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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-20
TOWNS IN VALLEY
Getting TOGETHER
Commerce Ec7y E.apre-
scuiativcs Are Meet
ing .foday

There will be a meeting at thb
waldo ho,el, CIarNsbutG, this ait
e. noon uf Representatives from the
various commo. cial bodies III the
Mouongahela Valley territory TO
take up the, matter OF forming a
general association for working
out mutual problems In this terri
tory. This matter has been undet
consideration for some time and
has tie approval OF leading spirit
in the commerce bodies in this sec
ton of tho state.
c. C. Robson, president, and F.
Guy Ash, secr etary OF the Morgan
town Chamber OF Commerce;
George T. Watson. president;
Thomas D. Connell. stCretary, and
w. c. Cole, OF the local Organ!2a-
tion, LETT for Cl2rNsburg carly tn.s
afternoon TO attend the meeting.
Arthur parSon, preGiuent, and
Gustave Talleen, secgetury OF the
CIarksburg organization, will take
an active palL in the session this
afternoon. 1t Is hoped that some
thing definite toward a permanent
organization will be rono today.
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foreigners. The majority srg.those
designated asss aYls s
coming from eastern and northern
Europe, Russians, Ruman1anes
Polea, Czechs, with Italians probas
bly, next in numbers.
Between these and the country
in VIII ch they happen to find them
selves there is very little atfinit
kinship. They live amonEsth
and in the picturesque copnt
do not belong to 1t. Their@lo
are frame structures, painted qitl
ed red or dreary gray, alio
can't tell ono from anothafs
Is exactly like the rest ~
from the roads vFhich. Wind Al
they look like applications "a
BILE sets OF mirrors OF the SAINT OH
ject reproduced to infinfty.
Tho houses in the .canp
owned by the companies WoF
the tunnels and the ovens, a1it
they are among the hills ! aud
cult OF access by rail-, tia
way to reach them Is by motor.
Passing along the highways
night, the tens of thousands of
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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-20
BABY KEEPS ITS
MOTHER 0UTOFJ JAIL
One Hair Tonic Victim
Among the Sore-Heads
this Morning

Spectators in police court this
morning vino thought that Mayor
Conway was simply seeking iutor-
nation ou the gentle art Of wet.
nursing ON account OF his line OF
questions propounded to a coiorcd
woman who had been arrested on
Jackson street last night found out
that the Mayor was not trying to
add TO his store OF knowledge OF
the subject but was SIMPLY weigh
ing the question Of whether to line
the woman or send her to Jail.
"lIcw old Is that child OF
yOurs?" asked the Mayor oH Mag
gle Booze, who broke loose again
Ias. nigbt and required Night Chief
Euggess and PAtTCiClan DadGlerty
u lana her IN jail.
"Six muu.Ns, Jour honor.
"iIow arc you cr-falsiRg tt?"
was the next question.
Fart OF the tiac on bottle and
part In the natural way" WAS the
coy rcs = poEse.
We'll, 1 can tell you, Maggie,
that it's only the age OF that baby
:lat prevents, me from sending you
10 jail. $40 and costs"
Aud Maggie, who had been care
fully searched by BoGEess, Daugh-
erty, ct al, who reported nothing
found on her person, fished up a
Iarge roll and paid her fine.
Where did you gct your whis-
ley?" asked the Mayor of p. J. EN-
right who had confessed.
~ got it from a fellow" began
Enright, Il don't know who
"All right, all Eight" interrupted
tho Mayor, Five dollars and
"And," to W. J. Blackburn, Il
suppose you got yours. from . fell
low too?" sarcaslically, and i'm
posed the same fine. 80
George Taylor and Frank Mccall, i,
two well dressed youths, were CIV
9n ride III taxi by Patrolman
Digmau last night, and each drew
the same fine.
George Duncan, varied the mo.
notony by coufessIng to having had
Il hair tonic jag, and was assessed
the usual. Duncan was arrested
at the 3. and o. station by Special
Officer ShahGn.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-20
STOKES 70 OPEN
Three EVENINGS
Some, However, May Be
Open More Evenings
This Week

