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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-09-03
eusgR Old WEDDING CUSTOM
Idea Of '.Ruanine up' in Vogue IA
Mississippi a Comparatively
Few Years Ago.

A unique wedding custom was once
practiced in America. The "run-up"
wedding was an innovation in mar
riages, unknown in any part OF the
world except in southern Mississippi,
but no longer than % years ago it was
the way in which most southern, Mis-
s.ssippians of means were married.
Some time before the wedding the
groom began to choose from among
his best friends those who should ride
with him. 1t was considered a great
honor to be thus chosen. Horses were
carefully groomed and be-tasseled for
the occasion, the long, luxuriant mus
taches worn in those days were waXed
and twisted, and particular attention
vas paid to every detail of the riders
appearance. On the given date the
groom and his riders met at some Sc
cluded spot a mile or two from the
brides home, and at signal from the
groom dashed away at top speed, hats
waving and voices shouting. Around
tho lride'S house a Gordon of outriderS
was placed to warn Of the approach or
the groom and his party. AS cloud
of dust announced their nearness the
- nntriders went out to meet them,
whirling about and returning with
them On the porch of the brides
home her party strained their eyes to
catch the first glimpse of the riders.
The sounding of the herald's horn
sci ali Eearts to fluttering. In whirl
of dust the groom appeared, snatching
up Ills bride and riding on ahead
short distance with her in front OF
him % the saddle, then wheeling back
and dis,nounting for the ceremony, for
which t:.e minister stood waiting.
Then came the wedding breakfast.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-09-03
AMERICAN RED CROSS .
TO Give RURAL HELP
Program for Public Health and
Community Welfare Is Now
Well Under Way.

Rural communities and towns of less
than 5000 population benefit in very
large part by the public health and
community welfareiwork of tie Ameri-
can Red Cross. Almost all Of the
5000 Red Cross chapters nave some
rural sections in their territory. There
fore the Red Cross Rural Service.
Briefly, the purpose of Rural SerV-
ice is to assist people to get out OF life
more health, wealth and happiness. In
this purpose public hearth instruction
and general educational progress of
both children and adults play big
part.
Recreation is found to be one of the
biggest needs in rural life. There is
lack of sufficient play-life for the chill
dren and social life for the adults.
Picnics, pageants, debating clubs,
baseball leagues, community singing
and other social events which bring
the people of surrounding communities
together have been organized and car
ried on under the guidance of Red
Cross rural workers to great advan-
tage. IN many instances solving rec
reational problems and getting people
together proves to be the awakening
of the community tO>otlier conditions
which may be improved by united
action.
As Il result Of community organiza-
ton, townships in which there had
been neither plans nor interest In
community progress have been organ
lied to work together with the unified
purpose of bringing their community
up to the most enlightened standards.
Lecture and musical entertainment
courses lave been started as result
of community meetings, as well as cir
culating libraries Red Cross schools of
instruction In Home Nursing, Care Of
the Sick and First Aid. In the larger
towns the need for restrooms and pub
lie comfort stations is being met. Play
grounds for the children have been
established and recreational activities
worked out for the year.
In order that there may be concerted
effort in carrying Oh the programs OF
the various welfare agencies in the
rural districts. Red Cross Rural Serv-
ice helps the organizations already on
the ground. The main object Of the
service is to lend a hand everywhere
and take the lead only where neces-
sary.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-09-03
Public Sale of Personal Property

At my residence four miles above
Williamsville on the Bullpasture Riv-
er, I will on
Friday 5, September, 1920
offer for sale the following: 8 good
work horses, 6 and years old, 5
COWS, 1 god bull, Is head yearlings,
2 horses, 5 COWS, 5 calves, year
1ngs, SOW and 4 pigs, shoats, weigh
about rs OF. 80 lbs each, 4 hay stacks,
3 calves, good hogs, Is ewes,
Hampshire buck. all my farm ma
chinery household and kitchen furni-
ture, chicken and turkeys etc. 1
FIVE passenger Ford car in good run
ming order, a lot of corn wheat hay
and straw, Sale to begin at 10 a. m.
TERMS: Made known on day of
sale L. H. LOCKRIDGE
Clyde Herold, Auctioneer.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-09-03
Find Old Petroleum Deposits.

