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Smyrna times., 1917-05-30
QUIET WEDDING AT CHesWoLo
Miss Frances May Wallace Daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Wallace, Weds

Miss Frances May Wallace Daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Wallace, Weds
Cheswold, May 29.-A very quiet
but pretty wedding was solemnized at
the home of MIR. and Mrs. Benjamin
Wallace in this town on Thursday
last, May "a. at 8 o'clock p. m,
when their daughter, Frances May,
was united in marriage to Mr. Leonard
Franklin Lord, of Lester, Pa. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. w.
H. Kenney. a former pastor. The
wedding march was played by Miss
Elizabeth Scarborough, school mate
of the bride. The bride was becom-
ingly gowned in blue taffeta and
carried a shower bouquet of lilies of
the valley. After q wedding trip Mr..
and Mrs. Lord will reside in Lester,
Pa, where they have cozy little
appsrtIrent awaiting them.
Smyrna times., 1917-05-30
PROMINENT SPEAKERS COMING

To Address a Mass Meeting at the
Smyrna Opera House Tomorrow
Dean Harry Hayward, of the Della
ware College Experiment Station, and
Miss Southwick, of the Consumers
League, Wilmington, will address a
mass meeting at the Smyrna Opera
House tomorrow, Thursday afternoon,
at 2 o'clock, under the auspices of
the Women's Conservation Committee
of the Governors Preparedness
League. Both are excellent speakers
and large crowd, especially house.
keepers, is anticipated. The food
situation is a serious one and the
meeting is to discuss ways and means
for economizing and conserving the
supply against next winters scarcity.
Don't miss this important meeting.
Smyrna times., 1917-05-30
cHEsWoLD HIGH SCHOOL GRADS

Will Have Commencement Thursday
Evening of Next Week June 7th
The graduating exercises Of Ches-
void high school will be held in the
M. E. Church on Thursday evening,
June z. An address will be made by
Harry Mayer of Dover. AN. Harper,
president of the board of education,
will present the diplomas. Music
will be furnished by a Wilmington
orchestra. The sermon to the grad
yates will be preached on Sunday
evening, June 8, by the Rev. G. P.
Smith. The class roll-Margaret
Learned, Anna Tigner-Pearson, Will
lard Davis Bbyce. Frederick c. Phil
lips, Gilbert S. Scarborough.
Smyrna times., 1917-05-30
q. Y. WaIIen suxs the Lamb Farm

F. Charles LeCompte, real estate
broker of Clayton, has sold the 256
acre farm of Lamb Brothers including
all crops, situated near Greenspring
to R. Y. Wallen of this town for a
consideration of S11, 600.
Smyrna times., 1917-05-30

Vic Boyer Named Rural Mail Carrier
Victor 2. Boyer, son of HI Boyer
has passed examation and received his
commission for rural mail carrier of
motor Route B to succeed George w.
Warner. He takes hold Friday next
June list.
Smyrna times., 1917-05-30
TOWN COUNCIL APPEALED
TO BY BOARD Of HEALTH
RUBBISH TO BE SYSTEMATICAL-
LY REMOVED BY TOWN FREE
Surface Closets in Congested District
to be Done Away With and all Un-
sanitary Conditions Regulated

At the regular meeting of Smyrna
Town Council Friday evening Presi-
dent Charles H. LeFevre and Secre-
tary G. Leland Harmonson of the
Smyrna Board of Health, appealed
for a united and hearty cooperation on
the part of Town Council for better
sanitary conditions. President Le-
Fevre of the Health Board was the
spokesman. The first thing was to
arrange for the free removal of rub
bish when placed by property holder s
improper receptacles along the curb.
1t was agreed to fix on the second and
fourth Thursdays of each month on
the days Immediately preceding the
meetings of Town Council. Ashes and
garbage will not be accepted as there
exists demand for both and property
holders can easily find interested
parties to take the same as ashes are
wanted by farmers to mix with white
oak soil and garbage by the owners
of pigs. All rubbish collected by the
town draymen will be taken to the
Towns dumping ground where COM
bustible matter will be incinerated
and other matter carried, and no other
dumping ground for rubbish will be
allowed within the town limits or a
mile thereof.
Surface Closets to be Abandoned
Town Council also agreed to sup
port the Board of Health in the mat
ter Of doing away with all surface
water closets that are located near
private residences and stores where
food products are kept. Closets con-
nected with the sewer system must
replace the old time surface water
closets in all congested districts of
the town. All places where water
gathers and becomes stagnant must
be drained, either by connecting with
the sewer system or by conducting the
water into tightly covered wells or
cesspools where the waste water can
not contaminate the air or drain into
wells of drinking water.
Unsanitary Conditions to be Dealt With
Objectional water closets and ex-
posed waste water will be condemned
as nuisances and menaces to the pub
lie health, and the persons response
BILE for such unsanitary conditions
will be proceeded against either un-
der the nuisance ordinance of Town
Council or the health laws of the
State. The Board of Health holds
monthly meetings at the Alderman 8
Office on the third Monday of each
month, when citizens can appear and
complain of any existing nuisance to
public health, or complaints can be
made to any member Of the Board at
any time, and the name of the COM
plainant in each instance will be kept
secret if so desired
Sprinkling Awarded to Walter johnson
After the Health officers had re-
tired, Council took up some routine
business. All the members were
present except Councilman W. F.
Keith. The awarding of the contract
for operating the town sprinkler to
Walter Johnson, colored. was con-
frmed. johnson had been employed
as special but Friday night he was
offered the job permanently for the
summer season. After allowing a
batch of bills Council adjourned.
LII RNl IELTMINN MEAn nnrcc
Smyrna times., 1917-05-30
:, - WIN Motor to Old Drawers

