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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-05-27
BILLY AT THE HIGH SCHOOL.

No crowd was more delighted on
Monday by the visit of the distin-
guished evangelist and his assistants
than were the pupils of the Tazewell
High School. 1t was arranged that a
short service for the High School
pupils should be held in the chapel
first and for any and all others who
could get in. 1t was a bright cheer
full crowd that greeted Mr.. Sunday
and his party.
Rhodeheaver soon had them sing
ing and shouting. He gave several
selections OH the trombone, and with
Mrs. Asher, sang a duet. Mr.. Sun
day, in his bright, cheerful manner
spoke for about 80 minutes. His sug-
gestions and advice were timely. He
urged the young men and women to
have purpose in life, saying that
no one ever became educated in
schools and colleges. Education was
obtained throughout life time OF
study. "'There are a number Of young
fellows loafing on the streets with
their hands in their pockets, said
he, who could become well informed
educated men, if they would put il
spare time reading and studying. AT.
ter the address Mr.. Sunday hurried
across the street to the Methods,
church, which had been packed fol
nearly two hours, where he preach
ed a fine sermon. After the sermon
in the church and in the street, Mr.
Sunday and his party were beseiget
by the multitude eager to shak,
hands.
The party left at once for Burke
Garden, where Mr.. Sunday preache,
Ito crowded church, and enjoye,
a picnic on the grounds.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-05-27
AT THE CONVICT CAMP.

Last Sunday was the Editors Sun
day School day at the camp. An in
teresting and also pleasant time was
had. Capt. Patterson took five men
to Richmond last Sunday afternoon
to the State prison, and brought
about 15 back to increase his road
force. Among the number taken was
several from Dickenson county, and
Fullen from Tazewell, who was giyer
sentence Of II years at last term
of court here for the killing of Nc.
Brion att Cedar Bluff, ms reported ir
this paper.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-05-27
TO HONOR THE
SOLDIER DEAD
June 3rd Memorial Day Under
Auspices of Daughters of
Confederacy-Dihncr and
Speech.

Memorial Day is again upon MS
and again the u. d. C's who have
charge of the arrangements for that
day wish to remind the public that
upon them largely rests the RESPONSE
bility OF making it one of great en-
Joyment to the honorcd veterans
who will be with us upon that occa.
sion. Mr.. Boiling IL. Handy, of Bris-
tol, world war veteran, will mako
the address in the High School
chapel and will have much of inter
est to tell the confederate veterans
and their friends. Good music will
be feature OF the OCCASION. Miss
Jessie O'keefie and her committee
will serve n tempting dinner in the
school building after Browne-Ilar-
man Camps business meeting. Both
cemeteries will bo visited and Mrs.
A. g.. kiser and her committee
earnestly request that profusion
OF flowers be sent them to decorate
the ever-increnslng number OF graves
OF which here nrc now fifty In the
leiforsonville cemetery and forty
three at Maple Shade. II is not nee
cssary that the flowers should. be
cultivated ones. Wild ones will be
just as acceptable. Daisies, butter
cups, clover blossoms or ANYTHING
that blooms in the fields or nuonp
the rond sides will be appreciated to
snow our love and respect for our
dead. AS many us can should scnd
their flowers on Thursday oftcrnoon
to Mrs. Kiscr. Others will find mem.
bers of the committee on Main
Street, who will receive them ON
Friday morning.
The committee on automobiles
make an earnest appeal to MI own.
ers OF cars to aid in carrying The
veterans to the cemeteries md 10
have their cars on Main atrccr
prnmptly mt ten O'Clock on FRIDAY
morning, June the third.
BOILING HANDY TO ADDRESS
VETERANS.
Judge S. G. Graham was request
cd by the organization of the Dnurh-
ters OF the Confcderncy to procure
mn orator to address tho Confederate
Veterans, and our citizens, OH the
assembly of the veterans on tho 3rd
Of June next ut Tazcwell, has sue
ceeded in getting the consent OF BoN-
ing II. Handy, of Bristol, Virginia
to deliver the address. Mr.. Handy, ms
Is known, was q. soldier in the World
war, and did gallant service in
France, besides being an ACCOMPLISH
cd lawyer and orator.
The women Of the county will en-
tertain the old veterans in the same
sumptuous style they have always
done.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-05-27
WORK ON BANK FINISHED.

The work on the front of the
Farmers National Bank has been
finished. 1t is done in KelIa Stone
and is an artistic piece of work. This
now is said to be decidedly the best
bgnk building on the Clinch Valley
It has modern equipment throughout
is enjoying. o. fine business and shout
do 80 'as they. give the same service
that can be had from any Of tht
large city bank,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-05-27
NAzIMOvA IN MADAME PEA,
COCK.

