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Summons
STATE OF WEST VIRGIN.

STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA:
To the Sheriff OF Marion county,
Greeting:
You are hereby commanded to sum
mon Mary L. Bates to appear before
the Intermediate Court OF Marion coun.
ty, at rules to be held in the Clerks
Office OF said Court on the first Mon.
day in February, 1917, to answer u
tSil in chancery exhibited against her
in said Court by Robert w. Bates.
And have then there this writ.
Witness w. S. Black, Clerk of said
Court. at Court House in said county,
the cath day of January, 1917, and
9th year of the state
W. S. BLACK, Clerk.
The return endorsed on the back
of the foregoing summons is in words
and figures following. to-wit:--
The within named Mary f. Bates is
not found in my bailiwick, January
25, 1917.
CLARENCE CURRY.
Deputy for a. NJ. GLOVER, Sheriff
of Marion County, West Virginia.
Object Of Suit
The object OF the above styled suit
is TO obtain on behalf of the plaintiff,
a decree granting to him divorce
from bed aud board, and also an alb
solute divorce, from the said defend.
ant, upon grounds alleged in plant.
tiff's bill OF complaint filed in said
suit.
An affidavit having been made and III.
ed that the said Mary e. Bates, the
defendant i'll the above styled suit, is
nons.resident OF the State of West
Virginia, 1t is ordered that the said
Mary E. Bates do appear within one
month from the first publication of this
order, in the Clerks Office of our said
intermediate Court, at Rules to be
holden therefor, and do what is nee
essary to protect her interests.
1t is ordered that a copy Of this
order be published and posted as re-
CURED by law.
Given under my hand this Sth day of
February, 1917. w. s. BLACK,
Harry Shaw,
Counsel for Plaintiff.
This order is published for the first
time February 10th, 1917, and to be
published once week for four sue
cessIye weeks. W. S. BLACK.
Clerk.
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BUSINESS cppoRTuNiFIEs

OREGON C CALIFORNIA RAIL
ROAD c., grant lands. Title T..
same revested in United States By &c,
OF Congress dated Juno D, 1916. Two.
million three hundred thousand acres
to be opened for settlement and sale
Power site, timber and agricultural
lands containing same OF best land
left In United States. Now Is the Oh
Fortune time. Large Sectional Map.
and description OF soil, climate, rain
fall. elevations, etc. Postpaid one dol
Tor. Grant Lands Locating Co, Bos
Go. Portland, oregon. list 40 ISIS.
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SPECIAL NOTICES
oRpER o. puRLlcArloh

STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA:
At the February, 1917, Rules, held
III the Clerks office of the Intcrmedi.
ale Court, in and for the County of
Marion, and State Aforesaid, Febru.
cry Z, 1917, the following order was
entered:-Robcrt W. Bates, Plaintiff
vs.. Mary Z. Bates, Defendant. Chan
Gerry.
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SPECIAL NOTICES

Shaw has given bond in the penalty
OF 100000. required by the decree
Of sale authorizing him to make sale
OF the property described in the fore
going notice. with security approved
by me.
W. S. BLACK,
Clerk Of the intermediate Court of
Marion County, West Virginia.
1-2O.27i 2.3-10.
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Grain and Produce.

CHICAGO. Feb. Betterment OF
conditions for railway traffic helped
yesterday to strengthen the wheat
market, and so, too, did large clear.
auces at the seaboard. Prices finish
cd unsettled but u to 11sc net higher.
with May at $1.691s@1.69$ and July
at $1.4S@1.47H. Corn gained shade
TO sc, oats rs to sc and provisions Is
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ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA1

