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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-09-06

Life is not to live, but &Hl)
to be WELL" !.
The body is no stronger
than its weakest organ. A
Rinsing will not remove
germs from drinking cups and glasses.
Hot water and soap are required !;
better still, have your own drinking
cup.
Charleston, w. Va, recently passed
an ordinance requiring all persons en-
gagged in the handling of food in pub
lie eating places to have a physical
examination by doctor
AS the number of pure water sup
plies increases, the typhoid fever death
rate decreases.
Only the unvaccinated have small
pox.
If the baby could talk, he would
demand his rights and ask for a birth
certificate from the State Department
of Health, thus establishing his citizen.
ship, legitimacy, and inheritance
rights.
Health is the secret of Youth and
Beauty. Fresh air, nourishing food,
exercise, clean teeth and baths, CON!
tribute to. both.
o-thirds of the tuberculosis in
in children is due to drinking milk
from tuberculous cows.
If venereal diseases killed as prompt
ly as influenza, persons would realize
their CANCERS; but they steal upon
the victim in the form of insanity,
locomotor ataxia, apoplexy and heart
diseases, besides producing blind, de-
formed and mentally defective of
spring.
venereal diseases clinics in which
persons unable to pay the established
fee may receive free treatment, are
being conducted in Logan, Charleston,
Oak HILL Moundsville, Clarksburg,
Wheeling, Beckley, Huntington, Nor
gantown, Point Pleasant and Rich
wood. A total of 1900 persons were
treated during their first six months
of operation.
But we wish they would appropriate a
little more for health.
Every death which occurs within
West Virginia, should be recorded with
the nearest registrar. Registrars are
scattered all over the state not more
than ten miles apart. Without this
record, insurance will not be paid and
other inheritance matters settled with
ont court procedure.
The person who takes all sorts OF
medicines is flirting with the under
taker.
I'm dirty, filthy little fly,
never wash my feet;
But every single chance get,
l. walk on what you eat. !,
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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-09-06

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the Mina earthquake relief 9
OF Atlantic Fleet l9159
guhed Service Medal for service connection with fitting afterwards
American IN
the North Sea; commanded Balep Delaware l91s
College.
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named for the Colorado River launched June 49, Norfolk
Va The u s. Colorado 1861
1862 the
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Colorado,
state Colorado which was launched April 1902 the yards the William
Ship and Building
long, her beam length SO and her
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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-09-06
SMALL TOWN HUMOR
AND PHILOSOPHY
BY BUCK CAMPBELL

If some people were required
to stand on their dignity they
would have to lie down.
You can kill a man with kind
ness, but it is much easier to
use the gun that Is not loaded.
=
1t Is no trouble to make some
folks believe the moon Is made
of green cheese, and how do you
know that it is not?
-
Political patriots would be
rather scarce If there were no
salaries or opportunities for
graft in the positions.
-
Did you ever see q red-head-
ed, freckle-faced hobo? No!
Red hair denotes long life, en-
ergy and fierce disposition.
Beware of the man who wants
to do something for you, two to
one that he is looking for an
opportunity to do something to
you.
II you never say anything
about man that you would not
say to his face, there would be
lot of mean things that would
not be said.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-09-06
DR.. ]. E. GIBSON
Office in Posto6ce Building
- III 9seS@sii
Dentist
SMALL TOWN HUMOR
AND PHILOSOPHY
By BUCK CAMPBELL

~~~<~~<>~~~~
A lost art: "How to make a
mint julep."
1.-THE reflections Of a bach
elor" is popular theme for dis
cussion In the bobbed-hair girl
club.
You don't have to be a rich
man to be public benefactor;
just help to keep your home
town clean.
So many people get religion
that do not know what to do
with it and leave it lying around
for some one else TO find.
II you look on the sunny side
of life and live the way you
look, you may not SO readily see
the shady side of life Of the
other fellow.
The fellow who can have a
good time" carrying water for
a picnic crowd Is entitled to a
life membership in the amalga-
mated society Of easy marks.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-09-06
Caylngs Of !. X
Oanit;ary SanA

"ife is not to live, but
to be we'll"
The body is no stronger
than its weakest organ.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-09-06
LADY WAS IN A BAD FIX
FROM NERVOUS INDIGESTION

Biloxi, Miss had, for year or
more, nervous indigestion, or some form
Of stomach trouble" says Mrs. Alonzo
Ford. lit Clay Street, this city. "The
water drank at that time seemed to
constipate me. would suffer until got
so nervous ! wanted TO get down on the
floor and roll. felt like could tear
my clothes.
every night, and night after night, l
had to take something for laxative, and
il had TO be kept up nightly. My side
would pain. ] looked awful. My skin
was sallow and seemed spotted. ! would
look at my hands and arms, and the flesh
looked lifeiess.
