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Middletown transcript., 1908-05-30
ODESSA

Mrs. Joseph H. Enos is visiting friends
this week in Lewes.
Rev. r. L. Hallett is spending this
week at Kansas City, No.
Mrs. A. E. Appleton is spending some
time with relatives in Philadelphia.
Mrs. G. P. Stidham is spending some
time with her mother in Delaware City.
Harry Massey, of Wilmington, visited
his parents, H. ]. Massey and wife, on
Sunday.
Rev. D. J. Givan, wife and son spent
Wednesday at the home of Robert George
and family.
Miss Emma West has returned home
after two weeks visit with relatives in
Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Kumpel and two
children spent Wednesday with friends
in Wilmington.
J. Fennimore Dougles is spending this
week with his cousin, Charles Joseph.
near the Levels.
Mrs. J. B. Bracket left this week for
Pocassett, where she will spend sometime
with her daughter.
Miss Gertrude McCrone, of Middletown,
was entertained part of last week at the
home OF I. q. Webb.
Miss Sarah Donovan, of Milford, is
spending this week al, the home of her
sister, Mrs. I. F. Croft.
Mrs. Willard E. Spicer, of near town,
is entertaining this week her friend, Mrs.
Charles Neal, of Chester, Pa.
Mrs. William Reynolds has returned to
her home in Blackbird. after spending a
week with her son, Fred C. Reynolds and
family.
The members of st. Pauls NJ. E. Sun
day School have begun rehearsing for
the Children's Day service, which will be
held the second Sunday in June.
To-day, May 3Oth, being Decoration
Day services will be held at the cemetery
of Old Drawers Chnrch, near town, be-
ginning at 1.3O P. NJ. All those having
flowers will leave them as usual at the
shop of Mr.. L. V. Aspril, not later than
10 o'clock this morning.
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WARWICK

MIR. T. C. Lynch is at Rehoboth for a
few weeks.
Mrs. E. M. Holden visited relatives in
Middletown this week.
Miss Ella NJ. Stats has been the guest
of Mrs. John R. H. Price.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Boulden were
guests of Mrs. L. B. Manlove this week,
Mrs. T. C. Lynch and daughter visited
Mrs. Harry Hensil, in Chesapeake City,
on Sunday.
Mrs. Louise Crawford has returned
home, after a pleasant visit with Mrs.
George Merritt.
Mrs. T. ]. Hodgson and sons Julian
and Marion visited Mrs. John L. Latto-
mus on Sunday.
Mrs. Verena L. Vinyard and son T.
Bayard were guests of her father in Will.
mington on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Merritt and Miss
Ethel Vinyard were guests of Mrs. John
B. Stephens, near Cecilton, on Sunday.
Don't forget the strawberry and ice
cream festival the 9th and 10th of, June,
under the auspices of the NJ. P. Church.
Rev. G. NJ. Cullum, pastor of the M.
P. Church will preach to the Jr. 0. o.
A. NJ, at Sassafras Sunday morning al
1880 o'clock.
Children's Day will be observed to-
morrow Sunday evening at the NJ. P,
Church. Quite an elaborate program has
been arranged.
The monthly social and business meet
ing of the senior Christian Endeavol
Society will meet at the home of Mis-:
Lydia Davis the first Friday evening il
June.
Middletown transcript., 1908-05-30
APPOINTMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR

Governor Lea made the following ap-
pointments on Friday: Robert Y. Watson,
Milford, member of State Board of Trus-
tees of State Hospital at Farnhurst, in lieu
of former Governor William 7. Watson;
S. Brady Cooper, Cheswold, justice of
peace and notary public; Alfred H. Skin
ner, Clayton, justice of peace and notary
public; Elias N. Moore, Odessa, member
of the County School Commission of New
Castle County for three years; Theodore
Townsend, Milford, member of Kent
County School Commission for three
years; Everett Hickman, Frankford, mem
Der of Sussex County School Commission
for three years.
Middletown transcript., 1908-05-30
TRUSTEES OF POOR

At the meeting of the Trustees Of the
Poor held at the county hospital yester-
day it was decided to petition tie Levy
Court to macadamize the road between
the building and the New Castle trolley
line, known as Landers avenue, No
other business Of Importance was trans
acted
The report of Superintendent Foster
showed the population of the County
Hospital to be 148 white and 33 colored
persons, total Of 1S1. One death oc-
cured during the month. On May 5th,
William H. Luden, aged SO years, of
Wilmington, died.
Middletown transcript., 1908-05-30
OBITUARY
MRS. J. r. CROssLAND-

