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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-15
MURDER Cases TO
END CRIMINAL court
All Other Actions Will Go
Over to the Marcl,
Term.

Pressure Of legal work incident to
tie QUESTIONABLE was responsible for
the criminal work being brushed aside
i'll Circuit court today by Judge Hay,
n,ond. The Commute murder trial and
the charge CT murder against Willie
G. Morgan. however, will be tried at
this term.
All Of the other cases set for trial
at this term will be held over the
March term. Cases continued over
three terms of court are usually dis
missed, but Judge Haymond's ruling
this will not be observed this time.
The matter came up before the court
his morning when Major NJ. NJ. Nicely
made request that the Morgan case
follow the Commute case and that the
Hill and Stein cases also be tried at
this term. Prosecuting Attorney Hag.
6erty told the court that he believed
that postponement of the cases would
Vie agreeable as in January he would
he obliged to try string of misde
meanor cases in Intermediate court
before Judge Vincent. The Hill. case
was originally set for trial for next
Monday. Attorney Nicely was anxious
to try the Stein case. because the de
PENDANT had ben unable to give the re
quired bond.
Judge Raymond told the attorneys
Of the Importance of the question
naire work and said that everything
possible should be cast aside to make
way for it.
This morning in Circuit court a mum
Ter Of attorneys took the oath required
of those who take up questionable
work. which was administered by Cir
cult Clerk William S. Black. The fol
lowing took the oath: Attorney L. G.
Musgrave, Ernest R. Bell. M. L. Sturm
Trevey Nutter, James A. Meredith
Hon. NJ. NJ, Nicely. Prosecuting Attor
ney Walter R. Haggerty and Assistant
Prosecuting Attorney Charles E. Mil
Ter.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-15
ELEVEN PROMISED
BUT ONLY ONE CANE
Women Break Red Cross
Engagements and Do Not
Even Apologize.

There is a feeling at Red Cross
Headquarters that the women of the
city are not supporting the work there
IS they should. This is especially true
OF the gauze department. Eleven Fair
mont women promised by telephone to
be present in the gauze room for work
on Thursday. Thursday morning found
the surgical dressings supervisor for
the day on hand with two aids to in
struct and look after the work. One
lone woman arrived during the morn.
ing and two during the afternoon, all
volunteers, however, not the ones who
promised to appear. OF those expect
ed but one came, arriving at four in the
afternoon. and she was the only one
Of the eleven who had the considera-
ton to call the supervisor and explain
her hardness.
The members OF the Red Cross are
being lined up for systematic work in
some one Of the departments at head
quarters, and each member approach
ed is expected to give the time which
she sets as being convenient for her
self OF. notify the supervisor under
whom she Is working.
This lack Of response was most dis.
couraging to the three instructors.
who feel that Fairmont women are not
giving as serious attention to this work
as they should.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-15
jill. VBEELWR|GH1
ASKS CHANCE FOR
SOFT COAL Mines
Whole trouble Has Been Due
ToILack of Cars, He
Points Out

Especial Dispatch to West Virginian.)
BALTIMORE, Dec. 15.-At the Of
flee of the Consolidation Coal com.
pany in this city today copies OF a let
ter which President Jere H. Wheel
wright has written to the Governors,
the United States Senators, the Fuel
Administrators and the Congressman
of the states in which the Consolida-
ton company has mines, Maryland.
Pennsylvania West Virginia and
Kentucky, were given to the press.
The letter is as follows:
Goal being the essential or essen
tails must be produced in sufficient
quantity to supply the fuel necessities
of the home, the farm, the factories
Chat are engaged in the production
Of such things as are absolutely neces-
sary for the successful continuation
and elimination of this war;, the steel
mills. the powder mills, the public
utilities, the munition plants, the rail-
roads, the steamships, shipyards. by
product and other plants that cannot
be shut down or discontinued.
This is an undisputable fact.
"The question which is important to
impress upon your mind is that this
amount of Goa! is not at present being
produced and with this statement &C.
copied as fact, what is the remedy
that should be applied Immediately?
First: Soft coal must without an
exception when mined has to be dump
cd from the miners car as 1t comes out
OF the pit or mine mouth over tipple
direct into railroad car, and unless
there is railroad car under the dpple
the miners car, which holds about two
tons, cannot be dumped and the mine
then and there is compelled to shut
town. The one hundred or more min.
ers working at that particular mine
will then come out, go to their homes
and produce no more coal for that day,
so, therefore, the amount of coal that
their labor could and would have pro.
duced for that particular day is abso-
lutely lost.
ut is perhaps also true that the rail.
road systems are 80 crowded with
freight that under the present arrange.
nent 1t is absolutely impossible for
them to supply coal cars at mines with
sufficient regularity. and In sufficient
numbers, to produce the coal neces.
ssry.
while the United States Fuel Ad.
ministration can and does direct unto
whom the coal that is mined should be
sent, unless coal is mined In suffi.
Client quantity, how will this bring re-
lief when there is not sufficient coal
on top of the earth to divide to prevent
your people from suffering from cold
and your necessary institutions, mills
and factories from shutting down for
want Of fuel.
"This situation has been presented
and represented and there have been
months of pleading but no days OF &C
ton. Now as It would seem that the
government Of the United States is
about to take charge Of the direction
] Continued on Page az
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-15
OVER 300 CLASS |.
MEN HERE DRAFT
BOARD BELIEVES
They Will be Called for Elk.
animation as Soon as
Classified.
QUEs1|oAIARIEs OUT
Legal Advisory Board Will
Begin Its Work on
Monday.
QUEST|0AHAR|ES OUT

