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The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-19
EPWORTH LEAGUE LOCALS

President Garfield Evans of Suther-
land and Miss Christine Stout, state
secretary, assisted in recognizing
Wall Springs league this month.
Ocala, the banner district, extending
from St. Petersburg to Ocala, has been
we'll organized this year, under the
secretaryship of Miss Kathleen Plumb
Of Belleair and this editor, at Ocala.
Homosassa Juniors number "a, I'M
der Miss Marie Williams. Have good
devotional meetings and will clean Up
the church lot this week. Have char
ter and literature, and will hold a So
cial next week. Seniors have pledged
$40 for African special. Have litera-
ture, including ten subscribers to Ep-
worth Era.
Floral City has five subscribers to
Epworth Era. Mrs. o. R. Flood is
president.
Barlow seniors have elected officers
for the year. Miss Christine Wilson
is corresponding secretary. They ex-
pect to send quite delegation to the
annual league assembly at Sutherland
May 28-June 1. Juniors, under Mrs.
w. R. White, number rs. They are
studying the Bible and church courses.
Zolfo has a new Junior league under
Beulah Lee Cason; secretary, Miles
Roberts; treasurer, Wilhemia Robin
son. Have IA on roll, with subscrib-
rs to Junior Topics Quarterly.
Lakeland Seniors hold regular coun-
eli and business meetings. Interest
and attendance good. Eight members
in quiet hour covenant.
La Belle leaguers number 40. Presi-
dent Bruce Hall reports 10 members
IN quiet hour covenant.
Mrs. M. NJ. Barco, of Bowling Green
Juniors, has % enrolled. New officers,
with Louise Jones as president $40
pledge to African special and dona-
tons to orphanage at Enterprise.
Miss Edyth Yeats, Barlow district
secretary, reports a new league at
Fort Green.
DR.. L. M. Broyles, of Hyde Park
church, Tampa, reports splendid at
tendance at last league service. 1875
present and 81 new members. Presi-
dent, James Dombrowsky; vice presi-
dent, Angus Williams; secretary, S. C.
Peacock.
Trilby and Providence have recently
organized new leagues.
Callahan has new Junior league,
under Mrs. Cricket Prewitt.
Kendric kand Citra leagues are newly
reorganized in Gainesville district.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-19
LOCAL AND PERSONAL


Waldo Juniors are reorganized under
Mrs. w. C. Hicks.
Miss Geneva Cason, president of
Enterprise Seniors and Orlando dis
trict secretary, has organized, and put
on a working basis, ten leagues this
year.
Miss Doris Faber will succeed Miss
Cason as president at Enterprise. Miss
Cason is to be married next month to
Mr.. John Pemberton Tomberlin, of
Pensacola. This chapter has doubled
its quota for the centenary budget,
and is 100 per cent pure on centenary
zeal.
Tampa is to be well represented at
assembly. Tampa Heights, the ban
ner league, and Hyde Park, are both
doing excellent centenary work.
Apopka league under Mrs. I. J.
Smith, is planning representative
for assembly.
Ellinger Ellinger City league has a
fine attendance, some 100 or more reg
ular, and does good work.
San Paola and Ell Salvador have
leagues in Latin district, and San
Marcos and San Mateo are planning
to organize Cali for Christ"
Sanford has fine working league
under Miss Spencer. They have rails
ed $35 for centenary work, have a
membership of 40, and do active work.
Miss Bessie Turnbulle reports active
Junior and Senior leagues at Month
cello.
Live Oak has reorganized, with Miss
Helen Wolfe as secretary.
Miss Edna Sipple is the newly elect
ed president of Ocala seniors.
From all over the state come en-
couraging reports and we fully appre-
ciate the courtesy of our state papers
in giving publicity to our league work.
MAUD B. LITTLE,
E. L. Editor.
Ocala, May Is, 1919.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-19

