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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-09

BYNhRAMtIuAlGs IARRE1LJ

Mrs. J. A. Cole. assistant command
ant, who has been acting commandant
in the absence of Mrs. Chas. Mitchell,
has met the emergency of caring for
the returning soldiers admirably, and
the different teams have done every
thing that was required of them. Mrs.
Roy Crawford. supply officer, and Miss
Genevieve Funk have been on the job
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-09


my hard or soft corn anywhere on
Four toes. Look at this picture
A few drops of "Gets-It" did the work.
The callus comes loose from the true
flesh. No irritation whatever. You
peel the callus right off just like a
banana peel-peacefully painlessly.
''Gets-It-' does the same thing to any
corn, without the use of sticky p1as-
ters, irritating salves, greasy ointments
or bundling tape. There's no fussing
no knife, no scissors to use. Gets
IT, is used by millions. because it's
common sense, and it never fails. Try
it, prove it.
"Gets-It," the guaranteed. money
back corn-remover, the only sure way,
costs but trifle at any drug store.
MID by E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago,
Ill.
Sold in Topeka and recommended as
the worlds best corn remedy by A
W. Lacey, Frank Hobart. A. c. King
aman & Co., Campbell Drug Co..
Percy S. Walker, Alex. T. Gibler.
Brunt-Martin Drug Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-09
CaIlus? Peel
1t Off Quickly!
Nothing On Earth Like "Gets.
1t" For COrns and Calluses.

A spot of thickened skin on the
ottom of your foot which is SO often
axes walking an agony. is as easily
,moved by wonderful "Gets-It" as
Smyrna times., 1919-05-14
Personal and Social
People Who Come and Go
and Their Social Doings

Miss Louise Ratledge, assistant
principal of the Middletown High
School, formerly a teacher in the
Smyrna High School, has accented a
position as teacher in a Boys Private
School, at Wynnewood, Pa, and will
assume her duties in September next.
Miss Ratledge will take a special
course, outside of her regular school
hours, at the University of Pennsvl-
vania, Philadelphia. She will also at
tend the summer school at Columbia
University, New York. Miss Rat
ledge was in Smyrna, Monday evening.
and sang two solos at the entertain
ment given by the Queen Esther Cir
Gle.
Miss Mary F. Urian was given an
unexpected and very complete sur
prise Thursday evening last, May 9Th.
when a number of friends over
whelmed her at the home of her par
-ents, Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Urian.
Sr., Big Oak Farm" in honor of her
nineteenth birthday. There were
twenty-five present from Dover Ches-
void, Brenford and Smyrna. Many
beautiful and useful gifts were re-
ceived. Games were played and at
late hour ice cream and cake were
served. The guests left wishing Mary
many more happy birthdays.
Mrs. William A. FAIRIES is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Harvey V. Pyle,
at Camden, N. J.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank H. Shakes
peare (nee Miss Katherine Stayton)
had another arrival at their home,
corner of Mt. Vernon and Union
streets, early yesterday morning;
this time fine little baby girl.
Miss June Massey, R. Y. Wallen
Jr., Marian Hodgson, of Smyrna, anG
Lyman Scotten, Hartley, were among
those who attended on Thursday
evening last, the Beacon College ban
quet and dance in the grill room Of
the Hotel Dupont, in Wilmington.
Miss Ethel FAIRIES, who recently suf
fered breakdown, resulting from
"Flu" and pneumonia, has left Phila
delphia, and gone to the mountain!
for an extended stay. Her mother ha!
gone to Allenwoood, Pa, to be there
while Miss Ethel is away.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer L. Porter
Mrs. Rebecca Collins, Miss Carol;
Dunn, Elliott and Jester Porter, al
of Haddon Heights, N. j., motored t.
Smyrna, Sunday and spent the da.
with Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Porter.
Miss Edith Humphries, of Brook
lyn, N. Y, was weekend visitor t.
Smyrna, Monday, and was warml,
welcomed by her old friends.
Smyrna times., 1919-05-14

