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Milford chronicle., 1920-12-03
ELECTED BANK CASHIER

Elmer P. Horsey was elected cash.
ier of the First National Bank of Do
yer, effective January l, 1921, to sue
ceed John S. Collins, who recently re-
signed. Mr.. Horsey has been con-
nected with the bank for II years, as
teller, and for the last two years as
assistant cashier.
Mr.. Horsey is 81 years of age, a ma
tive of Sussex county and has resid-
ed in Sussex and Kent counties all of
his life. During his early business Ca
reer he was employed by the Delaware
Railroad most of time as passenger
agent at Laurel. When the Peoples
National Bank was organized at Laur-
ell, he was made cashier.
Mr.. Horsey is Past Master of the
Lodge of Laurel, has been
Clerk of the Town Council of Dover
for several years and is highly esteem
ed.
Milford chronicle., 1920-12-03
OUTLINE UPLIFT PLANS
FOR C0L0RED SCHOOLS
DOCTORS 0DELL AND COOPER OF THE
SERVICE CITIZENS, ADDRESS THE
NEGRO CIVIC LEAGUE.

Addresses by DR.. Joseph H. Odell
of Service Citizens, DR.. r. w. Coop
er, chairman of the educational COM
mittee of Service Citizens and by
prominent colored people featured the
closing days session of the Delaware
Negro Civic League at Dover last Sat
urday.
DR.. Odell said he brought a mes
sage from p. S. du Pont, benefactor OF
the schools of Delaware. Mr.. du Pont
regretted very much his inability to
be present at the meeting, DR.. Odell
said. The interest he has in the col
ored people of Delaware today is
speaker told of the difficulties the
Service Citizens had had during the
past year in securing school sites and
other hindrances in the advancement
of the education of the colored people
as planned by the Citizens Service,
stating that in some instances it took
six months to get the papers and 9th
er necessary rights for one site. He
also spoke of the high cost of mater
ial in building, all of which had him
dered the progress contemplated in
school building He pointed with pride
to the three school houses completed
for the colored pupils in New Castle
and stated that it was the de-
sire that such or better schools should /
be constructed in other parts of the 1
state. The proposed building at Mil /
ford he stated, will cost approximate
" $4,000 He said the contract would
most likely be given out during the
lext week for the cOlOred school at
DR.. Odell urged the league
lot to abate one iota from its pur-
,ose to make the work of the Service
citizens a decided success.
He emphasized the fact that the
,asic thing after ali was education
or colored children as well as white
hildren and to that end the associa-
ion should strive the more to bring
bout among the negro race just
uch a condition.
DR.. Cooper compared the colored
chools of Delaware with other
tates from the point of view OF sta
stics and stated that with but two
xceptions- Maryland and West Nir-
inia-Delaware had better cOlored
chools than any other state in the
nion He spoke of the necessity OF
lucating the children and the keep
lg of them in the schools until they
Id completed their studies. He told
the advantages of the new school
nldings and what they were expect
to accomplish for the good of the
lid.
Milford chronicle., 1920-12-03


Ihls plain MARY" the Wonder
under every day farm conditions with ordinary
June the weather varied "a subjected AZ
below zero unheed barn. Her record 52 22715 lbs
butter year
Milford chronicle., 1920-12-03
SUSSEX BREEDERS
GO IN FOR BIG HOGS

Through the activities of the Sus-
sex County Farm Bureau. southern
Delaware is to engage extensively in
the production of big type Poland
China hogs, and many of the farmers
have agreed to specialize in hog pro-
duction with the hope of building up
reputation for this section of the
State. Noryal Pepper, residing near
Seaford. recently purchased from j. E.
Way, of Kent county, breeder of the
Delkendo herd of big type Poland
China, which weighed 900 pounds.
This is the largest hog ever bought
for breeding purposes in southern Del
aware.
Milford chronicle., 1920-12-03
ADAMS CROSS ROADS

Miss Sadie Devore and Blanche
Stutler have returned to their homes
in Philadelphia after a weeks stay
with Mrs. Fred Fountain.
Several of Bloomery people at
tended the services at Chestnut Grove
Sunday. when the presiding elder
preached.
Mrs. j. E. Elerick went to Frost
burg, Md, Saturday to visit her hus-
band.
Preaching Sunday at Bloomery at
8 p. m. Sunday school at p. m.
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MILTON, DELAWARE.
Funeral Directors and Embalme

