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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
MOST EXPENSIVE
OF ALL DINNERS
Thanksgiving Day Has Become
a High Priced Holiday.
MEALS NEVER so COSTLY.
Not In rs Years Has the Average
American Been Obliged To Elk
pend So Much For His
Stomach.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS dinner
was the most expensive meal the
average American has eaten during
the last 25 years. 1t cost from 35 to
100 per cent. more than it did 10
years ago, and from Is to so per cent.
more than many Thanksgiving Days
during the last six years, according to
recently gathered government sta
tistics.
Thousands of turkeys spoiled by
having been shipped to market dur
ing the unseasonably warm wave
which overspread the country a week
ago; the drouth of last summer which
shortened crop yields, particularly
white potatoes; an alleged cold-stor-
age combination, which Attorney Gen
eral McReynolds now is investigating
to find if millions of dozens of eggs
and millions of pounds of dairy prod
ucts have been withheld from the mar
ket by middlemen to force high prices,
and the steady soaring of prices gen
orally during the last decade are
among the contributing causes to
which economists point
The great American hen, however,
is somewhat responsible for the
extraordinarily high price of eggs, ac-
cording to Department of Agriculture
officials, who are reluctant to place all
the blame upon cold storage Heat
and drouth of the last summer, they
say, caused the hens to stop laying
sooner than usual. GAS TO turkey, the
rise in price seems to have extended
all along the route to the consumer,
beginning at the barnyard, where the
farmer received an average of Is
cents pound for his birds, about half
a cent more Nhan he got last year.
But turkey is not a Thanksgiving
bird at all, according to the experts.
The Lord never intended turkey to
be the Thanksgiving food of the coun-
try generally" says Dr.. Mary f. Pen
nington, the expert in food research in
the Federal Bureau of Chemistry.
christmas is the time for turkey
Green goose is the Thanksgiving bird.
and is generally used in Europe,
where st. Martins Day is celebrated
about this time of the year In colonial
days in New England, where the win
ter season sets in early. it was diff
ferent and more favorable to turkeys,
but such conditions do not prevail
over the United States as a whole.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
COMMERCIAL
Weekly Review of Trade and
Market Reports.
Bradstreet's says:

Bradstreet's says:
"Quieter conditions rule in trade
and industry. Unseasonably mild
weather has checked demand for win
ter wearing apparel. Still dry goods
and kindred lines report a good col
ume of orders for quick delivery, and
those trades make more favorable
comparisons with last year than any
other lines. Holiday trade reports are
cheerful
I'm industrial circles the tendency
has been toward increased quiet, par
TALLY because of the continuance of
tagging demand for iron and steel and
other metals.
"The most important labor trouble
Of the week, that at Schenectady, in
wolves 5000 electrical workers, but the
trouble is one of unionism and not of
wages. The years strikes to date in
volve fewer people than a year ago,
and the aggregate is far below the
maximum of 1903 and other disturbed
years.
Business failures for the week were
279, which compares with PAT in
1912"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
ASKS s3o6, 100000 FOR MAILS.
Burleson's Estimate For Next Year
Largest In History.

Washington. - Estimates totaling
$306,O000 600 for the postal service for
the next fiscal year have been sub
mitted by Postma ster-General Burle-
son to Congress. This total. if en-
bodied as framed in accordance with
the growth of the Postofice Depart
ment, would make the greatest appro-
priatiOn ever made in a single appro-
priatiOn measure. Hearings on the
administrative provisions of the bill,
together with bills recently introduced
by Chairman Moon, of the House Com
mittee on PostoffiCe, regarding parcel
post, indemnification, extension of
money order paying business in every
postoffice and other matters will be
held by the committee this week The
estimates contemplate a substantial
extension of the parcel post service,
which branch is credited with large
part of the surplus of $4,500,000 earn
ed by the postal service for the fiscal
year just closed. One-cent postage
promises to be one of the live issues
to be fought out in the regular SEES
sion of Congress.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
AT ANNAPOLIS
F. E. cox ACQUITTED.
Former Game Warden Cleared On
First Of Five Counts.

