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At the present time the feed prospect is unprom- ising-not enough planted and lots of that poor. We have all these seeds and selling them rapidly. Get yours now. Our seed business is large and grow ing all the time, and it is real pleasure to have farmer come in and say q want some more of that same seed you sold me last year We hear this frequently this spring So you will make no mistake by letting furnish your seed.
 Feed means corn, oats and hay, and this week we have unloaded of each. Have fine ear corn, if you need any We want your feed business and are prepared to take care of the prices
 CIothing-The Palmer kind. Do you know how really good suit feels? Come in and try one on We will appreciate it. Everything that the man or young man requires to garb himself can be found here
 Shoes for Won,en and children, summer and fall styles. Our childrens school shoes this fall will be an introduction of frstclass footwear in Mari anna Nothing superior has been sold here. See our slide at the picture show in due time
 Wagons, Buggies, Harness and Implements. We have the very thing you need right now. Gee Whiz- zes, double shovels, side harrows, middle busters, hoes files, are in demand If you have not purchas ed, get yours now.
 Fence and barbed LUire and nails We have a good stock. Can ship promptly to rail or boat GUS toners anything desired. Don't overlook us if need- ing anything next week.
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We have them and at less than Memphis prices-Victory- -Brogue and on Braker lasts-men's low quarters. Leonard, Shaw & Deans Shoes. Nothing better made in the East. Mixon-McC Clintock Go. *tf
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VETS TO MEET AT HOUSTON

Batesville, Ark, June 5.-Col. V. Y. Cook, commander of the Trans Mississippi Department of the Unit ed Confederate Veterans, announced from his local office here today that the Confederate reunion would be held at Houston, Texas in Oc- tober of this year.
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RIVER STEAMER SINKS
20 Persons on the Rock Island in
 Mississippi, but All Escape.

Helena, June 1O.-The Steamer Rock Island, plying as ferry boat between Helena and Trotters' Point, struck an obstruction at the foot of Buck Island, short distance above Helena, late this afternoon and sank in IS or 20 feet of water. She was towing barge on which were half dozen automobiles. The barge also sank. About 20 passen- gers and crew were aboard the yes sel. all of whom reached shore safe ly. The amount of damage had not been estimated tonight.
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Wells Transfer & Storage Com pany, special prices made on house hold goods, pianos and heavy ar ticles. Ample storage facilities for everything. Telephone No. IS. *tf
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Banakoks, Panamas, Rough straw and straight brim hats. Stock is complete in sizes. Nixon Clin- tock Go. 'tf
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s.o,n .o Battle in April, 1918.

Amefican combat divisions were ID hattie in Europe for POO days, from the twenty fifth of April, 1918, when the first regular division, after long train ing in quiet sectors, entered an active sector on the Picardy front, until the signing of the armistice. During these POO days they were engaged in 13 ma for operations. of which II were joint enterprises with the French, British and Italians, and two were distinctly American.
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The only thing done we'll in this country at present is the public.- Greenville (S. O. Piedmont.
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STRENGTH OF SOUND.

{ I wouldn't be such difficult job to shake The earth
y 10 piece" ExpenmenteE have often built little card
board and paper houses their Laboratories and Knocked
them down with music scientist has said that if he
could plae. bass vol on every floor Of the Woolworlh
building hume them exactly alike and staionlns himself
across The street with another instrument he could in lime
play down the building not one stone on another.
When heavy truck rumbles by your house, sometimes
he windows rattle and the dishes in the cupOoard Now
suppose here was sound that would make every single
hing N your house move in sympathy with it. Pretty soon
he dishes would waltz to the edge Of the shelves and top
pie over The Shelves rafting on The same note would
pull from their nails and the chimney bricks loosen in the
mortar and slip down.
There IS such note for every thing in the world 1t IS
called the Fundamental" and it differs according TO the
( ne. shape and material Of the thing.
You could destroy life itself with sound. You have
heard mole sometimes on church ppeogan that pound
Cd and thubbed "nside" until it actually hurt you That
was because that organ pipe was very near The fundamental
note Of your body Had the organist struck the funda-
mental andkepti playing long enough he would have liter
1 ally Torn you to bits.
If lhatsa 'hunch" to some scientific crrmna-!e him
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MONDAY EVENING. JUNE IS, 1920
Silence .pecta i, Than specch.-craik.

