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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-11-09

sshudyside,' the beautiful home OF
Judge and Mrs. William $. Raymond
MAS the scene OF beautiful wedding
last evening when their daughter
Miss Lucy NJ. Raymond and Mr.. Ed:
ward Fletcher. Holbcrt were united In
marriage. Rev. Father Boutlou, rec.
TOR OF 81. Peters Catholic church. per.
formed tile marriage ceremony which
WIS witnessed by members OF the i'm.
mediate families and intimate friends.
Mtss Anna Dorsey, of Grafton. cousin
or the bride, rendered the wedding
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-11-09

Miss Louise Nichols, Of Fairmont
avenue, left this afternoon for points
cast, first stopping at Frostburg, Nd,
for few days, and then leaving there
Saturday for Philadelphia, where she
will at.enda class ye.union at Walnut
Lane Seminary. where Miss Nichols
used TO be q student.
A number OF Miss Nichols friends
from Kentucky, Virginia and some OF
the northern States will also attend
the reunion. :, -
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-11-09
WINFIELD.

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We are all we'll
Mr.. and Mrs Willie McElfresh was
visiting her sister Mrs; ,Zez Heck Sua
dav. 81; F, :;
Mr.. and Mrs, Jake McHenry and
Two chlldrcns was visiting at Johnny
'Carnenters Sunday.
Mr.. Charles Baker. anil little laugh
ter Of Falrmont was visiting Ills moth
er. Mrs. John West. Sunday. n.
Mr.. and Mrs, Urah Hawkins Of
Eairmont is visiting their father
Thomas Hawkins this week.
Mrs, Mary Mcvesper and daughter
IIaule, NJ. ]. Bernard. Miss Dow leila
POUCH was Visiting at ZEE Heck's on
Sunday. $3.50 2 20
Miss Hattie and George Vincent
was visiting their uncle Thomas Haw:
klns Saturday and Sunday ~
PEGGY q, 81
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For Mrs. Gallaher.

Mrs. Jesse a Bloch gave lunch
con at her home in Pleasant valley
Wednesday afternoon complimentary
to Mrs. D. c. Gallaher, OF Charleston.
who Is the guest OF Mrs. Mofrat In
MISUNDERSTANDING Register.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-11-09
Aid Society MEETING.

The Ladies' Aid Society OF the Lu
ttleran church will meet this evening
at seyen.thlrty o'clock. ut thel home
Of Miss May Miller. at139 Maple ave.
me. -
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-11-09
Returned from Mcddlnu ,lournex


Mrs. James Thomas Hughes, OF Ok.
iah9ma City. Okla. who had been the
guest of her sister, Mrs. U. A. Clay.
ION. left last night for Maryland where
she will spend some time with rela.
tivcs.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-11-09

Hunt, aunt of the bride, and little son,
John, of Tunnelton; Mr.. w. b. Cruise,
of Grafton. uncle OF the bride; Miss
Sue Maxwell. OF Ciarksburg; Miss
Anna Dorsey. OF Grafton; Mrs. George
Stone, Of, Clarksburg, and Miss Anna
Flaherty, Of Monougah, cousins OF the
groom; Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Hutton,
Of Clarksburg.
The, following announcements were
issued to-day:
Mr.. and Mrs. William Stanley Hay.
mond Z
have the honor Of announcing to
the marriage of their daughter
Lucy
Mr.. Edward Fletcher Holbcrt
on "Wednesday the eighth OF Novcm.
Der
enc thousand nine hundred and eleven
at Shady Side
falrlnont, west virginia.
The ut home cards read:.
MIR. and Mrs. Edward Fletcher Holbcrt
will be at home
after the first OF January
nineteen hundred and eleven
COG Falrmont avenue.
Falrmont, West Virginia.
For Guests.
Honorlng her house guests, Mrs. d.
W. Jacobs, and Mrs. John Redmalh OF
Clarksburg. Mrs. W. d. McGresor is
entertaining at 800 this afternoon at
her home on Walnut avenue. Last
night Mr.. and Mrs. McGregor enter.
taincd ut dinner honoring Mr.. and
Mrs. Jacobs, and Mr.. and Mrs. Mark
Dandy OF this city, the event celebrat.
Ing the twenty.seventh wedding ami
vcrsary OF Mr.. and Mrs. McGregor
and the eighteenth anniversary Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Dandy. The dinner was
one OF handsome appointments. brides
roses forming the center piece and
u wedding bell OF brides roses and
smilax was suspended over the table,
white and yellow chrysanthcmums
were given as favors.
Returned from Wedding Journey.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Guy PrIchard,
whose )narriage was an cvent.ln late
October returned last night from a
TWO weeks wedding journey east.
They will reside temporarily at, the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Lowe or
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-11-09
Department MEETING.

