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Middletown transcript., 1918-11-23
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
MANY Condensed News Items Of
the Past Week
IN THIS AND NEARBY POINTS

!
The residents of Chesapeake City helc
! a big peace parade Thursday night.
Six S. P. boats from the coast ot
Maine passed through the Chesapeake
, & Delaware canal Wednesday. enroute
! to the Florida coast for Miami, Pensa
cola and Key West.
General Charles Bird was reelected
president of the Delaware Chapter OF
the Red Cross at the annual meeting in
Wilmington Wednesday. The tota
!! fund for the past fiscal year was $780,.
454.
The Student Army Training Corps,
which has been organized at Delaware
College, will be continued. Informa.
ton to this effect was contained in 8
dispatch received by President Samuel
C. Mitchell of the college from the War
Department. r
The large Norwegian steamer Harriet
. loaded with sugar from Cuba, went
aground on the bar below Fort Della
ware early Monday NOR hing. Several
tugs have endeavored to pull her of,
but have tailed in the attempt. It is
thought it will be necessary to unload
her before she can be floated.
So many wild ducks have not been
seen in the Delaware City vicinity for
many years. They rise in great clouds
as boats approach them on the river. 1t
is impossible to get near enough to
shoot, which is great disappointment
to the gunners. The only successful
gunners have been those on the
marshes.
Mrs. William T. ConnelIee, chairman
of canning for the Red Cross, makes a
special appeal that all preserves and
jellies for the Red Cross be sent to the
Liberty Kitchen" on Main street, on
Thursday and Friday, November 2l and
%. This is imperative, as the Jars will
be packed within few days and sent
to headquarters in Wilmington.
The price Of turkeys will be higher
this Thanksgiving than ever before in
the history Of the great American bird.
Texas turkeys are bringing an average
of 80 cents a pound at their native
roosts and will cost 43 cents for delivery
in the East. The wholesale price will
be As cents a pound and Mrs. House
holder will have to pay her butcher at
least so cents pound for the centre
piece OF her Thanksgiving dinner, pro-
vided it is Texas bird.
Middletown transcript., 1918-11-23
POSTMASTERS EXAMINATION

The United States Civil Service Com
mission has announced an examination
to be held at MiddIetown, Del. on Dec
ember ID, 1918 as result of which it is
expected to make certifcation to fill a
contemplated vacancy in the position Of
fourth-class postmaster at Warwick.
Md. and other vacancies as they may
occur at that office, unless it shall be
decided in the interests of the service to
fill any vacancy by reinstatement. The
compensation of the postmaster at this
office was $299 for the last fiscal year.
Applicants must have reached their
twenty-first birthday on the date of the
examination, with the exception that in
State where women are declared by
statute to be of full age for all purposes
at eighteen years, women eighteen
years of age on the date of the exam
ination will be admitted.
Applicants must reside within the
territory supplied by the postoffice for
which the examination is announced.
The examination is open to all citizens
of the United States who can comply
with the requirements.
Application blanks, Form 1853. and
full information concerning the require
ments of the examina tion can be secured
from the postmaster at the place of
vacancy or from the United States Civil
Service Commission, Washington, D. c.
Applications should be properly exc
cuted and filled with the Commission at
Washington, d. c., at the earliest
practicable date.
Middletown transcript., 1918-11-23
Missing In France

Mrs. Catherine Donohue received
word from Washington on Thursday,
announcing that her son Private James
A. Donohue had been missing since Oc-
tober 18th, in France.
Mrs -Donohue has received many let
ters from her son since he arrived in
France and he always spoke of return
ing after peace had been declared.
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PREPARE FOR WAR
Red Cros. Headquarters So Advise
its Chapters
A DEEP SENSE OF GRATITUDE

