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Middletown transcript., 1916-06-24

Lessees of oyster beds who have
failed to pay rentals during the past
three years will be called upon by the
Cons ovation Commission to settle.
Chairman Kemp made the announce
ment Failing to do this they will be
disp0ssessed. The amount due the
State is variously estimated at $4,000
A statement has been sent to every
one in arrears.
The rental is 81 per acre. The beds
were leased as barren bottoms, and
number of those who rented them pro
ceeded to plant oysters, but the oyster
men frequently raided these beds and
it is believed that because of the
depredations the rentals were not
paid
There is to be a meeting Thursday
at the rooms of the commission to be
held for the purpose of adopting plan
by which the game laws will be better
enforced The heads of the three pro
tective associations will attend, as will
also Game Warden LeCompte.
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State Audubon Society.

Following an address by T. Gilbert
Pearson, secretary OF the National
Audubon Society, at Mccoy Hall, pre-
liminary steps were taken to form a
Statewide Maryland Audubon Society
to work in harmony with the national
organization. There were present at
the meeting Representatives of the
Maryland Wild Life Protective Asso-
citation, the Roland Park Bird Club and
the Maryland State Game and Fish
Protective Association, all three or
ganizations working toward the COM
mon end of conserving the States
game birds, wild fowl and fish produc
ton
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Bible orIv Noncontraband.

During the Civil war the demand Tor
the Scriptures increased and multi
piled and Bibles printed at the Bible
house, New York, we're the only mer-
chandise which, during more than
three years of civil strife, the Union
army permitted to go through its lines
to the people of the Confederacy, and
the only merchandise which the Con
rede~ate states were willing to receive
from the people Of the North. In 1865
the receipts of the society were $642'-
625.25. and the total number Of Bibles
and portions printed was 1,150.52S. a
number which was not exceeded until
20 years later.-Christian Herald.
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BEST REMEDY FOR SORES,
A VIRGlNIAN WRITES

Mrs. G. A. Butler, Salem, Va, writes:
Il can safely say that Hancock Sui
phur Compound is the best remedy
have ever used in my family for sores.
One of my little boys, years old,
had a solid sore all over face. We
tried different kinds Of medicine, but
none seemed to do any good. Our
son, 10 years old, had sore on his
leg for months and nothing did him
any good. We used Hancock Sulphur
Compound on both and it did its work
quickly and in not over a week both
were we'll"
Hancock Liquid Sulphur Compound
and Ointment are sold by all dealers.
Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co., Balti-
more, Md. Write for Booklet.-Adv.
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Busy Scenes At Encampment Site.

Laurel, the quiet Prince Georges
county town that marks the middle
distance between Baltimore and the
nations capital, is all agog.
This community awOke Monday
morning to the fact that within AZ
hours it would be the scene of the
concentration camp of the Maryland
National Guard, now modified for
Mexican border duty Laurel is now
the center Of all activities of the state
guard.
Staff officers and engineers of the
National Guard sped to Laurel in auto
mobiles and by train. They carried
with them surveyors instruments, and
by o'clock the work OF laying out
the camp was under way. Here, there,
almost everywhere, these men sped
with true military precision, attend
ing to details, making arrangements
for this and that.
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good and I hope every suffering woman
will give them a trial."-Mrs. ANNA
KELLY, 10 Chestnut Street, Burling-
ton, Wis.
The many convincing testimonials cons
stantly published in the newspapers
ought to be proof enough to women who
suffer from those distressing ills pecu-.
liar to their sex that Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound is the medicine.
they need.
This good old root and herb remedy
has proved unequalled for these dread,
full ills; it contains what is needed To-
restore woman's health and strength.
If there is any peculiarly in,
your case requiring special adj,
vice, write the Lydia Z. Pink
ham Medicine Co. (cOnfidentiall
Lynn, Mass, for free advice.
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when ereek Meets creek.

