The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-06-10
Evening Chat

. A4N9In N Ii Iub uOopitat luE III
pairs and the remainder OF the Con.
tributors are keeping close to their
homes until the scars and battle
wounds are healed. The meeting be-
gan quiet enough and It was the Ill
advised Introduction OF politics into
the discussion that started the fight.
Following Is the record from the
minute book:
PRO BONO PUBLIco: Gentle.
men, the primary election is over and
once more we can turn our attention
to the important matters Of public
policy that are waiting for our &C.
tioii. This ordinance Is one OF the most
important problems that we should
take up IN my opinion. What do you
say7
HONEST REPUBLICAN: No
chance to get any action until after
the new charter goes into effect. The
Board OF Affairs won't spend anoth.
sr nickel for fear 1t would work
against their reelection.
TAX PAYER: Yes: but even so
they have no possible chance Of re.
election. ! suppose the bridges will
also be held up.
ANONYMOUS: Did you fellows
hear about the fight in the court
house on. election day. They say Tom
Jiuckdey--
TRUE DEMOCRAT: That's lie!
They did not pass around the liquor
from the strong room.
ANONYMOUS: Who said they did?
Can't you wait till ! get through? And
don't he calling me liar. I'll bust
PRoHIBITIoNIsT: They did pass
out the confiscated liquor, because 1t
Is gone now, and could smell 1t
when the returns were coming
in. The whole court house reeked
with the vile odor.
OLD CITIzEN: Vile DOOR? Hey!
Well. / didn't think 1t was a vile"
odor. 10 me IT was a delightful IN
cense, reminiscent of the good old days
when all the candidates
DRIVER: Put the brakes on that
good old days stuff!
yoX PoPULI: Gentlemen! BE
calm. Remember your dignity.
a MINER: Dignity? How about
the suppression Of all the strike news?
Do you men know that your cursed
dignity" has allowed men to be beat
en- and treated like dogs by a bunch
Of hired assassins and thugs? A troll.
ley car load OF these hired "gun men"
left Fairmont last night, on the elevn-
en- o'clock car, armed with Winches-
tiers and automatics. They will kill
and starye the miners at these two
mines where the strike is without a
word Of &c ever getting to the world!
TRUE FDEMOCRAT: All, that is
all dream. It never happened.
A MINER: You are as big crook
as any Of them
INNOCENT BYsTANDER: Here
this won't do. Hold that man! Some
body quick!
A BENEDICT: Stop! Stop! My
wife Says
A DRIVER: Let me at him I'll
push his clutch out!
ANONYMOUS: You will call me
liar will you? Take that!
INNOCENT BYSTANDER: Gentle.
meni Iibeg you!to be calm!
HoNESTSREPUBLICAN: Let me
In here! I'll calm somebody!
QUIET OBSERVER: Call the re-
serves PuBLIC0
When the reserves arrived he call.
ed the ambulance and the meeting was
declared adjourned.
Nearly 10000 persons, largely sue.
cessfnl farmers, are now aiding the
United States Department of Agricul.
tnre by furnishing information. dem
onstrating the local usefulness of new
methods, testing out theories. expert.
menting and reporting on conditions
in their districts-by helping, In short,
in almost every conceivable way to in
crease the knowledge OF the Depart
ment anu to place that knowledge at
the service of the people. This army
volunteers receives no pay from the
Government.
Its estimated that at least one farm
out Of every twenty is working In
some way with the Department Of Ag-
riculture and thus has become GEN.
ter Of advanced agricultural informa.
ton Tor Its community. In addition
to the farmers who work directly with
the Department of Agriculture, there
are thousands OF others who render
similar valuable service to the sci.
entists and field workers OF the State
AGRICULTURAL colleges and experiment
stations.
OF the 10000 cooperators the great
majority are men who farm for liv-
ing. Awide variety Of other occupa.
lions Is represented In the list, how
ever, from the masters Of merchant
vessels who take meteorological OBJ
servations for the Weather Bureau to
the college presidents who aid in the
educational extension work of the De.
pnrtment or the pig club boys who
supply their neighbors with object
lessons in the profitable raising of
hogs.
Prominent are the 15S.sO0 crop cor.
respondents who make possible the
government estimates of crop produc.
tion and values. A corresponding SER
vice 10 rendered the Weather Bureau
BY its corps OF observers. The reports
from Sc captains and mates have al.
ready been mentioned. In addition,
there are 1850 observers who report
temperature and rainfall regularly, O.
TO who display or disseminate fore.
casts and earnings and 1900 who re.
port weekly during the crop growing
season upon the effect Of weather con.
ditions.
In It's researches and investigations
the Department is also In great mea.
sure dependent upon reports from CO.
uperatOre Fifteen thousand railroad