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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-30
LEAGUE INSTITUTE
SESSIONS INTERESTING

The second nights session of the
SNtchmond District Epworth League
aAAgan. with simultaneous periods on
5thlrd and fourth department work.
III. N. c. Scott conducted the former,
- Mrs. o. w. Worsham the latter
Following this the period on voca-
&tonal guidance was led by Mr..
cameron johnson. Mr.. Johnson. who
Eas had much experience as a mis-
Nlonary. spoke of the heroic efforts
I<6a4 are being put forth in mission
0934s today. His personal contact
eeh missionaries in various coun-
13os enabled him to give first-hand
EIn4ormAtion. He stressed as neces-
jey conditions to foreign work grit
MA equipment. laying special en-
A411a upon intellectual equipment
\ M johnson recommended as study,
5poclAlly for those contemplating
nal service In foreign countries,
1ook. entitled The Foreign Mis-
|o0A<y." At the conclusion of his
H1k he presented Rev. Hassill. a mis-
DnAry to Japan. Mr. Hassill spoke
quite . while on the work in
IN. which proved to be very in
el1ve. In the course Of his re-
1ke he emphasized the need Of pa
- and adaptGbility in foreign
~ sveninG address was delivered
4. =. Smoot His subject was
Possibilities Of Youth--An As
the Kingdom" He spoke OF
pceB1bIlitiea of youth and
1uo ~ ~ enthualaam.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-30
YOUNG WATKINS ADMITS
ROBBED MANY STORES
Juvenile Delinquent Makes Confession
TO Detective Wiltshire-May
duplicate Others.
PARoLED FROM REFORMAToRY
Hearing of His Case Has Been Con-
unued Until October in Juvenile
Court-Police Believe He Robbed
Many Stores.

Confessing that he is on parole from
the laurel Reformatory. having been
sent there from Newport News two
years ago. in William Watkins. the
severiteen-year-o boy who was ar
Tested early Tuesday morning, the
police department believes 1t has To-
called the robber of various Broad
Street stores
Policeman Clayton found the boy on
the stairway between 307 and 500
East Broad Street about o'clock
Tuesday morning. He said he had
been locked out Of his home. 1910
East Broad Street and had sought
the steps as resting place until
morning.
He was turned over to the Juvenile
Court and placed In the detention
home, the hearing of the case going
over to October T.
In the meantime the detectives got
busy, and yesterday, Sergeant Wilt
shire says. he admitted that he en-
tered the Young Mems Shop and took
number of articles. Some of the
articles were found in his room.
The boy does not admit he COM
mitted other robberies, but the detec-
tives believe they have the lad who
robbed Crighton's, Whitlocks. the
Corley Company and W. D. Moses IL
Co.
Detective Wiltshire says tho boy
stated he entered the Young Mems
Shop by getting on the roof and going
through an upper window. This is
the method evidently pursued by the
person who entered the other Broad
Street stores. Articles taken from the
other stores have not been located,
and this leads the detectives to be-
lieve the young man had accomplices.
This theory Is now being worked
upon,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-30
unknown WRITER
SENDS WARNING NOTE

Neither Justice John nor Chief o.
Police Werner are paying attention
- m anonymous letter writer them
warning Of impending catastrophe
1hs letter 10 signed Friend" He
'Aad. ~ suggested by Chief Werner.
eettsn his tip and being a friend OF
tho administration took the opportuni-
~ 70 warn the two officials threatened
Muny such letters have been received
~ both Chief Werner and Justice John
They have not worried. and they said
yesterday the latest epistle would
eauhe them no sleepless nights, nor
s1eovont them eating their meals regu-
slnG1y.
The letter which was received by
Mater Werner yesterday announced
4AAA both the chief and the justice
Would Be poisoned. If that did not
seMko effect they would be stabbed, and
~ = last resort the two would be
lGAet
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-30
Your Last Chance Mr. : 1f.Se -
Trip to
Norfolk and Return

