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FINANCE, OIL AND GAS


not even in the Weir sand. Other wells
N that development got the pay at
from 800 TO 315 feet below the top OF
the Big Lime. They are still drilling
at the well on the Woods farm but the
chances for a producer are not en-.
couraging.
Operations In the district are in.
creastng. At the present time thers
are Is rigs up and wells drilling. The
next due 1s the Ohio Fuel OH Com
pany's No. 8 on the William Nicholas
farm. The rigs for Nos. 4 and I On
the same farm have been completed
KoontS and Osborne are starting "a
drill test on the ]. N. Bird heirs
farm.
In Courthouse district, Lewis coun.
~, tho Reserve Gas Company has
drilled It's test on the r. B. Duvall far
through the Gordon sand at a depth OF
2b4S feet, located one mile east Of the
South Penn Oh company's test on
the McDon1ell-Murray farm. II IS q
gasser Of the usual size for that local
Two miles northeast OF Chenille
G!lmer county, the Philadelphia Com.
pany has completed test on the Ma
ry q. Lynch farm, located on the Ka.
nawha river, in the Maxon sand. II
will be good for about two barrels a
day. This location is what was pre-
viously regarded as gas territory. The
well has been transferred to the South
Penn Oh Company.
In New Milton district, Doddridee
county, Trimmer 6 Travis are due II
the sand at a second test on the F F
Randolph farm. In West Union dis
trtct, ]. NJ. Grtbble is due in the Bic
In1un sand at another test on the
Stewart heirs farm. In Warrington
district, Marion county, the Hawkins
OIL and Gas Company, is due in the
Big Injun sand at test on the o.
Kuhn farm. Cochran and Funk have
started to drill second test on the
Silas Toothman farm. In the game
district, the South Penn Oil Company
has started to drill a second test or
the NJ. v. MILAN farm. The same
company's second test on the R. Da
Wis farm is due in the Big Injun sand
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SHE TURNED TO
WENTWORTH WHEN
ALL ELSE FAILED
Miss L. Miller, of Union
town Found Her Faith
Well Placed.

This well and favorably known resi-
dent OF the busy town at the western
foot of the Alleghenies has the very
best of reasons for praising this IA
nous family tonic and she gave them
to Uniontowns Wentworth druggist
a few days ago:
Wade H. Guyton--I have been in a
very nervous condition for a long
time. Felt tired and worn out after
my days duties. MY appetite was
very poor and stomach and digestion.
In miserable condition. Have been a
great sufferer from rheumatism and
neuralgia.
] procured a bottle Of Wentworth
and am now feeling in good condi-
ton. Appetite and digestion in fine
shape. No more nervousness OF
pains. Am gaining in strength every
day. Nerv-Worth certainly helped me
up to the point of good health, when
all other remedies failed. will al.
ways keep 1t in the house.
MISS L. MILLER,
242 E. Fayette ST., Uniontown, Pa.
Your dollar back at Cranes drug
store, Fairmont, If Wentworth does
not benefit YOU.
Neighboring agents: H. ]. Mathews
& Co., Warrington: w. P. Moran,
Pennington; F. ]. Yost, Fairview;
Windsor Drug Co. and the Honaker
Pharmacy, Monongah; Johnson's
Pharmacy, shinnston; Grant Graham,
Belington; w. o. Davis, Philippi.-
Adv.
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New York

VIEW YORK. July Trading on the
3ck Exchange yesterday was again
" lively and more confusing as 10
nd. the sitter rates for money once
IRE becoming the dominant factor
the several reyersals and recover
-all loans opened at 0 to 10 per cent
against yesterdays final rate Of 20
cent. and held at the initial quota
is until the final hour, when as
b as IS per cent was paid on mix
loans. and II per cent for all an
rials.
ernight developments in their re.
pm to quoted values were ilelpul
lnly TO the Industrial list, but also
peppers and metals. The one dis
Pting feature was further weakness
exchange on the Entente centers,
III sterling and francs at lower
Tees.
foreign trade centers accentuated
4 condition at the steel mills prices
20 cents for copper for August de-
lery was quoted, and fractions and
s shares were yisibly strengthened
the order authorizing the local two
ne transfer rate.
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Grain and Produce