Valspar is the best varnish made for
floors, linoleum, chairs and all general
use. 1t is put up in all size cans.
Gourley-Logan Hardware Co.
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Mr.. and Mrs. George Kaber, theif
son-in-law, Claud Coulter, with his
wife and three children, leave next
Wednesday for their northern home,
Bradford, Pa. The Kabers are regu-
lar winter residents here, having a
fine home. They will return next
winter.
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Cappy and Mrs. Gregg and Mr.. and
Mrs. Lucas motored around the loop
Sunday, taking in Oldsmar, Safety
Harbor and Clearwater. Had de-
lightful afternoon.
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Mr.. and Mrs. George Emmanuel
have planned to leave June II for New
York city where they will spend about
three weeks before going west. They
will meet Mrs. Emmanuel's sister in
New York and all go together as far
as Chicago where Mr.. Emmanuel will
stop off, the two ladies going on to
San Francisco, the home of Mrs. En-
manuel and her sister. Mrs. Emman-
'uel's sister has been studying art in
New York for the past year and has
made wonderful progress, being gift
ed with natural talent, she has gained
much recognition. Mrs. Emmanuel
will spend several months with her
parents before returning to Tarpon
Springs.
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Miss Sarah X. McClintock has
changed her address from Jacksonville
to IL Sachem street, Lynn, Mass. She
wants The Leader, of course.
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See our new stock before buying. L.
D. Vinson. 5-6-tf.
Fred Knowles writes his father from
France, saying he is we'll and hopes to
get home some time.
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H. L. Whitney is in Tampa today
in the interest of The Evening Leader.
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We have been told that Commission
er Ed Beckett will be a multi-million-
aire as soon as he markets his water
melon crop.
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Cappy Gregg and his estimable wife,
whom he calls Julie, expect to leave
for the North the last of this month.
Mrs. Gregg is getting too fat for Flor
ida. She has put on eleven pounds
and looks as plump as partridge.
Cappy doesn't seem over anxious tc
leave the land of flowers, but what is
he to do to keep Guile" from getting
fat?
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-19
GROWERS FROM OVER STATE
TO GATHER AT LAKELAND
Ocala, May Is, 1919.

With characteristic hospitality the
citizens of Lakeland are preparing to
entertain what is expected to be one
of the largest crowds which ever Wis
tied that city, when the big growers
meeting convenes there on Saturday,
May /.
The occasion is the tenth anniver-
sary of the organization of the Flori-
da Citrus exchange, the great coopera-
tive marketing association of Florida
citrus growers which is today the big
gest institution in the state of Florida,
While the exchange was organized at
meeting held in the Tampa Bay Ca
slno June 1, 1919, its organization was
primarily due to the untiring efforts
OF DIR. F. W. Iinman, the founder of
Florence Villa and one of the pioneers
among the scientific citrus fruit rails
ers of South Florida 1t was in honor
OF DIR. Inman and the prominent Polk
county men participating with him
that this big anniversary celebration
was given to Lokeland, it being felt
1T was fitting it should be held in
Polk county.
1t was following several bad sea-
sons, during which some growers sold
oranges for as low as 80 cents per
box, that forty-fve prominent Florida
growers made a trip to California t.
study the methods of the cooperative
marketing agency of the growers
there, which already was in successful
operation. Returning, they organized
the Florida Citrus exchange. 1t is
noteworthy that J. w. Sample of
Haines City, who presided as chair
man at the meeting at which the ex-
change was organized ten years ago,
and who presided at several prelimi-
nary meetings held by Floridians Wis
ltlng in California, will preside at this
meeting in Lakeland, Saturday, May
31st.
DR.. j. H. Ross is scheduled for an
address which under the circumstance
es is sure to be one of unusual inter-
est. DR.. l.. A. Bize, president of the
Citizens bank and Trust company, of
Tampa, the largest banking institution
in South Florida, and who has the
name of being one of the most pro-
gressive bankers in the southeast, will
speak upon 'The Relation of the Cit
rue Industry to Values in Florida"
G. E. Stewart, jr., will talk upon "The
Business Side of the Florida Citrus
Exchange, and George A. Scott, for
mer division manager for New Eng
land for the exchange, and recently
elected general sales manager, will
speak upon Selling Our Fruit in the
North" In addition a number of prom
inent growers will be heard.
The meeting is to be held in the
big auditorium at Lakeland, and the
handsome home of the Lakeland Elks
club, closely adjacent, will be thrown
open in honor of the visitors and
splendid lunch served at low cost to
them. The morning meeting from 10
o'clock to noon will be in the nature
of a get-together acquaintance gath
ering, while the main meeting is
scheduled to open at 1870 p. m. and to
adjourn sufficiently early to enable
visitors to be entertained by the citi-
zens of Lakeland before catching ev-
ening trains leaving that city.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-19

