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Middletown transcript., 1917-02-10
G. w. COVINGT0N

George w. Covington, prominent
druggist of Still Pond, Md, died on
Wednesday afternoon of last week, aged
SO years. Mr.. Covington was born at
NIiddIetown, Del, in 1884 and was the
son of Nathaniel and Maria Covington
He came to Still Pond in 1881 and enter
ed the store of Daniel Haines. A few
years later he opened one of the best
drug stores in the county. About 1871
he married Niss Helen Busich, the
daughter of one of the prominent fami-
lies of this neighborhood. Mr.. Coving-
ton leaves three children, Miss Helen,
of this county; Mrs. w. L. Barnard, of
New York; Carlton Covington, of Phil
adelphia; two children Mrs. J. Cowgirl
Aston and Lester Covington are de-
ceased. Mr.. Covington was a gentle
man of the old school and was an active
man until his death He was one of the
| pioneer Prohibitionists. Services were
held saturday, at II a. M, interment
in Still Pond, Cemetery. He was mem.
ber of the M. E. Church. Bearers were
Judge J. Harry Covington, DR.. w. E
Barnard, Cowgirl Alston, Harry Bu
sick, Howard Turner, H. C. Cacy. :
Kent News.
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Hang Out Your Flags

Our flag is being insulted on land and
sea-by Greasers on our south border
and by bloody minded Germans on every
sea. Our citizens have been murdered
not only in Mexico but within our own
borders. and everywhere on the ocean
by German under sea assassins.
Not only has Germany followed the
killing of 119 Americans by further
murders, but she probably me ms to
make war avowedly upon US. There
fore, all citizens should fly their colors
in token of their loyalty and love to the
glorious Star Spangled Banner! All
the more should this be done, since
some disloyal towards are crying for
submission to Germany's insolent muir
ders, and traitors are daring to prate
treason right here in our own land, so
let the beautiful Red, White and Blue
break out from every house!
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"THE REVUE OF REVUES"

The most elaborate as well as the
! most novel entertainments ever attempt
ed by the ladies of the New Century
Club of this town, was "The Revue of
Revues which was presented on Thurs
day and Friday evenings at their club
house, under the direction Of Miss Helen
! F. Brady. The audiences were not rs
good as the show deserved, yet good
sum will be realized for the benefit of
| the club.
But two weeks had been taken tore
hearse the show, yet in this short time
the performers all had their parts down
letter perfect, which showed that Miss
| Brady had been ION the job"
The entertainment was in two parts,
| and the first part was a "take-off' on
| a popular ladies magazine, and was la
| belled ''The Ladies Home Learn-All the
different numbers of the program repre-
| senting different pages and departments
of the magazine, the musical numbers
of the first part were interspersed with
living pictures representing paintings
! and advertisements in the magazine.
Some most creditable singing num-
| bers were given, prominent among
which were the songs, '1'm Nurse
| for Broken Hearts" and Poppy Time
! in Old Japan" by Miss Louise Ratledge.
| The dangers we are up against from the
different microbes, bacteria, bacilli, &c.
were told in song by Frederick Brady.
1.-The High Cost of Lovin" was explain
ed fully by Messrs. Jeff Pool and Pat
Vinyard.
William Keegan and Miss Frances
Watkins gave 20 minute playlet, IA
Happy Pair, in which all of the deli
cate situations of the petulant husband
| were demonstrated.
The one big hit OF the program was
the song and dance speciality of Roth
Stavely and Lola Ingram, the singing
and dancing of this pair were far above
the average of anna tuers.
| In the playlet elm Sleeping Car"
Miss Helen Brady, as the talkative fe-
male passenger, who kept the cal
awake, was given fine chance to show
her talent, her mistake in berths being
very laughable.
One of the prettiest scenes of the
show was in Part 2, of the program in
which Miss Helen McWhorter sang
"Pretty Baby" with the Rainbow
Chorus. Billy Meyers made his usual
init dressed as a girl, singing, 'Those
Come Hither Eyes,. The entertain.
ment was brought to close with the
songs "Poor Butterfly" by Miss Marian
Armstrong, and "Auf Weidersehn' by
Miss Jennie Gallagher, with the entire
company of forty as chorus.
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THE PUBLIC AND ADVERTISING

