Bluefield evening leader. [volume], January 13, 1908, Page 4, Image 4

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ZEgpcwrttcrs
For SALE and for RENT
We have on hand the following
second-hand and rebuilt machines:
3 No. 3 Olivers, with long aud short
carriages. $75 and $H5.
3 No. 3 Olivers, Regular, very little
used, $55 to $75.
\ No. 5 Underwood. 75.000 serial.
$<!5 cash, $75 time.
1 Bllckensderfer, No. 7. almost new.
fJ5.
1 Manhattan, “B,” almost new, $25.
1 Commercial Visible, $l().
5 Brand New No. 5 Olivers. The
No. 5 Oliver is the king of the
typewriter world today.
More Ol.l \ lilts have l>een sold in
West \ irginfa in tin* past two year**
than all other writing machines
Room 50, State Bank Bldg.
BLUFFIFI.I). W'. VA.
DRUGGIST SUPPLIES
Quality Rather Than Price
When ou are sick would
you sell your chances to
get well tor a lew cents?
Certainly not. Our policy
Is -to give ‘the best possible
quality at a reasonable
price. Ask your doctor If
this is not a good store to
bring his prescription to
be compounded. We would
be pleased to have you try
our prescription service.
CUT FLOWERS EVERY TUES
THURS. AND SAT.
J, L, CROCKETT,
It goes to the root of disease,
strengthens and invigorates. Its life
giving qualities are not contained in
any other remedy. Hollister's Rocky
Mountain Tea has stood the severest
test—time. For thirty years the
surest remedy. 35c, Tea or Tablets.
For sale by the White Pharmacy.
SOMETHING OF A LAWYER.
“Well. ye3," replied the landlord of
the tavern »t Polkvllle, Ark., "when
au attorney, appearing for a bloated
ruilro.nl corporation in the fac*- of a
Jury composed exclusively of middle- |
aged farmers, cuu prove, in a case
wherein u widow'lady- and u pretty i
blamed middlin' good looking widow
lady, at that—sues for the value of a
calf that v,u3 run over and killed by
the train, right dab in the middle of
. the town at high noon, with half the
population Iv-holdlng the blaugliiur;
that the calf did not stop, look and
< listen, as warned by the sign at the
crossing; that the engine did not hit
; tho animal at all, except nominally;
that the calf really died. If at all. of
some obscure Latin ealf-iUsc i ;e ei
other; that the company, by its faith
fill servant, the engineer, did an act
of pure philanthropy in killing III"*
i catf. as. Instead of being a valuable
possession in the hands of the widow. |
as alleged, it was icully an incubus, in
I that it was engaged in eating It.; fair
l mistress out of house and home; and,
I lastly, that the fair plaintiff. I erself.
despite her tears, hud once hi en a
| lady book agent—when he can achieve
all that and win the case, ns the
| colonel shorely did. no longer than a
i v > <*k before last. I sh’u'd presume to
I say that lie is pretty considerable of
a lawyer!”—Puck.
Not Properly Descriptive.
“At what hour do you wish the mar
riage solemnized?" asked the clergy
"Kight o'clock to-morrow evening.’’
Bald the caller, twirling his hat in an
embarrassed way; "but there ain't
no need of being so awfully solemn
about it. you know. I'm the clown and
she’s the lady bareback rider.”—Chi
cago Tribune.
Mr. Flea Wasn’t There.
Yeast—They say the flea is covered
with armored plates, very hard and
overlapping eaeh other. Kach bends In
conformity with the movements of the
body.
Crlmsonbeak—Well. I’ve often struck
at a flea, but I assure you that what
my hand came in contact with came
very far from resembling armored
plate.—Yonkers Statesman.
Not Forging Ahead.
"Wliat are you kicking about? You
have never even been arrested,” said
the chronic convict.
"It Is true I have never been arrest
ed." returned the expert forger, “hut
every time 1 have taken the trouble to
write another man's name on a check
that check has come back marked,
'Not sufficient funds.' ”—l'uck .
Ureal- icg It Ccn.iy.
