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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-17
EASTERNTHRACE
BEING DESERTED.
Thirty Thousand Greeks and
Arnsnians Fleeing Be.
fore the Turks.

ApRTlsNoPLE, oct. 17.-tBy the
Assoctated Press Thirty thous.
and Greeks and Armenians have
passed rom this city to'the west
since Saturday and tho road De.
tween here and the Martha River
10 IN nnbroken line Of men, WON.
en- md children with OK carts, cat.
ne and cancels.
Through d steady downpour Of
rain they are, ploddisg doggedly 70.
ward their unknown destinations,
driven forward by the nameless
fear Which has gripped the whole
populace Of Eastern Thrace since
The governments bulletins were
posted on Saturday announcing
the tefns Of the Mudania arniis.
tice which provide for occupation
OF Tie province by the Turks with:
in tprtytt I've days. The members OF
the Allied missions stationed here
deelafo tie extent Of the refugee
exodus Indicates that the Turks
upon thelr entry will find Eastern
Thrace most uninhabited.
The procession has been orderly,
but Tie misery Of the refugees Is
ready extreme and pneumonia will
claim many Victims IL the present
lnclement weather continues. The
American in charge OF the Near
East soup kitchen at the railway
junction opposite of the Martha de.
ciared I'm all my experiences I
never iinaEincd such pitiable
sight as tile march from Adriano.
pic in the driving rain. Every re.
f,isee arrives soaked, to the skin
win g Wogan load Of bedding float
iiie IN water!3
Perhaps never in the eighteen
hundred years Of Its stormy his.
tory, not even In the days Of the
late Balkan wars, has Adrianopie
witnesse such scenes. When on
Saturday the Greek civil authori.
ties attempted to reassure the peo.
pile by stating that the Turkish
gendarnes would not arrive for fif-
Teen days the inhabitants simply
refused TO believe them. Nearly
every Christian inhabitant gather.
cd all they could carry either on
their backs or In OK carts and were
soon on their way. Every road lead
ing to the Martha is jammed with
humanity. cattle and wagons. This
Whole Hood conyerges upon a sin.
gle road as IT approaches the Kara
CATCH bridge across the Martha.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-17

Charles 8 Rotb. Il Il. one. W.
u. lsydic. ~ B Mitchell ana DE-
Hefschel q : sat terrified refresh
ments Robert G. ZONES. S I! r !.
.Irvan and Charles g Robb; inyf.
tationS and ticket Isee NJ. sat.
terrified, H a.. Bartlett ana a. D.
Hutchinson; amusementlHarry,
3. Engle; John w. Mason, ia. and
". o Caldwell, B. s. Finger, W. e.
John w. Mason; Jr. land j.. o..
Caldwell. B. s. Finger! w. d.
Watson. Jr, VIII Nuzum; publ,
city,. H Dunlap.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-17
SHRINERS 10 GIVE
A BIGMASQUERADE

Plans were made at meeting
OF the Fairmont Shrine Club last
evening at the Masonic Club
rooms In Masonic Temple for
old fashioned masquerade party
10 be held in Masonic Temple on
Hallowe.en Eve, Monday, ocotber
30. Macit's Orchestra will furnish
the music for the occasion.
The meeting OF the Shrine Club
was presided over by Thomas VIZ
Fleming the club president.
Twenty members were spresent.
and much enthusiasm was appar-
ent OF Jay Fleming. Grafton. Il.
lustrplis potentate Of Osiris TEN.
nte. Wheeling and his dtvan will
be invited to attend the event.
Every member Of. tho club will
serve on the reception committee,
and 4 wiltlbe the duty Of this COM
mittee to see that all present get
acquainted after the dancers arc
unmashed.
Admission will be invitation. but
formal invitations may be obtained
by members of the Masonic frater-
nifty in good standing. Usually the
Shrine events are confined to the
Shrfners, but on this occasion, in
keeping with the nberality talk
other Masonic bodies displayed re-
Gently, the shrsners have thrown
open their doors to Shrinel Club
members. all so1ourning Shriners
and members OF the Masonic fra
tefnityi and their ladies'.
1lhe plan as explained by the
officers who held a meeting pre-
yiously; was to mail each member
OF the Shrine Club five invitations
which he scould distribute to his
Masonic brothers in good standing
and write the name theron. Tha
g admission per couple will be
paid al the door on the night OF
the event.
The shrIners OF Fairmont have
had q long slumber and period Of
inactivity but President Fleming
made IL plain that there were
some events scheduled In the near
future 1t was announced that
commencing lin November the
F'airmont Shrine Club would meet
regularly on. its stated night.
President Fleming last evening
appointed the following commit.
tees for the Halloween party:
Arrangements - George s..
Brackett William N. Engle and
Paul G. Armstrong; decorations =
David M osgood, Harry Sharp
and b NJ Cunningham; music =
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-17


