The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-28
Washington City Notes

#bia. Scarcely a day passes that the
Washington papers have not some
comment on the situationin the Noun
tain state and long ago it was pre-
#dfcted that state institutions would
go begging when the time came for
the appropriation Of funds for their
maintenance, after prohimition had
had time TO affect the tax income of
the state. The recent moratorium de-
clared by the state. is being used here
as one OF the best arguments against
prohiMition that has come this way
In long time. New spaper4 scrfbes
and editors jubi1antly announce that
West Virginia attributes her present
financial state to the fact that the
state went dry. and intimate hat per-
haps / was reprehensible in the first
place 10 Ter the demon rum enjoy the
patriotic Distinction of paying so large
ia portion or the taxes.
Congressman Sutherland has been
advised by the pension bureau that
ne claim of Ada Hamrick. minor
child OF William G.. Hamrick has
been allowed with payment OF her
mothers accrued pension to the date
OF here mothers death. The father
was a member OF Company z, Il 9th
Regiment. West Virginia Infantry.
and has been dead for some time. but
the widow has only recently died.
Payment Will be made to Stephen n
Woodzell, guardian. Webster Springs.
w Va
An appeal to the department OF
agriculture has come from the state
and federal officials, who hay discov-
rod u
mouth disease on the farm of a. S.
Schri~er. at Martinsburg.
Mrs. John W. Davis, wife Of the
solicitor general. was one OF the
guests at a luncheon, given in honor
OF the Viscountess Chinda, wife of
the japanese ambassador. by Mrs.
Underwood. wife of the assistant at
torney general. The other guests in
Guided Mrs. Redfield. wife of the sec
retary of commerce. Mrs George
Carroll Todd. Miss Catherine Critch-
er. Nine. Miura. wife of the counselor
of the japanese embassy. and Nine
Itamy, wife OF the military attachai
OF the japanese embassy.
w. II. Conaway, one OF Washing
ton s prominent attorneys, is spending
few days with relatives at Fair
mont.
Mrs. Edith Richardson. one OF the
prominent Photographic artists of
the capitol. has gone to Huntington,
where she will spend some time re-
producing Licensees of who's Who
in Huntington" Mrs. Richardson is
one OF the prominent photographers
of the capital and specia1izes on in
terror pictures. Some splendid re-
productions of. homes of the elite in
Huntington should result from her
visit.
Vertie Chancey has received his
commission as fourth class postmas-
ter at Plum Orchard. w. Va, also
Floyd NJ. Champ, at Pool. w. Va.
John H. Snodgrass. consul general
at Moscow and formerly a well known /
newspaper man or West Virginia, has
announced in a8letter to the state de-
partment, that there is no immed-s
late demand for American cotton in5i
Russia. Mr.. Snodgrass has. since the
outbreak of the war, found himself in |
the position of many others in the5I
diplomatic service of the United
States, oyerburdened by work, and
the effort to keep the department att
home in touch with trade conditions
In the countries at war. According
to the report Off. Snodgrass. conges-
ton at Archangel and on the. Siber-i
ian lines is paralyzing private BUSH
ness. while the Russian government
taxation OF shipments removed by
5sledge from Archangel is retarding