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Arizona republican., 1912-07-24
SAD CHANGES.

investigations are not what they used to be-
 No" replied MT. Grafton Grabb; 'in the gool old days investigations were frequently held for the purpose of con- vincing the public that something it had discovered wasn't so."-Washing- ton Star.
Arizona republican., 1912-07-24
which nearly 27,ooO,ooo are in Alaska

Gathered at Congress hotel in Chi cago a short time ago during the re publican convention were a number of old time newspaper men who have been doing politics for many years. One said it is rather curious that TO presidential candidate and no president had ever split his name in the middle One vice presidential candidate did so and he was B. Gratz Brown.
 This reminded another of the group that in the long list of presi- dents there were only two instances
Arizona republican., 1912-07-24

How much people are willing to take for granted, if it's needed to make up the story they want to hear.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-05-10

Al. Harding has accepted the posi-
ton OF express messenger on the run
between Oroville and Coalmont. Mr..
Harding has had charge of the ex
press and baggage room at the local
depot for the past year. doing the
work faithfully and efficiently. He
could do better for himself in the reg
ular express service and accepted the
place when it was offered him. The
loss of a good man for the railroad
company Is a gain for the express
company.
Oroville now has one of the nobbiest
postoffices that any small town in the
eastern part of the state can boast Of
Turning the building into single
room has greatly increased the floor
space, making it more convenient both
for the postal force and the public at
large Postmaster Mills has added a
number of neat lock boxes to the COL
lection already on hand, put in mon
ey order window, and otherwise im-
proved the fixtures and furniture.
There is some pleasure now for the
postmaster and his assistant to do
work in the new quarters, it is much
greater convenience to the public, and
the premises presents a much more
attractive appearance. All of which
leads up TO the suggestion that the best
Is none too good for Oroville.
E. B. Newland was down from his
ranch on the hill. top east of town
Wednesday. and reports that the pros
poets for large crop on the north
half were never better at this season
of the year.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-05-10

county. 1t was a most enjoyable trip,
OF which more will be mentioned at
some other time, and a revelation as
to the ability of car to push the miles
behind The run from Omak to Oro-
Vile, a distance of AZ or 43 miles, was
made in less than three hours steady
running, and the car was no where
speeded. 1t makes travelling behind
horses seem like going somewhere in
an OK cart
The ball team went to Summer
land, B. c., last Thursday and played
the return game with the college nine
at that place, resulting in victory
for the OrOville boys by score of to
2. Those who witnessed 1t report that
the game was fast and clean exhi
bition of ball playing. The trip was
made in automobiles as far as Pentic-
ton. taking the boat across the lake
from there. Those who travelled in
the Collins car loitered on the return,
as an inner tube blew out half a dozen
times on the way. The players speak
In warm terms of praise of the treat
ment received through the hands of
the British Columbia neighbors
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-05-10
SUNDAY SCHOOL. CONVENTION.

The OkanOgan County Sunday
School convention is to meet in Orc
Vile next month. and 1t promises to
be the largest attended and most in
teresting convention ever held in the
county. For the Information of Sun
day school workers the following
statement is published as furnished by
the secretary of the OkanOgan County
Sunday School association:
Loomis. May End. 1912.
To he Oroville Gazette
The Sunday Schools of Okanogan
county are asked to note change In the
International Standard for schools
since our last County convention. 1t
is hoped that each school will reach
the highest possible standard thus
bringing our county to the top round
of the ladder, viz. that of Premium
County. The County Convention meets
in OrOville June IL, 2:3O p. m, and
closes the evening of the 18th. Two
speakers from the Inland Empire
association will be present. Prof E. G..
knapp general secretary. and Rev. C.
|. BOppeli, former secretary. 1t Is de-
sired that each school be represented
at the convention or no standard can
Nv iNoShCo NOu Will STE ny TtleT-
ence to standard given below:
Banner First six points.
Star--Any three additional points.
Front Line-All twelve points.
l School Evergreen (open twelve
months.)
2 Annual report returned prompt
~
Represented at county convention
Offering to Organic ed Work. (see
note)
Graded instruction and regular
promotion.
Missionary offering and informa-
ton.
Confession or Decision Day.
An active Cradle Roll.
working Home Department.
10 Teacher Training Students
IL Monthly workers meeting.
IL Fifty per cent adult classes Or
ganized and recognized
NOte-The Offering to organized
work in the Banner school must be at
least 5 cents per member; in the Star
school s cents per member; in the
Front Line school 10 cents per mem
Der
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-05-10
CHURCH NOTES.

