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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-07
MY LORD, THE MULE.

Consider the mule. Not the common
or garden variety of mule, but the
mule Of Missouri, where his lordship
grows and hourishes in all his pris-
tine and unmatched beauty. The Mis-
souri, mule is not the scraggy, ill-fav-
ored looking animal as we know him
Rather he is prince of the blood. The
Missouri mule is tall, has ears a foot
long-fnely proportional long limbs
sleek coat-and dignif1ed manner.
The mule, in his native habitat, is
reserved animal. The horse is emo
tional- sickly-has nerves - screams
when he is hurt or frightened. But
not the mule. He is grouchy all the
time. The mule will resent abuse
when he is able to and if not saws
nothing but wisely bides his time.
When it comes-then beware, for the
mule has memory as long as the holy
writ. The horse will let himself be
worked until he drops in his tracks.
But not the mule. When put upon
he simply refuses to go farther and
the fires of hell can not move him.
The mule is long-lived- fact no
one ever saw mule die. Mules may
blow away but they positively do not
die. Who ever saw a dead mule? No
one. In fact, they live to be one hun
dred years old and then evaporate.
The mule is sinewy, strong, hand
some, dignified, wise and stubborn.
We admire him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-07
THE DEBATABLE QUESTION.
Evening Wisconsin. J

Ida Tarbel says, "a man who drinks
whisky or other alcoholic drinks in ex-
cess is not safe man" She is right.
She is on stable ground when she
says that drinking to excess is incom-
patible with efficiency. A competent
saloonkeeper will not countenance a
drunken barkeeper. All this has moth
ing whatever to do with prohibition.
Hardly a week passes but what
some farmer is added to our list Of pat
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-07

There is an editorial in the Febru-
airy issue of the Woman's Home Com
panion in which the writer says:
1--WE shudder to think what the YER
dict Of efficiency experts would be up
on Lincoln. Why, the man had no
sense of money at aIl-and to get the
money is, of course, the chief purpose
and end Of efficiency.
He had worked hard for an aver
age lifetime before he was elected to
the presidency. Yet at his Inaugural
ton his entire fortune consisted of his
house and lot in Springfield, and lit
tie wild land in Iowa, granted to him
for his services in the Black Hawk
war A few years later he is reported
to have said: I now have about ten
thousand dollars. I hope before l die
to increase it to twenty thousand dol
lars, which is all the money any one
man ought to want
He seems actually to have had the
idea that money is merely incidental
to the business of living, not nearly so
important as friendship, or a sense of
humor, or clear conscience. He as
stunned that after man had enough
money to pay his debts, and attain a
reasonable degree of independence, it
was useless, and even a trife absurd
for him to seek to pile up great for
tune. A more hopeless inefficient
point of view, of course could hardly
be imagined"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-07

Hot air is the motive power that
operates the human talking machine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-07

A. /. SHERMAN, Editor and Publisher
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-07
and
Artist


that the domestic art of IRONING amostas
skill and nicely of execution
of these the worker needs
date household appliance
cheapy purchased is Deliberately handicapping herself?
making her far hardert hanthe be-
She is SHINING Efficiency.
that electric fol the work they
made perform? They make
IRONING ~ BETTER IRONING with RE-
DUCED EFFORT
make o
the electrical tandre to take
ders?
If have % work.!
get one! 1t Pays
Lancaster Light & Power Co.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-07
GRANT COUNTY HERALD

An Independent Republican Newspaper
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25
Here Are First Details
of Wooden Shipbuiding
onsrucion Being Rushed at Ratio of Two Vessels Of
Iron to One of Wood; Experts Survey
of Work Made Public.

placed in service in the next is months
instead of the touted 1000, tremen-
dous task will have been accomplish
ed.
THE proposed vessels will be 2S1
feet and inches long over all, 46
feet beam and 26 feet deep Their
cargo capacity will be 5000 tons,
Each hull will require about mil
lion and a half feet OF lumber. Each
boat will have two masts, most will
be operated by steam power, These
facts, not yet published, will appear
in the next issue of the Marine Review.
ITO insure rapid construction bon
us of 5000 day will be paid for ev-
cry day gained over the contract time,
and a penalty of 5000 a day assessed
for every day behind contract the
construction company runs"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25
PersonnIs.

