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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
DAY or HIGH SIGNIFICANCE
Memorial Spirit Has Become Much
More Than Mere Tribute to
the Heroic Dead.

Every time the people of this coun-
try observe Memorial day the obliga-
ton becomes greater. For each year
more have passed from this life to
whom Is owed the debt of gratitude
for services rendered In the develop
ment and preservation of the nation.
This Is the true spirit Of Memorial
day, to commemorate the services of
those who wrought for the republic,
who served 1t In it's hours of trial,
who died for it. Originally conceived
as an occasion for the bestowaI of
memories upon those who fell In the
wars. the day has broadened, as 1t
should broaden, into a commemora-
ton of all who have given Of their
talents and wisdom as well as their
strength and their life blood that the
United States might survive and grow
and become an institution for the high
est achievements and the greatest hap
piness of man.
Those who have given their lives,
or who suffered In bodily hurts In the
wars in which this country has been
involved, naturally come first in this
reckoning Of honor and praise today.
But true patriotic service Is not meas
ured solely by military duty, great as
may have been the sacrifice entailed
by 1t. Craftsmanship and citizenship
in times of peace as well as in times
of war have contributed to the up
keeping of the national ideals
1t is, perhaps, the best Of all
thoughts inspired by Memorial day
that tokens Of gratitude and reverence
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
Twelve Good Reasons
for Building a SilO

l. More feed can be stored in a
given space in form of silage than in
form of fodder or hay.
2. A small loss of food material
when crop is made into silage
8. Corn silage is better feed than
corn fodder.
4. An acre of corn or kafir can be
placed into a silo at less cost than the
same area when husked and shredded.
5. Crops can be put in the silo dur
ing weather which could not be util-
lied for curing fodder or hay
6. More stock can be kept on a
given area of land when silage is the
basis of a ration.
Z. Less wasted In feeding silage
than fodder.
8. Silage is very palatable.
8. Silage, like other succulent feeds,
has beneficial effect upon the diges-
tive organs.
10. Silage is the cheapest and best
form in which a succulent feed can be
provided in the winter.
H. Silage can be used for supple
mentary pasture more cheaply than
can soiling crops, because it requires
less labor and cattle like silage better
IL. Converting corn or kafir crops
into silage clears the land and leaves
it ready for another crop.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
Use Banding Material
to Repel Gypsy Moth

Gypsy moth tree-banding material is
greasy and semi-viscid substance
with a tarlike odor, which is being
used by the bureau of entomology in
its control work against the gypsy
moth In New England. This material
has been developed since 1915 to re-
place a German product no longer
available, which was formerly used for
the sameipurpose
Questions have arisen as to whether
the odor or the viscidity of the mate
rial was the chief element which halted
the caterpillars as they tried to get
into the trees. The exhalation or odor,
1t was found on investigation, exercises
restraining influence, but the viscous
or physical condition is more impor-
tant as barrier factor in the band
Studies made in connection with the
solution of these questions, which have
a practical bearing on the development
of an efficient barrier, are described in
a professional paper, United States De
partment of Agriculture Bulletin 1142,
"The Barrier Factors in Gypsy Moth
Tree-Bandng Material" by NJ T.
Smulyan, specialist, bureau of ento-
mology. 1t may be obtained upon APP
plication to the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Washington.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24

are placed upon the graves of those
who fought on both sides Of the war
between the states. This day, though
it had it's origin in the memories Of
that war when the rancors of civil
strife had not subsidized, is now truly
national service. The healing of that
breach is most surely made manifest
by the association of the representa-
tives of both sections in the cere-
monies that take place In all parts of
the country
The United States has become the
stronger, the more surely a union of
interests and the object of the high
est wishes of men of all parts and
states and sections because of the feel
ings that are each year on Memorial
day given expression in the places of
public assemblage, in orations, in mu-
sic and in the impressive observances
at the graves of the dead
Growing in significance year by year,
participated in more generally by the
people of all the states with longer
list Of Americans who have given all
they had for the nations sake and for
their ideals of America, Memorial day
becomes one of the bulwarlzs Of the
nation. 1t is an inspiration to youth
as it is solace to the elders.-New
York Sun.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
CLOSE TO HEART OF NATION
Memorial Day Will Have Deeper
Significance as the Years Recall
Remembrance.

