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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1912-06-05
LOCAL ITEMS.

j. G. Muncy left Sunday
night for n business trip through
Eastern Kentucky.
Sam McClem, of Knoxville,
is visiting friends in the Gap.
IF. Bullitt, of the Mountain
Golf Club left the first of the
week for Knoxville to attend
meeting of the Southern Golf
Association.
Q. w. spangler, of Roanoke,
was a guest at the Monte Vista
Sunday.
c. c. Cochran. Jr., left sever
al days ago for Minnesota,
whore he has secured a good
position.
Misses Annie Wynn an d
DOME Sewell, of Jonesyille,
were guests at the Monte Vista
Wednesday.
Congressman C. b. slemp
was in town for a short while
last week.
Judge and Mrs. II. A. w.
Skeen spent a couple of days
last week in Turkey Cove visit
ing the Judges brother, j. b.
Skeen and family.
Miss Winifred Mullins is con
valescing from a severe attack
of measles.
Mrs. james Mahan and little
daughter, Dorcas, spent several
days of last week visiting home
folks in Norton.
w, S. Palmer. a prominent
democrat and citizen of Keokee,
was business visitor to the
zap one day last week.
Miss Virginia Beverley, the
popular and accomplished
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
). Beverley, returned last week
from Bristol, where she attend
ed school at the Virginia Inter
mont College the past year.
Miss Carrie Cooke, of Nor
ton, was the charming guest of
her sister, Miss Florence, and
Mrs, Harry Torbert last week.
Mrs. J. B. Dillon returned
last week from visit to her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. r..
Legg, at Pennington Gap.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. p. Sproles
and daughter, Miss Rosa, re
turned Saturday night from a
weeks visit to Mrs. Sproies'
aunt, Mrs. M. III. Harris, at
Albany, Ind.
G. NJ. Harris, editor of the
Columbia (Ky.) News, spent a
few days the past week in the
Gap on business.
Work on the new building
for the Amuzu Theatre o II
Wood Avenue is progressing
rapidly.
w. S. Beverley attended the
Closing exercises at Virginia
intermont college at Bristol
last week, where his daughter.
Miss Virginia, has been attend
ing school the past year.
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To Save You Money.

