' 191g Tnni>rt Tfinav ~~PT?Tr.F. thpct. P.F.TCTS SK ___ 5?l Krtv Loan nestings scheduled : sand laboring men. inclndBroaT-miners and members -of variHlabororganizations will parade on. Sunday, October 13.-at which I Secretary of Labor William B. Km will .-deliver an address in belted notification last night that' ^tKwpold be here on that date ft a conference held by Mr. LiveBv'cst Virginia Manufacturers As tion andWnilam M. Rogers, pres West Virginia Federation MSScSktVhicb It was decided to Hguj^WIIsaii's services for that HnQuah'was at one time a miner jMBpad' be will have a strong apHpmilre to the laboring men I he speaks here. Secretary Wtlresent to the local making Kst record In the sale of Liberty to tbat date a banner which He offered by the campaign comlS|h? here was presented to Hff?1r~Hartic meeting held in the Hfiaprt room, the men were a Kfltyor^of bringing Mr. Wilson * * rri - * -**????*? tlimnvh tllA ^^EjmeT^rders of Fa el A drain is carfield to the effect that aato^ l can Be used on "gasolineness" Jto^romote ^th^ Liberty Loan. "gaaollneless" SunW 1 i .' ^BSbkixt 6 and l?c store. All ? ^BTTTT"1-., j _ _ i - . i j -* l/\v/l wr wv/i" ^MB5SttKctfiT>; -^C X* '.. S8?^Ri^ ^*v Jw*.j - * [EE I REI CROSS WANTS HELP TtLFIBHT FLU Appeal Made Here For Nurses to Do Special Service. Mrs. Vaughn Jolliffe, chairman of Fairmont chapter of the Red Cross, this morning received the following telegram, which is self-explanatory: Washington, D. C-, Oct. 3.?Urgent. Please give this telegram your immediate attention. At the request of j the surgeon general. Department of j Public Health, the Red Cross has I a creed to assist in combattine the present epidemic oI influenza by taking charge of supplying nurses and emergency hospital supplies w>.?re local authorities are unable to provide tehm. Red Cross War Council has appropriated a substantial fund ofr this purpose. Its participation in this campaign will be in charge of a special committee of which W. Frank Persons will be chairman. 1 shall r furnish you with more detailed inforj mation tomorrow or Saturday. Mean! while you are authorized to render ; assistance, as above outlined, to the ; local authorities if they ask for it. j You will please los not itme in appealing to all graduate nurses, undergraduates and nurses* aids to report ! to you, or to some other chapter offijoial, without delay that all nursing j resources may be mobilized and available a sneedcd. Offer following salaries: Graduate nurses. $70 monthly; undergraduates and aids, from $30 to $50 monthly, according to qualifications, with expenses. Volunteer service desirable if posi sible. These groups should not be I assigned by your chapter without conj suiting Potomac division office, an% are- not to be sent out of the divisio " I-without consultation. Please forward jto me daily reports of number of ; nurses available to be assigned, i ' r HENRY WHITE, 1 _ _ Manager Potomac Division. tEPOSITIONS NEXT IN LORAL GAS CASE Fairmonters Returned From Charleston HearingYesterday. Although effort was made to end the local gas fight before the Public j Service Commission this week at I Charleston it was found necessary to | continue the case until October 18. ; It is probable that it will be necessary to procure depositions from the offices j OX use 015 XUUUiai gas wuijNuiica W4| fices In Pittsburgh and Cleveland. I The hearing was beguh on Monday and continued Tuesday and Wednesday. the witnesses being Frank B. Pry or. manager of the gas department of the Monongahela Valley. Traction company. John Gates. Jr., counsel for the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Natural Gas company and H. E. Nease, statistician of the Public Service Commission. Mr. Pryor, Attorney Charles Powell and Attorney Kemble White, of the Hope Natural Gas company, returned from Charleston yesterday. Attorney James A. Meredith was detained In Wheeling on business. DEATH OF FRANK