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Smyrna times., 1912-01-17

While returning from a social
meeting Tuesday night, Mrs. John
Stanley Short, of Milford, fell on
the icy pavement and sustained a
fracture of the left leg just above
the ankle. Mrs. Short is a promi-
nent member of the New Century
Club.
Smyrna times., 1912-01-17
we'll to do. They are the oldest
couple ever divorced in Delaware.

we'll to do. They are the oldest
couple ever divorced in Delaware.
Awakened during Sunday night
by two strange men, who claimed to
be officers of the law, Mrs. Mary
Springer, who resides aalone at
loney spot between Rising Sun and
Conowingo, was cmpelled under
stress Of fear, to get supper for the
strangers. At the farm of DR..
George Brehm, who is blind, the
men routed the family from the
house. DIR. Brehm was assaulted
by one of the men, whereupon his
young daughter felled the assailant
with a stone. Both men got out of
the community without being ar
rested and the authorities are look
ing for them.
Avery D. Marvel, aged n years,
one of Magnolia's best known citi-
zens who had spent the greater part
of his life in that vicinity, died at
the home of his son, Harvey, in
Philadelphia. on Saturday, January
6, and the funeral was conducted by
Rev. G.. j. Cochran at his late resi-
dence near Magnolia, on Wednesday
of last week. Interment was made
at Odd Fellows Cemetery, Camden.
Seven sons and one daughter sur
vive him: Robert, Gilbert, Henry,
Avery, Harvey, Watson and Nutter
Marvel and Mrs. Ida Stevenson.
He was consistent member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and
when enfeebled by disease so that
he could not attend the service con-
tributed literally toward the church
support.
Smyrna times., 1912-01-17
WOmen'S Corset Covers
WOmen'S White Cambria Drawers

Women's White Cambria Drawers ruffe of cambric and
lace, very large and rue full 8c. Other qualities and
differently trimmed, 75c.
WOMEN'S COMBINATION GARMENTS III fine Main
sock in Cambria Lace Hamburg trimmed CSC SI25.
Smyrna times., 1912-01-17
SlOO Per Plate

was paid at banquet to Henry
Clay in New Orleans in 1842.
Mighty costly for those with stomach
trouble or Indigestion. Today people
everywhere use DR.. Kings New
Life Pills for these troubles as well
as liver, kidney and bowel dis
orders. Easy, safe, sure. Only
25 cts at all druggists.
Smyrna times., 1912-01-17
NEWS OF The DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES

OOn y - E-N(ElFNINOGS
Interesting TENS From all Parts of the
Peninsula About Your Friends and
Neighbors and Their Doings.
The Rev. F. Burgette Short, of
Salt Lake City, Utah, will arrive
in Delaware this week on his way
to the far East and different Euro
pean points.
The will of Henry Parr, for fifty
years magistrate at Galena, Md,
was filed in the Orphans Court of
Kent county for probate. The es-
tate is valued at about SIS, 900 and is
left to his four children.
The Dover Century Club will visit
the Smyrna Century Club on Janu-
ary 26th and there give a musical
program and debate. The Smyrna
club will serve refreshments.
Falling on flight of stairs at the
Brick Hotel, Georgetown, where he
boards, Col. James D. Joseph Civil
War veteran and president of the
Georgetown Republican Club frac-
tured his knee-cap.
Miss Elizabeth Graham, daughter
of Rev. ]. E. Graham, formerly of
Wyoming, and Charles G. Coverdale,
a merchant of Clayton, were mar
ried by Rev. W. F. Corkran in Will
mington Wednesday.
Lydia Taylor, widow of Thomas
R. Taylor, died in Wilmington,
Thursday January 4th, aged rs
years. Deceased is survived by the
following children: MRS. Florence
Slaughter, Mrs. Annie Clark, Wayne
Taylor and Fred Taylor. Interment
was made at Brynzion burying
ground, Kentnn.
A silver dollar sent through the
mail by Henry Wright of Aberdeen,
Md, to his sister, Mrs. Mary l..
Fleetwood, at fredericksburg, Nd. i.
reached it's destination safely last
week. On one side of the coin was
a 1-cent stamp while the other con-
tanned the name and address.
While returning from a social
meeting Tuesday night, Mrs. John
Stanley Short, of Milford, fell or
the icy pavement and sustained a
fracture of the left leg just above
the ankle. Mrs. Short is a promi-
nent member of the New Century
Club.
Announcements have been issued
of the marriage of George W. Han.
son, station agent at Harrington,
and Miss Mary Hopkins, daughter o1
County Treasurer and Mrs. Frederic
Hopkins, of near Frederick, which
occurred in Philadelphia, on Satur
day, January 6. They will be al
home after February 1st.
William S. Heverin celebrated
his 10th birthday by giving a turkey
dinner at his Little Creek home
Saturday, January 6. Among tn
guests were all of his sisters VIII
: are Mrs. Thomas S. Clark and Mrs
Charles Denney, Dover; Mrs. Ben
jamin Shakespeare, East Orange, N
j., and Mrs. Elias S. Reed, of Nev
jersey.
Coroner Cain held an inquest owe
the remains of William Wilkins tn
telephone workman who was kille
in Dover Tuesday noon, by an cleo
trlc shock while working on tn
electric light wires of that town
The verdict was, that the decease
came to his death from contact wit
a live wire of Dover's electric sys
TEN.
After they had lived together 4
years, Mrs. Emily A. Roberts, Q
Middletown. aged 70, was on Wee
nesday granted a divorce from he
husband, Zacharias Roberts, age
72 years. The wife testified tha
her husband frequently struck he
and that he had been drinking heav
lily. The couple are among the ole
est residents of MIddletown and al
Smyrna times., 1912-01-17

Hard rubbing will wear away iron in
time.
Ever notice a waShboard that had been
used a good while in the old-fashioned
way of washing?
Zinc worn thin and wooden edges all
worn round?
Clothes are much softer than zinc or
wood.
Then just think how much your
clothes must have worn away while the
washboard was wearing out.
Clothes last twice as long when wash
ed the Fels-Naptha way because there's no
boiling to weaken them and no hard rub
bing to wear them into holes.
The Fels-Naptha dissolve8 the dirt so
it seems it just rinSes out.
You don't need to hard rub it out.
Using Fels-Naptha soap saves fuel, time
and health, too, but perhaps you don't
care for these things.
You do want your clothes to last as
long as possible and for that reason alone
you should use Fels-Naptha soap. In
Summer and Winter.
Follow directions on the red and green
wrapper.
Smyrna times., 1912-01-17

Needles and pins, needles and pins;
When mans married his trouble begins,
Unless his wife is the up-to-date kind,
Who saves her time temper, fuel, body and mind,
By doing her washing the Fels-Naptha way,
And gets it all done in fourth of day.
Smyrna times., 1912-01-17
FOR RENT.

Farm containing 11s acres, situated close
to Flemings Landing.
For particulars apply to
JOHN A. REED,
Route 8 Townsend, Del.
Smyrna times., 1912-01-17
FOR RENT.

FARM containing 90 Acres, situated on
the State Road, between Duck Greek and
Blackbird. For particulars apply to
E. M. RUST,
Smyrna, Del.
Smyrna times., 1912-01-17

A silver dollar sent through the
mail by Henry Wright of Aberdeen,
Md, to his sister, Mrs. Mary L..
Fleetwood, at fredericksburg, Md. i.
reached it's destination safely last
week. On one side of the coin was
a 1-cent stamp while the other con-
tanned the name and address.
Smyrna times., 1912-01-17
FOR RENT

Farm of 100 acres ~ miles from Kenton
Del.
Apply to
ROBERT CRAIG,
Port Penn, Del.
or Il. d. BOYER, Smyrna, Del.
Smyrna times., 1912-01-17

