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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-26

CITY IN BRIEF
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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r. C. Valentine was in Des Moines
Thursday.
George Dewey, Of st. Anthony, was
in the city today.
Miss Martha 'McIlrath. OF Gilman
spent Thursday in the city.
Mrs. G. w. Wood and son George, OF
Amos. were in the city Thursday.
Mesdames r. E. Pagan and Lena Win
gard. of Gilman. spent Wednesday in
the city.
Miss Clara Richard left for Kansas
City Wednesday evening for an in
defienite visit with friends
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Mrs. s. Walker, of Montour, was in
the. city Thursday on her way to
Ottumwa, to visit relatives and friends
The body of John L. Dixon, who died
at the soldiers home Wednesday, was
sent this morning to Newton for burial
| Mrs. Marie Myers, of Omaha, who
has been visiting relatives and friends
at Quarry was in the city Thursday or
her way home.
Mrs. J. c. Briggs received word
Thursday telling OF the safe arrival
overseas Of her husband. who enlisted
April as q, blackapith in the navy.
Mrs. r. W. 8Pruttt and children, OF
New Sharon. who have been visiting
relatives and friends at Gearing, were
in the city Thursday on their way
home.
A portable even can be used on either
an oil or gas range and saves the ex-
pense and discomfort. Of heating the
large range oven. Schmidt Hardware
Company.
Mrs. G. ]. Haines AMI Miss Helen
Colehaugh, OF Rolfe, arrived In the cits
Wednesday evening to visit at the
homes Of Mrs. David Friend, Jr, AMI
Mrs. J. Gannlnges.
Mrs. w. B. Emerson and children, OF
st. Marys Idaho. who have been visit
inS for six weeks with the formers
parents, Mr.. aand Mrs. w. B. Louthan
left Thursday for their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. J.Aflard and dangh-
tiers. Lucille ind Helen, left Thursday
by automobile for Iowa City, where
another dans liter, Jessie Isabelle, was
graduated from the state university
today. KS. III.
Mrs. Guy Miller and children. Of Lit
tie Falls, Mimi. who have been visit
ing the formers father.in law, W. A
Miller. went Thursday evening to State
Center to visit her mother. Mrs. Mary
Croker.
We arc selling ct special price all
the hammocks we have left. A $5.35
hammock for S3.ss. 1915 hammock at
| sass; SS.85 hammoca<s at $?.9S. $3.49
hamghocks ut $2.Ns. Don't miss this.
Carriers G1conomy Store.
The Harmony AID society met
ThuradRy afternoon ! in the Odd
fFeilows' hall with Mes James q. B.
Pepper and Fred Datzack a. hosteeses.
Following the busineas scssion the
time was spent in quilting.
Robert Murphy. formerly member
Of the Arson baseball team. who, has
been playing; recently with rho Boston
Braves. arrived In the city THURSDAY
rom Pittsburgh, Pa. and spent the
day withsH. #. D'Copnor. Me waG on
stii9sway - ~ seme in DehxeseCdio.
:; e 81. Ra mss,1 sa ss. As
Thursday afternoon at they home of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-26

Robert Murphy, Formerly a member
Of the Arson baseball team. who, has
been playing recently with rho Boston
Braves. arrived in the city THURSDAY
fnom Pittsburgh, Pa. and spent the
day with II. #. D'Copnor Me wsA on
ID way {osh n lsenA IA DehveseC Colo.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-26

Be better prepared to fight the hot
| weather by using a good quality mould
ed garden hose. Schmidt Hardware
Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-26

We have plain white cups and sau-
GERS. $50 set of six. Carriers Economy
Store
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-26

Miss Beatrice Johnson, of State Cen
ter. spent Thursday In the city.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-26

Mrs Walter Benson. of Lamoille
spent Thursday in the city.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-26

The Harmony AID society met
ThuadAy afternoon in the ODD
NFeilows' hall with Mes James g. B
Pepper and Fred Datzack a. hostesses.
Following the businoas session the
time was spent in quilting.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-26

We arc selling ct special price all
the hammocks we have left A $5.35
hammock for ss.ss. sa.16 hammock at
sass; Ss.s5 hammonas at 32.9s. $3.4s
hamghocks ut 500. Don't miss this.
Carters Economy Store.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-26

One hundred five drafted men from
Worth county passed thru the city
Thursday evening on their way to Camp
Pike, Ark, The men came In from the
north on the NJ. & ST. l.. No. 9, and
were given an old-fashioned chicken
dinner at the union station. The west
end of the woman's waiting room was
filed with tables. and the decorations
we're large and small American faSs.
The contingent left for the south Il
O'clock
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-26

| Lloyd r. Maxwell. formerly of this
city. but now of Chicago, spent We'd
| nesday and Thursday in the city on
| business
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

