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Have Been Spending Some
Time at Pittsfield.
Massachusetts,.

Mr.. and Mrs. William Barrett Ridgely
will arrive in Washington tomorrow
from Pittsfield, Mass, where Mrs.
Ridgely and her mother, Mrs. bearing.
have been spending the latter part of
the summer, following their return from
French Lick Springs, Ind. Mr.. Ridgely
| recently Joined them, after spending the
greater part of the summer IN WASH
ington.
Gardeners Go to
Hamilton, Massachusetts,.
Representative and Mrs. A. p. Gard
ner. who spent the summer at their
place on Mingo Beach Hill, are now
at Hamilton, Mass, for the autumn.
Henncn Jennings and Miss Katherine
Jennings are spending'a few weeks in
New York at the Hotel Wolcott
The new secretary of the Cuban lega-
ton, Antonio GARLIC, who succeeds
Arturo Pedro Almeida, has arrived in
Washington. Mr.. Almeida has been
years in Washington. Mr.. Quesada.
the former minister here, Is In charge
Of the legation at Berlin.
r. ana 01TS, "lSIONo nave tcdSCu
their suburban place. Hichlanis Manor,
| to Mr.. Meyer, of the Interstate Com
merce Commission. and are at 81 Six
tennth street for the winter.
=
Miss Maude Clark
WEEDS W, z. Donaldson.
Miss Maude /. Clarke and William e.
Donaldson were married last evening
at o'clock at. the parsonage of the
Ryland NJ. 4. Church. the pastor, the
Rev. B. w. Weeks. officiating, in the
presence Of a few relatives and init
mate friends.
Mr.. and Mrs Donaldson will reside
at 6o6 Tenth street southwest.
The marriage of Miss Bertha e.
Whitesell and Ohio c. Huffman took
place yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock
at the residence of the brides brother
in-law and sister. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
wedding ceremony, which was per-
formed by the Rev. c. E. Fultz. was
attended by a small party Of relatives
and friends. An informal reception fol-
lowed the ceremony and later in the
afternoon Mr.. and Mrs. Huffman left
Washington for Old Point Comfort.
They will reside in Welsh, w. Va,
where Mr. HUI is interested in a min
ing company.
Mrs. Henry McWilliams, Of Belmont
street, accompanied by her daughter,
Miss Mae McWilliams. and Miss Julia
Il. Colt. will leave next week for Musk
ogee, Okla, for an indefinite stay
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Everybody's Question Box-Answers to Queries

market only to farmers who sell their
own produce and they charge from N.5O
to IS a month.
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specify what kind of sweet pickle you
wish to put up the recipe can be pub
lished.
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Mr. and Mrs. William B. Rdgely
Will Return to Capital Tomorrow
Mrs. Logan Leaves
To Join Husband

Mrs. Logan, wife Of Commander
George w Logan, U. q. N, has closed
their apartment in the Connecticut
and gone to Annapolis to join her hus-
band, who was ordered to duty there
early in August. Commander Logan
formerly was captain Of the Mayfiower.
Gen. George M. Sternberg, u. 8. A.,
and Mrs. Sternberg, returned to WASH
ineton last evening from Montgomery
county. Maryland. where they have
spent the last several weeks. They will
for Virginia Hot Springs for fall visit
DIR. and Mrs. G. B. Miller. who are
now abroad, are expected to return to
washington about October 10 and open
their residence IN < street.
DR.. Robert w. Baker has returned to
Washington from New York. where he
and Mrs. Baker spent the greater part
OF the summer; Mrs; Baker, who now
Y, will Join Mr.. Baker at their res
dence in street the latter part Of the
month.
Miss A. M. Graham and Miss Eliza
beth Birth Baldwin. who have been
travelling abroad since July, have re-
turned to washington.
q
DR.. Tom A. williams Is visiting at
the Virginia White Sulphur Springs. He
win return about the last Of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Muller and son,
who spent the summer in European
travel, having visited Berlin, Vienna,
Washington, and opened their residence
at I'LL Seventeenth street for the will
ter.
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Times Inquiry Department:

Times Inquiry Department:
Will you kindly tell me who captured John
Brown and what became Of him7
Yours truly. CURIOUS.
John Brown was captured by Robert
Lee at HarpeTs Ferry, and he was tried
and hanged as a conspirator.
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Senator Chamberlain
Starts Home This Evening.

