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PRICES ARE down
IN HORSE MART
Marc Sells for Twenty
Cents at Horse Trad
ers' Fair

Tell it not in Kiwanls. Wherever
two or more Kiwaniaus aru gath.
cred together, whether a-ound their
own festal board or recurring from
holding wassail at some distant
hospitable wlgwam, their ululating
lamentations anent the physical
condition OF a certain superannlat.
ed ~quarduped Of the female persua.
sion, genus equus, CA be heard
giving a very fair imitation OF the
lachrymose vociferati0ns OF Iere.
miah bewailing the impending fate
OF Jerusalem.
And now who is thera 10 carry to
them the sad news that ;heir worst
fears have been realizad-that the
old girl has degenerate.l % such al
extent that she no longer locks
like the proverbIal thirty cents but
worse, far, far worse? For the low.
est price yet brought at the Horse
Traders convention now being
held on the Fred Patton farm near
White Rock was 20 cents 10: an old
gray mare.
Both parties to the transaction
yesterday afternoon refused 10 give
their names, one for the probIple
reason that he afterwari though:
Of the many years Of faithful ser.
vice performed by the animal and
the other for the reason that he
deserted dtis new purchase shortly
after becoming hsr %posSgSno:.
When last seen, however. the mare
was seen cropping the luscious
grass along the banks OF Il clear
brooklet on the Patton farm, and
thinking, no doubt that it's not
such a bad old world after all, in
spite Of the fact that no one
seemed to want her.
The biggest price yet brought at
the meeting was $3.50 Tor a bay
team.
The meeting has been In progress
for several days nov and wherever
one ices a led horse, a good way
to find the road to the Patton farm
Is to tag along for that's where he
eventually will land.
Last Saturday was the big day.
1t Is estimated that there we're 500
people and $50 horses on the
ground. About 100 trades were
made. After the gray mare was
knocked down for 20 cents. an old.
timer was heard to remark that q
clever trader might go to the meet
with a jackknife and come away
with a herd OF horses.
A number of big deals have been
made. Burt Whetsell, OF Grafton,
shipped II head OF horses to his
home Sunday and a man from SUIT
ton whose name could not be
learned got, in on the ground floor
last Friday and took away 20
horses.
A sensational stunt was staged
yesterday by a bay mare owned by
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on NeW Ioh No,,,,

On New JOB Now
w. H. Riley, who resigned. az
traffic manager OF the Northern
West Virginia Operators Associa-
ton. Is at his new post in Pitts
burgh. He visited relatives al
Wheeling before reporting to Pitts
burgh.
Lewis WIN Speak
John L. Lewis, president Of the
United Mine Workers Of America,
will address a general miners
meeting at Star City. MonongalIa
county, on Saturday morning, next,
at 9 o'clock. Fairmonters will al.
tend.
To Close Some Mines.
The Consolidation Coal company
finds is necessary to close down
nine OF It's mines IN the FaIrmont
region. This is due to the present
lack Of demand for coal, which con,
dition has existed for many months;
however, with the Consolidation, II
seems TO be more acute al the pres.
ent time than formerly, with little
prospect for Improvement in the
near future. The mines that are
being closed down, effective July
list, r as follows:
No. "a (Montana), all excepting
sufficient to continue the coaling
Of railroad engines; No. 81 Goal.
ing Station, all excepting sufficient
tor coaling railroad engines; No
81 (Berryburg): No. a Middle
toni: No. % (Dunham); No. As
tFall Rum; No. so perry: No.
"a PERRY No. ~; No. 66 (River.
dale).
These mines OF the Consollda.
tton Coal company, as well us most
Of Its other operations in this re
gion, have been working better than
the average mines in the region for
some time past, but conditions are
such that the Consolidation Coal
company is not warranted in the
continuance Of the operation OF
these plants, at least for u short
period. 1t is to be hoped these
mines will resume operation in the
near future.
Coal Movement
Coal mOvemen on the B. & o4
east OF Grafton during the pas,
two days has been very heavy and
in many respects it recalls old time
coal movement.
On Tuesday there were SO trains
moved east Of Grafton In which
there were 1860 loads OF which s44
Dads were coal. West OF the Mon.
ongah division there were So loads
moved. This morning there were
900 eastbound loads on the Mon
ongah division Of which $50 cars
were coal
Thlrty-two trains were moved
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PERSONALS

