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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-09
BAP list HOME
FOR AGED WOMEN
Dedication Services and Recep.
ton This Week-Splendid
Work Accomplished.

The good women who have had in
charge the enlargement OF the work
OF the Baptist Home for Aged Women
are to be congratulated on the com
pletion OF the splendid work they I'M
dcrtooll something mora than year
ago The home. located at the corner
of Harvie Street and Grove Avenue
is now a new and up-to- date building,
and will be dedicated next Tuesday
afternoon with appropriate services
and at night reception will follow
The dedication services will be from
To & II. NJ. and the evening reception
Will be from to 1890 p NJ. OF the
same day.
The history OF this home Is inter
esting and is n part OF tho industrial
devclopmental history OF Richmond
Prominent among the many claims
which that good man. tho Rey Jere-
miah Bell letter. ID. D.. long since dead.
still holds to grateful remembrance.
may be mentioned his successful eff
forts to establish I'm Richmond this in
stitution for the care of tho aged wo-
men OF the church which no so much
loved. The history goes back many
years.
Through the efforts Of Dr. Jcter q
meeting of the women OF the Baptist
churches Of Richmond was held in tho
First Baptist Church. OF which he was
then pastor, on tho afternoon of April
II. 1881. The meeting was called and
held Tor the purpose of forming an as
ISOLATION TO provide n home for the
aged and inflrm women of tho Baptist
denomination Of tho city. At this
meeting Mrs. J. y. Jeter was elected
president Of the association, and com
mites were appointed from all of the
BAPTIST churches In Richmond to So
licit contributions wherewith n home
might be secured The efforts OF the
Continued On Third Page)
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-09
SOMETHING DOING
|. DOWN IN THE SOUTH
Industrial News From All Over
Dixie-North Carolina and
Virginia in Swim.
MONEY SEEKING INVESTMENT
Cotton Manufacturing Paper
Mills Starting Up-Things
Good on the Earth.
MONEY SEEKING INVESTMENT
Especial to The Times-Dispntch.I

n
Baltimore, Md. November s-Amone
tho many Southern industrial and
other developmental enterprises re-
ported I'm this weeks issue of the
Manufacturers Record are the follow
ing:
Standard Tilton Milling Co, ST.
Louis. No. Will build plant at Dallas
Tex: mill building to be six stories.
16ox4s feet. and equipped for produc-
Ing 1000 barrels Of Hour and 600
barrels OF cornmcal daily; Will also
erect elevator holding $50 bushels OF
wheat. warehouse l40x75 feet. ONCE
building. 5ox56 feet, all structures OF
reinforced concrete with brick curtain
walls: total cost about $S5O.O0O.
Gulf states steel Co. New York In
corporntcd with a capital stock OF
$4,000. 900; Will be reorganization of
Southern Iron and Steel Co, operating
iron furnaces. steel plant. coal and
iron mines. etc. at birmingham, Ala
John II. Bernhard. general manager
Alabama and New Orleans Transpor-
tation Co. New Orleans. La. Is ar
ranging for extensive Investment i'm
establishment OF shipyards for lighter
barGes; proposes several types of motor
driven barRes 10 he equipped with ma
chinery for handling various kinds OF
cargocs. the grain barces 10 have pneu-
matte tubes operated from tho barge
John j. Mckane. Meridian. Miss. and
associates. purchased $4,000 acres of
timber land In Choctaw County. Ala
bama: organized holding company and
Will ercct four saw mills operated bv
separate interests: capacity OF mills
estimated at 500, GOO TO SOC 600 feet OF
lumber monthly.
w. q Ragley Lumber Co. w c.
Ragley. president. RaG!eV Tex will
build saw mill at Fulton. La. and eouip
with band and gang saws FOR daily ca
pacity Of 100000 feet Of lumber: pur-
chased 1890 acres Of timber land and
will invite machinery bids after plans
are completed.
sancrRlglcy Lumber Co. carmona.
Tex. will build saw mill and eouip
with band and gang saws for daily
capacity of 100000 feet OF lumber:
company is associate OF w c. Raglcy
Lumber Co. which will build SINH
lar plant ac Fulton. La
Fr"cport sulphur Go Frccport. Tex.
will c%pcnd about Si5O,0OO for inn
provemcnta 10 increase output of sui
phur mines and provide facilities for
handling and shipping the product:
viii install additional mining unit OF
ireproot construction. boilers 70 PRO
ducc 5000 horsepower. additional
pumps and comprcssors. build water
treating plant, etc.
Granitcville manufacturing Co. Au~
gusta, Ga. will have stockholders
meeting to vote on proposition 10 in
crease capital stock from >6G0,o to
81 100000 tn add zoo looms in plant at
Granttcviiic, $, C.. and double capacity
OF Vanclusc mill.
smith Creek Manufacturing Co. orr
Continued ON Third Pagc)
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-09
NEWCOMERS AND
THE OLD METHODS
IN Essay That Is Full OF Hints
and Some Suggestive
VIEWS OF AN OBSERVER
Why Some OF the Newcomers
Fail in Virginia Others
Succeed.
VIEWS OF AN OBSERVER
ny Il. II. BERKELEY.

