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pliGT
11 5K m
!nt Run of Empties
nongah Division
orted TodayINESWORK
ritlas Expected to
it in Operat'op
tage opened up this
i B. & 0. system again
there was a 40 per
empties on the Monilon;
31 per cent on
ton Division and 51
i the Cumberland Dle
Connellsville DlvisI.
enjoys a full run of
while the M. & K. had
ent run of empties,
ongaheln, Morgantown
; and Western Maryles
had a full run of
I Minee Work.
indicate that today
179 mines at work on
divisions In Northern
nia. These mines or6
empties, but ther-i
,844 empties available,
h were placed, accordrations
that had men
on Saturday loaded
M l are of coal. Production
Saturday, September 2, .was
H613 cars, showing that last
fcturday's showing was not tend[A
'alre.il .1 thatdts roadis bloc*-'
HVwjtli freight in such: a manner
^M^^mnfefdwaptota>|i<ii'?i?i1a
JtB-dt O. Railroad has removed
tLttwddtttoffM passenger trains
of finoyi'ng foodstuffs and
mm to manufacturing plants in
?e east has no doubt prompted
Hits step, while there is some InBirvvnk-nce.
experienced the lifo
Vd*;t!Wng of Northern West VirHnia
is in the coal business which
Would be in much better shape if
KeglQg&fe can be moved and a
Beer movement of empties gis
^nabliahed. The B. & 0. has this
ESunday ten trains were
fc'Qyer the mountains, east
ifton, in which there were
ads of freight of which the
gfgregated 256 cars. Westthe
Monnongah Division
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\PPLES
tload op fine hand
'picked grimes
sodden apples on
lalker's Siding
&.t oar. $2.00 delivered.
car now open.
j/r roush bros. "
[payments Due
oti will save the usual
ibstantial discount if
>upay September state.ent
not later than
SEPTEMBER UTH
irbulation department
ill be open evenings un
Ift West Virginian
-NOTICE TO AUTC
j( | For the protection (
will be an officer plac
school house. Traffic
6351 ff
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.LBA
n/t.._ Tl/
Mrs. warrer
rtM .1, .-..r- r nil f>
condition of the wife .of Prosiden
ported to he critically lli. A numh
oeen caned into consuitauon, ant
these skilled men will be used to i
tlon to health.
Decisidn Reached to Defer
Operation?Condition
Shows Improvement- v
\Y AWflliMr i sept. 11.?improvement
in the condition of Mrs.
Hartllng, whith begun yesterday
continued throughout the night
and the forenoon and physicians
ir 11 'idnt co deferred llit operation
which has been under consideration.
An official bulletin Issued shortly
after ten o'clock today shows
Mrs. Harding had spent a less
restless night, that complications
were subsiding and that generally
her condition, which became critical
late last night, was improved.
It also announced the decision to
defer an operation.
President Harding was reported
'o be gratly encouraged by the
soemlngly iniprovemnt today in his
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NOTICE
| The Woodmen of the
World will hold their annual
corn roast on Tuesday
evening September 12,
1922. Meet at Woodmen
Hall at 6:30. Transportation
free.
L. D. SNIDER,
Consul Commander.
MB? omb
II
)MOBILE DRIVERS
)f the Children, there
ed on streets near each
laws will be rigidly en- J
!R, Chief of Police.
' ' FAIRMONT,
mi
i G. Harding
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^?'V
'-' >*-. ' , ,;!*.' ,' ?
r'er the country, in regard to the
t" Warren G.^Hg^lng, who Is rear
of surgeons and physicians have
1 every means at the command of
restore the First I^ady of the Na
NEW Yd COAL
BROKERS HERE
Whiteley & Foedisch Open
Local ..Offices?Coal
S|jpments Drop.
Lloyd M. Smith, Elkins, Is mana
ger of the* Fairmont office of White
ley & Foedisch, coal brokers, wltt
headquarters in New York and Phil
adelphia. Mr. Smith about a yeai
ago had charge of the local office
of Whitney & Kemmerer. The lo
r?o1 nfffnoo nro in iho "M >. \f T atn
Building above Corauntzis'. Ed. H
Prltt will be associated with Mr
Smith.
