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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-26
STILL SQUABBLING
OVER MONEY BILL
tBy Associated press)

CHARLESTON, w. Va, May 90
While the conference committee of the
West Virginia legislature appointed
for purpose of devising a general ap-
preparation bill has not been able to
report any progress toward agreement
there is "a feeling in. both branches Of
the Legislature that something definite
will be done with that subject today.
In the House compromise bill EN-.
bodying some Of the features Of two
other revenue bills was passed under
suspension Of the rules. 1t procides
for a direct levy Of two cents on the
dollar valuation Of real and personal
property and a special excise tax of
one fourth Of one per cent on income
Of corporations, associations, etc. The
fund is to be used In supporting the
operations Of the council Of national
defense.
The Talbot bill was tabled in the
House. 1t provides for selection Of
deputy sheriffs to protect the states
interest during the war and the abb
3sence Of the regular military forces,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-26
col. BEIGHMAN
(, is EXPECTED SOON
Is Still in Ohio Inspecting
Prospective Camp Sites
For This Division

Colonel Carl Reichman, o. s. A., de-
tailed to find suitable place for the
Eighth division to encamp in either
Ohio or West Virginia is expected
most any time now to look over the
section between Fairmont and Man.
nington. He reported to his superior
officer that he had received his or
ders to come to Marion county and
would do so as soon as the trip could
be arranged. :,
Colonel Reichman and his staff will
visit the site and betold Of all the adj
vantages and will report back to his
superior officer. 1t is not thought that
the colonel will state whether this site
is to be selected until all data has
ben laid before the board and thor
oughly studied.
At present the board is visiting mum.
erous places in Ohio where there are
facilities to equal those of Marion
county and this section will have to
exert itself to the utmost to convince
the Colonel that West Virginia, a dry
state, Marion county with all its pos
sibilities is the place for the encamp'
ment.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-26
Cut Over Will Take Place
Promptly at Nine
O'clock.
BUILDING IS A MODEL
Contains the Very Latest
Efficiency Appliances and
Is Comfortable.

Tonight at nine o'clock, promptly
on the minute, a string in the Bell
Telephone building will be pulled and
presto! over two thousand Bell tele.
phones will have new central. 1t
will be the same service, the reliable
Bell service, but Central, the CHEEKY
voice which number pleases?" when
the receiver is taken down will
have a new working quarters. It's a
very unimportant moment in the life
Of the average man when he has a
new Central put on his line. He calls
for a number, he wants 1t, he gets 1t
and hangs up. But in the meantime
thousands Of little intricate changes
take place in the telephone building,
all under the guidance Of expects and
the company has found that it pays
to keep these experts we'll and COM
fortably housed. The new exchange
in this city located in the new building
on Monroe street is one of the most
complete in the country and everything
AZ ~ ID up " DG4l
The Central department of the tele-
phone service is but one, though i'm
portant, department in an organize
ton that spans the country. There
is the battery room, the wire rooms,
the power rooms, dining rooms, kitch
ems, rest rooms, business offices,
booths for calls, there is the Long
Distance department, the Information
department which does so much more
work than 1t would have to were every
one anxious to help along some on
their calls, a department for com.
plants, for trouble reports, for instruc-
tion Of new operators and several 9th.
ers that never are heard of outside Of
the telephone buildings.
The battery rooms contain enough
storage battery to send dozens of subs
around the world. Not content with
this, the company has ready an emerg-
ency set Of batteries. The wire rooms
are for electrical engineers and wire
experts to handle. In the power
rooms there are machines which are
put there simply because in years
gone by there used to be complaints
that subscriber in New York couldn't
very we'll hear the man with whom he
was taking in Chicago. These power
full engines are run so that you must
be in the same room with them to
know they are operating. There is
no sickening throbbing all day long
of the floors and walls due to the en-
CINE running, the constant humming OF
machinery is never heard in the Bell
building.
When the string is pulled at nine
CONTINUED on Page Ten.)
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-26
BIUGLERS TO WAKE
FAIRN0NT UP ON
MEMORIAL DAY
That Plan Will be Taken Up
With Colonel
Osborne.