Glenn Borgess. has returned to Pitts
burgh after spending couple Of days
with his grandmother, Mrs. Mary Bog
CESS.
The Misses Lucy shuttles worth, of
Morgantown, and Lulu, Bishop of Uf-
fington, were mere yesterday
Mrs. John Brown, OF Columbia street.
has been indisposed for q few days.
Miss Mary Eliason. one Of the teach
Crs in tie Central school, went to Holl'
Gaysburg, Pa, ii spend the summer
with her aunt, Mrs. Palmer.
Herbert RACER, OF Diamond street,
who has been Ill the past week, is able
TO be out again
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

CLEVELAND, o., May 21.- The
greatest rush Of shipbuilding in Amer
ican history is now not merely in
prospect, but actually under way.
Yards on the Atlantic, Pacific and
cuff coasts are building ships for
Uncle Sans war needs at rate never
before equaled.
The long-forgotten art of building
ships Of wood has been brought back
with an impetus nfde greater by
necessity
one wooden ship is now under con-
structicn for every two ships of steel
Shfps will be built for transatlantic
service at the probable rate of two
steel vessels to one wood.
These facts about the shipbuilding
campaign now under way come from
Cole Estep, editor of the Marine Re-
View, who has made survey OF the
siaipbuilding situation on the Atlantic
and Gulf.
eon January l." said Estep, there
we're 40S steel vessels and 161 wood
en- vessels under construction in
America,
No official figures have since been
published.
sBut the proportion of wooden YES
sells is undoubtedly larger now.
THE necessity for wooden vessels
arises from the limited capacity OF
steel plate mills. There are in the
IJnited States and Canada only A con-
Germs making steel plates, and of these
only 20 to % can make ship plates
tThere are only % manufacturers
of Structural shapes for ships.
The fact is, the United States is
paying the price now for not building
10 a merchant marine 10 to 10 years
Ago and we may pay for our past
f6ilies with our lives.
,tThe few plate mills of this coun'
t4ys which are now inadequate 10 our
needs. were operating in 1914, the
year the European war started, at SV
Der cent capacity, so little attention
was this country then paying to lts
need Of merchant ships.
NOW we are at war, and have too
iIttie tonnage to transport our men anu
supplies. We are paying the piper"
complete revolution in shipbuild-
ine methods on the east coast Is
necessary to supply the governments
ships as fast as they are needed says
Down.east shipwrights have prided
themselves on their slow, deliberate
work. making vessels that would last
for decades -,
The need now is for vessels built
fast, that may fall apart in eight or
ten years, but will serve their purposes
atonce.
The country has been told that {, the 1s
wooden.ship idea is chimerical," said
Estep, and opponents of wooden ships
claim to have Maj,Gen. Goethals on
their side.
shipping men are we'll aware OF the
weaiSnesses Of wooden cargo carriers.
Bit the only U.Goat remedy now in
sightis an immense fleet of cargo car
Hers.
aThe government, therefore, is go
r ahead with its wooden ship pro
But il 800 vessels of this type are
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25
BITS OF
STATE NEWS

The act of the regular session of the
1917 legislature permitting members
of a mining partnership to complete
the payment of delinquent members
without dissolution of such mining
partnership has become law. 1t is
ole of lie acts which did not have the
approval of Governor H. D. Hatfield
The act stipulates that any number
of members of a mining partnership
may institute and prosecute to final de-
cree suit in equity for an accounting
among the members of the partner
ship without its dissolution. Upon
such accounting the court shall de-
cree the sale Of the undivided interest
of interests of such members as may
be ascertained to be indebted to them
or to the partnership, without decree
ing dissolution, unless such dissolu-
ton shall be necessary to enable a
fair sale OF the undivided interest.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25
What We Live For.

