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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15
(By United Press.)

PARIS, Jan. 12-The Germans lost than $4,000
Sundays onsaught against the French lines in Cham
according to reports describing the the
boodes the allied offensive in September German prison.
confirm the reports that General Emen planned break
through the French n and bend back entire from
Rheims to Verdun.
EARLY FALL PREDICTED.
ROME JAN 1.-THE early fall of Cettenje the Montenegro
capital is forecasted the dispatches confirming the that
the Ausrans have occupied Mount Lewce dominating the
Ceen The evacuation of the city began last Sunday The
arsenal has been dsmaned and everything of military value
removed.
CROWN PRINCE RECALLED.
Unconmed advices from Swiss reported today that
the Crown Prince has been recalled Berlin probably
regency account of the Kaise illness The reports reach
ed Switzerland directly from Berlin.
ELUDES GERMAN SUBMARINE.
BARCELONA, Jan. 12-The British steamer Stafna which
euded German submarine after being chased
the Mediterranean, has arrived here safely.
SEVENTY KILLED IN EXPLOSION.
BERLIN JAN 12.-Seventy persons killed expo-
at munon depot in Lille it officially announced TODAY
The report also said that at least fifty were injured
STEAMER TRAQUAIR SUNK
LEITH Scotland JAM 12-The steamer Traouar has been
sunk by submarine, but the saved.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15
HE'S A MARTlNsBuRe MAN
And What He Says viii Be Read
With lnterest BY Martnsburg
People.

Readers of the Statesman-Demc-
crat all know Mr.. Armstrong.
When he tells an experience sim
ply four your benefit.
There's no room for doubt.
Why experiment with such evil
dence to go by?
If your kidneys need help
Profit by Mr. Armstrong; expert
ence.
Use Doan's Kidney Pills.
What other kidney remedy offers
Maminsburg proof of merit?
A. c. Armstrong, ex-rallroad engi-
neer, 121 NJ Centre St, Martinsburs,
says Most railroad men suffer
more or less from kidney disease
and | was no exception. | suppose
it's the iolting that wears the kid
neys out The kidney secretions
passed too frequently and caused
me great deal of annoyance and
pain. Sides, had a lame back.
had sore spots in the small OF my
back and a severe pain. particularly
when / lifted anything or bent over.
! used different medicines but none
helped me until | took Doan's Kid
mey Pills. They soon put a stop to
the pains and drove that soreness
and lameness out of my back. Ny
kidneys now act regularly"
Price soc, at all dealers. Dout
simply ask for kidney rerhedyTeet
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr. Armstrong had Fos.eI-Milbura
Co. Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15
intervention IS
ASKED BY SENATOR
Sherman, of Illinois, Demands the Es-
tablishment Of Representative
Government.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.Armeo
Intervention Of Mexico by the United
States, the establishment of repre-,
sentative government aud the i'm,
mediate evacuation of that country
after these things have been accom-.
plished were demanded in a senats
resolution by Senator Sherman, OF
Illinois today.
Representative Dyer, OF Missouri,
introduced a resolution in the house
regarding the massacre of Ameri-
cans in Mexico, asking President Viii,
son to ask congress il the "watchful-
waiting" policy should not be ended.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15
THE REV. SCHUMACHER
IS GIVEN POUNDING
BY Members of Christian Church Con-
gregation Last Night at the
Parsonage.

The members of the Winchester
avenue Christian church, 81 i'll num-
Der, were pleasant callers last night
at the parsonage and gave pound
ing" to the Rev. and Mrs. Roy
Schumacher and children, Waneta and
Roy, Jr.
Many useful articles were donated,
including one-half barrel flour, 80
pounds of sugar, ham, canned goods,
cakes, apples and many other edibles
too numerous to mention.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15
4dthQrr communities.

