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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-02
ROTARY CLUB FOR
FA|RM0NT IS PLAN
Preliminary Meeting Was
Held at the Fairmont
Last Night.

For the purpose of making prelim.
mary plans for the organization in
this city in the near future of Ro.
tary club, a number of Fairmont bus.
mess men dined at The Fairmont last
evening and following the dinner dis.
cussed the project.
Wheeling, Clarksburg and a nun.
Der of other cities have such organi-
cations and the work done by the
clubs is effective.
Another meeting will be held next
Thursday at which. time represen.
tative of either the Wheeling or
Clarksburg rotary club will be pres.
ent and will outline to the Fairmont.
ers the plans and aims Of the organ.
ization.
Those present at the meeting last
evening were Paul W. LANCE, Rev. II.
G. Stoetzer, Hon. A. B. Fleming,
Henry S. Lively, Harry ]. Hartley anu
w. j. Wiegel.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-02
Austro-German Patrols
Have Reached East Bank
of River.
IN GOOD SPIRIT
Are Fired With Determine
ton to Expel Invaders
From Their Soil.
(By Associated Press)

ROME, Nov. 2-Austro-German pa.
trolls have advanced to the banks OF
the Tagliamento river along which
the Italians are making stand. The
war Office announces that these pa
trolls were repulsed.
ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS, Nor.
thern Italy. Nov. 2-Italians and allied
troops are preparing for counter
offensive A great battle based on
the lines of the Tagliamento river
is forecast.
Not only is the main body of the
Italian army intact after having dealt
several blows to the enemy but it is
now apparent that Italians have
thwarted the Austro German plan of
encompassing the third army on the
Carso thereby cutting off the flower of
the forces in this region, rendering the
Venetian plan defenseless and encour.
aging the hope of the enemy for a
devisive victory with far reaching po'
litical results.
The spirit of the army now confront,
ing the enemy is excellent. The troops
are fired with determination to expel
invaders from Italian soil.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-02
MUCH MAIL MATTER
WAS UNDER STAMPED
Big Run on Three Cent
Stamps Almost Exhausts
Supply Here.

If you mailed letter or postal
card this morning and this afternoon
it is returned before gong 10 the
post Office and asking any questions.
take peep" at the stamp with
which it was mailed Perhaps you
have forgotten.
Despite the publicity given to the
new postage rates, effective today, al.
most half of the letters dropped into
the mailing box at the local post of.
flee before noon today had been mail
ed with two cent stamp Approx
mately 200 letters and so postal
cars were mailed before noon today
with insufficient postage.
II the address of the one mailing
the letter is on the envelope, it is
merely dropped into the local mail
and returned. If there is no return
on the envelope it is delivered and the
extra amount collected from the one
receiving the letter.
Considering the amount of work at
the post office from the new rates
and the heavy mails that have been
coming in for the past few weeks,
everything moved off very smoothly
at the post Office today.
At noon today only about 1000 out
of 10000 three cent stamps we're left.
Until new supply of the three cent
stamps arrive, letters will be mailed
with one cent and two cent
stamp. The local office has placed
order for one million of the new
stamps.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-02
Co1nmends Work of
the Nursing Service

At the regular monthly meeting of
the Fairmont Public Health Nursing
Service held at the home of Mrs. Bert
S. Leopold yesterday evening DR.. Har.
riet B. Jones. of Glendale, addressed
the gathering after which Round Ia.
BILE discussion of various phases of the
work was conducted. DR.. Jones com.
plimented the local organization OIL
the effectiveness of the work 1t is car
rying on.
Miss Elizabeth voak, the Red Cross
nurse in the employ of the Nursing Ser.
vice, submitted the following report
for the month Of October:
Total number Of cases during month,
SO; number of nursing visits. 10;
number Of instructive visits, 40; mum.
Der OF social service visits. 10; mum.
Der OF business calls, "a; number of
all visits. 2S6; number OF tuberculosis
lists. IS.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-02
RUSSIA STEA)EAST !.
BUT NEEDS HELP
Statement by Premier brings
New Expression of
Confidence.
l.By Associated Press>