~ goes without saying that Vir-
Einia needs better public highways.
better public schools and better tax
laws, but there IS another need OF the
State 10 which attention has not been
called. and which, in my opinion. Is Of
commanding Importance.
Many farmers from other sections of
the country, especially from the North
and Northwest. have come TO Virginia
within tho past three or four decades,
bought LANDS. and undertook their Gull
t!vation.
At least half OF these have sue
ceeded, and they and their children are
still with us. happy and prosperous
Possibly half of tho newcomers failed
and then left Virginia In disgust II
is about this last half 1 wish TO say
word or more. Why did they fail
and leave in disgust? For the simple
reason that they have insisted upon
pursuing the farming methods OF the
sections from which they came, instead
OF realizing that they were farming
under new conditions which demanded
new methods. Neither tho climate nor
soil Of Virginia is like that of Mime
sofa, Nebraska, Kansas nor any OF the
states North or West and not to
realize this fact has been the cause of
tho failures on the part OF some new
corners. There is no community in
Virginia where some successful farm
ers do not 1.-Two and labor, and when
the stranger comes, 1t is passing
strange that they do not consult these
successful farmers as to proper time
for blowing, planting and working. In
majority of cases these would he
farmers in Virginia insist upon it that
the lands from which they have come
arc moro thoughtfully cultivated, and
yield more ahundantly than those they
have seen in Virginia. And while this
may he true in n sense it remains also
true that the new environments abso-
lutcly demand new procedure
Arc You doing rs we'll as that in
Virginia." TO this I answered. "Thc
County of Cumberland. though located
in short grass Southside Virginia, is
tho banner haymaking county OF the
country, that is--on one farm in Cum
berland there was more hay cut per
acre than from ony other acres the
country over. and that Cumberland
farmer is ready TO tell YOU the methods
he pursued in hay culture. And what
is true Of Cumberland, Is equally true
Of Buckingham as to corn; more
bushels of corn having been grown
per acre on one buckingham farm than
on any other farm in the United
States" This seemed to astonlsh him.
and at once expressed a Willingness
to go with him to the farms to verify
what I had said.
Starting From the Ground.
I proceeded to astonish him still
further by alludinG to a Virginia hoy
who left tho Confederate army service,
having as earthly posse ssions n we'll
worn Jacket. and shoes no longer wear
CONTINUED On Third PagoO
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-09
COMING TO VIRGINIA.
ohio Coal Wine. Depleted. the Diss

ohio C0nl Mines Depleted, the DlGCcrs
looking 10 Wc.t tirginin fO- I.uslness,
An Ohio exchange sums up a certain
Organization of new coal opcrat :
nE company by local men TO develop
properties in West Virginia evidences Il
luccrs In Ohio to seek properties out
lido this State. There Is no longer any
trgin coal land Of any Importance in
PHO. and many of tho older fields are
iaustion. The coal production of this
tate Is said to be on tho decline. de-
" Tho mnes rhis Is sa rSio re nm MADE rn
Iponsible Tor the move toward the
!ic!ler fields of West Virginia. Virginia
Ind Eastern Kentucky.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-09
Starting From the Ground.

I proceeded to astonish him still
further by abiding TO a Virginia hoy
who left tho Confederate army service,
having as earthly possessions a we'll
worn Jacket. and shoes no longer wear
CONTINUED On Third Page)
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-04-17
Cheating Only Himself.

