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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-09-23
Statement Of the Financial
Condition

of THE CITIZENS BANK OF HIGH
LAND, Inc, located at Monterey, in the
State of Virginia at the close of business,
Sept 1, 1910, made to the State Corpora
ton Commission.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts 67,O6S "a
Overdrafts unsecured 1862 81
Furniture, and fixtures 1,402 10
Exchanges and checks for next
days clcarings. 2 90
Other cash items
Due from Nat. Banks (uot
reserve agents) l6,905 rs
Paper currency 1882 90
Fractional paper currency,
nickels and cents az 10
Gold coin AT so
Silver coin 607 10
Total S7,299 rs
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in 10000 90
Surplus fund $500 90
Undivided profits, less expenses
and taxes paid 32o.2l
Individual dep'ts subject to ok. 1868 Is
Time certificates of deposit 1881 90
Certified checks 10 90
Cashiers checks outstanding
Due TO National Banks 463 SO
Notes and bill re discounted
Bills payable, including GER
iifcates of deposit repre-
senting money borrowed 800 90
Total 1890 IS
|, G.. G., Hansel, do solemnly swear
that the above is true statement of the
financial condition of the Citizens Bank
of Highland. located at Monterey, Va.
AT the close of business on the lst day of
Sept, 1910 20 The best OF my knowledge
and belief.
g. C. Hansel Cashier
Correct-Attest
# II fs5 E :s";; Directors
state of virginia,
County of Highland
Sworn to and subscribed before, me this
Sday of Sept, 1910.
Edwin B. Jones, N p.
My commission expires Aug. 81, 1914
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-09-23

With 81 Iowa preachers quitting
pulpits we are convinced that chic
kens have been kept on the laying
Job.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-09-23

Just to think, all those Democrats
were growing in Maine all this time
and nobody knew it.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-09-23

Those food experts might do well
to remember that the vital ques-
ton is not what we eat, but when.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-09-23

The Chicago Grand Jury has
roasted the Meat Trust to a turn.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-09-23
APPLES.

Fine fall and winter apples for
sale by C. N. Meyers and McLaugh
in, Lone Fountain, Va. 9-9-6t
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-09-23

Vermont simply SHE'D but Maine
just ran away.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-09-23
THE DAVIS-ELKINS COLLEGE.
ELKINS, w. VA
MSM

Collegiate Department: Four years of College work
leading the A. B. and B. S. Degrees Commercial Course
Preparatory School: Two years. Individual attention.
Careful supervision
students Within few hours of home: Strong faculty.
high standards in school and out At the lowest possible
few scholarships students needy and really
deserving. JAMES EDWARD ALLEN, President.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-09-23
No. 0O43
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF

No. 0O43
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
HIGHLAND, at Monterey in the State
of Virginia, at the close of business, Sept.
l, 1910.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts 154,105 go
Overdrafts, unsecured 800 90
U = Bonds 10 secure cir. $4,000 90
Premiums on U 5 Bond sos rs
Bonds. Securities etc. 255 10
Furniture and Fixtures 6,775 90
Due from National Banks 1880 4t
Due from State and Private Blk
and Bankers, Trust Go, etc
Due from app'd Re. agts 1918 II
Checks and other cash items 73l 90
Notes of other Nat Bank 20 90
Fractional paper currency
. nickels and cents 81 10
Lawful money reserve In bk.viz:
Specie $3.50 90
Legal tender notes 1l,445 17,775 90
Red'n fund with U s Treas
) per ct of circulation 1850 90
Due from U S Treasurer 1903 90
Total $2s2,175 SO
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in $4,000 90
surplus fund 10000 90
Undivided profits, less amount
pd. for int. eXpes and taxes 434 48
Nat Blk notes outstanding $4,000 90
Due State and PRIV Bk.and Bkrs 1914 81
Due to Trust co. & Swing Blk,
Dividends unpaid
Individual dep'ts subj to ok. S4,112 SO
Time certificates of deposit 56,845 ID
Notes and BILLS redisc'ted 20,588 25
Cashiers checks outstanding
Total $!22,l75 36
State of Virginia,
County of Highland, IS;
l, Clifton Matheny, cashier of the above
named bank. do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
Clifton Matheny, Cashier
COrrect-Attest:
FL G. Lunsford
Fl. M. Slaven, Directors
A Whitelaw
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
@ day of Sept, 1910,
Lenora B Matheny, Notary Public
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07

