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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-17
WHERE BATTERY CARE STOPS.

One Of the bite of advice that strike
the ye Of every man who runs through
the numerous articles on motor care, or
who studies an instruction book Is this
Don't tinker" Nearly oil Of them leave
the reader in doubt as TO just where
proper care leaves off and tinkering begins.
Webster says that the tinkerer is 'one
skilled in petty mechanical work, but
that doesn't exactly fl the present mean
ing. The trouble with most habitual
tnkerers il that they aren't skilled at all.
The Unger Storage Battery 90. has a
service station equipped TO give adequate
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-17

P-Hf.ouf Auor6sd t.
hoTdpse & harmon
Company.
Nopsmber i. 1913. BY
United States Gorern-
neni. Bsreo1 IF Air,
eraff Production. for
October Competition.
Permanently A1ara-
Cd Nopsnbsr 10.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-17

feet Of trucks carrying stock from the
factory to the various stores in the long
chin, and TO meet the requirements Of the
coming months, the company has arrang-
ed to greatly enlarge their Yardville
plant. Contracts have been given for the
installation of the new and necessary
machinery.
Branch managers are authorized To
make mileage adjustments, but with the
Inauguration Of the chain stores, these adj
justments have decreased steadily until
now such adjustments average less than
one half Of one per cent.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-17
Cadillac Production.

A gaily coIored reproduction Of the
coat~of-arrns Of the Sieurde Cadillac, was
recently placed on the gable wsll Of the
entrance 10 the bnronial hall Of the Della
ware Motor Sales Company, ~ Eleventh
and King streets. That IL ha. been pro-
ductiye of results is proved by the appear
ance gtill more recently a two smaller
ones, IN the panel below. A flock is even
ftIaIIy looked for
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-17
Lincoln Car Coming.

The Sweeten-Wilmington Co, 1Oll
Orange street, who for the past several
years have represented the Franklin line
locally, have been chosen to represent the
Lincoln in Delaware. They are expecting
the arrival of the first shipment which IS
being awaited by automobIlists with
much interest.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-17
INDIAN SCOUT ONE OF
THE NEW MOTORCYCLES

Standing supreme among motorcycle
offerings for 1920, is the new Indian
Scout, a middlcweight machine that
eclipses every past triumph of the in
dustry-- new in construction, design and
in engineering thought. A hundred
pounds lighter than the famous Indian
Powerplus models, yet powerful, strong
and sturdy, the Indian Scout is hailed by
eminent engineers and experts as the
phenomenon of the age in motorcycle
construction.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-17

Wherever you see an international
at work recognize it by its distinc-
tive sloping hood you may learn
chapter in international truck sue
cess. One concern alone today has
over 300 international trucks in It's
service. Fleet owners analyzed and
compared and knew the facts, you
may be sure, before they invested in
international Motor Trucks as the
best solution Of their transportation
problems.
international sizes range from t-ton
to 34-ton. Whatever the require
ments, these trucks and Interna-
tional Service are fitted 10 fill the bill.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-17
Square Deal Garage.

A garage at SO7-SO9 Wollaston street,
has been opened by the Giacoma Broth
ers, with the. reassuring title OF he
Square Deal" Ample storage facilities
are provided and are to be had by the
day, night or week, and repair work Is
done.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-17

livery day the great Amer
II lean fleet Of international
Motor Trucks threads over
city street and country road,
unraveling nearly 100000
dependable miles from the linn
itless fabric that is Interna-
tional Service.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-17

Red Men in full war paint and costumes
at Red Mems Pow-wow, every night thus
week, Odd Fellows Hall, Tenth ;Dd
King streets.-Adv.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-17
T INTERNATIONAL Motor Truck

i hauIage has developed into pow
erful factor in the efficient conduct
of nearly 200 lines of business, be-
cause Of the traditions of worth and
reliability treasured by the Inter
national Harvester Company.
For eighty-nine years this company
has been gaining in skill. guarding and
never lowering standards, while man
ufacturing high-grade machines. For
fifteen years it has been expending
skill and experience in building en-
gines for heavy duty service. The
trucks it offers are international de-
signed and international built.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-17

assistance 10 the car owner. and urges
owners 10 take advantage Of this servscs
TO lcngthen the life Of the battery.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-03
WOOD SHOWS HOW
TO SMASH PRICES
Shop He Opened for Lawrence WOODEN
Employees Brings Reductions
for Everybody.

