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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-08-14
COAL FOR SCHOOLS

The Board of Education Of Bar
ker District will offer for sale to the
lowest responsible bidder OF the four
III Tuesday in August in the after
noon of that day the furnishing Of
Coal to the various School Houses
in Barker District, to be received at
their meeting place in the First Ma
tional Bank of Belington, w. Va
The board reserves the right to re-
ject any and all bids.
D. C. SHARPS, Secretary
B. of E. Barker District
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-08-14
AGED COUPLE MURDERED

DETROIT, Aug. 1.-THE battered
bodies of Casper Yuergens, 60 years
old, and his sister, Theresa, about the
same age, were found this morning
in their grocery store. The heads
had been crushed, apparently with a
baseball bat, found hidden under a
stairway. All the rooms in the living
quarters at the rear Of the store had
been ransacked.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-08-14

Aug. 10th is the last Nature Rem
edy Day at Grant Graham's. One
25c Package Free by clipping cou-
pom on another page.
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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-08-14

CordelI Hunt, Governor Davis OF
Kansas and Tammany Leader Oh
any were early callers upon the Pre-
sidential nominee this morning.
When they arrived at the Davis home
to see him, the rush Of visitors at
the front door was SO great that
they had to take refuge in q rear
room for quiet conference. They
escaped by the back door, when their
interview was over, for the old
friends and neighbors from through
ut West Virginia came in such
steady stream through the front Of
the house that the visiting leaders
could not effect an exit that way.
Davis win leave bere for New
York Tuesday afternoon and prob
will visit national committee head
quarters in Washington later in the
week. He will be in Columbus, Ohio,
TO address the Democratic State con-
vention short time later, and may
go to Chicago before returning to
New York. He has been invited to
make a Labor Day address at Char
lesion, this State, and probably will
accept.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07
THEY WANT TO BE ANGELS

out of every SIX automobile drivers wants to be an
nj angel-right away.
This interesting sideight on human ambitions is cleaned
from a four-year study by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad of why
automobiles cross the road-without looking to see if a train
is coming.
For four years the B. & O., which crosses nine States, sta
.tioned observers at important road crossings to see how motor
lists crossed the tracks.
Of the 1834,809 who were observed, 336,937 drove careless
ty risking not only their own lives and property, but also the
lives of those travelling with them.
The railroad observers took the numbers of the careless
drivers, looked up their addresses, and sent them postcards,
warning them Of the danger of careless driving at railroad
crossings.
Of course, not all these careless drivers will get to be
angels with the aid of locomotives or electric cars. Some of them
are bound to be disappointed, and some may live to ripe old
ages. But in the past five years 80, 300 automobiles were killed
at railroad crossings.
: There are some $4,000 places in the United States where
automobile highways cross railroad tracks. Gradually, the
States are seeing to it that the more dangerous of these cross
ings are eliminated.
It can't be done in a year, nor in five years, at the present
rate of Improvement. Railroads estimate it will cost about
twelve billion dollars to eliminate these crossings by bridging
the highways over the railroads.
Meantime, those who persist in crossing railroad tracks
without slowing down without looking both ways to see if trains
ARE coming, or without stopping when the fagman 9 snals, want
to be angels in a hurry-thats all there is to it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07
In Ne70 York
BY STEVE HANNAGAN