Home From New York.
Kenna Clark, sales agent of th<
Clark C. & C. Co., returned on Sat
urday from a trip to New Yori
city. ,
T. W. Arnette, president of th<
Antler Coal Co., has returned fron
Wheeling, where he attended tin
state fair last week.
Purchased Land.
The Beahler Coal Co., which wa;
formed sony time ago, was organ
ized to secure 225 cars of coa
land along Indian Creek in Monon
galia County.
Saturday's R. R. Fuel.
A total of 218 cars of railroac
fuel were loaded off the Monongal
Division, B. & O., on Saturday. The
B. & 0. secured 141 cars to the 71
cars got by foreign roads.
iub laiuuuu iubi luauiug cm Uli
Charleston Division, B. & 0., ot
Saturday aggregated 92 cars o:
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WANTED
Young man about 18 to work
In shoo store," wonderful opportunity
for a hustler. Apply No|
wark Shoe Store.
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j~ LABORERS WANTED
Anrv?' u
Sewer line. Peacock Park, Bell
Run?
PEACOCK DEVELOPMENT
COMPANY .
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Nenfipcpcf A Prosrcsiive
^W^MONDAYEV
ON II
Wain days
over for loca
boys and gir
City Schools Open Toda
Large- Enrollment is
Reported.
Three thousand seven hun
and elxty-Beven children
present at the opening exercis
the city schools this morning,
enrollment last year was 3
which shows an increase of
this year.
The enrollment in the vai
schools of Fairmont Indepen
District, for this, year and la
shown by the following table
ocnoui imiL.
Barnes 254
Butcher 299
Fleming 295
Miller 559
High 500
White 339
Dunbar 146
Total 2392
The enrollment in each ol
East Fairmont Schools at
opening exercises this year
last was as follows:
School 1921
Central 454
East Park 375
State Street 159
High 246
Total ..... 1234
It was Impossible to obtain
exact enrollment of the Fain
High School as all of the cli
Will not report until later In
week, but O. G. Wilson, sup
tendent of schools In Fairmo'n
'dependent District, Bald this a
noon that 500 Is a good estli
Some Iteport late
Mr: Wilson said that a f
many .children dl^n^r^y
tire toon th ^ra^ectedr^|
larger, enrollment.
! "If this very-warm wej
continues," said Mr. Wilson,
; (s"hall have only the morning
fii'ons." All of the teachers
present this morning, in'clti
Miss"Myrtle Eldredge of Erie
and Miss Elizabeth Koletk
Huntington, who were unab!
attend the institute, the.lattt
acocunt of illness, which,met
last week.
Hustead Pleased
"It is very gratifying to n
see such a large number;of
enrolled," said W. A., Hus
superintendent of the East;:
mont'Schools, this afternoon i
discussing the enrollment in
East Fairmont High .School
I added "We-have 150. boys/er
ed this year and 155.girls| a
portion which is*unusual. 1
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11 MIS
BROKEN BY R/
i
. Torrid Weather of Last V
Hard Hit.By Cooling
Rain of Today.
s
i While' the sun. and clouds
cd hide and seek this mor
s perplexing local weather prop
1 relief from the Intensive hei
! the past few. days wag pror
by the Associated Press, thai
erring Solomon, In the natui
rain. Tho prediction stood f
Shortly before the noon
j the city was swept by a gale
a light fall of rain following
high wind. Abput noon time
the streets, wern crowded
persons going to and from I
I old J.'P. opened up his
1 works and the city was dren
j with a cooling rain' After the
f hard shower it continued to
all afternoon.
) The rain waB welcomed b;
i as the heat of the last few
t has been almost unbear
Camping parties planned
. along the rivers and cot
' roads tonight were called
shortly after the noon hour a
was prognosticated by some o
wise ones, that the rain had s
for the entire week. The Ce
west Virginia fair Is scned
to start at Clarksburg tomo
and it the rain continues
long all the dirt roads bay
here and Clarksburg will b
. bad condition.