The new franchise act gives the vote
to many million over thirty and
to every seaman and soldier Of nine
teen and over in the navy or army. 1t
alters radically the qualifications of
an e%lector, so that henceforth six
months residence will give a vote to
men of t%wenty-one and over, says Lon
don Daily Mail. 1t increases the mum
Der of NJ. P.'s from $40 to 702. 1t de-
stroys the old system of constituent
cies and redistributes the country on
a basis by which, in Great Britain,
there will be one member for every
10000 of population.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

When mothers and fathers separate,
the children are exposed to delin-
quency more than the children of
homes in which the parents live to-
gether, according to the result of a sur
vey of reformatories published in the
Survey. Ernest Shideler, a sociologist,
says that 50.7 per cent of delinquent
boys come from broken homes. His fig
ures point out that the mother who dis
ciplines her boy is not merely infiict-
ing burdensome restraints upon him
that boys without mothers are lucky to
escape, but is holding him in the
straight path which directs him out of
trouble. Inmates in reformatories all
over the eastern half of the country
were studied.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

The will of the latest deceased multi
millionaire bequeaths a fortune of $780,
100000 to his family exclusively. 1t
is to be noted, however, that under
our federal and state inheritance tax
laws something over $S,000,000 of this
great fortune goes into the public
treasures. Thus Croesus becomes a
public b%enefactor, ~willy-nilly, writes
James Stillman in an exchange. De
velopments like this serve to show why
taxes on great inheritances are so pop
ular. And, speaking of current be-
quests, here's an eloquent codicil to
the will of another recent decedent !:
SIN addition to a bequest before men
toned, l leave and bequeath to my son
in-law the sum of $4,000 in consider
alton of his having abandoned his
business and professional interests for
the purpose of serving his country in
the war for civilization"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25
GIVE FREELY

The annual drive for the Red Cross
is now on. The country was told
plainly, a year ago, that the hundred
millions then raised for this magnif-
cent benefaction would have to be
duplicated every year of the war. And,
so swiftly does time move, that the
first year is ended and the demands
of the Red Cross are renewed. The
response will be as prompt and as
generous this time as it was before.
The hundred millions given to the Red
Cross last year have been the best
used of all the millions which the war
has cost. Without graft and with
manifest efficiency the Red Cross has
done its work. It's personnel is singu-
larly free from the ~self-seeking, swiv-
el-chair type of administrator whom
this wal has so prolifically produced.
Men and women of the highest type
of mind and action manage the Red
Cross. From it's doors politics has
been rigidly barred. In contributing
to the Red Cross, the generous people
of the country may be sure that their
dollars reach the intended b~eneficiar-
les with the slightest attrition for ex-
penses of administration and that the
highest percentage of return is had for
every dollar used.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25
AccuMuIATlNG WEALTH.

The United States commissioner of
internal revenue has just issued some
official figures which certainly ought
to make the people of the country to
sit up and take notice. 1t has to do
with the numbers of people aecumulat-
ing vast fortunes since the war began.
The United States had, in 1914, 1909
persons with yearly incomes of $780,
900. In 1916 that number had grown
to l7,0S5. 1t has generally happened
that these fortunes have been made in
the industrial centers and mining
towns. The $4,000 a year income, of
course, does not tell the story, for
there has been a very large increase
in the people who have incomes
amounting to half a million dollars or
more, says American Breeder. Sum-
ming this all up it shows the concen-
tration of American wealth in the
hands of a very small number of
wealthy families, less than one-fiftieth
of l per cent of the entire population
of the country. Sixty per cent of the
wealth of this country in 1910 was in
the hands of . per cent of the peo-
pie. 1t is estimated that today at
least 20 per cent of all the wealth and
resources of the nation are controlled
of this very small 2 per cent OF our
population.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

What the European-that includes
the American-seems unable to grasp
is that, in the mass, Russia Is of the
East rather than of the West. The
European kept constantly in mind the
French Revolution when he should
have turned his eyes toward China,
where the closest parallel to the Rus
sian situation was to be found. To
the masses of the Chinese the only idea
conveyed by the twin words "democ-
racy'' and republic" was that of no
government, say New York Herald.
During the nearly six years in which
the Chinese masses have been trying
to absorb the idea of popular govern
ment China has been in a condition
closely approaching chaos-saved from
that, however, by the greater intelli-
gence of the Chinese masses as COM
pared with that of the Russian masses.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25
THE A