NEW YORK. July What
would you do if you had $1,000, 900?
So would I, I'm sure.
Yet. I know a man here in New
York. who has 100000 and leads
the most drab existence you can
imagine.
He doesn't even keep office hours
or mix in any business to help
while away the hours of the day.
No oftener than once a wook
does he, at night, leave the apart
ment on upper Broadway which,
with his aged mother, he has occu-
pied for thirty years.
When but "A boy i'm his teens he
was left am income Of $50, 600 a year
by "a doting grandparent.
He spent il lavishly in an un-
successful effort to have a good
time"
Twenty years ago his father died
and left him an added fortune. The
father left the widow an even
larger estate.
For twenty years this man has
not remained away from New York
longer than twelve days at a time.
He was fearful lest s%harpers prey
on his mothers assets.
His daily routine is golf in the
morning. lunch with the same crowd
Of men at a midtown hotel each
noon. the afternoon spent watching
the ticker report Of the stock mar
ket, in which he has invested
a cent.
Each evening he dimes Mt home.
One night each week he calls on n
girl he has known for years. Ho
is single.
Perhaps you have the impression
by now he is a tightwad. lie isn't.
But he is a masculine old maid,
He has one failing. About twice
each year he falls into a periodic
drinking spree. 1t usually lasts
three weeks, ending in a hotel suite
with two nurses and a doctor at
tending him.
This one beats anything seen or
heard about New York today.
It is offered by a belle of Gales
burg, H., returning from a vaca-
ton.
The innovation in ~Galesburg."
she relates, lis the modern milk
mar who hauls his COW around in a
truck. He goes to the front porches
Of the homes on the main residential
street, gathers the milk bottles and
milks the COW ir front of the house"
1t would require several cows to
the block II this system We're fol
lowed in crowded New York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07

This weather makes people so lazy
they take shortcuts when they 20
cut walking.
The screen drawing the biggest
crowds now is the fly screen.
Most Of the June college graduates
are stIn Just doing something until
something turns up.
Every nov and then you see an
auto so old it must be almost paid
for.
The honeymoon is over when she
learns salads are not food.
A girl who thinks a man comes to
hear her instead of to see her is IL
able to die an old maid.
Women will not be mems equals
until YOU can slap one on the back
and borrow a dollar.
An ideal husband is the man every
wife could have married but didn't.
frying 10 stop something usually
starts more.
1t doesn't matter in the least. but
maybe potatoes have specs because
their eyes are bad.
Bowlesged girls swim best because
they stay in the water most.
Save up all your old alibis. They
are valuable. You can sell them to
the presidential candidates.
When a little man starts an argu.
ment with a big man it usually ends
by the big man calling the little man
a big liar.
What the farmers need is a weed
eating insect.
There would be a peach shortage
if you didn't have to peel them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07

folks kept coming over more and
more to battle on Alb. Secon's Beach,
and finally some Philadelphia folks
RAJ a railroad to it, and Atlantic
City was born.
AS the beach was the only part
Of the island anybody could walk
on without ~snowshoes, they had to
build board walks. And then, as
everybody on the island had to
either go in swimming or stay on
the walk, they had to keep extend
ing it.
Until today it is the biggest
planked area in the world. Five
miles long and fifty feet wide. And
here, every day in the year, and
most of the night, you a find the
poor folks walking and the rich
folks either riding in the wheel
chairs-or pushing them.
The shore side of thes walk is
lined with hotels, boarding houses.
stores, moving picture shows, ga
RACES, hot-doggeries, song-pluggeries,
hair-bobberies, peanutries, dough
~nuteries and all sorts Of auction
rooms.
In these auction rooms you can
buy anything from a full-dressed flea
to a stuffed Siberian musk OK; from
a Persian prayer rug to a pair of
brass kOuCkleS.
In these Stores. Auction Rooms
and Temples of CNot AZ Chance, thai
"Gentlemen's Agreement" we had
with Japan has been obtrusively VIC
lated, for there are enough of them
right there on that M street to
exceed the entire stated quota.
The most popular place of amuse-
ment at A. c., or anywhere else, is
YOUNG SPEAR. Young Spear, the
original founder. was an Indian
Chief of The Sadwa Tribe, and the
husband of La Belle Pocahontas, the
Indian Lady Barber who so sue
cessfully, and historically, shaved
the Smith Brothers.
OF late years the spelling of this
resort mas been changed to Young's
Pier.
1t is an iron pier, extending out
almost, but not quite, to The Three
Mile Limit. Upon its broad spaces
can be found about every form of
amusement by a Congressional In
vestigation land a Swedenborgian
Church Service.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07
Nature