Among the objections to advertising
entertained by certain merchants the
following was encountered the other
day. One man said he had no question
that advertising was read. He thought
that even if the most attractive bar
gains are announced by home merchant
his own townspeople would not credit
it. Distant things looked so much more
attractive that they would hurry off to
some other city or send long distances
to mail order house, although they
Jared no better for their time and
trouble
This point of view struck us as rather
unusual, and indicated a good deal of
pessimism about human nature. Are
people quite SO foolish as that?
Il seems incredible, in these days of
high prices, that people can for any
length of time be cajoled or fooled into
neglecting their real interests. If a
home store really has the goods, at right
prices, and will tell the public about
them, it should get plenty Of business.
People are not anxious to pay express
charges or railroad fares and walk long
distances for nothing.
The trouble is that the local merchant
too often thinks that the public knows
all about what he has without being
told. But if people get out of the habit
of trading at a certain place, they really
know very little of what merchant
has.
He may be very good buyer, he
may be an excellent judge of values,
able to land goods in his home town and
place them on his counters at rates way
below the big city store which has heavy
overhead charges to pay. But the pub
lie is from Missouri. 1t wants to be
"shown." If it is shown" it goes to
some quarter when there is a disposition
to get after business and give intorma-
tion about stock.
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TOWNSEND

Revival meetings closed Sunday
night
Paul Hodgson has accepted a position
in Wilmington.
W Hart Scott has been confined to
his home here for several days suffering
with quinzy,
Margaret Hutchinson and Elizabeth
Wilson spent Friday in Smyrna, guests
of Mrs Turner.
Mrs. L. L Maloney, of Wilmington,
visited her parents, w. A. Scott and
family on Tuesday.
The ladies Aid Society was entertain
ed Sunday evening at the home of Miss
Ethelwyn Maloney.
w.. Harman Reynolds and family
spent part of last week with her par
ents, Rev. John Beauchamp and family
in New Castle, and attended the Auto.
mobile show at DUPONT Hotel.
Mr.. Edwin Graves, local manufac-
turer, is installing machinery in the ole
Methodist Church Building at Lewis,
for garment factory. He expects to
begin operating in the near future.
Roy M. Powell is expected home
from Deeming, N. NJ, this week
and his friends here are arranging te
give h m a royal welcome. MIR. Powell
is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Clay
ton nj. Powell.
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Forest Church Notes
February 1lth. 1917.

Sunday, February 18th, 1917.
1920 a. m. Public worship with ser
mon.
1l.45 a. m. Sunday School session
Men are invited to attend the Male
Bible Class.
GASP. M. Christian Endeavor SER
vice. Topic: "Confession" Luke 10; l.
10.
73O p. m. Evening service with SER
mon.
7.3O Wednesday evening, Prayer
meeting.
The organ recital by Professor Fla.
vius J. Lutz on Monday evening, Feb.
ruary 10Th, will be a notable event. Oul
young friends are making the neces'
sary arrangements, and selling the
tickets with great enthusiasm. Let
everybody endeavor to be present.
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COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS SOUL

