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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-04-15
Write Sunny
Letters to The
Boys in Camp
lRv Associated Pressl

CHARLESTON, April l5--In a
signed article written for the press
Of the sttae Governor John J.
Cornweu has appealed TO the moth
ers OF soldiers in West Virginia to
write sunshine and not tears in:o
their letters TO the boys in camp
and over there.
81 appeal 10 the people OF West
Virginia" The governor wrote -
flood the camps and later the
trenches with sunshine. Tn . boys
need II as badly as they need theiI
food
Don't exaggerate illnesses at
home and invest the boys with hope
that they can get furIouShs.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-04-15
Place Service Flag
In a Restaurant

AS a fitting remembrance to the
boys who ~e=.s TO tie front I silk scr
ice flag hangs over the rear
:Abic q: The wh::c Cloud re -,
: - ir l.cG-r e y. :. p2ce..;sJ'7- =
y. Duaslt!ssa ard &. =. .:or'ne-i.
10 r-c-s members :: 4 sToup II d.
c=s AZ .be = t:::,'l:::. vi OF lie
,s,.G: men aye c3Lr .:cd VIII, Tao
CON o!!G%;ed coal tcn1F&rT ".E-c
,,-cc. RE. .o:-e; IL" ;;o,oES G'..5:S
re winter Nut TIC flag vas only ca
III e:I GG..ES ting oass tev- dsys.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-04-15
TONY sIMpsIc DIES.

Tony Simpsic. @4ged Al, a Slavish
miner residing at Chieftor. died this
morning at three o'clock at his home
The funeral will take place tomorro" =
morning at $3.50 o'clock from the Pol
ish Catholic church at Norontlh and
interment will be made there by Tn
dertaker r. =. Cun1in CHAM.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-04-15
Odd Fellows Busy
With Work This Wee s

Odd Fellows Of the city win be
ticularly active during this week e
morrow evening Marion Lodge
confer the second degree upon
candidates. On wednesday even
Palatire Lodge will confer the seeon
degree upon five candidates ana
FRIDAY evening the Golden RILe ~
gree will be conferred upon eight g =
didates.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-04-15
FALSE ALARM.

The central tire station answered a
call at : O'Clock yesterday morning
on Jackson street 4 gasoline engine
in the repair shop operated by Jack
liner was not working properly and
instead OF the smoke going uo through
the chimney 1t came out into the room
and was coming from beneath the
door OF the room at the time the fire
alarm was PIT in.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-04-15
BRITISH WITHSTAND SEVEN GERMAN ATTACKS
Loan Figures
Are Nearing
First Billion
OBJ Associated Press)

WASHINGTON. April 15.-I-io.
erey loan subscriptions tab1latsd
today at the Treasury showed a to-
tai OF $780, $50 which is 81 nil
lion more than was reported Sat
This did not include reports
from Minneapolis which started It's
campaign today.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-04-15
Lieutenant Pollock Made
Good First Time He
Went Up
TEST Was A REAL ONE TOO
First Of a Series of Articles
by the Empey of the
Air.
av LIEUT.. GRANVILLE A. POLLOCK
American AHEaeor in the Lafayette
Flying Corps, Freneh For
Zion 1 eSion


eian Legion.
Copyright 1915, by the Newspaper
Enterprise Assocfation.)
Though smiled, / was really lit
tie scared wnen the time at last came
for my first fight with German air
would you care to so over the
lines 70 protect a small two-seater?'
vas the polite invitation Of Captain
Jean Derode the second day was at
the front.
VERY well. get ready
This was July Il, last year. l had
Just finished my ;ioiIirE and MAD
been assigned 70 Squadron \. TO-
which was then acting as Ecradrille
d'Arme to the French First Army in
Flanders. was the only American
in the squadron of 10.
Our camp vas on the Belgian from
tier. vest OF Dixmude. We we're on
the Belgian right and the British LETT
The allies we're preparing FOR the big
drive UP the Belgian coast to clean up
she submarine bases at Osteod and
Zeebrugse. Squadron \. I02. whose
insignia was a dragon, was engaged
in photo-reconnaisance of a very elab'
crate and important nature. S.uf OF a
kind never before attempted. We had
the best cameras in any army, and the
best machines.
I had been given single scatter
Continued on Page FEM
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-04-15
COUNT GZERHIN
RESIGNS HIS
CABINET POST
Gemenceau's Revelations
Cause Downfall of Aus
trian Foreign Minister

