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MEMBERSHIP r. Zip RETURNS,

Present indications are that 1t
will not be necessary for the FAIR
nc Mt Chamber of Commerce y. TO
put on. a. membership drive tins his
year to secure the desired number be-!
Of members. the secretary has "a;
adopted the policy of simply send
ing out statements to the present
mem bership. So far thes@retu u rs:
have been very good and with ':L1 2 the
larger concerns being expected 10 IS,
hand in III cir membe rship sub
tons early this month it:iss thought
that the situation Evil be "a Wei N
hand by the da.e Of he annuai
ME ating on May IL -
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3WILLsPI1AY TOMORROW

sMANNINGTON, NJ ay5 4 = The fast
Barrackville baseball team will
play the local high school nine at
SHoughtown tomorrow evening. be-
ginning promptly at o'clock
Jones will gente the box for M an
snington tomorrow for the first
time. Coach Jerry Blake is try
ing out all possible material and
expects to have ffrst-class stat
of pitchers before long he said
this morning. ~. $Es & s3S@s
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INFANT CHILD BURIED

l The funeral of Carmen NJ amelia.
the 5-week old infant of MI and no
Mrs. ] ames Mainelle Of NJ onongan,
VIII ose death occurred at COOK
Hospital Saturday mornln after after
a two weeks illness, was vas 81 4 held
from the Italian Catholic Ghurch1
at Monongah yesterd lay N morning
at II %, clock, and burial was = 81 made 4
IN the 4 Italian cemetery by Car
penter and Ford. ts 81 .sS
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Tri-Associa tioll IS tin
Iiia Sc Held siilS GfaffoaS

The tri-associa onssnle lin gss1as
the Baptist denomin ct ON
held at Iteration or ednesda s
Mrs Alexand err fs$ Go lunbus lss
be one of the peakers sseYsrals
women from II the local ss BaR ttst
churches viii attend @the gtdng
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n R5ANi,:ss;FERRED 70 LlTTLEToN:

TRANSFERRED TO LlTTLEToN:
srANNINGTO IN M ay Guy w.
II; 4 EA;Eelnett OF Burt Hill, this city. dis
sstricts foremanf for the Carnegie Gas
Co. d as N been transferred by the
sscompany1tozL ittl eton, where hey
4 act III, Is similar capacity. His fam
& Nv aresSspacking heir household ef.
EsctaSpreparatory TO moving to Lit
!. 1eton very soon. Mr. Arnett's sue
@cessors IN the district has not been
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INJURED IN BACK.

ssMANNINGTON,M May l.--Denzel
4 Huey8i Isl confined to his home in
sGrandyiews addition suffering from
sgimihries received when he was hit
& iIn5theg back while at work in the
YofId eds the latter part Of the
week. IA Though painful it is not
baiieyed y that the injuries will
prove ssri GUS .l'ss
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Man,:ning:t!o5:'n So Getty !, Z,
! missionary Society M Getting. n,


Missionary Society Meeting.
a The 3Women's Foreign Missionary
Society will hold its regnlar meet
ing on May Q instead Il Of May 3:
as formerly intend ed. AT this meet
ing Miss Anna Ashbro a mis-.
sionary from Indi will address
the society, and also Mrs. Sis:
Spraggs Wheeling. s.s.ss
This is the day Of the thank OF
fering. and every mem Der IS ex
pected to be present The speak;
ers are expected to have interesting
messages, and good program has
been prepared. XII
Bake Sale Postponed.
The bake sale, announced by the
ladies of the Presbyterian Church
for last Saturday afternoon at
$Furbee's Furniture Store was
postponed until next Saturday aft
ernoon.
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Bakc Sale Postponed. n

s%fG sSa;l..
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AZ South Side - omorroxy
The FafryiewsHi School base
bal team sch edule ed ITO play the
$Tairmont High team at South Side
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E "A delightful SURPRISE party was
given in honor of Mrs. Ear
Reese Friday night by her sister
Mrs Earl Lewis, at the formers
home A pleasant social hour was
enjoyed. and delicious refresh
ments were served. "
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WAR AND TAXES

