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Middletown transcript., 1920-01-03
THE TOILET NECESSITIES

of the goth century women ore
n any and varied. There are GER
tain articles which every woman
must have. We have them all in
large assortment, to say nothing
of our patent medicines and drugs.
Everything that druggist sells
can be found at our pharmacy.
Middletown transcript., 1920-01-03
NOTICE TO TAXI frS
OF
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mink Hundred, ;.i'.' a! 20 - !@,t 10
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notified that the county nc sc.looi lakes
for me wear lpl9 a -. ..a. and
the undersigned Tax Gp''s'o'''f ior said
Hundred, will he
Middletown transcript., 1920-01-03
EVERY SATURDAY,
During JANUARY, 1920.
From 2 P. Nj. until evening
NOTICE TO SCHOOL TAXPAYERS

NOTICE TO SCHOOL TAXPAYERS
A rebate Of per cent will be allow
ed on all school taxes pam not later
than August 10th, 1919. After that
date there will De TO ! bate Whatever.
Tex bills can be oi;@il,.! by n,sl:.:g
persoaai application t. t:'t- No!!slIcr, of
by sending written ccmiiiu.-sas.t!"n ii.
closing stan. ps.
EXTRACT FROM THE LAWS OF DELAWARE;
GOVERNING THE CuiIEf'GioN Of rAAEs OF
NEW CASTLE COUNTY /:
Section 3-Tix. on al F;lxr@ nsfi hef'.Fe
the first day OF October Il st. e,aii be An
abatement OF five pr :eilt'in'. tn al!
taxes paid before the Err! day OF Deceni-
her there shall h. All a;ate:Htnt oi three
| per centu:n. On ali taxes PAID GoIing tue
F.; mouth of Derembrr there shaii he 10
! abatement whatever. And ~ all taH,s
| unpaid Oh the hr>. du, o! Jannar> '''+te
.hsll be addei one Ina Of one D-t tei tan
per mnnti, unit the esnut Sini; ht vaii.
JOSEPH c. HUTCEiSCN,
! Collector of Taxes for App oqui niniin
Hundred
Middletown transcript., 1920-01-03

AT 4HE 0FFiCE OF J.. !; MAL0NEY,
IN TOW NsEND. u4t-.,
Middletown transcript., 1920-01-03

EXTRACT FROM THE LAWS OF nEi.AW RE,
GOVERNING THE COLLECTION Of IAAS OF
NEW CASTLE COUNTY
Evening star., 1920-02-14
HISTORICAL PAPERS PUT
INTO MOVING PICTURES
Public Officials and 1000 Pupils
Also Taken by Camera
Men.

Adjt. Gen. Harris, Read Admiral
MCGOWAN and Ernest l.. Thurston.
superintendent of public schools,
stood at attention beside the original
OF the Constitution of the United
States in the State Department liz
brary yesterday afternoon while movie
camera men reeled off several feet Of
film of the three men to be dis
played in picture theaters through
out the country soon.
The camera men took pictures also
of about 1000 pupils of Business and
Weseern high schools. Wilson Nor
NAL School and Junior High School.
who formed a long line that filed
past a row of cases in the library
containing some Of the nations most
precious historical documents.
During the period of the display,
from l TO 3 o'clock. Maj. J. H. Hills,
[. S. A.. and Lieut.. Commander c. II.
Lieut.. Col. Leon Chatelain, Maj. ]. J..
White. Mai. ]. L. Sullivan Mat D.
Hall, Capt. C. H. Davis and Capt. c..
Pryor of the High School Cadets.
formed a guard Of honor for the Con-
stitution.
Other documents displayed were
Lincoln's emancipation proclamation,
the minutes of the Continental Con-
gress, Jefferson's first draft of the
Declaration of Independence, the trea-
ty of 1888 between England and the
colonies, by which the United States
gained independence, Washington s
treaty with the northwest Indian tribes,
the original articles of confederation
which preceded the Constitution and the
Spanish-American war treaty.
Evening star., 1920-02-14
SUSTAlNS BR0K LEG
WHEN STRUCK BY AUTO
Sarah Hatson Taken to Hospital
by Driver Of Car-Other
Accidents.

