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bel vas Dicks vie but that didn't
happen TO help DICK any N this IL
stance.
She laughed. and when Mrs.. Ma
bel laughs i j. ir-es sti5le. We'll.
I guess we Glenn forgot that Cam
bridge rasn't tho center Of the earth.
she said And il wasn't any farther
hacI, than OR own dag when tho
Blue wGs treating Us 3s We are treat
ing them. You don't forget Chase,
do yor, bows
It was Dick who took TIE cue and
threw himself hcroic2Ny into the
breach 10 Ter support
Forget Joe Chase ! reckon not.
No Harvard man OF our time Is like
u 20 do that. lie hs1t US for Two
Years with a poor clever behind him.
so. We weren't forgetting Joe
Chase
vel. continued 1irs. .IaT:eI. i
;'.aE Deu knows even N-5!e more
a6ous Yale and ole Chase than the
rest @. Us. How about it,
Al eyes were t.r2cd i1qa.:iE5ly on
we we're TO have been married"
she said simply
I saw Mrs. Mabel color to the ear
tips She had meant to join hands
and lead US all adroirly out Of dan
geroUS stanton only UnwittinS!y 10
plunge US over a pcecip;ce.
Dell alone was undiSturDed.
Father ard mother had picked out
the man they wa2Jnd n" to marry.
ana i wasn't Joe Chase. He had
more money and therefore more so
ciaI standing than Joe. Father did
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.5od after 4 series of inglorious at
fempts 10 inyeigie him into CONVERSE
tor, III bagl nto think there IS
something in that old Indian legend
after all and that joe is conspi-inG
10 ship us all home minus our hair"
Despairing ct length OF story
from Joe. which We mad come to ar
ticipa;e as part of che regular eve
ming program, we turned back TO the
papers which the ladies had brought
win them. now several days old.
IL was Iail and the annual Na:a
Harvard football battle was only =
few weeks distant. The papers were
full OF it
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more. Miss HAZEL CHUBBUCK
Potterville, Penn.
Thousands of women drag along from
day to day in Just such miserable con-
dition as was Mrs. Chubbuck, or suffer-
ing from displacements, irregularities,
Inflammation, liberation, backache, nde-
bites"
Such women should profit by Mrs.
Chubbuck' s experience and try this
famous root and herb remedy, Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and
find relief from their sufferings as she
did
For special suggestions IN regard to
your ailment write Lydia E Pinkham
Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass The result
Gifts long experience IS your service.
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Newspaper Syndicate)
N n OUNTAIN House Jose he was
MI called. II It was an exclusive
~ bit of scenery You wanted. an
exceptionally fine trout or deer IN
season Mountain House Joe would
see that you got it.
He was like any one or hundred
other Adirondack guides-and diner.
ent. Just where the likeness left OF
and the difference. began il was hard
{ to tell It wasn't in his clothes; pos
si,Iv the way he carried thcu haa
something TO do with it. II wash
IN his talk, although the native Tocab.
uIary had been considerably weedci
and fertilfzed Perhaps II was be-
cause he was so everlastingiy clean
about camp and didn't begin 20 ShirE
once ne had got you into the woods
Moreover. ne did things as though
his head wasn't used solely as an or
nSmen:. Sitting around the camp
FIRE al right. you somehow rad tire
feeling thet the man loUnging = liz
tie apart from the rest was at bot.
I0Tn as MICH a gentleman as am OF
you. Whatever TIC reason. NoUrta:"
iIou=c joe vas considered the most
popular guide IN the mountrins-
y OI.c night in the rugged denies OF
indian Pass he gave n the inst res
peep beneath the crust. We wcr"
looking away over ? score o: DARK
CHING mountain peaks 70 where
!, .Nyhfteface reared its lofty head. still
strongly etched against the northern
SKY.
How sings Horace?-'mundi moles
opercsa'-the cartwright mass Of the
worldI I wonder what the old Ro
man would say if Sle could look upon
q sight such as this?'
It was Lieutenant Golden who
Joe. squatting on his heels by tie
fire where he was preparing the eve
ming meal turned his head abruptly
''If he were modest he would say
tfGt you had just given him credit
( Tor What E.ii!SSSc tfEsiy belongs 10 O"iG.
4 The temptation had proved too pro
2yoking and our cook OF many mer
~ excursion had suddenly become
scholar OF the classics. But straight
way he was Mountain House ice
again and no amount of urging on our
part could complete the netamor-
we were to stay in the Pass a
) week. when the ladies' were to join
us fo- another before we turned to
The day they arrived Joe and 7
were out on foTaSiAS SHpeuitloI
from which we did not return until
after dusk. we could hear their vo:-
ces. sounding peculiarly sweet in that
wild spot. as We approached the
camp. At tEe edge OF the clearing
pressed forward to greet them. and
2 moment later turned with -four
tich to introduce Mountain House
Zoe. the best guide in the Noun
sains.
Mountain House Joe was nowhere
On the landscape.
Some five minutes afterward I saw
him come up under cover Of the
aoke. carrying large armful Of
fre%ood for which there was no ear
THY reed.
Joe was a man who knew dis place
and always kept i. but tonight his
efforts to keep aIoof were so bald 50
unlike himself and almost di5coGrte-
Gus that the situation at times he
came rather embarrassing. We tried
to pass It of on the charge Of bash
Guinness, but I had my doubts.
What the deuce IS the matter with
the fellow" whispered Charlie cs-
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MOTHER GAVE
This DELICATE
Child VINOL
and He Got Well and Strong.
That's True.

