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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-11-18
WILMOTH FAMILY HAS
THREE DEATHS in WEEK
BIBLE SCHOOL IN SESSION

Miss Ruby Sprinkle who has charge
of the young peoples work in the
Presbyterian Church of this state is
conducting a series Of classes in "The
Life of Christ" at the local church
this week. Night classes are devot-
ed to adults and work for the child
rem is being carried ON in the after
noon.
The average attendance for the
night classes so far has been about
fifteen, Miss Sprinkle reports, but the
junior meetings have run to one hun
bred or more in attendance. These
classes are for all denominations and
is planned to be of especially benefit
to the teachers Of the various Sunday
schools
The junior meetings consist Of song
services, recitations and story hour
and several Of the teachers are as
sisting Miss Sprinkle Grade groups
have been meeting under her super
vision. Glasses win continue until
Friday night for adults and the child
rem will meet sometime Saturday for
their final session.
Miss Sprinkle, whose home is in
Washington, has her headquarters in
EllSins.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-11-18
ABBOT MINES RESUME
OPERATION THIS WEEK

This week will mark the opening of
the Abbott mines, after being idle for
at least two years. The mines, which
were formerly operated under the
name of the Brydon Brothers Coal
Corporation has been changed to the
Belnor Coal Company, the name be-
ing compounded from the first syi-
ables of Belington and Northern rail-
way on which the mines are located.
w. S. Brydon, superintendent, has
been working with corps of men for
the past six weeps, putting the mines
in working condition At present car
leaders seem to be scarce, but the
mines will probably open at full time
sometime the latter part of the
week.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-11-18
TO DIS
PLAY FRUIT JAN. 10
Farmers Week at Morgantown VIII
Feature Fruit and Vegetable
Show

A showing of fruit and vegetables
raised by West Virginia farmers will
be held January 1914 as a part of
the annual Farmers Week which will
be held at the University of West
Virginia at Morgantown, under the
auspices of the College of Agricul-
ture. The following premiums are
offered for apples and potatoes:
Department A.-Apples, class /,
commercial growers class.
Sub Glass A.-One standard bushel
sections, l, Ben Davis; 2, Northwest
ern Greening; 8, Rome; a, Williams
Early Red; 5, Wealthy; 6, York.
Five dollar prizes in each section;
second prize, three dollars in each
section.
Sub Glass Bone standard bush
Ell box, sections, L, Black Twig; 2, De-
licious; 8, Crimes; A, Jonathan; 5,
Stayman; 6, Winesap. First prize
five dollars in each section; second
prize, three dollars in each section.
y Sub Glass Cone plate sections;
/, Black Twig; 2, Ben Davis; 3, De-
licious; A, Grimes; Jonathan; 6,
Northwestern Greening; z, Rome; 8,
Stayman; 9, Wealthy; 10, Winesap;
II, Williams Early Red; II, York; 13,
varieties not listed First prize,
three dollars in each section; second
prize, two dollars in each section.
Sub Class D.-Standard barrel and
variety; first prize, ten dollars; sec
ond prize, six dollars.
Department B-Potatoes, Sub Class
A.-One standard peck sections. ],
Smooth Rurals; 2, Russet Rurals; 3,
Early Ohio; a, Green Mountain; 5,
Cobbler. First prize, five dollars in
each section; second prize, three dol
lars in each section; second prize,
three dollars in each section.
Sub Glass Bone plate tubers,
sections. /, Smooth Rurals; 2, Rus
set Rurals; 3, Early Ohio; 4, Green
Mountain; 5, Irish Cobbler. First
prize, three dollars in each section;
second prize two dollars in each sec
ton.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-11-18
CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
SUFFERS FLOOD LOSS
EXTENSION COURSE
TO BE GIVEN