The asphalt springs of Hit, from
which Noah probably obtained the
"pitcll" with which he made the ARK
impervious to the "food of waters,
have now been thoroughly examined
with a view to their commercial posi-
bilities. The petroleum deposits OF
the land of Shinar, between the Tigris
and the Euphrates, which furnished
The "slime" that the descendants OF
Noah chad for mortar" in building the
tower of Babel, have been measured
as we'll as can be until the bit OF the
oil drlller is sent down to prove wheth-
err the geologist is right. And the
sources of bitumen which Psychologists
have found was used as cement III
constructing the ancient palaces OF
Babylon and Ninevah have undouDteu-
~ been located.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-09-03

Of him outside his neighborhood were
his sledge-hammer yetoes from the
mayors office only two years before his
election 10 the presidency. The whole
state Of New York stopped to listen
to his'resounding whacks and next the
whole country took notice.
The sudden, the theatrical rise of
the man was not q mere caprice, a
blind stroke Of luck. On the contrary,
he was nominated and elected presi-
dent because he was the logical, COM
nonsense choice; because this I'M
known, unambitious lawyer of Buffalo
had become in two swift years the
most conspicuous embodiment of the
things that the times called for-inde-
pendence in politics and a higher
standard of conduct in office.
Here was a man VINO was to make
his own precedents, man who was
to care for nothing that had hap
pened before he happened. The first
president after the Civil war to have
had no part in that strife, he was with
out a political past, and his face was
turned wholly to the future.
He struck dismay to the greedy
hopes Of the Democrats, after their
long wandering in wilderness with
out spells, by announcing that he,
would let the Republican oflice-hold-
ers finish their terms, with the ex-
ception of those who had been guilty
of offensive partisanship." When
the Republican senate attempted to
interfere with such removals as he
did make, he objected to the revival
of an old statute "after an existence
of nearly 20 years of almost innocu-
GUS desuetude." This phrase was too
much for the senators, and the act was
repealed.
At last Cleveland deliberately sac
rificed himself for the sake of plain
speaking. The prospects of his re-
election were bright. His native con-
servation had made him favorite
in the great financial centers of New
York, and the all-powerful business
interests of the country were salts
fed with him. But on the eve of the
election of 1888 he upset the entire
situation by sending to congress his
sensational tariff message, opening
with the now oft-quoted words: at
is q condition which confronts US,
not theory"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-09-03

A S THE Democrats had lost power
"a under a bachelor president, James
Buchanan, they regained it after a
quarter of century under another
bachelor president. That strange CO.
incidence was brought to an end by
Cleveland's marriage in the second
year of his administration.
From the day Cleveland entered the
executive mansion at Albany, gossip
busily made matches for him with one
after another Of the eligible women
who appeared at his receptions. A spe-
cial favorite Of those persistent ru-
mors was the pretty widow Of one Of
his old law partners, Oscar Folsom,
whose home was one Of the few homes
in Buffalo where this unsocial person
had been in the habit Of visiting. 1t
was not suspected that all along his
own choice had been the daughter
rather than the mother.
Mrs. Folsom and her daughter were
guests Of the president and Miss Cleve-
land in their first month at the White
House. Even the wiseacres Of Wash
ington did not guess that the beautiful
young girl who was present at a re-
ception-all in white-would in anoth-
er year be the bride Of her host.
Miss Folsom had graduated and was
travelling in Europe when the country
was set in a futter by the announce
ment of her engagement. She return
ed home to meet such an ordeal as no
other American girl Of twenty-five ever
has faced. Her name was on every
tongue in America; her portrait was
in every paper, and the press boats
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-09-03
How She Proposes.

Women DO propose though they do
not. say outright, "Jack, I love you |!
Will you please be my husband?" They
sometimes do as did Alice and her
friend Fred. They had been singing,
and Alice searched through the music
till she found a song entitled, Il am
In love with you" Handing it to Fred
she said do you know it?" Fred
looked stunned, and ignoring the song
she held out to him, he said, "No, I
didn't know it, but I certainly am glad
to hear you say So" And shortly
Alice was wearing an engagement
ring. But sometimes It works. the
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-09-03

