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Smyrna times., 1920-03-31
.EASTON DISTRICT MAKES
5 SHOWING At CONFERENCE
ANNUAL REPORT OF DISTRICT
SUPERINTENDENT w. A. WISE
Two New Churches Erected. 835 Con-
versions and the Centenary Cam
paign Endorsed Temporarily

paign Endorsed Temporarily
Two new churches erected, one
transformed" plans for another
church edifice, a new parsonage at
one place, a mortgage lifted, five
vacant rastoratcs filled and numer-
Gus improvements and changes for
the better is the record made by the
Easton district in the report submit
ted to the forty-secOnd annual confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
Church Tuesday by Rev. w. A. Wise,
district superintendent.
Doctor Wise said no taking charge
of EastOn district he had found five
of the forty-fve pastorates vacant.
These had been filled.
For the most part the health of
the pastors and their families had
been good, he said. Among those
now i'll are ]. A. Lynch, z. H. Web
ster, M. E. Wheatley a nd Mrs
Wheatley. James Monroe Mitchell,
Charles Arnett Hill, Joseph Allen
Arters and Clinton Thomas Wyatt
had died.
"In the area evangelistic campaign
program, Doctor Wise said, "there
were 1886 conversions. The centen-
ary campaign brought definite and
continued blessing to me districts.
In almost every charge clearer vision
as to personal ability, privilege and
obligation is a part of the result"
A new church was erected at Kent
Island at an expense of $4,000. At
Henderson, a new church edifice was
erected, the pastor himself acting as
architect, stone mason, carpenter,
painter, plumber, electrician and the
like. At Bridgeton and Busic, the
churches have been reroofed and
otherwise improved. Prices on
Church Hill has been greatly i'm
proved through gift of $2500.
At Denton a fine site for a church
edifice costing $4,000, on which $4,000
has been paid, has been purchased
and a new church will be erected
there. At Centerville a new parson-
age more comfortable than the old
one, has been obtained. At Queens
town steps are being taken to pro-
vide the pastor of the circuit with
convenient church home and residence
At Betterton the entire indebted
ness has been paid off. At CeciltOn
new community hall has been pro-
vided and the officials of the two
churches there are cooperating for
thorough church work. In the mat
ter of finances, Doctor Wise reported
the district had remitted to the New
York offices for the annual benevO-
lence S5O,O51.
The condition of the Sunday
Schools is unsatisfactory, Doctor
Wise said. In 1917 there were re-
ported ninety schools, with a member
ship of 11,793. In 1888, SO schools
with membership of 1866. In 1919
there were 83 schools and member
ship of 1854.
The total of funds raised the past
year on the district for ministerial
charges was as follows: Ministerial
support, $48,945; contingent relief,
$349; centenary, $5O,O51; other bene-
volences, $4,000; improvements and
old Indebtedness, $24,678; tota !,
Sl25,S23.
Smyrna times., 1920-03-31

A bill has been introduced in the
Maryland legislature to increase the
marriage license fee in that State
from 81 to So.
Smyrna times., 1920-03-31

On March 18th. a black fur neck piece be
tween Presbyterian Church and my home oI
Delaware Street. Reward IL returned to
MRS. MARGARET CARR,
fhohe lz3 h-lz Smyrna, Del.
The courier-index., 1920-05-14
No Flirting in Fiji Islands.

Sexes seldom meet in any form of so- cial intercourse in the islands of Fiji. The boys never flirt with, nor even seem to notice the girls. In public there is a never diminishing distance between them, giving the island an ap- pearance of being a world without love-making, and portraying primitive life as unromantic. The girls are shy, and manifest a timid reticence.
 Sydney Greenbie, writing in Harp CTS Magazine, says tke male Fijian Is extremely timid, but, for all that, none the less fastidious. The care with which he trains and curls his hair would put to shame any impatient hus- band of the vainest of white women. The Fijian is particular about his hair without being necessarily girlish in his ways. Curls are made by fine sub- stitute for soap made of mixture of burnt coral with water. This is left in the hair for day or two. When washed out and dried the hair Is curled and combed and anointed. It Is excellent from the point of view of sanitation, and makes the Fijian proud of his hair.-Exchange.
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Queer War Money.