At the February. 1917 Rules, held IN
the Clerks office of the Circuit Court,
in and for the county of Marion, and
state aforesaid, February z, 1917. the
following order was entered: Maggie
Morgan, Plaintiff, vs.. Robert B. Elem
ing and others. Defendants. - Chan
Gerry.
Object of Suit.
The object OF the above entitled suit
is to partition among the heirs of
Thomas A. Fleming the real estate of
which he died seized, ascertain the
liens, il any, existing against the same,
and to. settle the estate of the said
Thomas A. Fleming.
An affidavit having been made ana
filed that the said Robert B. Fleming,
one of the defendants in the above
styled cause, is a nonresident OF the
state OF West Virginia, 1t Is ordered
that the said Robert B. Fleming do
appear within one month from the first
publication of this order, in the clerks
office OF our said Circuit Court, at
Rules to be holden therefor. and do
what is necessary to protect his inter.
ests.
II - ordered that copy OF this or:
der be published and posted as re-
quired by law.
Given under my hand this sth day OF
February, 1917.
W. S. BLACK, Clerk.
St5owALTER q FRAME,
Counsel for Plaintif.
THIS order is published for the first
time February 10. 1917. and to be pub.
Aished once euct week Tor four sue
cessiye weeks,
". s BLACK, Clerk.
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FOR SALE-Farm rs acres on Ohio
river in Washington county; good
repair, nearly all first and second bot
TOM. Address Peter Rice, Little Hack
ing, Ohio. Enclose stamp for reply.
2-I-6t No 1852
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MVNE4-Io loan in sums OF S1J to
$50 to anyone living steayJ work
Can be paid in small MONTH" pay.
nlents. NO reference or endorsements
required. StTI..,. confidential. Ad-
dress Box 5S5, Clarksburg, ". Va.
G-vu-li
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FARMS FOE SALE

Eastern ONO FARMS FOR SALE.
Write W ". Luce, Columbiana, o.
1.30.6t No. 1925
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FOR RBNT-Three room cottage. Ap.
ply s04 Locust avenue. Consol phone
563-W. 2-6.3t No 1878
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WANTED-Giri for second cook Tor
week or ten days. See Miss Chap.
pei at Normal DornitoTy,
1-S0-tf 40. 1856
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WANTED : Girl for general house
work. Good wages. Call Bell phone
694-R or .715 Locust avenue.
2-1O.3t No. 1899
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FoRsALE-Farms in Ohio county,
near Wheeling. Milton Hedges,
West Liberty, ". Va, Bell phone 7106.
ring IL. 2-S.26t No. 1886
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HARRY sHAw

Special Commissioners.
I. w. s. Black, CLERK OF the Inter.
mediate Court of Marion county. West
YiteaatA harahy certify that HAIRY
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WANTED-Reliable whit, woman Tor
general house work. Fatally of three,
Bell SCR. 9.7.2t No 1885,
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MONEY TO LOAN

a nE 6uNnEIE SAVING AM LOAN
company OK Beliaire, o., has money
o loan on desirable real estate. See
Paul G. Armstrong, Attorney, Ala
trust Bldg 9TH Floor, Fairmont. W.
Va,
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FOR SALE-Two lots, fiye.room house
with gas, we'll water, in Norwood.
Russell Moore, Fairmont, W. Va, Rt.
No. 2. 2-S-6t No 1897
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CLASSIFIED ADVERT Using
ONE CENT Awoao cAsH@iTa oRDEB.
RELp wANTEp-FsMALE

GIRL for general nousework. Call
Bell Phone 5s4 ]. 1917 No. 1858
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HOUSES FoE RENT

FOR RENT Groom house, ogden
avenue. Inquire +. NJ. Murphy.
Phone 733-Y Consol. 1.25.tf No 1871
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FOR RENT-Six room house, furnish.
ed. For particulars call Bell SlG.J
after O'Clock. 2.9-St No. 1892
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RooMs-FuRNTsHEp

FOR RENT-Furliishe rooms q IN
furnished rooms. Also boarderS
wanted. Apply 713> Glen 81. Locust
Ave. 1.29-et No. 1855
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AGENTS WANTED

