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The Big Stone Gap Post_
VOL. XXVI,_BIG STONE GAP. WISE COUNTY, VA., WEDNES~DAY^DECEjvTBER~ 18,~19I87 No. 51
At a Meeting Friday Night of
the Young Business Men
of Big Stone Gap.
W. H. WREN
who was ciecled President of the Voting
.Men's Chili Friday Evening.
At a very enthusiastic nml
spirited meeting of :i few of the
youiig business men of the tow n
Friday evening in the olliec of
the Kloctric Transmission Com
pany, n club was organized which
will be known hereafter us the
"Young Men's Club," the pur?
pose of which will In- tn pro?
mote the common interests und
development of l?g Stone Gap
and vicinity. Judging by the
enthusiasm und determination
displayed at the meeting it is
evident thai this dub will ben
live one and will endeavor to
enroll every business man in tin1
town as a member; and that it
will accomplish a number of ob?
jects, tin- failure of which h:ts
long boon a barrier to tin- prop?
er dovelopihenl of the town.
When tin- meeting was elided
to order, the matter of organiza?
tion was taken tip and resulted
in the election of W. II. Wren,
President: .1. U. Taylor, Vi.
President, und K. W .' Uliss, Sec?
retary and Treasurer; The se?
lection of tut executive caminit
tee was postponed until a later
meeting when it is hoped a
larger representation will he
present. Oil UCCOUIll of the
health regulations prohibiting
the gathering of a large body,
only a limited number were in
attendance.
Various subjects were discuss?
ed at. the meeting for the bet?
terment of the town, and every
one present favored the idea of
promoting tlie building of more
homes in l?g Stone Gup, and
this wan adopted ns the slogan of
the club, for the present.
That this town will grow is
evidenced by the constant de?
mand for places to rent or buy
which cannot lie filled, conse?
quently hundreds of people who
would gladly make Pig Stone
Gap their home are forced to
seek other places. The matter
has been brought up and discuss?
ed time and time again with no
result, ami it is the aim of (his
club to find whether or not some?
thing definite can be done to re?
lieve the situation. However,
the club can not accomplish any?
thing along this line unless if
has tho hearty co-operation and
support of tin1 public generally.
0. S. Harris, of Columbia,
Kentucky, who is a booster to
the core, and who has been in?
strumental in the construction of
good roads in Adair county, wits
present and addressed the meet?
ing in his usual spirited way,
giving u few suggestions to
how a small commercial club
was organized in his town and
the many great things it accom?
plished. Mr. Harris emphasized
the fact that a chili of this kind
could do wonders for Pig Stone
and earnestly pledged Iiis hearty
support, and .started the ball a
rolliu' by planting a five dollar
bill on the table for initiation
fee and to become its first mem?
ber.
It is suggested that since all
property will share in the owners
general prosperity of Big Stone
Gap or seller uitdcr the reverse,
that all non-resident property
ownors should be invited to take
membership in this organization.
We approve of this suggestion
and trust this club will take such
steps to reach every parly who
owns property in this town.
The next mooting of the club
will In- Friday evening, Decem?
ber l'<iih, at s o'clock at the of?
fice of the Electric Transmission
Company. The committee on
membership expects lo report at
least one hundred members at
Hint. lime.
Letter From
France
The following letter written
by Corp. J. Derviu Cox, of Big
Stone Oap, who has been in ac?
tive servier- with the American
Expeditionary F o rcoa in
France, to Iii? brother-in-law,
Frank Witt, tells in a very hti
moristic way his many expo
nonces as a soldier boy, which
will no doubt be very interest
ing to his many friends here:
November 1, l!'is.
I )enr Frank:?
Bs 1 have gent u few minutes
time to nito, 1 will write you.
Ef you (test knowed where t's
at to nito and where i huv
been for sum time; I am doUU
in one <>f them thur tilings tliay
call "Dug-?Uts" doun under
the nyrth. 1 was out in front
of bit 'bout a our ago, to nito
and gest in a fewsocontS lime I
heard fussy bails coming rij{hl
strata at me, you bet I lost no
time geten doun in that thar
thing.
We have our big guns up at
the from all 1 have to do is to
take til em up, for my part, on
the big shop car at any time
they say. I have bad good
luck so fer geten over the rode.
Sum times the smoke hides the
rede eept mebbe fer a foot or
[loo, but thar's no stoppen. I
don't get any closer to front
than they make me, because I
don't like them fussy balls to
git bi/.y bout me. 1 am in a
little nest of woods bout,like to
mo, the Uraborchard, where
you come from.
F.t ever 1 git home agen you
hev me a good job and I will
stay at dere old B. S. O. the
rest of my time. Mut 1 don't
think I will git back the way
the bulls passes me and spliis
the nyrth liken bull-touge plow.
Thay come loo close to me and
too often to suit me gest right.
Tell the boys 1 will give them
a good time ef IMo come back.
Tell Ted that 1 hev learnt to
work on all kinds of cars and
that I can take the biggest one
made over the rode thru smoke
and bullets whur he wood do
mithin but fall over and faint.
