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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-01-29
SCHOOL BUDGETS STUDIED
Problem of Expenditures Taken Up in
Report by DIR. Sisson

DR.. E. 0. Sisson, state commissioner
of education, has issued a report in
which he takes up a new aspect OF
the school tax situation. He calls it
a study on the other side of the fl
ance problem, expenditures, one, he
says, which has been far too little
studied, both in education and state
affairs in general.
The pamphlet is concise and con
tans tables showing the varying
amounts which school districts re-
ceive and spend during the year. For
example, one district spend as high
as $2732 per room, while another
spends but $157-all the money it can
get.
The average cost per pupil for the
state, for current expense only, is $34;
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-01-29
WIDOWS AND ORPHANS WAIT
No Pensions This Year For Relatives of
Spanish War Officers and Men

WASHINGTON, Jan. 80. - Widows
and minor children of officers and en-
listed men who have served in the war
with Spain who have been hoping to
be granted pensions by this congress
probably will be disappointed. Those
hoping for governmental relief and
recognition must wait another year.
Swamped with appropriation bills
and an administration railroad pro-
gram which must be considered before
March 4, Representative Johnson of
Maine today admitted he had little hope
that congress would take up his pen
sion bill before adjournment.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-01-29
Boy Makes $3.50 From Beans

CLIFFORD, Jan. 29.-Joseph Wicks, q
senior in the Clifford high school, last
week received a check for $3.50 repre-
senting the returns from his bean crop
grown on II acres of land near Gift
ford. There are perhaps few high
school boys who can report returns
approaching this figure for work per-
formed outside of school hours and
during the vacation period but the sue
cess attained by Mr.. Wicks suggests
the opportunity offered the boys of
the central Idaho region in growing
crops of this character.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-01-29
ExtravaQant.

A certain man who returned to Lon
don from South Africa a multimillion.
aire after Eve years money making in
rited a friend to visit his mansion In
Park lane. The friend was expatiating
to other friends upon the glories Of
the establishment-the marble halls,
the Turkish carpets, the gold plate.
And, my boy he said, he's got a
mint O. money. Why. he's got a Ru-
bens, a Yandyke and a Landseer."
"~Extravagant bounder!!". said n lis-
tener. What does he want three cars
f0r7
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-01-29
TO LINK NATIONAL PARKS.
Aims of National Park to Park High
way Association Approved.

way Association Approved.
Stephen Il. Mather, assistant to the
secretary of the interior, is a strong
supporter of the plans of the National
Park to Park Highway association. In
regard to the route chosen and whatit
win accomplish he says:
Every transcontinental highway
merges into the park to park highway,
and all become feeders to this the most
scenic road in the world. The route
tours the Yellowstone, with it's strange
phenomena, goes through Montana to
Glacier park, with its rich foliage,
beautiful flowers and immense gla-
ciers; thence on to the west coast with
various points of interest en- route,
down to Yosemite, with its ancient
trees, some of them thirty feet in di-
ameter, ON to Los Angeles and into
Arizona, to take in the Grand canyon
OF the Colorado. The Mesa Verde, an
Client home of the cliff jewellers, a new
national park, is a point of interest,
and from there Colorado is traversed,
taking in the road to the top of Pixies
peak, the Garden Of the Gods. Rocky
Mountain National and Estes parks.
"To the Americans and to the Euro
pean in years to come this road will be
Of compelling interest. and its attrac-
fdveness will bring thousands to spend
their mme along the backbone of
the Rockies and down the Pacific
slope.
"This highway of $500 to 1900 miles
cannot all be- built at once. but by or
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-01-29
A Roar That Failed.

There Is a playful apologize by Wen
dell Holmes about a great experiment
that was to be made on a universal
scale. He describes mankind as ar
ranging to combine on a certain New
Years eve to raise a shout in unison,
to see If it would reach to Mars. 1t
didn't, for the simple reason that when
the crisis arrived there was no cry al
all; everybody was too busy listening.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-01-29

The easiest way 60 keel i'll touch
with the folks at home is to send them
a subscription to the Star-Mirror.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-01-29

Safety Deposit Boxes for rent. La
tab County Abstract Co. II
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-30
Will OF DIR. J. H. Spruance

