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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-08-20
ESTIMATED DISBURSEMENTS

Debts and demands owed by said
municipality which will become due and
payable during the current fiscal year.
including interest on bonded indebtedness
Of every kind and character
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-08-20

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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-08-20

State Of West Virginia, County of Prcsf4,u. :
Town Of Masontown. To-uit
Alta special session OF the council of
the Town OF Masontown in Preston county,
held in the council chambers thercof IN
the municipal building on the iithn,sy
G. Meek, mayor; /. w. Kirk, recorder;
and +. O--Shsifer, r. l.. Street. s. b
Kirk, members OF the council OF said
town.
In accordance with section A. chapter
=, of the Acts OF the extraoriinary sefeion
OF the legislature OF 1905, the council pro-
ceeded 10 make AN estimate OF the amount
necessary to be levied for the current us
cal year to cover all municipal debts and
liabilities payable during the said year.
including probable expenditures Tor mo-
nicipsl purposes, and proper allowances
Tor delinquent taxes, expense OF collections
and contingencies; but deducting there
from the money in the city treasury APP
plicabe TO the service OF the year and
municipal claims, doth determine aud
estimate the several amounts 10 be levied
as follows:
ESTIMATES
Maximum levy 35 cents on the Hundrc<l
Dollars valuation.
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS
The amount due the said municipality
and the amount that will become due and
collcctible from every source, except from
the levy OF taxes TO be made for the cur
rent fiscal year.
Balance in hands of city treasury s G5 -
Other ....... Is 70
Dncolected taxes 1876 10
Total estimated receipts. s2lo IS
Election expenses.
Per diem OF commissioners S CO
Per diem of poll clerks .....-.....- 10 90
Total election expenses ......... IS rs 90
Salaries.
Salary of mayor .......... q 90
Salary of five councilmen. 30 90
Salary OF "a 90
Iotai saiaries---.-..--...-.-----... 90 90
Police department.
Salary OF police and feeding city
prisoners .........-..-. .....--........ $50 90
Total police department.. $3.50 90
Fire department.
..-.---.--..-.. 10 90
SIS 90
| Health department.
Salary of health officer and re-
moving garbage. IS 20 90
20 90
| Streets and alleys.
For repair TO streets and alleys $I66 7s
slGe 10
/ New streets.
Opening and grading new streets 500 90
500 90
Hall expense 25 90
For lights.-................ $500 90
| Contingency expenses. .................-$ll0 90
Total estimated Disbursements soei %
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-08-20

State OF West Virginia, County OF Preston,
Town of Tunnelton, To-wit:
At session of the council, Town OF Tun-
Melton, Preston County, held in the council
chambers thereof, on the I1th day of
August, 1914, there were present l.. L.
Bromhal, mayor; / II. Mattingly. re-
corder; August Ed, Thomas Fisher. IT.
ID. Hart, and j. Wesley Miller, members
OF the council OF said town.
In accordance with section a, chapter
y, of the Acts OF the extraordinary session
OF the legislature of 1908, the council pro-
ceeded To make up an estimate of the
amounts necessary to be levied for the
current fiscal year, TO cover all municipal
debts and liabilities payable during the
said year, including probable expenditures
Tor municipal purposes, and proper al
lowances Tor delinquent taxes, expense OF
collections and contingencies; hut de-
Quoting therefrom the money i'm the town
treasury applicable to- the service OF the
year and municipal claims, and dotl,
determine and estimate the several
amounts to be levied as follows
ESrTM iTEs
Maximum levy 80 cents ON the hundred
dollars valuation.
ESTIMATED RECEIrTs
The amount due said municipality. and
the amount that will become due and
collectible from every source. except from
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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-08-20

Total estimated disbursem' ts.$ $3.50 IS
Amt TO be provided for by levy..$ $3.50 80
Evening star., 1914-07-26

