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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-03-03
Big Power
Contract
Stoneea Coke and Coal Com
pany Will Take Current
From Central Power
Plant in Lee
County.

One of the most important
power contracts in Southwest
Virginia has been cousumated
by the Stonega Coke and Coal
Company, one of the largest
and most important coal and
coke producing companies in
the south. This company has
contracted with the Electric
Transmission Company, of Lee
county, for all of its power to
be used ut its various opera
tons, viz: Stonega, Osaka,
Roda, Arno, Imboden and Keo-
kee plants, and a high tension
transmission line will be erect
ed at once from the power plant
located at Pocket, in Lee Coun.
ty, to the various operations of
the Stonega Company, over
which power will be transmit
ted at II pressure of 81 600 volts.
1t is estimated that the Stonega
Company viii consume approx
imately l5,0OO,OOO killowatt per
year, which is necessary for
their large production of coal
and coke.
The Stouegn Company Will
award this week the contract
for electrical apparatus ana
equipment of modern design
necessary for the operation OF
their various plants under the
new system, which VIII replace
five OF their present steam pow
er plants aggregatlng approx
mately 1000 horse power. he
new power stations VIII be IN
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-03-03
Republican Mass Meeting.

The republicans of the Big
Stone Gap precinct held n mass
meeting in the Town Hall on
Saturday afternoon at > O'Clock
for the purpose of selecting del
egates and alternates to the
county convention TO be held
at Norton on the 9th of March
when they will nominate can
didates for COMMISSIONS of
Revenue for the Eastern AID
Western Districts, Common
wealth Attorney, Sheriff, Treas
urer, four Supervisors, Justices
of the Peace and Constables.
The meeting was called TO
order by IL. IL Slemp, precinct
chairman, who stated the pur-
pose of the meeting and pro
ceeded to nominate w. T.
Goodloe as temporary chair
man and and \. H. Witt as
secretary On report of the
chairman the precinct was al
Io"eu ~ utIckticS, al! on WHOM
were promptly selected with
their alternates. Following is
list of the delegates and alter
mates elected:
DELEG ATES-A. l.. Witt.
X. b. Taggart, w. 4. Mahaffey
=. l.. Mahaffey, w. w. Buckley
r. p. Barron, NJ. G.. McCorkle,
P. II. Barron. ii. Ii. Slemp, w.
ID Fuller. II. X. Casper. ]. S.
Hudgens, l.. Il. lessee, w. c..
Giles, j N. Moore, p. IL. Carr,
Claude Kelly, Il. j Wilson, NJ.
O. Swan.
ALTERN ATES-E Il. Good
loe, r b Alsover. j. Il Bum,
X. W. Flanary, j. NJ. Stewart,
W. L. AIsover, w. j. Christian,
j. B. r. Witt, Frank Witt, D..
b. Sayers, DR.. Karl Stoehr, w.
5. Rose, O. p. Mason, j. c..
Moore, j. NJ. Giles. ID. Z. Par
sons, Thos. Reed, j l.. Parsons,
/. N. Kelly, Jr.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-03-03
Suburban.. MAY 1.
Birthday Party.

Miss Bonnie Catron, daughter
of Senator John II Catron,
gave a delightful party to n
number OF her little friends in
honor of her eleventh birthday
Saturday afternoon from three
until six O'Clock.
Numerous games were play.
ed, but the game that they had
the most fun in, was "plnning
on the donkey's tail" in which
Master William Long won the
prize, Il box of paper. Delicious
zee cream and cake, followed
by three kinds of candy, was
served
Bonnie received many pretty
and useful presents from her
little friends present, who were:
Misses Gladys Garrison, Mia
Goodloe, Polly Kelly, Ruth
Barron .Iuanita Taylor, Ruby
Jenkins, Margaret Gilly, Anna
Bounds, Mary johnson, Mar
garet Giliy, Eunice Darnell
Lucille and Irene Draper. The
boys We're: William Long,
Joseph johnson, Victor Baker,
Clarence Skunk, Thomas and
George Goodloe.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-03-03
Death of Miss Sarah Sampson

Miss Sarah Sampson, aged rs
years, died at the home OF \ Il.
Mahatfey al this place on Sat
urday night at $3.50 O'Clock
after an illness of two weeks of
measles and pneumonia. She
was the daughter of s. s. Samp-
son, of Cadet, her mother hav-
lng died about five years ago,
aud she had made her home
with the Mahaifey family dur
ing the past year.
Funeral services were held at
the Mnhairey residence sunday
afternoon ut $3.50 o'clock by
Rev. j b. Craft, pastor of the
Baptist Church, of which the
deceased was ii member and
where she professed faith in
CHRIST during the revival ser
vices recently held there. Rev.
Craft paid a beautiful tribute
TO the young girls past life and
also commended the people in
whose care she had been for
their faithful service. The SUI
day School class, of which SHE
was a member, attended tile
services besides "a large crow Il
of other friends. Burial took
place i'll Glencoe cemetery at )
O'Clock.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-03-03
The Barracks Give Their
First Social.

