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Production of Monongah
f Division Will Run Very
Heavy This Week.
MSfliONGM
[Washout Ties Up Flow of
. Empties?Twenty Mines
Are Down.
A# the -week .which promises to be
A very heavy one In the Fairmont field
for production, nears an end the car
supply on the Monongak division of
the Baltimore and Oh'.o railroad continues
to bo very favorable. While
the division could use a few more the
Bupply will almost be adequate if a
strong late placement is made. The
mines ordered 1578 cars today.
As the week rolls by the Fairmont,
operator is receiving a much Improved
car supply. For the week ending
August 9 there were but 5810 cars on
the division. The following week,
which closed August 16, saw 5810 cars
on the division. Tho following week
which closed August 16 saw 5810 cars
on the division, an Increase of 740
cars in the week. In the five days
of this week the total Is 7442 cars or
more than was furnished in the ontire
six days of tho previous two weeks.
There is little doubt but that the car
total for tho week will run over the
8.000 mark.
That a big improvement in the cat
supply is on Is without question. On
the other hand the operators are ioadIng
the cars. With an Increase proba.
uiy auuu empties over iwo wceKS ago,
this week's production will run 150,000
tons of coal heavier. To date thi3
week there have been 4835 cars of coal
and coke loaded. The coke production
thus far has been 24 cars. This
1 means that 4811 cars of coal wa3
\ produced or 240,550 ions. This will
' "Tid ono of the very heaviest weeks ot
production In the region for the present
coal year unles.s production
clumps today and tomorrow.
Today's cars are classified as follows:
Open. 1080; coke 7. There
were 134 cars left over from the previous
day.
While car supply is fine on the B.
& O. these days the operators along
the Monongahela railway are not quite
so happy. Today the twenty mines
south of Maldsvllle, havo no cars because
of the track being washed oul
at Big Meadow Run, eight miles south
of Brownsville, Pa. This occurred af1
ter a cloudburst was experienced In
that section and streams were swollcr
out of their natural course. Thirty
two loads otslag in freight cars nearby
were rushed to the scene and the con
tents was poured into the wash out.
A corp of men were at work, and re
pairs were made so as to enable pas
eenber traffic to be resumed today
tt The repairs were not made in time
however for the Fairmont coal trair
carying empties to the mines to pass
The placement today on the Mo
nongahela Railway was 201 at 7 o'cloci
this morning. There are 250 cars ir
Bight for tomorrow's loading.
Other Fields Hit,
While the car shortage has affect
i the Fairmont region this year it reall;
has not been as bad here as some other
regions according to a letter issuet
BbytO. T. Sell, executive vice presiden:
of the Northern West Virginia Coal
Operators' Association. The percentage
in the Fairmont- field however
A lower than the other fields of West
"Ttfeinia.
,The.> letter is as follows:
I- Tor your Information I show belov
Mstatement of the percentage of th<
work time lost by mines in the dls
trlcts Indicated because of car short'
age during the week ended August
~ 2nd. This statement is taken from thi
Teport of the Geological Survey which
although not basod upon complete in
^ formation, is thought to be fairly rep
resentative for comparative purposes
Lost work-timt
H account a
Ohio? car Rhortagt
Southern 20.1 percent
H northern and Central ...22.2 percen
H EfBBnnsy 1 van i a?
H Western 11.9 percen
Westmoreland 17.1 percen
H Central 9.4 percent
H ' (Continued on Page Fonr)
I Dr. Claude H. Layman.
has re-opened his Dental Office
I at his former location in the Fair
^kTmont State Bank Building.
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President Will
Meet Pershing
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/itnew i uin
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.?President
Wilson may go to New York
to meet General Pershing on his
arrival home next month it was indicated
at-the White House today.
[EM 10 VI
OH SECRE1AR1
0E MAO
Special Meeting Will Be
Held at Court House
Tomorrow.
A special meeting or the American
Legion has been called tor tomorrow
night at eight o'clock in the court
court by Post Commander Earl H.
