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The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-07-22

S--,an .-4N -. T.
Henry Boyd. VIM. Byrd. of Charles.
ton. and John Simmons, OF Longacre,
were guests OF Erma Hardy. Sunday.
Miss Rosa Hardy left Sunday to
spend week with Misses Blanche
Booker and Frances 4 James. of
Hugheston. -, 5~,,.
Miss Ophelia Morgan, Of Pocahon-
tas. .enroute to Okla. spent few
days In our town visiting friends. ~
Miss Sadie Ward was visiting
friends at Eagle, Sunday. -. :,
Mrs. Josephine Hardy and idaugh-
ter Rosa made business trip to Mt.
Carbon, Friday. =, r..
A large crowd from here attended
the annual sermon Of the Odd Fellows
at Boomer Sunday" .s~ 8, .. :...'&t
The B. Y. p. u. gave an entertain.
ment at the Odd Fellows Hall, Mon.
DIAL evening. ,A....-.' -.
Rev. D. c.. Hunter, OF Sylvia, ia
here the guest Of DR.. B. F.. White.
l., n. Brown, Of Institute, Is here to
begin work on a $4,000 house for
Mayor Davis.
Mrs. J. J. Noble is out after several
weeks illness. 80 ......... E. ..,, -
Dr. B. F. White and Rev. D. c.
Hunter were business callers to Cabin
Creek, Monday. =.
Mrs. Richard Tyler spent Monday
at OnNwood the guest of, Mrs. Joe
Guthrie *&hJ&EIfli,At. l.. ~: '.
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RED SULPHUR SPRING.

Revs>J.l M. Roam preached a good
sermon, Sunday.
Mrs. Fannie Dickerson was the
guest of MRS. Ollie Bowlinger, Sun,
day at dinner.
Miss Zula Johnson has returned
home.
Miss Annie Walker is reported i'll
at this writing.
Ernest Walker is not able to be out
this week.
Mrs, Ollie Bowlinger was the guest
of Mrs. W. K. Johnson at lunch Sun
day evening, -, -,
Robert Walker was here visiting his
grandparents, Friday night.
Mrs. Emeline Sims, who was sick
last week, Is able to be out.
There was a good crowd at the
Methodist Church Sunday.
Miss Pearl Walker entertained at
luncheon Edward White Sunday
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A number, attended the sermon at |

A number attended the sermon at
Boomer Sunday.
Little Mary, the six-months-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Clark, died Thursday.
Miss Ellen Barnes, of Boomer, was
visiting friends Saturday.
Mrs. Georgia Flood, Of Charleston.
Is visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. Ma
mile Madison.
John Harris, of Boomer, was visit
ing Miss Stella Cosby, Sunday.
Mrs. Agnes tFerson,, of Black Hawk.
IS visiting her daughter, Mrs. Marie
Madison. >
William Skanks. of Boomer, was
visiting Miss Matte Cosby, Sunday.
Mr.. William Brewer, died suddenly
in the mines; Friday.
Mrs, Mary Vaughn, who attended
the funeral of her uncle, returned
home Monday.
John Morton; of Ohio, is visiting his
brother ,JasRer4sM Morton.
Rev l. V. Bryant passed through
here Sunday enraute to Boomer.
where he preached two sermons.
w. n. Banner, of Boomer, was visit
Ing friends here, Saturday.
Tom Flood, of Black Hawk, is visit
ing his sister, Mrs. Madison, .
Miss Emma Cosby, of, Montgomery.
was visiting her mother, Mrs. Eliza
Cosby.
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FAIRMONT.

MRS. Chas. Fraction entertained at
d'nner Wednesday Of last week Mrs
Jas. Wilkes and daughter. Miss Ron.
ian smith, of Clarksburg, and Mrs
f. II. Jackson and daughter Wisa
lena. '"'''
mrs Arch Meade entertained At
supper Wednesday evening, NJ,
James Wilkes, Mrs. Ed. Ho,mos
Misses Beulab Smith and Anna Daw'
son. law
mr' al Mrs. F. II. Jackson and Mrs
Chas. Fraction left Monday mornino
Lor Martinsburg, to attend the district
Looge OF the I. o. o. r. and n ~
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MONTGOM ERY.


