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The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-05-26
REMARKABLE STATISTICS
THEY ARE INTERESTING

Statistics are often dreary
reading; the following are start
ling and disquieting as we'll. In
the United States 66 out of every
100 people that die, leave no
estate whatever. Out of the
remaining 81, only 9 leave es.
tates larger than SIS. and the
average of the balance of rs is a
little less than $1,000.
At the age of sixty-fve, 81 out
of every 100 in America are part.
ly or wholly dependent upon
relatives, friends or the public
for their daily bread, for their
clothing, and a roof under which
to sleep.
We all know that the one safe.
guard against pauperism by the
countries of Europe has been
fregality- thrift. France, Ger
many, Belgium, Holland and
Switzerland have been the lead
ers in thrift, and we should do
we'll to follow their excellent
methods.
According to recent govern
ment statistics, SO per cent of
the American people are living
from day to day on their wages,
and that a loss of employment
would mean pauperism for all
but 2 per cent of us.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-05-26
REMARKABLE WORK BY
AUTOMOBILE SCHOOL
Details Of Construction, Oper-
ating and Handling Of
Cars Taught

There is located at 109-115
Eleventh Avenue, south, just off
Broadway, insthe Chester Motor
Car building, the Tennessee
automobile school, which is said
to be the largest if not the only
automobile school in the south.
It has some fifty students enroll
ed from Tennessee and neighbor-
ing states, and its purpose is to
give each student a thorough,
practical knowledge of the auto
mobile business. The methods
of instructions are very simple,
yet extremely practical.
The student first learns in the
demonstrating department of the
school the names and purposes
of the different parts that make
up the modern automobile. He
is taught the A, B, c of magnetos,
carburetors, lighting and self
starting systems, etc. His work
must be passed upon and approx.
ed before he takes up a new sub
ject, and the final examination
consists of over 300 difficult ques.
lions which cover the entire car.
]. w. Peyton of Nashville, who
has had some fifteen years of ex.
perience in the automobile bust
ness, is chief instructor, and ha:
an excellent corps of assistants
to help him.
There are special department.
of the school in which eacl
student does actual repair work
including taking down, reas
sembling snd repairing differen
types of automobiles. Finally
each student learns to drive iron
four to six different makes o
automobiles, and when he gradu
rates he is experienced and shout
: be competent to repair an
operate any type of automobile.
-Tennessean.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-05-26
Rocking The Boat
Peril to Worker.

The st. Louis Republic in an
article dealing with the railroad
situation warns railroad employees
that they are rocking a top
heavy boat" It says:
THE men who operate trains
in these Unites States should
think twice before precipitating
a strike at this time.
I'VE are yet struggling with
our first experiments in govern.
mental regulation of railroads.
We have got to the point where
the government regulates simply
by fixing a price above which
the railroads must not sell trans
portation. without regard to
changes in the price of all the
various things the railroads must
buy. In conquence, to the rail
road industry. alone among
American industries, increased
cost may mean paralysis.
When the cost of production
of chewing gum, pig iron, point
lace or new potatoes goes up, the
products rise in price. When
the cost of transportation goes
up, no such possibility exits. No
other industry Is in such peril
from fluctuations in industrial
cost as the railroad industry, be.
cause no other industry has a
sword hung over its head by q
form of government control
which violates a natural business
law.
How real this peril is may be
judge by comparing the past two
years with that of other forms
of business credit were good.
TO strike now for wage read.
justment, involving largely in.
creased railroad expence, would
be to rock a top-heavy boat.
And If worst comes to worst, it
would get wet first if the eyi-
dence of the past counts for any,
thing. The paralysis of railroad
spending power in the winter of
1914-15 hurt is all in st Louis and
the Middle West, but it hurt
railroad employees and those
affiliated industries worst of all.
We remember this wildly for the
Republic was on the firing line
in their interest in those dark
days.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-05-26
RAILROAD COMPANIES
MAKE LITTLE PROFIT
Expenses Of Operating Roads
Is Great Where the
Dollars Go.

