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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S BIGGEST MAINCAIN, DRAW BY INCLUENCE AND UNERIBED BY GAIN" The Pioneer ESTABLISHED 1882. CHARLOTTESVILLE CANNERY BURNED CHARLOTTESVILLE CANNERY BURNED Earlier Blaze in Chariottesville Destroys Two Residences—Firemen Kept On Jump. Two fires in 15 hours kept the Chariottesville firemen on the Jump Sunday. An early morning blaze wiped out two residences belonging to James Nimmo, in the southern end of the city, while the second fire destroyed the canning plant and office of the Albermarle Products Corporation, on Rose Hill. The company is capitalized at $100,000 the majority of the stockholders being local men. Only the vinegar storage warehouse was saved. The loss is put at $18,000. The burned factory, one of the most complete in that section, had been in operation for nearly two years. The output last season was 60,000 cans of apples. 100,000 cans of apple butter, 150,000 gallons of vinegar in addition to large quantites of tomatoes, corn, peaches, plums, cherries, berries and other fruit. Vinegar plants are operated also at Covesville and Crozet B. L. Warner, of St. Louis, the company's expert chemist, had recently developed a special "soft drink," made from apple cider and free from fermentation, which was being put on the market. It was intended to operate the plant in making this drink during the idle months between seasons. JUDGE ROBINSON OCCUPIES PULPIT Preached Yesterday Morning at the First M. E. Church, Baltimore—Member of Commission. Judge Ira E. Robinson, of Grafton, late candidate for governor, who is a member of the commission named to draft a plan whereby the First M. E. and Southern Methodist churches may unite, and which is in session now in Baltimore, occupied the pulpit of the First M. E. church, Baltimore, yesterday morning. All members of the commission occupied pulpits in the Methodist churches there yesterday. STEPHENS PARTY TO VISIT KEYSER Next Month and Hold a Revival Meeting—Party is Now Engaged in the South. Announcement has been made that the George T. Stephens evangelistic party will hold a revival meeting at Keyser, W. Va., next month. The churches of that city have united in the movement, and plans are being rapidly perfected for the erection of a tabernacle, which will seat at least 2,000 people. The Stephens party is now in the south, and following the meeting there will go to Keyser. A number of local people have already signified their intention of visiting Keyser during that time. TWO BOOTLEGGERS ARRESTED SATURDAY William McMahon and Travers Allen, both residents of Jefferson county, were arrested Saturday in Charles Town by United States Deputy Marshal Athey and brought here and lodged in the county jail. This afternoon they were given a hearing before United States Commissioner H. A. Downs, but at The World's press time WILLARD SENDS GREETINGS TO THE 75,000 EMPLOYES NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE SENT TO EVERY EMPLOYE OF THE B. & O. MESSAGE IS TELEGRAPHED THIS MORNING FROM BALTIMORE TO 1,500 POINTS. TRAIN CREWS RECEIVED THEIR TELEGRAMS AT THE SIGNAL TOWERS. Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, sent out a few moments after midnight. New Year's greetings to the 75,000 employees of the railroad. Every man and woman in the employ of the great system will receive today or tomorrow a telegram bearing the greetings from the head of the system. At 12:01 o'clock this morning the telegraphers in the central office at Baltimore and Charles street. Baltimore, began sending the messages to the 1500 stations and the various signal towers over the entire system. Crews of trains out on the road got their message of felicitation from the first signal tower they reached after midnight. When the train orders were handed the conductor he got also a telegram for every man in the train crew. In all the shops, yards, stations, etc. along the road the employees found the message when they came to work the morning. Others who will present their information will find similar messages for them. Those who are enjoying a holiday will get coats tomorrow. The telegraph wires were all cleared for the message from President Willard and nothing was allowed to interrupt, except orders for train movements which were absolutely essential to safety. The message of Mr. Willard was as follows: "To All Officers and Employes— Members of the Baltimore and Ohio Family: "Once more I desire to extend to my fellow-officers and employes in the Baltimore and Ohio service greetings and best wishes for the new year just begun, and at the same time I want to thank all for their loyal support and co-operation during the year just closed." "The trying period through which we are passing has brought to the railroads and to their employees unusual and extremely difficult problems. While subject, like all others, to the heavy burden of higher prices and the increased cost of living, the railroad, unlike nearly all other industrial undertakings, is not able to readily readjust its charges and thereby realize the full benefits that should accrue from an enlarged business under existing conditions, and this results in placing upon the railroad employee and stockholders as well a burden which the great majority of others at the present time are not expected or required to bear. "I hope, however, that all in the service of the Baltimore and Ohio Company will join with me in trying to make our railroad a more efficient and worthy public servant, and, as such, fairly entitled to a more liberal consideration. "May the new year bring good health and happiness to us all. CLARKSBURG POSTMASTER TENDERS RESIGNATION J. Carl Vance, postmaster at Clarksburg on Saturday tendered his resignation, and asked the department to take immediate action. Since taking charge of the office Mr. Vance reports that the receipts have grown from $80,000 to $120,000. COUNTY COURT FINISHES TERM COUNTY COURT FINISHES TERM Several Appointments Were Made and a Number of Persons Qualified Saturday Afternoon. Saturday evening the county court finished its work for 1916 and adjourned sine die. The December term was a very busy one, and it required hard work to finish all business. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney P. L. Luttrell, who was reappointed by Mr. Noll appeared and qualified. N. H. Kilmer was reappointed stewart at the alms house, his term beginning April 1. George E. Showers, who has served two years as road engineer, was reappointed and qualified, giving bond in the penalty of $2,500. Attorney Howard H. Emmert was appointed to vote the county's stock in the Martinsburg and Winchester Turnpike Company. C. W. Thatcher was named to do likewise when the stockholders of the Martinsburg and Potomac and Dry Run Turnpike companies meet. The meetings will be held this month. C. S. Sencindiver was reappointed janitor at the courthouse. Mrs. Lucy A Harris qualified as administratrix of the estate of A. Duval Harris, her husband, who recently died from injuries sustained on the railroad. FIREMEN GUILTY OF FALSE ALARM FIREMEN GUILTY OF FALSE ALARM Winchester Mayor "Fires" Four and Fines Them $36 for Good Measure. Declaring they were not fit to belong to the fire department of Winchester on account of a prank they had played in turning in a false alarm, Magistrate Fultz Saturday sentenced four young men to resign at once from their companies and to pay fines and costs amounting to $38. The young men were Ralph Brown, Otis Stuart, Carl Schmidt and Frank Fansler. It was brought out that the men conspired to send in an alarm of fire, and Brown and Stuart were selected to ring the bell. They were caught in the act. The men said they saw a blaze coming from a chimney at the home of Mayor Ward, but the latter declared there was no fire at his house. Fansler moved to have his case reopened, declaring he was home and asleep when the alarm was given. DEALERS AFTER BIGGER CROPS Lynchburg Men Urge Farmers to Increase Their Acreage This Year. In view of the unparalleled demand for tobacco and the prospect for diminished stock in the hands of the manufacturers after the 1916 crop is sold, the Lynchburg dealers are advising farmers in central Virginia to increase their acreage this year. The demand for primings last summer and autumn broke all records and the warehousemen forecast a continuance of this next summer, and with that in mind the planters are advised to save all primings. To market them, the market will be opened earlier than usual. The sales there will be resumed Tuesday. Up to this time the 1916 crop is about 50 per cent sold, and the market is expected to open at high prices and with the buyers eager for the remainder of the crop. Press. NERIBED BY GAIN" 7. VOL. 35 NO. 43. $7,629.36 FIRE LOSS IN THE CITY DURING PAST YEAR FIRE CHIEF QUINN FURNISHES THE WORLD WITH ANNUAL REPORT. DEPARTMENT ANSWERED 57 CALLS AND 27 WERE DUE TO CHIMNEYS. NEED OF TRUCK FOR NO. 5 18 URQED BY THE LOCAL FIRE CHIEF. The fire loss in Martinsburg during the past twelve months amounted to only $7,629.36, according to a report furnished The World today by Fire Chief Martin Quinn, following his annual custom. In previous years, however, the report was made to the city council at the end of each year, but now the fire chief makes his report to that body at the close of each fiscal year, or the end of June. During the past year the local fire department has answered 57 alarms, 27 of which were caused by defective chimneys. In speaking of such fires Chief Quinn stated that it would be to the people's advantage to keep their chimneys clean, as fires starting that way always result in some loss and might also cause a much larger blaze The 57 alarms, according to months, were answered as follows: January, 7; February, 7; March, 7; April, 5; June, 1; July, 0; August, 6; September, 1; October, 3; November, 2; December, 11. The largest number of fires always occur in the winter months, the reason being that there are many more stoves in use in that season of the year. Fire Chief Quinn took charge of the fire department in 1912 and since that time the fire loss has been gradually decreasing. The following are the amounts each year since that time: The following is the report of losses by months: January $175.00; February $2,324.93; March $383.00; April $80.17; May, June and July, none; August $2,577.26; September none; October $671.00; November $189.00; December $1,229.00. Total $7,629.00. The report clearly demonstrates the efficiency of the fire department and the generalship of the head of that department. While Martinsburg was fortunate in having so few fires during the year, it was the generalship of Chief Quinn and his men which kept many fires from spreading and running the loss much higher. An unusually hard fire to fight was the one a few weeks ago in the M. L. Dorn building on South Queen street, which originated in the cellar, but the firemen were on the alert and knowing how to fight fires, had little difficulty in keeping it from spreading, which had it done so, would have practically wiped out a large portion of the downtown business section. Last year, following the issuance of the report of the fire chief, Marshal Horan, the state chief, stated that the fire loss in Martinsburg was the smallest in any city in the state, and congratulated Chief Quinn upon his success. This year it is also expected to be smallest in the state. There is but one reason why the fire department here is not more efficient and that is the essential need of a truck for North Martinsburg. A few weeks ago the department was called to East Liberty street and was --- 1912 ..... $118,136.25 1918 ..... 44,495.00 1914 ..... 31,199.01 1915 ..... 12,192.66 1916 ..... 7,629.36 crossing. When the truck for No. 5 is secured the local department will stand second to no other. FIFTY-FOUR PERSONS LYNCHED IN 1916 Fifty Negroes and Four Whites, Tuskegee Institute Re- TUSKEGEE, Ala., Jan. 2... Fifty-four persons were lynched in the United States during 1916, according to records of Tuskegee Institute here just made public. Fifty of the victims were negroes and four white persons, are included in the record are three negro women. Sixty-seven persons were lynched in 1915, 4 of whom were white men. In a statement presenting the report Robert R. Moten, president of the institute, said: "Fourteen, or more than one-fourth of the total, lynchings occurred in the State of Georgia. Of those put to death, 42, or 77 per cent of the total were charged with offenses other than assault." The charges for which whites were lynched were: Murder, 3; suspected of cutting a woman, 1 (This was a Mexican.) "The charges for which negroes were put to death were: Attempted assault, 9; killing officers of the law, 10; murder, 7; hog stealing and assisting another person to escape, 6; wounding officer of the law, 4; anbauult, 3, and insult, 2. "For each of the following offenses persons were put to death: Slapping boy, robbing