The Mountain Eagle, 1925-11-26

Atta Wise Neon merchant was in the city on business T M Mullins of Wise and Cecil Bollen of Pound were in our city ' 4 - S E Adams and son Bennett were visitors in our city Ben Bennett - nett Bennett lias been quite ill JVC Thompson stave man of Viper was in the city and sub subscribed - scribed subscribed for the Eagle 'Squire Henry Adams lost a small bill book Monday contain-: ing $23 He'd like for the finder to let him have it back Jailer Reynolds is building a neat residence on his property on Cowan Point near the old Ma Masonic - sonic Masonic Hall in which he will reside when he retires as Jailer Mose Webb sawmill man and merchant of the Kona section w 1 called on the Eagle Geo 'W Holbrook of -head of' Kentucky river section a well known citizen and teacher is very ill of typhoid Mrs H H Harris and Vincent Sergent are the latest to enroll with the Red Cross There there should be 100 Enroll now with the Junior Womans Club This is Thanksgiving day We should even be thankful that we have life health and air even if we are heavily financially press pressed - ed pressed When adversities come we can realize how small we are and how few real friends we have i John B Cornett well known by our people and for years one of Winchester's leading business citizens was in the city His daughter Roberta accompanied him and visited her uncle Bob Hall above town Eld Petery in charge of the Eden Coal Co at Elsiecoal was in the city and says his company is now operating and is shipping an average of five cars of coal a week with a ready narket for same If the word reaching us is true all contests for county offices in Perry county have been prac practically - tically practically settled Perry like Letch--er needs to settle down to busi business - ness business and quit quibbling Friday night November 27 a double header basket ball will be played at the Armory start starting - ing starting at 6 oclock between Whites Whitesburg - burg Whitesburg Hi boys and girls and Hard Hard-burly - burly Hard-burly Hi boys and girls Come out and see the games Irvine Russell came in - from Williamsburg for a short stay returning Tuesday to the ' bed bedside - side bedside of Mrs Russell who is re reported - ported reported dangerously low These splendid people have the sym pathy of all in their sad afflic affliction - tion affliction and it is the hope and praye of everyone that Mrs Russell may soon recover need of aditional school buildings and we understand movements are on foot to furnish these The main school building was erected nearly ten year ago at a time when it easily-accommodated all the' children in the town and neighborhood but the population has more - than doubled since then Another biiildjng equally as large as the main building in use now is required and'the au-

Y- tying Upward of three centuries ago ' the curtain was lifted thecb- structing forces rolled bade' and a new vast and untried world lay within the grasp of the civilized nations of Europe-' Wars of op- pression cruelty injustice and of inhumanity had caused the peo- pies of Europe to become rest- lessThe cause of religion iiad forced the heads from the great great-est - est great-est martyrs England has ever beCn able to record in the annats ' of herhis tory: The ugly" blood- : stains can never be erased isven by the hand of time itself The rulers of England: trying V to force the people to worohip God according to a fixed code of laws drove from the land a part of the finest citizehry any nation pos possessed - sessed possessed ' So it was not just by chance that the Puritans came to America lt was the result of centuries of persecutions- Let us ' get the picture Behold the May Mayflower! - - flower! - Mayflower! - a ricke old ' wooden vessel - tossed to and fro by the turbulent waves of thev raging Atlantic trying to find refuge in a quiet harbor where the ocean's water kissed the soil of a new home 1620 which marke the: landing of these good people will always remain aii epochal event on- the pages of the history of civilization - Unlike the people who came to the New World in search-of gold and luxury the pilgrims immedi immediately - ately immediately 'went About to earn a liveli livelihood - hood livelihood Houses were built fields cleared grains planted and thus qn old ' civilization in a new land had established ' its roots Har Harvest - vest Harvest time came and with its coming bountiful crops filled the barns to overflowing These peo people - ple people believed in a Divine - Power wlio speaks and the rain-clouds pour forth their showers Being Being-thankful - thankful Being-thankful for what this Power had done f or them they spread an elaborate feast and gave thanks to the Giver of all life Thus passed the first Thanksgiving- : During the three hundred ard four years that have elapsed since then 'v Thanksgiivng has beep held a inemorable day in the jijeof this nation y It is a day-set apart not only for tus- to show our thankfulness for our crops but also a day1 when ' the people of every com-' over which idle stars and that bUr liatibn lias been victor:? ous in every war m which it has been engaged that our territori territorial - al territorial Axpansion hasbeen continuous and rapid j 'that'our ' industries V In the mines atWhtco Satur- - ' ' - u 1 ' -