Memorial Day in Fairmont will not
be only parades and fun for those who
wish to take advantage of the holiday
to sleep late. On that day at sun-up
every Fairmonter will be awakened to
a day of duty for his country and the
awakening will be that Of soldier
If present plans carry and the Execu-
five committee on the Memorial Day
program can arrange it bugler from
the First Regiment camp at the Fair
Grounds will be stationed in all Sec
lions of the city to awaken the Amer'
cans with reveille.
This little suggestion has been Of
fered for consideration by the commit
tee next Monday evening and the com.
manding officer of the camp, Colonel
Robert L. Osborn, will be asked to pro-
vide the men for this occasion.
The First Regiment itself will par
ticipate in the parade and the cere-
monies OF the day. The huglers will
also be asked to blow taps at the var1-
GUS cemeteries during the decorating
services in the morning. This parade
which will include the soldiers and the
soldiers-to.be and the Red Cross and
then the others who wish to join the
parade for purely patriotic reasons Is
bound to be success.
At the flag raising on Palatine Knob
Hon. w. S. Meredith will be the orator.
His address will be brief.
Congressman Henry 7. Rainey, the
speaker of the day, will view the pa
rade from an auto at Twelfth street.
He will be accompanied by the grano
marshal and the executive committee.
A committee visited the Mobilization
Cap this afternoon to arrange with
Colonel Robert Osborn for the part
which the soldiers will be asked to
take in the parade.
The following aides have been ap-
pointed to assist the marshal. ]. w.
irwin, Frank Hessian, w. X. Barnes, T.
B. Reed, william Branson, Frank
Amos, 3. q. Rownd, Rollo Conley, Ray
Harden, C. G. snider, John Feorene' T.
C. Miller.
The Red Cross will have 80 autos IN
the parade and there will be an auto
section in which there are t. be about
CONTINUED on page 100 *
:, y 'Ia,a.1 ADV
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-26
WOMEN WORKING
ON THE RAILROAD

The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
has already begun to ask for women
to work in the offices and shops in
Fairmont. In the shops here Mrs.
Mary w. Carichotf has been employ
ed as clerk and stenographer to Gen.
eral Foreman Summers aad Miss NJ.
s. Hennen as clerk and stenographer
to the assistant general foreman. Miss
Susan Gilkeson will shortly report for
duty in the general Yard Masters Of.
fee at Scale House as clerk there.
The shop has become almost depleted
Of workers and men and women both
are needed there. Women are need.
ed as oilers, for cleaning up, to run
machines cutting bolts drill presses,
supplying engines with tools and as
clerks. d
Women can be used in all capactties
It has been shown In many shops Of
the railroads Of the United States es.
pecially as there is always machin.
cry to take care Of the heavy work.
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Discussed Plans
For Y>Women'S Branch

A meeting of the Advisory Council
Of the Young Woman's Department OF
the Y. NJ. G. A. was held last evening
at the Y building over which the presi!
dent Of the council, Mrs. John Gordon
smyth, presided. Considerable bust
ness was transacted and plans for the
future were discussed. No arrange.
ments however, for opening the depart
lnent wore made, the matter to be work
ed out with the main branch Of the
organization. The meeting was attend
ed by the majority Of the council mem.
bers which numbers twenty-five.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-26
VIPED.0I
BY A FOREST FIBE
(By Associated press)

ELK1Ns, May 26-The most disaSs
trous forest firsrin the history Of this
section has been raging in tho yicin.
ity of Hort ton since last Sunday.
More t Ian 100000 feet Of slddded'
timber ov ned by the Parsons Pulp and
Lumber cpmpany has been destroyed
and gre it quantity of standing Tim
Der, two lamps and all the bridges
along the pg roads have been burned
Most Of the timber destroyed was
hard wood nd the mill at Horton will
not be opel ted again until next Tan
Soft wood ills will be operated 4
soon as log pads can be repaired. No
estimate of Il p damage has been made
public.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-26
.VILS0N'SPUNP CAME
DOWN THIS MORNING
It's At City Hall And Fair
mont Ave. Doesn't Look
So Red.

