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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-20

the Carnegie Natural Gas Company
drilled a test on the j. n. Surray
farm through the salt sand and
test on the otha Rome farm through
the Big Injun, and both are gassers.
The same company's second test on
the John Bradley farm is a gasser in
the Gordon sand. In Grant district
the Manufacturers Light and Heat
Company has Big Injun sand gasser
at its test on the A. p. and j. p. Ma
son farm. In Warrington ristrict,
Marion county, the Carnegie Natural
Gas Company is drilling tests on the
John Hildreth and A. w. Mason
farms.
The rather sharp decline in the
wells on Dents run, Warrington dis
trict, Marion county. showed little
increase under agitation, as COM
pared with the gauge for the preced-
Ing twenty-four hours. The last
gauges reported are: Delmar OIL Com
pany's No. "a, John L. Hays, $50 bar
rels; Hackman and Huffman No. 3,
Alfred Kendall, IS barrels; F. W..
Bartlett No. /, 2. L. Batson, $50 bar
rels; South Penn OIL Company No. i,
Hoard-Batson. 207 barrels; Clayton
Oil Company No. 1, W. 2. Hays, nine
ty barrels, a total OF 1922 barrels as
against 1850 barrels for the pre-
vious twenty-four hours.
Southeastern Ohio.
Light pumper and busters are very
much in evidence in the old deep sand
district in southeastern Ohio. In the
Bremen district. Rush Creek town.
ship, Fairfield county, the Carter
Company has drilled a test on the
Isaac Rowles farm through the Gin
ton sand and 1t shows very little oil
and light gas pressure. The loca-
ton is 1900 feet north of the same
company's test on the Daniel RUIZ
farm. Unless 1t improves with a shot
it will not make a paying producer.
The same company's No. 4 on the ].
l. Burgoon farm, in Jackson town
ship, Perry county, is holding up at
barrels q day.
Shallow Territory.
In the northwest quarter Of sec
ton 81. Monroe township, Harrison
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will be more than twenty wells drill
ing and starting in the Ignomar field.
In the Burgettstown field, Wash
ington county, the Peoples Natural
Gas Company gave it's No. 8 on the
5. +. and NJ. Scott farm a shot and
Increased its production from $50 to
325 barrels a day. In the way OF
new production, the new territory at
Burgettstown looks the most prom
Using of any in the local field.
West Virginia.
On Rock run, Clay district, Writ
county, Cox and Lockhart have com
pleted the best shallow sand produc-
err found in that county in a great
many months. 1t is their No. on
the Burton Robinson farm and is a
1O0-barrel producer in the Second
Cow Run sand. In the same dis
trict, and on the same stream Patter-
son Brothers completed No. IL on
the Coldwater Oil and Producing Com
pany's tract and 1t is showing for a
Afteen-barrel pumper.
On Long Bottom run, Cabin creek
district, Kanawna county, the Column
bus Producing Company shot No. 81
on the Williams Coal Company's tract.
1t produced 1926 barrels the ensuing
twenty-four hours. No. So on the
same tract has been completed and
shot and shows for sixty-five bar
rel producer.
In Jefferson district, Peasants
county, Gallaher, Buckley, Sykes and
Company have completed No. 4 on the
w. H. holland farm and it shows for
a light pumper in the Cow Run sand.
On Pedler's run, Clay district, Mon
ongalia county, the Marion Oil Com
pany drilled a test on the Noman
Garrison farm through the Big Injun
sand and has five-barrel pumper.
.GasSers in Wetzel County.
In Church district, Wetzel county,
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What Thin Folks Should
De to Gain Weight
Good Advice for Thin, Undeyeloped
Men and Women.

Thousands of people suffer from ex-
cessiye thinness, weak nerves ant
feeble stomachs who, having tried ad
vertised flesh-Inakers. food-fads, phys
ical culture stunts and rub-on creams
resign themselves to lifelong skinni-
ness and think nothing will make
them fat. Yet their case is not hope
less. A recently discovered combIna-
ton Of assimilative agents has made
fat grow after years of thinness, and
1t is also unequalled, judging from re-
ports, for repairing the waste Of sick
ness or faulty digestion and for
strengthening the nerves. This re-
markable preparation is called Sargol
Six strengthening, fat-producing
assimilative elements OF acknowledged
merit have been combined in this prep
araton, which is endorsed and used
by prominent people everywhere. II
is absolutely harmless, inexpensive and
efficient.
A few weeks systematic use of sar-
gol should go far to produce flesh and
strength by correcting faults Of di-
gestion and by supplying nourishing
fats to the blood. II not, every drug
gist who sells 1t is authorized to re-
turn the purchase price. Increased
nourishment is obtained from the food
eaten, and the additional fats that thin
people need are thus provided. All
leading druggists supply sargol and
say there is large demand for it,
Advertisement,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-20
OIL AND GAS
DEVELOPMENT
OF TRI-STATE
Latest Reports Of Operations In
West Virginia, Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio.

