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The Prescott daily news., 1921-03-21

tatives of the five big packers and of their union employees tonight conclud ed preparations for tomorrow's con ference with Secretary Davis, who, at the direction of President Harding and with the assistance of Secretaries Hoover and Wallace will attempt to mediate in the controversy arising from the decision of the packers to reduce wages and alter working con- ditions.
 Dennis. Lane, secretary of the Amalgamated Order of Meat Cutters and Butchers Workmen of North America and R. s. Brennan, attorney for the order, who will represent the employees in the conference, arrived in Washington during the day and to- night conferred with Samuel Comp CTS and Frank Morrison, president and secretary, respectively, of the American Federation of Labor.
 HfeSlUeHJ GODlpeISy OI ellUeIHlS into conference with Messrs. Lane and Brennan, announced that the em- ployes would have the moral support of the American Federation of Labor in their attempt, as labor leaders said. to compel the packers to observe the working agreement concluded during the war.
 The representatives of the packers, Carl Meyer and James L. Condon, have been in Washington the past week and have presented their side of the case to Secretary Davis. The employees delegates will be accorded a similar hearing by Secretary Davis tomorrow prior to the meeting in joint session.
 The exact procedure to be fol lowed tomorrow had not been worked cut so far as could be learned to- night. Secretary Davis, it was learned, had been pledged the assist ance of Secretaries Wallace and Hoover, but whether the latter would sit in the conference was in doubt.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13
MAD DOG SCARE.

A good deal of anxiety has been
caused in the Kearneysville neigh
borhood by the trail of rabies left by
mad dog that invaded that section
during the past month. A strange
dog that no one in the neighborhood
recognized appeared on several
farms and bit other animals. Al
though he was not seen on the farm
occupied by Wallace Mckee, he must
have bitten cow belonging to Mr..
Mckee, for later the..animal develop
ed case of rabies ,'rhe COW became
sick, though it was Rot known at first
that she had an attack of rabies, and
Mr.. Mckee doctored her for some
other ailment. : Her symptoms hav-
ing become suspicious, DIR. L. M.
Langford, State veterinarian, of
Martinsburg, sent her brain to Wash
lngton, receiving report that she
had well-developed case of rabies.
Mr.. Mckee had small scratch on
one of his hands, and fearing that
some of the cows saliva might have
carried the germs into his blood,
though the scratch was almost heal
ed, he concluded to run no risk of in
lection. He therefore went to Balti
more to take the Pasteur treatment
at Mercy Hospital. The Pasteur ex-
perts gave him treatment there for a
few days and then allowed him to re-
turn home, where he will take the
daily treatment at the hands of his
local physician, DR.. Horace Banks.
DR.. Langford has declared a quar-
antine against all dogs running at
large within radius of seven miles
of the Mckee farm. This includes
Martinsburg and Shepherdstown and
various Villages in jefferson and
Berkeley counties.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13
SHOULD WEST VIRGINIA sow
WHEAT THIS FALL?

Wheat scab is the principal reason
for light yields of wheat in West
Virginia this year, according to DIR.
n. J. Giddings, plant pathologist, and
K. c. Sherwood, extension division
specialist in plant diseases, who have
been visiting the various wheat sec
lions of the state this year to make a
study of conditions there. There
has been found much scab in Green
brier, Monroe, Summers, Mason,
Jackson, Wood, Wetzel, Berkeley
and Grant counties and throughout
the Kanawha valley, with Summers
County the worst sufferer. The
infection there is said to run over SO
per cent in some places. The scab is
found to be closely related to the
root rot of corn, the same fungus
causing both diseases. Sowing
wheat after corn without blowing the
corn stubble under is the main diff
Guilty, because the fungus lives over
the winter on the juicy pulp of the
corn stubble, and then completes ats
meal on the wheat. The recommen-
dations of d. r. Dodd, the agronomy
specialist, along this line are for a
rotation of corn, soy beans, wheat
and clover in order to avoid the
difficulty. 1t is said to be useless to
attempt to bring in new seed wheat
until such changes are made in rota-
lions. Sometimes good wheat is Sc
cured when sown in corn stubble, but
this is due to the fact that the
amount of infection in such areas de-
ponds upon the amount of rain at the
time the wheat blossoms. When the
season is dry, very little infection is
found and usually there is a good
wheat yield, but that seldom happens
and it is never advisable to sow wheat
IN corn stubble, according to these
experts. The presence of the fungus
on corn is usually shown by its wilted
appearance, premature ripening and
such weakening of the stalks that
they often fall down. The wheat
scab can be detected by the whiten-
ing or bleaching out of either the top
or bottom or even a smaller portion
of the wheat head while the rest is
still green. If the bleached portion
of the head is carefully examined it
will be readily noticed that there is a
faint pinkish color on the chaff near
the base of the grain and this pinkish
tint often can also be found on the
shriveled grains themselves. The
two things recommended by those
who are going to plant wheat is to
treat their seed with formalin solu-
ton after thoroughly recleaning it.
Avoid following corn with wheat un-
less the corn stubble is plowed under.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13

