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The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-04-15

FOR SALE-1S3l Acres A No. hay and
stock ranch. Nine miles from Wolf
Creek. Two sets Of good improvements
Plenty Of good water, all farm nipple.
ments so with ranch, for $3.50 per acre
part time. Conway & Conner, Wolf
Creek Mont.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-04-15

LOGGED OFF LAND in Stevens county.
Washington, at greatly reduced prices.
rasns Hard anal
to Spokane. Good schools and close to
railroad. Nearly all the land is sub-irri-
gated and in most places plenty Of water
can be found at shallow depths. Write
for folder.
Phoenix Lumber Co., Spokane, Wash.
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-01
THOMPSONVIFLE

J. Raymond Bennett spent the week
end in Newark and Wilmington.
DR.. Leonard w. Abbott and family
and Mrs. Farrell of Philadelphia spent
Easter week with B. F. Abbott and
family.
A large number of friends were en-
tertained at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
B. F. Abbott on Thursday evening in
honor of Mrs. Abbott's birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gibson of Lincoln
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Will
Walls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Johnson of
GEORGETOWN visited Mr.. and Mrs. j.
H. Bennett and Mr.. and Mrs. W. E..
Mills last Wednesday,.
Mr.. and Mrs. Al. Evans entertained
a number of their friends on Friday
evening last in honor of DR.. and Mrs.
L. w. Abbott and family from Phila-
delphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Mills and Mr..
and Mrs. H. A. Thompson spent Palm
Sunday with their aunt, Mrs. E. D.
Ingram at Lewes.
Miss Mabel Thomas of Philadelphia
who has been visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
C. P. French returned home on the
Steamer Frederica last Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira ]. Sharp and son
spent last Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Holleger.
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-01
OAKLEY

Several people of this vicinity Wis
tied the Sussex county almshOuse on
Sunday.
William Deputy and family and
Ward Webb and family spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Short at Ov-
erbroOk.
Charles Short and family spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. William
Williams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Morgan spent
the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. AL
bert Marker.
y John Conaway met with a very pain
full accident last Friday morning
while saving wood for Roy Tatman.
His hand came in contact with the
saw and it is feared that one of his
fingers will have to be amputated.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmont Adams of
Wilmington are visiting his mother,
Mrs. David Adams and Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Adams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Griffith entertained
their son and daughter from Pennsyl-
vania on Sunday.
The Y. P. A. Society of Oakley M.
p. Church will hold their regular
meeting the second Thursday
evening in April, at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. John Jewell
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-01
HOUSTON

The Easter holidays brought several
out of town folks home, among whom
were Zack johnson, Jr., of Jersey
City; Thomas Cahall of Philadelphia;
Jesse Murray and Miss Hattie Vim
yard of Wilmington.
Messrs. Burnham, George, Jr., Wal
ton and Francis Simpson spent Sun
day in Dover.
1 Mrs. Olan Sapp and sons of Phila-
delphia are visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Hummel.
Mrs. Sallie Jones who has been gone
for several weeks has returned home.
Mrs. Annie Johnson returned home
Thursday after having spent several
days with her sister, Miss Willie Wy
att in Harrington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Hayes Of Phil
adelphia spent Easter with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hayes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Downes are
spending a few days with Mr.. and
Mrs. L. H. COhee.
Misses Minnie Marvel, Maude Nc
Vey and Messrs. Warren Lynch, Err
nest McVey and Clifford Marvel of
Chester, Pa, spent the Easter hOli-
days with Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Chism
and Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Marvel.
Mrs. Sara E. Jacobs is spending
some time with her daughter, Mrs. j.
H. Booth in Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Marvel and
son, Joseph, spent Sunday in Bridge
vile.
Mrs. Joseph Marvel has returned
home after spending several weeks in
Philadelphia.
Our minister left on Tuesday NOR
ming for the general conference held
at Crisfield, Md.
MIR. and Mrs. Phillip Donovan and
Mrs. Clark were guests Of Mrs. VIM.
Hayes on Thursday.
Agnes ThistlewOod who has been
confined to her home with a severe
attack of tonsilitis is able to be out
again.
Mrs. Whitley Webb of Chester, Pa,
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James U. Sharp.
The w. c. T. U. will meet on Thurs !
day night, April 9TH at the home Of
Mrs. Golan Armour. Tex word Revive.
Call "Pettyjohn's" for drugs of
Quality" Mail or phone orders Phone I
% Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-01
BLANCHARD STATION

