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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-12

this slight token at your handS. Inc
thing to do IS to clip the ballots to-.
day and I'll them in and bring or mail
them to the West virsinian-
Everything Is in readiness to re-
ceive and register them and the cou-
pons viii be published In each issue
of the West virsinian beginning to-
day and the votes announced daily
as they begin to come in
This paper would suggest that the
. different lodges and societies take up
the matter officially and nominate
candidates who will be the unani-
nous choice OF the organizations.
A E Atkinson. Of Chicago, who
has managed many similar contests.
+. has been engaged by. the West vir-
sinian to superintend the contest
and win be ready at all times to as
sist any Of the contestants as much
as possible but In an impartial man
ner.
Rules and Regulations.
Candidates must be members Of q
regularly organized lodge, club
| church. labor. literary or social or
sanization, holding meetings in Ma
rion county.
The voting will be by ballots clip
ped from the Daily West virsinian
and by voting certificates issued With
the West Virsinian.
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per Will count one vote for the lady
and gentleman named thereon when
\ 49, ~ $I,a <J~%o
Of expiration given on the ballot
Each day the date of the expira-
| ton on the ballot IS changed.
! Certificates for BOTH lady and
gentleman contestant will be issued
with receipts for subscriptions as
+; follows:
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By Carrier Boy or Mail.
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Six months. $500 2G0 votes
Three months, S1.00 ------ 100 votes
While each payment OF $500 for a
years subscription entities the hold
er OF the receipt to 500 votes. these
| cannot be voted for one candidate.
but must be equally divided between
a idoy ana gentleman.
No certificate will be issued for a
less payment than S1.oo.
! Combinations may be formed be-
tween a lady and gentleman candi'
date by which lady may exchange
her gent1emen's votes for a like mum.
Der Of 1ady's votes and vice versa
But combinations by any candidates
of the same sex to defeat saother
will not be permitted
At the close Of the ba1loting the
returns will be canvassed by con-
mittee of well known business mep
| whose standing in the community is
unquestioned-
| The balloting viii begin with the
! issue OF June IL and will close at
nine o'clock Monday evening. JULY
9th.
The place of holding the final
count viii be announced in later
issue of the West virginian.
! No employe Of the West Virginiau
can become a candidate for the hon
or and the diamonds.
;; In Case Of a Tie.
/ In the event OF a tie between can
didates for the diamonds. the value
of such will be equally divided be
tween them. or trophy Of the same
character and value as that offered
will be awarded to each.
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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

Politics has certainly been politick-
ling the people of the rural districts.
There they take their politics more Sc
riously than we do. They think it be-
gins at home. The election of presi-
dent OF the United States is an inocu-
lousy interesting event. A guberna-
torial election comes nearer home and
awakens q sprightly curiosity among
what the Hardeman Free press would
call the hoi polio. hoterial conven-
tion TO choose candidatefor the legis-
lature generally wakes ell the snakes,
real and imaginary, in the neighbor-
hood. But when there is an election
for Justice OF the peace or constable,
the innocent bystanders generally take
to tall timber.
In looking over the political field -~e
note with pleasure that Squire Cy
Lyle is q candidate to succeed himself
as e Justice Of the peace. The squire
has held the office for several years,
but be has cut off yard of his whis-
kers and gone into the present race
with ell the yigor of beginner. We
also observe with pleasure that Squire
Lyle has the cordial support of Editor
C. II. Lyle in the johnson City Comet.
It shows that he stands we'll in his own
town, when be is championed By the
hcne paper. Editor Lyle svidsntl y
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

Superintendent Mynders has more
school knowledge than any man who
has been ct the head of the education
bureau since it was created. He is the
right man in the right place, and if
Gov. elect Patterson can see his way
clear TO keep him in Office he will make
no mistake. There are others seeking
the place, and while doubtless they are
worthy and capable, none of them, we
dare say, can give the state better or
more loyal service than Mynders. Ger
tainly none could put more zeal and
intelligence into the Office. Nashville
American.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20
Pointed Paragraphs.

