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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26
THAW SAVE QUAIL.
LITTLE BIRDS NOW ABLE TO SECURE
FOOD FROM The GRASSY SPOTS.
HUNTERS LENDAID.

As result of the warm weather
which has had tendancy to melt
the snow in the mountains and val
leys of this state, the lives of hun
dreds of quail have been saved as the
birds are now able to secure their
own food from the grassy spots.
Game Warden viquesnsey stated
that the past several months has been
the hardest on this kind of game
than any previous winter in years.
Many of the West Virginia Hunting
clubs have greatly assisted in saving
the lives of these birds. They have
deposited food in the mountains SC
that the birds would be able to get
If. In other states the birds have
died by the hundreds.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26
UNIFORM GRADING.
DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOLS HAS COM
PLETED THEIR PLANS.

Regulations covering the examina-
ton and graduation of pupils who
complete the graded course of study
have been prepared by Prof. F. NJ.
Longanecker, supervisor of examina-
lions in the state Department of
Schools, and will be sent out to those
affected within a few days. These
examinations are held in accordance
with section 70 of the school law and
the regulations follows.
1. Two kinds of diplomas will be
granted, viz The Elementary and
the Graded School. The Elementary
school diploma will be granted to opu-
pills passing on the following sub
jects: Orthography, physiology,
grammar and language. U. S. history,
state history, reading and literature,
civil government, geography, agricul-
ture, arithmetic and penmanship.
The Graded school diploma will be
granted to those passing on the above
subjects and general history and book
keeping.
II. Uniform questions for the en-
tire state will be prepared and sent
to the county superintendents, who
will plan the details of the examina-
tions.
III. Three examinations will be
held the present year 900 on the
/ following dates: March s and 4,
April I and s and May 5 and 6.
". In order to secure diploma,
pupils must make general average
of rs per cent with no grade below
90 per cent.
V. If pupils have made a passing
grade on certain subjects at pre-
vious regular examination, and if the
grades have been recorded and ap-
proved by the county superintendent,
these grades will be counted without
futher examination.
VI, The county superintendent win
!: have charge of these examinations,
and teachers who have pupils inter
; ested should notify him at once and
ask for information.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26
MADE SOCIETY LEADERS GASP.

St. Louis, Jan. l5.-An unidenti-
fed negress made merry last night
as a guest at society masked ball
at the Country Club. Before she was
discovered she had danced with sew
eral unsuspecting men. The club
officials are looking for the person
responsible for her appearance at the
fashionable function.
Handsomely dressed, wearing a
head mask and long gloves, she APP
peared on the floor during a spOok'
dance when the time came tounmask,
she attempted to fee but some person
grabbed her head covering.
The guest gasped. Nobody made
an effort to detain her.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26
CUNNINGHAM IS RETIRED.

Huntington, W. Va, Jan. 90
After about eighteen years in theser
vice as United States deputy marshal
in the southern district of West vir-
ginia, Dan W. Cunningham is to re-
tire. This fact was made patent by
the failure of Marshal Tyree to re-
appoint the veteran deputy when he
announced a number of appointments
yesterday. John L. Stuart, ofWayne
county, was named as deputy for
this section of the district. John H.
waldron, of Mercer county, and
Walter Summers, of Charleston, were
reappointed. The Office deputies,
Major W. II. Lyons and Mrs. Helen
NJ. Jackson were also reappointed.
The retirement of Cunningham
from the SurNice came as n surprise
to the most of the students of politi-
cal affairs in West Virginia, although
there has been an undercurrent ru-
NOR during the past few days which
indicated that such thing was to
happen. Cunningham's downfall is
ascribed to political causes, going
deeply beyond the surface. In ad-
dition to the fact that he has made
many powerful enemies during his
long service as an officer, he took
decidedly independent stand in po-
litical matters during the campaign
of 1908. These facts it is thought,
wrought his undoing as a marshal.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26
LAD USED TWO aMES TO co TO
SCHOOL TWICE.

