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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1915-07-01
From Spencer Times
Merchant w. E. Stump. of

Merchant w. E. Stump, of
Apple Farm, Calhoun county,
was in the city Tuesday, looking
after business matters.
Mrs. G. W. Hays and Miss
Ethel Redding. of Arnoldsburg,
were registered at the Arlington
last Saturday on their way home
from a visit with relatives at
Parkersburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. l.. Hays are
the proud parents of a son, Sam
uel L., weight seven and one
half pounds. The youngster ar
rived promptly at l o'clock Tues
day afternoon. Mother and ba-
by are getting along fine.
Mr.. Gray Huffman, Spencer
High Schools best baseball pro-
duct, has returned from Morgan
town, where he attended the
West Virginia University for one
semester. Gray has made good
at the State University in every
respect-having averaged 85 per
cent for class work, and winning
his letters in baseball. He is one
of the most popular students in
schools and just before coming
home was initiated into the Phi
Sigma Kappa Fraternity.
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Installation Of Masonic Officers

The officers elected by the To-
cal lodge of Masons at their last
meeting were installed in office
Saturday night. A large crowd
or Masons from here and out of
town were present for the cere-
monies. The officers installed
are as follows:
Worshipful Master, E. A. Sha-
fer.
Senior Warden, o. j. Dulin.
Junior Warden, Walker John
son.
Treasurer, G.. s. Smith.
Secretary. l.. G.. Hamilton.
Senior Deacon, John H. Barr.
Junior Deacon, w. c. Wilson.
Tyler, Jacob Bennett.
After the conclusion of the in
stallatlon ceremonies Jacob f..
Stump, of Bigbend, was raised
to the sublime degree of Master
Mason.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1915-07-01
SUBSTITUTES FOR POTASH.

There seems to be no real sub
stitute for commercial potash
that will be available this year
( ut reasonable prices, says Hoard's
} Dairyman.
s 1t is generally recommended
; that sulphate of potash is the
5 desirable form for use in pota-
to culture. while wood ashes. be-
) cause they seem to create condi-
: tions favorable to the growth of
5 scab. do not make good form
} of potash.
: In view of the above facts we
: suggest the use of we'll rotte6
s manure this spring or of n field
Z that was manfred last fall If
5 this is not available and the land
Z needs reinforcement nitrate of
: soda, tankage and acid phosphate
Z may be used. We would omit
5 the use of potash entirely this
< year unless it can be procured at
5 reasonable price.
Z 1t is quite possible that deeper
5 blowing will bring up to the sur
< face an additional supply of pot
5 ash that will be sufficient for
< the next few years.
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Get Roadmaking on business eas;s.

Get Roadmaking on Business Basis
The roads are public property. The
condition of the roads affect everybody
n economic. social and moral ways.
II costs four-ffths of cent per mile
ter ton for railroad shipment and on
an average % cents per mile TO haul Il
ION of farm produce for mile. Why
not put road making Oh business
oasis AMI get results:-J. II. Miller.
Director of EX+epsion. Kansas State
Agricultural College.
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Cement Roads

The construction of the Old Roman
cement roads. which have held to-
gether so we'll throughout tile cen
turtles. is by no means IL lost art. but
Is being paralleled today in the con
struction Of cement road- in this coun-
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A Delayed Road Report
Minnora, w. Va.

MlnnOfa, w. Va,
Ed. Chronicle:
Here are the names of those
who en- the road on Good Roads
days with the amount of time
each worked on Meadows Run in
Washington district:
J. E. Shaver, H. H. Shaver.
Guy Shaver, Lynch Webb, one
day each; P. A. Parsons, one
half day.
M. S. GHERKE.
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K. l. HAMILTON
Editor and Owner.
SUBSCRIPTION:
LOCArS AND PERSONAL

