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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-03-18
PRIZE ESSAY CONTEST ON THE
BIRTH OF OUR COUNTRY"

The prize essay contest which The Citizens National
Bank of Phippi is conducting among the school pupils
has aroused interest The essays are not to
exceed 600 words will be read by committee Of judges
who viii award prizes for the three magis-
terial district of Barbour County The first prize is
$500, the second $500 and the third $500
A reproduction of the painting which IS furnishing
the inspiration for these is in practically every
school room.
1t is group portrait of the committee appointed by
the Continental Congress to draft the Declaration of
independence.
The question to when this document was signed
is creating interest. Was signed on July 4th?
There viii be interesting papers submitted on
this subject and will then what they have to say
This contest closes March 31st and all contestants
should have their in the mail before that
date Several essays have already been received
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To the holders of bonds of Com
sumers Heat, Light, Water and Pow
er Company Of Belington, West Vir-
ginia.
You are hereby notified that upon
presentation to the undersigned
Clerk, and satisfactory proof of
ownership of bonds of said Consum-
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Northern District of w. Va
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

Among beautiful Of these parks Milan and
Travis Crockett. James Bowie and 100
gave their lives defense of Texas liberty within
the walls of the sacred Alamo.
Milan 800 brave companions the leader Of
held by the Mexican
These beautiful and historical places included
San system which it world famous
The city than HOO and and
them completely surrounded by towering and
Travis Park crowds al
be quiet of coquet and horsesho San An
Onians bask mellow sunshine enjoy
balmy atmosphere without the heat Of the tropics.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
Parks and Monuments
Honor Texas Heroes

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brave warriors
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"WhO viii Go With Old
Ben Milan
Into San Antonio"

When Old Ben Milan and 800 men stormed San
Antonio, which held BY the Mexicans in early
days and during the struggle for Texas independence
they were victorious and had only two men killed
but one Of them the heroic Milan for whom
all Texas mOurned. 1t in 1895 that General
Austin was called from the army TO seek assistance
for Texas from the United States. When he left
the volunteers became restless and some wanted TO
attack the Qualifications at and others believed
that this would be useless. They were on the
point Of brekaing camp and retreating when Milan
sprang up and shouted: "Who will go with Old Ben
Milan into San Antoniof" Three hundred men
focked to his side and successful attack on San
Antonio followed When Milan was killed he was
buried near the spot he fell and around his monu-
uent San Antonio has built a park with beautiful
trees and flowers ia honLE Of her heroes
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moaning-getting to her knees,
fumbling at the door. And Ra-
mon sprawled lifeless just there
behind him
The room clouded, swayed
round with him. He stopped and
looked at the blood marks.
. Good God" he thought. filled
with panic, I'm getting faint.
What do they know? What can
they know? Elevator operators
word against mine"
He could visualize Ramon'S
body hulked inertly on the floor.
And it now affected him as mon
~strous-incredible and monstrous,
that he. Douglas Keith, should be
here, sitting, fighting guilty.
bullied and insulted as though he
had actually murdered a man.
Meager's voice drummed against
him in an indistinct humble
you carried the girl away, Mr..
keith. Where have you hidden
her? You see we know what
happened"
Douglas Strengthened himself
angriIy: Then why ask me!
I've told you 1 know nothing.
never met the man."
And ] tell you we've got you
cold! And we know just what
happened and you better come
through. You better sit down
here and make a clean breast
Of it."
He moved a chair slowly, calcu-
latingly, plopped 1t down directly
over the area where Ramon's body
had lain.
Douglas shuddered. His jaws
felt stiff like cement. He stared
at window above Ramon's
desk--a window that looked on
court. Queer he hadn't noticed
this window before. The shade
was up. He could see into other
offices. Directly opposite, but on
the floor above man was stand
ing.
The Man Bowed!
A startling thing happened.
The man lit a cigarette, puffed
lazily. Suddenly he glanced across.
And he bowed!
Immediately Douglas recognized
him-Avery Middleton. They were
In the same year at college. A
smarty Alec-Douglas always
thought him a smarty-regular
Jimmie Freshie-
Did Middleton know why he was
in this office? Did he know that
man had died here and he,
arrogant young Douglas Keith,
was under suspicion; brought here
to be unnerved and cross-exam-
ined?
He had a hot. reckless notion to
swing out his fists. bolt from the
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S IAN DY =
BIZ EIenOre Meke1in