We have added to our funeral equipment a new
Motor Funeral Car for which we make no extra
charge. We have still retained both our Baci
and White horse drawn hearses. which therefore
places us in a position TO furnish either horse
drawn or motor hearses.
We are the best equipped and carry the largest
stock Of funeral supplies south Of Wilmington.
Call phone. Office No %, residence No. %
Phone service day and night. If calling after 10
p. m. call No. -. All calls promptly answered
No extra charge for distance use Of hearse o.
wife's services.
'We also carry a large and complete assort-
ment of Furniture Carriages. RuRabouts. Farm
Wagons. Rack Wagonsand Farming Implements.
Milford chronicle., 1920-12-03

Do you have something you don't
need and would like to sell. If you do
put a little ad in the Chronicle and
get results.
Milford chronicle., 1920-12-03
OAKLEY

l now h3les Auxiliary So
chrysantn the home of Mr..
at snort noorgan ON Friday
flowers this VI. Everybody is
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12

orally is her own fault if she steps
Off
On her northern trip Mrs. Cam
eron met Kate Carmack, the Indian
wife Of George Carmack, who is
generally known as the discoverer
Of gold in the Klondike. But if what
Kate told Mrs. Cameron was true,
she and not Cameron was the finder,
and the honor Of starting the his
toric rush belongs to a woman.
Back TO Poverty
Kate lived in great luxury for
years in San Francisco and other
coast cities after her husband be-
came wealthy, but when seen by
Mrs. Cameron she had returned to
her old home at Carcross and was
living miserably in a small shack
there.
1t was two miles to her hut, and
In a lot covered with weeds stood
he house." said Mrs. Cameron.
When Kate opened the door some
Siwash dogs came dashing out. These
animals were her only companions.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
All Must Attend

Some Of these shrine or temple
fairs occur two or three times
month. All the people in the dis
trict must come and pay their re-
spects to the deity of the neighbor-
hood, or suffer his displeasure, with
attendant bad luck; and of course
they must make a contribution to the
expenses of the temple, and they are
sure to spend Sill more in buying at
the fair All the itinerant peddlers
Of the neighborhood are sure to be
represented among the dealers in
cakes, sweetmeats, toys and hair or
naments, most of them being made
while you wait, a great attraction to
the young, the children gazing in
rapture at the operation and beg
ging their parents for still another
penny. All about are standing boys
and girls, men and women, high and
low, rich and poor, eating, for Jap
anese cannot meet except they eat
udon, kind of spaghetti; soba, a
sort of macaroni; anne, a delicious
sweet known only in Japan, English
toffee being the only thing resem-
bling it, but inferior in comparison.
Yes, and hundred other appetizing
ccpfections besides.
The most alluring stalls are those
where the fair madens of Japan
congregate, and behind the rows OF
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12

be the more accurate word, for Mrs.
Cameron is in no sense tourist In
1913 she made 27,0OO-mile journey
through Africa, enduring hardships
few men would have cared to under
take. She went into regions no other
white woman had visited, and. so
far as others of her sex were con-
cerned, went alone. She met re-
formed cannibals-she admitted that
she sometimes suspected they were
not entirely reformed; she slept in
the jungle exposed to fevers and the
dangers of attack by the beasts of
the wild. She visited leper colony
and gathered information in the
German-owned domains on the treat
ment by their masters of the natives.
Four years before going to Africa
Mrs. Cameron made 24,O00-milc
trip through South America. She
went ACROSS the Andes from Buenos
Ayres to Valparaiso, afterward
making extensive journeys up and
down the west coast Of the southern
continent. She visited the Panama
Canal when it was being built, and
met Colonel Goethals and other i'm
portant officials.
In 1907 she went to Morocco
and had an audience with the SUI
tan, which was much more impres
sive achievement in those days THAI
it might be now.
Didn't See His Wives
"No, he did not propose to me-
she hastened to explain. "Nor did
he offer to show me his wives, a
though he did tell me that many had
their teeth filed with diamonds. H.
was very proud of this, as he was,
too, of solid gold camera which he
did show me-"
In 1911 Mrs. Cameron was one of
the fortunates who witnessed the
imperial Durbar at Delhi. Although
she did not make the voyage on the
Medina, ON which the King and
Queen were passengers, she found
herself member of distinguished
company aboard the Maloga, and she
showed me a remarkable book of
signatures inscribed by the lords and
ladies, dukes and earls who went to
India on that steamship. (Both of
these p. & @. vessels, by the way,
were among the victims Of the war,
having been sent to the bottom of
tho sea by German submarines.)
At Delhi she was one of those who
were permitted to 90 through the
shamiana, or tent, erected for their
majesties--it covered eighty acres
and her recollcctions Of it's sumptu-
GUS appointments were vivid. She
was present when the native Indian
princes and potentates, wearing their
robes Of splcndor, made their obei-
sance TO the British sovereigns, and
she was there, too, sihen the Gaekwar
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12

