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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04
FAKE INSTRUCTOR
In Art Of Motion Picture Acting is
Sentenced to jail.

YORK, Pa. July s.-After plead;na
guilty to the charge of false pretsrse
In connection with q fake moving
picture school," in this city, Ra.bb
Hermann who says his home IS IN
Tampa. Fla. was sentenced to four
months In Jail. Hermann recently
undertook to instruct a score or more
of York girls for the moving picture
stage at SO each.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04

In the presence of hundreds Of
guests from all over the country,
Miss Marie Louise Wanamaker,
daughter of Rodman Wanamaker Of
Philadelphia and a granddaughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wanamaker, was
married few days ago to Gurnee
Mum of Washington. Handsome
gifts of great variety and value were
received by the bridal pair. The
bride and bridegroom wre particular
" pleased with the gift from Presi-
dent Wilson. gold and amethyst pin.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04

Angora goats have been used with
profit 10 keep lfre lines clear OF In
fiammabie vegetation In national for
ests In California.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04

covering broke. Mr.. Ker: was q
years old.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04

Mrs. w. T. Powell rendered q fare
well party to Miss Regina Flanagan.
time. Miss Flanagan left. Thursday
for her home in Williamsport, Pa.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04

Miss Elizabeth Cuddy delightfully."-
entertained few Of her friends at
an informal dance at the home of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. NJ. Cud-
dy, last Wednesday evening.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04

Mrs. Randolph Triplett. of Kerens.
sustained q fractured hip last FRI
day morning when she fell in the
kitchen of her home. Mrs. Triplett.
who is 70 years of age, fell q year or
so ago and injured herself severely.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04

Sketches for the new federal build
ing for Elkins have been completed
and are now on file at the treasury
department at Washington. It IS un-
derstood that bids will be advertised
for within very short time.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04

Weather records for June "a were
broken, when, at o'clock in the
morning, the thermometer at the
Elkins weather bureau stood at thir-
ty-seven degrees. Fog prevented .
heavy damage by frost.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04

Mrs. Mary j. Fenton. aged. 20 yeaSs
and one day. died Monday morning
at the home Of her daughter. Mrs.
George L. Pierce, in Belington, fol-
lowing an illness of a complication
of diseases. Interment was made In
the Maplewood cemetery Elkins.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04

Reports have been been received
here from the Gladys district that
frost in that region the last week has
done great damage to crops.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04

Miss Isabelle Arnold left for Mon
treat, ". c., weber she WIZ spend
few weeks.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17

Edith Lawrence. 1t merely asked
him whether he would favor her with
a visit at her apartment that after
noon at five.
Tolland accepted the invitation with
a n OF logged duty. He felt that
perhaps he had gone a little too far.
but still he had the reputation of his
newspaper to maintain. And, to be
frank, he wanted to explain to her
that he had been actuated by no per.
sonal malice. The case was simply
this, Miss Lawrence didn't come I'D to
the standards of Bray and Dugmore.
There was a long wait in the hand
somely furnished parlor of Miss Law
rence's fiat in the apartment house,
but presently Miss Lawrence came in.
No. staggered in. She was wearing
a blue wrapper with pink flowers on
1t, in brocaded silk, and her hair was
hanging down her back. She stag
gered across the room and staggered
Into a chair and collapsed there.
II thought you would like to see
the result of your work, Mr.. Tolland,"
she said.
Il am very sorry" murmured the
young man, who had not expected
anything so painful as this. "But you
see, Miss Lawrence, you really did
not act in accordance with the true
principles of dramatic art. Now, if
you had"
Yes, yes" she interrupted, in a
hollow voice, but it doesn't make any
difference now, because l shall never
act again"
But, my dear Miss Lawrence" pro-
tested Tolland, you mustn't let your
self be so easily discouraged. Now if
you will throw more personality
into"
4 shan't have any personality after
another half hour" answered Miss
Lawrence. I've taken half a pound
of strychnine."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
PAYS TO GUARD THE TREES
Either on Street or Lawn, It Is a Mis-
take to Leave the sapIlngs
Unprotected.