room. It appeared sinister that
Middleton should stand there bow
ing to him-vicious and sinister.
"You didn't notice that window
before, Mr.. Keith?"
"I never saw that window be-
fore"
Didn't happen to notice wheth-
er the shades were up or down
last Monday night?"
Douglas threw him look Of
fury, the frank hazel eyes black
and singing. Unthinking. he
skirted the chair Meager had
placed, pulled another to the table,
slumped into 1t.
"You didn't like the chair
placed for you? Why did you
walk around that spot? l notice
you avoided it. Singular, that's
where Worth's body lay
Douglas swung his shoulder as
though blows were aimed at his
face. He folded his arms in a set
desperation. Whether the shade
was up or down last Monday
night! No! He hadn't noticed.
But why did Meager say it in
that cold, sneering way? He
wanted to beat his fists against
his teeth and curse furiously. And
he thought: "God-Almighty God.
will he keep this up much longer!
How much longer"
He saw Meager's ugly hand
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A Story of Swift Adventure, Tingling Romance
And the Youthful Pulsating Thrill of True Love

, the moment he was rushing up
Geary Street, he found himself
blinking, biting at his lips, tell
ing himself in a tortured way:
That's a bluff-get me to rush
down there. They want me to
lead them to her. I know Them
Yet he longed to reach Sandy
-longed to speak with Judith.
But he thought with anguish
"God-I don't dare! I can't risk
it! They'd follow"
He was afraid even to call on
Hal Hume.
He went home. He found hat
Emma was out. Queer for her
to be out at noon time when he
said he was returning for lunch.
He was about to go out. To his
establishment, Newton, the police
reporter, was coming UP the steps.
Newton was excited. He ex-
tended his hand with nervous
haste: 'Too bad, Doug-too damn
bad. Well stand by you. Jim
told me to tell you he'll stick
by you. He'd like to get your
side of it-like to explain why
you were in Worth's office"
Douglas walked back into the
hall, closed the door brusquely:
"I wasn't in that office"
"Say, what's the use? They've
got your finger prints-got them
Saturday when you handled all
those photographs. Those finger
prints-YOURS were in WOrth's
office. And you walked into
room this morning where three
people positively identified you.
And your mother"
my mother!'
"Yes-they've had her down
there for the last three hours.
She's spilled the beans-said you
weren't here all last Monday
night"
Douglas went over to the mantel
in the living room, He picked
a cigaret from the hearth. He
thought vaguely: EN- didn't have
time to dust up today-Oh, God
poor little EN-"
CHAPTER 1O4
Emma came with a little rush
up the front steps. She dropped
her key; tried several times to
insert it in the lock. She said
with short, sobbing breaths: Dear
me-dear, me-" and when Doug
las opened the door she glanced
at him in surprise. She was
unable to speak, with those queer,
small movements going about her
mouth. She dashed her hands to
her face, heart-breaking sounds
humming at her shut lips.
Sounds more terrible than
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you're going to stick to this?"
II stick to it!'
"Then suppose tell you that
the girls come through? We've
got hold Of the girl and she's con-
fessed the whole thing"
Douglas rose. He felt as though
lighted swords drove with sharp
