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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
Rural schools Are Asided.

With the holding OF two meet
ings of boards OF education of,
the magisterial districts OF Greens
brier and Mason counties the statel
department of schools has practically
completed its program OF holding such
conferences in every county OF the
state. These meetings began in April.
They were called for the purpose OF in
forming the school officials in every
county for the requirements OF the
new school laws and with the plans
being advanced for the Improvement
OF the schools. Every conference has
been attended by some members OF the
state department of schools, l.. J.
Hanifan, supervisor of rural schools.
having attended most OF them Great
ly pleased with what he believes has
been accomplished by these confer
ences, Supervisor Hanifan has pre-
pared a letter which sums up the in
formation that mas been disseminated
and is sending it out TO all the district
boards of education to be used for a
reference at their first annual meeting.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
PITH OF THE
WAR NEWS

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The Italian navy has suffered it's first
serious loss, an Austrian submarine
having successfully torpedoed the
cruiser Amalfi in the narrow waters
of the Adriatic
the Turks have bonbarded the aIIied
troops at the DardaneIIes. and re.
port that the shells caused much
damage near Avi Burnu. The re.
pulse Of reconnoitering divisions of
French and British near SedduJ
5ahr also is announced.
Berlin reports say the fresh reserve
troops Of the Russians are excellent
raw material, but have had no drill
practice
In the western theatre the hardest
fighting at close range is takino
place in the WoeVre region, where
the army Of the Crown Prince is
pushing vigorous offensive move
nent
The cathedral at Arras, destroyed bv
the artillery five of the Germans.
contained some noted paintings,
when the war broke out. Amonu
them we're two attributed respec.
lively 70 Rubens and Van Dyke.
Berlin announces that the Germans
reoaptured the trenches north Of
YPres taken from them by the Brit.
ism.
The latest achievement OF the Ital.
ian air service is the dropping Of
bombs on factory at Trieste.
The British Government has decided
to take over the control Of the sale
and supply Of intoxicating liquors
In many districts where war ma
terial Is being made.
Berlin says that In the recent battle
between Arras and Ia Basses the
French and British forces suffered
fearfUIly, one command alone losing
1900 men out Of 4,2o0
In the Dsrdanellss 2 German subma.
rine sank large French transports
OF seddul 5ahr.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
Jack nightingale Reappointed.

Pursuant to the recent act of the
legislature which broadened the
powers OF the Commissioner of Labor.
Commissioner J. III. Nightingale was
reappointed by Governor Hatfield for
a term of four years. Nightingale re-
ceived his original appointment a year
ago. but as a result of the new act,
his reappointmeLt was necessary and
his term is extended. Commissioner
Nightingale is also made ex-oficio
Commissioner OF Weights and Meas
ures under the act of the legislature
creating that department. He an
nounced the following appointments
after receiving his commission: Chief
clerk, Howard 5. Jarrett. Charleston;
factory inspectors. r. e. Mumaugh.
Parkersburg, and L. II. McCamic.
Wellsburg; deputy inspectors, weights
and measures, o. A. Ashburn West
Union, and w. f. Lipscomp. Parsons.
Robert F. Beasley, OF Hinton. former
assistant commissioner of labor. was
placed in charge OF the free employ
ment bureau.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
ALLIES DRIVE" TO BEGIN
Attacks Of Crown Prince in Woevr
Are Checked

Attacks of Crown Prince in Woevre
Are Checked
London.-The check which the Rus.
SLAMS have imposed on Archduke 10.
seph Ferdinand's army in Southern
Poland and the additional strain
which this has placed on the German
General Won Mackensen's army to
the right has postponed, it is believ.
ed in military circles here, the threat.
ened German offensive in the west
and there is now a possibility that
the allies will be the first to take the
offensive.
In support of this It is pointed out
that the attacks by the German crown
princes army in the Woevre, which
the German press announced was the
commencement of a general move for.
ward, have ceased and what fighting
is going on along the western front
consists of artillery engagements and
few isolated attacks and counter
attacks by infantry which make little
or no difference in the positions of
the opposing forces.
The British. according to the French
report. have repulsed a German at
tack The German reports. however.
allude to this as a British attack and
Berlin says it was repulsed with con
siderable loss.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
RUSSIANS REINFORCED.

