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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-09-01
WRECKS

There are many kinds of wrecks
Physical, Mental R. R., Ship and
Government wrecks. When we are
travelling by r. R. and our train gets
behind a wreck, we become very rest
less and complain about the delay.
We blame the wrecking crew because
they do not clear the track in very
short time, when, if, we would in
form ourselves as to how bad the
wrecks is, we would say, well it is
bad wreck and the men are doing the
best they can to clear the track. #
we are unable to help them let US at
least stop growing"
The Democratic Party has caused
many governmental wrecks in this
country. In 1916 it wrecked the
United States Government and growl-
ed because the Republican Party did
rot clear the track aad get things
Ia shape TO a short tima Actually
blamed tae Republican Party because
taxes wefe high.
e'aei wracker IL modern times
was Woodrow The Great lie wreck
ed The Democratic party. Not 6eia
satisfied with taat, he proceeded tt
wreck the entire country lie put
his son-la-laW, Vs. G Mack-a-dow-ale-
a 81 eaare 81 tae s. s pE2-
yea 70 BE second best Wraesre
Wa all snaw @aat Si1d of Rail-
rsa 3ee sn-ia-law proved 70 be.
r. protect tae .ochAo.dars from loss
uadee Jack ASS management Eoaay
guaranteed a profit waich the TAX
must aow rake good. The
-g5gqEaa sq1 .5u.sno .51g 5@gG2ou9I
cans because Wo5dc9w put 'the eoun-
Try il hole and we are pulling 1t
ea. Whoever heara Of saeh graft
itude. Il reminds me Of q sick PEI
son 'SussingP the doctor for curin 9
him Of some disease.
ST. G. Harding 81 .th bis crew among
who is q solid delegation from #.
Wa, are sorl1ing he Tfogans to clear
the tracks as sooa IS this IS done, the
signal Go ahead viii BE given.
any Jack ASS can wreck train,
bat it requires good judgement and
hard work to clear the track and get
tains running again.
If there had been q statesman with
a "biack bone" 81 the White House
ia 1914 ] doubt very much whether
Germany would have started war.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-09-01
THURSDAY, SEPT. 1st,l921
THE ROAD TO NORNALCY

Uncle Sam is an experimenter
The old fellow has a notion that
he is a great inventor. He feels
that he can pass laws that will
upset the course of universe, and
that merely because he wants
certain things to happen, re-
CARELESS of the fadt that those
things never have worked and
never viii, he is game to try
them out.
He recently turned his back
on common sense and took a
coast down hill of abnorbal con-
ditions. He disregarded all
warnings. While he was going
down, he apparently had a good
time.
But now he has a task of COM
ing back. The road is not so
easy to travel. It is strewn
with wrecks. Many rough spots
must be patched up before he
can reach the top. Also there
are a number Of grumblers, dis
satisfied fellows who wanted to
continue the downward slide.
Instead of the warning signs
he saw on the way down, he sees
on the reverse side of the bill
boards directions for his return
They irk him But he knows
that he must follow the direct
ions. Some o fthe signs read:
Cut out the jocl1ying for time
and political preferment. Get
down to business.
Business laws are common
sense. Use your head.
You got to pay for everything
70 get in this world. You have
had your fun now pay for it.
You can't lift yourself by
your boot straps.
There is no substitute for
hard work. Perpetual motion
has not been invented.
Every action means an equal
reaction. Every imitation
means an equal defation.
Prosperity means co-operat-
ion plus common sense plus 10y
al American citizens.
The road to normalcy must be
be travelled. Adjustments must
be made. No person was res
ponsible for the hilarious time
we have been having during the
past few years, and no one per-
son can bring Uncle Sam back
to his former place. The home
~, common laws Of business and
common sense have been violat-
ed. We must pay the penalty
and serve our sentence.
The road that Uncle Sam
must travel to normally is befor
us. It is up to you and l, loyal
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-09-01
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING

The annual Stockholders meeting
Of the Tygarts Valley Mineral and
Oil Co., will be held on Tuesday Sep
TENDER 9th, 1921, at 2. p. m. their
Office Belington, W. Va, for the pur-
pose of electing Board of Direc-
tors and for the transaction of such
other business as may come before
this meeting.
NJ. sCHLOsSER, sect'y.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-09-01
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING

The annual Stockholders meeting
of the Consumers Heat, Light, Water
& Power Co., will be held in their
Office, Belington, w w. on Tuesday
Seutember 10Th, 1921, at 9 a. m. for
the purposes of electing Board Of
Directors and for the transaction of
such other business as may come be-
fore this meeting.
0. c. CLARK, sect'y.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-09-01
Hot Weather Diseases

Disorders Of the bowels are ex-
tremely dangerous, particularly dur
ing the hot weather of the summer
months, and in order to protect your
self and family against sudden at
tack, get bottle Of Chamberlain's
Collie and Diarrhoea Remedy. It
can be depended upon. Many have
testified to its excellence.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-09-01

FOR SALE QUICK-One 80 acre
farm on B. &. F. Improved Pike 1-2
miles north of Belington running
back to another road in rear 3-4
improved, balance in small timber.
Fairly good buildings on rear. VIII
offer this at a bargain if sold within
next so days. For prices and terms
see
D. B. POLLING
Belington, w. Va. R. F. D. }.
8-25-4t.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-09-01

spoonfuls Of chilli sauce season with
salt and pepper, bring to the boiling
point and thicken with one tablespoon
full of butter cooked with one table
spoonful of flour Serve with crou-
tons.
Sponge Pound cake.-Beat one-half
cupful Of butter to a cream, add the
grated rind of a lemon and gradual
ly beat in one-half cupful of sugar
and the beaten yolks of four eggs, one
cupful Of -four sifted again with one
tablespoonful of cornstarch and a tea
spoonful of baking powder; lastly fold
in the stiffly-beaten. whites and bake
in loaf thirty to forty minutes. This
recipe makes a cake of sponge cake
texture; for finer grained cake use
one-half teaspoonful of baking pow
der
Prune Whip Parfat.-Take one-half
cupful Of stewed prunes, stoned and
mashed, one-half cupful of raisins,
seeded and boiled in water to keep
from burning, a pinch Of salt, eight
marshmallows cut up in a half-cupful
Of cream or rich milk and steamed in
a double boiler until soft, then beaten
smooth. into the marshmallow mix
ture whip the other ingredients and
set away to chill. When ready to
serve heap in sherbet glasses, pour
over little whipped cream and
sprinkle with broken pecan meats.
Egg Scrambled With Ham.-Break
three or four eggs into a saucepan,
add a little milk, seasoning of salt
and pepper and butter, then add
half cupful of chopped cooked ham;
stir until well mixed and serve with
buttered toast and fried potatoes.
NlAa NlA,4 VEN
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-09-01
Hunger. the Best Sauce.

Sauce is used to create an appetite
or relish for the food. The right
way is to look to your digestion
When you have good digestion YOU
are certain to relish your food. Cham
berlain's Tablets improve the digest
ion, create healthy appitite and
cause gentle movement of the bow
els
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-09-01

OF seFVIHg. II Iahes 70
stalks Of 8-inch aspara-
gus to meet the allow
ance of one calorie por-
ton. AS most of the ia
vor vegetables lack fuel
value, though rich in
mineral salts, they are
best served with a full
allowance Of some food
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-09-01
NOTICE OF ANNUAL STOCK
HOLDERS MEETING OF PENN'A

IOAL & MINING %, OF W. Va.
The annual stockholders meeting Of
this corporation will be held at the
Office of Consumers Heat, Light, Wa
ter & Power Co., on September 28th,
1921, at 1890 a. m. for the purpose
of electing a board Of Directors for
the ensuing year and to ratify all
actions of the present Officers and
Directors and such other business as
may be legally brought before this
meeting.
ED0RE W. BROWN, sect'y
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r
Put two cupfuls of cold
baked beans, four cup
fuls Of water, two slices
of onion and a few celery
leaves in a saucepan and
let simmer one hour.
Put through a sieve with
one cupful Of stewed to-
111n4nne. nnA frr.n 1919
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-09-01

patriotic American Citipens, to
put our shoulders to the wheel
and assist in this readjustnent
period.-Ex.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-09-01

If you would know the flavor of a pie,
The juicy smell, the spice and taste,
You must be patient till the fiery core
is cool,
Then bite little deeper than the crust.
If you would know the flavor of
man,
Gods mud-pie made of Edens dew
and dust
Be patient till loves fire has warmed
him through
And look a little deeper than the
crust"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-09-01
GOOD THINGS.
Baked : Bean soun. :

A good dish to use up baked beans
is the following:
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-09-01
sEAsoNAgLE GOOD THINGS.

Serve green onions often as well
as asparagus, but vary the methods
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q, 1921, western Newspaper Union.)