Tomorrow, Sunday. October /, WI
be the last Sunday OF the season upo
which the Norfolk and Western Raj
way Company will operate its popu@
lar excursions from Richmond to Nor
folk and return. You will then -
given for the last time an opportunity
to purchase round trip ticket IT
Norfolk for $3.50, which will be good
on either Of two fast trains. viz: tn
special, which leaves Richmond SIG
A. NJ, and leaves Norfolk TAO p. NJ.
or the Cannon Ball, which leaves
Richmond 900 A. NJ, and leaves Nor
folk AIS p. NJ. "One more trtp
won't do no harm"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-30

Southern Railway announces reduced
fares from stations on Its lines In vir-
ginir account State and county fairs
to be held this season as follows:
Mecklenburg County Agricultural
Fair. Chase City. Va. Round trip tick
cts will be sold Oct. LIST to 9Th, In
elusive. with Anal return limit Oct
sth. 1915.
Interstate Fair. Lynchburg Va
Round trip tickets on sale Oct End to
6th. inclusive. with Anal return limit
OCT. 7th. 1916.
Virginia State Fair. Richmond, Va
Round trip tickets on sale Oct. 9Th to
14th. inclusive. with ANAL limit Oct
18th. 1915
Danville Fair. Danville. Va. Round
trip tickets on sale Oct. 7th to 18th in
elusive. with final return limit OCT
18th, 1915.
Halifax County Fair South Boston.
Va. Round trip tickets will be sold
Oct 22nd to 27th. inclusive. with Anal
return limit Oct. 2sth. 1915.
For additional information call on
nearest agent. Southern Railway. or
write
MAGRUDER DENT,
District Passenger Agent,
Richmond, Virginia.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-30
DR.. WILLIAMS TELLS
MORE OF HAY FEVER

Dr. Dnnion G, williams. State health
officer. stated Thursday that the state
ment attributed to him In his lecture
before the Housewives League We'd
nesday to the effect that from one to
two per cent of our population every
year die from hay fever was in error
What he did say. the physician states
Is that from one to two per cent Of
the people of the United States are
infected with the disease. and that 1t
was not dangerous.
Rag-weeds. DR.. Williams said. are
the cause of hay fever, the pollen of
the plants entering the nose and
mouth, causing a irritation of the
membranes of the throat and nose,
and producing effects which many
people believe to be simply a. cold.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-30
NORTHS|DE CHILDREN
RETURNING TO SCHOOL
Felt There In No Cause For Further
Alarm in Barton
Heights.

Alarm caused by the death from In
fantiie paralysis having been allayed
by the assurances from the City Health
Department that there is apparently
no farther danger the attendances are
daily increasing in Barton Heights
School. Fearing an epidemic OF the
dreaded disease, a large number of
the patrons OF the suburban school
kept their children at home. How =
ever. every precaution has been taken
by the health officers and they declare
that there Is no danger whatever now
The children are being carefully
watched by Miss Copenhaven. a trained
nurse, who stays in school during the
lesson hours. while DR.. E. B. Summers
and DR.. Marshall Boyle visit the school
each day.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-30

The South Atlantic Field Conference
~ the Young women's Christian As
ISOLATION opened Its session at the
Second Presbyterian Church last
night with a full attendance OF dele
gates from the different cities OF the
Bouthern States.
The opening meeting last night was
principally given over to registration
gOf delegates and to an address by
I Mise Helen Davis, of New York. who
spoke on the Real Meaning and In
depreciation Of the Young Women
Christian Association"
The lecture room OF the church
was crowded to hear the speaker. and
II the inspiring message that was
brought to the conference may be
considered a sample of the addresses
and discussions that will be heard at
the other sessions, there Is an un-
usual opportunity for those attending
to gain close insight into the Won
derful system and the work of this
movement
While last nights session was a
meeting OF delegates only. the public
ID invited to attend the evening ses-
sions At S:15 o'clock when distinguish
"a leaders will address the conference
Ionights speaker will be Miss Har-
Tiet Taylor. of New York, who will
talk OF 1.-The Young womens Chris
than Association as II Touches World
Conditions" Mrs Elizabeth Preston
Allan, of Charlotte, " c., will pre-
side
During the day there will be vari-
nus meetings. which will be mainly oc-
cupied with technical discussions
Bible classes and special addresses for
workers.
Sundays sessions Will consists OF
two mass meetings, 10 which the pub
lie Is cordially invited. William r
Ellis. OF Philadelphia. national
4 leader in Sunday School work. was
To have addressed the evening meet
ing. but word was received from the
distinguished lecturer that on account
Of a recent accident, he will be un-
able 10 attend.
Rev Walter w. Moore. D D. presi-
dent OF the Union Theological Semi
nary. will be the speaker at this meet
ing. Miss Louise Holinquiet, of the
national board. will speak at the 4
o'clock mass meeting. Miss Holm
quiet, who Is a remarkably brilliant
speaker. has chosen for her subject
Previous to the opening session last
might. there was a membership ban
quet in the association building when
the visiting delegates from the seven
teen different fields were welcomed
and short talks made by the leaders
from New York.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-30
DABNEY RETURNS FROM
LONG BOOSTER" TRIP

