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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31
Special at S5c

800 pink batiste envelope
chemises with pink or blue rib
bon shoulder straps; hand-em-
broidery done in pastel colorings
and laces are the principal trim
mings.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31
Becoming Colors for
Junior Girls

Peach (quite delicate), deep
rose and a good Copenhagen blue
are the colors of the soft, hne
voile that is used to make frocks
for girls of Is and is years. They
are made with generous folds
just above the deep hens, and the
waists are adorned with tucked
vestees of white organdie and col
lars and cuffs of white. $6.75.
(CentraD
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31
inexpensive
Couch Covers

that are easily freshened are
made of linene in a soft tan,
printed with stripes or with
jacquard patterns. The covers
are full size and are fringtd
all around. SIPS.
(Chestnut)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31
Silk Underthings

Camisoles of wash satin are
elaborated with band of pleated
tCel
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31

The materials are so soft in
texture, the laces so light and
airy and the garments them
selves so fresh and clean that
it makes one cool just to touch
them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31
August First Calls for New
FrOCk and New Suits for
the VaCatiOnist

The taffeta suit that is
sketched is from a group of spe-
cially reduced suits of navy blue
or black taffeta. They are made
in several styles and the jackets
are well finished and are lined
throughout with silk. SIS.
Jersey Sports Suits
Distinctly vacation suits are
these Of gray or rose jersey in
attractive styles with jaunty
pockets. The prices are reduced
to $3.50 and $22.50.
Lovely Material
and plenty of it--enters into
these frocks of green or rose
Japanese crepe. The hens are
unusually deep and then, further
up, on each dress there is a deep
fold which has pockets in it.
The necks are coolly square and
are finished with white organdie,
as are the sleeves, also. $3.50.
Finely Pleated
panels in front and in back add
quite different touch to pretty
dresses Of voih in bright color
ings, as you will notice in the
sketch. $3.50.
Lovely White Net
forms many charming dresses.
Some are $3.50, while others,
made entirely of net and trimmed
with net ruff1es, are S15.
(Market)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31
The Summer Skirt Stock
Is Rapidly Diminishing

but there is still good choice
among the white, snowy skirts
that women want for these warm
days-and nothing looks quite so
cool.
There are many styles, Of many
summery materials, thin or heavy,
ranging from S1.75 to $3.50.
Between these prices are many
extra-size white skirts, which are
made in good styles.
(Market
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31
Beach Hats for the
Riddles

Cunning white wash hats
will do for best or just to
play in, for they are made
"like new again. so easily.
There are many styles of
white pique or rep, and some
have colorful touches. 75c
to S1.5O.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31
Good for Wading

Rompers for the little folk of
to 3 years are made of white
Geersucker in creeper style. They
have little breast pockets, round
collars, belts and straight knees.
81.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31
WANAMAKER'S
Store Opens at $50
The DoWn Stairs Store at Wanamaker
Is a Good Friend to Summer VdcdtiOnistS

The Shore Season Is Nearing Its
High Tide and the Downstairs Store Is
Ready With the Things You Need
Shopping here won't tire you out, for everything
is on floor and the freely circulating air is cool
and clean.
Everything from cold and toilet requisites
to SUITS dresses hats and coats is ready for the people
who intend to spend August at the seashore-rnen as
well as women and babies and children as well as
grown-ups.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31
COrSetS
need not detract from your
comfort and GOODNESS

And these won't! For they are
made of the lightest possible ma
terials for warm weather wear.
Nor need your corsets take
much from your pocketbook,
either, for these lightweight cor
sets are in all sizes to fit slight
figures, stout figures, and all the
figures between.
S1.25
(CentraD
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-07
NEWS OF LAUREL.

Special Correspondence Of Every Evcring
Laurel. Nov. 7-Thc marriage has
been announced Of Mrs Martha Baker
Lingo Plummer. formerly Of this town.
lately residing in Maryland. to Perry
b. Hastings Of Laurel. on Sunday after
noon at the Methodist Episcopal par
sonage by Rev Frank T. Carpenter
They will reside in Laurel
William Elliott has grown pumpkin
which is said to be the largest in this
section of the county L weighs l0+
pounds and measures five feet nine
inches in circumference.
.Armwell Fooks has gone to Tyrone
Pa. where he will spend the vi ter
with his sister, Mrs Nellie Fooks Nogt.
while he IS attending school His mother,
Mrs. John W Fooks, will also 90 III
about two weeks.
Judge Arthur 5 licarn, vino has
been seriously i'll with Influenza fol-
lowed by pneumonia, is much improved
and is now able to leave the house for
short walks
Joseph G. JONES, for many Years a
merchant and ice cream manufacturer
OF this town. has discontinued his blIsI-
ness and has purchased farm near
Millsboro. TO which he will move soon,
Seth Hastings, who has been con
fined 10 the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey " Hastings. with
an attack Of influenza, has recovered
and returned TO Dover where he Is
attending Wesleyan Collegiate Ina,i-
tute.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-07
NEWS Of Tie DAY
DOWN DELAWARE
Chairman Grcenabaum Preparing
for Lively War Work Fund
Drive at Seaford.
EXCITING FIRES AT DOVER
Announcement of Committees by
Worthy Master Dilworth OF
State Grange, P. of II.
snecial Correspondence of Every Evening

