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Ab 6cA,CitAi L S OWN, W. VA.
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FRIDAY. O(TOBER 1.
ADVOCATE
Established 1885
Published Every Friday By The Jefferson Publishing Company
COMbtERCIRL PRINTERS --- PUBLISHERS
Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Va.
:~tered As Second Class Mail Matter in he Post Office in Charles Town
Olee:- -North George Street. 'Phone 257-W.
" ROBERT C. RISSLER, Editor.
SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Aitvertising Rates On Application.
War Propaganda.
hOre is not one American citizen in a million who is in
sympathy with J,apan's barbarous and unprovoked war on
Chifla. Yet, in spite of this fact, 99 per cent of all the war
uri s in our magazines, and daily newspapers are of
ships, guns and troops in action. Take ti me
observe these pictures. Is this further evidence that Japan
has a prerpaganda machine, that is just as well organized
as her military machine? Well, it is going to make no
friends for Japan in this country.
" Blood=Stained Bonds.
We Americans get so concerned about the evil of selling
munitions to nations like Japan and italy which wage bar-
barious wars on peace loving peoples, that we overlook the
I:irst Meeting Loc !
P.=T. A. Held Monda:
The first meeting of the Charle.s
Town Graded School P.-T. A. was
held in the school auditorium Mon-
day evening. There was a gratify-
iP.g attendance of about one hun-
dred. Mrs. James A. Hips presid-
ed. Mrs. Fiery was secretary.
The meeting was opened witt
prayer. The social program pre-
pared by Mrs. Owen Conklyn,
chairman, consisted mostly of mu-
.':ic. Tiae first number was a piano
due.t, "Two Guitars" by Mrs. Ron-
emus and Miss Keene. It was fine-
~ rendered. A duet by Mrs. H. H.
Hunter and Mrs. Conklyn, "A
Brown Bird Singing" was very
beautifully sung. There were se.v-
eral group songs led by Miss Hut-
chinson.
Several interesting questions
were discussed.
Delicious refreshments were
served by a committee headed by
Mrs. John S. Alfriend.
T,he next meeting will be hehl
*he second Tuesdayin October,
the 12th.
COUNTY WOMAN
KILLS HUSBAND.
worst evil of them all. It is the action of wealthy Amer-
ictins :in providing money with which to wage those wars. John Henry Ross, and his wife,
tiuge sales of Japanese bonds are recorded on our ex- Laura Mitchell Ross, negroes, of
changes every day. Kearneysville, were. attending a
The purchases are made by iliterests which denounce negro night club in Martinsburg.
their own government for issuing bonds for the purposes Saturday night. Now John is dead
of peace. This, too, When a Japanese bond is not and the wife is in .jail in Martins-
backed by one-tenth of the wealth that is back of an burg charged with murdering him.
&meHcan bond. Lendlng money to help finance su ch a Customers at the night CL d'b
war as Jap:m is wageing on .China is just as bad as lend- told Martinsburg police that the
lag it to a criminal for the purchase of a machine gun couple had quarreled more or less
with which to ccmmit murder or highway robbery. We all of Sunday evening. The climax
hope every holder of those blood-stained bonds loses ev- 'came about 10:30 when Ross an-
Cry penny he invests in them. nounced his intention of going in
his car to Hagerstown. His wife
stabbed him with a knife, striking
NAMES ON ~4EMORIAL ] ter, Miss Florence, of Y0ungs- his jugular vein in his neck below
.--- [ town, Ohio, are visiting her bro. the left ear. With the aid of Har-
(Continued From Page 2) [ ther-in-law and sister, Mr. and r~i Lee Cooper, another Negro, the
Mrs. W. W. Kelly. ~oman took her husband to a hos-
~|'6r, "Rollih ~Ioler, Sanders M01er,] For the past two weeks, the N pital where he flied soon after ar
Wtllfa~:n J. WIoler. ' [& W. R. R Co have had a gang riving. Cooper is held as a mater-
'Ge0rge ~I66re, HedlOy Moore, [of twelve men repairing the N. &. mLwR;efs" dmitted the stabbing
Frank Morgan, C. WIorning~ta~r,[ W. bridge which spans the county Tne c. a
Lewis Nichol's, 'John J. Ogden'[ road in the Junctioh but said she had no intention of
George W. Osbourn, J. B. OSbom'n,f " " killiw~ her husband. Ross, 27
~J.~4W.'O~rbourn. R.'L. Osbourn, A.[ Mrs. Lice Loveless and children ~ "-
.~ ~k~.-~;-- -- ~*- -- vears ot% was a quarry worker
"L. O~ourn, Corp JAmes Patted, f(" onarpsvurg, ms spen~ tnc who owneu--~ a" x,~,~ ,~+ ",c e-s~-
~ra,Poliy, C1aarles Prather, Dent[ week-end 'with friends, and rela- v}lle." rtlS Decry was Drought to
tires m the Junctmn
~ l " " " " " his home for burial on Tuesday.
iPeather,W. Pi~tzman, Samue [
~eed,[ Mr. and Mrs. Charles BroWn --o
/ ~. ~li|l Reirrhart, 'W. L. Rein-[ spent the week-end With his'moth- YOUNG DEMO-
~}t~t, ~James Rttter, R. Roberts,[ er, Mrs. Clara Brown, and his CRATS ORGANIZE
,: :. fl/t/fle~ ROberts, George Rowe,~ sister, Miss Gt'adys, in Martins-!
burg, W. Va.