II. II, RaileY was a business visitor
10 Charleston Saturday.
Miss Nellie M. Lewis has as her
guest Miss M. J. Holland, Of Roanoke,
Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H., Railey enter
tanned at dinner Wednesday cornpli.
mentary to John Il. Hayes of Char.
lottesyifie, Va +. ..a%'"
Hilton Woody of BlueAeld, is here
visiting his wife. .....
Miss Ethel Brown entertained at
dinner, Monday, Mics Nellie Lewis
and Miss Nj, J..HoiEatid. -
Mr.. aHgf Mrs. Samfe1 Buster enter.
tanned Thursday evening, .complihien.
tassry ,tol John L. Hayes, OF Charlotte
Iyiilys G. y. 3sss.,.,
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GUYANDOTTE

Mrs, Martha Edwards, who has been
SICK at the residkepoe of her daughter,
went home this week much improved.
Mr. and Mrs. Peasants and Grant
Spencer attended the basket meeting
at Burlington, Sunday. -.
Misses Hattie and Allie Hicks, of
Barboursyille, attended the teachers
examination here last week.
The Ladies' of the Second Baptist
Church gave lawn fete Saturday eve
ming for the church.
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HUNTINGTON.

Prince Hozannah, native African.
lecturcd at the A. M. E. church, Mon
day evening, and at 18th Street Bap-
list church, Tuesday evening. Both
lectures were delivered to fair-sized
audiences
William Mills, who has been attend
Ing Howard University taking a
course: in dentistry, is spending a few
weeks with his parents here
Masters Carl and Leroy Barnett re-
turned to their home, at Columbus,
Ohio, after spending ten days with
their grandma Barnett, and other rel
atives
The Rosebuds, the Juvenile DEPART
ment OF the st. Lukes, gave a picnic
Friday which was we'll attended and
greatly enjoyed by the little ones.
Rev. [. V. Bryant was chosen as
messenger from the First Baptist
church to Mt. Olivet Association
winch convenes at Cedar Grove.
Ihe little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
WIN. mead was painfully but. not SER
lously scalded about the face, Sunday,
by the oFerturning of teakettle.
fro1. Plckens, professor of lam
euages in Talladega College, Talleda-
ga Alabama, and who carried the
honor man oratorical contest at Har-
Vard about four years ago, will adj
dress the Y. M. G.. A. next Sunday
afternoon, this being the last meeting
until the heated season is over.
MISS Clara Stewart, who took tbe
uniform examination here last week
returned to her home in Circ1evi11n
Ohio, Sunday.
T., u. tWoodson, returned Saturday
from business trip to washington
D. c.
quite number of friends of Miss
Moran Dickinson rendered her q s,r-
prise Monday evening in celebration
VI her birthday anniversary. After an
evening spent in music and CONVEX
saeloni% Miss Norah was presented
WIN beautiful silk parasoI, the gift
OF those who surprised her. Doll.
clous refreshments were served and
all repaired to their homes hammer
LOT the evening thus spent.
Miss Gertrude Mills spent last woo1,
with Ashland friends.
Miss Clara Stewart and Mrs A.
hughes visited the Orphans Home
Saturday.
a. number from here attended tbe
'dshet meeting at Burlington, Sunday.
hoot. Woodson has taken the con.
tract Tor brick dwelling to be erect
eu Oh oth avenue for Rev A. D. Lewis
rev l.. '. Bryant left this week
70 take a vacation Of several weeks
when was granted by the First Ran.
'lSt church at their last business
meeting, Rev. Meadows will fill the
pulpit during his absence.
q. W. Hughes returned Friday from
Martlnsburg where he attended the
urano Lodge meeting Of the Odd Eel.
lows = "
MRS &. H. Payne left for Gallino,,s
saturday, to visit her sister, Mrs. Fin.
ma Washington.
MISS Pearl Martin is the guest of
ner aunt, Mrs. Isham Scott.
MRS. I. r. Jenkins, who was i'll lost
week, Is much improved
Mrs. ,Jno. SCISSOR and children loft
Tor Gallipolis Monday for a visit 70
her sister, Mrs. Ida Conner.
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inson. who, met with a very painful
accident In the Mcdonald mines
. c. r.. Whiting and G. L. Jackson
wero electS4 to represent Eastern Star
No. 10 i'm the GNnd Lodge. .
Mra., Nell Vantook was elected to
represent Fanny L. Starks Court No.
8. ..t
. Mrs. Fanny Cary and Mrs. Mamie
Scott were visiting Mrs. Mary Jones
at Nuttal, Thusrday.
r. o. Cary was calling on friends In
Fayetteville. Saturday and Sunday.
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by the death Of her brother. She was
accompanied by her son, Walter.
Miss Rachel Brandon left last week
to attend the Ohio Grand Court and
visit at Columbus, Ohio.
Mrs. Grant Haines and children
left Wednesday for Columbus to visit
Airs. Mary Park, formerly of this
city. ~ e.
Mrs. Mary Gaskins, Of Cincinnati
O., arrived here Sunday evening,
where she will make her home with
her brother, Clarence Euell.
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ton, attended the burial Of Mrs

