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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-01-05
THIS WEEKS FIGHT CARD,
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Charley White VS., Harry Dona,
hue, 10 rounds, at Pekin. Ill.
Battling Leyinsks VS.. Bob Nc,
Aliister, 10 rounds at New York
City.
Joe shugrue VS. Willie Beecher
10 rounds. at Troy, n. Y.
Jack White VS.. Frankey Russell
5 rounds, at Memphis, Tenn.
Jack Britton VS. Phil Bloom, II
rounds, at New York city.
Tommp Gary VS.. Tommy Deylin
10 rounds. at Cincinnati.
Johnny Kilbane VS.. Eddie Moy, /,
rounds, at Philadelphia.
TUESDAY.
Cal Delaney VS.. Matt Brock, 1,
rounds, at Youngstown, O.
Freddie Welsh VS.. Frankly Whit
ney, 10 rounds. at Atlanta, Ga.
THURSDAY.
Battling Leyinsky VS.. Tom Nc
Mahon, 10 rounds, at New YorI
City.
SATURDAY.
Johnny Howard VS.. Jack Driscoll
10 rounds, at Brooklyn, n, Y. Z
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-01-05
E0peratedUpon
MORGANToWNZMr .na W..

NORTHUMBERLAND. and Mrs. ].
Y. Ingram, who are in Pittsbnrgh
teleplloned to friends here that Or.
Frank 7. Hummel. pastor Of til, .
Methodist Protestant church here,
was operated on between ll.so and.
El2:s0! at the Homeopathic hospital
and that he stood the operation v,ry
we'll All; indications are that tho
operation will be Successful. The ono
ration was for sail stones only. no
evidence Of appendicitis beinr found.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-01-05
MILITIA E OUT.
DENVER, COL. Jan. 6.-Goyerr

Ell, COT, Jan. 5.-G0Vernor
Ammons, last night ordered a. com.
many sbf?infantry from Trinidad into
the north section of the coal fields.
where yesterday much excitement
was created through the deportation
of seven strike leaders by members
of the Taxpayers League. Condi-
tons at Oak Creek and Steamboat.
Springs were reported extremely
threatening.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-01-05

for Reed. Reed for Riggs. Field
goals, Reed 8, Boyce 5, Creighton Z,
Hamilton /, Nay 2.
Goals from foulsl, Reed s out Of Is
Baclnman s out Of II.
Time Of halves, 20 minutes.
Referee, Rapp..
Timer, Clark.
Scorer, Mckinney.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-01-05
TO BUSINESS MEN WHO
DO mot DyERT1sE.

- -NEN N.GaaEWN ,.J .L
When YOU fan TO receiva
your daily newspaper are you
annoyed?
Try going without your ia
voritc newspaper for a day Or
50 and you will realize whit sp
important part II plays In ii,
lives Of our people.
To most readers the adycr
tismentsl are as Important al
the so;called news. They ars
the bulletins OF commerce.
Newspaper readers soon
grow to have an unconseioa,
intimacy with advertisers
whose names they see day afte~
day. When they want anything
they naturally turn to these
advertisers because they know
them.
Ifi you do not advertise, yo,i
are hampered from tile start.
You do not get the trade Of tho
great and the growing army of
newspaper advertising reader.
unless Il D By accident. y
~ HfA.hN 1870 Kf7..
F9hThere,iis another question
Qdyouttmishtg ash yourself: :
Does my business increase as
ThenSput 5thessame question
to some Of yottr friends who
are investing money In adver-
Using.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-01-05
BOWLING
Season Closed.

The Pastime won first place in til.
Tastime three man three bail duck
pin league, which completed its firs,.
season last week.
The Giants pulled down high team
score for three games,
The Pastime and Giants will start
the ball rolling in the first game Of
the second season tonight. Tie scores
at the end of the first half were as
follows:
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-01-05
WHEELING BASKET BALL
BEATS HIGH SCHOOL,

The Wheeling High school basket
ball team won from the Fairmont
High school team at the local Y. u.
c. A. gym Saturday night by the
score of SO to 90. The game was 4
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-01-05
s.