ION February tenth last year, nearly
six weeks before the United States de-
clared war, National Red Cross Head
quarters advised its Chapters to prepare
for war. That which has followed, in
the record of the Red Cross in helping
to win this war and to relieve the suf-
fering growing out of it, must bring to
Red Cross workers deep sense of
gratitude for their share in it all.
1.-The moment is now come to prepare
for peace. Actual peace may come at
any hour; it may be deferred for some
time. Until peace is really here, there
can be no relaxation in any Red Cross
effort incident to active hostilities.
''But even with peace, let no one
suppose that the work of the Red Cross
is finished. Millions of American boys
are still under arms. Thousands of
them are sick or wounded. Owing to
the shortage of shipping. it may take
year or more to bring our boys home
from France. But, whatever the time,
our protecting arms must be about
them and their families over the whole
period which must elapse before the
normal life of peace can be resumed.
''Our soldiers and sailors are enlisted
until the Commander-in-C Chief tells
them there is no more work for them to
d, in the war. Let every Red Cross
member and worker show our returning
soldiers and sailors that to care for their
heath, welfare and happiness, we are
enlisted with them to the end.
1.-The cessation of war will reveal
picture of misery such as the world has
never seen before, especially in the
many countries which cannot help them
selves. The American people will ex
pect the Red Cross to continue to act as
their agent in repairing broken spirits
and broken bodies. Peace terms and
peace conditions will determine how we
may best minister to the vast stricken
areas which have been narrowed by
war, and in this great act of mercy,
the heart and spirit of the American
people must continue to be modified
through the American Red Cross.
ION behalf of the Red Cross War
Council, we accordingly ask each men,
ber of our splendid body of workers
throughout the land to bear in mind the
solemn obligations which rests upon
each one to CARRY ON. We cannot
bate one instant in our efforts or in our
spirit. There will be an abundance of
work to do, specific advices will be
gwen, but even at the moment of peace
let no Red Cross worker falter.
''Our spirits must now call us to show
that it is not the roar OF cannon or the
blood of our own alone that directs our
activities, but that great people will
continue to respond greatly and freely
to the obligation and opportunity to
serve mankind.
The WAR COUNCIL,
AMERICAN RED CROSS
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Farm Bureau Meeting

The Kent, New Castle and Sussex
County Farm Bureaus will hold their
annual reorganization meetings at
Dover, Newark and Georgetown, re-
spectively, during the latter part of
December. A report of the years work
of the boys and girls clubs will be
given at these meetings. The county
champions in canning, corn, pig and
poultry club work will be publicly award
ed prizes for the best achievements of
the year.
Middletown transcript., 1918-11-23
The MiddIetown New Century Club

The New Century Club will have a
Community Sing and short Thanksgiv-
ing program, followed by an informal
dance, for which there will be no charge,
at the next meeting on Tuesday evening
November Goth, at O'Clock, in the
Club House. Everyone welcome. 1t
has been thought best to hold the meet.
ing in the evening instead of afternoon
as announced at the last meeting.
EMILY B. CLEAvER. Rec. Sec.
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OBITUARY
MRS. CAROLINE FLINTHAM

Mrs. Caroline Flintham, widow of the
late William Flintham, former resi-
dent of this vicinity, died at her home
in Philadelphia, last Thursday morning,
aged 81 years. Mrs. Flintham had Eeen
an invalid for several years and her
death had been expected for sometime.
The deceased is survived by three
daughters Misses Anna, Lydia and
Ruby Flintham. Her only son Charles
Flintham, died some years ago.
The remains were brought here on
the train arriving at 1l.26 Monday
morning, and interment was made in
old st. Anne's cemetery.
Middletown transcript., 1918-11-23
Johnson Wedding

William C. Conaway, Of st. Georges,
DEL, was married to Margaret John
son, of Wilmington, last Thursday in
the Asbury M. E. parsonage. Rev.
Dawson officiated. On Saturday, DR..
Dawson united in marriage James E.
X. Messick, 925 Orange street, and
Velma NJ. Christopher, 1901 Pleasant
street.
Middletown transcript., 1918-11-23

The time for accepting Christmas
parcels for the boys overseas has been
extended to November 3Oth. Christmas
labels will be furnished individuals by
the Red Cross who have not received q
label from abroad or who have lost or
destroyed it. Apply to
MRS. DORSEY w. LEWIS. =
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Peace Jubilee POSTPONED

The Peace Jubilee planned by a
large committee which has been ad-
vertised to take place in Middletown,
on Friday evening, Nov. 18th. has been
indefinitely postponed due to the num-
erous cases of influenza in our town.
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FRIENDS & VISITORS
Personal Item: About People You
See and Know
THOSE THAT COME AND GO

