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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-05-27

few feet away from the burning
structure and that their efforts were
succesBfuI was the sub bject oflnuch
admiring comment from the specta-
tors, hundreds Of whom lined the
roads and hills round about and
watched the battle with the flames.
The nramon were ably assisted by
Howard woodward, Harry Downey;
Paul Montgomery, Clyde Roon3 and
anumber Of others.
The property loss viii amopnt to
about S70, 900 Of which about 500, 900
WIN be suffered by the owners Of
the garage, There was very little
insurance carried! not enough " pay
for the machinery II the shot.
It was mot known exactly how
many automobiles were In thS build.
Ing but Mr.. Dietrich was certain
that the following list were de-
aroyed: an oldsmobile owned by j.
5F. Cole; q Hudson Of the payison
Garage, Morgantown; Governor
Fleming's Packard; q Cole, the sipropi
erty OF Mrs. ocie shepherd, Man-
nington; Judge w IS! Meredith,s
Buick; DR.. John NJ. Trach's Buick,
". ]. Caldara's WHY'S Six, a .Ghey-
rolet and Cadillac belonging 10 the
owner Of the building; truck owned;
ed by the Phillips Machinery Cos
Of Warrington; a Hudson owned
by the cashier Of a bank al wal
lace: the Dodge Bros. car owned
by Rev. ]. @. Buckley;san Overland
owned by q man whose hame Is also
unknown to the owner OF the shop;
the Cook hospital ambulance and
the new city police patrol wagon,
which was nearing completion.
All these cars enumerated were
completely destroyed.
Yesterday o deed had been drawn
up by which Mr.. Dietrich was to
give a half interest in the business
to his four sons Jointly but had not
yet been recorded. The document
Is now regarded as useless,
The cars which were saved ware
"a Chandler owned by R. E. Alder,
q REQ touring car owned by Coke
Hamilton Of Huntington and q car
owed by Jim Barry OF. Fatrmont.
H .aH - j + - i
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-05-27

" oU8 look for "sterling' when
] you buy a piece OF silver.
ware. You are pleased when you
md it Son silver you receive as a
~ But you give little thought as
o Why you can depend upon the
icrd as a pledge Of good faith.
Mi isSwell at this time to recall
gatherings, men from the old
btic towns-the East-who
Sfae I'M their quaint ships to Brit.
shores to trade, OF all the
hants who deaf with Britain
scentInued en page fourl
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-05-27

feature Of which was an original
comedy depictpg d class day soma
years n the bright t1turc. The
whola entertainment was most ex-
cellent and was received With evi-
denee Of marked approval
Another feanire of the program
was the phesentation of The West
Sirginlan essay contest prizos. The
papers this year were written on
the subject Of how best TO make
Fnirmons safe for the citizens. The
essays writse non the East Side
ahowed evidence Of splendid teach
ng in all Of the East Side schools.
Miss Helen lsey won Tho first prize
toeasiaesa On psss feurl
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-05-27
Uprising
FOIIOu,e
Auto I Crash
And AS Usual An limo.
cent Man Got the
Worst OF 1t

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ieiks Mno y sre n tne ysenlE oI
che intersection Of ifst street and
Faifmont avenue this morning
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was decide diy sttick Us IL ifapnelS
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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-05-27
Oh Listen Here !
ny ApAIgss LANE

