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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-29
MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH.

HUNTINGTON, W. Va, June 90
John Hill, aged %, who 10 days ago
pleaded guilty to the murder Of George
Church, town marshal Of Barboursville,
last September, was today sentenced
to pay the death penalty and the date
Of his execution fixed for September
rs. Sentence was imposed by Judge
Thomas W. Taylor, Of the Common
Pleas Court. Hill objected to the i'm
position Of the death sentence and
claimed that he had understood that
he would be given a life term If he
pleaded guilty.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-29

Asia, above-chinese soldiers have
Joined in the war on the allied side.
In this first picture from the Chinese
front" they are seen taking possession
of the German colony in Tientsin.
Afrlca-A British soldier in the
Egyptian desert. It's hot and dusty
life for him, far from home, but in the
course of his work stringing up tele-
phone wires across the desert, he finds
consolation in being able to talk to
someone of his own country, even If
it is by wire.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-29
Valley Gem Late, No
One Here Knows Why

Telegram was received here yes
terday by c. W. Evans, secretary of
the Fairmont Chamber of Commerce,
that the Valley Gem would arrive in
Fairmont early this morning and
would leave on another trip to Pitts
burgh at noon. For some reason the
steamer had not yet arrived at press
time this afternoon. The boat passed
Alicia, Pa, at $3.50 yesterday after
noon on time.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-29
Representatives Recalled
From Germany, Austria,
Bulgaria and Turkey.
ACT!0N GAME QUICKLY
Venizelos Party Did Not Get
Into Power Until Yes
terday.
(By Associated ptess)

ATHENS, June 29-Tha
Greek government has brok-
en- diplomatic relations with
Germany, Austria-Hungary
Bulgaria and Turkey.
Though war has not yet
been declared the Greek
government considers that
a state of war exists since it's
advent to power yesterday,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-29
cHILpREN eRAvELY ACCUSED

CHARLESTON, w. Va, June 90
William Johnson, aged 16, and Lauran
Collins aged II, both of Brown, Fay
cite county, have been arrested on the
charge OF purposely drowning Ralph
Beury aged IA, according to reports
received here from Brown today. The
boy was drowned a week ago and sus.
picion was aroused when a physician
said there was no water on the lungs.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-29
Big Traction Merger
In Effect Tomorrow

The Monongahela Valley Traction
COMPANY will take over the operation
of the Kanawha Traction and Electric
company tomorrow forming the largest
concern Of its kind in West Virginia,
increasing the mileage to nearly two
hundred miles.
President James o, Watson, Vice
President Smith Hood, General Man
ager E. B. Moore, Chief Counsel George
M. Alexander and Assistant Manager
o. F. Lough left this afternoon for Par
kerssurg to effect the transfer OF au'
ttLority.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-29
ACCUSED WOMAN
SWALLOWS PoIsONi

BECKLEY, W. Va, June Blake
Bays, young married woman being
held in the county jail for the murder
Of Steven Stabino, an aged restaurant
man at Dorothy, in the New River coal
fields, attempted suicide this morning
by taking four poison tablets. Early
discovery of the act saved her life
however. Authorities say she has con;
fessed to the murder and robbery Of
about $4O0.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-29
THE WEATHER

aIr and cooler sonlahti talf and
warner Sturdy
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28
LET EN- BLACK OWN BOOTS

Congressman Miller of Washington
says that on his recent visit to France
he saw Uncle Sans soldierse backing
the boots of the officers.
Even If the ocicers pay for such me-
NAL services it should be prohibited,
The American soldiers were sent tc
France to fight for great. principles.
not to be body servants to official
snobs who think they are too good to
black their own boots.
Certainly the soldiers self-respect ia
not only an asset to them, but to the
republic as we'll They can preserve
that self-respect while backing their
own boots, but not while blacking the
boots Of an officer.
No class distinctions and privileges
should be recognized or permitted in
the democratic army of democracy.
Let the officers black their own boots
or yank OF their shoulder straps
Tampa Tribune.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28
MILITARY ExTRAvAeANcE

