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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31
PERSONALS

Miss Martha Trotter, OF Morgan
town Is the guest Of Miss Mar!
Greer at her home on Quinc!
ltreet.
s. The Misses Mary and Margare
knley Of Uniontown, Pa. were ii
The city Thursday on their wa!
home from Cameron where the!
attended the funeral Of thei
tather, Patrick Henley.
Nj. and Mrs. James Barry ami
children and Miss Katherine Barr.
left last night for Atlantic City
where they will spend q few
weeks.
Smith Hood and son Charles
ire spending several days at Berk
ley Springs.
Ms. Clarence Bloom has re
burned from Grafton where sh'
has been visiting relatives.
MI. and Mrs. John F. Shaffer
man have returned from Grafton
Miss Lola N. Holland will leavI
today for Douglas, Wyoming, t
5pend g month with her sister
Mrs.. William ]. Stone.
Miss Nell Powell will return TO-
day from a months vacation.
Miss Dorothy West is return
ing today from Charleston, W. Va.
where she has been visiting for tn
last two weeks.
Miss Bessie May leaves Monda!
for Pittsburgh where she will vlsl
her brother. She will be gonI
aeHeral weeks.
mn and Mrs. James R. Jordal
VIII % tomorrow to Weston wherI
they will visit the formers grand
mother. Mrs. John Jordan.
Frank Wade will return tomor
STow from q two weeks vacation
@ent In Cumberland and points Il
Pennsylvania.
Misses Gene and Alma Decke,
leave tonorrow for Pittsburgh ami
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BY Auto to Seashore.

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Hall and
daughter Lucille and Miss Laura
Robinson, leave tomorrow on
motor trip. They will first so e
Winchester, Pa, where they will
spend three days. From there they
will 60 to Atlantic City where they
will spend the remainder Of two
weeks. They will motor home.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31

Rochester. Pa. They will be gone
Two weeks.
Hamil Spedden is spending thu
week end at his home on Castor
avenue. He Is working at Tygarts
Junction.
Miss Virginia vockrodt leaves
Tomorrow for Mountain Lake PARK
where she will attend the school
Of missiont.
Kenneth Pierpont and Roberl
Helmick went to Clarksbprg today
to attend the races.
Mr.. and Mrs. l. X. Steel Of New
York are visitors here.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31
Realty Deeds Are
Filed for Record

The following deeds have been
filed with County Clerk A.G. Mar
tin:
Abraham Hirsch and wife to L.
Snyder, real estate on Jackson
street, s19,50O.
S. Ella Augustus and Herscaei
L. Sattertleld, real estate IN the
]. Fay Watson addition, Fatrmons,
Henry fillmore Woody and wife
to William 0. Florence, q parcel
Of land on Spring street, Fatrncns,
walter G. Brown and wife 10
Ralph Hawkins, a parcel Of land On
West Fork river, Fairnont DIS
Fred 6. Pitmen and wife to AIDE
lima Centoionte, real estate on Dia;
mond street, Fairmont, $3.50. !.
Don L. Summers and VIE 70
Maude Hamrick, a parcel Of land
in Rivesville, $500. 4
Sarah Isenhart and husband TO
B. F. Mcnamara, o parcel Of land
IN Upton. Lincoln district, $500.
Lena Caldara and husband to
John Williams, real estate IN the
Arnett addition, Fairmont, $500.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31
Personals.

Mrs. Villa Gasklll and daughter.
Miss Muriel Moore Of Los Angeles,
CAL. who have been visiting here
have gone to Monongah for a visit:
Ridge and Vohnie Sturm o.
Barrackville were in town on bua-
ness Thursday.
W. E. Tough was visiting his
daughter, Mrs. Arlie Parrish In
| Downs recently.
Mrs. Jerome Hall was shopping
in Fairmont Thursday.
Mrs. Linnie Mahaney was visit
Ing relatives in Barrackyille'
Thursday.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31
nhln Guests.
ls Emily Sturges Of Zanesvll

Us Emily Stutges Of GAINESVILLE
and Miss Lucille Burkman o.
3syton, Ohio, are the guests o.
56r. and Mrs. Edwin Robinson al
Stheir home on Farmont venue
MS. Robinson will entertain at Q
house dance Monday evening II
honor q her guests. Miss Sturgei
has visited here before and has
many friends among the younger
ret The young ladies' will spend
several weeks here.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31
Dropped Dead.

