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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-30

We are as near you as your phone When thinking about
that New Years dinner consider the advantage of placing
your order with the HIGGINS DRUG GROCERY co
Then you viii have no regrets-au goods guaranteed.
~ lbs o the hest Granulated Sugar for SLIGO with
a $500 10 including flour.
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\ 5SSNSVIOLA III.
NEWS NOTES.

yWarran Curry and sister, Miss
Madge, were visiting relatives In Tay.
lor county over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Pitcher and
children OF this place, Mr.. and Mrs,
H. e.. Pitcher. OF Canton Ohio, mr..
and Mrs. Ray Pitcher, OF Fairmont,
Mr.. and Mrs. G., W. Meredith and
children, Of Meadowdale, spent Sun.
day with E. A. Pitcher and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will West and son,
Albert, of Grant Town, spent satur.
day and Sunday with the family OF
J. J. Harris.
School will reopen at this place
next Monday, January 3.
Mrs. C. E. Feather and daughters,
of Fairmont, spent Christmas with
the formers daughter. Mrs. C. s. Har.
lis at this place.
Mrs. ]. NJ. White. Of Scott Depot,
and Mrs. P.lO. Walton and daughter,
Lorine, of Charleston, were the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. L., Harris Tuesday
and Wednesday last.
Charles Pitcher returned last week
from Canton, Ohio, where he has be,n
for some time.
The string band OF this place fur.
nished music for tho Christmas en-
tertainment at Montana Friday after-
noon. f,
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But today learn that has reached her great
crisis and that the obstinacy o. the British workmen In
refusing to enlist and in refusing to support Lloyd
Georges scheme for manufacturing war materials may
now wreck England-uness leader can be found who
will wake England up. IS
Asquith, highly trained in mind but delibetate even
datory in action has failed to arouse England. Who
can do III? n
Some say Lloyd.George, now minister q munitions,
who former chancellor of the exchequer at begin
ming Of the war arranged for loans
ever been required before. tx * III II II
Can Lloyd.George manage the English industrial rad
cal' The war has indeed been carried England II is
being fought out in England though leaders are
not generals and the men are not in the trenches.
All things which have happened ii this war since the
French turned back the Germans at the Marne are mere
incidents compared to events In England today
In September 1914 the world waited breathessy while
the Germans threatened Paris. ~ - 7ty%@ =
no less danger though an invisible one, threatens
London today.
England has reached her crisis in the war.
And those who read between the lines Of the war news
watch to see who will save England now.
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THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 80, 1915.
TOM iSHEVLIN'S DEATH.

yv1HEN Tom sheylin fell victim TO the dread rneumo.
wv MIA one Of the greatest athletes the country has
lnown passed to the great beyond. sheylin was
known the country of the greatest football
players ever produced at New Haven any other
place and who did not forget his alma mater when
his, college days were over. He willing to re-
spond cry for help Yale when football teams
were dumping and he never failed to make good Only
last season he put enough pep into the stale" Yale
eleven to wallop Princeton. but failed take the
e Of the Harvard grdiron team And If reports be
sheylins devotion to his college cost him his life. 1t
% said that he contracted cold while drilling the Yale
team Princeton and Harvard games last fall from
which he never recovered. Sheyln was a successful
business man. too, having made fortune in the lumber
trade. Tom sheylin will be missed in Minneapolis and
hundred other places where he had host of friends
but his loss will be most keeny felt by that institution
% which he gave his life in effort round one Of
her most disastrous football in blaze of glory
The shevln will ever be revered by loyal gradu
ates and under graduates of Yale.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-12-30
TWO THR0NELESS
KINGS IN EUROPE
Peter of Servia Has Had the
Most Dramatic Career
of the Two.
tBy Associated Press)

