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Middletown transcript., 1899-06-17

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Mr., Preston, an, uncle Of Mr.. Tom Ennis
with whom he resided was found Sum
day, at noon, in. the pasture field dead.
Coroner Vandever. of Wilmington pro-
nounced the cause. Of, his death, as heart
failure Services wsre,heldt at Mr.. Ennis
house Tuesday Interment was made at
Smyrna Cemetery
DR.. Walter v Woods, of Phi iladelphia.
was in town for short time Wednesday.
Mr.. John Green and Mr.. VIM Johnson
were the guests of Mr.. Geo. Green at Reho-
both for several days this week.
Rev. w. 0. Hurst spent several days of
this week at Dover. Mrs. Hurst accomp
anied him as far as Clayton where she stop
ped with friends.
Mrs. VIM. Curtis and daughter Mary
Louise are the guests of Mrs Curtis parents
this week.
Miss Georgia Enos and Mrs. Geo. w.
Davis were the guests of Philadelphia
friends this week.
Mrs. Joseph Carrow is entertaining her
sister, Miss Raynor, of Camden N. J., also
a niece of DR.. Carrow's.
Mrs. Daniel w. Corbit sails for Dundee,
Scotland, Saturday. She will visit her
brother, Mr.. John @. Higgins, who is q. S,
Consul at that place.
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ODESSA NOTES.

Miss Elizabeth Temple spent several days
of this week with relatives in the City O
Brotherly Love.
Mr.. Elwood A. Test, of PhiIadelphia
formerly druggist of Odessa, was in town
Thursday.
Walter Stats, clerk of the Steamer Clio
who has been suffering with rheumatism
is improving.
Mr.. L. v. Aspril, ST., and niece Frances
are the guests of Baltimore friends this
week.
Mrs. s. Lue Enos has returned from
Philadelphia where she has been spending
several weeks with friends.
Mr.. Eddie Green who has been at Reho-
both with his father returned home We'd
nesday evening
Mrs. McTntire and family, of German
town, are occupying for the summer the
house on High Street owned by Mrs. Sarah
Polk.
Rev. w o. Hurst preached sermon on
Brains to the young people. Sunday
night. II was an exceedingly able and in
teresting discourse and was thoroughly en-
ioyed.
pr. Lewis entertained his brother this
week.
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say that the idea of demand as an abstract
or independent substance is myth. II
is nothing but ability. That is, practically
only so. OF course, if there were only ten
men on an island and trader should
carry over twenty roasted turkeys to sell
them the supply on that island would be
in excess of the demand and turkeys would
sell low. (14) But practically in o great
country no such conditions can exist.
Thousands of our people got no straw
berries to eat last week, and millions got
only half their fill.
The CALL is endeayoring TO teach that
more money will bring better prices and
that nothing else will. (15) That if twenty
dollars capita circulation will carry trade
at certain figures, forty dollars will bear it
at double figures. On that we stand. It
makes no difference that we call it supply
and demand. There will always be de-
mand where there is money to buy. And
to say there is no demand for staple pro-
duce is to say that there is not money
enough to buy it, or all of it. (16) Until
all of our seventy five millions of people
are we'll fed and wen clothed, food and
clothing will sell ifthere is money to buy.
(0-The "Call'' locally answered
the "Call" editorially most effectively
last week. The answer is re-stated in
the opening sentence of this article.
(S1-Ask Senator German. Read
elsewhere what be says as to the great
est prosperity the country has ever
known. Is Senator German "hum-
bug2" AhI there, Mr.. "Call."
(9)-No man with conscience be-
lieves that assertion.
(1O)-The local "Cal'' parrot is
wrongly educated then?
(11)-There are no starving men to-
day. Every man who will work can
get work at good wages. Every man
wanting strawberries could buy them
this year.
(12)-What volume and how would
you distribute it?
(13)-Until last year berries brought
good prices. Were farms then selling
at 25 per cent. advance? The "Callo
knows not.
(14)-Yes in berries or anything so
perishable. A few crates stock Mid
dletown and down goes the price. A
few more stock Smyrna with similar
results, etc.
{15)-And hundred dollars at five
fold. Why not demand the 500 capita
circulation?
(16)-Ask Mr.. German if the people
are not well fed and well clothed. As
suredly the 'sCall" has awakened from
a Rip VanWinkle sleep begun during
Cleveland's administration.
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In speaking Of trusts a Western
editor SAYS: "The biggest trust after
all is the country newspaper. 1t
trusts almost everybody, and for that
reason the people like it. It is the
only trust on earth that is worked to
the limit, and the only trust where
the proprietor gets the smallest share
of the dividends. Every city in the
State has branch Office of this trust.
and the trusting soul who goes down
in his pocket for the dust to keep this
trust going is abused like pirate If he
even hints that his paper needs some
thing besides air to keep his trust in
fiated,
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on! For the Iceberg Again


