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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-07-02

Just striped tafieta and nothing
more goes to the making Of this prac.
teal sumner dress. Nothing better
could be added to a wardrobe for all.
around service.
i is the arrangement Of the stripes
which makes the frosk so good looking
from every woman's point of view.
with barley pastry crust. Bake IN hot
oven 20 20 30 minutes o. until custard
SIS set. TT, makes two pies. or cook.
ed in the form OF pat'ies it makes
eight.
Potato Cake.
The ingredients for this wheatless
5ugar-5av.ag cake are: One-QuarteT
cuplul Tat, - cupful sugar, 80 cuptul
ricad potato, | egg, IL cuplul milk,
u teaspoOnfll salt, ounce chocolate,
te-sponiuls baking powder, S4 cup.
Gl barley flour
Nix according TO directions for all
cakes and bake II l2yers.
Icing used for Filling Between Lay.
eTG.l
hrea-qya-tor5 Cupful corn syrup
and I egg white. beaten stiff.
Pat these materials together in a
double boiler and cook for Z minutes,
beating all the time II should be
thick and white rs a marshmallow
llling. As an icing it remains soft
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-07-02
Accepted the Invitation.

WhatT you gimme for "a interview
with Senator Wombat?
I'll pay you well II you really got
an interview. But everybody knows
that Senator Wombat never talks
got an interview. though. raised
my eyebrows and he nodded his head.
Kansas City Journal.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-07-02
soth AZ Sea.

His wife never knows where he Is
after . y. n.
Neither doe he.-Chio State Jour.
nal.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-07-02
Fond Of Combat.

Loa.er married quite Unexpectedly.
Yes; he read tia; everyone's got 10
work or fgGt.-BOs.oG Transcript.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-07-02

An sO-yearold woman In Hinsdale,
Mass, has for many years sOWed the
pages OF her newspapers together be.
fore reading 1t. She insists on doing
this before her husband reads the pa.
per so that he won't mix them.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-07-02

bat my train goes In five minutes .vf
II | don't get that train | won't {,
home for supper So goodbye every
body, and God bless you"
There was a murmur running alor
the seats behind the speaker. Sic
knew. someone would take the cue.
Someone always did The presidcrt
rose 10 go forward; and his sister rose
and tugged at his coat tails this time
with great deiinitencss Of purposN
Don't for heavens sake ask he to
supper. II woald ruin your reputation.
Mark my word, II would be against
traditions"
But the president did not mark his
sisters words of wisdom, and after
whispering to the speaker, she turned
and called eXultaantly to her audience,
DIR. Holmes has asked me to 20
home and have dinner at his house. 80
don't have TO set that train at all.
Bully for Doctor Holmes. III have a
chance to get n thousand more"
She did get the thousand more. and
then she and the president and the
presidents sister started home. The
president drove his car and the two
women sat on the seat behind. The
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-07-02

active and the blood impure.
What 10 needed most a % increase On
the germ-fghting strength. 10 do THE
successfully You need o put on no1|liu
flesh, rouCc the liver % vigorous action,
80 IL will throw OF these Gcrma and po'
riiy the blOOd 60 that them win Do NJ
weak spots" or soil for GnfmsrFoWfh.
We claim for Dr. Pierce'a Golden Mtdi
cal Discovery that o relieves lingering
Coughs. BEo1ehltls, p1Eltea Ne bloeq
and the whole system fee8 lngigofated
CLARKsBURa, w. Va Slnct II was :
little boy % home ] have known Of Dr.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-07-02

