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The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-09-05
Veterans in Mining.

veterans IN Mining.
Interesting facts and figures show
in the reports of the various depart
ments of the state government, some
Of the most noticeable of which crop
out in the department Of mines. BY
the examination papers received there
from the examination held the first
of this month at Fairmont, 1t is learn
ed that one OF the men WHIP applied
for certificate for mine foiEman has
been mining coal for the past 81 years.
He is David o. Smith, of Tyrconnel,
w. Va, who is probably the oldest
miner in point OF service in West yir,
ginia. There was class OF 116 men
at this examination, and of the rs APP
plicants who were awarded first grade
certificates only two Of them have had
experience less than ten years. One
| of the two has been working at min.
Ing nine years and the other six years
George Nields, Of Gysey, is one sue.
cessful applicant who has been min
ling for 81 years. He lives at Great
Town. ]. L. Summers. with 80 years
experience, and George B. Coburn, oil
Emerson, with 80 years, are two Of
the old-timers.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-09-05
Seeking To increase Traffic.

United States Engineer Thos. e.
Jeffries, sof this city. has just issued d
circular letter which has been address
ed to river men and officials in the
various river towns along the Kama
wha, asking for suggestions as to i'm
provements which might be made in
the way OF freight terminals along the
river in order to facilitate the hand
ling OF freight for river traffic. 1t Is
Engineer Jeffries' idea that at all
points where river freight is handled
there should be such convenient load
ing. storing. transferrage and docking
conditions that the shipment OF freight
by river, which Is actually the cheap
est method Of transportation. would
be greatly increased.
Postoffice Announcements.
The postofice department has an
nounced that the newly established
rural delivery route out Of Prichard,
Wayne county, will be put In opera
ton on November The route will
be 20 miles long and will serve 100
families Announcement has been
made Of the establishment OF a post
office at Ottawa, Boone county, one
mile from Jeffery and three miles from
Hewett, with William A. Garrett as
postmaster. A new Office has also
been established at Excelsior. mellow
ell county, with J. A. Hndleston as
postmaster.
Kanawha IL IN Good Shape.
The United States government
dredgeboat Addition Is now lying be-
low the lock at Dam 10. 10, where she
Is engaged in dredging sand from the
channel which has filled up good
deal during the present summer. The
Addition and the snagboat Captain
Turtle have been busy all summer
under the direction Of the local Uni
ted States engineers station in clear
ing the channel Of the Kanawha from
distinctions. and the river is accounts
ed BY river men to be the most easily
nav. gable and safest In the country.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-09-05
River TraffIc For July.

River Traffic For July.
The United States engineers r.,
port Of river traffic for the month Of
July. 1912, shows some interesting
statistics. The report shows that out
of 123,538 tons Of freight handled on
the river, 122,0S0 tons was coal from
the Kanawha field mines.
The report also shows that there
were 1876 steamers passed through the
lock at Dam No. 10, and Isl loaded
barges and 2SS empties. OF rats and
similar craft there were "a and two
gasoline boats above given size.
There were 1851 passengers carried
The bill providing for the loaning Of
brass cannon to the cities Of Hunting
ton, Kingwood and Elizabeth, which
was amended by the senate, was again
passed by the house and has now gone
to the president for his approval. This
means that these three cities will e&,eh
get brass or bronze cannon, to be re-
tanned indefinitely and maintained al
some public place The original bin
for the Huntington cannon was intro
|duced by Senator Watson, that for
Kingwood by Congressman Brown,
and the one for Elizabeth by Con.
|'eressma4 Hamilton. FL
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-09-05
Some Arrests May Follow.

SNsssG ssNstSSsS tU0y sShSs 49,
Several important cases are being
investigated by the fire marshal's de-
partnnent, and 1t would not be sur
prising to those acquainted with some
of the cases II warrants will soon be
issued for several persons charged
with arson or with being accessories
TO such crimes. Some of the con-
iagrations Of suspicious origin took
place in Charleston and deputies I'M
der direction OF State Fire Marshal
c. A. Ellison have obtained some very
damaging evidence which gives prom
ise. Of resulting in conviction Of the
suspects. The marshal spent few
days in Huntington. recently. assisting
in some Investigations there. Fewer
fires OF unknown origin are occurring
now, for great many OF those who
have the fire habit are getting more
careful in their criminal operations.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-09-05
Sounds Cool.