store, brushing against girl on street, assisting his son, accused of assault to escape, entering a house for robbery or some other purpose; defending her son, who, in defense of his mother, killed a man; fatally wounding a man with whom he had quarreled, speaking against mob in act of putting a man to death, attacking a man and wife with club. "Lynchings occurred in the following states: Alabama, 1; Arkansas, 4; Florida, 8; Georgia, 14; Kansas, 1; Kentucky, 2; Louisiana, 2 Mississippi, 1; Missouri, 1; North Carolina, 2; Oklahoma, 4; South Carolina, 2; Tennessee, 3, and Texas, 0. TAX COMMISSIONER MUST RESIGN EARLY Mr. Blue Must Quit Several Days Before His Term Expires. If the appointment of a state commissioner, ex-officio commissioner of prohibition is to be confirmed by the senate at the 1917 session of the legislature, Fred O. Blue, the incumbent, will have to resign several days before the expiration of his term. It has not been decided whether he will do so. The law regulating the office makes it impossible for the holder of the office to succeed himself. Mr. Blue's term expires February 28, 1917. The legislature will be in session 43 days beginning January 10. Now Justice Wolf. Justice J. C. Wolf, who was elected on the Democratic ticket at the recent election, opened his office in the Everett property this morning. Miss Nellie Gano, who was stenographer for Justice S. S. Felker and Justice J. H. Lloyd, has accepted a similar position with Justice Wek. The Pianer press Devoted to the Moral, Religious and Financial Development of Humanity. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION 1 year ..... $1.60 2 months ..... $50. 3 months ..... $100. Pay for all advertisements in the in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the ad- vertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing ..... 50c Reduced Rates to Clubs. Send for Sample Copies. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va., as Second Class Matter. J. K. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K, Martinsburg, W. Va. This paper admires a clean ministry; abhors a dirty one. The dirty one has done Negroes more harm than saloons. For forty odd years in Martinsburg our life has made history—the dirty ministry hypocrites and mothers. To meet and mingle with scientific and progressive christian thought is the whipped cream of the craving of my soul. To the ungrammatical, jackleg and Jackassical preachers whose religion robs the washerwomen and starves their children, our soul rebels. Whose business is it where a person sits in church? A thousand times would I prefer to sit on a back seat, than to be a whiskey sucker, libertine or hog thief in front or in pulpit. While a "heaven bent and bound" saint was sawing the air and singing in about three keys of G., about "good-bye sinner I'm going to leave you behind" an auto man who knows about his trips to Williamsport, said: "He'll be on my train." We own and are responsible for three things—our soul, body and pocket book. They can only be developed by our individual efforts. The average preacher's desire is to flatten our pocket book and hell-fire our soul to God. We want none of your advice about it in life or death. THE UNION REVIVAL. We heartily approve of a revival if it will revive. The meaning of the word is nothing more or less than to bring back to life. And both God and men know that the religion of Jesus, so far as our local churches are concerned, is as dead as an Egyptian mummy. There are plenty of suppers and entertainments and catch-penny schemes, plenty of profession and high sounding talk, plenty of general tom-foolery; but religion, as exemplified in the life and conduct of church members, is sadly lacking. We approve, likewise, of the keynote struck by two of the preachers in the opening meetings—that before the churches, either during the revival or at any other time, can exert any influence upon the so-called "sinners," they have got to get their own members right. So long as trustees drink liquor and deacons dissipate and members carouse, while the pulpit dare not thunder and lighten against the open sins of "Christians," so long will the sinner look upon the church as a pile of howling hypocrisy and its black-robed preachers as in the game for what they can get out of it. The meanest trick a human being can be guilty of is to serve the devil in the livery of God. Religion was never intended for a cloak—it is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with the outside—it is a change on the inside. Until the churches and their ministry see this and live accordingly, these institutions are a hindrance to both material and spiritual progress and they were better closed and placarded "To Let," and their preachers engaged in some more honorable occupation. Let church members cease "testifying" to falsehoods and cease lying their souls to perdition, or else walk like they talk. Let the pulpit cease its political manoeuvering, empty shouting, monkey-shines and humbug—cease its apologizing and excusing when it comes face to face with the libertines and drinkers and hypocrites who contribute to its support. Then there will be no need of a revival. Once introduce honest religion into the body of "Christians" and a moral earthquake will shake our people of Martinsburg from center to circumference. The best argument for Christianity is—a Christian; the best example is not a professor of religion—but a liver of it. FRATERNITY. The Negro is characterized by fraternal organizations without number—organizations of brotherhood and sisterhood. Greatest of all his fraternal organizations, at least in numbers, is the church. And if any people ought to be so organized into fraternities certainly it is our people. But what is the use of a fraternity, be it church or lodge, which does not exemplify the fundamental principle of its existence—brotherhood! And underlying this is the principle of sacrifice. "Bear ye one another's burdens" is the cardinal principle upon which all our organizations are founded, just as it underlies Christianity itself. We have men and women among us in this city, strong in influence, money and position, who give not a flip for their fellows. They stand high in church, society and lodge, yet do nothing and give nothing toward the welfare of their race. If they ever consider the greatest good of the greatest number, it is only because they count the greatest number to be—"number one." Now, money, knowledge, position are a trust. "If