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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
ROAD ;
BUILDING
LOCAL ROADS FOR LONG HAUL
Highways Now Being Improved Should
Be Designed to Care for In
crease in Traffic.

Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
The United States is now in period
Of great highway development, and in
few years many roads, which now
carry only local traffic originating
largely within five or ten miles of the
road, will be carrying a large percent
age of through traffic, much of it COM
ing from outside the state. This is
The opinion of officials of the bureau
Of public roads, United States Depart
nent of Agriculture, based upon the
report of two traffic censuses taken by
the bureau In cooperation with the
state highway department of Connect
cut.
The roads selected were part of
iairly complete system of highways.
The first census showed an average of
2907 passenger cars and 2S1 trucks
passing the recording station q day;
and the second, 1882 cars and 81
trucks Forty-seven per cent of the
cars came from within the state.
Drivers were questioned as to length
of travel for the day, and results
showed average figures of 20 miles and
52.4 miles for the two censuses.
The average haul for truck traffic
was AS miles, some of them hauling
a distance of $50 miles. Officials point
out that traffic of this nature has de-
veloped in period of s)mething like
ten years on road which prior to
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
"I'm Smaller Than Any"

"Yes, folks are kind enough to say
that 1 am very brave" said the shrew.
"N1y long whiskers help me too. You
see, they spread out at either side of
my face and when I'm running along
the underground tunnels they feel
along either side and tell me what is
what.
That's having ones whiskers work
for one. don't believe it is every one
who has his whiskers do the work
that 1 do"
81 don't believe So" said the fairy,
laughing.
81 must tell you Of a battle I had
the other day." the shrew continued.
81 heard a meadow mouse and be-
gan to chase him.
"He made for his storeroom as
there was his family-five of them
81 followed him. All Of them were
bigger than l. Each little mouse was
a bigger creature than 1 was, but
fought them all and 1 won a great
victory.
Every one Of them I got and 1 got
their 1000 too.
81 heard each move they made.
When they tried to get away from
the front door Of their storeroom
fought them back.
"They could not get by me. I did
not leave that door so they could
pass
1--WE shrews do not let friendship OF
relationship upset our rules Of getting
food. We will think Of ourselves first
Another time, fairy I dove into the
water because / heard n hawk-just
in time Yes, can swim too.
"And I disguised a weasel by the
strange smell Of my fur-but ! have
TO keep my ears open for my eyes are
almost unseeing, and I must obey ma
lures rules about eating"
"What wonderful little creatures
shrews are" the fairy said admir-
ingly.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
LITTLE CREATURES

"Of course I'm very tiny" said the
little shrew TO the fairy who had come
TO ask the little creatures of their Sc
crets.
I'm the smallest of all animals"
said the shrew, land l live just be-
Meath the leaves Sometimes l dig
tunnels for myself.
Sometimes / do not. Then / use
the tunnels made by the meadow mice
family and the deer mice family and
other tiny creatures.
But I'm smaller than any Of them.
There's the star-nOsed mole who
likes 1t where 1t is damp. They say
his nose has twenty-five little fingers
to 1t so he can dig and dig and make
many passageways through the soft
damp moss which he so dearly loves.
There's his cousin, the mole who
digs further down In the ground. and
who enjoys delicious earth worms.
MY name is Little Masked Shrew.
l wear rather brownlsh colors with
whitish grayish touches. They say 1
look something like n mouse. but
have teeth such as no mouse ever had.
and my jaws are strong. Oh,
though I'm small, my jaws are strong,
I'm happy and proud to say.
II haven't much of u sense of smell,
but though I've holes where my ears
should be l can hear wonderfully.
'Yes, l can hear anything. That is
the way look after myself
II know when l touch a thing what
1t is. l have very keen sense of
touch, but 1t Is my sense OF hearing
that saves me from so much danger.
"They say the rabbit can hear things
family have the same sense of touch.
Every day l have to kill and eat
my own weight"
81 do not understand" said the
fairy
although l am so small" said the
shrew, there is some rule which ma
ture has and which l have never
dared to question, which says that
every twenty-four hours l must eat as
much food in weight as my little body
weighs
$50 you see l am kept busy.
II can hardly see, too. 1 can tell
daylight from night, but that is about
all. l go about almost entirely blind,
and yet though l am almost entirely
blind l must care for myself and must
eat so much in order to keep well and
alive
mature has strange rules, but 1 am
helped in the ways that l must follow
by my sense of touch and my sense of
hearing and my good strong teeth"
"And your bravery too, little shrew,"
said the fairy.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
MORE WAR EQUIPMENT READY
Large Amount of Lumber and Other
Material Made Available for
Road Construction.

