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ness men Of the country, through the
Chamber Of Commerce of the United
States, were at the same time and
had for many weeks before been I'm
ploring the executive and leaders IN
congress for an immediate and prompt
inquiry in order that the justice of
this matter might be known. The
farmers were not there except through
the presence Of the representatives Of
the people in congress, and those rep
resentatives were asked to abdicate
their authority.
II am in favor of everything. that
can reasonably be done for the pro-
motion of agriculture. am glad to
note the work Of the Agricultural De-
partment. 1t will be continued with
me, If am intrusted with the power,
to the utmost of efficiency under my
administration.
But It is idle to talk of interest
in the farmer when you have action
like this taken in congress overnight,
against the protests of the farmer,
and leveling a body blow at the in
terests of our agricultural communi-
ties"
Mr.. Hughes again denied the dec
laration that vote for him meant a
vote for war;"
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WARWICK

Miss Bessie Gunkel visited Mrs. G. j.
Hill at Centreville, seyeral-days last
week.
Miss Eula Vinyard visited her sister,
Mrs. Guy Johnson. at North East, on
Sunday.
The Sewing Circle met at the home
Of Mrs. E. F. Bishop on Wednesday af-
ternoon.
Miss Name Merritt returned home. on
Saturday after two weeks stay in
Wilmington.
Mrs. Merry Lefiand has returned home
after spending sometime with Philadel-
~phia relatives.
Mrs. S. E. Gunkel and Mr.. A. C.
Reynolds spent Sunday with, Mrs. John
Price, near town.
The Christian Endeavor Social met at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. "A. R. Mer=
ritt on Friday evening
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Brown, Of Syl-
mar, Md; Miss Garhapt, of Philadelr
phia, and Mr.. Ralph Wilson, of Rising
Snn, Nd, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
R. B. Merritt, ,Sr, on Tuesday.
An oyster and poultry supper will be
held by the ladies OF the Warwick M.
P. Church on Wednesday and Thursday
evenings, Nov. 9th and 9th. Proceeds
for the benefit Of the NJ. P.s Church.
A masquerade surprise was given by
the members Of the Sassafras and War
wick Churches to Rev. J. w. Link and
wife on Monday evening. A large num-
ber Of folks were present from both
churches Everybody expressed them
selves as having nice time.
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bs iiea .quarterss the
first cof above the police station. the
Parish House, the second floor above
the same police station or in the Nau-
dain building la close proximity to the
printer devil
So much wandering, however, was a
WEAKNESS to the club. Therewere long
ings for home, and q fund having
been started in 1901, it was decided in
1914 to- proceed at once with plans for
erecting q buildipg on the east side Of
North Broad Street. the lot being gem
erously donated by Mrs. George F.
Brady.
August 7th. 1916, marks the date of
incorporation, after which time the club
through the kindly influence of its
lawyer, Martin B. Bnrris, assumed a
very decided airvof business.
The building committee composed of
Eliza Cochran Green, Clara Brady
Green, Mary Cochran Pool, Lillian Maui
dain Biggs, Helen Vahdegrift Shall
cross, Laura ellis Northrup and Mary
Hutchin, secured the services of J..
Fletcher Street, Architect, and awarded
the contract for building toJ. w. Johns.
Ground was broken by the chairman Of
the committee, Miss Green, August
18th, 1915, and work began later. Like
the pyramids Of Egypt this structure,
Wong in building had its victims, that
building committee. s'their's not to
reason why, theirs but to plead and
cry, won't somebody do as he has
promised"
Although not complete, Tuesday
evening, August 1st, 1916, the building
was formally thrown open to the people
of the town and vicinity. Between
/ three and four hundred persons were
present to enjoy the occasion, especially
the dancing, with music furnished by
the Pool orchestra, quartet com
posed of one club member and three
club husbands.
But now on this the twenty-fourth
day of October, in the Year Of our
Lord, 1916. after the laying of the cor
ner stone by the most Worshipful Grand
Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted
Masons, in the State of Delaware, the
women of this club are formally open
ing the doors Of their new home to all
other club members in particular and
an interested public in general.
Through the liberallty Of friends and
in spite of fears within and critics with
out the club house is an assured fact in
the life of the community,
AS at some point in the vast above
all the noises of earth are said to blend
into one perfect strain, SO may the sue
cesses and failures of this organization
unite in the future always and only for
the good of the New Century Club of
Middletown.
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ODESSA