/ pretty halfbreed Indian girl calle,.
Maggie who had been deserted by
her American sweetheart, who ha,.
returned to the States. Animated by
ker ever-ready sympathy for all per-
sons in trouble, Mrs. Cameron went
to the home of this girl and met her.
Her story was almost an exact repe-
tition of Clio Clio San in 'Madama
Butterfly" She thought herself the
Americans wife, \and believed him
when he said he would return to her
He didn't return, and the girl.
after months of hopeless watchin.
during which she won the sympathy
of every one in the village, fell ill
and died.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
ONE Of the finest photo
" graphs ever taken of
the midnight sun. It is the
uorh' of and IS copyrighted
By {. ". Adams, avho gave
1t to Mrs. Cameron

She seemed to be about forty-fivc
years old then and certainly ap-
peared anything but happy. Nor
were her surroundings of kind to
alleviate her depression. In one
corner of the dreary little room in
which she lived was a rusty Yukon
stove. On the wall hung a cheap
mirror, and in another part of the
room was a wooden settee. That
and the bed were about all the fur
nishing in the room occupied by this
woman who lad once lived in splen
dor in the best hotels in Seattle and
San Francisco, and who had been
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
Mrs. Cameron's Verdict Is at Least
Entitled to Consideration, for She
Has Been Everywhere

called the petted wife Of the million
aire discoverer of gold in the
klondike.
~ had quite a long chat with
Kate. She showed me a picture of
q dress she had owned once, the bod
ice of which was entirely covered
with gold. The discovery of gold,
as she told it, came about in this
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
WHEN t1areling In Alas
~ ha Mrs. Cameron acoYe
the parka and mukluks of
the EsQulmQu

you've just mentioned, you've been
pretty much everywhere.
She smiled. Did she, oh, did she,
suspect what was coming?
81 wouldn't put it just that way"
she said 'It is true l love to
travel. I've sometimes been told
have an imp for travel"
"Well, you have been all over the
world" I insisted. 81 want to ask
you question. Which of the places
you've been to do you like best?"
"Which?'
eyes. l mean if you were called
on to make a decision, which would
you prescribe as the ideal spot in
the world to make your home? |
mean which Of all the places you
know would you select as the best
place to live in?"
She didn't say New York and she
didn't say London. This in itself
was remarkable, if you will think it
over And l hate to repeat what
she did say, first, because to one who
has been brought up to believe that
the further place is from home the
better it must be it sounded like an
anticlimax, and second, because
from all reports the place she men
toned is terribly overcrowded as it
is, and they are thinking about start
ing campaign to keep more people
from going there this winter.
Mark 1t 'sAdv."
"Why, if l were asked to make a
choice I'd say California" was her
reply.
"Not-not the Riviera?" l fall
tered.
"No."
"Not-not Biarritz? Port Said?
San Sebastien? The Bay Of Bis
cay?"
Not any of those places always be-
ing referred to by fortunate folk as
interesting places in which to fore
gather
ono. Southern California;" re-
peated Mrs. Cameron. Il would
rather live there, if l had to decide
on one spot, than anywhere. l love
England, but | can't live there in the
winter. The fogs choke me. The
Riviera is small. California has all
it's attractions, and is much larger
What more beautiful experience
than to motor through it's wonderful
orange lands? Egypt is fascinating,
but in the summer too hot and
dusty"
She smiled again, this time trihe
ruefully.
"If didn't love California do you
think I'd be spending good British
money at the present rate of ex-
change to get there? got s340 to-
day for British pound. One must
love place to spend money at that
rate to get there, don't you think
so?"
Not Mere Tourist
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
ing the World to Choose From, Where Would You Live
Famous Woman Traveller Who Has
Wandered in Every Cline
Has Ter Mind Made Up

islands," CAS- Mrs. Cameron has
large means of her ,wn, her itin-
erary and time schedule are always
of her own making.)
The time was now ripe for the
question, and 1 put it.
Mrs. Cameron" said, "they say,
with the exception of the places
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
Author of Nine Books

