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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-04-04

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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-04-04
PENCIL SKETCHES
OF YOUR FRIENDS.
PERSONAL AND
BRIEF MENTION
MANY LITTLE ITEMS GATHERED
HERE AND THERE THAT
ARE INTERESTING

Mr. II X. LeGcl of Cincinnati. Is
i'm the city ON business
Mr b. Purcell of WEIGH. is ia
the city ON business today.
Mr. Frank Cassell OF Radford is
doing business in the city
MIR e. W Harrison, of Phuadel-
phia, is stopping over in the city
Mr. J. u. Daley of North Taze-
Well was am arrival in the city to-
day
Mr. C. a Ramsey. of Wise. va.
is ON our streets today attending to
business.
Mr.. II A. Payne. Of birmingham
Ala. is in the city looking ont for
business
Railroad Contractor Samuel Litz
of Graham. is greeting friends ON
our streets today
vc<..I or paI,,,, anu !" -
ms. ,t.i.ar a. are o"S'
Mr. w Casscll and wife are
|onp!ma over in tho city ON their
return from visit TO Norfolk,
Conductor n Coleman o,|
.n.fr... . ,., !" '"e '''y on
'.''N
CO, Harry NJ. smith. OF tho
"o.ahoura- Headlight. was in the
Yesterday 4,etrg friends
Tine funeral of Mrs John l.
Wri-H. VIII Doe conducted Inv Re,
"ma priddy at the Christian
erch his evening.
''.'1''''h reynolds of
'lS'"hs her sister /
street. This city
'', '"'''' Neid OF this city re-
' rom "''eNDsDoro. ~ Cd
where S"e has been so
''"- '"' "'F heaIth.
Mrs f.. II. PorteraoId Of mi. .i,u ,
'"'''u TO MaEbrook Va. yes
nay %" account OF the death of
60 '''-''" MIS-. Frederick
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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-04-04
WANTED:-A young lady
to sell tickets at the Fam
lily DC Theatre.
IRONING 4 LUXURY;
SAVING COAL BILLS.

BE modern and do your ironing by
electricity All you have to do is to
attach a common fixture to the iron
me Bluestone Traction Company has
large stock of irons which thew
VIII place on trial to any responsible
person. These irons will be sold. If
satisfactory, at cost, which will he
$500 per iron. All it costs is Oh
cents per hour and is the greatest
invention of the age. Call at Office
bIuefeld avenue, or phone 12O.
3-13-2wks.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-04-04
ATTENTION CONFED-
ERATE VETERANS

There will be special meeting OF
Mercer County Camp. No. SIS. C..
~ at the City Hall in Buefeld. w
'a. ON Saturday Apral 13. 1907
O'Clock p m This meeting is
allied for the purpose Of ascertaining
no and how many of our Camp In
end 70 attend The Reunion at Rich
1ond Va. May 30 to June 3. 1907
Ihis is important Let there be g,
ull turnout
BY order.
x. II BAILEY. Col Condo
ACOB GARRETT Adit
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-04-04

The w. c. r. t. will hold pub
Tic prayer meeting at Bland street
Sunday afternoon at $3.50.
All members are urged to attend.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-04-04

Monitor Pulverized Flour is unap-
proachable as to quality, incompara-
Die as to comparison, unequaIed as
TO purity.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-04-04
ROBBERS MUST GO.
Hello there, money say
rs. here is a good 90.
The FINEST FRESH
CREAMERY BUTTER
in THE WORLD

We will receive it daily
rom this ON. Only 33 cents
pound square.
H. S. STAFFORD & CO..
THE LEADING GROCERS.
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NOTICE.

To Contractors, Builders and the
General Public.
The Carpenters and Joiners OF
Local Union No. 976. Of BlueaeId
w. Va, have changed their wages
to eight cents per hour increase.
and nine hours to constitute n DAYS
work. Commencing April 1, 1907.
Committee.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-04-04

Fer RENT 3 nice rooms
On Pulaski street, over
bohannan's store, Apply
ct Store.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-04-04

The KEEN KUTTER
Line is fully guaranteed
against imperfections in ma
terial and workmanship.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-04-04

- no line OF carpenters tools the market TODAY
o VIII compare with them We solicit your valued pat
Fonage when IN need of anything in the tool line We
piose you hrst-cass goods at reasonable prices and
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DISTRIBUTING AGENTS
FOR THIS SECTION
For the Ceebrated
KEEN KUTTER

