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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
The Best People In The Country
Go To Church. Why Don't You

GO CHURCH if you wish to meet people who are
worth while!
The best people GO TO CHURCH today. It is asset
to know the best people, You will know them if you GO
TO CHURCH. And they will know you. Every big man
in the country GOES TO CHURCH. He didn't need GO
TO CHURCH movement to get him to go, either. Read
the lives of big You will find that the truly great
regular churchgoers
who is regular church attendant doesn't have
to walt for his reward in the next world He gets it right
here. He is material as well spiritual gamer the
ment he enters the church door Everybody has confidence
in the who is churchgoer. may be clever,
powerful wealthy and influential but he does not enjoy the
the complete respect of the community he fails in his duty
to his church
THE MAN WHO WISHES TO SUCCEED IN THE WORLD
MUST GO TO CHURCH. CHURCHGOING is POSITIVE BUSI-
NESS ASSET. THE BUYING COMMUNITY FIGURES THAT THE
MERCHANT WHO GOES TO CHURCH REGULARLY MUST DEAL
SCARCELY THE COMMUNITY FIGURES THAT HE CANNOT
BE THEORETICAL. THE MERCHANT WHO GOES TO CHURCH
GETS THE TRADE OF THE CHURCHGOING PEOPLE, ALSO
KETS THE TRADE OF THE SHARP BUYER WHO REALIZES
THAT HE CAN EXPECT FAIR DEALING FROM MAN WHO is
A REGULAR CHURCHGOER.
GO TO CHURCH next Sunday and take good square
look at the faces of the you meet there You'll find
they the right sort They the kind you want to
meet and know in busnss They the sort of you
not ashamed to bring into your homes.
You'll find the salt of the earth in church
GO TO CHURCH this Sunday and meet the people who
worth while!
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
TEMPERANCE

/ have heard considerable COM
ment both ways on same remarks
made by w. A. Street of the Valley
District S. S. Convention, touching
tobacco especially and the snuff-box
disciples charging at what was said
/ will admit that Mr. Street took a
broader view of this question than is
generally assumed by temperance
lectures, but did he go too far? |
think not Rum is not the only demon
that is stalking abroad in our land
every act that We do that is not up
building is Incorporate there is no
neutral ground. The temperance adj
vocate who confines his efforts to the
suppression of rum alone, is, one of
the devils most efficients workers.
The temperance advocate who goes
about with his mouth full of snuff, or
a cigarette in a rank fend. The Gig
arctic is doing more harm to the
Young than rum can possibly do.
Judge Sturgiss, of Morgantown
stated in a charge to the Grand Jury
that most of the high school students
boys and girls were habitual cigar
cite users. Shame.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
science cannot decay.

science cannot decay.
Should you ask farmer when
he is plowing-"How's bust
ness?" would he answer" Rot
ten," because he is not harvest
ing?
q Not by a jug full. He'd say
-" Business is drivin', more'n |
can do. Plowin' now, later a
harrowin' job to do, then a
seedin', and twill take a heap of
last years profit to pay for the
seed, but noseedin' no harvestin'
we know, and after seedin' is
done then there's cultivatin' but
there is real enjoyment in the
work, for | have the faith that
sees the crop I'm goin' to har-
vest next fall"
You, Mr.. Salesman, and you,
Mr.. Dealer, have blowing to do,
/ then narrowing, seeding and
cultivating for a harvest, and
no man is in business unless he
expects to have to do these
things, and does do them.
| hear you say-"How can l,
a salesman, pillow, harrow, seed
and cultivate for harvest?"
Well, go ask your customer at
! Pondtown to have his wife get
! you the privilege of inspecting
! the kitchen hardware in the
church of which she is a mem
Der, and recommending the ar
ticles they should have for effici-
ency.
She gets you the privilege
the blowing is done. You make
the inspection-the narrowing
is done. You make the recon-
mendation-the seeding is done.
The Ladies' Aid Society buys
the articles recommended-the
cultivating is done. Every wo-
man in that church must have
just such articles of hardware
as the church has-and there is
the harvest for you and your
customer, and this harvest
proves beyond question that
business, real business, is not
rotten.
This is only one of a hundred
fields'a good farmer salesman can
find in which to pillow, harrow,
seed, cultivate and harvest
H0rdntio S. Earle.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
WAT DOES HE DO.

