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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12
MAKE MEXICO BEHAVE.

ACCORDING to the Washington correspondents 1t
understood that the Mexican situation was dis
cussed during the call which President Wilson unexpect-
edy made upon Acting Secretary Of State Polk yesterday.
but Pans which seems have been better posted had it
at about the same time that the United States about to
adopt stronger policy with regard to our southern neigh
Dor.
Newspapers never make light of information Of this kind
when filters through from other capital The dplo-
matte grapevine telegraph sometimes carries with wonderful
accuracy reports which the regular wires do not get for
weeks
If the United States going to take the Mexican matter
in hand and get somewhere with it, now that the affair on
the other side of the Atlantic practically wound up it
will give general satisfaction We have been more than
patient with Mexico We have forgiven repeated breaches
of faith upon the part Of the government at Mexico city,
We have ignored lawlessness Of lescan nationals which
injured American citizens and property American citizens
own within Mexican territory. We have even b:nked at
UNREASONABLE evidence that the Mexican government has
intrigued with enemies Of this country at time when this
country was at war.
The time for accounting arrived long ago. Now let
have it. Let US make it PLAN TO the government and
The people Of the Mexican republic that they must sell up
government that strong enough enforce their laws
MAINTAIN peace and keep International obligations or this
government will step in and back of Latin Amer
lean International intervention. headed by the A. B. c.
republics for instance, which can and will restore order
to the south of us.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12
HARDEN IN DIPLOMACY.

HAT report from Copenhagen to the effect that the
new German republics FIRST ambassador to the United
States will be Macmillan Harden. the editor of Die
ukunt may not be true, but probably is at least an
the part of the government at Berlin to feel out
sentiment this country toward the famous editor who
achieved international fame through his hostility to
de crowd Of court favontes former Emperor William kept
about him.
Harden, but probable that to most Americans he an
enigma. During the early stages of The war there was
friction between Harden and the government Once or
Sice his newspaper suppressed But during the latter
sases his journalistic open suspicion There
were occasions when there many to believe
that his attacks upon the government inspired by that
government for purposes of its own.
The intelligence department of the American govern
ment probably knows lot about Harden that the public
does not know If this movement to make him the repre-
sentative this country of the German republic sincere
whatever information there about the eccentric pub
licist will soon come to the surface.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12

Friends of daylight saving, who taken by sur
prise when repeal of the TANNED through
rider to the Agricultural appropriation BILL
took heart yesterday when the made
that President Wilson had not yet signed the appropr
alton bill and taking under consideration the pro-
tests against the daylight rider He ought interpose
simply because this slipped through.
Some day there will along president who will
notice upon congress that he every
appropriation containing riders that should
put through separate bills considered
a large their own merits
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12
Squads Right
Sozodont Pharmacy,

City.
Thanks to the wonder.
full properties of a bottle OF Nervy
Dope. recently purchased OF you. snl
alive and able 10 relate to you the
wonderful cure II effected
For over three years had not slept
wink. For nearly thirteen moE.hs
had not tasted food Even wa.er dis
agreed with me and had not touched
It since September IL. 1915. Then /
read OF your wo.ilerful medicine and
purchased bottle.
Arrived home with my purchase
drank two glasses OF 1t. and immedi.
ately fell into deep slumber Three
lavender goats climbed upon my bed
and began playing solitaire. asked
them why is a retroactive and the alli
gator started paying on jews harp.
When the five headed snake climbed
up on the gas fixture noticed that
!ldest green COW was trying to eat the
bed covers. Three red. white and blue
sat down on my stomach and when l
buifaloes wearing orange chemises
asked them to stay for tea the monkey
with nine tails began growing like a
rooster. w. II. Taft was singing by
the window and three alligators were
measuring his girth. The conductor
asked me for my fare and as the boat
stopped ! hit the waiter with split in.
finitive. Four buzzards began trying
to cat my beard and before | could
count my moray the traffic ccp had
painted the blue crocodile black. An
undertaken in coffin was jazzing with
an ostrich by my side and | asked the
zebra in silk hat why the fishlns
worms were in tears. An oyster Choir.
us was heard in the distance and saw
by the headlines in the paper that the
lambs had been pinched for gambolirCg.
am now In condition to tell you
Of the wonderful effects your marvel
GUS medicine and implore YOU to deliv.
or three cases at once to my home.
Very truly yours.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12
RUFF j; STUFF
/ ook Who's here.