The pump, the gasoline pump, the
great big beautiful electric lighted
pump that yesterday ad last night
stood on front of Harry Wilson'S auto.
mobile accessory store on Fairmont
avenue is not there today. It's held
in the city hall as Exhibit A.
David Deane, with a squad of pio-
neers attacked the pump at a quarter
to getting.up time and had for his pro-
lection gao, mask and Chief Harr.
Harry Wilson who had slept unsound-
ly on the concrete floor Of the store all
night to shoe away any pump swipers
that might migrate his, way burst
through the front door when he saw
David's advance guard with picks and
stiltson wrench crawling pumpward
from the Y. M. G. A. There was an
American flag on the pump and Will
son said: Don't take down the flag"
The flag came down. Then Harry turn
ed on the electricity in the pump and
told David that there was DANCED Of
electrocution or perhaps park which
might send the entire force of pump
extractors heavenward. David being
no SLOUGH of a Ford driver, was right
on the job. He short circuited the
electric line, blew out Wilson'S fuse
and then tied the wires together SO
that new fuse would also blow out.
In the meantime Harry called
Sweeney Fleming who was still dream
ing of the balmy days in which gaso-
line was furnished in coal skuttles
carried from the garages to points in
the road eleven miles from home.
Come downG and see the fun" said
Harry, they are tearing it down"
The street was shorn Of the beauty
of the pump, a hole left in the ground,
a fuse busted, and-that's all.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-26
EAST SIDE ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION MET
Anthony Bowen Class Was
Received into Member
ship Last Night.

The East Side Alumni meeting which
was held in the Central school audi
forum last evening was an enthusias.
tic one and classes for several years
back were largely represented.
After the reading Of the minutes Of
last years meeting a vocal duet was
given by the Misses Mildred and jose
phine Mapel entitled "a Painting Of
My Mother" A reading by Miss Lena
Parks entitled Helping Father In a
Business Deal" was heartily encored
A talk by Victor Shaw, of the class OF
1911 was highly appreciated by the
association.
The following officers we've elected
for the ensuing year: President, Her
schel Rinkead; vice president, Walter
Smouse; secretary, Pearl Scott; treas.
urer, Arthur Cunningham.
This was followed by the initiation Of
the seventy-two members of the Bowen
class in which a few comic stunts were
pulled OF and there was social hour
during which refreshments were
.---.-
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-26
.REnEPoaIrINa WAR FUND.

WASHINGTON, May 26. = The
Treasury today began the practice Of
redepositing q portion Of the proceeds
obtained from securities Of indebted
ness by placing $12s, $4,000 among the
various banks and trust companies
which subscribed to the latest offering
Of the $200,0O0,0O0 In short term GER
uficates Of Indebtedness.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-26
.S|XTEE MAR PLANES MADE
. Observation-Disclosures
THREE MACHINES WERE Dlg
Most Of the Dead and Injured Lived III
One Town Where Bombs Were
Dropped In Streets
SECOND AIR RAID m THREE DAYS
Germans Seem to Have Dropped the ZeppeI for Heavier
Than Air Machines for This
Dangerous Service.
(By Associated Press.)

LONDON, May German arships tothe number d
about 6raded southeast England Friday evening accord
ing to an official statement today.
Seventy six persons were killed and three of the German
arships shot down. One hundred and seventy four
persons were injured The raiding arcrafts which were
brought down were aeroplanes Nearly all the damage
occurred in one town where bombs fell in the street
ing considerable casualties among the civilians The fol-
lowing report was made by Field Marshal Viscounts
French
squadron Of aircraft about s attacked southeast @
her but nearly all the damage occurred town bombs
fell in the street causing considerable casualties the civil
ton Some shops and houses also seriously damaged The
uaes reported police from all districts Killed. 49, injured
or the killed 81 and children while 4S and 10 chill
Aeroplane of the flying
and the adng aircraft by the fighting squadns Of
air service from Dunkirk their The admiral
reports three aeropanes shot down by the latter
This is the second German air raid England within
three days.
over the eastern English country and dropped number
of bombs killing man For six previous months no at
tacks England had been made from the air following
two disastrous raids in which three Zeppeins were de-
stroyed.
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VIZ. Aappensd to JOnes2-Adv.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-26
THE WEATHER.

