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ferent times She Is also a graduate
OF DIR. Ferrata. the great Italian mu-
sic master. Miss Merrick has a ricn
soprano voice and has sung with the
Pittsburgh Festival orchestra The
patronesses and students who have
tickets for sale are working hard Tor
the success OF the concert
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Miss Nancy Peterson was hostess TO
the members Of the Monday Bridge
Club Rt her home in Woodsdale yes
lerday afternoon. Quite number
were present. and following the usual
pastime. q luncheon was served.
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10 Give EntertaInn.nt

The members OF the Epwortn
League OF the Hope NJ r. church will
give an entertainment this evening
and splendid program will be rem
dered. II is expected that the event
will be well attended
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Engagement Announced.

The engagement OF Miss Zelma
lweig. OF Bellaire. TO Frank Iando.
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Iando. OF
he same place. was announced sun.
day at a dinner party given at the
nome OF Mrs. r. Zweig The young
people are very well known.
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Charity Whit

The charity whist at the Mercantile
club will take place Wednesday aft
ernoon at two-thirty o'clock Mrs.
Hayman and Mrs. Hannah Baer will
be the hostesses.
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The Desk Ofncer-wsU. madame
what's the complaint
The tumpIniuluf..W WHY. afr. q gave q
man named Eliuks. Jim Errks IS cents
Co 60 Co. the court house an. act a mar
rage license for me an. hin=ars be
never came hack
The Desk uftrsr-I congratulate sou.
ma.8w. Gnud-dHF Cleveland Plain
Dealer
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SOCIETY
Dancing cIasses Met

Last evening the dancing classes OF
Mrs. Maud Spooner Becker met at the
Elks' Club for rehearsal. and the
classes were largely attended The
classes this evening will be followed
by an orchestra dance.
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-ANN MENMAAaH AN.NHM
= l. Burlington. Baruesyille Mrs. l..
" Hays. Huntington. p " Worer
canton. G. r williamson Raven
wood. Mrs. J. n. Jones. Akron J. "
Harrison. Akron.
Stsmm-J n Lindsay. Bethany
Peter Brodley. New Freeport. r. J
Bauer. Huntington. J. A Mathison
T. A. kirsch. Parkersburg. : ~ Rel
Vile
Grand centrsi-C. P. ForIe. BeaIIs
vile. X G.. Sears. Flushing. John
asset. Cumberland ". r Walsh
Cleveland
Brunswick ". Koahler. Woods.
\. Day. belmont. George Thompson.
Marietta. A l. Straight. Manning
ton {. n. Flanagan. FairmOnt. G.
Il. Hibbs. Warrington
Captain William Truax. we'll known
local wharfman. IL seriously IN al his
home In North Wheeling
Attorney John A. Howard OF this
city who has been quite IN al Wash
ington. ID. C.. Is nov undergoing treat
ment al a hospital In Baltimore. Nd
Z Mr. Howard Was chief counsel for
/ Judge Dayton
Mr.. benjamin Appin. well known
resident OF Roney's Point. and former
local man h suffering from an attack
OF lumbago and heart failure Mr.. Ap-
/ plin Is quite old and his family fear
/ Tor his recovery.
! Mrs. Edith /. Smith OF Pittsburgh.
who has been visiting friends In the
/ city returned to her home yesterday
! Attorney Thomas y. Foulk spent
yesterday In Pittsburgh on business.
Rev. ]. NJ. Potter of Woodsdale.
I went TO Elkins. ". Va, yesterday
where he Is TO conduct services
0 throughout the week al Davis a. Elk
4 ms college. Mr.. Potter goes under ap-
pointment by the Presbyterian Board
/ OF Education at Philadelphia and will
\ preach each evening. address the stu
I dent body each morning at chapel ser
/ vice and hold conferences with the
students during the afternoons.
Mrs Samuel Hazlett ana son Rob.
ert left yesterday for Atlantic CITY.
/ where they will spend several weeks.
/ Miss Dean Carter and Miss Sara
I Scott who have been visiting Mrs.
! Louise Sax OF Fulton. will leave Wed.
/ nesday for their home at Claysville.
/ Pa.
Mrs Blanche Cooper left yesterday
| Tor New York city. where she will at.
| tend some of the prominent dancing
7 schools OF the east She will return
/ inside Of the next two weeks and will
I resume her regular classes in dancing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Robinson. Mr..
: and Mrs. +. l.. Stone and party, IN
I Guiding Mrs. G.. r. Talson and Mr. W.
I r. Stone will return this week from
I Florida where they have been spend
I ing the winter.
Rev. Charles H. Robinson. pastor
| OF the First United Presbyterian
! church is detained at his home on
Fourteenth street on account OF III
ness.
Born-to Mr.. and Mrs Willis p.
Caywood al the Ohio Valley General
! hospital. Monday. a seven-pound bow.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Caywood are residents
7 OF Clarksburg and the latter was for.
/ merly Miss Hazel MCGEE OF south
| Broadway street
w. l.. Greer and sister Eleanor left
yesterday for California to be gone
about month on an extended pleas
IRE trip. Mr.. Greer Ia the senior
member OF the firm OF Greer a I.ainR
Born-To Rev. and Mrs. Carman OF
/ the Island yesterday evening. a baby
| girl. Mother and babe doing nicely.
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rau " Powell Hf THrhsHrriIfa Ne
N9r HruarIFrI throughout 20 state q
system 20 .rrTIrr lIuha Tor rfrfs Do
fH" south rT.Tn NOR. fhar O. 200 r|rra
have become mem hers
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RIVER NEWS