BENJAMIN McDougal dropped
dead Thursday evening while at
work on the NJ. v. T. bridge
Heart trouble was the cause Of bis
death. He was q resident Of Pine
Grove. County Coroner Lloyd was
notified, and the body was remov-
ed to Fairmont on the 6:24 car.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31
Anme Ernm pittshurnh.

Miss Margaret Lehman who has
been visiting for over a month In
Pittsburgh and other points In
Pennsylvania, returned home to.
day. She was the guest at many
functions in her honor white away.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31
Rosd az,

The grading preparatory % ny
ing Tie, improved mad has been
started IN West Huntington On the
Farming Worthlngton Road.
Last winter this road was reported
as the worst road In Marion COM
~, as Il was almost impossible to
|get from this placet Idamay.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31
Dinner Party,

nj. and Mrs. Glenn F. Barns en-
tertained at a dinner party at tn
Country club yesterday evening
The event was in honor Of Miss
sturges Of GAINESVILLE. Ohio, ant
5iiss Burkham Of Dayton, Ohio
and Miss Burkham Of Dayton, Ohio
who are the guests Of Mr.. and MIS-
Edwin Robinson. Covers were laid
I ior fourteen members Of e'young'
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31
Motored Erom Texas.

Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll Helmicj
and daughter Miss Mary Mason
accompanied with Miss Bessie Hell.
mick, arrived here today and viii
be the guests OF N. D. Helnick at
their home on Fatrmont avenue
Mr.. and Mrs. Helmick and Mis-.
Mary Mason, motored from E
Paso, Tex, where they have been
living. They stopped off at Chi
cago to visit Dr.. Claude H. Mason
who Is located there. Miss Bessie
Mason met them there and came
on to Fairmont with them. The
Helmicks intend to make Fairnont
their home.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31

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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31
Called to Wheeling.

Mrs. E. Cunningham was called
to Wheeling Friday to see her
sister-in-law, Mrs. John Beltch.
who has been operated upon In a
hospital there.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31
Returned To Florida

Mrs. Mcmillan and daughter,
Miss Doris. who have been here fol
several months, visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Dick Parrish, have re.
turned to their home in Jackson
vile, Florida.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31
Attended Funeral.

Mr.. and Mrs. q. L. Morris at
tended the funeral Of Mrs. james
L. Kelley in shinnston Thursday.
Mrs. Kelley was a former resident
Of this place.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31
Here Fro,a Te,,v,o,s

Mrs. Charles Martin Of Laru
Pasas. is here visiting her cousin,
Mr.. Lola Book and other friends.
From Mcdowell County.
Max Quenon, state mine inspec-
tor Of Mcdowell county, Is here
for q visit with bis family.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31

Instead Of a gold dollar as the
standard Of value in the United
States, it has been suggested that
a unit Of energy be substituted.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31
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grove near Watson. Il vii be &
Big event for an native bonn Ital-
ians win attend. There will be well
packed baskets Of food and special
music WIN be engaged. The So
cieta Is doing It's best TO make THIS
the best Italian picnic ever held
here.
Steible. Glrsham.
Announcement Of the marriage IN
Pittsburgh Thursday Of Edward
steible and Ellen May Girsham has
been received IN this city. Mr.
Steible Is quite well known IN
Fairmont having been here q HUM
Der Of times when he was connect
ed with the Bureau Of Mines Res
cue Car, also he has visited here
many times. He Is now located in
Pittsburgh. The bride Is q popu-
lar young lady Of Pittsburgh.
Two Weeks Trip.
The Misses Ruth Fleming and
Grace Hall leave tonight on a de-
Ilightful trip. They will first go to
Pittsburgh from there to Buffalo,
frorn where they will 70 to Niagara
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31

q Cards At Country Club.
( Miss Martha Raymond and Miss
Frances Raymond will entertain a
SSbrldge party this afternoon al
he Country club.
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ninner paFtv.

