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The commonwealth., 1915-07-31
Masonic Notice.
TO ALL WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:

Notice hereby given that the Most Wohpu United Grand
Lodge F. NJ and for the State of Maryland and Jursdlc
ton will Sxty-sevenh Annual SAINT
Wchaes Md Monday and Tuesday. August 16 ad L. 1912
The Lodges throughout the State are informed tn ney
The sessions of the 67th Annual Communication will be held IN
Union M Church Rev J, H. Blake Pastor begnnIng with
Memorial Service Sunday night by the Committee Obi uary
Rev. E. W. S. Peck, Chairman.
By Order of the Most Worshpful
JOSEPH P. EVANS,
A++os+ Grand Master,
GEORGE T. DUPPIN Grand Secretary.
The commonwealth., 1915-07-31
NOTICE.

All IF the members Of the Galilean
Fishermen are hereby notified to At
tend the Dedication Ceremonies tor
James f. Stewart and others at Sharp
Street Cemetery, Sunday afternoon
August /, at $50 o'clock.
BY order Of
Columbus Gordon,
Joseph P. Evans,
c. H Ennis, Committee
The commonwealth., 1915-07-31

WATERS A. M. E. CHURCH
Rev. A L. Gaines. D. D. Pastor,
II A. M. Sermon by the Pastor,
and Sacrament of Lords Supper
2:3O P, N. Sunday School Ses-
st 6 to 7P. M. Vesper Services,
J. F. Waters, Superintendent
J. w. Woodhouse, Secretary.
The commonwealth., 1915-07-31

GRACE PRESBYTERIAN
CHI1PCH DolDhin and Etting
Streets. Rev. w. Edward Will
liams, Minister. August i.
IL a. m. Sermon subject; =
Queen Of Fthiopia." 8-p. m.
Short sermon. Cool Room, All
Welcome.
Milford chronicle., 1915-10-01
BURRSVILLE.

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Porter, of New
Bridge, and Richard T. Garrett, of
Philadelphia, were guests of Miss Mary
Garrett a few days last week.
Mrs. Thomas Wyatt and children, of
Denton, are spending some time as the
guests of her mother, Mrs. Annie Raugh-
ley. Mrs. Wyatt's health is very bad
Her many friends here are wishing for
her speedy recovery.
Mrs. r. M. Harvey and guest, Mrs.
Margaret Stafford, of Wilmington, were
guests on Tuesday at the home of Mrs.
John H. Thawley.
Miss Elizabeth Billings, of Hobbs, was
Miss Lola Fountains guest last week.
Mrs. r. H. Stafford is improving from
an illness of several days.
Miss Eva A. Thawley is the guest of
her sister, Mrs. Coursey Hammond, at
Harrington.
Mrs. Emma Masten has returned to
her home at Masten's, after spending
some time as the guest of her daughter,
Mrs. James Layton.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Paris were guests
on Sunday at the home of the latter's
sister, Mrs. Rosa Hurd. Y
Wesley Thawley entered the Maryland |
University, at Baltimore, on Monday, |
where he is studying law. This is his
second year.
Mrs. Mary Harvey had guests from
Ridgely and Greensboro last week.
Milford chronicle., 1915-10-01

We have ample law to cover most of
the troubles our people experience, but
it is difficult to get the individual to en-
force the laws against the offender, or a
neighbor. There is a law on the statues
of Delaware, which says that every dead
animal, or other dead thing, must be
buried under penalty of a heavy fine.
See the law on page 66l, pamphlet laws
of the Legislative session of 1915. The
law states;
1t shall be unlawful for the owner of
any dead bird or animal or fish within
this State which has died or been killed,
(except such birds, animals or fish as
may have been killed or taken in the
regular course of trade, and also except
ing such birds, animals or fish as may
have been sold or disposed of for manu-
featuring or other lawful purpose), to
leave the same unburied for more than
twenty-four hours after its death and it
shall be unlawful for any person to drag
outand leave unburied the body ofany bird
or animal which has died or been killed.
Any person who violates any of the
provisions of this section shall be deemed
guilty OF miSdemeauOri ana upon con- |
viction thereof shall be fined sum not
less than twenty dollars nor more than |
fifty dollars for each offence.
1t is as plain as the nose on your face,
that the law intends to and will protect
each and every citizen in Delaware, who
will have the backbone to make COM
plant and stand back of it at the trial.
That's the way to have the laws respect
ed, but unless you as an individual mani
fest courage and refuse to let your neigh
Dor break the laws, and make others un-
happy thereby, there will always be COM
plants registered, and officers be impor-
tuned to do the work that others are too
to undertake.
Milford chronicle., 1915-10-01
MAGNOLIA.

