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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-08
Dayton Lecturer Wires Secre-
tary Dudderar He Will Not
Be Here next Thursday.

j.. IN. .switzer, OF. the National Cash
Register Company, OF Dayton, o., who
was scheduled to deliver an address
before the delegates Of the Greater
Clarksburg" movement next Thursday
night wired Secretary G. w. Dudder-
ar, of the board Of trade Thursday
morning that It would be impossible
for him to be here next Thursday.
Mr.. Dudderar Immediately notified
the arrangements committee and II
possible another speaker will be Sc
cured for the meeting. II a suitable
speaker cannot be secured the meet
ing Will be postponed until later
date.
Those in charge of the meeting next
Thursday night were greatly dlsnp-
pointed when they learned that Mr..
switzer would not be here as he Is
one Of the best lecturers in the coun-
try. He was going to tell and show
the local persons interested how the
commission form of government does
things in Dayton, the National Cash
Register town.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-08
Mirtann Eel Ha..t He1-e.

The Melting Pot, By. Israel gang
WILL a drama. il u marvellous hand
ling of a vitality interesting subject.
The characters are MI cIeverly
drawn by the author and the play Ii
one of the strongest Of modern
dramas. Besides itF own fascinating
love story and amusing characters.
there Is an unusual interest In this
IanEwill masterpiece which sets
fort hthe gospel that America is
Gods. crueibIe. The Great Melting
Pot in which all races and religions
are fused into the future America.
10 carry out this symbolism, Mr..
zangwill has chosen 4 young jewish
musician, David Quixano. and q
young Russian girl, Vera Revendal,
engaged IN settlement work in New
York City. These two fall In love,
hut David discovers that Baron Re
yetda1, Yera's father. is none other
than the Russian officer who directed
the massacre which made him an
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-08
BOY CHARGED
WITH / HEFT
OF BIG sum
Harold Martin, Arrested ii
FaiFrnont, Accused of Steal
ing S51.50 from Woman.

Accused of stealing S51.50 from Mrs.
Fred Emprey .proprietress of the Cons
mercial hotel on West Pike street.
where he was employed Harold Mar
Tin aged l6. was arrested IN Fairmont
Thursday afternoon. and was brought
back 10 this city by City Detective Il.
l. White.
Police say that Mrs. Enlpey5 sent the
boy to tho bank early Thursday morn
ing with check for $5150 With IN
structions TO get 1t cashed and bring
the money To her. When an hour
passed and the boy did moi return. slle
notified the police department.. Officers
were detailed to watch outgoing inter-
urban cars and trains. but the young
man is said to have eludod the watch
ers by boarding the FaIrmont inter
urban at Boyle's stop, instead OF at
the terminal
Chief of Police NichoIas NJ Whyte.
suspectinE that the youth would so ID
Falrmont, notified the chief Of police
OF that city to be on the lookout Tor
him. A short time later the Fair1nont
police arrested him in q store there,
while he was in the act Of buying
suit Of clothes. He had paid $40 on
the suit, it was said. and S39 In cash
was found in his pockets.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-08
TO HURRY
President Wilson'S Railroad
Bills through So as to Look
after Other Matters.
cry ASSOCIATED PREsa1

WASHINGTON, Dec. Admins
traitor leaders were planning Thurs
day to hurry President Wilson'S rail
road legislation program through
Congress, as amendments to the pend
ing bill to increase the membership
OF the Interstate Commerce Commits
House and now are awaiting action
in the Senate
Adoption Of such a plan, they be-
lteve, would save several weeks OF
work if an entirely new set Of bills
were introduced.
Not all of the leaders have agreed
to the plan but strongest pressure Is
being brought to bear for it.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-08
Sore Throat Dor1,fs

When the children have sore throat,
don't blister their necks with lamp oil.
Don't torture them with a foul smelling
piece of fat meat, wrapped about the neck.
Don { imagine there Is medical virtue in
an old aockor piece Of red flannel. Don't
believe In antiquated superstiions.
"a sore throat is a serious matter and is
not to be healed BY such make believe rem
edies. The u .es of such methods is
simply putting the patient to need -IsF
less torture. Use al little sore throat
wisdom and give them TONSILINE III
and the throat will heal quickly. ia
25 cents and 80 cents. Hospital ID
Size S1.0O. an Druggists. IA
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-08
VILLA NOT THERE.
-tnrE AsancIArEn -paresl
Times.

