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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17
MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER II. 1917.
SUPT. WILSON'S PROGRAM.

e UPERINTENDENT WILSON'S program for
= making the educational plant and teaching force of
Fairmont Independent district do its part toward
carrying The national burdens while the war lasts is won
derfuly complete but the big thing about it after all
the idea hat is back Of it With such beginning the
schools Of this district will be able to give good account
of themselves matter what calls may be made upon them
Most Of the things that will be stressed under this pro-
gram during the coming term are old fashioned virtues
thrift patriotism. industry, efcency-but under the i'm
pulse of the nations necessities the mind Of youth will be
in than ordinarily receptive mood and if the teach
give loyal cooperation habits which will last through
out many lifetime may be formed and thus the children
who in the schools will become class apart as
twee and go further the road than otherwise
would have been the case.
Not the least important feature of the program is the
provision which will make possible for students of excep
onal ability and diligence go ahead rapidly The only
really serious indictment made against the public school
system in this country that it has tendency to educate
youth in purely mechanical way compelling the natur
ally bright and the hard workers to hang back for the
shkers and the dull who in the end manage slip through
without getting much Of an education.
Various plans have been devised this obec
ton For the conditions that are found in Fairmont hide
pendent district however no plan could be better than the
simple MIR. Wilson has decided upon. Children who
able to cut the time to be permitted to do This
announcement ought to be all the incentive the ambitious
need
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17
Better Health From
Internal Baths

Miss Frances Herrod writes Or.
Chas. A. Tyrrell Of New York as fol
lows: "NE'
81 am very glad to tell you that I
am more than pleased with the results
obtained from the use of the u. B.
L Cascade and am in better heath,
than have been in years"
This is but one of thousands Of the
same kind of letters received by Dir.
Chas. A. TyrTell of New York. inc
inventor OF the ~. B. l.. Cascade.
By purely natural process of pro.
perly using warm water, the ~. B,
L." Cascade" removes all the poison.
Gus waste from the lower intestine.
which physicians agree is the cause
cause Of IS per cent of all human all.
ments.
Fairmont Pharmacy Company have
filled an enormous demand for ~. b.
l.. Cascades" in the past few years.
and will show and explain it to YOU
on request. A free and interesting
booklet on Internal Bathing-"Why
Man of Today Is Only so per cent III.
ficient"--can be obtained at their
store free of any cost.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

nothing being done toward having some theatrical IL
fractions Of EsSstter class during the coming winter
We have plenty Of picture theatres and he Hipno-
drome will remain open with either tabloid musical come
dies or stock on the bills but the people who want 10 see
the shows that on the road during the coming season
will have to go to other town unless arrangements are
made soon for the opening Of the Grand
The death of ]. T. Miller and the REIMBURSEMENT of the
lease on this theatre by the Mountain City Amusement COM
pany the most recent lessee, leaves the matter in peu
iary wide open state. Anybody can not make money with
the Grand, but there no why man who knows
the theatrical business could not make that house pay rom
the very start if he had restrict the bookings to
good road show and superior picture show played
at say. fifty cent, an admission per week.
1t is matter which deserves to be looked into at all
events.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

er will make the foxes laugh when
they hear about 1t.
The unofficial committee on the con.
struction Of the Coal run bridge lie al.
ready in continuous session.
If you want to know how the bridge
should NOT be built listen to its delhi.
erations for a while.
By the way, Chief Harr could do a
good turn for the So hour law BY lust
keeping an eye open for the chronic
loafers who sit around watching hon.
est men work.
OF course keeping an eye open is
not all he should do.
A hot supper Just before they leave
for Camp Lee is going to make whole
lot more Of hit with the National
army lads than lot Of hot air.
Ship Just in from the other side re-.
ports that it would have been torpedo.
ed II the torpedo had not turned aside
after 1t was released.
Esk about loss q morale On the
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17
AN AMUSEMENT PROBLEM.