A new wore has got into general
use. 1t is "%unafraid." 1t has kept
pretty close to the dictionary, but
now it is let loose. 1t is a fine word
and has a noble meaning. 1t is one
of the first characteristics of a noble
personality. There is an admonition
if Dresser's Living by the Spirit"
that expresses the unafraid idea splen-
didly. 1t is this: "Cease to fear and
be anxious" There are some people
who are in a state of fear lest some
thing sad is going to happen, and
they are always looking about for it,
say Ohio State Journal. When you
find such a person you may be ure
that his religion is about lost, If in
deed, he ever had any. The worst
pessimist there is is not the man who
proclaims his lack of faith in God,
but the man who is always showing
it by his acts and words. II a fear
possesses him wherever he turns, and
there are so many people that way, he
is a poor, struggling, scared Christian,
If he is any Christian at all. A mans
religion ought to make him unafraid,
and if 1t doesn't he may be sure he
has lost his faith and his anchor is
dragging through the sand. If you are
a true man or woman you are I'M
afraid.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

Every boy should realize that, hav-
ing received untold benefits from the
freest and best government on earth,
he holds his services in trust for the
preservation of democracy on which
that government rests. Although he
may have to endure aching limbs and
sore muscles in field and factory, he
will be happy in the consciousness
that he has had a real part in winning
the war.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

Few children ever learn the real
glory of a porterhouse steak until they
of their own to carve for their respec-
tive families. Then they do as their
fathers did and eat the best part them
selves.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

Former Ambassador Gerard says the
Krupps control the press of Germany.
However, they do not have as firm a
grip on some papers in this country as
they did a year ago.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

one of the after-the-war dangers is
tnat the women who have become so
proficient in knitting will insist upon
their husbands wearing the socks they
have learned 20 make.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

Considering the fact that the onion
has no outspoken friends, it is strange
that it is impossible for the farmers to
raise enough TO supply the demand at
reasonable prices.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

Every time we hear somebody tell
ing about the time he is putting in on
war-work at home we think of a fine
American boy standing ankle-deep in
the trench mud of France, facing death
by shell or gas, and wonder what our
safe and cozy citizen has to brag about.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

There are times when it looks very
much as if some of the mechanics who
tinker with the airplanes ought to be
sternly Intercepted. If enemy agents
have managed to get into our aviation
camps they ought to be discovered
and slapped on the wrist.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

If you are considerate and saga
cious enough not to make a mess out
of your war garden, it will undoubted-
ly reciprocate with many a handsome
mess of high-priced vegetables for you
at little cost besides elbow grease and
saved daylight.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

The food shortage has completely re-
formed the nervous neighbor who once
complained of the cackling hen or the
growing rooster. But woe betide the
misguided fowl who attacks the garden
patch!
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

1t is said so per cent shoddy will
continue to be used in the army uni
forms. This means that the United
like a bunch of orphans when COM
pared with the better dressed troops
of England, France and Germany.
Why should our boys be the shabby
looking lot?
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

The loss of wheat and other grains
from smut is said to average between
four and five bushels per acre. If, as
experts assert, the disease can be en-
tirely prevented by treating the seed
with formaldehyde before it is planted,
the formula certainly is worth follow
ing. The cost is a mere trifle.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

The first concrete ship has been
c~hristened Faith. We shall watch it
with hope and regard with charity
whatever shortcomings the very
worthy experiment may develop.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

All pastry and candy shops III PARIS
are to be c~,sed. But the generous
Sammies viii be glad o share with
the mademoiselles the sweets Ameri-
can misses send tGem!
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

without growing panic-strlcken at
the menace of ~infantile paralysis, every
Western community in which it APP
pears will do well to remember how Sc
rious a scourge it proved in the East,
and to begin early the enforcement Of
the sanitary precautions that Eastern
experience recommends.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

Cotton thread is selling at 81 a reel
in Germany, and it's a safe bet that
there are more single nails than but
tons on the trousers of the average
German civilian.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

Seaweed is to be used for a cotton
substitute, also for a food substitute.
Maybe the fellows who have been stung
by buying real estate that's under wa
ter are not so badly off after all.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

Now and then a man wends his weary
way homeward at 2 a. m. thoroughly
convinced of the evils of the card
system.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

Former Gar Nicholas may be the
ouly Russian getting any real comfort
out of the present situation of his
country.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

Germans are reported to be in some
ments. 1t would be poetic justice for
those garments soon to become mere
scraps.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

The interesting point is not how
much French our soldiers in France
learn, but what viii our slang do to tho
French language?
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

1t is said there is still a steady de-
mand for diamonds. But then they
have been much easier to get than
coal.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

TIL people advised to buy coal for
next winter are not so much inter
ested in the question of when to buy
coal as where.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

Soldier patients 1T some of the
camps are knitting for other soldiers.
The bravery engendered by the war
is even tackling conventions.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

Larger packages are to be allowed
in the parcels post. Perhaps before
long We can order a ton of coal from
the mipes shipped by mail.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

Although sleeping in church may not
be a sign of insanity, it is sometimes
accepted as Indication of weakness on
the part of the pastor.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