The principal stores on Main
street will remain open on We'd
nesdny, Thursday and Friday even
ings this week, according to pres
ent plans agreed upon.
1t is uncertain whether or not
the stores in the city will remain
open other nights before this time
or not. 1t is presumed they VIII
mostly adhere to the arrangements
made by the Clerks Union OF this
CITY thnt the store will remain
open only the three nights. For
these nights the clerks receive no
extra pay. II clerks work other
nights 1t is understood they will
re Ceive pay.
This year more than last, several
o: the stores feel they dislike keep
Ing the clerks busy even the three
nights before Christmas, but are
willing to do so for the sake OF the
public, especially for those who
work all day all week and cannot
find time to complete all shopping
before the last few nights.
Bert Leopold, president OF the
Business Mems Association, was
questioned on Saturday as TO
whether or not his store would re.
main open nights before next We'd
nesday. "I can't say Mr.. Leo
pold replied. I'm dumb as an
oyster Just now about the matter.
When next week arrives I'll make
up my mind whether or not to keep
open. 1t depends on conditions
next week."
Tho Clerks Union here was form
ed two years ago and at meetings
held recently there was much DIFF
ference OF opinion as to keeping
open nights, some OF the stores
wishing to do so every night this
weok, ohers prefoTring not to keep
open Mt an nights.
Keeping open even for three
nights makes 1t hard on the clerks
who are always luost patient, gen
orally speaking, so that customers
and patrons arc urgtd to shop car
", preferably in the daytime. SO
that the last three nights Of this
week may be g!ven over 10 those
who find II absolutely impossible
to shop any other time.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-20

This coke region incendiarism
lust across the state line and down
the river which runs past Fairmont,
Is one Of the strangest outbreaks
In the history of the country, and
while the belief is growing that It
is in Bome way connected win
soVietlsm Of the Russian brand IN
some way there really is no proof
of 1t. A writer for the New YORK
Tribune who recently visited the
scene OF the burnings printed tho
! following about 1t:
For six months, with short inter
walls OF quiet in between, these
fiji es and attacks OH persons aud
properly had continued, One had
to consider the accumulattve effect
and the character Of the country
A school house or barn means Ht,
tie in New York or Pittsburgh but
great deal in such iBolated com.
munities us dot the coal and coke
country. Then, too, there was tho
battling nature OF the depredations.
In the dead OF night structure
would suddenly be found in flames,
with plenty of evidences OF inCen'
diarism, but with never any one to
connect With the crime.
And finally there was that other
problem, the real problem OF the
melting pot about which so much
of this talk OF a0vietiam centers.
and to appreciate which one must
have an understanding Of the cOun-
try.
The coal and coke country of
Pennsylvania virtually extends
through three countries--Wushing-
ton, Vestmorelnud aud FRyette, al.
though most of the ovens and the
minos are In Fayettc. II was in this
country, 100, that most OF the fires
and tho outbreaks took place.
In Fayatte county yIrtnslIy all
those employed In the fields and
about the flnrfng converters are
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-20
Business Men Asked
About Taxation

More than fourteen hundred COM
mercial and industrial organiza'
tions throughout the country, in
Guiding the Fairnont Chamber OF
Commerce we're asked today by the
Chamber OF Commerce Of the UNI
ted Stntcs 10 register in national
referendum vote their views on the
question Of revision of federal tax
alton laws.
The vote is on flftee1 proposals
for radical changes in methods OF
levy, advanced by the National
Chambers committee on Taxation,
which made its report after nearly
q ycIr's study OF the subject.
In sending out the report for a
vote the Board of Directors of the
National Char Der makes It clear
that the board itself neither ap'
proves the Recommendations nor
dissents from them. Tho sole pur'
pose is TO obtain the opinion OF the
cOuntry's business organizations
and not 10 get approval OF the re-;
port Itself.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-20
NCAB BOOKS SUPOEMAEDI
BY SENATE COMMITTEE
Reconstruction Committee Agents Have Made Com
plete Search of Headquarters Of the
Coal Industry at Washington

last night. Thine agents placed
undsr subpoena a large amount OF
correspondence and other matters
bearing on tho action taken by the
associat tion during the transpcTta-
ton tieup and coal shortage last
summer.
OFFICERS OF the association also
are expected to be called to tes-
,ify before the committee which
was authorized by special reso-
luton Of the senate last week.
The coal industry was sharply
criticised in partial report sub
milted tc the senate by toe COM
iitLee last tuesday.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-20
Tears Of Joy Over
Return Of Tino

ATHENS, Dec. 2O.-Amid the
thunder Of cannon, the hum of cir
cling airplanes. and the roaring
cheers OF a gcrat throng, Constan-
tine OF Greece entered Atehns yes
terday. His arrival was compared
by admirers to Napoleon's return
from Elba and tears Of joy We're
flowing down the checks of people
near his carriage.
After alIghting from the train
Constantine drove to the cathedral
where magnificent service was
held, all the bishops in Athens par
ticipating. No foreign ministers
were present. His arrival was not
marked by any incident.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-20
Arresting Dollars
For Poor Youngsters