The Ignomar development in Nc
Candless and Franklin townships, Al
legheny county. is attracting more at
tention and calling out more new
work than any other district in
southwest Pennsylvania. A large per-
centage of the work under way and
starting is located on one-acre lots
and even II they come in producers
will be short lived On farms adja-
cent to the small lots there is new
work starting and these wells should
show better staying qualities. Dcyel-
opment work is extending on an east
and west line and the most import
ant we'll starting is a wildcat on the
David Wright farm. located one-half
mile in advance and west of produc-
ton. On the east side the South
Penn Oil Company, Midland division,
has completed a second test on the
II. Brant heirs farm and 1t is show
ing for ten or flfteen-barrel pump
er. Within the next two weeks there
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-20
H)ME FROM WAR
TELLS ABOUT
VERDUN
American Relates Experience
He Had at Front with
Ambulance Corps.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Oct. 2O.-Eyen the
most optimistic Frenchman insists the
war cannot possibly be ended in less
than two years, according to Elmore
Men. Bostwick, son Of A. q. Bostwick,
city librarian, who has arrived home
after six months service in the French
ambulance corps. The French govern
ment is supposedly preparing for four
more years, he added.
Young Bostwick, "a years old, drove
an ambulance at verdun at the begin
ming OF the German attack.
AT the start" he said. "the French
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county, Franklin Quinn has complet-
ed test on the John Dunlap farm.
1t has a very light showing Of oil in
the .Berea grit. In the Reas Run
district, Independence township,
Washington county, Goldfish and Com
pany have started to drill second
test on the II. c. Bliss farm. At
Urichsville, Tuscarawas county, a
home company has started second
test on the Urich farm, located 500
feet southeast of the first test on the
same farm.
The Oil Market.
The prices paid FOR OH NJ various
grades by the purchasing agencies
are:
Pennsylvania ..............$2.50
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While divisions in fighting sectors are
exposed to danger, soldiers in the
peaceful sectors enjoy their football
and other diversions"
At the beginning OF the attack on
Verdun the corps to which Bestwicll
was attached removed more than 1900
dead and wounded in three days.
'In the dark of night we would steal
up to the first French lines and gel
the dead and wounded" he said.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-20

were disorganized and conditions were
In bad shape. Shells moved down hos
pitfalls and wounded lay in the open
fields. Within few weeks all was
changed. Provisions made for the sick
and wounded we're almost ideal.
Sanitary conditions in the trenches
are excellent. The men get good food
and clean sleeping quarters and are
watched so carefully by physicians
that natural illness seldom is met with.
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Lieut.. Col. George o. squier.

Lieut.. Col. George o. squier, chicr
Of the aviation section Of the U. S.
signal corps, has announced the pre-
liminary plans for training aviators
Of the service. 1t is his intention to
train as many reserve aviators as
possible in civilian flying schools.
National guardsmen who wish to be-
come aviators will be trained at the
governments expense at the Signal
Corps Aviation school at San Diego,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-01
CUT THIS OUT
Old English Recipe for Catar-
rhal Deafness and Head
Noises.

If you know some one who is troubled
with Catarrhal Deafness cut out this
formula and hand it to them and you Will
have been the means of saving some poor
sufferer perhaps from total deafness. In
England scientists for a long time past
have recognized hat eat2rrh is a cOnstitu
tionaI disease and necessarily requires
constitutional treatment.
Sprays inhalers and nose douches are
liable to irritate the delicate air passages
and force the disease into the middle ear
which frequently means total deafness,
else the disease is driven down the air
passages towards the lungs which is equal
iy as dangerous The following formula
which is used extensively in ne damp Eng
lish climate is Il constitutional treatment
and should prove especially efficacious to
sufferers here who live under more favor
able climate conditions
Secure from your Druggist ! ounce of
Parmint Double strength Take this
home and add to it 4 pint of hot water and
ounces Of Granulated sugar; stir until
dissolved. Take one tablespoonful four
times a day. This will often bring quick
relief from distressing head noises Clogged
nostrils should open. breathing become
easy and hearing improve the inflamma-
ton in the eustachiau tubes is reduced.
Parmint Is used in this way it acts di-
rectly upon the blood and muscous surfaces
Of the system and has 4 slight tonic action
that facilitates the recovery of the patient.
The preparation is easy to make. costs little
and is pleasant to take. Every person who
has catarrh should give this treatment
Advertisement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-01
HotU to She'd a Rough,
Chopped or Blotchy Skin