Brand of Carpenters tools,
ma IN the future will carAy
q large and well assorted
stock of all the tools of this
celebrated brand used by
the craft.
Evening star., 1907-09-02
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

The lighthouse at Smiths point, on the
Virginia side of the mouth of the Potomac
river, stands alone in the water long dis
tance from shore, and in winter, when the
ice in the Potomac and Chesapeake bay
begins to drift, 1t is often carried down
against the light. and the government has
placed stone bulkheads above and below
the lighthouse structure to protect 1t from
the ice masses. These bulkheads, which
are simply masses of stone piled in the
shoal water. are to be renewed and the
stone to be used will come from the quar-
ries along the palisades of the Potomac. and
will be shipped from Georgetown. A Phil
adelphia coal-carryiag barge arrived at
Georgetown Saturday and Is docked at a
wharf there to take aboard a cargo of four
or five hundred tons of riprap stone for use
on the breakwater at the light station.
Three four cargos of the stone will be
required, it Is stated, to complete the work,
SO that drifting Ice cannot bother the light
house.
The three-masted schooner William Cobb
has completed the loading of a cargo of
several thousand railway ties at Somerset
Beach on the Potomac and has sailed with
them for Perth Amboy, N. j., for a railroad
building there. The Cobb unloaded cargo
of building stone here before going to
Somerset to take aboard her cargo of ties.
Several barges are at river points loading
vessels at the Alexandria wharves at
this time loading cargoes of this kind The
tie shipping business, 1t is stated, Will be
resumed from Alexandria during the coming
week or two.
Arrived: Schooner Julia Hopkins. from
Alexandria, to complete the unloading of a
cargo of laths; barge Alexandria Gibson
from Norfolk, light, to load stone at George
town; schooner Cape Charles watermelons
from the eastern shore for Dealers schoon-
er John McGinnis, lumber from the Rap
pahannock river; Scow Farmers Friend
railroad ties from q river point; bugeye
Northumberland, watermelons from bay
point to Alexandria,; schooner R. Mason
cord wood from Aqua creek for Dealers
Wades bay; bugeyes Halle K. and George
B. Faunce, oysters in the shell from river
points.
Sailed Steam barge D. X. Jackson, light.
for river point to load; schooner Robin
Hood has sailed from Maddox creek for
bugeye Plumie Smith, light, for a river
point to load wood for this city; schooner
Mable and Ruth light. for Newbern, n. c.,
to load lumber; back to this port; tug
Minerva with a tow of light barges for the
digging machines down river.
Memoranda: Schooner Maud S. is at river
point loading for this city; bugeye Kathleen
Is at a river point loading wood for dealers
here; schooner Lula $. Quillan IS reported
loading glass-making sand on the Severn
river for Alexandria,; barge Annapolis,
laden with ties from the Potomac. sailed
from Norfolk for New York Saturday in
tow of the tug Defiance
The big steamer st. Johns is today max
ing her last trip of the season to Colonial
Beach, and, commencing tomorrow morn
ing, the steamer Harry Randall Will take
up the route for q week, The st. Johns,
Evening star., 1907-09-02

WINDSOR, VT, September 2.-The face
of Mary Cunningham, demure little Irish
waitress. deemed by the late Augustus Saint
Gaudens, sculptor, the most classically
beautiful face in America, is not her own
fortune, but will represent the fortunes of
others.
For Mary's face will be on every copper
cent, every ten-dollar gold piece, every
twenty dollar gold piece minted from the
designs which the government commissioned
the great sculptor to make for the new
money.
Mary Cunningham was discovered" by
Saint Gaudens in the little country town
of Cornish, near here, where the great
sculptor spent many of his SUMMERS Mary
was "discovered' by Saint Gaudens as she
tripped into dining room with his bowl of
vegetable soup.
My modelr'
The great sculptor sat back in his chair
He gazed enthusiastically at the wondrous
maid serving the vegetable soup.
Summed up in her, his artists eye caught
everything-the classic profile, the abso-
lutely pure features which the Greeks once
loved, the curving lips, the correct nose, the
knew he had found what he had sought
so leng-the perfect face which he needed
for the new set of American coins which
are soon to be issued.
Ideal Face Found.
Saint Gaudens forgot his meal All he
cared about was that he had found the
ideal face for the new series of United
States coins which the government had
commissioned him to design.
And soon now-though the hand that
made the designs is stiled in death, the face
has been preserved by Saint Gaudens Won
drous skill-in a few months the face of
Mary Cunningham. waitress, will be known
from Maine to California, from Minnesota
to the gulf.
This was a year and a half ago. Uncle
Sam had decided that he needed some new
designs for coins, and Saint Gaudens was
Evening star., 1907-09-02

