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Milford chronicle., 1921-04-29
FRANKFORT

While Sunday excursions seem to be
n well patrOnized. They are not popular
generally with the public On Sunday,
May 18th, there will be one to New
York City.
Mrs. Dewitt Rogers and family of
Wilmington have been visiting friends
in this town.
Mrs. Lizzie G. Daisey was a recent
visitor to Ocean City, Md.
The following officers were install
led last Saturday night by Fidelity
Lodge No. 25 1. o. o. F.: Alvin Rhil-
lips, Noble Grand and Clinton Watson,
Vice Grand; Roland Messick, District
Deputy Grand Master and Cyrus Hat
field, District Deputy Grand Marshal,
both of Georgetown, were present. Af-
ter the exercises lunch was had at
Murray's restaurant.
Chas. 7. MumfOrd, one of the high
est respected men of this place. de-
parted this life on Friday, April %,
at the age of 78 years, months and
nine days. He was a devoted Christian
and member of the M. E. Church for
Sc years. And to know him in his
church work was a blessing and his
motto was: "If you love me, follow
me-" He leaves to mourn his loss a
widow, Mrs. Chas. Mumford of Frank
ford, three daughters and two sons,
Mrs. J. H. Hudson of Wyoming; Mrs.
Chas. E. Shoemaker, of Philadelphia;
Mrs. Minnie Lynch Of Bayonne, N. j.;
Chas. J. Mumford of South Bend, Ind;
Lee c. Mumford of Millsboro and a
host of friends and relatives. Funeral |
services were held in Frankford NJ |
E. Church on Sunday. Rev. Poole Of
ficiating and the remains were laid to
rest in Carey's cemetery. c. H. Watson
was the funeral director.
Call "Pettyjohn's" for drugs of
Quality" Mail or phone orders. Phone
% Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-29
WILLAMSVILLE

Mrs. VIM. Emory has been on the
sick list.
Miss Margaret Galloway and friend
spent Sunday with friends in Dover.
Mr.. Davis of Wilmington is spend
ing some time with F. 1. Warrington
here
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Jones enter
tanned company from Harrington on
Sunday.
Miss Elizabeth Cahall of Harring-
ton spent the weekend with Miss
Edna Parks.
Rufus Elliott who is working in
Harrington spent the weekend with
his family here.
Little Geneva Stevenson spent the
weekend with her grandmother, Mrs.
Martin Emony here.
The farmers in this vicinity are
busy plowing for corn and some have
planted during the past week.
Miss Edna Parks gave party on
Thursday evening. Quite a number of
young folks where present. All report
ed fine time.
wish to say that Mrs. Emory
Johnson is the daughter of S. NJ.
Kenney of Williamsville and not Of
F. L. Warrington OF Williamsville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hamilton and
daughters, Pauline and Missouri, and
S. NJ. Kenney spent Sunday with Mr.. |
kenneY's father, VIM. B. Kenney Of |
Seaford.
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-29

Call "Pettyjohn's' for drugs of
Quality" Mail or phone orders. Phone
% Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-29
UNION

The Ladies Aid will meet with Mrs.
Chas. Belts Wednesday evening, May
4th. We wish good attendance.
John Walls has rented a part of the
farm of the late Houston Hudson.
Mrs. Evelyn Deputy, widow of the
late w. w. Deputy moved her house
hold goods from here last week to
Milford where she will reside in the
future.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. B. Kenton of Mil
ford and Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Ken
ton of this place spent Sunday with
their parents, W. H. Kenton and wife,
near Pennington.
Mrs. Rachel Shaw of Milford is Wis
iting at the home of her nephew,
Mark Tatman.
Wheat in this section is coming out
after being hit by the frost. Clover
and cannery peas are looking good.
Some of the farmers are planting
corn this week.
William Dawson and family visited
his son-in-law, Fred Donovan at Ell
lendale Friday evening, who is very
sick.
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-29

four months l could do but little work,
had to lie down most of the time, was
nervous and could eat hardly anything,
but my husband was always reminding
me to take the Vegetable Compound,
which l did. Of my eight. children this
last one was the easiest birth of all and
l am thankful for your Vegetable Com
pound. l recommend it to my friends
when | hear them complaining about
their ills. Mrs. M. NATALIE, 72 FIRE.
mont St., Springfield, Mass.
Sickly, ailing women make unhappy
homes, and after reading Mrs. Natale's
letter one can imagine how. this home
was transformed by her restoration to
health. Every woman who suffers from
such ailments should give Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound a fair trial.
1t is surely worth while.
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-29

aClon, OEherW1Se i
would be a sickIyi
woman and could not
have any more chill
dren on account of
my weakened con-
dition. 1 refused to
have the operation.
My husband asked
me to try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound to see
if it would not help
mo For tho fret
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-29

Good business is good advertising
make the best business investment.
and the columns of the Chronicle
Milford chronicle., 1921-04-29
WIFE Taxes
HUSBANDSADVICE
And Is Made Well Again
by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Springfield, Mass. -''The doctor told
my husband that had to have an Oper-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-28
College Discipline.
adrut.