The missionary exercises in the Sun.
day School next Sunday morning will be
in charge OF the PASTORS class.
The Sacrament of the Lords Supper
will be administered on next Sunday
morning.
The week-night prayer service will be
resumed this evening at the church.
The farmers continue to deliver fruit.
Keiffer pear is the product this week,
and in some instances very fine ones.
Mr. and Mrs R. E. Stout and Mr.. and
Mrs. +. S. Wyatt and daughter attended
the funeral of Mrs Albert Stout at Har-
rington on Saturday.
Mrs. Patience Hart is entertaining
Henry Hart, of Philadelphia, and Mrs.
Eliza Carey, of wilton.
Mrs. Harry Murkle, of West Philadel-
phia, has been the guest of Peter L.
Grace and family this week.
Mrs. Huldah Chambers, of Philadel
phia, is the guests of relatives here.
John w. Taylor and wife and Charles
Taylor, Jr each of Camden, n. J., and
Edward Taylor, of Philadelphia, we're
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Taylor on
Sunday.
Milford chronicle., 1915-10-01

EVEN after lowering the per centage
standard by authority of the State Board
of Education, the number of students in
the entire state who are prepared to pass
from the rural schools into the graded
high schools of the towns, number all
told only one hundred and seventeen.
The state permits two hundred and fifty
from each county to take advantage of
the law permitting pupils who have COM
pleted the courses prescribed for the
rural schools, to enter the graded schools
of the towns, and from which the State
Treasurer is authorized to pay twenty
cents for each day such pupil shall have
attended such school-making the higher
education of the child absolutely free to
the parents of rural pupils. At the last
session of the legislature, an attempt was
made to have the number raised to three
hundred in each of the counties, but it
failed of approval, and very Justly failed,
as the results of the examinations of the
pupils from the rural schools has recently
shown. The real facts are, that the
rural schools are not kept up to the
courses of education prescribed, and the
children are not properly instructed and !
grounded in the branches taught in the
rural schools, to enable them to enter |
the town schools even of similar grades. |
In plain language-the rural schools are
maintained in the majority of the dis
riots, at the very lowest possible money
,ost to the people of the district; no mat
er how inexperienced or poorly equipped
he teacher may be, just so they will
each for the miserable pittance of thirty
i've dollars per month for seven months
II each year, and pay their board, clothe
themselves, and pay all incidental ex-
lenses therefrom, is the sole aim and
'urpose of more than half the men now
the school boards in the
ural districts of Delaware. The exam
lations of pupils, will stop an imposi- !
on on town school tax payers, by the
eople in the country. q
Milford chronicle., 1915-10-01

No politics in National defense, - ex-
claims the Washington Post, which then
proceeds to say that, ''No political party
is entitled to any credit at all for demand
ing national preparedness Not, Ell?
Didn't the Republican party appropriate
for battleship construction as literally as
international conditions required? Dur
ing the last year of the last Republican
administration, when the President and
the Senate were Republican and the
House Democratic, didn't the Senate
stand ready and anxious to pass an ap-
preparation for two battleships, which
the House refused to permit The DEM
cratic platform of 1912 was silent on ma
tional defense while the Republican plat
form proclaimed in clear and courageous
tones: I'VE believe in the maintenance
of an adequate navy for the nations de-
fense, and we condemn the action of the
Democratic House of Representatives in
refusing to authorize the construction of
battleships.' - It is true that national de-
fense is not a question of politics 1t is
matter of craftsmanship and the Demo
Gratis have demonstrated their incapacity
in that particular.
Milford chronicle., 1915-10-01

THOUGH the mileage of railroads op-
Grated in the United States increased
from 253, ,295 miles in the fiscal year 1918
IA to 255,S40 miles in 1914-15, the gross
operating revenue fell in the same period
from So, ,O9S, 487 1896 to 81 974, 722, 594. If
this decrease of S193, ,765 900 in operating
revenue were merely loss to multimil-
lionaires, not so many people would
worry. But the figures have a deeper
meaning. They mean less shipment of
freight, less business for the retail mer-
chant, less work for the carpenter, less
trade in hardware. fewer people who are
able to travel. This decrease in gross
operating expenses not only indicated
dull times in other lines of business but
forced a reduction in railroad expendi-
-ures amounting to $136 OOO,O That
meant direct loss to railroad workmen
md dealers in material and direct loss to
hose who sell goods to railroad worknen
md their families. Business is a sort of
ndless chain and when you break it the !
fleet is far more extensive than might |
ppear at first thought
Milford chronicle., 1915-10-01

