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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1919-03-26

possible To get into the mouth
something soiled with a con.
sumrtive's spit. IL we do any
of these things we may have
consumption, Not all persons
who get germs into the lungs
have consumption, but they run
the risk Of doing so. If We
avoid doing any of those things
and keep our bodies strong aud
healthy, we will not have CON
sumption. II our bodies are not
strong and the germs of con.
sumption get in aud take root,
we must be treated at once. If
not, the disease will cause death
usually within three years.
Colds, grippe, and influenza
leave MS weakened ana likely
To have consumption. We can
not always tell when we have
It. |: cold does not get well.
II Il cough lasts. It person
loses weight and gets thin,
that person should consult a
doctor for these are some of the
signs of consumption.
Rest, fresh air, and good food
VIII cure consumption. But
the patient should be under the
care of doctor aud n nurse.
The opportunity for free ex
animation for all delicate people
who apply viii be given in Mise
county. If such people have
feared that they are tubercular
and find they are not, it will be
splendid. Those who are tn.
bercular will be told what IL do
TO get we'll, and whats to do 10
keep others from being infected.
This also is fine. 1t will mean
lives saved to the family, to
Wise county, to the state.
1t you are delicate come for
free chest examinations which
will be made by one of Virgin
la's tuberculosis specialists in
the Federal Court Room We'd
ne5day, March 26th and in the
Methodist church at Appala
CHA, March 27th.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1919-03-26
YOUNG MEMS CLUB
SCORES ANOTHER HIT

loung's proposition may he
found in another column. Many
questions ana comments elected
much valuable information from
MIR. Young. 1t was decided to
appoint II committee to secure
the listing of all unimproved
lots with the names of their own
crs and the price asked by them
Tor their lots. (Mr. q. S. Carter
immediately placed his lots at
the disposal Of this committee. J
Mr.. Il. L. Taggart, MIR. II. b.
Alsover and Judge Skccuc we're
appointed on that committee.
although the latter was not a
member of the Club. The Sec
rotary was urged to ascertain
from Mr.. Young when he was
expecting to return, and to no
tify all those who wished to build
of his arrival, and arrange for
their being able to meet him.
The longest meeting ever held
by the Club then adjourned at
almost the dot of IL 90, leaving
only two cigars in the box of La
Perennias. The Kelly Drug
Company's cigars are good.
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Will Give Concert Here.

Mrs. j. Proctor Brown is an
ticipating a visit from Airs.
David l.. Griffith of Memphis,
at an early date. White here
she viii give a concert at the
Amuzn Theatre, accompanied
by Mrs, Brown at the piano.
Mrs. Griffith has been invited
by Gen, Buck to sing at Camp
Meade, and will be accompanied
by Mrs. Brown.
The following excerpt is TAX
EN- from the Memphis Conn
mercial appeal:
with n soprano voice Of dram
attic quality,-yet withal lyric
IN IT'S sweetness appeal, Mira.
Griffith pleases "a concert
singer because she is able to
run the gamut of emotions from
the heavy arias To tho lighter
numbers, and do them equally
well Her work in oratoria is
unsurpassed
In addition TO being a pleas
ing singer Mrs. Griffith has the
greatest asset II singer can pos
sess, IA hcautifu! stage APP
pearancc.
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The Truth in Simple Form
About Vireinia's Greatest
Disease.

Consumption or tuberculosis,
Is Nirginia's worst disease. 1t
spreads. y person IL not born
with it. He always gets it from
somebody else. 1t il very cop
mon IN Virginia. There are at
least twenty thousand cases in
the state today. About three
thousand SIX hundred people
die of it each year in our state.
II is preventable. IL is caused
by a little plant or germ SO
small that you can not see i,
with the uneided eye. These
little germs grow rapidly mil
lions of them from one in a
short time. They grow chiefly
in lhee lungs, and they usually
get into the lungs through the
nose and mouth. They get into
the nose and mouth chiefly
from the dust III the air we
breathe. They get into the dust
from the spit of somebody who
has consumption to spit where
the germs will get TO other PEG.
pie. No one should kiss a per-
son who has consumption or
use glass which has been used
by n consumptive. lie is also
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1919-03-26
Community
Reception

