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Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20
She Was Rioht.

Fortune Teller-You will marry a
light man.
Woman-That's Tim! He works
for the gas ompany.-Harvard Lam
poon.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20
Jan. 20. 1915.

British troops captured FreyIlng-
huysen.
Russians drove back Austrians In
Hungary and marched on Jacobenl.
Duteh naval patrol boat sunk by
mine, five men drowned.
Governor of Cracow ordered
partial evacuation of the city.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20
Moi LIke Him

Crank-Jaek Speed. our boss base
ball catcher, is playing in vaudeville
this winter.
Fend-Well, judging from his bat
ting average, he won't make hitl
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20
Bones Found In nEool Killer,

Chicago. = The crude submarine
Fool Killer" recovered from the
river bottom few weeks ago, was
found to contain some human bones,
supposed to be those of the inventor.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20
Cold and ApopIexv Eatal.

Pana, Hl.-Overcome with cold and
stricken by apoplexy, Frank Elan,
wealthy farmer of South Pana, fell
dead in his barn lot. The widow and
eight children survive.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20
Killed Under Load Of Grain

Grand Forks, N. D.--Martin w. Ross,
who until year ago lived with his
parents at Whitehall, ILL.,, was killed
under a load of oats which overturned
while he was on the way to market.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20

Just a Spot of Water as Rule.
Mistress What are you going to do
with that sponge?
Cook--To get the piece of ice the
iceman left on the step this morning
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20
Jan. %, 1915.

0ahs So tSiSs
German troops were massed in
Hungary.
Russians made further advance
In the north.
German alrmen dropped bombs
on Dunkirk.
Nine. Grouitch came to America
seeking seeds for SerbIans.
Germans renewed their activity
near Ypres and bombarded left
wing Of allies.
Severe battle In the Arsonne re-
gion.
German supply ship was sunk by
Australian cruiser.
italian Viee-consul at LIege dis.
missed by Germans for aiding Bel.
gians.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20
To Fortify the System
Against Winter Cold

Many users of GROVES TASTELEss chill
bottles in the fall to strengthen and fOrtify the
system against the cold weather during the
winter. Everyone knows the tonic effect OF
Quinine and Iron which this preparation CON
tains in tasteless and acceptable form. II
purifes and enriches the blood aud builds up
the whole system. Soc.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20
Jan. 22, 1915.

Fierce fighting In Hartmanns-
weilerkopf region.
New Russian army neared Prus-
sian border.
Russian invasion Of Hungary was
halted.
German submarine sank 8ritioh
Steamer Durward.
Maj. Gen. Sam Hughes began en-
listing third Canadian contingent.
Russia ordered expulsion Of Aus
trlan and German subjects.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20
piles Cured in 8 70 n Dava

Druggists refund money IL PAZo OINTMENT
fails 70 cure Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrud.
Ing Piles. First application gives relief. SOC
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20

To keep clean and healthy take DR..
pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regulate
liver. bowels and stomaeh.--Adr.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20

The people of country
places, much more than city
folks, are dependent upon
one another. The city man
may, and very often does,
find business and social as
sociates in a part of the
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20
The Reason.

What is Jack Summers fretting
about?"
Afraid his wife can come back"
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20
Function Of the llammer.

FuhctIon o. the Fiammer.
Why do you knock SO? Why are
You always using the hammer?"
Il do It to riyet attention. my boy
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20

Some men are as proud OF their an.
cestors as q selfmade man Is OF him
self
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20
THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Jan. IL, 1915.

JHH. To I5Io'
Allies took German trenches in
Belgium and closed In on Lille.
Russians took klrIibaba pass In
5ukowlna and pushed along right
bank Of vistula.
Germans were pushed back on
Plotsk.
Turkish corps was cut to pieces
In the Caucasus.
Antiwar demonstration In VI
emma; Czech editor executed for
treason.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20
Jan IS, 4e15.

Jan To- 80,
Fierce fighting took place at La
7oisselIe.
Germans occupied KIelce and
Russians fell back to Radon.
Plotsk evacuated by the Germans.
Paris darkened at night by po-
lice order.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-20
True to Life.

