private exchance-Ptortrfan Adrertlsinie Representative. R agfc I CE Fijth Avenue. Kw VQr-k: 6 S. Waba ^H K? I SUBSCRIPTION RATE isS/iV-l Br MAIL?OPsiyahr? i- advance only I xfx tnootiis. J3.0": three mnntbs- 51.50: o KPi" BY CARRIER?(In Fairmont.! On months. 13.CO: one njor.tli. cOc: one w< . . Three Cents. WBSSK BY CARRIER?'Outaide of-Fairmont. . one wetJc. ISc. By carrier Three Cmti . All subscriptions payable In advance . UiZtTA .- TVfcen. aalcin* Xor change In address i new address. ; . . Entered at th? I'ostorticc at Fairmont ' ;oece>i?l nine* rr.y'fer . *F YOU DON'T GET YOUR PA "WESTERN UNION. Ber, r Subscribers oc oar carrier routes fail! Kga Virginian any evenlns should call "W State the fact end give nan.# and realder .Wfll deliver a paper to Your door ?t v charge to the subscrSbrr for this servtc< "WXDMES T-A Y "EVENING. APE m l\ ' ., Then join in hands, brave Ai .fij) uniting n>c stand, b$ divia I THE PRICE OFRAILRO T"**OR several weeks the matter of f railroads are to pay during the c the fuel they use has t.m agitatir The railroads have been trying to close less, than the figure fixed by the goven reasons.to believe that the recurrence c ag in ail the important producing re organized campaign on the part of the operators surrender this year just as th< tendered in the past for the sake of g car supply of reasonable proportions. Went from Washington a long dispat situation and the effort of the roads to jeg^I price, the concluding paragraph c ^ Officials of the railroad add <M . represented as believing that be< roads have passed under govei , tion they cannot afford to reliaq . which had meant economies i Up here in the hills where coal is p ible to reconcile such sentiments and.cc 'practices which have meant economies lgenient" are black hand business meth Ized and debauched the great coal in< toads themselves, and if the govemme railroads "on the level" they ought Some of the gravest and most far re which all business in the United State grown out of discrimination in the di toal cars. Some of the worst scandals world were caused by these same pr tarrying road has wholly escaped the tnces of the opportunity to play fast an I Ripply. The strong, and in most oth tnanagech-Pennsylvania was rocked fi other at one time because of this, an know how much weak roads have suffe /. tality of officers who could not resis manipulate the car supply for the ban Itonest oo'liery managers and themselve In the effort to curb this evil Congre passed laws and amendments to laws hires were wiped out. but the assigned only is productive of discrimination ben crimination in favor of the railroads aj Using industries, has survived down t< The government has an opportunity i lvith a general order signed by Directoi tad it ought to do it if it wants to mak ' fast die government is trying to run tf (he country for the common good. Why should the railroads be perm ipon coal producers in such a way tha , at a less price than the big steel mills bars and plales for the government at g3g& * v ^ ^ | Ruff Stuff"| v; My, what a short summer it was. , _> ... Have you a good supply of winter StUl it would be unreasonable to This might have happened last Sat "Wear old clothes: Its patriotic doty** Headline s m ' With moat of ns It's necessity. Ea^rr. ^ There Isn't ranch patriotism in rrsarins old clothes it you can afford fes" Tailors and clothing merchants hare to live too. yon know. |ife - And If yon Insist npon wearing old f(? clothes better toe prepared to Prove H| tbgt the money went into'a bond or t ^nteTents brohe out in s new place / That's their idea of a tqnare deal, ipi^'-.. ^ Giving every man in the ranks his to set killed. ' towc6?Deinr* imi ... .pr should the niboadt s v. frenr/r,' alor.who grants do adattonMimiger. Ms plant running a >E BOIER. Superintendent. . another operator * :o PRESS. track, but who can ntjedjto-Ui* u*? ror | losing "money, is us edited to It or not , , , and also the local he can gd no cars? ibllcatlon of special whole <-7? ? and the government spertmenta reacted . " -T? to it at once. Tim = i the rail rotds that OEEKT E. WARD. , , , , Sh Ave.. Chicaco. ' would be promptly J ? ' t j system were aoan< :>* One ytar ss.oo; which was as much .