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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-02-15
Marriage Announced.

Friends here Of Capt. Gordon say.
age Of Camp Custer, Mich have re-;
ceived cards announcing his mar.
rage with Miss Josephine Smith,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
Dingley Smith OF Indianapolis, Ind,
which was sc'emnized In that city on
Saturday, the eighth OF February.
Captain Savage was formerly located
here with the Consolidation Coal Co.,
pnd at the outbreak cf the war enter.
ed the officers training camp ataFort
Ben Harrison, where he received hts
commission.
Valentine Dinner Party.
Mr.. aad Mrs. Roberto. Denham
entertained O number Of friends at
q Valentine dinner last evening at
their homo on jefferson street. the
appointments of which were in keep
ing iwth the holiday spirit. The guests
Included Mrs. Olive Burt, Mrs. Dora
Weaver. Miss Marie Burt Of Man
George Price and Mr.. and Mrs. +. s.
Basnett Of this city
Elected Officers.
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected yesterday at a meeting Of the
Wcman:s Home and Foreign Mission
AIRY society OF the First Presbyterian
church. as follows:
Presiden:, Mrs. II. 6. stoetzer;
vice president Mrs. l.. G. Powell;
Mrs. u. W. Mason, ST., and Mrs. u.
P. Richie, secretary; Mrs. H. r..
Johnson; assistant secretar, Mrs. 7. 4
A. HusSaker; treasurer. Mrs. Charles
B. Rotb; assistant treasurer. Mrs.
Raseh I1olittle, secretaries Of liter
ature, MIS-. r. A. Shurtleff; Mrs.
James Henskaw; secretary Little
Light Bearers Mrs. F. G. Evan.
Mrs. j. Q. Welton; secretary asso-.
ciate membership, Mrs. e. M. Show.
alter; secretary temperance, Mrs. j..
Walter Barnes; chairman program
committee. Mrs. Hugh f. Smith;
chairman music committee, Mrs. w.
T. Black.
AZ Bryant Home.
The music pupils Of Miss Frances
Aaggerty are being presented in re.
cital this afternoon at the home of
Mrs. VIM. Bryant, or Locust avenue.
The following pupils are participants,
Mary Bryant, Mildred I.auham. Marie
O'Briep, Madge and Virginia McDon-
nell, Lucy Margaret Powell. Elsie
Thompson End Eleanor DeTurk.
Members Of The Protected Home
Circle and their friends were enter.
tanned at an informal valentine dancs
last evening which was held in the
Assembly ball of the Masonic Temple
SINNERS sa1aphone orchestra rend-
cred music TO. the dancing.
~ Mask Valentine Party.
odd Fellows and Daughters Of Re.
'bekah were participants In delight
full Valentine mask party at the X. Of
T. hallslast night at which the Daugh,
;ers OF Rehekah we're, hostesses. The
appointments were Of an attractive
and pofgbr;afo nature. The event
was largely attended.
For Mrs. Koontz.
In honor Of Mrs. Arthur Burke
Koontz % Charleston who with her
baby daughter. Mary Watson koontz,
has beena guest at Fairmont Farms
for several months, Mrs. Conrad Sfpe
~.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-02-15

Those present were the Misses
Alma Kopp. Lena Reese. Alice Fum,
Helen Thayer, Madge Reese, Messrs.
Howard Gilkeson. Mark Trach, Robert
Harden, Emmor Sound rs, Jr., Beckett
Martin aud Albert Fuller.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-02-15
10 sefve Chicken Dinner.

The Epworti L,eague;of the First N.
E. church, south, will serve a chicken
dinner on Friday evening. February
2lst at the y. M. G.: a. An elaborate
menu IS being arranged by the wom-
en- Of the church who have an enyia.
bic reputation for this work earned on
previous similar occasions. Further
announcements viii follow.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-02-15
AGNalentlne Party

Tho Misses Madge Reese and Helen
Thayer entertained at a Valentino
party, last evening at the latter's homo
in Castor avenue The guests were
delightfully."- entertained. the decora-
tons and ointments all being in
keeping with the spirit Of, the day.
Music and games were the diversions
Of the evening and eshments were
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-02-15

Have you tasted our hot cakes I? II
you haven't you are missing some.
thing. Boyers' Restaurant. Adv.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-02-15

At the Roundtable- County SUPER.
intendent OF Schools w. Il. dichael
attended Roundtable at Nj hnington
yesterday and today. W b
The Irish standard., 1919-02-15
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WILL BE
BONE DRY BY MARCH 5TH.