The Punta Gorda Herald is opposed
to military extravaganza. 1t says that
the young officers. fresh from the
training camps should not be required
to array themselves in snowy uni
forms merely for purposes of display.
That the uniforms should be plain
without pomp. rich without show
That the pride. pomp and circum-
Stance of glorious war should be
frowned down. That if the govern
ment requires uniforms costing from
three hundred TO five hundred dollars
it is setting an example of .extrava-
gance that many of the young officers
can i'll afford.
That this war is no holiday affair.
That we are engaged in the serious
business of participating in the most
terrible war in the history of the
world. and this fact demands that in
preparing our soldiers for the dread
full conflict that we abstain from every
appearance of folly or extravaganza,
in any line of expenditure, individual or
national
Continuing, it says that we are not
equipping our young men to go out on
dress parade in celebration of some
national holiday. but to fight, to dig
trenches, to-eharge up to the mouths
of machine guns and cannon. to
slaughter our enemies, and fall, if
need be. in a sea of blood on the field
of battle. For such fearful duties as
will be theirs, to array our soldiers in
gorgeous apparel and make them pay
for it, is a travesay upon propriety
and burlesque upon war itself.
In this hour of scarcity and want,
when the government and all its
agents and thousands of other agents
are preaching economy and conserva-
ton that the resultant saving may
help carry the war to speedy and
successful conclusion, it is absolutely
criminal that an officer should be re-
quired to buy costly uniform merely
for the purpose of making a gorgeous
display, which is the only purpose that
it can serve.
Our young men, officers and pri-
Yates. are entering upon a momentous
task, and all idea of grandstand exit
billions should give place to serious
thinking.
There should be the best of COM
radery existing between officers and
enlisted men; there should be no
caste, rather a oneness of purpose. a
unity of aspirations, so that we can
set the example of the touch of ell
bows one with another to other ma.
lions. thus emphasizing the fact that
we are attempting by word and action
to win the world to the principles of
true democracy, and the simplicity of
living.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28
SANTA cLAus-THE 6ENEFicENT
AND BouNTlFuL


Yes, despite the cruel, savage, fero-
cious war that is now being felt every
where, and is incarnadining the earth
with the rich, red blood of our bravest
and best, it does US good through and
through to say that Santa Claus still
lives, and he continues on his annual
benevolent circuit of the globe, dis
pensing joy and gladness everywhere.
This leads us to say that this dear
friend of the little children contin-
ues to stand out as one of the most
wonderful personages of the world.
Older than Methusaleh, he has the
same kindly, benignant look today
that he had on the day that he start.
ed out on his famous journey around
the world He drives the same team
of reindeer with the same tinkling lit
tie bells, and his coming and his go
ing are identically the same.
CO. AC 10 SLlOASCl JAdi1 0ctuoOn III
his load is many times heavier than
the gates of GAIA, and he never
breaks down nor grows weary under
his prodigious weight. His virility
and strength are always commensu-
rate with his wonderful tasks.
Wiser, yes, wiser than Solomon, for
he has an accurate and comprehensive
knowledge of the crying needs of the
destitute and what most dispenses
cheer to the homes he visits
A greater philosopher than either
Plato or Socrates, for his philosophy
is simply the philosophy of giving.
Greater than Alexander, for in max
ing conquest of the world he has no
tears to shed for other conquests.
Meeker than Moses. for unlike the
great law giver he never flies into a
passion. such as to cause him to break
the tables of stone" or throw away
his pack, but all along his journey
we ind him complacent and his face
illuminated with CHEEKY smile.
Dare we say it? Yes, his descent
into the world and travel through it
is as sweet, kind and gentle as the
Masters, for he follows in his foot
steps and his tocsin is the same:
Suffer little children to come unto
me, and forbid them not"
With glory as efrulgent as the
sun which tinges the eastern horizon
and distributes light and heat over
the earth. he diffuses joy and glad
ness to the little ones, and in man
ner that makes the whole world kim
So we say, long live Santa Claus,
sometimes more affectionately call
ea Good Kris Kringle," fos nothing is
a myth nor delusion that makes
happiness a reality.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT AND THE
CHILD

The Banner reprints one of the best
things written by the late Frank L.
Mayes, editor of the Pensacola Jour.
nal, published in his paper the last
Christmas day he spent on earth II
is not only appropriate to this and to
all Christmas seasons, but it speaks
the tender and heartfelt spirit of the
man who wrote it.
Life is made up of the sordid and
tbs elevating, the ugly and the beauti
full, the bad and the good.
And-as extremes always meet-at
Christmas time there are sordid
things and elevating things, ugly
things and beautiful things, all OF
which combine to make what we call
the Christmas season.
There is the buying and the selling
the barter and then there is the
giving
There is the ugly fact that for this
annual festival many must work that
others may play, that shop girls must
stand for long hours, and that men
must work day and night, and mothers
must wear themselves out for their
children. And then there are the
children.
There is the bad side that the few
think only of selfish gain; and then
there is the good side-that the many
carry the Christmas season in their
hearts.
Scrooge is not dead yet. Old Mar
ley is dead as door nail, but Scrooge
still walks the city streets. still sits
in his office and counts his thousands,
and sneers at the annual holiday, and
SCOTS at the idea that there is any
thing wonderful about this day He
till reminds us that it is but a time
of making bills and squandering mon
eey a time of wasting and extrava-
gance. and he still refuses to believe
in the beauty of the anniversary of the
-
Christ Child.
But, thank God, Tiny I'm still lives.
too. to put old Scrooge to rout, and
with his crutch and his Christmas
smile, to bless us every one.
If the Christ Child had NOT SET ms
seal upon this sacred day-had not
signed it with the sign of the cross
it would remain the pagan festival
that some declare it to be. But the
Babe, who was born in the Manager in
far OFF Bethlehem on that first Christ
mas morning, comes each Christmas
season to bless the world with his
coming. and in his name is this day
sacred to all little children
Dickens is dead long since. but his
Christmas Carol still lives.
The spirit OF the Christ Child.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

