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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01
W. 7. Coe New Consolidation Man
ager In London.

Following the recent resignation OF
G. W. Rutherford as London represen.
tative of the CONSOLIDATION Coal Co.,
VIM. T. Coe, has been appointed to
that position and has already gone
abroad. Mr.. Coe, who prior to his pro
motion was chief clerk to the general
manager of sales, has been connected
with the company and its predecessors
during his entire business career.
A rather signal honor attaches to Mr..
Goes recent appointment inasmueh as
he is perhaps the first American coal
man to be sent to London by COM
pany to act as resident manager. His
predecessor, Mr.. Rutherford, is an
Englishman, and it has been the Gus.
tom heretofore for American coal COM
panies to be represented abroad by for
eign firms or by individuals who are
natives of the country in which they
are located. Mr.. Coe, however, is
thoroughly familiar with the export
situation, having made q special study
Of that branch of the business. Though
young man, he is old in experience,
and his friends are confident that he
will make good.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01
Farmers Favor Organization.

A representative body of Jefferson
County farmers met at the Court House
in Charles Town on Monday afternoon
at 4 o'clock. The object of the meet
ing was organization. The meeting
was called to order by Mr.. Milton Burr,
President of the Jefferson County Farm
Bureau. The first question to be set
tied was "Do we want to continue the
Farm Bureau work by employing a
County Agent? The farmers present
agreed it should continue. The Jeffer-
son County Board of Trade made known
their desire to cooperate with the far
mers and fruit growers. In order that
the Farm Bureau might lose no valuable
time, the Board of Trade representa-
tive proposed that, Eff the farmers
present would pledge their support the
Board of Trade would underwrite the
County Agent funds The farmers
took vote and the meeting closed
with the understanding that, 1.-THE
Board of Trade will al once close the
memorandum of agreement with the
U. S. Department of Agriculture. !"
This contract means that q County
Agent will be retained in Jefferson
County for one year or longer. 1t is q
pleasure to none the cooperative spirit
shown by the farmers and business
men. Mayit continue and grow for
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01

New York. Sept. %. Apple exports
for the week ending last Saturday
we're A, z2S barrels. compared with 80 !
792 barrels the same week one yeal
ago. There is every indication now
that the apple export business viii
open up in pretty good-shape, although
exporters look for trouble 10 getting
space at different times during the sea.
son. Shipments to the other side this
week will probably exceed so. 600 bar
rels, but it may be difficuIt.matter "a
get space after next week until the
heavy ca1goes of food stuffs, coal, etc,
which are being shipped ont Of the
country to the other side. are taken
care Of. At least that is the opinion
of the steamship agents.
Market conditions in Liverpool. Lon
don and Glasgow are good for red APP
pies. and fancy red fruit this week was
selling at 81 and $4 Is per barrel. Green
fruit was low priced and slow at 50 50
to So rs.
There is olso good, demand for
pears, prices ranging firm s.. rs to
$6 rs. the outside figure being for good
Baldwins The Packer.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01
- . -
To Whom Much Has Been
Given.

Across the fertile fields of our blessed
land. where in peace and sunshine We
are harvesting abundant crops. no
armies march, sweeping them, as in
Europe, with ''besom of destruction" ];
no reign of TERROR spreads through
country, town and city of advancing
hosts with their awful carnage; no
fields are covered with the dead and
the dying; no agonizing cries of the
wounded often alone and unattended
are heard; no rivers are choked with
the bodies Of the dead too many to be
numbered; no streams run red with
human blood; no farms are devastated,
and no vampires with their hell-born
bombs fly by night bringing to man
kind hitherto unknown terror
Here peace holds sway. 80
Against The blood-rede soil of Europe
we contrast the snow white fields of
millions of acres in cotton; against the
ungathered crops and the fields swept
bare of horses to move the armies and
of cattle to feed them, where old men
and women bowed with sorrows seek
to do the work of loved ones who have
been called to the stupendous struggle
of slaughter. we look out at the wide
reaching grain fields with their SPLEEN
did yields, at the cattle upon thousand
hills, at orchards and vineyards and
groves yielding in abundance, and upon
towns and cities whose inhabitants
work in comfort and sleep in peace.
Instead of the bitter, relentless hatred
Of the nations of Europe as they Crap
pie at each other throats, we have the
fu1lness of peace at home and we see
all the nations of the earth vieing with
each other to secure our goodwill and
win otr friendship.
Garth has never afforded a contrast
so striking on scale so stupendous
between Europe's condition of suffer.
ing and sorrow beyond any human mind
to comprehend or any human pen tc
picture and that of America flowing
with 1.-The milk and honey" of peace,
of freedom from wars alarms and Of
abundant crops.
And yet we fret and fume at the
petty business trouble of the hour.
"Unto whom much has been given Of
him shall much be required. Manu-
facturers Record.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01
The Bankers Dilemma.

