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Middletown transcript., 1907-09-28
DELAWARE AT THE EXPOSITION

Small in area, but great and generous
in patriotism, Delaware has taken prom
inent place along with her sister states at
the Jamestown Ter-Centennial. The
Diamond State appropriated goodly
sum for participation at the Exposition
and then several OF her patriotic citizens
met and gave several thousand dollars in
addition, consequently, Delaware in her
state building and historical exhibit,
occupies a most conspicuous place
at the Ter-Centenniai.
In the eastern section of the Exposition
grounds on the famous States Avenue,
fronting ON historic Hampton Roads, in
full view OF and resting under the gigan-
tic guns OF Fortress Monroe, and surround
ed with lawn of beautiful flowers and
green shrubbery, the Exposition home OF
Delaware il located. The building is
replica, Of tile Old Colonial farm house Of
one hundred and thirty five years ago,
yet to be found along the highways and
in the country between New Castle and
Wilmington. Some say that it is q
reproduction of the home OF Federal
Judge Gray's ancestors. The design and
arrangement of the interior, like that of
the exterior, is both unique and attractive.
The building is Of two stories, but instead
OF the second floor extending the entire
length and width Of the building, it is
built but half way, making a reception
room Of the entire east half. The height
of this room is the full height OF the
building, as in a modern residence there
are number Of windows on the first floor,
and other windows higher up. The ad.
vantage of this arrangement is in the,
ventilation, and in this room, on the hot.
test days, one always finds cool place.
In the west half of the building, there
are two foors. The first contains a sit
ting room, dining room and kitchen.
There are bed-chambers above. In the
west aud east ends OF the building the
reception and sitting rooms, respectively,
there are immense fire places with chim-
neys outside.
The walls OF the Reception room are
adorned with the portraits Of all the Gov
ernors Of Delaware, from George Reed,
1777 to Preston Lee, Of 1907, Governor
Reed was also signer Of the Declaration
OF Independence. Portraits Of Admiral
Thomas MacDonough the last hero Of the
battle 70 Lake Champiain and Of James
A. Bayard, who with Albert GaIlatin,
negotiated the treaty oil Gbent which
brought She war Of 1872 10 finish.
James a. Bayard was the father of
Thomas F Bayard. President gieseland's
Secretary Of State. There il aIso ID this
room The old BEN made in 1853 and
broagl't in saI boat from lsaRland to
Middletown transcript., 1907-09-28
CATHOLIC TEMPERANCE MEETING

At the invitation of Rt. Rev. J. ].
Monaghan, D. D., Bishop of Wilmington,
Mrs. Leonora Lake Of ST. Louis, delivered
temperance address in the basement OF
St. Paul's R. G. Church at Fourth and
Jackson streets, Wilmington, at o'clock
Wednesday evening. The lecturer is
vice-president of the Catholic Total Absti-
nence Union Of America, and is forceful
and feryent speaker. The Rev. A. P.
Doyle, the paulist missionary preacher,
who was for years secretary of the Catho-
lie Total Abstinence Union, introduced
Mrs. Lake to the Catholics Of Wilmington.
She also delivered a temperance talk at
the plant Of the American Car and Foun.
dry Company during the noon hour on
Tuesday. The audience was an appre-
ciative one, and at the close of her talk
Mrs. Lake was roundIy appIauded.
Middletown transcript., 1907-09-28
LIQUOR MEN TO RAISE 81, 500, 600

PrTTsBURG, Pa, Sept. 27th.-The Penn.
81 ylvania State Federation Of Liquor Deal.
ers will raise fund of 81, 500, 900 to fight
the local option sentiment growing in the
state. Charles s. Black, president of the
organization, announced that this would
be the chief item of business brought be-
fore the state convention held at Harris
burg to-day. He said thirty.five counties
OF the state have organizations, and these
were represented. OF the western tier Of
counties all but Erie and Venango counties
are organized, and these will be also.
The aggressive campaign carried on by
the temperance advocates In Ohio, and
the fact that East Liverpool and Wells
vile, on the border of the Pennsylvania
state line. recently voted to go dry, has
scared the Pennsylvania liquor dealers.
President Black points out that the liquor
dealers in Ohio spent 100000 to defeat
local option and still were defeated.
The fact that at the last session of the
Pennsylvania Legislature only four votes
were required to put local option bill
on the calendar is pointed out by Mr..
Black as the reason for active work by
the liquor dealers of the state 10 conserve
their interests. Pennsylvania is one of
six states that has not some kind Of a
local option law, and the temperance
people of this state are very active.
President Black, with Richard C. Nc
Cormick, of Allegheny, vice president Of
the state association, and Lewis McGrew,
the business agent, devoted their entire
time to getting out large representation
to the Harrisburg convention.
Middletown transcript., 1907-09-28

