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Defining the heroes in your life

ho or what are our heroes? The title of hero gets thrown around a lot; so much as the word has almost become meaningless. And even an individual’s definition of hero changes over time.

When I was quite young, my hero was Superman. I knew of Superman first from the reruns of the old George Reeves “Adventures of Superman” television show. What could be better than flying around, smashing through walls, bullets bouncing off your chest and saving the girl. Well, maybe the girl wasn’t important at that time, but the rest was wonderful. My next childhood hero was Captain James T. Kirk, of the USS Enterprise. Flying around the galaxy, firing phasers, having all sorts of incredible adventures, overcoming incredible odds to save the day, and get the girl, which by that time was a little more important. But were these truly ever heroes? Can a fictional character truly ever be a hero? A hero should Hudson be a person of courage or ability, admired for his or her brave deeds and noble qualities. A fictional character may have these qualities in their stories that are told, but are they truly heroes if they are not real? As I have grown older, hopefully wiser, the meaning of hero has become clearer. On 9/11 this became very clear when we all saw images of heroes rushing to save others in danger. Personal risk meant little to these heroes. Whether successful or not, assuming the risk for no personal gain, meant these valiant folks were, and are, truly heroes. But it doesn’t take a situation as black as 9/11 to prove a person a hero. Our local first responders, firefighters and law enforcement put themselves in harm’s way to help others. Our local Army Reserves that has been activated to serve. Teachers who go out of their way to help students that are having trouble, only concerned with helping a child succeed. These are truly heroes. Given the examples of true local heroes above, I think I will amend my definition of hero. A hero should be a person of courage or ability, admired for his or her brave deeds and noble qualities, who acts with no thought of personal gain. This year, our Pride section focuses on local heroes. We could not possibly include all of our local heroes, we had to pick and choose, which by itself was a heroic effort. However, the end product you hold in your hands now should provide a good cross-section of the heroes in our area. The staff here at the Bluefield Daily Telegraph hopes that you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed putting it together for you. And don’t forget to thank the heroes in your life.

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Chapter One

Secret Origins

Heroes of the past whose contributions helped shape our communities

Robert Morris

The cost of American Freedom Financier of American Revolution owned McDowell County By BILL ARCHER Bluefield Daily Telegraph ECKMAN — In 1958 when the population of McDowell County hovered near the 100,000 mark, the editors of the Welch Daily News Centennial Edition included a 9-inch story under the headline: “Man who once owned all of McDowell County Acreage spent three years in Debtors Jail.” Of course, the story was about Robert Morris, the so-called “Financier of the American Revolution.” In the 1770s, when North American colonists attempted to overthrow the iron-handed British rule, the cause was nearly lost until (then) General George Washington asked his friend Robert Morris to get the new nation’s financial house in order. At the time of the American Revolution, Morris was one of North America’s most wealthy men, and as such, he had a lot to lose if the fight for independence didn’t go the way of the North American colonists. He made his fortune in the shipping industry, but like many colonial leaders, he was feeling the hard pinch of the British Stamp Act of the mid-1760s. He became politically active when the British laid a tax on tea. As warden of the port of Philadelphia, Pa., Morris refused to allow the tea ship Polly to enter the harbor. As a result, the ship sailed north to Boston Harbor where colonial revolutionaries dumped the cargo into the harbor is what is now called, “The Boston Tea Party.” After the Revolutionary War started, Washington knew he needed money to feed, clothe and hold his Continental Army together. In the winter of 1776, Washington asked Morris for a loan to keep his army together. Morris made Washington a personal loan of 10,000 Pounds Sterling, enabling Washington to cross the Delaware River on Christmas night, 1776, and surprise the Hessian mercenaries camped at Trenton, N.J. A week later on Jan. 3, 1777, the Continental Army prevailed again in the Battle of New Jersey, establishing the colonials as a serious threat to British rule. That was the battle where General Hugh Mercer, namesake of Mercer County, was killed in action. Without a standing navy, the only real threat to English supremacy on the seas was Morris’ 150-ship fleet, many of which were converted into privateer ships — pirates — that took a heavy toll on English merchant ships. When the fighting ended five years later, Morris had lost one of the largest private navies in the world, but never asked for any compensation from the federal government. During the darkest days of the Revolution in 1781, Morris tackled the new nation’s crippling

war debts. Congress unanimously appointed Morris Superintendent of Finance, and three days after his appointment, he proposed the organization of the first national bank, ultimately becoming the Bank of North America, funded primarily by a loan Morris negotiated from France. He instituted other financial reforms that eased the pressures on the 13 colonies and enabled them to emerge as a nation. Morris was with Washington in 1781 when Washington moved the Continental Army from New York to Yorktown, Va. Morris provided $1.4 million from his personal finances to supply the army as it established its new headquarters in eastern Virginia. His personal contribution to the war effort was nearly double the total of $800,000 contributed by all of the 13 colonies combined. Along with funding the Army, donating his navy and eventually, paying the troops out of his own funds, Morris coordinated his navy with the French fleet to effectively cut off the supply lines of British General Lord Cornwallis’s army, and help bring the war to an unexpected, but rapid conclusion. In addition to his generous personal investments to the American Revolutionary cause, Morris was an active participation in creating a framework for the new nation to prosper in the years ahead. Morris and Roger Sherman were the only two men to sign all three of the defining documents of the American Republic, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution. Although he declined the offer to be the nation’s first Treasury Secretary, Morris proposed a national economic system that Alexander Hamilton put into operation, and proposed the American decimal currency system — but his face doesn’t appear on the dime. “The ghost of Robert Morris must hover over the black hills of McDowell, and perhaps he grins sardonically as he recalls the whims of the Fates,” according to the author of the unbylined article in the Daily News’ 1958 special section. “Back in 1795, Morris owned all the land in what is now McDowell County and many times as great an acreage elsewhere. Yet three years later, he was put in a debtor’s prison and kept there for three years.” Mark Houser, university editor at Robert Morris University near Pittsburgh, Pa., wrote in a 2010 article: “He risked his fortune and his life to support the American Revolution. He offered his own ships to fight British frigates and personally made sure the men who crossed the Delaware with Washington had food, blankets and bonuses. He signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation

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Robert Morris and the Constitution. Still Morris’s sterling record as a patriot was of little interest to New Yorkers in 1790. In Manhattan, the Financier of the American Revolution was public enemy number 1.” After the war, Morris served as the U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, and attempted to resurrect his personal fortunes by participating in the land speculation boom that followed the war as the British crown lost control of the interior terri-

tories of the U.S. Morris invested in large tracts of land in western New York State, but spent most of his available funds investigating in the mineral-rich coal lands of western Virginia as well as central and eastern portions of Virginia’s Kentucky Military District. While he established a framework for the American Republic to flourish in the future, he made some enemies in the nation’s most populated city then as now — New York. “As

they saw it,” Houser wrote of Morris’s tussles with the Empire State’s leaders, “Morris stole their capital. The wealthy merchant who became one of Pennsylvania’s first senators brokered a deal to move the new government out of New York City to Philadelphia. There it would remain for 10 years until workers built a new federal seat on the Potomac.” History is so rich that the modern servings are often so overwhelming that they tend to

overshadow long-standing divisions in the nation that existed in 1790, but didn’t explode until 70 years later when North fought South over issues of slavery, the rights of independent states, an industrial versus rural mindset, urban versus rural and so much more. At the time, the location of Washington, D.C., was no doubt seen as a compromise between southern cotton and tobacco

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The great cartographer.... Jedediah Hotchkiss distinguished himself as a map-maker well before General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson famously asked him to ‘make me a map of the Valley,’ which proved to be Jackson’s blueprint to early success during the early years of the American Civil War. The map of the Fredericksburg, Va. battlefield shown here is just one example of the many maps he prepared for Confederate generals before and after Jackson’s death. After the war, Hotchkiss brought his talents to bear in the effort to transform Virginia from a state with an agrarian-based economy into an industrial state. Many of Hotchkiss’ wartime maps as well as his maps of communities like Kanawha City and his railway and coal property development maps are preserved in the Library of Congress. There are 341 individual maps in the Hotchkiss collection.

