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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-11
AGED CITIZEN DEAD

Jethro Bennett, one of Barbour
County's aged and respected citizens
died at the home of his daughter near
Harding on last Saturday, aged 85
years. He was the father of 10
children, II boys and two girls. In
terment at Stringtown Sunday. By
the death, of Jethro Bennett another
land mark of Barker District and Bar
bour County is gone. A good christ
ian citizen who win be missed from
among us.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-11
By the Governor:
H. G. YOUNG,
Secretary of State.
BARBOUR COUNTY TEACHERS
ENDORSE THRIFT COURSE
IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

The school teachers of Barbour
county stand behind the Treasury
Departments Thrift program. Near
ly every school room will have Saw
ings Society this year. This was
made certain last week when Frank
R. Yoke, of Weston, representing
the Treasury Department, addressed
teh teachers institute at Philippi on
the subject of Thrift in the Public
Schools"
Ninety per cent of the teachers
signed pledges to organize clubs IN
their rooms as soon as school opens.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-11
State Troops Ordered to Mobolize In
Few Hours il Needed

BOSTON, Sept. 10-Gov. Coolidge
AT noon today said he had been infor-
med that the Mayor Of Boston had
forwarded request for additional
state troops. Orders were prepared
Immediately to call out the tenth
and twelfth regiments Of the state
guard infantry. The 18th also was
ordered to prepare for Service.
BOSTON, Sept. 10.--Lawlessenes
was rampant in Boston today. With
out adequate police protection private
citizens were left to their own re-
sources to protect their lives and
property. Since the polict struck at
5:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
there has been no organized police
power able to cope with the situation
that last night approached anarchy
and today appeared to grow more
serious.
Although Mayor Peter had issued
no call for state guard troops it was
understood that arrangements were
made last night to mobilize several
thousand of them within few hours
liz necessary.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-11

Today will be held in special re-
membrance by the Cleveland Light
Artillery Association because on July
IL, 1861, they participated in the first
War near Carrick's Ford, Virginia. In
this engagement Gen. Robert S. Gar
nett's confederate force was outgen-
eraled and forced to retire, leaving
considerable booty behind it. 1t was
at Carrick's Ford that the Cleveland
Light Artillery boys captured the can
non displayed for many years in the
Public square and long known as the
"Secesh gun"
1t will be recalled that it was at
Phiippi earlier in the western Vir-
ginia then-that the light artillery
men Of the First Ohio battery, Col.
James Barnett commanding, fired the
first shot from a field piece in the
Civil Wharf.-The first cannon shot in a
land engagement
! Today the surviving members of
1 the association--there are not many
of them-will assemble at the call of
Vice President N. Weidenkopf, and
hold their forty-eighth annual meet
ing and dinner-incidenta rayiving
the memories of those stirring events
of fifty-eseven years ago.
A local maker Of rhymes, who re-
calls the company in its earlier years,
has made the famous field piece the
subject of a group Of verses with the
title, 1.-THE Gun of Philippi."
The echoes of Philippi's gun
Are lost on younger ears;
The Smelling of the brutal Hun
Alone the modern hears;
Yet far and wide the startled land
Awoke at that dull roar
From Maine to gulf on every hand
A portent deep it bore.
Philippi's gun is hushed and cold,
It's bore is sheathed with rust,
And ah, how many gunners bold
Are mingled with the dust!
Yet once again we feel the thrill,
/ We hear the sharp command
That answered with a loyal will
I The call to save the land.
A greeting from the boys in blue
! Goes to the boys in France;
A nations homage is their due
/ A prayer for each advance.
Our cannon boom, our fighters cheer
I Where stubborn fields are won,
And through tn eroar we seem to hear
And thru the roar we seem to hear
The Barbour Democrat.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-11
A PROCLAMATION BY THE
GOVERNOR
Setting Apart September 18th, 1919
as CONSTITUTION DAY" in
WEST VIRGINIA