Lydia Taylor. widow of Thomas
R. Taylor, died in Wilmington,
Thursday January 4th, aged rs
years. Deceased is survived by the
following children: MRS. Florence
Slaughter, Mrs. Annie Clark, Wayne
Taylor and Fred Taylor. Interment
was made at Brynzion burying
ground, Kentnn.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-12
A BILLION DOLLARS

Such headlines as Billion Dollars in Safes in Equitable Building are misleading. The safes contain little if any money. The billion dollars consist of certain pieces of paper which are evidences of title to prop erty. They are no more dollars, or wealth. than the land records are in the office of the town clerk. If all of those records should burn the land would keep right on existing. So would the wealth represented by the paper in the vaults of the Equitable Building, although, the destruction of the records would create confusion and some difficulty in a few instan- ces in establishing title. The only real wealth the fire could destroy was the building and it's physical appur- tenances.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-12
TAFT HAD MORE VOTES THAN ROOSEVELT; BRYAN HAD I3OO,OO MORE VOTES THAN PARKER; WHICH
 PROVES DEMOCRATS MUST NOMINATE PROGRESSIVE

nate a conservative eight years ago. what would be the loss by such a nomination after the people have been educated to progressiveness dur ling eight years2
 These figures demand the nomina- ton of Governor Wilson of New Jer- sey, or some Democrat who is of the same economic school and equally de- voted to progress in legislation.
 Such a man ought to win Such a man can win without a change of 6Oo,OOO votes. Given such dissatis- faction in the Republican party as existed in the Democratic party in 1904 and more than 1.3O0.oOO Re- publicans will refrain from voting. which would elect a Democrat with out any f"change''l of votes whatever.
 Many indications exist that a change is about to take place. Some thing of the kind was shown in the Congressional elections. Since 1910 the breach in the Republican ranks has. enormously widened. The ire conciliable conflict is on. It must continue until insurgents. or conser- vatives triumph The Republican party cannot continue half p1utocratic and half free.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-12
THE nTTJTTONAL METHOD NOT A SUCCESS
 # INMEETlNG ARGUMENTS FOR SINGLE MAXIMUM

Compliance involves no great ex- pense. The addition to the budget thds year would be but s1.2OO. In a number of years the increase might reach s1s.o0O. provided the number of teachers of nine or ten years cx- perience should not diminish.
 Our contemporary. prefers the in- tuitional method of arriving at con clusions. This is the method for merly said to be popular among wo- men, but it shows up badly when compared with the evidentiaI meth cd of the Bridgeport Teachers Asso- citation.
 The right to teach implies the duty to know. A newspaper that will not take the trouble to know what the teachers of Bridgeport are asking for, ought not to criticise them for ask ing-much less oppose them.
 The teachers need not despair. They will not long lack the support of the Post. When the Board of Ed ucation grants their just demand, as it will the Post will be right on the cheering line, just as it always is in the hour when the justice triumphs which it opposed. One is almost tempted to believe that our conten- porary regards the fact that it has readers as prima facie evidence tha, nobody knows mulch.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-12

Fl 1
 Since the custom of the Evening Post is to seek quantity of editorial output, rather than quality, it's blum der in describing the single maximum to it's readers is not surprising. a
 Nobody ever proposed to give teach CTS fresh from the training schoop' the same pay as teachers of f'three or -Four years experienee.''
 Heretofore our contemporary. has not been justly accused of being dis courteous to women
 What but gross. discourtesy is it's grudging admission that it was wrong in it's definition of the single maxi mum. accompanied by the assertion that only 45 cities have adopted it. as if that were a small number, and most discouraging to the principle of the thing2
 There are in the United States but 100 cities employing more than 200 iteacheEs These are3 the cities which sznayl. reasonably be compared with Bridgeport and of these 5s have adopted the single maximum.
 And again. if the Board of Educa- tion may in t1rne' admit the wisdom aof the salary schedule. why. not now. Since such an attitude on the Boards part means that they are now con vineed of the justice of the demand
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-12

