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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-04-20

Emmett and Frank Nickels
left last night for a visit to
their parents at Los TannOs,
New Mexico.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-04-20

Corn planting is the order Of
the day with our farmer friends
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-04-20

Congress has been asked for
an appropriation of S30l, 900 for
maintaining the soldiers home
at johnson City.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-04-20

Trouble is the only thing that
a fellow can 60 hunting for
with an absolutely assurance
Of success.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-04-20

Congress has passed bill
authorizing the building of two
new battle ships to cost &c.
GOO 200 each.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-04-20

You cannot find "A more
pleasant place anywhere 10
spend the summer than right
here in Big Stone Gap. The
summer climate here is certain
IL delightful.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-04-20

The early bird is the one that
catches the worm and gets a
good look at the comet these
beautiful spring mornings
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-04-20

The Holston River Railway
will get it's last rail between
Persia. Tenn. and Moccasin
Gap. Va. "a distance of more
than forty miles. laid today or
tomorrow. The connection will
be MADE near Seaver's Creek. a
short distance west of New
Canton. The line. of course.
Will not be ready for business
for some time Yet. bat the CON
Meeting of the rails rs evidence
of the fact that in the not dist
ami future. the Holston River
road Will bee running trains ON
schedule time. and no doubt
doing an immense business.
There will he more coal. aud in
fact. all kinds of freight. ship
ped over tins road when com
pleted than any road of ITS
length ma the country. The
Holston river Will bee one of the
finest feeders for the Southern
system anywhere in the South
-Morristown Gazette.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-04-20
BASEBALL SCHEDULE FOR
FIELD DAY CONTEST

Saturday April -, Norton VS.. Big Stone
Gap. az Norton Wise ". East stone Gap.
al East Stone Gap.
Saturday. April 30. Wise vs.. Appalachia.
At Wise; East Stone Gap VS. Norton. at
East Stone Gap,
Saturday Nay :, Wise vs.. Biz Stone
Gap, Al Big Stone Cap Appalachia. vs..
Norton. at Norton.
Saturday, May Is. two winning teams al
Norton.
Basket BAH Schedule
Saturday, April 9, Big stone Gap V.
Appaiachia, at Appalachia
Saturday, April IL. Norton vs.. Coeburn.
at Coeburn; East Stone C,Apvs Appalachia:
at Appalachia.
Tuesday. April 10, East Stane Gan rs
Big stone Gap. al Big Stone Gap
SATURDAY, April %, Norton vs. Big Stone
Gap, az Norton; Coeburn vs. East stone
Gap. at Coebarn.
Saturday. April 30 Coeburn vs.. Appal
achia, AZ Coeburn; East Stone Gap. Is. Nor
ton. at East Stone Gap.
saturday, May 7. Coeburn vs.. Big Ston,
Sap. at Big Stone Gap; Appalachia. v
Norton, az Norton.
Saturday, May "a. two winning team a
Norfon
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-04-20


Seeding aud planting is the
order of the day Evey farmer
who may Boz truly called q
farmer is busily employed in
putting i'm his crops. The
croaker of paper farmer is sit
ting about on store boxes at the
village store whiting and
deploring the state of the
weather; "tOo wet TO pillow or
plant anything, while last
week it was too dry The
weather is never just right for
those fellows. They, like Wiki
ins Micawber, are waiting for
something TO turn up, instead
of going out 10 turn up some
thing. The prudent farmer is
at home, wet or dry, when IL
rains doing odd jobs that he
need not do when he ought 10
be in the field. Apportion your
time, YOU need all OF it; have d
system in performing your
work; work in season, and plant
in season, SO when harvest
comes the fruits of your labor
will be fully realized. Stop
your croaking about the worth
Iessness of the country. If the
country don't suit you pack al
your traps and go. Nobody
compelled you to come here and
nobody viii stop You from
going, provided always, you
lcan escape the sheriff.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-04-20

