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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1915-08-19

Total disbursements ...... .$24l6.15
Amount 10 be raised by pro
posed - cent levy ...... $3OIOGg
TEACHERS FUND
Receipts
Balance due from sheriff m.....SI4Gg
Due from general school fund S38.GG
Total receipts .$2.3O8 81
Expenditures
Outstanding orders and ac-
counts due and payable
June 30. 1915 ..........S 547OO
Sherin's commissions ....... 200 90
For ] teachers holding 30
certificates at $4,000 per
month for 6 months. ........ 1900 90
For 8 teachers holding 80.
certificates at 1920 per
month for 6 months. 2.O1G 90
For g teachers holding No 3
certificates al 83iOO per
month for g months ...... C12OO
Total expenditures ........ .2G.G7J 90
Valuation and Proposed Rates OF I.ovy.
Real estate ................. 81 .4OGS1O
Personal property ......... 583.CO5
Public service property ... GG.712
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1915-08-19
K1NGWOOD DISTRICT.
VALLEY DISTRICT.

The amount due and the amount
that will become due and collectible
from every source, except from the
levy Of taxes TO be made for the cur
rent fiscal year
Ca) Balance due from sheriff 8 957O0
(bJ Redemptions. etc ...... 5000
(c) Capitation road tax .... $4,000
(d1 Or from sheriff 600 90
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1915-08-19
lyon DISTRICT

J. The amount due and the amount
hat will become due and collectible
rom every source, except from the
levy or taxes To be made for the cur
rent fiscal year:
The Lambertville record., 1915-07-29
The New Hope School Funds.

The Newhope Borough School Dis
trict report for the year ending
July 5, shows total receipts of $5,-
345.33, as follows Balance from
last year, 1916. %; received from COL
lector, $3,205.4 .48; from state, $685.
70; from high school, $3.50; from
county dog tax, 1856; from tuition,
$103; borrowed, S565. AZ; from fines,
$3.50; from other sources, $31.06.
The expenditures included: Teach
er's salarieo, $2,975; attending in
stitute, $75; textbooks, $185. 40; fuel
and contingencies, $197; repairs,
$51.27; janitor, 500; tax collector
and stationery, $115.S0; secretary's 8
The Lambertville record., 1915-07-29
HOME TEAMS BEAT VISITORS
TO A FRAGILE ONCE AGAIN
Lambertville Shuts Newtown Out By Score of
12-O, and New Hope Defeats Red Magnets
Of Trenton, ia, on Saturday Last.
SHOULD PLAY EACH OTHER A CAME NOW

The local baseball
anchorng the Coyel Ferry Community firmly than
disconcng outside
players until they bump the
Lambertvle gave Newown anything the
playing ping whenever
IL to established the with Remington seemed be the
cepted standard
rubbed that II It's Newtown,
the Stoopvile Silver Lake n retaliation
The Red Magnets Trenton for something
Hope innings Hope
scored the Red Magnets eighth
fnang
between the Lambervle New Hope
before would
ball FANS who
O
The Lambertville record., 1915-07-29

salary, $41.50; auditors fees, 81;
treasurer's fees, $11O; fire insurance,
$46; printing, 1928; miscellaneous,
$98.06; debt and interest, $1,034. .16;
balance, $21.79. The debt of the
district is 1925.
An important feature in COM
pairing with the schools in Lambert
vile. the neighboring city across
the river, is the fact that Newhope
schools received but fifth of their
total income the past year from the
state of Pennsylvania itself. The
dog tax, which goes for school pur-
poses, when there is a surplus,
amounted to but $35.95, so most of
the money is raised by direct tax
alton.
The Lambertville record., 1915-07-29

