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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-07-19
lions and found them barren. This well
produced for many years from the up.
per sand, but the production had fal-

lions and found them barren. This well
produced for many years from the up.
per sand. but the production had fall
len 80 low that II did not pay to op.
crate It and It was then drl9l,d down.
On Dents run, Warrington district,
Marion county, W. F. Bartlett's test
on the z. E. Batson farm is down to
200 barrels a day. ]. ]. Allen & Co.
gave their test on the Higginbotham
farm a shot yesterday, but failed to
increase Its production.
On Straight Fsrk, Burning Springs
district, Wirs: county, the South Penn
Oil company drilled No. 8 on the n.
w. Hzught farm through the salt sand
and il shows for a 15.barrel pumper,
On the same stream and in the same
district the South Penn company has
made locations for Nos. 16 and II on
the A. B. Wilson farm and No. 10 on
the William Dawson farm. On Three
Mile creek, Sheridan district, Calhoun
county, the South Penn Oil company
has the rig completed for q test on
the Joshua Taught farm. On Laurel
run, Murphy district. Richie county,
Marshall G. Rexroad have started to
drill a test or the H. S. Wilson es.
tate. On the same stream NJ. S. Gam.
brill Is building the rig for No. 6 on
his own farm.
The Redwood Oil company has com.
,pleted and shot Its No. 4 on the John
Mills farm and It Is showing for a
ten.barrel pumper in the Maxon sand.
This location Is on Redwood run,
Grant district, Wetzel county, located
800 feet east OF It's No. l on the same
farm, q Maxon sand producer. Tho
same company has the rig completed
for No. 8 and locations made for Nos.
G and 7.
On West Fork river, Clay district,
Harrison county. the Carnegie Nat.
ural Gas company's second test on
the John F. Strum tArm Is a gasser
In the fifth and. On All lick run,
Burning Springs district, Writ county,
the Richter Oil company's test on the
NJ. Richter farm is a ive.barrel pump.
er in the salt sand. Gallaher & Co.
drilled their ties on the Phoebe Knight
farm. located on the Ohio river, I'm.
ion district, Peasants county, through
the Squaw sand and found that and all
upper formations barren.
On o'Brien's Creek, Otto district,
Braxton county. the Philadelphia com.
pany is rigging up at a test on the ]. P.
Poilyson farm. On Tates creek,
Birch district, the Crooked Fork OH
& Gas Company has started to drill
on the s. F. Griffin farm.
Taylor county has more test work
starting than at any time in a mum.
Der OF years. On Hustead Fork. Booths
Creek district, the Hope Natural Gas
company is building a rig on the lido
NJ. Henderson farm. The same com.
pany has made a location on the ].
L. Stock farm. On Owens Fork the
Comet OIL and Gas company has made
a location on the G. w. Reynolds farm.
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FAIRVIEW.

Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Story were guests
of their daughters, Mrs. Sanil James,
and Mrs. James Lanham Sunday.
Rev. and Mrs. A. q. Perkins spent
Sunday visiting Nj. and Mrs. Festus
REX at Littleton.
Chas. Berry OF Morgantown was a
Sunday visitor at P. W. Yost's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Dent OF Nor.
gantown were week end visitors at
D. B. Chalfant's.
Miss Kate Underwood was a week
end visitor with Miss Clara Lehman
at Fairmont.
Mrs. Gertrude Tenant and daugh.
ter OF Jakes Run were visiting the for.
mer's parents, MI. and Mrs. Thos. v.
Wells Monday. II
Miss Madelile Fleming was q week
end visitor at home.
C. B. Woodruff Of Moundsville was
a business visitor here Monday and
Tuesday.
Miss Mary Berry OF Fairmont was a
week end visitor with her sister Mrs.
Mable Trippett.
L. N. Wingate Of Clarksburg was a
business visitor here Monday.
Miss Ruth RaIsht entertained
Misses Donzella Perkins and Vivian
Flowers to 6 o'clock dinner Monday
evening.
Miss Millie Hanes will entertain the
Camp Fire Girls at the home Of her
sister, Mrs. J. o. Yost Tuesday night.
Miss Bessie Cowan entertained a
number Of her friends Friday after.
noon at a birthday party. Refresh
ments were served and q very pleas.
ant afternoon was spent at games. etc.
The following were present: Floyd
Edison and virgal Ammons. Waneda
James and Eveline Dawson, Edith
R~amsbottom,. Mildred Burton, Elma
Coneily. Dorothy Mitchell, Sarah Gil.
lelian, Mary Weaver, Wilma Burton
and Ralph Boor.
Clarence Snyder entertained his
Sunday school class Wednesday after.
noon at Ballah Springs.
Mrs. Russell Tough Of Laurel Run
was in Fairview shopping Tuesday
morning.
Mrs. c. L. Jones who has been quite
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New York

