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The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1916-02-11
MSS CHRISTINE BLAIR'S
BIRTHDAY PARTY

Miss Christine Blair celebrated ha~
tazh birthday last Friday evening
with a Valentine dance, using red
hearts in profusion to decorate the
rooms beside the growing plants
always so effective.
The table where punch was served
BY Ruth Anderson in pink and Mar
garet McNeel in white was beautiful
~ arranged with red hearts and red
candles and stood in a corner of the
dining room.
Miss Blair was dressed as Queen OF
hearts in white dress trimmed with
white satin ribbon and red hearts.
with bracelet and a crown of red
hearts. Lawrence Brumby wore i
crown of similar design and led the
grand march with the pretty queen.
The other girls wearing Valentine
costumes of white with red hearts
were Emmie Montgomery, Jeanette
Anderson, Evelyn Cheney, Virginia
Boston, Elizabeth and Dorothy Ste
phens, All these had red hearts
falling from their girdles on baby
ribbon in fringe effect or with
red heartsAapplied on their skirts.
Julia Mcneil wore white trimmed
with red ribbon but no hearts. Ma
ry Frances Gilbert and Elizabeth
Nolan wore red evening dresses.
Lucy Cole was a valentine incarnate
in white carleton, ruffled daintily to
the waist, With a red satin girdle
from which red hearts, strung on
red ribbons, fell to the bottom of the
skirt. A cap of two red tulle hearts.
wired to fit her head and tied un-
der her chin with a butterfly bow
of the tulle, and gold slippers com
pleted her. Lucille Morris was also
lovely in a red crepe dress trimmed
with gold hearts and with gold slip
pers. Constance Cole wore a pink
evening dress.
Hattie Black wore a white ac-
Gordon pleated wolfe with cream
lace and yellow sash. Katherine
DuPre wore white point desprit over
Dresden lowered silk with blue rib
bOns.
Charlotte Northcutt wore yellow
net with yellow low girdle tied in
a butterfly bow and with yellow bu.
TEXTILES on the skirt
Sarah Wood Granting, Mary Hol-
land and Lucille Sessions could not
be present. The boys invited Were
Harrison Smith, Robert Willingham.
Joe and Richard Marchman, GeorGa
Anderson, Andrew Graham, j. i.
Malone, BOlan Brumby, Jr., Arm
strong Hunt George NJ Morris, Fr, d
Morris, Joe Wyatt, Frank McNeal.
S. A. Connor, Robert Northcutt, On
slow Milan, Wallace Montgomery,
Archie Sessions, Douglas Mcneil,
Pat and Paul Read and Malcolm
Whitlock.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1916-02-11
MORRIS-RHODES.

Miss Mia Morris, of Gainesville
and Mr.. Paul Rhodes, Of Murphey
n. c., came down last Sunday morn
ing to visit Mr.. and Mrs. c. P. Byrd.
Miss Minnie Taylor, of Gainesville
accompanied them and during the
afternoon Misses Mary Lou and Doyie
Byrd joined them in a stroll VI
town to see the churches on Church
Street. They stopped at the Bap-
fist pastorum and DR.. S. Y Jane.
son united Miss Morris and NJ
Rhodes in marriage.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1916-02-11
Lerge grape fruit Sc each. Ben
VALENTINES VALENTINES


magnificent display of Valentines
ranging in price from 1c to 25G.
Although quite a chilly wind was
blowing last Monday the sun shone
brightly and a great many people
went to see the splendid picture at
the Strand: Tine Battle Cry Of
Peace The first peaceful, happy
scenes were beautiful, the invasion
of New York, horrible beyond eN-
preston with its heart breakin. :
tragedies in households incident to
the invasion Of hostile soldiers Space
will not allow full description, but
the opinions Of all the great patriots
from Washington down to the pres
ent time unite in declaring the abso-
lutte necessity OF an efficient army
and navy and plenty Of ammunition
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1916-02-11
Soclal ano U>ersonaL