LAWRENCE, Mass. March Sin oper
alton on a small scale only for five weeks,
the cooperative department store estab
lished by President William NJ Wood of
the American Wooden Co. for the benefit
of his $4,000 operatives here has reduced
the cost of living for them and inciden
tally Others III this city.
When carloads of canned goods, vege.
tables and apparel, including shoes and
gloves, began to arrive. price lists were
distributed through the big textile plants
here and all the supplies We're subscribed
for quickly, as the prices were much lower
than the retailers asked.
SO eagerly did the workers buy that a
! l0-story building had to be utilized to
house the supplies. II is nearly empty
again, but consignments ON the way will
permit the management to 90 ahead on
a more extensive scale.
The general public cannot buy from
Mr.. Woods store. but his experiment is
causing big reduction in the prices OF
other merchants Here is a comparison
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-03
Remington for Concrete Road.

BENNINGTON, March 3.-One of
the largest attended town meetings in
years yesterday voted to appropriate
$4,000 for the construction Of con
crete road between Bennington and
North Bennington village \ resolu-
ton making the appropriation and APP
portioning the payment over a period
Of five years was adopted by a vote
of more than , to L. The proposed
highway IS to be built between point
known as Percy Is Corners and the
North Bennington village line A short
section between Bennington village and
| Percy : Corners is included in the
trunklne system Of the state highway
! department When the two sections are
completed the road construction be-
tween the two villages will he aS per
mancnt as road construction is pos.
| siblr.
1t was also voted that the committee
on a new town hall appointed year
ago be cont inucd and that it be in
! tructcd to buy the property of ~. 4
Root opposite the federal building ii
an expense not to exceed $4,000
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-03
CALLS GOVERNORS
POSITION UNTENABLE
Miss Hill of Connecticut, Suffragist,
CriticiZes Clements Decision
Against Special Session.

BURLINGTON, March 3.-The fol- |
lowing statement by Miss Elsie Hill of
Connecticut, who has been in the state
the past week comforting with Mrs j
Borden Estee and other members of
the National Woman S party with re-
gard to the action by two New Eng
land Republican state committees and
Vermont, criticizes the governor for
his recent action of declining to call
special session of the legislature to
act on the equal suffrage movement.
Following is her statement
'The governor S position is unten-
able
Women do not, and the Republican
party cannot afford to accept as final
reply based on such faulty political
and constitutional reasons.
''The demand for an extra session IS
/ strengthened by the revelation of Tie
weakness of the governor 5 argument
against calling it
He says 1.-the purpose of good polt-
zeal propaganda has been served by
| the action of the state committee.
| The governor IS wrong Women anl
| Democrats can be silenced only by
iprompt and favorable action in these
last five Republican states
''To ratify or not to ratify' is the
question Republicans must decide The
G. o. p must face an election respon-
sible for admitting or excluding TO-
| 100000 American women from enfran-
chisement
There viii he plenty Of Democrats
telling he fact to the 1000, 000
women already eligible to vote for
President if Republicans in Vermont
and Connecticut decide against admit
ting women.
The governor 5 fear lest this legis.
lature does not represent the state
sentiment is groundless.
The suffrage amendment passed the
house of representatives with President
i Wilson 5 public support one year and
nine months before the legislature was
elected and the country knew then that
ratification of the suffrage amendment
would be before the legislatures elected
in 1918.
i Party platforms throughout the ma
tion declared in favor of suffrage ant
ratification
The poll of the legislature taken i'm
mediatelv afte4t th6 1918 election show
by its favorable-maj ority the trend o
popular sentiment
The governors objection that thi
jWntl4dHput 1tlads iet bsnfts1eR,l to illte
and infringe the constitution "is alb
| solutely worthless.
All amendments tend to that enc
otherwise there wonld be no need 70
amendment. He attacks the America
. constitution itself and New Englan
: Yankee Republicans are not going I
tolerate any one man, be he bolshevi
or governor, who defes constitutions
: government and interposes his persona
will to deny the right of the legisla
! ture from expressing the representa-
e tive viii of the public
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-03

McNevin had numerous opportunities of
marriage, Her inelinatinn was I'M the di
rection of having her own home and know
ing the joys of her own family
One attachment she formed she believed
would, if pursued, result in fulfilling her
dreams of affection and domesticity. She
came with the news of her intentions to
Mrs Mcknight, and, while the latter was
unwilling to do aught which would impede
the happiness of her faithful employee
there was such evidence of distress in the
lady's face at prospects of the separation
that Agnes broke off her engagement for
the sake of her mistress and has remained
single until now.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-03
ABOUT 100 VERMONT
TOWNS VOTED WET
Twenty-Five Out of Rutland County S
Towns Protested Against Pro-
hibition In Town Meeting.