College faculties are planning to enforcr
some old fashioned discipline. This is evil
denced in the tenor of an address delivered by
President William A ShaRk1in at the opening
of Connecticut Wesleyan. President SfIanki1n
gives notice that as long as the 18th amend
ment remains part of the constitution it will
be enforced at Wesleyan College faculties
must bear part OF the responsibility for the
hooch expeditions and booze.running that have
been familiar features OF college life in the
past few years There has been a letting down
of the sturdy oId-fashioned standards, shirk-
ing of the duty that mature men owe to in
experienced youth
Faculty members have. been inclined to pass
over lightly the law breaking which they knew
went ON in the college. community as student
pranks, or. pleading their own helplessness.
have placed -thenhlame upon the civil authori-
dent in a New England college was the inevi-
table result of this laxity and had the effect
OF awakening college authorities everywhere to
their duty. II is high time for change Col
leges cannot afford to be leaders in law4ess-
ness. If there is any place where regard for
national honor and national institutions should
be incuIcated it is in the universities A com
mHnity that is concerned not merely with train
ing, bot with the higher ideals cannot tolerate
the conduct that governs in a motion picture
coHedian's party. Some sudden expuis4ous OF
into rathsfeflers and dormitor5es into beer
gardens win have AS Iuta<y effect upon jnstr
tutious OF higher learning.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-28
Quota system Fails.

When the emergency restriction immigra-
stion4aet was passed permitting entry into the
United States OF limited percentage of aliens
sfrom each country whose nationals seek CUT
shores many of its faults were recognized
Still it WAS thought to be fairly satisfactory
as an interim measure. In actual operation it
becomes more lUdicrons and unsatisfactory
with each succeeding month. Newspapers of
Sept L carried the report of immigrant ships
racing to harbor from just outside the three
mile Limit, where they had been in waiting
for severaIsdays- Each captain Was eager to
leekarststo arrive that his passengers could
! be dumped before the quotas for their land
were filed. There are 50 many more hundreds
OF aliens desiring entrance than the quotas al
how thatsiste corners must either te returned
tcF1Aeir native shores or held on Kills island
Until the ffrsteof thep following month gives
them another chance-
The- Greek steamship King Alexander sue
ceaded in docking first She carried sss
Creeks. While the Acropokfs. which came In
secnnd, carried 134 Greeks. The Creek qRota
issexceeded IN tne,frst ships CSC It is-a- silly
as well as a trying situation. immigration
oficials4ar cpnfezring in an effort to find some
Way~to enforce che Law and at the same time
avoid One undesirable effects of its application.
Whatever they succeed In doing To solve -ths
immediate prpblem there should become parma
nent lesson learned frcm 1t. When congress
!recDnvenes this month it should give early and
sane immigration legislation as important a
place on it's calendar as the tariff and taxes
iaIrzztyaocrzpg
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-28

Among the cognoscend{h that word II
permissible in poIitics-Mr. McAdoo is regard
ed as an entraHt In the race for the next Demo-
cratic presidential nomination Several straWs
show the direction of the wind-the organ
king at this early day of a McAdoo club In
Missouri introducing hmvas a critic of the
Harding administration IN the senate discus
sion of the railroad problem, and a mani
festation of interest by him in the Boy Scouts
He recently played in a. Scout baseball game
before the camera He played so awkwarily
that his compliments toEthe boys in playing
at all was emphasized. Mr.. McAdoo made a
remarkable showing at San Francisco He
was the only man who gave Governor Cox a
real run for his money. The others were
merely ~also rams" But the New Yorker was
close up from the fall of tne flag and finished
horse race of it
We have to consider, however, that lin the
San Francisco contest Mr.. MeAdoo had tire
support OF all but fraction of the. national
administration. The department of Justice nat
uraIIy gave its support to Attorney General
Palmer All the other departments, with the
treasury at their head, gave their influence for
Mr. Wilson's son-inlaw This, OF course, can
not be repeated. In 1924 the national admin
istration viii be Republican in complexion.
Mr.. McAdoo Will have to look elsewhere for
pun and votes. He is still strong in the money
centers. His management of the treasury de-
pertinent met with approval in those quarters.
But he is not, as Governor Cox was strong in
wet circles. He is rated there as dry and
his appeal to be successful, win have TO be
adruit.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-28

fse world hopss and toward which the break
ting OF swords into pIowshares through the
reduction OF armament is leading step fne
whole world will be represented as America
pays trihute." the president says. There WIZ
he present In the spirit mot only the parenfs
and friends OF every youth who persisted In
order that those who were left alive mfghi
cherish still the institutions for which former
generations have lived and died<fn their day.
but every other citizen of the United States
who fully appreciates the worth Of those iDsh-
tEtions And with the praise and thanksgiving
OF That anniversary the president is mot less
mindful Of the occasion for prayer. that these
shall have not died in vain and that the hope
of the srmistiee may ultimately be fulfilled In
an International policy OF peace.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-28

