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THINGS THEATRICAL
AT THE PLAY HOUSE
HA1XTY H>KLAII>K THITtMTOX,
THK WOMAN
Although her surpassing and var
ied talents have won for the dainty
little actress. Adelaide Thurston,
her high rank in thw profession
which she honors, as well as adorns.
It 1* perhaps her feminine qualities
that have made her the best loved
woman on the American stage.
The natural sweetness of her
character is ever present—she can
not hide It. No matter what the part
she portrays, it Is the lovableness of
the true woman that shines through
It all and appeals to what Is best
in the heartB of her auditors.
That people like to h*ive their bet
ter natures appealed to Is made evi
dent by the tremendous popularity
this little actress, who has but Just
started In her twenties, has already
won for herself.
•It Is natural with Miss Thurston,
as all’ who have the privilege of
knowing her personality will gladly
testify. She never has lost a friend
und is constantly making new ones,
ELKS' OPERA HOUSE
Thursday, March 5
ANNUAL TOt’H.
Adelaide Thurston
And n ('oinpany of 1/1111*11:1!
Strength in
HER LAST SEASON'S CiltEAT
SIX'<'ESS
THE GIRL FROM
OUT YONDER
MuKtilllcrnt Scenic Product ion
Under Management of Francis
X. Ho|ie.
Prices, SI. 75. 50 and OB.
and all because she rings true.
In her life <ilT the stage she is
1 less of an actress than the amateur.;
, She loves the stage and her work.
but looks upon it as her life work,
'too serious to be treated slightly,;
1 and consequently she reserves all
her marvellous histrionic powers for
the stage, and contents herself w ith
being only her sweet charming self,
when not at work, making friends
and trying to tighten the burdens
; of those less fortunate than herself.
Great as Adelaide Thurston is as
' an actress, she is ever greater ns
a woman.
It is because the character or
! Flotsam is so womanly sweet that
Miss Thurston likes her new play,
j "The Girl From Out Yonder." bet
ter than any she has ever had, and i
I that ^is why she IspikyUig it again!
I tills season.
VF.W ORLEANS AND
“THE ( I.ANSMAX."
Trodden under the Iron heel of i
Reconstruction, the state of Louis
iana has peculiar cause tc remember
the days of which “The Clansman '
l treats. When the famous Recon
struction play was produced In New
Orleans recently, it received a hearty j
welcome from press end public. Its1
truth to history was quickly recog
nized, end the hearU of the people
j warmed to It In its presentation ot
| the bra\e men who threw off thej
y>oke of the carpetbagger and as-;
sorted the rights of Southern man-1
hood. “The Clansman'' will he
| played here at the Elks' theater on
j Monday, March 16, when our people
will be enabled to Judge for them
selves. " ‘The Clansman’ Booms dos-1
tined to lx» highly successful,’’ said)
the New Orleans Tlmes-Demoerat.!
“It Is a well-constructed, powerfully)
dramatic play of absorbing Interest,
admirably acted and adequately
staged.’’
“Presents a powerful picture or
the Reconstruction period,’’ said the
Picayune. "The audience Is moved
to great enthusiasm by the soul,
stirring scenes."
TREATS NIt;ICO WITH FAIRNESS
The clamor over “The Clansman,"
which comes to the local thea'er on
Monday, March 16, has been high,
but careful critics are pointing out
that it treats the negro with fair
ness. It shows us the In’eReCtuVl
negro in the lieutenant-governor of
| South Carolina, the faithful and
i loyal blacks in Pnole Nelgp ^pj
' Mammy Eve, together with the baser
types, such as the sheriff Aleck m l
Elks Opera House
Monday March 16
THE CLANSMAfS FAREWELL
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Last chance to see
^ this wonderful
play until the
I
season 1911
' George H. Brennan
Presents
A Story of the Ku Klux Klan
By Thomas Dixon, Jr.
Two Companies Consolidated Into One, 75
People on the Stage, A Troop of Cavalry
Horses, New Scenic and Electrical Effects
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SPEC! A L NOTIC K—ON A* 'COI'NT
OF THE ENORMOI S SCC'CESS OK
THE CLANSMAN'S TIIICMPHAL
> FAREWELL TO! II, PATRONS
> WILL KINO IT TO THEIR INTER
> EST TO SECT RE TICKETS WELL
I ADVANCE. FREE LIST AMMO
• U TELY HI SPEVOEO.
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| Prices $1.50, 1.00 75, 50, 25
> SEATS ON SALE FRIDAY. MARCH 18.
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the militiaman Gus. All this In .»
setting of the historic Rec instruc
tion period which the play portrays
with marvellous fidelity, while It
briugs before the spectator the awe
some ritual and glorious achieve
ments of the Ku Klux Klan.