Early this morning there was a stag.
or ID feet inches az the local wharf.
ana slowly failing. All rivers above ar.
also receding
reports from the wharf are that tn.
ohio will arrive here TODAY from nor
Mardl tra- New orleans trip On rout.
[" pittsburgh. ana that she viii nr8H.
ABLY max" another triT CO. New brlsHr.
WITHIN the next few weeks for the MANI
"h" want Co visit the sunny south he
FORE summer.
ne NauaV HI .s due 300. morning
from Pittsburgh for trr.rrasf,r -rrT
'llE or farksr-nUTE F- scheduled hero
about noon from Cincinnati Tor pfrfs-
Ilfgh This fs her FIRST trip ont Tor
over eight months
tn" l-orcut PARSED down last night
from pittsburgh Tor FarIrr-t.rr
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Held Good Meeting

The members OF the Mt. de ChantaI
study Club held very interesting
meeting yesterday afternoon al the
nome OF Mrs. Harry Scheuffier at
Woodlawn. The subject discussed
was the country OF Wales. after which
discussion of current events closed
me program. Those present were.
Misses;
stella Taylor Katherine O'NeaI
ellen frctcr Evelyn Blum
lara Rose Coleman Doris Whitman
blanche Wariletd Esther Hell
tupertha blub Ellen Frcter
Mesdamss:
70. g. Buchanan ~ ~ Wolfe
. ". sawyer VI. u. Kelley
w J. Wtngert"r ~ J. Scheufd.r
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NEWS BRIEFS
HOSPITAL BOARD MEErno-rh

HOSPITAL BOARD MEErmo-Ths
board OF directors OF the ohio valley
General hospital will meet Thursday
afternoon In the assembly room OF the
institution 70 take Hp a number Of Inn
pOrtaut matters.
FAIR coAn6IrTEE MrErrNo-Tbi.
week a meeting OF the fair committee
Will be held iu the assembly room OF
the Board Of Trade 10 make fuHl ar
Engagements 10 have the new stockhold-
sr>. consisting principally Of Wheeling
district business men. take over the Old
West Virginia state Fair association
nol9lngs. he new company will b. or
Eanl1ed aud preliminary arrangements
made 10 Improve tho grounds
sWrAhnIrG cLAssEs-The swim
ming classes are now In progress az the
Young Women'- Christian association.
and are open for all members
PREPARE REPoRTs-The officers OF
the Wheeling Playground association
are preparing the years reports Tor the
annual meeting To- he held Wvir-sdav
iu the Market Auditorium
RECALL PnEBIEN-The Baltimor.
& Ohio railroad has reiu-tatsd a MUM
Der OF hremen during the past week
POSITION EMEETINas-Au Of the
farmers meetings about the Wheeling
district have been discontinued on A.
count Of the foot aud mouth disease
EXPOSITION FAREs-The rates on
All railroads as TO fares 20 the Panama
terday.
PLANT COMPLETED - The new
power plant ~ the wheeling Electric
company AZ Forty-ssCond street is u.ar.
ing completion and the machinery is
now being installed
WohAN's CLUB-DuIy routine bust
ness was transacted a. the meeting OF
the Womau's club held YESTERDAY, .fter-
noon.
HOLDINGS .oLD-Squire j.. J. Com
prrs sold the holdings Of the Eastsrdav
,Ho'olAte company yesterday 90 tho
lttLcer burgess company for the sum
OF SlA55u This sum VIII nav tIr r.rf
or the indebted company. etc
WATER SAMPLE GIVEN O.
smith, receiver Tor the Beuwoud Wafer
company, supplied the Wheeling bDart
OF control with a sample OF the water
from the E'uwoud alters Yesterday
Sulphate Of aIumiua Ig used a = "a rosEti-
i3nt. and the water D. absolutely clear
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-03-02

