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from hunting trip OF several
days. They also visited home
folks at Holly Junction while on
the trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Musgrave
have moved their family from
Rivesyflle and are occupying a
part Of the E. NJ Straight resi-
dence In Hess avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Lemley OF
Mt. Morris, Pa, were recent Wis.
itors here with Mr.. and Mrs. E,
Smith and other Bellview friends
a few days recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Swinabart
and son Arnold, have returned to
their home at Elk Garden after
visit With Mrs. Swinabart's
brother; Charles Stuckey in Muir
ray avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Yates
have returned from visit with re.
latives in Charlestown, W. Va.
Mrs- Glenn, Wilson and two
children are spending a weeks
visit with relatives in Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. Neil Yost, Mr.
and Mrs. Victor Yost and chill
dren are home from visit with
relatives at Glover Gap and Earn.
show, W. Va.
E. S. Boyers. has returned z
his home at Littleton after visit
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I ALRMOMT GROWIMC

DsRELIM1NARY school enrolment figures will
have to be checked over next week and perhaps
after the first of October before it will be safe to
make any hard and fast comparisons with the figures
Tor last year but it is pretty safe to say thai there
are IN the neighborhood of 500 more young charges
in The schools tins year than there at this time
last year.
And that means that Faimont is growing in a
thoroughly satisfactory manner. there have been
lines in TIE past when the city grew too fast for its
own Best Interests but we are quite important city
nov and future growth here will be watched closely
the business interests Of the country and that means
that Is fast as they are needed new businesses will be
opened here and supply will more nearly equal de
nans than it did IN some of the past periods Of rapid
growth
What. that will mean to the business men already
located here they can best find out by studying what
happened in other towns in this section of the country
that passed through the experience aret about to
have In general way, however it may be said that
lie enterpSng merchants already here. those who be-
Iieye in modern methods and are willing to keep
ab1east; Of the times, need have no fear The growth
81 tie community will mean prosperity for them.
lIs for lie other kind soon or late they will be
sheuIdered out.
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FIague and has had an ensye and yaned expei7;
Sienes il judicial Character
MI. Moore has been assistant secretary Of state and
counselor 10 the Department Of State and is an author
.ity upon American diplomatic traditions and policy
but If such an expression may be used IN this connection
his specially is Pan-Ameiean affairs.
That ought to make his selection to place on the
bench Of the new International court quite as accept
able in other countries as it is m this country Accord
ing to the Associated Pres dispatches the eleven
raembers Of the court elected yesterday are as
follow: Tohn Bassett Moore United States Vscoum,
Finley Great Britain; Dr.. Yorozu Oda. Japan; s Dr..
Andre Weiss, France; Commentators Dioniso. Italy;
Dr.. Ruy Barbesa, Brazil; DR.. B. TIC. Loder. HOl-
land; Antonio. S. DeBustamente. Cuba; Judge Didnk
Neholm, Denmark; DR.. Max Huber. Switzerland,
and DR.. Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spain.
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Renorts of a second fire within month at the
Point Breeze oil refinery tell of workmen trapped
in flame filled underground tunnels and Of men
pershing M A.rably on the surface because rescue
squads could not get to them. 1t is about tme.the
authorities took good look at this plant and al
other oil refining plants in the country 1t may
not be possible to prevent occasional explosions
but there certainly is no explanation beyond the
criminal indifference Of the companies why there
should not be places in which the workmen could
take refuge when tE1y occur.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-09-15

Saturday will be the one hundred and thirty
fourth anniversary of the formal adoption OF tAe
American constitution by the members of the con-
vention that drafted it. There will be no celebration
here but a good way for individuals to marx the
passing OF the anniversary would be to read the
document. The man who knows what the consti-
tuition contains might not be any better citizen
that one who is absolutely ignorant about tlat
immortal document, but he at least cannot f'ol
himself about who responsible for the things that
he does not like in our political and economic
conditeN2s.
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IpHURspAY EVENING. sEPTEMBER IS. 1921.
TRIBUTE
By Berton Brdley

