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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30
FACTS ABOUT THE
LAYMENS MEETING
Convention and Banquet to
Be Held at Tazewell in
Middle of July.

For the information of any that
are not informed as to the object and
purposes of this great movement, a
committee has been appointed to
briefly outline few facts for the
benefit of the citizens of Tazewell
county, supplemental to what was
said in this paper last week,
A convention will be held at Taze-
we'll, July 18th and 10th, 1911,
which will be replete with informa-
tion and helpful to all christians who
may attend.
A banquet will be given Saturday
evening; all of the men of Tazewell
county are invited to be present at
this banquet; it is given to every
christian of the county, and each one
is urged to be present; inasmuch as
all are included in the invitation it is
necessary to sell tickets of admis-
sion at fifty cents each, and notice
given before the 10th of July to J.A.
Greever, Tazewell, Virginia, that
you will attend.
The reason admission is charged is,
that if few citizens of the Town of
Tazewell should give the banquet the
number of invitations would neces-
sarily have to be limited, and in
some instances would probably ue
sent to persons who would not at
tend, it must be known who will at
tend so that proper preparation can
be made.
On Sunday following the banquet a
number of interesting subjects will
be discussed by prominent speakers.
Some of the speakers are Mr.. Chas.
II. Pratt. Richmond; Mr. w. S. Nc
Clanahan, Roanoke; Mr.. j. I. Hen
derson. general secretary Laymen's
Missionary Movement; Rev. j. Fair
man Preston, Mr. e. c. Cronk and
others.
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he remained about year. He was
sold to a French trader, Baptist
Ariome, who took him to his home in
Canada, just across the line from
Detroit, where he was treated as a
member of the family.
Some six years after his capture he
returned to the ancestral home in
Rockbrdge. Soon afterwards he mar
ried Miss Barbara Taylor, native
of that county. Strange as it may
seem, the old Morse spirit of daring
called from his father's grave in the
wilderness, and we soon find him
building cabin on the ruins of the
old home in Abb's Valley. With a
hardihood suggestive of the iron
blood of his Scotch Irish forebears,
he began his new life on the little
knoll over which hung the shadow of
the most appalling tragedy in the
pioneer history of the trans-Alleghany
county.
Here March 7th, 1902, the sub
ject of this sketch, William Taylor
Moore, was born. What a romantic
setting for the birth of one who was
to travel to the gateway of the twen-
tieth century! It's environment
seems as far rem owed from the busy
industrial scenes, the railways and
the coke ovens of our Tazewell, as
the times of good Haroun Alrischid,
when the childhood of another age
was borne in shadow-sloops "by Bag
dads shrines of fretted gold.'' The
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30

