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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26
SPALD|NG
DIES N PEORIA I'LL.
Was Member Of One of
Americas Oldest Cath
olic Families

ID Hh6hNNhAth
PEORIA, iii, Aug. 26.-Archbishop
John Lancaster Spalding, who has been
in failing health for the last two
weeks, died here yesterday afternoon.
The end was not unexpected and
members OF the archbishop's family
were at his bedside. The archbishop
was aged 20 years.
The Most Reverend John Lancaster
Spalding was c~onsecrated Bishop OF
the Roman Catholic Diocese Of Peoria.
Ill, May /, 1877, and resigned because
Of Ill health, September IL, 1905. In
the following May he was created titu-
lar archbishop OF Scypholis.
He was inc Of the most prominent
prelates Of the Roman Catholic church
in the middle west states and received
nationwide notice when President
Roosevelt named him as one of the ar
bitrators to settle the anthracite coal
strike in 1902. He was the author Of
several books dealing with labor top.
les, and also wrote several works on
religious questions.
For two hundred and fifty years the
ancestors Of Bishop Spalding lived in
America, the first OF the name to come
to the new world being a follower of
Lord Baltimore. During the reigns OF
King Henry VIII. and Queen Elizabeth
In England the SpaldIng family was
distinguished for its loyalty to the
Catholic church.
Bishop Spalding was born In Leban.
on, KY, June 2, 1910. He was educat.
ed at Mount st. Mary's College, Gin.
cinnati, O., and then he went to Lou.
vain, Belgium, where he received his
degree of doctor OF divinity In 1868.
After being ordained he went to Rome
for a special course Of study in the Bel.
gian College and in 1865 returned to
the United States prepared for his
life's work.
He was assigned TO the cathedral at
Louisville, KY, and in addition TO mis-.
sionary duties. he acted as secretary
to Bishop Layialle. He remained in
Louisville until 1859 when at his own
request he a charged with founding
a parish for negroes. Before he left
Louisville in 1872 he had built and paid
for a church and parish house for Ro.
man Catholic negroes.
He ESoved to New York shortly aft.
er the death Of his uncle, the Most Rev.
erehd NJ. ]. Spalding, the archbishop
Of Baltimore, and devoted several
years to writing a biography of that
prelate. He served as an assistant
priest at st. Michael's church, New
York, for several years and while IN
this position was appointed Bishop Of
Peoria.
The Peoria diocese under Bishop
%Spalding's direction grew from 81 to
$50 churches.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26
W. F. Ross Dies
at C~larksburg

Grant Ross OF this city today learn,
cd Of the death Of his father w. r.
Ross. of Bristol. which occurred last
night at a hospital in Clarksburg.
Ross was aged II years and was.
a well known G. A. R. veteran, having
been a member Of the Third w Va,
Cavalry during the Civil War. He Is
survived by his wife, three daughters
and five sons. The children are Grant
Ross Of Fairmont; Thomas Ross OF
Columbus, o.; L. L. Ross. W. e. Ross,
Hiram Ross, of Bristol; Mrs. George
Ritter, Of Bristol; Mrs. John Maxon,
of Salem; Mrs. E. W. Harer Of FEEDER.
al Point.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26
TOURNEY
FOR BOYS UNDER IS
Miss Sue Watson Arranging
Matches on Country
Club Courts.

The younger boys OF Fairmont WILL
have a chance to match their skill
against each other in tennis next week.
Miss Sue Watson Is arranging a ten
mis- tournament for boys under sixteen
years Of age, which will be played on
the Country Club courts beginning
next Tuesday. Miss Watson will re.
ceive entries until Monday evening.
The drawing will be made Tues
day morning and the play will start
promptly afterwards. An admission
fec of twenty five cents will be charg.
ed. Some OF the younger boys are
very fast and capable OF playing some
very interesting games.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26
Paralysis Epidemic
Reported on Wave

