Messenger (Newspaper) - May 3, 1910, Beckley, West Virginia VOL 1 BECKLEY W VA TUESDAY MAY 3 1910 NO 4 HIGH SCHOOL DISCUSSED AT A LARGELY ATTENDED MEETING AT THE COURT Its Objects and Advantages Dis cussed by Prof J Frank Marsh of the Department of Free Schools FIRE AT SPRAGUE Destroyed Blacksmith Shop and Valuable Machinery Fire which was discovered ab out ten oclock on Saturday night which started in the blacksmith shop connected with the mines of the New River Company at completely destroyed that structure which was one of the best equipped of any similar establishment in this coal field the machinery destroyed includ ing a considerable quantity of new electrical equipment which was DISTRICT PRIMARY DETERMINED UPON BY THE SENATORIAL COMMITTEE ON YESTERDAY Names of Candidates For U S Senate to Go On Ticket and Stale Senator to Be Gov by the Result The court room was well filled with interested tax payers 011 Monday afternoon to a discussion of the district high o uvr Minj jy iv j school proposition which is to be at the works were also destroyed voted upon by the people of Town which loss will fall upon just about installed A large quantity of tools The committee for the seventh senatorial district met at the of A A Lilly yesterday longing to the miners employed three of the four members with district this month The meeting was presided over by J W Max who introduced the princi pal speaker J Marsh of the state department of free schools who in an in and convincing manner the advantages to he derived by the general public through the establishment of high schools in each district and directed atten tion to the fact that while West Virginia has only about 50 district Virginia has about 150 Kentucky 100 Ohio 500 and Pennsylvania 900 while Maine has an annual average of 25000 high school graduates Referring cost of the contemplated building Mr Marsh showed thata ad equate for the purpose modern ly every detail could be constructed at a cost not ex the payment of which would be spread out over a quarter of century so that the annual addition to tickets would be so small as to be scarce ly and even that in crease be principally paid by those who had themselves re the benefits of the school vidual miners It was at first reported that it was the tipple which adjoins the burned building that was on fire but this report fortunately proved to be incorrect Had the tipple been destroyed the boiler house and power house would al so have been burned and it would have thrown a large number of men out of work until the struct ures could have The property was been rebuilt insured and will be rebuilt at once SAME OLD STORY A Freight Train and Hand Car Collide With Fatal A party of Italians on a hand way Ral railway ron the result car disputed the right of with a freight train on the eigh Southwestern Saturday afternoon the coming present gen leing that one of the Italians was instantly killed and another so badly injured that even should he recover he will be a cripple for life both legs having been crushed and a portion of his face torn away Several similar acci dents have taken place on this road within the past few months the chairman J Coon Pack of Mercer present the ab sentee W S formerly of Bluefield but resident of Calif given his proxy to Maj W B Honaker of Princeton The committee by a vote of to one decided that Mr moved from the state could not legally hold membership on the committee and consequently had no authori ty to issue a proxy The com then proceeded to fill the vacancy the vote standing two for J T Acres of Bluefield and one for Maj Honaker the chair man being entitled to a vote only in case of a tie As the commit tee now stands three of the mem bers are credited with favoring the candidacy of Dr Martin while one favors Mr Baker The action of the committee is embodied in the following call RY ELECTION FOR SEVENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT BE IT RESOLVED By the Re publican Executive Committee of the seventh senatorial district of West Virginia at a meeting held this the 2nd clay of May 1910 at the law office of A A Lilly in the city of Beckley West Vir in other words the cost would ln each case due to the fact that pursuant to call legally giv travelers to and from the mines i en on the line of the road neglect the republican be largely paid bj rather than by the ordinary precautions j candidate for the nomination for Prof in response on the railroad state senate for the seventh to requests from the audience j senatorial district of West Virgin so spoke in favor of the move Tulips Aid a to be voted at the next ment to increase the educational Ladies Aid Society The Ladies Aid Society of the attention however to the fact Presbyterian church will with Mrs C L Beckner meet next I general election be nominated I by primary election to be held Jin the counties comprising the I said seventh senatorial district ji us vj u next that there were differences of ay afternoon at half past opinion as to whether the lugh j two of which said primary shall be held m the manner and form afternoon as heretofore Matters of importance will be school proposition were the most advantageous at this time tho it was generally recognized by the w M our present school facilities each be the net result of tlie meeting was a decided awakening of in terest in favor of the proposition bad by law retaries of the various county committees within five days after said county committee ascertains the result and that notice of con test shall be filed in duplicate with the chairman and secretary of the senatorial committee within ten days after the result is so