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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-03-08
Observations of Preston News Will be
Read With Great Interest By
People of this Section.
MAY COL0RAD0|zE ". VA. If REPORT IS TRUE
Freedom of the Mountaineers May Be in the Balance
Oil King May Try to Elect U. s. Senator and En- \
tire State Ticket at the Next Election

ksfeIr Group has Purchased Of Senator Clarence Watson
misunderstanding Controlling Coal
Co.. which Includes the Somerset Coal Metropolitan
Nortn"estsrn Fuel Co.. farmon Fuel cohe Metro
potan and Northwestern being Distributing
Deal Marking Dividing
Baltimore Ohio
John Roketel to cooradoze West vana7 Read this Article
and See If You Follow the Beast
Free People and untampersd Press Which Guarantees
and Mount the Rampars Liberty Erected
that nvades Our Fair State Gusc Of Development
Sinister Deadly Anything
Wage saveryf Anything be More Re-
voting Mountain Rights
People Robbed of Their inheritance.
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Quick results; big returns; a want
ad can do the trick.
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the attacks, and it was not until last
January that it became known that
he had been the first to suggest Kitch.
ener's appointment, long before the
newspapers took UP the cry for "K.
OF K" Lord liallane is in his fifty
ninth year, and is graduate OF Edin.
burgh and Gottingen universities. He
is the author Of Life OF Adam
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Oil and Gas

In number Of sections in the West
Virginia fields, operators are taking
up leases with view to trying for
new producing territory when the
weather conditions and the roads are
favorable. In some parts of the fields
the roads are now In an almost un.
passable condition. On West Fork
River, Union district, Harrison coun-
ty. Highland Bros. have drilled their
No. on the Highland heirs farm
through the Gordon sand and have u
duster. In this well gas pressure
was developed in the Thirty and Fifty
Foot sands and It has an estimated
capacity OF one million cubic feet a
day. In the same district, the Hope
Natural Gas Company has completed
No. 3 on the Abram Lowther farm
and has buster. ~ -
On Walnut Fork, McElroy district,
Tyler county. the Hope Natura! Gas
Company has shot its test on the D.
s. Matthews farm and has a fair gas
ser in the Gordon sand. On Fish Greek,
Church district, Wetzel county, the
Manufacturers Light & Heat Company
has drilled No. on the S. S. Tea7lr.
den farm through the Big lnjun sand
and has a gasser. No. on the same
farm has been delayed with fishing
job.
On West Fork River, Union district
Harrison county, the Clarksburg Light
& Heat Company has completed No. 6
on the Adamson Coal Company's prop.
erty and has fair gasser In the fifth
sand. On Turtle Tree Ford, Green.
brier district, Doddridge county, the
same company has completed test
on the serepta Nutter farm. On West
Fork river, In Union district, Harri.
son county, the same company has
the rig completed for test on the
Mary A. Highland farm.
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NETWORK STOCKS.
tQuotations at l p. m. today by Joseph
IA Mills, room LOG Nuzum building,
Jefferson street, Fairmont, w. Val
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Smith," Education and Empire and
other works. SSS59;si'
How Il Came

"How did You get your musical tenn.
perament% Il was born I'm "a fat
Princeton Tiger.
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COTTON UP "a POINTS.
Marke. Opens Firm and Grows Hourly
Stronger.

NEW YORK, March s.-The cotton
market showed increasing firmness
Saturday with business more active
and general than for some time past.
The close was firm at a net advance
Of IA to 1s points.
The market opened at an advance
OF 2 to 3 points In response to rela.
lively firm Liverpool cables and over.
night buying orders, inspired by the
firmness of Friday, the large spinners'
takings for the week, and the contin.
ued steadiness Of the Southern spot
markets. Demand seemed to broaden
as the market worked higher, and In
addition to covering there was con-
siderable buying by houses with South.
ern, New York and Western connec.
tions. Active months sold II to II
points net higher in the late trading,
with July contracts selling at 9.07c,
or 50 points above the low level
reached on the break early In the
week, while October touched 9.32c,
or within IS points OF the seasons
high record. The buying seemed to
be encouraged by the absence OF hedge
selling, reports Of a good spot demand
in the Southern market and bullish
advices as to new crop prospects
which included statements that sales
OF fertilizer tags in Georgia were run.
ming far behind last years figures:
Reports that steamer with cotton
from Galveston to Rotterdam had been
stopped by British warships appeared
to attract little attention and senti.
ment as to shipping conditions seemed
to be somewhat less apprehensive.
Some traders are predicting great
increase in shipments OF cotton to
Russia should the Dardanelles be
opened by the allies. while unfavor.
able British trade returns as to ex.
ports were offset by reports that Man
chester was very actively employed
on heavy army orders.
Cotton futures closed firm.
March .. =. .........S.62 N
L.. \
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BALTIMORE STOCK MARKET.
Furnished by w. w. Lanahan & Co..
members New York and Baltimore
Stock Exchanges. Main floor, Cal
vert Building. baltimore, Md
Sales March 6, 1915.
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Children Cry
FOR FlETcHER'S
ca T Q RIA
PROSPECT FERRY.