Mrs. Isabella Grassland, wife of J. R.
Grassland, died at her home, near St.
Georges, of apopIexy, on Tuesday at
P. NJ. after an illness of only a few
hours, aged Sc years. A husband and
five children mourn her death. Funeral
services were held Friday afternoon at 2
O'Clock, at her late residence interment
in St. Georges Cemetery.
Middletown transcript., 1908-05-30
MRS. GEORGE LOVELEss

Mrs. Rachel Loveless, wife of George
Loveless, died last Wednesday of heart
failure at her home in Chesapeake City,
aged 6S years. She is survived by her
husband and several children. Funeral
services were held Saturday afternoon,
interment being made in Bethel Gene
terry.
Middletown transcript., 1908-05-30
The MiddIeteWn Transcript
Mails Close as Follows.

Going Nortp-725 a. M, 1905 a M, 4.O5 pm.
500 p. m. and 8 p. m.
Going South-S.00 am. Alb p. M, and pm
For odessa-75O a. M. $50 a. IN. IL 80 a. El.'
4.bO p. m.
For Warwick. Cecilton and Earlville $50 a,
nj, and AS p. M.
Middletown transcript., 1908-05-30
ARTH0R s. SPARKS

Mr.. Arthur S. Sparks, formerly resi-
dent of MiddIetown, clerk in the Mid
dletown Hotel when that hostlery was
kept by Messrs. Armstrong & Sparks,
died at Church Hill, Nd, May 18th,
aged Al years.
Middletown transcript., 1908-05-30
CURRENT PRICES
MIDDLEToWN GRAIN MARKET.

CORRECTED WEEKLY BY ". 7. coNNELLEE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-16
Greetings and Response.

The past department commanders We're
welcomed in an address by Capt j. NJ.
Pipes. to which Judge Kimball responded
in a happy vein. Chairman Chase then
told Department Commander Walker how
much the veterans of the Department of
the Potomac love and respect him and
how they Will give him their undivided
support during the year of his admins
tration. He added that Lincoln Post is
proud OF the fact that Col. Walker is on,
of its leading members and wastha posts
candidate fer head of the department.
In reply Commander Walker thanked
the members for their expressions OF love
and confidence. and said the Department
of the Potomac stands in the very fore
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Changes in Police Force.

Upon the recommendation of Robert H.
Bcardman.< acting superintendent of 70
lice. the Commissioners made the follow
ing changes in the local police force:
j. s. kuster and G. r. Patterson, pri-
Yates. class .. promoted to privates. class
.: NJ. NJ. Lille and c. A. Strobel, privates,
class l. promoted to privates. class ., to
take effect April IS: j. w. Conrad pri-
vate. class 1. promoted to class 3 to take
effect April 10; c. B. Harwood, Samuel
Hamilton George D. Hendricks. E. E.
Degges. Charles Gilmore. Edgar s. Van
Norman and Pc er J. Conrad commits
stoned special policemen fer duty at the
Treasury Department; commission of
John c. Sheets as special policeman re-
newed and that OF Frank p Webb, de-
ceased, transferred to Henry NJ. Brown
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-16
SAILS AN AER0PLANE
HERRING'S MODEL
COVERED TWENTY MILES.

NEW YORK. April ia. NJ. herring
will deliver to the United States govern
ment this summer an aeroplane tnat will
carry $50 pounds. travel 12o miles with
out touching the ground and make 40
miles an hour. This was announced yes
terday. after the facts of a secret trial
held last week had been made public. Mr..
Herring is under contract to deliver the
aeroplane before August ID to Gen. James
Allen. chief signal officer of the govern
ment The official test will be made at
Fort Myer, Va.
Thursday last Mr.. Herring took a model
of the machine to be furnished the army
to a point close to Montciair. n. j.. and
in the presence of two witnesses sent 1t
twenty miles without an accident. The
machine was one-fifth as large as the one
to be tested by the government and car
ried seventy pounds.
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front for patriotism. good citizenship
charity and all the Grand Army means.
He added that it had been proposed to
take in the younger blood of other SOL
der societies that the organization may
be perpetuated. but the G. a. r. had
finally decided to retain its old principles,
and that some day it must cease to exist,
except as a memory.
We must work for the Master he con-
cluded. land under His guidance for the
upbuilding of mankind. Such effort will
bring it's own reward.
Capt. ]. E. McCabe sang ''Tenting on the
Old Camp Ground and Col. Chase. in
presenting Senior Vice Department Com
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Guest of Honor.

