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Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-04-24
FRIENDS & VISITORS
Personal Items About People You
See and Know
THOSE THAT COME AND GO

THOSE THAT COME AND CT
/ Mrs. William Dugan spent Friday il
Wilmington.
Mrs. Jacob Stats is visiting her sis
ter, Miss Mary Merritt.
Mrs. Sarah Kumple bas returned
home from visit in Philadelphia.
Miss Ada Scott. of Wilmington
spent the weekend at he1 home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Taylor spen,
last week with relatives in Philadelphia
Mr.. Abram Hayden, of Wilmington,
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. E. A.
Truitt.
Mrs. ]. Wilson Merritt entertained
Miss Elnora R. Finley, of Wilmington,
over Sunday.
Mrs. Curtis Millman and daughters,
Of Woodside, are visiting her mother.
Mrs. Rosa Weber.
Miss Lillian Montgomery, of New
Castle, spent the weekend with Mr..
and Mrs. E. R. Marker.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. K. Belts and son
Winfield, spent the weekend with rela-
tives at Lansdowne, Ps.
DIR. and Mrs. Victor Cochran, of
Philadelphia, were guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. A. Pool last week.
Mrs. Marcellus Jones, of Wyncote,
Pa. was the guest of Mrs. j. R.
Hoffecker part of this week.
Mrs. N. A. Rittenhouse and daughter,
of Wilmington. is spending this week
with E. R. Marker and family.
Mrs. Minor Dodson and son, of
Bethlehem, Pa, have been guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse L. Shepherd.
Mrs. Joseph Berkman visited her
daughter, Mrs. Lester Shestack, in
Philadelphia, over the weekend.
Miss Prudence Lewis, of e!arberth,
Pa, was entertained over the week.
end by Misses Bernice and Jean Metten.
Mrs. Ella Pennington who has just re-
turned from a trip to California, is
spending sometime with friends in
town.
MIR. and Mrs. George Echenhofer had
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Lott and two daugh-
ters, of Philadelphia. for weekend
guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roger A. Davis and
little son, of Newark, were weekend
guests of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L.
V. Kirk.
Mrs. S. B. Foard and daughter, Miss
Susie, who have been spending several
months in Baltimore, Nd, have return
ed to their home here.
Misses Letitia Pool, of Newark, and
Gertrude Rouse, of Bel Air, Nd, spent
Sunday with the formers parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Howard A. Pool.
Mrs. W. s. P. Combs and sons are
visiting relatives at Glendale and
Dr. Combs will spend
the weekend with his family.
Mrs. A. Fogel entertained on Tues
day, Mrs. J. w. Pennewill, Mrs. Charles
Schagrin, Mrs. w. R. Ellis, DR.. jose
phine Denacourd and Mr.. Harry Scha-
grin, all of Wilmington.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-04-24
ST. ANNE,S CHURCH NOTES
EPISCOPAL

EPlSCOfAL
Sunday, April 18th. 1920. st. Mark
Day, (3l Sunday after Easter).
Services: 10. 80. Morning prayer ant
sermon.
11.45. Sunday School session.
7.3O. Evening Prayer and address.
Note on St. Marks Day. "And He
gave some Apostles, and some Evange.
lists" Ephesians, IV:11. The name
Evangelist is from the Greek, and
means "a a messenger Of good tidings. =
and hence "a. writer of the Gospel OF
good news" It was at first given to
all that preached the gospel, but after
ward it was confined to those who
wrote the history of our Saviour's life
and teachings. St. Mark was one of
the Evangelists. He was a constant
companion of st. Peter. wrote his gos-
pei under St. Peters direction, and was
by him sent into Egypt. where he
planted the Church of Alexandria, and
where he finally suffered martyrdom,
being seized by the heather while en-
gagged in the services of the church at
Eastertide. and dragged through the
streets till he died. His symbol is a
lion; he tells us of HIM who is the lion
of the tribe of Judah.
st. Anne's Parish has already COM
pleted its apportionment for Diocesan
Mission, having sent its quota of 5000
to the treasurer for the year 1920.
Thus far we have sent $89. Ia, includ
ing the Sunday School Mite Box offer
ing of $46.14, for the apportionment
for general Missionery work of the
Church.
To May LIST, the Church Pension Fund
has received $45.OO. and $4,000 has
been contributed for the new Electric
Organ Blower, leaving balance of
$12. Is, which we are anxious to raise to
complete the entire fund. Please send
to the Treasurer of the Parish your
contribution for this purpose.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-04-24