Cray VS.. Reece; March s-14, Steven
% VS.. winner OF Gray-Reece match;
March 1928. Inman tholder}. VS..
Stevenson, Gray or Reece.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-01-05
Temple League.

This weeks schedule for the Tenn
pie two ball three man league, tho.
postponed games from last9week will
also be rolled.
Monday-Manleys VS.. Monongah
Glass.
Observation-Disclosures IS. Temples.
MISUNDERSTANDING VS.. omens.
Thursday-Haggerty's s pixiesE
Friday-Watson D. VS.. Plumbers. ]
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-01-05
: Fancy Vests - Sweaters at Special Prices.
Opera House vs.. Night owls, Feb.

Opera House vs.. Night Owls, Feb.
10th.
Bull Moose VS.. Opera House, Feb
18th.
Seventh week
Night Owls vs.f Giants, Feb. 10th.
Bull Moose VS. Hartleys, Feb. 18TH
Pastice VS.. Giants, Feb. 18th.
Opera House VS.. Pastime, Feb. 90.
Eighth week
Hartleys VS.. Opera House. Feb. 81.
Bull Moose VS.. Night. Owls, Feb.
26th. !.
Ninth week
Hartleys VS.. Giants, March cd.
Night Owls VS.. Pastime. March Sd.
Bull, Moose: Us. Hartleys. March 8.
Night Owls VS.. Hartleys, March c.
Tenth week ii
Pastime VS.. Hartleys, March 10.
Opera House VS.. Bull Moose, Marca
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-01-05

Gilbert 2. Thompson, Of Philadel.
pfia, is the fifteen-year-oldI boy who
srrang a real sensation last sun.
mer, when, practically a novice, he
broke the one-mile national SWIM
ming record and then captured tie
llalf-mile title of supremacy from AZ
large and representative field. COM
retent judges have pronounced him
az promising a middle distance pad
iler ;;as ever was the create. NJ. Dan
.cls a sprinter.
Experts believe that within a few
years he will be one of the notable
champions.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-01-05


entered for the revival Of the tour
ist trophy auto race to be held in
the Isle OF Man next June. The;
race will be a two-day contest with
a total OF 600 miles. The last race
was held In 1908.
The annual meeting of the Unit
cd States Golf Association will be
held in New York city on Friday.
The awarding of the dates and To-
cations OF the national champion
ship tournaments will be an import
ant feature of the meeting.
II plans do not go away. the New
York Giants and Chicago White sox
VIII go to South America next win
ter. playing games in Argentina and
Brazil and possibly some parts of
Central America on the return trip.
The year following a trip to Africa
is planned. Both Comisky and Nc
t;raw favor the idea.
----
II is probable that n deal between
the Cardinals and the Boston Ma
tionals will be pulled off during the
next two weeks. Manager Miller
IIuggins of the Cardinals has receiv-
ed a letter from Manager George
stallings suggesting a deal whereby
George Tyler. the star southpaw.
I. would so to the Cardinals for "Cozy''
7 Dolan and Lee Magee. stallings
: has; been trying to purchase Dolan
outright for some time.
.EThTS u ~ i.a itE
Melbourne Inman. the English
billiard champion. will defend his
title during the month of March,
meeting the winner of an elimina-
tion tournament to be held ut Lon
don under the auspices Of the Coun.
ell of the Billiards Control Club. Tho
schedule as aranied calls for three
matches as follows: March 81
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-02-21
Two Suicides in One Night.

A telephone message received from
Pollock Friday afternoon, just as we
were getting ready to go to press, in
forms US that two suicides occurred at
points along the Iron Moudtain railroad
Thursday night, Feb. 10, of which we
have only been able to obtain meagre
information.
The first was man by the name of
Harry Hooter, at or near Ball, in Rap
ides parish.
The second case was Miss Amanda
Nugent, at or near Bob, in Grant par
ish, about six miles from Pollock. She
is thought to have committed suicide
Thursday night or early Friday morn
ing. She was about % years of age,
and has been a teacher in the schools
of Grant parish. Parties from Pollock
ON Friday went to attend her funeral
but we could get no particulars from
them
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-02-21