A COSTLY THING TO 1U*N FOR
GOVERNOR OF WKST
VIRGINIA.
HIGH TAX PIAt'KII OX < ANDI
l»ATF.S lIY RFIM'ltUCAN
t'OMM ITTKKS.
Cleorge C. Baker, law partner of
•lurtgo Cox (formerly of the West
Virginia Supreme court), iu a letter
to the Morgantown Chronicle, states
some startling Tacts, from which he
draws conclusions worthy of the
careful consideration of West Vir
ginia voters. Mr. Baker says;
I have Just received a letter
front an old Republican of high
standing, front the county of Kan
awnha with reference to the fee of
$250, whieh the Republican commit
tee of Marion county charges to each
candidate as a ntero entrance fee for
the right to rutt for governor of the
state. It will be seen by his letter
• hat Kanawha county also charges
a fixed fee of $550 for the right to
he on the Republican ticket in
Kanawha county for the primary. If
each of the 55 counties of the state
should charge a like fee, us a mere
entrance fee to the primary, each
candidate would have to put up in
cold cash the sum of $30,250. or
the three candidates would be forced
to pay $90,750. This last sum
would not <>over any other large ex
petises of the candidates for the of
fice of governor, which legitimately
tall upon those who run for said of
fice. In other words, unless the can
didate was the representative of the
corporations and combines, or was
«i millionaire, It would be absolutely
prohibitive; • for no ordinary, plain
citizen of the state (no difference
how many qualifications he mlghf
have for the office, and notwith
standing the fact that ho might he
the most capable man for the posi
tion. and no matter how* long he
may have served his party) could
possibly be a candidate at all.
Not only has the Swisher-Daw
Hon combine In Kanawha county
placed a premium on the man who
i« controlled by the combine^ «r
trusts for the office of governor,
and made It almost prohibitive for
any good, honorable citizen to be
come a candidate for the office un
less he is worth millions or has great
corporations at his back, but the
Charleston Mall, which Is the only
Repu|,||ran paper at the capital, and
which ought, to he an open forum
for all decent Republicans to express
themselves upon subjects in which
the people are Interested, absolutely
refused, as we are reliably Informed,
to permit Hon. Arnold C. Scherr to
announce himself |n that county and
pay for the announcement of hla
candidacy, and to permit anyone to
«l»eak favorably of him In the col
timns of the paper,
"The result of it is that no Repub
I Mean, unless he bends his knee to
the f>awson-Swisher combine and
acknowledges his servitude to that
| combination, can say a word at the
state capital, Is the only Republican
paper at Charleston. If he differs
with the administration, as to who
ought to be the next governor of
West Virginia."
TUB rilBHIOBNT'fl CAM,.
Moundsvllle, w. Va.. March i._
To the Sunday School Workers of
I Went Virginia Orceting;
Hear ye all, this state-wide call,
j to ibe twenty-sixth annual conven
tion of the Sunday School hosts of
our great commonwealth. In assoin
bly to meet at Fairmont, April 21
23. ibOX. Come all ye who would
help, or be helped. Ret us make this
S convocation the host, the most In
spirational. In the history of our or
gas I zed work. The children are In
our schools In Increasing numbers;
we must learn how to Impress them
, for all time The young poop’* are
present full of virile strength, and
of graceful beauty; they must be
enlisted In Christ's Army of Work
ers. The adults are all about us full
f latent powe.s; we must arouse
THOM AH R. PERRY, M. !>.,
Specialist,
Rye, Ear, Nose and Throat.
Minefield. W. Vs.
OccnIM for N. « W. Railway.
0
? HE PENIS! MU1 UAL LIFE INSUR A NCF. CO.
Assets Over . . . $90,000,000
Surplus Over . . 5,000.000
THE BEST COMPANY FOR
THE POLICY HOLDER . . .
E. H. EASLEY, General Agent, Bluefield, West Va.
them to activity upon the side of
righteous influences.
Come to review the past; we n»‘o 1
upon the mountain top* of the n^es.
Come to receive strength for the fu
ture; the generations lie at our feet.
I Come to this council of workers- you j
will hear the newest and most help-j
ful methods to win the youth or our;
slate, to the highest aud best. Teach
lug Is a line art. Come to this "Falr
: Mount," where in association we alii
I meet trained teachers seeking to
.bring the day when, ns In other
lines of endeavor, (‘specially or-'-1
pared and thoroughly trained minds,
shall do the work In this divines']
and most difficult of all callings.
Come to this conference of do- j
voted men and women, catch their;
inspiration, and return gladly to
your fields of work, tilled with n > a
r.eal. high hope, and holy ambition
to do the most and best for your
King and Mia Kingdom. The memory
of pust fellowship will br' ig many
again; let the thought of future fel
lowship bring many anew. He.»r this
j ^a,, ,;> duty and delight, and e vil".