Young trees, especially street trees,
should be protected and supported by
tree guards placed around them imme-
diately after planting. For street
trees, a wire or metal guard is most
economical. For lawn trees, a single
stake firmly driven into the soil is
usually sufficient. Leather or canvas
straps should be used to attach the
tree to the support.
Cultivation of the soil for three feet
around the tree is beneficial during the
first years of growth. Loosen the top
soil with a spade or hoe a sufficient
number of times during the season to
keep down weeds and grass. A mulch
Of leaves or manure in the fall retains
moisture and acts as a fertilizer when
spaded under. During the hot, dry
periods of the summer months, water
ing should be done once or twice each
week, not oftener. The feeding roots
which take up the moisture are at a
distance from the trunk equal to the
length of the branches, and the water
should be applied literally, but not
too frequently, to these feeding roots.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17

which assume a multitude of fantastic shapes.
Each turn in the canyon brings new charms, and
still the decorated walls, the rushing river that
hurls itself in sinuous curves over the stony bed
until at last we pass out of the canyon directly
into the delightful resort of Glenwood Springs.
The ride to Rifle is most refreshing; in place of
the ruggedness of the awesome canyon, we have
a broad fertile valley, framed by gently rising,
bright red mountains. Here the Pixies Peak
Ocean to Ocean highway leaves the railroad and
turns north, through a country of quiet, pleasing
but varied beauty, to Meeker, an inland town in
the broad. fertile valley of White river. After
leaving the rich, irrigated land, much of the coun-
try Is not particularly interesting, and between
Rangely and the Utah line is the only section of
desert, 25 miles, traversed by this highway. AS
soon as we cross over into Utah we reach q
graded road, through fiat tableland skirted with
rolling, rocky hills. Jensen on the Green river
Is surrounded by a fertile, well-cultivated valley,
and it is most refreshing to come into this pros
porous agricultural country which continues as
we go westward through the Uintah basin. To
the weary traveller, Vernal is an oasis in a des-
ert; some day a railroad will run through this
country, and when 1t does, this will be one of the
richest and most desirable sections in the West.
We pass through Fort Duchesne, an abandoned
military fort; then on to Roosevelt and Myton.
both new, modern, progressive towns. All the
way from the Utah line to Duchesne we have
good, travelled roads; here there are two auto
ROADS to the railroad; one to Cotton, 81 miles. and
IL olner 10 HeDer, oU miles. The road to Provo
is through Provo canyon, one of the most beauti.
iul scenic canyons in the mountains. Provo is a
modern city, picturesquely located between the
mountains and Utah lake, and is an attractive
place to visit. A SPLENDID graded road, running
suhciently high above the great Utah valley to
give a pleasing view of mountain and plain and
neids OF billowing grain. completes the run into
Salt Lake City"
other things being equal, the transcontinental
tourist VIII naturally seek the route of greatest
scenic interest.
Because 1t does traverse the heart of the
scenic country of Colorado and Utah, the Pixies
Peak Ocean to Ocean highway, therefore, holds
the key to the transcontinenta situation. II IA
the natural and logical way-and it's further de.
yelopment is assured by the states, cities. coun.
Ties and communities through which 1t passes.
merely drawing a line on a map and giving It a
name does not make a transcontinental high.
way, and the important fact about the Pixies Peak
Ocean to Ocean highway is that the state units
were already in high state of development before
any enort was made to attract travel or TO fed.
crate for the development of the highway.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17

