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Newark post., 1915-09-29
Milford Establishes
Scholarship Fund

Milford High School Alumni As
sociation arrived at a definite de-
cision at a meeting on September
II. in regard to the establishment
of a S75 scholarship fund, the
same to be a loan, expected to be
paid back within five years after
the recipient has begun to earn.
An interest of four per cent after
that time will be charged. Inc
money can be paid back in small
amounts of five or ten dollars. The
Scholarship Committee expresses
preference for Delaware College,
but no one college is made compui-
sorry. The making of the scholar
shin a loan was not only the popu-
! lar opinion of the association, bu1
of the public. By this method the
Association will be able to senc
two students every year instead OF
one. and as it grows the number
can increase.
Newark post., 1915-09-29
Yearly Meeting
At Historic Church

The yearly meeting of the Cow
Marsh Old School Baptist Church,
near Petersburg, Kent county, was
held last Sunday. The church or
ganization was formed during the
latter half of the eighteenth CEN
tury and has an unbroken record
of meetings at the same place,
though not in the present building,
covering approximately one hun
dred and fifty years.
This church, together with the
Pedee River Church, in South Car
olina; the London Tract, Duck
| Creek, Wilmington and Mispillon
Hundred churches sprang from
the Welsh Tract Baptist meeting
in Pencader Hundred, which was
founded in 1901, and which in 1908
erected the third Baptist meeting
house in America, the first being
in Rhode Island, erected by Roger
Williams and the second in Swan
sea.
Newark post., 1915-09-29

Thomas F. Grady of Kennett
Square has received the contract
to erect a $4,000 dwelling anc
garage on Pierre S. S. du Points es
tate, LOngwoOd.
Newark post., 1915-09-29
Found Refuge On Stump

While Carlton Hearne and
Granville Windsor and Misses Lar
abelle Kennerly and Rhoda Wind
sor of Laurel, were rowing on Re
cords Lake, last Monday evening
their boat struck violently against
a stump and began to fill rapidly,
The young people clambered out
upon the stump and called for help
till they were tired. A colored
man rowing homeWard flnally
saw them and took them ashore.
Newark post., 1915-09-29
Shut Polls-Held For Court

Judge Rice on Saturday held
Levy Court Commissioner Samuel
L. Burris, Chairman Of the Repub-
lican Committee Of the Second
Ward in Wilmington and Charles
Virden, Inspector at the Second
Ward polls at the Republican pri-
mary election in Wilmington on
May IS, in $500 bail each for the
Court of General Sessions on the
charge Of violating the election
laws. Mr.. Burris, it IS alleged,
gave, and Mr.. Virden executed the
order to close the polls to prevent
Democrats who had no right to
vote at the primaries, casting bal
lets.
Edward Sadler and John Hood,
ock, election Judges who were
likewise charged, were dismissed
Newark post., 1915-09-29
Held On Perjury Charge

Arrested while drunk in Mil
ford on Thursday evening William
Miller on Friday morning swore
before Alderman Ramsey that he
had bought his liquor from a local
business man. Brought before
Justice Cannon, Miller swore he
did not buy the liquor. Told that
he would be charged with perjury
he said he had bought the liquor
for which he paid S1.25. Upon ad.
vice of Deputy Attorney Genera
Hutton, Miller was held for Cour'
/ for perjury, in default of $500
bail.
Newark post., 1915-09-29
Five Saved From Fire

Wilmington fremen worked for
an hour checking a blaze in Mrs,
Mary Reeds apartment house,
All Lombard street, which follow
ed a mysterious explosion at the
rear of the building, which Patrol
men McGranary and Zebley heard
about 2 a. m. Saturday. They ran
to the house which they found on
fire. They reused the occupants,
all of whom got out safely but Mrs.
Reed and her sons, Edward and
James, A and years old. The Of
ficers and three fremen, James
Gormley, James Hammerer and
Windle Brownhall, groped through
the smoke to Mrs. Reeds room and
found her and the children lying
senseless in bed. They were hur-
ried to Delaware Hospital where
they were revived. Firemen also
rescued an infant child of Mrs
Reeds which the smoke had mo-
affected. Ralph Roberts ant
wife were rescued by means of ;
ladder from their room on tn
third floor.
Newark post., 1915-09-29