A powerful screen drama of a
woman for whom tho love of q man
was not enough
The picture Nnzimova has called
her greatest since "Revelatisn.V
Nnzimovas greatest test - and
greatest triumph.
"A gorgeous, glittering photodrama
ality.
Wherein love and the lure Of fame
clash, and love loses-for time.
SO tremendous play that only
Nazimova could hope to enact its
principal role.
Unfolds an extraordinary story: of
a celebrity and n girl who worshipp-
both.
Depicts the bitter triumph and un-
eXpeectcdly glorious. defeat Of Jane
Goring.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-05-27
THE BAcCALAUREATE SERMON

The sermon before the graduating
class of the Tazewcll High School,
the largest number of graduates in
the history of the school-was de-
livered in the Main Street Methodist
church last Sunday morning by Rev.
r. B. Platt, now pastor in Abingdon
His sermon was characteristic OF
the man, PLAN, sensible, solid and
evangelical.
Mr.. Platt was here for four years,
in charge of the Tazewell and North
Tazewell churches, and made many
friends who were glad to sec him
again.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-05-27
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION.

The u. S. Civil Service Commission
has announced an examination for the
county of Tazcwel to be held AT
Tazcwell, w., and Blue icld, West
Virginia, on juno %, 1921 to fill the
position of rural cairier ut Pocnhon.
tas, Va. Application blanks may be
obtained from the offices mentioned
above or from the U. S. Civil Scrv
ice Commission, Washington, ID. C.
w. w. BEAVERS. Local Sccy.
Tazewcll. Virginia.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-05-27
w. c. T. U. CONFERENCE.

There will be. w. C. II. u. Con-
ference held at Richlands, Friday
the 27. Meeting opens at 10 O'Clock
a. m: Mrs. Howard M. Hoge will pre-
side. Lunch will be served at noon
by Richlands Union. Afternoon ses-
sion opens at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Livings.
ton will conduct study in Citizen
ship. Night session opens at
o'clock. The public cordially in
vited.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-05-27
ATTENTION. CONFEDERATE
VETER ANS

The regular meeting of tho Browne
iiarman Camp Of the Confederate
Veterans will convene in the town of
Inzewell on June the Bird, 1921
next month-at which time they will
be called upon to have their annual
organization by electing officers. This
should be done promptly before 1900
o'clock noon.
inc Daughters of, the GonGederacy
VIII give dinner to veterans inn
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-05-27

mediately after their organization.
When this is over the veterans an,
citizens who may wish to attend vii
Dc addressed by Mr.. Boiling II
Handy. veteran of the World War
Let the people have, one pleasant
day with the old soldiers.
JAMES o. CORRELL.
Commander Browne Harman Camp.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-05-27
NOTICE.

All members of Gravely Hill M.
e. Church are urged to be present
Sunday, May 10Th, when the pri-
posal to rnRve our church will be dis
ecusseed and decided upon.-Rev. ]. II.
Bowling. 500 81
The Washington herald., 1921-09-30
REPRESENTATIVE BLAND
RETURNS NEXT WEEK.
RUMANIAN LEGATION
LEASES THOMPSON HOME.

Col. Robert NJ. Thompson, who
will reside in New York this winter.
is in Washington for a few days.
His home in Sheridan Circle has
been leased to the Rumanian Lega-
ton.
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Daily. who
have been IN New Orleans about a
year. will return tomorrow to make
Washington their future home.
Representative Hamilton Fish. jr-
and Mrs. Fish. who were married
last Saturday in Montreal, returned
to Washington yesterday from New
York, where they spent several days.
They will reside at 1913 Ashmead
Place. which Representative Fish
has leased.
The Washington herald., 1921-09-30
WOULD BREAK WILL
OF ART COLLECTOR
Daughter of d. ]. Particle,
Charging Undue Influence,
Attacks Document.

