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Middletown transcript., 1919-02-15
SEE GODS HAND IN RESCUE
Natives Of Rimatara Ascribe Their e.
cape From Death to Miraculous
lnterposition.

"Saved by the hand of Cod" Is the
way the nine natives composing tn =
crew Of the SO-ton schooner Oromars
characterize their escape from death.
after having drifted helplessly so days
on one Of the loneliest bits Of ocean
In the seven seas.
When the wreck of the Oromana
was towed into Papeete harbor, Tahiti.
one of the most remarkable voyages
known in these waters was completed.
The vessel, a two-masted schooner.
owned by natives of Rimatara, an
island about 800 miles southwest Of
Tahiti. left her home port, without
cargo, bound for the island Of Rurutu.
In the same group. where she was to
undergo repairs and take cargo Of
copra for Tahiti.
Two days out, she was struck by q
storm, which carried away both her
masts and later her rudder, leaving
her a helpless derelict.
With never a glimpse Of land or sail
to give ray Of hope, the Oromana
drifted for so days. After Is days the
supply Of food was gone. The natives
managed to catch a shark with hook
and line. This lasted them five days.
The rest of the time they had no food.
An occasional shower prevented death
from thirst.
Then the miracle" happened. The
mountains Of Tahiti rose slowly over
the horizon. The shifting sea current
brought them nearer and nearer until
they were finally sighted from snore
and a powerboat sent to tow them in.
They were too weak to rise to their
feet, but, after a few days ashore all
appeared to be rapidly recovering from
their experience.
The natives say the hand Of God
guided their craft, for the prevailing
winds in these ATTITUDES are from the
northwest, q direction which would
never have brought them to Tahiti.
Middletown transcript., 1919-02-15
Large Public Sale
will sell at Public Auction. at my
Stables in Galena, Md,
Saturday, February I'D, 1919


Beginning at 1890 A. M. sharp
The best load of mares ever offered in
this county. Will also have several
exceptionally fancy pairs of mules.
have selected these 20 head Of
mares myself and bought only the best,
ranging from 5 to 8 years, and 1000 to
14OO lbs. Most of these mares are match
ed teams, been working together and
sound. Will make excellent brood and
farm mares.
sold mules as high as $40 per pair
at my last sale, and have more just as
good to sell this time. Some farmers
tell me they were the best they ever
saw. Will guarantee every animal l
sell to be as represented, or you can
return them in three days.
Will sell also "Black King" regis
tered percheon stallion. Hefhas more
good colts than any horse in this Co.
20 head Fresh Cows. Sprlngers and
'Heifers. Some are very fine. Two
Stock Bulls.
so Shoats and Pigs from 20 to so lbs.
Two good Secondhand Ford Cars and
one vim Truck, nearly new that l
didn't have time to offer at my last
sale. Lot of Harness, Blankets, Car
riages, etc.
Will sell anything for you at this sale
on commission.
S. G. CALDWELL.
Sale rain or shine.
Try to get all stock away that day,
if possible
Will begin selling Cattle at IL o'clock
horses and mules at l P. M.
Middletown transcript., 1919-02-15
sALE-BY VIRTUE OF