Addison Porter will open his new
ice cream parlor April LIST in Green
wood on Main street, next door to the
post Office.
Miss Mable Barwick has returned
to her home at Greenwood after
spending two weeks with relatives
and friends al Philadelphia.
w. D. Lyons and Earl Keel were
Salisbury, Md, visitors on saturday
last.
Alfred Reed from Philadelphia Wis
tied his sister, Mrs. Chas. Knox on
Saturday and Sunday.
Homer Kratz from PhlIadelpnla
spent Saturday and Sunday with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. JOrden Kratz'
near Greenwood.
G. L. Harmon spent Saturday and
Sunday with his parents at Franktord.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alphens Davis spent
Sunday with their daughter, Mrs.
Herbert Edgell.
Hick johnson spent Sunday with J.
L. Mears.
Mrs. Bertha Richards and Miss Sa-
die Hollis from Greenwood visited
Mrs. Richards parents on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. H. Webb, near Eli
lendale motored over to Mr.. and Mrs.
James Rogers on Sunday and spent
the day.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. T. Webb is visiting
Mr.. Webb's sister, Mrs. M. il. WebD'
near Ellendale.
Mr. and Mrs. George Elliott and
children and mother, spent Saturday
and Sunday with relatives and friends
near Georgetown.
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-01
UNION

The Ladies Aid of Union M. E.
Church will meet with Mrs. Chas.
Gere Wednesday evening, April 9th. A
full attendance of members is desired.
Rev. and Mrs. Barrett visited at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Tatman
Wednesday afternoon.
John COnoway of near here met with
very serious accident Friday last,
while saving wood, two of his fingers
were badly mangled by the saw.
Ira Miller is spending few days
in New York City.
Miss Bessie Carlisle of near Green
wood is visiting Mrs. Mark Tatman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Wright and
children visited at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Alex Ryan Easter Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Wiley spent
Sunday with Mr., and Mrs. John Dor
man.
Mrs. Chas. Gere and son, Charles,
visited her brother, John Deputy, Sun
day afternoon.
Mrs. Morgan of Lincoln returned to
her home Friday after spending sew
eral days with her daughter, Mrs.
John Deputy.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. B. Kenton of Mil
ford and Mr.. and Mrs. H. Kenton of
Union spent Sunday afternoon at
Houston the guests of their sister,
Mrs. Mary Camper.
Mrs. Joe Murphy entertained her
Mrs. George Murphy
Sunday afternoon.
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-01
MAGNOLIA

Easter was celebrated in the church
last Sunday with special sermon in
the morning and an entertainment in
the evening. The choir rendered beau
tiful Easter music. Both services
were very much enjoyed by large
congregation. The offering in the eV-
ening was given to the suffering
Chinese.
The school children have enjoyed a
few days holiday in honor of Easter.
All returned to their different schools
Tuesday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Markle who have been
living in Philadelphia have rented a
house in town and moved her last
week.
v Mr.. and Mrs. Collins Davis are be-
ing congratulated on the birth Of
daughter. They have named her Grace
Eleanor.
The weather up until Monday night
had seemed like summer, with fruit
trees blooming, grass and flowers in
the yards we were tempted to think
we had had all the winter for us this
year, but the thunder storm Monday
evening was followed by a severe cold
spell. We fear the fruit is killed.
Rev. G. R. Ellis left Tuesday for
conference which is being held this
week in Crisfeld, Md.
Barrett Jackson spent Easter with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. P. Jack
son. n
Miss Helen Matthews spent EasterN
with her sister at the parsonage.
Thomas Joseph is quite sick at this
time with rheumatism.
J. w. Taylor, ST., fell off the spray
er last Saturday morning and sprain-
ed his knee.
Mrs. G.. w. Collins has been on the
sick list the past week with the
grippe.
Mrs. Maggie McIlvaine is out again
after being housed sometime with the
grippe.
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-01
DRAWBRIDCE

