McDowell Times

EDUCATORS BIG MEETING Important Matters Relating to Schools and Colleges Discussed MOST DISTINGUISHED MEN OF THE RACE TO BE PRESENT Special Program For Land Grant College in Charge of Pres- ident Prillerman of the W. Va. Institute. Cincinnati, O., July 26. - Colored educators from all over the United States will assemble in Cincinnati to attend the twelfth annual session of the National Association of Teachers in colored schools, which will be held July 28 to August 1. The day meetings will be held at Doug lap School, Walnut Hills, which is considered one of the best schools for colored people in the country and is completely equipped with classrooms, kindergarten rooms, auditorium, manual training domestic science rooms, laundry, mode flas, sewing room, library, gymnasium, lunchroom, indoor playroom, outdoor room, neighborhood clubroom, boys' and girls' shower baths, teachers' restroom and nurses and doctors' office. Francis M. Russell is principal of the school. The evening sessions will be held in the Emery Auditorium. Special types of sightseeing have been planned for the delegates, which will include a boat ride on the river and tours to points of interest around Cincinnati. Saturday morning, July 31, a trip will be made to Wilberforce University, the delegates spending the day there as guests of W. S. Scarborough, President of the university. Sunday, August 1, will be educational day throughout the city and one or two of the leading wholesome from the session will be furnished for each pulpit in the city in the morning. In the afternoon the final meeting will be held in Emery Auditorium, where addresses will be made by President H. T. Keating, Western University, Quindaro, Kan., and United States Commissioner of Education Hom. P. P. Claxton, Washington, D. C. The college of College Presidents and School Principals will be presided over by John Hope, President of Morshouse College, and will discuss "College Athletics," "Standardizing Negro Colleges," "Duplicating Negro Colleges" and "Teacher Training Courses." Principal I. M. Terrell, Ft. Worth, Tex., will preside over the elementary and rural education section. They will discuss "Time Allotted for Arithmetic," "Science in the Grades," "Library Methods" and "Agriculture in the Primary Schools." "How to Get a High School," will be one of the topics for the secondary educational section presided over by G. M. Sampon, Xenia, O. This section will also take up "The Six and Six High School Plan," "Private High School," Science in the High School" and "Keeping a Negro Boy in the High School." A special program is being arranged for Presidents of the land grant colleges. President Byrd Prillerman of Institute, W. Va., is in charge of this section. Delegates will be brought here in special care. Arrangements have been made for the different groups to meet at a central point and entrain there. The case of the State of West Virginia against Doolittle, Hyman, Thompson and Holliday, the quartet who pulled off the biggest steal ever aired in the courts of West Virginia, a steal so gigantic in its proportion that it made "get-rich-quick" Wallingford look like an ordinary "dip." was nolled in the criminal court of this county Tuesday. About two years ago this bunch of "land sharks" framed up a conspiracy to take them over the short road to health and faced A. L. Calhoun of this city out of the sum $40,000 for land which the quartette did not own. Both criminal and civil action was started against the men and one judgement for $10,000 was obtained by the Graham National Bank against Thompson and Holliday in Winchester, Ky., and in the McDowell county criminal court at the Jannah y term they were tried for conspiracy defraud. The jury disagreed, standing for conviction and two for acquittal. The case was then continued until the April term when efforts were made to compromise the case. The alleged grievant thieves saw the gates of Moundville opening up to receive them, with Parker, and Wm. Sales, calored guards from McDowell awaiting them with beautiful striped suits, so they got busy and begged for the permission to "cough up." The case was again continued until the present term and in the mean time the quartette paid back $18,000, settled the judgments and paid the costs. The final disposition of the case was not only an example of fearlessness with which big thieves with wealth and influence behind them are prosecuted in McDowell county, but it is a great victory for justice. Calhoun was represented by Judge Harold A Ritz and the firm of Strother, Anderson & Hughes. PRISONERS ARE WELL SATISFIED Do Not Want Freedom; Conditions Are Generally Good The prisoners in the road camps of McDowell county must surely be treated fine and their contentment is something to be marveled at if there are very many like the one approached a few days ago by the "National Jail Robber." A relative of one of the prisoners sent Atty. Jas. Knox Smith to one of the camps a few days ago to get certain facts needed to secure this prisoner's release. The "Jail Robber" assured the prisoner that for five or ten dollars he could get him out, and it is generally understood that when "J. K." says he can do a certain thing that he "delivers the goods," but this county road builder assured Mr. Smith that he was perfectly satisfied, that he had a regular job, got three good meals a day, clean clothes, clean bed and had nothing to worry about; that during these democratic hard times while at liberty he was never certain about his meal ticket, that the coal field unemployed free lodging homes, the coke ovens were being torn