1t is estimated at the office of the
local draft board that there will be
from 500 to 1000 or more, of the men
registered in Fairmont who will be
CLASSIFIED in Class /. when the uues.
tionnaires have been returned and
complete classification is made out.
The local board will require all per.
sons so classified to appear before
the board without any delay for ply.
steal examination. Immediately upon
the completion of the classification.
notices will be sent out to all who
are selected in Glass /, requesting
them to aprsar for the examination.
Examinations will take place from
time to time, as Glass / is completed
until all in such class have been ply.
sically examined.
As to the local board it means that
between 500 to 1000 or more regis.
trants must be physically examined,
in less than thirty days from this date.
For this reason 1t Is of the utmost
Importance that all registrants keep
the local board fully informed OF their
address, that the registrants may re.
ceive any future instructions.
The first of the questionnaires were
received by local resistrants today.
those holding order numbers from l.
12S inclusive, who have not been in.
Quoted into military service Monday
morning 81 more questionnaires will
be mailed to those with order numbers
from 1874 to 224 inclusive, not already
in military service.
The Legal advisory board will open
its office at the court house on Mon.
day morning.
Right in line with the governments
request that the legal profession as.
sist the registrants in filling out their
missionaries the Marion County
Bar Association has been active in
making such arrangements.
Judge William S. Raymond, who
is chairman of the advisory commit
tee, and Hon. Scott G. Lowe and At.
torney Harry Shaw have been busy
during the past few days making as,
stgnments to the various members
OF the Marion County Bar Associa
ton.
For convenience and efficient ser.
vice, all members of the Bar have
been divided into three Divisions.
Each Division to serve at the times
and places indicated below.
Beginning December 18th to and
including January 18th Except Chris
tmas and New Years.. the several
Divisions will attend at the Grand
Jury Room in the Court House in
Fairmont and at the Council Cham.
Der in the City OF Warrington at the
following hours: From 10 to - A.
NJ; from / to 5 and from Z to 9 p.
NJ.
All Divisions will serve at Fair
mont Except such as are indicated
for duty at Warrington on certain
days. as follows:
Division No. /.
Mondays and Tuesdays)
William S. Raymond, chairman
w. s. Meredith. Albert j. Kern, j.
G. Prichard. Trevey Nutter, Waite,
r. Haggerty. C. Brooks Deveny, A.
j. Colburn, French McCray. R. Leigh
Fleming, Waitman H. Conway, G.
L. Shaver, W. Kenneth Barnes, Chas
Powell, Ira l.. Smith, L. S. Schwenck
Frank Hayden, E. c. Frame.
Continued on Page az
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-15
Rep. Tinkha1n Rolls
Off Mountain Road!
(By Associated Pressl

ITALIAN ARMY HEADoUAR.
TIERS. Dec. 15.-An army automo,.
bile in which Congressman Geo. HI
Tinkham, OF Boston was riding 10.
day on visit to Monta Grappa ON the
northern mountain front skidded over.
the mountain side and dropped 90
feet. 1t made dauble turn and
was crushed to pieces but the Con.
gresham and other occupants escap.i
ed with bruises, the chauffeur being
seriously but not dangerously injured.
The car was so badly damaged 1t
was abandoned. e.. Z.
Congressman Tinkham who fired
the first American shot against Aus.
tria, received slight injuries and was
cared for by a military surgeon.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-15
COMP ARE NOTES
REGARDING COAL
CAR SITUATION
Fuel Administrator Barnes
Talked to Operators at
Meeting Here.

