The Fairmont West Virginian., October 12, 1904, Page 2, Image 2

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FIRST DAY'S
MEETING
OF THE W. C. T. U. WAS LARGELY
ATTENDED?INTERESTING
^.PROGRAMS TO BE GIVEN.
; The first day of the convention :
K' opened with a large number of delegates
present, and every indication of
an enthusiastic and helpful assemblage.
Those from this county who
are lending their presence to help
make the gathering the success 'it un .
doubtedly will be are, State president,
Mrs. N. R. C. Morrow; State corresponding
secretary. Mrs. Frances P.
-Parte; State evangelist, Mrs. Jennie ,
Engle; president of the Marion county ^
union, Mrs. Adelia Stewart, of Fair- ,
t; ; - view, and Mesdames Moll ie Ross and [
p?",; i Central union of this city, and Jones
and Merrifield of the First ward
11'.; union, the latter being the deleg-.te
' at large from this county,
g? ' ' 2 Tho following program is being folt:-,
_ lowed to-day:
PROGRAM.
Wednesday Afternoon, October 12.
||sjr; } 1:30?Consecration service, leader,
|| | Mrs. Jennie Everett Engle, State
||p3?V . Evangelist.
2:00?Convention called to order bv
_ the President, Mrs. N. R. C. Morrow.
Devotional service.
Roll call of officers and superinWj0]\
tendents.
|K|?f-' Report 'of the Executive Committee.
Appointment of Committees on Credentials,
Press. Courtesies and Telegrams.
I'!.-. j. Unfinished business,
3:U0?Report of Corresponding SecTet'ary,
.Mrs.. Frances P. Paries.
| Report of . Treasurer, Mrs. S. C.
Wright.
- Report of Auditing Committee.
|||kiV> , Report of Branch Secretaries:
S; Young Woman's Branch, Mrs. A. J.
S. Chenoweth.
.Loyal Temperance Legion, Mrs. ?
Lenna Yost. I
t ' Introduction of new county Pressdents.
Visitors. t
V 4:30?Miscellaneous business. c
Announcements and adjournment. t
Wednesday Evening?Welcome Night, j.
Music under direction of Mr. H. C"S x
Sliowalter. a
Prayer by Rev. N. E. Jarrett. a
' Music. t
. ; Addresses' of" welcome: I
|| Pot the boys and girls of Harris- c
ville, Master Ralph Patton.
- For the municipality. Mayor Law- t
?? renco. h
For the church. Rev. Mr. Woofter. ?
i.ij:,; For the medical profession. Dr. M. j
. S. Hail. .,
For the Local Union, Mrs. Lucy H y
fey' Pierpont. a
f$>. ' Foi the schools. Mr. H. E. Cooper. v
For the "Young "Woman's Branch.
Miss Kitty Woods. (1
For the County Union, Mrs. Eva C. t
I'jw: Robinson. v
f&j.Response for State Union, Mrs. 0
'/ !% Berta McWhorter McKinney, Burns- a
?Yille. ' n
Music. f,
Annual address of State President,
Z Mrs. N. R. C. Morrow. 0
fe' Music. c
?v:fe Collection. X
fe Benediction. ,
Thursday Morning, October 13. fl
8:30?Meeting of Executive Com
tr- ' mittee. p,
; Delegates' prayer meeting. j,
9:15?Convention called to order. v
Singing.
Prayer. r;
Reading of minutes. e
Reports of county Presidents. (Five t,
;v - minutes each.) ,,
Ohio. ,,
r :. ' Marshall.
Tyler and Pleasants. n
Wood and Wirt. s.
S Jackson and Roane. p
Kanatvha. 0
Fayette, Summers and Greenbrier. ;r
r Randolph, Barbour and Tucker. 0
Grant. Mineral and Hampshire. c
Taylor. ti
Harrison.
7 . Ritchie. t]
10:30?Final report of Credential jr
Committee.
Election of officers. G
Election of delegates to National
, - Convention, Philadelphia. November
29 to December 4. N
Introduction of visitors.
12:00?Noontide prayer.
Thursday Afternoon.