Chicago, H., Jan. so.-It took a
dual personality for Samuel Diamond
stein to get all the education he
wanted. School such as other boys
know was not enough for him. He
lived a double life on the rolls of the
schools he attended, so that he might
take courses in both the day and
night classes. He is in trouble now,
for he has violated the Board ofEdu-
cation rule against too much learn
ing-ule that boys have seldom
tried to break.
Sam is seventeen years old. He
lived at No. 1895 West Hastings
street, where he eats and sleeps with
school books still before him, under
his pillow and in his pockets.
At the John W. Smyth School
Sam was Samuel Diamondstein. He
took all the studies Principal W. R.
Hornbaker would permit. So hungry
was he for knowledge that he also at
tended night school under the name
of Samuel Deemond. Sam said he
did not change his name to escape
the rule limiting pupils to one educa-
ton at time, but just wanted new
name and tried it on the night school
first.
His teachers. however, give Sam
credit for a good deal of ambition
and cleayerness, and they are won
iering if supt. Ella Flagg Young
viii not allow Sam to enter the Med
II High School. He has been re-
fused his graduation certificate
1t the smyth School for his
'iolation of the rule in getting his
lay and night education and until he
yets it his double-barrelled education
S stopped.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26
BOND ARRESTED IN NEW ORLEANS.

Charleston, W. Va, Jan. 90
Correspondence between William B.
Bond, the Kanawha & Michigan tick
ct agent, who left Charleston ten
days ago with the funds arising from
the sale of tickets on the, Kanawhs
s Michigan and the Coal s Coke
Railways, and Charleston woman,
has led to the capture of Bond at,
New Orleans.
Officers learned the whereabouts of
the abseonding ticket agent through
correspondence between the Charles
ton woman, whose name has not yet
been made public, and Bond, and to-
day telegram was sent to the New
Orleans officers to arrest Bond at once.
While no message has been re-
ceived from the New Orleans officials
this afternoon, it is known that the
Louisiana officers know his hiding
place, and it is believed his arrest
will be accomplished at once.
Bond was employed at the Kama
wha & Michigan ticket Office at
Charleston, and during the absence
of the regular ticket agent, disap-
peared from the city with the ae-
emulation of the sales of railroad
tickets for three days. The Coal &
Coke Railway, having Offices with the
Kanawha & Michigan, lost about
5000, and the Kanawha & Michigan
about 81, 500.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26
DEED OF HEROISM
RAILROAD CONDUCTOR LEAPS FROM
MOVING TRAIN AND SAVES LITTLE
ONE FROM CREMATION.

Elkins. W. Va, Jan. e1.-con-
ductor L. D. Combs, of the Coal &
Coke railway, has earned the right
to a Carnegie hero medel When,
yesterday afternoon, Just as train No.
g north-bOund, was leaving. Letter,
he saw, framed in the doorway ofthe
home of a section hand named Exc
bline, little tot not more than
three years old, whose whole body
was enyeloped in flames. Leaping
from his train despite the fact that it
was leaving Letter, he rushed into
the yard, fought off dog that tried
to bite him, put out the fame with
has bare hands and caught the train
before it left Letter. Passengers on
the train witnessed Letters heroism
and watched with eager interest his
dual performance of fighting vici-
Gus dog and saving the little ones
life, as well as making his train be-
fore it left him behind. The parents
of the child had left it while they
called on neighbOr.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26
OHIO GOING AFTER MONEY.

Columbus, Ohio, Jan. eo.-one
Hundred and forty one thousand, FIVE
hundred and six dollars are asked in
a suit fled in the Common Pleas
Court today in which the State of
Ohio is plaintiff and the estate of
William S. McKinnon and bOndsmen
during his two terms of Office as state
treasurer are defendants. The suit
was fled by Attorney General DEN
man, who alleges that the treasurer
wrongfully converted to his own use
interest on the state funds loaned to
corporations, cO-partnership assOcia-
tions and other persons,
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26
ROOSEVELT
WRITES FROM AFRICA MANIFESTINC
INTEREST IN ESJOHNSON
BOUT
is stopped.

Buffalo, n. Y. Jan. l5.-Theodore
Roosevelt's consideration of old
friends and his love of fighter and
good fight have not been changed
any by his Africa trip as letter from
him received by ''Tony" Gavin. for
mer Rough Rider" testifes.
Gavin frequently corresponded
with Colonel Roosevelt when the lat
ter was President. Some months ago
he wrote to him in Africa. He has
received the following reply:
Africa, on Safari.
Here is the flower for Alberta. /
wish l could have sent, with many
returns, on her birthday. 1t was
good to hear from you. That must
have been rattling fight between
Ketchel and johnson. johnson is
unquestionably first class fighter.
wonder if Jim Jeffries can get back
into form; if he can it will be a tre-
menduous battle when they meet. y
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26
EVIDENTLY NOT.

