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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
BRITISH OCCUPY
THE why RIDGE
Their Success Imperils Ger
man Line in North (;
France.
(By Associated Press)

LONDON, April 10.-The British OF.
fensive between Lens and st. Quentin
with which spring operations have
been opened and which is still in prog
ress. has proved even more successful
than earlier accounts indicated.
General Sir Douglas Haig today re-
ports that yesterdays captures exceed
ed 5000 men while 40 guns fell into
the hands OF his troops. The Canadians
who had one of the hardest strips of
front to contend with are now in COM
plete occupation of the famous Vimy
ridge, even its eastern slope having
been cleared of Germans. The Cana
dams also have repulsed German cOun-
ter attacks.
These reactions by the Germans IN
Gicate the importance they attach to
this position when the conqueror looks
down over the plain OF Douai with
Vimy ridge gone the whole German
line covering French towns and indus
trial districts to the north becomes "a
wavering one ard any Ieisurely re-
treat the Germans may have planneC
is made uncertain and precarious.
With the capture OF the famous
ridge the British made considerable
strides along the road to Douai while
the capture of high ground northwest
of st. Quentin tightens the chain which
the Anglo.French forces are drawing
around the town.
A German diversion south east OF
Ypre3, according TO General Haigs re-
ports, met with TO success.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
COMMERCE BODY TO
MEET IN AFTERNOON
Membership Campaign is
Likely TO be Launched
Thursday of this Week.

The regular monthly meeting Of the
Fairmont Chamber of Commerce will
be held in the Commerce chamber
Thursday afternoon at 4:S0, instead
OF in the evening as Is customary, that
members of the chamber may be free
that evening to attend the business lee.
ture to be given by Frank Jewel Ray.
mond in the Masonic Temple. Arrange
mentS for the session are now being
completed by Secretary Charles w
Evans.
At the session Secretary Evans will
introduce motion suggesting that the
chamber inaugurate a vigorous mem
bership campaign. 1t is believed that
scores of men who would desire to
be members were the proposition Of
fered them, are not now receiving the
benefits of membership. 1t is eX
pected that the motion will be favor
ably acted upon and such campaign
as Mr.. Evans may suggest, launched.
Matters relating TO the annual meet
ing of the Chamber of Commerce. to
be held the second Thursday in May,
will be discussed Thursday afternoon.
It is planned to make this annual meet.
ing one OF the best in the history of
the charmber.
Arrangements for the entertainment
of the visiting members of the Pitts.
burgh Chamber of Commerce who will
be in Fairmont during the week OF May
10, will be taken up and disposed of
Thursday. 1t is expected that every
member will be present for the SEES
sion day after tomorrow.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
EXPECT ORDERS TO
RESUME RECRUITING
Camp Drying Out and Re-
naming Companies
Will Soon Come.

When West Virginia First regiment
infantry leaves Fairmont 1t will con.
tain POOP men and Sc officers. Equip.
ment for this number is being shipped
here by the. supply department. Com.
panies from Rowlesburg, Clarksburg
and Buckhannon will be ordered here
as soon as possible, the camp grounds
being in very good shape now as
compared with several days ago.
Orders to again begin recruiting
campaign have not been received to
date but they are expected momentar-
lily.
The only real causu belli at camp
these days is when one soldier acct.
IDENTIFY leans against the arm of anoth.
er. The the company sergeant calls
a corporal's guard to stop the war.
Hundreds of presents have been re.
ceived at the camp. Some of this is
in the form of food, clothing, ETC.,
which is not needed by the men and
only in the way, the food furnished in
the army being selected for Just such
a life as the soldiers are leading in
the open. What should be sent to them
and articles necessary for the per.
'sonal neatness and cleanliness of the
soldier.
Major c. R. Moran of the United
States Property and Dispensing de.
partment in West Virginia is in the
city looking after work pertaining to
his office. He was on the ground to.
day.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
SCANT ATTIRE FOR
such AC0LD NIGHT
Man Walks Out of Hospital
Clothed Only in Little
Sheet.

