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Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
TRAIN AT DELAWARE COLLEGE
2o6 PennsYIvanians Will be Trained for
Mechanical Work for the Army

FOG PennsYlvanians Will be Trained for
Mechanical Work for the Army
Pennsylvania State craft head
quarters have issued calls for 968
white men within the draft age who
are graduates of grammar schools to
undergo training at Delaware College
to fit them for army service at the
front and behind the lines. They are
expected to also have had experience
along mechanical lines and some apti.
tude for mechanical work. The calls,
which are being sent to local draft
boards for voluntarily induction are
as follows, all men to report July 1 !:
For FOG men to go to Delaware Col.
lege, Newark, for training as bench
wood workers. electricians, radio
operators, mechanics and gas engine
men; 206 men to go to Polish Ma.
tional Alliance College, Cambridge
Springs, Pa, for training as auto
mechanics, carpenters, gunsmiths,
machinists and pattern makers; 226
men to report at Spring Garden insti.
tute, Philadelphia, for training as
wood workers, auto mechanics and
electricians; $50 men to 90 to I'm.
iversity of Pittsburg for instruction
as sheet metal workers and auto me-.
chanics.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
DELAWARE WINS FIRST PLACE
This State is Far Ahead of Any Other
State in Red Cross Contributions

This State is Far Ahead of ANY Other
State in Red Cross Contributions
The banner for the highest per-
capita contribution to the Red Cross
fund has been awarded to Delaware.
She has contributed nearly double the
amount of any other State in the
Union and the city of Wilmington is
far and away ahead of any other city
of 100, 600 population or more. This
information comes officially from
Washington from W. C. Preskey, di-
rector of the Bureau of Chapter or
ganization, who writes Campaign
Manager Henry P Scott as follows
81 am advised by the War Fund
Bureau that your SO. rs per capita
for the State is far and away ahead
of any other State, as to date nc other
State has even reached the SIS per
capita status; also that SIG. SIS per
capita is in excess of the per capita
contributed by any other city of 100, :
600 population or more.'' Unofficial
reports support the belief that another
championship banner for the number
of contributors in proportion to the
population is due to this State.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS DRIVE
Each County Has District Committees
for Local Canvasses This Week

Each County Has District Committees
for Local Canvasses This Week
The War Savings campaign in Del
aware, which is to eliminate with
public meetings in every schoolhouse
on June %, can hardly fail to nut
Delaware lover the top again. for
1t is being most completely organized.
Kent and Sussex counties, under the
leadership of DR.. G. Layton Grier in
Sussex and of Hervey P. Hall in Kent.
will be canvassed in such a thorough
manner that no one will be allowed to
miss the opportunity to contribute to
the great national money-saving cam
paign. These two leaders have or
ganized committees in every school
district and have sent letters broad
cast driving home to each individual
the Importance of raising the full
amount of $4, 600, 600, which is Del
aware's quota. DIR. Grier and Mr..
Hall are working together and thew
report that up to the present time
they have selected solicitors and have
arranged that they visit every school
district.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
L. M. PRICE GOES TO BUFFALO
Represents State Sunday School Con-
Vention at International S. S. Meet

Represents State Sunday School Con-
Vention at lnterne tionaI S. S. Meet
Lewis M. Price, president of Smvrna
Town Council, and Superintendent OF
Asbury M. E. Sunday School, left
Monday with three other delegates
from the Delaware State Sunday
School Association, to attend the In
ternational Sunday School Convention
which meets this week in Buffalo,
N. Y. The four delegates from Del
aware are: Mrs. L. R. Beardslee,
Wilmington; Miss Edna Barker, Mil
ford; L. M. Price, Smyrna, and T.
Davis Preston, general secretary. The
Delaware organization is laying plans
to keep the future citizens of this
State up to the ideals for which the
world is fighting by training them in
Sunday Schools. The Elementary De-
partment has placed its records at the
disposal of the child welfare work of
the State. In the secondary division,
cooperation with the Boys Working
Reserve is the plan, and it is the in
tention to have the Sunday School su-
perintendents in various parts of the
State make up teams to visit the boys
working on the farms. Plans are be-
ing made for the holding of a two
days conference in each county of
picked leaders of young people to or
ganize older boys and girls confer
ences.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
PRETTY WEDDING AT ODESSA
Miss Dorothy Reynolds Becomes the
Bride of James K. OrreII

