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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-28
Farmers Aided
by Selling System

I
method. the marketing by mail system
is beneficent aid to the individual
farmers, especially those living in re-
mote localities. By this means the
farmer is able to get cash for products
which might have been left upon his
hands or at best could only have been
traded to the country store for other
articles more or less unsatisfactory.
The parcel post service gives the farm
er even upon the isolated star routes
a better opportunity to market his
products than Is afforded by the best
railroad conveniences-
1t has been claimed that the parcel
post would injure The trade of the re-
tail dealer. But ii is being demon
strsted that the dealers themselves are
prohting heavily by its conveniences.
One large Washington firm is bringing
in from ten to twelve boxes OF eggs
every day, each box containing fifteen
dozen. They are being bought for the
retail trade, and the same quantity
was never procured before with so lit
tie transportation difficulty. Another
firm has made the farmers of re-
mote locality financially independent
for tie winter by an order Of ton of
chestnuts to be sent by parcel post in
hfty-pound bags. The small boys of
that community are now being well
paid for chestnut picking, cccupa-
ZION which heretofore was attended by
uncertain financial results
Cream is one of the commodities
which is being shipped in by parcel
post in considerable quantities. Spe-
cially constructed double tin cans
make this possible. Vermont maple
strip reaches its consumer more cas-
lily by parcel post than by other means.
and individual farmers having small
Quantities are disrosing of it in this
way directly to the families who use
il. The list of products shipped through
the Washington post office includes
eggs. butter. fresh dressed poultry,
vegetables. meat, fruit. jelly and pre-
serves, homemade cake and many other
articles.
The speed with which they are to
be delivered is an important factor in
the handling of perishable goods. In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-28
Success of Scheme
Is Shown in Capital.

ington, which
Success of Scheme may be taken
Is Shown in Capital. ei cit in S the
mail marketing campaign. Some idea
of the business developed may be
gained from the statement that the
daily shipment of perjshable farm
products through the Washington post
Office last week averaged over 281
packages per day or about 1000 per
week. 1t is estimated that fully a
thousand Washington families are
now enjoying weekly shipments Of
fresh country produce of some sort,
eggs and butter comprising the most
numerous shipments. This trade has
all been worked up since last May and
is likely to be increased during the
winter, when the city prices of these
commodities are highest.
1T must be largely credited to the
personal enthusiasm with which City
Postmaster Otto Praeger inaugurated
the work. Mr.. Praeger first issued a
carefully written circular. in which
farmers were told in simple words just
how the parcel post could aid them in
selling their goods. and asking them to
let him know at once just what goods
they had to sell. The circular con-
tanned no technical terms but gave
simple directions for packing farm
rates per pound
About 25.oO0 of these circulars were
sent out, chiefly to places within a
radius of $50 miles of Washington.
Rural postmasters posted them up in
their offices and distributed them
among their patrons. Soon Mr.. Prae-
ger began to receive personal answers
from individual farmers. Within a
month he was in possession of an i'm
posing list of names of farmers wish
ing to sell their goods directly to city
consumers. The cooperation of the
Public Library and of the Washington
Branch of the Housekeepers Alliance
was then secured. A list of farmers was
placed upon q Public Library bulletin
board. where it could be consulted by
every housewife in the city. The farm
ers were later instructed to send their
lists of products. with prices directly to
the library. The letters and post cards
containing these were placed upon the
bulletin board bearing the farmers
price lists as those bearing lists of new
books.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-28
Many Farmers citi
Tested by Alliance. zee ses

many GdAmCAS SAtAes. us op-
Tested by Alliance. see' - .ns s,uay
ment of every condition calculated to
improve and benefit the home. Mrs.
Harvey W. Wiley, the president of the
Washington branch, Immediately rec
ogniZed the value of the parcel post. so
that cooperative committee for ac-
tive work was formed. with Mrs. F. l.
Ransome as chairman. This commit
tee has been testing as many of the
farmers who have listed goods as has
been possible during the summer, and
2 detailed report is to be issued later.
y sufficient number of reliable farmers
has been found to warrant the alliance
in recommending the plan and cooper
ating with the Post Office authorities.
\ box in the post office has been placed
at the disposal of the alliance to which
communications relative to marketing
by mail can be addressed. All women
ordering goods from the list of farm
ers secured by the post office were in
vited TO send in their experiences.
The alliance is also forming a num-
Der of consumers clubs. These are
groups of ten or more women who do
not belong to the alliance, but are I'M
der the leadership of an alliance MEM
who is willing to order farm products
directly from the farmer and report
her experience. Last week one of these
clubs gave a luncheon, at which the
menu consisted chiefly of products or
dered by mail from one farm. They in
GUIDED Virginia home-cured ham, let
tuce. baked apples, butter. cornbread
made from country ground cornmeal
and several other delicacies. 1t had
been intended to have clans. but owing
10 misunderstanding the juicy hi
valves were not properly shipped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-28