through Tiny Tim, has softened more
hearts than that Of old Scrooge who
didn't and wouldn't believe in Christ
mas-until the Christmas spirit came
at last. through Gods mercy, to lead
him into the very heart of Christmas
joy.
And so it is with all of us. 1t is
through the joy of others only that
we may find the Christmas joy. 1t is
only through the eyes of little child
that we may see the real beauty ana
the glory of Christmas Day One
must have love in his heart to know
the glory of love.
This is commercial age. But new
er in all the history Of the world has
there been an era when so much was
done for little children as is done to.
day.
And it is because of Christmas. Not
this Christmas, or last Christmas, per.
haps-though they, too, have helped
But because of that first Christmas
when a Babe in manger consecrated
a day to little children.
When Christ was born, and the an
gel song rang out above the lowly
shepherds feeding their hocks on the
hills, the light of the Christmas star
shone so brightly that the radiance
lighted all the world. and that radi
ance has never dimmed in all the
years that have passed.
Wise men saw that star and knew
it for sign. And the lowly shep.
herds, too, followed it's leading until
they came at last unto the King They
did not find their king in purple robe,
with crown of gold and a jeweled
scepter. They found him wrapped in
swaddling clothes, and lying in a man
ger.
The Wise Mea knew him for their
King, and gave him gifts, on that first
Christmas day. The shepherds had
no gifts to offer, but they heard the
angel song:
Behold, I bring to you good It'd
ings of great joy, to be unto you and
to all people. This day there is born
in the city of David Savior, who is
Christ the Lordl"
And today the first Christmas song
still rings and will ring through the
ages:
GLORY to God in the highest, and on
earth Peace, Good Will to men"
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

The Tampa Times. the Punta Gorda
Herald, the Lakeland Telegraph, the
Arcadia Daily News, the Jacksonville
Metropolis. the Tampa Daily Tri-
bune. and number of other
Florida newspapers are coming to the
defense and rescue of the private sol
der from the snobbish treatment of
those newly brevetted with shoulder
straps. This government is going to
stand for no foolishness.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Lord Northcliffe says that we are in
for long, hard. terrible war. The
United States will measure up to it's
full strength, and will perform its part
nobly. 1t viii not be laggard either
in men, munitions or money.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Uncle Joe" Cannon continues to be
one of the youngest members of con-
gress. Charged as the representative
OF the house to present a memorial
to Hon. John ]. Fitzgerald to take
with him into his retirement to pri-
vate life he quoted Tennyson's verse
to Queen Victoria on her fiftieth an,
niversary:
Saxon or Dane or Norman we.
Teuton or Celt or whatever be.
We are each all Dane in our welcome
Of thee"
Said Uncle joe"
Democrats. republicans. progressives
are we.
But we all unite IN our love Cor thss."
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Save your wood ashes. They may
be profitably applied as top dressing
to grass lands and to pastures. or if
made into I've viii take the place of
soap in securing floors and for other
rough work.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Among the things that Trotzky
learned evidently during his brief stay
in America as foreign-language edi-
tor was how to pack convention.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Snow in this country, where it is
not needed, deeper and more contin-
uous than in half century. yet on
the Alps in Italy, where it is needed,
it is singularly bare.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Colonel House is silent when ISL
ience is golden" but when it is not
his tongue is tipped with silver. He
knows how to use his tongue when
necessary.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Let us hope that it viii be a long
time before the United States renews
the process of terminating more Ger
mans on her soil. Let them stay UNI
der the rule NIT der kaiser.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Ocala is now advertising her new
spring Palm Beach hats. Some class
to Florida when Christmas finds us
buying for May use.-Tampa Tribune
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

General Pershing is organizing a
great army in France, and the French
and English believe that he is the man
for the job. Berlin win soon have to
reckon with him.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

II we do not accept the kaiser's
terms of peace we are responsible for
all the lives and for all the miseries
that may follow. Is it not easy to put
ones sins on to the shoulders of 9TH
ers?
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Billy Sundays revival crusade in At
lanta cost that city the neat little sum
of $4,000. Money talks wherever
Billy pitches his tents.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

