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Oxford eagle., 1916-08-17

Washington, Aug. l5.-Presi-
dent Wilson's efforts to bring the
railroad managers and the brother
hood leaders together in some form
of settlement Of the differences
which threaten a nationwide rail-
way strike has, after two days Of
conference, progressed only to the
point where a groundwork for
further negotiations has been laid.
Hope of arbitration of all issues
waned today. but the situation was
frightened by the possibility of a
settlement being reached by the
railroads conceding the principle OF
the eight-hour day and both sides
setting collateral issues by some
form of negotiation as yet unde-
termined.
After communication with Presi-
dent Wilson tonight the employees
sub committee sent word to New
York for the $50 members of the
general committee to come to
Washington in order to facilitate
negotiations. They are expected
here Thursday, and probably will
see the president Friday. The
managers committee will confer
with him again tomorrow. Two
official statements issued from the
White House during the day merely
stated that the discussions still
we're in progress and that no re-
port could be made on results.
The first statement. issued by
Secretary Tumuly. after the presi-
dent had met the railroad mana
gers during the forenoon. follows.
The president spent an hour and
a half this morning with rsprsscn-
tatives Of the railway management
After the conference Re SAD ]. vas
impossible as yet to report on the
results and al that ne could sag
vas that a very candid ard honest
discussion vas in progress about
practical basis Of settlement
Oxford eagle., 1916-08-17
Go to Memphis.

We acknowledge receipt of the
following invitation, which ex-
plains itself:
Memphis, Tenn, August Is, 1916.
Mr.. G. W. Price,
Editor The Eagle,
Oxford, Miss.
Dear Sir-Invitstions have been
mailed to every retail merchant in
this section of the country, whose
name IS available and We are ex-
pecting a good attendance for the
Third Annual Convention, August
-. 90 and "A.
The educational features of this
convention far surpass any simi-
lar meeting ever held in the South,
and this Is also true Of the enter
tainment and amusement features.
You understand of course, that
the Memphis merchants are hosts,
and all these features are free to
our visitors; We therefore hope
that yoa can come. if not, that
some one representing your paper.
may be here. You will get some
good IDEAS from the business dis
cussions, the fellowship and rub.
bing of elbows with other pro-
gressive men will be worth your
while. and then you will enjoy
playing a little"
We hope that the progressive
merchants in your territory are
planning TO come. Any publicity
you may be able TO give this move
ment, which is a cooperative one,
is sure to have a good effect.
With best wishes,
Yours very truly,
X. HESRY LAKE,
Chairman Publicity Committee.
Oxford eagle., 1916-08-17

II kinds sso.,
HAS A blu u Joo
Railroad Strike May Be Averted
And Agreement Reached
Time Will Tell.

NEW YORK, Aug. l6.-The
invitation Of President Wilson to
the $40 general chairmen of the
four brotherhoods of railroad en-
ployes TO meet him in Washing
ton to consider his proposals for
settlement of the threate med rail
road strike was accepted by the
men here today and announcement
made that they would leave today
on special trains.
Oxford eagle., 1916-08-17
New Cotton Gin In
Course of Erection.

The new cotton gin being erected
on North street is nearing COM
pletion. This building with the
new warehouse of the Farmers
Warehouse Company and the new
brick block, which is nearing COM
pletion, all going up at the same
time makes Oxford look like she
is on q small boom.
Oxford eagle., 1916-08-17
DIVERSLFICATTON AND
STOCK THE SLOGAN


her own. She has been formed
by people who depended on cot
ton as money crop. She has
yielded bountifully considering
her treatment and her opportunity
to do for those who have been and
are now dependent on her soils for
a living.
Her people have made wonder
full strides within the past eighteen
months in diversification of crops,
stock raising and poultry raising.
Less than fifteen months ago,
G. w. Spawr, then secretary of
the Lafayette. County Shippers
Association, shipped the first car
load of hogs ever shipped from
Lafayette county. Since that
time many car loads of hogs have
been shipped from Oxford. Sew
eral car loads of cattle, sheep, and
goats have left our county and
brought fancy prices.
Patterson & Anderson have ship
ped to the markets and to the Uni
versity 1914 pounds of poultry
and $4,000 dozen eggs, besides
what they sold to the local trade
in Oxford. This firm alone has
paid the farmers of Lafayette
county a little over $1,000 from
January 1, 1916, to August Is,
1916. averaging about $1,000 per
month.
Don't forget that several other
people are buying and shipping,
perhaps making the whole income
to the farmers who trade at Ok
ford $1,000 per month, to say
ncshing of those who trade at
Water Valley and the smaller
towns of Lafayette county.
Mr.. J. o. Kirkland, Lafayette
county's hustling express agent,
shipped during the month of May,
1913, only four cases of eggs and
not chicken. The eggs weighed
212 pounds. May, 1916, he ship
ped 159 cases of eggs and 109
coops of chickens, weighing H.
43l pounds. June, 1918 he ship
ped 20 cases of eggs and 4 coops
of chickens, weighing 1875
pounds. June, 1916, he shipped
l0I cases of eggs and i09 coops OF
chickens, weighing II, All pounds.
July, 1918, he shipped 35 cases
OF eggs and IL coops of chickens,
weighing 2.43l pounds. July,
1916. he shipped SO cases of eggs
and l3I coops of chickens, weigh
ing IA, $40 pounds.
Total weight of chickens and
eggs shipped in May, June and
July, of 1913. was 4,5ls. Total
weight of chickens and eggs ship.
ped in May. June and July. 1916,
was 44,9s2, nearly ten times a:
Oxford eagle., 1916-08-17
Chairman Publicity Committee.

