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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-12-17

located. One Of the most important
drilling in the lower southwest coun-
ties has just been completed and is
dry. The we'll was drilled by Jerome
5Pickens. located on his own farm on
Dicks creek, Washington district,
Lincoln county. This location is re-
mote from any producing wells and
vas expected to get production in the
Berea grit.
On Miracle run, BattelIe district,
NIonongRtia county, the Hope Natural
Gas Company drilled it's test on the.
Gump heirs farm through the Cor
don sand to n depth of 3 so ; feet and
has a fair .gasser. On the same stream
and in the same district, the Carnegie
Natural Gas Company drilled a test.
on the William Park farm into the.
Big. Injun sand and developed q good
gas6er.
In the shallow territory in Union
district, Peasants countf, i. G.
White and Company completed No.
10 on the Riggs Brothers farm. It
is a light gasser in the Keener sand.
In the same district, the Engle Run
Oil Company has a small producer, in
the Cow Run sand. at No. Il 5 on the
Allen Ho1dren farm. On Cedar run,
Liberty district. Marshall county, the
Carnegie Natural Gas Company's test
on the John Afackey farm is a light.
gasser in the MaNon sand.
Or. Little creek, Spencer district,
Roane county. G. L. Cabot drilled his
test on the 0rrille G. Epling farm Ia
to the Big Injun sand and developed
a gasser with g capacityso OF z 5000
cubic feet q day. On Sycamore creek
Sherman district. Calhoun county,
the Hope Natural Gas Company is
drilling in the Nlaxon sand on the
Baxton Polling farm. The same COM
pany is in the Salt sand at a second
test on the Nettie Polling farm. The
same company is rigging up at tests
on the p. Polling ad Hannah Polling
farms.
on Beech Lick run, Greenbrier dis
.trict, Doddridge county, Randolph
and Lowthcr have drilled their test
on the Hurst farm through all sands
and found nothing but a fair gas
pressure in the Gordon sand. It
was plugged below that formation
aud shot and is good gasser. On
Meat House Fork In the same dis
trIct, the Hope Natural Gas Com
pnny drilled test on the Phoebe
Niaxon farm through the Big Injun
sand and 1t shows some oil and has
fair gas pressure. On Fink creek.
Freemnn's Creek district, Lewis
county. the same company's test on
the Maxwell heirs farm has been
drilled through the Can't sand and
the hole stands full OF fluid. 1t Will
be shot. On Walnut Fork. the Phila-
delphia Company's No. z on the W.
3. Maxwell farm is fair gasser IN
the Big Injun sand
GnSserS In Harrison County
on Katy Lick run. Sardis district.
Company's test on the w. c. Allen
farm is a gasser In the Big Injun
sand. On Sycamore creek. Union dis
triet; the same company's No. 6. on
lsthe w. 3. Maxwell farm is a gasser
Fin the Fifth sand. On Tennile creek.
| Tenmile district. the Hope Natural
! Gas Company got one Of the same
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-12-17
ANgNDSEN WILL
FLY OVER POLE
Inventor viii. Buy Special Air
ships for the Trip in the
United States.

NEW YORK, Dec. l6.-Capt. Road
Amundsenj discoverer of the south pole
and navigator Of the Northwest pass
age. told Of his plan to ny over the
north pole in a specially constructed
aeroplane.
Capt. Amundsen said he expected to.
make observations OF the ocean and air
currents at the pole, which would aid
IN weather demonstrations
May Not Start Until 1915.
II the scientists of the world have
the necessary data regarding the move
ments of the waters and airs at one Of
the earth's axes they will be enabled
to compile many much needed flgures.'
he said
The expedition, which may not get
away until the spring of 1918, due to
the Slowness of completion Of Capt.
Amundsen's ship, owing to the war
orders which the Norwegian shipyards
are completing. will be composed OF
many leading scientists, both here and
abroad.
Capt. Amundsen said the personnel
OF his party had not been decided
upon, and it was largely for that rea-
son he had come to America, as Amer
lea had furnished so many men for
polar scientific and research work.
To Buy Two AcroplaneS.
He expects to purchase TWO large
aeroplanes, probably Of different
makes, and a lorge supply Of provis-
ions, sufficient to last two years. The
aeroplanes and provisions will. be pun
chased here owing to the scarcity in
Europe caused by the war.
During the July following the Com
pletion of his ship Capt. Amundsen Will
& proceed as far as the Ice foes will per-
nit. and he hopes to be carried still
soon as HIS program is halted he In
tends to use aeroplanes to fly over the
pole.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-12-17

cred with his revolver before she was
able to dispose OF the money, which
she was checking over, preparatory TO
making her report
Mrs. Demarrs heard the back door
close gently and glanced up to see the
robber, masked with a black handker-
chief, as he sprang to her side and
whispered: Don't say a word and i
Won't harm you.
Mrs. Dcnarrs obeyod the injunction.
and after the robber. took all the money
he disappeared through the same door
which he had entered.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-12-17
HOLDS UP POSTMISTRESS
With GUN AND GETS $3.50