! OetDnla V1S1COr IaSt week.
Miss Madeline Pennington was 8
Philadelphia visitor last Saturday.
Mrs. Rosa Weber visited friends in
Philadelphia several days this week.
Mrs. Hiett Graham spent Sunday and
Monday with her parents at Newport.
Mrs. J. B. Messick has had Mrs. 2.
NJ. Purnell. of Snow Hill, Md, for
guest.
Mrs. H. S. Segelken entertained Mrs.
George E. Filler, of Baltimore, Md,
on Saturday.
Mrs. Julian G. Cleaver entertained
Mrs. Mary Hampton, of Philadelphia,
over the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilson Merritt and
Mrs. C. ]. O'Malley, were Wilmington
visitors Tuesday.
Miss Elizabeth Shepherd is being
entertained by Miss Emma Price at
Atlantic City, N. ].
Miss Elva Freeman is spending the
weekend with her sister Mrs. Milton
Lang in Wilmington.
Miss Sarah Grassland, Of Wilmington,
visited her brother Mr. J. 4. Grassland
and wife on Sunday.
Private Norman W. Kumpel, of Camp
Dix, N. j.. visited his mother Mrs..
Sarah Kumpel Sunday.
Corporal Carson Segelken, of Edge
wood, Nd, has been visiting his parents
Mr.. and Mrs, H. S. Segelken.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Nauda;n, of Viii
mington, have been visiting his mother
Mrs. R. L. Naudain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Lang. of Will
mington. spent Sunday with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Freeman.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Dugan and
family were Sunday guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Pratt, near State Road.
Miss Esther Whitlock, of Philadel
phia, visited her parents Mr.. and Mrs.
William Whitlock over the weekend
Mr.. ]. P. Breickner, of jefferson
Hospital, Philadelphia. spent Sunday
with Mr.. and MIS-. J. Wilson Merritt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank NJ. Richards
have returned to New York City after
a weeks visit with their parents here.
Private William C. Gallagher, of
Camp Meade. Nd, spent Sunday with
his parents Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Gala
CHER.
Ensign T. Fletcher Cochran stationed
at Fortress Monroe, Va, is visiting his
grandmother Mrs. M. H. Cochran this
week.
Mrs. Josephine Dickson had for week.
end guests Mr.. and Mrs. Nathaniel
Fountain and daughter Miss Reba
Fountain, of Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs Theodore V. Leonhart,
of Philadelphia, and Little Miss Mary
Jolls. of Dover, spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph C. Jolls.
Dir. and Mrs. F.. W. Caswell spent the
weekend with Rev. and Mrs. j. W.
Jones in Wilmington. I'r. Cdswell
preached in McCabe church Sunday
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Lewis have had
for guests this week Mrs. Clayton
Otwell and daughter Miss Pearl Otwel;,
of Laurel. and MIR. William Delote, of
Parsley, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. E. Ludes. of Drexel
Hill. Pa, and Miss Amy R. Piser, of
Washington, D. c.. will spend Thanks
giving Day with Mr.. and Mrs. John R.
Piser, near town.
Miss Helen Jones, of Wilmington,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w. Jones and
children, of Markus Hook, Pa, were
Sunday visitors of their parents Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Jones.
Mrs. John Pitts who has been spend
several weeks with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. W. T. Connellee has left for
Houston, Texas, where she will join her
husband Major John Pitts, who is
stationed there.
Middletown transcript., 1918-11-23

We pay the HIGHEST CASH PRICE
for WHEAT and CORN on order, loaded
on rail and water at ANY POINT.
Phone and Al.
JESSE L. SHEPHERD.
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THE TRANscRlPr-sl.OQ PER YEAR
The Yale expositor., 1918-05-23
Fallen African MstronoIIs.

What are now known as the Zlm.
babwe ruins was the center of trade
and worship for a South African ma.
ton. The fortress guarding the city
in its almost inaccessible position was
once encircled by wall of stone over
II feet thick resting on a rocky cliff
foundation. From lookout towers OF
the wall the guards could scan the
country for miles around and hurl
stones and other weapons down upon
any hostile force. Beyond the wreck.
ed fortress stands the shell of the tenn
pie, sacred to the worship OF Baal,
whence came the oracles and words
OF guidance for the people. Between
the remains of fortress and temple lie
what is known today as the Valley of
Ruins, a maze Of walls In all stages
OF dilapidation.
Only birds and snakes inhabit this
fallen metropolis, but out beyond the
old city the mines from which the ma
ton derived its wealth are being work.
cd by the most modern methods
The Yale expositor., 1918-05-23
Poet Invented stereoscope.