This is what you should do TO shed
bad complexion: Spread evenly over the
face. covering every inch of skin. thin
layer of ordinary mercolized wax. Let this
stay on over night washing it off next
morning. Repeat daily until your COM
plexion is clear. soft and beautiful as
young girls. This result is inevitable. no
matter how soiled withered the com
plexion- The wax literally absorbs the
filmy surface skin. exposing the lovely
young skin beneath. The process is entirely
harmless. little of the old skin coming
off at time. Mercolized wax is obtainahle
at any drug store. one ounce usually sui
fees. Its veritable wonder-worker for
rough, chapped, REDEEMED, blotcny, pimpled,
freckled or sailow skin
Pure powdered saxolite is excellent for
wrinkled skin An ounce of it dissolved
in half-pint witch hazel makes Il refresh
ing wash-lOtion. This renders the skin
quite firm and smooth; indeed. the very
first application grasses the finer lines the
deeper ones soon NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-01

brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. E.
Tomlinson, 11S Woodlawn avenue. The
bride will be attended by her sister,
Miss Ruth Tomlinson, and by Miss
viii be the only attendants Mrs. Fred
Munson will play the wedding march
The service will be read by the Rev.
H. L. Nelson, of the Potwin Presby-
terrain crurch.
+ { =
The Topeka Associate of Graduate
Nurses viii have their annual meet
ing for the election of officers We'd
nesday night at the Y. w c. A.
:. = 1.
Mr.. William Schfck gave a card
party Monday night for some of his
friends among the high school seniors
The guests were: Miss Sara Hazel
Slaughter, Miss Marion Squire, Miss
Doris Burdette, Miss Hazel Rucker
Miss Eula Flemming. Miss Helen Hol-
lar. Miss Genevieve Iddings. Miss Lii
liam Gleissner. Mr.. Harry Bennett, Mr..
Ewing Fergus, Mr. Orrin Berridge. Mr..
Laurence Myers, Mr. Willard Bowman,
Mr.. James Lindsey. Mr.. John Ferris,
Mr. Wayland Durham and Mr.. Ralph
Oman.
The Sigma Alpha Iota national
sorority will have a conclave in the
spring in Detroit. Mich. Delegates will
be sent from the Washbu college
chosen a little later in the winter. The
local chapter, formerly the Sigma Mu.
was affiliated with the national organ
iZation last year.
!. = =
At the city auditorium, before the
arrival of President Wilson, MARSHALL 5
band will play alternately with Miss
Mildred Hazelrigg at the organ, except
on the song, The Star Spangled Ban
ner.' when band and organ will be
used together. Miss Marguerite Gohlke
and Mr.. FRANKLIN Hunt will sing. Miss
Hazelriggs organ selections will be:
March-Suite in f minor -. Borowski
Christmas in Sicily ..........Yo n
Symphonic Poem-Finlandia Sibelius
Variations on an American Air. 49,.
.. ... FIagler
Fanfare d'Orgue .-------- Shelley
The Topeka Federation of Women
will hold its February meeting
Thursday of this week at the Y. W. c.
A. An open meeting of the Art Ne
partment of which Mrs Katherine
Hand is chairman. will be- held at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-01

one side. The doctor thinks there IS
no fracture of the bone She has been
confined to her bed since the accident
Mr.. L. F. Filson has returned from
a business trip to Manhattan
Mrs. Clyde Corbet. who has been Ill
for three weeks. is now able TO be up.
The Woman's Missionary society of
the First Congregational church will
meet Wednesday afternoon, February
,, at the home of Mrs. George Mccoy,
lib West Eighth street
Mrs George Rose. of Kansas City,
who has been the guest of Mrs. Festus
Foster. has left for a visit to relatives
in Sabetha, Kansas.
Clary & Clary. wall paper and paint
18th and Lane. Phone 13S3.-Adv-
Mrs. John Wood and her son, John
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-01

visit to her parents. Mr.. and Mrs A.
F. Weaver. =
Mr.. w. d. Ross is i'll at his home =
with grip.
The Catholic Ladies. club met tnl5 ~
afternoon with Mrs. Patrick Walsh,
435 Taylor street. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles u. efakepeace
are the parents of a girl. bern Mou7t \
day afternoon.
Mrs. MediiI of Leavenworth. who
came to Topeka for Kansas Day. visit s
ed Mrs Festus Foster. She remained -
for the meeting of Native Daughters
Monday and returned home Monoay
evening.
Mr. A L Rodgers has returned
from short business trip TO Lave 4
renee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-01