The will of the late DR.. j. Har-
vey Spruance, former Mayor of
Wilmington, was filed in the Reg
ister's office on Wednesday. His
real property is estimated at $780,
900 and his personal estate at $751;
900. The former includes so dwell
lings in Wilmington and a large
apartment house in Wildwood, N.
J. It is thought the value of the
real estate is much in excess OF the
estimate. He directs that his real
estate be sold. His widow, while
unmarried, is to receive one-half
of the income from the estate and
one-third should she remarry.
The other half of the income is
left to his daughter, Marion and
his son, J. Harvey Spruance, Jr.
Should they die without heirs,
their share is to go to his three
brothers. His mother and sister,
Anna w. Jones, are left annultles
of 5000 and $500, the latter to be
increased if she survives her
mother.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-30
NEWS OF THE NEICHBORHOOD
As Reported by Correspondent. for THE POST
APPLETON

Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Lofand and
Master Charles Barbon visited
Mrs. Barbon, of Lancaster, on
Sunday.
Miss Evelyn Kimble was the
weekend guest of Miss May West,
of North East.
Appleton Social Club met on
Friday evening of last week. A
good program was rendered.
Mrs. Margaret Jamison, of New
ark, was a recent guest of Mrs. S.
Teresa Kimble.
Misses Isabel and Beulah Burke
have been visiting here.
J. H. Covington and family, of
Oxford, Pa, and Elwood and Les
lie Mccormick and families, of
Landenberg, Pa, were Sunday
callers in our village.
Lewis Scott, of Fair Hill, was a
recent visitor of friends here.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-30

at the Schoenburg store. He and
young Schienburg wandered off
and reached the creek bank. Mrs.
Flannlgan, greatly worried by her
chlld's absence, made prolonged
search for him and learning that
he and Morris had been seen on
the floats she feared they had been
drowned. Men began dragging
the creek and at 7 p. m. Thomas
Collins found the body of Morris
between the wharf and a raft.
About $50 Corner Spring and
another man found Edwards
body. Both were taken to the
morgue where the grief of the
mothers moved men about them to
tears.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-30
Vacation Booklets Issued

The approach of the summer
season brings thoughts of the va
cation. Those contemplating a
trip to the seashore, the mountains
or lake resort will be interested
in two illustrated folders just is
sued by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company. Forty Beaches of New
jersey and Mountain and Lake
Resorts" The Forty Beaches of
New Jersey" folder gives a detail
ed description of the resorts along
the coast of New Jersey from Cape
May to Long Branch and of resorts
near the water in Delaware, Mary
land and Virginia, and on Long Is
land. The Mountain and Lakes"
folder gives a description of re-
sorts in the Pocono and Allegheny
Mountains, Mt. Gretna, Chautau-
qua Lake, the Finger of New York
and Sodus Bay, with a complete
list of hotels at each resort. Copies
of these folders may be had for the
asking of any ticket agent of the
railroad or on application to pass
enger Department, Pennsylvania
Railroad, Philadelphia. ADV.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-30
GLASGOW

Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Duling, of New
|astle, spent Sunday with her
Erents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Cum
|lgham.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben Deibert,
Orence Dayett, and j. L. Ford
FITTED on Sunday Mr.. and Mrs.
fsry Spicer, of Marshallton.
Mrs. Taswell Thornton met with
serious accident one day last
).ek being thrown from her car
ige and arm broken.
GARDENS are looking fine. But
wv on account of cold weather.
Mr., J, Writ Willis is having a
mage build at his home, close to
4 Mr., Howard Jordan, Mr.. and
Byard Jordan and son, of
cheSsin, were visitors in town
Sunday.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-30
"OLD DRAWERS" DAY
NEXT SUNDAY

Continued from Page y
He will make an address at the
services in the afternoon. The
Sunday Star gives the following
interesting sketch: Mr.. Day, who
was born in Brandywine Hundred,
has always had warm spot in
his heart for Delaware, where he
spent his boyhood, though his life
work called him out of the State.
Early in life he gained distinction,
for in 1884 he was made an au-
ditor of the United States treas
ury. Several years later, in 1908,
he was appointed assistant to the
Attorney General of the United
States. Two years later he enter
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-30

ed upon his service with the
Equitable life Assurance Society
of New York, as comptroller, and,
by promotions from time to time
first to vice-president, then to di-
rector, then to president-came
into his present position with the
company. Mr.. Day received all
these rewards for meritorious SER
vice between 1905 and 1911, at
which time he was made pres
ident. At present Judge Day is
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-30
Two Children Drowned Together

Edward Flanagan, aged 4, ana
Samuel Schoenburg, aged 3, sons
of Edward Flanagan, of 938 Ben
nett Street, and Morris Schoen-
burg. of Tenth and Bennett
Streets, Wilmington, while play
ing on floats at Kirkwood Park on
wednesday, fell overheard and
were drowned in BrandyWine
Creek. Mrs. Flanagan shortly be-
fore noon gave Edward a cent
which he went to spend for candy
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-30
COMMISSION
FOR FEEBLE MINDED
ORGANIZES
Consider Location Of Institu.