The will of the late Dwight ].
Particle. art collector and former
United states consul to Germany,
who died 4 year ago at the ago of
20, was attacked yesterday by
Countess Carita Particle Won Horst.
of Coburg. Germany. daughter.
who alleges that by fathCI was
mentally incapable OF drawing Il
aid document OF ascount OF his
advanced age and .rfi mites.
The document attacking the viii
alleges that Mrs. Flora b. Thomp-
son, who was given 10000 cash and
named eXecutriX of the estate, which
is valued at about S250,000, eXer-
cised undue influence on the aged
man to the detrimcnt of thu coun-
tess and her sister, Mrs. Adeline S.
I. Abel. who were given but $1,000
and a life annuity of 5000 each.
The bulk of the estate is repre-
scented by rare violins, bows, viola,
paintings and other works of art.
Included in the violin collection are
instruments once owned by the Duke
of Edinburgh in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. a bow once
used by PaEininni. and several rare
"Strads" which are appraised at
$4,000 each. Several of the violins
and violas and bows now repose in
the National Museum.
The countess was represented by
Attorneys C. c. Tucker and c. l..
Frailey.
The Washington herald., 1921-09-30
:: WASHINGTON SOCIETY ::
Miss DanLap
Will Marry.
Engagement of NeIO York
Girl to John L. Walsh
Announced.

NEW YORK. Sept. 2s.-The we'd
ding Of Miss Charlotte Lemoyne Dun
lop, daughter by a former marriage
of Mrs. Archibald NJ. McCrea. Of this
city and Baliiheathe, Ardmore, Pa, to
John Lowber Welsh, of Philadelphia.
will take place in this city October
Is. The wedding will be followed by
a reception for 400 guests at the
Plaza Hotel. Miss Dunlop. who made
her debut last year. is one Of the best
known members of the younger set In
Philadelphia, and Is also well known
in this city. Mr.. Welsh. who is
son of, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward L. Welsh.
of 1922 Spruce street, Philadelphia. is
a member Of the Philadelphia, Kitten
house. Racquette and Phiiadeiphia
Country Clubs.
Mrs. william L. Harkness, OF $40
Fifth avenue, has announced the en-
gagement of her daughter. Miss Louise
Hardness, to David Sinton ingalls,. Oh
Cleveland, Ohio. Miss Hardness Ii
daughter of the late William L. Hark-
ness and a granddaughter OF the late
Edwin B. Hale. a banker OF Cleve
land Mr.. ingalls, is the son OF Albert
s. ingalls,, general manager OF sthe
New Rork Central lines west OF CieSe-
land.
The Washington herald., 1921-09-30
POSED ON STAND
ASPOLICE AGENT
Prisoner Freed When Witness
Admitted He Was Not
On Force.

An admission on the part Oh
Ernest S. Boyer, an alleged agent
of the police, that he was mot con-
nected with the department, brought
about the discharge in Police Court
Yesterday of Walter Hawkins. col
o-ed, charged With selling whisky.
Hawkins was arrested on Angus,
Is at his home. -3l6 Third street
southwest, after Boyer. II Is al
legged, bught a half pint OF whisky
with marked money.
Policeman Salkeld testified that
the marked money was not IecoV-
cred.
On the witness stand Boyer de-
olared at first that he was a menl-
Ter of the police force. He saiI
he had been a member of the de-
nartment for two months. Att1r-
ney James A. O'Shea, counsel for
Hawkins. doubted the statement
and finally made Boyer admit that
lie had only been appointed 20 the
force yesterday. Later Boyer ad-
mitted that he was never On the
force.
Assistant District Attorney Baker
asked the court to dismiss the
charge against Hawkins. bu- Judge
Mcmahon stated that the case wru:i
rot be dismissed. The judge said
Baker could nolle pros 1t
The Washington herald., 1921-09-30
Entrance Requirements
For LalU to Be Raised

CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va, Sept.
29.-Entrance requirements to the
University of Virginia Law School
are to he made more rigid lin the
near future. accofding to a state
ment given out by Dean w. NJ. Lille.
of the law department.
The matter of requiring more thor
ough preparation for entrance to the
law department has been a subject
of much discussion among the uni
versity authorities for a number of
wears. Within the last three years
the standard has been raised to one
wear of college work as the mini
MUM requirement. Dean Lille now
proposes that ''all those desirous of
entering the law school should have
at least two years of college train
ing"
The Washington herald., 1921-09-30
UGLY DUCKLINC
SUFFERS MUCH
in HUBBY MART
Homely Daughter of At.
tractive Mother Is
Unfortunate.
BY DOROTHY DIX.

