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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1912-06-14
State of Virginia,
IN THE CLERKS OFFICE
OF THE CIRCUIT COURT : To-wit:
OF SHENANDOAH co.
American Hardwood Mfg Co.

Ut he ClhCO11 wv NJ IO-Wlt.
OF SHENANDOAH co.
American Hardwood Mfg Co.
Creditors, Complainants,
VS.. In Chanccry.
American Hardwood Mfg Com
pany, &c. Defendants.
and other causes heard Herewith, and
upon X Bill of The Rockingham Nat
Bank of Harrisonburg, Virginia.
The object of this suit is to declare
the tax deed to Leo A. Livers of Gate
January 10th, 1911, from D. II. Lee
Martz, Clerk of the Circuit Court #
Rockingham county, Virginia, to he
null and void, and cloud upon the
title of the real estate owned by the
American Hardwood Manufacturing
Company; and to subject the real
estate now owned by Mrs Anna Livers
Anderson, which is situate at Sben-
dun, Rockingham county, Virginia,
together with the said realty of the
said American Hardwood Manufactur-
ling Company to the payr ent OF the
lien of The Rockingham Nationa'
Bank of Harrisonburg, Y rginia.
1t appearing by affidavit that the
defendant a. H. Emmert, Trustee is a
nonresident of this State, it is there
fore ordered that II. b. Elnmert, Trus-
tee, appear within fifteen days aitel
due pub 'lcation of this notice and d.
what is necessary 10 protect his inter
est.
GEO. w. MILEY, D. Clerk
Geo. 5. Harnsberger, p. q. j-7-4H
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1912-06-14
HARMONY

Charlie Miller returned home last
Saturday from Davis, W. Va, with a
very badly cut foot.
The Harmony Cornet Band held a
festival last S .nrd evening and it
was we'll attended b. a large crowd.
hildren's Service viii be held at
Columbia Furnace on next Sunday
evening, June 10Th.
Miss Lena Hoan and Messrs. Leslie
and W. M Ba ton aid John Baise
spent the first Of the week with w. =.
Hoiler.
Misses Lucy Wilkin, Alice and
Lima Ryan, Lille Heishman, Mr.and
Mrs. Russell Borden and Messrs
Clinton Cotfman and Clarence Barr
spent Satul day and Sunday at Mr. J.
A. Sheetz.
Miss Jocie Sh' etz expects to leave
Tor Mount Airy Friday.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1912-06-14
Troublesome Account.

my husband has given me
checking account"
Isn't that lovely? Now you can
buy anything you want and just write
out check for It."
Eyes. I'm rather sorry on one ac-
count, though. 1t seems such a lot
Of trouble to have to write out a
check for ones car fare, especially
when the cars are crowded or when
you have to pay as you enter
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1912-06-14
BUGGY PAINTING

| have opened buggy repair shop
in Woodstock and am prepared to
paint, repair woodwork and top Of
any kind OF vehicle. All work is
GUARANTEED. Each customer
MUST BE SATISFIED before work
leaves my shop. Get my prices.
F. A. RAMEY, (near Foundry
June 74tpd. Woodstock, VI.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1912-06-14
Investigates Pardon
Man Already Dead

When the governor began investi-
cation yesterday of an application
for the pardon of David b. Atkins, a
white man sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for two years last September,
he discovered the man died last
March. A pardon from the Great
Supreme Ruler and not the governor
was the only pardon the dead man
required for his future welfare.
Atkins was convicted of forgery 10
Nottingham county.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1912-06-14
9th DAY OF JULY. 1912