Glenwood canyon, where the road follows the
Canyon of the Grand River to Glenwood Springs.
AT Rifle, the highway turns northward from the
railroad, through Meeker, Colo, Vemal, Roose-
welt and Duchesne, Utah, to Provo and Salt Lake
city. AT the Mormon capital it has several con-
~nectlons westward, both to the north and south
OF the lake, via the Lincoln highway through
Keno to San Francisco, or the road by way of
Ionopah to either Los Angeles or San Francisco.
A look at the map will show that the Pixies
FeaK ocean to Ocean highway crosses the CEN
tral part of the United States In a line as straight
as the contour of the country will permit; that
IL traverses a section rich in natural resources,
or diversified commercial agricultural and mining
interest; OF varying topography; a section Of the
United States of historic associations, and that
1t cuts through the heart of the Rocky mountains
and makes accessible magnificence and grandeur
unrivaled in all the world.
To demonstrate the feasibility of this highway.
there was held last summer an official inspection
trip from st. Joseph to Colorado Springs. fol.
lowed by a reliability run from that point to Salt
Lake City. Regarding that portion of the road
between st, Joseph and Colorado Springs a mem.
Der of the official party said: This tour holds
no drearlness, no WEAKNESS. no monotony. This
is pleasant thoroughfare. The meeting that was
the forerunner of this trail was held In March.
1912, and so busy have the promoters been tbsS
you can speed along the whole way at a rate cr
from twenty-five to thirty-fve miles an hour
and we did. Markers everywhere tell you when
and how to turn. Hospitality greets Won on
every hand. There are long, level stretches in
Kansas; you'd be disappointed if there weren't.
You run through them just long enough to get
enjoyment out of the scene, and then you dip
down into the most delicious valleys and around
wooded trails and through bosky dells. You
always think of toiling OK teams and clouds of
DUST and a dreadful thirst when you turn your
mind toward western Kansas. But the real truth
is that travelling through this country-and east
ern Colorado as WELLS a delightful surprise. You
get JUST enough of everything you've heard about
as being there, and never too much. You see
JACK rabbits, and prairie dogs. and sod houses,
and tumble woodland silos and cornfelds-
cornhelds extending as far over the divide as YOU
can see-and wheat until your eyes get tired Of
distance. Eastern Colorado is the biggest sur
prise. You are fascinated throughout by the
scenery, the spirit of the country and the history,
told you by men and by, silent landmarks and
tokens along the way"
The trip from Colorado Springs to Salt Lake
city by auto over the Pixies Peak Ocean to ocean
highway leaves the memory full of pleasant i'm
presslons, said one OF the members of the relia-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17

shipY'); he stuck a pin here and he
stuck a pin there, and there. and still
ne could not satisfy himself. Nor can
anyone. Life appears to start in sew
erai things simultaneously. OF a warm,
thawy day in February the snow is
suddenly covered with myriads of
snow feas looking like black new pow
der Just spilled there. Or you may see
a winged insect in the air. Or the
selfsame day the grass in the spring
run and the catkins on the alders viii
have started a little; and IL you look
sharply, while passing along some
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
HIS SPOILED STORY
BY II. |. s~TuRrEvANr.

When Walter Holland was promoted
from an ordinary cub reporter to be
dramatic critic for the Argus, he
naturally felt that his future was as
sured. To be appointed dramatic crit
&c OF a first-class metropolitan news
paper implied a remarkable discern
ment of his abilities on the part of the
managing editor. So he promptly
bought Bray's How to Be a Dramatic
Critic and Dugmore's The Stage
and the Reporter" pored over them
Tor a few days, and started out to
make a reputation.
What the managing editor had actu-
ally said to the city editor was: I'm
tired Of these quarrels with the thea.
ter people. Put some young cub on
the job and tell him to give everyone
a show in turn"
ROLAND went to "The Girl From a
Little Town." and saw at once that.
according to the books, Miss Edith
Lawrence didn't know the first princi-
pies of acting. The show was not
much good, anyhow, and he went
home and wrote two columns of with.
ering criticism, which the city editor
canned hastily and cut down to a
stick and a half.
That stick and a half was enough
to blast the reputation of the best
actress that ever trod Broadway
boards. 1t took Miss Lawrence and
tore her to pieces, made pulp of what
was left. and scattered that to the
four winds of heaven. Everybody who
read it grinned. They knew that Toll
land would tone down after a while.
1t was tough on Miss Lawrence, but
1t couldn't be helped, and anyway it
was funny.
That afternoon Tolland received a
special delivery letter that smelled
strongly of musk. It was from Miss |
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
LAND OF QUAINT CUSTOMS
Many Things In the Cumberland
Mountains That Seem Pc
cuilar to Visitors.