While no such idea seems to
prevade the public mind, it is a
fact, nevertheless, that no bust.
ness in the country is operated
on such a narrow margin between
solvency and insolvency as that
of the railroads.
1t costs the railroads of the
country 70 Ia cents for every
dollar they earn.
And this is how the dollar is
spent:
Thirty-eight and two-third
cents out of that dollar goes for
wages of train and other en-
ployes.
Seventeen and third cents
out of that dollar is spent in keep
ing up engines. cars, etc.
Twelve and three-fourths cents
is spent in keeping up tracks,
bridges, stations, etc.
One and one-half cent goes
to general officers.
This leaves twenty-nine and
three-fourths cents out of each
dollar with which to buy fuel,
pay taxes and interest on bonds,
etc. If there is anything re
naming after these matters have
been looked after it goes towarC
the payment of dividends.
The four brotherhoods of rail
way trainmen are now demand
ing changes in hours and pay
which, if granted, will wipe GU
all the thin margin of profit fol
many of the roads in the country
and will hurt the credit of all.
The public gets hurt eithe
way. If the demands are grant
ed then speed. comfort and saft,
must be sacrificed. If the rail
roads are tied up land a genera
strike means just that then traf
fic stops, and business, propert
and community suffers.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-05-26
FOR SALE

My farm near Buchanan. LOT
acres-70 in cultivation the rest
in good timber. This is a pretty
place and III number one shape,
most of it ID seeded doy1in Red
Top and dover, good barns,
stock water, orchard. garden,
good well and tie prettiest place
to live in hjScountry. Will sell
cheap I wait to 60 West, come
see, terms half cash. Also some
high grade cattle, will give pos.
session at once.
L. B. HAYS,
Buchanan, Tenn.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-05-26
How To Cure Coughs and Colds

You catch cold because your
system is below normal and finds
itself unable to throw off the
cold germs. To recover you
should first take Hills Blood
Purifier to kill the germs. Then
rebuild and revitalize your run
down system by taking Hills
Compound and be well and hap
py. Sold exclusively in Paris by
Kinks Two Drug Stores. 4-21-tf
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-05-26
THE TONGUE

lnefe Is no greater source OF
evil than the unsanctified use of
the tongue. Nine-tenths of all
our social. political and religious
troubles are traceable to this
unruly member. 1t destroys the
sanctity of home, sewers the ties
of affection between husband
and wife, parents and children;
sets otherwise peaceable CON-
munities in a tumult of unwar-
ranted and needless excitement.
This deadly weapon has de-
throned empires, crushed king
doms, laid waste continents and
sent desolation and destruction
and dismay from one end OF the
world to the other.
The tongue is the medium of
conversation talk, tattling, tale
bearing, lying, gossiping, etc.
1t is the mouth piece of the brain
and willingly responds to its de-
mands. The confusion of tongues
(languages) 2,348 years B. G..
put a stop to the building of the
tower of Babel. and penetrated
the designs of a wicked and
worldly glory-seeking people.
If there could be some limit to
the vast amount of worthless
trifing, demoralizing and danger
GUS conversation. it would stop
the building Of many tower OF
trouble.
A tattling, gossip peddling
person in a community is more tc
be feared than a Bengal tiger OF
the Asiatic cholera. You car
kill the tiger, but the mischief
maker goes free. You may
overpower as fearful a disease
as the cholera or the yellow
fever, but the Notwithstanding
tattling. back biting, whispering
news vender, gossip-monger il
incurable, unmanageable, IRE
pressible and uncomfortable. The!
are the terror by night-th'
pestilence that walketh in dark
: ness, the arrow that flieth b.
day and the destruction tina
does not waste or cease a
! MONDAY. Their highest aspira
ton IS to disturb the peace an,
happiness of the community il
which they live. On the othe
hand, a pure. chaste use of tn
tongue is the most powerful
agent for good. Many person
3 accomplish more by their silenc
than they could possibly do b
\ anything they might say.
1 The Christian as we'll as every
s one else, is commanded to orde
D his conversation as becoming
Goodness. No true Christia
s can be either a tattler, back bite
! liar or gossip monger. His con
> versation is to be discreet an
edifying such as will ministe
h grace to those who hear. Hi
guide says he shall give an &C
count on the day of judgmen
g for every idle word, BE We hol
' in all manner of conversation.
! -Winona Leader.
=
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-05-26
GEORGE BINCHAM--HUMORIST