On September 18th we will cele-
brate the One Hundred and Thirty
second Anniversary of the formation
of the Constitution of the United
States. The Convention, composed of
patriots of that period, including
George Washington, Benjamin Frank
lin, Alexander Hamilton, James Mad
ison, John Jay and nearly three score
others of like character and intellect
after four months of patient en-
deavor, in which individual opinions
were merged for the public good, on
the 18th day of September, 1887,
completed their labors and adjourned.
For One Hundred and Thirty-two
years the people in these United
States have lived and prospered un-
der the organic law thus framed
which has guaranteed to them life
and liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness. Many millions of men have
fed from religious or political perse-
cution in other lands, coming here to
enjoy the blessings of our laws and
our system of government
1t is only too true that in these
latter days some of the aliens who
have come to US have confused Lib
erty and License. Some have brot
with them PHILOSOPHERS, made in Ger
many, alien to our land, which, thru
persistent propagation, have taken
root and threaten the peace, prosper
ity and happiness of our people.
The National Security League, an
organization of patriotic American
citizens, having planned nation
wide celebration of the One Hundred
and Thirty -second Anniversary OF the
formation of our Federal Constitution
and the Hon. Vim. B. Mathews, of
Charleston, having agreed to act as
State Chairman of the League, this
is therefore to proclaim
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 49,
10 as CONSTITUTION DAY" in
WEST VIRGINIA.
i While not legal holiday | never
theless call upon all patriotic citi-
zens to assist in honoring and cele-
brating the day and especially upon
the teachers in all schools, public and
private, to hold exercises in commem-
Grafton of that great event, to the
\ end that there may be revival OF
the patriotic American spirit that was
sa manifest during the war and to
I the further end that our faith in and
! love for the American government,
American ideals and American prin-
ciples may be strengthened and per-
petuated.
In witness whereof | have here
unto set my hand and caused the
4 Great Seal of the State to be az
fixed, at the Capitol in the City OF
Charleston this second day of Sep
TENDER A D. one thousand nine
hundred and nineteen and of the
State the fifty-seventh.
(SEAL)
JOHN j. CORNWELL,
Governor.
px, +bo Cavarnor,
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-11
INDICTMENTS

The grand jury adjourned on We'd
nesday morning, announcing fifteen
indictments for felonies and thirteen
for misdemeanors.
The court instructed the prosecu-
ting attorney to not make the :ndict-
ments public this week.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-11
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS ENDORSE
NATIONAL THRIFT CAMPAIGN

HUNTINGTON, w. Va. Sept. 10z-
The West Virginia Grand Lodge,
Knights of Pythias in session at
Parkersburg on August 81 and %,
unanimously adopted resolution en-
dorsing the National Thrift campaign
through the sale of War Savings
and other government securities.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-11
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Washington D. c., Septembeg 6.
BY J. E. Jones
GIVING THE People 4 CHANCE

GIVING THE PEOPLE a CHANCE
Glory be- the President has gone
out from Washington to hold counsel
with the people. He will tell them
all about the plans made at Versailles
to establish permanent peace for the
world through the League of Ma
tons, and he will seek to direct a de-
mand from "the people, which if
successful, will be speedily obeyed in
Washington in the ratification of the
peace treaty And then, again, he
will seek to allay the unrest among
"the people, that has arisen from
the high cost of living-and other
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-11

BOSTON, Sept. 10.--Mayor Peters
announced at noon today that he had
taken over control Of the police de-
partment from Commissioner Curtis,
a state appointee and has called up
on the state guard organizations to
assist in maintaining order.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-11
BIG GAssER

The latest sensation in Elk district
lis the striking of big "gasser" on
Jake Zinn's farm. 1t is the best of
the five in Elk they say.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-11

BOSTON, Sept 10--A strike Of the
city firemen is threatened. Presi-
dent Daniel Looney, Of the firemen's
union said today that the firemen be-
lieved the police union should exist
and what labor demands of us we
will deliver
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-11

