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'HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN' The Pioneer ESTABLISHED 1882 GALA AFFAIR AS OUR CHOSEN 122 EMBARK FOR CAMP BUSINESS MEN PLAN TO HOLD BIG CELEBRATION FOR DRAFTED SOLDIERS PUBLIC SPEAKING IN SQUARE, FOLLOWED BY A BIG PROCESSION ALL FIRMS OF THE CITY SHOULD MAKE THE DAY A HOLI- When farewell is bidden the 122 men from this city and the remainder of Berkeley county on their departure from here to the training camp where they will be fitted up for the new national army, as a portion of which they were recently selected, the celebration held here in their honor will not fall far behind similar affairs which are being planned in practically every town, hamlet or village in the country where Old Glory waves. Will Be Gala Occasion. Preparations have been commenced by the Business Men's Association, who have taken the initiative in the matter, to have a gala celebration on that day, presumably in September, when the honored 122 are scheduled to leave their loved ones in the rear, to fight for the maintenance of liberty for our brothers across the great pond, where ruin and devastation now prevail. To Hold Public Speaking. One of the features of the day's program will be a public speaking event in the Public Square. The Business Men's Association is arranging to have former United States Senator Charles J. Faulkner open the meeting, withi Col. Stuart W. Walker, United States District Attorney, following with an address. Plan for Large Parade. Plans were laid when the business men met last night besides the big public speaking, to stage a parade, which will escort the drafted men to the railroad station. Mayor P. W. Leiter has been named secretary of a committee on the affair and full preparations will be made within a short while for the most important event in the annals of Martinsburg in years. In the procession, which will be headed by the 122 young soldiers, will be the G. A. R. and Confederate Veterans, acting as escorts. They will ride in automobiles. Comrey's band is expected to participate as well as the several fire companies, fraternal organizations and social lodges, all of whom are tendered a hearty invitation to take part in the festivities. Furnish Men With Badges. Every man will be furnished with a badge, with appropriate wording, where it will be fastened th mhm which will be worn on his suit, where it will be fastened by members of the Martinsburg Chapter of the Red Cross. Reserved for Families. At the Baltimore & Ohio station, from where the soldiers will leave or the cantonment scene, the lower neck will be reserved for the relatives of the soldiers. This also applies to the Public Square, where chairs will be furnished the soldiers and members of their families. Should Be a Holiday. Governor John J. Cornwell has stated that if all towns in the State would arrange to send their soldiers way on the same day he would make Department of Archives. e Pic HAUL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE 2. MARTINSBURG, W. it a state-wide holiday, but as this will probably not be the case, it is urged by the chief executive of West Virginia that appropriate farewells be tendered each town's unit. This should mean that the day on which our chosen 122 are sent away, a holiday should be declared by all business firms in the city. MARTINSBURG MAN JOINS ARMY BAND AT NOTED FORT IN VERMONT Arch W. "Todd" Custer the well-known young bass player in Comrey' band, who recently was examined for Berkeley county's quota in the new national army, and who successfully passed the examination, has gone to Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, where he joined the Second Cavalry band. Word to the effect has been received by friends of Mr. Custer. OVER $21,000,000 WORTH OF PROPERTY OVER $21,000,000 WORTH OF PROPERTY FIGURES BEFORE COUNTY COURT TODAY SHOW VALUAION OF PROPERTY. According to figures presented to the County Court which began what is known as the regular levy session, because during the time the levy for Berkley county is laid, there is $21. $15.815.13 worth of taxable property in the county. In the county outside of Martinsburg, the real and personal property is valued at $16.949.871 while in the city the figures are $7.915.538. The public works in the city and county are valued at $4.865.944.13, making the total given above. HAGERSTOWN CALLS OVER 300 MORE MEN HAGERSTOWN CALLS OVER 300 MORE MEN MARYLAND TOWN WANTS 159 MORE SOLDIERS FOR THE FIRST CALL. A second call for men drafted into the United States Army on June 5 to report for physical examination is being made by the Hagerstown Ex- emption Board No. 1. there are 315 men in the second call. They are ordered to appear for physical examina- tion on August 16 to 18. Most of the 358 men examined by the board in the first call and who passed the physical examination caimed exemption for various reas- ons. Hagerstown must furnish 159 men for the first conscript army. It may be necessary to issue a third call before the quota is secured. Exemption Board No. 2. for the county, has completed the examination of 426 men in the first call. Of those 248 passed the physical examination and 194 asked exemption HARVESTED SECOND GROWTH OF WHEAT WHEAT DAMAGED BY HAIL IN JUNE PUTS OUT SECOND GROWTH. Charles A. Waggler, Graver Creek Washington county, Md. Saturday bury stod a crop of second-growth wheat on a 15-acre field. His wheat crop was cut to