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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-08-03
SHIFTING SOIL
ReaI Estate Transfers Reported b.
,. &. Keel. AbstractOr.

Emma @. Dovrey and husband to.
Mrs. Mabel burke. lots .. IL, blk
8, Murray's add Herington. s12s.
NOrah S. Durrin and husband to chas.
A. Tears. . y ~ \ see Is. and
whnwH ss, al IN twp Il. range
,. $1,000.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-08-03

Buy It now. Now is the time to
buy a bottle Of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. 1t
Is almost certain to be needed before
the summer is over. This remedy
has no superior. For sale by all deal
era,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-08-03

Impure blood runs you down
makes you an easy victim for organic
diseases. Burdock Blood BitterB
Rurifies the blood-cures the cause
builds you up.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-08-03
National Hotel.

]. A. Forster has again taken
charge of the National hotel and
will be pleased to meet his old frIeds
and patrons. Good meals 20 cents.
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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-08-03
MOTORISTS AND MOTORING.

A telegram from j. B. Case says
that his party was at Rutland, VT,
yesterday, having made lao miles
over beautiful roads. Thence they
go to Portland, Me-, and down the
coast to New York.
DR.. and Mrs, Winterbotham and
two children of Salina went through
town on an overland trip to Chicago
and other points in Illinois. The
family are making the entire Jour
ney in their automobile and expect
to be gone for four or five weeks.
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Automobile races are likely to be
pulled off on the last day Of fair
week. The fair association has a
proposition from an automobile rae
ing company which proposes to offer
5000 in prizes for rs per cent Of
the gate receipts. Some local prizes
will also be offered probably.
y "
e. q. CouIson has invented self
starting device. He connects the
prestolite tank with the carburetor
and turns la valve letting gas into
the engine. The inflammable nature
Of the gas makes a quick ignition
from the spark and accomplishes the
result with remarkable regularity He
is perfecting 1t and may patent the
device.
Whether they can make 100 miles
a day or not in an automobile, is
the inquiry made Of the Reflector
by the National Highway association.
A letter from South Yarmouth, Mass,
says: I'm connection with an auto
mobile trip across the country TO be
undertaken this coming fall In the
interest of National Highways, our
itinerary takes us through Abilene.
You will hear from us later In re-
gard to this trip. We are not endeav-
oring to make fast time, and as there
will be ladies In the party we want
to make each days run as comforta-
BILE as possible. Can you give us
any information from your own ex-
perience, or, If your experience does
not cover 1t, from some automobilist
IN your vicinity, as IN what mileage
we ought to make comfortably in
days run? We would like to aver.
age about 100 miles, but, Of course,
this can be increased In some locali-
ties and will have to be decreased in
others. We intend to run from eight
to ten hours a day, ana usually will
carry lunch so that no long period
will be necessary for taking lunch"
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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-08-03

The GENITAL KANSAS BUst
NESS COLLEGE. AbHsns, Kansas
oilsrs Tor i9i1-iaia thres excellent
business courses Whlt ier 1oafnal
. ,ofa4 isrsne
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-08-03

BrInr y1ur poultry anl eggs %
Irssn Bros- corner second and Null
',rl EI1ta' nsfse, price 1iF,f
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-08-03

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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-08-03

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nema that had annoTtd ne a Iong
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The roads to Enterprise and De-
troit are in excellent condition from
dragging and grading. Nearly oil
the county roads are tine.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24
Rules Covering the Use 0
Town Water

All persons are cautioned against the
following abuses of water, which are
strictly prohibited, subject to the penalties
named:
1st.-Running the water to waste,
personally, by servants ur employees,
under penalty of the sum of Five Dollars.
2d.-The use of pave wash except
for the premises paid for, and between
the hours of 9 A. NJ. and P. NJ, under
penalty of the sum ofFive Dollars.
3d.-PermittiDg any person to take or
use water from their hydrants unless such
person pays the town for the use of a cor.
responding fixture, and then only when
the fixture of the person go using the
water is out of order or undergoing re-
pairs. under penalty Of the sum of Five
Dollars.
4th.-Employing or permitting any
plumber or other person to extend pipes
or service, unless a permit therefor be
obtained; subject to penalty of the sum
of Twenty Dollars.
5th.-PermittiDg children under ten
years Of age to use pave wash, under
penalty of the sum of Five Dollars.
6th,-All persons are required to keep
their fixtures in good condition, and to
promptly repair any damage to same,
under pealty of the sum of Five Dollars.
By order of
THE LIGHT & WATER COMMISSION
Middletown, DEL, June 9th, 1911.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24
THE BEST WAY

