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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
Importance of Education.

People are more important than
things, The merchant, the artisan
and the farmer are more important
than the store, the tool and the pillow
So is education more important than
any more pecuniary interest or in
dustry.
arethe etaoin etaoin etaoin taoni etaoi
Children, teachers and buildings
are the principle elements in any
school system and the abundance and
excellence of the last depend almost
entirely on the amount of money ex-
pended for them, Better teachers can
be, secured only by paying higher
salaries, More and better schools can
be secured only by paying more money
Tor sites, buildings, and equipment.
Educational progress involves increas-
ed expenditures.
Washington State spends more than
$50 per year for each child of school
age within its borders, more than any
other Of the forty eight States, South
Carolina spends So per child less than
any of the forty-eight States. Vir-
ginia spends six dollars per child.
The average cost per child in all the
States is over Subdivision of Ed
pcation, Russell Sage Foundation.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
JUSTICE.

State verses Avarice, second con-
victions.
Charge is enslaving young children
for gain.
Lower tribunal without jurisdiction;
plain.
In court that are ruled by the state
constitution.
Charges of this kind have. no proper
place.
Reprimand plaintiff for false prosecu-
ton.
Discharge the defendant-Ca the
next case.
State versus Knavery; charge defal-
cation.
Used his depositors' funds as his
own.
Left them despairing, at verge of star
walton.
Criminal purpose conclusively shown.
Defendants AYERS penitentiary sem
tence.
Would mean necessarily, dreadful
disgrace.
Seems deeply moved and processes
repentance.
Sentence suspended-Call the next
case.
State versus Poverty; charge, derelic-
ton.
Man out of work and the rent over
due.
Landlord applies for writ of eviction.
Defendant admits all the charges
arc true.
Children in court with an invalid
mother.
Prayed, ragged lot that discredit the
race.
We must get the law enforced some
way or other.
Into the street with them! Call the
next case.
james ]. Montague.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
SYMPATHY FOR ROCKEFELLER.

Even Mr.. Rockefeller's enemies can
not withhold from him their sympa-
thy in his hour Ct gloom and sor-
row. The death CT his wife, which
occurred last Saturday, is said to have
been stunning blow to the oil mag
nate-"the richest man in the world"
more severe than any bow which he
has been called upon to sustain. He
Florida. He returned in reply to has
ty messages to find that she had
passed away.
Mrs. Rockefeller's maiden name was
Spelman-Laura Spelman, born in
Ohio, in September, 1889. She was
two months younger than her hus-
band. She was married in 1864. The
young people were school mates and
it is said were sweethearts from their
18th years. There we're four daught-
ers and one son. Two of the daught-
ers are dead. The son, John D., Jr.,
Mrs. Prentice and Mrs. Mccormick,
of Chicago, survive. Mrs. McCor-
mick is now in Switzerland travelling
for her health. Mrs, Rockefeller was
a member of the Baptist church, she
having joined the Baptists from the
Congregational Church after her mar
riage.
"The tall, the wise, the reverend
head, mnst lie as low as ours.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
THANKFUL FOR WILSON.

President Wilson is facing the
greatest crisis in the history of the
world. None of his predecessors
ever held the power for good and for
evil that he now possesses. Upon
his firmence and judgment depends
in no small degree the future of civil.
ization. We must rely upon him and
support him. We have no othere
choice and we have no reason to doubt
his ability and common sense.
Former President Taft in his Wash
ington day address at Moristown a.
gain called upon the people of the
United States to support President
Wilson in handling our foreign re-
lations, saying, ave must allow no
lingo spirit to pervail. We must n.
bide the judgment of those in whom
we have entrusted authority, and when
the President shall act we must stand
by him to the end. He has been
faithfully following the example set
by our first President"
Former President Rossevelt's at.
tack on President Wilson in a monthly
magazine has sinse seen the light. He
declares that we are bound by the
unsigned Hague conventions to pro-
test against the DREADFUL wrong done
to the men, women and children of
Belgium, which means to run the risk
of war and entangling alliances. Mr..
Roosevelt would also have war with
Mexico. Were he in the saddle, "the
man on horseback" as he must often
dream of himself, the Western Hem
isphere would be in the throes of war.
Why should we court trouble when
Mr.. Roosevelt himself says we are
unprepared? When we were engaged
in the civil war an empire was set up
in Mexico, With OUR hands tied in an
attempt to pacify Mexico by fighting
her people and invading herself, we
would be more liable to be drawn
into the greater war in Europe be-
cause it would be safer for some be-
lligerent to treat us with scant court
esy and to refuse redress for injuries
inflicted on our ships and our citizens.
Republicans and Progressives can
now judge the characters and merits
of their respective leaders in the last
Presidential campaign, Americans
have much to be thankful for, and
not the least of our blessings is that
Theodore Roosevelt is not in the White
House at this critical hour.-N. Y.
Commercial.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19

