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{. CONFERENCE
G0NVENES SESSION
Bishop Cranston Presides at
the Opening Today in
Parkersburg.

PARKERsBuRG, Sept. 22.-The
sixty.nlnth session of the Methodist
Episcopal Church convened today at
Parkersburg with Bishop Earl Grams.
ton OF Washington, D. c.. presiding
over the sessions. This will probably
be the last conference over which he
viii preside as he will enter on the
retired list following the general con.
terence at Saratoga, y. T., next MAY.
A welcome service and reception 10
the ministerial and lay delegates
gathered here for the West Virginia
annual conference OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church was held last night
at the First Methodist Episcopal
Church.
The services were presided " by
Rev. L. B. Bowers OF this city, super.
intendent of the Parkersburg district
OF the church. who delivered the main
address OF welcome. Hon. j. Mentor
Caldwell, president OF the board OF
commerce. delivered the welcome on
behalf OF that body, and Rev. DR.. S. K
Arbuthnot. pastor OF the First Metho.
a'sh APAoSoPaA 1IuiSI, ueIlNSTeN Tue
welcome on behalf OF the local
churches OF the denomination.
The response to the addresses was
made by Rev. Or. Willard F. Compton,
superintendent OF the Wheeling dis.
trict of the church. The principal
guest of the evening was Bishop Earl
C-anston. of Washington, D. c., who
convened the conference this morn.
ing.
Thursday and Friday the eighth an.
nual session OF the Laymen's Asso-
citation of the conference will be held.
Among the speakers are Gov. H. D.
Hatfield ard State Superintendent OF
Schools NJ. P. Shawkey.
For the first time In the history OF
the state women have entered the race
for election ms delegates 10 the gen.
eral conference At Saratoga. Six dele.
gates are TO be elected from this state.
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farm and It Is producing 40 barrels a
day. The location is 500 feet north
of No. l. The Hope Company gave its
No. 2 on the sand farm a 4o.quart shot
and increased its production from 20
10 100 barrels a day. In the same dis.
trict, the American Oil Development
Company Is drilling a lest on the Per.
ry Spence farm. In the districts nam
ed there is more new work under way
and starting than in any OF the upper
districts that have been under de.
enjoyment for a number Of years.
In Warrington district, Marion coun.
ty, the Philadelphia Company has
completed a test On the David c.
Jones farm and has a l0.barrel pump.
er. In Ten Mile district, Harrison
county, Hoffmier & kefauver have
started to drill a test on the ]. F. Dye
farm. In Sardis district, the Hope
Natural Gas Company Is down 1900
feet at its test on the H. D. Nutter
farm and fishing for a string OF tools.
The same company's No. 3 on the F.
A. Lough farm Is fishing at 1885 feet.
Near Zinnie postoffice, Greenbrler dis.
trict, Doddridge county, the Hope
Company's test on the Sanford Sutton
farm is producing 10 barrels a day.
In both Clay and Lincoln counties
there is new work starting. In Clay
county the late competitions have been
OF a size TO inspire the starting OF
more new work than at any time since
development work began. The Daven.
port Oil and Gas Company has the rig
completed for No. 16 on the Frank
Cox farm and the Craig Oil Company
has the rig completed for No. 8 on
the j. Craig & Sons farm.
In Duval district. Lincoln county,
the South Penn Oil Company has COM
pleted No. 81 on the Horse Creek tract
and has a 15-barrel pumper in the
Berea grit. In the same locality the
South Penn Company has started TO
drill a test OF the r. c. McCallister
farm. On Cobbs Creek, Washington
district, the Carter OIL Company has
started 10 drill No. S on the Joseph
Moore farm. In the same district the
South Penn OIL Company gave Its No.
6, on the Horse Creek tract, a shot
and 1t is producing 6 barrels a day.
On the Ohio side, in the woodsfcld
district, Malaga township. Monroe
county, George Vandergrift & Co.
have drilled a test on the Fred Smith
farm through the keener sand and
have a 5.bnrrel pumper. This loca.
ton is 1.100 feet west OF the same
company's good producer on the Cath.
crime Shrader farm.
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OIL MARKET.
Hunters Will Hold
Annual Fox Chase