he remained for two years more as in
graduate work at Cornell. In 1907 he
structor in biology. Then followed post
was made special agent of the bureau
OF entomology Of the Department of Ag-
riculture. but he resigned presently to re-
turn to Georgia as state entomologst. He
has made the job one of the biggest and
most important in the cotton states.
For all this record of scientific attain
ments Mr.. Worsham is far from being the
'highbrow' in personal appearance He
dwells in no rarefied upper intellectual at
mosphere. He is regular fellow" with
an engaging personality and a winning
way. AS propaganda, which he dis
tinctly is. he never bores A strong native
sense of humor maybe Is responsible for
this.
He is bug on bugs. but you would
never know 1t. is the manner in which
he has been described.
In his life work he has gone on from
fight to save the cotton crop of Georgia
to fight to prevent all waste in the
natural resources Of the country
While in Washington recently he talked
OF the National Conservation Congress and
Of the coming session at New Orleans
The congress of 1914" he said. comes
at critical period in the history of con-
servation in the United States. The prop
aganda for the conservation of the ma
tionality has been well established We
need now to focalize on the various spe-
clf1c developments. to press home the re-
aliZation that conservation applies in
every sphere of human activity and that
it is commercial dollars and cents and
human-life reality. not faddish abb
straction. as critics We're formerly wont
to call it.
"In forests. in water powers. in min
eral and soil. not to mention the nuhijc
health. the doctrine of conservation is
paramount. The smallest unit of the
public is awakening. Our duty is to still
dissension within our own ranks and to
merge our efforts on the cardinal nrinci
pies which involve conserving this conn
try and its people In the most practical
sense of the word conservation
"A subject to which this years con-
gress may well direct its energies is that
Of the inland waterways. The improve
ment of the Mississippi in the matter of
broadening and deepening, and the con-
struction of an adequate levee system. Is
paramount Our object should he to
regulate stream flow. to the end of doing
away with periodic freshets. that play
havoc with property and with soil fer
tility.
Our policy should extend, also, to in
coastal canal from Maine to Florida. or
rivers upon which the government has
already set the seal of its approval. This
congress Is against 'pork-barreP projects.
1t believes in Improvements based only
on proved engineering scientific efficiency
'"The nations supply of coal ia a fixed
quantity. Once used, 1t cannot be re-
placed. This question should receive the
attention Of the congress. Our present
Evening star., 1914-07-26
His First Experience.

"THE funniest thing I ever saw"
said a Washington man recently
fias he stood at the lunch counter, was
on my trip last week from New York to
Chicago. And the victim was bloom
ing Britisher.
The fellow had just stepped ashore
from a big liner and was on his way
to Denver. He knew, OF course. nothing
about this country, and our railroads
with their long aisles and seats for
passengers were revelation to him.
whose only experience had been in Eu-
ropean trains which are cut up into
separate compartments. Each one OF
these compartments is locked at the
beginning OF a trip and not unlocked
until the car arrives at its destination
when the berth was let down for
the night the Englishman was initiated
in the mysteries of getting into II.
Fnalily he succeeded. About o clock In
the morning he wanted to get up. AT
least judging by the yells and fighting
that was going on in the car We thought
that might have been his intention. for
when we looked out all we could see
around, an OCCASIONAL glimpse OF an
angry negro porter's face and the Brit
isher's long neck tangled in night
shirt
THE way 1t happened was this: our
English friend. when sitting on the
edge of the berth. saw the bell rope
swaying right at his hand and con-
cluded It was used to assist passengers
to alight. He made grab for II ar9
gave a tug. The porter saw him and
sailed in. AS the Britisher saw the
angry porter advancing to the attack
he gave a flying leap and landed astride
the mans neck.
When the two were unraveled and
set on their feet the porter was soothed
man sat down to write a long letter
home detailing the harbarous customs
Of travel in this country. ] tell you
what. they were going some as they
thrashed up and down that aisle, but
Sambo never lost his grip on the mans
leg or the Brit!sher his monocle."
Evening star., 1914-07-26
WEEVTI

Is worth the candle. both to the nation
and the south.
Diversffication in the south will be OF
material aid toward this end by cutting
down the mortgage now placed on cotton
to pay for food supplies we should raise
at home.
Rural sanitation is of tremendous inn
portance. No people can be stronger
than the physical efficiency of the indi-
vidual. We shall increase the wealth.
making power. the faculty for effective
living. Of all sections by promoting in
dividual efficiency. That is the basis Of
all welfare.
Il view national conservation, with its
myriad applications. as merely in its in
fancy. Viewing the science OF conserva-
tion as applied to men as well as TO
things, this congress has before it one OF
the greatest opportunities ever vouch.
safed an American organization"
ASHMUN BROWN.
Evening star., 1914-07-26

