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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-02
WILMINGTON METHODIST
PULPIT APPOINTMENTS
Conference Adjourns After Pre-
siding Bishop Announces AS
signment of Ministers

SEAFORD. Del. April 2. Wilmington
NJ. f. Conference adjourned today imme-
diatey after the presiding Bishop read the
list of ministerial assignments Those for
Wilmington district follow:
WlLMINTON DISTRICT-Robert Watt dis
trict superintendent
EHHRf EHHHEsT1N TJEcG1T I.r1piJIw WIsIT Z Tsrn.r
cHEEAfEHKE cHEkRf Hi!T cfrY1M : Andersen S Gutter
G%dhiA5YMSNTIc. Gdi5hHN6 s. .i,mis e.. Harris
pELAWARE CiTYwT. y. Given.
Elk NEcK-Walter Ford.
u6HE EhEKT9NcIG. EssSyn +. = JoHes %9,,uu
K2fEWEhI-F, KIRit W6ah6, 5, 5, lXlir. lWXhittaker.
MARSHALLToN AND CEDARs-J. p, Otis.
MNouNT PLEAsANT--H. k KelsO ''''
NEM cAsTEEIJ. fIDeBis r. Biskford.
SSoRTHEAST-3G, H. Neesc.
b%R%S RHfosiT1rI' : !. S'RS%sS! mooSM:
EISiNG sGY%H: E; Ts%i REED
ST. GEORGES AND sUNIMIT-Ivanhoe Willis
ziSXNj5 z&MN FGiNfm{ =, Hcfsyl ii. thornton
WlLMISGTo$ Asbury. G. w. Dawson. g.
RRrsHES'" Rrssksx Ja%ss n1s Sspsos
o, Bennett; Eastakc. E. II. Collins; H' Eismere. M.
~ r. !tstr' .pWorth, J. Howard dN. ,,.att.'
II it;,,F.R r. Rand9ph Harris Street. G. T. Anderson;
nlllcrest Albert White; Italian Mission
Fignaticelo; liinEswood. J. H. Geoghegan. Mad
MoS,nt Sey < ssan M br3adway; MeCabe ! ". rasleS;
q. w. Bounds; st. Pauls, A, H. Thomnsaonn.. m.
Srpti; rrd; j. L. Johnson; silyerbrook, T. W. Jones:
WniidIE' WuriniIE' T. H. Adams; Union, w. +. Corkrsn:
assistant superintenden, of MARYLAND Ar,i-
saloon League, e. e, PresA nan; corrosnondips
secretary Of the Conferenc, Claimants sH,,s psnGn,s
hent Fund Commission. +. n. Dasniell. piesi
George T. Reed ' i1uucatloh'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-02
FACTORIES EXPAND
More Than $1,OOO,OOO in Contracts
New Buildings

Contracts aggregating upward Of 81, ,00tr'
s000 have been awarded for new factofy'
buildings and additions and alterations n!
industrial plants in Philadelphia. woif'
will be star ed Immediately on the folloe
A!ng M
For Hale & Kilburn, factory Sixth a.!
Filbert streets; for India Refining CO.
pany, factory buildings, Swanson and ~
Kean streets: for American Ice Compaul.
icehouse addition, Seventeenth and Junak.
streets; for Colonial knitting Mills, dyo'
house. knitting mill and powerhouse, Hunt
ling Park avenue and Stokley street; ~.
rStrawbridge & Clothier loft building. MINI
and Poplar streets for Campbell Soup Com,
pany, factory building, Camden, n. j.; e.
Peter Leavey. shop. Third and Christian
streets; for Frank Jones. for Atlantic Re-
fining Company laboratory addition. Pass<
yung avenue and River road for Merchant51
warehousing Company, warehouse altera.
tions 116-24 South Delaware avenue f0f
Collins & Aikman, machinery storae8
house, Manayunk; for Standard Ice Com.
pany ice station, Twentieth and McKean
streets. 7
Plans are reported in course for the fct
slowing: M
For Charles Lenning & Co., factory and
garage, Bridesburg; for Gill Glass Com
,pany. five factory buildings, Tioga. AmbsF
and Venango streets = Ia
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-02
22 PHILADELPHIANS ASK
WILSON TO DECLARE " m

Twenty-Five prominent Philade,rh.
have sent joint letter to Presiden, wmalhs
urging war upon Germany. I'VE fee, sson sson
an overwhelming public sentiment vii, s,.a s.at
port you in asking Congress for a deo,s sup-
ton of war against Germany" the msssua
concludes 1t was signed by John w psSsc
James Crosby Brown, Cyrus H. K Curtis
Glasgow, DR.. Richard II. Harte, AIN.
Johnson, Henry LaBarre Jayne. DR. W o.
Keen, William A. Law John II. McFsas"' W.
Charles L. McKeehan. Frank e. Mcnoasnn'
John Bach McMaster, Roland 9, Mnad'
Effingham 3. Morris. Arthur Il. Nsr,nIs
Walter George Smith, John ]. Wpr,asd'
George Woodward and Ernest T. Trir"son'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-02
Police Court Chronicle

Mike Failon doesn't mind being ,,;u-os
IN pattle' He would be proud, he saws
OF a wound received from the weanon ~
an army But he draws the line wben
.he injuries are inflicted by a talkative
his blade. '''a"
railon drifted into shop on Girard ave-
nue, ms race was shouded In a growth q,
,s several days The barber saw at a glance
onae Mike only shaved when his beard he.
rsn,etn no uncom1ortabie' He went at the lob of
.te'noVing the hair with the evident intan.
tlon of breaking a speed record Th. 'n.en- M
uipped' Twice it removed spots fro,,,
m,nes ahn ehin and again it took a wedge orr
- make matters worse, the industr,o,,.
discussing the war. ''e"'ioh oy
Mike reminded him that ba s.u,.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-02
AUTOS KILL TWO MORE;
26 VICTIMS THIS YEAR
Child of Three Run Down in Philadel-
phia-Camden Man Dies After

Two persons are dead as the result of
automobile accidents in and near the city
in the last twenty-four hours bringing the
number of fatalities from motor vehicles
in Philadelphia to twenty-six since jan
uary /. One of the victims was a child
of three.
While crossing Fairmount avenue at
Twenty-thrd street three-year-old James
Ryan, of 2332 Fairmount avenue, was run
over and killed by motortruck. Elmer
Smith, 115 South Fourth street, the al
legged driver. was arrested
william Yeager, a contractor, of 1867
Haddon avenue, Camden. was fatally
injured when an automobile and a mStor-
truck collided at Mount .Ephraim avenue
and the Reading Railway. Yeager was
thrown against a telegraph pole. He died
in the West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-02
JERSEY CENTRAL BOOSTS
RATE TO NEW YORK CITY
Protest Along the Line Against In
crease in Price of Short-Trip
Tickets

An increase in passenger rates hs,us.
Central Railroad of New Jersey stations IN
New Jersey and New York city caused a
protest along the Jersey Central lines To-
day' The new rates. which Apply onIv IN
tickets bought for transportation to JERSEY
city and across the ferries into New York
per cent " -
Users Of tickets to New York founa
consolation In the knowledge that thu nav
rates would not apply to them II they bo,,rh,
tickets to Jersey City instead Of New YorIr'
g tne lnfease e not applicable betw cen
w = 9w yerpey Il M 40
iIS ;;s's
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-02
READING RAILWAY HOSE
CUT BY MALICIOUS HAND

READING. April 2.-What is believed 10
have been the work of an alien pIotter
was discovered at the shops of the Phila
delphia and Reading Railway Company here
today, all of the fire hose leading to the
shops and roundhouses being found to be
punctured with knife cuts Every piece OF
hose was cut either across or iengthwise.
The monthly inspection revealed the mis-
chief. which would have been serious had
Q hre started at the shops
Armed Suards vers put on duty By the
city today ~ ~ q ~ rossrvoirs ana 6Itra-
'':1i; ss:s ';: :sss;;: s:sg's
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-02

Senator Newlands. though former SENATOR
Oliver around the corner has not.
OF course, one does not know all the
houses one passes Senator salisbury has
his nag out: 10 has Senator Shafroth. Rep
resentative Roddenberg, of Illinois on Six
teenth street Ben Johnson, Of Kentucky. a
little further down; James Parker. OF New
York, below Scott Circle, have theirs, But
many OF the Senators and Representatives
who live In apartments or hotels have to
let the proprietors show their patriotism for
them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-02
Autoist Held for Child's Death

Jacob Israel, of 1850 North Second street
was committed to the county prison 8,
Magistrate Beaton at the Central Statior
this morning to await the action of tbl
Coroner. accused of causing the death b
Frank Dieme, three years old, of 500 Nortl
Orisnna street, which occurred early thi1
morning. The child was run down near hi
nome two weeks ago by an automobii(
which Israel was running
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-02
Lloyd George Plotters Lose Appeal

LONDON, April appeal was TODAY
refused the trio of poison plotters. convicted
or conspiring to kill Lloyd George and
other Cabinet members. The three are
Mrs Alice Wheedon and Mr. and Mrs
Alfred Mason.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-02

Gus R0DMAN. twenty. packer ana shlp,s, a.
L6tiEs sT6iIA twenty 'i chair s1Inf1fss,y f9sny: -
North Twenty-fiffh street; infantrv "er' s'st0 =
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-02

barbas @ mar removed from his face, but m.
pIunssd Iunt ,n, seem TO realize this ana
Italian front. VI action on the
:, A jag under the left ear end.a A.. 4
uoh, Mike jumped from the chair H.. opera.
me o oarper on his back with left nd u .,ps put
0n eacn side Of the face, Tbs -. I'M
the call nearDy COP heard
t.lio brought TSu t Mike before Magi.trat. co..
sirs thai I, NJ: nnisssclas Y k s..osr suppressed de-
~ Z: /; ! ::'|s:s IS r; =,
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-21
VEGET TABLES OF
 MILE 17 TO BE
 PUT ON DISPLAY

Vegetables raised at Mile 17 are better than those that are raised in the Matanuska according to samples brought in last night by w. L. Lodge and which were on display at Bor- gems this forenoon. Mr. Lodge had a sack of Iutabagas and turnips, aver aging from to 4 pounds each. These were raised by Mir. Lodge in his gar den at Mile 17 as an experiment and next year a large crop is expected. The sack brought to Seward, which will be shipped to Seattle for display, contained the following varieties: Iutabaga's. yellow; Aberdeen turpips; purple top strap leaf; white Milan and yellow petrosfky.
 Mir. Lodge claims that he has a preparation which destroyed the ground worms so injurious to vege- tables in this section of the north.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-21

Lake Trout just in-Fish Market.
 N22
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-21
WRITER OF STORIES ON
 ALASKA SPELLS TT TO
 SEATTLE NEWSPAPERMEN

i am on my way to New York, and, gee, how l hate it" said Helen Van Campen, famous writer of theat- rical, race track and Alaskan stories for the Saturday Evening Post, who arrived in Seattle yesterday from her home in Seward, Alaska, on the steamer Alameda, says a recent issue of the Seattle Post-Iuteligencer. Like the bibuIous rustic who was on his way to town for his weekly rois- tcring, l can truthfully say that hate it. When l get there they will not give me the things I want to eat. do not drink anything but water, and the New York water is fierce, and they compound the felony by putting ice in it. l detest ice water. And, then, will not be able to see any body, because 1 go to bed at at night and get up at 6 in the morning. Think of doing that in New York"
 Helen Van Camper in private life is Mrs. r. R. Van Camper, wife of a mining man of Seward. She is ac- companying her husband on trip East in the interest of his company and they are guests a. me Seattle hotel.
 During the past year she has been enjoying life in Alaskan mining camps and tho she has been obtaining fiction material and much local color has done no writing in that time. She says she is planning to start work in a few days on a number of stories on Alaskan themes, and also some tales of stage folks. "I usually write two stories at time" she says, q find this very restful. When l run out of ideas on one story can jump onto the other"
 Before breaking into writing she owned a stable of racing horses and followed the sport of kings in many parts of the country. She also spent number of years mining in the West. In 1905 she began to write . features for the New York Telegraph and her feature, "The Troubles of Two Telephone Girls" embellished with . the current slang of Broadway, made a hit. Later on she sold several stories to some of the smaller magazines and determined to go after the big ones. Accordingly she sojourned in the tro- pics and wrote six stories. None of these being accepted, she wondered what was the matter with the editors.
 In her early story-writing days her ambition was to write Indian stories. She found she could write them with perfect ease, but that nobody would buy them. q finally figured it out that the average reader puts himself ;n the place of the principles of the story" she said And who would care to be an Indian"
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-21

Owing to weather conditions the dredge at Anchorage is unable to operate until the summer of l91S-
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-21
SEWARD SNAPSHOTS

The weather forecast for the next 24 hours is snow and caaler.
 Robert J. Weir is out on the line on a tour of inspection today.
 Steamer Dora is expected to arrive in port tomorrow forenoon from the westward.
 ~ The Home Guards meet tonight at s o'clock for the regular drill at the A. B. Hall
 W. l.. Lodge, of Mile 17 is regis tered at the Sexton, having come in on the train last night.
 Scward's weather report for yester- day was as follows: maximum, 4O, minimum 32, and current go; cloudy and snow.
 LE. Large expects to leave for the states on the Admiral Evans. 5Ir Large, until recently was wharfnger at the Seward dock.
 -..-
 R. s. Giddngs, of the Alaska Road Commission, stopping at the Over land expects to go to Juieau on the steamer Alaska next Saturday. Steamer Alaska is due in Cordova tomorrow and should arrive in Sew ard sometime Saturday. The Alaska has seven days mail aboard for here.
 *
 One week from tonight the formal dancing party of the Red Cross will be given at the A. B. Hall. Tickets are &l and are reported to be meeting with a ready sale.
 -s-
 A business meeting of the Metho- dist Ladies Aid Society will be held at the parsonage, Thursday at 2:3O F. M., financial reports will be made, and work planned for the coming year. It is hoped that a good atten- dance may be had.
 -:s-
 P. T. Shaw is in the hospital with a fractured thigh. Shaw was tossed from trcstle out on the railroad and was thrown 20 feet. The hand ear upon which Shaw and companions were riding, had no light upon it and the engineer of the locomotive did not see the car until it was disappear- ing over the trestle.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-21
CONSCRIPTION VOTE TO
 COME UP IN AUSTRALIA

MELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. q. Via Reuters Ottawa Agency - The federal government has decided to postpone the meeting of Parlia- ment and conduct the referendum on conscription under the existing pow CTS. The voting day probably will be December 15.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-15
Wife to Blame If Husband Drinks,
Says Druggist Brown of Cleveland,
Who Tells Wife What To Do

ret to him. She saved him from drink
rescued him from his own depraved
self, by giving him a secret remedy.
the formula of an old German chemist
To discharge his debt to her and to
help other victims out of the murk and
mire he has made tho formula public
Any druggist can put 1t in the hands
of any suffering wife. mother. sister or
daughter Just ask the druggist for
prepared Tescum powders and drop a
powder twice a day in tea, coffee. milk
or any other drink. Soon liquor does
not taste the same. the craving for 1t
disappears and 10, one more drinker is
saved and knows not when or why he
lost the taste for drink.
NOte.-Teseum. referred to above,
should be used only when IL IL desir-
able to destroy all taste for alcoholic
drinks of every kind. The wife who
approves OF drinking I'm moderation and
believes her husband safe should give
1t only when she sees, as most do In
time, that the danger line IL near. since
this formula has been made public j.
Nelson Clark, and other drug xists have
filed it repeatedly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-15
Attendance Records of Pupils
of Riverside Public Schools

Riverside, Pa. Feb. 15.-Percent-
ages of attendance and the honor rolls
of pupils of the Riverside public
schools for the month of January
have been announced as follows:
|, Grammar School-John f. Keys,
teacher: Enrolment, 33; percentage
of attendance. 90; average attendance,
Is. The following pupils have attend
ed everyday during the month of jan
uary: James Roberts, Howard Sellers,
Carl Lott, Ralph Ensinger, Lester
Hoffman, Helen Guy. Catherine HERE,
Helen Luacs, Verdilla Crone, Helen
Bricker Esther OFT and Caroline Guy.
Intern ediate-M. NJ. ogue, teacher:
Enrolment. 43; percentage of attend
ance, 90; average attendance, 3S. The
following pupils were present every
day during January: Boys, Harry
Dapp, Delbert Whitman, Henry
Ebright. George Career, Elmer Long,
Albert HERE, Harry Kaufman, Nor
man Engle, Edward Welsh, Ronald
Engle, Stuart Osman and William
Shade. Girls, Kathrine Troutman,
Martha Crone, Mary Beale. Annetta
Lott and Margaret Albright.
Primary-Annie r. Keiter, teacher.
Number enrolled, %; average attend
ance, 25: percentage of attendance,
90. Pupils missing no days during the
month: ason Fasold, Theodore Dapp,
Paul Robson, Earl pealman, Everett
Long. John Robson. Mary Osman,
Thelma Smith, Pauline Spealman,
Beatrice Ebright. Harriet Bernhardt,
Mildred Bricker. Hazel HERE. Merriam
Fisher, Mary HERE and Evelyn Gar
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-15
FIRESIDE READING FOR WOMEN AND ALL THE FAMILY IL
THEIR MARRIED LIFE"

, had said nothing further on the sub
ject, much to Helen's relief. He
waited, instead. for her to make her
own arrangements, which Helen was
in no hurry to do, and so the matter
drifted.
Warren had adopted an attitude
toward Helen that half piqued her.
He said nothing about her scheme,
but neither did he bully her as he
was accustomed to doing. His man
ner toward her was almost Indifferent
and Helen did not quite understand ii.
1t happened that for a few days
people did not run into the apart
ment. and that Warren had nothing
much to call him away. They spent
their evenings almost in silence. Helen
longed for a return of the old rela-
tions, when at least she might have
adopted that intimate treatment of
Warren even if he had repulsed her,
but she hardly knew how Warren
would act if she did act natural.
One evening as they sat on either
side of the table in the livingroom,
Warren perusing the paper, and Helen
apparently engrossed in a paper on
woman suffrage, there was a great
scramb bling in the kitchen. They both
looked up inquiringly and each meet
ing the others eye, Helen exclaimed:
What on earth is that?"
Warren grinned. I'll go and see"
he answered, and dropping the paper,
went out into the kitchen.
Helen listened intently and in a
few minutes he called her.
Come on out, Helen" he called,
in his old offhand way, there's the
funniest thing out here
Helen obeyed with alacrity and
found him in the door of the kitchen
watching Mahomet, the Persian cat.
70
mouse" she exclaimed.
That's just what has happened
there it is under the chair"
"Oh. Warren!" shrieked Helen, Its
not alive, is it?"
At that moment Mahomet made a
dive under the chair and Helen
picked up her skirts and ran. She
called back to Warren as she fled:
Warren Curtis, take that thing
away; | think you're cruel to stand
there and watch it being worried to
DEATH"
Warren laughed loudly and followed
her into the livingroom in a few
minutes.
1T was dead, anyway" he ex-
claimed, leaning over Helen's chair;
you're just like all women, aren't
you-afraid of a little mouse"
His manner was so suddenly tender
that Helen lifted her face to him inn
pulsively.
"Of course. we're all the same.
dear" she said, quickly; every
woman l know hates a mouse and is
willing to ADMIT it,"
Yes" answered Warren. wisely:
I Just as every woman is anxious to
have her own way, and after it is
given to her she doesn't know what
to do with it."
(Natch for the next instalment of this
interesting series.)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-15
(Continued.)


His answer indicated that for all he
knew ! might be from the temple Of
Issus. and so evidently there was 9
temple of Issus. and in it were mer
like unto myself.
Either this man feared the inmates
OF the temple or else he held thSr per
sons or their power in such reverence
that he trembled to think of the harm
and indignitles he had heaped upor
one of them.
But my present business with hin
was of a different nature than thai
which requires any considerable alb
stract reasoning. 1t was to get my
sword between his ribs, AMI this sue
ceeded in doing within the next few
seconds. nor was an instant too soon
The chained prisoners had beer
watching the combat In tense silence
Not a sound had fallen in the room
other than the Clashing of our contend
ing blades, the soft shuffiing of oul
naked feet and the few whispered
words we had Missed at one another
through clinched teeth the while we
continued our duel.
But as the body of my antagonis
sunk an inert mass to the floor a cry
Of warning broke from one of tn,
female prisoners.
Turn! Turn! Behind vouw sh,
shrieked, and as l wheeled at the frs
note of her shrill cry l found myself
facing n second man of the same race
as he who lay at my feet.
The fellow had crept stealthily from
n dark corridor and was almost upol
ME with raised sword ere | saw him
Tars Tarkas was nowhere In sight, anC
the secret panel in the wall, through
which I had come, was closed.
How I wished that he were by my
side now! I had fought almost contin
ously for many hours. 1 had passed
through such experiences and adven
lures as most sap the vitality of man
and with all this 1 had not eaten fol
nearly twenty-four hours nor slept.
was tagged out and for the frs
time in years felt question as to my
ABILITY to cope with an antagonist. Bu
there was naught else for 1t than t.
engage my man and that as quickly
and ferociously as lay in me.
My only salvation was to rush hin
of his feet by the impetuosity Of my
attack. could not hope to win Ions
drawn out battle.
But the fellow was evidently OF an
other mind, for he backed and parriet
and parried and side stepped until
was almost completely tagged from
the exertion of attempting to finish him
He was a more adroit swordsman, i
possible. than my previous foe, and
must admit that he led me a prett!
chase and in the end came near Il
making a sorry fool of me and a dcat
one into the bargain.
could feel myself growing weake
and weaker until at length objects com
menced to blur before my eyes, and