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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-03
COUNTY ACT. WHITEFORD
EXPECTING TO ATTEND
AGRICULTURAL MEET

County Agent Fl. c. Whiteford. is ex-
pecting to attend the conference of the
national association Of commissioners
of agriculture which is TO be held in
Baltimore at the Hotel Emerson, next
Monday and Tuesday at which much
good for the agricultural development
of the various states and the country
as a whole is expected to accrue.
Each state will send the man who is
in charge of its agricultural interests.
Maryland not having commissioner
of agriculture. it viii be represented
by A. F. Woods. president of the Mary
land state board of agriculture. and of
the Maryland State Agricultural col
lege There will be three sessios each
day The meeting will be presided
over by Charles s. Wilson, commits
sioner of agriculture, of the state OF
New York and president of the asso-
citation. The program has been ar
ranged by Charles p. Norgord. chair
man of the executive committee of the
association and Commissioner of agri-
culture of Wisconsin. The general
lliENiE VI AltO (OhACA CA1S Will DC tAN
agricultural program for 1872
Secretary of Agriculture Houston
will deliver the principal address on
Tuesday afternoon. Among the other
speakers will be r. A. Pearson. pres
ident of the Iowa State college og agri-
culture, Ames, Iowa, one of the most
noted institutions OF its kind. and Dr.
w. o. Thompson, president of the Uni
versity of Ohio.
They were members of the mission
on agriculture sent to Europe by Sec
retary Houston and have just returned
from the other side. Herbert Quick, a
member of the federal farm loan board
of Washington, and Leon NJ. Esta-
brook, chief of the bureau of crop esti-
mates, Washington, will also make ad-
dresses.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-03
BUSINESS MEN TO BE
BANQUET GUESTS OF
LOCAL SAND COMPANY
Liberty Sand And Gravel Company
VIII Entertain at CarYel Hall
Next Tuesday Evening

Some sixty-five Annapolis business
men are to be guests of The Liberty
Sand and Gravel company, Of Annap-
oils, at a dinner to be served in the
banquet room Of Caryel Hall next
Tuesday night. The dinner is to
serve the purpose of an acquaintance
making meeting between this progress
sive company and local business men
Mayor Strange, and possibly Gov.
Harrington, will be among the guests
the latter having been invited to act as
| POSTMASTER.
While this meeting will have enjoy
able social features yet the under
/ lying purpose of it is to interest local
business men in the business affairs
of the company. and the proposition OF
the issuance of $4,000 worth of six
per cent equipment bonds will be pre-
sented for consideration.
! The company is new concern but
is composed of local business men, its
president being John NOVEL;; vice
president, Albert s. Johnson, and Sec
retary-treasurer, A. w. Andrews. these
officers also forming the directorate
/ board.
/ The company was organized less
than year ago but has been doing
most gratifying business. Their ca
pacity has been greatly overtaxed dur
| ing the last year and, it is stated
thousands of dollars worth of business
has been lost because of lack of the
equipment necessary to handle it
The company has lease, with pur-
chase option. on the Liembach Sand
farm about nine miles above Annapo-
lis on the Severn river There is said
to be millions of yards of especially
high grade glass sand on this property
and large quantities Of firstclass pot
ters' clay in addition to the rich de-
posits of building sand and gravel.
| The company seeks to have an
equipment with. which they can de-
liver 200 yards of sand and 200 yards
of gravel daily in future. 1t is to
meet the financial requirements Of this
expansion that an issue of $4,000
worth of bonds is planned
AT the meeting next week the mat
ter is to be presented to the business
men of the city and an attempt to en-
list their assistance will be made. The
business of the company, its present
achievements and future possibilities,
will be told of by A. w. Andrews, the
secretary-treasurer of the company.
Mayor Strange will speak on the sub
ject of the interest which Annapo-
lis has in the matter, while Ridgiey
p. Melvin will explain what protection
bondholders will have, and present
other legal phases of subject. Albert
S. Johnson, vice president of the COM
pany, will also tell the business men
of the work the company has done.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-03
PAY MORE FOR COFFEE
SOON; FROST IN BRAZIL