We are reminded by the recurrence
Of Memorial day that it was first in
stituted in the Southern states at the
close of the great conflict which had
almost torn the nation asunder, that
1t found immediate favor in the North
because the idea 1t embodied was es-
sentially so sound and just and ap-
pealed so strongly to the universal
sentiment of gratitude, and that In
May, 1868, at the instance Of Gen.
John A. Logan, commander of the
Grand Army of the Republic, the date
now observed in most of the states of
the Union was fixed. With the ex-
ception Of six Southern states which
observe other dates as memorial days
and of three which have made no
statutory provision the occasion has
become to all intents and purposes
O national holiday, although governed
by the laws of individual states. For
more than half century people have
gathered annually, with increasing
reverence for the men who saved the
Union and with growing appreciation
Of what their patriotism has meant to
the nation, to do honor to their mem
cries. The sacrifices of the heroes of
that war are not forgotten; Memorial
day takes on a deeper and higher
significance with the passage of the
years.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24

They crushed the base of the salient
AS it might be toy of wood,
And gayly over the wire they went
And grinned as it brought the blood;
AS they spilled their blood they laughed
aloud
And knew not that it was drawn.
Mont Sec they took as a leaping cloud
In the bloody sun at dawn,
The bloody sun that turned to gold
And smiled. too, that it should behold
The taking of San Me-heel.
A mighty army found it good,
The taking of San Me-heel
And it found itself and rose to flood
from the taking of San Me-heel.
1t rose to a flood that resistless sped
And the enemy tossed away.
All over France in waves it swept
1t secured the trench holes, mountains
leapt
And brought another day;
Routing the foe with a rush and roar
Cleansing the land, now sweet once
more
Yes, doing that and an added score
For the land of the Stars and Stripes,
well loved;
Proving anew what had been proved,
That the States, all the States are one !;
Stirring the consciousness of race,
RIveting chains that time and place
Snail never break
Well done, well done,
The taking of San Me-heel!
Hail, the taking Of San Me-heel!
Maurice Morris.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
Rosette Disease of
Wheat Is Compared
Difficult to Tell Accurately
Harm Caused by Each.

prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture)
The rosette disease Of wheat, dis
covered In Illinois and Indiana 10 1919,
affects wheat seedlings in somewhat
the same way as do the attacks by the
Iessian fly and certain other insect
pests When the trouble is caused by
insects, their presence or evidence Of
their work serves definitely to show
the cause of the trouble. Wheat seed
lings attacked by rosette disease alone
show no evidence of the presence or
work of insects, 1t is pointed out by
specialists of the United States De
partment of Agriculture who have been
investigating these wheat maladies.
The first positive indications of the
rosette disease become evident early
healthy plants Is well started. Plants
affected by roSette remain dormant In
the spring after the healthy plants
commence their spring growth. Infest-
ed fields are spotted with irregular
patches Of dwarfed plants, the leaves
u WhiNh al z hdA n OluC-SiC Cu III SOlOl
and are rather broad and stiff The
whole plant has bunchy, rosette ap-
pearance.
When both rosette disease and insect
injuries especially those by Hessian
fly, occur together in the spring, 1t
sometimes is difficult to determine ac-
curately the injuries caused by each.
AS the rosette disease is not apparent
In the autumn and as it becomes evil
dent in the spring before the emer-
gence of the adult Hessian fly, there
is very little chance to confuse the two
maladies during these periods. In the
late spring, however, there Is a posi-
bility of confusion, especially If plants
affected by rosette show, in addition,
the spring infestation Of the Hessian
fly. These matters are discussed in
Bulletin 1887, Symptoms of Wheat
Rosette Compared With Those Pro-
duced by Certain Insects, just issued,
and may be secured upon request from
the United States Department of Agri-
culture, Washington, D. G.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
Hail, the Taking
of SAM Me-heel