any man be chief among you, let him be your servant." If you know anything, communicate it. If you have anything, give it. Whatever you hold, it is not yours. See that you make yourself the servant of the weakness of your race and your age. The Nazarine was the first Teacher who recognized the law of God, that the greater is the servant of the lesser. GOOD RESOLUTIONS. New Year's Day is the day for good resolutions—made largely to be broken. The drinker resolves to reform, and then goes out and treats the resolution. The liar resolves to be truthful, and the very resolution is a lie. The Negro resolves to be loyal to his race, and then dresses up his resolution in the white man's goods from crown to tce. Resolutions are the last resort of cowards and weaklings. Character doesn't have to resolve—it just does. The best determination for the New Year is to be and do—not to say. Talk is cheap. A parrot can talk, but it means nothing. Talk is the commonest commodity in town. It is peddled on the streets and handed out from many pulpits. But being and doing call for character. They stand for a man or woman—not a biped in pants or skirts. Away with your New Year's res- solutions, then, that you have no intention of keeping! Why start the New Year with a lie? To your own self be true and it follows naturally that you cannot be false to any other man. That is the substance of a famous passage in one of Shakespeare's plays. We might paraphrase it and say: To your own self be true and you cannot possibly be false to your race. Let this be our ideal for the New Year. What we need, with our problems, is not a resolution, but a solution—without the re. . That solution is loyalty—to our God, to our church and to our fellows. F. F. Martyn. Rev. Dr. F. F. Martyn, is booked to address the famous and historical Bethel Literary Society, of Washington, D. C., next Tuesday night. Mark our word, it will be shock from center to circumference as it never has been before. He is one of the most logical, persuasive and powerful speakers we have ever heard, and we invite Washington's cultured citizenry to hear him. Reunion of the two Methodisms apparently a long way of as seen by the report of the commission just closed in Baltimore. The commission failed to recommend reunion because of non agreement on the following propositions: 1. The nature of the General Conference to be. 2. The nature of the Jurisdictional Conferences to be. 3. The status of the colored membership in the organized church. On none of the above fundamental questions did they even take a vote during the entire six days of consultation, but mere suggestions and talks were made on it. On the first two proposition no action was taken, and when the third—the status of the colored membership in the reorganized church was reached, nothing could possibly be done because the southern and Northern commission were contradictories on it. Petty and imaginary grievances were often seen creeping out during their sessions. The southern leaders—Bishops Collins Denny, Warren A. Candler and others at the close seemingly were opposed to and pessimistic toward any reunion of the two bodies. Bishop Cranston, who is drunk on the reunion idea seems to be hopeful with a few others in our commission. Thus ends in failure the first practical effort of the two churches to get together- I suppose that Ernest Lyon. M. J. Naylor, D. D. Turpeau and others can see the wisdom of letting the white membership of our church take the initiative in putting the colored membership out rather than taking the lead ourselves. Dr. Hayes. Dr. S. R. Hughes and others held these upstarts in check, or the colored membership would today be in the ditch, without hope of rescue. Watch your leaders and follow them so far as you see them right. Yours, S. H. Norwood. Martinsburg, W. Va. NEW BIRTH AND DEATH CERTIFICATES ISSUED Are Being Sent Out By County Clerk Hobbs Today to All County Physicians. Now form of birth and death certificates have been received by County Clerk E. A. Hobbs and are being issued from his office to the various physicians of the county. They were sent from the state department of health and their use by physicians is made imperative. The new forms are different from the old ones, are much more complete and deal at length with phases not heretofore mentioned. Under recent laws governing the use of birth and death certificates, physicians are required to make returns of certification to the county clerks not later than thirty days after a birth or death. This is done in order to allow clerks to make their report sto the state department a ta specified time. LODGE ATTACKS VON BERNSTORET Declares Ambassador Should Not Have Made Public Statement Approving Peace Note. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. After another debate on Senator Hitchcock resolution to have the senate enforse President Wilson's peace note Curing' which Senator Lodge attacked the German ambassador Countu von Bernstorff, for having made a public statement approving it, the senate yesterday again defended action and will take up the question again today. Senator Lodge's open mention of the German envoy's name, which the senator said he knew was contrary to unwritten rules of senate proceedings, was the sensation of a speech in which the senator declared that although he accepted in full faith President Wilson's statement that the note was in no way suggested by nor associated with the peace proposals of the German allies, nevertheless, he believed such statements as the German ambassador's had added to the opinion that the note was timed and designed to aid Germany in making the power forms she deserves. On the ground that the senate as the only legislative body in the world having a voice in international relations should move slowly and not make any action which might afterward become of aid to one set of belligerents, Senator Lodge led the invention to the resolution in which he was supported by other Republicans, among them Senator Callinger, the Republican leader and Senator Porah. WANT SEMINARY MADE A COLLEGE Will Raise $250,000 for Lewisburg Institution, a College For Women. The first and only woman's college in West Virginia, which is one of the few states in the Union now having no such institution, will be built there. The board of directors of Lewisburg Seminary, a high-grade preparatory school for young women, which is now in its one hundred and fifth year, voted last October to raise the standard to that of a