For some time 1 have been asking
big successful business men what they
read. And the astonishing thing is
that, aside from the daily papers, stock
reports and trade journals, compare
lively few of them read anything.
When it comes to psychology, philos-
Ophy, sociology or any kind Of liter
allure which stirs the imagination, the
average business man isn't In the pic
ture, writes Fred Kelly In The Ma
TONS Business. And yet a half an
hour a night. after crawling into bed,
would In a few weeks make q per-
son appear to be an authority on al
most any subject. I say one would
appear to be an authority-by compar-
ison with others. II you know any
thing at all about a subject aside from
the most current events, you know so
much more about 1t than the average
man does, that one might think you
had devoted your life to 1t.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13

In New York city people are step
ping out of the crowd long enough to
argue as to what spot there is the
most congested. A transit commits
sion says 1t Is the Flatbush avenue
station of the Long Island railroad. An
individual claims the distinction for
the Hudson and Manhattan road. He
finds that the combined traffic Of the
Grand Central and Pennsylvania sta
tons is 22.O0O.0OO passengers fewer
per year than the traffic of the Hudson
tube. But why argue about the crowdl
est wherever one happens to be In the
midst Of 1t.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13
DISASTROUS FLOOD AT SAN
ANTONIO, TEXAS.
Sudden Rise of River Engulfs Great
Part Of San Antonio.

With the estimate of the dead run
ming as high as 500 ard property
damage believed to exceed $4,000
900, San Antonio was in the grip Of
the worst flood in its history last
Saturday.
Every building in the business dis
trict was in water ten feet deep dur
ing the high water mark of the rag
ing waters, while vast section of
the residential section was submerg-
ed.
Five bridges spanning the San An
tonic, in the center of the city, were
destroyed by the waters. Telephone
and telegraph communication, trolley
service and electric light and power
plants were out of commission.
The three newspapers were flooded
and were unable to publish, and with
mo new fatalities wild rumors filled
the city and relief was badly handi-
capped.
AS the raging torrent swept thru
the streets entire families could be
seen floating on the roofs of houses
in the midst of rushing waters.
The great loss of life, which will
not be accurately known for days, is
due to the fact that the river rose so
suddenly that no warning could be
sent out.
Sleeping inhabitants were aroused
by the roar of the angry waters to
find themselves surrounded by the
flood. Guests in the three hotels in
the down town section were maroon
| ed on upper floors as the water rose
and put elevators and stairs out of
commission.
The flood came from an uprece-
denied rainfall which caused a quick
rise in the San Antonio river and
Alazan Creek.
Boats were at work taking people
from houses which had withstood the
waters while guards patrolled points
covered by the flood.
The south section of the city was
also heavily hit by the swirling
waters. Hundreds of houses in that
district were swept from their foun-
dalton and dashed to destruction
against each other.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13
iLLIrERAcY IN UNITED STATES.