Braiding S one Of the few dress trim
mingS which remain in high favor for
wartime wardrobe
The reasons are plain. The SOU
tache braid Itself costs little and Il,
can b. applied to almost any material
The work Is easily done by machine
and the result is invariably artistic
Almost any energetic and economical
woman can braid . dress herself
An unusual but very effective appli-
cation Of braidng IS shown in today's
fashion art The sleeve is braided
from reck TO wrist giving a quaint for.
eign air TO the frock.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-07-02
To REslsf THR AffAcR s
q Tie germs q many dlleasll lleh 4

qUeatW Nlcn -
meads i0f an 81
us@unht or dIa
These germs aff
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faVQrofth8ftfna
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U o. town readers iA by SENDING postage
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-04-13

could hardly wait until the morning
for further details.
After parade, the next afternoon l
was almost mobbed. Everyone In the
section wanted a part in the proposed
sketch. When informed them that It
would take at least ten DAYS of hard
work to write the plot, they were bit
terly disappointed. l Immediately got
busy, made desk out of biscuit tins
In the corner of the billet, and put I'D
a sign "Empey & Wallace Theatrical
Co" About twenty of the section.
upon reading this sign, Immediately
applied for the position of office boy.
l accepted the twenty applicants, and
sent them on scouting parties through
out the deserted French village. These
parties were to search all the attics for
discarded civilian clothes, and any
thing that we could use in the props
of our proposed company.
About five that night they returned
covered with CRIME and dust, but load
ed down with miscellaneous assert
ment of everything under the sun.
They must have thought that / was
going to start a department store,
judging from the different things they
brought back from their pillage.
After eight days constant writing 1
completed two-act farce comedy
which l called 1.-THE Diamond Palace
Saloon" Upon the suggestion of one
OF the boys in the section sent proof
of the program to printing house In
London. Then l assigned the different
parts and started rehearsing. David
BelascO would have thrown up his
hands in despair at the material which
l had to use. Just imagine trying to
teach Tommy, with a strong cockney
accent, to impersOnate Bowery tough
or Southern negro.
Adjacent to our billet was an open
field. We got busy at one end of it and
constructed a stage. We secured the
lumber for the stage by demolishing
an old wooden shack in the rear of
our billet.
The first scene was supposed to rep
resent a street on the BOwery in New
IoIh, Willie TIE scene Oh the SeCOnu
act was the interior of the Diamond
Palace saloon, also on the Bowery.
In the play 1 took the part of Abe
Switch, farmer, who had come from
Pumpkinville Center, Tenn, to make
his first visit to New York.
In the first scene Abe Switch meets
the proprietor of the Diamond Palace
saloon. a ramshackle affair which to
the owner was a financial loss.
The proprietor's name was Tom
! Twistem, his bartender being named
Fillem Up.
( After meeting Abe, Tom and Fillem
/ Up persuaded him to buy the place,
! praising it to the skies and telling
wOndrOus tales of the money taken
| over the bar
/ While they are talking, an old Jew
named key Cohenstein comes along,
and Abe engages him for cashier. After
engaging key they meet an old
Southern negro called SambO, and
upon the suggestion of key he is en-
! gagged as porter. Then the three eOf
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them, arm in arm, leave to take pos
session of this wonderful palace which
Abe has just paid $4,000 for. (Cur-
tain)
In the second act the curtain rises
on the interior of the Diamond Palace
saloon, and the audience gets its first
shock. The saloon looks like pig
pen, two trampS lying drunk on the
floor, and the bartender in dirty
shirt with his sleeves rolled up, asleep
with his head on the bar.
Enter Abe, Sambo and key, and the
fun commences.
One of the characters in the second
act was named Broadway Kate, and |
had an awful job to break in one of
the Tommies to act and talk like
woman.
Another character was Alkali Ike, an
Arizona cowboy, who just before the
close of the play comes into the saloon
and wrecks it with his revolver.
We had eleven three-hour rehearsals
before l thought IT advisable to pre-
sent the sketch to the public.
The whole brigade was crazy TO
witness the first performance. This
performance was scheduled for Friday
night and everyone was full of antici-
patton; when bang! orders came
through that the brigade would move at
two that afternoon. Cursing and
binding was the order of things upon
the receipt of this order, but We
moved.
That night we reached the little viii
lage of S and again went into rest
billets. We were to be there two
weeks. Our company Immediately got
busy and secured the village for a
suitable place in which to present our
production. Then we received another
shock.
A rival company was already estab-
lished in the village. They called
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-04-13
"Over the Top"
By An American Soldier
Who Went
ARTHUR GUY EMPEY
Machine Gunner Seroing In France
Machine Gunner Seroins In France
Copyright, 1917, BIZ Arthur Guy Empey)
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I-Fired by the news of the
sinking of the Lusitania by a German
submarine, Arthur Guy Empey, an Ameri-
can, leaves his office in Jersey City and
goes to England where he enlists In the
British army.
CHAPTER IT-After a period of train
ing Empey volunteers for immediate serV-
ice and soon finds himself in rest billets
somewhere in France" where he first
makes the acquaintance of the ever-pres-
ent Coolies"
CHAPTER III-Empey attends his first
church services at the front while a Ger
man Fokker circles over the congregation.
CHAPTER IV-Empey's command goes
into the front-line trenches and is under
fire for the first time.
CHAPTER V-Empey learns to adopt
the motto of the British Tommy, IF you
are going to get it, you'll get it. so never
worry"
CHAPTER vI-Back in rest billets, EN-
pey gets his first experience as mess
orderly
CHAPTER VII-Empey learns how the
British soldiers are fed.
CHAPTER VIII-Back in the front-llne
trench, Empey sees his first friend OF the
trenches 'go West"
CHAPTER IX--Empey makes his first
visit to a dugout in Suicide Ditch
CHAPTER X-Empey learns what con-
stitutes a days work" in the front-ine
trench.
CHAPTER xI-Empey goes lover the
top" for the first time in g charge on the
German trenches and is wounded by
bayOnet thrust.
CHAPTER XIII-Each Tommy gets
an official bath.
CHAPTER XIV-Empey helps dig
an advanced trench under German
fire.
CHAPTER XV-On listening post"
in No Mans Land.
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CHAPTER XVIII.
Staged Under Fire.

