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ALSO SPR].lNGEL..IIE!IE|. / !.
[IIIIlELALgERs NOW ]!
And the Great Armies Gel
ebrated by Flying at,
Each Other.

BERLIN, Jan. 27.-Reports from
France and Flanders say a favorable
turn in weather had been followed by
active fighting on the entire western
front. Along nearly the whole line
the roar of artillery is heard but the
heaviest fighting has been in the victn-
ity of Nieuport to the north Of Ypres
and in the Argonne.
German patrolltng parties brought
back word that German artillery had
done effective work against trenches
Of the allies near Nieuport.
THE British artillery, 1t is said, ws
hardly less active than that OF the
Germans. On one section of the front
the British fred /, 200 shrapnel shells,
700 high explosive shells and about
the same number OF bombs within a
period OF "a hours.
The mine explosions mentioned in
Tuesday official bulletin Of the Ger,
man Headquarters staff were four in
number. The Germans Immediately
occupied the craters caused by the
explosion.
In another section near MELVILLE
the Germans announced that they cap
tured successive lines of French
trenches and held them against eight
counter attacks and it Is affirmed that
these trenches are still In German
hands although. fighting for their pos
session has assumed the character of
hand to hand encounters.
The Germans also claim progress
to the south of Arras through the work
OF the sappers and miners.
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co. VOTERS
Strong FOR ROADS
Bond Issue in Kingwood Dis
tricts Indicates Success
in Other Districts.

Kingwood district, Preston county,
on Tuesday approved bond issue OF
s164, 1000 for road construction and by
that action brought the people Of Fair
mont one step nearer to the great
eastern road system which extends
from the Maryland line to the Atlantic
coast and up into New England.
The vote on the proposition was the
largest ever polled in the district and
the majority in favor was very large.
THE result is accepted by the good
roads advocates of Preston county as
Indicating the certain success of road
i,ond issues in Lion and Valley dis
fricts. When these districts Join the
movement, Fairmont will be in direct
fouehSwith the Maryland road system
by waySof Morgantown, for Portland
district. Preston county, has already
voted for bonds With which to build
roads.
Theswestern terminus Of the Mary.
land road system at present is Oakland
hut by the time the Portland district
SIoadss are built, the Maryland road Will
lbeSScarried to the state line to make
q Eonnection: Portland district part
III the route extends from the state
HE to Albrightyille on the Cheat
SiS II The bond issue, which was au.
sSCfzed itbyS the voters OF Kingwood
district Tuesday, will carry 1t to Tun-
feitons and It. is now expected that
jtifiiinsaSfewlweeks the people OF Lion
district will take up the good work
and authorize the raising OF funds
TIlichswillS permit of its. further exten'
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Jewish RELIEF
FII.UNI..DH'N||I||'|I|LI.|L! ! |. |! Be /.
over YER $1,000.
Almost sgOOfWas Actually in
Hand at / O'clock
Today.
,nrMrrlr rn IIElE rnnRRI
benefit TO HEAR FROM.
IFairmont's Response Was
Most Gratifying to Those
IN Charge.

If every town in the country does
as well as did Fairmont, the $4,000, 600
which the Jews Of America hoped to
raise today for their suffering people
in the war stricken countries OF Europe
and Asia will be more than realized.
At one o'clock today the sum actual
1y in the hands Of Simon D. Good
man, treasurer Of the local fund, stood
at $S91,22, and it was certain that the
sum that will be realized here will be
in excess OF thousand dollars. The
proceeds from the benefit perform
ances at the Dixie theatre will be en-.
ough to push the total across the thou
sand dollar line.
Mr.. Goodman and the other local
leaders in the movement would have
been satisfied had but half of this am
cunt been raised. AS 1T is, they are
very much gratitied over the Fairmont
results. The contributions up to 1 o.
clock today were as follows:
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Better Car Service
For the East Side
'MoNoNeAHELA VALLEY TRAc,
TIoN COMPANY HAS PLANS
UNDER CONSIDERATION

"A street car line loop to take in the
larger part of the East Side is being
discussed by the Monongahela Valley
Traction company officials. This line,
should It be decided upon, will reach
the business district to be opened in
the vicinity of the proposed new
bridge terminal and in close prox-
Unity to the Monongahela Railway
company's freight and passenger sta
tions.
Tentative plans for the new loop
which have been submitted, call for
a line to run from the East Side bridge
as it now stands, out to the inter
section Of East Park avenue and Mer-
chant street. To make the loop It
would be necessary to run the line
along Merchant street to Newton and
then over the mound to State street.
From State street the cars would go
down Raymond to- Morgantown ave.
nue. to tho Speedway thence to the
Fair Grounds and around the loop
there TO the East Park line on it's
present route.
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WILSON OPPOSES
Amendment. ! | ] FOR
NOMEN'S VOTES
Tells Congressional Union
Suffrage is a Matter for
the States.
Continued on page 81