A rise of from twenty-six to forty
cents for the ordinary grades of coffee
is gradually taking place, it was learn
ed recently from a well-known coffee
merchant. Some grades of coffee have
already gone up in price, he said. and
others will as soon as the stocks on
hand are depleted.
The better grades of coffee which
used to sell for from thirty-five to
thirty-eight cents pound will prob
ably go to forty-five or possibly fifty
cents, while the lower grades which
up to this time sold for from twenty
to twenty-four cents a pound will rise
to twenty and thirty-fve cents.
A killing frost" in Brazil, one of
the worlds chief coffee-producing
countries, is blamed for the coffee
shortage and consequent higher prices.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-03
GOVERNMENT A LOSER
IN OPERATING ROADS
Difference Of $3.50, 900, 900 In Sum
Paid As Rentals And Re-
turns Received
NOT TO BE REcoUPED

The governments loss in operating
the railroads in 1918 is calculated by
railroad administration officials at less
than $l50.000.000. This represents the
difference between the aggregate
amount the government will be COM
PEELED to pay railroad companies as
rental for the use of their properties
the so-called guaranteed return
and the net income which the govern
ment will receive from the railroads.
1t will take six months more of re-
ceipts from the increased freight rates
to permit the government to recoup
its losses, officials believe. If congress
does not approve the proposed five
year extension of federal control, and,
as a consequence, President Wilson
carries out his announced intention
of returning the roads TO private man
agement at an early date, the govern
mept's loss will not be made up
This deficit does not include the big
sums-between $150.000.O00 and $780,
900, 000-which have been loaned to
railroads to help them pay for the ex-
tensive program of improvements and
purchase of new cars and locomotives.
These loans will be repaid eventually.
The governments loss cannot be
stated exactly until the compensation
of each road is finally determined, and
until the Interstate Commerce Com
mission complies figures on earnings
and expenses for November and De-
cember.
Notable Year In Many Ways
Officials believe, however. that the
aggregate government compensation
for all roads will be about $950,000.-
900, and that the net income from rail-
road operations, credited to the gov
ernment will be a little more than
$500, 100000. For the ten months up
to November /, the governments net
income from the railroads as reported
by the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion, was $605. 100000.
Operating revenues for the entire
year, officials calculate, probably
amounted to $4,000, 100000, more than
ever before in railroad history, and
operating expenses probably ran up
to $3,SO0,000000. This left billion
dellars of net revenue, which was
cut down more than $200,000,00O by
deductions for ordinary taxes, rentals
for equipment not owned by railroad
companies, and other incidental losses.
War taxes and expenses OF maintain
ing financial and other corporate
offices, including salaries of officers
not actually employed in. physically
operating the railways, must be paid
CONTINUED on page fourD
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-03
IlPETOWN MINSTRELS
MAKE TREMENDOUS HIT
mise OF First Class Entertain
''',- n,nt Is More Than Made
Good Last Night
,,v TO CAPACITY HOUSE

.. acme of the earmarks OF the
VIZ but rather with a sug-
go ~ n The professional, the Dark
ls''O- .,ns,rels made their bow TO an
.aolls ~. pnbllc last night before a
A,-s .ls house IN the Colonial theatre.
80 before the curtain was rung
%.s .ss estanding room only" sign was
1.alsyed IN the lobby of the theatre
~ /, wasn't It could have been as
~. was not a seat to be had in the
,.storium or gallery
A. tbe benefit was the Red Cross,
.ndlence was in sympathy with
4. sbow and the performers found
I. bs that binds as well as the en-
ss,iasm needed to make any per-
srmance 90.
Wbep the curtain rose after the
.,irg Of "Old Black joe" IT re-
s'iod the circle Of black face come
1,s IN neat and attractive dress OF
.sns trousers, white shoes, white
,.rs collars and ties, and dark blue
,,s The effect was pleasing, and
he ofFstart the Darktowners made
rood impression that was lasting
tnughout the evenings performance.
The interlocutor, Mr.. e. d. Evans
,,s lhe only white face in the group.
The endmen, Messrs. Benjamin Hol-
ww and W. sadler, bones and
csorge Sullivan and A. Turner, tam
ssrInes, made a great hit All were
sod actors, good dancers and fun
makers, furnishing much of the
snusement Of the show.
The chorus was composed of the fol-
bung. T. Naughton, T. Cromar. X.
Fisher W. Sunderland, A. Levy, l..
gphr Y. Russell. G, Rawlings, #.
Besantis.
All numbers of the program were
sell taken, Mr.. j. Denver, sang,
Smiles, Mr. b. Holiday gave '"The
Worst Is Yet to Come, and Mr.. Z.
Weiss made such a favorable impress
sion ID Everything Is Peaches Down
ID Georgia" that he was compelled to
respond to four encores.
NJ George Sullivan's "You'll Find
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-03


