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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-04-16

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EVANSVILLE. w. VA
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APRIL IS, 1907.
Whole Epm6er, j22
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Barb, smooth and baling wire
{ at Want & Bar's.
The Sistersville Daily Oil Re
view is in the hands of a receiv-
er.
Bert Craddock is kept pretty
busy on his timber job these
days,
Attorney Bruce Ferreli was in
the country on business a day or
SO last week.
Double and single shovel
, plows, garden rakes, hoes Get
at Want & Barr's.
-----
Dudley Lutz left on the Wa
bash Friday morning for Ohio
where he will work in an oil
field.
Wig" Bicllel left Saturday
morning for Parkersburg to
spend a few days with home
folks.
Mayor Leonard, of Parkers-
burg, is dead, having succumbed
to heart trouble one day last
week.
Want e Barr have just recei-
we'd full line OF doors, sash, tin
and steel roofing. Get theip
prices.
T. w. Ash, of Hattie, was in
the city on business Saturday.
He contemplates leaving Calhoun
county in the near future.
President Roosevelt has APP
pointed a negro treasurcr cf the
Navy department of the u. S.
Government, What do you
think of that2
Attorney J. M. Hamilton acted
rs special Judge in the case of
H. F. Golf vs. Esther J. Odell,
at the recent term of the Roane
county circuit court,
Col. Hutsan, assistant adjutant
general, has been indicted by the
Kanawha county grand jury for
beating the state out OF q good
sum Of money.
Wait Polling has resigned his
position as Sergeant and Was
appointed Street Commissioner
in place of S. T. Stump resigned.
Howard Waldo was appointed
Sergeant.
The Grantsyille brass band
will give Minstrel in the near
future. They are practicing
now in the Hardman hall, and
will announce the date of their
: entertainment in the near future.
The protracted meeting which
was started by Rev. Nutter at
the M. f. church, south, r5ccn ?
thy was shcrt lived, it coming to
a close very suddenly last We'd
nesday evening, before it had
y gotten falfIy Staftcd.
The Little Kanawha Log and
Tie company have commenced
the work of removing the timber
from the large timber tract they
recently purchased from Lofts
Bennett, on Leaf Bank. The
company will do the work them
selves.
The deal between G. M. Wig
ner and A. G. Mathews whereby
the former acquired possession
of Mathews q Bells Offices and
the latter the Smith tract of land
on Leaf Bank, has been declared
off, the parties in interest mu-
tually agreeing to back out, "
IL. 400.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-04-16

Miss Jessie Stalnaker returned
one day last week from a short
visit among friends in Gilmer
county.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-04-16

Fruits, candies, etc, atTCyad-
dock & Stump's. II
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-04-16

The coal test Being made by
Z. L. Austin, in Gilmer county,
is at a depth Of $50 feet, with
not very hatteling results.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-04-16

&. l.. Austin is in Ohio on oil
business this week.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-04-16

&. G. Starcher,
Clerk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25
WARD OFF TWo-CENT FARES.
Roads Will Ask Legislatures to Com
promise on Rate of ~ Cents.

Kansas City, jan 25.-Local pas
senger officials have been advised that
the western railroads, in an effort to
ward off legislation providing for
fat 2-cent a mile passenger rate, will
submit to the legislatures of Iowa and
Minnesota. and to either the state
legislature or the state board of rail-
road and warehouse commissioners of
Illinois, proposition looking to the
those states. 1t is also expected that
ton to the authorities of several other
western states.
1t is the general belief among well
informed passenger men that it. will
be practically futile to oppose the
popular agitation for a fiat 2-cent rate.
at least in the states mentioned. The
officials maintain that even a. " cent
rate will not be generally profitable
in that section of the country. They
say that ii is a fact that the present g.
cent rate is Improbable in a great
portion of the west.
One argument that is being put for
ward in this part Of the country in
favor of a fiat 2-cent rate is said to
Ohio and the IDS accepted it with
out a fight in the courts. Passenger
men argue that the western people do
not realize that Ohio has population
of 100000 people, or about as much
as the combined population of Iowa,
Wisconsin and Minnesota. They say
that passenger rates in order to be
fair must correspond to the density of
traffic and that the amount of traffic
depends upon the number of people
living along the line of the railroad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25
AssoRTERs HAVE TO PAY.
Ruling on Men Employed on Special
Newspaper Trains.