certified by the county commit tees as aforesaid and that said senatorial committee shall meet at the law office of A A Lilly in the city of Beckley West Virgin ia at oclock p m on the day of July 1910 and tain and declare the result of said primary held as afore said and that the certificate of nomination be issued and certified in the manner required by law declaring the person receiving the greatest number of votes in said district for said office the re publican nominee to be voted for as aforesaid at said primary election to be held as aforesaid that a senatorial executive com for said district be elected as follows that is to say each county comprising said district shall elect a member of said com and that a chairman be elected by the entire district with a vote in case of a tie and that the election of said be certified to the said senatorial committee which shall on the day of July re sult of the election of said execu tive committee of said senatorial j district and that said commit tees term of office shall begin as soon as the result of said primary election as aforesaid shall be de clared announced and all prospective candidates for the United States senate be voted for at said prim ary election throughout the sev senatorial district and that the candidate nominated under and by virtue of this call for state senate be considered ted to vote for the candidate for the United States senate receiv ing the greatest number of votes throughout the entire district 11 this resolu tion be published in at least one republican newspaper of gener al circulation in said senatorial district as and for the call for the primary election as herein provided for Signed at Beckley W Va on May 2nd 1910 by order of said committee J C PACK Chairman A A LILLY Secretary is re CITY BONDS ARE SOLD QUICK ACTION AS SOON AS THE RIGHT MAN GOT ON THE JOB Hon I C Prince Given Author ity to Make Deal Saturday Night and Disposed of Them on Monday MRS ALEX WATTS Rev Dead of thg j Robert o establish district high school and there is little doubt that with Roanoke by a telegram the question fairly presented to the people the vote in its favor m 4 j That the candidate I receiving the highest number of j votes for said nomination in In Charleston Sunday and district be declared the nominee Brought Here for Burial for said office j Mrs Alex Watts of Chaeles THIRD The said primary shall ton died at her residence in that be held in the manner and form j city last Sunday after an illness designated or of several months duration and m i t ia W I ter to be designated by the the remains were brought here will be so overwhelming as to as tonish even its advocates executive committees of the Jon Monday accompanied by D r d orR n d ol Ben D Keller He offers an excellent opportunit announcing the serious illness of ot his father Rev Watts of that uy u counties comprising the said G Lilly and wife of Charleston provided no action of and A C Chambers and Miss executive committees be incon Bettie Chambers of with this call relatives of the announcing death of Mr Watts P to here him in here yesterday postmaster S W he as set forth in all of cemetary en Monday the sevi C Watkins E C M counties on or before the 9th Wm ad P day of July 1910 and the result Fallen of he M E those who I of such primaries be certified in Mrs Watte was a half siste of students sight t came over to look after business duplicate to the chairman and Judge J T McGinnis of Call and see matters and to exchange of said senatorial and has othe ei In accordance with a call issued last week the city council met in special session last Saturday night for of taking action in regard to the disposal of the city improvement bonds the issue of which was ed last summer All of the members of the council were present with the exception of Mr Bumgardner who was out of the city The committee which has here had charge of the negotia tions for the sale of the bonds was relieved from further duty and Hon I C Prince was au to act as the representa tive of the council in conducting further negotiations Mr Prince left for Cincinnati on the following morning and on Monday to councilman Meadows thaU bonds had been sofd at par which is prob little better than could have been expected considering the fact that through an over sight in the ordinance the interest was made payable annually instead of semi annually as is the rule with mu bonds Mr Prince is to be congratulat ed upon the promptness with which he satisfactorily concluded the business entrusted to him and he is entitled to the full credit for the fact that the much needed street improvements may now be reasonably expected to be gotten under way with but little further delay Virginian Conductor Killed Joseph Daniels a freight con ductor on the Virginian Railway fell from a freight train at Clarks Gap and had both legs cut off below the knee The in jured man was brought to Mate ka where it was found that it would be necessary to take him from the train and give him im mediate surgical attention as it was feared that he would die from loss of blood before he could be conveyed to a hospital There he remained until noon when a reaction set in resulting in his death Daniels was riding the front end of a string of cars which was being shifted for a when a sudden application of the air brakes threw him in front of the train three cars passing over his limbs His home was at and he is survived by a wife jand three children ings with their friends chairmen and this section Misses Mary and Chub Cald well have returned from Coving ton Va where the former has visiting friends and the 1 latter teaching school