The meeting OF the Central West
Virginia Coal Operators Association
yesterday afternoon was largely de-
voted to transportation problems,
which are admitted to be the great
drawback in the Fairmont10larks-
burg region at present-admitted by
the fuel administration through j.
Walter Barnes, state fuel admins
traitor for West Virginia, as we'll as
by the operators themselves.
The perplexing questions In con-
nection with the car shortage were
discussed at some length and the
latest information gathered by the
officers of the association regarding
conditions in the trade, and the
various mines and in connection
with the rulings Of the fuel admins
tration was placed before the men,
bers. 1t is generally agreed by the
operators that soft coal must be dump.
ed into a railroad car when mined,
that It must be dumped from the
miners car as it comes out OF the pit
or mine mouth over tipple direct
into a railroad car and unless such
railroad car was at the tipple the
mine is compelled to shut down. Sug-
gestions as to dumping coal at the
mine mouth for future shipment have
not found any great degree of favor,
being deemed impractical.
j. Walter Barnes, discussed the
duties of the state fuel administra-
tor and pointed out that coal was the
fundamental basis Of winning the
war, citing 1t as the bottom stone of
a pyramid In which munition plants,
battleships transportation OF men
and requisites, etc., were all a part.
Everything depended upon fuel!
There was a time when 1t was King
Cotton; now it is King Coal. He in
sisted that it was not time for coal
operators to consider profits but that
they must give the fuel administra.
ton their cooperation and make the
necessary sacrifices. He was graft.
fled to find West Virginia operators
In that attitude; ready to stand back
OF the president and the fuel admin.
tstraHon in solving the problems
confronting the United States.
G. H. jenkins, president Of the
Central West Virginia Coal Opera.
tors Association, suggested that this
was the time for any member to ask
questions of the state fuel admins.
tration. One Jester asked an explain
alton Of the transportation matter.
Mr.. Barnes replied that transporta
ton did not effect the fuel admins
traitor except indirectly. He realized
Continued on Page az
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-15
Three Arrests For
Bringing in Booze

Last evening county officers made
three arrests upon the arrival Of the
night trains.
Luke Huntington, a negro, was ar.
rested for having three pints OF whis-
key. He is sick man and a Morgan.
town physician had prescribed It. He
was discharged. Love Gray, colored,
was arrested last evening for having
five pints of whiskey. Justice Conway
will hear him. Charley Stockoyitch
vas arrested for having one gallon OF
whiskey, one gallon of rum and one
quart of whiskey. He confessed before
Justice Conway and was sentenced to
pay fine Of 500 and was jailed for
&C days.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-15
THE WEATHER

Fair and continued cold tonight;
Sunday partly cloudy and warmer.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-15
Judges Rooms
Being Repainted

Halls and woodwork of Judges Hay.
mond and Vincent's private rooms are
being repainted by F. A. Lloyd, con
tracing painter.
1t is understood that the county
court will have the entire court house
cleaned in the spring. This operation
is similar to that executed at the Dew.
eny building. Marion county is reput.
ea to have the finest court house In
the state.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-15
Lady Maccabees
Make Trench Candles

Making trench candles was the fea.
ture of the dime social held at the home
Of Mrs. ]. W. Lowery on Third street,
this city. last night by the members
Of Dent Hive. Ladies of the Maccapees.
There was goodly attendance. The
money will be given to the hospital
fund Of the Lady Maccabees.
Later the trench candles will be
turned over to the local Red Cross So.
ciety.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-15
TEUTONS TRY 70
GAIN TERRAIN
EAST OF BREN1A
Want to Duplicate Their
Performances West Of
That River
TWO LINES ; TO The PLAINS
Italians Are Holding on Sue
cessfully at Last
Reports.
ASSOCIATED Press,

(Associatod Press)
ITALIAN HEADQUAR-
TIERS IN NORTHERN
ITALY, Dec. 15-Heavy
fighting is in progress to-
day on the mountain front
in the northeast of the Brerl-
ia river. The enemy is att
tempting to advance posi-
lions as he has west of the
river which would give him
two lines of approach to the
Brenta valley and plains. !.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-29
MAY CONTINUE TRAINING.
Men Granted Exemption to Stay in the
Service if They so Desire

