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Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31
NO FEAR OF FOOD
OVERPRODUCTION

1t is folly to talk Of the overproduc-
ton of foodstuffs this year. To sug-
gest it is mischievous. Anything that
ends to discourage farmers from
planting every acre possible or chill
the zeal of home gardeners will re-
duce the supply next winter and max e
certain higher prices.
The country has been aroused by
the knowledge of world wide short
age, and this condition would not be
changed if peace were declared to-
morrow.
In the existing emergency, one of
the tasks set the United States is to
provision Europe as well as itself
nd insure both against famine and
uinous prices. The wheat. corn, po-
atoes and other staple produced in
this country will be needed to make
good the abnormal deficiency in Eur
ope as well as replenish the reserves
here, now seriously depleted. The
general yield of foodstuffs cannot be
too large. Safety requires the raising
OF a surplus that will help to restore
the balance after year of lean crops
and excessive waste and consumption
me alarmist who raises the cry OF
overproduction in the face of the ac.
tual situation is brother to the agita.
tor OF a food embargo, disloyal te
this Nation and it's allies in the war.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31
LOWERING LIVING COSTS

Your great-grandfather carried the
market basket on his arm and your
great-grandmother never saw a deliv-
cry wagon from any store. There
was none.
Today, the merchant will pay hun
Hreds of dollars to carry home custo-
mer's packages.
1t costs us not more than one cent
to bring an orange more than 5000
miles from California, but your fruit
dealer, two blocks away, will charge
you double that commission to bring
it to your house.
Three busy tax-gatherers wno dip
INTO your pocket every day are, Have
it charged Have it exchanged"
"Have it delivered
Merchants cannot work for pleas
ure alone, and when you insist tha4
you shall have your commodities
charged, "eXchanged'', and "deliy-
cred" it is goodnight, economy.
Pay cash. Keep what you buy and
carry your package home, and the
price of every commodity will fall.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31
THE TENOR OF PEACE TALK

THE TENOR OF PEACE TALK
There is growing evidence of an
epidemic of peace talk among Euro
pean nations. Apparently, the epi-
demic started somewhere in Ger
many" and has spread to practically
all the capitals of Europe.
However, there seems to be no indi-
cation that the contagion is virulent
enough to give hope of it's proving an
immediate end of the war.
Boiled down, the peace talk seems
to amount to something like this:
Germany wants peace, providing
there are to be mo annexations and
no indemnities." That means that
Germany is willing to relinquish all
claims to all the foreign provinces
that she has seized, providing she
doesn't have to pay any indemnities
to anybody. In fact, she. virtually pro-
poses to return to the geo.
graphical lines that existed when the
war started. Apparently, she is striv-
ing to escape paying damages and
she is trying to hold Alsace-Loraine.
All of which. when you compare it
with the boastings of the Germany of
few months ago, means that Ger
many is thoroughly thrashed, and
that she knows it; moreover, that she
is anxious to make terms now while
the makings are good"
France, on the other hand, says
that she will talk peace when Ger
many shows willingness to relin-
quish Alsace-Loraine and to pay for
the destruction she has wrought in
the smaller nations-Belgium, Servia,
Montenegro, etc. She takes the posi-
ton that Germany has been a law
breaker and that she should pay the
of which indicates that
France believes Germany is at least
overpowered and should submit to a
punishment commensurate with her
crime.
And Washington, if unofficial re-
ports from the United States capital
are to be trusted, has practically said
that whatever France says GOES; in
other words, that the aims of this
country and her allies-irrespective
of Russia-are identical.
The long and short of it is that
there is a new tone to the peace talk.
There is panicky note in the voice
from Germany, and there is tone of
and assuredness in the talk
from France.
In all the peace talk there is a
promise Of no far distant end of the
war-but at the same time there is
ring of determination in the tone of
the Allies that promises but little len
iency for Prussianism.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31

