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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-22

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-22

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-22

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-22
snercer Has Proper Spirit

"rhe magnificent parade of yester- day was so impressive that 1t caused me to resolve to do more than simply give one days earning to the fsea Cross,' said Kelly B. Spencer, prcsI- dent of the Inter-American company, 1916 Jefferson County Bank building.
 'T have decided to donate the entire weeks profits to the great cause, m cluding not only collections for ac- counts now due. but also those past due Everyone in my office has pledged to try and make this the biggest week in the history of our business. so as to make our donation as large as pos sible. The ladies of Birmingham de- seive the highest of praise for the won- derful spirit of patriotism and service displayed by them yesterday"
Smyrna times., 1918-06-05
When to Shut Your Eyes.

In an article about Thomas Edison
in the American Magazine, William
Maxwell, the vice president of the
Edison company, said:
"One bit of executive strategy that I
learned from Edison has stood me in
good stead a dozen times. He had the
wise habit of knowing when to shut
his eyes. There are times in every
organization when controversies arise
between even the most loyal and best
intentiOned subOrdinates. Sometimes
it is the wisest thing for the man at
the top to know nothing whatever
about them, to let them work them
selves out. L learned a great many
years ago. said Lincoln, that in a
fight between man and wife, a third
party should never get between the
woman's skillet and the mans ak,
helve.'"
Smyrna times., 1918-06-05
PENINSULA MAN HONORED

James Cannon, DR., Native of Salisbury
Elected Bishop M. E. Church, South
At the Eighteenth Session of the
General Conference of the M. E.
Church, South, at Atlanta, Ca, DR..
James Cannon, Jr., was elected Bishop
of that denomination. Bishop Cannon
was born at Salisbury, Md, Novem-
ber 13, 1864, and is therefore So
years old, being one of the younger
Bishops of the Conference. He grad
uated from Randolph and
Princeton Theological Seminary.
Joined the Virginia Conference in
1888 and later became principal of
the Blackstone, Va, Female Institute
and is very prominent as a preacher,
educator and reformer and is an ac-
knowledged force in the councils of
the church. Bishop Cannon took quite
an active part in the consideration OF
uniting the two branches of the M.
E. Chucrh, he being chairman of toe
committee on church relations. While
Bishop Cannon was not a native OF
Delaware, a large portion of his re.
latives live here, Mrs. Walter A.
Powell, of Dover, and Charles B.
Prettyman, formerly of Dover, nov
of Wilmington, being Cousins.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-05
"CARDIFF GIANT" PURE FAKE
Had Its Origin in Hoax Which Is Un-
derstood to Have Had Its
Inception at Chicago.

Andrew D. White gives some of the
particulars of the Cardiff Giant" in
a book entitled 1.-THE True Story of a
Remarkable Deception" The Cardiff
giant was the huge stone image of a
man which Farmer Newell of Cardiff,
N. T., claimed to have unearthed while
digging well in the autumn of 1869.
After it had been sold to a jOint-stOck
company formed to exploit the wonder
for show purposes, Barnum tried tc
buy it for his own museum, but his Of
fer was declined. The Snowman theT
had an imitation made, with the result
that two Cardiff giants were on exhi'
bitiOn at the same time, the duplicate
being shown to the public as "the only
and original" Doctor White attributes
the exposure of the fake to Professor
Marsh of Yale; in another account II
was DR.. John V. BOyntOn of Syracuse
N. Y, who laid bare the fraud. The
original Cardiff giant was carved OF
chiseled out of a gypsum block in
stOneyard in Chicago and was trans
ported thence by rail and wagon tC
Cardiff. According to Doctor White
scientists as we'll as clergymen were
much impressed with the colossal hg
ure, DIR. James Hall, state geologist
issuing a statement In which he de
scribed the giant as 'the most remark
able object brought to light in thi'
country" and as deserving the atten
ton of archaeOlOgists."
Smyrna times., 1918-06-05
Electric Protection.