Sounds Cool.
I'd like to get away awhile
From busy marts of trade
And live upon an Ice cream isle
In a lake of lemonade.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-09-05
supreme COURT ro Meet.

Supreme Court o Meet,
In the Offices OF the supr eme court
the clerks are getting everything In
readiness for the trip to Charles Town,
where the September term Will be con-
vened Wednesday, September A. Judge
Ira Robinson will go to Atlantic City
where he will spend a week or so be-
fore the next term. He has been en-
gagged in work OF his position ever
since the adjournment Of the last term
and has really taken no yacation yet
He viii go from the SEASIDE resort d.
rect to Charles Town. Clerk w. B.
Mathews has also left for the East
and will reach Atlantic City within a
few days and will spend at least a
week there before going to the Jeffer-
son county metropolis. Other mem
bers Of the court will go to the place
OF holding court from their respective
homes.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

formation the principles Of building
construction that were in vogue nearly
5000 years B. c.
The graves of the early Egyptians
We're always well provided with such
1ecessaries as were thought essential
for the spirit of the departed when it
again materialized. Consequently, the
relics from Tarkhan include headrests
(some of them carved out of trees
trained specially into peculiar shapes,
sandals, large jars of food, and various
vessels of gypsum and semi-transpar-
ent alabastar. Some of the vases bear
the name of Mena, the earliest known
Egyptian king. They are considered
by some experts to be a tribute CORE
spending to the modern floral wreath.
Evidence is also provided of the lack
of historical sentiment in the Roman
occupants of Egypt by numerous exam
pies of inscribed Egyptian tablets that
have been used as hearth stones, door
lintels, and mill stones. There is also
ample evidence of the belief that sac
rilege among the tombs was more com
mon in the earlier periods of Egyptian
history than in later periods.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
HAS MARRIED 1000 COUPLES
Tennessee Minister Builds Hotel e.
peeiaIly for Eloping
Couples.

Bristol, Tenn.-Rev. Alfred Harrison
Burroughs of Bristol, now in ms
sightieth year. has married 4,OuV
couples in the last twenty-three years
4 had no thought of making this
business" said the aged minister i
was licensed to marry people many
years ago. and when the first runaway
couple sought me in 1889. l consented
10 marry them more as a matter OF
accommodation than anything else
Some Of my friends were present
and witnessed the marriage. They
romplimented me and told me that
ought to make marrying a business
After that did not decline TO offer
my services whenever a couple came
my way. Month by month the ousi.
aess grew until I sometimes married
rom three to six couples day.
So rapidly did the ministers mar
lying business increase that he ou'I
I hotel designed especially to accom-
modate clipping couples.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

