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The Ekalaka eagle., 1915-12-10
Lakeside News.

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Hans
Stenseth on Nov. %. a girl. All
concerned doing we'll and Hans
feels "bigger'n" anybody over
the only daughter.
A. L. Pangburn assumed the
duties of teacher at Lakeside
school Nov. 29 with thirteen
pupils enrolled.
F. G. Galley and Henry Martin
were Ekalaka visitors Monday.
Quite a number of Lakeside
people were in attendance at the
Mclean and LaBreck trial held
in Baker last week.
M. and Mrs. Cecil Strain of
Prairie Dale, +. C. Galley, and
Henry Martin were guests at the
Pangburn hcnoe Thanksgiving
Cay.
Dance Dec. nth at the Big
Hill school house.
For Sale - Mammoth Bronze
Turkey Toms and hens for breed.
ing purposes. Hens So. SO. Toms
S4.0O. Toulouse geess So. 80 each.
R. Zelda, EkaIaka, Mont. Aos
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WILSON NAMED
SCHOOL HEAD
FOR FA|RM0NT
Principals and Teachers for
Ensuing Year Selected
by Board.
TO SELL OLD BUILDINGS
Appointment Of Health Off
GER Will be Considered
Later.

Prof. o. G. Wilson, superintendent
of the Public schools of Elkins, was
named superintendent of the Fair.
mont Public schools, at meeting Of
the Board of Education of Fairmont
Independent School district, at a
meeting last night. Principals and
teachers for the ensuing year we're
named and the sale of two old school
buildings authorized.
Prof. Wilson succeeds Prof. Joseph
Roster, who was recently appointed
president of the Fairmont State Nor.
NAL school, by the state board of Re.
gents. Prof. Wilson was notified OF
his appointment over long distance
telephone, last night, and accepted the
position announcing that he would
come to Fairmont, within a few days
to look over the conditions, at the
same time expressing his gratifca.
tion at the appointment.
1t is understood there were a mum.
Der OF applicants for the position and
the Board experienced some ulnlcully
in deciding upon the man to take
Continued on Page Ten)
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LOCAL MILITIA
READY FOR CAMP
$50 Officers and Men to
Leave Fairmont Monday
for Outing.

Everything practically is in readi.
ness for the big encampment of the
West Virginia National Guard which
takes place at Parkersburg from Au.
gust 9 to August IS. Both Fairmont
companies are in first class condition
in every respect and are enlisted up 10
about 65 men each.
The local boys are all enthusiastic
over the coming trip, as Parkersburg
is one of the largest and best cities OF
the state and the people ther are max.
ing extensive preparations to show the
guardsmen first class time.
Company I, one of the local com
panies, will meet at the Armory to
night to receive equipment not already
issued to its men and complete all the
details that are necessary before pro.
ceeding to camp. The officers and men
of the company are putting forth every
effort to put in the field this year the
best company they have ever had.
On next Monday morning $50 off.
GERS and men of the staff and the local
companies will entrain at Fairmint at
11:5S o'clock for this splendid outing.
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Lake Shore and Nickel Plate Railroad Tracks Washed
Away-StOrm eliminates in Cloudburst and Covers
Northern Pennsylvania and Western New
York-Farmers Suffer Heavily
MAYOR HEADS PARTY RECOVERING BODIES
(By Associated Press.)

ERIE, August 4-Coroner D. F. Hanley, shortly before
noon today estimated that SO persons perhed in the
flood Mayor Stern at 10 o'clock said the number would
probably not exceed 25 but after the survey of the debris
and checking over the list of missing Coroner Hanley
noon raised the estimate to So
With coming of dawn, Erie turned to the task of recov
erng bodies of victims of last nights cloud burst and
flood AT o'clock IA had been placed in the temporary
morgue.
The food caused by the overflow of Mill Creek follow
ing the break Of Genwood dam swept through section
OF the city block in width and mile long killing ateast
Mayor Stern has made request for company Of 18th
regiment Of Pennsylvania National Guard to patrol
ruined section of the city. s
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U. s. PROTEST.
is REJECTED
England Invites Arbitration
and Blames for Part of
Trouble.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. A.
Great Britain replies TO the latest
American representations against in.
references with neutral commerce
reject. entirely the contention that the
Orders in Council are illegal, and Jus.
tify the British course as being wholly
within international law.
"Unsustainable either in point of law
or upon principles of international
equity" is the British reply to the
American protest against the block.
ade of neutral ports, with an invita-.
ton to submit to international arbitra.
tion any cases iR which the United
States is dissatisfied with the action
of the British prize courts.
Great Britain's reply embodied in
two notes, one supplemental, was
made public here tonight and in Lon.
don simultaneously, by an agreement
between the two governments.
The note reiterates that Breat Brit.
ain will con tinue to apply the orders
complained OF, although not without
every effort to avoid embarrassment to
neutrals, and observes that American
statistics show that any loss In trade
with Germany and Austria has been
more than oyerbalanCed.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-04
ADVER TISING
SERMONETTES
A Short One Every Day
for the Busy Business Man