full four-year course and to inaugurate a campaign for $250,000 for this purpose. The preliminary work of the campaign was done before Christmas, and the actual State-wide canvass for funds was begun yesterday with every prospect of success. Guarantees and contributions all ready made by leading business men from all sections of the state not only indicate the wide-spread sentiment in favor of the college, but insure the success of the enterprise. A local committee has undertaken to raise $30,000 in roder to pay off the debt now resting on the seminary; one third of the amount has already been raised and the remainder will doubtless be raised in a short time. The May, D. P. McGrenchy, pastor of the Old Stone Presbyterian church, of Lewisburg, has been released by his congregation for four weeks to co-operate with President Robert H. Adams in the campaign. The seminary, which has a plant and equipment valued at approximately $150,000, will constitute at nucleus for the development of the college. Several New Lockers A large number of new lockers have been placed in the frog shop of the Baltimore and Ohio shops here. THE REGISTER DAILY---SUNDAY---WEEKLY WEST VIRGINIA'S BEST PAPER. Circulates in every County in the State. Also in adjoining Counties Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. CONTAINS ALL OF THE NEWS. Controls the Associated Press all reports; has a complete Staff of respondents; is represented in down in the State. THE REGISTER'S WAR NEWS IF YOU WANT TO KEEP POSTED ON THE EUROPEAN WAR. FOR $100 The Daily Register will be sent from December first to March first which will cover the period of the West Virginia Legis- ature. Better keep in touch with the State's Solons. Send your order in NOW. THE SUNDAY REGISTER NGN POLITICAL Is conceded to be the best Sundayaper in West Virginia. It concludes special selected articles. Species terms to Agents. THE OLD RELIABLE $1.00 PER YEAR General Terms to Agents for Daily and Weekly. THE WHEELING REGISTER W. L. BRICE, GENERAL MANAGER TAKEN TO HOSPITAL WITH THE LOCKJAW Miss Louise Newcomb, twelve-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Newcomb, of East Liberty street, has been taken to the Kings Daughters hospital with lockjaw. Christmas day the young girl ran a splinter into her hand, which grew very sore, later developing into tetanus. She is now regarded as being in a serious condition. Dr. A. Bruce Eagle is the attending physician. SHOE MAKERS ON TOUR OF COUNTRY object of Trip Is to Get a Better Understanding of Conditions. BG.TON, Jan. 4.—For the purposes of trade extension and to bring about better understanding of the problems confronting the shoe industry in his country, a number of leading shoe manufacturers of New England will make a tour of the shoe centers of the West. This is the first time that such a plan has been tried, it is expected to become an annual feature of the New England Shoe industry. The party starts in private cars from the North station, and the first stop is Rochester, N. Y. There the party will meet a delegation from the shoe industries of that city. Other cities to be visited are Cincinnati, where they will attend the convention of the National Shoe Retailers' Association; St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Akron, Pittsburgh and New York. Local Notes. Mr. James Head. of Kearneys ville, W.Va, was a weico ne Visitor to our city the other day Mrs. Julia Cruminell, is having water putin ker house. Plumbing being Gone by Geo. M. Miller Mr. Palmer J. Jenkins, of Union- -town, Pa., was the guest of his wite at 523 W. Martin St., this week, Prof. S. 1. Dodd and Son, of Little Georgetown, were pleasant callers at the Press fiice this week. . Mrs. Emma Veney, of Philadel- Phia, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Corsey, at their home on W. Burke Street. Mrs. Absalom Herrod and Miss Sadie her daughter, of Harper's Ferry, were in the city during che holidays. Madam Bruce, the sweet singer, well known to many of our readers is assisting in the union revival mectings. Mrs. Daisy ‘Yaylor and. little daughter, of Phila., Pa., are at the hom: of her foster father, Mr. Ste- phen Elam. Miss Florence Chilis. of Prtts- burg, Penn., is at home with her mother, Mrs. Louisa Blakey, on W. Martin Street. Mrs. Emma Miller, after having been in Philadelphia for sometime, has returned to her home at 229 KE, Frederick Street. Mr. Carl Carter, of Steubenville, Ohio, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Carter, of West Burke St., during the holidays. Mr. J. L. Grove, formerly of Martinsburg, now of Washingwon, D. C., is visiting his niany friends hereand in the County. He is a genial and clever gentleman. Rev. S. M. Beane, u. Rea .e, Va., the former popular paste. of Mt. Zion M. 18. Church, spent part of his Christmas vacation aniong his many friends in thus city Mr. C. H. Marshall, ihe affable and. energetic proprietor of the well known Ford tonsorial parlor on East Martin St., ans renownes cornetist, is spending a weeis in Philadelpia, Va., among relatives and friends. THE CORPORATIONS ASSAD Public service corporations operat: ing in West Virginia will pay taxes during the month of January for the fiscal year which began July 1, last, to the amount of $3,635.402.20. of this total amount the state will be entitled to $283,478.83, while the huge balance will bo distributed among the counties, districts and municipa! ities of the state. Auditor Darst has started the mail ing out of statements to each of the Public Service corporations whose valuations are made by the Board of Public Works and the taxes of which are collected through the auditor's of flee. Tho railroads are the largest tax payers in the state and prior to Jan uary 20, the deadline for the receipt of corporation taxes will pay into the state terasury $2.185.287.58, or more than all the public utilities combined The oil and gas companies rank sec ond among the public service corpora. tions as taxpayers. They will start the new year by paying $997,012.19 into the treasury. Private car lines, valued at $621, 999, will pay total taxes into the state Of $7,175.85. Express companies wil? Pay $6,496.89 and street railroad $190 298.97 Waiter Geet: aay YAKAe once “phone companies $82,482.59, OR. SPONSELLOR SUBMITS RE- PORT OF HIS WORK DURING THE YEAR OF 1916. INGUIRIES REVEALED THREE MURDERS AND SEVERAL AC. CIDENTS. WILLIAMSPORT PIKE CLAIMED PART OF THE VICTIMS—RAIL- ROADS GOT THEIR SHARE. ee eee ROE AVAD MIE. She ka EE Sponsellor, county