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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
ARE PREPARED
FOR THE WORST
S the Way the Head Officers
Of the Baltimore and Ohio
System Put It.
THEY HOPE FOR THE BEST
Systematic Preparations Are
Being Completed in Pitts
burg District for Strike.

CHICAGO. August 30.-,Railroads OF
The nation rushed preparations today
to enfroce the embargo on perishable
freight. shipments of live stock and
perishables we're refused by some
roads today; others issued warnings
that perishable freight which cannot
reach its destination by Saturday,
September 2, will not be accepted,
From Chicago, the railroad center
Of the country orders were flashed
ticket agents to inform passengers
that unless they reached their destIna-
ton by Sunday night they would be
subjected 10 "porpleNing delays"
Big manufacturers and business
houses swamped telegraph companies
with messages urging that their ship
ments be rushed at once. Many Of
them authorized sending their orders
by express.
Illlionis. Indiana. Ohio and many
other states, where the interurban
service has been highly developed.
will use the electric facilities to the
limit. Interurban companies all over
the country were reported putting
every bit of available rolling stock
in shape for extra duty
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
STATE COMMITTEE
WILL MEET IN CITY
Call is Issued for It to Meet
Here Tuesday Evening,
September 5.

A call has been issued by Chairman
Joseph H. Gaines Of the Republican
state executive committee for a meet
Ing of that committee, together with
all Republican state and Congresslon-
al nominees, for Tuesday, September
S, at 8 O'Clock p. M, 81 the mead
quarters building here.
The committee consists of the fol-
lowing persons:
Joseph Holt Gaines, chairman;
Charles G. CoTman, secretary; David
Gideon, treasurer; Thomas j. Sher-
rard, Wellsburg; II. f. Behrens,
Wheeling; O. w. o. Hardman- Mid
dlebourne; Samuel j. Hunter, Nc
Mechen; T. A. Brown, Parkersburg;
j. L. Overton Cairo; ]. D. Cooper,
Sherman; B. s. Davis, LGtart; Fl. II.
Baker, Hamin: DR.. Max Goldman,
North Fork; Z. e. Williams, Hunt
ington; Harry Scherr, Williamson;
E. S. Baker, Sweet Sprlngs;'S. s. Sut-
phln, Beckley; Fred G. King, Charles
ton; Siegel Workman, Madison; c. w.
Dillon, Fayetteville; DR.. James Nc
Clung, Richwood; T. D. Moore, Mar
linton; Ledrew NJ. Wade, Sutton; Dr..
]. 0. Nicely, Fairmont; Joseph 81.
McDermott, Morgantown; Charles G..
Coffman, Clarksburg; George b.
White, Weston; w. &. Baker, Blkins;
E. w. Martin Buckhannon; A. l..
Helmick, Thomas; F. l.. Lakln, Terra
Alta; George H. Child, Herpers Fer
ry; Max Won Schlegell, Martinsburg;
NJ. II. Whittico Keystone; Charles f.
Mitchell, Institute, and ]. NJ. Ellis,
Oak Hill.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
GRAND LEADER
GROWS LARGER
Floor Space of a Popular and
Successful Store is to Be
About Doubled.

The Grand Leader will soon De IN
possessiou OF one of the incest ana
most up-to-date ready-to-wear de-
partments TO be found in the city
The carpenters and decorators are
fast completing their work which
will about double the floor space OF
this enterprisng concern, making IN
all about $500 square feet OF moor
space. In this additional floor space
will be devoted to full line oil
ladies' and children's ready-to-wear
garments. including suits and coats
dresses, rurs and shirt waists.
While this has been one OF our
leading stores and one of which We
are Justly proud, it mas never handled
apy ready-to-wear apparel. The
pressing demands for this class Of
merchandise made it necessary TO
meet the demands Of its customers
for Mr.. Fordyce, the genial manager,
is determined to give his customers
what they want and the best ne can
procure and sell 1t TO them at the very
lowest prices. In this way he has
built up a trade with splendid
class Of our very bestomers. who
have every confidence in whatever he
tells them.
], c. Yost, very capable man of
many years of practical experience
vii have charge of this new depart
ment. while Mr.. Fordyce will still
continue as manager,
From very modest beginning
four years ago. Mr.. Fordyce has
mought this store slowly and surely
to the front until now i. occupies a
very enviable position in the mer-
chandise world in our city. Mr.. For
dyce is a firm believer in advertising.
to which he largely attributes the
splendid success it already is and to
which he says. like one OF the great
naval commanders, I've just COM
menced to fight" Congratulations
to the Grand Leader.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
Former West Virginia Coach
Will Write Stories on In
terCoIIegiate Athletics.

