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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-11-10

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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-11-10

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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-11-10

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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-11-10

county, reversed. decree for plaintiff
and renanded; Miller vs.. Wilmington.
Monongalia COUNTY. reversed, attach.
ment quashed ana suit dismissed!
Evening star., 1915-06-27
COFFEE MARKET.

NEW YORK. June 26.-The market
for coffee futures was very quiet today.
making it appear that near month ac-
counts had been pretty well evened up
as a result Of the notices circulated
yesterday. The opening was un-
changed. but prices improved slightly
late in the morning on scattered COW
ering. which probably reflected the
steady ruling of Brazil with the mar
ket closing net unchanged to 4 points
higher; sales, 1850 bags. June, $50;
July. 100 August, s.sS: septem ber.
$50: October. $50: November, S83: De-
cember. SIS; January. SIS: February,
eS9; March. B.s3, April. 6.9s; May, 7.03
Spot quiet: Rio No. I. IN; Santos No.
4, 9Hs
Milreis prices in Brazil were un-
changed, while the rate OF Rio ex-
change on London was 5-32d higher
Receipts at the two ports, $4,000 bags;
Jundiahy receipts. 10000 bags. Rio re
ported a clearance of 5000 bags for
New York.
Evening star., 1915-06-27

investors representing dividend and
interest disbursements by railroads. in
dustrial and traction corporations,
banks and trust companies, the Ma
tional government and the city of New
York. This compares with S264,3S5.lSo
for the same period last year. Next
month the sum of S95,6S5.764 will be
distributed among stockholders in the
way of dividends. as against Sf0o.3SS.-
635 in 1914. This falling off is due to
the fact that a number of corporations
have either. reduced or ommitted pay
ments altogether. However. there are
a few additions to the list. and several
larger payments. while some companies
will pay out dividends on an enlarged
capitalization. Incidentally. the returns
are more complete than year ago.
Interest payments will amount to
s174.39S.Sia. against s163,9a7.l45 in
1914, the increase being the result of
new bond and note issues. In addition
TO meeting its interest obligations Of
900. the city of New York VIII
also pay off about ss.oo0.000. against
$4,000 600 last year. However. the lat
ter figures are not included IN the
grand total for either year.
A summary of the July payments and
a comparison with the same month a
wear ago follow:
Evening star., 1915-06-27
New York Securities Desirable.

In the second place. New York will
undoubtedly secure a fattering premi-
um on her new issues. and this will by
so much decrease the net interest to be
paid on the loan. This new issue of
bonds comes at most opportune time,
for Il comes when investors are show
ing increased appetite for high
grade bonds. and on the eve of the July
retnvestment period, which this year
may well yield for reinvestment d
somewhat larger percentage than usual
of the interest and dividend disburse
rnerts. There are TWO factors which
may contribute TO this increase one be-
ing an increase In the disposition TO
save and the other being a decrease in
the amount OF July payments which
will go abroad, owing to our large re-
purchases OF American securities dur
ing the past year. II seems likely that
the successful fotation of this New
York city Offering Will be followed by
one or two important items OF railroad
financing and present indications are
that these offerings will encounter ia
vorable investment conditions.
Investment bankers quoted as
saying that in relation TO money mar
ket conditions. good Investment securi-
ties may be regarded as unpreceden
edly cheap. and that present opportu-
mites for Investment Will not be du-
plicated In the very near future To
prove this point one banker exhibit d
table covering forty-seveu representa-
tive bonds selected at random with
their highest and lowest prices for the
period 1905 TO 1915, together with the
average prices for that period. OF the
Iorty- seven issues only one is now
selling higher than the average Price
of ten and one-half years. The other
forty-siS show declines from their
averages ranging from / II to ls@s per
cent. And the single exception, AL
though selling / y per cent above its
average price. now yields J.i5 per cent
against an average yield of sos per
cent. The average yield of these bonds
IN the spring OF 1905. when they were
selling at their highest prices for the
ten and one -halfyear period was 3s24
per cent Time money rates for this
period were Ar per cent. The average
yield AT the present time for these same
bonds Is a.sl7 per cent, with time money
rates again "a per cent.
Evening star., 1915-06-27
Additional Orders for Steel Rounds.

