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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1917-04-19
JUDGE WARREN MILLER
PRESIDES AT SESSION
OF CIRCUIT COURT

On account of Judge w. H.
O'Brien's inability to come here
to hold the regular April term of
Circuit Court Hon. Warren Mil
Ter, of Ripley. was elected special
judge Tuesday morning by mem
bers of the Calhoun County Bar.
The following attorneys were
present at this session: Bee
Hopkins, of Minnora; G. G. Grit
fin, of Beech; R. F. Kidd and E.
Chenoweth, of Glenville; S. P.
Bell.of PIT. Pleasant; Amos E.
Kenney, of Spencer; and j. T.
Waldo, A. G. Mathews, Lorentz
c. Hamilton and Bruce B. Fer
rell. of this place.
Judge Miller was former Judge
of this circuit some fourteen or
fifteen years ago. He presided
over the Jackson county term a
few days ago and will probably
preside at the May term of the
Roane circuit court.
The grand jury composed of
w. j. Sturm, foreman, G. H.
McEndree, Jackson Richards, B.
K. Wright, l.. Groves, Dwight
Meadows, J. w. Robson, Albert
Right, Sheridan Cunningham,
Ray Bush, c. j. Thomas. B. R.
Holbert, j. T. Fleming, A. L.
Gamer, Isaac Deem and Mac
Barr was empaneled and after
receiving a brief but solemn
charge from Judge Miller retired
to its room to hear evidence.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
CANDLES LIGHTED At ONCE
At ST. lsaac's In Petrograd, for Mid
night Mass, a Waxed String Con-
meets the Wicks.

A sudden blaze of innumerable cam
dies, hanging high overhead In great
chandeliers, tore away the gloom and
told US that the ceremony was to be-
gin. At the Isaakiewsk Sober. one
match did what a swith or button
does elsewhere-save that here the op-
Grafton was as ingenious and initiative
as could be devised instead of being a
machine-made cOntrivance scattered
by millions over the world.
A waXed string, an end of which
hung down within easy reach from the
marble paving, ran from one wick to
another, then from group tn group,
from chandelier TO chandelier. until
all the candles in the cathedral were
connected. The match was applied
to that string; spark splitting tiny
flame raced up to the first candle, and
so sped on It's way, an earnest, busy
little lamp lighter, quick as the snap
of an finger, adroit as monkey, and
almost unfalllng in its success.
Among the hundreds I saw II reach,
counted very few which did not blaze
at the touch; and most of these fiared
an instant and sputtered out, show
ing that the strings work, at least,
had been done. The general effect, IN
deed, was as If each wick had been
an electric bulb, but the whole, in
stead Of lighting when one switch was
turned, depended upon hand swept
over successive Warrington
Dawson, in the Atlantic Monthly. Ex-
tract from a description of midnight
mass on Easter eve in ST Isaac's ca
thedral, Petrograd.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
LEGISLATORS FROM
ALL WALKS OF life
CLASSIFICATION SHOWS THAT
LAWMAKERS REPRESENT
ALL CLASSES.
FARMERS AND LAWYERS LEAD
Forty Tillers of Soil and Thirty-one
Expounders of the Law in the
Two Houses.

Lansing-Farmers and lawyers con.
troll the present legislature. There
are an even 40 farmers, and 81 eX'
Founders of the law. In the senate
there are eight lawyers and five far
mers. For the house the farmers out.
number the lawyers by ~.
There are 35 former lower house
members. Eighteen members are mer-
chants, six editors, four doctors. three
printers, while of bankers, manufac-
turers, insurance agents, real estate
dealers, and street railway employees
there are each two. Then there are
one vessel agent, one contractor, one
oil dealer, one laundryman, one sales
man, one clerk, one schoolmaster, one
hotel keeper, one cigar manufacturer,
one carpenter, one barber and one
tailor. Five are retired from active
business, while there are five unclassi-
fed in the legislative handbook just
from the printer.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
WARDEN GIVEN MORE POWER
Proposed to Give Game Department
Control Of All Appointments.

