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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-12
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Determined to if need be the tie that
bound upon the authority of the union the seeding
state had demanded the surrender of the stronghold
To attempt to reinforce the little garrison under
Major Robert Anderson was perhaps to precipitate
the war for which Uncle Sam was worse than un-
prepared
Yet at least few more men, permitting the de-
tenders to man single tier Of guns, needed if
resistance were to be more than farce.
Responding to the repeated pleas ~ the iron
hearted commander, ten artiIerymen were sent
secretly from the headquarters of the command
ing general of the Department of the East on Gov
ernors island part Of the OF the supply boat
which visited the fort at regular intervals carrying
food and other necessaries Thege men look part in
the defense against the bombardment OF April -
1861, which startled the world with awakening to
at last inevitable
a. One Of the ten men who We're sent on this des-
perate mission stn lives His comrades long ago dis
appeared from view. Probably he is the sole sur
viyor. Every officer in the fort is recorded dead
The last OF the forlorn hope, at that time private
in the regular army is Captain George w. simmons
OF New York who to distinction in the volun-
teers OF this his native state.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-12

IF a century ago the eye of the nation
was upon Sumter, the lone fortress
where the federal power, elsewhere re-
Taxed, had frightened upon Charleston a
grip which the South Carolina secession
lists in their fiery enthusiasm were COM
nnrinn n The hncnnirir,n hnlh - a .l,.i,,..
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-06-28

The Virginian Railway is
said to be contemplating the
removal of it's shops from
Princeton, w. Va, TO Roanoke.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-06-28
Back Home"
to Dixie

Johnson City, Tenn, June
% The mail of the Back
Home" Association is the
heayies of any in this city.
Hundreds of letters for it are
handled at the local post Office
each week. The secretary, w.
ID. Roberts, says that some
times one letter from the West
contains fifty or more names of
Southerners who want to know
about present opportunities and
conditions "back home" and
that n majority of them want
land for farming.
The Back Home" move
ment is apparently growing
popular in the West. One man,
N. II. Gwyn, at Mansfield,
Wash, writes as follows
81 took the Back Home cir.
cular with me to Sunday
School yesterday, and today
l send you the names of twelve
who were there and wanted a
copy of the Back Home Maya
zine" Somewhat similar let.
ters are coming every day from
all all the states and territories
west of the Mississippi River.
A man in San Francisco, T. r.,
Hill. says;
"The Back Home call
touches my heart. 1t recalls
the old gum spring and the
black water gourd. | am re.
peating the call TO all the 500
members Of our Southern Club
in this city. and we are all com
ing back home back TO God 4
country one of these days.
(Send the name OF every
Southerner you know in the
West to w. ID. Roberts, Sec,
"Back Homeu Association
Johnson City, Tenn, then clip
this item and mail to someone
who will do likewise. EDITOR
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-06-28
Will Assist
In Developing the Dairy In
dustry in the South.

Washington, d, O., June %.
To nssist in the development
of the dairy industry through
out the South, the Southern
Railway has appointed DR.. c..
Nj. Morgan as dairy agent. He
has taken up his duties, work
ing under tue jurisdiction of
the Land and Industrial De.
partmont DR.. Morgan will
devote his attention to the en-.
tire territory along the South
ern Railway
DIR. Morgan is qualified to be
of the most practical benefit to
those taking up dairying, being
Splendidly equipped and having
largo experience. He is a
graduate OF the Iowa State
Agricultural College and also is
a graduate veterinarian. He
taught and did practical work
in the development Of the live
stock industry in the North
west and then spent three
years in the Philippines for the
u s Department of Agricul-
ture. Since September, 1910, he
has been special agent in South
Carolina and Georgia of the
Farmers Cooperative Demon
stration Work of the L. S. De-
partment of Agriculture, de-
voting his efforts to live stock
Development in that territory
This experience gives DR.. Nor
gan mn intimate knowledge of
the problems that confront the
stock grower and dairylnan
throughout the Southeast.
In naming DR.. Morgan as
dairy agent the Southern Rail
way is following it's policy of
aiding i'm tho general develop
ment of the territory it serves
in every possible manner. All
authorities agree that there are
great opportunities in this field
in the South and the Southern
Railway will endeavor to do all
it can to assist farmers along
its lines in this work.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-06-28
Easy When
Explained

a woman riding in a Phila-
delphia trolley car said to the
conductor:
"Can you tell me, please, on
what trolly cars / can use these
exchange slips They mix me
up somewhat"
"'rhey really shoulden't,
madam" said the polite con-
ductor. at is very simple;
East of the junction by a west.
bound car an exchange from an
east-bound car is good only if
tho west-bound car is west of
junction formed by the east.
bound; south OF the junction
formed by n north bound. an
exchange from a south bound
is good south of the junction if
the north-bound was north of
the junction at time of issue.
but only south of the iunctinn
going south if the south. bound
was going north at the time il
was south of the junction. Now
Just keep that in mind and Won
viii get along all right, for
that's all there is to it,
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-06-28
Apple Crop
Prospects.

