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The Nenana daily news., 1919-01-03
VOICE EXPERT
 0F CALIFORNIA
 HAS NEW DOPE

1 LOS ANGELES.-Nearly all avi- ators and radio operators possess musical ability and were born early in the life of their mother parent. Expert mathematicians never be. come good musicians. Only 12 per cent of the men who graduate from college have low pitched voices. These were among the recently an- nounced discoveries of Theophilus Fitz, of this city, as the result of twelve years of research, during which over eighteen thousand tests were made in high schools here and in New York and in colleges and musical conservatories in many parts of the country.
 1 Other facts revealed by his stud ies, he said, were that the appre- citation of rythm and rythmic sound was more developed in children born of young mothers than those of mothers of middle age; that dra- matc ability was also the result of early motherhood, that men who have high or mediom high voices were inclined toward the professions and arts, and, that during the past 100 years more babies were born who developed soprano or tenor voices than of the contralto or bass type.
 In his studies, MT Fitz undertook to demonstrate a theory that the quality, quantity and compass of the human voice and the musical apti- tude of an individual could be de- finitely determined during the years of adolescence. His theory, he said, was amply supported by the numer- ous tests he had made.
 His diagnosis of the musical apti- tude of pupil, he said, required no test of the voice; the examina- tion consisting of series of ques- tions and few measurements to de- termine the extent of the reason ance cavities fthe head One series of questions related to phy- sical characteristics, another to edu- cational attainments and others ta temperamental traits One of the questions asked was "Are you twin?" MT. Fitz said he had dis covered early in his experiments that a diagnosis of the musical aptitude of a twin was impossible.
 
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The Nenana daily news., 1919-01-03
WEEkY FORCE REPORT

For the week ending December 2S, 1918, there were 4S7 employees on the pay rolls of the Alaskan Engineering commission, 106 sta tionmen or contractors and 29 sta tionmen laborers
 Of the contractors, S2 stationmen and 20 stationmen laborers were employed on the main line south O flown; 21 stationmen on the Ne mana end and 3 on the Fairbanks end of the branch line to Fairbanks.
 The Commission forces were divided as follows:
The Nenana daily news., 1919-01-03
NOTICE.

Townsite Manager Joseph having returned from Fairbanks, wishes to announce that all payments of assessments, etc, can now be made at the townsite office.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-01-03
A BARGAIN

FOR SALE--One room frame cabin lot 50x140. Nothing to pay on lot; cabin 12x15, partly furnished Back of Rust House; $135. Alp, ply Ed Bowling, at Fowler X Morris.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-01-03

Douglas, with only one physician to attend to the sick, escaped the flu" epidemic without death.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
"BARklS IS WILLIN',"
DOUGHBOYS SHOUT
American Singer Most Proposed
to Girl in France
Today.

Miss Helen Besler, daughter of the
president of the Central Railroad of
New Jersey, is probably the most pro-
posed to girl in France today. 1t all
came about because one night she ran
out of "encores," and sang a little nur
sery song called IF No One Ever Mar
ries Me-" 1t goes like this:
'If no n ever marries me
And 1 don't see why they should,
For nurse says l am not pretty,
And I'm seldom very good"
The fate of the little girl in the song
was to buy a rabbit hutch and live all
alone in q little wood. But the Amer
lean soldiers saw no reason why Miss
Besler, who is pretty and petite" and
a typical American girl, should have a
similar lot. After they had given her
the three cheers and a tiger with which
they usually thank the Y. M. G. A. en-
tertainers, they hesitated a moment and
then added a purely personal message.
"Barkis is willin'," called the A. e.
f., as one man.
Since then the incident has been re-
peated in every American camp Miss
Besler has visited. No censor would
allow an estimate to pass of the num-
Der of proposals Miss Besler has re-
ceived in that way.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
KISSED BY THOUSAND GIRLS

Cleveland Lad Is saIuted as Represent.
alive American.
November II was a great day for
Corporal Louis Romanelli, a Cleveland
boy in France.
Not because the war was over and
he was sure of coming home. But be-
cause:
November II is the day he was
kissed by a thousand beautiful
French women. He tells about 1t in
a letter to his mother and says that
he was saluted as a representative of
the United States and in recognition
of what this country has done to help
France. However, his photographs
show him to be a ~fine-looking, upstand-
ing lad of nineteen, with a Cupid's
bow for a mouth.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
WEARS SILVER KNEECAP
Soldier Hit by a German Piece Of
ShrapneI.