Special Correspondence OF Every Evening
Dover. Nov =. Worthy Master
Horace l.. Dilworth of the Delaware
State Grange has announced tho follow
ing standing committees for the annual
session OF the State Grange, To be- held
here December 1912. l9lS
Order Of Business IL Gilpin Bucking-
ham. Albert b. Woodward, Mrs ].
Frank AIegginson.
Division of Labor Ferris J lcarslcy,
Edgar I Hastings, Mrs 7 H. Becker.
Evans. John Ponder, DR.. H. b. Ne
Aericulture-H G. Richardson W. Y.
CoSdcn. Herbert l.. Chandler. jnseph
Mitchell. ,Ir.. Mrs Edward \. Evans
Legislation and Taxation William \.
Cosslcn Charles p nickcy, J. I. stew ard
IL. +. Phillips, Mrs Fred G. snyder
Resolutions II Il. IcncN. IL. J. u.
Thompson Fred c. Syndcr. \. y Harris.
Mrs. X. L. McAlcn.
Woncn's Work Mrs H. r. Ne
Dowell, Mrs Charles T. Dickcy, Mrs.
Ferris ]. Nearslcy. Mrs " V Co~dcn,
Mrs. II. c. Richardson. Mrs. Edward \.
Evans
Temperance William Z. Naudaln. J.
4. I.atta. Harvey NJ Short Frank Il.
Colescott, Mrs * l.. Cow gill
transportation J Frank McgGlnson,
g. H. King. Charles Mai, tyrus +.
RittcnhouSe, Mrs @. " Dcrrickson.
Good OF the Order John T. Kelley
Simeon d Walls, Elisha \. Steele, \. -.
Harris. Mrs. IL. +. Phillips. Mrs. J. A.
Latta.
Per Diem and Mileage Charles p
Dickev, John Ponder, H. l.. Cowgirl
Ira1 Kiln Achy, Mrs. Thomas NJ. Kemp
Grange Extension II. Il. Me
Dowcll, c. \ McCue Edward a. Evans
II. K. Tencx. Mrs Harvey NJ. Short.
Mrs. Edgar T. Hastings.
Constitution and Bylaws ri r.
Jefferson. K. c. Steele. Joseph Z. Cross,
]. l. Phillips, Mrs Frank +. Colcsrott
Cooperation Thomas NJ Kemp. Mrs
J. Frank Marsh Joseph Mitchell, Jr.,
Nrs. John Ponder Mrs n II King
Insurance Charles 4 Mai Is H.
Cowgirl, Geo Wilson. Air~ Nnr T.
Naudain. Mrs ), I Stewart
Nenor!al Wm ID. Wilson. y
McAllen, r. II Becker Mn \ "v-
gill, q. W DcrrickS"m Mrs i tip'n
buckingham
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-07
REGRET FOR DEATH
Of YOUEG CARLISLE
Gloom in Milford by Reason of
the Loss of This Fine, Patri-
otic Soldier
Special Correspondence of Every Evening

