The Raleigh Herald from Beckley, West Virginia • Page 8

RALEIGH HERALD Local and Personal Edward Maxwell of Afllnety, was visiting in the city Sunday. Dr. Smith, of Fitzpatrick, spent Sunday in the city. Cabeli Early of Gulf, was visiting relatives here Sunday. Chas W.

Logan was a visitor to Hinton last week. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde George, of Skei- ton, were visiting in the city Sunday. Miss Pearl Galloway of Marshes, was visiting relatives in the city Sunday.

C. C. Hawley, of was a bus- ness visitor in the city Tuesday. Movinj to the Coal Field. Once in a while there comes to the provident and thrifty housewife an op portunity she eagerly grasps, especially in these days of high prices.

By virtue of the present methods in j- which business is conducted, many are the middlemen through whose hands every product and manufactured 'article passes and thus the cost to the eonsunv er reaches the Complaints of the high cost of living would not be so general if the middlemen's profit were eliminated. Such an opportunity now presents itself in the Sale of the Raleigh Meat Grocery Company who are offering their entire stock at actual cost, plus the freight. A. G. Rankin, representing a Cincinnati paper was in Berkley last week.

J. H. Dunn is in Baltimore, to chase millinery goods for Mrs. Dana S. Dunn's store.

Attorney George Williams returned last week from Baltimore, where he has been under the care of a specialist. THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY West TIMES ARE BOOMING Stocks Go lip, and Big are Promised. Hooks were closed on the exta- divi- Wheeling Steel Iron Co. and checks mailed on Monday, February 21; In addition to declaring the regular two per cent dividend for the quarter, making a ten per cent dividend for the year. The new issue of the stock of the United States Stamping Company was placed in the hands of the stockholders last week.

The company declared recently a stock dividend. Sales of the stock on the new basis are re-'. ported at 120, and in active demand at that price. It is believed it will go higher in the near future. Mrs.

Mulcay, of Stanaford, and her daughter, Mrs. Cunningham of Blue Jay, visitors here Sunday. E. P. Stroman, Representing Buxton Skinner Stationers, of St.

JLouis, was looking after trade in this vicinity this week. Miss Jennie Harvey was summoned to Beckley owing'to extremily illness of her sister, Mrs. ald. Rev. L.

E. Ressegger, district superintendent, preached an eloguent sermon at the Methodist Episcopal church Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Collins, of Cranberry, accompanied by their sons, -Leonard Richard and Joseph'were visiting rela tives here Sunday.

WANTED-Printer who can set straight type andfeec presses. A good position to one who is active, chance for advancement. State in first letter experience, and what expected. Address Raleigh Herald, Beckley, W. Va.

Joe L. Smith and E. M. Payne, are business visitors to New York City. The latter went to buy goods for the Virginia Society Doing Noble Work, but Need Help.

The West Virginia Children's Horn pur- Society. (N. 0. Sowers, Supt, Chai lesion) is doing excellent work, admit ling into the house sometimes as hi; as 10 little waifs in a month. The following touching appeal is sen out: "We have-zrfine lot of bright littli boys and girls, ranging from 1 year ti 11 years old.

We are anxious to line Spring and summer trade for E. M. Payne Co. Constable Henry Lemon returned Snnday from Pruntytown, where he Went with the Crowford boy, who was sentenced to the reform school for burning the Meadows farm near Blue Jay. Miss Mary Conway returned on Tuesday from Baltimore where she has been for three weeks studying the spring styles of millinery.

While in the east Miss Conway purchased a large line of millinery and ladies' furnishing goods for the trade of Beckley and vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Firebaugh left Wednesday morning for their home at Lexington, Va. Both will be greatly missed by their many friends.

For the past week they were guests of Hon. and Mrs. Matheny, Mr. and Mrs. MiHer, and Mr.

and Mrs. Moss. Saturday afternoon the Aid Society of the Presbyterian church gave a Thimble party in Mrs. Firebaugh's honor. Mrs.

Merrill gave her a 'tea toast' to which she gracefully responded. To Postoffice Patrons To the patrons of the nostoffice at Beckley, W. The said postoffice will be open on SUNDAYS from 2 to 3 p. m. for the delivery of mail.

All mail deposited in the drops by 9 a. m. will be dispatched same day. No M. 0.

