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The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-07
1.-THE ROAD TO WATsoNs CHECK BOOK

We with from the latest outburs Of the hired man
the Renegade sheet this city that shall travel that
mythical highway known the Road Senator Watson check
book
The hired that there is undoubtedly such
road only clever enough find it There
from his efusion this subject vague regret that this particular
beyond his reach He knows that the leaders Of his
party have very susceptible bank he instantly leaps
the conclusion all others are be similarly affected.
In this however many Others his papabe
to be funny.
the first place. from what we have heard him. Senator Wat
judged by the Aabby moral standards Of the hired
and his employers In the second instance the road his
bank account such there be- wholly unexpored territory
We have only the very Amsy evidence Of the hired
believe that Mr. Watson check it.
deed he really has fountain Personally have nothing upon
which base the suppoon that he possesses either Of these
tces Certainly he has used them favor for
the purpose Of paying subscription
But makes the Of dsrepuabe nehbor tho
roughly ridiculous presenting anyone Of taking brides
accepting undue emoments when his record that
such dngy Suppose had found that mystic
Mr. Watson alleged bank and drawing herefrom
large tainted cash. would be Of childish
compared with the performance Of the puffy little sheet
that has hands thrust the treasury extracting herefr M
the wealth individual but hardeaned money the whole
number Of taxpayers Of this county has been said that tn
close ompanonsp among those who take things and that there
really honor among thieves The real insult the hired man
much the ITSELF evidently
false to admit OF discussion but his implied relationship linking
with his profession We would assure our friends and
others that there positively harmony existing ourselves
and him who actually doing the stealing this instance
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-07
EVERYTHING IS LOVELY, IF NOT MORE so.

EVERYTHING IS LOVELY IF NOT MORE so.
Why certainly we are talking politics as well as
business hereaboats. We have people that eight
In discussing politics we'll as business Thew are
interested in public affairs they are even this
early expressing their opinions and discussing the
probabilities of the political future Man look
for less contention in local politics in this county
and when it comes to State and National affairs
the opinion prevails that democracy bound to win
Locally, a few more business deals will make this
county solid business center, with nothing but
business from its magnificent peaks in the east
where they produce the dusky diamands to the rich
oil fields in the west. And that is what we need.
more business, and square deal in all things
mr.. LaFollette remarks in making a speech, that
you can't enlist majority of 100000 900 for any,
thing unless it is right
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-07

His two years in the White House
have made Mr.. Taft ,surer footed in
the gait he goes. They have not made
him a politician. 1t is doubtful if
any length of experience in any place
could 40 that. He is in politics, in
constant association and conference
with politicians of both high and
low degree, but does not learn the
game. Taft's way is not the way of
the men who play according to Hoyle.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-07

When you pull down the town In
which is your home, you are pulling
down yourself, and when you build
up you are building up yourself and
your neighbor Try and banisa from
your mind the mistaken idea that all
good things are away off in some
other locality. Give your town all the
praise it can legitimately bear. 1t
certainly will do you no harm and
will cost you nothing; and above all
patronize your home institutions.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-07

Mr.. Taft sent the gold pen with
whieh he signed the reciprocity meas
ure TO Floor Leader Underwood. He
has mot been able to find anyone who
cares for the pens with which he
VETOED the other three tariff meas
uref--St. Louis Post Dispatch.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-07

Let us cultivate public spirit and
talk less and work more. Encour-
age our local authorities in making
Improvements. Speak up, speak
Well, talk encouragingly of our
town and its bright PROSPECTS. It is
these many little considerations
that make town grow.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-07

Senator Bailey voted against the
admission of Arizona even with the
recall stricken out but no other lem
ocrat joined MIN In his objections.
How fortunate for the party that SEN
ator Bailey's arguments no longer in
auence mis- colleagues Bryan.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-07
THE POLITICAL HORIZON HEREABoUTs.

