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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-20
UNITED BRETHREN
HOME COMING DAY
Sunday, Oct. Congregation
al Meeting Wed. Night.

The First United Brethren Church,
Sunday Scnool and Young Peoples
| Society OF Narlinsbulg, viii observe
Home Coming Day" en- October g.
1918 This will be reunion gather
ing and all members are expected to
come, also all living former pastors
from far and near. The idea is to
revive old memories and once more
meet together in the dear old church
home. The church and Sunday school
as well as the Young Peoples Socie-
Ity send greeting, and a most cordial
welcome awaits one and all Bishop
w NJ Weekly. D. D., win be pres
ent and conduct the Anniversary
Service, assisted by the former pas
tors. Every preparation is being
made for delightful time All i'm
terested are asked to kindly let it be
known soon If they can be expected.
Address Rev w. f. Gruver, Chairman
IIome Coming Committee, Martins
burg. w Va
Splendid Report.
| AT the congregational meeting on
"Wednesday night.officers were elect
ed and an interesting report made
for the conference year just closing.
members received So: baptists. 81;
weddings, "A; funerals, 81; pastoral
visits, 452; sermons reached, So;
lreceived for all missionary purposes.
ls1-574; for charity $500: special for
breaches aid, s5165; Quincy orphan
ege, $40; other bensvoiences. $467;
paid on church debt, $3.50; paid in
terest on church debt and on repairs.
s69o.6S. a total exclusive Of salar-
les Of s5.023 SO
The election resulted as follows:
Glass Leaders-,Floyd G. Fawver and
James T. Crawford Stewards. IT.
Parlett, F. H. Baker, Jessie Miller.
j. Z. Oliver, S. o. Rogers, c. w
Gregory, F. NJ Bender Jennie
Kearns, Elizabeth Rentch, J. L. Graves
George NJ Andrews, R. C. Williams,
Floyd Fawver, j. S. Cage, F. Nj.
Stokes, George w Bradshaw, Arthur
Mckeeyer. j. II. Gesner, d B. Viii
burn, J. E. Kearns.
I The annual Virginia Conference
will convene next Tuesday morning
at Harrisonburg, with Bishop Bell
presiding $. o. Rogers is delegate
from this church, with p. f. Millard
has alternate.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-20
RUSSELL INJURED
BY BIT OF SHRAPMEL


Lefty Russell, who hurled for the
Athletics few years back. has
been wounded in action in France
In recent offensive movement in a
Lorraine sector held by the Ameri-
cans Russell stopped piece of
shrapnel with his head, the steel
slug making an ugly cash across his
forehead. He was taken to a field
hospital in Paris where he is now
convalescing, and he will soon be
ready to go back TO his post in a
front line trench Russell, who was
developed by Jack Dunn at Balti-
more. cost Connie Mack $1,000.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-20
LIBERTY LOAN DAY
IN ". VA. SCHOOLS
Shawkey Appeals To All Teach
erS In State To Assist.

The thousand schools in West
| Virginia have received their call to
service. TO make a big success of
School Liberty Loan Day, Oct II by
| securing Il big community meeting at
which patriotic program will be Of
fered by the school and at which the
| Fourth Liberty Loan will be boosted
I is the service to be rendered that
lday.
The call has been issued by Sup
lerintendent M. p. Shawkey, of the
state department of schools in the
following appeal to the teachers of
the state:
Il call upon each of you to work
lup and render on School Liberty
Loan Day a patriotic program in
celebration of our nations great
achievements in the world war for
| freedom. | know you will respond
inobly because you have always an
swered avs which the cause of HUI
Imanity solicited your aid.
''The fourth Liberty loan is the
biggest job at home that our nation
will have to do this year. To make
IA hundred percent success of it will
i equire the help of every man, wo-
man and child. Therefore make this
La community meeting and try hard
70 get the entire community into it
and open way for every one to do
something. Now is the time to strike
while the Hun is on the run. If we
relax one iota or delay one minute
he may be able to make determin-
ed stand that will cost the lives of
thousands of our boys and postpone
the day of final peace.
Advertise your meeting thorough
lr. Have it announced in the papers
and from the pulpit: Let each pupil
write and deliver to his friends a
personal invitation to come to the
school that Friday afternoon. Pre-
pare your program thoroughly. Cap
italize any opportunity you may have
for special features
put on dramatization of some
historical scene if possible. Have
good display Of flags. Let the pupils
devise and make suitable pennants
and slogans which may be carried or
put on the school room walls Your
program should be educational as
well as patriotic. Many people do not
understand the real nature of the.
bonds and some can be shown how
they can earn or save enough money
to buy them. Be sure to have some
thing on your program to help the
people.
"If your pupils want to interest
themselves in some scheme like
chopping wood for the school and
thus saving enough on the fuel bill
to buy bond, it would be a fine
thing to let them do it.
81 should be pleased to have you
write me after your meeting, if you
care to do so, and tell me how many
people attended and what you ac-
complished. Let us fight as hard
here as the boys are fighting over
there"
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-20
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN.

