Rural Retreat times. [volume], January 24, 1913, Image 1

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ESTABLISHED 1892
RURAL RETREAT, VA.t FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1913.
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VOL. XXI NO- 44
Joo K. Buck is iu Richmond
this week.
Roy J. Cormany was in Mar
ion Sunday.
Miss Ethel Brown spent Sun
tlay in Wyfhevil-e.
J. W. Bell, of Abingdon, Was
in town last Wednesday.
Mrs. D. R. Doak spent Satur
day and Sunday in Wytlieville.
N. T. Vaught, of Wythoville,
Was in town several days this
Week.
T, F. Kidd, of Crockett, was
iu town last Thursday on busi
ness.
Miss Lila Maddox spent Sun
day at her home near Wytho
ville.
Dr. Croft returned Saturday
morning trom a business trip to
Covington, Va.
Miss Ella Catron left Wednes
day for Richmond, where she
will visit several weeks.
Miss Con Robinson, of Roan
tike, is visiting her aunts, Mes
darnes Hendrick’s and Delp.
Miss Mary Poage, of Wythe
Villo, spent several days last
week the guest of Mrs. Con
Stone.
Note the showing made by
The First National Bank tor 1912
in tlie fourth column of this
paper.
Captain William G. Howe has
leased for a term of three years a
tract of land of about three thou
sand acres belonging to the Hen
inger ostate in Tazewell county.
Mi's. B. E. B<\yer received a
phoue message Sunday, stating
her brother. Mr. Friel llhndy, of
-Elk Creek, was dead. Mrs Boy
•er was not able to attend the
burial.
Mrs Howard M. I logo, State
•President of the W. 0. T. U.,
will give an address at the Meth
<ad.ist church, Tuesday evening
JRtn, 28, at 8 o'clock. Every
body Cordially invited to be pie
Sent.
What we need is more side
Walks, Why can’t wo have
them? Wake up, everybody,
let’s see what we can do. Yes,
It’s all right in dry weather, but
inud is nearly to your knees when
it’s wet. Let’s have them.
There is a movement on foot
to start a kraut factory at this
place. This matter has been
talked of several times, but we
are assured that it is to be put
Up this time. Now watch Rural
Retreat grow. Lt’s the best town
in the Old Dominion anyway.
Those whose subsorintions
have expired will please come or
send in and renew. Don’t bo
like a person we noted about
three weeks ago. The person
had his paper stopped—the next
week we saw him looking over
another’s shoulder reading The
Rural Retreat Times. For good
ness sake don’t be so stingy as
that. It never pays. We do
our best to boost and help every
one.
Into Of 21 Babies.
Cleveland, Jan, 14.—The birth
of quadruplets 10 days ago makes
Mrs. William O. Clark, of 1713
Hamilton avenue, ths mother of
27 children. Sue is only 35 years
old. The quadruplets, all boys,
died because of an injury to the
mother.
This was the second sot of
quadruplets the woman has born,
and she is also the mother of
three sets of triplets and five sets
of twins. Six of her 27 children
are alive. The eldest, Roland, is
19 years old, and the youngest,
Hubbard is 2.
Mrs. Clark’s mother had 28
♦ children, including twins and
triplets. Her grandmother had
29 children, quadruplets among
them. Mrs. Clark does her own
housework.
Bonk Party.
Monday night, January 20th,
Miss Elizabeth and Mr. Geo. W.
Painter gave to a number of
their friends a Rook Party.
Those present were:
Misses Lollie Jones, Eugene
Warrick, Ethel Brown, Margie
Catron, Cecil Painter, Elizabeth
Jordon, Lulu Pricketl, Nannie
K. Spence, Elizabeth and Fannie
Eversole, and Connie Robinson,
of Roanoke, and Messrs. Roy
Hankla, Joe Staley, H. K. Neff,
Minter Prickett, Byron Brown,
3urn Ward, Clias. Baughman,
Floyd aud A1 Buck
The parlor was decorated with
lovely evergreens.