Artemus Ward said, ''Never wait for
thing to turn up. Go and turn It up
yourself, it takes less time and is surer
to be done" This is just another way
Of saying, if you want a thing done, do
it yourself. Some people are always
waiting for someone else to begin or 20
on with any thing that needs doing.
They deceive themselves No one else
can 10 any man work, except himself.
He who would win the race, must run
it himself Every man has his own
duty. The shirk may think himself
clever when he has evaded something
and put it on someone else. He should
think again Of what he has lost N char
acter. IN ability and in the good estima-
ton of others. A shirk cannot hide the
fact that he Is endeayoring to humbug
someone. Sooner or latter he makes
himself know and is despised accord.
ingly
Do your share Of work when you set
a thing to be done, put your own hanc
to the pillow. Begin and someone els'
will be sure to follow Do not be lazl
Dr. afraid to act, 70 to work II vii
make you stronger, better and happier
81 well as more useful in the world.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-04-17
Public School Notes.

Field meet at Plattevile on Friday,
May 9th Our boys are putting them
selves in shape to win another cup.
The erst thing is to see that the stud
les are up.
Recent visitors at the high school
were Stairway Jacka, Miss frances
Stephenson, W. H. Bohan, Or. Ovile
Treweek Of Cassvile, and Miss Ethel
Woodbury. Of Dodgeville
Supt. Loyeland was one Of the judges
in the boys oratorical contest at Lin
den last Friday evening.
Our boys are preparing for series
of base ball games. Watch for an
| nouncements.
Sdpt. Petrie, of the associated chart
ties and prison reform movement, gave
the high school and seventh and eighth
grades a very pleasing and helpful talk
one morning last week.
These are busy days in the high
school. especially for the seniors, who
arc anxiou5ly looking forward to the
sixth of June
A new and up-to-date card catalog
has been installed by which a complete
and permanent record will be kept in
the Superintendent office Of every
pupils entire school life from the kind
ergarden through the high school
This win be a great help to thorough
supervision.
Supt Loyeand has been chosen to
act as chairman Of one Of the sectional
meetings Of the State Teachers assoc
citation at Milwaukee next November
Cards are out this week Look for
the red marks. Find out the reason
Those having the highest marks for
the four years in the high school are
Perry Paynter, first; Annie Gardner,
second; Irene Aide, thifc.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-04-17
l POINT WISCONSIN. THURSDAY. April |
JOHN DUNN MEETS HORRID FATE
Live Electric Wire Snuffs Our His Life
Instantly while He was On Duty.

Mir. John Dunn Of this city, lineman
for the Mineral Point Telephone com
pany, met with instantaneous death
about 2 o'clock Friday afternoon last,
April IL, while at work on a pole back
of Mrs. Thomas Gribble's residence on
High street, by coming in contact with
live electric light wire carrying a
voltage Of 1S, 200 volts.
Mr. George Horn CHANGED to be pass
ing that way when the accident oc-
Cured and Immediately summoned help.
Mr.. Dunn was hanging head downward,
fully twenty feet from the ground, the
climber attached co one of his legs hav-
ing caught in a telephone wire at the
cross. bar, which was thirty-one inches
below the electric wire connected with
the same pole. The fact that Mr. Dunn
seemed of a careful nature and was
almost daily cautioning other workmen,
helps to mystify how the shocking ac-
cident happened.
Help was soon at hand and the body
lowered, and four physicians did all in
their power to restore life but without
success.
Mr. Dunn was p years of age and
had been a resident of our city only
few years. He came from Benton,
where his folks still reside. He was a
pleasant, wholesouled fellow and en-
joyed the respect of all acquaintances
On the 28th Of May, 1912, he was united
in marriage to Miss Anna Sieger Of this
city, who survives him together with
his parents and brothers and sisters.
Funeral was held Monday with ser
vices at St. Mary's church at $3.50 a m.
Rev. L. p. O'Reily officiating The
orchestra and motorcycle club, Of which
organizations he was a member, were
present in a body The large attcnd-
ance was significant of the esteem in
which he was held by his fellowmen.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-04-17
The Local Field.