pieces by the big June hail storm. A second growth sprang up, but the quality was poor. DRAFT AIRRY TO BE IN CAMP OCT WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—The entire 687,000 composing the first increment of the army draft forces will be under trainin early in October. Under orders issued today the first 30 per cent of the quota of each district will begin entrainment for cantonments, September 5; the next 30 per cent, September 15 and another 30 per cent, September 30. The remaining 10 per cent, will be mobilized as soon after that date as possible. The plan to assemble the new forces in threew increments distributes the task of furnishing supplies and equipment through September. It Iso will prevent serious shortages in any camp, and will give the new officers from the training camps time to familiarize themselves with their duties gradually before responsibility for a great body of men falls on them. The order issued yesterday mega about 12,000 men will reach each of the 16 cantonments soon after September 5. They will first be examined physically by the doctors and finally accepted or rejected. This will take some time and the men will have to be furnished with temporary quarters and rationed while awaiting examination. If the full quota were assembled at one time great confusion would result. Local Boards To Divide Mcn Presumably the first increment will have been organized into skeleton companies, battalions of regiments before the second arrives. The newcomers can be quickly absorbed by a going concern in that case, and the third lot can be taken into the war machinery with even less disturbance when it reports 15 days later. In farming communities local boards now will arrange the lists of those to fill the first increment with local crop conditions in mind. Harvesting is in progress in many sections. Drafted men engaged in that work and who otherwise would go with the first third of the district quota will be passed over to the second or third, as may be necessary. Reviewing the question of discharge for dependent relatives, Provost Marshal-General Crowder issued a supplemental ruling today holding that persons should not be discharged because of dependents resident abroad. "The object of the law permitting persons to be dischargedg provided he has a person falling within any of the classes of dependents dependent upon him to prevent such dependents becoming a charge upon American people," the ruling says. "A dependent residing abroad could not become such a charge Persons claiming discharge because of such a dependent cannot properly be discharged on ground that such discharge is advisable within the meaning of the act of Congress." Conscientious Objectors Not Excused That conscientious objectors to war are not to be excused entirely from serving the country was made clear in another ruling by the Proviso Marshal holding that such persons should be sent to the military camps along with others drafted to be as issued later to non-conscientious branches of the service. It is presumed they will serve in it. Quartermaster's Corps, the Medical Corps or other units not employed in actual combat. Only in rare cases or railway mail clerks to be exempted Today the Portoffice Department announced that published reports of blank exemption for this class of postal employees were based on a mild classification of the department and covering postal exemptions Only clerks clerks, chief clerks, and a distant chief clerks of the railway service will be given exemptions and most Press. BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED UGUST 18, 1917. VOL. of them are above the military age. The Postoffice Department announced also that it would certify exceptions for postoffice inspectors, but not for postmasters. Postmasters of the first, second and third classes, however, are exempted - specifically under the law. It developed today that the Navy Department, misunderstanding the War Department ruling as to voluntary surrender of registered men, had instructed its recruiting officers to accept registrants into the naval service even if they had been called before their local selection boards for examination. The mistake quickly was corrected, recruiting stations being told by a telegraph that no man called for examination under the draft law would be accepted into any branch of the military or usual service as a voluntary recruit. Until called, however, registrants are free to enter the army, navy and Marine Corps. Plans to provide publicity facilities at camps of national army and the national guard are to be left entirely to the discretion of the camp commanders, who will be authorized to permit newspaper correspondents to establish offices within the camp limits and to maintain private telegraph or telephone lines there if deemed advisable. No such privileges will be ranted, however, until the camps actually are established and the commanders on the ground. WHAT EVERY COMMUNITY MUST DO. Before autumn every farming and fruit raising community will have had an opportunity to show whether it realizes what war time service means to the non-combatants. The special duty that lives upon communities of this sort is that of getting the crops harvested, packed and stored. First the perishable fruits, then grain and finally apples, must be carefully and swiftly handled that there will be the unburdened waste. It is a big job, and it must all be done within 69 or 90 