Monaco. Pa.-''My little boy, who is
the youngest of three, was weak.
nervous and tired all the time. 50 lie
was most unfit at school, and moth
ing seemed to help him. learned
of Viiol and gave it to him. 1t has
restored his health and strength and
he has gained in weight. Mrs.
Frederick Sommers. Monaco, Pa
Eiuol is constitutional cod liver
and iron remedy for delicate, weak
ail!ng children. Formula on every
bottle. so you know what you are
giving them. Children love it.
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To the women of Fairnont:

n AY by day and hour by hour, the work room at
y Red Cross headquarters calls you. The German
army will not delay an attack to wait till you get ready
supplies for those whom hopes to destroy No. rath-
it is capable hoping to crush before we are ready
Let our nation never say that Our women did not re-
spond when needed. We must have hospital supplies
ready and waiting. Have you done your bit today?
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From California.

Thomas E. Snider of Stockton. Cal,
who is visiting relatives and friends
in Fairmont was the guest OF DR.. E.
NJ. Cox in Merchant street yesterday.
This is Mr.. Snider's first visit here
in thirty FIVE years.
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EAST SIDE
- NEWS -
Diamond Street CHURCH.

Cottage prayer meeting will be held
by the members OF the Diamond
Street NJ. E. church at the home OF
Or. ana AIrs. E. NJ. Cox in Merchant
street tuesday afternoon at 2:G1
o'clock. The Foreign Missionary So
cieties both the Young ladies' societT
and the auxiliary viii have a joint
meeting at the parsonage on Tuesday
aEtay1,0O0
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Conc ID MoraantoWn.

Rev. c. c. Lawson the pastor Of
First NJ. P. church in this city went
TO Morgantowu today to assist in re
vivaI services at the NJ. P. church
there during the work.
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Nis,ted Aunt.
a.teuoon.

Misses Jessie and Lillian Morris
vent 10 Snirrston yesterday ant
spent the day with their auEt, Nrs
sara CaTd5r.
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ana was SO WeaA
from my t trouble
that / could not dc
any lifting or hard
work of any kind
If I tried to straigh.
ten out when lying
down it seemed as
though something
would tear loose.
Lydia E. Pinkham'i
Vege table Com
pound has restored
my health and / am
quite myself once
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HGULT

As a result OF the disastrous ez-
pIosion which COMPLETELY destroyed
one building o. the Black Powder
Line of NfonongaheIa Powder company
al Reta. near here. the company has
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At Carpenters.

