The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-06-17
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.BEETHAM ADDRESSES
VOTERS AT BELLEIRE
REPUBLICAN, CANDIDATE FOE
INTERNATIONAL OFFICE HAS
BIG AUDIENCE
East Liverpool Marietta Highway steps
Toward Broad System Of Ample
Roads, Ho Says.

Your great road project from East
Liverpool to Marietta Is but anothG
step towards a system Of broad ana
ample roads" said Hon Rupert Beethan
Republican candidate for Governor. au-
dressing forum meeting IN the 'haM-
her Of Commerce room here last night
More than 100 men and women were IN
ottendanCc, W. G. McClain. Bellatre
banker presided ut the meeting. held
under auspices OF the Chamber or Com
merce. Persons attended from various
parts OF the county. The woman
Civic club OF BellaIre had part IN the
program, early In the evening picture
The City Beautitur' being shown.
Beetham was the second or the Ohio
candidates for governor on the Repuo-
llcan ticket 10 speak At The chamber O:
Commerce. The other was Hon Carmi
Thompson. Of Cleveland Last nights
speaker Is a brother OF Or. A. c. Rect
HON OF this city. Mr. Eeetham said IN
part:
The campaign for your river high
way Is hut another advance with the
development OF the nation. Rome Was
the great road builder Of the ancient
world and Rome Is still our best eS-
ample OF governmental authority.
The Standards found In Peru. ma
ton old and we'll developed IN its CIV
Illzation with splendid system or high
ways A road extended from tho Pactnf
TO the ChIliau border. This sreaa high
way was through the Andes mountains
ono Of the toughest and most danger
Gus OF mountain systems. yet the Fer
uvians burrowed through the living
rock filled the great ravtnes Win Solo
masonery. cut galleries Tor leagues
through stone and swung across the
great rivers by high suspension bridges.
Tho task of building = highway from
here TO Marietta Is but child's play as
compared to what the Perurtans did IN
the long ago. Are we. with all our boast
ed ingenuity and wealth. with all our
great machinery and skill 10 be thwart-
ed by a project that would have been
easy for those old Per-:ians?
Thirty years go We had few good
roads. but we have entered upon new
era. In which the bad road Is giving
way 70 the good and the good roads are
being pushed forward into places where
no roads have ever been before.
THE county TO the south or you has
scarcely been touched. There wealth
Ties hidden Of which you have not
dreamed The hill country to the south
OF you have black diamonds OF wealth
that CroeSus never dreamed. oil the
envy Of a Rockefeller. Such Is the land
that you propose TO tap. The way TO
develope this rich territory and reap
abundant harvests for that country and
yourselves Is with broad and ample
road" We are for broad and ample
road from East Liverpool to Marietta
for It's economic. social and aesthetic
benefits thereby making a better c'ti-
zanship and a more advanced ctriliza-
ton.
To Render cantatas.
Two cantatas will be given at the
souht Bella!re NJ r. church Sunday
evening for the Children's Day ohserr-
ance. Many rehearsals have been held.
The first part OF the program viii be
the cantata. Gods Flowerland," and
the second part will be the cantata.
Heirs OF Liberty" The younger chill
dren will take part In the first and
older persons in the second cantata.
Veterans Return.
Bellaire Civil War veterans VINO at
tended the encampment OF the g. A. X
ut Bucyrus have returned home. THOSE
from here attending were Commander
]. B. Gibson DR.. II. c. Kemple and John
TImbe-lake. The encamphlent next year
Will b, held In Columbus.
Program on Sunday.
An excellent program has been ar
ranged for the observance OF Children
Day at the Mission Chapel on Indian
Run. The program win be given Sum
day at $50 p. m. and Il Will be very
Interesting. no douhh
Church Rally Monday.
The quarterly rally OF the represen-
tatiyes Of the Christian churches OF this
vicinity IL 10 be held next Monday al
HIoundsville. Rev. Charles \. Pearce
and other members of the CHRISTIAN
church Of Bellalre will attend the meet
Ing.
Membership Drive.
Announcement was made yesterday 10
the effect that the Bellaire Post NO. o.
American Legion. will conduct mem
bershIp drive. beginning July l. the
aim Is every member a new member
Plans for the drive for new members
Win he made at a meeting TO De he4u
on Monday evening.
Annual Meettngs
The annual meeting OF the jewish
raustery association Is to be held sun
day ut 1880 a. m. at the Sons or isreal
Temnie on Belmont street. OFFICERS are
N be elected, reports submitted ana
nl.ns made for improving the cemetery
grounds
Rse VS.. Glencoe
A game OF baseball that gives promise
NJ being interesting Is scheduled Tot
sunday afternoon at the Klee diamond
yrhen the Klee A. C. plays the Glencoe
A q nine. The teams are pretty evenly
matched, A big crowd will see the
game.
Tn, Florence Athletic association on