Reuben P. Ely, farmer; John R.
Brillman, pastemaker; Edward Stack
house, merchant; John D. Cryer,
merchant; Walter T. Wood, farmer,
j. E. Scott, M. D., physician; Charles
Edward Foulke, justice of the peace;
James McKeown, superintendent;
Joseph King; foreman; H. A. Austin,
electrician; Frank B. Faust, carpen-
ter; William L. Bush, merchant; E.
N. Dubs, printer; Grant Oblinger,
stationary engineer; Horace M. Dubs,
merchant Charles VanHart, farmer;
S. G. Clark, farmer; C. Watson
Belts, miller; Edward F. Davis,
butcher, and Theodore G. Kitchin,
publisher, all of New Hope.
A. w. Preston; A. F. Supplee,
farmer; Louis Quinby, farmer
Harry Worthington, farmer; Robert
W. Isler, farmer; c. w. Metzger,
farmer; D. Curry Armstrong. farm
er, all of Solebury.
Albert Miller, tinsmith; G. F.
Benner, hotel; j. Nelson Michener;
James B. Walton, music teacher;
William H. Robinson, farmer; S.
Barron, miller; w. H. Watson, mer-
chant; c. Allen Knight, farmer;
Jefferson Drake; Harry Black, farm
er; and w. J. Miller, laborer, all of
Carversville.
William Tinsman, lumber dealer;
John R. johnson, merchant; J. R.
Fell, retired; j. Howard Paxson,
farmer; S. L. Paxson, fruit grower;
Henry ]. Berger, mail carrier, and
S. ]. Heed, merchant, all of Lum-
berville.
William R. Nichols, farmer, Aque-
tong.
Edward R. Johnson. farmer, and
Daniel Ely, farmer, of Center Bridge.
1t was unanimously resolved that
each member would, if the oppor-
tunity offered, go out and do real
work upon the highways himself to
help the cause along.
The next meeting will be held in
Rockers hall on Friday evening,
August 20, and in the meantime the
various committees will be busy
with the idea that the next gather
ing shall be the biggest thing of the
kind ever held in the interest of
good roads in this section of the
country.
There is total of 1913 miles of
highway in New Hope borough and
SoIebury township, of which AS is
TCor4:o,oJ -. lo.l - I
The Lambertville record., 1915-07-29
WASHINGTON HERE 1873 YEARS AGO TODAY
Crossing of the Dawaware by Continental Troops Made
of Excitement for CoryePs Ferry Community Folks uy2o
1777, and Father of Our Here


wars it is interesting to consider the
fact that if an army of 100000 men
should have begun marching into
Lambertville yesterday and contin-
ued today and tomorrow, crossing
the Delaware River bridge to New
Hope and passing on down the York
road toward Philadelphia, it would
just about compare with the relative
magnitude of the Continental Army's
visit here on July 28-29-30, 1777-
1873 years ago today.
George Washington, the greatest
American in history, came along
with the main body of troops to the
Coryells Ferry, while small divisions
crossed at Howell's Ferry (Stockton)
and at Trenton.
President Wharton, of the Contin-
entail Congress, had, at Washington's
request, made plans of the river and
all available boats were gathered at
this point, to carry the soldiers over
the Delaware.
The entertainments in New Hope,
near the present Presbyterian church
and schoolhouse, made the previous
December to guard against possible
British attack, were still intact and
would have served a good purpose
If the need arose.
While here, quartered on the Jer-
sey side, General Washington sent
two letters to the President of Con-
gress, telling of the safe arrival of
the troops and absence of redcoats.
General Alexander Hamilton was
quartered on the Pennsylvania side,
and wrote long letter on the 29th
to Robert Morris, the banker of the
American Revolution. Who can pic
ture the thoughts running through
these mems minds that July day in
I1777 :?
Lord Strings division, which in
tended to cross at Trenton, came on
to Coryells Ferry and joined Wash
ington's forces, according to the
commanding generals letters.
What an event it must have been
for the small of whom there surely
must have been a few of that day
to watch the soldiers marching out
the York road, stopping at Ingham
Spring to quench their thirsts, and
on down the valley of Buckingham
toward Philadelphia.
During the remainder of the sum-
mer there was but little doing in the
war line around Coryell's Ferry, the
fighting forces being stationed in
other sections.
General Varnum, with 1900 men.
crossed at this point on October 16.
1777, and General Benedict Arnold
was here on June 16, TIT, prior to
Washington's visit.
General Washington was here on
June %, l778, probably for two or
three days. Six brigades, compris-
ing the divisions of Generals Greene
and Wayne, left Philadelphia on the
18th, arriving here two days later.
Washington and at least part of
the army left on the 23d, going out
the Brunswick road to HopeweIl.
The Lambertville record., 1915-07-29
GOOD ROADS MOVEMENTS
STIRRING BOTH SIDES OF RIVER
Solebury Association Has Lively Meeting and go
Sign Petition for Improvement of Highway
Between New Hope and Carversville.
REPAIRING STOCKTON -ROSEMONT ROAD