How many of us really know that
the ereoscope-largely used for mag.
nifylng photographs of distant places
was the invention Of Oliver Wendell
Holmes, the American poet and phil
osopher. There had been In use q
crude form of stereoscope, consisting
OF box with hinged lid on the upper
side which was opened to admit light
on the photograph. Doctor Holmes
dispensed with the box, substituting the
eye shades still used and cut Sits In
the projecting board in order that the
photograph might be correctly focused.
Then he stuck an awl In the bottom,
for a handle, and the stereoscope was
complete. Doctor Holmes found the
alteration such an Improvement that
he offered his invention free to several
firms. All refused 1t, however, except
Joseph Bates of Philadelphia, who de-
cided to make a dozen or two and see
If they would sell. The preliminary
lot was soon multiplied by thousands.
An employee Of this firm originated
the movable slide In which the pictures
are now placed, thus improving upon
the series of slots devised by Doctor
Holmes. When the stereoscope became
a great success, it was suggested to
Doctor Holmes that If he had patented
and sold his invention he might have
made more out of it than from litera-
ture. He replied: 81 do not care to be
known as the patentee Of pill or
peeplng contrivance."-People's Home
Journal
The Yale expositor., 1918-05-23

We stand with our arms hanging. our
faces exposed, and wait. For what?
No doubt the German agents will be
satisfied and pack their trunks and go
home to Germany. Merry thought.
Hardly.
We have seen what the German
agents will do; they did 1t before we
entered the war and they would do IL
If we backed out of the war. They
would foment strikes, race riots, class
prejudice, and stir up national resent
ments. Having gotten us out of the
war against Germany they would try
to get us into war with France,
Italy, or England. They would no
longer be peace propagandlsts but war
propagandists, because we would be
unarmed and easy victims. They
would use German money to throw us
into the state poor Russia finds her
self In today. Then Germany would
strike defenseless South America.
America Loves Peace.
It is my honest belief that Germany
has had for many years two alterna-
tive plans for conquest. From Berlin
she has drawn two lines, one to the
southeast through Saloniki and to the
Orient, the other to the southwest
through Spain to South America. She
hoped England would do the Weber
Fields act and keep her hands down
while German armies stunned France,
and then she would leap on the Orient
and grasp a vast dominion there.
England did not keep her hands down.
She is not entirely a fool. That plan
failed. 1t seems hopeless now.
The other plan Germany will try the
moment she makes peace and gets her
breath, if her agents can persuade us
to keep our hands down.
I don't like war and you don't like
war. We have every reason to be
peaceful people. We have vast terri
tory, the most fruitful and productive
In the world; and warllke peoples have
always been those living in barren
lands or who have been cramped into
scant quarters. 1t Is never necessary
to preach the doctrine Of peace to
America, because the natural state of
America Is peace. America does not
and never has gone to war except to
avenge insults that have become un.
bearable or to protect herself against
marauders. When the great, wise,
peace-loving American people declare
war there is a reason for II, and a rea.
son that affects the honor or the safe.
ty of the nation.
Germany has insulted and injured
us In manner no decent people can
stand. She has fiouted our rights and
she continues to do so. She was a men.
ace to our existence before the war
began and she has become a greater
menace with each day her troops have
been in the field. Her navy is practi-
cally intact; her people debt ridden.
For half century she has been the
one warllke nation Of the earth. What
will Germany do if we keep our hands
down when this war ends? What
would you do If you were q warlike
nation, careless of rights Of others
(see Belgium y, and craving territoryq
You would give slap In the face TO
the fat fool with his hands down, and
you would leap on South America and
wrest from it the cost Of the great
European war.
Germany Is not our worst enemy.
With our fists up we can take care of
Germany. Our worst enemy is here.
He is the man who asks us to put our
hands down and stand like silly
sheep until Germany is ready to strike.
The Yale expositor., 1918-05-23

cartridges right away" Even where he stood the
shot fell thick, and told him to go to the at
once. would attend to the cartridges; and off he
lmped Just before he disappeared on the hill, he
turned and called as loud as he could "Caliber
.54" have not seen the lad since, and his colonel
(Malmburg) on inquiry gives me the address above,
and says he is bright, intelligent boy, with fair
preliminary education. What arrested my atten-
ton then was-and what renewed my memory Of
the fact now is-that so young, carrying a
musketball through his leg, should have found his
way to that fatal spot, and delivered his
message not forgetting the very important part of
the caliber of his musket, "a, which you know Is
unusual one. I'll warrant that the boy has In
him the elements of a man, and 1 commend him to
the government as one worth the fostering care of
one of the national institutions l am, with re-
SDect.
The Yale expositor., 1918-05-23
"Your obedient servant,
"'W. II. SHERMAN.
"Maior General Commandinp