ton, attended the burial Of Mrs, ,
White.
Mrs. Emma Dickerson and son, OF
Bancroft, were business visitors here
Thursday evening.
Mrs. Julia Wallace and daughter,
Miss; Beatrice, of Charleston, are
spending few days here with rela-
tiEne.
81 Mrs. Bette &ichoIas had as her
guest, Sunday, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Scott and Mrs. Lizzie Freeman, OF
Eagle, s--. b.. --...------ -,
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Miss Mary Brown, Of Philadelphia,
Pa, was the guest Of her sister, Miss
Susan Brown, last week.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-12

CT wish to state that your Electric Belt has helped me wonderfully. When 1 procured the appliance I was suffer- ing from nervous and physical break down. Now l am stronger and health fer than most women of my age-I am nearly sixty. I have taken no medicine since l began the use of your Flee tric Belt and will never resort to the use of drugs for relief again..
 Daniel Mckenzie, Terminal, Cal, says:
 "Your Electric Belt has cured me of rheumatism, cramps and general debil- ity, and none of these troubles has re- turned since stopped treatment"
 c. r. Kezer, care Stanley Davis, R. D., No. l, Montecit, Cal, writes:
 ''I am well pleased with the work of your Electric Belt in curing me of chronic rheumatism and l shall always be glad to speak a good word for your appliance. !"
 Mrs. Laura Shearer, Crown Kin, A. T., writes:
 "'When I began the use of your cleo tric treatment, I was an invalid, unable to walk, and had no strength or energy UT, lllh ittib lCnIOitN my health and 1 am now as strong as most women. I have not taken dose of medicine since I began it's use, and the good your appliance has done me is worth more than one hundred times what it cost I am thankful to Provi dence for such blessing as your belt. ,
 P. J. Nealey, Terminal, Cal, writes
 ''I think Dr. Mclaughlin s Electric Belt is the most wonderful remedy or earth, for it cured me of drOpsy, eat arrh, rheumatism, and weakness whicl made life miserable for me. Doctor said l could not live, but your Flee tric Belt has restored me to robus health, and I give it credit for saving my life. I am 65 years old and work ing 14 hours a day and feel as stron. as young horse. !"
 ''I know that many people are skep | tical about testimonials, and perhap they have reason to be. Quacks an' medical fakers have fooled the publi so often with bogus letters of prals that it is hard to believe any. l guar antee that all testimonials I publish ar genuine and will pay $l,OO0 for hoo | that any of these were bought.
 The Danger in Drugs
 "Many people believe that when
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-12

