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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-16

Mrs. William B. Leeds Grosvenor
Square town house is being put in
readiness for the most lavish enter
tainments which London has wit
messed. The widow of the millionaire
tin-plate king has forsaken America
in order to- bring up her son as an
English gentleman t.f!.>z
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-16

sistance to aid it in appealing the
case. Send all donations to T. M.
Cavanagh, secretary Tri-City Central
Labor union, 2035 Madison avenue,
Granite City. Ill.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-16

and poiners, assisted the
strikers, whose compact organization
Ind thorough discipline made success
possible.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-30
lest VIRGINIA
IN fOURl PLACE
rs COKE Producing State According
to the u. S. Geological
SURVEY

II all the coke made from West
irginia coal were made in the sta "a
lstead OF in other states to which
Vest Virginia coal is hauled. the
oke output Of West Virginia for 1913
'ould have amounted to 100000
ms, according to statement by Ed
ard w. Parkers, Of the United States
Geological Survey. That would make
he state rank second among the
oke- producing states, instead of
ourth, which position it actually holds
y reason of sending its coal to be
lade into coke in other states. Ii
estimated by Mr. Parker that Z
10000 tons Of West Virginia coal was
made into coke in states other than
Vest Virginia in 1913, while bnl f.
'34,251 tons Of coal was cooked in
Vest Virginia, yielding 2,472,752 tons
f coke. la,ge part Of the coal used
other states for making coke IS
rom West Virginia, except in those
to'So plou COhlllS COdlS ll'l
heir own use
All records for coke production in
he United States were broken in
913, said Mr.. Parker. The output for
he year was 46,311 1863 short tons,
alued at SIPS. ,43O. This is an in
reaae over the 1912 product Of g.
27,770 tons in quantity and $17,146.-
II in value. Of the entire amount
coke produced, only PA per cent
as produced in retort or distilation
'vens, where all the by-products are
wed, but the increase in the produc-
ion Of by-product coke was more
han twice as large as the increase
n the beehive coke. The largest in
reases in the production Of by-prO-
tuct coke was in Alabama, Pennsyl.
ania. Indiana and Illinois, in the or
CT stated. West Virginia still clings
the primitive system Of making
.Oke in the beehive ovens~and letting
he by-products go to waste.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-30

Twenty years ago this town was, in
all public places free TO all for their
moneys worth. Not so today, and
why? Because and only because. the
colored people encourage all that's in
flicted on them. Had they opposed as
we did-go in, Sit down anywhere and
defy them to put us out. there would be
no jimcrowism in Martin sburg But
they have been foolish enough to enforce
it in every public place. except 1.-The
common peoples saloons" Nevrrthelesa
and Notwithstanding. if other sections
are only partly filled the jmcrow one
is always crowded and more l,ught. !
and satisfaction K ven. than by the cit
where-yOu please class " So it Is
plainly seen they lack self-reepect mar
hood and womanhooh, hence they treat
hem worse than slaves There are no
jimcrow laws In this state and there ia
not an injury done to decent citizen,
should he resent it in law, but what the
Supreme Court would mae the VIOLA
tors Of same pay dearly for doing
it,
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-30

In spite of efforts to prevent, Germany
has landed cannon, guns and ammuni-
ton in Mexico. Sure as flint has fire in
it, wide world war is getting to a
white heat, and what pity that those
who boast most Of religion are the ones
who are causing it.
Hatred because all peoples have not
the same hair, color and features, that a
certain other class has, really is the
cause of the war, coupled with greed
for land Guess Germany has as much
right to ship arms to Huerta as the
United States has to ship arms to Villa
Eli?
We said in the outset, let Mexico
alone, and now we repeat it with great
or force of thought and seeing that 9TH
er nations are backing Mexico, and af-
ter all, Hobson will likely laugh last,
and you know what that meaps
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-30
FROM OTHER VIEWPOINTS.