1t is to the credit of West Vir-
ginia that only two of its banks
located in the western part of the
State-were stigmatized by the
Secretary of the Treasury as
unfair, y charged with boarding
money and refusing relief to the
business community by an undue
contraction of loans.
The bankers lot is not always
happy one under present con-
ditions, and he is apt to find him
self between hawk and buzzard'
as it were, with one Government
official warning him not to lei
his reserves get too low and
another blaming him for not loan
ing to the limit.
There is of course a happy me-
dunn in all things, but with the
passing of the temporary strin-
gency due to the abdormal inter
national conditions recently pre-
vailing, the business community
can look forward with confidence
to general easing and ameliora-
ton in finances, largely due to
the skillful and broad minded
management of those who hold
the purse strings.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01
Piffle.

The Berkeley Springs Post
let's its partizanship get the bet
ter of its regard for political
truth when it deliberately charges
Democratic candidates for Office
with statements and intentions
which they never uttered nor
held.
Judge Beckwith never said that
when elected Senator he would
vote to make delegate district
of the Eastern Panhandle etc.
etc.
Will the Post furnish bill of
particulars as to where and when
he did so !?
A Republican must have a
good deal of nerve to compare the
present outrageous gerrymander
of the State with past or future
conditions.
On what basis of decency and
fairness for instance does the Post
undertake to defend an apportion-
ment that gives Morgan with
half Jeffersons population, the
same representation in the Legis-
lature. and Berkeley with slightly
more population than jefferson
double the latters Representations
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01

The Farmers Meeting in the
afternoon and the Get Together
banquet last Monday evening
were both events which were not
only.excellently managed. but are
bound to be productive of results
not only for Charles Town-Ran-
son but for the whole Couuty-if
not the entire Shenandoah Valley.
Too much credit cannot be Civ.
en- those who are working untir-
ingly to bring the County to the
fore.
The direct benefit of the adj
vertising of our resources due to
the efforts of the Board of Trade
managers may not be visible to
the individual who wants to see
two dollars in sight before he
ventures one from his own pocket.
But it is none the less real, and
will tell heavily in the future.
With other sections feeling
more or less the effect of tempo
rary business depression as an
indirect effect of the war, this
was the psychological moment
to show our advantages to the
farmer, the investor and the mani
ufacturer, as one section which
possesses all the fundamentals of
prosperity and will be in the van
of the coming period of the
good times just ahead. s.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01
This May Mean You

In compliance with the postal law we
will shortly go over our subscription
list and strike therefrom the names Of
those who are in arrears for year or
more-on subscription to The Free
Press.
@, Of course we don't like to do this,
but such action is obligatory under the
Federal law. Those in arrears will
please therefore pay up their overdue
subscriptions promptly and spare us
the necessity of striking their names
from our mailing list.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01
RaeheIors and Matrona.

A dilettante told me yesterday Il
prefer black and white sketches by a
clever artist to his finished paint
ings. They leave more to my imagina--
ton which Is q better traveller than
any painters brush For the same.
reason, the bachelor interests matrc1s
more than married men do. He. too.
Is unfinished; and every woman likes
TO imagine what she might have made
Of himog what she nay Ronl
IaldlaE 4 Smart -
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01
XIII The Hawks.

We are still paying ntty cents each
for hawks that are large enough to
kill or iniure birds, Bring them to
Miller's Pharmacy and get your money.
Will pay the same amount for large
Owls.
A. =. Alien.
Thos. c. Bowling.
W. W. johnson,
G. r. Miller.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01
From The Old Country.

The last issue of the Westmins-
ter Parish Magazine published in
London, .Englan contains an
Editorial copied from the Free
Press on the War, with commen-
datory notice.
It is no violation of neutrality
to stand for the right as one sees
-
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01

A recommendation for job
emanating from George Bowers
would be as favorably received in
Washington as a like request
made by Kaiser Wilhelm Of Lord
Kitchener.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01
The Political Confidence
Game.

Hon. George M. Bowers, the
Standpat candidate for Congress
for the Second District must be-
lieye that its voters are not only
venal but intensely gullible when
he undertakes to secure their
votes by promises of jobs which
lie knows he cant deliver.
Let us for a moment suppose
the impossible-that such GALA
nifty should befall the country as
that the ex-Fish Commissioner
should be elected to Congress
along with Penrose, Cannon and
his other friends of the old reac-
tionary crowd.
Is there anyone dumb enough
to suppose that men Of their past
record and present proclivities
would be persona grata with the
administration of Woodrow Will
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01

1.-THE Song Of the South with her Free
Flag furled
My harp grows mute at the prayer.
For the anthem would trouble the
=. heart of the world
Like the song of 4 falling Star r
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01

State OF West Va, Countyof Jefferson:
], S. Lee Phillips, Cashier of the
above named bank, do solemnIy swear
that the above statement is true to the
best of my knowledge and belief.
S. LEE PHILLIPS, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 18th day of September, 1914.
GEORGE E. LIGHT,
Notary Public.
Commission Expires Dec. 8, 1919.
w. @. NORRIS,
w. F. ALEXANDER,
VIM. KAHN,
Directors.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01
Stonewall jackson MOnu-
ment.

