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Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1908-06-11

OF Trustees, the Alumni nominated
Leroy Loder to that body.
1.-The Alumni Association has made
larger strides toward effective organi-
zatlon in the past couple Of years than
ever before, and more concerted effort
is to be made to get in touch with
every member.
After a short discussion a motion
prevailed to the effect that announce
ments will be sent to all Alumnae. A
committee was appointed to revise the
list and report to the Board of Trustees
ON the subject. They were Messrs.
Albert McAllister, Wallace Rice and
Frank Mckee.
There were no set toasts, but Mr..
Eckels was called upon, and spoke upon
the progress and prospects of the school.
Then Ex-senator Nichols was called
upon and, among other things referred
to the late James J. Reeves, who was
an active alumnus and Trustee.
Frank Mckee then moved that a
committee be appointed to draw up
resolutions to the memory of the late
Mr.. Reeves. The chair appointed Mr..
Mckee, Henry Reeves, and Ex-senator
Nichols. Then on motion of the last
named moments silent toast was
offered to the memory of the deceased.
The annual election then took place.
Mr.. Robert Schiller was elected Presi-
dent. For Vice President Albert R.
McAllister and Robert E. Fithian were
nominated; Mr.. Fithian withdrew his
name in favor of Mr.. McAllister and
the latter was elected. 49,
E. Leslie Bacon was chosen for Sec
retary and Leroy W. Loder for Treas
urer. The meeting then adjourned.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1908-06-11
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l0c TO SI,25

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we offer special values in this De-
partment.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1908-06-11
Strong Position.

The most recent financial statement
issued by Secretary Launer, of the
Glass Bottle Blowers Association,
shows that that organization on April
1, 1908, had a surplus of $441, S65. "a,
apportioned as follows Investment in
4 per cent Government bonds, 5000, 900;
balance in the general fund, 1922, 770. OF ;
balance in death beneficiary depart
ment. Els. 595. az
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1908-06-11
A DISPLAY
THE RUM POWER.


pondent was in Newark on Monday
afternoon. 1t was his special misfor-
tune to be caught in the agonies of
the Sunday Beer Denomination, refer
ence to which appears in Tuesdays
Pioneer. " The complete demoraliz-
ing of the city's traffic and the abso-
lutte control given over to a host OF
evident law despisers and rum consum-
ers, all but defeated the purpose Of our
Journey to the big city at the other
end OF the State. However, an oppor-
tunity was afforded to witness the
demonstration to some advantage.
Such a review was quite enough in
itself to justify one anxious to know
real conditions, in making such jour.
ney Fact is, we were-all unwill-
lngly-dragged into the demonstration
and found ourselves counted among
the host of marchers, some of whom,
Though over imbibing, could better be
described as ''wobblers. - After due
extrication from the swaying mass of
humanity which swung up Broad
street, we sought and found high van
tage and reviewed considerable part
of the parade. The demonstration con.
sisted OF line up of everything New
ark and vicinity could produce, that
was anti-Sabbath, anti Temperance,
anti-local option, and anti civic right
eousness. The German American AL
lance which is in the main a breeder
OF n-Americanism, was the prime
mover in the entire demonstration. A
foreign speaking policeman informed
us that at least fifteen thousand people
were in the line up. The majority of
the paraders travelled on some kind of
wheeled vehicle. This was for reasons.
Liquor in large quantities was carried
on the vehicles and on constant tap.
Public imbibing was the order of the
afternoon. Now and then drunken
wretches who had reached either the
sleeping or fighting stage were hauled
from the procession and transferred to
the patrol wagon. To describe the
parade in detail would be impossible
in any newspaper column.
The outrage of decency which at
tended the whole affair revealed itself
particularly in the language used upon
the banners that were carried These
were very numerous. Only a few were
we able to take down. These, for ex-
ample: Down with the churches.
What do the preachers care for our
1iberty?" Prohibition increases
drunkenness. - "No Bishops Bill for
u.s.. "Give us back our open Sunday.
We mean to have it at the polls" Not
few of these banners displayed Ian
guage so coarse the pioneer would
not insult it's readers by printing it.
Perhaps the limit of blasphemy was
reached in this, displayed and also
thrown out broadcast, and sent through
the mail to the ministers and other
known saloon opponents and Sabbath
lovers: Attention, all liberal citizens
Vote for an open Sunday. What's the
use of preserving the Lords Day?
What did God ever do for brewers and
saloon keepers?''
The parade was calmly reviewed by
the city's mayor. Your correspondent
escaped from Newark in reflective
mood, and full of wholesome resolves,
and withal under deep conviction that
all the decent people of our beloved
State should busy themselves in effort
to make repetition of such demon
stration impossible.
CONSTANT READER.
Bridgeton, June 8, 1908.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1908-06-11
Silk Stockings

