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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-01-27

there has been sporadic and local
lied criticism of the State Road Com
mission--but that was no more than
to be expected in public under
taking of this size; some counties
and some communities have felt
themselves sighted, and so forth,
Such has been the history in all
states and all countries since roads
we're first built. Without doubt
some of the influential agrarians
were very much peeved at julius
Caesar that the Appian Way did not
pass their door or that it was not
completed as soon as they thought
it should be.
But with all this and all that,
road building in West Virginia has
been very popular undertaking by
the state. The people have given it
their individual attention, something
that does not always happen with
state projects, and the Governor has
made it his pet hobby.
1t is to be doubted that the people
Of any sovereign state wanted any
thing more than the people Of West
Virginia wanted good roads. And
this wanting has not been satisfied
by any manner of means
Who Pays The Bill
One of the greatest, If not the
greatest, contributing factors to the
popularity Of road construction in
West Virginia is the case with which
The money for the 100000 bond
issue is being raised And this is
something which should be empha
sized as many well informed citizens
are misled as to whore this money
comes from. It is this way:
There is no direct tax for road
work in West Virginia.
The money spent for road
construction (which means the
money used to retire the $780,
100000 bond issue) comes from
the license tax on automobiles
and from the gasoline tax.
The upkeep of the roads, the
expenses Of the State Road
Commission and all other ex-
penses, including interest on the
road bonds, are paid by the
automobile license tax and the
gasoline tax.
Good roads in West Virginia
! are not costing one cent in di-
rect taxation. The license tax
and the gasoline tax takes care
of it all.
Painless
Raising money for the building OF
good roads has, therefore, been a
rather painless but none the less
satisfactory endeavor. The man who
uses the roads pays for them with
| the license tax on his automobile and
with the 312 cents tax on gasoline.
HE who would ride must pay"
With the money for the payment
Of the first $5O,000,000 bond issue
so easily and painlessly raised, and
with the good road program hardly
more than half completed and with
the need for additional roads facing
us on every side, is there any good
reason under the sun for halting the
construction Of good roads in West
Virginia?
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-01-27
STOP! LOOK! LISTEN!

There will be pie social at the
Sipe School House, on Saturday,
February 5th, 1927, beginning at
7:3O P. NJ. Proceeds for the benefit
of the school. Boys bring well filled
pocket books and the girls bring pies.
KATIE GAUNT, Teacher.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-01-27

A little fapper says it doesn't mat
ter to her whether men like blondes
better than brunettes, because in an
hour or more she can make up in a
way to please any masculine taste.
New Orleans States.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-01-27
M. R. KEYsER,
FRED. f. THOMPSON,
r. Il. WILLIAMSON,
Pnblicity

Publicity Committee.
Next Fridays meeting will be in
charge Of the Business Standards
Committee: 7. f. hardwood, Chair
man; CHI, Jones; and B. B. Rohr-
Dough, who promise an interesting
program.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-01-27

1t doesn't seem possible, when one
looks at great-grandmother's portrait
at eighteen and then looks at daugh-
ter, same age, that it costs more to
dress 'em now than it did then. Los
Angeles Times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-04
$7O,OlOCO[[ECTED
| FOR SCOUTS FUND
$4,000 Campaign Ends with
Amount Still Needed
j in Sight.