The Juvenile Department Of the
Woman's Club VIII meet tomorrow az.
ternoon at 2:30 at Y. VI. C. A.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-11-09
Tho Ladies' Misslonarv

The Ladies' Missionary Society. Of
the Presbyterian church at 2:3O. p.
m. on Friday afternoon at the home
OF Mrs. Della Shinn on Picrpont ave.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-11-09
SPECIAL s AL i (
This w Only

Owing TO the ADVENT Of Safety Ra;
zors We find urselyessoyers,pcked JOB
Razors, Homes and strops, and wa
have cut the price to make them move
quickly, for this week only
Regular sl,5O True Edge ssazors, sps-
cial this week s. Il, ~ sss
Regular sl.Oo Velvet Edge Razor
Homes. Special this week 200
Regular SOC Horse Hide Razor stropE,
Special this week zoe
Regular soc No. 2 Rubber Set Shaving
brushes. Special this week 100
Regular csc Isubber set Shaving
Brushes :; !. IA u. 40
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-11-09

I, Grandpa Nehemiah Means. of Ellis
worth, Me-, celebrated his eiEhtstscr-
enth anniversary last week bv doing
a good days work In Ills truck CIR.
den. "
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-11-09

HAIR AND FAcIai. TREATMENT
FOR LADIES AND eENIEEMEN.
Electric Vibrating Massage stops
falling hair and cures dandruif. Man.
touring and Chirupody done by sanl-
larry methods.
y, MRS. M. y g, Il X i BAR 3
I Second Floor, Room e Hall Block.
Bell, 4ss.R. Cons. es1-x.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-11-09

~ ~ -. - ~ NJ = y.
Haryard's Oldest living graduate, tho
Rcx! James Iycrs Treeo.h thick coolidses
'sS. observed his mine y.fonfth birth.
day recently. :.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-11-09
Miss Louise Nichols, Of Falrmont

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-05

double rollers at the end of the machine,
the rollers being heated by steam. Pass
ing through these-up and down. in and
out, over and under-the paper is dried.
finally coming out rolled and ready for
whatever cutting or other operation may
be in store for it. In this type of ma
chine the fbers of the paper lie the long
way of the sheet, and are not matted Or
interlOcked.
pulp direct from the stuff chests to a
long web of fine wire mesh This wire
web is given rapid sideWise vibratory or
oscillating motion, which causes the pa
per fibers of the pulp To mat and inter-
lock crosswise, endwise and in every di-
rection. thus making the paper of equal
strength both In the long and the short
dimension of the sheet.
The object in view in installing paper
making machine at the bureau of stand
ards is Well expressed by Director STRAIT
ton.
IF we are to teach paper manufac
turerS, he said, I'VE must know how to
out faults in method we must first know
just what those faults are; then We must
know how they may be overcome or
avoided. We must be students before we
can be teachers. and the only way in
which we can study this question proper
ly Is by going into the actual manufac-
ture OF paper of all sorts right here In
our own bureau. We have now the best
equipped testing and analyZing> laboratory
in the country; and as soon as our pa
per mill is ready to go into commission
We shall be able to speak with absolute
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-05