Clarence w. Moomaw. gen
eral manager OF the Virginia
Fruit Growers Association,
has received detailed reports
from all the fruit counties in
the state to the effect that a
fine crop may be expected this
year if the young apples remain
upon the trees.
Piedmont Virginia will be
short on Pippino, York and
Ben Davis apples especially the
old orchards. The young or
chards are expected to do fair.
ly well, but the supply will not
be normal.
Rappahnnnock and the Back
Creek pippin section near Roa-
noke report in the first case
prospects for very fine crop
of pippins and the second case
an average crop. Bedford
county reports a fifty per cent
crop. Roanoke, Franklin
l'otetourt, Rockbridge, Angus
ia, Allegheny and Warren
counties report prospects for a
normal crop.
Rockbridge county reports
prospects for a se> enty five per
cent crop and shenandoah is
reported as having prospects
for n normal crop. The Vir-
ginia Fruit exchange al
Chnrlestown, w Va, reports a
fine crop of all varities in Fred
erick county, w Va. and the
fruit counties of West Virginia
and at this time there seems ia
be a good prospect for good
peach crop, though it will be
short of last year.
1t is notable that where
orchards bearing big crops last
year were not cultivated and
fertili2ed there is shortage
this year, while on the other
hand many orchards bearing
wonderful crops last season
show prospects for a big croI
this year, as result of fcrtili-
cation and cultivation
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-06-28
New Lot
OF Catechis1a
Health Department Issues
Second Edition OF Thirty
Thousand Copies

Richmond, Va, June al
With seventy thousand of it's
tuberculosis Catechisms al
ready distributed among the
people of the Commonwealth,
Department ofHealth announced
today that it has in press u sec
ond edition of thirty thousand
which will be distributed
among the teachers of the va
rinus normal schools and in the
schools which have not been
supplied.
The cetechism was prepared
last December by the Health
Department and the State Anti
tuberculosis Association at the
time of the Red Cross Chris
tiau Seal campaign, and was
taken up with avidity by the
teachers of the State.
Letters on file at the Health
Department from various
school officials show that the
Catechism was very largely
used as text in the public
schools of many counties and
in numerous private schools of
the State.
In some localities, prizes were
offered for the children who
made the best recitation on the
two lessons of the Catechism.
In many cases teachers report
ed that practically their whole
school learned the catechism
perfectly.
with the next edition it is
expected that copies of the Cat
echism can be distributed in
practically every school of the
state, and, in the judgment of
the State health authorities and
the officers of the State Anti
tuberculosis Association, will
aid greatly in the camgaign
which is steady reducing the
mortality from tuberculosis in
Virginia
The Health Department an
nounces that a limited number
of the Catechisms are available
for general distribution and
can be secured on request to
the officers of the Department.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-06-28
Thrown From
A Mule.
Clinton Adams, of Duncans
Mill, Met With Fatal
Accident Sunday.

Clinton Adams, wearthy
young citizen about 80 years of
age, met with fatal accident
Sunday morning. He was
riding a mule along when some
cattle ran up behind the ami
mai, frightening it and causing
it to throw him. He was so
severely hurt that he died Sun
day evening.
The unfortunate young man
was a son of Harvey Adams.
He was married, his wife being
daughter of Elkanah Zion.
His wife and three small chill
dren survive him.
We are informed he was a
good citizen and industrious.
His burial took place Tuesday.
His father had recently turn
ed the management of the farm
entirely over TO him and he was
managing it well. The entire
community is deeply grieved
and shocked over the sad affair.
Gate City Herald.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-06-28
Acted Selfish