The big Community Reception
for the people of Big Stone Gap
Will he held on next Friday even
ing at the Monte Vista Hotel
from nine to eleven p. m. Two
large committees, one from the
Community League of which Mrs.
Il. L. Taggart is chairman, and
one from the Young Mems Club
of which w. a. Stuart is chair
man, are busy working out plans
for the entertainment.
The main purpose of the re-
ception is 10 acquaint the new
families that have moved into
Big Stone Gap With the people
Of the town, and in general 10
promote a spirit Of good feeling
and sociability and solidarity in
the town. The features of the
entertainment will conclude two
or three short talks by leading
citizens, several musical num-
bers given by local talent, and
light refreshments. Good fell
lowship aud good feeling will be
the Keynote of the occasion; all
fornality will be laid aside; and
everybody will come prepared
fora regular "get-togcthcrn oc-
casion.
A special feature will be that
the various organizations Of the
town such as the chsrches, town
council, school, associated. chair.
ties, etc, will have a separate
space set aside for each of them
under Il banner showing the
name of the particular organiza-
ton.
The invitations will be sent
out at once. If you don't gel
yours, it was merely an over.
sight. Come on anyhow, aud
make this the biggest and best
occasion the town ever saw.
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Golf Club TO be Re Organized

IN effort is being made tn re-
orRaalze the Mountain Golf
Club on a solid financial basis,
and il the plans Of the promo.
tiers 60 through Big Stone Gap
will have one of the best golf
courses in the South. The oh
Ject is TO get n. least forty mem-
beers to the club at n yearly
membership fec of twenty dol
lars, which Will give the club
capital OF eight hundred dollars.
This will euable the club TO put
the course in first class condi-
ton aud have sufficient funds
to keep the grounds in good
shape the entire year. 1t is
Thought the town council will
put back the foot bridge across
the river at the grand stand
that washed away IN the spring
of 1917 This bridge was a
great benefit To III. town aud
should be replaced.
Big Stone Gap has splendid
golf course and to maintain it
IN first class shape will be an
attraction and advertisement
for the town that few places in
the south enjoys.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1919-03-26

FOR SALE. M. Y.soy beans,
500 per bu. Tar Heel Black
sofa beans, $500 per bu. Mix
ed and whippoorwiil COW peas,
$500 per bu. Cane seed for
chicken feed, So per Id. All
{. o. b shipping stations, subject
to confirmation. Hickory Seed
Company, Hickory, n, G.
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JAMES X. POLK BARRON

James X. Polk Barron, was
born January 9TH, lsio, in the
old Barron home in! Turkey
Cove, Lee county, whore he
died March Nth, 1919. OF q com
plicatiou Of diseases.
He was the last living son of
William n. G.. Barron, who
came to Lee county and settled
in the spring of 1915. during
the early pioneer days. The
homestead where he settled has
with but little change in con
struction been occupied by ia
ther and son for Il century. The
mother of Polk told the writer
of this article that when She
first came aud settled in Turkey
Cove, her nearest neighbor liv-
ed two miles away, and when
she let the fire go out. would
have To go that distance to get
"a chunk aud frequently had to
stop and build up new fire be-
fore she could get home with
her chunk.
At the age Of seventeen Mr..
Barron volunteered in the Con.
fcderate Army and served in
the old "Stonewall Brigade,
participating III many of the
most important battles of the
war including Chancrllorsville,
The Wilderness, Getty sburg
and many others.
He was descended from a
long and famous line Of war
riors. lie was a great nephew
Of Commodore James Barron.
one of the most distinguished
naval officers OF his day, having
been commissioned by Presi
dent Jefferson, aud becoming
senior officer of the L. 5. Navy
before his death.
Mr. Barron was married in
1915 TO Rebecca Anna Scott,
daughter of John Wingicld
Scott, and grand daughter of
Captain Moses Scott, " no serv-
ed in the war Of 1872. TO this
union were born three dungh-
ters, Alice Barron, who married
MIR. l.. l.. lioge, of Austin, Tex
rs, Anna Lee Barron, who mar
ried John b. Collier, a promi
ncnt merchant, and Margaret
Barron, who married George |,
Taylor, Il member of the law
firm of Builitt q Chalkley, OF
Big Stone Gap. Mrs. Barron
died in 1856 aud Mr., Barron
some ycurs later married Miss
kebecca Horton Flanary, who
died in 1917.
Mr.. Barron is survived b,
one daughter, Mrs. George /.
Taylor. of Big Stone Gap. aud
six grand children, namely Mrs.
John = Alnrrs, Of Qunnah, Tex
as. and Hampton ltoge. of Dial
las, Texas; Misses Reba and
Anna Barron Collier, james
Polk Taylor AMI little Ann
Scott Taylor.
Mr.. Barron was a leader in
the church aud educational life
OF his county and was a loyal
Mason, having joined the order
when he was young man llv
ing III Ashland, Oregon, and
afterwards transferred his mem
6ership To Big Stone Gap Lodge
No. POS.
In ali the walks of life he was
indeed Il man amongst men aud
an honor TO his day and geuer-
alton. He was u man OF lofty
patriotism as he proved on
many bloody field, and in his
death the state aud Lee county
loses one Of Its oldest citizens,
80.
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Protestant Episcopal Church.
KeN 4. 81. Rms N CInrro.