Wearing nothing but little shirt
four or five sizes too small for him
and reaching but few inches below
his elbows, huge negro, SIX feet five
inches tall, was led into the Y. NJ. G..
A. Sunday evening by members of the
National Guard who had found him
roaming about in a half daZed Condl-
ton near First street. He declared he
had escaped from Cook hospital ar
hour or two previous and had been
lodging about the houses near there
since that time.
The hospital was called and the
nurse who answered declared that no
patient to her knowledge had escaped
Since the negro insisted he had come
from Cook hospital it was decided to
get him dressed and take him there. A
suit of clothes was unearthed by Ed
Worthington, at the "Y", but no shoes
could be found which were big enough
for the man. He offered to walk bare
footed to the hospital however, but
was in such trembling and weaken
ed condition that the men thought 1t
would be best to carry him.
With some guardsmen at his feet
and Charles Hawkins at the other end
the start was made. Before the hos
pital was reached DR.. Carter Fleming
overlook the group with his car and
recognizing the man as patient he
had left at the hospital few hours
before, took him back.
It still remains a mystery how the
man walked out past the nurses and
attendants in charge.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
Mail Carriers to
Meet This Evening

meeting of United States mail
carriers, organized into a society for
entertainment and education. will be
held this evening at the home Of Cecil
Mcdonald at IS Mckinney street. The
meeting is a regular monthly one. A
general discussion will be held regard.
ing the mail carriers work in Fair.
mont and suggestions toward the bet.
tering of the service will be made.
The matter Of securing vacations for
the men at times when they can best
be spared will again he taken up and
It is expected that some definite &C.
ton will assure the men these vaca.
tons will be taken.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
MASTERING IN THE
SECOND REGIMENT

CHARLESTON, w. Va, April TO-
The process OF mastering the Second
West Virginia infantry into the Fed
eral service vas begun yesterday. 1t
will be concluded possibly today and
the reglmnet will be ready for any
orders that may come from the Depart.
ment of the East. Very few men OF
the organization have been rejected
by reason of physical disability, as
nearly all Of them were examined two
weeks ago after having served for
nine months, most of which time in
Texas. Only few of the recently
accepted men failed to pass.
A number Of physicians have applied
for entrane into the service with rank
of first lieutenant, and some of these
have been rejected because of the age
limit of So years, which applies 10
those desiring the rank of first lieu
tenant. The limit in this connection
is regulated by rank, that of major be-
ing As years.
Officers of the regiment are &C.
quainting themselves with the geog-
raphy OF Southern West Virginia. so
that the distribution OF troops will be
made within very short time afte5.
the order comes from Governors ISL
and, N. Y, concerning the destination
of tho various companies.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
Solder KNOWN the slans.

The spider is an excellent guide to
the weather. Not only is he extremely
sensitive to the state of the at
mosphere, but he takes a keen interest
in the habits Of flying insects. He
knows that these do not come out In
the wet. When, therefore, he is rest
ing" you may be certain that he is
expecting rain. But should he be busy
constructing a new web, 1t is sign
that he is looking forward to a fine
spell-and he is generally right.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
City Hall Notes

Fireman Howard Woodward has
been assigned the job of taking every
body in the city hall to the camp
grounds on his Off day which is today.
Maxine, the fast little racer, has been
blowing her way through the mud in
front of Mayor Bowen's house all day
and hasn't missed step.
AlLapolicemen have been ordered to
learn to ride the city motorcycle so as
to be able to jump aboard and catch
speeders this summer. The chief has
learned and rides 1t as gracefully as a
recruit rides a cavalry horse bare
back. Carl Kern looks like second
Ichabod Crane as he speeds three miles
an hour along Fairmont avenue. Tom
Ford rides until he falls off which is
seven feet. Kip Fleming has wired the
maker of the machine for an extra
spring before he boards 1t and all told
the machine Is. to use the language Of
the cops, "all bunch of nuisance"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
Aged Woman Jumps
From Moving Car

An aged woman, at least seventy
years old was rendered unconscious
for a few minutes and cut about the
lips, when she fell trying to get off
the / o'clock Clarksburg car just as
it was starting on to South Side
bridge this afternoon. After having
regained consciousness and being
brushed off she insisted on continuing
to her home at Haywood.
The woman, whose name was not
learned, discovered after boarding the
car that her husband. who had &C.
companied her to town and who was
to so home with her at one o'clock
was not aboard. She was rendered a
little alarmed by this discovery and
jumped from the moving car before it
got out Of the city.
For time it was thought the old
lady was dead and great crowd col.
lected in a minute or two and re-
manned until it was demonstrated the
injuries were slight.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
Got 60 Days March
81 For Yost Law
Offense
BA|LED BY c. POWELL
Alice Hicks, Also Colored,
Released too at POweII's
Instance.