MANY viii Motor to Old Drawers
The annual reunion of the Friends
of Old Drawers, :" which VIII take
nlace next Sunday, June 3, at the his
toric old church near Odessa, promises
- ba a notable and largely attended
sffair Judge Day will be the
speaker.
Smyrna times., 1917-05-30

Dance at the Club House Tonight
The young men will give an in
formal dance at the Club House this
evening. Jacobs Orchestra of four
pieces will render music.
Smyrna times., 1917-05-30

"PungY" Slaughter Lands Sturgeon
James Slaughter, better known as
"Pungy'' Slaughter, had the good
fortune to land sturgeon off Wood
land Beach yesterday morning that
netted him $1S6. 78.
Smyrna times., 1917-05-30

CONTINUED ON FOURTH FlAoE
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-16
MIL WAUkEE'S
WORKERS QUIT

Demanding an increase in wages, $50 warehouse
men employed at the Milwaukee docks walked out at
nine o'clock Tuesday morning.
The men are asking 80 cents an hour, with Is cents
an hour overtime. They have been getting As and
IS cents, they say.
Work dock tied the Mexico Maru
left lying idle.
The strikers body the Longshoremens hall
eff held meeting perfect organization.
Another meeting will be Held in o'clock
day evning ss -s
the affiliated with the International
docks and a half.
wakout Independent the Of the Mil
involved Tuesday
planned sanctioned by the onghoremen organization
strike
been considered.
that the Of whom union other
place to
strikers today said those of the
and Northern Pacific been paying the scale they
demanding.
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Griggs
To See
France

Everett g. Griggs, head Of
the st. Paul q Tacoma LiIn-
Der Co., has been appointed a
major to command one Of the
battalions I'm the forestry
regiment which is being or
ganized for service In France.
Word of the appointment was
brought to Tacoma by George 8.
Long, member Of the lumber
emergency committee of the ma
tional council of defense, who has
Just returned after visit to
Washington, d. G
% Other Officers.
Five captains, 10 first lieuten-
ants and eight second lieutenants
from Washington state also have
received commissions, altho their
names have not been announced.
Maj. Griggs will command one
of 10 battalions, of $50 men each
which will go to make up the
regiment. The regiment thus will
have strength Of $500 men.
One of the battalions has been
practically completed, and will be
sent to France very soon, Long
said.
COnfers on Spruce.
Organization of the regiment Is
being handled directly from
Washington, d. c. Although 1t
probably will include large NUM-
Der of me nfrom the northwest
lumber district, men are being en-
listed from all over the country.
Longs visit to the national capt.
tai was largely on account OF the
uneasiness of the war department
over obtaining spruce for airplane
construction.
The government is demanding
100000 feet of spruce from
Washington and Oregon. Ions
said Tuesday he was fairly conf.
dent the big order could be filled
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-16
TROOPS NOT
TO GO SOUTH

SEATTLE, Oct. 16.-In a let
ter received by the Seattle Cham
Der of Commerce and Commercial
club, Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, chief
of staff of the war department,
writes that Camp Lewis will con-
tinue to be the quarters of all the
forces now In training there until
the men are ready for service, and
that no part of the forces will be
transferred from Camp Lewis to
Palo Alto, CALI
Gen. Bliss further writes that
the Camp Lewis cantonment was
built for assembling the drafted
men of the west, and that the
war department does not contem-
plate any change from its original
plans concerning Camp Lewis az
the vests military training
grounds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-16
Under
Which
Flag?