The primary purpose of advertising
is to sell goods to herald abroad the
arrival Of new stock and to keep the
customers in touch with the source
OF local supply. To accomplish this
end, the fundamental principles Of
salesmanship apply to the merchants
advertising as directly as they apply
to his selling methods within the
store. Bearing this fact in mind, any
dealer can, by properly analyzing the
conditions of his trade and the needs
of his customers. produce effective au-
vertising, despite any faults OF gram
matical construction that may creep
into his copy.
1t Is obvious then that a short All.
alysis Of pure salesmanship will be
advantageous to the subject. There
are four basic principles at the bottom
OF every sale. Briefly, they are: To
secure attention; to create desire; to
convince Of the necessity Of possess
ing the goods. and to bring the will
to act relative to the purchase. Ev-
cry sale involves these four princi.
pies, and as advertising is put the
written method Of selling, the same
four basics will will apply to every
advertisement, and II conformed to
they will insure results as far as the
effectiveness Of the advertisement is
concerned.
In the four principles of salesman.
ship 1t Is seen that the first requisite
OF an advertisement Is to attract at.
tention. to get the purchaser OF a
newspaper to read what is to be said
about the article for sale. Business
men Of the day are in the habit OF
reading the advertising pages of
periodical, so IL an advertisement has
any distinctive feature about It, 1t is
sure to attract attention.
This distinctive feature may be
either an attractive display line or an
apt illustration. Good taste is a sure
guide to the production of an attract.
i've advertisement. Care should be
exercised not to over display; do not
have all the space taken up by u
tumble Of elaborate styles of type,
as II the varieties were on exhibition;
but take pains to have plenty of white
space as background for the dis.
play lines and the body Of the text.
For most lines Of advertising, cut
OF an article is very necessary to at.
tract and center the attention upon
the proposition 10 be made relative
to 1t. A well chosen. concisely writ
ten, and relative display line will
complete the first step Of directing
attention.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-04
FATE OF WARSAW
CONTINUES TO
Be IN DISPUTE
Evacuation of City Claimed
in Wireless Dispatch
From Berlin.
LONDON DENIES REPORT
Says Hope Of Saving Polish
Capital is Growing
Stronger.
LONDON DENIES REPORT

BERLIN, by wireless to Sayville,
L. l., Aug. 4.-The Over seas news
agency today says the Russian lega.
tion at the Hague. Netherlands, has
officially announced the evacuation
OF Warsaw on account OF lack Of am.
munition.. Bridges over Vistula riy.
er the same advices say have been
ordered blown up. Reports prepared
at the front and given out by Over
seas news agency, say the investment
>of Russian fortress of Ivongorod Is
pg. Eight of the outer forts
cen stormed, according to
hdvices and possibility OF the
20 Ian forces within the citadel es-
Gazing is constantly diminishing.
Y LONDON, Aug. 4.vRear guard
fighting of the Russians to the ncrth.
west ofWarsaw has proved so effective
that the German tides seems to have
been held up while to the south. filed
Marshal Won Mackensen' forces push.
ing north from Lublin are being badly
battered. About the only Austro
German progress chronicled on the
vast semi circular front in the east
40 bOWo4u 4tlSd Tie
and before Ivangorod.
Warsaw still holds out and the
hope that the Polish capital may yet
be saved is becoming strong
throughout Russia, France and Great
Britain. The German press notes the
pause in the offensive and explains
that with the daily lengthening of
communication, the problem of trans.
port and reinforcement becomes more
complicated which accounts for the
delay.
At the same time, the efficiency of
the Russian rear guard blows is not
ignored by the newspapers. The Ger
man emperor and conort heretofore
reported on their way to Warsaw for
triumphant entry have had preforce
to postpone the completion Of their
trip.
From Warsaw itself comes the op-
tonistic prediction, that If the city
Is able to endure week longer and
the dispatch was written four days
ago, the evacuation may be avoided
FAlthough thousands OF civilians
Have fed the life of the beleaguered
capital is pictured as fairly normal
The British empire observed with
prayer today the anniversary OF the
declaration of war. Services are be-
ing held in London and proviences
and throughout the Dominion and the
Colonies.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-04
Two Deaths Caused
by Intense Heat