Some Figures frcm ''Bleedih" Kansas.
A half million young men and
women of Kansas over Il years
of age have never seen a saloon
in that State. Since Kansas
adopted prohibition illiteracy has
been reduced from 40 per cent to
less than 2 per cent. There is
only one pauper in every 5000
population. Eighty-seven of the
los counties have no insane, "a
no feeble-minded, and sc no in
e briates. Thirty-eight poor
farms have no inmates. In July
1911, SO county jails were empty,
and 65 counties had no prisoners
serving sentence. The county
Jail at Hugoton has not had a
prisoner for two and a half years,
and the county commissioners
have rented the building for a
dwelling. Some counties have
not called a jury to try crimi-
nal case in ten years. In one
Kansas county there has not been
a grand jury called for 25 years.
In 1880 the bank savings deposits
in Kansas were $50, 600, 600. To-
day they are $500, 0O0,0O Kan
sas stands first among all the
States in the per capita valuation
of assessed property. During
the panic of 1907 Kansas sent
$50, 600, 900 to New York to re-
lieve the money market while her
wet neighbor, Missouri. sent
nothing. The death rate in Kan
sas has dropped from II to the
1000 in 1880 to TX to the 1000.
Kansas is the heaIthiest State in
the Union.
Do you not feel sorry for such
a State? 1t is lacking in the lux
uries of many other States, such
as jails, the poor farms and grand
juries. Kansas would have all
these were she to permit saloons
to return again. Condensed ex-
cerpt from address by governor
of Kansas.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-02-21
Sugar Cane silos q Success.

A gentleman who lately visited
the Manchac plantation Of Mr..
L. p. Rhodes, reports that the
hog raising and silo ventures of
mr.. Rhodes is a marvellous sue
cess. Mr.. Rhodes erected a silo
out of concrete last fall. said to
be the largest silo in the State,
and filled it with cane tops, which
not only kept perfectly, but which
were pronounced by experts to
be two per cent better for ensil-
age purposes than sorghum. Ma
terials are on hand for the con-
struction of a twin silo, and re-
ports have it that Mr.. Rhodes
will build others before he stops.
Mr.. Rhodes now has over 700
head of hogs which give promise
of heavy returns. AS the ordi-
nary cane tops will run from two
to four tons, it requires very lit
tie figuring to see the golden OPP
portunity before our people.
Iberville South.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-02-21
Operations at the Oil Well.

Information from a reliable source is
to the effect that operations at the oil
well being put down by the Iatt Oil Co.
are at stand still, pending the setting
of concrete in the bottom of the well.
The concrete will be sufficiently set by
Monday or Tuesday, when operations
will be resumed and the well tested fol
oil. The accident of dropping the drill
four weeks ago has greatly hindered
the work, but we understand the mana
gers in charge of boring operations
have great hopes of successfully bring
ing in the well soon. so much so that
the idea of starting new hole has been
given up entirely, at least until there is
no hope of saving the present well.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-02-21
Alexandria Hits a Lucky Streak.

The news has been given out that the
office of Superintendent w. H. De
France. of the Louisiana division of the
Texas & Pacific Railway, and his corps
of assistants is to be moved to Alexan-
dria from New Orleans; and that Train
master ]. M. Thompson, of Bunkie;
Trainmaster H. A. Brown, of Marshall,
Texas, and their assistants, and Chief
Dispatcher Spencer, Of Marshall, and
Train Dispatcher w. M. Kent, of Bun
kie, and their corps of dispatchers and
operators, are to be moved from these
cities and located in Alexandria On
March /.
A building has been erected opposite
the Union station in Alexandria, and
fitted with offices for all the depart
ments named.
The dispatches also further announce
that the big tables and other furniture
in the dispatcher's Office have been
stripped of the telegraph apparatus and
other appliances and made ready.to be
shipped. The building in Alexandria
will also take care of all the terminal
offices. This will take fully nine men
and almost as many families out of
Marshall, and viii be loss 10 that city
in more ways than one. 1t is stated
that the move is made to consolidate
the Louisiana division offices under one
roof, and thereby make it easier to
handle the business.
Further dispatches say the T. & P. is
to expend s2.O00,0OO for equipment,
and that the two million dollars will be
put into locomotives. steel coaches and
freight cars.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-02-21
DIR. Bonnette Committed for Lunacy