AMSTERDAM. April 15-Count
Czernin. the Austro Hungarian foreign
minister. according to a dispatch from
Vienna has resigned.
Emperor Charles accepted the res
ignation and entrusted Count Czernin
with the conduct OF foreign affairs IN
til his successor is appointed.
An Official statement received here
today from Vienna asserts that the
latest statements OF the French Pre-
mier ". Clemenceau. concerning the
conversation between Austria and
France regarding the possibility OF
opening peace negotiations do not
alter the situation as regards the ma
jority OF Count Czernin's declarations.
The Austrian foreign ministry the
statement says. IS unable to ascertain
who was responsible for the deliver
ing to the French Of what is said to
have been a forged letter substituted
for the letter which was to have been
delivered. Neither Prince Sixtus whose
character is beyond a suspicion, nor
apv one else is accused OF talslhca'
ton. continues the statement who n
concludes: The atfair Is herewith de-
ciared to be at an end"
The recent publication by the French
government OF the futile peace appeal
sent out by Emperor Charles OF AUS
tria Hungary in March 1917 and TIE
effort OF the Emperor and the Austro
Hungarian foreign office to explain
this letter to the satisfaction OF Ger
many and the German emperor PROD
ably were the most potent influence ~
bringing about the resignation OF
Count Czernin.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-04-15

FEtaiIsies in.re"se,
Aa increase U: 81 rev coz; il cca-!
rr..::e f:,iel.t:es dt;r!af- t3!. - cci's'
Jzscti w::h 49,: Is shown IN Il puo-
I.cStiou s&st issue. BY tfo Bureau OF
tccaI.f:.:eu ca .@sc -!
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
Hawaiian Island Has More
Than 43 Feet of Rainfall

The reputation of being the rainiest
place in the world has long been en-
joyed by the hill station Cherrapunji,
on the slope of the Himilaya, in As
sam. The latest official value, based
on a 40-year record at the Cherrapunji
station, is 426 inches per annum. Blan-
ford, the well-known authority on In
dian meteorolOgy, thought that the
mean in some places at Cherrapunji
exceeded 500 inches, but nowhere
amounted to 600 inches. So far as
actual records go the rainfall on the
Indian station is surpassed by that re-
Gently reported by d. III. Campbell of
Stanford university, at Waialeale, in
the island of Kauai, Hawaii. During
the years 1926, inclusive, the Ha-
waiian station, which is 5.075 feet
above sea level, recorded the aStoniSh-
ing mean annual rainfall of 51S inches,
or more than 43 feet.
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
Eat More Chicken
Utilize Part of the Poultry
Increase to Supply Meat
for the Home Table

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
As a matter of business foresight
and economy, as well as of patriotism,
farmers who increase their production
of poultry and eggs this year should
plan to use a considerable part of the
increase on their own tables. Much
of the benefit of increasing the supply
of products capable of very rapid in
crease, but perishable and bulky, will
be lost if producers adopt the policy
of marketing all the increase. In that
case there would be no substitution
on the farm of poultry products for
the cured and compact meats which it
Is desired to reserve as far as possible
for military use and shipment to the
allies.
Many farm families could easily use
several times as much poultry as is
now consumed on the average farm.
Analysis of the figures of the last CEN
sus shows very light consumption of
poultry and eggs on the average farm.
For the whole country the average
yearly consumption Of eggs per farm
is only 1875 dozen-2.6 dozen per
week; Of poultry, 60 head-or one
bird every six days. The highest aver
age consumption of eggs in any state
is pip dozen-four dozen a week.
The highest average consumption of
poultry in a state is 124.6 head-one
bird in % days. Such averages indi-
cate that farmers who use poultry and
eggs freely on their own tables use
from six to ten dozen eggs and four to
six head of poultry weekly. In view
of the extent to which large f1ocks can
be made self-sustaining during the
greater part of the year on most farms,
this liberal scale of consumption of
poultry products would seem practical
generally.
The consumption of eggs on farms
may be greatly increased and farmers
still receive the benefit of good prices
for fresh eggs in the season of scant
production and give consumers the
benefit of a larger supply and more
moderate prices, if all farmers who
can do so will preserve as many eggs
when eggs are cheap as they can use
at home when eggs are dear. The av-
erage farm price of eggs in the United
States in April, May and June, 1917,
was % cents dozen in October No
vember and December, 1871 cents. In
! 1916 the average difference in farm
prices in the periods compared was
12.3 cents a dozen. There is a period
of from five to six months in every
year when the average price of fresh
eggs on the farm is about ten cents a
dozen more than the average price
! during the season of heavy production
! Inasmuch as eggs can be preserved
in water glass, or in lime water, and
kept in perfect condition for from six
to nine months, and disable for a year
or more, a farmer who preserves eggs
when they are cheap for his own use
can use eggs freely the year round
and still have eggs to sell all through
! the season of high prices.
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
Go TO Church Times.