Have you seen him? He is in
Paris George Bingham, one of
Americas humorists.
Under the literary nom de
plume of Dunk Botts". and as
the editor of the "HOGWALLOW |
KENTUCKIAN," he h as al
national reputation.
Bingham's humor initiates
none.
Mark Twain makes you laugh
when he describes his world
travels: George Fitch convulses
you with his "Homeburg Men,
cries.: Strickland Gillian can
stand on a Chautauqua platform
and send wave after wave OF
laughter over his audience: but
George Bingham has style all
his own. 1t IS unimitated, and
inimitable.
If you once read an issue OF
that most unique periodical
THE HOGWALLOW KEN
| TUCKIAN", it will leave you
with lifelong memory. Just
the most commonplace things OF
life are made laughable as you
did not suppose they could be.
Bingham can tell you some
thing about a postage stamp,
and do it in such a way as to
lead you straightforth into the
field of fun.
If ever Hogwallow, Kentucky,
should pass from fiction into a
part of American geography,
the doctors will be sending all
their patients there who may be
in need of cure for melancholia.
George Bingham is a genius,
and a prolific one.
He is modest, and the more
so, because he does not seem tc
ATTEMPT to be so.
If you talk with him, he ap
pears as a matter of-fact man.
J and characterized by that great
trait that we admire in all men
:, simplicity. But back of it all ii
8 the nature Of one who can move
you with a powerful force, ant
! lift you clean out of every moot
! of the cynic or the pessimist.
God sends the humorist int
the world just as He sends tn
prophet. Both are needed.
The Good Lord turned Georg'
Bingham loose upon this plane
: to compensate that other indi
vidual that we call the Crouch.
= The crouch acts as a sort O
gyroscope to keep things wronl
! side up; but Bingham and hi
= class of fun makers are just sun
= shine coming down from HEAVIER
= and made to look human.
And here in West Tennessee
y right here in Paris, is living will
I. US for the time being, Georg
, Bingham, who, on the 10Th o
:, this month is going to bring hi
i unique "Hogwallow Folks" int
: life. They will appear at tn
Dixie Theatre in a stage-per
!; Torrance, and when you Sc
y them, you will know for ono
how an exhibition of the humor
GUS can really add to the wealth
i of human happiness. You will
- see how clean the truly conf
can be made to appear, and il
the reminiscent moments tina
= will come to you in the futur'
years you will recall how human
life and human wit are foreve
L i sxnns.n~n I,lxr hlnnlo1
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-05-26
Wanted!
&c | &c &c

- - - 80
Young women to enter train
ing school for nurses. The
Course covers a period of
three years, and embraces
all branches specified by
State Board of Examiners
for nurses for Tennessee,
while the number of hours
of instruction given is more
than thre be tines the mini
mum required by that
Board. Applicants must be
between the ages of twenty
and thirty years, of good
moral character and have a
general education. Applica
ton blanks upon request.
...City View Sanitarium...
Training School for Nurses
R. F. D.. l Nashville, Tenn.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-07-06
FINANCE, OIL AND GAS.
Oil and Gas.

Development work in the eastern
fields was very generally suspended on
account OF the observance Of the
Fourth. Consequently very few com.
pletions were roprted. Development
work In all sections is steadily In.
creasing, and there is a large amount
OF test work under way and starting.
Now that the last half OF the year has
only begun, 1t Is to be hoped that the
efforts TO find new producing terri.
tory will prove more fruitful than the
first half.
Near Zinnie, Greenbrier district,
Doddridge county. West Virginia, En-
nest Randolph drilled second test on
the Walter Ross farm through the Big
InJun sand and developed good gas.
ser. In the same locality the Hope
Natural Gas company is due in the
sand at test on the Howard Marks
farm. In the same district the Way.
land Oil and Gas company has the rig
completed for another test on the w.
B. Shutter farm
Since the two wells came In dry In
the Thirty.Foot development on Dents
Run, Warrington district, Marion coun-
ty, operators are not in so much Of a
hurry TO start new work. The sched.
ule OF operations that had been map.
ped out shortly after the gusher came
in on the Higginbotham farm. For
a short time It looked as though there
would be n dozen or more wells start.
ed at once.
In Union district, Clay county, there
Is considerable new work starting.
Operators In this district are warrant.
ed in drilling for light wells. The
average size Is about Ave barrels, but
the casing.head gas yields large per-
centage OF gasoline, and 1t is thos
that inspires development work. The
Chalmers OIL and Gas company is get.
ting ready to start considerable new
work in this district. This company's
second test on the Council heirs farm
is due in the Big Injun sand. The Sam.
pie Oil company is also due in tho
same formation at No. on the Harvey
Samples farm.
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SPECIAL NOTICES

as the purchaser may elect to pay
cash in hand on day Of sale, and for
the residue the purchaser will be re.
CURED to execute in favor Of the un.
dersigned, his notes with good person.
al security to be approved by the iun-
dersigned, payable in three equal In.
stallmerts. on or before one, two and
three years from date of sale. with in.
terest thereon from date OF sale until
paid, and a vendors lien will be re-
served upon the face OF the deed con.
veying title to such purchaser, as q
further security.
For further particulars, inquire OF
z. H. Hibbs, Metz, West Virginia, or
the undersigned, at Fairview, West
Virginia.
The undersigned reserves the right
to reject any and all bids offered on
the above day.
Il. TENANT. Agent,
Fairview. W. Va.
6-ss; 7.s.13.2o
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New York