while the quarantine will cause much
Inconvenience and loss TO the people
of the State generally, it is the only
hope and means of preventing the
spread Of the plague among the cat
tie of the State. Even the most rig
id precautions have failed in a number
of instances to keep out the disease.
Cases are noted in which herds have
become infected by birds, dogs, and
the scattering of manure and litter
from infected pens and barns. The
disease already prevails in Virginia.
No cases have appeared west of the
mountains, and every precatuion will
be taken to keep the disease out of
and away from the great cattle sec
ton of Southwest Virginia.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
Golden Era Headed This Way.
The Public Ledgar, Philadelphia:

The Public Ledgar, Philadelphia:
France has extended its moratorium
for another three months. Germany
appeals for credit of five billion dol.
lars. Peaceful Switzerland borrows
money in America at 6 per cent. En-.
ropean government bonds are selline
at the lowest average price in a cen.
fury. Every day sees the strain upon
Old World credit become greater. hui
here in the United States witnesses
an actual decrease in federal reserve
bank rediscounts.
State bonds, city bonds, and even
good railroads bonds in this country
have recently been marketed in lots OF
tens of millions on a per cent basis
or only slightly more. The aggregate
deposits of Philadelphia's six largest
national banks exceed $248 OOO, 600.
and they were never so great before
as when they made this week their
last official report. One bank has
broken all deposits records for any
national bank in Pennsylvania.
These figures and this financial con
dition mean that American business
has ample funds at a reasonable price
while Europe is already staggering
under the calling burden of its war
debt. With its capital thus unimpair-
ed, with it's 100,000,000 population at
peace, and with the most, bountiful
land to work upon, this nation has a.
head of its industrial opportunities
never before matched anywhere on
earth,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
NERVE /!

well, that's cheek! Don't that lar
your" says one of our friends. When
asked to explain he said he had refer
ence to that German pirate, who,
after destroying seven friendly ships
and one of our own, and wore himself
out at it, stalks boldly up to the front
door and asks for protection from
the avengers, something to eat, and
the privilege of overhauling so as to
enable him to start out again to have
more fun" sending ships to the bot
tom. That's monumental cheek" he
said. We imagine it strikes the av-
erage reader about tina; way. Its the
law, and the same courtesy and help
would be extended to ships of any
other nation or to us by any other
nation. Some one said of another sea
captain once" che hasn't any sea man.
ners." 1t appears that the captain of
the German ship now bottled up at
Newport News had but little "sea
sense" else he would not have sunk
an unarmed, defenseless ship, flying
the flag of neutral country, the
property of private citizens. This
German commander of the long and
unpronouncable name, has, it appears,
maximum of courage. but n mini
mum of prudence and horse sense.
Two courses are open to him-one
to intern his ship, disarm her, and let
her remain in the harbor Mt Hampton
Roads until the war ends, then take
her home. The other is, to make
dash for the open sea and escape
so soon as he is ready to leave.
However, just outside the harbor lies
about four big warships "watching
and waiting" for the gentleman to
come out. He has only one hope, and
we presume this too faint and small
to be styled "a hope" at all, and that
is, that something may happen to
these watch dogs outside. If it were
probable or possible for German
submarine to slip up on these Brit
fish warships and ado 'em up" then
escape would be possible At any
rate, he is bottled up, and we'll see
what will happen to this bold seaman
in whose veins, says the Roanoke
Times, there runs "the blood of the
Vikings" who ranged the seas years
ago.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
Opens Casket and Finds Much Booze
marion Democrat.)

