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Evening journal., 1920-08-06
MAKE FORTUNES
ONPOTATOES
Big Crop Brings Harvest to
Delmarvia Peninsula
Farmers
VALUE OF LAND
ALSO INCREASES

Special 10 The Evening Journal
DOVER Aug. 6.-Many fortunes are
being made this year out of the white
potato crop IN Delaware. the Eastern
shore Of Maryland and the upper
counties OF Virginia on the DelmarVia
peninsula. The good crops have
added TO The value OF the land and
sales reported this week show profits
OF between POO and 400 per cent in
crease In values One sale is noted.
that Of Thomas BloXon, OF Bulbeggar.
Va. In 1912 Mr. Bloxon paid 5000
for $50 acres. This week he sold II
for 5000
The prices being received for white
potatoes range from $40 90 Si2 a bar
rel. For weeks thOusaT ds OF barrels
have been rolling nOrthward over 90
New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk
Railroad. Remarkable figures come
from The exchanges. At Olney. Va,
| the exchange is doing a business OF
between $4,000 and $4,000 daily. In
some instances 10 Is paying shippers
OF the tubers before they reach the
market. Last week { paid 10 farmers
in cash Si,jOO,OO0, and the biggest
days business last week was S6OOiOOO
The Wants are intensely interesting
! full Of human desire and radiant with
possibilities for all VINO Will use them
10 accomplish any legitimate pur-
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18

The church pews are empty
when the days are fair and the
roads are good the trouble is
too many folks are worshipping
at the shrine of the God Case
limos"
In certain community not
far from Belington a dozen or
more farm houses are vacant
and the once prosperous COM
munity land has passed into the
hands of large land owners the
steady flow of the people from
the land to the lure of the light
ed streets will soon depopulate
the farms. What then will hap
pen is plain to be seen, the pro-
ducts of the land will then rise
steadily in price owing to the
short supply and a country once
self supporting will become de-
pendent far better that our own
country farms be re-populated
with the poor of Russia, Poland
or other over-crowded countries
Of Europe.
Facing the increased gas rates
and certain shortage the peo-
pie of this city should organize
stock company and test this
region for gas. There are in
West Virginia towns paying a
Is cent gas rate that have bene-
fitted by schemes of this kind.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18
BEE TO BE PROHIBITION
AGENT

WHEELING, w. Va, Nov. II
J. Walter Bee formerly of the
West Virgainia house of delegat-
es from Doddridge county, will
arrive in Wheeling tomorrow to
take over from Captain Bert
Phillips the position of state pro-
hibition agent for Northern
West Virginia. The appoint
ment was announced today by
State Prohibition Commissioner
Walter S. Hallanan. Full con-
troll of activities o fthe state pro-
hibition department in the Mort
hern Panhandle will be in his
hands. Headquarters will be
establishedin Wheeling. Mr..
Bee has been connected with the
department for a number of
years.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18
BLESSINGS MORE
THAN MATERIAL

In other times Thanksgiving edi
torial was motley CT statistics and
boastfulness We had grown so many
million bushels OF grain; our cattle
on the thousand hills had increased 20
many hundredfold; our clearing house
statistics had never been surpassed;
our per capita wealth was the great
est in the world: indeed. our thank
fulness was lost in the glorifcation Of
the gift We were like the people OF
whom the Prophet Habakkuk spake.
who had caught much fish In their
nets and gathered them In their draEs.
therefore they sacrifice unto their
net and burn incense unto their drag:
because by them their portion is fat.
and their meat -plenteous. OF grati-
tude to Giver, of thankful recogni-
tibn of forces which we did not Gre
ate, but without whose cooperation
we should have been as nothing, there
was less than ought to have been.
All this was due. of course, not no
much to human ingratitude as to hui
man thoughtlessness. To Thank is to
Think. The farther back we think,
the farther back we thank. II our
thought ceases with our own contribu-
ton to our welfare, our thanks cease
with ourselves. II our appraisal stops
with our material increase, our thanks
become material and insensibly
change into boasting. We sacrifice
unto our great Industries and burn Ia
cense unto our skin, and there our
homage rests.
But in this Thanksgiving day we
have such incentive to thought as the
world has never seen before, and the
blessings which challenge us are such
as do not lend themselves to material
appraisal. The chief blessings OF the
day are spirltual their very names
put them n world apart from the
things which are quoted on he mar
ket or measured In the scales of ply
steal worth, Justice, righteousness
and Peace, these are the exalted val-
ues In which we feel our true riches to
be, and for these the entire race of
men. whether they keep rhanksgiv-
ing today or not are most devoutly
thankful Exchange.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18
CHINESE HAVE
DAY OF THANKS