The Curtain will present at the
Middletown Opera House next Fri
day evening a one act drama ''The
Ghost Of Jerry Bundler" and a two
act comedy ''The Bluffers".
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Kinsman Gets Catholic u. Chair

It was learned that Rt. Rev. Fred
erick ]. Kinsman, formerly bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Delaware, who resigned last fall to
become Catholic, hiss been made pro-
fessor of history at the Catholic Uni
versity, Washington, D. c. He will
also study for priesthood at the institu.
tiou.
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Mrs. Marguerite J. Dore

After an illness of nearly four months
Mrs. Marguerite ]. lore wife of John
Dore, Of Dover, died at the home of her
parents Mr.. and Mrs. George E. Pinder
Monday afternoon, at two o'clock, aged
"a years.
Besides husband the deceased leaves
a father, mother, two brothers and one
sister to mourn her death.
Funeral services were held at her
parents home, Thursday afternoon and
interment was made in Forest ceme-
terry.
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Denim fad doubled Overalls.
Fogel'. Especial" offers them less
than former prices.
Delaware 1t D. A. R. Congress

The sessions of the twenty-ninth
Continental Congress. Of the Daugh-
torn Of the American Revolution. is be-
inc held in Memorial Continental Hall,
Washington. this week. The meetings
heoan Monday and will end to-day. A
State meeting Of the Delaware regents
and delegates was held at the Hotel
Willard Tuesday. Attending the con-
0ress from Delaware were delegates
snd alternstes from the four chapters.
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Forest Church Notes

Sunday, April 25th. 1920.
1890 A. NJ. Public worship with SER
mon.
11.45 A. M. Sunday School session.
Gas P. M. Christian Endeavor SER
vice. Topic: christian Principles in
Personal and Public Health" ! Cor. 6:
1920.
7.3O P. M. Evening service with
sermon.
Prayer meeting on Wednesday even
ing at 7.3O O'Clock.
All are very cordially invited to at
tend all of these services.
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THE LABOR PROBLEM
Tillers Of The Soil Are Alarmed
Over Conditions
CROPS GROWN AT A LOSS

! The farmers in the district which j.
bounded by Mt. Pleasant, Summit
Bridge, St. Georges and Port Penn, are
facing a labor proposition which is
causing them much alarm, and threat.
ems to bring the farming business al.
most to standstill. =
In this district is many farms of
from 25O to 300 acres on which there is
not more than one farm hand at work
and on eight of the largest there is not
even one. The government work at
Rockwell Park last year crippled the
farmers of this district by taking all of
the farm labor and paying them prices
which the farmers could not pay,
While all Of this help has been laid off
from there, the contract for the road
from Mt. Pleasant to Boyd's Corner
has been let to New York contractor.
and work is now beginning. Word has
gone out among the negro farm hands
that the work is going to be done with
local help and that the price for labor
ers is to be $3.50 per day of ten hours,
and as this wage is much higher than
the farmers can afford to pay for farm
work. the contractors will of course
get the help, and the farmers sit still
and look at road building go on.
Reports of the same conditions are
coming from all parts of the country
where agriculture is pursued, especially
from the adjoining counties of Mary
land. Pennsylvania, and from New Jer-
sey. These conditions have only one
meaning and that is: That the acreage
in all spring and summer crops must be
curtailed; that the acreage which is
planted must suffer for the want of
tillage; that the harvesting of the crops
will be greater task than was ever
known before, and the results of this
will be that prices for all farm products
will be higher, the quality lower, and
the high cost of living will get another
jolt.
There is now no doubt but that many
of the leading farmers will be forced to
quit the business here at the close of
this year. Last years farming in the
majority of the cases in this community
was done at loss, involving many of
them in debt to such an extent, that
with the present discouraging labor
conditions. they are now about ready to
try some other game.
Wheat is beginning to grow up and
shows good and strong, but there is
every indication of a short crop here
owing to the heavy freezing, to which
it was subjected, through the past win
ter. The fields show ''spotty," in
many places acres have no wheat on
the ground at all. while in the drill
rows in many places there will be seen
a stretch of ten or fifteen feet, where
the wheat is thick on the ground, and
then as much space with absolutely
none. Bad seed is the cause of some
of this while freezing is blamed for the
most of it.
There will be very few potatoes ;
planted here for the markets, the high
prices of seeds, fertilizers, and labor
being the cause of the curtailment of
this very necessary commodity.
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Purchased Residence For Supt.