Sarah Hatson, sixty years old, al
I'd street southwest, was knocked
down by an automobile near fst and
D streets southwest about S:45 o'clock
last night and her left leg broken.
Pasquale Maggie, 12S D street south
west, driver of the automobile, took
her to Emergency Hospital.
A horse-drown vehicle in charge Of
an unidentified man was driven
against the automobile of A. c. Neu-
beck. S87 NJ street, parked in front
of 1906 G. street, yesterday morning.
The automobile was slightly damaged.
Norman Snyder, ten years old, 620
6th street, yesterday afternoon was
riding bicycle that was struck by
the automobile of Harry Haas, 1009
Sth street southeast, in front OF ga
9Th street The bicycle was demol-
ished. but the rider escaped injury.
Charles Bradley. fifty-two years
old Cordova apartments, was knocked
down by an automobile belonging to
J. " Roberts & Co.. SIS 14th street.
at Florida avenue and 18th street
last night about 7:15 o'clock. He was
not hurt
A collision between an Anacostia
street car and a motor truck owned
by s. N. FRAZIER, No Good Hope
road, Anacostia. occurred near the
merchants place of business yester-
day afternoon. Both vehicles were
damaged.
Evening star., 1920-02-14
LINCOLN SERVICES
HELD At CHURCH
Civil war Presidents Place
in History Is Subject of
Addresses.

The memory aud words of Abraham
Lincoln were eXhplled as those OF the
greatest American that ever lived and
one Of the great then OF the ages at
FIRST Congregationaf Church. under
the auspices Of the Depa rtnent of the
Potomac. D. A. r.
Commenting on the comparatively
few people who attended tle services:
Ohio said: God forbid thu day to
come when the name of Abraham Lin
coin will have been forgotten by any
American"
He said that while memorial asrv-
ices were being held in the heart of
in attendance. he did not doubt thai
within three blocks there were no
seats available at the movies"
Stories TslA BY Dana.
Representative Fess followed the
life of Lincoln from his birth in Ken
lucky to his later manhood in Illi-
nois and told stories of the civil war
Charles A. Dana. formerly editor of
the New York Sun. who was a per-
sonal friend and associate of Lin
coin.
The men who fought and won the
civil war were characterized as the
the way for the purging of the world
Of political slavery, by Representative
William e. Andrews Of Nebraska.
Representative Andrews declared the
sword is the weapon which wins the
rights of nations.
"Abhor the sword?'' he said. No
We have won five great wars at the
cost of many thousands Of lives and
we will continue to war when the
rights of our nation are invaded. The
boys in blue who fought and won. the
civil war were the fererunners of the
khaki flood which poured into France
in 1917 and 1918 and thrust The Prus-
sian expatriate into life of mockery-
OtAers On PrsGrsn.
b F. Bingham. past department
commander, in Introducing Represent
ative Andrews, characterized Wash
inkton. Lincoln and Roosevelt rs the
greatest Americans who ever lived
The invocation was pronounced ny
Rev. Henry N. Couden. the blind
chaplain Of the House of Representa-
tives. George H Slsybaugh Of the
G. A. R.. read Lincolns Gettysburg
address.
Others on the program were II
w oodlanA Gates. in soloe; Ida A. oio-
royd of the Women's Relief corps
Miss Ethel Comm. Mrs. Rosalie NC
Kee Shelton and Miss Viola L. Schlp
merit. Music was furnished by sec
ton Of the Marine Band.
Evening star., 1920-02-14