HONK, HONK!
COP IS COMING!
.
Boston, March 5.—Boston police
! nuthorlties are considering the ad
dition of several more automobile
policemen to the force, as the re
sult of the successful trial given by
Policeman Bauer, the “automobile
‘■op,’ of the West Roxbury district,
which covers almost one-third of tlw
area of the el<ty of Boston. While
bicycle police 'have become common.
| Boston has been the first city to use
• lie automobile as an old In the
transaction of police business, and j
the trial has fully demonstrated the'
| usefulness of the motor cars.
Officer Bauer's machine is of the
runabout order. It has seen good
service since Its first trip in June.!
I 1 905- Up to the present time It has
| covered 33,3*4 miles In Its trips
through Jamaica Plain and West
Roxbury, the territory to which It
Is confined; 9.251 mllea were re
corded In 1905, 1 1.0 27 miles in 1906
and 11,204 In 1907. In January <-,»
i this year the machine ran 1.242
' miles.
Its service has ls>en nearly as var
ied as that of the policeman who ^
i chauffeur. It has taken rush trips
to fires. Investigated police court
rases, played the part of ambulance
a-.fl given first aid to the Injured by
| conveying them to their homes, and
cvfsn broken up street fights. Dur
ing 1906 It was out 234 days, and
In 1907 219 days.
PILGRIMS IN THE
ALTOGETHER
Winnipeg. Man., March 5.- Ten
{thousand stalwart men and fair
: women, clad in (he costume popu
larly supposed to have been affertel
by Adam and Kvo before the fall,
will form a spectaclo that may shock
the eyes of the people of the Mis
sissippi valley this spring.
This army clothed in innocence
and nothing else, will is* composed
of the Doukhohors, the religious
fanatics who were settled In the
western Canadian provinces by the
dominion government several years
ago. The lea lers have announced
that the promised land lies to th"
south, In the valley of the Missis
sippi, and already preparations arc
being made by the faithful for the
great pilgrimage.
Owing to the proclivities of th**
Donkhr oors to east off their cloth
j Ing. always scant, whenever the c||
ma-te will allow, and to depend for
sustenance upon Rod and the people
through whose territory they march.
• he t'ntted States authorities will
likely have much trouble In Indurlnv
the fanatics to comjdy with the laws
of the land,
nitvtv im port Dwt i\uoim>;.
Omaha. Neb., March ft. —-Deloga
Mon* favorably to the candldcy of
William .1 Bryan will Ik* selected by
the Rcmorra' and populist state con
ventions, wh#h met here today.
"11,1, ItKOPf N H\II.WAV SllolN
St. I/OuTs, March ft If is an
nounced by officials of the Roubl
roads that the Missouri Pacific shops
jin Bedalia. Mo. employing KOO men,
and the Iron Mountain shops in l.lt
He Bock, employing 1.200 men.
which were recently closed on ac
count of the falling off In business,
will shortly be reopened.
IS OUT FOR
WHIT KM CARD OKNOI NONO
KKOKHAK OKKK'KHOl.OKKtt.
TAFT MKN HAD TIlIKD TO l>K
KKAT IIIM KOH SKNATOH.
SnpiHirtcrN of ImtUun’M < niull<lnt<>
J ul>ilant—— K\|M-rt to ('iirry
Htme.
Frankfort, Ky., March r>. Falr
hunkH’ boom In Kentucky Ih given a
big boost by the formal announce*
mont by 8enator-elo"t W. O. Bradley
that he favor* Mr. Fairbanks for
president and believes that if Mr.
Taft Ih nominated by the Republi
can* he will he defeated.
Having behind It the prestige of
the newly elected senator, the an
nouncement means that Mr. Fair
banks probably will carry Kentucky
I hose who were wenk-keenod and
who did not know which way they
would go In the presidential elec
tion. now will gallop Into the Fair- j
banks’ camp and, to iiho another!
metaphor, some of them already
have harked their shins climbing
over the side of the Fairbanks’ hand
wagon.
The Fairbanks end of the party
was fighting for Mr. Bradley and
landed him In the senate with the
able assistance of Mr. Bradley hlm
Holf, while the Taft end, represent
ed by R. >P. Pirnst and R. W. Knott,
were flg'hting Mr. Bradley as earn !
estiy as they could. Ft was conceded
that tho victory of Mr. Bradley
would give Kentucky to Piairhanks,
and the supporters of the Indtanlan
are jubilant and stlli busy denounc
Ing the Federal machine, which,
they say, Ih as odious uh the machine
which ruined Mie Democratic party.'
llradli'y'H MlutciiH-nl.