The great days in the mountains
generally depend upon the state of
the creek-beds, which are almost the
only roads. In the spring these high
ways are flooded and the mountaineer
travels very little. 1t is in the au-
tumn that sociability is possible.
There are "corn-shuckings,' "baptiz-
ings" (often performed in muddy
branch or creek), and the great camp
meeting Of the mountains, the Baptist
association.
It is here In the Cumberlands that
all r~amifications of the Baptist belief
hourish-Hardshell, Missionary, Iron
clad and others. Every n within
miles attends. They ford the rivers
on horseback. drive along the precari.
GUS highways in jolt-wagons; horses,
mules. oxen, are all pressed into r
ice for this great occasion. Last are
the horse traders. a motley, disrepu-
table crowd, often the worse for too
much "~moonshine." Armed to the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17

70 HELPS
SOUNDS A DIscoRDANT NOTE
Plan for Civic Identification ls OPP
posed by Leading Pittsburgh
journal.

At Atlantic City the United States
department Of agriculture proposes to
demonstrate for the country what can
be accomplished in civic Identification
by Transforming bare lots, street ter
races, portions of Fairgrounds and va
cant property into flower gardens.
Alexander Weintrob, who last year
visited Europe to see what is being
done there to spread the Identification
movement among the people has been
designated in charge Of the Atlantic
City plan. Substitution of flowers for
vegetables in lot development will be
urged generally, it is said, If 1t sue
ceeds there.
The project, sayS the Pittsburgh Dis
patch, recalls the free seed largess.
If the department of agriculture is 60
ing to try to make those seeds grow,
something that few of the recipients
of congressional bounty have been
able to do, it may be all right, but it
seems as much a waste of government
tai effort as the seed distribution is of
public money.
Civic Identification, further OBJ
serves the Dispatch, might well be left
to the various communities them
selves. If Atlantic City householders
or lot owners prefer vegetables to
flowers, in the hope of cutting down
the cost of living or making money
supplying the tables of visitors, why
should Uncle Sam intervene? Just at
this time, with SO many important
crop problems to be considered, the
department might be more p~rofitably
employed on practical work.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
TREES ON PUBLIC STREETS
New York Authority Would Have Mu-
inequalities Take Up Work Of
Planting and Care.

The New York State college of for
estry at Syracuse university is urging
the municipalities of the state to take
up public control of street tree plant
ing and preservation in the same man
ner as public control is exercised over
other street improvements. During
the last year the college has made in
vestigation of the shade trees in many
cities and towns of the state, including
New York city, Syracuse, B%inghamton,
Amsterdam, Mt. Vernon, Newburg
and Clean. It has been found that
thousands of shade trees are dying
along the streets of the cities due to
past mistakes in selection of varieties
and in spacing the trees at the time
of planting.
Within the cities of the state there
are, it is said, 10000 miles of street
capable of sustaining a growth of
5000, 900 shade trees, which can be
made worth 500, 000, 900 in increased
property value. Buffalo spends an
nually about SIS, 900 for planting and
conservation of shade trees along its
public streets.
Almost half of the land area of New
York state is better suited, it is said,
to the growing of timber than to ag.
%riculture. Agriculture alone cannot
solve the land problems of the state.
Forestry and agriculture are co-or-
dinate, and together will bring about
the most effective utilization of the
soils of the state and of the country.
New York Press.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
Earthouak. p,strlbu,,on.