* under the war test seic. 15c. Per copy scnous consideraboi > due month. T5c; done about the ass should be corn pel let civ# oia u veil as is only fair play. . West Virginia, as NOT FC NOT often, but newspaper sh ns to get The West | gecce. Com ESTERN UNION." i - , ~ ice ?r.fi * messenger oration or *_?erma once. Tf.ere Is no Arbeiter Zeitung. < "Do not be dec = and Paris and eve 1IL 10. 1918. there will ever rem America protected cannot impose a p land." According to th< who gets off these open-faced truths peoples of Austrodeclared war on America are combr ation. including do will not give up. . these .truths before ? a courage that con nericam all* A hopeless Vie ling vc falL - mighty object Iesso AD~FUEL. George Creel.' c the price which the Information, cont urrent coal year tor i congress, an 01 i lg the coal industry, business. The pi contracts at a price less uneasiness if iment and there are the government o: f the coal cr.r short- i* a light weight t gions is part of an most important j : roads to make the Inasmuch as be e ey always have sur- he ought to be fit letting a guaranteed presence in tfash Monday night there publicist should b eh on the coal car buy coal below the ' Dispatches have f which was as fol- the guess that the as participating : Picardy were*Ame nistratios are the commnnicatioi case when the Ge nment opera- _ _ [uish. practices cut off General By tinder private gave "a. most exc< j Americans may n< i rope, but It Is pri reduced it is impos- pretty close to the immon honesty. The itie6. under private man lods which demoral- The annouacen Justiy and the rail- large oversubscrip at means to run die that all the local to be discontinued- energies. Merely aching abuses from Hon basis will not s has suffered have j -? stribution of empty j it begins to' loo in the transportation | of the war will -b actices. No coal | an a scenic wondei demoralizing influ- at Buffalo to keep d loose with the car patches 6ay the er respects honestly weight of its supj om one end to the tlon which.have 1 d no one will ever ; Albany. do : red through the ras- j duced at Albany" t the temptation to ; that have been ii lefit of equally dis- | complete eommeri s. i it mildly, would.b ss from time to time ! be prevented at a and the worst fea- j war will not last a car evil; which not ; to square accoum veen mines, but "dis- j take advantage of gainst all other fuel j the preoccupation s the present hour. ] that would be lmi tow to wipe it out j * r General McAdoo j The railroad ad e the public believe . licity exploiting ti le railroad plant of most of this stuff j aginations' who' w itted to use a club ; sciences, perhaps t they can buy coal tt> he admitted th> which are making ! rack full of elab a price fixed by the j right. ADd go to the Prussian heaven. I "Where beer flows like water. And the whole world goosesteps. ? "Well, the Tommies seem to be doing their darndest to help them across the line. One last chance to show that you are a good fellow, and a patriot. See to It that your sidewalk Is shoveled off before yon hit the hay this evenlog # Vienna papers say the surplus grain In Russia trill not be available for the Central Powers before May. Lot of people In Germany and Austria-right now who are pretty hungry will not seed it then.' Did yon kick in for a bond today? Time's getting short. Editorial Comment on Current Subjects MR. HIGHLAND'S CANDIDACY FOR THE SENATEFrom the Wheeling Intelligencer. The formal entry of the Hoc- VirpQ I*. Highland. of Clarksburg. into the lists for the Republican nomination for United States Senator presents * any user of fud; be 'pSS to buy 3 han any othex TBer? - Aadhndly,-%vhy jLbe.permitted tosay.tot-xuniK ?perDcaWBs shall lave m chanceto keep nd oat of the bankruptcy, courts- while . hese plant is on the same sketch ofj not sell below the legal price without; able to market his coal - at all -because 1 red car-system is fundamentally wrong ; , which lies the powers sbqpald put ? stop e after time the opera toss have assured ; their fuel requirements could be and; and adequately met if /the assigned car . doned; but "with the bourbon instinct: , responsible for- the faihue of the roads ' as 'any one thing they never have given j r to these suggestions.. But whatever.is j igned car system as such, the railroads' d to pay die legal price for coaL That I o ?r" | w? a? Tf ?r? f"T % Mr" AJLtU JIUL. 1 no. I livtc.. occasionally, a German or an Austrian ows a gleam of almost human intelii- j es now. in the height of. Berlin's cele- j ny's "great victoor" in Picardy. the