Nj. and Mrs. E. T. Kelley enter.
tanned q number Of their friends al
dinner at the Country club yester'
day evening.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31

Picnic For italians.
The societa Cristotora Colombo
WI hold q picnic tomorrow in q
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31

kI6fean Family Reunion Planned
Ths Morgan family reunion WI!
10 held "a Morgantown THURSDAY
Iugust q: At Traction Park Til!
sTk s near Morga1town on tn
or Inc md Is newly equipped witt
III binds d amnsements. Grea1
;sltSfts! are being made to maxi
ltis reunion q succes. Many rela
fiyes from other states are plan
Sing o attend. Every relative Il
Isif1aont and nearby towns u
Blaming to attend this reunion
III bal information call phon'
155s:R.
Pinicied At Loop Park,
4 Mn Minnie Laseur's and Mrs
Amelia Stanhagens' Sunday Schoo
J EiSsses o. Grace Lutheran church
ed 8 picnic at Loop Park yester'
day and al had a delightful time
There were three guests present
snieces Of Mrs. stanhagen. tn
Misses Margaret and Gertrude Car
no d Rpseburg, and Miss Mar!
H6rchler Of Newburg.
VIII Have Picnic.
q. ~, B. N. Of the Central Chris
tim church will have a picnic a
home Of Mrs. ". F. Hunsakel
Eingmont, Thursday, Angus
Smembers are asked to TAXI
O'clock train with lunches
I'm Of the regular month!
t,Will be observed at thret
IN the afternoon.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-31

kcri b nd lEasy GINNING
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The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1920-08-07
Youths Learning City Customs

While the newspapers Of the
country are daily recording new and
astounding methods whereby auto
mobiles become severed from their
ownerships, is remained for Col
vile youth to lose his vehicle in a
brand new way. Carl Belknap, aged
8 years, was viewing the sights of
Main street one day about three
weeks ago. He had with him his
pleasure cara boys wagon with
iron wheels and bright red trimmings.
This car did not operate by gas, but
by stsam-the boy furnishing the
steam.
Carl was evidently the envy of
some of the other youngsters of the
street. His ownership of such a
wagon placed him in the Hudson
class among wagon owners And,
like many a Hudson owner, he soon
came to grief.
He was accosted by another youth
of about his own age, who offered
him five cents for the use of his
wagon for short time, the argu-
ment being that the wagon was to be
used for coasting and that it would
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1920-08-07

be returned very quickly. This
munificent royalty for just few
minutes of coasting seemed worth
securing. so Carl let his wagon go.
However, he did not demand cash
payment. Up to date he has not re-
ceived the cash. nor has he seen the
wagon.
Carl says that the wagon had no
license plate, but that it could be
distinguished by bent right rear
axle. He failed to remember any of
the distinguishing marks of the
borrower, however.
Carl at this time doesn't know
whether he was the victim of a
strategy or not. 1t is possible that
the borrower didn't know where to
return the car, and it may be that
some mother is harboring bent
rear axle in the back yard and
wondering where it came from. Any
way, Carl would like awfully well to
know where his wagon has gone, and
he is willing to forgo the rental
price agreed upon, if he can only
get the bent axle into his possession
again.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1920-08-07

A most striking demonstration of
the solidity of Colville business in
stitutions and faith in the growth
and permanency of the city is seen
in the raising Of $4,000 by the Cham
Der of Commerce to finance half the
cost of First avenue paving. Property
between Wynne street and the depot
does not have sufficiently high assess
ment valuation to carry the paving
improvement. Yet the paving is con-
sidered essential. The business
houses of the city, assisted by indi-
vidual residents and some of the
farmers in the valley west of the
city, have financed half the cost of
the improvement, and the money is
practically all in cash in the hands
of Secretary John T. Raftis of the
Chamber of Commerce, as trustee
for this purpose.
Colville in years past has raise
good sums for public purposes, but
never before has the business sec
ton set itself to such an effort as
the First Avenue paving. The
cement will be "a feet wide in the
center of the street, from to 8
inches thick, and the sides of the
street will be graded and probably
parked to present the most pleasing
appearance possible. Travellers over
the Great Northern railroad, passing
through Colville, will henceforth be
able to gain a favorable impression
from their view eastward from the
depot, which certainly has not been
the case heretofore.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1920-08-07
PAVING LET FOR
FIRST AVENUE
CITY COUNCIL LET'S CONTRACT
FOR CEMENT LEADING TO
DEPOT
Many Miles of Sidewalk Also to Be
Built This Fall-RecOrd Year For
Building Here

