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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-06-29
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FOR FLETCHER'S
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Freddie Gamer was in town
a few days last week.
Brown Wilson of Sycamore was
here last week.
Find the States in this paragraph
Mrs Ippi would MT let Ida hoe in
the garden nor Della wear Carroll
mas new jersey because, she said
II want YOU to ride wi tn the other
girls" Miss Ouri Rhode Island.
Virginia said. "L'll mount Tana',
but Georgia said Ell stay home
20 1 can sas ma" They had
race up the main road. but would M
Mary land winner.
Letcher Stump, son of Elmer
Stump of Russell was arranged
before Squire Hays last week on
charge of ATTEMPTED rape on Vera,
the adopted daughter of DR. and
Mrs. Swentzel. tits alleged that
the attempt was made Thursday
evening and early Friday morn
ming he was brought here. He
vas held over under a $500 bond
to answer to next term of Circuit
Court.
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All persons having assessment
blanks aDd nll those who have not
paid their capitation dollars are re-
quostod to send them in at once.
Persons refusing or neglecting to 10
this lay themselves liable to iudict-
ment.
Respectfully,
II. J. Knots
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Festival.

There will be n pie, cake, and ice
cream festival Mt tho Old Bethlehem
church on the evening OF July 18th,
proceeds go for tho finishing Of said
church building The Euon Cornet
band viii furnish music. Every
body is cordially invited TO he pres
cnt
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LOCALS AND PERSONALS.

~ ~. y. VdilIlOy OIL SCaCen was
in town Thursday.
Scotch Nc Donald of Mt Zion
was in town Thursday.
Henry Barker of White Pine
was in town last week.
Big lot of lawns for Acts. yd. at
Chenoweths.
Jess Mason of Ayers was here
the first of last week.
M. M. Trippett was in town
with a load of beef Thursday.
Buy your Masons fruit jars at
Chenoweths.
Isaac Moslin of Revere was
here on business last week.
Born to Mr.. and Mcs. Charlie
Right Of White Pine fine baby.
Oral Hathaway of 'Sycomore
was in town a day or so last week.
Cash buyers trade at Cheno-
weths.
Louis E. Ayers, of Revere, was
caller in the city last Wednes-
day.
Complete fine of ladies oxfords
at Chenowethes.
Mr. Evans, with Woodward Mfg
Go. was calling on merhants here
last week.
Andrew Rogers spent last week
with friends and relatives at
Harrisville.
We are making some very low
prices on dry ds-Chenoweth.
Otto Lahman of Parkerspurg
spent few days in this section
the first Of last week loo king af-
ter his oil interests.
Buy your flour and meal at
Chenoweths.
Jno. B. Murphy, the Yellow
Creek oil man was here last
week looking after his iterests.
Miss Anna Dulin was confined to
her room last week with some
thing like the grippe.
George Hamilton left Tuesday
noon for Clay. where he will open
a confectionery in the near future
George is a good energetic young
man and will succeed.
The editor of the Chronicle
last week sold to Boyd Stutler,the
editor of the News the rooms on
the second floor of the Odd Eel
lows Building. and those rooms
are now occupied as a print shop.
Walker Robinson and two chill
dren, and John Furgson and sis
ter Miss Ola, were the guests of
their aunt, Mrs NJ r. Osborne,
Sunday at dinner while enroute to
their homes in Gilmer county from
a week visit with Parkersburg
and Cairo friends. Richie Gazette.
West Virginia produced nine and
and one half million barrels of crude
oil last year. She is next TO Texas
,mong the oil producing states Of
the south, the Lone Star leading
With twelve million barrels. This
Interesting fact is brought cut in a
report of The United States goolos
zeal survey.
S. w. McClung informs us by
Ritter that he is improving great
~ in health and expects to be
home next moAth some time. He
says that there IS only one thing
h likes aooIt Colo. better than
w Va and thlt is the climate.
u 5 many frieaI5 here are glad
to learn that he is improving and
will soon be with us again.
Assessor Knots and his deputies
arc rushing their work, getting
ready TO close it up for the year.