The spring-like weather which pre-
vailed during the past month, which
has been succeeded by real winter and
heavy freezing, has blasted the hope
of the fruit growers for any consid-
cradle revenue from their orchards
this season.
Merritt Hopkins was operated on for
appendicitis this week, and is doing
well.
The Easter services at Zion Church
were very largely attended and the
program was appropriate.
VThomas LoOckerman from Green's
boro, Nd, has been visiting his mo-
ther here during Easter.
Mrs. Bertha Lank has had as an
Easter guest, her sister, Miss Elsie
Walls from Milton.
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-01

Boat stops at the Consumers Ice Co.'S
Wharf, Chester, going and coming, arriving
at Chester IA hours after leaving Philadel.
phia.
Telephone No. Keystone Main s7-s7 on
Wharf in Philadelphia
Single Tickets to PHILADELPHIA, SI.zs
No Round Trip Tickets
Special Notice-We are starting the season
under a new management. Boat newly
painted both inside and out. Special atten-
tion will be given passengers. Courtesy and
enterprises on the Delaware make a trip on
the Bay and River both educational and
healthful. Make a trip and be better pre-
pared for work ahead of you.
Frederica & Phila., Nav. Co.
o@ee-FREDERIcA, DEL
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-01
CAREY'.S

My! This cold wave pinches after
such a long period of pre-summer
days.
/ Several of our young people went to
the county almshouse Easter.
L. P. Jones is now able to be out of
bed and is down stairs, building up in
strength. We hope he will soon be out,
though his arm is slow in healing.
Miss Flora Brittingham and Miss
Bertha Mumford came home from Will
mington Good Friday night and spent
the weekend with their parents. They
returned Easter Monday afternoon.
Lee c. West and George n. Jones,
ministerial students of the w. c. l., at
Dover, came home Thursday night of
last week to spend their Easter vaca-
tion with parents and other relatives.
They expect to return about Monday
or Tuesday of next week.
The P. T. A. meetings held at Nit
chell's school district 104 are being
much enjoyed and seems a real bene-
fit to the community. The last meet
ing was held March 25th with a large
A most delightful pro-
gram was rendered.
James O'Neal. who came home dur
ing the illness of Mr.. Jones will prob
ably return soon.
A Travelling Library containing fif-
ty-one books has been secured for
school and community.
A great many of our people at
tended the Easter entertainment at
Bethany NJ. E. Church, Loves X Roads
Sunday night.
Shep West and wife, John Britting-
ham and family, also Herman Brit
-ingham and family called to see Har-
gey Belts and wife Easter.
We trust the annual NJ. f. confer
snce will favor us with a good preach
er, one who will stay with us at least |
)ne whole year.
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-01

A. J. PALMER, Captain
Will leave Frederick, Webb's and Bowers
for Philadelphia, as follows:
MARCH
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-01

One little ad-brings results.
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-01
BRIDCEVILLE