Correll & Martin for clothing
Smoke Red Trunk cigars.
Roland Ross is spending this week
in Chicago.
Harold Wallace has gone on land
trip to st. Louis.
Miss Eta McIlhatton left Satur-
day for Darlington.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Bast-
ing on April It'll, a son.
Jack Molling of Linden spent Sun
day at the parental home.
-Osee Morgan Of Darlington was a
Sunday visitor in this city.
DIR. and Mrs. w. G. Hales were
visitors in Chicago this week.
Thomas Brenton spent Sunday at
the home of his parents at Linden.
Mrs. Peter Fisher and Miss Bertha
Stude are visiting at the Loui home in
Milwaukee
Miss Evelyn GRADER of Chicago is
a guest at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Louis GRADER.
Misses Nell and Mary Ivey and
Mrs. Allen Spang were callers in James
vile on Saturday.
The Misses Agnes and Genevieve
GRADER spent Friday afternoon with
friends at Darlington.
The early portion of this week was
devoted by Mr. and Mrs Harry Brown tC
a business trip to Chicago.
Miss Catherine Cassidy departed
Saturday for a three weeks visit a.
her home in Blanchardyilla
Misses Magdalen Simon and Alberta
Kieffer returned Sunday from a three
days visit at the N Kergan home.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. L. Chase, wht
has been visiting at the home Of Mr.
and Mrs Leslie Harker, returned t
Rockford this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Gundry de
parted for Mobridge, S. D., Monday
after pleasant visit at the home 0
Mr.. and Mrs. W c. Benson.
Joseph Fl. Stephenson, undertake
and dealer in high grade furniture.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-04-17

1t is understood that we are to be
treated to a home talent concert Friday
evening, May End, entitled, cold Folks
Entertainment, in the lecture room of
the P. Nj. church.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-04-17
Anniversary Observance.

The members of the Alpha society
together with their families met in the
chapel of the +. NJ. church Tuesday
afternoon and evening, April 10Th. to
celebrate their twenty-eighth annivers-
airy. After supper had been served,
the pastor. Rev W. ]. c. Bond made
few timely remarks upon the faithful
work Of the society which was followed
with a recitation by Miss Susan PEN
hallegon, a reading by Mrs j r. Toay
and singing Of familiar hymns by the
entire congre ,ation.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-04-17
Wall paper

A few reasons why you should
buy your Wall Paper at our store
We buy in large quantities and
thereby secure a reduction in price
of from 10 to Is per cent.
We trim all papers
If you have a roll too much
when YOU paper your room, you
can return it and get credit for ii.
II you need an extra roll you
can get it without extra expense
or delay
We deliver the paper.
Think it over and then let us
show you that we can save you
money, time and trouble when you
paper.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-04-17
Statement of the Ownership, Manage.
ment, Etc.

The statement of the Mineral Point
Tribune, published weekly at Mineral
Point, Wis required by Act Of August
"a, 1912:
Editor, b, J Bennett, Mineral Point,
Wis.
Managing Editor, b. J. Bennett,
Mineral Point. Wis.
Business Manager. b. ]. Bennett,
Mineral Point. Wis
Publisher Il. j. Bennett. Mineral
Point, Wis.
Signed, b. j. BENNETT.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 10th day Of April, 1913.
J. w HUTCHINSON,
Notary Public.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-04-17

We are compelled to admit that of
the several hundred weather prophets
in the United States, Hicks of st, Louis
made the healthiest guess about what
was to happen last month. He should
have guessed it because it was his turn
to. He has doaa well so far this month
also and if he has guessed the rest cor
rectly there win be some more bad
times before the children hang May
baskets.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-04-17
So Near and Yet so Far !

A misguided couple haiIing form Liv-
ingston were taken from the c. & n.
w. train here Thursday evening, while
on their way, presumably to Galena, to
get married. The "blood-curdling" ar
rest was made upon request from that
place. Rather than see the young lady,
who had done nothing radically wrong,
placed in the lookup, a good Samaritan
paid for her lodging at the Columbia
hotel. Platteville Witness.
Several loads of young people are
planning to attend the dance at Dodge
vile Friday evening. AS a speciality
an automobile will be rafiled Off at the
dance.
Mrs Frank Hilger and daughter
Anna of Dubuque, Iowa, who have
been visiting at the homes of George
and William Jeuck in this city, re-
turned to their home last week
Mrs. Sarah Ten,by departed for
her home in Spokane, Wash, Thursday
of last week. Enroute she will visit
her brother, Orrin Beardsley, at Reeds
burg and other places of interest
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-04-17
Room, at So Week a, State University

Three dollars a week is the price
that young women at the University of
Wisconsin will pay for iirst-class single
rooms in Barnard Hall. the new wom-
an's dromitory now in progress Of CON
struction From So. so to "a week is
the price now being psld by young
women for single rooms in private
homes near the university Thus a
saving of from fifty to a dollar a week
viii be made by each young woman
who can secure a room in the universi-
ty dromitory As the dromitory will
accommodate lao girls, this means a total
saving Of from 5000 TO $500 during
the SO weeks of the academic year.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-04-17
Ii Was a Losing Game.