Smith, to elect a soldier secretary to
head the War department bureau to
oe estaDiisnea nere.
The commmeo which was appointed
at the last meeting ot the Legion
to confer with the Red Cross and cooperate
with them iti selecting the
names of several service men who
would be acceptable to both organi?tions,
will complete its work this afternoon
at a meeting which has beeu
called for four o'clock.
t The names of those selected by this
committee will bo presented to tho
Legion meeting tomorrow night for
balloting. It is urged that every Legion
member, and every service man
in the county who would like to identify
himself with the organization, be
present. Besides the election of the
soldier secretary, other matters of im'
portance will be brought up.
A communication was received this
1 morning from the State Secretary of
the Legion, announcing that a national
drive would be started to secure
members of the Legion in September.
Heintzelman Post has already
started Its membership campaign, and
will continue along.the lines planned
out at the last meeting, extending the
1 time over into the week of the national
i drive.
It has also been learned that effort
is being made to get a rate of one cent
per mile for delegates, from the locn.
Posts to the state convention to be
held in Charleston starting Octobe.
15. Heintzelman post will be entitled
: to six delegates.
FOUR MAIS
: COMPANIES HELD
Declared Ohio Bakers Com.1
bined to Raise Price
; of Bread.
C COLUMBUS, Aug. 22.?Four Columi
bus baking companies, together with
five officials of the companies wero
indicted for violating the Valentine
1 anti-trust law by the Franklin county
f grand jury today. The companies in.
dicated are the Columbus Bread comI
pany, Broneman company, the Reyt
nolds Bakilng company and the OcciI
dental Baking company.
Th. 4*.,! I?? m am ? ,.i .1
lue iUUIblUICUb ?-UCUgV3 LUC L'Ui pUl 4*
tlons and the officials with having op'
erated a combine since January 14 and
August 21, 1919, inclusive, in which
they increased the price of bread and
7 suspended competition.
ONLY A BLUFF.
Newlywed?Did you spend as much
money as this before I married you?
Mrs. Newlywed?Why, yes.
Newlywed ? Then 1 can't un9*rstand
why your father went on so
when I took you away from him.?
Boston Transcript.
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AKRON MACHINISTS
STRIKE THIS MORNING
Want a Forty Hour Week
and Wage Increase to
Dollar an Hour. .
(By Associated Press)
AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 22.?Union
machinists In Akron went on strike
this morning, asking a 44 hour week
and wage Increases to one dollar an
hour, second and third shift men to
work 40 hours a week and draw pay
for 44 hours. Other demands Include
a scale of 64 cents an hour for helpers
and abollltion of bonus and premium
systems.
Union leaders claim three thousand
men will be affected and that machine
work in 24 factories practically will
cease. Manufacturers assert that less
than half that number will obey the
strike order.
LEVELLE GRAY UP
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Fight Started (her Personalities
After Booze
Began to Flow.
Levelle Gray Is being tried before
Justice W. W.| Cons way this afternoon
charged with selling intoxicating
liquor. |He was arrested last night
after ho and Fred Vandetta had a
quarrel. LiUie Goldman who at first
refused to give her name to the county
officers and who was with Gray,
Vandetta and another woman when
the trouble occurred was up at police
court this morning and claimed that
the trouble between Gray and Vandetta
started over nationality.
Vandetta came to Fairmont and had
Gray arrested. Officers claim that
ho had paid Gray $21 for three pints
of whiskey.
In police court this morning Lillle
Goldman, one of the women was held
as a witness in the case. She was
unable to give bond of $100 before
JuRtl^O PnnflWflV flnrl Ha/1 tA ~a tn
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Jail to await "the- trial mis afternoon.
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STORE 1HJAYLIGHT
Clarence Stillions Admitted
It When Accused of the
Crime.
In broad daylight yesterday morning
about 10 o'clock a man by the name
of Clarence Siillon3 broke open a window
and robbed the Jim Argaro store
at Everson. Tbero was $64 in the
cash register according to Argaro but
Stiillions claimed that he got only
about $23.