LITTLE song to you sing
5g1-ABut not song Of love;
That might not be the proper thing
For me to MARBLE Of.
For though perhaps know you we'll,
] Perhaps know you not,
Isdon,,t know where or how you dwell
Nor who you are, nor what!
1 VIII not sing your form SO trail
Nor Of your beauty rave,
For you might be husky male
Who badly needs a shave;
Is cannot praise your joyous youth
Because, for all know,
4 You may have cut your wisdom tooth
Some fifty years ago.
yet this II knoY-unless this lay
Shall chance to please your tnste
Twill be a lyric thrown away
And wholly gone to wastei
So though it's vague and silly, too.
hope from out the throng
no Win some need of praise from you,
Dear reader Of this song!
copyright, 1921, n. E. A. service)
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CARD OF THANKS.

|, Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Glover and
family wish to extend a vote Of
thanks to our kind friends and
neighbors at Fairmont for the kind
help and sympathy during our late
bereavement by the loss by death
Of our daughter and sister, Mrs. w.
3. Lewis. The old home folks at
Wanna we are sure will understand
the feeling incur hearts toward
them better than this will tell as
they stood with tears in their eyes,
loving hands extended ready to
help and comfort as we came to
them once again on one Of those
sad home comings. 1t makes us
feel, dear folks, that maybe things
are not quite so dark as they seem
EFT. CLOVER
Route No. 6. Falrmont.
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x
Nth his brother Ia siaws Bert
Jones and Mrs. Jones OF Highland
Avenue. y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Tloothman
OF viropa, w. Va, are spending
a week With various Bellvfew re.
latives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ivan Hawkins Of
Field street were entertained at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Glasscock in Bellview avenue on
last Sunday.
Lon Hall and his son Clarence
Hail Of Pennsylvania avenue are
home from a few days hunting,
trip at Wadestown w. Va.
Mrs. Airy Yost and children are
home from visit with the for.
mer's aunt Mrs. Eugene Mills OF
Tunnelton W. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Kann and
children were guests OF the for.
mer's sister Mrs. King Eyerson IN
Murray avenue over the week end.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-09-15

Secretary OF Labor Davis says that while the un-
employment statistics show over 100000 wage
earners are not working now the ratio Of unem-
ployment is less than it in 1914. There is a
lot to that way of putting the matter The II o0o'-
600 or 80 who are still employed are big factor
and while there will be considerable distress in this
country during the coming winter conditions will
not even family resemble what they will be in
Europe, especially in the countries that are still
on a paper money basis.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-09-15

Mrs. L. W. Shroyer and little
son Lewis, Jr., are spending a
week with relatives at Weston, w.
Va.
Robert Putnam and Walter
Price are BeHview boys enrolled
at the Fairmont Normal school for
the winter term.
Earl and Coy Jordan are home
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RUFF STUFF

me guy who first said, ':Aint
sture wond erfUl?" sure opened up
. big subject.
Brihstance the Astonisher tells
This morning about two SQUIRRELS
s,that ran In opposIte' directions to-
ward each other on a fence rail-.
. - -.
OF course this is a new kind Of
SQUIRRELS, for the hunter who saw
lenls is 4 man OF sobriety.
Is 10 itwere some guys the natural
Question would be, where do they
&c that cross eyed, kind?
II & ~ a -. rs
Speaking of stuff that makes
YOU, see things that amt they have
jIiets discovered that several hun
dreds OF barrels Of skeyy in a
IIniontoRn warehouse had turned
And all the while it was being
getchsd -
40 wonder the price for bootleg
dropped down some time back.
So -"
According to the social calendar
rlw lids are no longer good
sqstn
But while the present hot wea-
her lasts 1t probably willy not be
Al 20 tVaufHk-
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Board Meeting