Lansing-Important changes in the
laws, governing the administration OF
the public domain commission, are
contemplated in bill now being pre-
pared on behalf of the state game, for
est and fish department
The measure will place in the hands
Of the state game warden the control
of the activities, appointment, salaries,
ETC., of the entire force of deputies.
Provisions are made for Conserve
tors" but the bill specifies that the
entire expense and salary list must be
kept within the receipts of the depart
ment. derived from the sale Of fish.
ing and hunting licenses.
The deputies are limited to salaries
of not less than $3.50 a day, and not
more than 81. All the powers and
duties of the public domain commits
sion, relative to the conservation of
game, fish and forest, are vested, un.
der the proposed law, in the state
game, fish and fire commissioner, the
latter term supplanting the appelation
warden"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
WAITS IN SILENT GRIEF
FOR NEWS OF LOVED ONES
Plight of Bereaved EnrIishman In New
York Brings Home to Watchers
Tragedy Of New Warfare.

New York.--It took the silent grief
OF John M. Little, Engllshman, to bring
keenly home TO the officials and clerks
Of the Anchor line offices the loss of
the California, one of the liners sunk
as result Of Germany's new submA-
rine campaign.
Modestly, almost difIidently, Little, a
spare, slight man. asked for news of
his wife and four children, steerage
passengers. The latest cable, he was
told, reported his wife and one child
missing-the others had been saved.
But the wife and baby" he pleaded.
Cant you give me a word of hopper"
No one dared reply. Tears welled
from Little's eyes and rolled unre-
strninedly down his cheeks. The bus
Ting activity stopped and heads were
bowed.
Strengthening himself with an effort
Little squared his shoulders an6
walked away, the tears still stream
ing down his face.
Not a word was uttered as the work
Of the busy office was resumed.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
DOMESTIC COURT PROPOSED
Circuit Judges Would Hear Domestic
Relations Cases.

MISUNDERSTANDING for the estab-
fishing of courts OF domestic relations
in the various circuits OF the state is
provided in a bill introduced in the
house by Representative George
Welsh of Grand Rapids.
In circuits where there are two or
more judges, the presiding judge is
required to name one particular jurist
to hear domestic relations cases, and
while all cases are to be heard in
open court, the judge may exclude
from the room any persons whose
presence might be prejudicial to either
side. Any examination may be con-
Quoted in chambers If the judge so d.
reefs.
The bill directs the judge to recon-
mend 10 the governor the appoint
ment Of certain persons to act as pro-
baton officers. These officers can
not be connected with any police de-
partment or sheriff's Office. The bill
enlarges the powers OF parole officers
and court investigators to obtain in
formation for the court of domestic re-
lations.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
Makes Bryan Tired.

At a recent Missouri Chdutauqua q
man came TO William J. Bryan and
told him: " have always voted fer
you ev'ry time you've run, Mr..
Brine, an IN be glad to vote fer you
agin' as often as possible" Mr.. Bryan
thanked him, and fellow lyceum
worker said:
Don't you get awfully tired OF
having men come up and declare
they've always voted for you and al
ways will?"
"No, indeed" said Mr.. Bryan. "The
people that make me tired are the
ones that say they've never voted for
me and never will."'-Ladies' Home
Journal.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
WHAT A JEWELRY firm Did
They Invested Some of Their
Spare Money in Canadian
Lands.

8. Joseph & Sons, Of Des Moines,
Iowa, are looked upon as being shrewd,
careful business men. Having some
spare money on hand, and looking for
a suitable investment, they decided to
purchase Canadian lands, and farm 1t.
With the assistance of the Canadian
Government Agent, at Des Moines,
Iowa, they made selection near Cham
pion, Alberta They put 240 acres OF
land in wheat, and in writing to Mr..
Hewitt, the Canadian Government
Agent at Des Moines, one of the men,
bers Of the firm says:
81 have much pleasure In advising
you that on our farm five miles east
of Champion, In the Province of AL
berta, Canada, this year (1916 we har-
vested and threshed 10000 bushels OF
wheat from 240 acres, this being an
average of Al bushels and 10 pounds
to the acre. A considerable portion
of the wheat was No. l Northern.
worth at Champion approximately
$1.S5 per bushel, making a total return
of S19610, or an average of $S1.70 per
uCIS SIOSS gleiuS' NetuitSS W say Wo
are extremely well pleased with our
lands"
1t might not be uninteresting to read
the report Of c. As Wright Of Milo,
Iowa, who bought 100 acres at Cham
pion, Alberta, for $1,000 in December,
1915. He stubbled in the whole lot OF
1t, and threshed 4,4S7 bushels Grade
No. Northern.
Mr.. Wright, being a thorough bust
ness man, gives the cost of work, and
the amount realized. These figures
show that after paying for his land
and cost of operation he had S2,472J67
left.
4,4S7 bushels, worth S1.55 at
CudlHplOu SOi0Ot.OO
N. /. 4
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
Arizona MightieSt of
All Fighting Vessels.