On March 81 Raymond Carter, col
ored, was sentenced to the county Jail
by Justice of the Peace w. w. Coma.
way to serve 60 days and pay fine
of 500 when Carter was found guilty
to charge of having whiskey for
sale.
He was confined to Jail in the usual
way and this morning Charles Powell,
of the Consolidation Coal company's
staff OF lawyers gave gond in the sum
of $500 for Carriers appeal of the
charge. Consequently Carter was re-
leased.
At the time of his arrest Carter was
under bond OF $500 for his appearance
ater on selling charge which got
him in wrong with the law to the e1.
tent that he was sentenced to three
months in jail and ordered to pay
fine of $3.50. Charles Powell was
bondsman in both cases.
On numerous occasions Carter has
been in jail and released. On January
is he was stuck in Jail, on a whiskey.
carrying charge and he got out on &C.
count of lack OF sufficient evidence
There was evidence against him but
not sufficient evidence.
Carter makes a good living selling
{ hiskey around town and each time he
is arrested he gets out, which white
bootleggers seem unable to do.
Alice Hicks. colored, was released
from Jail yesterday also. Alice was
arrested for keeping whiskey for sale
and for storing the goods. She was
ordered released yesterday by Powell
because as Alice puts it "Mr. Charley
told them was a woman of a good
reputation"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10

The Eddystone ammunition com.
pany is understood to be an independ-
ent corporation and is engaged in
manufacturing and loading shells for
the Russian government. The com.
pany has no connection with either
the Midvale steel company or the Rem
ington arms company.
Thousands of girls were employed
at the plant, most CT them coming
from Philadelphia, ten miles away.
They were attracted by the high wages
paid.
The explosion occurred soon after
ten o'clock in the pellet room of the
shrapnel building where about 100
girls were employed putting finishing
touches on the shells.
No official of the company was To-
Gated who could tell anything about
the explosion. There were whispers
plot to destroy the plant. II there
was plot no more effective spot could
nave been selected for the work. 1t
was near the Delaware river bank and
well isolated.
me pant was constructed soon
after the war started by the Baldwin
locomotive interests. Recently it was
taken over by the Russian government
which had been employing about TO-
600 people making shells.
The plant has been thoroughly
guarded night and day and after dark
immense searchlights made every Dor.
ton OF the grounds as light as day.
In addition secret service men and de-
tectives worked in various depart.
ments disguised as munition makers.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
LINER new YORK
STRIKES A MINE
Was Able to Dock at Liver
pool Without Serious
Damage.
lBy Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON. D. c., April 10
Tho American liner New York struck
q mine at 7:40 p. IN. last night, five
miles on Liverpool bar No casualties
were reported. The vessel later pro-
ceeded to Liverpool.
Consul Washington at Liverpool. re.
porting to the State departre lt said:
THE Ame!Ncan liner New York struck
mine at $40 p. m. last night. five
miles of Liverpool bar. Company re-
ports passengers landed at Liverpool
except four that are still on ship. Yes.
sci proceeded under own steam and rs
now Zone o'clock this morning. enter
ing her dock"
The New York locked safely at Liy-
eIpool and all passengers are safe. ac-
cording to a cablegram received in
New York today by the American line.
The damage to the vessal was small.
the message stated.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
.Perfecting Plans
For Garden Contest

Plans were discussed at a meeting
yesterday OF the Civic committee OF
the Women's club and Miss Maud Van
Buren, in regard to the cviic campaign
to be whged in the city in the near
future and in regard to series OF
prizes to be awarded children raising
the best garden and planting the best
flower bed.
The plans were not perfected but it
Is thought at a meeting to be held
this evening that definite plans will be
announced.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
Sufficient.