z At the meeting OF the official
board of the Highland ayerue Sun.
day school whichSwas held : last
Monday evening the following Of.
ftcers were elected TO serve S4or'
one year, superintendent: y John
Hupp, secretary; Mrs sMAdge4 Car
roll, treasurer; Mr.. HaxTyt Shafer.
man, RasiRtant secretary; Miss
Florence Rutherford; superfntend.
emit Of Junior and intermediate de-
psrtmentsl Prof. Frank g. White;
superintendent primary depart.
man4 MIA. Frank 4 Waits.
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superintendent Home department,
Mrs. W. e. Dennis; superintend-
ent cradle roll, Mrs. Winfield
Pickinsy assistant, Mrs. Clarence
Merrifield; superintendent mis-
sionary work.; James Kennedy;
superintendent Temperance, Clar-
ence HALL. librarian. Miss Ola
Cunningham; assistant librarian,
Miss Lois Rutherford. The board
will holds another meeting at the
Highland. avenue church on next
Monday evening :.
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Rrother! Ia

H. G: Poster, PENNSYLVANIA
Avenue merchant, was called to
Morgautown ouslast Monday morn
ing to be with his brother, s. A.
Posten, who had undergone an
operation for appendicitis "a few
days previous Before returning
home Mr.. Posten was summoned
to Masontown, w. Va. to see
brother In law, Mac Watson who
was leaving Immediately for Pitts
burgh to undergo an operation for
tumor. Both relatives were get
ting on all right at last accounts.
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Attended Reunion

William Canoe and family, Mr..
and Mrs. Jarvis Collins and some
Milford and Ebert were among
those who attended the Michael
reunion which was held at George.
town on last Sunday.
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one Of the most important of the independent
steel companies in the youngstown district yester
day announced an advance in the price of sheet
steel If this sticks 1T will be followed by advances
for other kinds of steel before very long and then
lot OF people who have been waiting for the mar
ket to touch bottom will be kicking themselves for
oversaying
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CIam MeetIna

The members Of the Willing
Workers Sunday School class will
be entertained at the home OF Mr..
and Mrs. E. E. Smith In Buffalo
avenue this evening their daugh.
ter, Miss Augerite who Is mem.
Der Of the class will be hostess.
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CLEANING , BOTTLES.

Wood ashes are excellenttfor the
cleaning OF bottles. II a. bottle is
particularly cloudy cut a potato
very finely, put It in the'bottle with
a little warm water and then shake
rapidly.
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aIbIS Class

The Worth While Bible Class
will be entertained this evening at!
the home OF Mr. and Mrs. W. S:
Meredith inS Pennsylvania avenue.
All persons. interested In Bible.
study4 are invited o,..be present.
The service win begin; at seven
thirty Come and bring your
Bibles. ~ .a,.
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Thousands Of gallons of lee
cream are shipped monthly from.
Vancouver, B. c., to China.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-09-15

As an experiment at the Unj,
versit yofs wisconsin COWS are
being fed sawdust treated with
.RatAEe
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The guys who think the world
is not getting better are invited
to contemplate what sort Of stories
that would have set afloat 20 years
ago.
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wet air tempers are very short.

President Harding's secretary.
Mr.. Christian, fell down a COM
lpanion way on board a yacht the
other day and broke some ribs.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-09-15

THE INTERNATIONAL JUDGES
Ohm BASSETT MOORE who was yeste-
day, elected judge Of the International Court
Eldstce is a member of the Permanent Court at The
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Route No. s, Fairmopt.
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A Monument to Mr.. Weevil.