PETROGRAD, Nov. lin view OF
reports reaching Petrograd that the
impression was spreading abroad that
Russia was virtually out of the war.
Premier Kerensky discussed the pres.
ent condition Of the country frankly
today with the Associated Press. He
said Russia was worn out by the long
strain but it was ridiculous to say she
was out of the war
The Premier referred TO the years
in which Russia had fought her own
campaigns alone with no such assist
ance as has been extended to France
by Great Britain and now by America.
He said he felt help was needed ur.
gently and that Russia asked it as her
right.
He urged that the United States give
did in the form of money and supplies
and appealed to the world not to lose
faith II the Russian revolution. Rus.
STA, NJ. kerensky added, was taking an
enormous part in the struggle ana
those who said she was out Of it mus,
have short memories.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-02

WASHINGTON, Nov. .. = Premier
kerensky's warning that Russias al.
lies will have to bear her burden of
the conquest while the war weary ma.
ton regains the strength exhausted in
three years Of fighting enemies with.
out and within has aroused new express.
sions Of confidence in Russia's future
and assurances of support from United
States government and the representa-.
tives of all the allies.
The Russian embassy made the
Premisr's statement of Russia's posi-.
ton the occasion to reiterate that she
had no intention OF quitting the war
and the State department in an author.
lied announcement declared that in no
way could the Premiers statement nor
any of Its official advices be con.
strued to mean that Russia seeks a
separate peace.
AS another mark OF confidence IN
the Russian government the treasury
today authorized the immediate adj.
vance OF sS1, 100000 out of the credit
of S325,000,000 already authorized.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-02
Mrs. Mary Maurer
Dies at Montana

Mrs. Mary Maurer, widow Of Martin
Maurer of Montana, died at the homs
OF Michael Berendt at that plate earl,
This morning after long illness. She
was 81 yall; and 3 monrhs Of age \,
hirs. insurer had beer lraki,ig Zoe
home with tho fa; 'l' nf hi.. Eerendt
for some time. Her huband died last
March. 40
Funeral services will be held on Sat.
nrday afternoon at 2 o'clock.i Inter.
ment will be made in the Montana
cemetery by Undertaken Musgrave q
Son.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-02
AMERICANS PUT new zEST into TRENCH Lift
This Is What The
Freight Embargo
Does ToFairn0nt

One hundred of the meters that
will be added to the Fairmont water
lines are being held up at Newark,
N. j., because of the embargo at
the local freight station. Water
Commissioner Smith has received a
letter from the Canon Meter COM
pany, the contractors, stating that
the meters have been ready for ship.
ment for two weeks. but cannot be
shipped because of the embargo.
Because of the water waste in
Fairmont it is very essential that
the meters be added to the water
lines Just as soon as possible.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-02
Better Car Service
On Rivesville Line

For the benefit of the many work.
men at the site Of the new Rivesville
power station and mines along the
river, two more cars have been added
to the street car schedule between
Fairmont and Baxter. A double car
viii leave Fairmont each day except
Sunday at S:45 p. m. arriving in Bax.
ter at Ais p. m. The car will arrive
back in Fairmont at 4:45 p. M, re.
turning to Baxter at 5:25 p. m. and
returning to Fairmont at 5:45 p. M
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-02
child's Love of Music.

When child has shown sufficient
interest in music to wish to hear it,
he should certainly be allowed to try
and initiate what he has heard, and
to create music for himself. Some.
times Ea' child Of four or five shows
more love for music than one double
that age. II they desire to listen and
to learn, age makes little difference
Exchange
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-02
Not Fairly Divided.

Little Eleanor had been to church
for the first time and on her return
home her grandmother asked her how
she liked it. "Oh, liked 1t all right"
she replied, but the men didn't act
bit fair" what did they DOT" "why.
one man did all the hard work and
another man came around and got all
the money"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-02
Heaviest Frost And
Lowest Temperatul !!

Unquestionably one OF tile heaviest
frosts experienced in Marion county
for some time was evident this morn.
ing. With it the mercury dropped
down to 81. the lowest of the season,
AT 8 o'clock 1t still stood firm at %.
Up until today the coolest temper
ature for the season was on Sunday,
October Z. when the mercury was
%. Z.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-02
THE WEATHER.