There was mort of doughboys there,
At the taking of San Me-heel.
They were on the earth and In the air,
They were in the trees and everywhere
At the taking of San Me-heei.
There were boys from the canebrakes of
Loosian',
And the Bowery spilled it's share;
HilIbillies and crackers from the South,
And Texas sent its drawing youth;
The wheatlands wide of the Central West,
Rocky New England. gave their best,
AS California through to Maine,
Mountain and valley, hill and plain,
For the taking of San Me-heel.
Hub scraping hub their cannon stood
At the taking of San Me-heel,
And the sun came up as red as blood,
And the wind came with a squeal;
The wind rose to a screaming yell,
And the reeking guns gave tongue as
well,
A sound as from the depths of hell
And hell let loose, those doughboys came,
And spoke with bullet, steel and flame
At the taking of San Me-heel
The jaws of the trap went snap, went
snap,
At the taking of San Me-heel,
And the wolf was snarling in the trap
AS 1t felt those jaws of Steel
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
Check Weed Injury by
Cleaning Grain Seed

A little effort exerted in cleaning
seed grain is much more effective than
attempting to check weed damage to
the crops through control measures
after the weeds have had a chance to
grow, suggests Matthew Fowlds, in
structor in agronomy at the South Da-
kota State college. The tanning mill
is the best means Of separating the
weed seeds from the seed grain.
New weeds are often introduced by
being mixed in with other seed which
has been shipped in.
Rotation of crops should be prac-
ticed in addition to seed cleaning in a
thoroughgoing weed eradication pro-
gram.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24

pound to my friends as it has certainly
given me great relief. "-Mrs.C C. B. ROB-
NsoN, 608 N. Lincoln St., Amarillo, Tex.
The Vegetable Compound is splendid
medicine for women. 1t relieves the
troubles which cause such, symptoms as
backache, painful times, irregularity,
tired and worn-out feelings and nervous
ness. This is shown again and again by
such letters as Mrs. Robinson writes
as well as by one woman telling another.
These women know what it did for
them. 1t is surely worth your trial.
Housewives make great mistake In
allowing themselves to become so i'll
that it Is well-nigh impossible for them
to attend to their necessary household
duties.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
Spread Manure Thin in
Every Short Rotation

Best evidence indicates that manure
gives largest returns to the ton when
applied thin once in each short rota-
ton, or twice in a rotation of more
than five years. Eight to ten tons to
the acre in a three or four-year rota-
ton, used with an average of 200
pounds of acid phosphate to the acre
each year, give excellent returns, the
New York State College Of Agriculture
at Ithaca has found. A manure spread
er is said to be time and labor saver,
particularly in making light applica-
lions, and it tears up the manure so it
is mixed more uniformly with the SOIL
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
CONNIE THINKS IRIS
GOOD AT FIRST BASE
If Cleveland Managers Legs Go
Wrong He Would Do Well at
the Initial Sack.

Connie Mack has feeling that Iris
Speaker will end up his baseball career
as first-sacker.
When he read that Guisto would
start the season and Bower would sue
coed him in case the Californian failed
to come up to expectations, Mack re-
marked:
even If Guisto and Bower fail to
deliver, Speaker wouldn't have to
worry. Have you ever watched Speak
er playing the infeld? Well, he puts
a lot of time around first base, and
plays it very capably.
playing center field calls for much
leg work. If Speaker finds his lower
limbs are bothering him, 1 can see no
reason why he couldn't shift to first
base. He Is a wonder on ground balls,
is a left-hander, has fine arm and is
sure catch. Speaker has every asset
Of star frst-sacker and 1t wouldn't
surprise me If he rounded out his ca
reer at that position
There is much logic to Mack's obser-
vations about Speaker. For years the
Cleveland manager has practiced a
great deal at first base He is right
now capable of playing the bag. With
bit of experience he could more than
hold his own
It is possible that Speaker may be
the ace in the hole for that job in case
his prospects slip up on him.
However, Speaker feels that Guisto
will deliver and that in Brewer he has
an equally capable substitute.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
Yearling Fruit Trees
Overtake Larger Ones

Yearling trees of some fruits are
quite small trees while of the peach
they will be as large as they should
be at all for planting out, If they are
first class. With all the fruits, the
yearling trees will grow more surely
and many times will overtake the
larger trees in couple of years, even
when they start promptly, and one
fault with large trees is slow starting.
The small trees having less root spread
are damaged less in the digging, and
the small tops make less demand on
the roots.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24