No need have been surprised alarmed
lmnary report the commissioner Of internal AS
OF fact the administration collect
fiscal ending June 80 1922 then had
previous still smaller total has been
term. Certainly there anxiety
According c. acting commissioner,
III income and profits during the which ended 80 last
s20S794624376
sidered alone this drop might been indication
National poverty Actually IS nothing of the The
scented to last calculated
and profits during
mated that $211OoQ0o0o would be received
tsay the obtained
The of the federal
the estimates The reduction due
levied ecedas
and half billion dollars For the fiscal
mated expenditure billion
difference The
billions. The reduction in viii be
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Sally did not feel some contrition
over the ineffective part she had
played in the last episode. But Jo-
seph Corbin had committed the un.
pardOnable sin to a woman Of de-
stroying her own illogical ideas OF
him, which was worse than if he
had affronted the preconceived ideas
Of others, in which case she might
still defend him. Then, too, she was
no longer religious, and had no cali
to act as peacemaker. Nevertheless
she resented Julia Jeffcourts insin-
uations bitterly, and the cousins
quarreled-not the first time in their
intercourse-and it was reserved fer
the latter to break the news of Cor.
bins arrival with the body to Mrs.
JeffcOurt.
How this was done and what oc.
cured at that interview has not
been recorded. But it was known
the next day that, while Mrs. jeff
court accepted the body at Corbin' 5
hands,-and it is presumed the fu-
neral expenses alsO,-he was posi-.
lively forbidden to appear either at
Vic otL f4NFo at tue uOuSG VI DIT the
church. There had been some wild
talk among the younger and many
Of the lower members of the com
munity, notably the poor non.
slave-holding whites, of tarring and
feathering Joseph Corbin, and rid
ing him on a rail out of the town
on the day of the funeral, as q
propitiatory sacrifice to the names
of Thomas JeffcOurt; but it being
pointed out by the undertaken that
it might involve some uncertainty
in the settlement of his bill, to-
gether with some reasonable doubt
or the thorough resignation of Cor
bin, whosI previous momentary
alteration in that respect they were
celebrating, the project was post
roned until after the funeral. And
here an unlooked-for incident occur
red
There was to be a political meet
ing at Kirby on that day, when GER.
tain distinguished Southern leaders
had gathered from the remoter
Southern States. At the instiga-
ton Of Captain Bows it was adjourn
ed at the hour of the funeral to
enable members to attend, and it
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was even rumored, to the great de-
light of Pineville, that a distin-
Suished speaker or two might come
over to Improve the OCCASION with
some slight aIlusion to the cngross-
ing topic of Southern Rights" This
combined appeal to the domestic
and political emotions of Pineville
was irresistible. The Second Bap-
fist Church was crowded. After the
religious service there was pause,
and Judge Read, stepping forward
amid a breathless silence, said that
they were peculiarly honored by the
unexpected presence in their midsf
"of that famous son of the South,
Colonel StarbOttle," who had lately
returned to his native soil from his
adopted home in California Every
eye was fixed on the DISTINGUISHED
stranger as he arose.
Jaunty and gallant as ever, fem
ininely smooth-faced, yet polished
and high colored as a youthful
mask; pectorally expansive. and un-
folding the white petals of his waist
coat through the swollen lapels OF
his coat, like a bursting magnolia
bud, Colonel Starbottle began. The
present associations were, he might
say, singularly halowcd to him;
not only was Pineyille-a Southern
centre-the recognized nursery Of
Southern beauty Ca stately molina.
ton to the pew in which Miss Sally
and Julia Jeffcourt saU, Southern
intelligence, and Southern indopen-
dence, but it was the home of the
lamented dead who had been, like
himself and another he should refer
to later. an adopted citizen of the
Golden State, a seeker Of the Golden
Fleece. 8 companion of Jason. Il
was the home, fellow citizens and
friends, of the sorrowing sister of
the deceased, a young lady whom he.
the speaker, had as yet known ONLY
through the Chivalrous blazon of
her virtues and graces by her at
tendant knights Ga courteous wave
towards the gallery where Joyce
Masterton, Chester Brooks. Calhoun
Bungstarter, and the embattled
youth generally of Pineville became
empurpled and idiotic); it was the
home of the afflicted widowed moth
er, also personally unknown to him,
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Colonel Starbottle's Client