Special Correspondents of Every Evening
Milford. Nov. Newer did tele-
gram cast home and community into
greater sorrow and deeper gloom than
one received from the War Department
reporting as killed in action Lieutenant
Paris T. Carlisle, October IT,
Lieutenant Carlisle was the son Of DIR.
and Mrs T. +. Carlisle, brother of Miss
Elizabeth V. Carlisle and nephew of
DIR. G.. Layton Gricr. OF Milford. Born
in fredcrlca, Del. September IA, 1898,
he attended the local public and high
Nschools, graduating III 1911 with honors
ito enable him to enter without eXamina-
tion the collcgiatc and arts course at the
University of Pennsylvania that same
wear. He was one of the five honor men
OF his class on graduation.
Loving the life of rural community
and it's people, he elected to return to
his home town and associated himself
with the physical and chemical depart
ments OF the L. ID. Daulk Company
laboratories
On tmcrica'S active participation IN
the world war, he felt II his duty To offer
his services To the government and en-
listed III June 1917.
Ills trained mental equipment was
Immediately recognized and he was or
dCrcd Ia the Officers Training Camp at
Fort NIycr. Va whore nc won his com
mission rs first lieutenant on November
26 and assigned tu Company ! 3l9th
Infantry NJ Camp Lee was made bat
tnlInn adjutant December H. and sailed
for France May Ii. l9iS III, regiment
was sent INTO action almost immediately,
and those sterling qualities which en-
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-07
NEWS Of THE DAY
At NEW CASTLE
Red Cross Work Resumed in
Earnest and All Citizens Are
Asked to Cooperate
Special Correspondents Of Every Evening

>
New Castle. Nov Mis- II G..
Cavcnaush announces the R.d Gross
work vii bc RESUMED and ehf III 4purc
cat .hc 60 operation u ail ihc N.t.
Castle people
The ar "no for the Christmas, paekage,
Tor n, soldier, overseas have lu>t arrived
and c4u 10 secured 81 tho Rcd Crc~s
rooms IN III Old trnOrt between = q r.
;tud = a ~ and > r. n. and } y nl..
dali
Il Is vc3l understood 1har 10 one cau
send 4 l,arkagc to 10 frrit unless he or
>Ilc rcccivc~ card from thr one at the
front This allows only one box to be
sent to each one If HI mistake card is
sent 10 someone and they don't receive
it tho soldier is not WITHOUT box on
Christmas FIe is supplied with one
~ the war workcrs wherever he il sta
toned
John Lockermu of Wilmington was
visitor in this city yesterday He
spent the day At tho home Of Mr.. and
Mr. William Leach
Mr. and Mrs John Gallagher have
received word from their son, James,
who il stationed ut Camp SEWER, Green
vile, = O. that he is recovering from a
very lad case of infiucnza
Mrs Fred Meyers, who resides in
BROOKLYN, n VI, has come to spend
the Wi4tcr III thi city She is staying
ii the home of her aunt, Miss Ida White.
who resides on Fourth street
In4tallltio of officers If the American
Order If United Workmen will take
place November / at 8 o'clock at their
meeting room, in the Opera House.
The IRE company held its meeting
last evening in the engine hall They are
ready for the arrival of the new engine
Tire coucrct,, work ia front 81 the building
il finished i tne new strips IN the ho0l
where the engine STAYS are also finished
We l,avr \ beautiful display ot Christ
mas c;.rd- Now is the 10 send then
H. the b"y~ III France II. Challenger 4
son Prescription Pharmacists ADV
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-07

,lcarci lam to those ~ us who Ancs .h,m
best also left theT impress IN hIS brother
oflccr~ The following letter from ms
captain s Just such an expression
Somewhere IN France. October ~. 1918
NIy dear doctor and Nlr- Carl'ol, II
j. With the utmost regret that am writing
to tell vou of the death ~ vour ~ln
Paris Nou have, ! am sure, been notiilcI
nf il before this, but wanted to saN q
few things to you about him that | am
sure Will hc comfort 70 you.
Paris came 10 my company Company
=" when he was assigned 10 Camp Lee
and until few DAYS before his death.
have been in constant touch with him.
Today he stands out amongst my ac-
qilalnlanccs both IN civil life and IN the
army rs one OF the best examples Of what
man should be and what 4 man could
be- that ] have ever known
st time when my brother officers
and the men Of our regiment were making
the greatest sacrifice man can make,
hc was taken away from us and more
strong mon shed tears for him than Il
was possible to believe
Never in my constant ASSOCIATION with
him did ever see anything that | could
not admire about him. and assure YOU
that the bo>e Of Company ~ to whom
be had endearcd himself always iclt As
though the lieutenant belonged to us
am sending by parcel post few ef-
fects OF his that | thought YOU might
care to keep lie carried very little
baggage with HIM, and 50 it is not at all q
large parce!
knowing that YOU viii be gratified to
know that your son died a soldier doing
his duty ] am
Respectfully yo,us.
Signed Capt Rowland + Jenkins
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-07
WILL TAKE A SEA VOYAGE.

Special Correspondence Of Every Evening
Seaford, Nov T. Mrs Walter W.
Griffith has gone to Norfolk, Va, where
she will join her husband Captain
Griffith, and make trip with him Oh
the recently built four-lnast schooner
William Bartlett, Of which he has been
made master
Thus will be the initiative trip Of
the vessel. She will take cargo to Ber-
muda and on return will dock at Flor
ida seaport town and load lumber for
New York The vessel was built III
Battle Maine
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-07
WAR WORK DRIVE IN SEAFORD.