Senator George e. Chamberlain will
leave for his home In Portland, Ore.
this evening. He remained after the ad-
journment of Congress to close up a
few matters in the departments af-
fecting his State, and TO await the ar
rival Of his sons, DR.. Charles T. Cham
berlain and George z. Chamberlain. jr.
The former, after a visit to his father.
has gone to Vienna to take POSTCARD
uate course In medicine, and the lat
ter has been placed in the Tome School
for Boys at Port Deposit. Md. Senator
Chamberlain will return to Washington
with his wife and daughters about the
middle of October.
p
Col. Bevero de la Cerda, the new mil
itary attache of the Mexican embassy,
who but recently arrived in Washing
ton, left yesterday for Chicago. where
he will represent the Mexican govern
ment at the International Good Roads
Congress.
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Z. NJ. Coates.
U. s. A, are expected 10 return to
Washington shortly from jamestown,
r. l., where they have been spending
the summer at the Bayview Hotel
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Times Inquiry Department:

Times Inquiry Department:
Please tell me what the value is on the
following coins: penny dated 1851 and a
b0-cent piece dated 1873. Thanking you in
advance, / am, Yours truly, W. G. A.
The penny is worth from 10 to 40
cents, but the 50-cent piece has no
numismatic value.
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Times Inquiry Department:
have been keeping company with a young
man. and when he goes out with me he
rlrts with other girls What can do with
him? BESSIE NJ
In the first place 1 should ask him
very politely. but very firmly, to re-
frain from such rude conduct, and II
my request was disregarded 1 should
not go out with him again.
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Times Inquiry Department:

Times Inquiry Department:
Will you kindly tell me II there is any
place in the city to which can send unruly
girls at reasonable rates? Yours truly,
J. c. K
II they are Protestants you can send
them to the House Of Mercy, and If
they are Catholics you can send them
to the House Of the Good Shepherd.
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In the heat of summer, wash day as
sumes double terrors for many women
When the very earth seems painting
under the suns heat it is awful to have to
make big fire and boil and toll most of
the day.
It's easier, better, wiser to use
Fels-Naptha soap which takes the place of
the hot fire, the hot water, the sufocating
steam, the back-breaking rubbing.
1t makes the clothes cleaner and sweet
er than they can be made by the old boil
ing, toiling method.
You don't need to rub the dirt out
because Fels-Naptha loosens and dissolves it.
Of course, clothes last about twice as
long to say nothing of compilations, soft
hands, good health in general.
Fels-Naptha soap is as good for every
other kind of homework as for the wash
for cleaning windows, glass and china, for :
scrubbing floors and Frightening up wood
work.
Remember to use only cool or luke
warm water. Just follow directions on the
red and green wrapper in which you buy
the soap.
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LOCAL MENTION.

Oysters. Md. Quick, 6Io 9th, 1908 Pa. ave
Phone Electric Webster M. $3.50. TT 9th
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Please give me a cheap recipe for making
chocolate caramels, the chevy kind ana
oblige, FlNhi'
Boil together two pounds Of graRu-
lated sugar, a quarter Of pound o.
grated chocolate, a half-pint of milk,
quarter of a pound Of butter. Cook I'M
Ill bit hardens when dropped into cold
water, flavor with vanilla, pour into
creased tins and mark into squares.
Times Inquiry Department:
Where is John Paul Jones' body buried?
Where is the memorial to him erected rs
one erected in Potomac Park! IhanKnB
you In advance, am, Respectfully:
John Paul Jones' body is buried at
Annapolis and there Is a memorial
erected to him there. There Is TO be
memorial erected to him on the Speed
way and the foundations for It are
being laid now.
Times Inquiry Department:
Would YOU kindly tell me who is the man
ager Of Chase's Theater. and oblige' J. y.
The manager Of Chase's Theater Is
Miss H. w. Dewitt.
Times Inquiry department.
Will you kindly inform me through the
Inquiry Column the salary OF sergeant
In the United States Marine Corps; also Of a
lieutenant? Thanking you, I remain
A DAILY READER.
A sergeant in the United States Ma
rine Corps gets a salary Of $50 a month,
and a lieutenant gets S1,70o year.
Times Inquiry Department:
Kindly tell me II girl Of sixteen years
can enter Strayers Business School when she
has not gone through the eighth grade: also
tell me the cost per month. Yours truly.
TIMES READER.
You can enter Strayer's Business
School. and the tuition is 81 month.
Times Inquiry Department:
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Times Inquiry Department:
Kindly inform Prof. Oliver whether per-
mission Is required to use the mails for
psychic reading literature in Philadelphia
or elsewhere, and greatly obliga
PROF. OLIVER.
You had better submit a specimen
Of your literature to the postmaster of
the city from which you send the
psychic reading II you have any doubt as
to the legality of using 1t.
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Mrs. De Spdsr-'H you'd seen my complexion before
married, you wouldn't believe could lose it so soon
And look at my hands all red and chapped. I'd give
anything to be cured"
Anty Drxdse-'1tTl cost you only small amount my
dear. Just buy cake of Fels-Naptha SOAP Then
you do your washing without boiling the clothes
and without hard rubbing. Your complexion win
improve when you quit stearning it every wash day.
And the cool lukewarm water you use with
Fels-Naptha won't hurt your hands,"
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Train wreckers.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus Ridgely have
returned to their residence in Four
teenth street, after spending a short
time in Atlantic City.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Strasburger. OF
1874 Fairmont street northwest, left
yesterday for a trip to Old Point Com
fort. They will return next Saturday.
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A description does not do justice 70
the latest novelty that is being shown
at the Juliet shop, and which is known
as the tower ostrich feather hat. 1t is
the latest thing in Paris, according to
my informant, a hat not unlike the ting
a-lfng shape Of recent memory, COM
pletely covered with ostrich feather
bands, and trimmed simply with a
straight fibred ostrich quiIl at the left
side It comes In nearly every shade,
and In combinations Of black and white,
brown and green, and other chic har-
monies.
Then another novelty in the Juliet
shop IL the feather sets of three pieces.
hats, stoles, and nuns. Maribou, which
will run furs a close race this season,
Is used for carrying out a clever idea
which is exclusive with this shop. A
large fiat mum, satin lined, opens to
display a bag that is sufficiently capaci
Gus to carry purse, handkerchief, and
all the other sartorIal impedimentia with
which the average woman burdens her
Eelf. The stole is large and fiat, and
the maribou hat Is on The soft hood
model, coming far over the ears and
face, almost extinguishing the wearer.
Ike the snuffer on a candle.
One Of the handsomest hats shown IN
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24