Mr.. James E. Tyson, who returned to
Elliott City states that Tuesday evening at
sunset an iceberg was reported off the Wor-
cester coast of Maryland. Thermometers
there had been as. high as 80 until the visitor
from the polar regions appeared when, he
says, there was sudden drop in the temper
ature to go. Women on the porches found it
necessary to put on heavy wraps. Such d
sudden change was never before known, il is
said, at Ocean City. Mr.. Tyson said the
iceberg, seemed to be three or four miles
from shore, appearing like white mass
towering above the ocean as mountain
and was veiled in mist that half hid it
from view except when glass Was en-
ployed. .-Ex.
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DELAWARE COLLEGE

Theexercises of Con- h encement week
at Delaware College begin on Sunday,
June 18th. with The annual sermon be-
fore The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation, 10 be DELIVERED in the morning
at the. Presbyterian Church, Newark.
BY the Rev. DR.. John Y. Dobbins, OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church, at
Montciair, New jersey. The Bacca-
laureate sermon will be delivered at
night 10 the College Oratory by the
Rev.. Henry Baker, D. D., of Grace
Methodist Episcopal Church, Whining
ton.
Glass Day Exercises occur on Mon
day, the 10Th, at o'clcck in he after
noon, and the Undergraduate Decla-
nation Contest on the night Of that
day.
The meeting of the Boar.l tf Trusr
tees occurs on Tuesday, and at night
will be celebrated the anniversary of
the Athenen Literary Society. E. H.
McCabe, of the graduating class, will
deliver the society address, and Ii. G.
Well, also of lha graduating class, the
farewell address.
Wednesday. the 21st, is Commence
ment Day. Exercises will begin at TO-
80 A. M. Tho orator of the day is
Henry B. B. Siapler, Esq, formerly
OF Wilmington, now Of New York,
and lately Assistant District A torney,
of that city. Mr.. Stapler's subject
will be one Of prime interest and i'm
portance To DflaWareans. There will
be addresses by members of tka grad
nating class, and the usual presentation
of, diplomas and prizes. The usual
luncheon TO visitors will lie served in
the library after the close OF the Com
mencement exercises. An interesting
incident Of the luncheon will be the re-
union Of the classes of '73, IA, '75, rs,
~, rs and 70. No attempt at such
reunion has been made since the re-
suscitation Of the College 10 1870.
The annual meeting of the Alumni
Association takes place at hulf-past
two in the afternoon, the exhibition
drill at four o'clock, and the anniver-
saIy of the Delta Phi Literary Society
at s o'oclock. The orator of The even
ing is John G. Gray, Esq, of Will
mington, the society orator is Law
renee d. Smith, and the Veledictorian,
Harold Green of the graduating class.
The. regular commencement dance
will follow The Delta Phi Anniversary
exercises. For the convenience of
visitors returning from the dance, the
north-bound Baltimore s. Ohio express
will stop at NeWrak at 2.30 A. NJ.
Thursday, and about 20 minutes later
at Wilmington.
This years graduating class numbers
thirteen, but the new senior class will
number Is, the new junior class about
20, and The new sophomore class about
the same. Between 35 and 40 appli-
cants for admission to ths next Fresh
man class have thus far been heard
from. Examinations for entrance to
the last-named class will be held on
Friday and Saturday, June 23d and
Oath, at the following named places If
applicants present themselves: New
ark. Wilmington, Middletown. Smyrna,
Dover, Milford, Seafold, Laurel,
GEORGETOWN, aud Lswes. Those who
do not take the june examinations,
and those who fail 10 pass at that time,
may present th6I selves at Newark on
September 18th and 18Th. The College
reopens % Wednesday, Sept. 18th.
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TWO SAD DEATHS