Mrs. NJ. j. Hough of Manning
ION is spending the day here with
her daughter, Mrs. C "A. Thomas
at her home on Watson avenue.
Mrs. C. c. Doll who had been
the guest OF Mrs. Myrtle McCray at
her summer bungalow on the valley
river has returned to her home at
Pittsburgh.
Mrs. j. R. Nelll has as her
guest at this time Mrs. Jane Alt
and Mrs. Julia Stanley OF Leeper,
Pa.
Miss Sylvia Pepkins OF Parkers-
burg is the guest Of Miss Gladys
Mcolvin at her home at Bellyiew.
Messrs. D. A. Fitzgerald, S. :.
Lane, Robert Rynd. Edward Modi,
Thomas Joyce ad THOMAS ouirk Of
Warrington motored here on Sun
day and attended the K. of c. In
itiation and returned 10 Mannig-
ton that evening.
Prof. j. S. Hawkins has ra..rn.
ed from a visit with relatives and
friends at Lisbon and Canton, Ohio.
and ElkIns. ok!!0. At the latter
place he attended the funeral of a
relative
Carson W. Smith, Of St Louis.
Mo, general manager of the Man.
cha Locomotive works Is here to.
day comforting with A. H. Ban
mister district manager of the COM
pany.
The Misses Dorotha Cook and
Daphne Altman students at the
Normal school will spend the week
and with relatives at Weston.
Mrs. Robert Heron has return
ed from GAINESVILLE, Ohio where She
had been the guest Of her sister,
Mrs. Thomas Powell.
Miss Ruth Ballah OF Glenn ave
nue. left today for a visit with re-
latives at Jenette, Pa.
l. Miss Martha Fleming, who had
been residing at the church home
OF the NJ. P. denomination at West
lafayette, Ohio, is here to spend
the summer with relatives. She Is
now at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs, R,
L, Cunningham and will later visit
with Mrs. J. W, Everhart and prob.
ABLY spend several weeks at Mt.
Lake Park.
Mrs. ]. W. Horner, Of Indian.
apolis. Ind, Is the guest OF Mrs. F.
l. Nutter at her home on Chicago
Miss Beryl Zimmerman is the
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GIRL TELLS
ABOUT SHOOTING
Carolina Slayer's Daugh-
ter May Be Important
Witness