The pastors of Columbia and viciD
ity extend cordial welcome to all,
Presbyterian church, Rev. B. T.
Watson Pastor.
Sunday-School 9:45 a. 10.
Congregational Woaship IL a. NJ
Evening Service at z p. NJ. on every
second and fourth Sundays.
Prayer service Wednesday evening
at $50. Sunday-school topic discuss
ed.
Preaching at Union lst and 3rd
Sabbaths.
METHODIST CHURCH.
L F. Piercey, Pastor.
Preaching lst and 3rd Sunday in
each month.
Sunday School at $50 a. m.
Epworth Leage 6:15:p. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
at $50,
Everybody cordially invited to these
services.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Preaching on each Grst and third
Sunday.
Morning service II o'clock.
Evening service O'Clock
Sunday School $3.50
r Up H. evening 6:1O
Prayer meeting, Wednesday even
ing 6:3C
Business meeting Wednesday even
ing before the Bird Sunday in each
month";
Missionary Society, the last Thurs.
day in each month, 800 O'Clock.
f. Fl. Durham, Supt. S, s.
o. P. Bush, Pastor,
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Bible School every Sunday at $50 a
no.
Judge Hancock, Superintendent.
Preaching service at IL a. NJ. and
500 o. M. on Second and Fourth Sun
days.
Prayer meeting each Wednesday
eveningsat 800.
Official meeting Friday night be
fore the fourth Sunday in each month.
Woman's Missionary Society, the
first Sunday in each month at 2:45 p
m.
!, Mission Band the first Sunday
each month at p. NJ.
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
Keeping Books Aids Farmer
in Ascertaining What Part
of Living Comes From Farm

CBy the United States Department of
Agriculture)
How many people know just what
it costs them to live? Such informa-
ton is extremely valuable, especially
if the makeup of the cost is known,
both as to money cost and the other
factors. To the farmer such data
should prove valuable, indeed, espe-
cially in determining what part of his
living comes from the farm.
If the accounts have been complete
ly kept, the household expenses are
easily assembled from the cash rec
ord, inventory and record of supplies
used. Nothing in the realm of figures
is more likely to astonish the average
farm family than a summary Of the
household costs. The farm furnishes
the family a house to live in, milk,
butter, cream, eggs, pork, fowls. fuel
vegetables and fruit, and often a great
many other things. Yet the farmer
often does not think of all these un-
less they are set before him. If he
breaks even on the year he is likely
to think there is no profit in the bust.
ness when, in fact, he may have been
living much better than the average
city business man of like education
attachments and capital.
All these things may have to be
seen to be believed, but a well-kept
set of records, by adequate handling
can be made to show them.
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
War Expenses Taking $50.O0O.0OO
Each Day
Report for the Fiscal Year Shows Cost Near Fourteen Billion Marx

The recently closed its books for the fiscal yarhe first
fiscal year the has opened annual records Cabinet
b other heads of departments will make President Will
covering their stewardship funds and responsibilities for the
just closed
expense hardly dreamed decade ago. More than the
actual outlay July 1917 meet the multitude Of big bills
for the the navy the hpbudng program aane construction
defense requirements other activities and the needs Of
the allies for American loans finance purchases of materials this
country In peace times the spent less than ST
annually.
which government spent
the months of preceding this fiscal the cost
money % date has been $13 SOC, 100000
War activities draining about $50O0OOOO day from the
nations public treasury and June tie running greater
than before though loans allies dropped less than month
April 1917 when the United States became bigeren
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
Traumatic Shock, Harvard
Medical Expert Finds Far
Most Deadly in Trenches