CONSIDER Location OF lnstitu-
ton
The State Commission for the
Feeble Minded, appointed several
weeks ago by Governor Townsend,
organized last Wednesday by the
election of Mrs. S. S. Deemer, of
New Castle, as president; John B.
Hutton, of Dover, secretary, and
w. K. Morgan, of Seaford, treas
urer.
A general discussion took place
as to the situation facing the COM
mission, that of location, etc. and
a committee consisting of Gov
ernor Townsend, Former Governor
Miller, A. B. Magee, w. K. Morgan
and Robert G.. Houston, was APP
pointed to look for a suitable To-
cation and to report at subse-
quent meeting. 1t was the con-
census of opinion that at last one
thousand acres of land should be
secured.
Representatives of the State
Fish and Game Commission which
had been invited to meet with the
Commission for the Feeble Mind
ed, were present, and while it had
been suggested that the 400-acre
State game preserve in Sussex
county, might be turned over to the
new commission, members of the
Game Commission expressed the
opinion that as the game preserve
belonged to the State, that if such
contamination could be done by
the Legislature and not directly by
the State.
The matter will be taken up at
the next meeting of the commits
sion.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-30
kEMBLESVILLE

WIS, Florence Boethin and son,
.IIam, of Reading, are visiting
FldS and relatives in the viii
4,
Mss Bessie Strahorn, of New
] spent the weekend with her
seF' Mrs. Elsie Pratt.
Dear in mind the entertainment
WI IN Wizards Hall on Satur-
\, "enlng, June End, 1917, by the
[R Of the NJ. E. Church of West
[H'ef' Pa. Admission 25 cents,
|llren Is cents.
ice cream and strawberry
[$ %sI will be held by the
% Aid Of Kemblesville
I0- on Tuesday evening, June
~tn on W. L. Fell's lawn, KEN
H. ana Mrs. Russell Reynolds,
s%,o,Adale, spent the weekend,
mr. and Mrs. VIM. Willard.
H., MS Madaline Fell, of Will
|ss DEL, is the guest of her
n lsas' Misses Alice and Edith
.l (S and Mrs. C. T. Richards and
W ~. accompanied by Mr.. and
H.. Wilmer Mote and daughter,
ai,''ua TO Wilmington on Sunday
%s and called to see Miss
@'aF 'i ! at DR.. Jones' Hospital.
H., ,, = L. West, of jefferson
$ ss. College, is at home for his
n. yer vacation.
n, Josephine Lovett and Miss
,,..l Lovett were Philadelphia
'''S on Saturday.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-30

N. J. At both the morning and
afternoon services the Rev. Geo.
P. McLaury, pastor of Drawers
Church, will be in chrage, and the
Dover Glee Club of eight male
voices will have charge of the
musical part of the program.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-30

Whether il is for complete plumb
ing work for a new house or
small repair job, any service we
perform large or small receives
the same careful atten ton and skill
full handling. We have the exper-
fence, the knowledge and the facil-
tiles to do any job right, at the
right figures. Get our estimates.
w. D. DEAN NEWARK, DEL
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-30

active in the effort to enlist the
support of the public in the Liber-
ty Loan.
The morning sermon will be
preached by the Reverend Pleas
ant Hunter, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Newark,
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-30
DIR CT RY