Elder Benjamin E. Cubbage, of
Wyoming, is pastor Of Cow Marsh
Church. and had charge of the SER
vices. The sermon Sunday was
preached by Elder William S. Alex
ander of Wilmington, The after
noon sermon was preached by Ell
der J. Monroe Fenton of Philadel-
phia.
Many former residents Of the
community from Wilmington, Phil
adelphia, and more distant points
attended the services.
Newark post., 1915-09-29
Cut Made On Schools Cost

Thinking $4,000, the lowest bid
excessive for a two story, four
room. brick addition to the Mil
ford grammar school, the School
Board bought material and had
the work done by the day. Former
Sheriff Frank Reedy, one of the
members of the board, served as
supervisor without pay. The build
ing was completed with water sup
plv and drainage at a cost OF
$4,000. a saving Of $140O from th'
lowest contract figure.
Newark post., 1915-09-29
HERE AND THERE

Mayor Price has designated next
Sunday, October 3, as Community
Day in Wilmington.
Newark post., 1915-09-29

room and about the same time a
colored farmland did likewise.
Seeing dimly mans form in the
yard Mr.. Ratledge hailed the party
who fred revolver, the bullet
lodging in the window frame, and
took another shot at the farmland.
Rutledge and the farmland grab
bed guns and ran to the yard and
saw team driven rapidly down
the road which soon disappeared.
Newark post., 1915-09-29
War Relic For Wilmington

The pennant flown from the
mast head of the gunboat Whining
ton while in action off the coast of
Cuba during the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, torn by Spanish she'll
fire, which her commander, the
late Captain James P. s. Laurence,
rave his wife, will be presented
to the city Of Wilmington tomor-
row evening, September 30, by
Mrs. Laurence, who now resides N
Washington, D. c. Mrs. Laurence
will make the presentation ad,
dress and Mayor Price will re
spond. The exercises will be helt
! in the City Council chamber ant
will be opened to the public.
Newark post., 1915-09-29

Mrs. Helen M. Stout, aged 81
years, wife Of Albert Stout, was
found dead in a bath tub at her
home near Harrington on Wednes-
day. After an examination by the
Coroner's physician the jury found
that death was due to dilation OF
the heart caused by sudden con-
tact with hot water turned into the
tub.
Mrs. James w. Way, of New
London, Pa, has been notified by
cable of the death of her brother,
DR.. B. James Bing, prominent
dentist of Paris, France, In that
city, on September Is. DR.. Bing
practiced in Elkton in the middle
sixties and is we'll remembered by
old residents of the surrounding
neighborhood. He later located IN
Paris where he ranked high in his
profession.
Despondent owing to protracted
i'll health, Mrs. jeremiah Cauft-
mas, aged 35 years, swallowed car
bolic acid on Saturday afternoon
at her home, 100 Pullman Place,
Wilmington, and died from its eff
fects. Her husband and five young
children survive her.
Five automobilists, among them
Philip L. Garrett, attorney for the
Delaware Automobile Club, were
fined S3.55 each by Justice Van
Buskirk for failing to sound horns
at street crossings in Chesapeake
City.
About 100 Civil War veterans
< left Wilmington on Monday to at
= tend the annual National encamp
| ment of the G. A. r. in Washing
r ton, D. c.
Thomas F. Grady of Kennel
!, Square has received the cOntrac
e to erect $4,000 dwelling an
: garage on Pierre S. S. du Points es
e tate, Longwood.
J, Miss Gladys Muriel Austin
i reader and pianist Of Philadelphi;
e and Madeline Davis, soprano c
h Wilmington, will give costum
t. recital on Saturday evening in tn
Odd Fellows Hall, St. George
for the benefit of the Presbyterla
S, Church in that town.
Newark post., 1915-09-29
Lincoln Highway In Wilmington

The Street and Sewer Depart
ment of Wilmington has suggested
that the Washington branch of the
Lincoln Highway pass through
that city via Market street to
Tenth, to Delaware Avenue to
Pennsylvania avenue to Dupont
street, to Fourth, to Union and
along the Elsmere read.
Newark post., 1915-09-29
DuPOnts Buy Machine Plant

The J. Marion Poole Company,
large machinery manufacturing
plant in Wilmington, operated
under lease for several months
past by the dupont Powder Com
pany, has been purchased by the
latter and will be used to turn out
machinery for powder mills
throughout the country. T. K.
Burns is superintendent of the
plant.
Newark post., 1915-09-29
prowler Shoots And Flees