Washington. Jan. 25.-In an opin-
ion by Commissioner Harlan, the in
terstate, commerce commission holds
that men employed by newspapers to
assert newspapers en- special trains
may not lawfully be granted transpor-
tation. \ syllabus of the decision fol-
lows:
Where the congress has expressly
enumerated special classes of persons
or things that may be exempted from
the operation of general provisions in
a law, this commission cannot enlarge
the excepted classes by mere construc-
ton and include in them persons or
things not thus expressly named in
the statute itself
Held, therefore, that the so called
'caretakers' of newspaper companies,
whose duty it is to assert newspapers
on special newspaper trains and to
make them up into packages for de-
livery as the trains arrive at the sew
eral points along the line of the run
may not lawfully be granted free
transportation that is permissible un-
der the act to regulate commerce to
the caretakers of certain other kinds
of traffic specifically enumerated in
the act.
Held. therefore, that newspaper
employees cannot lawfully be carried
on special newspaper trains under a
commodity rate established for the
carriage of newspapers, or at any rate
other than one specified in regularly
published schedule of passenger
rates"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25
WHITE BREAD
Makes Trouble for People With Weak
Intestinal Digestion.

A lady in a Wis. town employed a
physician who instructed her not to
eat white bread for two years. She
tells the details of her sickness and
she certainly was a sick woman.
I'm the year 1887 I gave out from
over work, and until 1901 I remained
an invalid in bed a great part of the
time. Had different doctors but moth
ing seemed to help. I suffered from
cerebro-spinal congestion, female
trouble and serious stomach and bow
ell trouble. My husband called a new
doctor and after having gone without
any food for 10 days the doctor order
ed Grape-Nuts for me. 1 could eat
the new food from the very first
mouthful. The doctor kept me on
Grape-Nuts and the only medicine
was a little glycerine to heal the all
mentary canal.
-sWhen / was up again Doctor told
no white bread for two years. 1 got
we'll in good time and have gained in
strength SO I can do my own work
again.
MY brain has been helped so
much. and I know that the Grape
Nuts food did this, too. I found I had
been made ill because I was not fed
right, that is did not properly digest
white bread and some other food I
tried to live on.
at have never been without Grape
Nuts food since and eat it every day.
You may publish this letter if you like
go it will help someone else" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich Get the little book, 1.-The Road
to Wellville.' in pkgs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25

is done the "shoo fly is taken up and
the road operated through the cut or
over the fill.
It is announced that the main rea-
son work is delayed on the cut is that
coal is hard to procure and that there
is actually a coal famine with the
Santa Fe on the BeIen line.
No steps have been taken to operate
passenger trains over the entire line
and mail service has not been estab-
lished on any through trains, only a
short service out from Belen and
Texico. When the line is actually
open for service one of the first things
to be done will be to establish railway
mail service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25
sCALPERs SELL FOR ROADS.
Alleged Violations of Interstate Com
merce Law Receives Attention.