How sleep the brave who sink to rest
By all their country's wishes blestl
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallowed mould
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
By fairy hands their knell is rung;
By forms unseen their dirge is sung;
There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their
clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair
To dwell weeping hermit there.
William Collins.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
Diamond
SquibS

The veteran Elmer Reiger has
caught on again, this time with YER
non.
The Salt Lake City club had sur
plus of outfelders and Bob Kinsella
was the one to be discarded.
The goal of the average college base
ball team should be to make the total
hits keep pace with the error column.
The st. Joseph club has released
Shortstop Bob Brown to Muskogee
and Pitcher Molly Meis to Sioux City.
Detroit and New York will fight it
out for the American league pennant,
in the opinion of 1.y Cobb, manager of
the Tigers
To further brace the Joplin team
the Little Rock club sent down Out
: fielder Kitty Wickham and Pitcher
John Bogart.
Spring estimates Of che relative
merits of the big league ball clubs
have at least eight-to-one chances Of
being accurate.
The Indianapolis club 1t Is an
nounced, will abandon Bogalusa, La,
as a training camp and go to Deland,
Fla, next spring.
Donnie Bush Washington's new
manager, is expected to instill some
Of his pep into his collection Of bah
players for the coming season.
Ty Cobb and Dan Howley have put
their heads together and arranged for
joint training camp for the Detroit
and Toronto teams at Augusta, Ca,
next spring.
The Omaha team this year is the
'old mans home" of the Western
league, for most Of the players are Of
many years experience, from Mama
ger Ed Honey down.
Cappy Kicks, college first baseman.
who had trial with Atlanta in the
early training period, has been signed
by the Scranton club of the New York
Pennsylvania league.
A fan explaining why team would
not get anywhere in its league said
that team had weakness in its pitch
ers, weakness in it's outfeld and
weakness in it's infield.
Paul Osborne, captain Of the Uni
versity of Louisville baseball team.
and big fellow who can do most
anything in athletics, will join the
Louisville Colonies when school closes
Manager Jim Pierce of the Hamil-
ton Mint team wanted no ex-mana-
gers hanging around, so he sold Ernest
Calbert, last seasons leader of the
Hams, to the Decatur club of the
Three-I league
Pat Flaherty, left-handed pitcher IA
nous in the old days for his quick re.
turn delivery, later scout and minor
league manager, has been appointea
assistant coach Of athletics at Prince
ton university.
Frank Chance Is the only manager
on record in baseball who deliberatelv
picked his own team to finish last
Chance Is quoted in Boston newspa-
pers as saying the Red Sox positively
VIII finish in the American leaeue
cellar
Tom Lukanovic, pitcher, is back in
the Three-I league, the Terre Hante
CLUB having obtained him from Tulsa
he was with Peoria in 1919. Another
new Terre Haute pitcher is PAM
stumb' who was with Decatur and
Moline .&at year.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
Save Soil Moisture.

The conservation Of soil moisture is
one Of the most important roles of till
age The moisture of the soil around
the plant Is rapidly exhausted by being
taken up by the plant and eyaporated
through the leaves.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
s1ze5 NNsaasgsx
Pessimists Were Answered.

1t had been said that this country
was not nation, because it could not
count upon the foreign-born in an
emergency. The answer rang out at
Cantigny at Chateau-Thierry, in the
swift advance through st. Mihiel, in
the desperate and triumphant fighting
in the Argonnc.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24

it would almost kill
me and / would have
cramps. l suffered in
this way about three
years; then a lady
friend 8 ugge s ted
that ! try Lydia E
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound. Ihave
had better health
since, eephouse and
am able to do my
work. l recommend
TIA yT1~1%nk1o Cor.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
N2g ssse<gNg
Real Lessot, of the pav.