points through his heart-sud-
denly and cruelty. He saw Sandy
with her hands shielding her face,
and he thought, sobbing: They've
not found her! They've not got
her. I turned back in time. This
is bluff"
What do you say now, Mr..
Keith?"
THAT no girl can make a state
ment to implicate me in this af-
fair. I have nothing to do with
it. No one can prove that I had"
Meager's eyes narrowed. He
gave a long, musing whistle and
got up abruptly. IT guess that's
all for the present"
He pulled open the door. He
said meaningly. "a good place you
took the girl. but not quite Sc
cluded enough
Douglas glanced at him with
burning, accusing eyes. He stuck
his hands in his pockets and gave
no answer.
But the moment he was free
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There was the boat. But after
he got into it, he realized it was
not the boat which he had
ordered to meet him, but 1t was
a British boat, and he was quickly
searched by the British soldiers,
who found the plans of their
camps in his shoes.
Immediately Nathan Hale was
taken before General Howe and
did not deny who he was. The
British General was much
pleased with his behavior, but
Hale was a spy and the punish
ment for a spy was to be hanged.
But young Nathan Hale was
a brave soldier and patriot and
as he stood facing death, he held
up his head and unhesitatingly
declared: II only regret that /
have but one life to lose for my
country"
mo wonder they put up a
beautiful statue for him." MUIR
INJURED Bobby, moving a little
closer to me-
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nathan was a captain now
offered to go. although his friends
pleaded with him not to under
take 1t.
ION September Ia, 1875, Ma
than Hale, disguised as a travel
Ing school master in search of
employment, visited the British
camps in New York and Brooklyn
and obtained information which
would have meant everything to
General Washington.
"For several days no one sus-
pected him, and he returned to
the point on the Long Island
shore where he had landed when
he had crossed Long Island
Sound from Connecticut.
He expected a boat to meet
him there in the morning, but
while waiting through the night
at a tavern, a man recognized
him and told the British soldiers
who he was.
early the next morning, Ma
than Hale went out to meet the
boat which he expected.
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to meet her here. You came down
and waited. She didn't show UP.
You got alarmed after waiting
better than an hour. You went
after her. You came up to this
office. Things happened"
Meager leaned down.. peering up
into Douglas face. A cold re-
pugnant smile on the detectives
lips.
Douglas stared back. With
every word the young, clinched
jaws became more gaunt and tor.
mented looking.
"Things happened. You had to
carry the girl out. She'd crept
from that corner over there.
Right over there! You see, we've
got 1t all cold. Hadn't you better
come through? I'm not trying
to make it hard for you. We're
willing to give you the break on
1t. You were here. Tell US what
happened. If you talk you can
perhaps prove it was suicide.
And If you don't talk, we know
it's murder. You murdered him
or the girl did. Suppose you
tell us what happened"
Il don't know what happened.
Meager! ] wasn't here! | don't
know what happened"
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HERE'S FOXY GRANDPA'S STORY

