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Middletown transcript., 1919-10-18
ODESSA

Miss May c. Enos was visitor Z
j; Wyoming, recently.
Mrs. w. v. Woods is spending som'
time at Langhorne, Pa.
Miss Eliza Cleaver is spending some
time at Mt. Pocono, Pa.
Mrs. George Whittock is spendins
two weeks in Philadelphia.
Mr.. B. Sacks, of Wilmington, was {
visitor in town last week.
Miss Ida Cotter, of Taconey. Pa.'
is the guest of Mrs. l. G. Webb.
Miss Emily Webb, of Wilmington. Wis
tied her parents here on Sunday.
Mr.. William Rose, of Wilmington,
spent Sunday and Monday at home.
Miss Bennett, of Port Penn, has been
visiting her cousin, Miss Evelyn Crouch.
Mr., and Mrs. Joseph Heller and
daughter spent Sunday near Mt. Plea
SAINT.
Don't forget the Odessa Chautauqua
Dates. November, 29th, December l
and 2.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. B. watkins have re-
turned from trip to the White Noun
tains, N. H.
Mr.. Paul Rhodes, of Newark, visited
his grandqother, Mrs. Annie Rhodes
last week.
Mr.. D. G. Aspril AMI family, Of Will
mington, spent Sunday as guests OF
M. r. Davis.
Mr.. Willis Naudain, Of Wilmington,
spent Sunday with bis aunt, Mrs.
Thomas Ford.
Mr.. A. H. Donovan has returned
home from the hospital, having under
gone an operation.
Miss Catherine Whittock, of Dover,
has been spending some time with her
parents near town.
Miss Mildred Phillips, of Wilmington,
spent Sunday with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Phillips.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Porter, of Viii.
mington, were guests of Mrs. William
Eccles on Sunday last.
Mr.. Walter West, of Wilmington,
spent Sunday and Monday with his par
ents, MIR. and Mrs. John West.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. K. Orrell are receiv-
ing the congratulations of their many
frierds on the birth of a son, James
Kirkman Orrell, Jr., Thursday Oct. End
1919. Both mother and son are doing
fine.
1t is the intention to hold the Autumnal
Commission Service in Drawers Pres
byterian Church, next Sunday morning
Oct. 10, at 10. 80 o. clock. Sunday School
at the usual time and the Christian En-
deavor meeting at Z O'Clock in the even
ing. A cordial welcome to all.
There will be very important meet
ing of the Odessa Red Cross, Wednes-
day evening October 29th, at 7.30 o'clock
at the home of MIR. A. P. Corbit.
All members are urged to be present.
There will be an election of officers and
arrangements for membership drive,
to take place November I'd to 11th.
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FRIENDS & VISITORS
Personal Items ABOUT People You
See and Know
THOSE THAT COME AND co