Foiled daughter- Papa, what has
come over you? I never h id a wish
you were not anxious to gratify, and
you even anticipated my want.i. aud
handed me money for all .soi ta of
tilings I hadn’t even thought of. Hut
now I havo to ask you for every penny
I need, and now you growl and
grumble, and ask If I think you are
made of money, and you rail at wom
an's extravagance, and (availably ask
me what on earth I did with the last
Cheque, or sovereign, or half-crown
you gave me. Don't you love tno any
more?
I’apa—My darling, 1 love you as
much as ever, but you are soon to be
married, and I am trying gradually to
prepare you for the change.—Koyal
Magazine.
Considerate Old Gentleman.
‘‘Why’, gracious, pa." said the only
daughter, "what In tin* world are those
queer unungements you have placed
In the vestibule?"
The old gentleman rubbed his gouty
foot and softly chuckled.
"Not much, dearie,” he responded.
"You see. I noticed how long it takes
for you and that young man to Hay
goodnight, ho I fitted up* an electric
heater to keep your feet from getting
cold and a portable alarm clock to in
form you of the breakfast hour." -
Mrs. I). I,. Moult/,, who underwent
an operation at St. Lukes hospital
alum a week ago, and who has been
seriously ill ever since, i« now at the
point of death.
Horn, to Mr. and Mrs. O. V. Hef
ner, a son.
W A XT K D—-Ten boys to apply at
The Header and The Comfort Shoe
Store at office.
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I OI .\"|) Pair of glasses on street
today. Owner ran get some by
• ailing on Vrof. Cord and paying
for this ad.
KRY MAN desires to be in
style and we can put you
there- All good dressers take
stock in garments produced by
us. \\ e show nothing but the
very latest and our prices are
right
Franklin 8* Frei
Higginbotham Ave.
: Phelps .TheStore For
Fttfnhofe ~ Good Furniture
Store Of &id the special propose
-- tion we have ever made, no
Princeton Ave. previous efforts can begin to
— compare with what we have
in store for you right now. Our store is a peo
feet display of good craftsman. Displayed for
your inspection are the following:
Dressing Tables,
Writing Desks .. „ ,....
Fancy Polished Rockers,
Combination Book Cases,
Chifoniers,
Center Tables,
Library Tables,
China Closets,
Dining Tables,
Side Boards,
Willow Rockers,
Morris Chairs,
Settees,
Mission Rockers,
Parlor Rockers,
Leather Couches,
Pantasote Couches?
Bed Davenports,
Office Desks;
Leather Chairs,
Hat Racks,
Parlor Cabinets,
Bunets,
Mission Tables.
Just arrived fine Line of Down, Silk and Pancy
Sateen Comforts; also fine line of Wool Blankets
Childrens!"?' ekt rs
Mission Sets
Bed Room Sets
Iron Beds
Brass Beds
Art Piet res
Pedesta
Arm Chairs
A- + 6. * * /> *
! PERSONAL
—
G. F. Milled of Norton was here
, today.
.Mrs. H. W. Shepherd Is visiting
relatives In Roanoke.
O. I*. Rurnetti of Giatto was a
Minefield visitor day.
\V\ 1*. Williams of Huntington is
visiting relative** in the city.
..
W. H. Pastor, of Princeton, was
the guest of his sister, Mrs. J. If.
MuhhIcwhite, yesterday.
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O. V. Hefner is rejtorted seriously
111 with typhoid fever at his home on
I McCulloch avenue.
Judge L. M. Allen is re|H>rted
right sick at his homo on Rogers
street with a severe attack of grip.
The Princeton 'hacks were well
loaded and quite a number of people
left the train this morning for
Princeton to attend criminal court
which convened there today.
The four cases of smallimx at
Mrs. N. C. Belcher’s on Brush Fork
are said to be of a mild form and
there is no fear of a spread of the
disease.
C. V. Foland, foreman of our job
department. sustained a painful
strain of the ankle by a fall Satur
day morning. He is able to get nbout
today.
.Mrs. II. B. Perfater returned yes
terday from Lurleh and Peterstown,
where she has been for some time
having been called to Peterstown to
attend the burial of her sister, Mrs.