WE were in New York, and
w one Saturday morning it was
necessary for me to go down
town on business. So Bobby,
Bunny and | boarded the sub
way and went way down to Wall
Street.
l finished my business and we
walked up Broadway to City Hall.
We turned and walked through
City Hall Park until we came to
the beautiful statue of a young
man in the clothes like George
Washington wore, Bobby stopped
in front OF the statue and read
the name:
Nathan Hale. Who was
Nathan Hale, Foxy Grandpa?"
"Ill tell YOU" I said, and we
sat down on a bench where we
could see the statue while l told
Bobby this story:
Nathan Hale was born in Con-
necticut in 4 town called Coven-
try in the year 1855.
Before he was 16 years old
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NOW CONTINUE
THE STORY THUS FAR

ought to beat the Fairview
Hotel. Ring up and see"
DR.. Cressy suspected some trick.
OF course, she wasn't at the
Fairview. Still He took out
his fashlight and ordered Lecay
to lead the way to the telephone.
In the dining room. holding him
in the circle OF the f1ashlight, he
made him turn on the room
lights. The telephone was in a
hall off the dining room. Here
DR.. Cressy made Lecay sit in a
chair in front of him while he
rang up. When he got the Fair
view he called for room sol. In
a moment a voice answered. His
heart gave a great, smothering
jump. It was Kathleen.
Yes, I've been in for about
an hour" she said. 'Oh, my
call-why. well, you see--it didn't
mean anything really. I was q
little hysterical. It was just ais
well, after all, you didn't get
the number of the place at which
was and come rushing OUT
DR.. Greasy, after his relief, sud-
denly felt sharp GOODNESS. like
a dagger of ice. pierce his soul.
She could take It so casually
and he had suffered SO, tried with
such fury to find her!
Where are you now-in your
room?" continued the voice.
I'm at the place you telephoned
me from-youT friend, Leverne
Lecay's bootleggery r. he an
swered with frozen conciseness
and hung up on her gasp Of as
constituent
''Well?" Lecay had managed to
light another cigaret, although his
amber holder was somewhere on
the kitchen floor. You see, I
told you the truth. The lady said
she was hysterical. He shrugged
his shoulders. Sometimes not
only ladies, but gentlemen--even
physicians-become hysterical.".
The Anti Climax
DR.. Cressy was silent. A strange
feeling of anticlimax was upon
him. When one goes to all sorts
Of lengths, encounters all sorts of
risks, to answer one who cries
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had told him she could not ex-
plain wouldn't he accept
that? Wasn't the poor child
harassed enough by q hundred
things? He began, now that the
strain of her imminent peril had
gone, to wonder with nervous
dread IL Bert Kelly, the taxi start
er's son, had communicated with
the police. Before going to bed he
rang up his friend Of the news
paper again.
No News
ANY new developments in the
taxicab murder, Hart?"
mot q thing, doctor"
So as yet Bert had not made
the necessary final move to get
the twenty thousand. Drunk,
probably, somewhere in boot
leg Joint. When he awoke In the
morning well, time
enough to face crisis when 1t
came. Events were falling as
thick as autumn leaves in q
storm; there was no time to think
about them beforehand.
One thing more he did that
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mysteriously out Of the darkness
: that she il in deadly danger .
then has her nonchalantly say
she was only a little Iysterical.
to pay no attention to the matter
one has q right to feel.
ing OF puzzlement and anticlimax.
While Lecay watched him
through narrowed eyes, smoke
yelled, the doctor drew out his
cap. which he had stuffed into
his coat pocket as he left the up-
stairs HAT. He put it on his head
without a word and turned to go.
Lecay's voice drifted after him:
I'VE shall perhaps meet again,
DR.. Cressy."
Yes. The matter of the Blue
Scarab isn't yet settled" He
said 1t only as a flair, a test, but
1t was a parting stray shot which
hit the bull's-eye. A powerful emo
ton contracted Lecay's we'll
marked features. He hunched a
little forward. his muscles tens.
ing, like an animal on the scens.
But his actual words were of
denial:
II don't know what you're talk.
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reaching across the table: Look
here, Keith, you say you've never
been in this office? How did you
happen to know where Worths
body fell? You did know it! You
refused to walk near the spot.
And the first thing your eye fell
on when you came into this room
was that blood stain in the corner.
But you say you were never here.
All right, thenl Why should you
refuse to say where you were on
Monday night?"
i've not refused"
Where were you, Them"
II was home"
The whole EVENING"
yes"
Think, now 1t may
be possible that you came down
to your office--that you may
have CHANGED to pass this build
ing. Perhaps you came in here
on some other business ."
Il never came in here"
And your positive you weren't
near Third and Market at any
time after 9 o'clock last Monday
night?"
Yes, I'm positive"
Now, listen, Mr.. Keith. You
were at home Monday night. You
intended to remain at home. Don't
you recall that girl phoned you
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he entered Yale College and was
graduated with honor at 1S. Then
he taught school for several years,
but when the Revolutionary War
broke out, Nathan Hale quickly
enlisted and Joined the Army Of
Washington.
Every little is known about
young Hale in the army at that
time; but after the American
army met defeat at the battle of
Long Island and retired to the
northern part of Manhattan
Island, young Hale's actions are
recorded.
"At this time General Wash
ington did not know whether the
British army would attack or
surround him. 1t was necessary
for him to find out this informa-
ton, and the only way he could
do it was through the use of a
spy.
General Washington called
for volunteers for this very dan
gerous service.
Captain Hale-for the young
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By Stella Wynne
whose Stories of Mystery and
Love Are Causing Wide
spread Comment