PITTsBURG, Kan, Dec. i6.A lone
Fobber entered the postotfIce at Grow
5erg, in the north end or this county,
and at the point Of a revolver relieved.
Mrs. Phoebe Deruarrs. postmlstress, of
S160, two days receipts ct the stamp
and money order windows, as well as
a small amount of her own money.
The robber gained entrance by a
tide door and had Mrs. Eenarrs COW
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-12-17
OIL and GAS
DEVELOP NENT
OF TRI-STATE
latest Reports Of Operations h
West Virginia, PennsyL-
vanfa and Ohio.

The discoveries OF most Importance
in the eastern fields came near the
close Of the week when the Carnegie
Natural Gas Company drilled its No /
on the George Isiminger farm. Io-.i
Gated on Coon run, Springhill town
ship, Greene county, Pa. deeper and
developed q gusher. From the time
the week had been drilled in, early
in the week. it had been producing
ITO barrels day. Deeper drilling
sent the production UP to 1fty-flve
barrels m hour and for the twenty
four hours ending ut Z o'clock yester-l
day morning the we'll produced 92O#I
barrels The present market value
Of the oil for the twenty-four hours
named is S2,492. The way the well
is holding up leads to the conclusion
that II Is drawing It's production from
pool Of considerable dimensions.
Nothing OF late years has aroused so
much interest in the southwest Penn
sylyania fields as this new discovery.
By the time development work has
been rounded out there may be dis
appointments encountered but there
is no limit TO the optimism expressed
by those who hold leases on territory
In that locality. Those who hold
leases in the Immediate vicinity of
the gusher are not only talking but
backing up their faith in the territory
by starting new work Within Il few
weeks, or as soon as rigs can be
completed there will be six or more
wells drilling. However, il will be
little short OF sixty days before any
new wells can be completed The No.
we'll on the Isiminger farm has not
been drilled any deeper but lis hold
ing UP steadily Mt 100 barrels day.
Fair Producer in Washington.
In East Finley township, washing
ton county, the Howard Oil and Gas
Company's second test on the /. D.
Ryan farm is fair producer, esti-
mated to be good for twenty barrels
a day In the fourth sand. This loca-
ton is 500 feet southwest of the Man
ufactuTers Light and Heat Company's
test on the a. and ID. j. England farm
and improves the chances for an ex-
tension to the southwest. In the same
district. the Manufacturers Light and
Heat Company test on the Josiah
Vansyock farm, previously reported
as showing for light pumper in. the 4
Gordon stray, has been drilled to the
fourth sand and is a fair gasser in i
that formation.
On Big Sewlckley creek, Allegheny
county, r. A. Bream drilled No. 10
on the Kick Christy farm through the
Boulder and it shows for a light
pumper. In the same district, HarbI-
son and Company are drilling u sec
ond test on the Aaron Davis farm. IN
the Dun City district, Leidecker.
Watterson and Company are due in
the sand at No. on the P. Shenotf
farm.
I1-csf I.;rot,,T,
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-12-17
CRAB. TRUST
HELPS TO PINCH PUBLIC

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16.-Now.
comes the crab trust to add to the
cost of living.
An stIgation OF this trust has
been urged On District Attorney But
Ter, of Marion county, who has been
told that twenty-five crab fishermen.
of Sausalito have 5000 boxes in
storage in water. They are anxious
to sell these crabs for $3.50 a doz-
en-. Butler was advised. but it was
asserted that the crab trust has or
.dered the men to hold them for 50. SO.
a dozen.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-12-17

West Virginia.
Late competitions in the West Vir-
ginias fields consist of light producers
and large number or gas wells.
Wildcats are always of more or less
interest, according to how they are
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-12-17

Since new telegraph cables TO Cey-
Ion have been opened, messages have
been transmitted from London with
in half an hour.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-25
H. ]. DRANE WRITES
INTERESTINGLY OF HIS I'M
PRESSIONS OF VIRGINIA
Continued from Page Sd

