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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1915-04-02

Number of different persons outside the
County Farm to whom relief was furnshed
Estimated .......... $50
On motion of Supervisor Phillips, supported
by Supervisor Kirby, the above report was re-
ceived and referred to the committee to settle
with the Superintendent of The Poor.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-10-21
Why Did They Do 1t !?

We have a letter from one of,
the leading legal lights of South
ern West Virginia bewailing the
fact that be will, for the first.
time IN many. years, be deprived
Of his usual fall visit to Charles
Town, by reason of the cessation
of the Supreme Court Sessions
here.
The judges, the attendant law
yers, and the ,itigants all seemed
to enjoy their annual sojourn
here in Gods country. ~
There cannot be advanced any
good reason for the legislative
action depriving Charles Town
of its term of the Supreme Court
The real excuse, if one could
be admitted to the inner councils
Of the Republican party, is that
Jefferson is the banner Demo
cratic County of West Virginia,
rolling up splendid majorities
against Republican ntisrdle al
every election and without the
hope of fee or reward. =
So she must be disciplined.
Peanut politics at that gentle
men (!
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-10-21
Newspaper Dont's.

Dom take your home paper. 1t ia
the most active and powerful factor in
building up your town and to support
it would involve you in the work.
Don't pay for it if You take it
Newspapers are rpm on wind, and the
editor wouldn't keep the money any
way. He'd most likely pay it on his
bilIs.
Don't fail to tell the editor how to
run the paper. he has nothing to do
but listen and keep his temper sweet.
Don't put your name to what you
want published. It's the editors busi-
ness to expouse unpopular causes and
take your chesnuts out of the fire.
What hurts your business might also
hurt his-but that's different.
Don't notify the editor when you
change your postofice address. He
might lose track of you and you will
escape paying the last two or three
years Of y8af subscription.
Don't forget to write on both. sides
of the paper. The printers might for
get how to swear. ~.
Don't write your communications
lsgibly. Deciphering them keeps the
editor busy and he is able to make an
OCCASIONAL blunder. which promotes
good feeling all around.
Don't imagine that the newspaper has
anything to do. Exchange.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-10-21
Notes Of Interest.

The annual meeting of West Virginia
Grand Lodge. Independent Order Of
Odd Fellows, adjourned at Morgantown
last week to meet next year in Graf
ton.
Patrick Higgins. 8a years old, died
suddenly Friday in Sandy Hook. Nd.
he came to this section from Lowde
county, Ireland. in 1858 and began
working for the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. He was retired after so
wears. He was Baltimore and Ohio
watchman on the bridge at the time of
the John Brown raid.
The Winchester Inn Property, sit
uated on Stewart Street, is to be offer
ed for sale at public auction IN that
city. on:. Saturday. December 4. by
Messrs R. Gray Williams. Harry K.
Russell and Robert Y. Conrad. the
trustees representing the lawful hold
ers Of The deferred purchase money
bonds,
The case of E. 3. Allen, a we'll drill
Ter OF Rippon. Jefferson county. w; Va,
against Miss Mary Burke. of Win
chester. concerning an artesian well.
was begun Monday morning in the Cir
cult Court Of Winchester before jury.
Judge T. W. Harrison presiding. Mr..
49, - = :
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-10-21
Some Test Questions.

- u 2 1
Under the title. How Are You Ed
ucated?' Melvin Ryder, in his inter-
estiug book, .'Rambles Round the Cam.
pus, gives a series of questions which
aprofessor of the Universityo of Chicago
told his students ''he should consider
them educated in the best sense if they
could say yes TO every one of the
questions that he shou d put to them. !" |,
Has it made you public spirited?
~ Has it made you brother to the
week?
Have you learned how to make friends
and keep them?
Do you know what it is to be a friend
yourself?
Can you look an = oneet man or pure
won an in the eye?
Do you see anyth ng to love in little
child?
Will lonely dog follow you in the
street?
Can you be high-minded and happy
in the meanest drudgeries of life?
Do you think that washing dishes and
hoeing corn just as c,mpatible with
high thinking as piano playing or goli?
Are you good for anything yourself?
Can you be happy alone?
Can you look out on the world and
l,see anything but dollars and cents? J.
Can you look into mud puddle by
the wayside ant, see clear SKY?
Can you see anything in the puddle
but mud?
Can you look into the sky at night
and see beyond the stars?
These questions constitute the finest
test ever submitted to school They
go right to the heart of education.
The kick aside the parsing of gerund
and the reason for inyerting the divisor
land go straight to the meaning of life.
This is the sort Of exams. that belong
to the doctrine Of education that we
have been preaching, towit. the intro
duction of more spirituality in the COM
mon school experience. The youth are
not educated In the best senses unless
they can say yes to all these ques-
tions. to the extent they answer no,
their education fails them
Why cannot wei get the glorious doc
trine implied in this test into our
school system? Why are we always
grovelling among the nonessentials?
Why don. t we put educa ional leaders
on duty that know what education
means? Why doesn't the educational
system of Ohio hold up its head, I'M
stead of creeping along looking out for
a path through the swamp? The peo-
pie should put on duty true educational
zeal and purpose or turn Ohio upside
down.-Ohio State journal.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-10-21
The Fan Festival.