The store was robbed while Arago
was out of town. As soon as the robbery
occurred, county officers in this
city were notified and went to Everson
with the blood hounds. The dogs
followed a trail to the street car line
where StilHons had boarded a car for
Monotigah.
Officer Sam Cornell at Monongah
was notfiiod of the robbery and yesterday
afternoon captured Stilltons on
the street there. Ho was talten before
Justice Thomas G. Price and
confessed to the charges, whereupon
ho was held for the action of the grand
jury. Later in the afternoon Slillions
was brought to tho county Jail in
this city where he not awaits the
action of the September term of tho
gxand Jury.
Complications Caused
By Double Crossing
Central Palmer, colored, alias
Charley Smith, is now in the county
Jail on a peace warrant charged with
threatening to kill a certain Berfha
Pierce, also colored.
It seems the trouble started over a
love affair between Palmer nnd the
nnlnrorl wnmon Tf lo ? a
xwavravx* ?v <h uuublOlUUU ILlftL
Palmer and Bertha Pierce had been
very close friends while Bertha's real
sweetheart was away at war. When
her sweetheart was finally discharged
from the service and returned home
she apparently dropped Palmer, who
she claims hod theratene dto kill her.
Palmer was arrested this afternoon
and brought before Justice W. W.
Conaway. He claims that Bertha did
not have htm arreBted because he had
threatened to kill her, but because
of a certain, promise which he had
made her.
He was placed, in jail and will try
to get a lawyer to assist him In defending
himself. Mo date has been
set for his trial,
SIMULATED SURPRISE.
Pond Mother?I hope that the young
man never kisses yon by surprise.
Daughter ? No, mother. He only
thinks he does.?Froth.
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irginia's 'Best-Newspaper
IA, FRIDAY EVENING, A
Oh,,ListenHere!
IjrflUMKl UNI.
Well, I certainly. Have
A happy Surprise
For Hermlone When
She returns Home
Next Tuesday.
I hare the House
3 All done Orer!
Did It myself Of
Evenings.
She has Been
Wanting everything Fixed .? '
Up ?
For a long Time,
But we Couldnt
Agree on Nothing.
She always held Out
For pale Yellowy,
Tannery, sort of Coloffc
For Down-stairs
And whito Paint
Up Stairs
All Over.
My word! a house Like
That would be A
Sick Sight!
So,
Knowing she Would
Bo Amazed
When she Viewed
The results Of
My free, unhampered Interior
Decorations
I Proceeded
To Proceed.
Now, I like a Nice
Red Color
For wall paper, It
Looks so?Er
Sorta Cosy?
So.
I went Into
Frank Lloyd's Store
And we picked Out
A grand, plain Red
Paper.
Hermlone disliked Figured
Paper In the Living
Room.
It was real Red.
It?well, It
Looks redder On
The Wall
Than the Sample
And the Sample
TTT Z1 1
tvus u uuou
Color.
We selected a Fine
Border?a white One
With large Roaes
Every little Bit
On It.
Matched the Paper
Fine!
I got a red Brussels
Rug at Mr. Denham's.
Hormione never Dreamed
Of a new Rug!
"Now Xoj. tto Dining
Room," I sail To
Frank. "It opens Off
The living-room And
Ought to Harmonize."
"How about this Pink
With the green Stripe?"
He asked. "Pink Is Pale
Red, and should Ought
To go Well."
And it Does?
You would be Surprised!
Then we Beoided
On a sorta Purple
For the Hall.
I am Just a Trifle
. Uncertain about that?But
Frank said It Was
A Bargain.
I was putting It
On the Hall
When Susan Arnett Came
In to tell Me
The cat was Fast
In the milk Bottle.
She looked Positively
Stunned when She
Saw what a Marvelous
Change I had Wrought.
I wanted to Show
Her the Other
Rooms.