Political clouds are Hitting about in the horizon
of politics in these parts in all kinds of mysterious
ways. Sometimes you the silver lin Ing in
the clouds and then again you don't see ything
but strictly business deals in this heavenly atn1os-
phere We have the most prolific climate for BUSH
ness deals on earth. These purely business deals
are generally private affairs in which the pub Lie be-
comes interested after the deal has been perfected
We have all kinds of deals in this region polit zeal as
well as business deals. Now we have bl siness
deal pure and simple, next time it may be political
DEAL but in either case it is intensely interest ing to
to the public. We only taking notes and watch
ing the changing breezelets they gain pub, licity
Sentiment is changing for the in our Co nmu-
nifty Notwithstanding all these varied deals. Will
Hanson and Mngo county reaching out for bet
ter things in politics. business morals The out
look IS more brilliant now than ever before an d soon
we shall be 50 settled in ways that everything
will come under the wise control of the better element
of our people.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-07

Only a fool thinks himself all wis
dom
Two and two make four in an hon
est count
You must face eternity between
yesterday and tomorrow.
Some people never know when to
quit playing poker.
woman's work is chiefly getting
ready to begin.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-07
Hot Weather Goods

The time is at hand to buy your Hot Weather
Apparel. The Levine Department Store as
usual is ready to serve you in everything you
may want We have complete stock, no
matter what you may want, whether it is
Suit, Hat, Oxfords Furnishing Goods, you
can select here better and at less cost than at
any other store. Come in and let us supply
your wants and we assure you we will save
you money on everything you buy
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24
WATER-SNAKE ACTIVE AGAIN.

NTIL the State adopts a definite and vigorous policy in regard
II 10 the conservation of the water supply the sleepess water
snake will be active in efforts to get through the defenses
of the law and secure it's objects. The East Jersey Water Com
pany squatted at Little Falls, built a plant there and began
robbing the passaic of it's flow without a shadow of legal right, as
the courts have since declared. Now, by hook and by crook, the
company seeks to retain its plant and traffic. 1t got hold or
several weak municipalities and induced them to become its TOOLS
in an attempt to get around the Judgment of the court. Bayonne
lis the companys principal pawn and the attorneys for the water
snake appear at Trenton, ostensibly on behalf OF Bayonne, TO
assert that municipalities right to take water from Little rails,
which means the right of the company TO remain there and supply
The water. This transparent trick should not deceive a court.
Hayonne can get better water from Jersey City at a cheaper price
when the East Jersey Water Company is dispossessed, The only
object sought is to aggrandize the company and defeat the water
conservation policy.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24
FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER "a, 1911.
THE TAKING OFF OF BEATTIE.

TN ENRY CLAY BEATTIE, the brutal slayer of his young and
J7l trusting wife, went to his death in the Virginia State prison
at Richmond this morning without, SO far as is known, a
confession of guilt. The hardihood he had displayed throughout did
not desert him, although, sitting in the shadow of death, his Hip
pancy was banished and he realized his awful situation. That ne
was guilty admits of no rational doubt. There was not a single
flaw in the evidence against him, while it was apparent in the trial
that family solicitude for his fate and the family honor had in
duced rank perjury. He was backed in his trial by the wealth OF
his father and relatives and his lawyers were the most sknful that
money could hire. They employed every art of criminal practise to
procure a verdict in his favor. But they could not find a peg
to hang a reasonable doubt upon, and they pleaded to an honest
Jury that never for a moment lost sight of that murdered wife in
sympathy for the murderer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24
"MADE THE STATE DEMOCRATIC"