The Fairmont State Teachers Col
lege opened their usual extension
class at the high school Wednesday
night with an enrolment of nearly
twenty. The course win deal with
modern history, beginning with 1915
and extending up until the present
time, with intensive study of the
World War and it's causes. Professor
Rice, head of the Grafton school sys-
tenn will have charge Of the class.
Regular college credit will be Civ
en- the teachers completing the course
with meetings held each week on
Wednesday nights.
The enrolment has not been COM
pleted but SO far about fourteen
teachers have signified their willing
ness to sign up for the course. They
are: Mr.. G. l. Elder, music instructor
in Belington High school; Melvin
Roberts, principal Of the Belington
Graded school; Miss Ruth Carwell,
English instructor, Belington Junior
high school; Miss Audra Gall; Miss
Edra Stalnaker, Miss Ida 0ffhous,
Miss Catherine Cain and Miss Opal
Kerr Of the local grade school; Miss
Myrtle Bolton of the West Junior
school; Miss Wilma George of the
Zebbs Greek school; Miss Bessie
Shepard, Mr.. Hutchinson, Mr.. Shomo
and Mr.. Powers of Junior.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-11-18
Heavy Rains Monday Night Makes
600 Homeless in Weston and Vicin-
ity-Tygarts Valley Has Four Foot
Raise in Twenty Four Hours.

Heavy rains Monday night were the
cause of property loss of more than
500, 0OO-more than $4,000 of which
is the loss Of Weston alone, it is re-
Norted. Six hundred people are
homeless in Weston and nearby towns
as a direct result of high waters that
swept that part Of the state early
Tuesday morning.
People in Weston, Warrington,
Hundred and surrounding smaller
towns were taken from the second
story windows of their homes on
RATS and moved to safety. AT Man
nington a new concrete bridge was
washed away.
Wednesday reports showed that the
water had subsidized and property loss
was being valued. One of the big
gest items is said to be motor cars,
the ignition system and upholstery of
which were ruined by the high wat
ers. Telephone poles were scattered
in all directions.
High Waters Here
The heavy rains apparently affect
ed this part of the state very little,
although the Tygarts Valley at this
point showed raise of about 48
inches inside of twenty four hours,
measurements show.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-11-18
Death Comes TO Biackman, Comm0-
dore and Mary r. Wilmoth Within
Five Days

Death came to three members Of
the Wilmoth family within five days
during the past week. Blackman, 50,
died at o'clock Friday, Nov, II;
Commodore, ~, died Saturday morn
ing at l o'clock, Nov. 10, and Mary
Truman, ~, wife of Commodore, died
Tuesday night at ii o'clock, Nov. i6.
Blackman and Commodore were the
last members Of a family of thirteen
children, Commodore being the
youngest. They were born in Ran
dolph county, but at an early age
moved to farms in Valley district,
where they lived until about five
years ago, when they sold their farms
and moved to Belington.
Blackman, the elder, was married
three times. In 1867 he married SUI
san Virginia Bartlett, who died with
in few weeks of their marriage,
victim Of typhoid fever. In 1875 he
was married to Martha L. Baker and
to this union six children were born,
three of whom survive. They are.
Charles and Harvey Of Belington and
Delbert of Gassaway.
Widow Survives
In 1901, Mr. Wilmoth was married
to Frances Daniels Of Elkins who
survives him.
Commodore Perry Wilmoth was
married Dec. i6, 1877 to Mary Tru-
man Thorne and to them eight child
rem were born. Bernard, Henry, Os-
car, Orville, Mrs. Henry Moore and
Mrs. Earl Booth reside in and near
! Belington, while Leslie is resident
Of Kingwood.
Mary Truman Wilmoth, wife Of
Commodore, was born Sept IA, 1864,
outlived her husband less than four
days, dying as result Of paraletic
stroke late Tuesday night, after an
illness Of several years. She did not
know that her husband was dead.
Many Attend Funeral
The two brothers were buried Sun
day at o'clock at the Concord Gem
etery, about three miles from town,
within sight of the farms on which
they had spent the largest part of
their lives. The funeral was probab-
| w the largest that has ever been
held in this section Of the country,
low estimates placing the crowd in
excess Of two thousand people.
Short prayer services were held at
the residences and the procession met
and formed on Brown Avenue near
the bridge. The funeral carriage
bearing the body Of Blackman, the
oldest brother led the procession, fol-
lowed closely by that carrying Com
modore,
The brothers were so similar In APP
pearance and the caskcts being alike
that many people found it hard to
distinguish between the two, and
many friends had to ask the names
to be certain.
The Concord Church was filled toe
Overlooking and many people did not
get within the sound Of the music
Ministers-the Rev. Straders, Of
Philippi, who are brothers, conducted
the services.
The funeral of Mrs Wilmoth was
held this afternoon at two o'clock at
Concord Church. She was buried at
the side Of her husband in the Con-
cord Cemetery.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-11-18
CHURCH TO HAVE FURNACE