(3y Associated Pressl
NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-Prestdent
Wilson refused today to support the
movement for an amendment to the
Federal constitution giving woman's
suffrage. He spoke briefly to 200
members of the Congressional Union
for suffrage and told them he felt the
suffrage question should be dealt with
by the individual states.
The President received the sutfra-
gists after they had waited for him for
more than an hour in the Waldorf AS
toria which he made headquarters on
his arrival here this morning prepar-
ed to make two or three addresses dur
ing the day.
Efforts made by Mrs. Mary Beard,
wife of the Columbia University pro-
lessor, to cross examine the Presi-
dent ON his position met with failure.
He refused courteously to reply to her
query. The President apologized to
the women for not seeing them earlier,
but told them he had been at work
since arriving in New York.
He added that "it may be that my
mind works slowly but ! have always
thought that there were things which
should be built slowly and therefore
made more lasting. / may be little
old In fashion in the view that the
suffrages question should be handled
by the states"
President Wilson arrived here; at 6
A. NJ. today to face q program calling
for a reception for clergymen, the de-
livery of addresses before two busi-
ness organizations and the probability
that he would be interviewed by 200
women seeking his APPROVAL OF sun
rage amendment to. the Constitution
and by delegation OF German:Am
ericans who want, him to persuade the
British government to permit the ship
ment Of milk from America for babies
in Germany.
Altogether the President looks for
ward to buy, day, Mr.. Wilson
expects to leave New York for Wash
sinEtonE az s.mid idnight and to. leave the
Capital tomorrow night for his vest
erns tour.
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Graft B Bank Case
Is Being Argued

GRAFTON; Jan 27-Arguneut wa
begun todayGand is still IN progress this
afternoon in circuit court on a plea %
abatement filed sbY the defense IN the
case Of Chas. r. Durbin former presl-
dent OF the Grafton bank OF Grafton
which closed its doors d year ago. Hr
was Sindicted at this term Of court -
charges of embezzlemeut.
The defense coutended that the
grand Jury was Improperly drawn ana
improper testimony had influenced th1
jury in returning fts indictments
nv Judge JohnsH. Holt OF Huntington.
and P. ]. Croganl OF IHtngwood for Dur
bin with ex.Congressman s.. 3. Avis.
special Representative Of the state L.
gal department assisting the proaecut.
ing attorney in CONDUCTING the 1iat1
side OF. the case.
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Want $4,000 Fund Increas-
ed to at Least $780,
600.
At wheeling BANQUET
Lay1nen and Clergy Will Be
Invited to Attend the
Feast.

At the business melting yesterday
sofS the clergy attending the Conyoca-
stion at the Christ Episcopal church,
ON washington street, It was decided
upon to hold a meeting in wheeling,
February % for the purpose OF IN
!creasing the endowment fund which which
isEnowi approximately $4,000 to q sum
not TO exceed 500, 1000. =
at this proposed meeting there will
De a large banquet served and clergy
and lay delegates from all over the
sstateAwills be asked to attend. It was
also decided at the business session
ISesterday afternoon to make the read;
ing OF reports OF the revival services
throughout the country the order OF
today. The reports are coming In
now and those so far heard seem TO
indicate that the natl ionswide revival
movement OF the church was a. great
er success than had been anticipated.
During the business session yester:
TiaY Rev, d. Britting CHAM, OF Wheeii
M. AFTER rend dering his ESSAY, The tl
W6man,s Part, found that his pa
YSsr had deYeloped q, suffrage issue!
Tffs drought About the question
Rmongsf die al tending the con.
Tocatfons ID who was In faTor and
~i5o atafftst sW6nan'as1 s1iftfaEes stae;
tically all Of them though holding e
sympathetfcE attithde for the move
iients Were3on the fence and willing
Go be Convinced either way.
The ten o'clock services this morn.
ling were opened and conducted by
Rev. J.sH. Clark of Sistersyille. AT
MS services Rev. D. S. 8. Moore
preached a very scholarly sermon on
aBehold the Lamb Of God" Rev. Mr..
Beyytn, pastor OF Christ church, was
unable to attend this service on ae'
cunt OF a severe cold and sore throat.
Rev. Harry E. Lee OF the Episco;
nal church at Charlottesville, Va, ar
rived In the city this morning and was
introduced to the convocation and lat
er made an address.
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An Hour Of Toll
For t9:E !. Dlanbiy Hattelr'is rs
UNIQUE PLAN TO RELIEVE MEN
= WHOSE ONES ARE IN I
DANGER
.(By .AasocIated Press)