"In profound appreciation Of the
boil weevil and what it has done as
the herald of prosperity, this monu-
ment is erected by the citizens Of En-
terprise, Coffee county, Alabama"
Such is the inscription found upon
the monument, a picture of which is
shown in a popular magazine for De-
cember, 1921.
A farmer from this county is quot
ed as saying, in substance: Before
the boil weevil came in 1915, Coffee
county averaged $4,000 bales of cot
ton per year. The farmers knew
nothing about farming except to plant
cotton and more cotton.
In 1867 the boil weevil cut the
crop TO less than half and the whole
county was wiped off it's feet. Every
thing imagined to combat the boil
weevil was tried andeall failed.
Slowly the farmers began to cut
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syrup, s packages Vapo Mthol solve,
a barrel plain -four in wood, 1 keg
apple punch, a pair platform scales,
% cases crackers, 10 sacks horse feed
S barrels empty bottles, l box empty
bottles, 90 bales tobacco twine, IL
bales cotton sheets, l truck cover, l
screen door, "A barrels ginger ale, a.
cases White Stone ginger ale, 8 bun
dies brooms, a cases toilet paper, 2
cases ice cream cones 5,000-12fb pa
per bags, 7 cases Whittemore Midget
sho, polish, 10 boxes shipping tags.
10 packages lard trays, 2 cases 2 in l
Whitteniefe shoe polish, l broken case
2 in 1 shoe polish, 12 rolls wrapping
paper, 18 cartoons Old Piedmont
cigarettes, % packages Epson salts,
1 heater, 6 straight chairs.
Terms of sale cash; and if the pur-
chaser fails to comply with the terms
aforesaid then l shall proceed to re-
sell the said property at the risk of
the defaulting purchaser, either on
the same or some subsequent sales
day.
November 10th, 1921.
H. S. GAMBLE,
Sheriff Of Williamsburg County
11-24-2t.
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terms OF binding contract, to intel
ligently market tobacco, through a
specialized organization operating
along sound business lines, are the
outstanding points OF the cooperative
marketing plan.
Tobacco will be delivered to the
association by member growers, the
growers receiving loan value of the
tobacco as cash advance. After de-
Quoting actual operating expense OF
the association, the sale price Of the
tobacco will be prorated to the grow
ers according to the quality and
quantity of tobacco delivered, every
one receiving the same price for the
same grade.
The association will not become eff
fective until a majority of the total
production of tobacco in Virginia,
North and South Carolina is under
contract, and as the organization must
be completed by January 1st, grow
ers of this county have no time to
lose in signing their Declaration of
Economic Independence" North
Carolina is almost "over the top"
while Virginia has long since past her
quota with a 1910 sign up to date,
and still driving on to 1870 by Christ
mas. The Burley Growers Of Ken
lucky, Ohio and West Virginia, have
secured a 1870 sign up already, and
will handle this years crop co-opera-
lively. Will the organization fail in
South Carolina, where growers are
exploited as no where else? 1t IS
up to you, Mr.. Tobacco Grower, to
answer this question.
The campaign committee for South
Carolina reports excellent progress.
Sume of the largest producing counties
have gone long way toward secur-
ing their quotas, while others are
joining in the campaign with an en-
thusiasn which indicates victory in
record time.
A series of mass meetings will be
held throughout the tobacco belt OF
this state during four days Of next
week. Leaders in this great move
ment from Virginia and North Caro-
lima will join with leaders from this
state in addressing these meetings,
ard our growers should make it their
business to attend the meetings in
this county.
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There is considerable talk current
regarding the merging of the express
business here with the freight busi-
nesse, or in other words combining
tie freight and express offices with
o view of cutting expenses by the
latter company. We believe we voice
the sentiments of the citizens Of this
community when we register our dis
approval of the scheme. The express
company would give up its office in
town, and as we understand, would
also put two citizens out of employ
ment who arc now rendering the COM
pany and the community good serv-
ice. The express company would also
shift the work of its office here onto
the freight agent on commission
basis whereby he could draw only a
meager amount for the extra duties
entailed. We do not presume to die
tate to the Railroad or Express COM
panies as to what policies they shall
pursue at this place, but we are sure
of one thing, that the people are pay
ing for service and that is what they
expect. The express business was
handled here years ago in connection
with the freight office and the serv-