chief of staff was the presiding officer,
order he lauded Commander Walker and
predicted that his administration would
be most successful.
The hall was filled with members of
the Grand Army, who had come to pay
tribute to Col. Walker. and from an
adjoining dining hall came the savory
oder of army coffee and the omnipresent
piece de resistance of the camp MENU
pork and beans Wartime drummers
ard fifers, headed by Dan Williams
known as the drummer boy of the Rap
pa hammock" and Messrs. Luskey and
Johnson made music of the sort that
was heard in the sixties: while soldier
orators talked of patriotism. good citizen
ship and soldier cOmradery, and handed
out to Commander Walker many orator.
cal bouquets. praising his service as a
soldier no less than his conduct as "a
Christian citizen"
Prominent Members on Platform.
On the platform, besides Commander
Walker and Col. Chase, We're the officers
of the department-Sefior Vice Com
mandar Edwin II. Holbrook. Junior Vice
Department Commander Henry a. john
son: DR.. A. E. Johnson, medical director;
Capt. o. H. Oldroyd. assistant adjutant
general; Capt. Francis l.. Mcfenna. as
sist ant quartermaster general: Command
er w. II. Raymond of Lincoln Post-and
the following officers of that organization:
Senior Vice Commander X. Il. Harlow,
Junior Vice Commander \. B. Chatfield.
Adjt. S. w. McElderry, Quartermaster
George b. Rose, Surgeon A. +. Johnson.
NJ. D.; Chaplain j. ID. Bloodsood. Officer
of the Day George w. Street. Officer of
the Guard John Mcnamara. Sergt. Maj.
o. II. Oldroyd; Q. NJ. Sergt. George NJ.
Rowe, Patriotic Instructor j. l.. McCabe,
Inside Sentinel Robert Venn. Outside Sen
tinel W. J. HARRISON Color Sergt. Hazard
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INTERNATIONAL CHESS.
Echlechter Draws With Duras and Is
Practically Tied With Maroczy.

VIENNA, April 16-The eighteenth and
semi final round OF the international chess
masters tourney was played yesterday.
The leader. Schlachter, was paired with
Duras and MarocZy. the Third candidate
for first honors. met Tartakower. AS
Schlechter was only half point ahead Of
Duras and Maroczy much depended on
the issue of these games. SchleChter
drew with Duras, but as Maroczy left an
adjourned game against Tartakower.
game which is practically won by Marco
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Easter Vacation for Public Schools.

The annual Easter vacation of the pub
lie schools is at hand. and when the pupils
leave the various schoolrooms today Trey
will not return until one week from next
Monday. There will be no sessions tomor-
row or during next week
No special exercises mark the closing
of the schools for the Easter vacation.
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AS GUEST OF HONOR
Commander Walker, Depart
ment of Potomac, G. A. R.
LINCOLN POST RECEPTION
Soldier Orators in "reminiscences Of
Great Civil Strife.
MEMBERS PRESENT
Indian Speaker Makes Pathetic Ref
erence to Red Mans Experiences.
Refreshments Served.
MEMBERS PRESENT

Commander John S. Walker of the De-
partment of the Potomac. G.. y. r.. was
the central figure last evening at a re-
ception and campfire given in his honor
by the members of Lincoln Post. No :.
6. \. r. in its post room. 14l2 Pennsyl-
vania avenue. Commander Walker, WHO
is an IGNORED member of Lincoln Post
was surrounded by the members of his
staff and a number of past department
commanders Col BENJAMIN F. Chase
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e city TO inspect a part of new en-

CINE.
Il am not al liberty TO go into the de-
tails of the machine, and Mr.. Herring will
refuse to disclose them said one of the
men who had witnessed the trial
Enough that Mr.. Herring has made
good and that he will place the United
States in the front ranks of airship build
erS within the next few months"
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~, the latter player may be considered
as tied for first place with Schlechter
Teichmann lost to Mieses, Marshall drew
with Leonhardt. and the other American
player. Joiner, divided honors with Salwe.
The other results were: Rubinstein beat
Reti Alapin lost to~Spielmann Cohn to
Swiderski, Berger to Suechting. while the
Bardeleben-Perlis game was adjourned to
favor of the latter. The record to date:
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These Silks are 10 inches wide, i'll stripes and c
and colors These will wash and retain color and fl
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Outdistances Farnum Machine.