No one is anxious about a
young man while he is busy in
useful work. But where does
he eat his lunch at noon? Where
does he go when he leaves his
boarding house at night? What
does he do after supper? Where
does he spend his Sundays and
holidays? The way he uses his
spare moments reveals his char
acter. The great majority of
youths who go to the bad are
ruined after supper. Most of
them who climb upward to hon
or and fame devote their even
ings to study or work or the
society of those who can help
and improve them. Each even
ing is a crisis in the career of a
young man. There is deep
significance in the lines of Whit
tier:
This day We fashion Destiny, our web
of Fate we spin;
This day for all hereafter choose we
holiness or sin.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
COMPENSATION

All day long stove to follow Duty,
To set my feet within her narrow
way
l shut from out my heart all love and
beauty,
To all my hearts desires | answer
ed may"
Bravely I follow, while her swift feet
speeding
Led on and on, from height to dis
tant height,
Ever she kept before me, little heed
ing
My prayer that she would tarry in
her fight.
But when the shadows fell, l mourned
the beauty
That sought to crown my path, for
Love | cried,
When, close beside me, radiant, white,
stood Duty
10, l am all you missed and
Pease beside"
FLORENCE JONES HADLEY.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
THE HIGH SCHOOL QUESTION

The above question is one, OF vital
Importance to the taxpayer.
1t seems to be the object of our
leading school officials to locate a
High School in each magisterial Dis
trict. These buildings will cost on an
average $4,000 each the faculty of
these high schools will cost $4,000 to
$4,000 a year. Will it pay? That
is the vital question in Glade District
there are approximately 300 pupils
in the Elementary school. It is a
fair estimate to say, about 25per cent
of the pupils entering our elementary
school reach the 9Th grade and that
not more than per cent of those at
tending elementary school ever reach
the high school or in other words 10
of our 300 pupils will enter this high
school. Must we pay $4,000 for a
building and $4,000 year in which
to educate then 18 pupils? Pretty
costly amt it? 1t is fair to tax "a
per cent of the people for the benefit
of 6 per cent of them,
Taxpayers of Glade District think
of there matters and weigh them
cerefully before voting debt on our
district.
1t looks like our school officials are
trying to build monuments to them
selves af the expense of the rural
taxpayers.
The campaign cry seems to be "a
Hight School in every district" we
know the rural districts cannot afford
this and that it is not necessary.
Voters of Glade District be careful
how you assume heavy bonded in
debtedness that will be burden for
many years to come. Think before
you vote, is the advice of a Glade dis
trict
FARMER
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19

Some men who have money are
a handicap upon progress and
prosperity thru the exercise of a
disposition to cast reproach up
on their neighbors generally,
heaping criticism upon the en-
deavors of public-spirited men.
If you don't feel like pushing
things, give the town a chance
by keeping off the backs of men
who work for general progress
and prosperity. Again we say,
if you can't help, don't hinder.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
HIS MOTHER.

The oldest emblem of death
less affection is the natural love
of woman for her child. Ma
ternal love remains, indeed, a
fixed, conventional type, as if
the tender eminence belonged to
every mother.
To illustrate the child's hold
upon the mother no ordinary in
stance would be new! but an in
cident in the last hours of a con-
demned criminal furnishes one
of the crucial cases, says the
Boston Transcript.
Two days before his execution
a telegram was brought to him
in his cell. He snatched it and
tore it open with an oath. In
an istant a change came over
his sullen face. He threw up his
hands with a cry, and sob. The
chaplain took the telegram and
read these words: "Your mother
is loving yet" The message
had come two thousand miles.
The mother in her distant home
had not heard of her runaway
boy for three years. The young
prodigal had not changed his
name; and one day in a brief
newspaper mention, she read of
him-a murderer condemned to
die. 1t was too late to Save him.
All her bleeding heart could
send him in his ignorminy and
ruin was that fond sentence.
An anecdote of a wretched
looking tramp, arrested for vag-
rancy the other day in Brooklyn,
tells us, on the other hand, some
thing of the hold a mother has
upon her child. When the man
was searched by the officers, a
solid photograph of a young
woman was found in his cloth
ing. Beggars' explanations usu-
find a more credulous audience
outside of the police station, but
the offers heard the tramp's
story and believed it. He de-
clarde that the photograph was
a picture of his mother.
"She's an old woman now" he
said, eff she's alive. I've carried
that picture for many years. l
didn't follow the road she mark
ed out for me-the more shame
for me, but her face has been
with me in every state in the
Union. | wouldn't part with it
for anything in the word. Keep
it for me and let me have it
when | CO."
Mother love is holy thing.
Pitiful, and more than pitiful, is
the baseness that will drag it in
the mire. But it outlives even
this indignity.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
FARMER
-000.

