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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-07-17
LOCAL NEWS

Swat the fly today-every day
Benz. Holbert Of Clements was IN
town Saturday.
Can everything you can can m
cans, if you can.
Ray Gibson and Harry kdtt1e' were
ii Clarksburg one day last week, ss,
Mr. and Mrs. G. N. 1lolbefs 36f thRe.
Bend was,.in town Saturday evening.
i Thos. Joyce and son from Worth 4.
sngtonl we're here last week on a 'vlslst
!. Born unto Mr.. and Mrs Greed
Price Tuesday a ten pound baby boy.
/ The fundamental adage is more vi
wildly realized stWe must SOW to
have a. harvest
+ Porter L. Lovett and E. A. Barte
were in Philippi Wednesday, on bus
ihess. rs
Mrs. Edna Summers Gall enter
tanned the Matrons Club Wednesday
evening.
Misses Ruth Elliott land Virginia.
Pill of Morgantown were visiting
friends Saturday.
w. H. Barte, wife and children are
visiting in Charleston and Braxton
county this week.
8. Those who attended the M. E. La
dies Aid supper in the park last week
report real good feast.
Rev. Elias Cross who now resides
in Springfield, Ohio, is in this county
this week visiting relatives.
Mrs. Cecil Williams and children
who were visiting in Hall for past
ten days returned home Friday.
: Mr.. and Mrs. Golf Simon of Volga
were visiting Tuesday at the home Of
Rev. and Mrs. P. S. Exline.
Walter Coffman who now resides
in Keyser, was here last week re-
turned home last Thursday evening.
Dewey Gall of Morgantown is here
today calling on the merchants in
the interest of the Commercial Candy
Go.
L. L. Bennett, accompanied by
Mrs. Cecil Williams and children
went to Minnehaha Springs Wednes-
day. a- ~,
Meredith Newton of Grafton who
has been visiting relatives here and
in Elkins for the past ten days re
turned to his home Tuesday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Davis of Nor
gantown are here on visit with Mrs.
Davis parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John K.
Blatchford4
Charles and Arthur Woodruff of
AIoundsville are here visiting their
grandparents, Rev. and Mrs. G. D.
Griffin on Grim Ave. r
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Pitman of
Akron, have been visiting the form-
er's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robt.
Pittman, for the past week.
Rev. and Mrs. Oliver Stoneking re-
turned Monday evening from an ex-
tended visit at Middlebourne, New
Martinsville, Fairmont. They report
the crop conditions in fair shape in
that part of the state.
Mr.. and Mrs. Berne Teter enter
tanned number of their friends at
the home of the formers parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Floyd Teter, one evening
last week. Games were played and
at late hour delicious refreshments
were served. Many report a Plea.
SAINT evening.
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CARD OF THANKS

i desire to thank my many friends
for their kindness, during the illness
and death of my dear husband.
Mrs. Tabitha Keller
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-07-17
NOTICE,,

All members of Belington Lodge
No. 73 |. o. o. F. are requested to
meet at the hall on Tuesday night
July %.
Business of Importance on hand
By Order of Noble Grand
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-07-17
TO LET

Pasture for any number up to 25
head yearlings or 2-year olds on
Laurel Mountain. Fine pasture,
plenty of pure water.
L. L. BENNETT
Belington, w. Va.
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State of West Virginia, County Of
Barbour
l, c. w. Shomo Cashier Of the y
bove-named bank, do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true 10
the best Of my knowledge and bsIisf.
C. W. SHOMO, Cashier
j. w. MILLER
FRANK SHOMO Directors
A. X. PERRY
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 5th day of July 1924.
GOLDEN F. ROW, Notary Public.
My commission expires July %,
1927.
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION or
THE MERCHANTS 4 MINERs
BANK OF JUNIOR, w. VA.
AT THE CLOSE OF BUS
MESS JUNE 30, 1924
RESOURCES

