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Middletown transcript., 1909-04-03
MULLINS MEMS STORE
WILMINGTON
n@:NOTICE!

]. Harry Massey, owner and tenant of
~ the house known as the Cantwell
House, situated at Odessa, in School Dis
trict. No. 81, county of New Castle and
State of Delaware. in compliance with the
requirements of the acts of the General
Assembly, in such cases made and pro.
vided, do hereby give notice that shall
apply in writing to the Coult of General
Sessions, in and fer New Castle County,
on MONDAY, the Sd day of May A. D.
1909, being the next term of said court,
for licensezof said house as an inn or
tavern for the sale therein of Intoxicating
liquors in quantities less than one quart.
to be drunk on the premises, and the fol-
lowing respectable citizens of said School
District, at least six OF whom are substan.
tial freeholders of said School District,
recommend the said application, viz:
John Heller, Thos. P. Wallace,
George Huhn, VIM. r. Phillips,
John F. Morris, Charles Kronemeier
John M. Gremminger, William Heller.
Jos. Heller, VIM. E. Tucker,
Jacob Muehlberger, Levi A. Plummer.
VIM. W. Gremminger, Henry Heller.
]. HARRY MASSEY.
ODESSA, DEL, April 1st, 1909.
Middletown transcript., 1909-04-03
cHIRoPooY
MRS. JAMES

Corns, bunions, ingrowing nails or any
affections of the feet antisepticaIly and
painlessly treated by graduate chiropodist
Also Shampooing, Manicuring and Scalp
Treatment.
OLD TRANSCRIPT BUILDING
South Broad St. MIDDLETOWN.
Middletown transcript., 1909-04-03
FOR SALE!

Two nice farms of 200 acres each, good
buildings; one on Bohemia River, other on
Sassafras. will be sold cheap. Also 100
acres at Warwick and rs acres and AZ
acres at Mount Pleasant, and many other.
can sell them on good terms.
@. w. INGRAM,
Middletown, Del
Middletown transcript., 1909-04-03
curse Blood, Skin Diseases, Cancer Greatest
Blood Purifier Free

N0FE5 hIOVU1 sKLN D4Bsas6Ei U8neBE UF6ag9Bb
Blood Purifier Free
II your blood is impure. thin, diseased
hot or full of humoF. if you have blood
poison, cancer. carbuncles, eating sores,
scrofuIa, eczema, itching, risings and
bumps, scabby, pimply skin, bone pains,
catarFtl, rheumatism or any blood or skin
disease, take Botanic Blood Balm B. B
B. J. Soon all sores heal, ACHES and pains
stop and the blood is made pure and rich
Druggists or by express 81 per large bot.
tle. sample free by writing Blood Balm
Co., Atlanta, Ga. b. B. B. is especially
advised for chronic, deep seated cases, as
it cures after all else fails.
Middletown transcript., 1909-04-03
M. BANNING,
DEALER IN FINE
GROCERIES,!

The home Of good garden and -four seed.
We have selected these from the best
seedsmen IN the country, so if you want
good harvest you must plant good seed.
Middletown transcript., 1909-04-03

Good Clothes

really cost less because they
wear longer and look better.
We want Men and Young
Men this season to see our SIS
New Spring Suits, Greys,
Modes, Browns, Blues and
Blacks in Cheviots and Wor.
steds. Regular and Conser.
vative cuts for plain men,
extreme and special cuts for
young men and stylish dress.
ers. Mems and Young Mems
Suits, IS to s35. Spring
Overcoats, s6 TO $50. Rain
coats, $40 to s25. Boys Suits
IS to $1s. Little Boys, 50 to
$40. Good assortment ofSuits
and Trousers this season for
Extra Sized and Big Men, a
to 30 chest. New Furnish
ings, Hats and Shoes all in
and ready.
Middletown transcript., 1909-04-03
Mails Close as Follows.
Local News

