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END OF WAR IN SIGHT AS RESULT OF AMERICA'S DECISIVE STEP, SAYS PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN DUMA Foresees Complete Issolation of Germany, and Her Allies, Through Active Participation on Side of Entente of Scandinavian Countries and Holland. UNITED STATES WILL DO NOTHING NOT JUSTIFIED BY LAWS OF HUMANITY McDowell County Offers Good Opportunities for Negroes, Excellent Schools, high wages. VOLUME 15. THE END OF WAR IN OF AMERICA'S DEC PRESIDENT OF THE Foresees Complete Issol Her Allies, Through on Side of Entent Countries a UNITED STATES WILL JUSTIFIED BY With a hope for peace and a readiness for war if it must come, President Wilson has made it clear to all officials that the course of this country---difficult as it is---must be entirely beyond criticism. Now only awaits an actual demodulation of how Germany's new decree will effect American rights. END OF WAR IN SIGHT SAYS PRESIDENT OF DUMA. Petrograd, via London, Feb. 5. — "The end of the war row is in sight." This was the remark of the President of the dyna, Michael V. Rodzianko, today to the Associated Press. "In welcoming America's decisive step," he continued, "I am not only speaking for myself but expressing the attitude of the allies whose representatives discussed with me at yesterday' reception by the Duma the rupture of German-American relations. I feel that an American declaration of war on Germany must follow, and in that case the Scandinavian countries and Holland would undoubtedly follow the lead of the United States, resulting in the complete isolation of Germany and her allies from the rest of the world. This undoubtedly wound end the war." WEST VA. LEGISLATURE ENDORSE PRESIDENT WILSON'S STAND Charleston, W. Va. (Special.)-That the course pursued by President Wilson in relation to the German situation is approved by the West Virginia legislature was evidenced by the adoption of a resolution Monday of this week which says, in part: "Deeply deploring the international crisis that has called it forth, the legislature of West Virginia expresses hearty approval of the course pursued by the president and the department of state at Washington in severing diplomatic relations with the imperial German government, following its note of January 31 repudiating the pledges heretofore given to respect the lives and property of American citizens and to insure the freedom of the sea." JEWETT STANDS THE ACID TEST Demands and Secures the Ppoint ment of the First Colored Woman to a Clerical Position in the State House. The remarkable advance the colored woman is making in the field of endeavor is the marvel of the times. The colored woman of Indiana is more fortunate than her sister in other states. Not that other states are not interested in the progress of colored women—but there is that lack of a man who has the courage to demand of his party recognition for the colored women of the state. It seems as if Charles W. Jexett was the man divinely appointed to do this work on behalf of our citizenship. It came about in this way: Mr. Jexett inquired if there was a young colored woman who could perform the duties of stenographer in a state office. He was told that the race could produce such a one and one --- who would aid in the efficiency of the office. Mr Jewett then called upon the adjutant-general at the state house and said to him: 'Your office represents the military life of the state. The colored man has proved his patriotism and is entitled to some reward for his loyalty to our government and to the state of Indiana. I desire to recommend Miss Bessie Durham for the position of stenographer in this office and I ask that the appointment be made at once.' It only took a few minutes to consummate the arrangements and Miss Durham was sent for and told that she had been appointed to fill a position in the adjutant-general's office for the next four years, as stenographer. This is a clear-cut victory for the race and also a victory for Mr. Jewett. This act on the part of Mr. Jewett entitles him to the most thoughtful consideration of the colored people of Indianapolis and the state of Indiana. WOMEN OF TO-DAY ARE DEFENDED BY BISHOP DENVER, COL., Feb. 3.—The Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester Tuttle, oldest and highest dignitary of the Episcopal Church in America, looks back on his halt century of service and finds basis for belief that the world is growing better. He said: "I do not believe women are more worldly today than they were fifty years ago, or twenty, or ten. The trouble now is that they receive more publicity. They are more talked about. You advance guards of civilization, you newspaper, advertise the fact that women dance and drink in the cabarets, smoke cigarettes, chase the will-o' the-wise pleasure in paths that lead away from the church. But the women of today are just as good mothers and just as good wives as the women of yesterday. That' what I believe." The Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester Tuttle may believe as he has expressed himself and is entitled to the honor and credit of his belief, but we are satisfied that 77 percent of the people think differently. Women are not as good mothers and only don't want to become mothers but willfully refuse to do so. They don't want to be bothered with children. It takes too much of their time from the tads of society. They don't care to be told down at home as they call it. The best wives are those who are the best mothers. The grave yards are claiming the bodies of more of this class of women lodgers from the responsibility of mothers today than ever known or read of before. POLLARD SCORES AGAIN The Outing Football Roll of Honor, of the Outing Magazine, again chooses Pollard on its roll of heroes. The person choosing the roll says: "Among backs the writer hands the award for first honors of those he has seen to Pollard, of Brown. Even Oliphant, of the Army, has nothing on this colored boy." KEYSTONE. WEST VIRGINIA. FRIDAY. FFB. 9, 1917 FARMER HELO FOR KILLING COLORED MAN White Man Surrenders to Police After Stabbing Will Smith to Death. RICHMOND, KY., Jan. 31 — Great excitement prevailed here yesterday when Nath in Lowry, a white farmer, stabbed Will Smith, colored 1, to death as a result of a difficulty in which he became involved with the colored man. Details of the tragedy are meager at this writing. Lowery came to town immediately after the murder and gave himself no to the authorities and was lodged in jail. The police are investigating. "THUG ARMING IN THE HOUSE Passed Wednesday, Rece Thursday---Big Doin of Session---Polit Before Ad "THUG ARMING BILL" KILLED IN THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES Passed Wednesday, Reconsidered and Defeated Thursday---Big Doings During Last Half of Session---Politics to be Played Before Adjournment BY T. ED. ARD HILL. CHARLESTON, W. VA., Feb. 5.—Thursday morning of last week, which was the closing day of the session for the week in both branches of the legislature, witnessed another interesting fight in the House in which Messrs. Swose and Harper of McDowell took a leading part and were aly supported by Messrs. Hagerman and Waldron. The fight was against a bill fostered by certain big corporations and ably backed by the special interests. The bill (House Bill No. 30) conferred police powers upon conductors, brakemen and flagmen of railroad trains and street railways, gave them the right to carry pistols and provided that any railroad, steam or electric, electric light, power, hydro electric telegraph and telephone company would have the right to send to the governor a list of names of men for special policemen (without limit on number) and it would be mandatory upon the governor to appoint such men as recommended; these men to have the right to carry pistols and with conductors, brakemen and flagmen would have the same power as regularly elected constables. When the bill came up for passage on Wednesday the opposition did not have time to rally their forces and it passed the House 40 to 48 but Thursday morning the opponents of the measure 60 together and a motion was made to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed; the motion to reconsider prevailed by a vote of 47 to 43. Characterized as "Thug arming bill"职位 speeches were made by delegates J. Buel Swope of McDowell county, E. Harper, colored member from the same county, and others on both the Republican and Democratic side of the chamber. The opposing delegates in their speeches characterized the measure as "thug arming bill which would turn upon the working people of the state a gang of things as rattles and miscreups as the mine guards of infamous memory." The speeches of Messrs Swope and Harper were able and effective and strong defences of the citizenship of West Virginia and caused several delegates who were favorable to the bill when it first passed to change their vote when the measure came up for final action. Upon final roll call the bill was defeated by a vote of 47 to 44. Eight Democrats voted against the bill and five Republicans voted for it, among whom were the delegates from Mercer county. The attitude of the McDowell county delegates on the "coal weighing bill" as on this measure has been the surprise of Charleston and in the hotel lobbies and about the capital corridors one frequently hears it said, "What do you think of McDowell?" She has a delegation not controlled by special interests." "McDowell county委员会 did not get into important committees but she is giving committee report h-1 when they are against the trusts of the common