crowded about her ship from which
she was struggled aboard a revenue
cutter to avoid the curious crowd at
New York dock.
There had been only one marriage
Of a president, and John Tyler was O
widower. which took some Of the ro-
nance out Of the occasion. For the
first time a president was to marry
in the White House. AS Miss Folsom's
mother had given up her home and as
her grandfather's house was In MOURN
ing for his recent death, like the
aftianced of sovereign she went to
her husbands home to be married.
The wedding in the blue room was
extremely simple, the only guests be,
ing few relatives of the bride and
groom and the members Of the cabi'
net. After the cake had been cut in
the state dining room, the bridal pair
succeeded in stealing out the back door
under cover of darkness to waiting
train in a switch yard. They had
eluded the curious crowds gathered in
front Of the White House and at the
station, but not the ubiquitous press
whose locomotive was under steam and
in readiness to pursue them, with q
trainload Of reporters, to their honey
moon retreat in the Maryland noun.
tains.
The continued attention Of vigi.
liant press wherever the presidential
couple went was Indignantly resented
by the bridegroom, who holly de-
nounced the "ghoulish glee" with which
his family affairs were discussed. More
malicious, more cruel were the imprint
ed tales which were persistently circu-
lated, as long as he remained in public
life.
Mrs. Cleveland is said on one occa.
sion to have given pathetic hint OF
what the strokes aimed at the presi.
dent through her little ones meant to
a mother. With childlike bashfulness
daughter was holding back from the
greetings Of small company at the
White House, when Mrs. Cleveland
said, Speak up, dear, or the people
will be told that you are deaf and
dumb"
Mrs. Cleveland herself was spared,
At first her girlish charms, afterWard
her womanly dignity and her maternal
devotion made this most youthful the
most beloved mistress of the White
House.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-09-03
CATTLE ARE NOT WHAT
... THEY USED TO BE

Buy Shorthorn Bull and raise
beef steers and milk cows like your
father did.
Land, feed and labor are so high
that you cannot afford to raise scrubs
The Augusta County Shorthorn
breeders Association Annual AUG
: ION SALE of SO head-20 bulls
md 80 females-will be held at
'TAUNTON, VIRGINIA, sEPTEM-
Der 3rd, 1920. For catalog, address,
H. e. conner
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-09-03
Vegetable Beef.Steaks.

The vegetable beef-steak grows on
the oak tree. 1t is fungus, which Is
dark red above and 1esh-colored
below. When it is cut through, the
alternate dark and light streaks eH-
actIy resemble the joint from which II
gets its name. 1t is wholesome ar
ticle of food.
During wet season this fungus
grows about seven feet from the
ground 1t may be broiled, stewed'
fried, or, if preferred, treated ike
bcetroot and added to the salad bowl.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-09-03

other Way, A, g6iiAg fha6 was takihs
d giff home on d beautiful moonlight
evening. Looking into his eyes she
said, ERIN not going to get mar
ried until you do" He asked why, and
she replied Because so long as you
are single there is hope" But alas
he took her home and left her there
and never saw her again
The Washington herald., 1920-12-30
Sees UNFAIRNESS
IN P. SALARIES
Steenerson Introduces Meas.
ure Providing for Fur
ther Redistribution.

A further reclassification of post
masters and employees in the postal
service is provided in a bill intro
duced In the House yesterday by
Representative Halvor Steenerson
OF Wisconsin. chairman of the Com
mittee on Postofices and Post
Roads.
These employees were reclassified
as a result of Recommendation
made by a joint Congressional COM
mittee on reclassifcation of postal
salaries and a bill which was passed
by Congress las, June.
Under. a decision OF the Comp
troller OF the Treasury and rulings
of the Postofice Department the
law was given a meaning and an
effect different from that contem-
plated by Congress, Steenerson
said.
Some special clerks, he said.
whose salaries were fixed at $500
and $4,000 have been reduced to
$500, because the Department linn
it's this grade to those engaged in
distribution, and some fourth class
pos tmasters whose compensation is
based upon a commission on can
collation. and whose cancellations
are SIS receive more than the post
masters whose cancellations range
from s76 to $50.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-30
X. OF. c. EXTENSION
ASKED BY ENGLISH

Representative business men OF
England, all members of tn,
Catenian Association, have peti.
toned the Knights of Columbus for
extension of the organization tc
England. Supreme Knight James A
Flaherty. OF New York, informed
local officials of the X. of c. yes
terday.
The request stated that Pope Ben
edict XIV had urged the Catenian
society to follow the example of
the Knights of Columbus. on a re-
cent visit Of the association to the
Vatican. The pope has declared the
X. OF c. pilgrimage to Rome to be
the most impressive display of
American spirit ever seen in the
Italian capital. according to the
message from England. The Cate
nian Association Is composed OF
prominent English Catholics.
1t is improbable that the knights
will enter England. as requests from
several other, nations have been de-
MED.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-30
DISTRICT ITEMS
IN SUlgDRY BILL
OVER 2 MILLION
Howard University Suf-
fers in Cut-Gets 10th
Of Sum Asked.