but that natures sufficiently early to dis
courage the boil weevil.
The resistant strains of cotton devised
by Mr.. Worsham for use in Georgia have
been imported into most Of the cotton
states. His one achievement in that di-
rection, therefore, means many millions
of dollars to the south.
Now. of course. much Of this work was
laboratory work. Mr.. Worsham is a
shark In the laboratory; but outside he
also has remarkable capabilities Never
is he content merely to learn things that
agriculturists ought to know; his passion
is for telling about them.
Hence, for years, he has been charging
up and down the south. sounding in
clarion tones the call to farmers and
planters to arm against the weevil, the
wilt and the countless other forces of
waste, decay and inehiciency. He is
demanding the elimination of waste.
More crops. better crops. the higher
uses of the land. intensive cultivation,
modern scientific methods-these are the
most of the boil weevil; it was the i'm
minent peril.
He talked with the eloquence of the
south, his speeches being adorned with
ton and glowing flights of fancy that
caught the imagination OF the southern
farmers as only the outpourings of the
political spellbinder had caught them in
the past
h \
He made plain to them that proper
and efficient cultivation of the soil was
a patriotic duty: that the prosperity of
the country depended on their intelli-
gent and careful use of the natural re-
sources which God and the state had in
trusted to their charge.
SO the boil weevil man fired agri-
cultural Dixie with flaming enthusiasm
for better crops. 1t is an enthusiasm
that Is bearing fruit every day and the
influence of which Is extending widely.
His fame grew and his influence grew
far beyond the borders of his own state
One day-this was in 19O9-some one told
him that he was a true conservationist.
Mr. Worsham was surprised. Somehow
the prevailing notion was that conserva-
tion was but a short term for Wood
man spare that tree" and he had not
been overly interested in trees
Then it was made clear to him that
conservation meant merely the preven-
ton of waste and the higher use of
resources. and was not confined merely
to forests.
II am for that" said he. for it was
precisely what he had been preaching.
Promptly he allied himself with the
National Conservation Congress. which
came into being that year, and has been
a powerful figure in 1t ever since In
1910 he called the Southern Conservation
Congress-. which was held with a large
attendance from sixteen states. Mr..
Worsham was elected president of the
organization.
He continued active in the National Con-
servation Congress. became chairman of
the executive committee in 1911, and
few weeks ago. when a vacancy occurred
Evening star., 1914-07-26
f. LEE WORSHAM,
President National Conservation Congress.

in the office of president, he was chosen
for the place.
Now the congress has decided to have
its next annual session, during the COM
ing winter, for the first time in the south,
Mr.. Worsham maintains that the south
needs to know more about the conserva-
tion propaganda. New Orleans will en-
tertain the congress when it meets.
rms energetic young Southerner-he IS
only thirty-three years old-because he
seized the opportunity-for big public serv-
Ice minor state offered has risen to ma
tional prominence and influence in short
span OF years. Isn't the assumption,
mentioned in the early part of this arti-
Gle. that his pep" glands are abnormally
developed justified?
Born on farm near Forsyth, Ca, Mr..
Evening star., 1914-07-26

Worsham. in his youth, did not grow en-
amored of farm life. Rather his thoughts
turned to literature, and particularly to
poetry. AT that age and in that environ
ment this was not remarkable
But stern necessity and a vigorous par
ent caused young Worsham to turn the
imaginative qualities of his mind to the
soil. pair of plow handles being thrust
into his fists. and a pair of reins. at
tached to a mule. being thrown over his
neck: Following the burrows. there came
to him visions that were fully as poetic,
but also intensely practical. visions of
transformed fields. of the glories of the
higher agriculture. And then the deter
mination to make the dreams come true.
1t was in 1890 that he was graduated
from the Forsyth High School. Five
years later he was graduated with B. 8.
degree from his state university. where
Evening star., 1914-07-26

methods of mining tend to bring to the
market only the more Immediately profit
able grades. structurally so impairing the
mine as to render it difficult or impossi-
Bile thereafter to bring out valuable
grades. entailing absolute loss of a large
percentage of the original supply
We shall be called on this year. as
ever afterward. to deal with the conser-
vation of wild life. of birds. of fish. OF
animals. This branch of conservation
has its esthetic side. 1t has also its
practical side in that many of the birds
and animals now being ruthlessly de-
stroyed are natural enemies to the crop
pests that ravage our fields and rifle our
agricultural assets.
Another topic in which the congress
should interest itself is that of soil and
farm conservation. through the preven-
ton of soil erosion. AS it is now. the
ing choked up with rich soil, stripped
from lands which can lily stand the
drain, is by no means understood in the
south. much less applied.
I'VE shall. in the end, save this sec
tion and the country at large hundreds
of millions of dollars by practicing the
policies that will safeguard the soil and
at the same time increase the navigabil-
ity of our streams. To this end the con-
servation of forest lands is impera tive.
We should encourage action by states
and the federal government.
AN issue of vital Importance to the
south Is that which revolves around the
conservation of cotton, its staple agri-
cultural asset. Strenuous efforts are
being made in Africa, India and China
to deprive the south OF her supremacy
in her cotton production. What the pos
silbilitieS Of other countries are We know
not. They may eventually outstrip the
south.
But the nation, no less than the south.
is interested in the conservation and
proper development Of the American cot
ton supply. Cotton now furnishes the one
item that keeps the International cash
balance on the American side of the
ledger Wipe out that advantage and We
shall be debtor to Europe.
There are two ways in which the
south can maintain and increase its
worldwide cotton supremacy. 1t is es-
timated that 6 per cent of the crop is now
wasted. Scientific efficiency can now re-
duce this percentage to a minimum.
"The other way lies in intensive cuIti-
volume of cotton to the acre is held by a
Milton county. Ga. farmer. He produced
four bales to the acre. He accomplished
that by scrupulous selection of seed, by
proper treatment of his soil, by modern
methods in every particular. There is no
reason why his record should not ulti-
mately be approximated by every south
south will have no competition to fear
from China or any other country. Seed
selection, proper fertilization, proper cul-
tural methods with measures against
cotton wilt and the boil weevil, will be
to these ends. The game
Evening star., 1914-07-26