The $4,000 Boy Scout drive was
formally concluded yesterday at noon
at the final report luncheon, at which
it was announced that more than
$4,000 has been subscribed, with sew
eral thousand dollars more in sight.
The workers who voluntarily con-
trib0ted their services to the success
of the drive were highly lauded by
l.. "A. Snead, T.. H. Daniels and other
members of the local board of the
District of Columbia Boy Scouts,
gathered at the Washington Hotel.
'SThe effective work of the teams,
particularly at this time, when the
people of Washington have been
solicited for so many charitable en-
terbTises. is most gratifying. and the
executive board of the Boy Scouts of
America is most grateful for the gem
erops response with which the
prospects approached during the
drive met our solicitors, as well as
for the untiring efforts of all who so
harm oniouSly and considerably con-
tribhted to the success of the enter
prise" Mr.. Daniels, District treasurer,
told4the meeting.
MI. Daniels revealed that the local
board has in view the creation of an
alumni association" composed of
those who rendered service in the
drive, and which will be in the nature
of a fraternal club to sponsor Boy
Scout activities.
Existence Now Assured.
The appreciation of the local board
was also expressed by l.. A. Snead,
president, who thanked the workers
on behalf of the Boy Scouts "and in
the fnterest of the future citizens of
the District of Columbia. Your work
has. been as arduous a task as
has confronted Washington Scouting,
which was facing the possibility of
suffering an extreme setback, with
its very existence at stake" Mr.. Snead
said. He emphasized that the money
raised in this drive will insure two
years of growth and development of
scoAting facilities. He paid high trib-
ute to Carl w. Corby, honorary chair
man of Division A" of the drive,
who, he announced, gave $4,000 as his
personal contribution, in addition to
assuming the leadership of Division A.
which raised more than it's 100000
quota.
Woman Given Flowers.
e. H. Daniels, chairman of Division
B, which also raised it's quota of more
than $4,000, was likewise compl-
mented by TIA Scout executive. Miss
Rozetta d. Stecker of the national
headquarters was presented with flow
ers for her services.
F. j. Resler, superintendent of the
drive, and Linn G. Drake, Scout execu-
tive, also thanked the gathering.
Barry Mohun, Scout commissioner,
announced that arrangements have
been made to have local Scout serve
as personal aide to Capt. Lindbergh
when he arrives here to receive the
reclamation of the city.
Mr. Mohun outlined plans contem-
plated by the District Scout chiefs
which would establish a permanent
fund to enable one Scout from every
State, selected by troop competition,
to spend 10 days at the local Scout
camp some time during the year, dur
ing which the guests would have op-
portunities of visiting points of his
toric interest nearby.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-04

feated Mr.. Cox, his flag down and
his banner trailing in the dust.
When Holly turned from the win
dow, her mother put down her smell
ing salts.
did you tell your Aunt Margaret
about using the lace on the train of
your dress?" she asked. II think, if
it comes from the SHOULDERS
Holly looked at her, so comfortable
once more, so secure; her color was
better and her lips were no longer
blue.
81 told her." she said quietly, and
went out of the room.
Continued in Tomorrow's Starr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-04
CALIFORNIAN CLAIMS
SMITH CHANCES BEST
Dockweiler Holds Governor Is
Leading Choice for 1928
Nomination.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 4.-Gov. Alfred
E. Smith Of New York. is far in the
lead for the Democratic nomination
for President in the 1928 convention,
Isidor 3. Dockweiler, Democratic ma
tional committeeman from California.
asserted in a statement here yester-
day.
Dockweiler, who recently spent a
month studying political conditions in
the country, was in conference with
George Olvany, Tammany Hall leader,
yesterday.
Senator James Reed of Missouri Is,
in the opinion of Mr.. Dockweiler,
next in popular choice to Gov. Smith.
William G.. McAdoo, he said, is much
weaker than he was in 1924, and he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-04
FATHER HALTS ADOPTION
Petition Dismissed When Parent
Refuses Consent.

When Walter r. Thomas, father of
little Gloria Thomas, refused in open
court yesterday to consent to the
adoption of his child by Gillard w.
Apgar and his wife, lola G. Apgar,
Justice Bailey dismissed the petition
for the adoption. The child's mother
consented to the application, in which
it was stated that she had other chill
dren, all young, and that the father
had failed to support them.
The Apgars were willing to take the
youngest child, but in the face of the
fathers opposition the court had to
dismiss the case. A rule had been
issued against the father to show
cause why the petition should not be
granted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-04
Asks $4,000 for Ship Crash.