r Mrs' WL Bartley gave an en en-j - j en-j oy able house v party 7 Saturday night in honor of her sister Miss Roberta Webb and a number' oif her y dung lady and r gentleman j " friends'- Those attnedingywere Misses -Blanche Hogg V Thelma Day Mary Gee Davis -Edith Ba- ker Nassarita- Hays" Eva Peters1 Almapay Mabel ! Blair' Valma Adams IvaV Parsons - Margie Day : Valma Adams '- Messrs J ohn Combs Ted" Bentley Rill Moren Billie Fuller Cedi Baker J oe Newland Astor Brown and Hiram WilliainsThe usual plays j dances qnd games were featured i At 11" oclock refreshments were I 'j - ' 1 i seryed All the guests expressed themselves as having had one of the best times of their' lives Mrs -Mollie Todd1 ' of the New Sanitary Restaurant sends- the Eagle to her mother Mrc My AAdams atVidco At her home at Seco Sunday after j suffering for over two weeks with pneumonia Mra Mar Mar-tha - tha Mar-tha V enters"daughter of the late W S Wright and one of the best 4 connected ladies i in our county passed over' life's river She was in her fif ty-first : year and had been a widow f or many years he leaves several chil children - dren children all grown She leaves an aged mother Mrs Lettie Wright and A number of brothers and sistCTs Among ttiem S: Tilden W right Mrs J ames Johnson of Pike county Mrs L JB Tolliver Dr Garrett Wright ' of "Lynch DrBenF Wrightr j John )W Vright of Seco Mrs ? Al C Craft Mrs William W v Crafty of Thornton The remains were in interred - terred interred in the family graveyard at Thornton We regret to learn of the death ' of this excellent lady And extend to her friends and relatives our heartfelt con- ddlenms- '7 Qur hristmas'-ietion ojj the Eagle td be printi'pecember 17 is to be a mod4 pubiication in every respect It will be read ahd 'a ' v-y I:' f- studied in almosrfey&ryrespe yoUr friends : and customers for y s 1 M the business patronage given you wliich made your success and so so-lidtothem - lidtothem so-lidtothem a cpntinuance jpf it dufhigtite7'Citm season

It is but pne month till Christ- bigdayof the -year 'will be hereJ ' i rtv For decades it has -been the prac - Ucik our propie to iook out for what they called -a- hlgltinie Christmas and as a-result of this - r -7 V O'-V" looking TOut hornble thmgs re- suited often bloodshed and muxv der -Never at anytime "did any of -IC - these things take place that they could not be traced to the uise of tbs case birth life and sacrifice - cf the i y-: Savior of mankinds Of course it should be a peribd of rejo:c!ng a : ' 4 y '-'j - - I 0 seasen of good wiflbut las far from--sinful rejoicing debauch-' A--'? ' a cry drunkenness and crime Christianity hoathemsm tl iis day one of drunkenness and icvelry must if It Is iiot already bo getten out of the niinds of de- - s' 1 -y Th- - -T v 's vent people The V EagVrpKaris mo£ t strenuously anl earnestly W I : 4 The idea of making 0 an whatever vbuld brlnS disaster and ruin into the '0Tncs and among fri 31? t:- Now 'yT1 of f41: Ihoae ' °!' c:t-zesliip fce as- vigiJ?n as P°se ' r- 1 " - - - : s THANKjSGIVING Today is ThanlcsgiVing - Day 8 a aside by the Chief Execlltive of the nation and the 1 avento authoitiec: in every "S at 0l£e " thankfulness but the Eagle force must send forth the Eagle borne on thewingiof an(i carrying messages of thankfulness to its readers sometime somewhere ' ' will our portion of thanks 'ded out t ' understand Noah Bentley

