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Smyrna times., 1917-03-14
SMYRNA GIRLS GIVEN A PARTY

Children of Harry T. Greenwell Enter
tanned by Mrs. W. .GreenweIl, Kenton
Kenton, March 13.-Mrs. William
r. Greenwell gave party on Satur-
day evening in honor of her little
niece, Miss Anna Greenwell's seventh
birthday, who lives in Smyrna, but
formerly of Kenton. Those present
were: Mr.. and Mrs. Jacobs, and Mrs.
pm. Money, Misses Anna Greenwell,
Ruth, Naomi and Hilda Clark, Emma
Walker, Catharine Smith and Anna
Wilds; Messrs. Frank Greenwell and
Ernest Smith. The little tots played
games and had general good time.
They were invited to the dining room
were refreshments were served.
Smyrna times., 1917-03-14
SENATE KILLS CIGARETTE BAN
House Had Passed Measure With a
Large Vote-Senate Vote Was I3
to Against Bill Against Minors

The Senate yesterday killed Repre-
sentative Welch's anti-cigarette bill,
after the father of the measure had
made plea for its passage, by a vote
of 13 to 3. This bill which passed
the House by a large vote, would pro-
hibit the sale and manufacture of Gig
arettes or cigarette papers in Della
ware after August l, of his year.
The vote on the bill follows: Yeas
Walkers, Long and Brown-3. Nays
Hickman, Gormley, Webb, Hof-
feker, Pool, Hart. Wharton, Hollet,
Barnard, Murphy. Frazier. Mitchell
and Joseph-13. Absent-Newton.
Immediately after killing the Welch
bill the Senate passed Senator JOseph's
buy or smoke cigarettes in Delaware
by vote of II to 4. Senators Walker
and Long, who favored the Welch
bill, voted against the Joseph bill.
The other two Senators who voted
against the Joseph bill were Hollett
and Pool. Senator GOrmley in oppos-
ing the bill declared that it was ab-
surd to ask the General Assembly to
pass such a bill as the Welch bill as
it did not prohibit the use of cigar
cites, but simply Disseminated against
Delaware tobacco dealers by prohibit
ing them from selling cigarettes. yet
they could be purchased from dealers
in pennsylvania, Mary land and other
States. Senator Walker spoke for the
bill. declaring that it would help to
prevent the use of cigarettes by chill
dreu. elf we can put cigarettes
further away from our boys, think
we should do it." he said. Senator
Wharton reminded Senator Walker
that there was a Senate hill on the
calendar to prohibit the sale of cigar
cites and their use by minors.
Smyrna times., 1917-03-14
NEW HOME FOR FEEBLE MINDED

Bill Has Passed Both Houses OF Leg
isIature and Now up to the Governor
The House bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Welch to establish home
for the care and training Of the feeble
minded of Delaware and providing for
the legal commitment of feeble-minded
persons, was passed Friday by the
Senate. The bill calls for an appr"-
priation Of SIS, 900 year for the en-
suing two years for the establishment
of an institution in this State, and
also provides for commission to be
known as the Delaware Commission
for the Predetermined.
Smyrna times., 1917-03-14
FOR PROTECTING Offers
Leipsic Trappers Interested in Bill
Which Passed the House Monday

Leipsic Trappers Interested in Bill
Which Passed the House Monday
Representative Welch's bill to pro-
tect otters by making a closed season
for ten years passed the House Mon
day afternoon. The bill was killed
last Thursday after Representative
Tarburton's request to have time to
consult the people of his district in
the vicinity of Leipsic was refused,
before action was taken and Mr.. Tar
burton, after seeing trappers in his
district, reported that they had no OBJ
lection to the bill. Action on the
bill was then reconsidered and the bill
passed Monday without opposition.
Mr.. Tarburton's bill extending the
open season for muskrats from March
Is to 25 and allowing the sale of the
muskrat meat from November 20 to
April 1, also passed the House.
Smyrna times., 1917-03-14
CAMPMEETING BILL PASSES
Now Up to Governor Townsend Be-
fore it Becomes a Law