We have accepted the agency
Of the Westinghouse Wire-Type
Tungsten lamps and sell them.
loO W ats $I.10
80 .,....... Is
40 So
Metallized i6 c. p. lamps 20
cents each. Kelly Drug Com.
pany.
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DR.. Henry Naff of Knoxville,
spent the week end as the guest
of MIR. and Mrs. j. NJ. Willis at
their hospitable home on Wv.
andotte Avenue.
d. b. Littrell, of Rye Cove.
spent few days last week in
town looking after his business
interests at this place.
The condition of Henry Brad
ley, the colored ianitor at the
public school building whose
serious illness was mentioned
in these columns several weeks
ago, is somewhat improved.
]. B. Richmond was up from
Ewing Saturday to see his sons;
Dan and Charlie Blair, play
ball on the Dorchester nine.
Henry Nj. Lane and j. r.
Taylor returned Friday from a
weeks visit with friends and
relatives i'll Rye Cove, Scott
county.
Misses Janet Bailey and
Maude Wolfe are at home again
for their vacation, their school
having closed at Dante.
MIR. and Mrs. Confer are new
corners in the Gap, and will
board with Mrs. G.. Il. Jones on
Wyandotte Avenue for { Ii e
present. Mr.. Confer has the
contract for the plastering on
theUnited States cour tbuilding
at this place.
Margaret Elizabeth Baker,
the youngest of DIR. w. a. Bak-
er's four daughters, ia suffering
from an attack of measels at
q h o present writing. Miss
Mary, the second daughter, is
able to be out again after a
severe attack of the same di
sease.
We understand that Madame
FRITZ Scheife Mrs. John Fox,
Jr.,) viii probably not return
To Big Stone Gap for her vaca-
ton for several weeks yet, hav
ing been detained in New York
City on business.
Lovers of strawberries are
wondering uneasily if the two
baskets-for-a quarter rate is GO
ing to hold good until the last
berry is picked thia year.
G. G. Long has returned from
"a visit to relatives in Smythe
county.
We understand that Fuller
Brothers will open another store
at Bondtown in next month,
making three stores operated
by this enterprising firm in this
county.
Geo. b. Myers, formerly of
this place and who is now 10.
Gated in Kentucky was visi
tor in town the first of the
week
Mrs. S. O. Allen, of Rich,
mond, arrived here yesterday
for a two months visit with her
son, ID. u. Alien and family.
Petit and Bum are planning
to build a residence for rent on
Clinton Avenue facing Mr..
Bunn's home. The residence
will be occupied by Mr.. and
Mrs. @. /. Wade by the first of
August, it is hoped.
The brick building On Wood
Avenue to be occupied by the
Nickels Grocery Company is
Nearing completion, and will be
occupied by the company as
soon as completed.
j. A. Collier and family, of
Imboden, Va, wish to thank
their many friends who so
kindly assisted them during
the recent sickness and death
of their little daughter, Velma.
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Mrs. NJ. @. Bostic spent
Thursday very pleasantly in
Appalachia.
Secretary Wilson has signed
n decision of the Department of
Agriculture to the effect that
in the future water added to
canned products will constitute
an adulteration.
Mrs. w. d. Akard, of Church
Hill. Tenn, is visiting h r
daug h tie r, Mrs. Pippin, at
Cadet,
A double tennis court is being
made on Wood Avenue adioin-
ing the Intermont building, the
present single court forming a
part.
Try IA loaf of bread from the
Big Stone Gap Bakery under
its new management.
A small pox epidemic, i n
mild form, which has been rag
ing around Dunield, in Scott
county, has about died out;
only 8 cases have been reported
recently and most of them have
recovered.
The Virginia City Colliery
Company has received Il big
railroad contract for coal and
their capacity is pushed, and
we learn the operation can use
several more men.
The Progressive Publishing
and Printing Company was or,
gained last Tuesday by the
election of IL. Nj. Smythe, Pres
ident, @. II. McCorkle, Score.
tary, and f., c. Mainous, Treas.
urer. Appalachian Progressive.
Rev. j. w. RAIDER, of this
place, ofiiciated Wednesday
evening at the marriage of a
prominent young couple at
kingsport, Tenn, the contract
ing parties being Miss Kate
Nelms and DR.. Enoch w. Tip
ton, quite prominent socially in
kingsport.
E. L.. Cameron, of Norton.
was n business visitor here last
week.
@. g. Hyatt, Attorneys r.. S.
Graham and II. NJ. Bandy and
John A. Esser, Manager of the
Norton Coal Company, were
among the Nortonites register
ed at the local hotel last week.
The st. James Hotel, at Ap-
palachia, until recently run
under the management OF s. A.
Collier, who is now located Mt
Abingdon, is again open with
L. d. Slower, an experienced
hotel man as proprietor.
United States Marshal w. b.
Addington of this place with a
possee of deputies captured four
Illicit distilling outfits a N d
made several arrests in tile
Dumps Creek section last week
The Womans' Home Mission
Society of the Southern Meth.
odist Church will meet with
Mrs. d. III. Bruce on Thursday
afternoon at O'Clock.
Messrs. j. +. Bullitt, A. H.
Reeder, e. j. Prescott and G. l..
Nash returned this week from
Washington City, where they
! went to attend a hearing before
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission in the matter of the
Stonega Coke & Coal Compa.
ny VS.. the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad Company.
Goodloe Brothers have decid.
ed to fill a long, felt want and
build two cottages for rent on
their property at the corner of
East First and Suwanse Ave
nue.. One of these cottages, we
understand, will DE built es
pecially for Mr.. and Mrs. ID. b.
PiersoD.
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Saturday from CorriDth, Mics,
and st. Louis, where she spent
several week. visiting relatives
and friends.
Nj. II. GRADER, chief clerk in
the sales department of the
Stonega Coke & Coal Company
at this place, spent Sunday in
Bristol.
Miss Lizzie Grubbs, of Wise,
was the guest OF Misses Urilla
Parson and Cora Coward, Sat.
urday and Sunday.
John B. Newton, president
of the Virginia Iron, Coal and
Coke Company, and ID. ID. Hull,
chief counsel for the same com
pany, both of Roanoke, spent
tuesday night in the Gap.
The Woman's Civic League
VIII hold it's regular monthly
meeting at t h e residence OF
Mrs. T.. +. Goodloe on Friday,
June z, at four O'Clock D. m.
All members and any Others
interested in civic betterment
are urged to be present.
That Civic League committee
ON the Identifying of private
homes ought TO see some Grim
son Rambler roses which are in
bloom over on Gilly Avenue on
an old fashioned "double porti-
co. which shelters tho whiten-
ing heads of one OF Big Stone
Caps pioneer colorod couples
"Uncle" Alex Clark and his
faithful spouse.
Mrs. Rebecca lessee came
up fro IN Dryden Thursday
morning and spent several DAYS
visiting her daughter, Mrs. w b
kilbourn, and other friends in
the Gap. Mrs. lessee is a ia.
nous flower.lover, and her
Hover garden is the most at
tractive spot for miles around
Dryden. She specializes IL
tulips, and this year, she tells
us, she had at least thousand
of the beautiful blooms.
After hard struggle to hold
its own in the sea of daily
newspapers the Bristol Evening
News has suspended publica-
ton as daily and will retain
its Identity with the semi week.
~ Courier aud the Bristol Pub.
fishing Corporation, being pub
lished on Tuesdays and FRIDAYS
as the Semi-Weekly News and
Herald Courier.
One Thomas Flanary was
killed Tuesday at Pocahontas.
presumably by accident, and
the authorities there wired an
inquiry to Mr.. Mainous, of the
Peoples Bank, as to relatives in
Wise. Mr.. Mainous located a
sister at Imboden and wife,
we understand, at Norton, but
it is not known what steps
were taken as to the disposi.
ton OF the body. -Appalachia
Progress sive.
Mrs. Bette Looney, of Buc-
hanan county, recently cele-
brated her send birthday and
is still strong considering her
age. Mrs. Looney is the moth.
er of l3 children; grandmother
of as children, and two of her
great grand children are mar
ried and one of these has an
infant, making this venerable
woman great great grand
parent.
The Annual Conference Of
the Big Stone Gap district of
the Southern Methodist Church.
Rev. j. VIM. RAIDER, of this
place, presiding, was held at
Wise from May 80 to June .
Much important business was
transacted and the meetings
were well attended.
We have heard OF number
of residents of this place who
have received letters of inquiry
from friends concerning the big
18th of July Athletic Celebration
that will be held here for two
days-the 3rd and 18th. Some
of the letters come from towns
that contemplate observing In
dependence day on small
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-04-09

