Bluefield evening leader. [volume], April 27, 1908, Page 4, Image 2

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WEST VIRGINIA
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MON ll.\ Y, APItll. 117. I mis.
MARK KATIC TICKET.
Election Tuesday, May 190s.
For Mayor—F. M. Peters.
For Treasurer—A. M. Band.
For Recorder—J. E. Crockett.
For Supervisor— 3. Frazier Stow
ers.
For Council man-at-Earse .fames
K. Clark.
For Councilmen:
First Ward—W. E. McArtor.
Second Ward M. E. Wingfield.
Third Ward Dr. Wade II. f.i
Clair.
Fourth Ward—G. A. Matthews.
Fifth Ward—A. Eynch.
Sixth Ward—Renton Cnunidcr.
Seventh Ward—Hose Mason.
Eighth Ward—A. B. Thompson.
f'ity Engineer Geo. 11. Hill yeater
(i.i> stated to the Daily Telegraph
th.nt neither .Mr. Carter or Mr. Lilly
have ever refused to pay any assess
nir»nt ror street paving. Mr. Mill has
charge of these collections and has
the records in the cases of ail the
citizens. Every paving claim has
l»een handled by him.- Daily Teh
graph.
Dave they refused to pay Side
walk assessments? A sidewalk is a^
nnieh a public improvement, and as
necessary as street paving, and we
want to ask further if Mayor Car
ter has connected his various proper
ties with the sanitary sewer, and
paid that assessment? Or did lie
connect without a i**rmit in viola
tion of the ia\v?
The fact remains that both Messrs.
( arter and Lilly refused their ns
sesments Tor sidewalks and they
were returned delinquent by the city
treason r.
The City engineer says he has
nothing to do with collecting side
walk assessments.
The Leader should post Itsell
Judge Saunders has no property i
front of which sidewalks nr stree
Paving has been done He has ha
no costs assessed against him an
has refused r.o payments due th
city F,a|iy Telegraph.
'I be Lender did not say that. Judg
Hand'rs had refused to pav any m
s“s*ment If said he was one of ,p
banded togefhc
,,p ,H rty owners** who want to knoi
Varfo.M prop Tty owners alon
fi• i iventic and Princeton avf
«nd Republican.
"mi paving assessments in || ^
ity. and we art1 in formed that t li«>y
<>l opinion that tin* (Ity cannot
<*nforce tiles.' payments. They are
..ip!o\ 'd in ;i professional parity,
' id no one should criticise or ques
lln»ir right to repr<*sent these
loop!.*, and the attempt of the Tde
rapli to make political capital out
o' t It is Is farcial. It says tlicse prop
1 1owners are led by a Doinoarat,
I'nt it might more truthfully say
'liey ar • led by a Democrat who
'.ik-*s no part in politics, and by a
Republican who is an active worker
in! chairman of tin* city committee.
All that it should ask is that peo
ple obey the law. The legal ma
chinery is wholly !n (he hands or
its own party. To say that the plans
of tlie city are balked by what it
• Tins Democrats is to confess either
•',at ni<‘ l»'v is bad. or the officials
lie not competent to enforce it. The
mayor lias said lie would not enforce
the. law. Perhaps the other officials
are of the same opinion.
The Norfolk and Western Railway
Cu* ha» Just declared its semi-an
'.nal dividend of u per cent, on com
■ i on stock. Tills is encouraging as
(alls only oae-lialf of one per cent.
• low its high wager mark, and is
is high as any dividend which the
i >ad iiad paid on its common stock
•*P to 1906.
Recently iho iiuestion of a general
!* 1 ik1'ion of wages was <1 iscussed
i' tween the. employes and officials
11 read. The employes pointed
v'ith much force to the fact that
'heir expenses of living had in
creased at a greater ratio than their
age scale in the past decade and
’hat now the larger portion or tlr*
employes were working on about
ialf time and that It would be un
ju : to demand a reduction.
I'he employes were right in their
ontention, for the road could bet
: ter afford to operate without any
l-iofit t0 the holders of its common
ock for awhile than the laboring
aan could afford to work on half
line and then reduce that half ten
">r cent. Four per cent, on common
l sr°<*k is not bad for panicky times
and we are glad to see the Norfolk
& Western so prosperous. There
I exists the best of feeling between
officials and employes, and after
,,R question or reduction had been
liscussed the company announced
'« willingness to abide by the
vislies of its employes, which was a
'n,OHt commendable act on the part
>f the company.
A Michigan henpeck is asking a
livorc* upon the following grounds:
She toI‘l her dearest friend that
she never loved me.
•^he wanted to make me her body
rvant, h«*r errand boy.
“She insisted on saying a ion?
prayer before meals when | was In a
hurry to eat.