The Pure Food law greatly aids in pro-
tecting Us from adulteration in foods but
there is no law that protects Us from
adulterated clothing. We buy "pure
silk" materials, "pure linen", all wool
and a yard wide'' and get home to dis.
cover most of it cotton. Only one ave-
nue. of escape from the dishonest mann
facturer is open to us, and that is the
sample. Before you buy, take your sample
home and test it.
Boil piece of the silk sample in a five
per cent. solution of caustic potash for q
quarter of an hour. The silk will be de.
stroyed and the cotton remain, giving you
the percentage of cotton. Then take the
other portion of the sample, fringe it both
ways and cover it with strong hydroch-
loric or sulphuric acid. The silk will dis
solve in from two to five minutes, but il
it contains any wool, the wool will re-
main unaffected by the action of the acid
Fringe both warp and welt threads
about an inch and immerse the sample in
Oil of vitriol for nearly two minutes. Then
take out and wash we'll. This will destroy
the cotton, but the wool will hardly be
affected. Woolens may also be tested by
moistening fringed sample with 80 per
cent, nitric acid, which has the effect ol
turning the wool yellow, but the cotton
remains white.
Apply the oil vitral test as above. II
the sample is genuine linen it will be un-
affected by the treatment, but if it is fol-
the greater part cotton, the sample will be
almost entirely destroyed.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24
KILLS SELF In LIGHT HOUSE

LEWIS, DEL, JUNE 16-First Assistant
Keeper Louis F. Robinson, of the Four.
teen Fort Bank Lighthouse, Delaware
Bay, located about fourteen miles up the
bay from Lewis, committed suicide at the
station Wednesday by drinking carbolic
acid. Mr.. Robinson had been melancho-
ly for several days.
While the crew were working in the
engine room they heard Robinson cry for
help, and upon going to the kitchen, they
found him in great agony. He told them
what he had done, and expressed himself
as being sorry. Everything possible was
done for the suffering man but be died in
thirty minutes.
The lighthouse launch was at Lewes at
the time and the crew were compelled to
use small sail boat to bring bis body
here. After battling with the heavy seas
for some time they arrived at the Break.
water and the Pilot-boat Philadelphia tow
ed the boat to Lewes dock. Undertaken
W. T. Atkins took charge of the remains
and notified Coroner Cordrey, who held
an inquest over the remains.
About year ago Robinson fell 30 feet
at the lighthouse and broke bis ankle,
and for six weeks lay without medical as
sistance, the crew not being able to leave
the lighthouse and no vessels were sight
ed to send for assistance. Itis thought
that the sufferings he endured while i'll
without doctor at the time effected his
mind, and that it led him to commit the
rash deed.
He lived in this town and leaves a
widow and one child.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24
FARM NEWS

When the chicks can get away from il
at will, plenty of heat under the hover il
a good thing.
After the calf has learned to drink, 9
little fine hay should be tied up in the
pen for the calf to nibble.
Do not plant trees with a bunch oi
spreading roots Trim them off to within
four or five inches of the root stock.
Cattle should not be pastured in the or.
chard, as they pack the ground hard and
bruise the young wood.
After trees are planted, mulch with one
foot of leaves or rotted straw; water if sea-
son should be hot and dry.
The secret of dairy success in Holland
is easily understood and may be stated in
few Words-eficient COWS. excellent
care, cooperation and superior quality Of
butter and cheese.
At the Maine station the fertility OF
eggs of various shapes also has been
studied. Twenty-Five eggs or normal
shape, and the same number of very long
and short roundish eggs, were incubated.
From the eggs of normal shape eight
chicks were obtained, from the long eggs
nine, and from the short, roundish eggs
seven chicks, SO We may conclude that
the shape has very little influence upon
the hatchability ofthe eggs.
Hens, when laying, or commencing 70
lay, are thirsty creatures. It is one Of
natures legitimate calls, and we must
supply it freely if we expect the eggs 70
come in plenty. Note, too, how the
crushed egg shells are grabbed the frsl
thing by the laying hen, while che
rooster or the lazy hen passes them in
scorD. This is another indicator Of ma.
l.tnre'a need, and Eve or ten cents worth
Of crushed oyster shell should be pur,
chased at once to dole out as consumed
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24
Dog Ordinance