N another column this evening The West Vrginian
prints letter from Fairmont business man bearing
upon the telephone service which is furnished in Fair
mont This letter is typical Of complaints that have
been received recently at this Office, and it is fact that
dissatisfaction with the telephone service, which eased
somewhat last year. is again growing In the inter-
est Of business efficiency and community comfo1a great
effort ought to be made by the telephone company to
remove the source Of this dissatisfaction regarding the
service II renders and the communication printed this
Hening Is given publicity with the hope that the local
management of the telephone company will pay more
attention to complaint in this form than it seems to
haye been paying recently to that lodged directly with
n As for the committee Of the Chamber Of Commerce
which reference is made in the letter 10 the editor
dM some work after it was named, and if it has not
been active lately it ought to be prodded to life mme
datey and instructed to see to it that Fairmont is duly
epresentd at the telephone rate hearing before the
8 Public Service commission There is to be meeting
Of the directors Of the chamber this evening and the
matter ought to be given some consideration at that
time.
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
POOR TELEPHONE SERVICE.


FAIRMONT, W. va, June 70
Editor The West virginian]-The
writer will be very much interested
in having YOU reply through your edl-
torial columns, as to whether or not
your company has been subjected 10
The same Indifferent and absolutely
negative telephone service that most
Of the patrons Of the local Bell Tel
ephone Company have had 2 put up
with. would also like you 10 ADVISE
as TO whether or not you have formed
the same opinion that most OF the
telephone patrons locally have form
ed as. to whether or not there is any
Interior purpose on the part OF the
telephone company in practically lei
ting down on the question Of giving
service for the purpose Of so discour-
aging their patrons in this State that
opposition will be removed 10 the
| Telephone Company's petition 10 the
| Public Service commission for large
increases In rates.
Do you not feel that the telephone
company should first establish some
value to their service before asking
| the Public Service commission to ap-
praise the value they are 10 the com.
munity at largely enhanced figures!
III the service they are giving Is ap-
praised on the basis Of the quality
| OF service rendered. should the tele-
phone charges not be reduced!
The writer Is not acquainted with
the service In other parts Of the State
so much, but Il it Is as bad as II Is
in Fairnunt. 1t Is quite surprising
that the telephone company would
have the courage 10 face the patrons
before the Public Service commission.
! notice by the press that the hear
ling in the telephone cases comes Hp
before The Public Service commission
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TILE oruEe SIDE.

FAIRMONT, W. Va, June 2S.-tEtt'
tor The West Virginian.l IL notice
that one Of your correspondents calls
for proof that there are figures avail
able showing the increase in the num-
Der OF millionaires in recent years.
Let me direct attention to what John
M. Evans, q representative in CON
gress from Montana had inserted IN
the Congressional Record Of May IL:
I'm the last published report Of the
Internal Revenue Bureau Of the Treas
ury department, that Of 1917-the fig
ures for 1858 are not obtainable-
we find this startling situation:
"In 1914 there were 2,34S million
aires in the United States. In 1911;
the last date for which figures are col
iected and summarized, there were
1854 or an increase Of 1876 In three
years. Dividing them into classes,
according to occupation, there were
manufacturers 920 new millionaires
made during the war; there were
farmers and stockraisers 100: Of cor.
poration officials 716; lawyers and
Judges to the number OF 2O6; there
were q doctors. There were 452 WON.
en- in the list"
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make Il. ngs Il il Fundamental; sle not dc eaaest
thing N The world 70 find
WHY HE APPEALS TO. THE COMMON
PEOPLE.