Under thencw law the duties of
the assessors are so much greater
than heretofore that it is almost
impossible to c omplete the work
inithc specified time with only his
PRESENT assistants The new law
Authorizes the county court to ap-
point an office deputy and we
believe that this should be done
in this county in order that the
assessors work could be done
with out any undue haste. The
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j. j. Dawson and wife of Mill
stone were in town Thursday.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Wait Pol
ing fine baby girl.
Don't miss our big dry goods
sale. see ad elsewhere-C henoweth
Reese Blizzard Jr. has returned TO
Parkersburg.
Nathan Bennett was in the city
on business Sat urday.
Miss Law of Big Root was shop
ping in the city Saturday.
Wayne Riddle and mother of
Hattie were in town Wednesday.
Dave Martin of Revere was in
town last week.
Amos Smith of Bee Creek was
in town the first of last week.
Miss VERNE Peninger of Hog
Knob was in town the first of last
week.
Mrs. Norm Williams of Cabots
Factory was shopping in town
Wednesday.
Edwin Hamilton hasbeen work
ing in the Chronicle office for
the past week or so.
Miss Edna Wigner visited
friends and relatives at White
Pine Wednesday.
Lorentz Hamilton came down
from Chenille Thursday to at
tend the installation.
Bernard M arshall atten ded the
Childrens Day at Stumptown
Sunday week.
Ex-Sheriff E. w. Gamer left
for Parkersburg last Sunday on
business.
Prof. H. G. Miller left the
first of last week for his home
in Roane Co.
Ola Stump of Stumptown was
here east week visiting his sis
ter Mrs. S. P. Bell.
Miss Leila Hardman of Barnes
Run was shopping in town one
day the first of last week.
Asa Harris who has been sick
for~the past few days is able to
resume his duties in Want and
Bars store.
Mrs. Cal Elliott, of near Cabot's
factory, is recovering from re-
cent severe spell of sickness,
Ruth, the little daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. c.. A. Jarvis has
been quite sick for several days
with a throat trouble.
Mrs. John S. Cain who has been
visiting for several weeks at the |
home Of Mrs. r. E. Hays has re-
turned to her home in Gilmer Co.
Mrs. Edgar Bell Of Henrietta
was the guest Of Mr.. S. P. Bell, |
hei son, last week.
Norm Oles has returned from
Illinois where he has been work
ing in an oil field.
Wait Polling is breaking q colt |
for Roscoe Hartman tn 1t is dandy |
and Wait knows how to get them
to act just right
f. l. Austin, wife, and sou, Max
al returned to their home at Park
ersburg last Wednesday after
short visit with home folks.
Lee Gamer returned last week |
from Parkersburg where he had !
been serving as a federal petit |
juror.
Mrs. Roscoe Hardman has been
very sick for the past few days, |
threatened with typhoid, but at .
thc Our Of going to press she is /
reported better and the danger of
typhoid is past.
-. W. Knight Of Altizer was "a
visitor i'm orr little town Saturday
Uncle David" is looking L1le and
hoar'y for his years and is Of course
prospecting His daughter Miss Gay
is mere taking music lessons Of Mrs.
loo TTufF,,op
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Statement, Showing Condi tion Of this Bank
at the Close Of business June q 1909.
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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-07-08
WHEN RHYME is ON THE BARD

When the sap is in the maple, when the
honey's in the bees,
It's task amazing simple to write Home
Folks rhymes like these!
When the dew is on the clover and the corn
is in the silk,
When the crow is in the rooster and the
cows foot in the milk,
When the corn is in the fritter and the
smoke is in the ham,
When the down is on the gosling and the
fleece is on the lamb,
When the worm is on the fish hook and the
blush is on the morn,
But-beware the frosted pumpkin and the
shock of fodde" corn!
When the Quack is in the ducking and the
lilac in the bud,
When the patch is on the trousers and the
bare foot in the mud;
When the hoe is in the garden and the red
When the curl is in the fish worm and the
freckle on the nose:
When the hen is on the door knob, when
the hopper's in the grass,
When the chirp is in the cricket and the
apples in the sass,
When the syrup's on the pancake, when the
tick is in the clock,
But-beware the frosted pumpkin and the
fodder in the shock!
