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FurlOw Lawn Baptist Church.
Rev. George F. Brown, Pastor.

Rev. George F. Brown, Pastor.
Morning worship at IL o'clock. Sub
ject: Little Foxes" This will be an
illustrative talk to children and younr
people.
Evening worship at o'clock. Sub
iect: THE Life or Power of the
Church" This will be the third of the
series on the Church.
Sunday Bible school at 9:45. R. L.
Maynard. Supt
Baptist Young Peoples Union, at
6:15 sharp.
Mid-week prayer meeting at 7:15
Wednesday. Subject: Moses Praying
on Mount Sinai"
The pastor urges a full attendance
of the membership, and most cordial
invitation is extended to the stranger
to meet and worship with us.
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he held At I'm O'clock

be held at 1880 o'clock.
Golden Texa: Proverbs 1910. The
name of the Lord is a strong tower;
the righteous runneth into it, and is
safe.
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st. Paul Methodist.
Presbyterian Church.

Presbyterian Church.
+ Rev. E. Thorpe will preach at the
Presbyterian church Sunday morning
and evening, at IL a. m, and .. m
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First Methodist Church.

Rev. p w. Ellis, Pastor
Sunday school at $50 a. m. T. o.
Marshall, Supt.
Preaching at II a. m. and p. m. by
the pastor.
Morning subject: rs There ANY
Other Saviour Than Jesus?"
Evening subject Striking Exam
piles of Trust and Prayer"
Epworth League, Tuesday at 1880
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p. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday at 1870
p, m.
Sunday school teachers meeting
Friday at 73O p. m.
Good music. Plain gospel preach
ing.
Sunday evening service specially de-
signed for young people. Favorite
songs will be sung; a male quartette
will render a special song, and an
thems by double quartette. Services
never exceed one hour.
Everybody is invited.
Brooklyn Heights Chapel.
Sunday school at p. m. Prayer
meeting at 1900 o'clock Wednesday.
st. Paul Methodist.
East Americas.
Sunday school at p. m. Prayer
meeting Thursday at 7:S0 p. m.
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WASHINGTON CAMP,
NO 4.P. o. s. OF A,

Meets every first and third Monday
nights in P. o. S. Of A. Hall, No. 219
Lamar st. All members in good stand
ng invited to attend. Beneficiary certi-
acates from $25O.Oe to 100000 issued
to members Of this camp.
s. A. JENNINGS. Prest.
o. D. REESE. Recd'g secX
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Calvary Episcopal Church.

Rev. J. B. Lawrence, Rector.
Holy Communion, 7:3O a. m. This
will be the corporate communion of
Chapter D of the Parish Guild.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
Morning prayer, litany and sermon
at IL a. m.
Evening prayer and sermon, at
7;3O p. m.
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Lee Street Methodist Church.

Rev. George NJ. AGREE, Pastor.
Preaching today at II q. m. and p.
M, by the pastor.
Sunday School, $3.50 a. M, T. NJ
Furlow, superintendent.
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Christian Science Church.
Taylor street.
Morning service at II o'clock Sun
day. Wednesday evening services will
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-03-08
TELEPHONE MANNERS

BY establishing the right of a tele-
phone company OF refuse service to
a person whose conversation over the
wire is habitually uncivil the Public
favor On that fraction of humanity
domiciled within the bounds of New
York State the value of which would
be difficult to figure out. Probably it
would be asking too much of the
Commissioners for regulation elm
mating the bore from the list of those
eligible to use Professor Bells more
or less modified blessing to the race;
the Commissioners are not in charge
of the millennium; they have earned
thanks by putting it in the power of
the corporation to suppress those
whose irritating attitude infiames the
wrath of their victims and exposes
the operators to insults.
The telephone stirs all that is least
admirable in some men. 1t strips
them of acquired habits Of address,
develops their instinct to bully, robs
them Of whatever veneer of ciyiliza-
ton they may have attained for per-
sonai contact with their fellows. Such
men say things to switchboard opera
tors they would not dare to say to
the stenographers that sit at their
elbows-and, unhappily, that meas
ures a long distance in rudeness'
They talk to the unfortunates at the
other end of the line with violence
and pugnacity utterly foreign to them
when they meet customers, patrons
or clients face to face.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-03-08
SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY

The reading public of all America
IS scanning the newspapers these
days with but one thought in mind
is America going to war?
This question is for the present m
answerable. For the time being, at
least, the secret is locked in the
breast of the president and his coun-
cillors. The American people can on
ly wait.
In the meantime, let's attend to bu-
siness. 1t is important only for the
present that we look after our indi-
vidual affairs and allow matters of
state to take their course.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof" 1t is a good old doctrine.
In other words, about the best
thing we can do today is to watch our
own individual affairs and not to
worry.
And for those of us who turn in
stinctively to Holy Writ for inspira-
ton and instruction in times like
these, what better words than these
Of Joshua. the Warrior Prophet?
Take diligent heed to do the
commandment and the law,
to love the Lord your God, and
to walk in all his ways, and to
keep his commandments, and to
cleave unto him and to serve him
with all your soul.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-03-08
Bridgeton, N. J. March 8, 1917
BETRAYERs OF THEIR COUNTRY

BETRAYERS OF THEIR COUNTRY
Members of the United States SEN
ate, constituting a small minority of
that body, spent the closing hours of
tae session in preventing the passage
of a measure giving the President full
authority to provide for the national
defense in a time OF peculiar danger.
They sought to leave him no choice
but submission to the Power that has
held up American commerce, taken
American lives, and endeavored to
form an alliance for the invasion of
American soil. In the very shadow
of war they abuse the name of peace.
They give different excuses for their
attitude; one fears an undue extern
sion of executive power, one is moved
by hatred of England, one clamors for
neutrality at any price. All alike are
false to their oath of office, all alike
have come close to the border line of
treason. The worse offender among
them, Senator Stone, who by reason
Of mis- position as chairman of the
Foreign Relations Committee was un-
der special obligations to support the
Administration, even went so far as
to reveal the plans of the navy for
protecting American merchantmen
from submarine attack. The col
leagues of these friends of Germany
showed a proper resentment by sign
ing a protest repudiating the craven
surrender and disowning the deed of
shame.
What really has been accomplished
by this infamy? 1t was a high price
to pay for one more needless proof
that the Senate rules should be
amended. Beyond this it will be of
no effect. The German Government
may be deluded for a moment into
thinking that the American people are
not behind the President; if so, it will
be quickly undece1ved. The Admins
tratlon may be embarrassed Tor
moment in carrying out its plans of
defense if so, the delay will not be
long The President naturally desired
the explicit sanction of Congress at
such time; but he can get along
without it; his authority to act, par
ticularly when Congress is not In
session, is undeniable. The worst
harm Senator Stone and his unpatri-
otic followers have done is the harm
they have done to themselves. They
have stood up in the moment of the
country's peril to be counted as men
without country. They have sought
its submission in the face of foreign
aggression. They have tried to make
its flag a symbol of humiliation and
disgrace. Their recoking at the bar
of public opinion will be heavy one,
and they cannot escape the payment.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-03-08
LITTLE HOPE OF DISCIPLINE

When Furman Mulford was driving
the damaged motor fire truck about
the down town streets and running it
head on into the front of the Pioneer
Office. blocking traffic on North Laur-
ell Street, it was of course thought
that the driver was playing practi-
cal joke upon this paper, owing to the
fact that the Pioneer had said the
machine was out of commission owing
to careless handling of the machine
upon the wretched roads. The Pho
neer in referring to the joke suggest
ed that the taxpayes were the real
victims of the joke as the machine
will have to have considerable expen-
diture made upon it for repairs and
gasoline to move the heavy machine
upon 'joke making" trips, costs con-
siderable money these days. The Pho
neer suggested that a bit of discipline
applied by tnose in control would add
effectiveness to the department.
There is. however, little hope of dis
cipline. The joke was not wholly that
of the fire department driver The
brilliant joke, it is now explained,
was the invention Of Councilman Hen
ry A. Hettinger and Commissioner of
Public Safety Murphy. 1t is said that
these distinguished and far seeing Of
ficiais ordered Milford to drive the
machine down to the newspaper office
and make the childish exhibition.
In these days of governmental eff
cheney one may expect innovations
from the thoughtful men who are in
public control, and now that the mat
ter is explained, it is quite certain
that the public generally and the tax
payers particularly, will applaud the
demonstration of the men in control
of the department. 1t will also be
matter of great satisfaction to the
Commissioner and the Councilman to
know that they have publicly exhibit
ed t1e damaged truck to the people
who will have to pay the bill to have
repairs made for injury that no one
can explain how they occurred
The Pioneer acknowledges the joke
1t is mighty good one on us.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-03-08
AN ENCOURAGING RECORD