Tell Mollio I Bed that ef 1 got
thru this winter, 1 believe 1
could stand anything on the
top-side of the ayrlh. I would
riio moore but some body high
up will hev to read my letters,
or try to read them before you
can git them and 1 ain't much
hand to rite and spell hut 1 will
tell the bull thing when 1 come,
etc.
Coup. J. Dkkvin Cox,
Battery F., 58th Artillery.
Death of Mrs. Elizabeth
Upchurch.
Mrs. Elizabeth Maun Up
church died at her home hear
the furnace Tuesday, December
10th, ufler a brief illness. Aged
1(9 years. She was the mother
of Owen Upchurch, the well
known carpenter, and his broth?
ers, Alex, and John. The last
named son is with the Ameri?
can Expeditionary Forces iu
France. Mrs. Upchurch was a
member of the Southern Metho?
dist church, of Big Stone Oap,
and was well known through
out this section.
The funeral services were
hold at ihe residence Wednes?
day afternoon at 3:30, conduct?
ed by Uev. J. M. Smith, and the
interment was made by the side
of her husband's grave in the
Lipps cemetery in Powoll's
Valley, u Bhort distance abovo
town.
;/ Rcj
? r Hm
of ycur
i ? 1VISI
You get a button, too, when
you join. WEAR THAT ON
YOUR COAT.
Red Cross workers have de?
finite instructions not toencour
age any one to join more than
once.
When you wear your button
it lets those workers know you
belong ? then they won't ask
you again.
The work of the Red
Cross must go on?it will
go on, and you must make
it possible.
This is Red Cross
Week. It is the only
opportunity you will have
to join the Red Cross, for
the year 1919, or to re?
new your old member?
ship.
As j?oon as you join and
get your flag, put it in the
front window of your
home?let all the world
know you are a member
of that great organization
of humanity and that you
are proud to belong.
all you need is a heart and ? doll?f
THIS SPACE CONTKlbUTKD UY
ZVS I TTr.AIv 1*11 ^"V RAL ACY
Community
League Notes
The Community Leugne hehl
a muetiui! in the Bchool build?
ing on .Monilay, December Und
at I o'clock. Mrs. Irvine, Hie
president, presided, and called
the roll of officers and read the
minutes of the previous meet?
ing.
For painting the individual
school rooms of the school wo
have an indented ness of $121.40.
Of this $58 has been donated,
leaving $63A'.i to be paid. I lav
ing been premised assistance
by the School Board, the league
assumes one half of the debt,
Mrs. Irvine redd a letter from
Mr. .1. 11. Montgomery, presi?
dent of the Co-Operative Edu?
cation Association, giving us
suggestions for definite work in
our organization. There being
three ranks for a league to at?
tain to, our league is noted to
work for a First Rank League
The conditions for a First
Uank League are:
I. Ten regular meetings a
year.
II. Efficient work by the fol?
lowing six committees:
I. Committee on Education.
'2. Health and Sanitation.
U. Food Production and Con?
servation.
!. 1'iihlie Utilities.
5. Civil and Moral Improve?
ment.
i>. Social and Recreation.
III. Fay annual dues and
send in annual report.
IN'. At least fifteen subscrib
ers to the Community League
News.
V. Have a representative at
the county and state meeting.
A motion put in by Mrs. R. 10.
Taggart that in the formation
of our uew committees, we ap?
point new chairmen for the
committees of the First Rank
League, applying our chairmen
mid standing committees to the
needs of our committees under
the new regime, was duly sec?
onded and passed. For the
wo!king oiii of these commit?
tees, time being limited; a call
meeting was planned for the
following day at the home of
the secretary.
Our attention was railed to
the fact there uro 250,000 fath?
erless children in Krnnce. A
society for their welfare bus
been organized in the United
Slates. It requires ten cents'a
day to keep each child in its
mother's home. The teachers
present expressed their desire
to support one of these children
for ti year. Our community
has been alleted ten children.
The school children will be
asked to adopt two children.
The Lloyd Guild of Christ's
Episcopal church at its last
meeting voted to adopt a child
for tie- year. What other church
will assist this worthy move
ment? It means hut ten cents
a day or f'iti 60 for the year.
A letter from our State Nurse,
Miss Randolph, calling our at?
tention to a nurse's bom.- to he
built at Cntawba, Va., for
nurses having taken tuberculo?
sis from patients, anil asking
our co operation. The letter
was laid on the table.
Having pledged .jmHj.Ut) iQ,
wards the salary ot our county
nurse it was moved and sec?
onded that we pay $50 of the
same, the treasury for the pres?
ent being depleted.
LETTER OF
COMMENDATION
The Stonega Coke & Coal
Company is in receipt of the
following letter from Krank J.
Herman, of Washington city,
manager of the coke section of
the United States Fuel Admin?
istration, thanking them for
their hearty co operation with
the government during the pe?
riod of the svar:
Washington, Nov. 20, 1918.
Stonega Coke & Coal Co.,
Big Stone Cap, Va.
(Inntlomon:?