days. Spokane Spokesman Review The War Department, naturally enough, is striving to avoid any injustice in the appointment of reserve officers to rank Regular Army officers of long services. It is not merely that injustice might be done, but that inefficiency might result from any preference given o reserve officers over Regular officers who have gone through Ward Point and came up from the ranks. Unquestionably the reserve officers will be trained in three months which in its intensity is equal to six months or a year under the former standards. More reliance, however, must be placed upon the officers of the Regular Army, since their years of training has brought them a knowledge of practical military tactics and a mental habit that cannot be given in camps. Washington Post. WEST TO BE CUT AGAIN. CHICAGO Aug. 14. Further extensive reductions in passenger train service are to take effect soon in the central territory. When complete, reductions for this year will amount to 12,000,000 passenger miles, according to R. H. Milton chairman of the central committee of the railroads' war board. States in the central territory include Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Illinois. *Conductions will be made by longening transcontinental schedules.* Navy Raises Bars. ARMY EFFICIENCY PASSENGER SERVICE IN BY GAIN" 36. NO. 24. WINDROWS OF DEAD GERMANS MARK A DESPERATE EFFORT TEUTONS RECKLESSLY SACRIFICE LIFE IN EFFORT TO HOLD GLENCOURSE WOODS HEAPS OF DEAD STREWN ON BATTLE FRONT TELL GRUESOME STORY OF GREAT CONFLICT—HAND-TO-HAND ENCOUNTERS WAGED VICIOUSLY BY CONTENDING FOES LY BY CONTENDING FOES. LONDON, Aug 11. Perry Robinson the Times correspondent at the front, telegraphing on August 12. says: With the return of perfect weather and beautiful visibility, the struggle along the entire front again assumed great intensity, though no attacks on grand scale have taken place. The hardest infantry fighting of the week end has been in the area east of Ypres and Westhock. The center of the fighting here was in a straggling piece of woodland known as Glencourse wood, which crowns the highest part of the east-gpn spur of Westbrook ridge. The Germans have been fighting desperately to hold their position here. The enemy has been absolutely reckless of his losses. Under the constant pressure of immensely greater numbers we have fallen back to the western edges of Glencourse wood. Mrmen report they have never seen the gound so heaped with German dead as that battlefield. At present we have taken hold of all Westhock ridge except the extreme eastern 560 yards with the portion of shattered wood. The enemy has engaged in fearful guests of fighting which seems truly to have been an intense and desperate as almost any seen in similar areas in this war. Glencourse wood promises to be as costly to the Germans as their attempts to hold Monquet farm or Ginchy." THE "DEVIL" OFF TO NEW YORK WEST VIRGINIA'S PETRIFIED MONSROSITY SENT TO NOT-ED SCIENTIEST. WHEELING, Aug. 14. The Devil left for New York Saturday. He went geocently erased in a big box, but nevertheless is expected to create a big sensation when he reaches his destination. The removal of "the devil" to New York was decided upon following an attempt last night by auto thieves to steal the unusual petrified remains found recently in the hills near this city by Charles Lydick while digging out a groundhog. In New York scientists will examine to find in an effort to solve the mystery of its existence. The "Devil" is about four feet long, has a barbed tail, horn, feet like a root, human hands, red hair and is slightly bald. DR. FAHRNEY HAGERSTOWN, MD. DIAGNOSTICIAN Only chronic diseases. Send me your name and address and I will send you a mailing case and question blank. Don't use dope for chronic troubles, get cured. It is a satisfaction to know what the cause is. CONSULTATION FREE. THE PIONEER PRESS Entered at Postoffey, Martinsburg. West Virginia as second-class matter. Subscription Rates: One Year ..... $1.50 Five Months ..... 75 Three Months ..... 50 Issued every Saturday by J. R. Gifford, Editor and Owner. Drawer 869.....Bell Phone 101J SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1917 Farm, not arm, is the sentiment of this paper. God isn't dead, nor is the constitution destroyed. To get rid of Lieutenant Young, host of men were mustered out of service. There is more honor in a well-spent life out of war than there is in it. Mark our word that the part the American men of all colors-called Negroes—are destined to play in this world-wide war will give brilliancy to history. Boys and girls who are not taught while young, what they will have to do when men and women, have missed life's plans and purposes. Keep up a divine discontent as long as our rights are denied in this country—its the only way we will ever get a verdict of popular opinion. As a tree gets its food from the roots and life from the leaves, so must the Negroes to be God's designed men and women, get their full rights from the Constitution and genuine religious encouragement from the church. --- It is said that the two white women who took off their shoes in an East St. Louis, Illinois street car, during that savage butchery of innocent Negroes, and beat a colored woman to death with the heels of said shoes, were temperance advocates. Editor John Mitchell, Jr., recalls to our rusty memory one of his years' ago contest. He is struggling for race recognition, and when halted