"He will do all he has contracted to do,
and more" it was said by friend of the
inventor yesterday. In fact l am sure
that Mr. Herrings machine will be the
greatest sensation we have had in the
afrship line His trials have demonstrated
all this.
..Farnum's record of two miles. made
AT Paris a week ago. has been distarced
nv Mr.. Herring. and he will do more oe-
fore the government is ready to make its
official test ] am so sure of the facts
that I know l will not De putting Mr..
Herring in a wrong light by making the
test public
Details regarding the machine are being
guarded with care by Mr.. Herring and MS
Workmen In fact, only four persons had
known of his success.
Mr. Herring, still young. has been busy
for ten years making airships and aero
planes. He has spent more than $lGO,O0
of his own money in demonstrating the
different methods by which man is due
TO fly some day.
Notable Results Predicted.
Mr.. Herring is just as mysterious
are the details of the airship. He has a
work shop on the fourth floor Of the Mil
Ter building. No. 1881 Broadway. Only
one workman is employed there. Ma
chinery of every description crowds the
room and it is here that the model was
built and where piece by piece. the gov
ernments machine will be made.
Mr.. Herring plans to put the parts to-
gether at Fort Myer He was not at his
workshop yesterday, being called out Of
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Wheeler. Organist J. r. Hensley. Guards
Burgess. Pulaski. Whitney and Durfee,
Musicians Lusky. Johnson and Williams.
Trustees Williams, Moore and Walker.
and Abram Myers of the executive COM
mttee.
There We're also on the stage Past De-
partment Commanders Ivory c. kimball.
Newton Ferree. J. NJ. Pipes. Israel w.
Stone. b. F. Bingham and b. p Entrikn:
also Capt J. Walter MITCHELL past de-
partment comma nder of the Spanish War
Veterans; Chief Eufaua Htrjo of the
Creek Indian tribe and his interpreter.
Mr.. GRAY
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-10
HOW SHOPLIFTERS WORK.
Most Daring of All Criminals and
Hardest to Deal With.
brooklyn Eagle.)


"Lifters," remarked the store detec-
tive. ARE the cleverest and most dar-
ing criminals alive. Also the most diff
ficult to deal with. 'Lifters,' it should
be explained. are better known to the
general public by the general name of
shOplifterS. The reason / consider them
the cleverest and most daring" contin-
ued the detective. lis that they Will
work and work successfully under the
very eyes of those who are constantly
on the alert for their pilferings. Lifters
usually operate in couples. One will
come into the store with the deliberate
intention of causing the bull to be sus-
picious of his or her movements. What
is a 'bull?' | am bull in shoplifter
language. But to continue: Having at
tracted the attention of the bull by
some suspicious movement, the litter
will try to lead him purpOseless dance
all around the store. coming as near to
stealing as possible without actually
taking anything, and so Turing the de-
tective on this false trail in order to
leave the field open to the confederate
who follows the decoy into the store.
"Of course an experienced detective
is on guard, and if he knows the first
filters operations are a mere plant. he
will decline to be hoodwinked. But
these filters are so clever that there is
little choice but to follow the leader
and detail some one else TO watch for
the coming of the confederate. Other
wise. the leader, aware that the bull
is looking for the other one, will in
stantly assume the chief role and leave
his confederate TO play decoy to the de-
tective. Their shifty schemes are num-
berless and they are up to something
new ali the time"
The detective led the way to his pri-
vate office. Unlocking the door of
bureau, he disclosed a museum of GRIM
inal curiosities of the newest type.
Here is a receptacle that we found
beneath the cloak of one woman" said
the bull" 1T is almost capacious
enough to inclose household lot II is
a bag that can be filled one end and
then reversed and filled the other end,
being kept covered by lifter's coat all
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-10
WEATHER FOR SALT LAKl
THE REAL MINING CENTER.