WASHINGTON, Dec. Doubts
that Villa himself was in Chihuahua
when the city was taken from Car
rama forces rs was reported have
been raised by a story of a deserter
from Villas band, who says the ban
dit chief directed the fighting BY teIe-
graph from Busil1os ranch near Chit
huahua. HISTORY was forwarded TO
the war department Thursday.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-08
Married in Kansas.

Word has been received here or
the marriage in Topeka. Kan, on No
yen1ber 20, or Miss Pearl Pratt for
merly of this city, to Earl u. McCau-
ley. Mrs. McCauley, who sister Of
Miss Nell Pratt, OF 414 Lee street.
was formerly employed with the
Watta-L Am herd Company and she
has d lost of friends ID this city. She
left here iii September to 60 to To-
Deka to accept position with q big
concern there.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-08
INDICTED FoT. MURDER.
thH AeaocIArE. ,PEEEa1

OsSIPEE. Inv. Hi. Dec. S.-Freder-
lex u. Small, formerly Boston
broker, was indicted for murder by
Small, who was stranglcd, shot and
beaten to death in her home here,
which was burned in an attempt to
conceal the crime September 29 last.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-08
CONTINUED on page Sd
AMERICAN killed
BY Villa Bandits According 10 q
Telegram Received iii
Ell aso, Tex.
tsT AseeeIArEp RREss1

Ell PASO, Dec. 8.-Howard Gray,
an American mining man at Parral.
November 5, according to u telegram
received Thursday by the AIvarado
Mining and Milling Company.
a messenger who arrived from Par
raI shortly after the telegram was
made public said Gray was hanged
by order Of Villa.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-08
SHED is BURNED.

BRUNSWICK, Md, Dec. S.A large.
part Of the huge transfer shed Of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad here was
destroyed by fire OF unknown origin
Thursday. Eight loaded freight cars
and large quantity Of merchandise
on the platform also8were burned. The
railroad officials are unable as yet to
estimate the loss. but it Is thought to
be heavy.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-08
MRS. KNAEP DEAD
Widow of Former Director Of
the Associated Press is a
Victim of Pneumonia.
az AsGoelATEo gREsn

WATERLOO, Ia, Dec. Mrs.
Frances Knapp. GA years old, widow of
Charles w. Knapp. for many years .
director OF the Associated Press, died
of pneumonia here Thursday at the
home Of her daughter, Mrs. Guthrie
Mcconnell. Charles w Knapp died
in New York last January shortly after
becoming treasurer OF the New York
Times
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-08
/. AD,JUDGED INSANE \. 3.
cunningham

Martha Cunningham. aged %.
years, OF Sardis, was adjudge insane
Thursday by; the county lunacyl com
mission and her brother. ELL Moore.
took her to the state hospital ct Wes=.
ton IN the afternoon.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-08
TAyLoR Is DEAD.
,nr 4. eelhrkn : naap,

SPRINGFIELD. o., Dec. 81 Jesse
Taylor, director general OF the Ma
tional Highway AsBo citation. OF Wash
fnKton, D. o., and president of the
Ohio Good Roads Federation, died
at his homo at Jamestown, o., near
here. early Thursday. Of fBright's dis
ease.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-08
I. Z. ]. . = : I. I. = I. :. I. = !, + Z
OFFICIAL DOG CATCHER
IN CITY OF DES MONIES.
az ASSOCIATED PRraai

DIES MONIES, Ia. Dec. 81.
Taking cognfzance Of a council
mans assertion that the mum
Der Of dogs in Des Moines
boosted the cost Of living, the
city council Thursday voted TO
appaont an official dog catcher.
The Political Equality Club, an
organization devoted to woman
suffrage, met Thursday to form
a boycott against butter and
eggs.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-08
SWlTZER is UNABLE
TO FILL ENGAGEMENT
MARRIED n COUNT HOUSE.