Woman is the ore problem that sci
ence can never solve.
Those who win success by practice
haven't time to preach.
1t is easier to write silly letters than
it is not to mail them.
Some rundown regulations couldn I
be uplifted with dynamite.
Style is one of the principal ingredi-
ents in dressmaker's bill.
1t takes woman to do things prop
erly without knowing how.
Williams in the plays have to be aw-
fully bad in order to make good.
The owner of yacht and an automo.
bile ought to be able to run into debt
faster than a man who has to walk.
Handsome is that handsome does
is seldom applicable to the man with q
three.days' set CT whiskers protruding
from his complexion. Chicago News.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20
St. Johns Episcopal Church.

RECTOR REV. W. H. OSBORNE.
Services this week-(4th Sunday in
Advent and Christmastide.
Friday, 1880 p. military and five
minutes address.
500 p. m.-Choir practice.
Saturday-Bazar of Ladies' Guild
Sale of Christmas goods.
Sunday (4th Sunday in Advent
1880 a. m.-Early communion.
0:l5 a. m.-Sunday School.
1890 a. m.-Service Sermon and
Holy Communion.
Tuesday CHRISTMAS DAY.
1890 a. m.-Service Sermon and
Holy Communion.
Wednesday-St. Stephens Martyrs
7:3Op m.-Evening Service.
Thursday-St. John Evangelist
Eve of Holy Innocents.
1880 p. m.-Children's Christmas
Tree.
Friday-Holy Innocents.
1880 p. m.-Evening Service.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

A friend Of our'n got big Jug oflick-
or from greensboro, KY, the other day
and the party what sent it to him wrote
with it: "We trust you will have Jack
Reaves and Cy Lyle with you for few
moments only, during the life of this
little Offering, but see that it is toward
the latter end for obvious reasons. -
Our friend proved to be skate of pur-
est ray serene. for he showed US the
letter, but he wouldn't even let us get
. smell of that good old stuff. -Harde.
man Free Press.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

holds Squire Lyle in high esteem, for
he is advocating his cause without any
reservation. For instance we extract
the following editorial photographic from
the Comet, which go to show that the
squire has seen the editor and given
him five-cent perfecto:
-
But while Johnson City is just enter
ing the tumult of an election, it is
all over but the shouting in the classic
little booze center Of Hogwallow.
There they have pulled off an election
with the usual eClat. as the following
thoughtful editorial from the Hogwal-
low Kentuckian would seem to indi-
cate:
The election at Hogwallow was q
bowling success, as an empty barrel OF
the Hog Ford still house will testify.
The mail carrier has come with the
votes from the surrounding precincts
Of Dog Hill, Musket Ridge, Bounding
Billows, Thunderation and Buzzard
Knob, aud there was such q heavy vote
cast that the cart fairly groaned under
the load. One man was shot at Bound
ing Billows on election day, but he hat
done voted. The deputy constable
rose to stump before the vote wal
finished and declared himself re.elect
ed. In the Dog Hill precinct he go
46 votes from thirteen voters, which
shows how popular he is. Everybod!
voted secret ballot and as there wer,
no booths they disguised themselve
: while voting. On account Of the larg
: number of voters that congregated il
the postoffice the ballot box had to b
moved outside. Sim Flinders lost hi
vote by putting 1t in rat hole instea
: Of the box. A fellow that was burie
at the Gander creek grave yard las
spring was voted in the assistant coro
I ner's race, which made his vote toti
Of 10. Nobody in the graveyard wa
eligible to vote except in the assistar
8 Coroner's race.
s 1t is rumored that Squire Lyle hS
: hired Jack Reaves to stump his dil
J trict against him; 80 his election seem
d to be q foregone conclusion. TIL
squire's campaign song
The moonshine is flowing free Il
Q night
k And Cyrus Lyle is out Of sight.
r. has become very popular beside ID
4 still waters in Cy's bailiwick, and Ii
Il Sedgegrass chewers are for him to
!. man. May he be spared again to ii
Judiciary of the great moonshine bel
Commercial Appeal.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20
Remember the poor when you are
giving Christmas presents.