Don't be a kicker. Lend a
helping hand to every enterprise
having for it's object the pro-
gress of your community or the
betterment of your people. Say
a word for every man who man.
ifests public spirit. Don't growl
where you ought to lend encour-
agement. If you can't help,
don't hinder. Some men who
have very little money to put up
do a great deal Of good to their
community by words ofkindness
and good cheer concerning pub
lic-spirited men and movements.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
600

We are highly pleased to note
that many of the newspapers of
the state are suggesting the can
didacy of r. M. Kittle, of Bar
bour, for the republican nomi-
nation for State Treasurer.
That's just right. When good
man is wanted who will fill the
bill inevery particular, don't tower
look Barbour. We commend the
party in advancefor theselection
of Mr. Kittle, and suggest that
the rest of the republican ticket
be cut from the same kind Of all
wool and yard-wide republican
cloth.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
.UUU

Why March Is Shortest Month.
A Kansas girl observes that March
Is the shortest month of the year be-
cause the wind blows three days out
of every week"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19

Accounted For.

Il must congratulate you, Katie"
said the lady of the house. You didn't
break any crockery yesterday" mo,
ma am replied the girl you see,
| had bad headache, and didn't feel
very strong yesterday"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
CITY DIRECTORY

Mayor, w. B. Huffman.
Recorder, Clark Cade.
Councilmen-First Ward, M. Wer-
ner, L. D. Kittle; Second Ward, Rob-
ert Pitman, ]. M. Bartlett; Third Ward,
Roy Nestor, Henry Moore; Fourth
Ward, |. F. Right, F. E. Thompson.
Chief of Police and City Collector
M. D. Gamer.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19

LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN
One dark jersey heifer, two years
old, finder will receive reward by re-
turning same to
ALTA M. HILLYARD,
Belington, w. Va.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
PHYSIOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHY

BUS 1ULUGICAL PHILOSOPHY
"How's business
"Rottenw
Then l know the kind of a
salesman or bushes man you
are.
"Stings ?"-You say this
stings? Well you should be
stung, for business is never rot
ten, and the man who says it is,
isn't in business.
Further, he never will be in
business unless he changes his
mind and methods.
Business is a science, and
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19

ESTIMATED RECEIPTS
The amount due, and the amount
that will become due and collectible
from every source, except from the
levy of taxes to be made for the cur
rent fiscal year.
Balance due fund from sheriff,
Due from general school fund Ten
umerationl .S670.16
Total receipts .S7O6.43
ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES
The debts and demands owed by the
district as whole, and payable out
of the teachers fund.
For one teacher at $1,000 per month
for months ...............S5 60.0O
For one teacher at $4,000 per month
for months .$480.0O
For four teachers at $500 per
month for 8 months ...... 81, 10000
Three teachers $4,000 per month,
for s months ............. 81 10000
One Superintendent for 9 months
100000
Three Assistant High School Teach
Total expenditures ST ,115. 90
AIlOulI W Ue IdiScu ny levy po,-
408.57.
1t appearing TO the board of edu-
cation that the total valuation of all
taxable property in this district, ac-
cording to the last assessment there
OF, is 81 ,671 POLO ;being real estate to
the value of $75O, 425. 90 personal prop
erty of the value OF $378,033.00; and
railroad and other property assessed
by the board of public works to the
value of $542, TABOO; as certified to
this board by the officer whose duty it
is to make such report, and it appear
ing from the foregoing estimates
that it is necessary to raise by levy,
after deducting all credits, $2,796.21
for building purposes and $6,408.57
for the teachers purposes; therefore
it is determined that levy on each
One Hundred Dollars valuation Of
fifteen cents (15c) for building and
thirty cents (30c) for teachers pur-
poses will be necessary to produce
the estimated amount as aforesaid for
the ensuing fiscal year.
State of West Virginia, District of
Belington Independent, To-wit:
County of Barbour,
/, Chas. Brandenburg, secretary of
the board Of education in and for Bel
ington Independent District of said
county and state, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is true copy from
the records of an order made and en-
tered by said board on the 10th day
of August, 1915.
Given under my hands this 10th
day Of August, 1915,
CHAS BRANDENBURG,
Secretary Board Of Education, Bel
ington Independent District, Barbour
County, w. Va.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
ESTIMATE OF THE BELINGTON
INDEPENDENT DISTRICT