The Kent Construction Co. has com
menced to haul stone for the bridge
at Green's Mill Pond.
Lester Banning of Chester, Pa.
spent the first of the week with his
parents near town.
Mr.. Brown who is here with the
surveying party that are surveying
for the cross country highway from
here to the Maryland line, while
cranking his car last week had his
arm broken.
The body of Sidney Isaacs who died
over in France about two years ago
of pneumonia, was brought home on
Saturday of last week. Funeral SER
vices were held on Thursday of last
week at Cokesbury Church. Governor
Denney, Major LaFevre, Capt Robert
Simmons of Dover participated in the
military burial.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. R. Brewington of
Delmar spent Sunday with their mo-
ther, Mrs. Anna Dickerson.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. V. Lewis and Mr..
and Mrs. Norman Scott spent Sun
day with friends at Laurel.
Paul Adams of Dover spent the
first of the week with his parents
here.
Mrs. E. H. Wiley of Wissahickon,
Pa, and daughters spent Easter with
her parents here, Mr.. and Mrs. Eras-
mus Jones.
Geo. B. Rius, champion checker
player of Delaware played a series of
20 games of checkers with the cham
pion checker player of Maryland at
Baltimore last Friday and Saturday
which resulted in 8 games draws,
games for Rius and games for the
Maryland champion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erasmus Jones, Mrs.
T. J. Gray Adel and Jefferson Gray
spent Sunday with relatives in Sud-
lersville, Md.
Leon Layton of Chester, Pa, spent
the weekend at the home of his par
ents here.
Joe Wiley of Philadelphia spent the
first of the week with his parents
here.
John Harris and daughter, Leona,
IF Wilmington arrived the first of the |
week to spend few days with friends
md relatives.
The following young men who are
school were home for the
Easter holidays: William Cannon,
Tohn w. Dickerson, George Culon,
Niles Messick, Wilbert and Edwin
layton.
John E. Wiley while walking down
Walnut street the first of the week
vas bit by small dog on one of his
limbs.
The young people held a social at
he NJ E. Church on Thursday even
ng of last week.
Brown and Jones have purchased a
motor to install in a rae
ng auto for the races this year. This
motor has a record of around a hun ,
red and twenty miles per hour.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Viven spent
laster at RehOboth.
J. G.. Townsend has opened a lum-
er yard here at the strawberry
uice Plant and is being CARED for by
ohm Dimes. !
B. w. COnaway of Wilmington spent
part of last week with friends in :
nd around town. Z
The Jr. o. U. A. M. is very active
ere at this time. Several new MEM I
ers were in attendance at Seaford on
-onday evening when the work was I
ut on by a regular degree team.
Harry Collision of Philadelphia I
)ent the first of the week at the
0me of his father, B. J.. Collision at '
ayerabend Town. :
A. R. King has had his Buick auto
ewly painted recently.
Paul M. Nelson spent part of last
eek with his parents near town.
There will be box social given at =.
essick's school district No. 81 Fri D
" evening, April 9th for the benefit ii
the school. Everybody is cordially p
vited to attend. Ii
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Milford chronicle., 1921-04-01
EARMINGT0N

The infant son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Gordy Swift Of Pennington was bur-
led on Thursday afternoon, March IL
in Hollywood cemetery, Harrington.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-01-23

hogs, dairy herds the basis Of adj
yances and credit to the farmers
He urged a curtailment of the cotton
acreage. declaring that in the city OF
Memphis alone there were tied VI
100000 bales of the 1919 crop, and
that the world had enough cotton "a
supply all of its needs for two years
even though not a seed was planted
is year.
To emphasize the seriousness Of
purpose of the Memphis business in
terests and their willingness to go the
limit to help the farming interests
of this territory. he said that the
business man and bankers of that
city had sent the word out that tC
save farmer from foreclosure, t
save him from sacrificing his live.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-01-23
GOING ABROAD