Catherine B~ennlcosa, or Benney,
the IL year old daughter of Guis-
eppi BennlocsaS wuo shot and kill
ed Joe Romano and badly wound.
eG Joe Frarlano at Carolina and
made her escape ~.s5 brought TO
the city y%esta:uy, and after being
.Ous8t'"..sd by Prosecuting Attorney
Frank R. Amos, was sent to the
savation Army, where she will be
detained
GATHERINGS story throws little
light on the shooting and offers no
clue to the whereabouts of her
father.
She says she was at the dance
next door to their home Sunday
night until shorty after ten o'clock
when her step-mother sent her
home with instructions 10 go to
bed. She had Just taken off her
shoes. in the front room, she says,
when she heard loud talking in the
Kitchen adjoining. and just as her
stepmother, whom she refers to as
her mother, ran Lp. the shooting
began. Her mother, she says tried
to wrest the gun from her father
but did not succeed. Romano stag
gered out the kitchen door and
walked to a grassy plot back of
the house where he lay down. He
was found dead a few minutes
later. FrarIano came through the
front door holding both hands
over mis- heart, and fell down in
the front yard. After the shooting,
the child went to the home Of
Frariano where she spent the
night.
Catherine says she has made her
home Wtf her father for about
two years. She is the daughter OF
Bennlcosa by his first wife, from
whom he was divorS$d some years
Iago.
This morning a woman came TO
the Salvation Army saying she was
the mother OF the girl but did not
insist upon seeing her. She was re-
ferred to the prosecuting attorney
and left to go to the court house.
She said she lived at Monongah.
The body OF Romano was buried
this morning in Fairmont cemetery.
The funeral arrangements were in
charge of Carpenter and Ford. A
bIother-tn-aw OF the deceased,
came from Youngstown o., last
nigh and followed the body to its
last resting place.
Frariano's condition is still very
serious, according to a report from
Cook Hospital this afternoon.
Coroner Frank A. Lloyd will
conduct the inquest in the county
court room Of the court house to.
morrow morning at 10 o'clock.
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CLERK Zee N. sattetfield % ths fol.
lowing: Vlncehzo Ctcatelli, di.
.yoreed. Watson, "a, and Teresa Tor.
chi, II, Falrmont. John Aorchi,
father OF the girl was present and
gave bis consent; Hershel H. HoH.
man, rs, WetEel, and Anna Mae
Parsons, 81, Fairmont; Glenn A.
Keister, 80, and Naomi Straight,
%, both Of Fairmont: S. F. Lock.
hart, widower. IS, and Ida B. John.
ston, widow, So. both Of Fairmont;
Charles Calvin Fennell, 81, and Ger
trude Stutler Dozier, divorced. IS,
both Of Fairmont: Charles Haw.
kins. %, and Emma Carig, %, both
Of Warrington.
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Mnhdayaand 90 on rnesday nthI
West Virginia end In the nsnttyi
yania district 81 mines continue
he down. While production hal
slightly increased the mine idls
ness Is mot on the wanH.
total OF IL. mines. continue to bRI
down on the Western MarylInaI
1hls number has bean down ISAf
daYt, but prior to that a lAtSet
number OF operations we're cGAlAsl
up as idle.
Seventy-one mines are idle on
Charleston division, Hs& o.
today against 60 Monday add
Tuesday. A week ago sc wert
down.
Unconsigned loads have again
started to climb, there being sfGI
against 14S on Tuesday There are
1873 on the Monongah division, BIG
o., II on the Monongahela IN west
y lrg!nla and 10 on the Westarni
Maryland. Quite a little cheap coat
Is heiug sold In the region which,
has been one OF the handicaps In
the industry recovering from The
slump. The distressed coal hasI
been a harmful factor In the case
Much OF this coal has been proj
duced at prices var below the cost
OF production. However, auatityi
fuel from reliable firms will DOT hs
sold at such figures r~egardlessl Of
market conditions.
Buys Coat Land.
A deed filed in Harrison county
on Tuesday shows that F. w. Fort
ney and ]. P. MeClintock purchasedl
Is acres Of Pittsburgh coal land or.
the right side OF Robinsons runN
Eagle district, Harrison county, fof
$4,000, from Max Bear and Camille,
S0lvatti.
With Trade Papers
In the recent issue Of the Coal
Trade Bulletin, Pittsburgh, an az.
tcle is contributed by 9. L. Green:
Falrmont, director OF the employ.
ment relations department, Cons6l.
idation Coal company. The attSlz
deals with the recreation centersf
Jenkins. McRoberts and Van Lear
Ky. where operations Of the cony
sol company are located. Another
article OF local interestgtS the write
up OF the Lewis mine OF the Hud.
son Coal company at Wolf Summit
under the caption THE Worlds
Most Modern Coal Mine in West
Virginia" which was written hyI
Prof. R. Q. Virgin.
The American Coal Journal re
Gently published a cut Of Dante
Howard, the veteran clarksburg op
orator. This publication In recent
issues has published extensive ac-
counts and papers read az the i {
cent session OF the west Virginia.
Mining Institute.
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SONS Of DESERT
/. TO GATHER HERE
Fairmont Shrine Club
Banquet is an Assured
Success

Every indication points to the
FaIrmont Shrine clubs banquet at
Masonic Temris IN Thursday eve.
ming at 8 o'clock being a great sue.
cess. Up until neon today there
were so Shriner3 signed up to at,
tend the banquet snd others were
signing up thar cards to mail in
70 Secretary ~Ssiterfield at once.
These cards should be mailed al
ente In order to sssume a plate
oeiLg reserved fof the faithful sona
OF Allah.
Mobiles are expected to wear
their fez but there will be nothing
compulsory about wearing full
clcss for the occasion, as the ma
toiity will not fee! keen to don the
"elad rags" owin6 to the intense
heat. Since tho las. meeting OF the
Shrine club there have been a mum.
Der Of members occurred and every.
thing has the ea,marks OF success
for Thursday night.
A very excellent menu will be
served by the ladies OF the Order
OF the Eastern stai. An orchestra
Will be presaSt to furnish the mu.
sic.
The meeting VEL be presided
over by Judge Emmett NJ. Showal.
Ter, the president A number OF
business matters will be discussed.
The indications arc that the consti.
tut. on and bylaws will be present
Ell and adopted. Every Shriver in
the country Is urged to visit Mecca
on this occasion.
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BRITISH STRIKE
tconuaOsd from page one,