Aside from the advantage to the Gus
toner, who receives her food products
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-28

The Housekeepers' Alliance is a ma.
tional organization having a branch IL
Evening star., 1914-09-24
LouDoUN COUNTY DRY BY 168.
Leesburg District, However, Voted
50 Against Prohibition.

Special Correspondence of The Staf-
LEESBURG, Va, September 24.-Coh-
plete returns fromthe election through
ont Loudoun county were received here
last night, giving a majority Of l55
votes for statewide prohibition. Lees
burg district having been made dry
by local option elections for several
years, the majority of So against state
wide prohibition was a surprise.
The marriage of Miss Anne Catherine
Beaver, daughter of Mrs. Charles shir-
ley Carter. jr.. of Leesburg, to Thomas
Blackwell Smith of Washington will
take place at st. James Protestant
Episcopal Church Saturday evening,
October "a.
Horace C. Littlejohn of Leesburg Has
been made president Of the Pharmaceu-
tical Association o fthe State of Mr-
ginia-
Henry c. Gibson and Charles T.
Hawling are in attendance at the an
nual reunion of 'Mosby's Men," at
Charlottesville, Va
Evening star., 1914-09-24
MATHEW D. FENTON DEAD.
Long Time Employe Of The Star Sue
cumbs to Heart Failure.

Mathew D. Fentcp. who. for more
than twenty-five years was an employe
of The Star. beginning as an appren-
tice and rising to be assistant fore
man of the pressroom ten years ago
after which he became a route agent
for several years. died yesterday morn
ing of heart failure shortly after aris-
ing. He was forty-eight years of age
Requiem mass for the repose of his
soul will be celebrated at $50 O'Clock
tomorrow morning in St. Patrick's
Roman Catholic Church. Prior to this
a short prayer service will be held at
the residence, 116 Massachusetts ave-
nue. northwest.
He is survived by his wife. three
Evening star., 1914-09-24
COTTON GROWERS CALL
ON PRESIDENT TODAY
-
Southern Delegation Asks Him to
Give His Support to the
Henry Bill.

President Wilson was appealed to to-
day by a large delegation Of southern
cotton growers and representatives.
members of the farmers union. to give
his support to the Henry bill providing
fQr direct loans. by the government to
cotton growers. The delegation was
headed by C. S.. Barrett of Georgia,
president of the union.
MIR. Barrett told that President that
in spite of the "buy-a bale of-cotton
movement" and other relief measures
the demand for cotton was still very
low and the price not sufficiently high
to help the cotton growers. He de-
clared that a very serious situation
will confront the raisers of cotton un-
less the Henry bill or legislation SINH
lar to it is passed by Congress.
Presidents Reply to Plea.
The President made the following
address to the delegation:
"Of course, I need to say, gentle
men. that the. gravity of the situation
is very manifest, and I want you to
know that I have been giving a great
deal of attention to it with the earnest
desire to see some way by which the
difficulties could be solved without
committing the government in prfn-
ciple to any action which would
plague US in the future.
Because the danger, gentlemen, OF
the present situation is that under the
pressure of what appears to be neces-
sity we should make some radical de-
parture from sound. economic practice
which in. the future years We would
very much regret. We have got to
make sacrifices; not to make funda-
mental mistakes.
Now, 1 am not thereby implying a
judgment as to any specific proposi-
tfon, but I feel bound myself to guard
against impulses when impulses are sc
strong; just as 1 feel it SO necessary
for us in an. international situation to
guard every impulse and see that we
do not make any mistake which future
generations will have the just cause to
blame us for. But 1 want you to know
how sincerely 1 appreciate the gravity
of the situation and how entirely will
ing 1 am to consider anything that is
laid before me by way of practicable
suggestion"
Evening star., 1914-09-24
FRENCH TAP PHONE WIRE;
BLOW UP GERMAN TRAINS