On Wednesday evening in the
board Of trade rooms. Miss Kate Cor
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don. president OF the Era club of New
Orleans. also president OF the South
ern states Suffrage conference. VINO
Is visiting the Miss Cummins. will
lecture on woman suffrage
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board Of directors OF the ohio VALLEY
General hospital viii meet Thursday
afternoon IN the assembly room OF the
pOrtaut matters
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OANob SOLD--QGire j. J. Com
p-rs sold the holdings Of the East.r,Is,.
Io'olate company yesterday 20 the
lancer 4 burgess company FOR the sum
OF AlNt."'. This sum VIII pay the rent
or the indebted company etc
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Captain William TruaX. well known
local wnarfman. H. seriously IN al his
home In North Wheeling
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-29
WAR SPATS CAUSE DIVORCE
Use of French Language Classified as
Offense-Suspects Tried by
Court Martial.

Basel, Switzerland.-Germ mar
tial law is described by Alsatians in
Basel as weighing heavily upon
their countrymen at home.
They declare that the speaking of
French is classified as an offense I'M
der the orders issued by the COM
manding generals of the Fourteenth,
Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Twenty-frst
German Army corps, who cite the
imperial laws of 1878 and 1882 to sup
port their contention. The testimony
of the children and servants is taken
as proof before court-martial of guilt
of talking French.
Personal feeling between pro-French
and pro-German Alsatians is running
high, visiting Als@tians declare. The
local courts have granted divorces re-
Gently to husbands and wives unable
to live harmonieusly because of their
opposing national sympathies.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-29
Books That Have Been Burned.

Not many literary men in modern
times have had their writings official
ly burned-though we remember that
Froude's Nemesis of Faith" was "tu-
torially incinerated" in the fireplace Of
an Oxford college. We do not nova
days in England stifie thought by
fire, or burn down an Alexandrian Ii
brary to smoke out an idea. Milton,
you may remember, said something as
to the relative value of a good book
and a man as a subject of killing.
r. l.. Stevenson stands in the great
succession of the men of burned
books" and Samoa has remembered
the twentieth anniversary of his
death. 1t was in 1892 that he wrote
the "Footnote to History from his
home in Samoa, which was then tech
nically under German control. The
work appeared in the TauchnitZ eGi.
ton, was then seized upon and
promptly burned by order of the Ger.
man government-London Chronicle.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-29
RAT WENT THROUGH THE WAR
Unusual Pet Was in Soldiers Pocket
During Hot Fights In
Flanders.

London.-Perhaps the only rat on
record that ever went through a mill
tary campaign, ensconced snugly in
it's soldier owners pocket, at the bat
tie of Mons, the Marine and the Aisne,
is now in London in the possession of
Sergeant Johnson of the Royal 4feld
artillery. Johnson was wounded at
scissors and is on few days leave.
Billy" as Johnson calls his rat,
though the latter is lady, is pure
white, and was given to the English
soldier by French girl at the begin
ming of the war. During the battle Of
Mons, the rat sat on her masters
right boot. Twice she wandered away,
but came back all right and was in
the fighting all the way from Mons to
Melun, southeast of Paris, and back
to the Marine and the Aisne. Billy
was in Sergeant Johnson's pocket all
the time and was never hurt When
the soldier landed at Southampton,
after he had been wounded by shrap-
mel, lady who saw the white rat,
presented to Johnson a black terrier
pup named Toby to keep Billy COM
pany. The rat and the pup are now
close friends.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-29
How the Tide Was Turned on the
Marine.
General GaIIieni Hurls 10000 Men by
Taxicab Against German Flank
and Forces Retreat to
the Aisne.
BY FRANKLIN p. MERRlCK.
international News Service.)