The Arizona, the newest addi-
ton to the United States battle
ship division. not only is the big
gest of Uncle Sans sea fighters.
but no other naval power has
fighting vessel that can reach 1t
In size.
1t is larger by 200 tons that the
Pennsylvania, the flagship OF
Admiral Mayo, Of which 1t Is a
sister ship.
1t will be a damaging foe for
an enemy to meet. Its twelve IA
inch guns fire a broadside of 90
600 pounds of steel, which can
be directed accurately at mark
Is miles distant. The brOadside
is 5000 pounds more than the
combined broadsides of the Kan
sas, Vermont and New Hamp-
shire, ships that have been
placed in the reserve fleet.
The displacement of the Ari-
IONA Is $1,000 tons. 1t Is pro-
PEELED by oil-burnIng engines,
which drive 1t at speed averag-
ing 20 knots an hour.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
LANSING NOTES

Dog and cat bills are becoming nu.
merous. Three separate bills in the
house aim to compel keeping dogs on
the premises of their owners from
shutdown to daylight on penalty of
being shot and with penalties for the
owners IL they are not kept at home
Another bill aims to make dogs and
cats subject to the death penalty
when they are seen pursuing birds
or small game.
Capt. Disque, the new warden OF
Jackson prison is DESTROYS that the
legislature have the fullest possible
knowledge about conditions in the
prison and the up-to-date business
methods on which 1t is conducted. SO.
he has sent a personal invitation TO
every member OF the legislature to
visit the prison and look 1t over and
--also to make weekend visit at any
time they find convenient and TO bring
their wives.
Another effort is being made by the
public domain commission TO clear
state title to unsurveyed lands on Har-
sens island, st. Clair Flats. Rep.
Moore, of Port Huron, introduced the
bill.
Rep. Warner wants townships al
lowed to vote, on petition OF rs or
more residents, on whether or not
they want to create the Office of town
ship weed commissioner. Should they
create it, the township officials are to
pay the weed commissioner and the
latter is TO see that all noxious weeds
are eliminated.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15

II was announced at Washington
that President Wilson nominated Ray
mond b. Stevens of Randolph, N. H., TO
be member of the federal shipping
board for term of five years. Stevens
succeeds Bernard n. Baker of Balti-
more, who resigned.
Private Charles Eaton of Company
l., Fifth Ohio infantry, and Sergt. Karl
Eisenhart of Company X. Fifth Ohio
infantry were killed when the Golden
State Limited train of the Rock Island
line struck a motor truck in which
they were riding at El Paso, Tex.
William Il. Carllle, well-known In
surance man, was appointed pOstmas-
ter of Chicago by President Wilson at
Washington.
John J. Halpin, former chief of de-
tectlves of Chicago, convicted of ac-
cepting brides from members of the
"clairvoyants' trust" wGs taken TO the
Joliet penitentiary. He must serve
from one to five years.
Fire at the James Robertson ship
yards on San Pablo Bay, Cal, caused
damage estimated at $4,000. The
blaze started in an explosion of a gas
Oline tank.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
IoftIer Objects

A passing neighbor stopped at the
door of great alchemist who was
toiling amid flame and vapor.
"Still looking for the philosophers
stone and the elixier of llfe?" asked
the neighhor.
mo. J have temporarily suspended
that quest TO look for things of more
immediate Importance. am seeking
tne mbreakable promise and the I'm.
hunable scrap of paper"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15