next, If fair, if not, on the next Say
thereafter Sunday excepted) to take
and settle, at my Office, the accounts OF
~ To revise and reform the &C
count of debts so far as may be neces-
sary, and proper, which was recount
mitted to P. w. Magruder, Commits
sioner by decree entered in the first
named cause on the 8th day of Sept
ember, 1898.
(2) Take and report such testimony
as may be offered before him as to
whether the compromise of the claims
of Geo. A. Ritenour, now deceased,
sci up in these causes, was made with
out authority, also as to the validity.
or invalidity of said claim.
(3) Settle the accounts of A. T. Rit-
|enour and Daniel Spiker, Receivers.
(4) Ascertain and report how long
the real estate, known as the home
tract OF the late Daniel Ritenour has
been in the possession of Geo. A. Rit-
|enour, and his widow and heirs: also
its fair rental value during that
period.
~ Any other matter he may deem
pertinent. or that any party in inter-
est may require, required to be taken
by the decree of Shenandoah Circuit
Court rendered on the 14th day of
May. 1912 to be used in evidence in a
suit in chancery depending in said
c 'urt between Mary Gains admr. and
Geo. A. Riteour's admir-. complts. and
Daniel Ritenour's admir-. &c. and Nj
L. Walton ct al Spl. Comrs. Defts.
and If from any cause the taking of
said Accounts shall not be commenced
or having been commenced should not
be completed on that day, the taking
of the same will be adjourned from
day to day, or from place to place.
until the same are taken and complet-
ed.
Given under my hand as Commis-
sioner in Chancery of said court, at
my Office in said county the day and
year first aforesaid.
M. W. MAGUDER, Comr. Chy.
Williams Bro. p.
Tayenner & Bauserman & James p.
Reardon, p. d. j-7.4w
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1912-06-14
An Ancient Champion of the
PEOPLE

With changes in details due to
improvements in transportation
and modern methods of admins
tration, the methods of campaign
ing employed by champions Of
the people against the inter
ests" have undergone singularly
little change in three thousad
years. A brief but exceedingly
interesting account of a CAM
paign in the early days of He
brew history may be found in the
fifteenth chapter of II Samuel:
And it came to pess after this that
Absalom p, repaired him chariots and
horses and fifty men to run before him.
The chariots and horses have,
of course, been replaced with au-
tomobiles and special railroad
trains, but Medi1l Mccormick and
George w. Perkins, of the Steel
and Harvester Trusts, and Orms-
by McHarg, whose contract to
get SIP, 900 a year out of the Choc-
Jaws was Cancelled, and Al others
are running before the modern
friend of the people.
And Absalom rose up early, and
stood beside the way of the gate; and
it was SO, that when Sny man that had
. controversy came to the King for
Judgment, then Absalom called unto
him and said, OF what city art thou?
And he said, Thy servant is one OF
the tribes of Israel. And A5salom
said unto him, See, thy matters are
good and right: but there is no man
deputed of the King to hear thee.
In other words, every litigant
was assured that on account of
the fossilization of the Judges
and the subserviency of the head
of the State to the interests"
there was no chance for him to
get justice.
Absalom said, moreover, Oh, that
l were made Judge In the land, that
every 'man which hath any suit or
cause might come unto me, and l
would do him justice.
In modern phraseology, Make
me President and I'll see that you
get everything you want. You
can never get justice from this
Taft Administration which l
selected and forced upon you four
years ago, but just put me in the
Presidency and keep me there
and you'll wear diamonds and
live on Easy Street."
And it was so that when any man
came nigh to him to do him obeis
ance he put forth his hand and took
him and kissed him.
Of course, this has the color Of
the Orient. In modern times and
in our country he would have
been delightfully."- affable and in
formal. He would say that the
last time he was President ht
liked his job and had a bully
time, and whenever he got {
piece of good news he would de
clare that he felt like bull
moose, and that he had slugget
his opponents over the ropes
This would establish a fraterna
feeling between him and tn,
man in the street." who does {
good deal of voting.
And on this manner did Absalom t.
all Israel that came to the King TO
Judgment; so Absalom stole the heart
of the men of Israel.
No comment could make i
clearer that the methods of thu
champion of the people agains
the interest" have not changed
materially in three thousand
years.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1912-06-14

Villisca, Iowa, June 10.--The muir
der Sunday night of the entire famil y
of Joseph Moore and two girl guests,
eight persons in all, is tonight having
the authorities who have been unable
to secure a trace of the murderer and
have little or no clue to his identity.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1912-06-14

7 think know my own failings," he
said.
If you do" his wife replied, "your
knowledge takes much wider range
than have ever given it credit for"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1912-06-14
COMMISSIONERS OFFICE

Woodstock, Va June 4. 1912
To Mary Gains Admr. Complt
against
Daniel Ritenour's Admir- &c, Defts
and
Geo. A Ritenour's Admr Complt. VS.
M. L. Walton ct al Spl Comrs Defts
To All Compliments and Defen-
dents in above named causes
You are hereby notified that have
fiyp6 ,1nop tho
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-09-26
Theft CHARGE
Against Michael Sary, Secre-
tary of Local Foreigners
Association.