Key IT, W Bliss in Charge
Services next sunday as fol-
lows; sunday School at l0a.
m, old time; Holy Communion
at ! u. m, Rev. T.. \. Rich.
This ia tn, church of the open
door. Official office hours 10
TO - m Sundays, unofficial
oiiice hours every day and night
at all hours. Telephone 1873 L.
or Ionraine apartments. Choir
practice at church, Friday 100
p. IN,
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Mr. Young
Representing Large Building
Concern Visits Big Stone
Gap

AS everyone knows who
knows anything in this town
there blew into our burg on
Friday afternoon last II repre-
sentative of "a reputable ready.
cut lumber concern TO arrange,
If his proposition took. for the
building of accommodations for
the Southern Railroad men al.
ready employed by the railroad
to take care of freight aud
tracking III and about Big Stone
Gap. MIR. a. Young, the rep
resentative of Sears, Roebuck
and Company. of Chicago spent
all the afternoon with the rep
resentatives of the Land Com.
pany. That night he attended
the meeting of the Young Mems
Club, the largest in point of
numbers yet held by that
notable and already influential
organization, and presented the
plan of his concern for the ben
eft of any aud all in the Club
who might be counted among
prospective builders.
AS outlined by Mr.. Young,
Sears, Roebuck and Company
makes it so easy for an honest
man, who owns Il lot and has II
lutte cash, to build comforta
bic home, and goes so far to
help him, that there is no ex
cuse for any one who coutem-
plates building a home in this
town not taking advantage of
this proposition. MIR. Dung
showed plans of the many at
tractive houses being sold by
his couceru, and also pictures
of the many houses they have
built for large industrial con
Germ, explaining meantime the
way the firm he represents does
business.
Here, in brief, is the way he
put their proposition. You send
to Sears, Roebuck y Company
for Il free book of their Modern
Homes. Select your house.
Send a dollar for the complete
plans of it. rhis $l.OO is re-.
turned when yon buy the house
Or. and this is special ar
rangement and an addei in
ducement, write Mr.. \. Young
personally care Sears, Roebuck
& Company, aud he will ar
range TO have anyone from Big
Stone Gap receive their plans
free. Look over the plans and /,
ii you want some change made.
write the firm about it asking
for II price on tn" changes, aud
also for the freight charges
They Will tell you promptly all
about il, aud then You can
make arrangements according
10 the plan rs outlined in an
other column of this issue un-
der the notice of the meeting OF
the Young Mems Club.
The proposition as outlined
and described is also found in
the Book of Modern Homes
published by Sears, Roebuck &
Company, and is certainly the
finest thing of its kind any firm
ever worked out, especially
coming as it does from firm Of
this standing.
Mr.. Young is figuring on
building a lot OF houses for a
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Young Mems CLUB, though
threatening TO disappoint the
unusually large gathering of men,
was turned into most interesting
and profitable channel of discus
sion before the evening ended.
After the reading of the min
utcs by the Secretary it was dis
covered there was no member of
any really active committee pre-,
sent to give n report. This gave
character of uncertainty as to
the ultimate outcome of any dis
cussiou that might follow Rev.
Mr.. Bliss presented the case Of
The Y. w. G. a. and urged to
cooperation with this organizo-
tion which was facing the difficult
ties and opposition experienced
by the Young Mems Club in the
early days of its existence. Mr..
Wren presented the matter Of
cooperation with Norton's pro
gressive business club and elicit
I'd some rather rambling suggcs-
lions as to the best means of
,howing that recently organized
body of men that we were anv-
ious to meet them to discuss
matters pertinent TO the build
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santatiyn or Saars pa,I,u r :,
ssn'allve OF sears lioepuek ana
Dpn pany 5 building department,
WY 'au peeh IN town a u alter
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PtoPosi tlo', WIN lhc committee
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tBnild more homes /.
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Take Care of Your Car