Miss Ellen Heagan entertained the H.
H. club Sept. 9th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Felker entertained
company from Bangor last week.
Mrs. G. W. Silver visited friends in
Belfast for several days recently
Willard CHM has returned to the
Sailors Snug Harbor, Staten Island, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hall have moved
from Belfast into the Ross Green house.
George Heagan of Lynn, Mass, re-
Gently visited relatives here for several
days.
Mrs. Jessie Ashworth was a week lend
guest of her cousin, Mrs. Ross Green,
in Belfast.
Edward Avery came home from Free
port and spent Sunday and Monday with
his family.
Mrs. G. A. Avery is quite i'll at this
writing. She is attended by DR.. Elmer.
son of Bucksport.
Mrs. M. B. Grant of Standpoint and
two boys, Howard and Buford, were
weekend guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w. D.
Hartman.
| Miss Faustina Harding went to DR..
Hunts hospital in Bangor last week tc
be operated on for appendicitis. He,
many friends hope for speedy recovery.
Mrs. Ross Green and children have
moved to Belfast, where Mr.. Green has
employment. Earl Bowdoin will 20 tc
school in Belfast and board with his sis.
ter, Mrs. Green.
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TWO GOLDEN WEDDINGS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas III. Benner.

RoCKLAND, Me-, Sept. 16. Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas H. Benner celebrated
their golden wedding today by giving an
informal reception at their home on Mid
die street. Their granddaughter, Mrs.
Kenneth P Lord, who has just returned
from the Philippines, where her husband
has been stationed as lieutenant in the
cavalry service, was among those pres
emit. Numerous gifts were received.
Mr.. Benner was born in Waldoboro,
March 81, 1845, son of Edmund B. and
Mary A. (Kalloch) Benner. He enlist
ed in Co. B, LIST Maine Cavalry Dec. %,
1868. and continued in the service until
that famous regiment was mustered
ont. Still clad IN his soldier uniform he
went to the hone of his Oldest sister,
the wife of Jeremiah Avery of Belfast,
where he met for the first time Mr..
Ayery's daughter, Caroline, and after a
courtship of only six weeks they were
married.
After four years in Belfast they moved
to this city, where Mr.. Benner continued
at his vocation as engineer in grain mills
until he retired. He is member of Ed
win Libby Post, G. A; K.
Mrs. Benner was born in Greenfield
Aug. 81. l843, daughter of Jeremiah and
Betsy Avery. She IS member OF Ed
win Libby Relief Corps and the First
Baptist Church. She has been an invalid
since an operation two years ago.
The surviving children are Mrs. John
F. Cooper of this city, and Mrs. l.. r.
Young of Waterville.
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Foreclosure Notice

jHEREAS, Eromen R. Nilsson of Monroe,
w in the County of Waldo and State of
Maine, by his mortgage deed dated the first
day of January, A. D. 1909, and recorded in the
Waldo County Registry of Deeds, Book 31S,
Page All, conveyed to me, the undersigned,
certain lot or parcel Of land. with buildings
thereon, situated in Monroe, in said County Of
Waldo, being parts of lots numbered 260 and
261 IN the first division of lots id said Monroe,
bounded and described as follows, viz. Begin
ming at a stake in the road on the line of lot
No 1853; thence northwesterly by the road,
seventy-four and one-half rods to a stake and
stones; thence north forty six degrees east
twenty-one rods to stake and stones in south
line Of lot No. 26O; thence north forty-four
degrees west twenty-four rods to stake and
stones in same line of lot No. 260; thence north
forty-six degrees east eighty four rods to a
stake and stones in north line of said lot No,
26O;thence south forty -four degrees east ninety
nine and one half rods to the southeast corner
of said lot and northeast corner of lot No. 1853;
thence south forty -six degrees west ninety
three rods to place of beginning, containing
fifty-seven acres. more or less; and whereas
the condition of said mortgage has been broken
Now, therefore, by reason Of the breach of
the condition thereof claim foreclosure of
said mortgage.
Dated this first day Of September, AID. 1916.
MARY ABBIE MOORE.
DAM. ewS6
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Aroostook's Products.
Cured.