SHERIFF'S SALE-BY VIRTUE OF
writ Of Lev. Fac. to me directed,
will be exposed to Public Sale at the
Court House, Southeast Corner of
Eleventh and King Streets, City of
Wilmington, New Castle County,
ON MONDAY,
THE Sd DAY OF MARCH, 1918
at $50 o'clock, A. NJ.
the following described Real Estate, viz:
Description of 7O7 Vandever Ave-,
Two-story brick dwelling.
BEGINNING at point on the north
erly side of Vandever Avenue at the
distance Of fifty feet four inches east
erly from the easterly side of Spruce
Street and at the middle of the brick
division wall between the house on this
lot and the one adjoining on the west;
thence northerly parallel with Spruce
Street and passing through the middle
of said wall one hundred and five feet
to the southerly side of four feet wide
alley leading into Spruce Street; thence
easterly parallel with Vandever Avenue
fifteen feet nine inches thence southerly
parallel with Spruce street and passing
through the middle of the brick division
wall between the house on this lot and
the one adjoining on the east one hum
dred and five feet to the northerly side
of Vandever Avenue and thence there
by westerly fifteen feet nine inches to
the place Of beginning.
With the free use and privilege of
above mentioned alley in common with
others entitled thereto forever.
Description of 719 Vandever Ave.,
Two-story brick dwelling.
BEGINNING at point on the north
erly side of Vandever Avenue at the
distance of one hundred and forty-four
feet ten inches easterly from the east
erly side of Spruce street and at the
middle of the brick division wall be-
tween the house on this lot and the one
adjoining on the west; thence n0rtherly
parallel with Spruce Street and passing
through the middle of said wall one
hundred and twenty-one feet to the
southerly side of four feet wide alley
leading into Spruce street; thence east
erly parallel with Vandever Avenue fif-
teen feet nine inches; thence southerly
parallel with Spruce street and passing
through the middle of the brick division
wall between the house on this lot and
the one adjoining on the east one hun
dred and twenty-one feet to the north
erly side of Vandever Avenue and
thence thereby westerly fifteen feet
nine inches to the place of Beginning.
With the free use and privilege OF
above mentioned alley in common with
others entitled thereto forever.
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of Max Lichtensteln and
Eleanor r. Lichtenstein,. (his wife)
mortgagors, and to be sold by
JOSHUA z. GRASSLAND, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Wilmington, Del,
Feb. 13, 1919.
Middletown transcript., 1919-02-15
Sales to Take Place

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18th, 1919-Pub-
lie sale of stock, farm implements ETC.,
by James H. Benson, on the u. P.
Mccoy farm" one mile east Of Summit
Bridge. w. S. Armstrong, auct,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18th, 1919 Pub
lie sale Of stock, farming implements
etc., by Frank s. Clayton, on the road
between st. Augustine and Chesapeake
City, Md. Eugene Racine, Auc.
THURSDAY, MARCH 9Th, 1919. Pub
lie sale OF stock, farming implements
etc.. by John r. Butler, one mile west
of Summit Bridge, Delaware. J. Frank
Blackburn, auct.
Middletown transcript., 1919-02-15
Properties for Sale

1st-Six homes on Main Street. all in
good repair and we'll located, now
paying a net income Of 8 per cent.
on the price asked.
2d-A good business place, located on
Railroad, in the best farming section
of the county. and comprises seven
) room dwelling with store attached.
Garage, 2 warehouses and other small
buildings, platform scales and two
acres of ground. Possession in 80
days.
3d-Farm of 100 acres tillable, mile and
half from .Middletown. on stone
road, good buildings and land: All
growing crops included in sale. Pos
session.
4th-Farm of 96 acres, 60 tillable. bal
ance in meadow, fire wood and heavy
timber. Some fruit, good buildings
and located in town limits.
JAY E. DAVIS
Middletown, Del.
Phone 168.
Middletown transcript., 1919-02-15
NOTICE

All persons holding outstanding bills
against the Levy Court of New Castle
county, contracted prior to Janury l.
1919, are hereby requested to submit
same in duplicate on or before February
IL, 1919, and any such account present.
ed At q later date will not be honored
by the said Levy Court of New Castle
county.
Resolution adopted by the Levy
Court, February 4, 1919.
Attest: JOHN L. WRIGHT,
Clerk of the Peace.
Middletown transcript., 1919-02-15

Ford touring car in good order for
sale. Apply JESSIE L. SHEPHERD,
Middletown, Delaware.
We pay the HIGHEST CASH PRICE
for WHEAT and CORN on order, loaded
on rail and water at ANY POINT.
Phone and Al.
JESSE L. SHEPHERD.
Middletown transcript., 1919-02-15
Unreliable SIGNATURES,

General Pershing recently gave or
ders that the typewriter signature is
required hereafter on all official orders
and Endorsements by American mill
tary men in France because Of the fact
10 many officers write their names $50
blindly that It IL difficult to make them
out" general Pesshing purposes to
waste no time In deciphering written
signatures.
Middletown transcript., 1919-02-15
Wonder What Poe Got for I

Wonder What Poe Got for It.
Quite while ago an author, Edgar
Allan Poe, contributed story to Ora
hams Library of Fiction, No. 1. But
It hardly occurred to him that some
day collector would pick up an old
copy of that periodical for 25 cents
and presently sell it to somebody else
for $1,000. Probably it is just as well
that it did not, for the knowledge
might have discontinued him with his
own modest emolument for writing a
classic.
Middletown transcript., 1919-02-15
Tho Lives Of q Cat,

A mother had two sons, one in
France, the other attending univer-
sity near home. The son in France
was wounded and naturally the moth.
er felt grieved over the incident, and
being of an excitable nature, tele-
phOned her other son: "John, come
home at once. Ted is at the front
being killed every minute"
Middletown transcript., 1919-02-15
Aching Bones, Tired Feeling, No
Life, All Cone,'' says J. Guy,
Bowman.