II. w. Slauson, in Leslie's. r-
The driver who realizes that his pnop-
erly synchronized control of the levers
and pedals is a factor which determines
largely the amount of time which the
car shall spend at the repair shop is the
one who can obtain the most value from
his automobiling experience. The rules
are simple and they may be briefly
summed UP as follows:
Coast to a stop; do not use the brakes
unnecessarily. If the clutch is engaged
and the engine throttled, the drag viii
serve as a brake down to speed of
six or seven miles per hour.
Do not slip your clutch. Shift to a
lower gear if the engine labors. Do not
race your engine at the curb. If YOU
must test it, do SO in garage
Do not drive fast around the corners
The better your car holds the road. the
greater is the strain on the tires when
rounding a turn.
Do not let your engine knock or labor
Retard the spark, shift to lower gear
and have the carbon cleaned out at the
first opportunity.
Do not waste your battery
Do not let your engine overhead.
Observe these rules, and you, as the;
driver. will have done more to keep your
car out of the repair shop than has the
manufacturer with all of the knowledge
and experience at his command.
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Business Heroes

]. Horace Lyle, in Leslie's.
A big man said early last fall,
we've got to do something to pre-
pare for a return to peace production.
We've got $4,000 people to think o.
If the war stops at once we have
nothing to take the place of our war
work to keep all these workers en-
ployed."
He did not touch upon his own prob
lems-except that one big land, in
his mind. the foremosD problem of
taking care of the people in his Or
ganization.
But the man thinking only OF self,
whose one viewpoint is how things
will affect him-who thinks of and
uses men only as pawns-to whom life
is not bigger than businessmen
man will fall of his own dead weight
in the new order of things.
L know a capitalist who saved one
of his workers from physical injury
or worse-at the expense of perma
nent disability to himself l know
others who have provided parks for
their people. where ball, boating AM
bathing may be enjoyed-who provide
regular monday entertainments, fam
lily days, inter-department dinners, 50
cial gatherings. dances, and in a hun.
dred other ways seek to make life
more worth living. s-- =
And tell you that 1 happen to be
in a very good position to know that
all this pays. But it would not pay
If it were done only because it pays.
And therein. so 1 believe. you have
the crux OF the situation-it dpends
on the attitude Of mind behind the
scenes. If that is right-all right. II
that is wrong-all wrong.
One day I happened to be present
when one of the men whom have
just had in mind addressed an assem-
bly, of 1000 workers from his plant.
Four cabaret singers had preceded
him. They had made hit and been
applauded to the echo. But when their
beloved employer stepped forward to
speak the cheers and enthusiasm made
the applause for the singers fade into
dimness by comparison. For this man
is a real business hero. He has made
millions of dollars. He is beloved by
all who know him. And the fact that
he has been the means of making
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mn RiHenhouse Tells What Well Dressed Women Will Wear
and Says Peace Paris Brought Madness in Dancing