(Marlon Democrat.)
Nashville Tenn Feb. 20 a Casket
in which a corpse was supposed to be
reposing in its last sleep was brought
to the office of the Southern Express
Co., in Nashville recently for ship
ment.
The shipper was unable to produce
an undertaker's certificate, as is re.
quired by law in the shipment of
corpse. Fearing that there was Some
thing wrong with either the shipper
or the casket, which he appeared
to be anxious about, the clerks ms
pected the corpse" and discovered
that the remains" in the casket con-
sisted of several gallons of liquor,
which the shipper evidently desired
to send to his home town to be KILLED
ed".
The premature death of the corpse,
and it's failure to be shipped in q
wooden overeoat, which only the dead
wear, brought lines of disappointment
on the face of the owner, and caused
him to mourn the neglect of the law
in providing for the shipment of liquor
in collins and without an undertaker's
certificate.
Marion Democrat.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
THE NEW PRIMARY REQUIRE.
MENT.

Attention of candidates for nomina-
ton to county and state offices at the
primary election to be held August 3.
is called to the new primary require
ment passed by the last legislature.
Each candidate for the General AS
sembly or for any county Office" must
file his declaration of candidacy on or
before June 4th, and said declaration
must be accompanied by petition
signed by at least fifty qualified
voters of the county in which
the candidate lives. Inasmuch as
the language of the act is not
clear as towhether the petition was
intended to be presented to the cam
didate or to the committee, asking
that the candidates name be printed
on the official ballot, the Attorney
General suggests the following form
of petition which covers both ques
tions, viz:
This is to certify, that we. the I'M
desrigned qualified voters of the coun-
ty of. ......... State of Virginia,
hereby petition, (name of candidate)
a member of the. party
to become a candidate for nomina-
ton to the office of. ...... to be made
at the primary to be held on the Bird
day Of August, 1915, and we further
petition that his name as candi-
date for said nomination, be printed
upon the official ballot, to be used al
said primary"
"Given under our hands," etc.
The petition must be signed by Fifty
qualified voters of the candidates
county, and acknowledged before 4
proper officer
The candidate must file with his
petition, certificate or receipt, show
ing that he has paid the required en-.
trance fee.
The law applies, as we understand
it, to all parties seeking a nomina.
ton in primary election.
Why such law? What's the good
of it? Without having looked into
it thoroughly, it being new law, we
will have to ask Mr.. Royal, or some OF
the politicians who know the inward.
ness of the new provision.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
NEW LIQUOR LAW IN WEST
VIRGINIA..
Bland Messenger.


Copies of the new liquor law, which
went into effect on the 2Sth of Feb
ruary, are being sent ont by Tax Com
missioners Blue to county and district
officials, in order that its provisions
may be enforced right from the start.
That was half gallon is all that is
allowed to be brought into the state
by each man who desires TO go after it
unless he advertise the fact that he
has more in his suitcase or other re-
ceptacle. And it makes no distinction
between wine, beer and whiskey, for
under the recent act, one cannot bring
in more than a half gallon of all
put together. And when he gets it
he can take it nowhere else except to
his home. Nor can he treat any one
at any place, except he is permitted
to give bona fide guest a drink at
his bona fide home. Treating any,
where else than at ones real home is
made offence with a heavy penalty
attached. Another strong provision
of the act is that one in his own home
cannot treat his guest to an intox.
icating drink if the guest is minor
oil of incorporate habits or addicted
to the use of narcotic drugs. So
if one should treat, another at his home
he should first be satisfied that his
guest is not of incorporate habits or
addicted to using dcpe. The new
statute is certainly the most stringent
one ever placed upon the statute
books of any state.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
THE TIMES DISPATCH ON BILLY
SUNDAY.