At big meeting Of the Solebury
Good Roads Association, held in
Rockers hall Friday evening, sixty
New Hope and Solebury township
residents decided to ask for state
aid to be applied to the highway
leading from the river road above
Phillips schoolhouse, through Sole
bury village, past Armitage's mill
to Peters Corner, where it would
join the present Buckingham town
ship stone road, and provide first
class free road from New Hope
borough to Doylestown.
Messrs. Henry w. Scarborough,
of Lahaska, and A. F. Supplee, of
Solebury, were named as committee
to secure from the State Highway
representatives the information as
to whether or not aid could be Sc
cured for this particular road, it
not being on the state list of ap-
proved roads.
Charles E. Pugh, secretary of
the Bucks County Automobile Club;
Horace G. Reeder and Charles C.
Johnson, all of Newtown, were
present and told of the methods en-
ployed in securing stone for the
Newtown-Y -Yardly road, and how far
given quantity went.
Mr.. johnson, who supervised the
road work, said they had used
about 500 to $50 tons per mile, al
though, for first-class macadam roads
where a bottom had to be built,
two thousand tons was usually used.
The smaller quantity gave a top
dressing twelve feet wide and four
inches thick in the center, tapering
down to nothing at the extreme
sides. A rising vote of thanks was
given the delegation for their in
terest in the affair.
DIR. j. E. Scott, president of the
association, was called away shortly
after the meeting opened, and Will
lam H. Robinson, of Carversville,
presided in his stead.
Those who signed the petition for
improved roads in the township
were: Charles L. Logan, butcher;
George w. DuBree, retired; James
Caution, fireman; c. F. Dix, tele-
graph operator; Carrie w. Riley,
veterinary surgeon; Howard w.
Davis, butcher; William H. Booz,
contractor and builder; Ezra c.
Magill, farmer; Henry w. Scar
borough, lawyer: George A. Tins,
car driver; John H. Lewis, farmer;
The Lambertville record., 1915-07-29

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The Seward gateway., 1915-05-06
BREAK OCCURS IN THE
 BRITISH PARLIAMENT
First Rupture Since the War Is Caused By Opposition To the
 Tax On Liquor.

LONDON, May 5.-The first break in the ranks of the parliamentarians
 since the beginning of the war took
 place last night in the House of Com mons when bitter fight occurred on
 the proposal to tax liquors heavily. The natiopalists led the fight and this
 is the first time for ten months that they seperated themselves from any other party in the house. The reason given by the nationalists for their op- position is that the tax would practi- callv mean that all working men in Great Britain would be deIied beer or any other sort of intOxicant. Some of the opponents of the nationalists declare the real reason for the party refusal to agree to the tax really IS due to the desire to protect the distil- lery and brewery interests of Ireland. The narionalists declare that they will fight the tax proposals to the end They are supported by at least some of the labor members and by few members of all parties who cannot agree with the chancellor's proposals.
The Seward gateway., 1915-05-06
THREE BEARS IN A
 SMALL GLASS JAR.
Caught On This Peninsula On the Day of Their Birth This
 Year.

That three bears can be confined in a small glass jar is now proven in Seward by visit to George Sexton who keeps the jar in his hotel office. The animals are dead but have been preserved by the work of Mrs. Forgy, the school principal.
 These little animals were found on the day of their birth by Charles Wagner at the drainage of Tustumena or Kasilof lake. While Mir. Wagner was engaged hunting he saw the old bear come out of her den and he sue ceeded in shooting her. Going into the den he found the three young ones but as they had just been born they had to be destroyed Each is about seven inches long or the size of an adult" rat. The remarkable fact about this catch is that it proves the time when bear cubs are born. The season for the birth of bears has al- ways been mystery, it is said. Some doubted whetehr they were born while the mother was hibernating but the signs that the three youths in question were born on the day they were caught, which was January 25 last, are unquestionable. When the mother bear came out on that day she re- turned to her den before being killed and would probably have continued her winters sleep had she not been sent to sleep "for good" AS she re- entered the cave she covered the en- trance with grass, etc. and made every preparation to forget in slumb- CT the fact that she become mother of triplets.
The Seward gateway., 1915-05-06
WIN AT
 DARDANELLES
COMMANDMENT PROCEEDS AND LAND FORCES ARE STEAD
 ILY PROGRESSING.

ATHENS, May 6.-The lombard ment by the Allied fleet of the Turk ish forts on the Dardanelles is pro ceeding fercely while the Allied land forces have made considerable pro- gress. The great guns of the fleet are of almost inestimable advantage in covering the advance of the British and French near the sea shore. The ships of the Allied fleet are so divided that they cover the shores of the gulf of Saros as we'll as the shores on the Dardauelles and by this means com mand very large portion of the Gallopoli peninsula. The Turkish land forces are known to be superior to the land forces of the Allies but the area of the peninsula is so small that only limited room for the man. covering of troops is provided.
The Seward gateway., 1915-05-06
GERMANS MOVE
 STILL NORTH
BUT RUSSIANS ARE DELIVERING SERIOUS ATTACKS IN
 REAR.