Some very odd kinds of money were Brought into circulation during the |Far owing to the scarcity of copper |and nickel. Germany issued hundreds |of millions of five-pfennig and ten |pfennig iron coins, the latter output |pf these pieces being coated with zinc Flo prevent rust. Iron coins were like &wlse minted by the governments Of
 Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The |Germans issued one-pfennig pieces of |aluminum, and in Algeria also alum |inum coins of five centimes and ten |tentlmes made their appearance in cir. Ecuation. Germany issued muslin notes, |and the local governments in that coun- |try and in Austria printed paper money |cf the smallest value ever known, rep |resenting one-fifth of a cent. Even more curious was the pasteboard HmOney issged in some of the enemy occupied cities in France. It was in Denominations up to Ave francs, and |Was of different colors and shapes
 square, round, octagonal. oval and dia- mond shaped. This "card money" was
 guaranteed by the local municipality, and was good only for use in transac- non with merchants of the town where t was issued.
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No Birthday Anniversary.

II is possible for a baby born this year never again to have birthday. |for this Is leap year, and a baby born 'On the right spot at the right time will smost certainly have no birthdays to Aeep. This has actually happened to oaoy who was born during the voy- age rom Yokohama to San Francisco 0u the last day of February, 1904.
 II IS well known that in order to make the actual number of sunrises anu sunsets experienced during a voy- ase s, round the world correspond with as calendar an extra day must be in- e'Ca'ated or thrown overheard" ac- sV,ulng to the direction travelled. This aulustment Is made at the moment of e'osslng the one hundred and eightieth s'er'olan, which runs to the west of VI, aidway point between Japan and
 Anu baby born on February 30 aust De content to do without birth sass' unless he or she should happen ., oe on a similar spot at the same M ne in some future leap year, which
 ,.'u De rather wild improbability.
 manchester Guardian.
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FIorida's old Sugar Mill.

The old sugar mill at New Smyrna, Fla, about 12 miles down the coast from Daytona, stands amid moss hung trees as a picturesque and legend haunted relic of the ill-fated colonizing enterprise that in 1769 brought 1,5OO Minorcans, Greeks and Italians to that region, and for few brief years thereafter transformed seven miles of vine tangled swamp land. along the coast into orderly little plantations where grew Indian corn, cotton, rice, indigo plants and sugar cane. And 1t was probably for the crushing of this cane, plant no longer grown in the vicinity, that the colonists built the old mill. The walls and machinery beds they made of coquina, a soft, whitish stone formed of broken shells and corals, cemented together by na- 'ture. The iron crushing machinery it. self probably erected at later period to replace the colonists' cruder appa- ratus, is nevertheless remarkable for its century long resistance to the fierce corrosion of the tropic damp, which quickly consumes unpainted ironwork.
 It should be spelt Sugar.
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MERELY "0LD MAN JONES"
Ordinary Citizen, But He Drew Some thing of a EuIogy From California
 Newspaper Writer. .>s

Maybe you didn't know Old Man Jones' He was a printer, and he died last week, and there was piece about him in the paper. The piece was four lines long and it was on the thirty sixth page of the paper in the lower right-hand corner under an advertise ment about soap or something.
 Maybe you diNn't see the piece in the paper. No? We'll, it is no wonder. There is so much in the papers, and old Jones didn't amount to anything, anyway. At least, he was of no i'm portance. You could not expect the paper to give him any more room when he died That same day there was big scandal in high society, there was a revolution in Germany, seven people were caught drinking liquor, movie ''vamp" said her diamonds were stolen, and lot of other very important things happened. Old Jones was lucky to get even those four lines in the last hidden corner of the last page.
 And, besides all that, we are very sure that old Jones didn't and wouldn't give a whoop if the paper never even mentioned that he was dead. He had left the country and was in another country far more to his liking. He was with Socrates and Homer and the old gods and fighting men that he knew and loved in greasy books that he found in cheap secondhand stores and garbage cans where they had been discarded.
 Many a sunny hour have we spent with old Jones, learning from him things we never knew before. For 50 years he had read books that opened up Paradise to him. His life was spent happily. Death meant to him merely another journey which, at the last, he was eager to take. He was very wise and always very kind, and usually poor.
 Now, he is with 10000 yesterdays and as quickly forgotten as though he had been a king or millionaire.
 Good-by, old Jones. Give our kind est regards to Socrates and all the other fellows out yonder In the Shad- ow Land.-Los Angeles Times.
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Old pweIlino Now a Theater.