A tremendous rain fell in Ok
ford Sunday afternoon about 5
O'Clock, accompanied with severe
electric storm. A number of tele-
phones were put out of commits
sion. ss well as a large number of
electric lights. Services, which
are in progress at the tent, were
held Sunday night at the Metho-
dist church as no lights could be
had at the tent. Lightning struck
the Second Colored Baptist church,
doing slight damage.
Oxford eagle., 1916-08-17
scoFFERs PAY THE PENALTY

Those who ignore warning signals of
disordered kidneys and scoff At dan
gers Of serious -onsequences often pay
the penalty with dread diabetes or
Bright's disease. II you have lame
back, pains In sides, sore muscles, stiff
joints, rheumatic aches-take Foley
Kidney Pills aud stop the troubles be-
fore IL Il too late. Sold everywhere. Ad.
Oxford eagle., 1916-08-17

FOR SALE-Meadow Brook
Farm, 270 acres, part bottom and
part hill land; 2amiles northwest
of Abbeville, Miss, with or with
out stock and implements; a bunch
of graded Holstein cattle. For
particulars write K. G.. Gamble,
Abbeville, Miss. 4l-2t.
Oxford eagle., 1916-08-17

The above picture the local express agent o.
Kirkland, transferring load Of chickens and eggs
the depot to be shipped Northern markets This every
day Oxford The picture made ago
and it tells story all ITSELF it the first chapter the
porant story What Shall We Dor The picture answers the
question to be solved since this has invaded
disastrous boil weev Let's make Kirkland get more horses
and transfer produce chickens egg
ETC., to the depot We can keep him going-if we will
Oxford eagle., 1916-08-17

shipped during the months of May,
June and July of 1916, as there
we're during the same months
three years ago.
The corresponding three months
in 1915 will in our Judgment give
a total shipment of more than
1000 pounds, bringing to the
people of Lafayette county for
chickens and eggs the nice sum of
eighteen to twenty thousand dol
lars per month.
Mr.. o. B. Boone has had charge
of shipping hogs from Oxford for
some time, and we understand he
has done a great work for the peo-
pie of Lafayette county.
Everybody should work for
every other persons interest.
This can best be done by stick
ing together" and fighting life's
battle shoulder to shoulder"
Mr.. J. A. Coleman is now
equipping the Lafayette County
Cream Station with everything
necessary to take care of every
pound of cream and every gallon
of sweet milk that can be pro-
duced in Lafayette county. This
move was discussed and in a
measure put on foot by the Busi-
ness Mems Club, and will eventu-
ally bring several thousand dollars
per month to the farmers of our
county.
Mr.. Coleman predicts, and he is
right in his prediction, that he
will handle 1000 pounds butter
fat per day. This will pay the
farmers near $500 per day, or
81 800 per month. Motor trucks
will eventually go into every COM
munity in the county (made possi-
bic by the system of good roads
which is now contemplated and
each morning gather the cream,
chickens, eggs and fresh vege-
tables for the entire county. The
writer is not dreaming when he
states that practically every white
farmer in Lafayette county will
accept the new order of things and
will begin now to better local con-
ditions. A cash income every day
for everybody, is what we will
have.
Perhaps no county in Missis-
sippi has better herd of Jersey
cattle than is owned by Col. James
Stone. We are sure there is no
better equipped dairy than his
when the present buildings are
completed.
We are now confronted by q
proposition which, il handled in
diligently, will prove the greatest
financial blessing ever forced on
our people. The boil weevil has
come and come to stay. His
coming means fewer acres of cot
ton, earlier cotton, fertilized cot
ton, and more cotton per acre, but
not many acres.
( We have no desire to discuss the
boil weevil.
The hustling mind will and is
now turning its attention to other
crops which will prove several
times more profitable than the
production of cotton.
The secretary of the Oxford
Business Mems Club, spent an
ihour on the streets of Oxford last
Saturday and learned what they
say about future plans. Here is
what they said:
ID. NJ. Jeans said, Organize the
farmes and the business men that
farm products might be raised in
car lots and marketed to the best
advantage"
/ w. E. Powell and Ned Jones
said, substitute peanuts for cotton
and produced Q strong argument
favoring the suggestion. S. A.
Mize said, 'The profit of cotton
is a thing of the past, we must dc
looraofhsu ~ alca -
Oxford eagle., 1916-08-17