I SLIGHT EXPLOSION
HUNTINGTON, W. Va., i
11.?A stick of dynamite wa
ploded near the Chesapeal
Ohio Railroad shops here
morning. It was the tenth e
slon near railroad property i
the beginning of the ehopn
strike. No damage waa done,
V-,"
Force in Ou Community.
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ENING; SEPTEMBER,' ll, 19l
NJUNC
Bishop Darling
^ Yearly Assig
I P Rev. R. T. Brown Retains Pa
|_lj Southern Methodist C01
Assignments Hi
i
Y-?
The sixty-ninth annual Western
Virginia conference of the
Southern Methodist Episcopal
Church came to a close at 10:05
this morning when Bishop U. V.
W. Darlington of Huntington
dred| completed the' reading of apwere
pointment of ministers to the
eB of various churches and circuits of
The the conference. At the close of
1,563(the reading of the appointments
204 a hymn was sung by all present
(and Bishop Darlington asked the
rious; benediction of God upon all the
dent! ministers to aid and help them in
st Is I their work during the coming
: I year.
Many of the delegates left the
-39 city shortly after the close of the
2921 conference and by tonight it is
315[thought that the last of the vis5631
iting ministers will be on their
500 way home. The next meeting of
344 the conference which will be the
166 seventieth will be held at Bar
boursville, W. Va. An extra street
2419 car followed the 10 o'clock
ho Plorlrotinrir IntariipKon train naif
the of the city and the three can
and,were filled when they left In
' front of the conference church on
1022 Fairmont avenue.
487; The Rev. R. T. Brown, pastor
387: of' the Billlngsiey Memorial
169 Methodist Episcopal Church,
305 South of this city will he here
1 another year as Bishop Darilng1348
ton re-appointed him for the
i the I coming year. The Rev. J. B.
nont; F. Yoak, was appointed to, .the I
tsses Monongah Circuit; and the Rev. I
; the P- J. Hopson was sent tb-tKejElerin
kins Circuit; while the Rev. .1. -8:
t In- Tyler was appointed to (he. t'alrfter
v'?w Circuit. The Rev., .G. F.
late. Thomas was assigned, .'to .the
Rivesviile, Circuit and.C. W. Pugh
treat wi", he superintendent of the
t lor Boothsvllle Circuit injplace of the
frail v oA'-- Maratriello was- -appointed
Tf^dlmontj
piKING GETS
1 K. 0. FROM FORD
>r on
here
Will Cost Man His Job Now
ie to to Have Liquor on
tead8 His Breath.
Fair- .
vhen
I the , DETROIT. Sept. 11.?The 70,000
. Me men employed by the Ford Motor |
troll- Co.; here were under orderaylrora j
Henry Ford today to leave all!
) forms,pf liquor, wine and beer alone
at alL times under penalty of losing
their jobs.
Asserting that drinking among
certain of his employes recently
had been the cause of accidents in
the Ford plants, the manufacturer
I 111 l8BUed a statement declaring that
LIMIany of his workmen whose breath
l l.'smeUed of liquor, who were found
to be carrying liquor or who were
known to have it in their homes
would be dismissed at once.
/fiek "From now on it will cost a man
his job, without any excuse or appeal
being considered, to have the
odor of beer, wine or liquor on his
breath or to have any of these inN
toxicants on his person or in his
home," Mr. Ford's notice to the emplay
ployes said,
ning, ?ui.i iv 3
. - i.un ciguicBiim amendment is
?el8' a part of the fundamental law of
this cpuntry. It was meant to be
aisea enforced. Politics has interfered
1 unI with enforcement of this law, but
'nod 80 far aB our orsanizatlon Is con r*,,;
cerned it is going to be enforced to
$S 'be 'ett?r. .