because the country had received so lit
tie benefit from the various loans.
The Honduran people as a whole are
among the best in Central America. The
Indian blood predominates pretty strong
ly. but there Is ample evidence of the
Spanish racial mixture, and African
blood is not lacking. An American who
has a mine of in the Interior, where few
foreigners are ever seen, told me that
there are no better people anywhere than
these nativs of Honduras. They are
peaceable and industrious whenever they
have the right kind of men over them.
Moreover, he added. they show marked
disinclination to being drawn into revo-
lutions Of rival political chiefs. although
this disinclination does not prevent them
frequently from being the victims OF
these chiefs. The American. like most
Americans in Central America, thought
that all Honduras really needs in order
to secure the peace and prosperity of Its
Inhabitants is an American protectorate.
The country from time to time has been
the prey of dictators and rival chiefs.
American readers two or three years back
had much difficulty In finding out who
were the good leaders and who the bad
ones. They used to read about the Bo-
nillas. There was Policarpo Bonilla and
ways seemed to be in exile. Honduras
was not large enough for both of them
at the same time.
The colony Of Honduran exiles has its
headquarters In New Orleans. That is
more convenient than any of the neigh
boring Central American countries. be-
cause the exiles in New Orleans are much
less subject to espionage than when in
Central America.
American adventures have had more
or less to do with the internal broils OF
Honduras. Some of them have claimed
to be lovers Of peace. One of the best
ted from one Central American country
to another but usually when his name
got into print he was in Honduras.
X
The present executive of Honduras Is
DIR. Francisco Bertrand. He was vice
president. and succeeded to the presi-
dency on the death of President Manuel
Bonilla. eighteen months ago.
In the play and counterplay of Cen
trail American politics the influence Of
Guatemala in Honduras at the present
time seems to be superior to that of Sal
vador. Guatemala is friendly rather than
otherwise to Secretary Bryan's Nicara-
guam treaty, and 1t may be assumed that
in the Central American lineup Guate-
mala and Honduras will be opposed to
Costa Rica and Salvador. This is not OF
great Importance. except as indicating
that there is a lineup.
Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras
for a small place has about as much in
Evening star., 1914-07-26

charged that most Of the actual cash OBJ
tanned was divided between corrupt Off
cials and the promoters.
For a few years the interest was paid
out of the principal. SO it may be as
sumed that the Honduran treasury also
received some cash. But in 1873 the gov
ernment defaulted on the loans. For
dozen years thereafter nothing was done
toward determining what the real OBJ
legations were.
From 1887 to 1893 various CONCESSIONS
were negotiated with English and Ameri-
can companies with a view to settling
the foreign debt. In 1896 the railway
scheme came to the fore again and there
Railway Company. This company was
expected to build railways and to extr1-
cate the country out of its financial en-
tanglements, but this plan also failed.
4*
year later contract was signed with
the Observation-Disclosures syndicate for
railways debt settlement and a new
bank. The customs revenues were to be
the underlying securities. Some Ameri-
cans. prominent both politically and fnan-
cially. were interested in this plan, but it
never came to head. and in 1900 the
concession was revoked. In the same
year new contract was signed with the
S0ie SoAhpdny u lease the railways al
ready constructed, and to build new lines
This contract made no provision for set
ting the foreign debt The time Of the
concession was extended from year to
year, but nothing was accomplished. and
ultimately the government resumed pos-
session Of the railway lines.
Inc British bondholders pressed stren-
uousiy Tor settlement, and about 1900
they thought they had obtained one. The
Terms, however, were SO burdensome to
Honduras that the United States object
eo 70 the proposed arrangement Then
the late w. I. Buchanan. who had repre-
sented the United States in various i'm
portant Pan-American missions, came
Forward and succeeded In interesting ].
= Morgan d Co. A tentative agreement
was reached under which J. p Morgan &
Co. undertook to take up the outstanding
bonds on the basis Of $75 cash for each
800 worth Of bonds. with arrears of
interest. This proposition was under
stood to be satisfactory to the British
bondhoiders
The Taft administration backed up the
general plan, and Secretary Knox nego-
tiated a convention with Honduras The
preamble to that convention is a very
good statement of American policy as 1t
is understood by those who believe that
the United States has certain RESPONSE
bilities In Central America.
The convention was a very mild one so
far as the United States was concerned,
but it undoubtedly amounted to benevo-