West
~. Gentile '~onemous, John Rowdan,[ The Young Democrats of I
Thomas Rtitherford, J. H. Shew-[ F. C. 'Little'0hn.J ~ps ent Monday[ Virginia in convention at Clark.~-
James Shirley, ConinI
{ how, JOhn Slavin, William Smith,[ in Baltimore, "M;d on busihess. [hurg on Friday and Saturday had
~:~ !~es Snyder, William Staley,[ Misses Julia and Katherine Lyne'[ little difficulty in se, lecting a pres- ~
~/~ward S, rider, tIart'ison Swim-] ii~!~is::i~Mi?2: ~!i;L:Fi~ff[~] ~!?ii)::~:ii~BYs:t:i!o21!!:i
~:: ~{~ley, Samuel Swimlc,y, John T,I . I
!~pson, Richard Ware, T. L.I
~lker, Eph Watson, G. W. Wa~-I Welsh, and Sam Cross spent Men- for Carl Galbraith, of Wheeling',!
IW~'I~ Sergt B. Watson, Mike t day in Front Royal, Virginia, on lwere put in nomination for the
: ~lch, W. Wintermoyer, John Wilt business. ]presidency but withdrew in the
~!+ ~B, James Wright, John R. Yates,[ Mrs. Clem Wilson received word [ interest of harmony, t,
Mohday morning of the death ofI ~r~ Alice Loudin, of Fair. i
ae:Zombro. [
in Canton, Ohio, Sunday night. [ Mrs. Ravmond Murphy, of Philip- I
-; ~ T~,~tlet No. V [ her mother, Mrs. O'riffith, who died[ mont, was elected v~ce-president:
~i~ ;Co~ederate S61diers of This[ The body will be brought to Char- [ ~)i; secretary, and Alfred Hays, of
in Various Commands:---q]es Town Wednesday for burial. [ParRersburg, treasurer. James
s, Gregory Britner, ~ . ~,t
E. D. Bowly, F. N. Cro~:n,
. Steve Dandridge, J. W. B.
Dr. J. G. Gibson~ L. Dew
=V. P. Hill, A. M. HOpper,
Jenkins, John P. Kerfoot,
Lee. Brig Gem, Edmund Lee.
Jas. B. Lucas.
15. McGlincy, Mayberry Mc-
McMurran, R. B. Mad-
Rev. A. A. P. Neel, Lieut
Pendleton, Capt J. Albert
J. F. Randal, John M.
John H. Schoppert, Abe
James ~.T. Shepperd,
Y. Steptoe, Lieut K.
W. H. Wright.
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JUNCTION t~e,e at last arc the books America has been longing for.
Designed by America's foremost book designer--well print-
:~0hnny Brookman, little son of ~,d--handsomely bound in a special English-finish cover
i ~r. and Mrs. Carl Brookman, was paper. At a price which has hi'ought long', loud applause
~en to the Charles Town Hos- novet.fr m every section of the country 25c for a full-length
~R~al Tuesday for treatfiaent for These gre*at book ~oargaihs are made possible only be-
MISS BUSH IN FACUI,"'Y.
Miss Eunice Bush. (laughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Olin Bush, ne-:t
Charles Town. has been appointed
a, a par~ time teacher in the
Charles Town Grade.d School. At
the outset of her work, Miss Bu,;h
will substitute for Miss Edith Stri-
der while the latter is employed
in the High School. In addition,
she will have supervision of a'h-
letcs on the girls' playground. The
new appointee is a e'raduate of
Shepherd State Teachers' Colic.g('.
winning her A. B. degree this
year.
.0
KEARNEYSVILLE
Gaylor, of Clarksburg, was namcd
National Committeeman, and Miss
7Jargaret Nicely, of Hintbn, Na-
tional Committeewoman.
The conveention was ad h'essed
by Governor Homer Hol~; forme:
Governor H. G. Kump; and Sena-
tor Neely.
Mrs. James M. Mason, 3rd, wa.~
the only Jefferson County repre-
::entative presenL, going as a dele-
gate from the Roosevelt Youn.~"
Democratic Wonmn's Club o:"
C harles Town.
-- --O--- t
DIED IN A BANK.
James Riddle, a retired civil en-
gineer, who with Mrs. Riddle m~de
his home with the latter's sister,
Mrs. Blackburn Smith, in Berry-
ville, died suddenly in the Fir~+:
National Bank thc,re Monday move
ing. Having gone m the bank t.
attend to some business he was
stricken with heart failure from
which he failed to rally. He was.
77 years old. Besides his wido~.l
hc leaves two daughters and on'.'I
son. His body was taken to Pe-
tersburg, Va for burial.
cousin, m Fall~ Church, Va on
Wednesday of last week.
Mrs. W. B. Hammend and daugh
ter, Helen, were m Clarksbur!:
ms~ week attending a meeting of
the U. D. C. Mrs. Hammond was
a deice'ate and Miss Hammond -~
Page.
Miss Virginia Grantham has uc-
cepted .a position in a library in
Washington, D. C.
Born u> Mr. and Mr.~. Elston E.
Hess, a son. It is their secon'J
child.
--O'--
i Charles William Snyder and MEss
I Christine Snyder, of Summt iPoint.
have returned to the West Virginia
University, the former to c,'mtinue
his studies in Engineering, and
Mrs. Paul E. Miller and son, Miss Christine to complete her
Gilbert, spent the week-end in course in Economics.
Washington, as ~'uasts of Mrs,
Miller's sister, Miss Bess Henkle
Miss Minnie Tucker. of Hay-
field Va reeerHly spent several
:lays at the home of her mother.
Mrs. Lillie Tucker. Charles Town, West Vs.
Mr. and Mrs. Phil Banks and
Mrs. Tyler Brown att, emle