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NOTICE OF SPECIAL COMMITS
SIONER'S SALE OF VALU-
ABLE REAL ESTATE.

Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned special commissioners,
under and by virtue of decree en-
tered in the circuit court OF Bar
bour county, West Virginia, at the
April term, 1926 in the chancery cause
Of Waller vs. Mountain State Invest
ment Company, will on Saturday the
18th day Of June 1926, between the
hours Of o'clock A. NJ and 4 O'Clock
P. NJ. Of that day offer for sale, at
the front door of the courthouse of
Barbour county, West Virginia, the
following described tract or parcel
of real estate ,to-wit:
All of that certain tract Of land
containing 20 acres more or less, adj
joining the Midway Addition to the
City Of Belington, in Barbour county
West Virginia and BEING the same 20
acre tract of land heretofore convey
ed to j. A. Viquesney and wife to the
Mountain State Investment Company
and described in the second descrip-
tive paragraph Of the report Of the
Commissioner in Chancery in said
above styled chancery cause.
TERMS OF SALE: Either cash in
hand, or ct the option of the purchas-
er one third cash in hand, and the
residue in two equal payments, due
in six and twelve months from date
of sale, with interest, the purchaser
to give intrest bearing notes with
good security and legal title to be
retained until purchases money is
paid.
A. G. MERRILL,
w. BRUCE TALBOT,
5-13-4t. Special Commissioners.
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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION
OF tire Mct ne Pharmacy
eny

All persons V reby take notice
that on the 8tF M Of May, 1926, a
resolution unde the provisions Of
section Sc, chapter SO Of the code of
West Virginia, vas duly adopted by
the stockholders Of said corporation,
representing majority of the stock;
that said resolution provides for the
voluntary dissolution of the corpor-
ate charter of said corporation and
for the payment Of all debts and liza
bilities of said corporation and for
the distribution pro rata of the res
idue Of the proceeds of assets Of said
corporation among its stockholders,
and provides further for the publica-
ton Of this notice Of such action as
provided for by law
All persons Interested will take due
notice Of the foregoing and govern
themselves accordingly.
This Sth day of May, 1926.
Fl. A. mccoy, President.
ARCHIE aaC0Y, Secretary. 5-13-44
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Continued from First Page)
ANNUAL COM
MENCEMENT EXERCISES