When it was first announced that
William Palliser Hubbard would like
ly be a candidate for the United
States senatorship in opposition to
Nathan Bay Scott, the prediction
was freely made that Senator Scott
would have as his strongest asset the
almost united support of the Republi-
can press of the state. Develop
ments since that time would indi-
cate that this prediction was not
well grounded. Huntington Adver-
tiser,
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26
DEAD MAN A WOMAN.

The discovery, last Saturday ofthe
body of a.youns woman, about IS
years old and above the average of
good looks, on the Baltimore & Ohio
tracks at Benwood Junction, an ad-
joining town of Wheeling, this state,
and attired in male clothing, points
strongly to murder. a man with
whom she had been seen a short
time before her death has disappear
ed and the police of Wheeling and
neiShboring towns are on the look.
out for him. Shortly after : O'Clock
workmen discovered the body lying
across the railroad tracks, severed
nearly in twain, and still warm.
The impression is that the man and
woman, who had been travelling to.
Sether, had quarreled and he threw
her in front of a fast-moving train.
Though the weather was at zero, the
woman could not have frozen tc
death, as she wore an abundance o
clothing, which includes FIVE suits o
underwear, one pair of overalls, on,
pair of corduroy trousers, one sweat
er coat, two pairs of stockings and
pair of felt moccasins. She IS sale
to be from Baltimore, but her nam,
is unknown.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26
OUTLAWS BURN LINCOLN JAIL.

Bidding defiance to the law, the
county and the State, incendiaries at
+ o'clock Wednesday morning burn
ed the Lincoln county Jail. Excite
ment is great in Lincoln county, for
the FIRE followed the burning of the
Lincoln county court house few
weeks ago and it is the general be-
lief of the best citizens of that coun-
ty that the same gang implicated in
the burning of the court house had
knowledge of the attempt to destroy
the Jail.
The fire was discovered at + o'clock
in the morning by the prisoners con-
fined in the cells and the alarm was
given in ample time to have the pris-
oners removed before the Jail was
destroyed by the flames.
The Jail was located in the rear OF
the ruins of the court house destroy
ed by incendiaries some weeks ago.
Tom Martin, the jailor, lived in ap.
artments at the Jail, but the dwell,
ing portion of the jail building, by
arduous work, was saved from the
flames,
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26
AMUSING STORY FROM WASHINGTON.

Representative Gardner, of Alichi-
gan, was at one time minister OF
the Gospel. Though enough of a
practical politician to get strangle
hold on his seat in Congress, he has
never shaken his ministerial ways.
Mr.. Gardner is solicitOus at all
times about the spiritual as well as
the temporal welfare of those who
surround him. On recent visit to
Panama he made a tour of the Gov
ernment hospitals. From ward to
ward, from bed to bed, he. wended
his way, interesting himself in every
patient. In one of the wards he
come across a big American with a
battered countenance.
''Ah, my good fellow said Mr..
Gardner, I'm sorry to see yon
here
som l." was the reply.
What's the matter with you:"
asked Mr. Gardner, patting the
patient on the back.
"oh, couple of busted ribs and a
face that feels like hamburg steak..''
= The language shocked Mr.. Gard
ner trife, but he continued in his
mission. ''I'm awfuIly
sorry, my man, suppose you were
injured while engaged in danger
,us occupation
You bet your life was," re-
;ponded the patient with emphasis.
Il am sure said Mr.. Gardner,
low almost on the verge of tears
that your superior officers regret
his accident as much as you do. Of
,ourse, the nature of the works here
makes it necessary for some of our
,oys to engage in hazardous occupa-
ions. Where SC much dynamite is
handled suppose it is inevitable
hat there should be accidents. But
he Government does its best to take
are of the men who are injured. Of
.Ourse, you know that you will draw
'ay until YOU have entirely recover
ID your strength
Not one little copper comes to
our Uncle Dudley while l warm
his bed,.' said the American.
And why mott" asked Mr.. Gard
Ter, his legislative faculties keenly
,lert TO detect an evasion of the
liability law.
Say, old sport, l didn't get hurt
IN the job I got soused the other
hight and mixed it with better
:wo-handed fighter than I am.
Hence I'm doing hospital service. =
Mr.. Gardner turned away from the
'ed and went in search of men who
deserved his sympathy.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26