Death is always sad and doubiy SO when
by accident or unexpected. The people Of
this community were shocked on Sunday
morning to learn that Mrs. Rebecca s..
Vandegrift and her little grand niece, Ruth
Vandegrift Woods, were found dead by the
parents of the child, Mr. and Mrs. |. Jan
vier Woods, on their return from visit to
neighbors between 8 and 10 o'clock Satur-
day evening. Mrs. Vandegrift was 70 years
old, the widow of the late Leonard George
Vandegrift, and the stepmother Of United
State District Attorney Lewis G. Vande-
srfifti q w " fiiffmiirgtUn. Evidently she was
seized with an attack Of apoplexy and fall
ing upon the bed on which her little 4-year-
old grand niece was sleeping, smothered
the little one and expired herself in few
moments. Mr.. and Mrs. Woods went away
about 5 o'clock, and returned to find the
aunt's body lying across little Ruth's form,
her elbows pressed upon the child's stom-
ach. She was tenderly removed and it was
found that the child was dying. With one
last gasp little Ruth expired in her fathers
arms.
Mr.. L. g. Vandegrift, Coroner Vandeyer
and physician came to Middletown on tue
paper train on Sunday morning, and drove
to McDonough. Dr.. McColley found that
apoplexy had caused the death Of the
woman, and asphyxia that Of the child,
and verdict in accordance Herewith was
rendered BY jury composed OF James I. |
Shallcross, J. v. Vandegrift, Robert r.
Cleaver, Howard A. Pool, w. II. Loflani
and G. ]. Vandegrift.
Mrs Woods is the eldest daughter Of Mr.
Andrew s. Eliason, of Mt. Pleasant, and |
little Ruth was the only child. The parents
have the deepest sympathy Of the entire
community in their bereavement. The
uneral was held on Tuesday afternoon and
vas one of the largest for years in this
Iection. It is said the head Of The process
iion had reached Old Drawers. where in
erment was had, when the last carriage
eft the house, two miles away. Reys
fallandigham. Moore. Davidson and Gil
ingham officiated.
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Hon. RICHARD p. BLAND, who for
nearly 81 years was representative ia
Congress from Missouri, died OF grip
on Thursday, aged GA years. He was
the original free coinage Of silver advo.
cate, 16 to.1, in Congress and was The
logical candidate of the Democratic
Party in 1896 for the presidency. He
would have been the nominee but for
Bryan's "cross of gold" speech which
carried the convention off its let.
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Campmeetfng Calendar

The following are the dates of some Of
the largest camps on this Peninsula:
Sand Hill-July 81.
Wye-July %, Augs.
Local Preachers-July 2S.
Camden-July 26.
Hebron-July 30.
.Woodlawn-Aug.I
Brandywine Summit-Aug.3.
Concord-Aug.4.
Chiltons-Aug.4.
Mt. Vernon-Aug.4.
Zoar-Aug.11.
Laurel-Aug.17.
Ocean Grove-Aug.l9.
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whose is the Properly J