Miss Dorothy Reynolds Becomes the
Bride of James K. OrrelI
At the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
A. Reynolds, in Odessa, on Wednes-
day evening. June II, their duagh-
ter, Miss Dorothy Reynolds, and
James Kirkman Orrell, of Odessa,
were married. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. E. H. Derrick
son, of Odessa. The bride was at
tended by Miss Ethel FARRELL, of Mt.
Pleasant, as maid of honor, and John
Ennis, of Odessa, was best man.
The bride wore a beautiful white
chiffon tatfeta gown, trimmed in
silver lace, tulle veil fastened with
orange blossoms. and carried brides
bouquet of roses and fern. The maid
of honor wore a pink charmeuse dress
trimmed in silver lace, and carried
pink roses. After the ceremony a re-
ception was held on the lawn and
abuot $50 persons were present. On
their return from their honeymoon
trip Mr.. and Mrs. Orrell will reside
in Odessa, where Mr.. Orrell is in
business.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
GERMAN SPY SCARE AT ODESSA
Presence of a Queer Acting Stranger
Set Town in More or Less Excitement

Presence of a Queer Acting Stranger
Set Town in More or Less Excitement
The residents of Odessa have re-
ported to the government agents, a
case of a supposed German spy, who
called at several homes in that town
and inquired how many cities between
Middletown and New Castle and how
many munition plants were in the
same section of country. The man
who was evidently a foreigner and
about 40 years of age, carried a
bundle and appeared to be greatly ex-
cited at times as he kept asking ques-
tions that concerned the war supplies
being sent to the Allies. The sus-
picious actions of the man soon alarmed
the town, but when an officer went in
search of him shortly after his ap-
pearance in the streets there, the
stranger had completely vanished and
he has not been apprehended, but the
search for the strange fellow is being
continued by the officers who believe
that he is a full. .blooded German and
real spy.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
COUNCIL ORDERS PATENT
DEVICE FOR SAVING COAL
SET OF ROCKING CRATES TO BE
GIVEN TRIAL ON BERRY BOILER
Secretary GrieVes Tells of Coal Short
age and Serious Outlook for Win
ter SupplY-Notes of Council

age and Serious Outlook for Win
ter SuppIY-Notes of Council
Smyrna Town Council in adjourned
session Monday evening with all menu
oers present except President L. M.
Price, decided upon steps to save coal
and tighten labor at the Smyrna Elec-
trlc Light and Water Plant bv order
ing installed set of Dorrance Pat
ented Rocking Crates on the Berry
Boiler. The installation will be made
on 3O-day trial and are not to he
paid for until satisfactory. Chairman
GrleVes OF the Light and Water Com
mlttee, recommended that Council give
them trial, declaring that in these
times of coal shortage and the uncer-
talnty of winter supply. anything that
can be done to save coal at the plant
was wise and timely investment.
The coal situation, he told Council
was very serious, that it was not a
case OF what was wanted so much as
a case of what they could get. Coal
at best was inferior to what the town
for years had been buying under con-
tract. He said he was using his best
endeavors thru both the State and
Local Fuel Administrators, to get a
supply on hand this summer sufficient
to carry the town thru most of the
coming winter. Whether he would
succeed or not WAS a question, but
he wanted Council to know he was
doing all he could. The question of
supplying water for Frank L. Cohen.
contractor, and forcing it at least
three miles down the Smyrna Dover
road. was discussed and finally left
with Mr.. Grieves tu make the verv
best contract subject, of course, to
the ability of the town to drive under
standpipe pressure, water thru a two
inch main that far. Collector H. S.
Anthony's financial report for Nav
was received and filed 1t showed he
had collected over $4,000 on discount
days and total of $4,000 for the
month, a highly pleasing report.
Council adjourned after allowing a
batch of bills.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
"COUNTRY FAIR" COMING AGAIN
Big Enterprise Will be Held on SchooI
Grounds July 2. 8 and q for the
Benefit of the Red Cross


The Country Fair is to be with us
again this year, being held as usual
on the evenings of July End and 3rd
and all day on the Fourth. There will
be the same popular attractions, with
the addition of several new features
including a big Community Sing''
on the evening of July Fourth. Sup
per will be omitted on the evening of
July End, but will be served on july
Bird and two meals, luncheon and sup
per, will be served on July Fourth,
when the ever popular devilled crabs
will again be in evidence. The ladies
of the New Century Club, who are
managing this affair, bespeak the
hearty cooperation of the community.
inasmuch as they have pledged
themselves to give three hundred dol
lars of the proceeds to the Red Cross.
Let the entire community feel that
this Country Fair belongs to them
and when club members, who have
been assigned to canvass the town,
appeal to them for contributions, let
the response be generous and liberal.
Smyrna has done splendidly in more
than making good" at each recent
demand upon her generosity. Let
her not "fall down" on the occasion
of her own Country Fair. See adv.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
Students Buying Equipment for School