down, or since Wilson became president had grown so full of grass and weeds that one was liable to be sharing his bed with rattle anakes, and taking all of these things into consideration he decided to let well enough alone and remain contented where he was. This, of course, is not the sentiment of all prisoners upon the roads, but it is expert testimony as to the efforts of Col W. J. McClaren and the officials in charge of the camps to provide humanely for the fortunes of society. Col. McClaren, the county road engineer, goes from one camp to the other almost daily and sees that conditions are at their best. There have been cases of brutality on the part of some of the guards toward prisoners, but when these few and rare cases were brought to the attention of Mr. McClaren the guard was fired without ceremony. The men are well fed and clothed, not driven or beat and treated generally like human beings and not brutes. REAL ESTATE MAN VISITS IN KEYSTONE Hon. H. B. Hundley, ex-state Grand Master of Masons and one of the leading colored real estate dealers in the state, was in Keystone Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Hundley is sales agent for the White Oak Improvement Company and makes his home at McDonald, W. Va., where he is a leader in political and labor circles. His company owns some of the most desirable building sites in East Beckley, and they are selling homes to colored people upon very reasonable terms, in fact, they sell the lot and assist in erecting homes. In about a year six homes have been erected by purchasers of these desirable lots. Mr. Hundley predicts great things for Beckley in the near future, being situated as it is in the heart of the New River-Winding Gulf coal fields and is the county seat of Raleigh, the coming coal producing county of the state. Mr. Hundley says that Negroes will have greater opportunity for growth, development and expansion in Raleigh county than they ever had in Fayette or McDowell because there is more and better sites for homes for sale in desirable localities and that these home sites can be purchased for smaller monthly payments than the average rental. His advice is that Negroes buy homes in Raleigh county and East Beckley in particular. First Degree Murder. Charlie Forest who stabbed to death Will Holden in Keystone some time ago, was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to hang September 10th dead by the neck. It is generally admitted that this was the most cold blooded murder that has ever come before the Judge of this criminal court. KEYSTONE, WEST VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1915 Clean Sweep SALE Of the entire stock of Men's Ladies' and Children's low quarters Including the newest styles and shapes of every description will be offered at less than half price, beginning SATURDAY, JULY 17, at Catzen Bros. Shoe Store and lasting for TEN DAYS ONLY. Not a pair of any kind or description in the entire stock will be reserved. Great money saving to you. Come in and look them over before assortment is broken Catzen Bros. Shoe Store On the Corner in the Town of Clark. P. O., Northfork, West Virginia The original and only Billy Kersade, the colored minstrel, died at Artemia, New Mexico, June 30, of heart failure. He was 73 years old, but still in the game. He was giving two performances in Artemia with the Nigro and Stevenson Shows when his demise came almost immediately after the second show. Billy Kensands had been on the American stage for nearly fifty years. He was born at Baton Rouge, La., but when very young he went to New York and engaged in the boot black trade. His first venture in the show business was in the year of 1870, when he started with Calender's Georgia Minstrels as inside end man and baggage boy. He worked his way up and was soon one of the stars of the company. He traveled with this company for many years, and when Jack Haverley took the company over he traveled with them to Europe. This was the company managed by the late Chas Frohman. The company played to all the crowned heads of the old country, and Billy was presented with a diamond stud by Queen Victoria. At this time Billy was making $250 a week, and it was the beginning of his ultimate success. He then organized a company of his own with Charles Hicks as partner. This run along for several years, when the company was disbanded. Kensands then joined the Richard and Pringle Minstrels, under the management of Rusco & Holland. After a few years with Richard & Pringle Billy again put out another company, and again toured the Orient. On their return to the Occident, Mr. and Mrs. Kensands joined with the Nigro & Stevenson Shows, where they had their own show. ANDERSON GETS JOB Well Known Chicago Bar Member Appointed Corporation Counsel. Chicago, July 20.