Municipal Transportation
e. NJ. Thompson wv. Brown
J. Il. Hossinger G. B. Evans
Joseph Dean
Legislature Member,h;,
j P. Armstrong Pm Sherwood
H. B. Wright John Pillinp
VIM. H. Taylor
Board of Education
President-Robert s. Gallaher
Secretary and Treasurer-Harvey Hoff-
ecker, G. A. McCue, Edward L. Rich
ards
Newark Town Library
The Library will be opened:
Monday 3to545n
Tuesday 9to 70 m
Friday a+o5a5n =,
Saturday 9 to IL m. Ito op.m.
Banks
FARMERS TRUST Co. Meeting of Direc.
tors every Tuesday morning
NEWARK TRUST Co. Meeting of Dirsc-
tors every Wednesday evening at 8
O'Clock
Building and Loan Association
Sccretary-W. H. Tayl,.
Meeting first Tuesday night Of each
month
Lodge Meetings
OPERA HOUSE
Monday-knights of Pythias, or K. Of
P, 7.30 D. m.
Iuesaay-Improved Order of Red Men,
7.30 p. m.
Wednesday-Heptasophs, or 8. W. NJ,
7.30 p. m.
Thursday-Ladies' Circle, 8. W. NJ,
7.30 p. m.
Friday-Modern Woodmen Of America
No. 10170, 7.3o p. m.
ODD FELLOWS HALL
Monday-Jr. Order American Mechan.
les, 7.30 p. m.
Wednesday-lst and 3rd of every month
White Clay Camp, No. S, Woodmen of
the World
Thursday. o. o. F., 7.3o p. m.
Observation-Disclosures of Golden EAGLE,
7.30 p. m.
Fire Alarms
In case of fire call thu following mum.
bers in succession
27 D
90 A
33 ID
172
81 D
BY order of
Fire Chief WILSON
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-30
June 9Th

Changes in listings, or changes of advertise
ments should be communicated to the Business
Office at once.
The Diamond State Telephone Company
E. P. Bardo, District Manager
Wilmington Del.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-11-08
Death List 8.

Washington, Nov. 2.-The torpedo
ing of the homeward bound army
transport Finland, in the war zone
four days ago, resulted in the death OF
two members of the naval army
guard, two army enlisted men and
four of the ships civilian crew. A
third naval seaman is missing.
Vice Admiral Sims's report of the
casualties to the Navy Department to-
day added no details to the announce
ment yesterday that the Finland had
been torpedoed, but had been able to
reach a European port under her own
steam.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-11-08

so as to be easily pulled out on the
morrow. Room to turn the guns
there must be and the standing must
be good, or the wheels will be deep
in the soft ground by morning. The
horses stand in an open field, into
which some of the limbered wagons
are taken for the picketing posts to
be made fast to. The other vehicles
are parked in by-roads. At night
the horses are taken to water,
brought back, rubbed down, fed and
left in charge of a picket, while the
men go to their billets and the
welcome meal which the cooks have
been preparing.
There are other batteries moving
on the same road, and one must go
oht first in the morning. We elect
to move first next morning, so we
must be up and about early, for there
is plenty to do before Boot and sad
dle! The horses must be watered,
groomed and fed, the men must
breakfast and their kit be slowed.
The routine of this day and it's sue
cessors is like that of the first. AS
we move further back, which we do
for the first two days, the country
changes. Further back the country
wears a more prosperous air than in
the war-torn parts We have come
from. Our second night, in deed, is
spent in a town where the civilian
element outnumbers the British SOL
diery and the houses are real houses,
and not nights lodging for so many
'hommes' and so many 'chevaux,' with
particular attention drawn to the
commodiousness of their caves
occasionally we pass other units
moving up. Once we pass another
heavy battery returning to the line
after a long rest. Its paint work
CLEANS and it's metal tinkles, and
it's horses are glossy and fat. We
envy them a little as we look sadly
at our own dear, weather-beaten
'hairies.' The incoming gunners look
scraped paint and dulled harness.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-11-08
MOVING BIG GUNS.
British Officer Describes Work OF
Changing Positions of Batteries.

Assault on a new point in the Ger
man lines in the west such as was
begun during the past few weeks in
Flanders, is preceded by many weeks
of preparatory actitivy. The NOV
ing up to their new positions OF
hundreds of batteries of artillery is
only one phase of this preparatory
activity, but one which requires an
infinite amount of labor and trans
port.
To move battery of howitzers
from the old Vimy Ridge battlefield
to the new Flanders battlefields re-
auires roughly four OF five days. An
account of this process of transfer
has been written for the Associated
Press by Lieut.. K. N. Colville, attach
ed to 1000" Heavy Battery, Royal
Garrison Artillery. He writes:
eve are not sorry to leave Petit
court. It's last occupants had been
certain Huns and these folk are not
at the best times very desirable ten
ants, while their time in occupation
of Petticourt had latterly been very
far from best not even good, in
fact. Long before they left, the
houses had been suffered to fall into
such a state of disrepair that they
we're driven to living in the cellars,
which they had enlarged and deepen
ed for the purpose. Here they had
spent days at time without emerg-
ing to the light of Heaven, and the
sanitary arrangements whatever they
may have been, had evidently broken
down badly.
1000 Heavy Battery, R. G. A., in
due course came to occupy the scene
of the desolation which itself had
helped to create. This, indeed, is
the tragedy, of the heavy gunner's
life. He arrives opposite some
pleasant tree-swathed village, ad-
mires from his point of vantage across
the valley the white chateau, thinks
enyiously of the comfortable quar-
ters it is affording to the other side.
In a few weeks, or few months, 1t
is his turn to occupy that promised
land. But alas, he wishes himsel!
back on Pisgah, away from the smell!
and the filth and the ghastly ruin
of this shell-torn place.
"Such a spot was Petitcourt, and
we were not sorry when we learned
that our work here was done, and
that we were to go and repeat the
operation elsewhere. For before we
could again ply our grim task there
must be a brief interval of move
ment, of the open road, of the
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-11-08
comradeship it brings to men and

