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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-15
SUPERINTENDENT ROSTER MAKES
AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCE
MENT TO PUPILS AND
TEACHERS.

To the Patrons Of the Public Schools:
The Fairmont High School will open
this year on Monday. September IL.
It is earnestly hoped that all students
will be present and enroll on that day,
as 1t is important for the individual
welfare Of the students as we'll as the
general good of the school that every
body be on hand the first day. This
will be the last year in the old build
ing. and while there Will be crowded
condition, every effort will be put
forth to make the coming year the
best in the history of the school. The
rising walls of the commodious new
high school building will be an in
spiration throughout the year to both
students and teachers. hope all old
students will be in their places, and
that the grammar school completing
classes of last year will report with.
out exception. Parents should allow
no trivial cause to interfere with
their children in completing the High
School course.
The graded schools will open this
year on September 25. This is
thought best on account Of the crowd
ed conditions which must prevail un-
til the new building in the Fifth ward
is ready for school use. 8
Pupils will report to the various old
buildings as formerly. excepting that
no school will be started In the old
church In the Fifth ward. The pupils
who attended school in the church last
year will report to the South Side un-
til the new building is completed
Many OF the rooms in the South
Side will be overcrowded. and 1t may
be necessary in a number of grades
to adopt the half day session plan
until the new Fifth ward school can
be organized. am sure patrons will
understand the conditions. and that
they viii be patient until the new
building Is finished. The teachers
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-15
'HIGH SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. III;
GRADED SCHOOLS, THE 25TH|

elected for the Fifth ward school VIII
be assigned to the old Fifth ward
building. and as assistants In the 9TH
er buildings. until their building is
ready for occupancy. The regular
teachers meeting will be held on Sat
urday, September 2s, al nine o'clock.
All teachers are expected to be pros
ent. JOSEPH ROSTER,
superintendent.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-15

men here is largely conjectural, but
1t is assumed from the wisdom OF
their deliberations that the Russian
government is anxious to regain the
friendship and esteem OF the people
Of the United States through the es-
tablishment of reforms which 1t here
tofore has declined to consider. Mr..
Strauss and Mr.. Seligman took up the
Kshineff incident, the handling Of
which by Count Cassini placed the
Russian Ambassador at odds with his
government and they showed how the
United States government through
President Roosevelt and the American
people through petitions had vainly
striven to secure from Russia mere
expression of regret over the. horri-
BILE massacre of defenseles persons
at that place and an intimation that
some relief should be afforded for
the future. as
They attributed in large measure
the anti-Russian feeling in this coun-
try to the supineness of the authori-
ties In not acting in matter which
had aroused the sympathy of the en-
tire civilized world. fie
NJ. Witte was very much impressed
by the presentation of the case by
these distinguished Hebrews and gave
them assurances that he would do all
in his power upon his return to Rus.
sia to better the conditions Of the
Jews there and make the laws less
stringent upon them.
u. witte was the more sympathetic
i'm his attitude toward the committee
because his own wife is a member OF
IA dowptrodden race ,.s
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-15
1T SEEKS TO PREVENT THE r
AND c. TRACTION COMPANY
FROM DAMAGING ITS
LINES.

The Consolidated Telephone Com
pany to-day petitioned Judge Mason
for an Injunction restraining the con-
tractors at work on the extension Of
the Fairmont and Clarksburg Trac-
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-15

Miss Lena Hamilton win GO 10
Morgantown tomorrow. whore she
will be the guest of friends until Sat
trday
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-15
THE WEATHER.
Showers Again Tonight.

WASHINGTON, d. C.. August
15.-Forecast for West Virginia.;
Showers and cooler tonight:
Wednesday. showers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-15
LARGE DEFICIT PREDICTED
Total Appropriations of Congress Are
Placed at $8lS,478,914. An
crease OF Many Millions.