PIKESIDE, Jan. 10.-Messrs. Ashby
Kearns and David Miller have return
ed home from weeks visit with J.
H. Holt, in White Hall, Va.
Mr.. Frank Braithwaite is improving
from an attack of grip.
Mr.. Bernard Fulk. who was housed
up for several days with the grip, is
better.
Messrs. Hoard and Walter Braith.
waite and Perry Grove left yesterday
for Steelton, Pa, to accept positions.
Mrs. John Hess is very sick.
PIKESIDE, Jan. 11.-Mrs. Clayton
Weller was taken very I'll last night
with acute Indigestion. She is lit
tie better this morning.
Siss Myrtle Stout is the guest Of
Mrs. e. B. Fulk today.
PIKESIDE, Jan. 1.-THE Ladies'
Aid Society of the United Brethren
church will hold an oyster supper at
the home of Mrs. Ernest Helm on
January 10Th instead of on the Goth
of January. The proceeds will be u.s.
ed for the benefit of the church. Ii
the weather is inclement, the supper
will be held the following night.
Rev. J. c. Myers expects to begin a
series of revival services at the Unit
ed Brethren church here, January
23rd. The public is cordially invited
to attend.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15
GERMANS LOST 25,OOO|N THEIR SUNDAY
ONS[AUGHTS AGAINST THE FRENCH LINES
THE bLOOD|EST BATTLE SINCE SEPTEMBER

ENERAL Won EINIEN PLANNED TO BREAK THROUGH
FRENCH LINE AND BEND BACK ENTIRE FRONT.
EARLY FALL OF CENTENJEZ, MONTENEGRO CAPT
tai, FORECASTED IN MISUNDERSTANDING OF
MOUNT LEWCEN BEGAN SUNDAY WHEN MILITARY
STORES WE'RE REMOvED-CROWNP PRINCE RECALL
ED TO BERLIN AND MAY SUCCEED THE KAISER.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

from the Carranza ranks after receiv-
ing amnesty, is destroying property
20bmiles west of Santa Rasalia, with
about 40 men, according to reports
received here yesterday.
Mexican consular adyices said that
the recent Agumedo invasion of Com
ez Palacio has been driven back to
the Durango hills. and wire and rail
communication restored.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

telegram from Holmes to officials of
the smelling company asking them
to notify his wife that be had reach.
ed Chihuahua City and was safe.
Whether he was prevented from send
ing further information or supposed
news of the occurrence already hac
reached Eel Paso is not known.
Holmes message aroused anxiety
concerning the fate of the other men
known to have left chihuahua City
for Cushihuirachie. and before the
censorship was imposed, they sue,
ceeded in getting into communication
with mining men in Chihuahua City,
woh furnished the brief details OF
the attack
The Americans, it was said, were
sent to reopen the mines, ON assur-
ances of protection to the smelling
company given by the Carranza gov
eminent through the United States
olaIc DcpdI Luuellt.
List of Victims.
News of the raid caused conster.
nation here, as many of the families
of the men supposed to have been on
board the raided train reside here.
verified list of American min
ing men in Chihuahua was prepared
here from records of Mexican pass
ports issued. This LIST contained IS
names and as Holmes message places
the numebr taken from the train as
IL, it is presumed one remained in
Chihuahua. The list follows:
c. r. Watson, general manager of
the companys mines and head of the
party, has wife living here; w. j.
Wallace, superintendent we'll known
in Chicago, having recently returned
from there to go to Mexico. has fam
lily here; M. B. Romero, married, fam
lily in Ell Paso; Tom M Evans, Ell
Paso; Charles Wadleigh, formerly of
MADEIRA, Chihuahua; Maurice Ander-
son, son of Roland Anderson, of Chi
huahua City; Alec Hall, wife and two
daughters in Ell Paso; r. Fl. McHat-
ton. mother and brother in Ell Paso;
Lorenzo Coy, married, wife in os
Angeles represented Union Iron
Works, of San Francisco; E. l.. Robin,
son, assayer, family lives here;
George w. Newman, wife and two
small children here; Bloom.
wife and two daughters living in Ell
Paso; Charles A. Pringle, formerly of
Hurley, n. NJ; r. H. Simmons,
Anders, H. c. Hace.
Due to Villa Death Order.
The reports of the killing of the
employees is taken by mining men to
mean that IN ALLEGED order issued by
General Villa upon his return from
Sonora and after his family had ar
rived in Cuba, was to be obeyed. This
supposeu oIuef TO XIII all Amerl-
cans loot and burn" had been reiter-
ated by bands returning from Sonora.
Il was this order that is believed to
have reuslted in the death recently
OF Peter Keanes bookkeeper of the
Hearst interests near Madero, Chihua-
hua,s at the hands of Villa bandits.
!. General Rosalia Hernandez, the
Villa general. who recently revolted
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15
GOVERNMENT TO
SECURE REDRESS
KILLING OF AMERICANS BY MEX
ICAN BANDITS CAUSES WAVE
OF INDIGNATION.