played Prelude OPP. 3, No. by S.
Rachmaninoff. Mrs. Norma Rohra
baugh followed with Valse Impromp-
tu by Margaret Upcraft, and won by
unanimous decision for the Mozarts.
Oral Rinehart gave an Grafton on
Americas Three Greatest Crimes"
but lost to the Mozart contestant
Miss Wilma George, whose Grafton
was "Our Educational Opportunities.
The question for debate was: Re-
/ solved, That the United States Con-
Yress should enact the Curtis Reed
Bill, thereby creating a Department Of
Education Harold Brandenburg up
held the affirmative side Of the ques-
ton for the Lyceum, while Stanley
Dadisman of the Mozart Society won
unanimously with the negative argu7
ment.
Following the. debate Miss Emma
linn of the Mozart Society sang "A
May Morning. by Luigi Denza, but
lost to Miss Margaret Right who sang
"The Sheperdess and The Knight by
Watson, the decision being unanimous.
Miss Opal Dadisman won the Es-
say for the Mozarts, taking for her
|subject "Americanizing the Ameri-
cans, while her opponent, Miss Hene
Wilson chose "The Origin and Growth
Of the English Language" as her sub
st.
The final number on the program
vas the Reading which was won by
Miss Mildred Spencer who gave "The
Lion and The Mouse" by Charles
Klein. Miss Marjorie Wilson of the
Lyceum Society gave Thrush. As
the result of such decisions, the In
ter-Soe.ety banner waves for the Mo
zarts for another year, the total
scores being 90-10 in their favor.
During the scoring Of decisions Mr..
Kenneth Shinn favored the audience
with a vocal number, "At Parting"
by Tchailkowsky.
One of the largest audiences that
has ever attended Contest was pre-
sent and the members of each society
both active and alumni We're given
ribbons signifying the society to
Which they belonged. The. Contest
was one Of the best literary events
ever held in Belington and the coach
es, Miss Jolliffe, for the Readers;
Misses Curry and Church, for the Es-
sayists; Mr. Elder, for the Music; and
Mr.. Harper, for the Debate and Ora
tions; are to be congratulated on the
splendid showing made by their con-
testants.
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Tuesday evening of Commencement
Week, the Junior High School gave
their fifth graduation exercises at the
Baptist Church. Their Class colors of
pink and white were beautifully car
ried out in the decorations of spring
flowers. At eight o'clock the church
was crowded with the PARENTS and
friends of the graduates. Lena Forney
played the March for the entrance Of
khe Glass, and the forty-five boys and
iris took their places on the rostrum.
They remained standing until Rev. G..
D. Griffin gave the Invocation
After, the Invocation, Adonis Hunt
..ielivered an Grafton that was well
Aworth listening to. This was follow
ed by an essay by Dorothy BryHsn
that dealt with the same material as
the grafton, that of Success" Mar
tina cambridge and Mary Katheryn
Koontz gave splendid readings. Eliza
beth Row, the Glass poetess and Har-
old Row, the prophet cave interesting
original material. Then Elizabeth
Mccoy played a piano solo which did
not come up to her standard not due
to any fault of hers but some one had
placed cap in the piano that de3l-
ened at least an octive of the import
ant notes.
Mr. Elder, the principal of the Jun
Tor High School presented the Glass
to President James H. FELTON, of the
Board of Education, who presented
1.-THE diplomas. The Glass Of '26 is the
, largest ever graduated from the
Junior High School and the personal
is as follows:
Thomas D. Anderson, 0rville Vance
.Allender, Ada Kathaleen Ball, loan 0.
Booth, Dorothy Schley Brydon, Dyson
A. Ballah, Willard Calvin Bibey,
George Herald Bibey, Oslo Bolton,
Sybil Gray CorIey, Abbie Jeane Coff-
man, Forrest Digman, Russell Glen
England, Guy Findley, G. Jean Gain
er, Terry D. Harris, Adonis S. Hunt,
James D. Hillyard, Flossie Mae Jones,
: Mabel Lynette Koontz, Mary Kathryn
Koontz, Sylvia Kittle, Alma Moore,
Elizabeth Mccoy, Forrest L. Muir
ray, Edwin J. Phillips, William Har-
old Row, Margaret Elizabeth Right,
Elizabeth Opal Row, Edith T. Roberts
Martha f. Sandridge, Howard c. San
Nridge, Alexander Sarco, Hazel Viz
ginia Sherman, Irene Shomo, John H.
Smith, James Horace Thacker. Arle
Thorn, Robert E. Thompson, Blanche
Ware, Clarence Ware, Ilene Wilson,
Gladys Virginia Wilson, Edith V. Viii
moth
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The twentieth Annual Commence
ment Of Belington High School was
held in the Baptist Church, Wsdnes-
day evening, May rs, 1926. The
Church which was beautifully decor
ated with the high school colors and
fdld flowers, was crowded long before
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Stanley E. Dadisman, President.
Opal L. Dadisman, Secretary Harold
j. Prandenburg, Hannah Edna Ed
wards, Vada linus Elder, Evelyn Gall,
Wilma Earlyne George, Grant Hut
Crimson, Ephraim Lazarus, Doreen
O. Brien, Mildred Adalyne Spencer,
Emma Ledona linn.
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Using Wealth Wisely