CHARLESTON. W. Va. Sept. 22.-
About 200 fox hunters OF the state will
spend the last week In October on the
top of Sewell Mountain. in Fayette
county. in an annual chase Of the West
Virginia Fox Hunters Association.
The meeting will be the first OF ito
kind ever held in the state. Noted fox
hunters from Kentucky, Virginia. Ten.
nessee. Pennsylvania and Ohio will
participate.
The place of the camp is on the old
site formerly used by Gen. Robert E.
Lee In 1861. A tented city will be
erected to provide accommodations for
men. horses and dogs, white chefs and
attendants. a silver cup will be
awarded to the owner OF the champion
fox hound. There will he hound races
and other features.
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FINANCE OIL, GAS AND PRODUCE

the open interest because Of the fact
that no N seemed to have any cor
rect idea Of the outstanding short con.
tracts.
Some of the best informed men be.
lieye that the open interests is lib.
eral; while others say It has been
pretty we'll closed up by the heavy
liquidation by longs and the covering
by shorts. The advance In premiums
for the cash articles reflect good sized
open interests and there Is a prob.
ability OF a disturbance OF more or
less prominence. This a be averteo
only by larger receipts at Chicago, as
well as elsewhere, Sc that the wheat
may be delivered on contracts. Thus
far in September the deliveries have
been 10000 bushels, which is a mere
drop in the bucket when the open in.
terest Is considered,
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Oil and Gas

The Big Injun sand territory in Cen.
trail, New Milton and Greenbrier dis:
tricts, Doddridge county. West Viz
ginia, continues to furnish some very
fair producers. The prospects for
new production in these districts n
in Green district. Wetzel county. are
more promising than any other part
of the State at the present time. In
Central district. Doddridge county, the
Hope Natural Gas Company has com.
pleted No. 6 on the E. NJ. jackson
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Grain and Produce.

CHICAGO, Sept. 22.IThe average
Spectator on the Board of Trade,
Including the larger houses. are at
sea as to- the amount of outstanding
contracts In the September future.
In a talk with many OF the heads OF
leading commission houses 1t a i'm
possible to draw out an opinion as to
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SPECIAL NOTICES
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
Tho BuckhHnnon and northern Rail
road Company. a West Virginia corpora
ton, and the MOnonEnliela Railroad Conn
pnny. u Pennsylvania corporation, have.
according to tho lnwS OF West Virginia
and Pennsylvania. been consolidated Into
n railroad company to be known ~ The
M~onongHhcln Railway Company; the
agreement Of consolidation having been
tlcd In the office NJ the Secretary Of State
OF West Virginia on the tenth day Of july.
1915.
Hereafter tho property formerly owned
by the Buckhannon and Northern Rail-
road Company in West Virginia and the
MononGahelA Railroad Company IN Penn
sylvaaia will be owned and operated by
The M]onongnhela Railway Company.
The MononHnhelR Railroad Company.
Buckhannon & Northern Railroad Com-
pans.
Tho Monongnhela Railway Company.
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Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH, Sept. can up
ward tendency developed in the case
ofi a few members OF the local list ear.
~ in the session and the market was
In good tone. Operations were con.
Quoted actively the first hour and
thereafter up to midday trading was
slack. The bulk OF the business was
In good substantial issues and the
gains made were well held. In the
afternoon the market vas fairly &C.
tive and some further gains were
made.
Trading on the New York exchange
yesterday morning was on a liberal
scale and some irreguIarity prevailed.
In some cases initial prices were
above closing ones OF the previous
session and further advances were
made. The bulge as usual was follow.
ed by a reaction, which carried prices
of small fractions TO a point or more
as against opening levels. In the
final hourd stocks were freely sold by
room traders on a rumor that a hitch
adsoccurred in the foreign loan neg0.
tiations.
Union Switch and Signal common
continues TO attract attention. Yes
terdays morning the stock again dis.
played strength and made a further
advance. The floating supply OF the
stock is not large and buyers are
compelled to lift the bid price TO Sc.
cure 1t. The first hour several hun
lreds shares came out and a net gain
81 three points was established. AZ.
.er midday this issue showed more
strength than it did in the morning
IND; advanced to 10 and closed near
sopsfor the day. Airbrake a strong
and advanced on light buying.
PITTSBURGH STOCKS.
(By Moore, Leonard & Lynch,j
Uuesday, September q, 1850
Gales High Low Last
s2oEA W S Mch.. a1h 81 81
$50 AjW G NJ pr. .t99 97h 9STs
90 Caney R Gas. 27k 27h 27h
50sA W Gl pf. ..101 l01 l0l
660kCol Gas & E.. 14A IA IL
1850 Fireproof -. 9k az 9%
240 Fireproof pr. 2S% 23h 2S$
20 LIE Belle Iron. IL Il Al
IS Mfrs L & H.. 49k 49A 49k
100 Ohio f Oil -. 14h l4h 14E
l715 Pig Coal..... sc 34h ssh
16Q5Pure Oil -. 1873 1873 l6S
100 San Toy $50. is Is Is
0 fSewer Pipe . 16:h 1917 l6h
1855 Union Switch 1881 ia 1l9
40 West Airbr. . .142 l40h 142
420GWest. Elec ...t61B 59A 6lB
A.|nHHhN
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was instantly killed when a high pow.
or circuit came IN contact with one OF
the eompanys private telephone wires
over which he vas talkfns.
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LOST AND FOUND