NEW YORK, July 19.-Market
movements yesterday were governed
almost entirely by the caprices OF pro-
fessional traders. Public or outside
Interest was altogether negligible,
Trading was light throughout, even
the first hours turnover being unus.
ually small.
Speculative sentiment was rather
conflicting, the course of prices In
their irregular advances and declines
indicating faith in investment issues
and further aloofness toward those
specialties which recently have shown
marked weakness.
More important than development
in the market itself was the offering
of both time and cali loans at lower
rates than any day since last weeks
furry. Call money vas In free supply
at 2k per cent, and the longer ma.
turtles were shaded by Y to 1 per
cent
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Evening Chat

Tho discovery OF H. Barringer Cox
of Los Angeles, California, in which he
claims he can s the ground as a on.
ductor for telephone messages calls
to mind the experiences Of the Balti.
more and Ohio railroad in this section
when they first installed their present
train dispatch!ng system which is al.
telephone, the romantic click Of the
sounder and the lighter clap.clap OF
the relay being heard in it's office no
more. Although still called telegraph
OFFICES, they are In reality telephone
Offices, the latter having given greater
satisfaction than anticipated by the
old knights Of the road" who made
telegraphy a side line a few years
back.
1t was while Floyd Coon, Monongah
division wreck master and Train Mas.
ter Ed. Griffin we're laboring with a
force OF men under them at Bridge.
port n morning several years ago
when winter was Just ready to an.
nounce It's debut with O train Of ice,
sieet, snow and terrible chilly winds,
They had been called to Bridgeport,
five miles east of Clarksburg, on &C.
count Of a d~uble-header coal drag"
and fast freight Third 81 meeting on
the same track in a head.on collision.
Several were injured and one was
Killed. In the wreck all telephone and
telegraph wires were torn down and
both ends covered by the wreckage.
for several hours the train dispatcher
at Grafton was unable to talk to any
offices further west than Bridgeport,
he wires being grounded west Of that
point. AS car after car was lifted by
the huge crane it became APPARENT that
II Ben O'Donnelly the lineman in
charge Of getting the wires together
wal to do SO he would lave to swim
as the wires were In the creek. At
eight o'clock in the morning Train
Dispatcher Fordyce, one Of the best
In he business, ordered the operator
at Bridgeport to off, his ground. The
operator did so and Grafton 0 found
itself talking with Parkersburg and
all intermediate offices although half
a mile Of the line was down. The
voices, though clear were not loud,
carried through the ground, and bus.
mess was carried on for half a day
In that manner. 1t being nothing to
make such a noise about" as Lineman
o'Donnell would say. All the cele.
brities mentioned in this tale are still
employees of the railroad company
and will vouch for the statement.
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Oil and Gas.

A few Of the late competitions in
the Berea grit pool on Long Bottom
run, Cabin Creek district, kanawha
county, W. Va, are lighter producers
than those completed in the early
days Of the Columbus Producing com.
pany's operations on the Williams
Coal company's tract. This company
has now completed and shot No. Sc
and 1t is not better than a 15.barrel
bumper. No. SO on the same tract
has been completed and shot and is
good for 40 barrels a day.
In the old Smithield district. Wet.
eel county, the South Penn Oil COM
pany drilled its old No. l on the Cos.
gray.Stewart farm from the Dunkard
sand through all of the lower lorna.
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Court News