4 MOVEMENT which IS spreading
IA all over the east and middle west
"A should be inauguratcd here. There
IS no place in California where it can
be begun to better advantage than
right here in the Sacramento valley
The plan is to encourage agriculture
on the part of young boys and domes-
tic economy on the part of young girls
1t started in New York under the
auspices of Columbia university. Prizes
are offered for the largest production
of wheat, or corn, or some other farm
product. on q given area, and the slls
rae given prizes for their work in bak-
ing. cooking and sewing. Up in the
northern tier of states, extending from
Minnesota to Washington, and includ-
ing both commonWealths, j. j. Hlll,
the president of the Great Northern
railroad. has offered $1,000 in prizes for
the hest crops in certain lines raised
nv boys. The competitors are all TO be
under IS years of age. All through the
Mississippi valley boys agricultural
clubs have been organized, with the
result that there are now $4,000 mem
bers of the boys agricultural organiza-
tions and the results achieved nave
beon marvellous. Even in the south the
movement has spread, and in Virginia.
on soil that was supposed 10 pc 700 iii
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07
CITY FARMERS

I AN1ES WILSON of Ayrshire and
Iowa, secretary of agriculture OF
~ the United States, has applied TO
the back to the farm" movement a
strong dose of common sense. Farm
ing is more than an industry. 1t is a
profession. Every year it is becoming
more and more scientized and less ac-
cessible to the amateur. The com
plete farmer" must be a geologist, a
botanist, a chemist, machinist, an
engineer. naturalist, a livestock spe-
cialist and an economist.
Veteran farmers realize the "city
chap who plunges into farming re
gardless of consequences will be as
rudely familiarized with cruel conse-
quences as the farmer would be who
would leave the plow and undertake
to manage the affairs Of d big factory.
"The city man who goes to the farm
without experience and money will
starve." says Secretary Wilson.
Moral: When you go back to the
farm. so as a summer boarder.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07
LOS ANGELES WAY

TOR the month of April Los Angeles
II ranked second in building growth
h among all the great cities of the
United States. Figures published in
Los Angeles Herald showed the total
number of permits issued was 93l rep
resenting a value of $9,36O577. In April,
1909, the total number of permits was
722, representing value of $1,019,957.
In the history of the city, the mag
nificant new April record has been ap-
preached only once That was in June.
1906, when 766 permits were issued for
improvements valued at $2,37l, ,G20.
The prosperous progress of Los An
celes is indicated by reports from every
branch of industry, but perhaps more
strikingly by those from the building
industry than from any other. 1t used
to be said there We're seven wonders
of the world, but the record making
and record breaking growth of Los An
geles is an eighth.
This progress is accompanied by in
dustrial development. and ever inereas-
ing prosperity marks the Los Angeles
way.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07
LOS ANGELES HEROINE

N NXPERIENCES disprove the state
L ment women are more helpless
H than men in an emergency. When
the Hookstratten launch was upset off
Catalina island Mrs. Hookstratten
proved to be as plucky and efficient a
lifesaver as Billy Martin, the boat
man, and it was in great measure due
to her presence of mind and strong
swimming her sister-in-law, Mrs. j. b.
Wells, was saved from drowning, while
by way of sequel to her heroism, which
enabled the boatman to take the cap
sized launch ashore, she helped him
carry her unconscious sister-in-law up
a steep ascent of 800 feet to a deserted
cabin in the hills.
There by the only good fortune of
a day of misadventure Mrs Hook
stratten found telephone and tcle-
phoned to Avalon for help Undoubtod-
ly but for Mrs. Hookstratten it would
have gone hard with Mrs. Wells, for
Martin would nave found the task of
caring for her beyond his strength
and skill, and perhaps both he and she
would have suffered.
Pluck and presence of mind arc femi-
nine virtues, and every American
woman has the heart of a heroine. The
daughters of the great republic are
SHEER GRIT, GOD BLESS THEM!
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07
TAG DAY