he responded in the language of Nehemiah, who rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem when commanded by Sandballat, the obstructionist, to come down off the walls, that faithful Israelite nobly responded, "We are engaged in a great work and can not come down." On the corner of Martin and Maple Ave., a placard says: "Hospital Zone, quiet must prevail." Which is the more important to keep people from getting sick, or let them get sick and then try to cure them? We think it's better to keep them well. Hence why should not all sleeping zones have peace and quiet? Between Raleigh and Charles on Martin is our sleeping zone, and we all join in asking for the same the hospital has, and if it can enforce it, so can people who want to sleep. --- How the college boys of to-day differ from them of our day. When the boys of other days left school they were told that their life work was just begun. Now-a-days, it's completed at graduation with the vast majority, and it is put on exhibition with the clothes and college airs they wear. The boy will fail to become a man unless his time and career be spent by himself where he gets the necessary inspiration which only comes to those who toil for, with and by themselves to that end. --- In 1850 there were 15 free and 15 slave states. Sixty years had made them so. Although Alexander Stephens declared slavery was the corner stone of a new confederacy, Lincoln's nomination caused a war of words between the pro and antislave parties, and hurried on a war that destroyed a half million souls and freed four million slaves. Russia only a few years before, freed her slaves and gave every freedman a farm, while America has maligned, shot, burned and lynched thousands of her former slaves, and to this day are cruel and unjust to them—disfranchising the educated, wealthy and refined while the servant classes can ride in first class cars and so can colored prisoners, but colored ladies and gentlemen can't. Great country! We are to prove that we can better our own condition. One way to do this is to accumulate property. This may sound to you like a new gospel. You have been told that money is the root of all evil. On the other hand, property—money if you please, will purchase for us the only condition by which any people can rise to the dignity of genuine manhood: for without property there can be no leisure, without leisure there can be no depth of thought; without thought, there can be no invention; without invention there can be no progress. So wake up and work up. It is more than wise people, who have something to live on, dare go on sprees of any kind now-a-days. Hence how can the illiterate and dependent people afford it? Knowing what war brings on, this is no time for picnics and excursions. Save your money, buy and can or dry everything possible, for before another summer comes, "willful waste will cause woeful want, and even those who stay home and try to lay by for the hard times peeping around the corner, will be so hard run they will scarcely be able to tide themselves over, and you must suffer. Those who witness your foolishness now, will preach the grasshopper theory to you in reply to your plea of pity. FOR A DICTATOR In an interview Senator Harding has come out squarely for a dictator in this country during the war period, declaring Woodrow Wilson, by virtue of his being president, should be the dictator. That is the only logicla conclusion of this whole matter. In the awful emergency into which this nation is plunged it cannot get along with endless controversy. It must reach conclusions and reach them promptly. Mr. Wilson may not always decide correctly according to our view, but our view has nothing to do with it where action is demanded. The most democratic act a people can do is to choose a man to rule over them, to pilot them through the storm. It has doubtless taken a vigorous exercise of the spirit for Senator Harding. an old Republican, to come to this conclusion, but party politics is no stand-point from which to judge one's duty in these war times. Politics and while the war is on, and the man who insists on his politics now is a traitor to his country.—Ohio State Journal. MORE MEN WANTED AT TRAINING CAMP OF OFFICERS FROM THIS DISTRICT—TO BE SENT TO THE STATE CAPITAL. A telegram was received here today by the Berkeley County Exemption Board Requesting that all good men which the board will recommend for 'acceptance in the second officers" training camp be sent to Major William Wallace at Charleston for examination before August 18. The telegram further states that the board should not delay filling out application blanks but should send them on its own recommendation with a letter of introduction. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * COMMISSIONER STEWART * HERE LAYING PLANS * FOR LOCAL WORK. * Commissioner of Agriculture * James H. Stewart was here today in communication with some of our leading citizens in reference to carrying out certain plans for the eradication of hog cholera in this section and the furtherance of the interests of the general farmer, the fruitman and livestock grower in very many ways. The State Agricultural Department under Mr. Stewart's direction of a corps of able assistants is doing very effective work throughout the whole commonwealth. Many of his plans, relative to marketing —which means buying fertilizers, farm machinery, etc., as well as the products of the soil are yet in embryo but are being worked out to definite lines as fast as practicable. This bureau of the State at Charleston is open for requests for information all the time. ```markdown ``` LOCAL SETTING OF REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR INTERESTING STORY OF HOW "COLONEL TONY" CHAMBERS, VETERAN PHILADELPHIA JOURNALIST, WAS DRAFTED ON BOTH SIDES IN GREAT REBELLION LIVELY SKIRMISHING AROUND MARTINSBURG—CONFEDERATES MADE THEM FLY. The Philadelphia Public Ledger of August 13th contains the following Civil War incidents, of special interest here because of its local refereness, especially to Grantha Hall, a Martinsburg building landmark, located on the Public Square, and of we'll-known citizens of that day: Do you know "Colonel Tony" (otherwise Anthony S.) Chambers, and have you ever heard the story of how he was "drafted on both sides in the Civil War? The veteran Philadelphia journalist began his career in the troublous antebellum period in Baltimore His paper had three names in three days. The "Exchange" (originally the "Gazette") was founded by Francis Key Howard. When Howard, Wallace and Warfield, all members of the Legislature, were arrested by the Unionists and the "Exchange" was suppressed, General Morris ruled that the paper might continue to come out under a new name and with a different character. The next day it was issued as "The Maryand Times." General Morris said it was too sarcastic in its comment; it must be a news-sheet merely. So on the third day it came out as "The Maryland News-Sheet." The "Exchange' gave its battle to the "Know-Nothings" and the "Blood Tubs," who got their names from dipping a German in a butcher's tub. Those were parlous days in politics, till the great mass meeting in Monument Square put the crooks put the crooks out of business. "The polls were so riotous and deadly," said "Colonel" Chambers, "that it was venturesome even to vote. Even a man like George William Brown—afterward Mayor—who helped us in our fight, was jabbed in the legs with awls at the polls. I saw Petty Nabb, the Democratic boss—shot at from the sidewalk. "We knew in the office six weeks before it happened that Lee would cross the Potomac June 15, 1863, on his northward drive. "But I wasn't going to let that interfere with my two weeks' vacation in Martinsburg, W. Va. I started Saturday, June 14, got there that evening and retired about 8 o'clock. There was a rap at the door. My brother said: "Looks like the rebels are coming, Tony!" "The devil!" I said. "There's a train being made up to go to Baltimore,' he hinted. "I've come here to spend my vacation,' I answered. 'If the rebels want to come and spoil it al', let 'em come.' "And they did, next day. "I went up on top of Grantham Hall, the town skyscraper, three stories high. On the roof I met Ad Bayles, the bricklayer. He had joined the Southern army once. He pointed out the green woods of the cavalry moving like yellow toys. "I've got to be going!" he cried. "Colonel Smith, on the Twenty-second Ohio, commanded the Union force—about 5000 men. I went to him. 'Mere cavalry movement,' he said. 'We'll check it. You're safe.' Then Ewell's men poured in, while Boyd's battery up on the hill blazed away. The Rebs were singing: "If you want to catch hell, Just join the infantry!" FIRE INSPECTION FOR MARTINSBURG WITHIN FORTNIGHT STATE FIRE MARSHAL AND ASSISTANT WILL BE HERE AUGUST 29 "HELP MAKE YOUR CITY FIRE PROOF" SHOULD APPEAL TO PEOPLE MARTINSBURG HAS MADE GOOD RECORD AT PAST INSPECTIONS. "Help make your city fireproof" is a motto which should appeal to citizens of all communities at all times but more especially to those of Martinsburg at this period as within the ensuing fortnight the fire inspecton, conducted by State Fire Marshal John S. Horan, Assistant M. C. Kindelbeger and Chief Martin Quinn, of the local department, will be begun. At previous inspections of this kind Martinsburg has made a good record and the business men, housewives and others are urged to inspect their places in the next few days and eliminate all rubbish and other fire hazards, so that the showing made at the coming inspection will not fall behind that made at past affairs of this kind. Begins on August 29. Two weeks from yesterday, August 29, the inspection is scheduled to be inaugurated. This will give the people ample time to see that their properties are in condition to undergo an inspection. By performing their "bit" along these lines the people of Martinsburg will be securing a protection for themselves and their properties as well as giving the city a good record. Fire Prevention Don'ts. The following are some valuable instructions issued by the State Fire Marshal: Don't throw away lighted matches, cigars or cigarettes. Don't have lace curtains or draperies near open lights. Don't use swinging gas brackets. Don't fail to keep matches in a metal box. Don't forget to inspect stoves, flues and chimneys frequently. Don't fill kerosene lamps or lanterns after dark. Don't forget to regulate all fires before leaving premises or retiring for night. Don't neglect removal of rubbish. Don't permit oil rags or mops on premises, especially in confined places. Don't forget "Safety First." Don't neglect any improvement that will reduce your fire hazard. --- NO FOOD EXACTLY TAKES PLACE OF THE WHITE POTATO GREAT VALUE OF THE TUBER TO THOSE ACCUSTOMED TO IS USE SET OUT BY U. S. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT—PALATABLE AT ALL MEALS AND CONVENIENT FOR THE HOUSE-WIFE TO SERVE—RICH IN MINERAL MATTER. WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—"There is no food which exactly takes the place of the potato when one is accustomed to it." says a statement issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, urging an increased consumption of this vegetable now that the markets of the country are well supplied. "It has come to be such a part of our dinner that we miss it when it is not served. Besides, any left-over potato can be used in many palatable ways for breakfast or supper, and this is a convenience from the housekeeper's standpoint, since it helps her to make palatable meals. Not only is it useful from the ease with which it can be prepared and the number of palatable ways in which it can be served, but it is very important for the food material it supplies. It is one of the most wholesome sources of starch and is also fairly rich in the mineral matter which the body needs. Of the mineral salts one must not overlook the importance of the mild alkaline salts it contains, because these are greatly needed by the body to counterbalance the acid salts which meats and eggs porduce when assimilated. In this we have a justification of the use of potatoes in the diet in liberal quantities and of our common custom of serving them with meats. When the price permits, potatoes should, by all means, be made a part of our diet." LIEUTENANT KERHARDT IS HOME ON FURLOUGH Second Lieutenant "Dick" Gerhardt, who has been stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., is spending several days on a furlough at the home of his parents, Circuit Clerk and Mrs. L. DeW. Gerhardt, South Haleigh street. Mr. Gerhardt received his promotion to second lieutenant several days ago. FREDERICK'S QUOTA INCREASED FREDERICK, Aug. 16.—The two local exemption boards have been notified that Frederick City's quota of men for service has been changed from 25 to 66, and the county's from 274 to 231. The change made it necessary for the city board to summon 175 more draft men for examination. HAIRRISONBURG. Aug. 16—H. M. Loving, an undertaker at Hot Springs, was instantly killed Sunday when his automobile turned turtle. The ca caught fire and his body was heartily burned. A young man in the ca suffered a broken arm and a young woman was hurt. The accident occurred near Gross Station. NEW CASES OF PLAGUE HARRISONBURG, Aug. 16.—Two more cases of infantile paralysis have appeared in Shenandoah county and one in Rockingham. The people in this section are not excited, but are making a determined effort to hold the disease in check. WHIRLED TO DEATH ON SHAFT. HARRISONBURG, Aug. 16.—Harry Taylor, 12 years old, was instantly killed Tuesday at Maurertown. Shenandoah county when his body caught in the belting of the line shaft in the Maurertown mill. The boy's arm was literally torn from his body. He was a son of O. L. Taylor. FIFTEEN CANDIDATES. FREDERICK Aug. 16.—John Stimmell. Democrat. Walkersville, has the fight for county commissioner. There are now five Democrats and ten Republicans contesting for the places Grayson E. Palmer, of Mechanistown district; Sherman P. Bowers, of Lowistown, and Frank L. Spitzer, of Brunswick, have announced themselves for the legislature. All are Republioans. SEGENES AT WAR PRISON CAMP SECENES AT WAR PRISON CAMP "SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE"—Then with all the prisoners is carefully guarded ot the camp. Cleanliness prevents disease so while the prisoners are having their shower bath their clothes are disinfected in a steam boiler. Local Notes. Dr. Robert McDaniel, of Connellsville, Pa., is visiting his parents at Kearneysville. Mr. George Thornton, of Philadelphia, Pa., has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Berkeley Fairfax for the past week. Mrs. Bessie Roman, who has been confined to the City hospital for several weeks, has returned to her home on Charles St. Mr. Charles Newton, who was injured at West Cumbo, was fortunate in not having any bones broken in his foot, and we hope he will be able to leave the City hospital in a few days. Mr. C. H. Marshall, proprietor of the Ford tonsorial parlor, has had his shop nicely repaired and newly papered. Mr. Marshall is well equipped and prepared to serve his many patrons in the most modern and sanitary manner. Messrs. James Boyd Veney and J. D. Crissinger, who are employed by the Studebaker Sales Company of Pittsburg, Pa., are visiting relatives and friends in this city. Mr. Veney is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Veney, formerly of Martinsburg, and is a member of the Scholastic Athletic Association of Pittsburg. Both are genial and popular young men and we wish them a pleasant stay while is our midst. BE PREPARED READ INTERESTING NEWS FROM SCOUT CAMP CAMP OF BOY SCOUTS ON BACK CREEK IS PROVING VERY POP- ULAR TO YOUNGSTERS. Camp Sambill. Near Hedgesville. August 13 The camp is in good shape today. In fact in better condition than it ever has been. The scouts planted seven spruce bushes along the front of th parade ground and have begun the erection of an observation and signaling tower which will be fitted by tomorrow. The boys are having lots of time for boating and bathing, but the water is still too cloudy for fishing and only a few small ones are being caught. Ned Kline found a steel trap and says he is going to set it to catch Curt Kerns when he sneaks into his tent. ____ Amongst the