National attention was turned upon Ponca City,
Ok,; the ether day when OF its oil milionaires,
Lew Wentz loaned million dollars to the cotton
farmers OF Oklahoma, without interest
The cotton farmers Of the west and south have
been hard hit by the recent market slump. WentE
advant I'll a plan t. the relief commission to with
held On.O0O bales from the market until conditions
fer s.l arc more favorable. Without the million
the plan he proposed to the relief commission
wouldn't work
This IS rot the first evidence that Wentz is mil
Iona, re Who kr9ws how to his money. Recently
he gave $4,000 each to the Oklahoma Agricultural
COLLEGE and the University Of Oklahoma to be used
8 Loan fund for poor students.
l,br four years Wentz has been financing aid fvl
;,llcd children, paying for clinics. Last summer
he gaze the children Of Pcnea City new swimming
pc I.
At Christmas time he is Santa Claus to all Poncs
City: Every poor child gets a., assortment o.
Christmas gifts from him. Each inmate Of thu
county farm gets gold piece. The Indian children
get Christmas trees.
These arc but a few of his bcnefactions. But the,
arc enough to indicate that Vents millions seen
to be in good hands.
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knowledge who wish to prepare themselves properly
for their chosen fields. h
We PAY For Styk

France Las for many years, for many, many ysafs'
been the complete aib!ter Ct womcn's styles the
world over No style has been cons,t red authentic
unless It bore the Paris label. Hats Owns, even
underwear. has had to conc from the magical
Franc, to bc truly chic The smartncss Of the
French women has been tralitional-,nti now w,ac'l
France firds that her native women can no ionxc'
afford to pay the prices fer French clothing that
foreign women can pay a~l thus the French women
ire becoming progressively dowdier.
This, of course could not be borne by the horrafied
French people Something must be DONE All the
brai.c in the republic were ,nccntrated and.then-
veia the thing was done The scheme is YER.
simple and CT insists in the designing of clothing ex
cl..sively for French women that shall DC At ones
tn. most chic and the most Inexpensive The shop
Will still sell French :tyles-for Americans, and
French stylcs-for rarisians. The American woman
will pay 5000 francs for gown and the Partisan
800 francs Both will lie chic, both will be happy
ard the noble cmincncc Of France as the dictator o.
fashion will be secure.
How easily these major pi,r.ems Of car civiiiza
ton do work themselves out when great minds arc
concentrated upon their solution
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When Little Words Grow Big

M. Earl Of oxford and Asquth has lust released
.,nc.dcnta with his ranquishing the leadership ="
the LIBERAL party, new BOOK
book Is called Fifty Years Of British Paisa-
ment' Il is another "now lt-can-hc-to'a DOOM
Ia; none /, The vitrioli, backbting SAVIOR OF that
book by his wife, Margot Asluith. which sent al
En,,iand int. panic rs the great aAd the ncar-great
discovered ccufi'crccs made to Lady Asqulth laid
bare in has diary.
The aarl in a scholarly manner, merely tells what
has !.an going on in parliament for the last half
century.
One chapter on Political Catchwords' is espe-
cialy interesting. The earl comments on his own
pI, asc wait and see which nc says became poi't'
ca, slang was "caricatured into maxim OF policy,
am, was nothing after all but "a common coiloquial
isr.
y, America IS not the only nation which reads
grave meaning INTO words Of little consequence
who uttered by big men.
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SAINT SINNER
Amezus,.n &aS& ..z 2 gS!lS{.