THOSE THAT COME AND &C
Mrs. Rosa Weber spent part of thi'
week in Philadelphia.
| Mrs. J. R. Hoffecker is entertaining
Mrs. Marcellus Jones, of Wyncote. Pa
Mrs. A. Fogel and daughter Mis-:
Laura, were Philadelphia visitors Mon
day.
Mrs. G. Lindsey Cochran is spending
sometime with her sisters IN New York
City.
Mrs. J. E. Walls and son Everett Jr.,
were recent guests of her sister in Phil
adelphia.
Mrs. Herbert Pyle and Mrs. L. Ed
ward Ennis were Wilmington visitors
Wednesday.
Mr.. Delbert B. Gallagher, of Penns-
grove, N. J. spent the weekend at his
home here.
Miss Eliza Cochran, of Elwyn, Pa,
has been visiting her brother Mr.. John
P. Cochran.
Miss Grace Brady, of Newark, spent
Saturday and Sunday with her father
Mr.. Fred Brady.
Mr.. and Mrs. j: Ringgold Richards, of
Overlook, were week. end guests of
their parents here.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. K. Belts and son
Winfield were Sunday guests Of reIa-
tives at Frederick.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E Lewis and sons
have returned from a visit with his par
ents at Parsley, Va.
Mrs. Ella Peterson, of Chesapeake
City, made Mrs. Alice S. Peterson a
brief visit on Sunday.
Miss Mildred Redgrave entertained
Miss Evelyn Kelly, of KemblesvilIe,
Pa, over the weekend.
Mrs. R. A. Peplow, of Newark, N. J.
has been the guest of Mrs. G. W. Lock-
wood and daughters this week.
Mr.. Reyner Dukes, of Denton, Md.
has been the guest of Mr.. F. J. Pen.
nington and family this week.
Miss Mary Lewis, of Sea Bright, N.
j., is spending this week with her par
ents Mr.. and NlSs. S. E. LIE Wis.
Miss Esther Williams, of Wilmington
spent Saturday and Sunday with her
parents MIR. and Mrs. Tolbert Williams.
Mrs. J. w. Barnett and Mr.. Taylor
Barnett, of Wilmington, spent several
days this week with Mr.. and Mrs.
James Crouch.
Miss Letltia Pool, of Women's College
Newark and Miss Margaret Foster, of
Franklin, Pa, spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. H. A. Pool.
Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Voshell, of
Wilmington, N. c., have been spending
several days in this sections calling on
their numerous friends.
Mrs. Harvey Jewell, Mrs. Joseph
Legar, Mrs. Mitchell Colt and Mrs.
Millard Colt attended the w. e.. T. U.
convention at Dover last Thursday.
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New Century Club

The first fall meeting of the Middle
town New Century Club will be held on
Tuesday afternoon, October the twenty
first, at 2. 80 o'clock. The meeting will
be in the nature of q reception to all
members both old and new. Miss Le-
one Beaston has prepared a most in
teresting program. There will be a
novel roll call, the annual greeting
from our State President and excellent
music. All are cordially invited to be
present.
The president Mrs. A. M. Chamber.
lame requests meeting of the execu-
tive board at her home this Saturday
afternoon, at four o'clock.
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OBITUARY
HARVEY J. MOORE

Harvey J. Moore, son of Mr.. a,d
Mrs. John w. Moore, of St. Georges,
died at the home of his parents, last
Sunday morning, aged q years, after
an illness of several weeks.
The funeral services were held at his
home, Wednesday afternoon. at two
o'clock and interment was made in st.
Georges cemetery.
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COW TESTING REPORT
J. Irving Dayet Had Prize Cow
For September
A FINE PRIZE WINNING CALF

In the Diamond State Cow Testing
Association there has been little change
in either the price Of milk or feed dur
ing the past month. Mixed feeds of
certain brands have advanced, but other
feeds such as bran have dropped due to
temporary surplus. Cotton seed meal
of high analysis can be purchased in
car load lots of twenty tons or more
for around $81 per ton, delivered. Low
er grades are available at correspond
ingly lower prices. Gooh grades of al
falfa hay can be bought for approx
mately $40 ton.
1t was thought policy to compute the
honor list for this month on the butter
fat basis. Mr.. J. ]. Dayett, of Coochs,
is the owner of the record cow for this
month. She is the first cow to make
60 pounds of butterfat in the Associa-
tion, and with test Of a. per cent.
she gives evidence of producing splen-
did yearly record. Mr.. J. T. Edmund
sons cow holds the record for milk pro-
duction, but because of her lower but
terfat test she was unable to head the
list. She is, however, the only cow
which made over so pounds of butter
fat for two consecutive months.
When these records are considered
from every angle it is evident that the
herd which contains the highest pro-
ducer IS not necessarily the one which
returns the greatest profit for the own
er. It takes several good cows to make
up for few poor ones. The practical
dairyman is the man who is striving to
increase his average herd production
and obviously his profits. This month
Mr.. George B. Pierson. of Hockessin,
has the honors for the highest herd
average of the Association. During
the month Mr.. Persons herd averaged
'528 pounds of milk and 242 pounds of
butterfat per cow. Mr.. Enos Slack, of
Newark. takes second honors With an
average herd record of 482 pounds of
milk and 2l.3 pounds of butterfat per
COW.
In the Middletown Association the
herds were probably at their lowest
production of any month of the year.
Due to the shortage of pasture and
that the supply of silage is practically
exhausted and that the farmers do not
have supply of feed on hand, the
herds of the Association probably suffer
more during the months of August and
September than at any other period of
the year. AS commercial feeds are
constantly rising in price many farmers
are making plans to feed rations this
winter, the major part of which has
been grown on the farm.
Janvier anG Schrader, of Middletown,
own the cow producing the highest
profit for the six months that the Asso-
citation has been operating. This COW
is a pure-bred Holstein and made a
profit of $192.61. Second honor in this
class goes to the pure-bred Holstein
COW owned by Mr.. Olin Davis. which
returned a profit Of $685. 26 in the five
months that she has been on test.
The calf that Mr.. N. V. Waters fitted
for the Maryland State Fair easily won
first place in its class.
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MIR. Fogel tells how he sells
goods lower than the common
prices. Read his ad.
American Legion Post