war department has decided and an
nounced that the appointment to vol
unteer commissions will be made
from those classes of our citizens who
have had such experience, and that
I from those classes the selections viii
be made in the following order:
(A)-Persons who have had expert
ence as commissioned officers in the
regular army of the United States and
eX-Oflicers of volunteers of proved ex-
Perience and efficiency.
(B)-Non-commissiOned officers Of
experience in the regular army.
(C)-Persons who have had expert
ence as officers in the militia.
(D)-Persons who have qualified
according to law under prescribed ex-
aminatiOns to test their fitness to
command and control men in the field
(E)-Graduates of educational in
situations of military standing TO
which regular army officers are de-
tailed as professors of military science
under the law.
(F)-Should the necessary number
of volunteer officers required not be
furnished from the above classes, the
war department will give civilians
lacking in actual military experience
an opportunity to appear for examina-
ton to test their fitness for commits
sions, before boards which the war de-
partment proposes to create In the
several states.
Begin Training at Once.
Under the caption Training Of Vol
unteers" the war college pamphlet
reads:
"Che training of volunteer troops
must begin without delay after their
induction into the service. No time
must be lost. II should begin at the
company rendezvous, without waiting
for complete mobilization. Under our
traditional policy of relying princi-
pally for defense upon citizen sol
diers, the larger part of our land
forces will not be fully trained on the
outbreak Of war;. 1t is more than
probable that we shall have to employ
some of them with little or no train
ing as soon as they can be assembled
in suitable units.
"The amount and character of the
training will at first be directly pro-
portional TO the time consumed, pro-
vided a rational scheme be followed.
How much time will be available it
is impossible TO predict. 1t Is reason
able to assume, however, that in the
event Of a war with an oversee enemy
it will be the time required for our
enemy TO establish at least a partial
control of the sea sufficient to open
the way for landing of expeditionary
forces.
"Any system of training. however,
good in itself, will fail to bring the de-
sired results unless there are avail
able sufficient number of trained in
structors, officers and noncommis-
stoned officers. The blind cannot lead
the blind"
Referring to the mobilization Of the
volunteer armies, the war college
points out that all points of mobiliza-
ton have been selected, one in each
state Of the Union, and that these pre-
llminary arrangements have been APP
proved by both the federal and state
authorities. These plans provide for
the necessary buildings, for water sup
ply, and all other essential needs
which will arise.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
Foreign

1t was announced at Rome the
duke of AbruzM has requested that he
be relieved of the command of the
italian fleet He will be replaced by
Vice Admiral Paolo ThaOD di Revel.
who will also assume the duty of chief
of the general staff of the navy.
1t is semlofficially stated at Berne
that Switzerland, In reply to President
Wilson's note, will decline to depart
from the line of strict neutrality, which
Is a vital principle of Swiss policy.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
Personal

Judge Samuel c. Parks, ninety-seven
years DID, formerly associated In a
law firm In Springfield, H.. with Abra-
ham Lincoln, is dead at Kansas City,
Mo. Mr.. Parks was born on a Yer
mont farm on March %, 1920.
Cardinal DiOmede Falconio, project
of the congregation of religious affairs
and apostolic delegate to the United
States, is dead ut Rome.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
Washington

An immediate increase from to 1B
cents pound In the postage rates on
newspapers and periodicals for this
year and to 2 cents a pound next year
is provided In the post-office appropria-
ton bill ordered reported to the sem
ate by the post-office committee at
Washington.
The senate judiciary committee at
Washington reported favorably IA con-
spiracy bills intended to protect Unit
ed States and foreign property in case
of war.
Formal announcement was made at
Washington that in spite of the for
eign situation the public Inauguration
ceremonies March will be held as
planned. 1t was stated that il will
be made impressive "in order to afford
an opportunity for a perfectly spon-
taneous exhibition of the patriotic
feeling Of the country"
German crews on vessels interned In
American ports have a right to dam
age the vessels to any extent they see
fit, so long as In so doing they do not
injure other shipping and property in
terests or obstruct navigable waters.
This was made plain by Secretary OF
War Baker in a statement issued at
Washington.
The house at Washington approved
the conference report on the S60,000,-
600 fortificatlons bill, passed by the
senate with minor amendments. 1t now
goes to the president.
At the cose of n two-hour cabinet
meeting at Washington It was indicat-
ed that nothing had happened to
change the position Of the American
government In the submarine crisis.
The state department, II was said. has
received no official word that Germany
might alter her policy.
The first dissenting voice heard in
congress Mt Washington since the
break with Germany was that Of SEN
ator Works of California, who deliv-
cred vigorous protest against risking
war with Germany on the floor of the
senate.
New life suddenly was injected into
the 'leak" inquiry at Washington by
the testimony of George p. Chapman,
local manager for Hartman & Co.,
New York brokers, that certain mem
bers Of the house of representatives
dealt In stocks with him
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
Happenings
Of the World
Tersely Told
European WGr News

