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Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-12-15
LOCAL HAI|IIRl||R| |ENINC'
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III HIS AM (EARBY POINTS

Y q ss.s
New flags shou take the places q,
some of those which have become un--
slightly from their long exposure to the
weather.
Now is the time for those Christmas
presents. Get them early.
Christmas will be here in ten days : one
week from next Tuesday.
Make your friend or relative Christ
mas present of The Transcript for q
year 1t will be appreciated.
Just remember when you change
YOUR address to notify us, SO that the
paper can reach you regularly. The
cd address as we'll as the new should
be given. W.
Put Red Cross Christmas Seal on
your packages.
Cunning notices for sale at this Office.
Tha bazaar for the benefit of ST JOS
eph's Catholic Church, held here last
week, was a great success, 1855. 90 being
netted. The bazaar was held for the
purpose of liquidating the debt on the
Church.
Hog killing has been on in full force
the past two weeks and meats bringing
the highest prices ever known.
From now on the Transcriptwill be a
directory to your Christmas wants.
The home merchants represented in
our columns have laid in splendid stocks
of goods.
Mr.. L. Scott Townsend, of Wilmington
on last Saturday was elected director
| Of the Peoples National Bank of this
| town.
The following is list of letters re-
manning in the Post Office for the week
ending Dec. 9Th, 1917: Mrs, Mary
Boyer, Miss Lottie Spencer, Mrs. Clara
Todd, Messrs. Geo. Hill, Andrew Mason
(specaD Anton Reers, Cosmore Young
Stanley j. Waters (speciaD.,.
The pupils of Miss Prudence Lewis
and Miss Elsie K. Jones' rooms will
give their Christmas cantata "Santa' s
Advance Man. in the Assembly room,
Thursday evening, Dec. goth, at eight
! O'Clock. Admission 15c.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-12-15
OBITUARY
MRS. MARIAN DOWNkY

Mrs. Marian Downey, wife of James
A. Downey, died at her home on
Lake street, last Saturday afternoon,
aged 81 years. Death was due to a
complication of diseases.
The deceased leaves to mourn her
death a husband, one son and three
daughters.
The funeral services were held at her
late home Tuesday afternoon at two
O'Clock and interment was made in For
est cemetery.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-12-15
Fine Xmas Windows

Were there no snowstorms this Xmas,
Fogel & Burstan have a fine one in their
handsome corner window! And if
Santa had no chimney else in town,
Messick has one for him in his pref ty
window Go see them both.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-12-15
Fill Your Ice Houses

1t has been suggested by Mr. Fred
Brady that sit would be good thingY'
for all who have ice houses to fill them
this winter, ''if the opportunity offers. =
There is possibility of q scarcity, and
this is given as q WARNING.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-12-15
FRIENDS & VISITORS.
Personal Items About People You
See and Know
THOSE THAT COME AND GO

THOSE THAT COME AND 6U
Mrs. George Buehm vas in Whining
ton on Monday.
Mr.. Francis Pinder, of Chester, Pa,
spent Sunday at his home.
Misses Lena and Viola WeIer We're
Philadelphia visitors Wednesday.
Mrs. S. B. Foard and Miss Susie
Foard are visiting in Baltimore.
Miss Esther E. Hall has gone to Elk
ton to reside with. Mrs. A.. w. Mitchell.
b Miss Helen Jones. of Wilmington,
visited her parents Saturday and Sum
day.
Mrs. Guy Stoffer and ISIS Clara Gal
lagher were Wilmington visitor Nom
day. s
Miss Bessie Morton, of Philadelphia,
is visiting her sister Mrs. e. W. Lock-
wood. ~
Mr.. Ring gold Richards, of Claymont,
visited his parents Mr.. and Mrs. George
S. Richards.
Mrs. L. E Cullen is spending some
time with her daughter Mrs. w. H. D.
Moore at Milford,
Mrs. James L. Warren and Mrs.
Emily Roberts were recent Philadel-
phia guests.
Miss Josephine Biggs end Mrs. Clara
B.. Green are spending several days In
Merton, Pa.
Mr.. Ray Dickson and MIR. Theodore
Whitlock, Of Wilmington, ~ole at their
homes here on Sunday.
Miss Olive Lockwood Of Wilmington.
was the guest of her mother MIS-. Mel
lie Lockwood on Sunday.
Miss Ethel Jarrel, of near town, and
Miss Dorothy Reynolds, of Odessa,
spent the weekend in Wilmington.
Miss Mildred Freeman and friend, Of
Wilmington, spent Sunday with her par
ents Mar. and mrs. ". W. Freeman.
Mrs. Elizabeth Vineyard visited her
daughter Mrs. William Tomlinson in
Philadelphia Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. Bruce V. Whitlook has secured
position with the Wilmington Morn
ing News and entered upon his duties
Monday.
Mrs. Josephine Dickson and Miss
Ruby Whitlock spent the weekend
with AIRS. Enrique ..ontes de Oca in
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Curtis Miilman and two daugh-
tiers, of Woodslde, S. lent part OF last
! week with her mother Mrs. Rosa
Weber.
! Mr.. Thomas Cochran, of New York
City, and friend Mir. Wren, Of the
state of w ashington spent the week
end with Mrs. NJ. H Cochran.
Mrs. Sarah Houston, Miss Myrtle
Houston and Miss Mary Goiee are
spending the winter with Mr.. and Mrs
j. M. Naudain in Baltimore.
DR.. j. Burstan, of New York City
now first Lieutenant of the Fordha n
Hospital Unit spent Wednesday will
his parents, and left Oil Thursday To-
Fort McTherson, Ga, where his uni
Will be stationed for awhile.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-12-15

