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Middletown transcript., 1909-06-12
STOCK MARKET TAXES

Various taxes which must be
paid, if only a fifth of United
States Steel common shares are
listed on the Paris Bourse, will
amount to S750,0OO. This in
cludes the Bourse fees and the
French Government tax.
Imagine what a terrific clamor
American corporations would
raise if they we're obliged to pay
any such tax to the United States
Government for listing their
shares in the American stock ex.
changes! Yet our corporations
consider it a triumph to have the
privilege of listing their securi-
ties in Paris.
Corporations in this country
pay taxes as do individuals on
their property. Measured by
their earning capacity they pay
their fair share of such public
burdens.
"But when it comes to the
question of stock market taxes,
or taxes on the transfer of shares
and bonds, they are trifing when
compared with similar taxes
levied in Paris, to which city
American corporations are now
rushing with unprecedented zeal.
If levied here such fees wouldtbe
termed confiscation by the trusts.
When paid in France they are
looked upon as reasonable, else
they wouldn't pay them. Queer,
isn't itP"-Phila. Press.
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opEssA

Mis- Olivia pasnter wasin PhHadslphia
Sunday.
Mrs. Herman Kumple was in Whining
ton Monday.
Miss Emma Robh, Of Chester, Pa, is
visiting relatives here.
Mr.. Joseph Cole, of Philadelphia, was
here Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. RsIston Green, of Salem, N. j.,
spent few days last week here.
Mrs. John R. Carpenter and son John
were in Smyrna one day last week.
Mr.. Frank Davis, of Washington, N. j.,
spent part Of last week with friends here.
Mrs. Georgia Reed, of Chestertown, Nd,
spent few days last week with friends
here.
Mrs, Laura skelIenger and family spent
Saturday and Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
W. II. Eccles.
Miss Marion Janvier. of Wilmington, is
spending sometime with her, sister, Mrs.
J. w. Watkins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Davis, OF Smyrna,
spent few days last week with Mr.. and
Mrs. 6. W. Davis.
Mrs. John Shultz and Miss Margaret
Quaid, of Philadelphia, spent few days
last week with Mrs. George Hahn.
Mrs. E. B. Lodge aud son, Of CIeve
land, o., are spending sometime with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. 9. L. Townsend.
Mr. Ralph Shallcross, of Tittsrsville,
N. j.. is spending sometime with his
Mr.. and Mrs. E. N. Moore.
Mrp. John Corbit and daughter. of
Philadelphia, are spending sometime
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
L. Gibson.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Duer, of PhiladeI-
phia, and Mr.. Anthony Higgins Of Viii.
mington, spent few days last week with |
Mr.. D. W. Corbit
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry L. Ward and Mr.. |
George Boulden, of Chester, Pa, spent
and Sunday with bis parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ward.
Mrs. G. Krumm and daughter, Miss
Katherine, of Philadelphia, and Miss
Bertha Brill, of Oakland. CAL, spent from
until Tuesday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Johr Heldmyer.
The St. Pauls NJ. f. Sunday School will
hold their ChiIdren's Day service to.mor.
row Sunday evening, beginning at 7.3O
o'clock. Everyone is cordially invited to
be present and enjoy the most excellent
program which is being arranged.
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n1DDLErOwN. DEL. JUNE =, 1908
oN TO.cOLLRdE

