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The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
Christ All and in All.

II Christ occupies his legitimate
regnant position in our hearts. he is
sefni-consciousiy with US all the while,
insomuch that all we say and do is
modified by that fact. He abides with
those that love him. They are un-
der his influence constantly. He
shapes their lives, he puts his mark
upon them. They come to think bis
thoughts. AS Paul puts it. they be
come imitators" Of him. They grow
into his likeness. Kindness. benefi-
cence. good cheer radiate from them.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
sHRINERs IN CONVENTION
Thousands Of Mobiles From over coun-
try Gather at Los Angeles For
Yearly Meet.

Los Angeles, CAL. May 6.-Some-
thing like 5000 visitors have come for
the yearly convention Of the Mystic
Shrine, which opened here Saturday.
1t is the largest meeting the organize.
ton ever has held and the accommoda-
tions of the city are taxed to the ut
most. The convention is scheduled to
adjourn on May IL. and the interven-
ing time will be taken. up with auto
mobile trips and entertainments.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
BODY Of c. M. HAYS Arrives.

Halifax, N. S.-The cable ship MI
MIA, which relieved the Mackay-Ben-
nett in the search for bodies of Ii
tanic victims near the scene of the
disaster, reached here, bringing Is adj
ditional bodies. Seventeen bodies in
all were recovered by the Nina, but
two of them. supposed to be those of
firemen, and unidentified, were buried
at sea. The list Of identified bodies
on the Nina is headed by the name
of Charles M. Hays, president of the
Grand Trunk railway, of Canada
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
OFFICERS HELD AS sLAYERs
1rIuus and hyers Must Answer for
Killing OF Blunt In Nebraska
Bandit Hunt.

Papillion. Neb., May 3-Chief OF Po-
lice John e. Briggs Of South Omaha
and Sheriff A. A. Hyers OF Lancaster
county were held to the grand jury
Wednesday on charges Of killing Roy
Blunt In the battle with bandits near
Gretna, Sarpy county. March il. John
C. Trouton was exonerated.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

Women's coats are be shorter this
season, the dressmakers say. but in a
good many cases the men who pay
for them will have to wear their
coats good deal longer.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

The condition of heather women in
foreign lands today demands that the
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
A candy-eating couple in New Yor

A candy-eating couple in a New York
court, who were laughing at some d.
yorce testimony, were sternly rebuked
by the presiding judge for acting as
tic amusement. But considering the
various scenes enacted therein. many
would be pardoned for seeing the
thrilling melcdrama or capital farces.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

Statistics show that surgery has
made such progress that now only
about one operation in so is fatal,
hut the, pocketbook suffers just as
much as 1t did before.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
INDICTED ON BRIBE CHARGE
Member Of Maryland Legislature Ac-
cused Of Attempting to Buy
Votes on Option Issue.

Annapolis, Nd. May 2.-Thomas l.
Park, member of the legislature from
Baltimore, was indicted on the charge
of attempted bribery In connection
with the statewide local option fight
at the last session Of the general as
sembly. He was released on $4,000
bail
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
poiIee chief is ousted.

Decatur, H., May 4--Police Chief
Herman Koeppe was removed from Of
fice Thursday after an uprisal against
vice conditions. and E. G. Allen, for a
short time chief under the former adj
ministration, was named successor
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
Boy is EIectrocuted.

Mansfield, O.-John lesson, IA years
old, caught hold of rope to shake an
arc light, WHICH was not burning and
was electrocuted. The boys father
was badly shocked when trying to
rescue him.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

That new slit skirt will not become
the fashion II the managers OF the
burlesque shows have anything to say
about it. They cannot afford such
ruthless competition.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
Indian superintendent Killed.

Indian superintendent Killed.
Los Angeles, CAL, May 6.-Indian
Superintendent William H. Stanley is
dead at his home in San Jacinto as
the result of bullet wound received
during the progress Of an Indian pow
WOW on the Coahuila reservation.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
Body of Unknown Man FOUND.

Peru. Ind. May 6.-Boys fishing
dragged the body Of an unknown man
out Of the Wabash river here Friday
near where last Monday one-day-old
boy was found on the bank. The mys-
terry is being investigated
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
Nearoea Hold. un car.

Memphis, Tenn, May five
armed negro bandits held up a street
car on Florida avenue, here, Thursday.
robbed the motorman and conductor
and compelled twenty or more passen-
gers to give up money.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
PrlsciIIian Beaten at pim,lco

Pimlico, Md, May 6.-Priscillian
the star Of August Belmont's stable
and the winner of fifteen straight
races-every start since ne returned
from England three years ago-was
beaten at Pimlico Friday.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
students, Body Is Found.

