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Evening journal., 1910-06-06
HISTORY OF old
BOWERS BEACH
Well Known Summer Resort
Growing Into "City by
the Sea"
LAND PATENTED
BACK In 1875

Many Wilmingtonians will be in
terestod i'm the following historical
sketch OF Bowers Beach. which is con-
trihuted 10 the Milford Chronicle by
Isaac r.. Jester.
According TO record, the land upon
which the town of Bowers is situated,
was the first land patented IN south
Murderkll hundred. This was war
ranted to Francis Whitwell by Sir Ed
mond Andres. in 1915. The entire
tract of this first patent contained
nealy fourteen hundred acres. and was
called Whitwers Delight Ten years
later, in 1855, IL passed 10 the owner
ship of William Firampton, who died
year later About the same time
moro than four hundred acres was
purchased by Nathaniel Hum and
comprises that portion now occupied
by Bowers Beach. In 1886 Mr. Hum
died. leaving a widow and three chill
dren, namely. Nathaniel. Sarah and
Priscilla. A year later Mrs. HUM
married George Bowers and by him
was the mother of one child. John
Bowers. After the death of George
Bowers. Priscilla Bowers. his widow,
married for her third husband. Will
liam Rodney. one Of the first of that
name who came to America, shortly
after the landing of Penn.
William Rodney had previously
been married and had been the ances-
tor Of eight children He was the
grandfather Of Caesar Rodney. the
signer of the Declaration of Independ-
ence. to whom most of his great
b. fHH. a. ia
IN t7OS. after which time his widow,
Priscilla. married her fourth and last
husband. man by the name Of Gill
bert. whose first name is not known.
This remarkable woman died I'm 172i.
After her death the HUM children
sold their interest in the estate to their
half brother. John Bowers. and hence
forward It has been known as Bowers
Beach Tho property remained IN
| possession Of the Bowers family from
1884 until 1si7. period Of four gen
erations The fouth generation was
/ John Bowers, Elizabeth. who was the
wife Of Joshua Adams: Anna, wife oi
! Philip Shockley. and Sarah, wife OF
/ Captain John Erricson.
"John sold his interest to his brother.
/ in-law Joshua Adams. whose wife
/ Elizabeth, held an interest in the prop.
erty upon which the hotel was located
! Captain John Erricson. through his
wife. inherited a part Of the farm ad.
| joining the hotel property. upon which
they lived many ears and finally SOLE
II to Samuel II. Short. Mrs. Shockley
left one son. John r. Shockley. whC
later married a daughter Of Henry
! f..1 s,l
| Kits Hammock.
when the property passed from thu
Bowers family the name still remain
cd. Sometime in the decade Of thu
hfties. Peter Bonter. a German o
| Pennsylvania, bought the property an,
he and his son-in-law. Edward Aiman
run the hotel FOR several years Dur
ing the years Of the Civil War, tn
moral tone Of this watering place wal
at low ebb. perhaps tho lowest in III
Evening journal., 1910-06-06

you So
Mr.. Spreckles is not exactly a muc1raker lie
has engaged in fighting graft and corruption not
because of the love of such fighting but because
he deems it to be his duty. And the good thing
about him is that he has not teen discouraged
because the reformers have received a setback
in San Francisco
The headquarters of the organization to fight
corruption will probably be in Chicago where
there arc all sorts of organizations for civic i'm
provcmcnt and graft fighting.
One of the latest, by the way, is the Sunday
evening club, novel idea. II was started as a
Sunday evening meeting of citizens supposed 10
have no regular homes except boarding houses
strangers i'm Chicago. Noted speakers address
ed the club and the attendance during the win
ter season reached 1000 at a meeting. From
these gatherings has sprung one bigAOrganizauon
devoted to good citizenship. There are many
others
Mr. Spreckes says that there has been so much
bribery and CORRUPTION exposed that the nation is
in peril lie adds:
disclosures like those taking place in Illi-
nois politics reflect the state of public honor.
Politics capital and labor all are ON a basis OF
corruption. The sale of a Senatorship is moth
ing out of harmony with these times. Every
centre of legislation from Washington down is
now centre Of disappointment and alarm to the
public. The men we have counted on have fail
ed us. The principles on which they were elected
have proved a fallaov
"The Illinois legislative investigation only
shows a special feature of the rottcnncss that has
fastened on our Government The unrest and
hatred arc growing menacing. We can wait no
longer to take the steps to put our politics on an
honest basis
He says that he intends to devote the remand
Of his life to the movement to restore the pur-
ity Of American politics and American business.
A great task he has undertaken, but one worthy
of any mans ambition TO serve his country. The
new organization is to start business in Septem-
ber Centers will be organized in different cities
There is no reason why it should not become Il
powerful influence for good
Evening journal., 1910-06-06
KANSAS VIEW OF LIFE