Five million board feet of lumber
and 100000 worth of other surplus
war material, consisting of steam and
gas engines and machine-shop equip
ment, all unused, recently was made
available to state highway depart
ments for road construction. The
material is to be distributed by the
bureau of public roads, United States
Department of Agriculture, as were
large quantities which were helpful to
many states in road building last sea-
son. Most of the lumber was intended
by the army for the construction of
a pier at Charleston, S. c., and is suit
able for highway bridges. The ma
chinery and equipment are stored as
ordnance supplies at the Picatinny
arsenal, Dover, Del. This material is
particularly in demand and an allot-
ment has been requested by each of
the 4S states.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25

try it. / now feel fine and can do my
homework without any trouble at ali.
You can use this letter for the sake of
others if you wish. Mrs. WELDON G.
HATFIELD, R. R. 8, Sabina, Ohio.
Housewives make great mistake in
allowing themselves to become so weak
and nervous that it is well-nigh impos-
sible for them to attend to their neces-
sary household duties.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound should be taken when you first
notice such symptoms as nervousness,
backache, weakness and irregularity. It
will help you and prevent more serious
trouble. Give it fair trial. 1t surely
helped Mrs. Hatfield, just las ithas many,
many other women.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
REMEMBER, eoYsI

That quiet voice, courtesy and kind
acts are as essential to a gentleman as
to a gentlewOman.
That roughness, clustering and even
foolhardlness are not manliness. That
the most firm and courageous men have
often been the most gentle.
That muscular strength Is not
health.
That the best capital for q boy Is
not money, but love Of work, temper.
ate habits, simple tastes and a heart
loyal to his friends and his God.
That a brain crammed only with
facts is not necessarily a wise one.
That the labor impossible to a boy
Of fourteen may be easy to a man OF
twenty-One.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
Just the Person.

/ was taking Junior for walk one
afternoon, and he was playing with a
little football which neither of us had
been able TO initiate. | was watching
Junior when a neighbOr came along.
She sat down beside me. After
little while Junior came up and asked
Miss Jones If she would blow up his
football for him. She asked him why
he thought that she would be able to
do so after l had already failed.
His answer was, Cos my dad says
at you is the longested winded wom-
an at ever eathed"-Exchange
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
Doubtful Proposition.

Representative Frear of Wisconsin
said at dinner in Milwaukee,:
There has been a lot of talk to
the contrary, but nevertheless the cost
of all kinds of wearing apparel keeps
unreasonably high.
"a rich Milwaukee banker sat at
luncheon the other day when a serv-
ant entered and said:
"There's "A secondhand clothes man
at the back door sir
"'Good, said the rich banker ASK
him if he can let me have a second
hand pair of shoes at a reasonable
price,"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
"Ain't It the Truth 2"

"Halloa, old top" said BERTHE, gen
tally, "did you catch that train all
right last night?"
"Oh, 1 caught II all right" replied
Jack dejectedly. Saw the rear lights
disappearing as l arrived on the plat
form"
"But, hang it all, you just said you
caught it," corrected BERTHE.
Jack sighed. THE married man
who misses the last train always
catches it," he said.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
FRENCH ROADS BROKE

Some persons have pointed to
the macadam roads of France as
the type of roads that America
should adopt. Yet these persons
have, perhaps, not thoroughly in
vestigated present conditions.
These roads, which have been a
matter of pride to France for
centuries, are ali maintained by
patrOlmen. Each man devotes
his time the year around to the
keeping up of a few hundred
yards Of roadway. But, even so,
these roads went to pieces when
heavy traffic was put on them
during the war. These roads
were built for horse and foot
traffic, and served that purpose
very well, but motor lorries,
guns, etc, cut up these roads
quickly.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
TAKE ASPIRIN ONLY
AS TOLD BY "BAYER"
'Bayer" introduced Aspirin to the
Physicians over Fl
Years Ago.

