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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-12-31

She was a CHEEKY little thing, sought
by everyone who needed help-girls
brought their love affairs to her sym
pathetic ear, and married women con-
ided their minor troubles, while in
their hearts they pitied her because
she did not belong to their ranks.
With these thoughts revolving in his
mind, like the wheel in a squirrel cage,
Jeremiah watched Oscars bright tools
as he chiseled out the letters
"S-U-S-A-"
"Unless she dies right away-why,
she might get married before she gets
"A chance to use it," burst u Jere-
miah.
Oscar nodded. And if Ed Finney
m home and marries her and she
couldn't use if because of her name not
being Ricketts, any more-a good tomb
stund'd go to waste" he said gloom
lily.
Jeremiah groaned and plodded on to
the post office, where he found the
usual crowd of loungers, with the add
ed interest of several strangers who
had arrived on the mail train. One
of these, a big, brown man, dealt Jere-
miah a singing slap on the shoulder
and then gripped his hand.
well, Jerry Hart, FL bet you don't
know me y he doomed in a deep voice.
"Dog-gone it. I don't wanter,'
snarled jeremiah, backing off, and
every one laughed.
The stranger rubbed Jeremiah's
shoulder. I'm sorry, Jerry, but it pays
you back for the licking you gave me
once down by the old frog pond-don't
remember Ed Finney?"
ED Finney What'd you come home
for? Thought all your folks moved out
to Idaho?"
S they did came East to sell
some cattle-and thought I'd take q
look around the old town." smiled Ed
Finney. but Jeremiah thought there
was a purpose behind the careless
glance of those gray eyes. He stood
aside while Ed shook hands and joked
with his old friends and after a while
he reached nut and touched Mr.. Fin,
ney's "a blue serge arm.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-12-31
GREAT QUEEN AS A DIPLOMAT
Elizabeth of England, Eccentric and
Able, Curried Favor With Her
Loving People,"

Queen Elizabeth of England had
all the instincts of a politician, be-
sides being one Of the most eccentric
of English rulers. Among other pop
ular customs, she was wont to honor
Greenwich fair with her presence. On
one of these occasions she came rid
ing on a pillion behind her favorite
master of the horse, Leicester, and
the people not only greeted her with
great acclaim, as was their custom
when she appeared among them, but
in their eagerness to get near her,
to catch a look, a word, or perhaps
snatch a jeweled button or aiglet from
her dress, crowded her majesty almost
to suffocation.
Her noble equerry then, as a mat
ter of necessity, used his riding whip
very smartly to drive the crowd back,
whereupon her majesty %graciously in
terfered ever and anon, crying: 'Pri-
thee. my lord, take heed that thou do
not hurt my loving people!"
But when, in obedience to these ten
der remonstrances, he desisted, and
she found herself again surrounded by
the swarming crowd, and her progress
impeded, she would call to the earl in
a low voice. "Cut them again, my lord.
cut them againr"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-12-31
cIearino the way for Jones.

A celebrated ~revivalist came to aG-
dress his flock, and before he began
to speak the pastor said: Brother
Jones, before you begin this discourse,
there are some powerful bad negroes
in this here congregation, and l want
to pray for you. which he did in this
fashion:
20 Lord, give Brother Jones the eye
of the eagle, that he may see sin from
afar. Give his ear to the Gospel tel
ephone and connect him with the CEN
trail skies. illuminate his brow with a
brightness that viii make the fires of
hell look like a tallow candle. Nail
mis- hands to the Gospel pillow. and
bow his head in some lonesome valley
where prayer is much wanted TO be
said, and anoint him all over with
the kerosene oil of thy salvation and
SET him aire."
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-12-31
A Tombstone
for Susan
BY MACKIE