VIENNA, Dec. 30.-There is u sec.
ond king in Europe without i king.
dom, as result OF the war. Pete.
OF Serbia is today no better OF than
the King OF the Belgians. Karageorgo
witch is fugitive before The ADVANCE
OF the Central Powers and Bulgarian
troops. His two capitals, BelgraQe ami
Nlsh, are in the hands OF the inyad-
ers. For time King Peter Travelled
in a special train. At Kraseya.ca he
had to abandon his movable court. AS
he stood IL the station building OF that
town and waited for the automobile
tina. was to take him to .thsr paris.
tears streamed down his Gaeeka. One
OF his dwindling encourage murmur.
ed a few comforting words, but 10
these King Peter merely nodded.
In many respects King Pstsr is the
most dramatic figure OF the European
war. Two regicides are Intimately
connected with his history. the murder
OF his predecessor, ALEXANDER oprenu.
witch, and his Queen, Draga. apl the
assassination of the Archduke OF Aus
tria, the Dual Monarchy's heir pre-
sumptive. There ere those wins clam
that King Peter knew of the two plots,
that indeed, he was the, instigator OF
the former. How rue this Is would
be hard to say in the absence Of more
evidence than has so far bea. u produc.
ed. Certain 1t Is only that K!ilg
Peter showed no insll nation to be- So.
we're with the reg,c,des In either case.
He even MANAGED to be OF good terms
with Major Mislsch, arch william OF
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Must Live With Wife
During 2-Year Parole

PITTSBURGH, Dec. so.-An unus.
ual9 promise was exacted by Judge
Josiah Cohen in granting parole
to James Warfield, serving a 15.month
term in Jail for embezzling $4,000
from a cement company with which
he'was connected. The court ordered
him to return to This wife, who is re.
siding in Pittsburgh, and live with her
and "cleaye only unto her, respecting
any and every martial Obligation"
forethe next two years, under pain OF
being recommitted to jail. q
EWaraeld was sentenced to jail last
February Repeated efforts twere
made to obtain a parole, but 1t was
only after the prisoner signed the stip.
ulation promising to go to his wife
and not to associate with other wo.
men that the court consented to re.
lease him.
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COMFORTING WORDS
Many a Fairmont Household
Will Find Them So.

TO have the pains and aches OF q
back remoyed-to be entirely free
from annoying, dangerous urinary dis:
orders, is enough to make any kidney
sufferer grateful. The following nd.
vice Of one who has suffered will prove
comforting words to hundreds Of Fair
mont readers.
Mrs. E. C. Mundell, 531 CASTOR Ave,
Fairmont, says: "Doan's kidney pills.
which weigot at Cranes Drug Store,
have been used in my family with
very satisfactory results. don't hes.
itate toiadvise all sufferers from back.
ache to give Doan's Kidney Pills d
trial. There is no better kidney med.
icine to be had"
Price Soc, at all dealers. Don't sim.
ply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills4the same that
Mrs. Mundell recommends! Foster.
Milburn Co, Props, Buffalo, MY.
. z i
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DEBT DISCUSSION 5 4, !.

JUDGE JACOBS discussion befort the West Virginia
Bar Association of the question as to whether the
United States Supreme Court can enforce tie judy
ment for s12oooooo which gave against this common
wealth in the debt may interest legal causists
whole lot but the public at large will pay any atte.
ton to it as long as there is disposition upon the part
Of West Virginia to ignore the action Of the high court
And IT might be added in passing that IL such an idea
should obtain currency there is power behind the judy
ment that more to be feared the little army which
the federal government maintains-the power Of an
aroused public opinion. 81,
The constitution from the beginning contained meth
cd Of forming new states out Of older and the scp
ration of Maine from Massachusetts, furnished precedents
which doubtless were consulted when this state was
separated from Old Virginia Now that the amount Of
the debt has been ascertaned definitely there is not
much doubt about the fact that viii be paid at time
and in manner that the representatives Of the two
states will determine. h
The question of the rights and duties Of the federal
and state governments to another are not in the
slightest: degree involved in the debt case.
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ENGLAND COMES TO HER CRISIS IN
THE WAR.