II T appears that the extraordinary public statement put forth by
Chairman Grosscup, of the Democratic State Committee, claim
ing that as the county elections throughout the State, while
they elected a Republican Legislature in both branches, showed
altogether a small Democratic majority, New Jersey had gone
Democratic, was intended for effect in other States upon the Will
son candidacy. That the statements made were absolutely false is
so well recognized in New Jersey that they met either silence or
ridicule in the State press generally, but the voters in other States
are not as well informed about New Jersey politics and elections
and it seemed to be a safe card to play in the game for the presi-
Dental nomination. Thousands of copies of Grosscups gross mis-
statements we're mailed to addresses in other States. A lie can
travel seven leagues while Truth is pulling on his boots. The
lie was that in the first year of his administration Governor Wilson
had made the State Democratic"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24
"square Dealp for wives.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Plain facts, told in a plain way, were
heard by the clubwomen who attended
DR.. Woods Hutchinson's lecture in the
Y. NJ. c. A. This noted physician and
writer discussed the sex question in a
way 1t should be discussed, and urged
the women to demand higher qualiica-
tons from their prospective husbands.
The lecture brought up the old, old
subject of the existence of two sets Of
moral codes-one for the man and the
other for the Why this diff
ference in right and wrong az between
the two sexes is permitted to exist 10
not logically explained by anyone The
proposition is so opposed to the Square
dear' we boast of in America that I
wonder it is not changed.
HERMAN ROBBLING.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24
ROCKEFELLER NOT THE SHARPER.

TT Ohm ID. ROCKEFELLER'S answer 30 the charge made to
oJ the Stanley House committee at Washington by the Merritt
brothers that he had secured possession of immensely valu-
able Mesaba range ore lands 10y unfairly and oppressivey calling
q loan he had made to them, thus depriving them of their interest
in the property, seems to be quite conclusive, for it is backed by
official record. Mr.. Rockefeller, it appears, never called the loan
or loans in question. 1t is evident in his statement that the Merritt
brothers in their testimony before the committee told only half
truths and withheld essential facts. One was that the Merritts
had ON january %, 1897, withdrawn all claims and signed a state
ment to the effect that they had become satisfied. No misrepreser.
tation or fraud had been prachsed, fully and completely generating
Mr.. Rockefeller and his agents. But what a theme this is for
Chancellor Day to expand upon!
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24
Defends DecolIete Dress.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
One of your correspondents objects
to the low-cut or decollete dress, and
l read in the STAR of others also who
are not in perfect sympathy with this
style Of dress. Now. / don't see why
a should not be allowed to wrap
up in as little cloth as possible, provid-
ing she wraps up tight, SO that when
she coughs or sneezes there is no dan
ger of notifying results.
From the viewpoint of economy it
seems all right to save three or fou-
yards of goods by failing to provide
for the neck and shoulders. But who
may hope with success to dictate to the
fair sex about her dress or hat or
shoes? Verify, he that so hopeth hop
eth In vain. G. II. D. d.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24
TAFT VERSUS ROOSEVELT NOW.

I'D OSEVELTS Outlook article condemning the trust policy
Inn of the Taft administration has had a wide reading. So
also will the annual message to be sent to Congress by Mr.
Taft next month. 1t is fair to believe that the President will in
directly reply to the Roosevelt criticism. The attitude of Roose-
welt on the trust question is consistent with views he expressed on
different occasions in the past. Mr.. Taft has not been as con
slstent. But for the first time since Mr.. Taft took Office an issue
has arisen between him and his predecessor and it probably in
wolves the presidential nomination. 1t has already brought the
personality of Roosevelt strongly into the light and cast doubt
upon the Taft candidacy. With the opening of the session of
Congress national interest in presidential politics will increase
and much will happen to affect the results of the national nomi-
mating conventions.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24
OPENING OF THE M'AD0o LINE.

ETTa HE first train over the new McAdOo line between Park place
and the Hudson terminal in Manhattan, run yesterday as a
trial trip for the railroad officials, was the Introductory of
a transportation service that promises much for our city. The
superiority of The service for Newark will make the road preferred
to the steam RAILROAD lines, the fare being the same to the Hudson
terminal. A large traffic may therefore be looked for at once.
And it will be a rapidly growing one, while at the same time the
neighborhood of the Park street station will undergo a rapid
transformation. This station, so far as railroad plans are con
cerned. is only a temporary terminus. The ultimate object is to tap
the Morris canal right of way and carry the line westward, and
that purpose is contingent upon the abandonment of the canal under
the terms of the tentative agreement entered into last winter at
Trenton
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24
Against Married women Teaching.

