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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-11

AZ the hills and the mountains or
the earth were suddenly leveled and
the earth take the shape of billiard
ball it would have covering of
water $3.50 feet deep.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-11

At. the age of rs, Pincus Rothstein
name. He has peititoned the court
of common pleas to allow him to
drop the Stein
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-11

there are some parts Of IT i can never
believe. I leave It to you. Here it
Is:
Tn kjoebenhavnek EamIlie havdo
forlenden on Oksoatog til MIDDAY.
Prison havde imidleTtId varet aen
hoef. at HI1smod oren forudBaa, at det
p1ev den sideste. For dog at have ct
Minde ON Okeskoedet bleye Stegen
darSor fotorgraferet'
] cannot imagine such thing hap
pening-not even in Copenhagen.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-11
CEMEN L BLOCKS.

Lime, plaster, cement. sand. sewer
pipe. etc. Prices right, quality and
service our specially Both phones.
q. NJ. WEST. Feed Supply Store.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-11

The ants or South Amerlca are.
even more Industrious than those Of
other countries. Ant tunnels three
miles In length are found in Bra
ziI.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-11
STOCKHOLDERS 5IEETINC.

The rcgulnr animal meeting Of the stock
holders of the Empire National Bank VIII
be held ut its banking house In the City OF
ClHrkSburE, w. Va, Tuesday, january
9th. 1917, Mt One o'clock, p. NJ. for the cleo
tion Of directors and the transaction of any
other business that may properly come be-
OSCAR c. WILT. Cashier.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-11

The Russian bazaar at the Seventy
First armory was probably the most
spectacular charity affair ever held
In New York. There was not 30
ciety woman in New York who was
not present. Among prominent people
i saw there were Col. Roosevelt, Vim
cent hstor. Arthur Iselln, Ogden
Mills and Finley j. Sheppard.
The star featuree OF the entertain
ment were Louis H. Chalif and Anna
Pavlowa, two of the most famous OF
the Russian dancers. It Is quite CUR
prising to see how these dances have
won the admiration and affection OF
New York audiences.
The minute either OF them appear
Led the Armory was fairy bursting
with applause. At another charity
affair were professionals who danced
the fox trot and modern dances were
the attractions there was very little
applause.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-11

he Is a little boy about fifteen
years old. But he has a head on his
shoulders. He opens carriage doors
and limousine doors at the Metropolis
tan and he averages about $40 a
week in tips. This despite the fact
that the Metropolitan has a carriage
man on duty at all times.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-11

NEW YORK. Dec. 1.-THE Hun
cry Club gave a dinner the other
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-11
USE GOOD HORSE SENSE IN PUR
CHASING AND you WILL GET RICH
On Second Street

Eight room frame, slate roof house finished in
iot oOxlOb Ieet $4,000 Terms, onethird balance
in one and two years Interest
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-11

A. token Worm has mailed me a
clipping from newspaper in Copen-
hagen. It is indeed interesting but
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-11
stealey Addition stealey Avenue

Five room cottage frame metal roof lot 40x12O to
IN alley $1575 s575 down, balance 500 per year
cent interest Here is for someone get
good bargain at the right price.
High class property on Meehanie street near Eifth
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-27

Fifty-seven out of each hum
dred killed or injured were pedes-
TRANS.
Fifteen out of each hundred
killed or injured were riding in
automobiles.
Fifty-fve out of each hundred
were riding in or using other con-
veyances.
Only about one-half Of one per
cent Of the fatalities were to chill
dren under twelve years OF age.
Sixty-two Of each hundred had
an unobstructed view Of ap-
preaching trains.
Twenty-six out of each hundred
had a partially obstructed view.
Fifty-eight out Of each hundred
we're either at fault themselves,
or were injured through some
fault of the person with whom
they were driving.
Forty-three persons out of each
hundred fatally injured were
struck while using crossings un-
protected by flagmen or other
wise. In other words, while pro
tected crossings are not as numer-
Gus as protected ones, yet numer-
ically and comparatively more
persons are killed at protected
crossings.
People are killed at railroad
crossings in many ways other
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-27