Delightful refreshments were
served after several games had
been played, and all departed
for their homes, thauking the
host and hostess for this most de
lightful evening.
Mr. Miuter, traveling sales
man, was in town Wednesday,
Poem Ms In Close
Places.
Beware of its Ravages sayo Health
Board, aud give Sneezer a Wide
Berth.
Richmond, Va., January 22,
1913. (Special.) During the pre
sent uncertain weather, while
the thermometer is mar at honing
up and down the tube, the care
ful citizen is warned by the State
Board of Health to take no
chances and in particular to be
ware of the sneezer, the spitter
and the close room.
In fact, the sneezer is put un
der a spooial ban in a bulletin
just issued by the Board and is
indicted for various offences
against the good health and peace
ot the Coram mwealth. He is to
be given a wide berth by the cit
izen who desires to avoid colds
and is urged, in particular, to
avoid the infection of his fellows.
Says the bulletin of the Board :
“This week of changing weather,
with varying temperature, is
most dangerous and will be the
cause of many cases of pneurnon
ia and influe.iza unless proper
precautions are taken. A.s one
cannot surmise what will be the
noon temperature when he leaves
his ho ne in the morning, he
should be protected against sud
den changes. He should always
take his overcoat with him and
should always put it on when
leaving close rooms and going in
to the open air.
Of almost equal importance,"
continues the bulletin, is the ne
cessity of proper ventilation,
tfo greater mistake can be made
than to suppose that in cold
weather the house or office should
be sealed as tightly as possible.
On the contrary, eveu the cold
est days, there should be ample
ventilation. If this be procured
and the windows be so arranged
than there will be no draft whom
those in the room are seated, there
will be loss danger of colds.
“A fruitful source of iufectiou
at this time is careless sneezing,
especially in close places, such
as street cars, elevators, churches
and public buildings. Influenza
is readily communicable and its
germs leave the body with the
fine mist thrown from the mouth
and nose when one sneezes. Any
person suffering from influenza
or cold should be thoughtful
enough to place a handkerchief
or his hand over his mouth and
nose when he sneezes. In this
way, the germs will not readily
be borne in the air. Where a
person fails to keep his sneezing
to himself, those about him
should give him as wide a berth
as possiblo. In this weather, the
careless sneezer belongs with the
careless spitter.
Miss Laura Kinder, of near
Ceres, is visiting relatives in and
near town this Week.
Mrs. Margaret Neff had the
mistcrtune to Fall last Saturday
and sprained her left wrist, cans
ing her considerable pain.
Death Of Mrs. tort
Groseclose, Va., Jan. 23, 1913.
—On Friday January 3rd, 1913,
Mrs. Nancy Leonard passed away
at her home near this place. She
had reached the ripe old age of
past 82, having been born July
24, 1830, in Smyth county, Va.
She was the mother of J. W.
Leonard, and Rev. W. A. Leon
ard, both of which live in and
near this place.
She was a member of the M.
-E. Ohurch South, have joined
about (53 years ago. She was a
true Christian wife and mother,
her children growing up in the
way they should go.
She was laid to rest by the
side of her husband, Jacob Leon*
ard, who was a faithful Christian
and who proceeded her to the
grave by a number of years.
The entire family have the
sympathy of the entire com
munity.
Mil Almanac.
We(l-Known Public Health
Pamphlet Will be Issued Early
Next Week.
Richmond, Va„ January 22,
1913. (Special.) The Virginia
Health Almanac, which is the
State’s most familiar health pub
lication, is in the bindery and
will be ready for distribution
early next week. The editors of
the almanac have been forced to
new enterprise this year, as sev
eral other States, modeling after
Virginia, have issued very cred
itable health almanacs for the
present year. Kansas, Missippi
and North Carolina have already
followed the example set by Vir
ginia in 1910 and are giviug their
citizens the truths of prevention
in d lily calendar form. To ex
cel these new rivals, Virginia
has enlarged and improved her
Almanac and will present it to
the public in a new garb, with a
very attractive blue cover. As
the edition of the Almanac will
be somewhat limited, early ap
plication for copies is desired.