Most of the critical things in life,
which become the starting points of
human destiny. are little things
p. Smith
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The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-30

the life l had lived and its earth
wide, abysmal difference from the ex-
perience of the past six weeks.
Silence for a time and then:
"Book-learnin' and good clothes and
eatin' with a fiat fork r. oil right,
Stannie, but they don't make the man
mr. the woman; there's got to be some
thin inside; somethin' a heap bigger
than any O. them things"
"Quite So" / admitted.
Another silence and at the end of
1t the old philosopher again:
You been sort o. sore about my
Jeanne, since yesterday She's
been eatin' your gran-paw's bread, like
me, and you thought, and / thought,
that she might at least we waited a
little spell afore she run off with Char
ley Fullerton. Maybe we've been
jumpin' at things too sudden, StaAnie.
What made her ride way up yonder
to Greaser sidln' to catch that train?
And how come Charley Fullerton TO
marry her one day and be up here
with his bunch o. gunner by daybreak
the mex morning."
Has JEANNE friends in Angels with
whom she could be staying?' l asked.
Not a single soul. He'd a-had to
leave her at the Chink's hotel and
that amt no place for a woman, mar
ried r t'otherwise."
"But supposing they didn't so to
Angels?"
"There amt no other place they
could go and let him get back, as you
might say, in the same day"
"Say it all, Daddy" l prompted.
There amt much to say, Stannie,
boy, 'ceptin' what l said afore, that
maybe we'd been Jumpin' at things
sort o. blind-like. J~eannie's got a heap
O. sense-if | do say it as shouldn't
and the whole gee-rlpittin' thing, as we
been putin it up, amt no more like
her than winters like dog-days."
Having I'll the subject into a cor
ner we were both speechless for a lit
tie time and l think it was almost with
a sense of relief that we sprang alert
when the dog, hitherto sleeping quietly
at our feet, jumped up and ran to hold
his nose at the threshold of the door
upon the dump head.
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XVI
Burnt Matches

Following the dog to the door, we
could neither see nor hear anything
going on outside, though Barney's
snifings under the door and his low
growl warned us hat something was
afoot, either on the dump head or In
the partly wrecked cabin beyond.
While we were still peeping and peer
ing, each at his auger-hole and each
ready to take an offhand shot at any
thing that seemed suspicious, the ST.
lence of the mountain night was ripped
and torn by the most hideous clamor
imaginable, arising, apparently, In the
cabin or perhaps from the growing Of
trees just behind II. The racket was
deafening comparable to nothing that
I'd ever heard; a magnifed orchestra
ton, so to speak, of the pandemonium
made by a crowd of country boys
serenading a newly married pair with
tin pans and such-fike noise-making
implements.
"What In the name o. Joab !" slut
tered Daddy Hiram. "Reckon them
gosh-dummed pirateers We gone plum
ioony?"
"Wait," 1 qualified, and 1 had TO
shout TO make myself heard. "There1l
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CHAPTER xIv.-continued.