.1. P. Campbell.
Mrs. Patrick Harman, who lives a*
the corner of Beasley and Lawson
streets, fell on Reese street alnmt
noon today and sustained a severe
injury to one of her hips. She had
to Is* carried to her home.
The leader has been requested to
state that there are many unfortun
ate people within the limits of the
city who are in distress. Some need
fuel, some need provisions, others
are out of proj>er clothing and some
are sick and need attention.
(leo. W. Linkenhoker. of Chris
tiansburg, who has been visiting his
, children and other relatives here for
some time and has been quite sick
with pneumonia at the home of his
daughter at Midway for the last ten
days, will be able to return home in
a few days.
Mr. W. S. Morton of Union, W.
Va., is in Graham visiting his sons
and assisting Mr. C. W. Kester in
taking an inventory of the stock of
the Graham Hardware company. The
hardware company made a good
, showing during the year jimt pass
ed.
The bnd weather has somewhat
interfered with railroad traffic since
Saturday. a slide near Montvale.
oast of Roanoke, delayed 1N0. 1 r>
nine hours yesterday and No. 4 was
marked four hours and fifteen min
utes late today on account of trou
ble west of Williamson. There was
a slido near Oakvale yesterday but
did not cause any delays.
Revival services were commenced
l at Bland Street Methodits church at
2:30 today. Di^Tng thes** meetings
the past’or. Rev. D. Emory Hawk,
will be assisted by Rev. A. B. Hunt
er. of Maryville. Tenn., who will
conduct the singing. Rev. Hunter is
well known In Bluefleid and lias
many friends hero who will Ih* glad
to meet him. Preaching every day
and night, commencing promptly at
2:30 lr> the afternoon and at 7:30
p. m.
NOTICE.
Treasury Department, office of the
Supervising Architect, Washington.
D. C., January 4, 1908. Sealed pro
I posals will t»e received at this office
until 3 o'clock p. m. on the 1 Oh day
of February. 1908. and then opened
for the construction (Including
plumbing, gas piping, heating appa
ratus, electric conduits and wiring!
o ft he I'nlted States Post office and
Court House at Minefield. West Vir
ginia, in accordance with the draw
ings and specification. copie nf
which may he had at the office of the
custodian of site at Minefield. West
Virginia, or at this office, at the Jis
'cretlon of the Supervising Architect
JAMES KNOX T\YUm,
Supervising Architect
l-7-Ot
CLOSING I AW IS
CONSTITUAIONAI.
Mobile, Ala.. Jan If. The nine
oclock closing law passed by the
last leg I * |*n re, effective from Janu
ary 1st. has In-on declared constitu
tional by Judge o J. Semn.es of elty
court in habes4 corpus proceedings
j for r leave or. a saloon keeper for
j violation of same, who on agree -
1 ment was yesterday arrested on the
|charge of violation of the law,
FULL HOUSE AT
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
^ - ,
Notwithstanding the weather the
auditorium of the Christiau church,
which is the largest church auditori
um 1n the city, was filled to its ca
l»aclty with a large and attentively
appreciative audience which listened
almost breathlessly to the sermon
preached by Kev. Geo. F. Crites from
tho topic ‘‘A Political Subject.”
Toniglit the subject will be “Steps
to Conversion,” the topic speaks for
iiself as one full of interest, a new
consignment of hymn books ha? been
received which adds to the pleasure
of the services. Praise service com
mences at 7:30. Sermon at 8. All
the people of Hluefield are cordially
invited to attend. .
POULTRY SHOW
_
North Yakima. Wash., Jan. 13.—
The third annual exhibition of the
Yakima Poultry Association, the
principal organisation of its kind in
the Pacific Northwest, opened here
today and will continue through the
entire week. Fanciers of Washing
ton, Oregon, California, Idaho and
British Columbia an* represented
among the entries. The judge is W.
C. Denny, the w II known poultry
authority of Rochester, N. Y., who
acted as Judge of the poultry exhib
its at the Pan-American Kxpositlon.