WASHINGTON, jan 12.-I ndigna.
ton swept officialdom when reports
reached here of the wholesale mas
sacre of Americans by the Villaists
bandits. Prompt action for redress
has been begun, and plans to pre-.
vent similar occurrences are in mo-
ton by President Wilson and the
state department
The American consular officers in
northern Mexico and in the border
states were ordered to forward all
information concerning the alleged
Staying of the sixteen Americans, who
were taken from a train outside of
chihuahua City and killed. Sharp
and urgent representations are being
prepared to Carranza, whose govern
ment will be held responsible.
Two British Killed.
Ell PASO, Texas. Jan. 12.--Dis-
patches to III. c. Myles, the British
diplomatic agent here, confirmed the
reports that sixteen American mining
men were murdered by the Mexicans.
The dispatch also added that two
British subjects have been murdered,
thus raising the list of dead to eigh-
teen.
Mr.. Myles has received a message
from British Vice Consul Seobell at
Chihuahua, which declared that the
bodies of the victims will be sent to
Ell Paso. Further details of the at
tack on the Mexico northwestern
train indicated that the outrage was
the worst massaure of peaceful fof-
eigners in modern history. The Is
victims were robbed Ut S25, 900 One
report declared that Villa personally
directed the firing squad. This is
not believed, but it is probable that
Villa ordered the attack on the train.
All Stripped for Death.
According to the messages receiv-
Ctf nCt e. luC LIdlll UCdi iti6 tllC 1AHlt1-
leans was stopped by the bandits a,
Kilometre 6S, about 50 miles west of
Chihuahua City. The mining men
were taken from the train, robbed,
stripped naked and lined up along
the cars for execution. Holmes, 1t 10
said, was on the extreme end of the
line. AS the firing squad detailed
BY the bandit leader took position. !,
is said, Holmes broke away and fed
into the desert for his life.
With feet and body cut and bleed
ing from stones and sharp cactus.
he ran without looking Back until he
no longer heard the whistle of bul
let's pass him or the sound of firing
He succeeding in reaching friendly
Mexicans, 1t is reported and was aid
ed back to Chihuahua City.
The first news of the bandit raid
was received here through a cryptic
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS have
been made for meeting of the Cen.
trail West Virginia Coal Operators
Association here January II. SEES.
sions will conclude with banquet
in the Young Mems Christian Asso.
citation building. Lord, OF Balti'
more; Samuel N. Taylor, of Pitts.
burgh, and o. S. Mckinney, of Fair
mont
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

FAIRMONT.-Ordi water wells
in long-settled communities are a
menace to health in report submit
ted to Mayor Anthony Bowen. -Four
fifths of the wells in Fairmont are
declared to be dangerous and people
are advised to quit using them and
to use city water.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

ELLENBORO.-Mayor Alva B.
Moore, of New Martinsville, many
years official stenographer of the
third judicial circuit court, has enter
ed the race for state auditor. Other
entries are Auditor ]. S. Darst and
State Treasurer E. l.. Long.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

BELINGTON.-Trueman Koontz. B.
F. Wilmoth, Jr., Harvey Wilmoth
and 0. M. Foster, all of Belington.
narrowly escaped drowning when a
foot bridge on which they were cross.
ing Tybart's Valley river at Dart.
moor, near here, collapsed and threw
them into the stream, swollen by re.
cent heavy rains.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