REWAf;D-For return o, mail package
from John wanamakcr. Philadelphia,
addressed To Emma NJ. Miller. BoX ~,
FairmCnt. ". Va. Call +. l.. Miller. VIM
field. Bell phone. s-iS-6t-So. 3Sb
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ence with woman desirous Of enrninc
money. Full time or spare hours. Ex-
perieHcc unnecessary. Good pay. Address
International Mills. Inc, Dept. u. Norris
town, Pa. 9-.O.9t-%o, 3S9
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Man at Telephone
Killed by Current
WANTED

wASrED-Second -hnnd roll-top deSK.
Address 39:, West virGlnlnn. No. ~.
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Baltimore
September 81. 1915.

September q, 1915.
FURNISHED by W. W. Lanahan & Co.,
member New York and Baltimore
Stock Exchanges. Main Floor, Cal
vert Building, Baltimore. MIDI
SI.-ElaA ell
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CLOSING OUT PRICE
Observation-Disclosures

Having decided TO go TO Charleston within a very short time, whereof
will in the future be employed, 1 have decided to close out At very low prices
a part OF my real estate holdings in Farmont.
II sold this week. the following attractive prices and terms vii be made
IN the seNeralp parcels Of real estate described below:
FOUR ROOM COTTAGE. BIG LOT AND GARDEN, $500.
One four room. neat frame cottage on Marion avenue, near Owens glass
plant lot o. feetx l6o, good sarden. cement cellar under house, and several
large bearing apple trees on lot, will be sold fos $500. Small cash oayment
and balance at rate of $4,000 per month
CORNER LOT ON SOUTH SIDE, $500.
Fine corner lot, corner Benoni av enue and Seventh street. so feet on
Benoni avenue < 100 feet on Seventh street, one OF the best building lots
on the South Side, in a splendid reht entail section, surrounded nv many
fine homes. will be sold for $500. Small cash payment and easy terms on
possibly only one other on Benoni av enue. Large enough for fine home or
two smaller buildings.
BEST LOTS IN MOB HILL
Three lots, adjoining. in Mob Hin Addition. on ca line. near Mayor
Bowens residence, or S4O0Oo each. These lots have not before been priced
below $4,000 each. Easy terms. These ire all front lots, nicely located mot
on the Hill. NST
GRAHAM HEIGHTS LOTS. $500 EACH.
These lots in Graham Heights Addition, 40 feet front with lengths vary.
ing from III feet to 25 feet These lots cost me 500 each and with q sold
stngiy or all together for $500 each for small payment down and easy
terms O. balance. 40
AFEW eoLoE N VIEW LOTS.
a few fine centrally located lots in Golden View Addition. fronting on
Columbia street, neal First ward school and new B.. & y. station, from $500
TO 500 each, One rear lot, same EDITION, for $500. The balance Of these
lots have heen Withdrawn from the m arket, and these few now offered are
cred. Easy terms.
BARGAINS IN BON AIR.
Two adjoining lots on corner Owens avenue. Bon Air Addition. each so
foot front, both lots for $500 or Sis each II only one is taken. onelot
Bon Air Addition, 44x132 feet, S1750n 1N
tits true that real estate is not m owing rapidly now in Fairmont, and
in business as II will surely do within a short time. these properties wnJa1
command much better prices. A discount of SO will be made on any or all
this propertyto cash purchasers. Applyto
l.. NJ. DAVIS
Any time this week.
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RETURNED FROM paRkEsssuRo.,
Mrs. j. W. Eenhart has returned to
her home in P~arkersburg AFTER a visit
with friends here.
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FLATS AND APARTMENTS

FOR RENr-Front fats, three rooms and
bath, Hays Building. Inquire A. L.
Jepson. PaslinIe Bowling Alley.
S-5-u-So. EOS
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING s sss4 s W.T. ! s sSss::
HELP NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

WA%TED-G!n about sixteen to help
with Homework. Apply II Mccoy St.
9-9l-3t-So. 800
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HOUSES

WAETED-Six or scven-room house!welj
In; prefer Walnut or Locust avenue.
Describe premises In first letter and lgiye
price. Address Box 59i, care Wetl M:
gilman. s.20-6t-No.s ae1
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BARGAINS IM BON AlR,

Two adjoining lots on corner Owens avenue. b
foot front, both lots for $500 or Sis each II only
Bon Air Addition, 44x132 feet, S175.00.
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NON-FICTION IN
STEADY DEMAND
PERCENTAGE An CITY LIBRARY
REMAINS THROUGHOUT THE
'NGAR An THIRTY PER
GENT.