Men rarely die of shell shock but
they have been dying at the rate of
10000 a year in the English and
French armies alone as a result of a
far more deadly form of shock-trau-
matte shock, says the Atlantic
Monthly. In fact, the latter is usu-
ally fatal when skilled assistance is
not at hand. DR.. William T. Porter
Of the Harvard medical school has
been sent into the front line trenches
in France to study this strange enemy
in action. Traumatic shock, he found,
Usually follows a serious fracture of
a major bone like the hip bone or
multiple wounds through the sub-cu-
taneous fat layer.
By experimenting with injecting
olive oil into the veins of cat DIR.
Porter developed symptoms identical
with those appearing In cases of
traumatic shock, confirming his belief
that fatty globules are released into
the veins by certain wounds and these
gradually clog up the hairlike capil-
laries of the brain until circulation
ceases. Then began an interesting Sc
ries of experiments in the front line
trenches in which DR.. Porter tried the
experiment of giving carbon dioxide
TO freshly wounded men to prevent
shock. The poilus were delighted
with his tests and crowded around
eagerly to watch the operation.
All of these details, together with
many keen and humorous reactions
of trained observer in the war zone,
are set down in DR.. Porter's recently
published little book, "Shock at the
Front" In fact, one well known
critic insists that the book, far from
being a mere medical treatise, is
rather "a glimpse of the war done in
sharp stroke by a physician who has
as pretty a technic with the pen as
with the scalpel."
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
French Inventor Provides
Way to Get Coffee Extract

Under recent French patent an in
tegral coffee extract is. obtained in
the following manner: Powdered cof-
fee is heated in a series of closed YES
sells to heat lying near the roasting
point, and it is traversed by cur
rent of cold air or inert gas, Such
air charged with aromatic particles is
sent direct into another set Of cham
bers holding a dry powder or extract
of coffee, this latter having been pre-
pared from previously treated coffee,
which has been deprived of aromat-
ic substances. Such dry extract is OBJ
tanned by infusion, concentration, then
evaporation and Transforming to dry
powder. In this extract the aromat-
ic substances are added.
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
Thirty-five Persons Lynched
in U. S. First Half of Year

Thirty-five persons were lynched in
the United States in the first six
months Of this year, according to an
nouncement by the division of rec
ords and research of Tuskegee insti-
tute at Tuskegee, Ala. The total ex-
ceeds by q the lynchings for the first
six months of 1917 and by ten the
number during a similar period in
1916. Thirty-four Of the 80 persons
lynched were negroes. Three negro
women were included. Eight lynch
ings occurred in each of the states
of Georgia and Louisiana, seven in
Texas, four in Tennessee, two in Mis-
sissippi and one each in the states of
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois,
North Carolina and South Carolina.
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
LIVER DIDN'T ACT
DIGESTION WAS BAD
Says IS year Old Kentucky Lady, Who Tells How She Was Re
After Few Doses Of BlackDraugh.

Meadorsville, Ky.-Mrs. Cynthia
Higginbotham, Of this town, says: "At
my age, which is IS, the liver does
not act so well as when young. A few
years ago, my stomach was all out of
fix. I was constipated, my liver
didn't act. My digestion was bad, and
it took so little to upset me. My ap-
petite was gone. was very weak.
I decided I would give Black
Draught thorough trial as knew it
was highly recommended for this
trouble. I began taking it. I felt
better after few doses. My appetite
improved and became stronger Ny
bowels acted naturally and the least
trouble was soon righted with a few
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
loses Of Black Draught"

doses Of Black-Draught."
Seventy years Of successful use Mss,
made Thedford's Black-Draughs sss
standard, household remedy. Essssss.
member. Of every family, at tiuaesss
need the help that Black-Draught. e2zes,
give in cleansing the system anS. 1e~-
lieving the troubles that cone Gx1Rs
constipation, indigestion, lazy Hrsess
etc. You cannot keep well un1ess, yasss
stomach, liver and bowels are In SEED
working order. Keep them that ,sasss
Try Black-Draught. 1t acts pronaszIs
gently and in natural way. Il yssx
feel sluggish, take a dose tozhsHs
You will feel fresh tomorrow. PHase,
CSC. a package-One cent a anna =
All druggists. J. 60
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
How Whiting Saved Food.

Demonstrations Of food drying
spread last year over Kentucky as a
part of the national food saving work,
according to the q. S. department of
agriculture, and in that state 1900
homemade driers were constructed.
Here is one reason: The home demon
stration agents preached the need for
drying so earnestly that many men
who had been whiting on street cor
ners to while away the time became
interested. They whitfield for pur-
pose and made homemade driers. In
Kentucky alone 100000 pounds Of
dried products were saved last year.
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
Camp Meade Nd.
July 20, 1918.