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hawkins OF
Piney Run, Mrs. Cassie Fortney OF
Colfax. and Mack Vincent Of Viola.
were guests of SIR. and Mrs. Joseph
Carpenter N Diamond street yester-
day.
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Meet 20 Practice.

The Farmers Sons Chorus viii meet
Tuesday evening for practice. Each
mmber OF the chorus is expected TO
be present.
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Grnsts a. nr. and Mrs. g. Ia. Cex.

Harold Howell and sister. Miss
Eva Howell of Phili7pi and Miss
Violet holland ,of Davis we're visitors
at the home of DR.. and Mrs. E. NJ.
Cox i'll Merchant street Sunday.
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ternoon at the churhch The members
are all urged TO be present.
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Aid Society.

The Aid society OF the First " P.
church will meet on Wednesday at
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SICK WOMAN
now WELL
Took Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Read Her Letter.

Potterville, Pa.-'E For long timt
l was bothered with pains IN my side,
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Dizzy? Bilious? Constipoted?
DR.. King neville Pills causea healthy
Cow Of Bile and rids your Stomach
and Bowels Of waste and fcrmentiag
body poisons. They are a Tonic to
your Stomach and Liver and tone the
general system. First dose relieves.
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The DAILY
sSHORT STORY
Maintain House Joe.
6T LEON W. DEAN.

Copyright, 1913, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate)
n n OUNTAIE House Jose he was
WI called II IL was an eXc!usiye
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WINFIELD.

Quite . large crowd attended the
party at william MoTleys Saturday
night last All reported 4 good time.
Miss Vista Hal. OF MorgantoWn. il
now spending few days with hei
father, T. r. Hall.
Miss Ruth Morley, OF Fairmont
spent Saturday and Sunday with her
grand parents Mr.. ana Mrs. W. A.
Morley
Those at n l. Hawkins Sunday
were Mr.. and Mrs. D. c. Baker and
daughter, Rachel. Misses Grace and
Virginia Malotte, Lena Rogers. Mary
Sigler, Edna Swisher and Lesley Sat.
terrified.
Mr. and Mrs Arthur Layman and
TWO daughters weer calling on the lat
ter'S parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Tat,erson's Sunday last.
Miss Amy satterfield Spen, Satur.
Gay and Sunday with her sister. Mrs.
Fay McDougal, OF Fairmont.
Misses Blanche and Lola Baker
wero calling or Dorothy and Mamie
Baker last Sunday.
Miss Ruth ClingWn, who had spent
the past two weeks visiting her grand.
father, Frank Swisher, has returned
to her home at Grafton.
Mr and Mrs. Enos Hall were call.
ing en- the formers father Tuesday
eveAing Of this week.
Those calling az d. c. Bakers Non.
day evening last we're Misses Wilma
and Opal Hawkins, Edna Swlsher and
Mr., Coy Moore
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Senator Roy Parrish
Killed in Action

Fa'rmCn.ars have learned with deep
regret Of the death OF L.etu. Roy f.
"st-isr. Str'e Senator OF Clark bur
VINO was kI..l ia ACTON on July ~
I'D France. according ~ a mo sage re
caiyoI by his father r. j. Parish. IT,
Clark.0urg
Lieut. Parish. or as he Is more T.
military known, Senator Parrish. W.
commissioned d FIRST Lieutenant i'm n.
first officers training camp al To-
Ben Harrison and left for France ir
the fall OF lest y53r. lie was age
IS years and had the distinction o
being the Youngest Senator in th0
Legislature Tie was elected a mem
Der Of the House OF Delegates ar tF.
age OF years and two years late
was made senator lie missed Gle.
ton as President Of the Senate by ia
one vote, when IL elected he was o..
young TO have filled the Office OF gov
ernor had the emergency arisen. lie
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ASTONISHFD
RHEUNATICS
MOST JOYOUS
u over the Country, They Are
Recommending "Neutrone
Prescription co."