authority on every phase of the paper
making industry.
The bureau of standards. working in
harmony with the public printer. now
tests every pound of paper that is bought
for use in the big government print shop
d. f. Douty, head of the physics division
of the bureau, is the paper expert who
with the public printer, assists the joint
House and Senate committee on printing
in preparing specifications for the guild
ance of paper manufacturers in preparing
their bids. Mr.. Lewis, assistant physicist
in the bureaus parer-making and paper
testing work, is the actual head of the
paper work. Messrs. Lewis and Douty
are also specially assigned as experts to
Congress, and every pound of paper that
is bought for the use of Congress or SEN
ate is bought upon their specifications
Mr. Lewis has tested more than 1000
samples Of paper during 1911; the tests
comprising chemical analyses and phys
zeal tests of every Observation-Disclosures
strength, bursting strength. folding
strength, endurance. etc.
OF course, as wood pulp is much cheap
er than rag paper manufacturers in COM
petitive bidding for large contracts are
tempted to use more or less of the wood
pulp in making paper that should be all
rag. If they all knew how slight a
chance they have to "get by with such
adulteration they would certainly aban-
don the practice as a bad job Because
no paper adulterated with wood pulp. too
else can escape the chemical and micro
SCOPE tests under which it must pass be-
fore receiving the official o. X.
In making the tests, corners are torn
off the sample sheets and the bits are
boiled in weak solution of eaustic soda
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-05

bers the bully" days of the old navy,
when the apprentice kid with the mouth
organ made about all of the music for
ard. that the bluejackets would get for
themselves on long cruises.
y
And what a stupendOus improvement
in the personnel for'ard.
1t is not to reflect upon the rough charm,
so to speak of the men constituting the
ships companies of the older navy to
say. now that the change is SO complete,
that they were a crude and parlous lot.
They were mainly men recruited from the
great seaport cities, and from the dis
tinctly rougher element at that. They
were fearless. precipitate chaps who got
into the navy as sore of last resource,
when the land would have them no longer
on account of their irregularity in the
manner of life. the unconventionality,
thus mildly to frame it, of their habits,
and so on. Not to put too fine point
upon 1t, there were slews and slathers of
the worst possible type of plug-uglies in
the Old sea outfit.
1t was the regular thing, in those days,
for shore liberty of a watch for ard i'm
mediately to resolve itself, as soon as the
feet of the bluejacets hit the beach, into
colossal drunk. Nothing else was ex-
pected. A beach liberty, money In the
bag under the mastering shirt; what else
was there for it except one monolithic
toot?
And so it always was. Not more than
three men, say, of liberty party of
fifty would report back to the ship on
time to keep their conduct rating on an
even keel and scarcely any of them
would get back to the ship in anything
that. by the widest stretch of charity.
could be called an even approximately
sober condition. Many of them, when 1t
comes to that. had to be whipped over
the side in bo'sun's chairs; and 1t was
the quite usual thing for the blueJacket
of that older day to come to, after his
little lark on the beach, broke beyond all
possible redemption, and in the ships
brig and in double irons. at that.
One has seen all of a watch of an en-
tire sh ps company thus piled up in the
brig. he.ter-skelter. after a beach lib
erty. And the quiet chap of good habits
of that time who went ashore and came
back without the drink purling riotously
through his system was regarded as a
mandy PANTY and lnbber and Il molly
coddle, and he had no end of trouble In
trying To prove that lie was none of these
things. merely because he chose TO alb
jure the rum thing if only for the peace
and comfort of a cleaner awakening.
And the fighting that used to be going
on aboard men-o-war of the older day
between the rough chaps up for'ard!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-05
To Prevent Killing of the Beautiful Egrets

