The Raleigh Herald from Beckley, West Virginia • Page 4

THE RALEIGH HERALD iilstered at the pwt office fit Beckley. Va, HS second clitfs mail mailer. CAL, F. YOUNG, Publisher. A.

PHASER, All correspondence should be addressed to Tun RAI.KMH HERALD. Che Official Orcan of tin; Republican Parly ot Kaleiuli County. PRICE ONE DOLLAR THE YEAR THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1909. An Object Lesson. There are still a few of the citizens of Beckley.

who are inclined to doubt the wisdom uf a bond issue for the improves of the city'streets in a permanent manner, on the ground, principally, that it-will render-necessary an increase in taxes. These gentlemen are doubtless sincere id their expressions, but have they examined into the subject fully? For example, how many thousands of dollars are into the surface sewers which are now doing duty for streets in Beckley? And what have we to show fur the money of the taxpayers thus has been expended, is now being expended and must continue ru be expended so iong as the present system continues in vogue? Sow as to the cost. Most of the cal- culatidnTmade have been upon the basis or a bond issue of $100,000, the interest on which, at four per cent, which is probably more than it would be necess- ary to pay, would amount to $4,000, annually, or probably less than the street (Vork is now costing; in ten years, two of the original cost would be rep-Jl to the city in annual installments, en this $66,660, interest amounting to about S16.500, in round numbers, would be received, reducing the principal in ten years, or the amount payable by the'city to say If, of placing the amounts collected abutting property owners at interest' it should be placed in a sinking fund to be applied to the purchase of the bonds iemse'vea, the entire indebtedness coald be wiped out. long before the expiration of the twenty years limit, and we would have something toshowforit. it is conservatively estimated some $5,000 per year are now spent on our streets, and as city becomes more thickly populated, this amount must necessarily increase, and $5,000 a year for twenty amounts to $100, will attract capital in a steady stream into our business channels, provided th opportunity is grasped before som more enterprising community steps i and takes advantage of It.

With three railroads building-actual ly tinder construction Virgin ian, from Mullins up the Winding Gul to Pemberton but a short distance from Beckley, and to a connection which wil bring its trains directly into this city the Raleigh and Southwestern, from Raleigh station, into and through the Winding Gulf territory, and the extension of the.Coal River road from Peytona to Jarrold's Valley, in this county, and connecting with the Cabin Creek Branch of the Chesapeake Ohio. of the three roads will open up thousands of acres of coal and timber ands and furnish employment for many ihousands of laborers, both skilled and unskilled, besides opening up markets in every line of industry, from the products of the farm to th.osfl,,gf the workshop and factory. Beckley is the logical business centre of all'thls development, just as Raleigh county as a whole will be the principal beneficiary in an industrial any of the counties affected by this opening up of new territory, and now is the time to take advantage of the situation, before the business men of other communities step in and get the inside track. The business houses of Beckley compare favorably with those of many cities of larger population, but the people coming in to develop new industries have bad no opportunity to acquaint themselves with this fact, and unless it is brought to their attention by judicious and systematic- advertising, their business is more than likely to go than likely a considerable proportion of it to the mail order houses, where it will be lost forever to the community which produced it, despite the I fact that our own merchants are today selling better goods than can be procured from any mail order house in the and are selling them for less money, with the additional advantage of making your purchases in person and laving the opportunity of satisfactory adjustment should any defect be found after the purchase is made. There'is no necessity for a single Uolar going from this county to the mail order houses, but they of them annually.

Why? The home merchant all too he strikes a temporary dull season, curtails his advertising or discontinues it entirely, possibly in order lo-give himself more time The Teddy bear may now retire jnt a well earned Billy Possum promises to be equally prominent and equally without excuse for exist encc. At that, the legislature might havi done It might have enactec more measures, COVEYTOWff NEWS. We are having some wet weather at present. D. 0.

