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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1922-11-15
PENNSY PLANS
TO CONSTRUCT
BIG TERMINAL
One Of the Most Costly I'm
proyements to Be Made in
the Near Future

Norfolk, Va, Nov. Announce
ment was officially made here this
week that the Pennsylvania railroad
is preparing to build extension ter
minals, ut 4 cost OF $3,OOO,OOO. at
Little Greek Princess Anne county
VIII Construct Harbor
According to statements made here
by Elisha Lee, one Of the roads vice
presidents, it will construct an arti-
fetal harbnr and channel to Chesa-
peakc Bay to handle freigh, ear fer
ries from Cape Charles
a modern freight station and
terminal will be built on ST. Julian
avenue near Calvary cemetery, Nor
folk.
Present terminals at Port Norfolk
and the present freight station at
Brooke avenue will he abandoned.
As soon as negotiations with other
carriers are completed, the Pennsyl-
vanin will begin actual physical work
on the terminals at Little Creek.
This will shorten the ferry haul to
Cape Charles by one-third and may
ultimately mean the provision of ia
cilities for moving passenger equip
ment across the bay to and from
Norfolk.
In carrying out It's plans, the Penn
syvania will use the l,000-acre tract
of land it now owns at Little Creek.
Big Outlays Planned
Public and private expenditures
for harbor and terminal improve
ments now projected or under way
at Hampton Roads reach the huge
total OF Sl4,lOO,0o0.
In brief. the expenditures an
nounced are:
Pennsylvania railroad, Little
Creek terminal, 100000.
Virginian railway, coal pier, 49,
100000.
Chesapeake and Ohio railway, new
coal pier at Newport News, and other
improvements there and at Norfolk,
S3.000,O 900.
Norfolk and Western railway, in.-
provements at coal piers and Altar.
tic City extension, $l.5OO,Ooo.
Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line,
new transfer bridge at Sewalls
Point. 100000.
City OF Norfolk. new municipal
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1922-11-15
BRICK PLANT FOR
bic STONE is NOW
| AN ASSURED FACT
Local Committee is Being
Swamped With Enquiries
From Brick Makers All
Over the United States

That Big Stone Gap will have 4
sbrick plant is now an assured fact.
II outside capital does not come in Il
nlan has been worked out whereby
local capital can handle the PROPOSE
lion satisfactorily. The article APP
nearing in The Post on October 1
ontlinng the possibilities for brick
plant has resulted in the local com
mittee being swnmped with en-
auirics, samples and propositions.
As yet none of the propositions have
been accepted and numerous leads
are being followed up by W. W. Tay-
lor and Dan Bostic. a thousand
mounds of shale has been shipped to
Pennsylvania to be made up into
samples for prospects. The South
en- Railroad handed the committee
list OF 1902 firms interested in the
manufacture of brick, These CON
Germs have been furnished with the
details Of local possibilities, and it is
confidently expected that the near
future will see some interesting de-
yelopments.
WV. Taylor and Dan Bostic made
special trip to Bristol and Kings
port to visit the brick making plants
IN those cities. That the Gap has
possibilities far superior to either
Bristol or Kingsport neither Taylor
nor Bostic doubt The plants men
toned above and the Richlands plant
are sold solidly for six months in
advance. Today it costs the Big
stone Gap home builder $lS.s5 per
thousand to yet brick delivered here
from kingsport. The men who are
rromo,ing the local plant declare
that brick can be made and sold at a
profit in the Gap at approximately
Sll.00 per thousand.
Last week the committee was Wis.
tied hy an Ohio promoter who was
anxious to locate in the Gap. lie
offered to sell the stock, invest in the
plant and manage it. But the year
ly stipend required to hold the gen
tlemen threatened to give the cont
mitiee heart disease and his offer was
declined. He gave the committee
much valuable information and ex-
pressed a willingness to return ut a
l"tcr date and help put the PROPOSE
tion through
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1922-11-15
TWELVE MOTION
PICTURE REELS
Are Being Distributed by
Virginia Tuberculosis AS
ISOLATION