Map-making rock hound provides blueprint for industrial Va. By BILL ARCHER Bluefield Daily Telegraph ELKHORN — In the final decade of the 19th Century, Hugh Ike Shott published a tabstyle history of the development of the Pocahontas Coalfields that included profiles of most of the region’s coal industry pioneers. The introduction of the tab included an article authored by Captain Isaiah A. Welch who wrote that Jedediah Hotchkiss hired him to undertake the first extensive survey of the southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia coalfields. Welch explained what he discovered during his 1873 survey of the region. Welch started his survey with a visit to a 13-foot thick outcropping of bituminous coal located on property in Tazewell County, Va., owned by Jordan Nelson. Nelson was a Kanawha County resident who moved to western Virginia after the Civil War. He dug coal from his “coal bank” and sold it in bushel baskets to other blacksmiths in the region who liked using the hot-burning coal. Welch followed the coal seam north to its southernmost natural outcropping at the southern entrance to what is now the town of Kimball and traced the same coal seam north to the Guyandotte River. It was a huge coal field. Hotchkiss was a natural born rock hound. At the time of his death on Jan. 17, 1899, he bequeathed his personal collection of rocks that he gathered during his life to the Staunton, Va., Public Library. Hotchkiss

was born in New York state, but he was prone to undertake many sojourns into the mountains and valleys of New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. After graduating from Windsor Academy, he taught school in Lykens Valley, Pa., then migrated to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where he moved to Augusta County, Va., and established Mossy Creek Academy in 1852. The school folded the school in 1861 at the start of the American Civil War, but Hotchkiss was an accepted scholar in the Staunton-area educational community. The Staunton Public Library was preparing to move into a new facility a few years ago, and during the moving process, decided to donate Hotchkiss’ rock collection to Mary Baldwin College. “Professor Eric Jones spruced it up quite a bit, and they had it on display for a while

at their Science Building,” Ruth Arnold, director of the Staunton Public Library said. “We decided to give it to Mary Baldwin College because of the connection with the Mossy Creek Academy, also in Augusta County, Va.” Hotchkiss started walking through open country in Pennsylvania as a young man, ventured south into the Luray Valley where he found Augusta County to his liking during a sojourn and took the position as principal of Mossy Creek Academy. In 1859, he joined his brother Nelson and his wife Sara Ann (Comfort) Hotchkiss in operating the Loch Willow Academy in Churchville, Va., and while there, learned the art of map-making — a trade that would make him an indispensable member of Confederate General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s staff. Jedediah Hotchkiss left the Mossy Creek Academy and joined the Confederate army. He distinguished himself in the Battle of Rich Mountain (July 1011, 1861) by leading troops out of almost certain capture by the Union Army. His map-making abilities caught the attention of General Robert E. Lee, who called on Hotchkiss to prepare maps of Tygart Valley in what is now West Virginia. After returning from an extended leave while Hotchkiss battled typhoid fever, Lee reassigned him to Jackson’s staff. Jackson famously told Hotchkiss: “I want you to make me a map of the Valley from Harpers Ferry to Lexington,

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showing all points of offense and defense in those places.” Hotchkiss was already familiar with the lay of the land, but the maps that he made for Jackson were so detailed that they even provided the general with the names of the farmers who lived along the road and told of

whether they supported the Confederate cause or the Union. After Jackson’s death at Chancelorsville in 1863, Hotchkiss provided vital topographical intelligence to Lee as well as Generals Richard S. Ewell and Jubal Early at other battles including Gettysburg and

the rest of the major engagements until the end of the war. When the war ended in 1865, Virginia’s economy was in ruins. With no money and no slave labor force, the agrarian-based tobacco economy that made

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Pivotal moment... Kimball pushed the N&W Railroad through the mountains to the Ohio River By BILL ARCHER Bluefield Daily Telegraph

Photo courtesy of the Eastern Regional Coal Archives

Frederick J. Kimball

KIMBALL — The pivotal moment in the development of the southwestern Virginia and southern West Virginia coalfields came on Feb. 10, 1881, when the E. W. Clark & Company financial firm of Philadelphia, Pa., purchased the roads and property of the bankrupt Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio at auction in Richmond, Va. The A. M, & O. Railway had a short, and rather uneventful history. It was made up of components of the Virginia & Tennessee railway from Lynchburg to Tennessee that started moving trains in 1852 and the Southside Railroad that connected Lynchburg, Va., to Petersburg, Va. In 1860, the Norfolk & Petersburg Railway was completed, linking the Southside and Virginia & Tennessee railroads to form a route from the port city of Norfolk, Va., to the Tennessee state line. The trio of railroad lines through the heart of the western portion of the Valley of the Virginians to the Atlantic coast became an important target for Union forces during the American Civil War. Union forces attempted four invasions into Southwest Virginia, with the first in May 1862, ending after the May 17, 1862 Battle of Pigeons’ Roost. The second assault culminated on July 17, 1863, after the ill-fated Union Army attack on the rail head in Wytheville, Va. That’s the battle that, legend holds, Molly Tynes of Tazewell, Va., saved the day by alerting the Confederate defenders that the Yankees were coming. The third invasion ended with the Oct. 2, 1864 Battle of Saltville, Va., that involved the execution of captured and/or wounded black troops serving in the Union Army. A fourth invasion came a few days before Christmas in 1964, when Union Army raiders attacked Saltville, and temporarily halted production of salt produced from the brine kettles. Before and after the American Civil War, the A.M. & O. railway was used primarily to transport cotton, tobacco and other crops to markets in eastern Virginia. E.W. Clark & Company bought the bankrupt railroad for $8.6 million and transformed it into coal transportation system that would

eventually help usher in a global age of steel. Large scale commercial steel production enabled cities to defy their geographically-based boundaries and reach heavenward with skyscrapers like the Sears Tower in Chicago that climbs nearly one-third of a mile into the clouds. Affordable steel also helped rail transportation dominate travel across the North American continent, and even supply the ingredients for the automobile industry. After acquiring the A. M. & O., the Clark interest selected one of its youngest associates, Frederick J. Kimball, to serve as president of the newly-formed Norfolk & Western Railway, and charged him with the task of building the railroad into the southern West Virginia/southwestern Virginia coalfields. The existence of the region’s coalfields was known for more than a century after Dr. Thomas Walker observed the “coal lands” during his 1750 exploration of the region. However, it was Captain Isaiah A. Welch’s survey in 1873, for Jedediah Hotchkiss that really brought the attention of the enormity of the regional coal deposits to the pool of eastern investors that the Clark firm represented. Kimball was an excellent choice to build the railroad. He was born March 6, 1844, in Philadelphia, and as a teenager, he started working for the Erie Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1864, when Civil War Minie balls were flying everywhere in the eastern United States, the railroad sent Kimball to Kimball England where he learned more about the successes and short-comings of railroads from English railroads. The U.S., had access to steam locomotive technology at about the same time as their English cousins, transportation engineers in the United Kingdom were decades ahead of their U.S. counterparts in making rail transportation a reality. Kimball got the opportunity to learn about railroads from the British, and the knowledge he gained would serve him well. After returning to the U.S., he continued to work on American railroads for a time before bringing his railroad expertise to the Clark firm.

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Loaded rails... Norfolk Southern Railway hopper cars are shown here loaded with coal bound for the load-out at Lambert’s Point, Va. Starting in 1882, Frederick J. Kimball set out to develop a coal distribution system that would transport the coal mined in the mountains of southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia to the port city of Norfolk and on to customers on the eastern seaboard as well as worldwide.

Kimball... Continued from 5 Before turning him loose on the N&W, the Clark firm tried Kimball on the Shenandoah Railroad, a line that the Clark investors thought would boost mineral hauling revenues from the iron ore reserves along the eastern slope of the Allegheny Mountain Range. Within a few years, Kimball proved his worth in managing the Shenandoah line, but a new friend he made during that time — Major Hotchkiss — was already pushing for development of the Flat Top Coalfields. About a year before acquisition of the N&W, the Clark firm sent Kimball back to England to attract English bond-holders into purchasing the A.M. & O., and changing it’s business model from an agriculturalbased railroad dependent on cotton and tobacco, to a mineral-based railroad with revenues driven by coal and coke. While the effort did not immediately result in attracting English investors, it led to a long-term business relationship friendship between Kimball and William Vivian of Vivian, Gray & Company of London. Vivian helped Kimball with sage advice during the developmental years of the railroad, and encouraged him to stay the course during the financial challenges of the late 19th Century. In less than a decade, the

English investors recognized the significance of the transformation of Virginia’s farm economic model to a model based on mineral extraction for the purpose of fueling the global industrial movement. It’s interesting to note that the McDowell County towns of Vivian and Kimball that are side by side on U.S. Route 52 in McDowell County are named for the two men who delivered the expertise and the financial backing to build the railroad into the county. In April 1881, prior to the first meeting of the new N&W board of directors, Kimball met with Hotchkiss to obtain additional information on the 1873 Welch survey as well as Hotchkiss’s maps of southwest Virginia and southern West Virginia. By the time the board met a month later in May 1881, all of the tumblers were in place to send a new rail spur off of the old A.M. & O., at Radford, Va., along St. Clair’s Fault on the northern foothills of East River Mountain, through the Bluefields and on to the 13-foot thick, southernmost outcropping of the famed Pocahontas No. 3 Seam — a coal that would later be labeled as the global standard for metallurgical coal. Hotchkiss famously offered Kimball an opportunity to invest in the development of the railroad, according to Joseph T. Lambie, author of the definitive history of the development of the N&W Railway titled, “From Mine to Market: The History of Coal