There is more to Intercollegiate
sport than the preparation of teams
and the playing of games. Educators
are beginning to see in it an ally. Yet
problems exist which threaten its
life. These were bred in the days
when athletic interests were para
mount. Eligibility codes have not
rid us of them
Whether this is because former
conditions exist or to the fact that a
longer time is necessary for cure is
question? Whether the problem,
as we see 1t, is actually a problem
or whether new and fundamental
remedies are needed is pertinent?
After all, has not our present code
proved awkward and frequently un-
just?
This is an age Of research. Pre-
yentIon is sought, rather than cure.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30

The West Virginia Annual Confer
ence Of the Church of the United
Brethren in Christ will convene in
ffty-ninth annual session in the Duff
street church at the corner Of DuH
street and Baker avenue at 9 O'Clock
a. NJ. "Wednesday, September 6. Bishop
W. M. Weekly, D. D., Of the East dis
trict, of which the West Virginia con-
ference is a part, will preside. Bishop
Weekly is a native of West Virginia.
having been born at Wilbur, Tyler
county. some sixty-five years ago. He
was converted in the old log United
Brethren church in that community at
an early age, He entered the active
ministry of the church at about the
age of twenty years. He spent twenty
years in this state as pastor and pre-
siding elder. Then he worked in ILL
nois as pastor and presiding elder for
a few years. He was then secretary
Of the church erection board of the
denomination for some ten years and
he is now completing In great honor
his second Quadrennium as a bishop
in the church.
The East district comprising eight
conferences over which Bishop Week
ly presides has membership of 1885,
900, 1,15O churches, 400 parsonages
and property valued at $5,OOOO00.
The United Brethren denomination
has a total membership \ 100000. 1t
has more than 4,5OO church buildings
and parsonages with a total value OF
over $15 100000. The publishing house
located at Dayton, o., is worth S1,25O,-
600. The denomination is aggressive
along educational lines, having eight
colleges distributed from Anneville,
Pa. to PhilamOuth. Ore The church
is wide awake and aggressive in mis-
sion work, both home and foreign, OPP
Grating missions in Africa, China,
Japan, the Philippine Islands, Porto
Rico and in the West, besides many
important towns and cities throughout
the country. The church has been
very aggressive in West Virginia, In
which it has a membership Of more
than $4,000 and Sunday school en-
rollment Of $4,000. 1t has two splen-
did churches in Huntington one in
Charleston, three In Clarksburg, two
In Martinsburg, two in Parkershurg,
one in Grafton, Weston and Buckhan-
non, and it also occupies the smaller
towns along the lines Of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad 1t has about $50
churches and parsonages in this state
valued at something like 100000.
The church owns three homes and
orphanages-tho Quincy orphanage
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
MRS. CUNNINGHAM DEAD.
Wife Of Well Known Offield
Worker Of Lewis Dies in
Local Hospital.

The body Of Mrs. Lille Cunningham,
aged 10 years wife Of Lloyd Cunning
ham, OF Lewis, we'll known oil field
worker, who died at 1880 o'clock Tues
day night in u local hospital following
surgical operation, was taken to
Plney Wednesday morning, where the
funeral services and burial will be
held Thursday morning in the Metho-
dist Episcopal church. The burial
will be in Il Plney cemetery.
The deceased woman is survived by
her husband, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Her
ron, Of Piney, her parents; Mrs. R. M.
Roberts, of Piney, and Mrs. S. H.
Weekley, Of Barker, sisters; and VIII
liam, Clarence and Ora Heron, broth
ors, all living at home.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
SHIPPERS ARE LOOKING
TO MOTOR TRUCKS NOW