VIII cure Rheumatism, Neu-
ral4ia, Headaches, Cramps. Collie
Sprsins, Bruises, Cuts. Burns. Old
Sores. Tetfer. Ring -Worm.-Ec
sema. etc. Anfiseptis Aneayne.
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Milford chronicle., 1916-10-06

1t is said when John Howard Payne wrote "Home Sweet
H0me, he himself homeless Wanderer in the streets.
took who had home to make the spirit of home immortal
The why of today do appreciate home
is that easy have The place that grandathers
called home little than shelter They
forts such have They had uxues thing
they called home had been fought for and them
Today anyone have a home almost asking. He
fill it with big comfortable furniture that will give him
much comfort used to belong only royalty He have
beautiful daperes his windows and fine pictures his walls
He can have piano talking machine He have rugs
that copies of the patterns palaces And he do all this
the most moderate the most ordinary of salaries wages
Day by day this paper filed with advertising that
every facility for the furnishing of the home Not only the
with ready cash furnish his home basis
the without cash have all the
res he desires through system of credit home furnishings
which has become almost national in its scope.
This the season when homes spngng every
hand and the when old homes being
reurnshed another year. the season for home
furnishing opportunities which every live advertising merchant
is offering at this time.
Give these advertisers hearing What they saying real
and what they doing making history There has
time the history the world when luxury we're
as widespread amongst the people as they today
Look this advertising today you add
comfort of home the pleasure of your @ you cannot
put luxury and material happiness into the home
you have.
Think of what you need most about your home and then
for the advertising of those things in this paper today
OODynshted)
Milford chronicle., 1916-10-06

FOR the benefit of all the Repub-
licans of Delaware it is to be hoped
that the men endorsed and nominated
by the Progressives, who are now on
the Republican ticket, will not COM
ply with a demand for them to refuse
to permit their names to be retained
on the Progressive ticket. If it is
right for State nominees to come off
one ticket, then it is absolutely right
and proper that the men endorsed for
county positions should refuse to per-
NIT the Progressives to vote for them.
1t is not good business to refuse votes
and the more endorsements by other
organizations, is certain to bring ad-
ditional strength for the totals on
election day. The Temperance ticket
will probably want to do some endors-
ing also, and it would be the wisdom
of fool to refuse the privilege to any
organization having a place on the
official ballot.
Milford chronicle., 1916-10-06

The candidate for Governor on the
Republican ticket is so well known to
the people of Delaware, that it seems
useless to further discuss the candi-
date, John G. Townsend, Jr., but
there are charges made by the Demo-
cratic politicians, and printed by the
papers supporting that party, which
are simply misstatements made for
the purpose of influencing the voters
who are not personally acquainted
with him, or who do not keep inform
ed as to the political facts. John G..
Townsend is first of all a Republican,
and one of the fairest, squarest men
in political or business life in Della
ware John G. Townsend is above
reprOach morally, or in any other
capacity, and being a young man, he
is ambitious and active to get the
highest results in civic government.
A man with such purposes is a safe
man to trust with the Governorship
of Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1916-10-06
WHAT THE NEW WAY OF COL
LECTING TAXES HAS DONE
FOR SUSSEX COUNTY.