DO you know" said a young
woman the other day." that few
rates more tragic can befall a girl
than to be the unattractive daugh-
ter of an attractive mother?
lot in life. In her girlhood my
mother was a beauty and a belle.
with scores of suitors signing at
her feet, and she still has that
mysterious lure that makes every
man in room in which she Is
gravitate toward her as irresistibly
as the needle turns to the pole.
But 1 am big. and strong, and
husky. without a vestige of beauty.
or sex charm. and no man ever
gives a second look at me except TO
register subconsciously a VOW to
sidestep me. il it is possible.
am 81 years old, and i'll all that
time i have never had a voluntary
beau. / have never danced with a
man who was not coerced into ask
Ing me. l have never gone out to
dinner without seeing on my part
ner's face an expression of despair.
tempered with a noble resolution
TO do his duty like a man and a
Christian.
So far as / am concerned the
iact that / am not a social success,
ana that no man wants to marry
me, is a matter of no moment what
ever loathe parties and balls.
and should consider that 1 had es-
capped one of the greatest earthly
lnfiictions II / knew I should never
nave to go to another one The
1eily-bean youths. whose brains are
IN their feet, and whose idea of en-
tertaining a woman is to hand out
line of canned jolly that was stale
when Eva was a fiapper, bore me
Just as much as I can possibly bore
them. 1 have no yearning what
ever for marriage. The business
lie attracts me far more than the
domestic life.
Left to follow my own sweet
VIII I should make for myself a
busy. useful. interesting and happy
existence. full of peace and dignity
and self-respect. but I can not do
this because of my mother I would
nave to achieve my independence
over her dead body, so to speak.
and l love her 700 well to hurt her.
VI my InOIneT consumers any
woman a rank failure, no matter
what else she achieves, if she isn't
admired by men. and in her soul
she believes ii a disgrace for a
woman not to marry She always
speaks of an old maid as poor
Mary or poor Jane even il Mary
and Jane are enjoying brilliant
careers. and are world famous
figures.
so you can imagine what a
blightinE disappointment to mother
II Is to have hatched out an ugly
duckllng. who simply hasn't a vamp
instinct in her whole system. and
whom no art or skill has ever been
2ble to inoculate with any coquet-
~. or any of the little airy, grace
ful ways that apparently men love
Il think that mother must have
perceived while I was yet in the
cradle that I was destined to be
left at the hitchinG post in the
matrimonial race. for she began
grooming me for it while I was
still a babe can't remember a
time when 1 wasn't told I must
smile upon little boys, and act
pretty TO them. and when 1 wasn't
dressed up and taken TO parties
where I sat miserably unnoticed in
The Washington herald., 1921-09-30
WOODEN FLEET
FAILS TO SELL

The Shipping Board has ordered
a new survey of its fleet of wooden
ships. after announcement that its
advertised sale Of the fleet has -fallen
through"
At the time bids were to be re-
ceived. there was but one offer. The
snip construction and Trading Com
pany onered s2.100 for each vessel.
The board said it endeavored to iron
out irregularities in connection with
this bid. but this had been impossible,
and that the bid was rejected.
Meantime. higher bids were re-
ceived. and inquiries were received
from other persons who desired to
obtain the boats.
The Washington herald., 1921-09-30

a corner, and ate my childish heart
out in envy and despair because
everybody else was having such
good time. and was so forlorn.
"I used to cry when mother made
me go to the school girLand-ooy
entertainments given by my class
mates, and to which OF course l
was always invited. A . three or
four hour session on the rack
would have been no more exquisite
torture to me than the time spent
hiding out in the dressing room, or
tagging some other couple, or
clinging like a drowning person to
some good-natured little boy on
whom my hostess had wished me,
knowing with every aching hber IN
nv soul that nobody wanted me.
that. for some reason 1 could not
fathom, / didn't belong, and that
I lacked the thing the other girls
had that made the boys want to be
with them.
But mother was adamant to my
tears. She made me go no matter
how much I suffered, for she saiu
that il 1 didn't go everywhere peo-
ple would cease asking me, ana
would drop out and be forgotten,
And she said that after a while l
would learn how to be popular with
the bows. but in that she was mis-
taken. Being a siren isn't a mat
ter of scientific skill or expert
knowledge. It's a gift.
when was grown the situ-
alton was even worse. I had a DIG
coming out party. 1 have aiwa!s
had the loveliest clothes money WI,
buy. / am asked everywhere. ana
mother sees that 1 go, and always
IL is the same story. 1 paper tne
walls, and sit. and smile. the sh.'e
that won't come off. and suffer the
tortures Of the damned while my
mother and my long-sunering most
ess work like recruiting ofhcers'
drafting unwilling slackers to dance
with me. or take me in to supper
"Relieye me, the early Christian
martyrs have nothing on the line
~ girls sitting on the anxious bench
around any ball room. and why
their fatuous mothers make them
endure this humiliation of seeing
themselves flouted and passed over
is beyond my comprehension. None
of MS really enjoy martrydom and
there isn't one of US who wouldn't
n million times rather save our
faces by staying at home. and al
least pretending that we preferred
reading to dancing.
when I see my motner ao
vancinC on me, dragging an un-
willing man after her. and with the
light of a deathless optimism that
maybe he will take fancy to me-
in her eyes. 1 could die of shame.
"I often wonder that the mothers
of us unattractive girls never sense
how Inundated we are when we see
them trying to hire men to paysus
attention by feeding them. or tax
ing them to the theater. or riding
them around in motors. and that
they do not realize that we feel ike
slaves on the block when they hawk
Ms around the marriage market
places.
Perhaps II they did. they would
not show US how anxious they are
to marry us off, and would let us
tourney to the Spinsters' Retreat
without being made to feel that
we have been disgrace to the
family because men didn't admire
u.s."
The Washington herald., 1921-09-30
ID. C. BUYERS in New York.