HEDGESV1LLE, Jan. 10.-Dr. d. P.
Fry was a business visitor in Mar
tinsburg Saturday.
Mr. James Bodine. of Martinsburg,
spent Sunday here with his another,
Mrs. Margaret Bodine.
Mrs. John Vermilyea is recovering
from an attack of the grip.
Mrs. G. r. Moler, Miss Fanny Ronk
and little Virginia Lands and Master
Charles Ross are among those suffer
ing with the grip.
Saturday evening while DR.. D. r.
Ross was splitting some kindling
wood, a piece struck him in the face
cutting vein in his forehead which
caused a hemorrhage. He was rush
ed to the Kings Daughters hospital
and given necessary attention. He
is much better and expects to be able
to return home today.
HEDGESVILLE. Jan. 11.-Mr. and
Mrs. L. F. Lands are visitors in
MartlnSburg today.
DIR. D. p Fry is in Cherry Run to,
day on a professional visit
JOHNSONTOWN, Jan. 10.-The
folks who have been suffering with
grip are on the mend.
Mrs. Wilson Ashton and children
we're taken i'll yesterday with the grip.
Miss Mollie Bishop, of Ganotown,
spent Saturday and Sunday here with
Mrs. P. T. Keesecker.
MARLOWE, Jan. 10.-Mrs. Gather.
inc LeFevre,. of Hagerstown, is visit.
ing her aunt, Mrs. Sue Ditto.
Misses Alice Houck, Mary Beard
Mr. William Ditton and family, Mrs
Fred LEIGHTON and Mrs. J. S. Barnes
are among those on the sick list
Mrs. j. W. Daily is recovering from
an attack of the grip.
The Methodist Protestant church
will hold an oyster supper at the par
sonage Thursday night. If the wealth
er is unfavorable it will be held the
next night.
MARLOWE. Jan. 11-Mr ]. w.
Emerson is very sick with grip.
Mrs. Dennis Ward and Mrs. Minnie
Wyland are shoppers in Hagerstown
today.
GANOTOWN, Jan 10-Mr David
Slonaker is improving from severe
attack of grip.
Mrs. Cora Kitchen is very sick with
the grip.
Mrs. David Slonaker is very much
complaining with asthma.
Mr.. VIII Frye is very poorly at this
writing.
GREENSBURG, Jan. 10.-Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Tabler were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Ferd Randall yesterday.
INWOOD, Jan. 12.-Miss Evelyn
Wilson is suffering with the grip.
Messrs. r. A. Jacques and J. E. Sci
bert, of Martinsburg, were business
visitors here this morning.
Mr.. r. F. Whiting went to Martins
burg today to look after his business
affairs.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