Methodist churchill: 80 a. M, Sun
day school. Attendance last Sunday
rs. Offering So. 1870 a. M, morning
worship: p. M, EpwOrth League,
leader Harry Collins; p. m, evening
service. The services next Sunday
morning will be of special interest. In
the morning we will observe Mother
Day" In the evening we observe "Ep-
worth League Anniversary Day" The
evening service will be in charge of
the young people of the local Epwortl
League. Several addresses will be
given and special music will add to
the interest of this service. You are
always welcome at our services.
A. Bauman. Pastor.
Epworth League Doings-The Ep
worth League of the Methodist church
had business meeting Monday even
ing at which new officers were elected
for the coming year. The following
was the result of the election: Presi-
dent, Otis Welch; LIST vice president,
Chas. KiIe; second vice president, Mrs.
Fl. Phillips; third vice president. Mrs.
V. Hankins; fourth vice president,
David Collins: secretary, Harold Nc
Cannon; treasurer, Helen Johnston !;
Organist, Mae Potter. The Erworth
League is in a very tlourishing con-
dition having a membership of over
forty.
Episcopal-There will be Episcopa.
services in the Presbyterian church
Sunday morning at the usual hour,
Rev. II. o. Nash officiating The pub.
lie is especially invited to attend.
Presbyterian - Honor your good
mother next Sunday, which is Moth
ers' Day throughout the christian
world. by wearing white flower,
preferably the white carnation, the
emblem of the day, and also by at
tending the special Mothers Day SER
vice at the Presbyterian church at s
p. m. In connection with beautiful
order of service arranged by Margar-
ct f. SaDgster there will be readings
and musical numbers by local talent
and an appropriate sermon by the
minister. Every mother who attends
the service will have white carna-
ton presented to her as she enters
the door. You are cordially invited
to be present at this service and show
yOdr respect for the best woman,
your mother. There will be no preach
ing service in the morning as that is
the time for the minister's service al
Kipling. Sunday school at 10 a. n.
Rev. McCreary took the boys in the
school up on Mt Hull for hike
on Wednesday evening. Broiled wien,
les and other good "eats" were en-
jOyed about the camp fire, and the
bunch OF lively lads returned to town
about 1880 p. IN.
The Deborah society will have d
Birthday Party at the church mex
Tuesday p. IN. A committee has beer
appointed to carry out the details.
The Session has adopted statement;
of Our Greed" and Our Aim. They
will be found in a frame on the wal
adjoining the entrance. You are urged
to familiarize Yourself with them.
Fred NJ McCreary. Minister.
Sheep Fold Mission Tuesday at 73(
p. m. and Sunday at 3 p. m. Every
body welcome. j. A. Spencer, pastor
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-03-28
Watch Bryan,

No reflection comes9Emore often to
the student of history than the frequen-
cy with which .plotters overreach Them
selves. One of the results of the dead
lock which the reactionaries are bring
ing about between Wilson and their
favorite three is the opportunity for
Bryan to step III and seize the prize.
Pryan and his friends ale acutely con-
scious of this, and the course of events
gives him constantly increasing encour-
agement Bryan has more than once
been the choice of more voters than any
other man; today, his one fatal economic
mistake is farther back in quickly for
gotten history than ever before, and
there IS generous sentiment thatwhen
Democratic victory comes he should
reap the harvest ~ Golfers.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-03-28
Calls Wilson Fight Won.
JERSEY CANDIDATES CAMPAIG