The Sixth Grade of the Smyrna
Public Schools has purchased several
splendid pictures and placed them in
their room, and the Seventh Grade
has bought very nice clock which
they are proud of. The High School
has purchased flags, bible and a pencil
sharpener and put the rest of their
money in w. S. S. thus starting a
piano fund which they hope to rapidly
swell that they may purchase a new
piano for the high school.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
CHILDREN WORK ON THE FARM
Practical Demonstration on Frederick
Brady's Place at MiddIetown

FTaC''Cdi demonstration on Frederick
6radys Place at MiddIetown
Knowing of the scarcity of skilled
farm labor, having confidence in the
ability of students of the Middletown
High School to do practical things
and finding it necessary to set ont
65, 600 tomato plants in a very short
time, Frederick Brady, head of Mid
dletown Farms and a practical farmer
OF Middletown, recently overcame
sundry difficulties without the slight
est hitch. The task was accomplished
in parts of three days, after school
hours, with the aid of seven of the
Middletown High School girls, four
OF whom are Mr.. Brady's daughters,
and nine boys from the same school.
his own farm men also helping.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
Prof. vanHorn Goes to Easton, Pa.

Prof. M. D. VanHorn, who resigns
the principalship of the Smyrna
Schools, has accepted an offer to be-
come the head of the commercial de-
partment of military academy at
Easton, Pa, at a considerable advance
in salary over what he was getting
in Smyrna. He takes hold in Septem-
Der.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
REMOVING TWO BAD CURVES
SmYrna-0oVer Road Progressing Un-
der Fine Weather Conditions


Considerable headway is being
made on the improvement of the
stretch of road from Dover to Smyrna,
by the State Highway Department
which began work over a week ago.
Two curves, one on the outskirts of
Dover, after passing over Silver
Lake, and the other at the entrance
of the causeway over the old Garrison
or Hoffecker Mill, north of Cheswold.
are being cut down and Strengthened.
Weather conditions have been all that
could be desired for the work and
Chief Engineer Upham hopes to have
the entire stretch of road from Dover
to Smyrna completed by fall.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19

'OO From Red Cross Supper
ladies' ~ a'Su ~ Gross supper given by the
vas W. ~ Mr. and Mrs. DeFord's lawn
Accs,, 'y I. pleasant affair and a great
Cos. C,, -. 1t added $1Oo to the Red
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-07-18
AROUND THE STATE

Under the provisions of the new
congressional amendment some alien
enemies in North Dakota are becom
ing citizens. 1t helps out those who
had applied for first and had not Sc
cured their second papers.
There are many North Dakotans 50
optimistic they believe, now that the
leaguers are to control both branches
of the legislature, the sense of res
possibility will make them view the
situation more seriously and the legis-
lation will be less radical than ex-
pected.
P. Chizik, Of Portal won the state
trap-shooting tournament and cham
pionship of the North Dakota Sports
mems association, and with George
Duis, Grand Forks, won the team
trophy cup in the annual tournament
just closed. H. L. Wood of Mime
apolis won second place in the cham
pionship event. At the annual bust
ness meeting, Mr.. Wood was elected
president.
F. S. Elliott, superintendent of the
Great Northern railroad at Superior,
has been appointed president of the
Spokane, Portland & Seattle railroad,
| with headquarters at Portland. Paul
j. Heating of St. Paul, assistant gen.
eral superintendent of the eastern d.
visions of the Great Northern, will
| succeed him. Mr.. Heating was for
merly resident of Minot.
Olaf Nelson, arrested Tuesday bv
Chief of Police Swanson at Valley
City for entering a room on lower
Of - ~l c+1
Loan Bond and $50 in War Savings
Stamps was bound over to the next
term of the district court by Judge
Moe under 1000 bond. He was un-
able to furnish the bail and will be
the guest of Sheriff Kelly for a
while.
DR.. George Grant of Wishek, wit
ness for the government in the prose-
cution of John H. Wishek, Ashley
banker, former senator and recent
candidate for governor, under indict-
ment charging interference with the
sale of Liberty bonds, testified, "Mr.
| Wishek told me that the German
kaiser was the greatest man in all
the world" Wishek is also said to
have declared that he would not have
a son working in a munition factory
making bullets to be shot into his
relatives in Germany.
Prominent bankers were the leading
speakers at the closing sessions of the
| North Dakota Bankers convention.
, Liberty loan methods were discussed
| by A. R. Rogers, of Minneapolis,
chairman of the Ninth district Liberty
Loan committee. President Kane
of North Dakota university, discussed
Banking as a Service" F. E. Lurton
of East Grand Forks, Mimi, spoke on
military Training" and Theodore
Void Of Minneapolis, president of the
Federal Reserve bank of the Ninth
district, talked on Government Fin
ancing."
Here's real war romance. Ar
thur Hadeland, Fargo, is home on
leave with a bride, formerly Miss
Gladys Libby, only daughter of
wealthy East Orange N. J. family.
1t all happened because an airplane
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-07-18

