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The Penn's Grove record., 1920-11-05
Woman Missing

Mrs. Sarah Sharp. of Penns Grove.
aged 26 years, has been missing from
home for over a week. Her brother.
Harry Stout, of Gloucester City, has
asked the police of nearby towns and
cities to help seach for her. She went
to Gloucester on Wednesday and on
Thursday to Philadelphia, and has not
been seen SINCE.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-11-05
Carneys Point School Children

The enrolment of pupils in Upper
Penns Neck Township tcarneys Point
School at the end of September was
1913. At the close of October the en-
rollment was as follows: Ki~ndergar-
ten. Al: grade l. 303; grade I'd. ISL;
Sd grade. 211; 4th grade, 1872: 5th
grade. 1913; 6th grade. 145; 7th grade,
us; Sth grade. 81; total. 1905.
Six years ago there were about rs
children who attended the old Cove
School. about 40 at Wright's and about
40 at Wiley School. in the whole Town.
! ship, not more than 1875 chool chill
dren. The fact that fully two years
after the end of the war Carneys Point
inhabitants are so many exceeds ex-
pectation.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-11-05

AIloway-Charles R. McCarson, D.
Elsinboro-Harold H. Smith. d.
l.. A. Creek-Joseph Pancoast, r.
L.. P. Neck-Edward A. Heron, d.
Observation-Disclosures r. Patrick, K.
Oldmans-George Gaventa, r.
Penns Grove-Samuel M. Layman, X.
Pittsgrove-Joseph S. May. D.
Ouinton-Arthur G. L~ounsbury, r..
Salem, e. WI. Fowler Powers, r.
Salem, w. W.. Morris Reeves. D.
Upper Pittsgrove-Harry P. Gary. r.
u. p. Neck-John NJ. Weldon, r."
Woodstown-J. Gilbert Borton. r.
On the first of January John M. We'll
will succeed Arthur X. Brandrif.
Republican, elected Sheriff. Joseph
Pancoast. Republican, will succeed
X. Rankin. Democrat.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-11-05
Paralyzed By a Fall

John Henderson, living at No. 5
Cumberland Avenue, Penns Grove. who
was injured at the dye woks on Mon
day, October 25, when he fell from a
scaffold. is nov in the Delaware Hos
pital. Wilmington, with his body par
alyzed from the waist down.
Henderson was working on a scaffold
only ten feet from the ground when he
ell, landing on his head. His power
of speech has not been impaired and
he has the full use of his arms.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-11-05
Election Notes

The women on the election board of
the first district stood the long task
from 6 A. M. Tuesday until $50 A. M.
Wednesday nobly.
Mrs. John G.. Sullivan was a Demo-
cratic challenger in the third district.
Gertrude Carin was the first woman
to vote in the second district.
About one-third of the voters were
women. They prepared their ballots
neatly and needed less help than the
men.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-11-05
Bible Institute Campaign

The religious campaign of the Cooper
Missionary Bible Institute begins sun
dav at 3 P. NJ. in the Carneys Point
public school building. The introduce
tory sermon will be delivered by Rev
Pennington. of the Pitman U. NJ. p.
Church
A cordial invitation is extended to
everyone to come and take an active
part in these services. Sunday School
will precede the services.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-11-05
Epworth League Officers

On Wednesday evening h Epworth
League of st. Paul's M. E. Church
elected officers as follows:
President N. williamson; Vice Presi-
dent, John Biddle; Vice President (2d),
Theo. B.. Paullin; Vice President (3d),
Helen Hera: Vice President (4th).
Muriel Candy: Secretary. Grace Sailor;
Treasurer, William Naylor: Pianist,
Mrs. Herbert Merre: Assistant Ruth
Sailor; Chorister, Ruth Sailor.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-11-05

A double wedding was solemnized at
the Emmanuel parsonage by Rev. R.. S.
Carlisle OIL Wednesday evening, Novem-
Der 8, 1920, when Miss Mabel Clark
became the wife of Earl r.. Goslin and
Miss Mabel Goslin became the wife of
Mr.. Henry Jarman. The contracting
parties were all from Woodstown and
vicinity and will begin housekeeping
there in the near future.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-11-05