Atchison Globe
Every girl can give the impression
when away from home that her parents
are rich. but a boy can't do It.
Home grown gooseberries are coming TO
market. They make a pie that we pre-
fer to any other table joy. But, alas, we
can't cat pie.
When a womans kin comes to visit
her should she apologize to her husband
and say that they are coming awfully
fast or should she accept It as a right
and say nothing?
we can look at any mans dinner pail
and tell IL his wife loves him. A woman
shows lots of her personal feeling in the
way she packs boiled eggs and sand
wiches I'm a dinner pail.
Eating an you can set IS what gives
people stomach trouble
II farmer miiSs that IS sign his
wife has the upper hand.
II a hoy consents 20 wear shoes in SUM
mer it is to walk on the feet of the boy
who goes barefoot.
"When smoke a cheroot IT Is as a
punishment for being fool enough to
smoke. brake Watson
Evening journal., 1910-06-06

arm that had attracted my attention. He
had hit upon a simple plan Of doing tw>
days work In one,
For awhile after making this discovery
stood watching him. AS he neared me
heard him talking to his horses as
though they were intelligent beings. and
they seemed TO obey him almost instinct
lively. And 80, with perfect understand
ing, as It we're. established between him
and them, the Captain both narrowed and
sowed at the same time and ] presume,
in the course OF the day had the field com
pletely narrowed and sown. Later in the
year 1 saw it as a hourlshlng field OF
grain; and afterwards. when 1 heard Of
Grants strategy at Vioksburg, which re-
vealed 10 the country tho mans ingenuity
and strategy at their best, there came 10
my mind a vivid picture Of a soldier
farmer. astrlde a horse, narrowing field.
and at the same time, through the exer-
else or q little ingenuity sowing tina.
field with grain carried in a sack upon
the back OF the other horse hitched to the
harrow"
Copyright, 1910. by r. j. Edwards. All
rights reserved)
Evening journal., 1910-06-06
Personal and Pertinent

Many the people I'm Bethlehem emgrate. for they
have OF travel and make excellent colonists It
Is possible upon men OF Bethlehem I'm eastern
Africa and n Hayti, Now for the first time
remarkable headdresses for which the married
Of Bethlehem famous. They are large and
entirely conceal the hair told that the founda-
ton a stiffened and covered with cotton Chains
OF silver on which are strung silver coins orna-
the front, and a white veil made of cotton
gives the finishing touch Strongly built and active. the
matrons of Bethlshem look very imposing they go
about their affairs. and should scarcely think they
live in great subiecton 10 their husbands That they
make alarming mother-in-laws I well believe There
is proverb in Palestine, Were the mother law to
love her daughtern-aw dogs would into paradise"
Century.
Evening journal., 1910-06-06
NATIONAL HOUSE CLEANING.

az 7 the moment when the chaplain OF the
n United States Senate was deporing the
tendency towards pessimism and President But
Ter, Of Columbia University, was decrying SINH
lar faults Rudolph Spreokes the San Francisco
millionaire and graft fighter. was considering
plans for a nationwide crusade to cleanse Amer
ican politics. There have been many to decry
muckraking. but it. is unfortunate for the oppo-
rents OF the muckrakers that about the time
they think reaction is 10 set IN. something
breaks loose TO support the muckrakers The
revelations in Pittsburg and the charges that his
skat IN the Senate was purchased for Senator
l&imcr. Of Illinois. bolster up the muckrakers
aud\pui them in the position Of saying II told
Evening journal., 1910-06-06