Statements have been issued for
publication in the congressional rec
ord by Mr.. Hemenway, late chairman
of the house committee of apprOpria-
tions, and by Mr.. Livingston, the
ranking member of the minority on the
same committee, relating to the APP
preparations by the session OF con-
gress just closed. The statements as
to the total appropriations for the
session agree, being 1913, ,9l4 for
the fiscal year ending June Both, 1908,
as against 1871, TIP, 375 for the pre-
viOus year.
Mr.. Livingston makes comparison
of the four wears of the last democrat
ic administration and the four years
of the administration just closed,
showing that in 1893-1896 the appropri-
ations were 81, DIG, 343, 743 and during
the wears l9O3-19O6 they were So, l53, =
334, 292. He says that the difference
between the appropriations for 1906
and the predicted revenues is S92, 8oo, :
800, "a broad enough expanse be-
tween the buckle of expenditures and
the tongue of revenues to startle the
plain and common people, who bear
the burdens of taxation.
Mr.. Livingston says that under four
years of Roosevelt the grand total OF
expenditures for the army and navy
and Notifications was S7O3, 10, 393,
against total under the last demo-
cratic administration of only 500,
046. 343.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-15
Says Live Hundred and Fifty Years

Man may live happily and usefully
for $50 years, according to DR.. Ly-
man Heecher Sperry, of Oberlin,
Ohio, who has expressed this belief in
an address on "The Science of Liv-
ing'' before the Young Mems Chris
tian Association of Chicago,
''After third of a century of scien-
tific study such is my conclusion,
said DR.. Sperry. ''The destructive
forces which bring about the present
low average of longevity are mani
fold, but 1 believe it is possible to en-
JOY good health and activity up to a
century and half by proper under
standing of the human possibilities
and the exercise of this knowledge"
DIR. Sperry's subject was "The Sci
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-15
UNCLE SAM AS COP.

Senate Committee Objects to Him
Playing the Role of Policeman.
A Washington dispatch says the
senate committee on foreign relation
has had a long session on the San
Domingo treaty. There have been
many amendments offered for the pur-
pose of safeguarding the interest of
the United States and to prevent the
assumption by the United States OF
the position of policeman over South
and Central America. The text OF
the amendments are not available.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-15

ence of Living" his main object APP
parently being to point out the in
huences which retard longevity, with
stress on the theory that immortality
has a direct bearing on the physical
being.
Climatic conditions, according to-
DR.. Sperry, have been reduced to
statistics, proving beyond doubt that
both torrid and frigid atmosphere
tend to shorten existence. All the
longevity worth mentioning, it was
claimed, exists in the temperate zone.
In relation to the destructive force
of evil habits DIR. Sperry spoke at
length, and his scathing treatment of
drink, tobacco and opium was said to
be derived from personal association
with victims.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-15
HOW MONEY GROWS.
MS Mans Cents Grew into Dollars
InknOMinglY to Him.

CnknOwingly to Him.
A few days ago Major William E.
PeWart, a resident of Easton, Md,
earned that his name appeared as
PAe OF those having money in the Eu-
Jaw Savings Bank of Baltimore. He
do forgotten the transaction entirely,
put he remembered that when he lived
~ bAtlmore from 1868 to 1876 he
Omeumes deposited money in the Eu-
~ Savings Bank, and he thought
loSSloly that the w. f. Stewart was
himself.
lie wrote letter to w. f. Hayden,
eaSurer of the bank, and called his
UentIon to the matter.
IN reply the treasurer informed him
i"' MS signature had been verified
~ mat the money belonged to him,
Mounting to S27.9O. He further said
r'' IL might be interesting for him to
DOS mat the balance to his credit at
last withdrawal in 1915, amounted
y" cents; which was thirty years
~, mat the interest period showed
,'li interest due, increasing the bal
1'e 10 Sl0.79, and from this balance
account had grown.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-15
BEEF TRUSTS BIG PROFITS
Earnings Represent Millions, and Are
Second Only to Those of
the Standard Oil.

