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Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-12-20

DR.. Geo. H. Gilman will
preach morning and night 1t the
Presbyterian church the fifth
Sunday in December.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E.
Hughes, of<North Holston, are
spending - few days with Mr..
and Mrs q 9. Neff.
The Comedy, "Deacon's Triba
lations" will be presented by the
Iroseclose School Improvement
League, Saturday Dec. 81, be-
ginning at 1880 P. M. Admis-
sion 10 and Is cents.
The times Office will be clos
cd next week and no Job Work
will be done.
Will he ready for work on
Monday December 30th.
Read both sides of the extra
sheet this week.
a large add on one side and
the local news and small adds on
the other. The merchants are
telling you what you can buy.
Do your Xmas shopping to-
morrow, But you will anyhow,
without us telling you.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-12-20
GrGsecl0Se.

The Improvement League q
the Groseclose Graded School
will give a play at the Groseclose
School Building Saturday night
There will be Christmas ser
vices at Pleasant Hill Lutheran
church Dec. 26th, at eleven
O'clock.
G. L. Hearst and family will
leave soon for Roanoke where he
has secured a position N the Nor
folk & Western Offices.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-12-20
Prof Geo. X. ITuffard, Of
W ythevllIe, was visiting our
school the first of the week.
BGlgl--Pollsr'

a quiet but pretty wedding
was solemnizsd Monday at elev
eli thirty o'clock at the home OF
Dr. R. S. Porter, Of Rural Re
treat, when his sister, Miss Mo
zelIe Porter became the bride of
Mr.. Robert Boueh, Of Bonneville,
Indiana. The, bride was bacon
ingly attired in a b'ua tailored
suit with hat and gloves to match
and carried a shower boquat OF
Brides roses and Lilies Of The
Valley.
The marriage was quiet, only
q few Immediate relatives and
friends being present Mrs. Leta
Hayes played the wedding march
while Rev. j. A, EARLY joined
the happy couple for a j,urn y
through lie.
Miss Porter is the attractive
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. A L..
Porter, Of Cripple Greek, and
has a wide circle of friends, who
congratulate Mr. Bough, who Is
a prominent attorney Of Boone
VILE, Indiana, on winning such
q winsome bride. After o course
luncheon Mr.. and Mrs Bough
left for Bonneville, Indiana, by
way of Louisville, whore they
will spend several days.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-12-20
Meeting OF Town C0llGl.


The town council met Dec. s,
with the following members pre-
sent:
G. g. Catron, Chair man, w.
nj. Coley, John a. Buck, r. e..
DeBoe. w. f. Cannon and Geo
s. Baumgardner.
The finance committee allowed
claims to the amount of $98 rs
for salaries, lights, Jail rent,
equipments FOR hall, etc. A re-
pert submitted by the street and
light committee adopted by the
council to place six extra lights
III town, viz one near telephone
office, one on Buck st. near May
or Catron's residence; one at COR
ner Of U. G. Catron's lot and
Garnes' shop; one at corner of
Spriakle's yard; one at crossing
near Mrs Mary Paintea's, and
one on corner at Rev, Miller's
and Dock Heldreth's.
The ordinance committee sub
Tnitted and recommended the OF
slinaneas which we're enacted as
follows:
To the Council of the town Of
Rural Retreat, va.
We the committee on Ordin-
ances respectfully submit and
recommend tie following Ordin-
ances be enacted.
Pistol Cartridges.
Sale, Gift, etc, to Minors Pro-
hibited.
Any person who shall sell,
give, barter, furnish, or procure,
Of cause to be sold. give, barrier
or furnish or procured to any
minor under sixteen years old,
any Pistol Cartridges shall upon
conviction thereof be fined not
less than $3.50 nor more than
$40 90.
Intoxicating Liquors, Wines
etc.
Any person who shall sell, bar
ter, give, furnish, or procure or
cause to be sold, bartered, given.
furnished, or procuredln any way
or form, TO any miner under six
teen years old any Liquors, Wine
elders, or any othor intoxicating
drink. upon conviction thereof
shall be fined not less than $500
nor more than $25.
Information to the Public.
It shall be the duty of the
Clerk after each m citing Of the
Council to max a summary
statement of proceedings Of meet
ing and deliver same to Editor Of
Newspaper Of town for publica-
tion of same.
r. l.. DeBoe,
Committee w. M. Cooley,
John Al Back.
Dec. 9Th, 1912.
Amount ef taxes collected to
date $4,000. Amount Of fines
from Sept. 9Th to Dec. 9Th $46. 90
Amount Of License Tax collect
cd Oct. and Nov. $1,000.
There being no further bust
ness the council adjourned to
meet at I 80 i. m jan. snd 1913.
Il. Fl. Buck, Commissioner
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-12-20

