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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-14
CHECK COMPANY
IS Condemned
Directors of Fairmont Bust
ness Mems Association
Scare Trading Stamps.

The board Of directors OF the Fair
mont Business Mems Association has
sent the following letter to the mem
bers OF the association:
"Fairmont, W. Va. July Is, 1915.
TO the members OF the Business
Mems Association OF Fairmont,
West Virginia:
Your board Of directors met In spe-
cial session yesterday afternoon and
heard a representative of the Nationa!
Cash ChecH Company expound the VIZ.
tues OF its system or scheme OF dis
counts and advertising. Fourteen out
Of fifteen members OF the board were
present, and after full consideration
they voted unanimously against the
scheme. Also against the gold pono
and all other trading stamp arrange
ments or ideas.
1t is the opinion Of your board that
these schemes are all alike in princt-
pie and that II would be TO the very
great detriment to our business inter
ests as vel. as to the consuming pub
lie 10 have any OF these schemes used
in Fairmont. Your board IS convinced
that the only one who benefits IN the
end is the company or person VINO
sells the schemes. In making up Its
opinion your board was fully advised
OF what is thought OF these schemes
in Pittsburgh. Cleveland, Philadelphia
and other cities and towns. II they
we're believed TO be good this associa'
ton would conduct some such trading
arrangement and save the profit TO
conduct the association.
For further information on this
subject call on the secretary OF the
Business Mems Association OF FAR
mont
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-14
Grain and Produce.

sacHiCAGo, July 13.-shorts in wheat
were thrown into semi.panic today
by the unexpected claims OF black
rust In North and South Dakota and
Minnesota, with conditions favorable
for its further development. In addl'
tien to these reports there were sales
Of l,50O, 600 bushels Of new crop
Wheat to go out via the gulf. B. W
Snow, the crop expert, who is now
"a South Dakota, says that between
Tabor and Yankton there are traces
OF black rust, but that 1t is untmport'
ant yet conditions are favorable for
the spreading Of the disease.
g There were further rains in the
winter wheat belt. Harvesting was re-
pofted active In many districts OF the
odthwest, and It is expected that re-
eeipts in the larger markets will IN.
crease. There were only 90 cars OF
Wheat received here today, compared
With 1;155. cars year ago.
Caeported by George w. Eberhardt q
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Announces Program
for Bible Class

The eighth Ward Bible Class will
meet at the usual hour 1:3O Thursday
evening. The program follows: Music,
prayer, solo by Mrs. Harvey Kopp. re.
port Of Secretary, report Of commit.
tees, lesson by A. Wilson, solo by
Mrs. Mitchell Mills. sentence prayers,
questions on the Christ Life. Prayers
by conmittee leaders, testimony, talks.
E. q. Hale Practicing the presence Of
God. Mrs. Richmond, Christ as our
FRIEND" solo, Miss, JOY Kennedy.
PraFec
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-14
Prof. Woodley Makes
Visit to Huntington

o. Woodley. the newly elected
president Of Marshall College, former.
" President OF the Fairnont Normal
Scpool was in Huntington this week
to Confer with the state officials and
the architects with reference to the
LOCATION Of the new science hall to be
erected in connection with the college
a, Huntington. Mr.. Woodley returned
to Charlottesville, where he is teach
ing il the Summer school Of the Vtr-
GINA University. He will Return
There in august to make plans for the
opening of the school Mrs. Woodey
will Join him there In the fall.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-14
Fairnont Assessment
Totals sl2,O86, 400
LAND soks NOW IN HANDS OF
TAX REVIEW
BOARD.

County Assessor James ". Davis
has completed the real estate va!ua-.
ton Of the eastern district Of Marion
county. including Fairmout, Grant,
Union and Winfield districts. and has
made his report for the year. Several
days ago the valuations OF the west
ern end Of the county, including the
other magistertal districts. was pub
lished.
The report given out yesterday by
Assessor Davis shows the complete
valuation Of the city OF Fairmont,
which forms parts Of three magIsterial
districts. lying IN Fairmont, Union and
Winfield districts. The city valuation
is found to be 12,0S6.490. material
increase over last year. The complete
report for the eastern end is as fol.
lows:
Real estate valuation OF the eastern
district as fixed by James W. Davis.
assessor:
Fairmont district .$2.225.0TO
Fairmont Ind District ...... 36S.2S5
Fairmont city, Emit. Ind. Dist. 9.442,S9O
1890 - '''' . " . :" . ~@SpNOV'S1O
Grant District ............$ 4,7l0,545
Monongah corporation 80. 329.2S5
Total ..................$ 2,039,S30
Union District .........$ 706.600
Union Ind. District ...... SS925
Emit city, Union Ind. Dist. 2.596.050
Total ................$ 3.391.573
Winfield District .........S 963.170
Fmt. city, End Wd. Dist. 1850
Total ...................S 1,O1O.72O
Total Fairmont city. Fair
mont Ind. district, Union
Ind. Dist. Winfield Dist. ST., 0S6, 400
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nance, Oil and Real Estate