Charles, of Arkansas City, are visiting
Mrs. Woods parents, Justice and Mrs.
John 5. Dawson.
Mrs. William Werner and her
daughter, Miss Miriam Werner of
New York. are visiting Mrs. Werner's
sister. Mrs. Charles p. Adams. of Pot
win Place. They are on their way for
Il trip to southern California. and from
there through the north.
Miss Beth Thompson has returned
from a visit TO friends in Burlington,
Kansas
The Assumption Aid society will give
a card party in Assumption hall to-
night
Miss Josephine Weaver has returned
to Baldwin to continue her studies in
Baker university, after a midwinter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-01

Mrs. Margaret Sanger.
Suffragists, lawyers and physi-
clans thronged the federal court in
New York city a few days ago 20
hear the testimony in the case of
Mrs. Margaret Sanger. charged with
distributing through the mails litera-
turc dealing with the control of
childbirth Trial was postponed to
Jan "a Mrs. Sanger is acting as
her own attorney in the case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-01

The girls of the Potwin Sewing club
win give a party Thursday evening. in
compliment to Miss May Tomlinson
and her fiance. Mr.. Raymond Kim
nell, whose marriage will be solemn
lied Saturday of this week
The wedding will take place Satur-
day at high noon, at the home of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-01


played as a violin solo Walthers
Prize Song from the Meistersingers."
Her mother, Mrs. J. W. F. Hughes,
played her piano accompaniment.
An original poem. "A Toast to the
Native Daughters was given by Mrs
H. o. Carney.
After the meeting an informal re-
ception was held. and the following
women were asked to stand in the re-
ceiving line to greet the visitors: Mrs.
Arthur Capper, Mrs DeWitte C. Nell
lis. Mrs. S. !. Crawford. Mrs. ]. P. St
John. Mrs. W. D. Atkinson. Mrs. ]. NJ
Miller Mrs. D. L. McEachron, Mrs
Cora Wellhouse Billiard, Mrs. c. B.
Hoffman, Mrs. Ida Ferris. Mrs W. A
Lambertson. Mrs. A. w. Dana, Miss
Effie Graham. Miss Jessie johnson,
Mrs. II. w Donaldson. Mrs. w. s.
Galloway, Miss Annabel Carney. Mrs
c. :. Gleed. Miss NanOn Herren Mrs
May Belleville Brown, Mrs. C. NJ
sheldon. The ushers were Mrs. Paul
Walker. Mrs. VIII Curtis, Miss Alice
Meade, Mrs. H L Bubb. Miss Altha
Watson, Miss Mary Van Vechten, Miss
Irene Homer Mrs r. Carver, Mrs.
Glenwood Jones.
Those who had seats on the ros-
trUm with the president were: Miss
Effie Graham. Miss Clara Francis,
Mrs. Charles NJ. Sheldon. Mrs. D. L.
McEachron, Mrs Harry Donaldson.
Mrs. Cora Wellhouse Billiard, W. S.
Galloway, Mrs. H. O. Garvey, Cover
nor Arthur Capper and Mr. w E Con-
nelley.
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Table of Distances Seward to IditarOd

Seward to Girdwood (A C. R. R) ............... Miles
 
 l Miles Indian Creek to Siby Camp (Near Tmbin) .......... Miles Sby Camp Forks Sheep Creek ek.................. Miles IT Miles Eagle River to Old Knik Miles Old Knik to Knk Grading Post) t)............. Miles Knk to Sustna Grading Post) Miles Susina Mouth of Skwetna Miles Skwentna to Hays River Miles Hays River to Happy River I Miles Happy River to Pass Creek 29 Miles Summit (Rany Pass) Miles 
 (NIouh Da (outh Rohn) Miles MGrath, Kuskokwim 100 Miles Creek Innoko ............... 25 Miles Hedwae dtarod .125 Miles
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Yukon Wonder Berries.

The Dawson News says Mike O Kee, an enthusiastic Dawson gardener, raised near St. Mar!'s hospital this season the first wouoerUerrles grown m the Yukon. They are the mar vicious berry brought out by Bur bank, the wizard gardener ot Callior- nia. These berries have ripened and are q hard, round >arH skinned berry similar to the Yukon DlueUerry but more perfectly round lu tUrm, and a trIhe harder ot sHIn. ILOusanUs of berries cover the lev bushes, proving the adaptaOllIUy of the berry to this counIry.-EX.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior. U. S. Land Office at Juneau, Alaska, December 31, 1915.

