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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24
VETERAN BURNS TO DEATH
Skeleton Found In Ruins OF His
Store

Charlottesville Especially. - Capt.
c. w. Taylor, sixty-eight years of age
and Union veteran, was burned to
death in his store, about two miles
northeast of Profit, this county. The
building which was only one story.
burned in a few minutes. and n
search of the ruins by the score or
more people attracted by the blaze
revealed the charred remains of the
owner. Beyond the skeleton there
was little left TO Indicate the hu-
man body.
1t is supposed that Taylor upset
a lamp in his sleeping room, and.
being old and feeble and alone. he
perished before he could raise an
outcry. The body was found lying
In the doorway leading from his
sleeping room to the store room.
There were no indications OF foul
play.
Taylor was without relatives in
Virginia, as far as is known. though
somewhere in the North two nieces.
Misses May and Alice Taylor, aged
twenty-five and nineteen, respective
ly survive him. These young women
visited the old soldier at intervals
and were with him for a short time
last summer. Taylor had been n
resident Of this section for about
twelve years.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24
AvENGEs HIS DAUGHTER.
Father Shoots Married Man Accused
BY Girl.

Bristol Especially w. X. Stout.
well-known farmer of Sullivan
County, residing eight miles north of
Blun City, empted the contents of a
double-barreled shotgun in the breast
Oh william l.. Jones, a married man.
thirty-hve years old, who he alleges
was intimate with Stouts daughter
mere is no hope for Jones recovery.
Learning the story of her relations
with Jones from the lips of his eigh-
teen-year-old daughter, Stout procur-
ed shotgun and went in search of
Jones. The two met just as Jones
was leaving his mothers home. and
without warning Stout leveled the
gun and fired both barrels. leaving
his victim lying on the ground un-
conscious
1t is said that Jones denies having
improper relations whatever with the
girl, but the fsther declares he be-
trayed his daughter and he does not
regret his actibn. The girl is in
mysteries over the occurrence. She
followed her father almost a mile
when he left home before the shoot
ing, begging him to spare Jones life
but he refused.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24
MISSING GIRL FOUND.
Hard Work The Reason Angie Nor
ris Left Home.

i AhOHiC.
Charlottesville Especially. - Tho
mystery of the disappearance OF Miss
Angie Morris. of Sugar Hollow. from
the home of her father. John A. Nor
rls' has been explained, and the girl
| mas been found at work in the over
all manufacturing plant of the Mar
| chant Manufacturing COMPANY. near
this city. The position was secured
| Tor her by Mrs. Walter Long, a sis
| ler-in-law of Frank Long, who was
charged by the girls father with as
sisting in her flight.
According to the fathers state
ment, filed with Commonwealth's At
| torney Micajah Woods, Long took
TIE girl in a buggy from her home
! near Browns Cove, and drove with
her all night and returned alone the
next day. He said that he had been
| unable to get any inkling OF bis
daughters whereabouts since she
! leit, with the exception of notice
from relative, Simm Morris. OF Bar
Doursyille, that the girl and Long
had appeared at his home in a buggy,
and he had tried to induce her to
remain but she refused, and drove
away again.
vile and consulted a lawyer regard
ing the information which had been
gwen the prosecuting attorney. He
SAID that he had known the Morris
family ever since he began his lum-
Der operations in Sugar Hollow
number of years ago, and he felt
great sympathy for the girl, who
complained to him Of the terrible
lonesomeness of the mountains and
the hard work.
She begged him to find some way
Tor her to get away from the Blue
Ridge. He finally offered to drive
her to relatives home, at Barbours-
Vllle. When they reached the house
OF Slmm Morris. the girl found that
she was not far enough away from
the mountains. and decided that she
wanted TO come to charlottesville.
Long consented, and took her to the
nome of his sister-in-law, where he
left her.
Mr. Long emphaticaIy denies that
there was the slightest improper re-
.allon between himself and the girl.
lie claims that lie felt sorry for her.
ana, believing her TO be of an age
which left her free to DO as she
chose, he found the way for her to
leave the mountains
Long has carried on extensive lurn-
Der operations in the county for some
time. He was located at wv for \
whlle, being associated in business
with his brother-in-law. HIS wifs
was Miss Clayton, OF Augusta
County.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24
B. & O. Gives Tn Fight

