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I'llK Bid STONE GA1' I'OST. WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 191? '"uSMihtil Kviiy WedneMisy by the WISE PBINTING COMPANY, ti<rt>rtM>r?t?t) OILUI-RT N. KNICHT, - Editor. Onu Voar. - - - $1 uu Six Month*. ... ,SO Thi?.< Moni! I.. ... .226 PuUieil according to po?;*l regolationa >t ih*i>o*t nftW? at Rly, Stone OiptllH onri-vhtft* Buttel si bscribfks are earnestly r& quested to observe the date printed on their address slips, which will Icoep them at all times posted as to tllO date ol the expiration of their sub svriptton, Prompt and timely attention to this request will save all parties 0 great deal of ,ii!tio> anee. Every man knows his good points, and the world knows his bad ones If y.ai want to make mom y, work If you waul to.save it, keep right en working. See Lnekoy fly here on Aug? ust I Ith. It will he your hist chance to See this noted aviator do Ins wonderful th ing stunts Mexico City has changed masters so often thill we'yo for? gotten the count When you hear a man brag ging about what hi would do undei certain conditions vou may lest assured he will never catch tip with those conditions. 1 ho t let man kaiser is report lid to have told a delegation of bunkers thin the ? at ivill end in i lotober. It' .r or inter. why not soouerf We give our There is some Blight differ? ence hetwei u the poor boy w ho reaches the top and the gilded youth who siuki< Iii I he bottom Life is just one big ladder, and you can climb as high pr slide down as low aft you iike, and no O||0 will slop y mi. The man who continually knocks his home town is goner ally the one ? !i i doer, the least for it and receives his all from it And he i.- most sure!) the one who receives the least re. sp>CI froth the people of the lowII. If a town is worth Iis itig in it is worth boosting. Til give it a ktiobk i- to insult yoiil own Intelligence, Now is an OppoitUne tune to turn yourself loose among the weeds and refuse ol your lawn, your garden, and your borne surroundings geuernlly. Vom joints need exercise and your brain will profit by a closer contact with nature, and it will be an improvement to the up pearaaceof the town ami a re lief to the community eye. It ts these lit Me thing- that stun a town on the up gi ?de. The secretary of the navy has a-kod Th?ma? \ Edison and mioy others ol the greatest in? ventors of America to serve on an advisory and research board for the purpose of devising new inventions for repelling an at tack by a foreign foe. It is a good move 0U(| e ones 11000 too soon It Would have been a better move ? year ago, and a sidl more effective oue five years ago These men have the brains if they are allowed flu time for the development >f their ideas and the mannfactuie ol the engines of destruction, l)ld you ever pass a little kid on the street and have him gllXC wistfully up at you until you passed by, and then turn urotiud und rind him still look ing at you with those appealing little eyei>:- Indeed you have, and it. is an everyday occur? rence right here in Big Stone Oap. It wouldn't do us "grownups" a bit of harm to give s kindly word to these lit? tle follows us w* meet them, and it would d<> them a world of good. A bright smile and n cheerful word to then- will Hood tlioir hearts with the sun? shine of life, an t lift them up to thai liighni piano which create;; men among men. W. s. Luckcy, the famous aviator, and One who has inade hiore successful (lights than any other man in this country, will tiy again here oil August! I Ith. His living on July 2nd j and ird was very successful, and in order to give those, who] were prev, rit? ?? i from coming to the Celebration on account of! the ruin, an opportunity to Bee thr Mot?d i\ lotoi fly, the Ath-. letic Association has arranged with Mr Lackey to again fly hcleon the above date The machine iu which ho flew all the celebration is still iu Big Stone Gap ami w ill stti) here until after the I lib of hex I month. When the frost is on the win dows and the kitchen pail is| frOJSO, when the little ley m edics come with ever) breath that blows. v\ hen chilblains make us sick and faint, and cold feet give us pain, its safe to hid we j all wish foi Summer days again. Km while we sweat and fume around in gauzy Sum tiler clothes, its mi eas> thing to get cooled olf, as everybody knows lint it's dilVerent in Winter, when the wind is full of ice. and the weather is as hard til beat as a pair of loilded dice We may talk nbotlt ouri climate, ami about our Springt and Kail, hut the hnlmy days of Hummel are the days that | suit us all Exchange, What Do Yon Pay Vom Teacher? < luv Henry ?'