Simpson for Naughton, G. Higgins for
Yates. Bennett for DoIbow. Referee
Whitehead. Umpire-Burk. Time
keeper-Struble. Observation-Disclosures
A. Carr.
Pedricktown finished with all the
players begun with. Time of quarters,
Is minutes.
Saturday. 9Th. Pedricktown will play
Bridgeton at Bridgeton.
All Pedricktown team did great work
and are heroes. Babe looked like Sam
White, Princeton's old loose BALL
hound, always recovering the bail for
his team and reliable Red put it thru.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-11-05
MARRIED
Observation-Disclosures

Samuel Sindahlsen, superintendent of
construction of the new Borough Hall,
and Miss Marie Decker were quietly
married on October 18th, in Penns
Grove, Rev. O.. Bell Close, of the Union
Church. Deep Water, officiating.
Sam" has already removed with his
bride to Brooklawn, near Gloucester,
his work on the Borough Hall being
practically completed. He has made
many friends during his stay in Penns
Grove and all wish him and his bride
a long, happy and prosperous future,
and hat all his troubles may be little
ones.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-11-05

DIR. Adam Geibel. the blind composer.
viii assist the pastor. Rev. r. S. Car-
isle, at the Emmanuel Church on Sun
day and during the following week.
Hear him and join the choir under his
direction-Adv.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-11-05

The Prohibition electors got IL votes;
Debs, Socialist, IL; Socialist Labor. o;
Farm Labor, 1; Jennie Sharp, Prohibi-
tion, Congress, 4.
The Bonus for Soldiers and the
Bridge Bond resolution got large ma
jorities.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-11-05
Election Goes
Strongly Republican
GillisOn and Kidd Elected COun.
cilmen. Ballots Counted
With Difficulty

Tuesday was a fine day for voting
but one-half the persons registered did
not vote at the Presidential election.
The registration in Penns Grove was
by districts 694, 373. 761, 6s4; total,
251S. The ballots counted 464, 273,
sol, 433. Rejected 6, 1, S, Z. Total bal
lots cast, 1870.
Having separate party columns made
a larger ballot and more difficult to
count. Extra ballot boxes were sup
piled but in the first district both were
filled and a. soap box with a slot in it
was used
The electric lights began to blink be-
fore 7 O'Clock and failed at 9. so that
candles had to be used. Some boards
got theirs counted at 1 o'clock A. M
Wednesday, others at 8, 6, and the
latest was district 8. Carneys Point,
who left at 8 o'clock.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-11-05
salem County Vote

Collins B. Allen was elected Senator,
William S. Stiles. Assemblyman, and
Alfred X. Brandriff, Sheriff, by major
tiles between 5000 and 1000.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-11-05
Penns Grove o.

Districts
President st I'd Sd 4th
Hard'g and Cool'ge. r., 261 $50 800 2Ss
Cox and Roosevelt, D., 1853 SO 40 80
Republican majority 600.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-29
Anrroyes Platforms

T want to comment on the Birniing- ham Automobile clubs latest move in placing at Second and Twentieth street raised platforms for the safety and con- venience of pedestrians awaiting street cars, says E. W. House.
 T have watched the people going to and from these platforms, and since they go out in singles, two and threes, at their convenience and stand there in perfect safety till their car approaches. instead of all standing on the curb till the car approaches and then unmindful of the approaching automobiles and ob- livious to such fact they rush head long directly from the curb to the car; I. say this arrangement is a wonderful improvement over the old slip-shod dangerous method.
 If the street car company would place signs in all cars warning pedestrians to stay on the platform when they get off cars, and walk with the platform till it reaches the abutting intersection. then go to their destination, instead of angling straight from the car across the street to the sidewalk, the people would soon learn how to use reasonable care in protecting thepselves and ac- cidents would be reduced to a mini mum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
He Gave Up