The District of Columbia will be-
come "bone dry" on some day be-
tween February 22nd. and March 5th.,
unless all signs fail. The war revenue
bill, reported to the House by the con-
ferees, carries in it the Senate amend
ment extending to the District the pro-
visions of the Reed bone dry" law,
which prohibits the sending of alco-
holfc beverages into territory where
the laws prohibit the manufacture and
sale of these beverages.
The proposed law will become ef-
fective the day after the revenue bill
is signed by the President. The Presi-
dent has announced that he will sail
for this country February 18th. The
revenue bill viii be awaiting him on
his arrival at the White House. accord.
ing to the congressional leaders.
The Irish standard., 1919-02-15
FINAL ACTION is DEFERRED
Senate Fails to Reach Vote on War
Revenue Bill.

Washington, Feb. 14.-Final action
on the conference report of the $6,-
900 100000 war revenue bill was de-
ferred by an early adjournment of
the Senate in observance of the birth
day anniversary of Abraham Lincoln.
This unexpected move came after
Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania,
senior Republican of the conferees,
had precipitated general debate with
three-hour attack on what he termed
extravaganza and waste of appropria-
tions since the war began.
While promising the revenue meas
ure his support, the Pennsylvania
senator said it taxed the country about
to the breaking point and asserted
that the American people were
alarmed If not disgusted by congress
sional appropriations"
The Irish standard., 1919-02-15
American Divine Links Its Propa.
ganda Work With System
in Russia.
EXPLAINS SLAV RULE
Re. q. A. slmens, Recently Returnse
From Pstrosrad, Tells ssnats
Committee Government 10
Military Dictatorship.

Warrington, Feb. 1.-THE Bolshevik
regime in Russia was described by the
Rev. g. A. Simons in testimony before
the senate committee Investigating
lawless agitation in the United States,
as minority military dictatorship sup
ported by terrorism.
DR.. Stmons, who for many years has
been head of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in Russia, said most of the
Bolshevik leaders were Jews, many
from the East Side of New York and
that they had set aside large sums for
the spread of their doctrine in all the
countries of the world.
Links I. w. w. and BoIshevik.
The I. w. w. movement in this
country was said by DR.. Simons to be
Identical with the Bolshevists' system,
Bolshevik propaganda apparently is be.
ing carried on in the United States,
DIR. Simons said, by means of speakers,
pamphlets and articles in newspapers
and magazines. He declared that John
Reed and Albert Rhys Williams, Amer
ican writer's, had been closely affiliat-
ed with the Bolshevik government in
Russia. The witness said publishers
of Bolshevik literature in the United
States included the Rand School of So
etal Science in New York, Charles H.
Kerr & Co., aChicago; The Socialist
Literature company, New York, and
Novymir, Russian newspaper in New
York.
Close to BoIshevik Leaders.
DR.. Simons, whose headquarters
were in Petrograd before he fed the
country last October, told the commit.
tee that John Reed and his wife,
Louise Braynt, we're very close to the
Bolshevik leaders in Petrograd. Reed
was described as persona grata to
the Bolshevik government so that
that wanted to make him consul gen.
eral in New York"
"Was he regarded by Americans
there as American or Bolsheviki?"
questioned Senator King of Utah.
"As Bolshevik," replied the wit.
ness. There were number of Amer.
lean Bolshevik sympathizers there.
We referred to them as 'mushheaded
middleheaded.'
Albert Rhys Williams frequently
participated in Bolshevik meetings,
DR.. Simons said, and was heart and
soul with them, speaking in very ten.
der terms of them"
The Irish standard., 1919-02-15
The Facts and Fa||acies
Of Modern Spiritisnl