LOST Dec. 2nd, somewhere
between Prickett's store aud the
front Of Alpine Hotel, near the
railroad, ladies gold watch
with SILVER fob chain. The
case was marked on the outside
With til letter Il" and the date
1908 on inside. Finder will be
rewarded BY applying to thisl Of
fee.
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Il 5RxHsEaH vsEHyVVk ysssvYVx
The National
Banking Law

requires National Bank to main
tain a cash reserve Of IS per cent
OF their deposits.
Does not permit them TO make
excessive loans to one borrower.
Requires them to make FIVE
times year statements of re
sources and liabilities to the
Comptroller of the Currency.
The funds Of the depositors OF
this bank are safeguarded by law,
by the close after ton which an act
i've directorate gives it affairs and
by its resources OF $40, 10000.
The First National Bank,
RURAL RETREAT, VA.
CAPITAL $35,ooo.oo
Interest on Time Deposits.
Safe Deposit Boxes For Rent
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If this circle is marked with a
red pencil your time expires wi b
next number; with blue, time
expires with this issue.
Please do not make us cut you
off. so send IN money promptly
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-12-20
MO 1OOG1.
Report OF the condition OF the
First National Bank

at Rural Retreat IN tne State of Flr-
Rinia, Mt the close of business, Nov.
26 h, 1912
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-12-20

at Rural Retreat. IN the State of FIr-
ginia, Mt the close of business, Nov.
90 h, 1912
RESOURCES.
Loans aud Discounts ..... 80. rs, 87S SO
u. s. Bonds to secure circulation ...... 10000 10
Other bonds to secure Postal Savings, II, 900 90
Bonds, Saeur 10; ETC. ....... ............. 10 rG
Banking House Furniture. aud Fixtures 2,13077
Due from Vationa Banks (not
reserve sents) ,..... ............ 29,9J6 30
Duo from approved Rasofve AGENTS 49,. ls.7u SO
Checks an | othsr ish Items $3.50. 2,oiG IS
Notes of other National Banks .....95 90
Fractional Paper Currency.
NicSes and Cents ......SS 50
LAWFUL MoNGr tsasEevs IN BANK, VIZ:
legal Iegai,tea ler notes rs ,s1 CO. % essl 90
Redemption fund with q. s Treasurer
s per cent Of circuation) .... 500 90
Total ........ Sl4O,648 90
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in.. S35, 900 90
Undivided Profits. loss Expenses
and Taxes paid =. ............. 3l31 70
National Bank Notes outstanding 10000 90
Individual deposits subject
to check ..................... Sc, $50 O8
Time certificates Of deposit. 22, $40 80
Cashiers checks outstanding ............. 81 10
Liabilities other than those above stated s,225 81
rota, Sl4O,648 90
State of Virginia.
County of Vytha.
I, L. H. Shunato. Cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly that the above
statement is true to the best of my knowledge
and belief.
The Green Forest tribune., 1912-02-23
MOST PATIENT OF THIEVES
In San Francisco Man Was DiscoV- cred Stealing the Parts of
 Roller Skates.

Out at the Coliseum skating rink there has been discovered evidence of one of the most patient and hope full thieves in America 4 day or two ago he undertook to steal pair of skates piecemeal but the evil dence of his work was discovered and he remains in possession of three wheels, a bolt or two and a couple of pieces of metal that can be of no earthly use without the remaining sections of the skates, which remain in possession of the management. To compensate for the loss the Coliseum stands in possession of one felt hat, with the name of the dealer cut out of the band and a gap where the owners initials were carried.
 To evade the regulations of the rink the optimistic crook was obliged to carry an extra hat or cap and a set of tools which enabled him to take the skates apart The unpur- Joined portions were discovered by a special policeman in an unfrequented corner of the pavilion.-San Francis co Bulletin.
The Green Forest tribune., 1912-02-23
That Wooind Ham.