Everyone should get behind
the Fall Festival next week and
make it even a bigger success
than that of last year, which
was a splendid advertisement Of
our resources.
The benefits of such public
spirited enterprises are not always
Immediately visible, but their
ultimate value is far beyond the
cost and effort put into them.
Every gathering, of whatever
nature, be it religious, political
social, fraternal, educational OF
purely recreative, tends to put
\ the town and county forward.
We might point to the Con.
gressieual Convention, the Pyth'
ian Grand Ledge, the Horse
Show, the several depominati iona.
gatherings of religious bodies
the Chautauqua and not least
TIC Fall Festival, as having at
forded pleasure and profit to thu
participants and valuable pub
licity to Charles Town-Ransoi
and Jefferson County.
They are indisputable evidence
of the PUBLIC spirit animatin'
a wide awake and progressly
community.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-10-21
Price For Puffs.

The editor of an Eastern paper has
grown peevish. He has been pestered
so much by people desiring free puffs
that he facetiously refers to himself
as the Peerless Prince of Puff Pur,
veyors,' He thinks he has enough
for social queens. ministers who are
looking for free advertising. people
who have legislative fads they wish to
push and organizations which want
free publicity. So he has involved the
following scale for prices for puffs:
For telling the public that a man is a
successful citizen, when everybody
knows he is as lazy as hired man,
81. 10.
Referring to deceased citizen as
one who is mourned by the entire COM
munity, when he will only bel missed
by the poker circle. $1O.l3
Referring to one as hero and man
of courage and one who viii stand by
his honest convictions. when everybody
knows that he is moral coward and
- rar
and would sell out for thirty cents,
| Sc 81.
Referring to some gallivantin' fe-
male as an estimable lady whom it is q
pleasure to meet and know. when every
man ia town would sooner see Satan
coming, So 10.
Calling an ordinary pulpit orator an
eminent divine, 60 cents.
Sending q noughty sinner to Heaven,
SIS.
Referring to deceased merchant
who never advertised in his life as a
progressive citizen. $3.50.
Lambasting the daylights out Of the
demon rum at the bequest of the local
prohibition committee ST n.
Ditto for the prohibitionists at the
request of the local wet committee,
$6,77.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-10-21

Thlnas % Worry About.
There are 23S .071 blonde stenograph-
era In the United States.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-10-21
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

A ported plant must have air about
the roots and good drainage, as 1t
would in the garden.
Rhubarb roots stored in the cellar
may now be started into growth and
will give good stalks In a few weeks.
Large beets may be put in moist soil
near a sunny window and give few
crops Of green's between now and
spring.
Jardinieres III which water Is allow.
ed to stand make good graYes foE
honse plants. Keep them free OF wa
ter II you want healthy plants
Look for scale and mealyg bug on
ferns and ether house plants TO rid
the plants of the insects wash with
soap and water using soft sponge OF
brush; then cleanse with clear water.
Rain water Is better than we'll water.
since It does not contain alkali. which
often leares white streaksqn the
leaves 80
Watch the new house plants obtRin
ed at Christmas time Remember.
they are from. n greenhouse. In which
the air is moist. SO water frequently
md thoroughly. A good way Is to set
the pot in a tub or pan, and sprinkle
the leaves. II It Is a lowering plant
sbe.carefm not to get water on the tiow
srs Leroy cady, University Farm, 81
PeqL
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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-10-21
Notice of Commissioner Of
:. Accounts. 49,

