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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10

flights will be between Cleveland and Rock Springs.
 Under the orders of the Postmaster General night fligts do not concern the avi&tors at Hazelhurst field, Garden City, but ere long it will be a chief fea- ture of mail delivery by plane between houses are demanding it because the night deliveries for early morning clear ances, and this can be accomplished only through air service. It is coming soon, and when it does the government will no doubt instill it's airmal flying field at Governors Island.
 Seems Like Romance
 It is easy to conjure romance in the flight of a speeding plane hurtling through space under cover of darkness, guided solely by compass set before eyes that peer out of helmet. that covers the head and face of the skilled aviator. Hour after hour passes, but onward over the sleep-stilled cities and hamlets the plane blows it's way, controlled by the hand of the trained aviator. True, he is aided by beacon lights that shine at three-mile areas and brilliant revolv- ing searchlights that mark every twenty fifth mile.
 Again, the night flier carries with him flare lights which he drops to earth if in difficulty or lost. These flares illumine the land for two miles around. disclosing the most favorable landing places. Your night flier plying be- tween Iowa City and North Platte is favored by flat stretches, and enforced landings are not as hazardous as they might be over a course between New York and Chicago. Before the latter plan can become operative science must create the necessary equipment for safe travel.
 Might flying" says Aviator Smith, lis no more dangerous than day flying, provided the night is clear and the moon IS shining. Dense, hazy nights are bad, but day flying in stormy weather is treacherous. I dread it most. I have experienced both sensations. After the Dempsey-Firpo fight I carried the films from New York to Chicago. I left at midnight and stopped at Cleveland first reaching there at in the morning.
 of course I knew the location. The best guides are the roadways and vii lages. The headlights of passing motor cars and the strings of lights that mark the different villages or cities give direc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10
Romances of thew antAds
 By MRS. LEROY J. BOUGHNER

