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Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-08-10
GET TEN DRUG
FIENDS IN RAID

Sprinau@ a complete surprise ON
the ring leaders of Clarbsburg's un-
dcrworld drug ring federal narcotic
agents and city police officers ar
rested nine men and one woman
late Monday night and early Tues
day morning The roundup, the OF
ffcers declare, is the most complete
ever made in the city, as virtually
all OF the drug peddlers in the local
district We're caught in the dragnet
which IS spread for others who like
ly will be taken into custody shortly.
Those arrested are in the city lock-
up awaiting hearings before G. II.
Gordon, United Statas commission
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-08-10
GIRL CAMPERS
MEET TONIGHT
GO TOMORROW

The girls who are going to camp
will meet Miss Bryan at the "Y" at
700 o'clock this evening. All ar
engagements have been made foH the
Girls to leave for camp at m.
Thursday August 18th. Il
Girls contemplating spending the
weekend at camp will be expected
to make arrangements at the office
Of the "Y''. All ".Y" members and
friends are invited. Rates are very
reasonable.
Don't miss the First Girls Camp.
1t is not house party but q real
camp. The girls will enjoy every
facility the boys had.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-08-10
YcMsN CONTINUALLY oVERno

This applies to all women, re
scardless Of caste Or color The am
nitious girl striving for school hon
ors, the overworked housewife, tra
ahop girl, girls in Offices and stores
and the society women, all CLIMB
too high, oyertax their strength,
and what follows? Nervous prost-
ration, sleeplessness, backache,
headaches, and the inevitable weak
ness and ailments peculiar to their
sex soon develop, which unless
hecked BRING on more serious con
ditions, and which often lead 10 OPP
erations. N efficient restorative
for such ailments is Lydia f. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, which
is now recognized from coast to
coast as a standard remedy for
woman's Ills. II
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-08-10
SELLS TRuCK FARhl

Mr.. Robert Criswell has returned
from Webster, n. Y, where he spent
some months with his son, 3lr Lyle
Crswell. The latter has sold his
truck farm at that place and has
brought his family TO the home OF
Mrs. CrtswelIs parents, Mr.. and
Yrs. J. IT, Gano. Tsblers.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-08-10
Find STARTLING Condit.ons.

The raid on the drug peddlers IS
the first Of consequence in Clarks-
burg for several months, and the in
yestigation that preceded the ar
rests revealed some startling condi-
tions in the local district. A number
OF young white men and a few
white girls still in their teens are
numbered among ClarRsburg drug
addicts, the investigators learned.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-08-10
FIRE BURNS SMALL HOUSE

Hose Companies 1 and 5 were
called about o'clock this morning
to the one-story frame house of
Harry Bennett, colored, on Carroll
street, in the north end, to fight
a fire which burned the interior of
the home but did practically no
damage to the outside. The origin
is unknown. The damage will not
he heavy
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-08-10
but he does object to photographers
particularly when they catch him
without his DISCUSSES.

The Presbyterian Sunday school
will hold its annual picnic tomorrow
afternoon, weather permitting, at
Rosemont Park. Automobiles to
carry the crowd to the park will
he Of the chnrch at l %
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-08-10

Rev D. H. Rhodes will preach at
ertral Church of Christ touieht
The public is invited to he prescn
md hear him.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-08-10
Is TAREArEMEn

Nr. c. H. Thomas is confined to
IS home on South Raleigh street,
h"eatened with appendicitis.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-08-10

Mr. Carlton Tabler the we'll
known young clothing merchant Of
North Queen street, is in Washing
ION TODAY.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26
Nllflats aiming tliolt a
Trainer; Cartnlgll is Ready

MoRGANTowN,s Aug. 2s-Na.l
ttaniel John Carttnell, trainer oil
the West Virginia University foot
ball team, and Fred s. Jack" ST.
mon, the promising young haltbacRI
who earned his letter IN Varsity
competition last year, are the first
arrivals from out Of town for the
1921 West Virginia grid training
camp which opens at. Deer Park.
Maryland, on Monday. CartmeliI
arrived today at. noon and Simon
yesterday, Cartmell Z came from
his home at Philadelphia where he
spent the summer and he Is the
only one Of the whole stan Cd
coaches and assistants who will
come to Morgantown before the
camp opens. Nate expects to 20 up
on Sunday and Simon will 20 on
Monday morning. Cartmell's du.
ties as trainer under Spears coach.
ing regime will be far more import.
ant than under that of Mc1ntire.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26
real GELD At
TRAINING CAMP
Better Layout For the
Gridders Than in Any
Other Season

MoRGANToWN. Aug. 25.-one
OF the most pleasing features Of the
coming visit OF the West Virginia
University football team to Deer
Park for the three weeks Of pre-
liminary training Is the attitude Of
the Deer Park hotel management
in arranging for the details Of the
visit. A. 4. Watson, OF Fairmont,
Ia university football enthusiast,
whose estate adjoins the hotel
property, has supplied an unusual.
ly desirable field for practice, that
us adequate for two gridirons and
both vii be used. On the best OF
these the hotel management has
laid out a regular gridiron with
five yard chalk lines, goal posts ann
other essentials, so that when Fat
Spears trots out his gridders they
will lack nothing that will contrib.
ute to their development 50 far as.
the field IS concerned.
Posts for the tackling dummies
will also be supplied, sawdust to
till the sacks which Coach Spears
uses as dummies" between which
men dodge to and fro with the ball
and many other details have been
cared for In q most satisfactory
fashion.
Both at Cheat and at Mountain
Lake Park In former years consid.
cradle difficulty has been found In
securing satisfactory practice fields
and other essentials but SO far as
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26

oklla who Is visiting friends here,
g n Fairmont Waiting Mrs. Lem
King.
Mrs. John Carpenter was shop
ping In Fairmont Monday.
a. G, Edingar was in Falrmont
on business Wednesday.
Miss Ethel Ice, Of Grant Town.
was q visitor hero Wednesday.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26

Jack Dempsey's next move e
about as definite as horse rncn
Flo may be going to fight Ie4s
Willard.
He may enter the theatrical buai.
ness.
He may ship to Paris and tear.
with Georges Carpenter in exhibit.
ton boxing.
Jack Kearns. his busy manarar.
is wearing out lead pencils by tn
grosS, figuring where the mos.
money lies.
And that's what the heavyweight.
champion Of the world will do next.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26

Football rule officials have not
inserted in the rules OF tho new
football guide that all players be
numbered but they urge It for tho
general interest of the game.
Last fall some coaches omitted
tho number system. This didn't
please the customers, who like to
know what is going on at game
while 1t is happening.
Numberless players take the
kick" out OF tho game from The
spectators viewpoint.
Keep the numbers on the boys.
coaches, II you want your stadiums
jammed.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26

Htndns believe that Grahna. Who
they say e the creator Of theainF
verse, also Il the father Of inusics
The Gwart tribe Of Central S1.
dan uses the Juice Of locust tree
pods rs bait for fishing.
Fines for using profane languAg b.
helped 70 build church at Ia
GuRira, Venezuela.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26
FARNTlNGToN
Katy Defeated,

with Thobois on the mound for
No. s Katy had no show in a game
played al No. s Diamond Wednes.
day. No. s was hitting and the
game resulted No. 8, 10: Katy, 0.
.'gus" Poundstone for Katy, catch
er, put up a great game at trying
to scare, the batters to death with
his line Of hot afr. Hupp who
pitched tho last three innings for
No. 8, struck out q OF the Q men
that faced him. He also got Q
home run during the game,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26

Ktngmont will play Barrackvllle
tomorrow afternoon at the King.
mont diamond. After the game
there VIII be box supper and a
general picnic program. The gamo
should prove very interesting
one Barrackyille will not have to
faeo Kingnont's best pitcher,
welch. as lie S. being saved for the
game With Warrington at Black.
shore park on Sunday afternoon.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26
mont Elks will play at South Side
park next Tuesday evening.

The west has a Bobby Jones"
as well US the south.
He Is George Won Elm, Of Salt
Lake City.
A few years ago Won Elm was
carrying clubs for the regular cad.
dies fee.
w. H. Halloran, president OF the
Salt Lake City Country club, be.
came interested in him, gave him
q job at the club, sent him to school,
and gave him plenty of time to prac.
tice golf.
At Is, the boy won the golf cham.
pionship OF Utah. Since, he has
won the Pacific Northwest cham
pionship, and more recently the
Trans Mississippi at Denver Colo.
Won Elm will play in the amateur
championship at st. Louis in Sep
tember.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26

Philippt and FaItmont Kiwanis
VIII battle ct South Side park to.
morrow afternoon at 8 o'clock. This
should be d good game ana VIII at.
tract q large number OF fans. This
viii he the last chance to- see the
Kiwanfs bunch In action this sea,
son according to Manager Kline.
The Warrington Elks'and the Fair.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26
Moved 10 ReItnaton.

j. II. Rohrabaugh and family
have moved from this, place to
Belington where he will be princl-
pal OF the Be!ihgton high school.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26
on YIsIt.

Mrs. Willie Downs and children,
Robert and Donahue, left Thurs.
day morning for Arnoldsburg, Cal.
houn county, where they will visit
with her aunt, Mrs. w. q. Downs
and Mr.. Downs.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26

A special meeting Of the Fair.
mont Collegian football team is
booked q the Kenyon hotel this
evening at IS O'Clock. All the Off.
cersl members Of the squad and
coaching stan are expected to be
on hand Some special business
THAT reguiyes immediate attention
viii come before the session to-
nlght. I. Az.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26

Visitors Here.
Mrs. Nate Conaway and her
mother, Mrs. Margaret Postle-
weight, of Barrackyille, were visit.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26
Baby Girl.

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. George
Monroe at their home near here
Monday, August 81, baby girl.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26

The Fair1nont State Normal
school Candidates for football will
hold q meeting with doc" Garrett
and Homer To Gilman next Monday
eyning al o'clock. The meeting
viii be held at the "Y," and final
details for the trip to the training
camp 80 Terra Alta will be worked
out, There Is much good material
available and Coaches Garrett and
Toothnan expect to turn out q fast
team. The candidates for the team
have been ordered to start taking
light exercise 50 that they viii be
IN fair shape to start stiff work at
camp. The team will leave here
With the Fairmont high school
squad next Thursday morning for
the emp site at Terra Alta. The
word has gone out that only real
football workers are wanted at the
camp. tits not q picnic party. and
all the time there will be devoted
10 preparing for the hard games on
the schedule.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26
eN HOW THEY
STAND
NATIONAL LEl.

Yesterday's Results.
New York, S; Pittsburgh, 2.
st. Louis, 4; Boston, 2.
Brooklyn, 8; Chicago, {.
Cincinnati, 8; Philadelphia, 1
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26
Games Today.
Pittsburgh ut New York
Cincinnati at Philadelphia.
st. Louis ut Boston.
Chicago at Brooklyn.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Yesterdays ResuIta.
Cleveland, 10; New York, /.
Chicago, 10: Philadelphia, 8.
st. Louis, z; Boston, 2.
Washington, Q; Detroit, !.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26
Moved,

MIR, and Mrs. George Barshock
have moved from the Book home
in West Pennington to the Yeach
flats. s
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26
GIANTS IBEE
ANOlBER. ONE
ERgMIS|'MgEES
Baseball and Football.
Notes Of Interest to
Fans Here

New York made II three in q row
from Pittsbargh at the Polo Grounds
yesterday by scoring five runs in
the second timing, the final count
being ia Yestesday's victory
rIinches the seasons series for New
York over plttsburgh. but, thanks
to the tacs that New York plays
consistent ball only against Pitts
hurgh and Philadelphia, the Pr
rates are still out front by four and
one-half games While the chicken
hearted BOYS are now proclatming
that the sig Is up and that the Pi.
ratcs win crack for good, we are
not going To Join the crepe hangers
union Until New York Is as far
ahead Of Pittsburgh as Pittsburgh
is now ahead of New York, which
win BIO 10 days from now at the
least, II pittsburgh never wins an.
other game all season. The Glib
sonttes have some hard sailing
ahead Games are booked for to.
day and tomorrow In New York and
then the tribe drops over to Brook:
Ign for q SERIES, The Dodgers are
moan birds and Pittsburgh will
have 70 step on the gas to come
back home with q good record and
d fair hold on the top rung of the
pennant ladder. Cleveland went
back into first place in the Ameri-
can league yesterday with a one
point margin, when New York was
defeated N the final game Of the
series by aslarge score, 15-1.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26

Branch Rtckey's Cards mind him.
During the st. Louis-New York
series at the Polo Grounds the Car.
dinals rushed out Of the dugout on
two occasions, bent on assisting a
fellow player who had protested
against the call of play.
Each time Brauch's meditatinR
voice called out Come, now, boys!"
and his players boomeranged back
to their seats in the doghouse.
Looks like Branch had good con.
troll Of his charges.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26

Gus Desch, the fleet.footed hur.
dior who holds tho worlds record
in the 440-yard stick event, is going
in for football at Notre Dame this
fall.
He'll be Just a candidate for
Coach Knute Rockney's eleven hut
Desch's hurdling speed should as.
sert itself enough to win him a
place.
In the old days when the flying
tackle and hurdling were permitted
in football, Dcsch would have been
a star.
He may be, anyway. Once he Is
given the ball he'll be hard to
bring down.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26

III.
Roy Conway has been very ~
at his homeghe for the past sew
Personals,
Miss Mary Lamb, Of ArdmoFe,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26

Are mining pennans ore
'.As mining pennant orc
Looking FAR ahead no doubt,
TO nineteen fists-sour.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26
Standing Of the Clubs

OF the more than 100000 won.
en- employed in the United States.
ABOUT 100000 are organized.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26

NHadnesiaY. .. ~ q I. Z
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-26

las now developed ne trouble WIN
,e had 1t Deer Park 4
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-09-08

dams and canals have been con-
Structed. a railroad has been
built from Bagdad to Basra. Il
rort near the Persian gulf, II dis
tance of several hundred miles.
and another line has been laid mp
the Tigris half way to MoSul.
tCnnectiOn with the COuStantimo-
pleto-Bagdad (oncc the Berlin
to-BagdadD railway will probably
be effected in the near future.
1t is planned under the new
Arab state and the mandate to
continue the work of rcjuvcrat-
ing the country's ancient irriga-
tlun system. But there is Il Her
chlean task to be accomp!ishrl |
before The Garden of Edrr
blooms again. 1t was estimated
before the World war that TN.
ambitious project of the Turk to
reclaim 3,500,000 acres woull
cost l30 million dollars. Th., to-
I'll area that might be irrigat".!
is placed at about l2,50O.uUJ
acres.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-09-08