Maybe Private Thomas Harrison of
the Eighteenth infantry, formerly of
Jefferson City, Mo-, is "hard boiled"
but he has a right to be. Thomas has
had a run in" with the Boche, and
he has a silver kneecap instead of the
one he took overseas a year ago. He
is cOnvalescing now at the United
States General hospital, Fort Des
Moines, Ia.
1t was at Chateau Thierry that Pri-
vate Harrison got his" He spot
ted a German machine gun in a near
by tree.
"Kidlike, I thought I could get that
guy" says Thomas. "Just as l blazed
away with my rifle, a machine gun on
the ground opposite me barked, and
a bullet caught me in the knee. A
chunk of shrapnel followed and
scraped my kneecap off. I crawled to
a shell hole, and lay for hours waiting
for a stretcher bearer to pick me
up
There are a number of Missouri men
convalescing at the United States hos
pital at Fort Des Moines.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
CHINESE MADE EASY
New Phonetic Writing Enables Hitter.
ates to Learn in Month.


China has adopted a system of pho
netic writing which is expected to rev.
olutionize elementary education of that
patton and reduce existing il~literacy, it
was announced at New Haven, Conn.,,
by Edwin c. Lobensteine, who has been
in conference with the Yale-in-C China
home office.
The system invented by the Chinese
themselves, and approved by the gov
eminent board of education at Picking,
consists of only t%hirty-nine symbols.
Any sound in the language can be rep
resented by combining two or at the
most three of these symbols, and ex-
periments made with hundreds of In.
diyiduals have conclusively shown that
an adult illiterate man or woman can
learn to read by the use of a system of
this kind in three or four weeks. 1t
is now being taught in all the govern
ment higher normal schools in the
country.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
HOME ON CLUTCHES
Girls Dream About Her Brother Came
True.

True.
One night M of the sisters of Pri-
vate George A. Egan of Syracuse, NY,
a veteran Of the Twenty-third infantry,
dreamed she say her brother coming
home and that he was on crutches.
She saw so clearly and was so thor
oughly convinced the apparition would
come true she told her employer not
to expect her back the following day
at work.
Without a doubt in her mind, she
arose the next morning and awaited
the arrival of her brother, who had
been absent for more than a year. The
rest of the family scoffed at her.
About 7:30 the following morning
the rat-tat-tat of clutches on the walk
leading to their home was heard, and
George appeared at the kitchen door.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
Mining Town EveIess.

The old mining town of Derrick. Cal,
high up in the Trinity county noun
tains, is today as Eveless as the North
pole. The only woman who lived there
has departed for Sacramento to spend
the toughest part of the winter, and
does not expect to return until the rob-
ms nest in the spring.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate of Susan A. Strickland, Deceased.
Pursuant to the order of Albert C.. Abbott,
Surrogate of the County of Atlantic, this
day made on the application of the under
signed, Executor of the said decedent, notice
is hereby given, to the creditors of the said
decedent to exhibit to the subscriber, under
oath or affirmation. their claims and demands
against the estate of the said decedent, with
in nine months from this date, or they will
be forever barred from prosecuting or recov-
ering the same against the subscriber.
ABSALOM H. HIGBEE,
Somers Point. N. j.
Mays Landing, N. J.
Dated December 23rd, 1918.
Printer's fee 3D. 90
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
"Biddie" on the Job.

Mrs. Sidney Kirby, living northwest
of Moberly, Mo-, has a patriotic hen
which she claims is the champion pa.
triotic hen of Missouri. Biddie has
raised three broods of chickens since
last spring and the fourth will soon
be Matched. Not satisfied with the
three broods, the hen stole away some
twenty eggs and made a nest in a
cane shock.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING.

The annual meeting of the stockholders OF
the Home Building and Loan Association Of
Pleasantville, N. j.. will be held at The First
National Bank, in the City Of Pleasantville.
County of Atlantic, and State of New Jersey.
on the 25th day of January, 1919, at 7.30
O'Clock, for the election of directors for the
ensuing year. and for the transaction of such
other business as may properly come before
the meeting.
GEO. H. ADAMS. Secretary.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
Shoots AIbino Heduehon.