The following Fiduciary accounts are
before me for settlement:
Nov. II, 1914. W. +. .McQ uilkin,
Executor Of Hortensia Koonce. !.
% sApr.A 8, 1916. Z. b. Franklin and
E. P. cambridge. Executors of Isabelle
L. cambridge.
Aug. "a, 1915. j. S. Bragonier, Adj
,ministrator of Frank Z. RilImyer.
Z Sept. Is, 1915. B. o. Wire, Admin
istfa10r Of r. Z. Wire.
Sept. l6, 1915. James b. Mason, Jr.
Trustee If w. Il. Hooff.
Sept 70, 1915 Y G. Moore Execu.
tor Of Mary n. Moore.
/ lSept. 80. 1915. s. Nv Selden, Ad-
ministrator Of John Selden.
Oct. 8. 1915. F. a. Brown, Admin
istrafor 4. t. .. Of Uvilla ". Hodf..
/. Given under my baud this 2lst day
October 1915.
S, w. WASHINGTON,
Commissioner Of Accounts.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-10-21

By Edmund Vance Cooke, b Dettoit
Iimcs
Yea, -, vrs an bet up and ptet,l
near 70 boiIn,
Seemed a. il some thoughts inside Of
me were close TO 6poilin
They were bad and they were bitter,
and If bad spoken hssty.
/ might have mentioned something
which was rather tart than tasty.
There was a-chewin' peppersrass and
chile sauce and mustard
And w:shin' I could catch some cuss
and beat him to 4 cuatard,
And then / looked at Wilson snd-he
wasn't even Mustered.
Yes, sir. there was Woodrow Wilson.
going stehdy as q clock,
With an eye-as soft ss heaven and .
chin like Plymouth Rock,
With . caimness al conimendable
And sanity unendabIe.
So says l, "WeH. I'm for Wilson,
Woodrow Wilson the dependablep'
/ don't like women beiElg killed and
babies fed to fishes
1t makes me feel like calm names and
smashin' all the dishes.
And with ell the world gone loony and
a-cuttin' crazy capers,
The Ten COMMANDMENTS gone TO pot,
among the scraps Of papers,
felt like cuttin' loose myself, Yes
Yes. sir, ] most was ready
To jump int the whirlpool and fioundei
IN the eddy.
But there was Wilson speakin' -ant
his voice was calm and steady.
Yep, sir, there was woodrow Wilson
sitting tight and looking solemn
| Az clear-eyed as prophet and as cleal
cut as column.
Woodrow Wilson. the dependable,
The candid and commendabls,
Yes, sir; today I'd almost say, he
/ Wilson, the Godses dable !!
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-10-21
100000 Barrels Of Apples Raised.

C. Il. Robinson Ice and Cold Storage
Corporation. with a capacity Of $4,000
barrels. has sold its entire space to APP
pie b6yers in various sections Of jeff
ersoD county. The same company also
has sold its space in Winchester, Va,
amounting to about 1856. 900 barrels.
Rouss Bros, at Kablestown. who have
a 10. 900 barrel storage capacity. will
have their plant filled. It is Estimated
that the Jefferson county crop this
year wilramount to about 200. 900 bar
DAily Reminder.
Often ''coId feet ID the better jud&
ment peculiarly manitesting itself
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-10-21

4IXMmMrmA 80. - -
We hear from william Baynr1 Hale
that President Wilson's chief weilrns11
manifssts ifrs|f IN habit Of choosing
weak. second. cIa.s mem ns fdvisrrs
The fact that Mr.. Halls was once an ad.
visor and then separated from his POI
sition. Of course, has naught to do with
bis present opinion, says the Parkers-
burg Sentinel. However, careful
survey the correctness Of Mr.. Hale's
opinion William J. Bryan, the presi-
dents first advisor, was 50 weak that
when he ran for president at the age
OF thirty-six, he secured onlysix mil
lion and quarter votes and It took
only SIG. 600. 900 Of tariff trust money
to beat him. He controlled the Nation
al convention which nominated Mr..
Wilson, certainly very trivial thing
Robert Lansing, his successor. u 2
cheap upstate lawyer, who STANDS DO
higher IN MS PROFESSION snan nlcneLa
Oiiney, Eiinu Root George Wlckeks
ham and whose fame spreads no Iultner
than the learned councils OF the civlii-
zed world. William McAdoo never oio
anything more than 60 INTO New 1orK
penniless ana raise enough capHai 70
connect New York with tne country
west OF It Dy system Of tunneils sgn.
der the Hudson river. TASK any Mo
could have accomplished after scnool
hours. Franklin Lane IS so incomPet-
emit that both railroads and shippers re
GREETED bis departure from the Inter
state Commerce Commission, ne having
cunningly fooled them into the Deiiel
that his mastery OF the simple prop,
lens OF transportation was unequahee
among contemporary humans. Lima
ley Garrison, as secretary OF war, na'
done nothing better than estaDlisn tns
Ireputation among army men KNOWING
his job better than any civllian WIZ
ever held It. Josephus Daniels Is SUI
ficiently abused to create the SUSPICION
that ne 10 strong man, as usuaily o.
one bothers to abuse weak ones, Dut q
simply ldled bis time away making
daily newspaper profitable and respect
ed, which, as every body not 10 Tn
business We'll knows, is mere cnNo
j play. Attorney Geney az Gregory gay,
up apittance Of 2 hundred Thousand
/ year or SO chasing ambulances 70 ente
the soft public service. ana 80 u. =.
was ne thought OF that President Aai
engaged him to assist his DeparSman
Il OF Justice IN prosecuting the downtroo
den trusts. william T. Redheid mao
a lot OF money manufacturing Things
but proclaimed himself an IDIOT VINE
ne said ne could run MS factories 2
well without tafiff as with u. pavl
Franklin Huston having spent his
time IN the scientific study q agrlcu
ture and the pratlcal application Of ca
knowledge TO that class q productlo
was very inappropriate ly MADE seer.
tary OF agriculture, ana the same Ioll
was committed 10 making ". 2. "
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-10-21
Bank Stock for Sale,