ProbsbI showers tenlsht sun
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BONDS ON lNsTALLMENT PLAN.
, WASHINGTON, May 26, All fed
efal reserve banks are working upon
blan to issue memorandum certifi-
eafe of $40 denomination to prospec-
3ige purchasers Of small amounts OF
Ne serty loan bonds to enable them
10 bly, Tor bonds by tnstallment
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26Three hosl aeroplanes returning last
nights raid England brought down by British air forces in
English off the Belgian the admiralty today
The admiralty statement
aaker the rdrome St Weste
yesterday dropping bombs the
crafts returning from raid England the
machines between
British three hostile arshp midhann the latter
which large twin engines hostile machines shot All
machines returned safely.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-08-03
BUTTE HANGING
az: :;.. IS DENOUNCED

CONTINUED from Page One)
murderers Of Little. Attorney Gener-
al Ford announced his determination
to run down the murderers and said
last night that the state Of Montana
would offer a large reward for the
apprehension of the criminals.
.''-i''. GETS APPEALS.
Helena, Mont, Aug. "a request
from the Montana state Metal Trades
council for an investigation into the
hanging of Frank Little at Butte on
Wednesday, and similar one from
the citizens of Index, Washington
were received today by Governor S. v
Stewart. C. o. Edwards signed the
telegram from the Metal Trades coun'
ell which read as follows:
1--WE respectfully request and urge
speedy investigation Of the lynching
of Frank H. Little in this city this
morning, and believe it to be to the
best interest of organized labor and
the government that this be cOnsid'
cred at once"
A. R. Tucker and six other persons
signed the following telegram received
from Index, Wash:
Citizens Petition.
1--WE, the citizens of Index, in mass
meeting assembled, respectfully de-
mand an immediate state investlga-
ton of the lynching of Frank Little
at Butte and punishment Of the per
petrators of the crime to the end that
there may be no repetition OF such
dastardly Outrages." II IL
Attorney General Ford left for Butte
Wednesday night to make an investi-
CATION. Governor Stewart will await
a report from him before taking &C
ton.
That the |. w. w. situation in Mon
tana is attracting general attention is
evidenced by drastic resolution
passed by the Montana State Bankers
association at Great Falls, in which it
appeals to the president and to con-
gress urging that forthwith suitable
legislation be enacted clothing the
military branch of the government
with authority to enable it to deal
expeditiously and summarily with the
l. w. w. organization and with all
traitors and suspected traitors to the
government of the United States" j.,
Mr.. Ford stated that Governor Stew
art and all other state officials were
deeply shocked and Mortified when
they first received word of the muir
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-08-03
EXEMPTION BOARDS =.
HAVE POWER TO RULE
r.. ON STACKER 'CR0OhS
Provost Marshal General Crowdel
Says Question Is Left to
~ -
Members Discretion

! Whether a, mans recent marriage
entities him to exemption under the
draft law is a question for each local
board to determine at it's own dis;
erection, Provost Marshal General
CrOwder advises the adjutant gener.
| ais office in wire received this
morning. i.r
The provost marshal says in part:
4 Concerning recent marriages, the
selective service law does not require
discharges in all cases Of technical
legal dependency, but only discharges
! where in view of dependency dis
charge is advisable. Local boards
may we'll hold that a marriage hastily
consummated recently and especially
one contaminated by a person after
he has been called to present himself
| for examination to determine his fit
ness for military services does not
create status of dependency III
which 1t is advisable to grant a dis
charge.
1T is to be expected that local
boards will exercise this full discre-
ton in cases where they are convinced
that unscrupulous persons have thus
violated the principles of the selec-
tive service law in the hope or es-
Gaping duty that is rightly theirs
and of passing that duty on to some
one else" =. 1872
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LITTLE DAB Of BUTTER
At YOUR ELBOW
Continued from page One)