Fair tonight: Saturday falr and
slightly warmer.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-30
BY BASIL N. MANLY

DIT bASlE W. WHNEI
Washington, April 30.-Al official
Washington is today looking forward
to May 1 as the day that may seal the
kaiser's doom and mark the coming
of the end.
May day-the labor day Of Euro
pean revolutionists, always set apart
by the reds for turbulent outbreaks
this year carries the threat for Ger
many of actual revolution, which
may not be as sweeping as that of
Russia, but is none the less a dire
menace to Germany's power of re-
sistance.
Every dispatch from Germany, &C
cording to an authority close to the
American state department, contains
a more or less yelled recognition Of
this menace.
Most significant as expressive of
the imperial governments dread of
May 1 is the sudden adjournment Of
the reichstag on the very first day Of
the new session until May 2.
Equally significant is the fact that
this session, called specially to re-
ceive an address from Chancellor Won
Bethmann-HOIlweg, heard not one
syllable from the chancellor, but was
precipitately dissolved when Lede-
bour, leader of the radical Socialists,
insisted on a vigorous investigation
If the present system of food distTi-
button.
The Russian revolution, it will be
remembered, had its origin in the dis
solution of the duma and had as its
first over act a series of strikes in
protest against the existing distribu-
ton of food.
n Germany, according to dispatches
(which passed the official censor, is
just emerging from a series of food
strikes among her munitions work
ers, and at least 100000 others in
scattered trades.
If the munitions workers, the best
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-30

LSSL against cOnJlnueQ UNDERGOING,
what must be the condition of the
rest of the German workers?
1T is openly threatened" says the
Berlin LOkalanzeiger, that we must
be prepared for new outbreaks of i'll
will If certain claims are not acceded
to. 1t is also reported that May 1
there will be another general strike
for "a hours"
This is confirmed by the Berlin
Tageblatt, which says: "A renewal of
the strike of munitions workers on
May day is being discussed in some
munitions workers circles"
To add flames to the finder of rev.
olution already existing in Germany,
comes the announcement through
the American department of state Of
the formation in BeTne, Switzerland,
OF a well financed committee for pro-
paganda in favor of the establish
ment of a republican form Of govern
ment in Germany.
Gen. GrOener, head of German mu-
nitions factories, it is true, has an
nouneed that all further attempts at
munitions strikes will be ruthlessly
suppressed with bullets.
But this merely adds to the prOba-
bility of real revolution.
In all history no great strike of
determined, starving workers has
ever been suppressed by blOOdshed.
If the May day strikes of the Ger
mans run true to form the blood of
the strikers will be the signal for a
widespread revolt that will tax Prus-
sian militarism to the utmost.
The Russian revolution began as
a series of food strikes and did not
reach the stage Of popular revolt I'M
til strikers were shot down.
What the outcome will be, depends
on how far the German private sol
der has been brutalized by Prussian
militarism.
If the German soldier is still as hu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
Bud a Awfu' Mes

Tother dav Bud Hincklev who
amt quite right IN his head was over
TO Vel Wilkins settin ii, the shade Of
a apple tree in the back ward watchin
Glenn whitewarsh his henhouse and
ken askin Glenn fool questshions a.
bout painting until Glenn told him to
70 off home and stop pesterin him
Well Bud went home as Glenn told
him and on the wav he made MP his
mind that he would plav he was
embarrassing too so when he got
Tome he hunted all thru the wood
shed for some paint and paint
rush hrt co,r'dnt find ennv and so
- snuk into Brad Hinsleys shed next
'oor and come acrost a pail of coal
ar which Brad had been usin TO
atch his tar roof with and Bud
rade IN his mind he would pertend
he coal tar was paint so he lueged
he pail home and then he had TO
ave brush. so the neerest thing to
brush he could find was his moth
IS fether buster which he TUX with
= MI OF tar and went ont behinf
80 a~I ho~;n With the buster
ana the coal TAR 10 paint me mouse
rite under the kitchink winder
Bud slapd on the paint like every
think and his mother heerd him at
somethink and went ont to see If he
wassent in some mischief lest as Bud
ID used up all the paint and had to
STOP
When Missus Hinckley got her
eyes on Bud he was smeered with
coal tar from head to feet and did
ent look like nothink huming TO her
result she almost tainted awav
then she went up clost to him so she
could see him better and hollers
huddy, you cant he my child kin
voul" Bud he grind and admitted he
was Then Missus Hinckley led Bud
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
Gid Ca,ved H,sself