In recent issue the Times Dispatch
says:
In his strictly religious discourses,
Mr.. Sunday makes no intellectual APP
peal. He never condcscends to argue.
Believe, and yc shall be saved" he
says; "disbelieve and we shall be
damned" 1t is all emotional and,
doubtless, highly efficient in his as
pect, but it leaves brain and con-
science quite outside the pale. His
conception of faith is the medieval
conception-the blind and unques-
tioning acceptance of dogmas. 1t has
only a remote relation to the faith
founded on experience and fortified
by reason that was the inspiration
and motive force of the Protestant
reformation.
believe and ye shall be saved
comes very near quotation from the
Bible itself. Jesus said himself, "He
that believeth and is baptized shall
be saved. He that believeth not
shall he damned" Call it emotional
or dogmatism, as you please, Jesus
himself used the same language.
Does Billy Sunday leave brain and
conscience out of his preaching? No
one can think so who has heard or
read his sermon on the Atonement
and the Divinity of Christ, and
other sermons delivered in Philadel-
phia. Mr.. Sunday says: "you can
not butt into heaven head-fore- most
you must go in heart forth"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
BIG PUBLIC SALE.

Our business is to undergo
some important changes de-
handing an immediate reduc-
ton of the stock. In order to do
this we will sell AT COST for
cash or merchantable produce,
any or all of said stock, consist
ing of Dry Goods, Boots and
Shoes, Groceries and other goods
usually kept in general store.
This sale will begin March LIST,
1915, and continue until further
notice.
You will save morey by TAX
ing advantage of this opportu-
nifty.
GILLESPIE & COMPANY,
Thompson Valley, Va.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
LIFE is WORTH IT.
Bland Messenger.

Bland Messenger.
Toll and care alnog the way,
Pain to bear the grief to pay;
Clouds and shadows one by one.
When the heart aches for the sun:
Strife and struggle-but above
Cleans the light that heals it, love!
Love and home and child and wife.
They are worth the strain and strife
Let me take the blow that comes.
Lead to battle with the drums,
Naked though l faint andbleed,
Love is worth it, worth the deed!
All we do and all we bear.
Cross and burden, toll and care,
Are but light, forgotten things,
If the twilight on its wings,
Soft and dewy, lifts andsoars
With us to loves cottage doors!
Bugles, call me through the dew
When the stars burn down the blue:
Call me, call me to the fray,
And the labor of the day.,(,
Toll and trail and then the CLEAN
Love will pay us with it's dreams.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
A BRAVE GERMAN GIRL.

Correspondence Associated Press.
Bochum, Germany, Feb. Both
the iron cross and the medal for life
saving decorate the breast of Frau
lein Aust, a girl still in her teens
and a native of Bochum. When the
war broke out, Miss Aust, like many
other girls, experienced the desire to
join the Red Cross. She knew her
parents would object, so she obtained
permission to visit relations at Muen-
ster, but instead of proceeding there
she went to n Red Cross training
home and was soon drafted to the
eastern front as a nurse. There her
bravery on the battlefields of Poland,
where she tended the wounded under
fire, attracted attention from her sup
errors, who reported instances of her
courage to Field Marshal Won linden
berg. The Communicated there
upon decided to award her the Iron
Cross which he himself pinned on her
blouse. A short time afterward Miss
Aust, while on the Silesian frontier
jumped into the swollen river Oder
and saved two children from drown
ing. For this heroic deed she was
given the Life-Saving medal. She re-
turned home at the end of January
for short rest and give a complete
surprise to her parents who had all
the time believed she was with her
relatives in Muenster. Observer.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
BANKING THAT is FREE.
IN. Y. WORLDLY
To the Editor of the World:

10 the Editor of the World:
The Saturday Evening Post of Phila-
delphia says editorially, "Where is
the solitary merchant or manufacturer
who is sensible that his business is
any freer than is was in 1922"
Well bite. Here's one: Let the
editor of the Post get out into the
country, where the atmosphere is
pure and free and he will feel better.
The writer is country merchant and
president of country bank, and to
the everlasting credit of those res
ponsible for the operation of our Re-
serve Banks, feels free, if not pros
porous: The great trouble with
some is that things are too free to
SUIT them. For years we have had
to go to a big money centre and
beg for money, paying 6 to per
cent, and two years ago could not get
it ut any rate. Last fall we were
called and, war or no war, had to pay
cur New York and other city banks
and many of our customers, merchant
and manufacturers would have been
closed, as we'll as the bank, had the
Reserve bank in this section not been
in operation. OF course some banks,
maintaining large balances, received
splendid service from their private
banking connections but the real coun-
try bank could not get any money
when it was needed badly.
No sane man expects money to be
free, especially during abnormal times
but our new banking system has been
godsend to the small merchant and
manufacturer and country banker, and
if he is not free it is his own fault.
We have heard number of politicians
say that Wall Street would knock the
new Banking Law into a cooked hat,
and men like the editors of the Post
have commenced their batteries. The
average man is freer to-day in this
country than he has been In fifty years
OF course, we find in this section
many negroes who say they are freer
now than during other days, but it
depends on your viewpoint of free
dom. Go toEurope OF Mexico with
your free nonsense. Go where they
believe in free love. But don't in
suit the intelligence of the average
American.
A COUNTRY BANKER
Fitzgerald, Ga, Feb. 25.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
SNiILE!