Miss Antoinette Fleury, Of the M.
is. C. W., No. lie North Thirteenth
street, is making arrangements to re-
sumo her European Tours, after an
interruption Of seven years. The
party will leave New York about the
middle Of June, sail through the Med
Iiteranean to Naples, visit Rome, Flor
ence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, the
famous summer resorts, the Alps,
Glaciers, Lakes, etc; France, Paris,
Versailles, the battle fields and other
points Of interest; England, London,
etc. The party win be limited to ten
persons, and will be due back in New
York early in September. The price
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-01-23

stock, and dairy cattle and hogs, they
would take care Of any negotiable
paper which bankers or merchants in
the territory were unable to carry.
TEN xz
He declared that Columbus or
Memphis or anyother city in the
South, essentially in agricultural
sections, would grow and prosper
only in proportion as the sections
they serve grow and prosper and
develop. I
Mr.. 4. NJ. Patterson, marketing
specialist of the A. and NJ. College,
talked along the line of marketing,
urging the development of the coop
eratNe plan of shipping and market
ling with the aid Of the county agent.
He paid glowing tribute to the quail
lty Of Lowndes county products, ard
declared that this section was capa-
Bile of raising as fine crops as any
section in the South. He said that
only recently he had been told by
poultry and produce buyers that the
products from Lowndes county COM
pared favorably with any they had
purchased in the entire South.
Systems of farm management and
the value of records on the farm OPP
erations were explained by Mr.. j. N.
Lipscomb, of the bureau of farm
management, Of the A. and NJ. Col
lege.
| At the conclusion Of the big meet
ing Mr.. Whitfield urged that some de-
finite action be taken in the way of
organization and ON motion of Mr.. X
L. Spurlock, steps were taken to go
into the organization of farm bu-
reau for Lowndes' county. Mr. Carey.
Cooke was selected as temporary
chairman and Mr.. v. B. lines, was
named as temporary secretary.
A committee composed Of DIR. It. NJ.
Vaughan, Mr.. Pei. Wells and Mr..
IT.. I. whitfield, was named 10 FORM
ulate program and plan Of action
for the new organization with in
structions to report at the next meet
ing which win be held Saturday after
noon at 2 o'clock at the court house
in this city. Q.xS
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-01-23

section he said that not 4 single
farmer had raised sufficient meat and
corn and hay to supply his needs this
season.
q was in Columbus about ten years
ago and l saw aHd met more cotton
raisers than any other type Of farm
er," he said. "But now I see that you
people have gotten away from the
one-crop system, and that you have
adopted a we'll rounded and balanced
system of farming. This speaks well
for your community. But there is
room for a still greater development. "
Mr.. Watson stated that the time
had come when cotton must, cease to
be the basis Of credit. He said that
this season bankers and merchants
were being urged to make livestock,
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-01-23

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their methods or face ruin and dis
aster.
He made a little survey Of his audi
ence before launching into the main
part of his address. He asked those
present who had raised enough corn
and hay and meat to supply them this
year to raise their hands, Hands
shot up in every section Of the big
audience, and he said that the re-
spouse reflected the best showing of
any audience he had addressed this
season. In many audiences in North
Mississippi and especially in the Delta
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-01-23

VIII be from a Thousand TO eleven hun
bred dollars, according to the time of
the engagements, as the less expensive
staterooms are always engaged first
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-01-23
THE c0LLRGE PR0PFRTY

A committee will call, Monday, on
all the original guarantors, asking
every two signers to take one of the
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-01-23