engaged in coast service fell within
few rods of the Libby summer home
near Well Fleet, Mass. Hadeland
was head Of the squad detailed to take
! charge of the wreckage. An invi-
i tation from the Libby home to the
soldiers to have dinner there was fol-
! lowed by weekend visit to the Lib
by home by Hadeland. A few weeks
later he and Miss Libby eloped and
| were married in Boston.
North Dakota may be called upon
to furnish only $50 men in the August
! draft call, according to an official an
nouncement in the "Official Bulletin,
! the government war time newspaper,
published in Washington. North
Dakota in the July call is furnishing
5000 men. Adjutant General Angus
Fraser has just completed survey
Of the state local draft boards to de-
termine the number Of men remaining
| within Glass 1, and many of the coun-
ties have only few men, while some
have not sufficient number of class
l men to fill the July call. In the
August call it is deemed likely that
several counties will have to rely upon
the new draft list to fill their quotas.
Mrs. w. Patterson and children of
Jamestown, were in juvenile court in
St. Paul. The session of the court is
secret. 1t is thought to find some
disposition of the touching episode.
Mrs. Patterson applied for protection
from what she termed was improper
treatment from Mrs. C. M. Cary of
St. Paul, Mrs. Patterson and children
have been staying at the Cary home.
While she complained Mrs. Cary eject
ed the children and threw out the
Patterson trunks and other belong
ings. The children were brought in
to central police station by the police.
The juvenile court will declare dis
position of the case but has not made
public its decision.
July LIST the newspapers were ere
cognized" by grateful republic for
their part in boosting the Liberty
loans and many other war activities
by having their postage rates lacked
up fully rs per cent on an average.
and, what is much worse, being com
PEELED to institute an elaborate system
Of record, including the measurement
OF advertising matter in each and
every issue (Which bears different
rate of postage than news matter)
the careful division of mailing lists
into zones leach zone bearing a diff
ferent postage rate) and other extra
bother, far outweighing the benefits
derived in increased revenues by the
postoffice department. A fiat raise
in postage twice as much as was
slapped on would be far more welcome
than the hodge-podge inflicted.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-07-18
Summer Breakfasts
Cooked Electrically

STAY out of the kitchen as much
as uou can Dhen the Uedther is
Uarn1 and enjoy the convenience
of Electrical Appliances.
T0astn1ade on an Electric Toast
er requires no sWeltering oDer
red hot Goals, and is allDays de-
Hci0uS.
Coffee breUed in an Electric
Perc0lat0r has a superior haD0T
you Wiu like.
Prepare your breakfast right at
the table--Ezectrically. See the
appliances in any dealers sh0U-
rooms.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-07-18
NOTICE For RIDS

Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids will be received by the school
board of Bell School District No. 10
Ward County, up until 8 o'clock D. m.
on August 10, 1918, for the removal OF
School House No. 2 from the N. E
IA Of Sec. 8, to the site on the S. W
corner of the S. E. Ia of the S. f. Id
of Section 4, Twp. 154, Rye. 80.
Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids. Bids to be acted upor
at Logan School House.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-10-05

When the sap of spring Is bursting
the letters Of winter the general hu-
man heart beats high. A few of us
philosophers receive amid the rich but
sober tints of autumn a happiness that
we would not exchange for any other
season, but we are a minority, and
small. The head of one of the most
important departments at Washington.
who thinks about the processes of man.
kind, has a theory that makes a regu-
lar curve Of the relation of the seasons
to the appetite for war. As the buds
open, every nation thinks II Is on the
edge of victory. This curve rises for Il
while, begins to decline In the summer
and gets well down in the autumn
The period therefore, when statesmen
II they had decided to make peace.
could do 1t most easily, Is from the
days of goldenrod and autumn browns
to just before the greening of the
buds. The story of coal, a tragic
story to the poor, helps this curve, but
there is In 1t much of sheer poetry, In
dependent Of more solid things.-Nor-
man HapgOOd In Leslie's.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-10-05
Elections and Atoms.