quite number Of papers are
publishing the story of point
ed spring in Ice county, which
appears 10 have originated with
pr Allen w Freeman, assist
ant Commissioner Of Health,
Richmond, Va.
We agree with the doctor
that typhoid fever is very dan
gerous and that every precau.
tior should be taken to prevent
its spread. We think however
that the doctor acted u little
selfish in going away without
pointing out the location of
this wonderful spring, espec-
Tally as ne had came all the way
here from Richmond and found
it so easy. Can any one ina
ginc worse calamity to befall
any community Just think Tor
a moment Of great, boiling,
cold spring of delicious fresh
water, near church where
our fathers worshiped and at
the school house whore We
made love to our sweetheart
some twenty years ago, be-
coming polluted with those
naughty typhoid fever gerlnsl
Then again, we have so many
good cold springs in Lee that it
makes us shudder to think of
what might happen if all the
springs should become infected
Pennington Gap News.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-06-28
Another
Merger.
Various Mines in the Chenoa
District Consolidate.

Another big merger in coal
properties in this section, which
means much to Piuevilie and
the coal business in this sec.
ton, has been consummated
the mines involved in the deal
being the Poplar-Hignit Coal
~ Coke Company, The Clear
Creek Coal " Coke Company
The Caney Creek Coal & Coke
Company and the Kelly Coal
Company, all locuted on the
Chenoa branch of the l.. * n.
Railroad.
The name OF the new com.
pany taking over the proper.
ties is The Log Mountain Coal
q Coke Company. The com.
pany has a capital of 5000, GOO,
and bonds and preferred stock
OF $500, 900
The new company will take
over the properties this month.
This is the second big deal in
coal properties in this territory
m the past few months, the
other being the merger of the
various properties on Straight
Creek, involving about $1,000
o0o.-Pineyille Sun.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-06-28
MedicalSociety
of Southwest Virginia Elect
Officers

Roanoke, Va, June 2l.-The
Southwest Virginia Medical
Society in session here has
elected the following officers
for the ensuing year:
President, DIR. w. w. Chafiin
Pulaski; first yice-president,
DIR. f. c. Watson, Roanokej
second vice-president, DR.. w.
H. Ribble, Jr., Wytheyillei
secretary and treasure, DR.. A,
B. Greiner, Rural Retreat.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-06-28
No Fourth
at Tazewell.

. lazewell, Va, june 22.-At
meeting tonight of the direc-
oi OF the Tazewell Fair Asso-
c'a',on' the Fourth of July
,t;e s extensively adyer-
VS. ,'ssa l Tor Tazewell, was called
vi oi' ioF the reason that not snfii-
t t,sn' interest was being mani
county. - '"'
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-06-28
7. 0. Sandy
Gives Good Advice to Corn
Club Boys.

Richmond, Va, June 23.-T,
10. Sandy, of Burkeville, who is
at the head of the farm demon
strution work in Virginia, came
through the city yesterday and
as usual, was very enthusiastic
about the work chat he directs.
According to MIR. Sandy,
more than $500 Virginia boys
are raising prize corn this sum
mer, Nansemond, Halifax, and
ALTERNATE having more than
one hundred each in the work.
In all, thirty-fve counties are
undertaking the work while as
many more desire the help Of
agents but are unwilling to
make small appropriation re-
quired by the United Agricul-
tural Board.
When asked If he desired to
give the boys any advice Mr..
Sandy mentioned the following
pointers" which it would be
wise for every corn grower in
the State to follow:
/. BE sure you have a good
stand.
.. Along about July list, put
on your acre about 800 lbs. of
3-S-3 fertilizer for the purpose
of making the ear.
,. The ground must be kept
thoroughly puIyerized by cult.
waiting after each rain. DO this
in order to keep moisture in the
land.
A. Do not pillow corn in the
old way and LAY it by" but
stick to level cultivation with
dust mulch.
5. BY all means seed Grim
son clover at last cultivation.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-06-28
Attracting
Attention
OF Outside World to Advan-
tages of the South