According to the New York Herald
the gross business of the five packing
companies in the alleged beef trust
amounts annually to about 1925, OOO,-
O00 while the amount these companies
have invested amounts to not more
than $3.50, 100000. To the profits on
the gross business must be added the
profit of the private car lines and
about $1O,O00,O00 rebates received
from the railroads. Altogether the
Herald figures that the profits are
about as follows: One gross business
$40, 500, 900, on private car lines 3d.
100, 900 and from rebates $40, 900, 900,
the total being about $50, $50, 600.
That is a pretty good percentage on
the capital of the trust.
1t is enough to Justify a rigid in
vestigation as to whether or not the
private car lines are not putting too
heavy burden on the products OF
the farms, whether or not the packers
are not really paralyzing competition
and fixing both the price of cattle
and of meat, and practically holding
up the railroads and taking from
them the money that ought to 90 to
their stockholders. thus making rate
reduction impossible. The beef trust
investigation isn't done with yet.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-15

~ seems that Miss Quincy, the pretty
n "s woman who disappeared after
,'eeung S40O from Macon people
Jays ago ostensibly for the Geor-
INDUSTRIAL Home, whose boy band
: Just given an entertainment in
,is pon' was repeating an old game
|, y" she played in Jacksonville,
N'oroIng to a Jacksonville paper
'ouhg woman successfully embez-
something over $500 about a year
y III mat city from the free kinder
| ~ movement and decamped with
O@cASonville she was known as
H. Lillian S. Wray. She intro
n herself to the ladies of the city,
V'Iunteered to sell tickets for a
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-15
'retty Miss Quincy at Old Game

grand concert to be given for the ben
eft of the Jacksonville Free Kinder
garten at the Windsor auditorium on
February "a, 1904. The tickets were
one dollar each, and Miss Wray sold
a large number to the business men
of the city.
A few days before the concert was
to be given Miss Wray disappeared.
A railroad conductor told afterwards
of seeing her in South Carolina, at a
hotel. where she was living high, drink
ing wine, smoking cigarettes, etc.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-15
DUST AND PNEUMONIA.
The Health Officer of New York City
Advances New Theory.

With time our views in respect to
many matters change. For instance, it
hasn't been so very long since we be-
lieved that wet, sloppy weather was
sure to produce sickness-especially
colds and pneumonia-and that dry,
even windy weather promoted health.
DR.. Darlington, the health officer of
New York city, says that this belief is
all wrong. He has been a close OBJ
server in the thickly populated Sec
tions of New York city for years, and
therefore what he says in regard to
this matter is based upon his obser-
walton. A few days ago speaking of
the snow in the streets, and their
sloppy condition due to rain, he said:
sit is not the present wet and slop-
ply weather which produces sickness
and disease. 1t is when the streets
are dry and dusty and the wind is
strong that we look for trouble. AS
the weather is now the water and
slush in the streets hold down the
germs, which if raised into the air
would be breathed into the system and
would cause disease"
The germ theory of disease is so
generally accepted that we regard a
germ as the cause of every disease.
And it may be that is is. Naturally
we would suppose that persons walk
ing sloppy streets, getting their feet
damp, would run greater risk of con-
tracing pneumonia than if exposed to
the dust raised by March winds, but
it seems such is not the case.
The wind picks up the germ-laden
dust, carries it into the eyes, nose and
mouth of the pedestrian and, if he is
at all susceptible to any attack of ILL
ness, he will soon be laid up with
pneumonia or grip or some similar
disease.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-15
BURBANK'S WONDERS.
A California Man Creating New Forms
of Plant Life.

The wonders that Luther Burbank
of Santa Rosa, Cal, is working in
creating new forms of plant life are
commanding the attention of scient-
lists in all parts of the world. Will
liam S. HarwoOd's article in the cur
rent number of the Century gives
some idea of what he has done and
what he hopes to accomplish. What
he has done with cactus is alone suf-
ficient to give him enduring fame.
We call attention to Mr.. Burbank
at this time, however, simply for the
purpose of pointing out that he has
perfected peach tree that cannot be
injured by frost-that will bear full
crop every year, whatever the weather
may be.
Mr. Harwood, in his article, says:
"Along the Atlantic seaboard, dip
ping down to the Gulf of Mexico and
thence upward again to portions of
the fruit-producing Pacific coast states,
Is q SGIID vi IdlOA3 val y ing III "IoUIl
and distance from the sea, where
fruit trees start into growth early and
are subjected to late spring frosts.
On account of these conditions GER
tain fruits, as the peach, nectarine
and plum, become problematical crops.
Mr. Burbank, who sees far as well as
deep, looked at the needs of this
frost troubled region and determined
to breed the fruit to suit the climate,
not only sturdy and prolific, but frost
resistent. Now after years have elaps-
ed he has produced fruit trees that
will withstand absolute freezing in
bud and flower. The foliage and
petals may be stiff with ice; yet when
the warm sun has come again the
leaves show no sign of the deadly
blight of the frost. How shall we
estimate, even in dollars, what such
feat as this means to the world?"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-15
new ROOSEVELT IN FIELD
SOOTHSAYERS PUZ-s
ZLED AT HIS ATTITUDE.
Are Startled at His Independence
in Appointments. Gives Georgia
Democrat Fat Job.