The Menace, the Buzz Saw, the yell
low Jacket, the Jim Jams, the Jeffer-
sonian and other like publications
have closed shop until the end of the
war.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28
only receiving letters of approval hu
verbal commentators

The farmers of Jackson count
have already received in cash for tls
sale of hogs one hundred and afi1
thousand dollars.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Atlanta has had the longest cold
wave in sixty years. We can say the
same thing for Ocala. The eldest in
habitant cannot remember cold
wave so prolonged, and the sun re-
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

fusing TO give us the benefit of his
benignant beams. And there never
was a time when coal was so scarce
or wood so high in price.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

General Pershing says that liquor is
the worst enemy and the most strong
ly entrenched enemy that we have to
conquer.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Chief Justice Jefferson 4 Browne
wrote the opinion declaring the law
creating the tax commission consti-
tutional
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Russia is drunk with freedom. Thal
behavior is many times worse lnai
the negroes in this country immediate
ly after emancipation.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

The New York World is corred
Russia will always be regarded as ne
Judas among the nations. She Is &
craven at the feet of Germany.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Mr.. Gerard says that if the German
people were to rise against the kaiser
it would make the French revolution
look like 80 cents.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

The best way for farmer to dis
pose OF his corn is to feed it to his
hogs. He can sell it by the pound in
stead OF by the bushel.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

We can forget and forgive many
things. The exceptions are: Deser-
ton, betrayal, disIoyalty.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Secretary Baker says that Russia's
peace proposal was made in Ger
many"
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

The United States army has the
most powerful howitzers on the west
ern front. j
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Yes. we had burst of real Florida
weather on Christmas day.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

From Detroit to Berlin" is the la
bel of the army trucks made in De-
troit.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Plant City put up over two thousan'
boxes of tangerines in the past tW
weeks.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Troops continue to arrive at Camp
Johnston from all parts of the United
States.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Spinal meningitis is increasing at
Camp Jackson, near COLUMBIA.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Secretary Daniels is not going to
tolerate any caste in ctr army.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

For its articles on the treatment OF
the private soldier this paper is not
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

There should be no waste of public
moneys.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

The turkey trot is never out of place
IN well regulated farmyard.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

It is time to drop partisan poIitics
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Weigh your words in the scales 9
patience. -
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28

Just little breaks a high fall.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-13
HOLIDAY SEASON.

In less than two weeks Christmas will be here, with all of its joyousness, and in Alas ka, as elsewhere, 1t will be ap- propriateiy observed. It is the season when you truly feel that il is more of a pleasure to give than to receive-and thus are many people made happy. While Christmas is anxiously looked forward to by children principally on account of the annual visit of Santa Claus and the time when turkey and other good eats are plentiful it is also taken advantage of by the grown-ups as a season for me11y-making and the. ex- change of gifts.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-13
HIGH COST OF COURTING

All the world may love a lover, but the framers of the seW war-taX bill adopted a roundabout way of showing their aff2ctiOn. The congress- Ional measure to raise addi- tlonal rgT1nue makes a partic- ularly effective assault on tho bankroll of the young man who wishes to demonstrate his de- votlon to a maid. If the object of the youths passion lives reasonably near him, he may escape the new tax on tele- grams and telephone messa ees that cost loss than 15 cents.
 Every love-letter he writes will cost him an additional penny, however, even if he in closes only a single burning poem. If trip to the theatre Is plannod, committing lovers who 1.-Two more than thirty miles from tho playhouse must give financi3l assistance to the war on the IIohenzollerns. Actual admission to the theatre de- mands an additional 10 per cent on the cost of the tickets. Naturally. the dear girl will wish to make herself particnl- arlv alluring to her ardent swain. To do so, she must pay a , per cont tax on the perfume essence, toilet water, Ii D louge or face powder that to her seems the most effective dev- ice.-Leslie $.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-13
CRITICAL AUDIENCES.

To sit in a showhouse in Fairbanks and hear the criti- cisms of the show as it pro- gresses and grows upon the screen is to make one thank their stars that they are not in the show business or trying to please the critical public of Fairbanks. Nor are all the criticisms entirely intelligent or just. For instance, last night "RiIl" took his mother to the picture show. At one point in the game Mime. Petro- vaw as dressing for her wed dine. She was arranging her bridal veil, which was yards -iane.It-~yas a pretty scene and superblv acted, but "Bili'' shouted out:
 "Now, ism that a PRETTY way to pnt on a mosquito net See! Shes putting it ALI. down her BACK; and not a bit of 1t over her face!'
 Who wouldn't be a show man.-Fairbanks News Miner.