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Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1906-09-14
Former Editor Goes to Emory.

Mr., Hugh L. Brown, the
former editor of THE TIMES,
has matriculated at Emory and
Henry College. If he doesn't
lead the procession out there,
your Uncle Mike will be badly
fooled. There was weeping
and wailing. crashing OF teeth
and snatching out ofhair among
the women folks when Mr..
Brown waved US all fond
adieu last Tuesday morning
from the rear end ola Pullman.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1906-09-14

William R. Hearst, of New York who
was candidate for the Presidency two
years ago, and many other men, pro
minent in public life, will also attend
the fair.
The governors Of Virginia, North Car
DINA. Kentucky and Tennessee and
members of their official families will
tended to Yirginia's representatives in
congress-; and Senators Daniel and
Martin, and most Of the congress men,
have accepted.
Quite number Of people will go
down from here to see and hear the
Great Commoner, and hundreds from
all over the state will be present.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1906-09-14
Schools and Who Will Teach Them

The High School at Rural Retreat and
Kings Grove will open Monday Sept.
II. All other school in the district will
open Monday Sept. %, except Corinth,
which will open as soon as the new
school building is completed. Following
is list of the different schools and the
names of those who will teach them.
Rural Retreat Prof. w r. Bowers,
principal. Assistants; Misses Dorothy
Stone, Maude Peasants, Lula Davis,
CYNTHIA Phillippi and Mamie Phllippi.
Kings Grove Misses Josie Huddle,
Ella Hudd.e and Oslo Buck; Corinth--
Miss Mae Peasants; Huddle School
Miss Anna Umberger.
King "A. b. Wilson. Royal Oak--Misa
Ada Germany. Berea-Miss Beulah Dut-
ton. Glade-Miss Carrie Germany
Browning Miss Cynthia Brown. Pat
ton-Miss Alice Rosanbaum. Kimber-
ling Mrs. Ollie Tilson Huddle. Lam
bert Miss Rachie Huddle. Mt. Zion
Miss Georgia Ward. Cave-Miss Meta
Eelty. Hilton-M,ss Carrie Baughman,
Murpheysville (colored)--S S. Hall.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1906-09-14
Digging For Gold

Southwest Virginia, and es-
pecially Wythe county, has
long been noted FORTS valuable
minerals and metals, but the
widest dreamers hardly hoped
to have a gold mine added to
our already large assets. How
ever the report reaches us that
r. W Poindexter and Jesse
Taylor are digging for gold on
land that formerly belonged to
to Draper Martin. near the
top of Iron Mountain close to
the Wythe and Grayson line
on the Dry Run road. 1t is to
be hoped that the precious
metal will be found in sufficient
quantity to justify working it,
MONEY To LoAN.-I have
$4,000 to lend on deeds d
trust. Long time if wanted.
E. LEE TRIMKLE, ATTY, Wy.
THEvILLE, VA.
Fifteen convicts are en-
ployed in building roads in
Washington county, and they
are said to be doing very good
work. This might be a good
scheme for this county to OBJ.
tain better roads.
w. G. Painter, a we'll known
travelling man, Of Dublin. at
tempted to end his liiein Blue
field last Friday. He swal-
lowed two ounces of laudanum
but by heroic efforts the doctor.
succeeded IN saving his life.
Rev. John Smith, a vel
known Methodist minister o.
Bland county, died at his home
near GrapeAeld last Friday
afternoon. Mr.. Smith was over
~ years of age. 1t is said tina
he married more people and
conducted more funerals thar
any other man in Southwes
Virginia.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1906-09-14
High School Opens Sept. II.

The High School will open II and
very large enrolment is expected It is
highly important that every pupil pos
sible be present at the opening that he
may be properly graded and classified
and get an even start in his work
Parents viii please not purchase any
hooks except by direction OF teacher-
Pupils under seven years OF age cannot
be enrolled.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1906-09-14
Bryan Will be There.