CENAToR HARDING appeals so,das vast amy Of
~ ordinary people IN the middle and far west who like
man with lot of common sense and not 50 much the
oretcal and hrobbng thrills The common people who
are gong to se. the election do not live marble palaces
nde IN $4,000 limousns. nse at noon and go to bed
at m They are not the sort Of people who find pleas
rrc IN great ways" but in modest homes and wholesome
They ike Senator Harding They understandhim. He
Of Their kind They see him relief from the voices
IN the air. " from the folly Of government run BY moral
mus" without Yankee horse sense, from 50 much theoret-
ical reform efficiency as to lose sight Of results. his IS
why the millions and millions Of men and women IN the
cities and towns Of he land on the farms Of the great
middle and far west sort Of take to Senator Harding
and will vote for him.
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Mrs. Salina W Dayton
! to be Buried Today

Mrs Sabina Wilson Dayton. tged
IS wears, died early Sunday morning
al her home on Twelfth street amer
an illness Of two months Of Z compl-
cation OF diseases. She was . daugh-
Ter OF Freeman Wilson Of Perrsyl-
yania and her mother was formerly
Mss Sabina Brown Of Taylor county.
She was twice married her INST his-
band. Ava Hawkins. preceded her to
the grave fifteen years ago. She lstet
married ]. W. Dayton Who survives
her. She Is survived By the follow
INF sisters and brothers: Isaac MllsQp.
Of Blaine street: Francis Wlsg
Mrs. John McDaniels Of Hendrieks;
Mrs ! r. Vincent Of Walnut Grove;
MIS- j. ". Cleme Of connecieu ave
niue: MIS-, Howard Davidson OF Ogden
avenue, Miss Halle Wilson, Who re-
sides at the Dayton home.
The deceased was . member o. me
Golden Eagles lodge Of Montana ane
was also a member Of the Church Of
Christ on Columbia street having
been a member Of that denomination
y, The funeral will take place this af-
ternoon al 2:S0 o'clock from me
Church on Columbia street and burial
viii be made in Maple Grove ee11e-
tery by Undertaken Fred L JENKINS.
The Rev. James ]. Alien vii utiis
ciate. ,. -
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DR.. William Henry Roberts, for many years stated
clerk Of the general assembly Of the Presbyterian
church. whose death at &c years took place Saturday
was one Of the great men of the country as well as one
cf the strongest men Of hi: denomination As an execu-
tive he was efficiency plus and sometimes drove with
such strong hand that those whose minds could not
run along with his. to borrow an expression from Pres
ident Wilson, hcatedly called him the Presbyterian
pope Age and hard work had told on Dr. Roberts and
for the past two years he had been shifting his respon-
sbtes to the shoulders Of Others so that his passing
will not cause any serious pause in the work he carried
on for years with conspicuous ability, but it will be
long time before the Presbyterian church ceases to be
Influenced by what he did do.
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the latter part Of this month--on the
3Sth, j believe-and this leads me TO
inquire in this manner II the Cham
Der Of Commerce, which appointed q
committee to look after Fairmonts
interest in the telephone petitions, Is
functionirg, and whether or not II
proposes TO represent the local cham
Der and the community at the hear
ing in Charleston next week.
From what the writer can learn
most telephone users have made then
complaints to the loca! officials Of the
telephone company, but these do moi
seem 10 develop any response in the
way OF improved service. VIII you
kindly tell the public, If you can. what
is the real cause for the poor service
Yours very truly.
A DlSGUSTED TELEPHONE
PATRON.
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What People Say
and someSde Remarks

When Mrs. Margaret Hunter was
up In the air" she retained her iol.
lily In spite Of her eishty-one years.
according to what is being told about
Barrackville. The story goes that she
said 10 the captain:
III We just had a man and q
preacher now We might have a
wedding in the clouds"
The story is TOO tellable to investl-
gate before printing.
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ions, unconscious, perhaps, Of 1 large
part Of the executive management Of
most American railways, and often
extended down TO ticket agents and
office boys. Government control
made Il worse, and now Railroad
Brotherhood men want the public, In
effect, to buy the railroads and give
them 10 the employees at the expense
Of everybody else. And the lack OF
vision OF railroad managers, OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission and
Of the business men OF the country In
the past, the lack Of vision Of the gov.
eminent when It surrendered its SOW.
ereignty to the Railroad Brotherhoods
In 1916, is now bringing forth its
fruition Of poison: and that poison
spells perish" unless an antidote can
be found.
The first move should be a frank
acknowledgment on the part OF rail.
road managers that, whether they are
right or wrong, they want In the In.
terest Of the great public 10 have al!
OF their work thoroughly investigated
mot by legislative committees, bu:
by men competent TO do things. The
first move to find an antidote for the
poison should be careful diagnosis,
not by railroad men nor BY legislators,
but by committees Of the ablest bust.
ness men in America. Let the rail.
road people make the first move by
asking men like Gary, Schwab, Fore
and other great constructive leaders,
but no Wall street financiers; farm.
ers Of the highest business ability,
coal miners, lumber men, highway
builders, and representatives OF con.
sumers, to study in detail railroad
management, to find out why rail.
roads have ceased to function proper.
", and TO suggest remedies for physi'
cal management and for changing
public hostility to public friendship.
Then, and not until then, will the rail-
road executives show that they I'm.
derstand the real problem that they
face and the seriousness Of the situa,
ton.
VIII they do it?
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RESTING OR RusTlNc9