II seems that Mr..
Harry Englc IS very Much
pisgruntled at the Notion
OF that Swimming 4
Pool
In the new Ravine a
Park.
went into The &
Bank yesterday To M
Address a Letter, 4
And Harry called Me
Into til, direc ctors ROOM 7
And uuhurdened Himself y
As Follows: n X
He said, dam, you Know
That + am the Man
Who Originally Boosted
E'r public Baths.
q rooted d for Baths b
And came Out
Into print about Then
And everybody y in This
Town knows Exactly
How ] stand on The
Bath Question Y
II was my Idea,
And the park People
Knew Il was Mine
And now They've
Grab bed i of Just
LIKE It belonged To
why 1 had The Lon ksst
List Of Folks
Who promised "a Take IS
A bath as Soon >
As ] got my Bath II
Houses built, you Ever SN
Saw.
I even got Albert tsi
Hughes to sign Up.
Do you Suppose
That man viii Ever y
Take a bath in Tie
Park swimming Pool?
~ 4A = Se 2 Z. y 4. h.. 1. X
Ehen think ot The
ex iepss tllese cope
!. A5e going f.e. =. ~ =
I pected to Have
~ ]. bath, houses On
IN lar end OF
The new Bridge.
Az any one Would
lave 70 40 Was
10 enter a bath House,
1on a bathing Suit,
step Jauntily Forth
70 the bridge Railing 4l
ana dive gracefully Off
into IN River,
Iessir-er-f mean
Merry Christmas! The Water
was right There!
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-05-27
GLASS lA FIlR
EAST SIDE GRADES

East Side mothers and sisters,
and some fathers crowded the audi.
torium Of the Central school build.
ing thls attefno6n to 800 tho proud
memhuta ot the Eaat sae eighth
grade gradual tsns elsstca siyo their
class day exercises the prlaetpal
Arizona republican., 1921-08-18
De Seneetute

An exchange informs that the Earl of Hals- bury ss years old the oldest member of the British House of Lords. is preparing to celebrate his tooth birthday. There here of three years; the earl was born in 1925. He one of the greatest lawyers of England and thirty-five years ago made lord chancellor and an earl. But he is still active and engaged in supervising the prepa- ration of 2Ovolume edition interpreting the whole law of England.
 Brtons get into public life earlier and to remain active in it longer than Americans. The latter 'act may be because of difference in the ways ia which public men chosen in the two countries. and part the differences in tempera- of British and American voters.
 The average term of members of our house of representatives is brief Comparatively few attain prominence survive political changes their districts. The few by of character survive come back, so that we have a few long of service, s in the case of Uncle Joe Cannon the age of S5.
 Senators also subject to election. have little longer average lease of public life, partly by reason of that their terms longer and partly because the complexion of state is less likely to change than that of congressional district.
 British lords however. not subject to election but remain in service until they incapacitated by age which creeps upon them only slowly. Two other members still active are the Earl of Ducie. s4 and Baron Eversley. ss.
 The average man. when he begins in middle life to be wearied, somehow looks 50 objective point; then he hopes to retire. Generally if that hope is realized he dies Man is like the old horse in Pickwck Papers He is sustained only by his harness and the shafts
 The greatest achievements of have been made after the age of SO. Titan sS when he painted the Battle Of Lepanto. yon Moltke in full uniform at ss. Commodore Vanderbilt was 70 before he became railroad king and 18 years he the most active railroad of his time.
 Socrates, though he no great stir in the musical world, began the study of music at sO Columbus nearly 50 when he discovered America voltaire. Talleyrand, Spencer. Newton and Thomas Jefferson in their prime after 80.
 Nature stiffen joints and harden arteries. whiten or remove hair and seam the face with wrinkles. But the brain.sf trained right. hold out against the ravages of nature for long time. If people learn to think straight they can 'stal off natures ravages against the body. almost indefi- nitey.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-18

over the glames or threw garlands into them. Dancing and singing played part in the festival.
 Q. How arc stamps applied to stamped envelopes? Can one bs cut from an envelope and used on another one7 L. J. S.
 that the stamp is embossed on the envelope at the time the envelope fs made and is a part of the envelope itself. If the embossed stamp is cut from the original envelope. it is not good for postage if attached to an- other envelope.
 O. Please tell me if . radio opsr- ator may take his wife on board ship with hin7 E. H.
 A. The radio inspector says &C., commodations are not allowed for the wives of operators and they are not allowed on board vessels
 a. What does "avatar" meanf H. R.
 A. "Avatar" comes from san- skrit word meaning descent" It is applied particularly to the descent of a Hindu diety to earth in a mani fest form, either for beneficent or retributive reasons It corresponds to the Christian term incarnation"
 O. Please tell me what the By. xantine period was7 H. R.
 A. The Byzantine period is an era from 3s5 to 1453. On the death Of Theodosius the Roman empire was divided and his son Arcadius took the eastern half. with Byzantium as his capital. This ancient city occupied the most elsterly hill of the modern city of Constantinople-
Arizona republican., 1921-08-18
Centripetal Forces In British I
The British Empire is not falling to pieces. It is
BY DR. FRANK CRANE fCopyright. 1921. by Frank Cranel