thu wheel away from him, and yell
ing my head off, not when any car
was close To MS. you understand, but
just to scare him and make him be
have. lf he hadn't turned the car
over on that hairpin curve
Turned the ear ovcr?' Faith
Easpcd. ooh, darling, were you
hurtY"
Gee, you're riot, Faith! A wow"
Cherry chuckled. Neither Of Us
was hurt u bit. but you ought to see
the car! jumped and Chris slid to
the bottom Of the car out from under
tho steering wheel. when heard
him scramblng out and swearing, ]
knew T,c wasn't hurt u bit. and !
| hcganato run down the road. | looked
back over my shoulder. just TO make
~NrA, you know. and there was Chris,
walking around and around the car,
nnd.J staggered on with the one b,.
| idca--tO get away from thcre!
Then came along Bill Warren
| grinned Ill Faith rcassurngly. ia
been over to the Marlboro Country
Club to u dinner dance. and as the
girl lives in Marlboro, was drivine
home alone. thought | must b.
: bughousc or something when ms
headlights picked up Cherry. runnins;
4 JIkc a. (WO-y tiI-Otu la stcSPiNAhooN-
Il was one time the infant was glad
10 sec old Eiil huh - His hand
ruffIed Chcrry's short, rcdgold curl!
With affcctionatc familiarity.
4, "Yos said mouthful." Chcrr:
twcakcd his nose inipudcntly. "Ana
so We are here. Now, ask you
isn't that a. hot story. But what de-
you think Of Bob, Faith? 1t does
prove something, doesn't it?-his
pow wowing with The slcuth under
the veranLa, | mean? Avs, honey
her voice was suddenly warm';
! sweet and contri,c. Il wish hadn't
, told you. but ! thought YOU ought To
know. You look as IL you'd been
, sick 3 month, honestly. He's nos
worth it. darling. Don't waste any
more sleep over him."
"All right, thea" Faith smiled
wanly. "fil 20 TO bed. and stop
wasting sleep right now. Thank YOU,
/. Bill, for bringing Cherry home. II
) will make i. much easier for Cherry
, as far us Dads concerned. Good
, night"
, in bed, however. Faith found that
: She could rot obey Csorr.g's aistcrl$
$ advice to waste no more sleep over
> Bob Hathaway. The letters had un-
, doubtedly come out of his office, writ
ten either ~ him or his stcnographc.
: His s!cnographer. Why hadn't
: she thought of that before? sac sa:
i up in bed, resting her tired head on
: her knees and starin.. into the dar.
t ness. His s.cncgraphcr had dor" j:
. without his knowledge. paid 70 black
t mail Cherry into iil,inr cid man
! Cluny by some INSCRIPTIONS member
Of the Cluny family. OF course! Shs
|, began to sob with relief. Blu
how had stenographcr known sc
G much about Cherry? And why had
! Bob Hathaway met the .slcuth
t clandestinely
o At last she did go to slepp, but only
i after she had determined to face Bot
: hathaway with the damaging cyl
7. dence against him which Cherry ha'
n accumulated.
:; Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.
= Ito BE COntinued)
: TOMORROW: Faith calls ut B0'
|. Iathaway's office and finds new evi
h Scncc against him.
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The Distribution of Wealth
iSf pnu1 DjSu2tch)

Seyentv-fiyc persons in the United States re-
DC rted incomes in 1924 in Of s1OOOOOO, while
three reported incomes Of more than S5,0oOOOO. An
income in excess of $lOOOOOO is grist for the soap
boy orator. Seventy five such incomes are enough
to sink tie United States to the lowest Communist
hell. Standing b. themselves they are impressive;
but taken in relation to the total incomes reported
they do not loom so large. The total net income
rcportcd by these Is individuals was Sl50,07A ls5
The total number of individuals making income tax
returns in 1924 was 7369,7SS and the total net in
conc reported an,oul,cl 10 s25G56, 153,4J4 Ap-
prcximate!y s.: per cert OF those filing returns re-
cevet net inc. ,..es between $1,000 and $4,000.
Will Durant who has lost much Of his faith IN
democracy writes in another connection that the eco
nomic equality which featured the early history OF
this country has so far disappeared that today "thc
gap between the most fortunate and the least for.
tunatc in America is greater than at any time since
, The days Of plutocratic Rcmc.' The gap between
an income of less than $1,000 and one of more thar
S. 100000 is indeed considerable; but at no period
in it's history could plutocatic komc show SO largf
percentage Of its population relatively SC well h
as 100000 income taxpayers in this country. W.
have not succeeded in making all men nch or II
effecting perfect equalization Of wealth. Wha
we have succeeded in doing is diffusing comfort
able living more widely among all classes Of tn
population than has been done in any ether ce1ntr!
Of considerable size at any time in history.
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More Than an Entertainer
New York Times)


