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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-07-18

Miss Ida Rauth, of Baltimore, Nd,
became housekeeper at the Charles
Town Hospital on Thursday, succeed
ing Mrs. T. ]. Yates, who had been
in the position three weeks until Miss
Rauth could be released from her
work in Baltimore.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-07-18

Itching piles provoke profanity,
but profanity won't remove them.
Doan's Ointment is recommended for
itching, bleeding or protruding piles.
Soc at any drug store.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-07-18
DIR. FAHRNEY
DIAGNOSTICIAN

Specialist in chronic diseases.
| make study and treatment
of any kind of disease the fam
lily Doctor is not curing. Tell
me your trouble and I'll tell
you what is your disease and
what can be done for it. I'll
send blank and specimen case.
Give me your name.
HAGERSTOWN. MD.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-07-18
NOTICE.

After July first, my offices will be
located on the second floor of the
Market House Building, opposite the
Court House, in the rooms now oc-
cupied by James M. Mason, Jr.
Entrance on George street.
May 3O-2m. Doctor Edgell.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-07-18
FARM FOR SALE.

have the best and easiest Farm
for man with limited means to buy
in the Shenandoah Valley, and one
of the best, with good buildings, in
community of farmers who farm
their own land. Forty-two acres of
good timber, which can be sold.-
Within short distance of State Nor
NAL School. CT. Wall.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-07-18

! will pay 16 cents in trade for
the country side meat l can get.
IN also selling Tanlac at 80 cents.
G. Lippitt Renner.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-07-18
PUBLIC SALE.
OF Stock and Farming Implement

Of Stock and Farming Implements.
The undersigned will sell at pub
lie sale at the home of the late j. M.
Funk, on the Middlewy pike, two
and a half miles west of Charles
Town, on
TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1922.
beginning at 10 o'clock a. M, per
sonal property as follows:
FOUR HEAD OF HORSES.
Bill, roam gelding, 7-yrs. old, will
work anywhere hitchd; Nell, black
mare, will work anywhere hitched,
13-yrs. old, safe for children to
drive; Dusty, bay mare, 11-yrs. old,
good driver, safe for lady to drive;
Heavy Draft Colt, coming 2-yrs.
old; Cremo, pony colt, coming 2
yrs, beauty.
SIX HEAD OF COWS.
One close springer, balance are
giving full flow of milk, all straight.
TWENTY HEAD OF HOGS.
Eleven shoats will average 140-
lbs. One sow and eight pigs, g.
weeks old.
FARMING IMPLEMENTS.
One 2-horse wagon and bed; 1 set
shelvings, two 2-horse barshear
plows, 1 double shovel pillow, one 81
shovel pillow, one 5-shovel pillow,
single shovel pillow, 1 springtooth
harrow, good as new; some single
and double trees; l digging iron
and shovel, grubbing hoe and sledge
l good iron vice, some carpenter
tools; some garden tools, including
good pillow.
HARNESS.
Two sets Yankee harness, 2 sets
pillow gears, set driving harness,
sleigh and stran of bells; l buggy, l
dandy runabout, l double heater
coal stove, good one; oil cook stove,
lot of junk.
TERMS:-Over $1,000, six
months credit on a negotiable note.
Sums of $1,000 or less, cash. No
property to be removed until settled
for.
H. c. PAGE, Agent
For Mrs. J. M. Funk,
EXecutriX.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-07-18

For earache, toothache, pains.
burns, scalds, sore throat, try DR.
Thomas Eclectic Oil, a splendid
remedy for emergencies.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-07-18
BEE HIVE SUPPLIES

l have on hand large supply of
Bee Sections ready for immediate
use.
Come and see me.
OSCAR G. DARLINGTON,
July lat 500 w. Congress Street.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-07-18
WANTED,

Two connecting rooms and board,
near Charles Town, for two ladies,
with modern conveniences. Write
to
Mrs. W.,
Box 246,
Charles Town.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-07-18

We pay $4,000 weekly full time,
75c an hour spare time selling
hosiery guaranteed wear four months
or replaced free. SO styles. Free
samples to workers. Salary or 80
per cent commission. Good hosiery
is an absolute necessity, you can sell
it easily. Experience unnecessary.
Eagle knitting Mills, Darby, Pa.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-07-18
BLACKSMITH SHOP
MOVED.