Tn 1904 Theodore Roosevelts plur- aaity.S over Alton B..Parker was. 2.545,- SIS. Four years later William H. Taft was elected over William Jen- Inings Bryan by a plurality of 1,26s,- lso4. Taft's vote was larger than IRooseyelt's. by more than 50.O0o. But lBryanss vote was larger than Parker s by 4,322.ooe. Thea total vote-the ballet cast for all candidates -increas- ed by more than 1,3o0.0OO.
 The difffculty of predicting the re- suit of an election in terms of ''change of votes, after the fashion of the esteemed New York World. yesterday irnornirg. is apparent The vote given to the minor parties remained about the same in both presidential cleo tions. The conclusion is therefore reachsd that the small vote of MT. Parker was due to stay at home Democrats. The lesson to be drawn Is that the Democratic party must nomihate a progressive candidate The selection of a conservative or a reactionary. to head the ticket would be more disastrous in 1912 than it was 4ns 7904.
 If cost the Democratic party more than a million votes to nomt-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-12
TANGLED SKEIN
 SNARLS AGAIN
Bridgeport Foreclosure Suit A6ded to Soloway & Katz
 Bankrupt Estate Mix-up

New Haven, Jan. 12.-The tangle of affairs in the Soloway & Katz es- tate received another knot or two when the trustee was informed that Philip Cohen had brought suit to foreclose a $5,OoO mortgage upon a piece of property owned by Maurice Subway and which had been consid- cred one of the assets of the bank rupt firm. Cohen says he holds a note given him for $5,O00. The trus- tee will ask that he be made a party to the foreclosure proceedings in or der that the creditors may learn just exactly how much money Cohen loan ed SoIoway on that $5,0OO note.
 Sun, another knot was added when van of Bridgeport has brought an- other foreclosure suit against another piece of property owned by Soloway. The claim in this instance is for be made a party to this proceeding also.
 The next actual public move ip the case is the appearance tomorrow Judge Platt in the United States court upon Referee Newton's finding that they were in contempt for not pro ducing the missing books showing the ing the month of October and part of lSeptember. Judge Platt may find them guilty and commit them to jail until further order of the court or former case the accused will have a right of appeal.
 The contempt proceedings against Soloway & Katz will be conducted by Attorney Goodhart. counsel for the trustee, acting in this instance for the referee while Soloway & Katz will be represented by Messrs. DeForest & Klein of Bridgeport
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-12

is no1 the only plan that may be adopted to alleviate the situation.
 In both Democratic and Republi- can parties, upon State Central com mittees. upon Town and City com mittees, are at this minute and have been for many years, men whose oc- cupation in whole or in part is lob bying for hire.
 These men, in legislatures or in Common Councils, are anybody's men who has the price. They will take employment to defeat measures to which the political parties of which they are members are solemnly pledged. as readily as any other em- ployment.
 That by. so doing they may cause the defeat of their party is nothing to them.
 Such men should not be permitted to hold party office, or public office. There should be a restricted district for them, set off by red lights, bad ges and proper inspection.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-12
THE REBELS OF YESTERDAY ARE THE HEROES OF
 TO-DAY ALTHOUGH SOME STATESMEN DON'T KNOW II

of judges. Their system included an easy recall for public servants. They permitted no judicial tyranny ,and they lodged the power of the state in the legislature that represented them. as most civilized countries have since done. They had their faults, but they weren't conservatives as the sen 'ator from North Dakota appears to think they were. In fact none of the men whose names conservative statesmen find so valuable in their or atory were conservatives. Washing ton. Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln were all muckrakers and the first two stood an excellent chance of hanging, had the opponents of muck raking in their day been successful.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-12