Former Game Warden Cleared On
First OF Five Counts.
Franklin E. Cox, of Somerset coun.
ty, the former deputy State game war.
den, who was removed from office by
Governor Goldsborough, was acquitted
on charges of misrepresentation Of
State funds by fraudulent vouchers
and false pretenses to the State Comp
troller. The case had been on trial
for two days and was given to the
jury after every legal point had beea
bitterly contested by Robert Moss and
James w. Owens, counsel for Mr.. Cox.
and States Attorney Nicholas H
Green, who conducted the prosecution.
young farmer of the Third district,
was foreman, remained out about one
hour before reaching a verdict. Mr..
Cox was indicted on five charges. The
count upon which he was tried was
that of presenting a false voucher for
$40, the sum purporting to be for
badges for deputy wardens, which the
prosecution claimed were never pur.
chased. Mr.. Cox took the stand in his
own defense. He had no other wit
nesses. He told the jury he had moth.
ing to conceal. He could not tell ex.
actly when he had drawn a voucher
for 500, although the indictment al
legged that it was on January IA. He
admitted he had provided for the pur.
chase of badges, as well as drawn
money for other expenses Of his Office
on different occasions, but stated that
some of the transactions, in the way Of
payments, We're made through his as.
sistant. Talbot Denmead. One dis
puted point over which the defense
made strong contention was the ap.
parent conflict between the Indictment
and the bill of particulars. Mr.. Cox
was indicted by the grand jury in the
name of Franklin f. Cox" whereas in
the bill he was referred to as Frank.
lin E Cox, game warden" 1t is un.
derstood the State will press the other
charges against Mr.. Cox, which are of
similar nature.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
ARMY CONOUERS NAVY.
Cadets Spring Surprise In Annual
Football Struggle.

New York.-Breaking in upon the
conservative East, a Western brand of
football swept across the Polo Grounds
here and the Navy goat bewildered
and blinking at the dazzling array of
plays and passes it had not learned to
eat, was prone upon the field, while
the Army mule kicked its heels high
in the air and celebrated the first vic
tory over the fighting forces from
Annapolis since 1908 The Army de-
feated the Navy % to 8, in one of the
most spectacular games of the year,
Forty-five thousand persons, including
President Wilson his Cabinet and high
officials of the government service as
well as foreign diplomats, cheered on
the two teams as they bitterly fought
out the issue.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
CROSS ATLANTIC
IN AEROPLANE
Arrangements Being Made in
London and New York.
PLANNED BY GLEN CURTIS.
To Be An Anglo-American Venture
and Financed BY a Prominent
New York Sportsman-To
Start In August.

Paris.-Preparations are being made
in London and New York for an aero
plane flight across the Atlantic Ocean,
to take place next August The prof.
ect is being planned by Glenn Curtiss,
the American aviator; John Dale
Cooper, one of his chief assistants, and
an Englishman, whose identity has not
been made known, but who is said
to be leading British aviator. A
prominent New York financier and
sportsman is furnishing the financial
backing
The plans in their present stage call
for flight from the Newfoundland
Coast to the Irish Coast. The ma
chine decided upon is a hydro-aero-
plane, which has been designed, out
not as yet constructed. This machine
will embody both American and Eng
fish ideas and the flight in every
sense will be an Anglo-American ven
ture. 1t was said that when the at
tempt is made Americans and British
warships will line the route to be
taken to aid the aviators in case the
flight is not successful
Fuel sufficient to last Sc hours will
be carried and it is planned to com.
plete the flight in this time. The ma
chine is expected to average between
IS and 20 miles an hour.
The chief plans for the undertaking
have fallen upon Mr.. Curtiss, who has
made thorough examination of the
conditions and he is confident that the
transatlantic flight will be made with
in the next u months. He has looked
up the weather records for the past
20 years and found August to be the
most favorable month from a meteoro-
logical standpoint
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04

NEW YORK.-Beeves--Steers, IS. rs
QS.S5; bulls, $45OQ6.75; COWS, $50
$50; dressed, 12Q14c.
Calves-Wethers, S405; Canada,
$4Q575 Westerns, $z75; dressed, IA
Q1Shc.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
To the First Governor.

A movement is on foot in Freder-
lex to form an association for the pur,
pose of erecting a monument to
Thomas Johnson, the first governor Of
Maryland. The plan is to have the as
ISOLATION raise at least $4,000, and
the intention of those promoting the
project now is to have the legislature
appropriate this amount for the monu-
ment to be erected in Mount Oliyet
Cemetery. In this cemetery is $4,000
monument erected to the memory of
Francis Scott Key and another will be
erected to the memory of Barbara
Frietchie, whose remains were recent
ly reinterred in this cemetery.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
HAD WINE FOR MIDDlES.
Colored Man Arrested BY Mayor
Strange, OF Annapolis.