| wish to inform my friends and
customers and the public in general
tnat l have moved my blacksmith
shop from near the B. & o. Depot to
the lot of Mr.. c. F. Wall on Hare
wood avenue near the N. & w
Depot, where / will continue to
carry on the Blacksmith. horse Shoe.
ing and general repair business and
respectfully solicit the patronage of
all my friends and former cnston ~
ers and the public in genera, 7
now have cheaper rent, and will g;va
my customers the benefit of II IN
reduction in Horse Shoeing.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-07-18

We pay highest prices for horse
hides. Hyman Wiener.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-07-18
FOR SALE,

One Small Refrigerator, about
1000 feet of Oak Boards.
w. D. Webster.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-07-18

BUILDING LOTS FOR SALE.
For sale, several building lots at
the old Allstadt Toll Gate, sizes and
terms to suit purchasers. Prices
Reasonable. Apply to
w. H. Wiltshire,
Mar. 2o-tf. Millville, w. Va.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-07-18
DUNAWAY'S

The Store for the Right Things
Always.
Phone 235.
Evening star., 1922-10-24
Wido'o of George M. Oyster
Engineers Bride for Month,
Bernard Shircliff
Husband of For
mer Miss Ready.
Left $25,OOO in Viii,
Suit to Break Still
Pending.

Mrs. Cecile Ready oyster, widow of
the late George NJ oyster. was mar
ried to Bernard Shircliff, an electrical
engineer of New York and formerly
of Washington, about a month ago, it
became known today
The exact time and place of the
ceremony was not made public by
the young woman's attorney, Daniel
w. ODonoghue, who. when approach
ed by a Star reporter. would not dis
cuss any phase of the question. He.
however, confirmed the report, but
declared he could not give any de-
tails.
Mr.. Shircliff. who is thirty-two
years old. Is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
William H. Shircliffe of 1905 Lamont
street. He was born in Washington
and was educated in the public
schools here. Upon graduating from
Mckinley Manual Training School he
was awarded a scholarship in the
University Of Pennsylvania, and he
studied there for three years.
Army Flyer Overseas.
At the outbreak of the war, he join
ed the aviation corps and served over
seas as lieutenant and adjutant of
the 484th Aero Squadron. After the
armistice he went to Buffalo and later
to New York city. He is now travelling
as the representative of an electrical
firm in the metropolis
The bridegroom's parents were IN
Evening star., 1922-10-24
GERMANY SINKING,
SPLIT GROWS
Collapse of Mark May Hinder
Reparations Payments for
Long Period.
DRASTIC ACTION NEEDED
Position of France and England
May Prevent Brussels
Conference.
DRASTIC ACTION NEEDED
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS. October 24-The holding of
the proposed Brussels conference on
reparations and allied war debts is
now uncertain. it was said today in
the further collapse OF the mark is
causing uneasiness. The British op-
position to the Brussels meeting now
seems to be shared by Belgium.
In British quarters. it is explained
that. from present Indications, the
be nothing but a gathering to decide
upon means for saving Germany from
total financial collapse, and that the
question of reparations would receive
scant attention.
So serious have become the differ
Britain within the commission itself
over the respective reparation plans
of the two countries that all the
delegates yesterday pledged them
selves not to say single word on
the discussions now going on until
some progress is made.
France and Great Britain are
agreed that, unless some drastic
measures are taken Immediately,
Germany may soon be in the same finan-
cial condition as Austria, with the
allies renouncing all claims to in
demnity for a long period.
However. the French and the Brit
ish ideas of what form this drastic
action should take are widely di-
vergent and there is no indication
that the two nations are approaching
an agreement.
Evening star., 1922-10-24
D. C.. Grand Jury
ToProbe Charge
OF Inferior Coal

The grand jury this week will
inquire into the sale in Washing
ton of alleged poor quality coal.
IT was stated today at the Office
Of the Public Utilities Commits
sion.
Walter c. Allen. executive sec
retary to the commission, said
the matter had been laid before
District Attorney Peyton Gordon,
together with names of persons
who are said to have purchased
some Of the fuel and later COM
planned to the commission.
When the commission first re-
ceived complaints against the
quality of this fuel, it issued a
statement to the public. warning
householders that an inferior grade
of coal was being offered for sale.
According to District officials.
only one concern is involved in the
complaint to the district attorneys
office. The commission also has had
the Department Of Justice make
an investigation into the case.
Evening star., 1922-10-24
REGGYBEAkEREED
IN MURDER TRIAL
Slayer of Anderson, Self.
Styled "DeviI," Cleared
by Jury.
BY the Associated Press.