Democrat Fat Job.
In the opinion of nanny republican
politicians there is at last "new
Roosevelt"
There is likely to be change in the
presidents course in reference to app
pointments in the direction of having
his own say as to who shall "feed on
the government crib during the next
four years, no matter what machine
politicians may suggest, say the po-
/ litical soothsayers
The president has just appointed as
United States district attorney for the
northern district of Georgia Con-
gresham Fl. C. Tate who was recent
ly defeated for reelection and
whose term of Office expired with the
close of congress on March 4. 1t is
said that Mr., Tate will accept the
place.
Mr.. Roosevelt, in selecting men for
prospective appointments, is playing
politics" more now than he did when
he was a candidate for the presiden-
tial nomination. This is puzzling
the politicians. They cannot under
stand why he should be so careful to
have men on whose political support
he can depend, since he has pledged
himself not to be candidate for
president again. Yet they say he is
really building up political machine.
President Roosevelt decided to APP
point Chas. w. Anderson, a negro,
collector of internal revenue in New
York, and wanted to get Mr.. Treat,
the present collector, out of the Office.
1t was decided that Mr.. Treat should
be appointed treasurer of the United
States in order to create a vacancy
for Anderson. Mr.. Roberts, the pres
ent treasurer, is protege of Senator
Plat, and Mr.. Treat has for several
years been bitter opponent of Platt.
Little things like that do not interfere
with the plans of the president. He
simply laid the program before Sena
tors Fiatt and Depew and they sac
guessed in the appointment of An
derson, in the retirement of Roberts,
and in the elevation of Treat. Said
prominent republican:
president Roosevelt will name
Edward O'Brien minister to Uruguay
and Paraguay unless the plan is
changed. Mr.. O'Brien is a brother
of the secretary of the state of New
York, who was a member of the Odell
machine and upheld Odell's hands
when he seized the state machine and
elected himself chairman of the state
committee. Senator Platt will
'acquiesce' in the appointment of Mr..
O'Brien.
Even President Mckinley did not
dare to appoint Whitelaw Reid to the
court of ST. James because of the OBJ
jections Senator Plat made. But
Mr.. Roosevelt is the great PLAT
tanner
president Roosevelt will exercise
the same independence in making APP
pointments all over the country. He
has the patronage at last in hand. He
owes nothing to any of the senators
or representatives Most of them
were opposed to his nomination. He
takes the view that he nominated him
self, and largely elected himself, and
many leaders admit there is more
truth than poetry in this idea"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-15
MY NEVER RECOVER BODIES
cHArrAHoocHEE DOES NOT OF
u,x GIVE UP IT'S DEAD.
Raising of the Wrecked Engine
and the Search for the Dead
Engineer and Fireman.

