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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21
Paper Cnanqes Owners.

Columbus.-The Columbus Demo
crat, weekly newspaper, has been
taken over by James Ross, chair
man of the Franklin county Demo.
cratic committee, and Rodney J.
Deigle, former sergeant-at-arms of the
Ohio senate, has been put in as editor
in chief.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21
Annllea for Penainn

Newark.-Mrs. Samuel B. Loveioy,
who will reach the century mark IL
she lives until Oct. 26, is the first
woman to apply for a pension under
the new Ashbrook law. Mrs. Lovejoy
in her younger days was an intimate
friend of Barbara Frietchie.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21
Call Referendum on Ball Law.

Bellefontaine.-A referendum vote
has been called at the November cleo
tion on the ordinance recently passed
by council prohibiting Sunday base
ball in Bellefontaine.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21
MaX Break Recnrd-

Columbus. - Six thousand students
are expected to attend Ohio State uni
versity the coming year, over 1900
already being enrolled. Students are
coming from nearly every state in the
union and there are many coming
from foreign countries
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21
Masons Dedicate Temple.

Wooster. - The Masonic command
cries of Mansfield, Akron, Canton
and Massillon took part in the dedica-
tion of the new $4,000 temple by
Wooster lodge. The dedication marks
the centenary of Masonry in Wooster.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21
Sun Causes insanity,

Fremont-After he had attacked
his wife and children and threat
ened to kill them, John Sampson,
aged A, farmer, was adjudged insane
and removed to the TolSdo hospital
A sunstroke is the cause of his mental
trouble.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21
NJ. E. Conference Opened.

Steubenville-The annual northeast
Ohio Methodist Episcopal confer
ence, one of the largest in Meth
odism. convened here.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21

Alliance. - The Alliance Machin-
cry Company will spend 100000 on
new buildings and machinery to double
the capacity of its plant, it is an,
nounced. Employment will be afford
ed for 500 additional men.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21

Gallon. - Ray McClead refused
to pay fine for drunkenness at
Mt. Gilead and appealed to common
pleas court. 1t was found that all fines
imposed in Mt. Gilead for intoxica-
tion for the last "a years had been
illegal.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21
Plans Work for a.Nans-D

Toledo.-Rev. G. T. Spreng of the
Toledo city mission plans taking care
if itinerants and vags by providing
work for all and then arresting those
refusing to work.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21

er," he declared, there never was q
little pig that said wee, wee Just
twice, and then stopped"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21
LARGE Family Of Mourners.

Findlay.-At the funeral of Mrs
Susannah Hummell, so, were 81 grand
children, AZ great-grandchildren and
six great-grandchiIdren.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21

around you saw bits Of trees and
earth and bits of human bodies blown
into the air-the most hideous sights
I've ever SEEN"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21
Salary Revision.

Toledo.-Councilmen here plan to
make salary revision as city admins
tration endeavor to reduce expenses.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21
Looks Good.

Columbus.-Fiveh hundred and twen-
ty-tive requests for help at the state
city employment bureau for one week
and only 449 persons to fill same
would indicate that Ohioans are pretty
busy.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21

Bellefontaine-F are circu-
lating petition asking for the estab-
lishment in Logan county of a county
experiment farm.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21

Toledo.-Five new branch libraries
will be opened at Toledo next year,
offering field of endeavor for at least
20 young women.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21
Bankers MEETING.

Columbus.-Ohio bankers gathered
here for three-day convention, over
one thousand being in attendance.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-21

general land Office by Secretary Of the
Interior Franklin K. Lane, who has
general supervision over the land Of
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-06-16