much bigger man that he is popularity
credited to be he will enunciate a truth
which has not yet dawned sufficiently on
the body public.
Ancient History.
Right after the 1904 election Northcott
was slated for governor. Attacks of Ill
health followed, which caused him to fear
the rigors of a state campaign, and the
prospect of succeeding Judge Kelar on the
federal bench for his district appealed al
luringly SO that be never countenanced his
boom, and in the course of time sQuelched
1t, taking up and pushing Swisher in his
stead. The effort to revive his boom is in
teresting now, in that 1t affords the last
to be undertaken by Dawson followers who
are not particularly admirers of Swisher
for the place. but when it IS done and the
race is limited, as 1t promises to be. to
Swisher and Scherr, Swisher will be accept
able to virtually all of them.
w. G. Conley of Preston county, who is
an active candidate for attorney general
was in Wheeling this week among others
politically inclined who were attracted by
the reunion of the Society of the Army of
West Virginia. Besides q solid delegation
from his own county Conley's support may
include the bulk of the second congressional
district, with his chances better than even
in the other four districts, as he has an
extended acquaintance and goes after
things.
Conley Is Mayor.
At present Conley enjoys the distinction
of being mayor of Kingwood, the county
seat Of the buckwheat county, and he was
elected by the vote of every man in the
town minus two. There was no other candi-
date. Conley was prosecuting attorney of
Tucker county for two terms. and also had
one term as county school superintendent.
He was also elected to council in Parsons,
the county seat of Tucker, when that town
was democratic, and his popularity was at
tested by his running ahead of his ticket in
all his contests. Preston is his native heath
to which he returned from Tucker county
about five years ago.
If Robert Stallings, a member of the last
legislature from Tucker, follows up his
! boom 1t will mean two candidates for attor-
ney general from the second district, but
Stailings has not given the matter much
attention lately, and 1t is doubtful If he will
run. Stallings was sent to the house after
being beaten for the nomination for the
state senate the last time, and that district
promises another hot battle for the senate
beween Sam Montgomery and James W.
Flynn, both of Preston county. Montgomery
beat Flynn in the convention four years
ago, after Flynn won their home county
delegates. Conditions are different now, the
congressional organization leaning Flynn's
way instead of otherwise, and he looks
winner, although Montgonnery's fine senate
record should be a good platform for him.
Evening star., 1907-09-02
The 1907 Curtains

llS >VH SNul OSAAAASe
These Lace and Tapestry
Draperies are in patterns to be
discontinued to pake room
for the new patterns. Bought
of the makers at bargain prices
and passed on to Our patrons.
The wise housekeeper will ar
que rightly-that the new are
little or no more attractive, and
from one-third to nearly one
half more expensive.
om, pair for $50 quality Lace
C$S Curtains, 312 yards long and
GO inches wide.
CO No pair for $3.50 Mercerized
5000 Silk Tapestry Portieres,
in high art designs and colorings.
ca no pair for 81 quality Irish
1870 Point Lace Curtains, full
width and length.
Miscellaneous Lots
2Oc to 50 for Couch Covers; ori-
Wv entail designs and colOrings.
mn. for 5-foot White Enameled
ASN Poles, with fixtures, for lace
curtains. and portieres.
n6Nc to BIC yard for Dotted,
AUS Plain and Tamboured Mus
lin, Fish Net and Scrim.
Or to soc yard for Plain and
NSS Ruffied Bobbinet, Point d'Es-
prit etc.
Evening star., 1907-09-02

