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SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

Smyrna, Aug. l2.--During one OF
the recent electric storms lightning
struck the barn on the farm Of David
+. Robinson, near Blackistons Cross
roads and several boards were ripped
off as the bolt grounded.
Clark NJ Knots. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
David A. Knots of this town, has been
elected bookkeeper at the National
Bank of Smyrna, succeeding Richard
G. Long, who resigned TO take clerical
position at the railroad offices in Will
mington.
Mrs Thomas II. Coverdale, organist
of Asbury M T.. Church, sustained
broken bone i'll her left hand by falling
off porch step near her home:
Miss Florence A. Marker, who has
Philadelphia, for several weeks follow
ing an operation, has recovered sufficient
ly to return To her home in Clayton.
Topkis Brothers underwear factory
is closed for two weeks to allow the
operators and employees to enjoy a
vacation.
Rev Ransom p. Nichols, pastor OF
Asbury NJ. +. Church, Smyrna, left
yesterday for a months vacation to be
spent in New York, Gettysburg, Pa,
and Still Pond, Md, his former pastorate
During his absence, Rev. Henry @.
Budd of Dover, Rev. Tilghman Smith
of Still Pond, and one other minister
will fill the pulpit.
The carnival of the Citizens hose
company, which has been held annually
for several years, will begin on Saturday
August 2S, and close September 4.
Many new attractions have been arrang-
ed for.
Mrs. George Abberger of Whining
ton is guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. +. Charles
LcCompte, at Clayton.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Frank Griffith OF
Wilmington have been visiting Mrs.
Griffith's parents, MIR. and Mrs. John
Buttery
Mr. and Mrs Edward G.. Walls have
been entertaining Miss Lulu Wands
of Albany, n. y.
Mr. and Mrs Charles p Thornley,
are spending two weeks at Atlantic
City.
Police Commissioner and Mrs. William
b. Megear of Wilmington, and Miss
Hettlc Megear were guests OF Mr. and
Mrs Hervey p Hail. this week.
Mrs. Ransom =. Nichols is visiting
her father in North Adams, Mass.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Hodgspn are
entertaining Mr.. and Mrs. }. Earle
Chandler Of Philadelphia.
Rev J. NJ. l.. Eckard, pastor Of
Smyrna Presbyterian Church, is on n
months vacation, 10 be spent at Crystal
Lake, Atlantic City and in the Adirun-
dacks.
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NEWS OF MILFORD.

Milford, Aug. 12-Miss Mary Welch
of Philade!phia IS spending the month OF
August here with her uncle, John ".
Nelch.
MIR. and Mrs. Albert Van Lewan and
children. James and Elizabeth, motored
here from Yalesvllle, Conn, this week,
and are visiting with Mrs. Emma Sipple.
Philip Marvel regular player on the
locs baseball team for the past two years,
who has been III attendance at the Reserve
Officers Training Camp IN Devon. Mass.
since June Is. has returned home for the
rest OF the summer.
DIR. Leonard r. Robinson and his as
slstant. DR.. William T Grant. dairy in
spectors from the Department of Agri-
culture in Washington, are making in
spections OF creameries throughout the
State this week and visited the Milford
creamery Tuesday afternoon.
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Discolored or Spotted
Skin Easily Peeled of

The frerElirx discDlnrinE rr ruuznrntnz
to which most skins ARE subject a. fnle sea-
son may readily be gotten rid o. Ordinary
Tnerrnlized wax. spread lightly over fhf FAR
before retiring and removed tu the morn
ing with soap and water. completely fif,cia
on the disagured skin You need unf 80
more than an ounce % the from YOUR
druggist There no more eferttVc uaV Nf
-anishtnz tan frerxies ur other crztaueous
defects Little skin PARTICLES come on raCn
day 50 the process Itself dnesn q even tenn
porariiy mar the complexion, ana ypu soon
acquire a brand new. Euotiess. -lriis1ly
beautiful face.
Wrinkles caused ~ weather. worry ~ ii.-
ness are hest treated bF a simple suluflnu
of powdered ssxolitr one ounce llssnlFrn
in 0ne-haif pint witch naEei bathiuE tl-
face IN this produces a truly marvellous
tranSfOrruatfOn.
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AUTO TIRE TOOK A FLIER.