AVER, Mass, Oct. 29.-Members of
the drafted army sent to Camp Devens,
while exemption appeals were pending
who since have been granted certiti
Gates of exemption or discharges, prob
ably will be permitted to continue their
training if they so desire. BY general
order issued today by Maj. Gen. Harry
I. Hodges organization commanders
are instructed to forward such certif-
Gates to the general headquarters with
information as to whether soldiers still
desire to take advantage of exemption.
The men now in camp who desire to file
new claims for exemptions on the
ground of dependency, upon which army
officials here have authority to pass,
must make known their decision before
Nov. -. the general order stated.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-29
MOTHERS GRIEF
FASTENED DEATH
Mrs. John I. Lane, Mother of 13 Chill
dren, Had TEree Sons in France
Funeral Wednesday.

Grief over the fact that three of her
sons had been sent to France to Ell
gage in the war, coupled with heart
disease, caused nervous breakdown
which resulted in the death. about 5.l5
clock Yesterday afternoon. OF Mrs.
John |. Lane. 43, in her home at 252
South Main street. Mrs. Lane was the
mother Of Is children, Of whom all but
the three bows who are in the army
arc living at home. They constitute
the largest family in Brattleboro hv-
ing under one roof.
Mrs. Lane had not been in robust
health for some wears, and the sending
hastened the end She was born in
Keene, ~ H.. June p, 1874, one Of five
children of George j.. and Adellnc
(Chickering) Smith. Her maiden name
was Ava Augusta Smith. Her father
and mother are living i'll Fitchburg,
Mass, and she has one sister, Celia.
wife of David Jess of Fitchburg, and
| two brothers, Ernest +. Smith of West
minister, Mass. and Herbert /. Smith
| of Woodstock, this state.
| She left Keene with her parents
when she was a small child. In her
girlhood dava She lived in Marlboro,
Mass. and from there she went to New
| York to a Salvation Army training
school, graduating with the rank of
captain. As such she was stationed i'll
Maiden, Mass. Manchester, n. H., Sa-
20. Me-, and Roxburv, Mass.
On June ), 1895, she was married
to John Isaac Lane of Maiden, a print
er. They lived in different places, in
Guiding Fitchburg, where they were II
years, coming two years ago to Brat
tleboro. Since then Mr. Lane has beer
employed in f. L. Hldreth & Co. I
printing plant. They lived on North
ern avenue until last spring, when they
moved TO 252 South Main street.
George II. Lane, their Oldest son, i
a first class private and orderly t.
Maj. j. NJ. Ashley of the lst Vernon
regiment and is p years old; Cheste
W. Lane is 10 wears old, a sergeant il
No. 6 company; and Harold NJ. Lam
is IS, a corporal in NO. company, al
three being in the ammunition trail
of the Goth division. The 10 othe
children are: Florence, Il; Edith, Il
wife of Gerald B. Coane; Edward II
Is; Lawrence NJ, u; Orville F., 10
Clifford l., 9; Myrtle d., 5; Grace A
g. Robert NJ. ), and Herman j., 3.
Mrs Lane was a member of the Firs
Baptist church. She was greatly al
: tached to her family and woman o
attractive personality. She was a de
. voted helpmate, and the fact that sh
has furnished three sons for the caus
of liberty is worthy OF special mel
o ton.
4 Funeral services will be held at tn
: house at 130 clock Wednesday, Re-
: Clark r. Brownell of the First Bapti>
church officiating, and the body wi
be placed in the tomb III Prospect Hi
cemetery.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-29
MADE PEACE OFFER.
Germany Tried to Make a Separate Ar
rangement with Belgium.

LONDON. Oct. 29-La Metropole,
Belgian newspaper published here.
says Il German attempt to separate the
allies has been defeated by Bron De
Broquevile, Belgian foreign minister.
According to this newspaper Germany
recently made peace offer to Bel
gium.
La Mctropolc says the bearer Of
peace proposals was a Belgian indus
trial and financial magnatc who knew
Foreign Minister DeBroqueyille per
sonally. He went to Paris through
Switzerland, asked for a meeting with
the minister, who met him in Paris
hotel. The emissarics there said he
was commissioned to propose that semi
official Belgian and French delegates
should meet German delegates in Ber-
lin to lay down a basis for lasting
peace. The following preliminary con
ditions were presented: Recognition
of Belgian independence, indemnity for
war destruction according to Belgian
common law and convocation of peace
conference at Brussels under the presi
dency of King Albert.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-29
Figures on the Liberty Loan
Will Go Above Five
Billion Maximum
VERMONT'S FIGURES
GIVEN AT S9,7O4,OOO
Amount - No Definite Information
Will Be Announced Until Wednesday
or Possibly Thursday.