RUTLAND, March with Essex,
Grand Isle, Orange and Orleans coun-
ties missing entirely and with only
partial returns from all except Rut-
land Chittenden, Franklin, Windham
and Washington counties, Vermont yes
terday registered n most emphatic and
sensational protest against the 18th
federal amendment for national pro-
h;bition and enrolled in the ''wet y col
umn the largest number of towns that
ever voted for license in the history of
the local option law The partial to-
tai IS 90 wet towns, but complete re-
turns will increase this to considerably
over 100.
The vote, of course, is entirely moral
in its effect as 10 licenses can be
granted for the sale of liquor, and the
significant thing about it is that APP
parently no effort whatever was made
by either the "wcts' or d" drvs' to
carry towns either into the wet or dry
columns.
Rutland county is the banner comfy
so far as the license vote is concerned
% out Of her IS towns voting Yes.
Addison county comes next with Il
wet towns, Chittenden county and
Washington county with 10 each and
Windham county with eight, most OF
which were radical changes from dry
to wet.
Following is list Of towns reported
to the Herald as voting wet:
Bridport, Bristol, Cornwall. Ferris
burg, Granville Lincoln, Leicester
Monkton. Middlebury. New Haven, Or
well, Panton, Ripton, Salisbury, Starks
boro, Shoreham, VergcnneS
Arlington, Bennington. Dorset, Man.
chester, Pownal, Sandgatc, Sunderland
Winhall
Burke, Kirby, Newark, St Johns
bury
Burlington, Colchester. Essex, Hnc,
burg. Milton. Richmond, Shclburne.
South Burlington, Westford, Williston
Fairfax, Fairfield Fletcher. High
gate, Sheldon, Swanton, st. Adams
Benson, Brandon, Castleton, Chitten
den, Clarendon, Dandy, Fair Haven
Hubbardton, Ira, Mendon. Middleton
Springs Mount IIolley, Mount Tabor
Pittsford, Pittsield, Proctor, Rutlan,
city, Rutland town. Sherburne. ShrewS
bury, Wallingford, West Rutland
Barre, Barre town. Moretown. Mont
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-03
Rockingham Increases Tax.

BELLOWS FALLS. March The
town of Rockingham voted to raise a
tax Of Sl.l0 for the maintenance of
The public schools, an advance o. 80
cents over last year
There was no opposition to this large
increase a it was explained as neces-
&ary in order to meet the demand Of
the teachers for higher salaries. The
town voted to appropriate sum of
+ 900 to aid in the support of two dis
trict nurses. 1t also was voted to APP
ply TO the state board Of health for a
deputy health officer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-03
CREAM FOR CATARRH
OPENS UP N0STRlLS
Tells How To Get Quick Relief
from Head-Colds. It's Splendid!

In one minute your clogged nostrls viii
open, the air passages OF your head viii
clear and You can breathe freely No
more hawking, snuffiing, blowing, head
ache, dryness. No struggling for breath
gone
Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm
from your druggist now. Apply a little
of this fragrant, antiseptic, healing cream
in Your nostrils. 1t penetrates through
every air passage of the head, soothes the
inflamed or swollen mucous membrane and
relief comes instantly
It's Just fine. Don't stay stufed-up with
a cold or nasty catarrh-Beief comes So
quickly
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-03

Round steak that is 23-25 cents i
pound was 40-50 sirloin steak, 35-40
cents, was $500 cents; lamb chops. 80
cents, were IS; fresh eggs. 80 cents 4
dozen, We're %; beef to stew, - cents,
was 20 cents; Hamburg steak, 10 cents,
was p.
The best grades of canned pears,
peaches, tomatoes. peas, beans and the
like are offered To the Wood employees
at II cents; the retail merchants ask 80
cents. Potatoes, bringing IS cents peek
in the retail stores a month ago. were 80
cents in the cooperative stores. Gloves
at - cents pair were 81 outside.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-03

pclier. Mortified, Plainficld Middlesex,
Waitsfield, Woodbury., Worcester
Brattleboro, Brooiline, Halifax, ia
maica, Newfane, Rockingham, Wards
bOro, Nottingham.
Bethel, Cavendish, Hartford, Ludlow
Windsor, Woodstock
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-03
To Increase Teachers PAY.