William T. Dabney. business man.
ager of the Richmond Chamber OF
Commerce, who has been away about
two weeks boosting the capital city
and sleuthing around for conventions
returned to the city yesterday after
noon.
While Mr.. Dabney landed only one
convention for Richmond, that being
the Master Boilermakers, which will
be held here next September, he was
given a hearing before a large number
OF bodies and told them just what the
people in Richmond are doing.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-30
ISSUES NOTICE OF
OPENING CoNvOCATIoN

President Edwin A Alderman, of the
University of Virginia. has issued the
following:
The opening convocation of the
ninety-second academic year will be
held in Cabell Hall, Tuesday. October
8, 1915, at IL oeolock, noon.
THE address will be made by Hon.
,On~ter oless. Of Lynchburg.
Seats upon the platform will be
reserved for the governing boards.
faculty and invited guests. who are
requested to meet in tho library OF the
rotunda, at 1880"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-30
TO ADDRESS MEMS MEETING
AT RAILROAD Y. NJ. @. A

Mr.. H. o. Williams. International
Railroad Association secretary, will
address the mems meeting at the Rail-
road Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton Sunday afternoon at $3.50 on
"Profit-Sharing"
A quartet composed OF Mrs g. B
Seay. soprano; Miss Helen Gill, alto
Mr.. Minson, tenor. and Mr.. Richard
son. bass. will render special music
with Mrs. C. E. Angst at the piano.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-30
1UlH ATLANTIC FIELD
CONFERENCE MEETS
I'm Attendance Present From Seven
y teen Fields Of Movements
BIS Work.
ELLIS CAN'T
Oinfanguished Lecturer Scheduled to
n speak Detained ms Result OF Acct
dCmt--Two Mass Meetings Features
Fur Sunday.
ToDAY's PROGRAM.

S:45 A. M-Assembly Session.
Miss Katherine Halves. pre-
siding.
1000 A. M.-Bible Study, Rev.
Walter r. Bowie, d. D.
Is1l:OO A. M.-Secretarial Training,
Miss Katherine Halves, Miss
Caroline B. Dow.
al3:oo Town and Country Work,
Miss Halves, presiding; Miss
Helen Davis. Miss Jane A..
Skinner.
$50 p. M-Fundamentals OF the
Christian Faith. Rev. Walter
Lngle, D. D.
9:lE p. M.-The Young Women's
Christian Association as 1t
Touches World Conditions,
Mrs. Elizabeth p Allan. pre-
siding.
Address, Miss Harriet Taylor.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-30
G. & 0. PLACES BIG
ORDER FOR COAL CARS

Due to the increased freight traf-
nc, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Company has placed an order for 900
steel hopper cars with the Pressed
Steel Car Company. Purchasing
Agent Jeliison announced yesterday
afternoon that the company is antici-
pating placing another order for a
like number OF additional cars within
the next few weeks
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-30
Deny kfIkis Deserted.

Athens, Sept. Is, via London, Sept
ga report that the battleship Kill
kis, formerly the United States battle
ship Idaho. has deserted to the revolu-
tionists. has been received here, but
is denied by the Greek ministry OF
marina
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-30
THE WEATHER
(Unlted states Department Of
AErlcNlture. Weather Hureau. !