Mlddletown now has post of the
American Legion, which will be No. Is
in the State roster. 1t was organized
on last Thursday evening and the fol-
lowing officers were elected: P. Vogel,
commander; DR.. R. r. Spahr, vice.
commander; j. H. Vinyard, adjutant;
A. w. Porter, finance officer; j. j.
Walker, historian; William Kirk, chap
lain.
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SPECIAL MOVIE FEATURES

1.-THE Squaw Man.. Cecil b. DeMille'a
latest picture will be the special sttrac-
tion at the Middletown Opera House.
Thursday evening, Oct. 23d.
I The following extract speaks we'll OF
this wonderful production.
Jim Wynnegate, a young English
man, loves Diana, the wife of Henry,
Earl of Kerhill, his co lsin. The latter
embezzles a trust fund and to save
Diana from disgrace, Jim assumes re-
sponsibility for the crime and vanishes.
He goes to Wyoming where he becomes
a parish of the west-a squaw man,
when he marries Naturich, Ute Indian
gsfl after she had saved his life in the
desert. Diana and her husband trace
Jim to his new habitation and they
enter a saloon just as Cash Hawkins.
gun fighter, who is Jim's deadly enemy
appears with the avowed purpose OF
killing Jim. The latter drives him off
and Diana recognizes Jim and whispers
to him her belief in his innocence.
Hawkins seeks to kill Jim second time
and is slain by Naturich from ambush.
The union of Jim and Naturich is bless
ed bv the birth of little Hal. the
favorite of the ranch. The Earl of
Kerhill is fatally mauled by lion and
before his death he exonerates Jim.
Diana returns to Wyoming and their
conversation is overheard by Naturich
who, when she realizes that she is to
lose her husband and son, commits
suicide. Jim returns to England with
Hal and on the latter's sixth birthday
anniversary. Jim and Diana plight their
troth. their love having been strength
ened by the fires through which both
have passed.
From the day the cast was first as
sembled to the day the first public show
ing was given, it took exactly five
months to complete 1.-The Cavell Case"
the story of Edith Cavell, the British
Red Cross nurse, the woman the Ger
mans shot, in which Messrs. Plunkett
and Carroll present Julia Arthur through
Select pictures at the Middletown Opera
House, next Friday evening.
It took 80, 600 feet of negstive film to
make the picture, as number of the
most important scenes had to be made
over several times before Director John
G. Adolf was satisfied with them. AL
together the picture is as near perfect
as it is possible to make such a pro-
duction, and in the hands of Mr.. Adolf
and Anthony Paul Kelly, the author.
this means that ''The Cavell Case" is
ninety y-nine per cent. perfect in detail
and truth.
With the aid of historical societies
and newspaper dispatches describing
the actual shooting of Edith Cavell,
Mr.. Kelly was enabled to make an
accurate and faithful screen story from
one of the most horrible of all German
atrocites-the death of an innocent and
loving woman. The star Of the picture
Julia Arthur, is a well-known stage
celebrity, while Creighton Hale, who
has one of the other important roles. is
a former Pathe star and also appeared
in support of Pearl White. Other
equally we'll know players are William
H. Tooker, once Fox and Metro star,
and Paul Panzer, who has been seen in
many Pathe serials.
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| viii open to-day my new store
in the Opera House building. Come
in and sample my ice cream, sodas,
confections, cigars, etc.
ROYDEN E. WILSON.
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Fine, fashionable Millinery just
received by Mrs. A. Fosel from
New York City. Fall and Winter
Hats, trimmed and untrimmed, etc.
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Engagement Announced