Far more wonderful than the discov
cry Of any river is the Colonel's ap
parent present experimentation with
the esteemed New York Tribune
Hartford Times.
A Pennsylvania company is charg.
ed with having supplied bad steel for
the Panama Canal locks. The tariff
seems to train men to regard the
government as fair game.-Kansas
City Star.
No inquiry into the mismanage-
ment of big corporation goes very
far before it unearths big contribu-
ton to the campaign fund Of Theo-
dore oosevelt.-fFlorida Times-Un-
ion.
The Panama Canal is only 40 miles
long, and the speeches that have
been made on the tolls question would
fill it to the surface from end to end.
Washington Herald.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-30

"There is hope for any body who can
smile and the Negro has never forgotten
how to smlle," said the Rev. John M.
CASTOR, Of Philadelphia, before TIE gen
ersl assembly of the Presbyterian church
in the United States in supporting the
report of the standing committee on
freedman at Chicago. on Tuesday. DR..
CASTOR is right. there 10 plenty of hope
for the Negro, and his achievements are
among the worlds wonders.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-30

While the Pioneer Press is truly pro.
and would vote for some republicans
whose love for the good the grand old
men in the grand old party have done
60 strongly bind them to it's prin ciples
that they hate to see it die, and hope for
q glorious reconciliation.
The New York Tribune is one of such
repu blicans. Its opposition to the Pro-
gressives is not vindictive-only simply
to get them back. 1t admits they had
cause to act and sin to destroy, but
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-30

II that grand old man and late la
mented Judge Of the United States
Court, Hon. John J. Jackson was alive
now it is plausible 10 infer, that from
the way they are after Judge Dayton,
the Industrial Workers of the World
would want to kill him, because be,
like Judge Dayton, believed in the
strict enforcement of the law, and no
one who eyer knew him, can say that
he was afraid of anybody, or was de-
tered from rendering decision by
any clique or clan.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-30

Relative TO Mr. l.. j. Hanifan. State
Supervisor Of rural schools. as he secs.
his plans, concerning consolidation of
schools, may seem feasible to him. As
we see it, no state has ever had TOO
many schools If in every home a
school house was lovingly and persist
emily kept. men and women would be
better In morals. religion and intelli-
gence. No state ever hae or ever will
spend too much money IN supporting
schools. and especially if the schools are
correctly Kovernt and taught
The law provides that wherever IS
children live. school shall be esrab-
lished. Why then, convert three such
sections into one school. requiring the
children Of the extreme sections to walk
many miles through mud. sieet, snow
and rain. while the int, me ia,e ones
are close to school? One boy or one
girl, may per chance, come from some
of our sparaely settled schools, worth
thousands Of others. How could II child
like the late great jnr,st and scholar
Judge Daniel b Lucas. have walked fal
to school?
However, we have a suggestion tt
make to MIR. H.nifnn. If funds are IT,
adequate 4, emingly to run the man,
schools, and it seems obligatory 10 con.
solidate, why not do IA Jesus Chris
would-coneo lidate white and colorec
schools? They are all citizen child; Ell
of the state, and the better thy be edu
Gated the better for the state. And fol
another reason, they all came from The
! same divine source and will all 20 bncl
to Him. What excuse can you give fo
! separate schools? To mix and minglt
is God g will and man should not hinder
it. To be schooled together would make
better children in every respect.
And that hateful thing called caste
would soon be destroyed forever Ohio
Pen nsylvania, New York, New jersey
| lndiana-in short. al the New England
States and the Western States have
| by far better men and women as the
result of said schools. Let us have it
Do you know because it does not exist
that there are hundreds Of coored chill
dren growing up in this state, scattered
here and there, who cannot go to schoo
at alp True, and shame it is true. NJ
wonder Henry Watterson says when we
all appear before God g throne. many
| white man w ill ask napv q blocl, r,o,
| to inteICede for him,
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-30
J. NJ. MOORE REFERS
TO The MEDIATION

LAKE MOHONk, n. Y, May p
"The most striking development yet
witnessed in the Pan-American move
nient," was the reference to the A.
B. G. mediation at Niagara Falls
made by John Bassett Moore in the
opening session at the Lake Mohonk
conference on international arbitra.
ton here today.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-30

The Pioneer Press poohpoohed all the
newspaper twaddle about T. R going to
line up with the dead branches Of the
dead old tree He ia truly a Progress
den of the United States.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-30

Two years ago plant in Pittsburgh
worked 5000 men. Today it works only
Is men and the cut down is charged up
to Wilson prosperity" Hurrah for
Wilson, and the Negroes who supported
him.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-30

Mellen has caused the most wonde r
any one man in America az to finance
and it's business methods. "Punishment
must follow sin '-Lincoln.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-30

Certainly T. r. discovered that 1000
mile river in Brazil and he's going to
run thousand miles ahead of his COM
petitors in 1916.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-30
SATURDAY, MAY 80 1914
More than so, 900 A Africans Negroes
Rave come into this country since 1901.