Ii you have a boy or girl in
your home, of the proper age,
who has an ambition to go to
college, and the necessary educa-
tional preparation, supply the
opportunity, even at some sacri.
fee on the part of the rest of the
family. Most parents are willing
to do everything in reason for
their children, but not every
parent can see the deslrability or
necessity of furnishing college
: education for their offspring.
They argue that they had none
Of these advantages in their
youth, and that they got along
all right, and therefore the
children do not need 1t. Can a
boy plow corn any better with 3
college diploma sticking out Of
his pocket, or can a girl make
better pies because she can con-
iugate the verb ito love" in three
different languages? To this
question we want to answer, Yes.
BY this we do not mean that
the college bred farmer can turn
a neater or truer furrow than his
country cousin, who never at
tended anything but a district
school. But the college bred |
farmer will have a larger and
truerconception of life. Because
his mind has been broadened and |
developed, the best that is in him |
has had a chance to develop, and |
he will go through life splendidly |
equipped to make the best of
everything. A college education
seldom converts a fool into a
wise nan, but if there is any
thing in one, it brings it to the
surface and enables him to make
the best use of such faculties as
nature has endowed him with.
Who knows what that bright
boy or girl Of yours might de-
velop into if given a chance? Be-
cause your life may have been
narrow and cramped, denied you,
don't withhold them from the
young people, who 10 the struggle
of life in the years to come, will
need the full measure of the
powers that now lie dormant and
latent within them. Give the
boy or the girl q chance, and if
nothing else comes of it, they
will be better men and women
for the time spent within college
walls. And better men and
women is the crying need of the
world, yesterday, to-day and for
ever.
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WHFULLY MENDAcInuS

Think Of a man claiming to be
q well-informed editor writing
such stuff as this in the Evera
EUeuing, Wilmington, DEL:
''That millions of dollars are
paid every year to claimants
whose names have no proper
place on the rolls is a matter of
common belief. That the entire
system has become a vast scheme
of manipulation for political
purposes is also generally be.
lieved. New groups of bene.
ticiaries are added from time to
time, rates are increased, and
efforts to limit appropriations or
to economic in administration
are defeated. !"
There is not a sentence in this
which even approximates truth.
II is not an understood truth
that millions Of dollars are paid
to claimants who have no proper
place on the roll, and 50 far from
this being a 'smstter of common
belief, " It is absolutely opposed
to what every decently informed
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DEMOCRATS WIN
Republican Apathy and Lack of Organi-

Republican Apathy and Lack of Organi-
cation Turns Wilmington Democratic
Lack of intelligent Republican party or.
ganization and systematic effort gave Will
mington to the Democrats at the city eIec.
tion Saturday. The one bright spot was
the reelection of Howard D. Ross, Re-
publican, as City Treasurer, and it was
simply his personal popularity that pulled
him through. The result was
Mayor-Dr. ]. Harvey Spruance, Demo-
crat.
President of Council-James L. Ban.
ming, Democrat.
City Treasurer-Howard D. Ross, Re.
publican.
Assessor and Collector Northern Dis
trict) flames q. Morris, Republican.
Assessor and Collector (southern Dis.
trict Eugene NJ. sayers, Democrat.
City Council
First Ward - Charles G. Dempsey,
Democrat.
Second Ward-WaIter Rash, Republi.
can, (re-elected).
Third Ward = Edward A. Higgins,
Democrat, (re.elected).
Fourth Ward-James Kane, Democrat,
(re-elected).
Fifth Ward-Henry G. Ia, lOr, Republi-
can.
Sixth Ward-Daniel P. DuRoss, Demo-
crat.
Seventh Ward-Samuel Il. Bennett, ,Jr.,
(re.elected).
Eighth Ward-Norman c. Downs, Re.
publican.
Ninth Ward-George L. BiIderback,
Republican, (re-elected).
Eleventh Ward-John ]. McGoyern,
Democrat, (re-eIected).
Twelfth Ward Richard G. McMulIen, /
Democrat.
DR.. Harvey Spruance, the Democratic |
candidate for mayor, was elected over
William G. Taylor, the Republican nomi.
nee, by majority of 81, the vote being:
'pruance, 1882; Taylor, 7,1Sl.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
RULLETIN.
SUMNER TRIPS AFAR AND NEAR.