Make a note now TO get Ely's Cream
Balm II you arc troubled with nasal ca
tarrh. hay fever or cold I'm the head. II
is purifying and soothing TO the sensi-
tive membrane that lines the air-pas-
sages It is made to overcome the dis
ease, not to fool the patient by a short
deceptive relief There Is no cocaine
nor mercury in IT, Do not be talked
into taking a substitute for Ely's Cream
Balm. All druggists sell it. Price soc
Mailed by Ely Bros sc Warren
street, New York.
Evening journal., 1910-06-06

The Dover Sentinel puts the political situation
pertnently when it says that a Democratic vic
tory next autumn would mean, as far as the Dem
ocratic utra-partisans can effect it, the undoing
of all that the Republicans have been able To-
do. all the Democratic party has been able to
ooncede and the forcing of the state back into
the political condition from which it only cs-
caped-less than score of years ago-after a
desparing struggle of forty years duration. And
there are indications that the Democratic parti-
sans would try to turn the tide backward.
Evening journal., 1910-06-06

Icould not do any of
my housework. My
sickness was called
Retrohexion. When
l would sit down 1
felt as if 1 could not
ge t up. l took
Lydia r. Pinkham's
lVege t a Bile Com
pound and did just
as you told me and
I now 1 am perfectly
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Evening journal., 1910-06-06

The strawberry crop in Delaware this year,
according to all reports has been record break
er Good prices have been realized by the
growers. Sussex county has received consider
able money from strawberries. Fortunate is
Sussex. The strawberry yield is but the begin
ming of what promises TO be an exceptionally
good year for Delaware farmers. The outlook
for crops OF all kinds is splendid at present and
bountiul harvests arc promised.
Evening journal., 1910-06-06

When Ulysses S. Grant flashed across
the country consciousness as the captor
% Forts Donelson and Henry, there soon
began to De circulated stories of his life
on the Dent farm. near st. Louis, follow
Ing his marriage with Miss Julia Dent
Todays anecdote goes back TO that period
ina the great generals life. and it was
told by Lieutenant sappington to one
OF the prosent-day long time residents Of
ST. Louis. Henry G. spore, Esq, who
passed it on to me.
OF lived not very far from Captain Grant
when he was cuIuvatng portion of the
Dent farm" said Lieutenant sappington,
who. like Mr.. Den's son-in-law, had
served in the regular army. often / saw
tho Captain al work in the fields. both
early and late, and in this way / came to
learn that be was a perfect master OF
horses 1 remember that upon one occa.
sion 1 saw him trudging behind a pair OF
horses as he plowed a field which. 1 hac
been told. his father-in-iaw had given him
for clearing it.
Some days after had thus beheld Cap
tain Grant earning his bread by the sweat
of his brow / happened TO be passing his
way again. when, stin some piece off
saw something that made me stop ant
lcok iu a sort of wonder
PLAINLY enough. Grant was narrowing
the field with the same horses he hat
plowed it with few days before. He alsS
was riding one Of the horses, but why
was he swinging an arm IN such ener
getic fashion? At hrst. thought he
might be doing it to guide the horses. bu
they kept ON In a Straight line through
the field. and I knew that my guess wa.
wrong Perhaps he is using the lash or
them. I said to myself, but a moment
later / made out that he had no whip n
his hand
"By and by as I stood watching the un
usual sight. the Captain turned his tear
at the corner OF the field. and then for tn,
first time. ] saw what he was up TO
Upon the back OF the horse which he wa.
not riding he had fastened a large sack
containing scod-wheat. think It was
at this late date, though fl may nav,
been oats Anyway with one eve upon tn,
harrow. TO see that It vas working prop
erly and with tho other upon his horses
the Captain. with a sort az methodica
rhythm, was thrusting hand into th'
sack Of grain. Withdrawing II fled witt
seed and scattering the contents over th'
I field with that energetic swing OF h
Evening journal., 1910-06-06
Mrs. ANNA ANDERSON, Box 10, B
Duck, MINI.
Consider This Advice,


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This famous medicine for women
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Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass,
invites all sick women to write
her for advice Her advice is free,
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Evening journal., 1910-06-06
ANOTHER
WOMAN
I CURED
ByLydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Black Duck, Minn.-"About a year
ago wrote you that | was sick and
Evening journal., 1910-06-06
new NEWS OF YESTERDAY
How Grant Did Two Days
Work in One
BY "Ho;land."