Loans and Discounts 5 E2,493.34
Overdrafts' secured and un-
secured -. ............. 443.64
Stocks and Securities (other
than Government Issues 86,939.85
United States Bonds 49,. 2,544.05
Furniture and Fixtures :. 2,785.OO
Due from Banks and U. S.
Treasury -. 4,O91.64
Checks and Other Cash
Items 259.s7
Lawful Money Reserve in
Bank ............... 6,251.85
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LIABILITIES
Capital Stock Paid In -. 5 Is, 10000
Surplus Fund .......... 100000
Undivided Profits
Less Expenses.
Interest and Taxes Paid 2,333.42
Deposits, Viz:
Subject to Check 49,. 4o,3os.6s
Time Certificates ......... 81,071.36
TOTAL DEPOS s 121,3SO.O5
Cashiers Checks. ........ $50. 40
Due to Banks -. ,........ 235.47
TOTAL :. 5 155, 809.34
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

the public with the cost OF producing
cotton. In fact, very few OF these
growers know what it costs. linen
besides, production costs vary, accord
ing to local conditions and according
to yield"
The Union Trust Company. OF Lit
tic Rock. OF which Mr. Bodman is an
officer, operates. as trustee under VIII
several large plantations growing .sev-
eral thousand acres OF cotton. The
operating organization has been care
fully picked after years Of experience
The records of costs such as any we'll
managed business keeps are kept on
these plantations. According to Nh
Bodman the cost of production IS low
er and The yield per acre greater than
the average of land OF this character
in the particular territory The plantaa-
tons are operated under what IS
known as the share-crop system.
Mr. Bodman has analysed the costs
on these plantations and found that
the gross return to the tenant per
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
COTTON FARMING MSOUTH CHANGES

acre amounts to $25.22. From this the
tenant must live during the winter
and between the harvesting OF one
irop and the starting Of another buy
clothing for himself and family There
is little left for pleasure and none tor
Injuries, for under the boil WeeWl
conditions the family Of two cannot
successfully operate more than ten
acres. This means a. total income OF
Approximately $252, based on the es-
innate Of the cost OF producing cotton
on these plantations for the current
year. :,
Here, to my mind is the gist OF
the whole negro migration, says MI
Bodman. The cotton field IS failing
to supply him what he can get else
where.
These plantations have produced
better than the average in a locality
and at less cost per pound. The cost
OF producing pound Of cotton de
ponds very largely upon the yield per
acre"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
VIOLATION OF THE STATES
GAME LAWS is DISCUSSED
State Warden Twitty Says Leading
Citizens Are Responsible.

Just before leaving Atlanta on a
trip which will take him through
many south Georgia counties, State
Game and Fish Warden Peter S. Twit-
ty issued a statement in which he
charged that the wholesale violations
OF the state game and fish laws are
largely attributable to the fact that
men of prominence and influence do
not observe them.
Commissioner Twitty stated that
county game wardens in some coun-
ties found it impossible to enforce the
law, because every officer OF the court
from the Judge down. was guilty.
In making an appeal to the best
people OF each community to make
enforcement OF these laws possible by
backing up officers in their efforts, and
by creating a proper sentiment in re-
gard to the laws, Commissioner Iwlt-
ty said he was addressing his state
ment to the best citizens OF every COM
munity and particularly to the press
OF the state"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
Death Reveals That
Ex-Soldier Was a Girl
AS a Man She Fought for the Irish
Ca,ee A STRANGE Story.

AS Man She Fought for the Irish
Cause. A Strange Story.
CLEVELAND, Ohio.-"Fran X
O'Brien isn't answering the buzzer in
the big ward at Huron Road Hospital
any more.
The slender, boyish looking orderly
is dead
But Franks" secret did not die.
Death only revealed it.
Mr." O'Brien was a girl.
Bit by bit the strange story OF her
past began to unravel itself.
Irish Soldier.
The Irish Republic" scarcely had
come into being when Mary O'Brlen,
still in her teens, quit her classes III
a convent school, shore her tresSes'
donned male attire and ran OFT to JON
the republican forces.
1t was only when she was wound
ed that her sex was disclosed. She
couldn't shoulder a rife again. But
they let her stay as a nurse.
The BLACK and Tans," though, were
on her trail She skipped out 1or
America. In Philadelphia She found
home at her uncle's house.
But things in the Quaker City were
a bit too tame after the hectic days
back on the ould sod. SO, still thlrstlng
for adventure she determined to be
a movie actress.
She donned boys clothes started
for Hollywood, though it was mid
winter When the train pulled into the
yards here she was nearly frozen.
Landed Mans Job.
A little rest would do her good, she
thought. She would wait until the
weather grew warmer before she re-
sumed her long journey.
She had no trouble in landing an
orderly's job at Huron Road Hospital.
One night when she reported Tor
duty the nurses noticed her face was
pale and drawn. The cold she caught
on the blinds" had done its work.
She had contracted pneumonia.
Mary lived just three days after
that To the last she refused to tell
the names OF any relatives. SO they
buried her in Potter's Field.
BY chance her uncle, George Mo
ran, learned OF her death. He had the
body exhumed and sent to Philadel-
phia.
There the little patriot has found
rest at last.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