Delaware BY Thomas Rodney. This bell
was hnng in the State House in Dover
and was used to call the people together
for meetings. In was also rung in IVA
to notify the people that the British had
closed the Port Of Boston, which was
done Immediately after the raid of
the Boston Tea Party. 1t was rung
again in 1887 when the Federal Con-
stitution was ratified by Delaware. The
official documents OF The first ratification
OF the Federal Constitution, written
on the United States, on December IL,
1887, is framed and hangs in the Della.
ware building.
In the sitting room there is por-
trait OF Lord Delaware, in whose honor
the Diamond State was named. There
are three old wall settees in this room
which were taken from the old Swedes
Church at Wilmington.
The living apartments, and in fact the
entire furnishings OF the building are
modern, TINS, blending the perfect har-
mony, the Old and the New.
Following are the members of the Del
aware Commission to the jamestown Ter.
Centennial: Preston Lea, President, Viii.
mington, Del. John w. Causey. Vice.
President, Milford, DEL, John HUM,
Treasurer, Wyoming, Del, T. Coleman
DUPONT, Wilmington, Del, William S.
Hilles, Wilmington, DEL, David c. Rose,
Newark, Del, Oliver A. Newton, Bridge
vile, Del, M. Dallas lMarvil, Laurel,
Del, George II. Dick, Secretary, Smyrna,
Del.
Middletown transcript., 1907-09-28
IETrEs TO M. B. BuRR1s
MiddIetown. Del.

Dear Sir: We should like to print your
opinion OF this guarantee in this paper.
where all your neighbors Will see it:
Well furnish the paint to paint half
the house OF any fair man on the terms:
lie shall paint the other half with what
ever other paint he likes; same painter
(any fair man. same way (the way of all
fair painters, to make a good job). II
our half doesn't take less gallons of paint
by .oDe.tenth to seyen-tenths, we'll give
him the paint. II our half doesn't take
less labor BY one tenth to seven tenths.
well give him the paint. II our half isn't
sounder three years hence, we'll give
him the paint. II our half isn't
souHder six years hence, we'll give him
the paint. Any color.
We say one-tenth, because there are
two or three paints with about that dif-
ference; we say seven-there are dozens
Of paints with about that difference-we
say one to seven because there's d hnn-
dred that waste one-third Of the money
paid for both paint and labor.
rs tliaTe 4 paint Es haven't covered /?
Yours truly
80 r w DEK0E Il co
2: s. ~ Khorfer X sen sell our
- s -
Middletown transcript., 1907-09-28
is LOCAL OPTION EFFECTIVE DOES
PROHIBITION PR0HIBIIl
GBY W. G. KooN<l

The "Philadelphia Record in its issue
for June 10, 1907, gives an account Of
the Meeting Of the National Wholesale
: Liquor Dealers Association, then in ses-
sion at Atlantic City, n. ]. 1t uses as a
heading Liquor Dealers Sniff Danger;
Prohibitionists, Local 0ptionists and
Legislators hit trade hard" The
article opens titus, ':Hard bit by the
onslaughts Of prohibition and local option
armies and legislation, the National
Wholesale Liquor Deal ers Association de-
cided at its annual session, here to-day
that it's representative must drop the
fight against Legislative moraists" and
train their guns upon the new enemy that
threatens the very life Of the business. 7"
president, Marion L. Taylor, in his
opening address, speaking of the neces-
sity OF directing every effort against pro-
hibition said, II there is no one to sell to
we care not what the laws are concerning
international revenue or pure food. Our
only recourse now is to save our business.
Dnring the last twelve months the pro-
hibitionists have made grave inroads upon
this business.
Necessity OF combining every effort to
combat the whirlwind (of> local option
and prohibition) appeared in resolutions
adopted BY the convention late this after
noon which read in part The report of
our officers and the speeches made on the
floor OF the convention all point out as
the most important point to be con.
sidered, the increased efforts Of the pro-
hibition element both in enforcing pro.
hibition and in endeavoring TO obtain
new legislation adverse 10 our business
t.Report after report from committees 8
and officials of the organization told Of
the great inroads made upon tile business
by prohibition during the year Local
option advocates, it was said, are win.
ming ground everywhere to such an ex-
tent that many houses are facing bank.
ruptcy.
Liquor Dea lers "facing bankruptcy
because of Local Option Is Local
Option effective? .sThe very life" Of the
liquor business is threatened by tile
spread Of Local Option ! Is Local Option
Effective? The Liquor Dealers themselves
in National Convention assembled have
answered the question and they know.
They SAY Local Option nlrans' Bankruptcy
and Destruetionp % the liquor business.
Therefore, o Delaware voter, If you
want 10 decFFsse aud destroy tIle LiqnoF
Business voss for Leeal Option November
bth.
Middletown transcript., 1907-09-28
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
OF
APPOQUINIMINK HUNDRED