! BY the Associuted Press.
KANSAS CITY. No. October ct
Marie L. C"Peggy") Beal faced life with
renewed determination today, freed
after brief trial of the charge of
having murdered her lover, Frank
Warren Anderson, who. she said,
boasted he had broke the hearts of
fifty other women.
Leaping to her feet as the verdict
was read last night. Mrs. Beal thank
ed the jury and asserted, "Now I am
going to stay right here in Kansas
City and make good. I'm going to
send for my little boys in Terre
Haute and make good home for
them"
The court ordeal was comparatively
brief. There were few witnesses and
the testimony was adduced speedily.
She took the witness stand. pallid and
nervous, and the story of the shooting
was drawn from her by the attorneys.
Lured by Promised Marriage.
From the first meeting in Dayton.
Ohio. Mrs. Beal, young divorcee, re-
lated in chronological order incidents
of their association which terminated
| in her fatally shooting Anderson and
seriously wounding herself in a room
which they occupied in a local hotel,
June 3. He lured her there, she said.
with a promise of marriage.
She had been reading a passage in
romantic novel, in which a woman
killer her lover. She shot Anderson
as he lay upon the bed and turned
the revolver upon herself, sending a
bullet into her breast.
Il met Anderson in a restaurant in
Dayton, Ohio" she testified. HE ask :
| ed me to marry him before he left
Dayton and I told him I would give
him my answer in June"
Said He Was a Devil.
Twice she visited him in Kansas
City. They moved to the hotel where
the tragedy occurred. She asked him
to marry her. she said. II was nearly
stunned when he told me he could
find no grounds for DIVORCE" she said.
II asked him what was going to
do" she told the court, land he said,
DO as you please"
She asked him why he had sought
; her love and he answered, she de-
clared. because I am a devil"
She said that she could not recall
shooting him, but remembered shoot
, ing herself
Evening star., 1922-10-24
TO QUIT CONGRESS.
Ware Will Enter Race for Place
Pennsylvania Legislature.

PHILADELPHIA. October 24.-R-p-
resentative William s.. Ware OF tn"
first Pennsylvania district yesterday
was nominated as the republioan
candidate for the PENNSYLVANIA state
senate to fill the vacancy created by
the death of his brother Edwin ii.
Ware, who was the republican leader
of Philadelphia Senator Ware died
a week ago.
Representative Ware gave out a state
ment that 1t was too late to resign
his seat in the House as 10 have
his successor elected at the Novem-
ber election, but added he would
leave Congress at the end of the
wear so as to take his seat in the
state senate, If elected. on the first
Tuesday in January.
Mr.. Ware said his reason in leaving
Congress to seek a seat in the Penn
sylvania senate was to carry forward
the legislative policies he knew his
brother had in mind. His second
reason. he added WIS to spend more
time with his family.
Evening star., 1922-10-24
THUGS ARE SUSPECTED.
Modern Sherlock Holmes Investi:
eating New Jersey Murders.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N j., October
2t-The' theory that Rev. Edward
Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills
were killed by professional thugs
stands out today. Whoever planned
and executed the crime. whoever laid
The bodies side by side under the
crabapple tree and scattered the love
notes about them was clever
Arrival of Ellis Parker, Burling-
ton county detective. known from
one end of the state to the other
AS a modern Sherlock Holmes, has
given more satisfaction locally than
amy move yet made in the case.
although some taxpayers of the COM
lnunity, more or less intimate with
the members of the Hall family, are
Srumbling because this is likely to
cost the county some several thou
sands of dollars.
Parker's two most recent and note
Frorthy cases have bSought to the
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Evening star., 1922-10-24
HELD
DIRTY MURDERERS'
War Gougers FIayed by Ex-
Chaplain at Presbyterian
Synod Meeting.
WOULD SHOOT VIOLATORS
Aiding Ex-Service Men Declared
Field for Church-People With
Religious Gout'' Scored.
WOULD SHOOT VIOLATORS

