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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-10-02
ST. CLAIRSV|LLE
WATER SUPPLY
SYSTEMS

ness and dependable This firm
does quite thriving business within
a radius Of fifty miles Of Wheeling and
is thoroughly equipped to handle any:
thing in the plumbing, heating and
water supply line.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-10-02

American Guaranteed Paint, at fac
tory price. S1.S5 per gallon. A. ]. Lo:
rentz, st. Clairsville, Ohio. tt
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-10-02

American Guaranteed Paint. at FAC
tory price, S1.S5 per gallon b. v
Springer, Elm Grove, W. Va
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-10-02
MCMECHEN

American Guaranteed Paint. at fac
tory price, S185 per gallon. a. M. Lo.
rentZ. McMechen, w. Va.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-22
ROUMANIA MAY JOIN ENTENTE

London, Aug. 21,-The opening of the allied offensive at Salonii has been the signal for renewed reports that Roumania is at least about to throw in her lot with the entente These reports, according to Germany are far from being devoid of founda- ton. One German paper declares that Roumania has already joined the allies and plans are being made for the march of a Russian army through Roumanian territory.
 Major Morhat also believes that Roumania is negotiating with Russia and hints that an ultimatum to Buch- arrest from Germany and Austria. The intrigue of Roumania into the war on the side of the entente would mean the forging of another link in the chain of fees surrounding the central powers. The material aid which Roumania could give would he of an important character She has had between 50O,0OO and 60O,00O troops mobilized for nearly a year and her army is reputed to be one of the best equipped and trained in Europe.
 Apart from possible Russian rein forcement, Roumania would be in position to deal a powerful blow at Bulgaria from the north in conjunc- ton with the allied drive from the south It has been generally under stood that Russia has been willing to concede the province of Bessarabia, the population of which Is largely Roumanian, in return for Roumania's cooperation in the war.
 Bessarabia is eighteen thousan1 square miles in extent, and has a pop ulation of nearly 2,000,000.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-22
BAKER SAYS GUARD
 HELD ON BORDER
Secretary of War Answering Complaints Declares Guard Will Be Held on Mexican Bor- der Until Order is Restored.

Washington, Aug. 21-The national guard will be retained on the Mexican border until it can be withdrawn with out again endangering American lives and property. Secretary Bake. so declared the administrator pol icy today in answering letters from many parts of the country complain ing that the state troops were being held in service after the emergency for which called out apparently had passed
 In general the complainants, whose names were withheld, alleged that border service was entailng loss financially on militiamen and hard ships on their families. By its pres ence on the border,' he wrote to one, the guard is winning bloodless vic- tories daily" Referring to the elab- crate and extensive training the militiamen are receiving. he expressed the opinion that it would fit them to act in time of war or other emer- gency as supporting arm or second line for the regular army furnishing an assistant to national preparedness that could not have been otherwise ob- tained.
 "Clearly so soon as a restored state of order on the border justifes it these troops will be returned to their homes,' he wrote Tn the meantime it is not possible for the department to say when a situation will arise, al- though the Mexican situation is one of increasing hopefulness."
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-22
NO OFFERS SERVICE RE-
 CRUITING FROM LIST

Little Rock, Aug. 22.-There have yet been no offers of service as re- cruiting officers from the supernum- erary list of the Arkansas National Guard, There are hundreds of prom- nent citizens of the state on the list. Congressman Otis T. Wingo was transferred to the supernumerary list Oct 1, 1901, with the rank of colonel. May }, 1910, Maj. Gen. w. II. Haynes Father of the Arkansas National Guard, was transferred from the act i've list, with the rank of Major-Gen John R. Frazer, Grand Master Work man of the A. o. U. w., was trans ferred with the rank of major Judge Paul Little of Fort Smith, became supernumerary Oct 13, 1913. And there have been many others who are prominent in public affairs all over the state.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-22
COMMISSIONER PAGE IN
 HOWARD COUNTY THIS WEEK

Little Rock, Aug. 22.-Commission- CT Page is in Howard county this week, holding series of farmers for the discussion of mat ters particularly interesting to the progressive citizens of the various communities. He is accompanied by Dr. c. L. Sands and A. A. Gordon, feed and fertilizer inspector. He will speak at Nashville and other points, and judging from the success of his in Clark county last week, he will have large audiences. On ac- count of his success in raising garlic, and his advice to farmers to raise it, the Nashville Times has dubbed MT. Page "the expert garlicist.'
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-22
NEW RECORD FOR
 SEASON ARE MADE
Cotton Prices Soar in New York Close 34 to 45 Points Up Opened Firm in Response to Strong Liverpool Cables.