TWO MORE ~
ARRESTED
IN CONNECTION WITH THE AD
KINS, WHO WERE CONVICTED
IN THE FEDERAL COURT.
Fayetteville, W. Va„ Jan. 13.—
1'wo more arrests have been made at
Harts Creek, Lincoln county, which
was brought into prominence recent
ly by the conviction of ten
men who were charged with conspir
ing to imi>ede Jaw and justice. Don
Dempsey and Anthony Lambert were
arrested last week by Deputies Don
Cunningham and Sam Davis, on a
charge of perjury. The two are said
to have sworn falsely at the recent
trial held in Charleston and in ad
dition to .the perjury charge the
prisoners are said 'to have been im
plicated with Fred Adkins and oth
er defendants in the robbery of the
Adkins’ store at Hart's Creek.
Hoili men were taken before
United States Commissioner Hudson
at Logan Court House and were
later committed to the Huntington
jail to await the action of the grand
Jury.
LEAVITT
REPORTS
THAT IIE AVI) HIS WIFE A HE DI
VORCED, A\l) SHOWS LET
TERS IN WHICH SHE SENDS
A FF EC T 1C > VA TR >1 ESS AO ES.
I’arfs. Jan. 13.—William H. Lna
vlW, Wm. J. Bryan’s son-in-law, em
phatically denied today the reports
that, he and his wife 'had been di
vorced and showed several letters
which he received from his wife In
Italy, In which she sent him affec
tionate message*, and said she would
meet him in Paris In June. On a
|H>st card she. alluded to the newspa
|ter stories and said she "hoped they
had escape the hands of silly people
by this time.’*
YOUNG WOMEN
FIGHT « DUEL
I «»r tin- A tti« it. ns of a Young Sailor
V" " *1 Ib i is-if Smith, Who Ap
|m-iiml on Keene and Put a Stop
j •»« t onfllct.
f’l 'shurg, Pa . Jan. 13. Five
hundred |>ersons at North Braddook
rwatche:! two young women fight a
duel almost o death Saturday. They
were Ruth Froeler and Mr*. Susan
jtlrfggsby. Widow rivals, for the af
| feet km of Herliert Smith, a twenty
| two-year-old sailor.
The young 'man finally appeared
on tht> scene and ptvt a stop to fhe
bloody battle, though probably 'on
late to save life. Both are thought I
'to he dying. .
NI W YOltrt k.'i'OCK MARKET REPORT, FIRX1SHKD MY TUK ULIK
FIELD HltOKERAGK AND COMMISSION COMPANY. DAILY.
Open High. Low. Cloee.
Anaconda . 32 324 31$ 3*$
Amalgamated Copper. 502 524 4»i 53$
American Car and Foundry. 31$ 315 32$ 312
Atalntic Coast Lin© . 30$ 30$ 30$ 30f
American Ix>comotlve, common ... 38 4q 3K 40
American Smelters . 79$ 79# 75^ 77$
Atchison .«. 702 73$ 70J 73i
B* & °... 892 892 882 89$
B> ,R* T'.*.. A3$ 43$ 4 2$ 434
Colorado Fuel & Irou. 21 214 21 214
Canadian Pacific. 1492 1532 1492 153$
Chesapeake* Ohio._*. 32 32 314 32
Dis. Securities.J. 334 331 33$ * 331
Delaware and Hudson. 1654 167 1654 1654
Erie, common . 162 16ft 16 164
Erie, first preferred . 342 344 342 3*2
Illinois Central .
Louisville and Nashville. 98 99$ 973 99
Missouri, Kansas and Texas. 26 26$ 252 **64
Missouri Pacific . i. 44 45 44, J
National Lead. 41 41 4o$ 40$
New York Central . 97$ 99$ 97$ 99J
Norfolk and Western .. 66$ 66$ 654 '654
Northern Pacific . 1232 124 1224 123$
Ontario and Western . 34J 35$ 34J 35,
Pennsylvania Railroad .114 4 1152 1131 ,1141
Peoples Gas . 87$ 88$ 37$ ggj
Reading .107$ 1O84 106$ 107
Republic Iron and Steel.. 18 18$ 18 18$
Rock Island ...„....... 15* 15$ 15* 16$
Southern Pacific . 76 764 75 . 75*
Paul .. 1164 115 1154
Southern Railway, common . lift llj 102 114
Cast Iron Pipe. 35* 354 34$ 342
®ug,ir .Ill 112* 110$ 112$
Tenn. Coal and Iron.
