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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-03-26
Great REJOICING BY
RHEUMATIC CRIPPLES
I: So c iptea You Cans Use Arms or
Legs, Rh:uma Will Help You.

II you want raiief in two days. swift.
certain. gratifying relief. take a small
dose o. Rheuma once u day.
II you want II dissolve every parti-
Gle of aric acid poison in your body
and drive i; out through natural chan
neis so that you viii DC forever free
EIom rheumatiSm. get a bottle Of Rneu
ma from Mountain City Drug Com
pany or any druggist at once. It must
give the JOYFUL relief expected or mon
rheumatism is powerful disease
strongly entrcEched in joints and mus
cIeS. In order to conquer 1t a power
fuI enemy must be sent against it.
Rheuma. is the enemy OF Rheumatism.
an enemy that conquers it in nearly
every instance.
Judge JoNn Barborst, of Fl Lora-
ME. Ohio. knows it. He was walking
with crutches: today he is well. It
should do as muc:1 for you; it seldom
fails.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-03-26
GARDEN LESSON 80. Z
Prssared Under ths oErsEoIon q fbo
West YIrsIntaasS Feea
oenartnasFE.

The first thing to do Il you're going
10 start q war garden to supply Jour
table with food this year = . sEndy
gardening.
Sit right down this evening and
write to one or afeW seed FIRMS ask
ing them for their latest seed eata-
logs.
While waiting for them stop IN 1t
the public library and borrow BOOK
on gardening. II You can set any o.
Prof. BaTley's gardening books. DO 80
Read 1t, and get another. That's a
pleasant and profitable way 70 spend
these evenings. Get the children IN
terestad in reading about gardening
When the seed catalogs arrive, sIody'
them. There's a lot OF useful Informal
ton as to when, how and where 70
SOW seeds. Also, the catalogs van
ret you acquainted with the vegetables
you are going TO grow
Now's the time for the family gar
den conference. Decide on what you
want to raise In your backyard or va
cant lot garden. Pick those vegeta-
bles your family likes best. II they
are especially fond of lettuce and AIS
like onions, give more space TO lettuce
anu llLE1e OE HOAe ~ OAASHo'
OF course, it is al ways advisable Tor
the small gardener to grow the so
called little vegetables, radlShes.
lettuce. beets. carrots, dwarf peas and
beans. rather than such large space
users as corn. melons. pumpkins
squash. or even potatoes or tomatoes.
The latter TWO. however. are found in
most war gardens, and should be in all
! ii the plots is large enough. In vacant
lot gardens. OF course. everything
from corn to pumpkins can be raised
Ii possible. get a vacant lot near
you~ home. even il you have to walk
a few blocks to get TO it. Health eS-
perts insist walking is good for hu-
Now is a fine time to scout around
, for that vacant lot. There may be one
nearby. unused. which you can get rent
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-03-26
FOUR MINUTE men
INVITED TO DINNER
District Conference VIII be
Held at CIarksburg Next
Tuesday

Four 1Iinut Aiep of Fai9Taont have
been invited to attend dinner t. be
given at the Waldo Hotel IN CiarksouFF
on Tuesday. April at $50 O'Clock
p. m.
The meeting is one OF che series Of
meetings which are being held over the
state for the purpose Oc furtherif r the
Four Minute organization.
The meeting viii be attended by W.
Curtis Nicholson. assistant director
OF Washington. D. c. AND Major Donald
Hector Naclea9- an officer in the Can
adam army in France.
All OF the Four Minute Men OF RAN
mont are urged TO attend the meeting.
There likely Will be good 2tteE@2Ace
from this city.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-03-26
NM 8 M en- To
Talk Of Gardening

Four Minute talks on the -Farm and
Garden" viii begin in the Easrmont
theatres this evening and continue the
remaInder Of the week.
The schedule IN the theatres this
week IS as follows: Wed2esday-W.
J. WIegel. Dixie; Joseph Lehman,
Princess; Q. a. Dunlap. Nelson: Q. S.
Mckinney, Eippodrome.
Thursday c. Frame, Dixie: Jos
eph Rysier. Princess; Ira Smith. Mel
son: II. S. Lively ,Hippodrome.
Fr.day-H. II. Rose. Dixie: v. x.
Barnes, Princess; Harry Shaw. Nell
son: James A. Meredith, Hippcdrome.
Saturday-W. NJ. Kennedy. Dixie;
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-03-26