Summer days coming fast. Already vacation days
being discussed in the home and Office
few weeks the annual exodus country seashore
tain will have been begun
America abounds with delightful summering places in
valley mountain and beside the seahousands of resorts
whittier wend the pilgrims search of pleasure and recrea
ton.
Pennsylvania Railroad ticket agents now have on sale
excursion tickets to the greater number of these resorts
by the first week in June there will be eight hundred
points by Pennsylvania Railroad summer excursion
tickets.
From the rock-bound bays of Newfoundland to- the
sunny slopes of the Virginia shores from the White Noun
talns OF New Hampshire to the Cumberland Mountains of
Tennessee along the forty beaches of New Jersey
the far coast of the Pacific Ocean, these summer resorts
stand ready to entertain the transient guest
Any Pennsylvania Railroad Ticket Agent will cheerfuly
give information concerning to these resorts
enabling summer pilgrims to plan their outing minimum
of time and cost
Information also be secured by addressing
Broad
Street. Philadelphia; Thos E. Watt Pittsburgh
B. Fraser, d. P A. 307 Main Street, Buffalo;
Baltimore and Calvert Streets D. p A. Fifteenth
and g Streets, Washington a. c. Weie D. A. Fifth Street
Reading as Anderson D. A. Union Pittsburgh Yung
man, D. 7. A., Wiliamsport Pa
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TOWNSEND

DR.. 7. A. Euos spent Monday will
friends in Philadelphia.
Mrs. John Morris and son spent Tues
day with her brother, MIR. James A. Lee
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Townsend. .ol
Wilmington, are spending sometime with
lis parents here.
Misses Lulu Ratledge and Anna Jones,
Of West Chester Normal School, ARE spend.
ing ten days with their parents here.
Mrs. Frank West, of Wilmington, is
spending few days with Mr.. Benjamin
West and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Money and daugh.
ter, and Miss Mary Money were in Will
mington on Friday last.
Mrs. W. A. Scott anl alrs. L. L. Ma
loney were in Wilmington on Monday.
Mr.. Horace vanDyke and family, Of
near Smyrna, we're the guests of his par
ents here on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Prichard, of Viii.
mington, spent Sunday with his brother,
Mr.. Joseph Prichard and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. A.Lockerman aud daugh.
ter, of Wilmington, spent several days OF
this week with his parents here.
Rev. F. c. MacSorley will preach the
Baccalaureate sermon to the graduates on
Sunday morning. All are invited to be
present.
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RESOLUTIONS