Against Married Women Teaching.
To the Editor of the Evening Star:
l am heartily in accord with what
some local citizens state as to married
women teachers, and it's about time
that the Board of Education should en-
act measures stamping out this gross
injustice.
Another thing is that there should be
a rule made by the State civil service
not to permit married women to hold
governmental positions in cases where
the husbands also hold positions in the
service at reasonable salaries.
Il. o. o..
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24

the Editor of the Evening Star:
Do the knockers of the ~auto-racing
game even stop to think of the great
amount of skill and nerve required to
pilot a 90-horsepower racer for 300
miles, going at an average Of about
seventy or eighty miles al hour? These
very drivers, as well as the dernonstra-
tors and statesmen in the cities, have
helped to bring the automobile indus
try in this country to its present state.
P. A.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24

ing Joe II o o X T
pushed up the steep
side of o o k o u
mountain in a thick
fog. Out of sight of
their own army they
climbed, and into the
view of the Confed-
crates they came out
of the mist into a
storm of fire. The
rest of the Union
army down in the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24

valley could see the flashing Of the
guns and hear the roar, but knew moth
ing of the progress of the fight until 4
o'clock in the afternoon, when Hooker
sent a messenger to General George H.
Thomas with the news that the crest
of Lookout mountain had been carried.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24
Just By the Way

The Flat Nuisance.
My lady nesghbor singeth like . lark
And in the lark's own ~heuzs-fsom
dawn to dark.
And like a nightingale she sangs-fer
And on. her music soes-from dark 10
dawn!
Cause and Effect
Mrs. McSosh-I would y have
married you II / had known you drank.
Mr.. McSosh-rd never've drank IL
you hadn't married me.
Easy Prophecy.
h palmist glanced at the mans
hand.
You are about to come into posses
sion of a neat sum OF money" he pre-
dicted.
Which was easy predicting. The
hand was a straight flush.
Victim-I tell you I don't want any
of your hair tonic. I q q bottle
in the house that I wouldn't be with
out.
Agent-Does II restore the hair?
victim-l don't know. But "a long
as I have IL I don't need to listen to
you fellows.
The frost is on the pumpkin
And the corn Is In b shock--
And the question Of the hour fs now
To get the benny out Of hook.
Boiled potatoes are bettur than soop
for cleaning hands olackened by contact
with kitchen utensils.
BUT-beinE ~discontert vsseA yUuAv4
got enough In often a gtep soward
bankers row.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24
The Rctort.

80 you want my daughter" said
the stern parent.
Yes, SIR" answered the young sutton.
modestly.
"Huh!' grunted the old man. Got
any money!"
Yves, sir. How high do you quote
her?"
Lots Of statesmen go to Washington
on the same principle that a man hlls
his pocket with sponges and tumbles
into q beer vat.
Dean Swift said: mo wise man ever
wished to be younger" Got that
twisted. He should have said: mo
young ma, even wishes to be wiser"
Beri-beri is caused By the use Of
rice that has been milled till the phos-
phorus Is removed from the grain.
Being content with what you have is
the first step toward never having any
more.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24