81 happened to geta Birthday Almanac,
so told my husband would try the
Black-Draught, which did. took a
few big doses. felt nuci, better. My
liver acted we'll. made good, warm
teaand drank it that way. Soon found
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-09-06
The Suicide Age.

According to an Italian scientist VINO
has classified 1000 cases of self-de-
struction, more suicides occur between
the ages of fifteen and twenty-six than
at any other period in life.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-09-06
Doubtful.

Doubtful.
aPa," said Johnny, looking up from
his composition, lis 'waterworks' al
one word or do you spell 1t with
hyAraut T'--BoSten Transcript.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-09-06

that nervous, tight feeling was going, as
was the pain in my side. found did not
have to take it every night. Soon, after
a few weeks, ! could leave it off for
week or so, and did not suffer with
constipation. !. (. gained flesh. have
good color, and believe it was stubborn
liver, and that Black Draught did the
work.
81 went to my mothers Mrs. Deeters)
one day, and she wasn't well at all. Il
told her we'd try Black raught. We
did, and now she keeps it to take after
eating. 1t certainly helped her. and we
neither will be without it in our homes.
II is so simple, and the dose can be
regulated as the case may be. We use
small doses after meals for indigestion,
and larger doses for headache or bad
liver"
Thedford's Black-Draught liver med
icine is for sale everywhere. Ia
The broad ax., 1923-12-22

Of the Roosevelt State Bank Of Chicago Grand
and Thry-hfth Street, Chairman the Board
of Directors of the Bankers State Bank Northeast Corner
Grand Boulevard at Fortyeventh Street Many Coored
Men and Women Transact Their Banking Business
Two Banks.
The broad ax., 1923-12-22

Woodward; Hymn. Audience, "Best
Be the Tie that Binds" Invocation.
Rev. William Carroll, Member OF
Charity Lodge, No l08. Address, Mr..
John B. Hart, p NJ, Mt. Hebron
Lodge No. %. Vocal Selection. Mr..
Geo. Bramlett. Sleep Baby, Sleep"
waltz, Orchestra. Trombone Solo,
William Robinson. Ceremonies OF
Constitut ng and Inaugurating, By Il.
H. Samuels, NJ w. G. NJ. and Staff.
Overture, Orchestra. Commission
William Woodward, WI P. Fluker,
VIM. Reed Riley Lewis.
Grand Master Samuels made a
great talk and he and the members Of
his official staff. including his lovable
wife. Mrs. Samuels were warmly re-
ceived BY all Of the brethren.
The broad ax., 1923-12-22
DOCTOR CROSBY OF DETROIT
BRINGS SUIT AGAINST MANY
RAILROADS FOR FORCING
HIM TO RIDE IN Jim CROW"
CARS

Detroit, Mich.-Dr. E. Crosby, 668
Winder street, has filed suit against
the Interstate Commerce Commiss on.
at Washington, D. C., against the
Frisco Lines, Seaboard Air Line rail
way. Southern Railway System, At
lanta and West Point Railroad Co,
Tennessee Central Railway Co., Nash
vile and Chattanooga and ST. Louis
Co., the Pullman Car Co, the Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad Co.,
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Po-
tomac Railroad Co., and the Georgia
Central Railroad Co, as well as the
chief OF police, jails and Police Officer
Watkins Of Vinita, Okla.
He claims $l75,OOO damages, alleg-
ing he was refused Pullman accomo-
dations, was forced to stand in Jim
crow cars while conductors and train
men occupied seats, and was com
PEELED to get out Of a berth in Okla
homa and undergo arrest for violation
OF jim-crow car law.
The broad ax., 1923-12-22
SPEEDERS KILLED 1865 LAST
YEAR

Washington, d. C.-Deaths fro II
automobile accidents numbered 1l,666
last year in the census registration
area Of the United States, which con
tains IS per cent OF the total popula-
ton. This is an increase of l,496
over the previous year.