James p. Martin and Mrs. Anna
Gray, both colored. were married.
before noon Thursday IN the
court house BY the Rev. w. T. Ken
nedy.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-08
GrARDlAN QUANTITIES.

Felix D. Sutton has qualified as
guardian of Virginia CottrilI with
bond at 5000 and Amanda Cottrlll
surety.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-08

orphan and wanderor. Miriam Fell
Hart will be heard IN this drama at
the Christian church Friday evening.
December 8,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-08
COURT SATURDAY..

There was no session OF the county
criminal court Thursday. The next
session will be held Saturday morn
ing. There will be no more jury
trials until Monday.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-09
GIRLS MAY ENTER
THE KITE CONTEST
Each Boy and Girl Must Make
Own Kite, According to
Rules of the Game.
FINAL MATCH SEPT. 80

Girls are to be included in the kite
contests to be held at the public play
grounds during this month. Boys and
girls of the fifth and sixth grades will
be in class B, and those of the seventh
and eighth grades will be eligible for
class A. h'
Elimination contests will be held
at the Fairgrounds under direction OF
Supervisors and the winners of the
Wlocal contests will compete for the
city championship at Elmwood park,
September 80.
Loving cups will be awarded. the
winners OF the two classes and to the
owner of the best constructed kite:
The following construction rules
Have been issued by Superintendent
English: Each boy Or girl must make
their own kite. Class A kites will be
thirty inches in height; class B, TWEEN
NV inches These kites shall be of plain
Fsurface. Paper or cloth may be used,
but tissue paper is advised. French
tissue paper is best, but Chinese It's
+ sue paper is stronger. If you use
cloth, cambria is the best. The tails
~of these kites offer an opportunity
for added decorations. -.
These rules will be observed: Each
boy may have one helper. He may
have as start 100 feet of string and
& will let his kite out for one-eighth
OF a mile, or 220 yards. At the end Of
which he must rewind ndbring i'll his
kite. The boy who succeeds best in
this event wins the first prize. Each
contestant must stay in his or her
lane, NEa
II. Diplomas will be issued to the Sec
ond, third, fourth and fifth winners
of each division. ,o.. s
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-09

"Boy" is home again, and Helen
Meyer, his little crippled mistress, is
as happy as she can be. When the re-
porter for The Bee heard that Boy
had been returned he went up to see
Helen at the Saunders school, Forty
first avenue and Cass street; she was
Studying about Central Africa" and
couldn't spare much time for an in
terview, but when she saw boy" and
found out that the picture man
wanted to take her picture she came
out on her crutches with broad
smile on her face. ~
BOY" who has not been feeling
well since he came home, ran up to
her, offered to kiss her with his cool
black muzzle, and settled down con-
tentedly on her lap when she took a
seat. ."Boy" loves Helen and her
mother and father think that his con-
science is hurting him to make him
look and feel so respondent
Jack Meyer, her, father, did not
really think-it would do any good to
advertise for the dog, but a friend
told him that it was the surest way
of finding the dog and he took a
chance" and is glad he did. Mrs. M.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-09

Guinane, 1928 Parker street, had been
watching the papers for a lost ad-
vertisement since Sunday, when
| Boy followed her from Forty-first
and California streets,
Later when she found out from
the news columns of The Bee that
little Helen was cripple and the
dog was a present from her dead
brother she was only too glad that
she had been able to return the dog.
Jack Meyer looks on the return
of BOY" as turn in the bad luck
that seems to have pursued him and
the family ever since Helen was
stricken with infantile paralysis, nine
years ago. He has spent most of the
money he received for work as a fire
man in efforts to repair the damage
to Helen's limbs. Then his wife has
we'll, and last spring little 5-year-old
been sick, the children have not been
Jack. junior, died, and only about a
month ago the father, himself, was
almost run down by an automobile
while on his way to work. m.
"But getting Boy back seems
mighty good to us. Helen was just
breaking her heart about him. Now
she can go to school without any
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-09
Y. N. c. A. Boys Hitting "a
Stony Wav These DAYS