Col. R. P Chew has forwarded to
Mr.. E. D. Hotchkiss. treasurer, Rich
mond. Va. $216.95. being the amount
subscribed from various points in JEFF
ferson county for the erection of the
statute Of, Stonewall jackson. Below
are the items showing how these sub
serintione wara made.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01

lying near Walpers Crossroads in JEFF
fersou County. on the Shepherdstown
and Middieway turnpike. about one
mile from Kearneysville. and about
three miles from ShepherdstoWn. Said
farm is improved by
Large Brick Dwelling House Of "A ROOmS,
large bank barn, wagon shed, corn
crib, hog house. two wells and four
clsterns. and Is acres Of apple orchard
in prime condition.
This is one of the most desirable
farms in Jefferson County both as to
fertility, location and improvements.
Possession will be given on April 1.
1915. the crops then growing to be re-
served and the right to harvest the
same in the summer of 1915.
Terms of Sale One-third cash on
day of sale, balance in two equal pay
ments, one and two years after date.
the different payments to be evidenced
by notes Of the purchaser, bearing in
terest from date, and dated October
90, 1914. and secured by deed Of trust
on the premises.
CAMPBELL & SHEET,
Attorneys in fact for the heirs of 7.
w. Hammond. Oct. l, 81
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01
Report of the Condition
OF THE
Farmers and Merchants Deposit Co..

Located at Charles Town, in the State
of West Virginia at the close of bust
ness Sept. IL. 1914. Bank first began
business May 1903.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01
From
Poems and Dramatic Works.
of the late
Judge Daniel Bedinser Lucas, LID.

On sale at Brown & Hooffs and all the
leading Book Stores Of the South
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01
PUBLIC SALE.
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE

The undersigned, by virtue of pow
err of attorney, from the heirs of the
late T. W. Hammond, duly recorded.
will offer for sale at public auction, in
front of the Court House in Charles
Town, jefferson County, VISIT Vir-
ginia. on
Tuesday, October Goth,
1914, commencing at p. M,
"A Valuable Farm Containing About IFS
Acres
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-10-01

the soul grows ever greater. Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy! Shall we fail
in our dutysto the humblest, the most
obscure of them? | trust not. For SO
indeed should we prove recreant to the
trust bequearhed to US by those whl
gave US being, false 20 the ideals they
gave US, unworthy of our heritage Of
honor. Rather let US strive this wear
and every year to care more tenderly
and faithfully for these wards of ours
whose faith in. and gratitude to us is
so real, SO rich and beautiful vision.
But there is yet another sacred duty
developing upon us oln our obligation
to the Educational cause in our fair
Southland. It is our privilege to avail
ourselves of the opportunity to partiei-
pate in the intellectual advancement
and development of the youth of the
land. and SO to do work more lasting
even than the raising Of monuments.
May our councils be so wisely guided
and directed. our efforts so strong and
united that the generations to come
may be benefited thereby.
From the length and breadth Of the
State we are gathered together here
in Charles TOWN to give account Of
what we have done in the past, to plan
for,fuIier. Worthier work IN the fnt,1ra
along our chosen lines historical, edu-
'cationai, charitable this in the fullin-
tention af being more than ever Unit-
ed Daughters Of the COnfederacy. and
of striving more earnestly to 90 more
faithful. harmonious and unselish
work.
The Ely miner., 1914-01-16
PLUMAGE CAUSED THE ERROR
Naturaiists Have Discovered They
Were Wrong In Idea About New
Zealand Bird.

Since birds frequenting flowers for
honey or insects are apt to get their
heads covered with pollen, and since
the pollen of different flowers varies
in color, a bird MAJ become yellow
headed, red-headed, blue-headed. etc..
according to season. This circum'
stance led to a curious mistake in the
case of New Zealand bird. honey.
sucker and a hunter Of flowers. In
the early summer it visited most fire.
quently the flowers of the native fax.
and later in the year fed chiefly on
the fuchsia. The pollen of the former
is red, and of the latter blue. Hence
in the early summer the bird appeared
with a red head and was named the
red-headed honeysucker. But when.
later in the year. 1t rent to the fuch-
sia. its head was stained blue. and 1t
was called the blue-headed honey
sucker.
Thus for long time this bird was
thought to be Of two distinct species.
The Ely miner., 1914-01-16
JOHN JUST COULDN'T MARRY
Fad a Peculiar Reason, but After All
It 10 Always a Good Thing to
Look Ahead.