allied at the modest figure of
500, 600, thus showing how little
actual Investment is needed in
the express business. 1t pays
so per cent dividends and this
after paying nearly half its gross
receipts to the railroad.
The conclusion drawn by the
writer in the American maga-
zine is that this country needs
either parcel post, or some
means of control that will bring
express rates down to a decent
figure, and keep the express bus
mess from being exclusively a
breeding station for multimillion-
aires.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24
Surprise Party.

On Friday evening. February
II, about thirty of the friends and
neighbors of Mr.. and Mrs. Otis
7. Smith, gave them a very pleas
ant surprise. The evening was
spent playing progressive high
five, Miss Cornelia Fink winning
ladies' prize and Mr.. George
Campbell gentlemen's prize and
Paul Fink BOBBY prize. At
twelve o'clock refreshments were
served. Allhad a pleasant time.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24

George DeWolf of South Da-
kota has purchased the Lothrop
ranch of $40 acres which is three
miles north of Arvada and will
take possession about March 10.
w. c. Dunn, who has been
farming the place for the past
five years, has not decided what
business he will engage in.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24
Or. 1. | 0 W Err
Writes Interesting Letter to
Readers Of The En-
prise.

To the Arvada Enterprise
Your friends may be pleased
to get a few lines from me away
in this new prairie land of prom
Use.
We had a very cold spell in
January which froze some chick
MS and a hog, also one of the
mares died. with dew poison in
';tle fore. leg; two weeks latersthl
|osher mare died suddenly in the
night, and was not known to Be
$ ck.N
My son is breaking a yoke of
oxen, drove them first this week.
Jur cattle are doing well on but
filo grass alone. Some are fat
,nough for beef.
This is a peculiar valley with
many nice soft water springs all
around the bluffs. Doubtful il
my like it can be found among
ne mountain.
The people are generally IN
good health. We are well ex.
cept | have felt dizzy for a few
lays similar to the feeling | hao
When knocked from the wagon
n Denver.
We have but little snow, but il
moved some last night and is
moving a little now. The ground
very dry and does not freeze.
tarlon made nice hay in January.
he Gramm grass cures on the
ground.
We have a nice Sunday school
f about twenty-five members
which meets at the nome If VIII.
lower who is superintendent and
assistant. We use the Presby-
Carian Helps. Our name is Pleas.
mt Valley Sunday School.
This region is being settled
apidly. AS the people home.
cad 320 acres, they are moi
Try near neighbors, and YET
5 me live near each other. A
grocery store has started about
TWO miles from us which will be
v ry convenient for us.
We have had good floors laie
in our house and feel more com.
Portable. We have two stove.
and SO we think we can kee,
warm. The Enterprise is wei.
come visitor every week.
Yours fraternally,
j. L. LOWER.
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EXPRESS COM
PAMEs' STOCK
w altered For Many
Millions.
Magazine Tells Why We Pay
Twice as Much for Parcel
Carrying as English.