Staged Under Fire.
Three days after the incident Just re-
lated our company was relieved from
the front line and carried. We stayed
in reserve billets for about two weeks
when we received the welcome news
that our division would go back of the
line ITO rest billets." We would re-
main in these billets for at least two
months, this in order to be restored to
our full strength by drafts of recruits
from Blighty.
Everyone was happy and contented
at these tidings; all you could hear
around the billets was whistling and
singing. The day after the receipt of
the order we hiked for five days, max
ing an average of about twelve kilos
per day until we arrived at the small
town of O..
1t took us about three days to get
settled, and from then on our cushy
time started. We would parade from
8 As in the morning until u noon.
Then except for an occasional billet
or brigade guard we were on our own.
For the first four or five afternoons l
spent my time in bringing up to date
my neglected correspondence.
Tommy loves to be amused. and be
ing Yank, they turned to me for
something new i'll this line. l taught
them how TO pitch horseshOes, and this
game made great hit for about ten
days. Then Tommy turned to Amer
lea for Il new diversion. l was up in
the air until a happy thought came to
me. Why not write sketch and break
Tommy in as an actor?
One evening after lights out" when
you are not supposed to talk, l impart-
ed my scheme in whispers to the sec
ton. They eagerly accepted the idea
OF forming stock company and
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cut lanes through 1t: If so. this nres-
aged an early morning attack on our
trenches.
Or course had to be one of the four
selected Tor the job. It was Just like
sending a fellow to the undertaker's
to order his own coffin.
At ten o'clock we started ont armed
with three bombs, a bayonet and re-
volver. After getting into No Mans
Land we separated. Crawling four or
fVe feet at time, ducking star shells,
with strays cracking overhead, I
reached their wire, l secuted along
this inch by inch, scarcely breathing.
/ could hear them talking in their
trench, my heart was pounding against
my ribs. One false move or the least
noise from me meant discovery and
almost certain death.
After covering my sector ouietlv
crawled back. had gotten about half
way when | noticed that my revolver
was missing. 1t was pitch dark. 1
turned about to see If | could find 1t;
it couldn't be far away, because about
three or four minutes previously had
felt the butt in the holster. | crawled
around in circles and at last found it,
then started on my way back to our
trenches, as l thought.
Pretty soon l reached barbad wire,
and was Just going to give the pass
word when something told me not to.
l put out my hand and touched one of
the barbed wire stakes. 1t was iron.
The British are of wood, while the
German are iron. My heart stopped
beating; by mistake | had crawled
back to the German lines.
l turned slowly about and my tunlc
caught on the wire and made a loud
ripping noise.
A sharp challenge rang out. 1
sprang to my feet, ducking low, and
ran madly back toward our lines. The
Germans started firing. The bullets
were biting all around me, when bang!
l ran smash into our wire, and a sharp
challenge, "'Alt, who comes there?"
rang out. | gasped out the password,
and, cropping my way through the lane
In the wire, tearing my hands and
uniform, | tumbled into our trench and
was safe, but l was a nervous wreck
for an hour, until a drink of rum
brought me round.
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themselves 1.-The Bow Bells" and
put on a sketch entitled, 'Blighty-
What HopesW They were the divf-
sional concert party.
We hoped they all would be soon
in Blighty to give us a chance.
This company charged an admission
of a franc per head, and that night
our company went en- masse to see
their performance. 1t really was good.
I had a sinking sensation when
thought of running my sketch in OPP
position to it.
In one of their scenes they had a
soubrette called Flossie. The soldier
that took this part was clever and
made a Incorporating and chic girl.
We Immediately fell in love with her
until two days after, while we were
on a march, we passed FlOssie with
"her" sleeves rolled up and the sweat
pouring from 'her" face unloading
shells from a motor lorry.
AS our section passed her | yelled
out: Hello, Flossie; Blighty-What
Hopes?" Her reply made our love die
out instantly.
"Ah, go to h-ll"
This brought quite a laugh from the
marching column directed at me, and
instantly made up my mind that our
sketch should Immediately run in Op-
position to ''Blighty-What Hopes"
When we returned to our billet from
the march, Curley Wallace, my the
atrical partner, came running over to
me and said he had found a swanky
place in which to produce our show.
After taking off my equipment, and
followed by the rest of the section, /
went over to the building he had picked
out. 1t was a monstrous barn with
platform at one end which would make
an ideal stage. The section got right
on the job, and before night had that
place rugged out in apple-pie order.
The next day was Sunday and after
! church parade we put all our time on
dress rehearsal, and it went fine.
made four or five large signs an
nouncing that our company would open
up that evening at the King George the
Fifth theater, on the corner of Ammo
street and Sandbag terrace. General
admission was One-half franc. First
ten rows in orchestra one franc, and
boxes two francs. BY this time our
printed programs had returned from
London, and l further announced that
on the night of the first performance
program would be gwen free Of
charge to men holding tickets costing
/ franc or over.
We had an orchestra of seven meu
and seven different instruments. This
orchestra was excellent, while they
were not playing.
The performance was scheduled to
start at 6 p. IN.
At 5 rs there was a mob in front OF
our one entrance and it looked like a
big night We had two boxes each ac-
commodating four people, and these
we Immediately sold out. Thee u
brilliant idea came to key Cohenste n.
Why not use the rafters overhead, III
them boxes, and charge two francs +
n seat on them? The only difficult
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-04-13