Aubrey l.. Clarke, owner Of the
schooner Oscar, yesterday filed in the
District Supreme Court maritime
libel against the steam barge Adonis
for $4,000 damages, alleged to have
been sustained by his boat April rs
last. The Adonis is said to have col
lided with the Oscar on the Potomac
River near Stump Neck, Md. AS the
result of the collision, the court is
told, the Oscar was sunk and her
cargo, as we'll as the effects of her
master and crew, lost. Attorney Tim
othy J. Hart appears for the petit
finnnY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-04

doubts whether the former Secretary
of the Treasury will make formida-
bic showing at the next convention.
While McAdoo men won in the Cali
fornia primaries last year, Mr.. Dock.
weller asserted, the anti-McAdoo men
obtained control of the Democratic
State machine. Former Senator
James D. Phelan, he said. is likely to
be the favorite son candidate of the
California delegation in the early
balloting. Gov. Smith, the California
Democratic leader felt, should win the
nomination on the fourth ballot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-04
BUYS Virginia Farm.

Special Dispatch to The Star
LEESBURG, Va, June 4.-Bates
Warren, attorney and financier of
Washington, D. c., has purchased from
John G. Hopkins his Raspberry
Plains estate consisting of 1872 acres
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-04

and located about two and one-half
miles north of Leesburg.
This is one of the most fertile farms
in the county and has large mansion
and tenant houses and other buildings.
Mr.. Warren will take possession
within the next 80 days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-04
1.-TWO Flights Up!"

Continued from Page Twenty-one.)
it. chr he said shrewdly. you'd
sayiito me, Mr.. Sfeinfeldt, I took that
bond and sold it. Ell? Don't say
that; miss, because / wouldn't be-
lieve.it anyhow"
And / that had been all. Mr.. Cox
andl:,Annt Margaret had gone down
in the elevator with her, strange,
huMpted Mr.. Cox, stepping out of
peoples way, as if he had done
something he shouldn't; a silent, de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31

During this great August Furniture Sale other buy
without about quality of merchandise
careful made of all merchandise No
this You what
your money refunded FOR home we have the furnishings to meet
is
home making by which all future will be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31

Tomorrow second week of Kaufnanns
Stoke of
able Thousands of
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the OF kau Stores
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31
Is Months to Paw

We have simplihed the buying OF furniture
through we'll planned and helpful credit system
We have assisted hundreds of people to buy tn.
finest of home furnishings and pay for them over
a long period OF time without any penalties. Your
selections stored three months without charge with
the added privilege Of commencing your payments
after delivery to your home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31

While Furniture Stores All Over
Washington are offering Induce.
ments" it will pay you to investigate
KAU I'M ANN'S FIRST!
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
NEW AUTOLAWS
TO MAKE THEFT
|. MORE DIFFICULT
listing of Accidents With
State Soon Com
puIsory.

New motor laws, which, will be-
conie effective with publication of
the Acts of 1927 this month COM
bined with extended services of po-
lice and license divisions Of the Of
flee of Secretary of State, will make
il difficult for automobile thieves in
Indiana, and also furnish State
wide check-up on accidents.
Plans are now being worked out
by Manager Mark w. >Rhoads of the
license department for a complete
engine number file. Each car owner
applying for a license gives the
humber, but only the license number
has been tabulated.
1.-THE first act of thief is to re-
move the license plates" Rhoads ex-
blamed. with an engine number
file Identification will be possible,
unless the number stamped into the
engine metal is also chiseled off"
Among tho new statutes is one
which requires police and sheriffs
departments to report all motor acct
dents to Secretary Of State. This
will give a Statewide record Of those
in accidents and may be used for
criminal prosecution of repeaters.
State police have been instructed
BY Chief Robert T. Hume to enforce
safety regulations. The department
is planning a safety Week"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
AL Smith Carriers

BIZ NEA SerUice
NEW YORK, May Given if
Abraham April, local fur dyer. has
to hold up 100000 pairs of stockings
and socks to do it, he's going to see
that AL Smith gets the Democratic
nomination. April has purchased
100000 pairs of garters, $4,000 fancy
ones for the ladies and the same
number for men, and is distributing
them over the country. Each garter
Is stamped with the slogan, ~ gar
ter vote for Al for President. BY
their garters we shall know them"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
Rheumatism can't
be rubbed away

Are you one of those unfortunates
who suffer with pains in your mus
cles and joints, making you miser-
able, less efficient, Interfering with
your working hours, running your
sleep?
You may have tried many things
without relief. Why not try S.S.S.?
For more than 100 years it has been
giving relief in thousands of cases,
as testified to in unsolicited letters
Of gratitude.
81 suffered from rheumatism for
a good many years. At times my
joints would swell so / couldn't walk
tried most everything. Went to
Hot Springs and finally 1 decided to
try S.S.S. I took a course. In a
short time the rheumatic pains en-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
BARRIERS WILL DICTATE
HOW YOUR HAIR is CUT
Choice of Manner Ones TreSSes Are to Be Trimmed No
Longer to Rest With Mere Public.