The Sip manor, built in 1666. has been sold and will be razed to make way for moving picture theater. The manor stands at Bergen avenue and Newkirk street, Jersey City, ana is said to be the oldest structure Tn this part of the world. New York correspondent of the Pittsburgh DIS patch writes. The site for the manor was granted on January 2, 1862, by Potrus Styvesant to Nicholos Varieth and Balthazar Bayard. In 1776' Lord CornwallIs and a troop of British ln- fantry passed through what was then Bergen and the English commander slept in the Sip manor that night When Lafayette visited Colvarick' in Bergen, he planted two elm trees near the Sip manor.
 The old dwelling was erected or stones gathered in the neighborhood and filled in with yellow clay and rub ble, The place has been improved from time to time. but the original walls stand today as they were when built.
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Donkey Gave .4a-Ha."

,,., was strolling along a shady lane o.su .u tne girl of my choice. On the ,n I'Aer Side of the fence was a donkey fo, pasture. I hardly noticed him, nose, was trying to frame a proper pro of or Just then an automobile load hIpbr.s sequaintances sped along the knom,y ky a short distance from us. and enao.",s they must have noticed my ion manner toward my compan- I ma. oecame embarrassed. However ms,a, auaged to blurt out a proposal of stsns's stasei wherehpon the donkey. woke re mere so dejectedly, suddenly bray to p enough to lift his head and who wo S~ .ne amusement of our friends, To can !, SUI near enough to hear it. -@---.r..ne .ne climax, the girl also gave
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It should be spelt Sugar.
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SHOES TELL TALE
Criminals Tracks as Good as His
 Calling Card.
interesting Story of How Hun Agent Who Attempted to Blow Up Mu- milton Plant Was Speedily
 Brought to Justice.

During the late war, while labor trou- cles, strikes and rioting were brought about by enemy agents, which inter- fered with the production of war ma terial, a daring attempt was made to de- stroy large intuition plant. But the bomb planted under a pile of boxes in the factory failed to explode, says the Boston Globe.
 The criminal forced entrance through a window by the use of jimmy; his f1ngerprints were found smeared all over doorknobs and window sills; but he had worn gloves and the prints were useless as evidence.
 Deep foot impressions pointing to- ward the factory were found on the grounds surrounding the plant. These were traced to the window where the entrance had been forced.
 The deep footprints indicated that the one who made them had been carrying heavy object, and as he had taken long steps, it showed he was tall man. A chiropodist stationed at a nearby army camp was called into the case and he made several casts of the footprints leading to the factory.
 The results of the casts showed that the criminal had worn pointed-toed, English last shoe, with broad heel {; the shoe had been recently half-soled, and that there were heel plates of a foreign make on the heels. There was a marked pronation of the internal lat eral border and also a marked abduc- tion of the right foot, which proved a fiat right foot.
 Who was this "John Doe" with a marked right foot, wearing pointed toed, English last shoes, recently half soled, with foreign make plates on the heels? What cobbler carried import ed heel plates and hH lately attached pair to newly haIf-soled, pointed toed, English last shoe?
 The rest was easy. John Doe was apprehended within AS hours and Is now behind prison bars.
 In footprints the same ridge forma- ton will be found as in fngerprints. but footprints taken from the bare foot are only found occasionally, because most people wear. shoes. Shoe and boot prints may at times play an im- portant part in the detection of crime. because they reproduce the character istics of the wearer.
 Pediatrists claim that determination Is indicated by the feet kept in par allel position; calculative and curl ous person toes out considerably; shift lessness and hesitancy is indicated in a swaying walk while good health is shown by brisk gait. Sick people drag their feet along the ground.
 In the examination of shoe or boot prints we will be able to determine the exact type of the shoe worn. It will also show heel plates. patches, pegs, stitches. extra nails, and where the shoe is worn more or less.
 All these marks present very strong evidence that may lead to the appre' hension of a criminal; as each indi' yidual by the reason of his own pc culiar gait manner of walking. etc. wears out every pair of shoes in the very same areas.
The courier-index., 1920-05-14
ON RAILS OF WOOD
transport System Supplies 10 kIaskan . territory and Does Ex-
 " ceIIent Work.