The British Empire is not falling to pieces. It is consolidating
 We are likely to imagine that the spirit of the times, which to independence and sefdetermina on is slowly disintegrang the vast territory governed by Great Britain.
 To such conclusion we are more prone because very intense propaganda has been carried by the Germans whose wish has been father to the thought that the Engish-speaking world is falling apart. In this propaganda the Irish have cooperated Both these groups having great solidarity in American politics. they have had pronounced influence upon pubic opinion.
 Besides this there have been persistent rumors of revolution in India and in Egypt.
 Yet any one who cares to look at the facts must realize that the centrpetal powerful than the centrifugal froces in Great Britain
 For at bottom 1t is question of Selfinterest And Australia, Canada New Zealand, and South Africa, we'll the Asatc colonies know that their existence safer and their prosperity more assured by maintaining isolation.
 Great Britain may have conquered her possessions by force for she got them in the days when force was omnipotent; but she does not keep them by force
 She has been shrewd enough to change her policy. So that whereas the colonies of Spain have practically all revolted those of Great Britain closely bound now than ever.
 It is not the mother country's army and navy that keeps Canada for instance it is that Canada finds it in every more advantageous to be linked with the rest of the English world than to go 1t alone.
 In other words, for the old tie of conquest such Romes Spains there has been substituted the new tie of mutual benefit such as creates an American trust.
 The Great War emphasized this. That test showed that in crisis the empire flowed together and did not spring apart.
 But the British Empire, plus the United States oi America is homogeneous mass, the like of whice never existed before; it unity formed by bood his tory tradition and religion It is the most powerful unit extant For it to fall asunder or be torn by war would be the greatest calamity to the human ceivabe.
 The British statesmen of today deserve great credit for their intelligent handling of colonial problems es pecally for realizing that it is not military force but the profableness of unity which is the cohesive power I of the empire. l, And in the most friendly cooperation with Great Britain and her colonies the United States of America has everything to gain and not thing to fear.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-18
THE BoBBEp HAIR GIRLS STRIKE
 BACK AT THE BOSSES.

Another war is on. This time it's Big Business versus Bobbed Halr ana Powdered Noses.
 
 Bobbed hair. it is contended. is an indicatio that a girl is frivolous. On the other hand it may merely indicate she is tired of doing it up in papers, It also may indicate merely that the young woman leaned too close to a lighted kerosene lamp to ever need hair ribbons again.
 The uprising of Big Business against powder is something else again. The Tired Business Man doesn't mind the powder on his stem ographer's nose so much. It's the way the stuff comes off on his Black Business suit.
 But the Stenographers' Local is to deliver a counter attack. If the em- ployers are going to dictate matters of pulchritude to their girls the girls will do a little dictating to the em- ployers along the same line. The fol- lowing rules and regulations govern ing employers are being drawn up:
 l. No girl shall work for any Busi- ness Man who is totally bald. Bald ness IS sign or 1nppancy- HSht- headedness and dandruff. Toupes shall be required during office hours.
 2. All business men whose hair has reached a stage where there are four strands left on the port side, said hairs having to be tenderly and care fully drawn across the top of the pate and stuck to the Starboard side with adhesive tape, shall hire only stem ographers who are near-sighted and over sixty-fiVe. Hair so arranged
Arizona republican., 1921-08-18
Questions And
 AnstUers

(Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing The Repub- lican Information Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin. Director, Washington. D. C. This offer applies strictly to informa- tion. The bureau cannot give advice on legal. medical and financial mat ters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles, nor to undertake exhaustive research on any subject. Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and address and enclose cents in stamps for return postage. All replies are sent direct to the inquirer.)
 e. Are watermeIons and tomatoes elassed as fruits or vegetables? O. C..
 A. Both the watermelon and the tomato are variously regarded as fruit and vegetable by the latest die tionaries. You will find directions for their culture in books on fruit raising and vegetable raising.
 O. Does the compass point to the south below the equator? J. w.
 A. The naval observatory says that the compass does not point to the south in the southern hemisphere.
 Q. When is Midsummer Eve? E. $.
 A. Midsummer Eve falls on the night before the festival of St. John the Baptist, June 24th. This used to be observed in all parts of Europe. Fires were kindled in the market places and the young people leaped
Arizona republican., 1921-08-18
Pathetic Appeals From Austria

of a job anywhere else. just so there was food obtainable for his ailing baby and his wife.
 Another cry of distress came to Washington addressed to the Union of Postal Employes, from the widow of former Austrian postal employe. Exiled from Marburg when it was in- corporated into the new nation of Jugo-Slavia, this woman and her three children fled to Graz, in Ger man-Austria.
 Bessars Among Begears
 With no pension. destitute of all means. having sold all my furniture and articles Of value to buy food, completely exhausted by trouble. sorrow and want. I am plunged into the deepest despair" she wrote. "All pensioners get assistance, but we get nothing. We are beggars among beg gars."
 Another appeal from a man too proud to ask for outright aims, came in a letter which got into the hands of the postmaster general. This man, though for 25 years an employe in an iron works has been struggling all of his life to get start as musician. The letter had an enclosure asking that it be forwarded to some orches- tra in Washington. and asked for WOrk m tranScr1DlnR Austrian HluSlc. The man said that in his 25 years of work he had managed to save up little money, but that the whole little saving had been swept away by the war His children had been without proper clothing for months.
 Necessity is already claiming my musical instruments" his letter said. my sacred possessions from which only the grave should separate me, so I come as a last resort to strangers in a strange part of the world. Here in this country people are unable to 1 help one another"
 These are all fair samples of the begging mail coming from the postal | employees alone of the late enemy l territory. Another letter. this one l from a postal employe in Vienna, l gives figures which show with what i the poor people of the old empire s | capital have to contend. This man,
Arizona republican., 1921-08-18
THE ONCE OVER
By H. '. PHILLIPS

indicates deceit. vanity, and too much reliance on hair restorers.
 8. No woman worker shall consider employment with a Business Man who wears his mustache after the fashion of Walrus of Keystone com- edy fame. Such mustaches indicate a frivolous nature, a disposition to be playful and carefree, a tendency to act half-baked at all times and are also an indication that the weaEeS has either never looked into a mirI3or or has no sense of humor.
 f. Employment with any Business Man who wears a bobbed mustache shall be refused. Bobbed mustaches are an indication that the wearer thinks the upper lip is the place to grow caterpillars.
 5. The eating of cloves by all em- ployers during office hours shall be prohibited. They are an indication the boss has got a line on another quart.
 c. No employer shall wear spats during business hours. They are an indication of gout. fallen arches and a shortage of high shoes.
 :. No girl shall stenog for man who wears white vests and catch-on ties They are an indication he was a tough egg during the Blaine cam paign.
 g. Under no circumstances shall a girl enter the employ of a boss A,zqo always comes to work with roSAln his buttonhoie This is sign he is a weak sister in his own home and that his wife personally conducts him to and from all trains.
 10. Brown derbys on an employer shall be helI as sufficient ground for dismissal. They indicate timidity, sensitiveness. hardening of the arter- ies and poor taste in headgear.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-18
ABOUT THE STATE
Fowler Assume. puties