Be it enacted by the BOARD OF TOWN
COMMISSIONERS of the Town of Mid
dletown, Delaware, in assembly met, on
this Twenty-second day of May, A. D.
1911, as follows to-wit:
SECTION lon and after the first day
of June, all persons owning dogs within
the said Town, shall apply at the Office OF
the Town Clerk for tag to be duly num-
bered and it shall be the duty Of the
owner of such dog or dogs, to place the
same upon a collar to be worn by each
dog. Each applicant shall pay to the
Clerk the sum OF One Dollar for each tag.
And it shall be the duty of said Clerk to
enter in registry to be kept for that pur-
pose, the name of each applicant, and the
number of the tag Issued to him.
SECTION 2.-0n and after the first day
Of June, A. D. 1911, all dogs found run.
ming at large in the streets or elsewhere,
within the limits OF said Town, without a
collar and tag duly issued under the pro-
visions of this Ordinance, and without a
metal muzzle, will be impounded for q
period of "a hours, and if the owner does
not call for bis dog before the expiration
Of that time, and pay fine of 50c, and an
additional sum OF One Dollar for tag the
dog will be promptly killed. All dogs
must remain muzzled until October LIST.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24
Marriage Licences

I am now prepared to issue
Marriage Licences in accordance
with the new law.
Also all other kinds of licences,
procured by me. Automobile,
Merchants and Manufacturers.
ALFRED G.. COX,
Justice of the Peace
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24
ApDITIoNAL ORDINANCE

Be it enacted by the Board Of Town
Commissioners of the Town Of Middle.
town Delaware, in assembly met, on this
second day of June A. D. 1911, that an.
other section be added to the Dog Ordi.
nance, passed on the Twenty-second day
Of May A. D. 1911, as follows to-Wit.
SECTION 4-Any person or persons
owing or harboring dog and falling tc
comply with Section and two ofthis Aci
within five days after the same goes into
effect or any person or persons who may
hereafter become the owner of or barber
any dog, and shall not Immediately com
ply with the said Section, shall be deem
ed guilty of maintaining q common nui
sance and liable to fine of one dollai
and costs for each day the said nuisance
is maintained, and In default OF some Il
be committed to the Workhouse for
term not exceediEs Sixty days, at the dis
cretion OF the Alderman.
w. ]. WILSON, President,
JOSEPH HANSON, Secretary,
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24

After two elections the town of Delmar
voted for waterworks Saturday afternoon
with but one vote against the idea. The
Maryland side of the town had the au-
thority to levy an assessment for the con.
struction of waterWorks, but the Della
ware side had to hold an election under
the new charter.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24

Elaborate arrangements are being made
for the holding of the grand lawn fete at
the Catholic Church in CentreVille on
Friday and Saturday evenings, July aud
8. The lawn fete promises this year to be
an unprecedented success and larger
crowds than usual are expected each
night.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24

The farmers of the Eastern Shore and
the entire state should take warning and
be on their guard to save their Keller
pear crop. That the keller pear orchards
throughout Delaware are badly affected
with some disease has been manifested
some time to the large growers. Prof.
McCue, of the Delaware College, has
just inspected many diseased orchards
and gave "Body Blight" as the cause.
He did not suggest a remedy or preventa.
tive other than that heavy fertilizing
might be beneficial. Many growers are
fearful that the blight may eventually
compel them to dig out their entire or
chards.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24