This daily series OF aneco0tes and incl
dents that throw new. interesting and fire.
quenuy dramatic light On famous events
and personalities or the past have Dsen
collected by Mr.. Edwards during near
forty years OF more or less ncimate ac-
qualntance with many of the country 8
ecdote or incident is fresh from Mr.. I'D
ward S notebook, ond, either in whole or
IN part. IL constitutes NEW NEWS OF
IESTERDAI. sarnered from the men
VINO mate the MeWs-the history-or from
equally authoritative sources. AS i'm
purtaut contributions OF the Human In
terest' sort to American history these
articles have a distinctive value all their
own.
Evening journal., 1910-06-06

The unitee Pub
fishers Association
through its Presi-
dent, Mr.. Arthur
koppeli has ex-
q m l cd THE
JOURNALS cir
culation and Mr.
lSoppell offers TO
wager $1,000 OF his
own money, ana
undertake TO prove
that THE EVEN
ING JOURNAL
has tho largest
paid circulation OF
, any paper printed
in Wilmington.
Evening journal., 1910-06-06

A graft hunt of considerable size is under way
at Schenectady, n. " and as a result thirtv-six
indictments have been found by the grand jury.
Nineteen persons arc involved. The Supreme
Court was called in extraordinary session bv
Governor Hughes to investigate the graft charges
and the indictments followed Those indicted
are chiefly supervisors and former supervisors.
but others concerned in the city work are impli-
Gated. Graft hunts seem to be fashionable in a
number of cities at present
Evening journal., 1910-06-06

The United Publishers Assooia-
ZION of New York City has invests
aated, and certifies TO, the olrcu-
Iatlon Of this publication. these
facts have been established, ana
guaranteed TO advertisers
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Evening journal., 1910-06-06
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Evening journal., 1910-06-06

Tomorrow Mr.. Edwards will tell Of
the american Operate Star Who Had
TO Succeed"
Evening journal., 1910-06-06
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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-30
HOW YosT GOT START.
Story Of Michigan coach's Early Grid
iron Experiences.

Toledo. Ohio, Nov. 29.-"Iiurry- up
Yost, famous Michigan coach. owes no
small measure of his gridiron fame to
Holland Webster.
Webster put Yost i'm the coaching
business back i'm 1896, when Webster
vas president of the Ohio Wesleyan
athletic association and Yost was at
tracing attention a fresh water coli
lege team.
In those days the Wesleyan athletic
association had n poor team, for the
reason that never more than $3.50 was
appropriated for coach. Webster
offered Yost $3.50 to coach the Della
ware eleven.
The faculty threatened to fire Web
ster for his action.
Yost then offered to work for moth
ing. Under Yost's leadership an eleven
was whipped into shape and the
championship of Ohio was won. The
Wesleyan eleven that season held
Michigan to to 0 score.
This performance attracted general
attention to Yost and he began mount
ing the ladder of fame. After coach
ing on the Pacific coast Yost won the
championship of the Missouri valley
with the University of Nebraska team
and the title next year for Kansas
Then he went to Michigan.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-30
MICHIGAN DAILY ROASTS
CHICAGO FOOTBALL COACH

The Michigan Daily gave Coach
stagg Of Chicago a grilling editorially
I'm it's last issue. criticising his inter-
ference in Michigan Minnesota rela-
lions. The student publication said:
"Alonzo Stage, head Of athletics at
the University Of Chicago, has an
nounced that Minnesota should not be
allowed TO schedule athletic con-
tests with Michigan. The maroon
mentor seems 20 be voicing the senti-
ment OF the majority TO the western
conference. which he appears 10 con-
troll.
1T is difficult 10 determine upon
what grounds the conference can con-
sistently dictate to the Gophers that
they shall not schedule football games
with the Wolverines and remain IN
the big eight" When Michigan meets
Minnesota the contest is governed by
the conference rules. strictly interpret
ed and enforced. Yet the athletic au-
thorities Of the University of Chicago.
who are working themselves into a
, state of righteous Indignation over the
matter. pit their eleven against Corn
eli without asking the Ithacans TO
conform 10 the conference rulings; so.
} too. Illinois meets Syracuse without
rules or regulations.
{ almost every conference eleven
plays one or more games with a nom
conference school In the West. If any
conference school is to be allowed t.
schedule game with any confer
cnce school. and Michigan stands
ready to fulhn the conference rules
when she meets the Gophers. there
seems no way i'm which the big eight
can dictate to Minnesota with any
show or logic that she shall not PLAY
Michigan. any such action would be
plainly unfair discrimination"
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-30
MORAN DlsLlkEs TERMS.
Says Wolgast Wants Too Much in
Asking to Name Referee.