jill Asquith fall? The great, prime minister of
wv England has come to be considered almost as
much a fixture as the king. But leaders as
surely placed in other European cabinets have gone
down In the past year. Asquith is admitted to be
9f the most able men in England but he lacks training
In how to. conduct country in war times.
Now Englnad is "in hoe;" she doubts the capacity
Of her statesmen she has trusted to muddng through
somehow In the words of London paper "the wor.
thy the cabinet are comforted in the belief
thatthe war will win itself II they leave 1t alone"
But theSwar is not doing so.
spite OF the enlistment produced by the threat Of
conserpon Asquith called for 100000 men on Deem
DER AND on Christmas day. Lloyd.George minister
ot addressing the trades unions Of Glasgow
endeayored to them of the necessity of labor
dpton ofthe Introduction of unskilled labor into the
armament factories rin1z ~
has been said time and again. will be
won by the workmen who make the munitions
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-12-30

the crime In the old Konak ~. paI'
grade thirteen years ago -
! Peter karageorgcvltcii never for!
got, and never was permitted to for
get, that he had taken the place of
man who had been foully murdered.
only a few severeigns' consented 10
meet him, and he was always so III
at ease in the presence Of strangers
that he usually summed then.5 - u,
King Peters family, II. rs said. Ia
OF Gypsy origin. The original Kara.
georgoyitch, or son OF Black George"
however, was shepherd. King psier
himself spent much Of his life in swift.
zerland, where the summons To Serh.
la's Inflated throne reached him.
shortly after his election to the
kingship, Peter entered into close re-.
lations with the Russian crown, A
large annual revenue was settled iupon
MIN with the Understandings TINT n
all matters affecting Serb!a's foreign
policy he was to keep Russia's inter.
ests on the Balkan PeninsuIa in mind
The attitude OF the Serbian Lib.
eral party made such q courso by
Russia advisable.3 This part. had
favored the establishment Of q leplb.
lie 10 Serbia after Alexander and
Draga had been muriGfsd. This. and
the fact that the Libe .ais I'M tlore
days were not the ardsit pan.Slay.
lists which they became later, recon.
mended the reinforcems ISN'T orIthe Serb.
Ian crown Financially. IiyPetr ,grad
II was felt that Russia needed a 70.
liable agent In the, Balkans, nor could
1t be overlooked there that expert.
meIts In republican govar irr:ent by 4
Slav people were not calshiatad TO
rtuka life for. the, loinrno.f dynasty,
easier. For twelve years. Peter drew
his Russian revenues, and, & Is as:
serted here, never. lost an opportun
ity to serve In return. .Thei arrange.
Inent made Serbia i yetitnbie appen
dix to Russia, and, SO far d the ;Eu
rep.an war has now Grog !estsi, prov.
cd Serbia's undoipg. Whothps2 or lot
King Peter will ever rtils lin Serbia
10 hard to say. at this m o,nan: In The
Central Powers the 5elisf, Of Course,
IL that Serbia and It's King are no
mere ilfs4 .iSt 80 z az
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o. .
been corresponding for several months
and they met, SO 1t is said, through q
matrimonial agency. IA,
More than month ago the lonely
Ohio farmer, sent Miss Witinrs a pho.
tograph Of himself and asked II she
could learn to love him, or words to
that EFFECT.
Miss Withers,. It is said, didn't know
whether she could or. not but when she
recognized Schlaegel as he stepped
from asC. & o. train Christmas she
gave her consent. After making an Iii.
ehectual attempt to get into Me court
house schlaegel called up Il. s. Dou.
that, county clerk, who obligingly
opened up the office long enough to
grant q license to. the couple. ~
They vhrn ,ra-rieA = -+e.k a.. a
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-12-30
Catarrh Cannot BE Cured

hth LOCAL APPLICATIONS. as they cannot
zach the seat OF the disease. Catarrb Is blood
u constitutional disease, and IN order to euro IL
you must take internal remedies. Halls catafrh
Cure Is taken internally. and acts directly Supon
the blood, and MUCOUS surfaces. Halls Catarrh
euro Is not quack medicine. II was pre-
scribed b. ono Of the best physicians In this
country for years and is regular prescription.
i Is composed OF tho best tonics known. CON.
blnet With tbs best blood purifiers. acting al.
rcct1y on the mucous surfaces. Tho perfect
combination of the two ingredients is what pro.
duces such WONDERFUL results in curing catafrh.
Send for tettirlolinls, free. i-1y13
F. ]. CHENEY & CO.. Props. Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, price Tsc. ..
Take Halle Family Pills for eoustiratiou.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-12-30
British seize Be,r.n 4 Mail