people." The four members from the "Free state of McDowell" have voted as a unit on every proposition except amendments to the peebhibition bill, upon which Messers. Swope, Harper and Waldron voted for the bill as it passed the Senate Snatches Babe to Safety As Train Hits Father Attempting to Save Infant. MOULTEE, GA, Jan. 31—Seeing a Georgia Northern passenger train bearing down upon his 3-year-old child, Joe Fussell, of Doerum, made an attempt to rescue it but just as he reached the track he was hurled back by the engine, receiving injurias that are described as serious. A colored man who also had seen the plight of the child and who was nearer managed to reach it just in time to snatch the little one from before the wheels of the locomotive. BILL" KILLED OF DELEGATES considered and Defeated gs During Last Halfics to be Played journment and Mr. Hageman vetoed for several amendments thereto. WILL PROHIBITION PROHIBIT? WILL PROHIBITION PROBLEM Ninety days is the lease of life given those who "waut to keep the camphor bottle full" to get in their supply for as the expiration of that time the "white ribbons" preset that not enough of the stuff which makes a "feast of resa and flow of soul" will get across the borders of Ohio and Kentucky into the interior of the mountain state to cure on tiney "snake bite." They say further that the question propounded above will be answered by the "McAby Act" with (IF DOES) in box car letters, but this who take a little for the "stomach sake" say "we shall see." One half of the allotted time for the law makers to remain here in solitude conclave has passed into history and many measures of a general nature have been enacted into law but nothing startling or sensational has developed which will start the political heads a nodding or the political tongues a wagging, but big things are promised for this and the remaining weeks of the session. The Virginia debt case will be upon the boards this week, opening with public hearings by the commission of both Senate and House in joint session, which will no doubt be followed by a joint session of the two branches of the law making bodies. What action will follow is purely problematic and your correspondent do not venture a predestination because of such a great variety of opinions held by the law makers. Governor elect John J. Cornwell was in the city Thursday and Friday conferring with Democratic leaders and Republican allies and it is current rumor that bills of a political nature will be introduced during the next few days which will cause sharp divisions along party lines unless the governor-elect's Republican allies can break the Republican solidarity of the Senate and it is heard on every hand here that such an effort is being made but with little hope of success. What little hope they had was almost wholly destroyed when Senator Rosenbloom voted to recommit the efficiency commission resolution which was fathered by Governor-elect Cornwell. The Ohio county senator stated in voting to recommit that he favored such a commission but he was given to understand that it was to be non-partisan and if the committee would amend it so that it would provide for the same number of Republicans as Democrats he would support it. That was more than two weeks ago and nothing has been heard from the efficiency resolution since, so it is clearly evident that there is no chance to get six Republican senators to vote with the Democratic ten on any political proposition. In the House there are several factions among the Democratic majority which is liable to break out into insurgency at any time. The Chilton forces control the House and the feeling between the followers of the defeated Senator and t. lose of Watson who the Chilton people be have to be responsible for the defect of their chieften becomes intense at times and the efforts of the Chilton crowd to get even is liable at any time to cause the Fairmont coal king's subjects to go into open rebellion. "CUPID SHIES AT HIGH COST OF WOMEN'S GARB" Evangelist Says That is the Reason For Our 17,000,000 Unmarried Men. PITTSBURGH, Feb. 3. "Cupid shies at high cost of girls' garb," said Evangelist Franklin W. Swift, of Chicago, at the mass meeting for women at the First Baptist church, Homestead. "There are 17,000,000 unmarried men and women in the United States today, and do you know why they are unmarried? The men are afraid of women's clothes. Not the books of them, but the cost of them. "To my mind the high cost of living and the extravagant clothes that women wear are to blame. Men are amused at the appearance of girls decked out in the latest fads of fancies. They decided they are all right to dance with and talk to, but to settle down with--they draw the line. They are afraid of the bills for the ruffs." "Girls who dress simply and learn to cook and make homes are more certain of finding husbands than the women who insist upon tight skirts or anything that is in vogue." Dr. Swift characterized women of certain types as "soul-hobbled women." "Soul-hobbled women," he said, "are the ones who would rather have an automobile in the garage than a child in the house." Brother Evangelist Franklin W. Swift we congratulate you because we believe you are telling the truth. Yes, the image desire to look supremely rich whether one is as poor as gully dirt is the policy of nine tenths of the American would-be society dates of today. HATFIELD HEAD MADNE COAL CO. Interests of Enslow and Others Taken Over New Management Expects to be Mining Coal by the First of February. Following the formal transfer of the interests of W. H. Cunningham, Frank Endow, Jr., and others in the Madine Coal Company to Governor H. D. Hatfield, A. J. Dalton, Walter Proctor and others, the company has been reorganized. The officers of the company as reorganized and announced are as follows: President - Henry D. Hatfield. Vice President - A. J. Dalton. Secretary-Treasurer - John A. Kelly. Additional directors are J. H. Meneer, J. S. Browning and Charles K. Wagner. W. L. Proctor is general manager. This is a $50,000 corporation. Its perations are located on Buffalo Greek, Logan co West Virginia Loses in Fight West Virginia Loses in Fight WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. . . The supreme court today granted the request to Attorney General Pollard of Virginia for permission so file a writ of mandamus seeking to compel West Virginia to pay Virginia $14,000,000, the former state's share of the Virginia state debt when the two states separated at the opening of the civil war. Judgment has been granted for the amount, but West Virginia has taken steps to pay it. The writ of mandamus is brought against the West Virginia legislature and would compel them to take action at the present term to pay the money. A rule was returned bringing the case before the court March 6. Rev. B. F. Epps, of Lynchburg, Va., was in these parts this week. --- GERMANY BREAK IS 'ASTONISHING' REPLIES ZIMMERMAN Germany Foreign Secretary Says His Nation Was Left With No Other Step Open Except Unlimited U-Boat Warfare. 'NO STEP BACKWARD,' SAYS AID OF KAISER; 'WARN AMERICANS' BERLIN, Feb. 6.—"There is no step backward," declared Foreign Secretary Zimmerman in an interview published by the Berlin Tageblatt today, commenting upon President Wilson's breaking of relations with Germany. "President Wilson's decision is astounding," declared Zimmerman in the Tageblatt today. "The entente's refusal of our peace overtures left us with no other step open except unlimited submarine warfare in the fight for our existence against the entente's violation of international law. "America denied us assistance. We made no condition much less promises to avoid unlimited submarine warfare. We have broke no promises. "We hope President Wilson will warn Americans from the blockade zone. There is no step backward." BERLIN, Feb. 6.—"There is Secretary Zimmerman in an interview today, commenting upon President Germany. "President Wilson's decision in the Tageblatt today. "The entente's refusal of our step open except unlimited submarineence against the entente's violation of America denied our assistance promises to avoid unlimited submarine. "We hope President Wilson w zone. There is no step backward." COLDEST WEATHER EXPERIENCED IN HISTORY OF COUNTRY Government Thermometer Registered From Seven to Fifteen Degrees Below Zero The alarming cry as never before heard has been the constant complaint and all absorbing topic of the day among the people of this county and nearby sections as to the extreme cold weather. Old men, who have been in Keystone, Eckman, Eikborn and Welch, are frequently heard to say that this the coldest spell that has been witnessed in the history of this section of the country. Everybody's pipes mostly freeze and burst and the plumbers have had a roosting-land office business. In many places it has been observed that the thermometer registered any where from seven to as low as ten degrees below zero and inny places reports have come to this office that the thermometer registered as low as twelve and fifteen degrees below zero and yet the people are standing it fairly well. POCAHONTAS Saturday was a record day, certainly for a great many of years. Friday night was by far the most disagreeable experience in this section for some time. The wind blew all night over the snow, clad mountains and when morning came the thermometer stood ten degrees below zero, and this within 50 feet of the coke ovens. It is said that it is an all wind that blows nobody good and one line of work was flouring Saturday—the plumbers. The demand was greater than the supply, for they were all kept busy answering call through the day, and by night most of the people had been waited on, some of them temporarily. The wind ceased during the day, and it was cooler warmest Sunday, but Sunday night brought a veritable blizzard and plumbers reaped another harvest Monday. PRINCETON With the thermometer hanging at twelve degrees below zero Monday morning, from 7 until 9 o'clock, and never rising above the zero mark the entire day, Princeton emerged from the coldest night, accompanied by the greatest storm, remembered by the oldest citizen of this section. Although reports were lacking as to the lowest temperature during the night, the general opinion was that it reached at least fifteen below. BLUEFIELD RECORD FOR COLD WEATHER BROKEN GOVERNMENT THERMOMETER REGISTERS SEVEN AND QUARTER DEGREES BELOW ZERO A new record for cold weather was set Miners, Coke Men and Laborers wanted all over McDowell Coun- ty-Business Openings. NUMBER 48 MANY STONISHING' HIS ZIMMERMAN Secretary Says His Nation Other Step Open Ex- U-Boat Warfare. 