Plans were completed this week for
the installation of a complete warm
air furnace system in the Methodist
Episcopal church here it is reported.
The furnace will be purchased from
a Syracuse, N. Y, firm and will be
up to date in every detail.
A representative of the company
was here and maize measurements
for the installing of the plant and it
is hoped that the furnace will be in
working condition within the ne t
two weeks.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-11-18
NOTICE

Miss Munson, The Barbour County
Public Health Nurse, will be in her
office, Room a, Merrill Dayton Build
ing, each Saturday from 8 A. M. to
IL, Noon, for the purpose of weigh
ing and measuring and examining
pre-school children. Miss Munson will
be glad to advise with the mothers
relative to both school and pre-school
children.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-11-18
HURT BY AUTOMOBILE

Mrs. Charles Brandenburg return
ed Wednesday morning from Kins-
more, near Akron where she was
called about two weeks ago to the
bedside Of her father, John Wilson,
who was struck by an automobile I'd
seriously injured.
Mr.. Wilson is rs years old and is
well known in this section of West
Virginia. He was crossing a street
near the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Frybeyer of Kinsmore when he was
struck by an automobile and knocked
down. He was rushed to hospital
where examination showed a broken
leg and other injuries.
Sss " II 7s4s 4,
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-11-18
COMMUNITY MEETINGS

Sugar Creek, Wed. night, Nov. "a
at Z o'clock Community
SPIRIT. G. Wilson in charge of
this subject.
Mary's Chapel, Friday night, Nov.
26th at o'clock Subject Citizen
ship A. M. Stansberry in charge
of melting.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-11-18
HOLDING REVIVAL

Rev. J. c. AlIender of this city has
been in Green Hill on the Elk road
for the past two weeks where he is
conducting revival services.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-11-18
FARM wOMANS CLUB MEETINGS

Medowville, Wed. Nov. "a at 1870
o'clock
Sugar Greek, Friday, Nov. 26 at
200 o'clock.
Nestorville, Sat. Nov. 81 at 1870
o'clock.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-11-18
MISS KERR IMPROVING

The condition of Miss Flo Kerr,
who has been very ill at the home of
her mother on the West Side is
greatly improved friends report.
Miss Kerr is able to be up aFd receive
visitors. Her sister, Miss Ada Kerr
of Philippi is here spending some
time.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-11-18
TO HAVE BAKE SALE

The members of the. Eastern Star
Club will hold bake sale at the
Price and Co. store on Wednesday
Nov "a. The sale will be a general
one and will begin at 80 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-11-18
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank all those who so
kindly assisted US during the sickness
and death of our beloved husband and
father. May God bless you ALL
MRS. A. B. WILMOTH and FAMILY
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-11-18

official record:
Board Of Education, Belington Ind.
Radabaugh for president 141
hardwood for president 4lO
Parrish for member go
Polling for member 800
Wilmoth for member 236
Brandon for member 252
hardwood, Polling and Parrish re-
ceiving the highest number of votes
are elected.
F. A. Simpson was elected justice
of the peace in Valley district, receiv-
ing 1863, his opponent Fawley receiv-
ed 271. Clark Saffel was elected con-
stable receiving 1853, his opponent
Monahan 239.
Monroe Moore was elected presi-
dent of the board of education in Bar
ker district, receiving 412, his oppon-
ent w. r. Shomo 255; S. E. Jones for
member received 356, his opponent,
John England 314.
w. M. Kittle was elected to the
board of education in Valley district,
receiving 1853 votes; no opposition; l..
B. Coontz, member 1877, his opponent
Durrett received 1872.
The amendments-total for county
For Budget 1859; against 1893.
For Property Amendment 906;
against 1854.
For modification of county court 4498;
against 900.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-11-18