Continued from Page Sd
shoulder beautiful girl-child about
a year old and explained that they
were the wife and daughter of the
Iferryman, who found his occupation
gone" The little child gave me
hug with her chubby arms and left
a soft kiss on my cheek and after
that I was really GLAD the floods had
come. The experience was worth it.
We made long detour which took
US through big towns and little ones;
across brooks and creeks and rivers
and over little hills and big noun
tains, until finally, after long climb
to a mountain top, we stopped for
a moment to let "Greta" catch her
breath and there were found two par
allel mountain ranges-the Blue
Ridge on one hand and the Allie
.ghenies on the other; while between,
the valley lay smiling before me.
Through this valley which for the
want of another name l will call the
Valley Of the James, ran that beau
tiful river looking from the distance
like broad silver ribbon, so still it
was; until upon looking again it
broke in the distance into shadows
land waterfalls where rocks had
rolled from the mountain sides or
came up from the earth beneath as
though challenging the rivers right
to seek it's final destination in the
sea.
Old Mother Earth is restless like
her children and even the mountains
do change from year to year. This
valley impressed me as beautiful
garden-and so it was; for we know
that then you and I were children
about our mothers knees, our fathers
found it Gethsemane! One to see it
now would never imagine that once
it echoed to the scream of shot and
shell; that where now we hear the
song of the lark then was heard the
low moan of the dying soldier; that
where now I look with sparkling
eyes upon the beauty of the land
scape there was a time when men
gazed upon it with wide open eyes
which were glazed and saw not at
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-25

feet above the ground! Legend says|
1t was carved there by WASHINGTON
himself; be that as it may whoever
carved it had some goats among his
ancestors for surely no animal with
out the climbing capacity of goat
could ascend SO dizzy height.
Local history gives the date and
the name of student of Washing
ton (now Washington and Lee
college who climbed to a point 100
feet up the wall, "then took eff his
coat and shoes and threw them down
to his terror-stricken companions
below, and looking for foothld in
,order to climb higher, leaped dis
lance of six feet to a narrow ledge
from whence he made his way to the
top"
A man who would be so foolish as
that would surely not be entitled to
graduate from a great college but
as to this l am not informed II Is
recorded, however, that they sent
him to the Legislature! That would
not necessarily prove him a wise
man for l got to the Legislature anu
was never in my palmiest days sus-
pected of having great wisdom
Enough of this, however. | had 10
tell some one of what | saw and Just
TOOK it out on you. hope you eau
read it but since l broke my arm
more than year ago | write Ou'
poorly.
l will be home again about sept
10 provided the trains are runnlns'
and will feel all the better for u!
outing.
With very kind regards and oes'
wishes, l am
Your friend,
H. j. DRANE'
P. S The ferry-woman's pau
had rosy cheeks, blue eyes and goiu
en- hair. Her name is Elizaoe'H'
Mercury yesterday august %
Wytheville, Va, So; Jax. 76; 0ni
cago Sc. H. ]. D.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-25
TEACHERS OF THE LAKELAND
PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR 1862
Continued from Page Sd
CRADE TyT

Continued from Page Sd
GRADE w.
Miss Dezzie Brown, First Grade (411
is. Florida-phone, 436-Blue).
Miss Corrie Bell, First Grade (519 E.
Orange-phone, 217-Blue).
Mrs. M. H. Terry. First Grade (312
N Neutrality-suspicious., 209).
Miss Maggie Bryant, First Grade
(1O3 w. Peachtree-phone, 206-Blue).
GRADE III.
Miss Anna M. Kellogg, Primary Ger
tificate (604 N. Florida-phone, 426-
'Black).
Mrs. A. B. Carrier. Primary Certifi-
cate (311 S. Florida-phone, 436-Blue)
Miss Mary McRae. Primary Certifi-
cate (791 E. Orange-phone y.
Miss Ethel Stalker. First Grade (411
S. Florida-phone, 436-Blue).
GRADE II.
Miss Charlotte Bradley Primary
(2O3 w. Peachtree-phone, 54).
Miss Almarine Nancy, Primary (411
S. Florida-prone, 436-Blue).
Miss Frances Haley, First Grade
(4O4 S. Iowa-no phone).
Miss Mary G. Bradley, Primary (2O3
w. Peachtree-phone, 54).
GRADE l.
Miss Pauline Suddath, Primary (4O8
S. Kentucky-phone, 904-Red).
Miss Lillian Benson, Primary (4OS
S. Tenn.-278-Black
Miss Mary Hanna, Primary (412 S.
Tenn phone, 133-Blue).
Miss Loretta M. Law, Primary (2O3
w. Peachtree-phone 54).
Miss Bertha Turner, Primary (511
S. Kentucky Ave.-phone, 1881.
: Miss Elizabeth Nancy, Primary (411
S. Florida-phone, 436-Blue).
DOMESTIC SCIENCE.
Miss Mary Jackson, Special Certif-
icate $414 S. Neutrality-suspicious., 276).
The addresses and telephone num-
bers are given for the convenience of
the patrons.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-25