DIRTY murderers" was the classi-
tication given war profiteers at the
sixty-seventh annual session of the
Synod of Baltimore by DR.. George
F. Horst of Chicago. during an ad-
dress on mems work in the Presby-
terian churches. He condemned the
red tape which kept help from eX-
service men and their families, and
attacked lawyers who, in the guise
their claims. demand fees which
consumed the claim.
He was outlining to the synod 4
plan for a new angle for mems work
during the year. and stressed the
need of the church lending helping
hand to the ex-Service men
Raincont Scandal.
DIR. Horst spoke particularly OF the
raincoat scandal. He said that he
was in France as chaplain and was
marching with "A column during a
heavy rain. The men had on rain
coats. He put his hand under several
of them and found them wet to the
skin.
The next day they We're sitting
around with chills and fevers. and he
sent back to the hospital fifteen of
them nine of whom died with double
pneumonia. few days later. he said.
he read in Paris paper where the
contractors who furnished those coats
had been convicted of fraud and sent
to prison for ten years.
But they are now OUT he went on.
"They killed those men-the dirty
murderers. What we want in this
country is legislation that would give
power to take out and shoot every
deaths of that kind. We want sacri-
flee all the way down the line"
Field for Church Aid.
Saying that the boys" need help. he
pointed out that there was great
field in which the church could aid,
and cited numerous instances where
red tape had delayed help until it was
too late.
While DR.. Horst said that the Pres
byterian Church was about thirteen
years ahead of other denominations in
mems work. he said that the time had
come for the reorganization of the man
power of the church. What is need
ed in the church is more men," he
added
"Thousaads of people in our churches
are dying today of religious gout" said
DIR. S Willis Mckelvey of Philadelphia
during the course of an address urg-
ing the ministers to greater effort in
evangelistic ork. 'Tney are listening
to sermons and never turning a finger
to put them into effect"
He urged that a certain period in
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Evening star., 1922-10-24
Aid Sent Cutter
Adrift With u. s.
Officials Aboard

The coast guard cutter Mojave,
reported in trouble from depletion
of her fuel supply west of Hon
olulu. still is able to proceed
Slowly under her own spoWer.
according to Il wireless message
tuned late yesterday and received
by the coast guard cutter service
here. A tug has gone from Hon
olulu to aid the vessel, on which
party of government officials is
returning from the orient.
SAN FRANCISCO. October "a
The coast guard cutter Mojave,
with u party of government Off
cials aboard, is drifting approx
mately 900 miles west of Honolulu,
with its fuel supply depleted. ac-
cording to wireless messages pick
ed up at San Diego and received
here late yesterday by the marine
department of the San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce. The fleet
tug Sunnadin left Pearl harbor.
r. H.. Yesterday at 1:45 pm. to
give aid To the Mojave.
Evening star., 1922-10-24

formed of the marriage when it took
place about month ago, Mr.. Shir-
cliff said today. He could not say
where the couple are now living. Be
cause of his sons absence from Wash
ington since his graduation from Nc
Kinley High School. the father said
he has not been able to keep in
intimate touch with the movements
of his son. He believed, he said. that
the couple became acquainted at Mrs.
Oysters home in Syracuse and that
they had known each other for some
time.
Miss Cecile Ready married Mr.. Oys-
ter, January Is, 1921. in the latter's
apartment at Wardman Park Hotel.
The bride was twenty-six years old
and the bridegroom seventy-two. Mr..
oyster died in Atlantic City last sum
mer and in his will left the young
wife $25.000. She brought suit in the
District Supreme Court 20 break the
will. The suit is pending in court.
Evening star., 1922-10-24
SUBMARINE FIRE HALTED
Blaze Causes $1,000 Damage te
R-4 at Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES, Calf, October "a
A fire which broke out early yesterday
in the battery compartment Of the sub
marine R-4 at Los Angeles harbor
was brought under control yesterday
afternoon. 1t was said a wire from a
battery cell became grounded and
that ventilating fans. running at the
time. caused the flames to spread.
The damage was estimated at $1,000,
it Was stated.
the RI; Lieut.. l.. +. Small and Chief
Electrician William B. Craig We're
overcome by smoke while fighting the
flames and were carried to safety by
Benjamin E. w. White and Glenford
c. Mills, electricians mates.
Cutting. Small and Craig were re-
ported to be in serious condition last
night.
Evening star., 1922-10-24
BONAR LAW TAKES UP
PROBLEMS OF IRELAND
Discusses Affairs Today With Head
of the Irish Provisional
Government.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, October 24.-Prime Min
lister Bonar Law held a conference
today with William T. Cosgrave.
head of the Irish provisional govern
ment, with regard to Irish affairs.
A colonial office announcement
read:
I'm view of the change in the gov
ernment arrangements were made at
the beginning of the week for a
meeting between Mr.. Bonar Law and
Mr.. Cosgrave, head of the Irish gov
ernment. The meeting took place
this morning. Mr.. Cosgrave was
accompanied by X. O'Higgins. secre-
tary Of home affairs, and Hugh Ken
uedy. law officer"
Evening star., 1922-10-24
IND4CT MRS. SAlUDES
FOR SLAYtNG BROKER
First-Degree Murder Charged by
New York Grand Jury Against
Frenehwoman.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. October 24.-An indict-
ment charging first degree murder was
returned by the grand jury today
against Mrs. Paulette Saludes, French
woman. who shot and killed Oscar Mar
telliere, broker, of whom she was
enamored, in his office on the afternoon
Of October 16.
After the shooting Mrs. Saludes fled
to the office Of her attorney, where she
declared she killed Martelliere because
he won her away from her husband and
then cast her aside. +.
Evening star., 1922-10-24
STILL AT LoGGERHEADs.
Ugly Mood Develops Over Route of
Turks to Thrace.
RY the Associa ted Press. .