CHICAGO, July s.-Fresh strength
became manifest in the corn market
yesterday chiefly owing to scarcity OF
supplies and to continued record.
breaking advances in the value of
hogs. The corn market closed ner-
vous at 1s@4b to as cents net high.
er with September $1.929s@192ss and
December, $1.61%@1.61%. Oats fin
ished h@B to / cent higher, and pro-
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Pittsburgh

.TTsBURGH. July s.-The days
lding on the Pittsburgh Stock Elk.
Ilnge did not show any material
Ice changes in the securities al
Pugh the volume of stock changing
DDS was considerable. The oil and
\ shares continued to lead the mar
/, Arkansas Gas making q new high
i;oAd of So on a fair amount Of SELL
/ and closing the day at 6sss, a frac.
|nal gain over the previous close.
|nufacturers Light and Heat was
ded in between 55k and ssh, the
Ter being the close. Quite a little
ling took place in Oklahoma Nat
Tas between BIZ and 31%. Pitts.
Oil and Gas was in demand
d SIS and about 1000 shares OF
Inside Eastern OIL lcommon chang.
Hands at ~. The brewing stocks
re inactive and there was not much
ing In the glass stocks except in
lndow Glass Machine common,
|fCh cold AGAIN of nor
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SPECIAL NOTICES
REPORT OF THE CONDITION

REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF the Monongahela Bank Of Fair
mont, located at Fairmont, in the
state Of West Virginia at the close
of business. June 30. 1919. Organized
1903, Bank first began business, 1903.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts. .s677,7 4o.s2
Stocks and securities, m
Guiding premiums. -. 81, 10000
Banking House. .......... 100000
Furniture and fixtures. -. 2,5oo.oo
Due from Banks. ......... 60,74451
items. ....,...........,. 7.457.so
Bank. .................. 18,s1s.47
W. s. s................. 273.9s
Liberty Bond Acct....... 4.432.5o
Total. ,................. s1s.rs7.ss
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock paid in. s 64,oo0.00
Surplus fund. 25.600.o0
Dividends unpaid. ........ $4,000
Undivided profit. ........ 5.572.44
Due to Banks. .....m..... 1894
Deposits, viz:
Subject to checks2s5.262.0
Time certificates 1s609175
Savings Deposits 4o,73e.1S 522,ose.es
Cashiers checks. .,...... 5,523.39
Notes and bills rediscount
ed. ................... 100000
Bills payable. ........... 13s,5o100
Victory Bond Acct. 1o,575.oc
fetal. s1s.2s7.ss
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,
County OF Marion.
1, Hugh F. Smith. Cashier of the
above named bank. do solemnly
swear that the above statement Is
true to the best Of my knowledge
and belief.
HUGH F. SMITH.
Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 7th day of July. 1919.
CARL D. SPRINGER.
Notary Public.
My Commission Expires Mar. 1s, 1926
T. H. HUGHES.
\ W. G. SNYDER,
CLARENCE D. ROBINSON,
Directors.
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business OPPORTUNITIES.

EvESToRS. il you want to share
the immense profits to be made
|cm operating in and developing
|e vast resources of Texas, and
the same time have absolute
|fety, you VIII be interested in
IN zso preferred stock which
shares In excess profits. Alb
htely non-speculative. Officers
trustees leading citizens of
5as. Active head one Of Texas
Dst prominent realtors. Nc
,not a stock. Write for partic-
rs. Reliable agents wanted.
ras Investment Syndicate, TOT
% Avenue. Wichita Falls, Texas.
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Oil and Gas.

completions In the Weir sand ex-
on on Doctors Creek, Big Sandy
Act. Kanawha county, w. Va, are
/ yushers. The efforts made to find
enslon TO the east and northeast
proving light bumpers and now
hes q prospective duster. It is the
18th Penn OIL Company's test on the
'Fis Woods farm. located 1900 feet
|theast of the United Fuel Gas Com.
ly's good producer on the W. W.
q heirs farm. The South Penn OIL
|npany has drilled its test on the
oda farm $50 feet below the top
the Dig Lime and found nothing.
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MO TEX OIL COMPANY

.
71oLz Indiana ~ rN 's''
"A at eHas
"tS e"eA 'oN1eet W au'anee OF Withdrawal
before July ~ W S' S' 'hlet "itnui@"n "n Ut
we produce paying quantities your stock will be worth
Gould for more? " go 1oD'' "tsNou' "Asunei~
we LAVE TWO DRILLING CONTRACT LET FOR THIRD sur
Dy
ana we consider failure poby stock going
ano we advise wiring you're reservation = " : ee
COME STOCK
surely follow
= - VI oui LTD wei no ater tnan
we have for eight wells - : - '
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Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Burt have re-
turned from Warrington where they
had spent short time.
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SPECIAL NOTICES

REPORT OF THE coNDIfIoN
OF the Fairmont Trust Company locat-
ed at Fairmont in the state OF West
Virginia at the close Of business June
soth, 1919. Bank first began business
February 18th, 1903.
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To-
New high record.
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LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE.