Michael sary, secretary and agent
for the Vahorvy Association. a cor
poration. was arraigned before JUS
.tice G. H. Gordon Saturday after
noon at 3 o'clock on warrant
charging him with embezzlement OF
$500 of the association's funds.
The hearing was still on at the Tel
'egram's press time.
Sary was arrested in Chicago the
first part of the week and was
brought back by two members of the
association and placed in the county
Jail Friday afternoon.
sary left the city two weeks ago
and several days afterwards the as
ISOLATION discovered the shortage in
the funds, and believing that sary
would not return, warrant for his
arrest was sworn out before Justice
Gordon September ~. After a
thorough search of this section OF
the country wider scope was
taken in and finally the association
succeeded in locating him in chica-
go, and sent two of its members
there to identify him when he was
placed under arrest.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-09-26
NH
Atmosphere is the Real Cause
of Many Cases of Dis
ease These Days.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. "a
T. Kennard Thompson, vice presl-
dent of the American Society OF
Mechanical Engineers, of New York,
before the fifteenth international
Congress OF Hygiene and Demo-
graphy today advanced the conclu-
sion that many cases of what is
called caisson disease were due not
so much to work in compressed air
as they were to work in foul at
mospheres. Mr. Thompson said
that foul atmosphere, even at a very
low pressure. was often more dan
gerous to men than much higher
pressure where the air was not con-
taminate. To support his contention
he cited number of cases in the
work for the Lenox avenue bridge
in the Harlem river tunnel, New
York City. Considerable trouble
was caused by men complaining OF
the bends when passing through
the foul mud in the bottom of VI
river. y
Mr.. Thompson directed attention
to what he termed "The criminal
folly of depositing sewerage in the
Harlem river" He declared that
several tests haye proved that the
tides did not carry away all the sew
erage emptied into the Harlem, the
Hudson and the East rivers. be-
cause any excavation will disclose a
black putrid mud of very offensive
smell on the bottoms of the rivers.
He called attention to what he
termed "the great risk New York is
running" of an epidemic through
having the mud in rivers and bays
in such condition. at would even
be dangerous to pump the water to
put out fires" he said. "as so much
fould mud would thus be scattered
over the city to dry and spread as
dust"
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-09-26

would ensue.
Let me say, whether his color be
white or black. look upon this matter
airily. 1t is as much OF an issue this
campaign as 1t was in the last state
contest. The Democratic party means
to carry out its animus against the
negro race with law DISTINGUISHING
if it gets into power. From the stand
point of Topping OF large portion
of the Republican partys strength
and thereby gaining decided advant-
age in the campaign to be waged in
the future, it stands that very party
in hand to put Acknowledgement
through.
The c0Tored Republicans in West
Virginia are skating on thinner fee
this year than ever before and they
especially should look upon the situa-
ton with fear. The untutored white
man has no reason to regard it with
any less alarm.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-09-26
MARSH
Is in Charge Of Speakers Blu
reau and Wilson Of Bureau
for Colored People.

]. F. Marsh is in charge of the
speakers bureau at Republican
state headquarters and is about
ready to cooperate with congress
sional and county committees in
holding meetings everywhere in the
state until the close of the cam
paign.
Prof. L. o. Wilson, OF Weston, a
colored man who is member of the
state committee, is in charge OF a
new bureau at state headquarters,
which will give especial attention to
the organization of the colored Re-
of the state. There are
$4,000 OF these. 1T is the first time
that such department has been
connected with the party's state read
quarters. Prof Wilson is an edu-
Gated man, one OF his races most
influential leaders, and is fully
equipped to successfully carry out
the work he has undertaken.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-09-26
CITY DAY A BIG
EVENT AT FAIR