Marriage License.
Milan Yezdimiroe, 2S, and Josephine
Vrbanich, 16, Grant Town. Annie vr.
banich consented personally.
Deeds.
George W. Ice ct al to Zana Heron,
real estate in Ice addition, Barrack.
Vile, $3.50.
George W. Ice ct al to Anna Rey.
nolds, real estate in Ice addition, Bar.
rackville, $3.50.
G. c. Powell ct TX to Pleasant John.
.ston, real estate In W. A. LAWYER sub.
division OF lots, Fairmont; consIdera.
tion five dollars and upward.
John S. Walker ct al to Virgil E,
Vincent, real estate in Grant district;
consideration M dollar and upward,
VIII.
OF the late ]. Daniel Wade, Of Fair.
mont, filed.
Attorney,
For Marion Window Glass Company,
Warrington, L. S. Schwenck, made,
constituted and appointed.
Inventory.
or the estate Of the late S. c. Thorn
filed.
Suit.
Frank Tedrow VS.. Anna Tedrow,
chancery.
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sick. Is improving and visiting rela-
tives at Enterprise.
J. y. Hamilton Is erecting q three
story brick building on his lot on Main
street next TO Chalfant, Yost q Sons
store.
Nj. and Mrs. Maxon OF Morgantown
were here Monday visiting their daugh,
ter, Mrs. D. B. Chalfant. Mr.. Manson,
returned home but Mrs. Ma1son win
remain for q week.
Postmaster Jesse D. Wilson is in
Washington, D. G, attending the post.
master convention.
Many people will attend Hunts show
that will be here Saturday, July %.
Mrs. Lena Mckinley and children
of P%ennsboro are visiting the formers
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Hall.
Mrs. ". s. Hanson. Ralph Hanson,
Geo. Sloan. Miss Flo. Bailey, Pitts.
burg, Fl. Hatzell. Pennington, ]. H.
owea, Baltimore, were recent visitors
at the National House.
Miss Ionic Taught and Mrs. Claude
Parker, were in Fairmont shopping
Saturday.
Miss May Wagner Of Fairmont is
visiting Miss Minnie Powell.
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ACCOMPLISHED II.

Wife Ito much damaged motorist)-
why, Billy, what have you done?'
"Well, the instruction book says you
can't 60 from high gear to reverse
without entirely stopping the car, but
I did II life
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Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH, July 1s.-outside Of
an abbreviated raid against Ameri.
can Window Glass Machine common,
which did not develop until within
half an hour before tho close. the
Speculative stock operations yester.
day on the local exchange were a o
or less accentuated repetition OF
Mondays market.
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La Old sunerstltlnn.

The knock wood" superstition is
said to date back to the days Of sylvan
gdds, when oce:s, ash aud rowan were
sacred trees whose deitles would come
to the assistance Of the knocker.
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PACE q


Aunt-syour bride. my dear boy. Is
wealthy and all that, but / don't think
she'll make much Of . beauty show
.at the altar" Nephew--Yon don't,
chi Just wait an you SEQ her with
the bridesmaids she has selected
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Grain and Produce.

CHICAGO, July 1s.-Denials that
black rust had spread into Canada
tended to make wheat traders some.
what skeptical regarding damage re.
ports. Accordingly. the market, al.
though pointed upward much OF the
time, closed unsettled at B@Ac to
&c net decline. with July SL11h
and September $1.12$. Corn gained
Nc to A@&c, oats lost M0Ac to sc,
and provisions finished irregular,
ranging from 1oc decline to a rise
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
ONE CENT A WORD CASH WITT op,r,
FOR RENT

FOR RENT-Large livery barn rear
Of Court House. Call Bell 444.
6.16.tf.
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FOR RENT-Five.room fiat with bath
and six.room fiat with bath. Inquire
]. w. Purdy grocery, Tenth street.
7.6-tf No. 1885
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MONEY TO LOAN

THE BUCKEYE SAVING AND LOAN
company Of Bellatre, o., has money
to loan on desirable real estate. see
Paul G. Armstrong. Attorney, ga
Trust Bldg, It'll Floor, Fairmont. W.
Va,
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L AND APARTMENTS

FOR RENT-Four.room apartment.
Terrace Apartments. Apply ]. G.
Miller. 7.6.tf No. 1910
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-01
October