. Stunri in an address before the Virginia State Teachers Association three years ago used these words: " " 1 am one of those who be I lieve that (lib smallest dividend I drawn by any man or woman, in proportion to the input, is that drawn L> the school leach' er. If you lake the money cost | of an education, to say nothing tlboUt the brain and lite appli? cation used m acquiring it.1 what can he found that yields so small a profit Upon the out pill and in put as a liberal < In eatiotl is expended III (hellst; ol educating others in our f. schools?!' Many of out citizens, we re? gret to say. fail Id realize the worth of tint toucher to the com lllliuily tall to see the ilitllcul tii s iiindenl to teaching school: fail to encourage tin- ledchei bj speaking words olelu.i and hy advocating salaries commensu? rate with the character of work she does. It has been carefully estimat? ed by expert authorities that living expenses of the average lencliei is j;ii.'i, yet most ()f the schools of mir stale pay their teachers onl> from $ ISO to ij 74 of i he hundred counties in this state pay only from $30 to . 10 pel month to the teachers for an average term of ?;. .tiths K illdlj ??'member title teacher has to live 12 mouths, 11,u s youi community force this hardship on that teacher, of whom you require so much; Friends investigate this matter at once See what your com mur.ity is doing ami perhaps you will make better provision for your teacher next session, j ii. Sign i'ggmruv, Executi\ Secretary, Cooperative Education Ass*n. ILLITERACY RATE BEING VEKV GREATLY REDUCED Progress in Remote Rural Districts of Virginia Lit? tle Short oi Phc nominal, Kdiicationai progress in the remote rural districts of Virgin la bus been bllle short of phe nominal, according to statistics compiled by Frol -I. W. Evei Ott, editor of the \ irginin .lour nai of Education, the ollieial journal of the i> partmnul of Public Instruction ami the Vir gitna < 'o-< iperalive Kducalioii Association. For the past two years the department lias waged a per [ eisten) tight against illiteracy in this state. Kmplnying ef? fectively every moans at itsdis pORul, tin1 men ami women who gave their time ami talents to this work have witnessed with Iexultation the Splendid results obtained through tholr efforts, i Reports now coming ill from the school census taken last i spring give further occasion for 'elation. For example, in the County of Isle of Wight, iu r.<ro the illiteracy percentage w-as IIJ white ami 37 colored. In 1016 the percentages are re? spectively, 2.6 ami 9.4. In the city of Portsmouth in 1010 the number of children bo-t tween the ages of ten anil t wen ty who con it| not read and write was 171. Tbis year it is In the cilj of Danville in 1910 the number of children unable to read iititl write was -167, against 238 this your. In Alexandria city there wore ninety -nine children In !i ? uii ahle to read and write, while; this year there are hut three. Probably the most amazing j figures showing improvement | come 11 ..in P.uclianan t 'minty I ii., report received from this division,>as given out by Prof. Kverelt, reads in part as fol lows: "Possibly im sounty in Vir gihin has been iu the eyes Pf I flic public from an educational standpoint so much as Ruohuil-I an since tin- census of 1910. That census showed that out of every 100 above the ugo Of ten Veurs, 31.il w ere unable to rend ' and write This was the high-j est rate el" illiteracy in the State, ami the highest in the South -mi..iits in Kentucky excepted in the Male have reduced illit-i now On I nlrd to a place iil'ilohg the same i it.