By the Associated Press.
CONSTANTINOPLE, October "a
The allied generals and the Turkish
nationalists are still at loggerheads
over the route to be taken by the
Turkish gendarmerie in their occu-
patton of eastern Thrace. Rafet
Pasha, the new military governor of
Thrace, at a lengthy conference with
the allied chiefs yesterday, urged
that the gendarmes be permitted to
go through Constantinople, but was
told that the bulk of these forces
must enter Thrace by way of Ro-
dosto. None of the conferees seemed
in a friendly mood.
Gendarmes Being Gathered.
Rafet Pasha is being entertained
by the allied high commissioners
during his stay here. He plans to
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Evening star., 1922-10-24
WEATHER.

Fair and continued cool. with frost
tonight; tomorrow fair and warmer.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ended at pm. today: Highest, 66, at
| pm. yesterday: lowest, Al, ut 6 am.
today.
Full report on page I.
Evening star., 1922-10-24

The Stars carrier system covers every
city block and the regular edition 10
delivered to Washington homes as fast
as the papers are printed.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-07
|BoNard Keeps Swats
Spread As West Side
Beats Eagles, 3 TO 1
League Leaders Drop Fast Game in Sunday S
Doubleheader; Elks Take Second
From Woodmen.

Playing better ball and deserving te
win as they did, the West Siders put
over a pretty 3 to / win on the Eagles
Sunday at Earring park. This was the
first game of a dOuble-header, the
Elks taking the long end of an s to !
score from the Woodmen in the las,
game. which was a sand lot fracas in
comparison to the opener.
But to get back to those West Sid,
ers and the game which rubbed the
feathers of the nest which Bill Mckee's
Eaglets have been building on the top
bough Of the city league percentage
tree. Bolland. the West Side twirler,
was the principal reason why the
Eagless, with six hits, couldn't win
from the over river nine with only -four
hits gathered off Burg's delivery. Boil
land. who halls from Conrad, kept the
Eagle clouts distributed with a nice
discrimination, allowing them to regis
ter at the rate of one per inning, and
all singles except a lone two-bagger
from Noes club.
The West Siders gathered the in
itial tally in the last half of the sec
Ond frame as the result of two Fielding
errors. Buckley juggled a hot one
from Rutherford's bat. which cracked
down the shortstop lane. The next
two batters were retired gracefully and
Burk was breathing easy on the mound
when Oriet juggled one from Pogreba' s
bat. which sent Rutherford over the
pan.
Nor was there a reasonable excuse
for the lone Eagle count in the fifth.
With one down, Oriet laid a queer one
down a few feet from the pitcher.
which the latter slammed with much
speed and no direction towards first.
letting Oriet pound along to second.
A IN later he stole third. Sam
uelson lifted a skyrocket into the short
center garden, which Pogreba caught
and heaved for the plate to catch the
streaking Oriet. If Ted Judge had
possessed Goliath's six cubits and q
span" of length he might have reached
it. As it was. he retrieved and shot
the horsehide 10 BoIland. but too late.
With one laid low in the sixth, the
West Siders started into action when
Kerr smashed one down the third base
alley. whcih took a vicious bounce over
oriet's head. Rutherford measured his
bat. gave a healthy swing. and the
Eagle center fielder was high balling
it back to lift the spheroid out of the
weeds which thrive in the shadow of