Mrs. Cameron has written nine
DOCKS, some Of them novels and
otaers containing impressions OBJ
'a'ned On ner travels. Being q loyal
Eng -ishworoan, with great vere.a-
ton for the rulers Of her country,
sne carries with her, neatly framed;
me letters she received acknowledge
'ng receipt Of some Of her books by
lac King, The Queen and the Queen
Mother.
on hcr breast che wore the mar
row purple ribbon of the Order of
me British Empire, awarded for
var work, and on stand near by
iay anosher Of her priced posses
s'of.s-~her photograph in Red Cross
oh1cTfn taken when che was assist
.s'g %flat organization in the United
"'1ss and Europe.
sns not only has been everywhere,
oat, IN an unostentaticus way, has
'ne records 10 prove it.
where 10 go from here?" she
s'"''ea, repeating the question. "To
,pfonado. In about two weeks.
s!on there, after I've had my fill OF
q wonderful climate, 70 Homo
fbau.v
And them"
And then 10 Wellington, Auck-
afas Sydney and a few nearby
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
Japs Mingle Religion and Fun

selling and making to sell every
conceivable sort of what-not, mostly
to decorate the human person or to
eat. There are cages and cages Of
insects, all singing to beat the band,
as though each Of the hundreds was
wing with all the others in COM
peting for a first place among song
SterS,
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12

~ NE Of the most curious and
interesting aspects of Japa-
nese life to the stranger is
me street fair especially the Toxic
Ennichi, which may be found in full
swing on the nights of periodically
occurring temple and other festivals.
Although these periodic events are
opposed to be in celebration of
~omething religious, they are occa-
IONS CT great fun for youths and
nlaidens, who meet and ming!e in
he evenings Notification, not, of
course, after the Occidental manner,
but with due distance and reserve.
The Japanese, says the Toxic corre-
spondent of The London Post, see a
great deal more amusement in re-
ligion than the people of the West,
for they believe the gods can and
do laugh. The streets are gayly
decorated for the Ennichi fairs, and
the hum of human conversation and
the rollick Of human laughter go on
to the accompaniment of strange in.
sect music that leaves a weird i'm
preston on the ear. We seldom
would be disposed to take a night out
to hear insects sing and play. To
the japanese this is part Of life and
art; he does not see why the insect
should be left to waste it's music on
the desert air.
Not All Fun
In Japan, however, religious fes-
tivals are not all fun and all show
they have about them more Of an
economic bent than any other mo-
tive, to enrich the sacred Golfers and
to bring profits to the motley throng
Of dealers that ply their trade. Or
either side of the midway plaisance
innumerablt stalls are arranged
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
The Suitengu Shrine

Even yet more space would it re-
quire to speak of all these fairs in
their individual attractions, but
these at the Big Shinto shrine at
suitengu, in Nihonbashi, draw the
largest crowds, as they make spc-
ciaty of selling charms that can
make a fellow throw up blood if he
is not telling the truth and other
charms that guarantee security from
shipwreck.
Time would fail to tell of ordinary
street fairs, and of fairs for special
occasions and seasons, the latter be-
ing particularly beautiful, as the
booths are decorated with the colors
of the season. The month Of Sep
tember has more festivals and fairs
than any other in the year, no less
than thirty-seven taking place in the
thirty days. The whole business in
dicates how very cleverly the Japa.
nese utilize religion and beauty td
bring in penny for their temples
and themselves, since at all fairs are
sold many things useful in daily life.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
Not a Mere Tourist

Having thus disposed Of the i'm
portant problem Of the interview we
settled down comfortably and Mrs.
Cameron talked for an hour Of her
travels. Adventures would, perhaps,
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12

of Baroda aroused intense indigna-
ton by his failure to bow before the
Queen.
Laid 1t to Stage Fright
"Baroda explained that his excite
ment due to finding himself in the
presence Of the King and Queen was
responsible for this discourtesy,"
said Mrs. Cameron, "but l never be-
ieved it. 1t was deliberate, and
nearly cost him his title
Mrs. Camerons most recent ex-
pedition Of note was into Alaska as
far as Nome. She not only traversed
many of the old trails followed by
the gold seekers in the early rushes
but went the entire length of the
Yukon River, distance of 1900
miles. She went among the Esqui-
maus, Indians, half-breeds and rough
traders without fear, and never
suffered any dscourtesies. This was
true Of her experiences in other lands
as we'll RS Alaska.
MAN always puts the woman or
PEDESTAL" she said. "And it gen
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
A Call for Wives