It is now positive fact that William
J. Bryan, twice candidate for President
of the United States, and who will
undoubtedly be the next democratic
nominee, will be at the Great District
Fair in Radford Va, next Saturday, Is
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1906-09-14

ME. GICI ACCSiliiS "o
Wytheville Monday.
Miss Edna Baumgardner,
returned to Bristol Tuesday.
Miss Matte Grenier, has re-
turned from visit to friends
in Richmond.
Misses Lula Tarter, and
Mamie Copenhaver, were
shopping in town Tuesday.
Flecks poultry food will
make your hens lays. Try a
pkg. helms & Etter.
Mrs. F. E. Nelmes has re-
turned home after spending a
month at the Peaks of Otter.
Cabbage shippers have been
greatly Inconvenience this
week on account Of lack of
cars.
Miss Jamie Phillippi re
turned home Monday after a
pleasant visit to friends in
Grayson county.
Misses Mayme and Pet Fagg
stopped off here Monday to
visit relatives on their way to
S. ]. L, at Abingdon.
Miss Leila Buck and Miss
Jessie Long Of Burk's Gardern,
left for Marion Monday where
they entered college.
Mr.. Herbert Eiffert will at
tend Emory and Henry college
this year. He left Tuesday
for that well known institution.
We want a letter from every
neighborhood. Can'tyou write
one next week? 1t will take
only a few minutes time. Drop
us a few lines.
If you are looking for some
thing nice in ladies' Misses
and childrens wraps, don't fail
to see what we have to show
you. Nelmes & Etter.
Send THE TINES to your
friends out west. down east or
wherever they may be. 1t
costs very little, and will re-
mind them of you every week.
We have punched together
a lot of mems, wcmens, and
children's, shoes which will go
for cashlat yourprice, not ours.
Nelms & Etter.
Marriage license have been
issued by Clerk ]. R. Honaker
to Chas. E. Witt and Bertha
McGroskey; Charles Emmett
Conner and Edith Lee Peters.
Mr.. w. M. Buchanan is out
again, and has almost entirely
recovered from the injuries he
sustained to his eye several
weeks ago. 1t was found
necessary to remove the in
jured member.
A special appointment has
been made to The Hobbie
Company Of Roanoke, Of the
Knabe-Angelus agency. which
is the Knabe upright piano
with the world famed Angelus
piano player builtinside. The
two instruments in one elegant
case. Write The Hobbie com
pany, Roanoke, Tor complete
catalogue describing this won
dertul instrument.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1906-09-14

STRAYED form my premises
about August 80, one black
Berkshire boar, weighing about
200 lbs. Any information will
be gladly received by.
M. l.. LINDSEY
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1906-09-14
Brownie Buck, OF Bristol,
was IN town Tuesday.

PS' JOtil laws oDCllL
Wednesday in Wytheville.
Misses Ida and Ada Cor.
many were in Wythevllle
Tuesday.
Miss Dorothy Stone is visit
ing Miss Bess Howard in
Pulaski.
Misses Sallie and Clara
Huddleleft yesterday for Mari
on Female College.
Our old friend, Mr.. Solomon
Buck, continues in about the
same condition.
Judge R. c. Jackson is hold
ing court IN, Pulaski county
this week.
DR.. ]. NJ. Phipps spent a
few days in the Capitol Of the
Contederacy last week.
Misses BERTHE Miller and
Lois Umberger were in town
shopping Wednesday.
Mr.. John H. Kelley returned
to his home in Brooklyn, N.
Y, Wednesday night.
Capt. ]. w. Robinson and
wife, ofLynchburg. are visiting
friends in town this week.
Miss Daisy Scott, OF Wythe-
vile was visiting the family OF
Mr.. Jas. Scott, last Saturday
and Sunday,
Misses Halle Richmond and
Leta Days left Tuesday for
Stonewall Jackson Institute,
Abingdon, Va.
Messrs Davis Phlllippi and
w. M. Buchanan have each
placed a new piano in their
homes.
Miss Annie Umberger, a
charming young lady from
Wytheville is visiting Miss
Bessie Freeman.
Rev. Finley Eversole IN (
bride left for Long Hol ow,
Tuesday, and from there they
viii go to their future home at
Asheville NJ c.
Rev. Chas. Pratt and wife
off here Monday on
their way to Richmond, and
were the guest for a few DAYS
Of DR.. and Mrs. E. c. Eversole.
Drs. S. R. and W, S. Sayers
came up from Wytheville
Wednesday and went over to
see Mr.. Chris. Whistler, who is
seriously i'll.
Mrs. w. A. Richmond, who
has been the guest of relatives
in the city for a week, returned
to her home at Rural Retreat.
Va, yesterday.-Bristo Cour-
Ter. nth.
Among the new subscribers
received this week may be
David S. Jones,
Jas, t. Heldreth, 7. Martin
Hicks, w. j. Tobler. r. S.
Doak and Chas, Slagle.
Crockett from Wytheville
this week and Simmerman
shipped one hundred export
cattle. which averaged 1854
They go to England
by the way Of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Lizzie Painter, Of Rural
Retreat, who has been nursing
her daughter, Miss Ellen Pain
ter, at the home of DR.. G. c..
Painter, returned to her home
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-03