"NeutrOnO Prescription %" IN a few
aye will permanently timber up and
0moVo oil aches and pains that none
Eeept . rheumatic suffers. The most
kePtical persons have at once be.
ONE its Warmest endorsers.
As . relieved patient expressed II.
You can distinctly feel a nodifica.
lon Ct stiffness in your Joints and
! luscles."
"HOutronO Prescription 80" acts IN a
lysterious manner that is almost un.
'elieVable, when in fact Il immedi.
tely relieves the most obstinate cases
{ EfeumatiSm.
Are you troubled with rheumatism?
yOu are "Neutrone Prescription SO"
Sill cure you, yes cure you.
Go 10 your druggist and say good.
I'VE rheumatism. Mall orders filled
. 800 size,
Mountain City Drug Co. and lead.
: druggists everywhere
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Stationary Firsmen-The Information
al Brotherhood Of Stationary Fire.
men and oilers meets in the Jacobs
building. third floor. every Thursday
evening at 1880 o'clock. President.
Reno Fleming; secretary, John Coll.
well, Locust avenue, near Fourth.
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\ Q. .. W-MOol0 On TIE second and
fourth Monday IN each month. :. a.
Klnkead. Rec; w. A. CroWL Rep. @.
Lodge. Degree OF Honor. auxiliary to
the A. o. U. w., meets first and fourth
Monday OF each month. Mrs. A. p.
Jones, Lady Chief OF Honor.
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Unkultured.

"You think the war will benefit hu.
na1.tvs'
"lt has already proved relief 10
me" replied Mr. Cumro1 Mother
and the girls no longer insist on my
pretending that ! like WagnerIan mu.
'c."-W Washington Star.
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SEVEN MORE GOING
TO THE university
They viii BE Trained There
For Special Service
In Army.

Seven men from Fairmont will re.
port 10 the West Virginia University
al MorClatown on August 10. where
they will receive a course OF training
fitting them for special service "at
the front and behind the lines The
call is number 1916 for men 10 take
training as auto mechanics, bench
wood workmen, blacksmi'hs. e,ec,ri-
cias, mechanics, pipe filters, radio
operators, sheet metal workers, tele-
phone operators and welders.
Yesterday the local draft board
named the following men who will en-
train with the contingent:
Old Reo5trantS.
1894 George d. Schwarm. On;
1896 Hugh Jennings Hood.
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/. The sugar allowance Of a half
bound a week per person is small, but
u course am, candies and other
IWeets may be bought. Jam and
cheese may be rationed next.
Fish iS plentiful and prices are con.
trolled, thought It Is not rationed.
lDggS are plentiful, too, and require no
coupons.
D Food prices IN Britain, and through.
out Europe, are high. But high pri.
-, - well IS high wages, come with
var. The point Is that government
control IN Britain checked the rapid,
teady advance for the first time dur
ING the war and has had a remarkable
tablliElng effect.
Prices on some articles are higher
han IN America and on others are
eoWer. Il should be borne in mind,
too, that the whole price and wage
B ieale generally in Britain, was before
be war, and still Is, lower than in the
United States.
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Ladies' Auxiliary Of the Bro,herhood
Of r. r. Tralnmen. Meets IN the
Modern Woodmen Of America Hall in
the Skinner Building the second and
fourth Thursdays OF each month at .
o'cllck. Minnie Hovatter, Pres, Maud
Hagcr Secretary.
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/. o. o. - Marion Lodge No. II.