The total number of killed as shown
in census bureau figures represents a
death rate of IFS per 100000 popula-
ton, an increase Of one for every 1O0,-
600 as compared with 1921, when the
rate was lis. Since 1917, when the
rate was 90 per 100000, there has
been an increase Of 3.5 per 100000 in
the deaths.
California has the highest rate OF the
thirty-seven States in the registration
area, its total representing 200 per
100000 population. New York had
the second highest rate with l67. Los
Angeles had the highest rate in the
sixty-seven cites reporting, showing
29.5 per 100000.
The broad ax., 1923-12-22
Two Banks.

Early in June, 1921, the Roosevelt
State Bank Of Chicago, at 35th street
and Grand boulevard, threw its doors
open to the public and from that time
to the present the bank under the
wise and far-seeing management Of
Mr. Alexander Flower. its president.
has continued to make rapid strides
forward and right now its capital and
surplus amount to almost two hundred
thousand dollars and ii is safe and
sound through and through
President Flower and his associates
are all high class and successful bust
ness men and they are fully determined
to extend the power and influence OF
the Roosevelt State Bank until it
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reaches to all parts of the south side.
President Flower at this time wishes
TO heartily thank the thousands W
colored people who have 50 Loyalty
stood by the Roosevelt State Bank for
the past two years and half.
He earnestly hopes that all III His
colored fellow citizens will greatly
enjoy themselves as long as the holi-
day season lasts.
AS stated elsewhere, Mr.. Flower Is
chairman of the Board of Directors OF
the Bankers State Bank at 47th street
and Grand boulevard, which IS posi-
tive proof that he is wide awake and
one OF the most successful bankers in
Chicago.
The broad ax., 1923-12-22
CHARITY LODGE NO. 1O8 F. AND
A. M. CEREMONIES OF CON-
SHUTTING AND INAUGU-
RATING

Saturday evening, December is, at
Mason Hall, 1888 S. State street the
above named new Masonic Lodge
bursted into fill bloom and its officers
for the first year are as follows: Wor-
shipful Master. Aaron Price; Senior
Warden, Lloyd Steel; Junior Warden,
Sherman Norman; Secretary, Harry
Wells; Treasurer, Allen Henry Will
son, Tyler Charles Hill, Chaplain;
Rev Elijah Howard; Senior Deacon,
William Ofard; Junior Deacon, Era
Ford; Senior Steward, Jerry billiard;
Junior Steward, Mar Us Dukes: Mar
shall, Frank w. Smith The follow
ing program was rendered:
Program
Master Of Ceremonies, William
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President of the Bankers State Bank Foryseventh Street
and Grand Boulevard Where He Can Be Found Each Day.
During Banking Hours Shaking Hands and Pleasantly
Greeting His White Colored Friends Who Trans
Their Banking Business With Him.

Mr.. Samuel F. Flower, President OF
the Bankers State Bank, 47th street
and Grand boulevard, continues ia
force himself to the front in the bank
ing world and under his direct man
agement the Bankers State Bank con
tinues to fill long felt want or need
in the neighborhood where it is located
and its officers are as follows:
Alexander Flower, Chairman Of the
Board OF Directors; Samuel F. Flower,
President; Harry H. Vehon, Vice
President; Arthur w. Highly Cashier;
Julius ] Calvin, Mgr. New Business.
Directors: Alexander Flower, Chair
The broad ax., 1923-12-22
THE LINCOLN STATE BANK OF
CHICAGO DECLARES A
PER CENT EXTRA DIVI-
DEND

The Lincoln State Bank, BIOS S.
State street and No. 9 E. 31st street.
under the executive management Of
its president, Mr.. George F. Leibrandt,
IS winding up prosperous year and
it has just declared per cent extra
dividend to make its stockholders
happy, in addition to its regular ~
per cent quarterly dividend, payable
December 81 to stockholders of record
December 20, 1923.
The broad ax., 1923-12-22

man, President Roosevelt State Bank;
Samuel F. Flower, President Bankers
State Bank Harry II. Nehon, retired
merchant; Arthur W. Highly, Cashier
Bankers State Bank; George F. Lie
brandt, President Lincoln State Bank;
Chester M Marthens, President Mar
thens Marble Co.; NJ. M. Rothschild
President NJ. NJ. Rothschild, Inc; Mil
ton Hart, Treasurer Realty Bond and
Mtge. Go.