There is great call for good
white wcmen in Alsska," said Mrs.
Cameron. white women, that is.
who have the pioneer spirit, ana are
willing to make homes. For such as
these husbands are easy to find, and
good homes as well. Of course. in
most cases it would mean doing their
own housework, but l wonder if
many would not find greater happi-
ness in this than wearing out their
lives in some shop.
The pioneering type of woman
has played an important role in his
tory and need not be ashamed of her
lot. If it hadn't been for the pio-
neering women of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries England
wouldn't have had her colonies. Now
there is great demand for the same
kind of women in Alaska, and those
who are of the right kind can find
homes and happiness up there"
Mrs. Cameron brought back from
Alaska much interesting information
which she may incorporate in a new
book or a novel, although she said
that writing novels did not appeal to
her as much as formerly.
1T seems such a waste of time to
write fiction when there is such
great demand for facts" she said.
Souvenirs of Alaska
Among the souvenirs of her
Alaskan trip were hundreds Of pho
tographs, some of which she took
herself and others which she pur-
chased, depicting characteristic
scenes in the land of the Arctic sun.
One thing Mrs. Cameron learned
and this is something others may
be interested in knowing also-is
that among the Indians of the North
it is the family of the woman and
not the man which is the basis of
every genealogical tree. This is
proved by the cmolems on their
totem poles, all of which lead back
to the female side of the house
Mrs. Cameron SAID.
Before returning to the States she
made trip to the grave Of the ia
nous "Soapy" Smith, and found that
il had been all but obliterated by d
landslide which took place not long
ago.
Il expect to remain in southern
California until March" she said, in
concluding the interview. "Then l
will sail for Honolulu, and otter
making the trip to Australia and the
other places, return to London some
time in April, 1922
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12

pretty girls, all infatuated by TIE
fascinating hair ornaments, one may
see rows Of young men studying the
tastes Of womankind. The colored
lights Of the iiluminations, electric
lights in variously tinted bulbs or
paper lanterns, give the peachbloom
cheeks Of the girls a yet more rich
complexion, and all is quite like
fairyland. What dazzling pins and
hairpieces those girls invest in. The
ornaments seem tawdry to US, being
cellu old limitations Of tortoise shell
let with artificial pearls and dia-
monds, but the Japanese girl highly
estcems them.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
A Capable Judge


My motive in asking Mrs. Cam
eron, who is one of the most famous
women travellers in the world, the
question was not to win encomiums
for New York, nor did she offer
any. Her reply in this respect, and
in another, as will appear later, was
surprising. | put the question be-
cause if any woman ever was an
authority on the interesting places
of the earth that woman is Mrs.
Cameron. She has made two trips
around the world. She has been
IN Egypt SIX times and in Russia
twice. She has visited South Amer
ica, Morocco, Alaska-but perha ps
, 1t would be easier to put it the
other way around She has been
IN every country in the world ex-
cept Australia, New Zealand and
some Of the islands in the South
Seas, ard was on her way 70 these
places when | saw her.
The interview took place IN the
famous Englishwoman's room at
the Hotel Pennsylvania. Souvenirs
and reminders Of her travels Were
plentlfully in evidence. Over the
back Of chair hung the fur Of u
silver fox she had bought Of q
tracer on her way to None. On
Inc dresser lay gold tipped brace
let made of the tusk of an el..phant
killed when Mrs. Cameron was IN
Africa. On the trunk lay beauti-
1ul robe made Of the breast skin
Of llama. It was a reminder Of a
little "a, s,o00-mile jaunt Mrs. Cam
eron had taken across and around
the Andes.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
MRS. CAMERON IN the
NA royal robes of the Chil-
kat Indians of Alaska

way: She and her husband and two
half-breeds, Skookum Jim and Tar
gish Charlie, were prospecting along
Bonanza Creek. Kate took up I
pan and began washing for gold il
the creek. In this she was NOR,
successful than she had hoped, an.
running eXcitedly up to where the
men were she showed them the pre-
cious yellow layer on the bottom
Of the pan.
Lived Life of Luxury
"Carmack and the others went to
work with their pans and confirmed
the presence of the gold, after which
they staked out claims. Carmack
became very wealthy indeed and took
Kate with him when he went on a
trip to the States. At San Fran
cisco Kate lived at the Palace Hotel
and had all the luxuries that money
could buy Afterward she and Car
mack separated, and she returned to
her old home. She died there about
two months after | saw her"
Mrs. Cameron also came across
another tragedy while in Alaska. In
one Of the villages she heard of a