all.
All that is changed now and the
only reminder we have of it is that
in every village where happy chill
dren play about the village green
there is a shaft erected by the
Daughters of the Confederacy Sac
red to the memory of those who
fell"
| That valley is land of plenty,
and on every water side-for the lit
tie streams seem almost without
number-may be seen good well-kept
farms each with its little canning
factory preparing for the markets
1.-the products of the honest toll of the
husbandman. Just now it happens
to be tomatoes and one may see cases
of them literally by the thousands
drawn by fine horses en- route to the
) transportation stations.
Speaking of horses reminds me:
This country is full of fine stock of
every kind. Great pastures full of
fine white-face Herfords which on
the hoof will tip the scales at li0C
to 1900 lbs; great flocks OF sheep
scattered from the WATERSHEDS in the
valleys until some of them are lost
! to sight among the rocks in the
mountainous scores of Shetland
gponies, seeming to really feel their
aristocracy as they upon our APP
proach scamper in red clover or blue
grass up almost to their little bel
lies to regain the sides of their dot
ing mammas who would be taking
their siestas or gossiping about their
neighbors under the shade of some
tree.
And then again we see great droves
of fat hogs, sleepy, well satisfied,
caring not at all for the comings-
/ goings of their more aristocratic
friends. Happy SO long as they may
wallow in the mire and even I'M
mindful of the fact that "hog-kill-
ing time" comes before Christmas,
LET the sow return to her swill.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-25

She will always be a hog-she was
born to it.
And then we would in another
pasture see lot of mules quietly
grazing and with ears Topped down
apparently taking but little interest
in life; but perhaps this is because
Mark Twain once referred to them
as having mo pride of ancestry; no
hope of posterity."
Now, up, up, up again out of the
valley until we come to our destina-
tion-Natural Bridge. We left
Wytheville at an elevation of some
$500 feet and now on top of the
Bridge we find the government
bench mark having here an eleva-
tion of 1850 feet. But between the
two we have been down to an alti-
tude of perhaps only a few hundred
feet.
The principal city in this section
is Roanoke wonderful city with
its 10000 people-only 80 years old.
IL mas counterpart in Tampa. about
the same age in its growth and de-
Veiopment and as wonderful in many
ways, more wonderful in others than
Roanoke
On the top of the Bridge we were
informed it is 215 feet high from
the roadway where's our car crossed
10 the bed of the creek below; $50
feet from the arch to the bottom
meaning that the arch is so feet
thick-of solid blue limestone 100
feet across as the road runs and 90
feet wide from one side of the nrec;
pice to the other. This gives an idea
OF magnitude but not of beauty and
VIII not attempt that as it would
require the poetic instinct which in
me alas! is but poorly developed
Looking at the Bridge from below
! enjoyed more as l became dizzv in
high places l could see one place
where could be deciphered tba nomo
'of GEO. WASHINGTON carved
eruoeiy against the rock and 15o
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-25
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-$500 will buy a new
six-room bungalow, with sleeping
porch and three screened galleries,
ON Lake Morton Balance like pay
ing rent. Address Box 414.
1896
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-25

GARAGE FOR RENTAL 416 South
Missouri. $3.50
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-25
HIGH CLASS statesmen WANTED

A few hard working statesmen and
general agents will be trained to in
trOduce plan of Systematic Saving
under new selling plan which is q
proven winner. Local and travelling
positions open. Straight commissions
only. Every experienced man de-
voting entire time can average more
than $4,000 a week. Recent high
man earned $250.OOO in five days.
Permanent connection offered Give
references and experience in first let
ter. Confidential. E. H. Clark,
Box 3, Marietta, Ga. 5905
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17
Estate of Eliza Lindsay

