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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-21

The preoocions infant had Just
returned from his frst day at
school, registering intense ennut.
The anxious family gathered
around.
Donald" asked his mother.
what did you learn today?"
Nothing"
what, nothing at allT''
Nope, there was a woman there
who wanted to know how to spell
cat, 80 / told her. That's ALL
American Legion Weekly.
Frog meat has made its appear
ance on restaurant menus in Tokyo.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-21

Repairing Road

$50 Repairing Road
Samuel Sergent the road sur
fEeyQr,, is making some much need.
ed repairs on the road between
3FEouIt and Five Forks. He Ia at a
4 advantage in the work OF repair
ltI roads, on account OF the short.
age Of labor. The worst road we
have Is the approaches to each end
3of the road made by the Shamrock
Fuel Co, in changing the road TO
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-21

was visiting relatives here over the
week end.
Miss Gladys watkins and Ruth
Harr, of Fatrmont, were guests OF
Bert and Laura Snider. Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry McEldsh, OF
Clarksburg, were visiting his par.
ents here Sunday.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-21

Miss Stewart, Of FairvIew, the
teacher of the primary grades in
the public school, here, is back at
her duties after being confined at
home with sickness several days.
Mrs. G. A. Sporting was at Pitts.
burgh, Tuesday on a business trip.
Mrs. Fred Malone Of Fatrmont,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-21
Phone Line to be Rushed

Members OF the proposed Hoult
to Five Forks Telephone Co.. met
Friday night at the home OF James
d. Bowman, secretary and treas
urer. They decided TO rush the
completion of the line before cold
weather. although everybody was
busy lust now.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-21

let someone else do the kicking
first; and no doubt he was right.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-15

CT This may be so, who can tell but the fact remains that every home sew CT has at times suffered from the ap- parent vagaries of the sewing ma chine, and has tried coaXing and force with small success.
 A sewing machine can commit no worse offeuse than to refuse to budee To all appearances it may be in per feet condition, clean and we'll oiled. Why will the wheels refuse to go around? Whether the mateual be thick or thin this will happen, and when it does, lay strip of paper both over and under the seam to be stitched, and sew steady, evenly and with little force. The paper can be taken away after the seam is sewed, and you will find that this will ac- complsh the purpose.
 If time is no object, you might try getting the machine out of it's mood by sewing bit of odd cloth and fol lowing this with the paper method
 "Oh. dear! Now why on earth did that thread to breakl' cries the dis discouraged needlewoman. The an swer may be too high tension But f the machine is known to be perfectly adjusted then she must search for the cause of the trouble in another direc-
 ion. Sometimes it may be found in the narrow groove through which the thread passes to the needles eye. The groove is the exact length of the thread, and when a rough place in the thread is reached it snaps because it has not room to pass. A small file, applied to the edges of the groove will open 1t enough to remedy the troH- ble. A roughened thread often will pass the eve of a needle when 1t will go through this groove.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-15
Needs of High Schools
 in Southwest