The Bureau of Education at WASH
ington expresses the cheerful hope
that the next generation Of Americans
will be practically free from illiteracy.
This is based upon the census returns
from three states and the District ct
Columbia. In 30 years, we are told,
illiteracy has declined In Alabama
from Al to 1871 per cent; In Arkansas
from 26.6 to "a; In Delaware from
lab to SO; and In the Federal district
from 1872 to 2.8 per cent. Such prog
ress Is certainly gratifying. and we
shall hope to see 1t maintained in the
returns from all the states, though we
must confess that our hope Is not very
strong In relation to some Of them.
And we cannot forget that during the
great war practically one-fourth Of all
the men drafted were illiterate. Now
the young men Of military age are sup
posed to be one of the most literate
of all the elements Of population, says
the North American Review. II they
were, as they were found to be, 249
per cent illiterate, for the whole coun-
try, what must have been the per-
centage Of illiteracy In the rest Of the
populationf
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13
DROWNED IN THE CANAL.

The dead body of Jackson Ewing,
an employee of the lime works at
Bakerton, this county, was found
floating in the canal at Mountain
Lock, east of Shepherdstown about 6
O'Clock Tuesday morning, September
6. The lock-tender, j. T. Moore,
discovered the body and notified the
authorities. A jury of inquest was
summoned by the sheriff and a YER
dict of accidental drowning was re-
turned. Justice W. F. Blackboard, of
Sharpsburg, acted as coroner.
Ewing, it is reported, was last seen
Sunday evening and in company at
the time with a resident of the vicin-
ity. According to the man that was
with him, who stated that while he
was asleep on the banks of the
Potomac, Ewing was rowing on the
river. The supposition is that Ewing
drew the boat up to the canal and
fell out of it. The boat was found
in the canal Monday. Ewing, who
was SO years old, is survived by his
wife and nine children. His family
resides near the Mountain Lock.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13
REV. ALEXANDER STUART
MOFFETT D. D. DIES OF
APOPLExY.

DIR. Moffett had Just returned to
his home in Pensacola, Florida, hav-
ing spent his vacation in Virginia
with a brother and his son, Rev. HI.
M. Moffett, Of Huntsville, Alabama.
Shortly after retiring he was stricken
with apoplexy from which he expir-
ed suddenly The funeral services
were held in the First Presbyterian
Church, Pensacola, Florida, of which
he was Pastor. DR.. Moffett was
born near Staunton, Virginia, Sep
TENDER II, 1S47. He joined the
Confederate Army at the age of 16
years enrolling in Company A. Third
Battalion, Army of Northern Vir-
ginia. He was an Alumnus of
Washington and Lee University and
of the Union Theological Seminary
at Richmond, Va. DIR. Moffett held
Pastorates in Virginia, Kentucky and
Missouri and was installed Pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church at
Pensacola in January 1912. DIR.
Moffett was married June %, 1876
to Miss Carrie Lena Crawford of
Louisville, Kentucky, and of this
union there are eight living children,
of whom five are Missionaries of the
Southern Presbyterian Church in
China as follows: Rev. Lacy T.
Moffett, Shanghai; Miss Carrie Lena
Moffett, Kaingqien; Mrs. Robert J.
McMullen, Hongchaen; Mrs. J.
Crawford Crenshaw, Chingkiang
Mrs. F. r. Crawford, Koshing, China,
Mrs. 7. T. Walker, Laurel, Ind, and
Miss Natalie Moffett, Pensacola
DR.. Moffett's second marriage was to
Miss Clemmie McFadden, of Muir
phreesboro, Tenn. Of this union
two children survive him. Dr., Moi
felt, it will be remembered preached
here during his sons, Rev. H. NJ
Moffetts Passionate. His body was
laid to rest at lebanon, KY, his old
home place.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13
DON'T BE MISLED.
Charles Town Citizens Should Read
and Heed This Advice.