Detroit, Mich, May 4.-The body Of
Leslie Butterfield. the Belfast IN. ~
student who escaped from University
hospital while delirious from typhoid
pneumonia. was found in the Huron
river Thursday in two feet Of water.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

A Nebraska farmer lays claim to
hen that has laid 1000 eggs in three
4 years. Another argument in favor Of
substituting the hen for the eagle as
our national bird.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

Duryea's Sweeper II. Wins Big Race.
Newmarket. May s.-The 1000 GUT
meas stakes of 100 sovereigns each was
won Wednesday by II. B. Duryea's
Sweeper H.. with Danny Maher, the
American jockey. riding. The betting
was s to against the winner.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
NAnro Is LYnchAd.

Greenville, Nissan unidentified
negro who attacked white woman on
one of the principal street in the resi-
dence section here, was captured in
cemetery by crowd of citizens and
lynched an hour later. The woman
was Mrs. G. s. Whitehead, widow.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

Just by way Of encouragement for
the ladies, it may be mentioned that
a woman in Philadelphia not only did
the proposing. but paid the car fare.
bought the license and gave the par
son his due
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
cxarlna IN Poor Health.

st. Petersburg. Russia. May 6.-The
condition of the czarina's health ia
causing grave anxiety. She is suffer
ing, from acute melancholia, and II
was reported that she had to be kept
under constant surveillance.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

Ten tons Of storage warehouse eggs
are the subject of a litigation that has
been carried to the supreme court.
1t is believed New Workers will get
chance to eat those eggs in April,
1913
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

in this lies a sig
nifcant fact that
it was In his pur-
pose to have
wonankind ever
telling the Gospel
to the women OF
the race.
One of the rea-
sons why the
Christian women
Of the world shall
be foremost in
their evangelical.
ton. Christ made
a woman the first
messenger of his
resurrection and
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
Commission suspe,nds Rae.

Washington. May S.-The interstate
commerce commission has suspended
advances over the Norfolk & Western
from. Cincinnati. North and South Car.
DINA points on class and commodity
rates until November "a.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

The New York authorities dumped
into the harbor 10000 worth OF re-
volyers, daggers. blackjacks, and 9TH
err weapons accumulated in the course
of arrests.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

A Yale professor tells US that it Is
impossible to live on less than 81 600
a year, and yet several of our citizens
manage to drag out their existence on
less than that
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

Will that Connecticut young woman
who announces defiantly that she will
not wed until she is allowed to vote
tell us confidentially how many pro-
posals she has had?
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
Road Acquires Ship Line.

Boston, May 6.-Announcements was
made Friday Of the acquisition Of the
Dominion Atlantic line of steamers
that ply between Boston and Var
mouth. N. S.. by the New York. New
Haven & Hartford railroad.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

A fruit grower in Virginia advertises
for grafters But. it should be under.
stood that the kind he wants is a more
useful variety than the kind of which
every locality has such an overstock
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
Morgan at Ak Les Bain..

Geneva, May 81. Pierpont Nor
gan, who is accompanied by his sister.
Mrs. Burns and their two friends.
Mrs. J. Markoe and Miss F. Rhett OF
New York, continues his strenuous
cure at AK Les Bains.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
Find Body Of Unknown Man.

Houghton., Mich, May 4.-The body
OF an unknown man was found half
submerged in creek near Ontonagan.
on Thursday. Three bullets were
found in the head. 1t is believed he
was murdered during the winter.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
clears District Attornex

Madison. Wis. May 3.-Johns r.
Hooper. district attorney OF Forest
county, against whom removal charges
were brought. was exonerated on every
charge. Malfeasance In office and or
fetal misconduct were charged.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

AS his first quarterly pension the
ex-emperor Of China has received
100000. 1t looks easy, but think OF
all the red tape one must unwind to
qualify for the Job.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
1s-Year.oId Girl Weds Man 4s

Mount Clemens. Mich. May 6.--Mar.
garet Steauben. sixteen-year-old girl
who disappeared from her home In
this city two weeks ago. has married
Laurence E. Miller of Marlboro, N. J.
Miller is forty-six years old.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
New York Death Rate Drons

New York. May ga report issued
by the New York health department
shows that the death rate in the met
ropolis is just half what it was in
1866, when the first municipai7board
OF health was orgSnized
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

An Austrian archduchess has In
vented new wax candle. She is be
hind the times. But perhaps 1t takes
q while for archduchesses to catch up
with the modern procession.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

A Chicago theater owner has
welded his cashier. The only difYer-
ence between her and other wives is
that she had the job before marriage
as well IS after.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

Cuba has the largest tobacco crop
on record, which may assist to ease
the strain on Wisconsin incident to
producing so much of the pure Ha-
vana tobacco.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
Well Known cartoonIst Is Dead.