Mrs. D. c. Cole had Mrs. Geors2
Montgomery Mrs 7. NJ. Brumby.
Jr~ Mrs. c. ". DuPre. Mrs. W. A.
DuPre, Mrs. Howell Trezevant and
Mrs. Fred Norris to spend TUESDAY
with her Violets and jonquils har-
bingers and heralds Of spring adorn-
ed the luncheon table and a happy
day was spent by the congenial party
OF friends.
Large grape fruit SC each. Ben
son & Son.
Mr.. Arthur ]. Brown, of Acworth,
who went through the Panama canal
on the first steamship to make the
trip will spen while in Porto Rice.
He has been with the engine crew on
the Missouri and also on the Kansas
and has sent his diploma home to
show he has earned the degree be-
slowed by Neptune on all who cross
the equator in ships
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-06-22
BIRTHDAY OF
WEST VIRGINIA
LITTLE MOUNTAIN STATE WILL
BE FlFTY-THREE YEARS OLD
INCORPORATES IN 1868.
CIVIL WAR BROUGHT DIVISION
History Of This Territory Dates About
1so Years Ago-Little Known
of Indian Days.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Parkersburg, w. Va.-West Virginia
celebrates her 'fifty-third birthday an
niversary next week While no spe-
cial holiday has been set apart, num-
oer OF persons interested in the his
torical side Of the state expressed the
opinion that there should be some OBJ
servance of the day and even that a
bill should be put through the legisla-
ture making the date at least a semi
legal holiday. The states division
from Virginia took place in 1868, prior
to the battle of Gettysburg and at a
time when it seemed the northern
states were fighting losing war with
the confederate union. Historians de-
clare that the state probably meter
would have divided from old Virginia
except for the civil war previous
attempt was made to incorporate a
state in 1880 but was blocked by poll
ticians in Virginia. The history of the
state covers period of about 1S0
years. Little is known of the original
indian occupation as the aborigines
had gone before the white men came.
glamor of romantic uncertainty is
cast over that period; archaeologists
have vainly endeavored to read from
the ancient arrow heads. stone heaped
graves and other remains of an old
standardization some historical facts
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Nominations Made by Judge Westcott
of New Jersey and Senator Kern.
Robert Emmett Burke of Illi-
nois was the Only Dele
gate Opposing Choice
of the President.

St Louis.-Preident Wilson and
Vice President Marshall were NOM
mated by acclamation by the Demo
cratic national convention.
Contrary to expectations, however.
the convention did not finish it's
work because the platform was not
ready.
There never was any doubt OF
President Wilson's nomination. but
there was a possibility that some
vice presidential booms might be
brought out in opposition to Vice
President Marshall. They melted
away, however. when the convention
got in session and as soon as presi-
dent Wilson's nomination had been
made by roaring chorus of acclama-
tion, which lasted for 40 minutes.
Senator Kern. who renominated Mr.
Marshall, cast aside a long prepared
speech and simply declared:
Il nominate Thomas Riley Marshall
OF Indiana for vice president"
To Wilson's nomination there was
only one dissenting vote, that of
Robert Emmett Burke, OF Illinois. who
came to the convention announcing
that he was opposed to the President
When Judge Westcott, of New Jer-
sey. had placed the President in re-
nomination and the nomination had
been seconded by former Governor
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CLARKSBURG is SELECTED
For Episcopal Meeting to BE Held Next
Year-Delegates Are Picked.

Martinsburg, w. Va.-Clarksburg
was selected as the meeting place OF
the Protestant Episcopal Council of
the West Virginia diocese when it next
meets week OF May so, 1917. Minis
terial and lay delegates were taken on
an automobile trip over the Antietam
battle field, just across the Potomac
in Maryland. These clerical and lay
delegates to the general convention OF
the Episcopal church to be held in St
Louis next fall were elected: Rev. II
ID. Holler, Charleston; Rev. DR.. S. S
Moore, Parkersburg; Rev. DR.. Jacob
Brittingham, Wheeling; Rev. w. p
Christman, Hansford; c. A. Miller
Martinsburg; DR.. G.. a. Aschman
Wheeling; ]. c. Brady Wheeling
Judge Frank Beckwith, Charleston.
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CHAPTER Il-Contlnueo.