B. or register business willl be transacted. Very respectfully, T. K. Scott, P.

M. homes for these Tiomeless little ones- homes well qualified, morally, intellect ually and homes as will re ceive them as members of the as sons and daughters. Thus making a mutual benefit. Dear reader, please help us to care for them. Can you not become a parent to one of them? Perhaps you have a gooc home and no child to share it with you.

You can make the little one a blessing to yourself. They are pleading daily for a new home, new papa, and new mamma. Will you let us plead with you for them? If you will give one or more of them a place in your home and heart's affections, write to the superintendent for blank application Fayette Audit Completed Tax Commissioner T. C. Townsend, who is chief supervisor of public offices, has sent two examiners from the bureau of public accounting, J.

H. Otto and George W. Beaire, to Wetzel county, where they will begin an official audit of the books of the Wetzel county officials in compliance with the public accountancy law. Examiners Otto and Beaire recently returned from Fayette county, where an audit of the books of the Fayette officials The Fayette audit lasted several weeks and the report on that county is now being prepared. At the present time an audit is being made in Randolph county by Examiners Mark Kyle and W.

W. Lemley.who their work in that county about a week ago. The examiners from the bureau of accounting have now completed two audits, one in Mingo and the other in Fayette. The result of the Mingo aud- was made public several weeks ago. The Fayette audit is now being prepared and the record made up.

The tax commissioner in inserting the probe in the books of the county officials has not picked any particular section of the state for the work which is being done under his supervision, but will continue to conduct the audits in the several counties until the work is completed. Business Meeting Baptist Church At the last regular business meeting of this church, there was a good, attendance of the members and those in- terested in the progress and affairs of the church. But there were some absent whonrthose present would have been delighted to have-seen present. On next Saturday evening, March the oth at 7:30 o'clock, will be held at the church building, the regular' business meeting for the month of March 1 Bus-1 comes up, and each and every member of the church, is urged to be present. The church never had brighter prospects for future good and advancement, and it is necessary! that every one take part in its business and progress.

So let every one attend its meetings, and lend assistance in its affairs. Death of Mrs. Peltry Mrs. Launa Pettry, wife of Hutson Pettry the younger, and daughter of William Jarrell, of Jap, died on the morning of February 22 after an illness of about 12 claysT Everything possible vas done to alleviate Mrs, Peltry's pain and to prolong her useful life, but to no avail. Doctors P.

G. Hurst, L. Hunter and B. L. Pettry exertec medical skill but she died peace- 'ully, leaving a husband, father, five jrothers and three sisters and a host ot near relatives to mourn her departure.

Joseph Holt Gaines Congressman i'lom the Third Congressional district comprising the ties of Clay, Fayette, Greenbrier, Kanawha, Monroe, Nickolas, Summers, and Webster. PARADISE FOR SUFFRAGISTS Notice On the 22nd day of February my wife Virgie Stover left my bed and board without cause. I will not be responsible for any debts she may contract. Milton Stover 2t Cirtsvillc, W. Va.

COME UNTO ME all ye who suffer PAIN My Modern Offices Pain'dispelled not your is PAINLESS Dr. WardKidd Comb. Bld'g. Beckley, W. Va Advertised Letters A list of letters remaining uncalled 'or in the postoilice at Beckley W.

will be sent to the dead letter oflice at (Vashington, D. C. if not called for in two weeks from this date, Feb. 23, 910. Women.

Clyde Williams, Erie White, Mrs, W. M. Walker, Mae Goad Mrs. jzzie Gravley, Hatlie Frazier, Viola Elkins, Jedy Bell Callaway, Grace bailey, Mrs. Annie Kidcl, Helle Now- S.

E. Thompson. Men. W. W.

Wills, Thurman Wills, A. Wilson, Lulu D. Johnson, Joe Teyes, Walter Dreher, Ray Claypool, B. Cunningham, J. A.

Brown, W. P. Asbury, J. Perry MuGuf- me, C. E.

Toney. When calling for any of the above pli'as- say advertised. T. K. Scott, P.

M. Woman Author at Home. Horne-madd jam is gradually peariiig from tbe twentieth centurv European household. And yet 60 George Sand, who treated moci of her domestic duttei lightly, was discovered by a Tlnltor wearing a cotton drew and a bit apron, and skimming a panful of rruh destined for the jampot. "It Is noS easy work," ehe remarked.

