The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-01
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STATE NEWS

many ulutIS OF I06 new River
Company besides earning high wages
are now receiving bonuses as a result
or the organization OF THE Thousand
Dollar Club by s. A. Scott, manager
Of the mines. The club provides that
any miner who earns a stated amount
in a certain period OF time she re-
ceive cash bonus and become q
member of the club. The movement
is said to have greatly stimulated pro-
duction.
Huntington reports the first case in
the state Of prosecution for violation
OF the weights and measures law re-
qutring that all baskets be marked
plainly TO indicate the capacity. A
farmer from the Ohio side OF the river
crossed to Huntington and sold toma-
toes in baskets that were not marked
! He was arrested and fined ten dol.
lars, which is the minimum penalty.
Copies Of the National Service
Handbook" which is published by the
national committee on public informa-
! ton, have been placed in the state
department of archives and history
and in the public library at Charles
ton, The book aims to give com
prehensive description of the war &C.
tivities of the nation up to the pres.
ent time and to answer the questions
OF those who may be anxious to serve
their country and ignorant of the way
\ in which they can servo best or where
they can get the desired information
! The book is mine of information in
regard 10 the organization of the
army and navy and the activities of
those industries that must be mobil-
lied 10 supply the needs of the coun-
! try in its present crisis. 1t contains
a comprehensive statement of what
has been done towards nation prepar.
edness and the information has been
brought down to the date OF July 81.
1t is planned to distribute copies Of
this book to all OF the larger librar.
les OF the state.
Farmers in the community about
Fayetteville are complaining that
their crops are being destroyed by
swarms OF grasshoppers, or Rocky
Mountain locusts, the like Of which
has never been seen-in that com.
munity at least-since the time OF
Pharaoh. Within the last two weeks
they have appeared in such countless
numbers as to offer serious menace
to the corn and buckwheat crops.
They attack the young grass in the
buckwheat first and then devour tho
buskwheat blossom. Corn leaves and
the entire ears OF corn are cleaned
up. Spraying with arsenate OF LEAD,
which is usually an effective method
OF fighting such pests, and spraying
poisoned bran through the buckwheat
have both proved ineffective. The
farmers fear that the pest will reap
pear over larger area next year,
which is also the year that the sew.
enteeu year locust IS scheduled to ar
rive.
Canned tomatoes seemed to have
leaped into popularity among the mi.
ners Of Layland, a mining town near
Fayetteville, and large consignments
were shipped into the community at
frequent intervals. Recently, howev.
er, one OF the cans sprung leak and
lost a part of its cargo, with the re-
suit that prohibition officers smelled
Il smell and started an investigation
which revealed the fact that all of
the ffty-one quart cans in the con.
signment contained whiskey. The cans
were all labeled Tomatoes" and
were shipped from Detroit.
s. B. McAvoy, of Meadows Bluff.
visited his bee hives one day last
week to get some honey with which
to calm the frantic urgings of his
sweet tooth, says the Greenbrier In.
dependent He protected himself as
best he could with some sheets and
netting but when the bees got next"
to his intentions they very soon got
next to him and by the time he had
collected forty little one pound boxes
of the honey he was compelled to
retire from action. He soon became
sick from the poison of the stings and