Transportation on the Norfolk and western Railway,” 1954, New York University Press. Kimball refused the offer, and instead, insisted that the N&W former a proper land management corporation to develop the coalfields. In September of 1881, the Clark firm became part of the organization of the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company with E.T. Steel as president and Thomas Graham as vice president. Graham was a surveyor who laid out the course of the N&W from Radford to Pocahontas. He also created the initial survey for the town of Bluefield, Va. — previously named in his honor. Graham was incorporated in 1884. The name changed on July 12, 1924. The largest of the coal companies — the Philadelphia-based Flat Top Coal and Coke Association — eventually evolved into the Pocahontas Fuel Company. Poca Fuel was acquired by Consolidated Coal (now Consol) in 1956. As an agent for Hotchkiss, Graham, Welch and others acquired properties in McDowell County along Elkhorn Creek, and were instrumental in attracting Samuel A. Crozer to invest in the development of the coalfields. Although Kimball remained focused on the proper development of the railroad, he did not forsake his friend, Hotchkiss. Kimball led N&W’s push through Coaldale Mountain and into McDowell County, a feat that was accomplished in

1887. Within another two years, coal and coke from the McDowell County coalfields began moving along the N&W rails to the railroad’s port at Lambert’s Point in Hampton Roads, Va. After building a railroad into

the steep mountains of southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia, Kimball wasn’t done with the work ahead. He pushed the railway’s governing body to continue the railroad’s westward extension to the Ohio River, and led the

N&W’s orderly progression through financial uncertainties at the end of the 19th Century. Kimball died on July 27, 1903 at age 59 with the N&W footprint firmly in place. — Contact Bill Archer at barcher@bdtonline.com

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Coal barons ruled the region By BILL ARCHER Bluefield Daily Telegraph SWITCHBACK — Coal is still king in McDowell County, West Virginia with international companies competing with regional companies to mine the world’s best metallurgical coal and create the steel infrastructure of an ever-changing global village. Starting with William Lathrop, an eastern Pennsylvania mining engineer who came to the area in 1882 to open the first Pocahontas Mine, personalities have played a big part in the development of the coalfields. Lathrop’s wife, Harriette Lathrop, gave the mine and the coal seam its name when she watched workers clearing a laurel ticket from around the site of the Baby Mine’s driftmouth. Mrs. Lathrop said the scene

reminded her of a painting she had seen of Indian Princess Pocahontas saving the life of Captain John Smith. William Lathrop got the mine open and the Norfolk & Western Railway started shipping coal on March 13, 1883. The Baby Mine became a ventilation shaft for the East Mine, that headed into the main body of the Pocahontas No. 3 Coal Seam. On March 14, 1884, an explosion ripped through the East Mine, killing 114 coal miners. The methane-fueled fire burned so hot that the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company diverted a stream to flow through the mine for 3 weeks to extinguish the fire so the bodies could be removed. The deaths of so many coal miners weighed heavily on the Lathrop family, and they soon

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left the coalfields for others to develop. The Southwest Virginia Improvement Company kept mining coal at Pocahontas, in 1884, John Cooper opened the Mill Creek Coal & Coke Company mine — first West Virginia mine in the Flat Top Coal Field. Later that same year, two enterprising entrepreneurs came from the New River coalfields and opened the second Mercer County coal mine, the Caswell Creek Mine. That is where the story of James Ellwood Jones begins. More than 100 years ago, when the world was just catching on to the strength of the met coal from McDowell County, one man saw the potential for a global coal industry and laid a

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H.I. Shott Sr. Tremendous legacy in area newspaper history By BILL ARCHER Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD — On Nov. 9, 1985, a little more than 11 months after the sale of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph to Charlottesville, Va., based Worrell Newspapers, Hugh Ike Shott Jr., the son of Daily Telegraph founder, Hugh Ike Shott, announced the creation of a foundation with the singular mission of raising the quality of life and developing economic and social benefits for the people who live in southern West Virginia and southwest Virginia. It was Shott’s wish to share the benefits that the family had reaped from almost 90 years — at the time — of serving the people of the region. Since 1985, the H.I. Shott Jr., Foundation has continued to make a positive impact in the community through grants to educational institutions, as well as other worthy charitable institutions in the region. The junior H.I. Shott built on the media empire his father built, and created the foundation from the funds the family realized through the sale of the newspaper to Worrell Newspapers of Charlottesville, Va. The elder Mr. Shott — H.I. Shott Sr. — was born on Sept. 3, 1866, in Staunton, Va. As a young man, he served as an apprentice printer, and came to Bluefield in the 1890s to work as a mail clerk for the Norfolk & Western Railway. There were plenty of competing newspapers in the city of Bluefield at the time, and the elder H.I. Shott had a good eye for business. While he was still in his early 20s, Shott acquired an irregularly published newspaper called the Bluefield Telegraph. He later revamped the paper and launched it as a daily publication, the Bluefield Daily Telegraph on Jan. 16, 1896. The daily newspaper was important to the elder Shott, but so was the commercial printing operation he operated. The two businesses proved their worth on Nov. 1, 1896 when Shott published a special section under the banner of “The History of the Flat Top Coalfields.” The special section

is a detailed history of the people who came into the region’s coalfields in the late 19th Century. Captain Isaiah A. Welch authored the introduction to the special section, and shared insights about how Jedediah Hotchkiss sent him to Jordon Nelson’s Coal Bank to survey what would later be known as the Pocahontas Coal Seam. The publication was reproduced in 1983 for the Centennial of the Pocahontas Coalfields, and remains as one of the best resources for understanding the early development of the area coalfields. Shott’s newspaper flourished during the height of the period of time from 1830-1930 that is commonly referred to as “The Golden Age of Newspapers.” The paper sought dramatic headlines, but didn’t engage in the so-called “yellow journalism” common in the era when the Daily Telegraph was launched. In fact, the peak of the yellow journalism occurred in 1895-’98 when William Randolph Hearst and his New York Journal battled Joseph Pulitzer and his New York World for circulation. Instead, Shott included a mix of world, national and major local stories on the front page and shared his opinions in his daily “Good Morning” columns. Eventually, he developed a network of correspondents who provided newsy tidbits of the various communities surrounding Bluefield. With regular passenger rail transportation into almost every regional coalfield community, Shott’s newspaper gained a reputation as a regional publication. In addition to publishing the Daily Telegraph as a morning Newspaper, Shott acquired the Princeton Observer and Sunset News, and in 1926, launched the Sunset News Observer, that served as a 6-day-per week afternoon paper until it folded in 1972. The elder H.I. Shott was married to Mary Katherine Chisholm Shott, who was born in Nova Scotia in 1870. Their children included H.I. Shott Jr., Lillian Shott and James H. Shott. In 1922, H.I., Jr., and his brother, Jim, stuck an antenna out of the window of the Telegraph building on Bland

Street and broadcast on the FM radio frequency. While that first attempt to enter the broadcast world by his sons was short lived, H.I. Shott Sr., eventually became more interested in the process during his first term as a U.S. Representative from West Virginia’s (then) 5th Congressional District. The Shott family launched a new AM radio station, WHIS, on June 27, 1929, and the station was soon popular throughout the region — actually expanding the reach of Shott’s newspaper. In November of 1929, the elder Shott was elected to a second term in Congress and the AM radio station ultimately proved to be one of the most influential bluegrass/country music stations in the nation. Cousin Ezra Cline and the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers listened to the station, and came to Bluefield to join the growing list of performers with a regular show on WHIS radio. The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers proved to be one of the nation’s most prolific crucibles for blue grass music with Bobby Osborne as well as the Goins Brothers, Melvin and Ray, all performing at one time or another with Ezra Cline. Hugh I. Shott was a staunch Republican, and the newspaper’s editorial positions reflected the positions held by the newspapers editor/publisher. Shott was unsuccessful in his bid for a third term in the House of Representatives, losing out on his re-election bid to James Kee in the 1932 election. Kee, a Democrat came into office in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first term. Kee served until his death in 1951. After his death, his wife, Elizabeth Simpkins Kee, won a special election for the congressional seat, and went into office on July 17, 1951, as the first female from West Virginia to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. She served until Jan. 3, 1965, when her son, James Kee, was elected to the post. U.S. Rep. James Kee served until Jan. 3, 1973, when he failed to win the Democratic primary when southern West Virginia’s dramatic population

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Memphis T. Garrison and Joseph E. Dodd By BILL ARCHER Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD — Every college graduating class has the potential to make a difference, and the graduates of the Bluefield State College Class of 1939, made a difference locally as well as in the nation and world. On the local side, Allan B. Connolly, who earned his bachelor’s degree in education, went on to be the first African American to serve on the Bluefield board of directors. On the national and international front, Memphis Tennessee Garrison went on to become a champion for human and civil rights who was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964 to serve on the National Citizens Committee for Community Relations. Henry Lake Dickason was the president of BSC in 1939, the man for whom Dickason Hall was named. Dickason super-

vised a faculty that included Othello Maria HarrisJefferson, an associate professor of Education and the namesake of the Harris-Jefferson Student Center on the BSC campus. Other faculty members included Cortez Donald Reece, the assistant professor of Music who recorded many folk songs from the African American coalfield and railroad building heritage. Joseph Eldridge Dodd was one of the most famous artists among the BSC faculty, although his work is still largely unknown in most of West Virginia. Dodd was born in Wood County near Parkersburg in 1907, studied in the local public schools and went to West Virginia State University at Institute when he was 18 years old. Dodd was president of his class at State, and graduated second in his class in 1929. His artistic work earned him a scholarship to study at the