Twelve motion picture reels, en-
titled "Matty Wins His Greatest
Came" are being distributed by the
Virginia tuberculosis Association,
through the courtesy of the motion
picture houses of Virginia.
The picture is in the form OF a
trailer and shows Christy Mathewson
in his hayday at the Polo Grounds
in New York. later in his overseas
uniform. and then takes him to the
period when he was battling for his
life against tuberculosis. The last
scene shown big Six" victorious,
pitching the first ball at the local
game in Sqranac Lake. At the end
OF the trailer "Matty" appeals to the
American public to support the
Christmas Seal Sale by means of
which the tuberculosis associations
are combating the great white
plague.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1922-11-15
TWO YOUTHS
CAPTURED AT STILL
IN DICKINSON

freezing, Va. Nov. lO.--Speeial
Justice James S. Mullins and Sump-
ter colley captured still on Howell
Branch and arrested two youths who
were in charge of the premises, dur
ing the week.
Mullins has made himself ter
ror to John Barleycorn. as we'll as to
evil doors, generally, since his APP
pointment last March.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1922-11-15
WILL TAKE SIX
WEEKS TO LAY
ASPHALT, THEY SAY

1t will require six weeks to lay the
asphalt from the L. & n. to Southern
depot, according to the contractors.
The work will be started within ten
days.
Improvement of East 9TH street
will not be considered until asphalt
has been laid. 1t is not known now
If sufficient funds will be in the
treasury to do the extra work.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1922-11-15
HE'S READY TO DIE
EITHER PEACEFULLY
OR VIOLENTLY NOW
Aged Democrat who Ex-
pected to Die Under Dark
ness of Republican Rule"
Explains Phenomenon of
Recent Democratic Victory

A>SeSiit CCiiiOCTdtiC Victory
With the election OF George Perry
all the figures of election day are
shot to pieces, and everybody is won
dcring how it happened. No one can
explain. not even the deepest dyed
Democrat or the most staunch old
line Republican. In the excitement
following the first returns only one
tangible thing could be accounted
for. That was the JOY of the DEM
oerats who had waited for twenty
Years to give the whoop of victory.
Everything else was surprise that
left Democrats believing it was too
good to be true and Republicans
telling themselves il was not posi-.
Bile. But it was, and when the Coe-
burn Republican majority of other
days turned over on its back and
died a natural death with Demo-
cratic majority rearing itself on the
oelated corpse, the handwriting was
located on the wall Then came the
Appalachia returns, another Repub-
lican stronghold registering 1873 ma
~ ny '"' 'eery ~ TOOK more than
o''Y Nnl" "p.lhlsm ana ia'th to
any '"ins 'e't III wise county Tor
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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1922-11-15

He: MAY l call?"
She; I'm sorry. I'm married"
He; That's all right. I'm mar
RED and just as sorry Charlotte
Observer.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1922-11-15

Don't worry over the stinginess OF
yonr neighbor. Ten years hence he
may have a plenty while You are
hunting square meal.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1922-11-15

For still another reason winter will
be welcome. We are not so apt to
become overheated during our argu-
ments.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-26
GEORGE PROPOSES
8 MONTHS DISCOUNT
ON FARMERS LOANS
Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
40S Evans Building.
BY THEODORE TuLER