Z OS ANGELES people are kind
hearted and generous, SO they
IA need no special urging to do their
duty on Tag day. All of the money col
lected from the sale Of tags will be de
voted to charitable purposes. The
necessity for charity is regrettable. 1t
is unfortunate many of our fellow citi-
zens are poor and needy. But since
the condition exists. the community
should have enough courage of con-
science to recognize the fact tnat des-
titution is not always attributable to
shiftlessness, carelessness or miscon-
duct on the part of the destitute.
Society no longer regards poverty AS
a punishable onensc; and VIC are be
ginning slowly to emerge from the hy-
percritical mental attitude, which
would punish the man who travels from
Jerusalem TO Jericho and meets with
misfortune.
Let us all he good Samaritans ON
Tag day, and buy the tags the sale of
which viii provide money for the aid,
comfort, relief aud support of many of
our fellow citizens, victims of poverty,
disease or misfortune.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07
Y UST what ithe press of the United
~4a4.. 4Lt..1.. - tI,o ,,c1to,. Of

Y UST what ithe press of the United
States thinks of the policy of
- personal abuse, unprincipled at
tacks and undertaking in newspapers
and magazines was emphatically
shown Thursday evening when for
fifteen minutes the representatives of
600 newspapers cheered in New York
the speech of Mayor Gaynor in his
exposure of the methods used by w.
II. Hearst.
Public opinion is changing in many
respects in this country, but in none
is the change more notable than in the
revulsion of feeling which is every
where exhibited toward the muckrak-
ing which has characterized certain
papers and magazines of late years,
as the Portland Oregonian very well
remarks:
"A few years ago almost any kind
of illumination from Jimmy Creel-
man, Likkum Stuffuns Bray Barnard
Stoker or any other of the charter
members of the Muckrakers club
would create an immense demand for
the publications i'm which they ap-
peared These explosions were very
interesting at first. but the public soon
tired of the exhibition of shooting
gnats with elephant guns and for
some months we have heard but little
from the mucIrake wielders."
Both press and people realize that IL
is the duty of the newspapers to hon
estly criticise candidates for office and
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07
QUESTIONS REPORT OF DEATHS
IN PRISONS DURING WAR

Los ANGELES, May 2.-[Editor
Herald: In your paper of April 28
occurs a dispatch from Mobile, where
a convention of confederate veterans
was in session. In the "history re
port" on that occasion Gen. Bennett
II. Young declared that "out of the
southern soldiers in northern prisons
twelve of every hundred died, while
northern soldiers in southern prisons
only nine of every hundred died. and
that 1.-The greatest monument to the
southern soldiers is the death list Of
the north
No authority is given for General
Young's statement, and it is certainly
not founded on fact. At the third ses-
sion of the fortieth congress a report
on the treatment of prisoners of war
by rebel authorities" was made-a
full and fair report, after examining
hundreds of witnesses from both
sides in the war and giving many
documents from confederate authori-
ties. 1t comprises more than 1900
closely printed pages and shows
among other things that 13,412 union
soldiers perished at Andersonville in
less than one year just at the close of
the war. / know personally that the
military prisoners in the north were
treated with uniform kindness and
were never in want of good food,
shelter and protection against the
weather. Gladly would these things
be forgotten were they not so often
stirred up by those who, above all
others, should keep silent about them.
Such declarations as that of General
Young are annoying because untrue
and unjust toward those in charge of
the government during the civil war.
Z. COLE.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07

Il N the educational battle against the
great white plague" tuberculosis
Sunday was recently observed TO
some extent throughout the land.
Preachers came to the rescue of hu-
manity by telling their congregations
how the utmost vigilance is necessary
to combat the plague, how much at
tcntion must be paid to conditions
conducive to health and how essential
is pure air as one of these conditions.
The comment contained in a Chicago
doctors communication to the press
of that city could have been truth
fully duplicated in almost every city
on that day and on many other days.
He writes as follows:
In one of the large South Side
churches (Chicago) the preacher dis
coursed at length on the days topic,
Tuberculosis' Presumably ventila-
ton was mentioned. At II o'clock the
writer entered the same audience room
to hear a we'll known educator talk
on Science. a By-Product of Religion.
The air in the room was indeScribably
vile. Like the old lady, whose imag-
ination had been fired by the cartoons
of the microbe, the man fresh from
the outdoor air could feel them swarm
into his nose and throat and lungs
Nothing but respect for the speaker
kept him in his seat during the 40
minute address, Churches frequently
are sinners of the most sordid sort
against the gospel cf fresh air.
In another equally prosperous
South Side church the kindergarten
teacher besought the janitor for
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07
Museum Will Be Established at the
Romantic Marriage Place of Ramona
(San Diego Tribune)