- of progress dur? ing the next live years, the ceil-I only 2 per cent This can lie done. We hope to see a school! house plaCCll m reach of every child in the county this year. When this is done, with the as sistnuce of the teachers ami] advanced pupils, we can reach I tin- adult illiterates and teach ] them how i.. i.-ad and .write. ! provemeui throughout the State, the fi l.-ud- of education in Virginia will haveovory rea monl ma.I.- 11 should he re? membered that the light against ? Illiteracy i- n vj i y dtliicult and; a very cosily one, and that the] Slate's ofllCIUlS have WngCd flit) battle w ith \ ely limited means ami against odds of winch the avoriige liiyinuii has little con ception. Supei iiiteiidenl K. t'. Stearnes is exceedingly gratified over tin- . cusiis Itguresi already til hand, ant! believes that the , x Celleill re.-ulls thus far attained are but an earnest beginning; of still mbrouheotiragiiig niH uricoa to he nilidti iu the near future. Republicans Nominate Candi? date for House ol Rep? resentatives. Coeburn, \'a., July I7lb.?At an enthusiastic convention of the Republicans of Wise and IMokenson Counties, at this pia. e today, W. li. Roberta, of Wise, was unanimously chosen |0 make the race for I louse of Representatives tins fall. The convention was held in the moving picture theatre, ami was well attended. Forty of the fifty delegates Selected wore Cut This Out - It Is Worth Money Cut out IM? advertisement, undone t. cei.u In Pole) ?t c.i. tltS Sheffield .AVf., Chicago. Ill , v, rltlny >our tiAllie ana uddrcM clearly, You will rc r. IV? in rOurn a trial i-jckaKc o..n lalnlns: (11 f..l. yV Honey nmt Tor Cora pound, lite atan.lard f.onily rrm.-dy tor coughs, colds. cr..ii|.. \? I.ping couKh. tik-htncfta and Horcncas In Cheat, grippe ami bronchial cough*. (!> Kolty Itl-iney Pllla, for over? worked at.il disordered kian. >? and 1.ladder ailment*, pain In aides and l-^rk dm- i" Kidney Trouble, Ibra muscle*. ?ult joints, backache And rheumatism. <J) IVIry Cathartic Tablets, s via.:, aomc and thornUKhly clcanalnrr cathartic. Knpeclally comforlliilt to . atout per sen*, ami u puri^Ailv.- needed : by everybody wits nliu-Kisn bowels I and ton.i.l Ifver, Vnu can iry these I three family remedies for only to. Mutual Drop, Company Uih Mono Gap, Va. present, und Mr. Roberts was elected on the Mrst ballot cost. His oppouent was J, L. Litx, of this place, who wns defeated in the inst election by Jn?>. W. Cbatkluy, the democratic can- i didate. * A convention will be held at Big Stono Gap on August 7th, in the Amu/.u Theatre, for the put pose of nominating a candi? date for the State .Senate. Handicap Golf Tournament.| t ?n the links of the Mountain Golf Club is being played a handicap golf tournament for; the Spauldiug Cup. There are 32 names entered, aud a mine ; her of the matches have been played oil . Imt on nccount of the liiid weather a number of the match games were forfeit? ed. The first Might ended tin the iTtti, the second is to be oil until tin' 21st, thin! Might until the .Mth, fourth Might until the 28th, and fifth lltghl to end, I ?lst. This cup was given hy the spauldiug Company, and must be won throe times before it |g ietniued l>y winner. .Much interest has been C0I1 tored in this coutust, and it is hoped hy the committee that nil matches will be played oft as promptly as possible. Ladies' Championship Tennis; Tournament. ? in the courts of Cumberland Tennis t Hub last w eek the ladies had a loin uuinciil ill which Mrs ILL I'arks won the beau? tiful jado necklace given by llmi. 0. B. Sloinp. Among those who purticlpat od, and order in which llitij plaved, were: Mrs. I'arks won from Mis, I ?rennen, ? I. It 1-8. Mrs. Tinsley from Miss Jlllu Mrs J. K. Ward from Miss Miss Cochraii froni Miss l.ollise (iooilloe, li J, ll-l. Mrs. It. L. Barks from Mrs. Mi- i ochian won by default from M is. Ward. Mrs I'arks won from Miss Coehrun, Mist set. 0-4; Miss Caul Baity. es- ul a delight l td card party Sat in day afternoon in honor of