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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-02-17
A DIGEST OF ROAD CONSTRUC
TION in BARBOUR COUNTY
Review of Local Activities Set Forth
In Cincise Form-State and
Work Separated
BY Dwight H. Teter

BY Dwight H. Teter
At this point in our discussion of
good road building in West Virginia,
a review of The activities in this
county is highly important.
In Barbour county, on January /,
1927, the state had paved or had
under contract 40.55 miles of roads,
and had graded $3.50 miles, making a
total of 1924 miles Of improved
roads in this county. The graded
roads, however, are not completed /;
they have yet to be hard surfaced.
In Barbour county there is a total
OF 59.42 miles of state roads, that
IS, roads which must be constructed
before the state program in this
county is completed. If we take the
total 1924 miles of paved and grad
ed roads and subtract it from SO. AZ
miles of state roads, we find that
there are 9.1S miles of entirely un-
improved roads on the state system.
The figures given below show the
state and county road work in detail
up to July /, 1926, the beginning of
the present fiscal year, and are cor
rect to that date.
County-District Road Work
Under construction at end of fiscal
year:
Brushy Fork-2.0 miles bit. mac.
Ford Run-2.0 miles bit. mae.
Morl all-0.3 mile bit. mac.
Bend of River road 30 miles bit
mac.
Bear Valley-2.0 miles bit. mac.
Taylors Drain Clemtown- o miles
bit. mac.
Philippi- Dent-40 miles bit. mac.
Bend Of River road 10 mile CON
crete and bit. mac.
Completed during fiscal year:
Boulder Volga-2.5 miles bit. mac. |
Belington-Audra- miles bit.
mac.
Belington Talbott-3.5 miles bit.
mac.
Belington Meadowville 10 mile
bit. mac.
Completed prior to fiscal year:
Bellngton- Elkins- Laurel Hill-2.5
niles bit. mac. and waterbound.
Philippi Tacy-1.06 miles bit. mac.
Belington- Meadowville-3.0 miles
mac.
PHlippi Morrall -0.34 mile bit
nae.
Junior Corporation West-0.5 mile
Taterbound mac.
County Financial Data
Bonds voted during fiscal year:
Jone.
County road levy; 100000.
State Road Work Done by State
Under construction at end Of fiscal
ear:
Project 3,341-Philippi Century
.27 miles bit. mac.
Project 1924 Union district-2.6 81
liles concrete Estates share).
Project 8, 325-Philippi- Buckhan-
on-3.835 miles bit. mac Estates
hare).
Completed during fiscal year:
Project 3,184-Philippi- Grafton !
is miles bit. mac.
Project 3,276- Philippi- West-1.29
liles bit. mac.
State Road Work Don eby County
Under construction at end Of fiscal
ear:
Project -phiIippi-Buckhan-
miles bt. mac (county's
lare). a
Project 8,3 Union district-182
lies concrete Estates share).
Project 3,359-Galloway road
AZ miles grading. {
Project 3,341-Philipp- Century :
n grading paving by state). '
State Funds AppOrtioned I
tate bonds --------$744, $4,000 +
ederal aid --- 21834.
Total --------------$766, 220.87 :
(The so per cent apportionment).
for construc- 2
ton ---------------$9 1913, 798. 82
(This shows that $202,577.95 b
'ove the 80 per cent apportionment
as spent in Barbour county,. /
Under State Maintenance
Project 2,107-Belington town n
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-02-17


was spent in Barbour county,.
Under State Maintenance
Project 2,107-Belington town
0.97 mile brick.
Project 2,1O8- Philippi- Elkins-
$40 miles bit. mac.
Project 16-Philippi- Elkins-3.2 "a
miles bit. mac.
Project 2,1o6- Philippi- Elkins ~
OH mile brick.
Project 27-calhoun- Belington-
3.12 miles bit. mac.
Project 91-Phiippi Elkins 2. 0
miles bit. mac.
Project 3,113 JEnior-R Randolph
line-1.3 miles bit. mac.
Project 3,o1s-Philippi Belington
, 1927-05-11