He fiexed his tiny arm. seeking ap-
proval for an imagined biceps.
That's pretty good for boy seven
years old. My father says he never see
nothing like it. He says If keep on
I'll be reg'lar Herculuss. Ever read
about Herculuss? guess he was most
as strong as God. Do you live all the
time in the city?'
Most all the time. I been I'm the
country with the mission picnic some
times"
You'd ought to live in the country.
like me. It's awful healthy. I'm as
healthy as anythin', just cause 1 live
In the country. My father says God
Intends for people to stay in the coun-
try as much as possible; he says the
city's full Of fall-pits. Mary Alice, 1
want you to come back and see me. I
like you. Not hardly any childun
comes to play with me. My mother
she's so busy; but sometimes she stops
and reads me a story. II you was
here you could read me stories all the
time. Read me one now, Mary Alice,
before you CO."
Mary Alice read with certain rapid
contempt for all literary hurdles in the
shape Of polysyllables that made her
delivery thing OF great charm. Both
Sam and Martha, reading to Charlie,
hesitated and stumbled at every big
word. The result was hating and
jerky. Charlie never complained; but
the smoothness OF Mary Auce's read
ing pleased and soothed him. She
plowed along at great speed, tossing
clouds Of syllables to right and left like
a rotary going through a snowdrift.
She got there. This reckless dismem-
berment of the unlntelligibles had
scarcely any Obscuring effect on the
main thread of the story. Charlie
listened almost breathlessly, and his
blue eyes shone through mist Of &c
stasy. Into the translucent pallor OF
his face crept faint pink. He radi-
ated joy. One slim hand crept out and
took the almost equally slim but far
more competent hand OF his new
friend
with a low cadence OF bliss" read
Mary Alice, LADY Isabel allowed her
soldier lover to fold her close to his
palpitatlng breast, while Sir Egbert
Glendenning, thus forever defeated I'm
his Ullainous macheratlons. skunk. a
beaten man, from the presence OF his
Intended victums."
"GeeP' breathed Charlie, that's a
peach OF a story. 90. Mary Alice,
don't g way. You read lovely"
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ted to the corner Of Calvert street and
back.
There was nothing to eat I'm the
house or a penny OF money. Now the
baby walled dolefully for his milk.
over the washtubs Mrs. Brown had
long since dried up the natural sources
for his need.
On the stairs came a humping and
pounding OF feet, heralding the ap-
proach OF at least two persons. Mrs.
Brown Strengthened up and listened.
nervOusly wiping her hands on her
damp apron.
Mary Alice came I'm, followed closely
by a large, ruddy man who didn't
bother to take or his hat. Mary Allce's
face was shining with a new light, her
black eyes sparkled, and her black hair
looked blacker than ever because OF
the bow of red ribbon Mrs. Thomas
had tied on It. The little girls arms
were full OF bundles.
The moment Sam Thomas entered
Mrs Browns Budsy kitchen the wOm-
an knew he was from the country, for
he possessed pungeut and bucolic
an NANN NNAAA AfNNNANANA va AAAttAN AAAAAAAHa AhN
barn, the dairy and the field had all
contributed to f. Dainty people turn
up their noses at that kind OF odor:
maybe It is agreeable only by sugges-
tlon.
To Mrs Brown it brought back apple
blossoms and roses and morning giO-
rles it brought back big shiny pans OF
unskimmed yellow milk. smoky rafters
hung with braided together ears OF
popcorn. rag rugs, chickens that you
had to shoe out OF the kitchen, the
bleating Of sheep on n hummocky hin-
side. It brought back the tears she
had forgotten how 60 shed
All this was as instantaneous as the
breath Of odor-lnden air that waited
across her face She looked up into
Sam Thomas eyes and saw that they
were very friendly. She saw something
else. but she was not quite sure OF &C.:
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POSTAL CLERKS CONVENTION
Wheeling Selected as Place for Hold.
ing 1917 Meeting.

Huntington, w. Va-The West Vir.
ginia branch of the United National
Postollice Clerks met in it's annual
convention here. Only one session
was held and the meeting closed with
a banquet Wheeling WAS selected for
the 1917 convention. Before adjourn.
ing, the delegates endorsed the Griffin
bill pending in the United States sen
ate, which proposes to extend the right
of retirement to aged employees with
half pay. The officers for the ensuing
year are as follows: President, ]. II.
Rice, of Huntington; first vice presi.
dent, j. NJ. Derrichy, of Charleston;
second vice president, Bert c. Phillips,
Of Bluefeld; secretary, l.. p. Knoke,
of Wheeling; treasurer, r. c. Swisher
Of Charleston.
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pleu BOY with a billion dollars worth
Oh gold curls sat and looked at the
nils Her faint recollection OF a dov
OF prosperity included cottage and
some grass. Nothing in 1t reminded
her OF scant feeding, whippings and
ever-present fear She could not man.
age to make any connection between
II and her father, the besotted Lem
Brown of today.
Inc sweet morning breeze that
stirred her black hair as the trolley
car whizzed dizzily along, the friendly
presence of Sam, Charlie's father
broke through Mary Alice's reserve
Martha had helped her straighten out
her hair, Just before she left the farm.
ana had tied piece of ribbon on II.
Ihis gave Mary Alice family stirring
consciousness Of her own appearance.
there is no tonic like II.
Sam Thomas did not ask direct load
ing questions, as did Martha and Char
lie. lie ventured the opinion that
Mary Alice's father would have gone
TO work by the time she reached home.
Mary Alice said that her father didn't
work. Sam did not Immediately cry
on and seem shocked, so Mary Alice
overlookeFher negligence In having let
slip something she had kept a secret
from Charlie.
Then he'll be real scared about you.
won't he, with nothin' else to think
of"
Il guess not very" replied the little
girl. But mother II be most crazy
"Where'd you tell 'em you was goin'
when you left homer
Ma and the baby was asleep; they
didn't know 1t. l was only goin' as far
as the park. Then got on the car
for a little ride, and the car didn't
come back"
Wasn't your pa at homer
Him? Now
Those two words told Sam Thomas n
prologue, forty chapters, and an ap-
pendtx, concerning the life history OF
Mary Alice Brown and her family.
Now listen, little girl" he said.
ITS eight O'Clock. The stores are
openin' up. 1 got them arrands to do
for Marthy; you can come with me.
It'll take n few minutes, and then Wen
go to your house"
"Oh, no, 1 couldn't. I couldn't ]
got to go right"
This was as far as she got; the
Prospect was too alluring.
BY nine o'clock Mrs. Brown had be
gun to be genuinely alarmed about her
daughter, whom she had missed upon
waking at five. There were plenty of
places where she might have gone, for
numerous purposes; but there was no
conceivable reason why she should
stay so long. Mrs. Brown thrust her
head from the window and peered anx-
iously down the narrow alley. Once
she left the baby alone while she trot.
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BETHANY HAS CELEBRATION
Many Prominent Speakers Take Part
i'm Annual Cermonies.