S~~oNSSSSSSoooSo o.oooSooooO
L. John Fogle, Of Russ EFT. |
was here on business Friday.
Eliza Bigler, of Nobe, was here
on business errand Saturday.
John Stops and P. P. Wells.
of Pennsboro, were here Satur
day on their way to Spencer.
Inspector r. E. Hays, Of the
Revenue Service, is spending a
few days here with home folks:/
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Gay
Stalnaker Tuesday of last week
a fine girl baby.
"A. Gamer, Of Nobe, was here
over Sunday enroute for Parkers-
burg on business visit.
Misses Losie Knots and Hazel
Haught, of Minnora, were visi-
tors at this place Monday.
Anon Smith. an industrious
farmer Of Yellow Creek, was
visitor in town Monday.
S. H. Wilson, of Ru ssett, was
looking after interest at this
place Saturday.
r. c. Hardman, of Maple
wood, returned Friday from
business visit to Parkersburg
and other cities.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. w. Pell re.
turned Friday from short visit
With friends ard relatives arI (
relatives at Parkersburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Holsberry, of
Elkins, were guests of the lat
ter's sister, Mrs. j. w. Pell, a
few days last week.
]. ]. Basnett, prominent cit
izen of Annamoriah, was looking
after business affairs in town
Thursday.
III. a. Witte, genial farmer of
Staten, paid the Chronicle office
pleasant visit while in town
Saturday looking after business
matters.
Hagan Barr and children, Miss
Irmah and Hagan, Jr., of Park
ersburg, were visitors here over
Saturday night. They were ac-
companied home Sunday by
Miss Minnie Hamilton.
c. A. Jarvis returned Friday
evening from a visit with rela-
tives m Parkersburg. He was
accompanied home by his daugh-
ter, Miss Ila, and his nephew,
Orval Duffield, who will spend
several weeks here.
Eber Dulin, formerly of this
county, who has been employed
for the past four years by the
Goodyear Rubber Co., at Akron,
was back at the old home near
Creston last week, visiting
friends, returning to Akron on
M o n day morning. Elizabeth
Journal.
We are requested to announce
that a Sunday school rally will
be held in the grove at the Big
bend schoolhouse Sunday, July
4th. Dinner will be served on
the ground and there will be good
speaking in both forenoon and af-
ternoon. The committee in charge
extends a cordial invitation to the
public
Wednesday afternoon, a picnic
was given at Weber Park honor
ing Miss Grace Diiworth. The
affair was a complete surprise to
the guest of honor. The after
noon was spent in games and
taking pictures. After supper a
bonfire was kindled and marsh
mallows we're toasted. st. Ma
rvs Oracle.
Miss Jean Stump returned Sat
urday from a visit with relatives
on Steer Creek. She was accom-
panied home by her cousin,
Stump FeHy. About a mile
above town the horse they were
driving became frightened and
ran away, upsettinR the buggy
and making an irreparable wreck
oft. Fortunately. the occupants
sustained no severe injuries, and
excepting a few bruises and the
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w. M. Whipkey. of Leafbank,
was a visitor in the city Monday
morning.
M. Nj. Trippett, of Leading
Creek, was looking after bust
mess here Monday.
S. Nj. Crisis, of BigbenG, was
here Thursday attending spe-
cial session of County Court.
Al Gum, one of Mt. lions
prominent and hustling business
men, was a visitor here Friday.
F. B. Bennett, a reliable citi-
zen of Hattie, was mixing with
friends here Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Morgan,
of AltiZer, were visitors at this
place Sunday and Monday.
c. ]. Gamer, Of Arnoldsburg,
was business visitor here Mon
day.
Deputy Assessor H. C. White,
of Minnora, is attending to Of
fetal duties here this week.
Mr., and Mrs. A. ]. Ball, Of
Bar0es Run. were visitors here
Friday.
Dr.. and Mrs. j. A. Dye, of
were visitors at this place the
first of the week.
w. r. Starcher, of Arnolds-
burg, was attending to business
interests at this place Saturday.
Rev. Whit Stump was here
Saturday and Sunday conducting
the regular services at the local
Baptist church.
Justice Bee Hopkins, of MiL-
nora, was looking after business
matters and greeting friends in
town Wedne sday.
Mrs. G w. Taylor and chill
dren are spending few days at
Elizabeth, visiting relatives and
friends.
The sale of the personal prop
erty of of w. r. Marshall at his
residence above town Saturday
was well attended.
Miss Fannie Smith is enrolled
at the West Virginia University
at Morgantown for the summer
term.
Fred w. Campbell, a popular
and prominent citizen of Arcade,
was in town Monday after the
Frozen Run ballot box.
Cecil Marshall and John Ham
ilton, Jr attended the memorial
services of the Oddfellows and
Pythians at Hur Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Lang de-
parted Thursday for a short visit
with the formers parents at
Clarksburg. They made the
trip in Oscar Garretson's car.
The Fourth Quarterly Confer
ence Of the M. E. church, South,
for this circuit was held at Beth
ell Saturday and Sunday. Pre-
siding Elder w. E. Reid was
present and delivered excellent
sermons.
Miss Hazel Marshall left Mon
day for Redwood where the 9TH
er members Of the family of w.
7. Marshall have removed from
this place. Mr.. Marshall will re-
| turn soon to take care of business
interests. Much regret is ex-
pressed at the removal OF this ex.
celIent family.
O r. Hartman left Friday of
last week for Kentucky where he
goes to take up wool which the
Hartman Produce Go. have
bought in that state. Jim Mich
olson q prominent young farmer
Of Richardson, Calhoun county,
was visitor to Spencer Friday
and paid a welcomed visit to the
Reporter Office on business.
Spencer Reporter.
i. 3. Carroll, a popular oil OPP
orator Of Bigbend, was attending
to business affairs in town Fri
day. Mr.. Carroll has placed on
sale the product of his gasolene
.H d
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Marriage Licenses