The Newark branch of the Needle
work Guild of America distributed
4,160 garments yesterday at the First
Baptist Peddie Memorial Church. For
ty-nine institutions of this city bene-
flied by the work of the guild, receiv-
ing warm undergarments and dresses.
Reports of the years work were sub
mitted by the president, Mrs. Eloise
Russell Ferrall; the treasurer, Mrs.
Carrie Stern, and the secretary, Miss
Agnes Garrigan. The press committee
appointed consists of Miss Garrigan
Miss Maryrose Smith and Mrs. Nathan
Weinberg. New section presidents
chosen were Miss Frances Borneman,
Mrs. George Mcclellan and Mrs. Mar
tin Issler. It was thought that the Sec
ions could be brought into closer touch
with each other If there was a gather
ing in the spring. and to this end 1t
was decided to hold a tea then. The
time and place were not settled. The
delivery of the packages to their des-
tination was courteously offered and
accomplished by Benjamin Hopper, of
the Newark Warehouse Company.
The annual fair given at Wallace Hall
yesterday afternoon and evening by
the guild of st. Barnabas's Hospital
for the benefit of the hospital proved a
great success. The junior guild gave
tableaux and illustrated songs under
the direction of Miss Elizabeth Fisher,
with songs and readings by Miss Vivian
Edwards and accomplishments by Mrs.
Vashti Baxter.
Mrs. Wainwright Ripley was in
charge of arrangements for the fair,
while Mrs. Arthur MacKie had charge
of the entertainment. The program
varied little for the afternoon and even
ing, although a few changes were made
The children who tool part in the tab
leaux were: Margaret Atha, Marion
Bathgate, Jay Spur, Robert Howell,
Rodger Stiles, Theodore Wilkinson,
Rodger Harvey, C~ourtlandt Parker,
Cornelia Howell, James Gibson. Dor
othy Ripley, Margaret Stiles, Chester
Billings, Jack Howell, Vivian Savage,
Margaret Ripley, Elmira Spur, Marion
Rhodes, Elizabeth Abercrombie, Ban
croft Duren, Virginia Andrews, Mary
Battin, Halsey Tichenor, Helen Ash
mum, Sara Conklin, Charlotte Larter,
Betty Ashmun, Winifred stiles, Ro-
maine Carroll, Augusta Howell, Elaine
Savage, Elizabeth = Fisher, Fanny
-Dodd, Baldwin Guild, Francis vinson,
Isabel Andrews, Gertrude Kilburn,
Jack Harlow. Abby Kilburn, David
Abercrombie, Elizabeth MacKie, Dora
Parker, Edith Parker, Beelman Ilsley,
Gwendoiyn Salvage. Robert Ilsley.
Senior members Of the Guild who
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24

The STAR extends the privilege
of these columns to the public and
not more than one hundred words
treating of topics of the hour.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24
SOCIAL NOTES
Of Newark and the Suburbs

had charge of tables were: Mrs. Louis
Hay, fancy table; Mrs. Harry Durand,
Mrs. George Lewis, Mrs. William Ill
ingworth, cake; Mrs. Austin McGregor,
ice cream cones; Mrs. Edward Wright,
ir., and Mrs. Archibald Mercer, Dutch
supper" and Mrs. William w, c. Con-
nett. grab bag
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24
fUsTAIINE,
NBoUTM EN/
<eUWoW

0O NoAiSh ObSs i1itJ v v
where you will in a German street car
n as often as you will, you will never
see a p~rotruding hatpin point said
DR.. Mccormick, of the City Hospital
staff. They have hatpins, but where
the point protrudes it is covered with
a button. Something on this line
ought to be introduced in Newark"
Although he is in business, stephen
Messerer, inventor and jeweler, does
not conduct his establishment in con-
fornity with accepted rules. Recently
a reporter left his watch to be repaired
and asked for a check. 81 never give
Them" said MIR. Messerer. There is
no need for one. L know o will not
run away"
The proudest man in town last
Wednesday night was John F. Conroy,
of the firm of Ward & Co., when he re-
ceived word from Washington that he
had become a grandfather. Mr.. Con-
roy says that IL the newly-born Is
named John after his proud grand
daddy, he will forward g check for
s., 900 as a gift.
Fred L. Salmon, s~tenographer in
Judge Davis's court, is n Of the most
rapid shorthand operators in the city,
but he almost had to throw up his
hands the other day when q woman
witness was on the stand In defense of
her husband, who was charged with
the theft of some brass.
IT have heard of women who could
talk fast, but she was the limit" says
Mr.. Salmon. "She did not even wait
for the lawyer to finish his questions,
but would start right in with her an
swer and would keep on talking until
she was out of breath.
at took me by surprise. as all the
other witnesses had had to use the in
terpreter, and although the woman
was Polish she had an excellent com
mand of the English language. and she
could rattle it a milea minute. Ever
Judge Davis with his gavel could moi
stop her once she got started on al
explanation"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24

TODAY IN HISTORY.


November "a, 1864. two divisions Of
Union soldiers under General sFight-