National Academy of Design from 1929-’30, and he remained in New York for the 1930-’31 term as well. Dodd received his advanced degree in art at a time when the world was suffering through the grips of the Great Depression. After leaving New York, he returned to West Virginia and accepted a position as assistant professor in the BSC art department. He rented a room at 213 Park Street in Bluefield near the BSC campus and was admired by his students. In 1937, the student body proclaimed him “Most Popular Instructor.” Memphis Tennessee Garrison was born in 1890, at Hollins, Va., but grew up in the McDowell County coalfields. She was a child when her father died in a railroad accident. Garrison’s mother raised her two children to be strong

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For art’s sake... Joseph Dodd, assistant professor of art at Bluefield State College was an incredibly talented artist who also inspired students to achieve greatness in their lives. Dodd’s painting titled “Slave Mart” shown above provides a unique approach to the slave trade and his vision of Heaven (left) shows laborers in the cotton and tobacco fields on their journey to a Heavenly reward. Dodd suffered an illness while he was serving in the U.S. Army during World War II and returned to BSC where he passed away in 1946. His nephew, Edwin Seymour of Parkersburg, provided these images of his uncle’s paintings that were included in a 1990 art show at the Parkersburg Art Center.

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Back in Bluefield... Nobel Laureate Dr. John Forbes Nash Jr., (right) was in Bluefield in 2002, where he served as keynote speaker at the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce. From left to right: Bill Archer, H. Edward “Eddie” Steele and Nash. Photo by Melvin Grubb.

Nash calls for patience as a way to address economic challenges By BILL ARCHER Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD — As a teenager growing up in a home on Whitethorn Street on Bluefield’s Country Club Hill section, John Forbes Nash Jr., liked to play pranks on his friends. In the fall of 1994 after Nash was awarded a one-third share of the Nobel Prize in the field of economics, one of his childhood friends — Nelson R. Walker — recalled getting a shock when young “Johnny” tricked him into shaking his hand. A classmate, Betty Unberger, recalled that Nash rigged a case of mouse traps to trigger one after another down the stairway at the old Bluefield Supply Company warehouse on Bluefield Avenue when Nash was working a summer job. In an interview a day after the announcement that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, Nash said that he is right-handed, but that he was also a little ambidextrous.

❏❏❏ As part of the same story, the late H. Edward “Eddie” Steele said that he lived across Whitethorn Street from the young Nash, and added that the two often took walks through the neighborhood together where Nash pressed the wellknown newsman for answers to some of the scientific books he was reading. “I remember my father working with me to write with my right hand,” he said in the October 1994 interview. “He may have thought it would be better to right with my right hand. I don’t write with my left hand. I have a way of printing that if I’m careful with it, it’s pretty good.” As part of the same story, the late H. Edward “Eddie” Steele said that he lived across Whitethorn Street from the young Nash, and added that the two often took walks through the neighborhood together where Nash pressed the well-known newsman for answers to some of the scientific books he was reading. Steele recalled that he once

confided in Nash that he was getting tired of missing so many phone calls from contacts who said they had called him, but found his telephone line was busy. He said that Nash rigged his telephone so it would ring even if the receiver was off the hook and he was talking on the phone — the basic idea of call waiting. In the years after he, along with professors John C. Harsanyi and Reinhard Selton, received the Nobel price in economics, Nash has traveled globally to participate in many global conferences in the field of economics. In response to an e-mail request for his thoughts on the what might be done to improve the economic condi-

tions of his hometown, Nash said that “patience” is the key to bringing about positive change. “In relation to the ‘economy’

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Back to the drawing board... Alexander Blount Mahood, third from the left above, is shown here at work with three of his staff architects in the penthouse of the Law & Commerce Building in Bluefield. Mahood designed several of the company store and office complexes throughout the coalfields. In Bluefield, he designed the old City Hall, the West Virginian Hotel, the Coca-Cola Bottling plant, Bluefield High School, several buildings on the Concord University, Bluefield and Bluefield State college campuses, and scores of residences in the city. One of his last creations, the Creative Arts Center on the West Virginia University campus in Morgantown continues to underscore his genius.

Architect of the coalfields Alexander Blount Mahood Sr. By BILL ARCHER Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD — Probably without even knowing it, people from southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia are great admirers of the artistry of Alexander Blount Mahood — the region, as well as West Virginia’s most prolific and ubiquitous architects. Most Bluefielders are familiar with his iconic 13-story West Virginian Hotel (now West Virginian Manor) a building that he designed in 1921, and the Mercer County Courthouse, (1931), but he also designed the Pocahontas Theater in Welch (1928) the Masonic Building in Tazewell, Va., (1931), the Bluefield, Va., Farm Bureau (1935), Bluefield Country Club

(now the Bluefield Elks Lodge) (1914), the Pocahontas Fuel Company Store in Itmann (1923), the Henry Hotel in Martinsville, Va., (1920), the Stephen Foster Hotel in Live Oaks, Fla., (1926) and the CocaCola Bottling Plant in Bluefield (1921). Joanne Boileau, Mahood’s granddaughter, found a partial listing of several of her grandfather’s architectural masterpieces, that her father, Alex Mahood Jr., compiled some information in 1984 for a family presentation. The younger Alex Mahood worked with his father from 1948 until his death on Dec. 25, 1970. During that period of time, the Mahood architectural firm tackled other major projects including the Jerry Beasley Student Center

on the Concord University campus. He also designed the Towers dormitories as well as several other CU buildings, the Towers dormitories on the West Virginia University Evansdale Campus, most of the buildings on the Bluefield College and Bluefield State College campuses along with buildings including the Norfolk Southern Pocahontas Division Building on Princeton Avenue in Bluefield. “I remember when dad was up in Morgantown a lot when he was working on the WVU Creative Arts Center,” Joanne Boileau said of the iconic arts center that was completed in 1968, and provided a single center on campus for several of

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Coal... Continued from 7 solid foundation for that industry to emerge. James Ellwood Jones, a Pennsylvania-born son of Welsh immigrants, did more to shape the future of the metallurgical coal industry than any single individual. At the same time, he helped a generation of children from the coalfields to enjoy a healthy and well-educated life in professions other than the coal industry. James Ellwood Jones was born in Trevertown, Pennsylvania in 1874, the son of Jenkin and Martha (Ellwood) Jones, who came to North America in 1863 from their native Glen Neath, Wales. Jenkin Jones started working in the Welsh coal mines as a trapper boy when he was 8 years old, was self taught and came to the United States when he was 24 years old to take advantage of work in the anthracite coal mines in eastern Pennsylvania. In 1863, those mines were fueling the industrial might behind the Union Army. In 1872, the elder Mr. Jones went to Clifton Forge, Virginia to mine iron ore, but the following year, he traveled to Quinnimont, West Virginia in Fayette County to join Joseph L. Beury in developing the first smokeless coal mines of the New River coalfields and organized the New River Coalfields. Like Jones, Beury worked in the anthracite coalfields before relocating to the New River fields. Jones left the New River fields in 1884 and came to Mercer County with John Freeman to open the second coal mine in the Flat Top Coal Fields, the Caswell Creek Coal Company mine near Bramwell, West Virginia. Young James Ellwood Jones was 10 years old when the family moved to Bramwell, but almost immediately, his father started teaching him every job in the coal mining business. After years of study under his father’s tutelage in the Welsh coal mining tradition, James Ellwood Jones attended Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia for his first two years, then completed his education at Columbia University in New York, where he received a degree in mining engineering. At the time of his return home from college, the (then) Norfolk & Western Railroad had already pushed through Coal Dale Mountain and opened the McDowell County coalfields to large scale commercial mining. The Tierney family surveyors were the first to map out a mining plan along Elkhorn Creek for the Crozer family interests, but Jenkin Jones crossed Elkhorn Mountain and started developing coal properties in the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River basin. A town in that section, Jenkinjones, West Virginia, was named for the elder Jones. During the first decade of the 20th Century, James Ellwood