Despite the difficulties of securing
building material, building contracts
and expenditures in Colville thus far
during 1920 have totaled $16O,0O0.
The city council this week let to
the Triangle Construction Co. of Spo-
kane two contracts for street work
totaling $54,391. Three blocks of
cement paving will be laid on First
avenue extending to the Great North
en depot, the contract price being
$12,333.14 for a 24-foot strip in the
center of the street. The reXt bid
4; = v. !. Dou-t at a pl &C of
$12,476. The Great Northern rail
way company will complete the i'm
provement about the depot grounds
by paving and filling with crushed
rock.
A contract for cement sidewalks
in the residence districts Of the city
vas let to the Triangle Construction
Co. for the sum of %42,05S.46. The
corn, elton of his work will give to
the city eight miles of cement walks.
L. ]. Dare Of Spokane has been
retained by the city as engineer in
charge of the municipal work. He
was engineer for the city last year
and handled the four blocks of cement
navinU on Main street
Six additional blocks of cement
paving in the business district was
ordered by the council some weeks
ago, on petition of property owners,
but inability of contractors to secure
an assurance of sufficient cement for
the work has caused the project to
be left for next year.
Work has started on the construc
ton of the Sic, 900 30x120 brick bust
ness building north Of the Bank of
Colville, where Thos. Kirk will erect
a store building for the J. C. Penney
company. Construction has COM
menced on the Buchanan Graham
building on the west side of Main
street, the store building to be 50X80
with full basement, at a cost of ap-
proximately $4,000.
Residences completed or in process
of construction are: DR.. j, j. lngle
$500; G. L. Roth, $4,000, Rev.
Spicer $4,000, w. c. Vilwock bunga-
low $4,000; f. C. Durdle bungalow
$250O
The Willett Bros. addition to their
garage on Main street is completed
at a cost of $4,000, the building
being 2 stories 60X120. The Col
vile Chamber of Commerce has
placed buildings and improvements
on the city fair grounds at an esti-
mated value of $1,000.
The mill of the Colville Valley
Lumber Company is in operation,
north of the Great Northern depot,
the value of buildings and plant
being in the neighborhood of $4,000.
The Robbins Lumber Company is
building a similar plant at an esti-
mated cost of $4,000.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1920-08-07
Editor Again Breaks Into Print

stay there that long. We had some
enjoyable visits with him and his
family. Mr.. Baker and | went into
the surf at Santa Monica on the day
of the record high waves. 1t was
then that | learned that high surf
was similar to a democratic landslide,
in that it payed to go with the tide.
| learned this, like the politician,
after | had landed on my head
several times.
Nearly every prominent movie
picture is now made under the clear
skies of southern California, and
most of them near Los Angeles. The
mountain bandit of Colorado and the
shipwrecked sailor of Timbuctoo are
all pictured on Los Angeles ground
or nearby. We saw the famous "set-
ups" of the Ince company, the pictur-
esque studio of Charlie Chaplin, and
host of the other feature-produc-
ing houses. Mary and Doug were in
Europe, so they missed us-also the
earthquakes.
Yes, they have earthquakes in Cal
ifornia. In fact no country is free
from them, but the enterprising press
of San Francisco and other foreign
countries never fails to chronicle a
quake in southern California. We
might have whopper up here in
Colville and never get line in the
big southern dailies, but a little quake
in l.. A. always gets on the front
page-eXcept in l.. A. | missed them
all, sorry to say. But the focks Of
tourists who left their paidin-ad-
vance apartments and filled the
sleepers for week in advance left
me room to keep from getting run
over on the street, so | was thank
full.
There were quakes in advance of
me, and quakes after | left, but they
did no damage that | could learn.
Catalina island was reported to have
sunk 10 feet one night, but Ray
Baker, who has wireless phone in
the house and had been listening
in" on the Catalina line, said there
was nothing doing or he would have
heard of it.
Prices throughout California are
no greater and no smaller than in
any of the northwestern cities. San
Diego is an exception. There found
fewer tourists, lower prices, and an
ideal summer climate, the thermom-
eter ranging from 81 to 78. Real
estate is reasonable in the city, and
merchandise is cheaper than in any
place | have found in the last few
years.
1t was in the waters of the famed
Coronado beach that l made my i'm
portant discovery. 1t was the stin-
garee. This is a beast which lies in
the water and waits for tourist to
step on him. | did so, having gone
there to learn everything. This
stingaree, after he is stepped upon
in the water, returns the compliment
by jabbing spear in the foot, and
the membrane which he leaves in the
wound will make a man wish he had
sought salvation before rat poison
was invented.
The life guard had to carry me in.
He bound up my wound, and con-
soled me with the information that
most people faint. l was too sick
and in too much pain to have that
fortune. Other friends came along
and related how they had heard of
people who had died or who had lost
a leg or something from such
wound. The hot sun beat down upon
CONTINUED on page ssvsn)
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1920-08-07
Some Observations on Getting Ac-
qua 'nted With Other Parts of
the Great West
tBy J. C. Harrigan)

