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vice president, and R. B. zinn, secre-
tary.
Death Calls
Mrs. Skinner !,
PROMINENT WOMAN OF THE
CITY DIES AT BROTHERS
HOME IN RExvILLE, N. Y.

Mrs. Josephine A. Skinner, wife or
the late Charles L. Skinner. and one
Of the most prominent women Of the
city, died on Saturday afternoon III
Rexville, N. Y, at the home OF her
brother. Father John E. Casey, where
she had been i'll for several months.
Mrs. SINNERS death followed a
long Illness. She was taken Ill last
spring while in this city and for sew
eral weeks was in a serious condi.
'tion at her apartments in the Watson
hotel. She partially recovered, how
ever, and spent the summer with rel
atives at points in Pennsylvania AMI
New York. expecting to return here
last fall.
However, while at the home OF her
brother she became worse and had
since been in a hopeless condition.
AT times she remained in a comatose
state for weeks. but rallied on sever
al occasions and conversed with mem
cries of her family. Several days ago
she began to sink rapidly and it a
known that the end was a question
OF but a few hours.
Mrs. Skinner was formerly Miss
Josephine Casey and came to this
city with her husband Charles L. Skin
ner about twenty-five years ago from
Pennsylvania. Mr.: Skinner vas for
many years proprietor of SINNERS
Tavern here, and it was under his
management that the hostelry became
famous throughout this and adjacent
states. Later he became proprietor OF
the Watson hotel and it was during
his residence there that his death
occurred. Mrs. Skinner had since
resided at the Watson.
Deceased is survived by "a brother,
Father Casey, and a sister, Miss Nora
Casey. both Of Rexville. Her parents
and one sister are deceased. An aunt,
Mrs. Mary O'Hearn, of Dubois, died
in October shortly after Mrs. Skin.
ner had left her home after a lengthy
visit. However, she had never been
appraised of the sad intelligence.
Mrs. Skinner was well known
throughout this community and the
news Of her serious illness had oc-
casioned much solicitation on the part
Of her friends. When the news Of
her death reached here Saturday ev-
enlng it carried with It a burden OF
sorrow and deep regret.
The remains OF Mrs. Skinner, &C.
companied by her brother, will ar
rive here Wednesday from Rexville.
and Will be taken to the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. John R. Bennett on Jack.
son and Madison streets.
Funeral, services will be held on
Thursday morning from st. Peters
Catholic church at 8 o'clock and In
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HRS. Il. NJ. Abbott of Kingwood AMI
Mrs. Ed. Davis rendered in o splendid
manner, @ Christmas program OF I'M
usual merit. The chorus as we'll as
The soloists were in splendid voice anil
tie entire program was excellent and
was enjoyed by a large audience, the
auditorium and lecture room both be-
ing utilized for the service.
Mrs. Minor Durham. organist as
sisted by Mr.. Harry Cornell on the
violin. rendered several beautiful Sc
!ectfons' in an artistic manner.
A splendIdIy selected program Of
clristmas anthem was sung and a solo
angels from the Realm OF Glory. was
sung by Miss Hough, in her usual
splendid manner. The other so1otsts
were Mrs. Ed. Davis, Mrs. R. M. Abb
bott and Or. G. H. Neil1.
The personel of the choir is as fol-
Icws:
Sopranos: Misses Katherine Hough.
Ida Stone, Elizabeth Stone, Josephine
snider. Virtue Horner, Mamie Clark.
Eugenla Clark, Nellie McTntire, Grace
Randolph, Mrs. Ed. Davis, Mrs. Nit.
chell Mills.
Altos: Mrs. n. NJ. Abbott, Villa
vanglider, Pauline Snider.
Tcnors: Messrs. Ebert Kinkead,
Carl Pressman, H. J. Hartley.
Bassos: DR.. c. H. Neill, Minor Dun
ham. Ray Toothman, Fay Merrifield.
l.. G. Roop.
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TO Confer With
US. Engineers
LOCAL COMMITTEE WILL GO TO
PITTSBURGH TO DISCUSS
HARBoR CHANGES.