A MONG all the planning for the bettement and
"A growth of Farmont attention has been paid to the
question Of public amusements. Yet that is rather
important matter everywhere and that merits the
best thought of Chambers of Commerce and similar town
Improvement bodies. If we keep people here whom
the growth of business and industry brings to us if in short
the problem of maintaining working forces is to be reduced
to minimum, sufficient amount of wholesome amusement
must be provided.
This matter rather forces itself upon the attention right
now by the preparations for the coming theatrical season
that going in the cities surrounding u.s. Fairmont
the only city of any size in quite large territory in which
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

Dispatches from Charleston which call attention to
the fact that the departure from the state of the
regiments of former guards brings the special dep
uty act passed by the last Legislature into full play say
state and county officers to give informa-
ton" concerning the progress of the movement put
the act in force If there many counties like Marion
the for this reticence not far to seek The all
thorities afraid the that follows every time
a list of the deputies is printed.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17
RUFF STUFF
Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!
But 1t isn't such darned happy
new year for Sol Burka.
Hope they wont entirely neglect
the three RS while they are teaching
eobbling, thrift, football, gardening,
etcetera in the public schools.
A great beefy football hero who
spells 1t athaletics is a saddening
Won Eckhardt's nat denial that he
sent messages home by way OF the
swedish charge at Mexico will remind
lots OF people Of that old mot that a
diplomat IL one sent abroad to lie for
bis country.
As rule fox hunting is not so dan.
Berous to the hunters.
Saturday nights affair down the riy.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

pensation Department. The WOMAN
besides writing that she will sell her
"birthright" for 100000 concludes:
Because l have got three children and
l wouldn't like tertake any less for It.
l am not married and amt thinking
about. l am going to take care of my
children the best lean" The only
comment made by the official at tie
state commission office was that the
woman had exalted ideas OF the value
Of her "birthright."
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

AS long people willing to take the law into
their hands there will be tragedies like that of
Saturday night in which Harvey Hayhurst and Fernan-
do Thorne lost their lives and occurrences such that
in which young mans life almost snuffed out in
orchard the East Side time ago. All of the
principles to these affairs deserving of sympa
thy for according to their lights the aggressors
acting within their rights. But would be safe
this sort of Justice" the rule 1t guard
against just such things that courts maintained.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

David Snyder, editor of the Weston
Republican, is in a precarious conui.
ton at his home in that city as the
result of stroke Of paralysis, accord.
ing to word received here today. He
was suddenly stricken late yesterday
while standing in front Of drug store
there. His two sons. Charles Of De
troit, Michp and George OF Clarks-
burg, have been summoned to his bed.
side.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

Evidently If the people who make the text books
adopted by the Text Book commission want to get the
schools of the state to them they will haye do
lot having The schools of Clarksburg will make
change this year and similar comes from all
the state There is distinct advantage in having
uniform text books, but apparently school boards
do think it is important enough make them take
books adopted in a way they do not approve Of
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

German side!
Shooting scrapes, fatal and near ia.
tai, will figure pretty largely in the
next term Of court.
Lot Of lawyers ought to be able to
buy sealskin coats for their wives ev.
en- at prevailing prices.
The duck who takes the law into his
own hands usually pays two or three
prices for his Justice"
Even confirmed crouch would find
1t hard to kick about such weather as
we are having today.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

If the matter can be arranged the men called to the
National army will be given supper before they
take the train farewell expression of the
ity No better plan could have been devised and it is
to be hoped that nothing will prevent its being carried
out.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17
West vlroInla on Man Dead

GRAFTON, W. Va, Sept. 17-John
McTanney. aged rs, a retired oil man,
was found dead in his garden here. He
mad been digging potatoes and the ex-
ertion proved too much for his feeble
strength. He was one of the best
known OIL men in the Pennsylvania.
West Virginia field.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

sioner Stewart is fthe opinion that
II his seed saving program should be
carried out by every producer, in the
country this fall the cash outlay for
seeds In the state when planting time
comes again would be a million dol
lars less than 1t will be IL the injiuno.
ton to save seeds now is ignored.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

The oversubscrption for the stock of the Fairmont
State bank is evidence that the bank is going to
start under the most favorable auspices 1t shows that
the institution is being upon the community
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

Ulysses A. Clayton, who died at Laurel, Md, satur-
day, was for long time of Farmont's foremost
citizens and his activities in the interest of better
ditions generally will bear fruit for many day.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

. Miss Alta McNeely of Fourth street
ieft today for Morgantown where she
WIZ enter the West Virginia university
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17
FEEDING PEACHES TO HOGS.