Strasburg Especially The Balti-
more and Ohio Railway trains will
be operated from Strasburg juno
tion into Strasburg tomorrow morn
Ing, in accordance with orders of
the State corporation commission.
a controversy between the cor
poration of Strasburg and the Balti-
more and Ohio had been pending
Tor a number of years relative to
running the trains into town in ac-
cordance with the original charter.
The trains had been operated only
to the junction where the Southern
lracks reverted to that road in 1896.
when the Baltimore and Ohio gave
up the lease of tracks between Stras-
burg Junction and Harrisonhnre
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24
GUILTY OF MURDER.
MoOnshiners Confess To Killing
Woman.

Lynchburg Especially In the
United States District Court a final
disposition was made of the three
remaining cases of the moonshiners
arrested by Federal officers on a
charge of numbering Ann Hall, in
Patrick County, last March. Pitch
Rakes, George Booth, and George
Martin pleaded guilty of participa-
ton in the murder and their SEN
tences were fixed, the former at six
years in the penitentiary and the
two latter at one year each. Grover
Beamer was last week found guilty
of murder in the second degree in
this case and sentenced TO seven
years. William Z. Rakes was given
fifteen years on the same charge.
A nephew of Ann Hall, the MUIR
dered woman, was supposed to have
Informed government officers regard
ing Illicit distilling by the defend
ants, and they, in order to kill him,
1t is alleged, went at night to the
home of Ann Hall, his aunt, where
they thought he was concealed, and
hired several shots into the house.
one of which killed her. Her neph-
ew escaped and the five defendants
were captured six weeks later.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24
FOOT GUARDs-IN COLLISION.
Several Connecticut Soldiers Injured
In Accident.

Lynchburg (SpeclaD The spec
ial vestibule train en- the Norfolk
and Western. which was conveying
the Governors Foot Guards, Com
pany l. of Hartford, Conn, from
Roanoke to the jamestown Exposi-
ton, side-swiped a number OF bro
ken up cars which q wrecklng train
had brought from Montvale, and
which had failed to clear the switch
at Forest, about fourteen miles from
here.
The engine and a number of the
broken cars were derailed and sew
eral of the occupants OF the train
were thrown out of their berths and
sustained bruises and cuts. They
received medical attention from their
physicians, and after a delay of two
hours the track was cleared and the
train proceeded.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24
WILLIAM N. WILMER DEAD.
He Was Owner OF Estate Adjoining
Presidents.

Charlottesville Especially William
n. Wilmer, aged fifty-two years. of
the law firm of Cranfeld & Wilmer.
New York, died as the result of
tumor of the liver, at his Virginia
estate, plain Dealing" adjoining
President Roosevelts hunting lodge.
Pine Knot in Southern Alber-
marie.
He was the son of the late Bishop
Wilmer, Of Louisiana, and was edu-
Gated at the University of Virginia.
He is survived by his brother, Joseph
Wilmer, of Rapidan, and a sister.
Mrs. Edward C. Venable, OF Peters
burg.
Mr.. Wilmer was a member of the
New York City board of education
and chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the Normal College. The
Roosevelt property at Pine Knot was
purchased of Mr.. Wilmer, and he
had entertained President Roosevelt
lnd family on several occasions at
Plain Dealing"
Following a brief funeral service
held at Christ Episcopal Church, near
Plain Dealing" the body was
brought to Charlottesville and sent
pm the night train to Baltimore for
lnterment beside his parents and a
brother.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24
THIS AND THAT.