a Swedish physian. DR.. Carl king.
has discovered a serum for scarlet
feve~ which reduces the death rate
from 20 per cent to Il per cent
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-03-26

bc cechs and slovaks allied armies Under tnel
OF
ationai Of hemiat Where home
Czecha nd The struck for their state
Andth flag is ado line
stand they troAsd th-'' i''
md ted their .
the day whe
theH sburgu :
audth 10Y Off e of their throeF5
the red andw Bohemia floats
These men of he race o s1oak and Czech;
of in salut
EacllS stands to lis gun I
More hUore5 by ribbon
hayes by tn
the land of a
Thatth he peop the peoples o"n votes
hereUhe ed and OF Bohemia floats
Land OF all arise
From the might Of suffered TOO ions;
The flag OF ourf shall brighten the skies
Audthe lauS G. children shall break into song
For ne zech though widely tne roam
Hears where home?
Where? How the heart
he reda white hag OF Bohemia floats.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-03-26

Cor Eel11Ela1s 1l4ss.
IsIISiJ,iI = Z elitsteiI tie order.
y ffI6 eertaIarI eeedins Of u
e5yiI,JEiIt ~. z. 9. Fttees 51st1ce O 10 20
1900. tI1s attorney for the defend
mi ~, = Haggerty, fled , motion
@G11fDC 4or the dismissal Of the writ
NO court entered an order ffEtng. the
saus. s
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-03-26

There are in England. France and
Belgium more than 5000 soldiers
yvho have been totally blinded in the
war. and nearly 5000 blinded III
one eye
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-03-26

The first thing to do tt you'Fo going
70 start a war garden TO supply Jour
table with food this year Il 70 sEndy
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-03-26
Fairnaont Lads Get
Basketball Honors

Two Fahmont boys, Raal swiger
and Robert Hawkins were among the
West Virginia University basketball
players who we're presented with bas-
i1etbalI letters az a regular meeting OF
the athletic board held in Morgantown
last night. Those receiving letters
were Capt. Latterner. Rodgers Cut
right. Hawkins. Akin. Dawson, Whet-
zeu and Swiger.
H. l.. MohIer. ParkerSburg: II. H.
Kidd. Hiisboro: +. B. Walker. William
son. ~. Va. were elected assistant
student baseball managers.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-05-02

rect supervision, The corporation
charges each miller per cent Of the
value Of the wheat he grinds to cover
the costs of administering the cor
poration; for the $5o.000,000 capital is
to be returned to the United States
Treasury, unimpaired.
The agreement has its comnensa-
ton, however, for the policy of Uncle
Sam is to provide each mill with all
wheat possible. To do so, every mill
signing up was required to furnish an
estimate of its possible milling capaci-
ty for the season. This nationwide
survey of milling capacities, when bal
anced against the available supply Of
wheat, enables the Grain Corporation
to equallze supplies in way never
done before. In fact, the schedule of
prices arranged for the primary mar
kets had for an object this equaliza-
tion. For instance, If the proprietor
OF an elevator at AIaryvllle, Mo-, 46
miles northeast of st. Joseph, and 456
miles from Chicago. desires to market
wheat he has available these markets:
st. Joseph, NO.; Kansas City, Mo. /;
st. Louis, NO.; Chicago. H., and New
York City, N. Y. To ascertain the
most advantageous price for him, he
would work it out on the basis of the
following table:
From this table you can see what
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-05-02
Depends Larsey Mex. wh.a. Crop

The New York jobber took for his
own, in this case, profit of 80 cents
per barrel He sold part Of this ship
ment to a retail merchant.
This merchant did small business
and was not licensed. but even here
was another social check. For the
retail merchants of the large cities
and those of many small cities and
towns find each morning and after
noon in the daily papers price list
for flour and other commodities which
are considered fair by the Federal
Food Administrator for their State.
These prices are usually arrived at
through the machinery Of the whole
salers' and the retailers organizations.
The retailer also discovered that the
jobber who sold him this flour was
keenly Interested In the prices paid by
The consumer. For The Food Admins
tratlon has discovered an Indirect
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half that of year ago, or 100000, 600
bushels less. 1t was nothing short of
master strategy. s
The total number of bushels pur-
chased by the Grain Corporation from
the time II commenced activities to
February lis 97,276,14559. Arranged
by months, the purchases in bushels
were: September, 7,S41 ,209.20; 0cto-
Der, 19,359646,59; November, 30.aoo,-
0I426; December 21,456, 2I9.06, and
January, 1898, 9680S.
During July and August our -four
exports were about the same as in the
same two months OF 1915, but IN Sep
tcmber, October. and November. the
expectation was so per cent larger
than year ago. So the Grain Cor.
poration has discharged our. obliga.
lions to the allies, and restored our
-four reserves. which Il the larger Ms.
peet Of the question.
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AMERICANS DON I
KNOW IT. LICKED
GERMANS ADMIT YANks ARE A
TOUGH PROPOSITION. 4
100000 HUN CASUALTIES
Such Is Admission Of General schuIze
Before Reiehstsg Committee.
Commander Loses Job. The
Kaiser's Latest Boast