It sounds irrelevant to the point of grotesquerie, to re- mark that her fathers death resulted in shifting her in- terest from the front of the paper to the back part. But the connection c a n b e worked out like a problem in logic.
 She was one of those myriads of wives in Bir- mingham for whom myriads of husbands set forth every morning to earn a living out of a job. .
 Goodbye, Beth, old girl" he always said as he kissed her goodbye, and she al- ways said 'Now please come home early, Fred" though she knew he could never leave his desk until 80. But that farewell was as regular as the matitutinal cup of coffee.
 Fred had been brought up on 8 farm, she, in the little village it adjoined, and here they both were in the big city. It was Beth who had persuaded Fred to get a job in the city before they mar ried. He had learned book keeping, planning to make it just a stepping stone to business. But the years went by and it remained a step- ping stone. In fact, it be- came a permanent foothold.
 Then Beth's mother died and her father came to live with them. Only the fact that he was old and couldn't last long and they would have his entire savings and little bit of life insurance, which altogether amounted to $5,000, reconciled them to the hardships that living in a tiny apartment with two children, imposed.
 Then came her fathers death, which brings us to the last step in this problelm of logic. For $5,00O meant that tiny, cramped five room apartment could now expand. Not to one room, or two more rooms, but maybe-over acres.
 For at last Beth was fled up" on the city. The coming of the children was partly responsible for this. How she longed to turn them loose into real woods and
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when they went to bed at midnight.
 And the next day, which was Saturday, they went out. They knew it was made for them. From the house, the grounds sloped down to the edge of the lake; there were woods on either side for the chickens to roam in; buildings had been kept in spic and span condition; the incubators were the lat est models, while the flocks of clucking hens and chick ems, fat, waddling geese and ducks paddling in the water it was all they had dreamed of.
 "But why do you want to sell?" both demanded al- most simultaneously of the young farmer and his wife, as they returned from a breathless trip of inspection.
 The young farmer laughed.
 Do you see those two automobiles standing outside the garage?" he asked. My neighbors around here bring me their trucks and autos to fix up-say, I can do a better job than the garage in town. l was brought up on a farm, but I've always liked mechanical work like that, tinkering around ma chinery and engines. My wife's brother wants me to come in on a garage deal in the town where my wife used to live, and she wants. me to go-thinks it will be better for the children, though there is a good rural school not far from here. That is why l want to sell"
 "Well, whatever it is, it's our good luck" said Fred.
 "Yes, because p7e want this place." said Beth.
 Two weeks later, they moved out.
 Beth reads the front pages of The Age-Herald first now. But she reads the classified pages in the back, too.
 q got the habit" she ex- plains. Besides, you never know what opportunities may be waiting for you there in the Want Ads. We might some day want to sell this, perfect as it is, and find another more perfect"
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feel his age heavily. And he is hus- banding his strength not that he may merely live beyond the Biblical span, but that he may continue to serve man. kind.
 His home is a shrine for the crippled and the temporarily lamed. They call in droyes to see him. He charges a slight fee and when he looks into a face on which qualification shines and the owner of that face looks indigent he just pats the patient on the back and refuses even a mite offering.
 Long ago, because of the financial rewards he received from those who could afford to richly reward him, he was financially able to retire. But he would not do so. He continues to help suffering humanity even though his five daughters are jealous of his health and sometimes try to dissuade him from continuing his work.
 Those intended to heal will heal, in Bonesetter's opinion. He makes it clear that he has nothing in common with chiropractors, osteopaths or doc tors. q know nothing of their meth ods," he says, 'but those intended to heal will heal?"
 Bonesetter is really not a bonesetter at all. He achieves his -esults through scientific manipulation, twist here, pressure there, and the crippled walk {; sick men go back home and support their families; his work is done.
 Cannot Describe Methods
 He cannot even describe his methods All his talent is native. He has never had any instructor, knows nothing of medicine and uses no medicines, instru- ments. or chiropractors' or osteopaths' tables or X-ray apparatus. Doctors say he has an uncanny abil- | ity to strike nerve eenters and that many of his cures are effected in that way.
 Myron Herrick recovered his health after few treatments from Boneset- ter. The daughter of former Vice President Fairbanks was restored to health when it was thought she would die. James J. Davis, secretary of la- bor, has been healed by Bonesetter He was born in Wales in 1855 and was an orphan at II. He was em- ployed in the rolling mills at Mon monthshire, and while boy associated some with an old man known the coun- tryside over as bonesetter.
 In June, 1894, he abandoned his work in the mill and gave all his time to bonesetting.
 Bonesetter himself refuses to discuss his cures. Office employees tell of people carried in by relatives and friends and walking out of their won accord.
 Rich patients today invariably keep their wealth to themselves if they wish to secure attention. Hundreds crowd about his home every week. He con- tribute generously to the support of many chaitable organizations and per sonally teaches one of the largest Sun day school classes in the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10
By MRS. LEROY J. BOUCHNER

fields instead of city parks and alleys and sidewalks. How she longed to see them climbing trees instead of fire-escapes.
 Besides it was Fred's turn now. He had been so splen- did to her father that it seemed only right to take
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10
IF SICK, TODAY!
 TAKE NO CALOMEL
"Dodsons Liver Tone" Straghtens You Up Better Than SaliVating, Dangerous CaIOme and Doesn't Upset
 You-Don't Lose a DaySWok- Read Guarantee

I discovered a vegetable compound that does the work of dangerous, siekening ealomeI and want every reader of this paper to buy a bottle for a few cents and if 1t doesn't lstraighten you up better and quicker than salivating calomel just go back to the store and get your money back.
 guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson's Liver Tone will put your slug gish liver to work and clean your thirty feet of bowels of the sour bile and constipation poison which is clog ging your system and making you feel miserable.
 guarantee that one spoonful of this harmless liquid liver medicine will re- lieye the headache, biliousness, costed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10