The taxable residents of Appoquini.
mink Hundred, and all persons liable TO
pay tax in said Hundred, are hereby
notified that the Taxes for the year 1907
are now due, and the undersigned Tax
Collector for said Hundred, will be
AT THE OFFICE OF GEORGE NJ. d. HART,
IN TOWNSEND, DEL,
SATURDAYS,
SEPTEMBER z, IA, 21 and %, 1907.
From to o'clock, P. M.
EXTRACT FROM THE LAWS OF DELAWARE.
GOVERNING THE COLLECTION OF TAXES OF
NEW CASTLE COUNTY:
Tax bills can be obtained by making
personal application to the Collector, or
by sending written communication en-
closing stamps.
An abatement of per centum will be
allowed on all taxes paid during the
month of August.
WILLIAM n. MONEY,
Collector OF Taxes for Appoquinimink Hundred
Middletown transcript., 1907-09-28
sT. GEORGES

Miss Sara Milligan was in Wilmington
one day this week.
Mrs. F. Hildebrand spent part Of thit
week in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Miles Dickerson is tile guest of hel
sister, Mrs. Sara Bays
Mrs. Atking, of Philadelphia, is the
guest Of Mrs. NJ. J. Gray.
Miss Violet Gray spent one day this
week with Miss Anna Gray.
John Wright, Of Baltimore, is the guest
OF his sister, Mr.. and Mrs. D. C. Wolfe.
Mrs. Edgar Swan spent Sunday and
Monday with relatives in Philadelphia.
Theodore Jones. H. G. Clark and F. W.
Hildebrand we're in Philadelphia on We'd
nesday.
Mrs. J. w. Carrow, who has been suf-
fering with typhoid fever, is much i'm
proved.
Miss Bessie Jones, OF Philadelphia, Wis.
tied her mother, Mrs. Laura Jones. on
Sunday.
Irs. F. P. VanHeckle is visiting Mrs.
Isaac VanHeckle at her home in Phila-
delpliia.
Miss Ciaren Barnett is spending some
time with her sister, Mrs. Louis Racine.
of Porters.
Mrs. Ellda Jones is spending the week
with her daughter, Mrs. Harold Baton, of
Bear Station.
Mrs. William Aspril was called to
Newark on Friday by the serious illness
of her father.
Mrs. George 7. Hill spent part of this
week in Wilmington, as the guest OF Mrs.
Gertrude Fritts.
Miss Hattie Roberts, of Farnhurst,
spent. Sunday with her parents, William
Roberts and wife.
Miss Eva Norris, of Baltimore, is being
entertained at Sunset View by her sister,
Mrs. ]. B. Reynolds.
Mrs. George Bright, OF Delaware City,
visited her parents, A. N.Sutton and wife,
one day tliis week.
Mrs. Joseph Cain, of Coatesville, Pa,
was the guest of Mrs. Herbert Hopkins
one day this week.
Corbit Davidson, of Wilmington, was
an over Sunday visitor of his sister, Mrs.
Coaling Hammond.
Mr.. John McMullen, who has returned
from abroad, is visiting his parents Will
liam McMullin and family.
Clarence Cannon, wife and child, Of
Middletown, spent part Of this week with
James P. Cannon and family.
James Cannon, wife and daughter, Miss
Ada, spent part of this week with Her.
bert Cannon and family at Glasgow.
Mrs. Gertrude Fritts and three sons
have returned to Wilmington, latter spend
ing two weeks with friends in town.
Little Master G. N. Jones, who has
been very sick for soma weeks past, We
are glad to say is able to be out again.
H. C. Clark and sister, Miss Linda were
the guests Of E. N. Jester and wife, OF
Wilmington, over Saturday and Sunday.
Irving Wolfe, an employee on the
Steamer Lord Baltimore, is at home this
week with his parents, D. c. Wolfe and
and wife.
John Milligan, Who has just returned
from Russia after an absence OF six years
is visiting his parents, Rev. and Mrs. ].
R. MiIligan.
After vacation of two months the st.
Georges Y. w. C. T. U. will hold it's
regular meeting next Wednesday evening
at the home of Mrs. J. H. S. Gam. The
president, Mrs. Gam, hopes to have large
attendance. Everyone interested is in.
vited.
The local option forces are beginning
to take an active part in the approaching
campaign and their meeting in the Pres
byterian Church on Sunday evening last
was well attended. There will also be
public meeting on the street this (Satur-
day. evening.
Middletown transcript., 1907-09-28
SCHOOL
Fourth and West Sts.,
Wilmington, Delaware.