When the tang is in the cider and the cider
in the jug,
When the hay is in the meadow and the
June is on the bug,
When the sting is in the skeeter, when the
buzz is in the fly,
When the germ is in the water and the pig
is in the sty;
When the prune is in the boarder, when the
honk is in the goose,
If you're bound to write a Folk Rhyme,
there is not the least excuse
For a running out of subjects-when the
darn is in the sock
But-beware the frosted pumpkin and the
fodder in the shock!
j. w. Foley, in New York Times.
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Picking Out Twins.

The benevolent old gentleman stopped
at the sight of the two similar looking
infants in the baby carriage, and said in
pleasant voice to the girl in attend
ance: ''Ah! Twins?"
Eyes, sir" replied the girl; both
'.so?" said the old gentleman. How
do you tell them apart!'
This one," said the nurse, pointing,
sis this, and that one is that"
Dear mer' said the old gentleman,
show very interesting. But he added,
indicating the second one, might not
this one be this also?"
1T might" said the girl after a short
pause. '"Then, of course, that one would
be that"
''Well, Them said the old gentleman.
show do you manage to separate them?''
I'VE seldom do; but when we want to
we put one in one room and the othe- in
another"
How do you know which one you're
putting in which room.
''We look and see which one is in the
other room, and then we know the other
is in the which ROOM
Very good" said the old gentleman,
warming up to the problem, '.but if one
of them was in the house and the other
was away somewhere, would you be able
to tell which was in the house?'
oh. yes, SIR said the girl earnestly:
all we would have to do would be to.
look at him and then we would know
that the one we saw was the one in the
house, and then, of course, the one away
somewhere would be the other. There
are only two of them, yeu see, which
makes it very easyv'
The benevolent old gentleman then.
passed on.-Tit-Bits.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-07-08
CLIMATE MADE IN FRANCE.
Means of Providing Paris Vegetables
Weeks Ahead of Season.

Means of Providing Paris Vegetables
Weeks Ahead of Season.
The gardeners of Paris get their
products on the market weeks before
the regular season for them. This
forcing Of nature is described by Ern-
est Poole in Success Magazine.
The secret is simply this: The
French maraichers have manufactured
a climate to suit them. AS one OBJ
serves has said, They have moved
the climate of Monte Carlo up to the
suburbs of Paris"
Some new prodigy of modern sci
ence, this? Not at all. Only enor-
nous expense in money and in time.
The gardens, whenever possible, are
placed on land with slope to the
south, and are well protected by the
walls on the north and east-walls
built to reflect light as well as to give
protection from the northeast winds.
The ground is practically covered
with glass, not as In greenhouse. but
by glass frames in the open, three
light" frames Of uniform size, IL by
Az feet; and also by glass bells.
These, too, are of a uniform size,
about the shape of a chapel bell, lit
tie less than II inches in diameter and
from IA to is inches high. The French
call them cloches. You may often see
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-07-08
Cities and Business.

How carelessly the business of cities.
is conducted! An instructive instance is.
offered by Wichita, Kansas. When.
more than a quarter of a century ago.
the Kansas, Colorado and Pacific Rail
road. now part of the Missouri Pacific,
was built into Wichita, the city issued
bonds to aid in its construction, and re-
ceived in return $4,000 of stock in the
road. Lately-a result of the steadily in
creased earnings of Missouri Pacific-the
city has received an offer of $4,000 for
this stock, and would gladly accept the
amount; but the shares cannot be found
The fact that the city owned the stock
had been forgotten until recalled by the
offer to purchase it.
= A great many changes in city admin
istrations take place in the course of
twenty-five years. AS one set of officers
succeeds another the threads of con-
tinuity in the conduct of municipal af-
fairs are snapped, to the detriment
Of the community as a business entity.
Often the members of an incoming adj
ministration represent the political party
opposed to that to which the outgoing
administration belongs, and there are
strained relations between the two. The
city suffers by reason of this hostility.
Even where there is no petty hostility,
thereis a laxity of business methods, due
TO Tie IdCCi LHdIs CITY ULucIdlS are ire
quently chosen by reason of their ability
in politics rather than by reason of their
ability in business. i--'
Where are those Wichita railroad
shares? They may have been stolen and
disposed Of by some unfaithful city Of
fetal or employe, or they may have been
filed away in forgotten pigeonhole
which may retain it's secret for another
twenty-five years. Unless they can be
fOund thew cannot be sold The worst
of it is that there are scores of other
cities whose business affairs are con-
Quoted as carelessly as those of Wichita.