Mr. and Mrs. s. J. Daniels, of near
their only >dahghter. Mary e. to Mr.:
Howard He, V. (c''''''"'' of Mt Pleas
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Forest Church Notes

Sunday, October 10th, 1919.
1890 A. M. sublic Worship with
sermon. Congregational meeting for
election CT Ruling Elders Immediately
after the morning service.
11.45A. NJ. Sunday School session.
GASP. NJ. Christian Endeavor SER
vice. Topic: "Our Pledge and How to
Keen It." tx. 1918.
7.3O P. M. Evening service, with
sermon.
Wednesday evening, Prayer meeting,
at a3O o'clock.
A cordia! invitation is extended to all
to be present at these services.
The annual meetings of the Womah' S
Home and Foreign Synodical societies
will be held in the Georgetown Church,
Washington, D. c., beginning Wednes-
day, October 22d, at 2 +. M, The
speakers will be Mrs. Frederick S.
Bennett. the Rev. Henry W. Luce, and
the Rev. John E. Calfee. D. D.
Do not forget the Sunday School con.
ventiOn.
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See ''The Squaw Man. at the
Opera House, next Thursday even
ing, Oct. 23d.
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Do not miss "The Cavell Case"
to be shown at the Middletown
Opera House, Friday evening next.
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With each purchase amounting to so:
or over, Jones' Pharmacy, Townsend,
will give while they last heavy Tin
Cup FREE.
Middletown transcript., 1919-10-18

LOST-Between Middletown and Mt.
Pleasant; United States Isire and rim,
size s2xs3 Suitable reward. Notify
JESSE 5. BURTON,
Dover, Del.
Evening star., 1919-08-23
CLAYTON T. WELN
CITED BY French
Marine Is Patient. at Walter
Reed Hospital and Hero
of BeIIeau Wood.

Private Clayton E. Welty, 55th
Company. 5th United States Marines,
American expeditionary forces, a pa
tient at the Walter Reed Army Cen
eral Hospital in this city, has been
cited by Marshal Petain for bravery
and heroism and awarded the highly
priced French croix de guerre and
certificate of citation, which will be
formally presented to him tomorrow.
Col ]. d. Glennan. commanding ofn-
Ger at the hospital, viii make the
presentation. The citation from the
French commander will be read to the
soldier by Col. Mahlon Ashford.
The cross is awarded with the ap-
probation of General Pershing. the ci-
tation recitipg that "Private Welty in
Belleau Wood on June IL. 1918. as
agent of liaison for che battalion.
rendered the greatest service 10 the
attacking units by reconnoiterlng IN
front of the lines and was always
were exposed to violent fire." The ci-
tation is dated May %. 1919
Major General George Barrett. COM
mandant of the United States Marine
Corps. in transmitting the honor to
Private Welty. through Col. Glennan,
the commanding officer Walter Reed
Hospital. Washington. d. C., croix
de guerre. and certificate of citation
with the translation which has been
awarded to you by the French gov
ernment.
'I desire at this time to express my
personal appreciation of your services
in France upholding the best tradi-
tions of the United States Marine
Corps, and to congratulate you upon
receiving this citation and cross"
Private Welty's home is at Apple
Creek, Wayne county. Ohio. He will
shortly be discharged from the hos
pital and return to his home.
Evening star., 1919-08-23
TRADE UNION DEFENDS
WOMAN'S POLICE BUREAU
National League Draws Up Reso-
lutions Asking for Its
Continuance.