apsthing better than light punper
10 Union district, Clay county. the
Davenport Oil & Gas Company has
drilled No. 10 on the Frank Cox farm
ibto the Big Iniun sand and has a
show for a 80 or 40.barrel Producer.
The location is 600 feet north Of No.
s Oh the same tract For more than
tTo gears there has been development
work in this district and the wells
have averaged less than 10 barrels at
tbe Start. In the same district, the
craig Oh Company has started to drill
No. 8 on the J. Craig & sons farm.
Another Of the four wildcats drilling
10 Cabin Creek district, Kanawha
cophty, is a duster. 1t is the South
penn OIL CompanyS test on the Ohley
Coal company's tract and is located
% cabin Creek about two and one
fourth miles southwest OF the Coum-
bis Producing CompanS's production.
The South Penn COmpany's test has
been drilled through and 55 feet De-
low the Berea grit and found no show
Of Oil or gas at that depth. 1t is still
dfiAing. In the Weir sand develop
men, in Elk district, Kama wha county,
the South Penn Oil Company has cOln.
pleted its No. on the Anna c. Skin
ner farm and has 50.barrel Producer.
At Glovers Gap, Huntington district,
Marion county, the Carnegie Natural
Gas Company has drilled test on
the james O'Hara farm into the 80
foot sand and has show for 15bar.
rel bumper.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-14
RETURN FROM CONVENTION.

Miss nellie V. Layman. Kenneth
Barnes and Cecil Mcdonald are ex.
pected home tomorrow from Chicago,
where they had ATTENDED the Worlds
Christian Endeavor convention. Mrs.
Sarah Lloyd and daughters, Misses
Flora and Sadie. will spend q week
longer in Chicago with the formers
daughter. Miss Clara Lloyd, who is
located in Chicago.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-14
euARp W. Va. RlVERs.

Deputy U. S. Marshals located along
the navigabIe rivers in West Virginia
have been given especial instructions
to look out for violations of the rivers
and harbors rules in regard to motor
boats. All over the country arrests are
being made and heavy fines imposed
upon those who are violating the fed
eral laws in this regard.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-14
SMALL ERE IN Garage.

Tpe central fire station made a
hurry trip TO quincy street yesterday
afternoon when an alarm was receIv.
ed, An automobile garage there had
caught, btu the flames did 20 damage
and We're extingutshed before the ar.
rival Of the firemen.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-14
WATSON GOES TO PITTSBURGH.

Mr.. James 0. Watson left yesterday
for Wheeling, where he will spend a
day and then 90 to Buffalo. Pittsburgh
and other points looking into gas en-
gines for the new pump station which
the gas company contemplate install
ing in Harrison county for the purpose
OF bringing additional gas they have
leased to Fairmont during the coming
winter.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-14
70 RANIsH pAMPNEss.

Workmen today began digging UP
the campus Of the postoffice prepare,
tory to getting rid of dampness said
to exist in the basement. owing to
the walls not being damp proof.
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18,t5l
nAIrIMnRE SALES.

Furnished by W. ". Lanahan & Co.
nnenoer Of New York and Baltimore
StocR Exchanges Main foor' Gdl'
vert building, Baltimore, Md
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PENNINGTON MINER HURT.
A miner employed at Pennington by
the name OF Fred Mela was brought to
the Miners Hospital yesterday. He has
painful injuries.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-14
Oil and Gas