and fares were collected on the fair
grounds branch of the traction line.
The weather was fair, the race track
in fairly good condition despite the
rains of the preceding afternoon and
night and all enjoyed themselves to
the fullest extent.
The 1912 fair OF the West Virginia
Fair Association here passed into
history Friday evening. when the race
program was completed. Friday night
and Saturday horsemen and special
feature concerns busily engaged
themselves in shipping to other
points They divided between Park
ersburg and Ekins where fairs are to
be held next week.
From every view point the fair was
the most successful ever held on the
new grounds. Charles X. Hamilton,
the Curtiss birdman, doubtless aided
materially in drawing the crowds, the
largest BY far the association ever
had at meeting.
So highly successful was the fair
that the association knows now that
its permanency is assured and many
Improvements will be made for next
years fair and the attractions will be
largely increased.
1t is announced that Baltimore and
Ohio trains will be running to the
fair grounds by the time the next fair
is held and the traction company has
awakened to the fact that If it gives
good service IN the future, II must
build the proposed line up Elk creek
to form a belt system. It's service
this year was enough to kill the fair
The stockholders elected II. E.
Cork, James ]. Cornell, w. C. os-
born, NJ. C. sperry, S. C. Denham,
F. B. Haymaker and c. p. Stout as
directors. The hold-over directors
are Thomas C. White. E. B. Deison,
Lee Maxwell. A. D. Parr, F. B. Da-
visson, James B. Supler, James n.
Hess and S. s. Faris.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-09-26
IA|F}I
OF Habeas Corpus Awarded
in the Case of An lmpris-
oned Mine Guard.

Judge Joseph NJ. Sanders, repre-
senting the Baldwin Felts Agency
which has been furnishing mine
guards to break the strike in the Ka-
nawha valley. was this afternoon
awarded an alternative writ of habeas
corpus by Judges Ira f. Robinson
and L. Judson Williams of the su-
preme court of appeals. returnable
October 8 when the court will sit.
While the suit is directed against
the warden OF the pententiary for the
release of W. Y. Tucker. Of Virginia,
now serving one year for impersonat-
ing an officer while nonresident.
and carrying concealed weapons. the
suit is to test the constitutionality Of
the declaration Of martial law by
which the military court was created.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-09-26
SHOTS FIRED
On the Militia at a Mine Tip.
pie and Troops Are Sent
at Once to Rescue.

CHARLESTON, Sept. PA re-
port that about fifty shots were fred
on the militiamen on guard at tip
pie between Dry Branch and Ronda,
on Cabin creek, just before daylight
this morning, was received here at
noon. A squad was dispatched from
Company H, of Huntington to assist
the militiamen on guard. The same
report has it that no militiamen
were injured but 1T has not been
learned whether any of the attack
ing force was injured or captured.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-09-26
NEGRO
Gets No Recognition by Any
Party in This STATE Except
the Republican.
DEMOCRATS INTEND
To Disfranchise Them and the
Untutored White Men if
Elected This Fall.

The only state platform that con-
tains mention of the negro race is
the Republican platform. 1t says:
I'VE congratulate the colored people
Of the state on their great advance
ment in education and in the acquisi-
ton OF property. -" We are opposed
to any law which should apply to
them on account of their race, or that
would be applied to other citizens of
our state on account OF race or re-
ligious belief The only friend, pro-
tector or benefactor that the negro
race has among the present-day party
organizations is the Republican party.
All the others have coldly turned
them down or cruelty excoriated them
and intend to deprive them of mucl
II their liberty if they get into power.
The Democratic state platform
does not mention the negro this year,
but its principal journals do and it's
chief speakers. They make mo bones
about IT. that they intend to disfran-
chise the negro II their party gets in
ITO power. Not only do they believe
than the negro should not vote, but to
take the vote away from him would
be most expedient from a party stand
point. 1t would, with one stroke OF
the pen, as it were, deprive the Re-
publican party of 10000 supporters
who are fairly reliable.
The Democratic state platform of
1908 said regarding Negroes Rights:
Believing that the extension OF the
elective franchise to a race inferior
in intelligence and without plepara-
ton for the wise and prudent exer-
else of a privilege so vital to the
maintenance of good government was
mistake, if not crime committed
by the Republican party during the
reign of passion and prejudice follow
Ing the Civil war. for political pur-
poses, We declare that the Democratic
party Is in favor Of so ascending the
constitution as to preserve the purity
II the ballot and the electorate OF the
state from the evils resulting from
comforting such power and privilege
upon those who are untitled TO APP
preciate its Importance. and It affects
the stability and preservation of good
government"
This same plank was introduced in
the state convention. 1t was voted
down by the delegates in one Of the
most remarkable convention roll calls
ever witnessed in any political gath
ering in the state. The convention
was not only solldly in favor Of adopt
Ing the plank, but 1t was enthusiast.
cally SO. Yet, It voted almost unan-
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-09-26
NINE PAY
Is One Of the Largest in the
Two Regions in Several
Months.

clarksburg and Fairmont coal
miners are enjoying old-time prosper
ity as shown by the monthly pay Sat
urday. The Consolidation and indie
pendent company paid their miners
and other employees more money
Saturday by several thousand dollars
than on any previous pay day in sew
eral months. The total pay in the
two regions is more than half a
million dollars.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-09-26
DOUBLE FATALITY
In European Army Ayiators'
Circle Makes the Third
One in a Month.