thing in the way of museum will be
established in the various rooms used
for exhibition purposes, and that many
things of historical value will be do
mated or loaned to the museum
proper Of the Estudillo house.
ut is the intention of the company
to insure. both against loss by fire
or theft. any articles of value loaned
to the museum. The greatest care Will
be taken of all the loaned exhibits.
at is hoped that such of the old
residents of San Diego as may have
authentic objects of interest, con-
nected with the early history of the
state. which had its birth in Old Town,
will communicate with w II. Moore,
room 207 Union building, who will give
full particulars of the plans under way
and the arrangements that will be
made to exhibit and take care of
loaned articles.
IAN admission of 10 cents will be
charged towards the maintaining of
the property and a percentage of the
receipts will be placed in q separate
fund for the purpose of, one might
saw. furtherinE the local history of
Old Town and San Diego. Out of this
fund will be purchased such objects
of interest in connection with the early
history of Old Town from the date of
the mission fathers as cannot be
loaned AS this fund grows 1t will be
used for the purpose of the restoration
of historical landmarks in and around
Old Town and San Diego"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07
Yellow Journals and Yellow Magazines
at Last Are Thoroughly Discredited
Oakland Enquirer)


to oppose those whom they think un-
fitted for the place they seek. But
that falsehoods should be manufac-
tured simply to deceive voters and
that even-as in the case of the presi-
dent of the United States-unwarrant
ed abuse should continue after the
election has been properly recognized
is a disgrace TO journalism. In this
state the same tactics have been re-
sorted to by a number of newspapers,
generally i'm the name OF reform.
The inevitable result of this policy
is a reaction that is evident in the
elections all over the country. The
abusive press is losing its political in
fluenCe.
The people of the United States have
minds of their own, and they are ca
pable of discriminating between what
is legitimate and true and what is i'm
proper and false. They want the truth,
and they want ii honestly presented
to them by their newspapers, and they
will not stand for taking and dishonest
journalism, no matter by whom at
tempted. The cheers that greeted
Mayor Gaynor were of far more i'm
portance than the particular case at
issue between him and the Hearst
papers. They were cheers of approval
for the principle involved; they were
cheers in favor of honesty in journal
ism; they meant that the vast major
ity of the American press is honest
and will not indorse dishonesty
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07
Agriculture Should Be Studied by
Boys and Domestic Economy by Girls
Sacramento Union)

povcrished to yield any crop, one boy
raised 122 bushels of corn on an acre;
another. 144, another 109, and still an
other 1906. The average for the state is
% bushels.
The department OF agriculture has
taken up the movement and rewards
the young competitors; and the local
agricultural schools are aiding i'm some
of the states. The same movement
should be inaugurated in California,
and the state university should father
the project Prizes should be offered
for the best crops that are raised by
the children, and the best work done
by them. OF course, this is not corn
raising state, so that crop need not be
one OF those in the competition. Our
boys should be taught to raise fruit,
and their work in dairies should be en-
couraged. There are many other lines
that might be brought within the COM
petition, but those two--fruit raising
and dairying-are just two that show
what could be done in this state If once
the movement were started here.
The tendency today is back to the
farm, and that tendency should be
encouraged in every way. Agriculture
is now one of the regular courses at
the Stockton high school, and shortly
the scheme of the Flour City is to be
followed in other parts of the state.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07
Churches, TheaterS and Meeting Halls
Should All Adopt Sanitary Measures
(san jose IIerald)

enough heat to allow fresh air for
twenty five children and met the
reply: More heat so you can open
the windows! The trustees are always
at me now for burning so much COAL
In vet another church of the same To-
cality the 1anitor eXpostulated: Open
all the windows after every servicel
II would take all my time to open and
shut windows Resides, the trustees
would never stand for tho Goa! bills
The churches are not the only Offend
ers. But they should stand for the
best in sanitation as well as in re-
ligon."
Little doubt need be expressed of the
accuracy of the physicians report, for
anyone with the sense of smell and
pair of lungs can attest it's truthful
description of the ventilation of most
houses of public assemblage which
have not been fitted with trustworthy
mechanical ventilating plants. Church
es, theaters and halls are notorious for
the bad air in their auditoriums. 1t
is irony that such condition should
be prevalent on the occasion of tuber-
culosis sermons
From this it is apparent that with
the preaching for more healthful con-
ditions of living must go the practice
of making those conditions in public
meeting places. Object lessons are the
best of teaching and practice carries
more weight than precept. Children
of the world must be shown as we'll as
told how to live right. And conditions
that are bad at home are certainly
bad or worse In the public mass where
contagion is made easier by contact
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07