Sheriff J. T. Grassland has sold his
home on South Broad street to Will
mington M. E. Conference as q resi-
dence for the district superintendent of
the Easton district, the Rev. w. Allen
Wise. The price was $500. Mr..
Grassland has built three houses on
South Broad street.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-04-24

See ''1he Ghost Of Jerry Bun
dler" and "The Buffers to be
given next Friday evening at the
Opera House. Admission, Adults,
55c. Sc. Children, 2Sc.
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COW TESTING REPORT


the record cow in the Msddletown Coz
Testing Association for the month Q
March, having produced 146O pounds
milk and Al pounds of butterfat. i
addition to her Association record thi
COW. Lady Rag Apple Ringer, just com
pleted seven days junior three yea
old official record of 2O.6 pounds of but
ter. In her class this cow row hold
the record for Kent County, Md.
The Middletown Cow Testing Associa
ton completed its fiscal year March 81,
and Schrader and Janvier have the sig.
nal honor of owning the highest pro.
ducing COW of the Association for the
year. This cow produced during the
year 1926 pounds of milk and 500
pounds of fat, making a profit of $3lO
above cost of feed. ]. S. Moore owns
the COW standing next in line, producing
9,797 pounds of milk and 1886 pounds of
fat, producing a profit of $1SO. Dan
Cochran and Owen Davis own cows
among the top notchers. Schrader and
Janvier also have the herd having the
highest average milk production for the
year, producing $3.50 pounds of milk
per cow. Owen Davis, J. S. Moore.
H. E. Robinson and w. E. Cam are
close rivals.
In the Diamond State Cow Testing
Association for the month of March
there were 81 cows producing more than
40 pounds of butterfat. ten of which
exceeded So pounds of fat during the
month. j. I. Dayett of Cooch, owns
both the highest producing COW and the
herd with the highest average, produc-
ing 2,O33 pounds of milk and GA pounds
of fat, and / ,142 pounds of milk and 80
pounds of fat, respectively. DR.. Young
j. T. Fdmunson and Breidablik Farm
are close competitors.
The following is the honor list for the
Middletown Association:
TEN COWS WITH THE HIGHEST MILK PRO
DUCTIoN RECORD
N. ". Walters. owner of COW; 1850
pounds milk; 47.3 pounds butterfat.
J. S. Moore, owner of cow; 1912
pounds milk; 37.5 pounds butterfat.
G.. A. Schrader, owner of cow; 1887
pounds milk; As. pounds butterfat.
Olin Davis, owner of COW; 1249 pounds
milk; 1852 pounds butterfat.
G. A. Schrader, owner of COW; 1894
pounds milk; 1874 pounds butterfat.
Dan Cochran, owner of COW; 1906
pounds milk; 31.3 pounds butterfat.
G. A. Schrader, owner of COW; 1859
pounds milk; 1872 pounds butterfat.
G. A. Schrader, owner of COW; 1116
pounds milk; 35.7 pounds butterfat.
Earl Pleasanton, owner of COW; 11O7
pounds milk; 47.6 pounds 5utterfat.
G. A. Schrader, owner of COW: 1904
pounds milk; 1874 pounds butterfat.
FIVE HERDS WITH HIGHEST AVERAGE
MILK PRODUCTION
G. A. Schrader, owner of cow; 91O
pounds milk.
Dan Cochran, owner of COW; 766
pounds milk.
DR.. Cam, owner of COW; 7O7 pounds
milk.
Harry Robinson, owner of COW; 653
pounds milk.
Olin Davis, owner of COW; 6O4 pounds |
milk.
FIVE HERDS WITH HIGHEST AVERAGE
MILK PRODUCTION FOR THE YEAR
ENDING MARCH 81, 1920
G.. A. Schrader, owner of COW; $3.50
pounds milk.
Olin DAVIS. owner of COW; 742O pounds |
milk.
J. S. Moore, owner of COW; 7138
pounds milk.
Harry Robinson, owner of COW; 6929 |
pounds milk.
DR.. Cam, owner of COW; 6516 poun ds |
milk.
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Dr.. Louis Levinson, veterinarian.
Graduate Of University Of Penn
sylvania. Middletown, Del Bell
Phone 119. North Broad Street.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-04-24