The busiest man around the
court house today was Deputy
Sheriff Howard Woodward, who
has charge of the court house end
OF the Times Christmas fund. Up
to one o'clock, Woody had collected
$50 and was still going strong.
"Weasantest job l ever tackled, "
said Woody, ITS Just q matter OF
mentioning what | want. Every
body comes across with a smile" "
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-20
Rounding Up the
Crooks in New York

NEW YORK. Dec. 20.-The most
sweeping roundup of crooks and
suspicious characters IN the his.
tory OF New York was under full
swing today by the city's police
force OF 1900 men and 4,SOO re-
serves In an effort to stop the wave
of crime that startled the me:ropo-
lis last week. More than $50 per-
sons were caught in the dragnet
late last night.
A number OF organizations meet.
Ing today will discuss the situation
and will take counsel as TO wheth'
or they shall arm themselves.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-20
RAILROADS Try
T0GETC1ALF0A
LOWER Prices
Refusing to Take Con-
signments On Ear
Iier Contracts

Local coal tradesmen claim that
the railroads are taking advantage
oF market coudl cious and forcing
prices way low by refusing to ac-
ccpt coal that was bought at a pric
higher than now exists on the pre-
text that he coal Droffered is dirty.
Out OF consignment OF 500 cars
ESQ wGre rejected at Sharon, Pa,
on O. shipment by a local operator.
This coal was bought at $3.50 q
ton, but when 1t reached Sharon
the Erie railroad refused 10 accept
It, saying that the coal was dirty
and that it would not burn and
train speeds were reduced result
Ing from poor coal. At first they
refused to even accept the coal at
decided price cut. About week
later they decided TO take the coal
at $3.50. Then general charge
against the railroads is that they
arc again making every effort to
beat dawn prices, which have now
reached level that are close at
the door of production costs.
100 Per Cent Car Supply
!
sion OF the B. and 0. today total
1S47, OF which number 1850 cars
we're placed The mines along the
division ordered 1866 cars; IS are
for coke loading. Cars are classi-
fled as follows: Open, 1918; coke,
.73; M. v. T., &c; B. NJ. /. Y, 1913.
Cars left over from Saturday were
l27. The mines are at work today
with possibly few exceptions in
which case they have no orders.
The production should be heavy to
day.
Today the operations along Hell.
ems Run and Wyatt-BingGmon
branches Of the Western Marylanu
railway have a 100 per cent car
supply. The empties aggregate $50.
Operations along the Charleston
division Of the B. and O, today
have 210 cars, all OF which are
placed today. The mines ordered
$50 empties.
On the Monougahela railway to-
day there are SS2 cars placed in
the West Virginia district, OF which
107 are assigned for railroad fuel.
In the Pennsylvania district there
are 381' empties placed. There Is
Is per cent run OF cars In sight
for Tuesdays loading.
Market Conditions
With the big car supply on the
B. and o. and Western Maryland
lines and u, 50 per cent commercial
run on the Monongahela, coal price
will hardly be stimulated. The
price on Saturday ranged from
S2.75 to $3.50, but this morning
brokers were offering $3.50 and
there is a danger OF It going to
$40. II such low price levels are
reached coal is being sold for
prices cheaper than it can be pro-
duced. Littlo lump and clack were
on the open market today, There
Is no demand for pool A car. There
wore 25 dead loads on the Monon-
eah division OF the u. and o. on
Saturday. Although the prices have
boon shot 10 pieces the coal conr-
tinues to move fairly considering
the big production that was had
hero during the past fGw weeks.
3. and o. Movement.
Movement east OF Grafton was
favorable during the past two days.
on the B. aud .. On Saturday
there were IS trains drawn over
the mountains IN which there we're
1042 loads. OF that there wero
SS6 coal loads There were 302
loads moved west Off the Monon-
SalI division.
On Saturday there were 25 trains
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FBIHY SUNDAYS
NOSE Put OUT Of
I0INTBYS. CLAUS
For a w eek at Least
Christmas Plans Pre-
dominate i'll Churches