Love Are Causing Wide
spread Comment
The two seemed matched in
strength, but the physician, who
was q trained wrestler as well as
boxer, got an advantageous hold
On Lecay's legs and pinned him.
just in Time
But his antagonist had another
resource. DR.. Cressy caught q
blush flash along the floor and
he hurled his body to one side
Just in time to escape having 1t
ripped open by the vicious up
thrust OF a knife in Lecay's hand.
But the next moment, before the
bootlegger had time to recover
from the effect Of his lunge, the
doctor again hurled himself upon
his antagonist, pinioned his wrist
TO the floor and twisted the knife
out of his hands. He flung 1t,
glittering as its blade caught the
electric light, across the room.
It stuck quivering in the wood
Of the kitchen door.
81 don't need it." painted the
young doctor, ''I can finish you
with my hands alone He
gripped Lecay's well-muscled
throat in his fingers Of steel and
began TO shake his head back
and forth az q dog might shake
a rat. He afterwards had to
admit, with q shamed apology to
all his early creed and to the
years OF civilization that go to
the making of a man from
beast, that in that moment he
wanted more than anything else
in the world to keep on pressing,
drawing the steel hoop of his
fingers closer and closer until he
saved himself and the girl he
loved all that befell them later.
But civilization won. He took his
hands from Lecay's throat.
I'll give you one chance.
Where is Kathleen Crittenden?"
You fool" whispered the
hoarse voice OF Lecay, weak but
still defiant, shes where she
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night. He took the Blue Scarab
from around his neck and held it
in his hand staring at 1t long
time. Since the fight with Lecay
in the fiat he had not made his
familiar gesture OF moving It
from place to place. So full was
his mind, so engrossed even his
subcOnscious, that it had for
almost a couple of hours lain in
one spot against his flesh. Just
before he took it off he imagined
he felt there a slight warmth.
It was the same old trick OF
his imagination. Nevertheless, he
picked up mirror and looked at
his chest. Upon it was a faint,
hardly discernible outline, q little
redness In the form Of q crescent.
He was astonished. Where had
he seen such q shaped crescent
before? All, he remembered. 1t
was the purplish burn on the
hand of Suke. What did this
similarity mean? He looked in
the mirror again, but nothing of
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the Fairyview tea room after say
ing she didn't know him, flashed
before him. Another thought crept
blackly into his mind. She had
been engaged to marry kent Glen.
denning, yet within three days OF
his death she had--Or she seemed
to have-loved him at least.
How could she have forgotten 80
quickly? Perhaps she had also for
gotten him already for some
like Lecay? Perhaps, after all, she
was guilty and was using him, for
her own ends, a credulous young
doctor who had fallen in love with
her, for her own ends, to help
her in her escape? Wave after
wave Of conjecture and emotion
swept over him in his wea.y and
excited state. His mind was In the
condition Of a sea whose bed is
heaving under the force Of some
submarine earthquake, and whose
waters are turbulent and unsettled.
When he got back to his room.
however, he had an entire change
Of heart and was ashamed Of him.
self for his former thoughts. She
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the outline remained. Perhaps
it, too, was his imagination.
But his curiosity was too great
~ aroused for him to so to bed.
Instead, he slipped on a dressing
gown and slippers and went down
to his laboratory. There with
the light Of dawn coming through
the window, he took the tempera-
ture Of the air under q glass
bell when the bell was empty:
then he took it again after he
had left the Blue Scarab under it
for five minutes. The delicate
Thermometer, marked for one hum
dredths of a degree. went up three
points, .O3. A queer feeling, such
as he had experienced as a child
when reading tales Of witchcraft
and sorcery, assailed DR.. Greasy
It was true, then; 1t had not
been his unrestrained fancy. The
thing, whatever it was, generated
heat, very faint, but very real;
the thermometer couldn't be &C.
cused Of having an Imagination
Go Be Continued on Monday
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ing about, my dear doctor" But
DIR. Cressv knew he knew very.
very well, perhaps too well.
The back stairs down which DR..
Greasy went led past the porch
Of the first floor flat, utterly de-
serted. into q small. concrete yard,
from which there was q cemented
alley, going between houses into
the street.
At the curb Gus Werheket had
drawn up the taxi. He had fallen
asleep waiting and It took a couple
Of vigorous shakes to awaken him.
On the way back, rolling through
deserted streets whose black night
wells were tightening to gray SO
that houses began to loom, dis
torted and strange-shaped, on
either side. DR.. Cressy's thoughts,
too, took distorted and queer
shapes. Why had Kathleen called
him in the night? Why had she
treated the matter SO lightly?
Other thoughts came wriggling
into his mind: Why had she gone
to such a place at all? The picture
Of her drinking tea with Lecay in