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Middletown transcript., 1920-12-04
sHER1FF's 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,
De'a"A' On SATURDAY,
THE 18TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 20
at 10 o'clock, A. M,
the following described Real Estate. viz:
ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel
of land. with the buildings thereon
erected, situate in Christiana Hundred,
County and State aforesaid and more
particularly bounded and described as
follows, to wit:
BEGINNING at an iron post in the
southeasterly limit line of the right OF
way of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, the said post being corner for
land of the F. Blumenthal Company,
and four hundred and forty-seven feet
distant northwesterly along the south
easterly limit line of the Market Street
Branch of the said Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, from the intersection of the
said southeasterly limit line of the
Market Street Branch of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad with the northerly
side of the public road leading from
Wilmington to Esmere; thence along
line of land of the F. Blumenthal Com
pany, south fifty-nine degrees and
thirty-four minutes east, five hundred.
thirty-four and ninety one hundredths
feet to q stake on the westerly side of
fifty feet wide street leading from the
public road from Wilmington to Els
mere which stake is ninety-fve and
fifty two hundredths feetdistant north
erly along the westerly side of the said
fifty feet wide street from the intersec-
ton of the said westerly side of the
said fifty feet wide street with the
northerly side of the said public road
leading from Wilmington to Elsmere;
thence along the said westerly side of
said fifty feet wide street north seven
degrees and six minutes west, two hun
dred, twenty-eight and eighty five hum
dredths feet to a stake; thence along
new line of land of the estate Of Ann
B. Forman, north fifty-nine degrees and
thirty-four minutes west four hundred,
twenty-five and twenty-five hundredths
feet to stake in the aforesaid south
easterly limit line Of the right of way
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad;
thence along the aforesaid southeastern
ly limit line of the right of way of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, south
thirty degrees and twenty-four minutes
west, one hundred eighty-one and forty
eight hundredths feet to the place of
Beginning. Containing within said
bounds two acres of land be the same
more or less.
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of Standard Ice and Cold Stor-
age Company, a corporation Of the
State Of Delaware Mortgagors and tt.
and to be sold by
JOSHUAZ. GRASSLAND, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office. Wilmington, Del,
Nov. 26, 1920.
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PROLIFIC BREEDER IS BEETLE
enemy % Pine Timber Only Kept In
Cheek BY strenuous Natural and
Artificial Control.

Special study has been made Of the
number Of all stages Of the western
pine beetle in $50 square feet Of in
tested bark selected from 81 trees,
which represented an average infesta-
ton within IN area Of approximately
80 square miles. says the American
Forestry Magazine. It is shown there
y Z large percentage Of mortality be-
tween the young and matured stages
in the developing broods, but that nor
mally an average Of about 15O beetles
% the square foot Of bark developed
% the adult. or reproductive. stage !:
which weuid BE- $1,000 beetles to the
avsrage infested tree. or, say $1,000
boetles 10 1000 board feet Of timber.
Sfneo Il requires an average Of Abeut
tn beetles 10 the square foot to at-
tack and I'm . vigorous, healthy tree.
Nh viIl - seen. GayS the American
1Sefry Aasueiaf1sn. which u cam
p 10 = ete . paf1enal forest pslicy.t
~ IN - bine tlmbsr q the western
pm - sv1d eoea - destroyed were
+ {uat11 md .artlaeial con,
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Velocity Of LIGHT.

Physicists never tire of efforts to
increase the accuracy of their knOwl
edge of the fundamental facts Of
science. A redetermination of the We
locity of light by the Fizean to0thed
wheel method was made at Nice. These
experiments were remarkable on ac-
count Of the great distance over which
the beam Of light employed was trans
mitted. Previously such beam had
been caused to travel about fifteen
miles, but on this occasion the reflect
ing mirror was 50 placed that the total
distance traversed by the beam, going
and returning, was f1fty-seven miles.
The mean Of HOO observations gave
for the velocity Of light 186.225h
miles a second.
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Has Served Country Well.