State of West Virginia, County of
Barbour, District of Belington In
dependent, To-wit:
At regular session of the board
of education of Belington Independent
district of Barbour county held at the
regular meeting place thereof, on
the second Tuesday in August, 1915,
Present: F. P. Rease, President Of
said board of education, and j. A.
Robinson and Howard Price, Com
missioners.
In accordance with Chapter 81,
Acts 1915, amending section 81, chap
ter 27, Acts of 1908, the board of ed
ucation proceeded to make up an es-
innate of the amount necessary to be
levied for the current fiscal year, to
cover all district debts and liabilities
payable during the year, including the
probable expenditures for district pur-
poses, and proper allowances for de-
linquent taxes, expenses of collection
and contingencies, but deducting the
money in the treasury applicable to
the service of the year and district
claims doth determine and estimate
the several amounts to be levied as
follows:
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19

Various Weapons.
The pike, the strike and the hike
have all made history.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
BUILDING FUND ESTIMATE
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS

The amount due, and the amount
that will become due and collectible
from every source, except from the
levy of taxes to be made for the cur
rent fiscal year.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05
Fire.water Not Medicine

Whisky and brandy after Jan. L,
1916, will no longer be recognized
officially as medicine in the United
States. Fifty of the leading physi-
clans of the country, constituting
the National Pharmacopoeia COM
mittee, have eliminated spirits
from the new edition of the United
States pharmacopoeia.
This means that whiskey and
brandy have been declared officially
to be neither drugs nor medicine.
The new edition of the pharmaco-
poeia will be issued about January
1, 1916, and after that time brandy
and whiskey cannot legally be sold
by druggists as medicine.
The action of the pharmacopOeia
is regarded as severe blow TO
the liquor traffic, particularly in
dry" districts, where it is next to
impossible to obtain spirits except
in the guise of medicine at drug
stores. The step will also put out
of business a number of patent med
icines which practically are little
more than whiskey or brandy, and
are chiefly bought for that charac-
ter.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL AND
PERSONAL PROPERTY
NO. 29O2.

NO. 1902.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF WASHING
TON IN AND FOR WHAT
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
IN AND FOR WHATCOM
COUNTY,

IN AND FOR WHATCOM
COUNTY.
NO. 1926
ORDER OF SALE
The Durland Trust Company, Cor
poration, Plaintiff
vs..
Andrew w. Olson, ct al, Defend
ants.
Under and by virtue of Writ Of
Execution issued out Of the above
named Court, in the above entitled
cause, and to me directed and de-
livered, have duly levied upon all
the right. title. claim and interest OF
above named defendants, or either
of them, in and to the following de-
scribed real property, situated In
Whatcom County. State of wash
ington, to-wit: The Southwest u
of Section 35, Township Al, North
Range 3 East, w. M. Whatcom
County, washington.
NOTICE is THEREFORE HERE
BY GIVEN, that on the 14th day
of August A. D., 1915, at the hour
of 10 O'Clock, A. NJ, of said day. at
the front door of the Court House
in Bellingham, Whatcom County,
State of Washington, will sell all
the right. title, claim and interest Of
above named defendants, or either
of them. in and to the above de-
scribed property at public auction
to satisfy Plaintiffs judgment,
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05
A Possible Governor

A vigorous young man named
George A. Lee of Seattle is among
the most promising Republican as-
pirants for the position of governor.
He is brisk, progressive, and sensi-
BILE, with a clean record of service
in several important State positions.
AS yet, no one but friends Of the
candidates, and friends of friends Of
the candidates, has been able to
show even the tamest interest In
Washington's political situation.
When the State begins to sit up
and look in another direction than
the European war, 1t will find
George A. Lee worthy of inspection
as a likely governor.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05
What War Is