ing railway-7O per cent; Monon-
gahela railway, 70 per cent.
TOday's Prospects
Production today will not run as
heavy as during the past two days.
On the Monongah division, B. &
o. R. R. today the mines ordered
s47 empties or 1873 less than were
ordered on Tuesday.
The NJ. R. and Short Line
branches of the B. & o. R, R.
today 1t was calculated would load
$50 cars Of coal.
Office Closes
The Fairmont office Of the Tide
water Coal Company will close on
July /. It is thought that the clos
ing will be temporary, however. In
the meantime the office in the
Fairmont Trust Company Building
will be retained.
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]. B. swsher will play ball with
the M. E. team at Traction park
this evening.
The Baptist defeated the Polish
at q bali game at Traction park
last evening.
Miss Beatrice Hail Of Brookdale
was visiting with friends at Nor
folk. Va.
Miss Jenny Banks and Mrs. Eliza
LoVelie and son have returned from
o two weeks visit with friends at
Massilon, Ohio.
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Son Rorn-Mrs. Guy Davis has
just received word that an eight.
pound baby boy was born today to
Mr.. and Mrs. Emory Scott Of Clarks
burg. Mrs. Scott was formerly Miss
Lula PopIe. daughter OF John Pople
OF the East Side and a sister of.
Mrs, Davis.
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Bullet Through Window = SOME
time late Monday night a bullet was
fired through a window at the East
side residence OF DR.. J.sA. Graham.
Officers who are investigating the
affair are Of the opinion that the
shooting was an eocIdent and was
not intended. Thus far, however,
they have been unable to find any
trace Of the careless paSy.
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No Trouble at AlI-City officers
were today called to the East side
to make arrests In an alleged fight
between two women. Upon arriY
Ing at the scene. they found every
thing quiet and no arrests were
made.
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MLE-#M#HNE-
Vacation Spoiled = William NJ.
Fleming, well known local Main
street resident, was run down and
painfully injured by an automobile
last evening while walking out
Meredith street to the rear Of the
Marion county Jail. The a which
struck Mr.. Fleming was driven by
John L6ughlin. Mr.. Fleming was re.
moved to his home where he is rest.
ing well today though suffering
considerable from his injury. Mr..
Fleming and family were all pack.
ed to leave this morning In their
car for an automobile and fishing
triptto points in Michigan and their
trunks were at the station when
the accident occurred. The trip
has been abandoned.
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ounces OF blood to the vessels lin.
ing the air cells OF the lungs.
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Saddles came into general use in
the fourth century; stirrups, three
centuries later.
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0at (lI picture On aI IUuI
sides. Then carefully fold dotted
Inc ! it1 entire length. Then
'dotted line Q, and so on. Fold each
section underneath accurately.
When completed turn over and
you'll find q surprising result. ssze
5she pictures.
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ToDAY'k KWIz
ReE. PdE. %. S. Pat. Off.

lfvf AtS6N o6s Ct45f 1 at SlLs
Answers TO Yesterdays XVIII
4 The skins Of animals were first
used for bottles.
2. Denver is the state capitol OF
Colorado.
8. Picking, Illinois, is called the
Celestial City.
4 Alexander Hamilton was kill.
cd In a duel.
6.The following was taken from
the old Connecticut blue laws: mo
minister shall keep a school,"
8. George Washington died as a
result Of a severe cold.
A crow is said TO live 100
years.
s. The full capacity OF the lungs
is about 320'cubic inches.
8. Ann Bradstreet is known as
the first New England poetess.
10. William Cullen Bryant wrote
tThanatopsis."
New Questions
4. What Egyptian city is called
the City OF Victory?
What is Arabla's chief export:
!. Why is the Iron Cross OF LON
hardy regarded with such rever-
ence?
Which Of the U. s. presidents
died youngest?
How many quarts in a peck?
I, For what event is May 4. 1915
memorahle2.
What American city is called
the City of Magnificent Distancess
9 How much did the Erie canal
icost?
Where $ General Grant bur-
g. How fast does electricity
ALL NEEDS SUPPLIED
The Young lions do ZACH, and
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Hydropathy, or the application OF
water to the cure OF disease, was
known IS early as 1855.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-29