Slsss~gzux - .
earby mountains, .. 'a''sAsHs
On the majority of these farms irrigation is
practlced and quite naturally electricity was first
MADE use OF for pumping purT ,es Then under
Inc influence of progressive local central station
operators, 1t was almost universally adopted for
light
Il can recall seeing electric lights and the
electric hatron in use in the farm home on the
Pacihc coast eleven years ago The people were
content TO enjoy the advantages which these
improvements made possible to them but did
not seem to regard their conditions as unusual
Their farms were in fact electric farms and their
industries, dependent upon the produce of the
land, were as they are now practically all oper-
ited by electricity
"A brief summary of the work accom-
plished shows that construction is under way or
las been completed on twenty,nine projects in
Folvng an expenditure of $65.47o.000 In the
eight years of actual work there have been dug
i,OOO miles of canals and more than nineteen
miles Of tunnels, mostly excavated through
mountains The total excavation of rock and
earth amounts to 100000 cubic yards There
have been built $40 miles of roads 100 hiIes
Of telephones, and there are now in operation
z15 miles of transmission lines, over which sur
plus power and light are furnished to several
cities and towns
The small farms and villages grouped about
these Developments give the effect OF suburban
developed from the great dams or from numer
Gus drops In the main canals is now utilized for
the operation of trolley lines which reach out
into the rural districts bringing the farmer in
closer touch with the city. II runs numerous
industrial plants for storing handling and manu-.
featuring the products OF the farm The
same power is used for fighting and heating in
the towns, and for cooking in the homes On
several of the projects the farmers are applying
tor electrical power. and In many farm houses
electric power Is utilized for many domestic pur.
| poses.
More than a million dollars has been invest.
ed In the development of power on the Salt
River project, of which the farmers have volun-
/ tarily raised 100000. The sale of the power up
to the beginning of the present year amounted
to $4,000, with the plant only partially con-
structed This revenue Will contribute material.
y toward lessening the cost of operating the irri
cation system
"on large milk farm at Plainsboro. N J..
electricity is used for lighting clipping cows.
operating a bottling machine spinning on tin
foil caps seals on bottles cutting ensilaee
running sawmill pumping from a deep Wen
grinding feed and elevating II TO storage bins
The fact that this is commercial plapt
turning out daily from $500 to 1000 quarts of
milk, where an exceptionally high standard of
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
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quality is rigidly maintained is evidence that
there must be advantages In using electricity in
such installation
The total acreage of the farm is nearly
1,2OO. and at present about 70 per cent is under
cultivation. Electricity is generated by steam
pow or and distributed at 220 volts The gener-
athlg equipment at present consists of one %
Rilowatt direct connected unit, steam boiler etc.
This is not large generating plant to be
sure, but 1t insures cleanliness of lighting equip
ment and safety from fire risk in the barns,
bunk houses and outbuildings. 1t also makes
possible a convenient source of power in any
part of the farms oatbuildings, which OF nee
essity are widely distributed, and cost of gen.
Grating the current. including interest and de
probation charges, is probably not over four
cents kilowatt hour
Scientific milk production is more and
more coming into prominence and the necessity
for perfect cleanliness immediate cooling and
keeping the milk at low temperature compels
such dairy farmers to adopt devices that will
be most helpful in obtaining these results There
is a milk dairy in Morristown, N j. where the
walls, ceilings and floors of all rooms in which
the milk is handled washed down daily both
morning and evening-the electric lighting FIX
lures being entirely water tight.
"Dairying and stock raising are usually fol-
lowed where land needs upbudng In fertility,
and In either the silo is necessity. cutting up
succulent forage crops and storing them in the
silo for later being the accepted method of
preparing the teeu. 10 90 THIS the farmer must
have power, but a ten horsepower electric
tor with its capacitS for momentary overload
will do the work that would stall a gasoline en-
CINE rated at twelve to fifteen horsepower.
The farmer easily recognize the advan-
tage Of the electric motor for this operation and
when once adopted he soon wants to use the
current for grinding feed baling hay and other
purposes.
"On the dairy farm. however electricity Of
fers other opportunities, as it is the most con-
venient form of energy for operating artih-
cial refrigeration plant. the cream separator,
churn and butter worker
Cream separators. while often turned by
hand on small dairy farms are more frequently
driven mechanically where considerable cream
is handled Except in the very large sizes, they
require not more than one-fifth horsepower mo
tor and they are in operation only for a com
paratively short time, The operating cost, there
fore is practically negligible"
There are in use many designs Of electric
mixers, especially dairy farms where there
is great deal of milking to be done and hand
mixers are not available in sufficient numbers
Likewise electricity is now being used exten.
sively for cooling and aerating and the ice
making electrical device is not unknown to our
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
To Burn New Home
Former Fire Chief of New York Plans Unique
Demonstration.