Washington. Sept 2s.-The weather
will be fair Saturday and Sunday over
all districts east Of the Mississippi
River. The temperature will be lower
Saturday along the Atlantic Coast It
will rise Sunday throughout the Mid
die Atlantic States and the Carolinas
Virginia and North Carolina-Fair
Saturday and Sunday; rising temper
allure Saturday.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-01-17

Quaker Fisher says, cit is a. very
easy matter to make CLAIMS for a
remedy-to SAY it will do this or
that. But PROVING those claims is
a great deal more DIFFICULT. It
isn't what the manufacturer or deal
er says-it's the words of grateful
former sufferer that PROVE the
merits of remedy.
"There are HUNDREDS of people
in Florida, Alabama, Georgia and
Mississippi who derived remarkable
curative results from the use of the
famous Quaker Herb Extract. Their
testimonials have been published.
Many of them were residents of
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-01-17

Contending influences disturb this
day, according to the reading of as
trology While Mercury and Uranus
are strongly benefici the Sun and
Neptune are adverse.
The sway should be favorable for
all who make appeal to the higher or
spiritual instincts. Ministers, orators
and writer's should benefit.
Again there is indicated tendency
toward general belief in occult and
psychic phenomena. Startling books
and advanced teachers viii gain Gre
dence within the year, the seers de-
clare.
Literary pursuits have the best
guidance today. Poets, novelists and
journalists should benefit greatly.
This should be a kindly planetary
government for ministers and diplo-
mats, but there is a representation
that changes of sensational charac-
ter will take place in Washington.
The sway is not an suspicious one
for those who visit persons of superior
station or of commanding position.
Relatives who would seek favors from
prosperous members of the family
should delay overtures for aid.
Storms and disasters at sea are
presaged. Some one of prominence
in the United States may die on a
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-01-17
DOES A GRAND WORK I!
NEW QUAKER HERB EXTRACT
PROVES IT'S MERITS

PENSACOLA and the surrounding
country.
"What Quaker Herb Extract did
for THOSE people it will do for
YoU-especially since the formula
has been improved. The great new
Quaker Herb Extract is certainly a
remarkable remedy-it removes the
CAUSE of stomach troubles, liver or
kidney disorders, catarrh and rheu-
matism.
"This grand remedy is made from
pure herbs, roots, barks, berries,
leaves and blossoms-there are NO
OPIATES in it. 1t will expel germs
or worms from the system of adults
or children. It is a real TONIC, a
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-01-17
The Test of
Carranza.

Reports recently reached the State
Department of villista threats that
Americans would be killed in Chi
huahua in order TO enforce Anleri-
can intervention. These reports
have received tragic confirmation in
the deliberate cold-blooded murder
of IL Americans, who were taken
from q train near Chihuahua Monday
and butchered by bandits.
Many Americans have lost their
lives as a result of the anarchy that
came out of the revolution, but these
IT men were evidently killed solely
because they were Americans, thinks
the st. Louis Dispatch, and the
murder was done with a calculated
political purpose. 1t Is impossible to
explain the atrocity on any other
grounds. 81
Such being the case, the diabolical
cunning of the massacre defies de-
scription. No other method of dis
crediting the Carranza government
holds out so tempting prospect of
early success as the murder of Amer
leans in territory over which Car
rama has not yet managed to obtain
control or restore order. If Villa had
any hand in instigating this slaugh-
ter, he must have been highly graft
fled by the immediate response he OBJ
tanned from Senator Sherman, SEN
ator Borah and other Republican
members of Congress. They played
his game superbly. He could not
have done it better if he had been
directing in person the anti-adminis-
tration forces.
What is really important at this
time, however, is whether Carranza
Is going to play Villas game, too.
Regardless of partisan politics in
Washington, there is certain to be q
complete loss of American conf
dence in the Carranza government
unless it takes effective steps to hunt
down and hang the perpetrators of
this crime. That is the test of Car
ranza's capacity for government, and
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-01-17