'O,' SAYS AID OF ; 'WARN AMERICANS' no step backward," declared Foreign published by the Berlin Tageblatt Wilson's breaking of relations with stonishing," declared Zimmerman peace overtures left us with no other warfare in the fight for our exist- international law. We made no condition - much less warfare. We have broke no promises. will warn Americans from the blockade early Monday morning, when the United States weather bureau's knock at the Norfolk and Western Railway Company's offices here registered seven and one-quarter degrees below zero. Not only was this a new for low temperature, but the present wintry spell is said to be the most prolonged that could be recalled by the oldest weather prognosticor of this section. The seven and one-quarter degrees below zero was said by weather men here to be the lowest that the mercury fell during the blizzard Sunday night and early Monday, and was one-half degree colder than Friday and Saturday night, when the thermometer registered six and three-quarters below. Monday afternoon the mercury climbed a little, observers of the government thermometer announced, but at no time during the day did it register above zero. Several private thermometers at various places in the city, however, registered slightly above zero, some it was noted climbing to five above zero in the afternoon. The official indications point to a continued cold spell, it was stated Monday night, with probable snow flurries Tuesday morning. U. S. STEEL AND CAR-NEGIE PENSION FUND Make Sixth Annual Report Show- ing Operations for 1819. The above named company, established January 1, 1911, and applicable to the employees of the United States Steel Corporation and its subsidiary companies are making a report of expenditures, which on general conditions, would startle the world. In showing the disbursements the company calls attention to the various companies and works with an itemized statement of the amount paid out to persons of every department coming under the provisions of the company and paying every man the full amount without lawsuits his pension as stipulated by the Carnegie Pension Fund. BENEFICIARIES---SUMMARY OF PENSION CASES. Active as of January 1, 1916, 3,002 Added during 1916 275 Continued beyond Dec. 31, 1916 3.013 AVERAGES FOR CASES, 1911 to 1916, INCLUSIVE. Age ... 65.33 Years S rvice ... 29.93 "" Monthly pension ... $21.05 Total for 1916 ... $ 711,130.33 Total for 1915 ... 659,389.42 Total for 1914 ... 511,967.90 Total for 1913 ... 422,815.14 Total for 1912 ... 358,780.92 Total for 1911 ... 281,457.37 Grand Total ... $ 2,945,541.08 Did you see your shadow? BE. RATHER THAN SEEM TO BE WHITTICO & HILL PUBLISHERS & PROPRIETORS. M. T. WHITTICO, Editor. T. EDWARD,HILL, Business Mgr. Articles on more than ten lines will be charged 10 cents per line. Published every Friday in the interest of the Negro Race--His Civil and Political Rights. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year in advance..... $1.50 Six months in advance..... 80 Three months in advance..... 45 One month in advance..... 25 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 FEB. 9, 1917 VOTERS, VOTE FOR GOOD ROADS; YOU SHOW INTELLIGENCE BY SO DOING In this weeks issue we are presenting to you readers and taxpayers the principles upon which men are benefitted by good roads. These are the views of men experienced in every department of life. These views are the opinions of men who have done things and have something. They are the opinions of such men with money who will have to bear the financial burden on the construction of good roads but are not the men who will reap the whole benefits of good roads. Why the man on his way to jail—a prisoner—doesn't want to walk over ditches, stumps rocks and in mud up to his knees. The roughness of a life of adversity, want, hunger, nakedness and sorrow, we call a rough and a hard life we have roads that are just the same. Vote for good roads—because it is the sign of intelligence, prosperity, thrift economy and common sense. Now if you want to be in the foo gang, vote against good roads. MR. BUSINESS MAN YOU LIVE TOO CARELESS Look here folks you have been careless about how you live and have brought criticism on yourself and people because of your loose way of living. Suppose you take a fool's advice and spur up change your course of living You can make as much and become worth more to your race society and to the community generally by doing right and conducting a first class business than you can by catering to that which is low, cheap and destructive. Clean up -clean out and get on the square. FARMERS NEED GOOD ROADS The old dilapidated methods of farming are rapidly passing away. People in the cities want and are ready to pay for all the fresh vegetables and produce from the farms as quick as they can get them. Therefore, the better the roads are the quicker the farmer can supply the consumer with fresh vegetables and general produce on the market directly from the garden. Get busy, farmers, vote for good roads. Members of the legislature, please pass senate bill No. 122. It is in keeping with the rest of the enslavement laws Freedom of speech, thought, action and liberty are words that mean nothing today in West Virginia. In these war ridden countries we don't expect anything else but to be told to put your lights out after dark, eat only when we don't need you to fight; but to call yourselves free in West Virginia is a travesty against justice. Pay for The Times. RICH AND POOR ALIKE BENEFICIARIES OF GOOD ROADS You poor men in McDowell county who may not have money enough to pay your way to the first water tank on the railroad will receive as much benefit out of good roads almost as the richest man living and yet you will not have to pay as much as you pay now for a half pint of cheap kill-me quick, rot gut "lickker." Men, whether you are white or black, whether you are rich or poor, you certainly ought to have sense enough to know that the better plans and the better arrangements you have and the more perfect your facilities are for doing things the better it is for all concerned. Now is the time to show your intelligence. Do it by everybody voting for good roads. The present legislature is passing every law that effects man from Dan to Bersheba and from the cradle to the grave. They are passing them whether there is common sense in them or not. Don't make any difference, some fool law must be passed, namely, the greatest of all—the recent prohibition one quart per month supply of "boozs." My goodness! what slaves we are! THE GOOD WOMAN. Back of every good man who ever lived to be found the good woman No man ever achieved along any line who was not helped by the good influence of all womanhood incidentally. A man's best strength is always derived from a woman. He may, and does, often stand on the brink of a prejudice, dazed, despairing, ready to fall, when a woman's hand draws him back to sanity and safety. He may not realize the fact, but it is a fact. She may not be there in the ili sh. though often and often she is, but she is certain to be in the spirit. While the shadows so wrap to envelop him a something stirs in his memory—the forgotten melody of an old song, a remembered breath of perfume, the picture of a woman with a dabe on her bosom—and he is saved. This woman to whom a man owes so much may be—almost always is—either wife or mother, though she may be of no blood kin at all. Some men lose their mothers before they have learned to know and love them; some men never marry, but back of every man, somewhere, is the potent influence of some good woman. Men do all things, dare all things for a woman's sake. All men naturally are civilous. And woman repays man for this ideal devotion. She leads him to live a higher life, and he does it for her sake. When he struggles, he is thinking the thoughts that woman has caused him to think. When he is tempted, he thinks of what his fall will mean to her, or perhaps wound have meant to one who has gone. When he achieves a victory, he must to her for her glad smile of gratiation and approval. When he fails, he goes to her for consolation, for encouragement, for the affection he knows will be his portion. It is for her that he lives and labors, and it is because of her influence that he lives and labrs well. "THIS COUNTRY FINANCIALLY INTRENCHED" Comptroller of Currency Comments on Fine Conditions. "Prepared For Preparedness," Says Official to Congress. WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. --- The Comptroller of Currency today advised Congress, in submitting his annual report, that the