Secretary Charles W. Evans AMI
Sam r. Nuzum, members Of the com
mittee appointed by the Fairmont
Chamber OF Commerce, will so to
Pittsburgh Thursday, where they will
hold a conference with Assistant
United States Engineer A. B.. NC
Grew in reference to the harbor limo
in Fairmont. This conference has
been occasioned by the request OF
the Baltimore & Ohio raoilroad COM
pany that the local Chamber Of Com
merce recommend to the engineers
the filling to be made by the railroad
company instead of a retaining wall
/ nthe river.
The Chamber Of Commerce is an
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Misery Prevails
liz Belgium, Says Editor
IN Charge First Food Ship

for none spoke, except to murmur,
Thank you. monsieur"
"In Holland found thousands OF
men, m and children from Bel
GUM huddled in camps on barges.
some refined, some coarse and brutal
izod, all sleeping together without par
titlons to give the least privacy"
The Notre Dame Order of Nuns,
who have a large convent in Bel
GUM say their sisters there r. starry
ing, Claiming that the German sol
diers eat tho American food that Is
sent for relief.
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Sentence for
Italian Murderer

CLARKSBURG. Dec. 2S.-Car1o De-
melo, an Italian found guilty recently
by a Jury in the criminal court of the
murder of Nicola Simonetti October
Z ut Reynoldsville and recommended
for life Imprisonment in the atstc
p%enitentiary at M~oundsyille was for
mally sentenced Saturday morning by
Judge James w. Robinson: Demolo
confessed to the murder, too, and
were given life sentences. All three
will be taken to the penitentiary soon.
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.Gilmer County Town
Visited by Bad Fire

CHENILLE, Dec. 28.-Fire broke
out in, Lloyd Gamers restaurant at
$50 o'clock Saturday morning AMI
entirely destroyed the building. The
flames spread to the A. w. Golf gen
eral store, which was also consumed.
BY heroic work of citizens the Glen
villo Banking and Trust Company's
building, Central hotel and Pathfinder
office we're saved. The total loss
Is about $500, with insurance of So
500 on A. W. COTS stock of merchan'
disc.
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NEW york, Dec. .2S.-Thcodore
Waters. secretary Of the Christian
Herald, WHO q IN charge q, the first
shIptoudSof8food sent TO Belgium, re.
surned on the Gunarder Pennsylvania.
gThe night Of the Belgian people,
ESyatersgsai aid, was beyond descrip-
/; sand9h lie added that so far as he
Ia observed; the Germans were not
living thafstarvtng people one ounce
ii food. All belgium he described as
a long bread line. in the brilliantly
lighted cafesSof Brussels and Antwerp,
gaid, the German officers drink
wine and make merry, while out in
the cold women and children and
old men@hungrily watch the feasting.
II h~ayeSbeen in Belgium" Mr.. Wa
ters continued, land I have witnessed
scenes which j hope never to e
again. 4 have heard the sound Of the
Guns. in theEfar distance to be sure,
and In the cities towns and villages
haye seen the havoc which those
gums produced. Worse, I have wit
1essed the hopeless misery of the
poop souls left behind to mourn.
"tn Antwerp Z saw more than 1000
women one In bedroom slippers, shiv'
erfne in tie snow and slush, waiting
Tor f6od to4be doled out to them url-
der tine shadow OF a big hotel where
wen fedS warmly clad soldiers drank
and madesmerry. In Mechlin, under
he shadow Of the RACED cathedral
saw men. women and children saz.
ing atthes ruins of houses that nee
were theirs begging something to
eat is We passed. One the road to
brussels Ne overlook thousands
trarnptngs deiectedly to villages where
there Is not food for those already
IN BRUSSELS we saw women holding
babies onscold street corners begging
eentines Tor food. We visited the
distrfbuting stations, and saw tho
focd rent ~ Americans handed out
In ali TOO meagre rations. They came
In dsoxsssfrom all directions and the
CHATTER - their sabres was Q sad &C
contpgnimentst To their sadder thoughts
ENffg3J9 tNtl Aygg - HMs
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Lady's
Funeral Held.
MRS. THORNTON NuzuM WAS
BURIED YESTERDAY NEAR
- HAMMOND.

Mrs. Thornton Nuzun. aged So, of.
Boothsville, who died Friday morning
from diseases incident to old adge,
was laid at rest in the Nuzum Gene
terry near Hammond yesterday. Fun
eral services were conducted ut the
residence by. the Rev. zumbrunner.
Her husband. aged So years. four sons,
'12 grandchildren and IL great grand
children survive her. A large con-
course of people attended the fun
eral. 4
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PROMINENT G. E. WORKER.

Rev. Chas. HubbeIl, D. D., Of Ad-
rlan, Mich, field secretary OF Young
Peoples Societies Of the M. P. de-
nomination. died several days ago at
his home. News Of his death was
received here Saturday in a message
to DR.. ]. C. Broomfeld. No details
were given. Or. Hubbell has visited
this city frequently in an official ca.
pacity,
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FoRM a OF TRADE.