District items, totaling nearly So
100000, are included In the sundr,
civil appropriation bill reported q
the House yesterday by the Appro.
priations Committee. Provision ID
made for the payment on q basis ol
6o-4o per cent.
The Rock Creek and Potomac
Parkway Commission Is given 5000.
900 to continue proceedings toward
the acquisition of lands required fol
a connecting parkway between Po.
tomac Park. the Geological Park and
Rock Creek Park.
The Smithsonian Institution 10 au.
thori.ed to acquire several parcels
Of land lying between the south
eastern bounds Jof the geological
Park and Adams Mill road from
Clydesdale place to Ontario road for
addition to the Zoo.
The committee depied estimates oi
S25.000 for the Arlington Memorial
Bridge Commission, and $4,000 for
new building for the Nationai
Training School for Boys.
An appropriation of $4,000 was
provided for the huge rejecting pool
for the Lincoln Memorial and $780,
900 for completion Of the George.
town Bridge.
No Patent Repairs.
The Committee denied the request
for $7s5,s20 for the proposed recon-
struction Of the Patent ONCE Build
ing. It allowed $4,000 for repairs to
the District of Columbia court house.
The United States Housing Corpo-
ration was given s1.10o.0oo for main
tenance of the government hotel on
Union Station plaza.
Other items are: Washington
Monument. $15,s2o; death place of
Abraham Lincoln. 800; birth place
Of George Washington at Wakefield.
Va. 800; maintenance Lincoln Me-
mortal, $10.590; American Printing
House for the Blind, $4,000: Co.
lumbia Hospital. $4,000: Fine Arts
Commission. $4,000, Smithsonian In.
stitution, s675.12o: st. Elizabeth s
Hospital. n.1l4,500: Columbia Instf-
tuition for the Deaf. slOl.QOo; How
ard University, s164.o0o; Freedmen's
Hospital s11s.o2o; National Training
School for Boys. $64,o36.
One of the largest cuts from the
estimates was that of the Howard
University. which asked for Sl,s02,-
43!.7b and got but sl64,0o0.
An Appropriation of $1,000 is pro-
vided for the maintenance and on
GRAFTON of ferry from the vicinity
OF Seventh and Water streets TO
East Potomac Park.
NO enlargement Is authorized for
the Tidal Basin Bathing Beach, the
appropriation Of $4,000 being con-
hned to publication OF the water,
care. maintenance and operation Of
the bathhouse and beach.
The engineer department was
given $4,000 for Meridian HiII
Park: $4,000 for East Potomac
Park; $4,000 for Rock Creek Park
and Piney Branch Parkway; $4,000
for Montrose Park: $4,000 for con-
structing roads. walks, sewers and
water supply in Soaton Park; $780,
600 for construction of roads and
walks surrounding Lincoln Memo
rial; and $4,000 for construction
Of a sea wall between Easby's Point
and the foot Of New Hampshire
avenue.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-30
STATE EVENTS
BOY STABS CHUM
IN XMAS QUARREL
Yuletide Peace of Mountain
Village Broken by Knife
ARRAY.

HARRIsoNBURG. Va. Dec. 90
Russell Fulk. II years old. is In a Sc
rious condition at the hospital here
as a result. it is alleged. Of being
stabbed Monday night by Leslie ].
Runion, Is years old.
The stabbing followed an alleged
quarrel between the two youths at
Fulks Run Store, about IS miles
north of here. in the Alleghaney
Mountains The oficer who made
the arrest shortly after the ARRAY
stated that Runion used the small
blade Of a knife.
Residents Of the Brooks Gap sec
tion were attending a Christmas
service when the trouble occurred.
II Is claimed that the fight was the
result Of a grudge which followed
4 Misunderstanding between the
youths about a month ago.
Runion was taken into custody
and later released on $1,000 bail
bond, furnished by his mother.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-30
He ! HERA 4 z AID
What When Where

