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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-02-13
Insurance Company To Liquidate.
Jefferson Mutual viii Close Out After
IS Years In Business.

After business career of thirty
five years in the local fire insurance
field the Jefferson County Mutual
,, Fire Insurance Company VIII discon=
tinue, decision having already been
reached not to renew any of its poll
eies now in force. Heavy fire losses
within the past two years have com
PEELED the company to resort to an
assessment on its policy holders to
! pay them, Six years ago, a series of
disastrous losses necessitated an as
Isessment of ten per cent on the notes
that policy holders are required to
give when they take out policies in
the Jefferson County Mutual The
last assessment was seven per cent of
the face value of such notes.-the as
sessments together with the premiums
i policy holders ares required to pay
make their fire insurance cost as much
| if not more than it would cost in
Estock=company, requiring no assess
ment. Business judgment under such
circumstances would dictate a pref
erence for the latter class of insur-
ance, hence the interment of the
Mutual Company.
The Jefferson County Mutual Fire
Insurance Company was organized in
July, 1873, with Nathan S. White, as
its firsy president, and Henry B.
Davenport, as secretary, Its first
Board of Directors were. Chas. P.
Wilson, VIM. L. Wilson, John H.
little, N. S. White, R. P. Chew. Isaac
H. Strider, Eugene Baker. H. B.
Davenport, S. F. White. VIM. H, T..
Lewis, James Logic. Jacob S. Melvin
w. Rider, and Edward Fearney.
-Four assessments have been made on
its policy holders in the course of its
thirty five years of business.
Changes in the development of the
agricultural methods of the county
have largely affected the business of
J the Jefferson Mutual In the first
years of the company's existence,
farm buildings for the most part, were
of small value. The loss when fire
. occurred was slight in comparison
with recent losses. There are now
ten large barns in the county for
every one of thirty five years ago
1 Crops are more concentrated after the
harvest season now. When lightning
struck a farm building, or wheat
stack in the old days, the resulting
fire destroyed only a log structure ir
most cases, and a few hundred bush.
els of grain, The modern Jefferson
county farm has on it barn costins
from $500 to $4,000, In, which prac
tically all of the grain and provendel
of the: place are garnered. Its de
struction by fire means an immensel,
NIarger loss than it would have mean
in the good bucolic days Of a quartz
century ago,
The company had IN force at tn,
time it was decided to retire from
business about 600 policies, GOVERN,
properties in this county. These hav
varying periods to run, and to pro
tect the policy-holders against add
tional assessments, the Insurance com
paay of North America, a strong Phi
adelphia company, with capital an
/ surplus running into millions of dol
i lars. has been engaged to assume a
the risks now borne by the Jeffe1
I son Mutual With the expiration G
l the policies now in effect, The Jei
i ferson County Mutual Fire Insuranc
4 Company viii go out of existence.
4 -Advocate.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-02-13
Fruit Growers

Buy your Nursery Stock from the
Oldest and Largest Nursery in Mich
igan, and get the result Of Sixty six
years experience in the successful
propagation of all kinds of Nursery
products. We are specialists in growing
APPLE, PEACH and CHERRY, and
have this season an unusually large
stock of as fine trees as can be grown.
Thrifty, strong and absolutely free
from disease Every shipment accom-
panied by q Certificate of inspection
from our State d partm e t
of Agriculture. Send us your list of
wants for special quotation. We can
please you Write today. l. E.
1LGENFRITZ' SONS co. The Monroe
Nursery, Monroe. Mich.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-02-13
For Sale.

We are prepared at all times to give
immediate attention to all work in the
Roofing and Spouting line, All work
neatly executed, Satisfaction guaran-
teed, Repairing neatly done. ]. N.
ZIlIN & Co, Inc.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-02-13

NJ. Palmhaum & Bro. win have 9
special sale of ladies' suits, coats, furs,
dress goods, etc., for one week, begin
ming Monday, February 10, and ending
Saturday February Is. See new ad
yertisement.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-02-13

A lazy liver leads to chronic dyspep-
STA and constipation, -weakens the
whole system. Doan's Regulets Csc
per box) act mildly on the liver and
bowels. At all drug stores. Advt.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-02-13

Cotton seed meal, Sucrem Dairy Feed
Alfalfa Horse and Mule Feed
g. T. WALL ca.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-02-13

Just received car choice white potatoes
g. E WALL CO.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-02-13
GEHTI.EMEN,s LIST.