New York, May 4.-Homer Dayen-
port. one of the most famous of Amer.
lean cartoonists. died at the age OF
forty-dve in this city on last Thursday.
He had been III only five days and his
end came suddenly.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
200 Are Killed by Tidal Wave.

Victoria. B. c.. May 4.--News of
the destruction of the Fijian town OF
Funa Point by an lS-foot tidal wave
was brought here last Thursday by the
steamer Marania from Australia Two
hundred were killed.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

In England the objection that wom-
en- cannot fight is rapidly going out
Of use. although there are still old
fashioned people who think they
should not fight
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

A Connecticut man was killed as
the result OF an April fool joke. Prob
ably sprung by fellows who rock the
boat.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
Nor. Mooney Badly Hurt.

New York. May Mrs. Joseph
Mooney. vicar general Of the Catholic
diocese Of New York. was injured seri-
ously in an automobile accident here
on Wednesday. and his condition Is
declared grave
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

a large brain, but she has large
desire to hide said feet
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

A Chicago Judge rules that while
a husband is competent to pay for
his wife's gowns. he is not competent
to select them
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

A Bonapartist heir has been born,
but queen, is poor selection for a
forlorn hope.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

The wise summer resort gets into
the public eye early.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

A preacher man In Spokane is said
to have stood on his head, probably
because he wanted something solid to
stand on.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

The joy rider has begun his sum.
mer campaign. Check him.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

When Massachusetts men become
too old to work they proceed at once
to wed
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

Chicago has been having prairie
fires. Chicago has everything except
mountain climbing.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

Mexico just now seems the garden
spot of the world for Americans-to
stay away from.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

Never Judge man by his appear
ance, nor a meal by the value OF the
finger bowl.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

Keep an eye on the joyrtder.7 He is
still running loose.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

Among those able to come back is
your old friend WI Ting-fa
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

Swearing over telephone line is
just plain profanity and is illegal.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

Paris has caught the leader OF its
auto gang OF bandits. This seems to
be bad year for outlaws.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

Soon the mans vest win follow tina
mans overcoat.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09
THE NEED OF
WOMEN
| MISSIONARIES
=======-
By Edward A. Marshal,
Director q Missionary Course Of Moody Bible
Institute. Chicago

TEXT-And the angel answered and
said unto the women go quickly and tell
his disciples that He is risen from the
dead.--Matt 2S:5-7.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-05-09

One swallow does not make a sum,
mer. nor one poaM spring.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-03-26
Hester's Weekly Cotton Letter.

New Orleans, La, March 15.-Sec-
rotary Hester's weekly G Orleans
cotton exchange statement. issued to-
day, shows for the fifteen days OF
March an increase the totals over last
year Of 100000 and an increase over
the same period year before last OF
35S,0O0.
For the 1877 days of the season that
have elapsed the aggregate IS ahead
Of the 1917 days Of last year 2,S29,0O0
and ahead of the same days year be
fore last ~4,665,OO0.
The amount brought into sight DUR
ing the past week has been 25e,962
bales, against 103,427 for the same
days last year and 1850 yea before
last, and for the IS days Of March
it has been 1925, against 227,149
last yea and 238,931 year before last.
The movement since September l
shows receipts at all United States
ports, 10,4S9.SS2 bales, against $780,
Isl last year. Overland, across the
Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers
to Northern mills and Canada, 1885,
957 bales, against 1925 las year;
interior stocks in excess Of those held
at the close Of the commercial year
446,1S1 bales, against 425,219 last
year; Southern mill takings 1,1S5,OOO
bales ~1.606.o71 last year.
The total movement since Septem-
per Isl 10 date is 1900 ,O20 bales,
against 10,677.65G last year. Foreign
exports for the wee lave been 299,-
$50 bales, against 9a,35I last year
last year, making the total thus far
for the season ~S,559,S49 bales, against
6,43S,24S last year.
The total takings Of American
mills, North, South and Canada, thus
far for the seaso haV been S,631,1?3
bales, against 3,401,192 last year.
Stocks ct the seaboard and the %
leading Southern interior centres have
decreased during the week lSS.aO1
bales. against q decrease during the
corresponding period last season Of
1929, and are now 51S,S02 larger
than at this date in 1911.
Including stocks left over at ports
and interior towns from the last crop
and the number Of bales brought into
sight thus far from the new crop. the
supply to date is 13,193,994 bales,
against 10. 925, 61S for the same period
last year.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-03-26
THREE BALES TO THE ACRE.

