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Pocahontas star herald., 1914-05-01
Mr., Monroe Rober,. Of Noland

Mrs. Monroe Roberts of Eolaud
was here Wednesday shopping
While IN town she gave the Star
Herald a pleasant call. She telln
us that she succeeded in getting q
copyright for her poem recently
published in this paper. entitled
"Florida.
Pocahontas star herald., 1914-05-01
Phone $50 for feed of all kinds.

Phone $50 Tor iced OF all kinds,
All kinds Of seed potatoes and
seed oats. +, J. baIlz. 81 u.
Mrs. Swink of Maynard passed
through Pooahontas Tuesdly on her
way to Black Rock, where she j.
visiting this week.
Dan ID. Dixon OF Pocahontas is
spending fow days with friends IN
Donlphan this week. Doniphan
Republican.
Mr.and Mrs. F.M. Sutton ot New
Hope we're here Saturday with their
two little boys. They called at
this office few minutes.
f. +. Jones, one of Reyno's lead.
ing business men, was here Monday
seeing after business matters. While
here he gave US a pleasant call.
John Lewis aud family of Pine
Bluff, who have been visiting rela.
tlyes and friends here for few days
returned to their home Monday.
Will Timer, who has been con.
lined to his room for several days
with mumps, is able to attend to his
duties a Spikes grocery this week.
Miss Nellie Chastalu, who has
been visiting relatives over In the
bottoms, was here Saturdays ,on her
way 10 ber home out north 'oi town.
l.. 5. Craven and w. II. Phipps,
who are selling life insurance to
Odd Fellows at Paragould and
Ionesboro, spent the week end with
homefolks. a
Uncle Frank Chastain, one OF our
good friends Of north of town, was
Lere Saturday. Following hb regu.
lar custom, he gave the Star Herald
a short visit.
w. II. Cheek, assistant cashier of
the bank at Datto, was here Wed.
/ esday seeing after business matters.
Mr. Cheek gave this office pleas.
ant call while in town.
Miss Meta Bell Mock, who closed
her school at O'Kcan last week, Wis.
lted relatives and friends hereia part
OF this week, before going out to
her home at Warm Springs.
W. c. Glasco, the Watkins
man Of Cherokee Bay, was here
Saturday representing that section
OF tn" county at the meeting of the
Farmers Telephone company.
Rev. j. w. Sconce of MAYNARD
was here Wednesday seeing after
business, part OF which was TO call
at this office. Rev. Sconce has our
thanks for substantial ravors.
We have lot OF dependable,
seasonable merchandise yet left al
the Sample Shoe Store, ana our
closing out prices are way down
low 80 2tp.
C. H. Stevens, one Of our former
residents, va, here this week, meet
ing friends and seeing after business.
MIR. Steven, J., living in Kansas. II,
left Tuesday morning for his home,
Will Patterson, one Of Maynard.
prominent citizens, was here Wed
nesday meeting friends aud seeing
after business, lie was accompa.
med 10y brs sister, Mrs. SailIe Thorn.
as who spent the day shopping.
We call attention to the adver
isemonls of A. j. Lewis in this is.
SUE OF the Star Herald. Mr.. Lewis
has some exceptional bargains in
the furniture line, aaa cordially in.
vile, yo" to give him a call.
Pocahontas star herald., 1914-05-01