VTLLERS. The parents of Frank Villers. who reside at Watson, have received no- j tice taht their son had died in Camp Lee, Virginia, on Wednesday of pneumonia. The body will be sent home, but the message stated that another message would announce the departure from Petersburg: LIEUT. KEXSEV OVER THERE. Miss Anna Kenney has received word from her brother, Lieut. Raymond Kenney, of the Aviation reserve. that he had landed safely In France. Lieut. Kenney's home is In Gr&tfon and he had been In training in several aviation camps of the country. WANTED rCarpenters. to build frame houses- at Rlvesville. Good wagea . Apply John M. Kisner & Bros. Lumber Co, at RivesvUIe. ?j WANTED Hen to ran machines, Apply, Monongah Glass. 12th, St aad Ask for Mr. Hawkins r n . . _ H ^V H ''.; " >7.:*'/: ;_ ,' - ^ ., ;> ;.V " MNAI STAGES OF at niiruTifti nmiT ji. nun mm HOWJING ON Germans Are Throwing Their General Reserves Into Action. THEIR PERIUS GREAT Allied Forces Are Menacing Several Important Centers. I (By Associated Press) PARIS. Oct. 4.?Germany Is now throwing general reserves into the battle'on the St. Qnentin front. This sconnts for the stiffening resistance there and also along the German, left flank, and marks the beginning of the last phase of the great battle. British armies commanded by Gen. Byng and General Rawlinson continue to press the enemy hard. They have captured Le Catalet. Gen.. Deveny. east of St. Quentin, is slowly pushing the Qermans back towards the upper Olse valley. Gen. Brethalot is continuing his advance north of Rbeims and has now occupied the whole Aisne 'line from Vaily to Berry-Au-Bac. * Principal interest along the front' to the east centers about the operations conducted by General Gourod In the Champagne sector. Reinforced by the Americans. General Gourod has pushed forward until he is now within six miles of Vouzers Junction, a base of great Importance road connecting the German :*nny with Germany. He has' added another 3.000 to the 13.000 prisoners taken Sept. 26. As a further result of the retreat the enemy now is in peril of losing the Belgian coast. Should the Allies mtseasJ TTTO W thwmeh OUVV>CQU IU AV4 V?1U^ LUUil ? ? UkAVltQM ) the gap between Ostend and Lille It I would mean disaster for the Gerr* mans even if the drive shonld be stopped on the Efchaut. Gen. Lndendorff no donbt realizes it will be difficult to resist indefinitely, the growing strength of the Allies in Flanders. LONDON. Octc. 4.?British ro?ct? pursuing the retreating Germans in the Lens region have reached the railway east of Lens. Field Marshal Haig announced in his official statement today. To the southeast the British have made progress between Oppy and Meri court. Irving Cobb to be Guest of Rotarians The Fairmont Rotary clnb has a splendid meeting at the Country club last evening when a large attendance of the membership partook of 'dinner, and listened to several short talks, by members of the organization. City Superintendent of Schools Otis G. Wilson who had just returned from Huntington where he had attended a meeting of the West Virginia school code commission told of the work the commission is doing toward preparing & suitable school fw? stfttA to "ho nrp?5ented at the next session of the legislature. The club will entertain Irvin S. Cobb at dinner on Norember 20. Mr. Cobb will be here to deliver a lecture on that date under the direction of the Normal school lecture course. A double quartet wQl be "organized at once among the members, the personnel of which will be H. J. Hartley. H. F. Smith, H. E. Engle. H. R. Johnston. H. L. SatterUeld, E. W. Howard. W. L. O'Neill and A. G. Martin. Must Have Ticket to Send Yank a Present WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. Oct. 4.?Every member of the American expeditionary force will be entitled to receive from America one Christmas package not larger than nine by four Inches and not exceeding three pounds in weight. An official coupon, which must be pasted on the package, win be given to each member of the American expeditionary force to be' sent to the friend or relative from whom a package is. expected. The packages must be sent before November'20. ----- ' " i WANTED ! ?