To get quick relief follow carefully
the safe and proper directions in each
unbroken package of "Bayer Tablets OF
Aspirin" This package is plainly
stamped with the safety "Bayer Cross"
The 'Bayer Cross" means the gen.
uine, world-famous Aspirin prescribed
by physicians for over twenty-one
ars.-Advertisement.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
COUNTY
DIRECTORY
OFFICERS

Judge Circuit Court, w. H. O'Brien,
Ripley, w. Va.
Clerk Circuit Court, L. L. Terrell,
Grantsville, w. Va.
Prosecuting Attorney, Lorentz c.
Hamilton, Grantsville, w. Va.
President County Court, c. P. G..
Taught, Sycamore, w. Va.
Commissioners County Court, c. A.
Witt, Grantsville, w. Va, and r. A.
Board, Cremo, w. Va.
Clerk County Court, S. T. Waldo,
Grantsville, w. Va.
Sheriff, George A. Richards, Grants
vile, w. Va.
Assessor, Creed Yoak, Milestone, w.
Va.
Surveyor, Dwight Shock, Pennsboro,
w. Va.
Superintendent Free Schools, T. G.
Cain, Bigbend, w. Va.
TERMS OF COURT
Circuit Court, third Tuesday In
April, August and November.
County Court, first Monday in Jan
uary,N April, July and November.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
Cuticura for Sore Hands

Soak hands on retiring in the hot suds
of Cuticura Soap, dry and rub in Gu
ticura Ointment. Remove surplus
Ointment with tissue paper. This is
only one of the things Cuticura will do
If Soap, Ointment and Talcum are used
for all toilet es.-Advertisement.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
Slump in Microscopes.

The general depression in the op-
teal trade is being felt very severely
by British microscope makers, most
of whom are working with reduced
STATS. Some are only working alter
nate weeks. This is partly due, no
doubt, to Overproduction during the
war, when large number of micro
scopes were supplied to the order of
the government, but even taking this
into account, the demand is now alb
normally small. With hospitals pow
erty is natural excuse, but in other
cases, such as that of schools, ii is not
so easy to explain why so few new
instruments are being purchased. Ac-
cording to one large firm the great
majority of microscopes now pur-
chased are for purposes connected
with mineralogy.-Ma Guar
dian.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25

1910 carried almost entirely local traf-
fic. 1t must be concluded, therefore,
they say, that roads which are now be.
ing improved to form part of through
highway routes should be designed
to take care of great deal more than
the local traffic or that which is ex-
pected to originate locally with the
coming Of better roads.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
Prevent Road pestruotlon-

In n campaign to prevent destruc.
ton Of the highways by overland
vehicles, the state department of pub.
lie works of Massachusetts has in
spectors stationed on all of the i'm.
portant traffic routes I'm the state for
the purpose Of weighing the loads Of
motor trucks.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
Cost Of American Hlnhwavs.

After deducting the amount paid by
automobiles I'm license fees, one and
one-tenth cents per day was the cost
Of the American highway to the In.
dlvldual man, woman and child in this
country last year
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25

HESS anu HreRularl-
ty. / was weak and
nervous and could
hardly stand on my
feet long enough to
cook a meal. / was
this way for about a
year and had tried
several medicines
and had a physician,
but to no avail. My
sister as taking
your medicine and
6nally ;pd,,oad mo fo
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25

Road signs at the tops OF mountain
grades in Maryland inform motorists
Of the number Of miles down the noun.
tain, warn Of dangerous curves all
give concise instructions how to drive
to avoid accidents
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25

During 1921 SGOOOOO,OOO was spent
on highways in the United States for
state, county and other roads outside
Of cities
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
Can BUY IoX Ridea

Money can't do everything, but
there's a tendency in human nature
to be pretty well satisfied with the
things It can do.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
As We Have II Now.

'Dubbs is creating a tempest In a
teapot" He'd better lay off that
home-brew stuff Judge
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
3. Putnam FadeeSS Dyes a To-:
Another Plea for MARRIAGE.