ThufsdaS IA tn First Pie byterian
Church Of wheeling The eigh:
.teenth annual meeting Of The West
Virginia Synodical Society of MIS-.
sions Of the Presbyterian Church
viii also be held there at the same
time, and local people who viii at:
tend these meetings are Doctor
Stoetzer, Mr.. and Mrs. O. NJ.
Richie, F. @. Evan, Mrs. O. c.
Robb, Mrs. Frank S. Follansbee,
Mrs Harry E. Engle, Mrs. ]. Ralph
Henderson, Mrs, R. g. Jones, Miss
Bessie Loomis, and DR.. E. B. Tur.
mar Of Clarksburg, the Rev. AlexaI.
der MocciR Of Clarksburg, DR..
Charles E. Bishop Of Morgantown,
the Rev. James Ferguson OF Buck.
harmon, Mrs. ]. n. N. Downs Of
Buckhannon. Mrs. e. NJ. Ritten:
house of Weston and R. N. Will.
son Of Clarksburg.
The synod will open at 1880
o'clock this evening with a ser.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-17

~ l f1stI ~
mon BY Dr. Albert Evans ana after
that the eonst ituting Of the SYNOD
roll call and organization will be
taken up. 4
At $3.50 O'Clock tomorrow
morning the Rev. Charles E
Bishop will speak upon "Christiaa
Education" and the Rev. H, w
Hanna will speak upon the
Spiritual Life Of the Churches''
at 1876 O'Clock. Preceding these
addresses general business, this
reading OF the minutes, and re-
ports Of the treasurer will be
looked after. From II o'clock 10
10 there will be a communion SER
vice with the moderator presiding.
Bread will be distributed by the
Rev. D. George Davidson and the
cup will be distributed by the Rev.
H. N. Hosack.
At 2 PIN. the synod will re-
convene and general business will
be brought to Its attention. DR.. E.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-17

Annoy, China. Oct. 17-tByths
Associated Observation-Disclosures
~ 1000 casualties are reported
at Foochow, capitol OF iFukist
province as a result Of an attempt.
by the defeated national forcestto
retake the city from which they
had been driven by the invading
troops OF General Hsh Tsung Chi
Desultory fighting .'contlnped
throughout last Thursday and Frs
day within the city walls, both
sides looslng heavily.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-17
ESCAPES FROM FIRE.

WHEELING, Oct. 17.-Trapped
on the second floor as flames de.
stroyed the triangle garage at
West Wheeling, Virgil Slater fell
to the ground and escaped injury.
The garage was completely de.
stroyed entailing a loss Of $4,000.
Three automobiles stored in the
structure were destroyed.
The garage was Of two stories
and the second floor was used as
living quarters By Virgil and
Charles Slater. The former is list.
ed as the owner, and the latter was
absent,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-17

for torelgn roads Of fthe Morgan.
town and WI cling last week
Wagon iInes Hit
Wagon mine operations are on
the warie. One lone car was proddc.
ed on the Monon gah Division; B.
g. o., while ttwenty-one cars were
loaded on the B. & w. branch Of
the W. NJ. Thirteen cars of coal
were loaded to Curtis Bay and ele.
ven cars to Arlington Pier. off the
Monongah Division, B.t&O.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-17

sfapp Win speak uponl tiis
New Era Movement 1t a;15
o.colck and the Youth ot the
Church win be the subject % pr.
Albert Evans at 3 o'coleit, Dt
s. NJ. Gibson win speak iipon
General Church Work" az 8itS
O'Clock and ''Mens' Work wtllshe
discussed by the Rev, L. B. sIewel-
lyn at 1880 o'clock. Fa ~
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-17
TO AIIo scRtsEs