Duncan Morrison, one of our highly
esteemed citizens, has been suffering
for the past three weeks with some
thing which causes extreme dizziness
when he attempts to stand up. E. T.
Knowles and DR.. Belcher took him to
Tampa Saturday, where he was thor
oughly examined by DR.. Adamson.
The cause of his trouble has not been
definitely determined, but we surely
hope he comes around to normal again
soon.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-19
BOY SCOUTS OFF FOR CAMP

At nine this morning the local
troop of boy scouts hit the trail for
Safety Harbor, where they will go
into camp for the week, along with the
scouts from st. Petersburg, Clearwa-
ter and other Pinellas towns. They
are an intrepid lot of youngsters and
there is no telling what they will do
before they return. Those going from
here are: Raymond Daniel, Theodore
Whitney, ]. Y. Blake, Albert and Da-
tus Gammage, Max Decker, Roy
Cause, George Robinson, w. Cause.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
| ton aid will receive prompt at
tention.
GO Per Cent Join.


60 Per Cent Join.
Especially encouraging as a
prophecy OF the success OF the COM
ing campaign in Rock Island coun-
ty was the fact that over sixty per
cent of the farmers present signed
double membership cards, becom-
ing enrolled in both county and
state organizations.
Palmer r. Edgerton. county
agent, stated this morning that Coe
township would not seek aid of
the state body, but intended to
launch it's campaign during the
last week of March. Enthusiasm
which augurs well for the attain
ment of the goal set by farm lead
ers is apparent and gaining mo-
mentum throughout the state and
county.
W. G. Eckhardt of DeKaIb coun-
ty, having the distinction of being
the oldest farm advisor in Illinois,
spoke On THE Value of Organiza-
ton to the Farmer"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
WELCOME HOME HONOR ROLL

Fifty-fourth ammunition train men
in service from March 20, 1918, tc
March 10, 1919:
Carl H. Guntow, private. 52S
Thirtieth street. Fifty-fourth am
munition train, Company A, A
Z. F.
B. W. Roach, sergeant, 1906
Fifth and One-hah avenue. Fifty
fourth ammunition train, Company
A, A E. F.
Matthew Tappendorf, private, 800
Twenty-f1rst street Fifty-fourth
ammunition train, Company B, A.
E. F.
Rudolph W. Knapp, corporal,
Coal Valley, III. Fifty-fourth am
munition train, A. z. F.
Charles A. Kerkering. private,
sos Twelfth street. Company A,
Fifty-fourtn ammunition train, A.
E. F.
Albert F7emming, wagner, 1924
Fourth avenue. Company A. Fifty
fourth ammunition train, A E. F.
Warren D. Ludwig, bugler,
Twenty-eighth street and Thir-
teenth avenue, Company A, Fifty
fourth ammunition train. A. E. F.
Louis Geirlundt. private. 1925
Sixth avenue. Fifty-fourth ammu-
milton train, A. E. F.
Clyde H. Young, private, 1404
Fifth street. Company A, Fifty
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17