INPATIENT people who fret because the food admin
raon has not been able to make deep cuts into the
high cost of living fail to take into consideration that in
large country like this the bad management of genera
ton cannot be reformed over night If this first winter
Mr. Hoover is able to check the tendency Of commodity
prices to mount by leaps and bounds he will be doing
great work.
One of the worst handcaps to the work Of keeping living
within bounds is the crudenes and the nadequacy of
our distribution machinery. We have heard this stated so
often and so many ways that scarcely arouses our inter-
now. The newspapers of yesterday. however, contain
ed dispatch which brings the shortcomings of distribution
in this immediate section of the country into relief in way
which every Famont housewife, at least will understand
at its full value This dispatch is as follows:
CUMBERLAND, Nd. Sept. 15.-A good
portion of a great crop of peaches is rottng in
the orchards because there is not sufficient
labor to pick and market them. The waste is
manifest in the orchards only few miles from
Cumberland. Tons Of excellent fruit are going
to waste
The best quality of peaches be bought
at rs cents a basket by picking them from the
trees. One farmer in West Virginia in this
belt seen hauling wagonload of peaches
from his orchard To fed his hogs
Alberta peaches are selling at from 50 to $500 per
bu,he in Faimont but they feeding them TO the hogs
in Cumberland 1t may be doubted whether that would
happen in any other country the globe. 1t certainly
could not happen any country which properly organ
lied. Economically speaking, such condition is crime
and remedy for will have to be found before we can
call ourselves really great people.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

This evening Dale Reed leaves for
New York university located in New
York city. He will be a law student
at that institution.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

Many schools and colleges through.
out the state are having, or anticipat.
ing, record enrollments this year, e..
pecially the teacher training schools.
The largest enrolment in history was
reported at the colse OF the first day
of the 1878 session Of the Morris
Harvey college at Barboursville. Pres.
1dent U. " W. Darlington reported that
the girls dormitories were filled to
capacity and that the accommodations
for boys lacked little of being exhaust.
ed. He was highly pleased with the
situation and expressed the belier
that the year is to be the best in The
history of the school. The endowment
OF the school is to be increased, &C.
cording to present plans, and the re-.
moval of the school to Charleston is
being discussed, but these plans will
not be allowed to interfere with the
work of the year.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

AS sequel to the sale at Hunting.
ton recently Of carload of peaches by
Judge Tom Null "at cost" to the house.
wives of the city, who themselves, or
by proxy, almost mobbed the car in
their mad efforts to get "in on the
DEAL" comes the story of grocer IN
that city who on the same day adver.
tised that he had 1000 bushels Of fne
peaches on the way which would be
sold at SIPS, ten cents cheaper than
the ones wrich were sold at cost, and
he declared that he was not selling
them at cost but at legitimate profit.
Another merchant advertised peaches
delivered for $215. Anyway you take
1t" says the Guyan Valley Thunderer,
If you buy peaches you get stuns."
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17
BITS OF
STATE NEWS

The Four Minute Men campaign,
which wa srecently launched in the
state for the purpose of disseminating
war information to the citizens, is
proving very successful throughout
the greater part of the state, accord.
ing to announcement by the stats
council of defense. Men are appo'at.
ed in the various cities and towns to
make four minute talks on war topiccs
at picture shows and other public
gatherings. State Chairman William
B. Mathews has announced that the
Four Minute Men will assist in the
second Liberty loan campaign and the
first list of county and. city chairnen
who are actively in charge of the work
has just been announced. There are
34S7 theatres in 21345 different places
where the homogeneous have aided
with the work, the report says.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17
SHORT AND sNAPPY

The men enthusiastically promote the canning season
by giving hearty moral support to their wives who are
doing the work.-Clarksburg Exponent
There's nothing new about the manufacture OF paper
Shoes The curious thing about that the makers took
so long to admit it.-Unontown Evening Genius.
Nows the time to educate the foreigner to be an
American; WHILE If he can not get that into his head
why not give him swimming papers?- Charleston Mail
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

Anticipating the actual cost Of all
kinds of seeds next spring, Commits.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

IT. YOU DON'T GET YOUR PAPER CALL
WESTERN UNION"
Subscribers on our carrier routes falling to get
The West Virgia:an any evening should call IVES.
TERN UNION" state the TACT and give name and
residence and messenger will deliver paper to
your door at There is no charge to the sub
scfiber for this service. The West Virginlan plans
70 render to its subscribers the best newspaper de-
Livery service possible and this part OF the plan.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

A letter was received by State Treas.
urer johnson recently from q lady OF
Landgritf, W. Va, that puts Jacob of
the Old Testament story completely
in the shade as peddler Of birthrights.
Some loose thread OF Biblical lore,
which composed the fabric Of her early
training, probably prompted the wo.
man to offer to sell her hirthrisht to
the state, says a correspondent Of the
Wheeling Register. But quite In con.
trast to the Hebraic story Of the Old
Testament, which involves Essau aud
Jacob, there was nothing OF the piker
about this would be seller Of her birth
right She offered her heritage for
the sum of $4,000, which even In war
times would buy quite a bunch" of
pottage. the legal tender in the tins
of Jacob. The letter was unintelliEa.
BILE to State Treasurer johnson, 90 ne
passed 1t on to State Auditor parst
who in turn--and in bewilderment--
passed i on to the .Worlman's coms
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