The last issue of the American
magazine contains a timely anc
convincing article on The Great
Express Monopoly. /" Some OF
the more striking portions ol
that article are here presented in
condensed form.
Six express companies control
more than sixty per cent Of
the express business of the Unit.
ed States. Of these the Adams
is one of the oldest and largest.
In 1849 the Adams had a capita
stock of $40, 00O, 900. This stock
did not represent cash invest
ment, for even in 1890 the actual
investments of the Adams Ex-
press company in its business
was 81, lZo, O95. The $40, 900, 0Ol
represented accumulated profits
on the express business up t.
1866. In that year the stock
holders received stock dividend
of $1,000, 700, making the tota
capitalization S12, 600, 900 ano
on this the company paid s pei
cent dividends. In 1898 the
company declared a bon,
dividend Of 100 per cent, o.
$1,000, 600 of A per cent bonds
secured by the sasplus funds,no
used in the express business!
When this melon was cut, the
Adams Express company re-
duced the dividend on its stool
from s per cent TO a per cent.
But it did not stay there long
In 1904 the dividend on stocl
was 10 per cent, that on the bona
remaining A per cent. In l9O.
the company declared a zoo pei ;
cent bond dividend, distributing
$24, OUO, wv IN A per cent bonus
to ltS stockholders. From tha.
time to this the company ha,
paid IL per cent dividends on It,
stock; and another $25, OOO,OU
surplus has grown till 1t is abou
ready for distribution.
The total investment of the
company in the express buslnes,
is about so, UUU, UUU.
To recapltulate:
Actual Investment 80. $6CO,0LO,CCl
Fictitious uvesGInenG-
Stock........ $l2.LVU,000
Bonds. first
issue l2,OtO,Uoo
Bonus, second
issue ....... "a, ,00O, 900
Total .......- sis, 900 OF
Of which sum, $42, 00O, 900 Ii
water pure and simple. The prof
its Of the company are enougl
to pay $2, ,o8U, UOO per year in div
idend and interest-a mere trlfi,
of 4S per cent on the total in
yestment- still lay by sur
plus, which is periodically distrib
uted in such wise as to requlr'
more interest and dividends.
Perhaps this is WY the trans
portation Of small packages cos
two and one-half tunes as muci
in America as in England; ant
this in spite Of the fact tina
freight rates here are very mucl
lower than there.
The story of the profits 0
other companies is but a varlan
on that Of the Adams. The Wells Ills
Fargo is stocked at S2O,o ,ooo,ooO
of which only some undetermlne'
part of $5, 900, 600 represents act
ual investment, yet it pays l
nor cent dividends and earns Il
The Great Northern txpfes
company organized by Jim III
to do express business over u "
road Of the same name Is cap'
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24
AN INTEREST
ING LETTEl =
From a Home Boy
in England
Giving Accurate Descripho
Of His Visit to Cornwall
and Plymouth.

Before taking up Plymouth aue
its surroundings, / will descrih
my visit in Cornwall and g. feN
experiences. q
My aunt, Mrs. Clemens, wh!
lives at The Gabbons, near Per
ryn, Cornwall, came to plymouth
to meet me. We spent the da5
gadding about the town, seeinl
the sights.
AS one finds in America, Their
are scores of Carnegie librarie!
in England. We visited II
large new library and museum
just opened here. Later ~
went through the Polytecnk
high school. 1t does not com!
pare favorably with the HID
schools of the United States. A
The journey from Plymouth 4
Penryn through Devon and Corn
wall, in many ways the two moSl
beautiful counties in England;
is one not easily forgotten. AZ
though winter holds sway 4!
colder climes, the fields a1f
hedges here are delightfpIh
green. In fact from London u
Cornwall, over three hund Y
miles, it waste me a. = AL
.JhsonEh sElSsiSn 6slSs-ofssFiE1l
yerdure.
Happy indeed was | to beagail
with people of my own tongue
and kin after the months spen
On the continent listening to tn,
jabbering of Dane and Russian
of Turk and Italian. At times i
sounded like all Greek to me.
found my little knowledge o1
German and French wonderfully
helpful, although English is S,
widely understood.
First | will attempt to describ,
the location of Penryn and it:
neighboring town Falmouth, il
both of which l have relative.
living. Penryn is situated a
the end of a wide tidal river O.
arm of the sea, just two mile.
rom the open sea on the channe
side of the toe of England's boot
Within a few miles is Land,
End. The town itself is very OLE
and very unattractive to the eye
but the surrounding country an(
seaside are perfectly charming
This town of about 1000 peopl,
dates back to the twelfth or thir
reenth centuries. Before tn
Reformation, Penryn. housed al
old Catholic Monastery. The
streets are very narrow. TIL
antiquated looking houses ar
built close to the sidewalk. The
houses are all Of stone or con
crete, in fact l haven't seen
wooden house in England. Ever
in the interiors wood is econom
ically used and one often see
stone floors. The old town hal
with the clock tower, stand
as an island in the middle of tn
main street. This building i
very quaint and old, in truth it i
so old that no one knows hov
old it is. There are no record
OF the time when it was built
In it is a set of wooden stock
dated 1888. My uncle ,remem
bers, as a boy when they were il
use.
10 me this place is exceedingl.
interesting, since it is the birth
place and early home of my mo
ther and father. 1t was inter
esting to meet the men and wo
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24