Bethany w. Va.-The seventy-fifth
anniversary OF the founding of Beth
any college was celebrated here in an
elaborate manner. The exercises were
held in the chapel at which the follow
ing made addresses: A. Mclean, Gin
cinnati; DIR. Earl Willy, Washington,
d. c.; DR.. David Hall, Indianapolis;
Prof. Philip Johnson, Cohoke, Va
Rev. w. E. Pierce, Cameron. w. Va,
and u. T. Vinson, Huntington. DIR.
Thomas r. Cramblet was reelected
president of the college for a term of
five years. He has served fifteen
years as president. The annual alumni
banquet was held and was attended by
nearly two hundred former graduates.
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W. VA. MAKES A SHOWING
Big Decrease in Sale Of Narcotics
Claimed BY Federal Officer

Huntington, w. Va.-Federal Inspec
tor George B. Kenney. who was In
Huntington, declared that West Vir
ginia had made the best showing OF
any state as to decrease in the use OF
narcotics. The decrease has been ap.
proximately S5 per cent since the pas.
sage of the Harrison anti-narcotic law
The inspector is working on several
violations of the law here. Although
conditions in Huntington have shown
as remarkable an improvement as
in other parts of the state, there is stin
some violation of the law.
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RUSS TAKE czERNoWITZ
important Occupation Effected by the
Cars Army.

Important Occupation Effected by the
Cars Army.
London.-After hard fighting in the
suburbs and on the River Pruth.
where the Austrians fought desper.
ately with view to gaining time for
the evacuation of Czernowitz by their
army and the removal OF military
stores from the city, General Lech.
nitzky has finally entered the capital
of Bukowina. The capture Is an i'm,
portant one. as it entails the com.
mand OF several important railway
lines.
The recapture of Czernowitz by the
Russians comes at a dramatic mo.
ment Il happening only a few days
after the Austrians with imposing
ceremony had pnveiled in the city
hall a double-headed Austrian eagle
such as the Russians had removed
during their occupation of the city
last year.
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CHAPTER ~.
An Old Aouunlntanes.


Mary Alice's recollection OF a day Of
prosperity was 80 vague that, for a
hong time, It had been quite inactive.
The events OF the last few hours had
stirred It ever so little.
She had had n good nights sleep
an a clean. cool bed; had breathed a
quantity Of air from the original pack
age; had been fed literally and whole
somely; had seen and been In a home
that was n home.
Better than all that, she had made
che acquaintance OF Charlie Thomas,
who looked like an indolent angel and
was only a crippled, crumpIsd little
boy. Mary Alice had supposed that
che was the most unlucky child IN the
world. She could not think Of Charlie,
anchored immovably to one spot by his
inhrmity. and wish to change places
with him. He was more unfortunate
than she; yet he spoke very agreeobly
and confidently OF Cod. as n God were
sort Of friend. like the doctor or his
father, Sam Thomas.
You can't plant bitterness In the
heart of a child and expect it TO thrive
except through a combination OF very
unlikely circumstances. I'm the soil
Of Mary Alice's soul the acrid nOisome
shoot OF bitterness had withered. Tn
its place. overnight, q f0irer vegetation
had Qerminated
Now. sitting beside Sam Thomas on
che city bound trolley car, Mary Alice
was all mixed up in her mind between
The desire TO see and comfort her
mother, who would be frantic with
anxiety. and the wish TO go back 20 the
quiet form. where the chickens pecked
busiy nbou. the side door and q Grip
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YEees BLOW MADISON p. o