There is always something which we
70 living for, some prospect which
ings and tlutters In the cage of our
plrit. The secret thing for which we
re living might seem to others, if they
new of 1t, to be trifing and ridlcu-
Gus thing, like the joys of the poor.
Gut the heart which knoweth Its own
sorrows, knows also its own happiness,
and. in this life of ours that is n light,
which enables us to see our way.-ReV.
j. a. Hutton, NJ. A., D. D.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

Educational Association, scheduled to
meet in Huntington, June 10, IA and To-
because Of the war, L, B. Hill, presi-
dent of the association, has issued the
following statement: 81 see no good
reason for entertaining any such idea
There are many reasons why teachers
should meet in June and discuss the
educational policy Of West Virginia
in relation to the present war, The
interests of children demand careful
discussion of ideal citizenship and an
ideal state school system. The teach
ing force of West Virginia should get
together and outline its policy"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

There is something very beautiful
I the softening influence of years on
,r:nnn character. While 1t is true that
- is sometimes peevish, it is oftener
rue that men who have started on the
,own-hill stretch of life present their
.oldep-ripe side to view, like n rich
.pple that has mellowed on the tree
nd taken its complexion from the sum
:hine that natures and beauties
everything in this lovely wOrld.-De-
lrnit Etra Press.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

nj desires to announce that the annual
meeting and iuitiation will be held this
evening at 500 in the school auditor
ium. The committee have worked to
make this years meeting a great sue
cess and hope every member will be
present. Following the election OF Of
iicers and the limitations social hour
will be spent.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25
Had Modern Idea.

From many years observation on
myself and others, I nun persuaded we
are on n wrong scent In supposing
moist or cold air the cause Of that
disorder we call a cold" Some I'M
known quality in the air may some
times produce colds, as in "infuen-
"a" but generally, 1 apprehend, they
are the effects of too full living in pro-
portion to our exercise.-Letter From
Ben Franklin.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25
Peace in "a Hours

for Stomach Sufferers who take Mayr's
Wonderful Remedy. Don't neglect
your Stomach Ailments another min
ute. What appears to be only minor
Stomach disorders may often be symp
toms of Cancer and Ulcers of the Stom-
ach and Intestines, Gall Stones, Acute
Indigestion, Gastritis, Auto lntoxlca-
tion, Yellow Jaundice, and other dan
gerous ailments, of which the sufferer
is not aware until too late. An ideal
prescription for overcoming quickly
Stomach, Liver and Intestinal Trouble
is Mayr's Wonderful Remedy. Mil
lions Of people have been restored by
it. One dose will PROVE that it will
help you. Mayr's Wonderful Remedy
is for sale by Crane drug store, Holt
Drug Co., Prescription Pharmacy, Nal
nington.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

Assurances are being received by the
commissioner of agriculture from
many West Virginia counties that the
sheep industry will not be overlook
ed this year as it has been in the last
two or three years. There is reason
for the belief that West Virginia Will
next year decade. A plentiful mutton
supply is also expected to reduce the
cost OF living to a considerable ex'
tent.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25
EAST SIDE
= NEWS =
Hare from Texas.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Leonard, Of
Dallas, Texas, are visiting friends and
relatives in the city. Mr. Leonard re-
turned yesterday IRON few days stay
at Ccnnellsyille, Pa.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

While the Cabin Creek oil field has
developed thus far does not cover
a wide acreage, it contains 80 produc-
ing wells, and more than 100 new wells
will be drilled soon. The production
of the wells now in operation ranges
from 20 barrels to more than 100 bar
rels a day. 1t is expected before the
middle of August there will have been
completed at least as many more wells
as are now producing.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25
Gone to Canton.