On March 3, 1916, the votes of 6S
Senators of the United States were
cast to uphold the nations honor and
lay the Gore resolution on the table,
One year later, rs Senators signed
a document setting fortn their desire
to vote to uphold the nations honor,
and explaining the legislative situa-
ton which robbed them of the oppor-
tunity so to do.
On March 7. 1916, in the House, 276
Representative voted yea on the mo-
ton to lay the McLemore resolution
on the table, and thus to upnold Am
erican honor.
Six days short of one year later,
4O3 Representatives voted aye on the
bill to define the intention of the
United States to defend it's rights with
arms, if such defense should become
necessary.
Thus eliminated "a year of German
intrigue, Of German propaganda, of
German effort to corrupt and control
the legislative department of the
United States; and to t1is record, but
for the intervention of the constitu-
tional limitation on the Congress of
the United States, would have been
added the passage of the armed neu-
trality bill by the Senate.
1t is a record not perfect, but en-
couraging 1t holds promise that we
shall soon emerge from the fetid at
mosphere of detestable cowardice and
stand solidly on the rock of unim-
paired AmericanisB.
Arm the American ships, and bid
them enforce respect for the flag on
the seas!
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-03-08
N ClanCeTy Of New JeIseg

~ NELLIE JENKINS, GERTRUDE
NJ. JENKINS AND JOHN II, JEN-
KINS:
by virtue of an order of the Court
Vi Chaneery made on the day of the,
uate nereof, in a cause wherein Mary
ilusted is complainant and you and
otners are defendants, you are re-
qulred to appear plead, answer or de-
nlur to the complainant's bill on or
peiore the l4th day of April next, or
SAID bill will be taken as confessed
against you.
The said bill is fileo for the parti-
tlon OF certain lasads in the Township
u Downe, Cumberland County, New
Jersey, OF which Harrison Jenkins
uied seized. and yon Gertrude M. Jen-
kns and John H. Jenkins are made
uelendants because you are tenants in
common therein and you Nellie Jen-
kins are made defendant because as
'he WIDOW CT Lemuel Jenkins, de-
ceased, who. owned an undivided in
.erest In said lands, you may claim a
rlght OF dover in his interest therein.
Dated February 13, 1917.
HUGH L. REEVES.
solicitor of Complainant,
80 East Commerce ST.,
- 5ridgeton, N. ].
u
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-03-08
IOWA THE AUTOMOBILE STATE

Twenty years ago the horseless car
riage was in it's earliest experimental
stages. Today there are more than
2,5000,000 motor cars in the United
States-a car to every forty-one per-
sons! In sixteen years the revenue
derived from automobile licenses
alone has grown from less than $1,000
to more than $1S,000,0 900 in the year
1916. Ninety per cent. of this amount
was spent on road and highway i'm
proyements. But perhaps the most
interesting facts in the automobile in
dustry relates to the car-per-popula-
ton figures. Iowa, for instance, has
car to every fifteen persons, while
New York, our richest State, has a
car to every tnirty-nine persons. In
other words, Iowa, in proportion to
her population, has twice as many
cars as New York, and twenty times
as many as Tennessee.
The Southern States have the low
est averages of automobiles according
to population, while the Western
States have the largest.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-03-08

white oak tree, a corner of Zaehariah
BitterS marsh ON an island; thence
bounding on marsh of G. Compton
and S. Stathem south eighty-six and
one quarter degrees east eight chains
seven links to corner; thence south
eighty-seven and three quarters de-
grees east two chains to corner;
thence bounding on marsh of C.
Compton north forty-two and three
quarters degrees east ten chains ff-
teen links to middle of gut; thence
down the gut the several courses
thereof and along marsh OF David
Gilman to the fork of the gut; thence
up the fork OF the gut to Jacob Harris
marsh; thence along said Jacob Har-
ris marsh south sixty-one and one
half degrees west five chains twenty
links to d corner on east edge of an
island; thence along marsh of Jacob
Harris and Howell Watson south sew
enty-eight degrees and fifty-five min
utes west thirteen chains eighty-four
links to the edge Of Stoe Greek;
thence up said creek the several
courses thereof to a corner, being
corner of Zachariah Bitters' marsh:
thence bounding on said Bitter's
marsh, north seventy-three and three
quarters degrees east ten chains
twelve links to a white oak tree:
thence still bounding on said Bitters'
marsh north sixteen and three quar-
ters degrees east five chains and fif-
teen links to the Beginning.
CONTAINING thirty-five acres.
more or less.
EXCEPTING therefrom, six acres
TO be cut off from the southeast side
devised by the will of William Whea-
ton to Providence Wheaton, and six
acres to be cut off the north east side
ana adjacent to the above devised to
John Wheaton by the will Of said
William Wheaton.
With the hereditaments and appur--
tenances
WILLIAM S. BACON,
DAVID M. BOWEN,
WILLIAM MULFORD,
Commissioners.
). Hampton Fithian, Attorney.
2-26; 3-5. 12, 10
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-03-08
RETURN TO REASON