Our papers, our little country papers,
seem drab and miserly provincial to
strangers: yet we who read them read
in their lines the sweet, intimate story
of life. And all these touches Of ma
ture make us wondrous kind. 1t is the
country newspaper, bringing together
daily the threads of the towns life,
weaving them into something rich and
strange, and setting the pattern as it
weaves, directing the loom, and giving
the cloth the color by mixing the lives
of all the people in its color pot. it is
this country news paper that reveals us
to ourselves, that keeps our country
hearts quick and our country minds open
and our country faith strong.
When the girl at the glove-counter
marries the boy in the wholesale house,
the news of their wedding is good for a
forty-line wedding notice. and the forty
lines in the country paper give them
self-respect. When in due course we
know that their baby is twelve-pound-
er, named Grover, Theodore or Wood
row, we have that neighborly feeling
that breecs the real democracy. When
we read of death in that home we can
mourn with them that mourn. When
we see them moving upward in the
world, into firm, and out toward the
country club neighborhood, we rejoice
with them that rejoice Therefore, men
and brethren, when you are riding
through this vale of tears upon the Cal
ifornia Limited, and by chance pick up
the little country newspaper with its
meagre telegraph service of three or
four thousand words, or, at best, fifteen
or twenty thousand; when you see its
array of countryside items; its inter-
torials on the waterworks, the schools,
the street railroad, the crops and the
city printing, don't throw down the
contemplate little rag with the verdict
that there is nothing in it. But know
this, and know it well-if you could take
the clay from your eyes and read the
little paper as it is written, you would
find all of Gods beautiful sorrowing,
struggling, aspiring wor d in it, and
what you saw would make you touch
the little paper with reverent hands.
William Allen White in Harper's
Magazine for May.
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Bethesda Church Notes

Sunday, February 11th. 1917.
$50 A. M. Brotherhood Devotional
meeting. Leader, C. P. Weber.
1890 A. NJ Preaching by the Pastor.
2P. NJ. Sunday School session.
7.3OP. NJ. Preaching by the Pastor.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday
evening at 7.3O o'clock.
Class meeting every Thursday even
ing at 80 o'clock.
Jr. League every Wednesday after
noon at 10 o'clock. Bear this in mind
and send the children.
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OBITUARY
MRS. EDWARD LONG.

Mrs. Lydia A. Long, wife Of Edward
c. Long, keeper of the Reedy Island
lighthouse, died at her home on the
island, Thursday evening last, from
paralysis, aged 81 years.
The body was brought to Niddletown,
Saturday evening, and was shipped to
Lewes onday, where the funeral took
place Undertaken Wilson made sever
al attempts to get to Reedy Island
to take care of the body. but owing TO
the high winds and ice foes, was unable
to make the trip until a government
boat was sent down from Philadelphia,
Saturday afternoon. The boat landed
the body at Augustine Park, from
whence it was brought to this town.
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Delaware Troops Arrive Home

The train bearing the first battalion
of Delaware troops pulled into Whining
ton station at 1.12 Wednesday. the
second battalion following at 2 o'clock.
The men were met by crowds of citizens.
Immediately upon detraining the ba-
tallions were paraded up Market street,
where they were reviewed by the Gov
ernor and his staff and members of the
State Legislature. A banquet was
served in the lobby Of the Hotel dupont,
after which the men left for Delaware
City.
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items o.
the Past Week
In THIS AND NEARBY POINTS

February.
Short month.
Thawing time
Winter nearly gone.
Don't forget Valentine.
Mrs. F. H. Moore entertained a num-
ber of children last Saturday afternoon
in honor of the fourth birthday of her
son, Francis, Jr.
Little Miss Caroline Fouracre enter
tained number of young friends at her
home on South Broad street, in honor
of her eleventh birthday.
Subscriptions of 5000 toward the pur-
chase of fire engine for the Delaware
City company have been made, and
there is $500 available in the tire asurey.
List of Letters remaining unclaimed
in the post-office for the week ending
Feb. 18th, 1917: Mrs. G. P. Brown,
Lottie Hall, Miss Saddle Godde, Pur-
nell Wilcutts.
Delaware has five men each Of whom
has an income exceeding one million
dollars year. There are only three
other states in the Union that have
more money in proportion to population.
Delaware being the fourth richest
State.
John Heldmyer, real estate broker,
has sold to Jay C. Davis, of State Road,
the 16O-acre farm situated 2 miles east
of Middletown, near Bunker Hill, be-
longing to the heirs of the late DR..
James A. Draper, of Wilmington; for
$13, 900; also the 97-acre farm of Mrs.
Joseph Guessford at Ginn's Corner to
Robert Waters for $1,000.
The young gpeople of the M. P. Church
at Sassafras, Md, will give an excellent
entertainment in the Jr. o U. A. M.
Hall, that town, on Friday evening,
February 18th, at 8 o'clock. The pro-
gram will consist of three short dramas,
Burglars, can Old Maids Venture, y
and 'How the Story Crew." and Miss
Gunkle, of Warwick, Md, will assist
with the music. Admission, Is cents.
Ice cream and cake will be on sale.
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ODESSA