on one side and the Audubon Society and
bird lovers on the other The law i'm New
York is one of the most drastic bird laws
in existence, and il reads: The sal. OF
the plume of any bird that is a native of
New York state is unlawful" Now the
question arises whether the egret is a
native of the state. Former surveys of
the biological survey have found the
egret to have lived and maintained per-
manent colonies i'm the Empire .,iate as
also in many other states. and If il be
true that the bird is a native of Ee,v
York, the question would seem To be set
tied as far as New York is concerned.
: =
Some states have passed laws which
simply prohibit the killing of the egret
within the borders of the state. These
laws are claimed to be Of little real serv-
ice in the protection of the egret A
dealer in millinery supplies may have in
his possession hundreds of aigrets,
and no one would be able to say they did
or did not come from birds killed within
the confines of a certain state. Ii is these
ambiguous laws that the bird lovers of
the country are now going after. Massa-
chusetts. California. Louisiana, Alabama
and several other states have laws which
prohibit any person having i'm his pos
session plumeS or feathers OF an egret,
whether the bird is native of the par
ticular state i'm question or not.
The United States is not the only nation
in the eSret. Many other coun-
tries are passing laws looking To the
future of the plumage birds. One Euro
pean country prohibits the importation OF
egret plumes altogether. while another
has placed ban on expectation. and the
of foreign bird societies with
the bird lovers of this country has proven
Of great value.
Everything from stripped rooster feath-
ers to celluloid has been tried, but the
egret plume is one of the few things that
be successfully initiated and il
the fight in the interest of the bird is
pushed with the same vigor i'm the future
as ii has been in the past few years.
women will soon be compelled to find
other ornaments for their hats than
aigrets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-05
PAPER TEsT TING. LABORATORY
WHERE PAPER SAMPLES ARE TESTED For STRENGTH
- 2AND DURABILITY

requested the bureau of standards 10
make analyses AMI tests of the print
paper used in their pressrooms Thirteen
samples were tested, from as many
pounds-per ream of $40 sheets a4x3S
inches-to 36.J pounds. Thickness ranged
from .0U21 inch to .0011 inch. The burst
ing strength. by Mullen tester. was from
analysis showed: Ash, ~ per cent to
Az per cent: fiber compounds ground
wood, 40 to - per cent. chemical wood
pulp-sulphfte, suiphate or soda pulp-GD
to 81 per cent. These papers We're all
wood. Mr.. Lewis states that the files of
these newspapers cannot be expected to
last longer than twenty years. Director
StrattOn takes more optimistic view, and
gives the probable life of the files as,
perhaps. fifty years. That is the utmost
paper files preserved from today will be
practically nothing but crumbled heaps
of dust-wood fiber resolved back into its
original form.
Z:
But the testing work on paper 1oes not
end with the chemical analysis. In a
special room. the temperature of which
is maintained at IL to 20 degrees Fahren-
heit. with a relative humidity Of &, de-
grees-conditions apprOxmating normal
atmospheric ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS samples
are testel for their tensile strength, their
bursting strength, folding strength. etc.
In ascertaining the tensile strength of
a sample of paper, strip Of the sample
is placed in machine which bears a
graduated scale. Water pressure is ap-
piled: as the tension increases the indi-
Gator on the scale creeps around until
the paper strip breaks. The hand remains
fixed at the figure reached at the strips
breaking point, this being the paper $
tensile strength in pounds
The Mullen tester is used i'm ascertain
ing the bursting strength. per square
inch of paper samples. A Piece Of the
paper is clamped into the machine. over
round opening the are OF which Is one
square inch. Below the opening. under
the sheet of paper being tested. Is rub
her diaphragm. Air is pumped into a
the rubber is forced up against the paper,
The air pressure. in POUNDS. is shown
on registered scale. When the air pres
sure. working against the rubber dia-
phragm and forcing it upward against
the paper. becomes strong enough to burst
the sheet of paper, a little pop is heard
and the machine stops auton;a tically, the
registering hand on the scale showing the
exact air pressure. in pounds and frac-
tions thereof, that was required to burst
the sheet.
The folding strength of paper is test
ed in an ingenious mechanism which
bends strip of paper backward and for
ward upon itself. every bend. or fold. be-
ing registered. The machine is operated
by electric power: the paper strips are
clamped in at certain fixed tension. the
tension being released automa tically and
the machine stopping as soon as the strip
of paper breaks. A paper which with
stands a hundred or more foldings Is of
good quality: the greater the number of
foldings to which it may be submitted
without breaking. the better the paper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-05