There was considerable eX-
element here in Hindman
early on last Monday morning,
when the report spread through
out the town that HALEY s
Comet was plainly visible in
the eastern horizon. and mum
Der Of people ilockod 90 gaze
upon the great phenomenon IN
ITS aerial flight. While they
were admiring the beauty of
the comet and it's long. brilliant
and sparkling tail. the subject
was discussed with great length
why the astronomers had SO
miscalculated as Co the time the
comet would bc visible. Final
iy they found their comet was
nothing more nor less than a
burning tree which had been
ignited by lightning Hind
man KY News Record.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-04-20

Capt. VIM. L. Kent. formerly
consul az Guatemala City and
later candididate for governor
on the Republican ticket in
Virginia. has been named 10y
the President 20 bee consul at
st. Johns. New Brunswick
Canada.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-04-20

Three additional fire j < h {
crews have been put 20 work
on the Norfolk aud Western
between Roanoke and Blue
field Their employment was
made necessary by the rush of
business which the company is
having. lt Is said that condi-
tious all along the line are most
encouraging. especially SO west
Of Roanoke.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-04-20

The prosperity OF a town is
not guarded by the wealth Of
its inhabitants. but by the
uniformity with which they
pull together when any import
ant undertaking is 10 be accom-
plished \ man with "A thousand
dollars at his command and a
love for his town IN his heart
can do more for the upbuilding
of il than the millionaire who
locks up his capital aud snaps
his fingers at home progress.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-04-20

Mr. w s. roage, "a prominent
attorney of the Wytheville
Bar. is being discussed for the
United States Judgeship now
held 10y Judge II &. Mcdowell.
in the event the latter Is ele-
waited to the bench of the new
circuit 10 be created an -Nir-
ginia.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06
a WORK ON IaELANn

The return of the liberals to power
in the British parliament under a
promise to grant home rule to Ire
land gives timeliness to book on
ireland Yesterday and Today" which
the Philadelphia North American has
issued under authority of the United
Irish League of America. The work
is by Hugh Sutherland of Philadel-
phia with introduction by John E.
Redmond, leader of the Irish party in
the British house of commons. It
contains a clear statement of the land
problem, the remedy proposed by the
Irish party, the history and scope of
the home rule movement and state.
ment of the purposes the Irish leaders
intend to accomplish IL they succeed
in obtaining their demands. The
work is an interesting one and Ia.
valuable for reference. Every friend
of Ireland should have a copy of it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06
Congressman Kennedy.

Pennington News-Republican: Con
gressmen who make plenty of noise
with their mouths attract newspaper
attention and acquire popular fame
and notoriety, but the Woodworking.
strictly attentive members continue
to look after the business of their con.
stituents. The business type of rep.
resentative seldom secures a head
liner or the top of the column on the
front page, but he makes good and
wins the generous good will of those
whom he serves. Iowa's First district
member is a congressman of the
strictly business type-the kind of a
man who wins because of his works.
He is the making of real stateman,
and will grow with his years. Char'ey
Kennedy has never played to the
press gallery but he has won by spe-
cific works the confidence and esteem
of men who will tie to him every day
in the week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06
RURAL CARRIERS PROTECTED.

While for many years city letter
carriers have been protected by fed
eral statute from assault when in uni
form and engaged in the performance
of service, rural letter carriers have
not enjoyed such protection. A new
law became effective January /, which
protects any carrier.
In speaking of the matter recently
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
De Graw said that considering the
large number Of carriers employed in
the rural delivery service and the fact
that many of them have to travel for
miles over lonely highways, but few
cases of assault have been brought to
the attention of the department in re-.
cent years. The desired protection
has been secured by a section CON
tanned in the revised federal PENAL
code, which became effective January
l, 1910, which makes it violation OF
the law to willfully or maliciously as
sault any mail carrier, knowing him
to be such, which engaged on his route
in the discharge Of his duties as car
rier or to willfully aid or assist in
any such assault, under penalty of a
fine of not more than $1,000 or inn
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06
Gets Around IL Neatly