AS an evidence Of the popularity of
West Virginia products the Italian gov
eminent has inquired as to the best rate
on 1886, 600 tons of smokeless coal
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-30

money Of the mysterious Billiard Com
pany. Directors Lawrence Minot and
lanes s. Elton were in the committee
room. but were not called.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-30

Is.
M.-Examiner Says He Cannot Find
William ockefeIIer-koche
And Other Directors III-Teylanc
Offers to Waive immunity.
WASHINGTON, May 81 1.-Two i'm
portant reasons for the abrupt ad.
Journment of the Interstate Com
merce Commission probing into the
New Haven scandal were responsible
Tor its twentyminute session yester-
day, at which no witnesses were ex-
ahmed. One was publicly stated
It was that the commission would
adjourn until June in order to
permit consideration of the offer by
J. P. Morgan to produce the books of
commission
The other reason, which did not
appear, was that in temporarily dis
continuing the probe the commission
desires to afford Acknowledgement
McHeynoldS reasonable opportu.
nifty to formulate his plan for clear.
day.
McReynoIds Begins To-Day.
The first move in this direction will
be taken today by the President, At
torney-Genera McReynolds and Gov
Walsh Of Massachusetts. At a con-
ference between these officials a deci-
sion will undoubtedly be reached to
expedite the separation of the Boston
and Maine Railway from the New
| Haven system. Its control is to be
placed in the hands Of trustees already
! agreed upon between the DEPARTING MT
| Of Justice and the New Haven offic.
iaIs.
To examine the Books
| Regarding the offer of Morgan to
place the books Of his company at the
disposal of the commission an exam
liner will be sent to New York to look
over such data in the Morgan offices
as relate to the financial affairs of
the New Haven. Whether these
books will figure in future undertake
ings of the commission depends upon
what the examiner finds.
The impression is that the commits
sion will decide no ito examine any
more witnesses unless it shall be or
dered to do so by the Senate after a
report has been sent to that body
Such a proceeding would put the
whole New Haven situation squarely
up to the Attorney-General and would
obviate any chance of jeOpardizing
the plans Of the Department OF
Justice to bring about the restora'
ton Of the rights Of the New Haven
stockholders and to punish the men
responsible for the decentralization Of
the system.
Ledyard Ready to Testify.
The only New Haven director who
was ready to take the stand, with or
without immunity, was Lewis Cass
| Ledyard. He was not given an OPP
portunity, mainly because he figures
largely in the plans Of the Depart
ment Of Justice. Two of the other
three directors that Mr.. McReynolds
does not want granted immunity re-
ported in the sick Bay
| An examiner sent in search Of
William Rockefeller reported that he
could not find him. The only thing
| Of Importance he discovered at the
New York office Of the millionaire
was that Mr.. Rockefeller's office boy
! would take money if any came in.
| George Macculloch Miller, althogh
appearing hale and hearty at eighty
four, was reported as "indisposed to
testify
Former Vice-President KocheFs-
perber Of the New Haven, through
whose hands many millions Of dollars
of New Haven money passed. was de-
scribed as suffering from nervous
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-30
VESUV|US CAUSES
PEOPLE: To FF:AR||

NAPLES, Italy. May 2 THE acti-
witty Of Mount Vcsuviu5 aug,nents'
daily and causing considerable al
volcanoes of smoke are omitted from
he crater and form. heavy clouds.
Stromboli also is much more active
than usual.
New Haven Comm mugs and
measures milliners accused of work
ing girls after 10 p. m. Then the
are wooden heads as we'll as wooden
nutmegs in Connecticut.--Bro
Eagle.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-30
COMMISSION WILL
SEND EXAMINER TO
SEE MORGAN BOOKS
Expert to Learn if Material He
UncOvers Can be of Any
Use.
PRESIDENT TO SEE WALSH
AND MCREYNOLDS TO-DAY