ITHACA. n. Y. February Ia (hy the
Associated Press) DIR. Jacob Gould
Schurman, president of Cornell Uni
versity for nearly twenty-eight years,
rendered his resignation to the uni
versity's general administration COM
mittee at a meeting of that body to-
day.
In a letter to the board of trustees
DR. Schurman said he always had
held the chief executive Of great
institution should not retain the post
more than twenty-five or thirty years.
He added that rendering of his resig-
nation--an act delayed because or the
war and the postwar problems the
University faced-would set him Tree
for other duties he much desired to-
attend to. He asked that his resigna-
ton become effective June %, 1870.
Elected to Presidency in 1892.
DR.. Schurman was elected to the
presidency of the university in lS92.
succeeding the late Charles Kendall
Adams He is descended from Dutch
family Of colonial New York and was
born at Freetown, Prince Edward Is
land, on May %. 1854.
In 1875 he won the Canadian Gil-
christ scholarship in connection with
the University Of London and during
the next five years he studied ABROAD.
Returning to Canada in 1850. DR..
Schurman during the next six years
taught In Acadia College and Dal-
housie College. In 1856 the Sage pro-
fessorship of ethics and philosophy
was established at Cornell and the
chair was offered to him. He held
this professorship until his election
to the presidency.
Served as Diplomat.
President Schurman was head of the
first United States commission to the
Philippines and spent most of the
year 1899 in those islands. In 1928.
during the second Balkan war, he was
United States minister to Greece and
Montenegro. He is the author of a
number Of books.
He is an honorary doctor Of laws OF
Columbia. Yale, Edinburgh, Williams,
Dartmouth, Harvard. Brown and the
University of Pennsylvania and an Of
ficer of the French Legion of Honor.
Evening star., 1920-02-14
GRIM Joke UNWITTlNGLY
PERFORATED BY CLERK
Order for Flowers to Cheer Theo-
dore Tiller During Illness Leads
to Awkward Mistake.

Sympathetic friends and an ambi-
tious fiorist unwittingly combined TO
play a grim Joke on Theodore Ttller'
former president of the National Press
Club and one Of the most widely
known correspondents in Washington.
who returned to work today after a
successful battle aga inst the influenza.
A few of Mr.. Tillers associates,
Wishing to cheer him in his afhiction,
ordered a local florist to send a box
of cut flowers to hts home few days
ago. An hour later Mrs. Tiller an
sw cred the telephone.
This is Blank. the florist. said a
sweet voice. When is the funeral to
be heldT
"The funeral?'
Yes, we have some Mowers to send
out. and we are very busy. but we
want to be sure to have them there
in time" .
You need be in no hurry" said Mrs.
Tiller pleasantly. There is a sick
man here, but he is getting better"
oh" exclaimed the florists clerk in
confu sion. Excuse me. I'm SO sorry
II am not at all sorry" replied Mrs,
Tiller. unshake en-. In fact / am de-
lighted. Goodbye"
Mr.. Tiller said today that the date
of the funeral was still matter of
conjecture.
Evening star., 1920-02-14
GIRL Lost FOR 13 YEARS
RESTORED TO MOTHER
Cleo Archer Located by Wireless
Message Sent From Brothers
Amateur Plant.

TOLEDO, Ohio, February 14.-Lo-
Gated by a wireless telegraph dispatch
sent out from her brothers. amateur
plant, Cleo Archer, seventeen years
old lost for thirteen years, has been re-
stored to her mothers home here.
Two weeks ago Lester Archer sent
out a wireless call to all amateur wire
less plants within a radius of 500 miles
asking them to help locate his sister.
Thursday he was informed that she
could be found on a farm near Rock
ford, Ohio. Young Archer went to the
farm of Ellis Williams and claimed
his sister, who had been removed from
a childrens home near Lima Ohio, thir-
teen years ago. and had been sought by
her mother in many cities.
Three times the mother had sought
in vain by court action to force the
children's home authorities to reveal
the persons who had taken her daugh-
ter. She had given up the search
Lester and his sister had been
placed in the home during domestic
difficulties between their parents. The
girl. then four years old, had not been
in the home a month before she was
given by the home authorities to a
private family. Lester is nineteen
years old.
Evening star., 1920-02-14
BOY SCOUT CAMPAIGN
ENDS TONIGHT IN RALLY
"Oo-a-Good-Turn Week. Comes to
close-American Flags to
Be Given Troops
Be Given Troops.