Following a number of complaint.
about the cratic actions of DR.. james
V. Bonnette, lunacy commission com.
posed of two we'll known Alexandra
doctors was appointed to examine int
DR.. Bonnette's condition. Pending the
decision of Judge Blackman in the mat
ter, Town Talk has printed several col
umns of sensational matter about the
actions of DR.. Jesse V. Bonnette. broth
er of the invalid, Mr.. Emmett Solomon.
who married DIR. James Bonnette' 6
daughter, Mrs. Eonnette and baby, anf
others concerned in the general unfor-
tunate family n.ix-up.
The final result Of it all is given in
Town Talk of Feb. Is, as follows:
Judge w. F. BIackman decid ID to-
day that he will send DIR. j. v. Bon
nette TO the State Hospital for Insane
in Pineville as soon as DR.. j. N. Thorn
as can make room for him in the insti-
tuition. The lunacy commission APP
pointed by Judge Blackman to lock inlo
the matter of the sanity of Dr. Bon
nette reported to Judge Blackman that
they found that he was not of sound
mind >,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-02-21
MIR. Edenborn to Receive Help.

1t is announced that the city authori-
ties of New Orleans will help the VIM.
Edenborn line to have shipping facili-
ties on the river front of that city.
The L. R. & N. Co. has been having a
hard time with the big railroad and
street lines in that city in getting de-
cent treatment, but the city authori-
ties have at last awakened to the fact
that Mr.. Edenborn's line is big asset,
and they will aid him in his efforts in
gaining shipping facilities.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-02-21
Dr.. Eliot Objects to Uniors.

New Haven, Conn.,, Feb. o.
DR.. Charles w. Eliot. former
president of Harvard University,
in a letter to Charles F. Pendar
of the local Trolley Mems Union,
says that while unions have rails
ed wages and shortened hours,
they have had a bad effect on
the character and happiness of
their members.
Mr.. Fender had written DIR.
Eliot requesting him to explain
his reasons for disliking trade
unions. He made public the re-
ply to-day.
DR.. Eliot says his objections to
unions are altogether educational
and moral. Because of certain
Objectionable methods especial
ly the use of violence to gain
their ends he declares the eff
feet upon the morals and charac-
ter of the members is bad.
Il cannot agree with you that
the unions have brought happi-
ness to any workingman. Hap
piness and content are states of
mind. and while all well-read,
thinking people believe that the
progress of civilization depends
on universal steady, productive
labor, the unions seem to believe
that the less one works the bet
ter"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-02-21
Electric Railway Through Country.


The prospects for the early con-
struction of the interurban cleo
trio railway between Monroe and
Shreveport by the North Louisi-
ana Electric Railway Company
are brighter now than at any
time since the line was first pro-
posed nearly a year ago. Bonus
es have been voted by a number
of communities and all but about
five miles of the right-of-way
has been secured. The bonds
necessary to the construction are
practically placed, as two large
bond companies have reported
favorably on the proposed line.
With the completion of a few
more preliminary details it is be-
lieved that actual construction
work will begin at an early date.
The proposed route of the line
beginning at. West Monroe, the
eastern terminus, is through
townsville, Ruston, Homer, Min
den to Shreveport. The interur-
ban passes through a thickly set
tied section of the State. Mr.. ].
I. Austin of Monroe is a member
of the board of directors of the
company, which has its head
quarters in Shreveport. Monroe
News-Star.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-02-21

The plan of Dean Sumner for
a clean bill of health before mar
riage is not the only experiment
for the safeguarding of marriage.
For the protection of their mar
riageable daughters, the mothers
of Catlin, ILL.,, have organized a
Mothers Protective Association.
A list of questions has been pro-
vided, which will have to be an
swered satisfactorily for every
sutton. These are the principal
ones: Does he smoke cigarettes?
Does he drink? Is he known to
be profane or vulgar? Does he
read good books? Does he go to
church or Sunday school? Does
he spend his evenings at home
or in saloons? Is he considerable
of his mother and sisters? What
are his business prospects?
Mothers and daughters have the
right to know concerning these
matters, and they ought to know
before the important step is TAX
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-02-21
Sixty Car Loads of Gravel for Cola.