Its weapon is the strike, and the
power of that weapon was limited at
last month when, during the English
coal strike, the German miners went
out, and the French and Belgian mi
ners struck for day, just to show
their power.
No compromise. They call it
treachery when union binds itself by
contract for set time. They tight,
as in England the compulsory arbitra-
ton bill, which American unionists as
a rule favor. They declare openly
their purpose. 'Confscation, said
Haywood That's the word
mo COMPROMISED" That is the
menace of it. Life is always give and
take. No man, no set of men, can
have it all. Man has duties to his
fellows, so have industrial workers.
So, too have capitalists, and scarce
ly less than the |. w. WIS is the cry
mo Compromise" going up from the
moneyed control where the industrial
fight is on.
The general strike in England is
precipitated by an attempt of the
parliamentary reactionaries to wresl
from the unions the right of peaceful
picket; right by the way which
Supreme Court Justice Pitney says
doesn't exist in this country since it
interferes with capitals property
right in it's labor.
Labor threatens to organize a pa
troll in San Diego to defend itself, af-
ter the one editor who was not afraid
to tell the truth about the war being
waged upon labor there, had been kid
mapped by members of the 1900 vigil
ance committee organized to put the
lnionists out of business.
The Los Angeles police ran a motor
.ruck into a crowd which was listen
ng to an |. W. w. speech, and in
ured several.
At Hoquiam police and strike-break-
RS with clubs and stones attacked
peaceful pickets, among whom were
women and children and injured many.
At the same place only a few days
'efore the officials ran out" 200
triking Greeks, and furnished the
asis for a discrimination damage
uit (
Haywood at Lawrence said that the
aborer should "refuse any offer so
)ng as it is rendered on the end of a
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adornment was worth at least $40. It's
yours" said McAllister Barber, get
busy"
After Republic, What?

PARIS, April 9.-Given the down
fall Of the French republic, what
regime will take it's place? This may
seem a rather puerile question to ask
in these days, but it has been asked
in France, and asked with such point
and vehemence that a serious duel has
been occasioned by it. The duelists
were M. Paul de Cassagnac, the direc-
tor of the Authorize" and M. Charles
Mairrass, the director of Action"
which, with its imposing array of
Kings Hawkers," is faithful to the
Duke of Orleans. And as NJ. Mairrass
has still another duel on the topic
arising out of the question of the
Regime" the question is no longer
as ''puerile" as it might appear
In fact, there is in France today
a keen, through imperceptioin,
awakening of the Napoleonic spirit. 1t
is not in Paris that this awakening is
most perceptible. 1t is in the south
in the Basque provinces and on the
Rhine frontiers-that memories of Ma
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(From Idaho Country Life