According to the Kewanee Star
Courier, the best reason why people
want to live in Burlington is that they
can get the Hawk-Eye quicker. It
will be interesting to note what the
esteemed HE, speaking for Burling.
ton, thinks of this compliment
kuk Gate City.
Burlington is one chief reason. for
the Hawk-Eye's popularity among its
readers. 1t would be poor lot of
newspaper men who could not make
a good paper in such city as this.
the star-Courier's compliment is,
therefore, one on Burlington, and the
Hawk-Eye takes the liberty of extend.
ing the city's appreciation of it, and
its own recognition of the Star.
Couriers greatly valued good viii
Burlington Hawk-Eye.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06


The esteemed Fort Madison Demo
crat INDUCES in the following fight
of fancy:
"The broom, which now costs sixty
five cents sold few years ago for
twenty-five cents. Every woman
knows that the Republican tariff is
responsible for the trusts that have
raised prices. and therefore the wom-
en- of the land are active workers
against that party.
"Sixty-five cent brooms are most
convincing arguments and the Repub-
licans will feel the weight of those
brooms at the next election
Indeed! And what will the farm
ers who raised the broom-corn used
in the manufacture of those brooms,
who marketed it at an unprecedent-
ed price, be doing meanwhile? Also,
who will cast the more votes, the
farmers who produced the broom-corn
or the women who use the brooms
The Democrat would do well to be
warned in time that indignant pro-
tests against the high price of farm
products and manufactured articles
made from them are pretty certain to
do as much harm at the breech as at
the muzzle.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06
RAIsINs SUBSTITUTE FOR MEAT.

California fruit growers are urging
the use of raisins as a substitute for
meat They point to the fact that
raisins are a part of every scientific
dietary. They are a part of the penn
mican of the Arctic and OF the emer-
gency ration of the army, They are
the pocket lunch of the mountain
climber, the very center of Fletcher
ism and Flynnism and Warnerism, the
mainstay of endurance contests and
Marathon races. One has to make
but beginning of modern health cul
ture reading, to find raisins staring at
him from every page. It is not strict
ly true, however, that raisins are a
physiological equivalent of meat. Meat
concentrated, tasty, digestibIe
food OF one sort, raisins are coacen-
trated, tasty, digestible food of anoth.
er sort. There are more "calories"
OF energy in raisins than in meat, but
calories are only small part of the
physiological service of meat; they
are nearly the whole service of
raisins. Meat is proteid food:
raisins are carbohydrates. But never
theless, gastronomically, raisins do
fill place analogous TO that of meat.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06
BETTER LOCAL MAIL SERVICE,

BETTER LOCAL MAIL SERVICE.
Postmaster Moorehead is earnestly
DESTROYS of improving the city deliv-
cry mail service, and invites the coop
Grafton of the community to this end.
The volume of mail, both incoming
and outgoing, is steadily increasing,
and because of the already large an
nual deficit in the conduct of the pos
tai establishment it is becoming in
creasingly difficult to obtain allow
ances for additional help as needed.
Fortunately the efficiency of the SER
vice can be maintained and even in
creased, without aid from Washing
ton, if only the patrons of the local
postoffice will contribute their good
offices in the matter.
City letter carriers are limited to
eight hours work daily. Under no
circumstances are they permitted to
exceed this time. Under the laws and
regulations of tho postoffice depart
ment penalty involving the carriers
annual salary is inflicted for viola
ton of this rule. Neither postmaster
nor carrier has any option in the mat
ter. Eight hours constitutes a days
work, and this time must not be ex-
ceeded by SO much as one minute.
1t is to the advantage of both the pos
tai service and the community that
the letter carriers perform as much
service within this time as possible.
The thing that delays them in their
work more than anything else is
waiting at the doors of residences to
make personal delivery Of mail. One
minutes time lost in waiting at each
residence on a carriers route means
the loss of three or four hours day
to each carrier. There are twelve
carriers in keokuk and the total loss
would therefore amount to thirty-six
to forty-eight hours g equivalent
| to the time OF four to six additional
! carriers! Even if a carrier has to
wait one minute at only half the resi-
| dences on his route his loss of time
amounts to the equivalent of two or
three more carriers than are now en-
/ Tloyed If there were no waits the
carrier could make about 80 per cent
more deliveries than he now makes.
The trouble here complained Of can
be remedied and the city delivery ser
vice materially improved by local pa
irons OF the postoffice providing them
selves with small mail boxes at their
front doors, so that the carrier may
blow his whistle or ring the door bell,
4 deposit his mail and Immediately pro.
coed on his way. This arrangement
will also often save much time and
inconvenience to the housewife, who
is not always prepared to go to the
door at moments notice. The kind
of box is not material, and the cost
need not be very mach. The best
boxes on the market retail for from
seventy-fve cents to one dollar. Less
desirable ones can be had for half
the money. Their use is not compul
! sorry, but it is strongly recommend ed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06
Live Stock Rates