Notice is hereby given that w w.
CLARK and THOMAS O'BRIEN. re.
siding in Berkeley County West Vir-
ginis. will apply to the Circuit Court
of said County on the 4th day of Oc-
tober 1918, at the regular term OF
said Court then and there to be held
FOR license to carry revolver OF
other pistol under the provisions OF
the Act to amend and re-enact Sec
z, Chapter As. Code of WEST Virginia,
relative to offences against the peace
THOMAS O'BRIEN.
w. w CLARK.
q 50 10f cd
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-20

sent with the contingent to the
West Virginia University at Morgan
town, states that he likes his work,
and is applying himself with 81 en-
ergy to his duties. Private Hicks is
very much in earnest in doing his
work well and making creditable
record for himself, and his friends
Eere believe he will make good"
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-20
Experiment WITH
MIsFITS ARE MADE
Work OF Development Battalion
At Camp Lee, Va.

Camp Lee, Sept 20.-one of the
most interesting novelties that the
war has brought about is the expert
ment OF the war department known
as the development battalions.
Not long ago men were admitted
to the ranks who were decidedly I'M
fit for service. This was the result
of lack of theroughness in physical
examination Now, however none is
received who does not reach GER
tain standard or who would not re-
spond TO treatment for minor all
ments. These ailmnts include func-
tional heart disorders, fiat feet and
some skin disease.
Approximately 1000 men make up
tee personnel of this battalion, which
was organized in June. Of these
more than 600 are illiterates, foreign
and American About fifty are con
valescents and the rest are mostly
heart and foot cases.
Captain w. G. Atwood, OF Netcong,
\. J., eommanj= - battalion. He
was superinten Z ablic schools
in Netconz AN ahope and prob
ahly for his experleacc and under
standing of educational methods was
sl,,.-a,, So Ait. ,r,,,,,...-,a le..;or V-i
ley. Of Chicago, widely known spec
iaiist. has charge of all heart cases
and Major vonamee, of Portland,
Me- an orthopedic surgeon. looks at
ter the foot cases. Lieutenant Par
~, OF Washington, Pa. Is battalion
surgeon and sd sary inspector.
The Of ~ battalion is. of
course, a eess of education. The
heart cases Z given daily exercises,
which tend to engthel that organ
This part OF n. work has proved
most satisfactory" said Captain At
wood 1T is remarkable what can
be done in this line. In the case of
fiat feet the muscles which hold up
the arch of the fo9t are strengthened
by -. axs2eisa. 1t is. o. course u
long slow process but / see men who
came six weeks ago with ins.eps ly-
ing on the ground walking VITA an
appreciable rise in the arch.
But BY far our greatest work
insltilling in the soldier esprit de corps.
The soldier turned back from the
port, a dereliot from his company
when it goes overseas, or conval-
eseent from the hospital is low in
spirits. The world is all gone wrong
Tor him, and he has no hope for the
future. That's where we begin
There are a great number of coal
miners in the battalion and there is
shortage of labor in the coal regions.
There are several shipyard workers
and such labor is badly needed. 1t
takes a surprisingly large amount OF
money ito feed and care for these
men. The members OF the training
cadre are of inestimable value in
government plants, for many of them
have technical education. Whether
the time. and money consumed in fit
ting these men to be soldiers out
weigh the use that they would be as
government employees is still a ques-
fion.
However, that there is development
is plainly evident.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-20
PLEA FOR CLOTHES
FOR POOR BEL CLANS

Chairman Henry Dawson, of the
Red Cross War Council, has request
ed local ciergymen to call attention
to September 90, opening day of the
campaign to collect 5000 tons of
clothing, for Belgians. Ten million
imprisoned people in occupied Bel
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-20
cHUMs MEET IN FRENCH RIVER
by International News Servicel

GAINESVILLE. Wis, Sept 20 When
Billie Joyce dived into a small river
il France to have a cool plunge aft
er a long march with the Yankee
forces a head bobbed up nearby and
proved to be that of Robert Clithero,
also of this city. The boys had been
chums here. but neither was aware
of the presence of the. other in
France.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-20
AT TEXTILE SCHOOL.