West virginia has little surprise
tn-the way Of good producer in a
district that has not been furnishing
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PTTTsBURGH, July IA sngnt:y
improved feeling was apparent In The
proeeedfngs on the local stock ex'
ehange yesterday morning. The ac'
Ton. Of brokers indicated that they
bGdss larger number Of buying orders
"a. IA some instances were willing TO
ADVANCE bid prices slightly. The mar
YET M to midday was broader man
that of. the like period the previous
seSston. The latter. half the market
Continued fairly active and business
Improved slightly in the better class
o. shares.
EafIy in the day the New York mar
ket became active and broad and ad'
7anees were made and held for 8
time. In the absence Of bearish news
S2buIfish tone prevailed and the ooy'
isEsyza;s Of q good character. The
shorts were forced TO cover IN some
iustances and this assisted materially
70 lift share values in the initial pro.
ceedinrs. Toward noon the market
resumed its. advance after period Of
hesftation, and traders who had been
bearfsh early turned to the long sioe.
The crop situation, better business
conditions and the heavy over.suo'
scriution Of the British war loan were
full factors.
CBy Moore, Leonard & Lewts.)
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VsYoRK, July 13.-The so-called
WI hares, together with allied indus
trais and equipments, comprised the
bnIk Of the trading today. Highest
riSes ever recorded were scored by
HSshi etein Steel at 17S1a. American
cin at 5Iss, New York Airbrake at
1861, General Motors at 17S. Stude'
baker Il, s1N and Republic Steel Pre-
,terrsd at 80. Other correlated issues
made gains Of two TO four points, and
.kfdsrican Coal Products added anoth'
etz1S5s points to It's recent meteortc
nseent ali Of which 1t later relinquish'
y. 8 -
The Washington times., 1915-04-07
Royal Arcanum Ends
Meeting With Banquet

Concluding the twenty-first grand
council meeting of the Royal Arcanum
a banquet was held last night In the
New Ebbitt.
Deputy Supreme Regent l.. r.. Geisen-
berger. of Lancaster. Pa, who installed
the new officers of the grand council
previous to the dinner, and Charles f..
Ncshit, superintendent OF insurance m
the District. were the chief speakers.
Claude II. Zappone, supreme sentry OF
the fraternity. and T.. a. Mess, the
grand regent, also spoke. DR.. Glendie
b. Young, past grand regent, was toast-
master. and the Rev..~A. +. Anderson
offered invocation.
Deputy Supreme Regent Geisenberger
told the diners America Is entering up
on a new era of social life, an era OF
women suffrage, abolition of child labor,
prohibition and better conditions for
the, working class. He declared the
greatest need of the Royal Arcanum
Is a BILLY Sunday" in every council
to stir up enthusiasm. which, he said.
is the secret of the cvangelist's success.
The Washington times., 1915-04-07
Epworth M. E. Church
Honors Retiring Pastor

More than 800 present and past mcm-
bers OF Epwcith M Il. Church, South,
gathered last night al reception glveu
bv the women of the church 10 the
retiring pastor. the Rev. r. l.. fhlti
at which he and his wife were present-
cd with a large silver coffee urn. The
official board of the church was Pre-
scented with a portrait of the Rev. MI
FultZ.
Owing to the four-ycar rule OF the
church, Mr. F'ultz's period OF service
has been completed, and he has been
appointed presiding elder of the Lewis
burg district of the Baltimore confer
ence. He goes tomorrow to take M
the district parsonage at LewisburS'
The Washington times., 1915-04-07

GUIDES Flowers Are Preferred
for dances, dinners. receptions and all
social functions. 1914 F st.-Advt.
The Washington times., 1915-04-07
Five-Passenger Car Stolen

j. l.. Wege. of 11la Four-and-a-half
street has reported to the police that
his five-passenger touring car was
stolen last night from Ninth street
between d and streets northwest. 1t
carried District license tag No. 22035.
The Washington times., 1915-04-07
Safe of Drug Store
p. Is Forced; $63 Taken

Sixty-three dolRrs were stolen by
persons who entered Walter =. Nap
per's drug store at Fifth street and
Florida avenue northwest carly today
by breaking a side window. n small
safe containing the money was forced
open, but nothing else in the store was
disturbed.
Tho robbers cut the telephone wires
In the store. presumably TO make II
difficult to give the alarm in case they
were discovered. The store was not
closed until 9 O'clock this morning.
The Washington times., 1915-04-07
Police Hunt Man With
Egg and Milk on Vest

The police are today looking for n
man with an abnormal waist and egg
and milk on his vest. ... e
II he can also be traced by a trait Of
orange peel he probably will be held In
connection with the disappearance OF
four half-pint bottles of milk, half a
dozen eggs. and az many oranges and a
small piece OF butter from the ice-box
of Il. II. McClusky in the .Royalton
apartments. 91S NJ street northwest.
The Washington times., 1915-04-07
Lane Discusses Plans
For Alaskan Railroad