Miss Rebecca Watkins is visiting ir
| Galveston, Texas.
Joseph Heller is spending two weeks
at Perrymans. Md.
Miss Clara E. Ewel is very i'll with
pneumonia at her home.
Mrs. Ella Smith was visitor in Will
mington on Saturday last.
Miss Elsie Dulin is visiting her sister,
Mrs. C H. Armstrong. at Hockessin.
Mrs. William Money, of Wilmington,
spent Sunday with her father, William
P. Rheim.
Mrs. Charles Gibson, of Northumber-
land, Nd, is visiting her aunt, Miss
Clara E. Ewell.
Frank Ward, of Virginia, and Gilbert
Ward, of Philadelphia. visited their
parents on Sunday.
Harry Townsend, of Wilmington,
spent Sunday with his parents, G. l..
Townsend and wife
Mrs. Joseph Heller and daughter. are
visiting her parents, Samuel Ailston and
wife, near Mt. Pleasant.
Mrs. Isiah Stewart and Mrs. Emily
Mcclellan, of Chester, Pa, spent Sun
day with their father. Captain John
Morris.
Epworth League on Sunday evening
at g. 45 o clock. Topic Continuing the
work that Lincoln began" Leader
Rev. H. C. Shipley. Everyone is cordi-
ally invited to be present.
On the evening of February 18th, in
the Red Mems Hall, the Appoquinimink
Tribe No. "a, |. O. 0. F., of Red Men will
| celebrate their Both anniversary. This
occasion will be one of the most import
ant of the season, as the Great Chief
| will be present, and all members are
cordially invited to be present to help
make the occasion especially enjoyable.
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Missionary Meeting

The regular monthly business meeting
of the Woman's Home and Woman S
Foreign Missionary societies was held
at Bethesda NJ E. parsonage on Monday
evening. Owing to the cold weather,
very few were present After the bus-
ness sessions, interesting articles were
read by Miss Mary Adkins, Mrs. +. w.
Caswel and Niss Emily Alice, on work
in beth foreign and home fields. Ice
cream, cake and coffee were served.
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Parcel Post Sale

The Parent. Teachers Association will
hold parcel-post sale in the Assembly
room of the Academy, on Friday, Feb
ruary 10th, for the benefit of the Asso-
citation. Ice cream, homemade cake
and candies will be on sale. TherAssO-
ciation asks the patronage of the public
at the Sale No admission will be
charged.
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New Century Club Meeting

The regular monthly business meeting
of the New Century Club. was held on
Tuesday afternoon when number of
communications was read and acted
upon At $50 an open meeting was held
when the president introduced Miss
Irene Earle, of Vfilm ngton, who is Ex-
ecutive Secretary of Delaware on Social
Hygiene. Her work is in line with Rev.
Mabel Irwin, who has given several ad-
dresses in town, but Miss Earle's work
is also to form working organizations in
the towns of the state.
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Mill Lane School Roll Of Honor