Some of the needs of the Southwest from Red Cross point Of view were set forth in an address by Miss Sasan Ramsey, director of the bureeu of edu- cation of the Southwc tcrl Division of the Red Cross at St. Louis. in 4nI address few days ago before one of
 he adult classes one of the city's lead ing congregational churches. Mi4s. Ramsey, in the course of the past year has made extensive trips throughout Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma
 The Red Cross worker mcnijont high schools as great need in rural districts. Many farmers opposed the rural high school because it increased their taxes. Ut ia q harder matter" she said, "to interest some of them in their boys and girls than in thci. hogs and cattle, X story is told III one district that visited of a farmer who had q baby in the family, and when the baby cried at night he grew weary of it and gave the child to hiz wife, saying he had to have his sleep. A few hours aftcrward the wife was awakened by q light in the room and was surprised to sec her husband pre- pairing to go out. I hear pig sdueal- ing out in the barn. he said and want to find out what the matter with it.. The question arose. Why was more interested in the pig than in the child and the answer was that the pig had d thoroughbred father
 "There is large, beautiful build ing in Missouri, built especially to house the pediGrccs of Poland Chna hogs. 1t contains vaults, in which pedigrecs are preserved, In the state of Missouri there is no such pains to keep the birth registration of babies, as there is for Poland China hogs. The are parts of Missouri in which a baby can be born without any record being made of it. This is not the case in St. Louis nor in any of the large cities, but there is no legal ma chinery in outlying districts capable of compelling a registration of the birth of a child This caused us great difficulty in our work among the sol dicrs in and after the war. Their claim had to be based on birth cer- tificate, and in many cases there were no birth certificates, because no rec ord had ever been made.
 "Also a drop of silver nitrate should De dropped into a young infants eye to prevent blindness. There ought to be provision, right in the birth cer. tificate. for having that done. Tn none of the states l have visited is there any such provision.
 q heard the story, while I was on tour, of young woman who should erty, but her inheritance hinged on the fact of whether she was born on a certain day This could not be proved until finally someone happen ed to remember that d certain regis tered Jersey calf was born on the same day as this girl had been. Thkey went and found the birth date of the Jersey calf and thus proved the girls birthday"
 Miss Ramsey also spoke strongly on the quarantining of contagious dis eases, mentioning several cases of smallpox which had been carelessly handled in rural districts.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-15
Some Hints on
 the Care of the
 Sewing Machine

There is little under the sun that has not felt the effect of the high cost of living, and while under ordinary this would be the time to do the spring sewing, more than ever before does this season promise to be a busy one for the home sewer. Spring frocks are very costly, even the simplest of them, and yet milady may make herself one at comparatively little expense. But she will not make satisfactory headWay unless her ma chine be in good order.
 There is nothing more annoying than sewing machine when it's gets refractory, and there are those peo- pie who insist that every so often it does have it's moods, and purposely makes up its mind to annoy it's own
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-15

idge's novel idea gains cireulat;o,
 Already, by the looks of the parsons
 mail, every newspaper in the United
 States must have printed the item
 and every widow, every old maid ard 1 half the unmarried women of the en- tire country have written the Rev l MT. Savidge, either in protest or to
 offer themselves as substitutes for
 the shipload of European peasant
 women that the preached said he IS preparing to bring to this couprry. | "What's the matter with American girls that your Western farmers have ! to go to Europe to get wives ," is the gist of a letter from Huntington. 1 w. Va, typical one of the 800 let ters of protest the Rev. Mir. Savidge has received "Your friends must be mighty hard to please if they cannot be satisfied with American girls. The idea that those peasant
 women of Europe are better :!.s-, .Ye American girls is preposterous. Get wise"
 i A PittsburG, Pa, girl writes a more subdued letter as follows. Would not American girls fill the ] bill? In the East there are thou sands of good, clean, pure blooded girls who are passing the mark of maturity each year, going into the business world, and turning into cranky old maids because they have never had chance to fulfill their rightful heritage of homemaker, wife and mother. Eastern girls are growing into old maids from neccs- sity, not from choice"
 Here's the way a Philadelphia girl puts it up to the Rev. Mr. Savidge. He refuses to make public the names of any of his correspondents, but here's the way this one writes: "Tell your farmers and ranchers to take my advice and go East, young man, go East. All sorts of wives are
 awaiting them in Pittsburg and Philadelphia, in New York, in Bos- ton, and in every other city in the East. Thousands of good nice girls are becoming old maids because of ldCk OI lIlcIl. fAlit. icLt SOu llG IuI- ming over to Europe to get ship load of field working peasant women when so many pretty American girls are eating their hearts out waiting for husbands"
 Here's part of a letter from Gin cinnati: "You had better say at cinnati: "You had better stay at home and tend to your business Of preaching and let matchmaking alone Don't you know that when somebody else interferes in love affair there's always trouble? Ameri can men for American girls, that's what say, and let the foreign wom- en stay right where they belong A Minneapolis girl puts up quite novel plea in the letter in which she expressed her mind to the preacher. This is, in part, what she wrote:
 "What if we do powder and paint, wear high heeled slippers and thin silk hose? I'll bet any farmer or rancher under the sun would rather have one of us than any of those barefooted peasant women of Flu rope. Just let your farmer friends
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-15
FEELING BLUE
 AL TIE 1IME:
Before Taking Cardui, This Georgia Lady Suffered Un- til She Would Have to Sit Down to Do House.,
 work. Was Dizzy
 and Weak