Mayor James F. Strange of Anna.
polls, caught a negro in the act of fur
nishing a bottle of wine to two mid.
shipmen and put him under arrest.
the midshipmen ran away, but Mr..
Strange believes he can identify one
of them. Under a State law, it is a
serious offense to sell or give intoxi.
ants to midshipmen. The matter was
reported to Superintendent Gibbons,
and that official said that he would
make every effort to find the midship-
men who tried to get the wine. Both
superintendent Gibbons and Secretary
Daniels have strong views on the sub.
ject Of midshipmen drinking, but it
has been a long time since they have
been called upon to deal with a case
of this nature.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
TO TAX SINGLE sLEssEDNEss.
France Will Put Up Rate On Spinsters
and Bachelors.

Paris.-All French spinsters and
bachelors over 80 years old, unless
they have at least three persons de-
pendent on them, are to be subject to
an increase of 20 per cent. in the in
come tax imposed by the new bill now
under consideration. The Senate
committee in charge of the bill intro.
duced this clause when it terminated
its examination of the measure which
has taken four years to prepare.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
BLOW UP TROOP TRAIN.
Mexican Rebels Kill Three Hundred
Federal Soldiers

Mexico City.-A troop train carry
ing 300 Federals was blown up by
dynamite near Laventura. on the Ma
tional Railway, south of Satillo. The
rebels are said to have shot ard killed
every one of the soldiers who escaped
the explosion. About 100 women,
known as soldaderos, who Were on the
train were also killed, a. were several
children.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
MRS. GAYS SLAYER TO HANG.
Lawyers Will Appeal On Temporary
Insanity Plea.

Los Angeles, Cal-Burr Harris, the
young negro convicted 10 days ago of
numbering Mrs Rebecca p. Gay, the
Christian Science practitioner who
was beaten to death September 26,
was sentenced to be hanged on a date
yet to be set. Harris attorney filed
notice of appeal. Harris admitted the
crime when captured and pleaded tenn
porary insanity at his trial.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
Miss Lee Guest OF Miss Porter.

Miss Mary Gusts Lee, only daugh-
ter of Gen. Robert E. Lee, of the Con-
federacy, is the guest of Miss Henri
eta Porter, at the Ogle House. Among
the ornaments always worn by Miss
Lee is a brooch, made of two buttons
from the coat of General Washington
and presented to General Lee.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04

A conference Of the chief engineers
of the commonwealth and State rail
way departments in Melbourne has
urged the immediate adoption of a uni
form four foot eight and one-half inch
gauge throughout Australia The esti-
mated cost of carrying this into eff.
feet is $1S5, 100000.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
RLBORoUGHS REUNITED.
Duke and Duchess Bridge Over Diff
ferences.

London-It is learned from high au-
thority that as soon as certain matters
can be arranged, without attracting
too much notoriety, the Duke and
Duchess of Marlborough will start
their lives anew and resume together
their recognized position in society.
Public indications are not lacking to
support this, and lead to the inference
that the serious differences that
caused the Duke and Duchess unoffi-
cially to dissolve matrimonial part
nership several years ago, are being
bridged over.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
FINALLY CATCH ZELAYA.
Detectives Arrest Former President OF
Nicaragua.

New York.-Ex-President Zelaya,
deposed dictator of Nicaragua who was
wanted by the Department of JUS
tice for the murder of Leonard Groce
and Leroy Cannon, Americans, in
Nicaragua during his regime, was ar
rested shortly before midnight He
was taken into custody in the Halls
worthy apartment at Ninety
street and West End avenue Zelaya
was locked up in the Greenwich Street
Station.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
MRS. PANKHURsT GOES HOME.
Says She Collected $4,000 On Her
Lecturing Tour.

New York.-Mrs. Emmelira Pank-
hurst Englands militant sufIragette,
sailed for home, taking with ner, she
said, $4,000 collected during her re-
cent lecture tour in this country. She
will devote the money to the cause of
woman suffrage in England. Mrs.
Pankhurst said that on her arrival in
Plymouth she expected to be arrested
and sent to Jail to serve the remainder
of a sentence uncompleted because of
her hunger strike.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
NEWS BULLETINS ON TRAIN.
Received BY Wireless While Going
Sixty Miles An Hour.