Senor Portal, for the last 80 years
tho leading journalist Of Peru and the
author of II ''best sellers in that c0un-
try. has done for his native land what
Luis Taboada did for Spain, Mark
Twain for the United States, and, long
ago, Moliere for France; while wag-
ing war with his pen, he has created
true literature. Thirty years ago. when
he laid down the sword he had carried
with honor through the Peruvian strug-
gle with Chile, he took up arms against
every imaginable weakness, shOrtcom-
ing, sin. and vice of his fellow coun-
trynlen; and in laughter-provoking sar-
casm and scathing irony he has de-
picted all the wickedness to which flesh
and particularly Peruvian flesh-is
heir.
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WOULD HAVE WOMEN PROPOSE
Writer Assails Old Idea That She
Must Wait Until She u Sought
/ In Marriage.

More and more It becomes evident
that a great and solemn referendum Is
needed to settle the question: Shall
women propose7 This matterit is
leap year-has been agitating men and
women for more than six months.
When 1920 opened. this newspaper
called attention to the fact that it was
Z leap year and suggested and even
advised women to tackle men whe
were hanging back, and see that they
did their duty and assumed the bur
den Of marriage. We told women to
boldly propose to men and see thai
they gave the right answer-an affirm
alive. There Is no person quite SO
much Of a Stacker as a smuggisn
bachelor. and II he possesses not the
nerve to ask q woman to marry him,
then It is the right Of the woman to
demand that he marry her and see
that he does. Weak arguments have
been offered against women proposing;
folk say It Is unwomanly. that it be-
Titles the girl. and a lot Of nonsense
like that. IF persons will look at the
matter reasonably and realize that it
10 the duty Of every healthy person to
have mate through life, they will un-
derstand that it is as much a woman's
right to request man to marry her as
It is the mans right to put the ques-
don to her. Wherefore we repeat
what we have said before, that women
should do the proposing in cases where
men show an inclination to hang back
or are bashfuL II left to a referen-
dunn We feel sure the woman's right
TO propose win be sanctioned.-Ch
eago Evening Post
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Rats overrun English Town.

Millions Of rats are overunning
Ahersllery- (Monmouth). England, and
neighborhood. While the congrega-
tinn was leaving Baptist church In
Tillery street on q recent Sunday an
army Of rats ran among them. One
woman collapsed. All means have
been used. but the rats have not only
survived. but also thrived. The medi-
cal officer of health, DR.. Bailie Smith,
says the rats are Of two kinds-brown
and black. The black rats. as q rule,
keep to the sewers, but the brown
rats climb anything-telegraph poles
and rain and gas pipes. They swarm
everywhere. It was suggested to the
Abertillery district council that ex-
pert rat destroyers should be employ
ed. but local staff having stated that
they could do better than the experts,
the matter has been left to them with
discretionary power to call in help II
necessary.
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SHERIFF'S SALE-BY VIRTUE OF
"a 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 SATURDAY,
THE 4TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1920
at 10 o'clock, A. NJ,
the following described Real Estate, viz /:
ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel
of land, with the buildings thereon
erected, known as No. BOG Harrison
street, situate in the City of Whining
ton, County Of New Castle and State Of
Delaware. bounded and described as
follows, to-wit: Beginning at point
on the easterly side Of Harrison street,
between Eighth and Ninth streets at q
distance of two hundred and fifteen
feet northerly from the northerly side
of Eighth street and thence easterly
and parable! with Eighth street, one
hundred and forty five feet to corner;
thence northerly and parallel with Har-
rison street twenty five feet to corner;
thence westerly and parallel with
Eighth street one hundred and forty
five feet to the aforesaid easterly side
of Harrison street; and thence thereby
southerly twenty feet to the place
Of Beginning. Be the contents thereof
what they may. With the right of
waste water course by underground
pipe in and through the rear and east
erly end of the lot thereby conveyed in
common with the owner or owners Of
lots extending northerly to Ninth
street, under and subject to the right
and privilege of the owner or owners
Of said lots to the north to make con-
nections with the said pipe on the rear
end of the lot herein conveyed and TO
the further right Of the said owners of
said lots in case of need and at their
election to excavate for and properly
place in the ground pipe in the rear
end of the lot hereby conveyed. at the
proper cost Of and to be collected from
the owner or owners thereof
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of Henry G. Cowgirl and
Blanche Cowgirl. his wife, mortgagors,
and to be sold by
JOSHUAZ. CROSSI.AND, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Wilmington. Del,
Nov. II. 1920.
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x,pDLe1owA DEL. DECEMBER Al. l'1'
4 DEATH BED REFORMATION