window and paid himself the dubious
tribute Of a thorough inspection.
Throughout this cryptic seance his
manner was profoundly impersonal,
but finally he appeared to become pes
simistic. He shook his head solemnly;
then gazed again and shook his head
again, and continued to shake it slow.
", in complete disapproVal.
'sYou certainly are one horrible
sightp' he said, aloud.
And at that he was instantly aware
Of an observer. Turning quickly, he
was vouchsafed the picture Of charm
ing lady, framed in a rustic aperture
Of the summer house" and staring full
into his Window-straight into his eyes,
too, for the infinitesimal fraction of
second before the fashingly censorious
withdrawal of her own. Composedly,
she pulled several dead tWigs from a
vine, her action conveying a procla-
nation to the effect that she was in
the summer house for the sole purpose
Of suchlike pruning and tending.
Having pulled enough twigs to en-
phasize her unconsciousness and at
the same time her disapproval-of ev-
erything in the nature of Sheridan
or belonging to a Sheridan, she de-
scended the knoll with maintained
composure, and sauEtered toward a
side door of the country mansion of
the Vertreeses. An elderly lady, bon
neted and cloaked, opened the door and
came to meet her.
''Are you ready, Mary? I've been
looking for you. What were you do
ing?'
Nothing. Just looking into one of
Sheridans' windows" said Mary YER
trees. 81 got caught at It."
"Maryw cried her mother. "Just as
we were going to call! Good heavensy'
"We'll go, just the same" the daugh-
ter returned. II suppose those women
would be glad to have us If we'd
burned their house to the ground"
but who saw your" insisted Mrs.
Vertrees.
Zone of the sons, suppose he was.
believe he's insane, or something. At
least I hear they keep him in a sani-
tarium somewhere, and never talk
about him. He was staring at himself
in mirror and talking to himself.
Then he looked out and caught me-
How did he look?"
Like a ghost in a blue SUIT" said
Miss Vertrees, moving toward the
street and waving a white gloved hand
In farewell to her father, who was OBJ
serving them from the window of his
library. Rather tragic and altogether
impossible. Do come on, mother, and
let's get it over!'
And Mrs. vertrees, with many mis-
givings, set forth with her daughter
for the gracious assault upon the new
house next door.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-06-16

The room to which he conducted his
tagging charge was furnished in every
particular like room in new hotel;
and Bibbs found it pleasant-though,
indeed, any room with good bed
would have seemed pleasant to him
after his journey. He stretched him.
self fat Immediately, and having re-
piled mot now" to the attendants
offer to unpack the bag, closed his eyes
YEARLY.
White-jacket, racially sympathetic,
lowered the window shades and made
an exit on tiptoe, encountering the
other white jacket-the harassed over
seer-in the hall without. Said the
emerging one:
HE mighty shaky, Mist Jackson.
Drop right down an shet his eyes.
Eyelids all black. Rich folks gotta go
same as anybody else. Anybody asst
me if 1 change 18th at ole boy-No,
sub! Lem keep is money; keep my
black skin an keep out the groundw
Mr.. Jackson expressed the same
preference. sYessuh, he look tub me
like somebody aWready laid out
He fell silent at a rustling of skirts
in the corridor. It was Mrs. Sheridan
hurrying to greet her son.
She was one of those fat, pink people
who fade and contract with age like
drying fruit; and her outside was a
true portrait of her. Her husband and
~ 10 hod q nd
her. Edith lived all day with her
mother, as daughters do; and Sheridan
so held his wife to her unity with him
that she had long ago become uncon-
scious Of her existence as thing sep
arate from his.
Mrs. Sheridan's manner was hurried
and inconsequent; her clothes rustled
more than other women's clothes; she
seemed to wear too many at time
and to be vaguely troubled by them,
and she was patting skirt down over
some unruly internal dissension at the
moment she opened Bibbs' door.
At sight of the recumbent figure she
began to close the door softly, with
drawing, but the young man had heard
the turning of the knob and the rus
ting Of skirts, and he opened his eyes.
'sDon't go, mother" he said. "I'm
not asleep He swung his long legs
over the side Of the bed to rise, but
she set q hand on his shoulder, re-
straining him; and he lay fat again.
no. she said, bending over to kiss
his cheek, 81 just come for a minute,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-06-16
CHAPTER ".

Mr.. VertreeS, having watched their
departure with the air of a man who
had something at hazard upon the ex-
petition, turned from the window
and began to pace the library thought
fully, pending their return. He was
about sixty; a small man, withered
and dry and fine, a trim little sketch
Of the elderly dandy. His lambre-
quin mustache, like his smooth hair,
was approaching an equally sheer
whiteness; and though his clothes were
old, they had shapeliness and a flavor
Of mode
The room was cheerful and hideous.
Under a manteI OF imitation black
marble merry little coal fire beamed
forth upon high and narrow ''Eastlake'
bookcases, with long glass doors, COM
Portable, incongruous furniture, half a
dozen Landseer engravings which Mr..
and Mrs. Vertrees sometimes men
toned to each other, after thirty years
Of possession, as "very fine things. =
They had been the first people in town
to possess Landseer engravings, and
there, in art, they had rested, but they
still had a feeling that in all such mat.
ters they were in the van.
The growth of the city, which might
easily have made Mr.. Vertrees a mil.
lionaire, had ruined him because he
had failed to understand it. When
towns begin to grow they have whims,
and the whims of a town always ruin
somebody. The dainty little man was
one Of the first to fall down and wor-
ship Bigness. He was true prophet
Of the prodigious growth, but he had .
fatal gift for selling good and buying
bad. He sold his inherited Office build
ing and house in town to buy lots;
then he sold his farm, except the house
and the ground about it, to pay taxes
on the lots. But he had to do some
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-06-16
CHAPTER lI-continued.