Jones moved quickly up the leadership ladder of the Pocahontas Fuel Company. The younger Jones invented a mining machine called the Jones Coloader, which was one of the predecessor machines to the continuous mining machines of today. On November 9, 1914, as vice president and general manager of the Pocahontas Fuel Company, James Ellwood Jones presided over the launch of the S.S. Jonancy, the world’s first super collier ship with a 5,000 ton capacity. Jones named the ship for his infant daughter, Nancy. Jones built a mansion on Powerhouse Hill in Switchback for his wife, Edith, and their two children, Nancy and Jimmy. Among other unique features, Jones had 66 stain glass windows imported from Scotland to enclose a C-shaped main room in the house, and also had a swimming pool built on the property. At the zenith of his power, Jones supervised 25 coal mining operations in the Pocahontas Fuel Company family including five mines that he could see from his backyard including the Norfolk and Angle mines to the south, Shamoken and Lick Branch mines to the north and the Delta Mine about 100 years from his back door. While his business capabilities and his expertise in coal mining earned James Ellwood Jones a good reputation as a coal operator, he concealed the humanitarian work from public view. He served on the McDowell County Commission for 24 years, and during that time, was the county’s most ardent supporter of the Good Roads Movement, personally funding several road projects and paying his taxes early so the county could continue operating during difficult times. He worked with Dr. Giles T. Epling to establish a free dental clinic in McDowell County for all children, and on March 1, 1917, established a tonsil clinic to benefit all children, 16 years old or younger, of coal miners who worked in Pocahontas Fuel Company mines. Although he never let it be known publicly, Jones is said to have provided a college education to as many as 200 McDowell County students and in 1930, presented 10 scholarships of $1,200 each to McDowell County high school graduates who attended West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. “His philanthropic undertakings may never be completely known as he preferred no public knowledge of them,” according to an article in the Welch Daily News Centennial Edition of 1958. Jones, a lifelong Republican, was defeated in his run for the U.S. Senate in 1932, but his health was already fading at the time. He was at home, playing cards with his friend, Dr. I.C. Peters on November 25, 1932, when he suffered a massive heart attack and died. One of the last great achievements

that started in 1931 under his leadership was the completion in 1936, of an 18-mile long drainage tunnel that eliminated the water problem in several mines, draining 12,000 acres and serving an estimated 190,000,000 tons of Pocahontas Number 3, 4 and 5 seam coal. After his death, Pocahontas Fuel made some use of the Jones mansion, but the home was abandoned and eventually put up for auction in a sheriff ’s sale in the early 1950s. Dale and Grace Henderson who owned the old Norfolk-Angle mines company store building in Switchback, bought the Jones mansion for $15,000. Grace McDaniels later Henderson remarried after Dale Henderson’s death, and she and her husband Paul Haynes constantly worked on the home. Paul Haynes passed first, and after Grace’s death, her son, David Henderson and his wife, Jennette moved into the house. David and Jennette Henderson along with her mother, Martha E. Barber, were murdered in the home on February 14, 1998, by Stanford Tony Allen. The oldest daughter of Grace Haynes, Judy McDaniels put the home up for sale in the fall of 1998, and Keystone Mayor Billie Jean Cherry, chairperson of the board of the First National Bank of Keystone, bought the Jones Mansion for $160,000. Cherry was chairperson of the Keystone Bank on September 1, 1999, when it collapsed due to massive fraud. Judy McDaniels purchased the Jones mansion back from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and has restored much of the main building to its former grandeur for use as a bed and breakfast, and even converted the former gardener’s residence into a bunk house for ATV riders who travel the trails around McDowell County. The coal industry changed a great deal after Jones’ death. Within a year, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation gave coal miners the right to organize in a union, and by 1934, the coal miners at most of McDowell County’s mines were represented by the United Mine workers of America. Coal mining engineers combined the conveyor belt transport component of the Jones Coloader with the O’Toole Jeffrey OverCutting machine and the O’Toole cutting and loading machine to mechanize coal mining in McDowell County before the middle of the 20th Century, and super colliers transport coal from Lambert’s Point in Hampton Roads, Virginia, to ports in New England as well as to ports in many foreign countries. James Ellwood Jones had confidence in the coal and a commitment to coal miners and set the wheels in motion for the worldwide coal industries that continue today. — Contact Bill Archer at barcher@bdtonline.com

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By BILL ARCHER Bluefield Daily Telegraph PRINCETON — Few people in the history of Mercer County have had a more pivotal role in the developments of the county than Judge David Emmons Johnston. Johnston was born in Giles County, Va., on April 10, 1945, and as a teenager, went into service with the Confederate Army when he was only 16 years old. He served in General George Edward Pickett’s Virginia division. He wrote about his experiences during the war in his first book, “The Story of a Confederate Boy in the Civil War.” He is perhaps better known for his 500-page book titled, “A History of Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory.” After the war, Johnston studied to become a lawyer and in 1867, established his practice in Mercer County, where he also was elected in 1872 and served for several years as the county prosecuting attorney. In 1879, he was elected to the State Senate, and in 1881, he was elected circuit court judge — a position that he held until his election in 1888 to the first of two terms in the U.S. Congress — the first Democratic Party candidate elected to Congress from the region when it was a Republican-dominated area. Johnston lived in the home he built on East Main Street in Princeton, where he was living on Feb. 6, 1867, when he married Sarah Elizabeth Pearis. The family lived in Princeton until 1893, when he retired from the

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Johnston was born in Giles County, Va., on April 10, 1945, and as a teenager, went into service with the Confederate Army when he was only 16 years old. He served in General George Edward Pickett’s Virginia division. He wrote about his experiences during the war in his first book, “The Story of a Confederate Boy in the Civil War.” He is perhaps better known for his 500-page book titled, ‘A History of Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory.’ bench, opened a law office in Princeton and moved to a new residence on Ramsey Street in Bluefield that would later become home to the nursing school quarters of the Bluefield Sanitarium. While Johnston was living in Bluefield, his primary employment for the next 15 years was as a lawyer for the (then) Norfolk & Western Railway. However, he also became active in the area business community, serving as president of a bank in Bluefield, vice president of a bank in Princeton and president

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Henry C. Groseclose develops way to address industrial revolution By BILL ARCHER Bluefield Daily Telegraph ERES, Va. — Henry Casper Groseclose was born, in 1892, at a home in the heart of Bland County, Va., farm country — Ceres, a community named for the Roman goddess of agriculture and grain. A farmer, and a student, Groseclose looked out on 20th Century America and realized that many bright young people from the farms were being drawn into the cites to take advantage of the new jobs that came into existence as a result of the industrial revolution. In September 1925, when he was working as an assistant professor at Virginia Tech, Groseclose along with Edmund Magill and Harry Sanders came up with the idea for the Future Farmers of Virginia. Groseclose named the

organization and wrote its constitution and bylaws. Groseclose looked out on a world Groseclose that was evolving from agrarian to industrial. He knew that the young people who stayed at home to operate the family farms would also have to learn how to conduct public meetings and speak in public about important matters that the citizens may be facing. In Groseclose’s mind, the FFV would provide high school students with a basic understanding of parliamentary procedure, Robert’s Rules of Order as well as the farming procedures of Thomas

Jefferson and George Washington. The concept caught on statewide, and by 1928, the Future Farmers of America emerged as an organization. Groseclose earned the title of “Father of the FFA.” He served as executive secretary of the organization from 1928-1930, and treasurer from 1930-1941. At the time that Groseclose established the FFV, the organization was only open to male students, but those barriers have dissolved and all students now have an opportunity to benefit from the FFA experience. Groseclose died in 1950, but his widow, Marie Groseclose still lives in Ceres and still tells the story of how her late husband addressed a challenge faced by people living in rural areas. — Contact Bill Archer at barcher@bdtonline.com

of the Bluefield Telephone Company, an early company in the General Telephone company. In 1908, Johnston and his family moved from Mercer County to Portland, Ore., where he served as a banker and practiced law until his death on July 7, 1917. In 1970, his grandson, the late Richard Johnston “Dick” Wood, of Bluefield had a limited edition of the book reprinted. Wood was president of Pemco Corp., until his retirement. — Contact Bill Archer at barcher@bdtonline.com

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Mahood... Continued from 14 WVU’s arts programs. “I know that when we went up to visit him, we stayed at the Hotel Morgan, and that was a big deal for us.” The CAC remains as one of the most impressive structures on the Evansdale Campus in Morgantown, and continues to serve as a center for performing arts. The popular “Mountain Stage” program on Public Broadcasting Radio will be broadcast from the main theater in the CAC on Oct. 21, and the stage serves as a venue for a variety of programs throughout the year. “I just remember that dad had to be away a lot when they were working on it,” Boileau said. “He had a car wreck one time coming back home from Morgantown. I knew he got hurt, but I can’t remember how bad it was. I was young when he was doing all that work up there. I never really understood what he did.” Along with all of his work on public buildings, Mahood designed even more homes throughout the region including his masterpiece in stone, the Frank S. Easley ( now John and Becky Beckett) home at 1500 College Ave., in Bluefield (1919), the D.E. French (now Paul and Carol Cole) home at 2126 Reid Ave., in Bluefield (1919) as well as his own home at 2306 Bland Road (1915), now the residence of Edward J. McQuail III. Mahood also designed magnificent homes throughout the region including the L.R. Coulling (1934) and the R.C. Perry (1927) homes among several others in Tazewell, Va.; the W.M. Gillespie home at Witten’s Mill, Va., the Charles Houston and A.C. Hufford homes (both 1923) in Welch; the Donald Keesling home in Bramwell (1946); the Dr. J.E. McKenzie home (1935) and Joseph L. Smith home (1933) both in Beckley; the N.E. Santon home in Princeton (1940); the D.D. Moran home in Mullins, (1927); the Maude C. Price home in Bristol, Va., (1933); the A.E. Shumate home in Pearisburg, Va. (1926), just to mention a few. The senior Mahood was born on March 17, 1888 at Lynchburg, Va., the oldest child of Sallie Lee and John A. Mahood. He studied art and architecture at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. He returned to the United States and worked in Roanoke, Va., for a time, but in 1912, he took on the project of redesigning the 6-story Law and Commerce Building, located on the corner of Federal and between Commerce and Raleigh streets in Bluefield. The Law & Commerce Building now serves as headquarters for Community Action South East (CASE) West Virginia. In 1912, Bluefield was on the verge of becoming a boom town, driven by the burgeoning coal industry. In 1909, Pocahontas Fuel had landed the contract to supply all of the coal to power the steam shovels working to