NAA2AA 4AbO fANhI4 hODl1h + ANN
On the 31st instant we left for Kansa.
City, where we visited another cousin
Judge j. K. Beauchamp, whom we haC
not seen for thirty years, but who's,
daughter visited US in Delaware two
years ago. For three days we were
their guests, and shown the great busi
ness part of Southern Missouri. anC
among the sights was a visit to Long.
view," farm of 1900 acres. There are
q families residing permantly on this
farm, and a boarding house for the
transient help and those who have no
families. It's persons are employed on
the farm. A power plant furnishes light
and water for all parts of the farm.
The stock is all thoroughbred, while the
barns and stables are real places for
live stock. They have a creamery and
have 60 cows milking, all of Jersey
stock. Some of the finest show horses
to be found in the world are grown and
kept here. On this farm is a chapel. a
school house and an amusement hall.
The children receive free education and
the entertainments are supplied free to
them. The farm was started two years
ago by Robert A. Long as an expert
ment, as he believed that he could do
more good to his fellow man by giving
employment than by charity giving, or
by spending money in travel. The farm
IS now. self sustaining so we were in
formed.
Our trip through a beautiful natural
park of 100 acres was another pleasure
and the Cliff Drive is grand and has a
worldwide reputation among travellers. /
Along this drive we were shown where
an automobile went over the side where
there is a sheer drop of 100 feet, and the
machine caught between two trees about
quarter the distance down.
We went through the great packing
plants located at Kansas City, and they
were very similar to those in Chicago,
but Of course each has its own individual
points of merit. The main building of
1ne plant is 308X433 feet some building.
lust compare it with the distance meas
lred off on your own field or street.
While at Kansas City we met George
Iank, who resides in Kansas, and who
vas on his way to Edmunton, Canada,
o visit his father, Robert J. Lank, who
5 now 50 years old. We had not seen
i'm since they left Milford when boy,
many years ago. We certainly had [
nightly pleasant four day reunion. I
September 4th we started for Okla
oma City, Oklahoma, in the evening !
nd arrived there about 10 m. the dav !
OllOwing, and here we were again met c
y another cousin, B. D. Beauchamp.
HON we had not seen for thirty eight {
ears. Oklahoma City is one of the a
lost beautiful cities we ever saw. The
-reets are 100 feet wide, and they have a
yer 130 miles of paved streets in the A
ty limit, and the population is $1,000. t
shines forth everywhere, and v
reat grain fields, the great fruit crops 3
I'd the wonderfully productive soil Fl
axes this condition of affairs. The
innate here is something like that of v
elaware, but the dampness is not so is
srceptible. Much cotton is grown in a
lis part of Oklahoma, while alfalfa is h
e main grass crop. o.
9th we went to Walonga. in
zlahoma, to visit another relative, and m
e found real Indian town, and there g
Milford chronicle., 1915-10-01

THE average cost of educating a child
in the public schools of Milford according
to the number of children in the schools
and the amount expended each year by
the Board of Education for maintaining
the schools, amounts to more than twenty
five dollars for each and every one. OF
course the proportional cost when ap-
portioned between the different grades,
will bring the primary cost per pupil
down considerable, but on the other hand,
the cost per pupil iu the high school de-
partment will advance to about forty-five
dollars per pupil. With this fact before
the people, we fail to see where the
graded schools of Milford, or any other
town in Delaware, is getting paid for
educating the children from neighboring
rural school districts, by the sum of
twenty cents per day for each day they
attend. The entire school year is only
one hundred and eighty days, and the
sum of twenty cents per day is paid only
for the children attending the high school
departments. What all Boards of Edu-
cation should do, is to charge the parents
a fixed sum for each and every child at
tending these schools from a rural dis
trict and then credit them with the
amount paid to the school by the State
Treasur er-the balance being the differ
ence in the cost educating the child for
the parent in the rural school district.
This is only fair, and there is no reason
why the towns should educate the child
zen in the country, and free the property
,wners of that district of the cost of
their own children. This is
question the towns must face, for it is
afe to say that the rural districts will '
make no effort to remedy the injustice of
be situation. Even the examination re-
uirements will not remedy this particu- b
lr unfairness in the school laws. v
Milford chronicle., 1915-10-01
HARBESON.