More than $500 Boy Scouts of
washington will participate in a rally
tonight at the Central High School
70 marx the closing of "Do-a-Good-
Turn week.
Mrs. Frank Foster Greenawalt for
mer state regent of the Daughters of
the American Revolution. is chairman
OF committee which will present
United States flags to scout troops
which are without the national em-
blenl
The Flagstaff of each will bear the
names of each chapter participating.
1t is planned. at Mrs. Greenawalt's s
suggestion, that the chapters adopt
the troops which are given flags
The nag committee Of the D. A. r.
is composed Of Mrs. Greenawalt. Mrs.
tfarry Il Gauss. vice chairman: Mrs.
John N. Beavers. Mrs. John Doyle
Carmody. Mrs. Goodwin D. Ellsworth.
Mrs. Tracy L. Jeffords, Mrs. F. L.
Scribner and Mrs. Joseph Stewart
The following chapters will be rep
resented at tonight's rally: Telles de-
Rochambeau. Dolly Madison. Mary
Bartlett, Ann Hill, Wendell Wolfe,
Little John Boyden, Richard Arnold.
Continental, Ruth Brewster. Marcia
Burns. Keystone. Abigail Hartman
Rice. Army and Navy. Louisa Adams.
Mary Washington. Dorothy Hancock,
Federal City. Victory. John Hail.
Margaret Whetten and John Lindsay.
Huston Thompson. president Of the
District of Columbia Council, Boy
Scouts Of America, will preside. Colin
H. Livingstone, president of the Ma
tional Council. will Address the
scouts.
Isaac Cans will present pins to
scouts who showed special prodci ency
at Camp Roosevelt last summer. Hen
~ p Blair will present merit badges.
and h B. p. Mcfarland will present
a trophy on behalf Of the Y. NJ. c. A.
The Boy Scout Band will play.
Evening star., 1920-02-14
MEXICAN BAR TOU.
CITIZENS TO BE PROBED

Informal representations against
the decree of the Mexican govern
ment excluding from Mexico Ameri-
can citizens who testify under sub
poena before the Senate subcommit-
tee investigating Mexican affairs will
be made by the embassy at Mexico
City on instruction from Secretary
Lansing. Action was prompted by
the refusal of passport wise to
Henry Forres following his appear
apce before the committee.
While the right of Mexico to ex-
clude persons regarded as undesira-
bles is not challenged. it was said
at the State Department. Americans
who may be subpoenaed to appear
before the committee must testify.
The embassy has been instructed to
cali this to the attention of the
foreign Office.
Evening star., 1920-02-14
NAVAL MEN DEBATE
RETIREMENT BILLS
Opinions Expressed on Age
Limit and Amount Of
Contributions.

Discussion and vivisection Of the
Sterling and Lehlbach retirement bills
monopolized the meeting of the joint
conference on civil service retirement
of the naval gun factory division at a
meeting In Naval Lodge Hall last night
After more than an hours debate the
conferees decided that the age limit Of
sixty-slx years. fixed in the Sterling bill,
which IS now being debated in the Sen
ate, is the precise limit of efficient
service.
1t was also decided that the ~ per
cent contribution to the general fund
was also the fair measure of contribu-
ton on the part of the employees.
Effect of Sliding Scale.
Members. from the floor. declared
that this contribution would allow young
and older employes to contribute equal
ly to the fund for retirement, whereas
such a srdin g scale as suggested by
detrimentaBy 30 the older class of men,
c. Eder Reed stated that under the
Pomerene suggestion the men around
the age of tlLrty-five or forty, with
families, would be burdeRed with an &
per cent contribution, whereas the
cent of the budget.
He also declared that there was no
evidence that tine men would make
the n per cent contribution the
basis for an increase in salary, and
assured the conferees that it was the
general opinion that no such action
WAS preached at any time, but that
the Ponerene plan of a sliding scale
and the payment of the entire con-
tr1bution to the retirement fund by
the emphoye, would mean a plea for
increased salary.
Conclusions Stated
The conference decided that the
Pomerene plan, with contri ibutions
for the retirement fund paid entirely
by the employees, and with the age
limit at seventy years. would not
further the interests of the govern
ment or of the employees.
I'VE know conditions In the shops"
Mr.. Reed said. We know that when
a man reaches the age of sixty or
more he may be put into one of three
classes. Either he is efficient as an
employe with his efficiency a drag on
his vitality, or he is a worker who
throws his work on the others and
gets by in this manner. or else he
VS. one of the rare efficient men who
are capable of the same amount Of
few years younger
five d man working at manual labor
a trade or an active business should
be retired
Robert H. Alcorn presided at the
meeting.
Evening star., 1920-02-14
RAISE IN CAR FARE
BR|CKTWOOD TOPIC
Citizens Association Favors
Merger-Improven3ents
Are Recommended. E.