1t is an accepted ract that the Re
ceivership of Taxes for Sussex County
is a great improvement over the old
wasteful system, and that it gets
money into the county treasury at a
time when the money is needed to
maintain the credit of the county.
At meeting of the Levy Court last
Tuesday, Volley M. Murray, the Re-
ceiver of Taxes, paid over to the Coun-
ty Treasurer the sum of S50,042.42,
making a total of the taxes levied and
received for the year 1916 paid into
the treasurer, of S97,219.15 Of the
total levy. This amount was made
up and received from the following
Districts of Sussex
Countv viz.
Milford chronicle., 1916-10-06
When Is = nath Me- ! eath 2

Sometimes l lived with my grand
mother She always bathed me herself
before she put me to bed. The bathtub
was very long and deep. Grandmother
stood on the step which ran beside 1t
with a big towel pinned about her.
She held my neck tightly between her
thumb and second finger. scrubbing
me with her other hand. | slipped and
fell from one side to the other, splarl-
ing the water high over the edges. 50
that when she finally lifted me to the
floor the towel and her dress were
drenched.
There" she would say. that is
hardly better than a sponging of. You
won't sit still while give you a real
bath"
! used to go to sleep wondering how
she would give me a real bath.-Kath
crime Keith in Atlantic.
Milford chronicle., 1916-10-06

STATEMENT Of the ownership, MANAGEMENT
circulation, etc, Of MILFORD CHRONICLE publishec
ct Milford. Delaware required by the Act oi
August "a 1872
Editor, Theodore Townsend, Milford. Delaware
Managing Editor. George Marshall Townsend
Milford, Delaware.
Business Managers, Thomas C. Reynolds and
George Marshall Townsend. Milford Delaware
Publisher. Milford Chronicle Publishing Com
pany. Milford Delaware.
Owners: (If a corporation, give names and ad-
dresses Of stockholders holding per cent or more
Of total amount Of stock.)
Theodore Townsend. Milford, Delaware.
Thomas c. Reynolds. Milford, Delaware;
George Marshall Townsend. Milford DELAWARE
Pauline Townsend. Milford. Delaware
Known bondbolders. mortgages, and other Sc,
euFity holders holding per cent on more OF total
agnonnt Of bonds, mortgages. or other securities:
None. IHEoDOhE ioWNshND
Average number Of copies of each issue OF TINS
publication sold or distributed through the mails
o. otherwise, to paid subscribers during the SIX
uonths preceding the date Of this statement 4S5l
THEo. TOWNSEND
Sworn to and subscribed
TsrAI1 before me this 4th day
of October. 1916.
G. THOMPSON REED.
Notary Public.
CAly commission expires February 18th. lsl7J
Milford chronicle., 1916-10-06

THE election of members of the
new county governing body is the
most direct important issue before the
people Of Sussex County. The entire
membership of the new County Board
of three will be selected by direct vote
of the people for the respective terms
of six, four and two years at this cleo
tion, and thereafter one will be elect
ed each two years for the term of six
years. No mistakes must be made at
this time, for the organization of the
new Commission has to be accom-
plished by the three men chosen on
the seventh of November. The kind
of business methods put into effect by
them will mean the betterment or the
ruin of our county government. It
will mean the business Of Sussex
County transacted upon business
principles or a continuing of the un-
satisfactory methods of the past,
against which the people have rebell-
ed, and for the purpose Of overturn- |
ing, the present law was enacted. |
The men named by both parties give /
promise Of future good in county gov
ernment; but, 1t was a Republican
measure enacted into law, which has
made the change possible, and there
fore 1t is far more wise to entrust the
organization of the new form Of coun-
ty business to the Republican Party.
Think over this part Of the ticket well
and do not be blinded by personal
favor, but rather by the principles in
Tolyed, and the end to be attained.
Milford chronicle., 1916-10-06
ANCIENT WAR WEAPONS.
The 5attleax, the Halberd and the
Armor Smashing Mace.