Men who have Travelled all over Aroos-
took say they have seen not one poor
field of grain this year. The acreage is
considerably above the average, while
the yield per acre is much above the
average. The oat crop and wheat crop
are especially good. Some say that the
oat crop will average from 40 to As BUSH
els an acre, while the wheat GRO will go
close to 30 bushels. Aroostook has all
the oats it wants this season, while the
amount of flour that will be imported in
side it's borders next year will be only
a bout one quarter of the average of the
last few years. Where ten cars of corn
have been imported each of the last few
years for feed, not more than one car
will be imported the coming year. Is
not Aroostook getting more sensible and
become more fortunate at the same time?
She now raises her beef and her pork,
and this year has large part of her own
flour, all the oats she wants, and rather
more hay. of the very finest quality. then
she will need for feed. That is better
than buying these things, even with
potatoes at good price,
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LIBERTY.

C. M. Hurd was in Belfast Tuesday on
business at the probate court.
Miss Mabel Higgins, who has been
passing two weeks in Pittsfield, returned
Monday.
j. j. Walker and family and Miss Mel
lie Hunt took an auto trip to Ash Point
Saturday.
Mrs Manchester of Camden has been
passing few days in town at the San-
ford House.
Mrs. Abbie White and Mrs. Hattie
Clough spent the weekend with friends
in North Belfast.
nj. J. Greeley, Hon. L. C. Morse, ].
P. Sanford and Allen Knowlton attend.
ed the fair in Lewiston last week.
Miss Mary Kent Davey arrived Satur-
day to pass a week or two with her pa.
rents, MIR. and Mrs. Samuel Davey.
Miss Hubbard of Concord, N. H., is
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Peck
at their cottage on Milestone Island.
Mrs. B. B. Wentworth and sister, Mrs.
HILBERT, left last week for a visit OF
two weeks with relatives and friends in
Augusta.
Miss Florence Bradstreet, who has
been with her sister, Mrs. Walter
Young, for the past year, has gone to
Camden.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Sherman, who
have been passing two weeks in town,
returned Monday to their home in Bev-
erly, Mass.
DIR. and Mrs. Holt took their son Wal
do and Claude Knowlton to Pittsfeld
Monday. These young men will enter
the M. c. L., having mad two years at
Liberty High school.
Mrs. Mary Norton and Mrs. o. W.
Ripley of South Montville entertained
the members of Arbutus Chapter O. E
S., at Saints Rest cottage, Beaulieu
Park, last Saturday. The day was ideal
and one of enjoyment to all present.
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educated and where he also taught.
When this business grew dull he
worked in limerick quarries until 1898,
since which he has farmed. He served
two terms in the City Council and as a
past commander of Edwin Libby Post,
G. A. R.
Mrs. Thomas was formerly Lucy K.
Brown. She was born In this city and
was married to Mr.. Thomas when but
little more than Is IL years of age. She
thinks this was altogether too young
She is member of the Methodist Church
and Golden Rod Chapter, 0. E. S.
Mr.. Thomas boasts rugged health anc
a youthful appearance. Mrs. Thomas
also has fine health, except for occasional
| touches of asthma.
The couple was married in Camden By
| Rev, Edward Ballard. 1t was a doubl,
| wedding, the other participants beins
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank P. Witham. Tn,
five children of Mr.. and Mrs. Thoma!
are all liying-Mrs. Edward F. Parle,
and Mrs. Fred Drown of Atlantic, Mass
| Mrs. Benjamin B. Bisbee, john L. ant
Woodbury. H. Thomas of this city.
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The Special Pension Bills.
Veterans Died in Want Because of Careless
Democratic Legislation.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 1915. "The
Democrats have made shameful record
of carelessness in the enactment of spe-
cial pension bills, and will have lot to
answer for"
This vigorous protest was uttered by a
Grand Army veteran who recently arriv-
ed early in Washington to attend the an
nual encampment next week.
"a number of my comrades for whom
special pension bills had been passed died
in want" said this old soldier. ''They
did not receive their special pension be-
cause the Democrats had made errors in
the wording of the special laws, and
death came before the errors We're cor
rected.'
Examination of the special pension
legislation by the Democrats furnishes a
scathing indictment of shocking ineffi-
cheney.
Scarcely an omnibus pension bill has
been passed since the Democrats came
into power that is not honeycombed with
mistakes which blocked the payment of
pensions to old soldiers.
These mistakes could have been avoid
ed by the exercise of the simplest degree
of ordinary care. In some instances
when the bills were drafted the name of
the soldier was misspelled or the wrong
initials were given. In others the name
was correct but an error was made in
describing the company in which he
served; and in other cases name and COM
pany were right, but the regiment OF
the soldier was wrong.
Either error was fatal to the payment
of the pension Congress had awarded,
because the bill did not exactly CORE
spond with the official records of the
pension office. The Commissioner was
therefore unable legally to put the name
of the soldier on the pension rolls.
When the pension officials discovered
these errors they were reported to the
Invalid Pensions Committees of the
House and Senate. Attempts were then
made to correct the faulty laws by the
passage of joint resolutions in which the
mistakes were described and rectified.
But their passage was delayed for weeks
and months, and even then some OF the
corrections were inaccurate.
Meanwhile death was thinning the
ranks of the old soldiers at rate esti'
mated above forty thousand year, with
the result that large percentage of the
veterans in whose behalf the laws were
enacted died without receiving the re-
cognition which their government hao
declared was due them.
In striking contrast to this Democratic
record, the history of special pension
legislation under Republican rule shows
that errors of this sort rarely if ever oc
Cured,
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FREE BOOK, FREE SAMPLE