a. ! . <
JERSEY CANDIDATES CAMPAIGN
MANAGER OPTIMISTIC
McCombs TelIs About His Canvass in
Yarious StatestsD Discovered That Cir
culars Abusing Wilson Had Been Dis
tributed in Great Numbers
New York. N. Y, March 25- Special
Woodrow Wilson, Governor OF New
Jersey and candidate for the Demo
cratic Presidential nomination, is the
subject Of uncomplimentary circulars
distributed by hundreds Of thousands
through the Middle West by the support
ers of his rivals for nomination. The
Wilson managers say that the defam-
atory circulars have helped their can
didate.
William F. McCombs. who heads the
Wilson campaign committee, has just
returned from weeks trip to Chicago
and other points. He said today that
he felt confident Of plenty more than q
majority of the delegates in the Nation
al Convention. These are States that
be predicted would be solid, or nearly
solid, for Wilson: New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, Texas, Minnesota, Illinois.
California, Georgia. Nebraska and all
the New England States with the pos
sible exception. ON the first ballot, of
Massachusetts, which win probably
give complimentary vote to it's Cow
ernor, Eugene N. Foss.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-03-28
SOME QUAINT CLIPPINGS
FROM OUR OLD FILES.
] RUNAWAY APPRENTTCEs,

Absconded from the Subscriber. on
the oath instant, between the hours of
10 and IL o'clock at night, two appren-
tees to the tailoring business, by the
names of John Mckee and Joseph Brad
shaw. The former il about feet s or
8 inches high, spare made, little stoop
shouldered, and hangs his head when
walking; has q thin Risage, tolerably
large nose, blue eyes, fair complexion,
and dark hair-the second finger from
the thumb on the right hand, on which
he holds the thimble, is stiff and closed
almost to the palm of the hRnd-had on
when he elopad, q black cloth coat with
covered moles, light pantaloons, and
half worn hat. The latter is about
feet or inches high, spare made, RAJ
Their swarthy, and lanthern- jawd; has
light hair, broad forehead, sharp chm,
and a remarkably i'll down look when
spoken to.
do hereby forewarn all persons from
employing or harboring said apprentices
in any way whatever, as shall certain
" enfore the ri9ours of the law against
such offenders viii give ten dollars
for the apprehension of the aforesaid
apprentices, and all reasonable charges
If they be put into confinement in any
jail in the United States, SO that I can
get them again.
DAN,L. w. GRIFFITH,
CharlestgWh. Va, June %, 1926.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-03-28
To the Democratic Voters.
Of the County.

/ am candidate for the Office of
Prosecuting Attorney. tits but fair to-
you to state that my retirement for
some years from practice has robbed
me of much Of such small knowledge
and training as / might once have had.
1t is but fair to myself to affirm that /
would not seek this Office did / not feel
that had made-or would make my
self capable of filling it. / am q
graduate of one of the foremost law
schools in the country (Columbia;) was
associated in practice for some years
with the late Capt. Geo. Baylor, whose
partner I was at the time of his death.
If elected will give the best that is in
me to my county. ! will prosecute
vigorously all true Wolstors of our laws,
regardless of whom they be. | will
seek to save to our people the expense
of such prosecutions as are silly, hope
less and foredoomed to failure. If
elected. / pledge myself-utterly re-
CARELESS of pressure and consequence
to be true to my conscience, my Office
and to you.
VIM. Fl. WILSON.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-03-28
Mountain Women.

II wish til ere had never been a gun
made !" exclaimed Mrs. Sidna Allen,
the wife of one Of the Virginia outlaws.
The pathetic fate Of many of the noun
tain women may be found condensed in
that single sentence. 1t is always they
who have been the chief sufferers in the
whisky fights and feuds which have dis
graced the mountains so long, and it is
they rather than the men who seek es-
cape from the bare lives the mountain
GERS live.
Some years ago two young women,
one from Louisville and the other from
Lexington, were on camping vacation
deep in the mountains of Eastern Ken
lucky. When they were about to
leave, bill woman said to them pathet-
ically: why are you-uns goin' ? We
uns thought you-uns we're goin' to stay
and teach we-uns how to live better /"
1t appealed to their hearts. The two
stayed, and they have been there ever
since.
They have founded forty miles from
railroad a great industrial school
which is teaching the mountain women
and their children how to live better.
They have had Christmas celebrations
for children who had never heard of
Christmas before. Always it is the
women who are most eager to learn and
try to make the men put away their
guns and WhiSkev bottles.
One can also see why the women in
the mountains are SO eager for prohi.
bition. The little moonshine distillery
hidden in some ravine is the prolific
source of murder. Here the feud is
fed. When the men drink the stuff
their brains become intiamed. and if
they do not Aghf'with,one another, they
remember and magnify old grudges
against somebody on the other side of
the mountain. Then the shooting be
gins NeW York Wortd. =5=
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-03-28
Death Of Edward B. kenna.