William S. Hart in ''The Money
Coral' will be the attraction at the
Opera House next Wednesday
evening.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-04-24

Would you like to help break
the high cost Of living? Read
FogePs ad.
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items Of
the Past Week
in THIS AND NEARBY POINTS

Corn growers of st. Georges have
decided on $40 ton as fair price.
The Delaware City Century Club is
making plans for its sixth anniversary
on May 6.
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THE WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Washington. February s7.-Forecast:
 Alabama and Mississippi-Fair and warmer Saturday; Sunday unsettled. probs bly local rains.
 Georgia-Fair and warmer Saturday; Sunday part cloudy.
 Tennessee-Fair and warmer satur- day; Sunday unsettled.
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I, he broke the worlds speed record for high altitude flying by flying 137 miles
 an hour at a height of 1S.400 feet. ] The Moss supercharger is device com posed of a gas turbine and centrifugal ! air compressor The turbine derives it's power from the red-hot exhaust gases from the Liberty motor. The power gem erated by this gas turbine is used to operate the centrifugal air compressor at about 22,000 revolutions per minute, and the air so compressed is fed to the car bureter at the same pressure as the air at sea level Thus the Liberty motor de- livered full 400-horse power, even though at high altitude.
 Major Schroeder was dressed heavier than any polar explorer who ever set forth. He literally was wrapped in flex- ible electric heaters His flying suit was lined with the fur of Chinese nuchwang doGs. and between the fur and outer lining flexible electric heat units, cons nected by silk-covered wires with the dynamo of the engine, heated the entire suit In like manner his headgear. gloves and mpccasins were heated. Major Schroeder wore an oxygen mask of his own design
 Capt. Harrison w. FlicIinger chief calibration officer of the McCook field, said Major Schroeder's record would be first sent to war department officials at Washington, and later to officials of the Aero Club of America. The Aero Club of America, recognized by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, will be asked to certify the record to the world.
 TELLS OF FLIGHT
 Between periods of inconsistencies, Major R. w Schroeder tonight told the story of his flight against wind, cold and lack of oxygen almost seven miles above the earth. That ne had shattered the worlds altitude record, fallen more than five miles, and narrowly escaped death, did not seem important to him in view of his failure to rchch a height of 4O00O feet, the goal he set for himself when he took the air this morning. Relating his Sattle for life far above the clouds, Major Schroeder, lying on a cot in the army post hospital said;
 T was thinking of nothing but that l wanted to attain 8 height of 40.000 feet when suddenly the oxygen stopped flow ing. Then. al lat once, it seemed as though a terrible explosion took place within my head. My eyes hurt and l falling
 Il guess I pulled hard on the stick for l knew I must straighten out for a glide. The plane seemed to ride easy. I opened my eyes, but could see nothing of the ground. closed my eyes tightly and again opened them, seing that I was over Wilbur Wright field, close to the han gars I couldn't land there. q tilted my machine for climb, in- tended to make sure of good altitude and then jump for it with my parachute. But at that instant McCook field came into view. I guess I just became an automaton and came down all right Major Schroeder announced his nten- ton of making another attempt to reach an altitude of 10000 feet.
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TWO ADDRESSES BY MISS MORGAN TODAY
Speaks to Women This Morning and to Drama
 League This Afternoon

Miss Anne Morgan will make two ad- dresses here today before leaving for New Orleans this afternoon at 4;2O o'clock lover the Louisville and Nashville rail- opoad.
 This morning at Il o'clock at the Tut wiler she will speak to 8 group of Twenty or thirty prominent women and will perfect an organization which will Carry on the work here after her depart are. It is anticipated that they will as- sst the general committee of men, of which oscar Wells is chairman and treasurer, which was organized last night
 She will address the members of the Drama League at the Tutwiler at 8 o'clock Her lecture will deal with con filtions in the devastated areas of France snd will show the work which the com omission is doing. This lecture will be Illustrated with motion pictures.
 Immediately after the conclusion of this .talk, Miss Morgan will leave for New Aorleans, where she will spend several days in the furtherance of the work she is doing for the restoration of devastated France.
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TEXT IRISH HOME
 RULE BILL GIVEN
(continued on Page Two)