t@, 1920. by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate)
For the love O. Petei" jeremiah
Hart leaned over the fence and
watched with amazed eyes as Oscar
Plumb. the local %stonecutter, Clipped
away at a slab of snowy marble. rs
Susie ricketts, dead?" he gasped at
last.
Oscars teeth gripped his pipe and he
turned a wary eye toward Susan Rick
cts windows. He was n%ervously aware
that Susan was watching him from
some vantage point and he wondered
whether she would object most to the
marble chips on her orchard grass or
to the fact that he was wasting some
of her time to speak to a passing
neighbor.
mo, she amt dead" he said, after
a while.
Not dead?" insisted jeremiah in
cr~edulously.
Not yeti" roared Oscar. mot yeti"
"Sick?"
Nope"
"Then-why-the tombstone?"
Because she wanted to-that's rea-
son enough-it's enough for me-" he
suddenly chuckled. "The Ricketses al
ways was forehanded, y know, Jerry"
jeremiah sagged weakly against the
fence. His mind was incapable of re-
adjustment after such a shock. First
the sight of Oscar Plumb sitting in
Susan Ricketts, orchard, placidly cut
ting into a slab of white marble, was
disturbing enough-Oscar's place for
chipping tombstones was in his little
stoneyard by the river, or, on rare oc-
casions, in the c%hurchyard. Second,
the idea of Susan's thinking of any
thing so practical was absurd in itself
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-12-31
OF EUROPE'S
CHILDREN STAGGERS
100000 Facing Starvation Can
Only Be Saved by Americas
Response to Joint Appeal.

1t is utterly impossible for one who
has not actually seen the misery of
the early Autumn III Europe to visual
lie what the children of the Eastern
and Central portions of the Continent
face this winter. To say that 100000
children have no alternative to starva-
ton or death from disease except
American aid, is startling, but independ-
ent observers by the score and care
full scientific surveys of the economic
and crop conditions overseas brand
the figure as conservative.
In Poland, for instance. Were 1,30S,-
900 youngsters last year subsisted al
most entirely Oh the one free Ameri-
can meal a day that they received. con-
ditions as winter closes down, are
worse than ever before. The Bolshe-
vik invasion stripped large p ,rtions of
the country of all grain. Professor
e. D. Durand, Food Advisor to the
Polish government, after an exhaustive
survey, has reported that only forty
per cent is available of the food neces-
sary to carry the population through
the winter.
In the city of Vienna tests conducted
IN the American Relief Administration
food kitchens showed that 80 per cent
of the children between the ages of 6
and IA were seriously under-nourish-
ed" Thirty-three per cent were mark
eddy under-nourished, II per cent were
slightly subnormal and only 4 per cent
approached the state Of a normal
American child. The Ameri An Relief
Administration is feeding 100000
Austrian children every day now, and
there is no chance Of dimunition of
need before mex harveJ 81.
The spectacle of the medical needs
of Europe's children is equally ap-
palling. Estimates reaching the Amer
lean Red Cross IS to needs cor medical
service in the destitute areas this win
ter include Old Austria Hungary, 750,.
600; new Poland, 1,500,Lv0; Czecho-
Slovakia, 100000; Serbia, 10000, and
Roumania, 100000. In the fiscal year
Of 1920 the Red Cross has reached
with the voritable gift Of life 100000
children in the affected areas. Tuber-
culosis is prevalent 10 a terrific degree.
Five children out of seven ir the city
of Warsaw, for instance. have been
found to be tubercular. Iyphus is
widespread ricketts,, the right hand of
under-nourishn ent is almos+ Universal,
and cholera lifts its grim head con-
stantly in one place and another.
The European Relief Council, COM
prislng the American Relief Admins
t%ration, the American Red Cross, the
American Frierds' Service Committee
(Quakers), the Jewish Joint Distribu-
ton c. mmittee, the Federal Council
of the Churches of Christ In Ameri-
ca, the knights OF Columbus, the Y. NJ.
G. A and the Y. w. G. A., seeks $685.
100000 with which to meet the situa-
ton. 1t has estimated that at least
$23,000,000 must be had for food ana
$10,000,OO0 foc medical service to avert
absolute disaster amo Z the threa sened
children. Checks may be sent to your
local committee or to Franklin K. Lane,
treasurer Europcqr Relief Council, AZ
Broadway, New York, or to the Child
Feeding Fund. Lie: AIRY Digest, New
York City.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-12-31
100000 CHILDREN
FACING STARVATION
Vast Relief Effort Launched by
Eight Leading American Organ
izations to Avert Tragedy.

