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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-09
State Editors
DOING GOOD WORK.

Under the above title the Fairmont
West virginian. always ready to be-
stow credit where credit belongs, has
the following article commencing the
efforts in behalf OF the new Publishers
Association for West Virginia. The
article Is more gratifying from the
fact that one other daily besides this
one, is awake on the Importance OF
newspaper organization. It was to be
expected Of course. the West yirginian
would be the first to join In, because It
Is fair and honest. The other dailies
do not realize that a big move Is on
foot to take their legal advertising
away from them and then don't seem
to have either sense or spunls enough
to resist the matter. Perhaps 81; they
could see the letters received at this
office from membsS Of the Legislature
they might turn over and grunt. before
going to sleep again. Petersburg
State Journal
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LITTLE Boobies PA
BY William Il. Xix

I have Joined a new Reeders Club,
sed Ma to Pa wen he cain home
last mite. Sum Of the men are going
to Join us. too, she sed, q I told all
the ladies that was sure my hus.
band wud be one OF US.
| was newer much Of a reeder, sed
Pa, what is the idee?
oh, sed Ma, We iggered that It wud
be kind of nice to meet onst a week
or so at the hoam OF some one Of US
& discuss the crate works of sum
of the crate minds which has left
thare thum.prlnts on the pages Of
time, Ma sed. Next week we are
going to talk Lowell.
WHARF does he live. sed Pa, I did.
ent know thare was any Lowell In
our little crowd.
: ! am ,afrade you doant understand
sed Ma, Mistell Lowell is a poet who
has been ded long time.t but he rote
sum butiful things & we are going 10
discuss him at our next meeting.
Why do you gurls have to discuss
a man after he is ded? sed Pa. Ain.
thare enuff of US old sports living
that you cud discuss at yure meetings
Aggenn you do not grasp my meen-
ing, sed Ma, ! meen that we are go.
ing to discuss him in litery way, the
buty Of his poems the grandeur Of his
grandness, etc. Missus Craig.D oonan
is cumming here tonite. She is pres.
ident Of our new club & she can ex.
plain 1t better to you. & then Mis-.
sus Craig.D oonan cain in the door.
/ am charmed to meet you, sed
Pa when Ma introduced her to Pa.
My deer wife was Jest telling me
about a new reedrs club which you
ladies has organized.
oh, yes, sed Mas friend, We are
very much interested in having our
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-09

Reading an article from VIM. H.
Sawyer, former editor of the Hinton
Independsfit,Herald In the Fayette
Tribune is like hearing an echo from
the past. IfIEditor sawyers. hadHnot
deserted the editorial chair for a more
careful study of Blackstone we would
not object to his coming a new word
now and then to enliyen the discussion
Of public questions, but we must ask
for an injunction to prevent him from
libeling the Public Service commission
by saying that 1t is "brlgglingr around
on its decision Of the New River power
dam question.
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LOOKING FOR BELGIAN
IMMIGRATION.