Any effort made by Congress to
eliminate the woman's bureau of the
Washington police department will
result in organized opposition by
women of the country, according to
a predication of the National Womens
Trade Union League
The executive board of the league
ing the District Commissioners for es-
tablishing a woman's bureau in the
police department. 1t also urges Con-
gress to maintain and provide the
bureau with ample funds to continue
it's work. Copies of the resolutions
are to be sent to President Wilson,
members of the House and Senate
committees on the District of Colum-
bia, members OF the special commit
tees appointed by Congress to inves-
tigate the police department Of the
District and to the District Commits
sioners.
announcement is made by the
league that women of the country, in
cluding the League of Women Voters,
the Y. W. c. A, the National American
Woman Suffrage Association. and the
league itself, ARE actively promoting
a movement to obtain more such in
stftutions as the woman's bureau of
the District police department"
At least two national conferences
in which women are particularly in
New York. the league announces.
These will deal with the subject of
social morality. and in that connec-
ton will unquestionably urge the
more extensive employment of women
as municipal officers.
Evening star., 1919-08-23
FOREIGN WAR VETERANS
PARLEY HERE NEXT YEAR
Chamber of Commerce Also Invites
Veterans of Spanish Conflict
to Meet in D. C.

Next years convention of the vet
Grams of Foreign Wars is to be held in
this city, according to a telegram re-
ceived by the Chamber Of Commerce.
The organization is now in session
in Providence, r. l., and an invitation
to come to Washington next year was
extended by the chamber and the Dis
trict Commissioners
Efforts are being made by the or
ganization to locate its national head
quarters in this city, and 1T is felt
that obtaining the 1920 convention for
Washington will go far toward bring
ing this about.
The chamber also has invited the
United Spanish War Veterans to meet
in Washington in 1920. the invitation
to be presented in person by the
Washington delegates who are to de-
part for San Francisco Sunday to at
tend the annual gathering of the or
ganization.
AS no city that failed to put up a
check for $1,000 to cover headquarters
expenses for the convention Is to be
considered. the chambers board of di-
rectors voted that amount. together
with $3.50 for additional expenses. 1t
is stated that attendance at the con-
vention to be held week after next in
San Francisco is expected to reach
$4,000. and that next years conven-
tion will have about the same number
of delegates.
Evening star., 1919-08-23
Farmers and Retail Prices.

To the Editor Of The Star.
The following instances may re-
feet some light locally upon the high
cost of living.
Within a week a producer from
Fairfax county. Va. upon pricing
green beans at one of series Of re-
same selling at 20 cents a quarter of
a peck. whereupon he proceeded i'm
mediately to Wholesale store under
the management controlling the SER
les of retail-stores and was offered
$3.50 a barrel for green beans.
Also within a few days a trucke
from Fairfax county, Va. while green
beans were selling at 20 cents a
quarter of peck. presented himself
TO one of the wholesale dealers with
could only pay on that day S1.50 a
barrel for beans. whereupon the
trucker took his beans back to his
farm and fed them to his hogs, after
rejecting that the labor picking Il km
had cost him 81 per barrel.
The writer. on taking the train this
morning at his summer home at Hern-
don. Va. for Washington, saw one
of the local truckers loading basket
of beans upon the express train for
the Washington market. who remark =
ed. but without enthusiasm, that ne
TO the city to see what he could get
for them.
MIR. Hermann E. Gasch has been
very inteliigently and ably advocat-
ing for a number of years NUM-
cipal dairy. the operation of which
would concededly furnish a better
: grade of milk at a less cost to the
consumer than the present plan and
ut the same time afford the dairyman
larger rates for his product and also
:: more satisfactory and speedy set
tiement than under the plan now OBJ
tanning. believe Commissioner
Gardiner has recently advocated some
t;ing similar in the matter of muni-
opal market in order thus effectively
and economically to bring the producer
and the consumer into more direct
and satisfactory relations. 1t. woult
seem that there ought to be sufficient
wisdom on the part of those clothed
with authority to bring about speedy
and practical results along the abov,
lines. but in the meanwhile 1t is Il
the interest of the public that thos,
responsible for such fragrant profit
eering as that cited above should
after a public hearing. receive jai
sentences for their conduct.
Z. HILTON JACKSON.
Evening star., 1919-08-23
SHOWS RAILWAY TRAFFIC
RETARDED BY STRIKE