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Mahood’s Bluefield... Famed architect Alexander Blount Mahood created an office in the penthouse of the Law & Commerce Building (near the center of the photograph here) on Federal Street, and from that vantage point, watched the iconic West Virginian Hotel and other buildings of the Bluefield skyline reach for the heavens. build the Panama Canal, and the U.S. Navy would soon be relying exclusively on “Smokeless” Pocahontas No. 3 coal to power warships as Europe was preparing to plunge head-long into World War I. As part of his redesign plan for the Law & Commerce Building, Mahood added a 7th floor penthouse on the clear-story roof of the building to serve as his architectural business offices. From that vantage point, he could personally orchestrate the growth of the historic downtown, as well as provide a building filled with potential coalfield clients with an avant-garde setting to contemplate the mod-

ernistic designs he was presenting to them. “As a child, when I would come up to visit Paw Paw in the studio, he would stop what he was doing and make a fuss over me like any grandpa,” Boileau said. “I remember being more interested in the secretary. She had a Dictaphone and other modern things in her office. The outer office also had models of whatever major project they were working on at the time.” Mahood’s coalfield clients gave him the opportunity to design the majority of the buildings that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Page Coal and Coke Company Store in Pageton,

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wife’s hometown. In 2009, the Henry Hotel was acquired by the Martinsville Redevelopment authority with a plan to transform the structure into the heart of the downtown’s revitalization project. Other coalfield structures followed the Page Coal structure on the Register including the Pocahontas Fuel Company Store in Switchback (1917) that was recently razed as well as the Pocahontas Fuel Company Store buildings in Jenkinjones (also 1917). The Peerless Coal Company Store in Vivian (1921) and the Itmann Company Store/Office (1923-‘25) were also placed on the register. The Easley House built in 1919, was placed on the National Register in 1992, and the Mercer County Courthouse built in 1930-‘31, was added to the list in 1980. In addition to Alex Mahood Jr., the Mahoods — Alex Sr., and Kathleen — had two other children, Dr. John “Jack” Mahood and Belva K. (Mahood) Hicks. After Mahood’s death on Dec. 25, 1970, Alex B. Mahood Jr., kept the penthouse office open and operated his business there until his death. The senior Alex Mahood designed the campus of the former Parkersburg Community College — now WVU Parkersburg — as well as structures as diverse as the Bluefield Sanitarium, the old Bluefield City Hall, now the Bluefield Arts Center, the Women’s Dormitory at WVU, the U.S. Steel Building in Gary, W.V., the Skyway Drivein Theater in Brushfork, the Guyan Theater in Logan and many more. As he was transforming the former Princeton Post Office on Mercer Street into the Princeton Public Library, local architect Todd Boggess, of the well-known ET Boggess firm, remarked about how much he enjoyed bringing Mahood’s original design back to life after years of changes that had altered the impact that was there in the original design. While Mahood’s architectural impact is most evident in Bluefield, he left a lasting legacy of exciting architectural designs in a much broader and include the old Hemphill School building, the Old Ben Coal Corp., Church at Glen Rogers, the First Presbyterian Church in Welch, the Prichard School in Ona — the list continues to grow. — Contact Bill Archer at barcher@bdtonline.com

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Nash... Continued from 13 interview, Nash said that he kept in touch with his hometown through the alumni publication from Bluefield College and from national weather stories about the on-going Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce weather-related promotion of serving free lemonade on days when the local temperature exceeds 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Nash was a rising freshman in Beaver High School in the fall of 1941 when Bluefield first served lemonade, but the

BSC... Continued from 12 and proud of who they were. Like any African American child of the times, discrimination due to race was a constant, but she also saw examples of greatness in black people who overcame the prevailing attitudes of the time, and excelled in spite of the barriers they may have encountered. In modern terms, Garrison would have been considered a “non-traditional student,” but she had already learned a lot about life by growing up in an isolated and segregated coal mining community. She worked, taught, studied at Ohio University and West Virginia State College, before graduating from BSC. She was 49 years old when she received her undergraduate degree. “The class of ‘39 can boast of members outstanding in all of the extra-curricula activities on

Shott... Continued from 10 loss caused the state’s former 4th and 5th congressional districts to merge. In 1942, Hugh I. Shott Sr., won an election to a short term caused by the resignation of popular U.S. Senator Matthew M. Neely, who resigned his U.S. Senate seat to run for governor. While he won the short term special election, he served less than two months in office, losing to U.S. Senator W. Chapman Revercomb, the last Republican from West Virginia to be elected to a full term in the U.S. Senate.

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the coal would be mined from Kentucky. So, global warming, carbon dioxide, etc. Well, coal from Appalachia, burned in China, will introduce EXACTLY the same quantum of carbon dioxide as coal mined nearby in China.” Nash, now 84, lives with his wife, Alicia, in their home in Princeton Junction, N.J. He maintains an office at Princeton University where he continues working. He served as the keynote speaker at the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce annual dinner on May 31, 2002. — Contact Bill Archer at barcher@bdtonline.com

chamber was forced to suspend the promotion from 1942 through 1945, due to sugar rationing during World War II. During his junior and senior years in high school, Nash completed his first 18 credit

hours of college education at Bluefield College. Nash graduated from BHS in 1945, and went to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he earned both his undergraduate

degree and masters degree in mathematics before going to Princeton where his doctoral theses on game theory that includes the “Nash Equilibrium,” provided insight and clarity into zero-sum

games. The Nash Equilibrium provides a mathematical rationale that is universally applicable to businesses when they are competing for entities of previously unknown value. “What I see as a great value in economics-oriented government management is PATIENCE,” Nash wrote in his email response. “There will (of course) always be calls for ‘Stimulus now!!’ so, politically, ideal patience may be impossible. “I just read about a huge order from China, over a few years, for Appalachian coal,” Nash wrote. “It was very big, but, strictly speaking, I think

campus,” according to the “History” of the class included in “The Bluefieldian.” “We have had those who have made names for themselves in sports, music, forensics, writing, activities off the campus and every phase of collegiate life. Although the class membership has dwindled considerably, we still try to stick to our motto which is: ‘Forward Ho;’ although, at times, circumstances have tempted us otherwise,” according to the class history. “We feel that we could not make Mother Bluefield proud of her sons and daughters unless we tried to live our four years here with only her interest in our minds. Knowing that if we help her, we would be helped also.” Garrison was married at the time, and was a soror in the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Other than that, she didn’t appear to be active in any other college activities. Still, she was aware that black students —

like their white peers — needed role models to aspire to become. Although the number of McDowell County high school students still living who attended the all-black schools in the county from the 1930s and early 1940s is becoming few in number, students including Sam Johnson who graduated from Gary District High School in 1941, recalled that the great Olympian, Jesse Owens, visited the school as well as Arctic explorer, Matthew Henson who were part of the “Black Artists’ Series,” that Garrison organized. Owens, the track & field great from Ohio State University, showed Adolph Hitler that the so-called “Master Race,” had a little work to do in order to best him. Owens received an incredible four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics, but found many doors remained closed to him when he returned home. Still, he toured and carried an encouraging message to stu-

dents. Henson was with Admiral Robert Peary on his well-publicized trip to the North Pole in 1909. Although Henson tromped across the site of the pole in advance of its formal discovery, it was Peary whose name appears in the histories of the incredible feat. In 1912, when Henson was searching for a way to earn something for his troubles, he published the book, “A Negro Explorer at the North Pole,” and traveled around, speaking to all who would listen. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt presented Henson a silver medal recognizing his accomplishment in 1944. He died in 1955. After Garrison’s class graduated from BSC, Dodd took a leave of absence from BSC to participate in an advanced art program at Yale University, where he stayed from the fall of 1939 until 1942 — a period of time when he received numerous awards for his artistry. But

like many Americans, 1942 was a defining moment. Dodd was drafted into the U.S. Army, was sent to the South Pacific, and while there, contracted a disease that led to his honorable discharge from the military in 1945. Following a period of convalescence, he returned to Bluefield State, taught classes but collapsed and died on Nov. 30, 1946 after returning home from school. Dr. John A Cuthbert included one of Dodd’s works in his “Early Art and Artists of West Virginia” and the Parkersburg Art Center hosted a display of several of his works in 1990. While she was a teacher first, Garrison was also a prominent civil rights activist, although much of what she accomplished might have remained undiscovered if it were not for an oral history she recorded at Marshall University in 1968, that was archived with little fanfare until Lynda Ann Ewen

happened upon the oral history and worked with retired MU History Professor, Ancella R. Bickley to produce the book titled, “Memphis Tennessee Garrison — The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman.” Garrison started the Parent Teachers Association at the school where she taught and organized the first NAACP Branches in southern West Virginia. The annual State NAACP luncheon is named in Garrison’s honor. She became vice president of the NAACP in 1963, and remained in that position until 1966. She was a personal friend of James Weldon Johnson, W. E. B. DuBois, Jackie Robinson and Clarence Darrow, and received many honors during her life including the 1988 “Governor’s the Dream Award,” an award she received in the same year that she died at the age of 98. — Contact Bill Archer at barcher@bdtonline.com