After it had been explained and ad-
vocated by Senate Attorney Hope,
former Deputy Attorney. General Hut
ton and Senator Harvey Hofrecker. the
Senate unanimously passed the bill on
Friday introduced bv Speaker HALL
providing for the regulating of camp
meetings. The bill requires permit
to be issued by commission, consist
ing of the sheriff, clerk of the peace
and president of the Levy Court, be-
fore the campmeetings can be held,
unless they are held within a mile of
an Incorporated town. 1t was pointed
out that in the past there has been
much disorder at colored campmeet-
ings held in Kent county, resulting in
numerous cases in court trials. The
bill was also advocated by the grand
Jury. Former Representative j. E.
Hoffecker of Smyrna went before the
House recently and after explaining
it, said House passed it unanimously.
1t is understood the Governor will
sign it.
Smyrna times., 1917-03-14
FOX CHASE AT TOWNSEND
Nearly One Hundred Hounds We're Put
on the Trail in a Run Last Week

OI luS ] Tdn w d nun Last week
Townsend. March IL. - Several
sportsmen of this vicinity turned q
fox loose on the farm of Jacob Carney
about one mile from this town. The
fox was turned loose at 1O.45 Thurs
day morning and at 11.55 a pack of
hounds, numbering close to 100, was
put on the trail. At late hour in
the afternoon the dogs were still run
ming. Those who participated in the
chase were: w. Harman Reynolds, s.
Finley Scott, Paul B. Messick, Will
liam A. Scott, George w. Daniels,
Walter S. Money, Randolph Reynolds,
William Rittenhouse, E. E. Alfree,
Wilson Money, Frederick CHM, ]. A.
Hart, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Kitchens,
Mr.. and Mrs. CoIbit Reynolds, Oliver
Fouracre, Hart Scott, of Dover
Charles Wells, William Carrnw, James
Corkrau. Henry Austin, Nathanie
Van Horn, Paul Hutchinson, Lee
Watts.
Smyrna times., 1917-03-14
DREAM OF STRIKING OIL IN KENT
'indicate Now Getting Option on Land
Around Dover for Drilling Purposes

S WV 0CtlhiSs OPh'O'' -
Around Dover for Drilling Purposes
James Henderson, of Junction City,
refry county. o., is making an effort
% lease 25, 900 acres of Delaware
And for fifteen years, with a view to
respecting thereon. He has been in
OoVer since January Is. and has OBJ
9lned options to lease 10, acres
VI land between the bayshore and the
Uela"are Railroad, with the hope of
easing the remainder of the 25, 600.
As soon as the weather permits they
pan to drill wells, going to a depth
oOOO feet if necessary. The cost
the experiment will be between
Slo'OO and S25, 90. M. S. Luther, of
lancaster, Ohio, is back of the pro-
VT Some persons are wondering
'ustner scheme to buy a great part
Aent county for one owner is back
tne oil-drilling proposition. 1t is
90 the land can be bought under
~s options, whether or not oil is
.Nuck' For that reason some farm
."sefS have been reluctant to give
options.
Smyrna times., 1917-03-14
dATE HIGHWAY MEASURE
SEEMS SURE OF PASSING
oswANp FOR GOOD ROADS IN
AWARE is DAILY APPARENT
Gate Highway Bill as Well as the Sep
.rate County Good Roads Measure
Will Give State Fine Roads


Much interest is being manifested
n the passage of the State Highway
pill as we'll as the separate county
,osd measures by the Legislature now
i session. No one who uses the roads
hnt what is strong in the opinion that
,bo state would spend its money
visely The bad roads of the past
tow months is evidence enough to
MANY that Delaware is far behind its
lister states in this very important
and progressive matter. The State
Highway bill which allows the Com
mission to borrow up to the limit of
vhat the automobile licenses fees will
nav the interest on, will, by it's auto
matte working be no hardship to the
state while at the same time creating
ssinking fund to pay off future bonds.
It is declared that in less than four or
Eve wears Delaware can have between
q OOO 900 and $4,000, of fine,
uermanent state highways. In the
meantime the counties are seeking the
right to borrow money for roads inde-
pendently to make all the principal
lateral roads of macadam.
Agitation in Delaware a Hopeful Sign
The drawing up of the important
measures and the little or no opposi.
ton to them is a hopeful sign anC
cheering news for automobile owner
and farmer as we'll. And not alone
is this agitation in Delaware. II
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Mary
sud as we'll. Where good roads are
to be found everywhere, the fight il
for more stone roads, more permanent
roads. New Jersey is arranging tt
spend SIS, 900, 600 for roads. Penn
ylVania is engaged in grand plal
for building thousands of miles o
excellent highways. Philadelphia ha
been told that Sc, 600, 900 should e
into pavements this year. These ar
important signboards, pointing in tn
direction of progress and commo
snse. A community can be largel
judged by its roads. The better til
road the more desirable is the plac
for home or business. A sloven'y
rough road is the insignia of carles
people.
Auto the Evangelist of Perfect Roac
The automobile is the evangelist
the perfect roadway. The bicycl
'purred towns and cities into actor
but the horseless car goes eVerywhei
and demands a smoother track. Eve
be farmer has learned that goo
oad is paying investment and tn
smud road is a horse killer and
pocket drain. There is no extrav
gsnte in good roads. They pay +
themselves very quickly, whereas &
'ad road is a constant source of los
30 whatever else is or is not don
this State should push ahead wi
The plan for highway perfection. A
ae money thus spent comes pouri
back to the taxpayer.
Smyrna times., 1917-03-14
SMYRNA FIREMEN DONATED S44