CTS weren't so economical of words, for there was so much one wanted to know about a farm one wanted to know about a farm before starting out to look it up.
 If l ever advertise our place for sale, I'll know just what to say" she remarked
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10

tongue, ague, malaria, sour stomach or any other distress caused by a torpid liver as quickly as a dose of vile, nauseating ealomel, besides it will not make you sick or keep you from days work.
 Calomel is poison-it's mercury-it attacks the bones often causing rheu- matism. CalomeI is dangerous. It siekens-while my Dodson's Liver Tone is safe, pleasant and harmless. Eat anything afterwards, because it can not salivate. Give it to the children because it doesn't upset the stomach or shock the liver. Take a spoonful tonight and wake up feeling fine and ready for a full days work.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10

to Betty, her little girl, one night. ''I'll put in the things about it that appeal to me and that sold the place to me first"
 Then one night she found two Wants Ads. It was the one that mentioned the "stucco house" and pretty Loon Lake" that took her eye and that she decided to look it up first. It read:
 Poultry farm, attrac-
 tiUe, modern stucco
 house Of eight rooms;
 siT acres, located On
 pretty Loon Lake, in-
 cNbGtors, breeders,
 boVer8, chickens, ducks,
 geese, co1O. $2,5OO aOiU
 handle, bGIGnce, terms.
 Immediate possession.
 Write E. c. ReeUeS, E.
 E. 61.
 So that night she confid- ed her plan to Fred and showed him the ad. They were too excited to sleep
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10
NIGHT FLYING IS DANGEROUS ONLY
 IN BAD WEATHER
Mail Carrier Says It Is Simple Matter To Ride
 Above Storm

NEW YORK, Aug. 2.--Wesley l.. Smith is more than a flying mailman, He is the personification of the progress of the twentieth century Romance, skill and action--three clements that spell out a drama--are crowded. into his everyday life. He carries Uncle Ssm's mail across the continent by day and night, braving every conceivable hazard. Through winters blizzards and summers terrific storms he bridges his sector of the three thousand miles of mountains and desert, lakes and rivers which, since the government inaugu- rated night flying between New York and San Francisco. is covered in 36- hour flight. Here are romance, skill and action; duty, courage, speed; ad- venture, determination and pluck in all its phases.
 Night flying had been spoken of for long time. Intrepid aviators have from time to time flown limited dis tances, but under the recent order from Washington night flying has been in augurated in fact, and every night planes blaze their way over big DOT tion of the great western stretches be- tween Iowa City and North Platte, When the days become shorter the night flying territory will be heightened so that during the seer winter months
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10
OFFERS SYMPATHY,
 FALLS TO DEATH
Trips On Stairs After Consoling
 Bcreaved Father

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-Frank Ecn- rcdy, %, of No. 2421 Eighth avenue, stood last night Ut the hend Of the stairway at the fifth floor of No 2725 Eighth avenue and attempted to ns. suage the grief of his close frienu, James Agar, whose nine-year-old son. James, Jr., plunged to his death from the root while flying kite.
 Kennedy hnd attended the funeral of the boy earlier in the day and returned with the father, hoping to cheer kim. "Well, be brave. Jim, II! say Soodhy for awhile" said Kennedy, turning to descend the stairs. Suddenly hc tripped and fell through the stairweli.
 He struck on the marble floor of the lower hall. When surgeon arriycd from Harlem hospital Kennedy was dead. Agnr, prostratcd, was carried to his apartment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10
GERMAN TOURISTS
 IN SWITZERLAND
Over 56,O00 Entertained During Past Winter Season

BASEL, Switzerland. Aug. 9.-Sta- tistics collected by the Swiss tourist of flee show that during the last winter season 56,000 German tourists visited Switzerland, as compared with 5000 during the previous season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10
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G a prescription for Malaria. Chills and Fever, Dengue or Bls ious Fever. It kills the germs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10

work and a physician had to attend her. Miss Burke, or whoever she is. was sent for the night to the Florence Crittendon League Home The police have wired the Cincinnati authorities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10

The open door to opportunity-ThC Age-Herald Want Ads. Read them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10
Cures Sick By Simple Touches With His
 Fingers