,., fine last issue of the Blakely
o l we take the following con-
h5pG ;,a. the raising of the wrecked To-
u 10 and the search for the bod
'O'D ~ Engineer Pate and his fire
man; .oo1, 90 +haCbo4-
.,,,ocbee river bridge on the Central
"a" GEORGIA railway was visited last
Nv thousands of people, all anX-
~, 70 watch the work of raising the
w. .l,sd locomotive from its watery
wi and all praying that the bodies
~, ,,rfortunate victims might be
l' ~Tba first wish was gratitied, but the
,,+,sr hope was doomed to disappolnt-
sort for the treacherous Chatta-
n boocbee true to its record, failed to
i give up its dead 49,,
.Wben the engine plunged off the
~ # the trestle it went head down
and struck on the mari bank, then
t,r,ad complete somersault into the
.rif+ current. What became OF the
mon in the cab can never be definitely
Known. and conjecture is useless. Ger
+.in if is that they were not found
when the engine was hoisted up on
Friday and placed on a barge. And
home died in the hearts of waiting rel
,+iyes and friends as piece after piece
If wreckage was located by the diver
and lifted out by the powerful cranes.
This part of the work was finished
Sunday afternoon, when the tender
was brought up in sections.
Men in boats have constantly pa
rolled the river for miles down the
stream since the accident occurred,
but at the time this was written no
ahsce of the bodies had been found.
It is a remarkable fact that not more
81 than 50 per cent of the persons drown
ed in the Chattahoochee river have
been recovered. 1t is considered by
boamen to be one of the most
deceptive and treacherous streams in
the south.
1.-THE main channel at this point is
between the large central cylinder on
which the draw section of the bridge
rests and the Alabama shore, but
when the river is high, as it was at
this time, a powerful current sets in
between this cylinder and the Georgia
s bank and twas into this rushing tor
rent that the engine and its occupants
were hurled. Whether the men re-
NAMED in the cab until it struck the
Fater and went to the bottom, or
Whether they jumped or were thrown
put can only be imagined The
chances are that the bodies are far
Town the stream, and strict watches
FlII be kept by boatmen and special
# PATROLS"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-15
BIG LOSSES AT BLUFFTON.
Fire Destroys Property Valued at
Thirty Thousand Dollars.

=
Thirty Thousand Dollars.
Fire in Bluffton, Clay county, Tues
day night burned the store and stock
of goods of Mansfield & Son. The
loss was $4,000, with $1,000 insur-
ance. The hotel of Mrs. Humphrey
was also burned, the loss being 81, 900
with $500 insurance.
A SECOND FIRE.
Button has been visited by anoth-
er destructive fire, burning the store
house and stock of w. H. Hathaway.
Loss So, 900, insurance $4,000; the liv-
erv stables of Sanders & Coachman,
loss $1,000, insurance $500; w. T.
Green cotton warehouse, no insurance.
The fire originated in Sanders &
Coachman's livery stables. Total
losses in the two fires in Blutfton will
reach $50, 900.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-15
ANOTHER ONE.

There is another revolution in Ven
ezuela. Only the war editor can tell
where one begins and the other leaves
off. Teddy may take notion to pc
lice the scrappy little republic.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-15
LET HIM OFF LIGHT.
Georgia Darkey's Language Had Eff
feet on New York Judge.

"Mister Charles Jones, colored, of
Georgia, was convicted in New York
a few days ago for shoplifting
"What have you to say ?' inquired
the judge. "Nuttin, boss" replied
Mister Jones, 'cept l sho' does
want yo' honah to be mighty econom-
icai wild dat SENTENCED" The judge
had determined on three months be-
ing the right thing, but Mister Jones'
fine choice of language caused him to
make a reduction of 668 per cent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-15
NOT IN IT.

The 10000 bales of cotton burned at
New Orleans ought to satisfy the Fort
Gaines boys that they were not in 1t
at all.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-02-01
Letter to w. G. Watson.
Afderson, s. O.

Dear Sir: Devne 10 worth S4.or s5 q
gallon. put.on how much 10 anoiher
Depends on how many gallons you've
got to put.on, to be equal to one of De-
voc. ss$ - s - n. - 80 -,
Mr. :'J.J. Hall, Sheffield. Pa. painted
Two houses one Goat, five yearB. ago,
lead.and-oil, took 40 gali onB.
Last sum hons !:s &C 41 gallons Uevoe
for same houses hnd 10 gallons left, !.
houees exactly alike painted one Win
Devoa took 6 gallons. The other with
SOME other took IL gallonp.
Whard yon give for those of paints 2
bear 10 mind you've Hot to pay for the
palntlnE. - cay .i-f. SO. 80
6 f:sl Yours truly,
+. w. DEvoE & Co.