A picnic will be held on July 4 at Cam.
den Camp ground uuder Ihe auspices Of
Wyoming W. C. T. q. All Unions Of
Kent county are cordially invited to bring
box lunch and spend a pleasant day. A
fine program is being prepared for the
afternoon. There will be ice cream for
sale,
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24

Cream -colored postal cards printed in
red ink are soon to take the place of the
present cards of black ink design. This is
an effort to present an artistic card, and
the government is prepared to spent $685.
600 more this year than last in this de-
coratiVe effort.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24

Seaford is providing free right of way
through their town for the dupont Boule-
ward. 1t is estimated that this will cost
about SIC, 10000 and q committee of the
citizens have already that much in sight
in contributions from property owners of
the town.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24

In an automobile accident in Winches
ter Saturday night the touring car ol
Howard E. Price, of Centerville, was al
most demolished and Samuel Boyer, ol
Centerville, was injured. Mr.. Price who
was running the car, Sheriff William s.
Delahay and Charles F. Rich we're badly
shaken up. The party was returning from
Love Point and were rounding the cor.
ner of the residence of Joe Bryan, in
Winchester, when rear tire exploded
and the steering gear refused to work
properly.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24
Public Sale!
The undersigned will sell at public sale
JULY 18th, 1911

at 2.30 o'clock
in front of the Middletown Hotel the fol-.
lowing valuable property. All of that lot,
piece or parcel of land situated on East
Main st. Middletown Del, having 'front.'
age of 81 feet inches on Main st. and a
depth of 219 feet, with the following i'm
provements thereon. Frame Dwelling
rented for $1,000 90 per year. Frame Store
and Dwelling should rent for $3.50. 90 per
year and~a Blacksmith and WheeIwright
shop rented for $3.50 per month. This
property is in the business portion Of
Middletown and should command the at
tention of anyone wishing to engage in
business or secure good paving invest.
ment. Terms of sale 10 per cent of the
purchase money to be paid on day ofsaIe,
and the balance within two weeks there.
from when Deed will be given clear of
all encumbrances. The purchaser to be
at the expense of papers.
GEO. w. PETERSON,
per E. H. BECK, agent.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24

Governor Pennewell, having granted
requisition, Detective William NJ. Akin.
son took Joseph Weinberg, arrested at
Dover on a charge of false pretenses and
offering bogus check to Baltimore.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24

The South Delaware Gas Co., with
plant at Seaford, has just finished pipe
line to Laurel for light and fuel, and will
extend the service to BridgeVille.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF THE PENINSULA

Falling from his train, Thomas Hoffman
Of Wilmington, Pennsylvania Railroad
conductor, sustained a dislocated shoul-
der and three fractured ribs.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24

State Revenue Collector Chaires has
notified proprietors of pool tables that
they must pay special tax Of $3.50, un-
der law passed at the last Legislature.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24
Now is the Time to Buy

And an inspection Of these properties
will make you seriously consider.
No. $40 100 acres at Quaker
Neck Whf. l25 in culti-
Walton, balance in timber, apple and pear
orchard, meadow, good soil, fair fencing,
near school, church and stores, 6 miles to
Chestertown, 8 room frame house, porch,
good condition, stable, barn, carriage
house, ETC., shade, excellent well Of
water. Directly on Chester river. Cheap
at 1900.
No. S78 131 acres, Broad Neck,
Kent County, I08 clear.
ed, balance in timber, apples and pears.
s room frame house, tenant house Of 5
rooms, stable, barn and carriage house,
shade, good soil, good water, near school,
church and stores. 81, 600.
J. WATERS RUSSELL
REAL ESTATE BROKER
| Chestertown, Maryland
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24
cHIRoPoDY
MRS. JAMES

Corn, bunions, ingrowing nails or any
affections of the feet antiseptically and
painlessly treated by graduate chiropodist.
Also Shsmpooing, Manicuring and Scalp
Treatment. Hair combings made up in
the latest style.
HIGH STREET, ODESSA, DEL
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24

A movement has been inaugurated ia
organize an Eastern Shore base ball
league. The plans are indefinite yet, but
representatives. of several of the leading
towns of the Shore will convene next
week and an organization will then be eff.
ected. 1t is proposed to put the whole
affair on purely amateur basis. Every
town and county has an abundance Of
good local material for ball team, and
the one thing needed is organization.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24