F. W. Alex ander. H E. Loves. Dan
Boyd, Henry Hanson, ]. r. Kosh. w
H. Markell, H. w. McGarack, Jos-M
Parks (2letters), Cremier T. Robinson.
y. E Scaggs. Clayton Smith, James
W. Wilmington. George King.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-02-13
ADVERTISED LETTERS.

List OF letters remaining in the Post
Office at Charles Town. Jefferson Coun.
ty, Vest Va, on Saturday, Feb. g.,
1918. Persons calling for same will be
required to pay one cent for each letter
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-02-13
LApIEs' LIST

Mrs. Mammie Anderson. Mrs. Roas
Butler, Miss Mary Hall, Mrs. W. C
Hoop, Miss Cora jackson: Miss Elsie
jefferson. Mrs. Alma Mitchell, Mrs
Iva Parsons, Mrs. Viii Willis, Mrs.
Dora Watson, Mrs. Baby ", Wilson,
The above letters, if not called for
within fifteen days, will be sent to the
dead letter Office. Persons calling fol-
them will please say that they are ad
vertised,
HENRY N. BRADLEY. P. M.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-02-13
Shorthand Scholarship Sold On
Credit.

Railroad fare from home. Position
upon graduation guaranteed. $500 to
5000 GREGG" care Free Press.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-02-13
COUNTY N EWS.

than Tuesday evening
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-02-13

Tho February term of the Circuit
Court is now in progress, Judge j. NJ.
Woods presiding. sz
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-02-13

Mr.. G. N. Moore hiss been quite in
disposed.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-02-28
oNE-LEGGED PEDESTRIAN.
Ralph D. Thompkins Finds the Going
Hard lust at Present.

Not putting on any airs, but styling
himself the champion one-legged walk
er" by right of sole occupation of that
field of endeayor so far as he knows,
Ralph d. Thompkins, aged -, and well
set up save for the lack of right leg
from the knee, walked from Montpelier
to Barre on three legs-two crutches
and one leg--this morning, leaving the
neighboring city at o'clock and arriv-
ing in Barre at 9:3O, having had hard
going through the snow.
.Thompkins is doing this walking per-
70! ...lice cor pleasure and money-most-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-02-28

ly money. as he frankly states, there be-
ing good living by hiking about the
country except when he runs into com
petition with marching suffragettes as he
did at Albany. y. Y. He has been in
the business for some two years, dur
ing which time he has gone from New
York 10 Chicago and back and again
to Jacksonville. stopping at the larger
places and making theatrical engage
ments. He doesn't pretend that he
walks all the way because now and then
a railroad train looks good to him and
he hops aboard. On the present tour,
in which he left New York on Nov. %,
last. he has covered some 500 miles, he
thinks, having gone up through New
York state. back to southern Vermont.
across Vermont; and he's now headed
for Maine and New Brunswick. later
coming back to ST. Iohnsbury and then
striking out for Montreal
This afternoon and tonight he has
an engagement at the Pavilion theatre.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-02-28

always used. Mrs. Bruce Crawford, Nj
agara, Mo, writes; "Dr. Kings New
Discovery changed our boy from pale,
weak, sick boy to the picture of health"
Always helps. Buy it at the Red Cross
Pharmaey.-Advt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-02-28

who so thoughtfully remembered me on
my 4sth birthday anniversary. The
many messages of sympathy and friend.
ship received have helped to gladden.
and make brighter many lonely hour
and were deeply appreciated.
E. 7. Walbridge.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-02-28
Mothers Can Safely Buy

DIR. Kings New Discovery and give it to
the little ones when aiing and suffering
with colds, coughs, throat or lung trou-
bles. Tastes nice, harmless. once used
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-02-28

every corn, every time, as sure as the
SIM rises. II takes about two seconds
to apply it. Corn pains stop, you forget
the corn, the corn shrivels up and it's
gone Every try anything like thatf
You never did There's no more fussing
with plasters that press on the corn, no
more salyes that take off the surround
ing flesh, no more bandages. No more
knives, files or razors that make corns
grow and cause danger of blood poison
."GETS.lT" is equally harmless TO
healthy or irritated flesh. 1t gets"
every corn, wart, eallous and bunion
you've got.
"GETS-IT' is sold at all druggists at
25 cents bottle, or sent on receipt of
price by y. Lawrence & Co., Chicago.
Sold in Barre by C. II. Kendrick &
Co.. L. A. Drown.-Advt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-02-28
That Corn Is a
Sure "Goner," Now
"GETS-IT," the New-Plan Corn Cure,
Gets Any Corn Surely, Quickly.