Most people can give General
Shermans idea of war in three
words. Here is the complete quota
lion from which the brief definition
is taken:
"I confess, without shame, that l
am tired and sick of war. It's glory
is all moonshine. Even success, the
most brilliant, is over dead and
mangled bodies, the anguish and
lamentations of distant families aD-
pealing to me for missing SONS, hus-
bands and fathers. 1t is only those
who have not heard a shot, nor
heard the shrieks of the wounded
and lacerated, that cry aloud for
more blood, more vengeance, more
desolation. War is hell"
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05

The SlAl n Or WAoI1iN6-
TON IN AND FOR WHAT
COM COUNTY
IN THE MATTER OF THE Es-
TATE OF HAROLD ROSCOE
WOLsTENHOLME, DECEASED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
in pursuance of an order duly made
by the said court on the 26th day of
July, 1915, in the matter of the es-
tate of Harold Roscoe Wolsten-
holme, Deceased, the undersigned,
executor of the said estate, will sell,
at public auction, to the highest bid
der, for cash, in gold Coin of the
United States, and subject to con-
firmation of the said Court, on the
Gath day of August, 1915, at the
hour of ten thirty A. NJ, at the
Wolstenholme Place, about one and
one half miles West of Van Buren,,
Whatcom County, Washington, all
of the right, title, interest and es-
tate of said Roscoe Harold VOL
stenholme, Deceased, held by him
at the time of his death, being a
fee simple estate in and to the prop
erty hereinafter described, subject
to a mortgage in the sum of $685.
90 and interest thereon, and all
right, title and interest which the
estate has acquired therein, since
his death; also said executor will
sell all of the personal property of
the said deceased, at said time and
place, the personal property is
hereinafter described;
Real estate is described as fol-
lows, to-wit:-
East (12) acres of the South
west quarter of the Southwest quar-
ter of Section Q1), Township (40),
North Range ca East w. NJ. Lots
II and IL, Block 1, Swim and AL
drich's Addition to Lynden.
Personal property is described as
follows, to-wit:-
One dresser,
One writing desk,
Four chairs,
Two lamps,
One stand,
One heating stove.
One sofa,
One range,
One Hoosier Cabinet,
One dish cupboard,
Morris Chair,
Two kitchen chairs,
Two rugs,
One bed,
One set springs,
One mattress.
Terms and conditions of the said
sale, Cash, gold coin of the United
States; ten per cent of the pur-
chase price to be paid to the auc-
tioneer ON the day of the sale, and
the balance upon confirmation Of
sale by said Superior Court, and
the delivery of a conveyance.
Dated this 18th day of July,
1915.
CLINT U. BROWN,
Executor.
KARL H. KOBER,
Attorney for Executor.
First Publication July 20, 1915.
Last Publication, Aug. 10. 1915.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05
A Library For 81 Gents

w. E. Henry, librarian at the
State University, is advocating a
county library bill to be proposed in
the next legislature.
The plan, according to Mr.. Henry
is to have one library in each coun-
ty, at the county seat, preferably,
supported by a one-half mill tax on
the county. Books will be distribut-
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05

ed from this point by automobile.
Those working out the details of The
plan have figured that the motor
car supplying the county could call
at every home in the county at least
once a week.
Every taxpayer with $4,000
worth of property by the payment
of 81 cents a year can have all the
good reading matter he possibly can
use," declares Mr.. Henry.
1.-The bill is neither foolish nor
extravagaDt. Oregon, California,
Ohio and Maryland are successfully
operating on similar plans"
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05

The board of equalization now
in session might take up our case.
We are only permitted to pay a
paltry tax, while other citizens meet
levy of several thousand dollars.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05

Villa told the United States to
Ego to hell' this week, but with
The present policy of 'watchful wait
ing" action on this advice will be
postponed until the cool weather be-
gins in Hades.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05

1t is gratifying to notice that
even if Injuries like sugar and
flour are at a high point, necessi-
ties like automobiles are coming
down so low that practically any
one by mortgaging his house can
own a machine.