Two business men famous for their
acumen and keenness in the marts
Of trade were wont to meet on the
golf links every Saturday afternoon
in friendly rivalry. 1t was known that
they did not discard professional eth
ics in playing the game, and they
watched one another very closely for
infractjons of the rules A ball was
driven out of bounds. and the driver.
after searching for it earnestly, finally
gave up, and, slipping a new ball in
his trousers, he cautiously let it drop
out by his foot and picked it up quick
ly with cry of delight
"Oh, here it isl" he said.
You're har!" said his companion
morosely. 1--WE been standing on it
for ten minutes. .'-Harper's Weekly.
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Art Objects Sold,

A rare Flemish tapestry entitled THE
Haymakers, dating from late in the
seventeenth century, brought 81, 400 at
an art sale at the Anderson galleries,
New York. 1t went to NJ. Kernochan.
Other important sales were a large
wine jar of the Sung dynasty in China,
about 900 A. D., sold for $175; Chi
nese painting from the Ming dynasty,
sold to NJ. Kernochan for $3.50; land
5eane- painting from the Ming dynasty
to the same buyer for $3.50, and an
other landscape scene from the Ming
dynasty to w. Hotchkiss for $3.50.
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in tablespoonful of softened butter
and fold in the stif1y beaten whites
the last thing. Bake IS minutes in
gem pans in moderate oven.
Graham Muffins.-Beat an egg light,
add a cupful of milk, a cupful and a
half of graham -four and a half cupful
of -four, beat we'll and add teaspoon
full each of butter and lard and another
fourth of cupful of milk. Bake in
muffin pans in a moderately hot oven
about twenty minutes.
Fruit Gems. = Take a cupful of
whole-wheat flour and a half cupful
of cOrnmeal; add a cupful Of mixed
fruits, currants and raisins or dates.
Beat two egg yolks and add with a
cupful and half of milk, lastly fold
in the stifly beaten whites. Bake 20
minutes or more.
Hominy Pone.-Take a cupful of
boiled hominy, half cupful of corn
meal, butter the size of an egg, a tea
spoonful of salt, well mixed while hot
Cool and add a cupful of milk, two
eggs beaten well. Bake in muffin pans
or in a thin sheet in a very quick
oven.
Breakfast Muffins.-Take a pint of
-four, tablespoonful of sugar, a half
teaspoonful of salt. two teaspoonfuls Of
baking powder, al slfted we'll toggth-
er; add a beaten egg, and a cupful Of
milk, stir in two tablespoonfuls of
softened butter; beat well and bake
in muffin pans 20 minutes.
Popovers.-Take a pint each of -four
and milk, two eggs, half teaspoonful
Of salt. Beat the eggs until very thick,
add milk and flour alternately until
it is as smooth as cream. Bake in a
moderate oven 40 minutes. Do not
open the oven for the first half hour.
If put into deep granite cups it makes
a very light cake.
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A Joy Table.

Mother made Joy table" for her
children by saving off the legs of
kitchen table more than halfway up.
so that the little ones could reach it.
Round the table, after it had been
painted green, was nailed a green
ledge of wood-to keep in the sand
quite four inches deep, and table and
ledge alike were lined with zinc Clean
white sand was now distributed even
ly over the table, and the children
hugely enjoyed a game Of being al
the seaside" bringing their spades and
pals and making hillocks and water
ways on it. On other days the children
pretended that the table was village
or a garden, and planted it with green
things and flowers and set church
and farmyard buildings and animals
about. The table was a success.
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a Bad Example.

Miss Jane Adams, during tea
st Hull House, said:
Il disapproye Of the new fashions
because they encourage vanity.
Il know a little girl whose mother
has gone in for all the new fashions
sheath skirt, slit skirt, short skirt
and what not.
That little girls teacher said to
her reproachfully one day:
But, my dear, don't you want to
grow Up so that everybody will look
up to your
mo, ma'am,' said the youngster,
decidedly, want to grow up SO that
everybody will look round at me. >"
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MARYLAND NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Latest DOings in Various Parts
of the State.
AREDFORQUICKREADiNG

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Portion, their
daughter, Miss Rebecca Portion, 70
years old; Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Abel
man and their three-year-old daughter,
Ruth Abelman, all of Washington,
were injured when an automobile in
which they were returning to the city
from Great Falls, upset on the Conduit
road. All were thrown out. Mrs.
Portion, who sustained fracture of the
collar-bone and internal injuries, was
the most seriously injured. The others
were more or less bruised and shaken
up, but none seriously hurt.
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.FRECKLES
Now Is the Time to Get RldOf These

There's no longer the slightest need Of
feeling ashamed of your fTeckles, as the
prescription othine-double strengths
guara nteed to remove these homey spots.
Simply get an ounce of othine-double
siren gth-from your druggist. and apply
little OF il night and morning and you
should soon see that even the worst freckles
have begun to disappear, whi!o the lighter
that more than one ounce is needed to com
pletely clear the skin and gain beautiful
clear complexion.
Be sure to ask for the double strength
othine, as this is sold under guarantee oS
money back II 1t fails to remove frecklea-
Adv
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HOW TO TREAT DANDRUFF
Itching Scalp and Falling Hair With
CUticura. Trial Free.