BERLIN, Oct. 17.-(By the ,Asso.
ciated Press) = Down and out"
newspaper men who lately have
been walking the streets of Berlin
and other cities IN Germany in
large numbers in search of Jobs,
will be beneficiaries OF an aid fund
Of 250,0OO,000 marks which Hugo
SHINES the financler, is promot.
ing.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-17
UKELEIEs DEsTRCYED

.HONOLuLu. Oct. .17-Upward
to 10000 ukuleles went up III
smoke yesterday when fire OF I'M
known origin destroyed what was
said to be the largest ukulele fac
tory In the world. The loss is eS-
ttmated at $4,000.
Jonah Kumale, county super.
visor and former Democratic can
didate for the nomination OF dele
gate to Congress, who sometimes
Is known as "the ukulele king"
owns the plant
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-17
LOCAL PERSONS
.T0.AITEND1SYN0D.
Devotional Exercises 10 Be
Conducted at Wheeling by
Or. Stoetzer.

Or. H. 9. stoetzer will conduct
the devotional services al, the
eighteenth annual session Of the
Synod Of West Virginia Of the Pres.
bytertan Church, which lie to be
neld today, Wednesday and
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-17

New Guinea has an area equal
to that Of Franco and the British
Isles combined.
The New York herald., 1922-03-12

- ONE curious observations made in
Manchester England, indicate that
light and temperature may have
determining influence on the colors Of flow
ers in different months.
The investigator observed Tropdeclaaa,
or nasturtium plant, which showed three
types OF iowers-yellow. yellow with red
markings and claret-colored. Sometimes
one type pnedominated and sometimes an
other. In the offspring OF this plant he
noticed that the parti-colored and red flow
ers occurred only during ine hot weather
in the second week Of August, whereas
during the cold, lwet periods Of july, Sep
tember and October all the flowers were
yellow.
BY self-sterilizing the flowers of differ
ent colors he found that in the second gen
GRAFTON the color OF the parental flower had
no determining effect and he concludes
that temperature and light are the govern
Ing influences.
The New York herald., 1922-03-12
Astounding Curiosities of Nature

M only '"',a''oa. more :. less
clumsy, OF natures own devices.
1t would appear, for instance, that even
insects have sounding boards, although
they may be supposed to know nothing Of
the laws of acoustics.
Entomologists have found on the under
side of the forewings of two Japanese in
sects, of the families ciddrid, curious pit
or hollow closely connected with an organ
believed to be used by the insect for pro-
ducing strident sounds. The pit would
evidently serve to concentrate the sound
as the shell shaped orchestra stands reflect
the melody of the instruments to the ears
OF the auditors.
In the Khari hills Of India another
species of the same insect has been found
which possesses a similar set Of organs.
The shrill, creaking sounds that insects
produce seldom fall pleasantly upon our
ears, but they must produce different ef-
feet in the insect world, else nature would
hardly have provided these little musi-
clans with sounding boards.
The New York herald., 1922-03-12

plate of sandwiches and he pointing, like
he was an Irish setter bird dog.
And then, before going on with his story,
Hon. Quinn reached for sandwich.
"Wes," here called jovially Hon. Luther
Mickelman across Fire House to his cousin,
Councilman J. Wesley Mickelman, and
pointing to Hon. Quinn about to take
bite of the ham. ives, it's a good thing
Quinn ain't Jewish name, eh? II 1t was,
Yves, Quinn with one bite of ham on FRI
DAY would be busting into two great re-
iigions!"
Hon Quinn here started kindof suddenly
and then put the ham sandwich down on
the window sill like it burnt his fingers.
So Hon. Mickelman just grinned for the
next few minutes while Hon. Quinn kind
of haughtily looked over the other plates
of sandwiches but found they we're all
filled with meat.
Then while Hon. Quinn tried to hold his
temper and at the same time trying to tap
Both feet angrily simultaneously, Hon.
Mickelman jovially invited one and all to
join him and Mrs Hon. Mickelman in the
palatial repast.
"And colleagues and standees," cried
Hon. Mickelman above the noise of every
body-except Hon. Quinn-plunging tow
ard the big eats, after we have satisfied
the inner man, friends, l move that Hon.
Quinn give us feast of reason with an
Grafton on how he enjoyed his little Fri
day night snack.
Eat my share, too, Quinn" hollered
Hon. Mickelman. DOC Wilbur Peters got
me on diet, and l amt eat solid food for
a week.
But, my friends, can drink with you,
cried Hon. Mickelman.
Everybody almost stopped eating in sur
prise, on account of Hon. Mickelman be-
ing our leading church worker and local
Anti-Saloon League official.
Hon Mickelman here hurried into the
locker room. and with the help of Rev.
Borough Clerk Pilberry, he carried into
Fire House, proper, big punch bowl OF
grape juice full of floating sliced fruits.
Friends, no vile alcoholic poisons vitiate
this, my favorite grape juice" cried Hon.
Mickelman, looking meaniAgly at Hon.
Quinn-who admits he likes hard stun
within reason. Join me, friends. And
may you. Quinn, especially profit by quaff-
ing OF the imprisoned fruits Of"
But instead of Hon. Quinn joining any
The New York herald., 1922-03-12