- - s. : J Men or Boys over 16. : Apply, Monongah Glass. 1 S I _ J SB * HB H ^ MrcJfiSfii- "s'.v-; 5^'. -'?"yrWi" ><''""' HfcS3 n-\-PERIL OF GER1 * VdA made their way into the - harbor. In- < tense bombardment followed and the 1 ships anchored were completely de- 1 stroyed. No losses or damages were i suffered by the Allied squadron ex- t cept to one torpedo boat which was i struck by a torpedo. c Durazzo is a seaport in Albania- i It has been a naval base for the Aus- ? trians throughout the war. ? MOOSE SUBSCRIBE ! tIRfll) Til THF MAN! 9 IUUU IU IIIL LVI111 Expect to Doable Figure Made Last Night Soon. Rollins up a subscription of 11.600 last nlgbt as a starter, Fairmont Lodge, 9, Loyal Order of Moose, expects, to double that amount before the campaign is over. The meeting, which was held hi Moose Ball on Jefferson street, was addressed by Harry E- Engle. assistant cashier of the Fairmont State Bank, one of Fairmont's popular four minute men. Mr. Engle. who is a member of the order topped the list with a 1100 bond. Members of the lodge who subscribed to bonds are -as follows: H. El Engle. |100; William Bell. BOO; Ray D. Harden. $100; L. B. Brown. $50; George Allard, $50; H. E. Harden. $50; W. E. Clark, $50; T. J. Hartnett. $50; R. A. Brownlee. Frank Stsnsberiy. $50; J. F. Plum. $50; Arthur H inkle, $50; H. B. Moore, < $50; C. R. Shaw, $50; Mrs. O. M. i Dbolittle, $50; Mrs. O. M. Doollttle. J $50; W. C. wells, $50; J. 1-. UUom, $50; P. J. Nett. $50; -H. Shuck. $50; 1 C H. 0*Bannon, $50; H. B- Smith, 1 $50; C. U Holland, $50. ' ? 1 Seventh Day Adventist Services. The Seventh Day Adventist Sabbath services will he held tomorrow in the i Pythian hall on the third floor or the < ineminr as follows: ' Sabbath I schoo tSaturday). 10:30 a. m.; preach- < MAN ARMIES &- Al adlroads by which the German Belgium. A thirty-five mile ad- Qi action of the arrows will est one of line out in Belgium. Foch can trap bis line and destroy their armies ber France.' / DRIVING WHIMS OUT tflUMU Army Leaving So Rapidly It is Destroying It's Supplies. (By Associated' Press) LONDON-.! Oct p. m->? Austrio-HungarQai'"B5rces in Albania are retreating in considerable disorder before the advancing Italians. The Austrian forces are blowing np their-depots. RONS, Oct. 4.?After the capture of Ber&t by the Italians, cavalry Joined in the persuit of "the retreating Anstrians and has made a considerable advance according to an official notef Issued today. Negro Beaten Up in Fight Yesterday Before Justice Musgrove, P. J. Plumb, E. Chilson. J. JL Shore, John ^ Radcliff, Walter KingTW. R. Snider ad Thomas Langley hare been charg- PI 3d with assaulting and beating up I-J Benamin Smith, colored, at the gas 1f iroducer plant on Twelfth street. The tegro left a lift of mortar strike a a a rhite man, who made an uncompli- yfl nentary remark, and the negro then |]fj ixtended a fight invitation. The 1 whites, a number of whom are Southsrners. proceedd to climb the ladder ind get the negro on the trestle work. W Smith was very badly beaten up as a esnlt of the scrap. The bearing was set for last night before Justice Musfrore but was continued in order to at tbe defendants secure a lawyer, a i lumber of tbe men who are prosecuted, it Is claimed, are really only wit- F iesses to tbe alleged assault Attorney L. C. Mas grave re resents Smith. one i en Mrs, Grace Bidenour | eel Dies at Grafton S of Mrs. Grace Graham Ridenoor, of < Grafton, wife of Karl Ridenoor. now vat with tbe Expeditionary forces in Ftj Prance, died yesterday in tbe mater- tiaa nity hospital at Grafton, a few days ala after giving birth to a child which died ma a few hours after birth. Mr. Ride- onj