True to Life.
I'm always the goat"
That's because you're always but.
ting in."
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
BROUGHT
THIS USER REST
Because Nerv- Worth Gained
and Steadied His
Nerves,

This local Nerv-Worth endorse
ment is worth repeating. 1t was
given some weeks ago to Burke's
Drug Store by Omer darlington, tho
well known Clarksburg merchant:
T had stomach trouble and
nervous Indigestion. Could not eat
fresh meat without 1t distressing me.
Some gases on my stomach which
made me nervous. Poor sleeper,
Jerked and startled in my sleep. Ny
sleep did me little good. Was not
refreshed when I'd get up in the
morning. Have taken one bottle Of
Nerv-Worth. I feel quite n bit bet
ter. Sleep fine. More refreshed and
rested in the morning than l was
ever before. I can eat meat and
most everything now. Ny general
condition Is improved. l recommend
Nerv-Worth as being o fine medi-
Your dollar back at Burke's Drug
Store II Wentworth does not help
Northumberland.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30

1t is about an equal bet that there
will be no aid Of food sufferers in the
Kanawha river region Forthcoming
from the federal government. 1t was
authorized by resolution, but the war
department r~edtapeists seem to think
it is not needed. They quoted Cover
nor Hatfield as saying It wasn't, which
Hatfield vigorously denied. Anyway,
the flood victims will not starve to
death, or suffer extraordinarily. The
state administration saw to that, CIV
ing aid without stint when it was need
ed at once and without delay. They
told Congressman Sutherland at the
war department that there were only
three ways for them to render assist
ance: (1) furnishing seed for planting
there is no need Of that in this case);
(2) furnishing shelter; 80 supplying
food. As shelter, food, clothing, as
we'll as money, has been given the flood
sufferers when they needed it by the
state, and the government will not
reimburse the state, just where West
Virginia gets in under the relief reso-
luton passed is hard to see. 1t will
be remembered that relief for West
Virginia was tackled on to resolution
which appropriated 100000 for succor
of flood victims in certain southern
and Democratic states, and that the
congressman from those states re-
scented it. OF course, politics should
not enter into an appropriation of this
kind, nor in the administration Of the
funds voted, but it is beginning to
dawn on the West Virginians here that
that is precisely what has happened.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30

Under existing conditions nobody
can blame the citizen-soldiers doing
police duty along the Mexican border
wanting to come home, The war de-
partment is swamped with their apDll-
cations. In one day, last Saturday.
the president accepted twenty resig-
nations Of commissioned officers, The
plant Of the men is that they are
tired OF military routine on a peace
basis. They do not longer see the
necessity of keeping over 100000 men
on the border doing nothing except to
indulge in what excitements as watch
full waiting" might supply them with.
They went there to fight If necessary,
but as there is no prospect Of that,
and the president in this case, at
least, has invoked and stood pat be-
hind arbitration, they want to come
back to their families and their Jobs.
If there is no fighting work to do,
they have work Of another kind wait
ing on them. and they need It, So do
those dependent upon their earnings.
This administration would like very
much to have them back in their
homes. but how to get them there
gracefully and save its face, is the
question bothering it. Then, too, there
is danger, a very grave danger, should
the khaki patrolmen doing their beats
along the border be sent back home,
OF President Wilson's old-time friend,
co-worker and presidential choice, to-
wit, emerging from his grave and
raising the particular hades for which
he is deservedly noted. That would
he embarrassing, decidedly. With the
Wilson arbitration commission COM
mtshing, One-time-friend Villa might
be expected to do that very thing. too,
the troops having been called far away
from the Rio Grande.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30