The bicycle craze has at last reach
ed the Mexican city Of Vera Cruz
mere Is also motor cycle in town.
Inc proposed extension of the
Yokohama gas works, at a cost of
SSl3 900 gold, is stated in a Japan-
csc newspaper extract forwarded by
Consul General Miller.
A woman, Il years old, accused
at Feltham. England, of intoxication
and disorderly conduct, said she had
been keeping up her mothers
birthday. Her mother was 9S.
The cloud formation known at
mares tails" and "mackerel sky
are invariably three miles high. The
highest clouds are 10 miles high and
these are composed OF minute par
ticles cf ice.
Consul L. r.. Dudley, of Vancou-
yer, calls attention to the opening
afforded for the establishment of a
plant to utilize the waste offal of
fish In the manufacture of guano In
British Columbia.
The = grim congregational
Church. near London, founded in
1916. IS the oldest If the denomina-
tion in the empire, and it was from
II that the London contingent Of the
mea of the Maynower was recruit
ed.
There arc 4 thousand acres OF sub
marine coal mines being worked
around Cape Breton. The charac-
ter or the soil overlaying these dig
gings enables them 10 be worked
without interference from the water
above.
\ railroad VIII soon be COMPLETED
when Will extend from Puerto Bar
rios, on the Atlantic Coast. to the
city Of Guatemala, putting the capi-
tai of the Central American Repub-
lie within five-days steam communi-
cation Of New Orleans
Glassless goggles for drivers OF
motor vehicles have thin steel plates
in place of the usual lenses. There
is nothing brittle to break, endanger-
ing the eyes, and three ingeniously
arranged Sits enable the wearer TO
seen everything in front Of him.
The Hampstead (London) borough
council has Instructed a committee
to draft bylaws dealing with street
noises, especially the intolerable
nuisance OF organ grinding and
church bells" @N
During 1906, The merchant marine
of Chilli was increased by "a vessels.
with tonnage of more than 10000.
The Chilian merchant marine now
consists of S5 steamers and 80 sail
ing vessels. with tonnage of no.
900 tons.
There are upwards OF S,000,0OO
separate freeholds In France, as CON-
pared with about 100000 in Great
Britain, fact which in Itself sDeaks
volumes. A Frenohman will part
With anything rather than land.
New York City is receiving a daily
average of TAO italian immigrants.
Including those from Italy. Sicily and
Sardinia.
University Statistics of Europo
seem to indicate that men arc de-
serting the practice OF medicine and
women are taking 1t up.
In Belgium girls are expected to
give five weeks out. ot each school
year to learning housework. Ths
girl Is required to know not only
now to cook O dinner, but how to
clean mp and care for q Kitchen.
[ do marketing, wash and iron,
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24
Suffolk Wants President

Suffolk (Specia President
Roosevelt will soon be invited to
come to Suffolk and hunt bears in
the Dismal Swamp. A number OF
prominent citizens will extend the
invitation to the Chief Executive and
assure him sure enough hunt for
bear and other big game. with the
promise that ne will be shown more
bears in one day than he has found
in a weeks travel in any other sec
tion of the South or East. Not only
do bears abound in the swamp, but
there are many wildcats. wild boars,
and wild bulls, with plenty of deer
and an occasional panther.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24
VIRGINIA WEDDINGS.

Suffolk.-Wilbur Francis Moody
and Miss Florence Shirley Bergen
were married in Christ P E. Church
Smithville, Va by Rev. Robert S.
Carter.
Richmond.-Miss Natalie Wor-
sham and William Writ Henry were
married in Grace Street Baptist
church, the Rev. DR.. j. M. Pitcher.
of Petersburg, officiating. Robert
Ferguson. of Norfolk. was best man.
Little Miss Mildred Bates was aaxz-
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24

SWAPPING" A MUSKRAT FIGHT.
All night long the splashing noise
and querulous cry of the fighting
males would come into our "shanty"
windows, and day by day we haunted
the deepest bays and swamps, hoping
to get picture of a combat.
At last chance gave us the oppor-
tunity. We had managed to get a
fair picture of male muskrat as he
came swimming upstream, and we
still stood watching him. He was
so close to us that we could see his
hands" held together at his breast,
just in the churn of the water, and
his legs kicking out very much after
the manner of frog when swimming.
Suddenly he dived down through the
clean water to a tiny sandbar and
picked up a clam with his hands. 1t
was fully two minutes by our watch
before he came to the surface again.
He sat within fifty feet of us turning
the clam over and over. Then he in
cised it with his strong teeth and tore
1t open. He had only just swallowed
the juicy bivalve when another musk
rat, intent on stealing it, dashed
across the bay.
There was sharp, chattering cry.
. A low, plaintive whine followed, and
with hair bristling and eyes flashing
key stood erect and tore at each 9TH
Biting, scratching. tearing, they
around, but the spot was too
for us to focue it. Finally,
locked in each others paws,
<|| pto the stream. Still tear.
a each other they fought
us, unnoticing. They
Aa unique picture
y ~ = he Muskrat~With a
r. castle Dale, in The
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24
Confesses stealina 81. 600.