Scranton, Pa.-News bulletins re-
ceived By wireless telegraph were dis
played on a moving passenger train
on the Lackawanna Railroad. The
train was travelling so miles an hour
between this city and Binghamton,
N. Y. A Scranton newspaper sent
$50 words from the Lackawanna wire
less station. One of the dispatches
was on the battle in Mexico, another
regarding the threatened strike in
Schenectady and another from Wash
ington relating to the Mexican situa-
ton.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
FOUR KILLED IN COLLISION.
A Head-On Crash OF Trains Near
Roanoke, On Virginia Railroad.

Roanoke, Vain a head-on col
lision between two freight trains at
Keever, on the Virginian Railroad, 81
miles east of Roanoke, four men were
killed. All of the dead comprise the
crew of the eastbound freight Those
of the westbound train saved them
selves by jumping.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
TRANSPORT PRAIRIE SAILS.
Orders Naming Pensacola May Be
Changed BY Wireless.

Philadelphia. - With 500 marines
and full crew on board, the trans
port Prairie left the Philadelphia Navy
Yard at l o'clock Thursday for South
ern waters. The transport carries
stores and ammunition for three
months cruise
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
TO REVISE TRAFFIC LAWS.
Governor Names Commission To Ma 'ee
Needed Changes.

Governor Goldsborough announced
that he is forming commission to re-
wise the present traffic laws of the
State. The Governor has sent invi.
tations to the following to serve on
the commission: Judge Carroll T.
Bond, Daniel c. Ammidon, Dr., II. NJ.
Rowe, D. Lindley Sloan, of Cumber-
land, and William A. Kemp, of Easton:
AS soon as acceptances are received
he will call a meeting of the com
mission.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
TERMS TO BEGIN JANUARY /.
Radical Changes Proposed In Bill Now
In Senate.

Efforts will be made
early in the new session of Congress
for a favorable report from the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee on the Sha-
froth resolution to begin the terms of
President, Vice-President, senators
and Representatives on the first Mon
day of January Immediately following
election. The resolution was report
ed favorably some time ago by sub
committee, and has been under con-
sideration by the entire committee.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
BANK ROBBERS GET $4,000.
Vault At EIIenboro, N. c., Blown Open
and Thieves Escape.

Charlotte, N. C.-Robbers blew the
safe in the Bank of Ellenboro, a small
town so miles west of here, and got
away with $1,000 in cash, leaving $40
behind. Citizens say nine explosions
were heard. One man approached the
bank upon hearing the explosions and
was driven back at the point of guns.
The robbers constructed a defense of
heavy wire fencing in front of the
bank. The vault was entirely de,
stroyed
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04

According to the estimates of Ii. A.
Himely, one Of the best authorities
on the Cuban sugar production, the
final figures for the 1928 sugar out
put of Cuba were: OF centrifugal 49,
775,102 bags, and of molasses sugar
229,5S1 bags, making total of H.
004, 683 bags, or the equivalent of
2,429,240 tons of 2,24O pounds. This
is in excess of the crop of 1911-12 by
about $4,000 tons, and is practically
double the crop Of five years ago.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04

Ray Davis, a young farmer of
Wilton, Worcester county, died at the
Peninsula General Hospital from in
juries inflicted by negro named Hall.
The assault took place near Berlin.
Davis, accompanied by his cousin,
Grover Davis, and Curtiss Gordy, went
to Berlin in an automobile and they
were returning when the machine be-
came clogged. While fixing il a
crowd of negroes gathered, and Davis
asked one of them for a match. The
negro is said to have responded by
striking him over the head with a
piece of wood
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04

Beverly Smith, negro was convict
ed of manslaughter at Rockville for
killing his wife, Cora Smith. He was
sentenced by Judge Edward c. Peter
to five years in the Maryland Peni.
Tertiary.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
THE SAYRES AS
ARTFUL DODGERS
Cleverly Put Aboard Ship With
out Being Seen.
ELUDE THE WAITING CROWD
The President Was In the Dark and
the Captain Was Warned But
the Bridal Pair Were
Finally Found.