Nits. Liinghorn, of Flilaski, who loo I.n the guest of Mrs. .1 W. ( hulkley for the past weok. The party was given III i he beautiful home of Mrs. Tih-1 sley'iH parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M i loodloe, on Poplar Hill. Tie amusement provided for ihe afternoon was bridge. I which was played at several j tables I he til r t pl'l/.oWUH won by Mrs Lunghorn, After the 'game duintv refreshment!; ; wer., served. Those who attended t hi par It) were: Misses Margaret j l)rennen, Sera Cocliraii, MinnieI Fox, Louise Goodloe mid Missi Penman: Mcsduhics .1. B. Avets, .1. V\ . Chalkley, Mrs Langhorn, w. It, Peck, 11. K. Fox, It. K, Taggart, hi, J, Pies colt, K. Drohnen, R L, Parks, I Karl Stoehr) W. (i Painter. K E. Goodloe, and Mrs t'airoll. 01 Atlanta Married in Bristol. I )il 'Wednesday of last w eek Uev. B, T. McDowell, of llris. tol, officiated at the marriage of two couples from Wise county. The couples were Mr ,1 nines Richmond, of Toms ( reek, und Miss Mattie Culbertson, of Coo hi.and Mr N. It. Mcblev, of Cnebllrh, and Miss Annie Hen drickson, of Wise. Mr. Medley is a native of I Scott ('?run' ;. Utld ih a RUCCOSRflll and popular husincK-t in in of jCoehtlrn. His bride wins for. nierl v in charge of the millinery department of the Nickels store in (iate Git) and made many friends here. Mr Richmond is a brother of W. M. Richmond, ol Gate Cijy , and is also a successful voting business man We understand he has chosen an excellent bride, Mr. and Mrs. Richmond went east on a bridal trip ?Hale Co v Herald. n Among those win, c.ime im from Loo county Tuesday to at? tend the Farmers' picnic at K st Stono (Lip, wore .). i'. K.n ciiid, democratic candidate for House of Kept-, rtentatiyc, W. M Bit miss, farm demonstrator, D. ' IL Moore, Frank Wilson, Frank m H I ig I! as ? rzlg 1 lg gUg ? II ?J a@ i Awning Stripe Blouses $1.00 and $2.00 Cords to Match as i i I 0 0 F?LLERS : F?LLERS Big Stone Gap. Va. Established 1894 BLACKSTONE COLLEGE for GIRLS JAMES CANNON, Jr., A. M. 0. D., President. faculty 'it' ?3j 427 Students; fr?ni 'JO Stuten. Accredited hy Virginia State Hoard of (3duca lion. Hundreds of graduates now teaching. $160 per year in Academic Dept.; $200 per year ia College Dept. The Leading Training School for Girls in Virginia When an parent-; iind n College with as lille a leeolil. with as experienced 11 inn.-i eel I Ii I; t. at sneli inu.lerale t ust T For catalogue address \kams, Secretary DjUottSTONr-A FA ?? '?? -> <? <- s-. <- *" <? -> o -v .'?<?.' o ? .<-: ix^;.s?-:.' o Job Printin WO R K D? NE P RO M PT LY { Envelopes Bill Heads Letter Heads Shipping: Tags Business Cards Visitinj.: Cards Ruled Forms Note Heads Receipts Posters Dodgers Tickets Folders Badges Coupons Checks Blotters Statements I nvitat ions Menus Wise Printing Company Big Stone Gap, Virginia Litton and Mr. Hutchinson, n demonstrating ofiicinl from Blnckshurg, Va. Mr. und Mrs. K. K Fox, of Chicago,ar6. visiting relatives in tlie I lap this weck. Mr?. Knill Wiley, of |t)o<<tn ington, Ind., is visiting in<, mini, Mrs. I). F. Orr, in the' (lap. Old newspapers for sah- at this ofllce ANNOUNCEMENT. To The Voters of W Ixe < 'oniity: I lake tili? method <>f Rrioonnelrig my-' Mlf i caiuliilatv tin the olilcd nf tXiuiiiy 'I roiutiror, to lio vOtctl Wr m lliocleoltini mi in? Sinti iUj of iioxl Sovcsiiuei I l?roml*Q, a ??''??iteu, to ||lvtj i" the itooule, a faithful, painaUklii(r, N'? Vl'AIt'll 9?N ???? -'? Blrtigtlt oloi.ni-ti.it ion of their affair*, having only as my highest aim tlio Bolfaroofthe VVIIOLK (?wpie. I will ttoproolate, the support df all the voter*, and if alcrtiil, will do my at moat to make them au^aeceuptbie ofllooi Yours respectfully, ! S. J. UORXS. i t ?iil newspapers for si I his oftlce, Sanitary Dry Cleaning and Pressing Company THOMAS B?i "K NHit, M n i Altering mid Repair Work. French Dry (Henning lUli oi all kinds Cleaned) Blooked and Kt'lrimmed. All (,'">"<l- called for and deliver Phone So. n ?-? rinjpi Corner Ka-t lib Mi. ami Wood Awnue B ! G STONE GAF-, VA. ?r-1T 11 ruwi? ?lim? im ? -?? Ohl newspapers for sale ai this office.