She insisted fin reading the Bible,
n*l wantpd me to read It with her*
"h n I did not want to.
‘ Sh#’ “ad a sharp tongue and
wh< » F would walk out of the house
f° '“cape she would follow me and
bit me on the head vfllh her flst,
*h,‘ made trie sweep, dust and
wash dishes.'*
Mr. ifenpeck would have had an
Mer ground had he waited for the
M' rry Widow hat.
f>n“ bears and r*ad« a great deal
! ‘ V days about ''Combinations"
>c;.i y "CombinaMons of Capl-1
nil.” The* govern mont Is after a
Kn-.it many i»r them with the ‘Big
Stick and It is to he hoped that
they will be broken up. There Is
another great combination however.
M-.nt |k a source of much good, and
not only does not come within the
"wnlh of the ”Ulg Stick,” but con
forms strictly t the law. It Is a
combination of Quality and Quantity
to be found In the half pint bottle
of Klllotfs Emulsified Oil Liniment i
for 2,*»c. (iua rat toed uuder Pure
Rood and Drug Law. Yellow pack
age. For sale by the White Phar
macy.
Tin: LltlM ItKAPKlt.
I'wo very prominent men of West!
Virginia died yesterday. Hon. John
son X. Camden and Hon. Clarke \V.
•'lay. One had readied an age at
"hlch death could not reasonably be
hoped to be deferred much longer;
the other young, active, honored In
politics, with high standing at the
bar and with apparently a brilliant
career before him. One a Democrat
in politics; the other a Republican.
On.- a most successful business man
and capitalist; the other a lawyer
recently a farmer boy. Both started
in life poor. The older man died
probably the richest man in the* >*ate
who had achieved success In politics
and in business; the* younger man
had been successful in politics and
was just beginning to reap the re
wards of West Virginia's deve!n»>
merit in a business way. In these
two deaths is illustrated the vanity
of life and the universality of death.
It strikes tho old and young, both
weak and strong and no rules de
vised by man can calculate Its com
ing.
In tin death of Senator Camden
tin* state has lost one or Its most re
markable citizens. Horn in Braxton
e-ounty, then in the state or Virginia,
he has spent his life in the Little
Kanawha Valley. He was twice the
nominee of his party for governor
and five tim»*s Its nominee for United
States senator. He served one full
term in the United States senato and
the unexpired term of Hon. John E.
lienna after the latter’s death. For
lorty years he has been active in
politics and yet has had the time to
engage in various walks of business
llte. front which he had amassed an
immense fortune. He built the West
Virginia & Pittsburg railroad, the
Ohio Uivetf s-a^liVad, the ICaniden
Interstate railroad and the short
line leading to Itipley and the one.
leading to Spencer. He has developed
oil and gas properties, founded
banks, erected buildings, organized
lumber companies and saw' mills, in
fact there have been few- things of
a business nature In which lie had
| not been engaged during his long
aettve life. He lias truly impressed
his genius upon the state of his birth
and has left behind him monuments
more enduring than marble.
in the death of General May the
state has lost a man that it can ill
afford to lose at this time. While
an active partisan he was one of
those royal good fellows who did
not think it a crime to pass a flower
over the dividing wall between polit
ical parties. Ho loved his fellow
man and enjoyed the social side of
life. He had a strong mind and was
la very successful lawyer and only
n few weeks before his death had
fortune begun to smile upon him in
a financial way. By the discovery
of oil near Grifflthsviile, on a tract
which he had held for years, he had
begun to realize an Income which
with the drilling of other oil wells
would increase from time to time
and he could reasonably expect In
the near future an Income that
! wou,(1 l"it him In a most enviable
position financially. The fatal trip
'o llamlln was no doubt made for
■he purpose of looking over Ills oil
| properties. He was a candidate for
re-election a» attorney general and
It Is the opinion of many of his party
associates that he would have been
renominated by his pnrty had he
lived. It seems indeed sad that with
]>i" political prospects satisfactory,
bis pofesslonai career most promis
ing and financial success assured he
should be cut off while yet but a
'°'ing man. The state needs such
men and bis loss to his section will
bo felt.
We are reminded that within the
last week the state has lost four
'• ry |rominont. men Bally and Gatn
'Pm, Democrats, and Rucker and
May. Republicans. All four were
lawyers by profession. All were
very successful, .tft had been prom
inent fn politics and had held official
Sosi* fm in the state, The last week
has Indeed been a harvest of death
among the strong men of the state
f'harlegton Gazette.
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\i:k.\vs\s HKmiijcAXH.