Mr. and Mrs. T. l.. Dunn have re-
turned from Philadelphia, where they
entered their son, Garland in the
Textile School. Garland is stopping
at the Y. M. C. A., where about .
600 other fellows make their home.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-20
(By international News servicc)

W
Steubenville. O.. Sept. pa billy
goats appetite is an unknowabIe
thing. George Shepherd, grocer
here, owns one and it liked paste so
well that it ate all the bills off bill
board owned by William Hartshorn
Now Shepherd is defendant in an ac
tion brought by Hartshorn on a
charge of wilful destruction of prop
Ierty.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-20
F. o. E. TO BUY BONDS.

by international News Service.)
Bucyius, O., Sept. 90 The Buoy
rus Aerie of Eagles has appointed
committees to organize the entire To-
cal lodge, comprising nearly 500 mem
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-20
WOULD Ell -ERTAIN WILSON,.
(sy International News service.l

St, Louis, Mo-. Sept. 20.-An invi-
tation to make St, Louis stopping
point during the forthcoming Octo-
Der trip West has been extended to
President Wilson. He has been in
yited to be the guest of the Chamber
of Commerce.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-20

GUM and France face death for lack
of clothing this winter, while a ma
joy Of we Americans are snug and
! well clothed at home.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-20

bars, to buy Liberty bonds of the
fourth issue. 1t is proposed to make
the aerie 100 per cent.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-20
GEORGE HICKS APPLIES
HIMSELF TO NEW DUTIES

Word received here from George
Il. Hicks, Of this city, who voloun-
teered for military duty and was
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-20
GOAT UP TO OLD TRICKS

9 20 lot ed
New Britain herald., 1918-02-01
MARY IN "STELLA MARKS"

Mary Pickford's next Aircraft re-
lease, "Stella Maris," is confidently
expected to prove a sensation
throughout the country. That the
latest Mary Pickford photoplay should
prove a big success is stated by
Adolpn Zulor, D. W. Griffith and 9TH
er celebrated experts who are in a po-
sition to Judge. In this play, adapted
from William J. Locke's we'll known
book by Frances Marion and staged by
Marshall Neilan, Little Mary" ap-
pears for the first time in her career,
in q dual role, which makes a great
demand upon her wonderful versatile
ity.
After viewing this photoplay re-
Gently, Adolph Zu1or, President of
the Famous Players-Lasky Corpora
ton said: 1.-THE production of stella
Maris is the most remarkable thing
which Mary Pickford has ever done
for the screen. The fact that Miss
Pickford plays a double role, one of
two distinct personalities, has made
this an achievement all the greater. I
am sure that Miss Pickford, as Unity,
has triumphed in this, her greatest
achievem ent'
New Britain herald., 1918-02-01
CAMERA CHIEF IN ARMY

Goldwyn has lost its director of
photography, who happens also to be
one of the brilliant men in his pro-
fession. He is George w. HILL now OF
the U. S. Army Signal Corps. With
a first lieutenant's commission in his
inside pocket, he made a flying trip to
Hollywood, Cal, to spend day with
his parents, following which he re-
ported at Washington for further or
ders.
Fed men are better known in the
studios than Lieutenant Hill, and his
achievements since joining Goldwyn
have been many. Besides assuming
responsibility for every detail of pho
Biography in the big organization at
Fort Lee, Hill applied his talents in
the actual filming of productions, his
capital work in Polly of the Circus
and THE Cinderella Man standing as
evidence of his skill as a cinema
tographer.
Considering his youth-he is but
twenty two-his distinction is all the
more remarkable. Having started as
a camera imam" when less than six.
teen years old, his present high place
is the result of ceaseless work and an
inherent sense of beauty in photog-
raphy.
New Britain herald., 1918-02-01
THEDA SHIVERS