LONDON. September 24-Ths Maize
war correspondent states that he
hears that two trains OF badly
needed German reinforcements were
blown up between Peronne and St.
Quentin through the feat Of q French
gunner. who managed to tap a tele-
phone wire connecting two German
stations. BY this means he gained the
information that the trains were COM
ing and was able TO place guns to COM
mand the line. By a quick attack he
was able to ambush the trains.
The Mails correspondent also says
that Sunday the entire general stan OF
one German division were brought
prisoners to Amiens.
Evening star., 1914-09-24

ty-eight bore the initials Of Emperor
william; A machine guns, S23 cases Of
ammunition. one general, 436 omcers
and 63,531 soldiers"
The Havas Agency has. also received
the following Russian official statement
from Petrograd:
Pursuing the retreating Austrian
army, the Russian troops have reached
and in the region of Przemysl our op-
erations are developing with success.
"On the German front the Russian
troops are in close contact with the
Germans, but no engagement has oc-
cured
Germans Quiet in Poland.
A dispatch from Warsaw, dated We'd
nesday. says:
Poland are quiescent. being weak in
cavalry, and thus unable to do much
accommodating. They are strongly for
and also portions of the country fur
ther north. at the same time acting en-
tirely on the defensive.
"At votzlavsk and Makoff they have
hitherto been more active. but now are
intrenching at these points. Ger
man advance on the Ostroleka- -Au-
gustoff line Is impossible, owing to
the morasses-
During the bombardment of Jaros-
law the Russian heavy guns were su-
perior to those of the Austrians. and
demoralized the garrison. In the pro.
ceedings preceding the capturing OF
Jaroslaw the Russians scored success
south of PrzemySl when they captured
an armed train with quick k-frers.
Considerable forces of Germans
after crossing the frontier near Mlawa.
retired three days ago. and since then
have been strongly reinforced. They
are now holding the left bank of the
Vistula. and fortifying a position be-
tween Thorn and Kalisch."
Evening star., 1914-09-24
HUNDREDS MADE I'LL
BY FUMES FROM ACID
-s' - -'-
Accident at Jersey City Station
Chokes Scores to Uncon-
sciousness.

JERSEY CITY, September 24.-Ten
gallons of nitric acid spilled from a
carboy to the floor of the Erie rail-
road station during the commuters
rush hour today gave of fumes which
choked scores of persons to uncon-
seriousness. made hundreds i'll. stopped
traffic on the Hudson tunnels for an
hour and packed the station with thou
sands who verged on panic till a strong
force of police quieted them.
Not one of the throng sweeping
through the station was touched by
the acid as it dubbed and boiled over
the stone floor, giving OF clouds of
Evening star., 1914-09-24
DOES NOT CARE TO COMMENT.
President Wilson Silent Regarding
Statements of DIPLOMATS.

President Wilson told callers today
that he did not care to make any pub
lie comment on statements recently
given out by foreign diplomats in the
United States. He said that his feelings
could be imagined. but that action would
have to be taken through the usual
official channels rather than through the
newspapers.
Evening star., 1914-09-24
RUSSIANS BEGIN
MOVE ON POSEN
AND ON BRESLAU
Continued from First Page.)

majority of their officers are killed or
missing, and that the soldiers feel the
loss keenly.
"The newly formed Russian regi-
ments have covered themselves with
glory, fighting side by side with the
veterans"
No German Junction Possible.
"Au possibility Of the Austro-German
forces near Przemysl effecting juno
ton with the other armies further west
has now been excluded. as the Russians
have reached the River Wislok." says a
dispatch from Petrograd to the Morning
Post The message continues:
ITO the south Of Przemysl the Rus
sian operations are now being directed
with a view to the capture Of Khyruv,
a Junction station twenty miles south of
Przemysl which will completely cut of
the Aust-ians' last Galician fortress
from railway communication in any d.
rection, and give the Russians command
Of all routes toward Cracow and the
lines passing into Hungary.
The position now held indicates the
rolling up Of the Austrian forces right
up to Cracow. It is believed here now
that the investment of Przemysl has
been practically completed, and that an
other week at least will bring news Of
the final crushing Of the Austro-German
forces.
Reoccupy soldau.
The Paris Matin prints a dispatch
from Petrograd stating that the Ger
mans. who drove Gen. Rennenkampf
back into Russia, are reported to have
suffered a great defeat at Subir.
The Russians have reoccupied Soldau
in East Prussia, on the Polish frontier
1t is stated that the Germans are
evacuating East Prussia to reinforce
the line from Thorn in West Prussia,
on the border Of Poland, to Kalisz, a
town in Russian Poland.
The Russian troops occupying Semi
ava, eighteen miles north-northwest Of
Jaroslaw, says the Petrograd corre-
| spondent of the Reuter- Telegram Com
pany. found that the town had been
sacked by the Austrians. large num-
Der of Austrian soldiers were captured.
PARIS, September PA dispatch tc
the Havas Agency from Petrograd says
that military experts there are of the
opinion that the fall of Jaroslaw takes
from Przemysl all its importance as a
| strategic point, besides being a serious
| blow for the army of Gen. Won Auf.
fenberg, from which it takes all its
| sources of supply.
In Galicia. it is stated here, the Rus
Evening star., 1914-09-24
DAUCHTERSOF SOUTH
GET COTTON PRESENTS
Goods From South Carolina Mill to
Be Made Into Dresses and Worn
by Three Society Girls.