Although the elder Shott only served in the U.S. Senate for 47 days, he was referred to as “Senator Shott” until his death. The elder Hugh Ike Shott died on Oct. 12, 1953, and his eldest son, Hugh I. Shott Jr., became editor/publisher of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph, a position he held until he sold the paper to Worrell on Jan. 1, 1985. His brother, Jim was active in business, helping to launch Paper Supply Co., (now Janpak) Bluefield Gas Company and other businesses, but the Shott brothers combined their efforts in the early 1950s to take the next step in broadcast media with the launch of WHIS-TV in

Sept. 26, 1955, Sadly, Jim Shott died in 1957. Three of his sons stepped up to help operate the family businesses, with John C. Shott serving as general manager of the television station, Scott Shott returning home to handle the family business’ legal matters, and Edward “Ned” Shott, returning to serve as general manager of the newspaper and radio interests. The Shotts expanded their media business in 1968, by acquiring WBTW-TV, a television station in Florence, S.C., but an FCC Divestiture Order in April 1975, required the family to divest itself of one of its media outlets in Bluefield since it

owned the daily newspaper, WHIS-TV, as well as WHIS-AM radio and WHAJ-FM radio. The family decided to sell the TV station, and in 1979, the Shotts sold WHIS-TV to Quincy Newspapers, who changed the call letters to WVVA-TV. A year later in 1980, the Shott family bought KIMT-TV in Mason City, Iowa, but sold that station in 1984 when they sold WBTW-TV. H.I. Shott Jr., remained involved in his various business activities and even held a seat on the board of General Telephone Company for a while. He continued his brother Jim’s tradition of the Shott Yuletide Breakfast tradition as well as the Community

Christmas Tree tradition. He attended nine Republican conventions, served on the WVU board of governors from 1924’32, was an avid golfer, helped establish Fincastle Country Club and was instrumental in establishing the Daily Telegraph Area Golf Tournament that is now called the Pocahontas Men’s Amateur Golf Tournament — an event that includes today. Shott was inducted posthumously into the West Virginia Newspaper Hall of Fame on Aug. 19, 1989. Hugh Ike Shott Jr., married Jane (McDermott) Shott, a Morgantown native, in 1924. In later years, they wintered in

Hawaii and lived at a residence on Bland Road that they called Lake Place. The first gift that Shott made through the foundation that bears his name was a $1 million gift to WVU to establish the Jane McDermott Shott Chair in Ophthalmology. Shott also made a $100,000 grant to Dr. J. Elliott Blaydes for his work in treating and preventing eye diseases and a $1 million grant to Bluefield College to build the new student center called Shott Hall. He died on March 11, 1986 at age 85, and Mrs. Jane Shott died five months later on Aug. 19, 1986. She was also 85. — Contact Bill Archer at barcher@bdtonline.com

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land west of the Alleghenies. Captain Welch was among Hotchkiss’ surveying staff. Welch was a Doddridge County native who became a civil engineer and moved to Kanawha County after completing his education. He served in the Confederate Army during the

Civil War. Along with serving as an assistant quartermaster in the 13th Battalion, Virginia Light Infantry, Welch was part of an all-volunteer force that successfully defended Richmond, Va., from a raid led by Union General J.A. Dahlgren in 1864. Welch had served in the Virginia General

Assembly, representing Kanawha County at a time when the General Assembly did not recognize West Virginia. After the war, Hotchkiss was active in Confederate veterans affairs. In 1873, when Hotchkiss sent Welch to Abbs Valley, Va., to visit the Jordan Nelson’s farm, he learned more about the extent of the Pocahontas No. 3 coal seam. Welch gathered samples of coal from the No. 3 seam, as well as other metallurgical coal seams in the region. There are about 12 Pocahontas coal seams. The No. 3 seam is the thickest and most vast of the Pocahontas coals, but the No. 4 and No. 5 seams can be mined in some areas. By the time Hotchkiss analyzed the seams back in Staunton, he was able to make some broad generalizations about the overall quality of low-sulphur, low-ash, low-moisture and high-BTU coal. From January 1880 to June 1885, Hotchkiss published a newspaper out of Staunton called: “The Virginias: A Mining, Industrial and Scientific Journal.” The earliest editions of the sometimes quarterly and sometimes monthly publication provide detailed information along with sketches and maps of the newly-opened C&O Railway. Some editions also include detailed chemical analysis of the coal mined in the New River coalfields as well as laboratory

acquired a formidable 24 very large tracts of unsettled, mostly mountainous lands in what was then western Virginia and Virginia’s Kentucky Military District. His holdings extended as far west as the Green River in Kentucky and as far north as the Tygart River basin in (now) Marion County, W.Va. In order to raise capital to cover the foreign debt, Hamilton made the initial public offering of Treasury bonds on July 4, 1791, that touched off a six-week period of financial speculation. Eventually Hamilton regained control of that frenzy by purchasing a tidy sum of public debt that proved to be a drop in a huge bucket. The bucket would overflow in 1792, but the spillage didn’t quench the thirst of land speculators including Morris. By the latter part of the decade, he owned almost the entire western part of New York state, 2 million acres in Georgia, 1 million acres in Pennsylvania and The great financier — Robert Morris — managed to keep his creditors at bay for a while by selling off furniture, silver, rugs

and household items to satisfy his debts, but by February 1798, he had sold off everything and had no more wood or coal to heat his home, and as a result, was carted off to a Philadelphia debtor’s prison where he would remain for three years. Although he owned the most prolific coal deposit in the world, Morris was unable to keep his family warm during the winter of 1797-’98. During the 10 years that laborers worked to transform Pierre L’Enfant’s dream of the ideal capitol city into what is now Washington, D.C., Morris offered his home on Market Street in Philadelphia near Independence Hall where the Liberty Bell rang out American independence, to Washington to serve as the president’s first home until the White House on the Potomac River could be completed. “It is, I believe, the best single house in the city,” Houser wrote in his 2010 article about Morris. While L’Enfant did a great job laying out the U.S. capitol working with public funds, he was less well-focused when he

built the Morris mansion on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. Cost over-rides on his mansion project combined with a series of national investment panics fueled by the unbridled investments into the previously unoccupied lands of the American interior pushed Morris over the edge. Washington visited his friend in prison, and because of his declining health, Washington sought Morris’s release from prison in 1801. Morris died on May 7, 1806, without ever realizing the potential of the personal estate that he assembled but failed to develop. Michael Bouvier, the grandfather of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, would be the first to try to develop Morris’ coalfield holdings in 1834, but he was likely more interested in the virgin hardwood stands in the McDowell County mountains. A distant nephew, William McClellan Ritter, would be the first family member to try to develop the region’s timber resources. “Uncle Mac” Ritter built a Lumber Company based in

Continued from 4 Virginia a rich pre-war state was gone. Defeated veterans like Hotchkiss who had professional training could return to the education field with less money, but most Confederate veterans didn’t have the same option. American capitalists like Collis P. Huntington who profited from the nation’s westward expansion, railroad construction and even the California Gold Rush were able to invest heavily in completing a railroad into the rich timber and mineral-laden mountains of south-central West Virginia. Huntington got in on the railroad into West Virginia’s New River coalfields soon after the end of the Civil War, and in 1871, started building the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway across the Allegheny Mountain Range. Hotchkiss didn’t have the capital resources to compete with Huntington, but the man behind Stonewall Jackson’s success in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign had the ability to map out a future that would eventually open the richest metallurgical coalfield on the planet. Hotchkiss quit his teaching job, established a Staunton, Va., based engineering and survey firm and hired some staff who were familiar with the lay of the