The tourist crop of southern
California has an annual value of
more than the seven principal prod
ucts of it's soil-oranges, lemons,
fruits. cotton, wheat, barley, beans.
The soil crop is estimated at
$148,00O,0OO a year. The tourist
crop is placed at $150,O0O,O00.
Why do people go to California?
The answer is not difficult Cali
fornia is different from any other
state n that it can offer the tourist
W. range of climate, and Cali
fornia business interests are wise
enough to spend considerable money
in getting ready for the tourist and
then advertising for him.
People buy Ivory soap, not because
it floats, but because the magazine
advertisements make you REMEM
BER that it floats. The writer and
his wife took in southern California,
some of it, because the pictures in
the advertising folders have always
looked awfully nice.
California has long been known as
winter resort yet it is just as
much a summer resort Any place
along the ocean front is a good
summer resort-really cool south of
Frisco, and verging to agreeable
toward SanDiegO. Santa Barbara,
on the coast, is the wealth resort of
California. There the moneyed people
are erecting their mansions along the
foothills, enjoying the cool summer
proximity to the ocean, yet keeping
away from the lower fogs of winter.
Los Angeles, 20 miles inland, is at
the center of the base of triangular
peninsula, with Venice and Santa
Monica on the coast at the south,
and Long Beach at the west Los
Angeles not being on the ocean, has
warm summers, but the system of
fine roads permits her 10000 auto
mobiles to carry the throngs to the
beach whenever occasion offers.
Los Angeles this summer was filled
with tourists. AS the northern people
90 to California for warm winters,
so the southern people go there for
cool summers, and the beach resorts
are built into cities where big prices
are paid by the summer tourist for
apartments near the water. Resi-
dents of the heated inland territory
of southern California, Nevada, and
Arizona form a large part of the
summer visitors. In fact, the summer
tourist season was so great that the
gasoline shortage sadly crippled
southern California while was there.
Strings of autos were lined up at
stations which had gas. My first
notice of this shortage was when my
cousins car was obliged to line up
for gas during the first few days of
trouble, and | got out and counted
the cars ahead of us. We had the
9th car. Within a week the lines
were so and more long, and by
another week the lines were gone
all stations bore the sign mo gas"
The price was only 26 to 2S cents,
but price made no difference when
there was no gas.
w. r. Baker, former cashier oil
the Bank of Colville, is now one OF
the live business men of Los Angeles.
He looks younger than when he left
Colville five years ago, and ought to
live to be 10 years old if he will
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-31
LABOR COMMITTEE
MEETS NEXT MONTH
CHARGED With Continuing Ecort To
Organize Steel Industry-To
Make Survey.

Washington, Dec. 28.-The new Ia
hor committee charged with contin-
uing the ecort to organize the steel
industry plans to hold its first form
al meeting here next month. Some
Of the members already here express
the opinion that the first meeting
probably will be devoted largely to
a survey of the developments OF the
wear which has passed since the last
attempt and the laying of grounds
to continue the fight at time which
the leader may consider opportune.
The chairman of the reorganized
committee is M. F. Tighe and the
secretary now is William Harmon.
William H. Johnson, president Of the
International Association of Machin-
lists, is a member. Secretary Morri-
son of the American Federation Of
Labor's expected to participate IN
the coming meeting, as he is trustee
of the $4,000 fund which remained
in the hands of the old organization
committee when it was dissolved.
The new committee was formed at
a meeting last month at which were
represented the international unions
having members in the steel industry.
rather than at meeting OF the ex-
ecutive council of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor as was enormously
stated at that time. The represen-
tatives of the union, however, did
meet at the call Of the executive
council.