A. r. Goodnight.
Dora Mathess.
w. J.. Coplinger.
Eva Taught.
Henry Collins.
Jennie Snider.
The Appeal., 1915-02-13
"WHY JESUS WAS A MAN AND
NOT A WOMAN"

This book, which is just from the
press is the third book by Mr.. Tapp,
in which he interprets the Sex-Law
of the Bible. His first book on the
subject, "The Truth About The Bible"
came from the press about two years
ago. About a year after that, his
second book, "Sexology OF The Bible"
followed. In these books, Mr.. Tapp
contends that all sin of the Flesh is
In the Sex-Senses and that is the rea-
son that Jesus did not have a natural
father. He is lawyer and has done
great work for the inspiration of
the Bible and the Divinity Of the
Christ. He has answered all the
school Of the Ingersoll's, etc. He shows
that the fall of man was a matter of
the Flesh and the Sex and that the
Christ had to be conceived without
natural father in order to be a per-
feet man and Redeemer Of the world.
His idea is, The Law of Sex is the
Key of the Bible. The idea is arrest
ing the attention Of the great thinkers
OF the world. The books may be se-
cured by addressing Sidney G. Tapp,
Kansas City, Mo. They should be in
every home and every library of the
world.
The Appeal., 1915-02-13

Did Not Lose Temper or catechize.
7 want to say" he continued, "that
neither in manner, language, tone nor
in any other way was l discourteous,
lmpertinent or insolent to President
Wilson.
my whole attitude was that of en-.
deavoring, on the spur of the moment
to answer piece of masterful sophis-
try and to refute it successfully and
feeling a great responsibility to do so,
spoke with positiveness, deliberate.
ness and directness, looking the Pres
ident full in the eye.
Il did not quiz or catechize the
President, and did not attempt to
debate with him. The difficulty did
crimlnated against and segregated in
of my race and to say that I should
regard it as a benevolence and so rep
resent it to my race
although it was a trying ordeal
to listen to such statement at length
by the Chief Executive of the Nation.
I had at no time any temper much
less lost my temper"
The Appeal., 1915-02-13