Look who's here!
Old vox Pop is out again
Must have been able to work one
pf those special T Buckley commuta-
lions.
You know that they ares
Well. ask any one of the bootleg
gers who made the mistake of start
ing In business without first having
N understanding" with the powers
that be
Wonder what the ruling price is
Sciny to be tonight:
Everything is ell set to resume
trade With Germauv. :he papers say.
But maybe they are mistaken.
z It takes two to make a t,ade and
he Teuts may find that the other
elbow hasn't got over his mad yet.
New York stock exchange to cut
put red tape."-Headline.
Sort Of varying the usual program.
:
wan street cutting operations u.s.
lafIy are confined to melons.
That is. II you prudently neglect to
mention the shearing Of the lambs
which goes on thers when a 10000
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12
CURLING RADIcALIsM.

SEEssRANKiL- MULHOLLAND. who yesterday talked
to the Rotary club is not the only man who has OBJ
served with feelings akin to alarm the skill with which the
radicals spread propaganda and the comparative inactivity
along that line of the conservatives. In recent months it
affairs II agreed that the spreading of doctrine is
the radicals should not be permitted to have for
her own. but far no good scheme has been advanced
for the correction Of the condition that exists
The radicals occupy position of considerable strategic
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12

Today the blockade against Germany will be formally
raised If the plans they have been formulated
Paris carried out And pretty another of
the great uncertainties of the post bellum period will be
removed 1t is believed that the Germans have great
quantities of goods ready for export but knows
what their policy with regard TO this export trade
is going to be what the attitude OF the world in gen.
eral is going to be toward the German commercial
eler who used have things pretty much his way
in many lines.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12
SATURDAY EVENING, JULY ls. 1919.
TIE AMERlcAW.s GREED.

believe in the United States of America as govern
ss Of The people. BY tic people, for c people. phsse
pepers derived from the consent of The governed;
democracy republic. sovereign Nation of many
eyessen States perfect Union, and mscpardoie
eabshed upon those principles of freedom cquaLty JUS
lice. and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed
eu Ines and fortunes. therefore believe il my du.y
70 my country TO love ii; to support lis Constitution; 10
obey It's laps; 70 respect its flag: and 10 defend it against
+ az enemies.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12
Squads Right About!
We laugh abiut
The womens' skirts
And never see
Our fancy shirts.

Eyes Right!
Some Announcements for The Mar
agement:
Doug Fairbanks asks the Bard
to announce that even with his
ability to climb he has a hard
time keeping UP with the high
cost of living.
Columbus asks me to correct the
impression that his bones are bur-
led in Spain. insisting that he was
never gambling man.
John D. Rockefeller wants It
known that the report that he
could not pay the iristallments on
the piano is not true. and desires
to thank all those who sent con-
tributions.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12
TRUTHS AND
TRAWESTIES
By tn Bard.
By tn Bard.

'Tenshun!
Speaking of epitaphs, Bobby Burns
composed some admirable and cpl
grammatic ones. Here are two sam,
pies:
Epitaph for William Niool:
Ye maggots. feed on Nicci's brain.
For few such feasts you've gotten:
And fix your claws in Nncol's heart.
For deli bit O. it's rotten.
Epitaph for William Niche:
e, Here lie Willie Michie's banes,
o Satan. when We take him.
Gle him the sculir' o. your weans,
For clever deils he'll max them.
Parade Rest!
I'm little rabid Red.
LIS of blood / want TO shed.
But the cops went let me
So l think
I'll just become a pale Pink!
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12