Joke with him who jostles you,
Smile on him who hurries you,
Laugh at him who pushes you.
1t dosen't cost cent.
Don't be carrying around that chip.
Wink your eye and curve your lip,
And from lifes sunshine take sip.
1t dosen't cost cent.
Don't always be first to rile.
Your neighbor-give him just smile
1t will cheer the dullest while.
And dosen't cost e cent.
Mildred Stewart,
In New York Sun.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
Some Forms of Rheumatism Curab

Some Forms of Rheumatism Durable
Rheumatism is disease character
izedby pains in the joints and in the
muscles. The most common forms
are: Acute and Chronic Rheumatism
Rhumatic Headaches, Sciatic Rheum-
atism and Lumbago. All of these
types can be helped absolutely by
applying some good liniment that
generates, An applications of Sloan's
Lmiment two or three times a day
to the affected part will give instant
relief. .Sloan's Liniment is good for
pam, and especially Rhumatism Pain,
because 1T penetrates tothe seat of the
trouble, soothes the affected part and
draws the pain. "Sloan's Liniment
Is all medicine" Get 25c. bottle now
Keep it handy in case of emereencv.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
MAN TAKES HIS OWN MEDICINE
Is AN OPTIMIST.

He has absolute faith in his medicine
he knows when he takes it for certain
ailments he gets relief. People who
take DR.. Kings New Discovery for
an irritating Cold are optimists-
they know this cough femcdy will
penetrate the lining of the throat,
kill the germs, and open the way for
Nature to act. You can't destroy 4
Cold by superficial treatment--you
mustgo to the cause of the trouble
Be anoptimist. Get bottle OF Dr..
Kings New Discovery to-day.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
si,.e Of Ohio. city OF roledo. /, ..

Lucas County. sss
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he Is
senior partner OF the firm of +. ]. Cheney
x Co. doing business I'm the City of To-
iedo. County and State aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum OF ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and ev-
cry case OF Catnrrh that cannot be cured
by the use OF HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK ]. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence. this 9th day OF December.
a. ID. 1886.
(SeaD A. w. GLEASON.
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken Internally
and acts directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces OF the system. Send for
testimonials, free
F. ]. CHENEY & CO. Toledo. o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halrs Family Pills for constipation.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
Not Feeling Gust Right"

When you get tired early in the day,
have an oerfull feeling, are bilious,
have bad breath or suffer from indi-
gestion or constipation you will find
Foley Cathartic tablet quick and COM
Portable in action. They are whole
some and health Cling. Mr.: L. L.
sure. The finest cathartic ever used
For sale by all druggists.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19

Twenty reputable physicians at West
Chester, Pa, state: "Alcohol is a
poison, and as such its sale as bev-
erage should be prohibited" Nothing
new in this statement. 1t is hope
full indication, however, that twenty
reputable physicians can agree
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19
WHOLE FAMILY DEPENDENT

Mr.. E. Williams, Hamilton, Ohio,
writes: "Our whole family depend on
Pine Tar Honey" May be someone
in your family has severe Cold =
perhaps it is the baby. The orianal
DR.. Bells Pine-Tar-H Honey is an ever
ready household remedy it gives
immediate relief. Pine-Tar- Honey
penetrates the lining of the throat and
Lungs, destroys the Germs and al
lows Nature to act. At your Drug
gist 25 cents.