But she said, "Mr. Lane?
i leei 111,
You must Excuse
Mo."
Last night a Regular
Procession of Women
Camo In to See
The completed Miracle.
Friends?they Couldnt
Say a Word!
Mrs. J. Clark Miller
Exclaimed "Mr. Lane, I Never
Saw anything That
Could touch It!"
They were especially Tickled
With the dining Room,
Mrs. Homer Posten Laughed
Right oat Leud
When she first 8aw
It.
And then she Said
That pink was Her
Favorite Color.
I stood Modestly
By.
There has been Fifty
Women to View
My Success.
Just wait tin Hennlone
Arrives!
A little trifle On
The ather. Professor. "" 17 Tr
.Beautiful Peaches
Grown in This County
The theory that Marlon county can
produce peaches as fine as any grown
In the eastern panhandle is more than
proven toy a basket of fruit which
[Willi Vincent, who lives out the
Grafton road, brought to The West
Virginian office this morning. In
size Mr. Vincent's peaches were better
than the kind which are usually
put on the market as fancy product
and they were very excellent In
flavor as the members of the office
force can testify. Mr. Vincent has
between 50 and a hundred trees of
these fine peaches which are lust beginning
to get ripe on his farm.
ting tot no Matter W
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UGUST 22, 1919.
JUDGE RULES IN
FAVOR OF COMPANY
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Motion By Striking Trolley
Men Thrown Out
of Court. ^ I
(By Associated Press.)
PITTSBURGH. Aug. 22. ? Judge
Charles P. Orr, In United States district
court this morning, sustained the
motion by John Walter, attorney for
receivers of the Pittsburgh Railways
company, throwing out of court objections
filed by representatives of the
striking men here, to the National Labor
Board's five cents an hour wage
Increase award. Judge Orr'j order
sanctioning the Board's award puts
the court on record as denying the
strikers' demands for a twelve cent an
hour raise asked last May and for
which the men" resumed their strike
a week ago In violation of their agreement
to abide by the Board's decision.
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WHEN BOARDER LEFT
SO DID OTHER THINGS
Including a Woman, Liberty
Bonds and Perfectly
Good Watch.
When Benny Sylvonus a Four States
Russian, came home from work yes
lerday evening he found liis wife, a
boarder, Liberty bonds amounting to
tinn ?,wi v,wnr?h nil
fnvvi fuv iu ujuucji auu uig "?ivn ?1'
gone. He looked everywhere but he
omas Ford this morning and brough
ins valuable and at a late hour today
bad not found any of them.
Thai morning Sylvonus came before
Justice M. R. Musgrove and told the
whole story. A man by the name of
Steve Cromlko has been boarding al
tills house and while Sylvonus was at
work had become quite friendly with
his wife. The husband, suspecting
what had happened ordered his boarder
to leave, and according to Sylvonus
he did, but took his wife, money and
Liberty bonds and watch along. Two
warrants wero Issued against Cromlko
this moraine, one for taktm? mnnpv
and the other for adultery.
Cromlko was arrested by Policeman
when he heard other using them he
before Justice Musgrove. When he
was searched, he had only a small
amount of money and denied runnlig
away with Sylvonu's wife, stating
that he had left because Sylvonus
threatened to kill him. Cromlko was
placed in jail to await a hearing.
fXPECT RESIGNATION
OF ARCHDUKE JOSEPH
.Supreme Allied Counsel
Refuses to Dfal
With Him.
(By Associated Press.)
PARIS, Aug. 22. ? The Supreme
council ot the Peace conference expects
to hear of the resignation of
Arch Duke Joseph as head of the Hungarian
government within a few days.
Apparently the council Is of the opinion
that It is not necessary to take any
more drastic steps than those outlined
In the Instructions sent to the
lnnter allted military mission In Budapest
in which the council set forth that
It did not regard the government of
Arch Duke Joseph as In any sense a
popular one and declared it would not
deal with him.
Poles; /Administer
Defeat to Soviet
' (By Associated Press.)