General pershing did not need to tell
American mothers their sons are best
in the world. They knew the boys be.
fore he did.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

A gun that shoots 20 miles can be
of no military benefit without an
army that can lump 70 miles into the
breach it makes.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

In seeking a suitable substitute for
leather soles, why dO''t tt inv stiget-
ors look into the pieerust forralla e
tbs .Ipce sriaef
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

They say that married men stand
the shock of battle better than the I'M
AIRED, Practice msses perfect.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

Pskoff certainly sounds like a place
where any kind of d critical stage
might be expected.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

Where can you get so much value
for your money as in a years sub
scription to The Pleasantyille Press?
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

The man beh,nn the guns just now
is the farm, If ne fails, it is OF no
Ise foI Lem to roar.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

Charter No. 1923. Reserve District Nc 3.
Report of Condition of
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF ABSECON
at -AbsecOn
in the State of New Jersey,
at the close of business on May 10th, 1918.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts. .$1o4, 4S7.15
u. S. bonds and certificates of in
debtedness owned and unpledg-
Liberty Loan bonds:
Liberty Loan Bonds,
3R per cent and 4
per cent, unpledged $19, 450.00
Payments actually
made on Liberty 4H
~ 37.15o.oo
Bonds, securities, etc. (other
Securities other than U. S. bonds
(not including stocks) owned
unpledged 21,463.75
Stock of Federal Reserve Bank
$50 per cent of subscription) $4,000
Furniture and fixtures. ........ 1,122.74
Lawful reserve with Federal Re-
serve Bank 1,S06.04
Items with Federal Reserve Bank
in process of collection mot
available as reserve) ....... 1880
Cash in vault and net amounts
due from national banks. Is, 1S3.35
Net amount due from banks,
bankers, and trust companies
other than included in Items
10, IA, and Is. ............. 1,635.03
Totals of Items IA, Is, and
16 .......... .$16,S1S.3S
Checks on banks located outside
of city or town of reporting
bank and other cash items. 104.12
Other assets (1st mortgage Farm
Loan SOO.OO
Total .$195, 377.1S
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid In. ......... $25, 900. 90
surplus fund 100000
Undivided profits 1000. So, 394.39
Less current expenses,
interest, and taxes
paid .............. l,O34.45
- 1.359.94
Interest and discount collected or
credited, in advance of maturi-
ty and not earned (approxi-
mate) 2,255.32
Demand deposits (other than
bank deposits) subject to Re-
serve deposits payable with
in 80 days.:
Individual deposits subject to
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

check 1928, 1854
Certihed checks ............. 1852
Cashiers checks outstanding. -. 1854
Other demand deposits ......... 1924
Total of demand deposits (other
l. than bank deposits) subject
to Reserve, Items "a, SO,
81, and 41......$124, 005.3
Time deposits subject to Re-
serve payable after 80 days,
or subject to 80 days or
more notice, and postal saw
ings)
Certificates of deposit (other than
for borrowed money! ........ 1000
Other time deposits .......... 37,S56.56
Total of time deposits subject
to Reserve, Items AZ and
40 .............$ 3S, 256.56
United States deposits (other
than postal savings)
War loan DEPOSIT account. 10000
lotai Sl95,317.1S '
State Of New Jersey, County of Atlantic. SIS:
1, Raymond S. Stevenson, Cashier of the
above-named bank, do solemnly swear that
the above statement is n true to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
RAYMOND S. STEVENSON, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
goth day of May, 1918.
(SeaD Justice of the Peace&
Correct-Attest
e. H. MADDEN,
FREDERICK w. SOMERS,
IL. e. MATTSON, SR,
Directors.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-25

Extra copies of The Pleasantville Press
may be secured at the following places:
Pleasantyille-P. T.. Harris, 8 S. Main
II. w. Fenimere. So S. Main West Jersey
Newsstand or at the office.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-12-21
HPay your Poll Tax.
w. S. S.
Observation-Disclosures.

Press dispatches from New Or
leans last Thursday morning an.
nounced the wedding in that City
of our citizen, Mr.. Sidney
B. DeBellevue and Mrs. Olive
Bourgue Domingues of our sister
town of Abbeville. The nuptiais
were quiet affair, the couple be.
ing joined into holy wedlock in the
Jesuit Church by Rev. Father
Murphy. The matron Of honor
was M. M. Benadham, sister Of the
bride with Mr.. Ulysses B. DeBel-
levue, brother of the groom act
ing as best man. After the
wedding ceremony the bridal
party were entertained at the
home of the brides brother in.
law. Hon. M. M. Benadham, consul
of Paraguay. Mr.. and Mrs. De.
Bellevue afterwards left for an
extended trip West after which
they will return to the home Of
the groom in New Iberia. Our
fluctuations is extended to the
happy couple. ,st.