NEW YORK, Aug. 26.-The number
Of new cases Of infantile paralysis con.
tinues to decrease and in the opinion
Of local health authorities the epidem.
ic is on the wane and may be entirely
extinguished by the time the schools
are reopened in the middle of Sep.
TENDER.
During the "a hours ended at 10 a.
m. today there were only 81 new cases,
the lowest In a month and rs deaths.
To date there has been in all, 7,712
cases in the greater city with 1910
deaths.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26
German Sub Gets
British Auxiliary

LONDON. Aug. 26.-The t~orpedoins
In the North Sea of a British naval
auxiliary with the loss Of % men was
announced officially today. Eighty
seven men were saved.
The torpedoed vessel was the armed
boarding vessel, Duke Of Albany, the
announcement says:
THE British armed boarding vessel
Duke OF Albany vas torpedoed and
sunk In the North Sea on Thursday by
an enemy submarine. The command.
er and % men were lost. Eleven off.
GERS and 76 ratings were saved"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26
Two Are Shot in
B~ootleggers Battle
(By Associated Press)

LYNCHBURG, Va, Aug. 26-In a
battle yesterday eight miles from Stu
art. Va, just across the North Caro-:
lima boundary with alleged bootleg.
gers, revenue agent e. H. Mays was
shot and probably fatally wounded.
William Smith, one OF the alleged
%bootleggers was also shot.
James and Fletcher Smith, nephews
Of the wounded man engaged In the
battle, escaped unhurt. The officers
found a wagon load of liquor in vii.
liam Smiths home and when ordered
to surrender he opened fire.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26
Club Mectinu.

A meeting of the Woman's club is
called for Wednesday afternoon, Au.
gust 30, at the Parish house. The OBJ.
ject of this meeting is to afford an op-
portunity for the presentation of the
names OF new applicants for member.
ship. that these names may be enroll.
ed In the new year book.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26
Mrs 1. R. Haggerty
Was Buried Today

Funeral services over the body OF
Mrs. Lulu r. Haggerty, wife of r. F.
Haggerty whose death occurred on
Thursday morning at her home at
Morgan's Mines, were conducted today
at noon from the NJ. p. church at Ell.
dora and interment was made in the
cemetery at that place by Undertaken
ELI Musgrave and Son.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26
Corn Roast Party,

Misses Jessie and Mary prickett en-
t%ertaincd a party Of thirty.five Of their
friends last evening at a corn roast at
their home on Locust avenue. After
an enjoyable supper games were play.
ed on the lawn until a late hour. A de.
lightful evening was spent by those
attending.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26
Railroad Retains Name.

CHARLESTON, W. Va, Aug. 90
The Kanawha and West Virginia rail-.
-oad acquired by the purchase Of the
Kanawha and Michigan railroad com.
pany will continue to be known by
its old name. and F. B. Sheldon as
vice president will continue his iden.
tity with the road in the 6ame capaci.
ty. The Kanawha and Michigan off.
cials will extend their Jurisdiction oy.
er the new road.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26

Mononsah Wants eame-Manaser
Leeper OF the Monongah baseball team
Is trying to arrange a game with the
Warrington team and will either play
at Traction Park next Sunday or on
the following Sunday at South Side
Park. The Monongah team is out for
the county championship.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26

Condition Improving = Mrs. Rosa
Fleming who had been seriously i'll
from an attack Of heart trouble at
her home on Fairmont avenue is con.
siderably improved and It Is thought
she will recover now. For a time her
condition was alarming.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26

Nicely Makes a Speech-Congress.
man Nicely spoke in the House Of Rep
r~esentatiyes for an hour yesterday on
the record made by the Wilson admin.
istration. Washington dispatches say
the speech so impressed the Demo-
cratic leaders that they will have a
million copies Of 1t printed for dip-
tribution during the campaign.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26
CARD OF THANKS.