WASHINGTON, Dec, 3o.--Reports
came from German sources this af-
ternoon that mail from the German
foreign Office to Ambassador Bern
TORT has been seized by the British.
Among mail held up, It is declared,
Is that containing the latest instruc,,
lions from Van JJagow regarding the
Lusitantaii negotiations. 80 al 4
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Woman dies. And iio4

ASTORIA, ore. Dec. s0.-Mrs. Fran.
ces Ellen Hare, Oldest white woman
In the Northwest, died here last night
at the age of 1o4.t She was born Feb.
ruary 5, 1911, In Winchester, Va, and,
married Joseph Hare In Iwoodsfield,
Ohio. in 1927. Her father; the late
Judge Davenport! occupied the bench
in the Supreme Court of Virginia and
also served three terms In Congress-.
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Car Mtora PI,l,entlfuiI.

CHARLESTON. w. Va, Dec. S0.-.
Railroads operating through the coal
districts Of Southern West Virginia
have today supplied coal cars equal
to 20 per cent Of the demand. The
fact that, Christmas and Sunday gave
two days III which to handle empties
permitted the railroads to supply more
cars than they could furnish at any
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Fo,tnrIdes,

{. Miss Lena Prichard and Mrs. R. m,
Hite will entertain Friday afternoon
at the home Of the former, compli-
rnentary to their cousins, Mrs. W. l..
Mitchell and Mrs. Chester Prichard,
both brides in the fall.-Mannington
Telegram.
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Never Drank water: pies al ~

Never Drank Water; Dies at III
= ROME; Dec. 3o.-Mrs. Paolina Pelle-
GRIM, who swore she never tasted wa
ter but always drank wine when she
thirsted,. died at San Michele, aged
1T. =
Her 10 children, who according to
the old lady herself. @vare addict
ed to the pernicious nabit OF drinking
water" have been dead many years.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-12-30

H. l. Murphy Of the Monongdhels
says ihe never reads the RUIZ Stun.
Just for that We'll ride on the B. &
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II we have to quit kissing to shun
the grip we will begin right now to
lay in a supply Of quinine. d
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Dutch and Norwegian ships nabbed
by Great Britain. Both are neutral.
Britannia rules the waves-with a lash
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-12-30

: Why Is It when girl reverses the
phone charges she generally wants to
have an argument?
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-12-30

II Austria and America break
the other might stick for a jit.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-12-30

Just when we began to think we
we're getting rich, along comes ]. ".
Thompson and visits Fairmont.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-12-30
BITS OF
STATE NEWS

What has become Of the leaden
plate buried at the mouth Of the
Kanawha River by Louis Celoren,
French captain and explorer, who hop.
cd By this means to reaffirm the pos.
session OF the country which was
claimed by France through the dis
coverylo OF the Ohio river by La Sale?
Huntington antiquarians are asking
this question after having their inter
est aroused by the fact that a portion
OF the plate which was buried at the
mouth of the Muskingum river by
Celoran has turned up In the museum
Of the Antiquarian Society in Massa.
chusetts. Ohio historical societies are
attempting to have the plate returned
toithei state (which 1t was discovered
and placed In the state museum Of the
Ohio Historical Society on the state
untyersitys campus. The plate buried
In West Virginia at the mouth Of the
Great Kanawha was found In the sum.
mert OF s1S46 by boys who were swim.
ming in the river. The plate for a
while was in the possession of the fam.
~ Sofk one of the boys but a number
Of years ago disappeared and has not
yet been relocated.
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Swat the grip microbe.