YOUNGSTOWN, O., Aug. o. When one says of John D. Reese,
 white-haired, 69-yeas-old resident of Youngstown, Ohio, that he earns his living with his hands, one is inaccurate.
 He earns his living with his fingers
 and while a Paderewski may isure his hands for a half million dollars and
 a Mistinguette her legs for $50,000, Mir. Reese just takes his great gift quietly and relies on their preservation to the power which gave to his fingers bis miraculous ''healer's touch" For the Reese of whom we speak is none other than "Bonesetter" Reese, whose marvellous cures of ailing bones and muscles during the past 37 years have aroused the interest of surgeons the world over and have won for him the soubriquet. "The Lorenz of America" !"
 What Bonesetter's powers are is a puzzle to scientists who always are bent on determining the wherefore of everything which the ordinary run of men on the street might ascribe to di- vine power. They'll tell you that divine power is lot of hokum. Then, when they come across such man as Reese, modest, without technical training of any sort, performing miraculous things, they'll shrug their shoulders as did Gibbon, the great historian, in one of his attempts to explain the working cut of Biblical prophecy, and cous cede that perhaps, after all, there may be something divine in the world guid- ing the destinies and powers of men, This man Reese is no charlatan. Lloyd George, the leonine figure of the World war, the only single dignitary who survived in the days when thrones crumbled and rulers lost their power overnight, testifies to the skill that is in Reeses fingers. The former British Premier, visiting this country, had his hand twisted out of proper shape by so
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-12-18

The Dramatic Club will present
very interesting Comedy drama,
"The Empty House" on Friday and
Saturday, December 10th and goth
The play begins at 500 o'clock P VI.
Everybody is invited to come. You
just must not miss it. The Club
guarantees an enjoyable evening. You
viii be Entertained for at least two
hours. Several of the high school
students are selling tickets, so buy
early to avoid the rush The cast
of characters is as follows;
Nora the Irish Maid Mae O'Brien
Larry Ferguson, Typical young Am
erican ....... Charles Holt
Fredricka Ferguson-With an Ident-
ity.... ..... -. Lucille Jeffreys
Tom Ferguson-A Would Be Play
wright - Harold Brandenberg
Barbara Ferguson-To Whom it
Happened =. 49,. Martha Blakeslee
Retta Reeves-The Mysterious Wis
itor -. ;. Alice Summers and Ernes-
tine Hill
Ralph Overton-Young Journalist
....... ......... Bradford Keyser
Peggy Palmer-Of Witching Ways
........... 80. Ida Offhaus
Anthony Allison-Who Disappear
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Dane Simon
Florine-The Allisons French Maid
With No Curiousity Whatever.
-. ...... .....V elma Dayton
Ned-A Chauffeur, Donald Stewart
Constance-Who lived with Fancies
...... -. :. Reva Shepherd
Edith Allison-Who almost Succeed
ed ........j....... Mildred Spencer
Judge Lennox-The Family Law
yer. ............ Darcy Wilson
The Literary Societies are still
progressingt. The Mozarts render
ed the following program last Fri,
day December 18th:
Song-America the Beautiful School
Town Crler ................. Staff
Editor .......... Mae Ballah
Local and Current Events
.................. Sadie Logan
Advertisements, Ressie Fitzwater
Jokes and Witty Saying Opal Dadis-
man
Sport News .Wilfred Thompson
Selection ..... ..... Quartet
Elder, Day, Kittle, Kiser.
Short Story. Katherine Keller
Reading ........ Ressie Digman
B. H. S. Song ....... School
Critics Report. -. Mr. Woodofrd
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-12-18
ALLEN-Yo

Harry Allen and Miss Stella Yock
were quietly married Saturday, Dec
ember 9Th, in Belington. Mr.. Allen
is employed at present by Branhans
and Edwards Construction Company
and is working at Volga. Miss Yock
is employed as assistant in the Post
Office here; she has been on the job
for the past twelve years. While
the groom has not been here very
long yet he has made many friends
here during his short stay. The
bride is the daughter of Mrs Flor
ence Yock and the late Frank Yock
and grew up among her townfolks
as an Industrious young lady. Their
friends here and elsewhere wish them
a happy and prosperous journey thru
married life.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-12-18
VALLEY DISTRICT ROADS