A Virginia physician says that
smallpox is so preventable through
vaccination that the person who con-
tracts it commits crime for which
he should be punished. There is
truth in what the doctor says and
smallpox is by no means the only
contagious disease, infection with
which indicates criminal carelessness
on the part of the victim.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26
SEM-CENTENNIAL.
STUART F. REED DISCUSSES SUBJECT AT
WASHINGTON

Washington, D. C., Jan. co.
You can always depend on Stuart F
Reed to boost his state at home ol
abroad and he was the one West vir.
ginian in town this week who got
busy with Washington reporters. He
was given very prominent place in
the Washington Post and here are
the Reed remarks:
In so years West Virginia has
grown from state almost inpover-
ished to one of the wealthiest states
in the Union,' said Stuart F. Reed,
of Charleston, secretary of state of
West Virginia, at the Willard.
I'VE propose to celebrate the
semi-centennial of our baptism in
1918, and we intend to make it an
exposition worthy the best thing we
have. l came to Washington to con-
fer with former Senator Henry Gassa-
way Davis, who was selected by Gov.
Glasscock to head the commission
which viii have the proposed expo
sition in charge. He is enthusiastic
over the proposed fair, for he knows
that it will show to other parts of
the United States many things the,
people do not know, and will result
in much benefit to our industries.
Eow many people outside of West
Virginia know that in the last six
years the assessed valuation of the
state has increased from less than
$500, 900, 900 to more than 1,1eo,-
900, 900, which was the estimated
valuation for last year? When we
were admitted to the Union we did
not have free school in the state;
to-day we have 5000 of the best
educational institutions to be found
in any commonwealth. When we
succeeded in getting statehood, vir-
ginia said, oh, let her have it; she
has nothing but the Alleghenies and
the rceks. Virginia did not guess,
nor did any other part of the country
guess, what riches were lying hidden
in her soil. Had she known that
the new state was designed to be-
come one of the greatest in the
Union, the Old Dominion would not
have let US go without a struggle.
Much of The history and romance
of West Virginia will be shown in
the coming exposition. Many per-
sons do not know that the first and
last battles of the Revolution were
fought within the borders of West
Virginia. The first was at Point
Pleasant, and, although it was
battle with indians, it developed
that the indians had been supplied
with arms by the British. The last
battle of the Revolution was fought
at Wheeling. So with the Civil war,
the first fight took place at Philippi,
and the first blood in that great war
was shed in West Virginia. wheel
ing Intelligencer.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26

A teacher was endeavoring to
make clear to his young pupils
minds the meaning of the word
slowly" He walked across the
room in the manner the word indi-
Gates.
Now, children tell me how
walked"
One little fellow who sat near the
front of the room almost paralized him
by blurting out, ''Bowlegged!"
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26

The man that dOsen't grumble at
home is either afraid of his wife or
dOsea't go home.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26

1t must be awfully embarrassing to
the doctors that go to heaven to en-
counter their ex-patients.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-26

Respectfully,
W. P. HUBBARD.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-10-21

life of Bishop Allen. This young
man will some day De placed in the
galaxy of great men if he continues
to pursue this course. Mr.. w. T.
Jackson was the spokesman for St.
James and gave a brief but interesting
history Of the local church. He was
the Salvates Of the evening.
Sunday morning the pastor, Rev. M.
H. Shelby, B. D., preached a most
thoughtful and powerful sermon on
the Harvest Home" and at night
services everybody was made happy.
The members of the church are to be
commended for this great effort IN
helping the pastor to make 1t a sue
cess.
The Colored Republican Club OF
Dickson on last Wednesday had an en-
thusiastic meeting. This club has So
regulars, of whom Mr.. E. T. Bell is
secretary. The chairman, Rev. w. H.
Shelby, with his followers are arous
ing the colored voters Of Dickson
County.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-10-21
DEATHS.