visitors to the camp Monday were Mrs. Frank Jacques, daughter and friend, Mrs. Geo. Wever and children, Miss Nota Wever, Mrs. Geo, Hoke and Mr. Arthur Quenzel. --- Tuesday morning about twenty of the scouts went up along Back Creek hunting ground hogs. After a den was located it took some strenuous digging to get next to his hogship. The dogs were turned loose and some excitement was on tap for a time. All the boys enjoyed the fight and they expect to feed on pickled sausage. Fishing has been rather poor, yet we managed to catch enough for breakfast Tuesday morning and everybody had a plenty. That's saying considerable because the boys are always hungry. The Scoutmaster went to town for a few hours Wednesday and returned with a bunch of provisions. Mr. Robert Clohan bringing him to camp in his auto and staying for supper. John von Schlegell arrived in camp Wednesday morning to stay until camp is over. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Kline, and children, Mr. Sam Dick, Mr. T. R Xline and two children motored to camp on Wednesday afternoon, leaving a nice lot of cake for the scouts. The scouts went out again for ground hogs Wednesday and returned with a nice one. They are going after more tomorrow. Come out and go along. STRIKERS RESUME WORK. FREDERICK, Aug. 16. Fifteen of the 75 strikers at the Oxford three brush plant who walked out Tuesday because the company refused to grant an increase of 25 per cent in wages returned to work Wednesday. Officals of the company advanced their compromise offer of 15 to 20 per cent, but the other men are still holding out for their original demand. BRAKEMAN DIES OF INJURIES HAGERSTOWN, Aug. 16.—Thomas L. Camubell, of Vesuvius, Va., a brakeman on the Norfolk and Western Railway, was fatally injured last night when he fell between cars several miles south of Hagertown. When the train arrived hedge he was missing. An engine was sent back and he was found unconscious. He died in the Washington County Hospital. Melester, 70 years old, died Tuesday night of paralysis near Downsville. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Shepherdstown. Two children survive. Mrs. William Unseld, near Downsville, and Harry Melester, Shepherdstown. THE ANSWER TO LAFOLLETTE. Whatever may be Robert M. La Follette's purpose in seeking to precipitate a discussion of peace terms in the Senate at this time, the interpretation Prussian propagandists will endeavor to put upon his conduct obvious. With utter disregard for the facts they will represent him as an important factor in our national life and picture him as the leader of a powerful faction of pacificists. His reason will be cited in every country, belligerent and neutral as evidence of discord among the allies, and as proof that the United States wants to quit its fight for freedom before it has even begun to show its power. Within the United States we are competent to judge the exact significance of LaFollette and to put a true value on its acts. The domestic effect of his performance will be negligible. But, he is capable, doing us some injury abroad, and this possibility should not be overlooked. To meet it the Squate's answer to his proposal must be delivered promptly, vigorously and unequivocally; and that answer must leave no question of our purpose to fight until we have beaten the imperial German government into a state of submission in which it or its successor will consent to conduct its affairs in accordance with the teachings and the practice of civilization.—New York Sun. Margaret Duncan, aged 78 years, widow of Eloech Duncan, died at the house of her daughter, Mrs. Harsy Huffman, in Powell's Fort, Monfay, she is survived by five children, Mrs. J. A. Dybart and Mrs. Charles Wilson, of Woodstock; Mrs. M. Burner, of Stephens City; Mrs. Huffman and William Duncan, of Powell's Fort. WAR! What Is It All About? the world gave them mind over a very foolish and trivial world, and the world tattling, cannot runibling, mailed armour because Russia wanted to show her love for the little Territory inside the curtain of Europe's politics and see the first game of chess that is being played. See upon what a shin, the stones, chance the sacred lives of millions are being sacrificed. Read the lesson of the past one hundred years as written by some of the greatest men in the world has ever known, and watch the nailed, shameful truth, just to set you started as a Review of Reviews subscriber, we make you the extraordinary offer. 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SIGNAL CORPS RESERVES PREPARE FOR ACTIVE DUTY—Over a thousand former telephone employees are getting used to camp life and being shaped into expert signal men at a Signal Encampment "somewhere in the United States." They are preparing for active duty and expect to go to France soon. FUED MAY HAVE A SECOND VICTIM; TRAGEDY DARKENS ROW OVER A LINE FENCE BETWEEN HENSLEY-MONGER FACTIONS OF VIRGINIA MAKING ONE OF THE STATE'S DARK PAGES IN CRIMINALITY —STORY OF GUN-FIGHT RIVALS THE MOST LURID OF THE ROBBERIES OF THE JAMES BROTHERS. HARRISONBURG, Va., Aug. 14. The Hensley-Monger shooting affair grows more tragic as the facts in the case develop. Milton Hensley, 65 years old, who died several hours after the shooting Friday, was buried in the Hensley burial ground near Elkton. Services were conducted by the Rev. C. L. Potter, of Elkton. His son, Claude Hensley, is lying at the point of death at University Hospital, Charlottesville, and