While out hunting Leonard J. Brown
of Claremont, N. H., was surprised to
find a whitish looking animal in the
woods. His surprise increased when
the animal began to climb a tree. A
single shot, however, brought it to the
ground. 1t was an albino hedgehc
quite rare in New Hampshire.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18

Great Conflict, but When Peace Gel
ebration Occurred 1t Was lmpossi-
BILE to Keep SiIent-TelIs of the
Wrongs Perpetrated on the People
by Government Officials.
To have lived through the great war
snd not to know that it was going on
IS the most unusual record of Mrs.
Berthe Spandau, eighty-nine years old,
German by birth, now living in New
York. Her age kept her son from
telling her about the horrors of the in
vasion of Belgium and of the sinking
of the Lusitania. He didn't wish her
TO worry and fret.
But the day of the peace demon
stration made it impossible to keep
silent. The old lady heard the
whistles blowing and the crowds
cheering, and she demanded to know
what it was all about. When they
told her she raised her hands in a GEES
ture of imprecation and said:
"Oh, if only 1 could get these two
hands on that kaiserl"
Oppressive Taxes.
Mrs. Spandau lived in Richen-
waldo, which is a little town of about
1000 people. According to her de-
scription and that of her son it is
much like the German towns that you
used to see on the stage in the days
before they were banished from it.
There were carved wooden houses and
storks and narrow streets and a town
nall and a belfry with a sweet-toned
hell.
But this was not all. There we're
taxes to be paid, and when you have
six children German taxes are moth
ing to be laughed at. If you cannot
pay them an officer or an under Off
Ger comes into the house and
looks over all your things. If you
have two clocks, says Mrs. Spandau,
or two tables or ever two chairs, the
tax officers take one of them. They
hold them for a few days and then if
you still do not pay, the things are sold
at auction and you may be sent to
prison.
If your children are not sent to
school, and it is not always easy to
do this when there is nothing for
them to eat, you or your husband may
be set to work for the govern
ment breaking stones or chopping
wood, and again you may be sent to
prison.
Not a Happy Life.
Besides this, Mrs. Spandau said,
her husband was a German soldier.
Evidently, even in those days, a Ger
nan soldier did not have a happy life.
Mrs. Spandau said he was in such
fear of the government that he made
her promise, before he died, that none
of his five sons would ever wear the
gray uniform. They never did, Sol
Spandau explained, though there is a
nephew wearing the United States uni
form over in France.
Mrs. Spandau was disguised by the
kaiser's flight to Holland. She asks
what have the kaiser and his six sons
done that they draw a salary of 6,000,-
900 marks from the day they are
born, while other babies have to work
for their living. And who pays for
all the richness but the German peo-
ple?
mo one" said Mr.. Spandau, the
son "has been more patriotic than die
mutter. She says that she is sorry
that her sons are all too old to go
and that her grandchildren are all
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
ROSTER OF OFFICERS OF THE
CITY OF PLEASANTVILLE.