No finer Xmas gift than one Of
the famous Waterman Ideal Fouu-
tain Pens! S. E. Massey keeps a
big assortment, all sizes, plain and
fancy holders. Best Fountain Pen
made and self-filling.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-12-15
ER0SS CHRISTMAS
Sc WHO FEEL POOR
HAS your Bother. z

~. - VI u - tif Il x n y2tY
family
l.a.5 u G.eernal'yt.' u
are AeAsi1e s,ss sent in
! and bur expenses up
J but it is not going
pough and something
!. don't let us be
fish fear.
=. in service, in
i'd joy-rides-but
living it to save
Bring. our friends,
mas this year by
Gross.
a poor Christmas,
) to our hearts.
ENRY VAN DYKE.
CANS SERVICE
America, on De-
our American Red
Empaign-its Christ
live for ten million
Christmas Day, the
will lave ten mil
1t will have them
n, it cannot do all
b out the agony of
+, is c;J ing upon it
y Now. if never
GU d bel ng to your
(, There should be
ut twenty million,
LENDERS !!
men and women of
TX you to believe in
|u failed to respond
a naked need. You
orld's cry Of utter
answer it above all
dedicated by you to
II, to- works Of love
is season Of Christ
ioes not ask you al
Re contributions. II
be a part of it. 1t
of the ten million
one dollar toward
your service to the
mas Charities. Ser
bership I! The neec
FOR aid is louder hour
inter will exceed al
n to history. A single
power]ess in the face
done if "Our Boys
f the weak and wound.
lot wholly to be de-
million are not pow
hem !
d Cross be you
"Cur Boys and t
ty.
ED CROSS TODAY
dollar subscribing, o
ership. This brings t.
d most attractive Re,
beautifully illustrated
b stories of the Re
Red Gross urges tnfOug
~6ranch that ever:
d child in the towns an
me a member of thi
lion for the relief @
nifty everywhere an
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Try P. Dawson. Chail
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tiers of the America
Iblished twenty disper
nerican Army Zone
ident civilians.
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to 3,243 French Milital
r surgical dressing Sc
900 French hospitals ar
mense stores of eme
for our own army.
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soldiers, where we SER
ldiers a day.
an artific al lin
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-12-15
arriv ng in

al AAN h6 a.
ere is q scaDt
I from a SINCE
fundanien tai
the establish
than a dozip
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|ouched upon.t
lrst Christn as
vars, the Red
to light a can
lristmas eve be-
e flag. EVERY
cut out a red
ON a piece Of
de behind this.
sHhreH!E!nD.
Chairman.
Notes
1917.
$50 A. M.
by the Pastor.
- Al Dn.k>
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-12-15

(ED CROSS TODAY
dollar subscribing. or
srship. This brings to
a most attractive Red
beautifully illustrated,
] stories of the Red
led Cross urges through
.f5ranch that every
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-05-26
MARRIED

On Tuesday evening at five thir-
ty O'Clock the marriage of Mr.
Achille Gaudin to Miss Marie
Erskine Vegas, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Vegas, was cele-
brated on the Stella Plantation,
near Levert, by Rev. j. Peeters.
They are both from st. Martin pa
rish. The ceremony was largely
attended by relatives and friends.
A reception was held Immediately
after the ceremony, when the new
couple received the congratulations
of their friends.
Mr. Andre Thomas acted as best
man and Miss Oliver Gaudin as
maid of honor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gaudin received
many presents.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-05-26
DeClouet School Flag
Desecrated.

Sheriff Latiolais and Chief Char
gois are investigating a desecra-
ton of the flag which was raised
at the DeClouet School last Sun.
day afternoon. According to the
information secured by them, some
unidentified person cut the rope
from which the flag was flying
Tuesday night. In it's place an
envelope was pinned to the rope,
On piece of paper on the inside
was wording to the effect if the
flag was hoisted again the writer
would burn down the school-house
and poison all the water in st.
Martin parish.
The officers said they had moth
ing to give out concerning their
investigation. Supt. Alleman is
also seeking all the light possible
on the affair. - Lafayette Adver-
tiser.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-05-26
Don't Let Your Cough Hang On

A cough that racks and weakens is
dangerous. 1t undermines your health
and thrives on neglect. Relieve it at
once with DR.. Kings New Discovery.
This sOOsthing balsam remedy heals the
throat. loosens the phlegm. its antiseptic
properties kill the germ and the cold is
quickly broken up. Children and grown
ups alike flnd DIR. Kings New Discovery
pleasant to take as we'll as effective
Have bottle handy in your medicine
chest for grippe. Group and all bronchial
affections. At druggists, SOC.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-05-26
Growing Of the Virgin Mary

Tomorrow evening the beautiful
ceremony of the Growing of the
Virgin Mary will take place at the
Cotholic Church, when all the
children of the parish will come
and offer their little wreaths and
flowers to the Blessed Mother.
This beautiful ceremony is always
largely attended. The Children
of Mary will march in procession
from the Convent to the Church.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-05-26
Little Bayou Oil Fields

Saturday evening last new oil
well was brought in in the Little
bayou field near New Iberia. 1t was
at first reported that a big gusher
was brought in, but the amount of
oil produced was not large, this
however, being about a mile from
the first one. establishes the fact
that this field is extensive.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-05-26
WHEN HONOR Is SHOWN.

Great men are humble men who
have learned to respect the friend
ship and honor of others. Such
men have learned to subdue
their passions. A great man does
not quickly and passionately re-
sent an unkind word or an un-
charitable deed. He looks for the
motive of the harsh word or un-
provoked act. He seeks to be
honorable, charitable and kind
even when he is harassed.
James in the Scriptures gives a
vivid picture of great ship which
may be turned with a small helm /;
of a small bit that turns the horse;
of the tongue, which is a deadly
poison when used to injure ones
fellow-man, and how hard it is for
man to control this member. Many
examples can be given in history,
literature and the daily walks of
life where great damage has been
done under passion when the
tongue was an unbridled member.
There are many disrupted commu-
mites without roads, schools,
churches and pleasant neighbor-
hood unity, as a result of some
ones unruly tongue, The neigh
borhood may be kept back and the
people prevented from enjoying
those things that progressive peo-
pie require because some did not
exercise self-control,, Some of the
worst wars the world has ever
known were precipated and con-
Quoted in slaughtering innocent
people who were themselves not
responsible because the leaders in
whom the people trusted and to
whom they had given authority
lost self.control.
There is no more essential fac
tor in successful farming and USE
full citizenship than self-control.
Let every young man 'bridle him.
SELF" govern his habits and choose
his conduct, thus making his life
a pleasure, help, all example for
his friends and associates. This
is his privilege and his duty, if he
would become great man and a
useful citizen. - Texas Farm and
Ranch.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-05-26
Rules For Canning.

Be sure the product is not too
old. Do not gather more than can
be put up in three or four hours
Prepare only so much at time as
can be sealed in 30 or 40 minutes.
Have everything ready to work
with before you begin to avoid de-
lay.
SAT- and sugar mixture is made
of one part salt to two parts sugar.
TO CAN ENGLISH PEAS
Peas should be picked in the
morning before the dew dries it
possible. Shell and place in -four
sack and blanch in plain or salted
water five minutes. Remove from
water and pack in cans two-thirds
full. Cover with plain water and
add one or two teaspoonfuls of salt
and sugar mixture. Put on caps
and seal. Exhaust 10 minutes,
seal hole in cap and process 60
minutes.
TO CAN BEANS
String and break as for cooking.
Blanch in plain water 10 minutes,
pack in cans and fill in with plain
water, adding one teaspoon salt.
Seal on cap and hole in cap; pro-
cess 20 minutes or pack in glass
jars, filling in with plain water,
adding salt or not as you prefer.
I prefer to can beans without
salt.) Put on rubber and cap, but
no not seal tight. Process II
hours for quarts; two hours for
one-half gallons.
TO CAN CORN
Select ears in the milk stage,
taking care that it is not too old.
Husk, silk and plunge in tub of
fresh water and let stand until
ready to cut. Remove from water,
cut and scrape as you would for
fresh eating. Put in pan with suf.
ficient water to cover and let cook
five minutes. Pack in cans to one
inch of top; add one or two spoon
fuls of salt and sugar mixture,
place cap on and seal, also sealing
small hole in center of can. Pro-
cess one hour each day for three
successive days.
MRS. w. M. DINGLER.
In Texas Farm and Ranch.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-05-26

Many persons are unaware that
the green and tender tops of many
vegetables, such as radishes, tur-
nips, celery, aud beets. contain va
luable mineral and other food sub
stances, and are excellen, cooked
as greens, or even as additions to
salads.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-05-26
Four CARDINAL WORDS.

When buying new machine
keep in mind these four words
simplicity, reliability, durability
and accessibility.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-05-26

Even the man who drives an
automobiles should have horse
sense.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-26
SCHOOL HAPPENINGS

The Mesdames j. A. Klovstad and
E. D. Washburn took in the Literary
program on last Friday.
The following is a quotation taken
from an agricultural paper handed in
by one of u pupils last week: IF
you use the milk of a consumptive
COW, you will be apt to get it, and so
will the calf"
Don't forget about the Defamation
Contest on Friday evening of this
week, at $3.50 sharp.
The grading of the new baseball
diamond has been interrupted by the
recent snow. The game which was to
have been played here with Anets this
coming Friday has had to be called
off and may be played on Saturday,
May 5th. The new baseball suits
have arrived and we are alEanxiously
awaiting their first try-out.
The athletic boys have undertaken
to sell seventy-dve copies of The
Country Gentleman for five successive
issues beginning with the number for
April 28th. They get = very liberal
commission on these which goes into
the association fund. We hope the
boys will be we'll patronized IS sales
men. This magazine is suited for all
persons. It has excellent discussions
of topics covering almost every phase
of activity. 1t will be veil worth your
while to spend five cents and get ae.
quainted with the magazine.
The Senior play, ''The Time of His
Life", will b given on Friday even
ing, May 4th. Watch fos further an
nouncements next week.
School exhibit day will be on Fri
day afternoon, Nay 18th. Particulars
later.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-26

mental stage it seem to me wisest to
levy q reasonable direct tax for this
purpose, as it will be no burden and
everybody will have to bear a share;
while if built under bonds and the
bonds and interest paid out of earn
ings (if it proves a paying venture,
which many good authorities doubt)
then the customer only will have to
pay the cost. Speaking of bonds, it
must be remembered that every hun
dred million dollars in bonds means
approximately a ten per cent mort
gage on every piece of property in the
state, about one third of a conserva-
tive loan value. If you want to get
an illustration of the difference in
taxes between living under bonds or
otherwise, compare a township free
from any debt with one where a big
central school has been built by bond
issue, OF with q town heavily bonded.
The writer would have liked to see
the elevator bill tried ont, if for only
one experiment, namely, the leasing
of a warehouse on tho lake front, so
that We could try exporting to Europe
some real North Dakota wheat that
was not mixed with soft southern
wheat, and see if We couldn't get a
premium or it.
This question leads out into so
many side issues that it is hard to
find a stopping point. However, the
whole problem of mills, elevators,
etc., is an experimental business
proposition, and it is hard for me to
think that after careful study the men
who have to foot the bills want to 90
into it on a wholesale scale right al
the outset, and want.to empower any
Legislature to issue bonds without
any limitation by vote of the people,
as this is not the way any of us would
try out a new proposition in our own
business. Let everybody cast aside
prejudice and analytic carefully all
issues before us during the next year
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-26

a. All notices OF entertainments of
any nature at which admission is
charged, given by local organizations
are charged at the rate of five cents
per line per insertion.
The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1917-11-09
CAR SERVICE BUREAU
II MAKING PROGRESS

That the district car service bureau
h. making excellent progress In locnt.
INK coal cats and speeding them az
to their destinations ~ shown In the
reports received from the big coal
districts of Utah and Wyoming. For
the week which ended last Saturday
the reports show that the percentage
81 increase in the working coal mines
IN Utah was 20 per cent while in
Wyoming u Was 9 per cent
This means. according tu the hu-
rvau. that more cnai IL being mined
and shipped nH tho result OF the fact
that the ears have been provided for
10 shipment n means further that
the general ear movement has been
greatly improved Hnd the men who
ARE back ~ the ear service bureau are
grntificd over the results thus Tar ub-
tanned.
The present week may not show sn
great a percentage On account ct the
heavy movement at troop trains. say
those in charge of the bureau hut
they add that the foregoing figure
are proof that the ear service bureau
h On the right track.
The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1917-11-09
LOCAL MAN DOUBTS REQU|S|T|0NING
ORDER APPLYING TO CARBON MINES

WASHINGTON ID. C.. Nov. Goal operators of Colorado
Wyoming and Utah today presented to the priority committee of
the industries board request for fuel supply
those states TO meet urgent fuel requirements both for indus
trial and domestic use in the inermounain section.
Fuel stocks in Oregon Washington California Nevada Idaho
Utah. New Mexico Wyoming and Colorado the operators told
committee have fallen to the danger point while
regions supplying those states working only per
of capacity because of an inadequate supply
Chairman Shaeffer of the of the
lean Railway association after conference with the operators
stated that the situation would be given careful consideration
The operators present included W. H. Huff of Denver Coo
r. A. Sweet c. ~ Streve e. s. Roapp A. H. Apperson and W.
Van Law of Salt Lake City, and d. II. Pape OF Ogden
Discussing the foregoing dispatch last Monday D. Person
general sales agent of the Utah Fuel said he doubted
the intention of the reQuson per
the coal supply Utah and Wyoming He added that he could
the necessity for such action of the that
look for early solution of the ocaed coal shortage par
uay bright In this connection he referred to the relating
recently issued by Judge Robert s. Love
the priority board and the good work being done by the district
car service bureau
present time said the was buying
but little coal in Utah. the greater being forty
fifty tons a day for use at Fort Douglas.
The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1917-11-09
GARFIELD WARNS PUBLIC
AGAINST iIONRDING CONI.

WASHINGTON. H. e.. Nov C.
individual boarding uf coal viii uv
Ia blame for any shurlag, "f coal Tor
dumrFtipv usr, Administrator Gar
field today gave warning y { such
boarding may result lee seizure and
redistribution.
Tho administration b. nov ran-
Quoting general inquiry into tho
matter eft storing of ronl by industrial
consumers and various manufactur.
INK establishments
The production at anthracite coal
OF the present year viii be- 10 per
cent more than Tor last year. hut the
demand b. also greater,
liitumlnous coal output ulsn viii
be increased shipments ct coal for
Philadelphia. New York and New
England Tor the first eight months
OF 1919 aud 1915, respectively show
"a considerable Increase thir year
The fuel administration believes
from thu statistics that some hoard
CONTINUED ON page eight
The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1917-11-09
coat DELIVERY ZONES NRE
FAVORED N TIM CNpiTAI.

Elimination at competition between
coat companies hy prescribing a..
territory a. be- supplied by each minu
IN recommended hy the Utah public
utilities commission In a letter sent ,o
w. w. Armstrong, fuel administrator
FOR Utah. last Saturday. Members at
the commission expressed the belief
that utah's needs should he supplied
hy the mines before coal b. sent out
side the state. In recommending
changes Ia the handling ri coal, the
boards letter says;
California h furnished coal hN the
Gallup az. Nj mines. az well az 10y
the Utah ANA Wyoming mines, and tho
competition between the respective
mines IN very keen. VIII Il not be-
feasible Ia divide an the territories
served by mines In New Mexico. Utah.
wyoming, Montana and other mines
in the Western territory into zones,
prescribing the territory which shall
Dee served by each mime an group of
mines, and a. 90 arrange tho zones
that thu districts viii not overlap
Tho letter points out that under
such a system Il would not hr neces-
sgry Ia move cars between Utah mines
aud southern California.