international news SeTNlCe.J
Paris-It is not generally known
Enat the Battle of the Marine was won
by automobiles. General Gallieni had
400 taxicabs and other light motor cars
at his disposal 1t will be remem-
bered that Won Kluck with the right OF
the German army got as far as Cham
piley. General Gallieni, as military gov
ernor of Paris, had large force, prob
ably half million men, at his disposal
and he was responsible for the defense
of Paris.
Gallieni figured that he had more
men than he really needed and that
10000 of his men could be spared for
work at the front.
Acting entirely upon his own re-
sponsibility, he ordered his men to
crowd into the automobiles. He made
each taxicab carry nine soldiers. 1t
was curious sight. There were two
in each seat, two on the hood, one
with the driver and one on each run
ming board.
Within six hours he threw the whole
10000 against the flank of the Ger
mans at Meaux, about thirty-five miles
from Paris. Won Kluck evidently had
not reckoned with such a sortie. He
was forced to stop and give battle. The
French, retiring on his front, reformed
and gave battle. The result was the
retreat of the Germans from Marine
TO the Aisne after the sanguinary bat
tie named from the first river.
This is only one of the great exploits
of the French army automobile trans
port service. No other nation in this
war has used the motor car with the
effectiveness of the French. The auto
mobile transport service is organized
as a separate branch. Working with
amazing rapidity just after the begin
ming of the war, the French army OH
GERS drafted into this corps men who
had been employed in automobile
manufacture skilled work
men, testers and drivers. The officers
we're drawn from the manufacturers,
agents and other heads of automobile
organizations The heaviest trucks are
used for ammunition carriers and light
er commercial vehicles for the food
supply. General Mongin commands
the whole corps.
Some noted French race drivers are
now in the army service. Boillot alter
mates with the Marquis D'Albufera in
driving General Joffre's car. Several
machines are kept ready day and night
for General Joffre and it is no unusual
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-29
GUNS ROAR DRIVES MEN MAD
Soldiers Go at Each other With Bay
onets or Rush for Each 9th
ers Threats.

Washington, D. C.-Europe's war is
converting hundreds of men into raw
ing maniacs, according to Maj. ]. J.
Dickinson of the state department,
who recently saw fighting in the
trenches near scissors.
They don't fire at each other" he
said, "but the din of artillery directed
at the covered trenches is positively
maddening. Now and then l saw men
jump out of the trenches and go at
each other with bayonets or in a mad
rush for each others threats.
From my position from trenches
little behind the actual firing line I
saw hundreds of men brought back.
They did not seem to be wounded.
They were screaming, raving maniacs,
driven insane by that maddening roar
of artillery overhead"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-29

keep the men busy, but it was more
difficult for him to chalk up the rec
ords of what ore they hauled The
three RS were embarrassing to Dillon,
for he had little schooling in Ireland.
His fingers were gnarled and twisted by
labor and a pencil or a piece of chalk
was harder to manipulate than pick,
a shovel or a barrow.
It is hard for g grown man to set
about to educate himself, but Dillon
did so. Night after night he sat at a
table in his home and worked with
book and pencil to master simple prob
lens that small children had solved
in the first few years of their school
terms 1t was harder, much harder,
work than the work he did in the mill,
but he made progress and what he
learned he never forgot.
Stood by His Benefactors.
He went along happy and contented
until the Homestead strike. Then he
had to decide whether he would join
hands with the men or stick by his
employers. He had been made sort
of superintendent in one of the mills
by this time. 1t did not take long for
him to reach decision. He went to
the clergyman at whose church he
worshiped.
Everything l have in the world l
owe to Mr.. and Mrs Phipps,' he said.
Mr.. Phipps is Mr.. Carnegie's partner.
II should not stand by him in this
emergency l would be ashamed to
look him in TIE face again. 1t is the
tirst opportunity have had to pay
him back for all the kindness he has
done for me. Is it not soT
The clergyman told him it was so.
He told him more. 1t was Dillon's
duty to do all in his power for his
lbenefactor. The mere giving of his
individual service was not enough.
Dillon was more than popular with
his men. He went among them and
told them plainly and simply his own
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-29
FOOTBALL GAME HALTS WAR
British and German Soldiers Fight on
the Grdiron-Kaiser Upsets
the Schedule.