New York, Aug 21.-There was an active and excited buying movement in the cotton market here today and new high records were established for the season, with October contracts selling at 14.74c, or 46 points above Saturdays closing figures. Last prices were within a point or two of the best. The closing tone was very steady, with the general list showing net ad- vances of A to 45 points.
 The market opened firm at an ad- vance of II to F points in response to strong Liverpool cables and an un- favorable view of the early weather map. The initial buying movement carried prices about 19 to % points net higher, with October showing rela- tive strength on covering oy foreign and local shorts, who were evidently influenced by a comparatively small supply of cotton in the local ware houses. The Western belt forecast for unsettled weather in Arkansas and Oklahoma and partly cloudy weather in Texas, with possible showers in Western sections, held out some hope of relief from drouth and caused re actions of 6 or 2 points from the best under realizing. The market soon frmed up again, however, on con- tinued near-month covering and the demand became more active and ex- cited, following the publication of the detailed weather reports.
 Cotton closed very steady.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-22
|lppROVES ORGANIZING
 MACHINE GUN COMPANY
rol stroupe Says Men Must be Recruited Outside Seryice-53 Men Required and They Are cunnlied With Motorcycles.

ri++Io Rock. Aug. 22.-Col. Henry c4ronno commanding the Arkansas troons at Deming, N. M., in a com ,,nnication to the adiutant general of +ba Arkansas National Guard, ap-
 nroves tbe plan to organize machine
 ern company. but says the men must
 Fo recruited outside the service. To Rake from the ranks of the two regi- Inonts as now organized enough men |to fill out the company would be to Eeduce the present company units to |smads Col Sroupe writes.
 o4rkansas should make an especial |eFort to recruit men for the machine |cun company. which will need B |men. This company will be supplied |wth motorcycles, and there should |6e no trouble in recruiting men for Inns purpose. Applicants fer the sup |plv at headquarters company will also be considered The headquarters |company will consist of 5S men, l6 |pnyates O, which will be mounted. This would especially appeal to a cer- |tan class of men. We do not doubt but that Arkansas will do it's part. |There are several regiments on the ground now, but only two of their |battalions number more men than Arkansas with three battalions
 All the men in the Second Reg, : |ment are doing fine. and there have been no serious complaints as to the |climate or the weather. Everything is being put on a permanent basis and we trust that no i'll report will ever l De made of the Second Arkansas"
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-22
EDUCATION
 PREPARING APPORTIONMENT

Little Rock, Aug. 22.-The Depart ment of Education is preparing to make the annual apportionment of the school fund on the first Monday ir September. It is not known yet just what the fund will be, as the report has not been made by the State treas urer, and not all of the collections are ln yet. The indications are that there Will not be a very large increase Tn lhe enumeration of pupils. ln some instances the counties will show a Oecrease. For instance, Howard couu- " reported 5673 persons of school age ln 1915, and this year there are 4599. scoU county reports a decrease from O02 to 546S. There are not a great Pnany counties, however, that show a decrease.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-22

Jack Johnson, Jr, has the Septem- Der Ladies Home Journal for sale. Telephone PAP.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-22

The ladies of the Park Association will give a Fried Chicken Supper" at the Park next Tuesday evening. Plenty of chicken-fried, and other good things to eat.-Advt.
 CONVINCE
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-22
TWO PARDONS BY
 GOVERNOR YESTERDAY

Little Rock, Aug. 22.-Two more pardons were granted yesterday by the governor. One was to James Orr of Pulaski county, who was convicted Oct. 24, 1914, of assault to rape, ana sentenced to 21 years in the peniten- tiary: the other was o. M. Clevenger, of Sevier county, convicted of bigamy Aug. 1, 1916, and sentenced to three years imprisonment.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-22
HIS FAULT.

That is the shortest dress you have ever wornw
 Well, it is your fault"
 "I'd like to know how | am to blame for it?"
 When I asked you for it you said that you were the shortest you had ever been. and I tried to make it suit your purse. "-EXchange.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-22