; the
with NO MONEY TODAY
' AT POLICE COURT
iched
first
rain Not a.dollar In fines was collected
in police court today as the
y all result of the police activities over
dayB the week-end^ But three persons
able, were arrested. Two of these were
for found not guilty and the third ae-'
intrv cured a continuance.
off Nick Banana was arrested for
nd it i being intoxicated and for blocking
! 1"? traffic, hut was able to prove his
B' "j Innocence on each charge.
Nettle Ross, colored, was arres:
fed for loitering but' proved to
" ? Mayor W. W. Conaway that sho
(teen 1,118 ndt kullty of the charges..
e in Hosll Kuysemlc denied oharges
of being Intoxicated, and his case
was postponed until this afternoon!
at 4 o'cloQk.'
3epl. Today tbe city otflcera were'
b ex- busy watching traffic at the
:e & various school buildings In the
this city. Signs directing that driven
xplo- of automobiles go slow while they
since are passing the school buildings
sen's have been placed In various sections
of the city.
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t
Hon Gives
nments Todai
storate' of Local Churcliference
Ends After
ive Been Made.
B. M. Keltb Is presiding elder fi
the Fairmont District.
A number of changes we:
made In the district boundarie
the Fairmont District losing Car
den-on-Gauley Circuit, and Rici
wood Station which were tran
ferred to Charleston Division at
Gasaway and Garrison Clrcul
which were added to the Pari
ersburg Division.
Changes in the Fairmont dl
trlct included the making ot
new circuit to be known as tl
Metz Circuit. Metz and Sev<
Pines were taken from the Farr
lngton Circuit, Evergreen, Myer
Brink and Lone Valley were tai
en from the Garrison Circuit
make up the new circuit. Tt
Rev. L. E. Harrison was assign!
to the new circuit. Another ne
circuit Is made up by taklr
Flatwodds, Berry and Sutton fro
the Burnsville Circuit and callir
It the Sutton'Clrcuit. J. E. Brow
was assigned to this circuit.
The complete list of asslgi
ments are as follows:
Fairmont District.
Presiding Elder, B. M. Kelt!
Bellngton Circuit, W. J. Richer
son; Boothsville Circuit, C. 1
Pugh, supply; Burnsville Clrcu:
C. W. O'Dell; Cowen Circuit, \
M. Shawver; Clarksburg Statlo
W. I. Canter; Cleveland Clrcu
W. S. Hunt, supply: Cowan at
Webster Springs, F. N. Nutter; D
vis Station, Glen W. Stewart; El
ins Circuit, P. J. Hopson; Falrmo:
Station, R'. T. Brown; Falrview CI
cult, I. S. Tyler; Farmington CI
cult, L. W. Peters; ' Meadowvll
Circuit, L. L. Jackson, BUppl;
Metz Circuit, I.. E. Harrison; Mini
Circuit, 0.' E. Vance, supply; M
Creek Circuit, E. B. Ware; Mono
?ah Circuit, . J. M. F. 'Yoak; M
Hood^fflMifeto. bet supplied; . R
Morris cRcblt; S. H; Worrell; Pi
son* CIRuBTO.-Br-Mbfrrs'^Failp
i (Continu'ed jjn'Eage.Four)'-";
MORE TRAINS ON
B. & OEMOVE!
Further Reduction Made 1
Passenger Service in
This Territory.
Four additional passenger trail
were removed by the B. & 6. Ra
road out of Fairmont, today. Thi
Include train 53 which arrived he
from Grafton leaving here at 7
m. for Wheeling and train 62-whit
leaves here for Grafton and tl
east at 4:50 p. m.
In addition the two passeng
trains between Fairmont and Mc
gantown are Temoved. No. 64 whit
arrives here from Morgantown
9:15 a", m. and No. 63, which leav
Fairmont for Morgantown at 7:
p. m. .Eight trains have been c
off of the twenty B. & 0. trai,
oui 01 Fairmont since the sue
men's strike started.
Corrected Schedule.
Trains now running on the E.