Probably nobody ever enjoyed being
killed in battle. But there is certainly
a choice as to how the job could be
done. If you had to pass out. how
much nicer it would to have high
class swordsman turn the trick He'd
go to work so courteously and do such
neat, genteel job that you couldn't
help feeling you had died in good 50
ciety. But nothing Of the sort about
{ being killed with an ak. This would
be one Of the most untidy ends man
could meet.
The big hatchet. however. and its va
rious descendants were long favorites
for taking people apart, and even at the
time that everything which could cut
was made Of flint it was in popular de
mand.
Later on we find the real battleax the
favorite weapon of the Celts and the
Scandinavians.
The halberd was the next step Cup or
down, as one looks at those thingsJ.
This was a combination Of ak and
spear; a broad blade backed with a
hook and tipped with a spear point, all
mounted on six foot haft Humane
chap who got it up! 1t was invented to
give a sing'e man on foot a chance
against one on horseback. And 1t did
If you missed your jab you could still
take a healthy swing with the ak or
pull him off his horse with the hook. A
whole regiment with spears might hold
Off a cavalry charge. but in individual |
contests the soldier with the halberd |
stood the better chance.
The ak was especially favored by the |
Swiss. and they did so nicely with 1t |
that it spread and became the principal |
weapon of central Europe for nearly /
200 years. One English variation, the
bill. had more of a sickle shaped blade:
but. like the other. it was effective
After one big blow you had a case for
the coroner. not the ambulance.
Other cheerful products Of those days
was the mace. This was a club of iron
1r steel. blOssoming out at the business
end into projecting ridges of metal
The operator grasped it with both
hands. gave it a whirl and then smash
ID his opponent Armor was useless;
t crushed right through.
Philip II. of France had a royal
Of ergeants-at-arms who
.arried maces-real ones. King Rich
Ird l. took up the idea. but after
while the good. stout old weapon lost
is punch. so to speak. 1t got to be
My a symbol of authority. a pretty
at fancy ceremonies. The
Iouse of commons in London has one
ating back to 1G49. It has the royal
rown on top and is lugged around j
rom time to time to show the king is
oss.
1t occasionally happens that a men,
er Of our own congress gets obstrep-
rous and won't behave when the
peaker talks nicely to him. Then the
litter gives the order. and the ser
comes down the aisle.
arrylng the big silver mace. This
leans that Uncle Sam has stood all
e plans to stand and that the row
lust stop at Once.-St. Louis POst-Dis-
atch. u
Milford chronicle., 1916-10-06
She Ban For President.

Only one woman was ever presi
Dental candidate. In the campaign Of
1884 Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood was the
candidate of the Equal Rights party
advocating woman suffrage. She oh
tanned only about $500 votes out Of a
total of 10.O00.OOO. Mrs. Lockwood in
1873 had been admitted to the bar OF
the supreme court Of the District OF
Columbia and in 1879 was admitted to
practice in the United States supreme
court.
Milford chronicle., 1916-10-06

THE county ticket as nominated by
the Republican Party in Sussex coun-
ty, has been endorsed and the nom
inees placed upon the ticket named
by the Progressives of Sussex county
at their meeting held at Georgetown
last Tuesday, and this action insures
the election of the entire Republican
ticket as nominated in this county.
From now until election the people
have their work cut out clean for
them and it will have to be kept al
ways in the foreground, that the Dem
Ocratic party will make the greatest
effort of recent years to defeat all
Republicans.
Milford chronicle., 1916-10-06
cireuitous Route.

Mrs. Wayupp-Where did Mrs. De
Style get her new hat? Mrs. Blase-
That's a problem. She bought it with
the money which her husband Dor
rowed from her uncle. who had won it
in a poker game from her brother, to
whom she had loaned it shortly after
her mother had taken it from her
fathers pockets and given it to her for
a birthday present.-Pittsburgh Chron
icle- Telegraph
Milford chronicle., 1916-10-06

THE Republicans of Delaware have
named men worthy of the support of
the people for the general election,
and without doubt there will be no
question as to what the results will
be-even in the case of opposition to
part of the ticket as nominated, for
the United States Senator, for Mem
Der of Congress, for State Auditor
and for Insurance Commissioner
even these Offices can be won by stren-
uous work and fairmindedness in the
handling of the situation.
Milford chronicle., 1916-10-06
Needed ths Money.

Bookkeeper-I'd like an increase in
salary. sir
PrOprietOr-An increase. you say:
How great?
about 500 per month"
"Are you planning to get marriedT
"No, sir; want to get a divorce"
Puck.
Milford chronicle., 1916-10-06
Sizes of the Planets

An ingenious way Of comparing the
sizes Of planets with the sun is sug-
gested by French scientific writer.
Let the earth, he says. be represented
by a twenty franc piece; then Venus is
10 francs. Mars ,. Mercury Z. Uranus
2SO, Neptune 32O. Saturn 1.s4O. Jupiter
6,S00 and the sun G.ISOOO0.
Milford chronicle., 1916-10-06
Money BY the Rushel.

She-What's this | hear about your
getting large sum of money from
some woman; He Some ones been
kidding you. Who was the wOmant
She innocentlyl-Wh May Wheat
they told me her name was.-Boston
Milford chronicle., 1916-10-06
Didn't Care For II.

Ever try liquid soap?" asked the
barber
"No, and don't want to-" replied the
man in the chair
"Why not?"
"Oh. well, if | have to eat soap Id
just as leave chew it as drink it,
Yonkers Statesman
Milford chronicle., 1916-10-06
Embarrassing.

COnjurer--Now. to help me with this
next trick. want the services Of a boy
just any boy in the audience-yes
you will do. my little man; come along
Now. you've never seen me before
have you? Boy dnnocentlyl-No
fatheri-London Telegraph.