Ottumwa Courier: TIL criticism
directed against the state railroad
commission for opposing the reduc
ton OF freight rates on hogs shipped
to Chicago to figure that would
seriously handicap the Iowa packers
has fallen fiat. The Iowa packing
plants have been great factors in
the growth of the state. They have
given employment TO thousands and
have afforded home market for
the farmer and stock raiser. Iowa
opposes any move made in the inter.
ests of the Chicago packers that
would iniure the business of the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06
ONE CAUSE OF HIGHER PRICES

Told figures given onJ ny lie :,gri-
cultural department 1T Washington
tell great deal about the high prices
of meat in the United States. There
were S,465.000 less of the principal
meat producing animals on farms and
ranges of this country on Jan. ! than
there were year before and 5000, 900
less than the average on the same
date the preceding four years.
In official figures it is shown that
the proportion of shortage this year
as compared with last was G,365, 900
hogs and 21,100,00O cattle other than
mich COWS, while as compared with
the previous four year average the
hogs shortage is 5,760,000 and the cat
tie shortage 2,241 900.
There was a partially offsetting in
crease last year In sheep. amounting
to 1,132,000 head, but in this the num-
Der is deceptive because of the rela-
lively lighter weight of the sheep as
compared to the larger animals In
the matter of sheep also it must be
noted that the total recorded at the
beginning of this year-57 ,21S, 000--is
6,747,000 head less than the total of
63,965,0o0 on hand Jan. l, 1903, when
the top figures in sheep production in
recent years were reached.
1t is shown by the report that while
the farmer raised far less hogs last
year than the year before he received
much larger sum for them. This in
crease over the value of year be-
fore was sS1,SO9 900, or 1888 per head.
The same result was shown in the
case of cattle other than mich cows.
With 2,100,000 less in number. the
gain of s1.92 per head swelled the
total value to $685. 900 more than
for the larger supply of stock a year
before.
Corresponding gains in value of all
live stock are shown, but there is a
slight increase in the number of milch
cows and mules, and a fair gain in
the number of horses on hand.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06
TIE DAILY GATE CITY

by the postoffice department. Amend
ment of the postal laws requiring that
each residence be equipped with a
mail box is contemplated and may be-
come fact in the near future, But
ia view of the resulting benefits, no
one should need to be coerced into
such a contribution to the efficiency
of the service. The postmaster and
the department at Washington will
appreciate it very much il Keokuk PEG
pie will put up boxes at the front
foors OF all their residences. 1t is
a direct and practical, and just now
the only available way of getting bet
ter mail service.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06

A correspondent asks The Gate City
to suggest A. j. Hardin as member
of the city council in charge of tie
department of public safety and Thorn
as P. Breheny for the department OF
public works under the commission
plan. Both suggestions are first class.
Messrs. Hardin and Breheny are ex
actly the kind of men the voters OF
Keokuk had in mind when they put
the seal of their approval on the com
mission plan by such an overwhe'm-
ing majority.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06

The cause" continues to make
Roadway, sometimes in unexpected
quarters. The other day the mayor
of Baltimore, IN his annual message,
declared that votes for women are
inevitable, and asked the council to
join with him in an effort to urge
the Legislature, by means of resolu-
ton, to grant women the right to vote
On municipal questions, subject to
certain limitations. which shall debar
the ignorant and depraved.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06

