Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1928, Page 12

e : MOUNTAINEER SEEKS AID THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 19%. T 0 facilitles in the mountains. Like most | his lack of institutional training, he is |clothing that has been cut for them by |ley’s interest in the education of the|its students the toils and the uncer-|Y. M. C. A. Building, Philadelphia, will of the other youth of Buchanan County, ,an educated man. the older girls out of garments sent|youth of his mountains caused him to |tainties which at times are their lot. |cost $2,250,000. lt‘v‘n.ll housepmnflafl Sam Hurley had little or no schooling, | Eight years ago Hurley with other |from the cities so that those students|give up his business interests and de- couples, womien, Navy men-—in seven floors for their special us>—and civilian ‘The 26-story addition to Centrall men. — e~ FOR EDUGA TION AL PRI GR AN o e e e o L o e s b Lo | e e Self-Schooled Man, llliterate Until 28 Years Old, Founds Institute. Buchanan County, Virginia, Fight Against Ignorance Told by Hurley. Illiterate until he was 28 years old because of the disadvantages confront- ing him in his native heath, only to school himself in the evening after the labors of the day and become one of the county’'s most prominent and hon- ored ciuzens, Samuel R. Hurley of the mountains of Buchanan County, Va., is in Washington today seeking interest in death of his father when Sam was only 11 years old and so he grew to young manhood with only two months’ actual institutional training to his credit. He recalls that because he had no educa- tion and because his companions had none, neither he nor they had sufficient appreciation of their deficiency to want particularly to change their status. At 22 he married and with his bride set out in the mountains to earn their live~ lihood through hard toil at farming and timbering. The young couple purchased on credit —and without benefit of any written | contract—a tract of virgin timber land, a mule team and a wagon. When the timber was cut and marketed Hurley and his wife had realized a profit of $7,000, presenting considerable contrast to the $42 which he had saved from his earlier career of wagoning in the mountains. Begins Education. With their first turn of better for- |tune Mr. and Mrs. Hurley realized a | desire for schooling as an aid to ad- | vancement, and, purchasing primers, little town set high in the mountains, and erected the first buildings of the institution they called the Mountain Industrial Institute. Into that school they gathered the boys and girls of the countryside, taught them book knowl- edge as well as the practical subjects of heme economies and the trades. Today there are two brick buildings and a third under construction, and 175 boys and girls of the mountains striving to reduce filliteracy from its existing 33 per cent of the population. In the school the boys ana girls wear -WNWWWMBNHNWMM.— of the larger cities and on his visit to ‘Washington Mr. Hurley is asking that clothing be sent to his institution. Of specific organizations he is asking ai@ in_more concrete form, while of the public at large he is seeking sympathy for the work which he and his associe ates are attempting to promote. By virtue of his own efforts Mr. Hur- ley became a successful building con- tractor and for eight years he was clerk of the Circuit Court of Buchanan County and at one time he was Repub- lican candidate for Congress. Mr. Hur- Two-Day Specials Friday and Saturday . . . At Kafka’s . . . F STREET AT ELEVENTH Sale of Evening Frocks $25 & $29.50 Values Beautiful frocks in handsome quality materials and colors. Newest fashions specially and .colors . . . $ priced for fur-trimmed ‘and ‘tomorrow $ 50 plain.. A two- and Satur- . ® —— day special at... day at.... Sport and ¢ Velvet Coats Unusual Values A splendid choosing of smart Mr. Hurley is here primarily to con- g sport and velvet coats, in the de- fer with Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, di- | Mountain Industrial Institute, which he | 65 years of age, and together they learn- sired materials ecting head of the National Intelli- [founded eight years ego. ed the mysteries of the written word. gencegcrusade, with a view to mapping Mr. Hurley’s own life is the best il- | Sam Hurley continued his own reading a constructive program of education in | lustration of the need for educational 'on various subjects, and today, despite 8 constructive DR O e N e s e e — and aid for the Mountain Industrial In- stitute at Grundy. There he hopes to educate today’s youth of the mountains so that, without his own struggle for Jearning, they may enjoy the advan- tages which the natural resources of their country hold for them. |they set about to Iiearn reading and writing. Soon the abllity of Sam Hurley to read became known and his mountain friends and neigh- Buchanan County of Virginia and bors urged him to instruct them. When the neighboring counties of West Vir- | he was 32 he gathered into his house 62 ginia and Kentucky, centering in_the | of his friends, men ranging from 25 to CEFTS of Enduring Charm SAMUEL R. HURLEY. Our special “Lay-Aside” Service is provided for those who wish to avoid the usnal Christmas rush this season. By making gift selections now, you have the full advantages of an entirely complete stock, an extensive range of prices and the undivided attention of our com- petent, personally interested staff. We shall gladly hold for later de- livery any of the splendid gift- wares you may select. Friday and Saturday . . . A Sale of Smart, New Dresses $15 to 320 Values Satins, crepes, sports materials . . . combinations. Styles for all occasions ... in the popular colors. A featured two-day event at KAFKA’S F at 10th St. The Whole Thing in a Nutshell When all is said and done, it is the dollars and cents you save weekly that counts, when buying your table needs. Quality, prices and courtesy counts at all times in all our stores. Week End Special Granulated Sugar 5516 27 ¢ ‘Worth While Meat Specials Fresh Pork '.Shouldeu | Little Pig Porvl‘s)llgin“l}lmu Ib. Z3c |. Roasting Hams Ib. 27c Cenlér-tilll;. P30;|:: Chops 23 C . End-cut Pork Chops F STREET AT ELEVENTH Friday & Saturday While They Last! Ib. 29¢ You should serve apple sauce with roast pork. Apple Sauce, can, 1 zl/zc Fancy Milk-Fed Broiling Chickens, Ib.............. 45c Weighing 2 to 2'/; lb. Each Sensational Sale 200 New Felts All C Newest Colors Styles J.B. JONES & CO. 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