DR.. Oswold E. Denney, son of the
late Robert Denney, of Duck Creek,
who left the States six years ago for
Manila, PHILIPPINE Islands, to do
Government work and later to Culion,
'Palwan, PHILIPPINE Islands, in Govern
ment work in connection with the
Leper Colony, arrived in this country
last week, his first visit home since
he left Smyrna, six years ago. He
spent the weekend with his sister,
Mrs. H. E. Mabrey, and his brother,
Robert H. Denney, and left Monday
morning to visit his brothers, DIR.
George H. Denney and DR.. Reuben E.
Denney, in Philadelphia. DR.. Oswold
Denney has a furlough of several
months, and after his return from
Philadelphia and Washington, will
spend more or less time around his
old home at Smyrna and "The Lin
dens," Duck Creek.
Mr.. and Mrs. John David and fam
lily entertained recently Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Dixon and children, Edward
and CarOlena, of Milford; Mr.. and
Mrs. H. Foraker, Dover; Mr.. and Mrs.
George Reed and family, and Alice
Moore, of Philadelphia; Mr.. Harvey
Jones and Mr.. Thomas Chadwick, of
Clayton.
Mrs. Amanda Truax has returned
from a visit to Mr.. and Mrs. w. f.
Baker and Mr.. and Mrs. John john
son in Philadelphia.
Mrs. M. E. Voshell, who since her
return from Florida, has been i'll at
home of her neice, Mrs. w. F. Glenn
ents, at Clayton, has opened her
home in Smyrna.
Miss Elva David has returned home
after two weeks visit with Dover
friends.
Smyrna times., 1919-05-14
KENTON BOY RETURNS HOME.
MedfOrd Phillips Saw Strenuous Serv-
ice on Sea-Ten Months in Russia

MedfOrd Phillips Saw Strenuous Serv-
ice on Sea-Ten Months in Russia
Kenton, May 13-Mr. Medford Phil
lips, who has been in the U. S. Navy
for fifteen months, received his final
discharge a short time ago and is
spending few days with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Phillips, of Ken
ton. Mr.. Phillips spent ten months
in Russia, besides visiting six other
countries while in service. He was a
submarine chaser and took part in
one battle that lasted hours and
20 minutes. He spent "a days on
water without seeing land, and it was
so rough for % days they could not
cook on the stove. For four or five
months, while in Russia, he and two
other boys had no news from home.
They had been transferred uneX-
pectedly from the Olympic and their
letters naturally followed the cruiser
about until word of their transfer
could be sent to the States. Mr.Phil-
lips declares he had the best Christ
mas he had known for years, as he
spent Christmas morning and all of
Smyrna times., 1919-05-14

Miss Winifred Morris, daughter OF
Walter Morris, cashier Of the Farm
ers' Bank, of Dover, has been elected
president of the Dover Century CluD'
for the ensuing year. She had been
corresponding secretary Of the cluD'
and her election was unanimous. Al
the request of the retiring president
Of the club, Mrs. R. L. Holiday Ior
suggestions from the members 1or
Programs during the coming year.
two interesting suggestions were maze
They were to have a parliamentary
drill and at the close Of each month
ly business meeting, and that one
evening each month, the husbands oi
the members be invited.
Smyrna times., 1919-05-14

After being driven three hundred
feet an artesian we'll drilled at Bow
ers Beach for w. S. Davidson, is
now giving a good supply of pure and
soft spring water. The force is suf-
fcient to carry the water a consider
able distance and standpipe will be
erected. Pipes are to be laid and
many of the cottages will be supplied
with water, and the cannery will have
an abundance of water for packing
purposes. The we'll pipe is four and
One-half inches in diameter.
Smyrna times., 1919-05-14

The Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety will hold its annual Mite Box
opening in Asbury NJ. E. Church, on
Friday, May %, at 8 p. m. Rev. R.
P. Nichols will make an address on
porto Rico," where he spent several
years, and there will also be fine
musical program. All members and
friends of the church are invited.
Those who heard the lecture on "Mor-
mOnism" last year, will no doubt be
glad to hear this also.-Adv.
Smyrna times., 1919-05-14

the evening reading newspapers that
were three months old. Mr.. Phillips
sailed from Brest, France, on the
Pretoria, and arrived in Boston last
week.
Smyrna times., 1919-05-14
ST. PETERS CHURCH NOTES.
The Rev. Thomas Getz Hill, Rector,
Announces Services For Week.