The moon feast Is one of the most
popular and widely spread or ali the
Chinese pagan festivals II has many
of the characteristics OF the ancient
on-worship ceremonies Of Syria and
Phoenicia, and 1t comes as near to be
ing thanksgiving festival as any
heather feast could ever expect TO be,
celebrating the ingathering of the har-
vest. To the masses of the Chinese,
however, there appears to be but u
faint idea of genuine thanksgiving
connected with this moon feast. 1t Is
simply the remnant Of an ancient in
stitution, coming down from the re-
hottest antiquity as meaningless
act of nature worship. 1t Is possible
that In the beginning, among the early
Chinese people, the moon festival may
have been less pagan and more char
acterized by feelings of thankful re-
joicing than ii Is at present. However
that may be, no wiser choice could
have been made by the missionaries
in China toward establishing genuine
national Thanksgiving feast than the
selection of the day of the popular
moon feast.
The moon feast was first proclaimed
thanksgiving festival in 1906 at WI
chang, where the large church was
filed with n well-ordered crowd of
Chinese. celebrating for the first time
the newly appointed Thanksgiving
m hn1n-
tifully adorned with offerings of staple
articles Of Chinese diet, like beans,
rice, millet and other grains, not to
speak OF l5pInegranates, pears, apples,
wine, salt and flour.
Wuchang is great city Of nearly a
million inhabitants, situated far up
the Yang tse- Kiang, in the heart of
China. It's central position, among
the teeming myriads of heather Chi
nese, renders II Il good point for the
spread of helpful and uplifting ideas
and truths, and in view of the readi-
ness of the Chinese at home to adopt
the best things presented to them for
their own good, 1t is expected that the
old moon feast Will be gradually
adopted, in It's newly baptized form.
az the national thanksgiving day
among the 100000 or 3.0O0,0O0 Of
Chinese at present under the influence
of Christianity. and In this way also
gradually become the national thanks
giving day among the votaries Of
Buddhism. Confucianism, and Taoism,
In the course of their emancipation
from the grosser features Of these
time-honored religions.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18
WEALTH WAITS
The CARNERINC

TO every man there will come his
prayer, though it come from the mill
ing of wheat or be the salmon caught
at tie falls of the Spokane, without
let or hndrance from any power OF
earth. If there Is food in plenty In
one region as by the. fall of an ava
lanche down mountain, II will GER
tainly seek consumption in another
region And this the American boy
and girl owe to the good Providence
and to the brave men who made this
country one and have kept it one.
1t Is too much the blindness Of our
time to speak as If such simple bust
ness as daily food came to us as a
matter of course. There is, indeed,
careless habit In which Americans
often speak.
Fourth of July orators and street
corner braggarts alike talk Of the nat
ural products Of this country almost
in the tone of the emigrants who ex-
pect to pick up a doubloon upon the
sidewalk. One Is tempted to ask such
braggarts why the country did not
produce such wealth 100 years or 200
years ago..
Why was Dakota then desert?
WHY were the hills of Alabama only
a hiding place for few thousand
Creek Indians? Why did they not
forge the iron under their feet? Why
did not the Iroquois In western New
York pick from their trees the peaches
and the pears such as have been
growing there this autumn?
The answer Is this: All the wealth
of America comes to her from the
work of her men and women. The
victory which yields 1t Is their vic
tory. 1t Is the victory Of spirit con-
quering matter 1t comes In the daily
miracle of daily life, where children
Of God, led by God, taught by God,
alive In his life and fellow workmen
with him, carry out his designs and
subGue the earth.
1t is neither sensible nor grateful to
speak of teeming Sranaries, of in
creasing trade, of new mines, OF oil,
of iron or of gas as If these. things
were wealth In themselves
They are only wealth when man
strikes the rock and its waters flow.
And this man must be not the savage
man who cares only for his own per-
sonal appetite 1t must be man. the
child of God. seeking n future better
than today, determined to bring in a
nobler age than that which he lives
in.-Edward Everett Hale.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
CHARLESTON

1.-THE Annual Roll Call of The
American Red Cross beins Nov
ember eleventh. The service re-
ndered American soldiers in the
World War by that organization
is not forotten. It's home SER
vice work is of equally vivid me-
mory. Millions of homeless suf-
ferers have only the Red Cross
between them and death by star
walton or disease. We cannot
allow our membership to lapse.
Enroll again and help carry for
ward the work of the greatest of
all humanitarian organization.
May we hope that all old men,
bers will renew and that many
new ones will be added during
the Roll Call period of 1920?
In Testimony whereof | have
hereunto set my hand and caus-
ed the Great Seal of the State to
be affixed.
Done at the Capitol, in the
City of Charleston, this the 18th
day of November, in the year of
our Lord, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty, and in the
fifty-eight year of the State.
JOHN j. CORNWELL
By the Governor
HUSTON G.. YOUNG,
Secretary of State.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18
PROCLAMATION
| INVOLVES WORK