II had bad cold, felt tired, could
scarcely move along, and was barely
able to work at my trade" says j. Guy
Bowman, of 40 River street, Middle
town, Pa.
Il worked at the shoe factory. My
symptoms were aching bones, tired
feeling, and was lifeless and listless. A
feeling of malaria or ague.
II have used three bottles of TOnall
purchased at Whitman's Pharmacy.
Middletown. and after using it l now
feel fine, and do my work with pleasure.
ION account of the great benefit l
received from Tonall, after taking only
three bottles. l gladly recommend Ton
all for I know it will do all it claims to
do, and any person who has not used
Tonall does not realize what they are
missing for the roots, herbs, have GER
tainly a wonderful effect I am twenty
eight years old, too young to be knock
ed out yet, but by the use of Tonall |
have no fear now for years to come"
The above testimonial was given
August 3, 1918.
Tonall is sold at the
MIDDLETOWN DRUG Co. Inc.
and TESTERS, Delaware City.
Middletown transcript., 1919-02-15
$216 for a Thackeray Letter.

$ZT6 TOT 4 Thackeray Letter.
A sale of autographs and manu-
scripts was held at New York recent
ly. Charles Scribner's Sons paid the
top price, $216, for catalogue No. 234,
letter Of William NJ. Thackeray to
John Oxenford, asking him to come
to dinner in celebration of the COM
pletiOn of vanity Fair" The total
for the sale was S2,752.45.
Middletown transcript., 1919-02-15
President to Get Rare Book.

~ 49, nav 0OSNs
An ancient book has been sent to
President Wilson by Postmaster Gen
eral Tordi Of Florence who is collec-
tor Of rare manuscripts. The book is
a rare edition Of the life of Chris
tOpher Columbus and was written by
Fernandez, son Of the discoverer Of
America, and was published at Venice
in 1871. Plans had been made to
have the book presented to President
Wilson on Columbus day.
Middletown transcript., 1919-02-15
STATE AND PENINSULA

STATE AND PENINSULA
White potatoes are bringing but 81. 10
q bushel on the Lewes market.
A new elementary class in shipbuild-
ing will be started by the Harlan plant,
Wilmington, Monday night.
Fifty new members have been added
to Crystal Fount Lodge of Odd Fellows
in Milford during the past year.
Mail delivery has been offered to
Georgetown provided the town people
will have their houses numbered.
A large number of quail will be liber-
ated in Sussex county this month in an
effort to increase the game in that
section.
State Health Commissioner Wells be-
gan a tour of the State and will ad-
dress farmers institute on matters of
hygiene.
The New Castle County Levy Court
will elect three trustees of the poor in
the near future, the terms Of the pres
ent officials being about to expire.
Wilmington will soon erect a SITS, 900
school building, the money being loaned
to the city by the Government through
the Emergency Fleet Corporation.
Sussex Hall, the new dormitory of
Woman's College, Newark, for which
the Legislature appropriated SIPS, 900.
has been completed and is now occupied.
Farmers around Georgetown have be-
gun killing off their big focks of chick
ems and shipping them to the markets,
claiming that the present low price of
eggs does not warrant keeping them.
Robert S. Miller, of the United States
Employment Service. is making a sur
vey of Wilmington manufacturing
establishments for the purpose of pro-
curing work for the rapidly increasing
number of unemployed.
Several women who have been in the
employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company as crossing watchmen through
this peninsula were laid off this week,
and men who had been working in the
section gangs were placed in the posi-
tons.
The ''fu" prevented the holding of q
Farmers Institute in Georgetown last
week, but successful meetings have
been held at other points apd it has
been decided to hold the Georgetown
meeting on Tuesday, February 10. if
the Court House can be secured for
that date.
A demand for $1,000 on pain Of death
was made on Salvatore Kaola, fruit
dealer, of No. 237 King street, in a
''Black Hand letter. Kaola
went to the police station accompanied
by friend, who translated the letter.
The case was turned over to Federal
authorities.
The soldiers memorial committee of
Havre de Grace has decided that the
memorial to be erected in memory of
the Havre de Grace boys who were kill
ed in the war should be memorial hall.
There will also be erected bronze
tablet bearing the names of all the
Havre de Grace men who served during
the war.
1t is understood that the Department
of health of Maryland is furnishing vac
cine for the treatment of Pneumonia,
and that this virus hes proven most
effective in warding off cases of Pneu-
monia when taken in time. The City
Health Department of Baltimore is ad-
vertising this fact to all its physicians
and asking them to use the virus freely
among their patients of Baltimore City
who show any inclination of pneumonia.
Middletown transcript., 1919-02-15
GERMANS AUGUST FLOWER
Removal Notice f!