The most spontaneous as well as the
largest consolidation of effort In the
history of American relief and charita-
BILE organizations has grown out of the
disaster which threatens 3,5OO,O0O
European children this winter. To the
headquarters of every agency that dis
penses American mercy overseas has
come one steady cry for months past;
the children, most helpless and blame
less sufferers In the track of war, will
perish by the thousands before next
harvest unless America saves them
When DIR. Livingston Farrand, chair
man of the Central Committee Of the
American Red Cross, returned from a
recent trip abroad, his report throbbed
with the need of the children. From
the feeding-stations of the American
Relief Administration throughout east
ern and central Europe came letters,
cables, pleas of every sort. The Pro-
testant churches sent investigators
into after-war conditions and every
report breathed the impending tragedy
of starving and diseased children.
Protestant, Catholic and Jewish, the
child life of Europe is threatened with
heartrending misery.
The European Relief Council, with
Herbert Hoover as chairman and the
whole power of American charitable
thought and effort behind it, has been
formed. 1t consists of Edgar Rick
ard, representing the American Keller
Administration DIR. Livingston Far
rand, representing the American Red
Cross; Felix Warburg, representing
the Jewish Joint Distribution Commit
tee; Wilbur K. Thomas, representing
the American Friends Service Com
mittee: James A. Flaherty, represent
ing the Knights of Columbus; DR.. c.
v. Hibbard, representing the Young
Mems Christian Association; Miss
Sarah S. Lyon, representing the Young
Women's Christian Association; DR..
Arthur Brown, representing the Fed
eral Council of Churches.
1t is the purpose of the Council to
raise S33, 000, 900, in an appeal center
ing at the Christmas holidays, to the
end that the situation regarding child
life NAV be met. In every town and
community of the nation, 1t is hoped,
local committees, representing all the
cooperating agencies will be formed
to secure the vitality necessary funds.
or the amount sought. 500, 700, 1000 will
he used for basic food. For every one
of these American dollars the local
Governments and communities aided
will furnish two dollars, in the form
Of TRANSPORTATION, labor, guards, cleri-
cal help. cash contributions and such
food supplies as are locally obtainable.
No children receive the free food ex-
cent after medical tests showing them
to be seriously under-nourished. The
remaining S10,OO0 900 Of the fund is
lust as urgently needed for medical
service TO the children.
The European Relief Council will do
much more than effect economies in
the raising of the childsaving fund.
II will. with the inspecting forces Of
eight great ~agencie~, keep a constant
eve on the administration of Americas
merciful gift, in order that there shall
be no wastage and NJ tendency toward
pauperization.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-12-31
whv Exe Shades Ave Used.

The purpose of the eye shade is to
shield the eye from harmful Drliliah-
cies in the field of view, In ilghtihs
from poorly concealed sources these
brilliancies areS in many cases ooo'-
600 10 100000 times as great as tpe
hrightness> of the printed page. The'r
images, falling N the dark adapteu
and highly sensitized p%eripheral reti-
ma cause great discomfort u inter-
fere profoundly with the muscular ao-
iustment of the eye needed for clear
seeing.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-12-31


You're staying with us while you're
here, Ed. Come along now-Lucyn
give you raspberry shortcake with
thick creaE1-you know | married
Lacy Bee" he reminded the prodigal
sen of Rosedale as they walked down
the street.
Lucy Bee remember-sweetest
girl in notwithstanding one" said
Ed, reminiscently.
A light came into Jeremiah's dali
brown eyes. 1t was the greatest mo-
ment of his life for the instant his
hand was on the wheel of destiny.
"Hark," he said, inclining his sandy
head.
They both stopped short and lis
tened. Through the mellow evening
air came the futing song Of a robin
the soft, high "tweeeeeeet' Of swal-
lows dipping in the golden Highland
the blinking sound of metal against
stone.
whats that?" asked Ed, c~uriously.
Cow bells?"
That's Oscar Plumb chippin' a
UIlDSluu-Sou |TelHeIHDSI CStdi'
Eyes; / remember-who's deadT
Hes a chippin' a stone for Susie
Ricketts,"
Jerry" Ed Finney gripped the 9th
er's arm, and this time jeremiah kept
perfectly still.
ut surprised me, too," said Jere-
miah.
In the silence the robin sang to its
mate and the swallows dipped in pools
of sunshine. When Ed spoke his voice
was strained. Jerry, l came home to
marry her-we Quarreled two years
ago and l went off was a crazy loon
in those days, but I've learned a lot
and one thing is that she is the best
girl in the world-and it breaks my
heart that I've got to go back West
without her"
Jerry nodded. "She's had a tough
time of it, but CHEEKY as a little wren
Lucy and I know how good she can be
and almost everybody says the same
you really want to marry her, EdY
Ed nodded CURLY. His gray eyes
were tragic-he wore the look of a
HILL WIZ Has 1OllOhCd ivy y ALS
and mountains and through deep val
legs and has lost sight of her forever.
"Come along" said Jeremiah. w
got to pass the house"
They passed the coy little house
and came to the orchard, where Oscar
Plumb was showing the half complet-
ed work to Susan ricketts,, who dimpled
and sparkled in the sunset glow like
the flashing swallows with their glints
or sooty black-that vas her hair;
warm brown-her eyes; and deep blue
her pretty cotton dress.
Oscar saw them and called over,
Here, jeremiah, Susie wants me to
put 'spinster' under Susan Rick
cts and 1 tell her there's a plenty
time yet to get married-cricky-Ed,
how be YEP
"Beat It'll" commanded Mr.. Finney,
as he leaped the fence like a school
boy and gathered the astonished Su-
sic ricketts, into his arms.
Oscar picked up a few tools and
fled through the back way, casting one
backward glance, that caused him to
chuckle delightedly. But jeremiah,
dizzy with the whirl of events and
feeling that the wheel of Destiny had
been wrested from his grip by the eff
cient Mr.. Finney, FASTENED home to his
Lucy with astounding news.
"And he looked at her and she
looked at him just like you look at me,
Lucy" he finished softly. "Under-
stand?"
Little Lucy blushed and nodded and
laid her pretty head on his heart. 1--WE
KNOW" she murmured.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-12-31
New Enu!and Folklore.