coroner, was call. ed upon to investigate 24 deaths in the city and county, In making his inquiries the. doctor discovered that ‘three tind been murdered; that the | Williainsport pike had claimed a nun ber of victims, some were accidental: iy killed. while others had died from aatural causes. ‘The number is rath: Jer large, and it may be surprising to Know that thé coroner made so many | investigations. | August leads with 8, while April is secon with 5. There have been no inquiries since September 2. The tol- owing is the Hst | January 1S—Henry Plotner, natur. al causes. February S—Roger Ballinger, acci- dent. | February 2l—Mrs. Annie E. Rudy, lrouped on the street | February 21—W. s. Carper, mur- dered at the Baker quarries, Bunker Hin, March 4—Thomas Warfield, acct- dent at South quarry. | March 17—Bernard Keedly, killed on the B. & O. April 10—Albert Keiton, engine ex- ploded, April 16—-Abraham Motzer, dropped lead on North Queen street. April 17-—Frank 1. Miller, aceident April £8—Gussie Tomaseo, accident April 2—Prank Paulding, murder- ed. Jane 1—William C. Bechtol, drown- ed. June 10—James ‘Twyman. colored Killed by his brother, Gyh ‘fwyman. July $— William Brown, killed in ac cident on Williamsport pike. July 13 George Warfield, not known in this section, uremic poison August 2- James Goba, killed in ae cident at South quarry... August $—Lurd Pulley, accident on Mamstort pike, Augnst 9—Unknown man killed on B. & O. | August 13—Andry Watson, suicide. August 13—William Whiting, found dead. August 16—/T. F. Rowers, killed .on C. V. railroad at Bedington. August 16—Clayton Chambers, ac. cidentally shot. August 28—Wilson Kearns Sept. 2-K. S. Brenner, accident on . V. railroad. MINING CONCERNS _ PAY $ol 000,000 UESN ER, Col, Jan. 4.—As a re- ‘of the recent decision of the United States Superme court giving the patent rights of the Mineral Sep- motion Company to the flotation: pro- cess used in the separation of oro, the mining industry in the United States will pay to the English com. Dany something Tike $59,000,009 in “aet vovalties according to estimates rade by State Mine Commissioner Fred Carrol today Five humired dollars per day is Mr. Carroll's estimate of the ageregate Toyalties which delinquent mining companies in Colorado will have to vs, Ghese being compantes which have to pay, these being companies which have been using the flotation Process but paying no royalties. ‘The big metal producers of the state al- ready are licensed and paying the English company for the privilege of ing the process Some idea of (he revenne with the "moral Separstion Ltd. will derive rewlt of the decisions may be 1 from the casey of the Inspira- tion Mining Co.. of Arizona and the Anaconda of Montana. These two companies some time ago entered in- o twenty-year contracts with the Eng lish corporation whereby each was to vay yearly royalties of $150.000 1 atents, the Baglisi com) Was ye satisfied with the’ frst year's pay rent or $150,000. Inasmuch as the chim h eon upheld, these two cempitnies alone in the next twenty years will pay M eral Separation Ltd $12,800,009 royalties. Million Dollars Appropriated by WU. S. Government and States to Co-operate. | Following closely on the heels of the dreaded chestnut blight, another disease—the white pine blister rust is sWeeping the white pine out or ¢ east part of the United States \ Tew years ago this disease was im ported to Massachusetts, from wh state it has ginee spread throwsiout New England and from there sou: ward to Virginia, Maryland and Oho West Virginia is not yet included in the Hst of atfected states thong) i is easily possible that the rust has entered one or more of the many sc ons where the white pine grow: During the past fall agents represent ing the West Virginia state depart ment of agriculture and the state ex periment station were sent to exar ine the stands ‘of native white pine in Pocahontas, ‘Tucker, Morgan ani other counties, and alxo the planta tions of this tree om various estate in the Ohio valley from Wieeline to Tuntington and Charleston. While no cases of the blister rust were dis covered during this hasty search a more thorough examination should the state be far-seeing enough to au thorize it--would determine whether OF not the disease is present and would be the: first necessary step in helping lo save from estinetion one of the most valuable trees in this pari of the country, + | trot A.B. Brooks and W. BL. Rum sey, the state entomologist, of Mor saniown, and WE. Williams, com missioner of agriculture, J. 1. Stow art, commissioner-clect, J. A. Viques ney, forest warden, and many timber owners in West Virginia, will attend the meting of the American For try Association in Washington on the 18th and 19th. at which meeting an organized effort will be made — for state and federal co-operation in. the eradication of forest diseases, which are now sweeping the country. BILL TO PREVENT ee | WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. An amend. Ment to the President's strike preven. tion proposal to compel erapleyes to carry out arbitration awards will be drafied at once by Judge William LL. Chambers, chairman of the United States Roard of Mediation and Con. cHlation, an! John W, Davis, solicitor: general of the United States. This announcement was made after Ivexe Chamber yefore the Inverstate Commares Carr tee, pointed out the weakness of the ill iy this respeet. dutze Chambers told the commit. tee thet organized labor had a well srounde! eomplaint against the pro. bose! legislation because it failed to provide a method! to compel employes to observe awards of arbitration “Tr 99 ‘rocent of the cases.” said Tides Chambers, “emuloyers live up 6 the arbitration award, bat. there bo means of compelling the other 1) per cont to give employes the full honefits of the award,” The Judge said Solicitor General Tavis agreed with his view, ‘The aniendment wilt} submitied to the Surtkes will become aa obsuluete as ine eventually, Everett p. Wheel thh New wr Reform Club ra Ho urged the President strike prevention proposals as “a step preepmeney OL EES LEIS FSSA - Geto e ! Wee : ye OF not ‘i Gene t Chance! eae Hite | Fapives Mareh 31, 1917 Vere YOUN ! Wis {sey . 