Chicago. Jan. 25.-@Whether several
western railroads are violating the in
terstate commerce law by paying COM
missions to scalpeIS, labor agents and
others controlling passenger business is
a question that is worrying the Railway
Ticket Protective bureau. the Western
Passenger association, and the passen-
ger officials of most of the lines.
Recently the protective bureau OBJ
tanned evidence that one of the leading
railroads was supplying ticket scalpeIs
with an unlimited number of tickets,
charging full tariff rates for them at
the time of delivery but allow the
scalpers handsome commissions at the
end of each month on all tickets sold.
One scalper has sold the tickets to
strange patrons at the full rate charged
by the railroads
Detectives sent to buy tickets from
him were unable to get them at less
than the published rates. but informa-
ton from other sources makes the Of
ficiaIs of the bureau believe that the
scalper divides his commission with his
old customers in whom he has conf
dence.
1t is reported that several lines at
Kansas City are paying commissions to
the agents who control the routing of
parties of Italian and Greek labore-s.
Three lines are getting all this business
destined to Chicago, and their competi-
tors have not been able to get any of
it since January l. AS all lines are
supposed to be strictly maintaining the
same rates. the rOdUS WHICH are uHdDle
to get any of the labor business are
wondering why their competitors are
getting the business. The general be-
lief is that the payment of commissions
on passenger traffic is by no means
confined now to the road suspected of
having originated this plan for getting
competitive traffic.
1t is a disputed question whether the
payment of commissions on passenger
business is Illegal provided the rail-
road company gets its published rate
and the passenger pays it: but if any
part of the commission is paid to the
passenger, with the knowledge of the
railroad company, it is equivalent to
secret rebate and in violation of the
interstate commerce law.
While the railway associations are
probing into the commission scheme, it
is unlikely that any evidence of the
payment of secret rebates will be pre-
scented to the interstate commerce COM
mission, as the new law provides that
the guilty persons shall be imprisoned
as we'll as fined. The associations will
not take any action which might result
in sending one or more of their mem
bers to the penitentiary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25
BELEN CUTOFF UNFINISHED.
Track Lain Temporarily-Road
Being Brought to Proper Grade.

Track Lain porarily-Roadbed
Being Brought to Proper Grade.
Official notification has been made
by the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway company thai the Belen cut
off is now complete and that it will be
open for traffic ver.y soon.
Press notices coming from cities on
the Texico- Belen line indicate that the
railway company was premature with
its announcement. Steel rails now con-
meet the two towns and make a line
from Texico to Belen but the roadbed
is not a permanent one and the track
not fit for traffic SO it is declared by
these press notices.
In summing up the situation dis
patch from Albuquerque says that in
dozens of places deep cuts are to be
finished and that no less than 2 steam
shovels are now being operated.
In order to open " the line so that
material and men may be pushed to
where work is needed what is known
as '.shoo flies are built. This is a
term applied by railway men to tenn
porary track around a heavy fill or
cut while work with steam shovel or
dump cars is being carried on by
means of a spur. When the cut or fill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25

Pueblo to Canon City. This project has
been under consideration for over year
and, according to the latest information
contracts will soon be let.
In double tracking this part of the
line IS pound steel probably will be
laid. With the exception of that part
of the line between Canon City and
Salida it is thought the entire system
between Salt Lake and Pueblo will be
6ouble-tracked in a comparatively short
time.
1t will be impossible to lay two tracks
through the Royal Gorge, as a single
track now hugs the walls of the gorge,
and to add another track would be well
nigh impossible, is it would involve the
expenditure of millions of dollars and
some hazardous engineering.
The completion of the double track.
however. will be great Improvement,
as trains can make better time and
the number of accidents will be reduc-
ed to a minimum.
The construction of the Western Pa
oific, which makes the Rio Grande
Western a connecting link in the Gould
transccntinental line, is given as the
reason for the double tracking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25

vance in freight rates of all classes,
owing to the tremendous additional
cost of transportation by reason of the
advance in the price of material and
the increased cost of labor. Local Off
Gals yesterday claimed to have no
knowledge of any such plans. The be-
lief among manufacturers and shippers
is general however, that the rates will
be advanced, and it is certain that they
will strenuously oppose any move of this
character on the part of the railroads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25

in the city today from Harrington. He
left the information that the work Of
Improvement on the Rock Island depot
in Wellington would commence at once
The local employees are holding them
selves in readiness and expect the order
to begin any day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25
CONSOLIDATE FRISCO LINES.
House Committee Approves Bill to
Absorb Subsidiary Roads.