With millions of dollars behind it,
the Bankers State Bank will soon be-
come one Of the solid and one Of the
leading financial institutions on the
south side.
The broad ax., 1923-12-22
THE SPHINX REAL ESTATE
CORPORATION

The Sphinx Real Estate Improve
ment Corporation, with their offices at
$3.50 State Street, are making huge
success. This corporation is owned
and controlled by experienced men
who know the Judging OF real estate
values.
Shares in this corporation may Be
bought at 500 per share. A savings
plan has been arranged whereby one
may pay a small amount down and
balance in easy weekly installments
until the full amount of share is paid
The broad ax., 1923-12-22
MRS. EMERY RETURNS

Mrs. NJ. Emery, 1858 N. Wells St.,
has returned to the city from Bruins
wick, Mo, where she spent seven
weeks as the guest Of her her two
brothers, John and Colfax Ford. Mrs.
Emery had pleasant stay in her old
home town.
The broad ax., 1923-12-22

ECty Attorney Of Chicago One of the Most Trial Law
in This City, Popular Silver Tongued Orator President of
the Famous Cook County Marching Club Who Can Count His
the Famous Cook County Democratic Marching Club Who
Can Count His Friends by the Hundreds Thousands Who
Would Make Tptop Candidate for Attorney General OF
Illinois in 1924 and Mr. Devne Feels Happy Being Able
to Wish His Many Friends Much Happiness This Time.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-14
PRISON SHAPED LIKE EAR
Tyrant of Syracuse Constructed Cave
So That He Could Hear Conver-
sations of Suspects.

The Ear Of Dionysius was the name
given to a celebrated cavern near
Syracuse in Sicily, said to have been
constructed by Dionysius the Elder,
tyrant of Syracuse, and used by him
as prison for suspected persons This
cave was 250 feet long and so feet
high. 1t was fashioned in the shape
of a human ear, and was so construct
ed that the faintest sounds were con-
veyed from all parts to a central cham
Der, corresponding to the tympanum
or drum of the earl There this tyrant
secreted himself, sometimes, it is said,
for days, and listened to the CONVEX
sations of the unfortunates imprisoned
within.
The wOrkmen who built the dungeon
were put to death to prevent them
from divulging the use to which it was
put A whisper at one end could be
distinctly heard at the other, by put
ting ones ear close to the rock, while
the tearing of paper sounded like a
series of plOsiOns.-DetrOit News.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-14
Restrictions of Plehelans.

Roman commoners were called Pie
beians and were originally forbidden
all political rights. They were for the
most part poor, and not allowed TO
intermarry with the Patricians. They
served in the army without pay, were
sold into slavery for debt, and could
even be cut in pieces for distribution
among their creditors. Finding their
conditions intOerable, the Plebeians in
400 B. C. repaired to Mons Sacer, near
Rome, where they resolved to build
new city, but this step so alarmed
the privileged classes that they grant
ed to the Plebeians the right of cho0s-
ing annually from their own NUMBER
two magistrates, called tribunes with
power to protect them against aggreS-
sion of the Patricians. After the lapse
of about 200 years the disabilities OF
the Plebeians were almost entirely re"
moved
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-14

And who wouldn't be? For until this
morning they had been motherless.
Yes, they had never known a mother.
And now, at dawn, when they 81 ole
down into the sitting room to look
at their stockings hung on the mantle,
there on the bear skin before the
hearth just as Santa had left her, sat
a beautiful, golden-haired, blue-eyed
of softest topaz color and all trailing
and soft, just as a mothers should be.
On one of her pretty white fingers a
big diamond cleaned in the freight,
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-14
THE L-WHACKER AND THE
BIBLE

TUST before the Civil war Russell,
j Majors and Waddell were the lead
ing government contract freighters OF
the West. They operated $500 wagons
using more than 10000 oxen and 1000
men. Their teamsters were known as
bull -whackers and many of them were
about as hard characters as could be
found anywhere on the frontier.
But Col Alexander Majors was
piOuS man and strict disciplinarlan.
SO he drew up an oath which he re-
quired every man to sign. In it the
employee must swear that he would
under no circumstances use profane
language, drink no intoxicating
liquors nor quarrel and fight with an
other employee" AS further prop to
the morality of his men, Majors gave
each of them Bible and requested
them to read it diligently.