They Will Expedite Divorce Of 3. arc
M.-Examiner Says He Cannot Find
William ckefeIIer-koche
And Other Directors III-TeyIanc
Offers to Waive immunity.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24

cleaning up the school yard and making
it suitable as a playground, making
out-buildings neat and sanitary, plant
ing trees or vines, improving the road
in front of the school house, etc.
Fifty schools in the towns scattered
over the county carried through the
work making wonderful transformations
within and without.
But the greatest result was in the
children themselves, who learned to
work together for a common end-a
wholesome discipline-and the genuine
neighborhood cooperation which APP.
peared in some communities as never
before.
The Bennington county association
and the rural Y. NJ. c. A. in Windsor
county are doing great work with the
children and their success has shown
the practical method of affecting the
rejuvination of the rural districts of
Vermont. The Advance.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24
HAVE YOUR CHILDREN TAUGHT
TO SWIM.

Three girls, aged -, II and IL years,
were drowned in the Westfield river a
Westfeld Tuesday, and at least eve
other similar fatalities We're reported in
different places in New England. The
girls were patients of the Westtield sana-
forum where very sick tubercular pa
tients are cared for. They had gone
wading and suddenly found themselves
in a hole with six feet of water. None of
them could swim. All were drowned.
The shock of this is very sharp and it
brings home to parents the need of Civ
ing their children the chance to learn to
swim. There will be drowning accidents
enough among good swimmers where in
the Joy of the sport people stay in too
long and become exhausted or where
swimmers risk their lives to save those
who cannot swim or where sudden
cramps pull good swimmers down. But
most drowning disasters could be spared
if boys and girls could be taught to swim.
They not only learn to protect them
selves in the water, but they also have
opened up to them a field of great
pleasure.
There is nothing better for the physical
development of the young person, boy
or girl, than swimming. 1t calls for the
use of all of the large arm and leg muscles
and develops growth at the period when
the young are growing. 1t is also one of
the most delightful forms of exercise in
the world. All well-to-do people now try
to have their children taught swimming
both for the physical value of it and that
they may know how to care for them
selves in the water. 1t is to be regretted
that with the Connecticut river flowing
past our doors Brattleboro does not
make some public use of it for the
proper training of swimming. Brattle-
boro Reformer.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24
Mrs. Agnes M. Peabody Dead.

Rutland, July l7.-Mrs. Agnes NJ.
Peabody, widow of Henry G. Peabody
If Pittsford, died suddenly at S:15
o'clock yesterday morning at her home,
80 Madison street. Mrs. Peabody had
not been well for a long time, but she
had been about the house. She arose
yesterday morning and was apparently
about as usual when she was striker
with cerebral hemorrhage. DR.. J.. E.
Thomson and Health Officer f. II. Geb-
hardt were called, but life was extinct
before either arrived.
Agnes Malinda Stevens was born No
vember Is. 1889, in Pittsford, the daugh-
ter of John and Melinda Burditt Ste
vens. She was married to Mr.. Peabody,
at that time of Middlebury, January /,
1868. MIR. and Mrs. Peabody lived sew
eral years in Worcester, Mass, but
passed the greater part of their
lives in Pittsford, where Mr.. Peabody
died.
Mrs. Peabody came to Rutland to live
some ten years ago and since about five
years ago had made her home with Mr..
and Mrs. C. f. Vose, the former being
a nephew OF her husband.
The only nea surviving relatives are
two n%ieces, Mrs. Perry R. Fletcher of
Blue Island, H., and Mrs. George E.
Stacy of North Yakima, Wash. Mrs.
Peabody was sister-in-law of the late
D. P. Peabody, sheriff of Rutland
county.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24
BRINGING A BIG SHIP INTO PORT.