"The laugh Is certainly on us, or rather, was on us yesterday afternoon when we chased a negro for several blocks and let him get away to come into the sheriff's office a short time later and surrender" said Deputy T. A. Riley.
 Tt happened that we had a warrant for the arrest of negro waiter in local cafe. Deputy Tom Christian and myself went to arrest him. The man ager in his effort to avoid scene told us to go around to the back door for the man. We did and when the negro saw us he started out the front, knock ing over serving tables and chairs as he made his escape.
 Christian ran him from Twentieth to Twenty-third street, where the negro succeeded in evading him. MT. Chris tian came into the sheriff's office pant ing as result of the chase, and few minutes later the negro walked in and said: Is you got a warrant for me% We then put him in jail, but the arrest of the man did not keep the other deputies from laughing at our expense"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-29
Rush for Development
 of American Water Power

7T7HAT private capital was eager to
 U develop the water powers of this country, now made possible by the passage of the water power act, has been- more than demonstrated by the filing of 120 applications for the right to utilize the nations streams. These applications come from 27 different states, three being from Alabama.
 The prospects listed already call for the development of 12,000,000 horse power. What that means may be im- agined by considering the service per- formed in Alabama by the 100000 horse power at Lock 12 on the Coosa river. The largest project is the har- messing of the waters of the Colorado river in Wyoming and their storage in dam that will produce 3,0O0,000 horse power.
 As result of the water power act the Alabama company has already begun the building of second dam on the Coosa at Duncan's Riffle, near Verbena. This will cost about 0,000,00o, and will generate about 120,000 horse power. With this dam in service, Alabama will have more than twice the hydroelectric power now available, exclusive of that to be derived from the Wilson dam at Mus cle Shoals.
 This country has thrived wherever the ban has been lifted from private initiative and it has been allowed to go ahead. When private means are invested there is jealous eye on ex- penditures and demand for results. Where the government bears the ex- pense, the individual representing the government cannot feel the same di- rect responsibility, nor is he held back in expenditure by the apprehension of personal loss.
 No more progressive step has been taken by the nation in years than that marked by adoption of the water power bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-29
be brisk and much of it is coming to Alabama

be brisk and much of it is coming to Alabama.
 There is already substantial in quiry from the Mexican smelters for Birmingham coke. One shipment of a thousand tons has been made, an- other is being prepared for movement and it is believed that all of a tenta- tive order for 10000 tons will be placed.
 Mexico will soon be in the business of rebuilding her railroad lines and will need a heavy tonnage of rails. The Ensley mills are nearest to Mex ico and the rails will naturally come from that quarter Wherever a Mexi- can city wishes to extend its water mains it will look for cast iron pipe. Birmingham is the largest producer of iron pipe in the world and is reg ularly in the business of supplying other countries, owing to it's prox- unity to coast cities.
 It is to be regretted that much of this prospective business must needs go by New Orleans rather than by Mobile. New Orleans is ready, made so by state aid development of that port. Mobile is not so we'll prepared for ships and, therefore, does not maintain as many shipping lines with regular routes. It has no regular sail ings to Mexico, while New Orleans has several.
 Pending the making of Mobile the port that it should be, Alabama must continue to pay the longer haulage on much of it's export business to New Orleans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-29
Massachusetts Author
 Writes About Birmingham
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TDWIN GORDON LAWRENCE lG of Athol, Mass, author of a number of books on elocution and lit erary subjects, recently visited the southern states. His impressions ap- peared in the Boston Transcript. What he has to say about Birmingham may be interesting to the people of this city:
 Birmingham, Ala, is considered
 by some people to be the banner
 city of the south; it has certainly
 grown tremendously since the
 writer visited it some years ago
 and a general air of prosperity ur-
 doubtedly surrounds it. Here, how
 ever. strikes have done their in
 furious work and retarded what
 might have been a far greater
 progress than it has experienced
 for the past year or two. The coal and iron industries are the major
 CilCo oL tut SeCllOHs
 but unWise labor agitation is con-
 tinually upsetting it's prosperity.
 At the present writing, an exten-
 sive strike is on hand, but in spite
 of this labor trouble the coal pro- duction of Alabama is running close to 300, 900 tons a week
 Like most hasty observers who de- pend to large extent on hearsay information, MT. Lawrence has not been quite just to Birmingham. Coal, iron and steel are our leading indus tries, and The Age-Herald has ire quently commented on the fact that this district has enjoyed comparative freedom from labor troubles for years. The progress made has been unprece- dented. Instead of "unwise labor ag- itation-continually upsetting it's pros- perity," the Birmingham district has enjoyed uninterrupted operation of it's industries while other parts of the country were paralyzed by strikes.
 The coal strike, to which MT. Law renee refers, was lost long ago and was doomed to fail from the begin- ming. MT. Lawrence's own statement that production of coal lis running close to 300,000 tons a week." shows that this industry has not been crip- pied. Apart from sporadic outbreaks here and thare among the miners who are misled by outside agitators, there is not another large industrial center in America where there are so few labor troubles, and where more friend ly relations exist between employer and employe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-29
Glad to Re Here