Union Pacific. 125 126 124 125$
United States Steel, common. 28J 29J 28 292
United States Steel, preferred. 932 95 93$ 94$
Virglnla-Carollna, common .
Wabash, common . 97 9t " V;.9(
Wabash, preferred. 172 1?T ,77
u&ion.j;*
Great Northern preferred .1222 124 1 222 123
Great Western. 55 “gJ g.
Atlantic Coast Lino, •••••••••,,## 72 72^ 72 72&
Cast Iron Pipe.202 202 202 ?0i
WILLIAMS’
KIDNEY PILLS
Have you neglected your Kidneys?
Have you overlooked your nervous
system and caused trouble with your
kidneys and bladder? Have you
pains In loins, side, back, groins and
bladder? Have you a flabby appear
ance of the face, especially under
the eyes. Too requently a desire
to pass urine? If so, William's Kid
ney Pill will cure you.
Price 60c.
For sale by The White Pharmacy;
Cor. Bland street and Princeton ave.
REVIVAL MEETING AT
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The series of meetings which have
been in progress at the Presbyterian
church for the past week or ten
days, still continues with unabated
interest.
The meetings will be held through
this we k and will be conducted >>y
Kev. S. W. Moore, who presents the
saving truth in a strong, clear, ten
der and winning manner. The sing
ing, led by Rev. Moore, Is particu
larly good, and should not be miss
ed. Young and old can join in and
enjoy it.
A cordial welcome Is extended to
all.
PILES! PILES! PILES!
Williams* Indian Pile Ornament
will cure Blind, Bleeding and Itching
Plies, it absorbs the tumors, allays
Itching at once, acts as a poultice,
gives instant relief. Williams’ In
dian Pile Ointment is prepared for
Plies and itching of the private parts.
Mail 0c. and $1.00. Williams M’f’g
Co., Cleveland. O.
GRAIN MARKET.
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WHEAT—
May.1053 106 104 1043
Ju!y. 99* 99* 97{ 983
CORN—
May. 592 60* 592 60*
Ju>y. 58* 59* 583 59
OATS—
May. 533 532 531 533
Ju,y. 47* 47* 463 462
PORK—
May . 13.32 13.37 13.27 13.35
Jan. 12.80 12.82 12.80 12.82
LARI)—
May .. .. 8.00 8.05 7.97 8.00
Jan. 7.70 7.77 750 7.50
RIBS—
May .. .. 7.15 7.20 7.12 7.15
Jan. 6.82 6.92 6.82 6.82
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NEW YORK COTTON.
Jan.1082 1084 1069 1074
March ...1097 1102 1084 1090
May .... 1103 1107 1089 1094
July .. ..1095 1095 1082 1082
PRODUCE QUOTATION*. ‘
la furnished hy Bluefleld Produce *
Commission Co., wholesale dealers In
produce, fruits and vegetables:
Tomatoes, per crate .fl.60
Lemons, per box, fancy.5.00
Honey, per pound ...lg
Irish otatoes, or bW..
'Apples, per bbl.g.oo
Cabbage, per 100 lbs.1.40
)nlons, per bu. ..1.25
Jears, preserving, per bu.1.75
>weet Potatoes, per bu. 2.75
Jrapes, Concords, per basket.. .25
tutabagaa, per 100 lb.1.25
Peanuts, raw, per lb.09
’eanuts, roasted, per lb.9|
WHY
DO WE SELL SO
MANY SHOES ?
Our Shoes fit perfectly.
Our Shoes look elegant.
Our Shoes wear lohgest.
WE SELL NETTLETOH SHOES
$5.50, $0.00, $0.50.
WE SEEL CRAWFORD SHOES
$5.50. $4.00, $4.50, $5.00.
Metropolitan Men's
Furnishing Company