The Rev. Thomas Getz Hill, Rector,
Announces Services For Week.
On Friday night of this week there
will be an adjourned Parish Meeting
Immediately following the usual
evening service. Evensong will be
said at 7.3O o'clock. There will be no
choir rehearsal. 1t is hoped that
every member of the parish will be
present. Every adult, who is an at
tendant and a contributor, is eligible
to vote for the election of vestrymen,
which will constitute a part of the
business of the meeting. The services
next Sunday will consist of Holy
Communion and sermon at 1920 a.
M; Sunday School and Bible Glass at
IL noon, and Evensong and sermon at
7.30 p. m.
Smyrna times., 1919-05-14
IN MEMORIAM

Garner In memory of my dear father,
John C. Garner, who passed away May T.
1918.
One year has passed, our hearts still sore,
AS time goes on. missed him more.
His memory is as dear today
AS in the hour he passed away.
Sadly missed by wife and daughter, Sarah.
Smyrna times., 1919-05-14

Steamer Smyrna" Arrives Today
The new passenger-freight steam
boat of the Smyrna Steamboat llne
arrived at Smyrna Landing wharf To-
day and was inspected with interest
She will make a maiden trip Frday
on an excursion to Wilmington. pee
adv.
Smyrna times., 1919-05-14

A meeting of the goth Century
Club is called for Friday night, at 8
o'clock, at the Club House, to discuss
the feasibility of Country Fair on
July 4. Every club member is re-
mested to be present.
Smyrna times., 1919-05-14

The 133d Annual Convention of the
Diocese of Delaware took place today,
Wednesday, in st. Luke's Church,
Seaford. Rev. Thomas Getz Hill, Mr..
Robert H. Hill and Mr.. Gilbert Pratt
were the delegates from st. Peters
Church.
Smyrna times., 1919-05-14

Miss Katherine Reed, former res
ident of Dover, died May 5, at the
home of her nephew, Walter B. Dill,
and was buried Thursday, at Lake
ide Cemetery.
Smyrna times., 1919-05-14

Holders of Second Liberty Loan
Bonds can make no better use of the
interest payment they will receive
May Is than to turn it into Thrift
and War Saving Stamps. E. M. FOw-
Ter, cashier of the Fruit Growers
National Bank, of this town, said to-
day. By so doing, they can make
their interest keep on making more
interest for them and they will be in
vesting the proceeds of their patri-
Otism in patriotism.
Smyrna times., 1919-05-14

The trustees of Camden Camp
meeting Association have decided to
hold the annual encampment this
year, beginning Friday, July 25, and
continuing until Monday, August II.
Rev. E. C. Sunfeld, who has had the
camp in charge for several years past,
will again have charge of this years.
Smyrna times., 1919-05-14

Watch for "Boy Scout Week." June
S-14. Hon. William G. McAdoo, for
merly Secretary of the Treasury, has
been selected as chairman of the Cit
liens National Committee. Smyrna
will be represented. Keep on the look
out for further information. Inquire
of the Victory Loan leaders.
Smyrna times., 1919-05-14
SMYRNA AND VICINITY
Short Items of General Interest Gath
cred During the Week.

The Kings Daughters will be en-
+ertained by Mrs. E. T. Porter and
Mrs. J. Frank Webb, at the home of
the latter, on South street, tomorrow,
Thursday evening, May 18th, at 7.SO
oclOck.-Sect'y.
Smyrna times., 1919-05-14

The girls of the Home Economies
Department of the Smyrna Public
Schools, will have a bake, at the de-
partment, on Friday afternoon, May
18th, between 2.SO and 4 o'clock. The
public are invited. Rolls and cakes
will be for sale. Bring your pocket
book and be prepared.-Adv.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-07-01
H~EART-TO-HEART TALK.