Mayor-Thomas F. Crawford.
Clerk-Nehemiah Andrews.
Assessors-First Ward, Reuben E.
Adams; Second Ward, George M.
Bates.
Tax Collector-Webster Price.
City Treasurer-Geo. Zippler, Jr.
City Engineer-Samuel J. Clark.
Tax Search Clerk-Webster Price.
CITY Solicitor-Louis D. Champion.
Chief of PoIice-Clarence Krewson.
Police Justice-Riehard G. Brown.
Building Inspector-Pau1 Wootton.
Plumbing Inspector-Edward G
Helfrich.
Overseer of the Poor - Daniel s
Edwards.
Janitor of Fire House and City Hall
Mark Fritsch.
Street Supervisor-Samuel Price.
Chief Fire Dept.-Paul Wootton.
Fire Warden-James A. Gilkey.
Sinking Fund Commissioner
Zippler. Jr.. City Treasurer; Franklin
e. Smith, Clark Adams and John P.
Ashmead.
Members Atlantic County Board of
Freeholders - Clark Adams, First
Ward: John P. Ashmead. Second Ward
Councilmen-At-large and President,
Albert e. James; First Ward. Wilbur
w. Adams, Charles NJ. Chattle, Mi
chael Lutz; Second Ward, Walter ].
Anderson. Edward N. Meloney, Ray
mond G. Ireland.
Council Committees
Finance-Meloney, Anderson, Lutz.
Streets-Anderson, Chattle, Adams.
Licenses-Chattle, Adams, Anderson.
Public Property Adams, Meloney,
Chattle.
Lights-Chattle, Meloney, Lutz.
Police-Adams, Meloney, Chattle.
Ordinances = Anderson, Ireland,
Chattle.
Poor-Meloney, Anderson, Lutz.
Fire Department-Meloney Chattle,
Anderson.
Education-Chattle, Meloney, Lutz.
Printing-Meloney, Chattle, Adams.
Sanitary-Anderson, Meloney, Lutz.
Building-Adams, Meloney, Chattle.
Rules-Chattle, Meloney, Anderson.
Railroads-Lutz, Meloney, Chatt1e.
Audit-Anderson, Meloney, ireland.
Public Parks and Playgrounds-Me-
loney, Anderson, Chattle.
Library-Chattle, Adams, Lutz.
Council meets on first and third
Monday evenings of each month. 8
o'clock in June. july, August and
September; 7.3O o'clock all other
months.
Board of Education.
President-Arthur H. Stiles.
Vice-President-John S. Weaver.
Secretary-W. G. Penhallow.
Custodian School Fund-Webster
Price.
City Superintendent of Schools
William c. Sullivan.
Medical Inspector-Dr. J. H. North.
Truant Officer-Harry J. Grimm.
Members-John S. Weaver, Arthur
H. Stiles, Charles D. Thompson, Joseph
H. Bradley and w. G. Penhallow.
Committees
Finance-Weaver, Thompson, Brad
ley.
Building and Repairs-Thompson,
Weaver, Bradley.
Teachers - Penha1low, Weaver,
Thompson.
Property-Bradley, Weaver, Thomp-
son.
Grievance Thompson, Weaver,
Bradley.
Books and Supplies-Penhallow,
Thompson, Weaver.
Truancy-Weaver, Thompson, Brad
ley.
Regular meetings first Tuesday of
each month.
Board of School Estimates.
Thomas F. Crawford, Mayor; Wal
ter J.. Anderson and Edward N. Me-
loney, Councilmen; Chas. D. Thompson
and w. G. Penhallow, members Board
of Education.
Board of Health.
Guy Wilson, president; George w.
Singer, vice-president; Jesse Bowen,
secretary; Neil S. Campbell, registrar
of vital statistics; William L. Ander-
son, Mark w. Blake, Samuel G. Bowen,
Jr.
Inspector-Dr. w. J. Hudson.
Meetings are held on second Thurs
day evening of each month at 7.30
o'clock in Council Chamber.
BERTRAM e. WHITMAN,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
Threshinu Machine Record.

Hardin county, Iowa, claims the
state record for the continuous service
of a threshing machine. Ed Johns,
near Iowa Falls, has a machine which
he is still using which was built in
1879. The machine was originally
bought for $1,000.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
Auto for Pastor.

The ancient custom of donation par
ties or pound parties" ETC., has been
%supplanted by the members of the Bap-
fist Tabernacle of Atlanta, Ca, who
have just presented their pastor, Rev.
John w. Ham, with a new slx-cyliLder
automobile.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
Nome. Alaska. Deserted.

Only about 500 persons are spending
the winter at Nome, Alaska, this sea-
son. When the gold rushes Of former
years was or Nome had a population
In winter time of several thousand.
The last boat this fall was loaded to
capacity with outgoing Alaskans.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18

W.
ers Are Kept Informed on Practical
Use of Bird Life Through Writings
and Lectures.
American birds did their part in the
wal by aiding in food conservation, ac-
cording to the annual report of the
National Association of Audubon So
cieties.
Herbert G. Hoover, as food admins
traitor, had asked the American people
to protect the insect eating and NIL
gratory birds. :
Increased acreage under cultivation
very naturally means more insects in
turn and the need of more birds. to
combat Them" says the Audubon So
cieties' report. "Hence there has been
a still greater need for Audubon serv-
ice, which through its many agencies
supplies information and through its
wardens is protecting bird life"
Investigate Pelican.
7. Gilbert Pearson, executive head
of the association, at the request of
the food administration went to the
Southern Atlantic coast TO investigate
a complaint that the brown pelican was
destroying valuable food fish and there
fore should be exterminated. His in
vestigation in the pelican colonies from
Mexico to Key West showed the re-
ports libelled the pelican clan. He
says the $4,000 odd adult pelicans in
those colonies prey entirely on fish
that is not eaten by man and which
are destructive to the young of mar
ketable species.
Another complaint was that the sea
gulls were despoiling the sheep ranges
on the islands off the coast of Maine.
An agent of the association Investigate
ing the report found that on the con-
trary the gulls were of material aid
in increasing vegetation.
The association was active in pre-.
venting the destruction of the Klamath
and Malheur bird reservations in Ore
gon and California, which were to have
been dismantled and drained on the
plea that they were needed for farming
purposes. The birds which took refuge
there in the breeding season were
shown to be valuable conservators of
grain and fruit, justifying the use OF
the land as a reserve.
Practical Use of Bird Life.
H. K. Job, in charge of the depart.
rnent of applied ornithology, at his ex-
perimental bird farm at Amaton, Conn.,.
made important investigations showing
the practical use of bird life and dis
tributed his knowledge to landowners
through writings and lectures.
The work of the association will be
aided by the passage of the enabling
act of the migratory bird treaty, which
will afford means of protecting birds
to Canada. 1t is expected that the act
will become law now that world peace
will permit a more determined cam
paign in its favor.
Despite the distraction caused by the
war, the association has had a healthy
growth in the fiscal year. The move
ment to show the economic value of
the work brought into the association
161 life members, a large yearly in
crease. An addition of 10000 boys
and girls were enrolled in the 6,2g7
classes conducted throughout the coun-
try, a work increased through the do.
nations from the late Mrs. Russell
Sage, General Coleman du Pont and
George Eastman. The sustaining mem.
bership of the association now mum,
bers $500 persons, each of whom pays
So annually.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given, that a new series
& Loan Association of Pleasantville, N. J.,
Jan. %, 1919.
Shares will be fifty cents (5oc) each with
You may subscribe for shares any time
during the month of January at The First
National Bank. Any further information can
be obtained from
GEO. H. ADAMS, Secretary.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
BIRDS BIG AID
N WINNING WAR
Audubon Societies Tell of Their
Work.
RESPOND TO HOOVER'S CALI.