If the railroad strike comes off it
will be virtually civil war; that is to
say, there will be force on both sides.
The brotherhoods will use it and so
will the government be compelled to
to keep the trains moving and the
mails on transit. One-seventh Of the
railroad employees will be on strike,
and the Jobs Of the other siX-sevenths
will suffer interference and curtail-
ment. A nation of one hundred mil
lion people will be victims Of an eco
nomic disaster. A nation and its gov
eminent will be at a dead standstill.
1t might have been settled without all
this by arbitration, but it wasn't. When
all this comes about, II 1t does, and the
government must use force to keep
the mails and commerce Of the people
on the move, the government can find
aid in its policy Of force in a precedent
at law established in a celebrated case
in West Virginia. The we'll remem-
bered Fairmont p~ostoflce clerks
Conspiracy" is the legal incident re-
ferred to, In that case the govern
ment established the precedent, and it
proceeded to the trial of that case with
the object in view Of establishing a
precedent to go by thereafter, that a
government employee couldn't quit his
position II he wanted to, no matter
how peaceably and regularly he went
about to do It. We know that the gov
ernment prosecuted that ase with the
view Of laying down a precedent, be-
cause on the eve Of trying it District
Attorney Walker announced that that
was the purpose which actuated the
department Of justice in the vigorous
prosecution. The alleged otfense In
that case Is not forgotten by any one.
Conditions in the Fairmont office being
intolerable, every attache Of the office
resigned, leaving their resignation
on the desk of Postmaster Manley
along with their keys. They quit com
pletely-walked out, They were in
dicted for participating in a "conspir-
ecy" to retard the progress Of tho
mails, and they were punished. At the
time, the precedent established was
criticised extensively as unsound and
dangerous to the liberties Of the in
dividual. Labor union heads were not
the only ones who inveighed against
such a doctrine. But It stands today
Pg sound before the federal law, new
ertheless. In view of it, the question
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30

KEYSER: The Democrats have
finally filed their county ticket in
Mineral by Nplacing on the ballot for
the House of Delegates James E leps
and /. II. OTner for Justice Of the
peace in New Creek district. Mineral
county Is normally about 500 Repu6-
lican. The Republican nominees who
will oppose the new candidates are:
For the Legislature the present incum-
bent. Delegate S. n, Moore, and for
justice of the peace, James T. Doyle
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
West Virginia Briefs

MONTGOMERY: Passengers on the
Piney branch of the Chesapeake and
Ohio took up a collection to assist an
Italian, unable to speak English, to
his family in New York. The Italian
drew $40 from his pocket to pay his
fare, when a woman seated behind
him, snatched it, swung from the
train and escaped.
CHARLESTON: With a view to
stimulating interest in agriculture in
Mcdowell and Wyoming counties,
where mining has long been the prin-
cipal industry, the West Virginia Geo.
logical Survey and the United States
Department of Agriculture has COM
pleted a survey OF these counties,
Much land in Mcdowell county, it is
said, is adapted to truck raising, and
general farming can be carried on
with profit in Wyoming county.
MONTGOMERY: Andrew Slaught-
er, convicted of bootlegging, created
a IN court When called up
for sentence by displaying a pardon
granted him by Governor Hatfield. The
pardon was dated May rs.
MARTINSBURG: United States
Deputy Marshal E. W. Athey and Spec
ial officer NJ. S. Mcdonald, were
wounded when they visited the quar-
rles of the Standard Lime and Stone
Company near here in search Of Jerro
Nardilli, who is wanted on a charge Of
violating the white slave law. AS the
officers approached a shanty they
were greeted wit ha volley from shot
guns and a revolver. Mcdonald fell
seriously wounded, Athey, who was
only slightly hurt returned. the IRE
but was finally compelled to withdraw,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30

WASHINGTON, August 29.-When
President Wilson wrote his first note
in the railroad strike controversy, that
note which with frank assurance de-
clared that society favored the eight
hour-working day, that it was newt
able, and that his plan for adjusting
the strike controversy proposes that
nothing be conceded except the eight
hour day, to which the whole economic
movement Of the times seem to
point, he was doubtless in ignorance
Of the historic fact that a great SOW
ereign state passed OF that question.
the voters balloting on it directly, and
that it a overwhelmingly rejected.
II happened in California November 3,
1914, and it was a referendum vote on
a proposed eight-hour-work-day law
covering all occupations. The result
was 56O,SS1 against and 2S2,696 for.
OF the Afty-eight counties in California
1t failed TO carry one, In San Fran
cisco the adverse majority was small
est, being 7O,9O8 against to 1888 for.
In Los Angeles the vote was l9S,1Ol
against to 1853 for. That is the only
concrete evidence as TO how the people
in any section feel on this question.
1t has never been put up directly to
them except in California and the vote
on 1t there would not seem to justify
the presidents sweeping assertion that
public opinion favors it by such a pre-
ponderatlng majority that there is no
reason at all to investigate and arbi-
trate it in this case. OF course, it was
a Enthusiastically wild guess on VIII
sons part, and it was the easier for
him to make a bluff statement like that
since he was in Ignorance that in one
state, at least, the question was an
issue which was submitted direct to
the people to vote on. This was a bad
break for a man In his position to
make. 1t has embarrassed his apol-
ogists here greatly, but it is dollars
to doughnuts that they don't as acutely
feel the embarrassment quite so much
as the man who is held responsible for
It. In the double capacity Of head Of
the government and historian by prt-
vate profession, to be ignorant of the
California referendum doesn't add TO
his reputation in either role.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
Mcdonald was brought to a local hos
pital, where his condition is serious.