The Hague, April q. German pa
pers reaching here say the Americans
do not know when they are licked. One
report says
Many Americans were killed by ar
thlery fire in the streets of the vii
lage Of Seicheprey, their bodies bar.
ring the way of the advancing German
troops, who had to drive Americans
from houses, gardens and cellars. But
even then the Americans continued
to fight so tenaciously that they were
nearly all killed,
I'm the woods of Rcmiere, nearby a
similar scene occurred Here, too,
there was bitter fighting, man against
man. for the possession or some dug
outs and the American losses are said
to have been extremely light"
All reports agree that the Americans
made the fiercest possible resistance,
although this probably was their first
battle experience.
Two Americans Rescued.
With the American Army in France,
April 27.-Two American soldiers
wounded in the engagement around
,Seicheprey last Saturday were found.
alive today in a dugout Ia No Mans
land erf
The dugout had been badly smash.
ed by German shell fire and how the
men managed to keep alive in the rain
and mud and under continuous Ger
man bombardments physicians say, is
little short of miraculous.
Another soldier, Raymond Demun-
sky of New Haven, Conn, was buried
alive for three days when he crawled
ITO the surface.
The Germans fired on the Red Cross
nag but the stretcher bearers kept
waving it and the enemy fire stopped.
Germans Admit Great Losses.
Amsterdam, April 27.-German loss
es thus far in the war have been 2,000,-I
900 men, according TO a statement
credited by the Frankfurter Zeitung
as having been made by General
Schulze before the main committee of
the German reichstag.
Sick and wounded men to the mum
Der of 100000 had been able to return
TO the front, according to General
Sclfhlzc, while $4,000 had been dis
charged, as unfit for service including
10000 cripples. Up to date, the general
added Germany mad to reckon with
about $4,000 cripples
Commander Loses Job.
Amsterdam, April 27.--ViCe Admiral
Schroeder, the commander at Zee
brugge, according to reports reaching
here, will be deprived OF his command
for being taken by surprise by the
British Tuesday.
The kaiser's Latest Boast.
Amsterdam, April 2i.-''Thc people
who wish TO destroy US are digging
their own graves" said Emperor Will
liam, as quoted in an interview by
Karl Rosner, which the Dusseldorf An
zciger publishes.
The emperor, who was commenting
on the large amount subscribed to the
new war loan, said further:
"Our victories in the field and the
victories of the Germans at home must
make those over yondcr realize that
we cannot be subducd by arms and
economic isolation"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-05-02
DRAW HEAVY FINES.
For Smuggling Huns Pepper, Soap,
Coffee, Pickles, Jam, Etc.