CENTRAL oPEoUON. Jan. r.
Miss Cora Barrows returned from
Williamsport Sunday.
Misses Helen and Eva Cooper are
spending the week with their sister,
Mrs. Lee Anderson, at Cliff.
Mr.. Lee Hicks was business WIS.,
itor at Winchester Monday.
Judge George A. Whitmore was I'M
able to return to his official duties at
Martinsburg Monday ON account of
la grippe.
Miss Myrtle Whitmore returned
from Martinsburg Sunday after spend
ing several days with her aunts.
Messrs. Julian Cooper. Jr., and Rob-
ert Dennis spent Sunday in Winches-
ter
Mrs. Norten Storch left Saturday
for Relief, Va, on visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Anderson, of
Cliff, spent Sunday with Mrs. Ander-
sons father, Julian Cooper, of this
vicinity.
Mr. Luther Price is home from his
work at WilIiamsport with la grippe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barrows and son
spent Sunday with Mrs Smallwood
at Ridgeway. ' az s~-
Mr.. j. r. Coyle, of Bunker HILL was
a visitor at Henry Payne's Sunday.
LITTLE GEORGETOWN, Jan. TO-
Misses Hester and Mary Catherine
Dugan spent Saturday with Miss Hes
Their Tabler.
Miss Naomi Dugan. of Dry Run,
spent the weekend with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Dugan.
LITTLE GEORGETOWN, Jan. II.
MIR. George Newkirk, of lGreencas-
tie, Pa, is visiting his mother, Mrs.
D Fl. Newkirk.
Mrs. ID. III. Newkirk spent Sunday
with her daughter, Mrs. Clarence Lin.
ton.
DARKESVILLE, Jan. 10.-The Their
inometer reached zero at this place
yesterday morning about s o'clock.
Mr.. Conrad Shanholtz, of Fort Lou
don, Pa, spent Sunday here with
friends.
Mr.. James Wright and wife have ro
turned home from Martinsburg, whers
they spent the past week with the lat
ter's mother, Mrs. Mary Butler.
Mr. Fred Underdonk called on his
best girl Sunday night.
DARKESVILLE, Jan. 12.-Mr
Frank Linebaugh, salesman for My
ers & Company, of Hagerstown, was
"a business visitor here yesterday.
James Walker, colored, killed three
hogs yesterday, the largest tipping
the scales at 500 pounds even, the
other two weighed $40 and $50 pounds
respectively.
Mr.. w. II. Wright is a business Wis
itor in Martinsburg today.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

WELLSBURG.-Fou play being
suspected, Michael Reocki, Servian,
and James Mich, Greek, have been
arrested and placed in the county jail
awaiting further investigation of the
strange disappearance of Mrs. Annie
Wozchik, who has been missing a
week The two men jailed were the
persons last seen with her, and the
woman lately said she expected to
be murdered
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

! BUNKER HILL, Jan. 11.-Mr.
Frank Woore, of Winchester, is a
business visitor in this village to-
day.
Rev. j. w. Fleming is holding evan
gelistics services at the Methodist
church this week
CUMBO, Jan. 11.-Mr. George r.
MoIer was a business visitor here
this morning.
Mr. and Mrs. John Beard. and Mr..
and Mrs. George ID. Sperow and
daughter were visitors of Mr.. ana
Mrs. Champ Payne Sunday.
INWOOD, Jan. 10.-Miss Agnes An
derson, of Martinsburg, spent Sunday
with Miss Grace Shickle.
Mr. Harmon Homer. of Newburn,
N. c., who is visiting relatives in this
section. spent yesterday with Miss
Grace Shickle.
INWOOD, Jan. 11.-IMr. NJ. A. Ma
loney, travelling salesman for the In
ternational Harvester company, was
business visitor here yesterday.
Miss Marie Staub is visiting friends
in Vaudeville, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer HutZler, OF
Washington, and Mrs. Charlie Baker
and daughter, of Martinsburg, spent
Sunday with Mrs. w. A. IButzler.
Mr. John S. Staub has returned
home from a two weeks visit in
Pittsburgh.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. F. Whiting spent
Sunday in Charles Town with w. T.
Whiting and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. M. Sprinkle were
guests of the latter's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Gold CockrelI Sunday.
KEARNEYSVILLE, Jan. 10.-Sun
day evening as Mrs. Helen Cline, OF
Files Cross Roads, and Willis Crow
ell, of Shepherdstown, were return
ing to their home from a social call
on Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. Hoffman, at
"Southwood Farm Mrs. Cline's horse
became unmanageable and ran away,
throwing her to the ground. She re,
ceived serious injuries by being
trampled under the horses feet, and
, DR. Ranks, of Shepherdstown, was
Summoned. She was taken to her
home and a telephone message states
that she is getting along as well as
could be expected.
KEARNEYSVILLE, Jan. 11.--Mrs.
r. A. Fontaine and son, John, of Roa-
II Ike, Va, are here to spend a couple
of weeks with her mother, Mrs. WI
liam Kearfoot.
| Mr.. Kenneth Rogers was a week,
end guest of Raleigh Hoffman
Mr.. John Dorsey and family have
moved to Leetown.
Revival services are being held in
| the Presbyterian church every nighs
this week by Rev. r. v. Lancaster.
Miss Irene Rogers spent Saturday
and Sunday in Martinsburg with her
aunt, Miss Eta Rogers.
GERRARDSTOWN, Jan. 11.--Born
to Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Aikens nine
pound baby boy.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

