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Middletown transcript., 1917-07-07
ODESSA

MIS- freQ RUNNER, or wilmington
is visiting relatives in town.
Misses Ely and Corneha TOWNSEND
visited Rehoboth last Sunday.
Mrs. Dubant. of Philadelphia. visitet
Mrs. William Pierson recently.
Mrs. Annie Smith, of Philadelphia, i.
visiting Mrs. Naylor, near town.
Mrs. Dora Limpert, of Wye Mills, j.
the guest Of Rev. H. C. Shipley ant
family.
Mr.. Clark Coppage. of Philadelphia
is visiting his mother, Mrs. Georgis
Coppage.
Mrs. Joseph Hampson and son, ot
Baltimore, Md, are visiting Mrs. Doro.
thy Gilch.
Mr.. Everett Rose, of Port Penn,
visited his sister, Miss Molie Rose, or
Sunday last.
Miss Edith Mausall, of Philadelphia,
was the guest of Mrs. Harry Lightcar
on Sunday last.
Mrs. William e. Rhein, of Philadel-
phia, spent last week at the home of
Mr.. William P. Rhein.
Mrs. Theodore Croft and Miss Alice
Croft, of Philadelphia, spent Sunday
last with Mrs. Eliza Croft.
Mr.. George Nelson and family, of
Porters, were guests Of Mr.. Henry
Kronemier and wife on Sunday.
Mrs. Joseph Hoffecker and Mrs. A.
Lee Orrell visited Mr.. Joseph Hoffecker
at the Delaware Hospital last Sunday.
Mr.. Fred Reynolds and family and
Mr.. Joseph Heller and family visited
friends, near Mt. Pleasant, on Sunday
last.
Mr.. Charles Bush and wife and Mr..
William Townsend, of Wilmington.
were Sunday guests of Mr.. G. L. Town
send.
Mr.. Charles Kronemier and Mr..
Richard Rhodes, of Wilmington, visited
their parents on Wednesday of this
week.
Mrs. Fred Leimberger and son, of
Philadelphia; Mrs. Dutton and Mr..
Lynch and family. of Milton, were
guests of Mrs. Boyd Thornton last Sun
day.
An installation of officers will be held
in the Sunday School next Sunday, july
9Th. All the scholars and friends of
the Sunday School are urged to be
present.
A Sunday School election was held on
Friday evening of last week, the fol-
lowing officers being elected for the en-
suing year: Superintendent. Mr.. Walter
Dulin; Superintendent of Beginners,
Mrs. H. Morris; Superintendent of Pri-
mary, Miss Loleta Buckson; Secretary,
Mr.. Leon Buckson: Treasurer, Mr.. Viii
liam Bogensheitz; Pianist, Miss Alice
Brown; Assistant, Miss Blanche West;
Cornetist, Mr.. Henry Heller.
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TOWNSEND

Miss Mollie Austin is visiting New
Castle friends.
Mrs. Jennie Stats, of Philadelphia
is visiting her daughter Mrs. JOSEPH
Pritchard
Miss Nora Morris, of Centreville,
Md, is the guest of her sister Mrs.
George Watts.
Harry Hart and family, of Philadel-
| phia, visited his mother Mrs. George
M. D. Hart this week.
Miss Naomi Shockley and Mr.. Sudler
King visited Albert Watts and family
in Cecilton, Md, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Austin, of Elkton,
spent the weekend with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Austin.
The Daughters of America will hold
a Bake and Parcel Post Sale Saturday
afternoon and evening July 18th.
Misses Miriam Hutchison, Virgil
Slant and Reba Rittenhouse are at
tending Summer School at Newark.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Shockley, of
Richardson Park, returned home after
an extended visit with their parents
here.
Mrs. Ohio Marvel entertained the
Ladies Aid Society assisted by four
members at the formers home Tues
day afternoon.
Joseph Wright and wife, James
Wright and wife, of Smyrna, spent
Sunday as the guests of D. B. Jones
and family.
Miss Elizabeth Richardson, of Cam
den, N. j., returned home Wednesday
after several days stay at the home of
her sister Mrs. Walter E. Harris and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Townsend is visit
ing her sister Aaron Reynolds and wife
in Philadelphia. Mrs. Townsend who
the past week has been seriously ill is
somewhat improved.
During the months Of July and August
there will be no service in the NJ. E.
Church Sunday evenings. Preaching
Sunday at II A. M. Sunday School 10
A. M. Prayer meeting Thursday at
P. N.
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Spacious Mansion.

The visitor from Manhattan had
been talking Of the size Of some OF
the millionaires' palaces on Long
island; but when in the course OF his
tour he was brought to certain castle
in Warwickshire he admitted that 1t
was "a fair SIZE"
"A fair size," echoed his guide, who
was feeling little tired Of the
Yankees depreciation Of everything
that was not American. "A fair size?
I should say it wasl Why, you can't
tell how big it is from the outside
Wait till you get inside. There are so
many rooms and cellars and corridors
in that house, sir, that the visitors get
lost in it when they 60 for the first
time, and the duke keeps a pack OF
trained bloodhounds to track 'em down
and chase 'em back to the dining room
in time for dinner !-Reheboth Sum
day Herald.
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items Of
the Past Week
In THIS AND NEARBY POINTS
Excursion season.
The year is half gone.
Corn needs warm weather.

| COTH u60uS WARM WGdIl6T.
The strawberry season is about over
Mad-ley, one rooter pronounced the
word, who wouldn't be ''mad" after
such double spanking as our boys gave
the Wilmington Club
List of Letters remaining unclaimed
in the Post-office for the week ending
June 28th, 1917: William Hutchison,
Warner Jackson, Baonard Jones.
'"The play entitled 'The Fruit Of His
Folly" which was given in the Church
at Red Lion on a recent date will be
given in the Odd Fellows Hall at St.
Georges this evening (July 7th) at 8
o'clock"
John Bunda, aged IL years, an inmate
of the Catholic Home near Chesapeake
City, Md, was drowned last Thursday
evening in Back Creek. He had been
in bathing with other boys, and being
unable to swim was twice rescued from
deep water by his companions After
they left he went in alone and was
drowned, A jury summoned by Coroner
H. D. Litzenberg rendered verdict Of
accidental drowning.
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For Sale

Just received another large farm,
near Millington, $40 acres: also a nice
farm about IL mile from Townsend $50
acres with young fruit trees, beautiful
lake, good fishing, boating. A nice farm
one mile from Townsend with two
houses and two sets of buildings on it.
These farms are all we'll worth your
time to look over. Also two pieces of
land near Delaware City, one containing
40 acres and the other 30 acres, one of
them on the stone road to Wilmington
close to the city markets. A fine dwell
ing at Odessa.
JOHN HELDMYER, JR.
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SAVE THE PEACHES
Blossom And Twig Infection By
The Brown Rot Fungus
SPRAYING MUST BE THOROUGH


Observations of the Plant Pathologist
of Delaware College have confirmed the
rumors that severe blossom and twig
infection of peach by the brown rot
fungus has taken place. This has been
so severe in several localaties as to al
ready cause heavy losses of fruit and
injury to trees. Many peach orchards
show severe canker injury and gum ooz-
in at points of infection where blossoms
and fruit have been destroyed. The
fungus is fruiting freely'in these can
kers, thus providing an abundance of
spores for rapid infection of the
peaches as they reach the ripening
stages
SPRAYING MUST BE THOROUGH
1t is imperative that in order to save
the peach crop in these severely infect
ed districts that one or two thorough
sprayings of the peach orchard must be
carried out. The self boiled lime sui
phur spray should be thoroly applied to
fruit, foliage and branches. To make
the self boiled lime sulphur take lbs.
stone lime (high calcium) and 8 lbs. of
sulphur and so gallons of water. To
prepare, place the 8 lbs. of stone lime
in barrel and start shaking with q lit.
tie water. Make the 8 lbs. of sulphur
to thin paste with water. Add the
sulphur paste slowly to the shaking lime.
Keep the lime from burning dry by
adding water when necessary but do
not drown. Considerable heat is nec-
essary to make proper spray. Mix
we'll and allow shaking to continue 10
to 20 minutes, than add 20 to 80 gallons
of water. Thoroly mix, strain and then
make up to SO gallons by addition of
water.
Thoro spraying will be needed to save
the peach crop.
THOMAS F. MANNs,
Plant Pathologist.
Delaware College.
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First to Adopt conscription.

Switzerland was the first European
country to adopt universal military
service. The original founders of the
Swiss confederation enacted that who
ever shirked military training was de-
clared devoid Of honor and perjured,
and his house was vowed to destruc-
ton.
Should a man summoned to take
part in a military expedition prove un-
able to respond, owing to illness or
some other valid reason, he had to fur
pish q capable substitute at his own
expense.
From the earliest days Of the confed-
GRAFTON, too, the military authorities
made special provisions for tending
the wounded. sxa. .sr..e, 4ases'o.- ~
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NOTICE

| have obtained the agency for the
Hammond Laundry, of Wilmington, and
in the future will endeavor to give the
people of Middletown the same service
that l have given them in the past.
Laundry received on Tuesday, will be
returned on Saturday. No Packages
called for or delivered. Terms cash.
E. 8. Jones.
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New Assessment Board Named

The New Castle Levy Court at noon
on Saturday elected the following
Board of Assessment for the county:
Charles w. Gooding (Dem.) of Will
mington, and John C. Aston (Rep.) of
St. Georges Hundred, for two years
each; William B. Smith, Jr. (Rep.) of
Wilmington, and Patrick McGr ory
(Dem.) of New Castle Hundred, for
four years each.
Middletown transcript., 1917-07-07
Conception Of Cultivation.

Cultivation a generation ago meant
Acquaintance with letters and the fine
arts, and some knowledge Of at least
two languages and nteratures, and Of
history. The term "cultivation" is now
much more inclusive. It includes ele-
mentary knowledge of the sciences,
and it ranks high the subjects Of his
tory, government and economics
Charles w. Eliot, in Atlantic.
Middletown transcript., 1917-07-07
Permanent Embassi es.

It was not until the close of the fif-
teenth century that the permanent en-
bassy became at all common, and not
until the end Of the sixteenth that
It became a generally recognized insti-
tuition. In 1887 DR.. Roderigo Con
desalvi de Puebla was appointed per.
manent Spanish ambassador to Eng
land, and, as he was still in London
In 1900, the Spanish embassy in the
British capital must be regarded as
the Oldest among the permanent en-
bassies Of the world
Middletown transcript., 1917-07-07
To Give Series of Dances

A series of dances will be given by
the Pool orchestra in the Century Club
Building for the benefit of the New
Century Club, beginning on Tuesday
evening, July 18th. Dancing from
eight to eleven. Admission Is cts.
The public is cordially invited to attend
thes dances.
Middletown transcript., 1917-07-07
Bethesda Church Notes

Brotherhood, Sunday, $50 A. M, led
by Brother, Eugene Dockety.
Preaching at 1920 by the Pastor.
Sunday School at II 45. Evening
Service from 7.45 to $50. Address by
the Pastor
Prayer-meeting every Wednesday
evening at 7.45.
Middletown transcript., 1917-07-07
Where Brown Trout Live.

In streams no longer favorable to
the brook trout, and there are many
such due to logging operations, pol
luton, ETC., the English bTown trout,
by nature a harder fish than our ma.
tive fish, will still thrive, and such
streams may be made to furnish good
sport and a valuable food supply by
stocking with brown trout.-Al Out.
doors. alai.,s.
Middletown transcript., 1917-07-07

For getting recruits in the National
Guard, Maryland is on the honor roll.
Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts are the only states which
have surpassed this State in the num-
-ber of guardsmen recruited, and for it's
size Maryland has done even better
than any of these four States.
Middletown transcript., 1917-07-07
Middletown VS.. Madeley

Middletown threw the hooks into
Madeley of Whining ton for two games
Wednesday, 9-3 and 8-2. In the morn.
ing game Peters was the choice OF
Manager Wintrup for the pitching.
Nine hits were made off him for nine
runs.
Carrow pitched for Middletown and
held Madeley safe throughout. Heller,
of Middletown, led in the hitting, get
ting three two baggers. Vinyard fea.
tured in taking two or three hard drives
to long left field, cutting off runs.
In the afternoon game Middletown
won from the start to finish. Madeley
scored two runs in the second and third
innings on errors. Finn pitched for
Middletown and held Madeley safe.
Segelken caught All exceptional game.
Scores by innings:
MORNING GAME
Madeley 0 O 0 2 l 0 O-3
MiddletoWn ........ 0 @ 90 S 3 x-9
AFTERNOON GAME
Madeley. l 90 0 o.
Middletown .........0 0 0 2 0 3 3 x
IRON HILL ON SATURDAY
The Iron Hill, (Md.) team will be the
attraction at Academy Park this after
noon.
Middletown transcript., 1917-07-07

LOST-Between Armstrong; and Mid
dletown lady's black pocketbook con-
tanning about $3.50 in silver. If found
return to the store at Armstrong; own
ed by M. Blanchfield.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-09-13
A Constitutional For Baby.

From Physical Culture.
4 baby is first of al Yer. much of an
animal, for it has not yet developed any
degree OF mental life, at least in the first
few months. And the normal state of all
young animal life is activity.
Give the baby a chance. Most mothers
don't. They keep the Door little thing In
the carriage practically AL day. They
get exercise for themselves in pushing the
carriage. Blu they wonder why the baby
wont eat or sleep ard doesn't grow, 1t
is largely because it stays in the carriage.
sitting there like a crippled old woman
all day long. If they would only pat
the child down on the floor now and Their
they would scon see a difference.
The first lesson for every mother to
learn is to give the baby 4 chance to eSer-
else by placing it upon its stomach. The
prone position is the natural position of all
forms of lffe, worms, insects. reptiles.
mammals. birds, The founder is, about
the only exception ! know of, ana he is
only q freak fish. Even the founder goes
belly iown when he's a baby. But the
human baby. poor thing. is very carefully
laid upon it's back in defiance OF The rule
IN all animal life. True. the child ma
kick its legs and wave its arms when on
the back, If not too much restricted with
clothing. But this is nothing like the eX-
ercise' against real resistance which a
baby secures when placed upon its stom-
ach and allowed TO struggle with its own
weight.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-09-13
SHE SAW DANGER IN DELAY
Owing to Circumstances, Fair Maid
Was Willing to Make Momentous
Decision at Once.

"Hary," she began, in asweet, tim
orous voice, whats all this talk about
gold and silver"
Henry, who reads the papers, and
was about as thoroughly ignorant on
the subject as everybody else, plunged
in bravely, but she stopped him.
II don't want to know about that"
she faltered, "but is gold getting SO
awful scarce?"
awful scarce!" echoed Henry, dis
mally.
And is it all being taken away to
pay for the WARP"
1T is" said Henry.
And If they continued to take it
away, there won't be any left in this
country by and by and We'll have to
use silyer?"
Yes" sighed Henry.
Henry" she whispered, II told you
| would give you my decision in the
summer-but l repent. lit is
Yves Henry, don't-don't you
think" she continued, after a moments
silence, that it would be well to get
the ring now, before all the gold is talk.
en- away ?'--London Answers.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-09-13
NOTHING SAID ABOUT LION
Snowman Had Forgotten to Mention
a Highly Important Point When
He Made His Offer.

The enterprising impresario Of the
mammoth circus offered $1OO to any
member of the audience who would IN
ter the lions cage. He made the in
Vitation nightly, but no one seemed in
q hurry to accept it until one evening a
very sheepish looking individual rose
and shouted:
If o please. sir, l should like
that hundred dollars! !"
The audience was horror-stricken,
bat the iIapresario replied, with a con-
tenlptuous and rather %incredulous
sni!e:
oh! So you want to go int the
liens cage. do your
Certainly" said the man, starting
to make his way from the audience.
VERY well, then: come along. l
will open the door for you and you can
walk in"
"Ah!" said the man, stepping for
ward with a knowing wink. I'm go in,
but you will have to take the lion out
first. What you said was that you
would give q hundred dollars to any
n going into the lions cage"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-09-13
A Pastor Scored Novels.

From the Los Angeles l1xuress.
Several hundred persons were s%tnrtlcd
the other day by the predictian Of Pastor
George y. Thompson. of Washington.
voiced at the conference of Seventh DAY
Adventists here. that all novel realtors
and novel writers VIII be destroyed by
the deity in tho fires on Judgment hay.
Pastor Thompson. vino is secretary Of
the North American division conference
of the Seventh Day AdventiSts. stated
that the bible Very clearly condemns the
reading fictitious stories. lie stated that
unless the readers Of novels ard the writ
ers repented they woull Undoubtedly be
destroyed.
Both those who love lies and those
who make them are on the way to cter-
mai fire sai3 Pastor Thompson. l.
leave the novels severely alone
Books of fiction arc nothing but writ
ten lies. Therefore they Very clearly fail
under tho wrath of God. as do the ones
who write them and the ones who reai
them
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-09-13
Saw II Already.

when you have served your term,
my poor friend, I hope you will see
the error of your ways" said the
prison visitor.
s4Dat I will. mum! In fact, I've al
,'eady seen the error of me ways"
I'm glad to hear you say so.n
Der amt 10 use pickin' pockets
when big hauls kin be made in see
ond-story work"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-09-13
A Loss.

"The coal barons and the steel
barons promise to give the people q
square deal during war time. but l
guess there's no danger Of their going
too far and robbing themselves in the
peoples behalf"
The speaker was Samuel Gompers.
''Yes," he Went on, there's no dam
ger of their acting like the young lady
at the shore. who said to her father:
Papa, l lost my heart on the moon
lit beach last night, and accepted old
Rake Harduppe. Poor Rake is no
longer young, l know, but, as l said,
I've lost my heart
"'Humph,' snorted her father, I
think it's your head that you've lost"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-09-13
His Mothers Son.

He has gone to Join the f,ghtin', leavin'
mother here an me +
/ hadn't much chanSt days gone by to
Study iogafee.
So my mind is luther hazy about where
our boy has gone,
But his ma showed me a paper that some
jogafer had drawn
And we started where We're Twin. and we
crossed q lot o. land,
And we went acrost an ocean, me a.
holdin' of her hand
And a-ftllcrin' the finger of tho other
hand that went
Over land and over ocean to where he
has pitched his tent.
And where he will do his fightin' fer to
And / hope thai. God rgive the pride
his mother feels and me
When we think Of him way yon,ler,
straight ard tall and clean and true,
Helpin do the fhirgs his country has been
called upon to do.
We was always proud, l reckon. sence he
The days he was born his comm made
our hearts so full and glad
That ny heart swole when ! looked down
And | went ard told the critters, every
critter on the place.
low in the shade
or a tree. his ma beside him, am the
burrows that l made
Was the crookedest l reckon that a Teller
ever drew,
For no matter where j started they would
work back to them two!
And I'd kies the baby's mother and I'd
hug the baby, then
/ would say giddap and start ia or my
plowin' once again,
Only to GENE back to love them at the
end of every row.
! B'I4EEVE there's a heaven yonder. but
] KNOW there's one below.
Then he growed>aHd went to college when
the deestrict school was done.
Went off there to study farmin'. an went
at IT like twas fun!
Then he showed me about farmin'-I had
farmed since ] was growed.
But his knowledge made me wonder at
the little that I knowed
And that 1 had got by with. and then
he heard his eountry's call
And he bent and kissed his mother and
shook hands with me, and all
OF the farm seems strange without him,
and as lonesome as can be,
But we're prouder now than ever Of our
boy, his ma and me.
For If he had been a slacker-not that he
COULD have heen that
And he'd let the others battle whilst he
skulked where he was at
and that we had lived in vain
We can stand his loss ] reckon, stand the
sorrow and the pain
II the Lord does send that to US, and go
heads up just the same;
For there is a pride in sorrow, but there
amt no pride in shame,
And we, couldn't have stood that. and,
thank the Lord. we don't have to.
Bein' the son. of his mother made him.
= loyal. brave and true.
-J,ads Mortimer Lewis, in the Houston
PoA-
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-09-13
Enioyed The Fioht.

Mike was home wounded from the
front and he was stopped by n friend
one day as he was hobbling down the
street on his newly acquired crutches.
And how did you get on in the big
battle?' asked the friend, gazing with
compassion on the gallant soldiers use
less limb.
Sure, Oh had the tonne of me loife,'
replied Mike, decidedly.
But 0 got very badly Knocked
about" retorted the other.
Eyes, OF know that" cried Mike, en-
Enthusiastically; "but, begorra, it was
the first fight 1 was aver in that the
police didn't stop"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-09-13
Food Control.

"Wliat'll you have for breakfast
sir?" asked the waiter.
ooh, some melon, an omelet, a rasher
of bacon, waf1es and maple strip and
coffee with cream"
Yes, sir. All we can let you have
is a couple of biscuits and a bit of salt
fish. We always give a guest an OPP
p%ortunity to give his regular order. 1t
pleases his mind while it's going on
and gives us an idea of what kind of ?
tip to expect"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-09-13
sooTHEs ITCHING sCALPs
And Prevents Falling Hair Do cuticura
Soap and Ointment.

On retiring, gently rub spots of dan
arutf and itching with Cuticura Oint-
ment. Next morning shampoo with
Guticura Soap and hot water using
plenty Of Soap. Cultivate the use of
euticura Soap and Ointment for every
day toilet purposes.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L.,
Boston. Sold evcrywhere.-Adv.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-09-13
The Boy Prude.

Representative La Guardia Of Michi-
gan was praising the presidents Flag
day Grafton.
How well he speaks out against
the German milital.istic %autocracy y
said Mr.. La Guardia. every trle
Democrat must speak out against that
hydra. To use soft words about it is
to be weak and silly and mistaken
like the little boy prude.
"a little boy prude, having eaten
too many our cherries, was taken i'll
in school, and began to groan and
writhe.
Whats the matter:' said the
pretty teacher. What's the matter,
Tommy
THE boy answered in an embar-
raised voice:
i've got a terrible pain in my
nay abandon"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-09-13
Broken Heart Cure.

Hc-I understand you have been at
tending an ambulance class. Can you
tell me what is the best thing to do for
n broken heart?
She-Oh. yes. Bind up the broken
portion with a gold band, battle in
orange-blossofn water and apply plenty
of raw rice. Guaranteed to ge well in
4 mOnth.-Pearson's Weekly.
If Il man has money to burn the rest
of us try to make light of his fortune.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-09-13
Invariable Rule.

When fifteen people go picnicking
with fifteen lunch baskets the II has
ket that gets lost always contains the
salt.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-09-13
Most PRESSING Need.

Edith had been i'll and mother had
been coaxing her to eat.
"Will you have IN orange. dear?"
NO"
Wont you have some ice cream?,,
mo, no.
The questioning continued. Finally
a weary little voice piped TN tell you
what l will have. mother
What. darling:' eagerly.
"a rest"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-09-13
Drink Ruttermitk.

Cultivate a taste for buttermilk and
drink lots of it. for thus you will be
drinking to your health.