HARRlsv1LLE, w, Va, Dec. 2s.
A board OF trade, consisting Of more
than 100 active members and a num.
Der Of honorary members. has been
organized here, with Judge Homer
B. Woods. president; s. A. Powell
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Baptist Choir
Renders Fine
Song SerOice
LARGE CHORUS IN SPLENDID
VOICE DELIGHTS BIG
AUDIENCE.
SPECIAL PROGRAM OF CHRIST
MAS ANTHEMS AND SOLOS
WAS SUNG.

An evening OF song was observed at
the First Baptist Church Sunday eve
ming, when the large chorus choir, IN.
der the direction of Miss Katherine
Hough, the chorister and assisted by
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at,+. ~ Ohio, CITY Of Toledo. Lucas County. -
Frank ]: cheney makes GATH 2 rb tsSt h { e CO. een de-
ne basiSess In tic city of Toledo, County and
State a%Soresni Gvs snd rt t,Ss 1sfa 6{T L xfa IA
each ami every case OF Catarrh that cannot -
cured By tho use Of Halls CataFrh Cure.
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szIous. 10 not In direct accord With
the adytees ofsthe var department.
and before any recdmmendations
whatsoeverSare made G ful lconsnlta5
sionnS WEI hayesbeen had Wtthsthepro
per officials representingt the ward g
psrtnent
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SAW 1000 WOMEN IN BEDROOM
sLIPPERss sHlVERlNG IN SNOW
ATSANTWERP; He SAYS.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES DRINK WINE
AND MAKE MERRY DURING
SCENES. OF MISERY, EYEWlT-
NESS SAYS.
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FRANK J. CHENEY.

svor "a before ne and subscribed in my
,rsSence. ibis eth day Of December, A. D., 1850
seal. 4. v. S SoInss Public.
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H H +. ). CHENEY 4 CO., Toledo. O.
sold by al Druggists. zoe.
/ rate Halle Fanily Pills for eouItipatone
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termcnt will be made in Holy Cross
cemetery under the direction Of I'm
dertaker r. c. Jones.
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Har.s catarrh Cure Is taken Internally and
.rts direetIT uSOu the blood and mucous sur
fSeen OF tie eyatem. Send for testimonials
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$500 reward.

Five dollars reward VIII be paldEIoE
information leading to recovery 81
1915 calendars OF the West Virginian
and the Farmers Free Press taken!
from tho room in the Jacobs build:
ing formerly occupied by the West
virginian. The reward will be paid
for information disclosing the name
of the party or parties taking the sc AZ
endars. y
The West virginian calendars were
the largest made, showing the fam
GUS picture, "a Honeymoon In Xens
ice," and the calendars can easily be
identified by the printing.
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Empire Ro Her Rink.

OPEN AFTERNOON AND NIGHT
We Issue a speeai5 Invitation to the fParents and guardians RI yeurs
people, who think that a skating rink is not the. proper p4aes.1T.helE3boys
or aMis &c. 10. AIT shat NO askSs that they come and seesarSthenselNs
rink is conducted as we posifvely do not tolerate any EoGgnnese
or anything that would dIapIeaoe the most fastdleus: ~
a hsahhfuIA Amusement. ForsYeung and old
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slMILAREscENEs WERE SEEN IN
HoLLAND-REFINED SLEEP ~
eAMPs3WlTH THE coARsE'ANo
RRUTAL:
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Dieting.

By Walt Mason: When ailments
through your system buzz, and aches
are running riot, tbs first thing thaS
the doctor does has rcf'rence to your
diet. He asks you what you like
to eat, his face all stern and wood
EN-; you tell him fish and fowl and
meat, and pie and cake and puddln'
Cut out all that" You hear him say;
mo wonder that you totter! Youth
eat a bran mash every day, and
nothing drink but water No matter
what my trouble is, when I go to
the sawbones, he hands me out the
same old biz from grim, unyielding
jawbones. "Cut on the pie, cut out
the cake | always hear AIM mutter,
IF you would shed your pesky ache
cut out the cheese and butter i
diet for the jumping gout, l diet for
lumbago; l have to cut the good
things out, and live ON rice and sago!
I'm fond of grub that's good and rich,
that in the stomach tingles; but l
must diet for the itch, and diet for
the shingles. Pm living now on
horses fare Chats why weep the
briny), attempting to restore some
hair to my old scalp 50 shiny. l Won
der why the blooming docs don't
change their medication? They now
accept a patients rocks and then pre-
scribe starvation.
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Fourth Pankhurst
Enters the Ranks
U-nited Press Day Service