Pursuant to decree Of the Circuit
court OF Marion county, West Virginia,
made and entered on the 21st day OF
June, 1919, In the Chancery Cause OF
Thomas s. Raymond, plaintiff, VS.. VIII.
liam 8. Raymond, as administrator of
tse estate of Maria E. Raymond, de-
ceased, ct al. we will on Wednesday,
the 30th day OF July, 1919, at the front
door Of the court house Of Marion
county, West Virginia, at one-thirty
O'Clock p. m. of that day, offer for sale
to the highest and best bidder the fol.
lowing described real estate, subjec,
however TO the private sale OF all or
any part thereof prior to such public
sale, that is to say:
Those two adjoining lots or parcels
of real estate situated and both 'front.'
ing on the South West side OF Quincy
street, In the city OF Fairmont, Marion
county, West Virginia, and lying a
short distance north of Jackson street
in said city, the northern OF which
lots having a frontage OF Sit feet,
more or less, and extending back a
distance OF 124 feet, more or less, and
having thereon a substantial frame
dwelling house; the southern OF
which lots having frontage OF 4S.S
feet more or less and extending back
distance OF rs feet more or less:
said real estate having been inherited
by the late Maria F. Raymond, de-
ceased, from her deceased husband,
Alpheus F. Raymond, and used as her
home until her death. Said real es-
tate will be offered for sale both as a
whole and in separate parcels.
Terms Of Sale: one.third or more
OF the purchase price cash on the day
of sale, one-third in six months and
the residue in one year from the date
OF sale, the deferred payments to bear
interest at the rate of six per cent.
and to be secured by vendors liens on
the property sold.
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Frank G. Conley, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs Roiio J. coniey. left last night for
Baltimore and Gainesville, Nd. where
he win spend some time with his
aunt, Miss Mayme Hall.
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CLAY D. AMOS,
e. CARL FRAME,

Special Commissioners.
I, Clarence Currey, Clerk Of the Cir
cult court of Marion county, West vir-
ginia, hereby certify that bond with
security approved by me as suffi-
cient and in the penalty provided bv
said decree, has been given by said
special commissioners.
CLARENCE CURREY,
July 2, 9, 1s, %. CLERK.
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SPECIAL NOTICES
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
All persons knowing themselves to
be indebted, or holding claims against
the estate OF Erasmus Tuning, de-
ceased are hereby notified to make
settlement on or before August is, 1919
to Isaac Wilson. BAT Tygart ST., Ad-
ministrator of the estate Of Erasmus
Tuning.
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FARMS FOR SALE
FOR sALE-a8sA acres al $40 ner

FOR sALE-3Ss1s acres at $40 per
acre. This can be made one Of the
best stock farms in Southern Ohio; Is
90 acres OF good bottom land, balance
of farm just gently rolling and in good
condition; is 80 acres of fine timber.
the owner estimates It at to z hun
dred thousand feet The timber will
more than half pay for farm IL handled
right. Has Z room house, 1 stock barn,
2 sheep barns and outbuildings Of all
kinds, stock scales. This farm Is a
real money maker in fine location and
good surrounding country, / mile Of
village and R. r., Is on fine pike and
only $40 per acre; 10 cash, balance
easy terms. You must see this farm
to realize that a real bargain It is. NJ.
L. Trout Realty Company, Miles ..
Dawson, Agent, Macarthur, Ohio.
7-5-3t-6o05.
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FOR SALE-196 acres. Price $1,000.
Is all good land Just rolling and level
Is very productive. Has 20 acres sec
ond growth timber; good Groom
house, large bunk barn, fine water, is
leased for oil and gas at SOC per acre,
per annum. The location is find on
good road, 1 mile from Macarthur,
close to school, with phone and r. F.
D. in front of house. This is a real
bargain and the terms so easy, $2,500
down, balance $500 per year. M. l..
Trout Realty Co.. Miles E. Dawson.
agent, Macarthur, Ohio. 7-5.St-soo7
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RESTORING THE GEM TO THE
OCEAN