The Young Mems Christian asso-
citation boys are stepping off" tread
ing the stony way, the downward
path, the slippery road.
About $500 of them each day tread
this stony way, according to the fig
ures of E. F. Denison, general secre-
tary, and SO frequently do they do so
that the stone steps in front of the
door nearest Seventeenth street is
fast wearing away. The slope of'the
worn stone steps is, so great there is
danger Of slipping. sa
The building committee Of the "Y"
is seriously. contemplating the con-
struction Of steel steps to supplant
the stone ones, because they are tired
of buying new steps every year or So.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-09

sadness mixed in with it, She is a
very good student and is quite an
artist" said Mr.. Meyer. Her teacher
confirmed her excellent record in
school and her ability with a pencil.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-09
Associated Retailers
---- Will Elect Officers

s The annual election of officers and
directors of the Associated Retailers
of Omaha is to be held the evening
of September Ia at the Paxton hotel
following dinner at 6:l5.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-09

ing rapidity. The story throughout
to an unusual extent in fiction of its
kind is colored and intensified by
emotion. The mystery develops in
the first six pages, and with increas-
ing pressure drives forward to its as
founding conclusion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-01
GOOD RESOLUTIONS

NUR most popular indoor sport to-
day, aside from wishing our
friends "the same to you, and
many more of EN-" is the making of
good resolutions for the New Year.
We can think of no more harmless
amusement nor one more calculated
to give us a good opinion of ourselves
or brighter outlook upon the world
in general than this method of cele-
brating the advent of another twelve
month period.
Take smoking, for instance. We
arise early, look about for some new
resolution to adopt. All, glance at
the pipe we left regretfully half
finished on the dresser when sleep
overcame our desire to smoke last
night, and the resolve springs full
grown into being. Wen kill two
birds with one stone; make resolu-
ton and abolish a bad habit at one
fell swoop. To think is to act No
more smoke-nope, not for us: and
we start down town refusing cigars
and cigarets right and left, observing
incidentally the fact that everybody
on the way appears to have filed his
rockets full to overflowing with the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-01
VISITING THE WAR BRIDES
The Chemical Industry
By Frederic J. Haskin

rs America going to have dye in
dustry after the European War?
This is question which has
been the subject of a great deal of
speculation, both verbal and financial.
The men with capital are beginning
to see the results of their enterprise,
and the man of words is able to get
a pretty good idea as to the prob
ability of an American dye industry
surviving the European peace.
In the first place, the American
market for the dyes does not afford
n great opportunity, for our total
annual consumption of them is only
worth about SIS, 100000 and includes
an almost infinite variety of shades
and chemical compositions An eX-
pert estimates that to develop an Am
erican dye industry capable of sup
plying all American needs would cost
$50, 100000, and he does not believe
the United States, despite Its present
abundance of capital has eighty mill
lions to invest in fifteen million
dollar business,
The opinion of this man, and prob
ably of Il good many other profess
sional chemists, is that the industry
of making dyes in this country will
be strengthened rather than expand
ed. The United States will produce
more of the dyes used by American
manufacturers and Will produce a
somewhat greater variety. But of the
numerous factories that have sprung
up since the breaking out of the war,
only few can survive the matured
and experienced competition of the
German, Swiss and English factories
The chemical industry in the
United States is certainly fourishing
root and branch at present. Much of
its prosperity, however, is based upon
the European demand for acids to be
used in making high explosives, and
that is a demand which, of course,
cannot last. Some factories, which
were organized and equipped to take
advantage of the so-called dye op-
portunity, have turned instead to the
manufacture of these materials of
war. Thus one concern, recently
organized and having an apparently
precarious hold on existence as a dye
factory, was reported to have obtained
an order for $6,000,UO0 worth of
picric acid.
There are, roughly, three stages in
the chemical industry between the
raw material and the finished dye.
In the first place, from coal tar and
other by-products are made what are
called the primaries" the crude
chemicals which are the basis of all
dyes.
The conversion of these primaries
into the Intern ediates which COM
prise some 1900 chemicals. is a separ-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-01