WHEREAS, 1t has pleased Almighty
God, in His Divine wisdom to call g.,
suddenly from our midst on March I7tb,
1909, our beloved brother, Charles E.
Stapleford, who was a faithful member
and devoted worker of the St. Georges
M. E. Church, and
WHEREAS, The members of this Quar-.
terly Conference have learned with pro.
found sorrow and regret Of the sudden
and untimely taking away of one whose
work was SO highly appreciated by all
who knew him, highly respected citi-
zen OF the community in which he lived
and worked, faithful member of this
body, devoted and loving class leader,
and
WHEREAS, We deplore the loss OF one
who had SO faithfully served his Church,
suddenly stricken by the hand of Death,
a solemn admonition to us of the uncer-
tainty Of Life. we bow 10 humble sub.
mission to the will of God, Who doeth
all things wisely, and therefore be il
ResoEUed. That as we mourn The loss Of
our departed brother, We feel assured that
he bas been called up higher to enjoy the
blessings of that rest, which, 10 The
Haven Of Love. remains for the people
Of God, and be il
ResolUed, That we deeply sympathize
with his bereaved family in their sad
hours Of affection and can only commend
them to the love Of our dear Heavenly
Father, the great and only source of con-.
ISOLATION, and be it
ResOlred, That copy Of these resolu-
tions be spread upon the minutes of this
Quarterly Conference, q copy be sent to
the family Of our deceased brother, and
the same to be published in the Nese Era
and M1DDLETowE TRANSCRIPT.
J. w. CARRow, JR.,
HARRY L. GRAY,
FREEMAN E. WALKER,
William P. CULLEN.
WM. REYNoLDs,
Committee.
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Of its officers. Now the paymeps
Of the two millions Of dollars ii
the Philadelphia case is 10 the
fore. There can be no possible
way of shifting the Philadelphia
offence upon the shoulders of the
obscure weighing clerks and thus
men ''higher up are to be
credited with having violated the
law. That the American Sugar
Refining Company has twice with
in q few weeks been heralded as
settling accounts based on viola.
lions Of the law or actual fraud
indicates that something is wrong
somewhere. -MoTning Nea0s.
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man knows. We reiterate what
we have often published. Pfssi-
dent Cleveland CAME into Office
with a proclamation that the
pension roll was honeycombed
with fraud. During his whole
four years he and all his admin
istration worked hard to make
this declaration seem true, with
a conspicuous failure. Every
year Commissioner Lochren,
striving to substantiate his
chiefs statement, asked and got
an appropriation Of $500, 900 to
employ additional special agents
to investigate personally and at
their homes every pensioner on
the list. In addition to the ex.
traordinary efforts of the Pension
Bureau the Post Office Depart.
ment, Attorney Generals De-
partment and others were
brought into the work, and after
the most thoro scrutiny to which
any department of public ex-
penditure had ever been sub
iected, the pension roll was thoro,
ly vindicated. There had never
been such a rigid examination of
any governmental expenditure,
and never before was there
found to be so little wrongdoing.
The pension roll came out
shiningly vindicated from the
fiery ordeal We again give the
challenge that We have SO fre-
quently done to the editors Of
other papers: Let the editor of
the EUerg Evening send his men
to investigate the well-known
pensioners in his own city and
hear their stories. Let him en-
ploy the ablest attorneys and
detectives that he can to sift the
pensions in his own neighbor-
hood, and determine how well |
earned they are. This is a test
that he cannot refuse, and we
are certain that the result will be |
that he will admit that every man |
and woman in and around Will
is getting far less than
he or she deserves. - Washington
National Tribune.
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IN poor HEALTH

The retirement from active
duty of Gen. T. Coleman dupont,
as chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee, is in no
way due to any lack of interest
in politics on his part, or dis
satisfaction on the part of party
leaders and workers; but simply
a matter of physical disability.
Gen. DUPONT has been in poor
health for many months, and the
necessity for relaxation from
business cares and public con-
Germs has been forced upon him.
1t was with the realization of this
fact that every member of the
State Central Committee advised
Chairman DUPONT to cast off the
cares and worries incident to
political management, and to take
the complete rest he is so much
in need of. The permanent re-
tirement from politics Of Gen.
DUPONT has never, for a moment,
been contemplated by the party.
His ability for organization, and
his sagacity in generalship, are
too thoroughly appreciated by
the leaders of the National party,
as well as by Delaware Republi-
cans, to admit of such a thing.
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CHESAPEAKE CITY