Says the New York Times, issue of
February 25:
There seems to be no end to the
unusual goings on in this country.
Last week the New Jersey Legisla-
tive Commission advised the repeal
Of six of the Seven Sisters" laws,
which were to make the state happy
by abolisning trusts. South Carolina
repealed the laws which were to
cheaper insurance, but which drove
all insurance companies from the
state. Texas passed a bill inviting
back to the state the corporations
which were convicted under the anti
trust laws. The Federal Department
of Justice ceased its grand jury in
yestigations of the 1igh cost of liv-
ing, because no proof of conspiracy
had been found. Representative Lind
bergh withdrew his remarks inn
peaching the Federal Reserve Board,
because he had no evidence against
it. A congressional investigating
committee reported that no official
was blameworthy in connection with
the famous peace leak which drowned
its discoverer and patentee, Mr.. Law
son. Representative Moore abandoned
his attempt to procure investigation
Of his allegation that the newspapers
are venal. having sold themselves to
foreign governments unnamed. Penn
sylvania's S commission of inquiry re-
ported that there was no basis for the
belief that there was any conspiracy
to increase the price Of anthracite i'm
properly.
ANY of these things might have
happened without any cause for spe-
cial wonder, but not all of them. Have
the people grown weary of the muck
rakers. and are they seeking other
scapegoats than the trusts? Or have
the truths brought forth fruits meet
for repentance?"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-03-08
NEW RECORDS

From the first, without a lapse in .
single year since the beginning 81
years ago. the automobile has been a
maker OF new records. Not all OF
these records, as a matter of course,
have been of equal significance. Some
have marked gains within but one
period of development; others, fewer
in number but far-reaching in effect,
have signalized the entry into new
periods Of development in the making
and distribution Of motor vehicles.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-03-08
IDLE ACRES

1t will be a calamity to have any
idle acres during the approaching
growing season. The plea is for
planting-the planting of grain and
vegetables. Plant everywhere. There
should be no abandoned farm land
during 1917 There should be no idle
vacant lots in the city. The waste
places here should be productive gar
dens. Preparedness is the watch
word of the hour. The people should
prepare now against actual want and
high prices for living necessities. The
people must have food. Let it be pro-
duced
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-03-08
A BILLION FOR ALTOS

II
| The present greatest show on
earth is that of the various types of
motor vehicle and passenger car for
1917, and the 10000 feet of floor space
devoted to Bridgeton's wonderful ex-
hibition which opened yesterday, pre-
sents what is the latest triumphant
word in the application of art and of
science to the huge industry OF rail-
less transportation.
From the day of the tentative and
experimental "horseless carriage"
down to this hour the development
has been as amazing as any wonder
of the Arabian Nights in the blinking
eyes of Aladdin rubbing his lamp.
Even in one year a marvel has been
wrought in the increase of the output.
Let us briefly pass in review the high
points of the statistical showing. Mo-
tor vehicles were produced in 1916 to
the number of 1,617,70S, and this was
nearly double the 1915 production of
S92,618. The value came to the pro-
digious total of S,02S,273, as
against $691,77S,950 for the year be-
fore Like that of the railroads, this
has become billion-dolIar industry.
AS for passenger cars-there were
1,525.57S of these sold in 1916, COM
pared with S42,249 sold the year be-
fore, and the 1916 output was worth
nearly billion dollars-or, to be ex-
act, $921,37S,O ,O00-compared with the
1915 valuation of $565 1856, ,450. AS for
the motortrucks, 92,130 were sold in
1915, against 5O,969 in 1915, with total
values of S166,65O,27 and $125 1922, 800
respectively.
1t is encouraging to note that with
these figures of production and valu-
alton soaring the price to the individ-
ual buyer has gone down. The aver
age retail price of the passenger car
in 1915 was $672, and in 1916 it was
$605. Mechanical improvement has
not been effected at the cost of the
purchaser, but at that of the great
factories, which have enlisted in their
daily service the best human brains
and the best raw material to be pro-
duced.
And still more significant is the cir
cumstance that this amazing growth |
of the industry, and especially of the |
output for domestic consumption, has
been effected side by side with an ex-
traordinary stimulation of demand for
trucks for military purposes abroad |
There was no interruption Of the ex-
pansion of the automobile trade in
the United States, no diversion of ef-
fort or output, but a striking demon
stration of the ability of an already
highly organized industry to adjust
itself to abnormal conditions There
is nothing more hopeful for American
industry as whole than this demon
stration of fexibility and prepared
ness.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-03-08
MOTORTZING