Maj. A. c. Tice, for many years in business in Ensley, and one of tie best known travelling salesmen work ing through the. Birmingham district was a guest at the Morris hotel yes- terday.
 Am l glad to be back in Brmins- ham? I'm always glad to get few days in this city. It's the best city in the United States, and that is saying con- siderable. What am I doing now? Oh, nothing in particular.
 During the war Denver man c 6s- covered a process of welding which works successfully on 24 metals. It was utilized by the governments of Europe and the United States in the rrpair of all kinds of disabled war machines.
 Peace has thrown the utilization cf the patent into private and corp orate channels. That's what I am doing now
 selling the Kelli metal in the couth ana believe me I'm selling it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-29
THE PERILS OF PEACE

The remedy for this. of course, is information. persistently inculcated and universally disseminated.
 In few directions of human activity does the paralyzing hand of tradition and conservatism lay a more throttling influence than in education.
 We still go on, concen trating op readin', 'ritin' and 'rithmetic. beiiev- ing blindly that somehow the knowl- edge of the three R.s means salvation.
 lBut it is not "any sort of knowledge" that is power: it is right and needed knowledge. Particularly Knowledge of how to live.
 Every child in an American school ought to learn the rudiments of diet, For diet means health and health means vigor.
 tinue eating as scrambling expert ment. While we do not know it all, yet science has advanced enough for us to know what kinds of fuel stoked into the human furnace make heat ani steam and what, kinds ruin tho boiler. If one is inclined to say that our forefathers got along well enough oD hog and hominy and eating what wa set before them, and why didn't they die-the answer is, they did; they dief like flies. Science actually does lessen infant mortality. Swatting flies, keeping fin gernails clean and choosing whole some and simple food does keep chil- dren from dying or from growing pp bond; "a mad hv irnrroper food
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-29
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

Many a good wife will believe Nhat Daniel whipped a whole Den of Lions, But she won't believe her husband when he tells her what kept him out so late. Luke McLuke isn't an M D. But he can give you a good prescription: Quit
 eating so much. You would imagine that a loser would want to save money by seeing the game break up. But that's the last thing he wants to see happen. When we see q poodle wearing q $200
 collar, $20 blanket and set of booties that cost $l0. we do not blame the so- cialist party for growing. Adam started the manly habit of blaming it on the woman. And his sons have kept it up, ever since 4 confirmed bachelor figures that while he misses a few happy moments he avoids many unhappy hours. When he is engaged a fool man can say more iN five minutes than he can explain in five years after he is mar ried.
 Until a way is discovered to prevent
 the wrong woman from marrying the wrong man there will always be trou- ble in the world. The best advice we can give you rlSnt now IS tniS. IT you must KICK. throw your sole into it.
 There never was little girl who wouldn't pet cat And there never twas little boy who wouldn't throw stones at cat < It often happens that the honeymoon is over year before the rousseau wears out.
 After a woman has had a set of white furs six months they begin to look like what they used to be before they be- came white furs.
 Copyright 1920)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-29

From the Chicago Herald and Ex-
 aminer.
 w be a baby in Illinois as it was
 A to be on the front firing line in the French trenches"
 That is the high-explosive bomb which Mrs. Ira Couch Wood of the Mccormick foundation in Chicago dropped into the convention or the American Dietetic association the other day at the Hotel McAlpin in New York.
 Each year she expalined, 5oo'oVo babies under the age of years die Tn this country from neglect and ignor- ance.
 Worse. Red -blooded American" chill dren seem to fare harder than foreign born. In Chicago it was found that. while a yroun of foreign-born children near the stockyards were only IT per cent under weight these in an ail-Amerlcah group near the University of Chicago were 57 per cent below normal. It isn't poverty that's the matter, either, for from 12 to 20 per cent or the children of the rich are under weight.
 Fifty per cent of the -schcool children are undernourished. The government spends millions annually upon domestic animals. show ing farmers how to feed them and care for them and prevent disease. while It spends but thousands upon the young of humans.
 There is no class so tenderly cared for and so unintelligently neglected as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-29