Ii is a little strange thar with the
weeks and months OF reading the
percentage OF n%on-fiction stays SO
nearly the same thought the number
varies and this week among the
or books read varies. Non-iiction
seems fixed, being 80 per cent OF the
whole number circulated, or nearly
one in three books.
The class most called for, however
childreu, fairy tales seems 10 have
displaced books on how to make
things, with the books on King Ar
thnr in the lead. Among the grown
ups. the class usually popular. the
sociology. was represented by only
Is books. while literature consisted
books drawn for home use amounted
to 53S books. IL daily average OF 50.
Three hooks have been received
by purchase and thirty Two by Gift
from Mrs. II. j.. Herrick. Those pur-
chased are: "Chaucer and His Times
Hadow: shakespeare Study Pro
grams. Porter and Clarke: Look
ing After Sandy" Turnbull. Those
given we're: "Olympian Nights
Bangs; 'Friendship". Black Dor
rowings;" Lyrics. Browning; "Anto-
Analysis" Field: "Abbe Constantine
Halevy; "Kingship of Self Control,
Jordan: Treasury OF Favorite Poems
Learned; "Evangeline.' Lonstellow;
This is For YOU Lord: Lucille"
l.ytton: Select Essays" M~accanlay;
More Borrowings New Stories
From the Chap Book; "Cyrano de
Rcrgerac," Rostand; Sesame and Lii
les Ruskin: "Scven Lamps OF Arch
itecture,' Ruskin; The Child Jesus
Took. Smith; Book of Friendship"
.Thoreau; Prom Drcamland," Whit
ing; "Wonders. of Science" ten vol
nmcs: "Beautics of Friendship"
Woodland.
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STANLEY IN. DISPUTE
WITH NEW CoUNTIEe

Pierre. S. D.-Therc is a warm lit
lite scrap on between Stanley county
and tho territory which was dctacll-
ed by the organization of IIaakon and
Jackson county. Old Stanley, when
it contained all the area now in the
three counties, built a court house,
and 1t is claimed now wants the new
counties to assume a share of the
debt for the construction of the bu,id-
ing. regardless OF the fact that. they
get no use of it and will be compelled
to construct buildings for their own
use. A Bill has beer introduced for
the creation of n commission to divide
the property and Indebtedness he
tween the counties. and This appears
to be a point at issue in the question
OF division.
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people. Certainly lie never foiblcd
with. two such. extremes, The less the
differences in the ages OF the con-
tracting partie., the less liable they
arc to disagree. Again, the nearer
their ages arc ii the time of mar
riage, the nearer they are likely to
be at the time of their final separa-
ton by death. The greatest loss that
can possibly come TO any happily
married nan or woman this side of
the grave. is the loss during middle
life. of his or her chosen companion.
Such losses can frequently (not al
ways of course) be eliminated by a
little forethought. There are but ten
months difference in the ages of my
wife and myself. she being that much
the younger.
CD as Tor size, nothing %cheapens
a man so much as to have n wife.
who. physically. is out of all pro-
portion to himself. a large man and
a large woman. always look neat
when together. so also does IL small
couple; but siX-foot-four man and a
four-foot-siX woman never can be
harmonized. As previously stated,
my wife and ! are we'll matched in
this respect: in fact. this had much
to do Win my selection OF her.
80 Then. with regard to the oh
ject OF. marriage. 1t should never be
undertaken for money or for posi-
ton. Such marriages are seldom.
if ever, happy. They are unnatural.
and they lack but n trifle of being
criminal. Neither mi effected my de-
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"A TUESDAY WEDDING.

