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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-24
GRUBB TO BECOME MEMBER
FEDERAL HIGHWAY COUNCIL.

Charles f. Grubb, county engineer, has
been extended an invitation on the recon-
mendation of the Chamber of Commerce.
TO become a member Of the Federal High
way Council. Of Washington, ID. c. This
council is composed Of expert engineers
from all parts Of the country. The
Chamber Of Commerce was very much
by the reports Of road work in
this county made by Mr. Grubb.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-24

MOVING TO NEWARK.

Special Correspondence of Every Evening
Newark, Jan. 24--Dean A. l.. Culli-
more of the engineering department of
Delaware College had his household
goods moved to Newark n. j., this week.
Dean Cullimore recently WAS appointed
head of large engineering school in that
city and will assume his duties there
February |.
Howard X. Preston, Of Asbury Park,
n. j., formerly member of the local
college faculty who has been appointed
professor of engineering and mathematics
will occupy the house on Depot Road that
Dean Cullimore is vacating and is now
moving in
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-24
NEWS OF SEAFORD.

Special Correspondence of Every Evening
oeaford, Jan. 24-Mrs. r. G. Robinson,
of Wyoming spent part Of the week
here with her parents, Magistrate and
Mrs James h Phillips.
Walter J.. Rodney or Portland, Oregon,
was guest Of his sister, Mrs. Maggie r.
Messick, this week.
Mrs Belle j. Turpin, spent the week
with relatiyes and friends at Federals-
burg, Hurlock and Cambridge, Md
Mrs Ella G. Emery was at Pocomoke
City, Md, this week, a guest Of Mr. and
Mrs Farrell Bowen.
Congratulations are being received by
Mr.. and Mrs j.. J. Hardesty upon the
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-24
NEWS OF LAUREL.

Special Correspondence of Every Evening
Claude Phillips and Howard Culver
left Yesterday for Wilmington, New York
and Philadelphia, where they will spend
several DAYS
) George I. Figgs. who suffered serious
attack of tonsiltis while visiting his
family here, few weeks ago. has re-
covered and returned to Chester, Pa.
here he is employed.
Invitations have been received bN
friends here to the maria ge of Miss
Elizabeth Showell daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs John ID. Showell, to Breyard ID.
Stroheckcr TO tax e place at the home of
the brides parents, IN Ocean City, Md.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-24

of her mother on Cass street. Thursday
morning Miss Vaughan had been in poor
health for some time and spent last SUM
mcr at Saranac Lake. N. Y, Just before
Christmas she and her brother. Henry
Chamberlaine, were taken i'll with measles:
later pneumonia developed with Mildred
and Henry was taken i'll with diphtheria
Miss Vaughan was 2l years of age and
died on the twentieth anniversary of her
fathers death. She was niece of DIR.
Edward NJ Vaughan of Middletown and
Of Miss Clara Vaughan of Milton.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-24
RELIEVES, TIRED
ACHING MUSCLES
Buy a Bottle of SIoan's Lini-
merit and Keep it Handy
for Emergency.

IF only had some sloan's Linimentp'
How oftah you've said that! And then
when thd rheumatism twinge subsidized
after hoer Of suffering-you forgot it,
Don't doli agaln-get bottle today for
possible use tonight A sudden attack
may conle on-sciatica, lumbago sore
muscles, stiff joints, neuralgia. the pains
and achel resulting from exposure. You'll
soon re,iete it with Sloans, the liniment
that penesrates without rubbing.
3S years leadership. Clean, economical.
Three sizds-35c, zoe, sI.40
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-24
NEWS OF NEWARK.

Special Correspondence of Every Evening
Newark, Jan. 24-Mrs James Shell
lendger is at the Delaware Hospital,
Wilmington, where she recently under
went an operation.
Dean T.. Laurence Smith of Delaware
College is confined 10 his home with q
cold.
A. G. Wilkinson business administrator
at the college has been confined to his
home for week with the lunibago.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-24
PADDLES 2,216 MILES IN CANOE.

Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. ga 2,210 mile
journey in a canoe from Pittsburg to New
Orleans, La, has just been completed by
+. Z. ID enninger, Of this city, according
TO word received here today, The trip
down the Allegheny Ohio and Mississippi
r iYers was made in 54 days.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-24
DEATH OF YOUNG WOMAN.

special Correspondence Of Every Evening
Middletown, Jan. 24.-Miss Mildred
Vaughan, only daughter of Mrs. Eliza
beth Boyer fChamberlaine, and the late
DR.. Horace Vaughan, died at the homo
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-24
To Sink Oil Wells Under L. 5. Plan.

