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BIG STONE GAP, WISE COUNTY, VA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3077922
No. 35
ICKLE GODDESS
HERE WITH FALL I
fYLES FOR MI LADY,
Jespitt' Strike Smart Shops
[Are Tempting Wise Coun?
ty Women With Alluring
Style Event
[Strikes may come and strikes may
i but suits by Prints, drsses by P<
Paige, and hats by Ach go on j
Irever. Mach year our merchants
fr bringing out the best and most |
cautiful of Parisian style conceits. |
It 1* no longer necessary for
Idy to leave the county for her most '
irticulHi things. Pullers, the La
Shoppe, Cohen's and Gop&id
(rothers long since learned that:
aunty women wanted the beat,!
est and not the cheapest, and
ml their buyers into eastern mar?
ts tu buy the pick of dame fash
lecree. This year the advauc
honing* ale of great interest, and
easohably priced.
Personalised" styles are being
d, which means the woman
I,I lit the dress and not the dies
ho woman. That is, every model is
igned to give certain normal tig
the lines most becominf
be
II. most favored suit material
lie Tried I'ord, Tricotine and smart
nhtture fabrics.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Uible School will begin nt !>:lf>.
Preaching and the Lord's Supper
aptly following the Hilde School
ion. The subject for the sermon
Mill l.e A Living Sacrifice.
Vim an- invited to worship with us.
I YOUTH OF COUNTY WILL
DANCE WITH FEET
INSTEAD OF SHOULDERS
Death Knell ol Shimmy l tas
Tolled?Walt/, laps ' and
College Fox Trot to lie
Wage
Hoys ami gills of Wise countv will
dance with their feet and not with
their shoulders this fall if they are
strictly up to the minute.
The shimmy is gone. It's done.
The shoulders arc to have a rest, At
least that is what the organization of
American dancing masters say.
Along with the expressive shimmy
goes the scandal walk, the toddle, the
cuddle and all the rest of the get to?
gether variety. If you want to be
smart and do the correct thing you'll
Immediately get hep to those dunces
dame fashion is smiling upon. They
are the fox trot, 'laps', and the tan?
go. The old time Walt'/, i- ill ? good.
All of these dances now call for frei'
open spaces between the partners?
at least six inches, experts say.
Wise county; will tango to four
four time, for the tango is no longer
a complicated mathematical study of
footwoik. The skirls are long this
fall and full enough to permit the
tango swing. Sloucliy dancing pos?
tures are not tolerated. All the fall
dances are just clean fun, they say.
Along with the shimmy ja/./, music
is to receive n jolt. Those should. !
shaking t?otle-tones of the snxa
phone will no longer extract a wig?
gle from the hall room chnndlior.
This muscle racking harmony that
made dancing on the space of it
shrunken dime possible is taboo.
The grab-n-glrly, lake-a-whirley
jangle of ja//, is rapidly being re?
placed by songs with melody and
swing.
This is the third time in three
years that the dancing masters have
frowned upon the great god jazz.
PROSPERITY WILL INVADE COUNTY
AS NATION FILLS EMPTY COAL BINS
Supply Reaches Low Lb as
Mines Wait Settlement of;
Rail Strike ? 88,000,000
Ton Shortage, Expert
Estimate
How about coal shortage this win
ti i Here are the facts:
Total production of bituminous
coal, frdin the first of the calcndiii
yeni to August ti, it estimated at
207,000,000 net tons, by the United
St,it.--. geological survey.
This is only about 24,000,1)00 tons
less than the corresponding period of
la-i year. Working near capacity,
American mines in the past have
managed to mine 2I,0j0,0o0 tons of
kituminoUS in less than two weeks.
Stock? Low
At the beginning of the coal strike,
it was estimated th.it aho.il 05,01111,
U00 tons of bituminous coal were
kbove ground and in storage. Coal
illen sail this "reserve stocks."
i he country is consuming about
8,000,000 tons of bituminous a
week.
Production by non-union mines
during the strike has averaged about
4,000;000 tons a week.
Ma made a drain of about 4,000,
l>00 tons u week on the siored coal.
Ina much as no acute coal famine
i.levelopcd, it is now believed in
ihi coal industry that fuel reserves
were larger than estimated. The
bottom of the bin is generally in
sight now.