A race OF men living unclothed I'M
der rock lodges and over-hanging
cliffs. with a history that is not trace
able. and who speak dialect that has
no similarity to any known language,
is described as existing in Pithoragarh,
North India, by the Rev. NJ. Wells
Branch, returned Methodist mission
arv. saws the Chicago correspondent
OF the Boston Globe.
Their bodies are covered with dark
hair from living without shelter. The
men are slightly Monaghan in type,
small of stature and they never go
armed.
They use only the crudest tools be-
sides their knives, yet they live IN
forests in which roam tigers, leopards,
bears and wolves.
Like Shadows.
They are like shadows in the tor
ests and will salute no one, said the
Rev Mr.. Branch, who lived near them
for 10 years They make wooden dish
es with their knives and are expert
their dishes they come out OF the Tor
when they wish to sell any OF
Whittlers.
est. put down their wares and retire
into the Jungle The traveller then IN
spects them and if he wants any he
leaves grain, other food or something
OF about equal value.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
THEY WEAR NO CLOTHES.

"They are anything but warlike and
are reckoned the most timid denizenS
OF the forests.
Good Tree Climbers.
"They are wonderful tree climbers,
but do not live in them. How they
manage to survive life in the forests in
which roam tigers, leopards, bears
and wolves is more than any one
knows.
They believe themselves all de
seconded from royal blood. For this
reason they call themselves RJas, and
claim to be descended from the tore
fathers of the Rajbar family, ruling
house of As+ot. native state OF that
region. -
"Some OF that number occasionally
visit the village bazaars, but no one
can talk with them or barter save by
signs
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
LAME MULE-NEGRO" METH
obs ARE DISAPPEARING AR
KANSAS BANKERS SAYS.
THE BOIL WEEVIL AIDS EXIT
Scientific Cultivation on Larger Scale
Is Coming. Days of Low-Priced
Product Ended. But Few Growers
Know Cost of Production.

Know Cost of Production.
Cotton farming in the south is
changing. The lame mule-negro cot
ton farming methods will have to
give way to all entirely different sys-
tenn. The big plantation OF old IS
doomed.
Such are the conclusions OF r. J..
Bodman, vice president OF the Union
Trust Company OF Little Rock Ark"
and chairman OF the Arkansas BANK
ers' Associations agricultural commit
tee. He tells the New York lines
that two factors are contributing to
the change: first, the increasing raw
ages of the boil weevil that now make
il impossible to raise cotton by shl1t-
less. easv-going methods, and, second
the high wages and industrial activity
in the northern cities. The typical
plantation manager or riding boss
and the tyr5ical ignorant careless ne
GRO tenant are a combination that
make soft picking for me boil wee
vii and the negro who goes north to
meet the lure OF relative freedom from
his old drudgery will never return.
EQudllN luC udN VI tliN IN
hill billv" cotton farmer is about gone,
Mr.. Bodman says The only cotton
farmer who IS going to win the night
against the boil weevil is the inteil1-
gent. trained farmer. who applies
brains and scientific methods to the
cultivation OF cotton on farm OF
reasonable size" he says. Needless
to say, this kind OF farmer will never
endure slavery conditions for himself
and his family.
"What does all this mean? That the
DAYS OF low-priced cotton are over.
II we ever get back to crops OF old
time size, the type OF farmer who gets
us back will do so only because he
makes a fair profit on his years work.
There is a widespread impression
in large areas OF northern country that
the south is already receiving great
returns for the cotton crop that II pro
duces. Unfortunately the cotton grow
er seldom keeps records, and there
has been little effort made to acquaint
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
METHODISTS WANT DAILY
PAPERS OWNED BY CHURCH
Modern Press Prints Things That
Tends Toward Hell Rather Than
Toward Heaven" 1t Is Said.