DEPUDIATED at the polls and with
n bis power rapidly slipping from
him, Mr.. Gompers is grasping at every
straw that may save his waning pres
tiee from complete dissolution. The
executive council of the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor, over which he pre-
sides. has cast from its membership
Messrs. Foster and Fitzgerald, the
radical leaders Of the steel strike OF q
year ago. It is announced that cooper
alton with capital will be sought in an
attempt to reach common ground for
action against the radicals. Mr.. Her.
bert Hoover has been called in to ad-
wise with. the labor leaders. apparently
for the prime purpose of giving to the
proceedings an appearance Of taking
counsel with outsiders.
How different is all this from the
arrogance Of Mr.. Gompers in the heyday
Of bis political prosperity! It was he
who picked the same Mr.. Foster, whom
he now casts from his presence. to or
eanize the steel workers and lead them
in = strike. He knew then as he knows
now that Foster was q confessed
anarchist, who declared that the govern
ment "must be blown up, wrecked, and
cast aside regardless Of the weapons
necessary to accomplish that end.
Capital was the special object Of Mr..
Gompers' condemnation, and its de-
struction bis declared purpose. The
laber leader showed no disposition then
to seek advice from Mr. Hoover. or
from anybody else. He was dictator.
and lost no opportunity Of advertising
that fact to the country.
From autocrat to suppliant-that Is
the transmutation that one short year
has seen in the Gomperian attitude.
The explanation is seen in the failure of
his strikes and in the election returns.
He is now seizing upon the necessity
for cooperation against the "Red''
menace as means for rehabilitating
himself. The excuse is specious one,
but will hardly deceive a people who
hs7e paid the recent costs of Comp
erism.
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Good Advice

Take Channberlain's Tablets as soon
q you have finished your supper and
theT yill produce gentle movement Of
the GEM eab on the following morning.
|Tb 1essioA also Improve y0ur digestion
= and SEM I'll batter il every way.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-07
A NEW JiTNEY WAR

'tA CAIN. at a hurried meeting OF New
IA Jersey MAYORS in Newark today
the question of motor vehicles as puonS
utilities is brought forward Tor rouuu
Of bitter debate.
Nominally the issue which the towns
snd cities in New Jersey have to con-
.;der lies between the owners or buSses
and iitneys and the Public Service hah-
ways Company, a corporation which OPP
crates all the trolley lines IN Tn" s'"'e'
The trolley people have found the com
vetition of the motorcar Increasingly
IRRITATING and costly. They sought IN
the Legislature to have jitneys out
lawed. and, failing there, went to court
IN SATURDAY with sweeping appeal for
the abolition Of all iitney service in
areas served by their street cars ne
mayors of the state promptly organi"eo
under the leadership of Mayor Gillen
If Newark. for finish fight in opposi'
tion to this plea.
II is not easy properly to assess al
The rights and wrongs in the case since
ina larger way the quarrel Is not De
tween a corporation and individuals
IL is between electricity and rails on one
hand and gasoline and the modern motor
ON the other. Sooner or later the courts
and state commissions will have to re-
define the status Of these competing
agencies in the field of public service
Busses and jitneys are quick, con E
venient and often necessary as auXil
iaries of trolley lines. Yet they actually
tend to reduce or destroy the value OF
properties established at enormous cost
TO maintain necessary and genera
service.
<>,Nwhere do the rights of the public, a
opposed to the rights Of investors. begin
and end? That is the question that
the Jersey courts will have to decide
IN the new jitney suits.
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THE PARENTS DUTY

TIME city authorities have done their
Il full part in preparing the plans for
a safe and sane Fourth Of July celebra
ZION this year and they will be carried
mt TO the letter. The idea of taking
lihe attention OF the children away from
che dangerous fireworks, which have 50
long been menace not only tu them
but TO older persons as well, by means
Of celebrations in every part Of the city
ali day and during the evening, is a
sonnd one, and it will probably work
cut we'll
Tradition dies hard, and il has been
a long and hard fight against the fire
works which for years were the chief
feature Of the Fourth Of July, in spite
Of the fact that each year an enormous
coll of death and suffering was taken.
From all appearances, this year ought
70 mark the greatest advance of any
Single year in this direction. The error
'Nof last year in allowing the dealers to
1ay in q. large supply Of the forbidden
rommodities and then refusing permis
zion 10 sell them has been avoided. anC
nh the dealers were informed nearly
three months ago that they might no
nell fireworks this year. The efforts o
The authorities will be seriously handi,
capped without the GO operation Of tn,
iparents.
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POLITICAL PILGRLNlS FIND
."WE7" OASIS IN CHICAGO
Real Stuf-Not Nea-Beer-Serped Is Gents Class-Bar
Has All Trimmings of Pre-Amendment Days

