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Republican farmer., 1919-05-30
Allied Reply To German Note On Preparations Merci|ess|y Exposes
 Huns Disregard For The TrutI1
Asserts Note Is Full of Misrepresentation Exaggera tion-Ignores Fundamental Conditions Arising
 Out of War That Justify Terms.

Paris May 23-Gennanys share of the growing out of the set down in the the treaty is based her ability to shoulder and according to her deserts the allied and associated council declares it's to the German note protest against the treaty
 Germany mainly responsible damage and de- sucon it is pointed out and she cannot that sbty It is not the peace terms the Allied note but the acts of those who made and continued the which the cause of any sufferngs Germany may have to bear.
 The Allied reply to the Brockdorff- regarding the economic effect of the treaty dated at Yer sailes, May IS, was made public today. It reads:
 The Allied and associated have received and have careful attention the report of the commission appoint dons of the treaty of peace.
 This report appears them to contain inadequate presentation the of the parts exaggeraton and ignore which explain and justify the terms that it sought pose
 he German note opens with the statement that the dsa of Germany adequate before the for the nourshment of population 67OOOO and though this the total for which, with diminished sources, she will still be called upon 10 provide.
 This is not the The total population Germany will be reduced by about 6OOOOO in the which it is proposed to transfer is the these smaller aggregation that called upon consider
Republican farmer., 1919-05-30
RICH SPANIARD
 IN COURT HERE
 ON WIPES ||RIT

Barnabe de Barrios, wealthy Spaniard residing in Stamford, was summoned before Judge Curtis in the superior court this afternoon on a writ of habeas corpus issued on behalf of Carmen de Barrios, of New York wife of the defendant. She claims de Barrios is detaining their eight year old daughter and preventing her from seeing the child. She also alleges that Barrios took the child out of the state in order to prevent the mother from seeing her daughter Counsel for de Barrios claims the court of this statG have no Jurisdiction in this case. press hour.
Republican farmer., 1919-05-30
.INDICT FORMER
 GOVT EMIpL0YE
Ethel Loar Wrote Threat ening Letter To Gov.
 Stephens.

SacraTrcrto, Cal, May 23.---aEiss Ethel Loar. former head waitress at a hotc! and at one tince an agent here Of the government intelligence bureau, was indicted, it became known today, on a. charge of having written a letter to Governor ". D. Stephens demand ing $500 under threat Of dynamiting the executive mansion. The letter was written, the authorities, alIege. at Fresno. Cafif., two weeks before the executive mansion was dynarlited on tho fourth of December. 1917. The Gynamiting was laid to several radical leaders, and while several arrests were made, definite information could not be gotten. Miss Loar is said to live in a small town in Pennsylvania
Republican farmer., 1919-05-30
NC4 STILL AT AZORES; KEPT
 BY WEATHER
Sea Rough and Rain Squalls Expected-Hope to Start
 Tomorrow.

Washington, May 23 - Weather conditions at Ponta Del Gada still were unafavorable for resumption of the transatlantic flight by the sea- plane NC-4, Admiral Jackson early today notified the Navy Department. His message said the sea still was rough and rain squalls were expected within fhe next A or 4S hours.
 The weather forecast for the Azores-Lisbin route of the NC-4, re- ceived from Admiral Jackson, said the weather probably would become much better by Saturday morning."
Republican farmer., 1919-05-30
TALKS CONSTANTLY TO PRESIDENT
 SAYS WOMAN

Mrs Minnie Brown of 566 Broad stret wandered into police headquar- ters last night and informed the of fcer in charge that she was in com municatio with President Wilson continuously. She offered considera- ble strange information of a. confusinS s character.
 The demented woman was taken to Hillside Home for observation where she is still communicating with the President. The woman is A years of age and has resided in Bridgeport for the past 20 years. She has been Q ward of the Charities Department be- fore.
Republican farmer., 1919-05-30
HAVING SEEN SIGHT OF
 AN ATRPLANE

London, May 23 - (By The Asso-. ciated Press)-The cable ship Fara- day reports that it sighted the red light of an airplane during the early hours of Monday at 50 degrees ZS minutes north latitude and 30 degrees west longitude, approximately m1d- way between England and New Foundland and in the course Which would have been followed by Harry G. Hawker in his attempted flight between the American continent and Ireland.
Republican farmer., 1919-05-30
AIR SERVICE
 WANT RECRUITS