"Mr. Wilson already has expressed
his sympathy with your plan of bring
ing Belgian agriculturists to the
United States" Mr.. Bryan Is quoted
by the London Westminster Gazette,
in Washington interview. "They
should be welcome here as valuable
addition to our citizens. They must
come to a definite settlement some
where and not as paupers or stray
seekers for work. adding to the slum
population OF our great cities"
These are particularly the agrlcul.
tural Belgian refugees, who number
tens Of thousands. now in England.
OF course, Belgium was one of the
great manufacturing countries OF the
world and will have other emigrants
than peasants. A vast accession OF
European emigration TO the United
States is expected after tht war, but
these expectations are not likely to
be fulfilled. What will happen will
be an improvement in the quality of
the emigration, for some years. We
shall have good influx Of Belgians.
better farmers than those OF south.
eastern Europe, and whether peasants
or factory works:s much more in.
telligent and enlightened people; in
some respects, therefore, a more de.
sirable addition to our population.
These desirable immigrants will BIO
secured by those states that are on
the lookout to get them and take
some pains to offer them inducements
OF our ports. since the number will
not be so great as is commonly ex-
pected. The idea that Europe Is going
10 proceed to depopulate itself in its
desire to get to the United States and
escape future conscription. or because
Of the decrease of capital and employ.
ment in Europe, Is based on false
idea of the situation. Labor, as a
matter Of fact, will be in particular
demand in Europe after the war and
wages will probably ,risefin every line.
This will follow both because there
will be so much to do to repair the
damage done and because OF the re-
duced number OF workers owing to
the mortality OF the war. But an
exceptional class of people from north
ern Europe, and perhaps particularly
from Belgium, will emigrate to this
country to escape the abomination OF
war for the rest Of their lives and
for their. children. Agricultural states
like should make an effort to
get such immigrants, instead, as Mr..
Bryan says, OF allowing them to drift
I into the slums Of the cities, or into
the manufacturing industries.
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husbands Join too. My husband prom.
Used last mite that he wud surely at.
tend our first meeting, our Lowell
meeting. ! suppose you know Low.
ell, sed Mlssus Craig Doonan.
I was in Lowell Mass. onst sed
Pa, but newer knew q ritter by
that natm. But maybe I can learn
samthing about him by attending u
meeting such as you menshun.
He rote sum butiful lines, sed Mas
friend. Just TO show You how deep
he is. I will ask you a questun that
he rote and that nobody has ever
been abel to answer. The question
is, "What!lis tsoErarei as q day In
June?n gsS4sfssS net
That is kind Of a TUT riddle. sed
Pa, let me see. How wud this DO
for q anser, sed Pa: A baseball gain
in January.
No, sed Ma, you do mot get the
idee, deerest. Mister Lowell was too
soulful to bother about things like.
baseball gains. Think aggenn, now
sed Ma. What Is SO rare as o day In
June?
l doant know. sed Pa. Maybe the
anser is & beefstake.
I am afrade yure husband fsent
very poetick, sed Missus craig.Doo.
nan. My deer Sir, she sed to Pa, the
idee Is this, or at least Il has always
seemed to me that Mister Lowell
ment this to be the idee-that thare
is RELY nothing in the world SO rare
as day in June. That Is the idee.
Z Certainly, sed Ma, that is the idee.
l am surprised that my husband did.
ent see 1t sooner.
Well, sed isPa, what OF III
I doant think Pa will ever 20 to
any Of the meetings Of the Reeders
Club.
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Personals.

Ed Roberts has returned from bus.
mess trip to Pittsburgh, and left on
Thursday evening for Charleston
where he. has taken a position with
the Oil Well Supply Company.
"A. B. Harvey has severed his con,
nection with the Benniger Meat Mar.
ket.
Rev. T. B. Lawler is holding night
meetings at Barrackville.
( Nimshi NUM- OF Boothsyille, was a
business visitor in town Friday.
Mrs. E. L. Piggott was at Clarksburg
shopping Thursday.
Mr.. John IA. Rice was a Clarksburg
visitor Friday. 4 4
Earl Brown, OF the Farmers, Bank,
has returned to his duties here after
spending several days at Jane Lew Wis,
iting home folks.
Mrs. Margaret Higginbotham. OF
Pittsburgh, is the guest OF her son, c.
81. Hfgginbotham, of owings.
Mrs. g. NJ. Cunningham has return,
ed home from Auburn, Richie county,
where she visited her parents.
|. Lloyd sapp. Of State Roads. Ohio, Is
here visiting his parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
John sapp.
Mrs. Alice Ogden. who has been
nursing at Fairmont has returned to
her home here. ~
The Young woman's Christian Club
will meet Thursday, January IL; In the
club rooms. Every member Is urgent.
ly requested to come. as there is very
important business I otransact Re.
treatments viii ne served!
I Arthur yassar was a Fairmont Wis.
flor yesterday.
Harry jackson. o. Fairmont, was a
visitor here Thursday.
y Miss Gladys Baldwin. daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. George Baldwin, has
been seriously III for some time.
Grover c. Preston has taken over
the news agency which has been own.
ed by John H. Rice the past year. and
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-09
THE LITTLE STREET.