i Electric Belt cures I don ask you to accept my word alone as evidence. have one or more cured patients in near ly every town on the map. Tn send you the names of those near you, and you can ask them about my treatment. ''
 Geo. Wyllie, grocer, 1888 Allison St., Los Angeles, says:
 ''I am pleased to state that your Flee tric Belt has proved effective in curing me of kidney and stomach trouble. I am better in every respect and feel many years younger than 1 did few months ago"
 w. Perry c. Lohr, 427 "E" St, San Bernardino, Cal, writes:
 'When l came to you I was wreck, suffering from nervous exhaustion and severe pains in my stomach and back. The latter were cured in two days, and shortly afterward every trace of nervous weakness was gone. I cannot praise Dr. Mclaughlin $ Electric Belt too much' ''
 Mrs. Anna Dahlin, Walker, A. T., says:
 'For the treatment of female com plaints your method of using electricity is certainly far ahead of the ordinary means used by doctors. Only too ire quently do physicians urge upon their patients dangerous operations which could be easily avoided by the use of your Electric Belt.
 ''I thank you for the help your treat ment has given me. -
 H. E. Englehardt, Congress, A. T., says:
 "A few weeks use of Dr. McLaugh- lin s Electric Belt has cured me of weak ness and general debility. I must say that your appliance is a boon to suffer ing humanity"
 Henry T. Parker, "Newberry s, 1" Riverside, Cal, says:
 "Dr. Mclaughlin Electric Belt cured me of indigestion, kidney and liver troubles after I had taken great quantities of drugs without being bene- fited. l take pleasure in recommending your treatment 10 all sufferers from sim; liar aIlments.'
 Mrs. T. F. Marquandt, Florence, A. T. writes as follows:
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-12

they give relief the disease is getting a firmer hold upon your system. As long as the cause remains the trouble stays there, and the only way to get rid of it is to assist nature. Nature wants strength, vitality, power tG fight dis. ease .anddrive it out, not pOisons, which only make it worse.
 "Electricity is nature s medicine and the proper use of it will restore you to perfect health.
 "Disease always results when you break nature s laws. If you continual ly overwork the stomach you will have stomach trouble. If you abuse any organ of your body you must suffer for it afterward Then the real cause of disease is due to the weakness or inac- tivity of some part of the body ma chinery. The reason any organ breaks down or fails to work properly is be- cause it has not enough vitality to withstand the strain when it is over taxed This vitality is nothing more than electricity, the motive power of the human body. Now, to cure the dis ease you must renew the vitality or electricity of the part that causes the trouble. When this is done the disease cannot exist, for the cause is removed.
 Electricity for Weak Nerves
 "A great many people suffer from ailments caused by weak, impoverished nerves and try to cure these troubles by dosing their stomach with drugs It is impossible. Drugs are poisons and poisons wreck the nerves. TJf won are weak, run down, nervous and unambitious, if you suffer frequent headaches and have spells of despond ency, it means that your nerves arc starving for new energy, electricity That s all they need, and nothing els' will restore them.
 "Dr. Mclaughlin $ Electric Bel stimulates the nerves and itals witi electric life while you sleep. It builds up strength and vitality in every weak ened organ and drives out pains anc aches.
 of these was any nourishment il
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-12