A recruiting party of 2S men and !, band, in charge of Col. John D. Cap-. mody of the U. s. Air Service, arc camping at Seaside park and will stay there until Monday morning- They have with them an airphne. dynamQ and aerial photographit outfit with trucks and wagons. The band PiIl| give a concert at the park tomorxq afternoon and during inc stay in t
 city applications will be talkcn FIT any person desiring to 5oina ;Sx
 branch of tho sefvice
Republican farmer., 1919-05-30
TROOPS ON PANAhIAN

New York, May 23-The troops on the Panaman included five officers and seven men of headquarters of the 18th Division. drafted men of north
 ern Pennsylvania. New Jersey and New York state and seven officers and 923 men comprising the 3oth Infan- try's Third Battalion, Machine GuH company and Companies to M in elusive. for Camps Dix, Grant, Sher- man, Upton. Dodge. Travis Custer, Devcns. Taylor and Fort Oglethorpe,
Republican farmer., 1919-05-30
WILL PAY PRIZE MONEY TO HEIRS
 OF AVIATORS

London, Thursday, May 22-The Daily Mail announces that it intends, if Harry c. Hawker and Lieutenant Commander Mackenzie Grieve have lost their lives in attempting to fly across the Atlantic, to devote f10,0O0 to their next of kin in the proportions that Hawker and Grieve had already agreed to divide the prize. This dis. position will not interfere with the contest which is still open.
Republican farmer., 1919-05-30
DREW CONNECTICUT CANDIDATE

New Haven, May 22-F'rederick M. Drew of Ansonia, will be Connecti- cuts candidate for director of the Federal Reserve Bank at Boston, to fill the vacancy caused by the rcsig- nation from the board of Thomas W. Farnurn, Messrs. Chamberlain of New Britain and Wh:pple of New Haven. withdrawing their candidates
 n order to present single name, il was stated today.
Republican farmer., 1919-05-30
SPAIN RECOGNIZES POLAND.

Madrid, May 23-In response to communication from Ignace Jan Pa derewslli the Polish Premier, the Spanish government has sent a cor dially worded acknowle dgement of Polands independence. Official re- lations are thus established between the two countries
Republican farmer., 1919-05-30
WANT COVENANT OUT OF TREATY

Washington. May 23.-A resolution declaring it the sense of the Senate that the covenant of the League of Nations be separated from the peace treaty when it is submitted for rati- fcation was introduced in the Senate today by Senator Sherman, Republi- can, of Illinos.
Republican farmer., 1919-05-30
NY SURGEONS OPERATE ON
 DIR. WHITE

Two New York surgeons assisted by pr. Phillip W. Bill of this city operated today for hernia on Dr. Ben- jamin w. White of Trumbull. Late reports of the operation indicate that the patient is recovering nicely. pr. White has long been a practicing physician in this city.
Republican farmer., 1919-05-30
TROOPS
 ARRIVE HOME
401st Telegraph Battalion Mostly New Eng
 landers.

New York, May 23-With nearly 4000 officers and men of the 33rd Division and the 18th Engineers less Company c and casuals-in all 5,472 troops, including 1855 nurses-the steamship kaiserin Auguste Victoria arrived here today from Brest. Trav- cling as casuals were Lieutenant General Robert L. Bullard and Brig adier-General Herman Hall.
 The steamship Santa Elena, also from Brest. brought S64 troops-6Sth Evacuation Ambulance company, 1st September Automatic Replacement Draft Engineers, and discharged cas- uals.
 With 21S2 troops, inStituting two of ficers and 1S3 men of the 401st tele- graph battalion, which is made up largely of New Englanders, the steam ship Panaman arrived from Bordeaux. The members of this battalion were employees of the New England and Providence Telephone companies. They comprise, supply and medica I and Company D and E fthe 4O1st and all except 71 men are assigned to Camp Devens. A head quarters detachment and Companies D and p of the 405th telegraph bat talion, two offers and 165 men are as signed mostly to Camp Grant.
 Other units aboard included Fist and 114th Base Hospitals, 42nd Am bulance Company, detachment of five officers and seven men of the tooth Divisions headquarters, 10th, 99th and 1105th Aero SQuadrons and cas- uals-
 Newport News, Va, May 23 - The transport DeKalb, carrying 1876 of- ficerS and men, arrived today from Bordeaux, France. Among the troops were 996 sick and wounded. Most of the others were casuals.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-11-29
SCENERY FOR AMERICANS.