J >f Vienna, with this: eived. If Germany could take Calais ] n force France and Italy tc capitulate.! ain the English hidden in their- isle and 1 by the ocean. The greatest victory j eace of violence on America and Eng... . j : rules of Teutonic autocracy, the editor j truths ought to be hanged, but they are that have been before the. eyes of the Hungary ever "since the United States Germany. The entente powers and itting Germany's drive for world-dominmination of Austro-Hungary. and they The Vienna editor who dares to place : the.common folks of his country has ics pretty near being suicidal, ana, while Berlin celebrates! . It is a n. o hairman of the Committee on Public j j _ inues to be the target ror attacKs in which holds up the important public J ibllc would view this situation with I Creel were worth his salt either to | r to any one else. But be is not. He j rying to weigh In heavy on one of the j obs created for the war emergency. | [oes not have sense enough to resign red so that the friction caused by his tlngton Is removed. Then some able e put in the place. t at last come through which confirm , American troops so often referred to I In the first. phase of the battle of > rican engineers who were working on , 1 west of St- Quentin. And as was the ' rmans made their desperate effort to ng's advanced forces at Cambrai, they silent account of themselves. The jt be the- best trained ^soldiers In Eu- I stty safe to depend upon them to be s front in the matter of fighting qualo lent that the government desires & ' tlen for the third Liberty loan means workqss will have to redouble their j getting the quotas on the three bilbe enough. o k as if one of the unexpected effects e-the disappearance of Niagara Falls There Is not enough electric current! the government work going, and dis- j War department has added the full ! ort to measures to relieve the situa- i been introduced in the legislature at < not know what the "measures Intro- j are. but judging by other measures I itroduced there they will permit the | realization of the falls. This, to put j e an outrage, tat it probably can not ! time like the present. However, the j lIways, and it is the American fashion ; ts-rather drastically with folks who , the necessities of the government and of the people to put across dirty deals tossihle in noraml times. ? o ministration has ordered that all pubain service and resorts be cut off. As was produced by men with vivid irn ere not troubled with sensitive conthis is just as well, but it will have j it hotel lobbies without the familiar i orate time tables will not look just candidacy that is bound to attract the most favorable consideration from the reflective membership of bis party.! as well as that element of the citizen- j ship of "West Virginia without party j affiliation. Mr. Highland's personal record is without reproach, and guarantees an integrity of service that is not without weight in the discrimination the voters will be called on to exercise at the primary election. Those familiar with his career from a young man up to his present honorable estate know the sterling qualities thst were engaged in building up bis sucecss. He is no accident. He is no whim of fate. He ts a product: ox cutrsy* xuuuouy ouu i.u?avici?? t man who achieved by bis own efforts,, and Indomitable will 'to rise. He is a J distinguished example of natiTe TTest j Virginia grit, joined to a wholesome ambition to make the most of opportunities . In bis youth be knew the sweat of toil, and bis early habit of: diligence strengthened the formative j years of bis manhood. His qualifications for the important representative - office be aspires to appeal strongly to the business and ' industrial elements of the state, wbich j require just such a man to intelligently represent them in the law-making) body of the nation. He has always J been a my of high public spirit, a con- > structive force Interested in the de-! velopaent of the* section of the state where the ties of bis nativity have held him in close communion with the people.. He has a mind of broad cnltl- j ration, and bis long association with men of affairs in the development of j the state has equipped him with us-' loyalty^co zbe RavofeOcu Srty & W state- and nation - hgve, tot coarse, gained" for hta-the honor of m*37 httter Democratic enmities ? enmities that bare not scrupled to a snail htm in