Meanwhile there is nearly everywhere
continual agitation to plunge cities more
and more into business enterprises. The
less such agitation succeeds, the better
for the cities.
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graph, much less Of their revolution
airy use in actual warfare.
When General Rucker was born Alb
raham Lincoln was a 3-year-old babe
in the backwoods of Kentucky. Cen
eral Rucker was 10 years old, minus
just one day.. When General Grant
Saw the light of day, April 81, 1922.
Only one President Of the United
States died before General Rucker was
born-George Washington. He was IA
years old when John Adams and
Thomas Jefferson died on that same
Fourth of July in 1925. When James
Monroe, the fourth ex-President to die,
succumbed, on July 4, 1881, General
Rucker was 10 years old. And out of
the nations twenty-six ex-Presidents
General Rucker has survived all save
one, Theodore Roosevelt.
General Rucker was but boy when
his parents moved from New Jersey
to Michigan. 1t was there he got his
Michigan army post. His father was
averse to his joining the army, and
his mother even more so; but the flu
ture general won out, and he applied
for a commission as second lieutenant.
There was plenty of work for Uncle
Sans soldiers in those days, with the
boundless West just opening its
wealth to the onward march Of civil
ization. He was assigned to the First
dragons, then on duty at Fort Leav-
enworth. Lieutenant Rucker made his
way overland by stage coach until he
got to the nearest point which the
stage coach service of those days could
bring him to the Kansas outpost. He
was then still 200 miles from his desti-
nation.
He had hardly settled down to the
comparative ease of his frontier post
before he was ordered into the heart
Of the Cherokee country, and for half
a dozen years he was kept busy with
his soldiers driving off marauding In
dams, protecting settlers and emf
grants caravans and holding the hos
tile reds in check. He was still busy
in this hazardous campaigning when
the First dragons were ordered off
to Mexico as part of General Zachary
Taylor's expedition. He took part in
the battle of Buena Vista, and dis
tinguished himself by an act of per-
sonal gallantry In the field. 1t was
an act of bravery under the eye of
commanding officer, who recommended
him for brevet commission as major.
When peace was declared Major Ruck-
er's command was sent across the
continent to Los Angeles.
The discovery of gold brought the
rush of '49. and then there was more
than plenty to do It was a feverish
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time, and the soldiers of Uncle Sam
had to hold in check the madness Of
the men that swarmed into the new
Ell Dorado. Few of those who started
across the mountains and the deserts
that fenced off California knew of the
hardships they must face. Each new
arrival brought tales of horror from
the trail. Lost and starving, the i'm
migrants struggled off their paths. un-
til sacrifice of life made terrible the
days.
Finally Rucker was ordered east.
He left San Francisco in steamer
for Panama, with Lieutenant Sherman
-afterward General Sherman-as one
OF his companions. They made the
trip across the isthmus Of Panama
by ponies and small boats and then
sailed for Jamaica, where Sherman
and Rucker paid friendly call on
General Santa Ana, whom they had
worsted at Buena Vista. Major Rucker
saw several years of comparatively
peaceful service in the East and then
he was again sent out to the frontier
This time his battlefields covered New
Mexico, in constant warfare with the
Apaches. While he was in this work
the civil was broke out and he was
ordered back to Washington.
In September, 1861, he was pro-
noted to Colonel of volunteers and in
May, 1853, President Lincoln made
him Brigadier General of volunteers.
In 1866 he was made Brevet Major
General Of volunteers and in 1866 he
was mustered out of the volunteer
ranks.
But he was made Colonel and as
sistant quartermaster general Of the
regular service and served as such un-
til February Is, 1882, when he was
made Brigadier General and quarter
master general. At that time he had
seen forty-fve years of service and
seventy-one years of life. He was
then placed on the retired list as a
Major General.
He is still hale and hearty and de-
lights in walks in the beautiful por-
ton of residential Washington, near
his home; but he is leading a quiet
life, and even the excitement of recall
ing the hard days Of fighting is too
much for his strength. With him lives
his daughter, Miss Sarah Rucker
Another daughter, Mrs. Philip H.