Many of the devices conjurNi up for
war service, under pressure of deep
desires, will be useful for the piping
times of peace. The Canadian avia-
tor who has designed a way to keep a
filer warm by equipping his suit with
electric wires may be painting the
dawn of a new day for people who live
In apartments where the janltor ia
careless. Star.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-05
KENT COUNTY COMMITTEE
ON FARM LABOR NAMED
En-. DONOVAN HAS CHARGE OF
WORK IN SMYRNA ANO VICINITY

Executive Committee of the Farm 8u-
reau Holds an Interesting Meeting
in Dover and Discusses Plans.
On Wednesday the executive COM
mittee of the Kent County Farm Bu-
reau met in the Farm Bureau office at
Dover. President Soper, who is one
of the largest fruit growers in the
state, presided. In considering the
problems that confront the farmers of
the country today the labor question
was uppermost. L. H. SimOns, of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, who has charge of Farm Bureau
work in the Northern and Eastern
States, spoke on the labor situation.
1t was finally decided to refer the
matter of working out a satisfactory
plan for organizing the demands of
the farmers for help, then securing
help to fill these demands, to Herbert
Richardson, executive committeeman
on Farm Labor, for the Farm Bureau,
a prominent fruit grower in the Cam
den section; and to County Agent
Zimmerly.
Later in the afternoon these men
submitted a project for work on farm
labor to the executive committee
which was adopted. This plan in
cluded the following steps: Each
community in the county has a repre-
sentative of the Farm Bureau who is
called a community committeeman on
labor. These men together with the
chairman of the community committee,
will take definite measures in each
community to determine the local
needs for farm labor, the kind of labor
wanted, the time at which this labor
will be most needed, whether women's
camps could or could not be used, and
the wages that will be paid for GER
tain kinds of labor. They will also
take steps to list all idlers in the
community and will assist the State
Council of Defense in enforcing the
compulsory work law.
Furthermore they will act as repre-
sentatives of the farmers in helping
the business men of towns to organize
to supply volunteer farm labor for
short periods at harvest time, and to
present to business men within the
towns the needs and wishes of the
farmers for volunteer help at harvest
time. Each community committeeman
on labor will also act as a local rep
resentative of the Delaware Farm
Labor Bureau in his locality and the
farmers of that locality should get in
touch with these when in need of
help.
The list of the community chairmen,
who will assist the community com
mitteemen on labor in working Out
this project Uf work in Kent county
following:
F.. H. Donovan, Smyrna; C. R.
Numbers, BIackiston; Frank Attix,
Downs Chapel; Harry Clark, Kenton
Henry Williams, Hartley; I. D.
Garrison, Cheswold; John Tarburton
Leipsic; Jospeh Cowgirl, Dover
Benjamin Mentink, Hazlettville; Rob
ert Wiley, Wiley; Frank Bancroft
Wyoming; Edward Todd, Viola; w
]. Chambers, Petersburg; JOSEPH
Steward, FELTON,; Clarence Taylor
Harrington; w. B. Tharp. Farming
ton; David Vinyard, Houston; ]. H
Skewis, Milford; Herman Vineyard
Frederick; T. E. Warren, Magnolia
Albert Dill, Hollandsville.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-05

The condition of John Bostic, who
was accidentally struck by George w.
Wilson, Jr., Friday morning, May
"a, during an alteration between
Wilson and his brother, Harvey Will
son, Camp Dix soldier, the latter
having arrived in Dover but a few
hours before, is somewhat improved.
1t was feared for a time that Bostic' e
skull had been fractured and concus-
sion might follow. Wilson is in Kent
county Jail, without bail, awaiting
the result of BOstic's injuries.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-05
FOR SALE

Houses on West street Clayton
Delaware, Eight rooms and attic
Apply to, Mrs. l. N. Mills, Clayton,
Delaware.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-05
Please Do Not Ask
Our Operators for
the Correct Time
A Necessary Wartime Request

w THEN a subscriber lifts his telephone
w receiver and asks: what is the time,
pease?" the same service on the part of the
operator, the same length of time and an equal
use of telephone equipment generally are neceS-
sary as are required to complete an ordinary
telephone call.
In every telephone central office there is a
switchboard with a certain number of operators
positions; at each position is an operator; before
each operator certain number of subscribers
lines terminate. If these telephone facilities
are taxed to their utmost and large percentage
of the calls is for the time of day, the tele-
phone user will appreciate that to eliminate
such calls will permit reassignment rediS-
tributiOn of both operators service and tele-
phone equipment and result in our being able
to care for the abnormal demands of the
present, and the even greater demands that
feel will be made upon our service in the
months to come.
Every true American sees his personal obliga>
ton in the great National task at hand The
Telephone Company is keenly alive to the
responsibility that rests upon it. Will you
make only the necessary telephone calls and so
assist this Company in its service?
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The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1918-03-15
READING BROTHERS. BIDS
ACCEPTED BY RECEIVERS

Following the completion of the in
voices by the receivership of Read
ing Mercantile & Transportation Co.,
the bid of Reading Bros. of Yelling
ton has been accepted Their bid
was 60 cents on the dollar, at the
recent receivers sale subject to in
voice. The stocks invoiced slightly
in access of $4,000, which Is the
price paid over.
Assets not taken over include a
number of bills recoverable. upon
which the receivers expect to realize.
1t is likely that the stockholders will
receive small dividend, as the sale
price on the bids is ample to take
care of the outstanding indebtedness
of the corporation.--Yerington News
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1918-03-15
GAME
PLAYED HERE

An exciting and spirited game OF
basketball was played at the high
school auditorium Saturday night be-
tween the Indian school team and
1ormer members of the high school
team. At the end OF the first half the
score was 9-9, while the game closed
with the Indians leading by score OF
24-27.
The majority of the baskets made
by the Indian team was because OF
the accuracy of their center who was
dead medicine of free throws. The
town team had many fouls called on
them, through not being able to hold
their left had behind their backs in a
toss-up, this rule having been injected
into the game since they were active
players. However the town team
played remarkable fast game. The
team was composed of Arendt Jensen,
Halvor Jacobsen, Ed Lampe, Fred and
Clarence Hellwinkel
The game was well attended and
the many thrills throughout the game
kept the spectators at high tension.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1918-03-15
BOYS TO HELP
IN WAR WORK

All Nevada boys between the ages of
Is and II are to be given an oppor-
tunity to help in war work, with Gov
ernment recognition, at the time earn
ing excellent pay and learning useful
trades( according to plans just formu-
lated by the Boys Working Reserve
of the Department of Labor, of which
Rev. Brewster Adams of Reno is Fed
eral Sstate Director.
"All high school principals and en-
rollment agents of the Public Service
Reserve have been enlisted as enroll
ment officers In this movement, in
order to reach every patriotic boy In
the state, said Mr.. Adams yesterday.
One month intensive course In Agri-
culture. gas engine and tractor opera
tion will be given at the University OF
Nevada commencing April l and run
ming until July /. fifty boys being
handled each month. For this course
there Is no expense whatever other
than board and room at Lincoln Hall
for which special rate of $25 for the
month has been arranged.
these boys will be doing real war
work. just as surely as their big
brothers In the trenches. Victory for
our Allies depends not on arms alone
but equally on the products of our
farms. Members of the Boys Work
ing Reserve receives full Government
recognition, in the form of certificates
and badges of enrolment, with serv
ice bars added on completion of farm
work through specified periods.
"The movement opens very auspic-
iously. The State Board of Education
has instructed each principal that
full credit shall be allowed the boys
while they are at the University.
Closest cooperation exists between the
Reserve and the State Council of De-
fense. and the Public Service Reserve.
Parents of Nevada boys. you must
do this little added bid. You must
find this SIS to send your boys to the
University of Nevada, where they win
receive In one month course more
valuable perhaps than year OF
schooling, and where they may serve
their country in its grave need. Their
moral welfare will be looked after
as carefully as at home.
Nevada boys. enroll-it makes no
difference whether you are High
school student or not. This opportun-
ity is offered TO all. and the appeal
comes direct from your Government"
Morris Harris has been appointed
Enrolment Officer for Douglas county
and will be pleased to give all infor-
nation regarding the work See him
today.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1918-03-15
LUTHERAN ChURCK NOTES