lied and clothed with subtle matter by
the spirit-intelligences.
This is amply proved by the strik-
ing evidence which is available. Some
years ago the deceased British Card.
inals were very much in evidence in
English seance.rooms. The late Card
inal Newman especially was believed
to appear regularly at house we'll
known to me. I was several times
present at his naturalization and
seen many post mortem photographs
Of him. But found that they all diff.
cred very considerably and that this
difference could be traced back to the
image Of the late Cardinal which the
individual observer had in his mind,
or to a published photograph of him
which he had seen. They could not
therefore be presentations of the Card.
inal as he exists now in the other life
and in his spirit body" We have
furthermore photographs in which the
materialised spirit is presented at
various ages-in one case as a child
or youth, in another as a grown up
person, the presentation evidently cor
responding with the peculiar mind
image which the experimenter had of
the deceased. have in my possession
a photograph obtained in a city which
l had never visited before and in
which there appears by my side fair
ly good picture of deceased member
of my family, but alas, for Sir Conan
Doyle and his theories! there is on
the same photograph also the image of
person we'll known to me who is still
living, but not as she is now-an ell
derly lady, but as l knew her years
ago and as best remember her-a
young married woman. Proof positive
this, surely! that these images are not
photographs of the living dead, but
materialised phantasms taken from the
subconscious memories of relatives
and friends. The masquerading spir-
it's clearly cannot always distinguish
the phantasms of the living from
those of the dead, and it is here where
the critical Investigator gets on the
track of the deception.
Space does not permit me to carry
the argument any further; but suffi-
cieht has been said to show that Sir
Conan Doyle's evidence in favor of
the identity of the communicating spir-
its is utterly worthless, and that his
prodigious claim harbors fundamen-
tai and fatal fallacy.
The Irish standard., 1919-02-15
PRESIDENT WILSON NAMED AREA
DIAN BY BENEDICT XIV.
Cardinal Gibbons, Too, Joined to Bod,
Of Which Archbishop Is
Member.

Rome, Jan. 3. 1919.
One suggestion, as timely as it is
genial, is attributed to the Fifteenth
Benedict these days, viz, that of max
ing President Wilson an Arcadian,
member Of the famous literary society
that originated in the Vatican Gardens
in the sixteenth century. To Cardinal
Gibbons, father of the Bishops of the
world, the sturdy Cardinal Mercier,
and to the Prince Bishop of Trent,
similar honor is done by the Area
dians.
The four famous Arcadians will find
themselves in excellent company as
far as dignity, fame and learning. Leo
XIII and Plus X were members of the
Arcadia. Benedict XIV is one with the
title Pontifex Maximus. The King of
Spain and the Queen of Sweden are
also members. Most of the Cardinals
in Rome belong to it, small number
of foreign bishops, and many lovers
Of letters all over Europe.
On becoming an Arcadian, one re-
ceives from the society Greek name
by which he is to be known on it's
register. The name given by it to Mr..
Wilson is "Ddcearces Mericies."
| Archbishop Mundelein of Chicago is
an Arcadian. This signifies member
ship in the Pontifical Academy of Ar
cadia, a unique association of Catholic
scholars whose purpose is the produc-
| tion and patronage of what is finest
and purest in literature. Archbishop
Mundelefn was elected to this Acad-
emy on April 20, 1907. To the present
he and Bishop Hennessey were the
only American members of the Area
dia.
The Irish standard., 1919-02-15
BREAKS TWO AUTO RECORDS
Ralph De Palma Shows Some Speed
at Daytona, Fla.

Daytona, Fla, Feb. 14.-Ralph De-
Palma broke the worlds automobile
records for both mile and a kilo-
meter in straightaway dashes on Day.
tona beach. The time for the mile as
announced by officials of the Automo-
bile association of America was 24.O2
seconds against Bob Burman's record
of 25.40 seconds made in 1911. DePal-
mas kilometer time was 1886 seconds
or two seconds below the record.
The Irish standard., 1919-02-15
Time win Not Be Extended.

Washington, Feb. 14.-Treasury Of.
dcial reiterated that there would be no
extension of the time for filing income
profit tax returns beyond March Is.
This applies alike to individual in
comes, corporation incomes and profit
returns and to similar reports re-.
quired by the law on that date. On
cials denied rumors reaching tho treas.
ury that extension might be granted IN
certain cases for these returns. Ad-
ditional time may be granted, however,
for so-called "informatioD 1t the
source" roDor
The Irish standard., 1919-02-15
Denies World Army Report.

Paris, Feb. 14.-Lord Robert CeoA
the British representative on the
league of nations commission, denied
a report spread in Paris that the
league of nations commission had ap
proved the creation of an immediate
international army and that the Unit
ed States and Great Britain had con
ceded point to France. Lord Robert
said that In his opinion the commits
sion would decline to approve any
such plan. He added such q report
must have originated from an enemy
Of the peace conference
The Irish standard., 1919-02-15
GERMANY DOWNS RADICALS.