you certain he is not vacuum rather than on yaea-
ton2 A boy who spends his vacation entirely in ideness
is worse of than if he had no vacation at all. His mind
is IN vacuum that makes fertile soil for noxos weeds
Of thought and character.
tn. empty mind not really on vacation. 1t is rust
ng not resting for the mind rests not by ideness, but BY
change Of routine and occupation. So it is well that the
parent should give thought what the boy is doing with
his three months Of spare time called vacation.
As corrective OF the amless vacation an educator has
prepared vacation timetable" for boys and'grs He
would have them out Of bed at a. m. and let them play
hard unit H. After that he would insist on two hours of
helpfness about the house-ght chores, work the gar
den and easy eHands The hours between one and four he
sets aside for The reading Of good story books. and from
four to eight he would allow more play with time out of
course, for supper and the evening family reunion.
And that is good schedule But its principal value
lies in the fact that it is schedule, program. method
Of mental discipline. 1t does away with the aimlessness
that destroys the value Of school vacations 1t gives the
parent regulating check on the activities Of his child who
otherwise has only his sweet will to follow during the three
months Of his release from the discipline Of the classroom
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They are now saying out in San Francisco that Nc
Adoo would accept the Democratic presidential nomin-
alton if it were offered him. or course. There is
popular belief that no man would refuse such an honor
It was the basis of the movement which made Judge
Hughes the nominee Of the Republican party four years
ago and it has held most Of the McAdoo strength in line
in the face Of his positive statement that he is not
candidate But even So if McAdoo shows signs Of being
entirely willing to be the Democratic standard bearer
there will be an odor of insincerity about his whole
attitude which would most certainly weaken his position
before the American people.
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DR.. G. W. ADAMS said

can recommend NeIT.WVIA Avn
nervousness and indigestion, Or any
!lls which attend nenrasthenia,
II you are run down, hall SICK
nervous and irritable. or Il Jou are
sleepless, have a sour breath, gutiet
from gas on the stomach. belsaing'
stomach pains, nervous n1oodiness,
or depression, take Nery.Worth and
let it help restore your health i u
sold on a money.back guarantee.
Take a bottle according 70 directions,
and II you are not satisfied your
money will be cheerfully REFUNDED.
Sold on a money back guarantee ~
". R. Crane and all leading druggists
everywhere. (.
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RUFF STUFF

Our best compliments to Mr.. Chuck
! Trader.
AS a publicity grabber he has EN-
AL taaed these days.
This morning, frinstance, he grabbed
on q page line, a three column head
|, and an editorial in the well known
lAstoulsher.
I And after reading 1t all carefully
ilhe only conclusion q fan can come
10 Is that the reason Babe Ruth is
J, popular Is because Nc has never faced
! he mighty Trader.
But the star performance Of the lot
/: vas the editorial.
! Head on it was "a Great Achieve
Iinent"
Y Would serve equally well for the
( construction Of the Panama canal,
/ he wreck Of the Hindenburg line or
The discovery Of radium.
e Wonder Il the Astonisher ever
heard OF Rube Waddell?
Lot OF politicians are urging Hard
mg to abandon the plan to make a
Iront porch campaign and take at
least one swing around the circle.
That might not be bad plan II
pome one viii get HI johnson 10 stop
5itting on that porch and gazing out
Shto that bay way out In Californy.
Or maybe arrangements can be
made 70 lake the Sunset state out o.
he union until after the campaign 10
rver.
ANYHOW there ought to DO no plans
for swings around the circle until
there are guarantees that Harding
VIII not ret the raw deal In California
that Hughes got
sure vas ! lot Of gas burned In this
torn yesterday:
And ap to the hour Of going TO
rrcos not q fatality had been reported
nor IN arrest made.
d
Proves that nothing Is Impossible
q the proper effort Is made.
Butsh difsssoln., for . while that
Z ms ledlsd r1elseWae sofsono'up
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Or. N. 3. FERGUSON said