fourth ammunition train. A. z. F.
Clarence L. Edwards, sergeant
Coal Valley, III. Company A, Fifty
fourth ammunition train, A. e. F
Harry E. Behnamann, 107 Fourth
avenue. Headquarters department
Eighty-sixth division, Intelligence
A. e. F.
Kinney E. Leins, private, 2S4s
Eighth avenue. Forty-frst division
headquarters, A. E. F. In service
from June 27, 1918, to March /,
1919.
Jack A. During. private, 800
Third street. Sixty-first coast ar
tillery. c. A. c., A. E F. In SER
vice from March 2. 1918. to March
6, 1919.
William H. Thorpe, private, 2S15
Fifth and One-haIf avenue. One
Hundred Sixteenth engineer train,
Forty-first division, A. e. F. In
service from Sept. 8, 1918, to March
13, 1919.
Fred Patting, private, 9os Fifth
avenue. Three Hundred Thirty
second field artillery, Eighty-sixth
division, A. e. F. In service from
June 81 to Feb. %.
John H. Di1gs. private, Reyn-
olds, III. Ordnance department, @.
NJ. c., Camp Macarthur, Texas. In
service from March z, 1918 to
March s, 1919
William f. McGommins, private,
749 1'hirty-fourth street. Fourth
construction company, air service.
A, e. f. In service from Feb. 8,
1918, to Jan. IS, 1919.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
BURGLARS MAKE
OFF With LOOT
While Rev. ]. c. Granger breaches
In Baptist Church. Robbers
Steal JeWeIry.
ENTER THROUGH A WINDOW
Ransaek Rooms on Parsonage See
Ond Floor and Obtain articles
Valued at 500.

Burglars jimmied their way into
the parsonage of the First Baptist
church while Rev. ] c. Granger
conducted services in the edidce
and the other members of his fam
lily attended divine worship last
night.
When the pastor returned to his
home, which adjoins the church on
the south, at 30 Fifteenth street,
the house was found to have been
ransacked and Jewelry valued at
800 was missing. Appended is a
hist of the articles taken: =
Gold watch and chain.
Two rings.
Brooch.
Purse containing change and
postage stamps.
The loot was taken from one
room on the second floor. Other
rooms on the Pecond floor gave in
dication that they had been thor
oughly ransacked. 1t apeArs that
while on the first floor OF the home
the providers had been fright
ened away as none OF the silver
ware was taken.
Entrance by Window.
Tho providers secured entrance
to the homo with a jimmy, OPEN
ing a side window. Appearance in
dlcates that they left The home
through a back door. The case was
reported to the police,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
Rock Islands Hero of
Air Modest1y Refuses
To Tell of His Wounds

Captain Alexander NJ. Mcleod,
1911 Thirty-eighth street, as far as
10 known. the only Rock Island man
TO see action in the air with the
American army, upon his arrival at
his home, has modestly refused to
tell of his experiences overseas.
What 1 have done / have gladly
done for my country, but it has
been SO little in comparison with
what has been accomplished that it
is worthy of no comment" the Of
flcer said, in asking that he be ex-
cused from speaking OF his work.
ITO be wounded is more OF mis-
fortune than anything else" he re-
piled, when the reporter questioned
him concerning his wounds. stating
that they surely were marks Of
honor which he must explain
Captain Mcleod WAS in the Yer
dun sector Just shortly before the
armistice was signed when he was
wounded in an air battle with
Jerry" The wound was in the
leg and is so serious that while he
can walk now with a noticeable
limp, he must return to the base
hospital at Camp Grant to undergo
further treatment 1t is understood
t1at while wounded the captain lay
in a puddle OF water for So hours
before he was found. The first
wound he received, sometime be-
fore the one in the leg, was inflicted
In the arm.
The officer possesses the croix de
guerre from France and also has a
personal gift from King Edward Of
England.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17