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 22. ? Polish
troops have administered a crushing
defeat on the Soviet forces and the
atvwwla.- J
uotoowiu wiiuoo *ro oems pursueu
everywhere. The fortress of Rovenfl,
In Volhynla, north east of Dubno, has
been captured by the Poles after hard
fighting.
Forces Named for
Army of Occupation
(By Associated-Press.)
WASHINGTON,,Aug. 22.?American
forces which will remain,In Germany
after September thirty,AreOhe;Bighth
Infantry, 7th Maofclne'gun battalion,
2d battalion of the Sixth field,artillery,
36th field signal battalion, First
Soppl ytraln, First Moblel Orddnance
Repair ship, Company A of the First
engineers. Field Hospital No. 18 and
Ambulance company No. 36. This Tras
announced today by the War department.
India holds the reoord for images. It
haa been estimated that there are
quite 800,000,000 linages of the various
gods there.
7hat You Want the 1
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TODAYS XKWB TOD J
Chicago Folks
Put a Crimp in
Shoe Shine Trust
(By Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, Aug. 22.?The price
of shoe shines dropped to ten
cents here. Several days ago the
shining parlors announced a
raise of fifteen cents, bnt business
fell off to such an extent that It
was decided to return to the old
price.
CLOUD m AI
LIIJHntuSvlLLt
CAUSES DAMAGE
Buildings Swept Away,
Mines Flooded and the
Tracks Washed Out
(By Associated Press)
CNIONTOWN. Pa., Aug. 22.?Be
tween fifty and sixty acres of land
were flooded by a cloudburst In the
Connellsville coke regions this morning,
Buildings were swept away,
mines Hooded, trees uprooted and
trackB washed out. Wires are down
and reports said a number were missing,
believed to hare been drowned.
The plant of the Republic Lumber
company at Herbert was struck by
lightning and burned. The loss is
estimated at more than SI00.000.
Water reached a depth of six to
eignt teet auu pruveuteu nreuieu irouj
Uniontown and Connellsville from
reaching the fire. More than a thousand
cellars were flooded in Uniontown.
Three thousand barrels of beer
were carried away by the flood, which
wrecked the Johnson Brewery at New
Salem and floated down the Monon
j ganeia river.
popu?iip
IBM HERE
Dr. U. V. W. Darlington to
Be at Southern M. E.
Sunday.
Bishop U. V. W. Darlington who will
be at the Williams Memorial Methodist
Episcopal church south Sunday
will preach both morning and evening,
At the morning service the proposition
of building u new church will
occupy part of the bishop's time, and
it is thought that the congregation
will be given an opportunity to increase
subscriptions already made,
and to make new subscriptions Tor
the new church buildings.
Mr. Darlington is one or the big men
of the Methodist church.
Bishop U. V. W. Darlington who Is
coming to Fairmont for two addresses
on next Sunday, August 24, is one
of the prominent men of the Southem.
Methodist church. His diocese Is
at present composed of three states,
North Carolina, South Carolina ana
Florida. The bishop is a Kentuck
lan Dy Dinn ana a west Virginian Dy
adoption.
He was pastor for tour years of St.
Pant's church, Parkerstrarg; pastor
four years at Huntington, and had
charge of building Johnston Memorial
church there, the finest church In the
state of West "Vbrgiina. From the
Huntington pastorate he was chosen1
presiding elder of the Ashland district
which he served one year, when he'
was elected president of the Morris
Harvey college at Barboursvllle West
Virginia. During his two years at
Morris Harvey's head, the school pros
pered as It bad never done before.
Among other things he secured an endowment
of one hundred thousand
dollars for Morris Harvey College,
And after being elected bishop, Darlington
was Instrumental In getting
Fifty Thousand Dollars from the Centenary
funds for West Virginia's col.
lege.
Will Make Arrests
for Illegal Lights
This Is the last day given by county
authorities for automobile drivers to
put on their regulation headlights as
prescribed by the law. After today
all violators will be arrested.
