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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-02

Branches of the Brotherhood of Sta
tionary Firemen and the Pulpmakers
Union have been organized in this city,
and charters have been applied for.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-02

No new names on the Ward voting
list. a very few come off because the
assessors have learned that the parties
have moved away.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-02

Mrs ]. J. Maher is seriously i'll with
typhoid fever at her home at the corner
Of Chestnut and Court streets.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-02

DR.. 6. Fl. FTizzelle has bought the
cottage lot on the north shore of Lake
Cobbosseecontee, between the lots of
George W. Vickery and Frank y.
Smith. He has bought for immediate
building, and will occupy his cottage
this season. That will leave only one
vacant lot among those laid out in the
Leavitt field on the north shore, the
one belonging to Hon. Charles r.
Written, who does not intend to build
during the present season.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-02

Allen & Enright, Ladies' Hatters, are
showing an entire new line of Shirt
Waists and Dress Hats. 213 Water
street, Meonian Hall building. may2dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-02

A nice banjo clock. Woman's Ex-
May2d4t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-02

did You plant your tree?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-02
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, TODAY.

+. w Soule
A. ID. Ward.
+. J.. Weber. e,
j. II. Jenkins
+. ". Church.
John Couphlin.
II. Chernowsky.
Agents Wanted.
Frederick Pulos.
G w. Wadlcigh.
Percy w. Means.
T. S. Smith IL Co. /
Statesmen Wanted
Stevens & Ballard 4
u. w Brown & Co.
Oren HooPer's Sons. /
Whitman a. Adams. 4
Sherhurne * Daley.
rabcr, Carey & Reid
n. r.. Folsom q, Son.
Malt Breakfast Food
Wanted-Young man.
Wantcd-Lady Cashier.
Partridge's Drug Store.
DR.. kennedys Remedy
Father Johns Medicine.
Paine's Celery Compound.
TO let-Pleasant tenement.
Amuscments-"The Bonnie Briar Bush"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-02
New York Money Market.

New York, May |,
Money on call closed steady, last loan et
~ per cent.
PRIME mercantile rapcr 5AMI per cent,
Sterling exchange steady 1T 1880 for
demand and at 1880 for 90 days
Posted rates 4.S5 and i.SMt'e
Commercial bills iSL.
Bar silver 1914.
Mexican dollars ia.
Government bonds steady.
lnil hDlll. ifrnrlllnr
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-02
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

Furnished Daily by the Federal Stock
and Grain Co.; office, Opera Hous.
Block, Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-02

Dance tonight at c. A. r. hall.
Maya, dlt,pd
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-02
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Local Notice.

Never let cold run. Stop 1t with Lung
Kuro,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-02

r. D. Crissman, Mgr.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-02

apr2St, tn, &sat1yr.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-02

TO TFI-TItdSuUI TcIltntNt.
AmuScmentS-"The Bonnie Briar Bush"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-11

enc whose people are quite SO prosper
GUS in the matter Of worldly possessions.
The readers Of The Times-Dispatch did
Tot all credit the facts l printed last
spring concerning the trucking section
OF Norfolk after visit to that region.
SO l realize l must be careful in giving
instances OF the fertility Of the lands OF
Tazewell
1 was shown corn field OF fifty acres
in extent, nearly all Of 1t steep
hillside. The shocks we're as thick and
the ears as large up on the top OF the hill
as In tho bottom. asked the farmer
how much corn the field wiuld yield.
II am counting on gathering four
thousand bushels off OF the fifty acres"
WAS the reply.
A gentleman who was with me said
he thought the yield would be eighty
bushels to tho acre.
commented upon the fine corn which
had Just been cut and shocked In field
on tho farm Of the late Captain w. E.
Poery, near Tazewell.
THAT field has been In wheat or corn
every year for twenty-edght years and
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-11