Berlin, Jan. 31.-Unoficial returns
from Sundays elections to the Prus-
sian assembly, without taking Po-
sens twenty one delegates into con-
sideration, show the selection Of 142
Socialists, "a Independent Socialists,
81 Christian Peoples party, Al Ger
man Nationalists, 18 German Peoples
party. 81 Democrats. 6 Guelphs and 1
Democrat-Peasant.
The Irish standard., 1919-02-15
YANKs REINFORCE THE ALLIES

March 80 Miles to Reach Hard Pressed
British and Russ.
Archangel, Feb. 14.-American rein.
forcements, marching over 80 miles of
forest trail, reached the hard pressed
British and Russians in the region of
Sredmakrenga. The bolsheviki, who
had been launching strong attacks in
this region, evidently feared they
would be cut off, and withdrew.
Conditions on other sectors of the
northern Russian front are unclaimed.
The Irish standard., 1919-02-15
NEW HAMPSHIRE STAYS DRY
Legislature Refuses to Modify the
Prohibition law

Concord, N. H., Feb. 14-The state
house of representatives, by vote of
173 to 14O, killed bill to legalize the
sale of beer and light wines. The pro-
hibition law adopted by the legislature
two years ago made illegal the manu-
facture and sale of all intoxicating liq-
uors and the bill killed would have
modified the law.
The Irish standard., 1919-02-15

Two Mexican Bishops have died re-
Gently, Msgr. Pagaza of Vera Cruz
and Msgr. Dominguez of Tepic. At
the time of his death the latter was
street sweeper. That such thing
should have been possible seems in
credible to Catholics "up north," but
the report of the bishops humiliation
is we'll authenticated. To take q
bishop in his SEVENTEEN year and de-
grade him and his Office to such an
extent is-well, worthy of Carranza.
The Washington times., 1919-08-20
Beatrice Fairfax Writes Othe Problems and Pitfalls the War Workers
Especially for Washington Women

IL my way. love this man dearly,
and it would break my heart to part
from him, and also know he loves
ma. They have picked a man out
for me that has more money than
he knows what to do with. He is
older than I by ten years, and I
hate him. Ny family refuse to call
me their daughter il marry the
other.
Now, what shall I do? love the
other man dearly. I can't live with
out him. and I do not care for
money I am willing to face pow
erty and have his love rather than
to have riches uncountable and live
with a man that hate.
Do you advise me to face my par
ents' anger and have love, or do as
they say and live life OF misery to
US both? / am Of age and could get
married without their consent. I
work and support my ownself, and
ask nothing OF my parents what
ever.
am twenty-one and he is twenty
five, he is a fine, upright man,
good habits, has no bad vices at all
CtneT than .smok.ng once in while.
The only thing my parents object
to is the money. and the position
the other could give me. care
nothing for this. JUNE.
No, l do not think you are old
fashioned, unless it is old-fashioned
to be true to our better ideals. And
If you should marry a man you dis
like, for any reason whatever, you
might be entirely modern, but you
would be doing an unlcvely and
degrading thing. AS you are only
twenty-one, why don't you and
your sweetheart decide to wait for
a year or so, in which time you
may be able to win over your par
ents. 1t is an unfortunate thing
for a girl to fly in the face Of her
parents, and time is the most won
derful solvent Of all veXed ques-
tiOnS
The Washington times., 1919-08-20
Another Reason for Granting
Ex=Fighting Men Six Months
Pay Due Them

Five exsolders, fully armed, walked into bank at
Chicago the other day, said Hands up and walked away
with all the cash.
director of the bank who had his hands in the air
with the rest was contained enough despite the excite
ment, to ask the leader of the gang question.
"Why" said "do you healthy, fHeIOokiHg young men
your such job this, for RhCh You WH be
aounded BY the police epentuay caught and puHhedl
Hhy do you do it,"
YoH can all put your dOWH said the leader whHe
qnsuer this question the army figured
Iat if got of alive and back home, everything
WoHdeTfu My girl waiting for There we're
and cheering, and everybody said the Cop
c-7men vas going reward handsomely got married
started looking for job for the SIXTY dollars OF Cop
money didn't pey long couldn't get job None
Of could get There's going to be little one at my
house pretty And no Uork.
walked out of the bank
Of course there is good for the thief or the
lawbreaker Of any kind.
But miserly sixty dollars from the Government and no
work had been magnfed by that exsoler into plausible
reason why he should take what he could get.
If the Government had been liberal other govern
ments if it had granted the six months pay that than
six million people have asked Congress- to grant, and the
former employer Of that had said when he back
Good boy! Glad you're safe Here's your job it would
have saved at least one young from adopting wrong
code of morals becoming criminal and being from now
either object of continued search a convict.
Every day that Congress puts of action on the payment
discharged of what is justly due them is directly
assisting in building up the discomfort and false reasoning
that make good men do wrong
The Washington times., 1919-08-20
Stop Thief
Time e-Robbers. Unfortunately Cannot Be Punished by
Process of Law.