James II Perkins, farmer iii 81 Ianas,
Neck, near Dover, is so tied up BY al in
junction, returnabie to day, that he cannot
sell % much as a box Of berries RI n
stalk Of asparagus from his farm without
violating an edict Of the chancellor. The
complainants are heirs Of one Jonathan
Owen Moore, who was aged 81 and not of
very strong mind. They declare thai thew
can show that years aga, while a resident
of Oneida county. New York, Perkins COL
lected upon bonds aud mortgages surren.
dered to Moore in cash transaction and
when Moore went to collect the interest
every bond was found to be spurious and
against parties and estates that never erist-
ed, that when Perkins was called "a az
count he fed and has not since been heard
Of until he was located in Delaware. This
was in 1888. The heirs have taken ont
letters of administration and nnn,erons
Dover lawyers are smiling. The Perkins
farm is worth 5000, aud the stock and
implements. to say nothing. Of bis bio
wheat crop and this years corn faIl af
which il under the courts inviolate orderl
are worth q, 900 more, and the records Of
Kent county show only 81 200 MORTGAGE
against the entire holdings. The amonnt
for which the heirs are suing Is 81. $50. tie /
sum of money, With interest, alleged ID /
have been secured from Moore.
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Young Folks and Children,s Shoes

At 95c-Misses' Kid Button and Lace
Shoes, black and russet; sizes IL to 2.
Value $1.50.
AT 80c-Children's Kid Button and Lace
Shoes, black and russell; sizes 8T TO
l0K. Value $1.25.
At 65c-Children's Kid Button Shoes.
black; sizes to 8. Values ST. and ST as.
At 25c-Infants' Black Kidskin Shoes.
buttoned, flexible turned leather sole.
Worth ST..
At $l.5o-Boys' Black Novelty Calf Lace
Shoes, English toes; sizes ~ to 5H,
Value ST. so.
At $1.25-Youths' Black Novelty Calf
skin Shoes, laced, English toes. Value So.
At $l-Little Mems Lace Shoes, Tan
Willow and Black Box Calfskin, sturdy
soles, sizes 9 to l3. Value ST. so.
At $l.75-Boys' Shoes, Russet Calfskin.
Tan Kidskin and Black Box Calf Shoes.
welted soles, lace, bulldog toes. sizes
~ to 81. Substantial SIS values.
Same as above in Youths sizes. IL to D
at $l.50. Value So. so.
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]. II. Kerlin. Of Chester, has bought.
the Filter farm, at Town Point. for
$1,000.
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WOmen's Shoes

At $1-Women's Black and Russet Kid
Boots; patent leather tipped and self
tipped; vesting tops and all kidskin
tops; button and laced; fair stitched
edges; opera toe shapes. Value 81. so.
At $l.40-Women's Black chrome-tan-
ned Kdskin Shoes; patent leather tips
and kid tips; buttoned and laced; fex-
ible soles; popular toe shapes. Some
cloth tops. Value 81. so.
At $l.40-Women's Russet Brown Kid
skin of chrome tannage; buttoned and
laced-mostly laced; self-ipped; light
flexible soles; English and new opera
toe shapes. Value So. So
At $l.50-Women's Black and Russet
chrome-tanned Kidskin Shoes; patent
leather and kid tips on the black shoes,
self tips on the russets; buttoned and
laced; light summer-weight soles and
medium weight, welted soles-common
sense and the more stylish toe shapes.
Value So. SO to So.
AT $l.7C-Women's Black and Russell
brown Kidskin Shoes; buttoned and
laced; dainty, stylish lightweight upper
feathers, firm of texture, but cool for
summer wear; flexible welts with
plumper hdskin tops, and thinner soles
with light kidskin tops. Some cloth
tops among them, too. All toe shapes.
Worth double
At $1.70-Women's Patent Leather
Shoes; dull chrome-leather tops and
cloth tops; button and lace; light, fex-
ible, but firm soles; latest toe shapes,
IN opera and bulldog effects. A rare
bargain-they're easily worth double.
At 92-Wnrna,.i ic pIaaI- FL-.-..- rr:Ii.
Shoes, button and lace; welted and light
flexible soles, stylish shapes. Would be
splendid valnes at So and SIS, so.
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India Linens
h~-~A-
OOI0VI6