ing eiuzgus, Wss here on la,Iue--
the latter paCl OF Las week.
unymon johnson aud lm'Y
were here Monday shopping aud
seeing after business mstlers.
Lehman Mock aud family OF
Mock were here visiting relatives
and fpituds "Wednesday OF lbl, week
Juauita -four, the best on earth.
For ale At tue New Grocery. Thy
1t once aud you will have no other.
J. T.. SPIKES. #O u
J. VI Loouey Of Portia was here
the Litter part Of last week. lie
was accompanied back home by Mrs.
L. NJ. Bryan, who will visit her
daugl Ter, Mrs. Looney for a few
days.
lf,ou want to spend your monty
where sixty cents will bay one do
lar, worth OF merchandise, it will
pay : ou to investigate our closing
out prices at the Sample Shoe Store.
80 s,P.
In order to better serve the public
Frisco Agent Keith announces that
tue depot here will be open all day.
For some time the boys have been
closing up at noon, bu. now the de.
pot will be open during the noon
hour.
Jehu Prcsey, one OF Hamil's most
prominent citizens, was here Satur
day. Mr., Presley gave the Star
Herald a short visit, and talked
with US about the time when he used
to weld the birch rod on our ply.
steal anatomy.
VIM. Pierce aud family Of wa.
ter Valley were pleasant callers at
this office Tuesday afternoon
They spent the day here shopping
and seeing after business. Mr..
Pierce tells US that Elevenpolnt riv.
er Is on a big rise, aud part Of his
crop is under water.
j. ]. Freeman, owner OF the
Sample Shoe Store here, was here
first Of the week, experimenting the
closing out sale at his store. They
have some exceptional bargains to
offer at the Sample Shoe Store.
The sample Shoe Store is "pen.
ny saving store for everyone" We
save you money on everything in
the line OF general merchandise
Our closing out sale will make you
an EX IRA saving. SO 2tp.
Improve your opportunity, make
your. purchases now while our clos.
Ilg out sale Is on. Never before
we're such prices in Pocahontss
Come now before 1t is too Il e.
Sample Shoe Store. 80 2tp.
Miss Birdie Mock and Miss Pet
tigrew, accompanied by Messrs.
Edgar Hulen and Oscar Mock, at
tended the closing exercises of the
O'Kean school last Saturday night.
Miss Meta Bell Mock has charge
of the O'Kean school, aud an inter.
estiug program was rendered 10y the
school. MISS Mock accompanied
the Pocahontas visitors back home
Sunday.
Pocahontas star herald., 1914-05-01

War m Mexico came near being
war with Mexico.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22
START TO SAVE NOW

@HRISTMAS savings clubs will be
I started during the next ten days
- by fully half dozen Harrisburg
banks. There is not a man in
Harrisburg, no matter how little he
may earn, who should not well con-
slider joining one of these clubs.
This year more than half a million
dollars was distributed by the savings
clubs to the people of this city and
vicinity. Many found, when the shop
ping days came around, that they had
more money than they really needed
to buy Christmas presents, and, as a
result, many neat little nest egg is
reposing in one or other of the banks
in the names of people who never be-
fore knew what it was to have a qbank
account.
VIII you be one OF those fortunate
ones who next Christmas will have
enough and to spare? You will be il
you are thrifty enough to lay aside a
certain sum each week. The savings
club plan makes it possible for you
to store up goodly part of your saw
ings.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22
RoADBUmDING PROGRESS

"HAT remarkable progress has
been made in the building OF
= good roads throughout the
United States during the past
few years is proven by data recently
obtained by the American Highway
Association and soon to be published
in the official Good Roads Year Book
for 1915.
More than $4,000 miles of surfaced
roads have been constructed during
1913 and 1914, and during the ten
year period from 1904 to 1914 more
than $4,000 miles have been COM
pleted. That this progress has been
really amazing may be understood
from the fact that in 1904 there were
only $4,000 miles of surfaced roads
of all types in the United States. That
the movement is attaining momentum
as it goes is proven by the fact that
while the average mileage constructed
per annum during the past ten years
is $500 miles, the total Completed for
1914 exceeded $4,000 miles
The report shows also that some
thing like 10000 miles of highway
have been completed with the aid of
State funds, of which over $500, ,OOO,-
600 have been expended. The State
aid movement began in 1892 and has
therefore continued for twenty
years, Only recently has It gotten we'll
under way, as the results accomplished
for 1913 and 1914 comprise total
of 10000 miles of State-aid highways
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22

work in the open. free from the con-
tamination of the city, and they will
live and sleep in sanitary surroundings,
where the spectre of the great white
prison plague will never stalk. where
shattered physical constitutions may
be repaired and mental equilibrium re-
covered The whole purpose will be
not to punish, but to reform.
The very best thought in modern
prison management is being employed
in the building and organizing of the
new penitentiary. and in all likelihood
Mr.. Smiths visit is only the beginning
of long series of such.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22
THE HUNTING