Mexico City, Thursday Jan. 22.-For-
ty five American petroleum companies
have telegraphed President Carranza
that they will petition for permits TO sink
wells under conditions laid down bu the
President. These provide that provisional
permits issued viii be good only until
congress enacts basic oil Legislation.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-24

Every Evenings classified advertise
ments bring results. Proved by the salts
action OF many and will be to yol. Adv
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-24
NEW RAIL RATE TO NET
U. S. s1OO,OOO,OOO TAX
ROADS TO BE UNDER INCOME
LAW PROVISIONS FOR FIRST
TIME SINCE PRE-WAR DAYS.
MORE REVENUE COMING

Additional Tax From Transportation
Is Expected to Put Huge Sum in
Golfers of the Government. Public
to Pay 1t, as Usual.
WASHINGTON.-Increased reve-
nues, officially estimated at 100000
900 annually, will accrue to the treas
ury as a result Of the advance in
transportation rates allowed the rail-
roads.
The added income for the govern
ment, officials said tonight, would be
derived from increased transportation
taxes which are paid by the public as
well as through operation of the in
come and excise provisions of the rev.
enue laws.
Transportation taxes for the fiscal
year ending June 30 aggregated APP
proximateiy 1921, 100000. This sum
was made up from the per cent. on
freight charges amounting to $780,
100000, the 8 per cent. tax on pas
senger tickets supplying 100000, 900,
and the 8 per cent tax on Pullman
charges producing 100000.
Should railroad traffic continue at
it's present volume all of these
amounts will be increased correspond
ingly with the advance permitted by
Che Interstate Commerce Commission
in its rate decision last Saturday. On
this basis officials of the bureau of
internal revenue calculate the addi-
tional taxes will aggregate $38,550,-
900 on freight, 100000 on passen-
ger and $3,500,000 on Pullman
charges.
Another source of revenue will be
from income taxes levied against the
railroad corporations. Railroad ex-
ecutives expect many Of the carriers
to earn sufficiently large returns I'M
der the new rates to compel the pay
ment of income taxes for the first time
since pre-war days. 1t is from this
source that the treasury expects to
obtain a large portion of the remain
ing $40, 900, 900 of their $100,000,00G
estimate. Officials placed the amount
from income taxes conservatively at
50,000,000 a year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-24
LOST U. S. GIRLS
in MEXIC COLONY
MANY OF THEM ARE WIVES OF
CHINESE IN TOWNS JUST
OVER THE BORDER.

NEUVO LAREDO, Mexico.-"The
Port of Missing Women"
: That describes this little Mexican
dobe town, perched on the edge of the
cactus desert of Nuevo Leon.
Here, according to U. S. immigra-
ton officers on the border, can be
found "lost girls" from every section
Of the United States.
Some are young and beautiful. They
are the NEW girls"
Others are i'll, withered women long
since forgotten back in the country
they love but never hope to see.
Most of them are white wives OF
Orientals-girls who through love OF
adventure married Chinese.
Girls Fault" He Says.
"Never in the history of Mexico
have so many white girls come to mar
ry Chinese" says Pedro Mendoza, po-
lice secretary here.
"The girls, not the men, are to
blame" he claims. "Never does the
Chinaman seek wife out of his own
district. The white girl comes here
With some it is adventure; with 9th
ers the strange infatuation which
can't be explained"
Mendoza told of the lives these
girls live. "They are Slaves" he said.
"The yellow man holds his wife as
chattel. The new girl will not stand
for this" Mendo7 said, "but soon Ger
md, weakened with the opium she is
taught to smoke, she does the China
mans bidding without complaint"
Hide Parents Name.
Mrs. Helen All Quin is a typical
case. She was the daughter of San
Diego grocer, she says. She refused
to tell her parents name.
81 went to Tijuana often" she said.
There I met Quin. He was good to
me. He gave me silks and drank his
rice wine. Then he taught me to
smoke. / fell in love with him. He is
good to me, and am happy, l don't
want my people to know, though. l
guess they think I'm dead"
For the same reason Mrs. Grace
Sam Lee is here. Her parents are
Pittsburgh people.
Not all of the white wives are like
these two educated and uncommonly
pretty girls.
All the women say their husbands
treat them well. The Chinaman, they
say, is the most chivalrous husband in
the world.
"That may be, but they cause us
more trouble than any other class,
Mendoza says.
"They weaken the girls minds and
then trade and sell them. Under the
old regime this was winked at. The
new government intends to deal with
the problems"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-24
AMERICAN BACHELORS EXCEED
SINGLE WOMEN BY 100000
ACCORDING TO CENSUS