MEN our illustrated catalogue ex,
plains how we teach the barber trade
in q few weeks. Mailed free. Moler
Barber College, Cincinnati, o.
2.7-12t No. 1891
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HOUSES FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Six-Room CO. tage with
bath, Close in. Call 1901 Bell.
2.1.SA No 1871
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AGENTS for well known established
line OF Raincoats can easily make
$50 per week, No capital required
Right party can secure district man.
agement insuring practically unlinit-
cd income. Smell Coat Co. 1 Union
Square n. y. 2-10.1t No 1886
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HELP WANTEp-lMALE


WANTED-GlaZiers for work on new
hotel. Fairmont Hotel company.
3-S-2t No 1855
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a UToNToRILEs. ACcEssoRIEs

S@S7S-Se~NSNsN|>SNsNISSNSS eGNNNIN|G~~SNNN
MOTOR ITEMS will tell you who
made the first automobile and other
Information. We will mail copy free
upon request Looms & Reiss so
Broad st. New York n. y.
2.1O-1t No 1898
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BLIZZARD NUMBER THREE

Saturday evening about nine o'clock
the third blizzard of this winter began
to rage, coming from the northwest.
1t continued all night and most OF
Sunday, At times ono could not see
across the street, so densely was the
air filed with snow. Fortunately
it was not so very cold during this
storm, There werefew houses, indeed
in this part of the country that the
snow did not blow into, and most of
our people were kept busy cleaning
out snow. Stock that was exposed
to the storm no doubt suffered some
but 40 far the stock losses on account
Of the severe storms this winter have
been almost negligible in this county.
These storms have made 1eep in
roads on fuel piles, and days such as
Sunday compel people to stay indoors
except to do very necessary chores.
Few people come to town unless com
PEELED to do so to replenish their food
supply, and business is rather quiet.
We trust the weather will moderate
soon but somehow we look for con.
siderable stormy weather during the
month of February.
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PROSPERITY VSHIGh PRICES.

"No such thing exists i'm America
as prosperity for Just one class, unless
it exists for ALL" So said a noted
statesman. last fall, and millions Of
Americans believed him, but we diff
fer from him.
Our present so-called prosperity is
prosperity Of the CLASSES. 1t is
most emphatically NOT prosperity
Of the MASSES.
The munitions manufacturer is
prosperous because Europe Is clamor-
ing for his products.
The automobile maker prospers be-
cause the craze for the buzz wagon is
on the upward slant.
The farmer prospers because Europe
demands his products.
Certain other special Industries pros
per because a war crazed Europe need
their wares with which to prolong
the struggle.
And there the REAL prosperity
ends. The millions of salaried men
and women and the more modest
wage earners are immeasurably worse
of than they were five years ago.
Thousands OF printers and publishers
are facing actual ruin. The small
merchant has difficulty in making
both ends meet. Thousands Of pro-
fessional men are wondering how
they can pay their rent.
High prices are the result of this
half prosperity, but ALL people have
them to pay. The Glasses have the
money with which to pay, but the
MASSES are wondering where in
blazes it is coming from.
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The first radical freak bill TO be in
troduced at this session of the South
Dakota legislature made it's appear
ance last week. 1t proposed that all
appendices removed in operations
shall be sint to the state laboratory
at. vermiifoi for examination. After
the examination the appendix is to be
returned to it's "owner," with certifi
cate showing its condition. fit was
diseased then the owner would have
to pay the surgeon. If it is found to
be healthy its owner won't have to
pay for its removal. It is aimed at
unscrupulous physicians who diagnose
any illness as appendicitis and then
perform the operation,
We received our printed service
that should have reached us Wednes
day of last week, Tuesday of this
week, and we are using the service on
which last weeks edition should have
been printed, this week. Until the
weather settles, and there is no more
darger or delay, we will be one week
behind with our printed service. When
the weather settles we will try and
get up to date again.
As we go to press Thursday it is
again showing, and it looks as though
we might get pretty good snow TALL
before it quits. 1t appears the storm
king has captured the trenches this
winter and is holding onto them like
grim death.
The United States Senate ON Mon
day passed the emigration bill with
the literacy test, over President VIII
sons veto. This ends fight of some
thing like twenty years to get this
law on the statute books of the United
Estates.
There is horse meat butcher shop
in New York where you can buy
round and sirloin steak at l2c pound
inferior cuts as low as &c, and horse
frankfurters at I0c dozen.
General Pershing and his punitive
expedition have safely returned to
American soil, crossing the border at
Columbus, New Mexico, the first of
the week.
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WE BEGIN VOLUME SIX