"I find tt harder to make write 'Valentine' there are some tasks one cannot to others. good Jam than to or 'Mauprat'; but In Far-Off India. In India a girl must be married before she reaches 12, or she, and often her whole family, suitors loss of caste. Cnsto enforces rules and regulates marriages. A man may bo Infirm, in.

sane, loathsome, diseased, cruel and utterly reprobate, yet lie can receive Into hla through marriage and "eal with her as ho will a little girl nny age under 12, If the caste ro- Kitlond between them are according A Little Corner of the Sahara Desert Where Feminism Is In Full Swing. A French explorer Just returned rom Africa has addressed an open etter to Mile. Laloe and to the woman Mme. Pelletier, the great advo- of woman's rights advising them to leave at once for the Sahara, or Cither to that district inhabited by the rlbe called Tuaregs. The Tuaregs, says the explorer, are rafty, cruel and treacherous, hut they re ardent apostles of feminism.

The 'uareg women are Indeed privileged eings. They have camels of their wn, which their husbands are not al- owed to mount, and their household uties are, so to say, nil. They are allowed to have an admirer who saddles camels and uns errands for them. According to the Gentlewoman, the attitude of this admirer must remain strictly Platonic, for if he starts making love to the lady the husband flies into a temper, and an angry Tuareg becomes a dangerous creature. According to the laws of the country the Tuareg woman need not follow her husband unless she wants to do so, nor is she compelled to serve her spouse.

She Is educated, lor she can read, and this accomplishment, not shared by the other six, gives her a privileged position in so far that she acts as judge or arbitrator in all difficult cases. Didn't Care for Him. Little Elaanor's mother was an American, while her. father was a German. One day.

after Eleanor hatl subjected to rather severe disciplinary measures at the hand? of her father, she called her mother into another room, closed the door significantly, and said: "Mother, 1 don't want to meddle in your business, but I wish you'd send that husband of yours back to Home Journal. Monster Halibut. A 400-pound halibut was recently 'isptoyed in London. OLD WORLD ROBBER HAUNTS Remarkable Journey Undertaken Through Lebanon to Dasmascus. In a recent issue of Harper's Weekly Harry A.

Franck describes a remarkable journey undertaken by him on foot across the robber-infested Lebanon range to third of a series of similar adventures now running in this periodical. Everybody tried to induce him to abandon thin enterprise. At one village tbe sheikh invited him to sit in his shop entrance upon a stool and placed an earthenware pot In front of him, into which every passer-by was urged to drop a coin. The pot was almost full when an English-speaking villager explained Its meaning. The sheikh was taking up a collection to purchase for the Heroes.

Vhat a Dero one "an be without a linger! The world not a field worthy of us. nor can wvrbe satisfied with the plfiins of Troy. A glorious strife seems waging within us yet so noiselessly that we but just 'catch the sound of the clarion ring ing of victory, borne to us on the breeze. There are in each the seeds of an heroic ardor, which need only to be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or pen to bear fruit'of a divine reau. That one word sums up the advantage of buying at TAYLOR'S CASH GROCERY You are sure of getting the best in everything TO EAT of' getting what you order of getting your goods delivered FREE AND PROMPTLY of PURE FOOD GOODS of freshness.

Be sure and order some biscuits in your next order Above everything else be sure and have a box of CAMEO biscuits in your next order, something new and "Awful" good We will have the genuine potato onion sets for sale in a few days, also have'a full line of 'D. M. Ferry's Seeds now on sale Taylor's Cash Grocery R. S. TAYLOR, Proprietor OUR SUPERIOR WHITE PIN will pure that couj-h BECKLEY DRUG CO.

Poverty Ini Haiti. Abject poverty "1s the condition of much of Haiti's population. There is a brisk demand there for old eon Sensed milk, preserve, butter and lard cans, of which are made practically all the cooking they use- and table utensils Clothes and' Manners. You may need two suits of clothes, but one set of manners is better than two, if it is a good Globe. The Only One.

The burglar's business is about the only business in which it doesn't pay to advertise. Not Strictly Orthodox. Young David insisted on trying his primitive weapon on the giant Goliath. At, length the generals "Youth will have its fling," they re- If You Want to Be Liked. Do not "take liberties" with your friends.

Don't intrude on them when they are busy. Don't break engagements with them if you can nossribly it. Many a friendship comes to an untimely end because little c.our lesier, are set aside. A habit of com- le-sy carries one safely through dnngerniis places, especially with inti friends. Tha Printing Art There has just recently been received at the plant of the Raleigh Herald, one olj the best assortments of paper for jofawork of all kinds.