London.-The Russians, strongly re-
inforced, after checking the Austro-
German advance toward the Lublin
railway assumed the offensive, and in
flicted upon the invaders in the re-
gion of Krasnik what is described in
Petrograd dispatches as a serious de-
feat"
The capture of the Lublin railway
would have imperiled Warsaw.
The Germans on the western front
are reported in dispatches from Hol-
land to have been heavily reinforced
for another drive for Calais. Artil-
lery combats were fought from Arras
to the Sea and, at last accounts, they
were continuing with undated inten-
sity.
Arras is in flames and it's Cathedral,
built in 1755-1883, is said to have
been destroyed.
Another heavy battle on the CALI
poll Peninsula is reported. The Turks
made their third attempt in a week
to regain ground taken from them
by the allied troops.
Their dash which is described as
having DGtn VI JHe ulOSI ueIeTnlneu
character and made with reckless dis
regard of lives, was repulsed.
The French and British troops are
now only six miles from the Narrows
of the Dardanelles, but the ground
between them and their objective is
strongly fortified. and gains of only a
few yards are regarded as important.
A new attack by the combined land
and sea forces is said to be in prep.
aration. BY last reports there were
about 275 naval vessels of all types
operating in the Dardanelles cam
paign.
The Vienna official report of the
operations in the east says that the
battle with the Russians i'm the
Krasnik region. south of the Lublin
railway. was "invigorated by the par
ticipation of strong Russian reserves"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
Coal Men In Meet.

number of representatives of the
West Virginia Coal Association held a
conference here this being one of the
sanitation. 1t is supposed, however,
that matters Of more than usual inn
portance We're discussed, but none OF
those present at the conference would
make any statement for publication.
The association has recently had un-
der discussion ways and means Of
improving the general condition of the
coal trade, and there Las been a good
deal of talk about political conditions
in the mountain state, also. Just what
took place is not known, except that
]. w. Dawson, of Ward, resigned as
chairman of the association.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
ALLIES GAIN AT MANY POINTS
WREST GROUND FROM TEUTONS
DEFEAT FOR GERMANS IN WEST
Vosges Advance Regarded by British and French as Most
Important Victory For Them in Months
SOUTHWEST AFRICA CLEARED OF KAIsER's FORCES

London.-The great battle in south.
ern Poland is the dominant feature
OF the latest war news, and the Ans.
trans admit they have yielded ground
before superior Russian forces. and
have withdrawn to the hills north
of Krasnik.
me russians continue to receive
strong reinforcements. both of men
anu guns and are pushing their of.
IenslVe movement with vigor. With
thelr railways and the fortresses of
lVangorod and Brest-Litoysk TO draw
upon. they have countered the Austro-
German attempts to outfIank Warsaw
from the southwest and with check
ing OIL the invaders Russian military
writer's say the attempt to deliver a
hghtning blow has been discounted.
me Official reports indicate that the
hghtlng on the eastern front is as
sahsuihary as any that has marked
the operations in that arena. Before
the Austrians withdrew to the heights
near krasnik they sustained and in.
nlcted tremendous losses.
The Russians have made deter.
mined attacks on the lower Zlota
Lipa' but apparently without causing
any material change in the situation
III that region. West of the Vistula
the Austrians stormed the Russian
positions with determination. but did
not succeed in making an advance.
Sharp fighting marked the opera
tlohs in the western arena. In the
Woevre district the French are keep
ing up their attacks and have regain
ed some of the ground they had lost
10 the southeast of st. Mihiel.
AT Souchez also by bayonet charges
the French have made further adj
vance toward the village.
Berlin reports that the lombard.
ment of Arras by German heavy artil.
lery destroyed the main stores OF the
British troops. The German gunfire
has so far prevented the intended new
grouping of French troops in the re-
gion. The destruction of the cathe.
dral at Arras is said by Berlin to he
generally regretted.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23

so poorly that my folks thought was
going into consumption. One day L
found piece of paper blowing around
the yard and picked it up and read it
IT said Saved from the Grave and
told what Lydia E. Pinkham' s Vegeta-
BILE Compound has done for women. 1
showed it to my husband and he said,
why don't you try it?' So did, and
after l had taken two bottles l felt
better and said to my husband, L don't
need any more and he said You had
better take it little longer anyway.
So took it for three months and got
well and strong. Mrs. ALoNZo E.
BAKER, 9 Tecumseh ST., Adrian, Mich.
Not Well Enough to Work.
In these words is hidden the tragedy
of many woman, housekeeper or wage
Garner who supports herself and is often
helping to support family. on meagre
wages. Whether in house flee, fac
tory, shop, store or kit woman
should remember that the one tried
and true remedy for the ills which all
women are prone, and that is lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compo nd. 1t
promotes that vigor which makes work
easy. The Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine
o., Lynn, Mass.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
Bankers to Meet.

The West Virginia Bankers associa.
ton will hold its twenty-second annual
convention this year at White Sulphur
Springs. The secretary. G. $. Hill. has
just issued the following invitations,
handsomely engraved and gotten up in
a most attractive manner The West
Virginia Bankers association. in an
nual convention at White Sulphur
Springs, w. Va. cordially invites the
attendance of yourself and ladies' July
Is and 10, 1915. n. W. Chadduck.
president; c. S. Hll, secretary" A
number of the bankers and their ladies'
are expected to attend from all over
the state
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
Classification Of Industries

Classification OF all industries under
the twenty-five schedules contained in
the new state compensation act and
the installation of the individual merit
rating system each employer to be
charged with the premiums his
hazards justify, was the intent of the
legislature in the passage of the re-
vised statute. is the opinion of Attor-
ney General \. A. Lilly. While the
law provides for the establishment OF
fiat rate for the several schedules
of industries for the present year, and
these rates We're announced by Com
missioner OFT, they will be effective
only for period OF one year and will
guide the commissioner in the indt-
vidual classification which will 20 into
effect year hence.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
Many Autos in State.

Before this time next week it is
predicted that very soon at the state
auditors office 10000 applications for
automobile licenses will have been re-
ceived. The record showed that 1000
licenses will have been received The
record has been issued One letter from
Wheeling recently contained a check
for $1,O32 in payment for 103 automo-
bile licenses and one chauffeur's per
NIT. In reports to the department deal
ers have indicated that they expect
this to be the banner year in West
Virginia for the sale of automobiles,
especially Of the smaller cars.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
HAS PLAN TO
BETTER SCHOOLS
WOULD MAKE SCHOOL YEAR OF
1856 MEMORABLE IN
THE STATE.
UNITED STATE WIDE EFFORT
Will Strive for Better Teaching and
Better Physical Conditions for
the School.
Especial Charleston Correspondence)

Especial Charleston Correspondence)
CharlestOn.-A united statewide eff
fort on the part Of the teachers of
West Virginia for better teaching. bet
ter PHYSICAL conditions for the school,
and the extension of the school by So
cial center work. by night schools and
continuation schools and by home and
community projects has been set forth
by State superintendent NJ. p. Shaw
key as the working order for the com
ing year. This is announced in his in
PRODUCTION TO the program for the
county institutes OF the state. which
is just being issued III the instruc-
tors and teachers work as we believe
they WILL" says MIR. Shawkey, this
program will mean a richer life for
several hundred boys and girls of
West Virginia.
AS a man thinketh in his heart
so is he Then it follows AS a
teacher thinketh in his heart so is he. >
And that suggests the main business
OF teachers institute. We assemble
under the leadership OF the county
superintendent and instructors for the
purpose of getting the best thoughts
and ideals of our work uppermost IN
our minds. Indeed. it may be best 10
retain the Bibles phraseoiogy and say
Sin our hearts, for feeling is to the
force that impels us to action. Let us
take up the work this year with de-
termination so 10 intensity our
thoughts for the definite betterment
of our schools as IN make rIs auvi1uS
for the day of application TO come.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
State Health Board.

A meeting of interest held at Par
kersburg was the conference of the
state department This is the new
board recently appointed by Governor
II. d. Hatfield. Important among the
matters taken up was the new state
law, by which various changes have
been made in the boards field of activ-
ity. Its name under the new act is the
state department of health, and the
scope of the work 10 be done by it has
been enlarged. At this meeting the
provisions OF the new law were dis
cussed and made to fit state condi-
lions. This was the initial meeting
OF the department since the members
OF it were announced by the state exc
cutive
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23

Londor.-S Sharp fighting on the
western front, in which both the
French and the British wrested ground
from the Germans, stood out promi-
uently in the war news.
The French pushed their offensive
movement in the oVsges with vigor
and made an advance of 700 yards on
front of 600 yards and captured
about 800 unwounded Germans.
Field Marshal Sir John French,
commsnder-in-chief of the British eX-
peditiouary force, reports that north
of Ypres his trops have extended
their gains, the Germans having fallen
back after an artillery duel lasting
two days and two nights. All the dis
patches Indicate that the losses of the
Germans were severe.
In the eastern arena the Russians
are making a firm stand in southern
Poland and are beginning an offensive
movement between the Vistula and
the Vieprz Rivers. striking south from
Lublin against the German positions
near Ourzendoff, Buchava and Kras-
mix. The front marked by these points
is broadly speaking, about twenty
miles to the south Of Lublin and
Kholn, and about thirty miles to the
northeast of Sandomir
All the German forces in German
Southwest Africa have surrendered to
Ge.eral Botha. commander-in-chief of
the forces of the Union OF South
Africa.
The successes won by the Allies in
these widely separated areas have
caused the British military critics to
assert that the turn in the tide" has
been reached in the war as it ap-
proaches its first anniversary.
At several points on the western
front the Germans are pushing the
fighting. Berlin dispatches say the
Kaiser's troops have made further pro
gress in the Woevre region, where
they captured some trenches and $50
prisoners. French attacks at Souchez
were beaten back. The French vic.
tory in the Vosges is regarded by the
Allies as the most important gained
for their side in several months.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
Slackstones In Embryo.

Dean II. c. Jones of the University
Law School, at Morgantown, notified
Clerk William b. Mathews, of the
Supreme Court of Appeals, that ten
applicants successfully had passed the
state bar examination The success
full applicants are G. c. Chambers.
Logan; r. l.. Compton, Philadelphia;
Neil Cunningham. Washington, D. c.;
J. II. Lime, Charleston; J. r. Nc
Clintic, Marlinton; p. 5. Mckinley,
Marlinton; Charles A. Menkemiller,
Wheeling; w. b Talbot. Philippi; G..
Fl. Williams, Romney, and L. B West,
MOrgantown.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
RUSSIANS CHECK TguroNs

London.-Success marked the of.
forts of the Russians TO ohscl tho
Austro-German rush, and the Cars
FORCES, at last organized in their last
stand before Warsaw for an effectuaI
resistance after their long retreat
heId the enemy at almost every noint
nevertheless. the Austrian official
report claimed continued progress i'm
a critical sector, so far as Warsaw is
commemorative region to the north.
east of Krasnik, and further east
along the River Vieprz in the neigh.
borhood of Tarnogera.
Under the pressure of the Austrian
ADVANCE the Russians are retiring be.
yond Tarnogora along the Vieprz
RlVer' according to the Austrian Off.
clal statement. but the Russian War
once asserts that the Austrian often.
slVe to the east of Krasnik has beer
sopped by blow delivered nv the
russians on the Austrian flank re.
sulting in heavy losses.
me London and Paris official 70.
ports feature the gain of 200 wards of
trenches to the north of Ypres nv
British troops. supported by French
arCiiiery' This movement is the first
OF any importance in this region in a
long time
In the Italo-Austrian campaign the
nshtfng in the Gorilla district deveI.
oPed into a general battle. when an
attack was made by the third Italian
army. The Italians advanced under
the protection of fierce artillery fire.
put according to an Austrian official
statement. the attacking forces were
completely repulsed.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
TRIED TO SAIL PAST CALAIS.

German Schooner Caught at Narrow.
est Point Of English Channel.
London.-A French tor sdo boat
captured a large Ger ian sailing yes
sci some miles off Calais. The ship
has been taken to Blanc Nez and her
crew made prisoners
There are no details explaining just
how the German skipper got the idea
that he could get by the narrowest
point Of the Channel. with its war.
ships and scouting vessels patrolling
every mile Of the seas.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
CANADA NOT IN WAR LOAN

Banks There May Buy Domestic Sc.
eurities 20 Protect London Market
Ottawa.-It is not thought here that
there will be Canadian subscriptions
to the British war loan to any consid.
cradle amount. The British Chancel-
lor OF the Exchequer Is reported az
intimating that financial institutions
N the Dominion might more wisely
employ their surplus funds IN the pur
chase OF domestic securities which
might otherwise end their way TO
London.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
plan to Protect pyestuf Trade

Washington. d. C.-Protectiou Of
American manufacturers against ruin.
uops price cutting and other trade
evils of foreign competitors may re-
suit from efforts Of the Department OF
Commerce TO build up an American
coal tar industry. Officials OF the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com
MERGE and the Federal Trade Com.
mission are working ON plans TO pro.
tect the new dyestun trade from an
onslaught Of German competition al
the end of the war. and a general poi
icy probably will be the outcome.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
AIR RAID is eELITTLEp.

London Says Bombs Aimed at Har.
witch Fell in Sea.
London.-The British Admiralty an.
nounces that with regard to the Der
lin report of an air raid on Harwich
the following are the facts of the in.
cident which otherwise 'fs hardly
worth recording:
"a German seaplane and aeroplane
appeared off Harwich flying very high
Our aircraft Immediately started I'm
pursuit and drove them off. The hos.
tile aircraft
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
CARRANzATO SET
UP CIVIL RULE
First Chief Sends Officers to
Mexico City
BELIEVE DE LARA IN CHARGE
Mexico City Is Being Evacuated by
Zapatistas After Losing Heavily
Huerta Considers Victory of Lit
tie Value to constitutionalists.

Washington. d. C. = Dispatches TO
the Carranza agency from Vera Cruz
announced that General Carranza was
sending officers of the various de-
partments OF his government on a spe-
cial train to Mexico City to set up
civil administration there at once.
General Lopez de Lara. newly ap,
pointed governor of the federal dis
triCt. started from Vera Cruz with his
staff several days ago and is believed
to have taken charge in the capital
when, according to state department.
reports, the Zapata forces evacuated
after making last stand against the
victorious attacking army under Cen,
eral Pablo Gonzales.
No details of the situation in Mexi-
co City came either TO the state de-
partment or to the Mexican agencies.
The department has heard nothing
since the brief consular message an
nouncing that the Carranza forces had
occupied the city. The Carranza rep
resentative had a dispatch from Cen
eral Gonzales, dated at the field head
quarters and delayed in transmission,
telling of the evacuation and saying
detachment had been sent south
ward to cut off the retreat of Zapata's
army. This message said:
Mexico City is being evacuated by
the Zapatistas and the constitutional
list forces are occupying the capital.
There was serever fighting in the out
skirts of the city between Guadalupe
and Rio COnsulado which is within
the city limits. The Zapatistas lost
$500 men, four pieces of artillery and
great quantity of small arms and
ammunition. Immediately after the
defeat they began hasty evacuation
of Mexico City. fleeing toward the
south.
THE retreating Zapatistas were
pursued by a portion of the Gonzales
army while heavy detachment was
sent posthaste southwark parallel with
the Zapatista line OF retreat to cut
across on their flank several miles
south of the city"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
An Insect Tranedu.

First Mosquito-What's become of
our old friend?
Second Mosquito-His was a horri.
BILE fate. Those human beings poured
kerosene oil over the place
F. M.-But he liked kerosene
S. M.-That was the trouble. He
gorged himself with it, and then col
nded with FREELY.
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A large force of carpenters and
other tradesmen have been at work
for the last two weeks i'm remOdelirg
and refnishiug various sections of the
state capitol Changes are being
made ON each of the three doors iu
order to provide more room iu which
to take care of additional work that
has come with the expansion of some
of the departments Of the state gov
eminent.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-09-23
Gases peadIier and ouioke,

London.-"The Red Cross Society
learns that the gases which the Ger.
mans are now employing on the Rus.
sian front are denser. deadlier and
quicker in their action than hereto
fore" says Reuters Petrograd cor
respondent. Numerous deaths from
gases are reported Respirators are
generally inefficacious."