The Catholic ladies' aid will
4eet with Mrs. Joseph Flaherty
3hursday afternoon, March 2.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24

One five room house for rent
I0r $l2 per month, with artesian
.ater in the yard. Enterprise
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24

For sale Three Mammoth
Rekin brakes, full blood Rankin
$train none better in the country.
& G. Williams, Arvada; phone
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I Thoroughbred S. C. White
leghorn eggs for setting $1.00.
18th ave, box So, Edgewater.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24

For sale Eggs for Matching
from thoroughbred R. G.. R. g.
Seds at 81. .0O, 1.50 and 200 pc.
'etung. Special rates on incu
oator lots. Come and see thl
stock. =. B. Royce. Griffitl
station, Golden car. Phone Ar
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24

40 acres of dry land close to
Arvada for 81, 900 only. Cheap
y dirt" Call at Enterprise Of
Ace,
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24

Mr. and Mrs. A. jackson ar
1ved here Tuesday from Chey
enne Wyo., where they have
spent nearly two years, and arr
pleasantly located in their home
IN Test Arvada. They are glad
to % at home again and have de-
cldea that Arvada is as good as
any place.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24
Take your shoe repairs to j. B.
rvls, Corner Wadsworth and
rand View avenues.

For sale, -Leghorn and Barred
ock laying hens. Mrs. S. Davy,
Aryada, phone Arvada 7O1.
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Local and Personal.

Trimmed hats at cost and be-
n, at the French Millinery Ar
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24

MI. and Mrs. F. D. Hutchings
enteftained the following guests
ata dinner party Friday even
in hqnor Of NJ. and Mrs. D. H.
Stacy who left Wednesday for
Cahrornia. DR.. and Mrs. E. L:
Foster. Miss Fletcher, DR.. and
Mrs Charles Shoop, Mr.. and
MIS- hiram Brown and MIR. J.
F. Cnruch. Games and music
were the social features of the
evening.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24

FOR sale Blackberry and Rasp-
Gry plants. Henry Wilson,
Dox 96, Edgewater.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24

Miss Pearl Nicholson wishes
70 announce that she is a candi-
laH in the Rocky Mountain New.
our contest from this district,
,Nol3. She says if she is elected.
ihs will boost for Arvada al
llOhg the line.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24

Pete Davis has moved his bar
Ger shop across the street into
the building that was occupied
'Dy the telephone company for
teveral years.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24

i VOLTS capital hams, the best
on the market, at George j.
lMuench's meat market at tn,
.same old stand. A trial vii.
convince YOU.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24

For sale a few choice singl>
'Onb White Leghorn cockereI:
nd hens; will also exchange TO.
White Leghorn and Barred Roch
Ockerels. L. A. Thompson,
Irlffith Station, phone Ralston
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24

5. 1. Sausa will sell you piano.
It half prices. A '$700 playel
Of $3.50; an upright that Wa
800 now $l65; a Fisher, $5UO
.ow l6. Call at Grandview an,
raves or phone Arvada 781.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24

4 For Sale, -One Cedm OF HORSES
sveiehing 500 each, also one trap,
~ single harness and one set 5o1
: III tR4iess. Mrs. Emma DIM
aidaie Barth's residence.
Tfy ten cents worth of shay
.np boiled in oil, for kindlina
y6r fire. A small handful does
hework. You can get it from.
our grocer or call the saw mill,
ifFvada TAI.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24

August Thomy and his family
lily and his brother-in-law, H. Won
burg have returned to Aryadt.
from Mt. Sterling, Ia, where
They went last fsl.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-02-24

Forsale. - "Kellerstrass" strait.
crystal White Orpington egg
lor hatching; l pen at $50 per 10,
pens at $40 per Is, and a pens
% per 15 or $25 per 100. W. +.
ierhart, Arvada, Colo.