Governor-elect Stuart of Virginia,
who was at the Raleigh, has travelled
In every nook and corner of the Old
Dominion, and he knows thousands Of
voters well enough to call them by
their first names, says the Washing
ton Post. The governor was down in
one of the southern counties not long
ago. He has a lot of friends in that
section, and one Of his particular hob
bies is the promotion of the social
welfare of the negroes. A prosperous
looking darkey ventured to shake
hands with the governor-elect, where
upon Governor Stuart remarked:
John, hope you are well and that
the members of your family are all
WELL"
"Everybody's WE'LL" returned the
darkey, "only All hasn't got no fam
bly,"
"Why, aren't you married?" inquired
Governor-elect Stuart.
mo, All isn't married." replied John.
"Well, you ought to get married"
advised the governor. Every man
ought to be married. 1t is best for
ones moral and spiritual welfare and
his material happiness"
tits this away" said John. "Ah'd
lax pow'ful well to git married, but
All amt got money 'nuff to git di-
vorce. 1t costs some of da 'niggers'
down head as much as $50 to git un-
hitched. Why, some of desc lawyers
makes a good living gittin' divorces
for us niggers."
The Ely miner., 1914-01-16
SKIN CLEARED.
BY Simple Change In Food.

1t has been said by a physician that
most diseases are the result of indi.
gestion.
There's undoubtedly much truth in
the statement, even to the cause OF
many unsightly eruptions, which many
suppose can be removed by applying
some remedy on the outside.
By changing her food a Kan. girl
was relieved of an eczema which was
q great annoyance to her. She writes:
For five months I was suffering
with an eruption on my face and
hands which our doctor called eczema
and which caused me great deal OF
inconvenience. The suffering was al.
most unbearable.
THE medicine took only gave me
temporary relief. One day / happened
to read somewhere that eczema was
caused by indigestion. Then / read
hat many persons had been relieved
If Indigestion by eating Grape-Nuts.
II decided to try it. / liked the
taste of the food and was particularly
pleased to notice that my digestion
was improving and that the eruption
was disappearing as If by magic.
had at last found, in this great food,
something that reached my trouble.
when / find a victim of this afflic.
ion I remember my own former suf-
iering and advise trial of Grape-Nuts
sood instead Of medicines"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well
dlle," In pkgs. There's Reason"
Ever read the above letters new
,ne appears from time to time. They
are genuines truss and full Of human
interest.
The Ely miner., 1914-01-16
COULDN'T SHAKE HER LOVE
Creature to Be Magnanimous
and Forgive.

THE time has come for me to
speak" he said, going over to the
mantelpiece and leaning his head abb
stractedly against the cold marble.
my dear. before we are married,
and while there is yet time to pause,
my conscience bids me tell you about
myself. have deceived you. l am
not the noble-hearted. unselfish. rein
ed end altogether desirable man you
have been led to believe.
II nave deceived you even about
my age.
mot only am I 40 instead of "a, but
I am q widowsr. l stay out late at
night when feel like it smoke all
over the house. am particular about
my meals. find fault all the time.
blame the servants. never go anywhere
to oblige anyone else. drink more than
l ought to. and. In fact, am vulgar.
disagreeable. gruff, inhospitable. irri-
table, incopsiderate. insufsrabls nui-
sspcA"
The Ely miner., 1914-01-16

Tell me-" said the fair creature he
addressed, repressing with a conscious
look of pride an inward shudder: you
are chairman of Pitchers Park Packing
company and you own the house and
grounds that you showed me. don't
you?"
II do
"And the beautiful share debentures
you asked me to look at and four acres
in the heart Of the shopping district
are all yours. aren't they?"
They are, dearest"
Then" said the undismayed and
still radiant creature by his side, my
darling, with all your faults. I love
you still"
The Ely miner., 1914-01-16
Use of Tact.

How much trouble mothers. young
and old, would save themselves by a
little continuous nursery diplomacy
in other words, tact! 1t is SO taucn
better to secure voluntary discipline
than to multiply exacting rules.
A reasonable being knows that neg
lect Of right-doing brings suffering to
somebody: and how much more use
full it is to develop reason" in a
childs mind than sullen obedience!
A very successful trainer of her chill
dren never gave utterance beforehand
of what punishment was to be foI
shortcoming. She was accustomed t.
say to her children: Don't yor th.nl
you had better do thus or SO before
such a time?" A sort Of confidentia
leading, this, to the right view
things, wtich comes before obedienc
proper, and in most cases dispsass
with T.