Made OF pure sewing silk thread
that make them durable-Black or
Tan.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1908-06-11

Fayette street to the west side of At
lantic street, with vitrifed brick gut
tiers and underground drains.
Mr.. Quick moved to amend to pave
North Laurel street from Washington
street to Irving avenue.
Mr.. Daniels said he introduced the
notice of intention in good faith, and
if the members wanted to kill the
proposition he would withdraw the
proposed ordinance.
Mr. Quick amendment was lost by
a vote of 10 to 8.
Mr.. McGalliard's amendment was
then adopted, and the notice of inten-
tion was ordered printed.
The bond of the Cramp Company in
the sum of $40, 900 for faithful perform
ance of the steel tank contract was ap-
proved.
Council then adjourned,
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1908-06-11

Score BY innings y
Alumni 1004O3 ky
Regulars 1902 0 90 0-4
Base on balls off Milford, Q; Cow.
o.; Maier, 2. Two base hits-Jules
Foin, Robinson, More, Hoagland, Gar
rison. Double plays Thompson to
Robinson. Struck out by Cow, 2;
Maief, 2; Mulford, Z. Umpires,
Wright. Reeve.
The Banquet.
In the evening the annual banquet
ana business meeting was held.
Covers were laid for fifty, and
caterer Edward Davis, of the Elks,
furnished fine menu, which was as
follows
Tomato Soup,
Bread Sticks, Sweitzer Cheese,
Broiled Fish,
Olives, New Potatoes cream dressing.
Chicken,
Sailed Nuts, Peas =
Ice Cream,
oonee' Cake, Cigars.
The business meeting took place i'm
mediately following the dinner, with
President Roscoe G. Ward in the chair.
The Alumni prizes were again re.
newed, committees heard from and
other routine business taken up.
There-being a--vacancy.in the Board
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1908-06-11
Ask for Aliens Foot-Ease.

A powder for swollen, tired. hot,
smarting feet. Sample sent FREE.
Also Free Sample of the Foot Ease San
itary Corn.Pad, a new invention. Ad.
dress, Allen 8. Olmsted. LIE Roy. N. Y.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1908-06-11
The Alumni Game.

The Alumni ball game proved walk
lover for the old boys, and the final
score was II to 4 in their favor. Null
ford was on the slab for the winners
and had things all his own way, the
runs scored against him being largely
due to cold arms and other effects for
lack of practice
The Alumni hit we'll and were lively
on the bases, the first two innings CIV
ing them enough runs to win, while the
regulars fielded poorly and at no time
were dangerous. The score follows:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-12
MESSAGES from the Dead.