PARKERSBURG.- MEETING
of the campaign committee of the
Womans Suffrage Association OF
West Virginia held here, plans were
laid to raise a campaign fund of $25,-
600 for the suffrage amendment to
B. Ames, of Boston, and Miss Eudora
Ramsey, of Granville, N. c., were en-
gagged to assist in the campaign.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

ELkINS.-It is said that nearly
five thousand personal letters to Con,
gresham Howard Sutherland, pro-
testing against the government ap-
propriating money for prepared
ness" have been sent him from RAN
dolph county. 1t is also reported
that numerous petitions signed by
various persons and protesting
against the preparedness program
have been mailed him and othes
congressman from this state.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

CHARLESTON. - Nearly all the
important numbering concerns in
West Virginia will be represented in
Cincinnati Tuesday and Wednesday,
January Is and 10, at the annual
meeting of the Hardwood Manufac-
turers' Association of the United
States. Trade extension and co-opera-
ton will be among the matter sfor
discussion and official action.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

CHARLESTON.-Drug users have
become few in West Virginia since
the federal anti-narcotic law went
into effect. Morphine habituals, of
whom eighty-four have been treated
in the West Virginia state hospital
since the law went into effect, were
more numerous than the victims of
any other drug, according to the re-
port made by DIR. IL. w. keatley,
who has the drug cases in charge at
that institution. OF these victims,
forty-seyen We're women Other
drug users treated and cured include
three users of laudanum and one of
gum opium and one of powdered
opium.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

MoRGANToWNt Lynn Hastings,
principal of the Westover public
school, has been appointed county SUI
perintendent of schools by the presi-
dents of the boards of education in
the county to fill the unexpired term
of the late Harry e. Brookover.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15
Happenings Over The State

CHARLESTON will bed ecid-
ed today at a special term of the
supreme court of appeals whether
the city of Hinton, at it's regular
election of municipal officers Tues.
day, January IL, will be permitted
to vote for the candidates named IN
the Home Rule ticket. Supporters
of the new charter for Hinton pro-
vided at the last session of the leg
islature seek mandamus to prevent
the Home Rule candidates from be
ing voted ON. 1t is claimed that the
candidates were not nominated fiji.
teen days before the date of election
as the charter provides under which
the election is to be held
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

CIARLESTON.-A. NJ. Beleher.
counsel for the United Mine Workers
of America, declined to discuss the
story that he will be candidate for
the goyernorship. "My mind is not
made up" he says.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

HUNTINGTON. - Hail Ross. A.
brother of AL Ross, city jailer, mas
decided that he will not stand on
street corner and jingle gold coins in
lis hand any more.
While thus engaged with $120 at
Fourth avenue and Eighth street. a
bold thief slipped up, grabbed the
money and disappeared in an al,.
a posse of police failed to capture the
thief.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

GRAFTON.-Ro broke into
the postoffice at Webster, this county,
three miles from Grafton, Sunday
night and stole almost $500 worth
of stamps, postoffice money orders
apd cash. The federal authorities
have a force of officers working on
the case but clues are lacking.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15

ELKINS.-Thirteen brave boys OF
this city have signed an agreement
whereby they undertake during the
year to undergo the most rigid tests
OF will power that ever a lad has I'M
dergone. They have agreed to es-
chew, tea, coffee, soda water, ice
cream, candy, cakes, pie, pastry of
any kind and chewing gum for the
whole year They will abstain from
these things dear to the boys palate
IL an experiment to show whether
these things have baneful effect on
youth.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-01-15
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLES TRUST co.

Martinsbug the of West Virginia at the close
of business Dec 81 1915 First began business Aug a. 1901
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