—Louis B. Anderson, a well known member of the Chicago bar, has been appointed assistant corp- ration counsel by Corporation counsel Fulson. He was, backed by Mayor Thompson, Congressman Modden and State Senator Harding. Chicago has two colored men—S. B. Turner and Major R. R. Jackson—in the state legisture. Another colored man, Oscar DePriest, is a member of the Board of Aldermen. Numerous positions are held here under the city and federal governments. A colored man is lieutenant of police and several are sergeants. The world-wide spirit of restlessness now prevailing in which even racial and national pride are surrendering unconditionally to the tendency of "every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost," with one boldly outstanding exception---the German Empire---is like the ghost of the French Revolution returned to take up "unfinished business." The great oil strike at Bayonne, in the state from which the last Democratic president was elected, might well in pugilistic phrasology be termed, "a smashing uppercent" to the jaw of the whole system of the President's philosophy of government. The root and bloodshed in the "mimosquito state" are a sardonic denial that the measures of widely heralded reform which the one time president of Princeton University put into operation when he became governor of New Jersey, are any more efficacious in the solution of industrial and political problems than quack soothing syrup is in enabling the infantile world to eat its teeth painlessly and laughingly. There was a joint board meeting of the Flat Top Baptist Association, the Women's District Convention and the S. S. Union in Bluefield Tuesday of this week in the Mt. Zion Baptist church for the purpose of jointly adjusting matters retaining to the church for the past celestial year and for the further purpose of laying plans for a more vigorous and aggressive campaign for the future among the various departments of the work and Hill Top Seminary and College. J. Wesley Grey, popular member of the Times composing room force, leaves Monday to attend the Grand Lodge K. of P. at Parkersburg. Not long ago it was announced that the President had appointed a full-blooded Cherokee Indian to West Point. Sylvester Long-Lance, besides having a record in athletics, has already attained a high mark in a long course of schalcatic training and now goes forth to do further honor to his race and the country. The Washington Post in an editorial of June 16th, 1915, says in part: "With but one similar appointment before the one now made, Long-Lance has a worthy example to follow. Nearly 100 years ago was born the first of the original Americans to be graduated from the nation's military college, and he, a Greek, fell fighting the fight of the whites in the Seminole war. "Of all the Indian tribes, the Greeks and the Cherokees perhaps come nearer answering to the demands of civilized ideals than do any of the many tribes found in this country at the time of its discovery by the whites. The brave stand of the Seminoles against the invader will leave to that tribe the gloomy honor of a losing struggle, with but a bare handful left in the depths of the Everglades representatives of a noble and once warlike people. The Greeks and the Cherokees yielded to the inevitable, and, more than the others, adapted themselves to the new order. As a consequence the tribes today share in the benefits of modern progress, to which not a few of their number have made notable contributions." The Indian is to be congratulated upon this appointment and the Negro extends his compliments for he feels that West Point is for Americans and certainly the Indian is the most AMERICAN American of us all. West Point was established to educate men for military service. The appointments are made in such a manner that states are represented, the system being founded on republican principles. The men sent to West Point should represent all Americans of whatever race, color or creed. It does this with one exception. The dunkey face of the Negro is not seen nor wanted there. This is in keeping with the present policy of the white man toward the Negro. We wish to know if the Negro has not adapted himself to the "new order" and also made notable "contributions." He has yielded to the "inevitable"—yes far too much. Is he sharing in the benefits of this modern progress? As to his conditions we need but look to the records of American wars. How does the Indian compare with the Negro as a soldier in the U. S. Army? There are now four regiments of Negro troops in the army and only three commission- The Negro wants full recognition as an American citizen in every line of endeavor and especially in the army where he has made so notable a record. Rev. V. S. Smith Pays Last Respects to Rev. T. J. Brandon IN THE CROZER TEMPLE SUNDAY, JULY 25, 1915 Large Crowd Hear Him; Good Hope Lodge, No. 9, Knights of Pythias, Turn Out in Large Number. By the request of Rev. Brandon, D. D., ore he died, Rev. V. S. Smith, D. D., his friend and pioneer in the work of saving souls throughout the Flat Top coal fields, preached his funeral before and to the Crozer Temple congregation and members last Sunday. Before 11 o'clock a. m., the people having learned that Rev. Smith was to preach the funeral, every seat in the spacious Temple was taken. People had gathered from all over the coal fields, both in Mercar and McDowell. The church was draped in mourning appropriate to the occasion. Promptly at 11 o'clock Good Hope Lodge, No. 9 with its seventy-five members, of which Rev. Brandon was a charter member, filed in the church and under the direction of Mr. Floyd Rose, O. O., acting master of ceremonies, appropriate ritualistic services were conducted with telling effect. Mr. Rose played his part well and very timely introduced Rev. Smith who was the orator of the occasion. Mr. A. Gardner, deacon of the church, made a few remarks on the life of Rev. Brandon as an organizer and was very practical and pointed in recounting the sacrifices through which he went in his effort at church building. REV. SMITH TAKES CHARGE. The meeting was then turned over to Rev. Smith, who called on Prof. Fraser Price to read scripture lesson. He read the 23rd Psalm. Prayer was offered by O. H. Calloway. Rev. Smith began by citing the long outstanding acquaintance with Rev. Brandon as a friend and coworker. His introductory remarks were timely and appropriate. Recalled some sad experiences that attended his life with Rev. Brandon in their efforts at organizing church work in the coal field. Conditions, he said, were at their worse when he and Rev. Brandon, like Jonathan and David, strove together to blaze away an opening for good. He took his text from Luke, 8th chapter and 25th verse, the words of which were: "What Manner of Man is This?" Dr. Smith stated that he made no apology for the kind of life a man lived when preaching a funeral; expressed alarm at finding young men in the pulpit who were unconverted. 