NEwsYoRK, July s.-with the ex.
ception Of q belated advance In call
money to az per cent, the highcs,
rate for this form OF accommodation
since December. 1914, most develop
ments and adyices or market char
acter over the holiday were accepted
as distinctly favorable. Mexico's con
Sciliatory attitude, the further success
Of the Allied drive in the Western war
arena and the optimistic views Of au
sthorities In the steel and iron industry
were factors Of primary importance.
Gains were variable. but substantial
in the main. and while rtading FIRE
squently lapsed into dullness. dealings
comprised more than the usual mum
Der Of issues. Almost the sole, excep'
lions to the upward tendency were
the zinc shares, which followed the
course Of adverse trade conditions
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jacques Fourier, Chicago White sos:
Il wish the baseball writer's who de
iight,in calling me q reformed lumber,
Jack would quit their kidding. It's
true I've lived nearly all my life In
the northwest where the big trees OF.
fer employment for thousands Of
French. Canadians. but never tried
my hand at that sort fof work.
Before breaking into baseball ! was
q railway express messenger, having
graduated to that situation from the
leading livery stable Of Aberdeen. And
/ want to say that Aberdeen lost the
best buggy washer that ever mani.
cured q boss when l started fooling
around with the town boys who had
organized a baseball team.
Larry Cheney, Brooklyn Nationals.
Several conflicting stories have been
told OF how the Dodgers signed Ed
Pfener, who has been doing great
work for our club. but here are the
facts in the case:
Larry Sutton, scout for Brooklyn
first clapped his eyes on Pfeffer in the
fall OF 1911 when the latter had been
drafted by the Browns. The following
year Sutton kept the Fl. Wayne, club
from buying Pfeffer from Denver for
$500 because the pitcher was i'll
Pfetfer was sold later to Grand Rapids
where he pitched. great ball In 1918.
Sutton had seen Ed work for two
years, but he went to Springfield, o.
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SPECIAL NOTICES

Yost is plaintiff, and Samuel Yost
and others are defendants, the un.
dersigned commissioners, who were
appointed and directed to make par.
tition of the lands mentioned and de,
scribed in said decree, II the same be
susceptible to partition. and II not
to report such fact to said court
with their reasons upon which suct
conclusion might be based. will, or
the 18th day of July, 1915, proceed
to the execution Of such decree, ant
enter upon the said lands to parti
ton the same in accordance with thu
requirements Of sad decree, and tc
make up and report TO said court al
the acts and dolngs OF said commits
sioners under said decree.
At which time and place you ma,
attend II you see fit.
Given under our hands this 5tt
day of July, 1916.
s. A. sHUTTLEWoRTH,
2. F. DAVIS,
FESTuS DOWNS,
Kills Commissioners
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CourtNews
Marriage Licenses.

Marriage Licenses.
Rorace G. Slbley, widower, So. Of
Muncie. Ind, and Annie Morris. wild.
ow, 81, OF Fairmont.
Glenn Robey, 10. Warrington, and
Hulda May Rice. 81, Warrington. Ho.
mer Robey consented In writing.
Deeds.
George ]. Hayhurst, ct al, to Fran
els ]. Toothman, real estate, In Pea.
cock addition. Fairmont; considera.
ton sl.5O0.
Sarah Manley, ct al, to Charles
e. Manley and Richard T. Manley,
land In Grant district; consideration
$4,000.
James A. Bennett, ct al. to Charles
E. Manley, real estate and appurten,
ces In Jackson street, Fairmont; con.
sideration $4,000.
Sewickley company to A. NJ. Steven,
son, ct ais, certain underlying coal
Of Sewickley company In Marion coun.
ty; consideration 81 and other con.
alterations.
Vital Statistics.
Eleven births registered by Drs.
Claude l.. Holland and H. s. Falconer
and Blanca Genisi, midwife.
Four deaths recorded by Drs. c. W.
Waddell, H. S. Falconer and C. L.
Holland.
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0ad7 1IzutgdaM
Mzlfl Balhapa,J 4