The following pupils of Mill Lane
School deserve special credit for the
past month:
7th de-Elizabeth Shallcross and
Edith Cochran.
9Th grade Edith Jewell, Esther
Shallcross.
4th grade Walter Kronemier.
3rd grade-Helen Kronemier, Eunice
Horsey, Margaret Shallcross and Will
liam Taylor.
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St. ANNE'S CHURCH
Lent viii Begin on Wednesday
February 21st
THE CHURCH PENSION FUND

Sunday, February llth. SeXageslma
Sunday,
Services:- 1890, Sermon and Holy
Communion.
11:45, Sunday School session.
1880, Evening Prayer and Address.
Note The Communion service was
omitted last >unday.
Meetings. In the Parish House.
The Ladies' Guild on Thursday at
two o'clock.
The Junior Auxiliary on Friday after
noon at four o'clock.
LENT
February 21st Ash Wednesday.
The solemn fast of Lent takes its
name from the season in which it falls.
The meaning of the Saxon word is
Spring, at which time the Church, by
fasting and prayer, makes her prepara-
tion for the festival Of Easter. 1t ex-
tends over period of forty days, not
counting the Sundays which lie between;
for Sunday, being the day on which our
Saviour arose, is a feast-day through
out the year. The first day of Lent is
known as Ash W ednesday, and is so
called from custom that prevailed in
the ancient Church Of putting ashes on
the heads Of the penitents on this day,
in token of their humiliation. The OBJ
servance of Lent as preparation for
Easter has be4n handed down to us
from the earliest ages of the Christian
Church, and no one who recalls the fire.
quent exhortatIons Of our Saviour t.
the duty of fasting, can doubt the wis
dom and benefit of such an institution.
For though it is as rHuch duty to live
holy life at one time as at another,
yet every one knows how apt we are tc
indulge ourselves, how reluctant tc
cross our wishes or appettes, how easl'
ly we put out of our minds and indefi-
nitely postpone the duties which are un-
welcome to our natural instincts arc
self-Iove. Therefore it is a very wise
and happy provision of the Church thus
to set aside stated seasons for recollec,
ton and repentance, and for specla
lessons in seIf-denial, when solemn
ceremonies and the examples of Others
NAV, as it We're, compel us to stop ant
ponder whether we are gong on as we
should ir our Christian life, cherlshin4
our baptiZmal grace, remembering on
anl l.
selves 'unsp)tted from the world. y
The Church does not lay down any
precise rule for the manner Of our fast
ing during this season, leaving it to b.
governed by our conscience ana circum
stances. There are many who canno
fast, in the strict sense Of the word
ibstaining from all food, and Of whom
it is not req lired but few Wno may no
deny themselves some indulgenceS o
appetite, and dress, and amusement
for His sake VINO spent these long AM
lonely days in the wilderness, hunger
ing. and burdened with the weight 0
our sins. ,:ay He help us all to follow
the example of his patience and humili
ty, that . when Christ, who is our life
shall appear, then shall we also appea
with i'll glory.
THgFINAL OFFERING FOR THE CHURCl
PENSION FUND
February 18th, Quinquagesima
the unday designated by the Officis
Board to receive an Offering for tn
Church Pension Fund. Envelopes WI
be found in the pews marked for thi
object, and particular attention
called to the enclosed message frol
Bishop Lawrence. Let everyone max
an offering.
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FRIENDS & VISITORS
Personal Items About People You
See and Know
THOSE THAT COME AND GO