Why are you not black, o leaves?
Why do you sing no dirges. o wind in
the woods?
But bark. what clarions? what trum-
pets?
What rumor of grape-stained faces,
What dancing of dripping feet?
Can it be. my heart, can it be,
That hugged in the arms of unconuuer-
able Death
Golden October Glories?
She glories; she goes out in shouts of
color;
Woodland with woodland take hands,
Dancing mad bacchanals.
The plum is squeezed and the apple Is
pressed;
The grapes are trampled.
Wine! Winel the west wind sings. fling
ing long garlands of leaves.
And the year that has greatly lived
goes laughing to death.
She Stays herself with the bright blade
of the west wind
And with glittering shrapnel of the
frost
She decks herself for the burial in No
funereal black.
But in royal crimson and gold.
Her leaves fall with a will.
The air is why and brilliant.
Oh. sinks not the sun in splendor,
His down going the glory of the dayf
So sinks the year. with sunset colors
into the evening of winter.
Triumphant in defeat,
Victorious in death.
James Oppenheim. in October Century
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-01
4 MONUMENTAL BRIDGE

IF Arnold w. Brunner is to collabo-
rate with Warren H. Manning in
the working out of the plans of the
Commonwealth and the city with re-
specific the treatment of the Capitol
Park zone, as has been indicated in
some unofficial announcements, then
there is direct assurance of a fine piece
of constructive and harmonious work.
Not only in the working out of the
Capitol Park transformation. but in
other features of our city's rejuve-
nation will such collaboration be eff
fective. There must be erected in the
near future a fine bridge at Walnut
street across the river and it should be
an attractive structure, in harmony
with the unrivaled river front and the
beauties of the Susquehanna Basin.
Harrisburg has passed the state
when any old thing in the way of
landscape or architecture will do for
this city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-01
HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION

OUCH celebrations as that which
marked Halloween in Harrisburg
are good for the city. They illus
trate what can be done by a real, live
Chamber Of Commerce and how ready
the people are to respond to any COM
munity activity. Festivals like that of
last evening do no harm and much
good. The costumes of the maskers
were as modest as they were attractive,
and the crowds were boisterous. but
generally good-natured and orderly to
marked degree. The people entered
heartily into the spirit of the occasion
and while there was much opportunity
for overstepping the prophecies few
went beyond bounds to which anybody
could object seriously.
On such occasions the people learn
that Harrisburg is in all truth their
city," they are brought closer together;
the lines of everyday life are broken
down and society meets on a common
level. Festivals of the kind make for
contentment and civic pride and they
pave the way for united community
action upon matters of graver impor-
tance.
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"Seein' Things
TKansas CITY Star1


Why doesn't Secretary Baker go
ahead and disclose the whole plot ?
Isn't 1t true that riding home in a taxi
one dark night he saw two suspicious
looking characters standing whisper
ing in front of the Mexican revolution
lists headquarters in Washington +?
Hadn't one of them a cast in the left
eye, and wasn't the other Scared
across the right cheek? Didn't the
secretary make especial note of these
peculiarities in passing?
Three days later, while he was in
New York. didn't he see a man with a
cast in his left eye and another with a
scar across the right cheek come out
of the new Postal telegraph building,
where Chairman Wilcox, of the
G. o. p, has his headquarters? And
wasn't one of the men handing the
other three silver dollars? Aren't
Villas troops being paid in silver?
There YOU arei What more could
any reasonable person ask? Isn't the
chain of evidence complete?
OF course Attorney General Gregory
said the evidence was vague and in
conclusive" But then the Attorney
General is a cold-blooded, Unconditional
soul and probably couldn't see any
close likeness between the Carranza
revolutionists and Washington's SOL
diers at Valley Forge.
Anyhow, it's lucky the campaign is
so nearly over. Secretary Bakers
nerves wouldn't hold out many days
longer,
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WHAT ABOUT COAL?

vTTHAT about coal? The price OF
wv anthracite is so cents higher
now than last year this time
and there are hints that it is going up.
With one stroke of his pen President
Wilson could prevent any further in
creases. Let him take the trail of the
coal barons in real earnest and there
will be no further talk of higher
prices.
Coal touched s12 ton in New York
yesterday. chiefly because of foreign
demands. Why should the American
people be held UP for the sake of pro-
viding coal for European warships? :?
A threat of embargo on coal would go
long way to stabilize prices.
The President was elected, on a
'1ower-cost- living" platform, and if
he means to keep his pledges he has
a fine opportunity to demonstrate that
fact and at the same time to greatly
benefit the poor people of the country
ut one and the same time.
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Mr.. Wilson and His Secretary
New York Sunl

While Mr.. Wilson is his own Bur-
chard he has an able assistant as the
country now knows, in his personally
selected Secretary of War, Newton
Diehl Baker. 1t is singular how
much alike the two men are. Mr..
Woodrow Wilson. The President is
for peace at any price. Mr.. Baker
has confessed that he is for peace at
almost any price. The almost was a
belated concession to the demand for
preparedness.
Il am a dreamer of Dreams" Mr..
Baker once said. His latest vision,
of conspiracy to make trouble for
the Administration. on the Mexican
border, Colonel Roosevelt has defined
as a pipe dream. 1t was not unlike
the discoveries Mr.. Wilson has made
from time to time of base intriguing
in Congress against the public welfare,
legislative plans. Like the President,
Secretary Baker Is always saying
what he doesn't mean and appealing
to the context for vindication; in the
case of both of them the context in
variably proves that they were not
misunderstood.
From a rhapsody on Mr.. Baker,
written when he was appointed Sec
retary, we quote the following: "Of-
ten when the other boys We're up in
the hay NOW or behind the barn.
thrilled with the deeds of heroes
whose exploits were being recounted
in the paper backed novels Newton
would be found in his fathers office
delving in some classic like Paradise
Lost For this he became known as
the Angel Child" 1t is credible and
may account for Mr.. Wilson's selec-
ton of him for Secretary of War.
Mr.. Baker had never played with tin
soldiers, he told the reporters, and
knew nothing about the army - just
as Josephus Daniels knew nothing
about the navy. They We're ideal ap-
pointments by President who knew
nothing himself about either.
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Mr.. Wilson as President
From the Chicago News.1

tfioil the chicago News
When the question OF national leader
snip came before the country four years
ago The Daily News strongly advised
the Democratic party to take Woodrow
Wilson as its candidate for President
The arguments persistently advanced
on his behalf by this newspaper are
known 10 have contributed in no incon
SIDERABLE degree to Mr.. Wilson'S nomi-
nation by the Baltimore convention. In
me succeeding campaign The Daily
News heartily supported Mr.. Wilson's
Gandidacy. Many of his actions as
President have received its full ap-
proVaI However. certain characteris-
tics of this remarkable Chief Executiye
OF the nation, characteristics clearly re-
vealed by his official course. have led
MIN into actions that appear to The
Daily News to be subversive of popular
government and even of the foundations
OF pubic order and safety. Therefore.
1t believes that the interests of the re-
public require. the retirement of Mr..
wilson from the Presidency at the end
or bis present term of office.
Mr Wilson Is scholarly egoist who
measures all things by personal stand
tfons other than those resulting from
his confirmed policy of opportunisni.
DO the easiest thing and make a vir-
tue OF it, might be the accepted motto
of this emnently plausible President.
Having no real advisers and no Cabinet
exceDt in name-this was made clear
by the resignation of Secretary Garri-
son-he has felt free to follow his own
inclinations at all times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-01

N. J.. and thence through Hacketts-
town. Morristown and Newark to New
York. 1t cuts 20 miles from the dis
tance between Harrisburg and New
York.
The eight-mile concrete link to be
dedicated tomorrow by Governors
Brumbaugh and Fielder is marvel
GUS bit of road construction. 1t rep
resents the best efforts of the State
Highway Department and the cement
companies in the Lehigh- h-Northamp-
ton districts. The State Highway De-
partment furnished the labor and
sand; the cement companies the
cement. They gave 10000 barrels;
and cement now is commanding So a
barrel. Congressman Harry Steele. of
Easton, personally contributed $4,000
for materials. People of Easton gave
$4,000. The highway constructed
through these united efforts is
monument. 1t marks the passing of
roads which lacked permanence. OF
course. there is nothing really per-
manent. Materials wear out. But
the State Highway Department has
determined that its system of roads
must keep up with the travel that
passes over them. Progress in road
building must equal or surpass
progress in vehicular construction.
And the concrete straightaway be-
tween Bethlehem and Easton is the
first permanent link In the William
Penn Highways New York Exten-
sion. Eventually our principal cities
will be Joined by these ribbons of
permanent roadway. And when that
time comes Pennsylvania will benefit
in most material manner.
There is another thought:
The interest taken by thousands of
persons in the William Penn Highway
Associations road soiree at Easton to-
morrow is convincing proof that the
people Of Pennsylvania are determined
to get out of the mud.