II America shall he victor
in the world war. YOU and l
will have a larger share In
life and government there
after.
II the Hohenzollern dy.
nasty shall triumph, our fate
will be sad indeed, may even
approach that Of unhappy
Belgium.
IL you cannot enlist, you
can fight ut home by econ
omizing, by saving your
wages and by investing, lend
ing to Uncle Sam, the good
wages you have been receiv-
ing the past year.
On which side do You
stand, my fellow workman, ON
the side of America and LIB
erty? On or the side OF
Germany and Slavery?
Under which flag?
CHARLES PERRY TAYLOR,
Secretary Washington State
Federation Of Labor.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-16
LONELY, WIFE
DISAPPEARS

The monotony of living alone In
a hotel bedroom all day without
companionship is attributed by
the police as the cause for the dis
appearance Sunday of Mrs. Joe
Rivers, age 20.
Mrs. Rivers lived at the Tour
list hotel. Her husband is chauf-
feur of one of teh Greyhound
tours cars to Camp Lewis, and
is away from. nome 16 hours a
day. s
He had been planning to buy
home at the lake.
The young woman left her
rooms at o'clock Sunday after
noon and has not been seen since.
Rivers made personal search for
her Sunday, and asked the police
Monday night to aid him. Mrs,
Rivers had taken no extra cloth
ing with her, and had left some
money in dresser drawer.
That the young wife became
melancholy over her lonely days
IL the belief Of detectives.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-16
LABOR DRAFT
IS PROPOSED
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WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 16.
War labor problems, constantly
increasing, are crystalizing SEN
timent among high government
officials for a war service labor
board today.
Replacing men with women,
addition of women, exemption of
skilled workmen from the draft
and labor Transcription" to cope
with shortage, are among the
subjects with which such board
would deal.
The proposal, formulated in
detail, is before the council Of
national defense today. Advo-
Gates Of the plan declare labor
shortage in some munitions plants
has already reached the stage
where war department officials
are considering taking battalions
from the cantonments to fac
tories.
The card index now being made
of every drafted mans industrial
ability is preliminary. Army
engineers need a battalion imme-
diately for a certain task. In the
second draft it is likely the indus
trial census will be taken at ex-
animation time and that indus
trial exemptions will be more
literally made.
Already soldiers are being re-
turned from cantonments to their
trades because they are essential
to war work. This has occurred
in aviation plants. The men re-
main in the army, however.
Employers are besieging the
defense council for aid in obtain
ing changes in state labor laws
to permit women to work on night
shifts, Sunday war work and to
add women In union shops. To
these proposals labor leaders
have so far withheld approval.
They have ignored suggestions
actually received for importing
100000 Asiatics. $4,000 Siberian
Poles and thousands Of Hindoos'
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-16
300 HOGS, $500
Cattle BURNED
Blaze Wipes Out Is Acres
Of Kansas City Yards;
Loss Very Heavy

forced by companies from the
suburban stations, were fighting
the flames.
The home guards had been,
called out to keep back curioua
crowds and otherwise assist.
Stockmen today believed the
fire was caused by sparks from =
passing engine.
The fire started in the ''specu.
lators' section" in the north end
of the yards, and spread rapidly
until at 4 o'clock II looked a. Is
the entire yards, with more than
10000 cattle, would be cor
sumed.
Several scale houses were
burned, but the fire I'D MOI
reach any of the larger strue-
lures.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-16