Mr.. Randolph Gary spent Tuesday IN
v ilmington.
Miss Marie T. Lockwood spent Sunday
in Philadelphia.
Mrs. H. S. Newman was in Philadel-
phia Wednesday.
Mr.. Orrie Otwell was at his home at
Seaford over the weekend.
MIR. and Mrs. Harry Preston are visit
ing in Havre de Grace, Md.
Miss Catherine Touhey visited her
mother at Yorklyn, on Sunday.
Mrs. G. W. Lockwood has had Miss
Mary Price for a guest this week
Miss Helen Hall visited relatives in
Wilmington several days this week.
Mrs. C. A. Hoffecker has been spend
ing part of the week in Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Emlin Massey were
in Wilmington, visiting relatives Sun
day.
Mr.. Delbert B. Gallagher, of Penns-
grove, N. j., was at his home over Sun
day.
Miss Ann Platt, of New Castle, was
a weekend guest of Miss Maude Dea-
kyne.
Mr. Fred rmstrong, of Los Angeles,
CAL, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. E. S.
Jones.
\ iss Jennie Gallagher spent last Sun
day with Miss Edith Eliason, in Viii.
mington.
Mr.. Roth Snavely, of Chestertown. is
visiting at the home of MIR. and Mrs. S.
B. Foard.
Mrs. Julian Cochran is visiting hel
sister, Mrs. E. NJ Hanson, at Yonkers
New York.
Mrs. Julian G. Cleaver has returned
after visit with Mrs. Mary Hampton
in Philadelphia.
Misses Anna Denny and Lillian Melvir
were weekend visitors of Miss Rutl
Lloyd, at Laurel.
Miss Mildred Vaughn is entertaining
Miss Mary Goodhand, of Sudlersville
| over the weekend.
Houston Naudain, of Baltimore, Md
spent last Sunday at the home of Mr.
j. Moody Rothwel.
Messrs. Ray and Howard Dickson
Bruce Whitlock and George Swain wer
in Wilmington Saturday.
Mrs. G. 3. Pearson was enter taine'
several days this week by Mrs. Josepl
| Mendinhall, in Wilmington.
Miss Mary Culver has returned to hel
home, after a visit with relatives a
Cambridge and Easton, Md.
Mrs. E. G. Alice and Miss Mary Ad
kins spent Thursday with Mrs. J. J
Northrup, at Delaware City.
Mr.. William Kirk, of Chester, Pa.
spent part of this week with his par
ents, MIR. and Mrs. L. V. Kirk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard S. Rodney, 0
New Castle, were Sunday visitors 0
her mother, Mrs. E. c. Green.
Mr.. E. S. Jones visited his sister
Mrs. Margaret Darlington, in Bait
more, Md, over the weekend.
Mr. William Gallagher, of Whining
ton, is spending sometime with his pal
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Gallagher.
| Mr.. and Mrs. A. Fogel have just re
turned from New York City, where the
have purchased their Spring stock Q
Suits and Millinery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merritt N. Willis an
daughters, Misses Laura and Clar
Willis, returned on Wednesday from
stay at Atlantic City, N. j.
Mrs. Howard A. Pool, Mrs. G. Burto
Pierson and Mrs. John B. Cleaver al
tended the Parent Teachers Convention
held at Dover. on Thursday.
/ Mrs. j. C. Armstrong, who has bee
spending several weeks with friend
, in Philadelphia, is now staying with he
daughter, Mrs. H. S. Newman.
~ ~, a n rvvnn, .n1vyr
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MIR. A. Fogel is just back from
New York City with the latest,
prettiest things in Ladies' Spring
Waists!
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-19
INQUIRY INTO RIOT
STILL UNDER WAY

East st. Louis, ILL.,, Oct. 1s-Fur-
Their inquiry into the failure of the
military authorities to establish the
identity of a soldier who shot into a
crowd Of negroes during the race riots
here was taken up by the congress
sional committee investigating the
riots today.
Charles Roger, general manager of
the ]. c. Grant chemical company was
the first witness to give the commit
tee knowledge of the shooting by the
soldier.
Roger said he had told the military
board Of inquiry of the shooting but
said he was not called upon to identify
the soldier.
Roger confirmed the declaration OF
Traffic Commissioner Coyle of the
Chamber OF Commerce yesterday that
negroes now work a short day because
they insist on being in their homes be-
fore dark Many of them still feared
trouble, Coyle testified.
But a handful of persons attended
the hearing yesterday and today.