The Sunday School at this
place has gone into waiter quar
ters.
A. C. Stowers has sold his
farm to C. W. Hanshow.
R. M. Stowers, R. M. Catron
and E. F. Umberger has pur
chased F. W. Stower’s land.
The infant son of E. F. Um
berger is right sick.
Mrs. T. P. Umberger is con
fined to her bed with Bronchitis
and Asthma.
Mrs. Marthma Cox has a had
case of Lagrippe.
A, B. Repass has Lagrippe.
Mrs. Kate Groseclose is spend'
ing the week with relatives at
Spralts Creek.
will Walker, of Burk’s Gar
den, spent several days last week
with his frioud, Roger Repass
and his sister, Mrs. E. F, Urn
berger.
R. T. Turley has moved to
uear Atkins, in Smytlie county
and Simon Baugh has moved to
Mr, Turley’s farm here.
Frank Bean, the champion
hunter, caught the largest coou
ever known to bo caught on Wal
ker’s Mountain week before last.
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Wylie Bogle is on the sick
list.
If this circle is marked with a
red pencil your time expires with
next number; with a blue, time
expires with this issue.
B. F. Keyes and family spent
Sunday evening with relatives at
Chilhowie,
G. O. Miller and Miss Bessie
Currin were guests ot Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. Porter last Sunday.
We have a new advertiser this
week. It's on the fourth page.
If your subscription has ex
pired, come in and renew it. If
you don’t Want our paper lot us
know, for we don’t want to force
it on anyone.
Meetii 01 MMte
Old Officers and Directors of
The First National Bank Re
Elected.
The First National Bank, of
Rural Retreat, Va., did a fine
business during the year just
closed and the official repovt pre
sented at the stockholder’s meet
ing held Wednesday January
15th gave gratifying evidence of
their increasing prosperity and
thorough soundness and strength.
Notwithstanding tne ract tno
bank is only about eighteen
months old the net earnings for
the year was a fraction over 8
per cent on the Capital of $35,
000,00, and they also show 50 per
cent gain in deposits over Janu
ary last year.
Directors: A, B. Hendricks, J.
S. Etter, J. S. BrovVn, J. W.
Bell and L. H. Shumate.
Officers: A. B. Hendricks,
President, J. W. Bell, V. Presi
dent and L. H. Shumate, Cash
ier.
Sue Slot.
The following was clipped from
the Harrington, Wash., Citizen,
of Jap. 17, 1913:
We cannot tell you how much
snow there is on a level, because
it is not level; out there is a
whole lot on the surface of the
earth in this section. It seemed
that there was seven feet on the
sidewalk when we tackled the
task of communicating with
town by means of a short-han
dled shovel. And there were
others who had a feeling in sym
pathy with ours. Farmers think
that twenty inches of snow has
fallen. The first heavy fall of
snow visited us ou Saturday af
ternoon, continuing all the after
noon and up until Sunday morn
ing, and when Harringtoniaus
wore summoned by alarm clocks
to greet another new day they
beheld the purest white land
scape that “pure and white” can
signify. The larger portion of
property owners got busy with a
variety of shovels and released
the other part of the population
which was marooned at home by
impassible and almost unwadable
drifts. By time for Sunday
school and church paths had
been shoveled so that church
goers were released and could at
tend their respective places of
worship. In many cases the
“pathfinders” had to shovel
through drifts over two feet
deep. .No mail trains came or
went that day. Monday morn
ing the wind and snow had re
peated the dose and paths were
even harder to shovel than on
the previous mormug, Farmers
say it is the heaviest fall of snow
tlioy have seen in this section in
mauy a year.
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A. B. HENDRICKS, Pres.
»
J. W. BELL, Vice-Phs*.
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rural retreat, Virginia*
Capital ■** *
Shareholders’ Liability *
Security to Depositors
United States Government
$35 000 05
• 35,000.00
a $>70,000.00
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