BURLINGTON, March 3.-Thc big
fight at the polls yesterday was over
Il proposition to increase the school
teachers salaries hy increasing taxa
ton u cents on the grand list. The
proposition won out by vote of 1875
to 9SS. The city voted wet 1888 to
l,f39. Four Republican aldermen and
two Democrats were elected. which re-
tains republican majority on the
board
a single bakery in London bakes
over 70,000,000 two-pound loavcs of
bread year
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-03

New Zealand was the first country t.
perfect the government tourist bureau
The Harrison times., 1920-02-21

mise unless was so employed that
they wanted me to especially protect
the interest OF my old clients. ! ac.
cepted because all litigation had ceas-
ed with the compromise.
had the clear, legal right to accept
new employment.
Even then | would not have accept
ed had not thought could effectively
serve my old clients. This present
suit, with another, tried a week back,
shows that this conclusion was accur-
ate. Nearly all Of the bar-its oldest
members, are lined up as lawyers
against the home-owners. True to my
first employment, and to my instincts,
good or bad, am trying to protect my
old clients from the proposed new bur
dens.
Your Honor, permit me to digress
far enough to state that while under
no obligations legally or morally
have voluntarily given back to those
clients every cent they paid me. Some
knowing of my continuous efforts to
protect them have refused to take
back those fees but any who may in
the future want their money back can
get it. | sincerely ask them to call my
attention to the fact that they want it.
have never, so far as know, heard
of any man calling in question my 10y
atty to any client. pray God | never
may. In this case have had to op-
pose the interests of some lifelong
friends. This is regretted but un-
, avoidable.
Rather than to have those hundred
men who believed in me taxed with
these new burdens | told Judge Coff-
man my services in your honors court
should be free. | have no apologies.
/ submit that Judge Coffmans' ruling
should be sustained, and that the new
proposed tax of seven mills should be
denied.
Respectfully Submitted,
E. G. MITCHELL,
Attorney for Respondent and Tax
/ Payer.
The Harrison times., 1920-02-21

From every part Of the country
come reports that this has been hard
winter, and Harrison people are won
dering what it's going to raise the
price of next summer.
The Harrison times., 1920-02-21

said in the U. S. Senate that the car
/ petbaggers reached their long, skinny
fngeds into the pockets Of posterity
to steal inheritances from children yet
unborn. This, at that time. was
thought classicle and still lives. That
expression would now be weak, wordy
and common place. The carpet-bag-
gers hated the south. They stole pub
lie credit. They never dared to try to
rob citizens.
The meanest carpet-bagger that
ever disgraced the image of God was
a gentleman compared to the human
skunk who kould accept a thrust from
his neighbors, and would then in the
Legislature vote to let bankers, merch-
ants and money lenders escape taxa
tion for roads but would vote to put
I mortgages on homes for money to be
consumed by editors, assessors, favor
ed landowners, engineers at Little
Rock and lawyers and other grafters
who voted ignorantly for this graft
should leave the state for his own pro-
lection and any honorable CD member
who knew should not be allowed to
leave the state. The day of reconing
came to the carpet-baggers. Many of
them found nameless graves in the
state whose public credit they stole.
How will it be with our home skunks,
who betrayed their neighbors and
friends and Matched unbearable bur
dens. Do they think they can be pro-
tected by the crooked engineers or ey-
en- by the influence of splendid lawyers
when men see homes sold from under
old men, widows and orphans to salts
fly the greed of bond holders?
| advise them INTO go now and to go
while the going is good-orelse call on
the mmountains to fall on them for
protection.
Some of these skunks are trying to
shield themselves by slandernig Judge
| COffman for refusing to add to the bur
dens on the home-Owners. They are
threatning his defeat for reelection.
! challenge their biggest skunk, with the
strongest smell to contest before the
people his nomination or election on
this issue. Permit me to say that
represent him in name only. do not
charge any fee. mean to give my
services free to the home-owner, The
taxes on lands are too high, bigger
than in Belgium; and know that the
proposed new burdens are wrong In
principal and ruinous in practice.
When the existence OF the road was
hanging in the balance over 100 tax
payers employed me to fight it. The
proponents got scared and run to the
Legislature for aid That weak aggre
cation of crooks and idiots tried tC
help them and then it was that many
of my clients became scared. | asked
them to meet me at the court house
and assured them that we could still
defeat the creation Of this district
Only about 40 out of the hundred
came. They were good men and true
but they wanted to compromise. die
not A committee of Rev. Bill Nichol
son Judge w. NJ. Albright, Henry Pet
tit and Fayette Christian with mysel
conferred with the other side. We
compromised on a basis Of $2700 pei
mile and made we thhought, the orig
inal $4,000 an impossibility Tha
judgment was entered in the Boone
Circuit court. The four committee
men named insisted that the new com
missioners should employ me as one o
the lawyers. They did me the honol
of saying that they would not compro
The Harrison times., 1920-02-21

Judge Shinn sustained County Judge
Bill Coffman in refusing to grant the
seven mills taxes the petitioners had
ordered.
The petitioners have appealed to the
Supreme Court. adv
The Harrison times., 1920-02-21

Attorney for Respondent and Tax
Payer
New Britain herald., 1920-03-09

did not know how to cook it. The IroquoiS Indians had 40 different ways of cooking corn. If you were q hungry Indian what would you think of the following corn product? The corn was Shelled and parched slowly in the emberS of the wood fire. Then it was thrown into stone mortar. maple sugar added. and it was pound- cd and Sifted until it was ;l fine meal. Dried cherries or berries might also be added. This meal made corn bread or cakes not to be despised. Succotash --corn and hcanS-was a staple dish with the New England and middlo western tribes. The Hopi Indians of the southwest had 52 different kinds of corn foods, not quite 5T varieties, but almost. One of the StandbYS was as 1o1lOWS: Large pits were dug, thoroughly heated with burning brush and wood, filled with roasting ears. and tightly closed for a day or more. And
New Britain herald., 1920-03-09

United States practiced cooperation and large fields of corn were in reality made up of hundreds Of individual fields. Families helped each other at planting and harvesting. when the fields presented a busy appearance. It was mostly Woman'S work, however. Suffrage had not vet arrived. SWarthy SQuaWS toiled long hours in the hot sun, 1.-the small fields being separated from each other much in the same way that children's school gardens are today. At the outskirts of the fields Indian sentinels guarded the workers from attacks of hostile tribes. At the harvest time a procession of toilers wended their way from the fields with braids of corn, carrying them to the village for storage.
 To grow corn for the family by the use of such tools as inc Indians pos Sessed would strike dlsuoaS to tue
New Britain herald., 1920-03-09

heart of the present Am eriCan farmer. Everything was done by hand labor. At first there was only the Sharpened hardwood stick. Later the shoulder blades of the buffalo and elk, deer antlers and clans. and turtle shells were used as farming implements In the Mississippi valley numerous flint implements have been found which were evidently uScd as primitive hoes and spades. It is only in the huslling pin that the Indian Jared as well as does his white brother today. This was made of bone or horn. and the white mans husking pin-gcnerally used even today--iS simply an imita- ton made of hickory or oak.
 To some of us who think that corn is fit only for chickens and hogs witness how hard MT Hoover had to work to get us to use even a small percentage of corn in place of wheat it may be thought that the Indians
New Britain herald., 1920-03-09

west the hills were far apart, with large number of plants on the hills to afford protection from intense sun and strong wind; but. on tho other hand, where irrigation was employed. the hills were planted close. Through out Arizona and Southern California are thousands and thousands of acres. now desert, where in the early days of America corn was indeed king. Old irrigation ditch lines can be traced for miles and over great areas can be found innumerable chips and pieces of pottery. showing that a great agri- cultural population once inhabitei and cultivated these prcScnt-day des- ert areas. Corn was their staple crop it was the staple of the Aztecs at the time of the conquest of Mexico.
 Foil of Dusky Squlws.
 Nearly all of the Indians ot the