London, April 27.-John llssen, a
carpenter on Swedish ship, was fined
$500 dollars at Hull for concealing 70
pounds of pepper in the vessels cargo
OF coal. OLSEN claimed he wanted
il for preserving fish, but the judge
explained that pepper was in great
demand by the Germans for making
tear shells. Johan lngemarson drew
soc dollar fine for hiding 20 pounds
OF soap and four other members of
the crew got 1875 dollar fines for con-
cealing coffee, pickles, jam and other
commodities.
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the Grain Corporation was making a
large purchase for The Allies and wa'
utilizing its knowledge of available
stocks by having on the job a trans,
portatiOn strategist-Edward Cham.
bers, vice president of the Santa Fe.
Mr. Chambers was assisting the Food
Administration and has q remarkable
"way with him" Even before he was
called to assist Mr.. McAdoo, the Direc,
tor General, his suggestions to,the rail.
roads had wonderful effect in dis.
couraging their hesitancy as to finding
available cars and in clearing up con-
gestions that looked as though they
never could be uncongested.
How Uncle Sam Keeps the Whip
Ease in getting the needed cars was
one of the advantages enjoyed by this
particular elevator after signing the
voluntary agreement which coded to
the Grain Corporation the right TO con-
troll storage and direct shipments and
sales Of all wheat bought by the pro.
prietOr.
While voluntary, this agreement is
almost compulsory since railroads give
priority recognition to Grain Corpora
ton requests for cars; and elevators
or mills outside the official fold must
rustic for themselves. In return the
Government guarantees the elevator
proprietor against losses and protects
him in every way as to price and pays
him rentals for all storage space requi-
sitioned by it.
All elevators, local and terminal,
must take out licenses or face a shut
down. What is the power of the Ii.
cense? 1t requires the operator to lay
all cards on the table as to his bust
ness dealings. For the time of the
war the elevator becomes a public util-
ity and its proprietor must furnish in
formation as to his business at any
time when required by the Grain Cor
poratlon. Each week lie must make
and mail reports showing the amount
OF wheat, rye, or their derivatives, pur-
chased, stored, and shipped.
Under present license terms, the Ii,
censee can keep on hand for only 80
uuy uHicSS Hc oBCAiti pGA-t
nit, any stocks of these grains or
their derivatives. He is also forbid
den to contract for the sale of any
product which can not be delivered
within 80 days after the contract is
made.
How the Wheat Was Milled.
Away went our bushel of wheat on
its journey TO the terminal, where 1t
met other bushels of wheat from all
parts of the territory that fed this
market. There 1t was regarded for
special requirements. marked for Inn
mediate milling and rolled on to a
large mill In Illinois. The miller
bought the wheat from the Grain Cor
poration, for each miller in the Unit
ed States is under license also, and
most of them have filed out another
voluntary agreement which binds them
either 60 purchase all supplies from
the Grain Corporation or under its d.
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About the same. time our cooperative
elevator manager had listed shipment
with his terminal representative
highly reputable commission firm, also
under Grain Corporation license. This
firm caught wind 81 file Georgia order
and secured permission to sell the Mis-
souri, wheat. The second bushel was
among those poured into car and
hustled along to its destination. This
shipment did not pass through any
terminal market. 1t moved straight
to Atlanta, where it went between the
rollers Of the MILL r..
Controlling the Jobber by License.
Now, the flour which came from our
second bushel of wheat was rolling
serenely along in another direction,
but the car was diverted by special or
der of the q. S. Food Administrator
and received by large wholesale job
Der In New York City. This jobber
also does business under asFood Ad.
ministration license, but administered
by the distribution division. Under IL
cense terms the jobbers must sell at
a fair profit only, although the exact
amount of this profit is not determin-
ed, the Food Administration reserving
the right in each case to call halt
when licensee has gone 1.-THE limit"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-05-02
COUNCIL is SUMMONED.
Mayor, Commissioners and Police
Heads Are Called to Testify,

Ottumwa, April 27.-The grand jury
which has been holding its second ses.
sion within the past four weeks since
Monday afternoon, probably will COM
plete its work today. The witnesses
before the grand Jury included the
mayer, and two city commissioners.
Acting Chief of Police Noah was heard
during the session three weeks ago
and John w. Gray, who resigned re-
Gently as PLATA clothes office OF the
police force was among those sub
poenaed before leaving the city's SER
vice.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-05-02

Under these conditions the proprietor
would probably sell at st. Joseph or
Chicago, according to his inclination.
The table further illustrates the
equalization of prices and indicates to
what extent the miller is protected
when buying wheat in any territory.
Through this plan determinations
against the producer, the miller, aud
the consumer are eliminated so far as
it seems humanity possible under a
plan of such tremendous proportions.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-05-02