NEW YORK, n. Y-Assailing
modern newspapers for devoting at
tention to robbery, murder, bootleg
ging. prize fighting, political propa-
ganda and the things that tend to-
ward hell"~rather than to religion and
the things that tend toward heaven"
the New York conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church at the
close OF its annual business session
here voted in favor OF the establish
ment of newspapers to be edited and
published by the church.
The conference adopted a memorial
addressed to the church's quadrennial
convention to be held in Springfield,
Mass. in May recommending that the
church establish newspapers in three
large cities,
Tired of Being Criticized.
Opponents OF the plan to have the
church publish its own newspapers
held that already religion was get
ting a fair share OF publicity but
others contended that the Methodist
Episcopal church should have its own
daily publications to disseminate not
only religious but other news.
1t was declared that ministers were
getting tired OF being pictured in car
toons as long haired, cemetery faced
gloom dispensers and joy-killers or as
silly, stupid mollycoddlers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
THOMAS COUNTY MAN
HAS S ACRES IN TURNIPS

Bob Burch. OF Thomas county, has
FIVE acres sowed in turnips from which
he is now shipping daily large guam
titles for salad purposes. He finds
ready market for them at good prices:
Mr. Burch also has twelve acres OF
beans that are we'll advanced and with
good seasons will soop be ready Tor
market
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
MANY TOURISTS RETURNING
FROM FLORIDA STRANDED
Numbers Are Now Passing Through
Georgia Hiking Northward. "

Many people who have been spend
ing the winter in Florida, looking Tor
employment and trying to get away
from the hard winters OF the north,
are having trouble in getting back
home Every day men and women
pass through Naldosta, says the
Times, hiking and reports indicate
that conditions are really serious down
in Florida. A woman who was looking
for employment as a domestic, walked
from Valdosta to Nashville and re-
turn a distance OF nearly sixty miles,
looking for work
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
BRIDGE AT EUFAULA is
CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC

The bridge spanning the Chatta-
hoochee river between Georgetown
and Eufaula is in such bad condition
that the authorities have closed it to
travel. 1t is to be replaced by mod
ern bridge. which IS being construct
ed now.
Evening star., 1924-03-19
FINANCIAL BILL PASSED.
French Senate Accepts Draft With
out Essential Changes.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, March 19.-The governments
financial proposals were passed by the
senate yesterday, 151 to %. Absentions
of more than 100 were regarded as
moral votes against the measure.
The senate accepted the bill as it
came frbm the chamber without essen
tial notifications. rather than take the
responsibility before the country of de-
feating Premier Poincare.
As some slight alterations were in
troduced into the chambers text, the bill
was at once sent back to the chamber,
where it was received by the chamber S
finance committee. NJ. Bokanowski, re-
sent its findings to the chamber on
Thursday, SO that discussion may begin
Friday.
The foreign office last evening issued
an explanation of the French govern
ment's proposal for the creation of an
international agency to deal with re-
lief credits extended to European coun-
tries during the war and shortly after
the conclusion of the war.
The foreign office says Frances pro-
posal referred to the creation of an or
ganization for centralizing payment and
amortization of credits granted in 1920
to Poland Austria and Hungary for
economic reconstruction, and that it
Ehad no connection with interallied war
debts.
The statement was issued in connec-
ton with an official note made public in
Washington saying the United States
declined to accept the proposals for an
international agency to deal with relief
credits.
Evening star., 1924-03-19
:lORGAN SEES BRIGHT
OUTLOOK FOR FRANCE
.auds Nation for It's Efforts to
e Stabilize Economic
= Situation.
LAYS ENEMIES OF FRENCH
-Tinanciers Have Absolute Con-
fidence in Program, He Says.
Y the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NICE, France, March 19.-J. p.
Iorgan, the American financier, yes
;erday in an interview printed in the
Eclaireur said that France had taken
he necessary steps to stabilize her
economic situation, and that Ameri-
cans had confidence that if the people
OF the country stood together France
soon would be invincible in the eco
aomic domain.
Mr.. Morgan came ashore yesterday
from the steamer Lapland and had
luncheon. He sailed last evening on
the steamer for Naples, where he said
he would join his steam yacht Corsair
for a cruise.
IT am extremely pleased to learn
that your senate has ratified the new
taxation measures" Mr.. Morgan is
said. ut is quite understood that
Germany must pay you. For the mo-
inent she does not. The business
man who was unable to secure pay
ment from his debtors would go
bankrupt, no matter how just his
claims
But France has taken the neceS-
sary steps to stabilize the situation
in the face of all contingencies. We
have absolute confidence not only in
the resources of your country, but
even more in the Intelligent and in
dustriouS population, which, after as
tonishing the world in the war, now
is giving a magnificent example OF
how to win peace.
IF the ruling classes only make a
similar effort, France soon will be
invincible in the economic domain.
In any case we shall always be at
her side and sustain her when neceS-
sary, because we know we can count
upon her as the champion of right.
Gen. Pershing, on stepping on the
soil of France, said, La Fayette, We
are heren and behind him stood all
America in arms. We have proved
that the financial world, often rep
resented as sunk into selfishness, can
remember. My father showed it after
the war of 1870, and it was with
admirable unanimity that the big
bankers of the United States an
swered the appeal to help you van
quish the coalition formed against
you franc.
Nothing justified a panic, for your
national wealth has increased to for
midable proportions during the last
two years. But your enemies count
ed upon succeeding in shaking the
confidence of the country. There were
then in existence more than sixty
billion francs in treasury, and credit
national bonds payable at short no.
tice, without any other means of
Evening star., 1924-03-19
senate declared yesterday at exercises

