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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01
SHOPPING GIVES
WAY TO INVOICING
Merchants Are Now Busy Takin1
Annual Account Of Their
Stocks.

Holiday shopping in Martinsburg
according to the expressions of man.
of the leading merchants of the city
was the heaviest for many years If
probably not the largest that has ever
been experienced in the city. and
while this was greatly appreciated
by all of those engaged in mercantile
lines they are also glad that the
heavy rush ended with Christmas
eve as it will now give them time
to turn their attention to the annual
invoice of stocks.
While there was a very heavy rush
during the past few days before
Christmas 1t would even have been
very much stronger had it not been
that many of the people of the city
have fallen into the practice of doing
the bulk of their holiday shopping
early which very much relieved the
rush in the closing days of the sea.
son.
A feature in connection with the
Christmas purchasing OF which many
may not have any knowledge is that
there seemed to be much more
ready cash than there usually Is dur.
ing this period. There were less notes
placed in bank by people to secure
money with which to buy their hol,-
day gifts. 1t is also said that there
were far less number of requests
for credit on such purchases so that
III the last analysis it may be said
that the business during the weeks
preceding Christmas was of a most
gratifying character to the mer-
chants.
This week the invoice season will
be on with wlhirl with many as
most of the merchants following on,
their annual custom will want TO
have everything in this connection
cleaned up by the first of the new
year so that they will know exactly
where they stand. 1t is always ex-
pected that January and February
will be rather quiet months in mer-
camille lines and the coming two
months are expected to be no excer-
ton to the rule. but merchants gen.
orally are anticipating a very nice
run of business during 1915 4s
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01
HOPEWELL GROWING
TO A GREAT PLACE
C. w. Boyer, Jr., Speaks Enthusias-
ticaIly of the New Virginia Boom
Town.

C. w. Boyer, Jr., and Mrs. Boyer,
of Hopewell, Va, are in this county
visiting hsi father and mother, Mr..
and Mrs. G. w. Boyer, of Bunker Hill,
and other relatives and friends.
Young Boyer located at Hopewell
when it was town of a few houses,
associating himself with the interests
of the Misses Eppes, who owned all
OF the real estate from which that
city of $4,000 souls has grown in
about one year, and is making good
The lands upon which Hopewell is
through an original grant from Char
les |, of England, associating there.
with early history of this country.
Mr. Boyer says, that contrary to
the current opinion, Hopewell that
has been made to boom and grow
by the du Pont Company which is
manufacturing explosives there on a
uoSt extensive scale, Is laW-aDldlng
quite up to the average town in the
United States at this time, that the
wild west style obtained for the first
few months has been entirely clint
mated and that business is most thor
oughly established. He says that
from the ruins of the awful conflagra-
ton of a few weeks ago, new and
substantial town is being built, ono
that will be a credit to the Old
Dominion state. He says that never
in his life has he experienced such
abundant prosperity, such an extra
ordinary opportunity to make money
in all lines of business as in Hopewell
the past IL months.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01
SUNDAY
FOR OKLAHOMA
DR.. Fred 3. Shepherd Goes to Pau
huska to Assume Fine
Position.

One of Martinsburgs most active
and capable young business men, DR..
Fred p. Shepherd, left Sunday even
ing over the B. & O. for Pauhuska,
Oklahoma, to assume the position of
manager for the Usage Drug Com
pany. DR.. Shepherd, though young,
by virtue of education and experience
and especially because of personality
is especially well fitted for the posi-
ton, which his friends here feel con-
fident he will make such showing as
to rapidly forge to the front in that
progressive southwestern commun-
ity.
With spirit of the holiday season
his very many friends send with him
their hearty good wishes for prosper
ity and good health to him and his.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01
FRENCH PRIZE COURT
CONDEMNS SOLVEIG