il he fails, the government of the
United States will eventually be
compelled to take such steps on its
own account, no matter what the cost
may be.
The Sherman resolution for inter-
vention could not get many votes in
Congress today, but unless Carranza
measures up to the situation or shows
a determination to measure up to the
situation, nobody can say how soon
there will be congressional ma
jority on the side of intervention. The
Carranza government cannot over
estimate the seriousness of the situa-
ton.
1t is true enough that the victims
of this ma ssacre were ill-advised and
took despel = chances; but the meth
cd of their murder puts it outside
the category of ordinary crimes of
violence or greed or passion. The
evidence at hand shows that these
men were killed as an act of defiance
toward Carranza and as an act of
revenge toward the United States,
and the issue that has been raised
cannot be disposed of while the per-
petrators of the crime are alive.
The Carranza government was rec
ognized on the theory that it could
cope with conditions in Mexico. 1t is
now put to proof and cannot be per
nitted to shirk its duty or its respon-
sibility.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-01-17

A&@~@ ~ @%W@ME 1&MMAAW A&&
Southern statesmen had dominated the
councils of the ruling party OF the nation
these sixteen years and more.
Men out of the south were also making
and governing the West
The broad stretches OF the great state
or New York. themselves but half peo-
Piled and full OF fair regions inviting to
settlement, lay between New England
and the far~away valleys where new
States were to be built: the unecoupied
forests or Maine were near as hand and
easy Of access nc the Nerths many a
tract within the borders of New Eng
lands own little commemorative still
awaited occupation and development.
BY special effort an "Ohio Company
organized In Massachusetts, by veterans
OF the Revolution had sent bands of set
IL had purchased and reserved upon the
northern bank of the great river the
French had coveted. and little hamllets
Of their making had sprung up there and
fourished.
It's settlers. crowding slowly In, had
played a notable part IN making the
young state of Ohio ready for admission
into the Union CS02).
But It was not men out of New Eng
land. or even out of Pennsylvania and
New York, which lay so close at hand.
who were as yet playing the chief part
In the West.
Kentucky and Tennessee. themselves
but the other day built into States by
hunters, woodsmen, pioneers. adven-
turers. while the Revolution was being
fought out and the Union brought into
existence furnished the men who were
flttest for tine first enterprises Of con-
quest and settlement beyond the Ohio
and the Mississippi; the conquest of ma
ture and of the doughty tribes of REL
men who were still knights challengers
there In the dauntfng wilderness.
The Ohio poured its open food along all
the northern front of Kentucky from
northeast to southwest; the Mississippi IT.
self was at her doors at the west, and
swept slowly down. below her, along all
the western front Of Tennessee
Kentuckians had constituted the chief
part of the rough-and-ready muster
which beat the English and Tecumseh' s
braves, their allies, at the Thames by
Lake st. Clair, to make safe the north
western border In the war of 1872.
Tennesseeans, under Tennesseean
commander, had lain in the trenches at
New Orleans In the mist of January
morning in 1915. and saved the South on
a famous field.
Men upon those frontiers had the ini-
tiative, tho training and the zest for
every sort OF daring and endurance, and
a sense OF comradeship which made the
whole long border seem to them their
common home and field of endeavor.
It was they who crowded 1rst across
the great streams at their front into In
diana. of which they had beer prompt to
make State In 1916: into Illinois. pres
emily to be admitted December, 1873:
and into Missouri, which they now in
sistently ask leave to bring In.
Indiana and Illinois lay above the
Ohio. and were parts of that great North
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-01-17

sea voyage or from the effects OF
exposure during a journey.
Advertising continues under d.
rection of the stars read as indicating
increased demand for publicity by
persons and corporations.
From now on Germany may ex-
perience many difficulties, next
month being menacing. A disaster
is foreshadowed. The stars are of
sinister omen for all the nations en-
gagged in war.
China comes under rule that gives
promise of many internal difficulties.
National problems will disturb the
people and cause riots, bloodshed and
trouble.
japan has a government of the
stars held to presage entrance into
dissentions with other powers. The
transits of Mars in the spring are ex-
ceedingly threatening.
Persons whose birthdate it is prob
ably viii have an active and pros
porous year. Young girls may expect
offers of marriage.
Children born on this day probably
will be successful in life. Helpful
friends are usually at hand, IN times
of difficulty, for these subjects of
Capricorn who partake of Aquarius
characteristics.