Milford. Aug l2-An automobile bear
ing Maryland license No. G1,SO3, i
coming down West Front street hill from
the Harrington road Tuesday afternoon,
cast IA tire from the left front wheel, which
IN some manner had become lOosened.
The tire continued spinning down the hill
for 3 distance of about 800 yards before it
crashed into the culveIt wall at the foot
of the hill Fortunately no one was in the
way at the time
The car was proceeding slowly and the
driver soon brought il to stop before any
accident occurred After the tire was re-
placed on the wheel the car continued on
70 Rehoboth Beach.
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SURVEYORS ON SHORE ROAD.
Proposed Highway from Ridaely 10 Hills.
bOro Being Mapped.

Willard Bryan, Thomas Worthipgton,
w. j.. Amick, Spencer Il. Siscon and w. j
Harper are surveying one of the proposed
State highways from Hid9ely by the way
of Downes Station toward fIillsboro,
distance Of three miles.
Another stretch Of one mile west Of
Ridpely toward Oakland will be surveyed,
and also road Of the same length from
Goldsboro toward Henderson.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-12
LYON IN ACCIDENT.
President of Council Fell Into TOwpath
Hole, but Wasn't Hurt.

Members Of City Council were much
alarmed last night before their session by
reports that George I. Lyon, president of
the body. while fishing along heChesapeake
and had been slightly injured.
The members were much relieved, how
ever, in a short time, when Mr.. Lyon
sauntered in. looking as well as ever. He
then connected the report, declaring that
while working along the canal between
Summit bridge and the Delaware railroad
bridge, be had slipped into one of the holes
a'ong the towpath, but did not hurt him
self other than being somewhat surprised
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NEWS OF LEWES.

Lewes, Aug. l2.-The total registration
for the elections in this district is 3l4:
On the first registration day, 1872, and
last Saturday, 1S2.
Charles Lynch is erecting five-room
bungalow on South street, opposite the
school house, the dimensions being 2712
by SO feet Electric lights and steam heat
will be installed The property was pur-
chased from DIR. W. =. Orr.
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CHILDREN ENTERTAINED.

Dover. Aug. 12.-Lttle Miss Eliza
beth Roe, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
John NJ Roe, entertained friends at the
Roe country home, east of Dover, yester-
day afternoon. Those present were:
Elizabeth Roe, Alice Danner, Ruth
Louise Spaid. Cornelia ii Taylor, Martha
and Sarah Hayes, Elizabeth Wilson,
Nancy Copper, Caroline Cobb, Iris
Wilson Miffiin Hayes. Cariss Hancock
Jr., Franklin Wise, Joe Satterfield, Hazel
Paradee. Thomas Roe, Buddy Cobb,
Billy Wilson. Frank Danner.
Mr.. and Mrs. w II. Reed entertained
bay party at their cottage at kits
Hammock, yesterday afternoon, III honor
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Bedbugs lay an average Of seven eggs
per day. Under favorable conditions they
hatch in Ave days Of which two-thirds are
females They mature TO adult size and
are capable Of laying in four weeks. How
many bedbugs would you have ia a year
If YOU left one female or egg unmol Tested
for one YEAR, To rid the pesky bcdhuS
YOU can readily see how necessary il is TO
use a preparation that will Kill the eggs
as well as the live ones. 2. ID. .. has
heen demonstrated by the leading Hos
pitals Hotels and Railroad Companies
that the safest and most economical way
TO stop future generations of bedbuss.
reaches fleas and ants is to use the new
discovery PeSky Devils Quietus ''P. d. .. !
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PESkY BED BUGS

4 &Sc nackaga Of p ID - 1lakns a
quart enough 20 Niu a million 'scdbug~
reaches heas and Goodies and az tlc SAME
time destroy their eggs
I'm possible FOR them 20 eKlst N1Cl j.
d. .. is prOperly uSei f-ee patent
spout IN every nackage 20 gut gre nesk
devils In the hard to-sct-at phases anI
save the iuCc.
special Hospital and Hotc size - 90
makes hve gallons % p -. - Four
druggist has it or can set 10 Tor rou
or sent prepaid upou rccCpt 70 pri0 ~
the Owl Chemical Co. rerre iaute. Ind
Success OF z. ID. o. has caussd tmltators
genuine 2. d. .. = never pcddlcd sold
BY EcKerd Drug Co. y. A. nautorth
Drug Co.
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BOLT KILLS HORSES AND COW.