Paul Lawson, district circulation
manager for the Clarksburg Expon-
ent was in town Monday morning.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-11-18
OFFICIAL RESULTS

The following results are from the
official record:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05

today. / pointed out that the condl-
lions under capitalism were respon-
sible for the influx of women into
places hitherto occupied by men. The
wages Of the male worker today is
insufficient to support family, with
the result that women have to go to
work also. The whole question IS
rooted in the conditions Of the entire
working class under capitalism.
Material conditions determine wom-
ems activities as well as mems. Cap
italism's mode of production has
drawn the woman into the industrial
field. They immigrate to different
countries because they can't find any
work in their own countries.
Take, for instance, the pre-war pc
Rod in Russia. Russia was an in
dustrially undeyeloped country. The
workers emigrated to countries
where they could find work. Among
the immigrants there was great per-
centage of women.
NOW the question arises, what part
IN are women playing in industry
And what effect do they have on the
class struggle?
For centuries women were made to
believe that they were inferior to
men. When women began to entel
industry, the exploiters made good
use of this false tradition. With the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05

Of machinery, thousands
of unskflled workers are taking the
places of the skilled workers. The
bosses do not care. II they can get
a woman worker to work for less
money they will surely employ her
instead of a man. Take, for instance,
the machine shops. They are en-
ploying girls for the punch-press.
They pay them half the wages that
they are paying men.
Now, dear brother, shouting that
women are no good will get us no
place.
THE women are part of the ex-
L plotted class. We might as well
start to do some work among them
so they should emancipate themselves
from this economic oppression as be-
ing an inferior sex, and raise the
interest among the women. They
shall participate in the struggle for
the working class az equals to men.
In unions, where women are getting
less pay for the same work that men
are doing we shall help them to put
up demands, equal pay for equal
work" Where women are not organ
lied into unions we must see to II
that they are organized.
All the capitalist countries are try.
ing to make the workers believe that
they have such thing as democracy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
Women in the Workshop

for women In industry. They arc
trying to say that they are given
more protection. This is all camou-
fiage. / know Of cases in the shops
where / worked, that women were
taken direct from the shops to the
hospital to give birthto children. The
capitalists have no provisions for
mothers with small infants.
There are families where mothers
have no rest after childbirth; they
have to go right back to the factory.
We have to point out to the women
workers that such conditions must be
improved. Go to the packing houses
and you will see the conditions of the
women workers.
THERE is only one country that has
i raised the level of the women work
raised the level of the women work
ers. and that is Soviet Russia. They
have in Russia special provisions for
the mothers in the different indus
tries. The women are given an OPP
portunity to participate in all the ac-
tiyities of the class struggle. The
women have shown themselves just as
capable as the<Inen in their under
taking. We men and women had
better stop our guerilla warfare, and
make a common fight to emancipate
ourselves from our common enemy,
the capitalist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
BY HELEN KAPLAN

T HAVE been unemployed for the
1 last ten months. Going to A. G. w.
employment office practically every
day to ask for a job. l come in CON
tact with thousands of workers.
When We come together we talk OF
everything under the sun. We joke,
we laugh, we praise and we condemn.
We get acquainted very fast. We do
not wait for any introduction-we Just
begin to speak when we have any
thing to say.
A few days ago came to the office.
1 asked the usual question of the man
who gives out the jobs, and he gave
me his usual answer, nothing doing
today" Then / went over to a group
of workers who were standing talk
ing. They were trying to put blame
on women workers for some OF the
defects in our industry.
ONE worker said; I'VE men are
~ going around idle while many OF
the women are working. In the old
country in Poland the women didn't
work in the shops. But as soon as
they come to this country they gel
into the shops and factories and SCOT
they will be even getting into the
mines"
told the worker that l would tel
him why women work in the shops
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
with sobs and Iamen-'
tation we lowered our
banners"
BY N. KAPTELTsEvA