U. $. Land Office at Juneau, Alaska, December 31, 1915.
 NOTICE is hereby given that John Nash, of Seward, Alaska, who, on November 27, l915,made Homestead Application, No. O2756, for Lot l, Section 1, Township S., Range 1. w., Seward Meridian, and the SWA Sec. 86, ShNWA Sec. 36, NEANWA Sec. 96, T. 1 N., R. w., containing 317.8O acres, has filed notice of in tention to make five year Proof, to establish claim to the land above des- cribed, before M. J. Conroy, Com missioner, at his office at Seward, Alaska, on the 9th day of March, 1916.
 Claimant names as witnesses:
 w. A. McNeiley,
 H. H. Hildreth,
 Louis Simpson,
 Charles Christensen, all of Sew ard, Alaska.
 c. B. WALKER,
 Register
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NOTICE TO TREsPAssERs

TO WHOM TT MAY CONCERN:
 Notice is hereby given that the lands em- braced in U. 5. Survey No. 24l and U. $. Survey No. 242. patented by the United States to William B. Poland and transferred by deed 10 Frederick William Low. and the lands cm- braced in U. $. Survey No. 249, patented by the United States and conveyed to F. G. Jem- melt, situate on the North shore of Resurrec- ton Bay and bounded follows. to-wit: on the South by Resurrection Bay. on the West by Rudolph homestead, on the North by Fred Johnson homestead claim and Resurrection river. and on the East by U. $. Survey No. 722. commonly known as the Reyel homestead, are private lands, and ALL PERSONS are warned not to trespass thereon, or cut or re- move wood or timber therefrom.
 Dated. Seward. Alaska, the 4th day of December, l9l6.
 F. G. JEMMETT and
 FREDERICK WILLIAM LOW
 By s. o. MoRFoRD. Agent. First publication Dec. 8. 1915.
 Last publication Feb. g, 1916.
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Jumpers Active
 in New Diggings

FAIRBANKS-A recent arrival from the Tolovana s.ates that on January l there was more ground jumping in the new camp. Some of the ground was restaked because sullcienl work had not been done on IL: but there were many who jumped claims that they will have small likelihood of holding if the cases ever come into court.
 There was one claim on Bear creek that was jumped at midnight on the lst. Before three o'clock in the morn ing it had been staked again, by n man who claimed that the first jumper had put his stakes in before the hour of midnight, and that such location was therefore invalid. Times.
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Percoiators, Electric and Common, Casseroles, Fl Grillo-Toasters. Make sensible presents. Buy of SEWARD COMMERCIAL co.
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FOR SALE: English Setter bird dog pup at $25 each. The best of breeding. Eligible for registration. Write M. D. Snodgrass, Kodiak.
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Special price on all wall paper, twenty percent off for this week only.
 Brown & Hawkins, Quality First
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See the ready made skirts and waists at Butts.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-30

oxygen from the air. it is digested
and plant tissue formed. In the
same manner the blood supplies
nourishmcnt to the roots OF the
hair which, in combination with
oxygen through the hair shaft, is by
Natures complex processes trans.
formed into hair tissue.
Pure air is hair vitalizcr and
disinfcctant as well. and it's free
circulation through the hair is quite
important. Anything preventing: or
rctarding it is inimical to hair
visor. Wearing tigntftting night.
caps is doubly injurious. no, only
shutting off air circulation and the
supply OF oxygen, which is Natures
chief repair material. hut the same
air retained inside the cap all night
becomes heated. vitiated and de-
oXygcnized, asphyxiating the hair
and sweating the scalp.
Wearing tight.fitting hats or loads
dust, dirt and other foreign matter.
the application of pomadcs. cos
metics and other thick. sticky sub.
+ stances also have similar bad ef-
fccts. All such habits lessen the
deposit Of coloring matter. causing
gray hair, and by weakening the
hair it will not draw its proper
quota of nourishment with result
ing impairment Of vitality and final
Z starvation and fall. New hair may
or may not replace il. depending
upon the vitality OF the system. but
if il does it will be weaker than its
predecessor and will. in turn. he
followed by still weaker hair, until
finally none grows.
Washing the hair with improper
shampooing compounds which dc.
stroy the natural oils. causing the
hair to harden and split, Is bound