That gang OF highwaymen at Bar.
raekville who are between. s and IA
years Of age must have been visiting
the movies.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-12-30

Information received by the Victor
Gas Company at Huntington is that
me company has struck a we'll In the
5ereas grit which is producing 1000.
wy feet daily. The company is plan.
ming extensive development in Lin.
coin county. IA IS
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-12-30

Miss Norinne johnson arrived here
Tuesday night from Charleston, w.
va, and Is a guest OF Miss Edwina
Wilkinson III tlllp at her home on Market
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RUFF STUFF
BY RED.
: The wind blew 65 miles an hour
at Point Marion yesterday. Did you
catch the aroma off the brew?
BY RED.

sotSh VIC aioalh olt tue uIeWs
Every guy in town who has no
place to 80 these cold days, piles into
the justices, courts and makes; it
impossible for poor cuss, Just our
Of Jail, to get any fresh air.
Pretty sop Greece will know wheth.
er she fell! or was pushed a 3
Ion ss{Sf.. ~ ,slas.,l., 1sgaaa q T
Have you yet gone to bed to rest
your weary head on jack-inithe,box
or toy wagon?
Kids are all right until they get
your goat shooting pop guns all day
All those wanting tickets for the
ride on the aqua wagon will please
line up to the right. Z
Thomas Mott Osborne has been in.
dicted for perjury. If he gets sent
up 1t won't matter much; he has been
living like one of his prisoners for,
some time.
The British Cabinet furnishes
enough amusing reading on this side
OF the briny to put all joke books out.
Of business.
The new prosecuting attorney isn't.
afread to prosecute boys who kept
the stores about the city short Of
funds by burglarizing, =.
With revolver and hopes, four
lads broke into Morgan and vangild:
er's store and got some cheese and,
cake and rs pennies.
We had about all kinds OF weather
yesterday that It Is possible to crowd
into a day. The weather man has pro.
badly been working the 16.to.1 pug.
zle and went nuts. Z
There were $50 licenses issued to
Marion county lovers in the past year.
Didn't think there were that many
single girls in the state.
Swat the grip microbe.
That gang of highwaymen at Bar.
rackville who are between. s and IA
years Of age must have been visiting
the movies. -.
Just when We began to think we
were getting rich, along comes J.sY.
Thompson and visits Fairmont.
sfs
II Austria and America break
the other might stick for jit.
! s,r.ss 80
II we have to quit kissing to shun
the grip we will begin right now to
lay In supply Of quinine.
Dutch and Norwegian ships nabbed
by Great Britain. Both are neutral.
Britannia rules the waves-with a lash
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Six Institutes will be conducted TN.
ger ne auspices of the West Virginia
sunday school association next month,
the Institutes will open January 1s
and continue for six days in the fol.
lowing cities: Beckley, Hinton. Ron.
eeyert Anderson, Princeton and ST,
Aipans Or Montgomery. The Institutes
VIII be held simultaneously.
among those who will help conduct
me institutes will be Prof. T. W. John.
son, Delaware, o.; Mrs. G. II. Geyer,
Aenia o.;S Alfred Day, Syracuse, N,
q; MISS Phoebe Curtis, Columbus, O. !:
Mss Lilly 3. Farris, Cincinnati. 81:
~ Robert McWatty Russell, Chicago,
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Charles Edwin schlaegel, aged az, a
grosperoas farmer of Madison county,
onio, " back In Madison county with
2 bride whom he married at Hunting.
son on christmas day, less than two
nours after he first looked into her
Mrs sehlaegel formerly was Miss
naale sWithers, aged Is, a resident OF
rourth avenue, Huntington who was
" attracted by o photograph Of the
onto farmer that she consented 10
marry the original when 70 ? --irsS
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Every guy in town who has no
place to go these cold days, piles into
the Justices courts and makes; it
impossible for a poor cuss, Just our
Of Jail, to get any fresh air.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-12-30

There were $50 licenses issued to
Marion county lovers in the past year.
Didn't think there were that many
single girls in the state.
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We had about all kinds OF weather
Yesterday that It Is possible to crowd
into a day. The weather man has pro.
badly been working the 16.to.1 pug.
zle and went nuts.
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