drugs, they might do some good, put you know there is not. Drugs are drugs, stimulants, narcotics. antidotes, polsons, not food. Electricity is nerve food nerve fe. It soaks into the nerves ana is taken up by them just as sponge ao- sorbs water. It nourishes and VltallZes the parts which drugs cannot reach.
 "Every dose of drugs that you put into your stomach weaKens vour nerves. Every tune you kill pain or an acne, by stupefying the nerves With polson, ons drugs, you are hurting them, and anyone can see. that in time, by steady dosing. your nervous system will be com pletely broken down.
 "You know that rheumatism IS caused by uric acid in the blood. There $ only one thing on earth that can get at this uric acid and drive it out of your svstem-that s electricity. It soaks into every vein and tissue of the body and drives the poisonous matter through the circulation, back to the kidneys which filter the blood of. all impurities
 "Dr. Mclaughlin s Electric Belt has cured some of the worst cases of rheuma tism after drugs and other methods had failed. When electricity goes Tn the body, rheumatism must go out. 1 "No pain can exist in a body charged with electric life. You can have nc | rheumatism, no weakness, no inactive parts, because the life generated by thl' grand force gives health and strength tc every organ.
 Men Made Young at Sixty
 '1There is no excuse for men being old at sixty, complaining ebout pains II the back, stiffness in the shoulders anc legs, that tired feeling nervousness indigestion, constipation and failure oi vitality. It should not be. Nature started you with constitution tha ought to have held you until you arr eighty, and you ought to feel like Do. now. But you have overdone som things and wasted you vitality. Yo' still have the constitution, but lack tn force. That is electricity, and Dr. Me Laughlin s Electric Belt will restore Ii
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-12

That the human body is electrical is ) Ionger a theory among scientists and
 to-date physicians. It is generally ,.aceded to be an absolute test.
 Prof. Edgar l.. Larkin, discussing the INV physiology, writes as follows.
 A man, brain and body, is a bat. rrv, and nerves correspond to wires. l, Is now certain that transmission of ,.r>atiOn over them is electric. Nerves lave been cut and galvanOmeter in- serted. The needle moved, proving that nerve power is electric. The human sy-rem is an electro-ehemie battery and raa life principle is electrical. The electric age is here. Drugs are hard lt on all sides,, and an intelligent phy- >r an tells me that he has almost en- trely stopped their use. The word health now means normal supply of electricity in the body, and the word disease means an insuthciency of that power."
 Dr.. Albert J. Atkins, the eminent ,aHfornia scientist, is still at work proving that every principle in what w. call our electrical science is mere y borrowed from the human body. We rropel railroad trains and automobiles hy means of electricity and think it is wonderful, but the human dynamo has always known how to propel itself and with skill and almost absolute safety in either walking or running and now Dr. Atkins shows us that the millionaire in his automobile and the hobo on foot are alike carried forward by electric tur.r
 With a mans stomach as the only electric battery DTs.. Albert J. Atkins and E. J. Lewis recently charged an ordinary telephone apparatus so that il conveyed sound" " says the San Francis co Examiner.
 The experiment was made in the presence of a number of medical men and scientists of national repute.
 ''It demonstrates that the-~human body is an electric battery.
 The experiment consisted in tRe swallowing of two platinum electrodes $. that they touched the walls of the living stomach.
 By means of copper wires the elee troIos were connected with telephone anl a micrOphone, sensitive instru mnut which greatly intensifes sound
 There was absolutely no mechani ca. or chemical battery in the circuit yet the moment the electrodes were swallowed sufficiently to touch tho wall, of the stomach human electricity flowed over the wires, rendering audi bIu sounds. The electric charge mea ,gru from ' to volts on a Westor gavanOmeter.
 Finds New Cure for Appendicitis
 Dr. Harvey Archbold of New Yorl city has discovered that appendicitis yp.Hs to the action of electricity pret ,y nearly as mists are dissipated by r0. sun. When a case of appendicitis comes into Dr. Archibold's office th' physician trains the powerfully pene tratng electric ray upon the sore spot Right away the swelling goes down anC
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-12