at last reports the physicians have little hopes for his recovery. One of the bullets went through the liver and lung and lodged against the backbone. After he had been shot young Hensley helped carry the unconscious form of his father a quarter of a mile to his home, believing all the time that his home was dead. In the meantime, Robert Monger, neighbor of the Hensleys, who had shot the elder Hensley and who had himself been wounded in the side and the hand, walked a mile to Elkton to see a physician. He was arrested in an ice cream parlor. He asked the sheriff to let him change his clothes. Then he got in the officer's automobile and came to Harrisonburg. In jail today Monger was suffering greatly from his wounds, though they are not dangerous. At the coroner's investigation the important fact was brought out that the elder Hensley was shot in the back and that the bullet went through his body in a straight line. The Hensleys itinsist that he was working on a fence and took no part in the at fair. It appears that the old trouble about a line fence was renewed by young (Hensley and young Monger, who met in the field and opened the discussion. Hensley and his son ond Monger and his two sons took part in the pistol duel and rock battle that followed. Monger owns a big flour mill and 400 acres and is worth $40,000. Hensley, who owned the adjoining farm, was worth about $25,000. The mothers of the two men were first cousins and Monger's uncle married Hensley's sister. The fence foud started five years ago. It was proposed to have a lane between the two farms and the men differed to the extent of 20 inches as to where one of the fences should be. The county surveyor had been called in to settle the matter. Later, young Claude Hensley who is a surveyor, made a survey which did not please the Mongers. Charles A. Hammer of Harrisonburg, has been retained as attorney for Monger. The Mongers and Hensleys have a wide family connection through East Rockingham and the trial will be followed with unusual interest. According to John Stokes, editor of the Highland Journal, a male upil in a country school near there when asked to write an essay on editors, turned in the following: "Don't know how newspapers came to be in the world. I don't think the good Lord does, for he ain't got nothing to say about an editor in the Bible. I think the editor is one of the missing links you good about and saved in the boshes until after the flood and then came out and wrote the thing up and has been here ever since I don't think he ever died. I have never seen a dead one and never heard of one getting locked. "If a doctor makes a mistake he buries it, and people dissent say nothing." "When the editor makes a mistake there is big swearing and a big fuss, but if the doctor makes a mistake there is a funeral cut flower and pierce alliance." "A doctor can use a word a while long without anybody knowing what it is, but if an editor uses one he "If a doctor goes to see another man's wife he charges for it, but if the editor goes he gets a charge of buckshot." "Any old college can make a doctor, but an editor has to be born"—Exchange IF EXEMPTION PRIVILEGES ARE ABUSED ALL TXEMPTION RIGHTS WILL BE WITHDRAWN — CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS WILL BE DRAFT- AND ASSIGNED AS NON- COMBATANTS — DRAFTED MEN CANNOT ENLIST IN THE NAVY. WASHINGTON. Aug. 14.—It has become increasingly evident that the government is influenced by only one consideration in applying the selective service law. That consideration is raising an army. There are some of the new rulings that came from the Provost Marshal General and the Secretary of War: FIRST—Conscientious objectors will be drafter and assigned to duty which the President will class as noncombatants. SECOND—If abuses of exemption privileges continue all exemption privileges will be withdrawn. THIRD—The increment of the new army will move practically as scheduled, on September 5. There may be a delay of a few days, but no serious delays on account of shortages of food and equipment. All these increments will be encamped by October 1. FOURTH—Persons whose dependents are abroad will not be permitted to claim exemption on their behalf because such dependents cannot become a burden to the United States. FIFTH—Drafted men will not be permitted to enlist in the navy after they have been called, as erroneously announced some days ago by the navy department. General Crowder's ruling on the conscientious objectors means that members of any seet and individuals who claim that their beliefs do not permit them to engage in war or killings, will nevertheless, be compelled to render service to the nation, if exempted on no other ground. OBJECTS TO THE TERM OF SNAKE MR. CATLETT SAYS PEOPLE OF WEST VIRGINIA AND OHIO ARE VERY FRIENDLY. The Akron (Ohio) Evening Times Six Years Ago, Thinking She Might Die, Says Texas Lady, But Now She Is a Well, Strong Woman and Praises Cardui For Her Recovery. C&B DAILY BETWEEN CLEVELAND & BUFFALO William B. Catttitt, president of the new West Virginia society of Akron, deprecates the use of the term "snake" as applied to persons from West Virginia. "In the mountains of West Virginia in there are quite a few snakes, and the activity of mountaineers in killing them caused some to call the 'snake hunters.'" he says. "Now there is considerable difference between a snake and a snake hunter. 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