Milford. Aug. 12-The severe electric
storm which passed over this vicinity
Tuesday night caused considerable loss
70 John r. Clements, q young farmer near
Milford Neck.
Five horses and nine cows that were in
the pasture field at the time had taken
shelter from the storm beneath large
oak tree. and bolt OF lightning struck
the tree, splitting 1t half down to the
roots and killing two of the horses and
one COW. The other horses and cows ap-
parently were not injured.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-12

with his cousin, Miss Gertrude McMunn
of Washington, d. G.
j. r. Sadler 4 Co. have just received a
large quantity Of btumin,ls coal. ADV.
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of their little daughter. Clara Delane
Reed, the occasion being her tenth birth
day anniversary.
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EASTERN SHORE POPULATION.
Statistics Issued by Government Show
Falling ON In Some Counties.

The Census Bureau has made public
the following population counts for three
Eastern Shore counties, each II which
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New-York tribune., 1920-08-22
REDS of oil bearing sha1e
- near Watson, Utah

shale in the world, lying mainly
right II our Western United States.
Many years of experimentation in
the field and at the Colorado School
of Mines have won for the author
his title Of father of the oil shale
industry in the United States" Oil
shale, he tells us, is simply form of
rock. 1t does not contain oil as
such. 1t is not, as some may sup
pos~, something from which oil NAV
be squeezed as the rendering of lard.
The processes of oil shale extraction
are many and varied, involving deep
scientific principles and retort fur
naces. The process is an accom-
plished fact. The industry is also
matter of seventy years standing in
Europe, but world scientists are
everlastingly searching for the SIM
pier, cheaper methods which will
make the extraction of oil from rock
an economic boon that will make the
discovery Of coal seem unimpor-
tant in comparison. And necessity,
born of the approaching crude oil
shortage, along with an increasing
demand for the product, is driving
scientists toward the solution.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-22
Butterflies Flee Drought

been discovered asleep in hiding in
this country during the winter, like
the peacock butterfly and other mem
bers of its tribe; nor does it pass the
winter here in any other of the stages
Of a butterhy's Transformation.
There is good reason to believe that
it never winters with US, and that
the painted ladies which usually ap-
pear in May or June are immigrants
from the Continent We see them
basking on dry footpaths, often re-
turning to the same spot again and
again, or else feasting on clover bios
SONS ripe for moving. In due course
they lay their eggs on thistles, and
after few weeks growth as cater
pillars and a short period of oui-
escence as chrysalides, the butterflies
OF the new generation are on the
wing in August and September. The
pink-flushed brown of their marbled
and brocaded wings is often much
richer than that of their parents in
June, for in them it was often
bleached by travel and fierce foreign
sunshine to a light reddish tan.
Beautiful indeed are these native
painted ladies, as they circle at the
autumnal scabious heads, or the
dahlias ranked in the garden, and
their end is mystery If they seek
some dark hiding place, like the rest
of their tribe, it has never yet been
discovered; all we know is that they
do not reappear in early spring, as
their kindred do.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-22

questions of who may vote, how and
where and when there is voting to
be done, how absent voters may cast
a ballot and the differences in the
general primary and election laws
and the city, school and special cleo
tion provisions. There are sample
ballots shown with the proper marks,
so that any one who will study the
sample ballots for the primaries and
the general elections and watch the
instructions given can cast a ballot
without danger Of it being thrown
out for want of proper marking or
for defacing it.
There is also a chapter on the
party organizations, with a chart
showing in detail how each of the
big political parties is organized and
how the business is handled
The book has been used by the
Kansas Federation of Women's
Clubs and the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union in the educa-
tional campaigns conducted by the
organizations in teaching the women
their duty as citizens and how to
vote. A large number of men have
found the book instructive and use
full, and it has been of considerable
value to newly naturalized citizens
of the state.
1t is believed that a course of
study in citizenship and the politi-
cal duties of a citizen would be of
great value to the boys and girls
of the high schools just as they
are about to reach the age Of citizen
ship.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-22

ness to keep them busy for CEN
turies, provided the British chemists
can invent method of removing
the excess of sulphur which occurs
in English shale The solution of
this problem-one of the greatest
facing British chemists to-day
will mark most important step in
the economic progress of Great
Britain because it will give her a
home supply of crude petroleum in
case of another war"
Great Britain, or the island por-
ton of the empire, nation of ma
tions, which normally controls much
of the worlds petroleum supply in
Afghanistan, Persia, India and else
where, desperately needs a home
petroleum supply in case of another
war
"It is probably no secret in GER
tain quarters to-day" said DR.. AL
derson, that Great Britain con-
sidered our immediate naval and
military aid, when we entered the
war, far less important than our
immediate ability to furnish the
British war machine with crude
petroleum. One afternoon, not so
long ago, in a restaurant overlook
ing the Thames, at tea With Mr..
kellaway, the secretary of Great
Britain's Overseas Board of Trade,
he told me that in the dark days
of the war Great Britain's petroleum
supply was one of the utmost con-
cern to the British government, and
that the action of the United States
in coming to the rescue with our
petroleum resources was felt by the
government as one of the most in
New-York tribune., 1920-08-22