To the may friends who extended
their sympathy at the death OF our
dear wife and mother, we are indeed
thankful and sincerely appreciate ..eir
help In this our great bereavement.
BRUCE MORGAN AND
Advt. CHILDREN.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26
Town Talk

Matthew-Rosers Reunion Today-A
number Of local members OF the Mat.
thew and Rogerslfamilies went TO Oak
Grove today to attend the reunion Of
these two families which Is being held
at the Oak Grove Baptist church.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26

Mrs. Barns iII-Mrs. Clara Barns is
critically Ill at her home on Fairmont
avenue. Mrs. Barns had been In de.
Ginning health for a number of months
and had been gradually failing this
summer. On last Sunday she was TAX
en- worse and since that time her con-
dition has been serious.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26

The number of dog licenses issued
amounted to 113 and the number of au.
tos to 414. Both these numbers are
below last years and the city police
have become active to bring in auto.
lsts running without city plates. The
Humane society has worked out a
systematic plan that each section Of
the city will be taken up separately
md all stray dogs eliminated.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26
CityHaIZNotes

City laborers have completed the
Iulbert under the Morgantown avenue
bridge. This culvert will be permit
ted to dry and settle, after which a
new small bridge will be put in.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26
FOR SALE

ron sALE-oyerland Six, new car.
Tools OF all kinds, insurance, Ii.
Dense, all complete. Want to sell at
lnce. Attic @. Atha, Warrington, W.
"a S.26-tf No 1865
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26

Sidewalks are being laid by most all
property owners on East Park avenue
and Morgantown avenue these days
md therelis a prophet at the city hall
who says that by fall all along both
horoughfares will be sidewalked.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26
LOST AND FOUND

bosT-Diamond stick pin between
Roush House and Post Office, Re.
esrd. Call Bell phone 96s.
1885, No 1879
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26

Vaudeville at coIonial-The man.
agemcnt of the Colonial theatre an
nounced today that the bill for next
week would consist of high class vau
deville.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26

Swimming Glasses to cIose-The
three months swimming course, which
the Y. NJ. C. A. has been conducting for
the benefit Of girls and women, will
close next Thursday. This has been
the most successful term ever conduct.
ed by the Y. officials. This term can
not be conducted for more than three
months because of the winter actiyi.
ties which will be started for the men
and boys in September.
Goes Into Business-W. J. Emerson.
who for several years was connected
with the bindery department OF the
Fairmont Printing company, has gone
into business at Morgantown with his
brother in law, ]. NJ. Morris, who for
gome time has been employed in Point
Marion. They will open a periodical
and stationery store in the college
town.
Passenger Train DeraiIed-Train
No. 5 Clarksburg to Morgantown and
Pittsburgh, was delayed at Bingamon
yesterday evening for almost an hour
when the engine jumped the track.
The cause for the derailment is un.
known. Passengers anxious to catch
the C%onnellsville connection here
crossed the river and took the inter.
urban cars to Fairmont. No injuries
resulted. although the fireman jump.
ed when he felt the engine rocking
beneath him.
New Gas WeII-What promises to
be a fair gas we'll was drilled in yes.
terday evening by the Monongahela
Valley Traction company on the John
Veach lease in Lincoln district this
county. The we'll is neal the main
pipe line Of the company and is the
first well on this farm and In practical.
ly a new territory. Preparations are
being made today to shoot the we'll
so that the gas output may be increas.
ad
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-26
Children Cry
FOR FLETcHER'S
GAS RlA
Theft Notice

Parties removing garments from
room in the Jacobs building have been
identified by elevator operator and
unless articles are returned at once,
warrant will be issued for arrest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-16

The order on the streets is as good as that of any town in New England, and educationally and socially the place is the equal of any of its size in the states. There is still large proportion of miners, but most of them are con- nected with the great dredging and hy- draulicking operations, and the indi- vidual prospectors are few. There are many business men and officials. Daw- son is the capital of the Canadian ter ritory of the Yukon, which is one-third as large as Alaska, and 1t isS the resi- dence of the commissioner or governor, and the headquarters of the courts and the mounted police There are plenty of lawyers and doctors, and snow and then tribes of Indians, who come in to the traders.
 The town has dropped down to plain business. The stores have, large stocks of goods; they have most of the trade of the Yukon and some from eastern Alaska. Everyone seems we'll to do. Wages are higher and the cheapest la bor is paid as much as s5 or $6 day The cost of living Is above that of the
 