(From a poem by William Young in
the January Yale Review
Huntsmen, beaters, and whippers-in,
Sound again to the hunting!
For the voice OF the kennels is loud,
and deep
Dolorous loud, and dangerous deep
And why should 1t trouble the mas
ter's sleep,
Whilst game there is for the hunt
ing?
Sound the old-time summons, and call
The starveling brutes to the hunt
ing.
Feed, with promise, the hungry nav!
Whet the craving of tooth, and claw!
over the quivering muzzles draw
The bloody lure of the huntingl
Then up. and away!--for the trails
are free.
And the world was made for the
hunting.
Over its homes, and its hoardings go!
Ride, and ravage, and trample low!
Wreck. and ruin, and woe on woe.
To all---but the lords OF the hunting!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22

completed, or in two years time one
third of the entire mileage constructed
with the aid of State funds has been
completed.
Only six States now, out of total
of forty-eight, are without State high
way departments and thirty States
have granted actual money aid to the
building of roads. An interesting fact
is that roadbuilding is going forward
most rapidly wherever automobiles
are most numerous. In the end 1t is
the farmer who profits most by good
roads. But he owes the progress OF
the movement in recent years to the
energy of the automobilist.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. Lincoln Hulley, formerly of
Bucknell. is being entertained on a
visit to the State. He is now head of
a college in Florida.
DR.. II. NJ. Armitage. Of Chester,
is ut the seashore.
IT. j. Keenan, is taking a promi-
nent part in peace meetings in Pitts
burgh.
James McI<elvey cut and donated
Somersets Christmas tree. He took
it from his own land.
The Rev. j. Berg Esenwein has
gone TO Springfield, closing his home
in Philadelphia.
Harrison Townsend, noted Phila-
delphia golfer, will retire as secretary
of the Philadelphia Golf Association.
ID. Il. McCabe. vice-president of
the Pennsylvania lines west, is at At
iantic City.
DIR. G. A. Dellinger. Pittsburgh
councilman. attacked by thug a few
nights ago. is recovering.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22

~ ley may now come out of their
= - storm cellars. Wilkes-Barre and
the surrounding country are
not subject to any more intense storms
than other sections of Pennsylvania,
according to a special report submit
ted last week by the United States
Weather Bureau.
Following the recent cyclone. the
Government Bureau was asked to in
vestigate conditions in the Wyoming
Valley because it was feared that the
Wilkes-B Barre in the last twenty years
meant that the city and the valley
were in constant danger.
The investigators of the government
say they find nothing unusual in condi-
tions there. Their observations were
that the two cyclones of the valley were
nothing more than accidents and SINH
lar ones are just as likely to visit any
other section of the State. The in
vestigators found that Pennsylvania
has had twelve severe storms in the
past nine years. Three of them were
the Wilkes Barre section; one in the
region of Harrisburg; one in Scran-
ton; two between Philadelphia and
Chester; one between Towanda and
Elmira, and others in the vicinity OF
Stroudsburg.
This is interesting data to Harris
burgers, but tells us nothing we have
not known for years. Not only is Har-
Irisburg almost storm proof so far as
| cyclones go, but we are also fortunate
in escaping many of the lesser weather
disturbances that visit other parts oi
that this is due to the peculiar for.
nation of the hills that surround the
city. At all events. It is true that thu
SHOWS here are seldom so deep, thu
sleet, storms not often very destructiv,
and the storms generally less sever,
west of us. Evidently Father Harris
was something of weather shark
or he was particularly fortunate in Sc
lecting for his settlement a spot wher,
the sun does not shine so hot, wher,
the cold is not so biting, where tn,
winds blow more lightly and where tn,
SHOWS and the rains fall more gentl!
than in the surrounding cities of tn,
State. This is no idle fiattery; tn,
weather records prove it, even thos,
of the past week. when they are com
pared with similar figures in othe
parts of the State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22
THE NEW PExITENTIARY

~ EFORE it is completed Penn
x sylvania's new Western Peniten-
- tiary near Bellefonte is attract
ing national attention. Henry
Smith Thompson, of Beacon, Mich, a
representative of the governor of that
State, spent a part of last week as the
guest of Warden John Francies, going
over the plans and ideas worked out
largely by Warden Francies for the
construction and operation of the great
prison that will eventually house the
States entire convict population.
The new penitentiary will be like
no other one in the country From
behind its walls the inmate will have
view of the whole countryside round
about for miles. Its prisoners will
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22
TUESDAY EVENING, DEC. 20
WAKING UP PENNSYLVANIA