There is a cherry tree in our back
yard. Last summer Donald was up in
the tree picking cherries, which were
scarce and none too ripe, and throw
ing them down to Buster. Buster had
about twenty cherries in his hat when
Donald called down: Bout all Lcun
reach, Buster" To which Buster re-
piled: "An right; come down. We
got enough for stomach ache"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
German Intrigue
Menaces Guatemala
fRy Assoclnted presal

GUATEMALA CITY. April 1O.-Mar.
tial law vas declared in Guatemala the
action was taken on Information Of
disturbances along Mexicon and Sal.
yadorian frontiers supposed to have
ben created with German assistance.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
Foodstuf Prices
Drop in Chicago
tRy Associated Press,

CHICAGO. April 1O-J. Ogden Ar
mour's suggestion of meatless days
and government control of toodstuff
was said to have influenced a sensa.
tional break in prices on the board Of
trade opening today. Part of the
initial loss was subsequently recov.
cred. Wheat declined five cents and
provisions from 55 cents to S1.55.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10

The picture above, taken Easter
Sunday shows thousands of people
leaving the opening meeting of Billy
Sundays campaign in New York. The
mamoth tabernacle, at the left, is the
biggest of the kind ever erected and
was built al enormous expense espe-
cially for the Sunday revival.
The picture below shows Sunday
Bible in hand, arriving at the taber-
nacle for the first meeting.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
ROOSEVELT AT WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON, April 10.-Colonel
Roosevelt called on President Wilson
at the White House today ad was re-
ceived in the Executive mansion. Col
onel Roosevelt was accompanied by his
daughter, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
NEW STEEL RECORD

NEW YORK, April 10.-The until.
ed tonnage of the United States steel
corporation March 81, was It'll ,644
tons. an increase of 134,947 tons over
the previous month breaking all prev.
ious records. The Federal figure was
11.576,697 tons which was the previous
high record.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
RECOGNIZE RUSSIA

RIO JANERIo, April 10.-Brazil has
recognized the new government of Rus.
STA.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
THE WEATHER.

Heavy frost and fair tonight;
"Wednesday fair and slowly rising
temperature.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-27
LITTLE GINETTE
 DIES ON TRAIN
And Her Frightened Companions
 Tried to 0utWit Germans

New York, Dec. 28.-Only when the gium and the invaded departments of France suffered under the German oc-, cupation. The little story which fol- lows casts only a faint sidelight on tho brutality of that regime. It makes no accusations. it describes no atrocities. It deals merely with a pathetic inci- dent of the repatriation of a group of little French girls, held for two years or more in the occupied territory. Their lot has been better than tho average lot of those who stayed behind better by far than that of their eld- CT sisters and brothers. But on their youthful minds has been stamped also the indelible imprint of German ter rorism.
 For more than 24 hours they had been travelling across Germany, shut in like animals, in a cattle car in which there still fingered an acrfd odor of the stable. At one of the sta tions where the train stopped a big Prussian had come in, grumbling, to attach to the roof of the car a sort of miners lamp, with an open flame. And since they were afraid of him he began 10 1aueh-wit Ina cruel laugh which exposed three whole teoth and some b'ueish tooth stunps.
 One of them, braver or more reso- lute than the others, went up to him.
 "Mr. Sold; d;er," she asked ':n case one of us should die on the train, what would yol do?"
 |, The Prussian reflected a moment He seemed amost to smile. Then he extended his hairy paws and went through the motions of taking hold of through the open door. No matter where-into the ditch, perhaps, whic h ran alongside the railroad track.
 Bah! would do like that! Ha! F1a! Just like that"
 And he appeared to enjoy hugely their terror, which expressed itself in 0 shivery cry. But as the train be- gan to move again he jumped quickly on the running board, pushed the sliding door to and padlocked it with two turns of his key.
 The train now plunged along amid a thunder of turning wheels.
 Then, in the shadow, the group of little girls dissolved and exposed to view, on a bed of straw. a motionless and haggard figure. racked with coughing.
 A voice said:
 Tt may be still far away-the from
New Britain herald., 1917-12-27