grees west thirteen rods to the place
of Beginning.
CONTAINING Ten acres of land be
the same more or less.
BEING the same premises conveyed
to Max Sharenov by deed from Isaac
Chase and wife. dated the 7th day Of
March, 1910, recorded in Cumberland
County Clerks Office in Book 3O7 Of
Deeds, page 507, &c.
Seized as the property of Max
Sharenov, defendant, taken in execu1
ton at the suit of Harry M. Seele3
and Walter M. Goodwin, trading a
Seeley and Goodwin, plaintiffs, All
to be sold by
CHARLES v. MARSHALL,
Sheri
Orestes Cook, Atty.
Dated May 10, 1877 .n-h Is
Prs fees $41.2O 5-1O. II. "a: 6.t1
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate of Clara L. Cansdell, deceased
Pursuant to the order of Frank F.
Wallace, Surrogate of the County of
Cumberland, made on the tenth day
of May, 1917, on application of the
undersigned Executrix of said de-
ceased, notice is hereby given 20 the
creditors of the decedent to bring in
to the subscriber their debts, demands
and claims against the estate OF said
deceased, under oath, within nine
months from the date of such order.
or they will be forever barred from
prosecuting or recovering the same
against the subscriber.
Dated May 10th, 1917.
ELLEN L. CANSDELL.
Executrix.
Leverett Newcomb. Proctor.
5-11 CIV
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Estate of Louis M. Schiendelman.
deceased.

ESTATE OF Louis M. Schiendelman,
deceased.
Pursuant to the order Of Frank F.
Wallace, Surrogate of the County of
Cumberland, made on the twenty-first
day of May, 1917, on application of
the undersigned Executrix of said
deceased, notice is hereby given to
the creditors of the decedent to bring
in to the subscriber their debts, de-
mands and claims against the estate
of said deceased, under oath, within
nine months from the date of such
order, or they will be forever barred
from prosecuting or recovering the
same against the subscriber.
Dated May 21st, 1917.
MARY SCHI HIENDELMAN. Ex-
ecutrix of the estate of Louis
M. Schiendelman, deceased. 4
]. Hampton Fithian, Proctor.
5-22 3w
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31

With a record potato crop in sight,
prices to the consumer, if showing
any change at all, advance rather than
decline. One of these days the real
domestic potato of 1917 will appear
in the market, and then, unless all
laws, natural and human, fail, there
will be a mark-down that will be
worth going many miles to see
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31
SPENDING TO ECONOMIZE

President Rea, of the Pennsylvania
asked what his road had done to
economic by shortening railway di-
visions, ETC., replied that these things
could not be done because of the tre-
mendous expense involved. The rail-
ways are in the unhappy position of
the man who finds that if he is going
to economize he will have to spend
a lot of money first-and money ne
hasn't got, at that.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31

Ambassador Francis, we are told,
is now the most popular speaker in
Russia. Is he fluent in Russian. or
do the Russian crowds understand
English?
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31
NOT HIS FAULT

II Uncle Sam goes to the demnition
ooWwows through mixing in this afro
clous war, he can't shake his long
lean, CORY fingers at the Hon. Will
liam Joel Stone, of Missourah, and
say he did it.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31
SOME FOLKS LUCK

And while those who have attained
their twenty-first birthday and have
not yet attained their thirty-first
birthday are putting their names on
the rolls, let them remember that
there are lots of fellows whose thir-
ty-first birthday is mere history that
are envying them.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31
LET'S TRY 1t

If landlords raise rents on the ba-
SIS OF larger coal bills, why should
not tenants demand a reduction on
the basis of larger grocers' and
butchers bills?
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31
NIGHT BE WORSE

Enemy aliens who are discommod
ed by restrictions placed upon their
liberty In New York might we'll con-
sider what they would be doing If
they were back in Germany Or Aus
tria, where they belong.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31
Friday, June l, 1917.