Woodward and Lothrop-R. KEEL
ler, musical Instruments: Mrs. n. C.
La Wake. gowns. dresses: R. D. Men
zie, merchandise manager, ready-to-
wear: 334 Fourth avenue. Jellef.
Frank R-Mrs. Goodman, suits; 10
East Thirty-second street. Saks e.
Co.'S. L. Phillips. mems furnishing
goods, hats; 220 Fifth avenue. Hecat
Co.-H. E. Ullman. mems furnishing
goods: lis West Thirtieth. Golden
berg, NH. ]. Sanger. blankets.
rugs; EOS Fifth avenue. Kings Pal
acc. w Thompson, piece goods:
Miss NJ. Kinder, women's, infants
wear; Cumberland. kann. S. Sons
Co.-F. X. Murphy. mill merry; I32
Fourth avenue, Pennsylvania
The Washington herald., 1921-09-30
TRAFFIC OFFICER
FINED FOR THEFT

DANvILLE. Va. Sept. 2s.-J. w.
Reagan. q county constable recentiy
appointed to curb speeding on the
country roads, has been fined $50 for
stealing an automobile tire from b.
F. Gravely.
The offense was committed three
months ago. but 1t was only recently
that detectives obtained Information
incriminating the ofiicer. Reagan
went to the home OF the mayor with
Coleman witcher, and there they
made a. full confession. similar
fine being imposed on Witcher for
the theft Of a motor meter from
Gravely's machine.
The Washington herald., 1921-09-30

Mrs. Frank s. Hight and their
children have returned to the Cap
ital after summering at Canaan.
N. H. With Mr.. Hight they are at
their new home. 1914 Twenty frs,
street.
The Washington herald., 1921-09-30
Cousin Visits
Mrs. Harding
Charles p king, of Bos-
ton, Is Visitor at the
White House.
BY EVELYN C. HUNT.

The President and Mrs. Harding
had as a visitor at the White House
yesterday Charles Potter King OF
Boston, Mrs. Hardings cousin, VINO
is spending a few days In the Cap
ital.
The Washington herald., 1921-09-30
REPRESENTATIVE DEAL
RETURNS FROM VIRGINIA.

REPRESENTATIVE Joseph T. Deal will
return from Virginia about Octo-
ber s.
Mrs. Stephen b. Elkins has re-
turned from White Sulphur Springs,
W. Va, where she spent most OF
the summer.
Representative James P. Woods.
who came up from his home Tor
a few days, has returned to Roa-
noke.
Mrs. Bland, wife OF Representa-
tive Oscar E. Bland. has gone to
Indiana to remain for about two
week, as her daughter. Miss Helen
Bland, is entering the University OF
Indiana this autumn.
Representative Henry D. Flood
will return to the Capital next week
from his home in Appomattox. Va.
REPRESENTATIVE BLAND
RETURNS NEXT WEEK.
Representative Schuyler Otis
Bland, of Virginia, will come to
Washington next Tuesday from
Newport News.
Senator and Mrs. Robert Nelson
Stanfield, who recently arrived in
the city from Portland, Greg, are
residing at 2l00 Sixteenth street.
Their daughter. Miss Barbara STAN
field, has entered Miss Madeira's
School.
DR.. Burton J. Lee, Of New York, 10
in Washington for a time and is
STAYING at the New Willard Hotel.
The Washington herald., 1921-09-30
BISHOP HARDING RETURNS
FROM sAUNDERsTOw r.. 4.

The Rt Rev. Alfred Harding.
Bishop OF Washington, has returned
from Saunderstown. r. l.. where he
spent the summer with members OF
his family, motoring from Rhode
Island, accompanied by his son and