1--WE years ago travelling Americans
of even the most assertive proclivi-
ties were inclined to feel chastened and
embarrassed in foreign harbors. Flags
of seaboard nations, big and little, took
the breeze, but ships bearing the Stars
and Stripes were conspicuously lacking.
An occasional "windjammer" or a whaler
most of the "American" crew of which
would converse in "Portugee," were
about the only evidences of the maritime
dignity Of the United States visible in
the busy ports Of say, Santos, Colombo
or Singapore. columbia, the gem of
the ocean," was a phrase of the most
forid falsity.
The faint Of hyperbole has been eradi-
Gated. The broadside Of statistics lust
disclosed by the United States shipping
board colors the patriotic declaration
with the convincing hue of fact. These
figures are not dry but are indicative
Of romantic chapter of progress that
has few parallels in history. They pro-
claim the prodigious accomplishment
whereby 46 per cent of all shipping now
plying between our own and foreign
shores is Of American registry.
Representatives of Columbia's won
drous commerce feet, comprising one
fifth of the total sea-going tonnage Of
the world, may be found today in Auck-
land or in Cape Town, in Bombay or in
Valparaiso.
When the army and navy return to
their original owners the vessels they are
now operating the American CONNER
cial feet will have a total tonnage Of
nearly four million. Not the least of the
miracles of the war is the ubiquitous
merchant marine under the Stars and
Stripes. Our commerce-carrying emf
nence, destroyed by the Civil War, has
been restored as a result of necessities
arising in the greatest Of all conflicts.
When our citizens begin rowing again
ships Of the most romantic symbols of
power will tighten the home ties.
Uneasy apologies will be out of order.
providing, of course, that the nation
realizes its responsibilities with a peace
shipping program which will render per-
manent our thrills of pride.
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SONGS AND THE LAW

THE quality of the proposed state
song which the Legislature has
turned down docs not seem to have been
high, but even apart from literary or
musical considerations, there was wis
dom in the lawmakers decision. Manu-
factured sentiment makes a distressing
exhibit Patriotic songs self-consciouSly
wrought arc usually sorry products.
Rouget de rIslc was unaware that he
was creating the most famous hymn Of
liberty when he penned the "Marsell-
lase" nor did Francis Scott Key fore
see legislative enactment when he COM
posed the "Star Spangled Banner i'm
medately after the British repulse at
Fort Mclfenry. When these songs were
officially adopted by the French and
American Governments, respectively, the
people had accepted them and the legal
acts Of recognition were mere formal.
ties.
Dixie" was a minstrel ditty of the
"Jim Crow days and Belgium's fervent
"La Brabanconne' also originated un-
pretentiously in a theatre. For all its
royal sanction, SPANS "Marcha Real"
a stiff and stodgy affair, enjoys no real
standing as a national anthem. The air
which all Spaniards know best and feel
to be typical Of their land is Yradier's
colorful and rhythmic LA Paloma" and
the remainder Of the world concurs with
their Endorsement.
II any song spontaneously and popu-
larly Pennsylvania we're discoverable in
this commonwealth it would be entirely
fitting for the Legislature to authorize
its official adoption. But no such air
and text exist. Years ago, perhaps,
"The Blue Junata' might have qualified.
Today, however, many Pennsylvanians
have no idea how it goes.
Harrisburg has done well to repudate
machine-made sentiment just as it has
displayed restraint in not establishing,
as so many American commonwealth
have done, a state flower. If one were
inevitably characteristic as. for instance,
the thistle of Scotland or the Indian
pantbrush Of Wyoming, the public would
realize that without a fiat. State or
national songs or emblems do not derive
their vitality from the statute books.
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property owner took away the cliff on
his side.
America today has All interest in the
western terminus of the cable formerly
running to the Azores end thence to Ger
many. But as a war measure the British
cut that line and made new end to it
in Halifax. The wires which we con-
trol lead hopclessly to the midAtlantic,
and are about as much use to us as his
one precipice was to the echo specialist
Similar tactics were pursued with the
cable between Liberia and Brazil, both
of which countries were neutral when
the British incision was made. That
cable, now tied up with new terminus,
was given to the French Government.
1t is an ancient trick TO claim that a
status created by an cXigency of war
should be recognized in peace, but to
the present British contentious it is
doubtful il America will agree. Ger
tainly some adjustment of a condition
whereby this country controls cable
leading nowhere should be made if right
is to prevail over hagrant aggression in
the new era.
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A DRY WORLD