A first class private
school with courses of
study fitting for college
or business. Fifteen
teachers thorough in
struction. Endowment
makes terms reasonable.
Finest gymnasium in
Delaware. Graduates
enter all leading colleges
Fall term begins Sep
tember 10th. For illus
trated catalog, address
HerscheI A. Norris, A. M, Prin.
Middletown transcript., 1907-09-28
rEAR A r1aHr I'M coNeREss

The Associated Prohibition Press, in
its latest bulletin again qnotes, great
delight, from leading liquor jurnals ad-
mitting that the prohibition movement is
dangerous.
Warning that the next serious battle
which the liquor men must face will be
in Congress is printed in the Champion
of Fair Play.
The Prohibition Press bulletin reads as
follows:
sit is impossible to list aud note all the
wild alarms signals OF the liquor trade
press in these days OF rapid prohibition
progress and liquor business disintegra-
ton. Two Of the most significant Of
these utterances during the last few days
are given below. The first one is from a
leading editorial in the issue for Sfptem-
ber 9TH of the Champion of Fair Play,
Chicago, official paper OF the liqnnr trade
of the West, whose editor. Robert j.
Halle, is general secretary of the National
Liquor League OF the United States. Eli
tor Halle says:
An active local campaign has been
started in Pennsylvania. Georgia has
gone prohibition crazy, and is even
arresting people for drinking tonics in
drug stores. UnscIupulous wealth is
backing cranks TO have the liquor
trade declared unconstitutional.
Connecticut in its recently ad-
iourned Legislature passed eleven an
ti-liquor laws. Missouri hastgiven its
Governor unlimited antocratic pow
ers to attack the liquor trade by dis
charging liberal officials. Kentucky
is threatened with state prohibition.
Ohio is threatened with prohibition.
Delaware is threatened with local op-
ton prohibition. The South is sad
ding its race questions on the liquor
trade.
''The editor of the Wine and Spirit
Gazette also is seeing things and ad-
dresses the following appeal to its trade
readers throughout the country:
The license system is in peril and
the business interests dependent upon
its perpetnity are threatened with dis
aster. The new waves Of restriction
and prescription gains its impetus in
the South, where the negro question
haunts the white citizens increasingly
and race hatred dominates all the re-
lations Of life.
"Here the Gazette proceeds to anume-
rate the outlook for the liquor business in
Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi,
Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, North Caro-
lima, Kansas, Illinois aud Pennsylvania,
and then continues:
The next line OF battle will be in
Washington in tie United States Con-
. gress.
Southern representatives will be
controlled by their prohibition constit-
uency, tile senators the same; the
repr esentatiyes from northern prohi-
bition states and no-license districts
being in The majority, all rev enue and
interstate commerce laws will be in
line with prohibition policy.
Middletown transcript., 1907-09-28
ID EGIsTER's ORDER.
REGISTER OF WILLs OFFICE.

REGISTER OF WILLS OFFICE,
NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DEL, April is, 1907
Upon the application Of Mordecai T. Gibson
Administrator de bonis non cum testamento
anneXo of Mary G. Hutchison late Of
Appoquinimink Hundred, In said county,
deceased, it is ordered and directed by the
Register of Wills that the Administrators
Testamentary upon the estate of the
deceased, with the date Of granting thereof
by causing advertisements to be posted with
in forty days from the date of such etters
in six of the most public places of the
County of New Castle, requiring all per.
sons having demands against the estate to pre-.
sent the same, or abide by an act of
Assembly in such case made and Jfovided:
and also cause the same to be inserted within
the same period in THE MIDDLETowN TRAN
SCRIPT, q newspa per published in Middletown
DEL, and to be continued therein two months.
f@1 Given under the hand and seal of
SEAL office of the Register OF Wills afore.
t--l said, at Wilmington, in New Castle
County aforesaid, the day and year above
FRANCIs Nj. WALKER. Register of Wills.
NoTICE-Notice is hereby given that Letters
Testamentary we've in cue form of law
granted unto the undersigned on the Fifteenth
day of April. A. D. 1907, and that all per.
sons having claims against the estate of the
deceased must present the same, duly attested
to the said Administrator on or before the
Fifteenth day of April l9U8, or abide the Act
of Assembly in such case made and provided.
MORDECAI T, G1BSON.
Address, Martin B. Burris ESQ.
Middletown, Delaware.
Middletown transcript., 1907-09-28
NOTICE! !!