" With the coming OF the last
week before Christmas al! the To-
cal churches are oVeLIIowiRg With
the Christmas spirit. lE nearly
everyone OF the churches yuBlc. day
+ given. Among the var.ouG cnuTcn
ttvities This week are many
gcaristmaa programs and enterlaln-
lments. Billy Sunday seems to
have given way, for time at
least, to Santa Claus. Tie regu.
% cottage prayer meetings VIA be
: held on Tuesdays and fridays.
Open House az Flrot Et. {.
IA On January first open house will
be observed o: the First NJ :
church. In the afternoon hatWeen
the hOu-s of 900 and 900 will be
htert9inmont for boys an0 = ri';
Nnde1f fifteen years OF age. Movins
rictflre3 will be yh4wu. games
ll95ed, and reireshmcn;s wll be
Served. The evening fEom 7:%0 III.
!, III, 10 is set aside Tor adults. The
entire congregation and tha!t
friends are invited. The HitiE sun.
sday party has been invited ~ brtef
program followed By social hocr
win be given. Refreshments Will
IIl served.
~ Yesterday at tho evening service
the choir sang the Christmas can
tata, "Bethlehem." by J. II. MaUm-
ylder. 1t was a very beautiful pro
ran.
Tonight covered dish supper
viii be served by the EpwOr'a
League for all members OF the
league. Every one is asked to
bring dish Of some eatable. A
social hour will be observed after
/, the supper.
The men OF the church have
charge Of the Wednesday evening
K prayer service.
SOn Thursday afternoon the La
!. .t1las' Aid society will meet in the
arlors OF the church at 2:C0 This
will be the last meeting of the So
ciety until the Sunday campaign
loses.
fhe annual White GIFT seryicG
II be observed on Christmas eve
ing at $500. An interesting pro
Fam is being prepared. The OF
9ering will go to the needy chill
iren OF Europe.
First Presbyterian Church.
"a very pleasing program OF
5hrlstmas music was rendered yes
terday at the evening services by
the Presbyterian quartet.
The annual Sunday school,
9Ghristmas program will be given
son Thursday evening in the sociaI
room of the church at 1880. All
the children and their parents are
Invited.
AT the recent bazaar held by the
Presbyterian Legion, $500 was
Tho Mission Study class meets
this evening at 1900 in the church
parlors with Mrs. N. r. c. Morrow,
leader.
Next Sunday, Communion OF the
SEiord's Supper will be held and new
embers will be accepted. The Of
wing of next Sunday will go to
aPresbyterian Honor Debt of
million dollars for the Inter
I'D, Movement.
Grace Lutheran Church.
Atsthe evening service yesterday
Ghristmas cantata 1.-The Christ
Ring" was sung by the choir.
rhe Ladies' Auxiliary are selling
colate for cooking purposes in
Ter to make some money.
rhe Junior 3. Y. p. U. are sell-
sS calanders for tho benefit OF
heir society.
Grace Lutheran Church.
On Tuesday afternoon Mt 200
The monthly meeting OF the Kings
Helpers viii be held at the church.
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COMMISSION FOE oRYAN.

WASHINGTON, Dec, GO.--Ma-
jor GeueralJohu T.. O'Ryan, COM
OF the New York aNtiohal
guard, was nominated today by
WllGon to be a major
general In the Officers reserve
corps. General O'Rynn was a ma
ior general in the army during the
war.
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Fair Tonight; TussdaY
unsettled. n
The Washington herald., 1920-05-19
What S in aName? a
By Mildred Marshall.
ELLA.

Ella is an elfin name. Its source
lies in fairyland, where the elves,
or white spirits, were supposed to
be gifted shadowy beings given to
influencing strangely the lives of
mortals. Ella means "elfs friend"
The elf ing was called Elberich.
His fairy kindred and their popu-
larity in England and Ireland
established the use of elf names
early in history. Everyone remem-
bers Aelfgifu, the unfortunate Ell
giva, whose beauty was like the
fairy gift which her name signifies.
and brought ruin upon herself and
her husband.
Aelfwine (elf darling), daughter
Of the Earl of Southampton. was
Knut's first wife. A bishop of
Lichfeld was called Aelfwine. but
he preferred to be addressed as
Aclla. This s the FIRST appearance
of Ella and 1t seems curious that it
should have been a masculine name
Aella, as 1t was then spelled.
named the sponsor for the execu-
tion of Ragnor Lodbrog and it was
Aelle of Deira whose name caused
Gregory the Great to say that
"Alleluia" should be sung in those
regions.
The opal is Elias talismanic gem,
but the fairy, which popular super
stition declares is imprisoned within
the stone, must be a good fairy, for
Ella is promised many friends. sue
cess, and much happiness. Friday
is her lucky day and 2 her lucky
number.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-19
Helene MarriedLife 60 s!;i:: &c.: sGsssTlE