A British torpedo-boat destroyer Of
an older type, the British admiralty
announced at London struck n mine in
the English channel and sank. All OF
the officers and crew except five were
lost.
The British in the Somme region Of
France are keeping up their new of
fensive against the Germans in their
efforts to push forward toward Ba-
paume. Southeast of Bapaume, along
the Bapaume-P eronne road, they have
taken the highest point of Sallly-Sail-
lisel hill and captured considerable
number of Germans and one machine
gun, says the London war office.
British steamers carrying munitions
of war are assembling in the Atlantic
ocean off the Virginia Capes and will
be conveyed to England by British
warship according to u dispatch from
Newport News, Va.
Carrying 100 passengers, $50 of them
Americans, the White Star liner Lap
land arrived at New York from Eng
land 48 hours overdue. The Lapland
was caught in 100-mile gale and
blown off her course while waves 40
feet high dashed over her.
King George Of England in opening
parliament in London said that the re-
Spouse of the allies to the invitation
of the president of the United States
outlined their aims as far as could be
done at present. The king added:
Threats of further outrages upon
public order and the common right of
humanity serve to steel our determine
tion."
The captain and II men of the Span.
ish steamer Algeria, which was sunk
by a submarine, have been landed at
London by a steam trawler. They were
adrift for 46 hours before being res
cued, and two sailors died as result
of privations. The other refugees had
their hands and feet frozen.
Lloyd's reports at London that the
British steamship Port Adelaide, car
rying passengers, has been sunk.
Ninety-six of the passengers and crew
have been picked up at sea. The cap
tain was taken prisoner.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
The Hitch.

Are you living within your In
Gomez"
Il am, all right, but the trouble IL
ny wife isn't"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
Domestic

Governor Goodrich at Indianapolis.
Ind, signed the Wright prohibition
bal, which will make Indiana dry in
April, 1918. In the presence of many
prohibition workers the governor at
tRched his signature to the measure.
Construction Of navy craft by the
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry
dock company, the Fore River Ship
building company and the Electric
Boat company will be speeded up to
the limit Of the plants. Work on two
battleships at the plant of the New
port News company, at Secretary
Daniels suggestion, already is pro-
ceeding under double crews.
The United States government began
laying mines in the entrance to the
harbor at Mobile. All alien lighthouse
RENDERS have been dismissed.
All the available six-inch siege guns
at West Point were shipped to New
York for use at the forts protecting
the city.
Fifteen Germans employed in the
foreign department of the Guaranty
Trust company at New York, one of
the largest banking organizations in
the country, have been given indefinite
leave of absence with pay, 1t was an
nounced, pending the outcome of the
break between the United States and
Germany.
The refugee German steamer Kron-
prinzessin Cecilie, built at a cost of
$4,500,O00, has been rendered useless
for months by the disabling of her en-
gines, II was reported at Boston by
Capt. John b. Coyle, an engineer of
the United States coast guard service.
He told Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Andrew J. Peters that his
examination indicated a deliberate at
tempt to cripple the liner.
Engines and boilers of all nine Ger
man merchant vessels tied up in the
Hawaiian island have been disabled
by their crews. The crews of the
North German Lloyd steamers Pom
mern and Prinz Waldemar have been
formally taken into custody, and crews
of the other seven vessels are detained
ut the immigration station.
Chicago switchmen connected with
the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
will not strike. Representatives of
both sides announced that all differ
ences had been settled and the rail-
road managers had conceded the points
demanded by the switchmen.
Resentment swept California when
her citizens read Senator Works
speech I'm which he charges the United
States and American citizens with be-
Ing unneutral toward Germany, an at
titude which, he said, made the break
with Germany inevitable.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
Mexican War NezrS

1t was announced at military head
quarters at I'll Paso, Tex, that orders
had been received from the southern
department for the quartermaster's de-
partment to prepare for the movement
of National Guard troops to their home
states
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
$4,4S2.1S S4,4S2.1S

Net profit after paying for
farm and all cost of opera
ton ................. SO, 472.Gr
Advertisement.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15

Orders were issued TO the first aero
squadron at Columbus, n. NJ, direct
ing that airplanes be held in readiness
for immediate reconnaissance over hos
tile territory.