old Dixie Land in France" was well
received, and perhaps one of the most
attractive features of the first half OF
the program was the song, The Rose
of No Mans Land" sung by Mr.. G. A.
Colley. in which Red Cross nurse in
white uniform and veil with red cross
on breast. arm and cap, made her ap-
pearahce as the living demonstration
of the songs sentiment.
Mr.. A. Turner gave comical in
terpretation of when | Gets Out In
No Mans Land / Can't Be Bothered
With No Mule" and Mr.. B. Jones sang
with effect. I'm Glad | Can Make You
Cry while Mr.. w. Sadler literally
brought down the house" with the
song. Il Aint Got Weary Yet
one of the Annapolis boys in the
company. Mr.. G. Deininger sang that
popular war camp community song,
Good Morning Mr.. Zip. Zip. Zip and
the first part of the program closed
with a solo by Mr. G. Norton. i Love
The Whole United States" and chorus
as finale. 1t is to Mr.. Norton that the
Darktown minstrels owes its inception
and much of its success. Mr.. Norton
who is in the class with professionals,
before entering the service was in the
theatre business in Denever. and was
on the Keith circuit. He gave much
care and thought TO the arrangement
Of the show and its rehearsals and
coached the boys, many of whom had
never been before the footlights.
AS an entire act, Mr.. M. G. Britton.
gave a musical sketch on the ukelele,
banjo and madolin, each of which ne
is clever in manipulating.
The evenings program closed with
a farce comedy, Wanted Wife, Z
written by Mr.. Norton, in which he
was cast in the stellar role, with Mr..
Sadler as Jake" Mr. Ben Holiday as
Mrs. Scrubbins,' and Mr. A. Turner
as Little Willie. All characters
were well taken.
Too much credit cannot be given to
the young men who gave freely OF
their time, talent and efforts to help
the Red Cross. The performance was
highly creditable and furnished an
evening of pleasurable entertainment
to large and appreciative audience.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-03
DEFENSE COUNCIL BUSY
IN LISTING STATES DEAD

Governor Emerson c. Harrington,
General Francis E. Waters. chairman
of the Maryland Council of Defense,
and Adjutant General Henry NJ War
field are working together to secure a
complete and authoritative list of the
Maryland soldierss who died during
the war.
In this they have the cooperation of
the Historical committee, of which
George L. Radcliffe is chairman. Not
only are the government sources be-
ing sought, but the governor and the
Maryland Council of Defense are seek
ing lists from the county chairmen
and are following these up with letters
so as to secure all possible accuracy
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-03
BILL INTRODUCED FOR
ENFORCING PROHIBITION

A bill for the enforcement of war
prohibition was introduced in the house
yesterday by Representative Barkley,
of Kentucky. 1t provides for appoint
ment of an officer in the internal rev
enue bureau to investigate and pros
ecute violations of the law and ap-
propriatiates s1.5O0.O00 for this work,
Houses where liquor is sold in vio-
lation of law would be declared a
nuisance to be abated by court injunc-
ton. Persons operating such houses
would be subject to fine and imprison-
ment, while the property would be
subject to lien for payment OF the fine
if its owner knew the character of the
business conducted.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-03
MERCURY SCHEDULED TO
DO ACROBATIC TURN

The mercury in the tubes is apt to
break its neck sometime today or to-
night If it turns the double back action
sommersault the weather bureau mil
lion dollar forecaster says it will. For
the forecast declares the temperature
will be '15 to is degrees" when it has
been lowering around sixties for sew
eral days.
Furthermore strong northwest
winds" are promised to accompany
this Is to Is degree temperature, but
the weather man says it will be flair
tonight and Saturday."
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-03
FUNERAL OF MISS
DELPHINE GARDINER
TO BE HELD TOMORROW

The funeral of Miss Deiphine Gardi-
ner, whose death occurred yesterday
morning at 10 o'clock, at the residence
of her niece. Mrs. Winson G. Gott
Murray Hill. will take place tomorrow
afternoon at 2 o'clock from that resi-
dence. the Rev. Maurice s. White, pas
tor OF the First Presbyterian church
of which the deceased was a member
officiating.
The interment will be in the family
lot in st. Anne's cemetery.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-03
Mothers Circle Meeting Postponed