IF there was nothing else TO mark
the Tener administration of State
government in Pennsylvania, the
Governor who is about to retire
could feel considerable satisfaction
over the way certain State depart
ments have inaugurated work to make
the people realize the value of lite
limb and resources.
All one needs is to read the news
from day to day about what this or
that department is doing to better
things. 1t is not long since, in some
what wider field than the Keystone
State, that various projects, most laud-
able in their purpose. were broached
amid cheers, launched with acclaim
and pushed along for a while to the
music of applause. But in the last
three and a half years some things
have been done in PENNSYLVANIA which
have attracted little more than pass
ing praise, and frequently not that,
and yet which have been distinctly
worth while.
Everyone is familiar with the ad-
vanced position taken by the State
Department of Health
But it is not realized that in almost
every branch of industry committees
have been working to establish rules
for safety and sanitation, and the
Safety First" idea has been so thor
oughly inculcated that no less a per-
sonage than the chief of organized la
Dor says the results are astonishing.
For the first time the State has been
able to get figures on railroad acci-
dents, showing just what service is
most hazardous for men.
The extent of the destruction of
timber by fire has been definitely
ascertained and plans made, in con-
junction with conservation associa-
tions, to give the State an effective
forest fire service. while the acreage
of State forests has been sent beyond
the million acre mark, valuable rights
secured and n way opened through
auxiliary reserves for doubling land
needed to conserve the water supply.
In a short time the State will be
given authentic data as TO its water
IeSOuICeS, especially III regard TO wa
ter power which is now going to waste,
but which can be made a wonderful
source of public income.
The State now has official crop re-
ports demonstrating that it is not only
coal, iron and oil Commonwealth,
but rich farm State"
Furthermore, studies have been
made and reports prepared on the best
ways TO build not only for safety, but
for the future; on a plan whereby
effective compensation for mishaps
can be secured for over 1000, 900
workers in industrial Pennsylvania on
sensible penal laws; on equitable fire
insurance and on economy and eff
cheney in the spending of the millions
devoted annually to the government
of the State.
There are more. for in spite of the
showers of brickbats hurled in the late
campaign, earnest men have not only
been doing their duty by 5000, 900 per-
sons, but thinking of the welfare OF
many, many more to come.
What has been done and ascertained
is awaking Pennsylvanians to a reali-
zation that much unselfish work must
be done in the next decade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22
SUCH A DAY
by Wing Dinger

The editor jumped into me
Because 1 didn't write
Some verses for the Telegraph.
Which reached your house last night
He got real nasty bout II all,
And wanted to know why
/ hadn't written one. and then
| looked him in the eye.
/ said to him: You great big boob.
/ hustled through the slop
That covered sidewalks yesterday
For orders for the shop.
My feet were soaked, my body chilled,
My temper worn out.
on such a day, pray. what was there
That / could write about?'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22

"A who are making traffic police
4 \ men undergo all sorts of mental
and physical agonies because OF
their carelessness?
Now that the streets are jammed
with shoppers every citizen should do
his share to prevent accident. If il
We're not that many shoppers have
charmed lives, apparently, scores
would be injured where one now is,
for dozens leap under the very noses
of horses, dash across the streets in
front of automobiles or cars, abso-
lutely disregard the directing of the
corner officers, and each hour, in the
downtown districts, furnish enough
thrills to keep movie audience gasp
ing for breath whole evening.
One OF the worst traffic problems,
according to the police, is "the woman
with her arms full of bundles, who
just must catch that $50 car" SOUR
rel-like she darts through the thick
of the traffic and it is impossible to
stop her If a brave patrolman does
try it he almost gets his ear bitten off
for his trouble
other nerve -racking problems are
the spry old man, who goes where
he pleases when he pleases," and the
man or woman with the baby coach.
Only by the cooperation of every in
dividual in the city can the traffic con-
sestion be opened and accidents kept
at minimum during the present rush
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22
FACTS AND FUN

Briggs-We are coming around to
see YOU this evening.
Griggs-That's right; but do me q
favor, old man. Don't let your wife
wear her new. fall suit: | don't want
my wife to see it Just now.
Briggs-Why, man alive, that's just
why we are coming. Boston Tran
script
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22
OUR RISING NAVY
TGreensburr TrIbuue1