fronts in small matters; his proper
ambition, which led him to seek
honorable preferment, yet never
betrayed him into mere selfish
ness; his heroic modesty; his
humor-will enrich any mind,
young or old, that studies them.
Above all, for the American,
Lincoln incarnated American dem
ocracy. It's technic will differ
from decade to decade. Specifical-
ly it will now seek one object and
now another; but it's enduring
spirit is embodied in his life and
utterances.
Schools do teach something of
Lincoln "a vague sketch and
smattering of him. 1t is high
time he became a staple of Amer
lean education. HIS Collected Writ
ings and speeches not only contain
the soul of the American story
but are highly worth reading
simply as literature-as the pict.
ure of a mind slowly evolving out
of apparent commonplace into
supreme greatness, and so leading
people through great crisis.
There should be at least one
year of Lincoln in every American
high school, Saturday Evening
Post.
The above furnishes a topic fol
an interesting discussion. Com
ments by local educators would
make helpful reading Editor.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-27
INFORMATION
FOR THE PUBLIC
On Problems Of Education

Announcement has emit ly
been made by DR.. c. A. Wagner,
that copies of a bulletin explain
ing the following topics will be
mailed upon request as long as the
supply holds out:
II. A Permanent Card Record
of Pupils Work;
III. Relieving Schools that are
too large;
". Assistants for the County
superintendent;
V. Establishing Standard Re
Ruirements of Conditions for
Schools.
VI. Basing Proportion of State
Dividend Given a School District
on it's Percentage of Attendance of
the Children.
VII. A Minimum Attendance
Law based on Age and Grade of
Pupil.
VIII. State Payment toward cost
of Tuition of all High School Pu-
pills.
TX. Appointment of a State High
School Inspector who shall be AS
sistant to the Commissioner of Ed
ucation.
X. More exact Report of Cash
received and expended by School
Districts.
XI. Regular Health Inspection
of School Children by their Teach
er.
XII. Permission for County
Teachers Institute to be held
Jointly or combined, in any Coun'
ty of the State.
XIII. Increase of Salary for the
County Superintendent.
XIV. Revision of Plan of Man
agement of the money affairs OF
Colored Schools.
XIV. Appointment of Commits
sion to Revise the Entire Schoo
System.
vi. The Establishment of Tex
book Depository within the state
where schools could order and Sc
cure regular supplies of text
books.
Upon request, County Superln
tendents will attend meetings t.
explain these propositions or vii
send a speaker to do so.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-27

than being struck by trains. For
instance, two out Of each hundred
on account of motor engines Ego
ing dead" at the wrong moment,
over thirteen out of each hundred
on account Of horses becoming
frightened, three out Of each hum
dred on account Of defective
planking or paving on the road
way or sidewalk. The truth Of
the matter is that 40 per cent out
of each hundred persons killed or
injured at crossings are due to at
tendant causes, not to the mere
fact of the existence of the cross
ings.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-27
A Year Of Lincoln

We are indebted to Judge R. M.
Wanamaker, of the Supreme Court
of Ohio, for this fine idea: Let
American high schools teach at
least one year of Lincoln, in place
of a year of Caesar, Cicero or
Vergil, which nine high-school
pupils out of ten uselessly biunder
through and forget within a few
years.
Teaching the use of the English
language is one of the prime OBJ
iects of public-school instruction:
Lincoln was one Of the masters OF
English. His simple, luminous
sentences, which go as straight as
bullets. are models for the pupil
that cannot be improved upon.
School instruction seeks to form
and strengthen pupils reasoning
powers.
To follow Lincoln's m d
through his great controversies
is an education in reasoning that
no classical example surpasses'
Bv classical examples schools seek
to teach "the huminities"-an In
telligent, tolerant comprehension
of ones fellow men. In all eXtant
literature no man exhibits THIS
quality more consistently and per
suasively than Lincoln. Hll
courage, which staked all, dared
all. and stood like rock when a
great cause was involved, yet was
ever ready to compromise, to wink
at delinquencies, and pass by al
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-27