STATE OF VERMONT, DISTRICT OF ESSEX, ss|
THE HONORABLE PROBATE COURT FOR THE|
DISTRICT AFORESAID:
To the heirs and all persons interested in the j
estate of Eliza Lindsay late of Concord, inI
said District, deceased, GREETING:
WHEREAS, application hath been made toI
this Court in writing. by the Administrator of
said estate, praying for license aud authority toI
Sell all OF real estate of said deceased for thel
payment of debts and charges of admin stra-
ton, setting forth therein the amount of debts
Tie from said deceased, the charges of admins
tration and the amount of per sonal estate and
the situation of the real estate.
WHEREUPoN, said Court appointed and as
signed the 9th day of Apr, 1916 at the Probate
Office in Concord in said District to hear
and decide upon said application and petition,
and ordered that public notice thereof to be Civ
ell to all persons interested therein, by publish
ing said order, together with the time and place
OF hearing, three weeks successfully in the Es-
sex County Herald, newspaper which circu-
lates in the neighborhood of those persons
interested in said estate all which publications
shall be previous to the day assigned for
hearing.
THEREFORE, you are hereby notified to ap-
pear before said Court, at the time and place
assigned, then and there in said Court to make
your objections to the granting of such license,
if you see cause.
Given under my hand at Guildhall in said
District, this 18th day of Feb, 1916.
323t GEORGE A. HUBBARD, Register
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17

terest in schools, that others might
receive the benefit of what he felt so
much in need. He was very indus
trious, seldom ever being idle an
hour, which accounted for the great
amount of labor which he perform
ed. He lived to be threescore years
and ten, yet was never old. He re-
tanned all his faculties nearly per-
feet, especially remarkable memory,
and his last days work was, he said,
as great as he ever did. 1t was
probably the cause of the acute
rheumatism with a lung fever that
so suddenly terminated his life. He
died April IS, 1916. He was married
about 1906, to Mary, daughter of
Antipas Marshall, of Northumber-
land, N. H. She died 1924, leaving
eight children to mourn the loss of
an excellent mother, and husband
who never forgot her worth. He
was married again to Nancy, daugh-
ter of Caleb Marshall, of Northum-
berland, a second cousin to his first
wife. She still lives on the same
farm, keeping it in the original
name. She had four children, MAX
IA in all. Twelve of the children
lived to be men and women grown;
seven are now living. The children
possessed the same ingenuity OF
their, father, but he, thinking his
boys better be farmers, tried to keep
them from the shop.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17
Estate of Fingal j. Bedel
STATE OF VERMONT,
District of Essex SIS

STATE OF VERMONT,
District of Essex IS
The Honorable Probate Court for the Dstrid
aforesaid
To the heirs and all persons interested in tn
estate OF fingal J. Bedell, late of Concor
in said District, dee eased Greetings:
WHER AS application hath been made
this court in writing, by the Administratd
of the estate of said deceased praying for
ceDse and authority to sell all
zeal estate of said de ceaSed, for the payment
debts and charges of administi alton set,
forth therein the amount of debts due from sd
deceased, the charges OF administration, ana
the amount Of personal estate and situation of
the real estate.
WHEREUPON, the said Court appointed and
assigned the 9th day OF Apr 1916 at the Pro-
bate Office i'll Concord in said District, to hear
upon said application and petition and
and ordered public notice thereof to be given to
all persons interested therein, by publishing
said order, together with the time and place OF
hearing, three weeks successfully i'll the Es-
SEX COUNTY HERALD, a newspaper, which cir-
culates in the neighborhood of those persons in
terested in said estate, all of which publica-
tons shall be previous to the day assigned for
hearing.
THEREFORE, you are hereby notified to APP
pear before said Court, at the time and place
assigned then and there in said Court to make
your objections to the granting of such license,
if you see cause.
Given under my hand at Guidhall, in said
District, this 2Sth day OF Feb. 1916.
32-3t GEORGE A. HUBBARD, Register
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17
Road Commissioners Meeting.

The annual meeting of the road COM
missioners and selectmen for Essex
county will be held at Guildhall on
Tuesday, March 2lst, in the court room,
at 1890 o'clock in the forenoon and
at | 80 o'clock in the afternoon.
The statutes require the attendance,
and provide for the per diem and ex-
pense charges of the road commissioners
and selectmen.
The question of maintenance of our
roads will be given full and careful con-
sideration in the meeting. We can all
learn something from each other as to
the best methods to be adopted.
A cordial invitation is extended to
everyone to attend the meetings and to
participate in the discussions.
s. B. BATES, Com'r.