was tested and found to contain 20 per
cent of wood pulp.
The manufacturer made q strenuous
kick and refused to accept the results
tested at his own expense. at another
laboratory. and the test bore out the
verdict of the bureau Of standards. Then
the manufacturer began to weaken. He
stated that he actually did not know
that his paper contained large proper
ton Of wood pulp. but finally, after re-
peatedly asking for an easing up of the
specifications. stated that his mill was
not equipped to produce all rag paper.
This manufacturer actually did not
know that after the paper was made and
finished the presence of wood pulp coui~.
be detected with approximate exactness.
His lack of this knowledge. coupled with
his desire to land a government paper
contract. cost him something like s1O.OW
before he was through. and the manu-
facturer has added complete chemical
and analytical laboratory to his plant
It would seem that state and municipal
governments would take a deep interest
in the permanence of their official rec
ordS. OF course. there are many docu-
mentS, such as dog licenses. etc. issued
by municipalities, the permamnce of
which is of no particular moment. But
other recOrds-tax receipts, marriage IL
censes and the official books of the va
rious departments-should be printed or
written upon papers that will last. So
far, however. only two large cities of
the country have taken a serious inter-
est in this matter. These cities are Bal
timore and Boston.
Every purchase of paper for the use of
the city of Baltimore must conform to
the standards and specifications of the
United States bureau of standards. Re-
quests for bids are accompanied by
standard samples. and samples submit
ted by manufacturers must conform.
chemically and otherwise. with these
standard samples. BY this means it is
hoped that the official records and docu-
ments OF Baltimore will be actually per-
manent. and it is believed that the city
will not find itself in the position of a
large middle western city. where, though
1t is not yet a hundred years old, the rec
ords are in such deplorable condition
that it will be only few years until they
will have crumbled into dust
X:
Boston. too is demanding a high stand
ard of excellence in the paper it pur-
chases for municipal use. Samples sub
mitted by paper makers are sent either
to the bureau of standards or to a testing
laboratory In Boston. where the samples
are analyzed and tested before contracts
are awarded.
chased for use in permanent official rec
ord work must me made of all-rag stock
No addition of wood pulp Is permitted
as paper containing wood pulp deterlo-
rates rapidly-the more pulp the more
rapid the deterioration. 1t will not be
many years until all municipalities VIII
adopt similar precautions.
Recently several New York newspapers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-05

these new ships Time was, not so very
long ago, either-even after the new
navy was we'll underWay-when an al
most pitiable amount Of consideration
to the comfort of the ships company
for'ard. On the older cruisers even of
the white navy the men forard were
cluttered by hundreds under the to'gal-
mocks bumped perilously one against the
other. and where a man could scarce
weave lanyard without digging his
elbow into the ribs of another bluejacket
sitting alongside Of him on a ditty box.
There were no bathtubs for the men
their personal swabbing In galvanized
iron buckets. and IL they wanted warm
ish water for that purpose they had to
shoot below to the boiler room and in
sert steam nozzle into the bucket of
cold water to get some heat into 1t. Oc-
casionally showers for the men We're
rugged on the main deck: but to use the
shower the bluejacket had to take adj
vantage of the hours when the decks
were being swabbed, and at such hours
ing stations. Many a jackie of that Pc
Rod never got much of a chance for al
together additions unless the boom was
swung around for swimming.
lain tubs for the men for'ard. and all the
appliances for just as good bathing as
YOU. sir, can have in your fine new apart
ment I'D yonder on Columbia Heights!
And everything else according Firstly.
room; room for men to move around in
without bringing the growls which are
bound to proceed from the threats of
husky men, whose movements are in
,erfered with by their mateys owing to
the budding inseparable from hideously
cramped quarters. Now the men In the
oluejacket rig, six and seven hundred OF
them to a ships company, move about
at ease with places To put their feet and
their elbows. 1t seems both odd and
fine for an old-timer to note the con-
yeniences that are rugged for the boys
for ard in these better days; desks upon
which they can write their 1etters-they
used to have to use their six-by eight
inch ditty boxes for that purpose; reading
rooms, with collections of books of all
sorts fit to make even the mouths OF
landsmen water; rooms for them to box
in, to dance in. to sing in; and, yea.
old fatfeet of tho gone time, pianolas.
saw bluejacket seated mt a pianola
on board one or the dreadnoughts, uncoil-
ing some of the nOcturnes of Chopin, and
twenty or thirty quite rapt fellows fol-
lowing the music in their lounging chairs!
There was a sight for one who remem-