~ under the COildT-Or WOulu, III
owned a collar like those swell
Fifth avenue cats--fs the kind o. catnip
they're maxim these days." said the Fence
Cat "In the old days when things went
wrong cat could buy bag of real catnip
for nickel, get jag on and forget his
troubles. Now that Prohibition is here
and they're only allowed to sell one-half
per cent catnip, things are different. The
stuff ii punk. A cat might just as well try
to get kick outa cabbage leaves as outa
the junk they sell you nowadays. One
Whit of the old fashioned catnip was
enough to make feller feel jolly; why,
you can eat whole pound of the new kind
and it doesn't even give you the mildest
kind of glow.
1T amt right, I'm tellin' you. The lucky
cats that live with rich families can get
the real thing, but us poor downtrodden
cats havta suffer. I'm gonna bring the
question up at a meetin of my Soviet next
week. Somethin' oughta be done. II they
don't put the nip back in catnip there's
gonna be trouble. Us catsll get together
and refuse to catch any more mice and
then the country will be in fine mess.
Well, so long see hunk of liver In the
next yard"
The New York herald., 1922-03-12

body beside the grape juice everybody
jcined Hon. Quinn, he leading the way to
the punch bowl by several lengths.
Quinn's Quick Revenge
Proves Popular to- Many
In his hand was the heavy suit case
which Hon. Quinn had brought straight
from the smoker of No. 6 into Fire House.
Before anybody could stop Hon. Quinn
he had the suit case opened and was pour
ing two full quarts Of rye and one Of
Scotch into Hon Mickelman's favorite bev-
erage.
Nobody tried to stop Hon. Quinn except
Hon. Mickelman But Hon. Mickelman at
every attempt seemed to get pocketed by
several parties. So Hon. Quinn didn't
stop pouring until he'd poured in two bot
Ties of Gordon gin and quart of apple
jack.
Right away there were shouts. Hon.
Mickelman was shouting protests from be-
hind the backs of the last rows wedged
around the punch bowl Hon. Quinn was
shouting his regrets that owing to Hon.
Mickelman's' religions, the Turkish and
the Mohammedan and the Holy Rollers,
Hon. Mickelman couldn't, quaff with them
without he busting all his great religions.
And all the other guests at what was
Hon. Mickelman's party were shouting
three rousing cheers for Quinn night" in
Fire House-all except Hon. Mickelman,
Pilberry and Miss Councilwoman Faith
Prettyman.
And SO, my friends" Hon. Quinn was
shouting as the Borough Light & Power
were getting ready to turn off the current
for the night, "up stands this big blather-
skite, Alderman Malachi McIlhenny in the
Board of Aldermen meeting discussing the
buying of eighteen gondolas for the lakes
Of Central Park.
Mr.. Chairman yells McIlhenny, why
buy eighteen OF these gondolas for Cinterl
Far-r-rk? Why not buy just pair Of well
bred and well mated and prolific gondolas
and let nature take its courseT"
And the punch bowl being now empty
and there being no other business before
Borough Council, II was moved in the dark
to adjourn.
Copyright. 1922. by the Bell Syndicate. Inc
The New York herald., 1922-03-12
By FRANK WARD o'MALLEY.
BuRRsvILLE CITY, March IL.