the sculptor selected to design them. II
| was easy enough for the master hand tc
| plan the coins, but to find the face from
which to make models-ah, that was an
| other story
| He searched high and low. There was
| plenty of pretty girls-oceans of them-but
| what he wanted was purely classic face.
| Models came and went-they wouldn't do.
| He couldn't find what he wanted anywhere.
| And then came that chance meal and-the
| waitress who served it,
| But the mere fact that Saint Gaudens
wanted Mary Cunningham to pose for her
/ profile didn't make the thing possible at
all. The waitress demurred She didn t
want to be a sculptor's model; she had
never done anything Of the kind. She
would far rather wait on table.
Genius Pleads With Beauty.
| And then the sculptor had to plead-he,
who could have had many society woman
to pose for him for the coins merely for
| the asking? He pointed out to Mary Cum
! ningham that she owed duty to the coun-
| try. You must pose!" was the artists s
| final fiat, and Mary Cunningham did
| With such material to work from Saint
Gaudens worked fast He had before him
| Just what he wanted. The face of Mary
Cunningham is-as it was when she posed
| for the sculptor-clear-cut and classical.
i its contour reminds one of the faces of the
| old-time patrician bellies.
| She has a fresh, pink complexion that re-
| minds one of roses and cream. 1t speaks
: of country lanes and blossoming hedges
and sunlt meadows. There is nothing that
| could possibly remind you of the city and
its confined life and it's more tinged atmos-
| phere.
Her figure is plant and graceful and she
moves with the easy dignity of one who
| was born to be beautiful. She has dark
| brown hair, which she wears combed up
/ from the high, white forehead Her eyes
| are of that cerulean blue over which artists
| rave, but which they never paint-because
! they can't.
| Mary Cunningham was born in Ireland
| twenty-six years ago. She came to this
! country not long since. She worked first
i'll Boston and finally came to Vermont.
Evening star., 1907-09-02
The New Curtains


ConnoisSeurs of real hand
made Lace Curtains are espe-
cially invited, and are promised
the price surprises OF their ex-
perience.
Nottingham Lace Curtains .49c 10 -
Irish Point Curtains ... SOS to s12
Cluny Lace Curtains. sos to $40
Battenberg Lace Curtains, s. 9S to s6
Antique Lace Curtains. s2.9S to Sc
Real Arabian Curtains. 1898 to sl2
Renaissance Lace Curtains So to SO
Bonne Femme Curtains. 81 40 to 50
Rufled Bobbinet Curtains CSC to $3.50
Ruffied Muslin Curtains .49c to $3.50
Lace Door Panels. .9Sc TO 50
Evening star., 1907-09-02
News of Curtains.
Clipped From Sundays Papers.

Think OF $4,000 invested in Lace
Curtains alone. The stock is divided
into three sections: First, the new
patterns for I9o7-oS, offered at spe-
Cial prices. Second, the makers re-
naming lots of 1907 patterns,
bought and offered at reduction OF
orc-tnlrd to nearly one-half. Third,
the smallest lots, one and two pairs
OF a pattern, offered at half price and
Evening star., 1907-09-02
Coal Operator Shot BY a Burglar.

CLEVELAND. Ohio, September John
]. Phillips, a prominent coal operator was
shot by burglar at his home on Mount
Union street late last night, and died q
few hours later Phillips, upon hearing
some one moving about the house, arose
and turned on the lights. AT the same mo-
ment a revolver shot rang out and Phillips
fell to the floor mortally wounded. The
burglar who fired the shot escaped. Phil
lips was forty-eight years of age. He was
vice president of the Eastern Ohio Coal
Company, and widely known in the soft
coal trade.
Evening star., 1907-09-02
Boy Struck and Killed bv Auto.

DUNKIRK, N. Y, September 2.-Harry
Reynolds, four years old, son Of Vert
Reynolds, living one and a half miles
west of Ripley, N. Y, was struck and
killed by an automobile yesterday after
noon. The boy ran out into the road in
front of an automobile The driver i'm
mediately reversed the power and turned
the automobile upon the trolley tracks
to avoid hitting the child but the wheels
struck the rails with such force mat they
were torn from the vehicle. which cap
sized and fell upon the boy, killing him
instantly.
Evening star., 1907-09-02
At Half Price

The Lace Curtains and Tap
estry Portieres of which but
one to two pairs of a pattern
remain-at hall price and less.
Sn OO pair for Lace Curtains
- 'S> made to retail at $3.50 to
$3.50 pair. They average half price.
50 nm pair for 81 and Sc pair
~S'O Tapestry Portieres: two
pairs of some patterns are here
hurry for these.
Evening star., 1907-09-02
We Have Made Comparisons,
Will You Do So?