Re.rcts at the death Of 1Ioudin would not DC 50
deem as they arc had he been only man who by ms
tricks and mystfications and astonishing fcats Turn
ished clean entertainment to millions Of people, nc
was much more than that, the public has been
slowly finding out
He was for one thing, an eager and profound STU
dent Of morbid psychology The literature OF I'M
posture was familiar to him. Ia recent years ne
took an active and useful part in detecting and cx-
posing fraudulent performers who protested %
produce spirtualistic phenomena. That there Is a
mental borderand where strange psychic susccp-
Utilities manifest themselves in way to eliminate
conscious fraud Houlini Gid rot deny. But he was
unsparing ard highly successful in challenging al
! kinds of false pfetcnsc in this sphere.
Far beyond the arts of the prestidigitator wh'tn
| so greatly aided Houdni in running down men who
made a claim to supernatural powers, did his m
tcrests extend. He was Il # wide reading, {
collector both If books and Of art 1t was doubtless
/ this broad cultivation Of the man, in all his varc.
faculties that made him so accomplished and virtu
| ally unrivaled in his specially.
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The Case OF Aimee
Duluth Heradl

The LIS Angeles judge before whom Aimes
Sempls ,crhcrsol, highly successful evangelist has
had her preliminary hearing decides that there is
strong enough suspicion Of her guilt to warrant
binding her over for trial Oh a charge Of criminal
conspiracy. IS go y
Last May the evangelist, who had built up richly
profitable tempt, hy hef magnetism and eloqnence,
disappeared Some time later she showed up near
the Mexican boundary with story of having been
kidnapped in Mexican cabin, Of having escaped, and
Of having wandered the desert before reach
| ing civilization. A local law officer reported that
her shoes showed no sign Of long walk and Sc far
the cabin in which she imprisoned has not been
found. 80
/ Back in Los Angeles, where she had hot partis0ns
as well as strong enemies, controversy was furious
The upshct Of it was that it charged that tn
kidnapping story was fake, and that Mrs. McPher
son had spent ten days in cottage at Carmel will
Kenneth G. Ormiston. her radio operator, who is nov
q fugitive. That is the story which the Les Angele
judge has been hearing, and having heard 1t b
bound the accused over, holding that there Is "suf
ficicnt cause for doing that
Mrs. Mcpherson il either saint who Is being bit
Itcrly and venomousy prosecuted, OF charlata
who ought to be exposed and suitably punished n
j rom for q middle ground sesms visible. II 10 ne
necessary TO decide hero which theory is correc
But il seems very proper that there is to be fo'
NAL rial in which it SHOULD b possible to demon
; strate which theory IL right.
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,off;c;a, City. State and County Newspapc
Honor 10 Walter Camp

~ are in an age which glorlfies pnssieai pcii.'
ton.
IN line with this demand Of the age Is inc fee."'
honor given the late Walter camp ioo'''s''
rif.r OF the All-America team idea' anu -u'"1' :.
"Ihc Daily Dozen exercises "h'cn pio'"o''
49,, ,ha,s,nds IL pcrsons from early graves.
Harvard was playing Dartmouth IN inc ,'a's"''
49,, Tho first half was over. A bugler took
-. .s,,na On the parapet at the horseshoe end Of
49, ,aa;m Uo blew taps, sihouetted there against
a., .lv Fiftythree thousand persons stood at AZ
,"ntion, silent and grave.
w,.n the last clear notes Of the buglc had dlea'
,, f,e which had been at half mast was raised
AMI M two college bands played America whe
the crowd sang.
Thus does America glorify her prophets OK neai'h
and health giving spolt. and right. So
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CaR?!ggs!sA48 81!