''Oh, he's friend Of the whole fam
fly" she returned, with a petulance
which she made no effor. to disguise.
Roscoe and he got acquainted some
where. and they take him to the the
alter about every night. Sibyl has him
to lunch, too, and keeps" She
broke off with an angry little jerk Of
the head. 1--WE can see the new house
from the second corner ahead. Roscoe
has built straight across the street
from us, you know. Honestly, Sibyl
makes me think of snake, sometimes
the way she pulls the wool over
peoples eyes! She honeys up to papa
and gets anything in the world she
wants out of him, and then makes fun
of him behind his back-yes, and to
his face, but he can't see it! She got
him to give her a thousand
dollar porch for their house after it
was
''Good heavens!" said Bibbs, staring
ahead as they reached the corner and
the car swung to the right, following
a bend in the street. us that the new
house?"
Eyes. What do you think of it,"
'sWell," he drawled, ''Im pretty sure
the sanitarium's about half size big
ger; I can't be certain till measure. /"
And a moment later, as they entered
the driveway he added, seriously:
''But it's beautifully
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-06-16
Staring Fun Into His Window.

age somehow according to his concep-
ton Of his position in life"-one Of his
own old-fashioned phrases. Mr.. Yer
trees had discovered, too, that there
was no salary for him in all the buzz
zing city-he could do nothing.
1t may be said that he was at the
end OF his string. Such times do come
in all their bitterness, finally, to the
man with no trade or craft, If his
feeble clutch on that slippery ghost,
Property, shall fail.
The windows grew black while he
paced the fan-shaped zone of freight.
But as the ,mantel clock struck Wheel
lily six there was the rattle of an outer
door, and Mary Vertrees came rushing
into the library and threw herself into
deep chair by the hearth, laughing
so uncontrollably that tears were in
her eyes. Mrs. Vertrees followed de-
corously, no mirth about her; on the
contrary, she looked vaguely disturbed,
as If she had eaten something not quite
certain to agree with her, and regret
ted It.
'Papa! Oh, ohp' And Miss Yer
trees was fam to apply handkerchief
upon her eyes. I'm so glad you made
us go! I wouldn't have missed it"
Mrs. Vertrees shook her head. II
suppose I'm very dull" she said,
gently. Il didn't see anything anus
ing. They're most ordinary, and the
house is altogether in bad taste, but we
anticipated that, and"
'Papa" Mary cried, breaking in.
s'They asked us to dinnery'
''Whatp'
s'And I'm going" she shouted, and
was seized with fresh paroxysms.
"Think Of it! Never in their house be-
fore; never met any Of them but the
daughter-and just barely met her"
"What about your" interrupted Mr..
vertrees, turning sharply upon his
wife.
She made a little face as If positive
now that what she had eaten would
not agree with her. II couldn'tp' she
said. Ell"
Eyes, that's just-just the way she
she looked whe1 they asked hery' cried
Mary, choking. And then she-she
realized it, and tried to turn it into a
cough, and she didn't know how, and it
sounded like-like squealv'
81 suppose" said Mrs. Vertrees,
much injured, that Mary will have
an uproarious time at my funeral. She
makes fun of"
Mary jumped up instantly and kissed
her; then she went to the mantel and,
leaning an elbow upon it, gazed
thoughtfully at the buckle Of her shoe,
twinkling in the freight.
"They didn't notice anything" she
said. $50 far as they were concerned,
ma NINA, it was one Of the finest coughs
you ever coughed.''
"Who were 'they'?" asked her father.
"Whom did you see?'
"Only the mother and daugAter,"
Mary answered. Mrs. Sheridan is
dumpy and RUSTY; and Miss Sheridan
is pretty and pushing dresses by the
fashion magazines and talks about
New York people that have theil pic
lures In 'em. She tutors the mother,
but not very successfully partly be-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-06-16
The Story
Of a Big
Man in a
Big Town