Moved by the constant and In
creasing call for houses, apart
ments and rooms, and the reports
of difficulty in finding them, The
Times has made a survey OF the
situation.
The first step toward the solu-
tion of a problem is to size Il up
and state IL clearly.
These are some of the things
The Times has discovered, from
rental agencies, city departments,
builders, house-hunters ana 9TH
ers:
II a workman comes to Ia
coma to work, say, in q ship
yard, and brings his family,
and begins to look for q
house, he will have almost
none to choose from.
Tho city water department
estimates roughly that there
are not more than 100 va
cant houses in the city. And
there are thousands of men
coming.
He will have to pay $40 or $12
a month for a shack that is almost
untenable, in doubtful neighbor-
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hood and that has not been rent
ed for year or more.
If he is willing to pay SIS a
month, he will get a slightly bet
ter house, but not such as the
average workman has learned to
feel is due his family.
He will have to pay $40 to get
q neat six-room cottage with fire
place and either half cement base
ment or woodshed, but no fur
mace, and it will almost certainly
rise to $25 before the winter is
over.
Still Going Up.
If he has been paying SIS he
probably is paying SIS now. II
his rent was $40, 1t probably is
$3.50 or $25 now.
And It is going to rise again.
A raise of from 10 to 20 per
cent, according to the property,
has been recommended by the
Tacoma Real Estate association.
ut isn't because the owners
are trying to gouge the renters"
a member of the association ex-
planned Monday.
1.-THE fact is that for several
years, II a man came along and
looked at a $40 house, and said,
Well. II you'll paper four rooms
and paint the porch and put in
some new plumbing I'll pay you
$22.50,' we'd take the $22.50 like
flash. It's better for q house
to be rented at any price than to
stand vacant. Prices are simply
coming back to normal now, and
they haven't reached that point
yet"
Little Building Under Way.
Houses which have stood vacant
for a year are now rented; agents
are turning away applicants; the
Commercial club is swamped with
calls for housekeeping rooms and
apartments, and is begging citi-
zens who have two or three rooms
in their own homes to spare ever
temporarily, to help by renting
them.
And in spite of this de-
m,and, very little building Is
being done.
The reason, according to rea
estate men and builders, is thai
it doesn't pay to build houses t.
rent.
The house described, for which
| the workman would have to- pay
$40 q month now and undoubted
ly more later, would cost to buil(
at present prices of material ant
labor, they say, about 81 500, ant
the lot to put 1t on in respect
able tho not fine neighborhood
about $500. Taxes would be 50
a year, insurance IS, water SIT
and with repairs, depreciation ant
occasional vacancies, the return
would be about 6 per cent on thu
investment.
Too Costly to Build.
It does pay to build to sell
builders say, but not at present
prices of materials, and there will
be little building until prices come
down, of which there is at present
no sign.
II rents 60 up to a figure that
will be attractive to builders, they
will be so high that workingmen
cannot pay them.
II the workingman decides tc
build his own home, he will be
confronted by the cost of build
ing, which is too high even FOL
capitalists.
One Solution.
whats the answer?" unused 9
Pacific avenue rental agent Mon
day.
II don't know. But / can
tell you what has happened In
Tacoma in one instance. An
employer OF labor has had TO
buy house to rent to an en-
ploye whom he particularly
wanted to keep.
"If the employers In war indus
tries find their profits large
enough to justify all this expan'
sion, It looks TO me ~ II they VIII
have to take into consideration
the problem Of housing their mel
as to q certain extent . part n
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-16
RUSTON HIT
BY $4,000 FIRE

Starting In the Ruston Bakery
at $3.50 Tuesday morning, fire Of
undetermined origin destroyed the
bakery building, grocery store
owned by Ed Olson, and an empty
store building adjoining. The to-
tai loss was $4,000.
Members of the Ruston volun-
teer fire department respondede to
an alarm and had three streams
of water on the blaze. A residences
adjoining the bakery was scorcll-
ed, but the volunteers prevented
It from catching fire.
The Ruston bakery was owned
by Peter Finson,
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KANSAS CITY. Mo-, Oct. L.
The KANSAS City Stock Yards
company, in preliminary state
p1ent at noon estimated that 1900
cattle and 300 hogs were lost In
fire which consumed part OF the
yards today.
Twenty-Five acres were burned
over, the statement said.
The total monetary loss was
estimated at nearly 81 100000.
All railways except the Mis-
souri, Pacific have issued an en-
barge against cattle shipments TO
Kansas City unit lconditions re-
gain normal.
Fire companies from both the
Kansas and Missouri sides, rein
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-16
ONLY RAIDS

(United Press Leased Wire.)
LONDON, Oct. 16.--Raids and
artillerying were all the fighting
activity reported today by Field
Marshal Haig from the British
front.
Northeast of Bullecourt," ~
Haig, 1.-THE Irish carried out 3uc<
cessful raid early In the morn
ing, In the nelshborhood Of the
Ypres-Staden railway there was
hostile srtillcs ylng OF considerable
activity last night.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-16
KERENSKY ILL

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PETROCRAD, Oct. 16.--Pre-
mier Kerensky Is confined to his
bed at grand headquarters with
an attack Of influenza, according
to dispatches from the front re-
ceived today. He had been re-
ported as ailing for several days,
but news that his illness was SUI
flciently serious to make him take
to his bed had not been expected
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-16

figure out what decrease in rates.
he could grant In either case.
II "a men are added, q new
gasoline-driven fire pump will
probably be bought. II 80 men
are put on the department, the
pump will be forgotten for .
year. II would cost 10000.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-16
MILLI0N-D0LLAR FOOD FIRE
= E | Ill All