imagine working in a studio regis
terlng few points below zero in a
costume that is worn by the fair dam
sells of the far away Java Isles and
trying to look warm and comfortable
while the ice Winter winds are sing
ing q freezing requin on the outside,
During the record cold spell that
enveloped the East, Miss Bara was
hard at work at the Fort Lee Studios
filming the scenes of her new play,
part OF the action of which takes
place in the sunny and warm cline of
Java. For this purpose Miss Bara was
attired in thin battiQue, which in it.
self is very little of a protection from
the elements. AS soon as the scene
had been filmed, Director J. Gordon
Edwards saw to it that his star was
heavily enveloped in her fur coat I'M
til the next 'take."
There in the midst Of tropical TO-
liage, waving palms, and scantiIy clad
"extras'' was Miss Bara huddled in
big fur coat trying to keep her teeth
from chattering. And they say the
life of a, great moving picture star is
all sunshine and honey!
New Britain herald., 1918-02-01
MISS FERGUSON IN NEW FILM.

simultaneously with the release of
Rose Of the World an Aircraft
picture starring Elsie Ferguson, which
has just been released comes the an
nouncement that her next photopIay.
will be THE Song of Songs, from the
play by Edgar Sheldon. This was
adapted to the screen by Charles
Malgne and directed by Joseph Kauf-
man. 1t presents Miss Ferguson in
an exceedingly emotional role, very
similar to the one she interpreted in
1.-THE Outcast" on the speaking stage,
and in which she scored the greatest
success of her career. The play is a
high class melodrama, replete with
sensational incidents
New Britain herald., 1918-02-01
HELPING RED CROSS

The two biggest assets the Red
the Pacific coast have proven to be
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fair
banks, who have been working con-
tinualIy Of late raising money for
charitable purposes. Mary led an
other parade the other day in San
Francisco that put all sorts of pep"
into the Red Cross drive of that city,
and Doug" staged real Rodeo
which netted the organization over
$4,000.
The parade that Mary led, welding
a baton almost as big as herself, at
the head of a military band, proved
one Of the biggest factors in the big
drive that had been inaugurated on
the coast. Little Mary was the off,
cia1 guest Of honor of Frisco for two
days, perhaps the highest honor ever
paid the Aircraft star during the
past few years.
The great wild west Of song and
story was brought into being in Los
Angeles during the drive by Douglas
Fairbanks Rodeo where cowboys
from Arizona and elsewhere, Indians
from the reservations and punchers
from the desert C6tll1S " IIlS Coll VI
the Aircraft star ready to ride, fight,
dance, sing and otherwise translate to
the civilized ears of the western me-
tropolis the meaning of the free west
And among the great throng Of wild
riders. dead shots and others was the
intrepid Doug himself, as daring as
any, enjoying himself highly and
thoroughly at home in the saddle. He
rode bronchos, shot glass balls and
otherwise emulated those who were
actually engaged in the business, or
who have daily practiced at riding and
shooting. He proved again that he is
not merely a screen cowboy or west
ern type but in all essentials the real
thing. He was cheered in his every
endeavor and turned over $4,000 to
the Red Cross after the fun was ali
over .t.
New Britain herald., 1918-02-01
FAIRBANKS TO MAKE
MOVIE FOR SERVICE

That Douglas Fairbanks is a very
prominent representative of the mo-
ton picture industry, is evidently the
opinion of the United States govern
ment, who has requested the aero
Latic actor to prepare a propaganda
film for ditribution among the men
Of the army and navy, in their camps
and stations. here and abroad. !
Major William F. Snow. of the
surgeon generals office, war depart
ment, in his letter to Mr.. Fairbanks,
said it was their desire to have Mr..
Fairbanks prepare, under the aus
pices of the surgeon general of the
L. S. army, a motion picture de-
signed for educational work among
the military sforces of the United
States.
The consensus of opinion con-
tinued Major Snow in his letter,
"among a number of the surgeon
generals staff is that it is most de-
sirable to have you, as the prototype
Of the doctrine, as the protagonlst OF
the drama Will you do this for the
United States government, as a pa
triotic contribution This form of ed
ucational work constitutes an impor-
tant part of the surgeon generals
Office and of the war department
commission on training camp act1vi-
ties Your participation, therefore,
would be a valuable and far-reach~
ing service.
"What we want to put across to
the men is the idea that clean living
and physical fitness are, after loyalty
and obedience, the prime requisites
Of the soldier. This picture to be
most effective in presenting its pro-
paganda, must be intermlxed and
sugar coated with unalloyed enter
tainment.'
Immediately upon receipt Of Ma
ior Shows letter, Douglas wired
Washington that he is prepared to
undertake suggested film and re-
uuested further details. In the mean
time Fairbanks, with his director AL
Ian Dwan, is at work on a scenario,
which they will submit for approval
in the near future to the office of
| the surgeon general.
New Britain herald., 1918-02-01
TURNS SUMMER INTO WINTER