(Co@rtesg o. lie Associated Pras5.)
New York. r. The French ace. Captain
Nuugressar, who hoped eff from Paris
ON May 8Jh for New York had not been
heard from at a late hour along the
coast tonlgat. Captain Nuugresser aad
ms companion, Captain Con, are not
carrying a radio outhc and ha>e no land
ing gear. The attempt OF Captain Nun
grasSer and Captain Coli to fly across the
Atlantic Ocean from Paris to New York
is the most daring attempt IN the history
OF aviation.
New York. Henry Judd Gray and
Ruth Brown Snyder were convicted of
tine first degree OF murder IN the death
case OF MIR. Albert Snyder, the husband
OF Ruth Snyder, at Long Island City,
New York.
, 1927-05-11

ed that, when Congress met next Dec
ember, he would introduce a bill grant
ing statehood to Porto Rico.
But the Senator somewhat OVershot
the mark, Porto Rico does not want to
become one Of the States Of the Union,
because she cannot afford the cost Of
statehood in taxes.
Moreover, she has nearly a million and
q half inhabitants, and as a State would
have not only two Senators. but half a
dozen Representatives. The political
Implications Of this are Obvious Her
political parties have no contact with or
understanding of our political parties.
They have no interest in ouf q nestle
issues. Her representatives would con
stltue an unknown factor in Congress,
If not a dangerous one.
1t would. for example, be intOlerable
that In am evenly balanced House of Sen
ate some grave domestic issue should be
settled by votes of a small Porto Rico
group.
thus statehood is an impossible soIu-
ton OF the Porto Rican problem, Grant
OF greater autonomy by giving the is
Ianders The right to elect their W Gov
erDOr is perfectly practicable and desir
able. Ii would convince them that the
previous grant Of American citizenship
really means something. Porto Rico
Progress, Aay 4.
, 1927-05-11
MUNITIONS RELICS WRECK HOMES.

Lie. France, May L-Old shells and
munitions gathered off the battle fields
at BaiIeul, near here, blew down several.
houses, broke all windows in buildings
along Ypres Street, and wounded seven
people. three Of them seriously, today.
The defamation resulted in a fire w1.ch
is gradually sweeping toward the local
barracks. Firesnen are unable TO control
it. = Ibid.
, 1927-05-11

n n. 10. 80 |..T
Lo'1o H.c3, our oeauILu'' IelIie' oot
ISS'0@'Su Io.&"o Do99s79Io" ~ me west
lnuleS' i II6e'y 60 SET some attention
rom 'he aeAl CONGRESS. q parry OF
Oo2efessmei' ne"oeo by Eogar IL, hsaSs'
- 1 fn4sylyal. CHAIRMAN u tAe s3o4Sa
lnsuIa[ 6AHaifa C2hlAlillPe' mas feceaI!y
EEIsIIeo To'Lo hico, 'oHo"ed Closely by
0eGIeS'Ly o. "aE laws
Lng Lu,VllaoIe IoIlo N.canS eoIef-
, 1927-05-11

81. CbOIX STATION.
Paris, May 8th-Although more than
z8 hours had elapsed since Captain
Saint Roman left West Africa in an T.
tempt to fly the Brazilian coast, without
deGn te word as to his Whetea0ou S,
aviation circles ere without lOoe yester.
day. The reported arrival Of the aE.a-
tors at PeTnambuc0 has not been con-
htmed and is apparently without toun3a
ton.
Lapaz Bolivia, May 8th-IWo persons
were killed and forty wounded in arIyJ
here on Thursday mgA5, which resulted
in the declaration oil martial law by tie
Cabinet. Quiet prevailed throuAA0ulthe
city on Friday and The Cabinet met in
ali day session. The rlUJ grew Uug Of
a manifestation by 1000 students before
q newspaper Office in support Of aululal-
neat strike by professors Of The national
faculty, who had not received their
salaries iUr The pas, La.ee months.
Yesterday an agreeulent was reached
between tie Government and he faculty
by which lie professors We're lto-
missed their back salaries.
Hutchinson Kansas, Nay 9tn.-Esti-
mated property damage at several hun.
bred thousand dollars va done by lorna
does that swept over the south ~ceutra.
and central part of Kansas late on Satur-
day night.
Paris, May 9th-Somewbere over the
waters Of the North Atlantic, q French
airplane is winging its way from Fans
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
SOUTH PoRTico VITA CHUTE LEADING To TRucI
...R ~,