Henry Clark, 1915 West Cedar
street, 60 years of age.
Annie Benson, City Hospital, 40
years.
Henry Curley Martin. Ebenezer, As
years.
Amos Hyde, Tennessee Chemical,
West Nashville, "a years.
Mary Watson, Wilson's Infirmary,
10 years.
Evelena Freeman, 1913 South street,
/ year.
Jas. Brewington, 1914 Hamilton
street, CT years.
Leceal J. G. Dean, % Perkins street,
"a years.
Tennie Leon Broyles, e a 1913 10
Johnston avenue, 35 years.
Ernest Beasley, Gerst avenue, 1
month.
Mile Miller, 904 Fifteenth avenue,
South, / year.
Infant of Wiley and Mary Chavers,
real 406 Sixth avenue, South.
Henry D%eJurnette, rear 1104 Shank
land alley, 40 years.
VIM. White, Jr., 800 Ewing avenue,
26 years.
David and Jonathan Crawford, 1926
Hamilton street, 2 months.
Henry Word, 917 Horton street, sc
years.
Scott Lax, 1921 Fourth avenue,
North, 1 year.
Bell mellow, 1917 Pearl street, 80
years.
George Davis, 42O Fourth avenue,
South, 45 years.
Infant of Ada Williams, 1902 Phil
lips street.
Infant of Minnie DieTman, 40S
Fourteenth avenue, North.
BENZ. Mosley, 1907 Grant street, 30
years.
Matte Williams, 3 miles On DECKER
son Pike, 80 years.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-10-21

Rev. j. II. Thompson. the new pas
tor of Boman's Chapel M. E. Church,
preached his first sermon Sunday.
Prospects are bright for this young
man.
Miss Maggie Cunningham left for
indianapolis for an indefinite stay.
Miss Emma knight has returned
from a pleasant trip to Murfreesboro,
Tenn.
Mrs. Rilda Tidwell, of Iron Hill,
Tenn, wa in Dickson to see the "Har-
vest Home" exercises.
Misses Allie B.. Porter, Bessie It'd
well, Beulah Suggs and Eva Cunning
ham, who are teachers of the District
schools, returned home to witness the
Harvest Home" entertainment.
Messrs. Jim Works, Thomas Robin
son and Mrs. Dora Clark are on the
sick list this week. DR.. Miles is the
attending physician.
Rev. w. H. Shelby made a hasty trip
to Nashville on urgent business.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-10-21
HOWE OPENS ITS TWENTY-SEc.
OND SESSION.

The twenty-second session of Howe
Institute, Memphis, Tenn, opened
Monday, October 4, under very favo-
rable auspices. The spacious chapel
was filled with students and friends.
among whom were special educational
and religious workers. Revs. A. D.
Hurt, w. J. McMichael, T. ]. Searcy.
and A. L. Bartlett, Sisters v. w.
Broughton, G. Meachum, A. Cotton.
A. d. Hurt and E. Searcy made force
IDLE and encouraging addresses. The
special program arranged by the fac
ulty was also interesting and was
opened with singing and the reading
OF the 9th chapter of Proverbs by
Principal T. o. Fuller.
All departments opened well. The
new features of our work are Domes-
tic Science, which teaches our young
ladies the proper preparation of food,
with the most modern conveniences
gas ranges and the economic use of
gas; and our Manual Training De-
partment under Prof. Il. L. Stroud.
The young men are eager to become
architects, carpenters and painters,
and have made an excellent begin
ming. The young ladies are also grasp
ing the opportunity to learn free
hand and mechanical drawing. OF
the nine states represented in our
student body, Arkansas is wing with
Mississippi for the lead in the mum.
Der of students.
Principal Fuller gave a brief his
tory Of the growth of the school and
the valuable assistance received from
all sources for the past nine years,
which was listened to with marked
attention. Thus closed the launching
of the banner year.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-10-21
ST. ELI U, p. BAPTIST CHURCH.

st. Eli U P. Baptist Church had it's
second and last Union Meeting for the
year Saturday morning, October Is,
1910. The meeting was opened with
song and prayer by Rev. Hunter, after
which Rev. Martin Slater filled the
rostrum and preached a most wonder
full sermon. Rev. r. Estleman also
preached an able sermon. Preaching
was continued Saturday night by
Revs. Martin and R. Eetleman. They
had a very nice Sunday-school Sun
day morning with preaching at IL
o'clock by Rev. Slater, followed by
Rev. r. Estleman. Communion was
administered in its usual form. There
was a great number of visitors pres
ent from various churches and a large
crowd was in attendance all through
the meeting. The meeting adjourned
Monday night.