1:30?Convention called to order.
Singing. c
Prayer. st
Reading of minutes. k
Cottnty Presidents' Reports. (Five
-a. minutes each.)
Marion. M
..y- upsnur. 01
Wetzel. , h:
Braxton. Ki
' . Catell. p,
J;..; Unorganized counties, Corresponding
Secretary. 0j
5:30?Mormons vs. Women. Short sf
address by our guest, Miss Phelps, tj.
iy.-- - of Canada. pj
We are agents for Oliver Chilled p,
and Syracuse plows. J. L. Hall's Ri
Hardware Store. i
. Men in all walks of life wear the W.
X.. Douglass shoe. C. B. Highland, x A,
Silver Cross Leaflets?Meaning of the
Order.
The longing for" reality in religion,
the ouestijgis as to how the faith that
was in us could be made a practical
and a vital thing, was the initial impulse
of the Ordsr of The King's
Daughters and Sons, and of various
other organiations formed within the
last two decades.
The Order first placed among its objects?as
stated in its constitution?
"the development of spiritual life."
It recognized that every soul into
which had come enough of the love of
Christ to create a desire to serve Him,
needed to have that love developed,
that desire intensified; the resultant
life of service would not only stimulate
all Christian activity, but Christian
activities in all the breadth of
their significance. It offered the com
tort 01 co-ojj(;riiLioii iu .uius? wuu uwi
struggled on alone, the possibility of
substituting for spasmodic and ineffective
efforts, a steady, practical,
every day share in the unfinished
work of Christ.
The founders of the Order recoglized
that love enough to create the
lesire to servo was much more universal
than Is supposed, but they did
tot count upon So spontaneous and
Umost universal a response as thai
which met their call to a higher type
if Christian living. Notwithstanding
ivery effort to keep out of the public
-tress, to avoid public meetings, to
maintain a "Sisterhood of silent service,
the Order in numbers rapidly
mtgrew their hopes. The hearts of
women sprang toward it.
Never losing sight of its first prin
liple, the Order began to strive to
tindle anew the spark of spiritual
ife hidden in each soul. It demanded
10 uniformity in choice of labors, it
leclined to make of its Centra!
Council a board of .examiners into the
hcoiogicai views of its members. It
tad no right to question the love of
hose who accepted a call to commit
hemselves to labor for his sake, and
n His name. It did not found a
thurch. It only summoned women to
treater and sweeter service, in and
teyond their own churches.
In all its teaching the Order made
wo strong points: first, that of rectgnition
that its members were not
heir own, but belonged to God and to
lumanity; second, it called for out
vard acknowledgment and committal. 1
.s shown by wearing the little cross, 1
: symbol that could not be mistaken, 1
hat said to every eye. "I owe my ! r
egiance. I am bound to the service
d my King.'' '
Then came the question of how lies' (
0 develop "the spiritual life." And '
lere the Order made unvarying an '
wer. "Your first work is within. '
-earn righteousness, which is right- 6
ess in thought, will and act. in tilings s
oth great and small. This done, you *
re ready for the beginnings of set- e
ice?and these are at homo." ^
It has been the purpose of the Or- r
er to turn new workers into the wor- t
hy work already in progress and a!- c
.'ays in need of help. Hence one's c
wn church, so long as it needs ih? r
id, support and co-operation of Its X
jembers, has, after the home, the '
Dremost and strongest claim. c
But neither with the work in their 0
wn souls, in their homes or in their ?