MIDDLEroWN. DEL. APRIL :, 1909
Middletown transcript., 1909-04-03

Collector OfTa1es for Appoquinimink Hun
Evening star., 1909-04-24

but not until 1853. when the square was
subdivided by Samuel Norment into
thirty-two lots. was building thought of.
The square between 7th. Sth, 0 and P
streets. No. AZ, was plated for eight
lots. and at the time of the division 1895.
Samuel Blodget was interested, as were
Lynch & Sands, and in the apportionment
he was assigned lots , to ). the west half.
In 1915 William O'Neale owned lots to
;. which ten years later went to r. S.
Buckley.
The Hoover House.
In 1898 Michael Hoover bought lot g.
one fourth of the 7th street front, for 800
and ten years later lots 1, 8 and I, the
remainder ofsthe east half of the square,
for $50 each. and in 1915 he acquired the
remainder of the square. In 1880 the as
sessed value of the ground was 1H cents
per foot, and the only Improvement was
Mr.. Hoover's house, on lot s, assessed
for $1,000, 1t being a substantial two
story and attic brick residence, which in
after years. when the street was cut 70
grade. required steps to reach it. About
1915 Mr.. Hoover moved elsewhere and
the property was bought by Andrew Roth
well, and for years Rothwell's gardens
were well known.
The square west (s9s). of the same size
as the above lots, fronting o, P Sth and
9th streets, in the division of 1896 went
equally to Mr.. Blodget and the govern:
ment. The Blodget lots in 1878 went to
William O'Neale, and ten years later to
Mr.. Buckley. The west half was ac-
quired in 1899 by Harvey Cruttenden
who the next year had the other lots
and he devoted all to brickmaking. About
1852 building was looked to, and a subdi-
vision provided sites. Later some small
buildings were erected, as also the home
of the we'll known master bricklayeI
Thomas Lewis, who bought the west half
of the . street front.
JAMES CROGGON.
Evening star., 1909-04-24
VEw Or ko5EroN- Va

were assigned the sixteen lots in square
424. fronting NJ, N, 7th and 9Th streets,
in 1896, and the history above of square
4O1 corresponds down to 1920. In 1924
Eastburn. George Cover, in 1884. owned
the center lot on the N street front. and
in 1885 G. w. Utermehle bought lot l,
corner 7th and N streets. afterward erect
ing a two-storied brick residence.
Owned by the Government.
The government had title to the sixteen
lots fronting 9Th. 9th. NJ and N streets.
which formed square No. 400 from 1895,
and not until 1882 did title pass. The
square was then conveyed to the Wash
ington City Orphan Asylum under an act
of Congress-, and not until 1S47 when a
subdivision was made, were building sites
offered.
The twelve lots. five each on 7th and
Sth streets, and one each on N and o
streets, of square 423, were vested in the
government in 1895. and for thirty years
were unproductive. In 1925 lot II was
owned by Mary Talbot, who in 1880 was
assessed for $500 on 7th street. Three
years later John Hoover was the owner
In 1893 Columbian College owned eight
lots. and five years after William Jones
owned the corners of 7th and n streets,
7th and o streets and a lot on 7th street.
In 1S41 William Ruggles owned three lots
on Sth street, and a few years after JO-
seph Weyrich bought lot on 7th street
erecting a home and blacksmith shop.
Soon after w. CrigIey opened grocery
on 7th street.
Lots / to 10 in square 300, between n.
O. Sth and 9th streets were assigned to
the United States in 1896. Col. George
Bomford was the owner in 1881, and two
years later they passed to Ulysses Ward
In 1899 Harvey Cruttenden had lots 6 and
Z, the north front Of the square. These
lots were used some years in connection
with the brick kilns of Mr.. Cruttenden
Evening star., 1909-04-24
A Sanctuary of Syrian Gods.

Tfohl Zion fifrAm.
The interesting archaeological labors in
Tunis and Algeria OF NJ. Paul Gauckler
have been richly supplemented by his
discovery. beneath the so-called sacred
Janiculum at Rome, of a sanctuary of
the Syrian gods. 1t appears that the
Syrians who had established themselves
at Rome in the early centuries of the
Christian formed an Asiatic colony.
and introduced their gods and their re
ligion. Requiring spring from which TO
draw water for their rites. they built
their temple in the Lucas Furina. The
results of the excavations made by NJ
Gauckler have excited the great wonder
the hitherto obscure history OF the orien-
tai religions in Rome. and on their rela-
ton to the origin of Christianity. The
temple proper was at the rear. where the
god was supposed to descend in response
to sacrifices In front was a court. where
has been found a mass of pottery, bones
and coins, the residuum of several centu-
ries Of sacrifice, and near by was another
shrine STILL of an unusual aspect, sug-
gesting a Christian baptistry. used for
the initiation of new devotees. This spe-
leum as 1t is called, was composed OF
I two anterooms, each of them adorned
BILE. An apse was also uncovered, at the
end of which was a niche occupied by
an .'Egyptianizing statue. presumably
a Syrian counterpart of Isis. An inter-
esting discovery was that of an idol in A
kind of cellar under a tank, which has
no counterpart among the remains of an
tiquity.
Evening star., 1909-04-24
PLANETS THAT WAX AND wANE
An Interesting Photographic Expert
ment.