Former Fire Chief Edward F. Croker of New
York city is planning unique yet highly impress
sve object lesson the prevention OF fires In
dwellings. He recently purchased ground Tor q
new house in the suburbs. and now he announces
that when his $4,000 home is completed he will
demonstrate its fre-proof qualities by attempting
to burn it, His grim experience while fire chief
of the metropolis In seeing SO many lives sacri-
feed each year to the demon of flames fed on
fimsy materials, both in buildings and their fur
nishings is back of his commendable plan to ef-
fectually prove that there is a safer and saner
way.
"The house will be completely furnished at the
time" explains Mr. Croker, with rugs, draperies
and furniture of artistic patterns. But everything
in the place will be proof against fire. We shall
fill each room with wood sbavings and cotton
waste on which kerosene has been poured We
have such confidence in the material employed in
the house itself and in the fre-prooing qualities
of the furniture that we are sure they will come
out Of the ordeal unscathed
'"rhe building itself viii be constructed of fire
proof block, which be worked up into most
artistic effects. During its manufacture 1t was
subjected to excessive heat. The exterior Will
be in the Italian villa style--the first story In
white the second in red, with a red tile roof
Not particle of wood will be used anywhere,
inside or out. Doors, window frames, sashes and
trim will be of freproof material. The floors will
be of substance that looks like wood, but which
is chemically mpregnated with resistant mate
rails. The furniture viii be of freproof sub
stances, on which fire has absolutely effect.
In parts the Edison concrete furniture win be
used
THE sanitation will be perfect The corners
of every room will be rounded. there will be
vacuum cleaning system, and the dwelling will
be insect and rat proof. Closets will be fitted
like innovation trunks, with all the fixtures in
stamped metal and lined with tile The different
appliances In them will work on ball bearing
rollers. Kitchen sinks and drain boards will be
of aluminium
There is now no freproof house in existence
and more lives are lost through the burning of
private houses than through fires in factories or
other buildings"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
NEW SPHINX FQUND
Student of British Museum Die.
covers It in Egypt.
Figure Fourteen Feet High Of AI.h.,
ter Dug From Between the Co
lossi in Water-LOsged Plain
of Old Memphis.

Cairo, Egypt - Another -.
weighing ninety tons, and carved St lux
a single block of alabaster, has he]n
unearthed at a point between zen .e
world-famed Colossi, on the wot 'ue
logged plains of Memphis. in Fo r.e,'
For hundreds of years il has lain ,9 :. p''
recumbent position buried benaath -
sands on the road to Sakkareb NJ 7
day 1t is half-exposed to view ons
next year it is to be raised to y w..
cal position above the water.line
This newly found sphinx was bo+r.u
ed in its hiding place by its tail Will
Mr.. Mackay, one of the students Of tbo
British School in Egypt, Discovers
about year ago. This year wboa
the water on the plain subsidized tho
complete figure was excavated onS
was found to measure some foprtoon
feet in height and twenty-six feet in
length. Alabaster being a rock foreign
to the neighborhood, the new snhinv
ranks as the largest that has avar
been transported. The figure bears no
inscription, but is considered by prof
Flinders Petrie, the director of the
British School in Egypt, to have been
carved about 1900 B. G. MANY other
remarkable discoveries, taking the
mind back as far as $500 B. G.. and
lifting the veil of centuries from
Egypt's romantic story, have also been
made by the same school, and. with
the exception of a red granite group
of Rameses II and the god Ptah, which
will be sent direct to the NY Carlsberg
Museum at Copenhagen, and few
other details, are now on exhibition at
University College, Cover street. Thev
include many objects quite new to
Egyptologists.
Among these are collins made Of
basket work, reeds Oh withes, sandal
trays. an axe handle, iii which the grip
is composed of deIicately knotted
string, pot of unburnt incense for a
fire-offering Of 4OOe B. c., and numer-
Gus pieces of timber. showing by their
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
New WrInk;e in Laundry.