Covey has his buildings" almost completed which Tom Gaines is build- ng. Messrs.Tom Prince and Leander- are a rushing Business at their qamp. Fred Hawley can be seen almost any on the road from Coveytown to jnuffertown. The protracted meeting at this place progressing nicely. Lesse Mankin's saw mill is doing a good business with Lee Lambert as awyer.

David Mead was'calling on Miss Anne iswis Sunday night. Boys if you want your wedding suits irect from the factory go to Tom Danels'. Walter Sarrett of Arnett was calling Miss Lucie Hawley at E. McGinis's, Sunday last. Miss Hattie Hawley and sister, Mrs.

A. Stover were visiting Mrs. J. E. icGinnis March 5 You should seen the smiling face i Mr.

J. E. McGinnis, smiling over his on in-law Mr. Rec-ce Cline. Jliss Grace Clay called on Miss Beuah Hughes Sunday.

Aaron Arnold, of Eccles, was calling Wm. Hood was the guest of Miss on Wiseman of this place Sunday. Shrewsbery. Sunday. George Atha, our local peddler," was Henry Laverty was the guest of Miss seen enroute to Eccles last Friday with SKELTON.

The Sunday echoed at Cranberry i progressing nicely. Misses Bertha and Myrtle Williatni of Skelton were shopping at last Saturday. Miss Lettie Williams passed through our town the other day. Mrs. Bertha Muncie has been confinet to her room for the past few weeks.

Miss Bertha Williams, of Skelton.has returned from Eccles where she has Seen visiting Miss, Lottie Williams and other relatives. Mrs. Tom Williams and her daughter, iertie, called to see Mrs. Muncie at Cranberry the other day. 'G L.

Dillon, of Eccles, and Miss Bertha Williams, of Skelton, were in Beckley Monday! Mr. Porter and John Hurt, of Pros called Sunday to Misses Hyrtle and Gertie 'Williams, of this place. Miss Eliza Hollandsworth, of Gran- jerry, who has been confined to her room for the past few days is about veil. Rev. Thomas, preacher at Cranberry will hold a few days meetings after the hird Sunday.

MATVILLE. Rev. Chas. Bailey preached a most nteresting sermon here at the 0. U.

A. I. hall Saturday night. Fitch of theM. E.

church, South, holding a protracted meeting at this place. G. W. Cottle was calling at P. Harper's last Sundav.

French Wykle, of this place, 'was calling on Caroline Hood, of Surveyor, Sunday. earl Wykle Sunday. J. B. McGinnis was visiting ler J.

E. McGtnnis. his bro- NEWS, We are having some fine weather at a load of hen Iruit and cow He reports good business. i W. Cottle was Nemiah Daniels last Sunday.

Abbie Miletn was on out- streets last Sunday! ILCOHOL 3 PER CENT ANfcgelableEreparationforAs- sirailaling iheFooiIandRcgula- ting Hie Stomachs andBowetsoT Promotes ness and Itot.ContainsrKittw Opium.Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. 1 ApetTect Remedy forConsnpa- Hoit.Som- Stoiuach.Dlaritea nessandLoss OFSLEER ftcSimite Signature of NEWYOEK. CASTORIA For jnfantsand Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature Xof i Guaranteed, undei-i Exact Copy of Wrapper.

Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CKNTAUR HCW YORK CITY. present. The farmers are preparing i Charley Wiseman -are having, P- nt the has received his souee.er and is is our teaonerj andhas a 1(we Out). The cost is the same either way, 1 to la abmlt du ll times but the mail iiing W. R.

Sands. in the one you get permanent-1 man redoubles his efforts, increas- i 5 ly paved streets wi.ile in the other you es advertising space, gets out cireu- -get a continuation present conditions ilarlettel 3 and cata i OEU( ch are and Mrs. Jacob Jackson, were visiting Mr. and Mrs. C.

0. Fleshmann Sunday; Miss Emma Jackson was visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. L.

Rolands Sunday. Mrs. Mintie Young and daughter Eva are visiting friends at Mr. and Mrs. C.

