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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-06-11
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JUNE q, 1909

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

y. III. e..
chicago .2O10OO20t-5 IL
New York -. .O0OOOOOOC-0 8 0
Pfester and Moran; Marquard,
Ames and Meyer.
All oth0r games postponed, rain.
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AMERICAN LEAUGE

Il. IT. II.
Detroit e.. .11OO00000-2 s 0
New York -. .lO0O0O0O0-1 Z o
Mullin and Schmidt and Stanage;
Mcconnell, Manning and Kleinow
al Blair.
All other American League games
postponed. rain.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-06-11

II the quality with prices IL what
you want you will do well to call
at j. ID. Birds store.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-06-11

Sl.25 and $3.50 wash waists at
use during this week at TURKS.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-06-11
BASEBALL
VIRGINIA LEAGUE

Lynchhurg. 6; Danville. B.
Roanoke, 6; Richmond, 5.
Norfolk-PortsmoNth game called
n second; rain.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12
FAREWELL. /" =

In leaving the District as Elder for
the past four years, willy" Atwil
also sewers connection as editor with
the .'Danville Methodist" Here is
his eloquent Farewell in the last
issue:
-Four years have passed by, but toe
soon, yet they are gone. During this
time the editor of this paper has min.
gled with his readers on mountain top,
and valley low. Imperfectly, he reali.
yes, he has done the work assigned him
four years ago, when appointed as pre-.
siding -elder of the Danville District,
but with pleasure he can say it has beer
done in love. And now that his place
must be filed by another, he can ask nc
greater blessing to accompany him.
than the kind treatment and generous
consideration that has been so freely
lavished upon this scribe, as he has
tried to faithfully do the work enjoined
upon him as editor of this paper.
"To the managing editor, and TO
each reader of The Methodist, my
thanks are extended, and my earnest
prayers are given. May God bless
each. Farewell.
wv. H. ATwILL."
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12
PRESIDENT ROUNDS UP HIS TRIP.

President Taft rounded up his l3. OOC
miles trip in Richmond Wednesday.
having visited large section of the
West and South. All Richmond turned
out to greet him, with the warm hospi-
taiity for which that city is noted. He
vas received by Governor Swanson. the
Mayor of the city and other no ables,
breakfasting at the gubernatorial man.
sion. His first address was to the Vir-
ginia State Press Association. which
was in session in the city. and the Times
Dispatch Correspondents Association.
He took in many of the sights of the
city. and later in the day made another
address at the Jefferson hotel.
In Wilmington. N. c., Tuesday the
President spoke eloquently to the Con-
federate Veterans. saying: 81 had the
pleasure today of being received by the
Confederate Veterans of Wilmington.
and thank them for their kindly well
come. Silyer-haired. some of them a
little lettering. but all of them full of
good will. full of loyalty. cherishing the
traditions of noble past, but glad to
welcome the representative of the
united country. You have. indeed, made
history in this. your neighborhood.
"All that history you cherish and we
cherish. but it does not make the
slightest difference, in our brotherly
feeling. in our fraternal desire always
to exhibit and manifest that love of
each other which comes of standing
elbow to elbow in the march of progress
to make this nation. great as it is, even
greater; to afford under our country's
flag an equal opportunity to all to work
out their fortunes and to elevate the
moral standards of manhood. so that
above all in the type of American we
can point to character as the thing to
remember.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12
REPUBLICANS FAIL.
DEMOCRATS GAIN.
Official Count Shows Mann's Ma.
j0rity Over 10000.