On retiring touch spots Of dandruff
and itching with Cuticura Ointment
Next morning shampoo with Cuticura
Soap and hot water. A clean, healthy
scalp means good hair and freedom, in
most cases, from dandruff, itching
burning, crustings and scalings.
Free sample each by mail with Book
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere-Adv.
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Cucumber Sauce No. 2-Cook two
tablespoOnfuls Of butter in sauce
pan until brown. add Tablespoonful
juice, au eighth of a teasp0onful of
cayenne and a large cucumber grated;
use at once.
Universal Tomato Sauce.-MiX a ia
blespoonful of cornstarch with cold
water and cook five minutes. Add a
pint of stewed tomato a fourth of a
teaspoonful of paprika. a teaspoonful
of salt, and a tablespoonful of but
ter. Finish with other seasonings as
desired using thyme, parsley, onion
bay leaf, mixed spices, celery or gar
lie according to the dish with which
1t is to be served.
Orange sauce.-Cut into thin strips
the peel from one orange, cook until
tender in a very little water; add
the juice Of two oranges. Cook two
tablespoonfuis of butter with three ta-
blespoonfuls Of -four; add three
fourths of cupful Of stock, half
teaspoonful of made mustard, fourth
of a teasroonful Of salt, a dash Of
cayenne, three-fourths Of a cupful Of
currant jelly. When all is smooth
add the orange juice and the peel.
Serve with game like duck or with
mutton.
Mustard Sauce.-Mix together two
teaspoonfuls of dry mustard, a tea
spoonful each of -four and salt. table
spoonful of soft butter, teaspoonful
of sugar and two tablespoonfuIs OF
vinegar. Mix in the order given; add
a half cupful of boiling water and
stir over the heat until smooth. Serve
hot or colo.
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ANNAPOLIS NEWS
$5e2, 200 For State Schools.

Annapolis
State Comptroller McMullen an
nounced the last quarterly distribution
of the State school fund for the school
year ended June Is. The distribution
amounts to more than $55O,000, and in
cludes the usual appointments of the
school tax, together with the free book
fund, and amounts for approved high
schools in the several counties. Bal
timore city gets about $4,000 and
Baltimore county'S share is over $780,
900. The distribution follows:
Counties
and Baltimore Public SchoolboOk High
City. school tax. fund. schools.
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NAA4 Mlu,1 r7teQ..
Work and Leisure.

There is room enough in human
life to crowd almost every art and
science in it. If we pass mo day
without a line"-visit no place with
out the company of book-we may
with ease ill libraries, or empty them
of their contents The more we do,
the more we can do; the more busy We
are, the more leisure we have.-Haz-
lit.
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Modesty Line Changes.

Mrs. Thomas A. Edison is of the
opinion that some of the accepted
present-day styles of feminine dress
have passed beyond the bounds of
modesty." Perhaps so, but these dress
critics seem to ignore the fact that
the modesty line changes with the
fashions"
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Reproof.

Does your hoy Josh have any ideas
about running a farm?"
'T should say so,' replied Farmer
Cornstossel. "He says I'm all wrong.
I'm spoilin' the maxim of fine set OF
golf links ies' fur the sake of little
corn an hay an such"
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Lessees Must Settle.

Totals .... .$490,ss5.9S $37,50Ooo S34,523.oC
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Took the Gold Cure.

The Spinster-It is said that love is
a disease. DO you believe it?
The Bachelor-Well, have no rea-
son to doubt it. A friend Of mine once
took the gold cure for it.
The Spinster-You don't say!
The Bachelor-Fact. He married
girl worth half million in her own
right.
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Daily rhouuht.

To be bright and cheerful often re-
quires an effort There is a certain
art in keeping ourselves happy; in this
respect, as in others, we require to
watch over and manage ourselves al
most as if we were somebody else
Avebury.
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CAV peceivers.

when l caught that quartette OF
girls smoking cigarettes, they were
so ashamed that they all blushed fur+
ously."
"Pshaw! only a case of four
flushing"
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About 40 per cent. of China's popu-
lation is in the provinces south of the
Yantgtse River, with a density of $50
to the square mile. This territory has
twice the area of the original IL States
of the American Union and four times
the population.
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Censored.