Mrs. R. Funt and SON., Maurice, left
today fer Canton, Ohio, to visit rela'
tives. They will spsnd few days in
Cleveland also before returning.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25
y. A, S.

Mrs. Frank Amos was hostess to the
T. A. S. club yesterday afternoon at
her home on Guffey street The place
of the next meeting has not been de-
cided upon.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

Here are views showing pstep
cargocarro shpyard in the United
States"
piece Of timber.
bones of in position.
The next picture shows the or is
the ships backbone will be the COM
peted vessls bow; the ribs in position for siding
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

That the annual melting of the State
Education association to be held IN
Huntington June 10, IA and 10, Will be
one of the most important ever held
by the organization is the declaration
of the state department of schools.
The program will cover, 1t is said, a
wide range of thought and action incl
dent to educational matters in west
Virginia. To attract visitors to the
convention city, the annual commence,
ment of Marshall college State Normal
school will be held June 10, and it is
expected that all who attend the
convention will also attend the com
mencement. Concentration of effort
upon some particular problem each
wear is the plan of the association.
This wear the concentration on school
administration, with particular refer
ence to an ideal school system for the
State of West Virginia. The topic Tor
the opening session on Wednesday,
June l3, will be IAN Ideal School Sys'
tenn" j. N. Deahl will act as chair
man at the session and w. w. front
will explain the aims Of the program
and the topic. Four minute talks will
be made by 10 educators, each iden,
titled with a different class of school
work. M. P. Shawkey, state superin'
tendent of schools, will address the con
yention on ideals and Plans" AT
the evening session Robert Fttzpat'
rick will make the address of vel
come. Superintendent George S. Laid
ley, of Charleston, will respond. l..
B. Hill, of Athens, president of the
association, will make the presidents
annual address. Another address will
be delivered by Charles Mckinney,
president Of Ypsilanti, Mich, Normal
college. other speakers, as announced
BY the department of schools, will be
DR.. Frank B. Trotter, president OF
West Virginia university; DR., David
Snodden, of Teachers college, Column
bia university, New York; ]. H. Fran
els, superintendent of schools, Colum-
bus, Ohio; DR.. P. P. Claxton, United
States Commissioner Of Education;
and DR.. Joseph Roster, president Of
the Fairmont State Normal.
,, 4 49,, Iottors Pro,,, Mast
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25
homes to enlist in the Italian army.

Announcement is made of the retire.
ment as a bishop of this district OF
the United Brethren church of Rev.
w. NJ. Weekly owing to advanced
years and declining strength. Bishop
Weekly has spent 40years in the min
istry, Of which "a were spent as pre-,
siding elder and as bishop. He will
retain his residence in Parkersburg
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25
sarIetta Man at Baltimore.

Joseph Smith, of .sarietta, who was
operated upon at Johns Hopkins hos
pital recently, is recovering rapidly
and hopes to reach home in about three
weeks.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

Within a few weeks two seams of
coal will be mined in Green Sulphur
district, near Hinton. This will be
the first commercial mining in Sum
mers county. Each of these seams are
to he made on the property of the
Boury heirs. The tipple will be ON
the Sewell Valley railroad near Clay.
pool Work on the construction OF
the incline is practically completed
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

me west Virginian is on sale eV'
NJ evening at the following places;
jNfoN NEWS CO., Street Car Sta
ton and B. & o. Station.
v SON BUILDING NEWS STAND,
Main entrance Watson Building.
FAIRAoNT NEWS co. 1241a Main
Street, -
CLYDE S, HOLT, Main Street..
NOR AM & PRUNTY, corner Bridge
and water streets.
!. ii MiELosKEY, corner Sixth and
Loclst avenue.
A. G. MARTIN, Main street.
3ANfIToN DRUG co. corner Tenth
and Virginia avenue
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