went TO the little street.
The little street where she died.
And IL seemed TO me as turned thu
Square
That the very payements sighed,
And the blinds stared, yacant-eyed
When i went to tba little street.
The little street where she died.
Thought Of the days when she LEANED
Out Of the casemnt there.
And always watched for me
AS !. turned from the quiet Square;
And the nights when watched fol
the flare
OF her lamp at the windowpane-
A beacon through the RAIN =.
Last night I wc-. to the street,
The little street where she died,
But i could not see for my tears,
The house Of love denied.
The winds, like spirits, sighed. (.
Then a star In heaven flashed
Over the street where she died.
by Charles Hanson Towne.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-09
Luke McLuke
tErom Cincinnati Enasirsr.l

Every man wants 70 run TIA home
Newspaper and the home BAH team.
But II You tried 70 run his business
he would want 70. tight.
Some men seem TO be hanging
around in the world Just to keep their
wives from having little fun on the
life insurance money.
Telling your wife that she looks bet.
ter in her bungalow apron than the
woman next door does in her new
street dress doesn't keep FRIED Wife
from wanting new street dress, but
II salves her q whole lot and helps
some.
A mans hat has to at his head. A
womans hat has to At her face.
II man Dragged as much about
"The Wife, at home as he does In a
saloon, she would think a whole lot
more of him.
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is now delivering the papers.

: = y - = $50, go 4f1kses'
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. a. Short and chill.
dren have returned to their home here
after spending several days in Wash,
ington, D. G.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Miller and chill
dren have returned from Claysyille,
Pa where they spent several days
with relatives.
Mrs. T. B. Smell has returned from
Buckhannon where she had been for
several days visiting relatives.
Mr.: and Mrs. Z. N. Solomon. Of Man
nington, are guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. Sa-
lem Josephsi this week.
Misses Nellie Harvey and Agnes
Wilkinson have returned here after
spending several days at clnrksburg.
Mrs. w. II. Nichols is the guset OF
friends in Fairmont this week.
Miss Augustine McDermott Is able
tosresume her duties us clerk in the
First National Bank, after o brief ill.,
ness.
Miss Emma McIntire. telephone OBJ
orator for the shinnston Union, has
been visiting her grandparents Mr.. and
Mrs D. W. Roberts near Warrington.
Miss Mary Ogden. OF Salem is the
guest OF Flora Robinson this week.
Mrs. Rose Griffith of Erie, is here
visiting friends.
Earl Johnson left for Buckhannon
Thursday TO enter Wesleyan College.
Mrs: N. Weinstein and son Davy are
visiting relatives In Baltimore this
week.
Mrs kaufman and Miss Frances
Frei, OF New Martinsyille, are here the
guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. j. Richard Rob
inson.
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f.
One Of the lecturers who recently
appeared in the city in the Normal
course was surprised at the size and
quality Of the audience. \ When told
that the door receipts for that lecture
were less than $1,000 he was surprised
for two reasons, first, because he, him.
self, had not made special appeal to
the citizens, and, secondly, that the au-
d!ence, in fact, represented the real in
terest on the part of the citizens in
first class attractions. The West vir.
gilman feels that the citizens of Fair
mont are interested in the things that
make for intellectual growth and cul-
ture, and will give them support when
their real worth is known and under
stood
We desire to call special attention
to the coming to Fairmont of Mrs.
Maude Ballington Booth, known the
world over for her sympathetic and
great service to the unfortunate, cs.
pecially to those who are to spend their
time behind prison bars. She is un.
questionably the most famous woman
that has ever been brought to Fair
mont. Every young man, every young
woman, as well as every adult man
and woman should hear her great
thrilling story, and thus have better
basis for knowing the value of the
privileges and blessings that the aver.
age person has who conforms to rea.
sonable law.
The West yirginian feels that every
citizen is under certain moral obliga.
ton, as well as a civic one, to support
those who obligate themselves in
bringing such people to the city, and 1t
is hoped that every one will look at
the matter in this way, and see to It
that the First NJ. E. Church is packed
TO the doors to hear this illustrious
woman.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-09
STATE GOVERNMENT IN
WEST VIRGINIA.