keeping-oh, ] know it's q big
thing TO ashland a girl like you
must have tons of admirers who
could give you more than but
never more love, dear"
The very incoherence OF his
phrasing struck me as proof OF
genuineness. couldn't doubt his
feeling for me.
I'D do my uttermost 70 make you
happy. I'd work my fingers TO the
bone for you. My profession pays
quite well, and / intend 20 get TO
the very top. You know I'm a min
ing engineer, Helene, and IL you
care for travel. why, we can 70 20
the ends Of the earth together. I
want to give you everything your
little heart could possibly desire"
pressed my cheek against his
own. All that I desired was just
himself! Money. position oh.
how small they seemed in compari-
son TO love!
We talked on, very blissfully and
foolishly. as is the way of lovers
from time immemorial. We forgot
the time, and place, and everything.
except our own ecstatic hsppi-
ness.
'T can get q marriage license.
and we can be married In three
days from now" Jim said at last.
Helene, you will, won't your
What could i do but hide my
face against his shoulder and whis-
per:
"Yesw
Tomorrowt Preparation. =
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Excellent Advice S1 s,.:: SSS$sss :;:::.' PIX ;..

part and parcel of our lives until the
very end.
No one would underestimate the
misfortune of the wife whose hus-
band is taken from her by death.
10 be oereft Of the strong.arm that
sustained her. and the tenderness
and love that enfolded her is truly
sorrows crown of sorrow to a
woman.
But the woman who has known a
good mans love and faith, and who
can count over the happy days of
her life with him. and live in the
blessed memory of the joys she has
known. can never really lose her
husband. even though he has passed
beyond the veil.
Though unseen. he abides ever
with her. His wisdom still guides
her. His presence hovers about her
fireside. and she has only to send
her thoughts after him into the far
country to which he has voyaged,
to summon him back, and to hear
once more the caress of his voice
to see the love light in his eyes, and
TO know that dead or alive he is
still hers.
The woman who loses her hus-
band is the wife whose husband
tlres or her, who ceases to care for
her' and whose heart strays off aft
er another. The woman who has
lost her husband is the fat, grizzled,
commonplace old wife who sits
alone of nights, eating her soul out
in impotent jealousy. as her hus-
band philanders with girls young
enough to be her granddaughters,
and spends on them the money she
| shaved in the early days of her WIFE
hood to help him make. She is a
million times more to be pitied
than the widow who weeps above
the cofin of a faithful husband
because she has lost both husband
and her respect for him. She has
not even a memory to console her.
And the mother whose children
grow up to be selfish and cruel
and neglectful, who show her that
they consider her burden and
that She is unwelcome in their
homes-are not these more truly
lost to her than the dead babes
whose clinging arms she can al
ways feel about her neck and whose
warm little mouths are forever in
memory clinging to her breast?
Many and many a time the only
child a mother has left to her Is
the one that lies in a little mound
in the churchyard.
Happy those who are only sepa-
rated from their loved ones by
death, for they shall never lose
them.
Dorothy Dix's articles will ap-
pear in this paper every Monday.
Wednesday and Friday.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-19
THE HEAD NURSE SAYS:
Grass Makes Fresh Air.

There are both physiological and
Psychological reasons why we flock
to the country and to the parks just
as soon as we begin to sniff Spring
in the air. Good old Instinct"
which has been pushed to the back
ground by Reason" does make a
pinch hit occasionally, and leads US
where we should go without ex-
planning why we should.
If for any reason we are shut
away from fresh air for a period
the body demands oxygen. Oxygen
makes up about three-quarters Of
the globe in animal, vegetable, min
eral matter, water and atmosphere.
Since fires and human beings burn
1t up" we must look to its source
or we die. To watch the production
OF oxygen on a small scale, just
place some water plant in a glass
OF water and stand it in the sun
shine. Little bubbles of gas will
form on the surface Of the leaf and
by and by will raise to the top Of
the water. This is oxygen.
Every blade of grass, every tree
and shrub is constantly manufac-
turing oxygen. Men and animals
reversely manufacture carbonic acid
gas. The plants take the waste
product from animal life, decom-
pose it and hold on to the carbon.
releasing the oxygen. Thus IL is
that together plant and animal life
keep up continuous cycle of at
mospheric regeneration and that is
why Instinct urges us to the coun-
try and seashcre for recreation and
regeneration.