John Heldmyer Jr., Real Estate
Broker. will move his Office from North
Broad Street, to Mr.. Jesse l.. Shep-
herds Office on Main Street, March
lst, 1919
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-06-19
NoLegislation to
Make Country Dry

Washington, June 16.-Although
Congress, to judge by all past per-
formances and present temper, is
overwhelmingly in favor of enforce
ment of wartime prohibition, the en-
actment of legislation to enforce it
by July 1, the date it goes into effect
under President Wilson's uroclama-
ton, seems quite likely to fail.
To become a law by July 1, both
branches of Congress must pass the
law providing for the machinery by
which wartime prohibition shall be
administered and the President must
sign the bill. There is but two weeks
in which Congress can consider the
subject, and in neither House or Sc
ate has a bill been reported for ac-
ton.
In the meantime appropriation
bills, which must be acted upon be-
fore July, are piling up in the SEN
ate and the House has several i'm
portapt bills yet to act upon( among
them the sundry civil appropriation
bill, the Senate bill to end govern
ment icontrol of wire communication
and the proposed repeal Of the day
light saving law, to say nothing of
other reconstruction measures upon
which Republicans in Congress are
anxious to make record.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-06-19
HE DESCRIBES yARpAMAN

The last issue of Vardaman's
Weakly literally teens with abuse,
villification and Billingsgate, most of
which is hurled at President Wilson.
1t is of course wildly improbably
that President Wilson ever saw, or
ever will see, a copy of Vardaman's
Weakly, the official organ of Social
ish, Bolshevism and Anarchy in this
state, but the President must have
had some such person as the editor
Of Vardaman's Weakly in mind when
he uttered these memorable words:
II have always been among those
who believe that the greatest free
dom of speech was the greatest safe
ty, because if man is fool the
best thing to do is to encourage him
to advertise the fact by speaking. It
cannot be so easily discovered if you
allow him to remain silent and look
wise, but if you let him speak, the
secret is out and the world knows
that he is a fool. So it is by the ex-
posture of folly that it is defeated;
not by the seclusion of folly"
So long as Vardaman is shrieking
treason through his miserable little
sheet on one page, and proclaiming
the virtues of Lee Russell on another
page, there is little likelihood that he
will re-establish himself in political
favor in Mississippi. AS President
Wilson well says, IF you but let him
speak, the secret is out and the world
knows that he is a fool" jackson
Daily News, June IL, 1919.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-06-19
Glass Of Hot Water
Before Breakfast
a Splendid Habit
Open sluIees Of the system each
morning and wash away the
poisonous, stagnant matter.

Those of us who are accustomed to
feel dull and heavy when we arise:
splitting headache, stuffy from a cold
foul tongue, nasty breath, acid
stomach, lame back, can, instead
both look and feel as fresh as a daisy
always by washing the poisons and
toxins from the body with phOsphated
hot water each morning.
We should drink, before breakfast.
a glass of real hot water with a tea.
spoonful of limestone phosphate in
1t to flush from the stomach. liver.
kidneys and ten yards of bowels the
previous days indigestible waste. sour
bile and poisonous toxins: thus cleans.
ing, sweetening and purifying the
entire alimentary tract before putting
more food into the stomach.
The action of limestone phosphate
and hot water on an empty stomach
is wonderfully invigorating. It cleans
out all the sour lamentations. eases,
waste and acidity and gives one a
splendid appetite for breakfast and
it is said to be but little while until
the roses begin to appear in the
cheeks. A quarter pound Of limestone
phosphate will cost very little at the
drug store, but is sufficient to make
anyone who is bothered with bilious
ness, constipation, stomach trouble or
rheumatism a real enthusiast on the
subject Of internal sanitation. TRY
it and you are assured that you viii
look better and feel better In every
way shortly,
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-06-19
Germany Must
Answer June e