was how were the men to reach these
boxes, but to key this was mere de-
tail.
He got long ropes and tied one end
around each rafter and then tied lot
of knots in the ropes. These ropes
would take the place of stairways.
We figured out that the rafters
would seat about forty men and sold
that number of tickets accordingly.
When the ticketholders for the boxes
got glimpse of the rafters and were
informed that they had to use the rope
stairway there was howl of indigna-
ton, but we had their money and told
them that if they did not like 1t they
could write to the management later
and their money would be refunded
but under these conditions they would
not be allowed to witness the perform
ance that night.
After a little grousing they accepted
the situation with the promise that IL
the show was rotten they certainly
would let us know about 1t during the
performance.
Everything went lovely and it was q
bowling success, until Alkali Ike ap-
peared on the scene with his revolver
loaded with blank cartridges. Behind
the bar on shelf was long line OF
bottles. Alkali Ike was supposed to
start on the left of this line and break
six of the bottles by firing at them with
his revolver. Behind these bottles a
piece of painted canvas was supposed
to represent the back of the bar, at
each shot from Alkali's pistol a man
behind the scenes would hit one of the
bottles with his entrenching tool
handle and smash 1t, to give the I'M
preston that Alkali was a good shot
Alkali Ike started in and aimed ut
the right of the line of bottles instead
of the left. and the poor boob behind
the scenes started breaking the bottles
ITO be Continued)
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After about twenty minutes wait we
went out again and discovered that
the Germans had q wiring party work
ing on their barbed wire. We returned
to our trenches unObserved with the
information and our machine guns i'm
mediately got busy.
The next night four men were sent
cut to go over and examine the Ger
man barbed wire and see If they had
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-04-13