Jouneymen BARRIERS Union, 222 Z.
Michigan ST., this week.
Weekly style charts will be issued
and orthodox BARRIERS will let them
and their consciences be their guide.
Such-and-such a shaped face requires
such-and-such a haircut and only the
scissors can get snippy about it.
Same Policy for Women
II the patient" doesn't like it, It's
because he doesn't know what's good
for him.
Efforts will be made to bring
women into the barber fold. All
agencies of Identification will be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
SOuth'S Champion

Red Lady, pure-bred Jersey has
just completed the highest produc-
ton record ever made by a dairy
cow south Of the Mason-Dixon line
r. L. Shuford of Newton, N. c.,
owns her. In 365 days she produced
1923 pounds butter fat and 1868
pounds of milk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
Seed Corn Unfit

Warnings come from both the
New Jersey and Ohio experiment
stations that most of the samples
of seed corn furnished for GERM.
nation tests have been found unfit
for planting, This is because last
years crop was late in maturing,
so that the germs were injured
by freezing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
MAY 6, 1927

tirely left me- l also had a break
ing out on my hands for years that
nothing would heal, but now this has
disappeared, and l am sure that it
was S.S.S. which removed the cause.
I am now in perfect health, and want
to add that have tried all kinds of
medicines, but 1 think SIS. is the
best" Carl C. Campbell, 115 West
Main Street, Johnson City, Tenn.
S.S.S. is purely vegetable. 1t is
extracted from fresh roots of me-
dicinal plants. and herbs and gives
to Nature what she needs in build
ing you up so that your system
throws off the cause.
S.S.S. is sold at all good drug
stores in two sizes. The larger size
is more al.-Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06

brought under the same barber pole
star.
Style charts will apply to women
with equal force, but probably not
with equal effect. At least some diff
ficulty is expected in giving a
woman who thinks she is Gloria
Swanson's double a Zazu Pitts clip.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06

"There is a destiny that shapes
our ends, rough hew them as we
may"
In the future the shapers Of our
hirsute ends; the end sheltered by
more or less abundant growths of
hair from the MONDAY sun and the
frosts that gathers on pumpkins;
ends in short, that BARRIERS shape,
will be shaped without any why's,
butts of wherefores."
And woe to the headstrong indi-
vidual who tries to hang out any de-
tour SignSi
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
Individualism Dead

Did you ever hear a patient tell a
doctor that he wanted his appendi-
citis wound stitched with love knots,
or that he wanted broken leg tat
ted instead of knit?
Then, why try to tell your barber
how to cut your hair? This policy
will govern Union barber shops in
the future, according to plans being
formulated at board meetings of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06

Pearls, like diamonds, are found in
different colors, and, oddly enough,
the black pearl is the most expen-
sive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-05
TILDEN WILL DELAY
HIS TRIP TO EUROPE

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. January Big
Bill Tilden has Cancelled his pro
posed invasion of Frances tennis
strongholds along the Riviera for the
Winter season in preference TO visit
ing California and Florida, then
going abroad in May and June as the
No. man of an official American
team which will compete in the lead
ing French and British tournaments.
Tildens trip to California and Flor
ida will keep him out of the National
indoor championship in New York in
February. The indoor crown has
been won by Frenchmen for the past
two wears. Jean Borotra in 1925 and
Rene Lacoste in 1926. but there is no
prospect of another Gallo invasion
this Winter.
This year will be the third straight
i'm which the United States Lawn
Tennis Association has sent mems
team abroad for the principal foreign
tournaments Ray Casey and John
Hennessey went over in 1925. while
Vincent Richards and Howard kinsey,
now professionals, were leaders of the
1925 invasion of Paris and Wimbledon.
Tilden's trip will be his first over
seas since 1921, when he won the
Wimbledon world title" for the sec
ond straight year. His teammates for
this years team have not been Sc
lected. but Frank Hunter of New
York is likely to be included
Between 5000 and 100000. base
balls are used in the major leagues
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-05
BASE BALL INVESTIGATION
MAY SQUELCH BOLSHEVIKS
Probe of ''Swede'' Risberg's Charges by Commits
sioner Lands Likely to Result in Elimination
of Games Trouble Makers.