The Shortage
?hell the coal strike started, many
Union mines were practically shut
down because they could not com?
pete with the cheaper labor of the
open-shop mines.
I he general opinion among coal
.n is that the strike has ?'created
sufficient market," or shortage, to
"i lire union mines a market for
Iheii coal as well as non-union coal
until the end of next March. They
Sri Irnsing this belief on the assump?
tion that union mines can be pro
llui ing ut capacity by the middle of
?eptember.
It is customary, at the end of the
year, to have a carry-over or coal
reserve of 20,000,000 to 30,000,000
tons.
l'he outluok is that there will he
little if any carry-over into 1923,
A shortage of anthracite coal is
inevitable. From the first of the
year to the end of July, anthracite
Production totaled only 22,800,000
tons, against a normnl output of
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TRIP AROUND
THE WORLD
im Friday evening, September B,
tb>' Community League will stage
one of tin- most interesting and
unique nlfairs that it has ever
undertaken in all its long list of
helpful activities. This v. ill consist
of what the e public spirited laidies
choose to call *A Trip Around the
World," The would-be-pnssehgei
buy round trip tickets at the "sta?
tion", which will be located in the
Monte Vista Hotel, where Mrs. Karl
Stoehr will act as station agent. At
this point automobiles will be wait?
ing to take them on the first leg of
their journey, the stopping place be?
ing "Mount Vernon," at or near, the
home of Mrs. .1. II. Mallo ws, when
entertainment ami refreshments will
be provided. Hoarding their train
again they soon arrive at '"West
Point," where Mrs. .1. I.. MeCormlck
will show them around the grounds
ami further refresh them with a
light repast, familiar We believe, to
.ill West Pointers.
From here tin- travelers wen.I theii
way into darkest Africa, piloted by
Mrs. I.. T. Winston, who will add
further dainties to those already en?
joyed.
Mrs. .1. W. Chalkley will then be
waiting on the shores of Japan,
where she will try to make the vis?
itors feel welcome ill that far oil
land. Fr?nt here to Ireland, where
Mrs. 1). H. Pierson will receive them,
next go the travellers, where they
may kiss even the Blarney stone!
A trip to "Paris" will complete the
itinerary. Here Mrs. It. K. Taggnrt
will endeavor to make it interesting,
providing dancing during the entire
evening and various other forms of
amusement. The representatives of
the live other countries, or rather
places,will go to "Paris" along with
the last bunch of visitors at their
homes and act as joint hostesses with
Mrs. Taggart. While the young folks
dunce it is hoped the older members
of the crowd of globe trotters will
not be too Weary to enjoy the gar?
den party arranged for them in
"Paris" where the final refreshments
will be served.
Bound trip tickets will be $1.00
each, children &0 cents.
Young people not desiring to take
the entire trip may buy the dollar
tickets and go straight to "Paris"
where they may dunce from nine
till twelve.
The first "train" leaves the Monte
NEW WAGE SCALE EFFECTIVE IN
COUNTY SEPTEMBER 1ST BRINGS
WAGES UP TO 1920 MARK. THEY SAY
All Mine Workers in This Field Will Receive Increase ol
Approximately 50 Per Cent.
MEANS HALF MILLION
DOLLARS PER MONTH INCREASE
Mines Mark Time Pending Settlement ol Rail Strike?Car
Shortage Acute
F.iTectivc September 1>1 all mine workers in ti?i ? lield
will receive an increase in Wages of approximately fifty per
I'fiii. This information was t'eceived froin oliicials high tip
in Wise couhiy cioal industry who requested that their
names be Withheld from publication. 'I bis increase brings
the wages back to the 1920 level or scale and means an in
crease of approximately one half million dollars per month
to the county payroll.
All brunches of the mining Indus.,
try will benefit by the new wage
scale. Company men, coal loaders,
coke men; in fact every man work?
ing for a coal company will feel the
thrill of the 1020 pay envelope in
September.
It is freely" predicted that the set
Cement of the rnil strike will witness
the greatest era of prosperity the
county has ever experienced.
The announcement last week' of
the Uli per cent, increase in wages
in all steel mills is a forerunner of
what many believe is a return to the
dizzy days following the close of the
war.
Prices of commodities are expect?
ed to soar as the working man till
his sadly depleted purse. Specula?
tion is rife ns to what attitude the
laboring class will assume with re?
gard to theii increased earnings.
