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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-03-15

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The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02
NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE

Pursuant to decree of the Cir
cult Court of Mingo County, West
Virginia, made and entered on the
18th day of September, 1911, in the
chancery cause of Mcconnell Bros VS..
R. L. Williamson, Trustee, ct ais,
therein pending, will, on Saturday,
the 18th day Of May, 1912, at the
front door of the court house of said
Mingo County. at 10000 o'clock, A.
M. of that day, offer for sale to the
highest biduer by way of public auc-
tion, the following described real
estate: Lots Is, 16 and II in Block
No. of the City of Williamson,
situate in the City of Williamson,
Mingo County, West Virginia being
the real estate upon which an un-
finished church building is now To-
Gated, known as the Williamson
Church of Christ.
Terms of sale: One third of pur-
chase price cash in hand on day OF
sale, and for the residue the pur-
chaser will be given credit of nine
and eighteen months, payable in
equal installments, evidenced by his
notes with good personal security;
the legal title Of said real Estate to
be retained as additional security
Given under my hand this 18th
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02
FIFTH AND CORRUPTION.

The hireling who runs the rene
gade Republican sheet of. this city,
continues to wallow in his own
slime We shall not attempt to
sink to his level of degradation and
answer his gambling table slang
You could not expect anything bet
ter from such source. 1t is purely
matter of veraeity and deeeaey- and
we leave it to the white people of
the county as to who is telling the
truth. We shall continue to lay the
facts before the people of this coun-
ty as they really exist regardless of
the whimperings of the Imported
hired man who is holding a Temporal
ry existence here to father the cor
rupt political methods of the gang
he is making a very poor effort at
representing. No one cares for his
personal insinuations, nor do we
care how much he grovels in his own
wickedness. We shall continue to
expose rascality in politics just as
we have done in the past regardless
of billingsgate and slum utterances
made in a sheet published for boo
die, graft, and many other political
emoluments of public plumber,
which will be mentioned later.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02
A Ta,Siy ISer,o,f.

I'm several newspapers of today
we note special dispatch sent out
from Richmond announcing that d
railroad is to be built from William
son W. Va, to Pike county, KY. In
connection with the announcement
a full list of officers of the new COM
pany is given.
"Abont one week ago the Roanoke
papers published full reports of this
interesting enterprise, giving full de-
tails and the names of all officers
Richmond ought to wake up.-Ro-
anoke World.
When it comes to the facts in the
matter it doesn't seem that Roanoke
or Richmond are keeping up with
the development of this great region
We shall soon have a railroad pro-
jecting through eastern Kentucky
from Williamson in which there will
be invested millions of dollars, pen
etrating one Of the ichest coal pro-
ducing regions Of the country. This
road will lay its tracks far into the
mountains of Eastern Kentucky and
will also be feeder to the Norfolk
and Western Railway and add
greatly to its passenger traffic. Its
terminus will be Williamson and it
will make our city an important
point Of commercial activity.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02

In Japan there is increasing agi-
tation against the national practice
of licensing immortality, and sub
stantial progress has been made, so
that now no girl can be sold and
condemned to life in the "yoshi-
wara" without her consent. How the
old ideas still linger was shown in
the recent case of young Japan
$ese who was convicted of embeZZling
from his American firm in Toxic.
Unwilling to send him to jail, his
employers gave him three days to
raise the money. On the third day
he appeared with his father who ex-
planned that he had been able to
raise only part of the money, but
hoped soon to have the rest. On in
quiry it was found that the family
proposed to sell two daughters to a
licensed house; there was third
sister, but not yet of legal age-if
the Americans would but wait a few
months? But the Americans decided
that it was better for the young man
to go to jail, and in jail he is.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02

Esquire, NJ q. White has resigned
his magisterial Office and has oiyen
It To John B. Maynard as crunib
from the political graft table of Min
go county The boss the one 4 g
mean that makes Cox, of Cincinnati,
"look like 80 cents, has given UP
one of his pet revenues to Maynard
to keep him in line for the work he
has to do, politically during the com
ing summer 1t is amusing to OBJ
serve the tricks and intrigues they
are fixing up for the future control
of affairs of Mingo county. Let them
proceed, give them plenty of rope,
and they will hang themselves high
and fast before the people condemn
their methods in November. Get rea-
dy to smite the only two little polit-
ical bosses of Mingo county left. Let
the people swat their infectious
scheming and an honest ballot will
come incur midst in November.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02
- = II. : 2 sll'''' 9''I'7l7'7.
Major INlIvr