BOSTON, Sept. 10.--Gov. Coolidge
early this afternoon called out the
Fourth Brigade of the state guards
made up Of the 18th, 18th and 18th
regiments and machine gun COM
pany Of the Fourteenth regiment.
The troops were ordered to report
to Mayor Peters forthwith.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-11
BOSTON A FLAME OF RIOT
SITUATION APPROACHING ANARCHY

carrying straight to the people that
war being over it is again up to them
to rule through their majorities.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1919-11-19
still nlanted tobacco. and

still planted tobacco, and raised a
big crop, the amount received from
it was only s2,765,372, the price hay
ing fallen to the lowest figure record
ed since 1909, 7.O2 cents per pound.
THE 1915 tobacco crop very near
ly discouraged the planting in this
state. The average price had drop
ped from about II cents to 7.2S and in
1916 the acreage was cut nearly half.
There was a considerable increase in
price in that year and there was an
anomalous situation. The number of
pounds sold in 1915 was 17,844,0O0
pounds short of the scales in 1915 and
yet the gross receipts amounted to
an increase of S52.50O over 1915.
Tobacco has been :. wonderful
crop for some counties in South Car
olina, for it is Il cash crop and is
harvested between spring grain and
truck and cotton, thus bringing money
into circulation in the summer
months.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1919-11-19

Of the state department Of agricul-
ture for 1918 gives the following syn
opsis Of the history Of tobacco grow
ing in South Carolina:
The department. under the law,
began to keep records of the tobacco
crop in 1909. That year very nearly
2S,0G0,000 pounds Of tobacco were
raised, but the price was low, and it
brought but little over two and
quarter million dollars. The two fol-
lowing years the crop decreased very
considerably in both volume and in
amount of money produced. Then for
four years conSecutiyely the volume
of the crop steadily increased. until
the maximum was reached in 1914,
the year the war broke out. The pre-
ceding year smaller crop had sold
at 1877 cents per pound, bringing to
the farmers Sl,5S4,000 the greatest
amount ever received from the tobac-
co crop in this state. In 1914 the
prices fell, and in 1915. while people
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1919-11-19

There is more Catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and for years it was sup
posed to be incurable. Doctors prescrib-
ed local remedies, and by constantly
failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Catarrh is a
local disease, greatly influenced by
constitutional conditions and there
fore requires constitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Medicine, manufactured
by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio,
is taken internally and acts thru the
Blood on the Mucous Surfaces Of the
system. One Hundred Dollars reward
is offered for any case that Halls Ca
tarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send
for circulars and testimonials.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Theory is a vine from which facts
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1919-11-19
A Fiction

That God being good is the author
of evil to anyone, that is to be siren
uously denied, and not allowed to be
sung or said in any wel1-ordered COM
monwealth by old or young. Such a
fiction is suicidal, ruinous. impious.-
Socrates, in Plato's Republic"
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1919-11-19
TOBACCO OFFSETS
BOIL WEEV1L LOSS
Farmers In Pee Dee Get Coed Returns
From Growing Of Weed

Farmers, particularly OF the Pee Dee
section of South Carolina. have IN
| tobacco an effective weapon with
which to beat down the tide of eco
nomic losses incident to the invasion
Of the boil weevil.
Last year returns from the crop
reached the unprecedented figures OF
nearly s2O,O00,0OO The exact figures
were s19,311,497S6. The highest pre-
yious figure was in 1917 when the
returns amounted to 11,794, ,431.7S.
Growers last year in receiving ap-
proxinlately S20,000,O00 for their to-
bacco got nearly one-fifth the amount
paid for the cotton crop.
October's figures this year are not
yet available, but during the months
of July, August, and September of
this year, growers were paid SIS. .4o9,-
1864. Complete figures viii doubt
less, carry the returns for the 1919
crop slightly in excess of last years
Considerable agitation is being man.
ifested in the lower section of the
state, already invaded by the boil
weevil, for the cultivation of tobacco
as a substitute crop. During the
three months for which reports have
already been received for 1918 crop,
S1,12S,947, pounds have been sold.
The following tables gives the total
volume for the crop the last ten years:
Pounds. Amount Average.
Year Sold. Paid Price Paid
1910 lS,S02,S75 $ 1,604,6S5.44 5 $50
1911 11,101,066 L,352,462.S4 12.IS
1912 24,337,912 2,653,443.6S 1890
1913 3s,2ea5sr 4,5S4,33a.51 1915
1914 39,47S,42l 3ySST233,54 9.S3
1915 37,924,396 2,760,9S2.1S 7.2S
1916 2O,079.903 2,S13,44S.S7 14.l1
1917 51,0S0,0S3 11y794,431.7S 24.o9
1918 62,173,631 19,311>497S6 31.06
1919 SI.12S,e47 1S,4O9,336.74 21.40
Tobacco growing has been largely
confined TO Darlington, Marion, Flor
ence, Dillon. Clarendon, Sumetr and
Williamsburg. But with the invasion
of the boil weevil imminent in a
large portion Of South Carolina, the
tobacco growing area will likely be
largely extended. The annual report
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1919-11-19