'u'sa Who Gave the Supper and Re-
''puon to Soldiers Turn in Proceeds
.ne proceeds from the recent supper
. 81 reception given the members of
y ssupany G in the Smyrna Opera
'use, has been donated to the Citi-
ny S hose Company of Smyrna. The
n.y. - amounted to s44.03. The fire.
y, ~ are grateful for this donation and
S.l ~ to take this means of thanking
:" 'aoies who worked the affair up.
Smyrna times., 1917-03-14

Hugh Mckay to Occupy Bell Residence
Hugh Mckay, who will give up
farming near Fleming's Landing, has
rented the residence of the late w. M.
Bell on Mt. Vernon street and will
make it his home after May Lat.
Smyrna times., 1917-03-14

PresbyterY to Meet at Smyrna April 10
Presbytery of New Castle will meet
in Smyrna on April 16. Much inter-
est is being taken in the election of
four commissioners to the General As
sembly of the church, which meets in
Dallas. Texas, in May.
Smyrna times., 1917-03-14

Mrs. Mary Ethel Fleming. aged 81
wife of Wesley Fleming, OF Oxforo'
Pa. formerly of Clayton, died Friday
last from circumstances that mas
caused unusual sorrow. Her untimely
death is mourned by her many friends
in CLAYTON. She leaves a little 'nfan'
daughter just born, besides her nus,
band. Deceased was daughter o.
Mrs. William Tweedle, Of Clayton
and was one of the bright and popuial
oirls in the circle in which she moved
Her husband was a former Ciaytoi
blacksmith and moved recently 70 o1
ford, Pa. Her remains were Dr"uen !,
70 CLAYTON Sunday and funeral eool
oNTINUEp ON FIFTH PAGE
Smyrna times., 1917-03-14

oNTINUED ON FIFTH PAGE
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-18

manded that the sheriff prevent or ganists and choir singers who re- ceive pay for their services from working" on Sunday.
 Until the law which was recently declared valid by the Alabama court of appeals is repealed, arrests can be made for violations which have been countenanced for many years. The Sabbath day can be observed in a fit- ting manner without the strict en- forcement of law which was drawn up and passed in a spirit of intoler- ance. To be consistent, a person who uses gas, water or electricity in his home would have to do without these necessities on Sunday because they are bought.
 There is line of demarcation be- tween fanaticism and common sense. Alabama's Sunday law is a survival of the days when bigotry was more pronounced in American life than it is now. It should be abolished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-18
MARS IN A MERRY MOOD

Form the Chicago News.
 War humor is grim humor, shaded by the sardonic, pitched in the key or ton of coal sliding down an iron chute. Seldom does it rise to the massively comic. Therefore recent dispatch from Petrograd reporting results of semi official exchange of views between Blosheyik and German armistice ne eotiators is particularly worthy of re- mark.
 We are told by this dispatch that the Russians asked to be permitted to send translations of Russian revolu- tionary literature to Germany and through that country to the other belligerents" To this 'the German dele- gates replied that they supposed their government would willingly consent to the sending of such literature to Eng land, France and Italy, but not to Ger many"
 Not in the plays of Bernard Shaw nor the satires of Anatole France nor the travesties of Mark Twain do we find more surely than in the converse ton here quoted that gravity of count enance accompanying verbal horse play which with high accentuation becomes epically comic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-18
ALABAMA PRESS

Piedmont Journal: A married woman says, in view of the drainage on the men of the country occasoned by the war, she would feel double incentive to shoot an affinity.
 Tuscaloosa News: Alabama is reach ing fame on two committees down at Washington-Dent on the military and Oliver on naval
 Anniston Star: General Discomfort seems to be the most prominent figure in Russia.
 Albany Advertiser: Following the ex- ample of Senator Morgan, MT. Bank head will not leave his work at Wash ington to run after votes for reelection. Senator Morgan lost nothing by 1t; neither will Senator Bankhead
 Mobile Register: The government seems not to have made note of the na- tional characteristic, which is to wait untl the last minute before taking ac- tion. It is so in catching the tran, going to the show, or keeping an appointment. It is so in taking up the liberty bonds, and it is so now in finishing the volun- teer movement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-18
Enforcing Ancient
 Statute to- the Letter