Washington. Jan. 25.-Frank Evans,
assistant attorney of the Frisco at St.
Louis, Is pushing the bill authorizing
the Frisco railway to consolidate sew
eral small branch lines in Indian Ter
ritory. The bill is reported favorabiy
py the committee on Indian affairs
and Will pass in a few days and go to
the senate. The lines consolidated into
the Frisco system follow: St. Louis,
san Francisco & New Orleans road
from Hope, Ark, via Ardmore, to Red
river, distance of ESQ miles; St Louis
& Oklahoma City road from Sapulpa
TO Oklah oma City, a distance of los
miles; St. Louis, Oklahoma & South
ern from Sapulpa to Red river, a dis
lance of 1913 miles; the Oklahoma City
q western road from Oklahoma City
to Red river on the west, a distance of
1S2 miles. The committee says the
lines are not parallel and do not COM
pete with each other or with the
Frisco proper.
Rock Island Improvements VIII Begin
Wellington. Jan. 25.-Superintendent
G. w. Rourke of the Rock Island was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25
Pennsy Executive once Changes.

George w. BlackIeslee. who was sec
retarytoD T McCabe when the latter
was freight traffic manager of the
Pennsylvania lines west. has been pro-
rr4oted to the fourth vice president
office which Mr.. McCabe now occupies.
f. B. Drake has been appointed secre-
tary to William Hodgdon, freight traf-
fic manager. No chief clerk has been
announced for the fourth vice presi-
dents office to succeed c. NJ. South,
who was promoted to chief clerk in the
first vice presidents office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25
Dcs Mojnes Neyv Team

Des Moines, Iowa, Jan 25.-The line
up for the Des Moines Western league
baseball team for the coming season
has just been announced by Frank
Hughes, secretary of the team. An
drews, who played shortstop last year.
will this season appear in center field.
Mike Kelly will play first base, Ma
coon second, Frank O'Leary short and
Shipke third. Hogrieve will appear in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25

numerals in connection with the vice
presidents title have been abolished.
w. ]. Harrahan, formerly fourth vice
president in charge of operation. is now
vice president in charge of traffic and
construction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25
Hartman Made General Manager.

Additional appointments on the ILL
nois Central, following the promotion of
Ira G. Rawn to be vice president, have
been announced as follows: Frank r.
Hartman, formerly general superin-
tendent of the lines north of the
Ohio river, to succeed I. G. Rawn as
general manager; c. L. Ewing. former
~ superintendent of the st. Louis di-
vision, to be general superintendent
succeeding Hartman. Mr. Ewing's
successor has not been determined The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25
Double Track Rio Grande Line.

Pueblo, Col, Jan. 25.-It is stated on
good authority that within the next 60
days the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will begin double tracking its line from
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25
MAY increase All Rates

For some time there has been a we'll
defined rumor a1oat that some of the
larger railroad companies have held
secret meetings recently to discuss the
advisa bility of making general adj
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25

Being an Alkaline Liquid Den
tifrice, SOZODONT penetrates
all the little crevices of the teeth,
neutralizes the dangerous mouth
acids and purifies the whole
tooth structure, making the teeth
strong and wei.
Stand by SOZODONT, and
your teeth will stand by you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25
olslahoma sauna Fe Freight wreck.

Norman, Ok, Jan. 25.-Four freigh
cars on Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fl
train Nc 425 left the track near here
Thursday morning. All trains were de-
l1yed.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-03-06
A Bluff With a Cork Leo.

"Cork legs are not bad In their way"
said the man who had one. "Some
people are rather sensitive about theirs.
but I'm not. I even have a little fun
with 1t sometimes. was in the smok-
er of a railroad train the other day
talking with three other men while we
puffed away at our cigars when the
conversation turned ON stoicism. Ev-
cry man had an incident to relate
about some acquaintance's remarkable
ability to bear extreme pain without
a murmur. When the third man had
finished his yarn 1 mentioned casually
that l rather prided myself on my abil-
ity to put up with good deal of pain
without making squeal. TO Illus
trate,' said, and then opened my pen
knife and slowly forced the point of
Its long, keen blade into my leg just
above the knee, at the same time smil-
ing pleasantly. One man tainted, an
other became deathly pale, and the
third got up and hastily left the car
New York Press.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-03-06
Wednesday, March 6. 1907
The Faithful Little Guide.