thing to keep himself and his family
up, so in despair he sold the lots
(which went up beautifully the next
year, for traction stock" that was
paying dividends; and disappeared al
together from the commercial surface
at about the time James Sheridan
came out securely on top.
But there came day when three
servitors Of Bigness in Philadelphia
took greedy counsel with four fellow
worshipers from New York, and not
long after that there were no more
dividends for Mr.. Vertrees. In fact,
there was nothing for Mr.. Vertrees, be-
cause the traction stock" henceforth
was no stock at all, and he had mort
gagged his house long ago to help "man-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-06-16

but want to see how you seem. Edith
said
poor Edith ne murmured. "She
couldn't look at me. She"
"Nonsensew Mrs. Sheridan, having
let in the light at a window, came back
to the bedside. 'sYou look a great
deal better than what you did before
you went to the sanitarium, anyway.
It's done you good; a body can see that
right away. You need fatting up, Of
course, and you haven't got much
color"
"No," he said 81 haven't much
COLOR
"You look a great deal better than
what l expected"
edith must have a great vocabu-
lary!' he chuckled.
''She's too senoitive,'' said Mrs. Sher-
idan, land it makes her exaggerate
little. What about your diet?"
"That's all right. They told me to
eat anything
That's good" she said, nodding.
Ihey mean Tor you just to Du1ld up
your strength. That's what they told
me the last time I went to see you at
the sanitarium. You look better than
what you did then, and that's only a
little time ago. How long was it?''
Eight months, think"
"No, it couldn't be I know 1t amt
that long, but maybe it was longer n
I thought. And this last month or so
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-06-16
CHAPTER III.


It was gray stone, with long roofs
of thick green slate. An architect who
loved the milder Gothic motives" had
built what he liked: it was to be seen
at once that he had been left unham-
pered, and he had wrought picture
ultant reality. At the same time
landscape designer had played so good
a second, with ready-made accessories
of screen, approach and vista, that al
ready whatever look of newness re-
manned upon the place was to its adj
vantage, as showing at least one thing
yet clean under the grimy sky.
Altogether, the new house was sue
cess. 1t was one of those architects
successes which leave the owners
yelled in privacy; it revealed nothing
of the people who lived in 1t save that
they were rich. In our swelling cities
rich families, one after another, take
title and occupy such houses as for
tunes rise and fall-they mark the
high tide. 1t was impossible to imag-
Inc a child's toy wagon left upon
walk or driveway of the new house,
and yet it was-as Bibbs rightly called
tt-"beautiful."
What the architect thought Of the
s'GolfO di Napoli," which hung in its
vast gold reVel of rocco frame against
the gray wood of the hall, is to be con-
jectured-perhaps he had not seen it.
Edith, did you say only eleven
feet? Bibbs painted, staring at it, as
the white-j acketed twin of a Pullman
porter helped him to get out of his
overcoat.
Eleven without the Frame" she ex-
planned. ''It's splendid, don't you
think? It lightens things up so. The
hall was kind of gloomy before
mo gloom noW!" said Bibbs.
''This statue in the corner is pretty,
too" she remarked. Mamma and I
bought that" And Bibbs turned at
her direction to behold amid a grove
of tubbed palms, 'life-size," black
bearded Moor, Of plastic composition,
painted with unappeasable gloss and
brilliancy. Upon his chocolate head he.
wore a gold turban; in his hand he
held a gold-tipped spear; and for the
rest, he was red and yellow and black
and silver.
"HallelujahY' was the sole comment
of the returned wanderer, and Edith,
saying she would find mamma left
him blinking at the Moor. Presently.
after she had disappeared, he turned
to the colored man who stood waiting,
Bibbs' travelling bag in his hand.
What do yeu think Of it?'s BibDs
asked, solemnly.
"Gran'Y' replied the servitor. tShe
mighty hard to dus' Dus' git in all
'em wrinkles. Yessuh, she mighty hard
to dus'"
81 expect she must be- said Bibbs,
his glance returning redectively to the
black full beard for a moment. ssIs
there place anywhere could lie
down."
"Yessuh. We got one mem spare
rooms all fix up TO- you, sub. Right
up stains, sub. Nice ROOM
He led the way, and Bibbs followed
Slowly, stopping at intervals TO rest,
and noting a heavy increase in the
staff Of service since the exodus from
the "old" house. Maid and scrub.
women were at work under the pa
tently nominal direction of another
Pullman porter, who was profoundly
enjoying his own affectation of being
harassed with care.
"Ey'ything got look spick an span
TO- the big doin's tonight" Bibbs,
guide explained, chuczling. 'Yessuh,
we got big doiR's tonight! Big doin'sw
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-06-16