 25 cents for shine and a like amount for every least thing under the sun. In fact. the smallest coin used Is a quarter and this has been so ever since coins came into the country. For the first few years after gold was dis covered everything was paid for in gold dust or nuggets, and the store keepers had their gold scales, 1pon which they weighed out the cost of their sales. Every miner then carried a gold poke, and took out a pinch of dust to pay for cigar or drink.
 Today the only. place where you can use any coin less than a quarter is at the postoffice. and there the change is morning. The bootblack was a negro whose high chair was seated on the board sidewalk next to barber shop. He blacked my shoes: handed him S1 and waited for change. He went into the barber shop and came back with 75 cents. I got shave and a hair cut and that took the rest of the money. 3ss. .4
 Leaving the barber shop. I dropped into a provision store and asked the grocer his prices. He had some water melons of about half the size of those sold in the states. and sells them at cents apiece and his apples dollar a dozen. Ranch eggs are orth $1 a dozen, and eggs from the outside 75 cents. Chickens are quoted at $3 apiece or sS6 dozen.
 Bread is now selling at the rate Of two loaves for quarter, and butter, made in the country costs $1 pound Milk brings S1.50 gallon and cream is $2 quart. These are prices in sum
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-16

cannot escape him, no mattur wheere you go what do When you leest suspect it he will bob up and sting like the dedy adder, soe you in the sas rum sum ambush with all the venum of polytical rival. The gurl you love-as innosent as yung and tender calf who has not yet been seperated rum the parent stem-and pure Ivory soap-which floats You gloat ovver her purity and buty and under no consideration could be ndused to beleeve that dangur turks in her sosiety-but it theereold King Alcohol has sought asylum in this fair refuge for the purpose of rappng you the koko at the momnt He is present in the tonnick that adds lustur to her crownng glory-her hair. He is hiding in the cosmetticks that puts blush to her cheeks; he is frollicng in the confines of the bay rum that smooths her skin So when you sip the nector of love frum her lips mnguled with the de lteful fragranse of her breth, adened with Hoyts Gurinan and Spring clone, is the fatel sting of the deemun rum, which in aftur yeers may rise up and bite you the leg in the presence of your wife and a large famnlerly before you know it.
 King Alcohol thus intrenched himself before came. He is the original advocate of prepardness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-16

In the days when seemingly no dangur threatened him. when he was in evvery county and presinct the honored guest, when humbul citizen could take on full sized jag without necessarily winning the reputasion as the prize drunkerd in the communnty
 when the mayor could occasion get lit up like naval peerade without cawsing lot of adverse mint.
 When the bar at the tavern was recognized the mecca for respectabull citizens and emmnint poly
 tisians and was not subject to assault and battury frum the central committee of the law and order leegue; antissipating the day would when he would be driven to the trenches, King Alcohol took time the forelock and hid his spies and subjects rite in midst in the verry necessities of life. Graduely he has lost his hold upon state aur state. He been compelled to sound the retreet with his main forses His long ranged guns and heavy artil- lery has captured and destroyed in phases and breastworks that seemed simpregnabul and the vic torious yeels of his ennemies have sounded tho tho land. He holds less than one-half the territory blows, in the nolledge that he still at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-16
UP AND DOWN BROADWAY--By Allen Griffin Johnson