1. Discussed Rev. Brandon's manners as a christian and stated that the great amount of christian good and material improvement accomplished at his hands were living testimonials of his being a christian worker for good. 2. His manner as a pastor was proven by his ability and knowledge to organise his people for and into christian service. Dr. Brandon was a man who became acquainted with his people in whatever community he lived and labored. Said that the deceased was a safe family counsellor; was the father of all the presceneer in the field; that while he was not a college graduate nor a literary theologian, yet his preaching was believed in by all who heard him, was a good, hard horse MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION WE MISS THAN SEEN TO BE WHITTICO & HILL PUBLISHED & PROPRIETORS. M. T. WHITTICO, Editor. T. EDWARD HILL, Business Mgr. Articles of more than ten lines will be charged 10 cents per line. Published every Friday in the interest of the Negro Race—His Civil and Postal Rights. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One year in advance..... $1.50 Six months in advance..... .75 Three months in advance..... .45 One month in advance..... .20 Single copy..... 05. ADVERTISING RATES FURNISHED UPON REQUEST Special rates to churches, schools and colleges. Subscribers changing their Post Office address must notify the publishers or else his subscription will be collected just the same as if he had not. Entered as Second Class Matter March 22, 1904, at the Post Office at Keystone, W. Va., under act of Congress, March 3, 1879. FRIDAY JULY 30, 1915 PAY THIS DEBT. The recent payment of $400 more on the debt of the Pythian Mutual Investment Association at Charleston by Grand Chancelor L. O. Wilson, but adds credit to the business ability of the Grand Chancellor, confidence of the members and stockholders in his fairness and executive management and specially proves that the Pythians of this State are determined to rid their handsome building in Charleston of debt. The rapid curtailment of this great and most profitable investment additionally attests the unanimity and mutual good will and hearty accord with which the members work and co-operate when it comes to making good and doing things worth while. At this session of the Grand Lodge which meets in Parkerburg, the delegates and members could do nothing more worthy than to raise on the floor at least $1000. It can be done and the hope is that every loyal true-blue Knight will lend and bend every effort in this direction. It is your building and you ought to help pay for it. There is no time for division, but sane, common sense accord and friendly co-operation is the paramount need and cry of the hour. No time for scrapping over offices when this debt needs to and must be paid for first of all. AGAIN Some months ago we called attention to the appointment of a prohibition officer who had been removed from the position of deputy sheriff because of irregularities in office and we said that his appointment gave officers and alleged officers the license to prey upon the public for the purpose of getting fees. The records of the criminal and justice courts will show that there are numerous "cases" worked up by prohibition officers without the least evidence to support them and the county is put to unnecessary expense. A few days ago the very prohibition officer referred to by us in the editorial referred to arrasted a business man of Welch and two of the most respected citizens of Premier who were violating no law, had their packages properly labeled and were neither selling, offering for sale or drinking whiskey. They were released after a hearing and it was shown that the officer had no right to arrest them and an official of Welch severely rebuked the officer of his officiousness. The same officer arrested two young men at Thorpe who had committed no offence and it was such a flagrant perversion of the duties of an officer that the men were released and the officer again rebelled. This officer and his kind should be removed from office. They do more to cause disrespect for law than all law violators. They go to any length to send a fee bill and make a "rece ```markdown ``` Formal Announcement Made to An Intelligencer Representative--Enters Race For the Republican Senatorial Nomination Is the Candidate of no Class, Faction or Interest and Will Make His Appeal to the People on His Record as a Public Servant. "I feel that, owing to the many inquiries of friends as to what course I will finally take, it is a courtesy to them and a duty to the people of the State to let them know my attitude at this time, even though it is a number of months before the nomination is to be made. "Providence permitting, I shall be a candidate and ask the people of our State to honor me by an expression of their confidence at the polls, regardless of who else may also become a candidate for the office of United States Senator. Allow me to emphatically say that I shall not be the candidate of any faction, class or interest. This is one reason that prompts