With this issue of the Pioneer We
begin volume six. The present Editor
has had charge of the Pioneer for the
past four years and three months,
and we take this opportunity of thank
ing those who have legally stood by
the paper and have supported it by
giving us their continuous patronage,
and who have spoken good word for
tho paper when opportunity presented
itself. We want to especially thank
our assistant editorial staff (the neigh
borhood correspondence who have so
materially helped us to make the
Pioneer what it is today. We assure
you and each one of you that we high
ly appreciate your efforts along this
line, and we know that the readers Of
the Pioneer join us in thanking you
for the service you have rendered the
Pioneer, and incidentally to the com
munity and the county in which you
live. We think we have the best
staff of correspondents OF any country
paper published in this part of the
state, and we are justly proud of you
all. May you all live long and pros
per, and may you send US the news
happenings of your several neighbor.
hoods regularly each week for many
years to come.
We enter upon our sixth year of
service as Editor of the Pioneer with
no forebodings as to the future of the
paper. While many country news
papers have been forced to suspend
on account of the largely increased
cost of production and the scarcity of
paper, together with lack of patron
aye from the local business men, yet
we believe that our people will staud
by the Pioneer in the future, and the
paper will prosper and grow with this
community. As to the town and the
county we can see nothing but ad
vancement and greater growth and
prosperity in the future. The exten
sion of the railroad into this county
and to Wood, would of course give us
a new impetus, and until that time
our growth will of necessity be some
what slow and retarded, but that rail
road is going to be extended, if not
this year, then some other year, but it
cannot be put off much longer, for the
county is too rich in natural resources
to be neglected much longer, and
when the road is extended watch us
grow. Again thanking those who
have made it possible to- publish the
Pioneer by their liberal patronage
and their moral encouragement, we
enter upon the sixth year of publica
ton with the hope that we may be
able in the future to install new and
modern equipment, and still further
improve and publish still better
paper than we have in the past.
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We were without daily papers O

We were without daily papers or
news of the outside world from Tues,
day of last week until Monday of this
week, and when we did get the papers
they contained the startling news that
Germany had launched a merciless
submarine blockade Of English French
and Italian ports, and that the United
States was about to break oil diplo.
matte relations with Germany. The
dove of peace Immediately took wing
and we will indeed be fortunate if we
will be able to keep from entering the
great world war ourselves.
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WE HAVE A FEW

The super-senSitive man or woman
is puzzling proposition for COM
munity to handle.
The person Of acute sensibility suf-
fers Sights where none are intended.
He is forever imagining that his
friends are not as cordial as they
should be. The sensitive man wears
his feelings on his sleeve, as it were,
and they are forever being ruffled by
the passerby.
If this extreme sensitiveness in our
neighbor were fault in the strictest
sense of the word we would know
how to deal with him. But it is not
such a fault. 1t is purely the resul
of self-consciousness and is frequently
found In persons of warm-hearted
disposition, They have cordial lik-
ing for their friends and are perhaps
OF an impulsive, ardent temperament.
Their feelings find vent in an ELUSIVE
ness that rarely meets with the re-
sponse which they think it merits,
and disappointment is the result.
The great trouble with the sensitive
man is tl.at he has not yet realized
that all men are not built on the
same plan as himself. He should re-
member that there are almost as
many different natures as there are
individuals, and each has his own
peculiar manherisms and modes of
expression.
A smile is simply the working Of a
certain set of facial muscles, and is
just as easy to call up as is a frowh.
Courtesy and EinGliness are two Of
the noblest qualities Of humanity,
and are attained at the smallest price
Give the super-sensitive person a
smile when you meet him. He will
feel better, and so will you.
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POSSIBILITIES OF OUR SOIL