ice was not altogether satisfactory
then, and it should be borne in mind
that Kingstree is much larger town
now and the volume of express and
freight handled IS very probably much
larger than in the old days when the
A. C. L. agent handled the combina-
ton with ease.
We trust that this proposition is
mere talk, and that the business of
the Railroad company and Express
company vii! continue to be conducted
as at present.
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There are six big mass meetings
advertised in this newspaper to be
held at many prominent points in
the county on Thursday, December l.
These meetings are called in the in
terest of the Tobacco Growers of
Williamsburg county and there is no
alternative other than for every to-
bacco grower to make up his mind
that he is going to be present at the
meeting nearest his place of residence
on this great campaign day. The
move on the part of the Tobacco
Growers Cooperative association is
what our farmers have been longing
for, that they might realize a fair
and living price for their tobacco.
This association provides the ways
and means to this end and If the
growers in this county do not take
advantage of their present opportun-
ity to help themselves they should
quit cussing the trusts, or go into
their holes and pull the hole in aft
e. them. It is rot local organiza-
ton, but one that covers Virginia
and North Carolina like the dew. 1t
il a Tri-state association intended to
cover the states of Virginia, North
and South Carolina, three of the
greatest tobacco producing states in
the country. Its importance is inesh-
mable, and the tobacco growers who
sign over the marketing of their to-
bacco to the association will realize
the efficacy of the move before it is
even two years old, this is our candid
belief, strengthened by what is now
taking place on the Virginia and
North Carolina markets and what
happened on our own market during
the last season, and the association
is not yet in artual operation there.
1t is a case of the trusts observing
the "hand writing on the wall and
they are paying now for what they
get instead of stealing" it as many
of you remarked here last season,
hoping thereby for the time being, at
least, to stay the organization oil.
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their cotton acreage wcy down and
to diversity their crops.
The boil weevil forced them to do
this and Immediately the miracle
happened. They planted peanuts,
corn, sugar cane and raised hogs and
cattle. In 1918 the county raised
more than 100000 bushels of pea
nuts and the whole country WAS pros
porous. The boil weevil taught them
to farm correctly and peanuts and
hogs brought four times as much
money as was ever realized from cot
ton crops
"The b,.l weevil," says the farmer,
"did it and so to show our apprecia-
ton we erected this monument to this
God sent pest th:t stung US out of
our inertia and ignorance"
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NOTICE OF SALE UNDER Exc
CUTION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of Williamsburg.
Court of Common Pleas.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of Williamsburg.
Court of Common Pleas.
Estes Mills, . Corporation, Plaintiff,
against
Nesmith- Flowers Company, Inc, De-
fendant.
Notice is hereby given that under
and by virtue Of an execution issued
out Of the Court of Common Pleas
for Williamsburg county, South Caro-
lima, in the above entitled action,
dated the 31st day of October 1921
to me directed, I have levied upon the
personal property of the defendant
herein, Nesmith- Flowers Company
and will offer for sale at public auc-
ton in front O. the place of business
of Nesmith- Flowers Company, Main
street, Kingstree, S. c., on Monday,
the 5th day Of December 1921, the
same being salesday, between the
legal hours Of sale, the following de-
scribed property Of the defendant
above named, to-wit:
l Cary safe, 1 typewriter desk, !
adding machine, l typewriter, !
Bethlehem truck, 9 cases Celluloid
starch, 8 cases Bakers cocoanut, s
cases Clean Easy soap, 6 cases Fairey
soap, 8 cases Bordens Evap milk, 2
cases Sheppards fly guard, case Our
Pet milk, 2 cases Our Pet milk baby
size, 8 Hand trucks, 4 cases Salt brick
and extra brick, cases corn beef,
S cases Council Potted Meat, Z cases
Sterling Roast Beef, 2 cases Grave
ley's A No. 1 tobacco, 9 packages
Graveley's A No. 1 tobacco, IA cases
Sterling Vienna sausage, 2 boxes can
dy, IL cases z in l shoe polish, 4
cases Good Luck Baking powder, 4
cases Sterling tripe, 10 cases Sterling
Potted meat, cases Sterling Good
Eats, % cases Sterling potted ham,
5 cases Wheat tc Biscuit, 2 cases
Saftey matches, 8 dz. Phoenix brand
spices and peppers, a cases Council
pork and beans, 1 case stick candy
% cases Van Camps soup, cases ap.
pie jelly, 8 cases peanut candy 4
cases 4 Bros. axle grease, 5 cases
Texas axle grease, cases King Corn