stage Office" he went on, apparently
to the carpet. Il had him dug up
that I might bring him here, and
mebbe bury some of the trouble and
difference along with his friends. 1t
might be- he added, with a slightly
eloWering upward glance, as to ar
overruling, but occasionally misdi-
recting Providence,-"it might be
from the way things are piling up
on me that some one might have
rung in another corpse instead O.
him, but so far as l can Judge, al
lOWin' for the space of time and
nat'ral wear and tear-its him."
He rose slowly and moved towards
the door in a silence that was as
much te result of some conviction
that any violent demonstration
against him would he as grotesque
and monstrous as the situation, as OF
anything he had said. Even tho
flashing Indignation of Julia Jeff
court seemed to become suddenly as
unnatural and homogeneous as her
brothers chief mourner himself, and
although she shrank from his pass
.nS figure she uttered no word.
Chester Brooks youthful emotions,
following the expression of Miss
Sallys face, lost themselves in a
vague hysteric smile, and the other
gentlemen looked sheepish. Joseph
Corbin halted at the door.
Whatever" he said. turning to
the company, "ye make up your
mind to do about me, | reckon ye'd
better do it after the funeral. I'm
always ready But he, what with
being in box and changing eli
mate, had better 90 first" He paus-
cd, and with suggestion OF deli
cacy in the momentary dropping of
MS eyelids, added,-"for reasons"
He passed out through the door.
on to the portico and thence into
the garden. 1t was noticed at the
time that the half-dozen hounds lin.
gering there rushed after him with
their usual noisy demonstration, but
hat they as suddenly stopped, re-
treated violently to the security of
the basement, and there gave re,
lief 10 their feelings in a succession
OF prolonged bowls.
CHAPTER w.
1t must not be supposed that Miss
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but with whom he might say he had
had-er-er- professional cOrrc-
spOndence. But it was not this
alone that halIowed the occasion, it
was a sentiment that should speak
in trumpet-like tones throughout the
South in this uprising Of an unified
section. 1t was the forgetfulness
of petty strife, of family feud, OF
personal wrongs in the Claims of
party! 1t might not be known that
he, the speaker, was professionally
coGnizant OF one Of these regretta-
ble-shOuld he say accidents? -aris-
ing from the chiydlrous challenge
and equally chivalrous response of
two fiery Southern spirits. to which
they primarily owe their coming
here that day. And he should take
it as his duty, his solemn duty. in
that sacred edifce to proclaim to
the world that in his knowledge as
"a professional man-as a man of
honor, as a SOutherncr. as a gentle
man, that the circumstances
which three years ago led to the
early demise Of our lamented friend
ana brother REFLECTED only tho high
est credit equally on both of the par
ties. He said this on his own re-
sponsibility-in or out of this sacred
editieo-and in or out of that sacred
cdlllco he was personally RESPONSE
bic, and prepared to give the full
est satisfaction for it. He was also
aware that it might not be known
or understOod--that since that
boyish episode the survivor had ia.
sen the place Of the departed iE
the bereayed family and ministered
to their needs with counsel and
er-er-pecuniary aid, and had fol
lowed the body afoot across the
continent that it might rest with its
kindred dust. He was aware that
an unchristian-he would say but
Tor that sacred edifice-a dastardiy
attempt had been made to impugr
the survivors, motiYes-to suggest
an unseemly discord between him
and the family, but he, the speaker,
would never forget the letter breath
ing with Christian forgiveness and
replote with angelic simplicity sent
by member of that family to his
client, which came under his profes.
isional eye (here the professional
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In The Past
(Taken From The Files Of The
JournaD
TEN YEARS AGO.