Wentworth is truly a great rem
edy. | have tested 1t professionally
in my practice and actually and prac
tically IN my family. It gives me
pleasure to recommend 1t to the gen.
eral public. 1t, in my opinion, will
prove a great boon to the sufferer
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Editorial Comment
on Current Subjects
9wHERE THERE is NO VISION
THE PEOPLE PERISH"

From the Manufacturers Record.
In vain the farms and the factories
produce, II food rOts and manufac'
tured goods be not distributed for lack
OF transportation. Political econo-
mists and many financial experts,
whose views are heralded as the wis
dom OF sages, though wholly without
value, and statesmen, so-called, with
all their might proclaim that our diff
culties are due to lack OF production.
Much OF this is bosh. Our chief diff
Guilty Is not lack Of production, but
lack OF distribution.
We cannot distribute what We pro
duce. Coal mines are idle, not for
lack Of miners, but for lack Of cars:
Last years grain, to the extent Of
many millions OF bushels, has filled
to OVERLOOKING the elevators in parts
OF the Western grain region, and is
piled up on the ground, for lack OF
transportation. LOadel cars by the
tens of thousands lie idle on the
tracks-we started 10 say for lack OF
locomotives, but Il would be more
correct to say because brain power
failed 10 see and provide for the pres
ent situation.
where there is no vision the peo-
pie perish" Holy Writ tells US, and
there was no vision in the Interstate
Commerce Commission when for years
It denied the need for higher rates;
there was no vision when legislators
| in national and state affairs dubbed
! the railroads almost unto death; no
vision when business men, without IN.
yestisation, fought higher freight
i rates. And for lacEof vision the coun.
| try is perishir5.
But there are others who lacked
vision, ard still lack it sadly, and to
!; that lack IS due mach Of the short
sighted vision Of others. They are
| the railroad managers who ignored
public sentiment; who thought that
everything done by a railway e1ecu.
tive was ipse diIit right and must be
so regarded by the public. They
! ignored public sentiment: indeed,
/ they slapped it In the face constant.
! ly, an dsome Of them are still doing
so.
il there is any other great business
which for years was as badly managed
as were the railroads, we have never
| been able to discover It. THE pub
! lie be damned was not merely the
thought Of one man; It voiced the &C
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West virginias delegation to the San Francisco con-
vention has decided to stick to Davis until the end
They may have been influenced to take that stand BY
the way the folks back home reacted to the performance
Of the West Virginia delegation to the Chicago conven-
ton but dispatches today indicate that for man who
has the backing Of but one state Davis has most e1
celent chance Some of the correspondents go so far
as to say that II there deadlock the ticket is almost
certain to be John W. Davis for president and Secretary
Of Agriculture Meredith for vice president.
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BY J. W. RAPER,
CREATOR Of @losh WISE!

Copyright, 1890. BY The Newspaper
Enterprise Association.)
san FRANCISCO. June 2S-This
part Of the 0. S. Of A. is full Of COM
mon torchlight bearers who swore a
quarter Of a century ago that they
never would cut their hair till VIII
liam ]. Bryan was elected president:
When you get a landscape view OF
Bryan from the rear you wonder II
he took the same oath.
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wNIal.WWRiiAEs
PRODUCE d imported Ma,er!aI.

Product OF Imported Md1er'a1
Despite the fact that although the
buggy whip Is manufactured exelu-
sIvely In this country, all Of the nav
material from which lis made. except
Ing the thread. Is imported. The whale
bone used In It's manufacture comes
from the Arctic ocean, the rattan
from the South Sea Islands and the
rawhIde. which Is made from the skin
Of The carabao. comes from the Phil.
ipplne Islands or some other place
Vhere the climate 3 extremely VAN