hiirches, should the work of the t
laughters of the King make pause. r
hough if it stopped just there the Or- s
er would have justified its rights to 1
e. The spirit of willingness to so ' e t
umanity may be in active exorcise P
1 ail the above-named forms of sen- r
ice, but there comes a time when t
ome work and clnirch work do not o
ake all there is in every woman or t;
very man; and here the freedom as r
n choice of labor, always insisted t<
pon as a radical principle of the Or- tl
er shows its wisdom. ii
If the Order is not an educator of its tl
iembers into a knowledge of them- b
elves and of their deficiencies and it
ossihilities. and a stimulant, to their
wn development, it is on little value t<
i the world's work for humanity; for t<
nly by such self-waking, self-conse a
ration, self-training and self-forget- t
nrf, shall we substitute real help and it
2al work for much that is not help in it
le deepest sense, to either the suffer- p
lg bodies or souls of men. t;
d
ROOM TOO BASHFUL TO a
FACE INVITED GUESTS. S
otified Intended Bride That the Wed- j k
ding Must Be Postponed and d
Disappeared. I is
: tl
HARRIS BURG, Oct. 12.?Sylveste- p
. Williams, of 1310 North Sixth f(
reet, left the city Monday last, and t:
is friends are in the dark as to where j
e has gone. Williams was to have j lc
sen married the day following to I s;
:iss Winnie Vaughn, hut lie sent word u
;i Monday that the wedding would k
ave to be postponed. In his note lie ti
ive no reason for requesting a pos- ti
Dnement. w
The prospective groom is said to p!
jject to any fuss or display, being b<
j bashful that- he was afraid t.o face tx
le minister before the invited guests,
e had pleaded all along for a quiet g]
edding, but the mother of the vi
ride-to-be had given ail of her other
ris big weddings and wanted to do
te same by her youngest daughter. ^
Why not let the Marion Claim It
gency collect that claim for you? x ??
THE NEW'
WHAT THEIR PURPOSE IS ' AND!
WHAT THEY WILL ACCOMPLISH ;
?ALL THE STATUTES RECENTLY
ENACTED BY THE
SPECIAL SESSION CLEAR- j
LY EXPLAINED ?
I
AND THE GREAT BENEFIT THEY
WILL BRING SET FORTH
CLEARLY AND DISTINCTLY?VOTERS,
READ
THIS.
From the Parkersburs State Journal.]
Tlie twenty-one tax laws passed at
the special session ot tne aesisiaunc
of 101 have heen published and widely
distributed. The acts cover 155 print- '
ed pages and as they appertain to the '
entire system of collection, assessment '
and disbursement of revenue, are of- 1
the utmost importance and far reach- ; 1
ing in their effect. They"mark a de- j :
cided step forward toward a fairer :
and more just system of assessment
and lower rates of taxation and their :
merits need only to be fairly consld- 1 !
sred and fully understood to meet with , 1
general approval. ''
What the Acts Are in Brief. '*
In brief, they reduce the State tax 11
rate from thirty-five cents to five cents j
on the hundred dollars by 1907; in-j
crease certain license taxes and create ! ,
new ones, thereby raising a large .
amount of new revenue for the State I j
from these sources; reduce the max- f
Imum county levy to sixty cents in- I (
stead of the present limit of ninety-five !
cents; limit the maximum levy for (
the regular school "building fund" to ,
twenty cents instead of forty; making j
a total reduction of 35 cents in a total
of $1.70 or ONE-HALF; prohibit tin- 1
luthorized expenditures by any oITi- c
cer of the State, county courts or i c
ooards of education; require the coim- j .
ies having special Criminal Courts to i ]
pay die salaries of the Judges; pro-;1
ride for a Tax Commissioner, who he- | ,
comes the head of the tax assessment !
system of. the State; create a better j 1
system of assessor and assessments. I 1
t.
nuch of which in regard to the duties I
)f the assessors goes into effect in i
1909; provide for a re-assessment of j "
ill the real estate of the State in 1903. j
mder the direction of the Tax Com- ; 11
nissioner, by commissioners appoint- j a
'"v uim tup valuation heinrr subject 1 1
o review and correction by the County** ^
Courts and by the State Board of ^
'ublic "Works, as an equalization q
loaril; make the first tax levies in the f
lev.- values or appraisement of real 11
istate apply in 190G; provide for as- P
essnients of pipe lines, telegraph lines, s
eleplione lines, car lines, railroads,
itc., annually by the Board of Public v
Vorks, requiring complete and accu- ''
ate sworn returns of the true and ac- r:
ual values of the property from these
orporatious: increase and perfect the ^
lollatcral inheritance tax; change the ?