The whole plant of vanilla grass
has an odor like the vanilla bean.
In northern Europe it is strewn be-
fore churches, the feet of the con-
%gregation tramping it, causing it to
yield its fragrance. This custom has
given it the name holy grass" Bias
kets and mats are made from it by
the northwest Indians. Pillows
stuffed with it are said to induce
sleep.
Seeds Of certain weeds will germi-
nate after lying in the soil for thirty
years. and it is said hat those of
Indian mallow have remained dor
mant, but ready, for over fifty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07
Trail Blazing
BY HAL COCHRAN

It's a very wise son who will will
ingly take the advice that his father
hands out. It's given, of course, for
his own futures sake, and he bene-
fits greatly, no doubt.
It's easy for age that's experience
filled to give worthy pointers to
youth. A lot of good thoughts can
be quickly instilled if the elder just
deals in the truth.
There's a right and a wrong on
the pathway Of life, and the wrong
ways too easy to go. A tip often
heads off a session Of strife if youths
told the things he should know.
It's natural that sons kinda look
up to dad. An idols the way he is
known. BY saving his son lots of
bumps he has had, he can purify
seeds that are sown.
So, listen here, buddy, ere you
are a man, my bunch is you'll be
mighty glad if you will just take all
the tips that you can, and the kindly
advice from your dad.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07
WHO MAKES
UP DEFICIT
IS QUESTION
Committee Fails to Find Out
Who Makes Up Cam
INNOCENT
paign Losses,


.~LENH
Nv 1ASHINGTON, July Who
INVl makes up the deficits in these
L1 $4,000 900 national elections?
When former Senator Kenyon of
Iowa and his committee, probing the
1920 contribution to both major po-
litical parties, finished their labors,
deficits were reported by both sides.
The Democrats had a deficit of
$500, eco, which paled into insign4f-
canoe compared with the huge ST.
100000 shortage reported by the Re
pubIcans.
The committee found out from
where each dollar of the rest of the
money had come, but never did es-
tahlish whose generosity was respon-
sible for restoring the balance.
who Ponys Up?"
1t is vet to be discovered how this
deficit is made up and who does the
"pOnying up" The committee head
ed by Senator Borah of Idaho is so
ing to pay particular attention to
this in the investigation of the cam
paisn contributions for the coming
election.
The Borah committee is not SEIZED
Eled to make its report 10 the Senate
until Dec. 3. This viii give them a
full month after election in which
to determine how large the deficit
is and how it is paid up.
Borah stated today that the com
mittee intended working up to the
last minute before reporting their
findings.
The Kenyon committee failed TO
make any recommendations to the
Senate except to state that Congress
ought to pass remedial legislation.
owing to the fact that the resolution
under which they acted did not pro-
vide for such procedure.
To Make Recommendation
This committee intends to make
definite recommendations to correct
any bad conditions that it discovers
existing" Borah stated today.
He said that just as soon as the
campaign gets under way in earnest
public hearings viii be held in Chi
cago to probe any contributions to
either party that seem significant.
although probably no more meet
ings Will he held until after the
Democratic convention closes, the
committee is virtually in session as
it is subject to the call of any men,
ber," BOrah stated.
Circumstances surrounding %
tributions will lead to the donors
being -subpoenaed before the COM
mittee to explain their act, whether
the amount is large or small, the
Idaho Senator said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07