M. DilloTi were visiting their friends at Matville Sunday and Monday. Mr. G. B.

Rorrer, Tailiff and George Cottle, of Matville passed through our Streets Surjday. Reed Holt was seen here Sunday. He is looking for all the Matville ball team and the Arnett ball team they are going to play at Cameron Saturday. B. Clay was seen Sunday.

He is vis- they can no' bettered tinder the present system. has been, an 1 always will be impossible to con- a solid road hod out of a mixture scattc-red broadcast over the country, and if the mud were three times as deep as it is on our county roads it would have no effect in ihe matter of stopping for Rats' Cold lliiny nnlniHls snu.wrlc- warmth in bitter woalliur, as tlk- Nnuir relrt tin 1 rats. Those u'o rat- in hofljjos and dells in vrnitor kinnv thr-y may try si dozen fror-bly usc-d burrows without findinjr a ml. siuldor.ly froln a sin.de Ii'ih 1 Oliver Ferrell was calling on Miss Elecbic Arnold Sunday. Lacy Godbey, of Harper, visited Miss Frenchie Clyburn, of this place, Sunday.

Unreasonnble. To Governor Glasscoclc, Secretary of State Seed, Auditor Darst, Attorney General Conley, Treasurer Long and Superintendent of Schools Shawkey welcome to our city. You can all do your parts toward making up our 50,000 population, and we need you 'eston Mail. With all due respect to the esteemed Mail, isn't it expecting a little bit too much of the individual members of the state Intell- igencer. of nine parts of three parts the stteam dollars which every train rats will pouring out in a stream of thin mud and on-j part of sandstone; more bja.ders, which is aljuut as near as any-, one has been able to eet at the ingredients of the Beckley streets at any ti-ne during the p-ist four or five more When the city of Charleston had about three timed the present population of Becklfy, i' had spent half a million dollars for s'reet paving; sircc that time i.t has nt a half million more, besides another half million for sewers a-id Bridges, and only a.

month or two a iet contracts for another $250,000 of street paving. Ail the bonds for. immense anriunl uf work have been itiRli to Idock up brings into the coffers of Mr. Mail Or- der Man. They are clover Ever hear of one of those fellows llolc on the windward side to keep i out the draft, so thiit when a rat hole Not much.

They got the ls nok (1 n( a wlth so tur cream of your spot cash; no nip leaves or grass here is almost cer- rebates; no discounts; no long credits; tnin Indication that rats are within, i Like the squirrels, they store food for no making good for purchases which wlnta the kc fail to come up to specifications. Similar methods, not necessarily upon such an extensive scale, similar results right here at home. you have a bargain to offer, let the pub-1 lie know it through the they'll see it all right, and remember it too. They read the mail order catalogues, don't they? And a well worded and at-! issu-d by vote of the people; not a sin- tractively displayed newspaper adver- Doe nlul wite more dlfllcult to secure his potatoes from frost than from the attack of the most numerous of his furred producei Lon don Standard. A Rattled Bridegroom.

Some few years ago a man of mature age found himself playing first fiddle to marriage bells. Then they i hictl themselves away, as others have I done, to Xiagara Falls. He chuckled to himself ns he took pen to enter on a And a well worded and at-1 hotel register for the first time "John gle issue ever reached maturity, being C'inciilled before and the tax rate tisement has the catalogue trick beaten to a frazzle as a result producer. lias keen reduced silmjst every year. while Charleston is cognized every- The Labor Argus, of Charleston, puts where as the best paved city in the botl1 Delegate Mathuny and Senator eiunfy, some of the pavements put Smith, of Raleigh, on the black list for as an a quarter of a century ago beintr stil: in use and in good condition.

With these facts us and any He thought be wrote with the easy nlr of one wbo had so written It there many years and turned carelessly away. On leaving the proprietor Inquired, "I hope you have enjoyed your honeymoon with us." "Slr-r?" But he merely turned the voting against the fellow servants bill, resistor hack and pointed to this en- If this lie treason pity we haven't more i ln br I He had been as "rattled" ns any boy. ot it. A more vicious muasurc was -Philadelphia Lilr. never concocted, and its' slaughter was Wood's Liver Medicine (In liquid form, pleasant to Uke) ForChills.Feverand Malaria Headache, Biliousness, Conttipatlon anc other symptoms of deranged Llvro quickly overcome.