Now, dear readers and friends,
This is a personal letter to you. ]
want you to regard it as just as
personal and just as important as
IF I had written it direct ON my
typewriter and mailed it to you in
a sealed envelope under a three.
cent stamp.
What do you think Of the line
of talk I am giving you this timei
If you believe my New Message
contains something that the people
ought to read and think about
then I want you to appoint your.
self as a missionary to help spread
1t among your friends. Tote this
issue around in your pocket and
read it to people you meet and
ask them what they think about
it. You will find more people
thinking along these lines than
you might suppose. And if you
happen to strike a few who have
not yet begun. to think ON these
things, this paper will wake then
up and put them to thinking.
The whole human race today is
aware of the fact that this old
earth is passing through a great
crisis, and that SOMETHING OF
far-reaching consequence to the
people must be the result. The
human mind is in a questioning
attitude, wondering if this really
is the end, and the old cut-and.
dried conceptions Of what is going
to happen in the wind-up are be.
ing changed rapidly.
Hence the time is ripe for this
New Message, and I want you to
help me spread it into every nook
and corner of this broad land. It
is going to take a great deal of
money to run this thing under
present conditions. Print paper
costs about twice what it former
ly did, and some kind of war tax
lin the form of postage or other.
wise) is going to fall heavily OF
all publishers. And besides that.
I am constantly needing to add
new machinery and office equip
meat to handle the business. You
folks hustle up the clubs and I'll
furnish the chin-music till every.
thing goes easy.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-07-01

Good News is not fighting the
preachers, but only fighting the
lies they teach. [ am glad to
see that many preachers are get
ting their eyes open to the truth,
and as soon as a preacher does
get his eyes open he begins to
make it mighty hot for the blind
ones.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-07-01

The trouble with men and the
governments of men is that they
are putting their trust in the
wrong thing. Something better
than they hope for is coming,
but it is not coming in the way
they think it is. And it is not
coming until after man has made
one more failure.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-07-01

During the month of June,
just passed, [ received some of
the biggest clubs of subscribers
that | have ever received in the
ten years since [ started this
business. [ tell you the folks
are getting stirred up.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-07-01

Whether it is a good sign or a
bad sign, the fact remains that
there never has been so much
"radicalism" in the world be-
fore. And it has gotten such. a
start that there is no chance to
stop it.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-07-01

| can grant that the Bolshe-
visit movement may be a very
bad thing, humanity speaking,
and still I can believe that God
is going to use it to bring good
to the world.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-07-01

If you have been brought up
to believe in Orthodoxy, you just
as we'll begin to get ready to
turn it loose. The thing is 60
ing to collapse.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-07-01
The orthodox preachers

Tie OTCnOuOX preachers VIII
get up and preach about the i'm
mortal soul and tell us that all
people naturally have eternal
life and can't possibly die. And
then they will turn right around
and begin to beg the sinners to
"seek eternal life" Now what
do you know about that? Why
must people SEEK for some
thing they already have? Please
answer-but don't all answer at
once.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-07-01

Would a bank of fog in the
east keep the sun from rising?
Well, Wilson's League of Ma
tons stands just that much
chance of stopping war.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-07-01

You don't see much. in the
public print about Palestine, but
things are moving over there.
The fig tree is budding, all right.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-07-01

Pretty soon anything that is
not absolutely reactionary will
be called Bolshevism. But let
us stick to the truth, and never
mind the scare-wOrds.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-07-01

Looking at it in one way, it
does seem like a pity that there
isn't an orthodox hell for those
who want one so bad.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-07-01