that in spite of the difficulties before the
delegates. the job to be done here will
be done quickly and in a businesslike
fashion. The vets say little liquor
would make everybody more mellow and
ready to compromise. Agreements could
be reached easier around table where
there was plenty to drink. Whisky in
the past has been sort of universal
solvent at party conventions. What
ever conflicts existed were settled over
a bottle, and there certainly aren't bot
ties enough here to settle all the issues
and doubts that trouble this convention.
The absence of booze hasn't reduced
the foolishness of the convention. All
of the old claptrap and nonsense is be-
ing continued. Candidates have to
maintain expensive headquarters. The
cost Of the Elizabethan room which
Wood has is variously estimated at
$4,000 to S25. 900 for the period of the
convention. The large figure is doubt
less an exaggeration, due to the general
respect for Colonel Procter's pocket
book. There are the usual flags and
buntings.
There is the ballyhoo business about
Johnson's headquarters which is always
found at conventions. When nomina
tions begin no doubt all the old trumped-
up enthusiasm will be displayed. Can
didates' names will be cheered by half
hours and hours. the cheering being or
ganized and meaning nothing. The
marching around the convention floor
carrying the banners of the states will
go on the same as ever. Ii does not
take booze to keep that going. All
this doesn't change vote. But it is a
part of the ceremonial of choosing can
didates. The conventions of a conven-
tion are as definite as the ritual Of a
church. Perhaps they will be more bore e
some when the contents Of one bottle
have to be husbanded over a whole
week
, Probably the general view agrees with
that of certain senator who said. "Of
course. | was against drunkenness
was against the saloon. Everybody was.
But | don think we ought to have pro
hibited the blessed stuff altogether
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Answers to Saturdays Quiz

1. John Quincy Adams was the sixth
President of the United States.
.. shakespeare died April 23, 1916.
3. The report OF artillery carries
because the roar of cannon COM
municates a vibration to the soil.
A. Intrusive rocks are igneous rocks
that have solidihed under the
surface.
6. Cherrapongoe. in southwestern AS
sam. has the greatest rainfall of
any place in the world Its great
9O5 inches,
G. The first ship TO cross the Atlantic
propelled by steam was the
Savannah, which left Savannah.
Ca. for Liverpool May 22 1873
and accomplished the voyage in
tweHty-nine days and eleven hours.
7. The seven wonders OF the ancient
world were the Pyramids of Egypt,
Pharos OF Egypt, Hanging Gardens
of Babylon, Temple OF Diana, at
Ilphesus; Statue of Jupiter, by
Phidias; Mausoleum Of Artemisla
and the Colossus Of Rhodes.
8. During church services, the church
flag flies above old Glory, both in
the army and navy.
g. The leading battles of the Franco
Prussian war of 1901 were
Strasbourg, Gravelotte, Metz, Sc.
dan. st. Remy Coumiers, 81,
Quentin and before Paris,
10. Philadelphia and New York both
claim honors for developing base.
ball from the old English game OF
FOUNDERS" but Its birth as a
national game may be said to have
taken place In 1858, when ali The
clubs in the nelghborhood of New
York formed the National Asso-
ciatiop Of Baseball Players,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-07
FOUR MEN

TsELDMAN, Tram, Murphy and
- wirtschafter, former members of
the Philadelphia police force, who have
Just left the West Chester jail after
serving year for completely in the
Fifth ward affair, return TO find little
but the wreckage Of the political system
Of which they were a part and, in one
sense, victims
The case in which they figured was
a climax of rotten politics. 1t was the
beginning of the end for number of
people. The four policemen were guilty.
Bat they were no more guilty than
others who engineered the machine in
which they were mauled. and who
never saw the inside of a jail.
In simple justice they should be
wen a chance. They were men who
Opened to be caught at a game which
hers played with greater shrewdness
= land greater safety.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-07