Additional large orders for steel
rounds were placed at Pittsburgh, and
car builders bought $4,000 tons of bars,
plates. shapes and axles at Chicago
Gas and oil companies placed orders
for eighty Ave miles of wrought-llne
pipe for southern and western ship
ment, while heavy orders for skelp
were placed for domestic delivery and
for export. Some additional large con-
tracts for tin plate and galvanized
sheets were taken for foreign ship
ment. Billets. tool steel and shaftlng
were advanced in price. Steel building
and bridge orders taken by the fabri-
eating shops amounted to 10000 TONS
including 5000 tons for export to cuba
and Hawaii.
1t is indicated that the United States
Steel Corporation took orders recently
at the rate of $4,000 tons per day, while
shipments were approximately $4,000
tons per day
Evening star., 1915-06-27

| rates of interest have the privilege.
under certain conditions of converting
their old securities into the new ones
| bearing 41c per cent. The conditions
are that holders of the old debt. in
| order to exchange, must subscribe 70
| an equal amount of the new debt and,
| in fact, must pay cash for the new
! loan before they can convert an equal
| amount of the old.
Thus the holders of $4,000. 100000
worth of British consols bearing -.
| per cent and selling around 65 ,or min
| imized at that fisurep and the holders
| of around s2,500,000,009 of the recent
war issues at BIZ to 3. per cent. are
protected against further depreciation
| in the loans they already hold which
| depreciation would normally follow
| the raising of the rate on the new
! loans above that offered for the old.
"If the old debt were completely con-
verted it would require around $1,000
| 600, 600, and the years war is estimated
| to require $1,000, 100000 more. Great
| Britain's debt thus will rise from
| around s3,50o.ooo.00o as of year ago.
to around $4,000, 100000 as of a year
| from now.
These figures, like the events OF the
day, are colossal and unprecedented IN
the history of the world. and. too. ais"
like these events, are for destruction
instead of construction, as far g prop
erty and lives are concerned. IN the
great scheme of the universe, however.
out of destruction and death may arise
light and life, not for this generation.
alas, but for the worlds far future.
Some explanation of an English loar,
not having been arranged to be placer
here in the face of the fall Of the eN-
change rate on London during the past
week or two, may perhaps be found ~
the effect which the great English loan
is having upon rates of interest there
and Of the quotations for English eN-
change here These effects began TO
be distinctly visible Thursday, when
London's discount rate had mounted to
1a per cent above the low level OF
last week and when exchange on Lon
don had risen five e-etShths above the
record low of last Saturday.
And so it becomes evident that the
exchange situation was not TO be al
lowed to drift as has seemed possible
II. the last week or two but that the
whole matter had been astutely foreseen
and arranged for. Sinking exchange
rates here meant higher prices to he
paid by England. but this was not to be
neglected. The provisions of the
British loan and the effectual working
of them are producing the results de-
sired.
Evidently, also. TO help the quota
tions of exchange on London here, 1t
had been calculated that the induce
ments and conditions of the Offering
would cause some selling from there OF
our securities, which would further
bolster rates on London. This. too, rs
working out, and sales in the last Two
or three days have been increasing.
having much to do with sagging quota
tions in the American market"
Financial Notes.
Selling by foreign investment hold
ers, in the war financing now under
operation by Great Britain and France.
may be responsible for the slowness of
the New York market, although the
Forthcoming German reply to Presi-
dent wilson's note may tcause mac
tivity.
Cotton is weaker on continental liaui-
dation.
Evening star., 1915-06-27
NEW YORK DRY GOODS.

NEW YORK, June 26.-Finished cot
ton goods continued quiet and steady
today. Higher quotations were asked
on linens for late delivery by Belfast
manufacturers. Burlaps were in good
demand. =
Evening star., 1915-06-27
S AND sc MONEY
TO Loan on D. G. Real Estate
| WILL SELL

;ESSE l.. HEISkEIL. 1903 III st. NV
| WILL SELL
$4,000 Potomac Consld. 80 at 10i.
$1,000 G. & r. Tel. LIST SO of Na. at 96.
$4,000 Washington Gas 50 at 1915.
81 500 Georgetown Gas 50 at I03.
70 Wash. Rwy. pfd. at St4.
25 Warrington Rwy. com. at 90a4.
1I5 Washington Gas at "a.
Is Mergenthaler at 1873.
100 Lanston Mt g..
s National Bank of Washington Mt rs.
10 Munsey Trust at 98a4.
40 Union Savings Bank ibid wanted|.
10 Second National Bank at I49hz.
Is n. w. Steamboat at 161.
so Washington Baseball Club at 49,.
10 Gayety Theater at 1855.
5 Columbia Hotel Co. at 100.
2 $40 GRAPHIC. pfd. ibid Nyanfedb.
$40 GraIhO. com. ibid wanted.
/ WILL BUY
70 Capital Traction mt 9O12.
so Warrington Rwy. pfd. at Sd.
25 Washington Rwy- com. at S9t2.
30 Washington Gas mt S3.
10 Mergenthaler at $50.
Is Federal National Bank at 135 ex div.
20 Farmers and Mechanics Bank Mt 24R.
National Bank of Washington at TOO.
80 Washington Baseball Club at Il.
5 n. &. w. Steamboat mt las.
Subject to previous acceptance or
cancellation. All executions for cash,
Buying and selling orders on all listed
stocks and bonds solicited.
Deliveries for cash mt your OWE bank.
THOMAS L. HUME, Broker,
1910 G. st Rooms 9-11 Tel NJ 134S
Evening star., 1915-06-27