F. Myers, Box 235, Imperial, Cal, says: q was 5S years old when | be- gan the use of your Electric Belt, bIt now I am 5S years young.
 G. w. Beers, Long Beach, Cal, say "I do not know how l could have lived if I had not received relief from the rheumatism I suffered. I am 70 years of age, and Dr. Mclaughlin $ Electrlc Belt has made me feel as young as l did at 50.'
 "I,ook at the men who have used Dr. Mclaughlin $ Electric Belt and you will see men of force, men of power and con fdence, men who respect themselves and are respectd and admird by thelr fellow men.
 ''Wouldn t you like to he the man you were few years ago; to have the same ambitious spirit, the strength and vitality that you used to possess Wouldn t you like to be free from pains and aches, and to feel that you are the equal in strength of any man your age You can be.
 ''AlI that you lack is vitality-new life. You are like an engine without steam-you haven t the motive power to keep the machinery of your body worL- 1 ing properly Anything that will restore your fsteam will make 4 new man of you Drugs have been tried and have | failed. You know that; but Dr. Me Laughlin 's Electric Belt canrct fail; it is electricity, and electricity IS life. That is what you require, and n few weeks use of pr. Mclaughlin Flee tric Belt will give you health and hap piness
 Women Saved from Dangerous op erations
 GA large percentage of women'e all
 ments are so perplexing that operations
 are often recommended by physicians Such operations are not only dangerous
 but they sometimes cause serious com plications. Thousands of women are use iessly butehered who could be cured by my electric treatment in the privacy oi ! their own homes.
 CT find, in most casHs, tha. all sucl
 women need is new strength, more vital ity and nerve force. When the organ of the body are denied the vitality nee essary to perform their proper fune : tions, inactivity and disease result. Human Electricity
 " UT. McLdugniin EleCtIlC Doi1 ie news the activity of the weak organ and builds up vitality and strengtl where it is needed by infusing the bod, with a glowing current of electric life "A patient asked me the other da, why it is that faradic batteries am
 static machines do not give such result
 as Dr. Mclaughlin $ Electric Belt. 7 "That's because you can t stand tn l treatment for more than few minute at time. A nervous person can t en !, dure it that long on account of tn f shock. When man tries that metho 8 and finds that it does not help him h t naturally concludes that electricity e no good.
 7 "Now my system is different. Dr. Mo e laughlin 's Electric Belt pumps the cul u rent into the body for six or eight hour e every day or night, usually while tn ,. patient sleeps.
 ]. "The delicate nerves are not jarre
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-12

1h. oxcruciating pain stops short. And at'.r five or six days, "after five or six explorations" Dr. Archibald says, the cure 8 always complete.
 The new cure is nothing more or less than the process of bombarding the con go,ton about the appendix with cleo trlc rays and high frequency eur Ten, The treatment causes the blood to nurn to the central circulation sys- ten The congestion departs for the Nmna reason that the cause of the con geron has been removed-and that 's tar nnd of the appendicitis.
 Keeps old Age at Bay
 Electricity will restore the elastic ny and buoyancy of youth," declares a nous New York physician, writing to tOr Medical Times.'
 No matter how old man may bt nor aow young in years, whenever hl' arteries begin to harden, to resist tho Increased pressure of the blood, ther he Gntually is old. Then the electric ro'ment must be applied, and Hfte a trv times nature takes up the worl and arries it on, and the patient get young again-or at least he is able t' re>..t the encroachments of old age.
 ry electric stimulus the system I enorLzed, the blood made to circulate equally, the digestion aided, the vast
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-12
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drug gives relief it is doing good. That is a big mistake. Drugs can only give temporary relief and it is always at the expense of the nerves and vital organs.
 "If you have pain or an ailment of any kind, you don t want to fool yourself into the belief that you are gettin well when you are not. That's all you do when you dose yourself with drugs.
 ''It is easy enough to stop a pain by simplifying the nerves with poisonous dope, but the pain will return as soon as the stupor passes on. You can force weak organ to act by giving it powerful stimulant, but you can't re- store its natural strength that way, and it will be weaker than ever when the drug stops working
 f'That is why temporary relief is dangerous. Drugs do not remove the cause of disease, and every minute that