prices ranging from $1,000 to $4,000 at
the sale. and on top of this a luxury
tax Of 10 per cent was added. The
total sum realized was about 500, ,000,-
600, which does not include the sale of
spare parts and other accessories.
Compare these figures with those re-
ceived by our government for what was
left over at the close Of the war. and
the parallel will be found to extend
further than the respective French and
American kitchens.
However, this is not all the fault Of
the government. Decades of extrava-
gance have bred in our people a feeling
against anything tSecond hand. ="
whereas the thrifty Frehchman wants
only thing which will serve his pur-
pose, and then he wants it as cheap as
he can get IL. Until we AZ nation
learn this lesson Of thrift we shall con =
tinue to pay the highest price for
things which often have no more real
value than articles at half the price.
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performance of "Rigoletto. which
was not only the best balanced but also
the best sung and acted that Philadcl-
phla has seen in years, often rising to
positive brilliancy, closed the series of
three operas by the Puccini Opera Co.
at the Academy OF Music on Saturday
evening. The enthusiasm Of principals
and chorus which has been noted in the
previous performances was shown to an
even greater degree on Saturday eve
ming, and the opera went with spirit
and snap seldom seen when great stars
appear.
Mario Chamlee, Vicente Ballester
and Evelyn Scotney bore off the honors
Mr.. Chamlce has superb tenor voice
and is not afraid to use it "robusto"
with the utmost freedom. X is even
full of color and powerful and, with the
proper care, he should become one of the
great tenor singers of the day. Mr..
Ballester more than confirmed the as o.
Sertion that Rigoletto is his star part
Tor there is no doubt that he Is the most
satisfactory singer and actor in that
dithcult role who has appeared in Phila =
| delphia for years. He is adapted to the
part temperamentally. vocaly and
physically, and, like Mr.. Chamlee, gave
magnificent performance.
Evelyn Scotney as Gilda was a tire e.
inendous surprise. To those who had
seen her only in the minor roles allotted
her in previous appearances here both
her voice and her method of handling it
were astounding. Gilda is an exceed =.
ingly difficult role and she was evi.
IDENTIFY n little nervous at the beginning
of the opera, which had no perceptible
effect on her singing, but made her act :
ing trif1e unconvincing. After her
enormous success in "Caro Nome" the
real ''hit" Of the evening, this disap
peared.
The lesser parts of Sparafucile, Mad =
dalena, Monterone and others were we'll
taken, both histrionically and yocally.
The opportunities of these roles were
not so great as the leading ones. but the
singers who filled them contributed their
full share toward making the opera a
really noteworthy performance. The
chorus and the ballet again covered
themselves with glory.
There were too many fine spots in
the opera to make it practicable TO men
tion them all. Caro- Nome" in the
second act, the ever popular LA Donne
r. Mobile" and the quartet in the last
net We're of course the favoritcs. but
| there were many other numbers which
deserve equal praise for the manner in
which they were given.
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AS TO WASTE

n OLD saying relates that French
d family can live on what an Ameri
cnn family wastes, and the domestic
romparison appears to be fully carried
ant aE regards the methods of the two
roycrnments in disposing of their stock
4 war materials.
France, Il has just been announced,
~ now completed the sale OF its stock
army automobiles. Twenty FIVE
,usand Of one popular make of car
scb cost the French Government
i'll $500 when new, were sold at
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-07
AMERICAN HITS PRINCE
Resents Suicide Joke Played or
Wealthy Widow In Paris

Paris, June 7.-Prncc Vladimir
Cantacuzene was given genuine
American uppercut on one eye by the
fist of wealthy United States citizen
because the prince is alleged to have
played suicide joke on wealthy
Partisan widow, his fiancee.
The prince, it seems, declined an in .
vitatiOn to a dinner given here by Nine
Aimes Gourand, the widow, and later
sent, a companion to her with word thai
he had killed himself. An American
learned of the hoax and punched the
prince. '"'
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A FouR.YEAR PROGRAM FOR
~ PHILADELPHIA

Thing. on which the people expect
the new administration to conceh-
tratc It's attention;
The Detapers river bridge.
"A drydock big enough 70 dccom"o-
date the largest ships.
pspeIoonrent Of the rapid transit sys-
tenn
A oonvention hall. ,,
Il butidino for the Fres Library.
An Art Museum. ,.,
4omes TO accommodate the popuId-
tton.