look forward to the sight with keen
anticipation. We would want to
know the names of the brightest
stars. we would want TO know the
way in which the stars are grouped
into patterns or consultations.
But because the wondrous PIANO
rama of the heavens is spread out
for us every cloudless night, we give
very little thought to it.
The shepherd watching his hocks
by night in centuries gone by was
far more familiar with the stars than
most Of US are today.
This is n of the paradoXes of
modern life.
The modern astronomer is busy
pushing out the limits Of the uni
verse.
His telescope reveals to him stars
that must always remain invisible to
the naked eye. He sees stars which
the ancients did not know were in
existence.
BY combining the Photographic
plate with his telescope, the astron-
omer makes longtime exposures of
nebulae and star clusters which
bring out a wealth Of detail about
heavenly objects which the a%ncients
never dreamed Of.
But while the astronomer has
been extending the limits of the uni
verse. many Of US have been re
strtcune the limits Of the universe
for ourselves.
In fact. we have almost crowded
the universe out of our lives.
We have found the lights Of the
city So bright that we have lost
track Of those marvellous lights
which hang above the city.
we have forgotten the stars
This is unfortunate. For if we
eliminate acquaintance with the
great heavens overhead from Our
lives. we have permitted n Of life's
richest treasures to slip through our
fingers
The ne thinker. Carlyle. once
-exclaiuler Why did no one teach
me the consultations when I YVES a
Child,'
Carlyle realized that he missed
something III not knowing the stars
and consultations by name.
Yet the knowledge Is easily &C
quired. And once acquired, it adds
a new richness to the great outdoors.
1t makes intimate friends out Of
those twinkling. dancing points of
irht We coll stars
Around each constellation and
around each star which has been
named. there have grown wonderful
legends, some Of them older than
written history, wonderful tales Of
ancient gods ana heroes.
This series IS being written with a
two-foId purpose. First to tell you
how to find the stars and constella.
tons. Secondly, to tell you some Of
the interesting legends associated
with them. .
Next article: How the constella-
tons originated.
Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07

ooh. doctor, this telephone mes
sage says that old Mr.. Gotem, our
best patient, has been blown up by
the explosion of a ton of dynamite
Maybe not all loss, Miss Secre-
tary. Have his monthly statement
ready for him when he comes down"
-Scripps-Paine Service.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07

He Was Right

This Will hurt me more than
you" said the father, as he turned
Johnny over his knee.
AS the youngster had boarded up
the seat Of his trousers, for once
father was right-Judge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07
Husband Stubborn

Are you sure you used every
argument with which to convince
your husband?"
absolutely. There isn't a whole
dish left in the house. "-SZcutek.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07
OUSHOUL
LEARN OF
THE STARS
Dietz Tells About Acquiring
This knowledge in First
Article.
By DAVID DIETZ,
Science Editor Of The Times.

science EulJOT Oh Inc LINES.
- ALPH WALDO EMERSON,
X great American poet and phi
0 losopher, once observed that
if a man were permitted to gaze at
the stars only once in his lifetime,
he would spend years preparing for
that one wonderful glimpse of the
night sky with its golden array of
twinkling stars.
Emerson was right. If we could
see the stars but once, we would
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07
Nife,s Birthday Policy

Dye know you're growing quite
handsome, john"
Yes, Mary; it's a way l have
when it gets anywhere near your
birthday '-Tid-Eits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07
4 Thought

Withhold not good from them to
whom it is due, when it is in the
power of thine hand to do it.-Prov.
1927.
They serve God well who serve
His Creatures.-Mrs. Norton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07

80 Freddie proposed to you on
a postcard. Did you accept?"
No; do you think I'd marry a
man who didn't care 2 cents for
me?"-Film Fun.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07
Is there a bird in Texas that

Is INeTe q 0lT0 IN IeN8S JN3J
runs as fast as an express train?
There is a bird in that state known
as the road runner but ii does
not run as fast as an express train.
1t sometimes runs on the railroad
tracks at some distance ahead of the
trains but is forced To get off the
tracks and fly before very long.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07