THE resolution committing the local
= Methodist Episcopal Conference to
support of the movement to Danish alco-
h0l from the whole world will doubtless
be adopted.
This church has been one of the most
consistent advocates Of total abstinence
for many years. There was time when
it condemned the use of tobacco in any
form and Methodist minister who used
il WAS subjected to discipline. We be-
heve that the bars have been let down
somewhat for the relief of those who
fnd smoking relief to tired nerves,
but alcoholic drinks are still condemned.
The success of the prohibition move
nlent in the United States most natur-
ally encourages all prohibitionists to
hope that it can be made equally sue
ccssful in every other country. The diff
culties in the way do not discourage
them.
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MO ONE need be surprised that the
n women teachers are organizing a
labor union
They have been asking for decent
wage for many years, and have been
ssking in vain. They have been told
that there was no money for them The
political officeholders with "pull'--and
yote-have had their pay increased.
But the women have been passed by.
Mechanics who form unions secure an
increase in their pay to help when living
costs 60 up.
Now, when the teachers get their
union formed and affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor we shall
see what we shall see.
A highly organized and active group
of citizens has secured the adoption Of
constitutional amendment this winter
He would be rash, indeed, who should
say that a highly organized body Of
women cannot get whatever it asks for
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BEYOND THE NAYORALTY

w FREELAND KENDRICX, merely
w. mentioned by Senator Ware as
being of mayoralty type" confesses to
little concern about that characteriza-
tion. He has an Office of very far-fung
authority to fill, if, as he admittedly
expects, he is elected imperial potentate
Of the Mystic Shrine for North America
in June
sCabined, cribbed, confined, bound into
saucy doubts and fears,' the post Of
Mayor of Philadelphia may embarrass-
insiy be, as Rudolph Bankenburg was
unfortunately forced to realize Com
pared with all the northern half of this
continent, the one hundred or so square
miles of civic domain here is small.
Mr.. Kendrick is obviously thinking in
halves Of hemispheres, and not muni-
cipally. Perhaps it was breadth of view
which appealed to Mr.. Ware when he
specified his type" but it is more likely
that he momentarily forgot the compre-
hensive distinction which the potential"
candidate awaits.
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WE ARE READY TO LISTEN

TINE best thing that can happen is for
the debate on the league of nations,
begun in the Senate, to continue before
larger audiences in other places.
Following the announcement that
Senator Lodge has consented to discuss
the subject in public with President
Lowell, of Harvard, comes the report
that Senators Knox and Hitchcock have
agreed to joint debate in Newark.
We hope that this is only the begin
ming of series of similar discussions.
The people are seeking information. II
: ttfhs the draft of the covenant is defective,
4 they want to know how it can be i'm
proved. They will listen with open minds
~ It's critics.
But II any man is opposed to the whole
league idea and seeks to prevent its
realization by finding fault with the
proposition now before the Peace Con-
ference, the people will be quick to dis
cover the animus of the criticism.
1t ii morally certain that both Sena-
xors Knox and Lodge will profess in
Ielr speeches outside of the Senate the
& hope that workable league car,
tfmed.
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And IL they had been reader TO follow
him their own outlook now might not be
so gloomy as il is.

The American critics Of the Presi-
dents European program would be
wiser to wake up and wish him luck.
He is one of the few men now striv-
ing to steady the faith and renew the
courage Of harassed and doubling mil
lions in every European country.
For Europe will have either a league
of nations or years of the devastating
mania of Bolshevsm. If driven to it
we might withdraw utterly from Europe
and leave the older nations to their fate.
But Bolshevism will be only a crazy
flash in history. 1t is already tearing
down all the social machinery which has
been set up by centuries Of experience to
meet the complicated needs of life in all
the populated areas Of the globe. Wher-
ever it spreads it will leave weariness
and destruction and discouragement.
Given start in Europe, IL will make the
way easy for any new tyrant who could
get an army together for a career of
plundcr and conquest.