The business meeting of the Moth
ers' Circle, which was scheduled for
next Monday afternoon will not be
held until Wednesday afternoon, in
the grammar school assembly hall
Much business Of Importance is ex-
pected to come before the meeting
and reports Of officers and committees
will be made. Members of the Moth
ers' Circle are requested to note the
change in date of meeting.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-03
Succeeds Admiral RIna

Captain Nathaniel C. Twining, who
served as chief of staff for Admiral
Sims in European waters, has been
selected to relieve Rear Admiral Vic
tor Blue as commander of the battle
ship Texas. Admiral Blue yesterday
assumed his new post as chief of the
Bureau of Navigation.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-03
NOTICE.!

This Is to notify the public that on
account OF III health and shortage of
Ab0r ! have sold my baking business
a ls!-lS4 Main street, Annapolis,
NJ. which ] have conducted for the
~ forty-nine years. to Caspar
ssyerhOfer, and he has leased the
FOperty at the above location with
hg privilege Of buying same.
NJ. NJ. SMITH.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-03
Mudd Back At ONCE

Representative Sidney E. Mudd,
from this district, who has been i'll
with influenza at the Providence hos
pital, Washington, was able to be at
his Office today Mr.. Mudd's physi-
clans have advised him against over
exertion. His fever remained high for
eight days and he narrowly escaped
pneumonia.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-03
THE CAPITAL

RI. Best Advertising
Is i.ls,,, inT In Annapolis. 1T
Pays PAYS To Advertise ily
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-09-06

About rs bushels per acre. Land is
Very Rich, Sandy Loan.
least insufficiently prepared for the
clovers and grasses which follow.
For wheat, oats, stubble, or corn,
ground is usually narrowed a couple
of times with or without blowing. and
her the seed is sown with no special
thought or preparation for the small
timothy seed which is planted at the
same time. Sometimes a couple of
hundred pounds, more or less, of COM
mercial fertilizer and a little lime is
used, but the practice is by no e
uniform.
Because clover follows Immediately
after the wheat crop some attention
should be given to this crop. 1t is
the soil builder of the rotation and
deserves good treatment and all pos
sible encouragement 1t is very i'm
portant that the soil be sweetened by
the liberal use of lime. Glover thriyes
best in an alkaline soil. 1t is not alb
solutely necessary, however, that the
lime be applied prior to planting on
the raw soil because the clover makes
little growth until May and June of the
following year. 1t is undoubtedly best,
though, because it permits working 1t
into the soil. II this is done precaution
should be taken to make sure that
the lime is thoroughly Incorporated
with the surface soil and allowed to
remain for four or FIVE days before
planting. When it is impossible or
~inconvenient to put the lime on be-
fore planting, 1t should be applied any
time before the wheat is up three or
four inches the following Spring. 1t
may be proftably applied in mid
winter.
1t must also be remembered In plant
ing wheat that timothy responds to
lime and that the seed is small. 1t
must, therefore, have a fine seed bed.
In order that small seeds may grow
the earth must pack around then so
they may obtain sufficient moisture to
start and carry on the process of
termination and enable the young
plant to work its way through the
soil. Neither timothy nor clover start
well in a lumpy soil. 1t should be
thoroughly prepared and all the Jumps
crushed. Where it is possible to APP
ply lime, 1t will do much to assist in
breaking the Jumps. 1t makes the soil
loose and assists In crumbHng the hard
pieces of soil which so often prevent
a perfect stand.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-09-06
The Relative Action of Each in
improving the Chemical and
Mechanical Conditions of Soils.
Assists in Decomposition of Or
qanic Matter for Humus Sup
ply.
Makes Heavy Soils More crumbly and
Friable for Better Root
Penetration.