To abolish grade crossings a.
fast as financial conditions per-
nit is the purpose of the rail-
roads, but experience shows, that
even where undergrade or over
grade crossings, or gates ana
watchmen are provided at great
expense of labor and money, accl-
dents still continue. This only
goes to prove that the human ele-
ment is a larger factor in all &C
cident cases, and that a very
large majority of accidents can
be prevented by the exercise OF
care on the part of the indivld-
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-27
My Ideal

/ wish | were as trig a man,
AS big man,
AS bright man.
wish | were as right man N
all this earthly show,
AS broad and high and long a
man,
AS strong a man,
AS fine man,
AS pretty near divine man as
one l used to know.
| wish | were as grave man,
AS brave man,
AS keen a man,
AS learned and serene a man, as
fair to friend and foe,
l wish | owned sagaciousness
And graciousness
AS should a man
A man who hopes to be as good a
man as one l used to
know.
I'd be a creature glorious,
Victorious,
A wonder man,
Not just-as nova blundel
man whose ways and
thoughts are slow,
If | could only be the man,
One half of one degree the
man,
I used to think my father was
when | was ten or so!
-Berton Braley in McClure'S
Magazine.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-27

ual traveller on the highway. Bet
ter be careful than crippled; bet
ter be safe than sorry; are good
maxims to follow. If necessity
for caution were as instructive
as for him to step aside from a
snake in the road, or carefully
avoid crossing a field if there
happened to be a bull in it, life
and limb would be increasingly
conserved.
Let the public get the Safety
habit. Then, not only will they
Stop, Look, and Listen, but they
will Stop, Look, Listen-and Re-
fleet.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-27
PUBLISHES
SOME STATISTICS

Urges Public To Avoid Tres
passing
Based on the number of acct
dents at crossings on one of the
principal railroads of this coun-
try, the figures covering a period
of eighteen months, we find the
following interesting statistics:
Thirty out of each hundred
persons killed or injured were on
foot.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-12-09

n. y.-some peepUl have big fu-
nerals because they have lots of
friends, but agin that amt the only
reesOn so don't swell all up with pride
if you happen to do like that Teller
mark twain rOte about who sat up
on the hearse at his funeral and see
a big crowd of the peepel you
knowed when you was alive at your
funeral
last week a very rich man died
here & i CESS there is few men who
left more enemies behind him & he
was so meen to ythe peepel that
worked for him in his phase Of bizzi-
ness that none Of them liked him
so the undertaken who had charge
of the job was surprized when he
saw all the feIlers that ever mowed
this rich man coming to the funeral
& most of them went along to the
graveyard to see him planted
that's funny, the undertaken said
to his assistent, dident know this
man had so many friends
so he asts Of the men standing
neerthe grave, were you or the de-
seeZed's trends
& the man says, not on your life,
and no one else is i CESS
then how comes it, asts the under
taker, that there is so many heer
well its like this replyd the man,
we want to be sure that he's buried
for the only kind thing he ever done
for us was when he kicked of
ABLE TO BE UP
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-12-09
INVENTION

A Toledo wonder has invented a.
machine that is so much superior
than natures method for splitting
peas. His machine makes a much
fined split and saves the splits. He
finds the splits saved from 5O7 peas
is equal to 21a peas.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-12-09
ABLE TO BE UP

Jones (who has called round to see
if his friend has recovered from a
wild night)-Is Mr.. Wuzzy up yet?
Landlady (sternly)-Yes, he got
up an hour ago, drank his bath, and
went back to bed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-04-08
COMMENCEMENT
PLANS ARE READY
SECRETARY OF, ALUMNI ASSOCiA.
TON AT IOWA UNIVERSITY
ANNOUNCES THEM.