warships including one belonging to the navy of the
United States have been Fiume purpose
OF enforcing the order that the rong in that town
cease They still doing things in the old way.
Or perhaps it would be say that they
are attempting to do some things in the old way. The
only way in which order may be restored in Fiumc is
settle at Paris the whole of the Adriatic.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12

share day bull market reaches its
apex.
Wheeling dispatch says there is
enough booze in that town to give
every inhabitant a pint each.
But it's in JAIL.
Gosh. that's nothing 10 boast about
Bet the Fairmont boct:egsers could
make as good a showing and not a
bit of their likker is in jail
But IT'S locked up all right
Until the thirsty are willing to pay
their price.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12
NEW BATTERY SERVICE STATION

NEW BATTERY SERVICE STATION.
The knight Electric Company. dis
tributors for the "EX1DE" Automo-
bile Batteries. has received another
shipment OF batteries At their new
service station, 222 Jefferson street.
This company carries IN stock batter.
les for all makes and models of cars
and also makes repairs on all kinds OF
batteries. Use an "EXIDE" while
your battery is being repaired. Tele.
phone 7ss-J.-Adys
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12
EvERYsopY

Is war gardening-doing their bit
but IL they would have their bit"
prove to DO "bis bit" and really
worth while-they should visit the
Hall Hardware company and supply
themselves with garden seeds and a
complete outfit Of garden tools. There
you will find everything needed to
make your garden success.-Adv.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12

fall gives TO the public a unl reliza-
tion OF the inadequate transpsrta-
tion facilities OF the country.
SHIP NOW everything you will
need this fall and winter which is
suitable for transportation ahead OF
the day Of its use.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12

Detroit dispatches this morning announce that the
Fords have purchased all the minority interest in the
famous motor car manufacturing company except one
and that the minimum wage of 10000 workmen would
at once be advanced to 81 per day. About the only
thing that IL chez, in the United tsates these days
money.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12
Present Arrsl

Present Armsl
/ The Girl in the Office says she heard
that Walter Barnes at the Normal
school is a famous photographer but
her brother always preferred the ones
Flo Ziegfeld picks.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12
Ground ArmsI

I'm a Jazz Baby" sang woman at
the corner of Main and Madison last
evening. A Jagged" baby, don't you
mean? queried the close observer
from an opposite corner.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12
az ALWAYS HAVE GOOD LUCK

ALWAYS HAVE GOOD LUCK
Ask any housewife why she prefers
Marigold Flour and she will say that
she can depend on 1t. Being dependa-
BILE. 1t not only eliminates chance OF
spoiled baking, but makes a quality
loaf that the housewife is proud OF.
Get sack from your grocer and have
satisfactory bak.ngs. Manufactured
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12
Personals.

Personals.
Mrs. c. NJ. Ramase and little
daughter. Eleanor are visiting the
formers parents, at Cassville, Mon
ongalia Co.
Miss Beulah satterfield still con-
tinues quite III at her home In Cuff
fy street.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hawkins, OF
q ARIA willie, were guests
Of Mrs. Hawkins parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Lake in Saterfield ST.,
Friday.
l.. S. jenkins of Market street is
spending few days in Pittsburgh.
Mrs. Walter Doolittle, Of Morgan
town avenue is recovering from a
few days illness.
Mrs. Harriet Shaffer. OF Morgan.
town avenue has been indisposed the
past week. Her sister. Mrs. Rachel
linn. Of Tunnelton has been with her
the past several days.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12

tricity-we can show you in five min.
utes that the electric way is the most
economic-we do house wiring in a
mastery manner at modest cost. Let
us talk 1t over. Fairmont Battery Elk.
IS. 225 Meredith street. Phone
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12

now visiting relatives at Washing
ton, Pa. Her sister, Miss Josephine
Maple has heen the guest of friends
in Brownsville, Pa. for the past sew
eral days.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12
EAST SIDE
-:-NEWS =
No Sunday EVENING Services.