Fredericksburg Especially Three
months ago box containing $1,000
In money and stamps was stolen from
q. w. Herring. Grant Vaughn, a
negro, confessed that it was stolen
by him and his two brothers. The
money has not Gen recovered.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24
Girl EafnIIv Rmrned

Strasburg (SpeciaD .-Portia, the
youngest daughter of DR.. l.. l.
Smith. pastor of the Lutheran
Church, was fatally burned here
while she was lighting the kitchen
fire. The kerosene can exploded,
setting her clothing on fire. She was
alone when the accident occurred.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24
Boiler AT Sawmim Fxplodes.

Fredericksburg Especially. W. w.
Mick's sawmlIl, in Spottsylvania blew
up just after the mon had left for
dinner. Had it occurred ten min
utes earlier the mill crew probably
would have been killed.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24
Bolles Resigns From Exposition.

Norfolk Especially Stephens w
Bolles, chief OF division OF exploita-
ton at the jamestown Exposition.
rendered his resignation. effective
November 1. He returns to st. Louis.
having accepted a position there with
an advertising company.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24
Body Washed ASHORE

Norfolk (speciaD.-JThe body of
In unidentified man, suppos to be
one OF the three who were crowned
lrom tne barge Saxon, which strand
Al nonr fsono uAk4~x<A ----.--.s-~a
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24

nigh noon OF maturity, and in Herbert
make for ndviduaton become that
When man has fully domesticated himself civilian
urescated the animals. the medical profess
this problem of the national economy Those
for pride their ancestry should feel most ee ~
Tansmit the sacred torch Of life future ssa
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24
CSH~R~%&r~or~ .a...se ~.<A,
s Race Suicide Due
! To College Cir
g BY The REQ DR. G. Stanley Hail President -
fI"SS<~@Sr~0ss Clark University. se -

HERE is a growing tendency to- celibats life. ~
hausttve study of the statistics of eraduates.of 4
Oldest colleges for men and four for women. It an
ten years after graduation about onefourth of thl
one-half of the woman remain unmarried y
Young men ana women, especially those 4.
cumstances, delay, deliberate, weigh the attractlo#
and welded life, consider socialsant ,evtsn -,
and LEtiE the aaoI.Io,.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24


whistle the tangled tnck
Will De
- his rich fail in the darksOme brake.
suddenly air steals the great
pouring its clusters the ronwood has little left to do but 81
that giSten beside the
prickly ash look if the summers work were done
The the breast of the robin runng Ia
glisten brightly tper
that his wings against the blue shows tai
old brook More finished Ell
fern that hangs its edge looks the water rp
The dragon out later in the day and the little
orbits skaters haste
lighter the Of the locust milder while the no
falls that done
told by the dropping limbs of the walnut and butteu by h
yelOwing of the crab apples along the
nd crimson stealing the little apples OF the haWthorns
suddenly something fall where the oaNs
than crUinb
another and then another unit
falling they beyond mista
Fall has comeFrom The Fullness Of the Year. in "a
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24
As Autumn GEM
BY T. -. Van Dyke.

. ITH the waning of summer the woods become mot
melancholy note of the cuckoo dies away with Az
blue jay tunes his jingling pipe less often The
still scratches merrily the ground, but -
greeting to the morning light and some. too t a
of the woodthrush when twilight deepens
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-17