The Barnca Glass of the Meth
odist Church gave one of the
most enjoyable socials ever
given here IN the Odd Fellows
Hall Saturday night from eight
until eleven O'Clock.
Rock was played at a number
of tables, after which Il prize
was given to the young lady
making the most words from
the word Constantinople. Miss
Lillian Head won the prize. a
large box of candy. The young
men were given slips of paper
on which to write the number
of beans in pint jar. Baxter
Horsley guessed the nearest
number and won the prize, a
pair Of silk socks.
Music was furnished during
the evening by Lester lessee on
their new Edison, after which
Jerome Wells sang IA number
of popular songs which were
heartily enjoyed by those pres
ent \ quartet composed of
George Rhoads, Simon Banks.
Pat Hammond and Jerome
Wells also sang "A song and
were encored back again and
again. For the occasion the
hall had been beautifully dec
GRATED with red and white crepe
paper The boys served delici-
Gus punch, ice cream and cakes.
From the way the boys served
the guests they might have
been taken for waters from
first class restaurants.
Those present were: First,
the boys popular teacher, Mr..
Robt. p. Barron, and wife:
Mrs. IL. Il. Benedict, Rev and
Mrs. w. n. Wagner, Mrs. Sally
\. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Lane, MIR. and Mrs. l.. j. Hor-
ton, w. b. Kilbourn. John
Hamblen, Mrs. Sadie Lanham.
Misses Memo Vineyard, Edna
Gilly Janet Bailey, Kate and
Matt Brown, Georgia and Min
ME Bostwick, Mary and Mar
garet Carnes, Gladys Lyle.
Thelma and Mary Baker, Lii.
liam Wolfe, Goldie Spangler,
Myrtle and Matt Nickcls, Grace
Long, Lillian Head, Fannie and
Louella Johnson, Kittie Horton,
Cora Mahaffey and Margaret
Wampler. The boys we're:
Robt, lngle, Harry Taylor,
Walter Nickels, Herbert Brown.
j. E. Johnson, John Johnson,
Simon, Roy and Reuben Banks,
Marvin Harweil, p. II. Ham
mond, w. II. Payne, Jerome
Wells, Tate kilbourne, Baxter
Horsley, Hugh Carnes, Luther
and Lester lessee, Willie Baker,
Harry O. Wallace, Prof. r. H..
\ l. orc md lnArexa Dl.x.I
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Card OF Thanks.

We take this method of ex-
pressing our sincere gratitude
TO those VINO syinpathize with
us IN the death OF our beloved
mother and grandmother, and
who $50 kindly aided us in her
sickness and burial.
H. y. W. Skeen and family.
Nebrunry ~. 1910.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-03-03
High Society
Criticised.
President Wilson Praises Sim
pie Straightforward Peo-
pie Of Southern Noun
tains.

Washington, February If
Praise for the simple, straight
forward people of the Southern
mountains, and criticism of the
"airs that high society gives it.
self were voiced by President
Wilson here tonight NJ /; meet
ing held in the interest of Berea
College, Kentucky, founded to
educate the mountaineers. The
president declared the college
was going straight TO the heart
of one of the most interesting
problems OF American life, and
added that the only thing that
is worth while in human inter
course is to wake somebody
up
Justice Hughes, of the Su
preme court, presided at the
meeting, and other speakers
were President Frost, OF Beren
College; f. Ct. Bonsur, of Co
lumbia University, aud Hamil
ton w. Mahie, Of the Outlook
Magazine. They all said there
were three million people m
the mountains OF the South who
needed only education to make
them of immense benefit to the
nation.
Speaking of the college. the
presidest declared that it's Oh
ject was to do what America
was intended 10 do, to give to
people who had not had an OPP
portunity, and to give it to
them on absolutely equal terms
on basis, not of birth, but of
merit.
What America has vindicat-
ed above all things else, said
the president, is that native
ability has nothing to do with
social origin. 1t is amusing
sometimes to see the airs that
high society gives itself. The
world could dispense with high
society and never miss 1t. Hiyh
society is for those who have
stopped working and no longer
have anything important TO do.
"Ihose whocan open the great
origins OF power are those who
feed the nation; and when one
thinks of that old stock in stor-
age there in the mountains for
more than hundred years un.
til tapped, some of the original
stuff of the nation, waiting to
be used, one ought to bid God
speed to those men who are 90.
ing there and using this old
capital that has not even been
put out at interest, that has
been as it were kept in chin.
ney-piece until we shall go to i;
and use it, and find that the
usury from it was that same
usury of freedom and of power
and of capacity which has
been SO characteristic of Amer
lea from the first. r
81 do not see how ANYBODY
can think of Berea and the work
it has to do without catching
fire"
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-03-03
Potash
Embargo.
Worlds Supply of this Impor-
tant Plant Food Now
Completely Cut Off.