No Sunday Evening Services.
There will be no services on Sum
day evening at the East Side church
es so that all will have an oppor.
tunity to attend the evening session
Of the Chautauqua. Members Of
each congregation are urged to attend
the morning service and the Sunday
School at their respective places Of
worship and make them the banner
services Of the year.
Returning Home.
Miss Mildred Maple OF Ferry street
who has been at Y Camp at Eagle
mere, Pa. as representative from
the Normal School 7. w. C. A. 81
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12
What People Say
and Some Side Remarks

Fred Bartlett. of Warrington. spent
his Fourth at Toledo and everyone
naturally asks him about the fight. He
says:
81 am not sorry that made the
trip but would not want to see
1t again; it was brutal"
Mr. Bartlett had a seat just thirty
feat from the fighters. He got up to
go at the end of the first round, think
ing the fight was over.
Roy Stewart says that Greater Man
nington is enjoying big boom. He
says it is almost impossible to get a
house or a hand. AS for the Stewart
Granite Works, he says:
Business was never better.
The coLcern never had so many
orders untouched as at present"
Charles L. Snodgrass. secretary of
the Warrington Lodge of Elks. who
= ~" conduct OF The
Salvation Army drive recently, says:
.rm,ne:>0n
and they raised $17255 at that
POINT winch mas never beS:l credit
ed to Pennington in the newspa-
per accounts. The money was sent
to me and l sent it on to H. B.
Lewis at Charleston, the state
treasurer with instructions to
credit It to Farmingtou and to Ma
rion county"
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by Fairmont Grain and Milling Co.

TeN YEARS BEHIND
The times-Does thai strike you: Do
you illuminate your home with pois-
onous gas? Do1t get s"e--d 80 ="
suggest wiring your house for cleo.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12

Quarterly Conferences.
The fourth quarterly conference Of
the year will be held at the First
NJ. P. church on Monday evening.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-12

Charles L. snodgrass. secretary of
the Warrington Lodge of Elks. who
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1919-10-31
Spends ST. coo a Month by Sign
ing Papa's Checks
Away.
is T'LACED IN "HOM E"
Beautiful Girl Tires of Rural Life and
Tries Smart Chicago Hotels
Now Eats Porridoe Instead
OF Artichokes.

Chicago.-Two thousand dollars In
two months ought 10 buy a fairly good
living. even in these times.
But II seemed small To Margaret
Lamb. a beautiful girl from South Da-
kota, who I'm that two months lived at
six OF the smart hotels in Chicago. and
intended TO visit Them all, signing
meantime nice green checks on her
fathers bank account.
Margaret also bought a dress and
paid $135 for 1t, and she bought silk
stockings for $3.50, aud yellow silk
ones for SS and corsets for $50, and
French hats, and In Minneapolis on
her fathers checking account she
bought another gown for $780, order
ing by mail.
And violet ray baths1
Margaret had two a day and a hair
dress and manicure every time she
ventured out into the broad light.
1t wasn't easy for Assistant States
Attorney Hogan To decide what 20 do
with Margaret, because she Is a very
upright person. with nothing against
her but the floating OF fathers fat
checks.
Margaret's mother died when she
was -four. Her father, who is wealthy.
has had housekeeper on his farm
In South Dakota for the past many
years, and she cared for the younger
sister and the little brother.
Margaret suddenly got ambitious
and came 10 Chicago to study music
promising 20 live with her mothers
brother and his wife in Oak Park.
Oak Park bored Margaret. She hii
the trail for the loop. She decided ho-
tells would suit her She went shop
ping and bought $1,000 worth Of
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1919-10-31
THOUSANDS DIED
IN LAVA STREAM
Eyewitness Tells of Horrors Fol.
lowing Eruption Of Volcano
in lava.