"A IN -
When the new Cunard liner, the COL
fit. "Aquitania, " one of the largest and
finest ships in the world, finished its
maiden trip across the Atlantic from
Liverpool with 1,072 passengers or
board, June 5, 1914, it was required,
before being allowed to enter New York
Harbor and tie up at its dock, to under
go the same rigid quarantine and GUS
toms inspections and to follow exactly
the same procedure as if it had been the
most insignificant tramp steamer. The
formalities connected with getting into
port, of which the Ease of the
"Aquitania" is only an illustration on a
large scale, are described in a hand
somely illustrated article appearing in
the August Popular Mechanics Maya
zine. The work is handled by men who
are highly trained and it is ordinarily
carried out in an astonishingly short
time, even with the biggest ships,
considering the amount of work that is
done.
Every ship coming into New York
Harbor from a foreign port must lie to
or anchor off the quarantine station sit
uated on Staten Island just inside the
limits of the Lower Bay, and must re
main in that position until it has been
inspected and given a clean bill of health
by the health officer of the port. One
of the rules Of the harbor is that the
quarantine boat come up to an incoming
vessel on the port side. A careful ex-
animation is made by the quarantine
officers to discover any case of con-
tagious disease, and if any are dis
covered, the infected passengers, as
we'll as all those who have been exposed,
are taken to the detention hospital on
Hoffman's Island, in the Lower Bay,
while the ship itself may be held in
quarantine for several days or even
weeks, if cholera, yellow fever or other
epidemic diseases are discovered. Until
this examination is finished no person
other than the health officers is allowed
10 DOdlu OF ledNe lHc NeS9el' 'ut It.
striction applying even to the customs
officers. The last incident before dock
ing is the arrival of the postoffice boat,
which meets the incoming ship as it
enters the Hudson River, takes off all
the first-class mail and rushes it to the
post office in New York city. The mail
transfer is not allowed to interfere in
any way with the progress of the
ship, as the p~ostoffice boat is simply
taken in tow and the transfer is made
as the ship steams up the river.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24
Trust Estate of
George $. Walk err
of whiting.
GTATE OF VERMONT,

SJATE OF
ODlS1RICT OF ADDISON. IS.
The Honorable Probate Court for the district
aforesaid:
To the beneiciaries and all persons interested
in the trust estate of George S. Walker, late Of
Whiting, in said district, deceased,
GREETING:
Whereas. application hath been made to this
court in writing. by the trustee of the trust
estate of said deceased, praying for license and
authority to sell certain of the real estate Of said
deceased. to wit: The Cavanaugh house and
acre or so of land Herewith, located on the
southerly side of Champlain street, so called, in
Brandon village. near the westerly outskirts of
said village in Brandon, in the district of Rut-
land, representing to said court that il would be
beneficial to the trust estate and all persons
interested in the estate of said deceased. to sell
said real estate and convert the same into
money,
Whereupon, the said court appointed and as
signed the 9th day of July, 1914, at 9 O'Clock am.
at the Probate Office in Middlebury. in said dis
trict. to hear and decide upon said application
and petition, and ordered public notice thereof to
be, gwen to all persons interested therein, by pub
fishing said order. together with time and place
OF hearing, three weeks successfully in the Mid
dlebury Register, a newspaper which circulates
IN the neighborhoOd of those persons interested in
said estate, all which publications shall be pre-
Vious TO the day assigned for hearing.
Therefore. you are hereby notified to appear be-
lore sad court, at the time and place assigned,
then and there in said court to make your objec-
tons to the granting of such license. if you see
cause.
Given under my hand at Middlebury, in said
district, this 9Th day of July. 1914.
. Charles |. Button. Judge of Probate
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24

A certain car once posted a sentinel
where no sentinel was needed; for two
centuries thereafter the spot was
guarded because no order came to stop
guarding it. Apparently u w gov
eminent car do things quite as foolish.
On the Maine coast is an island that
used to have a summer hotel and asum-
mer post office. The hotel was burned
a year ago; but although not a single
person lives on the island, the post
office still survives. The steamer stops
at the deserted wharf every day, and
the summer postmaster rows over from
his home to meetit; then the postmaster
and a man from the steamer gravely
hand each to the other an empty mai
sack. The Youths Companion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24
Trivial Causes of Wars.

A bucket was once the innocent
cause of a terrible war. Nine centu-
ries ago ONE soldiers of Modena stole
a bucket as a joke from a public well
at Bologna. When they refused to re-
store it scrimmaging commenced be-
tween the soldiers Of the rival states,
and a war ensued. which spread until
1t involved the greater part of Eu-
rope. In more recent times a debt of
a few shillings of which the hey OF
Algters demanded payment through
the French consul led to a war which
lasted twenty years. cost more than
10000 lives and made Algeria a
French possession.