You'll say, at does beat all how
quick 'GETS.lT' got rid OF that corn.
It's almost magic!o "GETS.IT" gets
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-02-28

Admission, 2j and Is cents; reserved
seats, 35c.
Miss Cora Lance has gone to Hard
wick to teach in the graded school
Card of Thanks.
| wish to thank all the kind friends
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
Women Are Not Going to Discard
the Corset.

How about the rumor that We
shall leave off Corsets?" / suggested.
when men go about barefoot. or
with their collars removed. women
will stop wearing corsets. The wom-
an who is slender and has a beauu-
full figure desires to show il. Thera-
fore, her corsets are cut low, and
unnecessary bones are removed. But
the fat woman wears long heavy
corsets, the woman who is neither
stout nor slender wears the stays
which she needs, and no woman who
pretends TO be well dressed dispensys
altogether with such support"
And there is another prediction
that women viii shortly come To
trousers" | mentioned.
That too, is out Of the question, 20
NJ Worth declared. with decision.
when the mannikins appeared in
the streets of Paris, wearing the ha-
rem skirt, they met with such show
ers of abuse and even OF more foTci-
to flee back to the show rooms 81
you see even Partisan public opinion
would not stand for feminine trou-
sers. And yet the full soft Turks
trousers are most becoming for house
wear for women. They can be deyel-
oped into beautiful evening costumes.
and are also charming for tea gowns.
But they never took and ! do MT
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
THE ATT ANITA GEORGIAN AND NEWS WEDNESDAY APRIL 1918
RagtiIne Banned in
Harvard Mess Hall
Negro Walters Can't Resist. anc
Dishes, Too, Dance OFF Dining
room Trays.

CAMBRIDGE. MASS. April 3
Ragtime music has been found to be
the indirect cause of the breaking of
all the crockery in Memorial Hall
the principal Harvard dining hall It
was ordered cut out" to-day.
The walters are negroes who SIM
ply could not resist the strains OF
ragtime harmony, and every time
such an air would burst forth their
feet would begin to wiggle So would
the trays they We're carrying and
in a twinkling of an eye broken
crockery and unserved food would
strew the floors.
Another reason for the adjustment
Of ragtime Is that students using
knives and forks would beat time to
the tune on their plates. This is
said to have disturbed the profes-
sors Classical music will be played
hereafter
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
Cemetery Full; Plan
To Move Negro Dead
City Asked to Transfer Bodies to
Southview at S25o,ooo Cost to
Relieve Congestion.

To relieve the congested condition in
Oakland Cemetery, the Cemetery Com
missioners viii propose to-day to remove
the bodies in the fifteen acres set apart
for negroes and transfer them 10 lots
which will be furnished in Southview
Cemetery. The cost will be approXi-
mately S25G000. but it is believed that
nearly double this amount will accrue to
the city by making the transfer.
Oakland is badly crowded at present
and only in certain sections of the white
burial grounds can lots be purchased
Societies and traternal organizations
have sought TO buy lots. but have failed.
As high as 5000 has been paid for a
very small lot in the cemetery.
The proposal To do away with the ne
gro burial ground viii be considered
at a meeting this afternoon resolu-
ton also will be prepared asking Coun-
ell for an appropriation of $500 to place
a monument over the grave Of Moses
Formwalt, AtlanUas first Mayor.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
MAYOR BLOCKS
CREMATORY BILL
Won't Sign Check for $4,000,
He Says, Until Supreme Court
Declares Contract Legal.

Mayor Woodward to-day refused tc
sign a check for the first payment OF
$4,000 on the new crematory. He
said the Destructcr Company could
nandamus him if it wanted to. but
ne absolutely would refuse to pay out
any money on the plant until the Su-
preme Court had decided on the Ie-
gality of the contract
III view of the statement to-day OF
". a. Hansel, Assistant Chief of Con
situation. that the plant would not be
completed by July 1; as the contract
specifies. an unusual situation is
promised. The contract states that
he company shall pay a penalty Of
S25 a day to the city for every day
Onger than the contracts allows that
Il takes to finish the plant
The point is: If the Mayor won't
recognize the legality of the contra CT
aow can he force the company to pay
The forfeit?
The crematOry people claim they
will have one unit finished by June 1
Sanitary Chief John Jentzen said all
nr it was badly needed now, as he was
forced to dump all garbage around
the edge Of the city.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
MACON AGAIN REFUSES TO
REFUND ATLANTA'S $4,000