THE ridiculous extremes to whicl
 G the enforcement of an anti quated blue law may go were shown in Albany last Sunday. Newspapers could not be sold there, and meat mar kets, milk stores, shoe-shining stands, drug stores, bakeries and other places of business were kept closed.
 In the town of Decatur, which is close by, these restrictions were not observed, and residents of Albany who wished to buy a paper, or loaf of bread, or a soft drink, could do so by journeying to Decatur. However, the names of those who car ried on business in Decatur, contrary to the law, were taken and these of- lenders may be indicted. No papers were delivered in Albany on Sunday, although subscribers who receive their papers through the mail and have posttoffice boxes were able to read the lastest news dispatches.
 It Is also reported that the Pastors unions of Albany and Decatur{ de-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-18
NO NUMBER ON THE DOOR

Frank l.. Stanton, in the Atlanta Con- stitution.
 Santa Claus is coming, and we wonder
 more and more If he'll come to little children With no
 number on the door? If he'll find the way to find them, and
 have something left to give?- It's mighty dark and lonesome where
 some little children live. The snow is on the housetops. and the
 hills play ghost at night, And our little bit of fre-it don't make
 our windows bright, Cause we're all so huddled round it
 when the wind blows cold to you! Can anybody find you when it's dark
 and lonesome, too? That's what we're always asking, since
 Mother went away, But Sister-all the time she says that
 God knows where we stay; And once sweet Somebody came to
 this very place, And Sister said God sent her--or she
 had an angels face. And maybe Santa Claus will know, and
 won't pass poor folks by, For God may tell a Christmas Star t9
 light him round the sky To md just all the places of the Toy
 some folks and poor, Where there's little Dit of fire. a9. fio
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-18

From the New York Sun.
 .HR17T T seems to me the one best story,
 the one that gets you warmest
 under the waistcoat, is the story of the American boys in France" ex- claimed Robert Davis of the Young Mems Christian association at a lunch- con of the Merchants association. And then he proceeded to tell something of that story in the hurrying fashion lunch- con speaking makes necessary.
 He reported General Pershing's reply to an inquiry of the Young Mems Chrls- ton association: Our army Is in pretty good shape but for Gods sake, buck up the French" He told of the American soldier who leaned over the transport 8 bow and called out, Hey, mister, what country is this?" He described the land ing of the first American expeditionary force, its march through the streets of a little town, sunbaked brown and dry, to barracks put up by German prisoners in a wheatfield The band of the Six teenth infantry led the way, playing ''Suwanee River" The men sang: "When will I see de bees drumming
 All around de comb?
 When will l hear de banjo tumming,
 Down in my good old home?'
 Their uniforms were brown, their faces covered with dust and sunburn; three quarters of these youngsters were recruits of less than three months stand ing; most of them had been down south with Pershing and were men recruited from Texas, Alabama, Tennessee and the whole great region Stephen Foster loved. It was too much for MT Davis There is an ache of pride and sympathy in reading about it.
 The men stayed 72 hours in this perrla- nent receiving camp and then were sent to training camps, where they were bil- leted to houses and barns. The first as- signment was to 16 little towns along a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-18
Remarkable Flight
 Ry British Airplane

1NHE possibilities of the airplane U were demonstrated by the 2000- mile flight of British Handley Page battleplane, which flew from Tendon, Eng, on the outskirts of London, to Constantinople, where it bombed the city and the Goeben, former German cruiser, now part of the Turkish navy.
 This machine carried, in addition to the pilot, Commander Savory, Lieu tenant Mcclellan, Lieutenant Rawlins, an engineer and two mechanics, beds, bedding, two boxes of spare parts and tools, additional spare parts and tools equivalent to another engine, and am munition. The total weight was six tons, exclusive of the ammunition.
 The battleplane was a twin tractor with two 275-horse power Rolls Royce engines. In it's flight to Con- stantinople it passed over Paris, the Rhone valley, Marseilles, Pisa, Rome and Salonica. For two hundred miles the machine flew over hostile country. The Adriatic was crossed and all kinds of atmospheric conditions met. Mountain peaks eight and ten thou sand feet high were some of the ob stacles encountered in this remarka- ble journey.
 Constantinople was bombed at night and after the return trip it was found that there were twenty eight bullet holes in the machine. One shot partial ly disabled one of the engines, but the other engine carried the battleplane to it's destination.
 For obvious reasons such lengthy flight is inadvisahle in time of war, but it shows what could be accom- plished by fleet of airplanes, oper- ating against an enemy, if circum- stances called for an attack of this < kind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-18
"DISCOVER" EDIBLE EARTH