Cover paper for programmes, finest bond paper for letter heads and bank work, ladies writing paper of all the most delicate hues. Wedding cards tnd mourning cards author a railroad ticket to Damascus, maritefl Tran- Mr. Franck picked up his knansacft 3crlpt stepped into the street. But "the iheikh and several bystanders threw themselves upon me with cries ot dis-j may. It was no use attempting to rUn TUUM UtALIno escape from a dozen horny hands, permitted myself to bo led back to the Btool and sat down with the knapsack across my knee.

The sheikh me in soothing tones, pointing at the pot with every third word. The others resumed tlieir seats on the floor, rolietl oigaivttss and i'ell quiet once one leap 1 sprang frorii off a scream ills, but ever more heels." the street and set the highway, ever-increasing, at CAT THAT CANNOT BE LOST Left Behind When Ship Sailed Puss Boards Another Vessel and Follows Miles. Sailors and officers of the Norwegian steamship Minerva, which sailed for Baltimore to load coal, claim that they have on board the original and authentic "cat that came back," and moreover this feline cannot be lost. The sailors declare that the cal boarded the Minerva of her own free of a tasteful selection. A complete; will at the Lamberts Point coal piers and new equipment of the best style! over a year ago, and that she at once in the state to enable us to perform I became a 'favorite on board.

splay work to suit the moat discrim- Tn steamer was then loading a inating, Printers'ink of all the tints! car coal for Portland, and of the rainbow, to enable us to turn out' ln aome wny the cnt Ieft behlntl when she lifted anchor and steamed on her voyage. She had been at her destination color work to please the most manuscript covers in U.IG uccu ai. uci ueauiiuiiuii and posters, any i ght dayg when ono mornlng the ca you like and any hue to please again walked on board, and the only your eye. way the sailors could figure out how got there was that she stowed away below, but several days' vnre rarrl1l later the mystory was solved when 11 a I i 1 was discovered that after the Minerva M. Kh's nwns a bird, which h.is esl.nl>.

a reputation as mouse caldi- and tako." (he ol' several cats. was tho llelrt with the I'lrd It cmiRht ton mice in less than in hour, killing them all. King puts tljc bird In his bnrn at night, nnd saya It Is keeping It freed from rats and mice. Idfi Norfolk the cat boarded a Hrltlsh steamer going the same way. and, recognizing members of the crow of the Minerva at Portland, followed ihrmi back to the ship.

This cut got her picture in the pers on.the Pacific coast for that, ami she Is still with the Virginian-Pilot. GET YOUR OXVQEN. It is of the utmost importance that human beings have an' abundance of oxygen at all times. This means day and night, summer and winter. It Is scarcely necessary to give thnf sort of advice for the summer season; but when the weather gets cold many people are afraid of cold air and others tbink it Is a waste of fuel to heat fresh, cold air, so they keep it out.

This is poor economy, to say the least. In fact, it costs more, as a rule; that Is, If you figure your health and earning capacity as having any monetary value. That is one" radvantage of buying here We buy our jewelry from the most up-to-date-minute manufacturers. We do not buy in such large quantities that we must "carry over" from one season to another We Buy Often Very Latest Our customers appreciate this as well as the low prices and IHgh quality. And you have plenty of stock to make careful selection from and the articles are the latest' A.

G. Meade The Jeweler Utmost Utilization. Putting every acre land to its best use is the idea about which the whole policy 'of the conservation of national resources revolves, and in the future planting up of waste tracts in the United States is sure to be carried on extensively by private owners as well as in the national fnrosts and on state ands. Proud Man's Vain Wish. "I wonder why so many business men marry their stenographers?" 'Probably under the mistaken assumption that they can dictate to them as easily after marriage as they did be- Age-Herald.

ANNOUNCEMENT MY GUARANTEES GOOD 1 am now entering on second year of business, and wish to thank my customers for their liberal patronage which has been above my expectations. If there is any goods I have spiel, or repairing I heve done has not given reasonable satisfaction, bring them tome and 1 will make good any Jfault of mine. Thanking, my customers for their liberal patronage and soliciting a continuance of the general public. I to remain Truly yours, J. B.

ANDERSON THE JEWELER Next door to Post Office Hcber Street Beckley West Virginia.