Completely Nut VII.
With the complete embargo
which Germany has put against
exports of potash, the rising
hopes of American consumers
have been blasted and has sent
prices up to former prohibitive
levels of from three TO four
times normal quotations. 1t
looked awhile back as if Amer
lea was going to get fair
stock of potash, but now the
foreign patash embargo is com
plete
The United states consumes
5000 tons of potash salts per
day. Up to January LIST, the
shortage in this country, due to
the war, was over 375 200 tons,
and it is estimated that by May
LIST, the shortage will nave in
creased to about 725 600 tons
The potash embargo will work
a severe hardship on our ferti
lizer companies who have to
move on a pre- arranged plan of
manufacture y number of
companies announced months
ago, shortly after the war
started, that their Spring ferti
lizerS would contain on the av
erage of 80 per cent of normal
potash content. Now, this sud
den embargo on potash has
made these so per cent potash
fertilizers appear rather attrac.
tive.
Reasons for Germany impo-
sitiou of the potash embargo
may be based on several condi-
tions. one theory is, that Ger
many probably does care To
furnish an important plant
food TO raise grain crops IN the
United States TO feed her enc
mics This shows from a Ger
man standpoint, one of the most
reliable from an agricultural
point of view, what valuable
plant food potash Is.
From reports received from
fertilizer dealers, potash feru-
lizers have been advanced no
per cent, for example, potash
fertilizer that cost $50 90 ton
before the war now costs 322 Ou.
with the fifty per cent lesser
amount of potash, and there is
a possibility of still further re
duction of the potash content
III the fertilizers containing This
important constituent Of plant
food.
Our leading agricultural
scientists advise the use of
lime as a means through which
the insoluble potash IN the soil
can be made soluble and avail
able as a plant food. Almost
all soils contain potash and
most ali have enough for pres
ent plano requirements. while
some contain an excess beyond
these requirements. If this val
liable store of potash can be
made available by the applica-
ton of lime, the average farm
er can readily make up the bal
ance of potash needed to insure
Il good growth of the better
paying crops, which are the
grains The lime should be APP
piled To the soil evenly. with a
lime spreader if possible, ana
let the harrow follow shortly
after If the soil should bee
sour, and a good many are
more or less from the overuse
of vegetable and animal matter,
the lime Will, in addition, neu.
tralize the acidity resulting in
a more healthy growth of the
plant.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-03-03
NOTICE.

Circle No. | of the Woman's
Missionary Society of the n. Il.
Church, South, will give a
"Jonquil Tea" Friday, April,
End, from 5 to 6 p. M, at the
home OF Mrs. j. II. Mathews.
There will be a program and
refreshments will be served.
8 ID
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-03-03
NOTICE.

10 all parties who have not paid their
1914 taxes
y our taxes are now due and
have been since December LIST,
1914. AS you all know, this is
my last year as Treasurer of
Wise County, and in order to
meet my final settlement |
must collect all outstanding
taxes. All taxes that are not
promptly paid VIII have to be
collected by levy. In order to
avoid the necessity and cost of
levy, | urgently request that
you call at once and make set
Element with me or my deputy
in your district.
h. v. WonLFokD,
9-l2. Treasurer Wise County
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-03-03
Wise County High Schools
Baseball Schedule.
sAruRDAS. ArRII.a