Dalton, Ga.-Mrs. Y. A. Burnett, of Route 6, says: Il got down with my back and sides, not able to do my work. l suffered d great deal. | had d depressed, blue feeling all the time.
 ''I couldn't rest at night. I was nervous. would be dizzy and just no account at all.
 'I would have to sit down while trying to do the housework. It seem ed couldn't get my breath. I was afraid I would get past going alto gether.
 ''I heard of Cardui and began us ing it. l could see after half bot tie it was helping me, so kept it up -. and soon l was like a new person.
 q knew Cardui did the work. for no other medicine I took ever helped mo as it did. I certainly can recom- mend . Cardui.
 This well-known medicine, which Mrs. Burnett says helped her, is a mild, medicinal, purely vegetable tonic, for over 40 years used by thousands of women, with similar re- suits to those which this Georgia lady obtained.
 Cafduit should help you, too. Try it
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-15

get sight of us and the game is nm we win And you know it, too. Lead them to us. That's all we American girls ask-or need"
 A Boston widow says: .sT hone your scheme fails. It's not rich+ Give the American girls chance Your proposition is not very nica I ou Will find there are plenty of good American girls in the good old T.. $ A., that will make the best kind of wives. A girl doesn't stand much chance unless she dolls up. Beneath the paint and stuff her heart is all right "
 A Chicago girl tells the Rev. Mir SaVldge she would like to have a chance to "make good.' q dont Know whether or not you are inter ested in American girls" she writes, But I'd like to have the chance to make good on farm. know l can make happier home for some rancher than one of those peasant women can"
 Don't Want to Be Slaves"
 Here's what New York girl wrote: Any man who would pre- fer one of those European peasant women to an American girl ought to be made to marryt one of those peas ants. Go on and bring your old boatload of women over here and distribute them arong your farmers. There are plenty of girls in Now York who are not married and who never will be married, but they don t want husbands bad enough to go out on the farm and become servants and slaves.
 A Cleveland woman thinks it en- tlrely unnecessary to send to Flu rope for wives. Just advertise in the city newspapers and you will soon have thousands of good, deserv- ing girls who will be glad to get good husbands" she writes. Charity cer- tainly begins at home, not in Eu- rope"
 An Indianapolis girl goes roughod after the preacher. She writes:
 You old fool, what are you trying to do to American girls, make old maids out of them? The very idea of even thinking American farmers will like those European peasants women better than they do us. They can take the Europeans for servants, but when they want wives they want girls who can look the part. Where do you get that stuff about American girls not making good farm wives, anyway? It's dead wrong, and you don't know it Better stick to your job of preaching and let the boys and girls alone. They will find each other when they get ready"
 The Rev. Mr. savidge takes his "roasts" good-naturedly. Looks like I'll have to take to the woods," he says. 'I'm getting afraid to open my mail. l let my secretary open the letters and read them before they are handed to me. That kinder takes the edge off, Gosh, those girls are mad. Guess I wouldn't be safe in those towns. But Pm going tc bring that shipload of European women, just the same. l already have letters from several hundred ranchers asking about the plan."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-15
! Protest
 Plan to Import Wives

June l4.-Tbe Rev |i,ssss of Omaha certain
 s s'a a hornets nest on
 ,,;.s as announced that he |tsa as a g shipload of peas ! i,.. europe to be wives ' saaas ,'aers and ranchers, s,ss s'asla .aI American girl; IN, ana s her paint, her \, ..s' sssorgettes, her high h ,;ts ,i;sosee silk hose, is R.as s's s;t' down on the farm. ,;al slrls from 4s states, mage s.a girls, town girls ,ss s'e jumped to their Eb ~ ~. opt a roar that is a0Ice omaha's s "mar- |lnt,,, axe to the woods. ns q are pouring in on A X. saelr numbers are
 story ot Rev. sav-I
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-15
Acid Stomach