one runs over tho scales It's weight is
indicated and registered automatically on
paper ribbon almost exactly like that
used in q stock ticker. The clerk taxes
the weight from the ribbon. Tho cars
roll on and are shuntcd onto the various
tracks and made up into trains
The making UP of trains Is no hap.
hazard business. Cashier, Curran and
Bulltt Is the firm which forwards prac-
tically all the coal mined In the Fiat
Top field. This company purchases the
coal from the operators taking the entire
output at contract price. The coal Is
the property Of the operator until 1t
passes over the scales that instant It
becomes Cashier, Curran and Bullltts
An agent of this firm has desk IN the
SCALE house. and he has before him all
the time the orders received for coal
From these he Is able to keep the rail-
way men informed as to the destination
OF the cars, and 1t is on this information
that the yardmaster and subordinates
act in making up trains.
have devoted SO much space to the
Yards and the coal cars because of the
fact that the railway yard Is the great
feature of Buefeld, and coal Is compare
lively almost the only freight handled.
Pocahontas coal. as all coal Is called
that is mined in this Flat Top region
OF Virginia and West Virginia. Is con-
80
OF 1t is used at points between the mines
and Norfolk, but the great bulk OF that
shipped east goes to those great piers
at Lambert's Point, and Is run down
into the bunkers of steamships flying
the flags of all nations.
And now am going to write something
of the Increase In the value of real es-
tate in Bluef1eld in recent years. which
will hardly be believed. The town has
never had boom in the sense Of the
word as used in connection with Vir-
einia towns In 1ssO-'o3. In 1880 1t was
/ only a way station on the Norfolk and
Western, but its position at the entrance
] to the Pocahontas fields, on the Poca-
hontas Branch. and the Elkhorn field.
| ON the main line Of the Norfolk and
/ western. to the West, was seen by mon
eyed men of Virginia and the North to
be promising of large dividends on In
vestments. "A great deal of Philadelphia
money was invested In Bluefield real
estate. Home-seekers, chiefly men look
! ing for business opportunities in rap
| idly developing country, began to come
in. The demand for property became
very great; prices advanced. and they
have probably been advancing ever since.
Certainly, they have kept up better than
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-11
VIEW OF BLUEF1ELD, LOOKING NORTH.

frontage Of ninety-eight feet six inches.
on Princeton Avenue, sold for $3.50. 1t
has no house on It, On the goth day OF
last March tho Same lot sold for $4,000
Twelve years ago certain lot mere
wap purchased for 1885, The owner Is
holding 1t to-day at $4,000 and agrees
to put $4,000 building on 1t and rent
1t on basis of $4,000.
Rents are very high Landlords are
getting rentals which are twenty-five per
cent. or thirty per cent. on the invest
ment, Ugly six-room residences rent for
S25 month. Rents arc said to be high
err In Bluefleld than In Richmond.
Bluefield has some Of the conveniences
OF city life. There Is q very fair cleo.
tric lighting system and the water works.
each owned by private parties. supplies
all the needs of the town. The fire de-
part,nent. portion Of the members
OF which are paid and the rest volunteers,
Is said to DO an excellent one.
A fire Is great event In Bluefield.
When one Is discovered the first engineer
| on the railroad yards who learns OF 1t
i begins blowing his whistle, and he keeps
1t up until every whistle In the town Is
(, shrieking the alarm. 1t Is a unique fire
alarm system.
The police force of Bluefield consists OF
| but six men, including the chief and one
sergeant. Four patroln1en have to MAN.
| tain order day and night 1here Is not
a town in tho country OF the size OF Blue
| field, it Is said. that has such g small
police force. Probably were the force
larger the city's reputation for wicked
/, ness would not be 80 firmly established.
But Bluefield is far from being so wicked
as people living elsewhere are led to be-
lieve by sensational publications. 1t Is
new town In practically new country.
and 1t Is not to be expected that it should
be model of morality.
The Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians,
| Episcopalians. Catholics, Christians and
| Lutherans have churches here. The
Methodists lead. with two churches; the
Baptists have one and mission; the
rest have one each.
/ There are no paved streets. but there
| are some fairly good sidewalks, and
| Princeton Avenue, the main business
| thoroughfare. will soon have a grano-
lithlc sidewalk, extending along one aide
| for nearly three-quarters of mile. This
sidewalk will be fourteen feet wide.
The avenue fronts on the railroad yard.
Tho city has complete and nearly new
sewerage system.
The large majority OF the houses are OF
| frame construction. A fire In the CEN
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-11