0. Railroad out of Fairmont a
as follows:
From Pittsburgh?No. 86, 1:25
m.; No. 70, 9:10 p. m., which cc
tlnues to Clarksburg; No. 68, 5:
a. m.,. which continues to Clarl
burg.
From Wheeling to Grafton?N
36, originating in Fairmont, 6:
a. m.; 53, 11 a. m.; 44, 9:30 p. m.
From Grafton to Wheeling?I
9:42 a. m.; 51, 6:40 p. m.; 35, 8:
p. m. (Fairmont only).
Clarksburg ? Fairmont to Pltl
burgh?67, 12:25 a. m.; 69. 7 a. tr
No. 65, originating In Falrmoi
2:40 p. m.
Home Here.
E. T. Home, Baltimore, snper
sor of terminals, was in Falrmo
today.
Pennsylvania- train .806, arrlvi
here fifty-five minutes late tods
FIVE ARRESTS MADE
BY COUNTY OFFICER
William Eaglp and Albert Ma
den were-both arrested- Sundi
night.on charges of having moo
shine in their possession, at
were brought to the county Jail
await a hearing.
Saturday night the county of
cers arrested Edward' Jackso
colored and Junior Sattprftel
charged . witji disorderly condji
at the Monongahela railroad st
tlon. No date ha| been, set'as y
for their trial.
Charges of taking 14 in mom
from "Dummy"; a well knov
Fatenont character, resulted 1
the arrest of Grace Pierece ,ov
the week-end. 'She- was brougl
to the county Jail and later reles
ed on a 'b'ond of 3300'for appea
ance before the grand Jury,
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. aral strike. One member, pre-. 1
>y dieted that one ot (he flrst acts of t
the council vould .be to give for- c
in mal assurance that the federation (
? contemplates no auch action. 1
it The federation will be asked to 1
j- renew its pledge to support tne t
ir- shop crafts add to assess all la- d
bor. >
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MRS-ANNA MOORE r
DIES AT HER HOME [
/ Mrs. Anna Moore, 38'years old,
wife of William Moore, d|ed today
shortly after noon, at her home In
Washington street Mrs. Moore had
> heen In falling health tor some time
being a sufferer from dlabetls, but
was taken worse In the last few
days. Her husband Is a well known
painter and paper hanger of this
city. No children survive.
,r The body was prepared for burial r
by Musgrave & Son and will bo 1
re taken to Caldwell, Ohio, tomorrow
a> for burial.
itiSii't
i STREET SECTIONs
m n
J: City Attorney Will Draw Up
? Ordinance Governing e
^ This Matter. ><
w e
ig ^
111 The City board of directors this J
morning authorized City Solicitor *
'n Albert J. Kern to draw up an ordl- t;
nance governing the paving of
a" Sixth etreet, between Walnut and n
Benoni avenues. This action was c
taken, following an appeal made by a
1; W. J. WMgtfl in behalf of residents n
(J* residing on and near that thorough* J
fare. II(
Citizens residing on Fenimore ?
' itreet asked that ..the city lay sidewalks
and place cinders there, a tat- t<
J ing that the'atreet was dangerous t,
and almost- impassable. The ap- j,
k" peal tor this improyement was 0
i made by W. R. Kramer and Guy v
' Crigler. . The matter was referred e
J* to director of highways, W. E. Ar- y
,' hett and the petitioners were as- '
sured that the matter wonld be at- t
tended to. \
111 .Frank Nixon asked that,the board g
n'i lay. a sewer linejn the" Ticinlty of f
It Indiana avenue off of Morgantown g
it a^jmtJa--ord^\-to take.care oftj
ff. some' twenty. retldeihpes/M the vl- i
pi '?