1t has been customary in recent
years for the Department OF State to
draft each Thanksgiving proclama-
zion.
After the draft has been o. X. ID By
fhe President 1t is handed to the State
departments expert penman, who In
his copper-piate chirography writes 1t
upon large sheet of excellent parch-
ment, which is sent TO the President
for his signature, and then returned
to the State department to be signed
by the secretary of state. Next 1t
must be impressed with the great seal
pf the United States, whose custodian
important a document unless author
lied to do so by a formal warrant
signed by the President, for the use
Of the great seal or the possession of
an impression thereof without the
Chief Executives written authority Is
a grave offense, punishable by law.
Indeed, the great seal-which was
made by jeweler at cost of $4,000
and which is kept locked in a great
rosewood case-is the most sacred in
| strument used by the government.
Having had this hallowed cipher of
the republic pressed into 1t, the new
Thanksgiving proclamation is filed
away in the State department
archives later to be bound In it's
chronological order, with other accu-
mulated proclamations.
Uncle Sam takes all of these tech
meal pains merely to retain the hand
somely written proclamation as his
1ment has been filed away a typewrit-
= ten copy is sent to the State depart
ment's official printer, who has shop
of his own in the basement of our for
eign office. His printed copies are
given to the newspapers or to anyone
who wishes.
Each Of the state governors must
also be sent an exact copy, but the de-
partment's strict code of etiquette de
mands that these copies must not be
printed. They are typewriter and
signed by the Presidents and secre-
tarv of states own hands Each gov.
ernor then seconds this move of the
President in appointing the annual
feast day of thanks and prayer and
In their turn, the mayors of cities now
generally second the move of their
governors, BY such indirect means
does the prompting of the nations
thanks theoretically reach the people
who actually receive 1t directly from
the President himself through that
eliminator of red-tape delays-tht
daily newspaper. In some localities
the bishops receive the proclamation
from the governors and hand it dowr
in circular form TO the lesser clergy
who read 1t from their pupits upoI
the Sabbath following its issuance. Ir
parts of New England it is still the
custom to read the proclamation from
the pulpit on two successive Sundays
These infinite pains are taken, de
spite the fact that there is nothing II
the federal statute authorizing a Pres
ident to set. apart such a holy day
But the procamations make the holi
day legal.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18
Right Thanksgiving Spirit.

We once saw little card tackled up
before the eyes of a busy man. He
co:Ild see it every time he raised his
eyes from his desk. On it he had writ
ten Get your pleasure out of your
work or you will never know what
pleasure is" That attitude will help
us to get the right Thanksgiving spirit
into our hearts. Let's forget that we
have pictured happiness in terms of
idleness and sloth. It's just the other
way This Thanksgiving day win be .
good time to get the new angle of vi
sion-Farmers' Guide.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18
NINE "SAFETY FIRST"
POINTS FOR DRIVERS

/. Show every driver the con-
sideration you ask him to show
you.
2. Slow up for children AL
WAYS.
3. Act as you want the other
driver and pedestrian to act IL
you were In his place.
a. Always signal when You
change your course. There were
1,677 street accidents last year
In which machines were dam
aged.
3. Watch out for the vehicle
on your right at all street inter
sections. Have your car under
full control. The fellow On the
cross street may not have his.
9. Do not pun onto car tracks
unless you are sure there IS no
car approaching.
Z. Remove glaring headlights.
These lights cause large num-
Der OF accidents.
8. Stop behind street cars TAX
ing on or discharging passen-
gers.
8. Give good clearance to oe-
cupied safety zones.
t~~~~~~- -~~~~>~~~~~>~~>~~s
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18
MINE EXPLOSION

A violent explosion occurred
in one of the heading of A. F.
Rohrbough,s mine Tuesday NOR
ming in which Homer Payton
and Chas. Dayton suffered pain
full burns and bruises. The men
were almost out of the mine
when the explosion occurred
both men were hurled several
feet, and badly burned about the
face and hands. The cause was
not known at this time. DR.. A.
H. Woodford dressed the mems
burnes and while very painful
~ hurt they are not considered
serious.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18
Carry Thanksgiving Cheer.