Ham, it has always seemed to us, varied more than any other articles over which blessings are mumbled in degree to palatableness, fragrance and invitation. The variation is due to the manner of approach. If a per son is off his appetite, ham does the best when served as an Arizona break fast-something else for the man and the ham for the dog.
 But supposing you have been hunt ing, rising early and staying late. You have lost your lunch. You have to trudge home over hard road You pass a farmhouse, and from it's open door there comes the sound of sig zling ham and the heavens breath of it's perfume. 1t matters not if that ham sprang from a razorback hog in the wilds of Arkansas, you recognize that that ham is the most glorious flower that grows, the worlds desire, the inner fountain of Eden, the pillar of fire by night, the sweet influences of the Pleiades and the deliverance from envy, hatred and malice and all uncharitableness. For the next three miles you cant say word to your companion because of watering mouth.
The Green Forest tribune., 1912-02-23
Near Death From Tiuer.

Leo Lyons. an English boy, had a miraculous escape from death in a tigers jaws, according to story from Rangoon, India. When after deer recently, near Hmawbi railway sta tion, he met a party of Burmans armed with spears. They asked Ly- ons to shoot a tiger entrapped near by A native led the way, and as they entered the dense jungle the tiger stepped out. The guide fell in faint. Lyons fired and hit the animal, which fell, but in moment leaped at him. Although partially disabled with pieces of the cabin trap around his neck, and his right foreleg broken, the tiger seized the lads left leg in it's mouth, crushing it badly, and at the same time tearing his right knee and thigh with one of his paws.
The Green Forest tribune., 1912-02-23
WHY NOT PATRIOTS IN WAX?
Suggestion for Exhibitions of Effieies Comes From the Shows Common
 in England.

How many school children would recognize historical personages, other than perhaps Washington and Lincoln, if they met them face to face? A South Side matron recently returned from a tour of the British Isles, was speaking. She said:
 Tn Great Britain every little town has it's wax works show It is. mys- tery to me why we Americans with our far-famed business sagacity have so long neglected so fertile a field They are as common and as cheap there as moving picture shows are here. In these places all the famous characters of history and literature are depicted. A school child is able to go into wax works show and get an accurate idea of the costumes, faces and figures of any particular time. How many of us can get such an idea from a pile of clothing lying ticketed on museum shelf?
 Mime. Tussaud's wax works in Lon don are probably the most complete of it's kind in the world. Thousands of figures and scenes are depicted in so close imitation of life that one really lives history over again there. !"
The Green Forest tribune., 1912-02-23

for the twentieth century logging crews. In what we might term the traditional seats of the lumber Industry. however, winter puts very differ ent face on the whole matter of getting out the logs and transporting them to the sawmills that transform them into the marketable form known to the average consumer. In Maine, in northern New York and Canada in Michigan, in Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas the summer is in one sense a vacation season for the lumber jacks At least it is interlude of restricted activity and the lumbermen, unlike some other members of the community welcome the passing of the long, bright days and the advent of the Ice King. The explanation of this state of affairs is found, of course in the fact that snow and ice afford the material for the ideal arteries of munication in the lumber regions The felled trees may be conveyed to market quickly and more economically over snow roads and ice trails than by any other method known to the industry. Indeed, there are lumber regions where without these factors-and their sequel, the 'big thaw" in the spring-it would be virtually i'm practicable to get the timber to market at an pense that would justify operations.
 The and ice, important as is their aid, are not the only influences that tending to make the lumbermen concentrate their activ- ities in the fall and winter Of late years con- stantly increasing number of our lumbermen have been brought to the wisdom of adopting what is known as conservative lumberinS-that is, lum bering which treats forest as working capital whose purpose Is to produce successive crops and which calls for work in the woods that will leave the standing trees and young growth nearly unharmed possible Well, the minute man becomes a convert to conservative numbering he is certain to become advocate of the cold son as the proper time for carrying all the operations of numbering.
 To make this point clear it may be pointed out that the difference between practical work under ordinary methods of numbering and under servative numbering is principally in the selection of the trees to cut, in the feng of these trees. and in the first part of their journey from the stump to the mil. It is established fact that the amount of harm done to forest by the cut ting depends considerably upon the season of the year when the work in the woods is carried on. Much less damage will result to the young growth
The Green Forest tribune., 1912-02-23
lie Leaped Upon the ice.