Miss Louise Croft is visiting relatives
in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Limpert, of Wyoming, is visit.
ing MIS-. H. C. ShipIey.
Mrs. Stradley, of Wilmington, is Wis.
iting Mrs. Annie Rhodes.
Raynor Carrow, of Philadelphia,
spent Sunday with his parents.
Mrs. Boyd Thornton and children
spent last week in Philadelphia.
Joseph Heller and wife spent Sunday
last withher parents, near Mt. Pleasant.
Daniel Thornton and wife, Of Glas-
gov, spent Sunday with Mrs. Annie
Rhodes.
Misses Gertrude and Helen Wallace,
of Wilmington, spent Sunday with their
parents.
Miss Margaret CHM. of ST. Georges,
visited her cousin, Miss Emily Webb,
last week.
Mrs. Theodore Croft and Miss Alice
Croft, of Philadelphia, spent Sunday
with Mrs. Eliza Croft.
Mrs. 1. G. Webb was delegate to
the Sunday School Convention held at
Townsend last Thursday.
Fred Austin and wife, of near Glas-
gov, spent one day last week with his
sister, Mrs, Joseph Heller.
All members of Camp II, P. o. S. of
A., are requested to be present at a
special business meeting Wednesday,
November 9Th.
Epworth League on Sunday evening
at 6.45 O'Clock. Topic, "On a Still
Hunt for Souls. Leader, Miss Mary
Gilch. All are welcome.
A musical entertainment for the bene-
fit of the church will be given by the
Delaware College Mandolin Club on
Thursday night, Nov. 9th, at the Opera
House, A rare treat is anticipated
In the Drawers Presbyterian Church
on Sunday morning, November 9Th,
Communion service and on Sunday
night the C. E. prayer meeting at 80,
followed by preaching at O'Clock. All
are welcome.
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Women's and Misses Top Coats

assembage The Separate
wholly
These gh and full length
slightly Materials, WoEveours Nbe
Broadcoh Colo blach
collars
pu others with Prices from Is S
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"A Poison Tyy Plaque

The Transcript calls the attention of
the Town Board to the fact that along
fence on the North side of South Pen
nington street there is large growth
of the highly poisonous rhus toxicoden-
dron, commonly known as Poison Ivy,
which has already seriously poisoned
three children, putting at least two of
them into the Doctors hands,
The bright-hued three-leaved foliage
of this deadly plant, lures children and
others to pluck them as they do other
autumn-tnrned leaves, and the results
to some are disastrous, apoisoning that
torments the victim for days and is not
wholly cured in some instances for
weeks.
TO some sensitive persons the wind
blowing from the Poison Ivy will pro-
duce all the symptoms of poisoning.
The Town, Board should see to it at.
once that it is totally destroyed, root
and branch.
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PAID LOCAL ADS.

Get your Gents Furnishing and Shoes
at w. N. DONOvAN's.
FOR SALE Wagons and Dearborns.
]. c. GREEN.
DIR: Warren S. P. Combs Dentist
Successor to the late DR.. J. C. Sites.
Try our Emery Shirts and Lion Brand
Collars. W. N. DONOVAN.
For Shoes and Gents Furnishing, call
on W. N. DONOVAN,
West Main St.
Are agents for the Haas Tailoring
Co., of Baltimore. Suit Made to
Measure. Fit guaranteed.
w. N. DONOVAN.
Georges Creek Bituminous Coal for
threshing purposes, Send your teams
to suit your convenience. Also Peach
and Truck baskets. Phones 5 & 48.
JESSE L. SHEPHERD.
FOR SALE CHEAP. = One nearly
new rubher-tire York carriage and sew
eral other carriages, New rubber-tires
put on cheap, Also new tops, curtains
and glass put on automobiles.
F. DUGGAN,
Odessa, Del.
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If You Need A New Waist

We offer many styles for your
choice-either in Cotton or Silk in many
entirely new and charming effects for
prices from CSC to 1898.
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Get your Gents Furnishing and Shoes
at w. N. DONOvAN's.
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ard was paid to that mes
Hughes said "The -bunl.
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The Latest Hats