zenship and show knowledge of
the organization of political parties
before they can be graduated The
state is considering the publication
as required text for the schools
the book written by Miss Mary
Dobbs, of Wichita, as a handbook
for the women voters when suffrage
was adopted in Kansas. The book
has proved to be of real value to the
women and to many aliens when they
are naturalized. 1t has been used
as a supplementary text in some of
the high schools, with the result that
the boys and girls seemed to take
an unusual interest in the time when
they would become citizens of the
state.
The first chapter of the book is
devoted entirely to the duties of
citizenship and points out that every
citizen owes it to himself and his
neighbors to go to the polls at every
election and cast ballot. The ques-
ton of naturalization is discussed
and instructions given for the COM
pletion of the citizenship papers.
Then the various forms of the ma
tional, state, county, city, township
and school governments are pre-
sented Also there is chapter de-
voted to the charitable, educational
and penal institutions, the care of
dependents and the welfare laws
relating to women apd- children.
The chapters on voting take up the
New-York tribune., 1920-08-22
A Rich Mans Game

AS the various processes stand to-
day, particularly those discovered by
British chemists, the oil shale indus
try may begin to develop in the
United States with the possibility Of
enormous growth within a compara-
lively short time, DR.. Anderson be-
lieves. But this industry is not a
poor mans game, he warns. 1t is
yet a rich mans game in which a
large amount of capital must be the
main factor in any initial outlay.
Dr.. Anderson estimates that there
are sufficient deposits of shale in
three or four of our Western states
alone to keep great industry busy
supplying our petroleum needs for
the next eight centuries. In Scot
land, where the oil shale industry is
comparatively old, the shale is dug
from deep deposits. In Colorado and
Utah, American shale may be mined
with a steam shovel.
Oil shale, DR.. Anderson tells US. is
found in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming
Texas, Nevada, Montana, California,
Kentucky, Pennsylvania and West
Virginia. 1t is also found in the
British Isles, Canada, South Africa
New Zealand, New South Wales,
France, Italy, Spain, Austria-H Hun
gary, Serbia, Turkey, Tasmania and
Brazil. He adds
ut is a mud or CLAW depOsit from,
New-York tribune., 1920-08-22
VHOWING the formation
- of oil bearing shale IN
one of the Itch fields

nal combustion engines IN the United
States. In ten years this number
will very likely be doubled, to 49,
100000. In spite Of the phenomenal
growth of the automobile industry
there is no indication of a slacken-
ing. Good authorities assert that
the next five years will show even a
greater increase, or fully 100000
motor cars in operation. The Ford
plant alone will manufacture 500 900
tractors in 1920. The United States
Shipping Board has ordered that all
vessels greater than 5000 ton dead
weight shall be oil burners and has
contracted for 100000 barrels of
fuel oil for 1920. France will re-
quire 100000 and Italy 336,0Oo,O0O
barrels of oil in 1920. The potential
demand for oil in the Unied States
by 1927 is estimated at 80O.0OO,0O0
barrels.
"The normal annual increase in
the demand for petroleum is, accord
ing to President Teagle, of the
Standard Oil Company of New Jer-
sey, 8.54 per cent. Apply this for
the coming five years and we find
that in 1925 we shall need an annual
supply Of $50, 100000 barrels, or
an annual supply of 273,CO0,OO0
barrels above the production of
377,000,000 barrels in 1919. To
make bad situation worse, it is
estimated that by 1927 the potential
demand will be SOO,OOO,O0O barrels,
and the underground supply we'll
nigh exhausted No oil man is
optimistic enough to predict that
wells alone can be depended upon
to produce this amount. If not,
then on what must we rely? On our
raw materials shales.
"Inasmuch as the oil shale indus
try has been in operation in Scot
land since 1S50-seventy years-and
has met and overcome technical,
trade and economic obstacles, it
seems a mere matter Of common
sense for the pioneers of the indus
try in Colorado first to follow the
we'll known and successful methods
Of Scotland--to adapt these methods
to Colorado conditions and then to
improve them as far as possible by
methods not now known.
Other Possibilities
Besides the production of crude
oil, gas and ammonium sulphate
other possibilities may open-the
nitrogen may be reclaimed in a form
for use in the manufacture of muni-
tions of war; aniline dyes and flota-
ton oils may be obtained, possibly
producer gas, substitute for rub
Der, and a long list of other posi-
bilities, obtainable from any good
encyclopedia, but it is simply a mat
New-York tribune., 1920-08-22
4 MOUNTAIN of oil bear
4 ing shale on Parachute
Greek IN Colorado
fiuential acts for good by us during
Fifty Gallons to a Ton