Inc BTU Tribune says the main
trouble with Governor Carroll is that
he has an old fashioned notion that a
governors place is to stay in Des
Moines and govern.
John D. Rockefeller travelled thirty,
miles through the snow last Sunday
to attend church. But think how
badly John needs to go to church.
exclaims the Jacksonville Courier.
I'VE think if there were fewer emp
ty whisky bottles scattered around
there would be more full coal bins
and families would have to suffer less
for the neoessaries of life,' says tt.
Corwith Hustler.
1t is feared by contemporary that
Mr.. Edison's new storage battery will
merely constitute another invitation
to the average citizen to forget Mr.
j. J. Hills advice and indulge in per-
sonal extravaganza
One Iowa professor predicts that
seed corn will sell for $40 bushel
the coming spring. Still, if you have
any to sell and are offered s9.9S a
bushel for it, you had better take it.
advises the Cherokee Democrat.
A newspaper poet tells about it
thus:
When Mary bought that little lamb
It's fleece was white as snow.
She has kept it only little over a
week
And now look at the d thing.
1t has been suggested that when
paper is made from corn stalks the
farm er can feed his newspapers to
the COW and let bossy digest the news
for him. In that way he will get the
cream without wasting time looking
through lot of stuff he don't care
about
The Sac Sun wants to see War
rem Garst elected governor, but it
does not believe that the present year
is the time for him to be a candidate.
He cannot afford now" continues the
Sun, ''to enter into a bitter contest,
seeking to defeat man who is up for
second term. He has been defeated
once; he cannot afford to be defeat
ed this year. If Warren Garst waits
two more years he will then be the
peoples choice
Poetry is becoming disgracefully
cheap. The Modern Woodman, a
publication with over 100000 cir.
culation, offers ten dollars for the
best poem on Mother and gives the
contestants several months in which
to grind out their entries. Here's
the whole thing in five words and
perfect metre. suggested by the Jack
sonville Courier:
With mother
No other
Compares.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06

Notwithstanding unfavorable wealth
er conditions now and then, gratifying
progress is being made on the water
power dam. A large amount of pre-
liminary work was necessary, much of
which has already been disposed of,
and every day witnesses a material
advance. Extensive excavations have
been made and the great wall which
Is to hold back the water and make
1t subservient to the uses of mankind
will soon begin to take fern.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06

Providing. of course. that the
grounding belief makes any kind OF
difference with the weather to come,
Is the concluding clause of paragraph
in the Waterloo Reporter. The ex-
preston of such doubt as to the
finality of grounding authority Dor
ders periously close to heresy. One
can readily visualize the stake and
fagots and a supply of kerosene in
the background while perusing this
heterodox utterance If the Waterloo
paper isn't careful it will be excom-
municated
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06
MY CREED.

do not fear to tread the path
that those love have long since
trod;
] do not fear to pass the gates
and stand before the living God.
In this worlds fight I've done my
part; if God be God He knows il
we'll;
He will not turn His back on me
and send me down to blacklist hell
Because I have not prayed aloud
and shouted in the market-place.
IT is what we do, not what we say,
that makes us worthy of His grace.
Jeanette L. Glider in Putnam
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06

1t is reported that there are now in
this country 100000 telephones, or
one for every two houses in the
country. This does not mean that
one-half of the residences in the
country contain an instrument, but
the figures are instructive and il.
Illuminating. Practically everybody
who is anybody in the cities or towns
and villages has telephone. while
those in the country districts are
legion. One cannot help wondering
how we ever got along before the tele.
phone was invented.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06

The magazines are the self-consti-
tuted champions of the great moral
uplift' we hear so much about and
the fayorite medium through which
the professional muck-rakers reach
the public. Now it developes that
these selfsame magazines have
"rake-off" from the government
amounting to eight cents on every
pound of them transported through
the mails. They pay only one cent a
pound and the service costs the gov
eminent nine cents. This is not the
first instance in which those who
shouted graft the loudest were
profting by the very thing they de-
nounced.