nonr who was located here at the fCr mobilization camp had Just landed in sal France, a card being received shortly or after his wife's death announcing bis ] safe arrival over there. fro The(r marriage occurred in this city Septem>er 14, 1917. just' before the 0fcamp was broken and the troops tak- m en to -Hattiesburg, Miss. Mrs. Ride- eiii nonr spent several months at HatUes- ^e burg with her husband. The deceased i was aged 20 years and was a dangh- tab ter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Graham. cod ?? ? soc IX)VE A FIRST SERGEANT. que Dorsey Love, one of the Fairomnt registrants who left with a recent Qdraft contingent for Camp Lee. Vs., Oi arrived in Fairmont this morning on a short forlongh with local friends. Love is now a first sergeant and has won thtf distinction of "expert rifle- j MB-" ' mo SOLDIER'S BODY DUE TONIGHT, ?av The body of Elias Garfield Walker, Hit ?on of James Walker, of Miracle Run, anc irhose death occurred Monday at bea Samp Lee, Virginia, will arrive here a b tonight at SzX7.. It will be taken in 1 Juirge by-Undertaker R. C. Jones M. ? ? 1 M_" 1 ?.V.. *_ VI. UU Wlli yivwauAj no hhmmi w auo i tattle Began Thai by Noon the Yan Most of The UERICAN TANKS jCI ir Aviators Too, Hayed Im sive in the Champag Dronned Manv WITH THE AMERICAN / '(By Associated Press)?American on tfae Champagne front. A report: they had advanced considerably by : Medeah farm. The caupture of Blancmont and night's French official statement, that American troops had effected t AMERICAN HEADQCJAR German forces' advanced on Tuesdaj on-the northwest of Verdun. Americ WASHINGTON. Oct. 4.?C lions in Champagne was reported toe nnmique for Thursday, announcing f fighting with die French. LONDON, 1:30 p. m. (By , the Champagne have captured Orfa the Somme. Blancmont, a ponton < also has been taken from die German: WITH THE AMERIGO Thursday. 9:50 p. m. (By Associal busy all day today carrying out bom Audun, Dommary. Vigheulles. Cham They dropped thirty-seven and one-hi URH0II1 ASKED FDR MIDI m MR t omen Will Be Acceptable; Also for Work Anumg the Soldiers. '.if > ' 'airmont is expected to furnish 1 i or more Christian men or worn- : for Salvation Army service ffi . mce according to letter - re-j iroil h*r f^enfetn - TAIm i t ??u fcwwj voyutui ?WUM lelrne, of the local SalrationArmy ps, from Commander Era Booth, . New York iity. *>1. William S. Baker, the Sal- , Ion Army ' representative In , inee. has asked for 1,000 Cbri? a men or women for the work}; ong the soldiers and already Coin- . nder Booth has promised 750. Jn er to procure the numbers asked it wffl be, necessary for every < ration /Army corps to furnish one j more. den who hare been' disqualified . m military service It Is possible. " y pass the "physical examination | the Salvation army. Women wba ? twenty-five years or over are . dble to the service. Details may secured from Captain 0"Befene. : a order to get . speedy action Capa CBeirne in all probability will , isuit the- local Ministerial As- ? iation as to securing Fairmont's >ta- ,, " n^ll Boy Painfully Injured By a Pall attempting to jnmp from an anto- 1 bile while in motion, Arthur Jack^ a small boy. frit, on the brick ' ement on Madison, street between j :h and Quincy' about noon today.*! ?' a A'_ " Ul? * I receiveu ? severe jviuu^. 4 struck the pavement and raised. . amp aboeti-he size of^a. hM?w E TAKEN' BY IT Tons of Bombs. ? _ Mcdeah farm^was announced in last I JL . .K^nlt KhT,.' , H f J^^im at' urther gains by the American forces til and Bemont chateau northeast of ^ Jk~ fl P .v . W f ?-- TJ Washington, I> C. are in the Fairmont region fmlnj Tini the miners satisfied so that the proagreenatn or friction which might reo n /in W(4tnd^V Kfteaooa *aft. - wSQ^TGnHfiB is^HnB J6^-I "Equipment IT; S. Bureau of Stand"!> rember 8, Sand 10 for the purpose "of i confgranco^ii mi tiTiifi ifcjjTtBMWBBBB code which is being prepared for pre nwnby?fc}at^e