~OUNCILMAN L U T H e r NICKEL
MAN our leading evangelical
church worker and Anti-Saloon
League official, engineered pleasant sur
prise party of sandwiches, cold victuals
and other innocent refreshments for brother
Friday night meeting Of Borough Council
in Fire House last night
But the most surprised party present was
Hon. Mickelman, whose party and feed
started out very innocent, but turned out
entirely different. In fact, before Church
Worker Luther Mickelman's party to
Council was over one Councilman-who
can't be mentioned by name on account Of
libel laws-was sobbing bitterly all over
Fire House because, he said, Aaron Burr
gave Alexander Hamilton a. dirty deal.
AS for Clarence Santee, the Borough un.
fortunate and public charge-who horned
in on the party-he at this writing amt
come to yet.
The whole surprise party was cooked up
on the quiet by Hon. Mickelman when he
alone remembered during the past week
that last night would be the eighth ami
versary Of the incorporation OF what used
to be Brick Township into our present
incorporated Borough Of Burrsville City.
! Councilman Mickelman could have got
the floor away from Hon. Cornelius F. x.
Quinn easy last night. Hon. Mickelman
was first to arrive at Fire House, whereas
Hon. Quinn didn't get to meeting until
late, Hon. Quinn having been in the
metropolis all day and not arriving back
here in the Borough until just after Coun-
Gil meeting was convened, No. 6 as usual
pulling in here half an hour late.
Took Floor UnmoIested
To Tell the GondoIa Story
But Hon. Mickelman on arriving went
into the locker room OF Fire House mys-
teriously. SO Hon. Quinn came straight
from the depot to Fire House and took
the floor unimpeded
MY friends" began Hon. Quinn while
still taking of his overcoat, Il would this
night tell you an anecdote that illustrates
concretely the great abstract thought I
would leave with you this night"
Hon. Mickelman so far had stayed In
side the locker room-preparing the big
surprise feed for Council and standees
with the help Of Mrs. Councilman Nickel
man. It was later learned. But at the sound
OF Hon. Quinn speaking out In the Fire
House proper Hon. Mickelman stuck his
head out the door jovialIy.
THE story l would tell you. friends
continued Hon. Quinn, lis about the city
ofvrew York, some years ago, deciding to
buy eighteen gondolas to put on the lakes
of Central Par"
"The story they USED to tell, brother" !"
broke In jovially, but sneeringly, Hon.
Mickelman. Quinn, my old father used to
tell how used to break every slat In my
crib laughing over that story about the
gondolas," concluded Hon. Mickelman.
pulling his head back into the locker room
and slamming the door
MY friends" resumed Hon. Quinn, re-
gardiess OF the yapping Of jackals, the
brayings of jackasses-yes, and OK jack
iii-the-boxes stickins their heads into this
august chamber and out again-I resume
with my tale
rThe story begins, friends, with, say,
The New York herald., 1922-03-12
RambIin Round
By ANTHONY wAINE.

T HERE are some jokes that are at
ways good for laugh: the grand
mothers funeral joke, the mother
in-law gag and the wheeze about the un-
pronounceableness of Russian names.
At performance Of the "Chauve Souris'
the other day, Bailieff, in his delightful
near English, was saying, "Neksnummer
onna perograhm ees YER hard to per-
hunts; we call eet Chatoushkt"
At this point some one in the audience
sneezed. Every one in the theater roared;
it was one of the heartiest laughs Of the
performance. Thirty years from now we
expect to hear the leading comedian of the
day convulse his audience with gag be-
ginning, "As was walking down the street
the other day, met my friend Pzuchtquo-
rovski-some name that-you sneeze it,"
~ PEAKING Of gags that refuse to die, 4
these are as popular in the subway
as ever:
Packed like sardines." r
ITS SO jammed in here guy can't fall
over"
After a few days of this feller can
play on any football team in the country"
"Will some one please take his elbow
outa my stomach?"
Any one Of them is good for a hearty
laugh Some day we're going to write
play around those four wheezes. The only
thing that worries us is the possibility of
our frst-night audience laughing itself to
death and causing the play to be taken of
the boards on account of overcohicality.
What New Yorker can't visualize the
thing? packed like sardines," says the
leading man as he looks for a seat in the
crowded subway train-and thousand
people in the audience break blood vessels
laughing. No, we had better refrain; it
would be too dangerous.
The New York herald., 1922-03-12

T oNY tells us that Harry Stevens's
venders are doing a rushing busi-
ness at the Havana racetrack.
They are finding Cuba moneyed isle.
We prophesy that some day. when the
well known caterer gets the theatrical
urge, he will present his Cuban venders In
that we'll known play--Stevens's Treas
ure Island"