and Heed This Advice.
Kidney trouble is dangerous and
often fatal.
Don't experiment with something
new and untried.
Use tested kidney remedy.
Begin with Doan's Kidney Pills.
Used in kidney troubles SO years.
Recommended here and every
where. Ask your neighborl
A Charles Town citizens state
ment forms convincing proof.
It's local testimony-it can be in
vestigated.
Milton H. Bowers, carpenter and
mechanic, N. West St., Charles Town
says: my kidneys caused me great
deal of trouble at times. | had
severe backaches that made it hard
for ME to do any STOPPING or lifting.
My kidneys were disordered and
caused me lots of annoyance.
Mornings l felt lame and sore all
through my back. l used Doan's
Kidney Pills from Brown and Hooff's
Drug Store and they soon fixed me
up in good shape. / gladly recon-
mend Doan's to any one for weak
Kidneys"
Price 6Oc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan'sf Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Bowers had. Foster Milburn
Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13
SHEPHERD COLLEGE BEGINS
THIS WEEK.

Shepherd College State Normal
School will begin its fall semester
next Wednesday, September 18th,
when all the teachers are expected to
be in their places. There will be
three new members of the faculty:
w. R. Legge, who will teach agri-
culture and biology; Miss Pauline
Shriver, of Morgantown, who will as
sist in English and serve as librarian;
and Mrs. Irma King Geiger, of Win
field, who will be in charge of the
music department.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13
BEAcONs.

High standing on rock ridges
Where the foaming sea rolls wild;
Or lifting lighted heads where sand
dunes stretch;
Sometimes the guard of warning at
treacherous bar,
A silent sentry DER the graves of
buried keels-
They stand, sacred duty unerringly
to perform,
The beacons of the channels and the
sea.
One tolls bell, an echo of the
churchyard by the hill;
Another screams a whistle, shrill,
alike the wind;
While, tall and stately on the shore,
one CLEANS with light,
And still another flashes, restless, red
and white;
Each with a meaning, all to point the
way
To mariners who read in CLEANS, and,
needing each,
Stand by their charts, and pass to
broadening seas.
And so along the human stream we
ply our way,
Watching the shore for sign or guild
ing CLEAN
Beacons of other lives whose acts
have left light
Some silent sending forth a steady
beam.
While others flash with intermittent
glare and gloom,
Each with warning, all to point the
way,
To US, who sail life's strange un-
certain sea
That we may read, and needing,
know,
And, standing by our chart, head on,
Gods port, our way.
WELLS HAWKS.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13
THREE DRINKS MADE HIM RICH.

1t is reported that Martinsburg
visitor to Morgan's Grove fair We'd
nesday ran across a Virginia "boot-
logger" and purchased just three
drinks of Virginia "applejack." He
had scarcely assimilated the exhil-
Grating fluid until he imagined him.
self fabulously wealthy and friends
had trouble in preventing him going
to the management and offering to
buy the whole show.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13
BIG PRICE CUT IN AUTO
MOBILES. 9

Henry Ford has made another big
cut in the prices of automobiles as
announced by the Jefferson Garage.
Prices are lower now than they have
ever been before. This is the third
price cut made by Ford in the past
twelve months, the three reductions
amounting to 20 per cent The pro-
duction of Ford cars in August broke
all records, reaching a total of H.
COG. Other manufacturers of auto
mobiles have also made heavy re-
auctions in prices the past week, in
Guiding the Overland, the Chevrolet,
the Oldsmobile, the Franklin, the
Hudson and the Essex. The cuts are
considerable and other makes of cars
will doubtless follow suit.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13
Catarrh

Catarrh is local disease, greatly
influenced by constitutional con-
ditions. HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE is a Tonic and Blood
Purifier. BY cleansing the blood and
building up the System, HALLS
CATARRH MEDICINE restores
normal conditions and allows Ma
ture to do its work.
All Druggists. Circulars free.
F. J. Cheney g. Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13
Harry White. of sbenberds+o,,,

Harry White, of Shepherdstown,
who had been reappointed principal
of the Leetown public school, has re.
signed this place and will go to Rich
wood, w. Va, where he will be a
teacher in the high school. George
Hartzell has been appointed to fill
the vacancy. Mr.. Hartzell, though
totally blind, has taught successfully
in the Leetown school for several
years, and his promotion will be very
acceptable. His assistants will be
Miss Buhrman and Miss CAN'T.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13