ment.
From the Literary Digest
Celestial bodies that grow brighter and
DINNER by turns have always been in
teresting objects for the astronomer.
Among the fixed stars, which are suns.
shining by their own light, such variable
ity may really change in the light given
out, or 1t may be caused by the interpo-
sition of dark satellite which in its orbit
comes between us and the star. Bodies
that shine by reflected light also wax and
wane; our own moon, for instance; for
reasons that are obvious and familiar to
all Some of the planets. for similar rea-
sons, show phases like the moons. This
is the case with the planet Venus. Some
OF the minor planets, or asteroids. show
variability in brightness that has not yet
been satisfactorily accounted for. and in
many cases the fact. when reported by
one astronomer. has been doubted by
others. on account of the slight degree
of change. A newly invented method,
ported in the bulletin of the astronomical
society of France, would seem TO settle
the matter. 1T is thus described in the
Paris Cosmos:
Among the many new questions raised
by the investigation of the minor planets.
or asteroids. there is one on which our
data are still very unc certain-namely, that
Of their variability. The fact that these
small bodies change their brightness sud
denly in certain cases would appear quite
beyond doubt. We may cite the planet
Iris, for instance, which has varied by
One-fOurth in four hours, according to
DR.. Clemens, or in six hours. according
to Wendell; or Economic. whose bril-
| liancy increases or diminishes by four
tenths in nine days. Every one knows
Of the variations of Eros which at the
time Of its discovery puzzled astronomers
SO much.
Whatever explanation may be given
Of this. the facts seem to be well es-
tablished. To solve the problem we
should have to have records absolutely
to the present time it must be confessed
that 1t has been difficult to eliminate the
personal equation or even the variations
due to atmospheric causes.
Astronomers, therefore, will appreciate
the method devised by Joel Metcalf. He
photographs minor planet, making two
exposures of equal duration on the same
plate; the camera is SO guided that the
images of the asteroids are round. while
those Of the neighboring fixed stars show
AS trails. If the two sets of star trails
are exactly similar throughout. il is Ger
tain that the movement of the clock
work and the atmospheric conditions have
not varied during the experiment. Then
if the two images of the asteroid are not
of the same brightness, we have proof
of variation.
Mr.. Metcalf tried the experiment on
plate was twice exposed on November
e. 1905, for seventy-one minutes each
time, the interval between bling about
one minute. A considerable real varia-
ton was thus shown during this time.
The method Is capable of Improvement.
but 1t may be said that it will render
great service in the work of collecting
astronomical data.
Evening star., 1909-04-24
Her Lifelong Desire.
From Punch.

English Clergyman-"And when you ar
rive in London, my dear lady, don't fail
to see ST. Paui's and Westminster Alb
bey.''
Fair American-.You bet. I'll rattle
those off. sure. but what I've been han
kering to see ever since I WAS knee high
to a grasshopper is the Church OF Eng
land.
Evening star., 1909-04-24
Buys Columbia Heights Home

Harry Wardman has sold through the
offices of the real estate corporation of
Boss & Phelps the new three-story Roman
brick residence No. 1lf2 Lamont street
northwest for $3.50. II was purchased
by Mrs. Mary !. Rowden who will OCCUPY
the house as her residence. The house
contains nine rooms and bath and is heat
ed by hot water.
Evening star., 1909-04-24

I'm not going to invite Mr.. and Mrs.
Brown over here to play cards any more"
What's the matter? Don't you like
Brown"
"Oh. he's all right, but she's positive
bore. She won't discuss scandal. millinery
or cake recipes during the Same."-Dctroit
Free Press.
Evening star., 1909-04-24
Hor1E or RonERr ELLIOTT DEADLOCK HEIGHT IVA
SERIES OF SUBURBAN PLACES
LINES ROAD TO ALEXANDRIA
and Modern Equipment in the Electric Railway.
New Subdivision Adjacent to Virginia City.

laid out, is bounded on the one side by
the electric road and on the other by
the turnpike running from Alexandria to
Leesburg, while JUST on the other side
of the pike begins the new park which
is to be opened next week.
The new streets of Rosemont lead to
the green slopes Of the park. and already
three houses have been erected and Ave
more are to be started, so that the new
town begins with bright prospects of be-
coming a fine suburban center. The
southern portion of the new center is
of the steam roads stop, and as the depot
is right on the edge of Alexandria, the
new town is regarded as quite a center.
Evening star., 1909-04-24
Sale Of Large Residence.