Vhe- a'j^llcatibnof Frank'~Dele^ t
gattl to operate a restaurant, which g
was applied for Ikst week, was t
granted. ii
City Engineer 8, B. Miller re- b
- ported that the curbing and side tl
II walks being bulltjon Fourth street ti
I to View avenue were rapidly nearJ
ing completion. W. c. Keyster was a
given permission, .to more a pool 1'
and billiard room from 200 Water k
' street tp 316 Washington street t'
n Budding permits were granted as ''
folloWR! Tft fh'n MnnnntrohflTa Doll- 2
road Co. to build a temporary cement
storage abed: to the Southern
Pine Lumber Co., to build a garage *
on Mt. Vernon avenue to coat $400; ^
to W. B. Wataon to build a garage
11. and apartment on Mt. Vernon ave3y
nue, same to coat $3,500 and to be
re built ot brick and stucco; to C. E.
a Gaakill to build a garage on Bell- _
fa view avenue to coat $150; to Law- r
'ie rence Meservey and D. T. Gregory
to build a garage to coat $500 on
Br Gaston avenue; to the Fairmont
(r. Apartment Co., to build a new
^ porch and stucco a house on Gasai
ton avenue to' coat $5,000; to the
ea Fairmont Apartment Co. to build t,
40 a porch to cost $300 to a residence
u*- on Walnut avenue.
? The application of C. E. Gaskill J,
,p. to build a chicken house on Bell- j,
view avenue was held up for inves- ^
tlgation.
& I Mayor W. W. Conaway announced ^
re-that he would set a date at which j,
time fire equipment men representD
lng manufacturers of fire equip- p
,p. ment would appear before the board "
50 and demonstrate their wares. ^
^ GENERAL STRIKE 1
: ' IS NOT LIKELY *;
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Executive Council of Big 'p'
nt Labor Organization "
sa Meeting Now.
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ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 11? a
The shop crafts ..strike and de- g
mands for a general strike of 4)1 u
S organisations of the American a
Federation of Labor as a result fi
a, of the Injunction obtained by At- C
torney General Daugherty, against V
__ the striking - railroad shopmen b
,a were on the program for consld- u
to eratlon when.the eiecutlre.council.
of the federation resumed Its I
?j. conference" today. Many mema
bars from the- copncll,' although' c
V denouncing the Injunction as a J
.. "blow to the rail crafts and a t
j, threat to aU organised labor," ex- v
, Dressed their ODDOSlMnn tn n Mn. r
ciated Press Wire
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CHICAGO, Sept. 11.?Support- |
d by one of the most formidable
igal batteries the government baa
ver thrown Into one coort^Utlon. &
le forces In motion today toward 9
ie goal?the permanent injuno- s|H
on against railroad striken.
Arraigned against the governharges
of a wide-spread consplrcy
of vandalism to cripple tho
'as Donald R. Rlchberg. attorney
hose leaders 'and members* tho
Dvernment's action was directed.
Two car loads of' evidence?
ioIs of destruction, thousands of
( statements of some 17,000 indlldnals?(which
tho attorney genral
and his aides had, were closet
guarded by federal agcnt3.
icted .Mr. Daughcrfy and Judge
wenty five'murders,' the tanrimrig
with 60,000 rallro^lpars, '-fhe
te damaging of many llocombDenylng
the eristence^ofj such
erson vacate the ln]tmcttonBH^|
irney Rlchberg built up^ his deDvernment
had failed 'tofmake
f flnnf Inna-t nn Paw U-nriM
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JUT IN SERVICES!
HANDICAP STUDENTS
'upils From Up River Towns
' Att d^S
Intentions of some fifteen or
wenty Klngmont, Benton'e Ferry,
nd Colfax boys and s-lrla tit."atSM
snd the opening session of high
chool In this city wertrcompletelaltlmore
& Ohio R'allr'tMwianounced
the discontlnuaifwj of
rom Grafton at 7 a. m. and leav3g
this city for Grafton at 4:50
*0 Important trains 1 will mean
hat the up-river high school stuents
who have been attending
ast few years, and the other new |?
tudents who were Just entering
IRU BtUUUI, Will iiUL gtjl, IU UILOIIU
ime of the more energetic young
ien who were anxious to return
any did not give them transportMKTEBY
OOTDfG T1TCRSDAT
a Van (n infnmnhtfao In n
ite near ^ the xiittf where a picnic
ihely^ be^the last e is