senate declared yesterday at exercises
here.
Antonio de Ia Salas, speaker pro
TEN. of the house of representatives,
in the same connection, asserted that
as result of the present admintstra-
ton of the Philippines the friendship
between the two peoples is in danger
Of being broken.
"It is high time that Americans
here should know what we will give
in return for what we are asking,
Senator Quezon said. america wants
naval base in the Orient. She needs
country in this part Of the globe
where she can sell her products and
get what she cannot produce in the
homeland. We want to assure Amer
lea and Americans here they will not
Evening star., 1924-03-19


meeting them than by recourse to
the printing press. When a country
embarks on that course, 1t Is i'm
possible.
'When we saw with what conf
dence your country resisted that at
tack, and that instead of initiating
Germany, when the mark began to
drop, all citizens of France accepted
the necessary sacrifices, we were
proud of our former comrades in
arms.
|, LET France continue in this course,
and before two years have elapsed
she will have reconquered, from the
economic viewpoint, the preponderat-
ing situation she enjoyed before the
war. I shall be sincerely happy. fo4
I love your country which is beauti-
full, industrious and honest"
Eyes, honest" Mr.. Morgan added
with smile. Even the hotel busi-
ness which occasionally is subject to
calumny."
Evening star., 1924-03-19

ms. It is 50 pure it cannot
njure sensitive wool fiber"
Important Uses for Lux
In addition to the we'll known uses
recommended by great fabric manufac-
trefs-siIks-woolens- 6ne eottons and
linens-try Lux for
Family laundry, Linoleum Rugs
Babies boetles Paint Automobiles
Dishes Porcelain Shampoo
Evening star., 1924-03-19
Hosv to svash diapers

Soiled diapers should have all solid
mater removed Immediately and
then be put to soak in cold water.
IF diapess are simply wet place
them In . covered pail and let
them soak In cold water until ycu
are ready to wash them.
Then whisk two tablespooufuls
Of Lux into q thick lafhef In Q Tub
Of very hot water. Let diapers
soak for q few minutes, then dip
chem up and down, pressing suds
repeatedly through them. If suds
die down add more Lux. Rinse in
at least three waters. Boil diapers
once = week, using t.blespoon-
full Of Lux to . gallon Of wasee.
Rinse thoroughly.
Evening star., 1924-03-19

NOTHING IN the world is as sensi-
IN tive as little baby's skin. The
least roughness irritates and inflames it.
Physicians agree that when a baby
cries or is fretfu1 it is often just because
his diapers are rough and scratchy from
washing with strong soap, or his little
band has shrrnk and binds his tender
abdomen.
The diaper rash that is the source of
such severe suffering to babies is usu-
ally traceable to this very cause-wash-
ing diapers with harsh soap-soap con-
tanning free a1kali. Alkai is almost
impossible to rinse out. It clingS to
little garments in a fine
white powder that is cruelty =
Evening star., 1924-03-19
QUEZ0N PLEDGES FAIR
DEALING FOR Freedom
Filipino Leader Says All Conces.
sions Wanted Will Be Given
to United States.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA, March is-American cap
italists in the Philippines will not
need protection of the American flag
to the islands, but will be treated
squarely, even generously" Presi-
dent Manuel Quezon of the insular
Evening star., 1924-03-19

have to govern. this country In order
to get these things. II she grants
our freedom she can build . naval
base here. Wen give her preference
Evening star., 1924-03-19

Superstitious Welsh mothers put
pair of tongs in the baby's cradle.
They believe that this "precaution'
will protect the infant from all
Evening star., 1924-03-19

In our trade. Wen buy her products
and in every way we'll give her all
concessions necessary to maintain her
position in tho Orient"
Evening star., 1924-03-19

The observed Of all obseFFers In The
girls high school Of Sauit ste Marie
Ontario. Is the lone student who has
not had her hair bobbed. - RIU