Rev. H. v. Gill, an English clergy.
man, on studying the dates and places
of occurrence Of $50 earthquakes.
found that GA. or more than three
quarters OF them. occurred in sc,
quences, the successive units of which
were separated by a week or less. Mr..
GIL believes that any great displace-
ment OF the crust of the earth makes
the earth to rotate ~unevenly or "wob-
BILE" and that the Of mo-
ton has to be neutralized by disrlace-
ments In other regions. where they
VIII balance the original displacement.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17

teeth, they present the appearance of
d~esperadoes. and 1t is safe to assert
that the religious aspect of the camp
meeting has little charm for them.
But perhaps the strangest of all Gus.
toms is that Of holding the preaching
services long months after the burial
Of the dead. Two years have some
times elapsed before the memorial
service; in one instance the be.
reayed widow man" sat beside his
second choice, who wept ~profusely
over the fate of her predecessor. There
are several reasons for the postpone
ment of the sermon--one, that the
preacher is often miles away and not
available until the season of good
roads.-Christian Endeavor World.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17

good roads which they had hardly thought In ex'
istence are to be found without the necessity OF
making an ocean voyage.
With the great impetus which the automobile
has within recent years given to touring and with
the rapid development of better roads, the motor
list has been travelling the highways and by-'
ways in search of scenes that are new and roads
that are good. This year, 1915, will see a great
stream of travel from east to west and west to
east-attracted by the two California expositions
and by the novelty of a tFanscontinental tour by
motor.
Definite routes have been established, and the
automobile owner now has almost as great a
choice of routes as has the traveller by train. A
truly remarkable work has been done within the
last few years in developing highways and link.
ing them together into interstate and national
roads. They are named and marked, mapped
and pictured until it is the exception for the mo-
torist to find himself on a nameless route.
The latest of the transcontinental highways
is the Pixies Peak Ocean to Ocean highway. This
road is being developed by an association re-
sulting from the federation of several strong
state units.
The Pixies Peak Ocean to Ocean highway has
a distinctive organization from Terre Haute, Ind,
to Salt Lake City, Utah, with splendid connections
at both these termini. At Terre Haute it joins
with the National Old Trails road, which carries
1t through Indianapolis, Columbus, Wheeling.
Cumberland to the national capital, Washington,
and thence to New York city, From Springfield,
Ill, 1t also has a good connection through To.
ledo, Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo, Rochester, Albany
and down the Hudson to New York city.
From Terre Haute, it continues westward
through Springfield, Ill, crossing the Mississippi
river at Hannibal, Mo, thence in a direct line
over the HanDibal-St, Joseph Cross State high
way through Missouri to st. Joseph. Here it
joins the Rock Island highway through northern
Kansas, through Belleville. Norton and Colby, to
connect at the Colorado line with the Pixies Peak
route through Limon to Colorado Springs. Here
it enters the mountains through Ute pass, and
after crossing the South park, begins the ascent
of the continental divide which is achieved, Just
beyond Leadville, on a 4 per cent grade over an
road. The top of Tennessee pass. 1O.4OO
feet above sea level. is the highest point on the
road between the two oceans, and now begins
the descent to the Pacific side. The thrilling
ride over Battle mountain is followed by the
Eagle River valley, which leads into the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17

salt on the tail Of his bird. He dug
into the swamps. he peered into the
water, he felt with benumbed hands
for the radical leaves of the plants
under the snow; he inspected the buds
on the willows. the catkins on the
alders: he went out before daylight OF
a March morning and remained out
after dark; he watched the lichens
and mosses on the rocks; he listened
for the birds; he was on the alert for
the first frog t"Can You be absolutely
sure" he says, that you have heard
the first frog that croaked in the town
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
Accounting for Apparition.

o. w. Herfert, driver of the San
Bernardino, Cal, mountain automobile
stage line, declares that night after
night he has e e a specter coach of
the "'49 days." which sometimes tears
with fearful speed down the steep
grades and then suddenly disappears
as it came. The first time he saw it,
he says, he heard many shots. Old
timers intimate that the apparition
may have been the result of certain
preparations which the driver made to
withstand the cold, which is often
severe in the mountains.