ooustsd of Fairbanks, Aiaska'
 o ,.r r and operator of one or the
 us v.hest north" railways in the woriu; Q ,n
 lar'ne1 anroad system" consists or 10
 s iai" mooden rails that stretch De-
 lies Vt tho head of navigation on the
 .no river to the rich placer
 oiO'' ahove some 75 miles overland
 lne' M ra,rbanks. The motive power or
 O rollroad is a motor car' ana It mas
 .a heroic work for the last two sea
 ons @ in initiating genuine steam io- Zomotive. @ Mir. Gaustad went to Alas
 in the big rush of '9e.
 m hove sawmill half way between Tolovana M placers and the head Of \ *pr,aotion on the river" be said re-
 nt,r In Los Angeles. eFor two years < have operated the railroad to haui {ocs to my mill, and from there 10
 an, tbe sawed lumber to the mines. <ao track is 15 miles long and IS or +aOdon rails. The motor car IS, or sourse, equipped with Hanged wheels i .s houls A little train of three cars |behind it. i In tbis fashion have hauled loads
 s high as six tons. In addition to the ,,mher I haul all supplies from the kood of navigation on the river to the hines. and get seO a ton for transport Inr them. Sometimes I make eight or siup trips a day, and this year the car ,overed over 5000 miles in the course |of the season.
 aTbe war brought great hardship to sbe gold miners of Alaska, for. ewing to inc depreciated value of the dollar, abpir gold is worth but little more than Balf what it was five years ago. Con- |seOuently many of the mines are shut down, for the producers figure 1t IS hot worth while to pay excessive la Nor costs to mine gold worth only half |Drice
 I Few people realize the immense |distances in Alaska. From. my rail- |road, for example, it is 1,600 miles to |tdewater by way of the Yukon river. "The gasoline I burn in my car costs .ne S5 cents a gallon. From the Pa 4tifc Commercial Advertiser.
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sImpIifIes Launchlnqs.

i A big steel cargo boat was launched successfully some weeks ago by the throw of a single electric switch, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. Side wise launchings have been precipitated hitherto by skilled axmen, who chopped through the launching cables at a given signal. Inattention on the part of one man, with this old method
 sometimes resulted in an uneven prog ress down the ways, or even in disas- ter. With the new system, heavy wooden guillotines take the places or the axmen. The weighted blades are held at the tops of the frames by the attraction of electromagnets: when the
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If you buy today you escape to- morrow's rise.
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Sugar prices will can the canning his year.
The courier-index., 1920-05-14

Audiences abroad pay to hear prohibition discussed" Tell it to Bryan.
The courier-index., 1920-05-14

Before embarking on kissing career, Pershing should ponder Hob sons fate.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-27
s1.5O PER YEAR in ADVANCE
$500 PER YEAR ON TIME
TAMBLYN BROS Publishers.
YOUR LIBERTY BOND
The United States Government

The United States Government bor-
rowed money from you to finance the
War. You hold the Governments
promise to pay you back. This prom
ise is called a Liberty Bond or Victory
Note On this Bond is stated the on
ditions under which the Gvernment
borrowed he money from you.
For instance: II you hold a Bond
Of the Third Liberty Loan, 1t states
that on April 18th and October 18th
CT each year until maturity, you will
receive interest on the amount you
paid for the Bond. Other issues bear
ether rates OF interest and other ma
turity dates. all OF which are clearly
stated on the Bond.
Now, II you keep your Bond until
the date the Government pays you in
full for 1t, you do not need to worry
If, in the meantime. the price is low
one day or high the next. You and
Uncle Sam are living up to your agree
ment with each other, and neither will
lose by 1t.
On the other hand, IL you sell your
Liberty Bond now, you will find that
the man you sell It to will not give
you a dollar for every dollar you paid
for it. The price has been brought
down because so many people are Of
f6ring to sell their Bonds. II the mar
ket Is flooded with tomatoes, you car
buy them cheap, but II everyone is
clamouring for tomatoes and there
are few to be had, the price goes up.
The same is true of Liberty Bonds.
Short-sighted people are dumping
them on the market, and wise ones are
buying them.
The best advice that can be given
10 the owner of a Liberty Bond is this:
Hold the bond You bought during the
war; 1t is as safe and sound as the
United States Government itself.
Buy as many more at the present
low rate as you can afford. II you
hold them to maturity. you are bound
10 make the difference between what
they sell at now and their face value.
You will also receive good interest ON
your investment.
Hold on to your Liberty Bonds and
buy more.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-27
WHAT GREAT JUDGES
THINK OF RICHARD
FAIRFAX, JR.

ii lady speaker from the Board Of the
Northwest. All are invited to hear the
speaker at 8 p. m. sharp. A good time
is assured either in the house or lawn
according to the weather.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-27
F~ORMALDEHYDEI
Collins . shaw.