! pie than any other medium could Sc
cure for me
Key to Financial Success.
That Is why I advertise exclusively
| in newspapers ] advertise not only In
the papers OF an the principal cities,
but also in 5000 country newspapers"
! II the cynical claim that money is
! the final argument carries any truth,
then Mr Douglass sincerity in declar-
/ ing the newspaper the foremost adver-
Using medium cannot be doubted
In 1906 alone, he went on, Il spent
/ 10000 in newspaper advertisements. ]
should not have done so were | not sure
the outlay was going TO bring me ade-
quate returns That was a fair sample
OF a years advertising expenditure
/ Figuring on that basis / have spent
| 100000 in newspaper advertising during
the pas, ten years. \ fortune? Yes.
| But. as ! say, the results warranted it,
I have given every form Of advey-
tising the fairest sort of trial l BEGAN
with newspapers In 1888. The results
were so good that later I also adver-
| Used in magazines. THE RETUltNS
DID NOT WARRANT NE IL CON
TINUING. / withdrew my advertise
ments from me magazines but later on
triad the experiment again once more
! D TOOK out nay advert semonts. and since
/ then / have used only newspapers to
bring my goods before the pubic eye.
Daring Cine past decade while / was
spend.n- 2HJOJl FOR newspaper adver-
useme1,s. sold D.s,u- tac estimate on
my 100 ro.uwn f..-i2+l gases of shoes.
There are twenty -.olI IS,r- of shoes 90
a case, tu.t make. d. total of 51-51.j
/ pairs for 1905. lr N-.lto pairs for t.e
[ ton ye1r1. Al the yho,c-al, price Of
/ 81 a pa r, that would be- FOR the dec
ade. S9i.floo. or so the retain rate Of
$3.50 a pair, it would equal Sill .236l60.
/ I'm my Advertisements, as rule. I
/ call attention to my shoes. leaving the
local dealers IN their own newspaper
advertisements to mention the fact that
! they carry the Douglas shoe.
BY the way. another excellent rea-
son for the superiority OF newspaper
over magazine advertising rests IN the
fact that IN those same local papers
the reader sees the 'ad' every day of
his life. while he sees 1t. At best only
once a month in a magazine. In other
words. he secs It thirty times as often
1 in newspaper, and IL has. therefore.
thirty times as many chances OF i'm
pressing him. Every man reads his
paper first Then, IL ne has time and
inclination. he reads magazines. Some-
times he has neither, and the magazine
goes unread
II am nos beaver In spasmodio
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-17

advertisement Ny principle is: Keep
pounding away at the reader all til
time. FUrms-.. Y used to be a custom
to advertise shoes at only certain sea
sons OF the year. i never adhered TO
advertising.
when a season is dull increase my
advertisements That may seem odd.
Many don't do IT, But I do.
That is one Of the secrets, l think.
OF success. Instead of hanging back,
waiting for a slack season to pass.
believe in advertising all the more.
This past spring, for example, was
backward and cold. 1t was bad for
trade. ] did extra advertising.
nor at such times, do l raise the
price Il shoes. II would not be fair TO
make the public pay for the slowness
of a season. ] do not lower wages In
that event. either, as the 1906 scale will
prove. The scale for that year shows
the average shoemaker's pay in the
United States was Si6l. In Massachu-
sets IL was $3.50. In Brockton. S62
while at my Montello factory IL was
500. That does not include superinten-
dents ana high salaried men. Just the
workers. on the union scale.
Another advertising theory OF mine
is that good 'ad' should be changed
very seldom OF coarse In tine case OF
dry goods stores or other places where
special sales are held and new attrac-
TONS offered from time TO lime it is
ueecssar.' 10 change the form and I'M
ducemeu,s of an advertisement. But
where man deals In a single staple
article. l think me should write one
strong. convincing advertisement and
let that stand for a long time.
Let him make sure first that il is
the strongest. best-woided advertise
meut lac can coucoct. Then let il stand.
There are good reasons for this. sup
pose a man has glanced at my Rdver-
usement for several days in succession
without reading it. Then one morning
! he does READ Il. That may be the day
when on l constantly change my ads
/ might have a weaker. less attractive
less convincing one than usual. Per-
haps l lose his possible custom.
"a good advertisement is an argu-
ment. Remember that. An argument
Not a boast. IL does not shout an I'M
reasonable command 10 buy something
II explains to you WHY you should
buy the article. 1t appeals to your
sense OF reason. 1t should never exag.
gerate in any way. but tell the mere
truth.
Base Claims on Merit.
IAN Advertisement Should never ,'a -
fnr goods more Advantage