United States at the present time seems to be "intrenched financially almost as firmly as it is possible for any human government to be." Practically the whole world is in debt to us," the report said, "and is steadily increasing its obligations. Our financial condition in relation to other peoples and the world at large becomes stronger from week to week and from month to month. As the figures show so conculvively our wealth is piling up with wonderful rapidity, but to do our proper work in the world and to protect and enlarge our own interests we may be long need every dollar of these resources, gigantic and inexhaustible as they now seem to be. We are well prepared for the preparedness and ready and able to provide for whatever increases of army and navy. Congress may must be ready. Big Fire at Houston $10,000 Damage Tuesday morning of this week several houses on the Houston Coal and Coke Company's operation at Elkhorn caught fire and burned before any preventative could be secured causing a loss approximating $10,000, partly insured. Is snugly located between some of the most picturesque and superb mountains laden with the best coal to be found in the whole round world. From the standpoint of Civilization, Keystone is the ATHENS of West Virginia. With reference to Religion, this city is the Jerusalem of Southern W. Virginia. W.L.JONES The Hustler, The Barber, The Business Man and The Man Who is Expert at Feeding You MAIN STREET Opposite The McDowell Times Office KEYSTONE Special preparations now being made for UPTODATE accommodations. Strangers, acquaintences, friends and everybody will be welcomed at the well known In the H. L. Lord Old Building near the bridge across from Laviscount's Tailor Shop. Call for and See JONES elite accomodation Satisfaction Has been and is destined to remain the MEDUSA of trade for this growing x haustie wealth imbued under another earth for ages to come. The newly purchased plot of land or Attorney Lea J. Partlow and his associates as started a wave of progress, development and such business industries as have never been seen before. The many hard things formerly said about Keystone are of the past, and can't be said now. Fights and drunks are as scarce as ben's teeth. financial institutions are continually preaching thrift and economy in the counries of newspapers because it pays to ADVERTISE. Proprietor of the Celebrated ARK Is Now Located on REET Opposite The McD KEYS ing made for UPTODATE acc and everybody will be welcome mark g near the bridge across fro JONES elite accomodation Guaranteed. GOOD ROADS HELP CHILDREN improved Highways of Great Benefit to Them In Going and Coming From Country Schools. The rural population is more willing to support better schools today than at any previous time. It is being realized that all educational activities or agencies must be more or less correlated, and, more than all else, that they must be more accessible to the children. In many counties where bad roads prevail, most of the schools are of the antiquated one-room variety. They are usually located along bad roads which, during the winter, when the schools are usually in session, become so nearly impassable as to make it difficult for the children to reach them. This condition causes irregular attendance and restricts the educational opportunities of the child. Not only this, but it often impedes the economic consolidation of these small THIS IS A PHOTO OF A ROAD IN A CITY. THE ROAD IS WIDE AND CLEAR, WITH A STREET LINE AND A FENCE. THE CITY IS LARGE AND HOLLOW, WITH A HIGH RISE. THE ROAD IS WIDE AND CLEAR, WITH A STREET LINE AND A FENCE. THE CITY IS LARGE AND HOLLOW, WITH A HIGH RISE. Stone Road in Ohio. er schools into larger, stronger graded schools, with high school courses, directed by a competent principal and corps of teachers. On the other hand, in counties which have improved their roads, the schools are easily reached, the average attendance greater, the efficiency largely increased and economic consolidation made possible. Regular attendance at school means consistent and regular growth of both school and pupil, and consolidation of schools means a maximum of efficiency at a minimum of cost. It is also noteworthy that there is a marked tendency for the consolidated school to become the social and intellectual center of the community. Most modern rural schoolhouses are so constructed as to serve the community as gathering places for various kinds of public meetings, and where vans are used to convey the children to school during the day they are frequently pressed into service to haul the farmers and their wives to institute work, lectures, or entertainments at the schoolhouse. The consolidated school becomes a sort of community center to which all educational and social activities converge, and in order that it may properly perform that function all of the highways leading to it should be so improved as to render it readily accessible throughout the year. PERILOUS RAZOR-BACK ROADS Miniature Mountain Ranges Should Not Be Maintained in Center— They Are Dangerous. If you have ever ridden along a country road which has been worked to a peak in the center so that your load tilted one way while you tried to keep your balance 1, tilting the other, you know what the wrong kind of road dragging is. Roads so dragged should be reported to the road supervisor, or the county engineer. Such roads are positively dangerous. Help the good roads cause by seeing that the roads of your vicinity are not made miniature mountain ranges. ROAD VERY SIMILAR TO LIFE Rough Road is Interesting, but We Must Travel Over It Slowly and Quite Carefully. How much a road is like life. The good road is like life at its best—smooth sailing, and enjoyable. A rough road is like life at its worst. A rough road is interesting, but we have to traverse it slowly and carefully. Conserve Soil Fertility Soil fertility can be conserved by the use of good crop rotations which include the legumes, by feeding all crops on the place where they are grown by the careful return of all manures to the soil. The farm machinery is only used for a short period, but must work continuously when being used. Hence it must be in good running order and properly adjusted. How's This? We offer One Hundred*Dollars* Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Hall's Catarrh Cure has been taken by the Catarrh sufferers for the past thirty-eight years, that has known an the most reliable remedy, Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure acts thru the Blood on the Mucous surfaces, expelling the Poison from the Blood and healing the diseased portions. After you have taken Hall's Catarrch Cure for a short time you will see a improvement in your general health. In your Hall's Catarrch Cure at once and get rid of catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, Ohio MINERS WANTED! AT ONCE MILL CREEKC. & C. CO. COOPER, WEST VA. Good Houses, Good terms. Good Schools, Good Pay. No Better Opportuniy Offered in the State For MONEY EVERY DAY WORK TWO WEEKS PAY. The Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company Operates in Every State in the Union Employes More Than 8,000 Agents Pays A Claim Every Eight Minutes W. H. HARRIS, Special Agent Keystone, West Virginia Mr. H. C. Tyree, Deputy Sheriff of Northford, formerly of Henry County, Va., and from one of the first families of old Virginia, was in the city Tuesday looking for refugees from justice. Squire Foly Ross, of Elkhorn, was in Keystone this week looking after some matters pertaining to his lodge work and having some work done in connection with his office :o: Rev. A. B. Padgett, pastor of the Laurel Creek Baptist church, Roseville, W. Va., was in the city Tuesday of this week looking after business pertaining to his church work. The recent rally for the purpose of building a new church was quite successful despite the bad conditions. :o: Attorney M. O. Litz, of the firm of Litz and Harman in Weich, one of the truest, strongest and most conscientious professional men at the bar today and a man with a heart in him as big as the universe, was looking after some legal matters in Keystone and Northford this week MINERS AT C MILL CREE COOPER, Good Houses Good Schools No Better Offered in th MONEY EVERY D TWO WE The Pacific M $30,000,000 ASSETS Opera Em Pay W. H. H. Honest Tailoring Liebman Our Specialty $15 $18 $20 Brothers Suits to Measure "TAILORS FROM THE CRADLE" It is truly said of Lawyer Litz by his host of friends, and by the way he has them among all peoples and both races, that he is "The Old Republican Party." He believes in and stands by such principles as moved old Abe Lincoln to proclaim the rights of freedom, independence and a square deal. He asks no quarters when he has done so either. :0: Deputy Sheriff J. E. Parsons and Attorney A. G. Froe were attending to the adjustment of some claims against a few persons this week in Keystone and look after other matters of importance. Mr T. A Petty, of Premier, a very industrious young man of race pride, was in Keystone Sunday having dental work done with our popular and "nity" young dentist, Dr. W. L. Colson. He called in and paid his respects to the Times by paying cash for the same with orders to "Continue my paper as long as you are publishing it, our people can not do without it" :0: On last Sunday, Mrs. Josie Kent entertained Revs L. A Watkins and Milton S. Malone at dinner last Sunday. Very shortly after entering this well kept home, where welcome and hospitality abound in a large measure, Mrs Kent, who is plain spoken, free and frank, invited the two gentlemen of the cloth to the dining room and