The officers Of the East Mississippi
Field Meet met Saturday, January
18th, at West Point to revise the
rules governing the. events and to
select place for holding the meet.
Okolona ana West Point were 10th
leaget ID get The meet. West Laiat,
however, was finally selected 4 I'M
Offered Che most indaeenent# III
the event. IA ]
The boys and girls basket BAH
lpreliminaries will begin soon, and
the Lee High teams are 4gettingsin
trim. 80
| Because of the system Of mid-term
promotion that now obtains in the
public schools of Columbus, the fol-
lowing pupils were promoted;
From The Junior High to 5. d. Lee.
Edward Allison, Frances Beard,
Madeline Bell, Eula Mae Burnett,
Mamie Brooks, Lige Brown, George
Mae Clardy, Edward Duncan, Eliza
beth Egger, Clarie Free, Jennie Lou
Goodson, Mary Griffin Keith Guy
ton, Bessie Heron, Claude Hudson,
Lille Jones, Edward King, Elizabeth
Lang, Annie Laurie McClamahan, AL
tie McGahee, Jean Powell, Robert
Pullen, Thomas Pullen, Ista Pritchard
Jarman Quinnelly, Sam Raper, New
ton Scofield, Desiree Smothers, J. D..
4 Swift, Clifton Shackleford, Menard
/ Vaughn and Minnie LeeWinston. \
From Sixth Grade Franklin TO Junior
High.
4 Ina May Ferguson, Mary Eliza
beth Foster, Ollie Henderson, Cap
linger Lamb, Rubel Lindsey, Virginia
Moore, Lizzete Morris, Blanche Nor
wood, Opal Roby, Doris shute, Craw-
ford Boiling, B. P. Carr, f. j. Fer
guson, George Ford, William Me-
Gowan, Clyde Smith, Victor Thorn
ton.
From Sixth Grade Barrow To Junior
High.
Rebecca Brownlee, Louie Boiling
Thomas C. Clark, Atwell Durrett, Au-
brey Goree, Cornell Lotion, Marie
Lampkin, Helen Morris, Ruth Mash
Ellis Mash, Chancey Randall, Mariel-
10 Patton, James Shaw, Elizabeth
Smith, Alvins Stolzer, Frank Shack
elford, Lucille Tennison, lnez Thorn
: brough, Beatrice Williamson, ant
!: Dayie Williamson.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-01-23

The Woman's auxiliary Of the
First Presbyterian church win meet
in the Lee Memorial room next Tues
day afternoon at three o'clock. Circle
number one viii entertain.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-01-23

Mr.. Atwell Williams, Jr., spent a
few days with home felix's last week.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-01-23

Boost Columbus-and keep at it.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-01-23

$4,000 city warrants, Jointly,
The college is calling for the prop
erty west Of the college to begin work
on. II is urged that every citizen
take one or half of one of the
warrants.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-01-23

J. T. sEARcY, Agent.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-01-23
FARM BUREAU
is ORGANIZED

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The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-01-23

The boys and girls basket BAH
|preliminaries will begin soon, and
the Lee High teams are 4gettingain
trim. f8 49,
Arizona republican., 1921-02-24
THE YOUNG LADY ACROSS THE
 

The young lady across the way says she's against the blue laws in this day and age and il must be remembered that the world has come long way in the sec yenrs since the Puritaus first landed on Plymouth Rock.
Arizona republican., 1921-02-24
POURING LIQUOR ON THE MEA-' DOWS HAS ITS DANCER

(Thousands of dollars worth of con traband liquor was disposed of by being poured into the Hackensack meadows of New Jersey, breeding place of the world famous Jersey skeeter, a few days ago)
 Scene-A mosquito breeding creek
 Time-Morning after the whisky de luse.
 The heating propensities of the hootch have brought the skeeters out two months ahead of the scheduled hAtching time and the pests are seen running around wildly, but with no sense of direction.
 To the left quite boisterous flock of mosquitoes are singing with great gusto. To the right 8 few hundred are in free-for- all fight. In the cen ter a particularly large mosquito ap- parently one of last seasons suddenly revived. is flat on his back with a violent case of hiccoughs
 First Skeeter-Whoopla
 Second Whoopla yerself.
 First Skeeter-You'r a hot lookin mosquito in your present shape, ] must say.
 Second Skeeter (throWing out cheSt) I'm not a mosquito.
 First Skeeter-And what are you then?
 that's what l am, an African lion.
 First Skeeter--No. you're not. I'm the African lion; you're just a couple of insignificant. petty, inoffcnsiye Ben zaI tigers-both of you.
 second Skeeter-Thats Lioncsc loI raw meat. I must have raw meat.
Arizona republican., 1921-02-24

ROOM OR RUFFLEs? A woman entered a department store recently and asked: Where is the lingerie?"
 Dye mean the rest-room?" queried the alesgirl.-Boston Transcript.