officer of the law to step up behind you to-
day, tap you the shoulder and say you're my pris-
oner," it undoubtedly would be very disturbing.
Most people, after hasty review of their actions of
recent date, would ask Whats the charger"
And if the officer to say, ''You are pinched for
robbng several people of lot of valuable time you would
be real annoyed and complain perhaps, of patenaisc
Government and a nosy police system.
Would you be justified?
The writer was recently enjoying few hours with
dentist who complained that many of his patients did
pay their bills.
"And suppose you put lot of valuable gold filings
in their teeth?" he was asked.
Gold nothing" he replied. Il can buy more gold. /
don't mind that But can't buy time It's the time
that lost that counts
The person who takes anothers time is thief-as
much thief he who steals pocketbook or an umbrella
Of the two perhaps the timestealer is the be
censured.
Like the dentists gold another pockebook or another
umbrella may be purchased
We hear men say that time is lmitless
Time is the most limited of all factors in human life
There just twenty hours in day and Just three
hundred and sixty-fve days in a year.
The most astue scientist figure out or create
another thousandth of second of time Time that has
gone is like the pebble dropped into the middle the
ocean.
There are many ways of stealing time. One of the
frequent is the lack of punctualty To make ar
engagement with person. taking him from his regular
pursuits and then be ten fifteen minutes late
that much time lost for him. The person who late for an
engagement is a robber.
Another method of lching time from ones neighbor is
through incompetent letter writing
Many have to wade through letters which state
that the writer takes his pen in hand having few mo-
ments to spare to write few lines to say that
The person who insists taking his pen in hand will
have stenographer.
Long rambling letters, going around Robin Hoods
barn to tell the tale steal the time Of the writer as well as
that of the reader Cultivate the habit of writing concisey
Talking concisely is another ar that all would 70 well
CCOatnuod IN Last COlmAl
The Washington times., 1919-08-20
Mistakes OF Nineteen.

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I am nineteen years OF age, my
problem" three months younger,
and we have known each other for
about three years. / am not an ex-
perienced lover, and falling in love
early made the first mistake OF
falling TO take into account her
feelings. spoke too prematurely,
and naturally received a negative
answer. That was a little over
year ago. and 1 was restricted TO
remaining only a friend. con-
sented. because she stated she
never intended TO marry, her plans
being to remain a bachelor girl"
] kept faith until about March OF
this year when she began to en-
courage me. and gave distinct
signs OF loving me. OF this | am
certain. I was fool enough, how
ever, not to mention love at this
time but waited for what l thought
would be a more favorable Oppor-
tunity. Finally recognizing the
need for an understanding Of some
sort. / again proposed. this time
with more hope Of success. Her
answer was the same as before, and
/ am undecided just how to con-
tinue. | expect to ask her again
within a month or two, and II the
answer is again the same, don't
you think il would be best for me
to break off relations entirely? Or
should l fight?
I have nothing tnat would a p
peal 10 the average girl am not
int
are not an asset nor yet a liability
but ! had hoped that my one
good quality Of showing promise
m business and the like, would SUI
flee to interest this young lady in
me.
Like myself she has little to ap-
peal to men-she is not beautiful OF
feature. nor rich, and l find ii diff
iicult to answer my friends when
they ask me what il is that in
terests me in her. All / know is
that ! do love the girl, that her in
nuence upon my life has been
wonderful one, and IT will be of no
avail on anyOne's part to doubt my
statements. ! am convinced.
A YOUNG MAN.
This young mans problem"
seems to be nothing more
than a case of youth, and a
first love affair. As he says, he is
not an experienced lover; if he
had been he would have proposed
when the young lady showed af-
fection, and not waited for an at
tack of Indifference before again
pleading his cause.
To an unbiased confident, the
case appears like one of those boy
and girl affairs that are a part of
the Joy of being nineteen, but
seldom survive the morning glow
of first youth. He does not even
think she is beautiful and finds
it difficult to explain her power
over him to his friends.
When our young friend is
genuinely in love, he will be swept
off his feet and, as for thinking
the object of his love beautiful, he
will feel that the Venus de Medici
is unworthy to tie her shoelaces.
All the same, this sounds like a
nice wholesome girl and boy
friendship to me and l sincerely
hope he will not put into execu-
ton his threat to "break of re-
lations entirely" He says her
inhuAnnR IN his lifa has hasn won