hind in Germany. The Prussians kept her."
 The tram stopped. A key outside scrapjng, sought the keyhole of the paddock. The inspecting officer doubt Would they let Ginette be carried off by these accursed Germans?
 "And her mamma! And her man. ma:''
 The key a second time clicked against the bolt. Then hand un- loosed the paddock.
 Quick! Do as say!" ordered in her shrill voice Marie C1avet, the little one who some hours back had dared to question the Prussian soldier. we will seem to have been sleeping. I am going to rock Ginette in my arms. But don't leave me alone. You must be by me. want to feel your hands on me- We will arrange ourselves in group.' l When a soldier entered, swinging a big lantern and lighting the way for an officer, they were all together at one end of the car, some seated, oth- CTS stretched on the straw as if asleep. At the sound of footsteps they ap- pared to awaken and sat upright, rub ping their eyes. They surrounded Ma rie Clavet. Marie Clavet rocked the dead girl and sang to her. She was pale and trembling. The soldier lifted the lantern. The 1 officer stumblingly called the names. Jeanne Perceval!" "Present!" answered frightened
New Britain herald., 1917-12-27

tier. If only she doesn't die before we get to Switzerland. The Prussian has said so. They would throw her out! She would remain in Germany. And her mamma is waiting for her at the Railroad Station. Her mamma would not see her! Oh! She would never see her!" .- t-.' >,..
 They were a score of poor little children from occupied French terri tory whom His Majesty. William IT, Emperor of Germany, and King of Prussia, had consented to return to their families after two years of war. It was the evening of the day before when they boarded the train. They did not know one another then, for they had ben collected from all the corners of the invaded departments of France. But no sooner were they thrown together, locked in their roll ing prison, than they began to kiss one another. like little sisters who had met after a long separation. The following morning, at dawn, lit tie Ginette Pinson had a coughing spell. A little blood on them had en- larged her lips, as paint enlarges those of an actress, and she had clenched her hands on her breast as if to wrest from it the source of her suf fering,
 Poor Ginette! She was 9 years old and she looked scarcely 6, so much had the privations of life in the occu-. pied district emaciated her. Her cough becoming hoarser and shorter all the time, turned toward evening into a rattle, and, all at once, just after the ! rude Prussian left the car, the last agony brought cold precipitation to the brow of the dying child, choked i her nostrils, turned her finger nails violet and forced open her mouth in a last desperate struggle for breath.
 The little ones scarcely dared to bend over Ginette, so much had the approach of death unnerved them. 1 And yet their children's eyes had seen along the roads. at the time of the flight from northern France, many grinning faces of corpes. It was now completely dark outside. . The wind, which whistled through the spaces of the night made the tele- l graph wires sing and tremble. sud 1 denly Ginette collapsed. She raised her arms stiffly and let them fall again. Then, her eyes shrinking back under the half-closed lids, she lay en- tirely motionless.
 l It was over,
 ] A voice cried:
 ! "She is dead!'
 They all shuddered.
 "Ah, Ginette! Ginette!" l The train slowed down. The brakes made a grinding sound. ] Maybe we are there," said one o1 ] the children, hopefully.
 "I believe that we are going to be
 a long time in Germany" said an
 other. And if they come ill they will take Ginette away"
 And her mamma! And her mann
 maj" sighed pitiful voice.
 They sobbed as they thought of that
 poor mamma who was awaiting dowr
 there in the night, oh the platform
 of little Swiss station. the long
 hoped for return of her daughter.
 Who would dare tell her: "Ginette is dead. She was left be
New Britain herald., 1917-12-27

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New Britain herald., 1917-12-27

the form of water blisters and itched and burned so that she could not sleep, and when she scratched, water would run out and cause crusts. All her hair came out and where the eruptions were l had to GA4~ ko~lo~al
New Britain herald., 1917-12-27
CUT|CURA HEALS YOUNG BABY'S RASH
In Three Weeks. Itched and Burned. Could Not Sleep.

''When my baby girl was about six weeks old she broke out with rash on her head, face, and body. It came in
New Britain herald., 1917-12-27

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