WASHINGTON Dec. 2s.-The
steamer Solveig. owned by the Amer.
lean Transatlantic Company, has been
condemned by the French prize court
The owners will appeal.
Flying a Norwegian flag, the Sol
veig was seized while in a French
port. Her American papers reached
her Commander a few days later.
Suspected German ownership was
given as the cause for OBTAINING the
vessel.
Official advices announcing the con.
domination by ap rize court in Ham
burg, Germany, of the American sail
ing ship Pass of Balmaha reached
the State Department yesterday. The
Department will take no action in
either case until it has been passed
on in appeal.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01

most congested section and the choic-
est residential section in each of these
1.-TWO communities.
Commenting upon these findings the
report says: THE more favorable the
civic and family surroundings and the
better the general conditions of life
the more clearly are they reflected in
a lessened infant mortality"
The report shows however that no
deductions can be made about the
relation between the general infant
mortality rate and Industrial employ
.ment of women until the facts about
the number and proportion of mothers
at work contained in the unpublish.
ed census returns are made available
by tabulation.
This tabulation is especially i'm
portant to the studies of the Chill
drens Bureau. Among the subjects
OF study which the law directs the
bureau to undertake are infant NOR
tality. the birth rate, orphanage. and
desertion, all requiring information
as TO family structure. For 1890, 1900,
and 1910 this information was secur-
ed, but the material has not been tab
ulated because there has been thus
far no public demand for it such as
secures, for example, the comprehen-
sive information regarding manufac.
lures furnished by the Bureau ofthe
Census every five years. The census
officials fully realize its value. but
neither the Census Bureau nor the
Children's Bureau has funds to make
the tabulation that would render this
body of human facts available for
use"
Meanwhile the Children's Bureau
is pursuing its inquiry into the rela-
ton of babies deaths to wages and
social conditions believing that the
inquiry will prove increasingly yallI.
able as stimulus to more active pro-
lection of the youngest and tenderest
lives throughout the nation
Such practical results have already
followed the inquiry in two communi.
ties as the securing of infantwelfare
nurses, improving the milk supply
and rousing community interest in
kindred activities.
The bureau also approaches the
problem of infant mortality in a con.
Istructive fashion through two pamph-
let's entitled Parental Care and Infant
Care which are sent upon request to
individual mothers.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01
RECEIPTS SHOW
LARGE INCREASE
Postoffice Did 81.57 More Business
Than Last Season-Early Mail
ing In Evidence.

The receipts at the local postoffice
show an increase of $S1.57 over last
year. In some respects it was rath-
er peculiar season during the five
days preceding Christmas. Monday
was the biggest day of the week.
Tuesday showed up well, but We'd
nesday and Thursday there was a
decrease. Fridays receipts were up
to the standard.
This record shows that the CAM
paign inaugurated by Postmaster
Thompson to have the people Mail
Tarly' had salutary effect, as the
first two days of the week showed
the largest receipts. The postmaster
and clerks worked together in COM
plete harmony and the result was
that every package was delivered on
time, and those who were to receive
presents had them in ample time for
Christmas.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01
SAVES DAUGHTER
Advice Of Mother no Doubt Pre-.
vents Daughters Untimely End.

Ready, KY" was not able TO dc
anything for nearly six months" writes
Mrs. Laura Bratcher, OF this place, land
was down in bed for three months.
cannot tell you how | suffered with
my head, and with nervousness and
womanly troubles.
Our family doctor told my husband he
could not do me any good, and he had
to give it up. We tried another doctor,
but he did not help me.
At last, my mother advised me to take
Cardui, the woman's tonic. ! thought
il was no use for was nearly dead and
nothing seemed TO do me any good. But
took eleven bottles, and now am able
to do all of my work and my own
washing.
think Cardui is the best medicine in
the world. My weight has increased,
and look The picture OF health. f"
II you suffer from any of the ailments
peculiar TO women, get bottle of Cardui
today. Delay is dangerous. We know
It viii help you. for il has helped so
many thousands of other weak women
in the past so years.
At all druggists.
Wyits 10: Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ladies'
Advisory Deut Chattanooga. Tenn. for SssefaI
lssfysefiens on your case and R4-page book, Home
Treatment for Women In PLAIN wrapper. NC. las
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01
Tomato Fritters