Ofttimes have seen tall ship glide
by against the tide as II drawn by
some invisible towline with hundred
strong arms pulling 1t. Her sails hung
untitled; her streamers were drooping;
she had neither side wheel nor stern
wheel Still she moved on stately In
serene triumph, as II with her own
life. But knew that on the other side
of the ship hidden beneath the great
hulk that swan so majestically, there
was little toiling steam tug with a
heart of fire and arms of iron that was
hugging 1t close and dragging 1t brave
ly on, and l knew that If the little
steam tug untwined her arms and left
the tall ship 1t would wallow and roll
about and drift hIther and thither and
go off with refluent tide, no man knows
whittier. And SO | have known more
than one genius, high decked, full
freighted, wide sailed, gay pennoned,
that but for the bare toiling arms and
brave, warm-beating heart of the faith
full little wife that nestled close to him
so that no wind or wave could part
them would soon have gone down
stream and been heard of no more.--
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-03-06

A visitor was going through the chill
dren's surgical ward Of one of the city
hospitals when he spied little fellow
with his legs in the air and his weight
resting ON his head and shoulders. Go
ing closer, he saw that the boys feet
were fastened with ropes which passed
through pulley above. At the other
ends Of the ropes were weights, Just
heavy enough to hold the boys legs in
the air without lifting him entirely off
the bed.
whats all that about?" asked the
visitor. Doesn't 1t hurt him?"
mot at ALL" answered the physician
who was accompanying. "He doesn't
look unhappy, does he? That's the
way we always handle fractures of
the leg with child. Otherwise the
youngsters squirm around SO that they
work the splints loose. Only one of
this boys legs Is injured, but they are
both swung in the air for his greater
comfort New York Post.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-03-06
A rotaI sIeep.

Hugh Miller. the Scottish geologist
and writer, was one of the most illus
trious of sleepwalkers. Miller, who
had been addicted to somnambulism In
his youth, found his restlessness return
while he was engaged upon his "Tes-
timony of the Rocks" He used to
wake In the morning feeling, as he
said, as II he had been abroad In the
night wind, dragged by some invisible
power and ridden by witches. On the
night of his death lie slept alone. In
the morning they found him stretched
dead on the floor with a bullet through
his breast He had written a note to
his wife: my brain. burns. l must
have walked, and fN6rful dream rises
upon me. 1 cannot bear the horrible
thought. My brain burns as the rec
objection grows" SO intense hpd been
the poor fellows anguish thai TO make
npu sus. '..-.s. placed the muzAs,,-ss,int
pistol to his naked fesh.-St. James
Gazette.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-03-06

"This thing of being a humorist is
about the saddest thing know" sigh
ed Simeon Ford. "An ordinary person
can have his moods and humors as he
pleases, but l must always be on the
job. am constantly being invited out,
not because I'm liked for myself alone
or because of my manly beauty, but
because l am expected to entertain the
assemblage. The rest of the company
may be as dull as dishwater, but If
do not shake up the gathering with a
few jokes the hostess glares at me and
really feels resentful. / may be sunk
in the slough of despond, but just as
soon as take my seat all lean forward
and eve me expectantly. My son, nev-
er get reputation for being funny. 1t
is the most mournful thing on EARTH"
New York Press.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-03-06
Friendship with wild Life.

If fairy had ever offered to grant
me three wishes, "the full confidence
of wild animals" would surely have
been one of them and probably the
first. If we seek opportunities to be-
friend wild creatures and take advan-
tage of them, we shall often find, as
have done, that there is no lack of re-
sponse on the part Of the animals.
once walked up to a pine siskin, as he
was feeding on the ground and picked
him up in my hand. He did not seem
bit alarmed, and when few min
utes later set him down he continued
his search for food within few inches
of my feet. On another occasion a vel
low throated vireo allowed me to lift
her from her nest when I wished to
count her eggs and nestled down COM
fortably on her treasures the moment I
put her back. With foreflnger once
stroked the back Of a red breasted nut
hatch as he was busy feedipan a
tree.-Ernest Harold Baynes st.
Nicholas.