the table was running over so to speak with everything that one could desire to satisfy the inner WANTED! ONCE KC. & C. CO. WEST VA. Good terms. Good Pay. Opportunity the State For AY WORK EKS PAY. Mutual Life Insurar ORGANIZED 1868 States in Every State in the Employees More Than 8,000 A s A Claim Every Eight M HARRIS, Spec Keystone, West Virginia man. The man was well prepared, finely flavored and these gospel messages enjoyed the outlay and layout to the very full. After leaving Mrs. Kent, these diviners called to see Mrs. Kelley, who is well on in years and pass the leaving home stage. They tarried on the bill long enough to be caught in that blizzard which hit Keystone about 5:30 p. m., but after that they felt that what they had received and what they tried to pass to others amply paid them, being blizzardized notwithstanding. Attorney H. J. Capebart, our brilliant young lawyer, has been away all this week in New York and Washington looking after some big legal matters. In Washington, he stopped to see and do some business with Congressman Cooper. There were pension cases also he wanted to to take up. Mr. H. B. Williams, the barber, who has in the shop of Mr. W. 1. Jones for the past several months, left the city Monday night for Columbus. LID PUT ON CINDER BOTTOM Pianos Must Not Play-Porch and Window Exhibition No Longer Tolerated Because of complaints against too much music and congregating with an unusual amount of noise, it has been decreed or ordered that hereafter, pianos in "Cinder Bottom" must not be played after 12 o'clock Saturday night till 6 o'clock Monday morning. It is also ordered that the "Ladies" must not be seen too frequently on porches nor with their heads too conspicuously out of windows. Men must not be seen going into "Cinder Bottom" after the above stated time on Saturday night, if they do, they must stay and stay躲 till Monday morning, or else. These orders, we understand, and have been told, are only for the purpose and to the end that the women and men in Cinder Bottom may become a little more particular, cautions and common sense like and in no way means to inlict a hardup or inconvenience on those who by choice and circumstances live there. It means just a "bighighting up" a little. Already men, living in other towns, who at times visit this city, are too quick and glad to speak ill of our city, when too they may be living in class houses themselves. But men of Keystone, now is the time to get down to business; not alone making the inmates of Cinder Bottom stop playing music on Sunday (although there is a serious question as to whether there is any great harm in music), but there are so many other real and substantial improvements needed to be made, which when done, would give a brighter and and more elevating tone to our city. Make these property owners clean up the back streets and in some way beautify their house fronting the public railroad. The business men ought to start a campaign of boosting the town rather than every fellow knocking it. No substantial reforms have ever been made in a day. Better patronage of home industries and business ought to be encouraged. Invite people to come to Keystone and treat them kindly when here; make them welcome. Whiskey is gore and some other inducements must be offered. Beautify your stores; sell as cheap as any man and stop knifiny your neighbor. Attorney W R Burnett, formerly of Raleigh County, has come to Northfork and from now on will be found at his new office. He is all O. K., a good lawyer, a good man and a hard worker. Once before, he was at Northfork $36,000,000 PAID IN CLAIMS ROAD BUILDING ROADS IN NATIONAL FORESTS Federal Bill Appropriates $1,000,000 for Construction and Mainten- ance of Highways. (From the United States Department of Agriculture.) One of the provisions of the federal aid road bill, which was signed by the president on July 11, appropriates $1,000,000 a year for ten years to be spent by the secretary of agriculture for the construction and maintenance of roads and trails within or partly within the national forests. The bill provides that, upon request of the proper officers of the state or counties, the money shall be used for building roads and trails which are necessary for the use and development of resources upon which communities within or near the national forests are dependent. The work is to be done in co-operation with the various states and counties. Not more than 10 per THE LAND OF THE LORD Auto Road in Estes Park. cent of the value of the timber and forage resources of the national forests within the respective county or counties in which the roads or trails will be constructed may be spent. Provision is made for the return of the money to the treasury by applying 10 per cent of the annual receipts of the national forests in the state or county until the amount advanced is covered. Officers in charge say that the bill will make possible the construction of many roads which are greatly needed. Since 1913 10 per cent of the receipts from the national forests have been used in road and trail building, but the funds have been inadequate to meet the needs. Many isolated communities within the national forests are entirely dependent on the government roads and trails. In some instances these settlements are said to be almost entirely without means of communication. According to forest service officials the money now made available will permit the construction of many roads necessary to open up inaccessible territory, and will greatly facilitate the development of large areas. It is said that detailed plans covering the policy to be followed in building roads are now being made. PROPOSE NEW PARK HIGHWAY Good Roads Advocates Would Connect National Parks of West— Calls for $1,000,000. Good roads advocates have proposed a great circular highway which would connect the national parks of the West. The venture would call for $1,000,000 from congress, besides assistance from the good roads experts of the department of agriculture. The proposed route would start at Denver and run northwest, through the new Rocky Mountain National park, and enter Yellowstone by way of Cody, Wyo. Thence it would continue through Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. To the west the road would include Yosemite and other wonders of California. To the south it would cross Arizona and New Mexico, then would run northward to Denver. Already the route is marked by many sections of good roads, so the proposed project is not such a gigantic task as it might be. The entire route to 8,500 miles in length. J. W. ROETNSON, Principal. Enrollment of High School, 28 Average attendance for Graded School, 120. Average attendance for High School, 18 Per cent of attendance for Graded School, 86 HIGH SCHOOL, J. W. Robinson, Prin Average attendance 19, Per cent of attendance 91. Honor Roll Second Year—Mary Satterfield, Nevater Satterfield, Fetalia Runsell, First Year—Willie Taylor, Huskey Wade, Lois Dillard, Ethal Fracier. GRAMMAR DEPARTMENT, Mrs. Lt. E. Whittico, Teacher Average attendance, 25, Per cent of attendance, 91. Six Grade - Gracea Lindsay. Six Grade, Paul Jones, Virginia Smith INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMENT, Miss Esther Smith, Teacher Average attendance 41, Per cent of at tendance 95. Honor Roll 3rd Grade - Elizabeth Baxter, Marin Heath, Savannah Heath, Virginia Pan- lese, Jesse Wood. 5th Grade --- Verdella Stones, Randolph Gilfillen. Average attendance 43, Per cent of attendance 75. Honor Roll 2nd Grade--Clyde and Myrdal Covington. 1st Grade--Lottie Plunkett, Mallie Cardwell, Jack Kates, Wm. Mamm The Colonial At the celebrated Colonial Theatre there are some of the finest shows and pictures being exhibited these days that it has been the pleasure of any body to see. Mr. Louis Shor, a young man, progressive and up to the very minute, is sparing no pain nor money to give the people the best there is on the market. You make a safe investment even if you see every picture etery night. They give you the best of service and everybody is poite to every other body. It makes no difference whether you be poor, black or white, they treat you right. Keystone Baker, The Best in the County. The baker of Keystone, and the leading baker of McDowell county, is Mr. Erickson on Main Street, near Simpson's barber shop and G. Hyman's store. No body's table nor meal is complete unless he has some of that expert bread made by the hands of Mr. Erickson. Pies are cakes to suit and satisfy the taste of queens are by Mr. Erickson. Colored Schools Get Large Donations Appropriations Totaling $197,000 Go to Race Institutions in the South. New York, January 29—Appropriations toiling $197,000 for Negro education in the South were announced here tonight by the general education board, the money coming from the John D Rockefeller fund. Fisk university, Tenn., received $60,000; Spelman senaryi, Atlanta, $85,000, and sums ranging from $2,000 to $7,000 are given to smaller institutions, together with $40,000 to be devoted to instruction among Negroes in rural districts of the South. The Arkansas state department of education receives $2,700 for the support of a rural school agent. Brother Suits to Measure FOR SALE: West Virginia Shufflers Pure Pit Games; Guaranteed to win or die trying. Originated and bred by W. T Howard, Worth, W Va My Clients Are Always First The National 38. KEYSIENK, W. Lomax H DR. E. W. LOMAX, Proprietor and Street, BLUEFIELD Medical and Sug -Take my Tonic" itality, Good tches the The Lomax DR. E. W. LOM 214 S. Bland Street, For Medical an 2--'1-tf. 