SPECIAL Correspondence Of Every Evening
Seaford. Nov. 7.-Chairinan Emanuel
Greenabaum Of tho United War Work
drive l. preparing for vigorous cam
paign fer Seaford and vicinity and
there is no doubt this community Will
respond literally in the noble work
>eaford expects 10 more than subscribe
its quota Tho town will bc la of in
districts which will be assigned to ladies,
each one taking 4 certain section They
will make holIac-to-house canvass,
as they did in the recent Liberty Loan
drive. in which they made such fine
showing.
Chairman Greenabaum will appoint
men to solicit IN the surrounding country
and every family will be called upon
lie has appointed 4 committee to see
that the advertising matter Is placed
in the most CONSPICUOUS laces and they
have already started TO work
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-07
TWO FIRES At DOVER.

special Correspondence Of ENcry Evening
Dover. Nov, I Two fires at the
same time engaged the local bremen,
Yesterday. one being al the dump pile
east Of North street. which had become
iqnited in some manner. and the see
ond fire at the home nf George v Nor
pn, south State street, which tor 4
time threatened the frame building
section of that part Of the town
The fire at the Morgan homo caught
from an outbuilding where It is sup
posed ashes with live Goals bad been
thrown Both fires were gotten under
control. before serious damage was
done
Al the Morgan home. tho outbuild-
ing was totally DESTROYED and the kitchen
damaged
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-07
Lots Of Bank HOLIDAYS

Because oi holidays civil and rele-
icQs. throughout the different countries.
there arc only cigAts -four days out of i
wear III Wnich banks are open III every
part oi the world IL once People )
Home Journal
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-07

LIT BROTHERS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-03

Her beauty wins selection for insurance poster Photo
graph of Miss Frances Jordan selected from several
thousand submitted for the insurance calendar
which will be sent throughout the camps urge
service to apply for United States government
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-03

Mrs Henry T. Rainey, wife of Representa-
tive Rainey of Illinois, is in charge of train
ing class in typewriting and stenography for
women and girls who wish to secure positions.
copyright by CiinednstD
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-14

efficiency of the man power Of the
country.
The Times Dispatch occupies exacs-
ly the same position as the German
American alliance. which has fought
prohibition at every turn just as the
Times Dispatch has done the char
ter of which alliance will be revoked
by congress within the next few DAYS
The brewing interests OF the country
have been, and are today. very largely
pro-German, and the abolition OF
brewing and beer drinking. and of all
other forms of intoxicants during the
time of war Will aid in winning the
war, as can be done by no other one
act of congress, certainly the prohibi-
tionists 80 believe, and the petitions
which have recently gone in to Presi-
dent wilson have gone in from as
semblies and conferences of all the
great churches of America, from all
the war work commissions and COM
mittees of the churches, and from the
war work council of the Woman's
Christian association, and from tho
International committee of the Youu.
Mems Christian association, and the
men at the head of these great moral
and spiritual war work forces ar.
Just as patriotic as the editor OF thA
Times Dispatch
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-14

Now is the time to offer your ex-
cess earnings TO the government, This
nation has no money TO carry on the
war unless the people furnish it. Some
folks wonder why tho government
does not pay off It's obligations In
currency notes, regarding It as easy
70 print paper money rs 10 print
bonds. Our country is spending tens
of millions q day. and It would be but
a short while before the republic
would be flooded with paper money
If such a plan was pursued. Soon we
would be carrying a basket Of money
TO market to buy pot roast
Excess earnings embrace all that
goes into the purchase OF things not
essential The man or woman who
IS spending for articles that are not
necessary is clearly out Of spirit with
the governments wishes In this mat
ter. Every luxury and unnecessary
expenditure evidence plainly a want
.of knowledge concerning the serious
ness Of the war. This Is the most
charitable way to express 1t. There
are some who are so supremacy sell
fish as 70 crafty every human wish
without thought of others. and there
are men in the country today who are
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-14
KEEP TABS ON WOMEN ALIENS.