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Morris... Continued from 3 planters and northern capitalists. Morris lamented the public, personal attacks that he was assailed with after orchestrating the temporary move of the seat of government to Philadelphia. “They lay all the blame of this measure on me, and abuse me most unmercifully,” Morris wrote to his wife about the New York outrage. “However, I don’t mind all they can do, and if I carry the point, I will, like a god Christian, forgive them all.” Morris was a devout Episcopalian. Morris set the stage for a solid financial future, but Hamilton — the ten dollar bill dude — was still saddled with a lot of foreign debt from the war and the payment came due in the early 1790s. Morris had been cherrypicking properties with investment potential as early as 1787 when he acquired the 480,000acre Wilson Cary Nicholas tract that included all of what is now McDowell County. In all, he

reports from the Pocahontas and other coal seams of the Flat Top region. With such a detailed road map, there’s no doubt that partners in the Philadelphia, Pa., banking house of E.W. Clark & Company would have reviewed Hotchkiss’ data as well as Welch’s 1873 survey before investing $8.6 million to acquire the bankrupt Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railway in 1881. In time, Hotchkiss’ scientific publication included articles about international developments in commercial steel production to go along with discoveries in coal mining. “The Virginias,” contains a wealth of information concerning the March 13, 1884 explosion of the East Mine in Pocahontas, that killed 114 coal miners, as well as information about rescue and recovery efforts. Thomas B. Childress used the account of the explosion in Hotchkiss’ newspaper to develop his narrative about the explosion that students each year during the memorial service honoring the coal miners who died in the explosion. That rescue effort put two unlikely individuals together — Hotchkiss who was reporting on the tragedy for “The Virginias,” and Samuel A. Crozer, a Philadelphia, Pa., area clothing manufacturer who had invested in the coal and iron ore business

in Roanoke, Va. Crozer brought equipment to the East Mine site to help out in extinguishing the fire caused by the explosion, and to aid in the recovery of the miners who died in the explosion. A short time after the tragic 1884 explosion, Welch and several other surveyors began the process of acquiring several tracts of land starting from near the headwaters of Elkhorn Creek at Maybeury to Powhatan for development. In 1887, the (then) Northfork & Western Railway started building a tunnel through Coaldale Mountain from Mercer County into McDowell County and Samuel A. Crozer sent John J. Lincoln to orchestrate the construction of mining operations, housing and store buildings to support the Crozer Coal & Coke Company based in Elkhorn. Hotchkiss’ work to create an industrial-based economy to replace Virginia’s agrarian economy is far less well-known than his work as a Civil War era mapmaker, but the impact on both West Virginia and Virginia continues to have implications in the U.S. and the world. Pocahontas No. 3 coal powered the steam shovels that built the Panama Canal, fueled the U.S. steam ships that fought in World War I, and fueled the steel-making industry that built the tanks and ships that powered the allies to victory in World War II.

Welch that would merge with Georgia-Pacific to form one of the world’s biggest lumber businesses. Perhaps the most touching legacy of Morris’ coalfield holdings came as a result of his grandson’s efforts. In 1899, Samuel Fisher Morris, his wife, Mattie Fitzhugh Morris, along with 7 others were instrumental in erecting Grace Episcopal Church in Eckman. Although that church no longer stands, the interior furnishings were moved to Keystone when the church was moved to that location. But that’s not the end of the story. A recent project by the National Park Service aimed at recreating the Morris mansion on Market Street to tell the story of the 10-year period when the nation’s business was directed from the “City of Brotherly Love,” encountered opposition from African American scholars who question the celebration of slave owners like Washington — the dollar bill dude — and yes, even Morris. Washington and Jefferson,

the two most famous of the socalled founding fathers have been viewed in recent years with scholars who include details about their slave-owning past. Houser’s article includes several interviews from people who were upset about the project. Houser quoted Charles Blockson, an expert on African American history, as calling the Philadelphia president’s home a “house of bondage” and adding that “there should be a memorial to those enslaved Africans.” Houser quotes Rex Crawley, Ph.D., assistant dean of the Robert Morris School of Communications as saying: “Robert Morris is not my hero. Hero (an escaped slave owned by Morris) is my hero.” Houser also pointed out that while Morris’s name is best known through the University, he “has no real connection” and his name was selected to serve as the name of the former Pittsburgh School of Accountancy by a former school president in 1935. — Contact Bill Archer at barcher@bdtonline.com

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Realtor Licensed in WV/VA

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(304) 320-3226

(304) 487-1220

(304) 920-6591

(304) 920-4317

(304) 887-7541

(304) 323-2491

8 Section l Sunday, September 30, 2012 2012

PANTILI SUZUKI WV’S #1 SUZUKI DEALER

#1 DEALER IN THE U.S.

ON CUSTOMER SATISFACTION COME SEE WHAT MAKES US #1 ++ 0% For 72 Months On Any New 2012 Suzuki 13.98 Per $1,000 Financed on Approved Credit Offer Expires 10/2/12

NEW 2012 Suzuki SX4 Sportback

NEW 2012 Suzuki Grand Vitara 4x4

NEW 2012 Suzuki Grand Vitara

NEW 2012 Suzuki SX4 Crossover TVP

#S1727

#S1904

#S1744

#S1782

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• Automatic • Chrome Wheels & Extra Accessories • Ground Effects w/ Fog Lights • Tinted Windows • All Power! • Sharp Sharp Sharp

Navigation Tinted Windows PW, PL, CD, A/C, Keyless Entry Window Visors & Bug Shield

NEW 2012 Suzuki SX4 CROSSOVER

$289 PER MONTH

NEW 2012 Suzuki KIZASHI SE

NEW 2012 Suzuki EQUATOR 4x4

$237 PER MONTH

MSRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,169 Suzuki Rebate....................................-$1,000 Owner Loyalty....................................-$1,000 Cash or Trade Equity..........................-$1,500 Pantili Additional Discount....................-$170 Your Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,499

MSRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24,504 Suzuki Rebate....................................-$1,500 Owner Loyalty.......................................-$500 Cash or Trade Equity..........................-$1,500 Pantili Additional Discount.................-$1,505 Your Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,499

$229 PER MONTH

MSRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20,499 Suzuki Rebate....................................-$1,500 Owner Loyalty.......................................-$500 Cash or Trade Equity..........................-$1,500 Pantili Additional Discount.................-$1,000 Your Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,999

MSRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,969 Suzuki Rebate....................................-$1,000 Owner Loyalty....................................-$1,000 Cash or Trade Equity..........................-$1,500 Pantili Additional Discount....................-$970 Your Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,499

Navigation Bluetooth Tow’s 3000 Pounds White Pearl Paint Ladder Frame

All Wheel Drive Heated Seats Navigation With Bluetooth Alum. Wheels Fog Lights

#S1821

#S1853

#S1860

#S1902

• Crew Cab- Seats 5 • Tow’s 6000 lbs • Spray In Bed-Liner w/ Tie Down System • Window Visors

All Wheel Drive A lum. Wheels Bug Shield, Window Visors Quicksilver Premium Metallic Paint • PW, PL, Keyless Entry • A/C, CD

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MSRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $29,789 Suzuki Rebate....................................-$2,000 Owner Loyalty.......................................-$500 Cash or Trade Equity..........................-$1,500 Pantili Additional Discount.................-$1,590 Your Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24,199

$359 PER MONTH

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All Wheel Drive 18” Alum. Wheels 5 Star Crash Test USB Port Deep Blue Metallic Paint

MSRP.......................................$18,019 Suzuki Rebate.....................................-$1,000 Owner Loyalty.....................................-$1,000 Cash or Trade Equity...........................-$1,500 Pantili Additional Discount................. -$1,120 Your Price.................................$13,399

MSRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $25,094 Suzuki Rebate....................................-$1,500 Owner Loyalty....................................-$1,000 Cash or Trade Equity..........................-$1,500 Pantili Additional Discount.................-$1,195 Your Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,899

Monday -Friday 9-7; Saturday 9-6; Sunday 1-5 OR $199 PER MONTH $295 PER MONTH OR

$229 PER MONTH NEW 2012 Suzuki EQUATOR EXTENDED CAB

Automatic Alum. Wheels PW, PL, CD, Cruise Premium Package

MSRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $23,924 Suzuki Rebate....................................-$2,000 Owner Loyalty.......................................-$500 Cash or Trade Equity..........................-$1,500 Pantili Additional Discount.................-$1,225 Your Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $18,699

$277 PER MONTH

Active Military, College Grad, and Suzuki Owner receive $500 Add’l Rebate! www.pantilisuzuki.com Monday-Friday 9-7; Saturday 9-6; Sunday 1-5

PANTILI SUZUKI 690 Oakvale Rd., Princeton

304-431-2886 Call Toll Free

877-422-4389

I-77 To Princeton Exit 9 Look For The Big Red S * *#1 Dealer Based On Current 2012 ASMC Retail Sales * Based On May 2012 Business Scorecard. Dealer Retains All Incentives. $1,500 Cash Down Or Equity In Trade In. Price Does Not Include Tax, Tittle, License Or Any Fees. Only one at this price, must be exact stock number. $14.84 per $1,000 financed. 75 months @ 3.44% on approved credit. Offers expire 10/2/12. Subject To Prior Sale. Highway MPG Listed, Info Off Of Suzuki Window Label. Photos For Illustration Purposes Only. Color And Style May Vary.