Judge Mann's majority over Kent has
reached 1,OO0, almost beyond the mos,
sanguine expectations when apathy ane
the fight by varied interests against hin
are considered.
The candidacy of Mr.. Frank p. Brent
went all to pieces, he running much be-
hind Kent and several others on tn.
ticket.
j. ID. Eggleston. jr., is elected Super
intendent of Public instruction by ma
jority of approximately "a, 500 over Mr.
Brent. his Republican opponent. Geo
w. Koiner won the office of Commits
sioper of Agriculture over James T,
Robson by a majority of $4,000. Ir
each case the majority is much larger
than was registered for Bryan one yea,
ago. showing that the Republicans lost
much ground during the year and are
in worse condition than before Mr..
Taft began his attempt on the Solid
South. sf'-s'''- or ~
The returns for the other State Offices
will not be knownsuntil the Legislature
meets.
The fact that Ss6 fewer people voted
on the educational than on the agricul-
tural Office indicates some confusion
between the two Egglestons on the
ticket. To this, to some extent, is
doubtless due the smaller majority re-
ceived by Mr.. Eggleston. However. the
Democratic vote and majority are ex-
ceedingly fiattering.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12
TRUCKERS NOTES.

The Department of Agriculture gives
the indicated total production of corn
for 1909 as 2, 767, BIG, 900 bushels against
2,668. 65l. goo last year.
Potatoes show total yield per acre
of 1865 bushels against S5.7 in 1908, an
indicated total production of 367, 473, 900
bushels against 27s. 9s5. 900 last year.
According to Secretary Wilson, of
the Agricultural Department. the value
of the American farmers output for
one single year aggregated the enor-
nous total of 81, $50, 000. 900. That was
for the calendar year 1903. but the Sec
rotary is confident that the total for
this year will be larger. The prospects
for considerable increase in the pro-
duction of wheat is excellent, on ac-
count of the stimulus of higher prices.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12
TALKING SENSE.

We are not surprised to see the Demo.
cratic party threatened with serious re-
suits did not the advice from certain
sources be followed, since revolts from
those sources have been witnessed in the
past. But past experience has also
shown that there was nothing to fear
from those sources; and just why the
State Committee should have paid any
attention to the threats that were
sounded is incomprehensible to us. We
do not know if they did really take seri-
ously the direct warnings given out, but
we are disposed to think the warmers
believe 80, which makes the results the
same as though they had gotten scared.
We do not believe in factions within the
party and have always endeavored to
fight clear of what have been termed
factions, but had we been a member of
the State Committee at its recent meet
ing, while being In favor of another can
didate, we would have surely cast our
vote for that man, whoever he was,
against whom the threat was aimed,
May the saints take care OF the party
when it reaches the point where heed
has to be given to those who have tried
In the past to wreck its existence and
who should now dare threaten It with
We are better off without
these, and the sooner they take their
departure and seek the company more
in consonance with all concerned, the
better it will be for al. Richmond
News Bulletin.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12
CRISP NENs.

The two largest bituminous coal com
panies of the world are reported as
about making a gigantic combination,
involving q capitalization of $iSl, 0O0. 900.
Thus the grip of the combinations siezes
even the fuel that is to warm US and
run our furnaces and steam engines.
The high price of meat threatens. so
it seems. the price Of shoes. As ami
mails cannot part with their skins with
out being first killed and as the high
price of meat may largely inhibit the
Strengthening of animals. the result. re-
mote but certain. is that shoes will go
up, skins being scarce. Then the peo-
pie will stop raising food anifilals and
the barefoot boy come again.
That was a sad story that came to
light not long ago. Peter and Dave
Galloway. natives of Scotland, bought a
farm IN Culpeper county some two
years ago. They had two brothers in
their native country and these had
taken passage on the steamer Hestia,
which was wrecked off the New Bruins
wick coast October 25th. The young
fellows had started full of hope at COM
ing to Virginia where their brothers
had settled, but were lost in the wreck.
The boys were twins and the father, a
business man of Glasgow, was anxious
that they should be established here
and sent them away for that, but. the
sea swallowed them up.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12
SERIOUS SYMPTOMS.