that the grass will grow on 1t spontane-
orsly, although I have been told that
cultivation seems to take out of the soil
the constituents which make the heaviest
bluegrass sod.
Nearly all tho cattle OF Tazewell are
exported. This and Russell county ship
more export cattle. 1t Is claimed than
any other counties Of Virginia. and it Is
also claimed that the cattle are the
heaviest. Nearly all the heavy beef cattle
have been sold, and I could not see many
of the great steers which make this Sec
ton famous.
THE NATURAL BENT.
Everybody who has any land has cat
tie. Farmers out here take to cattle
raising as naturally as an Irishman takes
to the police force. There may be some
mystery regarding the Irlshman's predi-
lection for the uniform and mace. but
there is none as to the Tazewell far
mers inclination towards cattle raising.
He can get rich off of It. In testimony
of which l file these great grass farms.
the fine farm houes. the elegant carriages
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-11

cars are thus made up into trains in
an Incredibly short time The continuous
humping Of the cars, day and night. Is
a sound ever In the ears Of nearly every
body in Bluefield. though only the visitor
appears to hear 1t.
One of those bumps often means tho
death of brakeman. Bumpers will not
stand everything, sometimes they smash
before the force of the impact and the
poor brakeman standing on the end Of
the cars is caught. "Killed while coupling
cars" is the line placed over the sem
tence by the discriminating news editor of
the paper to which the accident Is tele-
graphed
The majority Of the brakemen are me-
groes-bad negroes very many OF them
One OF them robbed boy of 81 at Mar.
rows tho other night and then killed him
to keep him from telling. A negro who
saw the murder and was implicated has
confessed, and hanging is confidently
expected
Hangings on both sides the line are
common in this section. So arc Killings
much more common than hangings.
This was one hanging day." said q
prominent lawyer of a nearby Virginia
county, whom met on the train last
Friday. A man was hanged"
In the center Of the BlueCeld yard is
a little stone house. the importance Of
which Is greater than that OF the most
p:etentious building in the town. 1t is
the scale-house. All the coal which pass
cs through tho yards, Is weighed here.
The Weighing is done automatically.
The scales for the weighing of loaded
cars are more complicated than the Mer-
genthaler typesetter., which has hereto
fore been my standard of mechanical in
senulty and incomprehensibility The
track on either side of the scale-house
is built on the platform Of the great
scales. When train of coal cars comes
IL from the mines It is stopped on the
summit at the center Of the yard. some
distance from the scales. "A clerk from
the scale-house goes out to the train
and takes the number of each car and
makes other notes concerning each OF
them. He is careful to take the cars
in the order in which they come In the
train. He brings his data back to the
scale house. and reports to the clerk
whose duty 1t is to sit by the great bar
The cars are then sent down. and as each
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-11

a gentle eminence at the edge Of tile
town. The terraced lawn. sloping down
to the gate. is covered with fine old
trees>At the bottom of the hill at the side
of the house Is the spring and dairy. and
at the rear stable and barn. either
Of which would hake good residence.
The house Is filled with fine furniture
Of other days. and pictures and bric-a-;
brac accumulated by Colonel May, who.
while leading life filled with much hard
work found time to devote attention to-
the beautiful The house is at present
occupied by Mrs. May and her son. and
by Mr.. 8. D. May, a son Of Colonel Mays
by an earlier marriage. The home was
built by Senator John w. Johnston In 1854.
or about that date. DR.. George Ben john
ston. of Richmond, n son Of Senator
Johnstons only recently visited Taze-
we'll.
sTRAs HOMESTEAD.
short distance from the May home
is tho Stras homestead, which Is nearly
an exact imitation OF the old colonial
style of architecture. both as to interior
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-11