| Our corset business was
never so large and the selec-
tion here from Csc to So 50
cannot be excelled anywhere
The greatest corsetsatisfaction
for stout women is the Memo
self-reducing corset, support
ing the abdomen. giving grace
and symmetry to the figure
and is a positive relief in every
way and containing features
that are entirely new in corset
making-price $3.50.
Hot Weather
novelties are:
Colgate's Antiseptic Tooth Powder, 7c.
Talcum Powder, 5 and 10c.
Collingwood Cologne, 25c.
Royal Skirt Supporter
with Improvements that make
these necessary articles of |
dress comfort very effective.
A lady delnonstrator will show
you the workings and use of
this supporter that will at
once appeal to your wisdom
25c.
Rag Carpet
in the old-fashioned and good
wearing makes, 25c per yard.
Ingram carpets in patterns
that closely initiate the high
grade goods, for 25c per yard.
Linoleuns
A lot of odd pieces, 4 yards
vide, of the 81 quality. will
'e closed out for CSC. Bring :
our measures.
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Mems Shoes

NACu OMONS-
At $2-Men's Patent Leather Lace and
Congress Shoes, welted, advance styles.
Values So and So. so.
At $2-Men's Russia Calf Lace Shoes,
welted soles, modern toes. Values So
and $3.50
At $2-Men's Black Box-calf Lace
Shoes, welted, excellent shapes. Values
So and So. so.
At $2-Men's Black Kidslzin and Wax
calf Lace Shoes, welted soles, several
styles of toe. Values So and $3.50.
At $1.7o-Men's Black Calfskin and
Russet Shoes, lace English and opera
toe shapes. Easily worth So.
At $I.40-Men's Black Satin Calfskin
Shoes, lace. Worth So.
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WALTER STATS, Clerk.
DEGISTER'S ORDER.
REGISTERS OFFICE,
NEW CASTLE COUNTY. DEL

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REGISTERS OFFICE, y
NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DEL.
March 3lst, 1899.
and Robert p. Moore, Administrators of
William Fl: Hickey, late of st. Georges Hun
dred, in said county, deceased, it is ordered
and directed by tile Register that the Ad-
minstrators aforesaid give notice
with the date of granting thereof, by causing
advertisements to be pos ed within forty days
from the date of such Letters in six of the
most public places of The County of New
Castle, requiring all persons having demands
against the estate to present the same, or
abide by an act of Assembly in such case
made and prOvided; and also cause the same
to be inserted within the same Period in the
M1ddletown TRANSCRIPT, q newspaper pub
11sned IN M1dd1eJown, Del and 10 be contIn-
ued therein two months.
Given under the hand and
(@o1 seal of office of tire Register
SEAL Aforesaid at Wilmington, in
to-J New Castle County aforesaid,
the day and year above
written.
CALVIN w. CROSSAN, Register.
EoTICE.-Notice is hereby given that Letters
of Administration were in due form of law
first day of March, A. ID. 1899, and that all
persons having claims against the estate of
the deceased must present the same, duly
attested, to the said Administra tors, on or
before the Thirty-first day of March, 1900, or
abide the Act of Assembly in such case made
and provided.
DAVID II. KNOTS,
ROBERT p. MO RE,
Addrs IS, Administrators
Houston, Kent County, Delaware.
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wANAMAKER's. ..