Berlin.-A general order issued by
the German army authorities prohibits
football games in the field Det"eeM
German and English soldiers.
At Christmas time men from born'
sides in the western theater OF war
fraternized and played hotly-contesteoi
games of football. officers and men
laid aside their arms and watched the
players and cheered them on.
The rivalry became SO intense thae
war was forgotten and the men VINO
kicked the most goals received more
applause than is usually given heroes
on the fighting line.
At one place where the Germans
and British played the game was g.
draw and the players agreed to sus-
pend fighting for two days more In
order to decide the issue on two
games out of three.
News of this reached the military
authorities and 1t was decided that
football was interfering too much
with the business of warfare, aside
from the complications arising from
too friendly contact between the adj
vance guards.
The order was issued forthwith and
there will be no more athletic con-
tests between the soldiers, who also
are forbidden to fraternize or meet on
any terms except those of bitter en-
nifty.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-29

story and how ne had sought counsel
and direction from his pastor. 1t was
the sort of statement that had more
direct appeal than polished oratory.
Some men who were bent on strik-
ing hesitated, and then decided not to
go out. On the day the great strike
started, more men remained on duty
in the mill over which Dillon had
charge than in any other part OF the
mammoth Homestead plant.
The strike was one of the fiercest in
the history of America. The compare
lively few men who remained at work
were shot at, stoned and beaten.
There was murder and riot day after
day. At various times some of the
men who had been influenced by Dill
Ion wavered. No one did more than
the clergyman to hold them in line.
AS he counseled Dillon, he counseled
them. To surrender to force was un-
manly, he declared.
OF all the Homestead establishment,
the only mill that kept going through
out the strike was that small one over
which Dillon had charge. The force
was inadequate, but it kept the fires
going and it kept turning out material.
Dillon worked night and day, resting
only when he was exhausted. He came
of fighting stock and several times
when he.and his men were attacked
he had to battle for his life. He gave
as good as he received. Once he mar
rowly escaped death and was rescued
from a mob unconscious.
After martial law was invoked the
danger was lessened, but the strug-
gle. was long drawn out and the vic
tory of the Carnegie company was
dearly won, for it left feuds and bit
terness that lasted for years.
Rewarded by the Company.
In all that strike no man did more
for the Carnegie company than Patrick
Dillon. The fact that he kept his mill
going had powerful effect. Had the
strikers succeeded in closing down
that solitary mill, some of the leaders
think to this day, they would have
triumphed.
When the strike ended, Dillon was a
wreck. His body was covered with
scars from the wounds he had received
in the battles with the strikers and his
strength was Slapped by the long strain
to which he had been subjected. May.
be the Carnegie people thought his
life would be none too safe until some
Of the passion the strike had engen,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-29
AUTOS WIN BATTLE

thing for him to enter one of them and
drive the whole length of the battle
front in the course of the night. o
There are now $4,000 automobiles
and 10000 trucks in the service of the
French army.
One of the automobile service corps
biggest feats was the transfer of the
British army from Braisne, between
Soisne and Reims, to st. Omar, dis
lance of ITO miles. The 100000 men
were transported to their new posi-
lions within three days.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-29
MAKING UP FOR VODKA EDlCT
Russian Revenues Nearly Up to Elk
penses in Spite of Pro-
hibition.

Petrograd.-Next to the war the
financial side of life is claiming the at
tention of the Russian public.
In spite of the war, with its loss Of
customs receipts, and the abolition Of
the vodka monopoly, which together
mean a loss of s4OO,OOO,OOO, the reve-
nues for 1915 are estimated at $780,
100000. Ordinary expenses are esti-
mated at $1,54O,O 100000. extraordinary
expenses estimated at $75,000,000,
making s1,615, 100000 the total ex-
penses for 1915.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-29
LOST GLASS EYE IN FIGHT
French Soldier Wants New Optic So
He May Rejoin Forces at
Front.

Paris.-Tmile Decostered, a Frekch
soldier, has written an oculist In Paris
asking that he be supplied a new
eye His letter states that he fought
with his regiment until week ago
when he was wounded by ball that
hit the glass eye and shattered it.
THE doctor, noticing / am without
an eye," says Decostered, is holding
me in the hospital. Please send me
an eye so that / can Join my com
mand."