We want to say to the farmers of
this community that no feature of
present day education is more potent
for good to this country than that
now being accomplished by the vari-
Gus agricultural schools and expert
mental stations and farms.
Twenty years ago the shook farmer"
was looked upon as visionary by a
large per cent Of our farming popu-
lation, and is even yet SO regarded by
some, although happily their number
is small.
Now the man who intelligently
studies his soil with view to de-
termining its needs is coming to the
front as an authority on matters ag-
! ricultural. And the reason this Is so
is because his theories have brought
forth fruit in fact.
Nothing is more certain than that
this country is woefully behind in
farming efficiency. For years our
farming experts have been pointing
out to us the fact that our lands are
not producing half, not even third
of the crops that bountiful nature in
tended they should yield. One has
only to cite the case of Germany to
see the full force of this statement
Germany is not as large rs the state
of Texas, yet Germany today is sup
plying her civil population and her
vast armies almost entirely from the
products of her own soil.
But Germany and other old world
countries have for years practiced
intensive farming, a system that is
just beginning to prevail in this
country.
Instead of being merely an expert
ment, intensive farming should be
the rule. Nothing more fully demon
strates the truth Of this statement
than a glance at the results obtained
| by the many corn clubs of this cdun-
| try. From all directions come reports
from these organizations, where the
enormous yield of POO bushels and
more per acre has been attained.
Not only this. but the reports coming
from all sections Of the country are
proof that almost any of our soil is
susceptible to just such improvement.
Then there is another important
feature to these big corn yields. 1t
has been shown that they can be pro-
duced at substantial profit over and
above the cost of preparing the land
for their production. Careful records
have been kept of all expenditures,
and in almost every instance the pro-
ceeds have much more than paid the
cost of bringing the soil to its present
state of fertility.
If these results can be obtained
from an acre, or two or three, why
not from ten, or fifty or hundred
acres? If they can be obtained from
a patch, why not from field? Why
not from all fields?
The deplorable truth is that toe
many of our farmers are necessity
farmers. They ask themselves, "IIow
much do need?" and then proceed
t. satisfy that need, and no more
They should rather ask, How much
can get?" and then get all they can
1t has been estimated that America
could feed the world if all her sol
were made to produce to its full
capacity.
What that capacity is we are only
ljust beginning to discover.
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When you hear man Dragging "a
bout what he would do under certain
conditions you may rest assured he
will never catch up with those con-
ditions.
Some men are always ready forest on
their laurels, and if they haven't any
laurels they just keep right on rest
ing anyway.
Andrew Carnegie llas given away
S35o,0OO. 600 and is rapidly approaching
the poverty stage. lie has but SGO,-
100000 left.
When IA man puts his property in
his wife's name other people begin to
wonder who it really belongs to.
A wise man controls his anger
Further comment is supcrtluous.
President Wilson wants us to ''be
Americans. So do we.
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he widow of Col. John Jacob Astor.
Who went down on the Titanic,
festihed in court that $4,000
= Is not sufficient to pay the ex-
{Des of bringing up the Astor baby.
GIY Mackerel. If it costs $4,000 a
to rear mere baby, what would
bst to bring up millionaire's pet
Tie?
he United States will use every
|fibrable effort to keep out of this
otsh war, but if we are eventually
ned into the conflict the other fell
HAS liable to get his shins barked.
IRE are a hundred million people
His country, and about thirty
IDn of that number are sturdy
etubborn fighters when aroused
bping ours are wise when they
old the mastiif's teeth.