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For sale everywiere, Price 25 cents, GSO ZU 7220 (88 SGh 2E80e0e in the right direction.” Much of the session was taken up in drawing hairsplitting aistinerion: between compulsory sarbitrs on aad fuvotumtary se rvitide “if Congress san prohits ‘ “er Su days, why cantt we pever Senter Brand Vow orkut, as © witne dothir is within t , Whosk “YL don't expe et when sirikes will? as le: ale Nog.” Canina X : Geil the law had» 4 vila quittine thoy in is, 4 was aimed solel ap a Nt € emoiey 1 ‘ Viepettation. : HALF BLN AN] BY UNTER STATES NEW York A ie r qt sours T aceoe to eo ae warn s’ asalnst placing with the “unlinited™ amount ef British and Frengh treasury bills, tbe tipltdalton sak Chat’ this ac tis . of the Federal Re- ery i made it ditheult to tins coins of war mer: vn and cans | Nevertheless, it wa mitted yee res} banking quar ters that nexotiations toward another tirtt OA HOW ere under way, \ : roof hut neither the eatcollation nor the diversion of mus vith contracts would necessarily : at the parehases of the Allied oy nts in this country had been ’ @ receding seale, ‘The de mn baste materials might in ‘ © buy ins of finished shells i i That in fact, has been : ey of war business for snot fmprobable 1 bith ers whieh they are tow Vine Trom the British gov- ern se Cond hun manufacturers w © Le mport raw material trom y report of any contracts as steel and copper hay 1esneelled, and, of course, ny not be diverted, for there ’ ve Sourer of supply banks of the eountey an KILLED BY BROTHER. Te Accidentally Siruck By a nile Thrown By Boy, ha Elen Lee. a publie sehoot te HChivion, died Tuesday at the woher father, QoL. bee, Tron) wonthd inilieted by her Leyears old er Lewis, ‘The hoy was thes Co pockethuife at the sehoot he Ine the noon recess and ay hi fothe hnife bis sister round ed yener and the denite blade ul 1 her throat Slip a few Prince Albert smokes into your system! You've heard many an earful about the Prince Albert patented process that cuts out bite and parch and lets you smoke your fill without a comeback! Stake your bank roll that it proves out every hour of the day. Prince Albert has always been sold without coupons or premiums. We prefer to give quality! SHAWKEY ASKS FOR NEW BUILDINGS State Superintendent In His Report, Says State Schools Must Be Helped. An exhaustive and comprehensive report of conditions of the State schools for the biennial period ending with June 30, 1916, which has just been issued and will be submitted to the State Legislature at its session which begins on January 10, is given by Supt. M. P. Shawkey, who covers the work that has been done during the past two years in a manner which is interesting and shows that great progress has been made at the State University and in the various other state colleges and schools. Recommendations for additional buildings and equipment at the State University and at several of the other schools, which will assist in the higher educational program which has been mapped out, have been made, the contention being that in order to keep the state schools up to the standard of other state schools of the country it is necessary to have these improvements. According to the report the past two years have been very successful ones in all the state schools, colleges and at the State University. There has been a good increase in the number of scholars, the range of studies has bee nbetter and the conditions greatly improved, until at the present time under the existing circumstances the schools are, in better shape than they have ever been. The outlook for the coming two years, according to the report, is excellent and there is every reason, the report says, for an increase in the number of students and for the betterment of the courses, providing the state legislature will give the schools a sufficient amount of money to make the improvements contemplated. Additional buildings for various purposes are asked for at the state university and at several of the other schools. This request is qualified by the fact that the increased attendance regret! 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Gardner has applied to erect a $40,000 building on North Queen street. Contractor H. P. Thorn states that the prospects for building this year are exceedingly bright. WOMAN TRIED ON BIRTH CONTROL CHARE TODAY Mrs. Margaret Sanger Faces Very Serious Charge In New York City oTday. NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—What Mrs. Maragret Sanger declared will be "a decisive battle between the friends and enemies of birth control" is expected to begin when the little red headed, fire eating birth control advocate who has preached her doctrine throughout the country and gone to jail therefor many times, comes to trial in Special Sessions court here today. Copyright: 1926 by R. J. 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The specified charge against Mrs. Sanger is "maitnaining a public nuisance" in her birth control clinic in Brooklyn. This case is the outcome of Mrs. Sanger's campaign to establish birth control clinics first all over New York and later during 1917 in every large city in the United States. The first time she was arrested after the clinic opened she fought the police and had to be carried to the patrol wagon. At the time a sympathetic parade of mothers and baby carriages in the neighborhood of the clinic was staged. SUPREME COURT TO MAKE DECISION August Body Will Decide Whether United States is at War With Mexico. COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 2.—The Ohio Superme Court tomorrow is to decide whether the United States is actually at war with Mexico. The court will hear the mandamus suit of Adjutant General Edward R Bryant to compel State Auditor A. V Danahoy to pay his full "war time" salary for his services as assistant adjutant general during pat of last June and all of July and August. Col. H. J. Tuney, judge advocate on the Ohio National Guard, defending Bryant, cites a state law providing that the assistant adjutant general, when on active service, shall receive pay at the same rate as that of a colonel in the regular army, $4,000 a year. Judge Advocate General Growder of the regular army, ruled some three months ago that the United State technically is in a state of war with the southern republic. No civil court has yet been called on the rule on the point. EIGHT-HOUR LAW IS NOT ENFORCED Baltimore and Ohio Will Continue Pay 10 Hour Basis Until Case Is Decided. The Adamson law, fixing eight hours as a day's work for most of the rail road trainmen, was to have become effective yesterday. It is known, practically every rail road in the country has filed an injunction against putting into effect the provisions of the law or the position of the penalties it