of ground ought to have a garden
It may be only 1--WE feet square.
but ne "A plant 1t in green ,peas.
|succulent onions. radishes. or let
tuce and stil find room for a flower
or W TO throw a little color and a
little fragrance into his life.
There are many reasons. econom-
zeal. physical, csthctic and moral,
why every man should be his own
gardener, II he can
Thousands OF dwellers In hotels,
fats and tencments can't be. Their
existence is as dun and cherries in
the season when all nature is gay as
is that OF a bird that is Gagged.
They may laugh aud so does the
Gagged bird sing. But II Is not true
living, for all that.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-03
OLDES BODY OF
HUMAN BEING.

The oldest body OF any human be
ing now reposes in the Egyptian Gal
lery of the British II is the
body of a man who was buried i'm a
shallow grave followed out OF the
sandstone ON the west bank OF the
Nile, in upper Egypt.
This man must have hunted along
the banks OF the Nile before the
time OF the earliest mummied king
which the museum Possesses before
the times of Menes. who was sup
posed to have ruled Egypt at least
5000 years -. G. There were pre-
yious to that time two prehistoric
races, one the c]Onquerors and the
other the conquered. from which
sprang the Egyptian race OF the ear
lier dynasties.
1t is with these remote stocks that
this man has to do. Considering the
condition i'm which he was found, it
is evident hat he was associated
with n late period OF the new stone
age of Egypt. lie was buried lu a
characteristic neolithic grave. With
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-03
THE CITY MANS
GARDEN.

A little garden. If properly cared
for, will save the city dweller many
a dollar. But that is by no means
the chiefest good. Even If he has
more money than he knows what 90
do with he will stin find rich profit in
Welding the spade and hoe for eIc,-
else. And the rarest pleasure comes
OF following the primal instincts Of
nature.
1t is not alone the plants and flow
ers we long for.
An inner something impels us to
put our hands at work in the earth.
to battle our bodies in the sunshine
and to open our souls in devotion to
things that are not gross. but sweet
and pure.
To be pitied is the man who does
not drink in with delight the fra
GRANGE OF the flowers after having
breathed all day the stencil OF a city,
and who does not learn a lesson from
the noiseless orderly. b%enencent
processes of nature that are con
stanuy going on around him.
Every city dweller who has a bit
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-03
IMPOSSIBLE TASK.

No amount OF sophistry can con-
vince the thinking American people
that the Republican party stood for
railway rate legislation. on the 9TH
er hand. the Republican party stood
for those amendments which made
probably result in the bill being
made practically valueless.-Hurung
ton Advertiser.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-03

his neolithic pots and instruments
Of flint about him. There IS OF
course. no inscription Of any kind
on the pots. knives or grave. an hay-
ing been made long before the in
yentIon Of any written Ianguage.-
American Antiquarian.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-03
ONLY WAY.

We shah never secure "a square
deal" until we get a new deal. The
cards were stacked by the trusts
when Dinsley dealt-Clarksburg
News.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-03

intoxicating liquors nave been
made from the sap OF the birch. the
willow. the poplar. and the syca-
more.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-03
AND THEY WILL.

The time has come when the plain
people will have to lay aside politics
and get together, II they hope TO
wrest the state government from the
state house machine. Grafton Lead
er.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-03
JUST THE THOUGHT.

All of which will knock the potted
ham out OF the picnic sandwieh.-
New York Mail.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-03

Subscribe for the D,ny Leader
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-03

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MENTS AND ONLY $198.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-08-31
TAear Absence Ezraai.sA.