It's stupid to pass judgment with
out being wise. We are wise-we
have learned the prevailing prices
for this furniture, and claim good
bargains for you. Now it is for you
to pass judgment. Will you please
do so?
ChiffOnier. as Illustrated, SIo.QS.
Evening star., 1907-09-02

John S. Filltben, foreman at the Harlan
& Hollingsworth corporation shipyard at
Wilmington, Del, slipped while stepping
ashore from ferryboat at the yard today
and fell into the Christiana river. AS he
fell the plank which he was crossing
dropped upon his head, stunning him SO
that he became helpless and was drowned.
Evening star., 1907-09-02
)urg, Austria, Rouman.a, Russia and


Advantage was taken Of the Stockholm
congress to hold a meeting of the new in
ternational association. 1t was resolved
that the association should regard the total
abstainers as its allies whatever might be
tho attitude of the total abstainers toward
the association.
Evening star., 1907-09-02

when she returns TO this city tonight will
go out of service to have some boiler work
done prior to going on the Norfolk day
route.
Evening star., 1907-09-02
GOVERNOR IN ROLE OF BOSS
WEST VIRGINIA EXECUTIVE
SAID TO BE "FIxING" THINGS.
Speculation Over Gubernatorial Nom
ination a Year Hence-Republican
Politics in the State.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
WHEELING, w. Va, September l, 1907.
The early days of September are expected
to clearly define the status of things guber-
material In West Virginia. By that time
Gov Dawson and his party are due to re-
turn from trip to Colorado and Auditor
Seherr is figured on to announce himself as
a candidate in opposition to Secretary Of
State Swisher, who is enjoying the field to
himself.
With Dawson in Colorado are Swisher and
Elliott Northcott, United States district at
torney and Upshur Higginbotham, who ex-
poets to become the republican candidate
for prosecuting attorney of Kanawha coun-
ty The trip west was for the purpose of
personal inspection of mining investments.
but everybody expects from 1t final settle
ment of the question of whether Northcott
is to be drafted as a candidate for gov
ernor. The candidacy of Northcott would
mean the elimination of Swsher.
Dame Rumor continues to assert that the
trip was partly made to afford an oppor-
tunity for bringing about this result, but
few believe that it will be arrived at. In the
first place, Swisher's principal supporter Is
Northcott, and 1t is hardly likely that
Northcott will agree to become a candidate
under the circumstances, particularly since
he has repeatedly declined to be considered,
and since it was on the strength OF his an
nouncement of support OF SWlSher, mace
a year ago, that Swisher decided to hustle
for the place himself.
Speculation INDUCED.
More or less leading lights in the state
administration talk confidently of North
colts prospective candidacy, arguing that it
will be put UP to him SO strongly he will be
unable to refuse. In such an event they will
offer Swisher denomination for secretary
of state on a golden platter. But they
reckon without their host in all such specu-
lation. Swisher got out of the road three
years ago, but he is in the race for governor
to a finish this time
While there are men on the states payroll
who profess confidence in an eventual
Northcott candidacy, with the backing of
Gov. Dawson there are the other hand
an equal number of studiouS and skeptical
| republicans who think they see merely an
other turn in the wheel to strengthen
Swishers hold, and these point to the
Kingwood boomlet for ex-Gov White as the
first similar shuffiing in the game.
These skeptical ones believe that in due
season Gov. Dawson will come out openly
that the governor will say he had other
preferences. presumably OF specifically
Judge John w. Mason, ex-Gov. White and
District Attorney Northcott. but in view of
the refusal of these to stand Swisher will
| fill the bill. 1t will be proper for the gov
ernor to say that Swisher has grown and
broadened in the last few years. And IL the
governor remarks that Swisher is eminently
Evening star., 1907-09-02

Japanese workmen are all labeled with
the, character of their trade and the name
Of the employer.
Evening star., 1907-09-02
Buy it and Save Nearly S..

II 'twere piece made to sell
cheap it would be dear--all such
furniture is. Critically inspect
note it's OF quartered oak, with
swell front and I6x2o French
plate mirror. The prevailing price
is SI5-here at only SIo9S. Learn
of other furniture-all guaranteed