San Bernardo. Cal.-When his laun-
dry bill showed a charge for washing
four greenbacks, George B. Rowan
gasped in establishment. He looked
through his laundry and found a pie
Of carefully ircned and starched bank
notes which had come home with his
weekly wash. They amounted to S6o,
which he remembered having failed
to remove from his clothing before
sending It to the laundry.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

more progressive farmers. The up-to
late farmer is very much aware OF
the fact that the regular grooming OF
cows increases the supply of milk
and counts strongly for cleanliness
He now has an electrical device for
doing this.
One of the most interesting cleo
trical devices on the modern farm is
the telephone. In the old days the
men and women were called from the
fields for dinner by the blowing of a
horn or by sending the small boy
trudging across the field with the
good news The modern farmers men
take to the fields with them tele-
phone which can be rugged up near
where they are working and receive
messages from the house by that
means.
With the installation of these cleo
trical devices much of the romantic
side of life on the farm passes away.
Even a modern poet would have
hard time getting anything lyrical out
of an electrical mixer, and the beauty
OF a load Of hay somehow fades when
a motor truck goes chugging across
the fields with it. But the American
farmer ceased TO be romantic when
the graphophone took the place of the
wheezy old organ and when his wife
that front parlor that always used to
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

and dairy farming in the east, the modern farmer
has caught the scientific spirit of the time and
is getting practical results from his realization
OF the fact that methods must accommodate
themselves to changing conditions
At the annual convention of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers held recently
In Boston, the electrical farm was considered In
q paper by Putnam A. Bates. He discussed in
some detail the work being done by farm
ers who are developing the arid districts OF the
west, showing that irrigation and electricity are
the two factors that promise most for the future
where natural conditions are for the most part
against the farmer. Irrigation came first and
then the advantages of electric power pumping
were realized. The so-called electrical farm has
been in existence for dozen years or more but
1t Is only recently that there has been an organ
lied effort to disseminate knowledge on the prac-
ucal use OF electricity in agriculture
Referring to the southwest and to the cleo
trio farm as he found it there, Mr. Bates says:
In some sections of that wonderfully fertile
country we'll protected by the high mountain
ranges, practically every farm is an electric
farm. Thta is to say, the buildings are lighted
by electricity and many of the laborious opera
tons are accomplished by the use of electric
power. These really were our first electric farms
the period of their establishment corresponding
with the development of the water powers of the
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

Concerning universal criticism OF
rats who desert a sinking shin. Il
seems that ordinary justice to the
rats will give them credit for knowing
when the ship is sinking.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

1t is good thing thst The post of
weather man is not an elective one,
Tor just now everybody in the country
would vote unanimously for his retire
ment to even hotter climes.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

They are fighting the grasshopper
pest in California with vacuum clean
ers. And, strange to say, there seems
TO be money in it.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

Grand Circuit trotting races are be-
ing held this year as usual, notwith-
standing the fact that trotting races
are hardly ever accompanied by fatal
tiles.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

Somebody asks western editor
how to stop shoes from squeaking. It's
none OF our business, of course, but
one way is to take them of.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

A scientist warns us that IL women
do not behave the race is In danger
Of decay. Just like mere man to lay
the blame on the women.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

There is a good deal Of intelligence
on the bench, Judge having decided
that man has no right to cross his
legs in car and muddy other people's
clothes
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

A French surgeon recently per-
formed remarkable operation on
himself Maybe he cut his own hair
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

The man who tries to cross the At
iantic in dirigible balloon or an
aeroplane is pretty sure to succeed in
crossing the Styx.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

According to a Boston savant
A orleans will eventually be fat
& oted race.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

California woman died as result
Of wearing too. small a corset. Some
women would rather die than be out
Of form
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

There are said to be 10000 music
teachers in New York. We presume
that this is in addition to those who
teach ragtime.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

Two and half millions of Amer
leans live by writing including, of
course, those who write home Cor
money.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

Just one little favor! When the
sun begins to broil again, please say:
Hot, isn't it'll" instead Of: Hot,
amt it, s~ssSsiS 81. ~. 81 7ss..
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

One way to keep cool is to avoid
reading rules about how to do 1t.