America, the only nation where men
outnumber the women, is now supply
ing husbands for women of Europe
where there are not enough males to
90 round, say reports of the Imml-
grafton bureau. Approximately 434,-
600 persons, mostly men, sailed from
the United States in the year ended IN
June, according to reports OF the mn
migration commissioner, who said that
most of the men left to get married.
Single women of Europe and won1-
en- widowed by the war are coming to
the United States in the hope OF Sc
curing husbands, reports show. A ma
iority of the immigrants to the United
States are women, and 605,00O for
eigners came to American soil during
the last year.
Women outnumber men in France,
England, Italy and in nearly all other
European countries. This is partly a
result of the war. After the arm
istice thousands of English women
sailed to Australia and other colonies,
numbers of them frankly stating that
they were going to be married.
Conditions in the United States are
far different, for here, in 1910, the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-24
DISCOVERED BLACK
SNAKE MILKING COW
BIG RATHER APPEARS AND is
KILLED BY FARMER AFTER
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.

LUVERNE, Ala.-Tom Thagard, a
thoroughly reliable planter, res ding a
few miles west of here, reports a
thrilling experience on his plantation.
Going for cow staked in a pasture
near his residence. he discovered a
black snake apparently milking the
cow. At this juncture huge rattle
snake was seen rapidly approaching,
whereupon a lively race ensued.
The black snake made good its es-
cape, while it's pursuer became entan-
gled in the rope between the COW and
the stake. The COW, somewhat fright
ened, moved backward, thereby draw
ing the rope tight around the RATHER,
exciting his anger, when he began
fighting, striking with all his might
and speed, biting and piercing the
rope many times with his fangs.
Thagard, assisted by twa laborers
who were near, killed the rattlesnake,
which measured feet 81 inches in
length and had eighteen rattles.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-24
MANY OTHER DEMOCRATIC OF
FICEHOLDERS PLANNING TO
END WASHINGTON RESIDENCE.

President Wilson already is begin
ming to wind up affairs at the white
house preparatory to vacating on
March next.
His first step in getting ready to
Weld possession of the executive man
sion was an order that his flock OF
forty-eight sheep, which has become a
familiar sight on the white house lawn,
should be sold.
The presidents venture in sheep
raising has been most successful. The
herd has increased in numbers from
eighteen to forty-eight.
President Wilson, however, IS not
alone in beginning plans for change
of residence next March. Scores and
hundreds of men high in official cir
cles are giving less and less thought
to the problems ahead of them IN
their governmental jobs and more and
more thought to what they are. going
to do when the administration
changes. -,
Many of these win not wait until
March a to make change. Knowing
that. even though a democratic presi-
dent may be elected, the newcomer
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-24
DEATH THEIR ONLY
aim IN THIS LIFE
QUEER SECT MAKES MERRY AT
IT'S FUNERALS. DOESN'T APP
PROVE OF MARRIAGE.

BOSTON, Mass.-They laugh at
funerals and cry at weddings. :.
Their great aim, while living, is to
die.
And they call themselves the hap
piest people in the world.
Such are the queer facts concerning
an odd sect, members of which are to
be found only in northwest Sussex,
England. lockwood where many of
them alive, is called the topsyturvy
town, because so many ideas in life
seem to have been turned upside down.
A Saturday Blade correspondent,
who recently visited lockwood, reports
the results of his visit as follows:
8his is the topsy-turvy village
where there is set of people among
the inhabitants who cry at weddings
and laugh at funerals. They have no
interest in things which go to make
life bright and joyfuI-as we know it.
He's Waiting for Next World.
The last quarter of an hour has been
spent with a man who has confessed
to me that he is not of this world. To
him this life is merely nothing. 1t is
just a period of waiting. For what?
For the next world
He waits for one thing-Eternity--
in the same way as condemned muir
dered. To him and others of his be-
liefs the hereafter is the only thing
that matters.
This man is Mr.. Henry Aylward, an
elder of that curious and long-found-
ed sect, the Dependent Brethren.
This pretty little hamlet of Lox-
wood is the headquarters of the Breth-
rem. A more appropriate place for a
set of people who live in world of
their own could not be imagined, for
when a stranger finds himself in Lox-
wood the first thing that strikes him
is that he is in a new world.
Don't Approve Of Marriage.
Mr.. Awkward is a pleasant-faced
man bordering on so, and gives one the
curious and uncanny impression during
conversation that between each re-
mark he fits away into the next world,
of which he talks so much, for what
seems like hours, but is actually per-
haps half minute. He then ere
turns" continues talking and once
more disappears
In accordance with his principles
which are the principles of the De-
pendent Brethren-Mr. Aylward is a
single man. Marriage among them, if
not actually discouraged, is certainly
not encouraged, and any possibility of
match" being made between the
younger members of the sect is look
ed upon by all others as all wrong"
1--WE are the happiest people on
EARTH" Mr.. Awkward told me. eve
thoroughly enjoy ourselves-in our
own way-2rd we do not deny others
who derive so-called pleasure from the
ordinary things of life.
"0ur enjoyment is Wanting for
eternity, which, when all is said, is
the only thing that matters"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-24
81 LOOPS.
Miss BrOmwell Sets Air Record;
Claims She Counted 100
Turns During Drop.