On
Friday, June l, 1917,
at o'clock in the afternoon of said
day at
THE COURT HOUSE BUILDING
in the City of Bridgeton, in the Coun-
ty of Cumberland and State of New
Jersey, all those three certain tracts
of land and premises, situate in the
Township of Deerfield, in the County
of Cumberland and State of New Jer-
sey bounded and described as fol-
lows
No. 1. BEGINNING at stake Cor
ner in the east line of Morton avenue
in the old division line between Sam
uel M. Fox and VIM. G. Nixon's lands,
now owned by w. ]. Purvis, thence
north seventy one degrees west one
hundred and twenty six rods to
stake corner in line of one Garri-
sons; thence along the same south
eighteen and one half degrees west
thirteen rods to corner in said line,
being the northwest corner of land
conveyed this day by James Thomas,
thence along said land south seventy
one degrees east one hundred and
twenty seven rods to corner, in the
centre of Morton avenue thence along
said centre north nine and one-half
degrees east thirteen rods to the
place of beginning.
CONTAINING ten acres OF land
more or less.
BEING the same premises conveyed
to the said David Thomas by deed
from Wilson ]. Purvis and wife dated
December seventeenth 1892 and re-
corded in Cumberland County May
10Th, 1908, in Book No. 267 page 286
&C.
No. 2. BEGINNING at a stone
short distance eastwardly from a line,
Turkey Oak Tree (thence bearings in
accordance with the Meridian line
Standard of Cumberland County TAX
en- March Goth, 1897 south sixty two
degrees and forty minutes east two
chains and fourteen links to a stone,
thence south twenty two degrees
west three chains and seventy five
links to a stake northeast corner of
a lot sold to James Thomas, thence
by said lot south eighty nine degrees
and ten minutes west twenty two
chains and thirty-fve links to a cor
ner in the centre of Morton Avenue,
thence along the centre of said ave-
nue., north four degrees and twenty
five minutes east four chains and fifty
links to corner in the centre of said
avenue, thence north eighty nine de-
grees and ten minutes east twenty
one chains and forty eight links to
the place of beginning.
CONTAINING ten acres and twen-
ty one hundredths of an acre more
or less.
BEING the same premises conveyed
to the said David Thomas by deed
| from Samuel M. Fox dated November
3rd 1902 and recorded in Cumberland
| County in Book 267 of Deeds page
285.
| Book 2S1 page SAL.
No. 8. BEGINNING in the cenIre
Of Morton Avenue at the northeast
corner of one Thomas land formerly
Samuel M. Fox land in the old divi-
sion line between said Fox and the
Purvis land; thence along said line
north seventy degrees west one hun
dred and twenty four rods to a cor
ner of said Thomas land in line OF
the old Griner land; thence along said
land north eighteen and one-half de-
grees east thirteen rods to a corner
in the Purvis land; thence along the
same south seventy degrees east one
hundred and twenty two rods to 8
corner in the centre of Morton Ave-
nue.; thence along the centre of said
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31

there Is any foreign nation not
yet insuited or injured by Germany
her Foreign Office would like to he
apprised, that it may make the neces.
sary arrangements.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31

The House may cling to it's preroga-
tive of originating revenue bills, but
the prerogative isn't worth much
when the bills are so badly drawn
that the Senate has to transform them
beyond recognition.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31

The news from Austria is conflict
ing, but the sum and substance of il
seems to be that everybody is dissat-
isfied with everything.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31

Even the colleges that have not had
their commencement have made a
good start. k,,,
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31
PEOPLE WE DO NOT CARE TIC

PEOPLE WE DO NOT CARE TO
MEET
The neighbor lady's exemplary hus-
band.
The man whose dog we kicked.
Ihe man on our phone line we
sassed.
Our umbrellas owner.
The lady whose cook we hired.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31

countrymen not to underestimate Am
erica is voice crying in the German
official wilderness.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-05-31
SHERIFF'S SALE

By virtue of sundry writs of fieri
facias, to me directed, issued out of
the Cumberland Common Pleas Court,
l will expose to sale at public vendue,
On
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-23
Little InsroiUS
ZebuloD Pike, First American To Visit Ell Paso
Park Pitmap Proposes Naming Mountain For Him

80 NICE neither the old timers. the
- school teachers nor the high
- school children have answered
my query as 70 who was the first
United States citizen TO pass through
q Paso~ said Park W. Pitman. Il an
going 20 answer It myself, because this
e the 10th anniversary OF the arrival
IN z Paso Of Lieut. Zebulon Mont
gomery Pike. the first citizen of the
United States 10 look upon the site OF
The present city OF e Paso. But there
vas not even a ranch here then though
me town Of Paso del Norre, now
Juarez. had been founded and was OF
some little commercial importance as
l. occupied the pass from Mexico 10
me north
When Joseph Jefferson paid SIS
roo. 900 for the Louisiana purchase, the
knockers then, as now, were on the
job. charging graft by the payment
Tor worthless territory. To ascertain
Just what he had bought Jefferson
sent out the Lewis and Clark expedi-
ton TO the northwest in 1895 and sent
Lieut. Pike 10 explore the source OF
che Mississippi, which took him a year,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-23
Don't Lose Caution In Prosperity
(BY H. S. H.