21s,oOo0Oo annually. Of this e1s,ooO 900 north Ireland would contribute F per cent and south Ireland 5s per cent.
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ROAD EXECUTIVES
 VOICE APPROVAL
 OF RAIL MEASURE
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(COntinued from Page One) which public opinion will hold them re- sponsible.
 The labor unions are on trial, because the government itself has created an of icial agency for the fair and equitable adjustment of all grievances and of all controversies as to wages and living con- ditfons. and if. in defiance of the conclu- sions thus officially reached, the labor organizations unJustly and contrary to public opinion, interrupt the orderly and continuous movement of interstate com merce, upon which the welfare of the whole public depends. they cannot ex- pect to be sustained by the people, to whose will. at last, all must bow.
 The carriers are on trial because an effort has been made to extend to them
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Here Major Schroeder made a safe ] landing and collapsed. He was blinded land his limbs were numb, despite the electrically heated suit in which he was encased. He was suffering from the ef- | fects of a lack of oxygen When nearly seven miles above the earth, his oxygen
 tanks became exhausted and it was this which robbed him of consciousness and caused him to fall. Mechanics and off cers at McCook field lifted Major Schroe-
 der from the plane and he was given
 first aid treatment later being removed
 to the post hospital where it was said
 his blindness will be only temporary It
 will be several days before he will be able
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JOINT EXCHEQUER BOARD

JOINT EXCHEQUER BOARD A joint exchequer board would be ere ] ated to determine the taxable capacity of
 Ireland in relation to the balance of the
 United Kingdom and decide what amount
 Ireland should contribute after the two years period. The decision of this board will stand for five years, when the case may be reopened. The board shall con- sist of equal numbers of representatives of the Irish parliaments and the im- periaI parliament, with an independent chairman. This board would also be charged with devising means of providing guarantees for Irelands s contribution to-
 ward the support of the empire, should united Irish parliament assume coDcxol of the excises and customs.
 The amount Ireland would have to con- tribute is somewhat reduced by a pro- vision in the bill that the United Kingdom shall present f1,000, 600 to each of the two parliaments at the outset to defray their expenses. It is also provided that the Irish shall have land annuities worth abou 93,000,0o0 annually. The bill con
 tains detailed government proposal for immediate completion of a land purchase scheme. Civil servants as regards pen
 sions would be protected by the imperial parliament, according to another pro. vision of the bill.
 1 This is one of the reasons why imperial control of the postoffice is to be retained notwithstanding the home rule bill Of
 1914 made Ireland's postoffice an Irish institution. The imperial parliament
 parliament would retain this control lN- til such time as the two parliaments work out a scheme for it's direction by the l council for Ireland and request the inl- perial parliament to turn 1t over.
 To Real A 1oukn
 TAKE HAYES HEALING HONEY a5o
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Reds Occupy Omega
by Assss'assa rrsss

London, February s7.-oceupation of Omega by the boishsviki is announced in a boishsvik communication received here,
 The town of Omega is situated at the mouth of the OneEa river and is' en Omega bay, an arm of the White sea, It Is about eighty miles southwest of Arehansel.
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to use his eyes. according to Dr. H. V. Dutrow an eye specialist call in 
 The instruments on his machine re- corded the best story of the experiences of the aviator in his flight to beat the record of Roland Rohlfs and bring first honors to the air forces of the United
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LocaI Data

For the twenty-fou hours ending at D. m. Febrnarv 27 1A2n.
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LAWS TO PUNISH
 RADICAL CITIZEN
 URGED BY PALMER
Continued iron, Page one,

argument and make American char aoter by education" he said. but be- fore arguments can persuade or esu- cation reform. there must be instilled respect for our institutions. the law must be obeyed and order must be maintained"
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PACKERS MUST NOW STICK TO BUSINESS
 OF MEAT PACKING
tContinued From Page one,

cient and conducted on the smallest margin of profits of any large basis industry in the country" he said the defendants stand ready and-willing to demonstrate at all times. If this Is true as to profits. which we most solemnly assert, then it is to the in- terest of every man, woman and child in this nation. that this essential and complex industry be given just. fair and equitable treatment"
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help of a substantial character in the performance of their public duties and public opinion will hold them to a strict accountability Dor the fidelity and effl- ciency with which these duties are perl formed"