The Dispatch-New job department
turns out first-cIass work, and gets it
out on time.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1919-11-19
LESSON FOR NOVEMBER %
JESUS coRREcTs JOHNS MAR
ROWNSSS.

LESSON TEXT-Luke 1865.
s GOLDEN TExT-Grace be with all them
that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sin
cerity.-Eph. SRA.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL-Mat. lS:1-35:
Mark S:33-42; 1S:13-1S
PRIMARY TOPIC-Jesus and the Chill
dren.
JUNIOR TOPIC-Jesus the Friend Of
Children.
INTERMEDIATE TOPIC-Hasty and
Narrow Judgments.
SENIOR AND ADULT TOPIC-True
and False Liberalty.
Evening star., 1919-03-23

enoir. or "prowl," where crowds stroll
past innumerable little chairs and
tables, glancing from stage to crowd
and back again. The oFlies has al
ways been the tourists ideal of Pa
risian," expensive costumes and seen
cry. newest turns and pretty girls
galore.
can show. Every song and joke was
in English. If there were any French
in the audience, I don't see how they
could follow 1t. Call that Parisian!"
This, I think. is going to be thing
that tourists will have to contend
or two to come. the shows will be so
arranged to meet our understandings
that Americans will resent it.
Again, at lunch the complication Of
"That's calves head, turtle STYLE" I
1t. Yes, that means pigeons, but you
can have a nice grilled steak with Ber-
naise sauce, the best sauce in the French
book, kind Of hot mayonnaise with
estragon for fragrance"
They listened in placid content
That's right" they said.
Those things. Let him bring
them'
At the bank we did our business.
Charley thought that he could get
along with $40 more, and the SER
geant drew draft for $50 on his
home bank. 1t would do for two
days in Paris.
..0,, "Wan. to. to buy things" I asked,
They stuffed the bank notes into
their pants pockets.
Lets see Paris" they said.
found, pretty soon, that seeing
Evening star., 1919-03-23
Paris IS Disappointing to American Soldiers

fisht promotion ought to sts'rt' Hs's os%. req
down from higher" .x,.,
feel them resting. They want to get
away from the war. but their minds
are full OF 1t. Here's a story: =,
Five doughboys sauntered out o.
their Red Cross hotel note sd,n Of e n m0sn1nsi saksa
one. mo, we're goin' that wayp
Drawing his buddy off, y. left three,
well. I've got date. said one
of them. "See you later" ,,
the Remaining two. LETS hike down
to some place where we can mix
with people. We've got mistletoe all
ready to pin somewhere"
On q cafe terrace of the most beau.
tiful avenue of the world an at.
tentive observer, half an hour later,
might have found all five of those
heroes. greeting each other with sur.
prise, and, naturally punching at the
same table.
"As I was sayin'. we went into
front line without KNOWN who the
hell was supportin' on our left
"A railroad, controlled by the boche,
behind U.s."
Just what I told him; it's the fault
Of the supply officer. Those Q. M.
fellows never failed to bring the
How shall it be otherwise7
They know France They don't
know Paris.
They've seen all France. They
know the ports, the great white high.
roads built by kings the provincial
towns and ancient little picturesque
villages. They know the devastated
areas as well as average Frenchmen
know them. Camp talk? All they
know of France is camps and battle.
mud and labor.
Paris means rest to thu doughboys.
Nothing more and sopething less.
For example. two days less, for any
days rest. These Paris leaves are
good for three days only. For. ex-
ample: How much rest do you think
Paris means to one who rides all
night in q packed train, then has to
foot 1t. sightseeing, to economize?
Paris always meant rest to the
tourist.
The charm Of Paris was its leisure.
Leisure of time and mind in a gay
sightseeing capital. Leisure Of ef-
fort In beautiful avenues.
coming 100000 strong next summer!
If you succeed in crossing, think
about the problem of the doughboys'
Paris leave before declaring that
Paris. Is ruined.
Dohghboys enjoy leisure anywhere.
They have earned the right to rest!
STERLING HEIL1G.
Evening star., 1919-03-23
The Human Element.