The fact that exercise or the use of
muscles strengthens them is accepted
by ali. This is no less true of the mus
cles of the jaw than of the muscles
in any other part of the body. Doctors,
dentists and scientists are observing,
experimenting and studying the eff
fects of thoro chewing of food.
Chewing, or masticating, early be-
comes "a habit, SO one should learn
early to chew long and thoroly. A
strong jaw, good teeth and from these,
with thorough mastication of nutri-
tious food, strong body and good
health result
The following is quoted from the
Scientific American, Nov. 4, 1911,
contains few notes and observations
from other sources.
"The value of masticating is three
fold l. Mechanically food is
finely subdivided and pulverized SO as
to be ready for subsequent digestive
processes. Vegetables, especially,
should be chewed we'll in order to
break down their cellular structure
which holds the nutritious elements.
2. Chemical.-The. saliva contains
an engine which acts upon starchy
foods. The flow of saliva is increased
by the reflex action of taste and by
pressure on the salivary glands of the
bones and muscles involved. The flow
of digestive juices in the stomach is
also increased. Thus the thoro mixing
with saliva begins the digestion Of
starch and aids the later processes.
3. Physiological.-The jaws and
surrounding tissues are built up by the
exercise of the attached muscles. The
muscles Of the jaw are large in proper
ton to the bony structures. The use
of these muscles influences the nutri-
ton and development of the muscles
themselves as well as important struc-
lures near them, as the jaw bone, sail
vary glands, soft palate, tonsils and
back part of throat and the nasal pas
sages. The person who has masticated
we'll from early childhood generally
has large and shapely jaws, regular
teeth, and large tongue and salivary
glands. If the jaws are exercised iur-
ing the growth of the tooth germs,
strong, regular teeth, which are re-
sistant to decay will result.
The reasons why food is not more
thoroly masticated is that soft foods
are chosen which need little chewing;
the boiling habit is acquired; hard
foods are rejected; or there may be
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tallest and will make the best forage !;
it is also a good seed yielder The
blue Prussian is short sturdy grower
making little vine but is a splendid
seed producer. This variety is the est
to hog down and is ready about Aug
list first.
Field peas are harvested with
moving maching as any other crop;
however, if cut for seed the mower
should be supplied with windrower
attachment which punches the swath
and rolls it out of the way of the
the horses feet on the next round.
Peas ripen uneven in the field and it
is better to let them finish in the SIS ath
then load them onto wagon and
stack if threshing maching is not
ready. When threshing remove all
the concaves and run slow. With good
care twenty to thirty bushels should
be harvested per acre
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for a 1-2 1-2-5. For this reason
some people are advising all bank run
gravcls in this manner A better rlan
is to know the composition of the bank
gravel and mix accordingly. Refer
ence to the mixtures of approximately
the same strength may be of aid. A
1-24, 1-2.5-2.5, 1-2.7-1, and 1900
are about of equal strength, also l.
25-5, 1-31-31, 1882, and 1860.
also a 1876, 1-3.5-46,, 1888, Ia
2.5, end a 1-4.2-O. Note the advantage
to be gained by use of the screened
gravel or broken stone.
The Trial Batch" and "Void" sys-
TENS of proportioning will be treated
at another time.
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LEST WE FORGET OUR FORESTS
L. F. CHILDERs, Agronomisf.
(From Idaho Country Life)

l.. L. OHlLDERS, ASfOH0WlSI
(From Idaho Country Life)
At this time of the year we have
man. letters coming to this office ask
ing where to get field pea seed, how
many pounds to sow per acre and
other questions concerning the gener-
al nature and habit of the pea plant
Field peas are a scarce article this
spring and if orders are filled they
should be sent in at once. All seed
houses handle them and this seasons
stock is fresh.
Field peas are not hard to handle,
but require considerable moisture, and
for Ibis reason must be sown early on
a seed bed which has been prepared
to hold moisture. They succeed best
on fall plowed land, which has been
disked and warmed early. But they
will do very we'll on spring breaking
if the ground is plowed early and
worked down into firm seed bed Il
is not enough to pillow the ground, har-
row once, seed and then quit. The
seed bed must be fined and fir:ned;
make it before seeding, then harrow
after the seeder and at least once
when the peas are about four inches
high. If the ground should be very
soft the harrow might drag. off some
of the peas and thereby do material
injury, but if the seed bed has been
properly prepared the ground will be
firm enough to bear up the harrow
and an enormous amount of good will
result from this cultivation.
Seed two and one-half to three
inches deep the first moment possible
in the spring and don't be afraid Of Sc
we're frosts. They will stand seeding
on the lowest kind of ground. If seed
is wanted use seventy-fve to ninety
pounds of seed per acre with no
other accompanying crop, but if your
purpose is to cut the crop for hay use
sixty pounds of peas and about three
gallons of oats per acre. This mixture
makes nearly balanced ration and is
fine for growing stock or even Lairy
cattle
The white Canadian variety grows
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Hearse Misses the Funeral