In the Journal of the British Psychical
Research Society fuller details are now
published concerning the recent state
ment of Sir Oliver Lodge that, in his
opinion, messages had been received from
the dead. The messages appear to have
been transmitted through the pen of a
medium known as Mrs Hollandrones. As
she sat with her mind a blank, her pen
produced broken and blurred messages,
many of which dealt with the difficulty of
stablishing communication with the llv-
ing. One from Mr.. Quincy, one of the
founders of the society, now dead, read:
"a feeling of terrible impotence burdens
me. / am so powerless to tell what
means so much. | can not get into COM
munication with those who would under
stand and believe me. The nearest smile
l can find to express the difficulties of
sending a message is +ba | appear to De
standing behind a sheet of frosted glass,
which blurs the sight and deadens the
sound, debating to a reluctant and some
what obtuse secretary" Living person
atty is declared to be on a lower plane
of spiritual development, which does not
receive clear impressions from the higher
plane of those who have quilted the prison
of the flesh. Immediately after dissolu-
ton, says one message, there is an OBJ
scuration of consciousness which has led
to many failures to communicate with
living persons. A message from the late
f. w. H. Myers says the period of OBJ
livion was especially long with him, and
when he communicates in this way he is
conscious of strain and effort
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-12
NOV. 26 AS THANKSGIVING DAY.
Presidents Proclamation Reviews
Prosperity, Urges Reforms.

President Roosevelt has issued the
annual Thanksgiving proclamation,
pointing out the steady growth of the
nation in strength, worldly power,
wealth and population, and fixing Nov.
% as the day for thankful recognition
Of divine favor. In part the President
says:
= Year by year this nation grows in
strength and worldly power. Nowhere else
in the world is the average of individual
comfort and material well-being as high
as in our fortunate land.
For the reason that in material we'll
being we have thus abounded we owe to
the Almighty to show equal progress in
moral and spiritual things. That life is
wasted and worse than wasted which is
spent in piling, heap on heap, those things
which minister merely to the pleasure of
the body and to the power that rests only
On wealth.
Upon material well-being as a founda-
ton must be raised the structure of the
lofty life of the spirit if this nation is
properly to fulfill its great mission and
to accomplish all that we so ardently hope
and desire
Let US therefore as a people set our
faces resolutely against evil and with
broad charity, with kindness and good
will toward all men, but with unfinching
determination to smite down wrong, strive
with all the strength that is given us for
righteousness in public and in private
life
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-12
WHAT BAD WEATHER COSTS.
A Rainy Day I'm West London Means
100000 Loss in Trade.

A Rainy Day In West London Means
100000 Loss in Trade.
The effect which the weather has on
trade in the great cities of the world is
most noticeable as well as most remark
able. 1t has been estimated that the
shops in the west end Of London lose
by single rainy day 100000. Some
kinds of merchandise are especially SEN
sitive to the influence of the weather.
Mutton and pork, for instance, are
spoiled by very strong electric dis
charges, so that many a butcher will
lose $50 to $75 by a thunder storm.
A real London fog is much more ex-
pensiye by reason Of its impenetrable
darkness. For gas alone London ex-
Ponds a day, when there is a fog, ST.
500 more than usual. The apothecaries
are pleased by such weather, for the
reason that it causes a number of dis
eases, so that their income is doubled.
The underground railways also have
their income increased by rain and fog
Naturally, it is much more pleasant to
be protected from the wind and wet
than to sit on the top Of an omnibus
and get soaked through.
When it rains nearly all tradesmen
complain of bad business except the
cigar dealers; the latter, however, rub
their hands with delight. The desire
to make bad day more endurable by
a good cigar increases the takings Of
the cigar dealer Is per cent. The pub
lie housekeepers in the city have no
cause for complaint, every one knows.
Whoever has anything to do in the
street supplies himself with umbrella
and raincOat, and these cost money. In
nearly all other shops the proprietors
wait unavailingly for customers. Wom-
en- especially have no great desire to
shop in the rain.
Nature causes considerable expendi-
ture for man. She herself is a spend
thrift, as in storm she wastes giant
forces. The storm that destroyed Gal
weston could have furnished the power
given by all the steam engines of the
world for years. A single thunder
storm would suffice to drive all the
dynamos in existence, and the average
value of a flash of lightning has been
calculated as about $1,2O5.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-12
Charles " MORSE

(the trust) and the Consolidated
Steamship Company, and controlled
three banks. Curtis was his closest as
sociate.
The scene in the court room when
sentence was pronounced by Judge
Hough was dramatic. More sat like
stole when he heard the words which
condemned him. There was scarcely
the tremor of an eyelid, and to those
who watched there was no longer even
the shadow of doubt that the little
man. was a man of iron nerve. Curtis
accepted the news which came to him
good news in his caSe-with the same
lack of emotion that characterized the
attitude of his former chief. But the
strain was too great for the wives Of
the prisoners, and as the significance
of Judge Hough's words flashed through
her mind Mrs. Morse collapsed in her
seat, buried her face in her hands and
began to sob convulsively. Mrs. Curtis
had been i'll and when the judgment of
the court was pronounced she tainted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-12
New Propeller a Success.