"SCIENTIFIC management" said 4
senator. came from Germany.
It. Is OF no real good, because it ig-
nores the human element in workmen.
Every scientific management sharp
butts up. sooner or later. against the
human element.
"'took here. my man. scientific
management chap said to a hodcar-
rter let me show you how to pack
those bricks in your hod. You don't
place them right. You should do 1t
this way. There-see that? BY this
new scientific method you actually
get eight more bricks in the hod.
"eYes. know said the hodcarrier.
But like the old way best
"'Why? Great Caesars ghost! Eight
less bricks. I tell you! Why?
Because the hod's easier to carry
the old way. boss"
Evening star., 1919-03-23
The Experienced Lover.

IITILLIAM J. BURNS. noted detec-
tive, said in Scrapton lecture:
'To we'll trained detective every
incident is. pregnant with significance
yes, every incident Is as full of
meaning as--well. I am reminded of a
story.
"a young man sat in parlor alone.
To him a beautiful girl entered,
Thereupon the young man rose, took
six cigars from his upper waistcoat
pocket, laid them carefully on the
piano, and then advanced toward the
girl passionately. his arms out
stretched.
But the girl drew back.
"'You have loved before, she said"
Evening star., 1919-03-23
(signal Corps photo.)

Paris meant riding around all day
in taxis-"Hey! Go slow. there, dooce-
ment, paw see veet" The chauffeurs
hear the words SO often, from so
fectly.
We've got to see the Louvre,
Notre Dame Cathedral. Cluny. the
Bois de Boulogne and Napoleon's
tomb" they said. Yes. and the
Conciergerie, where Marie Antoinette
Concorde. where they cut Off her
head. And the Bastille, the Quarter
of st. Antoine, the old Place Royale,
where they fought the duels, and the
Latin quarter"
\ X
At Notre Dame Cathedral we We're
late. Winter twilight comes at 4 r. m,
and the beadle in a skull-cap and tho
Swiss cooked hat. blue and red, and
silver sword, were shutting the vast
doors with st. Elois lacework in
forged iron on them.
Since when is the house of God
closed g at 4 p:m:? Numbered Charley.
the M. P.s had been here"
For forty years!' snapped back
the beadle. (Notre Dame follows the
sunset.)
That's the parvis. isn't itT in
quired the sergeant. where Es-
meralda danced with her little goat?"
Yes" l answered. "Where now?
The Latin quarter7"
ut gets NINE" the sergeant ex-
planned, graphically. Lets stand and
Just look minute. Wasn't there a
carved raven In there somewhere
which looked at spot where some
secret was hidden? Say, and read
Evening star., 1919-03-23
The AnecdotaI Bishop.

d ISHOP PARTRIDGE Is collector
of anecdotes about ministers. and
in an anecdotal mood he said the
other day:
II once asked a minister how he
had got through certain service.
He answered grimly:
"Well, bishop. the service was
soothing. moving and satisfactory
"'Yes?' said, a little puzzled.
"'Yes. exactly said he. 1t was
soothing because over half the cone
gregation went to sleep. 1t was
moving because half of the other
half left before l was through. And
1t must have been satisfactory, in
asmuch as l wasn't asked to come
again."
Evening star., 1919-03-23
Unconvincing CamoufIage.

GO ERMANY's camoufage republi-
canism," said Rear Admiral
Taylor. reminds me of beggar.
"This beggar has been blind, but
one day he hustled UP to a patron,
looked him in the eye, and demanded
aims.
"'why.' said the patron, have you
recovered your sightT
"The beggar nodded.
".You see,' he explained. my dog
died, and not having time to train
another had to become deaf and
dumb ...