Omitted Press Day service
Milan, Italy. Jan. 1.-THE fighting
ranks of the militant PankhurSts-Em-
incline, Sylvia and Christabel-are
about to be increased by a fourth
member in the person of Adele Pank-
hurst, youngest daughter of the Eng
dish leader.
Up until the present moment Adele
has been very much of an unknown
ouantity-so much so, that when she
made her debut in this city as a mill
tant orator, the Suffragette, Mrs,
Pankhurst's official organ at London.
denied she was one of the family. a
day later it discovered its mistake and
welcomed Adele to a position along
side of her mother and two sisters.
Because Of poor health, Adele Pank-
hurst has been obliged to keep out Of
the strenuous life adopted by the rest
of the family, and it was because Of
this enforced seclusion that the Lon
don suffragists did not know of her
existence. For several years past she
has been doing gardening in the hopes
that it would restore her health and
is confident that she has finally sue
ceeded. To the United Press CORES
pondent, however, she today admitted
that during all the time she was hoe
ing potatoes and teaching young peas
how to shoot, she had always heard,
like Joan of Are Of old, the call of bat
tie, and the call at last became too
strong for her to remember longer
her physical infrmities. Miss Pank-
hurst now admits that she has girded
on ali the weapons of suffragist mill
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The Press Guarantees Circulation Greater
than the Combined Circulation OF any
Other Three Imperial Valley Papers

tancy-with the possible exception OF
hunger and thirst striking, which she
does moi think her health will permit
and hopes thereafter to be found in
the foremost ranks Of the fighters
Miss Adele chose Italy for her debut
hoping that the mild climate here
would permit her to continue the prop
aganda. The occasion, however, was
not entirely a success. She first wrote
her address in English and then had
it translated into French. When she
attempted to read the latter, no one
in the Italian audience was able to
understand Then young Italian suf-
ragette. who knew French we'll, Of
fered to translate it into Italian at
sight. She got as far as the first
paragraph and then stuck. Finally it
was decided that Miss Pankhurst
should read it in English and that
q woman present, who knew less Eng
lish than the one who had first tried
TO translate it il French, would tell
the audience what it was about. This
was finally done. Miss Adele admit
ted today that when the Suffragette
her, following her debut
here, she was so ratified that when the
Milan newspaper men called to see her
about it she did not know what to tell
them. The next day it occurred to
her that her birth certificate, together
with letters from her mother and sis
ters, might help to establish her iden-
tity, and these she took at once to
the newspaper Offices. a little later
the Suffragette of London telegraphed
the Milan suffragists that it had been
in disclaiming her. Miss
Panllhurst has already accepted az
offer to deliver lectures in all Of the
other principal Italian cities.
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Cost of Common School Education.

Rochester Post-EXpress: Educa-
tors say that it costs at least S2S a
year to give an American child good
common school education. In 1911
the actual expenditure in the United
States for such education was $446,
82G,929. If $28 per capita for chill
dren had been expended, the aggre-
gate would have been $692, ,S75, ,664
However, that rate would have de-
creased the expenditures in the Dis
trict of Columbia, California, Colo
RADIO, Idaho, Massachusetts,, Montana,
Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota,
Oregon, Utah, Washington and Nyo-
ming. In seventeen states approx
mately S28 per capita was spent
Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Min
nesota, Nebraska, New York, Ohio.
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South
Dakota, Vermont and Wisconsin. But
the southern states were far behind,
Arkansas spent $3,5O0,O0O for COM
mon schools. in 1911. On basis of
the per capita rate named, the
amount would have been $14,000,-
600. Mississippi should have spent
S16,GOOO0O, instead of $2,7O0,0O0;
Georgia, $23, 100000, instead of $2,-
10000; Tennessee, 918,5OO,OO0, in
stead of $5,0OO,OO0, and Texas $25,-
C00,00O, instead of 11,800,O00. Other
southern states were proportionately
deficient. The total for the south
should have been $17O,OOO,O0O; it was
only $8O,OOO,OOO. The figures do not
change the popular conception of
things, but they show the extent to
which these conditions prevail.
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Civilized Man the Destroyer.