Sufficient answer to some OF the
silly charges Of extrayagance that
have been leyeled against the state
administration Of West virginia Is q
Comparison OF its expenditures and
services to that Of the expenditures
and services OF other states. and par.
ticularly with the expenditures and
services Of the United States govern.
ment. 4.
There are about 100000 people in
the United States. a Democratic
Congress in 1918 appropriated and
spent over s1,1oo,0oo,o00 for various
public purposes, a sum s1oo.0o0,00o
greater than ever before spent by a
Congress Of the United States, a sum
appropriated nd.spent at time when
business depression, industrial idle
ness, suffering and want. were the
rule instead Of the exception. In other
words. the American people in 1914
contributed to the support Of the gov.
eminent Of the United States about
$1,000 for every man, woman and child
in the entire country.
The state government Of West Viz.
girnia in 1914 cost s2,S0o,0oo.oo. We
have about 100000 people in West
Virginia: The state government cost
about s2.70 for every man, woman and
child in West Virginia. The state
government touches the daily lives,
the comfort and the well.being of the
people OF West Virginia at a hundred
places where they are touched at one
by the national government. The state
government of West Virginia provides
the courts, the administration Of Jus
tice, the university, the various nor
NAL schools, the insane asylums. the
state reformatories and the deaf and
dumb asylum. 1t maintains health
organization, mipe inspection serv.
ice and q large number OF miners hos.
pitfalls. It creates court for the ad.
judication Of complaints against any
public utility, and for the regulation
of charges made by them. 1t enforces
law and order, and maintains a state
militia. It has regularly spent each
year more than one.tenth Of all It's
revenues for new buildings, new equip.
ment. and additions to, its humane and
educational institutions.
Compared with the expenditure
made by them for the support of the
rational government, the people Of
West Virginia get back dollars In
service from their state administration
where they get pennies from the ma
tional administration. Compared with
any other state in the Union, the state
government Of West Virginia is ad-
ministered not only economically, but
almost parsimoniously. State govern.
ment in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana.
Illinois, New York and Virginia costs
from two TO four times the amount
per capita what It does in West Viz.
ginia. The state Of Ohio in 1914, witt.
a little more than four times the pv.L.
lation. spent eight times the amount
Of money in state government that
West Virginia did.
West Virginians spend no money to
better advantages than they spend on
their state government.
West Virginians from no source OBJ.
tain the same advantages and the
same services that the y obtain from
their MISUNDERSTANDING Intelli.
gencer.
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Submission NEWS.
Institute Held.

The Clay District Teachers Institute
held the fourth monthly meeting in the
High school building at shinnston on
Saturday. morning. 4s64ss. i a,
The, first half of the meeting was de-
voted to general discussion, and Mr..
shafer and Miss Johnson, of the Fair
mont Normal school were with us
again:
Sectional meetings were held after
II o'clock and Miss Johnson was In
charge OF the primary section. while
Mr.. Shafer conducted the other sec
ton.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-09
THAT SETTLES 1T.

President Wilson has at last an
nounced his determination to run for
the presidency again-that settles the
Democratic party for the next twenty
years.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-09
ANOTHER REASON.

{ From The Ohio State Journal
Another reason why congress should
be very economical this year Is that
before very long the Panama Pacific
Exposition viii be hanging around
Washington waiting to be paid
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CountIna the Cost,

Counting the Cost.
"Did the income tax hit you hard"
Il should say so,p replied Mr.. Dus.
tin Stax. Il had to pay the govern
ment as much as 1t cost me to get
two expert accountants and an at.
torney to tlxe up my account for me-"
Washington Star.
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Sea DOGS,

Sea Dogs.
Alice (returned from abroad)-The
captain told me they had dog watch
on every ship.
Betty-Gracious shouldn't think
they'd be afraid Of burglars at sea-
Boston Transcript.
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Opening Of New Bank Building.