poration. receiving s175.ooo, and AL
bert Shetlow invested $1,000 and took
out $4,000.
Thus on an investment. so far as
! known, of S43,500, plus the sum put
into the business by Henry Ford, the
| modern Aladdins lamp has Welded up
10 the time of the recent melon cut
ting s47.450,000 in cash and SAG, 500. 900
In STOCK dividends. and the stock is
worth far above par and making
money for the holders in quantities.
Farm Credits.
At the Virginia Bankers Associa-
ton convention. held week ago at
Old Point Comfort. DR.. Bradford
Knapp of the Department of Agricul-
ture suggested a series of questions
which bankers should PROFOUND to
farmers, seeking accommodation, more
Tor the sake of the farmer than for the
banker
Here are some of the questions:
What did he intend to do with the
money? What were his prospects of
repayment? What was his reason for
supposing that the new venture would
be successful? Was his agriculture con-
fined to one crop? To what extent was
he diversifying his crops? Was his
How many people did it support What
mechanical appliances had he? If he
intended to switch to dairy farming,
what did he know about milch cows
What provision had he made for them,
not merely in barns but for feeding the
cattle? What was his market and how
did he intend to reach tto What ha d
he done to develop his farm in the
past?"
Local Securities.
The usual small investment movement
in bonds continues, with utility issues
favored
In the stock list the movement is de-
cidedly slow and unsatisfactory
Rumors are freely circulated in the
financial district. and while they may
readily be interpreted as a desire on
the part of the chief officials of certain
corporations to bring about needed
economies. the way to bring about the
desired ends has not been outlined to
where 1t may be expected to lead to
results.
Capital is, for the time being. timid
and keeps aloof, the result being In
action, where with the abundance of
cash and low rates prevailing there
should be activity.
The long pending case to test the
right of the Washington Gas Company
Gas stock drags wearily. 1t was
argued in February, 1914. and a deci-
sion in the matter, with orders as to
the disposition of the stock, if the court
rules against the legality of the hold
ing, is past due. Other suits are like
wise dragging their weary way.
The annual report of the Washington
public utilities commission, when it is
issued. probably will have important
things to say on physical valuation of
utilities. etc, this and other matters
having a quieting effect on the entire
list.
The Great English Loan.
J. S. Bache & Co.. in their regular
weekly letter. discuss at some length
the latest war loan-the greatest,
$4,000, 900. .O00-as follows:
Financial operations are vast in size
and conceived in the highest courage
these days. as is evidenced by the
great British war loan, authorized by
the house of commons this week. This
is unlimited in amount except as re-
quired to pay for the war for a year
and to provide for conversion of the old
British debt. The new loan is to draw
Az per cent, and all holders of the
governments securities bearing lower
Evening star., 1915-06-27

THE ODD LOT REVIEW, published hy John
Muir 4 CO.. contains each week concrete in
yestTnrnt suggestions in New York stock
Exchange Securities. 81 GO a year. send for
sample copies. 81 Broadway New York CITY
Evening star., 1915-06-27
WEEKS RANGE OF PRICES.
Corrected to the Close of Business June 26 al
the Office of The Evening Star.
Railway and Miscellaneous Shares.


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to ate
Evening star., 1915-06-27

The weekly statement OF resources and
liza bilities of the reserve banks of Rich
mond at close of business June 25 is as
follows:
Evening star., 1915-06-27
July Dividends.