Ils IFNiNS SNSSs
Perhaps the hottest September
LIST in years, thermometer going up
to 81, with intense humidity.
Mr., and Mrs. j. w. Stewart are
i'll at Aspen Hall, their cases dag
nosed as ptomaine poisoning.
Miss Elizabeth Fellers expires at
the home of her sister, Mrs. George
Feidt, Of tuberculosis.
FIVE YEARS AGO.
Mr. I. w. Wood, Hedgesville, dis
poses of 5000 barrels OF apples at
high figure; S. for Grimes and 81
for Yorks and Staymens.
Mr. William F. Betz, native of
this city, dies at Kings Daughters
Hospital after an illness OF two
weeks.
Mr.. William Taylor Lupton. Dry
Run, marries Miss Mildred Russell,
of Gaithersburg, at that place
Unknown individuals hold water
melon feast in B. & 0. yards at eX
pense of Star Produce Company,
breaking open car and swiping mel
ons.
ONE YEAR AGO.
DR.. S. NJ. Langford reports rabies
in herd of Mr. Walter Mckee, near
Vauclevesyille.
Rotary Club meets for weekly
luncheon at Hotel Berkeley
Fire Marshal Topping and Assist
ant Wesley are here to confer with
Chief Quinn.
Only two policemen, C. II. Bowers
and Cornelius Rhodes, on duty now.
Young Lithuanian, Samuel Smith,
sees brother, Isaac Smith. here after
a period Of nineteen years.
Shenandoah Chapter, n. S. D. A.
r., guests at Red Hill in regular
meeting
L. D. Gerhardt is named chairman
Of committee to make plans for big
Armistice Day celebration.
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eye Tor a moment fingered on the
hysteric face OF Miss Sally); he did
rot envy the head or hcart of a man
Who could peruse these lines-of
which the mere recollection-er-er
-chokod the utterance of even d
professional man like -er-himself--
without emotion. And what, my
friends and fellow citizens sudden
ly continued the Colonel, replacing
his white handkerchief in his coat
tail, was the reason why my client,
Mr.. Joseph C0rbin-whose delicacy
keeps him from appearing among
these mourners comes here to bury
all differences, ali animosities, all
petty passions? Because he is a son
of the South; because as a son OF
the South, as the representative. and
a distant connection, | believe. of
my old political friend, Major Cor
hin, of Nashville. he wishes here
and everywhere at this momentous
crisis, to sink everything. in the one
all-pervaGing, alI-absOrbing, one and
indivisible unity of the South in it's
resistance to the Northern Usurper.~
That, my friends, is the great. the
solemn, the Christian lesson of this
most remarkable occasion in my
professional political, and social ex-
perience.
(TO Be COntinuedO
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". VA. STATE News

Elkins Miss Sara Fakes, of Lcba-
non, Tenn, has been chosen to
head the department Of expression
at the Davis-Elkins College.
Fairment = Late reports are that
$40 mines in the Fairm0nt field are
now in operation.
Parkersburg - Rev NJ w. Young,
while conducting services in the
First Christian Church here, was
stricken with acute indigestion. He
is reported as improving.
Because of inability to
jsecure motive power to bring their
trains here, two circuses have can
celled dates.
FairmonG - For the first time in
many weeks the big Mallet type Of
locomotives are again being used on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to
move coal trains.
The remains Of an unknown white
imam, about 80 years Of age, whose
appearance seemed to be that of a
laborer of a lumber company was
found on the c, & o. tracks at Camp
Branch near Hinton on Monday.
Henry Hite, sanitary officer of the
! City Of Huntington has ordered no,
tells, restaurants and soda fountains
to scald their dishes and glasses
after being used
Nearly $4,000 in prizes have been
offered this year for the best work
among the 10000 farm boys and
girls, who are enrolled in the All
clubs in this state
William Kelly, age 76, farmer
was killed and his son, Cleveland,
age So, was seriously injured when
la truck in which they We're riding
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Photographed NEWS
FROM everywhere

The Worcester (Mass) rowing
club is trying to organize two wom-
en- rowing crews.
Exports Of foodstuffs declined no.
ticeably in July the commerce de-
partment announces.
Farmers are assembling evidence
to show that spectators are con-
trolling the New York food mar
kets.
The LaVerne Noyes Foundation
in Chicago has been extended to
include ex-seryice women as we'll
as men.
Complete equipment for brew
cry with a production of 800 bar
rels of beer a week was confscat-
ed in raid at Albany.
Transit facilities on all Manhat-
tan were paralyzed for 20 minutes
Monday when an electrical genera
tor broke down
In Boston a man grabbed the
hand of a woman waiting for the
street car and wrenched from her
finger a diamond ring
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Co repeated Miss Sally in an
agonized whisper. You must not
be known here
But the attention of Julia had
been arrested by her cousins agitae
ton, and her eye fell on Cotbin,
where it was fixed with some fatal
fascination that seemed in turn to
enthrall and possess him also t.
Miss Sally's infinite dlsmay the
others fell back and allowed these
two black figures to stand out, then
TO move towards each other with the
same terrible magnetism They were
so near she could not repeat her
warning to him without the others
hearing it. And all hope died wheI
Corbin, turning deliberately towards
her with a grave gesture in the direc
ton of Julia, said quietly
"lnterduce me"
Miss Sally hesitared, and 'nea
gasped hastily, Miss Jeffcourt."
Eyer don't say my name. Tell her
I'm Joseph Corbin of Frisco. Calf
fornia, who killed her brother" lie
stopped and turned towards her II
came here to try and fix things
again-and I've brought him"
In the wondering silence that en-
sued the others smiled vacantly.
breathlessly, ard eXpectantly, until
Corbin advanced and held out his
hand when Julia Jeffcourt. draw
ing hers back to her bosom with
the palms ouSward uttered an mar
ticulate cry and-and spat in his
face,
With that act she found tongue
--reviling him, the house that har-
bored him, the insolence that pre-
sented him, the insult that had
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By DWIG