crab apple and wild rose thickets of
Abb's Valley were still ringing to the
flutes of Already" and on the wilder
frontier across the Ohio young barba-
rians were at play. There are no
young barbarians now, simply little
Indians in circumscribed and guarded
sediments; but somewhere in the far
borderlands, let US hope, the Area
dian wind harps still are playing.
But there was tragedy, as well as
romance, in his coming, for his moth
er died when he was but few days
old. When he was about six weeks
old his grandmother Taylor went on a
visit to her kinsfolk in middle Tenn
essee and took him with her She was
member of the family which after
wards gave to Tennessee a brilliant
Governor and Senator and to Method
ism distinguished missionary
Bishop. This turned out to be rath-
er long visit, as the motheress boy
remained there until he was fourteen
years of age. Whether he had better
school advantages there than his own
neighborhood afforded is not known,
but his education was not neglected,
and he returned home we'll advanced
in the elementary studies of that
time.
In person he was tall, slender,
1.-the and straight, clean and strong,
with the red blood of vigorous and
untainted ancestry coursing free in
his veins. Naturally he fell at once
into the outdoor work and pasttimes
of that day. There were no scientific
m ethods of physical culture in use
then; no prescribed regime was
necessary. But the college athlete
of our day, we fear, would not COM
pare favorably with this young trailer
of the crags. His wild free life was
more in harmony with the youth of
the poets dream who caught the wild
goat by the hair and whistled back
the parrot'sscall. The rugged noun
tans were his playground and bear
hounds and rifle his companions.
1t is related that he killed his first
bear when he was sixteen. About this
time bounty of five dollars was
offered by the government for wolf
scalps. The young hunters father
gave him sheep which was slaugh-
tered and used as bait. In one winter
he took eight scalps, and with the
money thus secured bought horse.
This horse, two bear dogs. and a rifle,
were his only possessions when he
was married. The site of the presen,
town of Elkhorn was known in those
days as Camp Moore, and the country
thereabout abounded in big game. Ir
after years when this region became
worthless as hunting ground, Mr..
Moore sold a thousand acres here fo,
one thousand dollars. But it was his
good fortune to escape the frenziet
commercial spirit of these times. Hi.
youth had extracted the real wealth
of these mountains and the dreams Of
his old age were not embittered b,
regrets of avarice.
| While, as youth, he was fond O
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nursed almost in the lap of the Revo-
luton; he witnessed the rise and
fall of the Confederacy; the birth and
death of both Lincoln and Lee, and
the mighty clash of tongue and pen
and sword with which their names
are linked. In his time the pick of
the archaeologist transfgured history
and the inspired revelations of geolo
gist and astronomer, Christianized
science. The tallow dip was supplant-
ed by the arc light, the sickle by the
reaper and the fail by the thresher
He saw the map of the world changed
and distance annihilated by steam and
electricity. And along the little
stream where in boyhood he had
tracked elk and bear and deer he
lived to see Corliss engines and pal
ace cars and to hear a confusion of
foreign tongues outdoing the perplex-
tiles of Babel.
In the year 1926 a young man
named James Moore left Ireland and
settled in Chester county, Pennsyl-
vania. There he married Jane Walk
er, young woman of Scotch descent,
and in short while they left Penn
sylania and settled in Rockbridge
county, Virginia, where they reared a
large family of boys and girls. The
sixth child and second son bore the
name of his father. Early in life he
married young woman named Mar
tina Poage, and after residing for sew
eral years in the neighborhood of
Lexington, moved with his young
family to frontier settlement in
Montgomery county.
About this time, 1766, hunter
named Absalom Looney, and others
whose names have not been preserv-
ed, returned to Montgomery from q
hunting expedition into the wilds
westward. They brought reports of
a fertile valley, where game and
ginseng abounded, beyond the New
River. Impelled doubtless by the
spirit of adventure, the next year
James Moore, accompanied by a
families of Robert Poage, his father.
in-law, and Absalom Looney, remov.
ed to this place, which was after.
wards called Abb's Valley in honor
of its discoverer. They built home.
about two miles apart, James Moore
erecting his on the site of the present
Moore homestead. Here on July 18th
1876, the terrible massacre occurred
which is so graphically described il
"The Captives of Abb's Valley
Capt. Moore, three of the children ans
man named Simpson, were killed b,
Black Wolf, Shawnee chief an,
thirty.of his warriors; while Mrs
Moore, the four remaining children
who were at home, and a young cir
named Martha Evans, were captured
Two years prior to this "arch dee,
of piteous massacre, !" the same In
dian chief, with two companions, ha,
invaded Abb's Valley and surprise,
and captured Capt. Moore's secon
son, James, a lad fourteen years o
age, who had been sent some distanc
away from the house to catch horse
He was taken by the Indians to thei
village near Chillicothe, Ohio, wher
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30

J.B. Boyer and Company are offer
ing Mason's fruit jars at the follow
ing prices, as long as their stock
lasts: Pints. SOC the dozen; Quarts,
55c per dozen; half gallon, 75c per
dozen.
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Don't forget The Red Tag Sale,
July 9Th to 15th-Chapmans.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-06-22
WHITE sLAvERs RECEIVE s,A 81
HEAVY SENTENCES
Herbert Gould Is Given Seven and
One Half Years at Leaven-
worth.