me to give you now this expression as to my intentions, for I wish to be free from any false impression that might be ANOTHER PAYMENT Amounting to $400.00 Made on K. P. As- sociation SIX THOUSAND NINE HUN- DRED DOLLARS YET DUE L. O. Wilson Writes Strong Letter to the Stockholders of the Pythian Mutial Investment Association. To the Stockholders of the Pythian Mutual Investment Association, the Officers of the Grand Lodge and Grand Court, District Deputies, Grand Representatives, Officers and Members of the subordinate institutions, and to every member of every department of the Order of the Grand Jurisdiction of the State of West Virginia: Dear Brethren and Sisters: It is with genuine pleasure I inform you that another payment of Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00) has just been made on the indebtedness of the Pythian Mutual Investment Association. The application of this amount to the $7,300, the remainder due after the payment made a short time ago, leaves us owing at this time but $6,900 more, a sum we will now certainly be able to pay in full within a reasonable portion of time. The interest, too, is also reduced from $109.50, the amount paid last quarter, to $103.50 for the next three months. Besides this, in the few years I have been your Executive Officer, the Huntington building has been cleared of its large debt and you will doubtless recall that the deed for it was presented to the Association by me at our Grand Session and Stockholders' meeting at Bluefield. Also, in less than three short years. $5,.100 has been paid on the $12,000 note carried by the Citizens Bank of Weston on the Charleston building, reducing that amount to $6,900; and the original interest of $720 annually, reduced to $14 per year, making a saving of $800 per annum. Now, is this not a splendid showing, my Brothers and Sisters, for our corporation? And are you not satisfied with the re- given to many by delay. I shall ask and hope for the vote of Republicans of all walks of life and shall welcome and appreciate the support of all, and, if nominated and elected, shall consider the rights of the people and endeavor to give fair play and a square deal to all. "As to whether or not I have been sincere in my efforts to serve the people, to the best of my ability, I leave to their decision. My past record is an open book and I stand on my record as a public servant. The people for the first time in the history of our State have the naming of their candidates for United States Senator by a direct primay, and I welcome the opportunity of appealing to them for their decision." O markable reduction made on its entire indebtedness in the few years I have been your executive officer? I know you are. And yet, in the face of these remarkable accomplishments for this department, there are certain individuals and sinister forces that have been and are at present striving with all their might to deceive and mislead you, you in whose interest I am and have ever been struggling and laboring, into releiving me of this office simply to gratify their own selfish ambitions and personal enmities. Will you permit them to do it? I do not believe you will. Indeed, in view of the towering obstacles lining the pathway along which I have had to travel, I ask YOU, in ALL candor, Who Could Have Done More? Who Would have Done more? ah, Who Has ever done as MUCH, or who Will Do as Much or more? Yes, my Brothers and Sisters, I have tried faithfully and honestly to do my duty as God has given me light to see that duty; I have given you, too, at all times a fair, square deal; I have ever given also my strictest attention, my best thought and fullest strength to the whole work, as our great success in the last few years amply testifies; and, if you will give me at the Grand Session soon to be held, and in the future, your loyal and hearty support, as sure as there is a Heaven, I warrant you, this Charleston building will be cleared of debt as certainly as was the Huntington property not so very long ago. Will you do it? believe you will. Also, let every Lodge, Court delegate and member coming to the Session this summer, come prepared to subscribe for stock, and thus help make our Annual Stockholders' meeting the most successful in our history. Trusting that you will—that you will stand firmly by me in my efforts to pay our debts, build up every department of our Order and bring credit and honor to our race, and assuring you of my deep and abiding faith in the future of the Association I am. "GRAFTER" TAKEN TO INSANE ASYLUM Ramen Medosta, After Three Years at Weston, in Released and Returns Home. Ramon Modesta was discharged from Weston last week after having been there three years. On his way home to Martenique, French West Indies, he stopped off in Keystone and Northfork, where he met with several of his acquaintances. At Northfork he drew from the First National Bank something over $800 that he had placed there years ago. He was accompanied here by John Davis, an attendant at the State Hospital, at Weston. Mr. Davis took William Pitt, otherwise known as "Grafter," back to the institution. LIBERTY GIVEN TO 5 BRIBERS Gov. Hatfield Grants Conditional Pardons to Rhodes and Four Other Former Members of Legislature. Charleston, W. Na., July 29. Governor Hatfield granted conditional pardons late today to five former members of the West Virginia legislature who were convicted in August, 1913, of having accepted bribes to vote for William Seymour Edwards for United States senator. The men were sentenced to sentences ranging from five to six years. In a statement the governor said he thought