airy fund had a surplus of $4,000
900. The fund has been drawn on
to such an extent that the sur
plus now totals $1,200,000.
An increase in rates is set forth
as the only way in which to make
up for the heavy drain and it will
be this matter that the delegates
will decide. The delegates and all
officers of the head camp are en-
titled 10 votes. Should a change be
decided on, the matter will then be
submitted to all the members of
the camps throughout the United
States for their decision.
The special session Of the head
camp is nothing more than the re-
converting of the delegates to the
last meeting held in June, 1917.
New delegates are elected every
four years, head camp sessions be-
ing held once during that period.
In 1921 the next regular meeting
of the head camp occurs and will
be attended by newly elected dele
gates
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
Police News

l. J. Gilman Was f1ned IS IN po-
lice court this morning on a charge
of disorderly conduct.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
CARRIER SEXTON
GIVEN WATCH AS
SERVICE HONOR

Just before the carriers of the
Rock Island postoffice started out
on their first trip this morning they
surrounded Carrier W. T. Sexton,
one of their number, and Chris
Koch, in behalf Of the force, pre-
scented him with a beautifully in
scribed gold watch in token of his
IS years service in the Office. Koch
accompanied the presentation with
an appropriate speech, remarks
also being made by others of Mr.
Sections friends, and in accepting
the gift responded appropriately.
Sexton is the fourth of the Rock Is
land carrier force to obtain the sill
yer star insignia of a quarter of a
century in the service.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
MAYOR AND CITY
HEADS LEAVE TO
ATTEND MEETING

Mayor William McConochie, City
Attorney John K. Scott and Com
missioners John Murrin Nicolai
Juhl and John Liedtke left at 4:4O
this afternoon for Springfield by
way of Peoria to attend the con-
ferences scheduled for tomorrow
on the program outlined against
the present public utilities law OF
the state.
They meet at dinner with Gov
ernor Frank o. Lowden and off,
ellis OF the senate and house of the
legislature tomorrow noon and will
probably leave for Rock Island to-
morrow night, arriving home We'd
nesday morning.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
DELAY week OF
FARM CAMP ICN
Series of County Meetings TO Be
Held Before Main Drive Is
Launched Is Decision.
HEAR SECRETARY STATE BODY
David o. Thompson Explains the
Working of Association
Many Enrolled Saturday.

A series OF publicity meetings
will precede the opening of the
membership drive of the Rock Is
land county farm bureau, which
was scheduled to have taken place
during the week of March "a to
20, inclusive. The gatherings will
be held throughout the county and
will begin as soon as the neces-
sary arrangements have been COM
pleted. No definite date has been
set for the campaign proper.
Such was the decision arrived at
Saturday afternoon when nearly q
hundred farmers gathered at the
county farm advisors office at the
court house to hear d. o. Thomp-
son, $40, 0O0-a-year secretary Of the
Illinois Agricultural association,
and incidentally perfect plans for
the booster membership drive IN
der process of organization.
Mr.. Thompson, in an interesting
and convincing address, dwelt
upon the work of the state agri-
cultural association in connection
with the farm bureau and the farm
er. He explained how, through
close cooperation, great mutual
benefits are being and will be de-
rived.
All counties that are planning
to undertake reorganization cam
paign and new membership drive
may receive aid from the state as
ISOLATION, according to MIR. Thomp-
son. Speakers and solicitors for
the drives will be furnished on de-
mand. The secretary has opened
Offices in the Edison building, Chi
cago, where communications and
personal appeals for state associa-
All the news all the time-The
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
RESUME ATTACK
UTILITIES BODY
Fight on State Commission VIE be
Continued In Legislature
Tomorrow.
DELEGATION TO BE PRESENT
Hard Road Building Plans VIII be
Outlined Before Joint Commit
tee Meeting.