1t was a little after noon, while we
were squatting on the floor to eat
another meal warmed up over the chip
fire, that we found out the answer
to all the guesses and learned what
the mechanical noises of the night
and forenoon had been leading up to.
One of the left-overs from the work
ing period of the mine was a good-sized
steam force pump which, we took 1t,
had once been Installed ON one of the
lower mine levels and had been hoisted
out of the shaft ahead Of the adyanc-
ing water flood and put under shelter
In a corner of the boiler shed. As
/ was passing my tin cup for more of
Daddy's excellent coffee the rattle and
clank Of a pump began to make itself
heard, together with the coughing
chug-chug of the steam exhaust there
from.
THAT'S that low-level pumpv I ex-
claimed. "They must have connected
it up with the boil"
Whooshl that was just as far as 1
got. In the middle midst of the word
boilers" a two inch jet of muddy wa
ter came curvlng up through one of
the window openings to arch over and
fall. splash, all over us as we sat
munching our dinner. Everlastingly
ruined the dinner, put out the fire, up
set the coffee pot, and made drowned
rats of both of us in less time than it
foEQc fo foil ff-mn0b loss
So much for that. Of course, we ran
and ducked and lodged, like the
drowned rats speak of hunting for
a hole. But now Bullerton's devilish
engineering ingenuity came into play.
By some means as yet unknown to us,
he had contrived d movable nozzle to
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fresh scheme for getting rid of us, was
TO get a bar and pry our two doors
open so that the breeze might blow
through and air the place out a bit.
Closing and barring the doors after
the sulphur stencil had been reduced
TO a mere matchbox odor, we estab-
lished our night-watch. Daddy Hiram
taking the first trick under a solemn
promise to call me at the end of a
couple of hours. This time he behaved
better. rousing me a little before mid
flight. He reported everything quiet,
and pointed to the sleeping dog as evil
dence that there were no intruders
within smelling distance.
Been that-away v e since you
turned In" he said, meaning, as l took
II, that the dog had been resting easy.
"You can just keep an eye on Barney.
If anything goes to s%tirrin', he'll know
1t afore you Will"
Nothing did stir and after Daddy
had gone to wrap himself In his damp
blankets, l had my work cut out for
me keeping awake; IN fact, / shouldn't
want TO swear that / was fully awake
during all of the one hundred and
twenty minutes that my sentry-gO last
ed. No matter about that. Fullerton
didn't spring any more surprises on us
during my watch and when l turned
the fortress over to Daddy at two
O'Clock l was able to pass the "all
quiet report back to him and go to
the blankets with an easy conscience.
l had just dropped asleep, as 1t
seemed to me-though In reality / had
slept like a log for more than two
hours-when Daddy Hiram anne to
shake me awake.
"Somethin' doin'," he announced
quietly, and when 1 sat up / saw that
the collie vas moving uneasily from
one doer to the other, stopping now
and Their to stand m~otiOnless with his
ears cooked and his head on one side:
Barney hears something" / VEN
tured; and a moment later Daddy
broke in:
Huh it's plain enough for my old
ears, now it's a wagon comm across
the bench"
CrO BE C~ONTINUED)
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When he was forced to make a bolt
for the l~ife-saving hole in the door, I
ran in again thus got a couple of the
floor planks loose and pried them out.
In the space beneath the open
cracked floor we found BullertOn's
chimney end an old discarded boiler
flue, II seemed to be, leading up from
the bench below. From unearthing
the deadly thing to muzzling 1t with
one Of u wet blankets was the
breathless work of only a minute or
two; and with the gas-main thus shut
off, the air In the shafthouse soon be-
came bearable again, the hole we had
chopped through the floor serving as
a ventilator through which the cool.
crisp night air came rushing In a re-
vivifying blast.
Our first care, after a prolonged
silence led us TO believe that the raid
ers had withdrawn to study up some
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his squirt-gun, and in another minute
there wasn't a single dry spot left In
that s~hafthouse. / venture to say that
Daddy and ! and the dog ran a full
mile trying TO get out of range of that
demoniacal sozzle-machine. but there
wasn't a corner of the place that it
couldn't, and didn't, reach.
During the night the scoundrels had
laid a pipe line from the pump in the
boiler shed alongside of our prison
fortress; this with an upright extern
sion on the business end of it. At the
top of the sandpipe stem there was an
elbow with q short joint of pipe
screwed into 1t to point our way and
on the end of this nozzle there was a
piece OF rubber hose. Under the jerky
impulses of the pump strokes this fex-
file extension of the nozzle Topped
up and down and around and side
wise, like the nose of a patent lawn
sprinkler and there you are-or there
we were.
"Gosh-to-S Solomon ~ Daddy splut-
tered, Eve amt on the water wagon
we're spank inside of 1t! Are you re
memberin', Stannie, that they can keep
this gosh-dum thing VI ~f'rever? All In
the world they've got to do is to put
a stick o. wood on the fire now and
them Say, son they got us goin' and
comm; we can't eat, and we can't
sleep no more whatever"
by heavens, 1 those boilers,
and II / could get a stick Of dynamite
under 'em, I'd fix the fellow that's fir
ing 'em !" I shivered; and then the
bright idea was born. "Say, Daddy,
We can stop it~ l yelled; and just
then the water devil outside made an
other fendish flop and got me square
ly in the face.
But 1t didn't drown the bright idea.
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be more to follow. This Is only the
curtain-raiser."
But my guess appeared to be no
good. For quite some little time we
crouched, guns at the ready. prepared
to repel the assault which we natural
ly SUPPOSED would be made under
cover Of the distracting racket. But
there was no assault, though the mean
ingless clamor kept up without abate-
pent.
BY the time we were beginning to
grow a trifle hardened TO 1t the clamor
stopped as abruptly as IT had begun
and the silence witch succeeded was
evcn more d~eafeRlng than the noise
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No less binding than the Hippo
cratic oath. taken by physicians on en-
tering their profession. promising
never to divulge any secrets obtained
through their practice as physicians.
is the great unwritten law of hospi-
tally that makes II obligatory on the
host or hostess or members OF the
hosts household. to respect the per-
sonality of all those who tarry within
their gates. Recounting ~pecuilari-
ties or petty faults Of our nelghbors
and ac%quaintances is at best a mean
way Of diverting ourselves and our
frfends-though II is something that
we all do at some time or other-but
when the persons about whom we
gossip are our guests. or the lnfor-
nation we have about them was de-
rived when they were our visitors. our
conduct Is beneath contempt.
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CHAPTER XIV.
Hiqh Explosives

