The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-12-30
no case did the shopkeepers dare
make All outcry.
Tho Cost Of Living.

no case did the shopkeepers dare to
make all outcry.
Tho Cost OF Living.
Living has been as costly IN LouVnln
as elsewhere, with butter AT 2Ot
Mound and GEES 2f each. SO that people
without means TO buy have su11ereo'
One gathers that it was not the very
unu;cst who suffered most. however
for they were maintained by the IN
tcrnatIonal Committee. 1t WAS Inc
poorer bourgeois and small rcnters. VINO
had been proud Of their respectiaoility
and found their means swept away. YET
could not bring themselves 10 lake pau
pcrs' charity. who came nearest 70 ac-
tual starvations. But for private re-
ref committee organized by tn" more
wcll-to-do residents 1.-THE Comite du
Sccours DiscrclrJ many % these would
probably have failed to keep alive.
have spoken before OF the numbers
Of cattl, left in the field, though l see
that the local newspapers nrr colnpi'liH-
ing hltirrly Of the numbers driven away
By the Germans II tn" last. Nome inc
less, many remain. rs | have seen again
today in the Lnuvain area. and through
GU, Belgium. l fear, rather bitter 1cel-
fnSs have been aroused among toWh
dwcilerS hy tho enormous prices charE-
cd III farmers for their produce. One
hears constant assertions that Tho TAR
n,rrS have grown rich 1T tho cost OIL
the suffcriuGS If th"ir vompatrots IN
tho towns. Already in the towns all
those who countcnanccd Germans I'M
positions or helped in them. arc being
made to suffer. and surely any class
which has pruritcd will be made to pay
in the end.
On tho whole. since 1914 tho people
or I.nuvuin have suffered no more than
thSc Of other towns in RclGiupl. ana
thanks TO Commandment Won Luboert'
probably less than most. Rut nothing
can vino out the scars Of four years
ago. The extraordinary thing is mat
according 10 all the accounts I have
hoard. the library was burned without
first being looted. \ few rare things
seem 60 have been taken. rather az sou
vrnirs. by German officers. hut IL APP
pears that the priceless manuscripts
and all were given hccdlcssly to tho
flames in mere orgy Of wrath ana
irhlfulncsS. l have seen few things
in my life sn sad ms that grim, SMOKE
hlackcnrd front Of the library building.
with tn" skeleton walls behind.
Miss less Hare is home from Camp
Wheeler Ga where sh" Is Il nurse. Wis
itinG her father. who is III.
Clarence Jones is home from school
for Il few days He has been at "ittcn-
burg University.
A. ". Loo is in Atlantis City spend
Ing few days with friends. He is cX-
prctcd home soon.
Clyde and Charles D. Hare arc nome
from Gary, Ind.
CLARENCE bowler of tho South Side
leaves tomorrow. after spending hrict
furlouCh with his parents. He Is Sta-
toned at cape May.
Robert Hewitt IF Nineteenth street.
who has hccn spending short FUR
Tough nj his home. will return to Camp
Gordon tomorrow.
Samuel Front Of tho Island arrived
in tho city scvcra! days nGo to spend
q furlnugh with his parents.
Miss Angela Iacohucci Of Seventeenth
street hns returned from weekend
visit with relatives in ST. Clairsrilc.
George Mah"n"y OF the South Sidr Is
in the city after being IN inc service
for eight months.
Ealph Kraft popular young man oil
the south Side. and formerly on th'
local staff. is in tho city spending Il
brief rurlough hut will leave for CnmT
Meade tomorrow.
Edmund Rrdman Of Nineteenth strrc'
returned from brief visit with his
parents in Fairnont.
Arden Lloyd OF tho South Side has
returned from Camp lee, receiving MS
| honorable discharge.
William Royce Of the South Slide. who
has received his honorable discharge
from the service. hns resumed his duties
with the National Tube company ut len
wood.
Andrew Wilson Of Thirteenth street
who has been Stationed nj Camp l>r'
since September. has received his dis
rhnrGc and resumed his duties wFH tht
Manchester plant Of tho Wheeling Mole
and Foundry company.
Iinccn, Armhrust"r OF tn" South Side
leaves tomorrow for Cape May. after
spending short furlough In tho city
visiting his parents,
Miss Frances BrovcTnran OF Market