PITTSBURG, Aug. 30-All rail
roads entering the Pittsburg district
were bNi today completing prepara-
tlons commenced a week or more
ago for handling business in case of
a strike. Pennsylvania, railroad EN-
ployes some time ago were polled as
10 their availability for service in any
department where they may be
needed and report was made that in
excess Of ninety per cent had signt-
fed their willingness to work. This
list now in the hands OF operating
officials. includes division and gener-
al chiefs, many of whom are compe-
tent to handle any part of the rail
roads work,
Shippers were looking to motor
trucks to solve many of their
troubles, particularly those handling
provisions and produce, while some
Of the more important war munition
factories were said to have arranged
for motor truck lines to carry com
pleted shells to the nearest point on
Lake Erie, where they could be sent
to Canada by water and from there
to Europe.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
KEENER COMPET TITlON
AFTER EUROPEAN WAR

trian ultimatum to Serbia" Mr.. Root
declared. at will be world in which
the greater part of the nations return
to the peaceful competition Of produc-
tion and commerce with a vast increase
Of power to compete caused by the
training of hardship and sacrifice.
Plainly, the neutral nations who have
neither endured the sufferIngs nor
achieved the rewards of this hard ex-
penence may not look with indiffer-
ence upon these events.
Lessons to Learn.
On the amazing developments Of
these years there are lessons for us
to learn which we must not ignore.
There are lessons not merely as to
submarines and aeroplanes and high
explosives, but as to the whole effec-
tive capacity OF the nation by which
it maintains its place and progress in
the world in peace as in war, No hui
man power can withhold the people Of
the United States from taking part in
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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
SCHOOL TEACHERS
ABLY INSTRUCTED

Tonight and tomorrow's program
will be as follows
Wednesday Evening.
Field trip and story telling, TO be
arranged by committee,
Thursday Forenoon.
School Oflcers Day.
S:l5-Organization-Fo district in
stttute reading circle work,
9:15-Music and devotion.
9:25-Aims in the Elementary Cur
rICulum--Dr. Minnich, (thirty-fve
minutes)
10!O0-ThC Rural Life Problem and
the school-Prof Hanifan, (thirty-llve
mlnutes,)
10:35-ReCGss.
1o:45-Prcparation for Twentieth
Century Lifc-Prof. Jackson, (forty-
five minutes)
11:3O-Arithmetic in the Curriculum
DIR. Minnich, Cthirty minutes.)
Thursday Afternoon.
-Music-Patriotic songs.
1:45-TeachIng Thrift as Personal
and National Asset.
(a) School savings banks,
90 Thrift through care of prop
orty.
tc0 Thrift through discrimination
in speaking
Cd) Thrift through productiyeness
Club work, home projects, manual
training. part time work-Prof. Han
ifan. (forty-fve minutes.)
2:30-,Reccss.
2:45-standards-Dr. MinnIch, tfor-
y-fve mlnutes.)
School disclpline-the old and
the new-Prof Jackson, (thirty min
utes)
Thursday Night.
Musical and literary program.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
LABOR DAY
Parade Will Be Held by All
Organized Labor in the
City Of CIarkSburg.

There will be big Labor day pa
rade of all organized labor in the city
held at 10 O'Clock Monday forenoon.
There will be music by Gregory 3
First Regiment band. The parade
will start at the junction Of West
Main and West Pike streets and
march east on West and East Main
streets to Oak, thence north on Oak
to East Pike and thence west on
West Pike street to Sixth street.
All firms employing union labor or
handling union goods are invited to
have floats in the parade. Firms
wishing information concerning
floats should communicate with John
JaCox at 372 Wilson street, secretary
Of the committee on arrangements.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30

obtain a postponement of the strike
if we wanted to nor could we post
none it if we received messages re-
Questing such action from everyone
of the committee of 64O, who were
here last week. President Wilson has
not asked us to postpone the strike and
he understands that we made it very
clear to him on Monday night that we
now are powerless to act unless sat
isractory settlement is made"
A. B. Garrettson. head Of the con-
ductors and spokesman for the en-
ployes, made a similar statement.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
In All Economic Activities and
Lawyers, Too, Must Pre-
pare fer It.