Ro< a, Ark., April 27.— Re
publicans ol flu* Fifth Congressional
district met here today to select del
egates to the national convention
and nominate a candidate for con
gress in opposition to Representative
C. <’. Reid. The Sixth district con
vention will also he held today at
Malvern, and that of the Seventh
district at Camden, while the Re
publican State convention w''l he
held tomorrow at Hot Spring. It
Is likely that delegates favorabi.* to
Taft will be selected, as he has re
ceived the Indorsement of the state
central committee. This was not ac
complished. however, without much
opposition from the colored repub
licans who oppose both Taft and
Roosevelt ln*oauBe of the action
taken in the Rrownsvllle cubo.
TAFT IX MISSISSIPPI.
Jackson. .Miss., April 27.—Preced
ing the Republican state convention
in tliis city by two days. Republican
district conventions ar? to be h'*ld
today in the First district, at Tupe
lo, in the Third district at Indian
ola. and In the Fifth district at Me
ridian. The conventions of the Sec-,
ond and Seventh districts w i: b«
h«>ld tomorrow, the former at 0.1
ford and the latt -r n: Urook Hive*;.'
Reportu received Indicate the* Taft
delegates will be aeiected lu all th *
diatrlcts. despite the oppotdHon o*
tha negroes.
DR. WM. T. JENKINS
OCULAR UKFHACTIONIST.
Spectacles and artificial
eyes fitted.
Lenseg Matcned. Frames
RepV'ed.
CONSULTATION FRICK.
4 27 Princeton Ave. Hluefleld, W. Va.
t tarry s Barber Shop
Next door to W. U. Telegraph Co.
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JAKB HARTWELL
8ID PERKINS
HARY HOLT
“THE BIG FOUR"
First-class service at all times
LATHS ATTACHED.
ONE DOLLAR OR TWO I
Each week will do to furnish your <
homes with Furniture, New. Highest
prices paid for Old Furniture or Ex- <
changed at the ; }
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19 BLUEFIELD AVENUE J
E. F CARTER.Pres.
J. N. VANCE. VICE Pres.
D. R. WOOD. Cashier.
UNION BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
bluefielo, west vYrginia.
Capital Stock
Paid In
Stock Holders Liability
$200,000.00
$ 1(H),000.00
$100,000.00
\\ e <1<> .i tfoneral RICai, estate business in connection with
tin.* regular banking- This department is ^iven the per
sonal attention of K. E. Carter, whose ability as a real
KSTATE man is unquestioned.
SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT.
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When in need of anything in the
Electrical Line
remember we do first-class work
at reasonable prices—promptly.
Intermont Electrical Co.,
Bluefield, W. Va.
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an invest
buying a
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call and see us. We handle all
classes of Real Estate, Stocks,
Bonds and Insurance, etc. . .
(Icncral Agents for
EUREKA LAND COMPANY
HALE LAND COMPANY
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BLUEFIELD - - WEST VA.
B°* 627 Phone 518
“Bank of Personal
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of Bluefield, West Virginia,
$100,000.00
100,000.00
30,000.00
r.viTi:i» utatr (jovkrnmknt ij bpohitoiit.
Pays 3 per cent Interest on Time Deposits.
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BEERS. Porters and all Kinds of Liquors.
FIRST CLASS
BILLIARD &. POOL-ROOM CONNECTED
OUT OF TOWN ORDERS SHIPPED PROMPLY
DAVID E. JOHNSTON,
President.
It. C. M’CLAUOIIERTY,
Vice-President.
F. M. PETERS.
Cashier.
W. M. CORNETT.
Assistant Cashier.
State Bank of
Bluefield
SAFE. CONSERVATIVE.
Strictly Commercial Ranking
Paid-up Capital .
Stockholders' Liability
Surplus Fund .
$ 50,000.00
50.000. 0tl
44.000. 00
Security to depositors
$ I M.000-00
Attention la called to the fact that thin bauk Is STRONGER
THAN EVER, having during the "hard times’* increased Its
capital and surplus from $50,000.00 to $94,000.00. and Is
,no'v p™parfHl to take care of any account large or small.
PAYS INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS
Bluefield Implement &
Machinery Company
26 BLUEFIELD
AVENUE .
BluefiilcL W. Va.
Buggies, Wagons, Harness, Saddles
and Kindred Lines, Saw Mills and
General Supplies, Pipe Fittings, Etc.
Agents for Geiser Engines and Saw
Mills, Our Harness and Repair
Shop is in Charge of Mr. W. L.
Draper, a practical harness maker.
No order too large for us to handle
or too small to be appreciated. Give
us a call. We are now prepared to
fill your requirements.
WE ARE AGENT FOR VULCANITE
ROOFING
BLUEFIELD IMPLEMENT & MACHINERY COMPANY
Entirely pure
Lager Beer
Can he had at
All bars in the coalfields.
People want itj
It is made from the best Malt and Hop
Taken as a tonic it is
A beneficial beverage.
None better made
Brewed by the
BLUEFIELD
BREWING CO