Iowa City, April preliminary
plans for the annual university CON-
mencement which have been drawn
up are made public by Theodore A.
Wanerus. secretary of the alumni as.
sociation. .... " =.
Governors day, with the review of
the cadet regiment by the chief execu-
tive of the state comes this year on
Friday, June 8, at o'clock in the af-
ternoon. Rev. John Gardner of Chi
cago, delivers the baccalaureate adj
dress on Sunday afternoon, June IL,
at 4 o'clock. @ "
Monday, June IL, is class day de-
voted to the seniors and alumni day
comes Tuesday. Class breakfasts
will be held Tuesday morning and the
annual dinner of Presbyterian alumni
will be at noon on June 10. In the
afternoon there will be the annual
alumni baseball game while THE Pr
per-" by the Pandean players, is to be
put on at 4 o'clock. Commencement
exercises of the literary societies will
be held in the evening.
Prof. Bliss Perry, Of Harvard, gives
the address before the commencement
Of all the colleges which is held at 9
o'clock Wednesday morning at the
university armory. The annual alum
nj dinner is set for 1890 o'clock on
this day, while President and Mrs.
Macbride will receive alumni and Wis
itors In the afternoon. The senior
hop in the armory at o'clock will be
the last event of commencement time.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-04-08
FORD THINKS THAT
ALIMONY IS LARGE

Des Moines. April 7.-Although the
Polk county district court decreed
that E. E. Miles, former Valley juno
ton railroad man, should pay his
divorced wife $25 month alimony,
Henry Ford. Detroit peace ship pro-
moter, has decided the amount is too
high and has ordered 1t reduced by
more than one-half Miles is now en-
ployed in the Ford factory.
A Ford check for Sc was received
here by Attorney James E. Goodwin,
counsel for Mrs. blanche Miles, now
resident of Monticello. An accom-
panying letter states similar check
will be sent twice month until June
Is, when the full amount of alimony
ordered by the court would be forth
coming
A short time ago, after the Des
Moines attorney had written to the
Ford factory concerning the alimony
due from Miles, letter was received
saying $25 month was too much and
that $12 would be reasonable. The
letter came from Ford's sociological
department. After June Is Miles sal
airy will be raised and he will be able
to pay the $25 the letter stated.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-04-08
COUNCIL BLUFFS
ADOPTS STATUE
oskALOoSA CONFERS MOST uN-
USUAL FAVOR IN GRANTING
PERMISSION.

Oskaloosa. April 7.-Oskaloosa city
as municipality has conferred upon
Council Bluffs municipality most
unusual favor in the granting OF per-
mission by adoption of resolution on
the part of the city council, ar the
erection in Council Bluffs of replica
of the statue of "Chief Mahaska," now
In the Oskaloosa city park. .
So far as is known this is the first
time In the history of the state OF
Iowa that one city has thus favored
another municipality.
The resolution granting the favor
to the city of Council Bluffs was
adopted by the Oskaloosa council on
ly after the written consent OF the
donor of the statue, James ID. Ed
mundson, and it's sculptor, Sherry Fry,
had been filed with the council.
The affair was engineered and
brought about through the personal
effort of Edgar R. Harlan, cura-
tor of the historical department or
Iowa, who has been engaged upon the
mission a number of weeks and who
obtained the written consent OF the
originator of the statue of Chief Ma
haska and the sculptor, Sherry Fry.
Mr.. Harlan has been in Oskaloosa
a number of times in connection with
the project and appeared before the
council to explain the reason for the
request, embodied in the resolution
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-04-08
WOMEN ARE AHEAD
ON HOUSE PLANS

Ames, April 6. Uni ; the men OF
Iowa who have ideas farm home
construction bestir themselves, the wo.
men will win all honors in the home
planning contest conducted by Iowa
State college. Practically eight out Of
ten of the plans already received at
the Office of President R. A. Pearson
are from women and of the women a
majority are married women.
This contest, which closes April IS,
is being conducted to secure helpful
ideas for the designing ). of model
Iowa farm home costing not to exceed
$1,000 for materials and labor. The
best ideas will be worked out in a new
house that Ia to be erected this season
on the agronomy experiment farm of
the college and they may also be pub
lished in bulletin form later on. For
the best ideas $50 In cash prizes has
been offered. The competition is open
to any one who has good ideas to offer.
The plans submitted need not be in
architectural form; they need merely
be in such form as makes them clearly
understood.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-04-08
AMES PLANNING -.
SOIL ACIDITY DAY