MACON. GA, April 9.-Councii last
night decided for the third time not
to return the $4,000 deposit check
put up by the Georgia Railway and
Power Company, OF atlanta. as a
guarantee Of its good faith in securing
a franchise.
The local representative of the com
pany has three times appealed to
Council to surrender the deposit, stat
ing that the company viii not use
its franchise Local politics has en-
tered into the matter and much feel
ing has been engendered in Council.
1t is believed that this action of Coun-
ell is final
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
JACKSON SAYS He
ALREADY HAS QUIT

That the story printed in The At
lanta Georgian of yesterday to the
effect that Henry $. Jackson, Col
lector of Internal Revenue for Geor-
gia. would vacate his office on June
80. was correct in every detail not
outstanding the fact that supposed
denial Of the same was given out
later is manifest in the following
statement. authorized by Mr.. Jackson
for publication in to-day's Georgian:
The statement made in The At
lanta Georgian of Tuesday that /
would resign, to take effect on June
80. which is the end of the fiscal
year in the office of Collector of In
ternal Revenue. is correct
LAS a matter of fact, have already
resigned and forwarded my resigna-
ton to the President. through the
Secretary of the Treasury.
THE statements with reference to
other Federal officeholders in Georgia
were based upon information ac-
CURED by The Georgian through some
other source than myself. They We're
interesting and may or may not be
correct l have nothing TO say con-
corning them.
Il have my arrangements made TO
enter new field of business on July
1, having established financial con-
neCtions in the East that will enable
me to carry on a real estate, mort
gage and loan business in this city
Mr. jackson has been Collector of
Internal Revenue for three years.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
WOMAN FINDS DESERVING
HUSBAND Is A SWlN0LER

CHICAGO. April 9-The man who
has been held by the Chicago police
as Jack Lewis since Miss Ethel
Newcomb caused his arrest at the
Blackstone hotel as her husband who
deserted her taking with him $4,000
worth Of jewelry, to-day was identi-
fed as Weaver Il. Clark, of Rich
mond, Va. He was declared to be Il
swindler and confidence man. Hugh
McCafferty, of the Pinkerton Detect
i've Agency, to-day identified the pris
oner as the man who swindled Mrs.
G. \. Temple. of Little Rock Ark,
of nearly $4,000 by making her be
lieve he was going to marry her.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
Dozen Grave GhOulS
Arrested; 5 Confess
Curiosity Only Defense Of Negroes
Who Opened Anderson ChiIdren's
Caskets at Griffin.

GRIFFIN. GA, April Between
midnight and o'clock this morning
sheriff Hutson and Chief of Police
Phelps. assisted by deputies, rounded
up the parties guilty of breaking into
graves of the Anderson children in
the local cemetery last week. Twelve
arrests were made. The prisoners
are Winston Sims, Nose Robertson,
Charlie Lamar. James Lamar. John
Harris, Sam Smith. Luther Starks.
Henry George Baker. Walter Redding
and three others whose names have
not been divulged.
Five of this number have confessed
and implicated the other seven.
Commitment trials win be held this
afternoon.
A1ischievous curiosity is the only
defense made by the negroes for tneir
crime.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
Three Other Modes That Will No
Return.

The hoopskirt. the hustle and the
balloon sleeve are three other modes
which ! prophesy will never return.
I do not think that we or any es-
adjustment could force women 20
wear these things, even if we wished.
And vet. if one of these modes should
appear in 1914 and You should com
10 me with this article and say, See
here is what YOU said in 1913, |
could only reply. i know, But what
| said then ! believed them
Whcreupon NJ. Worth returned to
the safer puTlieus of prophecy. those
which do not extend beyond the pres
cut season.
The coIors which will be chiefly
worn are peacock blue and emerald
green" he vouchsafed Also what |
call the middle colors' will be much
liked; those come i'm between red and
yellow, russell and brown In Paris
the twO-tOne suits-the coat Of one
color. the skirt of another-are much
liked. The Bulgarian tints are Of the
mode. also the Bulgarian blouses. For
this summer frocks Of lightweight
lace will be IN general favor, worn
mostly over white. For evening
wear. black. white and pink is a new
combination which shows Off jewels
eXcellently."
why do We all have 10 go 10 PARIS
for our clothes2" l asked.
NJ. Worth viii answer that question
i'm another issue,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
| 400 CHICAGO JANlToRSs [
STRIKE FOR HIGHER PAY