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 Substitute rubber and substitute cellu- Ibid, fruits of the Ingenuity of German chemists, filled a painful and dangerous economic void for the Junkers, but are as nothing compared to the rediscovery Of edible earth, the rights for which may be turned over to the German people, according to intelligence from Amster- dam The savages of New Guinea and South America, who regard earth eating as one of the accomplishments that ac- company utility and conservation, will have nothing upon the hungered citizens of Hohenzollern kultur if the Amster- dam information is correct
 The extraordinary shortage of foods led to a search for substitutes, and edible earth was one of the results, the official statement explaining that the delicacy exists in exhaustless quantities in sev- eral parts of the empire. Official schol- ars and scientists went further and vir- tually ordered come back" for the earth eating habit by digging into Ger man history to prove that edible clay "s'' ~ ii'eiiiS eSeoeiheu ucAcdcy uurinB the Thirty Years War and during the lean years between 1719 and 1733. Layers of edible earth have been found" on the moors of Luneburg, near Koenigs- berg, in the valley of the lower Vistuia, and in the Grand Duchy of Hesse while the Austrian allies have their own de- posits of nutritious clay near Eger and Franzensbad, ir Bohemia.
 The Amsterdam informant makes i.o guess whether the predicted western drive has anything to do with the fight ing taualities of edible earth h,t a"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-18
THE ONE BEST STORY

stream. Hygienic enough; but many danger of fire with so much hay and straw about, and bedding, for the men have cots. The Red Triangle building glows; elsewhere is little but the spark ling of pocket flashlights and the faint light of the stars.
 Lots of bedding,' continued MT. Da- wis. Tell all the mothers that when I left there were only S10 sick, and Of those 103 had the measles and humps. They are the only people in France that have white bread, fresh every 24 hours. They are getting real American grub" Fun? No end of it. A soldier sat down on rock and said, Say, this isn't coffee; it's chicory.' The fellow next him remarked: From, it beats all how you are getting on with your French" One second lieutenant was overheard asking another: What would you give right now. Henry, if you could see an honest, good American girl that can talk United States?" Henry's answer is not stated. It was probably notable for fer vor.
 A near-sghted Frenchman saw on the side of a bus, Imported from New York, Potash and Perlmutter,' as the Americans went marching by in Paris The Frenchman pirouetted about the Place de la Concorde:
 "Vive le General Potasll!'' he yelled.
 A wonderfully healthy lot, our fellows. "They are off there in the woods" said MT. Davis. '.in % towns which have been largely evacuated by the French for their accommodation. When the men had been there month medical off cer told MT. Davis that there was less than 1 per cent of venereal disease. On some Monday mornings MT. Davis would take letter census just to see whom they were writing to- For every Il let ters written to a sweetheart there were nine letters to the boys mothers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-18
vJTKE M,I,UKE SAYS

When we use ourselves as stand- ard of comparison we discover that other people do not amount to much.
 A lot of men are prone to yelp when a. newspaper happens to make a mls- statement. But we can tell you rlght here that if you were as caretul or what you say as the newspapers are' and were correct as often as the news papers are, you would be mighty good citizens.
 A woman who wears featherWelght. knee length underwear in winter oIten worries herself into nervous prostra- tion because her husband won't wear blanketweight, ankle length under wear in winter.
 The reason why a woman likes to brag about her figure being natural is because she has done a lot of lacing anG a lot of upholstering to make the thin places look thick and the thick places look thin and the long places look short and the short places look long.
 You can know girl for 10 years. But YOU can't get acquainted with her until you have been married to her for 10 days.
 We never could understand why Janus, being male god was equipped with two mouths when a goddess could have used them to better advantage.
 It has always seemed strange to us that a little wife can boss big hus. band when big wife can't do it.
 The honeymoon is over when he quits shaving every day and she quits hiding her store hair.
 A man may be truthful about other things. But you can't trust him when he describes the size of fish and hail. stones.
 Did you ever see drum major who didn't look and act as if he was the whole band? Neither did we.
 Why is it that good habits are harder to form and easier to break than the other kind?
 We do not know smuch. But we do know that when girl lets you carry her powder rag in your coat pocket when you are out together you are c goner.