Virginia. On the Virginia side the negro
finds 1t harder to get a drink.
The Importance Of Bluefield as a rail-
way point is very great. All the coal
mined In the great Flat Top field and
shipped east passes through the Bluefield
yards. All the coal mines In tho Poca-
hontas region and shipped east and west
over the Norfolk and Western must pass
through Bluefield. The yards appear to
me to be the most extensive l have seen
in this part of the world. larger than
those OF any one road at Richmond, and
apparently as extensive as the Pennsyl-
van!a yards at Washington.
There are twenty and one-half miles OF
track In tho Bluefield yard. not taking
Into account the main track, which. Of
course, runs the whole length of the
yard. But the yard Is not large enough.
and In q few months twenty-seven and
one-half miles of track will be added to
it. This will extend the yards to Gra-
ham on the Virginia side. two miles
away, and make the two towns one.
Graham had a population OF 1854 in 1900.
but there cannot be many short Of 2,b00
people there to-day. Bluefleld and Ora
ham will soon be connected by an electric
line. The company to build the road has
been formed. and the capital stock paid
in. The road will eventually be extended
to Pocah twelve miles from Blue
field, and may be built even further.
In another generation there will be- a
great city extending twelve miles from
Bluefield on the east to Pocahontas on
the west Already. Bluefield and Graham
are practically one city, and the ten miles
between Graham and Pocahontas are
very thicky settled.
A THOUSAND CARS.
AS many as 1850 loaded cars have
passed through the Bluefield yards in q
single day. or course. nearly all of these
were cars loaded with COAL 4
The Bluefield yard Is peculiarly adapted
to the shifting of cars and making up Of
trains. The middle of the yard. approx
rnately, is marked by a ridge. from
which there is an incline In both direc-
tions for several miles. The yard engine
brings the cars loaded with coal from
the mines to the top of this incline.
where they are turned loose with a brake
man on each, or one on each section
which is to go into the same train. The
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-11


at the time would pretty nearly wine the
place off the map.
WHOLESALE TRADE.
Bluefield does large wholesale trade
through the coal fields of Virginia and
West Virginia. There are three whole
sale grocery houses here-tIutf, Andrews
g. Thomas; the Flat Top Grocery Com
pany, and the Bluefeld Grocery Com
pany The three do BUSINESS aggregat- +
Ing over million dollars In value every
year.
Tho Bluefeld Hardware Company does
an immense wholesale business in this
section. Mr. j. w. Ruff. the president
of the company, was for years a sales q
man for the Watkins Cottrell Company
hardware firm of Richmond.
Mr.. Howard Smith, formerly of Rich
mond, is the general manager of the
Miller Supply Company, which does q
large business in MILL mine and con-
tractors supplies The Superior Supply
Company also does a large business IN
this line.
Tho Georgia Lumber Company's plant
hcre Is one Of five concerns owned by the
company at various points extending from
Charleston, w. Va, down into Georgia
The Saxon Lime and Lumber Company
is managed by Mr. Hoge Mason, con-
nection OF the late G. r. Mason, the
celebrated railroad contractor and stone
wall Jackson's bridge builder. who said
he could build the bridge while the
engineers were making the picters."
Ono of the largest mercantile houses IN
tho city is the Biueleld Furniture Conn !
pany. which carries an immense stock
and does a great business.
Tho Bluefteld Brewing Company, be-
tween Blueheld and Graham. Is a large
brewing and mailing plant, and coid
storage and botting establishment
III TNSSe trt, Ntt
pany Is rather a new enterprise. but is
doing large business.
There Is large steam Touring mill
hens the capacity OF which has oeen
doubled twice In the last three or four
years The mills have present daily
capacity of 800 barrels OF flour, GOO BUSH
els Of meal and 10000 pounds Of feed
day The mills are owned by the A1cCue
G. Wright Milling Company.
aham, two miles to the eastward on
the Virginia side, appears to be developing
fully as rapidly as BlueAeld. There are
two wholesale groceries in Graham, Wal
tiers, Williamson & Co. and the Isaac
Eberly Company Mr.. Robert Wllllarn-
son for a number Of years In the bank
ing house Of John l.. W .lliams & Sons,
Richmond. is Interested In the first-named
The Chicago House Furnishing Com
pany's establishment at Graham Is said
to be the largest instalment house IN the
county. It Is owned by Mr.. Samrel HUFF
ford, who lives in Graham, but also has
stores at Norton, Va. and Middles-
borough, Ky.
There arc large Ice plant and bottlng
| works at Graham. owned by Mr.. Mitchell,
| a relative of the senior member OF the
widely-known 1ewelry firm of Richmond
of ante belum days, mitchell & Tyler.
A mattress factory, an iron furnace ana
ha1< n an
terprises which are making Graham great
ly prosperous.
There could be much more said Of this
booming section. will say 1t some
other time. I am off to the coal fields.
WALTER EDWARD HARRIS.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-11