One day the Chattanooga News APP
pears to think the Cox people in the
senate will not try to handicap any re-
form measures inaugurated by Gov.
Patterson, and the next day it seems
very much afraid Patterson man will
be elected speaker. 1t says; "It would
appear to a man up tree that it is
about time for some man to offer him.
self for Speaker of the Senate and de-
pend entirely on merit to win. The
State needs such man."
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20
Letters to Santa Claus.
Dear Santa Claus: Bring me q doll
baby and q harp and q horn.
MYRIAM LEACH.

johnson City, Tenn, Dee. 12, 1906.
Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me
a hobby-horse and a hook and ladder.
But if you don't want to bring me both
why you needn't bring me the hook
and ladder but just the hobby-horse,
and one Of those things that you blow
out and they come back to you, and q
little ten-cent burglars lantern, a man
on box that you press q little ball and
he dances, and some candy, nuts, or
anges and things. Your little friend,
Son LYLE.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

Under the law, the two houses of the
coming General Assembly will meet
in joint session on the second Tuesday
in January, which will be the 18th, for
the purpose Of casting ballot for U.
s. Senator. The democrats will, OF
course, hold caucus prior to that
date for the purpose of casting the par
ty ballot for Ex-Governor Robert L.
Taylor, the party nominee for Senator
to succeed Senator E. W. Carmack-
Nashville American.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20
LILLIAN LEACH.

Johnson City, Tenn, Dec. II, 1906.
Dear Mr., Santa Claus: lam little
girl, seven years old, aud this is the
first letter have ever written to you,
but l don't think my letter will sur
prise you. I want you to please bring
me great big doll baby, little iron
bed, baby carriage, a little rocking
chair, set Of dishes and doll trunk, a
little iron cooking stove and anything
else you feel like bringing me, and 1
will try to be good girl all next year,
provided ] live. With much love re-
main little
HAZEL B. DANIEL.
3O8 Poplar st.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20
Card Of Thanks.

Mr.. Editor: We take the generosity
Of your columns as a means of thank
ing all who 80 kindly administered to
our dear mother, Mrs. Gentry, in her
sickness and at her burial. Your I'M
remitting attention and thoughtful
love did much to cheer her spirit
through the hours Of feebleness and
pain. She was ever humbly grateful
to you all while she was with us, and
now that she has gone 20 her heavenly
home, her children with solemn cheer
fulness assume her obligations, and
will remember you, one and all, al
ways.
]. 1. CASH.
s. l.. CASH.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

Hon. M. R. Patterson last Thursday
handed to Speaker Cannon his resig-
nation as the representative in con-
gress from the Tenth district of Ten
nessee, to take effect Jan. Is. Mr..
Patterson will be inaugurated Govern
or OF Tennessee on Wednesday, Janu-
arY 18th.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me
slittle washstand and washstand set,
China press aud express wagon, house
like they have at Mr.. Csrgille's store,
candy, nuts aud oranges. Guess I
have asked for enough this time. Very
truly yours,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

Cy Lyle has been defeated for squire
in the johnson City district, and Jack
Reaves was showed under the other
day in the contest for city recorder of
Bolivar. More evidence that small
towns, like republics, are ungrateful.
Chattanooga News.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

"Castle Builtless," johnson City,
Tenn, Dec. 19.-Dear Santa Clause
| want You to bring me a doll with
light hair, set Of dishes, little stove,
game of cards, little A. B. @. book,
little set of furniture, q little toilet
set, little lamp, little doll carriage,
aud candy, oranges, grapes, apples,
nuts and that is all for this Christmas.
God bye,
MTTnppn T,vrv
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20
GoBELLE LEACH.

johnson City, Tenn, Doc. IL, 1906.
Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me
q magic lantern, a little toy engine
that runs on track and has q switch
and everything, toy pistol and q fd-
die and lock.in-box, and please bring
me whole lot of candy, nuts and
things. Your little friend,
JACKSON LYLE.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20
MILDRED LYLE.