The most important real estate trans
action in private residences on Columbia
Heights of late was consummated re-
Gently through the real estate corpora
tion Of Boss x Phelps in the sale of the
Fay house, f"2p Girard street. Judge
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-06-24
PRESERVATION Of
OUR FORESTS
Paper Read by Mrs. w. J. Con-
way at the June Federation
Meeting.

Bryant says, "The groves were
Gods first temples and surely none
more beautiful have since been build.
ed. From the time the colonists set
tied at jamestown until now the
forest trees have furnished food, fuel
and shelter for the pioneers and then
descendants. History, sentiment and
poetry are ever associated with these
grand and graceful canopies, and COO
messy glades, the home Of the deer
and the song birds
Our statesmen as we'll as we our
selves are just awakening to the
real value of our forests. The Gen.
Federation of Women's clubs is
urging each individual club to add a
Forestry Dept. and lend their sup
port to the lawmakers of our land
that not only old forests may be pre-
served, but that new ones may be
planted.
I Let us see what the condition of
our forest resources really are. When
the first colonists settled on our
eastern coasts the forests covered
about 62 per cent of the territory
that is now the United States-eight
per cent was brush, while the re-
manning 80 per cent was open coun-
try. What are the figures today?.
The open, uncultivated area is about
"a per cent; the cultivated area form
about Is per cent, mostly taken from
the forests. Brush land has in
creased from 8 to 80 per cent, while
the forests have gone down to %
per cent-over half
While this great decrease has been
going on we have been doing very
little to restock our timber lands
Let us see what effect this defor-
estation is having on our country
Clifford Pinchot, our national forest
er, has computed that at the present
rate of consumption, our timber sup.
plies will last not more than SO years
and if it continues to increase in
the future as it has in the past
not more than 16 years, which viii
be in the lifetime of most of us pres
ent. These figures are sufficiently re
liable to make it certain that the
United States has already crossed
the verge of a timber famine sc
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-06-24
GOING TO SEATTLE?

Special low reduced rates from al
points daily via The Chicago &
North Western Ry. to the Exposition
at Seattle, the Yellowstone Park, Yo-
semitic, Colorado and the Pacific
coast.
Choice of routes and splendid SER
vice of archaeological, luxuriously-
equipped trains daily between Chi
cago and all principal points west
and northwest.
Illustrated folder descriptive of
the Exposition, booklets, maps and
itineraries of personally-conducted
tours to all points of interest, free
on application to any Ticket Agent
The Northwestern Line.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-06-24
PORT EDWARDS

Mesdames Frank Noel, j. Lamade-
leine of Port Edwards and guests
Mr.. and Mrs. P Hanson of Peoria.
ILL.,, spent the day Thursday at the
c. G. Ekeland and Claus Johnson
homes in Sigel
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Ostrasky are re-
joicing over the arrival of a baby
boy at their home the 14th inst.
Mr. and Mrs Chas. Helke left Mon
day evening for Nebraska, where
they will visit the latter's sister and
family.
Mrs. J. Bradner and two children
are visiting relative n Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred GAIL were Mer-
rill visitors Sunday.
Mrs. c. Carlson was a Grand Rap
ids visitor last Tuesday.
Mesdames H. Miscol of Chicago
and A. Sickles Of the Rapids were
calling on friends here Friday.
Messrs. and Mesdames A. Palm,
H Zurfluh and Miss Hulda Holmstro1
attended the Kromenakker-H Holm
strom wedding in Sigel last Wednes-
day.
Mrs. 1. Davis of Minneapolis is the
guest Of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
F. Armon.
Mrs. Heuer and son, Edwin, have
gone to Wautoma to spend the sum-
mer with her parents.
Mrs Awkward and children arrived
home from Madison Saturday even
ing, where they have been visiting
her parents the past few weeks.
Mrs M. .Kyes and Chas. and Percy
Milenbah attended Commencement
exercises at the Training school last
Thursday.
Mrs Hugh Boy1es Of Shawano is
visiting at the home Of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. J. Podwin.
Fay Evelyn, little daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Sam Steady was christened
Tuesday evening by Rev. R. Evans
at the NJ E. chapel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-06-24

