Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-03-06
NORTON SCRIBE
is BACK AGAIN
Says News is Best Weekly Pa
per in the State, But Has Not
Proper Support From the LO-
cal Merchants.

standing" at the News office, as was
intimated last week about certain
breezy Contributor" now in Florida.
reminds this scribe that he has been
been derilect for some months. The
News, however, has so many inter
esting contributors that one may
drop out for some time and not be
missed.
The articles on the "war", by Capt.
James p. Whitman and Thomas Han
Iins, and the local sketches dating
back twenty-five or thirty years by
Will Young, were exceedingly inter
esting. First, the News is to be
congratulated. For clear print and
appearance generally, it certainly
'eads the weekly papers of the state
The town and county should be proud
IF such Il paper. The modern equip
ment recently installed shows com
ncndable enterprise. The one thing
acking: there are not enough spicy,
lp-to-date advertisements. Those
who contemplate locating in town
ook at paper and the class of ads
It carries more than we imagine. 1t
is frequently argued that people do
not read advertisements. To Il GER
ain extent this is true, but in gen
erai way most everyone scans the adj
vertiscments, sizing up the mer-
liant and the town by the way he adj
'ertlses. 1t is when in want of an
article that an ad is read closely. 1t
S then that the persistent advertiser
| mas the advantage. Wanamakcr never
| pent his money advertising with
he hope that people would sit down
md read them line by line; but he
dashed his wares so persistently be-
tore their eyes that when they wanted
% buy an article they could think
of no one but Wanamakcr; and what
is true of Wanamakcr in big way
is true of a local merchant. in his
way OF keeping what he has con-
Stantly before the people. But this
was not intended treatise on adj
vertising, only zen PEASANT"
There has been intense interest re-
emily not only in Norton, but this
entire section in regard to the out
'ome Of the Interstate Railway. Some
'wo years ago, or about the time the
virginia Southwestern road from
bristol to Appalachia, was taken over
~ the big Southwest system, a line
.nown as the Interstate" began build
ng from the Stonega coal field to
Norton, financed, as stated, by the
'tonega Company. Another line he.
ginning at Moccasin Gap, near Gate
jity, Scott county, was built down
Holston river via Rogersville, con.
lectlng with the Southern's main
me at Bulls Gap. The Interstate
rot as far as Norton hit IA "snap. -
The Norfolk and Western and Iouis.
'i'le and Nashville said, "thus far;
you can't come through our yards nor
over our lands laid out for yard pur-
poses" So the matter has been fought
out through the courts and the Inter
state has won out.
Inc Interstate, once it gets through
norton, extends on up Guests river
% Biackmonntain, developing over
'he hundred thousand acres of the
oest coal property in this entire sec
non. 1t is the intention of the Sto.
mega Company to cut this land up in
o leases. 1t will, therefore. make
over .;fty new operations, giving two
thousand acres to each operotiop
fhis is why Norton is so much inter
ested IN seeing the road get through.
me council even granted the road
right of way along the edge of iss
nam street, which happened to be
signty ieet wide, rather than see
IL defeated. However, the Interstate
commerce Commission appointed five
ocal commissioners, who met here
asst FRIDAY to assess the damages
.or right of way through the little
bottom owned by the Norfolk and
western in front of Norton's main
avenue. These gentlemen, with a full
coterie of lawyers for both sides
/ SnRnt
Two days viewing and reviewing
wrangling and pow-wowing over a
strip of dirt only a few feet wide and
quarter of a mile long. Finally
the commissioners agreed upon the
sum OF $4,000, which the Interstate
pays to get through-the price of a
Iazewell blue grass farm.
1t was the old fight over again be-
tween the Southern and the l.. G. N.
the latter remembering the hard
night the Southern made few years
ago to keep it out of Knoxville. The
southern in this case sought to slip
by by not arousing the suspicion of
the l.. d. NJ, and that is why, any
one can see, it's reason for building
he Interstate as Stonega Coal Com
pany property. The taking over of