courage Brooklyn To defeat Pitts
burgh. That story was current
around New York within three weeks
after the Northumberland series.
but no one paid much attention TO IL
because that kind of money en-
enlargement was not new thing. If
the players of the Giants did put up
money they didn't get much of run.
because Pittsburgh was too strong for
Brooklyn.
There is nothing new Or novel in
the Dreyfuss statement. IL he had
accused the Giants of giving money
to his own pitchers TO lose games,
there would have been an eruption of
another Vesuvius. NJ
The wiser and more experienced
heads in base ball have been opposed.
to the payment of money by players To.
hire auxiliary troops, as 1t were, ever
since the practice began. Charles
Comiskey, owner of the White SOX, q
fighter from the bottom of his feet tn
the top of his head, always was bit
ter against it. lie was betrayed more
by his players than any owner of re,
cent years.
All during the war period the own
ers We're forced to contend against the
growing license of players, some of
whom did about as they pleased he
cause they threatened TO join the.
Army or Navy.
1918 Developed Trouble.
The year 1918, which brought the
work -or-fiSht order, developed most .
trouble Of all and also the fact that
some ball players had about as much,
backbone as putty dolls. When the
draft doomed up, they ran like scared
sheep. Not ALL by n great deal. 1t,
was mostly the bolsheviks who did
that.
When base ball was resumed in 1919.
the bolshevikS returned, noisier than
ever. and before the year was over
Comiskey had been given his" 9th.
er club owners might have got
theirs" The influences fer evil then
carried on. but less and less deter
minedIy. although the OConnell in
cident in New York is only q recent
one.
If the threshing out of the Risberg
affair can increase discipline % per
cent SO that a fine means a fine and
violation of the simplest club rules
means punishment, base bali men viii
feel better about the future of the
game.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-05
HADLEY SIXTEENTH
GRIFF TO SIGN FOR 1927

Receipt today of the signed con-
tract of Irving Hadley, the husky
Highlander who showed so much
promise when grabbed off the sand
lots of Boston last year, raises to
10 the number Of Nationals who
have agreed 10 take orders from
Bucky Harris next season. OF the
others i'm the fold one is IA catcher,
one an Outfieider. five are infielders
and eight are pitchers.
President Griffith today an
nounced that his annual Winter
golfing pilgrimage to Tampa would
be delayed this year because of the
joint committee meeting at French
Lick Springs, Ind, on January IL.
At this session Griff. together with
Bob Quinn of Boston and f. ).
Barnard of Cleveland, representing
the American League. and Barney
Dreyfuss of Pittsburgh. Bill Veeck
of Chicago and Bill Baker of Phila-
deiphia, representing the National
League, will meet with committee
from the smaller circuits i'm an eff
fort to frame Il new major-minOr
agreement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-05
NO FANCY DIVIDEND
FOR MATS THIS TIME

1t was a fine day yesterday Tor
the officers. but not such good
one for the stockholders of the
Washington ball club.
At the clubs annual meeting Pres
ident Clark Griffith, Vice President
and Treasurer William NJ. Richard
son and Secretary and Assistant
Treasurer Edward b. Eynon, Jr,
were reelected and also again named
as the board of directors.
But the stockholders who had re-
ceived dividends of 40 per cent IN
1924 and 1925 got q dividend OF
exactly per cent yesterday. How
ever, most of the stock IS owned by
the officers and directors and as they
did the voting no one is worrying
particularly.
Poor weather that cut down the
profits of the Nationals and the pur-
chase of many players during 1910
was given as the cause of lack OF
dividend