Entertainment, the Arts Club
sotf ! street northwest. 8 y. m.
Christmas, party. the johnson.
Powell Community Center. 7:sc
.. m.
Christmas 'cantats. the solo quar-
tet Of the First Baptist Church,
Sixteenth and o streets northwest
8 y. m.
Kiwanis Club, luncheon and elec-
tion of officers. Hotel Washington,
1880 p. m.
kota state Society over Mardi Gras
Inaugural plans. room 134. Senate
ONCE Building, 1880 p. m.
Entertainment, Boston Tech GIee
Club. Rauscher's. p. m.
Gerrick-'High Noon"
Beiasco-"The Man Who Came
Back"
acknowledgement Hitchcock In
"Hitchy-Koo. 1s20."'
Poli's-"Pagans."
Keith's Vaudeville.
Strand-vaudeviile and pictures.
Cosmos--vaudeville and pictures.
Gayety-"The Golden Crook"
Metropolitan-viola Dana in Gin
derella's Twin"
Rialto - Justine Johnstone In
'Blackbirds."
Palace-"Fatty" ArSuckle In The
Life of the Party"
Garden-"Heliotrope."
Columbia-"The Iucklins."
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Daniels in
You Never Can Tell"
Crandairs-"Burnin Daylight"
The Washington herald., 1920-12-30
MANDATORY NATIONS MERELY
LEAGUE AGENTS, SAYS TAFT,
WITH COUNCIL ACCOUNTABLE
Powers Of Council and Assembly Should Be
More Clearly Stated or Modified.

bership of the great powers, may
veto Recommendations the accept
ance Of which might throw on them
a great burden. and under which.
too. a majority of the members Of
the league may veto amendments.
are well and carefully drawn to
prevent an abuse Of the power
either by the great powers In the
council or by . majority Of the
smaller powers In the assembly.
But the two bodies must work In
harmony. and each must manifest
n confidence In the other. and must
be willing TO report its doings fully
and completely to the other.
SHOULD BE NO
SECRET MANDATES.
One of the four steps contemplated
In the covenant toward the secur-
ing Of peace and the avoidance OF
war 10 that requiring all treaties.
including what have heretofore
been secret agreements, to be
spread on the open records of the
league. II treaties, must be open.
why not mandates out Of which
important governmental rights and
duties also may arise?
Much has been said OF the re-
fusal Of n majority In the assem-
bly, to compel open sessions of COM
mittses. on the ground that 1t Is
q violation of the principle sup
posed to actuate the league OF open
covenants. This IL unjust II Is OF
great Importance that there should
be harmony In the councils OF the
league and therefore that there
should be compromises. Compro-
misses In committee work are much
more easily brought about 10 the dis
cussions are not open and men are
permitted to withdraw from posi-
tions previously assumed with en-
phasis. without having their with
drawals or concessions noted In
public. Pride or obstinacy of opin-
ion thus often retards a possible
compromise and interferes with the
harmony that IL sought. But after
q compromise has been agreed upon,
then the policy of open covenants
made public. The attitude of the
league council here seems to be,
however, that where a matter Is
committed to the discretion of the
council. as in the framing of a man
odtcp II 10 chOuBu II tuc SOuHCiA
and the mandatory know what the
mandate is without subjecting that
mandate to the approval or disap-
proval of the public opinion of the
world as represented by the whole
body of the league. This Is a mar
row view, Inconsistent with the
general policy of the league COW
enant.
1t is quite evident, from the dis
cussions and differences of opinion
in the assembly, that the powers
OF the council and the assembly and
the relation between them should
be more clearly stated and perhaps
modified. Let us hope that the
United States will take a useful
part in proposing such changes as
part of the general revision of the
covenant which will enable her to
enter the league.
(copynsht, 1890, Public Ledger co.,
The Washington herald., 1920-12-30
Expect Indictments
To L0IDer Prices

A drastic reduction Of building
prices throughout the East is ex-
pected by the Department of Justice
as a result OF an Indictment handed
down yesterday by the Federal
grand jury at New York City against
fifteen defendants charging con-
spiracy to restrain and a monopol-
ization Of the trade in sand, gravel
and similar building materials.
The trade affected, while confined
mainly to New York. New Jersey
and Connecticut, has extensive
rsmifications elsewhere. The moral
effect Of the Indictment is expected
by Federal officials to be of paterial
value in furthering similar investi-
cations OF alleged combinations and
conspiracies to restrain and monop-
olize Interstate trade in building
materials throughout tho country.
IT was stated in the office of
Judge Frank K. Nebeker, directing
the various Investigations, thar
later results would conclusively re-
but the assertion OF real estate men
that high rental prices are due to
restrictive rent laws in the various
States and not to high costs Of con-
struction.