Our candidate" said the campaign
orator, stands squarely on his record
His life is an open book"
How do you know he hasn't torn
out some of the pages?" queried q
voice from the rear of the hall.
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Had to Hunt for II.

Flatbush-Did you ever lose much
time house hunting?
Bensonhurst-Oh yes; we lived out
West at one time, and we had a cy-
clone. l spent six days looking for
my house.
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Tests have shown that as little as
one-quarter of 1 per cent. of sugar
will prevent cement setting, while
from 1 to per cent. will make it set
quickly, but later disintegrate.
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peeled cucImber, allow Il
to drain while chopping a
green pepper very fine.
Add to them Cne tea
spoonful Of onion Juice, a
teaspoonful Of salt, a
dash of cayenne pepper
and a very little strong
vinegar.
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The expectation that you actually
can be one thing and appear to be an
other is doomed to disappointment
Hypocrisy is the saddest falIacy in the
world. The DISCUSSES of the pretendeTs
are so thin that the simplest can see
through them.-H. f. Cope.
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HeKTTCHEN
GBLNEfz37Rt

Ordinary men live among marvels
and feel nothing new about them. Then
comes an independent mind which
sees: and it surprises US to find how
servile we have been to habit and opin-
ion, how blind to what we also might
have been, had we used our eyes
g. H Lewes.
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DuC al Ter Ia lD&
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vege ia BILE Com
pound Tablets and
using two bottles Of
the Sanative Wash
/ am fully convinced
that I am entirely
cured of these trou-.
bles, and feel better
all over. I know
your remedies have
done me worlds Of
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On March Is there were in the ice
outside of Archangel, Russia, no fewer
than 100 ships. The port was frozen
I'D last winter much earlier than usual
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Rather 4 Stimulus.

Half the Office force are in love
with my pretty stenographer."
Does it interfere with their work."
ooh, no. They're all speeding up,
trying to win promotion
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A Marvel.

Senator Blinks has a wonderful
memory, hasn't he?"
He has indeed. He never forgets
a face before election and never re-
members a promise afterward.'
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Take the Ache Out of Foot-Ache.

Bathe your feet in hot water, using
Johnson's Foot Soap. Composed of
Borax, Iodine and Bran. At druggists
or sent postpaid for Csc by Thos. Gill
Soap Co., I'll Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY.
Adv
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At the Ouera.

Her (arter the performance)-What
cid you think Of the great tenor?
Him think less of him than | do
Of the "tonner" I had to give up for
nrr seats
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lnfnrmatinn-
Do n,bo+ 10 bvnotboeie -,

PA, what is a hypothesis"
It's one of those things the drug
fiends use to squirt the dope into their
arms with. Why don't you look in the
dictionary"
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WiIIie's Conundrum.

Pa, why is an ice wagon like q
fish,"
Don't know, my son, why?"
Because 1t has scales on it"
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,IncIe,s Unjust Suspicious.

DE pictures 1 sees in some O de
summer books said Uncle Eben,
make me s'picious dat some right
foolish people learns to read an
write
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In 35 nations oysters support spe
ciaI fisheries, and in several others
figure in the food supply.
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II YnI1 CR ANY FRIEND

Suffer with Rheumatism or NeuTitis acute or
chronic, write for my FREE BOOK on Rheuma-
tism-Its Cause and Cure. Most wonderful book
ever written, it's absolutely FREE. Jesse A.
Case, Dept c. W., Brockton, Mass.-Adv.
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An order for 100000 Cossack boots
has been placed with London manu-
facturers.
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John Crawford, 28 years old, caught
under a falling tree at Stewarton,
above lockwood, was crushed so bad
ly that he died two hours later. The
tract on which he was working is To-
Gated along the Western Maryland rail
way. One large tree lodged against
another When the two came down
they struck a third which pinned down
Crawford.
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INTERESTING NOTES FOR ALL

The manufacture of street paving
bricks from blast furnace Stag is be-
ing developed in England.
A form of parachute has been in
vented to enable persons to escape
from high buildings in case Of fire.
Mrs. Russell Sage continues her in
terest in education. She has given
$3.50. 900 to an art school for young
women in Troy, N. Y.
A Virginian has invented a hand
truck that enables one man to pick up
and move objects weighing 1000
pounds or more.
A calculator that shows the money
values of one country in the terms of
several others and applies the values
to various weights and measures has
heen inverted by an Englishman.
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New Zealand produces over. $3.50, ,OOt
worth of honey annually.
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Sober second thoughts never come
to some men until they find them
selves in Jail.
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gem or muffin recipe to
its improvement. A hot
muffin is always vel
come and a variety also.
Nut Muffins.-Mix a
cupful of grated crumbs,
two egg yolks, a half cup
ful of milk, two table.
spoonfuls of chopped
nuts and a fourth of a
tnocnnnn f11I nf rnIt. hnof
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TarrIhiU Hard