Washington, d. O., June 81
In accordance with their pol
icy of attracting the attention
of the outside world to the man
fold advantages OF the South,
the Southern Railway and al
lied lines have arranged to
make comprehensive exhibit
at the American Land and Irri.
CATION Exposition to be held in
Madison Square Garden. New
York City, November to IL.
Tho materials used in max
ing this exhibit will be drawn
from the territory served by
the Southern Railway, the Mo
bile and Ohio Railroad, the All
ALBANIA Great Southern Rail
road, the Cincinnati, New Or
leans and Texas Pacific Rail
way and the Georgia Southern
and Florida Railway.
This exposition will be visited
by thousands of just the class
of people it is desirable should
become citizens of the South.
The exhibit will be a splendid
advertisement for the section.
Invitation is extended to far
mers throughout the South to
make individual exhibits aud
compete for the attractive pri-
Yes to be offered, which include
a 81 900 cup for the beat short
staple cotton, 5000 in gold for
the best twenty five boxes of
apples, $1,000 cup for the best
thirty ears of corn. and $1,000
prizes for alfalfa, potatoes,
wheas and corn.
In an effort to enlist the aid
of the farmers of the South in
thus advertising their section
TO the world, the Southern Rail
way through its Land and In
dustrial Department is send
ing out n circular to the far
mers giving details of the pri-
zes to be offered and how TO
procure space for making exhi-
bits.
Any farmer interested who
will address NJ. V. Richards,
Land and Industrial Agent,
Washington, d. c., will be af-
forded every possible aid.
The Southern Railway and
allied lines are making this ex-
hibit for the purpose of attract.
ing desirable settlers TO
tho territory which they serve.
They have made such exhibits
at numerous fairs aud exposi.
tions throughout the North and
West in the past and have
found this one Of the most Of
fective ways of advertising the
South.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-06-28
Sixty Seven
Specimens
Taken From One Tract of
Land in Buchanan County.

The American Lumberman
contains the following interest
ing story ON the varieties of
timber in Virginia.
Reference is frequently made
TO the varied timber wealth of
the southern Appalachians.
The principal timbers which
attain commercial size and of
which a considerable quantity
can he secured are the several
kinds of oak, ash, hickory, wal
nut, butternut, buckeye, bass
wood. poplar, chestnut, maple,
gum, elm, cherry, white and
yellow pine, hemIock, birch
and beech This is a tremend.
GUS list in itself, but it does not
include all of the commercial
woods or trees of infrequent
occurrence.
Recently G. w. LIZ, of Hur-
lev VA, who looks after the
affairs of the w, NJ, Ritter
Lumber Company at that
point, shipped Il timber exhibit
to Richmond, Va. All of the
kinds of timber which subse-
quenty viii be named were
secuted from the lands of the
company ON Knox creek in
Buchanan county, Virginia.
Sixiy.seven specimens were
furnished, all secured within
radius OF five miles. The
names of sixty-three are given;
subsequently four additional
siuds of timber were found
White oak, honey locust,
iron wood, wild cherry, black
oak cucumber, beech, crab ap
ple spotted oak, yellow poplar,
black gum, wild plum, red oak,
chestnut sweet gum, rhodo-
dendron pin oak, butternut.
red elm, red bud, chestnut oak,
sycamore, slippery elm, elder
water oak sassafras, hemlock,
witchhazel, red hickory, per
simmon black pine, catawba,
shellbark hickory, hornbeam,
haw tree, alder hlockhickory,
red thorn, blackberry, red
birch white hickory, sour
wool white dogwood, water
birch locust sugar maple, in
dan dogwood, balm of gilead,
black walnut, white maple,
swamp dogwood, mulberry,
uueseye, white ash, laurel, hol-
" basswood, black ash, spice
wood, sumac, wahoo, saryicc,
pawpaw.
Some Of the woods are con.
dderei very rare. A foot
section was cut from an oak
Tree which scaled over II 200
ieei aud was 375 years old. The
Specimen OF sassafras was cut
nom a tree containing 1000
ieeI oil good lumber. The wa
moo and honey locust also were
exceptionally large. The vel
low poplar in Buchanan county
is SAID to show the greatest
age ofnny poplar south of the
Ohio River.
Inc names of the sixty three
specimens furnished will prove
surprise even to many lnm-
oermen who are operating
south OF the Ohio River, where
many woods Of value abound
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-06-28
Cancer Cured.

j. b. Smith, III 9TH street,
Bristol, Tenn, cured an eating
cancer on my face with medi-
cine of SO years standing.
w. II. EASHooK,
Benhams. Va.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-08-24

| ton, half of lot 81 in Bradford,
$3.50.
Moses Cooley to Levi E. Bloch
er, l acre in Washington town
ship, $3.50.
George S. Corwin to Ebbert
Corwin, undivided three ffths
of So acres in Twin township,
$1OO.
Milton Corwin to Ebbert Cor,
win, undivided two-fifths of So
acres in Twin township, 81.
Anna J. Casey to G. A. and j.
E. Detamore, east half of lot 235
in Union City, $500.
David A. Fleming to T. A.
Mendenhall, a small tract in
Greenville township, $625.
John J. Schieltz to George P.
Hecht, 80 and $40 acres in Pat
terson township, $685..
George S. Corwin to Milton
Corwin, undivided two thirds of
81 acres in Twin township, $100.
Ebbert Corwin to Milton Cor
win, one third Of two-fifths of 81
acres in Twin township, 81.
George S, Corwin to Milton
CorWin, 30 acres in Twin town
ship, $1O0.
Jane Redenour to VIM. Pyles,
/ acre in Twin township and four
lots in Ithaca, $4,000.
Thomas ]. Patterson to Chat
field M. Patterson, 10 acres in
Washington township. $1,000.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-08-24
Government Stamped
Envelopes.