A remarkable demonstration of the
powers of the new American vertebrate
propeller was made at New York recent
ly. In a water tank 104 feet long, 40
inches wide and % inches deep foated
a model of a battleship Is feet long, IS
inches beam and about inches draft,
equipped with the new propeller. A one
half horsepower Eek motor installed in
the boat alongside the engines was sup.
piled with direct electric current. At a
signal Engineer Riviere turned on the
power and instantly the boat. gathered
Roadway, traversing the tank in just nine
seconds. Then, by turn of the switch,
the boat stopped as if a brake were ap-
piled, and with her engines reversed she
was speeding back to her starting point
a thing impossible with an ordinary pro-
peller. 1t is claimed that an ocean liner
equipped with such a propeller located
amidships would not only be free from
vibration, but the propeller working al
ways in solid water would drive her at
phenomenal speed with no danger of rae
ino''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-12

TOMAS E. PALMA. riot Palma was
born in the province of Bayamo in
1885. For a number of years before
he became President of Cuba in 1902
he lived in the United States.
When Cuba was freed by American
Intervention Mr.. Palma was elected
the first President of the new republic.
President Palma found high office no
bed of roses. His political opponents
accused him of undue ambition and of
usurpation of power. The sparks OF
hostility and partisan rancor were
famed into a flame and finally the OPP
position leaders relapsed into their old
Cuban habit. Thick took up their ma
cheteS and went TO the woods" to
start revolution after the South
American fashion. The United States
was under moral and treaty obliga-
lions to preserve the peace. To prevent
the effusion of blood in another revo-
luton, President Palma realized that
his abdication was the best course. He
thereupon stepped out of the chief mag
istracy, giving place to an American
Governor and the second American oc-
cupation was begun. The veteran pat
riot retired to his old estate on the
Cauto River, far from the turmoil OF
politics and intrigue, there to end his
days in the seclusion of a private life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-12
ENGLAND's FOOD BILL.
$500, OOO,oOOPaid Last Year to For
eign Countries for EatabIes.

SS6O,OOO,OOOPa1d Last ear to For
eign Countries for EntabIes.
The latest volume issued by the
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries
contains interesting figures, says Lon
don dispatch to the New York Sun.
Britain's expenditure for imported
food for 1907 was over f172,00O000,
while for imported wool and agricul-
tural produce, such as hay, etc, she
spent well over f200,0O0,00O.
The percentage of imports to popu-
lation rises all round. More than four
fifths of the wheat consumed in the
united kingdom comes from abroad.
IN the seven years 1S59-65 Britain
imported on an average 126 pounds
Of wheat and -four per head Of the
population each year. In 1907 that
amount is nearly doubled.
During the same seven years, 1859
65, the total expenditure per head of
population on foreign food averaged
fl IS I'd year. During the last seven
years 1t has averaged f3 4s lid, nearly
treble the amount, the foods included
being wheat, meat, butter, cheese, eggs,
fruit and vegetables.
Some of the figures quoted seem
enormous. For instance, in 1907 Brit
ishers consumed 2,22S,14S,OOO foreign
eggs.
r. II. Rev, who writes the preface
to the report, allows himself one pro-
phecy In calling attention to the as
founding increase in the dead meat
trade he attributes it to the advance
Of science, which now enables dead
meat, even when it has to pass through
the tropics, ito compete on almost
equal terms with much of the meat
killed in this country" and prophesies
that in a few years the transit Of live
animals viii disappear "as a relic OF
an age Of imperfect economic develop
ment."
A noticeable feature was the great
export during the year of British
horses to Canada. Canada purchased
from Great Britain no less than 61.-
TS9 horses, the biggest export ever
known, though the total value Of e.
100000 was exceeded in 1906. The
principal purchasers were Belgium ard
the Netherlands.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-12
the other one who lived across the