; S-rl~It., .h.-' he'd GIT 70 urlv
nd go to church last Sabbath
-,rning. but by the time he woked
if was neerlv nine o'clock and
-ekfust to etc and all his chors TO
= and shave and evrvthink before
-hurch time brr Cid husteld until he
rot did everythin but Shawn and he
vent at that hammer and tongs and
fore he got his Ease haff shaved he
'"de a swine with the razzer and cut
~-eat cash into his ear and begin
ID like stuck pig
'issts Smallev who had been hrr-
y Cid got awful lacin when this
ord. Gid tflrowd down the raz-
and lit into her telling her it
al her falt that he cut hisself
md that he wouldn't go a step TO
--~h and diddent care a blame If
led to deth it would serve her
-.
Gid become so perfane that Mis-
sus Sma1ley broke down and cride
and as a result neither of the Small
levs went to church And Gid did
dent shave tother side of his Ease
neither and he saws he aint a goin to
but will lest let his whiskers grow
for a spell for spite Gid ort 70 be
ashamed of hisself to lose his temper
in this manner and give way to vic
l<ed perfanitty speshiallv when he is
a member in good standing and a
Stapch piller of the Ringville Church
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
CY GOT THE WORST OF 1T

Cy Hoskins one of best knowd
and titest citizens swapd horses last
week with Alonzo Skillings of Calam-
itty Corners and it rranspires that Cy
got the worst of the trade. hefhe as the
boss that Alonzo swopd him has THE
heeves and is rineboned and afflickted
in other respecks TOO numerous TO ment-
cfion
CIV thinks he is purtv smart when It
comes to tradin horses but onct in n
while he gifts the worst of II and when
he does It pleeses everhuddv in Ping
vile. being as Cy is closern the bark
to a tree and has skun so mennv foll1es
in one wav and another hat il does
IFS all power of good TO see him git
a dose of his own medisin now and
then and the only regret we have IS
that he don't git this kind of dose
offnner
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

Amri Haines that he had Jest met
suspishus charackter and he thort
Seth Dewberry our lion harted town
constubble ort to be notified When
Peleg got home he went around the
hack way and when he started to go
into the back kitchink door his own
wife told him she diddent barber
ramps and to git often the premises.
Then she shet the door rite in Pc
legs Ease By this time Peleg begin
70 git mad He thort it was a purity
howdvdoo when man couldn't git in
70 his own house Sc he begin to
-orrd on the ki+chirk door hard
enuff to bust it. Suddintly his wife
nd the door. but not. to let Pelee
IN What she opend the door for
70 let Nero ort Ne-o &c nnleos
hriudle bulldog and when Missus
Hobbs said. "Sick him. Nero" Nero
jumped on Peleg and nockd him flat
IN his back and was lest agoine to
rrab him by the throte when Pelee
White as a COST hollers. "Cit out
crop and then Nero reckonized
7e'eg and snuk off ashamed with his
: hetwivt his 1ees-or ruther. he
.o,1Id of done that if his tail had of
80, long enuff which it is not
Then Missus Hobbs reckonized
Hn1eos voice and let him into the
0''se Now evervbrddv knows who
ne1eg is when they see him and reu'-
-'-t h. Amt a stranger in our
r7idst but the change trimming his
l. ard vh'etr-s has made in his
~~prants is simply ridicklus in the
~-reem. Peleg ort to git his hair
ofteuern evrv two yrs and then
"vor1dn+ change shin so.
SPESHTAT. MOTIFS - The ahov%
about Peleg Hobbs is consid
-ahIe 1ongern we calki1ated it would
when we begin to write # or we
III rot Of mt If under the heading
81 oka1 Preefs" It's reallv too
f0r 4 az ol-1l Rreef" Int we per-
it wont do no harm to have If
~~r where it does and we don't
~hooo # it does being as its
-. for r. chance i now
rNrTOp rTrCI T
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

dy out back of the woodshed and set
down on the chopin block and TUX
her son acrost her knee and spanked
him until Buds cries could be heerd
all over Bingville
During this Perceeding Missus
linckley got coal tar all over her
'lothes and speshially her hands I'M
il she was most as smeered up as
Nd was. After this she got a gal
kerosene and made Bud strip IN
er eppel tree out in the ward and
-ow his clothes away after which
managed to git most of the coal
r often him exsept in his hair
itch she had to clip close to his
de with her shears getting coal
- all over the shears.
Missus Hinckley says she hopes to
ndness this will cure her Bud of
~ havink a ambishun to paint at
n This.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
Lokal Breefs