You have all heard tales about
folks turning night into day, but here
is an illustration of turning winter in
to summer and the camera was on
the spot to prove the fact.
The feat was accomplished at the
pany during the production Of the big
Pathe play, Innocent" starring Fan
ME Ward.
For one Of the big scenes in this
production a Chinese street was con-
structed on the studio grounds, but
before the picture was finished the re-
cent cold wave set in and the entire
street became covered with ice sew.
eral inches thick.
AS much sand as could be secured
was spread over part of the street
and the rest was sprayed with paint
to represent earth, and as the actors
walked about over this paint covered
ice and had their steaming breath
camouflaged as cigarette smoke, the
camera clicked off a, record that will
reflect a warm, sunshiny scene that
breathes Of the balmy atmosphere of
the Orient.
There is only about one thing that
the camera will not record and that
is the degree of heat or cold preva-
| lent at the time the film is exposed,
! but actors are not deficient in this re-
spect and, therefore, it took consider
able persuasion on the part of Director
! George Fftzmaurice before the celes-
| tial players could be induced to so
| through their parts and act naturally.
New Britain herald., 1918-02-01
LUSTTANIA STORY
RETOLD ON SCREEN

The much sought after Lest We
Forget" the stupendous war spectacle
in which the famous French beauty
Rita Jolivet, is starred, has been ac-
quired by Metro pictures corporation.
The deal, which was contaminated
some weeks ago between the original
producers, Count de Cippico and J..
L. Kempner, and Richard A. Rowland
and w. Fl. Atkinson of Metro gives
Metro the entire rights to the big
photo drama.
Metro regards the picture as the
most powerful and significant that
has yet been made around the world
war, and intends to present it soon
at one of the large Broadway theatres
as a Metro special production de luxe.
LEST We Forget has already re-
ceived the Endorsement of many
government officials as the best med
ium to bring home to thinking and
patriotic Americans the tremendous
issues at stake in the war and the
righteousness of its cause It is wholly
American in theme and treatme emit,
and it's presentation of the incidents
which finally plunged the United
States into the war is a mastery de-
Tense of this countrys course and a
stirring reminder of the grievous
wrongs suffered at the hands of auto
cratic Germany.
New Britain herald., 1918-02-01
JACK SPURLOCK-
PRODIGAL"-

Jack SpurIock-Prodigal' is TO be
|ned.
George Horace Lorimer, Editor of
|turday Evening Post, author Of
is famous story finally was persuad-
to permit his pre-eminently sue
HsSfuI tale to appear on the screen
ID the distinctive privilege of pre-
hitting it is awarded William Fox
T. Fox paid for the right to pic
kize Jack Surlock-Prodigal more
I'm was ever before paid for a
|nilar privilege greater sum
ban is usually expended for an
tire production.
This story appeared as a serial in
be Saturday Evening Post, was read
millions of persons, was commented
ION by more than $500 newspapers,
ID established, solidly, Mr. Lorimer's
Lsition as q writer without a peer
human interest tales.
Notwithstanding the extraordinary
lostige linked with Jack Spurlock-
Rodigal'' and it's distinguished author
+. Fox announces that the picture
Ill be released as one of the regular
sx weekly special features-not as
extra even though it I'M
Aubtedly carries the punch emitting
Ito be classed in the so called deluxe
#egory.
8This announcement by Mr.. Fox will
#rtainly be appreciated by regular
irons of Fox service and should ap-
8al, from a business view point to
exhibitors. Mr.. Foxs decision to
III this particular film as a Fox
aekly special feature assures Fox
Atrons of an opportunity to "clean-
I" handsomely but Mr.. Fox goes fur
err and announces that an extraord-
Aary publicity and advertising cam
ign will be conducted in its behalf.
is practically guarantee OF
Aeatre capacity business for every
Hhibitor on the Fox yearly contract
NIr. Fox's announcement with refer
@ce to this picture concludes with
Is significant statement:
Every Fox patron listed on our
aofSs January 80, 1917 as sub
Fiber to Fox weekly special features,
I'LL get Jack Spurlock-Prodiga
#thout extra charge