NEW YORK-Eighty-seven
loops in the course of two mile
airplane drop, claimed as world
record for women, disturbed
Miss aura Bromwell Just
enougy0r Sunday so her first
over the ee1st1 Se cockpit
that her maid he. pow
der puff.
Then she asked the oftr,
servers how many turns I'll,
counted, and when told eighty
sevein, she exclaimed that she
counted more than one hundred
herself.
The observers explained that
weather conditions cut off their
A French woman filler had set
drop, and that she was turning
loops when she first came in
sight.
A French womna flier had set
the previous record at twenty
five, they said.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-24
CUBAN MONTE CARLO
TALE BOBS UP AGAIN
AMERICANS TO SPEND FIFTY
MILLION DOLLARS IN HA-
VANA IS REPORT.
11-nAWSON NEWS


Observation-Disclosures inter-
ests are planning to invest approx
matelv S5O,OOO,O00 within the next
few months in an attempt to help
make "wet" Havana the Monte Carlo
of the western hemisphere, according
to informal reports reaching commerce
department officials here.
Shipping companies are making
plans for a rush of vacationists to Ha-
vana next winter, who are expected
to leave there additional millions.
Representatives of hotel interests OF
Cuba are in the United States inspect
ing hotels and studying the likes and
disHkes of the American tourist Pub
licity men are being retained to pre-
pare copy for distribution to newspa-
pers next fall and winter setting forth
the beauties of Cuba in glowing man.
ner. Cuban business men are report
ed to be counting on an increasing
amount of American patronage.
American sugar reffners already
have begun to acquire plantations to
grow cane and machinery to prepare
it for expectation to the United
States. At least $10,000,000 will be
spent in this way in the next few
months, according to Howard E. Figg,
general assistant attorney, with
whom refineTs discussed their plans
before taking action.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-24
FLANDERS FIELDS
IN BLOOM AGAIN
PLOWED BY GERMAN SHELLS
AND FERTILIZED WITH GER
MAN GAS SOIL is PRODUCTIVE.

NEW YORK.-Devastated France is
now fertile agricultural country, rich
with red clover and alfalfa. German
shells did the blowing and German
man poison gas fortified the soil. The
great need of France today is labor,
saving devices which can be welded
by the old men and boys, who are the
only farmers left.
This was the report brought back
from France by Hugh Fullerton, OF
the Long Island Agricultural Expert
ment Station, on behalf of the Amerl-
can Committee for Devastated France
of which Miss Anne Morgan is the
head. Mr.. Fullerton discussed the
needs of France at meeting at the
Headquarters of the committee.
"Tke French agriculturists believed
that the devastated areas would never
again be productive" he said. u
was over two months ago convinced
that this was not true, because l had
experience in tearing up Long Island
soil with dynamite and had found the
subsoil fertile. 1t is an old axiom OF
agriculture that the subsoil cannot be
productive, and the French govern
ment.( acting on the premise had con-
demned large portions of what used to
be the most productive areas OF
France.
"In company with Miss Morgan and
representatives Of the French govern
ment. | visited one Of the worst bits
of the Iisne war zone. 1t was Red
Monkey plateau which was taken and
retaken eighteen times. Not trace
of cellar wall remains to tell of its
villages, and the soil was overturned
to the depth of two to five feet.
Deep in Red Clover.
cat the foot of the hill the French
experts were still maintaining that
nothing could grow there. When we
reached the top we found ourselves
wading knee deep through the richest
red clover | have ever seen. The
leaves were as big as silver dollars.
Alfalfa covered the deepest holes.
az will say this for the French:
They are prompt to admit their err
ror. Within two days the order con-
demning this territory was revoked.
Four thousand people returned to
their old homes in one day.
Shells PlOwed Deep Soil.
at appears that the blowing done
bv the shells brought to the surface
the deep soil which contains valuable
materials of which the top soil, used
for generations, had been depleted.
Riding through France one can trace
the lines of the trenches, now filled in
and planted, by the richer, darker
green of the wheat growing in the
deep plowed soil.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-24
new YORK APARTMENT
RENTS FOR $4,000 A YEAR
Has y Rooms. Including Nine Baths
And Is Finished and Furnished
Luxuriously.