Secretary of the Interior Lane. who
has lust returned from the Pacific coast.
today took UP with officials of the de-
partment the plans for building the
Alaskan railroad. for which an appro-
will be available.
Determination of the route and de-
cision as to whether the Government
will do the work, as in building the
Panama canal. or let 1t out to contract,
will be the first questions decided.
The Washington times., 1915-04-07
Nine. Mountford to Speak
Before D. 6. ClubWomen

Nine. Lydia Mountford will address
the Saturday morning meeting OF the
Federation OF Women's Clubs at the
Public Library on Saturday.
Her subject will be Home Life In
Jerusalem. Past and Present" She will
begin her talk at II o'clock. Both men
and women are invited Mrs. Ellis
Logan will preside.
The Washington times., 1915-04-07
J. E. How to Speak.

James Eads How, of st. Louis, mil
lionaire tramp will preside at mass
meeting in Socialist headquarters. ST Il
street northwest. tonight at 1880. The
object of the meeting is to select a
delegate from washington to attend the
conference on unemployment tomorrow
in Baltimore.
The Washington times., 1915-04-07
METHODIST CLERGY
HEARS PRAISE FOR
ENEMIES Of SALOON
Rev. J. S. Bowers Conducts De-
votionaI Service and Reads
Annual Report.

With hundreds OF clergy and laity or
the denomination from Maryland, Nir-
sinia. Pennsylvania, New Jersey. and
the District Of Columbia attending, the
Maryland annual conference OF the
Methodist Protestant Church opened at
Rhode Island Avenue Methodist Pro-
testant Church today.
Nearly 200 members of the clergy,
representing charges in all sections OF
the territory included in the Jurisdiction
of the conference, attended the initia,
session, which opened with deVotionai
services at o'clock.
The Rev, J. S. Bowers, of Baltimore,
president Of the conference. conductea
the devotional exercises and presided at
taken up with the reading of the presi-
dents annual report, the roll call OF
the conference, and tho dead roll call
memorial service called by the Rev. F.
T. Tagg.
Saloon Foes Victory.
President Bowers commented on the
progress Of the prohibition movement
while reading his report, declaring that
the vote taken recently in Congress on
national prohibition was the greatest
victory ever won by the. anti-liquor
forces. He. lauded the efforts OF ne
Navy. and Congressman Hobson Gov
ernor Glenn and others tatken against
liquor. referring to the public officials
mentioned as the champions of the
cause who can be depended on at all
times
Reports of the secretary of the confer
ence and Of the conference program
committee; announcement of the stand
ing committee, and the election of Of
ficers for the ensuing year will take up
most OF the afternoon.
One of the features of the conference
is the choir. composed entirely Of minis
ters of the conference which will have
charge of the music at all sessions.
President Wilson and Secretary of
State Bryan are expected to attend
tomorrow evenings session. While
the President is not scheduled to
make an address. Secretary Bryan
probably will make a short i'm
The Rev. A. s. Beane will deliver
a sermon at this evenings session,
which will begin at 1880 o'clock
There will be a song service by the
conference choir and celebration of
tho Lords Supper
The sessions of the conference will
begin each morning at o'clock. The
conference will meet every day from
now on to and inclusive of next Tues
day. There will be morning, after
noon. and night sessions each day.,
The Washington times., 1915-04-07
Fall Nav Be Fatal.

WILLIAMSBURG, Pa, April twill
liam Fitzpatrick. acknowledged one
time. as the greatest drum major in
the country. will probably die as the
result OF a fall from twenty-foot
culvert at Jersey shore.
The Washington times., 1915-04-07
Bullet Stops Speeders
At Aqueduct Bridge

Two men and three women, all col
ored. arrested on a charge of speeding,
will be tried before Justice Cloth in
the Alexandria county court tomorrow.
In connection with the arrests last
night, Charles Dunne. sixteen. was shot
in the left shoulder, but is expected to
recover.
The automobile party was hailed in
Rosslyn by Sheriff A. II. Barbor and
Deputies Charles Ward and w. G.. Pick
EFT. but when the driver refused to
stop. one of the officers fired revolver
to scare them. This bullet Is believed
to have been the one to strike Dunno.
Thc automobilists were halted at the
approach to the Aqueduct bridge.
The Monticellonian., 1915-01-21
SAVE THE COST OF SPRAYING
Houses Provided fer Them Near
the Orchard.