BERLIN. May 5.-The German army of the north is still continuing its advance on the Baltic provinces of Russia but it is admitted here today that the Russians are attacking it from the rear and may make a halt necessary for the purpose of preserv- ing the line of communication with East Prussia and to keep open a line of retreat should the daring scheme of invasion prove to be impracticable. The Baltic provinces have a large German population and one of the am bitions of this nation is to be able to retain that part of the Russian em- pire after the settlement following the signing of peace. The German gen eral staff are reported not to enter tain any hope of reaching Petrograd but by gaining control of the Russian coast on the Baltic it is expected that with the support of the German fleet supplied with a perfect base Russian traffic on the sea can be destroyed.
The Seward gateway., 1915-05-06
ONLY THREE STRANGERS
 STOOD BY SEWARD

With the exception of the four representatives from this division in the territorial legislature only three members of the house voted for Noon's motion in favor of changing the territorial capital from Juneau to Seward. Two out of the three of Stewards outside friends were Nome men, Martin Moran and Nate Coombs. The other Seward supporter was c. K. Snow of Ruby. With the exception of Snow all the representatives of the Fairbanks division voted against Se- ward. All the members of the house from the First division, of course, voted for Juneau. Getchell and Daly were the two Nome men to turn down this city. The vote stood nine to seven.
The Seward gateway., 1915-05-06
BRITISH CARPENTERS
 RETURN TO WORK,
Co Back to Government Employment Because Britain Needs Them
 During the War.

LONDON, May 5.--Two thousand striking carpenters have returned to work at Woolwich arsenal after hav- ing walked out because of dis-satis- faction with the terms on which they were employed. Their return to work is due to the entreaties of their lead CTS and the public generally who saw in the strike a serious delay in the preparations for manufacturing war materials for the army in the field. Several strikes have taken place in government war munition factories and quite a bitter feeling has been aroused against the workingmen be- cause they are regarded as failing in their duty to the nation.
The Seward gateway., 1915-05-06
JUST ABOUT HUNDRED
 COMING ON EVANS.
Sixty-Four Steerage and the Rest First Class. Sixty For Anchor
 age. Riggs Not Aboard.

SEATTLE, May 6.-The passengers aboard the Evans from Seattle for Seward are made up of sixty-four steerage and the remainder first class. She has sixty people aboard for Knik Anchorage. The following are the first class passengers for Seward.
 Gertrude Allen, F. Finkle, R.. Anderson, w. Ludy, c. Quinn, C.. Murphy and wife, Col. Swanitz, Jos. Nelson and wife, Joe Schmidt, Claude Carter, Harry Carter and wife, Mrs. U. Carlson, F. Markham, Fred Sheehan, Mrs. J. s. Sesan, J. Moore, D. Winton, Knight, D. Dunlap, Guy Corder, Frank Armstrong and wife, R. Haman, Mrs. F. Harcourt, Miss Margaret Swan, Mrs. TEomas Olson, Mrs. Swan, H. Rowling, Harry Lam caster, w. Murphy, A. McMillan, A. McMahan.
The Seward gateway., 1915-05-06
GERMANS CLAIM
 MORE ADVANCES
REPORT CONTINUED SUCCESS IN WEST GALICIA AND
 EAST OF YPRES.

BERLIN, May 6.-AccOrding to the official reports issued this morning our offensive in west Gaicia continues successfully and the Russians are be. ing placed in a still more serious pre- dicament. Should we continue to ad- vance the enemy will be compelled to withdraw his forces from the Carpath- ians. The Russians are still fighting determinedly and are said to be rush ing heavy endorsements to the dis trict where they met with their re- verses. While some of their units were badly disorganized by the defeat their main body is still capable of stout resistance. It is also announced today that our troops have made con- siderable gains east of Ypres on the western front and have held all the positions taken by them in the big fight of some days ago. From other fight arenas the news this morning is meager.
The Seward gateway., 1915-05-06
WHERE PRINTERS MADE
 LOTS OF GOOD MONEY
Witness Says He Got Fourteen Thou sand Dollars Commission
 On One Job.