ington, the great industrial educator, 10
mixed-blood. H. Y. Tanner, the great
artist whose pictures have been pur-
chased by the French Government and
now hang in the Louvre, is a mixed.
blood. DR.. Daniel H. Williams, one
OF the worlds greatest surgeons and
who was the first man surgeon in all
the world to operate successfully on
the human heart, is q mixed-blood.
THE APPEAL could name thousands
Of other mixed-bloods of whom Amer.
lea may well be proud.
Every colored person ought to get
busy at once and write to the Senators
who represent his state and ask them
to vote against the bill when it
reaches the Senate.
Do it now.
We are delighted to state that to
the everlasting credit of the Minnesota
delegation in the House, they voted
against the Infamous bill.
The Appeal., 1915-02-13
DID THE PRESIDENT LOSE HIS
HEAO2

(From the Philadelphia Press.)
1t looks as though the result of the
last election has got on the Presidents
nerves and made him unreasonably ir.
ritable. In no other way can we &C.
count for the extreme sensitiveness
and quick resentment which he exhib-
tied while w. M. Trotter, of Boston,
as chairman of delegation of Col
ored men undertook to show him that
Colored employees were unfairly dis
permitted to declare for segregation
not come until the President had been
some of the executive departments
There is nothing in Mr.. Trotter's
remarks as reported which disclose
any ground for the Presidents resent
ment. Possibly the speakers manner
may have been too earnest, positive
and aggressive to suit the President
He turned on him as he once before
turned on the woman suffrage delega-
tion whose assertions and arguments
| were not to his taste and drove the
President into making the absurd
statement that he was not at liberty
to approve woman suffrage because it
had no place in the National Demo-
| cratic platform. He told Trotter that
the Colored people were segregated in
the departments to avoid friction. But
there was no friction until Mr.. McAdoo
and Mr.. Burleson got into the Cabi-
net and began to enforce in their de-
partments the principle of the Jim
Grow law.
The segregation practiced is wrong in
principle because 1t is disagreeable and
| unfair to one class of public employees
who have right to be treated by their
Government without discrimination.
The race affected had a right to be
heard in their own behalf and showed
a proper spirit in going directly to
the President with their grievance.
We fear that the President has lost his
head. He is certainly not so happy in
these extempore statements, made un-
der the irritation that so easily besets
him as in his more studied deliver
ances which compel the admiration
| even of his political opponents and
often skillfully covered up the falla-
cies of his reasoning character of the
policy he is commencing.
The Appeal., 1915-02-13
INFAMOUS LEGISLATION

The Democratic House of Represen-
tatives has passed an Infamous act
prohibiting the intermarriage of white
and colored persons TN the District of
Columbia.
The vote was about four to one but
the fact that sixty members voted
against the Infamous measure shows
that the idea of justice is not yet dead.
The bill is an insult to one-tenth of
the population of the United States.
1t strikes at the very foundation of
Christianity for among Christians of
every creed, marriage is regarded as
divine institution.
There is no reason for such legisla-
ton. Caucasians usually marry Cau-
casians and Afro-Americans usually
marry Afro-Americans. The number
who marry interracially is wholly neg
l1glble. The real purpose of the Bill
is to place a stigma upon the Afro
American people.
The Clark Bill is really an open In.
Vitation to immortality and leaves the
Afro-American woman without protec-
ton and an easy prey to vicious men
OF the white race. If there is to be
any mixing of the races it ought to
be done legitimately in Christian mar.
riage and not in an immoral manner.
1t is not the proper function of the
Government to draw lines of invidious
distinction between its various classes
OF citizens and place on the statute
books a law which in effect brands
one group of citizens as unfit, CHASING
it with imbeciles, idiots, detectives, de-
generates and criminals.
And then there is another point of
view. The mixing which has already
taken place has not resulted in de-
generate specimens of manhood. The
first blood spilled in the Revolution.
ary War was that Of q mixed-blood
I-Crispus Attucks. Frederick Doug.
lass, one of Americas greatest orators.
a patriot and a statesman was of
mixed.blood. DR.. w. e. B. Dubois.
the great uterateur and sociologist, is
q mixed-blood. DR.. Booker T. Wash.
The Appeal., 1915-02-13
TELEGRAM TO PRESIDENT Will.
SON BY DR.. w. SINCLAIR, UN-
ABLE TO BE PRESENT WITH
DELEGATION,
Hon. Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States.
Executive Mansion,
~. WaShinPt0n n n