Storekeepers and theatrical inen say
they will spend it as freely as in .-Is
silk shirt days <>f the post war boom.
(In the either hand hankers of the
county say that the slump has taught
many lessons of tin ift.aml that much
of the money made under the new
scale will be saved.
FIRE ALARM
SATURDAY NIGHT
I Eire was discovered in a rear room
of Mrs. Stacy V boarding house all
I0':30 Saturday night barely in time
to avert what might have; proved to
he disastrous. As no one was in that I
pail of the house at that time the
room was full of smoke when dis?
covered] The lite hail started on the
Hour in the center of the room and i
as there was no fireplace near it it
is blieved some matches were ignited
by rats. A gem rill alarm was turn
ed in hut the lljaze was soon e'xtiil
guished before much damage was
dune.
BASK BALL
The colored teams of liig Stone
I Cap ami KiUgsport will play a double
header hall game here on Lahor Day,
Monday September Ith and another
game on the following day. The
Cap leiilil played a three game series
with Kiligsport last week ami only
won one game, Kingsport winning
the first two, the -core being I to II
and !? to 6. In the last contest Itig
Stone Cap went to hat in the sixth
inning with the score I to tl against
them. Harry I'attoli singled and
stole second and big Charlie Gardner
was sent in as pinch hitter and he
responded by hitting the second hall
pitched over the center field fence
for a home run, winning the game
by a score of 2 to 1.
Kingsport has a fast team out the
Cap boys are preparing to put up a
good team against them in this leriea
and are confident of taking at least
two games.
NORTON ANU WKST
NORTON SCHOOLS
The Norton ami West Norton
Schools will open September 7th.
The tochers of the county will hold
their usual three days conference a!
Norton prior to the opening of the
county schools.
Vista at S p. m.
The proceeds from this affair will
go towards the fund for purchasing
the shades for the new High School
building, so it is hoped that the
"Trip Around the World" will he
freely indulged in.
COMMUNITY LEAGUE
"Mary Ahlen is the mother in
"The Old Nest."?adv.
MOUNTAINS FOR
BETTER ROADS
SouthWest Virginia is Alive
to Need, According to Col?
onel Jim M?ret, Back
Alter Attending Meet?
ings
ACTIVE IN
WISE COUNTY
Aftor spending several days in the
eities of Southwest Virginia In the
interest of g.I roiidli Colonel Jim
Mniet has returneil t.. Lexington.
He visit, il ltii; Stdiic < lii|>. Norton,
Appnldchin, Celvelaml, Columiiiis,
and other points a. the representa?
tive of the Lexington Hoard of t'om
hierce, the Ky-Vii. Road Association
and Lexington Auto club at road
meetings in Itig Stone (lap and Nor?
ton and during Ins trip eoiifrrod with
leailing gooil roads men and organ?
izations in that portion of Soilthwc I
Virginia including llristol.
That territory has a splendid s
teni of highways completed and
many more under construct ion, Col?
onel Malet said. Wise counts, in
which Norton is located, ha. invest?
ed $2,000,1)110 in toads ami is build?
ing more, one of which is being grad?
ed fl-blll Pound Hap with only foul
I miles to he constructed before win
To ascertain what was being done
in Virginia toward bringing a coh
Heeling link of the Virginia highway
system to meet the Kentucky-Vir?
ginia road which Is routed from L.-.x
ingtoii io pound Hap, through Win?
chester, Stnntoil, Campion, Jackson,
Hasard and Whitesbtirg, wait one of
the reasons foi Colonel Mulct's trip.
The old road ...nit in. I with a
warm reception and every possible
attention at all point- visited. 1 hi'
Virginians were greatly pleased to
learn of the movement to bring the
Kentucky-Virginia road to their Inn
der and gave strong assurance of co?
operation from the good load., im.i t
.is of tln-ir stale in bringing ahmt!
Ibis much dsired result.
Norton, Applrlnchia, ilig Stone
Cap, Wise, Johesvlllc, Clinchlleld
ami other points will send repie
Selltativse to the meeting of the Ky
V*a. Road Association to he held .,!