Il cost the state 81, BAG. n more to
issue and mail the election pamphlets
during the September primary than it
got out of t. AssembIyman Roessler
has introduced a bill TO repeal the law,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-04-17
Another Nuptial Event.

Married on Saturday morning, April
18th, at nine O'Clock, by Rev l.. p.
O'Reilly, Miss Henrietta Horn to Mr..
Harold Wedenfeller They were at
tended by Miss Edith Crum and MIR.
Allie Murr;sh A wedding breakfast
was served at the home Of the bride S
parents to the immediate relatives
The happy couple departed on the
afternoon train for a trip to California.
They will be at home after May Is,
No announcements were sent in the
city,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-04-17
SPECIAL
DRY GOODS BARGAINS
For next 10 Days, i'm the fOHOWig lines

Stock must be reduced as>we expect to make
change in business in the near future
We will begin offer stock almost for staple
goods and less than cost ion many lines.
WILL HAVE on SALE THIS WEEK
Hosiery Muslin Underwear and Table Linen big reduction.
Dress Goods will be closed out less than cost.
Very special this week0 dozen Gents Vegetable SILK Half
Hose in tan, black and gray, worth SOC will be sold
for 25C, just half their value
Ladies black, ribbed top Hose, worth &c pair for 25c
Chdren Hose Boston Terrier worth 2Oc, this week pair
for 25c All sizes from So to 10.
- ncssaline and tafeta Petcoa worth So at 81 90.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-11-01

tie way, and could stand upon his
feet only a few minutes at a time.
His strength was almost gone. Some
doctors would have advised rest and
travel and a higher altitude, but his
did not. In fact, he had no doctor.
Everyone in the mine knew all about
asthma-the black shadow that
hangs always above a miners life.
John did notIive in the same house
where his father first placed him
when he came from Ireland so long
ago, but he lived very near the spot,
still in company house. The min
ers, and the mules, and machinery,
had changed from time to time, but
the breaker, the black "culm" pile,
and the company" houses still re-
manned.
In forty years, John had buried his
mother, had married, raised a family
and travelled back and forth along
the short path from his hut to the
open mouth of the mine day after
day, and that was all. AS the years
passed, his one ambition had been to
go back to Ireland, even for a short
time, as his fathers had been to come
to the United States, but this ambi-
ton he had buried in the mines long
years ago. He had left the valley
once in forty years. He had gone to
Philadelphia to the Centennial, and
his ticket cost him $40. This was
a quarter of a century ago, but he
remembered the exact amount that
he gave in exchange for the little
pasteboard at the station window
John really had earned the right
to rest, but then, he and his family
must ive-at least he thought they
must, and so they must, else the rich
mans coal could never get dug up!
The mine boss was really not unkind,
so when John told him he could not
go down the shaft again, the boss
promised him an easier job. The boss
took John to the breaker, up the long
e i L. -
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-11-01

because it is so dull. In writing BIZ
Ography, you cannot dwell long on
the parts that are very dull, and you
must entirely omit the parts that are
very interesting so biography is
not biography after all! Anyhow
Johnny left the breaker when he was
fourteen and was promoted to the
place of doorkeeper in the mine.
Somehow, forgot to state that all
of this was forty years ago.
Forty years make a great change
in any one who lives upon the earth
but it makes a greater change in
the miner than in most other men.
Fifty-four is not so very old, so at
least most of us think who cling
tenaciously to the fifties, and still
more those who watch anXiously
while the sixties are checked off.
But, at fifty-four, the man who has
money and can have leisure still feels
that he is young. He can eat and
drink; can laugh, and dance and play;
he can marry and travel and write;
in fact, can still chase all the phan-
tastes and bubbles that make us for
get the waiting, open grave.
Forty years entirely transformed
Johnny. Even his name was chang
ed; he was now John; generally I'm
Gle John. He had been a door boy,
a driver, a helper, miner, and he
had now come up out of the earth to
spend his last few years above the
ground. His face was SCARED and
one ear was missing. This came not
from war, but from powder all the
same. A belated fuse exploded when
he thought it had gone out. But still
he counted this as luck for his life
was saved One arm was crippled
from falling rock and his right hip
was never free from pain, but this
was only the rheumatism that he
caught while working in the ground.
Except for the asthma, he could still
have staid number of years inside
l..