oo0AA6tOA, -. u,
Honored Sir: .a
Unavoidable circumstances make il
impracticable for me to join the dele
cation as field secretary of the con-
stitution league of the United States
who are to present a memorial to
you on Thursday, the 18th inst, in
voking your Intervention against the
segregation of government employees
at Washington or elsewhere on the
ground of race or color. l respect
fully submit that such segregation vi
olates the spirit and letter of the Con
stitution of the United States, forces
hardships and degradations of Col
ored employees, undermines civiliza-
ton, is subversive Of American in
stitutions, contravenes every prin-
ciple of Righteousness and justice and
is a shameful reproach to our Chris
tion religion. Segregation represents
not the ideals Of freedom but the
ideals Of slavery. We pray that you
as the Christian President of this free
and Christian nation will use vour
great powers, which are more than
amply sufficient to remove this foul
blot from our civilization.
(Signed). VIM. A. SINCLAIR.
Field Secretar] Constitution League.
The Appeal., 1915-02-13
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The Appeal., 1915-02-13
THE PRESIDENTS BUNK.

President Wilson addressed the dele
gates to the convention of the National
Chamber of Commerce at Washington.
Wednesday and handed them some
choice morsels Of bunk.
IF the government ever falls into
the hands of men from a single sec
ton, or with single interests, it must
go to seed and die."
Il would prefer that you receive me
as if for the time being were one OF
your own number" the president said,
because the longer I occupy the Office
that now occupy the more I regret
any lines of separation; the more
deplore any feeling that one set of
men has one set Of interests, and an.
other set of men has another set o. in.
terests; the more J. feel the solidarity
of the nation, the impossibility of sep
arating one interest from another
without miseonceiving it; the neces-
sity that we should all understand
one another in order that we may un-
derstand ourselves.
What has got to pervade us like a
great motive power is that we cannot
and must not separate our interests
from one another. but must pool our
interests. A man who is trying to
fight for his single hand is fighting
against the community and not fight
ing with it,
Mr.. Wilson is famous for getting OF
highsounding phrases and beautiful
words, but when it comes to the test
he is found wanting.
He argues against the danger of
separation and says that if the govern
ment ever falls into the hands Of a
single section it will go to seed and
been trying to accomplish.
The Appeal., 1915-02-13
TROTTER'S SPECIFIC DENIAL OF
lNSOLENCE TO PRESIDENT.
Interview in Boston Globe Of Nov. II,
1914.

William Monroe Trotter, whose re.
marks on segregation in Government
departments stirred President Wilson
at hearing in the White House last
Thursday, arrived in Boston yesterday
afternoon, and, after denying any.
thing offensive either in his speech or
manner, told Of the way in which the
report of the hearing was given to the
newspapermen.
"As we left the President" said Mr..
Trotter, Il told him I was very sorry
if he still considered that I had Of
Tended him. The President smiled
and said: o, We'll call it all right
when we came out our delegation
caucused in Sec. Tumulty's room as
to what we should say for the news.
papers. l told the newspaper men
briefly about the conference, merely
describing it as a warm affair.
Il had gone outside the White
House when Mr.. Tumulty called me
back and said: 'Trotter, you have vic.
lated every courtesy of the White
House in quoting the President to the
press
Il told Mr.. Tumulty that had done
so In ignorance OF the rules, and apOl.
ogized. He accepted my apology.
Then asked the newspaper not to
publish what I told them, and they
consented. Mr.. Tumulty said he was
satisfied and left.
White House Statement Issued.
The report of the conference was
then given out from the White House.
II seems Verv necu1iar IN mo after
the President had told me everything
was all right, that a White House
statement should say that I had Of
Tended the President Of the United
States"