We are rite.now in whot we mite
call the thick of the sticky season,
Fverbuddy in Bingville will be awful
thankful when this muggy sticky
wether is over and the cooler Sep
tember wether comes.
Speakin of dogdavs Hank Dewher
nv saws he never seen flies stick liter
TO a person than thew do these dog
DAYS which we be going thru al the
present writin Hank says when a
nv 1i+es on him he has to push it
twict and kick it three times afore
t will move.
1t wouldn't do emmy harm if we was
, have shower of rain to Law the
dust and cool off the atmosfere
Witch is turrible hot at the present
"riting. Anne Hillver our attorney.
-ver. leoeal lite and J of the P
saws he lest sets in his office doink
"cthin and perspirin like a horse
-, hard work That's how hot
it is.
"Lokal Breefs" amt whot you mite
lest exactly call very plenty this wk
and yet by the time we git these all
wrote praps we will have moren we
think we will now being as at the
time we write these lines we cant
seem to think of very menny and the
outlook is poor
Mrs CIV Hoskins had a sick head
AXE last Thursday which obliged her
to take, to her bed Missus Hoskins
saws she cant understand why she has
20 have sick headakes at least onct
er wk. while her husband CIV Hos
ms don't newer seem to have a
1eadake. Well Missus Hoskins. YOU
ort to comfort Yourself with the
''ort that there is some folkes in this
world that amt got nothink in their
Ids to ake-not mentchionink en-
" rames. Let them as the shoe fits
---r'- - saw we
Peleg Hobbs had his hair and wills
ers trimmed by Harve Hines our ton
serial barber last Tuesday and when
Peleg walkd up Main st lords home
them he met on the st who had
knowd him all their lifes diddent
know. him from Adam he was that
changed and ransformashioned Pc
leg pasd Sam Harper and spoke to
Sam as ushual passing the time of
day but Sam diddent know Peleg
from side of sole leather and told
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

i'ys store all winter long a settin
around the stove playin checkers
or discussin the current topicks of
the day incloodink how this guv-
vernment ort to be run-that amt
Amhishun" that's pure sheer la
zyness that's whot it is.
Of course there is stitch a
thing as a person havink too blam-
I'd mulch "Ambishun" but there
7int no liklyhood of ennybuddy in
7inoville heing afflickted thataway
as fur as we can see at the present
time. Histry tells us that Alexan-
der the Crate, (whoever he was)
had more "Amhushun" that he
knowd whot to do with and you
ort to know whot happend to Al
exander-or at least you ort to
know whether you do or not.
- Nappolyun was another Teller
who had more "Ambishun" than
was good for him and what was
the result, we ask? Read histry
and find out, we anser?
In other words "Amhishun" is
a good thing if a person has Jest
the right amt of it. but if YOU amt
rot enuff or if YOU have to mulch
vourse worse often if you diddent
lave emmy.
This is about all we think of
= -1,orinQ concerning "Ambish-
,t, u
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
EDDYTORIUL ON "AMBISH-
UN."

Tother day we happend to meet
Jed Peters on the st. AS evrybud-
dy knows Jed is our intelligent
fletcher of the Bingville school
who durink his vacashion is in the
book agt bizness and is trying to
sell book enfield "The Lifes of
Our Presidents"
Jed tribe to sell us copy of
this book and made a purity slick
talk but we finally managed to
argy him out of sellin us a copy.
Then the talk turnd to other top
icks and we happend to make the
remarks as to how hard put to it
we was for subieck to dash off a
eddytoriul for this wks ishue when
all to onct Jed up and askd us if
we had ever wrote a eddytoriul
bout "Ambishun.
We skratchd our head and thort
and thort and then we replide to
Jed that while we had wrote ed
iytoriulS on about every subjeck
Inder the sun we diddent believe
we had ever techd on the suhieck
of "Ambfshun" and the more we
thort it over the more we become
convinced that this would be a good
iubieck to write about so here
goes:
For the benefit of some of the
more ignorunter of our subscribers
prapS we ort to explain that "Am-
biShun" is somethink which
makes a person dig in tooth and
nail to make a sucksess of their
self. Without "Ambishun" no.
'uddv amounts to a hill of beans.
In other words "Ambishun" is
somethink inside of you that urges
YOU to cline the ladder of suck
seSS where there is plenty of room
at the top even if it is a hard cline
and the rungs is greesed and you
lip back all the time you're climin.
That's "Ambishun."
We persoom speakin by and
large that "Ambishun" is some
think that Bingville folks don't
know nothink mulch about judg-
ing from how they fritter away
their time. If there was more
"Amhishun" in this town there
would be good menny more of
our most respeckted citizens with
mummy in their pockets instid OF
patches on the buzzums of their
trousers and skeercely enuff to pay
their taxes.
Folks that is ambiShus don't set
around in the shade all summer
and congergate in Hen Weathers-