In sickness. if a certain hidden
nerve goes wrong, then the organ that
this nerve controls will al>o surely
fail. 1t may be a stomach nerve, or
it may have given strength and sup
port 10 the heart or kidneys. 1t was
DR.. Shoop that first pointed to this
vital truth. DIR. Shops Restorative
was not made to dose the stomach nor
to temporarily stimulate the heart or
kidneys. That old-fashioned method
is all wrong. DR. Shoops Restorative
goes directly to these failing inside
nerves. The remarkable success of
this prescription demonstrates the
wisdom of treating the actual cause
Of these failing organs. And it is in
deed easy to prove. A simple five or
ten days test will surely tell Try it
once, and see! Sold by Wood County
Drug Co.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-06-24

kill song bird Sling shots are az
abomination and boys should be pun
ished for using them. Their target
is usually bird
Bird life has decreased alarm
lngly, having fallen off as much as
40 per cent in some of the. states.
regret to say that the wholesale
slaughter of birds is not for food.
But to satisfy woman's vanity. It's IL
be hoped that we will soon reach a
stage of civilization where women
Will refuse to wear the bodies of
dead birds stiffened on their hats
Our most beautiful birds are threat
ened with extinction from this very
cause. If women realized the suf-
fering caused from the slaughter of
the white heron, they would never
wear another aigret. The delicate
spray like plumes adorn the bird
during the nesting season and the
parent bird is killed at this time
while thousands of nestlings starve
waiting in vain for food that never
comes.
AS civilization spreads our wild
flowers grow fewer. Treele acres
are not conducive to plant life. The
most beautiful flowers are found
near the forests. When you go
flower picking do not drag the
plant up regardiessly by the roots
and destroy it. Pick it as carefully
as you would in your own garden.
Do not think that conditions have
been exaggerated in this paper. l
have given you statement of cold
facts. The question of Forestry must
occupy the minds Of thinking peo-
pie more and more. Let us avert
all the evil consequences we can by
taking the matter in hand in time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-06-24

Tel some deserving Rheumatic suf
serer, that there is yet one simple way
10 certain relief. Get DR.. Shops book
ON Rheumatism and free trial test
This book Will make it entirely clear
how Rheumatic pains are quickly
killed by DIR. Shops Rheumatic
Remedy-liquid or tablets. Send no
money. The test Is free. Surprise
some dishe4rted sufferer by first get
ting for him the book from DR.. Shoop,
Racine, Wis. Sold by Wood County
Drug Co.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-04-02
The Public Eye.

In little more we came to an open
space, very thronged.
"The Public Eye" shouted the
megaphone man of our party
There were some curious people
within the space, but even more curl
Gus were those just outside.
OF these latter we thought certain
women especially interesting; they
were busily neglecting their families
in order to get into the Public Eye A
pathos attached TO another group of
women who had been in the Public
Eye and could never be happy out of
it, though they couldn't in the least
tell why.
Positively funny were a few men
who kept trying, by variety of droll
devices. to break into the Public Eye.
'Vice-presidential candidates." our
megaphone man explained PUCK.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-04-02
A FRESH
START
BY FREDERICK SMITH


Aunt Julia had dragged me to Helen
Thrall's coming-out party and pre-
sented ME to the hostess.
Mrs. Thrall put out formal hand
From Massachusetts? asked she.
Aunt Julia frowned She does not
like to have my misfortunes dragged
before the public.
From indiana said |.
Mrs. Thrall favored me with smile.
"Really?D said she. you have done
some very good things out there,
haven't you2 It's pity that so many
nice people should be so far away"
1--WE struggle to bear up" said |
composedly.
MY daughter. Mr. Miller
took Miss Helen's hand AS there
was no one behind me | naturally had
a minute to talk
There's girl here from Indiana,
she said. mo doubt you know her"
mo doubt" replied
Tell me, are all your young women
good looking?'
Good looks" said I, cautiously, ARE
relative; but compared with
Compared with what?" asked Miss
Helen. suspiciously.
I looked around the room. 1--WE con-
slider them fairly presentable," said ],
"but compared with Boston girls, of
course"
why don't you finish?'
There is. of course, no compari-
son." l said, with the craft of an ora
Gle
Miss Helen looked at me- I'm not
sure that you aren't rude, she
laughed. l made gesture of depre
citation
Are they all as good looking as
she?" and Miss Helen waved her head
till the white aigrette-in her hair had
the effect of a finger pointing through |
the doors to a girl in the next room.
Although I had been prepared for it,
l confess | couldn't resist little start
of surprise. The girl stood in a corner /
with three men about her. l caught I