CHICAGO, August $0.-Keener
competition in all economic activities
ais sure to be one of the results Of the
European war, and lawyers, as well as
other classes of citizens, must prepare
themselves to meet it. President
ElIbu Root Of the American Bar
Association said today in addressing
The annual meeting of the association.
Changes in the administration OF jus
flee a lessening of the overhead cost
Of running legal machinery, and more
stringent qualifications for admission
to the bar were some of his prepara-
tory suggestions
"When the war = OVer we,shall tind
elrselves in very 0Aferent world
from that which witnessed the Aus
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
BALTIMORE AND OHIO
is PREPARED FOR WORST

BALTIMoRE, Aug. 3O-While
railroad officials here were retiCent
rs to their plans for coping with the
threatened strike it is understood
that systematic preparations are
being completed for such an eventu-
atty
The Pennsylvania has for weeks
been instructing a large force made
up of it's unorganized employees IN
the running of trains
At tine Baltimore and Ohio offices
that roads preparedness was stated
as follows:
we nope for the best but are
prepared for The worst" "
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
SOL METER TO WRITE
FOR RSUNDAYTELEG

In intercollegiate athletics should
not Fundamental principles be sought.
rather than hairsplitting definition.
Some claim intercollegiate sport Is
the sole laboratory in the art of liv-
ing in our colleges-where the deed
supplants the word. They recognize
in 1t a potential educational factor
which tests the boy. They believe
that If intercollegiate sport is to live
and fulfill its function 1t must adopt
as standards scholarship and gentle-
manly conduct,
intercollegiate athletics but reflect
life at its most virile and interesting
age, 1t is of concern to everyone be-
cause of It's dominating influence in
undergraduate life. If intercollegiate
sport does not All n the purpose Of
colleges to best fl = for Ire DAYS
work by equipplng / m with 8 = ig
characters, strong minds ord Il oag
bodies then intercollegia' spoFt
should be abolished.
The Sunday Telegram has due: into
this whole subject and will prtpt
L~s~@~---=------l -
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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
WARRANT DISMISSED.

A warrant charging Larry Naples
with having intOxIcants In a prohib-
tied place was dismissed by Magis-
trate Jackson V. Carter Tuesday ev-
enIng when the attorney for the state
failed to appear against him, Naples
was arrested several days ago at his
home at Enterprise by county officers
who alleged that Naples had several
cases of beer in pool room he con-
Quoted at Enterprise,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
ANOTHER ATTACK IS
LAUNCHED BY FRENCH

PARIS. Aug. 3O.-The French
launched another attack on the Ver-
dun front east of Fleury Tuesday
night. the war Office announced We'd
nosday. Severe fighting is in prog
ress on the Macedonian front. The
war Office report of Wednesday says
the French gained ground west Of
the Vardar river. Bulgarian attacks
west of Lake Ostroyo were repulsed
by the Serblans.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
Will SON NEVER ASKED
FOR A P0STP0NEM EN- I

WASHINGTON. August 3O.-Broth-
erhood heads insisted after confer
0nce with Secretary Wilson today that
they had not been requested by Presi-
dent Wilson or any other administra-
tlon official to postpone the strike and
nothing except a satisfactory settle
ment Of their demands could prevent a
walkOut.
''No power on earth except salts
factory settlement now can prevent
a strike" said W. G. Lee, president of
the trainmen.
I'VE four heads certainly could not
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
JOHNSON CHILD DEAD.

RENO johnson, aged eight months,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. James Johnson,
Of lO6 Brown street, Kelley Hill, died
at 1880 O'Clock Wednesday morning
following a short illness Of stomach
disease. The funeral services will be
held at $3.50 o'clock Thursday morning
at the home and the burial will be in
thA Masonic GaneterE.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
CAN HOLD PICNICS,
N AnloclLIrp PREGtl

OONNBLLsVlLLB, Pa. August go
The quarantine for infantile paralysis
will not affect Dicnics in this section.
Dr. S. G. Dixon, state health commits
sloner. has informed scottdale mer-
chants that children under sixteen
may be taken on their annual picnic
at Idlewild park Friday
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
WILL OBSERVE THE DAY.