One of the near-tragedies of
life comes when the poor young
man or woman is snubbed by
the rich crowd with whom he
or she has played at school in
childhood. 1t is then that pow
erty stings, and pride of family
doesn't help much. The situa-
ton is quite as interesting,
though reversed, when a rich
and lovabIe young man is
snubbed by a poor but naughty
aristocrat because he belongs
TO the "new rich"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-06-16
SYNOPSIS.
=.

gnertdan's attempt to make business
man of his son Bibbs by starting him in
the machine shop ends in Bibbs going to
a sanitarium, nervous wreck On his re-
turn Bibbs is met at the station by his
sister Edith.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-06-16

4 GAINsT THE BACKGROUND OF A GREAT CITY
N BLACK WITH THE SMOKE AND FILLED WITH
THE TURMOIL OF MANUFACTURING, Mr..
HARRINGTON HAS DRAWN FOR US THE PORTRAITS
OF A MAN AND HIS SON WHO STAND OUT BOLDLY
AS DISTINCT AMERICAN TYPES AND MAKE THIS
STORY WHAT IT LS-NOT ONLY A STORY OF BIG
NESS, But THE BIGGEST STORY OF TODAY.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-06-16


(TO BE CONTINuED.J
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-07-27
4 Note Of Warming

The Republican leaders Of West
Virginia are warned by the state Jour
nal that sweeping and unaualifled
endorsement OF the administration of
Governor Hatfield, I'm the platform to
be adopted at the convention I'm Hunt
ington August 10, will doom the par
~ to defeat In November. The PARK
orsburg paper is willing that Hatfield
shall be given credit for whatever
good he has accomplished, but insists
that there must be "a declaration OF
the strongest sort that may be ex-
pressed in the English language. that
the public service shall continue itself
70 attending TO public business"
If no other question had entered in
TO the primary fight. but the personal
tiles of the gubernatorial candidate.
the Journal says Judge Robinson
should have swept the state" The
voters divided almost evenly because
General Lilly's candidacy represented
protest against machine rule. and
against the prostitution Of the public
service To private political purposes. ."
These and other evils we're Identified
with Judge Hobinson's candidacy. and
the Journal thinks he should "repu-
date that support and renounce It's
authors" 1T might have proven in
eXpedient' during The campaign. SAYS
the Journal but # will not be now. "
In demanding that Judge Robinson
repudiate the activities OF the state
pay roll in his interest, and that the
Republican state convention 20 on
record against further patronage IA
voritism and the pernicious use OF tho
political job the state Journal Is TAX
ing bold stand. OF course judge
Robinson and the state convention will
do nothing OF the kind. and we shall
then see whether the State Journal
will continue TO predict the certain
defeat Of the Republican party In this
] state. Wheeling Register.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-07-27

cHARLEsTON. July % Brigadier
General John c. Bond. adJutant gen
eral Of West Virginia. has been direct
ed By Major General Woods of the de-
partmcnt OF the east 10 take charge
OF the recruiting OF men with whom
io 0ll 20 war strength the Second Wos,
Virginia infantry in mobilization camp
here.
General Bond has made three divis-
ions Of the state for recruiting Dur
poses and has assigned TO their di-
visions the officers detailed for recruit
ing service from the First infantry.
Major Jackson Arnold Of Weston. will
have charge Of the first state division.
with headquarters at Charleston
Captain Leonard n. Jones. Of Morgan
town. will have charge OF the Second
division with headquarters al Hinton
First Lieutenant George whitmore Of
Martinsburg, viii have charge OF the
third division with headquarters AT
Keyser.
General Bond said today that he had
every assurance that the West Vir-
ginia regiment will be sent to the Meg
lean border. lie said he believed tho
movement would be made about An
gust 15.