net hod of conveying prisoners to the c
lenitontiary, saving thousands of dol- u
ars annually; fix the fees to he 1S
barged, adding new ones and raising ?
ild ones in the offices of Secretary of
Itate and Auditor, which are to go to
he State hereafter as new revenue; t]
equire that the regularly elected its- c
essors of the counties beginning in is
909. shall thereafter annually assess p
he real estate -as well as all other p
iroperty, the special re-assessment of o:
eal estate of 1905 holdingXunUl that tr
ime: provide that corporate and all o
tlier property shall be returned for o
axation at its true or actual value: c
equiro counties to pay $50.00 a year st
award the education and support of tl
:ieir reform school inmates and those lc
i the\V. Va. Asylum (formerly called tl
re Home for Incurables); and a num- 01
er o( minor matters of more or less tl
nporlance. w
The general scope of those Hills is it
perfect tlio taxation assessment sys- m
em and give it a head and to cause
11 property to he valued as the consti- I"
ution contemplates, at its real value,
i order That there may he (1) uniform- h
y and honesty in valuations of similar v;
roperty; that (2) the rates of local In
txalion bo greatly reduced; that (3) ai
irect State taxes may be wiped out p<
s far as possible, and the needed tc
tatc revenues raised otherwise. li
Our present system of unequal and sr
>w values with high taxes is fatally tl
efectlve. The object of the new laws d<
; to put corporate and all property on si
le same equal footing, to assess all st
roperty at its value, equally and util- si
irmly, and then to reduce State, conn- th
r ami municipal taxes. f<
It will talce 110 more money to run sr
>cal and State governments under one h<
ystem than another. A full tax val- lit
ationthercfore means low taxes. The cc
oynotc of the hills is "fairer valna- ac
ons and lower taxation." With lower W
ixation invisible personal property rc
ill more largely appear on the tax du- re
Lieatos. The State revenues are to to
e raised from license and privilege st
lxcs, Inheritance taxes, etc. af
A study of the bills in detail will ot
Ive a clearer idea of their scope and iz
ilue. h?
General License Act. ^
st
The general license law (chapter kt
tree of the Acts) covers thirty pages. ^
raises the retail liquor license from
150.00 to $450.00. The tax on distil
[AX LAWS
leries other than fruit and brandy, for
selling in this State, whether the distillery
is in or out of the State, is
$500.00; the "manufacturing" license
for all kind of distilleries, is $100.00.
On breweries the manufacturer's tax
is $100.00 and the "selling' license tax
is gauged according to the capacity of
the brewery of ten thousand barrels
capacity up to $0,000.00 tax for a brewery
of 100.000 barrels capacity. And,
as in the case of distilleries, this selling
tax applies to breweries, whether
located in or out of this State.
The revenue feature of the hill is
very attractive. Heretofore the total :
license taxes derived from breweries
and dstilferies have been less than
$5,000.00. It is estimated that they
will under this act reach fully $100,- ''
000.00. The stock brokers' license 1
:s $50.00 and for conducting a bucket '
?hop $500.00; for sale of tobacco in '
any form, other than cigarettes, $5,00;
ivitli cigarettes $10.00; junk dealers
will have to pay $25..$$; to sell trading :
stamps the tax is $500.00; to roain;ain
or occupy a houseboat $10.00; to
maintain a slot machine, other than
gambling devices, $5.00; to sell at
wholesale revolvers, pistols, slung
;hots, etc., $300.00 and at retail '
5100.00; pawn brokers $100.00.
There are many other license taxes. 1
rhe new license taxes are included 1
- ? - ?l?.l TUc '
imuiift mwac cuiiuicmitu n.' v-.. Jaw
it is believed will raise in new rev;nue
as much money as a 12 or 15
lent direct ta:r levy would raise. (Oth- '
;r laws raise additional new rev- c
;nnes.)
State Taxes Reduced.
The important feature of this act, I
lowever, is the fact that it reduces
)tir present direct State taxes of 35
:ents on the $100* by eleven cents in
905. and ail additional eleven cents ?
n 190G and an additional eight cents '
n 1907. leaving only- a direct State tax if
five cents after 1907, which shall be
levoted to the public schools. It will
hus be seen that the Legislature has
irovided for wiping out six-sevenths of
he direct taxes of the State inside of
be next three years. This of itself is
. magnificent achievement.