Monday, Labor day, is a national
legal holiday. The banks will be
closed as will also barber and other
shops as well as public Offices and
many business places. The postofice
will keep the usual holiday hours.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
MISS CURREN NAMED.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8O-Mlss
Jessie L. Curren has been appointed
postmaster at Webster, Taylor cour-
ty, w. Va,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30

Because there will be -
much doing the second day of
the Central West Virginia Fair,
to be held September IL, l3
and IA on the big exposition
grounds RNre. the baby show
originally scheduled for that
day has been set over to the
third day, Thursday, Septem-
ber IA. The entries for this
new feature OF the fair will
close at II a. m. Thursday
September IA.
. !. I. 1 4 = !. i. / q ! j 4 +
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
ROUMANIANS FORCING
WAY INTO TRANSYL VANlA

PARIS, Aug. 3O.-The Petit Paris
len publishes report that the Rou-
having forced their way into
TransylvanIa have occupied two Inn
portant cities beyond the mountains
Millard Hamilton, of Parkersburg,
travelling freight auditor for the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad system,
visited the city Wednesday.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
THE WEATHER

Fair tonight and Thursday with slow
ly rising temperature.
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THE CIRCULATION

Of tho Telegram Is moro than double
the net paid circulation of tho
other ClArksburg paper.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-02-13
A MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS.

DR.. ". c. Gorgas, surgeon general
OF The United States army, famous
tor his work in cleaning up Cuba and
Panama, while speaking before the
annual Congress on Medical Educa-
lion in Chicago, urged a medical re-
serve corps OF 10000 members.
In few years, said DR.. Gorgas,
the United States will have an army
OF million men, and will need at
least 10000 surgeons TO take care Of
IT,. His plan is for national con-
gress of medical examiners, composed
of representatives of state medical
examining boards throughout the
country. Candidates who passed this
standardized examination would be
eligible for the United States medi-
cal reserve corps, and would not be
required 10 pass any other eXamina'
lion for license to practice. Each
surgeon would be instructed in field
duties, camp sanitation and the prop.
er foods to be used in different eli.
mates. The surgeon would keep his
own private practice in time of peace
but at moments notice he would
be ready to go into the field and per
form his duties without wasting time
in special instruction, as is usually
the case.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-02-13
THE HoMINe ROOSTER.

HOming pigeons are familiar, and
cats, as everybody knows, have an
nnconquerable tendency 10 come
back" while their nine lives last.
Chickens are scatterbrained ire
sponsible critters, given rather to
straying abroad than finding their
way home. But New York boasts Of
rooster that overthrows all chicken
traditions.
A month ago there was poultry
show in Madison Square Garden, and
among the birds shown was prize
rooster, valued at $3.50, from Port
Jervis, N. Y. When the exhibits were
being Grated for shipment after the
show, this rooster escaped. Nothing
more was seen or heard of him. He
was given up for lost And then,
four weeks later, just the other morn
ing, when Albert Monroe, his owner,
went out to feed his flock, there was
old Mr.. Prize Rooster back home
again.
He didn't strut about the yard as
OF yore. He stumbled feebly, weak
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-02-13
READERS COLUMN
GERMANS WITH US.

Editor Of Bismarck Tribune.
Dear Sir. There is q movement On
among the Germans Of the state 10
have nothing TO do with the promotion
10 remove the state capital from Bis
marck. History will be furnished 10
show that a l the time the capital was
located: that the city was then named
Edmonstown and was changed 10
Bismarck" in recognition Of the very
large amount Of German capital in
vested in this new country. We,
mean our German population, felt
proud Of il al the time and We have
made a good reputation for ourselves
in this state. and at this time cannot
look al this in any other light than
the fact that we are feeling the re-
suits Of our present people being i'm
posed upon in this county for the rea-
son of the war conditions in Europe.
This promotion TO hurt Bismarck is
nothing other than taxing slap al
our former country and our people,
who have made this state. our state,
and feel proud of the name Of our
capital.
mere are sl2Aefs now On SOME Vi
the petitions who knew nothing Of the
conditions and feel that you will pub
lish this letter SO others will know
and not take any part in this promo
ton against our subjects We are
loyal 10 this country but see no rea-
son TO move the capital for the rea.
son 10 hurt US as it does TO learn Of
| what has already been done. The ar
gument 10 support the moving Of the
| capital is 50 unreasonable that there
| is nothing to decide. They say Let
the people yote-thats fair" But
are the people complaining? They
are not 1t is only those behind this
| slap at us Germans who are doing
the promoting and at the time Of our
asking our people of this state to have
nothing 10 do with it, we also hope
that the people generally will do like
| wise. Be neutral and especially so
| just now. Don't sign any petition. /
| will thank you for publishing this let
| ter. Frederick Schultz.