ate industry, and the making of the
hnlshed colors from the intern ediates
is yet a third. The Pittsburgh fac
tories, described in a recent article OF
this series, are devoted almost en-
tirely to the making of primaries, OF
crude chemicals, and especially to
the high explosive acids at present
Along the Atlantic seaboard and ad-
1acent towns, the intermediate and
final stages in the conversion of by
products into dyes have undergone
an almost equal expansion.
The intermediate business has
grown from one of $4,000 to
about S15,000,000 in a single year
There are about ten factories, OF
which eight are new. Likewise, in
the making of finished dyes, there
were five factories before the war
broke out, and there are now fifteen.
1t is upon these, of course, rather
than the less specialized factories
that the heaviest strain of European
competition will fall
The popular idea that the superior
skill of the German chemists has en-
abled them to successfully build up
a by-products industry which the
United States in its young wasteful-
ness has overlooked, does not find
much favor with American chemists.
lIuS, lHeIe may De just q JOuCn OF
professional bias in this point of
view, but it seems TO be true that
Americans have manufactured the
chemicals which they were able to
produce with profit, and have
neglected the dye industry chiefly be-
cause 1t did not seem to come into
that class. The Germans have al
ways found ready market for their
primaries and Intermediates in Eng
land and Switzerland wnere a large
proportion of the finished dyes have
always been made The Americans,
however, had no similar market close
at hand and could not manufacture
the dyes cheaply enough to compete
with the English and Swiss trade.
Benzol is an example of a chemical
of which manufacturers In this
country have manufactured 90 per
cent. of the American supply Benzol
is the basis of nitro benzol, which IS
the material of aniline oil used in
several dyes. The American manu-
facturers found that they could make
benzol in large quantities. but that
the dye industry did not offer a suffi-
ciently wide market for the product
Accordingly, they develop the use OF
benZol as a solvent in paints and
varnishes, and also it is used in the
rubber trade for making rubber ce-
ment. 1t is notable that the Germans,
with all their boasted ingenuity
never thought of either of these uses
for benzol until the Americans had
taken it up.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-01

best smelling Havanas 1t has been our
pleasure to Whit for many a day.
At noon comes the first real test,
and If 1t were not that we had figured
out along about 10 o'clock that in
three years we could save the price
of an automobile by giving up the
weed for good and ALL we might have
yielded to the temptation to take just
draw or two-break off gradually,
as it We're. But no. we are firm in
our resolve, and go back to the Of
flee, smelling perfectly delicious cigar
smoke at every step. Confound it,
why does everybody persist in blowing
1t in our face?
Around about o'clock we remem-
ber having read that to break away
from the nicotine habit suddenly is to
do violence to the system, with dire
results to heart and nerves. We
grow shaky in our resolution. Per-
haps, after all, it might be better TO
smoke moderately for a while, cut
ting down slowly, so as not to iniure
the health. But the grinning face of
@N'NN "4OSS NibeA We itluSto a
few hours earlier bobs up before the
minds eye, and we set our face sternly
toward duty, resolved to do or die.
We go home to dinner in the even
ing grouchy and ready to fight the
world. The good wife looks at us in
hurt surprise, for the New Years
dinner has taken hours of her time
and labor and it is worth a good word
and smile at least. Finally she
learns that we have resolved to stop
smoking, and, intuitive soul that she
is. she knows our need before we do
ourselves. You're going to do moth
ing Of the kind" says she, land
Johnny is dispatched for his fathers
pipe. You don't dissipate in any
other way" she continues, land as a
man must have one bad habit, prefer
smoking"
Oh joyful words, how sweet to the
soul of us! We protest, mildly, the
while searching our pockets for a
match and soon the home is the dear
old, sweet place it used to be before
we quit smoking.
And so with most good resolutions.
But don't let that deter you from a
day of the exciting sport of temporary
martyrdom.