had been the center of many disturb
ing occurrences, and had been twice
besieged, once by the Germans and
once by French troops, as the city
was held by the communists. 1t was
considered important hat the Ma
tional Assembly should be as free
as possible from disturbing in
fuences.
Who holds the worlds ski
jumping record?
Onders Haugen. who won the
Norge Ski Club tournament at Cary,
H., on January 10, and at Dillon.
Colorado, Feb. %, 1920, established
a new record with a jump Of PA
feet.
Who was Genghis Khan?
A Mongol conqueror who lived
1162-1227.
Is Mount Fujiyama a dormant
volcano? When was the last
eruption?
Yes, it is dormant; last eruption
December, 1907.
What are the largest steel
producing cities in the world?
Pittsburgh and Chicago.
|. What are field employees" Of
the Government?
Those not employed in the Govern
ment departments in Washington
but who are stationed in various
branches Of the service throughout
the United States.
How long are the Thames and
Severn rivers?
Thames, 215 miles; Severn. 21O
miles.
What is the official name for
an X-ray operative in the Gov
eminent?
Laboratorian Roentgenology.
What should one do for plants
infested with white aies and
green bugs?
Spray them with a mixture of l
or : te%aspoonfuls Of nicotine
sulphate to a gallon Of water with y
ounce of soap dissolved IN it.
What is the address of the Ma
tional Association Of American
Homing Pigeon Fanciers?
6723 Dittman ST., Tacony, Phila-
delphia, Pa.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07
STARS

(T1HE twentieth century man likes 70 pride himself on the
l. broadening influences that modern inventions have
brought into his life.
There was a day when a mans voice would reach no further
than his ung-pOwer could carry it. Now the telephone carries
1t across a continent, and 2adio carries it across the ocean.
There was a day when a man could travel no further in
"a day than his own legs or the legs of a horse could carry him.
Now, he not only has trains and autos at his disposal but air
planes and dirigiblos as we'll
But there Is danger of mechanical perfection making our
lives too mechanical and e~rowding the beauties of nature out of
our lives.
A man can learn more about nature in an hours quiet
walk through the woods than in a days auto ride along crowded
LE3&s with his eyes glued to the roadway and the passing traffic
while he steps on the gas in an effort to reach town in time for
dinner.
Modern life has served particularly to estrange us from the
stars. Few men know the consultations and the brighter stars
by name today in the way that many once knew them.
For this reason, David Dietz, Science Editor of The Indian
apolis Times, has written a series to tell you how to get ac-
quainted with the stars. In it he recounts the fascinating
legends associated with the stars.
The series Is titled Secrets of the Stars The first in
lstallment appear in today's Times. Be sure to read it. Dom let
the mechanical projections of the day, crowd the stars out of
your life.
WISCONSIN is called the Badger State, and the Old Guard
believes it is all of that.
CARELESS use of matches is the chief cause of fires in this
country; and also of divorce, it might be added.
CAL says nothing and Charlie has little to say. We can
see where this campaign is going to be a silence and fun act.
EXPLORER Roy Andrews says the Garden of Eden is dry.
What has DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler to say about that?
THE MANUFACTURE of shoes during April was 4OOO,
600 pairs less than a year ago, and there are more fellows run
ming.
THE greatest gun in the world-67 feet long and weighing
200 tons-has just been mounted in Boston harbor. Some bean
shooter.
HARRY B. SMITH, sports authority, says our champion
fighters have been spoiled But not by contact with each other,
as he viii have to admit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07

Why did the French National
Assembly meet recently at Yer
sailles to elect a president in
stead Of at the capital, Paris?
Because the constitution of France
fixes Versailles as the place for the
National Assembly. The reason for
this was that near the time of The
adoption Of the constitution. Paris
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-07

"Labor's reak hope for progress lies
in it's ability to cooperate with the
farmer"
Miss Marcella Barring. rancher in
Rogue River country, Oregon: i've
never been one to rave about the
great open spaces and out where
the west begins and Ihirgs like that.
But I'm never comfortable any place
else-away from the hills and decent
air. And. besides. it's darned profit
able"
DIR McCollLm, Johns Hopkins
University: The people who have
achieved, who have become large,
strong, vigorous people, who have
the best trades in the world, who
are progressive in science and
every activity Of the human intel
lect are the people who have used
liberal amounts of milk and it's
products"
Mrs. Ruth Gerth, home decorator:
"Fads and fancies in furniture and
decoration produce an undesirable
effecbt on our families"
Warden James A. Johnson, San
Quentin prison. youth responds
as rapidly to good influences as it
does TO evil ones. The parents of the
country build the prisons and peo-
pie them with inmates"