johnson City. Tenn, Dec. II, 1908.
Dear Santa Claus: / want q big
doll baby that will open and shut her
eyes, and bed with curtains on it, q
set OF silver dishes and baby carriage,
story book with funny stories, horn,
a harp, and I would like a little doll
baby, too. Good bye. dear Santa
Claus.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

President Roosevelt wants a law
passed that will prohibit corporations
from contributing to political cam
paign funds; yet Mr.. Cortelyou, the
secretary of the treasury, raised sever
al thousand dollars from the corpora
tions to help elect Mr.. Roosevelt.
Wouldn't it have been more consistent
to send Mr.. Cortelyou into retirement?
Commercial Appeal.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

The Journal and Tribune did not
help to elect Hon. NJ. r. Patterson
governor OF the strife; but that does
not prevent us from hoping that his
administration may be such as to COM
mend the admiration of all good men
of all political parties. journal and
Tribune.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

1t is said that Jack Reaves of the
Hsrdeman free Press had intended Wis
iting Cy Lyle of the johnson City
Comet during the Christmas holidays,
but the belligerent tone of the Comet
since the recent election at Johnson
City has convinced Jack that Cy has
drunk it all up, and Jack can't abide
a dry Christmas. Chattanooga Times.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20
Governor Offers 800 Reward.

Nashville, Tenn, Dec. IS. Govern
or Cox has offered reward Of 800 for
the arrest and conviction Of Roy Hale,
wanted in Washington county on q
charge of numbering J. e. Davis on
Dec. 4.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

Dear Old Santa Claus: I do want
some wagon. candy, pencil, oranges,
bananas, apples, teacups. Bring papa
some little boy I am q good boy.
CHARLES NAFT.
johnson City, Tenn, Route 1.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

Dear Santa Claus: 1 want for
Christmas, piano. little cradle, 3
pretty baby doll in a long dress and
iointed doll almost 1s inches high and
some candy, nuts and oranges. Yours
truly.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20
JAMES HARDIN.
8O5 Cherry street.

johnson City. Tenn, Dec. II, 1906.
Dear Santa Claus: I want you to
bring me big doll baby that will
open and shut her eyes, and an iron
bed with curtains on it, and a doll
baby buggy carriage, and big trunk
and horn, and book with Cock Rob-
in in it, and set Of dishes and ] would
like little doll that will open and
shut her eyes, and harp. 1 will close.
Good night.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20
RUTH LYLE McCoRKLE.

Johnson City, Tenn, Dec. H.; 1906.
My dear Santa Claus: Iwculd like
to have for Xmas little child's writ
ing desk, if you please. II would make
me 30 happy il / should find in my
stocking little chain and locket with
L. A. s. on it, Please bring me some
bedroom slippers, candy, nuts, and an
orange. Please remember mother, "a
Their and brother. The front door will
be open when You come. Your little
friend,
LOUISE AvEzx sT. JOIN.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

Dear Santa Claus: want some lit
tie dishes, horn, gum, wagon, candy
dog, oranges and nuts. Bring Kath.
leen doll and thank you. Good bye.
RoRERT NAFF. JR.
Tohroov, C;4r D1rko1
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

Johnson City, Tenn, Dec. 8, 1906.
Dear Old Santa Claus: am little
boy seven years old, go to school.
l want you to bring me little wagon,
some nuts, candy, apples, oranges and
bananas, that will be all. Very re-
specially,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20
]. l. CASH.
s. L. CASH.