Sheridan, widow of the hero Of Win
chester, lives but few blocks away,
where she can see the statue of her
husband that grateful nation erected.
In all his years of service General
Rucker was never wounded. What is
more remarkable in all the years of
service and hardship hs was never
Ill for single day.
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me that. She's the mother of that sick
boy, you remember-the one I helped.
You are looking very well, Miss Laura
only a little pale"
She didn't answer him. She couldn't
quite control her voice. He was so woe
fully thin and pale, but the old smile
was still there.
"They are having such a time,'' he
said, finding the right sort of nurse to
90 with me. I'm quite fussy, you know,
and need such lot of care. Why,
what's wrong?"
She was looking down at him, and
her eyes were filled with tears.
Don't" he whispered. 81 shall be
sorry I came. Can't you see how I'm
trying to brace up? Don't you realize
how it hurts me to 60 away from your"
She suddenly stopped and put her
loving arms around him and kissed his
SCARED face.
ooh, my DEAR" she murmured, "you
will take me with you and let me care
for you-always."- r. Rose in the
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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looked dear and familiar, and yet de-
llghtfully strange, came hurrying to her,
ana so-and so-they met in the sunset
Siory or the autumn evening. and for
gettul OF all else, he lifted her little face
WIN ms strong hands and pressed his
eager loving lips to hers.
Mrs. Thompson was loud with lanen
tatlons when she found that bold
Lochlfvar had come to rob her of her
Doarder and Seven Oaks Hollow school
Oh us teacher OF day; but there was
delightful thrill of excitement over
1t all. 1t was almost as if a bride was
going away. She hastily stirred I'D
cake Tor supper and tied blue ribbon
OH Primus' neck
It's hard to give you up so soon.o she
said tearfully, as Elizabeth stood ready
to go away, 'but Pm glad you got one
good sleep in my feather bed. You must
come back some day, dear, and see US
and the cats again"
"I'll never forget YOU" said Elizabeth.
not without a few tears in her happy
eyes. 'Some day we will come back and
see you.'
So she passed out. clinging to her
lovers hand, with parting back view
of Primus' on the hall table drinking
out of the bucket of water.
".And to think that you really loved
me all the time," said her lover ecstatio-
ally, almost unbelieving, as the night
train rushed through the darkness of
field and swamp, like some enchanted
dragon, carrying them away to the fairy
land of love and happiness.
Yet" she said softly, as she nestled
by his side, IT think I really loved You
all the time, but I would never have
told you half so soon if it had not been
for Mrs. Thompson's cat."-Juliette B.
McCearley in the New Orleans Times
Democrat.
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ATLANTIC GARDEN IN DANGER.
Old Relic of New Yorlx's BOwery i
Marked for Destrucfion.

Old Relic of New Yorlx's BOwery Is
Marked for Destruction.
The Atlantic garden, one of the few
remaining buildings binding the Bow
cry of to-day to the old Bowery-the
Bowery which saw the wealth and
fashion of the town go nightly to the
ITALIA theater and slip into the gar
den next door for bite and a sip be-
tween the acts-celebrated its fifty
first birthday Friday evening under a
shadow. The shadow was cast by the
Manhattan bridge, already looming
large to the east and projecting itself
nearer and nearer to the spot that
still has the SAVIOR Of the old days.
A rumor to the effect that the city,
DESTROYS of making a fitting approach
to the great bridge, had already mark
ed the garden for destruction, brought
the oldtimers there in droves Friday
night, the New York Sun says. They
told stories of the old days, the days
when If you wanted to hear German
opera you had to journey to the Tha-
liza, where Conried worked as a supe
and where Nine. Geistinger drew her
crowds. The old passageway between
the theater and the garden is still
there.
The garden was opened on May 8,
1853, by the father of the present Kra-
mers, and part of 1t is the original
Bulls Head tavern of the Revolution,
one of Washington's many 'headquar-
ters. It was the center of the German
life of the town, and there Kramer first
showed the great orchestra, the won
der of its time, which he bought from
the grand duke of Baden. There, too
the German regiments of the Civil
War made their headquarters and re-
cruiting station, and there played all
the famous bands of half a century
ago. All this those at the long table
recalled Friday night as they drained
their schooners Of Rhine wine and lit
the candles one by one.