means of control of the retailer by
making the jobber a voluntary police
man to his customer. The jobber is
licensed to sell only TO traders who
deal fairly, and If it should turn out
that jobber persists in doing bust
ness with retailers guilty of profiteer-
ing in staples under control the Food
Administration has and may exercise
the right to revoke the license of the
jobber.
The other part Of this shipment con-
tanned our second bushel of wheat and
went over to the East Side into small
bakery, which quickly made It into
creamy loaves. These loaves were
placed in groceries and delicatessens
and tho next day were eaten by hum
CRY little boys and girls with dark
eyes and big noses and quaint ways.
Brings Out Startling Truths.
Government control has brought out
these startling truths:
More people unnecessarily make
their living out of wheat distribution
than was suspected. Thousands and
thousands of little spectators have
had to turn elsewhere for livelihood.
A number of commission men have
had to close shop. There are places
where elevators should be built and
other places where there are too many
elevators. The Government dominant
ing the wheat market, carries its own
marine insurance. Wheat handlers at
terminals have had their activities re-
stricted.
But most of all It is interesting TO
see how the price of -four per barrel
tumbled from the time Uncle Sam took
positive hand in the matter. The
Food Administration has recently COM
pleted an interesting chart on the
prices of wheat and bulk -four Mt Min
neapolis. In statement of Novem-
Der &c, the Food Administration says:
The farmer received for the 1915 har-
vest between $1.45 and 81 20 per bushei
for the harvest, taking the country by
large and .. Last year he received
under 20 per cent Of the price of the loaf.
Today he is receiving over 40 per cent of
the money paid for the cash loaf. this
being the result of the Sterilization of
prices and the total elimination OF hoard
ing and speculation in this industry.
The statement reports that farmers
on November &c were receiving with
freight charges included from the ter
ritory' represented TO Minneapolis, APP
proximately $3.50 for Az bushels of
wheat The price Of bulk flour at the
Minneapolis mill is about $1025 per
barrel showing that the miller is now
receiving about 70 cents per barrel,
which must include both his operating
expenses and profit.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-05-02
Aged Man is Stricken.

Byron Martin, an old time resident
living east of town was stricken
with apoplexy or overcome by heart
trouble at the Pennington restaurant
ZIG High avenue west. a little after
one CLOCK this afternoon. He was
taken TO the Mahaska Hospital in an
apparently dying condition.
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period in 1916. in September, October
Of the Food Administration, -four pro-
duction was Ia per cent of the same
period in 1916. What this means in the
great national situation, with depleted
domestic flour reserves and clamoring
foreign buyers, can hardly be over.
emphasized, when movement of wheat
into primary markets has been hardly
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-05-02

market. They also tend to correct
many abuses prevalent in the past,
such as cutthroat methods adopted by
mills to secure supplies and indiscrimi-
nate moving of wheat to terminals.
For all practical purposes the wheat
business of the country is apportioned,
and whenever possible mills are sup
piled from wheat in the territory near
est them. This policy has for an OBJ
ject the saving of waste in transport
tation. In another way saving is
made: Formerly large quantities OF
undergrade wheats have been difficult
TO dispose of on account of unco-ordi-
mated purchase Of the competing mills;
but under Uncle Sans domination
each bushel of wheat must now go
somewhere and. the poorer wheat viii
move just as freely as the more de-
sirable grades.
Limiting Millers' Profits.
The Illinois miller who received the
carlot containing our bushel OF wheat
milled 1t promptly and shipped its -four
TO a port for expectation. The miller
was permitted by the Food Admins
tration to make fair profit, not ex-
ceeding a maximum of % cents per
bawel on the flour and'a maximum
profit of 80 cents per ton on the feed
stunts left over. All mills, however
must furnish at regular intervals 10
the Milling Division full statements OF
manufacturing costs. which are scru-
tinized carefully. The derivatives Of
this wheat the miller sold for domes.
tic consumption, as the policy OF the
Government Is TO keep In the United
States aliayailuble feeslstlli's D.arder
10 encourage livestock produe ton.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-05-02

BOUT % days after the
farmer brought in his
wheat there came a re-
quest to this elevator for
a carload to be purchas-
ed by the Grain Corpora
ton. So one of our
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-05-02

HESE schedules arrang.
ed for the various
markets are veritable
price dams" to pre-
vent the overlooking
of the stream of
wheat at any single
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-05-02

by Earl Caddock who toyed with the
kentuckian and then downed him in
straight falls. A head scissors decided
the first fall in :06 and double wrist
lock in the second fall in :02.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-05-02

wheat bushels was poured into car
which miraculously had appeared on
the siding at time when car shortage
was troubling the entire commercial
world. Inquiry might have shown that
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-05-02
Killed In Action.

Ames. April 27,-Sergeant Harry T..
Corbin OF Ames was killed in action
April 20, according to a war depart
ment message received bys his father
II. II, Corbin. lelsh XII
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-05-02

RING last July and Au-
gust, While Congress was
wrestling with itself to
produce a food admins
tration, and there Was
no, Grain Corporation,
flour production in the
principal centers was IS
per cent under the same
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-05-02

NV as to the other bushel
of wheat. IA certain
Georgia miller, in need
of supplies. notified the
Grain Corporation and
received permission to
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