Philadelphia, Monday, June IL, 1899.
Tt,o c,,,-ae At start of this
special lsale there
onoe oaie wege 6o,400
pairs in the Philadelphia store alone
-120, 700 pairs had been gathered;
81, 300 pairs went to New York.
POINTS TO REMEMBER.
Every pair is new.
All bought in addition to oufsfeg-
ular stocks.
Al sold outside of the regular shoe
store-for nothing shall interfere
with its comfort,
Every pair is just as fully and
broadly guaranteed as are the shoes
of the regular stocks. No material
difference except the prices and GER
lain kinks of shoemaking here and
there that make our regular shoes
distinctive, yet these special lots are
A THIRD TO A HALF UNDER
REGULAR PRICES.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-18

rangement is cheaper than by the erec-
ton of L tramway. There will be some
minor Improvements to make, and 1t
is. calculated that the mill viii be in
readiness to start about June 1. The
tailings will be run through at the rate
of 100 tons per day.
Henry Sutton, superintendent of the
Constellation mine, returned to the
camp this morning, bringing the infor-
nation that his company has levied an
assessment of IL cents on the capital
stock, to continue development work.
AS soon as the surface water has
passed off an additional force of men
will be put on and push a drift, which
is now 200 feet from the shaft, dis
lance of 800 feet to the gold ledge, cut
ting it at a vertical depth of 525 feet.
Work has been progressing quietly
during the winter on the Deer valley
tunnel, until its length is now 500 feet.
one-half the distance to the shaft,
which will be reached in the neighbor-
hood of the 400 level, its present depth
being only 800 feet. The new tunnel
will prove excellent drainage when the
connection with the shaft is effected.
John ]. DAILY and James A. Pollock
escorted a party of eastern mining men
from the Tamarack mine in Michigan
through the Daly-West mine today.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-18
FROM BUFFALO HUMP.
No Place For Miners Looking For
Work

Charles Shields, a well known Park
City man, who returned from the Buff
falo Hump district in idaho a few days
ago, is now in the city. Speaking of
his trip north he said the excitement
over the now famous section was caus-
ing a great influx of miners-men who
were expecting to find work on their
arrival in the district. On his recent
trip he saw not less than seventy-five
men trying to get into the country with
their outfits. They had gone as far as
possible with teams, and were prepar-
ing to ''rawhide" it the rest of the dis
tance over the snow.
There are only three properties work
ing in the district now. and they en-
ploy a force of some fifteen men each.
Miners looking for work had better stay
away, as there is absolutely no show for
them till some of the prospects are
opened up.
1t will be at least six weeks before the
snow is gone, and nothing can be done
in the way of prospecting before the
1st of July. There are no accommo-
dations there said Mr.. Shields, land
it costs 81 to buy a very poor meal at
the present time.
Both the Seven Devils and Buffalo
Hump districts are going to experience
q big boom this summer. however, and
l shall go back there in July. The rail-
road is being pushed into the Seven
Devils district with all dispatch, and !
look for lively times there during the
next few years"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-18
Light Transactions Made On Both
Mining Exchanges.
STOCKS MUCH DEPRESSED
EMERALD WANTED, BUT AT LOW
FIGURES.
Stock Suffers Decline-Daisy Shows
No Improvement and Sunshine
Drops Again-Dalton the Favorite
Seller On the Utah Exchange
Yesterdays Street Sales.

Tie stock market did not improve
yesterday and little activity was mani
tested on either exchange. On the Salt
Lake board Emerald was the most ac-
tive seller, but at lower prices. The
highest paid was 15A cents. Daisy
showed no Improvement, and 500 shares
sold at 291s cents. Star Consolidated
was weak, and the best price paid was
92 cents. Joe Bowers remained sta
tionary, and Sunshine went still lower
and recorded sales at so cents, a
marked decline from a week ago.
Northern Light keeps steady, and one
broker took in 1000 shares at 741a.
Dalton was the heaviest seller on the
Utah exchange. and 21a cents was the
ruling figure paid for it. Another was
wanted in the usual quantities, and
5000 shares were let go of at rs cents.
Sacramento sold at AZ. and Golden
Eagle registered sales at 61a cents.
The stock market was simply in a de-
moraliZed condition. The same condi-
ton prevailed during the afternoon, and
little curb trading of any consequence
was INDUCED in after the calls. 1t was
light day all around, and brokers had
little to do.
The following quotations were posted
by each exchange: