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Middletown transcript., 1917-01-06
STATE AND PENINSU

The worlds annual cotton crop is
about 2 500, 900 tons.
After serving only short time, Chief
of Police Stanton Draper, of Milford,
has resigned.
John H. Hickey has been reelected
president Of the Wilmington Central
Labor Union for the third consecutive
term.
Because of the high prices of ma
terial the Peoples National Bank, Of
Laurel, will postpone the ere C ion Of a
new building.
Managers of the Salvation Army's
Industrial Home in Wilmington say
there is so much prosperity that their
business is exceedingly dull.
Workmen haze started to obliterate
the old First Presbyterian Church
graveyard, in Wilmington, in prepara-
ton Or the $500, 600 free library build
ing.
In the month of December 3!4 mar
riage licenses were issue at the Office
of the Clerk OF the Court in Elkton.
compared with 235 the same month in
1915
B. Ellis Kester, chief clerk at the
Brandywine shops of the dupont Pow
| der Company, was presented with a
gold watch by the office force before he
left for Valley Falls, N. y, to accept
another position.
The Wilmington fire department was
busy during the past year, having re-
sponded to 145 box alarms This was
an increase of one alarm over the rec
ord of 1915. The greatest number of
box alarms was sounded in January
there being 19
Thinking that he was stepping into
an elevator at his home, on Goldsbor-
ough street, Wednesday evening, Will
liam F. Shannahan, head of the Shan
nahan & Wrightson Hardware Com
pany, and a director of the Easton Ma
tional Bank, stepped into the empty
shaft and plunged to the bottom. 10 OF
IL feet.
Employees Of the Joseph Bancroft &
Sons Company, at Rockford, were the
recipients of gold pieces as New Yeal
gifts from their employers, on Friday
of last week. Between $4,000 ane
s20,0 was distributed, employees wht
had been in the mills six months or less
receiving SIS, and those of longer ser
vice $40.
Middletown transcript., 1917-01-06
TejescoDe History,

It was not until 1914 that Doctor
Hooke perfected the first rejecting
telescope in which the spectrum was
perforated so that objects could be
viewed by looking directly at them. So
through the year Of TIT the telescope
in the hands of successive astronomers
and opticians contained many changes
and improvements until in 1888 Will
liam Herschel began the construction
Of spectrum powerful in character
and 40 feet in total length, the OBJ
server being placed in seat near the
other end of the tube and viewing the
image through the system of eye
glasses. With this telescope, complet
ed in 1889. objects were magnitied
$500 times. and on the night after
It was finished Herschel discovered the
sixth satellite OF tfe planet Saturn.
Middletown transcript., 1917-01-06
RELIEVES PAIN OF ANGINA
Mechanical Exercise, Such as "Streteh-
ing" Said to Be Valuable in the
Treatment of Disease.

The terrible pain of angina pectorls
can be relieved by simple mechanical
exercises, without medicine, accord
ing to DR.. Samuel Constable of Lon
don. The New York Medical Journal
describes how he applied his method
to a suffering fellow practitioner:
"At once he got his friend to grasp
the top bar of the bed with both hands,
letting most of his weight fall on the
now strongly stretched arms for about
40 seconds. After short rest he re-
peated the process some five or six
times Result: Immediate cessation
of all pain in arms and some relief of
the chest.
doctor Constable now got him on
the floor to grasp the bar at the end
of the bed with both hands behind his
back. bending forward at an angle of
about GO degrees, the chest thrown for
ward and the head back, thus sub
iecting the muscles of the affected
area to strong tension. This he repeat
ed some half dozen times, each lasting
about 40 or 80 seconds. Result: I'M
mediate cessation of all pains in the
chest, the sense of construction COM
pletely vanishing"
This was repeated about every two
hours for several weeks and ION no
OCCASION" says Doctor Constable, "did
the stretching fail to give immediate
relief"
The New York Medical Journal sug-
gests that dietetic and hay fever
asthmatics try these or similar stretch
ing exercises for relief from their par
OXySmS.
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Wise Bird.

Mrs. Doodle was proud of her parrot,
a wise and willy old bird; but she was
prouder still of the new phonograph
when it arrived. Thinking to give
the parrot a surprise, she started the
instrument with Rocked in the Cra-
die Of the Deep" Mr.. Boobies favorite
"warble."
At the very first note Polly opened
her eyes in surprise, and then flew to
her perch. where she rocked herself
to and fro in deep and speechless as
tonishment. while the machine ground
out the air.
There. Polly" said Mrs. Doodle,
when the song had come to an end.
"What do you think of that?''
MY word ~ Shrieked the old bird,
her head on one side, and winking
wickedly, my word, my word. my
word. You've got the old man boxed
up this time, and no mistake"
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SALES TO TAKE PLACE

Wednesday, Jan. 24th. 1917. Publ c
Sale of Stock and farming implement
by Frank A. Wilson on the Edgar
Clayton farm" on the road leading
from Armstrong; to Clayton Corner.
Eugene Racine, Auc.
Monday, January 29th. Public Sale
of stock, farming implements and house
hold goods by William McNuilin, Jr.
one and three quarter miles west of
Port Penn, Del
Tuesday, Feb. 9Th, 1917. Public
Sale of stock and farming implements
by Henry l.. Neff on the road from
Aiddletown to Townsend. d. P.
Hutchson, Auc.
Monday, Feb. II, 1917.-Public Sale
of stock, farming implements, etc, ty
Gilbert FARRELL on the A. P. Corbit Farm,
on the road leading from. Nliddletown to
Odessa, known as the W. A Cochran
Farm. D. 2. Hutchison, Auc.
Wednesday, Feb 2lst, 1917. Public
Sale Of Stock and farming implements
by B. H. Pleasanton on the road lead
ing from Sunni! Bridge to st. Georges.
Eugene Racine, Auc.
Thursday, February 22d, 1917. Public
Sale Of Stock and Farming Implements
by Geo. w. Goldsborough, on the JAS.
R. Hoffecker Farm, in Middle Neck.
D. P. Hutchison, Auc
February %, 1917. Public sale of
stock and farming implements by Chas.
P. Spicer on the 81 X. Williams farm, y
2 miles north Of Mt. Pleasant, on the
road from Summit Bridge to St.
Georges. D. P. Hutchison, Auct
Saturday, February Oath. nv Public
Sale of stock and farming implements,
by Levi Watson, on the farm of Phillip
Watson, deceased, on the road from
Pine Tree to Blackbird d P. Hutch
ison, Auc.
I Tuesday, February 9th, 19l7.-Pub-
lie sale of stock and farming imple-
ments by Albert Kumpe!," on the
jefferson Farm" on the road leadin2
from McDonough to Port Penn d. P
Hutchison, Auctioneer, c. B. Pool, In
side Clerk, Henry Kronemier, Outside
Clerk
Middletown transcript., 1917-01-06
State Prosperity Told By Figures

That the prosperity in the state of
Delaware from the period Of June 80,
1914, to November II, 1916, has been
most unusual, if not unparalleled, is evil
denced by the report just compiled by
the state insurance and banking com
missioner. w. R. McCabe. Ills report
shows that on June 80, 1914, the de-
posits in the state banks and trust
companies, 25 in all, amounted to ST.
O51, 7O2. and on November II, 1915,
when the last bank report was received
by the state insurance commissioner
and verified by him, the deposits
amounted to s42, 7l2,S an increase Of
Sis, 661, ,155.
Middletown transcript., 1917-01-06
Oil From Various Sources.

During the last year. in Germany,
about 662, ,250 pounds of Oil were OBJ
tained from sunflOwer seeds, and this
year promises a rich crop of poppy
seed. Attention has also been drawn
to the high percentage of oil con-
tanned in cherry and plum stones,
which are usually thrown away. Ac-
cOrding to the statistics of 1900 there
were 22,000,OOO cherry and 70.0OO, 600
plum trees in Germany. Large guam
titles of fruit stones were collected by
school children last year, but great
quantities were thrown away or de-
stroyed owing to the difficulty of ex-
tracing the oil from them.
Middletown transcript., 1917-01-06
Double Meaning.

WELL" said the far West mayor to
the English tourist, Il dunno how you
manage these affairs over there, but
out here, when some of our boys got
tied up in that thar bankrupt telephone
company l was tellin' yer about they
became mighty crusty"
"Oh!"
"Yus; they didn't like the way the
receiver was handlin' the business no.
how"
"Indeed!" commented the earnest
listener; then, may | ask, what they
did?"
"Sartinly; l wus goin' to tell
yer. They just hung up the receiver"
Exchange.
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Machine Sorts Coffee Beans.

A curious German invention is a ma
chine for sorting coffee beans by color.
Each bean passes into strong beam
of light, which it reflects to two sele
mum cells, and these, by electric con-
troll of a hopper, deposit the bean in
one of several reeeptacles. The ac-
ton depends on the different reflective
powers of the differently cOlored beans.
by which varying resistances to the
electric current are successively pro-
duced in the seleniuin.
Middletown transcript., 1917-01-06
Couldn't Tease Uncle ST

"SO She took your old uncle from
Didn't the prOfusion Of cutlery at his
plate bother him?" 1T did at first.
Then he gave it up, pushed his three
forks aside, and proceeded to eat with
his ife."-Boston Evening Tran,
script.
Middletown transcript., 1917-01-06
Proprjetv.

"Now, grille. shall | cut your namo
and my name In the bark OF. this tree?"
81 suppose there will be nothing to
criticize in that" said the dear girl,
provided you also cut the name OF
my chaperon."-Seattle Post-Intelli.
gepcer.
Middletown transcript., 1917-01-06
Which z

"In our mental lives we can either
keep hold of the rudder and so de.
termine exactly what course we take,
what points we touch. or we can fan
to do this. and failing, we drift. and
are blown hither and thither by every
passing breeze"
Middletown transcript., 1917-01-06
PUBLIC SALE!

At Klair Bazaar. Every Saturday,
Is to 100 horses of all kinds. Anyone
heving 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.
VM. H. KLAIR.
9th & Tatnal ST., Wilmington, Del.
Middletown transcript., 1917-01-06
FOR SALE-Dirt Cheap

Two Sypher iEcubators, on"
holding &c dozen eggs, one 4
dozen, both nearly new; Il tine
china closet, glass front, etc ;one
iron sink, % by l8 inches, Z inch
deep Particulars at
THIS OFFICE.
Middletown transcript., 1917-01-06
j. II. EMERSON.
MiddletOWn, Delaware

Estate of Carolina CIintonia Browne
Deceased Notice is hereby given that
Letters Testamentary upon the Estate
of Carolina Clintonia Browne, late of
St. Georges Hundred, deceased, were
duly granted unto Martin B. Burris on
the eighteenth day of December A. D.
1916, and all persons indebted to the
said deceased are requested to make
payment to the Executor without delay,
and all persons having demands against
the deceased are required to exhibit and
present the same duly probated to the
said Executor on or before the eigh
teenth day of December A. D. 1917, or
abide by The law in this behalf
Address
Martin B. Burris
Middletown
Delaware Martin B. Burris
Executor
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-22
WEST RUPERT

Mrs. Carrie llousey is visiting Mrs
Sarah Hhrd this week. 1.
Herbert Saunders will work foi
Samuel Hayqgain this season.
L. D. Vail spent last week visiting
friends in East Rupert and Dorset
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy French Of Dorsel
visited the family CT George KnighF
q, We hope To see full vote polled al
our town meeting, March 3. so as ID
dispense With the kicking which as 4
rule follows It's.
Mrs. Alta horton. who has been
spending d week at the home of het
son, Merritt Horton, returned to hef
,home~in. Troy Wednesday
George Knights moved his family
to North Bennington "Wednesday
where he is working for the ii. G.
White Co., of that place.
Charles Lockwood and his mother
are soon to return to the John Boyn.
ton house near the Cheese factory
Mr.. Lockwood will work for Albert
Farrar the coming season.
Elihu Flower lies at the point OF
death. much to the regret of his many
friends. An Albany physician was
called in consultation with Or. Smith
and his case was called helpless
one
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-22

young men. 1t will raise food prices
so that millions of the poor VIII suf-
fer and babies and old women aud
cripples in city slums and isolated
country districts will starve to death
just as they are now starving to death
all over Europe 1t viii saddle this
country with billions of debt for gen
erations to come
On the opposite side from Taft and
Roosevelt the munitions makers and
their associates in business and soeie-
ty including the editors of the great
city Papers, and all the big and little
anglomaniacs who want this country
to so into the war to help England
and France--oppos ed to all this group
of noisy promoters is the message OF
Old Man Washington handed down to
rs for more than a hundred years.
And standing with Washington on
this issue is President Woodrow VII.
son. He has made some mistakes,
but he is trying to keep the peace If
it can be kept with honor-even at
the sacrifice of little pride and vain
glory
This is Washingtons birthday and
The Banner believes that if the actual
sentiment of the country could be
tested 1t would be found that an over
whelming majority of the people of
the United States are on the side of
Washington and Wilson on this issue
and opposed to Taft and Roosevelt.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-22
A KIDNEY ME DICikE
{ OF merit

: Your wel.known kidney. liver and
bladder remedy, Dr. Kilmers Swamp-
Root, has been sold by us ever since
1t was put on the market and my GUS
toners who have used it are we'll sat.
isfied with the results obtained and
recommend it as a splendid prepare
tion for what 1t Is intended. 1t is a
repeater and that is the best can
say. Very truly yours,
FRED II. NEAL, Druggist.
June 5, 1916. Fairfield, Maine
Letter to
DR.. kilmer &, Co.,
Blnghamton, NJ. Y.
Prove What Swamp-Root VIII Do
For You.
Send ten cents to DR.. Kilmer &c Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y, for a sample size
bottle. 1t will convince anyone. You
will also receive booklet of valuable
telling about the kidneys
and bladder. When writing, be sure
and mention the Bennington Evening
Banner Regular fifty-cent and one
dollar size bottles for sale at all drug
stores.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-22
Thursday, February %, 1917.

Edward s. Casselman Of Dorset is a
candidate fer the Office of state fish
and game commissioner TO succeed
John w. Titcomb. Mr.. Casselman
was born in Texas but, being left an
orphan, was brought to Dorset as
child to live with his grandparents
and that town has since been his
home Mr. Casselman for 20 years
has been in the business of building
and installing fish hatcheries, in sup
erintending hatcherles. fish culture
and kindred pursuits. In following
this profession he has travelled widely
and his work has been largely in New
York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
though he has retained his residence
in Dorset. During the past few years
Mr. Casselman has taken great in
terest in the work of fish propagation
in Vermont and has assisted Mr.. Tit
comb in field work in Bennington and
Windham counties. Henry Chase of
Bennington is also candidate for
this Office. He is not a practical fish
culturist but IS 2 student OF fish and
game propagation and protection and
has had wide experience as a ward
en- in enforcement of the law. He is
lawyer. and the author Of n we'll
known book ON matters dealing with
fish and game. There are probably
twenty or more other persons in the
state who are candidates or who have
been suggested for the Office of fish
and game commissioner. Among them
are Robert w McCuen OF Vergennes
and Edward Conneii Of Lyndonvillc
Mr. connell has been Mr. Titcomb's
Office assistant for several years.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-22
SONE GOOD ADVICE
Strengthened by Bennington Exper'
fences.

Strengthened by Bennington Exper'
fences.
Kidney disease is too dangerous to
neglect. At the first sign Of back
ache, headache, dizziness or urinary
disorders, you should give the weak
ened kidneys prompt attention. Eat
little meat, take things easier and
use n reliable kidney tonic. There's
no other kidney medicine so well
recommended as Doan's Kidney Pills.
bennington people rely on them.
Here's one Of the many statements
from Bennington people.
Isadore Weaver, Ill Bradford Pl,
Bennington. says: ~ have used
Doan's Kidney Pills off and on for
several years Ny back gives me
considerable trouble from time to
time by sharp pains shooting through
the small of ii and / can hardly
straighten up. The kidney secretions
become highly colored and contain
sediment at times. Doan's Kidney
Pills, procured from Wards Drug
Store, never fail to help me when /
have suffered In this way
& Price soc, at all dealers Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy--get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Weaver uses. Foster Milburn
Co, Props, Buffalo, y. Y.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-22
WASHINGTON OR TAFT