WASHINGTON, Dec. Ex-senator
Walter F. George, of Georgia, in 10.
duced his first senate bill late Thurs
day afternoon and proposed more lib
eral discount privileges for agricul-
tural paper. 1t was enormously pab.
lished in an Atlanta newspaper Tues
day morning that Senator Georges
bill was introduced Monday but the
junior Georgia senator GId rot com
plete and offer his bill until Thurs.
day afternoon. The bill also carries
provision for discount of nine-months
paper, instead of twelve months pa-
per, as enormously published in the
premature story.
The George bill, which removes
the limitation that federal reserve
banks may not handle agricultural
paper of more than SIX months ma
turity, proposes as amendment to
the federal reserve law as follows:
provided, that notes, drafts and
bills drawn or issued iUr agricIl,
tural purposes, or based on live
stock, and having a maturity not ex
ceedng nine months, eXci lsiVe of
days of grace, may be discounted i'll
an amount to be limited to a per
centage of the assets Of the FEEDER al
reserve bank, to be assessed ana
fixed by the federal reserve board"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-26
HISTORIC PROPERTY
-
IN SOUTH LISTED !
FOR SALE BY j. s.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25,-Bits Of
land which have, or If developed,
might have, figured largely in the
history of the south are included in
the war departments '1and junk"1
sale.
The bill authorizing the sale.
which was today before the senate
military committee, shows that the
federal government plans to dispose
of real estate which was acquired
as early as 1899 for fertilization
purposes, but which modern war
fare has relegated to the class o.
Surplus and unnecessary govern
ment property"
Communications received by a
number of senators from southern
states indicate that some of the
property will be purchased by his.
torical societies.
Examination of the history of the
tracts to be offered for sale revealed
today that the deeds to two tracts.
old Fort Jackson, at Savannah Ca,
and Perry Point. in Norfolk county.
Virginia, were made out and stand
today, to Thomas Jefferson, presi.
dent of the United States, and his
successors in office"
Another tract. Fort Nelson, also
in Norfolk county, Virginia, ana
bought as a site for fort1f1catlons
for Norfolk, is covered by deed,
made out to John Quincy Adams
and his successors in the office OF
president. ~.
Projects in southern states thar
would be sold include: -
Virginia-Terry Point, Fort Nell
son, the pumping station reservation
at Fort Monroe, Fort Powhatan,
Fort Humphreys and Willoughby
Spit reservation. =
North Carolina-Beacon Island and
Fort Macon.
South Carolina-Forts Fremont
and Winyaw.
Georgia-Americus Air Intermedi-
ate Depot and Souther Field; Fort
Jackson formerly Fort Oglethorpe)
and Point Peter.
Florida-Chapman Field, Fort
| Clinch and St Johns bluff.
Louisiana-Forts Livingston ana
st. Phillip.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-26
Northcliffe's Will
Reveals Big Profit
Made, on Times
RY HAL O'FLAHERTY

LONDON, Dec. "5.-Lord North
clffe's will reveals that his inter
est in the London Times amounted to
a total of 100000 pounds. He COM
pleted his absolute control of the
Times a few months before his death
by paying 100000 pounds cash for
the interests of the Walter family
After his death Lord Northcliffe s
executors sold his share for 1900
900 pounds, thus clearing 75O,OOO
pounds on the original investment.
The greater portion of the pur'
chase price was paid by Major j.
J. Aston and the remainder by the
traditional owners of the paer, the
Walter family. Although it was long
supposed that Lord Northcliffe. was
losing heavily on the Times invest
ment, his will proves that he never
lost emmy and furthermore that his
business acumen, which was reported
to be failing, held good till the last.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-26
DEMANDS INCREASE
FOR LICENSES FOR
j. S. WAREHOUSES;

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.-De-
mands for the licensing of cotton
warehouses under the United States
warehouse act are being made al
most faster than they can be an
swefed by the department of agri-
culture, and OPENING of an office in
Memphis probably after July 1, next,
is contemplated. At present there
are 400 cotton warehouses licensed
with capacity to accommodate q
900, 900 bales.
There has been a large increase
during the last year, due to some
extent, to the influence of the CO.
operative associations.
Between May l this year and No
vember 20 there were 1872 ware
houses licensed.
During the first few years of the
warehouse act the warehouses were
owned by small operators, but noH
there are licensed a great many
ranging from 1000 bales capacity up
to 165, 900 bales.
The department of agricultul e
plans to increase it's forces in it's At
lanta office, which serves Georgia
Florida Alabama. Mississippi and
Tennessee and in it's Raleigh Office
which serves Virginia and North and
Southe Carolina.
At present in, addition to the 400
cotton warehouses, there are licensed
city of 100000 bushels u grain,
% wool warehouses with a capacity
of 25,000,000 pounds of wool, and So
tobacco warehouses, with a cal acity
of 225 100000 pounds of tobacco.
The department feels confident
there will be just as much OF dn in
crease in the licensing of cotton
warehouses or in the demand TO be
licensed during the next year as
there has been during the last year.
The policy of a number of cotton
associations to put all OF their cot
ton in licensed warehouses, the de
partment believes, has expedited con-
Siderably the work of the war finance
corporation as far as making loans
to these associations have been con-
cerned.
This year the war finance corpora,
ton has had applications from prac-
tically every one of the cotton grow
ers' associations.
AS part of the agreements the
stipulation was made thai as col
lateral for loans the corporation
would accept, without further ques-
ton, federal warehouse receipts, but
that, if receipts issued by any ware
housemen not operating under the
federal act We're presented. the cor
portation reserved the right to in
spect and pass upon them.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-26
ACCESSORY GOES
To DEATH; SLAYER
IS GIVEN REPR|EVE

COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec. 20.-
Frank NJ Jeffords was electrocuted
at the South Carolina state prison
here on Friday for the murder
last May of ]. c. Annette, his bust
ness partner. The current was ap-
piled only once, being turned on at
1920 o'clock. He was pronounced
dead at 1924.
whlei Jeffords paid the death pen
atty for participation in the killing
of his business partner, Ira Harrl-
son, confessed slayer of Annette, to-
day lay in the prison hospital here
reprieved by Governor Harvey and
his sentence stayed by the courts.
The governor late yesterday, on the
eve of the date originally set for the
death of both Harrison and Jeffords,
granted Harrison a reprleVe until
February Is in order that the SUI
preme court might have time to pass
on questions brought before it by
Harrison attorneys and still not
have to send him back to the circuit
court here for resentencing.
Harrison has proved one of the
most interesting prisoners in many
wears in South Carolina. When the
supreme court affirmed his convic-
ton and sentence by the Rlchland
circuit court, he lapsed into an APP
parent state of semi-consclousness
Then his attorneys appealed again
on questions of law, and he fecoV'
cred. When this appeal was dis
missed and he was told he would
be taken into court to be resen-
fenced, Harrison lapsed into a state
of apparent stupor. In this condl-
ton he was taken into the Richland
circuit court on a stretcher and,
after three doctors had testified
that they believed he was sham
ming, Judge Mauldin sentenced him
to die in the electric chair on De
cember % He has been in the same
condition in the prison hospital eve,
since.
Harrison's attorneys claim he Is
insane, and that he should be COM
mitted to a hospital instead of be-
ing electrocuted.
Glenn Treece, alleged lookout for
Jeffords aC Harrison, the latter two
convicted of the actual Staying, is
serving a life sentence.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-26
Picture Bandits
Turn Real and Rob
California B ank

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 25.-Accused
of turning from make-believe bandit
ry of the movies to the real bandit
life, two motion picture actors and
three other men held here today.
They are accused of having staged
the recent sensational robbery of the
Fillmore State bank at Piru, Cal.
The robbery was characterized by
all the dramatics of the movies.
The men arrested are:
"Jinx" Harris, who played COW
puncher and bandit parts in western
pictures; F. Fl. Gillett, who special
lied in policemen's and daredevil
chauffeur parts; Henry Toggins, a
motorman; G. II. Pruitt, and Virgil
Moore, the latter an aviator.
After $4,000 loot had been obtain
ed. the five bandits kidnapped Presi-
dent C. E. Spencer, of the bank, and
his 6-year-old daughter, and took
them to Los Angeles, where they
were set free with a warning to
keep quiet"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-26
BURGESS
BEDTIME
STORIES
How Bobby Coon Saved Unc' Billy
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS
The hunter knows no pity;

The hunter knows no pity;
No mercy fills his heart.
What cares he for the terror
That is his victims part?
BOBBY COON.
1t was Bobby Coon who had saved
Unc' Billy and made the hunters lose
a Postum dinner. Unc' Billy didn't
know it then. You see, it was Bobby
whose tracks the dog had found and
who had been driven up in that tree
and had made those hunters so ex
cited that they forgot all about Unc'
Billy, and so gave him a chance to
get away.
Bobby Coon knew nothing about
the troubles of Unc' Silly and he
wouldn't have given thought to
them if he had known about them.
He had troubles Of his own. Yes, in
deed, Bobby Coon had troubles OF
his own. 1t was the first time that
season that Bobby had been hunted
All the fall he had been stuffing him.
self so as to be as fat as possible all
winter. Now, fat people cannot run
fast or far. Bobby discovered that
very shortly after he learned that
that dog was after him. He ran as
fast and hard as he could, but he
didn't run very far. You see, ne
was 90 fat that he soon became short
of breath, and then there was moth
ing for him to do but to take a tree
At first Bobby felt quite safe ana
made himself comfortable high up
in the tree. But when he heard the
voices of those hunters he knew thas
he was in great danger. He knew
that dogs cannot climb trees, but he
knew that hunters can.
So you see that even had Body
known about Unc' Billy, he Wouldn
have given a thought to him. lie mao
the saving of his own life to think
about and no time to think Of others
He knew just what would happen
He knew that one of those hunters
would climb that tree to look Tor
him. and when he found him Wouio
shoot him. Fe must get out OF that
tree somehow before that hunter
could get near enough to see him.
But how was he to do it?
Bobby's eyes are made :or seeing
in the dark. Looking down, he could
see those hunters gathered at the
foot of the tree, and it was a dreao-
full sight. 1t was dreadful because
he knew they had no pity or mercy
in them. They seemed to be having
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-26
"Model Clerk" Held
In $4,000 Shortage
At Bank in Chicago