Almost everybody uses a laxative at
one time or another. Therefore it is
mutually advantageous that everybody
should have a chance to try Pinklets, the
little pink granules that gently assist
nature and nothing more. They do not
grippe nor cause a reaction.
1t is important that everybody should
know how to treat constipation correctly
and intelligently. Therefore if you will
write request today to the DR.. Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y, a
copy OF the book, Constipation, Its
Causes and Treatment" and sample of
EPinklets will be mailed to you at once.
Pinklets successfully replace oil, salts
land other harsh purgatives. They do
not conflict with any other medicine.
The use of Pinklets until regular habits
are established will correct constipation.
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BURNHAM.

Misses Florence Foster and Ferne
Shaw are attending the Castine Normal
school.
Mrs. Dora Ripley has returned from a
visit in Augusta.
Mrs. Prescott of Stockton called on
Mrs. Sherman Monday.
Abby Mitchell is a member of the
Freshman class at M. c.. |.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry E. Kinney aud
children were in Freedom Sunday.
Charles Milliken of Augusta and Carl
Mllliken of Island Falls were in town
last week.
Mrs. A. M. Glidden has returned home
from three weeks vacation in Aroos-
took county.
Miss Bina Sullivan from Augusta is
spending two weeks vacation at her
home in this place.
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The Shoe Situation.

Though higher quotations on footwear are in
prospect, wholesalers still operate conserva-
lively and large contracts are lacking, part-
cularly for spring lines. Generally, however,
cor ditions show some improvement and buy
cooler weather. Many retailers are still busy
clearing out stocks of summer goods and until
these sales are completed no material gain in
orders forifall and wintertmerchandise is antic.
ipated.7 Little betterment appears in leather
but the volume of trade is fully up to, or in ex-
cess of, last years's.-Dun's Review, Sept.
18th
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Potatoes are coming into Fort Fairfield
village nowadays at the rate of from 300
to l, 600 barre Is, which is as fast as the
buyers want them. The standard price
is 80 cents. OF course the potatoes COM
ing are nearly all Cobblers, which ap-
pear to be of fine quality, little or no rot
being in evidence. Digging has hardly
yet begun in real ear nest, although a
good many ha We begun. What is the
yield of potatoes in Aroostook? Some
say that the fields of the Aroostook val
ley will average nearly 80 barrels to the
acre. Some say they will go between 40 and
60 barrels. There are very few excellent
yields, while many fields are extremely
poor, some of them 30 poor as hardly to
pay for digging. One man in Presque
Isle plowed up 20 acre of potatoes little
while ago, seeing they would not be
worth harvesting. One thing is certain
the drop IN the yield of Aroostook po-
tatoes from from last year will be SIM
ply astonishing. Fort Fairfield Record.
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New Worlds Records on the Turf