The actions of lime ON soils are
many fold. 1t is the common impress
sion among many that it is of value
only on low wet land which is common
ly assumed to be sour Many persons
realize that soils become sour under
cultivation and hat lime correctS
acidity. but there are few who really
realize the importance of its use or
the relative value of the different
forms and the action of each. On the
other hand, many farmers buy what
ever may be had without full consid-
Grafton of the relative value of the diff
ferent materials that may be applied.
Lime is a plant food, and in many
cases its application may serve that
junction. Generally soils contain
enough calcium to supply the require
.nents of crops, but alfalfa and other
closely related drops require not only
u sweet soil, but enough lime to sup
ply their large needs of that element.
The indirect actions of lime are even
greater than its effects as a food.
These effects are numerous and are
not the same on all soils. In heavy
soils lime improves the mechanical
condition and the capacity to take up
and hold moisture. 1t acts upon the
supply of plant food stored in the soil
and assists the decomposition of or
ganic matter and mineral substances.
Most important of all is the influence
which lime exerts upon the micro
scepic life of the soil, so essential in
changing dormant to active forms of
plant food.
The mechanical effects <of lime are
intricate in nature and less well UNI
derstood than the chemical and bac-
THEOLOGICAL effects, and yet they are
very important, though they are not
so easily measured.
Burned lines are more effective in
this change than carbonate Cline
stone) forms. Every farmer who has
used burned, hydrated or prepared
sIaked lime has undoubtedly noticed
that heavy soils become less sticky
more crumbly, more friable, more east
Iy cultivated, and water passes through
them more rapidly as a result of in
creased porosity. They dry out more
readily after a rain, and in spring,
blowing or planting is advanced. This
condition is brought about by the foe
culation or aggregation of the fine clay
particles.
Upon light soils the reverse is true
Through the improved condition of the
humus in the soil an application OF
lime increases the cohesive power OF
the soil, resulting in a greater wateS
holding capacity, as well as an increas-
ed power to absorb moisture from be-
low by capillarity. While the reasons
are moi clear, it is common experience
that limestone is not as effective in
producing these physical effects on the
soil as is lime. Relatively small ap-
plications of lime may produce a very
marked change in the character of the
soil. These physical effects are merely
supplemental to the chemical and bio
logical effects produced by lime, and
when all these are taken together they
account for the very general beneficial
results derived from the use of lime.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-09-06
SOIL FERTILITY,
ACTUAL AND POTENTIAL.

Because many conditions influence
"soil fertility" it is not easily defined.
In a broad sense it means the power
or ability of soil to produce crops I'M
der certain definite conditions which
cannot be changed by man. On the
other hand, certain phases of fertility
are distinctly dependent upon a
Potential fertility is measured By the
total content of food elements in the
soil, whereas actual fertility is that
part of the potential fertility which is
in such a form that it may be used by
the plant. 1t is, therefore. the farm
er's mission to so work his soil as to
increase the amount of actual fertility
by changing the form of a part of the
potential fertility to a form disable by
the plant.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-09-06
r. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston.Salem, N. c.

Mails close for Philadelphia and all
distant points at 7.30 and SIS a. m,
1915, $50, 40 and $40 p. m.
Mails close for Atlantic City at 7.30
a. m, 1915, 3.15 and $40 p. m.
Mails close for Mays Landing at
1915 and 4.30 p. m.
Mails close for Mortified, Linwood
and Somers Point at 1915 p. n.
Mails close for Ocean City at $50 a.
m. and 2.15 p. M.
The only mail dispatched Sunday
closes at AIS p. m. and is for Atlantic
City, Philadelphia, and all distant
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-09-06

We know United States Tires are Good tires. That's why we sell them
II. w. Helfrich, Pleasantvile; Joseph Ramsey, Absecsn;
Henschel Bros. and Chas. F. Deppe. PomOna-Pomsrana
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-09-06
SCHEDULE OF MAILS.

Mails arrive at the Pleasantville post
office from Philadelphia and all distant
points at 7.20, 8.15 and 1915 a. M,
3.45 and 7 p. m.
Mails arrive from Atlantic City at
7.20 and s a. M, and 5 D. m.
Mails arrive from Mays Landing at
10.45 a. m. and 7 p. m.
Mails arrive from Linwood and Som
ers Point at 8 a. M.
Mails arrive from Ocean City at /
and 5 p. m.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-09-06
WHEAT GROUND
PREPARATION
Lime the Soil for Wheat lust Be-
fore or After Seeding for the
Clover Crop Which Follows.
The Soil Should Be Well PuIverized.

1t is the general practice throughout
the East to SOW timothy with wheat
at the time of planting in the Fall,
and to seed the same ground to clover
the following Spring just as the frost
is coming out of the ground. Probably
seventy-fve per cen of the land sowed
TO wheat eacf. Fall is poorly, or at
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-09-06

The Pleasantville Press is on sale
each week in Atlantic City at the
newsstand at the Shore Fast Waiting
Room, s S. Virginia avenue, and al
1920 Atlantic avenue.