The proposed constitutional amendnent.
permitting the total aboliton of
11 direct State taxes, was defeated byhe
Democrats, including Senator (;
lORNWELL, the Democratic candi- c
:ate for governor. This measure re- i
uired a two-thirds vote, and as the a
tepublicans did not command a majory
of the House they were unable to
ass it over the solid Democratic oppoition.
Every Republican in the Legis 4+tiva
f/ifoil fV?-r rho nipn?in'o nnd fTifiV I
-ere unanimous, apparently, in their
esire to eventually* abolish all State
axes. Not being able to do this the
legislature did the next best thing. ^
-fter 190G the State taxes are only
ve cents which is to be devoted exIusively
for the State school purposes
ntil such time as the constitution
; amended and thus permit all direct
tate taxes to be abolished.
Assessment of Taxes.
The act (chapter four) relating to
ae assessment, of taxes and also to
reate the office of Tax Commissioner.
; the longest, as well as the most imortant
one. It occupies sixty-six
ages and revises the entire system
f laws in regard to the assessment of
ixes. It provides for abetter system
f assessors and assessments. The
(TIce of Tax Commissioner, which is
reated. is an exceedingly important
rep and creates for the first time in =
le State's history a head to the tax
'vying and tax collecting system of
le State. This office is destined to he a
ae of the most important offices in
le State, and will amply justify the
isdom of the Legislature in creating
The appointment of the Tax ComLissioner
is by the governor for six 0
ears, and he is ineligible to renpointment.
All property, real and personal, must
ereafter be assessed at Its actual
alue. After 1009 the real estate shall
3 assessed annually by the county
ssessor. The assessor collects the
ell or capitation tax. He is supposed
> do this at the time he obtains the
st from the taxpayer. He has the
ime right to distrain for this tax that,
re sheriff has. In case the assessor
oes not collect it and the sheriff
louid subsequently collect it, the as;ssor
must pay a commission to the
reriff for so doing. It is estimated
lat the State will derive from this
md alone from forty to sixty thoutnd
dollars in excess of what it has
eretofore collected. Itailroad, car
ae, telephone, telegraph and pipe line
>nipanics will be assessed at their
itual value by the Board of Public
rorks, to which they must make thefr
turn hereafter. (Only railroads have
;portod hitherto.) Banks are required
i return for taxation their capital **
ock, surplus and undivided profits,
ter deducting real estate and such
.her exemptions as may be author
ed by law; or they may elect to
lvo the shares of stock assessed to
e owner thereof, in which event the
tares shall he assessed at their mar- S
st value, and the bank must pay the
xes and recover tho amount paid ^
(Continued on Third Page.) ^
THAT DELIGHTFUL FLAVOR
given by the juices of luicious fruits ?
ripe and fresh, makes Jim Martin'c ^
soda so popular. The fact that all E
these syrups are absolutely pure ap ?
peals to everyone's good sense who f
values health. The water used is pure j
also, and there is no Summer bever- c
jfo cn wlinlocnmp T1 fl rlftlifilnilS. Tr-X
i glass of soda with his delicious ice
cream at the ^
SOUTH SIDE PHARMACY.
NOTICE !
<
If you see ' a nice i .oking
jouple driving around with a
;ood stylish horse, elegant harness. *
lobby run-a-bout, carriage or trap,
vith nice clean robes, and everything
:o match, you can wager ten to one it
vas hired from the Jackson Livery a
3arn, as we put out only that kind S
"RED S. JACKSON, Manager. Open
lay and night. x ^
We carry a complete line of wood,
roil, and Cincinnati bucket pumps,
r. L. Hall's Hardware Store. x j_
r
Your "want" is not important?to
inyone but yourself?until it has been
'put into type." C
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TRANS
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pianos a si
Residence, 319 Merchant street.
Mice on Parks avenue, next to fi
Jkinner's Tavern, Fairmont, W.
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