job on hand at the time. an advertise
ment was placed in the leading papers
of half a dozen cities, including Balti-
Philadelphia early in January.
1t stated that a superintendent Of
construction was wanted for work on
the White House, and that a good
salary and bonus would be offered
to the man competent to handle the
job. More than $50 men, including
architects and builders, replied from
all over the country, and these let
ters were sifted into three grades of
first, second and third rank.
The next step was the hardest. but
finally eight answers were picked out
as the most promising, and of these
three men selected for an interview
in Washington with the head Of the
firm.
An idea Of the necessity of obtain
ing the right man for this particular
opening may be better appreciated
when 1t is understood that SEVERN &
Co. stand to lose 81 900 a day for each
day of overtime required on the alter.
atoms. However, at this writing, it
seems most remote contingency. as
the actual work is to be pretty we'll
completed by the middle of June, with
whole month of time over for extra
details until the final date in July.
Moreover. there has been more than
so changes made in the plans by the
Government officials since the com
mencement Of the job, and each of
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these changes automatically permits
more time allowance if required.
X X X
THE position filled by the superin.
tendent is no sinecure, for the rea.
son that any work for the Govern
ment necessarily has more red tape
than may generally be found in pri-
vate jobs. AS Mr.. Lusk humorouslv
put it, "They figured that when the
work was all done the officials would
want to kill off the man in actual
charge of the details and that it might
as well be me. Very logical, think ;"
So on that basis he started in to get
results or know the reason why.
Individuals who had an idea that a
Job on the roof was to be a soft. snan
were soon disillusioned, and it is sip.
nificant, perhaps, that any one who
neglected his work and then boosted
he had a pull with the Government
and couldn't be fired" soon found
himself reading the want ads out on
the curb with the rest of the idlers.
In this connection it is interesting
to learn that when an extra clerk was
required in the Office several appli
cants were tried out, and though thew
may give satisfaction in their usual
inches they were not up to snuff in
the little green shack and were soon
sent on their way. In other words, it
is real job to handle several hundred
men on a rush job on the rrasidantiat
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mansion, and no triflers have been
able to make the grade.
At the start Mr. Lusk was given a
share of the office of Mr.. Norris in the
basement of the White House. The
latter is in charge Of the mechanical
equipment of the house, and has been
in the service for many years past,
so that he was able to point out the
interesting and important features to
be noted as they made the rounds or
the White House to take the measure
ments. This was a month or six
weeks before the President moved up
to Dupont Circle, so that it was neces-
sary to tap the ceiling in this or that
room or punch holes here and there
as room happened to be vacant, and
it is even rumored that on one occa-
sion they measured room only to
find that the Chief Executive was
quietly mapping in it unknown to
them.
In this way enough information
was finally obtained to be able to
place the order for the manufacture
of the structural steel. Some of the
chimneys were later found to be in
very bad condition, and when the
wrecking actually started had to be
torn down in some cases as far as the
second floor, where terra Gotta fiue
lining was installed and the chimneyS
were rebuilt.
Apparently, the roof which was
just recently torn down was put
ON in 1914 or 1915 after the. British
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had fired the structure, and though it
had been altered to some extent in
the years that had passed, much of
the original roof yet remained So
far as quality went. it might have
been considered as very good, accord
ing to Maj Mahaffey, as very little
rot or insect destruction had occurred.
However, the roof, as originally
built, had been planned as a roof, but
somewhere along the line in the years
that ensued there came the idea of
using the space underneath it in the
attic for another story to the two
main ones of the house. This was
prior to the change in President
Roosevelt'S day, and floors were laid
and partitions put in.
President Mckinley had had execu.
tive work done in the White House,
and they began to use the third floor
as file Office, and thus used the roof
with a load 1t was not designed to
carry. No one knows exactly when
the first difficulty began, but back
somewhere in the 70s book
was written in which it was COM
planned that the roof was by no means
what it ought to be.
The oyerstressed members were not
intended to be so loaded, and. in a1di-
ton, alterations We're made from time
to time, and all these matters of con-
struction did the roof no good. In
addition. a plumber would need to get
at pipe. and he would cut a hole here
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
BY A. G. WEST.