The law states specifically that It Is
unlawful to drive without lights that
are either frosted, colored, corrugated
or otherwise constructed so as to produce
a non-glaring effect. The use
o fthe spot light for a headlight by
keeping It burning 1b also agalnt the
law.
WE MUST HAVE IT.
Blanche (bored by her book upon
social economies)?Living is becoming
dearer and dearer.
LaHle?Well, you see, dear, there Is
BUCh a demand for it?London Brlghty.
3est Kinds are the A<
'HE-WEATHER. ,
r tonight and Saturday.
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Officials Declaim Punitive!
Force WU1 Be Withdrawn
Soon.
WILL STAY AH0TI1ER W??KB
Five Bandits Have Been!
Killed So Far By Jfl
Cavalrymen.
(By Awodat?d PresB.)
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umir n, a oaao( auq. t/&. /u hj11| h !
as the American punitive expedition
continues to follow a hot trail It will I
remain In Mexico unless orders to theH
contrary are received from the War I
department, Major General lilckman fl
announced here today.
MARFA, Texas An*. 22?The Amer B
clan Punitive Expedition against the fl
Mexican bandits was making progretj
today according to advices from the E
field and reports that the United I
States Forces would be withdrawn at I
once were denied officially. No deft- I
nlte time has been fixed for the
withdrawal of the troops but It Is un- fl
tuet ok. ?.1~?? * i ' .HMEi
in.1 imuuu rmrr me ywui Ui.
Include at least another wcclc search I
through the mountains tor the bandit I
baud.
Five bandits are known to hare fl
been killed by the Americana so tar. 1
It developed that the two prisoners fl
reported captured by Captain MatlsOkfl
were men killed on Wednesday.
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FIRST STEPS TOWARD!
NEW COHCE BODY 1
President Jacobs Today J
Named Reorganization
Committee. .
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The first step toward a brand new. I
up-to-date Chamber of Commerce was I
taken today when J. M. Jacobs, the 'a
president of the Chamber, appointed .fl
the following reorganization commits a
tee: A. Brooks Fleming, Jr.. chairman, 3
M. L. Hutchinson, M. A. Fltchir. Bob- J
ert T. Cunningham, Fred Heimlich T.'s9
1. Brett and J. L. Hall.
, The committee will meet probably |
curly libit Week as Its chairman, Mr..fl
Fleming, Is out of town today, when
plans will bo formulated and present- .3
ed at a meeting of the board of directors
to be held on Thursday evening, 9
August 28, in the chamber of ootnmerce
rooms at S o'clock.
The plan of the new chamber is to
establish a traffic bureau so tfcut^M
thousands of dollars might be saved '!
for the manufacturers and people of
the city. J
ASK INDUSTRIES TO 1
d?v iinnc m p?e
I Ml IVIUIIL IUII unu
.Application for Right to
Make Rate 32 Cents
is Filed.
Formal application was made yes- .
terday by the Monongahela Valley
Traction company to the Public 8er- 1
vice commission at Cbarleston, asking Vi
authority to Increase Industrial and
drilling rates on natural gas. It is
requested that the new rates become
effective September first
The proposed rate Is 32 cents per
thousand feet as against the 27 cents
now being charged. A "summer"
rate is asked for by the Traction company,
which Is 28 cents per thousand
ror tne nrst 40,000 leet uued each
month and 24 cents (or all used over
that amount.
It Is also asked that the rate for Tja
drilling wells be Increased Irom 27
cents to 32 cents.
Striking Shipbuilders
60 Back to Work .
(By Associated Press.)
BALTIMORE, Ang. 22?The striking
workmen of the Bethlehem Shlpbuild- [1
lng Oorporation at Sparrows PoUHH
who walked out several days ago In
an effort to enforce their demand that
the company discharge a man In tad
standing in their union, returned togSj
work this morning pending an adjustment
of their grievance. . A committee
whl meet with officials of the 9
corporation late today.
faertised Kinds.
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