Reused by noise in his poultry
house early last Monday morning
William Ratledge, living near New
Castle raised a window in his bed
Newark post., 1915-09-29

ouIOdS, oStODCI ., do SOllllIltlllty
Day in Wilmington.
A Choral Club with so members
has been formed in New Castle
with Miss Pauline H. Rogers as
directress.
Charged with embezzling $122.93
from the Prudential Insurance
Company, Walter j. Martin, one OF
its Wilmington agents, is held for
Court under $500 bail.
Owing to large yields of fruit
and the low prices offered sussex
farmers are storing considerable
stocks of homemade wine.
Wilmington bank clearings last
week totalled S2,136, ,9O6.69 as
against $1,827782 for the like
week last year.
Nattahoon Tribe Of Red Men of
Elkton. cleared $112.50 from its
recent carnival.
Joseph H. Perkins has purchas-
ed the interest of the late DR..
Charles NJ. Ellis in the Elkton gas
works for $4,000, and will conduct
the business along with ms
grandfather, Joseph Hinchlitfe,
the ioint owner of the plant.
William Murphy, night opera
tor for the Delaware Railroad at
Laurel, while returning from work
one morning last week, was at,
tackled by a savage mastlf ana
took refuge in tree until other
men drove the animal off.
The Levy Court, it is stated
will improve the Philadelphia pike
from Wilmington to the Pennsyl-
vania line, planning to meet the
cost by improving the road from
Centreville to the Kennett pike,
% miles, instead of the original
nIan calling for 81 miles to the
Ashland road, bids for which
were received but were all reject
ed.
Mrs. George Murray of LeWes
WAS seriously burned when gaso
line stove exploded at her nome
one day last week.
GEORGETOWN High School stu
dar+s have formed an athletic as
sociation with an advisory boar
cor-nosed of local business men.
Boarding the harbor dredg
Niruuas in Wilmington, one ga
last week. a sneak thief stol
money belonging to two memDel
of the crew and watches owned b
two others.
4 p gallon milk can fell upo
Warren Collins of Hockessln Q
i Thursday, fracturing his hip.
The interior of the Bridgevil
Methodist Church is to be r
rainted and new carpets Will
laid in the church and Suho'
School room.
CHARGED with attempting the Ii
of ToIiie Potter, colored, by gi
inc her poison in whiskey, Lei
Blake and Harold Howard al
co1ored. are held in default OF
600 bail in Wilmington.
Falling off a wagon, one q
last week, Otto Gibson, baker
Icwes, broke his right arm a
mashed his left foot.
Ladies' of Red Lion nj.
Church cleared $50 from their
cent festival.
Rev. Charles E. Davis has
signed his charge of Marsha1
NJ F. Church to pursue cou
of instruction at Dickinson .
lege.
Thieves, one night last We
stole a wagon load Of Watefme,
( from Nathaniel Garreps pa
= near Hockessin.
The George W. Helme 81
Company of Yorklyn, has give
voluntary increase Of 10 cent
day to its laborers.
Brandywine hundred reside
will fight the consolidation OF
rural mail routes and the chs
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-07