D fAs W. w LDl.
w YEEN the thousands of Wis
~ itors to the Capital of the
NV Nation arrived in Wash
ington on their annual pill
grimage few weeks ago
they were welcomed by the sounds of
lusty hamnering that seemed to come
from the general direction of the roof
of the White House.
There had been rumors for many
months back that extensive repairs
We're contemplated to the Executive
Mansion, and photographs had been
shown Of the house at Dupont Circle
that was TO be occupied by President
and Mrs. Coolidge during the period Of
reconstruction.
A good deal of mention had been
made of the general condition of the
roof, but travellers from San Francisco
and points East, South, North and
West did not permit these untimely
rumors to weigh very heavily on their
minds or in their plans to visit Wash
ington. until the actual moment ar
rived to look the White House over.
1t was a moment that had long been
in prospect for a good many of these
visitors, some of whom We're paying
sentimental journeys after an absence
of a quarter of century, and
they were somewhat astonished
when they turned up past the
Ellipse and into Presidential ave-
nue. to find that the gentle Spring
breezes were waiting sounds Of crash
ing steel as well as the perfume of
lilacs from the lawn of the White
House.
A small green shack had been
erected just inside the gates across
from the Treasury Building, and from
this structure issued a busy success
sion of officials of the Gover1.1lent,
subcontractors, clerks. concrete men,
bricklayers and colored laborers, while
hopeful candidates for future jobs sat
on the curb at their ease as they
watched the amending stream of
wagons loaded with concrete or tiles
being checked in for the White House.
1t was obvious that no pleasure
traffic need hope TO be admitted into
this procession so visitors usually
proceeded on without comment.
Around the corner at The first gate
they saw huge padlocks in place and
a driveway that seemed TO be filed
with fireproOf tiles in orderly array
awaiting marching orders.
The next gate, nearest the State,
War and Navy Building, was open,
but only for n few yards, as the
White House groundu have been Off
cially closed during the period of re-
pairs TO the house. Visitors have been
permitted to walk up to a certain
definite point fairly near the house on
the west driveway, but from there on
the White House policemen on duty
have had n very busy time of it as
they attempted to explain to several
score Of people at once just why no
one is allowed TO enter the house.
The entrance to the Office of the
President has been thronged, not only
with the usual crush of strangers to
,he city, photographers on the watch
for visiting celebrities and attendants
but hundreds of other guests Of Wash
ington who have had one desire in
common--''to get into the White
House" But this has not been pos
eihe.
The reason for this is fairly obvious
as the building was in a state of erup
ton, with an electric hoist at work
Faising steel and timbers up to the
roof, and an enormous mass of mate
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w YIEN the thousands of Wis
~ itors to the Capital of the
NV Nation arrived in Wash
ington on their annual pill
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-02
"Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own WayDamte

case Sympathizers of the condemned Italians have
raised broader and more important issue than any
arising out of the case.
They've advanced the proposition that the way
to get justice in this country is to organize along mass
lines and shout for justice.
letter from the student Sacco- Vanzetti commit
tee, which has most distinguished advisory board;
makes the point clear. "The only thing that can
save Sacco and Vanzetti" says the letter. sis vigor-
GUS protest from millions of people for this pur-
pose we need thousands of dollars; and, above all
we need it quickly the voices of protesting
millions must reecho throughout the world until the
prison doors swing open and Sacco and vanzetti
free"
There you have it. To get justice organize a
cheering section, and shout
If it's true that degree of justice in the United
States depends upon the amount of noise made then
we've got problem that goes far beyond ANYTHING
that can be settled by the Sacco-vanzett case.
If it isn't the distinguished patrons of the student
Sacco-Vanzetti committee ought to prepare some kind
of an explanation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-02
No Need to Worry