SAAy SSe 4S4os
Editor News:
Now that we are located, will
try to give a few lines to the
Adair county people. First, we
are proud to think that the world
conflict is still progressing and
from overseas reports learn that
past and present results are
pleasing to the Allies.
All New York papers state
officially, that the Americans
lover there" are reaping a
Dountiful harvest. But who
would harbor any other thought.
They have always made good,
and we forecast. that they will
be the leading factors in bring
ing the Huns. Representatives
of Hades) to terms whice will be
just to all mankind.
The socalled bunch of "Adair
county culls" who left Columbia
early on the morning of July
18th, have passed rigid exami-
nations and classed with the
fighting force. So you will please
take off that title (culls)
The local board of Adair county
will do well to get out immediat.
ely and find out why some Of
those Glass l." men of Adair
who claim they registered some
where else. have not been allow.
to enter this great service for
their uncle. We who have been
so fortunate as to get to 90 the
second time are glad of the
second chance, but think we are
treating those single fellows in
class one little wrong.
| could name some of them,
but if the board should want
them very badly they could find
them.
Guess this will be all for the
present.
Some of the boys will try to
give you a few lines each week
after.
Member of Co. 2. Recruit De.
tachment 18th Unity.
Camp Meade Md.
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07

ing one, was given against the Cubs in
New York. In that game he BANKED
the league leaders with four hits. He
was unusually fast in that game and
won it easily. He recently defeated
the Boston Braves with four hits and
caused Dick Rudolph to lose his in
itial battle of the year. Demaree has
made it possible for the Giants to keep
up their confidence and also to stay
within reaching distance of first place.
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07

Stub" and coffee. His rsply
ran:
Dear Sue: De battle am goin'
on. You would faint if I told
you de full details. Ah'm STANG
in in blood up to nah knees
and every time All move All steR
on a daid German. We're toe.
close TO use our rifles, and we're
bitin' and gougin' 'em. At one
time me and two othah niggahs
was hangin' on to de crown
prince wild our teeth. an elSa
papa Kaiser done beat US off wio
q fence rail untwell the reemfost-
meat come. Life.
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
To Measure Day.

The length of the day and night at
any time Of the year may be easily
ascertained by doubling the time Of
the SUMS setting for the length of the
day and doubling the time Of its ris-
ing for that of the night
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07

too strong on that
t ak about it
wasn't money we
were suing for,
but the principle
of the thing"
"Why SOP"
"The jury saw il
in that light, evil
IDENTIFY. Gave us
eight cents dam.
ages"
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
"Steamer" Demaree's Return
ToForm Has Proved a Life
Saver for New York Giants

The sudden return to form of Al
STEAMER" Demaree has been life
saver for the New York Giants. When
John McGraw's pitching staff was on
the verge of collapse Demaree came
to life and with his effective twirling
averted rout by the opposing clubs.
One of his best exhibitions, a surpris-
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
SMILES FOR ALL
Not a ThinQ.

Not a Thing.
'The youngsters think they're smart
with their new Dances"
swell, Uncle Josh?"
''Pll admit they do give you a good
excuse for hugging a girl, but at that
they amt got nothing on the old-fash-
toned kissing games"
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
Got What She Ask for.

An American negro stevedore
assigned to the great docks in
southwestern France had writ.
ten several letters to his black
Susanna in Jacksonville, Fls.,
whereupon she wrote back, sayin:
''Youall don't nevah tell me
nothin' bout de battle a til.
Tilda Sublett's Dave done write
her all about how he knocked
two Germans all by hisself and
kilt three mo-"
The stevedore was reluctant to
tell his girl that he was doing
manual labor and that his only
accouterment was the tinware
from which he ate his war bread,
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07

Ladies Aid Society Thursday after
second Sunday at 800 p. NJ.
q. 7. Williams, Pastor.
G.. R. Reed, Sect.
Ray Conover. Tres
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
Heels VS.. Heads.

Heels VS.. Heads.
ct suppose she's head over heels
in lover
81 think it is a case of heels over
head this time. She is engaged to a
tango fiend."
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
Not Hindering 1t.
Too Considerable.

ssThat's a fine stenographer you
have"
eyes," replied Mr.. Cumrox. "But
she's too deferential. never pretend
ed to be any great scholar, and some
times she flatters me to the extent of
trying to initiate my style of spell
Ing"
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
OF Counsel

Kidd-what caused Gaybird to fly
the coop7
KidderlChickens
The Adair County news., 1918-08-07
The Jury Understood.

81 fear I went