James s. Hopper spent Thursday in
Wilmington.
Miss Louie Queck is spending some.
time in EIkton.
Miss Adelaide Clayton is visiting friends
in Middletown.
Miss Marion Boulden, of Philadelphia,
has been visiting Mrs. F. S. Clayton.
Children's Day will be observed in the
M. E. Church Sunday evening.
Mrs. F. s. Clayton and Miss Bessie
Barwick spent Tuesday at Kirkwood.
Mrs. Harry Budd. of Cecilton, spent
Wednesday with Mrs. Byron Bouchelle.
Miss Ida Bouchelle is the guest of reIa-
tiyes in Wilmington and Kirkwood.
Miss Mamie Harris Wright will gradu.
ate from Mt. St. Agnes College this week.
Miss Emily Huff, of Philadelphia, was
entertained by Miss Cora Steele over Sum
day.
John Hopper, Of the University of
Pennsylvania, is home for the summer
vacation.
Mrs. S. E. Deshane is the guest of her
sister, Mrs. S. a. Taylor, in Whining.
ton.
Frank P. Conrey, of Philadelphia,
spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs.
Annie Conrey.
Mrs. Minnie Vansant and Miss Ethel
Lyons, of Wilmington, recently visited
Mrs. A. J. DeCourey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh W. Caldwell are
visiting his mother, Mrs. Jennie Cald.
well, at Liberty Grove.
Mrs. Charles Cooling and children are
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
W. Arrants, in Elk Neck.
Mr.. A Lindell Beaston and Miss Anna
B, Buckworth, of Cayot, were married in
last Tuesday.
Mr.. John Alley and Miss Nettie Clark,
of Williamstown, N. J., have been visit.
ing Mr. and Mrs. William Hudson.
Mr.. aud Mrs. 1. g. Ellison and daugh-
er Elizabeth, of Kirkwood, spent Sunday
With Mr.. and Mrs. ]. D. Mccoy near
Jayot.
Mrs. W. T. Malster and Misses Florence
md Sarah Malster, of Baltimore, are
pending the summer with Mrs. Annie
jonrey.
The Mite Society of the NJ. E. Church
1ill hold a strawberry and ice cream
sstivai on the church lawn Friday and
aturday evenings OF this week.
Council No. "a, Jr. o. U. A. M, will
ttend service in the NJ. E. Church Sum
ay evening, June IS. All members are
to wear their badges.
The Masons held banquet in the Ma
,nic Hall Tuesday. The refreshments
ere served by the ladies of the st. Mon.
a's Guild, for the benefit of the church.
The Chesapeake City base ball team ]
as defeated by the Rising Sun team on
aturday, the score being 9 to l. The !
Using Sun team will play here Saturday.
ONE out and help the boys along.
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WARWICK

Mrs. Louisa Crawford visited her son
part Of last week.
Rev. F. S. CAin. of Rowlandssille, was
q town on Tuesday.
Mr.. Robert Lipscomb is spending this
week at his home in Warwick.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. R. Merritt spent Sun
day with her sister, Mrs. U. P. CHM.
Mr.. Victor Smith was the guest of his
sister, Mrs. John Lattomus, over Sunday.
Miss Mae Roe was the guest of Miss
Bessie W. Gunkel Monday and Tuesday.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Horace Eaton visited Mr..
Robert Morgan and family part of last
week.
Miss Beulah Cullum has returned home.
after visiting relatives in Washington,
D. G.
Preaching services will be held in the
N. T. Church tomorrow morning at eight
o'clock.
Miss Josephine Aiken is spending some.
time with her grandmother, Mrs. Jose-
phine Wilson.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. D. Aiken, of Earle.
vile, epent Sunday with her mother,
Mrs. Josephine Wilson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Everett, of Balti-
more, visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred Jones, last week.
Mrs. B. F. Blackburn and Mrs. William
Bndd were the guests of Mr. and Mrs,
K. B. Merritt, Sr., part of last week.
Mrs. A. Moore and Miss Eva Holden,
OF Chester, spent several days of last week
with their parePts, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Holden.
Quite number from here attended the |
Glass Day and Commencement exercises
Of the MiddIetown High School on Thurs |
day and Friday evenings.
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LOCAL PRIDE

If there be one better way than
another to ruin a town, 1t is for
those who live in it to go about
apologizing for its existence.
There are some who are always
ready to say, by their actions at
least, that this place on'tamount
to much. They will tell you that
the town is dead; that no one
would think of stopping here;
that some town adjacent is more
respectable, more enterprising,
has better people, better enjoy.
ments, is ahead of Us in every
thing. This is all wrong. Even
if it be true, no one should ever
admit it, when it comes to max
ing q comparison. Every good
citizen of this town should take.
q special local pride in all that
pertains to home. The schools,
the churches, the amusements,
the business, pleasures, the pic
MICS, the celebrations, in fact
everything should be looked on
by our own people as just as
good as can be gotten up else
where. The town that says "we
can" will always succeed. The
town that says, "Oh, I don'tknow,
I don't think it will amount to
much, is never of much force.
If you have no local pride, bor-
row some.
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u EGIsTER's ORDER.
REGISTER OF WILLS OFFICE,