the most malignant wanner. But these have always fallen from htm; without disturbing the confidence of-J those who hare always trusted and re-; * peered him, tor no man ta West Vir- j ginia today stands higher for person-? al probity and the honor that all true men hold in their hearts than Virgil! L. Highland. He will tralce an exceptionally strong candidate for tee Senate, be-1 cause he is an exceptionally strong i and -able West Virginian. HEW 1DEBAT1 FOB WFTN PRESBYTERY ' j Rev. J. V. Koontz of Mannirigion Was Elected Yesterday. R?t J. V. Koontz. of Warming-ton, was made moderator of the Grafton Presbytery it the meeting held yes-: terday at Manningron. Me succeeds Dr. E. A. Krapp.of Morgan town as moderator. Rev. E. B. Turner, of Clarksbarg. and Dr. J. N". Deahl. of Morgantown. were named delegates to the general assembly to be held in Columbus. O.. in May. Rev. F. B. Lewollyn of Morgantown. and Rev. Brooks, of French Creek, were named alternates to the assembly. Nineteen churches compose the Grafton Presbytery and oacb church gave a creditable report of the year's; work. The Fall meeting of the Presbytery! will be held in Grafton in Septembei.' Following the election of Rev. Koontz as moderator the retiring moderator Rev. E. A.. Krapp presented the save! to his successor. Tire gavel was a gift to the Presbytery by Mrs. Harvey Pltzer in memory of her father, the late Dennis Cotter, who made the garel himself from _ wood obtained from the old Fairmont Presbyterian! church. The ladies o? the Mannington i church entertained the Presbytery I at luncheon yesterday. Dr. H. G. Stoetzer and C. M. Ritchie! of this city were present for the ses-l sions of the Presbytery. . Jr. Red Cross Work In Schools of County The folowing summary will show the activities of the local Junior Red Cross auxiliaries in the city schools during the month of March: Fairmont High School?IS convalescent robes, 370 gun wipes. Barnes School?3 hospital bed shirts. 20 property bags. 6 pin balls. S pairs knitted bed socks Butcher School?12 pillow slips. 27 property bags, 3 pairs knitted bed socks. Fleming School?54 gun wipes. 9 hospital shirts, 13 property bags. 3 pairs knitted bed socks. Miller School?9 hospital bed shirts 26 pillow cases. 10 knitted wash cloths j 6 knitted "bed socks. White School?2S property bags. 3 | hospital bed shirts. East Side School?7 bed shirts. 16' Wash cloths. 81 packages gun wipes. 14 fracture pillows. Central chool?4 bed shirts. 20. property bags. 120 packages of gun wipes 15 fracture pillows. Thoburn High . School?7 sweaters, 24 property bags. Barrackville School?50 propertv i bees, 50 fracture pillow covers, 50 wash cloths. Farmington High chool?6 fracture pilows. 1 pair operating leggons. 4 hot; water bottle covers. Farmington Graded School?2 aro-: bulapce robe. 24 property bags. 241 wash cloths. 22 scrap books. ? .ism nt fimirstm the fiize Of a! lead pencil contains enough "material j for five miles of filament for electric lamps. 1 I Liberty Loan In order to facilitate t ty Loan Bonds, the Peop' tablished a Liberty Loan I It makes it possible fc come to own a Liberty Bo S1.00 per week for fif Bond. $2.00 per week for fi Bond. We buy the bonds an< in full. If payments have week for fifty werks the scribed will be delivered, the date of delivery to voi ~ * 'i V VL of paying for rne nonas i; and when payment has be* be delivered. IT IS YOUR PATRIOTIC Suteritejor The People's FAERMON . / ? * v ?:V .. ".. :? if-*.? Spring Has IB This Store Hots* will you make th savin? hour? The govern hundred and eighty goldei to help win this war. Tw< of 8 hours each. The store and the sales forces ask your help. Try to shop early, that you, our employes and ourselves can put this Golden Extra Hour to good use? either in the war garden or in some sport that builds up an efficient outdoor vigor that goes totbf? making of an optimist. We must all be optimists. Skirts, Too Of Course. They will be in Great Demand. PThey also ire in great numbers too numerous in styles and materials to adequately describe ?but tbey arc on display where you can handle and examine them to your heart's cou- * tent. Wash Skirts $2.25 to $5-25 Silk Skirts $5.65 to $22.50 Skirts of wool fabric, both plain and fancy. $4.50 to $20.00 BUT A LIBERTY BOND True Values Cracking Down on flip "RnPTnir All fin UUV i .1 i 1 VAAAJ < Correspondence Associated Prcss> ! MILWAUKEE. Wis., April 10.E.'ghty-two enemy aliens who are said to have violated their permits were arrested early today by agents of the Department of Justice, it is said about . 