PITTSB URGH, Aug 4.-The in.
tense heat yesterday claimed two vic.
tins in Pittsburgh. One, a man
whose identity could not be ascer-
tanned by the police, met death by
drowning while seeking relief from
ene high temperature by swim in
the pool adjacent to the boathouse Of
S. w. Carpenter, whose son was
drowned Monday in the Highland
Park reservoir. The other, woman,
Mrs. Isabelle Diffenderffer, aged 81,
died in her home, 309 Mayfower
street, East End, from heart failure
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-04
TO PLAY SQUARE WITH BABY TODAY
ENTER ITS NAME IN SHOWEROEGlDI

There's chance and vicinity to
with OF
avail themselves OF wholesome
part OF the aforesaid and friends
Nor Lady Bounifu
the tiny West Vhgnans
Somebody going to do
This somebody else is The West Vrgnan
distribute September 26 5000 golden cooling
queens
SEND THE RAeYs NAME. a1$
ton blank with his
GOLD" department
Continued Page Threel ss
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Prominent Fairmont
Man Seeks 0Vercoat

A prdninent Fairmonter who is
spending the week in New Kory City
today telegraphed friends here. 10 ex-
press his overcoat to him as he need
ed 1t.
3 Speculation is rife among his
friends in this city, as to whether he
is crazy with the heat or whether
Gptham is really experiencing cool
weather. At any rate Fairmonters are
sitting up and taking notice OF the
fact that If New York is cool, Fair
mont will likely experience the same
blessing Within the next twenty.four
hours.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-04
Man Arrested for
Selling Cordials

CHARLESTON, W. Va, Aug. A.
Joseph l.. Clemments, Of Winston Sa
lem, N. c., was arretsed here today by
federal authorities on the general com
plant that he was one of a party of
men who have been selling cordials
and patent medicines containing opium
and other habit-forming drugs. Com
plant recently was filed with W. G.
Barnhart, U. s. attorney. that many
persons had contracted the drug habit
through the use of such medicines and
an investigation started.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-04
focal Ministers to
Attend Conference