Middletown, Delaware. March 9th, 1905
Having rented the business stand Of the
late John w. J0lls, in connection with
The Grain business, am now prepared
to furnish my customers and the public
with the best grades Of Coal. Wood, Lime,
Feed, &c. respectfully solicit : con-
iinuance Of your patronage at she stand
il the late John W. Jolls, Railroad Ave.
s. B. Foam.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-09-05
Chop Suey Best of All.

'T have tried them all in their na. tive haunts, and like them," said the traveller, according to the Baltimore Sun.
 "Tried what?' asked the bystander. "Railroads?'
 "No; national dishes," answered the traveller. ''The hot tamale of the Mex ican, the goulash of the Hungarian, the chop suey of the Chink, are all known to me and many others.
 "The best of them all Is chop suey. The hot tamale Is too hot and has very little nourishment to 1t, and goulash is too heavy. It tastes pretty good, but 1t is not food to recommend to man with a weak stomach. Chop suey, how ever, is appetlzing, easily digested and very nourishing. It is the great contri- button of the orient to the occident ip my opinion. It is made of rice, sprout ed beans, celery and chickens blood, all mixed together in the form of soup and nicely seasoned.''
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-09-05
Some Wives Are Different.

Most men," said the man of expert. ence. think it must be awfully nice to have wife who takes things as cool ly as Dave potter's wife takes them, but others, more discriminating, prefer good honest TOW to her style of quiet cynicism. The way she behaved the other day when she found letter in Dave's pocket from a girl in Brooklyn Is an example of her method.
 I don. sec wrote this girl. how on earth can ever live without you
 "Dave's Wife read that gush and a lot more just like it without ever turn ing a hair.
 We'll she said quietly. 'that girl is a fool. If she Erev vou as well as l do she would be wondering how on earth she could ever live With vOu'
 And that. in the opinion of the dis eliminating few. clste; $ whole ,ut Geep- CT than a eommon. everyday rumpns.' New York Globe.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-09-05
Not Up to His Name.

George Peabody. the philanthropist, and John Bright often went to Ireland together to fish. One day they went couple of miles up the Shannon be- tween Castleconnell and Killaloe. They had engaged tie services of two boatmen, and as Bright and Peabody were keen anglers they made q long day of it. On returning in the evening Bright. noticing a policeman on the river bank. asked what sum the boat men were entitled to for their time The constable said anything from seven and sixpence to 10 shillings Bright turned to his companion, say ing: "I have no change, Peabody Have you three half crownsY' The millionaire produced the coins and gave them to one of the boatmen, who said, And is that all ye're givin' mc?' ''That is all," replied Peabody. Well, that bates all I iver heard" observed the boatman, adding, as he scratched his head: "An' they call ye Paybody. Faith, should call ye Paynobody!'- London Standard.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-09-05
The AxiaI Rotation of Venus,

For over two centuries it was &"oc'- ally accepted that. like the Car,}. ths. planet Venus rotated on its aXs i,. g little less than twenty-fonr hours by, since Schiaparelli after long and ca!'o. full observation of the planet s"GGc., ed that the actual rotation period va between six and nine months ustron omers have devoted much attention to this matter. In the Observatory Mr Denning sums up the available cvi. dence on the point and can only con- clude that this particular problem still defies solution. Life on Venus would be very different from life on the earth should the planets avial rotation be. as Schiaparelli asserted, identical with the period of it's revolution round the sun, as in that case the same hem- sphere would always be turned to the sun and enjoy perpetual day, while the opposite hemisphere would be doomed to eternal night.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-09-05
AN IRON MOUNTAIN
 TRAIN LOST AGAIN
No News of the Whereabouts of Iron Mountains No. 1O6, Says the Lit.
 tie Rock Gazette.

Train No. 106 of the Iron Mountain, due here at D. m., was somewhere on the face of the earth last night, but just where was a problem the of ficials could not solve. Presumably it was on or near the rails of the Iron Mountain between Monroe, La, and Pine Bluff. All the rest was guess work
 Was the train lost in a storm? Pos sibly so. Something had put telegraph service to the bad, and more likely than not it was storm.
 Maybe another wreck was holding the train out.
 Maybe the engine was out of com mission.
 Such were some of the conjectures of waiting friends of passengers.
 The thought of the lost train even cast a gloom over the convivial Ea- gles. Twenty-Five of these were to have come in from Pine Bluff and at tend an initiation here last night. At last accounts they were cooling their heels on the Iron Mountain platform at Pine Bluff.
 The train was expected about O. clock this morning.-Little Rock Ga zette.