Some Of the ancient canals were
practically artificial rivers with
two and three parallel channels,
the remains of which may be
traced today for scores of miles.
Watered by these countless
streams. nearly every square loot
OF the country produced it's crop
OF dates, figs, grain and other
products. and the population wys
many times that of today.
"Babylon's agricultural Utopia
Was not a short-lived affair. bur
continued for nearly ten times as
long as the period which has pass.
ed since white men settled in
America. The country throve
with only minor Interruptions
under Babylonians, Assyrians,
Chaldeans, Greeks and Romans.
But always the settled civiliza-
tion of the agriculturists was
threatened by the turbulent hill
people to the north and east. FL
nally the Parthians captured the
country and were followed by the
Persians. Under these more bar
barous rulers the great irrigation
systems, even then much less eff
Gent than during the golden age
OF Babylon. rapidly deteriorated.
Under the Abassid caliphs,
with a combination of Arabic and
Persian culture, Bagdad was
founded on the Tigris in the very
center of the river plan-the
splendid. gay, wicked Bagdad of
THE Arabian Nights. Mrsopo-
tamia $ prosperity, though much
less, was still relatively great and
Ragdad was for while the me-
tcopolis of the world. it's mhabi-
tants at one time numbering
million souls.
"When the Turks got posses
sion of the caliphate and carried
its seat OH to the west. Bagda,i
w!thered. and under Turkish rule
the Tigris and E,lphrates valley
entered its darkest period. The
few canals that had continued to
function joined those that had
long before fallen into disrepair.
becoming clogged or breaking
their banks and causing floods.
Much of the incomparably Fertile
soil became and has remained I'M
I'll today bare plain or oozy
swamp. Only small percentage
of the rich valley has for genera.
tions produced any crops.
after the Young Turks came
into power in 1908 reclamation
work was undertaken in the Ii
g:Is and Euphrates plain and
some headway was made. Since
The British occupied Bagdad in
1917 this work has been carried
much farther. An appreciablr
acreage has been drained and
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-09-08
IRAK-BABY NATION.

| Ht lupcIllluS duultlOll Ol
new member to the family of ma
tions-the kingdom of lrak-to
function under British man
date, is mentioned in recent dis
patches from London. How this
new country IS M reality one
of the oldest and most historic
patches of the eorth s surface is
told in the following bulletin
from the Washington headuarters
of the National Geographic So
cicty:
'irak has existed as geo
graphical name for ages says
,he bulletin, but iii recent cen
turics IL has had little more Off
cial sanction than Manhattan
for the American metropolis or
Frisco for a thriving Pacific
port. Yet it covers more or less
indefinitely region known, and
often famous. i'll every age of man
from the dawn of tradition to the
prcaent-the fertile plain of the
girls and Euphrates valleys,
here the Garden of Eden is sup
..osrd by many students to have
cen and where the first weak
'oo,lets sprouted that have grown
.nto the worldwide civilization
today. Strip lr..k of its alias
all it Babylon. Ninevah. Mcsopo-
amia, and it is known to every
,chool child.
THE country which it is pro
..osed to erect into the practi-
ca!iy independent kingdom of
.rak was placed under the man
date of Great Britain OH the
breaking up of the Turkish EN-
pre- following the World war,
and was generally spoken of as
lhc mandate of Mcsopotamia.
1t includes approximately the old
Turkish vilaycts of Basra, Bag
dad and Mosul, which cover the
delta of the Tigris and Euphra-
tcs and considerable part of the
upper reaches of those streams,
lying between the Syrian desert
Oh the one side and the hills of
kurdlstan and western Persia on
the other. TO the southeast, at
TIC mouth of the rivers, is the
novigable Persian gulf.
1t is difficult to exaggerate
the agricultural paradise that
might be built up in the lower
valley of the two rivers, supple
mrntcd by the mineral wealth ia
ku from the regions farther
north, if the country were under
ii strong government, and if the
nee cssary capital and modern
machinery We're available. Even
with the factors as they are, the
British, who will continue to hold
the mandate, and the Arabians,
who will be in immediate charge
OF the government, are counting
on the rise of great state which
may be compared without disad-
vantage with some of the great
governments that have occupied
the land in the past.
"To gain an ideat of what
wonderful development can be
brOmgh about in MesOpotamia
one need only look into the past.
AT the beginning of history the
plain of the Tigris and Euphra
teS was garden spot teeming
with well fed and wealthy peO,
pie. If there was grandeur
that was Greece and glory tha.
was Rome there was truly II
splcndor that was Babylonian.
| Al.d the splendor of Babylon was
made possible 5000 years ago
largely by the wealth that sprang
from the intensive cultivation of
the river plain under gigantic
system of irrigation which even,
the most ambitious systems .orob.
ably have failed in many ways
to surpass.
Great canals crossed the re.
glon between the rivers and ran
for miles on the outer sides, while
smaller canals spread the water
to every corner of the couulry.