Majors was a successful business
man, but he seemed to have misunder-
stood completely the temperament of
the bull-whackers. They signed the
oath cheerfully enough, accepted the
Bibles and then
Some fine day an OK would bog
down in an adobe mudhole or become
mired in making a ford, and in less
than 60 seconds, to the accompaniment
of a flow of language which all but
scorched the hair of the stalled ami
NAL, the bull -whacker had shattered
his contract into thousand pieces.
"You jest nacherlly hev to talk to
them animiles like that If you expect
to git through with your load" de-
clared one grizzled Whacker when re-
proved for his exhOrtations. 81 tell
We, Boss, you hev got to talk to them
in langwidge which they understands"
Majors tried in vain to enforce his
rules. But instead of reading their
Bibles and refraining from "cuss-
words the bull-whackers became even
more lurid in their speech until Ma
iors had to confess defeat. 'He might
as we'll have tried to read a lesson on
gentility to a herd of stampeded buff
falo!" said one of his employees later
But the colonel still believed that
every man should own a Bible and
year later when the firm acquired the
Overland Stage line from ST. Joseph
to Denver every stage driver was
given a Bible. The oath, however,
was omitted, for there were times
when the stage driver, like the bull
whacker, had to talk TO his animiles
In langwidge they could understand"
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-14
HOW DEATH VALLEY WAS
NAMED

\ CROSS the white plain the heat
L \ waves shimmered and danced.
Mirages of cool lakes appeared, mock
ing their thirst, and vanished. In the
background stood a range of black
walled mountains through which the
emigrantS could see no opening. And
this was Christmas day, 1S49!
Early in the spring they had left the
Middle West, 100 wagons strong, for
the gold fields of California. Then the
fatal decision of a part of the train
to try a short cut across the noun
tains had brought them into this val
ley whose floor was more than 200
feet below the level of the sea. In it
they wandered for weeks of torment.
Again the party split. One group,
36 persons in all, young bachelors from
Illinois who called themselves 1.-THE
JayhawkerS," pressed on toward the
mountains. Some of them died of
starvation, some of thirst and others
went mad and wandered away into
the desert. In all 13 perished before
they fought through to safety.
The other party, men with families,
found tiny spring and camped there
to rest. Then food supplies ran low
Their oxen began to die and their
wagons to fall apart in the blistering
sun. So Asahel Bennett, their leader,
sent two young fellows, viii Manley
and John Rogers, forth to find a way
, ~ 4INo fhnxy In 1sfn a
Mrs. Bennett gave Manley a double
handful of rice-half of all she had
and silently pointed to the hunger
pinched faces of her children.
The emigrants now sat down to
wait for the return of the two scouts.
A week passed-two-three-and still
they did not return. At the end Of
the fourth week all except Asahel Ben
nett's wife abandoned hope "They
will come back" she declared stead
fastly But they did not, and the emf
grants resolved upon one final desper-
ate attempt. They began stripping
the canvas covers from the prairie
schooners and making pack saddles to
cineh upon their emaciated oxen.
And then Manley and Rogers re-
turned! They spoke but briefly of
the days of horror spent in struggling
from one waterhole to the next across
the $50 miles of the Mojaye desert, of
the dead of the Jayhawker party
whom they found along the trail. But
they had brought food and, most vital
of all, they had found way out
They guided the party on the long
climb to the summit of the Panamint
range. AS the emigrants reached the
crest and looked back into the in
ferno from which they had escaped,
Asahel Benefits wife raised her arms
in a gesture of farewell. "Good-by,
Death Valley!" she cried.
And thus it was named.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-14

and under it was a plain gold band
Father seemed as happy as the
twins about this Christmas mother.
Santa is wise old bird" he said.
But the Christmas mother did not
answer him at ALL She was buried
under the embraces of the twins.
And, anyway she wasn't fathers
Christmas present. The Christmas
card pinned to her sleeve said plain
as day-"A mother for Jane and John.
Merry Christmas from Santa Claus"
Ethel Cook Eliot.
o. 1923. Western Newspaper Union.l
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-14
Had Not. Practiced Lately.

A colored woman in Florida, present
ing herself as a candidate for confirma'
tion was asked to repeat the creed
the Lords prayer and the command
ments. She got through the first two
fairly well, but when it came to the
last she bungled and hesitated, axlO
finally remarked in a confidential tone
to the officiating clergyman, de fac
is Mister Turpin, All hasn't been prac
ticin' de ten commandments lately