EATONIC is the bestremedy, it takes the harmful acids and gases right cut of the body and, of course, you get well. Tens of thousands wonderfully benefited. Guaranteed to satisfy CT money refunded by y5ur own drug gist, Cost triiie, Please try it!
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-15
GRANDMOTHER KNOWS WHAT'S
 coon

Mrs. V. N. Katz, SOP Armondale St., N. S, Pittsburgh, Pa, writes: .I used Foley's Honey and Tar for my little grandson as he mad bad cold, and it did him lots of good l used tot of it when my own children were small" The old reliable medi- cine helps coughs, colds, croups and whooping cough. For sale at Mann's pharmacy. Adv.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-15

Why worry abous washing, when you can have all your table linen and bed linen washed for six cents pound? Ar-crjcan Excelsior .aun- dry companv. t-22. .lf
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-15

W.T. 'o
 NuRsE, 9 ! i, Justify His
 $ in the
 btter
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 ,,ssses. sss,a si,o4as;sa of Omaha,
 1T First Presbyteh,aa tesao1
 ,ar, Sunday school
 Clv 4, nron,input
 ,f all the pron'lil,,l at;ons
 civic organizations. \,
 sins as the apex naa.f' pl
 iis wife and a onalas pre''s
 !, the other ahgles' agd
 inst been granted d
 hasband to whom mon,
 auisd for more ,s;+tar .4a''
 K, Henry has writer
 Z inc most naive way
 .ffair with the
 me doctor is 64' Nil fs'
 2, old, and the pret-
 90 The Henrys arc
 Y where the div0rce
 l, nurse is in south
 lore will be no wed
 x, Dr. Henry has l1'-
 "A friends
 x Miss Hazel Tender
 ,,ndent nurse in Dr
 ,l in Omaha. She be
 in Dr. W. o. Henry 4, graduated. ! pr. lien
 .t. says he discovered vas an orphan with
 after her, 50 he tooh s, job of giving her q ,ster, While doing s>
 ,retty nurse into hls \, her Christian char Fl,ping very rapidly without warn
 tbs deepest simplicity, ,i to marry me, y says Omaha knew of th' then the divorce case
 The filing of the pc
 ae,olnplished without
 publicity and the fac br was seeking a al husband was no case actually came
 psd at the Case 6 gasped. The eyi- 2 talk of the town EV . Dr. and Mrs. Henry sdst ministers, in reg Ete, brought up the sub |kided the doctor wa Ia guilty of gross nor |l member of the Ebel- lQb of Los Angeles Re doctor's. life if h. ] autobiography to bt |hs newspapers.
 pretty nurse proposed .ae aged surgeon wht | wife with whom h, h Henry, after, as he N prayerfully, scien |rlgiously thinking the Excepted the proposal ! could be found.
 ply love me and neet lnly one thing we car lFS told the nurse. s plan was to frankl, that the girl needed hin vSlk out her salvation ns to obtain a divorce Henry and Miss Hen n.
 Ito Live With Them Henry can come an6 sa real member of the will take care of you nll be just as nice anC possible and both of us at we can do to mako ls IS the only scriptural do' Dr. Henry wrote agreed to the divorce eks the doctors heart speaks in his autobio refusing re With the doctor and which ap with the di- the doctor likens him. sphet Jonah of whale viewing the matter ir way Intellectually. ellglously and prayer ' now, l had no doubt gwen me as positive z. call to preach and a'hs to the world as , to Jonah to go e preach unto it the 4 -
 sl bid thee," he a'o Home to Live. graduation of Miss n the hospital, Dr into his office as his ne took her into his IS \ our little girl" be- louSes " were not very 'ne "beautiful, rosy yea, auburn haired 'posltlon.' $ She lived ,llllly, \ going to church vending their enter 2 spa then fairly para ' Oy proposing mar
El Nuevo mexicano., 1920-05-06