In all the world there is no scenery
TO sulpass tina: Of our own E. :. A.
But We have been backward in tell
ing the world, or even ourselves
about it, Rather have we helped other
nations who nave scenery to sell. auJ
who also know it's monetary value
The ant and craft Of selling scenery
has been developed into almost a
science by our neig.boIs overseas.
Before the war mede it impossible
for Us o 0oek to Europe on pleasur.
bent millions OF American dollaI.
tthoy were worth more then, too
went over there annually to enrich
puWeyors Of scenery art souvenirs
alleged antiques and anything olsc
that could beguiIe the minimizing dol
lar from its owner.
Now among other things that W.
are discovering in the readiustmen.
OF world affairs is that we have seen
cry OF our own, i'll greater variety ana
abundance than anywhere else in the
world Nowhere are there seem,
thrills, adventures, sports, or even
healing calm, to excel those OF ON.
own country.
And all to be had at the maximum
Of travel comfort and convenience ana
at much less expense than going ID
waittorn. devastated Europe
The war exigencies compelled Mr.
and Mrs. American to curtall their
travel but it also gave them the on
portunity to get acquainted with THEN
surroundings.
This year--travel restrictions bein-
removed for the parks tourist trave
season just closed Sl0.G3l persons Wis
tied the national parks and monu
mcnts. or this number, 951l0 auto
mobiles carried the tourists to an,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-11-29
THE JUDICIARY.

Trainers OF the nations constitution
We're men of remarkable foresight and
in their sa&acious deliberations thew
set up such a system OF checks an
balances between the legislative, ig.
dicial and executive departments oil
the government they We're fouudin
upon the rock Of life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness as they believed
would produce smCoth-runninE, triC-
tionless administration.
Students of constitutional govern
ment, however. have noted that no.
many years after the constitution ha
been in active operation custom be
gan. in its insidious way, to decree
that the judicial branch should act as
"A final court Of review for the acts OF
the Legislative and occasionally Of
the executive, department OF govern
ment.
Regardless of the merits the situa-
ton may hold, it is a rare measure.
nowadays, that does not have stamped
upon it the judicial branding OF APP
proval or disapprOyal; the s0-callci .
test cases Of legislative acts not
only OF the state legislature but OF
Congress, in many instances arr T
brought into The courts scarely after
the printers ink with which the meas
ures are WOrdcd is dried The dec!-
sion of the judiciary therefore in an
actual, working reality, becomes the
law of the land
Then, since custom has promulgated
this practice, it can only be expected .
that the voice Of the judiciary viii be
raised in Illinois as the assembling
Of the constitutional convention draws
close. Judges in their years OF eX-
perience on the bench, passing upon
new laws and Interpreting old ones,
undeniably can speak with authority
as to what does and what does not
constitute law
First echoes cl this situation are 10
come from Chicago today. when
county and probate Judges of the state
will convene to discuss measures az
fec.ing the judiciary which they deem
eXpedient to present TO the cou,titu-
ton convention a discussion in which
La Sale Counly's judiciary viii par
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-11-29
Notice.

tn" ald0y meeting Of Aid amt Mis-
slonary society Of the First NJ T.
Church win be postponed one wecl.
on account Of the annual balaar
which will be held Saturday. Dee. e
in the church parlors, all day. begin
ming at O'Clock. Cafeteria supper a.
= o'clock ell all are served
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-10-04
English Creek

Mrs. Mamie Steelman was hostess
at a very pleasant party at her home
on Sunday. The house was beauti-
fully decorated with dahlias, astors,
nasturtiums and wild flowers. A
bountiful dinner and supper were
served and at a late hour on Sunday
evening the last guest departed, hav-
ing spent a day which will long be
remembered. Those enjoying the hap
py occasion we're: Mr.. and Mrs. Vim.
Ritz and little Billy Casio, of North
field; MI. and Mrs. Lewis Lee, of Bal
timore; Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor Shamrock
and daughter Naomi, of Pleasantville;
Mr.. and Mrs. Benz. LIB and three
children and Mrs. Ada LIB, of Chapel
Heights; Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer LIB.
of Pleasantville; MI. and Mrs. John
Steelman and Miss Della Steelman.
of Atlantic City; Mrs. Elizabeth Lee,
of Scullville; Mr.. William Force, of
Linwood; Mrs. Flora Becker, Miss
Ellen Lee, Mr.. Joseph Lewis, Misses
Elizabeth and Edith and Master Hill
dreth Steelman.
The Board of Trustees of Asbury
M. E. Church held a business meeting
at the home of Lewis Smith on Wed.
nesday evening.
Miss Mae Scull spent the weekend
with her mother, Mrs. Abbie Scull.
Mrs. l. ]. Lee has returned home
after a two-weeks' stay in Atlantic
City.
All who are interested in building
an addition to the Asbury M. E. Hall
are urged to be present at the hall
this Saturday evening when the pro-
ject will be discussed. There will
also be an ice cream sale at the same
time.
Mr.. Joseph Lewis, principal of the
Scullville school, is getting quite a
reputation as a "cross country walk
er. On Sunday he walked from Eng
lish Creek toMays Landing and back.
Wade Hampton and family, of
Mortified, were guests of Mrs. Ella
Steelman on Sunday afternoon.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-10-04
ABSECON NEWS LETTER
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK IN THAT THRIVING CITY cHRoN-
lcLEp BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