Singapore. - The terrible scenes
which prevailed when the volcano OF
= lat, IN the Island of Java, burst
mo eruption on May 30. destroying 20
Villages and causing loss Of life es-
timatcd 40 l0,010, have been wildly de-
scribed hy Miss L. w. Cranen. who
was staying in the village Of Blitar al
that time and recently arrived here
from Spurabaya. The first symptoms
Of the coming eruption, according to
Miss Cranen, were sounds like thur
der and vivid flashes in the sky Enor.
nous boulders were flung from the
volcano into the lowlands around II
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1919-10-31

Judge J. y. Fletcher by Mrs. Mary II.
ParkEurst before whom she is appear
ing for a divorce from the husband of
her romantic youth.
With her heart filed with romance
and the promise of happiness. Mary
Williams. a c>nshter Of Dr. John 4.
Williams, a Puyallup physician. was
married 10 Marvin ParkhurSt In 1917.
and after a short honeymoon 10 rela-
tives and friends the couple repaired
10 the husbands homestead in Mon
taAa. where. as she told the Judge. her
romance was shattered.
In a log cabin u feet long and 10
feet wide. with a dirt floor and bed
made with drygoOds boxes supporting
pair OF springs. a table imprOvised
by mailing a board TO the inner walls
Of the hut, and no chairs. the bride
soon realized that her love was 10 be
put to the severest test.
But when II was known that the
stork would soon pay them a visit
and no medical assistance arranged
for because her husband was a Chris
tIan Scientist, life became an unbesr-
able burden All the heat and glow
OF a rosy life OF love and devotion shei
had pictured 10 herself was broken and
she fed with babe IN arms 10 her near
est neighbor, % miles away.
Parkhurst IS contesting the divorce
on the ground that his wife knew Of
the conditions when she married HIM
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clothes Then she hit the Cooper Carl
ton. the la Sale. the Surf, the Hyde
Park-and so on. She signed checks
liberally and tipped like a loop hound.
The aunt and uncle notified the IA
ther in South Dakota that Margaret
had disappeared. Detectives found her.
comfortably located az the Edgewatcr
Beach. She told every one she was
twenty-three. She's barely seventeen.
Likes Her Chickens Fried.
Mrs. Anna l.. Davern of the Juvenile
court was sent To talk 10 Margaret and
for days she and Mr.. Hogan have tried
10 convince the girl that the COWS and
chickens weren't so bad when YOU had
fine and adoring father. Margaret
frowned on the chickens.
officer Fred Becker and Mrs. Da-
vern took Margaret I'm cab 10 the
Chicago Home for Girls. with the con-
sent OF both her uncle and her fa-
ther, and there she will be locked up
till she awakens
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1919-10-31
SPENDS HALF LIFE IN JAIL
Criminal With Long Record Declares
Life Of Crime Does Not
Pay.

Omaha. Neb.-"Stretch" Bird, arrest.
ed In Omaha charged with implication
I'm the robbery Of a garage and theft
OF dozen high-priced automobile tires,
has had an eventful criminal career.
lie IS forty years old and has spent
more than one-half OF his life in prison.
"And II was worse than wasted"
Bird said "for all OF the robberies
have committed yielded me less than
500 In money. 1t doesn't pay to do
wrong. . !
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WILL LIVE WITH SAVAGE,
Man, Disousted With Civil zation. 70
Sail for South SEA Islands in
Thirty-Foot launch.

Port Orford. Wash.-Announcirgh his
inicnfion 10 embark In 30foof
laufc, Cor the South Sen Islands.
wh ~ expects 20 find an environ.
mci re IN common with his idea
OF 'he customs Of civilized so
cict, to be. ". H. II. Maurice
or } ford. Wash, has begun
preparations for his long Journey.
Maurice plans to spend the rest Of
his life with the natives of these IS
lands.
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HER DREAM OF
Joy is SHATTERED
Life on Lonely Montana Desert
Ends Romance OF Co.,
lege Girl.

Puyallup. Wash.-A romance staged
AZ its beginning on the campus Of the
Washington Agricultural college at
Pullman. It's interruption when she
wss spirited away TO the mountains Of
Tennessee. a ciandestine correspond
ence. and. after four years, 10 return
10 be welded. and how her heart was
broken by life on a lonely Montana
desert claim in a flOorless 10 by J.
log hut. is a tale tragically told 10