FRlBBURG, saxony. Sept. 91.-Two
German military officers we're killed
near here today when an aeroplane
in which they were flying suddenly
plunged from high elevation to the
ground, Lieutenant Berger and
Lieutenant Jeunghans were instantly
killed. 1t was the third double ia
tally among European army aviators
within a month.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-09-26
. BIG GUNS
Open the Republican Cam
paign Today in the State
of Ohio.

COLUMBUS. O.. Sept. 21-sena-
tor Lodge, OF Massachusetts; Gener-
al Brown, of GAINESVILLE, candidate
for governor, and other prominent
speakers opened the Republican
hotional campaign here today. The
opening consisted Of two meetings
and two parades. Senator Lodge and
General Brown being the speakers
in the afternoon and former con-
gresham, James e. Watson. OF In
diana, and Tom L. Lewis, Republic
can candidate for secretary OF state.
at night.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-09-26

imously to leave it out of the plat
form OF that year. The reason for
this was that Henry G. Davis was
vice-presidential candidate in 1904.
and the adoption of the plank would
have significance of national scope,
seriously embarrassing the Parker
and Davis ticket and alternating the
support of many negro voters in
northern states which the leaders of
the party hopedJto be able to secure.
AS each delegation voted against the
adoption of the resolution, its chair
man announced in a fiery speech that
his delegation was nevertheless heart
and soul in favor of 1t but deferred
TO political expediency"
Four years later-190S-the plank
was adopted without dissension. and
1t is as much a program and n pur-
pose of the Democratic party in West
Virginia now, even though it was not
reaffirmed this year for the same re-
son, political expediency'', as it ever
was.
The 1908 platform also contained
the Jim crow law: I'VE favor the
enactment of a law requiring common
carriers engaged in passenger traffic
to furnish separate coaches or COM
partments for white and colored pas
sengers. y There isn't the danger Of
this law being passed should the Dem
ocratic party carry the state this
year, for the reason that the Demo-
cratic party, as it is now organized
and controlled by the Watson Chiffon
machine, would not do anything to
impose expense upon the railroad and
other corporate allies which are in
partnership with It. The enactment
OF a law Of this kind would prove very
costly to the railroads in the begin
ming, and the added, and to them
quite unnecessary expense, would
continue rs long as such a law was
in operation.
The Acknowledgement plank in the
Democratic platform OF four years
ago caused the loss of many white
votes to that party. for, in enacting
such a law, it is almost certain to
cause the white man who is wanting
in education lots OF trouble and most
likely the loss of his right to cast his
ballot. There are many men espec-
ally in the mountain regions, good
men, religious, of model department.
weli-to-do and respected by every
body, but whose opportunities to
learn to read and write were few and
Tar between in the days Of their youth,
who would most certainly lose their
votes along with the negroes by the
enactment c. law aimed to deprice
ne latter of their right to vote, These
men belong TO both OF the great par
ties. They saw what this plank meant
10 them and they voted four years ago
against the party which espoused 1t.
They will probably 10 the same
thing this year, for they know that is
me Democratic party gets control Of
the government Of West Virginia it
is Good by Mr.. Niger" as George
byrne would say 1t, and that means
mat their votes. too. will be sacrifl-
ced IN the cause of negro disfranshise-
ment' The Democratic leaders figure
would be a greater gain for their
party by wiping cut negro suffrage
than the loss Of the white votes that
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-09-26
CHILD BURIED.

The funeral of the infant son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Barker of Glen
Elk No. 2. which died yesterday af-
ternocn after few days illness, was
held at the home Friday morning at
10 o'clock and the burial was in the
Elkview cemetery
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-09-26
NAMED AS DELEGATE.

Howard Post has been appointed
delegate from West Virginia to
the National Association Of Fire In
surance Agents to be held at At
lanta. Ga, October 90 to %. West
Virginia is entitled to three dele
gates.