 NOGALES-Charles L. Fowler as- stunned the duties of collector of cus- toms of the Arizona district this mor- ming, relieving Charles E. Hardy. who has occupied the position for the past eight years. A spirit of good fellowship prevailed at the cer- emonies which marked the change of administration. All of the members of the office and line force assembled in the office of the collector. the im- migration force taking charge of the border while the ceremonies marking the change of office were being held. Herald.
 K. of c. To Build
 TUCSON-Rough plans have al- ready been drafted, a lot 100x120 feet purchased and paid for to house a four story business block that the Knights of Columbus intend to erect this winter. The site for the pro- posed new business block, club house and assembly room which the K. of c. plan for Tucson is at Sixth avenue and Alameda street, two blocks off Congress street on North Sixth ave- nue.-Star.
 Ask Lyman to Sit In North PRESCOTT - Yavapai's superior court may present the unusual spec 1 tacle of three judges in action al once, if request for tho services o: Judge Frank H. Lyman of the Mar iccrs. courty superior court :s grant | ed. so that the Hesla highway com mission injunction case can be tried l before the Phoenix judge. Judge Sweeney is occupied with the smoke case. and 1t is planned that Judge E F.. Bollinger of Mohave shall come here soon to take up the crimina docket which County Attorney Sul. livan Is anxious to have started.- 1 Journal Miner.
 l Urge Copper Road Signs BISBEE-The road signs that will line the Bankhead highway acros. Arizona, preliminary survey fol which is now being made by scoutl ! for the Auto Club of Southern Cali l fornia, will be made of copper, i l suggestions that will be made by th' Warren District Commercial Clul | are found to be practical. It Is de clared that sign of the same weigh | and size as those to be installed | along the route could be made o | copper. would cost no more. an, | would not be effected by rust or de ! teriorating elements.-Review.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-18
sv Frederic J. Ha.kin

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The postoffice department has been the recipient of hundreds of letters from postal employees in Austria and Hun gary ever since the armistice was signed, and even before that, begging assistance that they might not starve. Realizing the futility of appealing to their own city or national govern ments for assistance, these people have turned in despair to others in the same business. even though they had been engaged on opposing sides in the greatest clash of arms the world has ever known.
 One of these letters, addressed Main Post Officer written in la borious English by an orphan girl employed in a Hungarian postoffice, enclosed several stamps of her own country and asked the postmaster general to buy them and send her the few dollars the stamps represent ed. Another, addressed to the "Prin- cipal of the Post and Telegraph Of flee" at Washington, set forth first that only want and despair" drove him to writing the appeal for aid This man said he had been stationed at a point in what is now Jugo Slavia and that the Serbs exiled him. He secured position in the postal serv- ice in Budapest eventually HIS small salary scarcely sufficed for medicines for his aged and sick mother, this man wrote.
 Tn my great need" his letter said 'I know of no other way out except America"
 From German-Austria a letter came to the postmaster general which after extolling the dear fatherland" al some length. said his government was not able to help him or his wife anc baby, therefore he was turning to his colleagues in the postal service of thE United States.
 My wife and my child are i'll, h' said, "we have little and bad to eat it is wanting us on the clothings foods, and on the ready money to buy those things" At the end of th' letter this young man asked that h.
 might be recommended for any kin'
Arizona republican., 1921-08-18
~BertOn BrdleyS )Ddily Poem Rho.Hu1n

Ho-hum, the drowsy breezes Come drifting from the lea. A lethargy now seizes
 And quite envelops me. My heavy head is nodding. My brain is sort of numb Oh, what's the use of ploddins,
 Ho-hum, Ho-hum. I feel no stirring Of vim or enterprise, My work Is slowly blurring
 Before my swimming eyes. A turing languor fingers In gentle winds that come. My pen drops from my fingers,
 Ho-hum, Ho-hum, there's no use working, I cannot keep awake When sleepiness is lurking In every breath I take My thoughts are vague and frowsy My limbs are growing numb; rm-getting-ve -ve-ry-drowsy,
 Ho-o- -hum-m-u