n was wise precantion that caused
the federal authorities TO require the
registrstion OF every female alien In
the country. A people accustomed TO
the easy running system of American
freedom, and the untrampeled liber-
t1es and movements of every citizen
might we'll wonder why the necessity
~ establishing special surveillance
evsr tbs foreign women who reside
within our borders, This very thing
Ne government has done and there
havs been very few war measures OF
area4sr importance,
We are only just now beginning 10
understand the real German character.
Ltktis ~ little their insinuating treach-
etSee are being disclosed. For q long
/ time ~ tried 10 persuade ourselves
tat the last act Of infamy was the
Mosut. but the nation has come to
Tonl1ss that the human mind cannot
eneresvs OF thing so foul that The
wnaa viii not commit 81 an act Of
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-14
RICHMOND ARRIVES AT A GRAVE CRISIS

red light district be restored.
When the day arrfves--nsy it
arrive soon,--wilen the mayor
Of Richmond is willing and anxi-
Gus to exercise the authority
which he Possesses, and viii make
his chief of police his captains,
scrgeants. detectives, patroimen,
even the turnlEeys and drivers,
understand that the Laws are to
be enforced. that the individual
members Of the force Will ne
backed with the fun weight and
force of the mayors official
prestige and the ctty's full
legal authority, there viii be II
verttable hegira of ali that low
and levvd crowd which has too
long nlade mockery of law and
deceny in the capital OF Virginia.
And If that day does not ar
river very soon, under the present
rnayor--wel. we still are willing
for limited time to give that Of
fetal the benefit OF the doubt and
an opportunity to make the eftici-
cncy of the police department, In
which he Is supreme. four square
with Its opportunity and Its duty.
IT'S au-sizcd task, rendered
all the more difficult by these
years of diIatori and
failure to appreciate the respon-
slbilities that attach to the high
est office in the gift of the people
of Richmond.
But this is one thing about
which those same people are in
tenseIy In earnest, as the mayor
must know by this time.
THE LAWS MUST BE EN-
FORCED. Particularly, boot
logging must I've made perilous
and be entirely removed from the
protection of petty railroad en-
pioyes: comrnerciaiized vice must
not only NOT be restored to the
ancient privileges of an open and
protected market but must be
driven out
Tho mayor can do all of this
under his present authority IL
HE WILL. Whether he WILL
depends on whether he WILLS.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-14

THE grnvest situation which
Richmond has faced for a long
timc Is created by the present
condition of tho police depart
mert.
Lacking the Kind OF leadership
which makes for efficiency in la"
nothing else
can explain the failure of the
police 10 suppress bootlegginS.
rambling and concentrated vice
conditions became SO bad that
u was necessary for the military
police TO intervene The mayor
sAys he requested their assist
nx,Ca, II be had not done So, con-
Atssons had reached tho point
where such intervention Was In
cvfss BILE. There ruust he 81 rca.-
sons.
Does anybody imagine that,
with capable leadcrShipc, 200
Kicked men, armed with all The
authority of the law and sworn IN
It's Enforcement, would bc unable
20 enforce the laws against liq-
nor selling. gambling and COM
mercaaIined vice I'm this normally
iaw-abiding city? Halt that
number of military police could
do the trio k---t he difference con-
sisting not In superior INTEL
igcnce, ability or Initiative but I'm
n leadership that holds every
man squarcly to the mark of his
) solemn Obligation
The individual policeman who
wants TO perform his whole duty
finds his way encountered b. ar
rogant underlings of railroad
corporations. defiant CANDLES, and
other incorrigibles of the under
world who claim 10 Weld politi-
cal or personal influence. When
that occurs, how much aid and
backing does the policeman get?
The answer to that question IS
the explanation of the shameful
condition which now admittedly
exists----bootlegging of the rank
est sort. vice which fiaunts itself
20 body that some earnest but
shallow thinking men have even
seriously proposed that the old
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-14
ECONOMIC FOR NATIONS SAKE.

fully advised of the dangers that con-
front us, yet are perfectly willing to
see their neighbors bear tho burdens
of the war.
Referring to the importance OF
avoiding unnecessary expenditures by
the people. the resident said on jan
uary 81. 1918. 1T means the utmost
economy. even to the point where the
pinch comes. 1t means the kind of
concentration and self-sacr!fce which
is involved in the field of battle,
itself, where the object always looms
greater than the Individual" The
secretary of the treasury on Deem
Der %. 1917. said. THE people of the
United States can render the most far
reaching patriotic service by refrain
ing from the punches OF all unneces-
sary articles, and by combining them
selves to the use OF only such things
and the expenditure of only such,
money as is necessary to maintain
their health and efficiency"
| It ought TO be understood that the
government does not have to grovel
| in the dust as a beggar. We are Of
fered the opportunity of lending the
money to the nation, but should we re-
fuse to comply, the alternative Is 10
! take II from us by taxation.