Take one pint of stewed tomatoes.
one--half of a teaspoonful of sugar,
and a palatable seasoning of salt
and pepper. Bring to the boiling
point, add one tablespoonful of but
ter and the same amount of -four.
rubbed together to paste. Stir un-
til thickened. cook for five minutes
and pour over four slices of stale
bread. Let soak we'll on one side,
then turn. Beat one egg enough to
mix, dip the slices in it and then in
dry bread crumbs. Immerse in smok-
ing-hot fat, drain and serve hot
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01

of his war policy, summed mp by the
experts as wearing the enemy down
by "attritlon," which Joffre calls nib
bling" Naturally this policy will be
in force so long as Joffre is in the
saddle. France made three heavy
drives at the Germans during 1915, in
March, May and September, but these
drives were all feelers, | am told, to
test the strength of the German line.
The French soldier will tell you that
French man-power will outJast Ger
man man-power, thanks to Joffres
nibbling: that sooner or later the
German wall of steel will prove to be
imitation; and following feeler the
real drive will pour through the hole
thus made and end the row.
A Berlin interview quotes General
Won Kluck as forecasting a drive to-
wards Paris next spring. A French
general told me that he hoped Won
Kluck was right as in that case the
slaughter of Germans would be on
such vast scale that the whole
world would gasp. used as it is to
baths in blood Those who have in
speeted the some 50-mi1e width of
American barbed wire between Paris
and the front, while not doubling that
another attempt is possible, or even
probable. fail to see how it can sue
coed.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01
WEAK, WEARY WOMEN
Learn the Cause of Daily Woes and
End Them

Learn the Cause of Daily Woes and
End Them.
When the back aches and throbs,
When housework is torture,
When night brings no rest nor
sleep,
When urinary disorders set in,
Womens lot is a weary one.
Doans Kidney Pills are for weak
kidneys.
Have proved their worth in Mar
tinsburg.
This is one Martinsburg woman's
testimony:
Mrs. William Westrater, 1902 N.
Queen ST., Martinsburg, says kid
ney trouble came on me gradually.
The kidney secretions were unnatur-
al and annoying. l had dizzy and
nervous spells. My back ached and
| had a dull, dragging pain over my
loins. Doan's Kidney Pills relieved
me, driving away the pains and re-
moving the dizzy and nervous spells.
My kidneys now act regularly and
the kidney secretions are natural"
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills---the same that
Mrs. Westrater had Foster-Milburn
Co, Props, Buffalo, N. Y.--Adv.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01
NAVAL EMPLOYEES
GET WAGE INCREASE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-A major
ity of the $4,000 employees in gov
eminent navy yards, shops and sta
tons will receive increases in pay
beginning Jan. /. Secretary Daniels
has made this announcement in
making public the results Of hearings
recently conducted by the navy de-
partment at which committees from
ten yards made statements and scores
of written arguments were present
ed, preparatory to the fixing of new
wage schedules, as required by law,
at the beginning of each year.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01
PRISONERS GIVEN
SPLENDID DINNER
Deputy Sheriff Miller Treats Those
lncarcerated in the County Jail
to Fine Meal.

At the county Jail Christmas Dep
uty Sheriff Miller gave the prisoners
their usual dinner, which consisted
OF turkey and all of the delicacies
of the season. The Greek-American
candy kitchen also sent a large con-
signment of ice cream and cake,
which has Reen their custom since
beginning business in the city. While
there was no special celebration at
the Jail. the prisoners were given a
dinner of the rarest kind.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01
Mr.. PearreII a Visitor.

Mr.. Isaac A. Pearrell, OF North
Mountain, was a business visitor to
The World Office today. He has Civ
en- up active farming. He says he
has been subscriber to The States.
manDemocrat, in it's several titles
beforetime, for many years. For the
past year he has been travelling very
considerably.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01
ADMITS PosToFFlcE ROBBERY
Negro Charged With Murder Trice
to Establish Abb.

John Brown, the negro who is in
Jail at Hagerstown charged with muir
dering Mrs. Susan Dixon, near Mount
Briar, Thursday night, according to
officers, confessed Monday that he
robbed Eakles Mills postoffice De-
cember IT. Postmaster Clayton O.
Eakle had kept the robbery quiet.
Brown claims the $40 gold certificate
he spent the day after Mrs. Dixon
was murdered was taken from the
postoffice and did not belong to Mrs
Dixon, Postmaster Eakle stated
only $10.61 was stolen from the post
Office.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01
Charles Hartman Killed BY Cars.