REGISTER OF WILLS OFFICE,
NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DEL, Jan. l3, 1909
Upon the application of Hownrd A. Pool
Administrator of Ella P. Cochran, late Of
st. Georges Hundred, in said county deceased,
it is ordered and directed by the Register
of Wills that the Administrator aforesaid
give notice of Letters of Administration
of granting thereof, by causing advertisements
to be posted within forty days from the date
of such Letters in six of the most public
places of the County OF New Castle, requiring
all persons having demands against the estate
TO present the same or abide by an act of
Assembly In such case made and SroVided;
and also cause the same to be inserted within
the same period in THE MIDDLEToWN TRAN
SCRIPT, a newspaper published in Middle
town, DEL, and to be continued therein ten
times.
~, Given under the hand and seal of
SEAL. office of the Register of Wills afore-
1>@-' said, at Wilmington, in New Castle
County aforesaid, the day and year above
written.
FRANCIS M. WALKER, Register of Wills.
NoTICE-Noticeis hereby given that Letters
granted unto the undersigned on the Thir-
teenth day of January, A. b. 1909, and that all
persons having claims against the estate of
the deceased must present the same, duly at
tested TO the said Administrator ON or before
the Thirteenth day of January l9l0 or abide
the Act of Assembly in such case made and
provided
HOWARD A. POOL,
AdministTatLr.
Address Howard A. Pool
McDonough. Delaware.
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Col. A. K. MsClure Dead

Col. Alexander X. Mcclure, prothono.
tary of the Supreme and Superior Courts
OF Pennsyiyania, and for many yeals q
prominent figure in politics and journal.
ism, died Sunday at his home in WaIling-
ford. Delaware County, aged eiglty-one
years. Col. Mcclure was perhaps better
known in this part Of the country 10 the
connection With the Philadelphia Times
OF which be was one Of The founders ID
1875 and which be edited until 1901,
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Meeting Of Commissioners
Of Town of MiddIetOwn

On motion, an ordinance was passed
this day that all automobiles speeding at
rate Of over Six (6) miles per hour, or
not blowing at all Street Corners and
Crossings. or not showing proper lights,
fine Of ten $1,000 dollars for each end
every offense will be imposed.
BY order TowE COMMISSIONERS.
NAY 18th. 1909.
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M. BANNING.
DEALER IN FINE
GROCERIES !!

The home of good garden and flour seed.
We have selected these from the best
seedsmen in the country, so if you want
q good harvest you must plant good seed.
MATTTNGS
Our new mattings, both Chins and
japanese are in. Very handsome. Long
straw ,reyersable,in in beautiful carpet effect
striped or aowered designs. Japanese
mattings at 25, %, 80, 50 to 6Oc per yard,
cut. Less for whole roll. China mattings
at Is, 20 to 25c per yard, cut. Less for
whole roll.
Potter's new oil cloth for floor, table.
stair and shelves. Some pretty patterns
to select from.
New musIins, India Linen, long cloth
cambria, Persian lawn, etc.
Table linen, towel crash and towels. A
lot of Bates seersucker in pretty patterns.
We have some splendid values in
brooms, scrub, white-wash and dust
brushes.
Don't forget our line OF Colgate's Toilet
goods.
When in need Of fne and fancy grocer
les, foreign and domestic fruits, also fresh
vegetable call on US. We shall endeavor
to give you goods that will satisfy and
please you or money refunded.
Goods delivered from 7.3O A. NJ, to
IL noon, also from to P. NJ.
Long distance phone, 60.
Store open from 6 A. M. to 8P. M.