A Variety Supper was given in the
M. e. Chapel IN Friday evening OF
this week under the auspices of the
Official Board for the benefit of the
church treasury. Tickets sold for rs
cents each.
Harry V. Miller sold Jul his grocery
business on Station avenue, the first
of this week to Joseph S. Smith, Jr.,
who took possession Tuesday morning.
Rev. C. M. Johnston will attend the
District Convention in State Street M.
E. Church, Camden, next Monday and
Tuesday.
Tomorrow, Sunday, will be Rally
Day in the M. E. Sunday School. All
/. whose names are on the roll are urged
to be present, while those who are not
members are heartily invited. :,
Rev. C. M. Johnston went to New
York on Friday of this week and
brought home his son Lewis, who has
been visiting his grandmother, aunt
and other relatives for a month.
The body of Daniel E. Higbee, a bro
Their of Mrs. Samuel Smith, ST., this
city, who was accidentally killed by a
train, was brought down from Phila-
delphia last Tuesday morning. Burial
service was conducted by Rev. c.. M.
Johnston. Interment was made in M.
e. Cemetery.
Thomas.J. Hamilton has purchased
a new Ford coupelet with latest cleo
trical equipment.
About fifty men, in addition to two
spraying machines, have been employ
ed this week in whitewashing the
guard fence on both sides of the new
boulevard. The telephone pole south
of the centre of the Shore Road bridge
has been removed; the gravel bridge
decking has been leveled and free use
of the entire width of the structure is
now afforded, greatly charging the
entrance from both directions to the
trans-meadow highway.
Mrs. Josiah Smith and Mrs. Harry
Smith, of North Absecon, went last
Sunday to Almont, Pa, to spend an
indefinite s%ojourn at the home of the
formers son, Sylvester Smith.
Mr.. John Saunders, of Princeton,
will have charge of the preaching ser
vice in the Presbyterian Church to-
morrow, Sunday, morning, at 1915.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Macaulay moved
last week from the Roger Williams
cottage on Bolton avenue to Harmon
ton.
Mr.. John r. Steelman is we'll en-
ough to be out again, following his
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-10-04
Illness of several weeks duration.

illness of several weeks duration.
Mrs. Ellen E. Shovel, who was ap-
pointed postmaster of Absecon by
President Wilson two months ago, has
been notified by the First Assistant
Postmaster General hat her appoint
ment was confirmed by the Senate on
Sept. 10th. Her commission will car
! ry that date. Mrs. Shovel was one of
two candidates who tool the Civil Ser
vice examination last December for
postmaster. Scoring the highest aver
/ ages she received the appointment.
A. L. Hammell and Rev. C. M. John
ston motored in Mr.. HammelPs auto
mobile through Cape May County last
Friday and look dinner at the Column
bia Hotel, Cape May City.
After supper last Sunday evening,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry ]. Lee and Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Burns motored to
Cape May, where they attended the
service in the M. E. Church, of which
Rev. S. G. Pitt, formerly of Atlantic
City, is the pastor. After the meeting
they started for home and arrived here
at midnight.
Mrs. Samuel Smith, ST., is spending
this week with her daughter, Mrs.
John Ards, in Philadelphia.
Miss Florence Carolus, of North Alb
secon, entertained on Sunday Miss
Maybell Yargey and Miss Sue God
shall, of Philadelphia.
Miss Ethel Draper and parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Draper, ST., are en-
t%ertaining friends, Mr.. and Mrs. H.
Brereton, of Richmond, Va, at their
home on Pitney Road.
Miss Ethel Draper is having the eel
lar enlarged under her Pitney Road
home.
Miss Bertha Irelan has returned to
Philadelphia, after spending several
days with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Irelan. While home she met
with a painful accident by slipping
and falling IN a large nail which caus
ed a painful injury to her thigh. Fiji
teen stitches were required to close
the wound.
Rev. Alexander Corson, District Su-
perintendent, will deliver the sermon
in the M. e. Church tomorrow, Sun
day, morning. All are invited to hear
him. In the evening the last sermon
of the story series on 1.-THE Story of
an Old Vineyard" will be preached.
Come to church. Be helped and be a
helper.
The garage of Earl Fairbrothers on
] Station avenue was broken into one
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-10-04