ROSSer Is such a clustering blunderer, that
he did not realize what he was doing, when
he gave out for publication, after Franks
execution, the letters that Frank had written
from his comfortable room at the State
Farm
In those letters, Frank was taking up his
case again with Rosser and he asked for
the address of M. j. Yeomans and John NJ
Slaton in order that ne might take the
case up with them
He had already written to C. p. Connolly,
the Hessian whose libellous article in COL
Her's was the beginning of the nationwide
flood of falsehood that poured in upon our
People and our Courts.
In his letter to Connolly, Frank spoke of
his separate room and the negro convict who
had been detailed to wait on him.
He spoke of the vindication that was soon
to come, and in this letter, as we'll as in the
others, he revealed the intention which the
Burns agency and the Jewish papers had
announced-namely, Not to accept the life
sentence, bat to start at once to get q pardon.
The same tactics were to be used; the same
libels to be published; the same taking of pc
titions, affidavits, and letters; the same viii
fication of the State of Georgia. which we
had been forced to endure for more than
year.
that the communication to a life sentence had
neither been giren, nor receired in good
faith, Rosser and Connolly and Burns and
Slaton and the Straus Magazine removed II.
If you will allow your mind to 90 back to
the 15,00G-word document which was care.
fully prepared for Slaton to sign, yop will
recall the singular fact that 1t teUreS open
the question of Franks guilt
Governor Slaton made it a sort Of dog-fall
for his client, thus postp0ang to q later day
the real issue IN tie case.
It was the intention Of these Datriots--Sa-
ton, Rosser, Burns and Conncily-to repeat
the same cid methods of agitation; the same
old appeals to outsiders; the same cid yaWps
about mob fury; the same old bosh about
race-hatred; and the same old falsehood
about Frank being convicted On the sole tes
timony Of low down, drunken, criminal ne
GRO
They were headed for another year OF iur-
MOL, another year Of newspaper wrangle;
another year Of manufactured pressure upon
the Prison Commission and the Governor.
And when the news flashed over the wires
that Cobb county had had enough of that
kind of thing, and had indicated the Law,
against the Vaccinations of corrupt attor-
neys and Jew Money, every one Of those
patriots-Burns, Rosser, Connolly, Marshall
and Slaton, r0ared ocjth the anger Of pro-
teSsionaz 2cho had lost his most lucrative
CLIENT
When Slaton heard the news of Franks
execution, his rage knew no bounds.
He promptly issued Declaration of War
against those buns, ritf-raf, ag-tags and
low-lifers who had dared to find fault with
him, for acting as Governor and lawyer at
the same time.
He was then in San Francisco receiving
ovations for his noble and heroic conduct,
in committing his client
He was MAKING SDeechpS about the Frank
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-07
JOHN STATIONS DECLARATION
OF WAR.
John Grants Artillery.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE.)


lanta Constitution show that the merger of
the two partnerships had already taken
place, June 20, 1913
Consult the files, Samuel
The Constitution announced the new part
nership, and alluded to Partner Slaton as
''the Governor elect"
Therefore Slaton became Rosser's partner
a few days before Slaton was sworn in as
Governor.
litter June %, 1913, the merged partner
ships sounded "RoSsey, Brandon, S1aton &
Ph1Itps.'
It Sc appears in the official Record of Full
professional cards.
In other words, Rosser and Saton acere
adre1tts1ng Themselves as partners. Let any
one who doubts, consult the ''Futon County
Daily Report which paper is the official
organ of the u. S. Court of Bankruptcy,
and is recognized by the members of the bar
as the Official Bulletin
[ have a copy of the Record for August
IS, 1913, and find the firm advertised as,
"ROSSER, BRANDON. SLATON &
PHILLIPS"
In the corrected telephone directory of
Atlanta, for 1914 (down to October 15), you
will find in large letters the firm name,
"Rosser Brandon Slaton & Phillips, Attys.,
Grant bl. Ivy $780,"
The same telephone number appears In
the legal advertisement In the Record"
Turn to the name Of "Slaton, John NJ,
Atty" and you Will find that Slaton, aCh0
qcaS then g0cern0r keeps his telephone con-
nection with the law office of his Rosser part
ner, for he gives his number as Ivy 28OO."
Governor Slaton has two other telephone
numbers, as you'll see by looking in the di-
1ectory for 1914 One is the Execut We
Mansion, and the other is his mansion on
the Peachtree road
Could the proofs be more conclusive? The
evidence is furnished by Ros8er and Sla-
ton themselves, first, in paid advertisements,
second in the statements they gave to the
compilers of the Bell Telephone Directory.
When Stiles Hopkins made affidavit in the
course of the extraordinary motion for new
trial, he sW0re that when he went over to
the Milledgeville Reformatory to get the af-
fidavit of George Eppes, he, Stiles Hopkins,
was connected" with the firm of Ross 2r,
Brandon Slaton & Phillips and was doing
this work in the Frank case, for said firm!
Stiles is now the full partner of Rosser,
Slaton & Phillips.
Surely, you could not ask stronger evil
dence that at the very time Slaton was in
augurated in 1913, and all through 1914,
and all through 1915, to the present day, he
has been one of Rosser's partners
Are we to be told that governor in such
a dual position IS not disqualified?
Are we to be told that the Law ever allows
a Judge, or an executive, to decide his oarn
case?
The people Of Cobb County, during the
Senatorial race last year, called upon Sa-
ton to know whether he meant to pass upon
the case of his own client; and he side
stepped by saying the case might never
reach him.
He was not only Franks lawyer, at the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-07
THE JEFFERSONIAN
PAGE FIVE