Paris, June 16.-The final word of
the Allies as to terms of peace has
been delivered to Count Won Brock
dOrff- Rantzau, head of the German
delegation, and he is speeding to
Weimar, where the chiefs of the
several Teuton states, the members
of the cabinet and of the national
assembly await his arrival.
There, not later than Saturday,
Germany must give her decision. Will
it be that she bows to the fate the
Allies have melted out to her, or that
she prefers that they shall set the
foot of Mars upon her own soil and
give her people a mild taste of what
she imposed upon France, Belgium
and the countries of the Near East.
No one here is disposed to pre-
dict, though there is an undercurrent
of optimism, despite intimations
from Berlin that the Hun neck has
lost nothing of its stiffness.
Few changes have been made in
the revised peace treaty. TIL origi-
nal contentious of the Allied and As
ISOLATED Powers have virtually been
maintained intact. Seven days are
given the Germans to answer yes or
no to the demands Of the Allies. If
Germany's reply is yes, the treaty
will be Immediately signed; if Ger
many declines to accede to the de-
mands, the armistice will be auto
matically terminated and the Allied
armed forces will take whatever steps
they deem requisite for the occasion.
With the revised treaty. contain
ing interlineations in red ink where
changes had been made in it, was a
covering note, written by Premier
Clemenceau, president of the Peace
Conference. 1t had been impossible
to reprint the treaty in time for its
presentation today.
The covering note severely casti-
gates Germany Tor protesting against
the treaty on the ground that the
treaty conflitcs with the terms of the
arnistice. M. Clemenceau SAYS Ger
many fails to understand the posi-
ton she occupies today in the esfima-
ton of the world for being respon-
sible for war which was the great
est crime against humanity and the
freedom of the people that any ma
tion, calling itself civilized, has ever
consciously committed"
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-06-19
Mss WOLFF RETURNS

Miss Minna Wolff, who repre-
scented the Bogalusa Business Girls
Clubs of the local Y. w. C. A. in the
tional convention held in st. Louis
r the Business Girls Clubs through
ht the United States last week, re-
turned Monday night after being abb
gsent about a week. Miss Wolff was
greatly impressed by the work of
other business clubs in the United
States.
Miss Wolff substituted for Miss
Covington who had been selected by
the local club to represent Bogalusa
at the convention. but who through
untimely business was unable to at
tend.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-06-19
sWIMMINC GLASSES AT .sY''

SWIMMING CLASSES AT .eY''
The new swimming classes which
have been organized at the Y. NJ. C.
A. will become effective at once. The
senior class will be held every Friday
night after gym classes. The jun
iors will meet every Tuesday and Fri
day after gym classes, which will
start at 4 O'clock. The working
boys class will be held every Tues
day and Saturday night after gym
classes, while the community boys,
under ten years of age, will be given
instruction every Saturday morning
at 10 o'clock.
The classes will be in charge of
competent instructor and every one
will be given personal attention.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-06-19
JAMES REEvEs DISCHARGED

James L.. Reeves of Lawrence,
Miss, but employed in Bogalusa
when he enlisted in the army, has
returned from France and has re-
ceived his discharge. Reeves was a
member of Company B, 10th Ma
chine Gun Battalion. He left the
United States the 14th day of May,
1919, and arrived in France May 81.
After short period of training he
was sent to the Alsace-Lorraine sec
tor, where he remained until the ar
mistice was signed.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-06-19
SUNDAY SCHOOL Rally

The Washington Paris District
Sunday School Association viii hold
a rally at Zona on Friday, June 20,
at $3.50 p. M, under the direction of
Mrs. Tomkies, a NOTED speaker. Re-
freshments will follow the business
session.
The same program will be given
at Fisher on Sunday, June %, at II
o'clock service.
Everybody, regardless of denomi-
nation, invited to attend these rallies
and make big affair of Sunday
School matters in our parish.
Get the news of Bogalusa and vi
entity in the Enterprise, $3.50 year.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-06-19
l. L. HAMPTON IMPRovINc

After a critical stroke of apoplexy
from which it was at first feared he
would never rally, L. L. Hampton,
who is not only honored, but deeply
loved in this section, is again con-
scious and reported to be rapidly inn
proving. -Era-Leader.