Was there an item of news concern
ing yourself or your family that did
not get in the last issue of The Pleas
antville Press? If so, it was omitted
because we did not learn of it and
you did not tell US. We want every
legitimate piece of news in this COM
munity, and we ask YOU to tell US
what YOU know.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-10-04
DIED.

LECHNER.-At Somers Point on
Sept. 81, William H, son of William
and Mary Lechner, in his sixth
yea Funeral Tuesday afternoon
from his parents residence. Inter
ment Pleasantville Cemetery.
MAXWELL-At Pleasantville, on
Sept. 25, Charles L. Maxwell, aged
Sc years.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-10-04

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Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-02-08

secret and fraternal orders, all copied. Now
we are thinking baout joining, or if not
joining, organizing Ku Klux Khan. Just
cant keep us down, that's all there is about
it. If this Sunday school organization is
good for our white brothers it is good for us.
How beautifully they dip into the past
and link the courage of their fathers, the
traditional times and teachings to their
present day needs. The Ku Klux of old,
how fondly must his satanic majesty recall
that organization. Who dares to say the
chivalrous blood that flows through the
veins OF the best citizens (which term
includes colonels-in the land of cane and
cotton, is not present in the younger gen.
Grafton? Strange why so many perfectly
sane people and so many reliable news
papers have the wrong conception of what
this organization really stands for. Wonder
if the name has anything to do with it?
Speaking for twelve million (pardon our
modesty) 100 per cent American citizens
we rise to remark, in the days of long ago
as children we were easily frightened at the
scarecrow Ku Klux; fifty years has made
us older and wiser. There never was a
game that two sooner or later could not play
at. But we repeat, far be it from us to
question the purpose of an organization that
has in it's code Love thy neighbor as thy
self:' This is written simply ''To whom it
may concern. Chicago Defender.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-02-08
DRY HUMOR

Not all today's moaning is limited to the
harbor bars.-Newark News.
U. S. A. means U Stay Arid.-Detroit
News.
How do the drys "celebrate"? -Brooklyn
Eagle.
All States ratifying after Nebraska are
extra drys-New York Sun.
This generation may miss the booze; the
next will wonder what it was Baltimore
American
The shipwrecked sailor of the future may
not be so keen about reaching dry land
Brooklyn Eagle.
According to the liquor men, it is uncon-
stitutional to change the Constitution
Louisville Post.
1t is going to take hard work for some
people to take to soft drinking Memphis
Commercial-Appeal.
Certainly it must be that this country is
under a dry moon. But, ali, there's the
moonshine baltimore Sun.
The distillers might turn some Of their
plants into orphans homes. They are re-
sponsible for lots Of them.-Philadelph
Inquirer
Just think of the foot-notes that will be
acessary to make most Of Bobby Burns's
verse ineligible to coming generations
Enough State legislatures have responded
to the poetic appeal of the Prohbitionists:
Drink to me only with thine ays.-New
York Evening Sun.
The persifage between the Governors Of
the Carolinas this morning must sound some
thing like the repartee in party OF deaf
mutes dining at an automat.-New York
Evening Post.
The Glove business shows signs of panic
Chicago Daily News. .>
And the toast will be dry, too!-Phila1
delphia Inquirer.
The water-wagon is sort of Car of Jug
or-not.-Lowell Courier-Citizen.
The Sahara desert at one time was the
largest dry area on earth.-Detrolt News.
We shall beat our swords into ploW-
shares and our corkscrews into buttonhooks.
brooklyn Eagle.
Better get rid of the tea and coffee habit.
These iniquitous beverages come next
Chicago Tribune.
There. little brewery, don't you cry; you'll
grind sausages by and by.-Memphis Com
mercial Appeal.
When certain people start blowing the
foam of a charlotte russo it's time the
United States went ;dry.-Lackawanna