The folklore of New England is net
confined to rural communities, nor 10
the ilIiterate-not by any tanner OF
means. And it's safe to say that the
reader. if a New Englander, will not
protest the ANY manner OF means
Who in Rhode Island does not know
that a "cat-nap" is a short doze or nat
q "whopper" is a big lie? What are
gou driving at?" is as staple as
beans on Sunday morning, and what
are Won going TO tax me?' is a daily
inouiry.-BoSton Globe.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-12-31
Temple.

II is believed today by many sa-
wants h a the Old Testament descr1p-
+ion of Solomon's temple was written
by the Jews after their return from
the captivity, with the memory of the
real splendors of Babylon fresh In
their minds, says Anstrulher Mackay,
writing in the Atlantic Monthly. 1t
e. noss;hle that the actual temple was
. simple place of worship. If 1t had
neon otherwise, it is hardly possible
hot no remains of 1t would be visible
today. seeing that the temples Of
Egvnt which are so much older, re-
main. in some cases, almost in toto.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-12-31
Dividend Notice

The Board of Directors of the Marine
National Bank of Wildwood, in the County
OF Cape May, and State of New Jersey, nave
declared the regular semi annual dividend
OF four per centum upon its capital stock OF
$780, 900. payable on and after Dec 81, 1920,
to stockholders OF record at the close OF bust
ness December 18th, 1920.
Done at a meeting OF the board of directors
on Thursday, December 3d., 1920.
e. g. ELDREDGE, Cashier.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-12-31
Notice

Notice is hereby given the trade and the
public generally that Max Worobe, Wild
New Jersey, has purchased the stock,
good will and fixtures OF the grocery business
OF Ivar Soderholm and Mildred Soderholm,
40l3, 4017, 4019 Holly Beach avenue, Wild
wood, N. j. All accounts payable and re-
ceivable should be presented to the vendor.
WAR SODERHOLM,
SODERHOLM.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-04
The City Trust Company
DISPUTE is ON OVER
POPULATION OF BOSTON

Washington. Nov. 2.--Director of Cen
sus Rogers joined issue to-day with
Mayor Peters of Boston who in a let
ter to the census bureau asserted that
the population of Boston was S01.679 in
stead Of 747,9e3 as announced by the
bureau.
Declaring that Mayor Peters had
drawn certain wrong differences and had
made certain miscalculations," Director
Rogers said that after a careful consid-
Grafton Of all available date the census
bureau was of the opinion that the
enumeration Of Boston was substantially
correct.
The police canvass which was cited by
Mayor Peters to bear out his claim Of in
correct enumeration, was said by Director
Rogers to have been incomplete in that
the federal census showed more men OF
20 years of age and over than the police
registered Director Rogers also asserted
that federal census takers had found
that persons who were not entitled to
enumeration at the given addresses had
nevertheless been listed for voting pur-
poses.
Director Rogers ascribed the falling off
in certain Boston wards as shown in the
federal census to a movement Of popula-
ton to suburban areas and to the failure
of many service men to return to their
old homes.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-04
DISCOVER AUTO DRIVER
WfndsOr Man Left Car at Lyndon ana
Went Home by Train