Our workroom is busy enough try
ing to keep up with the demands of our
many customers! No sooner is a Hat.
prettily fashioned in the latest modes,
than away it goes on the head of some
pleased patron
If you have not bought your Winter
Hat we can easily suit you out of the
large and choice collection of Hats,
trimmed or untrimmed still Remaining
for Special Prices.
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Blow at the Interests of our Agri-
cultural Communities When at the
5ehest Of an Exclusive Group of
Railroad Workers He Increased
Their Pay Without Investigating the
Justice Of the Demand.
Charles q. Hughes, who left Lincoln
for his second days campaigning in
Nebraska, told crowd Of farmers in
his speech here that the Democratic
Administration had ignored the agri-
cultural interests of the country in
urging the enactment of the AdamsOp
law. The nominee, in support Of his
contention, cited a telegram from
President 81. N. Pope Of the Texas
Farmers Union to President Wilson
requesting that the farmers be per-
mitted to submit data in arbitration
proceedings between the railroads and
the brotherhoods. He said:
4 want to say in reference to rates
that it seems to me the farmers Of
the country were very little consid-
cred the other day when on the de-
mand of the Administration the wages,
of group Of railroad workers were
increased by law, in response to force
Somebody Fas got to pay the increased
bills, and lthe farmers viii know very
quick who has to pay them.
'ne farmers were not represented
IN this discussion, If you may call it,
that in this surrender. / have here
a copy of telegram that was sent to
the President by Mr.. Pope, the presi-
dent Of the State Farmers Union Of
Texas, which shall read to you:
We ask that you make no con-
cessions or commitments that will
in any manner cause an increase
in freight rates on products pro-
duced or consumed on the farm.
The men We pay the freight have
an e@tty Ia fEds dispute, which
neihab - load rainInen nor
the ranRA namaaers have an-
thorfee 20 represent If it is your
Intention to personally dispose of
the matter we ask that you post
pone further consideration until q
committee of farmers can prepare
Information and data to present
heir side of the case. If you con-
Z clude to settle BY arbitration, then
the organized farmers should
have representation on any hrbi-
tration committee that may be
formed to dispose Of this question;
for the men who pay should have
representation as wen as the men
EN- receive II.
IlisVe again urge that all ques-
hey I involved be settled by arbi-
low, 1epn, where all parties and all
which Rests can be heard and the
ONE ct dealt with aside from
AmerieaAand intimidation.
instead dAcrowd cheered when, Mr..
you'd ndaeoncluded reading the teIe-
'ard was paid to that mes
Hughes said. "Tha .bual.
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Monday, Nov. E
ELECTION RETURNS

Tuesday Night, November z, 1916 a
special wire will be run to the Opera
House and an expert operator will
receive the returns as fast as same are
sent out, Also plenty of pictures and
slides to help entertain, you. Come out
and spend pleasant evening.
Children under II years of age, l6c:
Adults. 25c.
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PUBLIC SALE!

At KlaiF Bazaar. Every Saturday.
rs to 100 horses of all kinds. Anyone
having horses to sell, bring them in and
get the cash, need not make any special
arrangement. More wagon and harness
than any other place in the State Sale
every Saturday.
WIN. H. KLAIR,
9th & Tatnal ST., Wilmington, Del.
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WILSON SNUB
FOR FARMERS
Hughes Shows How TjJIers of the
Soil We're Ignored in Rail-
road Discussion,
CROP RAIs sERS FOoT BILL TO
PAY Fob BRO 0THERHOOD DEAL

Democratic Nominee LeveIed . Body
Blow at the Interests of Our Agri-
cultural Communities When at the
5ehest Of an Exclusive Group OF
Railroad Workers He Increased
Their Pay Without Investigating the
Justice of the Demand.
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no adequate provision. The case re-
ceived a great deal of publicity. and a
private citizen came forward with the
proposition of starting an honor fund
for the relief of widows and children of
officers killed on duty. contributing as
a basis $1,000
The police then held a meeting in or
der to decide upon a plan for swelling
the fund. and it was finally proposed
that every year they should hold two
field days, in which various members of
the force would exhibit their athletic
prowess in big athletic meet. for
which they would sell tickets. The plan
was a success, the first exhibition net
ting the policemen $4,000, and now the
meets are regular events, looked for
ward to by their audiences as well as
the policemen. The 1916 field day exer-
cises have just closed and among the
first to be taken care of from the gate
receipts was the widow of Patrolman
Schwartz. who was recently killed
while trying to arrest a couple of Ital-
ian criminals.
From this 1t may be seen that the
popular idea of the American police
man, and especially the New York po-
licemap, is often unfair and erroneous.
The metropolitan policeman today is a
man with high standards of duty and
courage, a unit of efficiency in a large
organization and often a hero.
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is put up to the controller Of the Treas