Mr.. VIM. Edenborn has furnished
thirty car loads of gravel which has
been used to fill in the low ground
around the L. R. & N. freight depot.
Also, he has agreed to let the town of
Colfax have thirty car loads of gravel
at the minimum cost of getting the
gravel out of the pit, to be used on the
approaches of the streets to the depot.
The first thirty cars of gravel have
been spread around the depot and over
the neutral ground east of the ]. w.
Duncan store. The other car loads will
be brought in as it may be needed.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-02-21

Bill Turner was a farmer and
labored all his life, he didn' t have
no schoolin' and neither did his
wife. But Bill was built for bust
ness, and made the wheels GO
round, and left a healthy fortune
when they put him underground.
He was always taking chances,
paid a hundred for a bull. his
neighbors called him crazy, but
he left a stable full, Of cows that
broke the record making butter
by the ton, and Bill had his pic
ture printed in the Squeedunk
Weekly Sun. He had new-fan-
gled notions on making farming
pay, and even bought a fool ma
chine to help him load his hay.
The neighbors fairly snorted
when they saw the blooming
thing; said Bill Would never make
it work, it wasn't worth a ding.
Bill didn't say a single word.
and didn't care darn, but slick
as grease, his hay went in the
barn, an hour before a thunder
storm came sailing out that way.
and caught his neighbors in a
pinch and spoiled their Few mown
hay. Bills neighbors put their
milk in cans, and set them in a
tank; Bill skinned his milk with
a machine, and turned it with a
crank. Smith chops his irewood
with an axe; Bill uses gasoline,
and saws a hundred cords a day
with another blamed machine.
To-day Bill's wife rides in a car,
and dresses up in silk, Smith,
wife rides in wagon and keeps
on skimming milk. Sam Saxon.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-02-21
Telephone POSTAL Card Being. Consider.
ed.

ed.
The postmaster-general is con-
sidering the adoption of a new
form of post card, which will
show not only the ordinary street
address of the recipient but his
telephone number also, accord
ing to the March Popular Me-
chanics Magazine. Upon it's ar
rival at destination, a clerk would
Immediately call up the telephone
number and ask for the person
to whom the card is addressed
and read the message, after
which the card would be deliver
ed in the usual way. The card
would bear special stamp cost
ing five cents, and would have
preference over other frst-class
mail matter in the same manner
the special delivery letters do
now. A reply postal card would
be 10 cents. The number of
words might be limited, and no
liability assumed by the postal
authorities other than that now
borne in the special delivery let
ter.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-02-21
Secretary Bryan Makes Mistake, But
Wife Comes to Rescue

New York, Feb. Is. -Four hun
dred of the foremost authors of
the United States last night at
tended the first annual dinner
given by the Authors League of
America, at which Secretary Of
State Bryan was the guest of
honor.
In the course of his talk, Sec
rotary Bryan picked up inadver-
tently glass of champagne;
Mrs. Bryan, seeing her husbands
mistake, sprang quickly from
her place. two seats away from
the Secretary. and put her hand
over the glass just as it was
about to reach his lips. He
laughed and picked up a glass of
water.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-02-21
The Walters Trial Set for April IS.

Opelousas, La, Feb. l3.-W. C. Wal
ters, alleged kidnapper of Robert Dun
bar, when arraigned in the district
court yesterday pleaded not guilty.
At the request of Attorneys Dale
and Rawls. of Columbia, Miss, repre-
senting Walters. the trial was set for
April 10 instead of April s, the date
originally agreed upon. The delay was
granted on representation by counsel
for the defense that it would be impos-
sihle to assemble witnesses sooner.
A special jury will be called by the
judge trying the case of Walters.