Word was received last week of the
sudden death in Florida of Col. Edward
B. Kenna, son of the late United States
Senator. John E. Kenna. The deceased
was editor of the Charleston Gazette,
and his poems have attracted much
favorable notice. He was well known
throughout the country q few years ago
as one of its best base bali players. and
was deservedly popular. Only entering
the editorial field few years ago, he
had made good. and his death is dis
tinct loss to the newspaper fraternity
Of bis native state.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-03-28

1t has not sought TO buy out any COM
petitor nor to take away the business
Of amy competitor by under-selling him
TO my mind TIM Is 3 model corporation.
national not only p name but In the
scope Of its operations; fair and honor
able in its relations with its employees.
its customers and the consuming pub
lie. Never, so far as ] know, have
the company's methods been questioned
and in no place has it been charged with
an infraction of the law.
BY common repute these statements
are true. But the point is, similar
statements could truthfully be made
about great many corporations. Those
that have been used as machinery for
stock speculations and for exaggerated
valuations and those that have pros
pered by the destruction of Their COM
petitors are after all small percentage
at the whole number. Most of these
chief sinners are large and therefore,
conspicuous. But the business done by
most corporations is done as fairly as
the business done by most individuals
a fact just now worth recalling as a
method Of keeping proper perspective.
The benefits of great corporations that
are not under Indictment ought to go
far to mitigate the disturbance caused
by those that are on trial. !"
It is we'll, therefore, that such
criminal organizations as the
Sugar Trust, for instance, and
the corporation above named
should be differentiated.
The demagogue who attacks
all corporations indiscriminately,
believing that by SO. doing he ad.
yances his own political interest,
is a public enemy.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-03-28
Remembrance.

l remember, | remember, in the house
where was born,
How father made US all get up at day
light every morn;
The slice of cold and greasy pork upon
my breakfast plate,
The muddy coffee that | drank, the
soggy bread | ate.
| remember, remember, how | trudged
mile to school,
And was raped across the knuckles if
I. I broke the slightest rule;
The birch above the teachers desk, the
lightning in his eye:
The way he used to keep me in till stars
were in the sky.
/ remember, / remember, how in Win
tiers long ago
I woke to find my attic bed half cover
ed up with snow,
And how the homemade socks of blue
that patiently wors
Were knitted from the kind of stuff in
Nestor's shirt Of yore.
! remember, I remember, how we sat
by candlelight
And vainly tried to see to do our lessons
overnight,
And how before the glowing hearth
from time to time we turned.
Because, alas our backs would freeze
the while our faces burned.
remember. remember, how our hoIi-
days were few,
And father always found some chores
we had to stay and do;
In hoeing corn and saving wood we got
our exercise.
And dads old trousers for Us boys were
made smaller size.
/ remember, ! remember, how the seas
ons came and went,
And we helped to reap the harvests,
n but we never got . cent.
/ like to recollsct it all and talk of it, 1
vow,
But thank the Lord with an my heart
those times are over now.
NINA IRvING.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-03-28
ms Visioa.