BOSTON. Oct 29-While the tabula-
ton OF Liberty loan subscriptions in the
first federal reserve district will not be
completed before Wednesday, the general
committee announced today that the dis
trict already had raised S43l $4,000, with
the indications that additional reports
would put the figure above $500 900, 600
set apart as New England's maximum.
Although there is reason to believe
that New England exceeded its margin nc
definite information will be in hand be
fore Wednesday or possibly Thursday. the
committee announce
The total by states SO far As tabulated i
as follows: Maine, 22,0l7, 600; New
Hampshire, Sl4 ,527 600; Vermont s., 9,704
coo. Rhode Island. $40 6S3, 600; Connect
cut, S57,9ls,00 Massachusetts, S2s6.73l,
900
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-29
MRS. ADDIE j. DARLING.
Former Brattleboro Woman Dies in
Westmoreland, N. H.

Mrs Addie j. Darling, 81. formerly
of Brattleboro, died about midnight
Saturday night in Westmoreland, n
H.. where she had lived the past five
years. She had been afflicted for sew
eral years with locomotor ataxia, and
for the past five weeks had failed rap
idly. She was born in Hinsdale, \.
H., Oct. II, 1853, a daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Hyle Elmore. When she was
three years old she was taken into the
family of the late Frederick White of
until she was married She married
first Mr.. Higley and after his death
George Butterfield, who was employed
IN the Brattleboro highway depart
ment Mr. Butterfeld died several
years ago. Aboue five years ago she
married Herbert Darling Of Westmore-
land, where she had lived since.
Mrs, Darling was a member of the
First Baptist church Of Brattleboro
class No. II Of the Baptist Bible
school. and Protective Grange She
leaves q sister, Mrs. George Green OF
Millers Falls, Mass.
The body was brought here last
evening. and funeral services will be
held in Bond & Son $ undertaking par
Iors tomorrow afternoon at 2.3C
clock. Rev. Clark I. Brownell
pastor of the First Baptist church
will ohiciate and the burial viii take
place in the White lot in Prospec
Hill cemetery.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-29
BrattlebOr0 District Sub
scribes $514,850 to Sec
ond Liberty Loan
WILMINGTON AIDS
WHIRLWIND FINISH
Other Towns in County also Generous in
Subscriptions-Loc Banks Record
2O52 Subscriptions for Total of
S44es50-District Total May Be More

Brattleboro exceeded its maximum al
otment of subscriptions to the second
Liberty loan by nearly $1,000. Counting
the bonds sold in Wilmington, which is in
the Brattleboro district, the total stood
this morning at S5l4,S50. The final figures
announced by the banks totalled s449, $50,
divided as follows: Brattleboro Trust Co,
Sl96, ,050: Peoples National, Sl40 80; Yer
mont National, sl13,5J0; total, s449.s
The Wilmington figures, reported BY tele-
phone this morning, were S65, 900. As the
Brattleboro allotment on the maximum
basis was s507 900 the excess amounts tn
lust $3.50
As was predicted in Saturdays Reform
! er the local banks were swamped with
| business that afternoon and evening. The
rush was particularly noticeable at the
Brattleboro Trust Co., whose final total
represented l.072 separate subscribers
| The total of the Peoples bank was made
up of $50 subscribers and that of the
Vermont National of $50 subscribers, max
Ii ing the total number of persons who sub
scribed through the local banks 2,o52. This
of course includes large number of per-
sons in the small towns tributary to Brat
ltleboro, and in this connection it may be
said that the response from the small
towns throughout the county was ex-
itremely generous.
There is a possibility that Brattleboru
may get credit for an even larger total
than is given above, depending on the
number of subscriptions from this dis
ttriet which are made direct To the fed
eral reserve bank at Boston Brattleboro
was given credit for a subscription OF
Is4l3,O 900 on the first Liberty loan al
Though the amount sent in through the 10
lcal banks was approximately $500