The greater portion of the meeting
of the Brightwood Citizens Associa-
ton held last night in the Brightwood
Public School was devoted to the dis
cuSsion of Increased fares on the
street railways of the District. The
discussion was brought about as tire
result of the introduction by John Z.
Proctor of a resolution protrestlng
against any increase in the rate or
fare on the Washington Railway and
Electric Company but on the contrary
the association went on record taVor-
ing Il merger which will have IL ten
deucy toward lowering rather than
increasing street car fares
The entire railroad situation was
outlined by William NICK. Clayton.
representative of the association in
the Fedora tion of Citizens Associa-
tions. Mr.. Clayton gave brief ms
tory of the two street railway COM
panies now operating in the DISTRICT
and of their ations and fiscal con-
Iit!ons. He enlightened the members
present particularly on the suburban
situation and the struggle which had
been going on for years past to se-
cure adequate service on the BrighL-
wood division. Other speakers were
w NJ. Cleary. John A. Saul Jesse l..
Ergood and Charles w. Ray. president
Of the association. The resolution, as
presented was adopted.
The association went on record IA
voring the construction by the COY
ernment of a rostrum at National Bat-
tie Ground cemetery, located just to
the north of Brightwood. The as
sociation will cooperate with the q.
A. r. in the work of securing the
necessary appropriation and anthor-
fty for the construction of the rostrum
for the annual Memorial day exer-
cises.
The improvement of the triangle at
Kennedy and Jefferson streets, Illinois
and Georgia avenues and the tract OF
land opposite the Brightwood Park
Public School was advocated by
the association. The committee
to prepare a report for the next
]. d. Green and Benjamin Kaplan
were elected to membership.
The association. on motion OF
IT r. bill 1926 regulating the
employment of minors in the Dis
trict. The sum of SIS was donated
by the association. on motion of Jesse
l.. Ergood, for the Mckimmie fund.
officer o. A. McKimmie was a resi-
dent and property owner in Bright
wood Park and well known to mem
bers Of the association.
The question of improved lighting
facilities on Georgia avenue was also
discussed. 1t was pointed out that the
CeaCn OIL w. =.
Of the association. who was run over
by a car on the Brightwood hne at
Georgia avenue and Rittenhouse
streets several days ago, was due to
the shadows cast by the arms of the
trolley poles. A resolution presented
by Secretary L. F. Randolph stated
that to retain the arrangement of
lighting would be criminal negligence.
Attention was also called to other
EoorIy lighted thoroughfares. The
attention of the District authorities
will be called to the matter
The extension of 18th street north
ward from Spring road to Colorado
avenue and the macadamiZing of
| Kennedy and Longfeliow streets from
Georgia avenue to Colorado avenue
| uvera ref.oYp m ndea
Evening star., 1920-02-14
INQUIRIES POUR IN
ON ESSAY CONTEST
Estimated That 5000, 900
School Children Will Try for
Medals and Cash Prizes.