Whitesbui-R HI defeated geco Hi at basketball 50 to 7 Better luck next time Seco! ' 7 Mr and Mrs Morgan T Rey Reynolds - nolds Reynolds spent yesterday in our 1 Mi Reynolds hopes to locate In town about January 1 On January-1 1926 penalties and interest will be added to all unpaid-taxes That is only a few V days over a month off By that late the big taxpayers' and oth prs : who make it a point to moe ihoix taxes promptly -win havc t u:rs paid but the average ciU- zen 'who has a difficult time liv- ing from day: to day and lays no :noney away will probably not Iiave his taxes paid and will not be able to do so The sheriff of :ir county when the tax "books are turned over to him will have an immense sum due him which he must collect We judge that perhaps half the taxeswill and can be paid by Jan 1 On' " the Eagle knows just how our people are struggling all the time to Steep above board and how it li almost impossible to do so Now J therefore it takes this opportun- ity of siting this in order that jaU by som0 scrimp or turn they some scrimp or turn they for taxes without having to meet an extra burden of penalties and interest: The sherifl has nothing to do with ading this extra bur- den is A may abIe to S6 thelr 'P4?

r V V - v-'1 providing this Whitesburg has -the finest property in the couii- try for school purposes and any mnoey spent on it will pay many fold Frank Maurice of the Stafford Coal Co at Elsiecoal was in to see us Pearl McIntosh 19 employed by Mr Boggs at : the sawmill here" while hauling logs had his leg broken jfust above the ankle 1 Unde Melve Tolliver aged 73 was in and tells us ' heha&feS grandchildren ' and ' 54 ' great greatgrandchildren - grandchildren greatgrandchildren - ' John P Morgan has & number cf black walnut rails on his place that were made in 1803 v And John hadn't seen a "drap"that ' ' cay- ' - 1 " " 1 - -r Mr and Mrs P WSlemp of Millstone and Mr and ' Mrs w - Henry Pfening of Seco were in our city Tuesday ?: The Womans Club will meet Saturday at 2 p m in the Club rooms All members of the ' Sew Sewing - ing Sewing Circle are requested to r be present r ' ' 1 h : ' - y- v- Whitman's Candies the kind that tickle all thie way down at p Aw i Fitzpatrick's Drug Store See' ad At an examining trial held at Hyden David Steel charged with the killing of Joe Morgan was

y- y - vY'--- - J m --J- - : Great: news ejneiito ji : §p4a3fplglit athUhqmoaB our sister count v-of ICrott On Dig CowfiD three miles from o ur Saturday the people vpd 7 : al- agrfVdtizeri home in Letcher county It °vef Je & 9d msttsolid for a $20obo bondaSd AMyPMsedaway i8 b® toade index of the8®8:®0 8h°ald assemble ' ' ' "" pay buying public as well as its" baskets of dinner arrange business public is 11 educative' : instructive prb- 4:000: The-GoYernos' speeia es sca Arotners' and sis-w invest in itedvertis-fg11 enjoy together a real that county A few days hefoTv3- ters oiirvivrgHe -married a fafiTPe&es At the time thisissue y 1 1 :v the election set the voods Afli edeiighter of the late John LI Day j the Eagle a erff -the press nips t W : -a day wlii pf the old year of 1925 will be e minds of ' all Americans onthe shelf and the last leaf on should be oreflective reviewing is calendar readyto be f olded 16 progress of our nationel his his-You - You his-You will waptto Jhank rtpry Children should be taught

and the- New Year to come Avimve jprown by leaps and bounds A customer should be made to that' oppbrtunity and prosperity know: thatthis 4tradoha:l) ahoutthe doorway of ev- appreciated It will bring him American citizen who will be back again 7 Every business in UP anfi abouthis business town wfilbie called onl mhrdue W 4 children time ' ''? 'jfihbuld be tahg-ht1 that if America is to continue to enjoy these The union revival At the Main blessings the4 - -ciitzenry must street Methodist Church con-tiow! their appreciation in aid ducted byRevMcClmk favr8 av-' : ! 1 -tno nondlolrooritr woiahto1 t