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Phone 38 Notice is hereby given that Houston Crockett, now confined in the state penitentiary, serving a sentence for conviction of shooting a woman and slightly wounding her, from McDowell county, will, on or after the first day of February, 1917, apply to the Governor of West, Virginia for pardon. HOUSTON CROCKETT, By Counsel. January 15, 1917. MY FRIENDS ARE NEXT. BUT I WILL NOT PRESS FOR AN UNDER JUDGEMENT NOT ASK FOR THE CONVICTION OF AN INNOCENT MAN. National Jail Robber KRYSTONK, WEST VIRGINIA. ex Hospital DOMAX, Proprietor BLUEFIELD, W. VA. and Surgical Cases Phone 373. PRAIRIE SENIOR OF MUSICAL LERMARIA CRALPONT, PA. love good music, who have knowledge of it, the BALDWIN recognized everywhere as the where it is happily at homears itself more and more to Manualo" of the most artistic piano with action made in the world.ing better, nothing more per-er as a piano nor as a player purchase of either a piano or a not fail to examine these in-arms will suit you. W. MOONEY IX ~ PARIS,1900 HONOR, PARIS,1900 UZE ST.LOUIS,1904 HIGHEST HONORS Free Pressing MUSIC TAUGHT FREE Learn to play the piano or organ at home in an hour. In order to demonstrate the ample system of teaching music and also as a COMPARISON, your neighbor, may be in position of some other so called method. We have decided for a period of time to entirely free to any address sufficient music along with a indicator, by the use of which we can prove to the mind of the teacher to teach by position of REAL NOTES. Now ask yourself what you spend the price of a postal card for vestigation, or do you want to find myself in the disassessed upon neglected opportunities. Write to day. GALBRAITH SCHOOL COALPORT, PENNA Vote For The Good Roads Issue McDOWELL COUNTY, FEBRUARY 17 FOR BETTER ROADS RULES FOR DRAGGING ROADS Dry Highway Should Never Be Worked—Constant Attention Necessary—Drag Towards Center. (By E. B. HOUSE (Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Collins)) Use a light drag. Haul it over the road at an angle so that a small amount of earth is pushed to the center of the road. Drive the team at a walk. Ride on the drags do not walk. Begin at one side of the road, returning up the opposite side. Drag the road as soon after every rain as possible, but not when the mud is in such a condition as to stick to the drag. Do not drag a dry road. Drag whenever possible at all seasons of the year. The width of traveled way to be maintained by the drag should be from 18 to 20 feet; first drag a little more Road in Rocky Mountains. than the width of a single-wheel track then gradually increase until desired width is obtained. Always drag a little earth toward the center of the road until it is raised from 10 to 12 inches above the edge of the traveled way. If the drag cuts too much, shorten the hitch. The amount of earth that the drag will carry along can be very consid- erably controlled by the driver, re- cording as he stands near the cuttin- end or away from it. When the roads are first dragged after a very muddy spell the wagon- should drive, if possible, to one sid- until the roadway has a chance to freeze partially or dry out. The best results from dragging are obtained only by repeated application. Remember that constant attention is necessary to maintain an earth road in its best condition.—Highway Maga zine. NUMBERS OF COUNTRY ROADS iowa State Highway Commission Sug gests That City Plan Be Used— Capital Central Point. Numbering of country roads and residences so that every road and country home may be instantly located, is advocated by the service bulletin of the Iowa state highway commission, which is just off the press. The system advocated was originally suggested last June. In the system suggested, the section upon which the state capitol is located is considered the central point and all roads are numbered north, east, south and west from this. Using the base map appearing in the bulletin, one can easily locate the number of his road and house. The system is so arranged that practically every road bears the same designation across the state. The numbering system does not in any way interfere with the use of the names of organized tourist routes such as Lincoln highway and others. Federal-Aid Road Act Under the federal-sid road act, within the next five years $150,000,000 will be spent by federal and state governments in improving rural roads. Cost of Country Roads The amount of money spent on country roads in the United States increased from $28 per mile in 1904 to $100 in 1915. Idea of Good Roads. Another idea of good roads is to have them without ragged borders. RAISE FUNDS FOR HIGHWAYS Important Saving Effected by Issuing Good Road Bonds on Deferred Retirement Plan. (From the United States Department of Agriculture.) People of a county intending to raise funds for highway improvement would do well to consider the advantages to them of the deferred serial plan over the ordinary sinking fund plan of retiring long-term bonds. Under the serial plan, a certain amount of bonds is retired each year and the bonds so retired cause to be an interest charge on the community. Under the sinking fund plan none of the bonds is retrailed until the end of a definite period, and the entire sum raised bears interest for the entire life of the bond. The county, therefore, pays interest on the money so borrowed and to addition sets aside each year as a sinking fund an amount sufficient to retire all the bonds when they become due. The sinking fund is deposited with banks and earns some interest. This interest ordinarily is only three per cent, whereas the county has to pay five or six per cent to its bondholders. The serial plan is a much cheaper method of raising money for road improvement, even when the sinking fund earns interest as high as four per cent, and in the opinion of the road specialists of the department should be utilized whenever it is possible to market serial bonds. In a study of the road bond issues of several counties, J. E. Penny beaker and M. O. Eldridge of the division of road economics, office of public roads and rural engineering, found that the serial plan, if it had been adopted by several counties, would have saved the taxpayers in one county $154,283, in another county $80,702, and in a third county $65,367, over the other plan with a smoking fund bearing interest at three per cent. With a sinking fund earning four per cent, the savings would have run as high as $72,288 in one of these counties. These conclusions appear in the recently published Department Bulletin 333, Economic Surveys of County Highway Improvement. The following concrete examples are taken from this bulletin: "In Dallas County, Ala., the bond amounted to $50,000, payable in 30 years at five per cent. Assuming the sinking fund to bear three per cent interest, as set forth in the chapter of Dallas county, the total financial burden to the county for interest and the liquidation of the bonds during the 30 year period will be $745,702.80. If equal amount of bonds at the same rate of interest, if issued under the deferred serial bond method, with the first bonds payable six years from the date of issuance and an equal amount payable each year thereafter for 24 years, would cost the county at the end of 30 years $635,000, or a difference, as compared with the sinking fund method, of $50,702. If four per cent could be realized on the sinking fund instead of three per cent, the saving for the deferred serial plan over the sinking fund plan would still be $47,216. "Llanderdale county, Mississippi which issued $500,000 of five and five and one half per cent bonds, adopted the deferred serial-bond method with the first payment coming 11 years from the date of issue and the last payment 25 years. If the county had issued the bonds on the 5-25-year basis the cost would have been $800,875, as compared with the cost of the basis adopted of the $72,222, or a difference of $65,367." Even in the case of a small issue the advantage of the serial plan is illustrated in Dinwidle County, Virginia. This county issued $105,000 of five and five per cent bonds, payable in 20 years, but the bonds are callable after 20 years. Assuming that they will be retired at the end of 25 years on the sinking-fund plan, with interest on sinking fund at four per cent, the total cost would be $218,031, whereas if they had adopted the 6-25 year serial method the cost would be $201,100, or a difference of $163,931. REMOVE STUMPS FROM FIELD They Take Up Valuable Room and Make Work More Difficult for Both Man and Animal. If you have stumps in your fields that you have been plowing around for years, determine to get them out of the way this winter. They make it harder for man and animal working in the field, and take up valuable room. Work for Hired Man The hired man who is worth any thing prefers to work where the business is well planned and definitely worked out. Methods in Discrete Slipshod, haphazard, general farming is in disrepute and the day of scientific and specialized effort has come to stay. Spending $280,000,000. The 48 states are now spending $280,000,000 a year on good roads. ROAD BUILDING COST OF ROADS AND BRIDGES Construction Expenditures Have Increased Nearly Fourfold in the Past Twelve Years. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture) Expenditures for the construction of roads and bridges in the United States have increased nearly fourfold in the past twelve years, while a greater and greater proportion of the amounts expended have come to be paid out under state supervision. At the same time there has been a marked decrease in the proportion of contributions to road building in the form of statute labor. These facts are brought out by statistics recently compiled by the office of Public Roads and Engineering of the United States department of agriculture. The total length of public roads in the United States outside the limits of incorporated towns and cities was about 2,432,000 miles on January 1, 1916. Of this, about 277,000 miles, or 11.3 per cent, were improved with some form of surfacing. The mileage of surface roads has been increasing at the rate of about 16,000 miles a year, and in 1915 approximately one half of this increase was made under the supervision of state highway departments. In addition these departments supervised the maintenance of nearly 52,000 miles of main and trunk-line roads. The increase in expenditures for road and bridge work in the United States has been from approximately $90,000,000 per year in 1904 to about $282,000,000 in 1915, an increase of more than 250 per cent. The expenditure of state funds during this same period increased from about $2,500,000 to more than $33,000,000. In addition, more than $27,000,000 of local funds was spent under state supervision in 1915, bringing the total road and bridge expenditures managed by the states to $90,514,600. This amount is greater than the total expenditures for roads and bridges from all sources in 1904. The growth in importance of the state highway departments has been rapid. The first of these agencies was created in 1911 in New Jersey and now some form of highway department exists in every state except Indiana, South Carolina and Texas. Since their inception these departments had expended to January 1, 1916, an aggregate of $295,330,825 in state funds for road and bridge construction, maintenance, and administration. They had constructed over 50,000 miles of roads in cooperation with the states. More than 40,000 miles of these roads were surfaced. The falling off in the value of road work performed by statute and convict labor was from $20,000,000 in 1904 when the total road expenditures were $80,000,000, to about $15,000,000 in 1915 when the total expenditures had grown to $282,000,000. This was a reduction from 25 per cent of the total in the former year to less than 51½ per cent of the total in 1915. An increase in the use of better and more expensive types of roads also is shown by the recently compiled statistics. This development has been due in large part, to the great increase in automobile traffic. It is estimated that there are now approximately two and a half million automobiles in use on the roads of the country, or one car for every mile of road. This present motor traffic is in excess of traffic of all sorts 12 years ago. The cash road and bridge expenditures of the United States average only $28 per mile of rural roads in 1904. In 1915 this average had grown to $100 per mile. New Jersey led all other states both in 1904 and in 1915 with $221 and $475 per mile respectively. Nevada made the least expenditure in both years—$3.72 per mile in 1904 and $17 per mile in 1915. GOOD ROADS AND FARM AUTOS Where Better Highway Spirit Has Brought Results, Greater Farm Prosperity is in Evidence. In Georgia, as elsewhere, wherever there is a county with a good road record; where the good roads spirit has brought permanent results in a thoroughgoing, working system for the maintenance of a county's roadways, greater farm prosperity is in evidence, and the automobile and the auto truck are in demand. And under such conditions there will be an increasing demand for them. A prosperous Georgia farmer said recently that, working on the line of greater farm efficiency, progressive farmers are extending their farming operations so as to include every help that science and invention can afford, no matter what the cost.—Atlanta Constitution. Millions for Arkansas Road Road work projected in Arkansas from October 1, 1915, to October 1, 1916, was 1,320 miles in length, at an estimated cost of $6,000,738.87, according to announcement by W. B. Owen, state highway commissioner. Conserve the Straw Don't burn the straw. If anyone tells you that Hessian fly harbor in the straw tell him that it isn't so. The fly remains dormant in the first joint of the stalk and even burning the stubble doesn't get them all. Important News Events of the World Summarized European War News German troops dressed in white overalls broke through the Russian first-line trench positions at Solotan, southwest of Erzezny, says the official statement issued at Petrograd. Official information received at London concerning the siming of the steamer Euphrates shows that the probable first victim of the new submarine policy of the central power was a Belgian relief ship. The Euphrates was returning to America in ballast when it was torpedoed. Supplemental instructions to Ambassador von Bernstorf. It was announced at the German embassy at Washington, accompanied the German declaration of received submarine warfare, and authorized the ambassador to clear the way for the safe passage of the American liners in the war . . . The German public is convinced that the unrestricted campaign launched by Germany's great U-boat fleet will shorten the war. The possibility of complications with certain neutral powers has not been overlooked by the government at Berlin, but it is felt that Germany can justify her position. . . . Great Britain and her allies are prepared to meet Germany's moves in her submarine campaign, it was authoritatively asserted in shipping circles at New York. The port of Liverpool and Bordenux will be kept open, even if it becomes necessary to convoy every merchant ship. ... Russian troops have captured Austro-German fortifications east of Jacobiend, southwest of Campulung, near the northern end of the Roumanian front, the Petrograd war office announced. Prisoners and booty were taken by the Russians. Declarating it has proof of misuse of hospital ships by the allies, Germany gave formal notice at Berlin that free passage of hospital ships in a certain zone in the Channel hereafter would be withheld. Domestic James Bigham Brady's failure to respond to treatment for several ailments, of which a seriously affected heart is the most serious, is giving his physicians at Atlantic City much concern. . . . Operation of all transportation of the Belgian relief commission has been suspended and ships in American, Argentine, Indian and European ports have been ordered to remain there until further notice, according to a dispatch to Washington. . . . The New York stock market was again subjected to heavy selling. News of a Japanese protest against proposed antitallen legislation in the West and the form which it took caused heavy selling with new low records for many issues. . . . Oregon's antialien Ind bill was withdrawn from the legislature at Saem, Ore. by Senator George R. Wilighur (Dem), who introduced it, because, as he said, he did not wish to undrop President Wilson with possible Japanese complications during he present international crisis. Leaders in the senate of the Idaho legislature also announced that the antialien bill would be killed. . . . The wildest rush to sell stock that exchange since the beginning of the war reflected the stock market view of Germany's announcement of her intention to resume unrestricted submarine warfare. Prices fell off under huge liquidation from 2 to 20 points. The German freighter Liebenfels of the Hansa line, tied up at Charleston, S.C., since the beginning of the war, began to sink slowly, and marinemen believed it had been scuttled. This belief seemed to be borne out by the fact that the captain declined the aid of tugs. . . . Orders were issued at New York to the torpedo boat stationed at quarantine to preserve neutrality, not to permit any vessel, either neutral or flying a belligerent flag, to pass out. The purpose of the order was not disclosed. United States customs officers and police boarded German liners lying at Hoboken piers and searched them from stem to stern. . . . Burned and crushed almost beyond identification and frozen, three more bodies were recovered from ice-bound ruins of the Newberry avenue tenement at Chicago that was wrecked by a gas explosion. Twenty-five is the estimate of the dead in the Ghetto horror. In carrying out Washington instructions for strict enforcement of neutrality regulations, the collector of the port at Philadelphia made arrangements to have the co-operation of the navy. A furious blizzard is raging in East Tennessee, driven by a 60-mile hour wind. Great damage already has been done. . . . Six men were found dead at St. Joseph. Mo. asphyxiated by gas escaping from small heating stoves. Four, packing house laborers, were in one hotel room. Two others died in a boarding house. . . . Kentucky suffered in the worst blizzard in years. The temperature fell to three degrees below zero. Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the buildings of the St. Louis Seed company and the Heydt barkery. The scene of the fire is in the heart of the shopping district. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Another mysterious robbery among the first families of Baltimore has been reported. The victim is Minne. A W. L. Therau von Starkenborgh Stadtbauer, who was Miss Christine Marburg, stairmaster of former Eddian Ambassador Theodore Berlin. She was robbed of a coin-studded bracelet and a $17,000 pearl necklace. Fire destroyed the building occupied by the Silsen Manufacturing company of Pologne, in the loss is estimated at $100,000. The city itself caught fire once. Firemen suffered intensely in a temperature of seven below zero. . . . The Indiana house of representatives at Indiana passed the statewide prohibition bill which previously and passed the senate, by a vote of 29 to 41. Under its provisions Indiana will go on April 2, 1918. "Stand behind the president," is the keynote of a resolution introduced by Representative Chater of Fountain county and immediately adopted by the Ohio house of representatives at Columbus, O. . . . Five persons were killed at Cromwell En. when passenger train No. 12 bengo bound, on the Chicago. Bur- ington & quincy railway was de- labeled and roiled down a 40-foot em- nagement. . . . Charles Evans Hughes, who was guest of honor at the annual dinner of the New York annual of Brock university, declared every loyal American would stand behind the admissions traction "in this solemn hour" without a partisan thought. . . . It was announced at General Funston's headquarters at San Antonio Tex. that the following state treasury scheduled to start home from her her stations at once; Indiana brigade headquarters and Second infantry, at Lima Grande; Iowa brigade headquarters and Third infantry; at Brownsville; and First North Carolina infantry, at 13 Paso. . . . Friedrich A. Connolly, the Washington spider and partner of R. W. Bellin; who gave E. F. Hutton & Co. New York brokers an accurate resume of the president's peace note before it was published, failed in examination by the congressional inquisitor committee at New York to name the exact source of his information. He exonerated falling from all blame for the "beak" on the note. . . . Sixty-eight million dollars was of credit by the Federal Reserve bank of San Francisco to its six member na- tional banks in Seattle, Wash., in case he should need it in connection with bank failures there. Washington Immediate construction of 100 submarines, 80 for coast defense and 20 for fleet operations, was proposed in a special bill introduced in the senate at Washington by Senator Pointexeter of Washington. Formal government that the state department is not refusing to issuanceports because of the new German war zone decree was made at Washington in an official statement. Objections have been made by the Japanese government to the state department at Washington to antiterrorism battles, similar to California's law, now before the Oregon and Idaho legislatures. . . . Acting to be in readiness for any complications the navy department at Washington has made all of the usual preparations ordered in the face of a possible crisis. Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo is holding the ships under his command at Guantanamo, Cuba. All are prepared for immediate action on the report of orders from Washington. . . . By a vote of 285 to 195, more than the required two-thirds majority, the house at Washington overrode the president's veto of the Burnett immigration bill. The bill will go to the senate, and it is expected the upper body will follow the action of the house. The navy department at Washington shut down the lid on the matter of location of warships, heretofore published daily. Secretary Daniels held that "it would not be advisable at this time" to reveal where the American vessels were located. The administration revenue bill, framed to meet the prospective treasury deficit next year, was passed by the house at Washington by a vote of 211 to 196. It now goes to the senate. The bill is designed to raise about $348,000,000. in BY MRS. F. CLARK. Rev. G. W. Woody, D. D., our beloved pastor, preached a wonderful sermon Sunday morning from Psalms 84:10. The morning collection was $35. At 4 o'clock, we had Missionary meeting. The routine business was transacted. Owing to the storm Sunday evenings, we did not have preaching. Few people met and we pounded our pastor with many nice things. There is much sickness in our town. Among the sick are Mrs. R. B. Scott, Mr. D. C. George, the child of Mr. and Mrs. Youge, Mr. C. P. Bell. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins exhibited the Passion play at the Method st church Sunday night. Mrs Cornelia frunty, of Kumball, at Miss Bessie Hale were the guest of Miss Nina and Miss Tyne Logan on day. They are not working on the schoo- be use last on account of the bad weather. REV. DR. G. W. WOODY GRATEFUL I take this method to thank the good people of Gary for the storm party that gave me Sunday night in all that blizzard. To my surprise, at the conclusion of my service, I saw a man coming down tha- sis with a large basket loaded down with everything to eat which one u-cle- lish. The deacon called on Rev. Wm. Sickens to deliver it to me as the speake- man for the people and he did so wit- choice words which made my heart to joice to know that the people so love me to still think of me and my t-mily knowing the high cost of living. CHURCH REMEMBERED BY THE COMPANY We want to thank the United State Coal and Coke Company through its kind hearted and generous General Manager, Col. E. O'Toole, who can tell me to his office Wednesday morning of his week and gave to me a donation of $10 for the Rock Hill Baptist church. We know that no man can do that except he be with him and in him. We thank him and pray for him—much success in businesses and a long life in the world. Done by order of Rock Hill Baptist church, Key, G. W. Woody, D. D., pastor. MARTINSVILLE Rev. J. E. Carter, who has been presiding the High Street Baptist church for three years, was called to a larger work, Friend Missionary, which compelled him to give up his pastoral choreography, though the church regretted very much to give him up. Rev Carter wished a good shepherd, a Christian gentleman and an abe preacher. He preached he arewell sermon the fourth Sunday at a clock, before a packed house, on "Sanitation." He held the people speeled sound for an hour. Everybody seemed to have been filled with the spirit. A night, he delivered an abe sermon of the "Church at Corinth." Just before he dismissed, the choir sang, "God with you till we meet again," and every went and gave him a hand snake. Mr. and Mrs. Fraud Dilard lost their eighteen months old boy recently. It was taken with whipping cough which developed into pneumonia. Mrs. Lizzie Flood who has been in Vin La Grippie, was at church Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Burgess were called to Roanoke by the bedside of them on, Furnell. Mr John Patterson has gone Whitechaff r to work. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Patsel's little baby was painfully burned by falling from a chair in which his mother left it. Mr Jack Law, of Franklin, was in own last week selling tobacco. He spent night at the home of Mr. E. F. Hey. PROHIBITION OFFICER M'FAR LAND AND CHIEF BERNARD D.STROY 99 PINTS OF WHISKEY Monday of this week was a day of a noble destruction in Keystone. For several days in the past, it had been expected that Predestination Other C. N. Ireland would make his grand staircase in the destruction of what it preacher call the "Devil's fire water," quite a supply of it he got had waiting riders from the court. About 9 o'clock a few sparks, some hail I putts and several gallops, were taken; the piece start and in the face of an opener, the above named gentlemen proceed to break both after bett. N. Ireland was allowed to come into the grove where the officers were escorted one pracerer who would be wanted to see how they did these things. Bell the after battle was smashed, guild the lock wall of the jit whose contents intered with the muddy waters of the Elkhorn Creek and without regard to the ankle dress of watching jiggons in muddy stream and as unpreceived, avoid its way on to bigger and broader streams. It has been rumored that the scent was pronounced t l men st Wit is noun caught great buckets a d barrels in, thinking that surely the present West Virginia legislature had taken special pains to supply old Mingo before the sweeping dry law goes into effect. Whose whiskey it was that the officers had apprehended, jailed and now executing no one has been able to learn. Although they know a prohibition preacher was admitted on the inside to see the job well done, but no one else. CIRCUIT COURT: (Eighth Judicial Circuit) Counties of M. Dowell, Mercer and Monroe. Hon. Isaiah C. Herndon, Judge Welch; W. Burbridge Payn Clerk. Terms of Court Second Tuesday in February June and September. CRIMINAL COURT: Hon Jas, French Strother, Judge; W. B. Payne, Clerk. Terms of Court Second Monday in January, April, July and October. COUNTY COURT: Dr R K tragonier, President, Keystone Dl. Jas Elw od Jones, and Eward N E version. Commissioners W. W. Whyte, clerk, Welch. Terms of Court. First Mon day in January, April, August od October. License Perm, first Monday in une COUNTY OFFICERS: Sheriff, S. A Daniels, Welch. Prosecuting Attorney G. L. Countz, Welch. Assistant Pros. Attorney, Samuel Solins. Clerk Circuitand Crim. Courts, Carbridge Payne Clerk County Court, W. W. Whyte County Surveyor, w C Morgan Divian Suit. Free Schools, W Cassius ook, Welch Assessor, W. J Hatfield, Welch. Courty Road Engineer, W. J. McClaren County Health Officer and cor- ner, Dr. H. G. Camper Commissioner School Lands E Rusmisell, McDowell Members House of Delegates: Harvey Haggerman, E. Howard Loper, J. Buel Swope, Floyd Waldron. State Senators, Sixth Senator district (counties of McDowell Mingo, wayne and wyoming John W Luther. Welch; Wells ivorkotz. Williamor. Now Well "Theford's Black-Draught is the best all-round medicine I ever used," writes J. A. Steelman, of Pattonville, Texas. "I suffered terribly with liver troubles, and could get no relief. The doctors said I had consumption. 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