Il am authorized to sell Twenty five
Shares Of the Capital Stock Of The
National Citizens Bank Of Charles
Town, W. Va. consisting Of one block
Of is shares and one block Of 10 shares.
the proposals for the purchase Of said
stock win be received until December
8lst, 1915. AS an evidence Of good
faith each proposal mnst be accom-
panied with q certified check for 10
per cent, of the amount of the proposal.
The rights reserved to reject any or
FRANK GALI4AHER.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-10-21

Try our With Hazel Soap. for the
skin, absolutely pure. Zoe q 8 cakes
for 26e. Brown 3 Hoott
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-13
ADMITS HELPING
TO ROB higgins
Heagy Makes Confess
sion duplicating Glib
and 2 Other Men in
$500 Holdup
TELLS STORY
OF ATTACK
Former Sheriff Of Potter County Was
Left Unconscious on Trolley Tracks
Police Hope to Recovery Jewelry
In Pittsburgh

Albert Heagy and John E. Gibbs,
Jr., Steelton men, who last Wednesday
were arrested in Youngstown, Ohio, to
which city, it is charged, they fed after
attacking and robbing j. F. Higgins, of
Austin, Pa, were brought to Harris
burg by Constable James Haines at s
o o'clock last evening and lodged in the
Dauphin county jail. Higgins, a friend
of former State Senator Baldwin, of
Potter county, was beaten and robbed
near Highspire on January 10, last,
after he had come to this city to attend
the Inauguration of Governor Brum-
baugh.
This morning Gibb was admitted to
bail after Judge McCarrell had fixed
the amount of the bond at $1,000.
Tom Yelley, proprietor of the Half Way
mouse, Steelton, became his bondsman.
Heagy, who is machinist and has a
wife and son, was unable to get bail.
Following Gibbs release Heagv made
statement to District Attorney
Stroup. The prosecutor said that Heagy,
besides confessing to the highway rob,
berry charge and duplicating Glib as an
accomplice, implicated also two strang-
ers, whose names he does not know. but
who, he said, planned the robbery plot
against Higgins.
Victim a Former Sheriff
Higgins formerly was Sheriff of Pot
ter county. He is a middle-aged man
and, according to Heagy's story, was
IN Market street hotel Just before the
trip, during which he was attacked and
robbed. Heagy and Glib will be given
a preliminary hearing before Alderman
Z. r. Murray on Tuesday afternoon at
2 O'Clock
The District Attorney asserts Heagv
SAID that the party induced Higgins TO
accompany them to the White House
lane, below Highspire, on the represen-
tatlon that he would be taken to an
Eiks club house, this being part of the
plan, he said, that was advanced by the
strangers who were supposed to carry
out the robbery and give Heagy and
Glbb half of the spoils.
The strangers were on hand when
ohe trio left the trolley car at the lane
and, Heagy said, he and Glib. walked
out the lane, on the east side of tbe
Continued on Twelfth Page.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-13
POST 5S. c. A. R.. H0NOaS
THE MEMORY OF LINCOLN
Captain John H. Campbell and Chan.
lain Staley, of the House of Repre-
sentatives, the Principal Speakers
at Patriotic Gathering Last Night