report on traffic conditions
throughout the country for the week
ended August Is, 1913, made to
Director General of Railroad Hines.
shows that the strike Of railway en-
plOyes retarded the movement of both
freight and passenger business during
thefweek. The effect of the strike on
transportation was especially notice
able in the New England district and
ihe Pocahontas, southern, northwest
ern and central western regions. sta
tistics showing that in each of these
regions there was a falling on in
freight movement
1t was noted, however. that with the
ending of the strike conditions were
rapidly returning to normal.
Evening star., 1919-08-23
CHILDREN IN TABLEAUx.
More Than 700 to Participate at
Trinity Church Tonight.

A pageant and a series Of tabIeaux,
in which more than 700 boys and-girls
will participate. representing every
nationality, will be held tonight at
Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church,
Cd and c streets. This feature
terminates the long rehersals that
have been made in preparation for
it. The indoor Fairgrounds Of the
church were provided for the benefit
of the children.
The tableaux will depict America as
the Great Melting Pot" in which
various children will portray. by flags
and costumes. each nation Of the
earth. A musical program also has
been arranged, with George Flenier
vioNnist; Mrs. Ettie Alderman as ac-
companist and Mrs. Lima A. Mewdick,
who will give interpretations of pop
ular songs and stories familiar to the
children.
Evening star., 1919-08-23
BOTH CLAIM DAMAGES.
Suits Aggregating $25, 900 Filed in
Court by Wife and Husband.

Mrs. Anna B. Bough Tuesday filed
suit in the District Supreme Court to
recover $4,000 damages from Louis
Kann and Sigmund Kann, trading as
S. Kann Sons & Co.. for alleged per-
sonal injury. Her husband. Spencer
H. Bough. also sued the merchants for
$4,000 damages for the loss of his
wife's services and for the expenses
to which he has been put by reason
Of her injuries.
According to the declarations, Mrs.
Bough visited the store of the de-
fendants August 16. 1918, and while
descending a stairway from the sec
ond to the first floor of the building
siinned and fell. She sustained Sc
r;ons and permanent injury, 1t is
asserted.
Evening star., 1919-08-23
The Summer Optimist

If mans an optimist these
days, when this old world seems
all ablaze, if he can gayly sing
and smile. he is an optimist
worth while, There is no trick
in being gay upon a spring or
autumn day, when gentle
breezes zip along, and birds put
up gladstone song, and nature
seems to strain a thew to bring
all pleasant things in view.
Then any man can wear a grin,
the ends of which obscure his
chin. But when the. sun rays
scorch your pelt, and all your
innards seem to melt; when
after days that make you weep,
you go to bed and cannot sleep,
and get up at the break of dawn,
all in, worn out and spent and
gone, methinks it is another
thing to beam around and smile
and sing. I've never seen sun
shine gent who shone in sum-
mer worth a cent. l know a lot
of Sunny Jims who prance
around on buoyant limbs at
ether seasons of the year, but
they all wilt when summers
here. When they break out
with prickly heat, their words
no more are honey. sweet; when
they are pestered by the flies,
they hand us out no maxims
wise. Like all the rest of NOR
tai men, they cuss and rant, and
cuss again. WALT MASON.