The Husband-Nearly all great men
are married.
The Bachelor-1t is struggle and
opposition that develop latent genius.
London Answers.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25

No one now offers any morallzlng
on the blessings of poverty. 1t Is
called "the simple life"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25

All the reward some get for their
experience is the privilege of telling
about It.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
MRS. hatfield :
SABINA, OHIO
In Pitiable Conditionwhen she Began
f.. Taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Sabina, Ohio.-'I took Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound for weak
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
@zA BROOKLYN WOMAN SAYS
w COLAC BEST FOR PILES
NO. usss rIsrrtsrs

For several years I suffered with
hemorrhoids. Have tried many oint
ments and suppositories, but without
much relief. Finally q friend recon-
mended COLAC PILE PILLS. / used
them and was relieved. have a friend
whose case was much worse than mine
-COLAC helped her more than any
thing she ever tried" ~ (Afiss) s.
Edwards, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25

Charity never begins at home while
housekeeping Is going on.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25

Taken like any other pills COLAC
reaches the trouble from within and
does away with salves, suppositories.
Ointments and operations. Relief comes
quickly-Often within "a hours. Begin
this modern treatment today. only
60 cents at all drug stores or 65 cents
by mail postpaid I'm plain wrapper
from COLAC CHEMICAL Co. Inc
Giens Falls, n. Y
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-25
Important to Mothera
Nothlnu Sacred

Nothing Sacred.
New York undertakers have decided
TO take the righteousness out of fu-
nerals, says an exchange. Great
Scott! Are they going to jazz up flu.
neral dlrges, too?-Detroit Free Press.
The daily banner., 1922-11-13

tired, worn-out feel
ing and painful peri
ocs: | used to get up
with a pain in my
head and pains in my
lowerparts and back.
CftenI was not able
to do my work. I
read in your lit tie
book about Lydia f.
Pinkham's Veg
table Compound and
| have taken it. I
fool on vrralI opJ
The daily banner., 1922-11-13

Breaks Machine and Escaping
:. Fumes Kill Lodgers.
They PERISH WHILE ASLEEP
Quartet of Men in Other Houses IN
Philadelphia Narrowly Escape Ac-
cidentaI Asphyxiation.

Philadelphia, Nov. 13.-Four persons
We're killed by gas in this city, and
four others had narrow escape from
death
The bungling work of a thief, who
robbed the quarter gas meter in
lodging house at 1912 Seybert street,
caused the death of four colored resi-
dents Of the building, Mrs. Sadie Fran
els, proprietor, 60 years; Betty Gun
ther, u years Ernest Day, 60 years,
and Horace Munday, 80 years.
Emmett Hayes, colored, of lO17
Thompson street went to the home to
call on one of the lOdgers, found the
front door locked and detected
strong odor of gas coming from the
front window. He notified the twenty
third district station house and de-
sponded.
The sleuths had 10 break down the
rear door of the building to gain en-
trance and found the four persons
dead in their beds.
DR.. Bricker, police surgeon at city
the bodies were removed to the
morgue.
The detectives found that TIE quar-
ter meter in the cellar had been pull
ed away from the wall, breaking the
feed pipe and causing the gas to flow.
A cellar window was found partly
open.
The quick work of Antonio Guitano,
of ITO Merton street, saved the lives
Of his two brothers, Alberto and Det-
scenzo, when he found them in the
morning unconscious in bed from gas.
He summoned the police of the forty
second district, who took the brothers
to the West Philadelphia Homeopa-
thic Hospital, Where, after a half
hours work, physicians restored them
to consciousness.
Andrew Larague, 2S years old, and
Jacob Alecie, 33 years old, room
mates at 1880 Germantown avenue,
were also found in bed unconscious
from gas. John Mathis called at the
house to see them on business, and
after receiving no response when lie
knocked on their door, forced his way
into the room. :. leaking ct ha6 fill
ed the room with gas while the men
slept After throwing open the win
dows, Mathis notified the police of the
eighteenth district, who removed the
men to Stetson Hospital, where they
were revived.
The daily banner., 1922-11-13
FOR PICKLES