it does one good to hear occasion
ally from a farmer in the Cotton Belt
who is really farming, and | quote
the following from eastern North
Cardinal:
Il have made as high as six bales
of cotton on two acres of land and
only used $50 POUNDS of commercial
fertilizer per acre, and brought it up
to this in three years, and it never
made as much as one bale before !
too charge Of it. Have a good Gallo
way n SDreader and | use it all
through the winter. 1t was not the
$50 pounds of commercial fertilizer
that made three bales Of cotton an
acre. for some Of my neighbors use
from LOCO to $500 pounds to the
acre and do not make two bales an
acre. | use my manure Spreader, rO-
tate my crops. grow all the cowpeas
| can. and all the winter cover crops
| can: feed my cattle with good, nu-
tritious foods, grown on my farm,
peavine hay. c~Otton-seed meal and
hulls. and ! take it that it was the
cover crop. the manure Spreader and
good farming that made the cotton,
and not the commercial fertilizer
alone. ! long to see the day when
u farmers will raise all the hogs
and cattle they can Il cut out two
tlllIO ol tit CotlOu area, ana forever
cut loose from the relentless grasp
of the fertilizer people. sepp:nE the
lfe-blood Of their energies aud be
free and the most independent men
on earth
To all Of which say, Amen. This
man has full-blCoded cattle and hogs.
and he is now looking for weIl-bred
sheep. The low price of cotton does
not worry such a farmer, for with
three bales an acre, he has a good
profit at 10 cents a pound. and | &c
not know of any money c:op tina,
pays better than cotton When grown
in this way. Every acre OF cotton
land in eastern North Carolina coulC
be made to make as good crops anC
with a small area In cotton. NOR
could be grown, n grown at a profit
than where the farmer depends or
cotton alone, and for that on fertilize,
alone Yet. there are still men who
aSS that cotton growing does not Fl
IN with livestock industry.
The above is but a sample of VIVA
the readers Of h Progressive Farm.
er are doing where they study thei,
profession n get right down to rea
farming. Now, you who read this
and have been trying year after Yea,
s to squeeze n little more cotton ~
: OF the old dead mixture Of sand am
| clay with fertilizers alone, why can
7 not YOU go to farming and feedine
4 stock and making manure for RI,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-03-26
WEEKLY COTTON REVIEW.

New DIRK, March 15.-Prices of
cotton have latterly declined some
what under the pressure Of heavy
sellns for long ccount hy Waldorf
Astoria operators, Memphis people,
ana TO some extent by the spot inter-
ests, 70 say nothing OF scattered lio-
uldatons through various commits
sion houses. This was due largely
TO disappointment ~ the failure to
Setlle the English coal strike in the
early part OF the week. In such cir
cumStances the Liverpool market was
nervous. trading there was restricted
and prices Irregular. Meantime the
movement of the crOD continued
large. There is an undercurrent of
skePticlsm as TO the likelihood Of anv
Neis serious reduction in acreage this
year WIN the price around $50 a bale.
Some look forward to a large surnIn
stock at the end of the seacor Tbara
IS d large party, including very in
Iuentlal interests who very seriously
uouDt the possibility Of another ia :
ooo,oVV baie CROP being raised for
years TO come. Bulls insist that tbora
VIII De some reduction in acreaoo
ana IN the use Of fertilizers If the
crop gets a late start, which they he
ileNe is more than probable. Meantime
the eAport are Very large and some
esllnlales put them at from 10 OOo :
ooo pales TO 1o.5oO.0 900 for the sea
son against less than 5000 OOO las,
season. i"Se
Domesuc consumption. accordine
20 2 bulls, is likely to reach 5 @ O ?
Wv which would overtop anythinp
seen IN the past. The National Cin-
ners Association is said to have NM
me GINNING for the season at Is 100 :
ooo baies, including linters. Cotton
sooos are active and rising. Cotton
speeuiauon. however. has come to a
pause awning the settlement Of the
English strike, or some othar ~
stimulus. he"