While City Council is advertising
specifications for motorizing the fire
apparatus. would it not be well 10
provide for specifications for chauf-
feurs. Commissioner Murphy seems
to have less trouble satisfying HIM
self with apparatus, than he does with
men to handle it.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-03-08
Commissioners Sale
OF VALUABLE
Real Estate

The subscribers, Commissioners ap-
pointed by Honorable Leroy W. LODI
er. Judge of the Cumberland County
Court Of Common Pleas, to make par
tition of certain lands held as tenants
in common by Harry M. Seeley, Wal
ter c. Wheaton and Orla Wheaton,
will, pursuant to an order of said
Court dated February %, 1917, sell at
public vendue on
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-03-08
Saturday, The TweBiy-Fourih Day Of March
Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen,

at two o'clock in the afternoon at the
Court House in the City of Bridgeton,
all those certain tracts Of land situate
in the Township of Greenwich, in the
County of Cumberland and State of
New Jersey, bounded and described
as follows:
No. 1. BEGINNING in the centre
Of the road in the line of the Thomas
E. Hunt farm and is the south east
corner of the Joseph While farm and
runs thence along the centre of the
road and bounding on said Wible's
land south eighty-nine degrees west
twelve rods and thirteen links to
corner; thence still along the centre
of the road and bounding on said Will
ble's land south seventy-five degrees
thirty-five minutes west sixty-two
rods ten links to a corner; thence
still bounding ON said Wibles land
north twelve degrees west twenty
three rods eighteen links to corner:
thence still bounding on Wible's land
south seventy-five degrees thirty-fve
minutes west fOrty-siX rods two links
to corner in the centre of the road
to Davis Mill, thence along the centre
of the Davis Mill road and crossing
the first mentioned road and bound
ing on lands of Howell P. Watson,
Isaac Ridgway and George Thomas
south eighteen degrees east. one hum
dred and ten rods eight links to
corner; thence bounding on said
Thomas land south fifty-nine degrees
west eight rods to corner: thence
bounding on said Thomas land south
| slXteer degrees east thrty-five and
one han rods to corner: thence
| north seventy-two degrees east forty-
eight rods six links to a corner in
the line of land of the Estate of ed
| ward Brooks; thence bounding on
SAID Brooks land and on No. 2 here
after described north sixteen degrees
west fifty-six and one haif rods to a
corner; thence stil, bounding On M
IL north seventy-nine degrees east
seventy-four rods six links tn a cor
ner in the line of the aforesaid Brooks
land; thence bounding thereon and
on land of the Estate Of Thomas n
HUNT, north sixteen degrees west six
ty-seven rods to the place of Begin
ming.
| CONTAINING sixty-nine and twan-
ty one-hundredths acres OF land
No. 2. BEGINNING in tbe line 90
land of the Estate of Edward Brooks
and is the south east corner Of No !
above described and runs thence
bounding on said Brooks land south
thirteen and one quarter degrees q. -
Eight chains fifty-two lines TO a cor
ner; thence still bounding nm cold
Brooks land south sixty-three depraes
fifty minutes west three chains IN q
corner; thence still bounding on said
Brooks land south seventy-seyan Dc dc.
grees ten minutes west fifteen chains
sixty-three links to a Corner in Iino
of No. L; thence boundino tharan's
north thirteen degrees twentu-
minutes west ten chains fifty-six links
to corner; thence still bonndinn lMs n,s
No. l north eighty-one and ono n,a oA
ter degrees east eighteen chains "n.,
| sixty-eight links to the placs 90 anu nn
ginning VI De-
| CONTAINING eighteen and 49,.
seven one-hundredths acres "eu's-
] No. 3. BEGINNING At