Sunday is the 5th Sunday in Lent.
The services at 0:30 o'clock in the
morning will be conducted in the
German language. The pastor will
base his discourse on Luke %, 63-71
The theme will be: "Jesu Herrlichkeit
in seinem Leiden." You are cordial
ly invited to attend
The sunday School will begin its
session at $3.50 a. m. Besides the reg
ular lesson the classes will take up
the study of the S. S. Easter program
sunday afternoon at o'clock the
Fredericksburg Lutheran S. S. will
nett for instruction at the school
house.
Miss Blance Haugner has become a
member of the staff of Sunday school
teachers. Miss Frede Cordes who
has faithfully filled the position of an
instructor, has been honorably retir-
ed.
Last Sunday the pastor addressed
the Sunday School classes vi.h re-
gard to the sale of Thrift Stamps
He encouraged the members of the
Sunday School to save as much as
possible their pin money and invest 1t
in Thrift Stamps. In so doing they
would render very valuable favor
unto themselves and especially assist
their government in its gigantic strug-
gle. Miss Alma Lampe was appointed
to handle the sale of stamps for the
Sunday School.
In spite of the unfavorable weather
conditions on last Tuesday, IS young
people attended the meeting of the
Young Peoples Society. Miss Alma
Settelmeyer was accepted as new
member.
The Ladies' Aid of the Church de-
voted the entire meeting yesterday to
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1918-03-15

About the time of the declaration Of
that this states quota to the regular
army had been placed by Washington
at 1852. But today Adjutant General
Sullivan received the gratifying news
from the adjutant general of the army
that Nevadas enlistment to the reg
ular service had reached the stupen-
dous total of 1,447, nine times the
that had been called for.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1918-03-15
ORDERS $4,000 MEN TO
ENTRAiN THIS MONTH

The war department has ordered
the remaining $4,000 men of the first
draft to entrain in a five day period,
beginning March 29th which, in
cludes but 72 names from Nevada,
owing to the fact that practically all
the Nevada names in the first draft
have already responded.
A statement from the war depart
ment announces that the second draft
consisting of 100000 men from class
one, will move to the various train
ing camps in small groups as rapidly
as the camps can handle them, and
it is probable that several months will
elapse before all the men of the Sec
1t is announced that the local boards
will fill the second draft quota by
calling class one men according to
their draft numbers, excepting where
the men are actually working on the
farms, and such men will go to the
bottom of the list, and remain there
as long as they continue at work on
the farms. 1t also provides that cer-
tain agricultural college students can
join the quartermaster department
or enlist in the reserve, thus defer
ring their call indefinitely.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1918-03-15
WM. FREVEPT.
VIM. Hart In
Narrou Trail