1t certainly does tickle a Salt Lake
man 10 read in the Los Angeles Times
that the City of the Angels SIS the min
ing metropolis of the southwest" Los
Angeles is great big city, a delightful
winter resort, a place of enterprise and
public spirit, but no mining man would
ever accuse il of being a mining CEN
Ter.
In all southern California. particu-
larly in that region south of the Te-
hachipi pass. there aren't producing
mines enough to call for a smelter. I'm
less the immense copper mines Of Ari-
iona are claimed as Los Angeles af-
fairs-and they are nOt-there isn't ore
enough produced within a radius of
three hundred miles from Los Angeles
10 keep one of Salt Lakes shelters busy
more than a week in the year.
Within a hundred miles of Salt Lake
more ore is produced and more divi-
dends are paid in a year than all south
ern California has produced during the
last decade or longer.
Inc dCludl lidllodGAtOils III illlAlll =
stocks on the Salt Lake exchange will
equal in a day the total business of the
Los Angeles exchange in a week, some
times in a month. The Boston Consol-
dated or the Utah Copper property will
employ more men and put out more
actual metal in a week than the Los
Angeles market would handle in a dozen
years at it's present rate. Little old Ne
vada has a half a dozen camps which
do more actual mining business than all
southern California; indeed, the Los
Angeles mining business depends almost
wholly on Nevada properties hundreds
OF miles away.
Los Angeles is a nice town, all right
and Salt Lake likes il better than al
most any other spot on the map, but
the people down there oughtnt 10 in
fringe on Salt Lakes prerogatives; there
is only one great big, unrivaled and
genuine mining metropolis anywhere
near the Pacific coast, and that metrop-
oils is Salt Lake. Selah,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-10
A SUBURBAN WILLAMETTE.

a dismal burden. drear refrain,
To them that in the suburbs dwell:
THE water pipes are froze again"
To free my mind of thoughts prOfane
[ turn this foolish willamette.
0 dismal burden, drear refrain.
The west wind grips the weathervane.
The weather man said Warmer Well
The water pipes are froze again
From end to end. from tank to main
The west has laid its ''bTeathed SPELL
o dismal burden. drear refrain.
o 'lOveliest village of the plain"
NV lot in thee I'd gladly sell:
The water pipes are fTOZe again
. iteration fun of pain
Life in the suburbs. Love. is h-*
o dismal burden. drear refrain:
The water pipes are froze again"
Puck
comment by Love: You might just
as well spell it out. Every one will CUES:
what you mean.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-10
PLEA FOR cocKFIGHTING.

A correspondent who says he is a
member of the Indiana Humane society
has written a letter to the president
asking him not to interfere with the
eoekfghting sports of the Filipinos. He
says that "a chance with the spur is
surely preferable to the axe of the
chef" and adds: This might be a
good occasion to observe that many
Americans are ardent devotees of the
ancient sport of 'cOcking'-one of the
few amusements of man in which our
animal pets are willing to participate"
1t is difficult to believe that that cor
respondent is a member of any humane
society. Cockfghting is certainly not a
humane sport, and we can't say we care
a great deal about the morals of people
who engage i'm it. To take two game
cocks, attach steel gaffs to their legs
and permit them to fight until one or
the other has been killed is a brutaIiz-
ing and debasing occupation. 1t is
against the law in every state in the
union and we see no reason why. as
long as the Americans control the Phil
ippines, it should be permitted there.
1t is no argument for the sport of
cockfghting to say that the feathered
participants enjoy it. There are mighty
few people who would argue in favor
of dog fights. and yet the dogs seem to
enjoy the fighting 1t might as well be
said that bullfights should be permitted
in this country, not along the lines of
Mexico and Spain, but fights between
bulls. The bulls surely would enjoy the
set-tos. and they would keep on fight
ing until one or the other was badly
whipped. stations. also would fight 10
the death.
The Herald has no desire to interfere
with anybody's legitimate pleasure. but
cockfighting is not legitimate. There is
mighty little excuse for it. 1t goes or
in the Philippines because il has been
the popular pastime there for hundreds
of years. The Filipinos will be educated
out of it just as the people of this eoun-
try have been educated out of it. And
they will be the better for il.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-10
CHINA AND JAPAN.

There seems to be more than re-
mote possibility of another war be-
tween China and Japan. And should
active hostilities result from the seiZ-
ure by the Chinese government of a
Japanese merchant vessel loaded with
arms the sympathies of a large ma
ioritv of the nations of the earth would
be with China Most of us would be
able TO refrain from weeping If China
should lick the everlasting stuffing out
of Japan. Certainly Japan is in sore
need of something of that sort. The
brown men seem to regard the yellow
men as their vassals. They have done
pretty much as they pleased with the
Chinese since the Carbohydrates war.
and they have been growing more AFRO
CANT all the time.
In the matter of the seizure of the
Japanese merchant ship. which may yet
develop into a casus belli, the Chinese
assert that the ship was loaded with
arms that were 10 be struggled into
china for use by insurgents who have
been marrying certain sections of the
country. If the Chinese information was
correct-and the Japs admit that the
boat did contain consignment of arms