CHARLESTON: A minimum salary
of SIS a month for teachers holding
frst-grade certificates was Endorsed
by West Virginia school teachers at a
number of county institutes, Other
measures Endorsed we're those proyld-
ing for a county unit Of taxgtlon for
school purposes. permanent road Inn
provement and consolidation Of rural
schools,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30

The Fairmont case is liable to be
heard OF nationally ere long. 1t de-
ponds on whether the railroad troubles
are aired in the Senate, and whether
or not Senator Borah tales part in the
debate. If he does, it is barely pos
sible that the doctrine laid down in the
Fairmont case will be referred to ia
extense. Senator Borah is familiar
with that case, and is not favorable
to such a precedent Of law as was
there established by the federal gov
eminent. He had secured all the
facts in the case with a view to some
day making a speech or the subject.
He is cooked and prImed with it, and
should the opportunity offer, and the
occasion seem propitious, the Fairmor\
case may achieve fame in the national
niche along with the Danbury hatters
and like local cases which attained
countrywide notoriety,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
POLITICAL GOSSIP
AT NATIONAL SEAT

is being asked cannot 1t be applied in
the case Of the railroad brotherhood
men should they so out on q strike?
If so. will the government, should II
come to It, invoke II as one Of Its IN
struments to force the movement OF
railway mail trains2
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30

CHARLESTON: West Virginia
"a mers will soon have thrashed out
100000 bushels Of wheat, according
IN the estimate of Commissioner How
ard y. Williams, head Of the state de-
nartment Of agriculture, Corn has
suffered from bad weather conditions,
and will yield about 2S,5OO000 bushels
rs against. $4,000 600 In 1915,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30

ELKNS: 1t is stated that a deal
has been closed whereby the Western
Maryland railway takes over twenty
five acres of land adjacent to tho new
shops at Maryland Junction, having
purchased the ground from John Mil
Ter. the ground to he used for addi-
tional tracks on the main line and for
establishing a grade which will olimi-
nate helpers" Leaving the Maryland
division.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30

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32-34.9 deg, or. Cad. g
35-87.9 deg, gr. Cad. .'....., 8
3S deg, above or. Cad "".... 9
Caddo crude ............... 6
Canada .,,..........,...... 1.8
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30

MARTINsBURG; Friends have
been treated to a surprise in the an
nouncement that Miss Medora Aler,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs, F. Vernon
Aler, and Thomas ]. Crowie, son of
Or. and Mrs. c. S. Crowie and mem
her Of the Evening Journal editorial
staff, were married August 6.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30

MoUNDSvILLE: James P. Lazier,
musician and painter, dropped dead Of
heart disease at his home on Sixth
street. He was So years old and leaves
n wife and one child. His funeral will
take place at Morgantown, his former
home.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30

WEST LIBERTY: Robert NJ. Bon
ar, ,Jr., one Of the wealthiest farmers
and largest landowners in northern
west Virginia, is dead at his home
here at the age of 80 after a brief ill
ness. He was the inventor of the
Bonar automatic corn planter, now
universally used.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30

MONTGOMERY: Miss Frances Sal
yer's back was broken and her skull
crushed; Miss Edith Ross's head was
crushed and a sister was seriously
injured when an auto plunged over an
e]mbankment. Tom Coleman and
Charles Garrett were injured.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30