CHICAGO, Dec. 25.-How $72 900
was embezzled from the First Ma
tional bank still was much of
mystery today as Seth Anderson,
manager of the chickering's depart
ments and "model bank clerk" for
twenty years, remained in Jail
pending an effort of friends to
release him on $4,000 bonds.
Bank investigators admit that
Anderson had no bad habits, did not
speculate nor even own an automo-
bile. He and his wife, who have no
children, lived comfortably in an I'M
pretentious home and how the
money trickled out during the last
ten years has not been explained,
although bank examiners assert the
money disappeared through handling
of books in Anderson's department.
Anderson started with the bank
as an office boV when Is wears old.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-26
Mr.. Samuel H. Rumph,
Originator Of Georgia
Peach Industry, Dead

MARSHALLVILLE Ga, Dec. 25.
Mr.. Samuel II. Rumph, 20, known In
this section as the father and origi
Enator of the peach industry, died at
his home here Friday.
Mr.. Rumph suffered a stroke
early yesterday, and members of his
family were summoned to his bed,
side. He was the propagation of the
famous liberia and Georgia Belle
peaches. The liberia was named
after his first wife. Mr.. Rumph was
the first man to ship crate of
: peaches out of Georgia.
Practically all of Mr.. Rumph's life
was devoted to agriculture. When
he first grew peaches for CONNER
cial purposes and announced that he
intended to ship peaches out of the
state, ne received little encourage
ment, and many who heard of his
project regarded it with skepticism.
From the shipping of the first
crate of peaches by Mr.. Rumph the
fruit industry began to grow and
today in middle Georgia is second
to cotton in Importance.
Funeral services were held Sat
urday morning at 1890 at Marshall
VILE
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-26
Argentine Mammoth
Facing Capture by
Scientist of u. S.
BY CONDO

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 25.-(By
the Associated Press.)-Before Prof.
Elmer S. Riggs, a Chicago paleon-
tologist sailed for Patagonia today
on a fossil hunting expedition for
the field museum, he was informed
by Prof. Clement Oneilli, director
of the Buenos Aires Geological Gar
den, that reports of a plesiosaurus
were still being received from the
territory of Chubut, despite the
failure of a group of Argentine sci
entists to find the prehistoric crea-
ture last spring.
eff L meet that plesiosaurus, :"
said Prof. Riggs, to Prof. Oneilli,
I'll put a lariat around his neck
and lead him direct to the Buenos
Aires ZOO
The Chicagoan visited the Argen-
tine paleontologist and heard from
him the story of Patagonia's mon
ster. Prof Riggs said that the
data was very interesting, but that
it could not tempt him from his
fossil hunt. The plans for his eX-
petition, he asserted, were still too
indefinite to allow him to state
whether he would visit the reputed
haunts of plesioosaurus.
Prof. Oneilli explained that the
name pleiosaurus was a misnomer
and that the creature he still be-
lieved alive in the Patagonian wilds
is probably a survivor of the race
of giant sloths.
Prof. Riggs and his companions
will sail to Rio Gallegos, from which
place they will proceed nothward
on horseback to search along the
coast of the territory of Santa Cruz
for fossils of the Miocene period.
Prof. Riggs said he expected to find
the small fossilized ancestors Of the
glyptodon, which reached a gigan-
tic size in the Pleistocene period.
The expedition probably will re-
main in that region during the en-
tire southern summer, and will then
proceed northward and into the in
terror in a search for pleistocene
specimens. The scientists plan to
remain in Argentina q year and a
half.
Prof Riggs expressed regret that
he had not had opportunity to view
the remains of the dinosaur with
9-foot thigh bones. which explorers
| of the La Plata museum are re-
Gently reported to have unearthed.