the ends of justice had been met with the two years already served. Those liberated were Dr. A. B. Smith, of Koane; S. U, G. Rhode, of Mingo; Dr. H. F. Asbury, of Putnam; Rath Duff, of Jackson, and David Hill, of Mason. BUY NOW. Get in on the Ground Floor. Royal Investment Association OF MOUNT CALM, W. VA. Stock now on sale at $10 per share, payable in installments of $1.00 each. This is a fraternal, beneficial and general mercantile association; pays sick and death benefits and will deal in merchandise. Now is the chance of a life time to make a good investment. W. A. TURNER, President. Mount Calm, W. Va. WM. LUCK, State Agent. Bramwell, W. Va. 7 16 5 The annual meeting of the 5th District Sunday School Union will meet with Trinity Presbyterian Sunday School, Ridgeway, Va., beginning Thursday August 5th at 8 p. m. concluding Sunday August 8th. Ministers, parochial teachers, elders, Supt. and delegates are expected to attend. Please bring your Sunday school's assessment 2e per member. PETER ANGOL, Press. MES. S. J. H. DILLARD, Corv. Secy. Notice to Take Depositions To Sam Sheffield: Take notice that on the 14th day of August 1915, at the Office of J. K. Smith, in the town of Keystone, McDowell Co. West Virginia, between the hours of 8 o'clock, a. m. and 6 o'clock p. m., of that day I shall proceed to take the depositions of myself and others, to be read in evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in equity pennning in the Circuit Court of McDowell County and state of West Virginia, in which I am plaintiff and you are defendant; and if from any cause the taking of said depositions be not commenced on that date, or, if commenced, if they be not completed on that day, the taking of said depositions will be adjourned from day to day, at the same place and between the same hours until they are completed. J. K. Smith, p. q. Lula Sheffield by Counsel. Order of Publication State of West Virginia, County of Raleigh. At rules held in the clerk's office of circuit court of Raleigh county, on the first Monday in the month of July, 1915. Willie W. Allen, Complainant. The object of this suit is to obtain by the complainant from the defendant a divorce, a vinculo matrimonii. This day came the complainant, by counsel, and on motion and it appearing by affidavit that due diligence has been used on behalf of the complainant to ascertain in what county the defendant is without effect, it is ordered that she do appear here within one month after the first publication of this order and do what is required to protect her interest in this suit. This day came the complainant by counsel, and on his motion, and it appearing by affidavit filed that the defendant, Harriet E. Allen, is a non-resident of the state, it is ordered that she appear here one month after due publication of this order, and do what is necessary to protect her interests in this suit. Teste: ALBERT WILLIAMS, Clerk. WM. F. DENYN, SOL. When you read, read THE TIMES The McDowell Times This can be done in a few hours with little or no special effort. This is one of the best and easiest offers ever made by a newspaper. Goods well worth Six Dollars and are worth double the efforts of any one. This 22-piece linen set is popular because it consists of items that are serviceable in daily use in every household. It is a nice quality, popular pattern, and serviceable goods which judges of value will recognize at once as a decided bargain at the terms we are offering it. THE SET CONSISTS OF: All given away free to the woman, boy or anybody else who secures the small number of six paid up subscribers for one year to The McDowell Times. And many other prices equally as valuable in silver or china ware. Goods to be sent at The McDowell Times office. WEST VA SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIA'N Rev. E. C. Page, Field Worker Says People Are Rapidly Fall- ing in Line. and Rev. Page reports that since the people understand that the work is co-operative they are all falling in line. This work among our people is made possible by W. N. Harsthorn, of Boston, Mass., co-operating with the West Virginia Sunday School Association, having as its object the general uplift of the Negro race in this state. Rev. Page is trying to carry this purpose out by organizing teacher training and inspiring better preparation and better service. NOTICE: Women admire beauty and do men. Now listen! We have that preparation that hides the wrinkles, removes sunburns, eruptions of the skin, prisms, etc. Leaves the skin soft and white. Put a bottle and be convinced, its a wonder its a bleacher; we have it Send me 50c by P.O. order, or stamps and we will mail you one bottle of the famous preparation. Maqta it's Beauty Balm, a liquid powder provides BRIDGEFORD PHARMAOY, Keystone, W. Va. Notice of Disolution. CARN. Notice is hereby given that at a general meeting of the stockholders of the Big Mountain Coal Company, corporation, held at the offices of Samuel Solms, on the 20th day of July, 1915, a resolution was adopted by a majority in interest of the entire stock of said company as follows: "RESOLVED That this corporation, The Big Mountain Coal Company, discontinue business as a corporation and surrender to the State of West Virginia its Charter and corporate franchise, and after paying all of its debts and obigations to its property and assets remaining among its stockholders. But no payment shall be made to the stockholder until after the publication of the notice of this resolution as herein provided. "RESOLVED: That the President cause a notice of the adoption of this resolution to be published in the McDowell Times, a newspaper of general circulation, published at Keystone, once a week for four weeks, and the President certify that he will together with the certificate of the publication of the said McDowell Times, under his hand and the common seal of the corporation to the Secretary of State." Given under my hand this the 20th day of July, 1915. GEO. T. BLECH, President. SAMUEL SOLINS, Counsel. 