Quality talks. Smoke an Eel Roi
Tan Cigar and be convinced; they are
mild. If
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-04-13

Quality talks. Smoke an Ell Roi Tan
Cigar and be convinced; they are
mild ~
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-04-13

A good citizen is known by the food
he eats.
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There is no halfway house he
tween victory and defeat Lloyd
George.
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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-05
NEWS Of A DAY
DOWN DELAWARE
Interesting Statement Of the Work
Being Done by the Red Cross
Branch of Milford.
TWO DIVORCES IN SUSSEX
Official Report of Proceedings in
Respect of Fixing Milk Prices
for This Locality.

special Cores pcndencc of Every Evening
stanton, Feb. 5.-At meeting Of the
Milk Producers Protective Association,
the third sunday of last month, before
setting the price Of milk for February,
the directors were instructed TO meet with
the Food Administrator. MIR. Mitchell,
for consultation. Az that meeting MIR.
Mitchell requested that there be sub
mitted to him the cost of producing milk
bofurr an advance in price was made.
a spccia meeting WAS then called for
the following Saturday afternoon and
County Agent Bausman and State Agent
Pence volunteered TO procure the evi-
dence. which they did by visiting 10
different farms. weighing milk and feed.
&c Their reports were submitted with
others gathered from adjoining States
20 the Food Administrator These rec
ords showed thst at the present time it
costs the farmer on an average 10 cents
a quart. In Maryland, last month,
they showed that il cost eight cents.
Az the meeting Saturday afternoon,
after considerable discussion, vote was
takep snd although fgurs showed the
cost of distribution 20 be 10 cents quart,
il was voted 70 continue the price st
oight cents.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-05
lELAwARE CITY.

sp-riai Cores gl,.r 8. : very Evening !
Delaware c. te9 There will be
meeting o. D. ware City Fire Co. at
clock sharp ., IS ning
William Re- bold who was confined
70 q house with cs ,o1silitis, Is able
" b, ant again
MIn, Emma Clark Greenlca, near
town eApccts q leave for he South today,
and speno tie winter al Palm Beach. Fla
Albert hrnphill Ravmond Aker, Chas
Warner and Moore Whiteman, students
oi Delaware College, spent = weekend
vlth her parents here
he dance given av the officers OF Fort
du Pont VAS largely TENDED by out-of-
town guests
lub were VERY mucs disappointed. on
FRIDAY last when Ms T. nilt p. Bissell
and MIR Willard Hall Porter Of Whining
.on VINO were 20 speak on the Immediate
lcsds of the Delaware Red Cross, were
--nable 10 be here
About 25 members Of the Delaware City
Century Club went to Newark today TO
ylsit tho Century Club there
On Saturday last there were great
ntan' sleigh races between the farmers of
thlr vicinity
The steamboat Carolina, which
las been stationed q Pigeon Point, n j.,
has returned - Fort du Pont, and will run
between ne forte uf the Delaware
lisrr Webb who resided on the
and gr' .aru ou Dutch Neck road, for
2 mum q ,cars. Will sell his farming
Implement and stock having rented q
hol., rn linton -freet. this town