the other one who lived across the
street! | simply couldn't face 1t
Harriet is going to marry a man
whose name Is CORTLAND De Lancy
Oswald-think of that on a calling
card! Why, it would carry OFF last
seasons frock every time, while a mere
Mrs Smith would have to be gowned
in the style OF year after next to be
noticed at all.
mot that your name should stand
between us If | cared for you as |
should l am sure 1 feel toward you
the affection of a sister, Howard. l am
interested in you and all that, but when
consider the matter I never was in
the least jealous of you-and If were
in love with you couldn't help but be,
could II
"Of course you have been with me so
constantly that l have had no chance
to get jealous, but If l really loved you
I'd have been jealous about something
about the time you talked to that
awful Phillips girl on the street car,
or when you couldn't come over be-
cause you had TO go to the train to
meet your cousin. l never wondered
If 1t were your cousin or If you were
trying TO deceive me. That certainly
is proof that my fondness for you is
just ordinary. isn't it2
Il hope 1t won't make you unhappy.
l don't see why 1t should, for you'll
keep running in Just the same, Of
course, and We'll do the new books and
keep up our bridge, and things will be
Just the same as ever. l shouldn't
know what to do IL they were not.
"I have been sitting here FIVE min
utes, just thinking-for a horrible
thought struck me. What If you meet
some other girl you like and grow to
like her more, and finally marry herr
You never would do anything so
ridiculous, Howard! Why, no other
girl on eartn would understand you as
I do, and you'd be miserable! 1t would
be nothing but infatuation on your
part anyhow, for you say in your let
ter-l've just read 1t over again-that
you'll never in the world care about
any one else but me. So you see 1t
would not be fair on your part toward
the girl 1t would be deceiving her
awfully and you never could do thing
like that.
Besides, IL you went and married
some one else, think how dreadful It
would be for me! 1t isn't that I am
In love with you, or anything like that,
but I'm so used to having you around.
I can't imagine not having you around
1t worries me, now I think about t
for fear you might do something rash
like marrying another girl and running
your whole life just because you
thought you had lost me. Somehow,
can't impress it upon you as l want
70 trst In writing. how perfectly alb
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-12
Scientists OutvOte Koch.

Just before the closing of the Interna-
tional Congress on tuberculosis at Wash
ington, the members went on record al
most unanimously against the theory adj
vanced and defended by Prof. Robert
Koch of Germany that tuberculosis is not
transmissable between animals and man.
The day before that DIR. Koch himself
had called a special conference to dis
cuss his theory and many men of promi-
nence gave their testimony to the effect
that consumption can be traced to milk
infection. The resolution as adopted is !:
''That preventive measures be continued
against bovine tuberculosis and that the
possibility of the propagation of this to
man be recognized" This will be re-
garded as authoritative, at least until the
next congress, which it was decided to
hold at Rome in 1910. President Roose
welt attended the final session and praised
the work of scientists everywhere. The
great gathering of scientists before adj
journment announced its position favora-
BILE to factory legislation, against woman
and child labor prematurely, instruction
of teachers in personal and school by
giene, college courses in hygiene and san
itation, modern Fairgrounds and hospitals.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-12

C. w. ELIOT. phi ! o ophy and
mathematics was broken down by him,
and there is left no institution in Amer
lea which has not been affected by the
changes he has made at Harvard. Dr.
Eliot has been called the George Wash
ington of Harvard, the Germanizer Of
Harvard and other titles to indicate
the nature of his influence there. But
he succeeded in making a great educa-
tional institution of the university,
bringing it to ranking position among
American colleges, introduced the elect
i've system of study on this continent
and changed the old university with it's
widely separated colleges and independ
ent faculties.