Today is lWashinetons birthday
and occasionally in Isolated places
there is stiil A little respect left for
tie Father Of his eodhtry, but Big
Bin Taft says that Washington istout
OF date and that his advice Is no long
er 70 be respected, In his farewell
address Washington said h
"Excessiye partialityI for one for
eign nation. and excessive dislike for
another. cause those whom they actu,
ate to see danger onlyon one side,
and serve, to veil, and even second,
the arts OF influence on the other.
Real patriots, who may resist the in.
trigues of the favcrite, are liable to
become suspected and odious, while
its tools and dupes psurD the applause
and confidence OF the people. to sur
render their interests
Europe has set of primary inter.
ests. which to us nave none, or very
remote relation Hence she must be
engaged in frequent controversies, the
causes OF which are essentially for
eign TO our concerns. Hence. there
fore. Il must be unwise in us to imph.
cate ourselves by artificial ties. in the
ordinary vicissitudes OF her politics.
or the ordinary combinations and col
lusions of her friendships or enmities.
In offering to you, my countrymen,
these counsels of an old and affection
ate friend. | dare not hope that they
will make the strong and lasting i'm.
preston | could wish; that they will
control the usual current of the pas
sions, or prevent our nation from run
ming the course which hitherto has
marked the destiny of nations: but If
may even fiatter myself that they
may be productive of some partial
benefit, some occasional good,
that they may now and then
recur to moderate the fury of
party spirit, to warn against the mis-
chiefs OF foreign intrigues, to guard
against the impostures of pretended
patriotism: this hope will be full
recompense for the solicitude for your
welfare by which they have been
dictated"
Big Bill is now chasing around try
ing to STAMPEDE the United States
into the European war and in doing
this is fitting himself to the descrip.
ton given by Washington to those
who are not real patriots. 1t may
be that it is because the coat fits that
Taft is now trying to kill off Wash
ington's advice Still there are a few
people in this country who esteem
Washinston's advice to be better than
that of Taft
This country is in grave danger of
getting into the war. We shall prob
ably have to go in if the Germans in
sist on sinking American ships with
out warning and when engaged in III
nocent commerce, but there is no OK
cuse for getting into the fight because
Americans insist on sailing on bellig
erent ships carrying munitions OF
war and contraband The belliger
ents want them there for insurance
and want them sunk in the hope that
it will drag this country into the war.
Ex-Presidents Taft and Roosevelt
want the United States to go in and
help fight the battles of England and
Russia against Germany. To do so
will cost the United States the lives
Of hundreds of thousands of our
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-22
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications. as they cannot reach
the diseased portion OF the ear. There. 10
only one way to cure deafness and that is
by stituion0l remedies. Deafness is
caused 10y iniinsncd condition OF the nlu
cous lining OF the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube Is iniiamed you have rumbing
sound or imperfect hearing, and when 1t Is
entirely closed, Deafness is the result. and
dnless the inflammation can be taken ont
and this tube restored TO its normal condt-
tion. hearing will be destroyed forever. nine
cases out ot ten are caused by Catarrh.
which is nothing but an inhaned condition
OF the nucous surfaceB
We Will give one Hundred Dollars for any
case Of Deafness (cnuRed ny catarrh) that
canno. be cured by iIptl's Cntarrh Cure
Send for circulars, free
4. j. CHENEY & Co. Toledo, Ohio.
Sold b: Druggists. TSc.
Take tails Family Pills for constipation.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-22
According TO statements

made by themselves. many men at
this momentaintend some time TO in
sure in this Company. Make now the
accepted time instead of the excepted
time. National Life ms. Co. of Vt.
tMutual) Earle s. Kinsle,y, General
Agent, Mead Building, Rutland. VT.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-22
NOTICE.

The board of. Civil Authority will
meet Saturday afternoon and evening,
March 81 to revise the check list. Be
sure your name is on the list.
hllsS Francis T.. Rice
Town Clerk. a.
South Salisbury. Feb. IA, 1917
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-22
Her Contribution.

He owes bis success to las wife"
THAT sog,'
Yes. Scarcely day goes by but
she keeps him from making fool OF
himself in one way or another. De
troit Free I'ress. tf
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-08
BATTLES WITH NEGRO.
Black Intruder's Brutal Attack Upon
Woman in Her Bedroom.

Elizabeth, n. j., June S.-Awak-
ening to find a huge negro at her
bedside at A:30 o'clock yesterday
morning just after her husband had
: left the house, Mrs. John Tucker,
/, of Linden, battled desperately for
her life when the black seized her
by the throat. Attracted by his
mothers shrieks, Alfred. Mrs. Tuck
er's nine-year- son, climbed from
his bed in an adjoining room and was
beaten down as he tugged futilcly
at the negro's powerful arms and
rained shower Of feeble blows upon
his back.
The negro loosened his hold just
long enough to strike down the child
with a blow that laid open his scalp
and left him unconscious in a pool
of blood. Mrs. Tucker was enabled
to regain her breath and fought with
tremendous fury.
Finally the negro fled. and Mrs.
Tucker. with the unconscious hoy in
her bleeding arms and her night
dress torn to shreds. staggered from
the house. and with piercing screams
gave the alarm which brought the
police. After furnishing a descrip--
ton Of the Negro. Mrs, Tucker col
lapsed. and has been under the care
of a physician. 1t was necessary to
stitch the wound received by the
the boy.