New York. - The elusive White
House bride and bridegroom-Mr. and
Mrs. Francis B. Sayre-avoiding the
gaily decorated gangway and bunting
bedecked pathway arranged for them,
slipped quietly on the liner George
Washington through the second cabin
Saturday and sailed away for Europe
on their honeymoon. A great crowd
that gathered on the docks at Hoboken
was keenly disappointed at not seeing
them, and even President Wilson did
not know of his daughters and son-in-
laws arrival on the ship until he found
them in their cabin five minutes be-
fore sailing time.
Mr.. Wilson, accompanied by Miss
Eleanor Wilson and Dr. Cary T. Gray
son, reached the boat half an hour be-
fore the George Washington was due
to start. The ships officers stood at
attention as he came on deck, and the
band played The Star-Spangled Ban
ner. The crowd cheered. There was
a wait of Is minutes for the Sayres
Nobody seemed to know where they
were. The captain of the liner was
growing nervous.
Finally, the President entered the
suite assigned to the pair and to his
surprise there they were, with a few
friends and many flowers. The band
struck up Mendelssohn's Wedding
March as the hawsers were cast off.
Among the floral pieces presented to
Mr., and Mrs. Sayres was cluster of
American Beauty roses, given by a
committee representing the Hoboken
IN. J) letter-carriers on behalf of all
lettercarriers in the United States.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
GAINED s76, 4o6, 657 IN A YEAR.
Personal Property Assessment In
Pennsylvania $1,4o2, 511 PIP.

Harrisburg, Pa.-Personal property
assessed for State taxes il Pennsyl-
vania in 1918 aggregated $1,4O2511,-
PIP, according to figures made public
at the Auditor-GeneraPs Department.
This is an increase of $76,4CG,657 over
1912.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04

Rev. Robert A. Brown, of Basking
Ridge, N. j., has been selected to sue
coed Rev. L. J. Sothoron as rector of
Rock Spring Protestant Episcopal
parish. Bishop Murray has recon-
pended him to the vestries of the
churches.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
U. S. COMMISSIONERS SAIL.
Will Urge Mediterranean Countries To
Participate In Fair.

New York.-By the steamer George
Washington, which sailed Saturday,
went the three commissioners recently
appointed by President Wilson to visit
the countries bordering on the Medi-
teri anean to urge cooperation in the
San Francisco-Panama Exposition.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
HALDANE PLEASED WILSON.
officials Express Appreciation OF Wis
counts Speech.

hington.-White House officials
informally expressed their apprecia-
ton of the speech of Viscount Hal
dane, Lord High Chancellor of Great
Britain, in London last night, in which
he lauded President Wilson's inter
probation of the Monroe doctrine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.

Candidates for the postmastership at
Berlin are announcing themselves
thick and fast and from present pros
poets half of the town will be out to
succeed Charles C. Mumford, whose
term of Office expires next May.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04
ToLMAN MUST SERVE 6 MONTHS

Sentence Imposed On loan Shark
King" Affirmed.
New York. - Daniel II. Tolman,
king of the loan sharks" must serve
six months in the penitentiary for
usury In so deciding the appellate
division upheld the lower court which
imposed sentence. Tolman based his
appeal on the ground that the act of
usury was committed by woman en-
ploye without his knowledge or con-
sent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04

Washington. - Letters from Mrs.
Francis Bowes Sayre thanking mem
bers of the House and Senate for their
wedding gifts were received at the
Capitol. Letters were addressed to
Senators Clarke and MARITIME, who
were in charge of the movement for a
present from senators. A letter to
Speaker Clark, written the day before
the White House wedding, was read
to the House. 1t follows:
May l not express to you very
warmly my deep feeling of the honor
the members of the House have paid
in presenting me with the beautiful
diamond necklace which was brought
to me yesterday in a setting worthy
of its beauty. l shall treasure this gift
all my life. not only as an evidence of
generosity, but of singular courtesy
and thoughtfulness on the part of your
self and the other members of the
House. l beg that you will convey to
the members my sense of deep obliga-
ton and lasting pleasure. Mr.. Sayre
joins me in warm appreciation and
thanks"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04

Ralph Coleman, 15-month-old son of
MIR. and Mrs. Joseph Coleman, of Mid
land, finding an apple and attempting
to eat large piece of it during the
temporary absence of his mother
strangled to death.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-04

: Former State Senator Bells, who
has been the leading applicant for the
postmastership of Annapolis, has with
drawn from the contest and Repre-
sentative Frank o. Smith has been re-
leased from further support of the Sen
ator's cause.