Springfield, Ill, March 17.-Hard
road building plans are to be out
lined by the department of public
works and buildings before mem
bers of the senate and house road
and bridge committees at a joint
meeting Wednesday.
The Joint subcommittee of the
two bodies, headed by Representa-
tive Richard Meents of Ashkum.
named to investigate the offer OF q
=000, 900 car loads of noyaculite
gravel at Tamms, Alexander county,
Ill, will make report on their find
ings. The committee made a trip to
the site of the gravel beds last Fri
day.
Other subcommittee will report
recommendations as to the char
acter of vehicles, width of tires and
rims, etc, to be permitted on the
improved highways
It is anticipated also that the
special joint committee to investi-
gate the alleged combine of manu-
-facturers of building materials to
fix prices will enter upon a plan to
work this week Chairman John
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committee together in Chicago on
Thursday or Friday. Secretary Hol-
-aday OF the house has interviewed
Governor Lowden and is in a posi-
ton to inform the committee what
the attitude of the executive is. It
is generally understood that the
governor favors rigid inquiry into
prices. The Daily committee also
will consider the feasibility of the
states entering upon the business
of manufacturing road materials.
Tomorrow afternoon the hearing
of the senate on bills to abolish the
public utilities commission or
change the present act, begun ten
days ago, will be continued. House
members have been invited to at
tend, but a similar hearing on house
bills of the same nature has been
announced by Chairman Brinkman
for Wednesday afternoon. Bills fav-
ored by the Illinois municipal home
rule league have appeared in both
houses and will be supported by a
large delegation from Illinois cities
The measures would provide home
rIIIe~in the control of public utilities
by cities, villages, or organized
towns.
Constitutional convention bills of
Representative Theodore K Long
of Chicago, one proposing a par
tisan and the other a non-partisan
method of electing convention dele
gates, will be before a joint session
of the special COMMITTEES of both
houses tomorrow afternoon. 1t is
forecast that the partisan method
bill will have a favorable recon-
mendation when the separate COM
mfttees meet.
Election Contest.
Election contests will have furth-
er consideration tomorrow, having
been postponed from last Tuesday.
The contest OF Judge John L. Coop
er for a seat from the 46th division
has beon withdrawn. Other con-
tests, which probably will be dis
missed, were filed by John w Lusk,
democrat, S2nd district; Thomas P.
Deversux, Republican, 21st district,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
RATE INCREASE
UP AT Meeting
-Four Hundred Sixty-One Delegates
OF Country to Attend Head Camp
Session of N. w. A.
SEVERAL OF CITY TO LEAVE
Special Conference Called Because
of Needs Of More Money for So
ciety's MOrtuary Fund.

Four hundred sixty-one delegates
from every state in the union. ex-
cepting Louisiana, South Carolina
and Massachusetts, will be in at
tendance at the special meeting of
the head camp of the Modern
Woodmen of America organization
on March 25, at the Hotel Sher-
man in Chicago.
2. ]. Cary, a member of Camp
No. 1850, Rock Island, and John r.
Huette, a member of Camp No. 3S,
Moline, are the two delegates from
Rock Island county who will be
present Head Clerk A n. Bort,
Assistant Head Clerk J. G. Ray, a
force of clerical workers. Frank o.
Van Calder, editor of the Modern
Woodmen, a monthly publication
of the society, Drs. Z. A. Anderson,
B. e. Jones and e. W. Cooke, su-
preme medical director, all OF Rock
Island, will attend.
Delegates from Illinois are elect
ed by congressional districts, while
in other states different arrange
ments are provided. Because of the
large membership in this district,
in which the Woodmen head Offices
are located, the county has two
delegates in place of one One
delegate for every $3.50 members
of good standing is the standard
used by the Wcodmen society.
The special meeting of the head
camp is called for the purpose of
defining the policy to be pursued
in meeting the extraordinary and
abnormal demands upon the Mod
ern Woodmen mortuary fund due to
deaths from Spanish influenza and
pneumonia occurring during the
latter part of 1918 and the first
part of the present year.
Fund Lew.
During normal times the mortu-