1 am very glad to be aA>le
to tell you thai it will be
satisfactory for you to make
shipments to whatever poini
you care to, bagiuuing Decem
. her 1st. In ntliiT \vnn1s, nur
restrictions which requested
you ti? discontinue shipments of
foundry coko to points in Mich
igun, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Missouri and Nebraska, und
ulao to points north of tin-Ohio
River, are hereby recindeil.
j I want to thank you for your
spirit of cooperation, and wish
| to assure you that you have
been our of the shining lights,
: to which we could point when?
ever any coke operator wanted
to disregard any of our requests.
Personally, 1 do not think I
have met with a better group
'of men than those which are
connected with your organism
lion, even though the times
were very hard and trying.
Very truly yours,
U. S. PUKI. A li.M l.NISTU ATION
By Frank .1. Herman
.Manager of Coke Section.
I
.
j Death of Milton V. Reese.
Milton VanBuen Keese, of
lOlinger, Vu., died at his home
last Tuesday afternoon, Decent
iier loth, after a brief illness.
Aged 49 years. Mr. Reese was
engaged in the mercantile busi
ness in Turkey Cove, and after?
wards at Olinger, Va. He en?
joyed the confidence and re?
spect of the people of his sec?
tion. He was a member of the
Methodist church of Turkey
Cove,also of the. YVillurd Lodge,
No. 136, Odd Fellows, of Olin?
ger, Va. Ho is survived by his
wife and seven children, all of
[whom were with him when the
end came, except one son, who
is in France. The day after
I Mr. Reese's death a telegram
was received from this sou, an?
nouncing that ht> was safe with
bis command, after having been
captured by the Germans and
afterwards released following
the armistice.
The funeral services were
held at the home on Thursday
morning, conducted by Rev.
J. M. Smith. The Willard
Lodge of Odd Fellows attended
the service in a body, and con?
ducted the services at the grave.
The interment was made in the
Jones cemetery, Turkey Cove.
Food
Administration
Says Demand fur Food Over?
seas is Great.
('uptain Ctinrl?H Stownrt, 591 h
Artillery, II. S. Army, just re
turned t?> his home in Wash
ington after commanding Inn
battery at St. Mihiel and the
Argonue, reports that, on reach?
ing Paris die day the armistice
was signed, his Iiis! idea of a
lining celebration was a bath,
th i first in two months, and a
dinner which should be a rare
relief from the daily dint of
bully beef on the lighting lino.
"What did you find to eat in
i'aris?-' he was asked.
"Well, you can't get any
butter, or sugar, and there's no
milk to be had, and on .-^i;? . . .
"We got eight uysters with
green rims on them, a partridge
and another bird, utid a steak.
The bill was led francs for tour
of us, about $30 in American
cash."
When an American nrnn of
licer, whom the joyous Paris?
ian populunco dragged from his
taxi and carried along with
kisses and salutations on the
greatest festal da> in history,
hailing him as a hero and a de?
liverer of France, was denied
butter and sugar, milk and eggs
on' his first day back from
the front, the grim truth shows
plainly that these things are
practically impossible to find.
To children, old people, sick
people and the wounded men in
hospitals, they are indispensa?
ble foods.
The United States Pood Ad?
ministration says: The neu . ??>
ship found overseas is greater
than ever today. Don't stop
saving.
Jerusalem i I'.v Mail I- - Aniei i
enti doctors, nurses and Wink?
ern, connected with th" Ameri?
can lied Cross bete, are carry?
ing relief work and civilized
methods in districts isolated
from western civilization since
the days of the Roman occupa?
tion.
The network of highways
built by the British armies un?
der Ueuernl Allenby, through
the hill country lying eastward
of the Jordan Kiver valley has
opened up this land lor the lirst
time in 1600 years.
Reports received here from
Beit UroSS representatives show
extensive relief is now being
carried into more than 30 Vil?
lages where the inhabitants,
impoverished by excesses of
the retreating Turkish armies,
have been foil ml in dire circum?
stances.
Wholesome food, warm cloth?
ing, medical and nursing alten
lion and general relief work is
being organized on a large
scale. To date, according to
the report, the following has
heel) done:
Fifteen clinics arranged; vis?
its being made to surrounding
villages the previous day to
notify inhabitants to bring
their sick; surveys of water
supply .sewerage,s:in it at ion and
the like made in 30 villages;
and corrective measures tinder
taken; Boy Scout troops organ?
ized; and training of nutiye
helpers begun; garments to the
value of $500 already distribut?
ed among 200 orphans. Gener?
al relief, food, medical ami Oth?
erwise, undertaken.
Native-, of the villages, al?
though habitually suspicious of
outsiders owing to the cruelties
of the Turks, are welcoming
tin- British and American
"strangers" and are today "ex
ceptioually open to western in?
fluences,'* the report stated.
"For the first lime in many
centuries they are free from a
miserable government that
quenched all initiative except
that of the plunderer and bribo
giver?and they realize the
change. The roads have open
led up a country that litis for
1500 years hardly had contact
i with the went. The present
I time is one of unusual oppbrtu
1 niiy."
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