Post 5S, Grand Army of the Repub.
hc, with members of visiting posts, Sons
OF Veterans and members of the For.
elgn War Service and ladies of the G.
A. r., last night held a Lincoln me.
moral service in the post room at
Third and Strawberry streets and
heard Captain John H. Campbell, of
the Internal Affairs Department, make
a most eloquent address on the life of
the martyred President.
Captain Campbell made particular
reference to three of Lincoln Is most
Famous speeches-that at Cooper I'm.
ion, New York; the famous "lost
speech - at Springfield, Illinois, and the
gettysburg speech, quoting from all of
them, and read the letter Lincoln sent
the mother who had lost Eve sons in
battle, He also recited a number of
stories and told of Lincoln 's love of
humor. In closing the speaker paid a
beautiful tribute to Lincoln, the man.
Chaplain Staley, of the House of
representatives, former Middletown
clergyman and member of Post SIS, now
residing in Philadelphia, told of Lin
coin s visit to the Union hospital after
the Seven Days fight in front of Rich
mond,. where Mr.. Staley, then mere
boy, lay ill from fever, and of Lin
coins clasping his hand and wishing
him we'll. He said that visit of Lin
coin had an influence on his after life
that was potent for good.
Thomas NJ. Jones spoke briefly on
boy life in Harrisburg during the Civil
war. The speakers were given ris-
ing vote of thanks by the old and
young veterans.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-13
late war news SUMMARY

The persistent German attack in the
Argonne has gained further ground, the
Berlin War Office announced to-day.
More than half mile of French po-
sitions is said to have been won. There
has been further fighting in the vosges,
and the Berlin official report states
that all attacks Of the allies were re-
pulsed. The French communication
gives few details of yesterdays fight
ing, laying particular stress upon
heavy artillery contests.
The German War Office states that
on the western front was found artil-
lery ammunition (which doubtless
originated in American factories.''
Berlin is already celebrating the
striking victory said to have been won
over the Russians in East Prussia and
further successes are noted in to-day's
Official report. It Is stated that in
Northern Poland as well as East Prus-
STA the Russian attacks have failed and
that the Germans have been uniformly
successful.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-13
Assistant Fire Chief Who Was Injured
While Fighting Blaze To-day

Fire starting shortly before noon to.
day near the electric motor in the cut.
ting shop at the Harrisburg Stone
Works, Seventeenth and Mulberry
streets, owned by John Black, gutted
that large -and-a-half story frame
building, which also contained the
draughting room and loft which was
well filled with hay. The loss will
amount to $4,000 and is partly covered
by insurance.
No men were working in the build
ing at the time the fire was discovered.
A caretaker, who was on the outside,
noticed flames in the cutting shop. He
caused the alarm to be turned in from
box No. II, Seventeenth and Market
streets. In responding to this box most
of the fire companies went several
blocks out of their way to the blaze
and consequently were late in getting
streams ON the building. Later an
alarm was turned in from box nearer
the scene of the fire.
Assistant Fire Chief Edward Hal.
bert, who was among the first to arrive,
was assisting in laying line of hose
from q small shed at the side of the
Continued ON Twelfth Pare.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-13
Back Wall Crashes as
Negro Orator Begins
laundering Praises
of Abraham Lincoln
AUDIENCE GO
OUT OF WINDOWS
One Hundred Colored Voters in Wild
Panic in Second Floor of Hall in
Steelton-Some Leap to Ground,
Others Come Down Telegraph Poles
The photograph above

Peter S. Blackwell, the spectacular
leader of the colored Republican forces
in Steelton, noted as the political orator
who gave Republican County Chairman
William II. Horner the title of "Coron-
ious Leader was about to start an
oration on Lincoln. the Great Emanci-
pator," in a Steelton hall last night,
when part of the building fell down
and there was a wild panic among his
audience of 100 negro voters.
About $50 o'clock, when the audi
ence was assembled in Blackwell's s hall,
Adams street, to attend a memorial
meeting in memory of Abraham Lincoln,
the bulky form of Blackwell was dis
cerned ascending the steps leading to
the second story, where the auditorium
is located His entrance was greeted
with loud and prolonged applause
from his admirers, and this made the
building shake.
Blackwell, who was On the program
to deliver the principal "oration, -
was introduced by John w. Bailor in
short speech, which made ont Black
well to be hardly less OF statesman
than President Lincoln himself. When
Blackwell stepped to the front of the
platform to begin his remarks the ap-
plause was vehemently repeated and
again the building swayed.
At this juncture Blackwell, with fire
in his eyes and with sweep of his
arm half way across the platform,
opened his mouth and was about to