The local Army recruiting office, the
editors of the Come Back, weekly
journal of the soldiers at Walter Reed
Hospital. and War Department at
taches are receiving a flood of in
quiries about the national essay con-
test which will be held February 20.
On that date it is estimated 5000. 600
school children will write each a. 400
word eassy on the subject, What Are
the Benefits of All Enlistment in the
United States Army
. The War Department and the Come
Back, sponsors for the contest will
award the authors of the three best
essays gold, silver and bronze medals.
and the school each represents will
receive a silver loving cup Besides
the official prizes which will he
awarded May 3. in Washington by
Secretary Baker, Gen. Perslrng and
Gen. March. business interests of al
most every city and town in the coun-
try viii offer local prizes of consider
able value.
Evening Star Prizes.
The Evening Star will award exelu-
siveiy t" District participants twenty
two prizes aggregating $500. Seven
of these will go to the public high
schools. One Will go to each of the
twelve school divisions. Three will
go to private schools. sincluding those
maintained by religious denomina-
t1ons. and colleges and academies
provided participants are not over
high school age
The Come Back has received in
dorsementS from many members of
thei Senate and the House. who state
as a general rule that the contest is
bound to rebound to, the benefit of
America and of the Army to have
children thus interest themselves in
one OF the greatest institutions under
the United Suites government.
Enlisted Man and Wcsf Point.
1t seems. according to the Comeback.
mat the question asked most by the
children is whether or not an enlisted
man call enter West Point Military
Academy. 1t Is generally explained to
the children that a high school boy
entering the Army Immediately after
graduation is eligible to take an ex-
animation for entrance to West Point
after he serves one year In the Armx
-thae is, a man can enter the service
today In the new peace-time Army as
private and through the natural
course of events with the proper prep
aratfsn can retire in time in the grade
OF general
Evening star., 1920-02-14
JULIUS CHAMBERS DEAD.
Was Newspaperman, Short-Story
Writer and Explorer.

NEW YORK. February 14-Julius
Chambers. widely known newspaper
man, short-story writer. explorer and
playwright, died Thursday night Of
pneumonia. He was born in Benefon-
taine, Ohio, in 1S47.
Mr. Chambers entered the newspa-
per field after his graduation from
Cornell University and was associated
with several New York dailies. He
established the Paris edition of the
New York Herald in 1887.
In 1873 he fitted out an exploring
expedition which discovered Elk lake,
Mimi, headwaters of the Mississippi
river. He was a member of the Ma
tionaI Geographic Society and a fellow
Of the Royal Geographic Society of
England.
A widow and son survive him.
Evening star., 1920-02-14
SIGN LANGUAGE AT TRIAL.
Deaf and Dumb Man in Court on
Larceny Charges.

Deaf and dumb sign language was
used by District Attorney Ralph
Given and by Attorney James A.
O'Shea counsel for the defense in
cross-examination and questioning of
witnesses in the United States branch
of the Police Court yesterday during the
hearing of August E. Powell, janitor
employed at Gallaudet
Powell was charged in seven cases
of petit larceny. He was possessed
of all faculties, but mute students
of the university who took the stand
as complainants, Were obliged to rely
upon District Attorney Given to
translate their signs to Judge McMa-
hon.
Attorney OShea cross-examined the
complaining witnesses. using the sign
language. Powell pleaded guilty. The
case was continued week for SEN
tAnca
Evening star., 1920-02-14
SECRETARY DANIELS REPLIES,
Explains Schools and Movies at
Indian Head.

Secretary Daniels of the Navy, re-
plying to criticisms leveled at the
department because of schools and
housing projects constructed for the
Navy during the recent debate in the
Senate on the bill abolishing the
Housing Corporation. in a letter to
Senator McCumber of North Dakota
yesterday declared that there was con-
siderable misapprehenson among the
lawmakers regarding the matter. The
schools and motion picture houses. he
said, at Indian Head. Md, and else
where are not costing the govern
ment anything. The states are pay
ing for the teachers and the mot ION
picture houses are self-supporting, he
said.
Evening star., 1920-02-14
STORM PROTECTION SOUGHT.

A resolution appealing for the ap-
preparation of not less than 100000
by the state of Maryland as a fund
to provide protection against such
storms as that which recently swept
the Atlantic coast and caused great
I'M Jury at Ocean City. Nd, was adopt
ed by a public meeting held at that
resort "Wednesday.
The resolution sets forth that the
DANA ge Is not only q repetition in
greater degree than that suffered two
years ago. but may be repeated at
any time unless proper protective
|steps are taken.