the war.
Fifty Gallons to a Ton
"Some English shales,' Dr.. AL
derson said, carry forty to fifty
gallons Of oil per ton of shale.
American shales may be regarded
generally as rich as and in some
cases richer than this. The British
have the same problem that we have
here in America, economical guam
tity production, with their addi-
tional problem of removing sulphur.
A number of British chemists told
me they believed they were in sight
of a solution which will rank as a
discovery in equal economic impor-
tancc with the discovery of coal.
"In my personal investigation of
shale retorts | found some which
may prove commercially successful.
One of the most promising is the
N. M. G. process, which is thus
far British secret. 1t would be
unethical for me to discuss it,"
Shale mining in Scotland, where
the industry is seventy years Old,
is done at considerable depths,
miners using old-fashioned augers
to drill holes for blasting powder.
A Scotch miner is able to send to
the surface about five tons of shale
a day. With modern methods, Dr.
Anderson believes, American miners,
when it becomes necessary to work
underground, would be able to pro
duce threefold that produced by
their Scotch confreres.
Summing up the petroleum situa,
ton with Dr. Anderson in his book,
The Oil Shale Industry, it is only
necessary to look into the future
with him in order to realize the i'm
perativeness of developing a great
oil shale industry in the United
States. He writes:
The Need Of Oil
"Rapid as has been the increase
in the demand for crude oil and its
products, yet the future holds out
greater expectations. There are
now approximately 100000 inter
New-York tribune., 1920-08-22
ERTAIN butterflies maintain
themselves precariously in
our rainy climate, writes a

NERTAlN butterflies MAINTAIN
h themselves precariously in
~ our rainy climate, writes
correspondent of The Lon
don Times, and are periodically re-
inforced by immigration from over
seas. Unlike the regular immigra-
ton of birds in spring, these move
ments of butterflies occur at no fixed
intervals-some almost annually and
others after varying lapses of years.
Though butterflies are emphatically
creatures of the sun, few species will
endure great drought, and there
seems little doubt that the excursions
of their countless swarms, which oc-
casionally astonish the seafarer. are
due to the oncoming of heat and
aridity in their country of origin,
which deprive them of moist
ure and their prospective young of
green food. Even the drought of an
English July will sometimes drive
the common blue and small copper
butterflies from the toasted pastures
and send them wandering through
shady gardens, with their watered
lawns, and the vast clouds of butter
flies which are sometimes seen cross
ing the Mediterranean from North
Africa, or the English Channel from
the coast Of France, are exiles driven
by thirst, seeking cooler lands.
In England the most regular of
these butterfly immigrants is the
large and beautiful species known as
the painted lady. This has never
New-York tribune., 1920-08-22
Worlds Supply Is Known

biologists know almost to the last
thousand barrels how much Amer
lean oil is left. Its inevitable ex-
haustion without substitute has as
a concomitant an equally inevitable
ndustrially decadent United States.
one American scientist already has
earawn terrible word picture of
americas petroleumless future.
Not all American scientists are
pessimists. There is one who sees
natures enigma almost solved and
great industry to be developed in
the United States which will allow
lhls country to progress ever onward
some 800-odd years after every oil
We'll has become a dry hole. He is
pink streak of light on the horizon
Fter black night of pessimism.
The first American book ever pub
nshed on the subject, The Oil Shale
industry, by Victor C. Anderson,
President of the Colorado School of
Mines, and father of the oil shale
industry in the United States" is
aoout to leave the presses of the
New York publishers, Frederick A.
Stokes Company.
Coincident with the return of the
author from Europe, where he has
spent the summer in investigation of
NE various processes designed by
european scientists to extract Pc
Toleum from shale, his book tells US
mat the emancipation of America
'rom the approaching petroleum
r'sis lies in the industrialization OF
me largest and richest deposits OF