SATURDAY,, APRIL ..
hppalachia VS. wiso, at ApnalachiA
East Stone Gap vs. Norton, at East
Stone Gap
Zig stone GApys. Cceburn, at coebnrn.
SATURDAY. April. 10.
Apiaiaehia vs. Norton. at Appalaehh.
Big-stone Gap vs.. last stone Gap. nj
Big Stone Gap
Coebum Us Wise. at Wise.
SATURDAY., April. Il.
Appalachia vs. Big stone Gap, at 40.
palachis
coebarn Us East Stone GAP. at ccc-
Norton vs. Wise at Wise.
SATURDAY, April. 81
Appalachia vs. Cccburn. at Cccburn.
Zig stone Gap vs. Norton. At Norton.
East Stone Gap vs. Wise, at East Stone
Gap
SATURDAY, MAY /.
Big Stone Cay vs. Wise, At Big Stone
Cocburn IS. Norton, at Norton.
Eas, STONE Gep vs., AprAlachia, at East
Stone Gap.
saturday, May :. may be used to play
oil ties, il there be any should the re.
suits of lies mean = further tie, said fur.
ther Ties shall bc played on on following
Monday OF Tuesday. Failure to do so
snail constitute forfeiture
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-03-03

Work has been completed on
the highway between Washing
ton and New York, not necss-
sarily, however, between WASH
ington and Wall Street,
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-03-03
THEATRICAL
~ bus

Some interesting program it
has been nt the Amuzu for the
past few weeks in addition to
the extremely interesting fea-
lures which MIR. Taylor has Sc
cured. The Million Dollar Mys-
terry is becoming a deeper mys
terry as it progresses, but with
in few episodes we will be
able to see the great mystery
begin to unfold, and the IN
folding will be the greatest sur
prise To everyone who is taking
an interest in the picture, not
ending az all like one would
guess it would The next cpl
sode, which will be shown to-.
morrow night Is so full of thrills
and sensations that all who see
it will have To be careful to pin
their hair down tight; if they
don said hair viii surely rise.
The perils of Pauline is not
lacking in interest and sensa
ticnalism and The interest
which is being displayed in
this picture is much better than
that which has heretofore been
shown in the Million Dollar
Mystery. However, none but
those who have seen the Million
Dollar Mystery realize what a
good thing those who haven't
seen IL are missing. And re
member the prices TO these two
great serials is only five and
ten cents.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-03-03

w II. Hammond and son
w T. Hammond and Payne
Honeycutt, a.! OF whom work
at Imboden aud live at the V.
* 5. W. depot, luckily escaped
being thrown over an embank-
ment between here and Appa-
lachia on last Wednesday morn
ing at six o'clock, while riding
in Il buggy to their work. The
horse became frightened at
some oil barrels in the road and
plunged into the river, leaving
the buggy and Its occupants
barely on the edge. The horse
was not injured in any way and
swan out, and it still remains q
mystery as TO how he got loose
from the buggy so easily with
out turning it over.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-03-03
Election of Officers.

AT n meeting of the Woman's
Guild of Christ Church at the
home of Mrs. Mayo Cabell on
Thursday afternoon, February
Goth, the following officers
We're elected for 1915, namely:
Mrs. Wade Barrier, president:
Mrs. j. l.. Mccormick. vice
president; Mrs. Mayo Cabell,
secretary; Mrs. Karl Stoehr.
treasurer, Mrs. Robt. ID. Morri-
son, assistant treasurer.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-03-03

Capt. Greed f. Blanton, of
Big Stone Gap, was in Norton
a few hours last Thursday. He
was talking of baseball and
wanted to know if Dorchester,
Wise and Norton would have
teams the coming season Nor
News.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-03-03

If the south would raise more
wheat and corn great eco
nomic problem might be solved.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-03
FOREIGN