Mrs. Annie Hamilton. Stetsonville.
Wis. developed serious symptoms, as a
result "f some form of female trouble
from which she suffered.
A letter, in which she Describes these
symptoms and tells how. by the Cardui
System of Home Treatment, she finally
managed to cure herself, may prove OF
value 70 you, IL you are suffering. as
she did from ailments peculiar Il
women.
She says: "When / was suffering
from female trouble. / could no, sleep,
eat or stand on my feet without pain.
l could not work. and could not stoop
on account of pain in my side. took
medicine from three doctors without
benefit, and the last one said | was in
a critical condition. and going down
hill. At last l took Cardui and in two
days time / was a different woman.
Now l eat good, work good and feel
better than i ever did in all nv life
Cardni is good medicine and if all poor
sick ladies' knew of it there would be
less suffering"
Sold at all reliable drug stores. Try
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12
The Best Food for Workers.

The best food for those who work
with hand or brain is never hixh
priced.
The best example OF this is found in
Quaker Oats. 1t stands at the ton
among foods that supply nourishment
and vigor, without taxing the diges.
ton. and yet it is the least expensive
food one can eat.
This great food value and low cost
make 1t an ideal food for families who
want to get the greatest good from
what they eat.
Laborers. factory or farm hands, fed
plentifully on Quaker Oats will work
better and with less fatigue than II
led on almost any other kind of food
All OF these facts were proved and
very interesting information about
human foods were gathered by Pro.
lessor Fisher OF Yale University IN
lsoS. You'll fnd Quaker Oats in reg.
ular size packages, and hermeticaliy
sealed tins: the latter Is best for hot
climates. 2
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12
OYSTER CONDITIONS.

Two men and. cutler are avsraxiu 2
70 to 30 bushels. worth 30 to 20 cents. q
day In the Rsppahsnnock this late in
the season.
SEED on the ocean side IL so ,plentiful
that at wachapreague recently they
sold for three cents per busheL Plant
ers are too poor to buy, having their
beds already filed up. y
! g., From The Oysterm.h.')
Jobbers in the West say that Virgins
stock is all right Trade has doubled.
The prices have been right. *.* The
current price for oyster plants at Chin
colleague last month was ten cents per
bushel. The planters are filing their
empty beds. A Crisfield authority
informs Us that oysters in that section
are plentiful and of fine quality. I. =
Captain Won Nyvenheim, chairman of
the Norfolk Packers Association, saws
oyster conditions in that section are
the best in years. Ns'
Baltimore Corr. News Leader)
There is big slump in the oyster
market, and boatmen. during the past
week or ten days, have been taking
back their cargoes and planting them,
rather than sacrifice them for little or
nothing. Low prices and the light de-
mand, it is stated, are responsible for
this condition of the market. For the
past week or ten days the demand has
been exceedingly light, and prices have
ranged from 20 cents, for steam stock,
to 80 cents a bushel for raw. The
grade on the market included stock
from almost all sections of the bay.
The condition of the market has had
demoralizing effect on the bay boatmen,
who declare that they will go out of
business unless the market improves.
A number have lost heavily, it is said.
and say they will not run oysters to this
market until the market improves and
cold weather comes. Chesapeake bay and
its tributaries are said to be well stocked
with oysters, which are fat and in fine
condition. While the quality has been
to the advantage of the consumer fat
~yceSAS w NV hCCQ % Wcu dS TIE
poorer stock, and as a result the bay
boatmen. owing to the warm weather,
are not able to hold their cargoes for a
favorable market, and are forced to sell
at sacrifice.
From ''westmoreland Inquirer.1
Several cargoes of Potomac river
oysters have been taken to Baltimore
the past week and good prices realized.
Forty-three cents bushel was obtained
for both steam and raw stock. Mr..
Rowley states that there is good de-
msnd in Baltimore for Potomac river
oysters at much better prices than the
buy boats are offering. The con-
tinued warm weather is a drawback to
the dredgers. While the supply is.
plentiful and the quality excellent the
weather conditions are such that the
demand is limited. Conditions are
bound to improve, however, and the
outlook for prosperous season was
never better. When the snow flies and
ice begins to form, the demand for
oysters will increase rapidly. The
great middle west doesn't begin to eat
oysters until about Thanksgiving.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12
THE EDITORS TROUBLES