!. o. o. :. Marion Lodge No. II.
Meets every Tuesday in Odd EelloWs
ell meets every Monday in old Ma
sonic Hall. corner Main and Madison
streets. James T. Murphy. recording
Hall. ". S. Pitzer. Sec. Palat.ne
Ledge No. 81. Meets every WedLes-
day evening at 1880 o'clock in Od1 Eel
lows Han. corner Main and Monroe
streets. Il. ". Stoueking. Secy. Noun
tain City Encoupment No. 5. Meets
in Odd Fellows Hall on the first and
third Fridays Of each m1nth G. X.
Riggle, Scribe. Patriarchs MilitaH
Meets in odd Fellows Hall Thursday
evenings. J. c. Glasscock Captain:
w. s. Pitzer, Clerk.
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haSoni5-Fairmont Lodge No. 3 Meets
IN Masonic Temple first ana third
Mondays in each month. Francis T.
Nichols, Sec. Orient Chapter No. 8. r
A. NJ. Meets in Masonic Temple sec.
end Monday Of each month. Francis
F. Nichols. Sec. Crusade Commau0cry
No. s, X. T. Meets in Masonic Temple
every fourth Monday. Francis r
Nichols. Sec Fairmout Chapter No
"a. o. +. S. Meets IN Masonic Temple
first and third Thursday. Helen Elem.
ing. Sec.
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LIbrary AsGoelatIon-The Board of ni

library ASSoeIatIon-The Board OF ID
rectors OF the Fairmont Public Ii.
trary Association meets IN the Library
Parlor the first Monday evening Of
each month at 1880 o'clock. The Off.
GERS are: President. Mrs. n r. &.
Morrow; vice president, Mrs George
DeBolt; secretary and treasurer. Mrs.
). Walter Barnes. Other members Of
the board are: Mrs. Jennie Engle. Mrs.
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The Protected Home cIFeIO-FaiTmont
Circle No. SIC. Meets every Mon
day evening at 1850 In the Maecabee'S
hall, Main street
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You advertise all the comforts Of
home
Yes replied Farmer Corntossel.
III most Of these folks had comforta.
bic homes in the first place they
wouldn't be here. Washington Star.
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Daughters OF Rsbekah-West Virginia
Lodge No 81. Meets every Monday
night at 1890 O'Clock at Odd Fellows
Hall.
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The Herts (England) war agrlcul.
-ure committee has started a library
81 ietion for girls working on the
iaFms.
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Officers on United States coasting
vessels have been granted a Is per
cent. war risk bonus on account OF
Uboat raids.
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ProHreSO.

I've q giFl IN Buffalo;
She's q sufragette, you know,
AZ 4 lady she began.
Now she's quite a gentleman.
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yas a leader in political circles and
. q young man on splendid person
r he was a graduate OF both the
~. T.. and W Va. Wesleyan.
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Modern WoodmOn Of Am0FIea-Whit

Modern WeodmOn % AmeFlea-WhitO
Camp No. 5473, Modern Woodmen
Of America. Meets every Friday even.
ing at their hall in the Skinner Bldg.
/ r. Leigh Fleming, clerk. Modern Wood
men Of America MonongahelS Camp,
No. 1867. Meets every Monday, 1850
.. n. Hall on Merchant St. Ralph
Courtney, clerk.
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!. o. Of r. M.-aettlnG Sun Tribe No
l6. Meets each Thufstay evening
ct Red Mems Hall, First ward II
Ernest Hawkins, X. OF r., ISIS State
street. First ward Noneta Council
70. 6, Degree Of Pocahontas Meets
every Friday evening at Red Mems
Fall. First ward.
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Brotherhood Railway TrAInmSn-o. C.
Willis, president; E. D. Holden, sec.
Rotary. Meets second Sunday Of each
month ct 1880 p. m. and last Sunday
Of each month at 1880 p. M. In the Req
Mems hall.
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Loyal order Of MeoOO - Fairmont
Lodge No. 3. Meets every WedneS.
day evening at 1880 p. N. In Moose
hall on Jefferson street Ray D. Har.
den, Sec'y.
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q p. o. E.-Fairmont Lodge No. 2St,
ct 1880 o'clock. Charles D. Barry, Sec,
! SO High street
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Ladies Of Modern Maeeabees - Dent
Hive No. 1853. Ladies Of the Modern
Maccabees. Meets the first and ;hirI
Fridays OF each month in X. Of p. han.
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lRITAIU STOPPED
.HlGH COST Of FOOD
Control Also Provided Fair
Distribution of All
FOOdstuffs.
BY HAROLD EDWIN sESHToL,
egsepean Manager Of the Newspaper
Enterprise Assoeiaton.