Jack" Frost paid us visit Wednes-
day morning, putting the finishing
touches on our lima bean patches and
other green vegetation.
The farmers of this community are
busy cutting and threshing COW peas,
gathering corn and preparing to seed
wheat
large number CT taxpayers availed
themselves of the opportunity to settle
Their taxes on Tuesday when the Re
ceiyer of Taxes had a representative here
from II noon to 3 p. m.
" James E. Tarr, the genial SEXTON fore
man here, in company with his brother
George c. Tar, section foreman at
Berlin, Md, spent part of last week in
Boston, Mass, Albany and New York,
N. Y, reporting a delightful trip.
A large number of young folks attended
the party given by Misses Bessie and
Cara Martin at their home Saturday even
ing.
Miss Meta Green of Georg spent
one week end with Miss Elsie Mcgee.
Roberts & Mills of Ellendale, and the
Snyder Preserving Co., of Greenwood,
have been buying tomatoes at the rail-
road depot here this week, twenty cents
being paid for good stock.
A number of people of this vicinity
spent Sunday at Oak Orchard beach.
Mrs Ernest +. Mcgee has been on the |
sick list this week.
Rev, and Mrs. F. J. Phillips spent a |
few days last week with Salisbury, Md, |
relatives.
Mrs. Efie Bruglar and children of
have returned home after
spending sometime with her sister, Mrs.
/ w. Hunter and family.
David Reed of E., of Glendale, was a
visitor here on Wednesday and assured
IS that Ellendale was one of the progress
i've Sussex towns and forging to the
ront.
Wilbert Davidson, of Wilmington,
pent day with his parents, Mr.. and
drs. Charles r. Davidson, this week.
John w. Rogers rnd family spent Sun
ay with Samuel Sockriter and family.
Mrs. c. R. Mcgee was a Wilmington
isitor this week. {
Mrs. Durant Vincent, of Philadelphia, I
no has been spending sometime with '
er father and family has returned to '
ie city.
Don t overlook the shadow social to b
: held in connection with the festival at
Chapel Saturday evening. "
Milford chronicle., 1915-10-01

prepared and have carried through TO
success. A year and the visitor would
hnd each day some new thing, some
new attraction, some novel method or
something to call for another visit.
The display of fruit and vegetables is
a wonderful thing to look on, and the
machinery displayed from all parts Of
the world, and especially this country,
is amazing. Delaware specimens Of
everything the State produces from its
soil were conspicuous by their absence;
but am convinced Delaware can pro-
duce the equal to much that we saw dis
played.
The weather in San Francisco is dry
and | am told they have no rain from
April to October, or a very slight rain
fall. The heavy fOgs each night make
the weather very unsatisfactory for
sightseeing at times. The fields about
this city look dried up, and cnly those
which have been irrigated are producing
anything green. The days are warm
and the nights cold, so that coats or
furs are comfortable.
l have tried to give you in brief form
the swift impressions of our trip as they
have developed but there is much which
has been missed in the hurry, and the
draught upon memory, and l may be
able to later write of things which We
have seen.
The trip has done Mrs. Lank much
good, and am taking my usual nOurish-
nent every time the meals are served;
md at other times as well.
With kindest regards. | am
MAJOR VIM E. LANK.
Milford chronicle., 1915-10-01

SOME people contend that national poll
tics cut no ice in municipal affairs, but
Chicago knows better. The Democratic
tariff made business so bad in Chicago
that the number of people who had to be
aided from the public treasury is just
about double what it was when Repub
lican Administration was in power at
Washington. Mayor Big Bill Thomp-
son made the tariff an issue when he was
a candidate last spring. He knew what
he was about-and now the increased
charges for poor-relief prove it.
Milford chronicle., 1915-10-01