Advces from South Africa state that common labor,
SUCH used in road building, be had
cents day. whereas this country the same grade
labor commands SIPS day and living quarters But IN
Africa living much cheaper that the 40 cent man
much seriously put TO it to provide food and
clothing than the SIPS this country II isn't the
money counts but what the money will buy, and the
500 month of today better off than the 500
month of. 20 years ago.
The high prices which causing much dssatlsac-
present, resulting in instances IN noting are
not sectional national As has been pointed out
ousy, living averages higher IN FL Paso than IN New
York City San Francisco. Incidentally there has
food rotng here 1t is hoped everyone has taken
iue notice of that fact.
Here is another thought: Along with the high living
osts high wages and very high prices for smell
mill and farm products throughout all this southwestern
he ella valley where the hay makers prosperous
never befoIe at "a cents short staple cotton at IS
to IS cents and long staple high 81 cnts range cattle
being bought s32 yeangs silver above 20 cents
ounce-these are prices dreamed of few years ago
with the constant stimulus TO increased production the
entire southwest is prospecting.
In short, the cost of living high but wages are HIGH
while the things the southwest has TO sell 90 into
arket strong that very great prosperity IS the result
This is a time when mining men, farmers merchants
others who profng most should not forget caution
the money into bank into sound investment,
srtibe at need keep there for the time that is
ing will be needed The day coming when prices
will fall when the high cost of living viii be forgotten and
the farmer and the other producers will get very much
their products and may also be forced down.
Don't the money away today. Make wise Of It
for another day
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-23
New Mexico's Adjutant General

When Gov Lindsey of New Mexico announced he had ten
the office of state adutant general Capt Charles NJ
DeBremond commanding battery A New Mexico Field srt
ery the hope registered that Capt DeBremond might
his way clear to accept provided conditions made
such that his influence for the good of the New Mexico
tionsl guard may be made effective However he did not
feel able the office with the business sacrifices it
would have entailed.
No officer no matter how much ability or how much
initiative he may possess make state military oTgan
zaon what should be unless the people of the state give
both him and the national guard the right kind Of support
The right kind Of support the hand willing
in the national guard and TO make just
good possible and the other hand willingness ap
propate sufficient funds to keep the troops up the top
notch Above all there should be hamperng Of poll
tics around the adutant generals office He should be given
vherewha to work and then left make good with
ideas aided eniy by the cooperation Of every
Of the state Legislature governor and the whole body Of
the population should give him the kind Of support
they themselves moved and then to ask Many
kind things true and many false, said Of New
Mexcos national guard when ii called to the coloIs It
pleasant for the state than for the regiment
itself which at least had the that trying
hard and doing the best 1t could The Pennsylvania div
is example of what be by national guard
organization with heart statewide sentiment back OF it.
Adj Gen C. 7. Herring could have done well proportion
atey, with the support So other officer
adutant general If the state does its part Under the cir
umstance adutant general Herring could Dc better than
his best
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-23

to my knowledge, came into existence
this week. according TO the health re-
ports" said Jack Dawson. city clerk.
The majority Of the births in RI PasO
are Mexicans while the Americans rank
third Next come the negroes. There
are comparatively few other foreigners
born in the city. especially among the
yellow race
considering the mixture OF popu-
latiOn and the great number of soldiers
which are camped in and, about II. I
believe Fl Paso TO he the most orderly
city have ever been in" declared firsr
sergeant Willard Murphy. OF company
X. Second Georgia infantry. Il have
been in every quarter Of the town at
all hours. and 1 have always felt safe
The police are remarkably efficient"
when I came 20 Il Paso q few
weeks ago. I found my former captain
IN the Philippines was the command
ing officer in Fl Paso." said Richard
Monahan, Of Hotel Paso del Norte
Gen. Bell was my captain and com
pany commander years ago IN Manila.
I had completely lost rack of him
until I came here"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-23
Ry J. A. PONDFR-