200 others will be taken as soon as ' they can be located. t $200,000 Fire in ! Hand Grenade Plant 'Oorr^sponuer.c^ Associated Press) CLEVELAND. O.. April 10.? An ex plosion in the the core room of the i plant of the Grabler Manufacturing: company early this morning started a i fire -which took six hours to control and i caused damage estimated at S200.000. j The company has been manufactur-1 ing hand grenades ?or the govern- j ment. The explosion is believed to have been due to the ignition of oil flowing from a leaky pipe. Serious Fire in the Heart of Lancaster; 'By Associated Press"> LANCASTER. Pa.. April 10.?A do j structivo fire started in the heart ol j the business section of the cty this,' morning and is still -burning. The j hardwrare store of Spreacher and; Ganns -was destroyed and the Lan-, caster County bank was damaged. The j tire later spread to the McCrory store, i - - 1 ?? y???' i Bond (Hub |j :he sale of the Third Liber- j les National Bank has es3ond Club. >r any one of moderate innd. ty weeks will buy a $50.00 j 1- rn t?^ _ einn Liy weena win uuy a. <pivv d hold them until paid for i been made regularly each bond for which you sub- | It will bear interest from i[ You have the privilege | n full as early as you like 2n completed the bond will DUTY TO BUY A BOND a Bond Now == ! National Bank , T, W. VA. j mSSSSSZmmmSSSESSmmSSSSSSSSSSEi1 *? Is Filled With Sprii e most out of the day light iment has given all of us a : n hours for out-door work. ; enty two and one half days This Will Be a ! Season for Waists i i j ^ ^ a cyjrt--^. ? j I ' There's Much Loveliness in Our Waists. Tbote wbo love pretty waists j and who are just as particular about the little trimming touches as about tbc lovely materials and attractive colors, will fiud thi.v ; feathering of waists very much to their liking. The new styles are J so numerous that a detailed description of all would still be uns.it Isfactory- It is so easy to see and inspect tbem there by the hundreds. Voiles. Organdy. China and Tub Silk. Crepe de Chine ard Georgette. In "voile and our organdy, . we have tbem from $1.00 to $5.50 In the silks and crepes they are from $1-00 to $7.30. ! Our Prices Could Not be Lower. Courtneys' Peoples' Clothing Will Buy Bouds The Peoples' Clothing company. 325 Madison street, will use its entire business receipts during the present week to bay bonds. Pilling, the manager or the Fairmont store, re- , LIFE IN 1 With The Cavali Will be Told in The IORBTH jH^B An American Fighting in I ^ X3 fl thorps oi Tne r rencj His Thrilli Will appear exclusivel In The Ufa - ... . r if "Hi E w W "V it * I 'X Aafi here the? are at Jart the richt asd nrouer time. New ar- I ?M rivals?everyone. Smart crtr- J -J enetted English tweeds,- 'pMa?' S l a plaid and checks. Stylish rtigp berized Silk also makes a hand- jj some'and serviceable raincoat ? fashioned along the smartest 1 lines for spring, they are belted vfl end pocketed and feature the ' iM nobby collars. 79 You WiH Find Them .j? Most Moderately Priced ( at 55-00 to $13.50. ill If It Is Raincoat Time Then You Wffl Need An Umbrella also Wc have just received a ship- |l ment of the new "Anne Weather" to be carrieJ in sunshina-or rain. il A real serviceable umbrella and i H a protection in either case. Fine / fl quality of silk with attractive hail- 1 H illes of carved ehonoide. OoDven- II icntly carried on the arm by a loop } I of heavy silk cord. Plaid silk and } others with fancy borders. Al- yl most indispensibie to the feminine } wardrobe. 54.25 to $5.75. 1CS-110 Main St.' (U ccivcd n. telegram from the beads of i.H the finn. Kaufman Bros. & Cc? New !; York city-, making the order effective. '.A<B The local manager is making an ef- 5 jH lort to stimulate business so that the j purchase of bc-nds may be as large as possible. \\ ltn roc ctam 01 siom wuica tuv . Peoples' Clothing company operate It ^9 is estimated that folly $100,000 worth- . if bonds will be subscribed. .31 ZZEEZS2ZSS2Z2SSS2SSESEESSSS ! fHEAIR I y of The Skies ' v ' "West Virginian by gUgHfj N H n > I -' | u I fVTL " ||i h Foreign Legion* ^ I *'-> '-J - . "'*J^5y|-? * n I sta i" A *1 1"" jj ^ 2S^^^S5S^B^S^&9SSBS9S5!SS^Sai _ I j5*r>- *** ''/ ^'['r^fev^-' ?I : .- , ' . -. v?fry f j (jB