The esteemed and always bril-
liant News Leader lately devoted
q column to 1.-The Editors
Troubles, and quotes from a
long list of papers to show that
such trouble is widespread. Edi-
tors who wish to avoid the SEN
sational have a hard time of it,
seeing that current news of Il
good quality is scarce and that
the dispatches. are usually loaded
with chaffy "stuff''. The four
page weekly is better off. but even
these find it takes nice Judgment
to choose with discretion. Some
of our force complain that the
work of culling out news matter
is q strain on, the mind, and that
they are fearful of the tension on
that organ. Still we think we
get Tout from week. to week "a good,
readable paper Don't you think
so?
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12
WANTS TO BE A cow BOY.

Some ambitious soul writes to
the Richmond Times-Dispatch
asking how to become acow boy.
and that good natured journal
devotes half a column OF instruc-
ton. If the young man in ques-
ton is really in earnest we will
give him personal instruction
gratis in learning how TO milk.
and feel sure that in long practise
on his part in the gentle art OF
abstracting the tactical fluid from
the bovine quadruped he will have
learned much. Better begin on a
COW by llmeans, and better still
if he stays by the cow as per-
manency.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION MEETING.

The Northern Neck Medical Associa-
ton held it's usual semi-annual meeting
at Kilmsrnock on Thursday. October
18th. A large membership was in at
tendance and the number of interesting
papers read was notable. There was a
good deal of discussion on subjects
medical. and 8 cordial spirit of fraternity
showed. The old officers were reelected.
Among those visiting the association
was DIR. Mason Hundley. of Baltimore.
Thenext meeting of the association will
be at Heathsville in the Spring of next
year. At night~a banquet was given
at which there was much pleasant in
terehange of sentiment, and all present
enjoying the occasion. Among the speak
ers was F. G. Newbill, of Irvington.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12

PRINTER wants more copy. HI
is q hungry fellow for ''copy"
and that we sent in yesterday is
gobbled up, gobbled down, gone
into type and rests on the galley.
rack, waiting for the press and
then distribution. Copy! Our
good friends our correspondents,
they might help us out of this,
might help feed this hungry copy
clamor. There's lots and lots of
news in the country, and just the
sort that everybody wants to
read, If only our friends would
send it in. Do you know, kind
friends, that about the first thing
the country reader looks for in
the. paper is the news from his
neighborhood, and it is curious
to note thateven il he was on the
spot and saw the pig weighed, or
the beef skinned, he wants to see
"what the paper said about it,.
And every last eligible young
lady on the subscription list
reads the account of that wedding
in which she took a partas brides
maid or some such-reads it all
over twice and then reads it
TO the old folks. CopyI Why
that's just the sort to send
anything from your neighbour
hood. 1t may seem uninterest-
ing to you, but some one, many
ones, will read it and be pleased.
Yes, all country news is read, and
don t you forget it.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12

PRESIDENT TAFT was down i'm
Texas and this is part of what he
told those swell-head Texans:
81 was asked today if / had
any doubt by this time about
Texas being a part of the Union.
| replied that the only doubt i
had was whether the Union was
not a part of Texas" And the
first thing we know the schools
down there will have special STATE
histories teaching the children
that it was not Texas that was
annexed to the United States but
the U. s. TO Texas. Look out for
that.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12

EN-PREsIDENT ROOSEVELT was
killed bya lion, elephant, leopard
or some such small cattle last
week, SO the wires told it. But
he was brought to life again by
the next dispatch. No need to
expect such thing. Teddy was
born to kill, not to be slaughtered.
When the skeleton man with the
scythe comes alongit is probable
that he will make many hesitat-
ing strokes before he reaps the
inyincible.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12