Although found guilty on all Of
the counts against them, none Of the
white slavers" so far sentenced has
received the maximum sentences.
Herbert Gould, who was convicted as
the procurer of Cora Frohm, received
only seven and half years, while the
maximum is ten years, and William
Siegel, who was found guilty Of hav-
ing brought Anna Matilda Anderson
from Denver to this city, was given
only four years whe he might have
been given five. Eugene Hughes, who
ig a korean, and does not understand
the ways of this country very well
was, given only six months in the
county Jail.
In the case of Mrs. Mae Brown
there is a conflict The attorney gen.
eral has designated that the male fed
eral prisoners shall be sent to Fort
Leavenworth, Kan, but he made no
provision for female prisoners and for
this reason his advice in this line has
to be secured before sentence can be
passed on the Brown woman. In his
arraignment of Gould, however, be-
fore sentencing him, Judge Brown re-
ferred to the Brown woman as a sche.
mer and defamer and the pal of
Gould.
When statements from the convict.
ed white slavers were called for,
Gould made disconnected appeal for
mercy and denounced his pal" the.
Brown woman and the testimony Of
| the girl. Siegel made no attempt at
a statement, although his attorney
seemed to try to picture him as a
shining light, and Hughes, the Korean
made no statement The Brown wom-
an VIII be sentenced today, providing
\ word JIG, received from the attorney
general as to where she may be sent.
These we're the first sentences to
be passed on white slavers in the
west and they promise to put a check
this alisit traffic, rhsscsses p F,
~. Baggs and others, who also are
charged with being white slavers. will
begin the last of this week.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-06-22
Domestic Science ~. 1, -,
E@ /. I Expert Talks.
Miss Caroline Hunt Addresses IRE "
4 a. c. Summer isehool.


Miss Caroline Hunt, expert, in pu-
triton and national authority on DO
nestle Science talked to a crowded
house at the Womans building Mon,
day. Over a hundred, people were pre-.
sent at the lecture and all manifested
keen interest in the subject discus
sed, Choosing Home"
The main points discussed by Miss
Hunt were the relation of ventilation
and light to the home. The point was
made that life to be most natural,
and therefore healthy, should be as
much out Of doors as possible. The
object, therefore, of house construc-
ton should be to make conditions in
the house as nearly like outdoor condi-
lions as possible. This is especially
important regarding light and ventila.
ton; window space should be 20 per
cent of floor space. Outdoor sleeping
apartments should be arranged for.
Ventilation should be prominent
factor in ouse.building. Impurities
are known to rise to the top Of the
room; every room therefore, should
have a window reaching to the cell.
ing in order to allow for the escape
of the impure air. Curtains and not
blinds were recommended for the
home. A shower-bath was stated to be
necessary part of well regulated
home. The fly.danger was dwelt up.
on, the point being emphasized that
the fly should be done away with nc
matter what means are adopted.
After the lecture a discussion was
entered into by members of the
course. Miss Hunt has made a decid
ed impression in her first lecture. The
remaining discussions of the weel
promise to be very popular. The sub
ject of her discussion on Tuesday /!
on Saving Steps" and on Wednesda!
on Beauty of Simplicity in Hous,
Furnishings" Summer School author
tiles wish to emphasize the fact tina
there is no charge for these lectures
Everyone is invited to be present
The lectures are held daily this weel
at II a. m. in the Woman's building.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-06-22
Text OF Resolution.

The resolution carrying the threat
to the Bell company was drafted amid
great enthusiasm and was carried
without dissenting voice. 1t follows:
BE it resolved that the citizens and
business men of Tintic are unalter-
ably opposed to any raise whatsoever
of telephone rates by the Bell Tele-
phone company, which has recently
taken over the business and lines OF
the Independent Telephone company
in Utah; that we are willing to con-
tinue the service of the Bell COM
pany provided we are given the same
rates as were in effect previous to tne
building of the Independent plant in
this city and that any effort to raise
the rates above those figures shall re-
suit in the removal of telephones from
Jne business houses anu residences OF
Tintic and the installation of an indie
pendent local system"
3. Being in the mood to assert their
rights the business men also decided
to look into the telephone rates be-
tween Tintic points and Salt Lake,
which they declared are beyond rea-
son, and to take such action as Is
found necessary to protect themselves
against outrageous tolls.
For this purpose c. +. Hush, Ralph
Badger, c. j. Fennell ID. }. Russell
and Leonard T. Schofield were ap,
pointed as an investigating committee
which will also report as to the prac.
ticability of new local system. Bust.
ness men by the score offered to sup.
port with substantial subscriptions
any move to install a new system pro
vided the Bell company insists on its
avowed increase of present rates.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-06-22
Cache County
Fair Assured