Out of seven letters received
out of the postoffice at Guthrie,
Okla, at one time, a few days
ago, five were in government
stamped envelopes. That is a
most extreme injustice to print
ers throughout the country. Two
were from banks and three from
big merchants.
These merchants desire the
country newspapers to fight the
parcels post for them on the the
ory that it will help the mail Or
der houses to still further in
crease their competition against
the local merchants. Yet they
patronize the government mon
opoly in these stamped envelopes.
That is a most extreme injustice
to the local printer.
The government gives a con-
tract to a single printing concern
for these envelopes in the enor-
nous amount of FOUR BILLION
envelopes. And of course the
government can sell them cheap
er with stamp and return i'm
print than the local printer can
buy the blank envelopes, in the
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-08-24
Fair Board Will Send
Boy to State Fair.

Notice is hereby given that on
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, August 22, %, "a
and 25, 1911, between the hours
of 9 am. and 4 pm. of each day,
an election will be held at the
Secretary's office on the Darke
County Fair Grounds, for the
purpose of selecting one farmer
boy from Darke county. between
the ages of Is and 20 years, to
attend the Ohio State Fair as the
guest of the State Board August
% to September l, 1911. The
Darke County Agricultural Socl-
ETY. will pay his railway fare to
Columbus.
The vote will be counted each
evening and announced the next
morning.
The holder of each family tick
ct will be'entitled to one vote.
FRANK PLESSINGER, Sec'y.
S~Is your subscription paid? ~
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-08-24
THURSDAY, AUG. "a, 1911,
The Country w eekly.

AS conditions and times change
with the strides of progress and
civilization there are some insti-
tutions which must and do re-
tain their permanence and their
individuality. Among these is
the country weekly in the field
of journalism. With a tradition
founded upon centuries and a po-
sition among the different class
es of papers and magazines Of
the world the weekly of the
smaller cities and towns holds it's
sphere uninterrupted by the great
strides in journalism and the
newspaper field.
The weekly is first of ali a
mirror of the happenings of the
locality. In it's regular visits to
the fresides of it's readers it car
ries the news of their friends and
neighbors. 1t seeks not the sor-
did, the sensational nor the
scandalous, bat the real news
the births, the marriages and the
deaths, the social happenings and
the progress of the immediate
vicinity. 1t does not endeavOr to
rival the daily in the record OF
world events. These are sum
med up briefly in a few we'll cho.
sen paragraphs.
To the former resident anC
kinsman it is a welcome visitor
and recalls the days gone by. To
the active man in the town it Is
a history of what has happened.
To the young it is a portrayal OF
the ways of the world.
With all the great advances in
the field of journalism the coun,
try weekly is not obsolete nor is
it's mission useless, 1t is one OF
the institutions of the town and
a helpful one in all its work.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-08-24
REGISTER OF DEEDS.

George H. Fristoe to George
W. and Lucille Rosser, part lot
491 in Greenville, $4,000.
George HartzelI to Salen w.
Shoemaker, 3 acres in Richland
township, $1O50.
Frank Pointner to Granite I'm
provement Co., two small tracts
in Union City, SIS.
Bridget Mccormick to Granite
Improvement Co., two small
tracts in Union City, $3.50.
J. A. McGriff to O. E. Ket-
ring, so and 91-100 acres in Har-
rison township, $4,000.
Hannah Ruse to Benjamin F.
Emrick, acre in Butler town
ship, $500.
Maggie E. Helman to James
A. Teahy, 10 and 55-100 acres in
jackson township, $4,000.
D. W. Stoner to James A. Tea
by, 35 and 45-1O0 acres in Jack
son township, $45OO.
Mary Hascher to Samuel Frank
30 and $500 acres in Jackson
township, $4,000.
VIM. J. Addington, per ad-
ministrator, to Alice M. Adding