;np sufferers should take Miles Nerins.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

johnson City, Route /.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

GERTRUDE McCoRKLE.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-12-20

iOs WatAugA A1snns.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-02-17

duplicated on other farms, but 1t de-
ponds on the soil and the man who has
the management of 1t. 1t cannot DE
done by one who is not a student A
similar system may be developed on
any dairy farm that disposes of pas
lures. Where land is cheaper n the
dairyman can afford pastures, the sys-
TEN would be radically different In
summer but not in winter. Probably
the most important single feature OF
this Pennsylvania farm aside from the
systematic manner in which it is con-
Quoted is the one of handling the ma
nure. The fact that the stock Is
stabbed the year round makes it pos
sible to save all the manure both
liquid and solid o"d apply it to the
land. Being applied daily as pro-
duced, any teaching by rains, carries
the leached materials into the soil
where it is needed. The remarkable
yields of every portion of this farm
to indicate that this method of
handling manure is highly satisfac-
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-02-17
A NON.P4TENT4BLE MEDICINE.
Universally Used by the \ edicaI Pro-
feSSion.

What is the most important remedy
known to the medical profession? A
guessing contest might be established
upon this question which would doubt
less bring to the fore a great variety
of remedies, yet, as stated by a very
successful practitioner, there is one
medicine given to patients which ply
sicians find more important than any
other. Strange to say, this is the quite
universal and ineffective bread pill, ="
which, after all. is not bread, but only
so-called on account of its harmless
nature. The bread pill is sometimes
nothing o than a plain sugar pei
let, at others, where a liquid prescrip-
ton is given, a weak solution of sugar
and water, or a mixture of powdered
licorice or g%entian, both harmless
drugs when given in the weak proper
tions prescribed by the doctor.
OF course the principle use Of the
bread pill' is in the case of a pa
tient, who, imagining himself ill
calls in his family physician, and the
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-02-17
A BIG EDITORIAL OFFICE.
The Department of Agriculture Pub
fishes Over Four Booklets for
Every Day in the Year.

One of the biggest editorial Offices
in the Government and probably in
the country is in the Department or
Agriculture where the Division OF
Publications edits, revises, and in
some cases returns to the authors
for rewriting an average of o bull
letins or books for every day in the
year. During the last fiscal year l.
463 new publications passed through
the editors hands, nearly 400 Of
these, however, being issued by the
Weather Bureau, which is under the
Department of Agriculture. The to-
tai number of copies OF the remain
ing 1000 odd publications printed dur
ing the year was ~12,000,475. Many
of these are generously illustrated,
and beside the great number of orig
inal photographs used, the artists Of
the Department make something over
1000 drawings a year for illustrating.
The head of this Division, or the
Editor of the Department as he is
known, is Mr.. George William Hill,
an old-time editor of an agricultural
paper, but he has held his present
position for many administrations.
There have been very many rad
ical changes" said Mr.. Hill, lin the
publications of the Department with
in the last ten years. At one time,
the Agricultural Reports and other
pamphlets and bulletins issued were
more or less technical, having the rep
utation generally throughout the coun-
try, of being written in about as dry
and undressing a name as pos
sible. The present Secretary has con
t~inually impressed upon his Chiefs of
Divisions the desirability of short, crisp
articles and bulletins, especially in
the annual Year Books, written in a
practical and simple style, with the
result that the Publications of the
Department have come into very gen.
eral favor with the farmers and are
eagerly sought after. which is evil
dent by the enormous number of re-
quests for them"
The Farmers Bulletins, descriptive
of all sorts of farm work, stock-rais-
ing, fruit-growing, etc, and of which
nearly $50 have been published, are
by all odds the most popular of the
Departments of Publications. They
are brief, written in simple style and
discuss subjects near to the heart of
the agriculturist. Many of them have
been condensed and rewritten from
the longer and more technical bulle-
ms. setting forth the results of ex-
haustive experiments. More than g.
600. 900 copies of these popular bulle-
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-02-17

ter of the disease or where they have
not developed sufficiently for him to
determine the true nature OF the case
In this event he does not wish to dis
play his ignorance or what in reality
may be but an apparent lack of knowl-
edge. since at some stages it is I'M
possible to accurately diagnose a case;
hut a frank admission of this kind
would destroy the patients confidence
in his physician. And so at this juno
ture the dread pill steps in, is given
to the sick person, with no %apprehen-
sion of any harm resulting therefrom.