The West Virginia Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church,
South, will convene in Calrksburg on
September s for several days ses.
sion.
About two hundred ministers rep.
resenting the various churches Of the
Rtate will attend the conference
pong the number being Rev. w. I.
0ter, pastor Of the Southern Meth.
Episcopal church OF this city
ev. S E. Pollitt presiding elder
district also of Fairmonr.
Conley Denny of Richmond,
preside over the sessions.
of candidates for the min.
take the examinations. at
nd be ordained,
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and extent and loss Of culverts, andSa.
part OF a bridge through which 81
freight train crashed, 1t was said, were
the worst features OF the problem. fac
ing the operating officials. BG
Reports of damage to tracks began.
to come In before midnight and at that
hour word was received that all -four;
tracks of the Lake Shore and those Of
the Nickle Plate had been swept away
between Erie and Moorehead, the first!
station east. ~
The rain, which eliminated IN Il
cloudburst at Erie, covered all of
Northern Pennsylvania and Western;
New York. 1t began with terrific
down pour in the afternoon and CON
tinued practically without cessation
all night and well into today.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Aug. Ear
mers In the vicinity Of Harrisburg lost
thousands of bushels of corn, fruit and
oats by heavy rain and wind storm
that swept over this section early to-
day. The electrical wires were blown
down In the city and Frank PLANK. 4 q
huckster, driving to market lust after;
dawn, came into contact with one ot
them and was perhaps fatally shocked.
Three different parks in the city weres
uprooted, the streets Uttered with fall
len limbs and many cellars flooded
The wind blew 40 miles per hour and
the temperature fell in a short time
from rs to 6S. One and two.hftfsi
inches of rain fell and the Susute.
hanna river Is rising slowly. Y w.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-04
GunboQts To
Go To Haiti
cAsTINE AND osEcEoLA TO JOIN
AMERICAN SQUADRON AT
ISLAND.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug 4-The
gunboat Castine, now at the New Or.
leans navy yard, today was ordered
to proceed at once to Port Au Prince,
day.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-Haiti,
racked by revolution and mob rule,
now Is threatened by famine Re.
ports coming in today say many cities
and towns are on the verge OF starva.
tion and 1t probably will be necessary
to send food supplies and sanitary re.
lief as one of the first steps In rehab.
ilitating a government there.
The gunboat Osceola was ordered
today from Guantanamo to Port An
Prince to join Rear Admiral Caper.
tons squadron. Admiral Caperton
cabled all was quiet in the capital anu
at Cape Haitian yesterday.
CAPE HAITIEN, Haiti, Aug. A.
A delegation composed of five mem.
bers, including the French archbishop
OF Port Au Prince and escorted by an
officer of the American cruiser Wash.
ington, arrived here today from the
Haiten capital to make an effort to
bring about peace between the govern.
ment troops commanded by Gen.
Bourand, minister of the interior in
the cabinet OF the late President Vii.
brun Guillaume, and the followers of
DR.. Rosalve Bobo. Both leaders are
aspirants for the presidency of Haiti.
The authorities of Cape Haitien re-
fused to entertain any mediatory pre-
posals.
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ConnellsVille Man
Killed by Lightning
(By Associated Press.)

CoNNELSVILLE, Pa. Aug. A.
While riding in wagon on farm at
Jacob Creek, near here. late yesterday
afternoon, Clayton shupe, 25, and
Charles Stahl 81, were instantly kill.
ed by lightning. Allen Shupe, owner
of the farm, who was also in the wa
gon, escaped injury.
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The identified dead are Emma Os
borne, A years old, Of Parade street +;
John Donovan, city fireman; Sweeney
Anderson, 90 years old, of Ninth
street; John Higgins, 40 years old, q
printer.
The entire police aud fire forces Of
the city worked throughout the night
in the ruins. recovering the IA bodies
from an area that included approx
mately one.half of the disaster dis
trict. The men worked under the di
rection of Mayor w. ]. Stern and four
members of the city council.
The district swept by the flood ex
tends from Twentysixth and French
streets in the uptown business section
to Tenth and State streets, distance
Of about one mile.
The release OF the water held back
by the dam sent huge wave five feet
high toward the city and at the time
it reached the first building on Sixth
street it carried with II a mass of de.
bris that acted like battering ram on
everything in its path.
bOT HI'O, ~ ]" aug. 4.-lraHlc
between the east and west over both
the Lake Shore and Nickle Plate rail.
roads was completely tied up from the
time the cloud burst let go over Eric
last night until o'clock this morning,
when officials OF the roads reported
that communication had been reestab.
lished with the west over temporary
single track.
Washouts unprecedented in depth
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Did You Get Your West Virginian?

owing to the fact that The West
direct from its own building there be
FUSION LOT rev evenings until the boys get well organized
you don't get your call Manager
Bell Phone 1853 or Consolidated 25O
IN order make that
nave been made to place West
every hght tns week. reader of
it is. ~
THE WEST V1RGIN1ANe
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Woman Drops
From Window
AS EXPRESS TRAIN DASHEs
THROUGH sUBURe-WILL
LIKELY DIE.
tBy Associated Press)

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 4.-As the Chi.
cago express to New York over the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago
railroad dashed through Quaker Val.
ley, a suburb, today woman came
hurtling through a window of the day
coach and rolled along the the station
platform. She was hurried to the
hospital, where she was found TO be
SO badly hurt that doctors said she
could not live. She was found to be
Mrs. Louis Bittner, Of Valparaiso, Ind.
on her way to New York with three
children. Her husband in Valparaiso
was notified.
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BOY is DROWNED. Z: ) !

John Kish, aged 9, SO nof a Hunga,
rian miner, was drowned while Ia
swimming ina reservoir at Jamison
Mine No. this afternoon. The coro.
ner pronounced 1t a case Of accidental
drowning.
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GIVES BOND TO APPEAR.