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Jan. 27.-or-
ganized labor throughout the United
States today Is expected to give the
value of an hours labor to the cause
of the Hatters of Danbury. Conn,
whose homes are about to be sold
at auction in foreclosure proceedings.
The money will go into fund Icing
raised by the American Federation
Of Labor for relief Of the 1s0 defend
ants in the famous suit of D. p. Lowe
& company. versus Martin Lawler,
and others which begun in 1903, reach
ed Its final stage in the United States
district court here last week when
an order was issued relative to the
sale OF property taken under attach
ment in the boycott suit.
There are 155 parcels of property
mostly the modest little homes of men
who we-s named among the defend
ants.
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Mrs. Warren Leaves
Suffrage Committee

Mrs. Eugene Warren, of Huntington,
a member of the West Virginia Wo,
mems Suffrage campaign committee,
has resigned her position on that COM
mittee and her successor has not
been named. The other members OF
the committee are Miss Margaret Nc
Kinney, Of Fairmont; DR.. Harriet B,
Jones, OF Wheeling; Mrs. ]. Gale
Ebert, Of Parkersburg, president OF
the West Virginia Equal Suffrage
league, and Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost, OF
Morgantown, chairman Of the cam
paign committee.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-27
Lewis Makes $4,000
in Thirteen Fights

Ted Lewis, the Englishman, who
fights from 1876 pounds up, has made
$4,000 in 13 fights since he came to
the United States and hung around
New York begging for a chance to
show his goods. He has been the
busiest fighter in the past two months
and has just signed for 10 fights In
80 days. He will average about
$500 for each fight. Lewis has not
been knocked down. The only mark
he received was cut lip.
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INlUN|GHONS
DOiTHENOR
Great Falling OFF in Traffic
Between Here and the
Point.

An; appreciable falling off in the
number OF tickets sold to Point Mar.
ion by the Baltimore & Ohio and the
Monongahela railways has taken
place in Fairmont since the Yost Law
injunctions against the companies be-
came effective. Less than one fourth
of the number Of tickets formerly sold
are now being handed; through the
windows of the rival lines to Point
Marion.
In the past week but one bag con.
tanning liquor was put off at the Fair.
mont stations, that one being handed
to a ticket agent OF the Monongahela
railway this morning. It contained five
quarts OF whiskey and some beer. 1t
was properly labeled but the owner
of the container did not know Of the
Injunction against the Monongahela
had been effected. si,.5 IA,
The wiser visitors to the Point in
former days used to buy tickets to
Morgantown for two cents mile and
then pay their way on the trains,
thereby saving enough for q couple of
schooners. The sale of tickets to the
college town has also fallen down to
a little more than it was before the
state went dry, which clearly tndi-
Gates that Fairmonters as a rule will
not make the trip for half gallon
OF liquor, which would cost them, at:
ter paying fare and giving the saloon.
keeper $1.25 quart, $40 per half
gallon. y
Representatives of both companies
here are glad that the injunctions have
been issued against the railroads, as
they claim they do not want the Fair:
mont to Point Marion and return bust.
ness. Trains that the companies have
put on to take care Of the excess
travel were for many months packed
with persons too drunk to be discreet
and { still mot in q condition that the
company could put them Of. The trains
now running between F'airmont and
iClarksburgs are gen orally pretty well
cleaned or whlskeyS totergiands the sat:
,tsfaction Of the train empl yeeB g
yGppatent:
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Bandit S ticks UP
Pitts burg j b Trolley .
WITH AID OF AN AUTOMATIC
HE COLLECTED THIRTY
DOLLARS

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 27.-1t be.
came known here today that lone ban
dit last night held UP and robbed the
crew of an Allegheny Valley street car
as it was passing through Cheswlck.
Conductor E. R. Covert was about
to collect the young mans fare when
he drew an automatic revolver, march.
ed the conductor to the front Of the
car and compelled the motorman to
accompany them and marched them
up the track. There he robbed them
OF $40 and escaped.
Several passengers fed in haste
when the robber drew his revolver.
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cAILEn 10 oRAFToN