. lEw YORK. July 15.-(special) AN Along the aristocratic avenue, SF,RI opposite the east wall of Cen
 tral park, one sees these sum- N mer days mansion after mansion rred, .bolted and boarded up-silent and |sightly evidence of their owners ab- hce. Long ago did the Morganbiits, B Vanderrocks, and their multimil- .ned ilk agree that to summer in New TX city was to court discomfort, a ng that wealth never does. unless it . the discomfort of others
 DO these people who are keen enough amass and retain millions, lock up and We Fifth avenue palaces because nmer in Gotham is really unbearablet
 they go because 1t is considered the rect social shift or do they in going rely display an ignorance of the sum- comforts, advantages and joys of fir own city?
 faturally, you who do not live here, who receive your impressions at g range. can. hardly Le expected to Herstand conditions as they actually st. You read, for instance, that Mon was the hottest day of the season in
 metropolis. that the humidity was normal, and that there were F deaths m the heat.
 welve deaths among population ap- ximating 6000000 souls would not be high heat casualty rate as would
 death in a city of the 100000 cla<s,
 do you even hear of the millions of W Workers who probably lived through same day with at least. fair degree comfort.
 person spends warm day in com
 it does not constitute a newspaper ory,'' and is therefore not referred to he columns of our great dailies but, the other hand. if, on a hot day, a son leaps to death from the Williams 6 bridge, it is quitep ossibse to so ok up' the occurrence with the hu- ity reports. as to make quite plaus-
 first page paragraph.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-16
DAWSON, ALASKA, IN 1916

prospected in every direction, but so far no such find has been made.
 The location of the city is just where it started when gold was discovered The houses still cover the mouth of the valley of the Klondike river and the east bank of the Yukon north of where that river runs in. They climb the sides of the hills and run far up the Klon- dike to where the mountains of gravel upflung by the dredges begin. The town is laid out like checker board with its streets crossing one another at right angles. The streets are wide; they have roadways of solid earth and sidewalks of boards. The roads are smooth, and the traffic includes auto mobiles and heavy draft wagons There are more than 50 automobiles in use and 25o miles of good country road has been made by the government in the valleys nearby
 The town looks shabby when you first enter it. It has been burned down sev- eral times since the great rush. There are vacant lots here and there, covered with the charred remains of the build ings. Most of the stores are of one story, and log cabins of all sizes are interspersed with frame houses as com fortable as those in the larger towns Tn the states. Scores of the homes have little gardens about them, and not a few have hothouses, in which vegetables and flowers are raised under glass.
 Dawson has some pretentious build ings The administration offices of the Yukon territory are in a frame Struc- ture of three or four stories, surround ed by a lawn as smooth and as we'll kept as that of the White House at Washington. The residence of the gov ernor is a great frame mansion painted bright yellow It looks out upon the Yukon river and it's lawn has beds of beautiful flowers. It has pansies twice the size of a dollar, sweet peas that grow to the height of your shoulder, California peoples and other wonderful flowers. Another large building is the public high school and a third is that which contains the postoffce and customs house.
 The Dawson of today has none of the life of the Dawson of the past. NIt is now a Sunday school town with a dozen odd churches, a city library, women's clubs, sewing societies and afternoon teas. There are still some saloons. but all kinds of drinks, hard and soft. have fallen to 25 cents a glass, and the pa latial bars where beer cost s3 a bottle since disappeared. The songs of the dance halls have been driven out by the hymns of the Salvation Army. and in the hotel where I am staying is Christian Science lecturer who is draw ing large houses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-16

work under covver in all the country he had lost he stood up under the strain with marvellus fortitude.
 We see him rubbing his hands and gloatng the nolledge that he remains in the midst of his ennemies territory while the sed is happy under the impression that such is not the When it to gloating old King Alcohol is theere; he is of feeding gloaters But he gloats too soon; he has reckoned his without dew consideration; he failed to take dew notise of the Alabama leggisa ture, and ennyboddy overlooking the Alabama leg gislature on the subject of Down With the Deemun Rum' has moor think cumming, beeeve us. The Alabama Legislature has fixed old King Alcohol for keeps he thought he would get by with job lot Of little scheems, but nix that stuff His agents and henchmen who laburing under the impression that tneere neearus traffic could continue under the guse of furniture polish hair tonnick and livver reg latur have had heere plans nipped in the bud by of the classes little nippers in the nppng bzness
 Tho causious housewife of the plain but -bbulous citizen is getting wise she his increased in unrest in shaving compounds with suspision; when he indulges too frely in turnips sweet pota-