"'W. T. SHERMAN
"Major General COMMANDING
"When the poet, George H. Boxer, learned of the
episode of young Howe, he put the story In verse.
John Cook, too, gained medal of honor when
mere child He was born In Ohio, August 10 1S47,
and enlisted in Battery B, Fourth United States
artillery, at the breaking out of the war; He was
serving as bugler at Antietam, and certainly did
enough to merit his medal The boy distinguished
himself at Antietam and in every fight in which
the command was engaged. At Antietam the bat
terry knocked to pieces, losing about so per
cent of the men, killed or wounded. Captain Camp
bell fell, severely wounded, and young Cook as
sisted him to the rear quickly returning to the
firing line, where, seeing nearly all the men down
and not enough left TO the guns, the little fell
low unstrapped pouch of ammunition from the
body of dead gunner who was lying near one of
the caissons, forward with 1t and acted as gun
ner until the end of the fight.
81. G. julius Langbein was a very small boy
indeed when at the battle of Camden North Caro-
lima, April IS, 1862, he won his congress medal.
The official record states that when drummer
boy, he voluntarily and under a heavy fire went
to the aid of wounded officer, procured medical
aid for him and aided in carrying him to place
of safety After the battle he was granted short
leave of absence to visit his parents, and what
thrill of happiness the boy must have felt when
he handed his mother a commendatory letter from
his company commander
sand here is another boy who wears the con-
gress medal of honor, nobly won: George ID. Sid
man, a schoolboy from Michigan, a mere child in
years, when he made his great record and won the
medal for distinguished bravery in battle at
Gaines Mills June %, 1892 This battle the Sec
ond of the Seven Days Battles before Richmond
was one of the most disastrous battles of the Civil
war; wherein Fitz John Porters Fifth army corps
was pitted against the three army corps of Gen
erals Longstreet Hill and 'Stonewall Jackson
'Brig. Gen. Daniel Butterfeld's brigade, COM
posed of the Twelfth Seventeenth and Forty-fourth
New York. the Eighty-third Pennsylvania and Six
teenth Michigan Volunteer infantry regiments that
day occupied the left line of battle in the form
of a curve, with the Sixteenth and Eghty-thlrd on
the extreme left and resting the border of
Chickahominy swamp. Here the brigade was called
upon to resist several desperate charges of the
enemy during the day, which, in every instance,
suited In defeat of the attacking forces.
at was In this forlorn hope rally that Sidman,
then youth of seventeen, serving in the ranks of
Company G, Sixteenth Michigan private, but
borne on the rolls of his company as a drummer
boy distinguished himself by waving his gun and
calling upon his comrades to rally the colors as
he had done, thus setting an example that was
The Yale expositor., 1918-05-23
SUNDESCnOOL
LESSON

(By REV. p. b. FITZWATER. d. d.
Teacher OF English Bible in thA
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.j
Copyright. 1918. Western Newspaper Unioh.i
The Yale expositor., 1918-05-23

GOLDEN TEXT-Render to Caesar the
things that are Caesars, and to God the
things that are Gods.-Mark 1871.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-12-20
REV. w. w. SWITZER
WRITES BRO. KNAPP

C. w. Knapp received the fol-
lowing letter from the Rev. W. w.
! Switzer last week:
/ Dear Brother Knapp:
"The Labor Journal contains an
account of your sickness, and am
very sorry to learn that you have
suffered so much. 1t has been
some time since | saw you, but
have kept in touch with you through
the Journal We are hoping that
you may soon recover and be about
with your usual vigor. Am wonder
ing who has taken your place and
think it would be hard to find one
who could fill the bill as you did.
"The Journal comes weekly and j.
much appreciated. | am observing
the movements in the labor world.
Big problems are coming before Us
these times and they require clear
thought to solve them. Things
must be settled right or they do not
stay settled.
1.-THE service you gave us in Ev-
erett has not been forgotten. A
speaker was addressing several
thousand people in Kansas City one
night and told what the Everett.
unions did for Grace church. That
was told to me by prominent man
of that city when l visited Kansas
few weeks ago. May you keep
happy for good things are yet be
fore you. With very kindest re-
CARDS to Mrs. Knapp and yourself.
| am, fraternally yours,
"W. w. SWITZER."
Mr.. Switzer will be remembered
by large number of trades union
lists as the pastor of the Riverside
Methodist church, in this city, where
he showed brotherly feeling for
the wage-earners. They will b.
pleased to learn that he still takes
an interest in their welfare. Mr. |
Switzer is now pastor of the First
Methodist Episcopal church at Ho-
GUAM, Washington.