One OF the pet worries of few inhabitants of this
globe is what will happy when the population of
Mother Earth becomes so large that there will no
longer be room for all to live comfortably.
This worry need concern them no longer
The Bureau of Standards of the Department of
Commerce by numerous tests has determined that
the temperature of the planet Mars is moderate
enough for human existence
When the earth becomes overcrowded some of its
inhabitants can move to Mars!
How will they get there? The Bureau of Standards
hasn't figured that out yet. But there is plenty of
time as the earth will not become overcrowded for
several hundred generations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-02
Can Congress Beat New Flood?

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
But what of spring, if the Mississippi River runs
waste again through the Southland!
Little poetry there is in this news out of Wash
ngton that there remains in the Federal treasury only
some $3,200000 for levee repairs.
Of the $1o,oooooO appropriated by Congress at the
beginning of the year, about 100000 was used in
fighting the greatest flood in the Nations history and
$2,8Oo,oOo more must be alocated to routine
revetment and dredging work
What left will be used in getting the evees ready
for the next flood, if the law allows.
Under the law local levee districts must bear one
third of the repair work But local levee boards even
like the Federal Government find their available
funds sadly depleted Some will probably be unable
to raise the money needed. In land that has lost
$400,ooo,O00 of property, money becomes somewhat
mythical
The Mississippi River commission will probably go
ahead, regardless of the law and repair all levees if
the money holds out.
But, if the money doesn't hold out and if there is
new flood next spring
There are too many "ifs" to the story. Congress
will meet in the winter, but winter will be too late
and spring too close, too close behind.
If Easter is not again to be fear and May day
perhaps desolaton, Congress should be summoned
in early session to appropriate money and modify
the law. fa .1.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-02
Another Sadie Thompson Different in Conception
Is Added to the List of Those ReUeaIed ON the Stage
by WALTER ID. HICKMAN

is masquerading behind the gift of
her birth-the right Of motherhood
Miss Douglass is giving an unforget-
able performance this week. Mas
terful, honest and mighty sad, but
real.
Mckay Morris is the Rev. David
son and he is giving convincing
role of the missionary who fights
his own sex cravings. A powerful
characterization and done with eX-
IRENE care and thought.
Ernest Cossart is an ideal Joe
Horn and France Bendtsen is splen-
did as DR.. McPhail. Adelaide Chase
is a satisfactory Ameena, wife of
Joe Horn. The remainder of the
cast is adequate.
The rain effects have been Won
derfully accomplished by George
Somnes. The chief fault with the
actors, most of them with the ex-
ception of Morris. is that their
voices failed to carry and many
of the lines were lost to me and
sat on the second row center.
am sure that George ,Somnes has
corrected this serious defect before
these lines are written. From a
scenic standpoint. Rain" is a mas
terpiece.
At Keith's all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-02
Noise and Justice

Governor Alvin T. Fuller of Massachusetts, is
scheduled to make stupendous decision tomorrow.
In his hands is the fate of Nicola Sacco and Bar
tolorneo Vanzetti, now under sentence OF death as
convicted pay roll bandits and murderers.
The case in which he must write the final chapter
is without precedent in criminal history for the
amount of international concern it has aroused
One group, represented throughout the world, con-
tends that Sacco and Vanzetti, italian immigrants.
are victims of blind prejudice proved by the fact that
they are militant and unrepentant political radicals
Another group contends that Massachusetts was
just when her courts found them to be bandits and
murderers
The charge that the Sacco-V anzetu sympathizers
make is the kind that not be lodged; and there's
evidence that Governor Fuller through appointment
IL an advisory commission and his own investigation
has not lodged it,
But in the seven-year course of sacco- Vanzetti