There is shortage of seed buck
wheat in West Virginia. The demand
this spring has been far greater than
that of any former spring, and the de-
partment of agriculture is having diff
ficulty in supplying the many farmers
who are DESTROYS of growing more
of this crop than in former years. 1t
was pointed out a few weeks ago by
the department that by raising more
buckwheat the farmers of the state
would help to solve the high cost Of
living problem, and consequently
scores OF farmers in every county
where the soil is adaptable to the
crop are willing to SOW an acre or
more. Buckwheat usually produces
about forty bushels to the acre.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

Replying to many letters from West
Virginia school teachers in which they
discuss the ACCESSIBILITY of postponing
the annual convention Of the State
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

A number of alleged deserters who
left the service in San Antonio, Texas
while members of the Second West
virginia infantry, have been caught
and are in camp at Kanawha City, near
here, awaiting trial by court martial
Several have surrendered voluntarily
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

Cook Hospital Tag Day, Saturday
May &c.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

Alumni Meeting.
The president of the East Side Alum
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

cook Hospital Tag Day, Saturday.
May %.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

Officials of the Virginia railway de-
clare that prospects are good for May
being the record month in the move
ment of coal on that line. Loadings
have been in excess of normal and
the dumpings up to the output. In
dustrial conditions along the road are
described as good.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

Assessors throughout the state do.
ing their official work report that
but very little grain is on hand at
this time. They find that cattle are
more numerous than in recent years
and that the assessments on this prop
erty are heavier than usual.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

Scarcity of labor has prevented the
Coal and Coke Railroad company from
carrying out the plan of improvement
that was to have started before this
time. Representatives of the com
pany have sought labor both in the
mountain counties and in the cities
but have been unable to engage enough
men to assure a full measure OF work
during this summer. Colored labor
ers from the south have aided con-
siderably, but the increase in this clan
of workmen has been offset by the re-
turn of many Italian laborers to their
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-25

at,ondncto What the nunbes o.
.vonr berth Uncle Hiram Wan
lissss sdelt's July 10. 1865. Puck
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-08-10
No Wonder Hs Wouldn't Sail.

Captain Amundsen told an amusing
story of one Of his arctic expeditions
Several Of his dogs having died, Cap
tain Amundsen asked one of the ma
tiyes In his best Eskimo II he would
sell him few dogs. TO his surprise
the request was promptly refused. The
explorer and the Eskimo had long
argument, the explorer pointing out
that he must get dogs somehow and
the Eskimo replying that they never
sold them.
NONSENSE Captain Amundsen ex-
claimed 81 have often bought dogs"
The Eskimos seemed immensely as
tonished, aud ut the end Of another ar
Gument Captain Amundscn discovered
that instead Of using the Eskimo word
for dogs" he had been asking the man
TO sell him some "chlldrcn.'
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-08-10
FILLING OUT A CHECK.
Il 10 a Good Rule Always to Write the
Stub First.

II 10 a Good Rule Always to Write the
Stub First.
In a big store woman was paying
with check for some goods she had
Just bought, and she was carefully fill
ing in the stub Of her check book 1rst
'0h, don't stop for that!" urged her
shopping companion. who was In a
hurry. "You can do TINT when you
get home"
Unmoved. the careful woman fin
ished the stub with special care. then
wrote the check, gave II to the sales
man and said to her impatient friend:
Before | was married took care Of
some Of my fathers accounts. The
first time he ever asked me to fill out
set of blank checks for him so lie
could sign them he told me: One rule
you must always observe-write the
stub first. Make VOW to yourself,
like unto the vow Of Jephthah, that
you will never write a check until the
stub is filed. II for any reason you
should fall later to write the check II
would be simple matter to cancel
the stub, but II you write check and
leave the stub blank you open the
door to a hundred chances of mistake.
No ones memory can be trusted on
that subject. Never try to trust yours.
Let the law Of "the stub first" be to
you as the law of the Medes and the
Persians.' have always found 1t per.
factly easy to follow that rule, and
that is one reasonNI have a bank ac-
count today. My husband is never
afraid will make him any trouble
with It."