bedraggled man feebly haul himself out of the stream and struggle over the side of a mud scow moored half way between Madison and Monroe street. They ran to the mans aid and helped him to get up to the bridge and over the the First precinct police station.
 There the man collapsed. When re- vived he said:
 Tt was a baby, all right And it was alive. I had a hard time swim ming between the ice cakes to get to the package. I got 1t, and lifted 1t above my head. I tried to keep afoat with one hand and my feet.
 T got along some little way, when a big cake struck me and I went un- der. In the struggle I lost the pack age. l tried to find it and found my self getting cramps Then I swan to shore to save my life.
 But it was a baby-a sweet little baby. I saw it's face-it was alive"
 Matthieu went into Mysteries. The police called an ambulance, wrapped him in horse blankets and sent him over to hospital.
 Do you believe the story?" the po- lice were asked.
 Sure we do That chap was a member of the United States marines at Portsmouth. He's an athlete and a hero"
The Green Forest tribune., 1912-02-23

would otherwise be the case when the forest mon arch comes down on rocky, uneven ground
 After all however, it is in the various stages of the transportation of the logs that the snow and ice yield the greatest aid First of all It slm- plifies the operation of skidding or dragging the log lengths from the depths of the forest. Ihls work was formerly done by horses, mules or oxen and is yet to some extent, but for the most part the modern donkey engine has suppanted all other forms of energy for skidding. Supposedly the skidding operation is designed only to get the logs out of the forest depths where no log carrying vehicle could be operated without infinite trouble and damage to the standing timber How ever, when the Snow King is in command 1t some times happens that similar method may be em- ployed for moving the logs to the rolWay or stor- age yard, perhaps mile or two distant, where the logs are held to await the spring freshets or are loaded aboard railroad cars that convey them to the mills For this ngdistance log trailing there is employed more powerful type of engine than the donkey above referred to and a stronger wire cable is supplied. The pathway for the logs is an icy boulevard-kept in condition by flood ing" as circumstances require-and this becomes smooth from the polishing process afforded by the passage of the logs that 1t is practicable to transport at each operation not merely single log but whole strings of logs attached end to end by means of stout chains.
 At some lumber camps it is the practice to en- ploy giant sleds to carry the logs on the first stage of their journey from the forest to the mill. Of course snow is requisite to the satis- factory operation of these seds but when path" has been for the sled runners along the icy roads the vehicles traverse the line thus furrowed with a facility suggestive of that with which a locomotive glides along the steel rails. There is. of course. minimum of resistance to the progress of a sled along such glazed surface and in many instances log loads of almost incred- ible weight thus transported over the glisten- ing surface. A new wrinkle that eharacterizes winter practice in some of the up-to-date logging districts consists of what might be denominated ice automobile for log carrying. Powerful traction engines have been used for some time past the Pacific Coast to draw trains of log laden trucks out of the forest but this new form of commercial motor vehicle goes even these
The Green Forest tribune., 1912-02-23
SW|MS FOR BABY
 THROWN IN RIVER
Young Man Sees a Woman Kiss Bundle, Then Drop 1t
 Into Water.
FL0E POLLS RESCUE
Heroic Attempt of an Artist to Save an Unknown Infant Thrown Into lce-Filled Stream by Its
 Supposed Mother.

Chicago.-Albert Matthieu is an art 1st and an athlete. He is Is years old. He lives with his mother, and is her sole support.
 At about Il o'clock one night recent ly this young man was about to cross the Madison street bridge, walking down town from his mothers home to save carfare. As he neared the west approach to the bridge he saw a frail woman in a long black coat and a hat with a big black willow plume. She had stopped. In her arms was a bundle wrapped in a yellow paper. It was a large bundle.
 Matthieu stopped because it struck him as strange that woman should stand on the bridge in such terrible weather. The woman abruptly raised the package to her face Matthieu was amazed to see her desperately and repeatedly kiss it. As suddenly she ceased held it out behind her as if not wishing to see what happened, and dropped it into the water Then she turned and fled.
 Matthieu saw the package drop, heard it strike the water.
 He imagined he heard soft little vail as it bobbed about in the ice dot ted stream
 Quick almost as thought the young man climbed down to the dock be- meath the bridge. He stripped off his coat and leaped in.
 Perhaps 15 minutes later c. w. De Long and S A. Martin were crossing the bridge to take a train. They saw
The Green Forest tribune., 1912-02-23