'The act was consummate outrage" said Mr.
Slaton, land every man engaged in the lynching
should be hanged, for he is an assassin. Such an
act is contrary to the civilization of Georgia and
which every good citizen will condemn.
81 could use no language too condemnatory.
believe the governor of Georgia will use all the
power of the state to punish the malefactors who
dsgraced the civilization of Georgia.
"Their act was one of cowardice, which be-
longs to the assassin
81 am shocked and mortified beyond expression.
Any who approves of this action of this mob
of murderers is unworthy to be Georgian. Any
or newspaper which condones this offense
ought to be driven of the state. But the con-
of this miserable mob of assassins is the
duct of the sort of people who shoot people from
behind fence murder woman from
ardiy heart"
Here was a man who had fled for his
life, after the State had been put to an ex-
pense of $1,000 for protecting it,
Here was a man who knew that he had
stirred the honest indignation Of ninety,
out of every hundred men in Georgia
Here was a man who knew that the State
felt she had been sold ont to the Jelrs, and
sold out by him.
He knew that accusations to that effect
were holly made all over the country, and
that our people felt like woman who had
been brutality raped.
Yet be dared, IN CoEt01nia, to threaten the
men of Cobb county, to threaten the 80 per
cent of Georgians who ''condoned' what had
been done
He dared, IN Colifornju, to designate who
it was that should be driven out of the
State"
That was nice, soothing, tactful thing
to dc, wasn't it
He dared, in Cazito,nia, to trumpet his
threats across the Continent, virtually an
nouncing that when he returned. to practise
Law with his Rosser and his Hopkins, he
would bring to condign punishment 'the
towards and 'assassins" who had put his
client to death.
Not traitor governor, but a Vigilance
Committee, had ''disgraced the civilization
of Georgia"
Not recreant to official oath and duty,
but each of the Vigllantes was unworthy to
be a Georgian"
Every man engaged in the Iynching
j should be hanged,'' and, implicitly, when Sla-
ton got back to Georgia, and his 5ac1ers got
into pOlcer, every man engaged in the lynch
ing, ocouzd be hanged.
With stupidity hard to understand. IN
80ch q case, Slaton compared the Nigi!antes
to people who would "murdey q acoman"
The Vigilantes should be hanged because,
in executing Leo Frank they had committed
as great crime as that of the man who wur-
ders a woman
The Vigilantes thought, with the jury and
the Supreme Court, that middle-aged
married man. aohO murders little girl, in
the course of a sexual assault upon her,
should be hanged; and that's why they car
ried out the Law on Leo Frank-och0se legal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-15

The first blow was the Presidents de-
termination to sacrifice ship building
and water shipping interests to the
sreat cross country railroads. Repeal
Of free tolls for American ships be-
tween American ports, through the
channel built, owned and protected by
the American people, was accomplish
ed and the hope which had shone
brightly for few brief weeks was
lost. And then came the Presidents
own recommendation for a ship pur-
chase bill.
While President Wilson advocates
this wholesale purchase of foreign
built ships to be owned and operated
by the government, the United States
Senate and Republicans in the House
are organizing to fight such an I'M
American policy to the end.
Under the provisions of the bill a
shipping board, composed of the Sec
rotary Of the Treasury, the Postmaster
General and the Secretary Of Com
merce, may subscribe to the capital
stock of any corporation now or here
after organized under the laws Of the
United States, or of any state thereof,
or of the District of Columbia, for the
purpose Of purchasing, constructing,
maintaining and operating merchant
in he hot y
lantic. gulf or Pacific ports of the
United States and the ports of Cen
trail and South America and elsewhere,
to meet the requirements of the COM
merce Of the United States.
The real question at issue seems to
be whether or not such legislative act
ion as proposed is either necessary or
advisable. Leading United States SEN
ators are of the opinion that it is not.
this ground and others to be mentioned
later United States Senator Bur-
leigh and other Republicans of the
Maine delegation in Congress will op-
pose the Presidents measure. The ad
vocates of the measure advance the
theory that shipping facilities
for the transportation OF our
exports abroad under existing
conditions are Inadequate, but
appear not to accept the testimony of
experienced and practical men that
the present situation is due mainly
not to any extensive lack of vessels,
but to the present unstable foreign
exchange operations, scarcity of fore
ign labor for handling commerce, and
particularly to the high cost of mar
inc insurance, and that with relief
in these directions greater activity
will follow and the present and future
requirements of commerce met by
private enterprise.