Havelock Ellis in the international
for january: If there is anything
anywhere in the world that is rare and
wild and wonderful, singular in the
perfection Of its beauty, civilized man
sweeps it out Of existence. Hahn has
lately pointed out that the fauna and
flora Of North America are steadily
evolving towards the commonplace, for
everything that is not commonplace
man destroyers. 1t is the fate every
where Of lyre-birds, OF humming
birds, Of birds Of Paradise, of mar
vicious things that man may destroy
ard can never create. They make
poor parlor ornaments and but ugly
adornmenta for silly women. The
world is the poorer and we none the
richer. The same fate Is overtaking
al the loyelie=t spots On the earth.
There are rare places which priml-
tive man only approaches on special
occasions, with sacred awe, counting
their beauty iuyiolabic and the ami
mals living in them "a gods. Such
places have existed in the heart Of
Africa unto today. Civilized man ar
rivcs, dispcrses the awe, shoots the
animals, if possible turns them into
cash Eventually he turns the seen
cry into cash, covering it with dear
hotels and cheap advertisements. In
Europe the process has long been
systematizcd. Lake Leman was once
4 spot which inspired poets with q
new feeling for romantic landscape.
What Rousseau or Byron could find
inspiration On that lake today? The
Pacific once hid in its wilderness a
multitude Of little islands upon which,
as the first voyagers and mission
aries bore witness, primitive man
protected by nature from the larger
world, had developed rarely beau
tiful culture, wild and fierce and Vo-
laptuous, and yet in the highest de-
gree humane Civilized man arrived
and in a few years only a sordid and
ridiculous shadow was left Of that
uniquely wonderful life. People talk
with horror Of Sabotage" Natur-
ally enough. Yet they do not sec
that they themselves are morally sup
porting, financially paying for and
even relgiously praying for, a gigan-
tic system Of worldwide Sabotage
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Governor Ammons
Refuses Clenency
Omitted Press Day Serviee)

Omitted Press Day Serviee)
Denver, Jan. 14.-Elias M. Ammons
wouldn't hang any man, but he Is
going to see that three of them are
hanged during the next few months
unless the supreme court interferes to
save their lives.
The governor does not propose to
let his personal, sentimental notions
influence him on behalf of Harold F.
Honwood, Oscar Cook and Harry Hill
lhea when The hour strikes for these
three slayerS to step upon the death
trap. Heuwood shot Sylvester Won
Paul. the St. Louis airman and mil
honairc. in q quarrel over woman
in the Brown Hotel bar here's Cook
killed two men who resisted him when
he held up a saloon, and Hillen, a
hold-up man. shot Thomas Chase t.
death when the latter didn't hold UP
his hands fast enough when ordered.
L wouldn't hang any man., said
the governor TO the United Press to
day. but l am here to see that the
laws of the statute books are exc
cuted. no matter whether agree with
those laws or oppose them. In some
instances. of course, there are extern
uating circumstances and clemency Is
justified. For instance, when a man
is of unsound mind, l wouldn't ST
calmly by and let him be hanged. But
the only sure punishment that can be
meted out to some criminals Is tht
punishment that forfeits life for the
one taken.
(Which means that | haven't any
faith in the life sentence being life
sentence if there is a pull beyond ths
walls. Some years ago there was
house here inhabited by Italians-mu-
sicaI fellows. One Of them, more thrift
ty than the others, had saved $l,100.
which he slowed away in a teapot il
the cupboard.
One night the capitalist was in
the room with & friend. The other
inmates Of the house were gathered
below playing their mandolins and gui-
t2rs and coucertinas. Two of them
left the group and went upstairs Tbs
music went on growing louder and
louder until the door was suddenly
pushed open and one of the men wha
had gone upstairs entered. his hands
dripping with blood and holding a sack.
AT the end OF week. people pass
ing the house noticed sickening odor.
The victims were discovered and the
police got the murderer. The ring
leader confessed and told how he ar
ranged the music in order that any
cries for help would be unheard. That
man went to the penitentiary for life
In exactly eight years he was re
leased. He had an aged mother who
was in poverty, or some such story,
was given as the basis for his par
don. Was that man punished? He
was not
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VETERINARY SURGEON

DIR. v. E. CRAM
VETERINARY SURGEON
OFFICE DEPOT STABLES. Phone B35
725 ORANGE ST PHONE B 112
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which for centuries has been reck-
lessly destroying things that are in
fnitely more lovely and irreparable
than any that Syndicahsts may have
injured.
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Colorado River.

Mean daily gauge heights and dis
charges of the Colorado river at Yu-
ma, Ariz., for the week ending Janu-
airy 10, 1914:
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$500 second-feet was diverted at La
guna dam into the canal; this wa:
added to the gaging to get the tota
discharge Of river.
FRANCIS l.. SELLEW,
Project Engineer.
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$3.50 Cash

Will pay for 40 acres soft soil, close
in. GAGE & WACHTEL, 514 Main
street.-Adv. If