Mrs. J3F. shafferman and daughter,
Miss Ruth, went to Grafton today
where they were called by the death Of
Mrs. Shafferman's aunt, Mrs: Elizabeth
Wotthlie, which. occurred at the home
of DR.. Hun, her son:in-law, at, Par:
sons yesterday. Mrs. Wotthlie resided
In Baltimore with a daughter and
came to Parsons for. Thanksgiving and
was taken i'll and died there yesterday.
er remains will be brought to Grafton
for burial.
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cApTuRgD soDIERs RETURNED.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Jan. 27-
Priyates William G. Wheeler and Wig
70 Peterson Of Battery B fourth field
artillery who were kidnapped yester.
day by Mexicans and taken south from
the border were rescued by Caranza
soldiers and brought to Matamoras
today: They were turned over to the
American authorities dressed in Mex;
lean clothes. III ,55
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Rs.lMArHERWAx RETTER

An unlocked for change for the bet
ter IN the condition Of Mrs. .. B. Wath-
erwax. who is very III at her home on
High street, has greatly encouraged
her physicians and nurses who now EN-;
ltertain hopes for her recovery. Mrs.
Watherwax'sz condition has been con
sIdered hopeless and her death waslal'
most momentarily expected when she
rallied, and today shows marked i'm.
proyement. s.5 ~ X, .se 4
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MADE ADDRESS

j. M. Jacobs Of the Jacobs.Hutchin;
son Hardware company, Of this city,
delivered an address before the West
virginia Retail Hardware Dealers AS
sociation in session yesterday at
Clarksburg.- Mr.. Jacobs spoke on the
subject "The Hardware Business and
Its Development"
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ERANcIs JosEPH sINkINe.l

fRoME, Jan. git Is reported In
Vatican circles that the condition OF
Emperor Francis Joseph OF Austria
who has I'LL for several weeks rs
rapidly; growing worse.
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ITihe Weather

west SyirginiasRain tonight: Friday
.rainForg snow and colder, With strong
west and northWest winds.
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.LocAL WEATE.Ea READINea

70 z, Hall. UplrTVIT1
Tampefaturaat8 8 4. u. today 11.
Yesterday,s weather cloudy; Temps
atnre, ma fmum 6es minimum IS : rI4
~.
River. 1s.s; talltns ~
The fool-killer., 1916-12-01

tious to be known as poets, but are
either too ignorant or too lazy to
conform to the old rules. Hence
they are trying to run great
bluff on us and make US believe
that their sway-backed silly stuff
is real poetry. They want us to
believe that their lack Of form is
in fact new form, and that it
takes quite as much poetic skill
to master it as the old forms.
But it amt SO, so,sWeetheart. There
is nothing to it. I hereby chal-
lenge any "new poet'' to this
test: Let one of them grind out
his very best effort in that line.
Let him divide it up into long
lines and short lines just as he
thinks it ought to be, according to
the rules of his new system. Then
I will take it and write it out in
plain prose form. Then I will ask
some other ''new poet" who has
not seen it in it's first form to turn
it back into "new poetry, divid-
ing it into lines exactly like the
first poet wrote it.. I'll bet my
luther breeches against your Aunt
Sindy's corset that it can't be
done. Furthermore, I will take
pair of tin scissors and a Gov
ernment Report on the Cattle Tick
in Texas, and in five minutes ]
can clip out and paste together
as good ''new poem'' as any OF
'em can write between now and
next lassy- y-makin time.
The fool-killer., 1916-12-01
ALL FOOLS TOGETHER.

Sing a song of foolishness, laughing
stocks and cranks!
The more there are the merrier; come
and join the ranks!
Life is dry and stupid; whoop her up
bit!
Donkeys live in clover; bray and
throw fit!
Don't take yourself in earnest, never
stop to think:
Strut and swagger boldly, dress in
red and pink;
Prate Of stuff and nonsense, get your
self abused;
Some ones got to play the fool to keep
the crowd amused!
Let me laugh at you, then you can
laugh at me;
Then we'll josh together everything
we see;
Everyone's nincompoop to another's
views;
Laughter makes the sun shine!
Whoop-te-doodle-do
The fool-killer., 1916-12-01
A TIP FOR FORD.