The idea was one which ought to
have suggested itself mach sooner.
The steam supply pipe for driving the
big ceDtrifugals at the shaft-mouth
came through the wall over our heads,
and II was the sight of this pipe,
steaming even on the outside Of It's
thick Insulating jacket of asbestos un-
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All things worth do';s are apt TO
be difficult before they ere easy.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1921-12-13

faal", % at Observation-Disclosures bar
ifinlt UNDER oisie @rsniager bar man
gcpis for, ba &aalen er firoen | ct
Sfur paa llbitilinqsgrunoen. &e.
lgieringso9enter | minneapolis bapoe
ben Sang iaaet Barrel ON, of BET life
forbolot iig iaa ganife ristig meb EN-
2aoning Sopebfaal, iom bar ienot
fra 8innipeg til Wsaebpen, men efs
ter nogen llnberisgelie fanot man,
at 8aalen bar gaaet fra ct. Saul til
Inofa, % bio fon1 nlar, affurat 10
Gage forient. 8eeipelbeoen er M
rippet op igien peb at ~ SLATER
"Scotcb @biifp" bellaslagoes hos en-
Manb / Mnofa. Oct laoer bog til, at
benne Wanb life bar bapt oct minoite
at gisre meb "Sopeofaalen", og for
iaa blot er oct nprmeit Ssrl9gningSs
b%eticntene fun en- sgrsrelie.
Cpnsrbr iom Eenseifrin. aoam
&orouifp, en- 20 gar gammel WtanO,
iom Dor alene / en- liben elenbig Spts
te ,paa Roroiioen / minneapolis, fom
forleoen til ben n9rliggcnoe gran0-
itation % fortalte aapteinen Der, at
ban banoe en- 8engeium, iom ban be.
spnote at blipe 9ngitelig for, og bao
ON Sielp til at faa oisie Sparcitils
linger anbragt | en- 8anf. 20 $50.
litim9no blep ienbt meo Wanoen for
at poe bam Den Sieneite, ban maatte
tr9nge, og De fanot bans Spite iaa
f%attigslig % bar, at Der neppe NOT
%fanotes ben cling, bpori Tenge finn.
De tGnfes at bore ifiult. Eaa 6ul-
pet laa en- gammel % noget flaos
trampet 29ngoe al ct Spnsrsr, oe
bette tog oen gamIe Wanb op og be-
gDnotc at rette paa. 3lubem9noes
ne maatte bielpe ham at faa De itsr.
itc 8liler no al Gsritubben, % Ell all
Den bullet Hsrl9ngoe blep enoelig
trltffet no beraf. Otter abifiaig me
re Arbeibe fit man tritffet no al ocns
ne iioite Ell liben Baffe, inOpiflct /
glpispapir og iurret paafrpos %
paatpers meb Spsiine. Oct tog lang
2ib of faa Yaffen anbnet, men enbe.
Zig TOM Itan til Hoiinen / SsNen,
iom bite fig at bore en- Titl Henge.
ieoler, / Stprrelie' fra Ell til 90 Sol.
lars. Eolitibetientene fll1loe beuio.
ne, at Der bar nsiagtig ct Suiino
Collars, iom oerpaa blep lat / gan-
fen. getientene ipntes oct belle bar
Ell %panpittig glffGre, % Den enc al
Dem ipurgte Wanben, buorfor ban
bapoe anbragt fine Yelt9e / Spnsre-
ret for iaa at laoe bette lis9e ben.
il9ngt paa @ulpet. So, ban troeoe
ineen Spp eller &spcr pilbe umage
Zig meb at tage bette op, nlet tpert.
imoo sipe BET ct foragteligt Sparf,
naar sc banbe ruifet igiennem DC faa
1ing / &ptten. 90 bette matte De
floge Yolitim9no inoremme.