ONE cannot describe in words the
" great sorrow in the heart Of every
conscious working woman since the
death Of Lenin.
Two difficult years which seem as
soon as centuries and as short as
flashes have gone by since January
21st. 1924. For two years the working
class and toilfng peasantry have been
building up their state without their
leader, their guide, without TINS
thinker and organizer of genius. They
are building up collectively in place OF
their party leader.
It is a difficult and stupendous task
but the teachings of our great leader
show us the way and light up our
path.
TINE death of Comrade Lenin has
i been a great sorrow in the hearts
of many millions of our toiling women,
and January 81 will be imprinted Tor
ever on the memory Of every woman
thinker and peasant.
How / was thunderstruck at this
news. / was no longer able to think
The words reeled in my head: "Lenm
is dead"
"And | could not understand them,
writes a working woman from the
Ukhovskaya factory. 1t was my nus
band who told me that Vladimir llylch
was dead. / stood there with oper
mouth, wanting to say something, bul
my tongue would not move and my
brain burned as if it were on fire.
What do you mean, Lenin is dead?
Who could replace him?"
81 remember how this went to m.
heart and how burst into tears
writes the working woman Epifanov'
from Teikov in the IvanovoVosne
senek Province.
| "A sthunderbolt could not have stu
pefied me more than this news Q
Lenin's DEATH" said Anurova.
The first minutes were minutes o
fright, terror and panic, but anothe
question Immediately faced ever
working woman-Lenin is dead, b.
his work lives. The Party he founde
is living and the working class an
toilIng peasantry which lIyich orgal
lied around the Party is still living.
! Help the orphaned party to get
work. In such times there is no plac
for tears-this burst forth from II
{ collective hearts of the workers.
4 II Immediately realized the impo
. lance of this moment and dried N
. tears, but it was just as il a stone hs
fallen upon my heart" writes II
working woman Semenova in her le
y ters.
THE Moscow men and women wor
i ers in the days Of the sharp Jan
9 airy frosts marched uninterrupted
day and night to bid farewell to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
Working Women and Lenin

leader, teacher and friend. They came
in hundreds from the provinces.
81 remember how l wanted to look
at him, and how l could see nothing
for my tears. / wiped them away with
my sleeve, but once more they hid
from me the face of our leader,
teacher comrade and friend.
Il and all working women to whom
nyitch is dear must follow his teach
ings and be Leninists-these are the
thoughts that are burning in our
brains, writes a working woman from
the Uritzky factory.
And when the walls Of the Mauso-
leum had hidden the body of vladimir
Ilyitch, when the last salvos had died
down, when the banners were lowered
to the ground, then the working
women poured into the still iron-firm
feminist Party in scores, hundreds,
thousands and tens of thousands.
And then two years of persistent
work in the ranks of the Party and
together with the Party, under Lenin's
watchwords- at restoring indus
try, at strengthening the alliance OF
the working class and the peasantry.
ENROM the first days after Lenin's
1 death the working women COM
menced sending their collections, let
tiers, notes and poems to the newspa-
pers and journals.
And not only at that time but even
up to the present time they are still
sending in material uninterruptedly.
In this they bemoan the tragic loss,
and allude to the colossal work Of
vladimir nyitch in forming the Party
I and organizing the working masses
and they swear they will be true to
his teachings.
And it is not only those who have
written and who know how to write
who are writing these things, but also
those who but few years back have
never held pen in their hands. Both
the old and the very young write IN
their ungrammatical and crooked
: hand from all parts OF the Soviel
Union. 1t is the hands OF hundreds
and thousands Of working women whit
are writing. but their thoughts are al
one.
TOGETHER with the Party we viii
l. bring Lenin's work to its coneiu
I sion. We will carry forward hi
i teachings, and IL not we, then ou
1 children, our grand children and grea
!. grand children will see the dawn o
Socialism turnout the world.
q "And not only the working women
= but the housewives, also, are enterin
q the feminist Party and bidding other
to do likewise"-that Is what tn
:. housewife Demanin writes.
vi Working women, and wives Of worl
4 ing men, Lenin suffered persecution
q shame, prison and exile for our fre'
I dom and now that he Is no longe
with us let us stand beneath the Re
banner of the feminist Party and hel
K it to finish the work OF constructin
u socialism that Lenin commenced.
" Our banner is Lenin and our weapo