CHICAGO, April Flat janUors
went on the warpath today. Strikes
were ordered wherever apartment bH5ld7
ing owners refused TO make an agrees
ment with the newly organized janitors.
union Fourteen hundred janitors in fiat
buildings all over the city have Joined
the union. Emissaries of the union
backed by organizations Of milk Wagon
drivers, zeal teamsters, PAINTERS ard
plumbers started the trouble to-day IN
Hyde Park. Janitors want a wage scale
based on o charge Of 10 cents a dag 2
fiat ana make "a minimum Of SIS "a month
for the care Of four fats and running up
to so q month and living quarters Tor
eighteen fiat buildings
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
Thousands Died Last Year
From Colds, Neglected Too
Long.

Practically every case of pneu-
mouid was first Just cold. Dur
ing q hard winter in America hun
dreds Will neglect the simple cold
and Siceumb 20 grippe. a cold. per-
miJted 10 settle and inhame. is the
beginning of the Great White
Plague itself for wbich We are
spending Millions of Dollars TO find
n cure
Mos colds are traceable directly
10 an inactive liver. You gel over
heated. cool of too suddenly and
the pores close. The blood reCedos
from the surface and congestion
Is produced. The same condition
exists IF YOU sit i'm "A draft. or get
wet The liver finds it's efforts over
come by pressure of the blood, and.
being unable to perform its fuuc-
ton of cleansing away the waste,
undigested food remains in stomach
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
MRS. CLEVELAND DENIES
DAUGHTERS ENGAGEMENT

CALDWELL. y J., April Mrs.
Thomas F. Preston, formerly Mrs.
Grover Cleveland, denies that her
laughter. Miss Esther Cleveland, is
engaged 10 be married.
Mrs Preston says that the report
~ her daughters engagement has
been circulated all over the country
and that both she and her daughter
feel much distressed at the rumor.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
WOMEN'S DRESS AND
HOW TO WEAR 1T
NJ. Jacques Worth, the Famous Paris Fashion Die
tator Tells Readers of The Georgian All About
the Latest Styles.

was yearning both for breakfast and
for shave. Ii is moment when the
average man reverts TO primitive saw
agery.
But the Narrow Skirt Will Be Worn.
But the narrow skirt" he resumed
after his imitation of a hobble-ist.
the narrow skirt is charming. Ii will
be worn for long time to come be-
cause 1t makes a woman look slendl.
Properly cut and draped, il makes
even stout woman more personable
than she could be in any other sort Of
dress.
81 think that the American
woman has naturally he loveliest
figure of any woman in the world.
She is tall and long Of limb, with
sloping shoulders and narrow
hips. She has a beautiful neck
and arms. ! believe that she can
wear beautiful clothes more beau
tifully than the women of any
other land. and prefer to dress
her. Even the American shop qirl
is charming.
'Of course. there are executions I
saw a stout lady of-let me say Co
in Fifth Avenue. She wore a narrow
skirt slashed up to her knees, nar
bodice was cut down to here" and
NJ. Worth laid a long. exuuisit ,lv
manicured finger on the SPOT where
his belt buckle would have been if
he'd worn one. she had "a little hat
pinned on one side Of her head. And
yet she had paid a great deal Of
money for the clothes she was wear
ing. Sometimes we have to do that"
he added. with rueful, apologize
grin. But we don't like to-"
Yet. YOU said you were going %
introduce more daring clothes than
ever this coming season" remarked
i never never said such a thing p"
he exclaimed. Indignantly. Worth
has been. will always be. conserva-
tive. II is true he conceded. after
a moment, during which a twinkle
had crcpt into his eyes. that ] fiul
the modes of the moment quite daring
enough"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
THE PLAYS
THIS WEEK
Famous Old Play Scores Hit.

Ten Nights in a Bar Room" re-
yival Of which is being offered this week
al the Lyric, is scoring a decided hit
with patrons Of that house. II is a
melodrama, pure and simple. but the
vival of the famous old play seems 10
meet with popular approval The com
nanN Is good one and the opportunity
which is being offered the present gem
GRAFTON OF theatergoers to see the old
play acceptably presented will doubtless
he accepted by not only the usual thea
rorgOeTs, but many who seldom patronize
Jheaters. Ten Nights in a Bar Room
viii he the attraction the entire week,
with The exception OF Friday night. when
a special performance of "Dr. Jekyll and
Mr.. HYDE" will be given