Mr. Itra<]ley gave out (ho follow
ing statement;
During the content for United
Statog senator I felt as the nominee
of the Republican piu-iy that I had
no right to endanger success by
complicating that race with my pref
erence for the nominee for presi
dent. Despite absolute silence In thix
matter, tihe active friends of Mr. '
Taft. aside from th«**e in the (Jen
eral Assembly and a few others,
gave no aid or Comfort, i/»me ot
• hem doing whet they were able to
do to defeat me.
'Now that the contest has been
happily ended, I feel that the pub
lie hast t'he right to know niy pox I
Don. The recent financial troubles,
which, unhappily, have not been1
wholly relieved, will, of course. I
whether Justly or not, be charged*
upon the Republican party, Just nx
(he ifom/'stead rlotx were charged
"imn If In 1892. Notwithstanding
Mr. Ifarrlson had given one of the,
m<»nt superb admlnlMtratfona the1
country had ever experienced, and |
(hat neither he nor his party wax re
sponsible for these riots, the Repuh
Mean party went down to defeat. We
might ax well appreciate the fact '
now, that we ehall have no walk
over In the coming presidential eon
(esf. ft, therefore, behooves the'
party f0 exercise great caution In
the *"!',',tton of a presidential candi
date. Judge Taft is a man of win
nlng |personality and signal ability I
and would. If elected, make a great
president. Hut, while this lx truest
seem* evident that his election Is by
no means certain, with the labor
unions and the negroes against him.
ix exceedingly doubtful /hether
he could carry the states of Ohio,
Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, New
Vork and possibly others There can
be no hope of carrying Kentucky,
West Virginia and Maryland. So far
a*, the fentral tfnd extreme South
' rn states are concerned. It Is well
known that not a single electoral
vote can he had for Mr. Taft or any
olfcer Republican. Resides. If Is plain 1
(hat the last.mentioned states are
controlled alone by Federal office
holder*.
Have Always |g»sf.
The Federal officeholders fn Ken
tucky have never failed when con
trolling the party in the state to ac
complish a Democratic success.
ICK MKX PltKPAKK FOR HKASOX
Kansas City. Mo., March 5.—
Serene In the confidence that the
back of winter has been broken and
that summer la on the way, the deal
ers In frosen water in all parts of
the west assembled In Kansas City
today for the tenth annual session
of the Western lee Manufacturers'
association. The convention will Inst
throe days and will be largely de
voted to a discussion of the Ice bust- J
ness in all Its phases. Nearly 250
manufacturers In the west and
southwest are members of the asso
ciation. (President K. R. Audler, of
Scdnlia, Mo., is presiding.
hkr iikxh akk pious.
Batesvllle, Ark.. March 5.—A
prominent Methodist woman of
Newark, this county, who has adopt
ed the plan of donating to the
church the proceeds from all eggs
laid by her poultry on Sunday, de
clares that her hens now lay two
or three times as many eggs on the
first day of tho week ns on any
other.
DHOW TO
DEFEND FRIEND
Warren, O., March 5.—When Al
ford Kinsman, a wealthy resident of
Klnaman. thin county, faces a Jury
this month to answer to the chnrgo
of slaying Ueorge ftlrretl, he will
have aa hla lending counsel Clarence
IVarrow, the famous Chicago attor
ney, who auccoaefully defended Hay
wood and Petti bone, the western la
t.>r leaders. Harrow and Kinsman
wore school mates, and although the
distinguished attorney la still Ruf
fering front (the lllmeaa thnt sent him
from Idaho to a L»os Angeles hospi
tal. he has promised to come to the
defense of hla former companion.
Hlrrei is alleged to have l tee it killed
by Kinsman aa the result of a quar
rel over the settlement of the es
tate of the latter’s father, of which
lllrrell was trustee.
IN 1778 TURKU MR UR 18 STATUS
IN 1008 Till:ItK AKK 40 STATUH PfAfTfACCl
WHAT IH)KH THIH MRAN? ■ 1 VOOl
In April, 1008, began buslae^s. In January, 1008, the
FLAT TOP NATIONAL BANK
of Bluefield, West Virginia,
IS Tllli HTKONOKHT OKU AN
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WHAT DORH TIIIH MMAN? ■ ■ U^l Ijjl
Come and grow with us and “Uncle Ham.”
UNITKI) HTATRH l)R POSIT A KY.
Capital .$ 100,000.00
Stockholders' Inability. 100,000.00
Hnrplua . 318,000.00
Resources Three - quarter Million Dollars.
Pays 3 per cent. Interest on Time Deposits.
Ii. R. TIKHNKY, Presl ent; R. R. HO Id A NO, Cashier;
W. H. THOMAS, Vice-President; W. K. HICKS, Assistant
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