Our friend Ellis O. Jones has
given Henry Ford some mighty
good advice. He says if Henry
wants to become a real success
in life he must study the highly
perfected methods of John D.
Rockefeller, Let him go to New
Jersey, Colorado, and other
Rockefeller dominions, and OBJ
serve how splel didly Mr.. Rookie
feller manages his help. The
trouble with Mr.. Ford is that he
possess the fatal faculty Of getting
along too well with his men. He
is too liberal with them. This
makes them SO annoyingly happy
that they never want to strike,
and so they furnish the authorities
no excuse for shooting them down.
Mr.. Ford should mend his ways.
He will never get rich if he keeps
that up.
The fool-killer., 1916-12-01

keep on; but when it dies there
won't be many other papers left.
Why, blame it all, if they push me-
to it, | can pay ten cents a pound
for paper and an average Of five
cents pound for postage, and
still run this red-hot rag Of rebel
lion right along. And I can do ii
without raising the subscription
price Of the paper, too. Say,
honey, suppose you cut loose and
become a regular club-getter for
this fool paper! Send in as many
big clubs as you can at Is cents a
year each, and I'll be moderately
burned if I don t keep 'em awake
for twelve months, anyhow.
The fool-killer., 1916-12-01
A SERMON ON POETRY.

Up jumps the preacher agin, by
granniz. And If you-al don't OBJ
ject, he will now proceed to
chaw up few cubic yards of at
mosphere talking about "Poet-
ry."
Say, I reckon most Of you are
acquainted with the fact that your
humble servant sometimes breaks
out with bad case Of poetry
when there happens to be no
other disease handy.
But, thank goodness, [ never
have had the disease as bad as
some of these-here ''new poets"
that are taking the day and most
Of the night here lately. Honest
~, the funniest thing that has
happened in the literary world
since I got old enough to read is
the present "new poetry fad.
Why, bless yer gizzard, honey,
&hese-here ''new poets" have done
gone and kicked the old masters
down into the. cellar among the
rotten taters and old shoes, and
have set up new poetic standard
of their own. They have taken
Rhyme and Meter by their respec-
tive tails and slapped their heads
off against a .polyrithmic saplin.
They have taken the shoe from
the Poetic Foot and turned it out
plum bare-footed. In fact, they
have played general smash with
all the time-honored rules and
and customs Of Poetry, and the
new thing they have given us in
its place don't fit my conception
of poetry any better than leath,
er-wing bats hide would fit a
snow-bird. It makes me feel like
we have swapped a nightingale
for tin whistle that had been
stepped on by a club-footed COW.
The "new poetry" looks like
the grandmother Of crosscu1
saw, and sounds like the howl o1
a lost dog at midnight. It strikes
me as being the work of a gang
Of literary cobblers who are ambi
The fool-killer., 1916-12-01
WOW! OUCH!

Hank-take the sarn-fetched,
low-down, lousy, lamper-jawed,
leer-eyed, liberty-hating lollops
who are trying to muzzle the
Great American Press
AS If the newspapers and maya
zines twere not being hit hard
enough by the paper trust, now
here comes a set Of pufed-up pea
nut politicians and sawed-of
scrubs Of scallowag statesmen
and threaten to hit us poor editors
another Knockout blow by rails
ing the postage rates on us.
So they are geing to git us a
goin and a-comin'.
What does it mean, folkses?
Looks to me tt !-nal-nation
sight like some unseen power in
our government Or behind it has
made up its mind to utterly crush
out and destroy the newspaper
profession in this country. That
power-whatever it fs-is oppos-
ed to intelligence and don't want
the people to keep informed. It
thinks the people are reading and
studying too mueh-getting toe
well posted on the skin-games en-
ployed against them-and it is
necessary to cut off their main
source Of intelligence in order tc
keep them in the dark.
That the power or influence
which has run up the price Of
paper is the same power or infu
ence which is now trying to rur
up the second class postage rates
nobody can doubt for minute
The methods are the same, and the
object is the same. Somebody il
this country considers it then
business to wreck the newspapers
But who? That the question.
But shore as you are born
honey, that's just what we are VI
against. These enemies Of free
speech and free press are working
overtime to silence every free
press in America. If they can
do it by thribbling the price O.
paper, then they'll slip up on th'
blind side Of us and soak it to u
in the postage bill.
| Going to make us pay about si2
prices for postage to send out ou
papers, after having already paie
three prices for the white paper t,
start with. Who but an enemy O
enlightenment could suggest suc]
a rotten scheme? Who except al
unholy combination Of Devil
and Dollars could be mean enoug]
to do it?
:; But say, honey, [ want you t.
lget this as straight as my old au
tomato word-gun can squirt a
you: The Fool-Killer is not goin;
to be bluffed nor scared by an,
, such business. They can make
, harder for The Fool-Killer to live
and they can finally kill it if the,
The fool-killer., 1916-12-01

The Washington Herald reports
that Villa has been passing off the
time lately by getting married.
Provided she was in a good strong
iron cage, I would like to take
look at the woman who would
marry Villa.