The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-10-07
NOVEMBER S
ISMOUND DAY
United EFFORT WILL BE MADE TO
RAISE FUNDS TO SAVE HIS.
TeRic RELIC.

HAlSE Euhp6, ~ SAVE MIS-.
TeRic RELIC
CHARLESTON, Oct. 6. "a Already
the great movement among the nine
thousand school teachers and the S52,-
900 school children of West Virginia
% ave the mammoth mound at
Mound vile. the largest memorial Of
81 eStfnGt race to be found IN Ameri-
has had It's beginning with a fund
Of SIS sent to the Department of
schools from the counties of Raleigh,
Mercer and Wyoming.
state snpt Thos c. Miller is now
mailing out to the teachers Of the
State q circular Of Information call
ing attention to Mound Day, which
has been designated as November 5.
the object Of the day being 10 learn
much as possible concerning the
pre- historic race which left in West
Virginia a monument of Its antlqui-
and to raise funds for the pur.
chase OF the Mound.
All the money to be collected on
Mound nay or preceding is to be
Deposited in the nearest bank to the
credit Of che treasurer of the fund,
Hon Newton oglin. supt Miller has
prepayed an. order of exercises for the
slay which he is sending out to the
teaehefs throughout the State, as fol-
lows
Music America.
devotional exercises.
Mdsic GuideMe
Statement by the teacher concern
it the Observance of the day.
Paper Why We Observe Mound
BY a girl.
apei Historical Sketch OF the
iohrt by q boy.
Paper description of the mound
a girl.
Address by Prominent Speaker -
me Mound Builders
Two minute statements from public
speakers relative to the mound.
81 ptusio=-We virginia Hills.
Report OF contributions.
adjournment.
The State Superintendent urges that
teachers begin early to prepare for
Aiottnd Day and that all tho pupils
be requestea to contribute and to en-
ltstga soliciting committee to go out
among the people and solicit funds.
He also advises that careful list of
The contributors be. kept as the lst
win be deposited in the sttae archives.
There are many smaller mounds in
West Virginia and 1t is noticeable
that those along the Kanawha and Mo.
nougahela increase in size toward the
mouth OF the river. The one at
AEoudsyille Is the largest in America,
standing originally 30 feet high, 800
feet III circumference at its base with
trees growing on It nearly roo yeal
old. The State of Ohio also has many
oI these memorials of an extinct race,
The Serpent Mound in Adams county
being the most noted and the State
mas spent over 100000 in restoring
and preserving these mounds.
Tie mound Is now the property OF
the McFaaden heirs. The original
purchaser was Hon. G. s. McFadden.
Who when he went to Moundsville,
found German trying 10 buy the
mound to start a saloon there. He
bought Il himself and his heirs now
have possession. The price fixed up
on e IS $4,000, with donation OF S.,
900 homthe amount as memorial to
q S. McFadden.
state Historian Virgil A. Lewis in
speaking oi the mound says:
Ever conjecture cannot point
out the fine when the mound was
erected II may have been old
when q Pyraniids OF Egypt we're be.
ing bull or when cleepatraR needle
was beiTs iaahioned! It remains for
some otaer champollioh to exercise
his Ingenuity IN aseertaining the pc.
Rod d erection and uses Of these
monuments. This mammoth mound
ne greatest monument Of antiquity In
The Ohio yailes IS An west virginia
stands III the heart Of i iepfishihs
West Virginia city, ana saciia never
be destroyed