Lsnora NAPLES, aged 20, Wilmington
deaf mute, became lost while going to the
Sarah Ann White Home for Aged Color.
ed People and cannot be located.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24

Experiments by swepson Earle in the
growing of Alaskan bearded wheat have
shown il to be much more productive
than the ordinary beardlsss FuHz wheat
in use in the county. The first seed was
imported from Alaska by Dorchester
county farmers, who paid s4S.5O for q
bushel Of the grain. The seed is not soWn
asthickly as ordinary wheat. It is planted
in the fall, but does not make much show.
ing before spring, and then requires only
about two months before reaching matur.
ity. One head Of the Alaskan wheat
contained $50 grains. The ordinary wheat
has about so grains.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24

Crisfeld has in the person of Capt.
John Sterling, president of the Bank of
Cristield, the oldest Master Mason in the
State of Maryland, and probably one a.
mong not more than score in the
United States. Capt. Johns Masonic re-
cord is without doubt unique. For more
than sixty .one years he has been fait b.
fuI and conscientious member of the great.
est fraternal organization in the world.
Today, hale and hearty at the age of "a,
be frequently attends the stated meetings
Of Chesapeake Lodge.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24

At the meeting of the Dover School
Board on Tuesday evening the following
we're elected teachers to fill the vacancies:
Clara B. Smith, of Wilmington, gradu.
ate of Dickinson College, to fill the va
cancy in the High School; Miss Edna At
Tx, of Kenton, Miss Martha Cooper, of
Camden, and Mrs. Lucy A. Ames, of near
Dover, to fill the vacancies in the pri-
mary grades. The committee on educa.
ton was directed to prescribe courses Of
reading for the various grades in the
school. The salary of Principal Crawford
was advanced from $1,l50 to $1,000 and
the salaries of the teachers elected was
fixed at $4OO each per snnum.
Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24

Because of the repeated interruption of
telephone and telegraph service by storm
damages, steps are being taken to have
all long distance wires put under ground.
A pipe line from New York to Washing
ton will shortly be completed to be used
jointly by the Western Union and the
American Telegraph and Telephone Co.,
carrying 14s wires laid in hollow logs.
New York is also connected with Boston
by underground cables, making a total
distance of 475 miles.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-11-01

Ed Reulbach Cub pitcher, for years
the terror of the National league bats
men, is on the market. He may be the
first of the veteran corps of slabmen
that Manager Frank Chance will trade
or sell in a desperate effort to build up
his pitching staff for the season of
1912.
Chance before he left practically ad-
nitted that he would trade Reulbach
during the winter If it were possible
to get the man he wanted in exchange.
A trade is more probable than a sale.
as Chance wants pitchers more than
the club wants the money.
Reulbach has been of little or no
help to the club for the past two
years Ever since he returned from
southern training trip in 1910 to the
bedside of his little boy, i'll with diph-
liberia, which disease the pitcher also
contracted. he has been a disappoint-
ment to Chance.
In 1910 Reulbach's poor showing was
attributed to his illness. 1t was said
the antitoxin he had been forced to
take had made him unfit for pitching
for year. So when the 1911 fight be-
gan much was expected of this once
great slab artist But he failed again.
He was off his stride all season and
was used only when Chance had mo-
body else to send to the mound
Even in Reulbach's good years.
which began in 1905 and ended with
1909, he was at times erratic twirl-
er. Always early in the season he was
as wild hawk and practically use
less After about the first of July in
each race, however. he would become
one of the greatest pitchers in the
game, sometimes winning as many as
thirteen or fourteen straight games for
Chances machine.
If Reulbach had been as good this
year as Chance had expected. the Cubs
might have annexed their fifth pennant
under the p. LIS handling But Ed
Reuibach failed, failed miserably and
it Is known that Chance figures it is
time to give him change of pasture
When Chance was asked before he
left for the coast if he intended to keen
Reulbach and Cole he said:
Cole will stay with the team. He
was sick early this season and I at
tribute his poor work to that. He new
er fully regained his health At that