Opening Of New Bank Building.
Next Tuesday. January 18th, from
Z to 9 p. M, the formal opening Of the
new Farmers Bank building will take
place. The bank has been located in
its new home since December ed but
Us it took several days to adjust the
fixtures and get properly settled In the
new quarters, the formal opening was
delayed until the date announced
above.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-09

The year will also prove an excep.
ton in that, for the first time in a
generation the number of those killed
in battle will exceed the number o.
those who die as result of getting
hold of the wrong bottle.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-09
Maaons install officers.

st. Johns Lodge No. "a, Ancient,
Free and Accepted Masons, installed
installed officers Friday night. and also
gathered around the festal board, as Is
customary following such ceremonies.
The deputy lecturer, S. Wade Coffman,
of Clarksburg, was present.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-09
WILL NEVER COME BACK,

Give US back our husbands and
sonsl" shouted the women Of Vienna.
A modern and infinitely more mourn.
full variation of the Roman Emperor's
demand for his lost legions.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-09
AND EUROPE WILL po tlT.

lFrom Inc sun. new YORK;
How does anybody know or what
reason has anybody to, believe that Eu-
rope. which has been unable to make
its own peace, Is likely to call upon
the United States to step In?
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Living to a ripe old age is made
auate recompense IL one must fol-
low the rules laid down for those who
wish to achieve the feat. >
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Fashionable.

What" Is Helen sick?"
"oh. no! Her skirts are SO narrow
she cant stand. her corset SO tight
she can't sit; so she is lying down.
Humoristicke Listy (Prague).
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-09

In selecting the leader of any crowd
pick out the man who does the listen.
ing.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-09

When a man is on trial before a
jury composed Of the women of his
neighborhood verdict of guilty as
charged" Is rendered.
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The men make some progress.
There was time when their shirts
buttoned at the back.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-09

Probably the loneliest man is the
enc whose tiance has gone out of town
10 spend the day.
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Anderson.stewart.

Mr.. Richard Anderson, OF this place,
and Miss Blanche Stewart, Of Fair
mont, were married a few days ago.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-09

A woman sometimes puts hers in a
safe deposit vault, but the rule is that
II man owns iewelry he wears 1t.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-09

Israel Goodno's distinction is that
he Gun spread an ordinary.sized wet
blanket over an entire townsite.
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CurrentComment
NO. "NEVER AGAIN."
From the Boston Herald.

tits safe to say that the first OF Aus
trials good resolutions woruld read in
English: Never Again"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-09

The devil generally is friendly
soul, and he always is polite.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-09

A rich son.in.law is inadequate pro.
lection for mans old age.
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Just Smiles
Ihelr CLEO.

Their elee.
"He boasts that he came from fine
old family"
Eyes; and how they must have
laughed when he lett!"-Judge.
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THE RoApFTo WARSAW.

tFrom The Milwaukee sentinel)
1t may not be such an awfully long
way to Warsaw, butt Is taking long
lime to get there.
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Another Luxury.

Payton-We hear great deal late
!, about the high cost Of living, and
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parker-And the high cost of loaf.
ing should not to be sneezed at either.
Life.
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shlnnston Baptist Church.

Sunday schol at $3.50. Every mem.
Der Of the church ought to be pres.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-02-04
AN IRISH CORPORAL
DISCOVERS DIAMONDS
SOLDIER IN AFRICA CATCHES
CLINT OF JEWELS IN
THE SANDS

(Dy Associated Press.)
LONDON, Feb. Allow an Irish
corporal picked up two diamonds
from the drifting sands of his sentry
post in German Southwest Africa, is
told in letter which has just reach
ed his family here.
my present post is in desert of
sand Dunes" he writes. "a mirage
shimmers continually on the horizon.
The sand, blown by the wind, fills
the eyes and throat and bites into
the skin. 1t is our duty to keep the
railroad open. That means very little
soldering, but great deal of shovel
ing; all day long the native shovelers
push aside the drifting sand, which
would soon hide the rails if left TO
its own devices. Today, while |
stood idly watching a group of COM
planning shovelers, my eye caught an
unusual flash, and stopped and
picked up diamond, the size of a
bean. searched little longer and
found another, bit smaller. There
were no more"