one afternoon stoSwatch him pitch any
bought his release for 81, 800 before IL
O'clock In the morning.
In the afternoon Sutton saw Shers
rod Smith. our crack letthander in ac-
tion. and drafted him for 5000 II was
Q great day for Scout Sutton
Nick Altroek Of the Washington Ma
tlonais.
Umpire Sflk o,Loughlin has had
many q laugh on the diamond. bur /
remember one afternoon when he
wasn't In the mood for hilarity. me
incident was recalled when Twas Rad.
ing a: story which told OF Kid Elber.
fields removal from q game IN Nash,
Vile the other day.
"0Loughlin once chased tho Kid
from theipark The clubhouse was IN
centerfeld. The Kid dressed and leav.
ing the clubhouse walked straight for
the plate. He came through center
field, stepped on second, wnlked
through the box and up TO the plate.
Under each arm was o pane Of EiREs,
SILK. looked him over and barked.
what do you mean by stoppins
this gamer
sTSe Kid glared back and answer,
cd: 4
Much obliged for chasing mo. /
almost forgot I had to put these uanes
OF glass in the kitchen window. Now
! can do Il"
Kid beat IT. 4, ~
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SPECIAL NOTICES

acres, more or less, known as the
George Taught Homestead, on Johnny
Cake Run, including modern dwell
ing house. barn and other buildings
Fifth. A tract containing Sc acres,
more or less, situated on Johnny Cake
Run, known as the Walls Tract.
Sixth. A lot and barn situated In the
Town OF Metz, now occupied by H.
c. Terrell.
Seventh. A house and lot known as
the Eureka Hotel property, situated In
the Town of Metz, occupied by Z. H.
iiibbs.
All tho Pittsburgh Coal, together
with full mining rights thereon belong
ing, will be excepted and reserved
from such sale. the same having here
tofore been conveyed. Also, all the
oil and gas. with full leaseing and oper,
ating privileges will be reserved.
Eighth. Also. there will be sold a,
private sale the Shuman Opera House
Property, being a two.story building
located In the Town Of Smithfeld. in
Wetzel county, West Virginia. on easy
terms.
The aforesaid properties will be sold
on the following terms: one.fourtt
(A) cash, and as much more thereof
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SPECIAL NOTICES
NOTICE OF FIRST MEETING OF
NlEDlTnPc

WIN VT EiHSl NEE iNS Ut
CREDITORS
United States OF America, Northern
District OF West Virginia, SIS.
In the matter OF Dakota Coal &
Coke company, a corporation-bank.
rupt, No. $50, In bankruptcy.
TO the creditors OF Dakota Coal &
Coke company, OF Fairmont. In the
County Of Marion and district afore.
said. bankrupt.
Notice is hereby given that on the
oath day OF June, a. D. 1916, that said
Dakota Coal & Coke company was
duly adjudicated bankrupt; and, Stat
the first meeting OF It's creditors will
be held at the law office OF d. L.
Butcher, Rooms 2l0 and 2l2 Masonic
building, In Fairmont, Marion coun.
ty, West Virginia, on the 18th day OF
July, A. D. 1916. at ten o'clock in the
forenoon, at which time the said credi-
tors may attend, prove their claims,
appoint a trustee, examine the bank.
rupt. order sales and transact such
other business as may properly come
before said meeting.
Dated the 9th day OF July, 1916.
BERNARD L. BUTCHER.
7.6-11 Referee In Bankruptcy.
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70 Samuel Yost. John Yost. Mary
Yost, .Delphia Yost, Sallie Martin,
Clara Martin Hewett, William H.
Veach. Martha Veach Hawkins,
Rebecca Veach Miller, Mary Veach
Hall, John Veach, H. Sanford
Yost, Rose D. Yost. Frank Yost,
Alonzo Polling, Hazel Wagner Al
bright, Blaine Polling, Nellie Pol
ing, Clara Yost Ammons, Margaret
Yost Evans, Marcilla Yost Talk
ington, Ulysses E. Davis, John A.
fost, Melvin Grim. Leonard Grim,
William Grim. Victoria V. MorrI-
son, Sarah Woods. Leona Foley,
Ethel Matthews, Ellis Matthews,
Dewitt, -- Dewitt,
Dewitt. children of Wes-
ley Dewitt. and Wesley De-
Witt, Saffronia Yost Cunningham,
Olive Yost Minnear. Leonard Yost,
Guilford Yost. Lemuel Yost,
Amanda Yost Bowles Dixon, Alcin-
da Price, John Polling, Sarah Pol
ing Miller, Davis Wilson Polling,
Luarinda Williams. Nellie NJ.
Soles. Eldon P. Fleming, Joseph
Fleming, Thomas Boggess, Charles
Borgess.. NJ. Agness Borgess.. Der
tina NJ. Borgess., Irene W. Borgess.,
Hope Natural Gas Company, cor
poration, A. L. D. Dudley, Dove P.
Dudley. and all other persons in
terested therein:
You are hereby notified that pur-
iuant to decree entered by the Cir
'uit Court Of Marion County, West
on the Goth day of June,
.916, in that certain chancery cause
herein pending, wherein John A.