The trial ct Porter Charlton, who
was extradited from the United
States on the charge of having muir
Italy. in 1910. has been postponed from
July until next autumn
One year ago the Austrian archduke,
Francis Ferdinand, and his wife were
shot and killed in the little Bosnian
town OF Serajevo by Garvio Prinzip.
1t was the act Of Prinzip, poor stu
dent. which ultimately resulted in
eleven nations going to war.
A Reuter- dispatch from Alexandria
says that the United States cruiser
Tennessee has arrived there from Bel
rut She had 600 refugees aboard
among whom were 100 Americans and
$50 Italians Twelve consuls also
were brought to Alexandria by the
Tennessee.
The fate OF one-half OF the Jews Of
the world is trembling in the balance
as a result OF the great war in Europe.
according TO Rabbi Moses J. Cries OF
Cleveland, president of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis, who
addressed the twenty-sixth convention
at Charlevoix, Mich.
Herbert c. Hoover, chairman of the
American commission for relief in
Belgium, has concluded an agreement
with Gen. Won Kissing, military gov
ernor OF Belgium, providing that the
wheat and rye crops in the zone oc-
cupied by the Germans shall be re
served for the civilian population
During the latter part of August
and the early days of September next
several important changes will take
place among the higher personnel of
the Panama canal The resignation
of Mai Gen George w Cocktails, U.
S. A.. as governor OF the Panama ca
nal and his departure from the 18TH
mus. where he has been in supreme
command for the last eight years, Will
be the beginning of other changes.
For publishing the Socialist appeal
for peace the Berlin Eorwaerts has
been suspended The Norddeutsche
Allgameine Zeitung in chronicling the
suspension of the Norwaerts, com
ments on the Socialist announcement
as follows: THE manifesto is great
ly to be regretted because it will Gre
ate a highly undesirable impression
abroad. The manifesto may be inter
preted as war WEAKNESS on the part
OF Germany, which does not exist.
Military events and the political sit
uation offer prospects of successful
peace"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-03
Woman's Body Found Under Rock

Boulder.-A body, believed to be
that OF Mrs. Mary Shackleton, G5, who
disappeared March 30 after making
suicide threats, was found near Blue
Bell canon. in a region traversed daily
by scores of trampers and picknickers,
by William Ryan and Carl Wickert,
university students, who were on a
5eefsteak fry with some girl friends.
The young men found the body while
collecting wood for their fire. Mrs,
Shackleton was the wife of E Shack
Teton, restaurant man, who sold out
and went to Portas, Kan, last March.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-03

Denyer.-Leaving the body of their
'ather, Clayton Pattison, who muir
iered his wife and committed suicide
IN a lonely country road at Liver
more Colo, to be buried in the pot
-er's field at Fort Collins, Mrs. Ruth
Quinn and Mrs. Helen Trezise of Den
yer and Florence Pattison of Liver
more, the 15-year-old daughter at
whom Pattison shot while lying pros
er, Mrs. Margaret Pattison, to Denver,
from Fort Collins. where funeral ser
vices were held and the body inferred.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-03
COUNTRY MUST PAY
Vital BIunder Found in Under
wood Tariff Bill.
Court Of Customs Appeals Has Deeid-
ed That Section Which 10 . Con-
tradiction In Terms 10 Law and
Must Be Enforced.

| The folly of writing vague and Ill
digested general legislation into a tar
IN bill is emphasized by the decision
OF the court OF customs appeals inter
preting section four OF the Underwood
law. That section. In effect. but not
in form. Is a contradiction In terms.
Mr.. Underwood induced the house OF
representatives to vote a rebate OF
per cent on all duties imposed on
merchandise imported In vessels OF
American register. That sort Of dis
elimination had been considered by
the trainers of every tariff bill back
to the days of the Civil war and had
been rejected because 1t confiicted
with the favored nation" clauses OF
great number of our treaties with
other maritime countries.
The senate would not agree to such
a scheme, upsetting our foreign rela-
tons and exposing our commerce to
retaliation. 1t tackled on to the house
provision an amendment declaring
that the section should not be con-
strued as abrogating or impairing any
existing treaties with foreign coun-
tries. But instead of dropping the
discriminating duty, MI Underwood
persisted on passing 1t on in this du-
bious form to plague the treasury de-
partment.
The department naturally took the
view that congress was trying to put
over a practical joke. The secretary
of the treasury refused to enforce the
law, holding that 1t could not have
been the intent OF congress to deplete
the revenues by allowing a per cent
discount on duties paid on goods
brought here not only in American
but in British, German, Swedish, Nor
wegian, Italian, Dutch and sundry 9th
er vessels of foreign register. Accord
ing to this ruling. sustained by the
department of justice, congress did
not know what 1t was doing and was
acquitted OF legal responsibility on the
ground of ignorance and incompe-
tence
The court of customs appeals is not
SO lenient. 1t holds that congress did
not let this botch slip through inno-
Gently. The language means some
thing and the court draws from it
the surface meaning that the rebate
to American shipping holds good and
that similar rebate must be allowed
to the shippers Of all other nations
having equal treatment treaties with
the United States.
Congress must stick to its word, in
spite OF the comicality Of situation
which will compel the treasury to re-
fund about $2O.O00.0OO OF duties whose
remission has been considered only
a neat political and personal blur on
Mr.. Underwood's part