ury and Of necessity decided by him.
The reference from the Secretary Of
State concerned the status of Filipino
sailors and of alien sailors on vessels
of Philippines registry
No." decides Controller w. W. War
wick to the question whether a Fill
pino seaman on a vessel of Philippines
registry flying the American flag,
shipped in the Philippine Islands or
elsewhere. is entitled to relief as an
American seaman.
To the question whether Filipino
seaman on an American vessel regis
tered or enrolled in the United States
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the lower body Of Congress late yester-
day, 2s5 to 2. Representatives Cannon
of Illinois and Dies Of Texas were the
only two members present who voted
against the measure.
The bill was practically unchanged
by the House. One amendment adopted
reduced from 5000 to $4,000 the sal
minister the compensation system.
The bill provides for compensation of
all injured employees of the government
at the rate of two-thirds the wages
lost during disability with a maximum
of SIS a month. In case of death the
dependent widow would be allowed 35
per cent of the employees wages and 10
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lI1IILE80R!E!s
%BEDTInE
Blacky the Crow Discovers
Eggs.
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Copyright. 1915, by T. ". Burgess.)

Blacky the Crow is fond of eggs. In
this he is great deal like other people
Farmer Browns boy, for instance. But
as Blacky cannot keep hens as Farmer
Browns boy does, he is obliged to steal
eggs or else go without. If you come
right down to plain everyday truth l
suppose Blacky isn't so far wrong when
he insists that he is no more of thief
than Farmer Browns boy. Blacky says
that the eggs which the hens lay be-
long to the hens and that he. Blacky.
has IS much right to take them as has
Farmer Browns boy. He quite overlooks
the fact that Farmer Browns boy feeds
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the biddies and takes the eggs as pay
Anyway, that is what Farmer Browns
boy says. but l do not know whether or
not the biddies understand it that way
So Blacky the Crow cannot see why he
should not help himself to an egg when
chance very often to steal eggs from the
hens. because usually they lay their eggs
in the henhouse, and Blacky is too sus-
picious to venture inside. The eggs he
does get are mostly those Of his neigh
bors in the Green Forest and the Old
Orchard. But once in great while some
foolish hen will make a nest outside the
henhouse somewhere. and If Blacky hap
pens to find it the black scamp watches
every minute he can spare from other
mischief for chance to steal an egg.
Now, Blacky knows just what a rogue
Farmer Brown thinks he is and for this
reason Blacky is very careful about ap-
preaching Farmer Brown or any other
man until he has made sure that he runs
no risk of being shot. Blacky knows
quite as well as any one what gun looks
like He also knows that without a ter
rible gun there is little Farmer Brown or
any one else can do to him. So when he
sees Farmer Brown out in his fields
Blacky often will fly right over him and
shout Cav. cav, cav, c-a-w." in the
most provoking way. and Farmer Browns
boy insists that he has seen Blacky wink
when he was doing it.
But Blacky doesn't do anything OF this
kind around the buildings of Farmer
Brown. You see, he has learned that
there doors in buildings and win
dows. and out OF one of these a terrible
gun may bang at any time So though he
has suspected that whatever Farmer
Browns boy would have once done
he would not now try to harm him,
Blacky is naturally cautious and takes
no chances So when he comes spying
around Farmer Browns house and barn
he does it when he is quite sure that
no one is about. and he makes no noise
about it First, he sits In a tall tree from
which he can watch Farmer Browns
home. When he feels quite sure that the
way is clear he flies over to the Old
Orchard, and from there he inspects the
farmyard, never once making a sound,
II he Is quite sure that no one ia about
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She Married Him.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Il don't want you to marry that
young man."
why. father, he's rich"
Yes. but he Is running through his
fortune"
We'll. it must be delightful to help
a man run through a fortune. And, in
stead of a trousseau. you may arrange
for a divorce suit later"
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IL entitled to relief" he answers. not
unless he has acquired the character
of an American seaman by being reg.
ularly shipped in q port of the United
States"
He further rules that the shipment
in a port of the Philippines does not
confer upon such foreigner the status
of an American seaman entitled "a
relief.
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McGILLlCUDDY BILL is
SENT TO THE SENATE
Passed by House With Only Repre-
sentatives Cannon and Dies
Voting Against It.

The McGillicuddy bill. providing a
scientific system of compensation to
government employees injured in the
line of duty was sent to the Senate
from the House today. having passed
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NOT PART OF U. S. MARINE,
BUT MUST FLY U. S. FLAG
Status Of Philippine Vessels Decided
by Controller Of the
Treasury.

Vessels of the Philippines are not
part OF the merchant marine of the
United States. even though they must,
and do, fly the American nag.
This is one of the stray problems that
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George French Compton, sixty-nine
years old. clerk of the corporation court
at Charlottesville, Va. died after a long
illness. He was born and reared in
Martinsburg. W. Va.
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per cent additional for each child under
eighteen, with limit of two-thirds of
the employees wage. The first appro-
priation for the system. authorized in
the bill, would be 100000.
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Reminded of His Errors.

From the Boston Transcript.
Heck-They say that when q man -
his past life is brought up
before him.
Peck-That happens also when he
has a quarrel with his wife.
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THE new POLICEMAN.
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

NEW YORK, July 10.-On the night
of October IS. 1915. a man entered the
cigar store of well known concern
on the lower Bowery and asked for
couple of cigars. AS the clerk stopped
to extract them from the case the man
covered him with revolver and coolly
demanded the contents of the safe. For
tunately for the cigar store clerk. at
this juncture a policeman was seen ap-
preaching, and the man turned and
fed. The officer fired at him. and
missed, but the report was heard by
John A. McCarren, patrolman, farther
down the street. who took up the pur-
suit. Twice the fleeing burglar dis
charged his revolver at McCarren.
wounding him each time. but in spite
of that the patrolman followed him up
to the fourth story of empty build
ing. Again the burglars revolver
blazed forth. grazing McCarren's cheek,
but Immediately guided by it's flash.
the patrolman discharged his own three
times. One of these bullets penetrated
the burglars leg. and being unable to
continue his flight he came out from his
hiding place. hands up.
This is only one instance of the re-
markable featS of courage performed
BY the New York policeman. to whom
such things are mere incidents of what
is. under any circumstances. q risky
business. A few years ago such a feat
of courage as McCarren would have
passed unnoticed; but such is no longer
the case in New York. A medal of
honor is now provided by the police
department. and McCarren is one of the
first to wear ii.
For many years, it has been the Amer
lean custom to invent wheezeS concern
ing the incompetency of our police
force until the popular conception of
fat, gullible individual who was the
special pet of comic supplements. moving
picture comedies and crooks. Not so now.
The modern metropolitan policeman is
a fkeen-eyed. athletic-looking person
who does his duty swiftly and credit
ably even in the face of death. Neither
is he afraid of public indignation. For
instance, no amount of bribery, suppH-
cation or entreaty could induce po-
liceman to let you get off street car
at crowded street crossing if the traf-
fc sign happens to signal Go In
fact, in New York you are lucky if you
succeed in leaving a street car within
three blocks of where you intended to
get off. If anything happens to the
mechanism of an open car. the running
the car, and there you sit until the car
is fixed, under guard of stern and
taciturn policeman.
The modern policeman is not per-
mitted to be fat When he first enlists
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Family Provided for
Should He Be Killed.

knows that il he is killed his
family will be well provided for. For
many years. II a man were killed in the
service. the department was authorized
to issue a small monthly allowance to
his wife. but the sum was anything but
adequate.
Then. in 1914. courageous detective
Eergeant named Joseph Guarnieri was
killed in an attempt to arrest q man for
1elonioua assault He left . wife and
eeyeral children for whom ths1e -Maa
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Manufacturers seconds
of Opaque cloth Window
Shades. 3 feet wide. in
green or ecru. Good
strong spring rollers.
Fourth FloOr.)
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Choice tomorrow Of all our cut rolls
of China and Japanese Mattings, in
lengths from to Is yards. at this
quick selling price.
Many are 90 to 100 lbs to the roll;
also the 1S0-warp quality. Attractive
carpet patterns. stripes and checks of
green, red, blue or brown.
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There is also another element in this
situation which is an incentive to fol-
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in the munic-
ipal service,
he is put in
the district