while escorts and attendants were robed in the colors of the future commonwealth and members of the high council appeared clothed in academic garments fringed with the same red, black and green" It must have been, as the writer says, Ca spectacle that dazzled the dark world" It was strongly suggestive of a minstrel show and throws additional light on the pretensions of the "Ne- gro Moses"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-29
Colorful Personality
 of the "Negro Moses"

TN the January issue of Worlds ll Work, Truman H. Talley quotes Marcus Garvey, as saying:
 'The hour has come when the whole continent of Africa shall be reclaimed and redeemed as the home of the black peoples. We shall not ask Eng land, Why are you here?' nor France, Why are you here?' nor Italy nor Belgium. The only thing we will say will be, Get out of here' And be- cause we mean that, we believe in the principles of justice and equity"
 If any considerable number of in telligent negroes have been misled by the propaganda of Marcus Garvey to establish an Africac state, the bom- bastic utteran,e just quoted should give them pause. How, forsooth, does Marcus propose to dismiss England, France, Italy and Belgium without the formality of asking why they are in Africa? That is a question he might have some difficulty in answering. His dream, if he is sincere, is quite as fantastic as his speeches.
 The African empire" would only have to develop far more rapidly than any other similar movement in the history of the world, to be able to deal in such summary fashion with the principal powers of Europe. Apart from other practical obstacles to any kind of progress being made by re- patriated negroes in Africa, such as the possibility pointed out by one humorous observer that they might find themselves enslaved by the more powerful tribes who have never lost their savage virility, international pol itics would be an insuperable barrier.
 Garvey seems to have prospered nightly in the character of d Moses. He is, or was, at the head of "black" steamship company, which may have inspired some of his ardor to promote negro immigration to Africa. At his wedding, last summer, we are told by Mr. Talley, 30 ministers officiated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-29

From the Washington Post.
 TIT is quite appropriate that SIT II Arthur Conan Doyle should select O the Yuletide season to produce an alleged incontestable proof or the eA- ,stence of fairies. At this season more than any other mems minds are a'- t,,ned to the acceptance of theories ,,,aird and of doctrines, how avar sunernatural. Were 1t not so' c,rta Clans and his reindeer would vanish into thin air, and that would De or,a calamity of the first magni- tude
 The gifted creator of sheriock Holmes has advanced with vehge- arcs s;nce the far-off days of The c, of.+be Four.n The public has grown accustomed to his peeps peniho tba veil which separates the seen from tha unseen world and is quite famlnar with the spirits he evokes Tor the edification and instruction Of mankiho' Therefore no wonder will be felt that that he now steps into the arena as the champion and protagonist of the gooo neoplev those little beings whose ec- centric performances constitute the supreme delight of the nursery ana, 1T truth must be told, exercise won drous Fascination over the minds or children of an older growth. Ariel and puck to say nothing of Oberon and Titania and Queen Nab, are very real to all lovers of Shakespeare. and count less are the thousands who nave shared good Bishop Corbet's regret for inc austerities of the Puritan dispensa- tion which forced the fairies to take their departure from the shores of Merry England to more congenial climes. s4
 But if ever they departed. they have surely returned--that is, if you accept Conan Doyle as a witness. He has se- cured and reproduces in London magazine photographs of no fewer
 
 were taken in Yorkshire three years ago by two little girls, aged 16 and 10. who further assert that they have seen and known the fairies all their lives and regard the whole thing as q matter of course. Sir Arthur declares that the original negatives of the pie lures have been submitted to several expert photographers, who are unani- nous in affirming that. they. are in no wise .sfaked." They show four long haired. gossamer-robed little figures of the female persuasion. complete with transparent wings. and one little imp or gnome of the masculine gender Z with whimsically puckered face and pair of wings of the moth type.
 Put as syilogism. the case is clear: Anything that can be photographed