Garry little Thanksgiving cheer in
to some home less fortunate than your
own between now and Thanksgiving.
Besides the circle of relatives and init
mate friends who are to be your guests
on Thanksgiving, invite some lonely
girl, too far from home to think Of
returning to the family festival. Make
q happy Thanksgiving for others and
yeu will not lack g,adless.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18
OBITUARY

QleQ at MS nome IN bellnHt0n,
November 9, 1920. Funeral
services were conducted here
Thursday and from his old home
in Pittston, Saturday at 2::30 at
which place interment was made
He was the first to fall by
the hand of death from family
of six sons and three daughters;
his parents both survive him at
ripe old ages.
lie was educated in the COM
mon schools of Penna., finishing
his education in a trade school in
New York state after which he
begun his business career. He
came to this city Is or 20 years
ago to install the electric plant
after which he entered into a
partnership business of hard
ware and plumbing with John
Turner. Bill was a giant of
strength and by hard and tire
less work steadily forged hisway
to the front and at the time of
death was considered one of the
leading business men of the city
owning and operating with only
limited help a large grocery
store, grain mill, electric plant
and ice plant.
1t seemed both night and day
the familiar figure of "Bill"
Scrimgeour could be seen among
the humming wheels of his in
dustries; he never seemed to
grow tired and no one ever saw
him "peeved" or out of hnmor.
His good wife says he never
brought any of the worries of
business life to his happy family
circle. He was welded to Miss
Sallie Smith, daughter of Rev.
H. M. Smith, to which union
were born three children, Fran
ces, John and William, all of
whom survive him. During all
his years of home life not a
cross or unkind word was ever
heard; nor did his kind and gen.
erous nature merely exist in the
home, it was everywhere that
that big hearted kind and gen.
erous Scotchman went. Truly
can every one who knew him
say che was my friend, and he
was known and loved by all. The
entire city is in a tremor of grief
for a jewel has dropped from
the crown of our citizenship.
"Bill" Scrimgeour was boos-
ter for the community in which
he lived and his loss will be keen
| ly felt in the business world. He
had served with distinction on
the County Court of Barbour
county and left monuments OF
progress to his memory that will
out-live the granite shafts that
will mark his resting place.
He was a staid pillar of the
| M. E. Church, South, and while
not always present at the SER
vices he was intensely religious
and lived life of honesty, and
truth among his fellowynen that
could not be surpassed by any.
He met death just as he did the
obstacles of life, contented and
unafraid.
! Those who knew him best will
miss him most, his wife and
children. May the God who
tempers the wind for the shorn
lamb soothe the heart-ache and
! dry the tear. The host of friends
who knew thy noble husband
/ and father mingle their tears
of grief with yours and mourn
I with yoli in your loss. Time
may heal the wound but the scar
of grief will still remain.
We extend our heartfelt SYM
pathy to the family and friends,
yet how little it soothes the
hearti that is sad.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18
THE RED CROSS. CALL

Washington, d. c., Nov. 49,
Potomac Division headquarters,
American Red Cross, received,
today, from Governor John j.
Cornwell, his annual Red Cross
proclamation requesting the
people of West Virginia to en-
rool again in the organization to
continue "the work of the great
est of all humanitarian organ
izations." The proclamation
follows:
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18
novEMeER's COME.

Hey. you swelied-up turkey fellerl
Struttin round 30 big and proud,
Pretty quick / guess your beller
Won't be goln' quite SO loud.
Say, I'd run and hide. l bet you,
And I'd leave Off eatin some
Else the chopin block II get you
Don't you know Novemhers conner
Loads of mince and pumpkin pies7
Don't you smell those goodies cookin'r
Can't you see 'em? Where's your syes7
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18

25 per cent discount on all of
my entire stock of untrimmed
hats, starting Nov. 22nd, and
continuing for Is days.
"All Pattern Hats at cost"
M. E. CLOTHIER st
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18

Tell that rooster there that's growing.
Cute folks now are keepin' mum:
They don't show how fat they're growin
When they know Noyembers come.
"Gobble, goblet" oh, no matter
Pretty quick youll change your tunos
Youth be dead and In a platter
And III gobble pretty soon.
IF / was you I'd stop my pufffn.'
And I'd look most awful glum-
Hope they give you lots of SUNNI
Amt you glad Novsmber's comet
Joseph c. Lacoin.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18

All subscribers who are in ar
rears or about in arrears will
please call and settle at once.
The Progressive is your paper,
so make it go by paying for it
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 18--
President elect Harding will not
stop at a Mexican port on his
voyage to the Canal Zone as he
has been asked to do by Mexi-
can officials.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18
SALE

will sell at public Auction, Satur-
day, November 20,beginning at 1890
all my furniture and household goods.
M. WERNER, Belington
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-18
Rev. VIM. Cross Dead

N Rev. WIN. CrOSS DEAD
Z Rev. VIM. Cross aged 80 died
at the home of his son at French
ton Sunday. The remains were
brought here to be inferred at
Stringtown Tuesday.
Rev. Cross lived in this sect
ion for many years and was a
pioneer minister of Barbour
Co. He. was Familiarity known
as the father of ministers hav-
ing several sons engaged in min
isterial work.
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