author while ON hunting trip in Ken
lucky and brought him to Tazewell for
visit--the first of several The Taze-
we'll Republican recently printed poem
ritten here by English, entitled 'rhe
Logan County Grazier." l loved to lin
ger in the shade of the fine old trees on
the lawn and talk to old 81, an eastern
Virginia darkey OF the old school, VINO
was body servant to General Eppa Hun
tor in the war between the States. l
told him of having seen the General at
the Virginia Hot springs last summer,
"My Gawd. boss yer didn't see him.
die .yer?" exclaimed 81. He had just
given me a glass of yellow milk from the
spring house, and was sitting on a big
rock by the spring, I'D give thous-
and dollars to git back over dar and SEQ
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-11
(From a SAT- Correspondent.)


TAZEWELL, TAZEWELL COUNTY,
VA. Oct. lo.-I made the trip OF twenty-
two miles from Bluefield down the Clincfl
Valley division Of the Norfolk and Vest
ern almost for tho solo purpose OF seeing
Burke's Garden. AS soon as | reached
the hotel, after g twenty minute ride
en- tho street car. which winds up among
the hills from the railway station, be-
gan arranging for q conveyance that
would take me into the wonderful agri-
cultural country claimed by those who
live therein to be as rich as any area
OF equal size In tho United States. and
I paid visit to the famous valley But
since that trip | have seen great deal
OF the rest OF tho county. and OF this
little town. and have about reached the
conclusion that they are as remarkable
In several ways as that fertile garden
whose products are export cattle, hay
grain and fruit.
According to tho census OF 1000. there
were only 1905 people living In the town
CT Tazewell. yeti the two banks here
have deposits amounting in the aggregate
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-11

tho buildings does not do such great harm
proportionately,
jority of the farmers Of Tazeweil are
lenders of money cannot conceive Of
their being horse owners,
A FINE FARM,
Colonel Anderson took his two little
grandsons and myself out to see the great
Farm of the late Captain Peery, which
is on the road to Burke's Garden, about
two miles northeast Of farewell The
farm consists of l,Oi8 acres, every acre
of 1t in blue grass or In cultivation with
the exception of a small area or timber
land, The old home is beautifully sit
uatel not far from the highway, FEW
yards from the Cllnch River, which IL
only small creek at this point having
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-11

and horses, tho farmers themselves and
their families, cultivated, we'll dressed as
city men. money In their pockets. money
in bank. money In coal mines and stocks,
money loaned at good interest, ! am not
exaggerating anything. Tazewell and Rus
sell counties. away out here In the South
west, far removed from largo cities, arc
prospecting as are few sections OF this
country,
Some of tho homes In the town OF
Tazewell and In the suburbs are extreme
~ elegant The house and grounds lately
owned by Coonel A, j. May, the distn-
guished lawyer. who died short time
ago. Is one of the finest specimens semi
country homes have seem. The mansion,
whichis OF brick and stone, Ia situated "a