The American Bird House Journal
says that farmers and orchardists can
avoid the cost of spraying fruit trees
by providing the purple martins with
a residence in or near the orchard and
encouraging these intelligent birds to
keep down the insect pests. The pa
per produces evidence to show that
the martins protected certain or
ehard to such an extent that great
crops of fruit were raised without any
spraying at all IL may be too much
to assume that the birds will take
care OF all tree pests; the San Jose
scale. for instance, must be beyond
the reach of any bird. But there Is
no doubt about the activity and the
value of martins and bluebirds in fight
ing insect pests, nor any doubt at all
of the readiness of these birds to oc-
cupy and take advantage of the nice
little houses provided for them, pro-
vided the English sparrows are kept
at their distance.
The Monticellonian., 1915-01-21
Best Not to Copy Too Closely.

After the general change of the
political situation In the middle ages
that took away the city-planning activ-
ties from the princes, and either an
initiated them or put them in the
hands of the citizens. those citizens
IN very many cases turned out to be
very ordinary. short-sighted, and un-
educated bourgeois" Therefore, con-
inues DR.. Werner Hegemann, German
expert. it behooves city planners OF
today not to take too seriously the
work OF city planners of yesterday
Beauty is all very well, but there are
other things to ebe considered.
The Monticellonian., 1915-01-21
A Wide Range.

A young woman with an aspiration
10 shine in the chorus applied te An
ireas DIPPED, who has managed opera
singers all his life. for position In his
company. ITO sing in chorus of
mine" said Mr.. DIPPED, you must
have a good voice" ooh. but | have
one." replied the girl. Mr.. DIPPED led
her to the piano and asked her to DEM
onstrate her vocal powers. Sitting at
The instrument and then swinging
around. she smiled sweetly and asked:
Shall sing The Chairs in the Parlor
All Miss YOU or something light?"
The Monticellonian., 1915-01-21

AIQl9MNR5
WhELp,S
STREETS o. MANY lEvEl s
Time May Come When mu,,,,
ways VIII Be Matter Of
NecessN.

Fifty years ago the nnhon os Or
story building would have seernea =,
travagant. Now it is colnnannlaca
We have with us some prophsts who
talk about the city of the future as a
place of many stories. We havenow
but one level OF streets. They fare-
tell many levels. the Portland Ore
CONAN states. Perhaps there will be
a plane of streets for every floor in
the big buildings The streets will be
laid on concrete arches and lighted by
electricity. Keeping them clean will
not be much of a task because no
horses will be permitted upon them,
nothing but gasoline trucks. The
horse, amiabie and useful creature
that he is. must be blamed as the
great defler of the streets. When
he has taken his final farewell of the
world. dirt and flies will vanish too.
The need of some such modification
IN municipal architecture has become
apparent. In a few years it will be
pressing Few single streets are wide
enough to accommodate the popula-
them in the busy quarters of our cit
les. There Is always congestion. tur-
MOL and delay when the cave dwell
ers pour out in a BODY. In case of
great fire there would be terrible
panic and destruction OF life. Besides
all that, there Is great loss of time in
continually going from the top to the
bottom of high buildings. The eleva-
tor service is usually exemplary. but
II cannot work miracles.
With streets connecting all the
tenth stories of the same city with
one another the dweliers at that alti-
tude would constitute an independent
community. There would be another
set of streets at the fifteenth story
and still others higher up and lower
down. Business would naturally tend
10 segregate its departments on differ
ent levels and an endless saving of
lime and toll would ensue
The Monticellonian., 1915-01-21
American Surgeons in the War.

The satisfactory werls done at
American hospitals in two German cit
les has induced the German govern
ment TO ask for more American sur
geons OF whose skill their German fell
low surgeons speak in terms of the
highest appreciation. That is praise
from high source, and it is matched
by the recognition given the work
of American surgeons in French hos
pitfalls.
The Monticellonian., 1915-01-21
He Remembered One.

At medical college a class was be-
ing examined in anatomy, and one stu,
dent was asked: What muscles have
their origin in the popliteal space?"
We'll, said the bright student,
there's that one with the burned long
two"
The Monticellonian., 1915-01-21

Belgian refugees. a boy and girl,
were adopted by a man and his wife
of Abercynon, Wales. Tie children
now prove to be those of the wife's
dead sister. who went to Belgium as
a goVerness some years ago. A locket
which was fond on the little girl led
to the discovery.
The Monticellonian., 1915-01-21

of
o The Germans
mathematical
precision timing arrival of both about the time The photograph
works while 1t
railroad the food
the hungry soldie
The Monticellonian., 1915-01-21
The Difference.

why doesn't Maud marry Harry?
He is just dying for her.
but what Maud is after is a liv-
ing"