bushes, and two saplings that has
been torn down just beyond an
swered Miss Rcasey.
'Ie ran to the brink Of the creek,
and looked through the trees. Just
al the little bend, where all the boys
go fishing in the summer, there
was mass Of tangled automobile
parts. al covered with mud and
slime. But it wasn't in the creek
proper.
"Thc lahorer scrambled down the
bank---it's about twenty feet high
there,-:ind waded in. Then he saw
Il mans hat afloat, caught in some
reeds.
"Hc ran back for help, and when
his friends came to work with him,
they dragged out the body of Shea,
after two hours digging and lifting.
The automobile was literally wrapped
around him.
A row Of Mortified eyes looked at
the narrator from the other side OF
the table.
\ "Whcn is the inquest?' asked
Lillian Stedway.
Tomorrow afternoon. They re
rushing it,
The other Miss Reascy spoke up
There were some mud soaked letters
in his pocket that they're trying to
wash off and decipher,' she said
triumphantly.
Her sister looked 4. her reproacl-
! fully. That's only rumor," she
said. !,
! The younger sister was not to bt
daun.cl. They say maybe he was
drum. and couldn't steer the ear"
The elder Miss Reasey chimed in
''Or maybe somebody had hit him
and he was dizzy. There's no Other
apparent reason for running off thai
road just there
Judith sat silent. trying to nibbl,
at her food.
"Well,' said Miss Stedway, Il
seems hard thing to say, but
can't help thinking-the wages o
SIM"
Judith spoke up. "Bu: the auec
part Of, it is that many virtuou
man has gone in the ditch too"
Miss Stedway glared ut her. "Tha
doesn't change matters. PERSONAL!
believe that Pendleton will be bet
ter off from now On--or would be,
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they could only get the rest Of Shea's
gang"
Judith was too tired to take up the
battle.
After dinner, when the house had
settled down for an evening of study.
chatter and sleep, Judith went down
stairs. There was nobody IN the
lower hall, and the usual parsimoni-
Gus little bulb was shining dimly near
the door.
She called the Sigma Psi number
and waited for an answer.
The houscman answered. mo.
Mr.. Waters is not in"
VIII Wethercl came to the tele-
phone. Hello, Jude. just passing
ing for Eric. He hasn't been home
since noon. The gangs wondering
about him. How much have you
heard about Shea"
"A good deal" said judith weakly.
Scan you tell me any morc!'
"Ncpe, not till tomorrow. One Of
Our men in the medic school is going
to help Doc Hillycr with the post
norton. But we should worry about
the gruesomc details. What ] want
to know is--whcrc's Eric"
Judith leaned against the tcie-
keeper. win. II 1 knew where h.
was wouldn't be calling him."
Late that night Mrs. Timoth.
Brown called Judith. when can
see you alonc?" she asked.
| Judith thought a moment. :"
don't think you can afford to take
the risk. The dean and | quarrellc'
this morning. What is 1t you wan
to talk about Can you talk now? y
Have you heard anything abou
shea-anything ABOUT the letters j,
his pocket
! Nothing but "A rumor that there
were some," replied judith.
| The woman ut the other end Q
| the wire gaspcd. MY God!"
"You hadn't written him, had you
for heavens sake::'- exclaimed Ju
dith.
"No. Butt can't talk any more
Good night" Before Judith cou!
reply, the receiver went un. sh
went back to bed, puzzled.
The campus was mad with exert"
mcnt the next day. Groups of stu
! dents stood on every corner. discuss
ing the death Of Shea. Judith sa'
many worried faces among them, %
her way to class. God! Shea Ea
the lowdown on her everybody sh
heard one boy say to his tailoV
skinned companion.
She hurried on to her classroom
! Here too, the excitement was erea