grsss and which was located on the
DeGrOff block. across Kansas street
from the city hall
Taps for Gambling"
The night of the meeting the pavilion
was packed and hundreds were unable
10 get ia Tom . keeffs. who. when q
boy was Z bugier in the army, re-
marked at the close OF the meeting
That's taps for gambling in q PaSo-
Stirring speeches were made and hun
dreds OF recruits won TO the ranks OF
the league. The speakers all took the
position that gambling was an open
violation OF the law and that its COM
plete suppression would make cleaner
and more prosperous e Paso.
At the close OF the meeting a com
mittee was appointed TO wait upon
sheriff J. Il Boone and ask his CO.
operation in closing gambling; Judge
OF the committee. The sheriffs answer
to the committee was ! will enforce
the law"
Every thing Closes Up.
The following sunday all OF the old
blue sunday laws were enforced and
everything in E. Paso was closed. in
Guiding cigar and newspaper stands.
candy ice cream ana soda water shops
and "a strong pressure was brought by
the gamblers TO have the street cars
stopped. but in this they failed.
On the closed doors OF many saloons
were posted signs reading: Gone TO
Juarez 10 spend our money The news
papers next day recorded the fact that
Juarez was crowded with Americans all
day. and that the saloons over there
were unable 20 meet the demands OF the
thirsty.
on Monday the gambling and saloon
interest. with its many friends quietly
instituted "a boycott against the leaders
o. the league. and for while IL hurt
League members who sold milk. lemons.
ice. provisions. clothing, etc. lost their
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-23
When Ell Paso Sounded ''Taps" For Gambling
Citizen League In 1903 Made Winning Fight

trade among the saloonkeeperS gam
blers and Chinese restaurant keepers
Fight II Kept Up.
However. the league never hssitated
for an instant but kept up its fight on
gambling After awhile the cigar
stands. news dealers, candy stores and
ics cream parlors began opening on
SUNDAYS and things drifted hack into
their normal condition. except that
there was no let up in the var against
gambling Gambling places that at
tempted TO open were closed by in1unc-
zion and the intuncticns were made 10
stick
Gradually the gamblers bowed 70 the
inevitable dismautled their gambling
halls and shipped the paraphernalia 10
ether places. Many OF the gamblers
went 10 Arizona. Denver and Califor-
MIA Several OF more prominent among
their number remained in FL Paso.
turned their efforts into legitimate
business channels and made good They
are today among FL PasO's best citi-
zers and enjoy the confidence and es-
TEEN OF the business community.
When its work was finished and
gambling had been permanently ban
ishsd from FL Paso. the citiZenS league
quietly disappeared from the public
life II had accomplished its mission.
snd a Few years later even its op-
ponents Acknowledged that II had done
we'll
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-23
Little Inter0iewS

and in 1896 ne was sent to explore the
Platte. the Arkansas and the Red
rivers. Pike and his party OF IS men
landed back Of what is now known as
Pixies Peak on . river in Colorado,
which he supposed to he the Red river.
He spent the winter there and in Feb
ruary sent all Of his men except half
q dozen, back with his papers, while
Gulf
He had proceeded but z short dis
lance when he was captured by Span
iards ana notified he was on the Rio
Grsnde. Pixies captors took him 10
santa Fe where he was ordered taken
70 Mexico City. Under arrest he was
brought down the river and reached
Ii Paso March q, 1907. He spent
three days in-Juarez and was then sent
70 old Fort san Elizario. down the
valley From there he was taken 70
Chihuahua, where he was royalty en-
tertained and became great favorite-
The dashing lieutenant was liked so
well that instead Of being sent TO
Mexico City he was taken TO San An
tonic, thence TO Louisiana and released
Lieut. Pike returned to Washington.
and later enlisted in the war Of 1872
and as q major was killed in Canada
in Missouri, Kansas and Colorado
counties ana mountains have been
named in his honor. but in FL Paso
Pixies name is unknown and unsung.
Now, ! don't want 10 sing IL unless
James s. Dick or James u. McNary
viii lead the choir but do think We
might change the name OF Mount
Franklin TO Mount Pike OF Il that
would confuse il with Pixies Peak, then
call II Mount Zebulon-'
< =
I want TO make Il request Of the
public, that Is, 70 be more patient with
the traffic policemen said police cap
tain L. L Hall They have the hard
est time of all the men on the force
People fail TO recognize that the traf-
fic laws are made 10 protect pedes-
trians and automObilists alsO-not TO
delay people. Only today one Of my
men mad to stop a woman in an auto
mobile 10 allow passersby to CROSS the
street. When she finally passed him
she promised to have her husband
come down and whip him for inter-
fering with q woman on the street"
r
Sonora is enjoying peace and pros
perity and there is no sign Of revolu-
ton in the state" said Carlos Plank.
national deputy from Sonora AL
mining properties in the state are op-
Grating and foreigners who had left
Mexico are returning to their proper
ties to resume operation Gen Plu-
tzrco Elias Gales has the situation
well in hand at present"
x
The Scenic drive. skirting the rim