STATE SENATOR LINCOLN, Re-
publican. is a man of white stripe.
Having known him foryears and
watched his career, we should be
proud to class him with Demo
Gratis. A religious man and tenn
perance advocate he also towers
well in ability as a statesman.
Read what he writes Lieutenant
Governor Ellyson, his opponent
in the recent election: sit gives
me pleasure to congratulate you
a second time, and to say that !
shah be glad to serve in the Sen
ate with you aspresiding officer. "
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12

a SOBER diagnosis of the vote
cast last week must convince the
people of the North that Virginia
is safely Democratic and will not
brook interference from Federal
sources. Hardly second to this
happy condition our people are
to be congratulated that they
have chosen as their next Gov
ernor a man every whit a Chris
tian gentleman, a stateman that
is as immovable as Gibralter
when he believes he is right, and
a man in whom the milk ofhuman
kindness is not lacking. To the
Democracy of Virginia and to
Governor-elect Mann we say ''well
done" and 'sGod speed.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12
: Flss AND oysrFp NOTES

The Commission of Fisheries held 3
meeting last Friday at Hampton get.
ting their annual report in shape fol
the printer.
Our oystermen are sadly discouraged
and do not know what to do. While
oysters are very abundant and in fine
condition there is no market and the
small number of bushels they sell bring
25 cents. Some of them are selling out
and leaving here. -Westmoreland Corr.
N. N. News.
Where does the eel spawn? All, that
is the question. Biologists have been
puzzled over this The European eel
spawns at depth of $3.50 fathoms in
the Atlantic Ocean near the British
Isles and southwest of Europe. The
eggs originate tiny larvae called
leptocephali. like jelly. fiat and trans
parent, having the contour of a.tailless
herring. 1t takes the eggs about six
months to develop into elvers; these are
about two inches long. Then they mi
CRATE in countless numbers to the shores
OF Western Europe. They travel in
columns yards wide and miles long.
Nothing stops them. They ascend
every river and waterway along the
Coast.
Our Commissioner of Fisheries makes
the statement that seaside plants sold
for from six to eight cents per busheI,
and that the average price for edible
oysters was 80 cents per bushel. He
makes the remarkable statement that
men in the business are down or the
Board of Fisheries because they have
conserved the stock in the James river.
and that the taking of SO, 600 bushels of
oyster per day has made glut in the
market. At the last meeting of the
Board at Murphy's Hotel, Richmond.
The figures for the fiscal year were
given. The Commissioner asserted that
The money collected the last year was
blood money" as the oysterman has
had such dull season. The Oysterman.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-12
Friday. November ~. 1000
WHAT is AILING lis

What now ails the South is not so
much the war and it's consequences nor
is it the negro, but it is the slow, sure.
steady destruction of the white man 8
red blood corpuscles gradually eaten up
by the mslarial germ. New York Press.
Dear, dear, and we thought we
were getting along so nicely, and
didn't know there was really
much the matter, but here they
come, telling us we have this and
that hlndrance. What we will do
when our philahthropic friends
rid us of our. germs who can
tell? But somehow we feel that
IN spite of these obstacles we
are really creeping slowly for
ward. Here is clipping stat
ing that the Southern cotton
planters will have the small
sum of $160,0OO.0OO more this
year than last. And this is only
the cotton. The corn, wheat.
and other crops send the record
away up in many millions more.
The germs may be killing us, but
somehow we don't seem to mind
it greatly, but forge along COM
fortably.
And here is another clipping:
THE wealth of theSouth at this time
is $1,000. 0Oo. 900 greater than the wealth
of the entire country in 1860. Our OPP
portunities are great The field to be
cultivatedis vast. A great responsibility
faces US. ? | am glad to say that our
sons are no longer leaving US. but are
STAYING at home to helm us to meet IL ,,