The county fair committee of the
Commercial Boosters club, which was
appointed TO secure at least one hun
bred subscribers to a fair fund,
made its report at the general meeting
OF the club on Tuesday night. Sixty
six LOCAL business men had subscribed
at $4,000 each, and the committee as
5ured the members present that the
fair could be made a go. As fore.
runner this condition looks good, and
The presidency Of the club will take
steps Immediately to bring in the
other clubs OF the county.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-06-22

Miss Ada l.. Daumah, who recently
reported to the National Civic FEEDER
alton that farmers wives are the
best cooks and were decidedly bet.
ter housekeepers than the city WON.
an, will probably stir up a hornets
nest in some sections. Here out west
we are not troubled by poor house.
keepers, thank God-thanks to our
Agricultural Colleges, and we don't
think we could rake up enough with
fine tooth comb from our western
cities who We're entirely ignorant of
the way to prepare food for man. OF
course Miss Dawman confined herself
to the state of New Jersey, Connecticut
and New England
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-06-22
BELL STARTS RATE RAISE;
90 TINTlc MERCHANTS OBJECT
Notice Of Proposed Increase at Eu'
reka and Elsewhere stirs Storm
Mass Meeting Held.

Eureka. June 19.-Indignant over an
attempt of the Bell Telephone COM
pany this morning to raise its rates
throughout the Tintic district, zoo
business men Of Eureka passed reso-
lutions at a mass meeting here to-
night serving notice upon the com.
pany that unless the increase is can
celled the telephones will be taken
from every business house and resi-
dence in this district and new indie
pendent company organized at once
for local service. Committees were APP
pointed to probe the local telephone
situation and to report on the prob
able cost of an independent system.
Notice of increase from SO a month
to S. a month for business phones
and from 50 a month to SO month
for residence phones, individual SER
vice, was made by the local branch Of
flee of the Bell company early this
morning. The arrival of the morning
mail containing the notices was the
signal for what appeared to be a pre-
arranged plan of action. Before noon
a mass meeting had been called and
the proposed raise was the sole topic
of conversation on the streets. Prac'
tically every business house of con
sequence in the Tintic district had
representatives at the meeting.
John X. Vance, local manager fol
the Bell company, was present and
pleaded with the citizens to defer &C
ton until after a conference with di
rectors of the company whom he sait
would come out from Salt Lake to
morrow morning
The gathering had worked itself in
to a belllgerent attitude, however, ant
q motion to grant the request of Mr.
Vance was Overwhelmingly defeated
Reused 20 a pitch of indignation tn,
speakers OF the meeting declared
there would be no compromise no
any waiting upon the telephone trus
with petitions. p a q
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-06-22
MOST INTERESTING
PROHIBITION MEETING

There was a meeting of the Pro
hibition committees of the Logan
wards held in the east basement of
the Tabernacle on Monday evening at
which there was a good representation
from all the wards except the Eighth
ward, which was not represented. The
meeting was called by the county
committee and was presided over by
+. Scholes. Reports from the various
committees showed that in several of
the wards very thorough work had
been performed and preparations
were made to take up vigorous
campaign in all the other wards
which were represented. The commit
tees showed that they feel deep in
terest in the cause of prohibition and
they are determined to labor with a
will to do away with the saloon.
All felt certain that Logan will go
dry" by a very large majority, and
number expressed their astonish
ment that any person claiming to be
member of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints could vote
for the continuation of saloons. 1t was
reported that according to the best
information obtainable about fifteen
persons in Logan hold internal reven.
ne licenses and the great surprise to
the workers is that Illegal dealers
are not hooted down and vigorously
prosecuted by the local officers
From the remarks made by a number
of those present, it is evident that
these committees mean to leave nc
stone unturned that is necessary tc
bring about the adjustment of tn.
liquor traffic in Logan.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-06-22

Judge Morris of Salt Lake last
Monday, sentenced quartet Of
white slavers" to long terms in the
bastile, and in passing sentence, scath-
ingly excoriated those who INDUCED
in the practice of procurers. He de.
nounced white slavery" in no uncer-
tain terms, and said that he consid-
erred the crime of white slavery" the
most vicious possible A little more
such attention from the courts and
those dastards who prey upon the
poor unsophisticated girl, would be
few and far between. The judge did
right.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-06-22