TN KEEPING with the announced
intention of number of public
Il spirited citizens to establish a
museum and rehabilitate things of
historical interest in Old Town and at
San Diego mission. the Estudillo house,
more familiarly known as the marriage
place of Ramona, is to be opened to
the public some time next month. The
old house was recently restored by
John d. Speckels, the plan being to
gather there objects of interest to
students of the early history of San
Diego and the mission. These relics
will be secured either by purchase or
loan, and placed on exhibition in the
charge of T. p. Getz.
William Clayton, vice president and
managing director of the Spreckels
companies, in discussing the plans for
the opening of the house. says:
The Estudillo house at Old Town
more Familiarity known as Ramona's
marriage place), which has been re-
Gently restored by John ID. Spreckels,
will not be open to the public un-
til some time in May. The house has
been placed in charge of T. p Getz,
It will be open between the hours of
9 o'clock a. m. and $50 O'Clock p. m
once every hour Mr.. Getz will conduct
visitors throughout the building and
give something i'm the nature of lee
ture covering the early history of Old
Town and the history of important
exhfhits. 1t is expected that some
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07
MISCHIEVOUS MOCKERY

m RAYER is Knocked by the idle
folly or mischief of the endless
4 chain fends, who dispatch petit
tions on their endless rounds and ac-
company them with the fantastic state
ment: copy this and see what will
happen. 1t is said he who win not
copy this prayer will meet with some
misfortune, and those who viii write
it for nine days beginning the day
it is received will on the ninth day re-
ceive some great joy"
This puts heaven on a lottery basis.
and is little short of blasphemous. In
addition, it imposes d prodigous amount
OF extra work on postoffice employees.
Sensible people will help Uncle Sans
overworked postoffice employees by des-
troying endless chain letters instead
of mailing them. Don't be afraid Of
the consequences. The sublimity of
the good deed you will do and the
great service you will render your suf-
fering fellow mortals in the postoffice
service will take the curse Off
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07
PENCIL INDUSTRY

II ENCIL wood adds another to the
profitable industries of California.
4 A newspaper dispatch says a
trainload of cedar logs from Sierra
county is on the way to San Leandro
to be used in the manufacture of lead
pencils. This cedar is we'll adapted for
the manufacture of pencils, and there
is no reason why pencils made in Cali
fornia should not become popular.
The pencil industry will have great
advertising value. Every pencil fin
ished and shipped should be stamped
Made in California" and when abun-
dance of manufacturing power is avail
able in this city pencil factories will be
established here, and the nation will
begin to use pencils made in Los
Angeles"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07
GOOD LUCK!

~ OOD luck to the citrus fruit grow
eU ers who are on their way to
" Washington TO defend this great
California industry before the interstate
commerce commission. Questions of
vital interest Will be settled, let us
hope, in way that will bring prosper
ity to the growers. They are: Can the
81 to $1.15 a hundred pounds? Is the
present orange rate, SLID, a just rate
or should it he reduced? Should the
shippers be allowed to pre-cool and pre-
ice their own fruit and send it east
without re-icing on the way?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07
The PROOE

Mrs. Rose Pastor Phelps stokes. discuss
ing social questions at a dinner in New
York, said
Authority is dangerous weapon. espe-
cially when II is new. boss IS some
times apt, in his use of authority, to remind
US of the little boy with the new knife. who
cuts his initials on piano, sdeboard, every
where"
Mrs. Phelps smiled
Il know a young and beautiful lady" she
said who once visited a plant that had
new foreman
"'Vho IS the boss here?' the beautiful
lady asked, approaching the foreman.
4 am the boss, madam he replied.
'Oh, are you?' said she
"He thought he detected amazement in
her voice. and drawing himself up, he
answered codly:
Yes, / am. and m prove It, Hlggn-
son"
" 'IIigginson, go get your envelope You re
fired New York Tribune