July is one of the most important
dividend months, and this years dis
bursements of interest and dividends
VIII release nearly S275,000.0 900 for re-
investment According to records COM
piled by the Journal of Commerce
total Of S270,9S4,6l3 will be paid to
The Brinkley argus., 1915-07-02

LAND FOR SALE::-The North East quarter of Section 32, Tp. 6, Range l. in Woodruff County. Apply at this office.
 Miss Constance Cole came down from Hilleman Sunday and is the guest of Miss Jennie Allen for a few days.
 Nice furnished rooms for light house keeping, at reason able rent. Phone Mrs. B. T. McCreight. phone l08.
 reH em you ssw N In the Argus
 Miss Lela Campbell returned home Wednesday after several weeks visit with friends in Lonoke and Little Rock.
 Jno. c. Blessing. the. Bon Ton Market man. has a brand new cash register that does nearly everything a human can do.
 Dr. M. R. Stimson and family left Wednesday for Hot Springs where they have rented a cottage and will spend several weeks.
 Miss Kate Thurman left We'd nesday for a months vacation visit with her brother, Attorney John Thurman. in Little Rock.
 Mrs. Jack Barrier and baby returned to their home in Little Rock Tuesday after several weeks visit here with her mother.
 The best typewriter ribbon made for any kind of a machine you can always get right here in Brinkley from the Folsom Print cry.
 w. L. Hinton was up from Roe Tuesday to attend the mass meet ing and reported that the storm had done great damage to his crops.
The Brinkley argus., 1915-07-02

Tom Bogle, who has been at his home at Obion, Tenn. for several months, has returned to Brinkley.
 Miss Mary Sue Bohlinger re- turned to her home in Little Rock this week after a delight full visit here with her brother, A. N. Bohlinger.
 On Monday Mrs. Sollie Salinger entertained at cards, 800 being the game. On Tuesday Mrs. Jake Lamm entertained a Bridge and 800 and this after noon Mrs. Jas. l.. Woodfn is entertaining at 800.
 Walter Dickson, t h e rice farmer, is the second farmer within the past week to join the Auto Owners Club. He has has bought a brand new Maxwell touring car which is one of the prettiest and best autos made in America. The purchase was made thru Dr. T. J. Stout, of this city.
 Parker c. Evan accompanied by Mesdames Evan and N. E. Murphy and together with Editor Geo. P. Smith and Groceryman Ava Brown were up from Clar- endon Tuesday to attend the farmers mass meeting. When ever a progressive man is needed, in every movement calculated to push our county you always find certain Clarendon men always on hand.
 Mrs. Thos. E. McSpadden left Tuesday morning for her new home at Greenwood, Sebastian County. where her husband, Rev. McSpadden, the Presby- terian minister. has accepted an important work. We. of Brink ley, will sadly miss the Me Spadden's and hope that they may count dear old Brinkley" as home.
 Cashier F. Lee Major, of the Bank of Brinkley, is collecting an assortment of farm products for display at his bank. He has some fine oats, the product of A. R. Hammon, 3 it. stalk of cotton from Wm. Tait's Eden plantation, a IA it. stalk of corn from Elmo Chaney's Basin Farm, mammoth stalk of sudan grass of 30 days growth raised by Ed. T. McCreight.
The Brinkley argus., 1915-07-02
From St. Louis in Auto

H. R. Simpson drove into Brinkley Tuesday afternoon from St. Louis in his beautiful new Mitchell Touring Car. He was accompanied by Mrs. Simpson who made the trip all the way thru from St. Louis and who proved a good traveller.
 They bought the car in St. Louis and left there last Friday morning and came via Cape Girardeau, Paragould, Jones' boro, Harrisburg, Wynne and Forrest City stopping along enroute and taking several side trips.
 The car is the very latest and most improved pattern of the 1916 Mitchell cars and is a beauty. N
The Brinkley argus., 1915-07-02
Yell lem you saw It In the ArouS
Fire Lasted Five Years.

Fire Lasted Fivo teaB'
 Perhaps the most remarkable b. ginning and ending to colliery fire was in the case of mine near Stir ling, Scotland, belonging to the Sauchie Colliery company. The first shaft they sank was abandoned in favor of an other in a better position. The disused shaft became the secret headQuar. ters of gang of Illicit whisky distii lors. In the abandoned mine works they set up their still, and turned out thousands of drops of Scotch" that had never paid duty. One day, how. ever, the fire from their furnace set the coal seam ablaze and they had to fly for their lives. In very short time flames were pouring from the cracks in the ground, lighting up the whole countryside. The fire was walled in with mud. It took five years to build this wall, at cost of sS0.O00. and then it was useless. Finally they sealed up the mine, pumped carbonic acid gaa into it and the fire that had taken five years to fight was put out
The Brinkley argus., 1915-07-02
Unique Baseball Game at
 Moro.

Down at Moro. the Lee county town that Humphrey and a few more of his companionable boost CTS put Ion the map, they have all gone to playing baseball. On Tuesday the "old men, played the young men a match game and the ''old men" won by a score of 13 to 9. All of Moro turned out to see the game, even the stores closing.
The Brinkley argus., 1915-07-02
Papa,e Prayer.