Atoms are minute particles Of mat
ter, each about One-three-hundredth
part of an inch in diameter. They are
so small that If the earth were made
up of baseballs it would be a fair
model of a drop Of water made up OF
atoms. The electron is smaller still. 1t
has a diameter Of about One-hundred-
t~housandth that Of an atom, so that IL
an atom were represented by a sphere
100 yards in diameter the electron
would be about the size Of a pins
head. 1t has been said that the cleo
irons which form an atom can be COM
pared to a swarm of gnats In a cathe-
dral or other large building. As atoms
are made up Of electrons. so molecules
are made up Of atoms.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-10-05

Buy today-sAVE and payl
He lends best who lends quickly
buy Bonds MOVIE
Hammer the Hunl Buy Bonds to
your UTMoSTI
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-10-05
HOW INDIANA LOST CITIZEN
Escapade That Caused Youth to Turn
His Thoughts Toward the wild
and Woolly" Region.

Harry Go0nse, ranchman and real
estate expert in the far Northwest, re
turned to indianapolis from his home
near Seattle after an absence of four
teen years. It is not widely known,
but Mr.. Coonse, when a boy of -,
started in business as a helper on o.
delivery wagon of L. S. Ayres & Co.
started and ended his dry goods career
In an unusual and interesting manner.
Harry, ont Of his first months wages.
had bought a rife and a box of car
tridges. One evening In Park avenue
the delivery man went into a house
with a package, leaving Harry on the
drivers seat in charge Of what was
common at that time-a Texas
tang-well broken, but still worth
watching. Instead Of holding the lines
Harry spent the interim handling q
new rifle. As often happens, the CUR
was discharged and the bullet struck
the mustang. Harry made one grail
for the lines, missed, tumbled off thu
seat and the wagon disappeared down
the street, strewing packages in its
path.
At dawn the next morning the horse
and wagon were found In the Pleasant
run bottoms. near the place where the
furnaces of the Citizens Gas company
now stand. Harry had already re
signed.-Indianapolis News.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-10-05
Leonardo da vincl Amazes Surgeons


Though written four hundred years
ago, Leonardo da Vinci's book on anat.
omy has only recently been published
and surgeons are only now discovering
the marvels ii contains.
L%ecturlng recently on it in London,
Prof. William Wright pointed out that
when ii was written the circulation of
the blood, Osmosis, oxygen and the
microscope were all unknown. All doe
tors believed that the arteries were
fun of free air and that the blood was
aerated in the heart. The interior ar
rangement of the heart was also mis-
understood.
But Leonardo denied that air entered
the heart, and wrote that the blood
was refreshed" in the lungs; he de-
scribed accurately the anatomy Of the
heart and large blood vessels and the
action of the muscles of the chest and
abdomen in respiration.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-10-05
Application No. $3.50
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PERMISSION TO APPROPRIATE
THE PUBLIC WATERS OF THE
STATE OF NEVADA.

Notice Is hereby given that on the
Gath day of September. 1918, in ac-
cordance with Section SO. Chapter 40.
Of the Statutes of 1913, one Carl John
Anderson. OF Battle Mountain. County
of Lander. and State OF Nevada, made
application to the State Engineer OF
Nevada for permission to appropriate
the public waters of the State of No
vada. Such appropriation is to be
made from Blue Lead Greek. at q
point whence to II corner on South
Boundary OF Sec. 80, T. 90 NJ. r. 40 f,
M. ID. b. & NJ, bears S. 65' 10 w. $3.50
feet. by means of a dam, and two
cubic feet per second is to be con
veyed to ShsEA, Sec. "a. ShSwA.
Sec. 35, T, 30 ~, r. 40 f., NJ. ID. b. &
NJ, by means of bitches. pipes. and
dunes. and there used for irrigation
and domestic purposes from March
LIST until November LIST OF each year.
Water not to be returned to stream.
(Signed) SEYMOUR CASE.
State Engineer.
Date of first publication. Sept. %. 1918
Date OF last publication, Oct z6. 1918