7:30-4t. Notice to Delegates Attending the Womens' Baptist State Convention in Bluefield. Especial arrangements have been made over the Virginian railroad for all delegates attending the Womens' Baptist State Convention which meets in Bluefield August 11, 12 and 13. All those wishing to take advantage of these special rates must be at Deep Water on the morning of August 10th as the train will leave Deepwater at 10:40 a.m. for Bluefield. There will be a special coach provided for the delegates. For further information, write to the Cor. Secretary MRS. M. A. W. THOMPSON, Pres. MRS. A. E. Y. SINCLAIR, Oor. Sec. RHEUMATIC SUFFERERS GIVEN QUICK RELIEF Pain leaves almost as if by magic when you begin using "5-Drops," the famousold remedy for Rheumatism, Lumbago, Gout, Sciatica, Neuralgia and kindred troubles. It goes right to the spot, stops the aches and pains and makes life worth living. Get a bottle of "5-Drops" today. A booklet with each bottle gives full directions for use. Don't delay. Demand "5-Drops." Don't accept anything else in Pain leaves almost as if by magic when, you begin using "5-Drops," the famousold remedy for Rheumatism, Lumbago, Gout, Sciatica, Neuralgia and kindred troubles. It goes right to the spot, stops the aches and pains and makes life worth living. Get a bottle of "5-Drops" today. A booklet with each bottle gives full directions for use. Don't delay. Demand "5-Drops." Don't cept anything else, in place of it. Any drug can supply you. If you live too far from a drug store send One Dollar to Swanson Rhematic Cure Co., Newark, Ohio, and a bottle of "5-Drops" will be sent prepaid. D. ROBERT TOMLINSON, L L B Attorney and Counsellor at Law Practices in all the courts of Virginia and West Virginia. In trouble and oft of trouble see me at NORTHFORK, WEST VIRGINIA, NA FLOR DRUG CO. THE PORCELAIN THE KING ALL FAIRNESS GROWS HAIR REMOVED DANDRUFF AND TETOR BUY IT-TRY IT-TEST IT. ASK YOUR DRUGGIST OR DEMAND IT! THE HAS NOT WE WILL SEND IT FOR 25¢ POSTPAID NA FLOR DRUG CO. AGENTS MANUFACTURER EDENTON, N.C. MENTION PAPER YOU WANT TO Mrs. A. Williams When In Graham WANTING; SOMETHING GOOD TO SEAT AND A NICE PLACE TO STOP Call at H. W. ARNOLD Place not over one minute's walk from the station. (WRIGHT'S OLD STAND) Graham, Virginia A. L. Spencer Quick Lunches and medies served while the train waits Ice Cream, Confectioneries Pop, Tobacco etc. Mora, W. Va. R. B. Price Northfork, West Virginia. REPRESENTATIVE OF Sinkford & u'arren Embalmers & Undertakers Bluefield, West Virginia Office 'Phone 217. Res. Phone 970 L. 7-23-'15. Free of 22 Pieces UM ITEM tely FREE X Y Z Club raised $40.30; none of its members contributed an follows: Mary George, $7.45, Priscilla Brown, 2.00, Mr. King '20, Mille Young 1.00, R. L. Poulard 1.00, J. E. Adams 1.00, Louis Poudexter 70c, James Murphy 50c, John Coleman 50c, Wm Thaxton 50c, W. O. Morris 50c, Mattie Larke 50c. Personal Workers' Club: Lucy Henry $19 71, Julia White 5.70, Rev. Samuel Johnson 5.50, Sister L. C. Wonder 5.30, Sister M. C. Thorpe 5.00, Edward Green 5.00, Annie Payne 4.05, Mary Mulline $15, Blanche Clements 2.25, Tora Yates 2 17, Nannie Jackson 14.74, Sister Jennings 3.00. Individual Donations: Sister M. P. P. Howe 2.00, J. C. Howe 2.00, Janie Hairstein 1.50, R. L. Jackson 1.50, J. T. Cheatham 1.25, J. E. Woods 1.00, Rev. Stith 1.00, C. S. Via 1.00, J. C. Jones 1.00, Wm. Parks 1.00, Mary F. King 1.00, Annie V. Jones 1.00, Walker Armstead 1.00, Sister M. E. Woods 1.00, John Thorpe 50c, John Smith 50c, Norene Armstead 50c, Ida Jackson 50c, Cornelia Franklin 50c, Irena Person 50c, U. S. G. Froe 50c, C. T. Davis 50c, Jea. White 50c, Walter Young 50c, Lucy Murphy 50c, Hattie McClanahan 50c, Robert Sheppard 50c, Aaron Woods 50c, Wm. Ellett 25c, Eliza Robertson 25c, Eliza Dudley 25c, Lucy Campbell 25c, Maggie Foster 25c, Mattie Moore 25c, Benj. Armstead 25c, Mabel Franklin 25c, Fannie Harris 25c, Sister A. M. Dillard 25c, Clark 25c, Thomas Johnson 25c, R. M. Billips 25c, Ruth Martin 25c, Joanna Williams 25c, and many others whose names do not appear. BECKLEY (By BROWN W. PAYNE.) Mrs. H. C. Hargrove and children arrived from Huntington last Friday where she has been visiting her mother. Miss Mabel Anderson, who has been visiting with Mrs. Hargrove at Huntington, stopped over for a short visit with friends in Charleston. Messrs. Tom and Eugene Howard received a telegram last Sunday announcing the death of their sister, Mrs. Lucy Jackson of Charlottesville, Va. Eugene left Sunday to attend the funeral. Mrs. Fleming Green is improving. Rev. W. M. Jackson came into the place of Blakey & Payne sometime ago, and was so impressed with the beautiful colored dolls carried in stock that he made a purchase. The reverend has the correct idea for the development of the proper maternal instinct. Mrs. Cora Laughlin, of Sprague, has been complaining for sometime. Mrs. Mittie Howard was called to Va. on account of the illness of her mother. The Granding sitting of the U. O. of Red Men will begin on the 27th instant at Sylvia. The session will be held in Hunter's Hall. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Logan was burned on Saturday evening last. It is believed that the fire had its origin in a defective flue. A small amount of insurance was carried on the house. Messrs. J. S. Butte, Roy Clemens, Fred Morris and Mrs. Minnie Cunningham formed an enjoyable party in a joy ride to Mt. Hope last Sunday. Misses Ray Lewis, Ounnie Burke and Messrs. Bernard Ware and C. D. Blakey went by automobile to Hill Top and spent the day. Miss Elise Armstead, of Hill Top, is visiting relatives at Sprague. The grand opening of the Pioneer Hotel and the christening by Miss Ada Peters by breaking a bottle of champagne (?) was quite a successful and enjoyable affair. The welcome address on behalf of the mayor in his absence was delivered by M. L. Painter, Esq. There were several speeches and songs, the poems by the Misses Peters were original productions. There was no service at the Ebenezer Baptist church Sunday owing to the absence of the pastor, Rev. Harris, who was detained at home on account of the dead death of Mr. Berger, of Alderson, who was struck by train No. 4, of the C. & O. Persons registered at the Pioneer Hotel: James Patterson, Beckley; Mim Clara Brown, Winding Gulf; Mim Alice B. Ranberry, Charleson; Mim Josephine D. Candy, Obarkston; Theodore Coleman, Winding Gulf; Kelly Davis, Roanoke, Va.; Jonas McRae and Luther Fulpa, Winding Gulf; D. C. Coleman, Tamroy; Redford Dickens, Lester. Rev. Mr. Nosbit, the missionary and evangelist of the Flat Top Baptist Association, was in the city Monday and coiled at this office. News Great Ball Team "Silas Green from New Orleans," a tent attraction of exceptional merit which has been playing this territory for nine consecutive years and which has just completed a most successful tour of the Norfolk and Western coalfield has switched to the Virginian and for the next week or ten days will spread good cheer and happiness throughout its itinerary. Prof. Eph Williams is the sole owner and proprietor of this excellent and most popular enterprise and never drops a stitch, but watches carefully for the least defect and squeches it before it shows up. Its highly moral tone and the intelligent versatility of the performers and their undisputed ability to create mirth and merriment in unstated quantities have endearced them to thousands upon thousands of patrons all over the sunny south. Prof. Williams has been in the amusement business for over thirty-five years and during all this time not a blotch of the smallest type has appeared upon either the history of his various business enterprises or his private affairs. He is a gentlemen of the purest ray serene, easy of approach and and a jovial, kindly disposed individual. We most heartily recommend him to the public and when he tells you anything you can rely on it as being true. In the meantime, if you miss seeing Silas Green you still have something coming to you. If your enthusiasm is due to it. Clothes Cleaned; Clothes Made to Measure COLD DRINKS and CONFECTIONS on Sale All the Time. WANTED EXPERIENCED INSURANCE MEDICAL salary or Commission for Right Price THAN $48,157,022 CLAIMS PAID THE AMERICAN WORKMEN FRATE NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY Pays Sick, Accident and Death, and Old Age Endowment Benefits. For further particulars see or write D. E. V. JORDAN General Agent for West Virginia and Kentucky Charleston, W. THE isonPrivateHos HarrisonPrivate Hospital Cases Surgical and Medical Treated at Reasonable Rates. EFFICIENT STAFF Phone Excelsior Drug Company Operates in Every State in the Union Employee More Than 8,000 Agents Pays A Claim every Eight Minutes H. HARRIS, Special A Keystone, West Virginia IT'S WHERE I TRAN AT THE Bridgeford Pharmacy Prescription Specialists ERNAL BRIDGEFORD, Ph.G. Registered Pharmacist Welch Under COMP AND Funeral Directors and E WELCH, WEST VIRGIN CHAPEL AND PARLIORS NEAR MINE Telephone CHAS. H. RICE Northfork, W. Hurrah! H HUNTINGTON BUILDING CL This handsome structure is and co- and entirely by the Stock holders Metal Investment Association and tration of what can be done by co- effort and united action It is indeed a splendid achievement give new life, new hope and new every Stocknolder, and every M Order and the Race. Let no one hesitate longer to sub- in this great corporation—Tue F Investment Association—for in sure to pay handsome dividends invested. TAKE STOCK RI MRRIS, Special Agent Stone, West Virginia WHERE I TRADE! AT THE Ford Pharmacy Option Specialists BRIDGEFORD, Ph.G. Prop. Entered Pharmacist Welch Undertaking COMP NY Funeral Directors and Embalmers WELCH, WEST VIRGINIA CHAPEL AND PARLIES NEAR MINERS' HOSPITAL Telephone CHAS. H. RICE, Ag nt Northfork, W. Va. Hurrah! Hurrah! HUNTINGTON BUILDING CLEAR OF DEBT This handsome structure is and owned absolutely and entirely by the Stock holders of the Pythian Mutual Investment Association and is a fine illustration of what can be done by concentration of effort and suited action: It is indeed a splendid achievement, and should give new life, new hope and new inspiration to every Stockholder, and every Member of the Order and the Race. Let no one hesitate longer to subscribe for stock in this great corporation—The Pythian Mutual Investment Association—for in due time it is sure to pay handsome dividends on the money invested. TAKE STOCK RIGHT NOW $10.00 is the price per share, either paid up or on the installment plan. Ask the agent in your locality about it or write to this office. THE PYTHIAN MUTUAL INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION L. O. WILSON, President, Weston, S. B. MOON Attorney-at-Law Wilcoe, West Virginia H. J. CAPEHART Attorney-at-Law H. B. MOON Attorney-at-Law H. J.CAPEHART Attorney-at-Law oe, West Virginia Phone 61 KEYSTONE W. W.