Feathered Insect Eaters Help In Rails
ing of Big Crops-lnvestigation
Shows That Pelican Preys Only on
Fish Not Eaten by Man-Landown-
ers Are Kept Informed on Practical
Use of Bird Life Through Writings
and Lectures.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
PUBLIC NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that persons hav-
must have them In the hands of the CITY
Clerk on Friday preceding the regular meet
ing nights of Common Council, which are
the first and third Mondays of each month,
otherwise they will not be paid.
By order of the Common Council Of
Pleasantville.
NEHEMIAH ANDREWS,
CITY Clerk.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
EGG HARBoR TOWNSHIP.
December 23rd, 1918.
Printers fee. S13.32.
PROPOSED LoCAL BUDGET.

Notice is hereby given that at a regularly
called meeting of the Township Committee
of Egg Harbor Township. held at Bargain
town on January 6, 1919, the following
budget was approved by the said Township
Committee, and that pursuant to law, Thurs
day, January 23rd, 1919, at the hour of 10
O'Clock in the forenoon, at Bargaintown Hall,
Bargaintown, New Jersey, are hereby fixed
as the time and place when objections to
said budget may be presented by any tax
payer or other person desiring to object to
said budget or any part thereof.
The amount in the Surplus Revenue ae-
count as of January LIST, 1919, 1923.
Surplus revenue appropriated, $35.23.
Miscellaneous revenues .........$ 00.00
Amount to be raised by taxation. 15,250.00
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
PUBLIC NOTICE !

Public notice is hereby given that the
city cesspool located at the gravel pit.
Doughty Road and Washington avenue. Ii
completed and ready for use. Permits
must be secured for the cleaning OF cess
pools from the undersigned. All persons
failing to do SO will be prosecuted.
W.. ]. HUDSON,
Health Inspector OF Pleasantviile.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
REWARD.

$40 reward will be given for infor-
nation leading to the arrest and con-
viction of anyone emptying sewage in
Egg Harbor Township.
By order of the Board of Health,
CHAS. L. SMITH, Sec.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
S1s,551.76
APPROPRIATIONS

and be it Further Resolved thatt City Clerk of this City give notice to the tax
IN the City Hail. corner of New Jersey and Main avenues, Sones Point N j. on Saur
day evening, January 5h, 1913 at o'clock, to hear any objections hereto that may
be presented by any Taxpayer of thsC City and such notice ogemrw with said budget as a-
this budget and at east one week and not exceeding two weeks prior to the date fixed for
said hearing This Resolution shall take fleet immediately upon the adoption thenof
Approved January 2nd, 1919
Attest: JAMES E scUL. city cl@k. "~i ~ O-''' mayor
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
LEGAL NOTICE.

Common Council of the City of somer5 Point will sit in the Council Chambers City Hall,
Corner New Jersey and Main Avenues on Saturday evening, January 25h, 1915 at S
o'clock to hear any objection that may be presented against the adoption of the budget
as approved by Common Council on January 1St 1919.
Dated January h, 1919.