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Remember me to all the folks back
home!r
And then the great ship plunged be-
meath the foam,
Remember him? All, that they will,
as long
As heroes live In elements of song.
And truth and courage stand forever
wed :
In the great records of those kingly
dead.
Remember him! why, tender be thy
sleep,
Oh valiant soldier, gentleman! The
deep
Mid all the treasures of its hidden
Hides not forever mid it's heartiess
waves
A jewel SO precious as thy manly
Poignant and sweet in comradeship
and strife.
The folks back home, He thought Of
them the while
He stood there waiting, with that
manly smile
OF noble resignation on his lips!
Go down, proud palace of the queen
of ships,
And surge, cruel sea, and float We
saddened wreck
A hero still he stands upon that
decki
A hero still he lives in hearts that
love
Above all else remembered, and
above
All life may give henceforward, that
fine soul
Who rounded manhood to the per-
feet whole
In Fate's dark hour with splendid
courage fraught-
Just as the folks back home had
known and thought!
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02

1t seems remarkable that with the
knowledge already gained OF the in
calculable value of the wireless tel
egraph as a safety provision at sea,
so few vessels thus equipped should
have but one operator. It, is de-
clared by the London Times that of
the 500 or SO British ships having
wireless telegraph apparatus only
about SO carry more than one OPP
orator. One man, OF course, cannot
very long be effectively on duty "a
hours at a stretch. The moral is
obvious. and yet it is said that the
demand for operators has not been
equal to the supply.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02
The Unkindest Blow Of All.

Boss" Ogden, the ex-Democrat of
Wheeling. who has been hoping to
completely dominate the Republican
party of West Virginia, received a
severe drubbing at the hands of the
Republican voters of Wheeling and
Ohio county in the primaries held
there recently The unkindest blow
of all was the result in Boss" Og-
den's home precinct, where Roose-
welt received 25 votes to one for
President Taft. OF course, the lone
ly voter was none other than Boss
Ogden himself
1t is the determination of the peo-
pie to swat the boss wherever found
and he will go in Mingo county as
elsewhere.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02
Attention Democrats.

The Democrats of Mingo should
remember that on the 10th day Of
May a mass delegate convention
meets in Williamson for the purpose
of selecting delegates to the different
state and district conventions and
transactlng such other business as
may come before the convention. Let
ali Democrats turn out and prepare
for the contest that will redeem
Mingo county from boss rule and the
perpetual Office holding of few.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02

We yet have an idea that it is too
this county. 1t is generally believed
that We shall have one of the warm
est. political fights ever know in the
county and that the people generally
are aroused and ready to shake off
the bonds of machine bossism that
binds them. The Democrats of this
county know that they have stu
pendous corruption to overcome, but
the people have ruled in the past and
they will yet rule in Mingo county.
The respectable citizenship of this
county are only asking for an hon
est and interrupted ballot and we
hope the good people of the state
will aid us in this endeavor to pre-
vent Illegal voting and to procure
the liberty of having our own vote
counted fairly and honestly. The
man who attempts to defraud the
honest voters of Mlngo county from
expressing their preference at the
ballot box is dangerous citizen
We shall appeal to the good people
OF West Virginia to come to the
rescue and aid us 70 drive from pow
er the men who would disgrace our
politics and make the franchise a
Joke and farce. Let us have a new
deal and an honest expression of the
people. Let us get honest, true
men for Office fresh from the masses,
and let it be understood that no set
Of men can set themselves up as
dictators and keep their hand in the
public treasury continually
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02
There must be trust;
However falls the blow,
A kindlier purpose prompts it
Than we know.
The Bentztown Bard.

The Springfield Republican re-
marks:
eff Mr.. Roosevelt is not asked
now whether, in case of an election
to third term, he would be can
didate for a fourth term, he will be
asked after his nomination, if the
Chicago convention makes him the
republican candidate And the OPP
position in the campaign will not
hesitate to press the question day
and night through long summer
and autumn The fourth-term issue
cannot be evaded by third-term
candidate
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02

BY instructing the delegation to
vote for Mr.. Underwood until a
nomination shall be made, J" the
democratic state CONVENTION of AL
ALBANIA revealed conviction on the
part of Mr.. Underwood's southern
friends that the national convention
in the end might make him the pres
idential candidate. Every ballot tai
ken will begin with Alabama casts
her "a votes for Oscar w Under
wood" The Alabama convention
passed one resolution that should
appeal to business men in the north.
Mr.. Underwood is not afraid of mon
etary and banking reform, and he
deserves congratulations for having
this inserted in the Alabama plat
form:
We believe that the honest bust
ness, farming and working classes
Of the country could be largely re-
lieved from panics and consequent
unemployment by democratic and
nonpartisan revision and codification
of our antiquated banking laws,
which would create an elastic note
and credit system, while preserving
our Independent banks from any
dominant financial or political con-
troll.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02