Hospital Patlent-samuel Carl.
son. OF Pittsburgh, was admitted
10 Cook hospital today for medical
treatment.
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Receivers Stolen Car-Julia Car
rico, OF Morgantown. owner Of the
Ford car found in this city and
night last week, came to the city
yesterday and got the car. The
Ford had been stolen from 4 gar
again Morgantown"an and brought to
this city where the thieves left the
car on the streets over night.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-29

TryT This on You wise Frierd
II is possible to subtract nine
different numbers, that total as,
from the same numbers differ.
.Aenay arranged and have a num-
Der. the digits OF which total
40 left. Can you do tit a
Answer to yesterdays:
Seven weights required, of
], 2. ~ 8, 16, 80 and 81 lbs.
respectively.
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s,tEArHEr.

Local I u n d e r
showers this after
noon or tonight.
Thursday cloudy.
Local Readings
F. P. Hal, OBJ.
Temperature at s
a. m. today, "a
Weather yester.
clear; tenn
perature. maxi
81; mini
mum. 81; precipi-
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k.lof G. Meetlna-Fairmont coun.
gu, knights Of Columbus ON Mon.
day night initiated 10 candidates,
luncheon and smokar followed
E1eitnittation.
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Elected pIreeter-At a meeting
% the stockholders OF the Central
Automobile corporation at Morgan
towntlast evening Mari Keenan,, Of
Fatrmcnt, was elected a director.
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Marriage II.
have been tasasdssyzceaatg
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A spreading oak, sixty feet high,
VIII contain about six million
leaves.
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ALL NEEDS SUPPLIED
The Young lions do lack, and
suffer hurser: but they lhat scck
Tie Lord shall not pant any good
hmg.-Psalm "a. 10.
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tation, .28. River, 10 feet, falling.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-01
transmission of electricity a problem

transmission of electricity problem
already we'll solved.
The construction Of the great pow
er plant in fact will, engineers de-
clare, link Western Washington with
Eastern Washington far more close
ly than they are linked at present,
while their economic interests and
consequently their political interests
are not closely related.
The great power plant, they as
sert, will weld the entire state to-
gether and give it forward inn
petus such as never before seemed
possible. -
The Washington Irrigation & Pow
er Company is represented directly
in Seattle by Henry j. Pierce an
electrical engineer of wide experience
who has devoted the last ten years
almost entirely to working out the
details Of the big power and irri-
cation project.
| Mr.. Pierce is now in the East on
business connected with the power
and irrigation project, but Seattle
men, who are more or less familiar
with his plans, assert that he has
virtually overcome the various
obstacles that the project met at the
start and that of the problem of
marketing all the power has been
solved, the way will be open for con-
struction.,
The fact that the Columbia river
is navigable stream and under con-
troll of the War Department and the
fact that much of the land of the pro-
moters plan to irrigate is government
land suggest some Of the problems
that Mr.. Pierce had to solve at the
beginning of this undertaking.
The Priest Rapids project, engineers
say, while not so large in its posi-
bilities as Niagara Falls, is bigger
than the great Keokuk hydr-electric
project on the Mississippi, which now
develops about 10000 horsepower.
The Keokuk plant was completed in
1913 and cost about $27, 100000. Its
dam is said to be the largest in the
world, but the Priest Rapids dam, if
built as proposed, will be much higher
and longer and cost much more.
The Keokuk plant could be enlarged
to deyelop 100000 horsepower, ac-
cordiHg to official reports, but Priest
Rapids, it is said, could be made to
develop even more than that enormous
total.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-01

SUDDEN SERVICE Shoe repairing,
shoe strings, polishes and service.
Prices lower, R. h. Oliver. Beste's
Tire Shop. $3.50