Thear Abssnee ExRaalnsa. Y,
During an acrimonious debate, In thu
house shortly before the civil war Nj
Potter Of wisconsin nude some yery
sharp structures OH Mr.. Pryor OF Wiz.
ginia. The result was II challenge from
Pryor to, fight duel. which Potter
promptly accepted. naming as terms
bowie knives ut five PAGES, terms
Which he well knew Pryor would NC.
dare to accept as he was small man.
while Potter was large. powerful
man and familiar with the use Of the
bowie knife. Pryor declined on the
ground that the proposed terms were
beneath the dignity Of a gentleman to
accept, and so the matter ended. But
on the day following the challenge,
while the result was still unknown,
both Potter and Pryor were absent
during roll call, aud when NPotter's
name was called Quaker member
rose and in mild voice said, "dr.
Speaker, I am informed that the gen.
tleman from WISCONSIN had Prior en-.
gagement.' And when pryor's name
was called moment later he rose
again. saying. "Afr. Speaker. hear
that the gentleman from Virginia has
gone to be as clay In the hands Of the
Potter"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-08-31
A Useless Model.

An English manufacturer of pottery
Is the subject Of a joke told in the
Liverpool Post. While on continental
tour he purchased Sevres vase for
some hundreds Of pounds and brought
it home most carefully. Thinking that
the foreman of his works might gather
a hint from the design he called that
gentleman in and showed him the treas
ure. How do you like it?'' he asked.
The foreman took the vase in his hand,
turned 1t over and returned it, with the
brief reply, II don't think can learn
much from It," "Why not?" asked the
manufacturer. II don't like telling
you, sir" 'Come. Out with it."
"Well, designed that vase myself. It
is foreign imitation Of our own work
and is worth rs at the outside"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-08-31


Prynne, barrister at law, Of Lin
coins Inn, Puritan Of the strictest
sect, published his famous ''Histrio
sAastix," huge volume Of LOCO quarto
pages. aimed at stage plays. music
dancing. public festivals, Christmas
sports, bonfires and maypoles. For this
alleged libelous volume he was arraign-
I'd before the star chamber.
4 Mr.. Prynna, In his general sweep Nor
his historical illustration Of the mis-
ehief Of frequenting plays, referred to
Nao and spoke Of Flavius and others
who conspired against him for his bad
slsxample upon the magistrates and the
5tpeople. The chief justice from this In
a1kfed that the author intended to IN
I Ss1Gate To people to murder the king.
4 80 Prynna was deprived of his right
- practice - : barrister, condemned
~ stand 81 IT, pillory at Westminster
51nd Cheapsida, to lcse Hi carr, one 1t
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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-08-31
Candlelight.

Hail. candlelight. without disparage-
ment to the sun or moon. the kindliest
luminary Of the three, If we may not
style thee radiant deputy, mild viceroy
Of the moon! We love to read, talk, sit
silent eat drink. sleep by candlelight.
They are everybody's sun and moon.
This is our peculiar and household
planet. By the midnight taper the
writer digests his meditations. By the
same light we must approach to their
perusal If we would catch the flame,
the odor. Night and silence call out
the starry fancies. Milton's Morning
Hymn In Paradise" we would hold
a good wager, was penned at mid
night, and Taylor's rich description of
a sunrise smells decidedly of the taper.
Even now loftier speculation than we
have attempted courts our endeavors.
We would indite something about the
solar system. Betty, bring the can
dles."-Charles Lamb.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-08-31
Dor:.,,e Thinking.

Professor Jastrow. writing Id the
Popular Science Monthly of the causes
Of certain iapses of speech. recalls the
singular power that Sir walter SEQ. 4,
among others, possessed of cond,, citing
two trains of thought at tie anne
time. When highly develop.<d this how
er enables Its possessos subconscfous-
~ to find words EXPRESSING q thought
already formed While at the some time
shaping the next thought period in
conscious preparation. An instance is
given BY SCOTS amanuehsis, who re-
lates that while dfctat.hg the novelist
would sometimes search through a
book. finding and reading passage,
and thus keeping two trains of
thoughts goihg simultaneously. The
amanuensis discovered the fact that
Scott was doing double work In his
brain through the occasional occurrence
in the dictation Of a word which did
not fit In the sentence, but four or five
lines farther on the place where. the
word belonged would turn up.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-08-31
win Row TIL Judgment Day.

There Is a shivery; shaky legend
among the people who live along the
Hudson river which is to the effect
that that stream is the everlasting
boating waters of specter who is
personified as Ramhout Van Dam.
Away back in colonial times Ramhout
and his friends were drinking until
late at night. Finally this man Ram
bout started for home, some distance
up the river. in his boat, swearing that
he would row the distance IL it took "a
month of Sundays" Ramhout never
reached home, and the superstitious
people say that he has been condemn
ed to row till judgment day.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-08-31
Hie Dauehter.