The overshadowing issue which
manifests itself in all the questions
now under discussion is, Shall the
people rule? No matter which way
we turn; no matter to what subject
we address ourselves, the same
question confronts US.
II is perfectly natural mistake
to suppose that Mr.. Roosevelt said
that in one of his recent speeches.
The real author of those words was
William Jennings Bryan, who ut
tered them August IL, 1908, at Lin
coin, Neb. Mr. Bryans claim that
Mr. Roosevelt has stolen most of his
issues seems strengthened. For the
Bryan campaign of 1908 began with
the cry, Shall the people ruler"
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02

The Mountaineer, little machine
sheet published over in Wyoming
county, hardly worthy to be desig-
mated as a newspaper, in an idiotic
manner displays its ignorance in at
tempting to read us lesson as to
the candidacy of James Damron, Of
this county, for judge of this judi
cial district We have known Mr..
Damron from a boy and have forgot
ten more about his character as a
politician than this scribbler ever
knew. 1t would be better for Dam
ron if he could be saved from such
friends, but in due time they will
be attended to.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02
SOUNDS GOOD
For Thompson for Governor of West
VIRGINIA.


Virginia.
Col l.. E. Tierney in a communi-
cation to the Bluetield Telegraph,
says he would not accept the noml-
nation for Governor and is stead
fast supporter Of Hon. w. R. Thomp-
son, and that he will be our next
Governor:
-''On my return home my attention
was called to an article in yours OF
April oath in which your paper
stated in substance that a number of
my friends had been to see me to
make the race for governor and that
/ have consented to do SO, and my
announcement would be made in a
short time Whilst it is true, that a
number of my friends have. been to
see me 10 make the race for COVER
nor, under no consideration am | a
candidate as | am unqualifiedly for
W. R. Thompson of Huntington,
West Virginia, who believe will be
the next and best governor We I
Virginia has had for many years
Yours truly,
IL E. TIERNEY. >
April 26, 1912.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02

In answer to an offer by the city
of Cleveland, o., to pay reward of
cent for every 10 flies delivered
dead at the city hail. school children
of Cleveland are "swatting the fly"
with vim and vigor. The crusade
the offer expires. g. City health au-
thorities believe that every fly killed
at this season of the year means the
absence so to speak, of nine flies la
ter. Hence the posting OF the re-
ward
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02
NEITHER TAFT NOR T. r., SAYS
BRYAN.
Nebraskan Believes Result Nominal
ton of Third Man.
Bryan in Florida.

II
Saying that he believed the result
Of the Roosevelt-Taft fight would be
the nomination of a third man for
the presidency by the Republicans,
William ]. Bryan, in a speech at
Tampa, Florida, used the alleged
words of each against the other as
evidence of the unfitness of both.
Indeed, said Mr.. Bryan, l am
daily apprehending the sugges-
ton that | be nominated as
compromise Republican candi-
date on the declaration that /
am more progressive than Taft,
and of Taft that am less dan
gerous than Roosevelt.
DElNOUNCES UNDERWOOD.
Mr.. Bryan, in depouncing Under
wood as the candidate of Wall
street." explained that he was neces-
sarily Southern man, but that If
the nomination Of Southern man
was desired, why not real South
ern Democrat, like Hoke Smith, Oh
lie James or Charles Culberson?"
He reiterated that ne mao no pre-
ference between progressives, but
that the Democratic party should
not throw away this greatest Of its
opportunities by nominating a re.
dictionary.
PAYING POLITICAL DEBTS.
/ am now paying off, he said,
some of the debts / owe to the
good Democrats who have sup
ported me and when 1 leave
| here / am going to Ohio to pay
| off about twenty debts OF the
same sort.
He added that If progressive il
nominated at Baltimore he iwoult
show the country that he could figh
more effectively for another mai
than he, had fought for himself
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02

The Doodle gang of Mingo are
still conniving, trafficing and fixing
will be attempted to be played in the
coming campaign in this county. All
the Democrats have to do is to watch
and wait, and in the meantime or
ganize for the conflict and make
them deal honestly at the polls.
This can be done and should be done
for the good of the county and the
reputation of the State.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02