A law forbidding the lobbyist to have party or public office should be passed. In the meantime the vot- CTS may have partial relief by rspu- diating all such men in leadership wherever found.
 Bridgeport as a leader in progress sfve methods should make the begin ming.
 Let Bridgeport clean out of both parties the buyers and sellers of leg islation, the truckers in public pow CT.
 Political workers have a greater in- terest in this house cleaning than or dinary citizens. The average work CT in politics is an intelligent, well meaning right thinking citizen.
 He works for his party first be- cause he believes in it, and second, in the hope that he may have office un- der it.
 Now the class of politician who goes into the business of lobbying for hire, is doing his best to put his party out of power. That means he is putting the office holders of his party out of power. In more than one city in Connecticut office hold CTS are now paying a bitter price be- cause one, or, two. or three or four party leaders used the power in trusted to them to break party prom ises and betray the people.
 The men, in the lobby game in Bridgeport whether Democrats or Republicans, must get out of politics.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-12
Great Sale Tomorrow, Saturday

At 5Oc-Bie assortment Mems Shirts with or without collars. At S9c-Men's Heavy F-leeced Under wear.
 At S6c, 8 for $1-Good Bleached Sheets, two yards wide. At 12M-Our splendid White Linen Toweling with plain red border. At 49o-Women's Heavy Outing Elan mel Night Dresses. At 25c-Boys' Bloomer Knee Pants. At 9o-Our Best Shetland Floss. At 1Oc, 8 for 25c-Several styles Gam vass Gloves. Save 5c by getting At 1Oc, 3 for 25c-The celebrated Welsbach Gas Mantles. At 1Oc, for 25c-Splendid Writing Paper and Envelopes put up in handsome box. At 1Oc, for 25c-Extra Good Spring PadIockS.
 At 39c-Our Big Cotton Bats. One fills a comfortable.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-12
THE PARTY SYSTEM HAS NO PLACE FOR MEN WHO
 INFLUENCE LEGISLATION FOR HIRE; THEY MUST GO

Senator E. Hart Fenn, in a recent speesh. discussed som e Of the difficult t1es khat prevent4tIe Iegfslsture from doing good work. off1these he ap- pears to believe the lobby easily first. .'The lobby he says, lis always on hand with it's private schemes and IS always assiduous in it's work for thernH
 So 5part of the problem of legisla- ton Consists in controlling and check ing the lobby. The most effective method heretofore has been the em- ployment of Pinkertons to mark the passage of the brfbe, which enables both bribe givers and bribe takers to be arrested and punished. But this
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-12

sknRtor Porter q. 7 Mecumber of Norm Dakota has been indulgfng in fers suggestions that the American peopls should return to the ideas of their pilgrim forefathers. Like many other dealers in oratorical hub dub he doesn't in the least know what the pilgrim fathers stood for, since he assumes they were opposed to muck raking- They were the origin al muckrakers, and so dissatisfied with conditions in England that they wouldn't stay there. They were champion opponents of an existing so- cial order. Those of them that came to Connecticut. founded a pure der- ocracg, and provided for the election
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-12
sPEnA SALE

SPECIAL SALE BETWEEN AND 10 A. M. ONLY At S1sc-Best Merrimac Light Prints. At 3Ac-Best Dark Prints, Indigo. Turkey Red, Silver Grey and Browns.
 At 4%c-Extra good Shaker Flannel At 5$4c-Our very heavy Sc yard Wide Unbleached Muslin. At 63i 3ic-Our Handsome Cretonnes. At 715c-Regular 10c Cotton Batting. At 79c-Our $1.0o 11-4 Blankets.
 ALL DAY SALE At 9Sr-Our $1.25s Sleds. At 9Sc-Men's and Women's, Boys ar Girls Skates. At 5Sc-Feather Pillows covered with splendid quality Ticking. At aSc-Lot New Hand Bags for La At 2So-our best Table oil Cloth.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-12

visitor-so your agricultural show was a great success? Big exhiTit of live stock, I suppose.
 Native-Not a one. You see, we had to use that space to pack the automo- piles in.-Puck
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