A colt said to be worth 100000
broke his leg and was put to death.
Isn't surgery tagging when 1t cannot
save such valuable animal? 1t sure
~ falls short when 1t can mend the
leg Of worthless biped and yet stand
helpless In the case Of thoroughbred
worth hundred thousand.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13

The beginning of the fall semester
of West Virginia University on Sep
TENDER 10, will find the University
authorities ready to accommodate an
enrolment of 1000 students. Every
indication points to considerable in
crease over the enrolment in the fall
of 1920, when 1000 students took up
work. The Summer School of the
University far surpassed the success
of any previous summer session,
1,030 students taking work there, or
an increase of almost 800 students
over last year. Of the thousand odd
students, more than a score were
working towards their masters de-
gree.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13
CONFEDERATE REUNION.

Chattanooga will entertain the
Thirty-first Annual Reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans on
October 25th, Goth and 9th, the
Twenty-second Annual Convention
of the Confederated Memorial As
ISOLATION October oath, 25th, 26th
and 9th and the Twenty-sixth
Annual Reunion of the Sons of Con-
federate Veterans October oath.
18th, 26th and 9th.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13
NOT ALL THE APPLES FREEZE

The late spring freeze did not de-
stroy all the apples in Clarke county,
as many feared. State Senator H.
f. Byrd, who owns the largest
orchard in the county, will have
$500 barrels, and the Neill and
Warden orchards will have about
1900 barrels. Picking in. these
orchards has already begun among
the Grimes Golden.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13

Another very important change in
the law of the state having a direct
bearing on the granting of equal
rights of citizenship to men and
women, provides that a husbands
courtesy in the real estate of his
deceased wife shall be in the one
third thereof instead of the whole.
A wife's dover is in one-third of her
deceased husbands property. This
has been the law and the act of the
legislature places man and woman on
the same plan in this particular.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13
FEATURES AND PICTURES.

In addition to the best fiction and
feature articles-the most timely and
well written articles of their kind
The Washington Stars rotogravure
section is the finest in America to-
day. Next Sundays Star will con-
tain the latest photographs from all
over the world-a picture gallery of
eight pages. Order your copy of
The Sunday Star today!
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13

A London Uplift agency urges that
nightshirts be provided for hoboes who
avail themselves of lodging at the mu-
nicipal warehouses;, but forgets that
such an innovation would necessitate
the appointment Of instructors to teach
some Of the guests what the things
are for.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13

How would you like to live and be
In business In a place where there is
no congestion downtown and there are
seats to spare on all the street cars
during the rush hours?
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13

A London surgeon says that women
have become sweeter tempered since
they gave up high collars and substi-
tuted slow cuts" But what about the
temper Of the women with the high
ridged collar bones and the bulging
Adams apples2
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13
DEFINITIONS.

A Bolshiviki is a person who be-
lieves in giving you anything he's got
and hasn't anything.
An |. w. w. is an Industrial
Worker of the World who is not in
dustrial, is not a worker, and doesn't
belong in the world.
A real American is almost any
American who is neither of the above
things.-Irvin Cabb.
The great need of the world is to
work hard and save. This applies
not only to the laboring man, but to
the man of great means.-Schwab.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13

The cost of government Of all kinds,
national, state. county and city, is said
to be $S2 per capita, and very few of
us are entirely suited with what we
are getting for our money.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13

A 40-to-1 shot won the French grand
national steeplechase, thus showing
that 1t makes no difference whether
they are In France, at Louisville or
Latonia, you never can tell how q
horse is going to act.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13

Better feeling In sugar, says a mar
ket report. The consumer vino knows
nothing about It's feeling can at least
distinguish between and 80 cents
q pound, If that is what 1t means.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13

You can't wonder at the number of
vile wretches and scoundrels in the
world when you reflect how many
men there are who disagree with you
about politics and religion.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13

If man says he disapproves of
the short skirts, he Is put down as
fossil, and II he says he approves Of
them he is accused of wanting to run
for Office