TRADE IN PRESCOTT.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-22

With the approach of the new years work for the University of Arkansas, attention is called to the splendid progress that has been made in that institution. It started in 1872 with sixteen pupils enrolled in the University proper. Twenty years later there were 16S. The next ten years saw it increased to only 234. Then it's great periods of prosperity began. The next five years witnessed an increase of more than 100 per cent, with 530 students in 1907 The in- crease from then on was steady, until there was in 1916 an enrolment of Sl4. Out of total of thirteen repre- sentative universities of the country, only one, the University of Kentucky, had a large enrolment last year, re- porting total of S92. Vanderbilt had only 427, Washington X Lee 305, end the celebrated University of Nir- ginia, almost as old as the Union itself. and endowed for millions, had only 532.
 Nine years ago there were ll47 en- rolled, but more than half were in the preparatory department, which was discontinued several years ago. Had the same standards of entrance re- quirement been continued, the enroll ment now would exceed 2,000. Dur ing the last biennial period, the State appropriated $11O,0OO for its Uni versity and College of Agriculture, and ten other Southern States appro- priated an average of $227,000 for the same purpose. Which shows that the University is not grabbing every thing" as some people insinuate.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-22
FOUR MORE COUNTIES
 TO SETTLE WITH STATE

Little Rock, Aug. 2,.-The collectors of the counties of Independence, St. Francis, Perry and Poinset have not yet made their settlements with the State for the taxes of 1915. When these payments are in, the $47,00O in outstanding warrants will be wiped out, and there will be enough left in the general revenue fund to make the August, September, October and probably the November pay roll. Th,s is considerably better than last year, since the August pay roll came before the floating debt was eliminated, and the treasury did not catch up at all.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-22
PRICES MUST ADVANCE
 INSTEAD DECLINE
Some Say Cotton Will Go to p Cents Pound Banks Have More Money Than Ever-PrO- gress Made by University.
By Clio Harper.

Little Rock, Aug. 22.-There are two predictions that stand out clearly in the consideration of business pros poets for next fall and winter. One i5 that the prices of most commodities that enter into the economic life of the state must advance rather than decrease. The other is that the mar ket value of the farmers products, in cluding cotton, must also advance to figures that have not been known be- fore in years.
 There are some optimistic folk who are predicting that cotton will go 10 20 cents, and even 2 cents. Other farm products are advancing in pro- portion and the farmer who raised a big crop of wheat this year has a mint .of money
 Little Rock jobbers, returning from the eastern markets, report that prices are advancing, and that it is already almost impossible to secure some hnes of goods on account of the de- mand being much greater than the supply. Again it is the European war jinX that is to blame for these condi- tions. Merchants are putting in heavier stocks than usual in prepara- tion for the coming of higher prices.
 There is more money in the banks than ever before and general condi- tions are prosperous. We hear on re- ports of great armies of unemployed, such as were common several years ago. All industries are at work, and nave held up through the dull summer season without the customary sum- mer slump. The lumber mills have been especially active, and new indus tries are being added every year for the utilization of the states resources and the employment of it's labor.
 Merchants are most optimistic over the future, and are predicting that the coming fall season will witness the greatest season of prosperity the state has ever known.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-22

Let us have that order of printing We do not do lithographing, but can satisfactorily execute anything that you need in the printing line.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-22
OPPOSITE VIEW.

My husband and I will neve" agree on religious matters"
 Why not?"
 His idea of heaven is place where women cant talk, and that's my idea of the other place.-Clipped
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-10
Dies Mile Of Ditch a Day.

The largest excavating machine
ever built Is capable of digging a mile
of ditch six feet deep and IL feet wide
every day. 1t is employed in the con.
struction of canals and laterals CON-
prising an irrigation system to water
the 10000 acres which compose the
Cudahy ranch, situated in the Imperi-
al valley of Mexico. The conditions are
identical with those of the valley OF
the Nile, for this ranch is of silt lands
built up by the ages of overflow of
the Rio Grande. The machine weighs
100000 pounds and covers an area Of
25x60 feet. 1t is entirely of steel con-
struction and is propelled by two thir-
ty horse power oil engines. The fore
gines which drive shaft wheel,
which in turn, by series of cogs and
chains, propels the machine over the
ground and at the same time operates
the immense circular digger carried at
the rear. This digger is equipped with
scoops bearing sharpened blades of
steel. 1t first picks up the dirt and,
revolving upward, drops it's burden
on to conveyors which carry it to
both sides, depositing it upon the
banks of the excavation. The machine
is so nicely adjusted that it can dig
ditch from two inches up to eight
feet in depth and from four to ~
feet wide, shaping and finishing the ex-
cavation as it proceeds. With this ma
chine seven men do the work of 80
scraper shovels hauled by 100 mules,
with a driver for each team
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-10
Wanted to Save His Soul.