Hazard Thursday, August III, winch
will be attended by a number of del
.gales from the seven counties oh
? he routing in addition to the Vir?
ginia delegations, Coverii?r Morrow,
the State Highway Commission, two
eastern Kentucky congressmen,mem?
bers of civic organizations are ex
pected to attend this meeting which,
from indications, will be the largest
and most important road meeting
held in eastern Kentucky for a num?
ber of years.
Prsident M. II. Ilolliday, of .lad:
son, is making out a large number of
personal invitations, in addition to
making announcement through the
press of his dseire for a large atten?
dance.
The Kiwanis ('tub, of Hazard, had
taken charge of the general arrange?
ment of affairs in connection with
the convention and Hazard expects
the good roads enthusiasts to conn
in large numbers. ? Lexington (Ky.)
Herald.
If the weather man will obliging?
ly predict a severe winter it will hell*
sjohte, with no coal in sight. We
know how to take his predictions.
THE, ADVANCE OUAKU OK
THOUSANDS AKK1VK
Tourist Front 19 States Arc Seen
on tiro Roads ol Wise County
Cars from I!' states were seen on
the roads of Wise county thi< past
week;
We arc being invaded by the tour?
ist, who have read of tile romance
of our people ami the beauty of our
hills. These people are the advance
guard, path linden of the thousand
who will pour into the "Lonesome
fine" country when the Lonesome
Pine Trail is completed, This road
will he completed by Christmas of
1921. Meantime the more udventur
mi- will make their own trails and
go hack with Blowing accounts of
our hills.
MOTHERS TUN IS UP
THE ANCIENT WASH RAG
Rcadin' an' Writiri' an' 'Kttliinc
lick Days Arc Just Around
the Corner
These are sad days, days when the
hu- swimuijn' hole steals a chill out
early autumn, and stubbed toe. wie.
i;lo in spasmodic agony in new
si|ucaky hoe-. I'h.' nice old patchei
trousers must give away to new one
and the hair is plastered down t<
jiainful 'company' proportions. Tin
speller and reader and arithmetic at.
dusted off, a Kip is made to the eel
lal foi an apple for teacher and sai
.lays begin.
Ain't it awful with Indian summe
in t ready to spin a purple hhr.e ovo
hill and vale.' Maybe it wouldn't b
o ha<i if mot her would let the de
mini washing alone. Kvory day i
wa ll day when sei.1 begins.
PIPE ORGAN RECITAL
IS HEARD BY 900
AT NORTON CHURCH
William Pitcher Charms
Huge Audience When S7,
000 I'ipo Organ is 1 nrnccl
Over to Church
Mure than 9?? peop\e were pres?
ent at the First Baptist chUti'll in
Norton last Friday evening when
William I'ilcher, Jr., orr nn-i ami di?
rector of tin- Warren Memorial IV
byterinn church, Louisville, gave a
furmal organ recltoL
? The occasion marked the installa?
tion of the new ST.omi organ which
was built Slid installed by the I'ilcher
company, of Louisville. Young I'd
eher is of the fourth generation of
musicians in the I'ilcher family.
They began to huihl organ in 18120,
or 102 years ago.
The Norton church has the only
pipe organ between llluofiold and
Bristol. Mr-, lt. L. (l-horne will he
the organist.
CRAWFORD PROMOTES1 A
FRIENDLY INTEREST
Bruce, Crawford went to Jenkins
last week. Sole purpose of said \i II
was to piomote friendly inteiesi be?
tween the Kentucky coal etty and
the metropolis of \\ ise, he said.
According to Crawford everybody
in Jenkins ui'.l attend the Wise
County Fan nevt month.
Don't w'ori . uvi r being fat. It
makes people think you haw- pleill)
CONVICT SERVING 8 YEARS WOULD
NOT EXCHANGE BIBLE FOR PARDON
-
COAL PRODUCTION
95,916 TONS BELOW
NORMAL LAST WEEK
Car Shortage Holds Produc?
tion to (ill Per Cent, of Full
Time Capacity in This
Field
Willi lli>' car situation little or no
holler in this field operators roll
Untie to niurk time while the lahm
iiniiin ami rail bonds tail to reach an
agreement, \ good many operators
are working their |ilanls mul storing
the eoiii pending the strike settle
ntelit.