we met the real red men clothed in the
costumes OF feathers, headpieces ano
blankets, walking about the streets. The
women carried their babies or paposes
strapped upon their backs, and this was
sight. About this place are sand hills
and much of the soil resembles the sandy
1lstrlcts Of Sussex County, Delaware.
Our visit here was for one day and we
returned to Kansas City to start on our
itinery.
September 9th we left for Denver.
Colorado. The ride on the train took us
over some very rough country, and the
principal products appeared to be hav.
oats and corn. Stock growing was every-
where in evidence. After getting out of
Nebraska we saw in the valleys some
hne crops growing by irrigation. In
another section we passed through great
helds OF sugar beets, and there the al
falfa fields looked very good. especially
where they had been irrigated.
Denver is a sight seeing CITY. and we
noted the system of lighting the streets.
which gives a splendid effect. The citv
seems prosperous. We called upon Mr..
and Mrs. James A. Marsh. a former
Delaware family, and Mr.. Marsh is now
the county attorney. They are well
pleased with Denver and like the climate |
so well that they will never 90 East |
again to live.
September 11th we left Denver for
SAT- Lake City. Utah, and enroute we
pass over a mountainous country, and
the scenery was beautiful the flowers
LDlloomlng IN the valleys and snow crown
the mountain tops. We reach Salt Lake
on Sunday about noon, and started ont
20 see what we could of the Mormon
City. We visited the great University
Grounds and the Great Salt Lake hnt
the weather was too cold to trv to take
a bath. Monday we went to hear the
great pipe organ recital. and take II
from me, it is as near hearing the human
voice render musical selections as II is
possible for an instrument made bv man
% accomplish. You could without much
Effort believe that you were listening to
quartette singing, and the acoustic
properties OF the great auditorium which
eats, 1900 is such that we actually
leard pin drop 200 feet distant from
where we were standing, and it sounded
S plain to our ears as though it had II
een dropped at our feet. ii
September 18th we bid farewell to 4
sli1 HohS Slty LOT Ine Pacific Coast | II
he train ride was one continuous pano-
anna Of beautiful scenery, and from the
bservation car at the rear we watched
unroll for mile after mile. In some
tates the view disclosed the log huts
the prospectors, while the other ride
nelters OF the prospectors, and in others n
ne entire view was desolation of rock
nd waste lands.
September 18th we reached Oaklands
nd We're met by Mrs. Lank's brother
rchie d. Little, who is remembered bv
le older folks of Milford, and where he
as born. He has beautiful home at
erkleey, California, just across the bay
ON San Francisco. II
On September 10th we made our first
SIT to the wonderful exposition. and il
so grand, so big, so wonderful to look
, so Impressive, that / feel that if I'LL
I'VE SIX months to wander among its
'ounds and through its wonderful build III Il
g, that would only then be Just com
enclng to get an understanding of the
eat show the people of California have
Milford chronicle., 1915-10-01

RUSSIA has imposed war income tax.
Russia has right to do this, because
Russia is at war. Over here we already
have one war tax and another is threat
ened. But we are at peace. What's the
answer?
Milford chronicle., 1915-10-01
VISIT 1900 ACRE MODEL FARM.

felt good and the fire in the CRATE was
Milford chronicle., 1915-10-01

Entered at the Post Office, in Milford
Delaware, as second-class matter
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-04-17
RIGGS CASE is POST
PONED TO MAY IL
Counsel on Both Sides Agree To Delay
Injunction Against Treasurer
Burke Continues.

Washington, April l7.-Justice Mccoy
of the District of Columbia supreme
court yesterday signed an order postpon-
ing until May IL the injunction case OF
the Riggs National bank against Secre-
tary McAdoo and Comptroller of the Cur
rency Williams. The order provides that
the temporary injunction restraining
John Burke, United States treasurer,
from payment into the treasury OF So
600 interest on bonds of the bank, with
held to cover penalties for alleged fail
ure to make reports, shall continue un-
til the hearing next month.
Counsel on both sides agreed to the
postponement, although former Senator
Bailey, chief counsel for the bank. pre-
ferred an earlier date. Louis ID. Bran
deis. chief counsel for the government,
in requesting postponement said that it
was made as tribute to the Importance
OF the case.
Former Senator Bailey of counsel for
the bank denies that any other national
bank has any part in the pending pro-
cccdings or has been consulted about the
suit in any way. "The decision in this
case" Mr. Bailey's statement said, will
determine how far the banks of this
country are subject to the arbitrary
power of the comptroller of the curren-
cy and also how far the the comptroller
OF the currency is subject to the limita-
tions of the law. IL could not, there
fore, be otherwise than that the banks