SYRACUSE, May 5.--A witness in the Barnes vs. Roosevelt case testified today that he had received fourteen thousand dollars commission out of one state printing job in New York. This testimony was brought out to show the methods by which the state was governed under the bossism of the man who is suing the ex-president for libel. Some other evidence of a similar nature was also produced and it is now certain that the trial will serve as a tremendous expose of the crookedness of the political leaders in the past.
The Seward gateway., 1915-05-06
WILSON WORKS
 ON GULF LIGHT
DISCUSSES MATTER WITH CAB NET BUT WILL MAKE
 NO STATEMENT.

WASHINGTON, May 5.-President Wilson is discussing the sinking of the American ship Gulf Light by Ger man submarine this afternoon with the cabinet but he declines absolutely to make any comment on the matter. in the meantime the investigation is under way across the water where the ambassador to London has charge of it. The gravity of the situation is suggested by the calmness which marks the attitude of the members of the administration. The popular opin- ion here is that Germany will be asked to pay an immense indemnity at least .or tire loss of the captain and mem bers of the crew and that an apology will also be demanded. Indeed the affair is so serious that even the news papers of standing are most careful in their editorial expression.
The Seward gateway., 1915-05-06
RUSSIANS SAY
 GERMANS HALT
ALSO DECLARE RUSSIAN OF FENSIVE LAUNCHED IN
 EAST GALICIA.

PETROGRAD, May 6.-It is off, cially announced that the Germans have been halted on the Donajec river following their advance after the re- tirement of our troops in western Galicia. As a counter move the Rus sian army in eastern Galicia has launched an offensive against the Austrians who were operating from their bases in the neighborhood of Czernowitz. The reports as to the Austro- German victory are discounted here and the military authorities deny most of the stories given out showing the battle to be disastrous to us. Our official news even declares that in one part of the field the Germans were defeated and routed.
The Seward gateway., 1915-05-06
ASK BRITAIN
 TO STOP WAR
INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONGRESS DECIDES ON
 FIRST STEPS.

THE HAGUE, May 6.--The Inter national Peace congress has decided as the first step in the effort to bring about peace in Europe to ask the British government for the sake of humanity to try it's best to have the war ended. A committee has been selected for the purpose of presenting this request and this committee is so constituted that the British people cannot harbor any suspicion that it is not thoroughly neutral. It is admitted that the chances of peace are exceed ingly slight but the effort will be maintained in the hope that some good may result.
The Seward gateway., 1915-05-06
UNCALLED FOR LETTERS.

List of letters remaining uncalled for at Seward, Alaska Post Office May 1st, 1915.
 Thos. B. Aiken (2) Wm. Arken, Frank Brandewell (2), Mrs. F. D, Casland, Mir. and Mrs. Warren Fenton, E. c. Frisus, Chas. Fregrove, 0rvill Fouse, Miss B. Hamilton, Ralf Harder M. Haslan, John Hawsam, Henry Hendrekes, w. A. Havner, Henry Johnson, V. E. Caves CD, S. E. Likes, Herman Nolan (3), S. D. McCloud Charles McGraith, John Schwalbe, F. E. Stevens, James Toby, Miss Estelle Woodland.
 In calling for letters please say ad- vertised. One cent due on letters. F J. Hickey jr., postmaster,
The Seward gateway., 1915-05-06

TOXIC, May 5.-Count Okuma, the premier gave out a statement today expressing the hope that war with China will still be avoided He de- clares that what Japan is asking is only her rights" and he says there is no reason why China should not grant the request without entering into a bloody war in which she could never hope for success.
 The artillery of the Japanese army is being mobilized as fast as possible but the cabinet declares that it is only being moblized because Japan is an ally of Great Britain and that ally is engaged in a war which may at any moment create a situation reQuir- ing the use of Japan's military re- sources. Even the Japanese people are not deceived by this statement however, and they are looking for ward to the declaration of hoSultieS which is believed to be sure to follow the refusal of the demands set out m the ultimatum forwarded to Pekin.
The Seward gateway., 1915-05-06
WANTS TO SETTLE JEWS
 IN WESTERN COLONY.
Jacob SshifT Proposes to Make Home For His Race West of
 Mississippi

NEW YORK, May 5.-JacOb Schifi proposes the establishment of Jew ish colony west of the Mississippi. He declares there is room for a million settlers in that region with their families and his intention is to bring there the members of the race who are now living under hostile govern ments. Behipd the scheme are many of the leading Hebrews of this city and there is quite a good chance for it's success.