Three of Washingtons young society
Ieaders-Miss Genevieve Clark. daugh-
ter of the Speaker; Miss Lucy Burleson
daughter of the Postmaster General
and Miss Callie Hoke Smith, daughter
of the Georgia senator-received today
presents of enough cotton from South
Carolina mill to make each of them
a dress They are to make these gowns
themselves and wear them at the cot
ton fashion show to be held here in
the New Willard Hotel, October Z
and s.
These patterns were presented TO
them in the Speakers office at the Cap
itol by Representative Joseph Johnson,
who represents a cotton district Ihey
are from a Spartansburg mill
Later Speaker Clark. Representative
Johnson and the three young women
posed on the east steps OF the Capi1oi : !
for moving pictures, which are to be
mart of the cotton bargain week cru
SADIE started by Miss Clark:
The idea is to get people thinking
about cotton goods SO that an .he COY.
ton now in stock will be sold and
which will make busy times for safes
men, mills, growers and every one else
interested in the cotton trace. me
hope is to save the south from us
fears that there will be a period OF de-
preston on ACCOUNT of the loss OF the
European markets.
Compliments Miss Clark.
A letter commencing the movement
was received by Miss Clark from Pres1-
dent T. 1. Hickman OF the American
c,.+on Manufacturers Association.
pr..ident Hickman said he believed
.hat the nationwide week of cotton
aoods sales beginning October would
rarlt in great good to the cotton IN
dustry.
In part, his letter says:
THE women of the country are VeS
nowerful and this movement Will 10
more TO solve the cotton problem OF tne
snnth than any other movement OF
uL nan think. If the cotton manu-
fnturers instead of curtathng their
nrodnction as they now have TO oo
ewing to lack.of business. conir 81
snoueh business to run Lpelr piants
on fun time it would consume the 60
Ton and help everybody in TINS great
oo,,rtrv ooI and be especially valuable to
~ sonthern planter and cotton manu-
Join the Movement.
MANY; prominent, southern. women
,oined the movement yesterday to malss
,be national cotton show success.
and Mrs. Duncan 9. Fletcher: wife OF
senator Fletcher ofrF1orida-and presi-
dent OF the Congressional; Cfup; MISS
Mamie. Randolph Heth, president of the
southern Relief Society; Mrs. Wallace
streater. president OF the District
Irnite,5 daughters of the Confederacy.
and Mrs. Fechteler of California were
added to the list of patronesses.
Evening star., 1914-09-24

sons and a brother. william Fenton,
who is now foreman Of the preseroon
Of The Star.
Evening star., 1914-09-24

fumes. Two or three persons collapsed
Immediately. but in most Of the many
cases of unconsciousness- the poison
acted as a slow agent. In some cases
women were stricken in ferry boats
half an hour after they had inhaled the
fumes. In perhaps forty instances per-
sons into whose lungs the fumes had
not been inhaled for several minutes,
suddenly fell over unconscious.
Four Become as Dead.
Four men and women aboard ferry
boats. on which were packed hundreds
Of hysterical passengers. to all ap-
pearances became as dead. Their heart
beats were no longer audible. Physi-
clans revived them by artificial respi-
ration.
Six persons were taken to hospitals.
It was believed they would recover.
Three Of this number were taken to
New York hospitals from ferry boats
unon their arrival here. One ferry
boat had aboard more than 200 persons
Evening star., 1914-09-24

A poor author is like a cheap print
ing press; he wastes a lot of ink, but
never succeeds in making good i'm
preston.
Evening star., 1914-09-24
Haye Captured ea, ,5s1 Soldiers.