John ID. Rockefeller has taken to
going to church in his old age for ex-
ercise. He shook hands with two hun
dred church goers the other day and
as a result his arm and hand will be
sore for some time. This is a new
source of exercise for the venerable
financier, but it should be a happy
change from that which he has been
accustomed to--the practice of peo,
pie pulling his leg.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-06-22
,or Of the Hyrum team.

vOr OF the hyrum tedin'
!, Mr.. sidney Heysy was a visitor 80
HyruR Monday s AZ sssl
Misaes.aAdella Allen and : Nellie
Johnson are attending summer school
at the U. A. c. this season.
Mr.. and Mrs. James A.. Thorpe from
Providence. came over to Hyrum the
other day to catch some fish in the
Blacksmith Fork river, but after fish
ing for half day Mr. Thorpe decided
that fish were few and went home
with fisherman's luck. He says no
more fishing for him this year.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-06-22

BY perussl Of the meeting OF the
Commercial club held the other ev-
ening, Logan people will be appraised
of the great doin's" on the Glorious
Fourth. When the committees come
around to see you-of course financi.
ally-we hope that your conscience
will allow you to stretch your purse
strings wide open and that you viii
give literally so not may upbraid you.
1t is a long time since we celebrated
mere, and by practicing a little more
patriotism we should be able to pu,
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-06-22

The Rev. Mr.. Powell evidently be-
lieves that everything should be put
in order, as he has been beautifying
the Methodist church corner by clean
ing the unsightly weeds, like those
we have around the Tabernacle
square. To the sluggard we would
say eco thou and do likewise" -,
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-06-22
WHY BOYS RUN AWAY FROM
HOME.

The CONCLUSION reached by the au'
thor of the study of runaway boJs,
printed in the Survey, is that an In
stinctive "wanderlust" is the cause
of their vagrancy in the great ma
jority saying: One Of the chief OBJ
stacles her four years connection with
the Chicago Bureau of Charities, was
able to investigate the cases Of six
ty-four such lads, among them being
some interesting characters, 81 should
say" she concludes, that investiga-
ton did not show that their homes or
their schools or their work environ.
ment were sufficiently abnormal in
character, or unsatisfactory even to
the boys themselves, to account for
their desire to tramp or strike out
for the cities to seek employment
and independence The boys natur-
ally, of course, gave all sorts Of rea.
sons for their conduct. But, in most
cases, the causes was likely to be
something they felt, but could not
we'll understand-that spirit of rest
lessness and longing for change
which seems to be common to all
youths in their teens" Many boys who
do not enter upon such adventures
experience the same desires, but home
influence, sound judgment, natural
caution, habit or even timidity, res
trains them.
/ The runaway boy is usually =, ar
under, more often under. Spring is IA
particularly hard time for him to
get through without taking to the
road. He is rather close to nature,
and feels the throbbing life of the
earth in that season of the year. He
has moods and impulses. He mopes or
dreams, is sullen on absent-minded.
His teachers find him difficult. Dis
cipline inks him. He has no desire
to lead his class, or even to be presi-
dent of the United States. The
spring fever" is upon him And then
mere accident may start him on his
wanderings. Tell such boy writes
Mrs. SolenbergeT, that he will be ar.
rested ii he commits certain of
tense and he may do it at once out
of mere childish curiosity to see the
inside of a Jail or from a desire to
have ride in patrol wagon. Sim.
ilarly some chance word, some pic,
ture or story, or even some sound
like the whistle OF distant engine
on a railroad, may act as a suggest
ion which leads that boy to run away
from home" Not infrequently a IA
theirs harsh word or sisters con
temptuous manner will serve as the
immediate cause OF his escapade. Foi
some reason, at any rate, off he goes
some fine day, leaving a father anx
.Gus, a mother in tears and the en-
tire home in gloom. Springfield
(Mass.) Republican
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-06-22

up q celebration worth while" Let
the festive bells ring out for the
joyous occasion and don't let us. for
goodness sake be so iethargice that
we switch the music OF the joyful
occasion into the aoleful accents OF a
funeral dirge. 4