was struck by a Is. d NJ. passenger
train, about three miles from Red
House Wednesday morning.
At a meeting of the Bar Associa.
ton in Morgantown Saturday after.
noon, steps were taken looking to-
wards the creation of new court
in Monongalia county to relieve the
congestion that now exists.
Work on the Huntington Tri-Stata
Fair Association grounds is being
rushed. The fair grounds are be-
ing fenced, a grandstand erected.
and many other improvements
made.
C. D. Woodrum, of Huntington,
was seriously injured Thursday
morning when the automobile in
which he was driving skidded over
a cliff near Balls crossing, one
mile west of Milton.
James w. Paul will represent the,
Federal Fuel Administrator in Fair.
mont.
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The American automobile asso-
citation is launching a campaign
among its members for more cour-
tesy among automobile drivers.
Every effort made to find Eph.
rain Gregory, Englishman, who is
heir to 100000 left him by an I'M
known benefactor, has been I'M
successful.
Treatment of various affections,
such as deafness, by aviation
stunts has become a regular bust
ness at the Croydon aviation field
in England.
The long heralded plan of Mayor
Hylan for new subways for New
York has been announced 1t calls
for 35 transit lines, worth $780,
100000.
Germany is standardizing the out
put of her industries with view to
compelling other great importing
countries to follow her standards.
Negro voters of both the Repub-
lican and Democratic parties have
formed a new organization known
as the Boston independent political
association.
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GEORGE SAYRES
OPERATED ON
IN CARLISLE

Word was received from Carlisle,
Pa, to the effect that George Sayres
had been operated on for appended.
It's, in a hospital of that city, and
that his condition was good The
young man is a son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Sayres, and was a clerk in
w. S. Harpers drug store while his
father was general secretary of the
local Y. NJ. c. A, Mr.. Sayres ac-
copied a similar position in Carlisle
and the family is now residing
there.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-09-01
Comment OF
State Editors

Think of struggling Poland in
creasing its army from 100000 to
100000 men, which is twice the size
Of the United States army. Poland
is one of our debtors, owing us the
sum of $14S,594,42311, on which not
a cent of interest has been paid.
With Poland increasing ornaments,
WHY should we be asked to forgive
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MR.. PERRY IMPROVED.

William Peery, we'll known auto.
mobile agent, who has been on the
sick list for two weeks with an at
tack of grippe and who was confin-
ed to his home on Rosemont for
week, is improved and able to be al
his work again regularly. 49,
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(To Be Continued)
FALLING WATERS
RESRYTERIAN CHURCf

On next Sunday, September g. az
IL a. m, the regular communion
service will be held in Failing Wa
ters Presbyterian Church Of Spring
Mills, preceded by a preparatory
service on Saturday at II a. m. and
The quarterly meeting of the session
on Saturday at 10 a. m. I
Communion service will also ba
held at Bethany Chapel Sunday aft
ernoon al o'clock.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-09-01

It's debt?-Bluefeld Telegraph.
That California wife who can get
500 a month for life by letting her
husband go should consider what 4
lot you can do with money and how
little with a man. Blucleld Tele
graph.
When a woman says her suit IS
being pressed you never know if il
is at the cleaners or Judge Stun
tington Advertiser.
Insurance actuaries announce
that the average span of life is
growing longer. OF course a man
has to live so or 80 years nowadays
to learn how some of these strikes
ere coming notwithstanding News
Mother is busy these days-sew-
ing and darning, making nice new
things and making over nice old
things, which means that school
time is approaching once again
Herald Dispatch.
II may be comforting to some per-
sons to note that a minister says
that bobbed hair has nothing to do
with the salvation Of the soul, and
some Of us will say, not any more
than did the old-fashioned chignon.
Charleston Mail.
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SYNOPSIS

10 corbin having killed JeHcourt unfairly
courts mother sending mail
Mrs JeHcourt believed that Corbn
cnsed to Sally
letters, Sys
letter from corbn
arrived PneVle before
With him. naughty beauty,
half girls
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obligations incurred the still be
billions Of bonds have been retired
require which, by prewar
ards, is apparently