comradeship it brings to men and
horses.
eve had a day or two to make
preparations for our journey, and
the time was fully occupied. At a
pinch we could move at few hours
notice, but trench warfare encour-
ages one to accumulate stores and
articles of luxury, which may as we'll
be properly disposed of if possible,
for nothing of it all can be taken
except the equipment laid down. So
our surplus stores were returned to
ordnance, and our odds and ends of
furniture, homemade beds and
tables saved from the ruins of the
village. Then, the day before the
start the guns were pulled out from
Petitcourt, and the whole battery,
united once more, spent the night
down at the wagon lines, all ready
for an early start next morning.
"A light rain was falling, thing
so common in the battle area that we
have ceased to count it as good or
evil; is part of the persistent order
of nature. The vocalists of the bat
terry caroled snatches of all manner of
songs, sentimental, burlesque or bel
licose. One of the last kind proudly
told how:
"'We fought them on the Marne,
We fought them on the Aisne;
We gave them hell at New Chap
lele,
And here>we are again.
"At last the appointed hour arrived
and the cortage, half a mile long,
filed out in column of route on to
the road
"All morning we wound along;
our progress was slow, for there was
much traffic on the roads and we had
two villages to pass through. We
could not take the direct north and
south. route to our destination for
that would entail too much crossing
of the main lines of, transport. we
must go back to one of the hubs
from which these lines radlate, like
spokes, and from there turn back
along the spoke that leads to our
assigned point on the iron-grlt
wheels perimeter.
Midday brings long halt IN the
neighborhood of water troughs, and a
drink and bite of food for man and
beast. The rain has lifted, the sound
of gun fire has died away behind us.
'After dinner one of the subalterns,
with sergeant and an orderly goes
on to see our nights billet. The
essentials which the billeting officer
must keep in mind are these: Horses,
men and officers must be close to-
gather. The vehicles must be parked
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-11-08

Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXA.
TIVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary
Ouinine and does not cause nervousness nof
ringing In head. Remember the full name and
look foe the signature Of E. W. GROVE. aoe'
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-11-08
TAX NOTICE. I

The treasurer's Office will be open
for the collection of State, county.
school and all other taxes from the
18th day of October, 1917, until the
18th day of March, 1918, inclusive.
From the first day of January,
1918, until the 31st day of January,
1918, penalty of one per cent. will
be added to all unpaid taxes. From
the 1st day of February, 1918, a
penalty of 2 per cent. will be added
to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st
day of March, 1918, until the 18th
day of March, 1918, penalty OF Z
per cent. will be added to all unpaid
taxes.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-11-08

All persons between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty years Of age,
except Confederate veterans and sail
ors, who are exempt at so years of
age, are liable to poll tax of one
dollar.
Capitation dog tax so cents.
All persons who were 21 years of
age on or before the 1st day Of JAN
uary, 1917, are liable to poll tax
of one dollar, and all who have not
made returns to the Auditor are re-
quested to do so on or before the
1st of January, 1918.
will receive the commutation
road tax of two $4,000 dollars from
the 18th day of October, 1917, until
the 1st day of March, 1918.
G. A. JENNINGS,
Treasurer Bamberg County.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-11-08
No. 666

This is prescription prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHilLS g. FEVER:
Five or six doses will break any case, and
f taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
~et,:rr 1t acts on the liver better than
::,,oiomel and does not gripe or sickcn. zSc
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-11-08

stocks Bugges exhibited this
the Sta selling right In the stock be
wish several standard
makes handle vehicles had,
No matter what kind OF Buggy
will Stock will save you money
to buy in when town.