Madison, w. Va.-The postofice a,
this place, the county seat OF Boone
county, was robbed. Yeggmen forced
an entrance to the building and lifted
the door from the safe with heavy
charge of nitroglycerine Approxi.
mately 800 was taken from the safe
The postage stamps were not molest
ed. II. l.. Conner, postoffice inspector
and United States Marshal William
Osborne came to Madison from Char.
lesion to make an investigation
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WHEELING MINISTER HoNoaED.

Wheeling, w Va.-Rev. Elmer How
ard, of Wheeling, w. Va, was one o.:
those honored at the commencement
exercises at Wittenberg college. at
Springfield, o., he being the recipient
OF the degree of Doctor of Divinity
Others receiving the same degree were
Rev. Charles Anshult. of Baltimore:
Rev. George Hillerman, of Oakland.
Cal. and Rev. DR.. Burt Smith. o:
Easton, Pa.
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WEST VIRGINIA p. 4. c. ELECTS

Parkersburg. w. Va-The sixth bi
ennial convention of the Protected
Home Circle OF West Virginia came to-
a close here after selecting Wheeling
as the next meeting place Omcors
were elected as follows Grand pas,
president. Alice Peterson. of McMech.
en-. grand president George W. Zim.
mer, OF Wheeling grand vice prosl
dent J G. W Busch. of Parkorsburq.
grand secretary, Ada Hennen. of Me.
Mecheni general treasurer, r. @. Fur
lone. OF M0rgant0wn
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MAY SECURE BIG SHELTER.

Moundsville. w. -Moundsville
is being considered as location for a
million dollar smelling plant. The
people seeking location for a plant
Of the character mentioned We
plants fin operation no Joplin. Mo. and
Clarksburg The president of tho com
pany. accompanied by an engineer.
was at Moundsville q few days ago
and made am inspection of what was
formerly known ass the HawIey tract
OF land. just south of the city. There
are 58 acres in the tract which was
purchased about two years ago by a
syndicate of Wheeling and Mounds.
vile business men.
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siye and thoroughly in harmony with
his ideas of how the coming cam
paign should be conducted
Something of the New Lieutenant.
Vance c. Mccormick, a native OF
Harrisburg, and Al years old, owns
the Harrisburg Patriot and has been
identified with Democratic politics
since his youth. He was mayor from
1902 to 1905, and last year was the
party's candidate for governor.
Harrisburg-Vance c. Mccormick
accepted election as chairman of the
Democratic national committee and
resigned as director OF the Federal
Reserve Bank of the Philadelphia dis
trict.
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Copyright by Small. Maynard s. Company
SYNOPSIS.

While trundling the clean washing up
Clipper Hill Mary Alice Brown is set up
on by some mischievous boys, who spill
and taken to her home in Calvert street
by francis Willett, a Galahad knight.
She Is punished by her drunken father for
returning without the wash money. Mary
Alice wanders away from home. takes a
trolley ride into the country and spends
the night at the farmhouse OF Sam Thom-
as. In the morning she meets little Char
lie Thomas. a crinnle
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PRESIDENT LEADS PARADE
Chief Executive on Foot First Time
in History.

Chief Executive on Foot First Time
In History.
Washington.-For the FIRST time in
history q President OF the United
states marched on foot i'm historic
pennsylvania avenue as a participants
In a propaganda parade.
The event was Washington's plea
for preparedness and tribute to the
flag, the anniversary Of the adoption
by Congress OF tho Stars and Stripes
ass the National emblem
President Sets Steps.
Immediately In front OF the Presi.
dent was the United states Marine
Band. They had to set their music
TO the marching cadence the prest
dent set And it was some cadence
a matter of 14f steps to the minute
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CAPTAIN eLAIR's BODY FOUND

Huntington. w VA body identi
fed as that Of Capt Lou Blair, master
OF the ill-fated steamer Sam Brown.
who, with IL others, lost his life when
the steamer was wrecked by a boiler
explosion, has just been found I'm the
river a short distance below the wreck.
age Of the sunken crait. The Sam
Brown sank here February 18.