Kor the week eliding Align I I?
only tin.:! per tent, ol' tin- lull lime
rapacity of the Southwest Virginia
field was mine.I. According to the
weekly report cut out bj the Virgin
ia t'oal i?per,,i.,i ; A all Intimi all the
ii.'iihi pi oilin I em ill. call he traced
1., car liortage. Last week 11.1,1110
ions on the minus side of the pro
tllictiiill Slli-I't Wele there heeall-e of
no car .. Little hope Is held out for
hotter result until the rail strike is
1.1. night lo an end.
During the week of August 111 the
N. f. W. handled l?.'.ir.l tons; the
... & N. Il.f.lll; Interstate 2I.2I?, or
i'.i per relit, of normal rupneit) :
Southern 211,-171 ton-, and the f., C,
I)KAN Oh" HELLO GIRLS
ARRIVES IN NORTON
Miss Rniiiin .1. (irmly, a Division
Traffic Supervisor of the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Company,
has arrived in Wise county to in?
struct tin- hello girls of Norton, Coc
burn, Wise, Appniachin and the Cap]
how to get your number quick.
She will spend the first three weeks
in Norton leaching the young ladies
the art of the rising inflection in us?
ing the word "Number."
GREEVER KMU1.ATKS
WH EN
Paul Crei ver, Norton llivver dis?
tributor, loaded ten chauffeurs into
a Pullman and went to Columbus af?
ter a flock of Henry's last week. He
arrived there just about the time
Henry Ford Wren arrived in the Cap
with liflen more cars.
There's one consolation, anyway.
If. we have no coal next winter we
won't be bothered with the dust.
-o
It may he true that a fool is born
every minute but they certainly
I don't die at the same rate.
Heart of Erstwhile "Bad Ac?
tor" in ('cm illy Convict
Camp is loticlicd by Sal?
vation Hill Keller and As
sociales
Twenty months ago i ?|>< i. t X
"went up" for eight, year fur ,, in;
second story job. They ?etil him
down to Itichmoiid tu he -in In ?- i ???
in the city of white wall u |u-n
(JoVorilor Trilikle lent the prison
hoys uul t.. \\ i ,- county to help
build the ron.ls Uonvic1! X wiii in
eluded in the road huildoi i. II.? U'st
considered a ha.I :.r bv the Kuartl
anil Went about his w-uk with double
shackles, about his ankles He w.i
sullen, delimit, louknig only fui a
chance t.i run
On,- Sund.,. 'VsVilvutiiihV Hill Ivel
ler and his a sociale tippeiired in tin?
camp to hol.l services. Con viel X
w.nt beeil use he had to. lb- listen
cd to the me age w itli a ids i <-n hi -
lips, and thought little of what he
heard. The K.lle, p.,rt> lottiriiod"
again and lor some reu nil X Iis.
ed. Later In- joined a number of
other prisoners at tin nude altar.
The double shackles -v. re removed
and "Salvation" Kellc'i presented
tin- man with his first Hilde. The
other day this erstwhile tumble ma!.
er told u few visitor., at the camp
that he would not exchange hi Bible
for a pardon. Ami the guuids laid
he was a model prisoner; and would
soon be made a "tin t)
This splendid work of Keller,
1.. I,. Brown, .1. It. W ood. .1 S. Wa
sum ami the Kev. .1 I:. Ilerndoii is
soon to Stop unless the people of
Wise county can hilp lihance tii? -
work. When seen at hi. pith e Mr.
Keller admitted that the linaiiclal
strain was heavy. Since I.i t April
only $6(1 have been paid by friends
in the cdlinty. Since hi t April Kel?
ler ami his workers have traveled on
an average of 1,600 mih i for every
month with four Sundays and 1,8011
miles when the month bud live Sun?
days. Figure this mileage at .in hv
erage of ten cents pel mile and you
call gain some Idea of what Keller
and Brown have paid out of the-iC
own pockets to help tie unfortunate.
I There are six camps in this section
Un the Sunday Salvation Hill holds
a meeting at Camp 1 I, near I'attoil
ville, in Scott, he travels 120 mile-.
To reach camps .'? und seventeen he
or his workers must drive 70 mile.-;
No. I requires a mile drive. Kv
ery Sunday they reach 366 p'ri .'>?' ;
exclusive of guards. On Thursday
night he conducts a Bible cla
Camp 31.
All the work is conducted by bits
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