By TIE LATE EDWARD B. KENNA.
When sunset tints the western hills
have kissed
And, Midas-like, have turned the
fields to gold;
When radiant rays, like those, in
days Of old,
God gave in dreams to him, the Wis
ionistr
Ladders ofpearl in foods Of amethyst
And blush Of rose and violet bloom
unfold
Their cleaning lengths, then |, heart
fain, am bold
To climb, in dreams, to her my heart
has missed.
She is not dead ! True mothers never
She has but gone, in her sweet self
to be
A suppliant that her children miss
the rod
Of chastisement that on their souls
should lie.
When evening glorifes the sky, to me
A vision comes-my mother. and her
God
s The verses above, which appeared in
The Charleston Gazette, are q tender
tribute by son to his gifted mother,
the Widow nf the late IInifod Cfufos
Senator John E. Kenna, whose memory
is held in affectionate regard by West
VirgiDians. Mrs. Kenna recently dice
in Charleston, and the author of the
verses is the eldest son of Senator and
Mrs. Kenna. Like bis sister, Miss
Margaret Kenna. the son has inherited
decided talent as writer, possessing
the true poetic instinct in no small de
gree.-1he Charleston Mad, July a8
1909. -
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-03-28
Hon. W. G. Bennett for the Su-
preme Court.

~ SAAAS 0VeAA -
The nomination Of Hon. William G.
Bennett, of Lewis County. for Judge
of the Court of Appeals by the Demo-
cratic State Convention 10 being urged
by host of friends. the State over.
As q man, a jurist and Democrat,
the State has no better citizen While
on the Circuit bench his decisions were
remarkably fair, lucid, and met with
few reversaIs in the Appellate Court.
Judge Bennett has served his party
long, faithfully and wen, and is at
present Chairman Of the State Demo-
cratic Executive Committee He is .
very successful farmer and is q great
lover Of the horse, having raised some
of the finest colts the State has produc-
ed.
He served as mere boy in the Com
federate Army, being mustered into
service with the ". N. /. cadets and
fought gallantly with the Boy Battalion
ct the battle Of Newmarket.
He has been allied with no political
faction, and his nomination would 60
far to foster the era Of good feeling
upon which the Democratic party is
now entering.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-03-28
Political Committees.

JEFFERSON COUNTY DEMO-
CRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
Thomas r. Moore, Chairman, Charles
Town; James w. Strider, Secretary,
Leetown. Shenandoah juno tion
w. A. Daniel, Jas. W. Mcl1arry;
Charles Town, Court House, Chas. A.
johnson. Thos. r. Moore, HuIls Pump,
George b. Hoof, Geo. W. Haines,
Academy, w. H. Locke, B. F. Ramey;
Young's Restaurant, c. N. Campbell;
s. C. Young; Mt Hope, Price viands.
c. D. Cline; Ksbletown, c, ]. Kabie,
G. NJ. Rissler; Rippon,. VIM. Wilt. Jno.
L. Burns; Summit Point, Robt. Withers.
one vacancy; Middleway, W. G Bates,
n. L. Engle; Leetown, Jas. " Strider,
n. E. Trusseil; Kearneysville, w.
Blackford, ]. T Campbell; Shepherds
town, ]. w. Kearnev, Harrison Schley,
T. B. Line. E., H. Rhinehart, David
Lemen. John P. Reinhart; Molers. W.
J. Knott, S. 7. Knott; Duffields, S. W.
Hunter, j. A Link; Harpers Ferry, J..
Garland Hurst, Thos j, Burleigh;
Bolivar, Jno. Levy, one vacancy;
Bakerton, two vacancies; Halltown, B..
F. Moler, r. F. Trussell.
STATE COMMITTEE: Member for
Fifteenth Senatorial DISTRICT ohm ].
Cornwell, Romney, w. Va,
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE: Mem
Der for Jefferson County-S. c. Young,
Charles Town, w. Va.
Eighteenth Dlstrict-J Woods,
Chairman, Martinsburg; Wade G. Kill
mer, Martinsburg; S. c. Young, Charles
Town; Walter Kearney. Shepherdstown
]. H. Phillips. Berkeley Springs.
SENATORIAL COMMITTEE: FIT.
teenth District Clarence E. Martin,
Chairman, Berkeley County; S. T
Knott, Secretary. Molers, Jefferson
County; E. Graham Wilson, DR.. S. T.
Knott andW T. Dittmeyer. Jefferson
County; C. E. Martin, Frank Farms,
worth, John Hollida, Berkeley County
Romanus Hunter, j. A. Phillips, ?. T
Nolan, Morgan County; Robert White
W. L. Tharpe, E. P. Bean, Hampshire
County.