Early ID 1890 the Radio Corporation Of
America purchased from the American
Marconi company its stations, patents and
other assets. The charter and 81 laws BRO.
vide that Is per cent Of the stock MAJ 81
owned BY aliens, but no stock ID addition
70 this Is per cent foreign owned can Be
yited even though held BY an American cor
porHtion dominated BY foreign capital.
TIL Radio Corporation has a manufacture
Inc agreement with the General Electric
Company giving the Radio Corporation full
use OF this company's facilities for devel-
oDement, research and manufacture, over a
long period of years, and also the benefit
of being associated with the General Flee
trio Companyls foreign companies. The
patents held by the General Electric Com.
pany will 60 to the Radio Corporation Of
America to be used for radio PURPOSES
This ia q strong combination in the FIGHT
direction, namely, that Of placing the United
States in its proper position In the wireless
Communication Of the world. The Radio
is already branching OUT and
foreign sites for radio stations, and
! real d-evelopement looking toward ade.
lpate communications, especially with the
Orient Is q thing to be hoped for in the
lot too distant future.
~
El Nuevo mexicano., 1920-05-06

Keep q gee" as frugal Bet Franklin Tor.
got to say, and the bee win keep thee"
Anyway. there is h~eartening hope III the
line, these sugarless days, especially ii the
light Of an announcement Of the Texas bee
keepers that their winged i've stock pro-
duced $4,000, 900 pounds Of honey in 1919. az.
eording to the Chicago Tribune:
Honey was mankind first sweefener. wac
practically the only sweetener untI com
paratige modern times, sugar not havine
been introduced into Europe uhtil the four.
teenth century. and this natural swestener
has advantages over the manufactured ~.
ficla Il has the tang Of the wild, and "a
chemistry Is conductive to health. Hoheyig
perhaps the combined nectar and atnbrosia
Of tho gods. The Wild honey 0f Hymgttus IA
famous in song and story.
Though not every nat dwsslef may have
his own apiary, beeleepIne which has in
degree f6ilen into neglect should be
encouraged The suburban. home owners
can maintain few hives The thrifty bee
will find its own raw material wherever
Towers bloom
pf0dues honey Or Buy IL and deal d blow
the sugar gongefr eneoufass s cottage
industry.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1920-05-06
NEW COINS PROPOSED TO
RELIEVE CHANGE MAKING



Seven and eight cent pieces are proposed
as = method Of helping the o~yerworked
nickel and its poor relation, the penny. in
these days when SO many things that used
to cost a nickel have jumped two or three
cents in price. Senator F~relinghuysen, who
sponsored tho bin III the congress, thinks
the new c6iha would do away with much
making OF change
~ hab been 30 long since Americans hnsS
known anything but the nickle and the pen.
nv. Id tie smallest change line, that II
might be hard to get used to the new coins,
should they be adopted In fact the United
has as few coins now as at the be.
ginning Of Its existance. In 1792 congress
authorized the following coins for citcula,
ton: The eagle (s1O), half-eagle (s5l, quar-
ter eagle ($2.50), the dollar the 4dismeT
fold spelling for dime) half dIsme Is ceuts)
the cent, and the half cent.
Double eagles came into being Id 184a,
the year OF the gold rush to California. In
1851 q new coin, the three cent piece, three
quarter silver and ~onesquarter copper, was
introduced, and two years later the three
dollar gold piece came into being, In 1857
tACy UAOVHC0 Any 4ul CCAt Jul AAAAtJNNlR
piece, q two cent coin. in 1864. In 1865,
the old three cent piece was dropped, and
a new three cent piece. without any silver
ia 1t was coined It was made Of copper
and nickle. In the same year, the old "a.
motto, In God We Trust" was or
dered BY congress to be placed on certain
coins of the realm. II is still there.
The nickie OF today came into being in
1866. In 1876, congress ~overhauled the en-
coinage system. and decided upon the
following DIN All the gold coins as They'll
now stand; silver Gems, the dollar, half
dollar. quarter and dime; minor coins, the
five. three and one cent pieces. Tn five
and three cent coins were made Of copper
and nickel, and the cent was of the humber
hat time the three cent piec has fallen by
he wayside.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1920-05-06
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