A gentleman who was once STONED
By an old man begging replied, 'Don't
you know. my man, that fortune
knocks once at every mans door,
Yes" said the old man, '.he knocked
at my door once, but ! was out, and
ever since then he has sent his daugh-
ter" 8
His daughter replied the gentle.
man. What do you meanr
why. Miss Fortune" 55s
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-08-31
The Unusual way.

do the Blanks manage to keep up
appearances since they lost the greater
part Of their fortune3 n Z. 81
mo They don't bother abont APP
pearances They Just use what little
money they have to make themselves
comfortable. Detroit Free sPressa !,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-26
Doctors XIII Patients.

The Chicago Chronicle of yesterday
said
"The action of the Ohio House OF
Representatives in declining to reject
the measure introduced by Representa-
tive Hunt making the administration OF
a fatal apesthetic in cases considered
homeless discretionary with the attending
phy.ician after consultation with three
other physicians, has brought forth
storm Of protests from Chicago scientists,
phiIanthropists and professional men
generally. One physician, however,
asserted that for years doctors have used
discretionary powers 10 cases of incurs-
hle disease. This is vigorously denied
by other practitioners. The majority
declare the effect of the law would les
sen the ssnctity of human life, already
too lightly regarded, and open the way
to errors OF judgment, which might re-
suit in iucalculable harm TO society.
Those, on the other hand, who favor the
idea from an economic aud humanitarian
point of view insist that discretionary
power should not be invested IN any
numoer Of physicians, but should res'
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-26
AIEXANDRIA VA FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20 1906.
Alexan0ria 6azrtfs.
The Imposter.

Kathryn Gray, who claims to be a
former yassar girl, has been ordered
from Pitisburg by the police dePartment
and threatened with imprisonment il she
returns there.
Some weeks seo Miss Gray created a
sensation by announcing that she was
the only daughter Of former United states
Senator Ashbury Gray, OF Virginia, aud
that she was just coming into bis fortune
Of $500, 0OO She employed the best al
,orueys, and, it is said, secured consider
able loans from seversl well-known busl-
mes, men. Soon after she wrs decleaved 70
be an jmposter, and one night she dis
appeared, after giving an alleged worth
less check to her attorney. since her
disappearance from the house OF f II.
Bausman, where she had worked as
kitchen girl, she has Seen hying high.
Laurence Faust caused the arrest OF
Miss Gray on a charge of false pre-
tense. Faust was q coschman who
posed as a millionaire and wrote let
iers to Miss Gray Offering to marry
her. The Vassar girl, it is alleged,
quickly got all Faust bal-$6O-then
told him togo.
Monday she was arrested and given
hearing before Alderman Negley. She
was accompanied by an attorney, but
made DO defense until Faust, the coach
man, was through than she said
'I gave you back SlS, didn't II"
"Yes," admitted the cresIfal!en coach
man.
"And | I'VE you my note for thirty
days for the balance, didn't I?' asked
Miss Gray.
"Yes."
"Then, may it please your honor,
have discharged nv obligation to this
person and demand to be discharged, "
said Miss Gray, rising like a queen.
'I cues, that's right, said the alder
man, looking foolish
Then Iospecior B'iley ordered her out
of town within twelve hours, aud she
promis d to 60.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-26
Double Tragedy.

Word reached Wilmington, lel., last
night of double tragedy that was COM
mitted by highwaymen at Bernardtown,
Chester county, Pa. Boyd Carpenter,
resident of that place, was shot and in
stantly killed and his wife was moFtally
wounded. The entire neighborhood Is
aroused, and the perpetrators will prob
ably be lyncbed il captured by the posse
which is searching for them.
When Mrs. Carpenter was on her way
home alone from Coatesville, Pa, at 3
O'Clock last night she vas held up near
her residence by the highwaymen, who
are supposed TO be foreigners, and at
tackled. She screamed loudly for help,
aud her cries we're heard by her husband,
who ran to her aid.
CARPENTER, who was unarmed, grap-
pled with the asssiIsnts, and was shot TO
death by the highwaymen before bis
wjfe's eyes. Mrs. Carpenter got be-
tween the murderers and the body OF her
spouse, and she, too, was shot severai
times and fatally wounded.
The tragedy occurred on coan'y
road, but the reports of The shooting
were heard 10y all Of the residents near
by and help soon reached the dying
woman. In the road lay the body ol
her husband. The murderers made thell
escspe, but it is believed that Mrs. Car
penter will be able t) give description
of them should she regain consciousness