Only yesterday she the favor kings the welcomed fol-
lower of the the inspiration of Today
dexed evil hunted viciOusy by thousand foes
Places of soft seclsion hers Her house abode of
luxury. There she dwelt fools kind happiness
all the powerful the city, the state and the nation military civil
alike, to hound her from the ken of mankind.
They leave her They drive her from her home They
imprison her. They blacklist her. They excorate her
YET THIS VERY AFTERNOON AS YOU WALK FROM
YOUR STORE TO THE POSTOFFICE YOU SEE HER AND HER
SISTERS, TEN OF THEM WHERE YOU USED TO SEE ONE
Now what is the to that?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-16
H. FORD BUYS

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DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 16.--
Henry Ford and the Ford Motor
Co. nearly doubled Detroit's sub
scriptions of the Liberty loan to-
day when 1t was announced that a
total of 10 million dollars worth
of bonds had been taken by the
factory. Five millions of this was
subscribed by Ford himself.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-16
OUARRELINC

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AMSTERDAM, Oct. ia so1s
sation has been created In 0Ge.
many and Austria because Of a
attack by Austrian Foreign Minis
ter Czernin on Chancellor Mich
aelis.
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GERMAN PLOT?

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PITTSBURG, Pa, Oct. 16.-Of-
ficials OF the Pittsburg railways
company today charged that trou-
BILE among It's employees was due
TO "a widespread German plot to
cripple munitnonil works.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-16

Especial to The Tfmes.)
MARSHFIELD, NO., Oct. t.
Claude Piersol today faces 35
years Imprisonment as punish
ment for the kidnapping of Lloyd
Keet, 14-months-old child of j.
Holland Keet, banker.
The jury brot in It's verdict of
guilty late last night and the
heavy sentence was r6onounced
Immediately.
Piersols parents and sisters
and the parents of the dead baby
were In the courtroom.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-16
TACOMA FACING
HOUSING DEARTH
Not More Than $50 Vacant
Dwellings In City, Few
of Them Desirable

Is Tacoma confronted by the old problem of the
irresistible force and the immovabe body? The IT.
resstible force being the incoming tide of workmen
for shipyards mills and other industries and their
families who must live here, and the immovable body
being the number of houses in the city?
IF So WHAT Is GOING TO HAPPEN?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-16
TWO SUBBED


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BOSTON, Oct. 16.-The White
Star line offices in this city today
announced receipt of cable dis
patch telling OF the sinking in the
submarine zone Of their steamers
Bostonian and Mcmillan.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-16
HOT OFF THE WIRE

SIX MONTHS APIECE FOR PICKETS
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WASHINGTON, D. Oct. 16.Six months each the work.
house, heaviest White House suffrage ets
today imposed four by Judge Mulowney in police court
Declaring the women will recognize law In the
making of which do not participate the suagee an
that will be the
White House Nov 10.
BILLINGS ASKS FOR REHEARING
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FRANCISCO, Oct 16Warren X Billings, under sentence
result bomb
WESTERN RAILROADS MAY ASK INCREASE
WASHINGTON, c., Oct 16.That western railroads also will
belief interstate
arrived
which
advance rate
LEPER'S WIFE GUARANTEED WITH HIM
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Mont, 16.Bravely defying the wife
Wie victim Of the disease, refused
him and the quaantned at their home
here
900
RELAY THIS ITEM TO WILHELM
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WASHINGTON, D. c. Oct treasury department offer
certificates indebtedness
subscribed the department announced today.
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GOING UP!
Laundry prices.
Postage stamps.
Smelter chimney.
TEAM WORK
Just when the kaiser be-
gins limiting at q willingness
to give up Belgium. along
comes Mr.. Haig with . swift
kick calculated to exh,dite !
the movement.
Everybody's making It hot a
the consumer. That Is, everybp6I
except
The coal man.
Many members Of consResn
say they didn't undcrstaind
the war Tux bill when tho9
voted ON Il. Alas! A lot ~
'em don't understand 4 now.
Hubby's been somewhere -
France for a year;
/ Amt feelin' blue and / ain { ehed
tear.
Since they took my Jim ana ~
khaki on him, I,
Sufferin' cats. how the COR
rolled II! 4. s
There = no sayins -