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept. Is. Directum
l. champion pacing stallion, established
new worlds record of 1.56 "a for a
mile paced without wind shield at the
New York State fair here this afternoon.
In so doing he lowered his own record of
1.58.
Another worlds record was lowered
when Captain David Shaw of Cleveland
drove Peter Nc in 2.06 Ia, new ANA
teur mark for mile track.
In addition to the breaking of two
worlds records, the worlds champion
four-year-old trotter, Peter Volo, 2.O2,
also driven by Thomas Murphy, equalled
his own record, negotiating the distance
in 2. OF fiat.
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Mr. and Mrs. George F. Thomas.

RocKLAND, Me-, Sept: 16. Two hun
dred guests attended the golden we'd
ding reception given by Mr.. and Mrs:
George F. Thomas in Grand Army Hall
tonight. A program of music and read
mos were interspersed with speeches.
Mr.. Thomas was born in this city
March IL, 1910. He taught several
terms of school before enlisting in the
I'd Maine Battery, where he served from
Nov. 9, 1861, to June Is, 1865. He
fought at Cedar Mountain, second Bull
Run fredericksburg, Chancellorville and
Gettysburg and was through the Wilder
Alter the war be engaged in the manu-
factnre of lime casks, using for that pur-
nose the school building in which he was
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RECENT DEATHS.

News has been received of the death
# Augustus N. Spratt of Alpena, Mich,
No of the best known lumbermen of
QUE Oh State of Michigan. The following
nbituary notice is from the Alpena Daily
Frho: Augustus N.Spratt was probably
NE hest known and best liked of the older
mmbermen of Alpena. He was born
April 1, 1888, at China, Me, and moved
tn Apena in 1866. He Immediately en-
gaged in numbering, which he followed
Srti his departure from Alpena, In
lsSQ he, with others, organized the
Minor Lumber company, buying the Is
,srl mill from John S. Minor, later they
,0rchased the Prentiss mill on the bay
..ore and operated both mills in the
Nod old pine lumber days. AS the white
.rs grew scarcer, the Minor Lumber
-mpany began to withdraw from the
uuberng field and in the late sos Mr..
-maJt invested in mining projects in
Montana, which took up part of his time
u-t,I 1897, when he sold out and removed
rp california, where he again engaged
If the numbering business, later moving
hack to Helena, Montana, where he had
-.rra lived. He was taken ill last Feb
r6sry, and had been confined to his bed
or the past two months. A. N. Spratt
was the finest type of manhood, big
rearted, big-souled and the friend of
anyone in need. He was full of fun,
oval and enjoyed a good joke whether
himself or the other fellow. During
his residence in Alpena he was probably
,own to more people than any other
r-sient. He was philanthropic and many
mlr families were recipients of aid from
I'm that never knew it. He was that kind
IT man, and while jovial and full of
. his charities he kept to himself. He
7s one of a family OF eight children,
.,. boys and three girls, the only sur
o.ng members being Melvin B. Spratt,
SIT ctionately known as Deacon"
>5Iatt, who still resides in Alpena. Four
f tie Spratt boys came to Alpena from
Maine, NJ. B., Thomas g., Frank D.,
Sill A. N. They We're all big men in
every way, successful, well respected,
M the community was better for their
g4}ing lived there. Mr.. Spratt always had
warm spot in his heart for Alpena and
l aged to visit there every few years,
b. last time two years ago. He had
d wonderful memory and could recall in
l.ents that for the most part had passed
from the minds of the old timers, and
H5s never happier than when visiting old
friends there and recalling old times.
The widow and three children survive,
Waiter and Ernest of Helena, Mont,
sr5 Marian of Detroit.
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lngton street, Camden. She had been
sick for several months and had received
the tenderest care of her daughter. The
funeral services were held Sunday. con-
ductad by Rev. S. E. Frohock, and the
remains were taken to Northport for
burial. Her age was 70 years and 10
months.
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HUMPHREYS

Free Medical Book-in ceIe-
bration Of sixty years we have
published a revised edition Of
DR.. Humphreys Manual OF all
diseases, giving in minute detail
the care and treatment Of
the sick with Humphreys
Remedies.