y very charming event occurred at
the Holy Family Catholic church on
Tuesday morning at $50 o'clock,
when Rev. G. e. O'Flaherty oiIiciated
at the marriage OF Miss Helen X.
Champion, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
p. II. Champion, and Daniel l.. Ry-
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. J.. j. Ryan,
OF Missoula, Mont.
The couple were attended by Miss
Catherine Champion and Mr.. John
Champion, sister and brother OF the
bride. The bride was costumed in
Il. gown OF chiffon over silk and wore
q chiffon ell with Il floral wreath.
The bridesmaid wore AN cmhroider-
ed wolfe dress. with cut flowers in
her hair.
The bride has lived With her par
ents AT llieir homo near l-oomis and
is well known in this county, hay
ing taught school here and in Aurora
county. Her friends arc numerous.
The bridegroom is Il mar of good
character and is Industrious. He
grew 10 %mandhood in p~lankinton,
moving to Montana COM years ago,
and has prepared y homo there
worthy CT his bride.
After visiting Il few weeks With
relatives at PlanRlnton and Ethan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ryan will leave for
Montana. stopping at Yarmouth, n.
D., to visit the brides sister, Mrs. w.
e. Edleman.
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II "a my natural taste, as we'll
aa my determination from childhood,
that my wife. as regards her form.
:ilculd be as nearly as possible, a
perfect fashion plate; that she
should have black eyes tmine are
light); that she must be fine featur-
ed. have Il beautiful set of natural,
solid teeth. evenly arranged and be
oditary disease. ! wanted one who at
tributes in the main, correspondent
10 my own; yet one whose impulses
were superior to mlile--one whom
could always look up to-one who
wonld inspire me to higher ideals
and prove my balance wheel and
confidential adviser when tho. tronb-
les OF life rose
Therefore. | inserted in the chart
The names of the five woman friends
with, whom ! was the most intimate.
To the credit of each, as indicated.
/ checked off each point in her favor;
and to her discredit. the points in
which she was lacking. There was
but one in five who could qualify. 1t
was the black-eyed girl whom l had
me dl- coltSSe, anu 10 "HoHl 1 nav
given much attention while there.
She answered every possible require;
nient. with several good traits, moi
included in the chart, to- her credit.
Or course the chart, was not an
end. but a means to an end. 1t was
merely Il philosophic help. But be-
You'd it. and above it. one must be
attracted to a woman intnitively-
that is, in a way he cannot explain,
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CONFESSION AND \ pHlLOsopH.
lC GUIDE TO MARRIAGE by
PUD. WILLIAMS.

Love is a cause: marriage, the eff
feet: Reasoning from cause, to effect
the process is a NATURAL one: but in
order TO be natural. it must be real
tllat. is, the cause Clove) must not be
OF that supercilious kind based upon
more fantasy or sudden S%prinein.
up within ones self Of a passionate
loneliness for q woman who i'm
thought and act is bur IL mere but
'eflly Rather love. ON the part OF
i man. in order TO he genuine, must
spring IRON deep-seated motives. and
pc inspired by II woman whom he,
after mature dcliberation, decides is
a feminine ideal.
Whcn first met the woman who
afterwards became my wife. we were
college students in the same depart-
mont. AT that time, / am c~onstrainec
to confess, | was not especially rome
OF her. True; | held her in high re-
sard as a fricnd-one who vas strug-
Cling hard to make her own way in
lifc. and who seemed possessed OF
high ideals. IL was only after init
mate association with her for over
4 ear That her real worth and true
womanhood began to dawn upon me.
Mine was plainly not a case of "Love
at fist sight" When we first met. and
even after keening company With her
for over six months. If anyone had
suggested TO me that she was TO be
come my future wife. | should have
resented it.
.A,ter leaving college and becorl-
ing firmly established in the teach
ms profession, true TO the instinct
Of my sex ! hogan to grow impatient
about boarding and anxious 20 settle
down in a nome OF my own. Finally
The question OF marriage got hold of
me. ! knew ii would. unless death
should seize me or OF chosen com
n%nnion. be y long important contract;
that tle woman decided anon would
either make me or "break" me:
shat practically all of my life's hap
piNcsS aud success depends upon this
one act, that u mistake would be Il
fatal thing. Therefore, one evening
while alone in my study, ! a down
and began to think over seriously
the list OF my close woman friends
those with whom ! had kept com
pany more on less casually and with
whom ! had boon more or less in
corresaon,ience-an and to consider
analytically their several nnaNlica-
ti0nS for marriage-mN purpose be-
ing TO decide. if possible, which one.
if any. was fitted to become my vile
and make for me a happy home: also
50 weigh tho possibility OF her ac-
ecp;ing from me an offer OF marriage
should one be made to her by me.
III order TO get at the matter intel
~ligcntly. | prepared the accompany
ing diagram. or chart. from which
TO make my deductions. I.