TGreensburg TrIbuneI
Our navy is growing and soon
promises TO be tho largest i'm the world
That Is If the other fellows keep sink
ing ships as they have been doing reg
uIarly recently. -
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22
NEWS s RAI2lRssT3HtNS tNSAR
[ From the Telegraph of Dec, %.
Promote Farragut

Washington. Dec. -. Rear Adj
miral Farragut has been promoted to
he a vice admiral in the United States
navy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22
Bring In Exchnnred Men

Annapolis. Dec. u. - The steamer
New York has Just arrived with 800
paroled Union prisoners. most OF them
in very serious condition, due to eX-
uOSure
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22

Washington. Dec. %. The mails
have been distributed to sherman $
army. About 0,000 soldiers letters
were brought back to be delivered to
their homes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22
-D0 YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg has more brid-
Ces than any other city along the
Susquchanna?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22
sTEIFF WAREROOMs. "a N. Second St,
IN H1RR sBURG FIM
YEARS AGO TO-DAY

tFrom the Telegraph of Dec, %, 1864.
No Papers Next Week -
The editors and publishers of the
country exchanges will not issue papers
next week.
SIeighinE On Christmas
Christmas sleighing is expected un-
less the temperature rises in the next
twenty -four hours.
DIR. Eager Gets Appointment
The mayor has appointed DIR. Charles
Il. Eager vaccine physician of the Fifth
and Sixth wards of the city.
NO-NOT AKIN!
leicester TimesI
Are war taxes akin to what Gen.
eral sherman said war was?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22

Oh, l See!
| didn't went to
school to-day. Ma,
I'm sure YOU
didn't learn that
kind Of grammar
AT school.
No, | learned 1t
from Pop.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22
KEEPING THE STREETS OPEN

4 RE you one of those nowadays
"A who are making traffic police
4 \ men undergo all sorts of mental
and physical agonies because OF
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22
HARRISBURG WEATHER

II ESIDENTS of the Wyoming VAL
* ley may now come out of their
= - storm cellars. Wilkes-Barre and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22
OUR DAILY LAUGH
I.OokIng Ahead

LOOkinG Ahead
| suppose you
are alrea dy loulc-
ing forward to
Christmas.
Yes, | hope Sis
has a beau by
dat time what $
Il good Spender.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22

The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day
prints the following: Should the
contest between Amber and Baldwin
develop factional bitterness, friends OF
Henry /. Wilson. of Jefferson county,
will propose him as a Harmony can
didate. lie has been a Penrose sup
porter for years. Opponents of local
option have been claiming 144 out OF
the 207 votes in the House and say
they are not concerned about the
outcome of the issue when it shall be
submitted to vote in that body"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-08
Teaching in the Philippines.

A distinguished educator from
Columbia University who recently
visited the Philippines says, in speak
ing of the schools, II have visited
many countries and studied the edu-
cational systems in all of them, but
in no part of the world is there a sys-
TEN SO perfectly adapted to social
conditions of the people as in this
country. The system here might well
serve as model to the rest of the
world from the standpoint of adoption
to the needs OF country"
An examination is announced for
March 1t-12, 1914, in all of the princi-
pal cities of the United States, for Sc
curing a list of eligibles from which
to make selections to fill positions in
the Philippine teaching service.
The places to which those appoint
ed will be assigned are: For men, Su-
pervisors of School Districts, teachers
of English, Mathematics, History,
Science. Manual Training, Agricul-
ture; for women, teachers OF Domes
tic Science and Home Economy.
This is field which requires the
services of young people of superior
qualifications, excellent character and
good preparation; who are able to
maintain D position Of influence among
a rapidly developing people.
For the right kind of men there are
excellent opportunities to take a large
part in the solution of some of the
problems now confronting this country
and at the same time gain an expert
ence and training of great value.
Graduates of Colleges and Normal
schools and of Polytechnic and Agri-
cultural schools are desired. Teach
ers with successful experience are
eligible.
The entrance salary Of the majority
of male appointees Is $1,000 per an
mum and expenses to the Islands paid
by the Government, with eligibility
for promotion up to $4,000 as teacher
and UP to $4,000 as superintendent.
This is the last examination OF the
present school year and those appoint-
ed will be expected to sail for Manila
within the next few months, ready for
the opening of the new school year.
For information relative to the ma
ture of the service and the examina-
ton, address: Bureau of Insular AZ
fairs, Washington, d. G. ~.