The extension division of the Uni
versity of Kansas has one less pack
age library on Socialism since a wom-
an at Harper took the liberty recently
of showing her opinion regarding such
literature.
A young man rooming in her house
had obtained from the university a
number of books dealing with Social
ism He had left them on his library
table The woman, in cleaning up his
room, found the volumes which to her
mind represented all the evils of an
archy and infidelity and unmention-
able crimes. She decided to save the
young man from danger and lost no
time in putting the vile books into
the fire.
The young man wrote an anxious
letter to the extension department ex-
planning the matter, and the depart
ment has decided to excuse him.
From the University Kansan.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-10
Stephens
Statistics
By JOHN PHILIP ORTIZ


There was no question but that Miss
Gladys Farnham got a good husband
when she married Stephen Agnew. He
was with a life insurance company
and stood high for character. For the
first three months after marriage
there were entertainments at home
and the theater and other things
abroad, but then change came Mr..
Agnew became preoccupied. He went
about whispering to himself and he
neither wanted company at home nor
to seek advertisement outside. Every
night upon his arrival home it was the
library for him, and all the explana-
ton he had was that he was very busy
with Office matters.
If the young wife had been a coax
ing. persistent woman she could have
learned all about it after bit, but she
didn't coax, and after what she felt
was the one rebuff, she had no more
questions to ask. She took it out in
thinE = and at the end of six months
she haG ne to the conclusion that
her husband was a disappointed man
In marriage. He was still kindly and
even-tempe' I'd. but unless something
preyed on his mind. why should he go
about with that absent look on his
face. and why should he shut himself
up at home?
There was reason. and the wonder
was that it did not leak out sooner.
The life insurance company had pro-
noted Mr.. Agnew on his marriage to a
higher position and more salary, but
as an Offset he must delve into statis-
tics until he could reel right off the
number of old women in Indiana who
would die before the year expired, and
the number of old men in Michigan
who would never see another Christ
mas. He must gather into the folds
OF his memory all the diseases that
carried the insured to the grave-the
average of longevity since Moses came
out of the bulrushes-the action of the
human heart after a meal of pork and
beans-what the difference was be-
tween a man taking three or six nips
per day, and many other things.
He wasn't the man to give up after
he had started in, simply because sta
tistics danced before him day and
night but he kept on accommodating
and his wife kept on thinking she was
shamefully neglected, until climax
came. A friend limited at divorce, and
that brought the climax.
The plan adopted belonged to Mrs.
Agnew alone. There was no statistics
In it: that is, none that she had to
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-10

Nails, an Indispensable article for
everyday use in "a thousand and one
ways, are not. as many of us may sup
pose. of very ancient origin. Natur-
ally there has always been a substi-
tute, but it has only been since 1910
that machinery has been employed to
any extent in the manufacture of nails.
Previous =, chat time they were made
by hand by forging on an anvil, and
great numbers of men were employed
in tha industry.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-10
Presidents and Soldiers.

Washington, Monroe and Jackson
were soldiers in the Revolutionary
war; Jackson. w. H. Harrison, Tyler,
Taylor and Buchanan in the War OF
lSl2-l5; Lincoln in the Black Hawk
war Taylor, Pierce and Grant in the
Mexican war; Grant, Hayes, Garfield,
Arthur. B. Harrison and Mckinley in
the Civil war, and Roosevelt was in
the war with 6
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-10

bother with. Her husband had long
since collected them. On Thursday
afternoon, when the cook had gone to
the moving picture show, the wife
worked up an expression BETTING
! such an occasion and put on her hat
and cloak and went to q drug store
three blocks away. She had been In
there before with her husband. It was
the proprietor that came forward, and
after swallowing the lump in her
throat, she gently asked:
do you keep arsenic?"
Certainly, ma'am. What is 1t to
be used for?"
The stereotyped reply on such &C.
casions is Rats" and it was given.
But why not take a rat extermi.
nator?"
I'D rather have arsenic"
you'll have to write your name and
address in the book"
Every we'll"
! 1t was written, and after she had
! secured enough arsenic to give fifty
I rats that tired feeling and then some
more she departed.
Mrs Stephen Agnew 234 Vine ave-
nue." read the druggist again as soon
as the poison customer had left; and
then he asked of his clerk:
Isn't that the wife of that insur.
ance fellow who has come in here
quite often to get something for throb-
/ bling in the head?"
Shouldn't wonder"
She looked as if she was in trou.
BILE. and I'm sorry l let her have the
stuff. Well I'm clear Of the law, any.
how"
Two hours later the husband drop.
ped into the store to say that he had
wheels in, his head again, and the
druggist queried:
Married, aren't you?"
"Oh, yes"
Live at 234 Vine avenue?"
yes About the wheels in my head
You must"
{, "But wanted to say that your wife
was in here this afternoon and bought
arsenic"
! Good Lord,"
/ ITO poison rats"