Montpelier. Nov Authorization has
been received by w. s. Teachout of the
secretary Of States ONCE showing that
Roy Watkins was driving the automo-
bile that was tipped over between a cul-
vert and q tree in Lyndon Sunday night
and which looked as though the occupants
had been injured. 1t appears that Wat
kins and another man hired the machine
of the owner in Windsor and that when
they returned to Windsor Monday morn
Ing by train they did not seem to be in
1ured at all as 8 result Of their accident,
although there was every indication about
the site of the rnishap that they had been.
Report OF the accident in Pawlet when
Elizabeth White was injured was that
the automobile of o. z. Gaudette ran
into tree. Report Of Clayton H. Greene
OF Burlington that his car tipped over
in Milton sand roads last Saturday has
also been received. The records of the
secretary's Office fail to show his author
ity to drive a car and an investigation
is under way.
The report OF the collision in sutton
between the car of Fl. d. Chapman and
II. c. Hovey has been received at the
office Miss Adonia Deslaurers, Mrs
Mire Gordon and Mrs. Bra Watson were
injured, the f1rst on one leg. the second
one eye and the third on one knee.
The accident was due to furry OF
snow that was falling
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-04
CHARGE FOUR WITH BURGLARY
Moth Chasers for Agriculture Depart.
ment Accused Of Robbing Peach
ham MIN

st. Johnsbury. Oct. 2S.-Four moth
chasers for the department of agricul-
ture, working In Peacham for six weeks.
were brought before Judge Frye this
week and pleaded not guilty to entering
the home of Claude Fields in Peacham
on the night of September q and taking
an army coat, a razor, wrist watch alarm
clock and other personal property most
of which has since been recovered.
The boys are Whitefield Forbes, %,
Arthur Whitehall 81. of Brighton Mass,
William ]. O'Neil Is, and Joseph Durb,
II, Of Melrose. Mass.
States Attorney Campbell had the
boys arrested Tuesday night by Deputy
Sheriff Munger, who spent the night with
them and early yesterday morning, Mr..
Campbell went to Peacham, and after a
conference with the boys, brought them
over to the county Jail where Judge Frye
held the hearing. The boys all pleaded
not guilty, waived u hearing and were
bound over to the December term of the
Caledonia county court under bail of 500
each. In default of payment of BAIL they
were confined to the county jail
Mr.. Fields lives alone in the village OF
Peaoham and was not at home the night
the entrance was made
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-04
PHILHARMONIC At M|DDlEBURy
Audience Acciaims Famous New York
Observation-Disclosures Perform
ance Given

Middlebury, Nov. 1.-The New York
Philharmonic orchestra consisting of n
musicians with josef Stransky as con-
ductor presented this evening the first con-
cert in the Middlebury College entertain
ment course. The program included
Bach's Concerto in F." Beethoven
"Leonore Overture, No. g." Wagner
"Idyll on Motives from Siegfried." LISTS
Les Preludes and Tschaikowsky S
symphony in F Minor" One of the most
distinctive features OF the orchestra s
performance was the perfect restraint and
absolute coordination Of the musicians
Special commentator is due for the ex-
cellence of the phrasing.
The audience which taxed Mead Me-
mortal Chapel to capacity received the
Beethoven overture. the Liszt Symphonic
poem and the Tsohaikowsky symphony
with especial enthusiasm.
Mr.. Stranskys conducting, which was
especially forceful in Les Prelude" and
the scherzo and finale Of the Symphony
was applauded repeatedly. and twice the
entire orchestra was forced to respond be
fore the audience would be satisfied.
The concert was the biggest musics
event Middlebury has ever seen, and /,
drew people from Burlington and Rutland
we'll as from nearer towns.
The concert Is the first in series ar
ranged by Middlebury College for the pur.
pose of afrording the members of the
college and the people of this section q
chance to hear the best talent obtainable
in the country.
The size of the audience this evening
and the manner in which the program
was received proved that there is even
remote from the big musical centers .
desire for the best In musical art