provides. A test case is now pending before the Supreme Court and will not likely be arranged before February. In the meantime, most of the railroad trainmen will be affected. scales of this enactment. The Baltimore and Ohio will continue to pay its men on the 10-hour-a-day basis but will keep a strict account of the payrolls on the eight-hour basis and will make a settlement with its enforcer the decision of the Supreme Court has been made. Should he be against the roads, the back pay will be given to those entitled to it, but if the roads should win it will remain in the treasuries and go to the credit of the profit and loss accounts. STORMIEST MONTH DURING FOUR YEARS STORMIEST MONTH DURING FOUR YEARS December Made Great Record for Vagaries of Weather, Says Report. December, 1916, was set down in weather history today as the stormest month since February and March, 1912, when the big floods occurred in the Ohio Valley. The weather bureau reported that six severe storms had swept in rapid succession across the country from the northwest, bringing copious rains early in the month and heavy snows nearly everywhere later, setting new December records or heat and cold, knocking out the prophocles of weather men by unexpected veerings or sudden spurts of speed, and causing 80 and 90 mile winds without much damage anywhere. Three such storms in a month, even without December's vagaries, are considered a good record. Between December 2 and 8 a wave of heat took temperatures as high as 85 degrees in northern climates, and a week later a cold wave sent the mercury down to new December low records in many places, with wide variations in distant localities. Several storms moved at the rate 60 miles an hour. TAX ON INCOMES HAS BEEN DOUBLED States Under New Law Went Into Effect Yesterday—Revenue Put at $280,000,000. Representative Cordell Hull, of Tennessee, who framed the Income Tax law, predicts that $250,000,000 will be collected by the Federal Government from taxes on individual incomes and corporation incomes this year under the new rate provided in the emergency revenue measure passed by Congress last September. The new income Tax law became effective yesterday. Approximately $125,000,000 was collected last year under the Income tax law. The new income tax rate just double the old one, and while the nation in 1916 enjoyed a period of unprecedented prosperity, Representative Hull does not believe the reme will exceed $250,000,000, a sum bule the amount collected last year. Under the new tax laws effective yesterday, it is estimated that the inter al revenue receipts for the current fiscal year will aggregate $750,000,000, the largest amount in the history of nation. The receipts last year, counting to $512,000,000, stand as the record. The new taxes, provided in the emergency revenue measure, which will swell the receipts, include taxes inheritances, war munitions and other business profits Under new income tax law, unmarried with net incomes of $3,000 more and heads of families with ages of $4,000 or more are subject to a normal tax of 2 per cent. instead of 1 per cent, as under the law. The tax rates on higher homes are also doubled. In other words, a man whose income has maintained stationary will pay double old income tax this year. A graduated tax of from 1 to per cent is laid on estates of $50, more, when they are transfersition manufacturers are taxed per cent of their net profits. Orrations are subject to a special also tax of 50 cents a year for $1,000 of fair value of capital sturess of $90,000. the new annual taxes on s numerous are these: Security brokers, $30; pawnbrokers, $50; c om house brokers, $10; ship broke 20; theatres, $25 to $100, accordi fecting capacities, with rates o lf as great in towns of 5,000 or less , $100; other public amu car shows, excepting chautauq and educational exhibits, $10; bowli leys and billiard rooms, $5 for q ey or table; tobacco manufacture dling scale of rate determined Special taxes heretofore collect from commission merchants and commercial brokers are abolished. FEDERAL CONVICT RETURNED TO PE Douglas B. Wright Apprehended Akron, Ohio, Again in the Penitentiary. Douglas B. Wright. Federal prisoner, who escaped from the West Virginia State penitentiary on the morning of December 5, was taken into custody at Akron, O., last Saturday morning, and is again behind the bars of the State institution at Moundsville Wright was arrested at Akron by Police Officer Raleigh of that place who immediately notified Warde White. Warden White dispatched P-role Officer Coleman to the Ohio city and he arrived there Sunday evening with his man. It will be recalled that Wright, to together with George Patton a State prisoner, cleverly escaped from the institution at Moundsville some time on the morning of December 5. The two were quartered in the same cell, and some time during the night sawed a hole through the roof of their cell which led them to their liberty out onto the roof and thence down over the wall. Patton is still at liberty, but the prison officials are said to have considerable information as to his probable whereabouts. Wright was sent up from the eastern district of Kentucky in 1915, to serve ten years for alleged counterfeiting. WINCHESTER GETS BOOZE BY AUTOS Plain-Clothes Officers Watching Approaches, But Booze Arrives Just the Same. Secret agents of the State Prhibition Commissioner are reported to be hovering along the various highways leading from Virginia to nearby points in Maryland where liquor can be procured, with a view to gathering evidence that will, they hope, lead to the apprehension of certain persons who are suspected of taking whiskey into the State unlawfully. The road most traversed in that section is known as the Winchester and Martinsburg pike, and officers in plain clothes. It is said, have been busy during the holiday season taking the numbers of automobiles that come from the direction of Hagerstown and Williamsport. It is reported that a great deal of liquor was brought here as baggage during the last week, and one man who handled much of the baggage confided that he could hear something clinking on the inside. He said it made a noise like bottles. Some of those who have been making the trips to Hagerstown in motorcars have, it is said, discovered they were watched by prohibition officers, and now instead of returning by the shortest and most direct route many of the cars are reported making detours by way of Sharpsburg and coming back as if by a flanking move.