EDWARDSVILLE, ILL.,, April g.
Three horses failed to get hearse
from Edwardsville to the country home
of Edward Brockmeier for the funeral
of his mother, Mrs. Bernadina Brock
meier.
The undertaken finally telephoned
he could not make the trip, as the
hearse was mired half way from town.
The paIl-bearers carried the casket a
quarter mile through the fields to st.
Paul's church and after the services
another relay of friends carried it to
the cemetery.
A team of mules was sent to the I'M
dertakers assistance and the five ami
mails got the hearse out of the mud
and back to town.
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WEEDS Before Wife is Buried.

SAN DIEGO, April Bert Mason
OF La Mesa married Miss Helena Lux
of San Francisco a few nights ago,
twenty hours after the death of his
first wife and twelve hours before the
peace officiated.
The funeral of Mason's first wife
was held the next afternoon, and with
his bride he has come to San Diego
to make this city his home.
1t is said that the marriage was to
carry out a promise made by Mason
as his wife was dying. There were
three small children, and for their
welfare, it is said, the dying woman
asked Mason to marry Miss Lux.
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(frOm ldahO Country Llfe)
Choice of Mixtures, Quantity Of Natter.
ials, Use Of Bank Gravel.
In what proportion shall cement,
sand, and gravel be mixed, alsi low
much of each will be needed?
Fortunately the practical answer to
these questions is comparatively a sim
pie matter, though the same cannot be
said of the more accurate scientific
answers. Frequently standard or ar
bltrary mixtures are more practical
than the exact mixtures. On the small
job usual saving in cement to be eff
fected by the latter class of mixtures
would not amount to much and it
would not pay to make much Of an
effort to make exact mixtures
Choice of Mixtures.
Standard mixtures are usually eX-
pressed in parts of cement, sand and
gravel or broken stone Thus la
mix, means one part cement, Two
parts sand and four parts gravel or
stone. In practice this has come to
mean one bag of cement, two cubic
feet OF sand, and four cubic feet of
gravel. A bag of cement is SO near
cubic foot, more nearly than could
be gotten by measuring out cubic
foot that it is now quite generally
considered a cubic foot by contractors
and architects. The sand and gravel
are perfectly measured in bottomless
boxes of the required sizes or by other
equally accurate methods In fact the
measurement of sand is a difficult
problem at best. Measuring by shovels
cannot be recommended as dry sand
runs off the shovel while moist sand
piles up.
The following standard mixtures
are generally recognized IL. 5-3 IS a
very rich mixture of great strength.
1t is occasionally used in parts Of re-
inforced work when exceptional
strength is required In farm work
such strength is rarely needed and if
needed can usually be secured more
cheaply by using larger member of
a leaner mixture.
la is the usual mixture for
strong or water-tight work. Much
leaner mixtures may be made water
tight provided there is an exact pro-
portion of very good materials. The
above mixtures are adapted to re-en-
forced floors, bridge floors. cisterns,
water tanks and cement posts. For the
latter use the gravel must be small in
order to pass around reinforcing and
make smooth post.
1-2.5-5 is of very good strength and
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Wed Five Hours; Asks Divorce.

ATLANTA, April 9.-Married at
O'Clock to win wager, in order tc
show that she was game, Miss Dorothy
Opperman of Atlanta decided after five
hours of married life that single bliss
was preferable and started legal pro-
ceedings as soon as lawyers could be
consulted.
Miss Opperman of Atlanta and j. B.
Debman were the contracting parties.
The young couple were dining with j..
C. Mccormick, who laid a wager that
Miss Opperman was not game to
marry A justice of the peace was
sought and the wedding performed.
By O'Clock marriage had palled on
Mrs. Debman. The young couple had
found they were not true affinities and
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SANDUSKY, April 9.-Edward Ken
nedy, 80, a farmer, living near Park
ertown, who for five years had been
totally blind owing to what specialists
said was paralysis of the optic nerve,
is able to see again since he had two
teeth pulled.
Kennedy surprised a group of sur
geons by reading extracts from a news
paper. Kennedy was led into a dem
lists office by his brother-in-law, Fred
Patch. His teeth were aching, and as
a molar and bicuspid were so badly
decayed that they could not be filled,
the dentist pulled them.
A moment after the bicuspid was out
Kenney startled the brother-in-law by
exclaiming, Fred, | can see.'