While the great popular moement
increased gardening and trucking &C.
uvities in West Virginia this year, as
shown by observations he has made
in various sections, it is the opinion
OF James H. Stewart, state commits
sioner OF agriculture, that next year
Will witness greater gardening aud
trucking by hundred percent.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

In fe wshort sentences, his advice
is; Save the best of everything. Sc.
lect your seed corn. Save potatoes Of
a right variety, as we'll as beans and
other garden and field seed. Put them
away in good shape. Save more than
you will need for your own use thar
you may take care of the requirements
o fthe less provident neighbor."
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

Profting yShe lessons learned this
year, too. the planting will be more
wisely and the cultivation better done.
For this to be possible with most
economy and profit to the producers,
howeevr, it is indespensibly nescs.
sary, in Mr.. Stewards opinion, that
good seeds shall be saved or secured
10 rsaving at the present time.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-17

Entered z. The tostocs at Fairnon wes+ virginia. as
seeuNd ylasS matter.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-18
Chinese Worship of Ancestors.

The one spiritual force that DOM
mates every class of society in Chi
ma is ancestor worship. In the Chi
nese religion there is no other that
can take its place for a moment. A
man may or may lot worship idols.
He may express his utter skeptic-
ism about them or profess belief in
them. No one cares what he
thinks. Let him, however, neglect
the worship of the dead and he II
looked upon and pointed to with
the bitterest scorn both by his own
relations and by his neighbors. The
worst taunt that the heathen can
hurl against the Christian, and the
one that stings him most, is the
sneering statement that he has no
ancestors.-New York Tribune.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-18
Causes of War.

The horrors of the Indian mutt
ny will still be remembered, AMI
the cause which led to it is a mat
ter of history. Cartridges creased
with cows fat were served out to
the sepoys, who refused to usa
them on the ground that the cow
was a sacred animal. Almost with
out any warning the terrible massa-
cres followed, which were only
avenged at an enormous expendl-
ture of lives and money.
The war which deluged Austria
and Prussia with blood in 1866 en-
anated in the former failing to an
swer a question asked by the latter.
In the spring of that year the Aus
trians began to arm very speedily
and powerfully, and the Prussians
wanted to know the reason. To
this they would give no reply, and
Prussia, thinking it was an un-
friendly and menacing action,
brought about the CORY campaign.-
London Tit-Bits.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-18

Whoever '.nows anything about
the small boy md his pride in his
first pair OF trousers will recognize
the truth Of story the Philadel-
phia Ledger prints.
Tommy was at Sunday school in
his first real" clothes. A picture
of lot of little angels Wa before
the class, and the teacher asked
Tommy if he would not like to be
one.
"No. ma'am," replied Tommy
after inspecting the picture.
'Not want TO be an angel, Tom
MY" reproaehed the teacher. "Why
not"
"Cause I'd have to give up n1
~ pantS" said Tommy sAr2U.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-18
YES! MAGICALLY!
CORNS LIFT OUT
WITH FINGERS

> You simply say to. me drug store
man, "0ive me a Quarter OF an ounce
Of freezone." This will cost very little
but u sufncient TO remove every hard
or soft corn from ones feet
A few drops of this new ether CO =.
pound applied directly upon a tende.,
aching cory should relieve the sore
ices instantly, and soon the entire coru,
root and all. dries up and can be lifted
out With the fingers.
This new way TO rid ones feet Of
corns was introduced by a Cincinnati
man. who says that, while freezone is
sticky. IL dries In a moment. and sim
ply shrfvels up the corn without in
flaming or even irritating the surround
Ing tissue or skin.
Don't let father die OF infection or
jockjAv from whiting ct his oorns.
but clip this out aud make him try L.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-18
Root cro2 Every fourth Year.

Few persons realize that large por
ton of Germany is but sandy rluln
sGd her enormous crop yields due to
the fact that for each three acres 81
cereals grown her farmers raise one
acre OF hoed crops. thus producing 1
root crop on each field every fourth
year. They grow sugar beets wher.
ever possible and are the greatest pro
ducers OF this 'egetable IN the world
In sections whore there are no fac
tories TO which they can sell their sugar
beets they grow beets or other root
9opu and feed them p STOCK