Mrs. Geo. Glyenhammer. Of Alexan-
dria. and her small brother Kenneth
Erickson, Of Gayville, s. D.. spent
commencement week with their cousin
Miss Delylah McPeek.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-27

The summer school of Mankato Com
mercial College, Mankato. Mimi, is
now in session. Students may enter
at any time. Send for free catalog.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-27

The Presbyterian Aid Society will
meet at the home of Mrs Waite as
sisted by Medames Andersons Goudie
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-27
interior improvements.

LOST-Friday evening on road be-
tween Miller and Howell, girls gold
wrist watch. Liberal reward to finder.
Mrs. S. ID Fleming,
Miller, S. d.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-27

Miss Jessie Caldwell departed Sat-
urday evening for her home at
Drookings after closing her term as
Domestic Science instructor in the
High School.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-27

Joe Clouse returned Wednesday
loon from Huron. where he had at
tended the shorthorn sale. Mr.. Clouse
purchased several head at this sale.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-27

A. Fl. Churchill accompanied the
Ease ball team to Aberdeen Tuesday
evening, to be present at the opening
game between the two teams.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-27

Crescent Chapter No. 4 o. z. 8. will
meet in regular session Tuesday oven
ing. June /. Comforting of degrees.
Luverna Wilson. Secy.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-27

Nate johnson IL making extensive
Improvements on the Scenic theatre
Among other things. = nsw cement n
try WY y being put IN, together with
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-27

Minnesota Pure Boiled Linseed Oil.
Scoield's.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-27

The Misses Bertha Johnson and Hell
en- Hummer. and AL Hayes and Walter
Hanson. Of Huron spent Sunday in this
city. the guests OF Miss Gertrude Caha-
Ian.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-27

Treat your wheat with Fermalde-
hyde Collins q Shaw.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-27

/ am prepared to do all kinds OF
watch. clock and jewelry repairing
w. D. johnson
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-27

Closing out a $4,000 stock Of stock.
ings at less than cost. Scofeld's.
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Goodyear castings and tubes.
Scofields'.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-27

Buy a pair of stockings and we give
you a pair. Scofield's.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-27

Stockings at " price. Scoield's.
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Minnesota Paints, sconeld's.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-09
U. S. MARINE POLICY
IS DECLARED UNFAIR
Belgian Ship Owner Attacks
Alleged Recruiting Appeals.

GENOA, July "a vigorous attack
against the American marine policy was
made by Emile Deckers, Belgian ship
owners delegate, at today's plenary dis
cussion of the International Seamen'
conference. He charged unfair meth
DDS on the part of America, which, he
declared, would ''paralyZe the work OF
the conference"
M, Deckers read a letter said TO have
been sent TO seaman of many countries
by Silas Blake Axtell. of New York, at
torney for the Seamen's Union OF North
America. This letter purported 10 De
an appeal to seAmen TO join the Amer
ican merchant marine. offering both
moral and pecuniary Inducements.
let the country that made seamen
free be your country the letter SAID,
s'Carry the Stars and Stripes into every
port Of the world on ships manned by
brave crews of Americans.
M. Deckers declared similar appeals
had been sent Belgian soldiers who are
being demobilized, and he also referred
among other things, to various ad-
dresses by United States Senator ives
lev l.. Jones, In defense OF the Amerl-
can marine act He said Senator Jones
had demanded preferential railroad
rates for American export shipping, ae-
claring I'VE are entering no sunday
school picnic in seeking our part OF the
world carrying trade, ,-,-.,
The speaker declared America desired
to appear capable of giving. millen-
ium TO the world" and added:
isn't 1t preconeeived plan 10 de-
stroy the European merchant marine
especially that Of small countries ike
mine? Shouldn't we do something 10
protect ourselves against these at
tempts from America