dressing. The one originality brought
ii the situation is the bathing suit, with
its splendid Arabian wrap and sandalled
feet, which is worn at the beach dances.
1t would not be surprising II some
thing would come out Of this new pas
time
At the other dances there is ten
dency toward chain mail frocks or
those of brilliant silver tissue. The
change in the skirt is not a novelty to
Am orleans, for it shows the immense
bulges on each side. over the hips, with
flat back and front. This is accepted
by all the French women as the best
style for dance frocks. The new skirts
are longer and wider than those worn
last winter, but they will not get ar
probably longer until the French woffl-
en- relinquish the high-heeled sandal
| slipper, with it's ribbons or bracelets
that go around the leg half way to the
knee.
Bright green satin made one Of the
new frocks featured at, a garden dance.
1t has tight bodice, immense panniers
made like umbrella folds, and hem
that is wide enough for free movement
This frock is untouched by tulle, en-
broidery, or any kind of ornament ex-
cept tiny dash of scarlet which gives
| it distinction.
| Another interesting feature of these
dance gowns, especially those worn by
the smart French woman, although she
may not be in society, is the odd cape
| to the waist.
| It Is Of metallic tissue or oxydized
silver. furnished gold or bright steel.
It is gathered to tight necklace at
the back, or suspended from a chain
that goes straight across the back of
the shoulders, ending at each shoulder
strap. This cape does not cover the
entire expanse of bare neck at the
back, for it is gathered into straight
panel than hangs from the nape of
neck, between the shoulder blades, to
the waist. Young girls wear this cape
in exceedingly thin silver net with an
open mesh and the hem weighted with
silver or pink roses.
| The idea is one of protection as wen
as Of beauty, and when French woIn-
+, an stops dancing she pulls it out over
the shoulder and arms.
| 1t is a good idea, don't you think?
CHILDREN'S DRESSES
| 1t is mistake to think that all wool
| is a necessary fabric from which to
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Rr ANNE RITTENHOUsE

81 MAN has written a book called
IN when Paris Laughed" Some
q - one ought to write a book,
When Paris Dances" She dances from
8 o'clock in the afternoon until after
midnight She wears her best clothes
while she does it. And in that dancing.
the phases of it, the philosophy and psy-
chology of it, there are features that are
historical and sentimental
One might say It was a safety device,
this dancing, 1t is not merely a fashion
able within. IT. is not an extravaganza
that is linked up with clothes and sup
per parties. 1t has nothing to do with
the drinking of champagne. 1t is not a
device of pleasure arranged by profess
SIGNALS who want to make money. All,
no. 1t goes far deeper than that into
the very soul and spirit of France.
II is the opinion of eminent medical
men that it is substitute for hysteria
Paris migrht cry and wiring her hands,
might argue and quarrel and rebel. IL
the nation had been kept entirely quiet,
without any vivid form Of active amuse-
ment after peace was signed. -Four
years of a strain that has rarely been
put upon human people left its mart
on the nervous system. All Europe, the
women as well as the men, bore the
strain without flinching, without letting
90, but it took every vital power that
was in them to keep them from going
into some form of national hysteria
or melancholia.
The strain was suddenly released
when the armistice was signed. 1t
found its vent in dancing. AS an indi-
vidual who rears piece OF good for"
tune. who knows that a great tribula-
ton has ended, wants to jump up and
shout, SO a nation acts when an intoler-
able burden has been lifted from the
shoulders.
There were many forms of amusement
in which Paris might have INDUCED
when the guns ceased to roar and the
wounded ceased to arrive. But they
were expensive forms of pleasure. And
many OF them required passivity; they
did not call for activity. Paris had to
jump up and Shout, so what did she do?
BY common accord, without any pre-
arranged plan, she took up the Ameri-
can dance called the '.jass'' and through
this leaping, twisting, turning, savage
dancing she found relief to her over
strained nerves. The tango did not suit
her. 1t was too stately, too sinuous, too
quiet The American army had been
entertained by jazz dancers for over a