Virgle Johnson of Davis Run was al.
rested this morning for being drunk
and brought before Squire Musgroye
for trial. Johnson's father gave bond
for his sons appearance August ii. 4
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-04
Germans Sink
Belgian Steamer

LONDON, August 4-The Belgian
steamer Koophendel, OF 1885 tons
gross was sunk today by German sub.
marine. Nine men of the crew were
landed.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-04
The Weather,

West Virginia and Western Pennsyl-
vania-Generally fair tonight and
Thursday.
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Temperature Today
Recorded hourly at The West vir-
ginian office!.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-14
IMPLICATIONS OF THE BRYAN
PEACE IDEA.
{ Topeka Capital.


IL is true that Mr.. Bryan Is standing
in his ISSUE with the administration
for what specifically appears TO. be
the immediate and temporary Interest
OF peace. In reality, looked at "A little
deeper. Mr.. Bryan is standing funda-
mentally for the rights Of war and or
belligerents in a time OF war ana
against the rights of peace and OF
neutral and peace-keeping nations
What Mr. Bryan is actually ightins
for at this time is reversion OF war
to lawless savagery, the rights or by
standers being surrendered ana abro-
gated, by their consent The attitude
Mr.. Bryan has taken is reactionary
and offers surrender of all that has
been gained in the progressive limita-
tons placed about the conduct of war.
ON the other hand, President Will
son will be sustained by history In
standing courteously but unyieldingly
for humaneness in the conduct OF war,
for the obedience of war-powers to
the established principles and laws OF
war, and for the vindication OF the
rights of neutrals to continue about
their business without being murdered
by those nations that happen TO be
at war In other words, Mr.. Wilson is
for all that has been gained
by advancing civilization over barbar-
GUS conditions under which when any
two or more people went at each 9TH
er's Threats other peoples had TO stand
aside or take the consequences, all
normal relationships being suspended.
when all the hearings and far
reaching implications of the stand
that Mr.. Bryan asks the country TO
take in relation to the Lusitania case
are recognized. it is not surprising
that the president, as firm believer
in and practieer of the doctrine of
peace as he is, refused to go with
him. Nor will the country do any diff
ferently now the Bryan challenge is
thrown out to force the president to
back up"
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attacks on either Mr. Wilson or Mr.,
Bryan. The wisest thing Is To await
further developments that viii set
forth the whole incident as Il really
happened.
one thing Is already certain The
two men have acted and are acting
In perfect good faith and honesty Of
purpose. Whatever their viewpoint
may be. they are, both OF them, ami
mated by the highest patriotic pur-
poses. And the American public
should recognize the fact that both
Mr.. Wilson and Mr., Bryan acted ao-
cordlng to what they thought and
still think Is best for the United States
no matter whether the methods they
advocate. In one case or the other.
meet with general favor or not
We often hear of "gentlemen's
agreement" In this ease, Judging from
the earnest aud courteous letters ex-
changed between the two leaders in
American public life today, the met
dent becomes 'gentemen's Disagree
ment,' and the American public
should accord both the same treat
ment as they give each other in their
differences on matters OF public poll
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-14

I bOtlOH 4AANNAAAN'AF
The announcement OF the With
drawal of William Jennings Bryan
from the cabinet will we feel sure,
I've received with profound satisfae-
ton by most Americans Bryan was
in the cabinet as n master of politics,
not as an actual secretary of state.
lie had been absent from his Office SO
much. he evidently had 50 little TO
do with the real work of American
diplomacy, that the public has had
no confidence in him, and for some
time it has been plain that he was
really a mlsfit. His going from the
cabinet can do no harm, and may
help much
Now that he IL out. we hope that
the president will appoint, as his sue
cessor, an American who can COM
mand general confidence as strong,
virile statesman. worthy to hold a
post in which such men as Thomas
jefferson. John Marshall James Mad
ison, Henry clay, Daniel Webster,
Edward Everett, and. In recent times,
sherman, Hay. Olney and Root have
served, In this time, OF all times, the
president should ignore every other
consideration but the desire TO secure
the best possible man for the post; a
man of great ability, of cool temper.
OF lofty patriotism, OF high courage
and Of broad knowledge OF interna-
tional law. If ever the president need
ed such u man at his right hand. that
time is here. today.