The Narrow Trail" featuring VIM.
Hart in an Aircraft picture, will be
the bill at Valhalla theatre Saturday
and Sunday night. AS the story runs
Ice Harding and his outlaws have
spent many days trying to capture a
Pinto pony and are finally rewarded.
The Pinto, finally broken, becomes a
great asset to Ice in his robberies.
Late one afternoon Ice and his men
sight stage. and telling his men he
will do the job alone, motions them
into the brush and rides Pinto to a
safe place, orders hands upi" A
mong the passengers is Admiral
Bates, vice king of San Francisco,
and Betty Werden, his pretty niece,
who at heart is a good girl and de-
tests being made to lure men to the
resort of her Infamous relative. AS
Betty steps forth to take the rings
from her fingers, Ice lifts his hat,
makes a sweeping bow, and says he
reckons he isn't takin' jewels from
lady.
The hold-up men make their get-a-
way into the mountains but feel that
the peculiar markings of Pinto will
lead to their discovery However,
Ice will not give up the horse, and
orders his men to beat it,"
Ice meets Betty at mountain town
They become we'll acquainted, Betty
never suspecting Ice to be a high
wayman. Believeing Ice to be a
moneyed rancher. the uncle induces
Betty to lure him to a fleeing. She,
however, falls in love with Ice, re-
fuses to do as her uncle bids. and they
return to San Francisco.
Ice later goes to San Francisco and
in making the rounds of Barbary
Coast, gets into the clutches of the
Admiral" Betty saves him but he
has lost faith in women and returns
to the mountains.
How he again meets Betty, and for
gives her; how she learns he was n
bandit, and forgives him is told in
thrilling detail.
A Mack Sennett comedy, entitled
"The Kitchen Lady" goes to make up
the bill
After the show Saturday night the
ln knr Aafv
social dance.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1918-03-15
LODGES HAVE
P[EASANTS0C|AL

Monday night the Odd Fellows gave
an entertainment and spread, the
Rebekahs being guests Of honor.
The spread for this occasion was
prepared and served by three men,
bers of the Odd Fellows lodge without
any assistance from the feminine
sex, and the fact that all who attend
ed and partook of the "eats" are still
alive, gives the members of the COM
mittee hopes that they may yet learn
how to prepare something to eat,
when occasion demands.
Later vocal selections were given
by members of the Rebekahs which
were followed by an address by Geo.
A. Montorse on Wartime Washing
ton." The topic was intensely inter-
esting and from the fact that the
speaker recently spent a week the
National capital, he was able to give
very interesting facts. Mrs. Stena
Doane read paper "On Woman's
Work in War" which was we'll receiv-
ed. Following this all of the men,
bers were given an opportunity to
speak. whether they wanted to or not.
1t is such gatherings that really
bring out the good of fraternalism,
the social side of life being as I'm
portant to good citizenship as the
charitable and other aims of such
organizations.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1918-03-15
Letters From Our
Boys 'Ouer There

Lisle Mclnnis, who Is serving Ia
France. writes as follows to Robt
Dempster:
Il received a package cortaiL ing
tobacco, candy ETC., and want you to
extend my thanks to the good people
who so kindly contributed, and to tell
you that you hit the nail right of the
head, as | was on my last package of
cigarettes, and am in a place where
its had to get tobacco of good quail
ity, SO again thank you.
Things are going fairly we'll with
me. Am company clerk of our out
fit, SO still at my line of work. Man.
age to keep busy most of the time,
and little time to look around, but
occasionally | spend day in a neigh
boring French city and see many
things of interest. Haven't encoun-
tered and Germans or German bullets
as yet, and not anxious to have the
experience, although can't tell when
the time may come as we are subject
10 frequent moves. and never know
where we are going next.
Have had many experiences new to
me since | left Carson Valley, enjoy
able and otherwise. Some of them
seemed little rough and hard to
take at the time. but SO far have land
ed right side up, and learned to take
things as they come, even though We
do more or less kicking. ! maintain
that the American boys are lads with
some spirit, though they may grumble
quite bit, they always come out of
any little hardship, with smile on
their face, and joke about the ex-
perience.
Just came from the Y NJ. c. A.
where they have been having boxing
bouts. and they put on some pretty
good fighters. We have two fellows
III camp who claim to be world beat
ers, and they have arranged a bout
for the near future. and we are all
looking forward to the bout. The Y.
M. c. A. puts on an entertainment of
some kind every evening, which helps
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1918-03-15
Reclamation
Men Arriue

Engineer Perkins of the Govern
ment Reclamation Service has leas-
ed the Millar bungalow ard is NOV
ing his family TO this place from Fal-
Ion. Coupled with the arrival of Mr.
Perkins, four government engineers
arrived at Minden yesterday. and all
things point to the fact that further
work is to be started on the Upper
Carson project which means SO
much for this Valley.