All the lines Uncle Tom can
manufacture between now and cleo
ton day will not alter the fact that
the Republicans in Mingo are better
united than ever before and will roll
up even bigger majority than in
the 1908 and 1910 campaigns. -
Mingo Renegade Republican Sheet.
If you do you will have to steal
it as you did before by stuffing the
ballot box and voting Illegal ne
groes by the score
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02

The earliest printed books of the
western world, though collectors
prize them, are mere infants beside
some Chinese books in an exhibition
now going on at the British museum.
One volume, translation of part
of the Abhidharma-sastra dates
from 1899, and the ink shows no
sign of fading, its exceptional perma-
hence being attributed by experts to
an admixture of, camphor. How far
back the art of printing existed in
China is not known with percision,
but it did not come into veneral use
until the Tang dynasty, A. D. 618-
900. Even in the use of movable
type China has clear priority, for
this invention was made in the 18th
century by Pi Sheng. That it did
not come into general use was due
simply to the nature of the Chinese
language and the enormous number
of characters required to represent
it. The great encyclopedia issued in
the 18th century was printed from
some 100000 engraved copper
types. 1t is four times as big as the
Encyclopedia Britannica, and pro-
fusely illustrated. Till quite recent
ly 1t was believed that color printing
originated in Japan, between ITO
and 1929, but the London exhibition
contains several good Chinese color
prints dating back to the latter part
Of the 18th century. And yet the
Chinese are accused of lack Of orr.
GfnalityI
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02

If the reputation of the medical
profession suffered by the discovery
that the brain of a distinguished
Philadelphia specialist was abnor-
mally light, it has been repaired by
the fact that the brain of the late
Prof. Koch, of the medical faculty
of the university of Chicago was
well above the average This also was
willed to the museum of the Wister
institute in Philadelphia. The two
cases go to illustrate what is often
forgotten, that there Is no direct re-
lation between mans intelligence
and the size of his hat.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02
NOTTCE TO sTOCKHOLDERs

The regular annual meeting of the
Stockholders of the War Eagle Sup
ply Company, will be held at the Of
flee Of the Company at War Eagle
West Virginia, on Monday, May 9Th,
1912, at IL o'clock, a. M. for the
purpose of electing a board of di-
rectors and for the transaction Of
such other business as may proper
ly come before the meeting. 81
N. v. JAMES, Secretary,
War Eagle Supply Company
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02
day of April, 1912.

day of April, 1912.
G. R. G. WILES, Special Comm'r.
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,
Mingo County, to-wit:
|, Guy White, Clerk of the Circuit
Court in and for the County and
State aforesaid, do hereby certify
that bond with security approved by
me as sufficient as in the penalty
provided by said decree, has been
given by said special commissioner.
GUY WHITE, Clerk.
BY A. w. DAMRON, Deputy.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02

NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS
MEETING.
Williamson Mining and Manufatur

Williamson Mining and Manufatur-
ing Company.
( The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Williamson Min
ing and Manufacturing Company
will be held at the Office of the Com
pany in Williamson, West Virginia,
on Monday, the 9Th day of May
1912, between the hours of 10 A. M.
and P. M. for the purpose of elect
ing Board of Directors to serve for
the ensuing year and tn transaction
of such other business as may prop
erly come before 1t.
Given under our hands this the
9th day of April, 1912.
w. J. WILLIAMSON, President.
HARRY G. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS

The regular annual meeting Of the
Stockholders of the War Eagle Coal
Company, will be held at the office
OF the Company at War Eagle, West
Virginia, on Monday, May 9Th, 1919,
at IL O'Clock a. M, for the purpose
OF electing board Of directors and
for the transacting of such other
business as may properly come be-
fore the meeting.
N. v. JAMES, Secretary,
War Eagle Coal Company.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02
IF ROOSEVELT, THEN BRYAN.

1t is firmly believed here that
should Roosevelt capture the repub-
lican nomination ryan would be
the democratic nominee. Men who
have toured the West are confident
that this is the program whether the
democratic machine leaders know it
or not; and they say that the bust
ness interests Of the West would
support Bryan because they would
know where to find him and they do
not trust Roosevelt. ~
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02
April 26, 1912.

A colored editor up in Boston says
it begins to look as if Col. Roosevelt
has a grudge against the Republican
party Well, it does sorter look that
way, and why shouldn't he? He
knows more about it's inside work
ings, and he is a practical man, :"
you know.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-02

DR.. Wiley bought nam and asked
the man to weigh it. Man said ham
had been weighed when he bought
1t. Not for Doc. Man weighed ham;
it had shrunk three pounds. The
Doc saved ninety cents. Thrifty
house wives please copy