LONDON. England, AugS-Undei
the combination Of broad goyernmeI.
food price control and government "a.
.t'ohlng. not only the food supply bI'
also the food price situation is more
satisfsctry in the United Kingdom
now than for months.
Ratloning ha- provided sbsO.u'oly
fair d.str'butlcu-has mf1c 20 possible
fcs 81 consumers 10 get 0aot taeg
IL
,.ssnmsnt price control tss check
.; t'> r2p.i, E,eady advance ia pr.c-'
fcf first time since tho opening
a.. Esr, ami combined With the ra
i;l system has stabilized prices 20 O..
=. a measure.
,'fce c5-,.0l started In Ma, 1917.
cal ceaj'ru-d, spreading ou' % TAX,
, n more and more products, unal Ee.
CENTER, 1917, when Il had provide :
a 1xl.num whcle-a,, and r''2il pic g
for wheat o. the principal articles Of
icod.
Then early in 1918. raHoaiHg wa
appllsd. and Il has likewise spread &C.
, Us sucetss was demonstrated, ard ia
still likely % pread
Beaches Peak in 1917.
The general" food price curve We.
up steadily after war was declare =
reaching rs peak OF over 100 per cent
! Increase over the July, 1914 prize" %
\ three years. or in July, 1917 Then.
y as price control was slapped on, not
only was the soaring stopped, bat
there was . sharp drop, and as tie
control spread, 1918 found prices low
o. and more stable. Bread came
shooting down and has stayed down
] Some other prices have gone NJ
again, particularly meat on which i'm
Port prices are beyond the scope OF
I government control. Dairy products
have also gone up recently.
4 This has carried the general food
I price upward again, since the first OF
1913, but by no means at the rate OF
advance before price control was in
.trOduced.
The general British food price av
! eFage At the end OF June. 1918, IS Of
fleially placed by the government Min
istry OF Food, at los per cent higher
than the average for July, 1914.
However, the Food Ministry claims
that lowing 10 alterations in the die
taTy. actual expenditure on food pei
head Of the population has not in
I creased TO nearly the same extent
IS indicated by the 10S per cent.
Allowing for changes in food. sub
stitution Of one food for another high
priced one, the Food Ministry esti
mates the actual increase in the cos
'Oi food per person at about 30 percent
above the July, 1914, average.
The General Increase.
Here are the most recent available
official figures on the general average
increase Of food prices since July
EdSlt:
Italy, FEB, 1918 ,, l53 percent
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Commercial Travellers - Fairmont
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fRATERNAL NOTICES

Order Of owlS-Fairmont Lodge No
1922. Meets every Thursday N old
*. Of P. Hall, Mckinney Bldg. ". Il.
Randolph, Sec'Z.
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knights Of the Golden Eagle - Mus.
grave Hall. Meets every second ana
fourth Thursday Of each month. J. L.
Shackelford, Master OF Records.
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Marion Co. Medical Soelsty-MeetS
last Friday Of each month In the
Fleming Bldge. President, Dr.. L. c.
Holland; vice president. DR.. L. D. Ho-
ward; recretary. DR.. H. r. Johnson;
treasurer, DR.. W. H. Sands; board Of
CensorS, Drs. L. N. YoSt, ]. E. Ofiner.
VIM. F. Boyers: delegates 10 West
Virginia State Medical Association,
DFs. H. H. Carr. A. L. Peters: alter.
mates, DTS. 2. P. Smith, G. W. Wad-
dell.