WHEELING: This years grape crop
In northern West Virginia is the poor
est in many years, the result of a
blight with which they have been
afflicted and which has puzzled ex-
perts. Representatives Of the state
department of agriculture cannot
fathom the cause of the blight.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-06
CHICAGO JUDGE
COULDT STAND
COURT TALES

CHICAGO. March 6.--Judge Jacob
II. Hopkins, handsome. wealthy
bachelor. today asked to be trans
ferred from the court OF domestic
relations to another bench where
his ideals OF matrimony would have
an opportunity to regain their for.
mer status.
"Tm through" said Judge Hop.
kins today. For six months have
heard stories OF domestic ,fidelity
and unhappiness. brought my
ideals Of marriage and love to the
court with me. I have sat there day
by day listening to tales OF sorrows
and tragedies OF married couples.
My illusions have died one by one.
MY court is no place for bache-
lor Judge"
The Detroit times., 1916-03-06
Engineering Building
of Agricultural Col
lege Destroyed
RECORDS OF
RESEARCH LOST
No Insurance Carried
BY State on Burned
Edifice

EAST LANSING. Mich. March 6.
Fire, believed TO have originated
from defective gas oven In the
cement laboratory, Sunday morning,
destroyed the engineering building
and the shops of the Michigan agri.
cultural college. The loss is esti
mated ut $4,000.
Wells Hall, the mems dormitory.
and other adjoining buildings, were
saved only after hard fight. In
which the firemer were aided by
student volunteers.
The property was not covered by
insurance, a detailed statement Of
losses follows:
Engineering hall, $4,000; ma
chine shop and foundry, $4,000:
civil engineering equipment, $23 900;
machine shop equipment, $4,000:
physical and electrical equipment.
$4,000: Wells aurmitory for men,
$1,000; losses to students in instru-
ments and property, estimated, s4,-
600; total. $240.00O.
In addition to the above, many
valuable records containing data ac-
cumulated by painstaking research,
the value of which cannot be com
puted in money, were destroyed.
At meeting of the fac ulty. held
last night. arrangements were got,
ten under way for the establishment
Of temporary quarters. All classes,
with the exception of laboratory
sections assembled this morning as
usual.
The Agricultural college, like the
University of Michigan, Is not a par
ticipant in the state insurance fund,
and the loss is sotal one.
II is expected that funds set aside
for other purposes will have 10 be
used in the construction of a new
engineering building.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-06
Will Address Chairmen
of Council Commit
tees, Friday
SCHOOL BUDGET
TO BE SLASHED
Aldermen Will Go Slow
With the Salary
Increases

Chairman OF the 16 council COM
mittees that will review depart
mental budgets, will be given an
economy lecture by Mayor Marx and
Aid. Bob" Rutter. president of the
council, next Friday morning.
Several Of the committees have al
ready started their work on the esti-
mates. The aldermen plan to have
the estimates ready to turn over to
the beard of estimates about April
!. The board begins its sessions
April s.
"The council will do some real
budget trimming this year." said
President Rutter. "The aldermen
won't leave great deal for tho
estimators 10 do. Every item will
oc carefully scrutinized, and cuts
will be made wherever possible. A
s23 100000 budget ough: to give the
aldermen plenty cf room to slash
without cripplirs any of the de-
partments. We want low tax rate
this year, and We will not leave 1t
for the estimators to get"
Mayer Marx. who appealed per-
sonally to the various departments
TO keep their budgets as low as pos
siLle, and Controller Engel will
keep close tab OH the work of the
aldermen.
Indications are That ;hc schoo'
budget Will receive real trimming.
This budget is handled by the COM
mittee on claims and accounts, of
which Aid Az Klnz, former school
inspector is chairman. Aid. Kunz
says he is colGdcnt that the school
board can get along nicely during
the next fiscal year on budget
much less than S7,000,000 All
"faddizh" items will be eliminated
from Superintendent Chadsey's long
list of requests.
The aldermen also promise TO go
slower with salary increases this
year. In some isolated cases, where
the increases asked arc actually
merited, the requests will be passed.
If the salary equalization board com
plctes its work in time, the alder
men will have an easier task ad-
justing salaries.