noon freshened to strong gale. We were then drifting in toward the Shoals, and the tow headed out to sea, in the heavy seas.
 'sAt D. m. barge Poeomoke hoisted signals of distress, and an English steamer which later proved to be the CliVegrOve, stood by and circled around the tow to render assistance. Under the conditions we were unable to do a thing and had all we could do to take care of ourselves. Night came on rapidly, and the steamer stood by until 7:45 p. m., when we saw the last of the steamer, as heavy rain shut in, lasting the better part of the night. The wind in the meantime in- creased, and we were going astern about three and half miles an hour. At 7:35 D. m. the barge Alabama hoist ed her red lights, but the conditions rendered it impossible to do thing, as it was only occasionally that we could see the length of the tug
 'In the heaviest squalls the wind blew at least 50 miles an hour, and at 9 D. m. shifted suddenly to the south west with increased violence, causing a heavy, confused and cross sea. We had our doubts that tug and barges would live out the night, as the wind kept veering back and forth from south east to southwest At a. m. Tuesday the wind changed to the northwest, blowing a heavy squall for short time when it backed to the south west and again to the northwest, blow ing heavy all the time.
 'At daylight we still had the two barges, but they were laboring heav- fly and seas piling all over them. We did not see anyone on the Pocomoke, but the crew were still on board the Alabama. We did not know whether any of those on the Poeomoke had been taken off by the steamer, as it was pitch dark when she left We were waiting for the crew of the Ala bama to launch their lifeboat, but no attempt was made.
 ''At 9:30 a. m. Tuesday the Ala bama went down so suddenly that we had not time to get the tug turned in the sea. On looking back both barges has disappeared"
The Green Forest tribune., 1912-02-23

maryels one better. In principle, the ice auto mobile is not very different from the ordinary commercial motors which are now employed for delivery work in every city. However, the self propelled adjunct of winter logging is provided with sharp teeth which it sinks into the snow, or ice as it progresses, thus insuring steady :, ress with no slipping or sliding On thsse surfaces. So.
 But because the winter finds the luz
 very busy in a temperature that rana z. 4cks as 20 to 10 degrees below zero it must Is> low posed that they do not find time and oppS,1p- for plenty of fun in the isolated camps whefSty spend the season. A logging camp may be where from five to twenty-five miles from nearest store and postoffce but the jacks ar kept lberally supplied with fresh butter, fresh meat, smoking and chewing tobacco, etc A graphophone or photograph is almost inevit- able adjunct of the isolated logging camp and the lumbermen manage in way and another to get records of the latest song hits from time to time
 The average logging camp has two main struc- tures-the bunk house where the loggers sleep in hunks arranged in tiers, and the cook shanty where the food is cooked and served To call this eating hall a shanty is however, something of a misnomer, since the word is likely to suggest a modest hut, whereas the cook shanty of an up- to-date logging camp must be large enough to &C., commodate crude dining table perhaps 40 feet in length The cooking in logging camp is usually done by man and wife (almost invar- iably German), who hire out as professional cooks and who have the help of two masculine assist ants They work over range that is 10 feet long and on top of which stands a coffee urn that holds as much as barrel; meat boiler that holds 100 pounds of pork or beef and a can in which there can be boiled at one time more than bushel of potatoes. Below are the ovens where are baked some 10 to Is square feet of biscuits every day In some camps heavy stoneware is provided for use on the table, but at majority of logging es- adjustments each of the 50 to 15o men is simply allowed spoon plate, and cup of tin and A knife and fork of steel
The Green Forest tribune., 1912-02-23

in Hamburg. Mothers put their ba- bies to sleep under this" he explained. The roadbed is balasted so that the trains make no noise" We can beat that In the South End. Babies brought to the day nursery could not sleep in quiet rooms. So they were laid away in cots next to the game rooms, and in the general racket they slumbered the sleep of the innocent. The secret was that they had been born in houses neighboring the elevated railway. These are the short and simple annals of the poor.-Boston Transcript