Charles Hartman, aged 35, Balti-
killed in the yards at Keyser, w. Va.
Sunday having been caught between
cars while coupling. Surviving are
widow and four children. His
father w. Hartman, was killed by
a falling tree. and four brothers have
been killed in accidents.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01
GET N|TRATES FROM
AIR, URGES cROz|ER
CHILEAN Supply Might be Cut Off in
War, Warns Ordnance
Hhiaf

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-To free
the United States army from its de-
pendence on Chill for nitrates for the
manufacture of explosives. Brig. Gen,
Crozier, chief of ordnance, in his
annual report, says the government
should develop the electrical process
ses of taking nitrogen from the air.
The Chilian fields might be cut off
in time of war and a store of sodium
nitrate piled up against sudden
emergency would not last any consid-
Ierable time.
More liberal handling of contracts
with private munitions plants is
urged to insure an adequate source
of supply in time of need. The "ac-
cident of circumstance" the general
says, has greatly increased American
munition plants since the outbreak of
the European war.
On account of lack of funds, the
year showed no increase except in
field artillery, in reserve equipment
for the mobile army of 100000 men
estimated as Immediately necessary
in time of war, the report says.
Study of lessons of the European
war, the report says, has shown the
necessity of increasing the range of
heavy and light guns and of pro-
lviding more machine guns.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01
Or. Porterfield Here.

DR.. Allen w Porterfield, professor
OF German in Bernard College, New
York, and wife, are visiting friends
and relatives in the city and county.
Today they are at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. John w. Sperow, West King
street. This evening they will leave
for Cleveland, Ohio, where the doc.
tor will attend an educational meet
ing. and from there they will return
20 their home
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01
PASSES FOR 1916 ARE
DISTRIBUTED BY 3. G. o..

The nasses for the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad company for 1916 have
nearly all arrived here and only a
few of the employees on this division
have failed to receive them. The pass.
es are about the same as usual ex.
cepting a slight difference in color
of the card board as an aid to the
conductors and train auditors.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01
Ink Japan and Amerloa.

TOXIC, Dec. PA wireless station
is being erected at Honolulu, which
will link Japan and America by
wireless telephony. ii was announced
by the American Telephone company
today.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01

Fer baby's Group. Willie's daily
cuts and bruises, mammals sore
throat, Grandma's lameness-Dr.
Thomas Eclectic OiI--the household
remedy. 25c and SOC.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01

The need of developing standards
OF rural child welfare, physical stand
ards for children in industry, and
standards of law for the protection OF
all children, is the keynote Of the
third annual report of the Chiliren's
Bureau Of the u. 5. Department OF
Labor inst made public.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01

Imitation ivory is obtained from
the nut of a kind of palm which
grows in South America.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-01

fign Dearn RATE among Babes.
No one knows how many fathers
or how many mothers there are in
the United States. No one knows
how many mothers are at work for
gain outside their homes" The Chill
dren's Bureau of the u. S. Depart
ment of Labor brings out this fact in
its third annual report made public
today, and says that it is impossible
to determine the relative Importance
OF the high death rate among babies
OF working mothers until we know
how many mothers there are at work
in industry.
The Childrenis Bureau is conduct
ing a detailed inquiry into the social
and economic causes of babies
deaths. The present report shows
that the two items of the inquiry com.
pleted during the past year reveal
an average infant death rate of 134
out of every 1000 babies in a steel.
making and coal-mining town as
against a rate Of 81 out of every 1000
in a residential suburb. An even
greater contrast Is found between the
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-10-05
CIyIN Cop. MEETING
Republicans Will Gather at Town
Hall Friday Night.

Givin, Oct. 3.-(By Nivig.)-A re-
publican meeting will be held at the
town hall of Givin on Friday evening,
Oct. G. Some fine speakers will be
present; also the county nominees,
Everybody is cordially invited to at
tend. We always have fine turn
out at Givin. The meeting is called
at 1880 p. m.
Several families from here attend
ed the fair last week. They claim
it was the greatest treat they have
had in many years.
John X. Butcher, after a siege of ty-
phoid fever, is able to be out summing
himself once more.
Harry Chiffon and family of Blk
ton We're over Sunday visitors at the
parental w. r. Chiffon home.
George Myers Is at he home OF his
father on Grey's Creek. The father
is sery sick with blood poison
Mrs. Daniel Rees of C'ivin has
gone to Oskaloosa to spend few
weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Novak.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-10-05
PROGRAM BY E.C.Y.P.B
Children Are Practicing For Next
Friday Evening 2..:

Davis Corner, Oct. 3.-(By A, CO.
The Elm Grove Y. P B. are practic-
ing on an Interesting program to be
given at the school house on Friday
night of this week. Admission free,
but refreshments of some kind will
be served the proceeds to use to
purchase chairs to be used as extra
seats in the school house.
On Sunday of last week, Mr.. Reed
McWilliams of the Six Mile neigh
borhood, an dMrs. Van Veen's father
from near Beacon visited at the n.
Van Vcen home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Baldwin
visited Sunday at the Alvin William
son home.
Z. b. sWortman expects to have a
sale Of live stock in about month.
Mrs. Priscilla Stratton is expected
home from Canada this week.
Nj. and Mrs. Vance preached Satur-
day night and Sunday at Elm Grove.
The services were we'll attended,
about sixty being out for the evening
service, Sunday.
Our teacher, Miss Blanche Lyle,
will be compelled by i'll health to
give up her school at Elm Grove. We
are sorry to lose her and hope we will
be able to secure some one just as
good to take her place.
N. Van Veen called Sunday at the
Tom Day home to see Grandma
Sopher, who had fall Friday and
was rather seriously injured.
Lacey Consolidated schools had
two days vacation for the fair, so
Miss Hazel Berner came home We'd
nesday evening. Miss Esther Ber-
ner was also at home from her school
work near Taintor.
Miss Josie Baldwin visited recently
at the Otto Meyer home near Eddy
vile,
VIM. Walkers, are enjoying a new
Ford car.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-10-05
GREEK CABINET
REPORTED OUT
KING CONSTANTINE MAY DE,
. CLARE WAR SOON.
THE DETAILS ARE KEPT SECRET
Dispatch From Rome Declares Greeks
Have Been Massacred by Turks
In Asia Minor VenizeIos
May Be New Premier.

London, Oct. 3.--Thc resignation of
rhr Greek cabinet is reported IN II
Central News dispatch from Athens
Another Athens dispatch says mego-
tiationS between the entente and
Greece are believed to be nearing com
pletiOn. An agreement already may
have been reached, it adds, but is he
ing kept secret pending arrangement
Of details aS in The case of Roumania
Venizelos May Be PremieE
EX-Premier VcnizeIpS looms. as The
only possible successor to the relir-
ing premier, as he is the only one the
entente ministers. seem willing to rec
OGnize.
This. KalegorOpoulOS cabinet was
practically forced out by rhe allied
diplomats, who refused TO recognize
the premier or any Of the ministers.
They refraincd throughout the cab
inetS short-lived incumbency to make
the usual formal visit.
Revolt is spreading throughout fhe
Hellenic kingdom and the allied block
ade is being steadily frightened.
Turks Stay Greeks?
A dispatch from Rome says the
Greek legation there has been adj
ViScd OF Il wholesale massacre of
Greeks in Asia Minor by the Turks,
growing out OF reports that Greece
was about 10 join the entente.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-10-05
COLLEGE GIVEN FARM
Mrs. Mrs. o E Kellogg Kindly Re-
member the quaker School

A farm of one hundred and sixty
acres located in Major County. Okla
EhOma, near the county seat. Fairview.
/ has been decided to Penn college by
Mr., and Mrs. o. E. Kellogg, of 1921
East Grand, Des Moines. President
David NJ. Edwards will make trip
TO Kansas to attend the Kansas Year
ly meeting. and while near Okla.
homa, will visit the farm. Upon his
return the property will be put up
. FOL sale.
MI and Mrs. kellogg intended to
of their children, but when Penn Col
Iege was destroyed by fire, they inn
mcdiately decided to deed the proper
,ty over to the school
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Kellogg are de-
scendents OF a long line of Quakers,
and their gift is the result of the
Quaker spirit which has been instill-
cd in the blood through their lineage.
Mr. Kellogg, was a former student
of Penn, and the son of the late Ira
L. Kellogg, Minister Of the Friends
church and a leading temperance re-
form worker
Mrs. Kellogg is the grandmother
of Lawrie Tatum. a pioneer Quaker,
and the niece of Elwood Tatum
member of 1he second class to gradu-
ate from Penn Cillege, leaving in
1871,