Although the housing situation Is
acute in New York City, there are
some vacant apartments which can be
rented. For instance, there is a %
room apartment on Fifth avenue, fac
ing Central park. The apartment has
nine baths, individual laundry ano
storage rooms, spacious quarters fol
servants, and at a nominal rental-a
mere matter of $4,000 a year, OF
about $3.50 an hour.
Of course this is unfinished, but
the finish" of the apartment is of the
finest obtainable, including imported
mantels and floors Of black walnut
Even though some people might con-
slider the rental a trifle exorbitant the
apartments are nearly always rented
IN fact, many of the leases were sign
ed long before the building was fin
lshed In such cases the apartents
We're divided to suit the tenant, and
as each apartment occupies an entire
moor, it was possible to suit the taste
OF each individual without interfering
with any one else.
The apartment house at 800 Fifth
avenue, where the apartments rent
from $4,000 up, is the most expen-
SlVe one in the city. The apartments
are furnished in keeping with the rem
.SlS' The most costly rugs, draperies
ana furniture have been obtained.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-24
The CONGRESSIONAL RECORD"
COST $537, $40 LAST YEAR
Expense of Government Publication
Was S701,790 in 1917, When Con-
gress Did More Talking.

WASHINGTON cost of pub
fishing the Congressional Record"
the government publication recording
daily everything that is said and done
in Congress, as well as some things
outside, was $537, $40 last year, pr&ctl-
cally the same as for 1919, but about
100000 less than the 1917 cost.
These figures were given recently
by Russell O. Beene, accountant at the
Government Printing Office, in answer
to an inquiry of Representative Hagee,
of New York, as to the possible saw
ing that would result from the discon-
tinuance of the Record" Mr.. Beene
gave the cost for 1917 as 1901, 790.88
and for 1918 as $537, $40.
Cornelius Ford, the public printer,
was asked for an explanation of the
gress did more talking" that year
high figure in 1917, but confessed his
ignorance unless it happened that con-
gress "did more talking" that year.
Mr.. Ford said that in 1917 congress
was in session $50 days; in 1918, 307
days, and in 1919, 279 days.
The printed pages in the Record"
for these years were 652,511, 1854 in
1917; 500, 672,587 in 1918, and 1885,
130.450 in 1919. The cost of paper
has increased greatly within the last
three years, but the use of lighter
and less expensive quality has helped
reduce the aggregate cost of the pa
per used For 1919 the paper cost
was $4,000, as compared with $780,
900 in 1918 and 100000 in 1917.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-24
GENTLEMAN.
Villa Wires Notice to General
Martinez That He Is On His
Way to Surrender.

SAN PEDRO, CoAHULIA,
Mex.-"On Monday l will have
the pleasure of seeing you in San.
Pedro. l salute you very cordial
ly. "FRANCISCO VILLA"
This telegram, received Satur-
day night by Gen. Euginia Mari
nez, who made arrangements for
the surrender of the Villistas, in
dicated that the bandit chieftain
was on his way here to lay down
his arms and become a gentleman
rancher.
The surrender will cost the fed
eral government $1,500,00 in gold,
according to estimates of Gen.
Mariner.
Villa will be permitted to pick
out fifty of his officers; no mat
ter how high their rank, whom he
will retain as a personal body
guard as long as he lives.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-24
MILLIONAIRE AND NINETEEN
OTHERS HELD GUILTY AS REDS

NEW YORK. = William Bross
Lloyd millionaire socialist, and nine
teen other members of the communist
labor party, tonight were found gull
ty of a conspiracy to overthrow the
government of the United States.
The defendants were given various
sentences, most of them getting from
one to five years in the penitentiary, a
few being given fines in addition. Sew
eral were sentenced to one year in jail.
Lloyd got the heaviest sentence, being
given one to five years in the peniten-
tiary and a fine of $4,000 in addition.
The twenty defendants helped or
ganize the communist labor party here
last September.