A Havas Agency dispatch. I. from Pc
trograd says that the Army Journa
publishes the following list of Russian
captures in Galicia from August 10 t.
September IA:
Seven flags. 637 guns. of which thir
Evening star., 1914-09-24

made i'll by the fumes. Most OF these
recovered within an hour or 30.
Evening star., 1914-09-24
slams already possess 500 miles of rail-

A dispatch to the London Express
from Warsaw says that the Russian
successes in Galicia are due partly to
the refusal of the Austrian Poles to
fight against the Russians. Great guam
titles of arms and ammunition, the dis
patch says, were voluntarily handed
over to the Russians by the Austrian
Polish regiments
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-11-15
LUNCHEON PARTIES
AT SOUTHERN CLUB

me luncheon personnel yesterday in
the Tudor room at the Southern club
was influenced largely by the pres
e:ce of visiting people and on the
gridiron that occurred during the aft
ernoon, many going from luncheon to
the game.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Morrow and Mrs.
Motion Smith motored in from Roe
bEck Springs and had luncheon at the
club before going to the game, and
Mrs. A. L. Fulenwider and Mrs. Robert
McDavid, also Roebuck residents, were
together at the club before going out
to witness the game. Miss Corn Gregg,
Miss Mary Munger. Miss Florence Har-
ris of Montgomery, Mr.. Jesse Adkins.
Mr.. George Knox, Mrs Val Kolb were
at another table, the young women
adding to an already attractive color
ensemble with their floating ribbons.
a number of college ruen sat at the
various tables in groups of three or
more.
At a table conferred with a floral
piece made of exquisite pink roses
were Mr. and Mrs D. M. Bremen, Mr..
ard Mrs. W. M. Drennen, Mr.. and Mrs.
Felix Drennen and DR.. and Mrs. Ira
VIC Drennen of Hot Springs, In whose
honor the little party was assembled.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Moody and Mr.. ard
Mrs. John i. Fletcher were together
and among other interesting people
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-11-15
DINNER-DANCE
AT COUNTRY CLUB

The Country club. whose big ball
room is one of the Fairgrounds of so.
cioty, was especially gay last night
because of the presence of many coll
lege men. Twenty-four Vanderbilt men
were assembled at several tables and
In small parties were men of both Au-
burn and Vanderbilt of past years and
present connection with the two insti-
tutions. The younger element of So
ciety was thus predominant, but a
large number of the married set as
well attended. After dinner the parties
were supplemented by others who went
out from home or private dinner par
ties to attend the dance The person.
nei was changed a bit also by the de-
parture of few for other dancing
parties in progress elsewhere.
At one of the tables during the din
ner We're noticed Mr.. and Mrs Frank
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-11-15
CAIN-GRIFFIN
INVITATIONS ISSUED

Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil Childers Grif-
fin will give in marriage their daugh-
ter. Eugenia Judkins, to Mr. Elisha
Judkins Cain. on Thursday morning,
December 3. 1914. at 1920 o'clock, First
Presbyterian church, Montgomery.
The honor of your presence Is re-
quested.
At home, December Is, Wetumplza
The above card has been received
by Birmingham friends of the Griffin
family and Mr.. Cain. Mr.. Griffin is
one Of the most prominent men in
tie 04ate. and his daughter is charm
ingly X own In Montgomery and other
southern cities in which she has Wis
tied. Mr.. Cain is popular Wetumpka
man.
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,continued from Page Twents-two)

Study club. by Miss Claudia Weaver,
pianist, assisted by Miss Georgia Taul,
eontralto; Miss Beatrice Tate accompan-
list:
"Bouree,s Bach.
"A Reminisence' Doehler
'Habanera," Looms.
Solitude, Op. Go, Gottschalk.
'Eiegre," Massenet.
Prelude in G, Chopin.
'Hark! Harkl the Lark" Schubert
Jszt-
"cracovienne Fantastique, op. Il. No.
g. Paderewski.
'Madrigal," Chaminade.
Witches Dance, Op. H. No. q" Mac
Dowell.
Cradle Song. OPP. a. No. J." Grieg
"Papillon. OPP. 4S, No. l." Grieg
"Rigoletto Fantastic Verdi-Liszt