Large sweet peppers, red, greeL
and brown. Cucumber pickles cut OF
brine and celery for picking. Phone
200. j. Howard H;rst.
DRESSES! DRESSES, DRESSES
SO, $3.50 and SIS dresses, al wool
'erge now selling for $685. Get
yours now.
ESTHER GARNER LEVY
Arcade Building
Muir Street Side Cambridge, Mo.
10I16-B-R-tf
1OI1e-B-R If
The daily banner., 1922-11-13
REPUBLICANS MAY
DROP SENIORITY RULE
Election Shake Up Brings Move
For Elimination,

Washington, Nov. 13.-AbOlition OF
the senates seniority rule. by which
the craftsmanship of a committee goes
to the member with the longest con
tinuOus service thereon, is suggested
by Senator Mccormick, Illinois, chair
man of the Republican senatorial COM
mittee, in q letter to Senator Lodge
Republican leader.
The letter also urged that the steer
ing committee, of which Mccormick Is
Il member, be made representative OF
all sections and thought on the Repub-
lican side, and disclosed that McCor-
mick had discussed the question with
Senator Curtis, Kansas, assistant Re
publican leader, and others.
Stating that the seniority rule ''serv-
ed very well in the old days." and had
resulted generally in appointment of
"Ood chairmcn, Mccormick wrote
Ledge that "the Republican conference
and the Republican steering committee
owe it to the country to put aside the
rule, just as the conference owes il
10 t1re country to make provision for
s:le selection of truly reprcs" "ntative
steering committee which shall meet
regularly and as occasion requires
with the corresponding committee of
the house"
Senator Mccormick declared that
while in Il majority of instances the
men who have become chairmen
through seniority have been good chair
men, there have been others who were
untitled for their posts. by reason IF
extreme old age or failing health or
because of grave differences of opinion
with the majority Of their Republican
associates" The seniority system also
prevails in the house.
The daily banner., 1922-11-13
HEARS
Yankee: :: WOMAN,
Carrie Chapman Gait Addresses
German Welfare Workers,
ESTABLISHES 4 PRECEDENT
Aged American Suffragist Says Tire
Has Arrived For Women to Do Some-
thing, and Do it Right.

Berlin, Nov. 13.-SeveraI hundred
American woman speak from the reich
stag tribune when Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait delivered an address under
the auspices Of the Woman'S League
Of Social Welfare Workers of Greater
Berlin.
such Il privilege was ever accorded a
foreigner.
ne illness of Mrs. Gait, contra Ct &c
in Rome a fortnight ago, reached such
stage that after the address her
physician Immediately ordered her to
bed and prohibited her from receiving
visitors. The physician said Later
that the illness of Mrs. Gait 1T p.'eS-
ent was not serious and not likely to
become grave, but that slight fever
had developed and precautionary
measures Wei. deemed necessary on
patient.
Mrs. Gait had Banned TO leave Ber-
lin for Paris. but Will be unable to
depart for several days. From Paris
she expects 20 go to London and then
to visit South America.
Addressing her audience in the
reiChStag in English, Mrs Gait said
of the results of the war and the
delay in the settlements connected
with it:
'Women never again will have quite
the same romantic faith in men. Men
of the world have made so much of a
mess of things that no one yet knows
how it will come through"
After all the fruitleSS conferences
and talk engaged in by men since the
war. Mrs. Gait continued, women were
getting tired of waiting and believed
themselves now able TO take hold OF
some Gne thing and do it right. In
quiries she had made during her Ell
ropean tour regarding what women
would like to take in hand had brought
forth considerable sentiment in favo'
of having the wCmen of the world ge'
behind the coal question and carr.
Oh such ii pr0pa ganliu hat there Woulu
be enough coal for everybody.
Democracy and the emancipation cf
women. Mrs. Catj ,itcd as the great
est things that had come out of the
war. She urged thu German women
to keep up their faith and act unitedly
for their country Illness prevented
Mrs. Gait from remaining to hear her
address repeated in German.
Frau Adele Schrieber-Krieger. So
Cialist depuEy and PRESIDENT of the
league. which had charge of the meet
ing, presided. In her address of well
come she declared the German women
had found that now they had acquired
political power they were helpless TO
relieve the postwar distress among
children, the aged and the intellectu-
ais
Yrs. Gait ws;s received by Chancel-
lcr Wirth Saturday afternoon, and in
the evening was rendered reception
by the WOman's League.