was Just like a brand-neW auto
mobile that has just been finish
ed at the factory, but has never
been run. But every part is
there complete and ready to
run. And when they want to
start up that automobile, what
do they do? Do they go off and
get another little automobile
and put it inside of the big one
to act as a soul for the big ma
chine Not on your chin whis-
kers they don't. They just put
in some gasoline and touch the
starter and she goes. And [
want you to see that putting
gasoline in the tank corresponds
to breathing the breath of life
into Adams nostrils. In both
cases it was just the act of put
ting in the life principle-the
thing that would make the life
less object move and perform
it's natural functions.
And I want you to see and
realize that the gasoline MUST
HAVE the mechanism of the
motor to operate through, or it
can't do anything. You can't
put an ox-yoke on gasoline and
put a rope around it's horns and
make it pull a log-wagon. 1t
must have a certain kind of
mechanism and it must be ap-
piled to that mechanism in one
certain way before you can get
any useful work out of it.
In like manner the life-princi-
pie in a human being is entirely
dependent on the mechanism of
the physical body. The heart is
the center of physical life, and
the brain is the center of intel
ligence. And there can be
neither life nor intelligence
without these two physical cen
tiers for them to operate
through. AS one positive proof
of this, take a case where a man
gets hit on the head with some
heavy object that dents his skull
in and makes it press on the
brain. The man is still alive,
but while that pressure on the
brain continues he does not
know anything. He can breathe,
and the physical functions of his
body which depend on the heart
can go right on, but so far as his
intellectual faculties and his
conscious knowledge of any
thing is concerned, he is just the
same as dead. The surgeons
can lift the skull off the brain
and relieve the pressure, and
like a flash the mans conscious
ness returns and he can see and
know what is going on around
him. But the time that elapsed
while the pressure was on his
brain, whether it was an hour or
a week-all that is a total blank
to him. This has been proven
in so many cases that there is no
use to try to deny it.
Now what [ want to know is
this: If there is an immortal
soul inside of mana separate
being that can live after the
body is dead, and can see and
feel and think and remember
and suffer and enjoy, entirely
independent of any connection
with the body want to know
what that mans soul was doing
| While the nreSSnne mac on his
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-07-01

Hurrah, boys! We have got
the devil on the run. Rush in
the subs and help to make the
old fellow run still faster.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-07-01
WHAT IS THE SOUL?

the immortality OF the Soul. MY
question is: What is the Soul?
0u A SUBSCRIBER stH5$;
GiImer, Texas, Route 6.
What is the Soul? Well, you
know the old-fashioned ignorant
idea is that the soul is a little
person that lives inside of US.
We have never been told what
part Of the body it lives in
whether in the head or the
breast or the stomach or the
feet. But they say it lives some
where inside Of the body.
Now the doctors have often
cut up human bodies and they
have never found any souls in
them, neither have they found
any signs Of where the souls had
been. Living people have been
cut open while still alive, and the
surgeons have opened them up
and looked inside of them so Of
ten and SO carefully that it looks
to me like if there was a little
person living inside they would
find it. But they never do. The
reason is that there is nothing
of the sort in there, and of
course it can't be found.
Then what is the Soul? The
Soul is the Whole Person, includ-
ing body and breath and mind
and everything that goes to
make up the individual being.
It is a mistaken notion to say
that a man HAS a soul. There
is not a syllable of scripture for
the belief that man HAS a soul
of any kind, either mortal or i'm
mortal. The correct way to say
it is that man IS a soul. And
it takes ALL of the. man, in
Guiding his physical body, his
breath, his life, his mind, his
memory, his emotions, and
everything than constitutes him
conscious Individual belng-it
takes all that to make the soul.
Let's turn to the second chap
ter of Genesis and read the des-
cription of the creation of the
first human soul. That ought
to give us some idea how it is.
"And the Lord God formed man of
the dust of the ground and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life, and
an immortal soul came down from
heaven and crawled into the man,
Gen. 2:7.
Is that the way it reads?
You know it is not. But that is
the way it would have to read ir
order to agree with the COM
mon orthodox belief about there
being a separate individual in
side of us that is in no way con-
nected with the body and can
live on after the body dies. But
what does that seventh verse
say? It says just as plain as
words can say that God breathed
in mans nostrils the breath of
life, and man BECAME a living
SOUL In other words, the OBJ
ject that was made out of clay
was the very identical same OBJ
ject that became a living soul.
Imagine yourself standing
there on the spot just as God
finished making Adams body,
and before the breath of life had
been breathed into it. There
was a dead body. Every organ
Of the body was complete, in
Guiding the heart and brain, and
all the seats Of life and intelli-
~oroo fbox, x1,o1,o I'll 4Lon, L,,4
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-07-01
r

Don't take my word for any
thing. Just watch and see.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-07-01
PUBLISHED MONTHLY.
Games Larkin Pearson, -. -. Editor
BOOMER, NORTH CAROLINA.

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