Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-08-28

that his mother, Mrs. j. w. Halter,
had the misfortune a few days ago
of falling and breaking her arm.
W. S. Downs, state road engineer
was here last week looking the road
situation over. He speaks in very
complimentary terms Of the work
being done by Supt. R. S. Dayton,
SO that the "cold water pours" must
take back steat.
Mat Shomo, Bill Hill and Tom
/ Aggleson composed trio who went
to Buckhannon river last Friday in
quest of fish They looked the part
of real fishermen when they left
here but no report of "big catch"
has appeared in the papers.
When Geo. Price was relieved Of
the Police star a few months ago, he
didn't destroy his blue suit, for he
knew he would need them again and
he did. Geo. is now guarding the
center post again and calling the fig
ures on the city square.
Gordon Right, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
y. A. Right, of this city was the last
discharged man to reach here from
cover there" Gordon was in naval
service on the battleship New Jersey
and arrived here Friday, apparently
in happy state of mind" discharged
is the word Gordon returned here
from camp having just recently ar
rived from Wales.
On August goth Geo. Gains gas
, oline gauge at his garage showed
that since April first, 38,005 Wllons
of gasoline had been delivered. Well
George has built good business
building, nice and clean, believes in
advertising, why shouldn't he sell
plenty of his wares-well he does.
Chas. Williamson and family and
, Bruce Davis have just returned from
visit at Farmvile, Va. All report
shot time in Dixie, eating water
melons and listening to the coon
, songs" Bruce kept up his reputa-
ton for eating and even expressed a
full barrel of melons back to Being
. ton so as to make the taste as last
ing as possible.
5 Our city has many distinguished
{ visitors of whom we hear little. Sew
eral government men have been here
n recently, apparntly on small business,
) two railroad detectives, big chief
of state prohibition department and
: the state hotel inspector, looking
e after faded halls, bed bugs, reaches
e ct centre about hotels and most of
all his regular collection from the
f proprietors.
: E. D. Koontz few days ago took
[. 10 young catfish to Sugar Greek for
the purpose of trying to propagate
n that species of the "fnny tribe" in
i that stream. 1t is hoped that people
il who fish in this stream will not mis-
take these speciments for some sort
!. of an animal and kill them. But if
d caught return them to the water SO
e as to give them a chance to increase
J. in both number and size.
o Peach thieves got busy last We'd
i nesday and Thursday, while ] B.
n Moore and B. B. Rohrbough were
answering the call of the whistle of
Q the steam thresher, and lifted about
e Is bushels of fine peaches. No man
n would object to fellow eating a
fill from his orchard but to fill a
n sack or a half dozen of them is play
e ing the game pretty strong and should
v call for Shotgun" protection
Archie Mccoy, of Volga, brother
: of our passenger ticket agent, H. A
Mccoy, was here visiting his bro
Their the past week. He spent about
: II months in Europe in the Signal
service of the Third army of occu-
n patton and was months at Coblentz
Il A large part of his time over there
K he was with no particular division
i and was a participant in the follow
ing great battles, Marine, Disc, Aisne
# ST. Michel, Argonne, Chateau Thiery
s and he was a visitor at young Quen-
y ten Roosevelt's grave soon after his
" death.
Mr.. E. ]. Sherry and Mr.. Huber
&c of Philadelphia who are here for the
20 Atlantic Refining Co., handling the
10 big Packard tank car are the crack
A. asphalt men in the employ of tha
concern At the completion of thu
% Junior road their total figures fol
4 the season reached over 100000 gal
: Ions. These two young men are no
l. only good, willing workers, deliver
ing the goods, but two gentleman,
Il and courteous young men. jolly fel
81 lows well met. They leave here thi
10 week for another field of work, wit
IL the best wishes of all who know
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