Continued from page 0neJ
Last year they produced more than
one billion pounds of it.
Respect that tiny dab of butter at
your elbow!
Why, for the purpose of making
photograph there were piled up at
the local creamery Of J. A. Long 4
Co.-one Of the largest in the coun-
ry-4O odd firkins OF butter, repre-.
senting value Of $500.
Fifteen hundred dollars all in one
eyeful. go.
And it represented only about one
twelfth of the days production in this
creamery which works day and night.
If as the $500 worth of firkins were
posing for their picture, the price OF
butter had advanced only one cent
as it often does nowadays-their
value would have gone up $35 as you
looked
Ah little dab of butter, you're some
bah!
That's how quickly money is made
among the butter magnates.
The butter works for them while
they sleep. One Of them may have in
transit 100000 pounds. And if, while
the butter is thus on the way, the
market price goes up one cent per
pound, the butter at its destination is
worth $4,000 more than when it left
the factory
But it works the other way, too.
One day, according to Longs Dan
ish manager, M. P Knudson, they had
100000 pounds on hand and there was
drop Of 7 cents.
"That made 3 different story" he
said But he smiled in a manner that
indicated it ended happily.
Long started buying and selling
butter, eggs and chickens in small
way about 40 years ago. In those
days butter was made in the old fam
lily churn. 1t was a pretty way, with
ma in her neat bingham sunbonnet
presiding. 1t was picturesque, but
not efficient nor always sanitary, nor
highly profitable.
Today the farmers sell their cream
to Long who makes 100000 pounds
of butter year out of it. His ambi-
ton is to make 10000, 900 pounds, and
to that end he is building a new fac
tory. He will then, it is said, have
the largest butter industry in the
world, making Union City the butter
capital.
Ma would take the cream as it was,
germs and all. The creamery today
sterilizes it first. Long has 900 field
stations to which farmers bring their
cream to be tested for butter fats.
The farmer sees the test made and
gets his cash Immediately
Long uses about $4,000 gallons Of
cream each day and last year there
accrued to him as a by-product $780,
600 worth of butter milk.
Last year there was shipped out of
this town-population 3,209, according
to the last census-$2, 100000 worth
Of butter to all parts of the world, in
Guiding Japan and Russia.
Yes, timid little dab of butter. you
have your romance.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-08-03
MRS. ROSS AGAIN
DENIED RIGHT TO"
RECOVER DAMAGES

A final chapter in the notorious
Ross-COOper murder case which has
occupied the courts constantly for
several years was written in supreme
court when the court handed down
a decision adhering to its original &C
ton in reversing the Trail county
courts verdict awarding Mrs. Ross
damages in the sum of $4,000 from
the senior Cooper for the alleged muir
der of her husband by Mclean Coop
err son of the owner of the farm upon
which Ross was employed as foreman.
After the supreme courts reversal
O fthe lower court rehearing and re-
argument were granted, and the court
today reiterates its stand that Mrs.
Ross cannot recover from the elder
Cooper for the death of her husband
at the hands of Cooper's son.
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youngest sheriffs, and his name IL in
cluded in the first draft in Ransom

youngest sheriffs, and his name IL in
cluded in the first draft in Ransom
county.
Mrs. NJ j. George of Ashley, who
had been visiting in Grand Forks,
joined Mr.. George mere yesterday for
a brief stay with friends.
Henry Halvorson, co-proprier OF tho
Grand Pacific, is expected home Mon
day from his former home at Mondovi
Wis, where he has spent his vacation
with his mother.
Day Okes of Minneapolis, member
of the firm of Hanson & Okes, has
gone to Minot after looking over lis
trict 1 paving operations here. sni
J. H. kundert of Kramer and Jacob
Kundert Of Eureka, S. d., have'@re'
turned to their home after attending
the funeral of their brother, the late
G. II. Kundert.
James McCulloch and son, Hugh
McCulloch, of Washburn were Bis
marck visitors yesterday.
"Kintyre, Best Little Town in the
State" registered Fred f. Davis,
Frank Simon, S. G. Ureng and Clar-
ence Simpson, guests at the Grand
Pacific over night.
H. L. Berry, Stantoh's leading legal
light, was a capital city visitor yes
terday.
Mrs. "A. J. Gronna, wife Of Senator
Gronna, and son, j. D. Gronna and
Mrs. j. D. Gronna, of Lakoti touring
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-08-03
INQUIRE Of GRAND
FORKS ARRESTED FOR
|MPERS0NAT|NG OFFICER

St. Paul, Mimi, Aug 3.-Robert Nc
CURE, also known as Thomas Quincy,
of Grand Forks, who claims to be the
inventor of wireless torpedo which
will destroy submarines, is under ar
rest in St. Paul on a charge of i'm
personating a federal officer He was
arrested when he flashed a tin badge
on secret service agents here and told
them he was on a big government
job" Mcclure is said to have run up
a $125 bill with local taxi on "gov-
eminent business" and is wanted in
Minneapolis on forgery charge. He
was arraigned today in St Paul and
pleaded not guilty He will be given
a hearing late today
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der. Immediately state machinery
was set in motion and every effort is
being made to cooperate with county
and city officials in the apprehension
and subsequent conviction of the six
or seven men who took Little by sur
prise in his room Wednesday morning.
A "Cold B|ooded Murder"
Mr.. Ford stated that Governor Stew.
art had termed the lynching IAN afro
city and a cold booded murder"
While the attorney general returned
to his headquarters in Helena last
night, he will continue to work upon
the case for some time