This is the Memorial day lesson:
that we best honor the dead by see
ing to it that they did not die fo1
naught.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24

A group Of Union veterans Of the
Civil war firing q salute to their de-
parted comrades who fought in the
war between North and South. The
volley Is fired with muskets they used
in the war.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
BACK ACHED
TERRIBLY
Mrs. Robinson Tells How She
Found Relief by Taking Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound

Amarillo, Texas" My back was my
greatest trouble. 1t would ache so that
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24

Tom Lukanovic, pitcher, is back in
the Three-I league, the Terre Hante
club having obtained him from Tulsa.
ne was with Peoria in 1919 Another
new Terre Haute pitcher is PAM
STUMP who was with Decatur and
Moline .&as year.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24

Frank Chance is the only manager
on record in baseball who deliberatalv
picked his own team to finish last.
Chance Is quoted in Boston newspa-
pers as saying the Red Sox positively
VIII finish in the American league
cellar.
The Washington times., 1923-06-16
Chicago Grain Market.

CHICAGO, June 16.-Wheat open
ed about steady with corn and oats
q little firmer today. At Liverpool
wheat opened Nd. higher, but closed
unchanged from prices at the fin
ish yesterday. Here the opening
quotations were:
Wheat-July, 111% to y; Sep
TENDER, 1904 to q; December,
112 to Il.
Corn-July, S2A; September, IS
to II; December. 677s.
Oats-July, 41B; September, 37%
to 38.
Rye-July, 7O5s.
There was scattered selling of
wheat in a small way at the start
This selling increased when it was
noted that public buying power was
lacking. There was a small local
trade in corn but the disposition
seemed to be to wait for develop
ments in Vwheat. Trade was slow
in oats with few small orders in
the pit.
One house says today: Partial
drought over spring wheat terri
tory, cloud bursts, floods. hail and
wind storms west and south have
not excited the importer or the
investor. If these unfavorable items
fail to stimulate a demand, then
it is probable that values will re-
cede with a return of better wealth
err. Pending some development to
clarity the situation and broaden
trade, the market promises erratic,
within q narrow range
The Washington times., 1923-06-16
NEW WARNS Of
FRAUD OIL
STOCKS
Ten Companies, Said to Be In
voIved in Mail Selling Scheme,
Mentioned.

Postmaster General Harry S. New
has issued the third of a series OF
fraud orders as part Of the campaign
to protect the public from unscrupu-
lous promoters. Ten more oil COM
panies are alleged to be involved in
the so-called merger" plan of OBJ
tanning money from unwary in
vestors through stock-selling schemes
carried on through the mails.
The ten companies are operated
from FIT. Worth. Tex, and are sub
salaries of the Revere Oil Company.
which was not itself included in the
fraud order, since it is now in the
hands of receiver. Names Of the
companies follow:
Kosse Gusher Syndicate, Kosse
Gusher Syndicate No. 1, Kosse
Gusher Syndicate No. 2, Kosse
Gusher Lease Pool, Roco-Moran Syn
dictate, Moran Syndicate, Mayflower
Oil Company, Guaranty Lease and
Royalty Company, International
Brokerage Company and the East
ern Trust and Mortgage Company.
The Washington times., 1923-06-16
MERCHANT
BUYING MUCH
IN ADVANCE
Conservatism Prevalent, Dun's
Review Says-Gain in
Distribution.
BY Cosmopolitan News Service.

NEW YORK, June 16.-Dun's
Weekly Review of Business says
today:
Most of the tests by which bust
ness trends are measured show a
diminution of buying in primary
channels, but a gain in retail dis
tribution. These, are seasonal
phases and do not mark any I'M
usual or unexpected change in the
general situation.
1.-The chief interest now ,eenters
on the probable course OF events
after the passing of the summer.
This attitude is reflected by the
increased conservatism in the plac-
ing of advance orders, as we'll as by
the policy Of avoiding burdensome
accommodations of merchandise.
While goods previously contracted
for are being taken readily in most
cases, isolated instances Of cancella-
ti0ns still appear.
1T is the customary period in
certain markets for clearance sales
at lower prices, but this fact does
not account for the continued eX.
cess of declines in a comprehensive
list of wholesale quotations. Some
reports indicate that the element Of
price remains Of less Importance to
buyers than the question of secur-
ing prompt deliveries, yet the heavy
outputs this year have augmented
available supplies and enlarging inn
ports have been a recent feature.
The probabilities are that the rate
of production will recede somewhat
during the summer from purely
natural causes and the present
situation. except in the retail field,
is clearly marked by abatement of
demand