San Francisco. November 30.--Owen
Moran, the British lightweight who
knocked out Battmg Nelson in the
eleventh round here OF their fight here
has left FOR New York. Moran re-
ceiyeJ several offers 70 appear on the
stage, and he probably, will accept one.
Charley Harvey, Moran's manager,
said today that he wanted Moran to
meet Al Wolgast and was willing To
wait until the champion was ready to
fight. but he did not look with favor
upon the terms chat Wolgast dictat-
cd last night-a guarantee of $l2,5OO
and the right to name the referee.
It is ridiculous for Wolgast TO talk
of naming the referee" said Harvey.
1t would XIII the fight at the start.
The game is not i'm such shape now
that guarantees of that kind can be
given"
Nelson got hold of Promoter Cof-
froth today and wanted To get the
next open date for a fight with VOL
CAST. Nelson insists that he can beat
the champion. despite the knockout hy
Moran yesterday 1t IL understood
however. that the promoters here are
not considering putting Nelson in the
ring again at this time.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-30
STUDENTS WANT GAME.

Students at the University of Min
ncsota are heartily in favor Of a foot
hall game between the Gophers and
Michigan next year, although it was
threatened that relations between
these two universities would be brok-
en-. The students signed circulars to
this effect and sent them to the ath-
etic board.
Advices from Michigan state that
the Wolverines will not be represent
ed at the meeting of the Big Eight nj
Chicago this week. The 1910-i9ll
weston champions are preparing next
years schedule and plan to have a
game with Pennsylvania and Syracuse
and possibly with Princeton.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-30
new YORK BOXING LAWS
WILL Be QUITE STRICT

New York, Nov 3O--When the next
Legislature convenes at Albany bill
VIII be introduced legallzing public ex-
hibitions OF limited number of
rounds before Incorporated athletic
clubs. Several well known boxing en-
thusiasts are behind this measure and
have received assurance that il will
meet with some approval. 1t is under
stood that the bill will include a pro-
vision for a state boxing commission
to be composed of three members to
be appointed by the governor and
whose duties will include the issuing
Of licenses to clubs of recognized sta
bility. The trainers of the bill believe
that clubs should pay high fees for
licenses, say $1,000 per club annually.
with percentage of net receipts to
be collected as a state tax, the entire
money thus realized to be turned over
to the states charitable institutions.
BY exacting big license fee and a
tax II is figured that the proposed
boxing law would bar fly by night
clubs from operating and would limit
the number of legitimate organiZa-
| tions to comparatively few. A state
commission, IL is shown, would also
grant a permit for each contest, 50
that it would he possible to prevent
! battles that might be termed prize
! fights" because of the notoriety Of the
pugilists. The commission would also
have power to frame rules governing
the clubs which would compel all con-
testants to be physically examined by
competent doctors: TO appoint Official
! referees. who would have To show 4
| thorough knowledge of how to conduct
| q match; also to adopt a uniform SET
of boxing rules, stipulating the weight
of the gloves, the size of the ring, the
time for weighing and the limits i'm al
classes.
1t is planned to limit the number OF
rounds of each contest to twenty
rounds of three minutes each, with 9
compulsory rule that referees must
prevent knockouts at all hazards
Clubs that permit open betting OF
bouts will forfeit their licenses, which
may also be revoked by the commits.
sion for any other breach of the rules
The object i'm trying to have such
bill passed is to keep boxing on higl
plane. cutting out irresponsible promo
tiers who allow inexperienced boys ant
young men To fight for n few dollars IN
the back room of saloons or in concer
halls under the guise of athletic
clubs"