Ames, April 6. If any farmer in
Iowa Is uncertain whether his soil is
acid or not he will have special oppor-
tunity to fnd out on soil acidity day
April IA, just announced by the Iowa
agricultural experiment station at
Ames. On that day all the soil labora-
tories at. Iowa state college will be set
at work testing soil samples sent in
for examination. The results will be
sent out Immediately thereafter to all
concerned. ...s
Iowa's soils are more generally acid
than iS commonly supposed and that ia
one reason why 1t Is so often difficult
to get stands of clover and alfalfa
They will not grow in sour soil. In the
past year or two the soils section Of
the experiment station has examined
many hundreds of samples of soil for
acidity and the results show that acid
conditions may be found on farms in
every part of the state Nowhere Is
the condition beyond easy remedy, but
that remedy, says w. H. Stevenson,
head Of the soils department, needs to
be applied in the form of lime
No charge will be made for the tests
for acidity and any Iowan may take
advantage of it. The soil sample
should be sent by parcel post to the
soils section, agricultural experiment
station, Ames, as soon as possible and
before April IA. To take the soil
samples, remove the grass or other
vegetation from about ten different
ypots q few rods apart in the field
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-04-08
IOWA WOMAN is
! CHARGING BIGAM -.

Iowa City. April Mrs. Charles E..
Stewart of Davenport charges her
husband with bigamy., The police of
Iowa City have landed him at Duluth.
Mimi, where Chief John w. Miller
trailed him through numerous cities
and several states. The man will be
brought back to Iowa City where his
second wife resides, 1t is alleged he
wed the Iowa City woman without the
formality Of divorce from the Dav
export woman. He was arrested some
time ago for alleged desertion of his
child in Iowa City, but this was patch
ed up in court. He then disappeared
and subsequent to the publication Of
the story of his arrest in the Daven-
port Times, the Davenport wife filed
her complaint with the local police,
with the result above noted. 80
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-04-08
RAISE
MONEY QUICKLY.
AMES PEOPLE RESPOND WITH
$892 IN JUST THREE
MINUTES.

Ames, April Flight hundred and
ninety-two dollars were raised in just
three minutes by mass meeting OF
Iowa State college students. to be used
for Y. M. G. A., work In the European
trenches and in the Philippine Islands.
in response to an appeal made by w.
A. Tener, Iowa State, '0b.
Tener, Familiarity known as BILL
who was a great college hero OF a
generation ago, was varsity football,
baseball, and track athlete, and win
ner in state oratorical contests. He
has been for number Of years, Sec
rotary of the Y. M. G. A., work In the
Philippine Islands. He is at present
touring the United States In the in
terest of that work.
After listening to Tener's appeal for
help for his work in Manila and the
Philippine Islands, students of Iowa
State college enthusiastically pledged
money to help him continue the work.
One contribution was for $50, one for
$25, three for SIS, eight for so, Is or
30 for SIS. Practically no pledge was
for less than 81. Secretary Fred M.
Hansen of the college Y. M. G. A., be-
lieves that this Is better than any
other college or university in the coun-
try has done for the foreign Y. M. c..
A., support. Three hundred dollars
of the money will go to Europe. The
rest will go to Manila.
Tener is accompanied on his trip
through the United States by T. r.
Yangco, prominent business man of
Manila, president of the Filipino Y.
M. G. A., and the Philippine board OF
trade.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-04-08
CHIEF AND MEN
RAID LITTLE MEXICO

Fort Madison April 7. Chief Of Pc
lice Matt Thrasher and six officers
raided Little Mexico the settlement
of Santa Fee laborers, who live in bunk
cars south of Shopton. and secured six
revolvers, one, rifle, ten pint bottles of
whisky and twelve half pint bottles of
whisky. One Mexican, Monica Mareni,
was arrested 1t is believed by the po-
lice that he has sold liquor to the col
ony The ever recurring shooting at
trays and knife stabbing scenes in that
vicinity have been too frequent of late
and the minions of the law took this
recourse .,