The work on Valley districts Good
Roads is not being pushed along as
fast as at first due to the bad wealth
er, yet the grading so far as the
steam shovels are concerned is just
about complies ed. The Audra seq
ton is graded and the shovel was
taken overland via Audra, fording
the Middlefork and Buckhannon riv-
ers and is now at work on Union Dis
trict roads from Boulder to Volga.
The section on the Talbot road
within the city is not yet completed
as the stone ledge had to be blasted
down and hauled away Much incon-
venience will be encountered by the
people on the Audra section this win
ter, but they can stand it for awhile
for they know now that Good Roads
are assured.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-12-18
SWEET CHILD PASSES AWAY

Many of our people were deeply
grieved some days ago to learn that
Wallace Bethel the one year old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Thos Skaggs of
Morgantown, formerly of Belington
passed from his life to a brighter
one. Mrs. Skaggs was giving her
Thanksgiving visit at the home Of
her parents MIR. and Mrs. H. H.
Price. Wallace was given US just
long enough to learn to love him.
But Jesus who loved him still more
reached down and picked the little
flower from our midst. Wallace
was pet with all who knew him.
He was happy always. He did many
things of which we did not expect
him to do at his age. am sure to
the kind hands that cared for him
did not leave stone unturned in
regard for his recovery; there are
so many vacant places in the home.
Mothers arms are so vacant. But
another place filled in heaven. Hea-
ven is sweeter than ever before
The heart broken parents have the
sincere sympathy of all who know
them.
Funeral services were held at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Price
the grandparents Conducted by
Rev. Hoffman.-Contribu
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-12-18
WARE-KEISER

A happy marriage took place Fri
day, December 9Th, when Rev Chas.
A. Powers of Junior performed the
ceremony that made Shirley H.
Ware and Miss Allena Keiser, man
and wife. This marriage comes as
no surprise, yet it was not general
ly known until just few days ago.
1t happened that when Shirley got
ready, his pastor, Rev. Cross was
out of town, so he and his intended
go to Junior to get Rev. Sharps, but
he was away, not to be disappoint-
ed in matters of this kind, they agree
to conclude the contract and get Rev.
Powers, he smiling and willingly con-
scented and soon the job was complete
and the happy couple returned to
Belington They will make their
home here. Their admiring friends
wish them the best Of married life.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-12-18
NEW FAD SWEEPS COUNTRY
THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS
ARE TRYING TO SOLVE CROSS
WORD PUZZLES

Within the memory of man there
has never before been fad or pas
time that has swept the entire country
from coast to coast with the sensa-
tional popularity of cross word puz-
zles. Everywhere you go, in no mat
ter what walk of life, you find the
cross word puzzle fans by the thous-
ands. No village or hamlet seems to
be exempt-no class of persons too
exclusive or highbrow to escape it.
Strangely, inasmuch as cross word
puzzles date back to the origination
of script, the fad has taken mighty
hold on the people. Nah Jongg and
Bridge have been pushed aside and
even the radio has found competitor
in the fascinating, intriguing study
of the elusive words to fill the hozi-
zontal and vertical squares. The
pastime has assumed such enormous
proportions that the New York Amer
lean is now publishing a new cross
word puzzle every day in the week,
with bigger, better different kind
on Sunday. The answers to the puz-
zles in the daily American are print
the day following the appearance of
the puzzle. Anybody who is not solv-
ing cross word puzzles these days is
behind the times. But they need not
stay behind the times The New
York American will keep them up to
date
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-12-18

FOR SALE-Your choice of a mod
el 1922 Buick Touring Car--seven
passenger, or model 1924 Hudson
Coach. Will exchange for town pro-
perty
H. J. BALLAH
Belington.W. Va.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-12-18
WATCH SMALLPOX

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Dec. 16
Smallpox has again invaded the
state, cases having been reported
from Huntington, Charleston and
Fairmont. State Health Commiss-
ioner Henshaw declares that the pre-
sent epidemic trend can only be check
ed by a sense of responsibility on the
part of every citizens to be vaccin-
ated or revaccinated.