A tonic to Liver, Kidney, Bladder and Blood The (1.00 bottle contains nearly 2K the quantity of "the 50c Prepaid only by the PINEULE MEDICINE CHICAGO, ILL Sold by Beckley Drug Co. IMPORTANT NOTICE! Wie are, headquarters, for. everything 1 in the line of. Harness, Saddle PocKets, Leg'gins and Mine Harness manufacture and carry a full-line" of Horse Furnishing Goods i Located in Ellison Bldg. Near City Depot Every thin tr new in our line.

See our Roods and get our prices before buying elsewhere. Yours for a fair deal, JOHN ANDERSON E. A. Coffman, Shopman, Beckley A Chicago magistrate ordered a man not to speak to his wife or permit her to io h'l'ii for two weeks. Problem: Was the man convicted acquitted? One Objection.

"I wouldn't objeck to de man dat keeps tnlkin' all, do time," said Uncle Eben, "if he didn' insis' on Ih'owin' in a question every ten minutes or so dat you's got io answer lo show you's keepiu' awalie." Feminine Lack of Logic. Tell a wife that: men are selfish, will readily acquiesce. But tell that- same woman tliftt b'y spoiling her boys in the nursery or at school or 1 is sowing the seeds of egotism, she will give you an emphatic Able to Utilize Wild Silk. By the invention of machines to bleach and spin it, tne wild silk of Manchuria, great of which are exported each year, threatens to compete seriously with that grown in more civilized lands. Sick headache, constipatiun and biliousness are relieved by Ring's Little Liver Pills.

They cleanse the system. Do not, gripe. Price. 25o. Sold by Beckley Drug Co.

New York's Varied Restaurants. New York city has more restaurants than- any other city in the world, and they represent the extremes of the good the with fewer of the middle grade than either Paris or London. LADIES righteous deed, regardless of whom it When every fellow you owe his money and every fellow wh you is determined on th. maintenance of relative conditions, optimism is apt to become a party to ether desired da! a on tl.e subject readily further to a bond waa accomplished by. issut-for such a meritorious purpose, and with ample safeguards'for the judicious expenditure of tl.e proceeds, loses dignity of argmtutit and resolves itsel.

into mere captious criticism and Mind adherence moa.s-bucked, fossilvi: fogylsm. DecKley's Opportunity. 'i'hrougli-ul the length and breadth of it. of Wi-st Virginia, there is no city -vhich baa belter oppor- tu.itytlwn Bccklcy to outer upon an 11 i program and ptospcrlty which head-on collison between an irresistible force and an immovable body. Hunting the veto appears to be the popular game in Charleston just now, with the supreme court, the former governor, the clerk of the houses and all the politicians taking a lively intcrcit in the proceedingo.

The Safcct Employment. The person'who is least affected by trade depression and "slumps" In pro- ductlon is the peasant proprietor. So wunls long ns his acres produce corn, potn- owes I oos lcns bonus, fruit, milk and vegetables he Is safe enough from hunger, permanent I His sheep, will Rlvc wool, nnd home- 'spun Is excellent wear. Ills is Ihe' safe, primitive nnd elemental profession whore 11.1:111 lives close to the earth, the groat Hard "Calling names doesn't make any real difference." snld tho conservative campaigner. "No," answered (ho scientist.

"If It Aid thoso I.ntln lilies we hnvo bestowed on germs would hnvo discouraged tliem long Star, WHAT ABOUT A TAILOR MADE SUIT? If you anticipate getting one for this season you can not lose anything by coming to our store and see our suits we are now receiving, and if you have the time we would like for you to try them on. It is surprising, the design and construction of these suits, and in looks and fit the heighth of per- I fection. Come now while you can select colors or patterns to your own satisfaction. FISHER BEARING Successors to S. N.

Fisher Department Store 1.1 i i i i 1.