Wen have hard luck in this place"
why SOP"
Nothing but soft drinks"
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Apnronriate illuminate

NFPTUPI IalC TTTuITIIIIaI IIOII'
What kind of lights did the foot
ball team have at their dinner -shad-
ed candles?"
NO; they had rushlights."
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Misses Adaline Bradley, Helen
Davidson, Anna E. Mahoney, Bessie
Wiley, Annie G. Arrants. Mazda G..
Bryson, Grace Rawlings, Augusta Egee
and Isabel Scott and Prof. Hugh w.
Caldwell, teachers in the Cecil County
Schools, have filed their resignation
papers with the School Board.
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VARIOUS SAUCES.

Sauces made of cucumber are deli
cious served with fish. Crate large
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Rev. Dr. Thomas NJ. Hare, superin-
tendent of the Maryland Anti-Saloon
League, addressed the twenty-fifth an
nual convention of the Washington
County Christian Endeavor Union, in
Lutheran Church, Funkstown, in the
interest of making Washington county
dry" at the November election.
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In three months the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad has taken on nearly 400
men in the motive power department
at the South Cumberland shops. Busi-
ness has expanded to such an extent
that the need of the new erecting shop
is imperative and it is expected it will
be in full service with the new ma
chine shop by September 1.
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Hewitt Reynolds, son of DeWarren
H. Reynolds, attorney, Cumberland,
has been appointed assistant headmas-
ter of the Marionfeld School for Boys
at Samarcand. N c. Mr.. Reynolds has
been an instructor at the school for
two years.
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Commencement exercises of the
Caroline High School were held at
Masonic Hall in Denton. The gradu-
ates were Elizabeth Cade, Elva De-
ford, Hattie Durham, Lester Kaufman,
Verlin Krabill and Irene Wallace. The
Rev. DR.. L. f. Barrett delivered the ad-
dress to the graduates.
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Frank H. Greenwood. Deputy Clerk
of the Circuit Court for Kent County
died in a Baltimore hospital of a com
plication of diseases.
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HOT BREADS.

A half cupful of cooked cereal, rice
or hominy may be added to almost any
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PAINS IN SIDE
and BACK
How Mrs. Kelly Suffered and
How She was Cured.
THTHHITTTTTIIIITII

Rurlinrton- Wis.-'T was verv irreg.
ular, and had pains in my side and back,
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NIFINlkIlNM.
SQIYIlYSO0M
LESSON

r5y l. .. SELLERS. Acting Director OF
the Sunday School Course in the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago)
Copyright by Western Newspaper CnionO
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Optimistic Thought.
Minorities have their rights as well
as matorities.
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Clarence Hines, % years old and
married, was injured perhaps fatally,
when a shotgun he had loaded to shoot
sparrows was accidentally discharged
at the home of his father-in-law, Albert
gun on a chair and had walked away
a few feet when it fell and exploded.
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While cranking his automobile
Frank Watson, of Lewisville, broke an
arm.
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Walter Schilling, aged 27, son of
Joseph H. Schilling, Cumberland, was
killed in an automobile accident near
Youngstown, Ohio.
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1ronor4an44 4o NHofhera
Where He Fell Down.

Where He Fell Down.
Meeker-Just one year ago today l
led the woman | married to the altar.
Bleeker-You did, eh?
Meeker-Yes; and right there and
then my leadership ended.
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Charles Penner, of Hagerstown,
Western Maryland Railway brakeman,
was seriously injured about the head
and body when he was knocked off a
train near Harrisburg. Penner thinks
a train rider, fearing he would be seen,
struck him on the head with club.
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Claiming about so ballots were
illegally thrown out. Clifford H. Doll,
returned defeated as City Register on
the Democratic ticket at the municipal
election at Frederick, filed a petition
in court asking that a recount be or
dered.
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AS the result of being drawn into
circular saw on the Martin L. Smith
property, Hagerstown, James Dayton,
so years old. of Bakersville, died at the
Washington County Hospital.