A Topeka Sunday school teacher asked one Sof her little girls if she re memhered to say her prayers ix the morning as we'll as at night relates the Kansas City Star. ~No. ua'an, but papa doss.' replied the cAild. Tnats nice. and what does para 0Ay for the morninx pEayer?" asked theN<eacher soA. Ae jast sAys. Lord, how ! Aats to Tt up.~
The Brinkley argus., 1915-07-02

SIS.
 We, Andrew Flora, President, and F. Lee Major. Cashier of the above named Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of our knowledge and belief
 ANDREW FLORA, President.
 r. LEE MAJOR, Cashier Attest:
 JAS. GUNN, SIR.
 F. D. MCKNIGHT,
 I. SCHOLEM
 Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of June, 1915 My commission expires February 20. 1s16. i11
 SIGD. BACHARACH. (Seal.) Notary Public.
The Brinkley argus., 1915-07-02
What Mere Could ss Askedf

"Robert,d said his father, T thought I told you yesterday to clear up the yard" Well. I did" declared Bobby, yirtuously. "I fired everything over the fence soon as l got home from school; but the kid next door throwed 'em all back after dark.
The Brinkley argus., 1915-07-02
cou,dns Sc. Any Compliment.

You don't seem pleased wnen : suggest that you have lovey as rosit,on arm not replied Mss CaysAne. ~Telling eiri sne n~s 2 lovely dssposition Is usually sort q apology for not being able to say sns Is neither good looking nor ineerest inx N Washington star,
The Brinkley argus., 1915-07-02

West Helena, are to spend Sun day in Brinkley with their families.
 PRETTY LIBRARY TABLEs--Any size, any kind, any finish, made to order by J. A. Glover at 1-2 price. See sample at St. Clair's Photo Parlor.
 Mrs. Woodie Cooper and chil- dren returned to their home in Little Rock Friday last after a visit with her parents, MT. and Mrs. J. W. Cooper.
 Mrs. Mary E. Doty, who has spent the past seven months in Brinkley visiting the ARGUS family, left yesterday for her home at Columbus, Ohio.
 MT. and Mrs. T. s. Dunlap and son, Sanford, returned to their home in Big Sandy, Texas Monday after few weeks visit here with relatives and friends.
 Mrs. R. W. Davis returned to her home in Lyous, Miss. Sum- day after a visit here with her parents, MT. and Mrs. Tomli- son, on South New Orleans Ave.
 Mrs. S. Lebovitz and two daughters, of Memphis, and Mrs. J. Levenson, of St. Louis, are here visiting their relatives, MT. and Mrs. J. Nepolsky this week.
 The best what is-Watson & Aven's Grape Nut Ice Cream a delicious dish with punch and flavor. You get it only a t Dutton Drug Co.,, Cream Parlor.
 MT. and Mrs. l.. K. Brown have had as their guests Mrs. Walter B. Fakes (formerly Miss Mamie Vest who left this morning for her home at Me- Crory.
 Representative J. D. Davis of Roe was up to attend the mass meeting on Tuesday. He reports that great damage..was done by wind and rain storms to the crops in his section.
 Miss Bessie Goodell who was the stenographer for Dr. Stout until the Ist. returned to her home in Pine Bluff Wednesday. Miss Mary Folsom is stenograph- CT now in her place.
 MT. and Mrs. F. H. Cole were passengers into Memphis Sun- day afternoon where Mrs. Cole went for a surgical operation which was successfully perform ed on Tuesday morning.
 Miss Fannie Brown spent Sun day in Helena with relatives. She was accompanied on her re- turn by 1 her sister, Mrs. J. M. Hayne who is now visiting her several relatives in Bripkley. Mrs. S. R. Smith and two daughters, Gladys and Rosss of Quitmen, Texas, and Mrs. k. C. Williams. of Illinois. are visiting their parents, Mir. and Mrs. Tomlison, on South New Orleans Ave.
 Mrs. A. A. Diffey. of Ft. Smith, and grand children. Rosalie and Alex Diffey, of Cotton Plant, were thru the city enroute to Ft. Smith Wednesday night and were guests of the ARGUS family while in Brinkley.
 The ARGUS is publishing this week on the front page Tn a double column border, a n article, How to Use the Bible. 7 This is published by request and Lin this connection the editor lis glad to note that the request was general one. Gut 1t out and put it in your Bible.
 Rev. and Mrs. w. T. Thurman and two daughters, Misses Nell land Francis, left last night for Arlington. Tex, where they will spend u months vacation visiting relatives. Mir. Thurman promised to let his Brinkley l >,,., ly,,,us nl,nnt himsalf hv n