InshisSpurpose TO proclaim fhek coming Az
Enisttce- day. as a-AnafionaA holiday and toSurge
its general sobservance throughout the country
President Harding seeks to bring home to the
psopfe. of the United States -and=of the-vorld
an impress Of what that day in 1915 meant
to- this generation. Millions in the Eand win
never forget<h nx they sat EP through that
Sundayznight VISITING for-<faep Whistles to-hfoH
carrying fmmsscDask to eesst tha pregnant
signal that fhe~-xar wlricrslzaf been Was no
more nnif ffnt< peaces yassseonxing. But lest
tsnrsS bes hand alaozzuxy
haEes frrgutten-~nr mzy- hare lost something
OF Arhes thrill winch came with That sounding
steam, sftez1HAbe we'll ifseach year las long as
Languages shall 57e~spoken IN this quaxfar OF
the sworsds fhezstorys of that and fhe-<3ays
that led to 4. shzIE5s retold. The conference
of fhe4nationss&ur~ the limitation eaxnauents
vfHrcst IN wsshingto ton that day. Rsiss he
purpusesof President Har1ing that after that
conference shall haEe-1esn f0frnaE8y opened II
SHAH nd juuzn siznHsedfately and thenzccnzmpany
him and the cabinet to %Ax1fngtun~ y9aere
the body OF eu uzzAnoEn American soldier
vino fell ON a battlefield overseas shah be bur
isdeuath all the humble regeneneeaAztsa.naxson
campzys so onessnaao> s,zxes 4AssSz1laz1erSE IN
that trfDsogy -ofszyE1usa thsnesxm besfssti-
mony~-of the war thztzsxas, of the peace that
it achieved, and sofstaesgreaeer Dsacss4cr which
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-28

Education IL essential to community prog
ress. Rock island has reached point IN its
public school system where enlarged facilities
are required to take of the increasing
number of children For Rock Island is grow
ing in population. 1t takes money to build
schools and maintain them The only way
this money can be had is by taxation of prop
erty There is to be a special election Oct. 10
for the confirmation Of proposal to slightly
Increase taxes in order to provide the board
efseducation with means needed to meet pres
i ntsconditiuns. You owe it to yourself. your
Children and your neighbors children to do
y your part IN seeing that the proposal is car,
sried-at the polls. Don't stand in the way o.
your children getting a proper education tt
equip them for the battle Of life.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-28
YOU KNOW IT
BY BERT0N BRALKY.


There,d be mighty little movement leading
forward To Improvement,
There'd be mighty little progress we would
make,
1--WE always stood in terror of committing
any error.
1--WE wouldn't risar. the chanras1f mistake:
Bat the wise grow clearer vittsd by the fail
ures they We committed
And they dom persiztt IN errursesery hong.
and you and many ssezsons thezszz1kseszays
And win chearfuIly admit it when they're
wrpagt
When you've learned to know your weakness
You can see the fanlt that led 10 ycur
distress.
Them you're gaining useful 7eGruing -4na.yua7I
find your footsteps turning
Toward the pathway that leads Onward TO
success.
You'd be sone- OF natH1asss wonder you made
no nooiisf. hfnders.
You'd be mRehs too good Tor any human
thrDng;
/ When you're right be- dnsy gratefal-for to
boast OF It isshatefuz-
But be quickest to- admit n wbca YOURS
wrong-
Many friezishfps have heen broken through
some hasty phrases spoken
Which the -speaksr was too stubborn 10
retract.
Many hearts are torn asuzsaer through an IN
admitted thunder
Wher- confsssdonsof anerrur-wuufd.8 De tact:
Since to err. they say fs human, every man
and every woman
Will md life asemooeherxnaf4ousrx s7cz,z.
kzs>ex1stsncs -fasrerzx in klria
vorfdsoEseEror,
They WIN honestly admit Il when they're
vrozgi
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-28
The Cancer Question.


Several weeks ago some cores
pendent sent in a query about can
cer-a skin cancer, if I recollect-
and answered in this column to
the effect that if 1 were the victim
! should have the cancer removed
surgicaIly and then have a series of
X-ray treatments afterward to pre-
vent recurrence
This query and my reply brought
"a shower of letters from readers
who desired to obtain the name and
address OF my correspondent in or
der that they might put him or her
IN touch with a sure cure for can
Ger. No one received the cores
pondent's name or address. No
one ever has OF ever will obtain
from me the identity of any cor
respondent l deem it a confiden-
tial matter when any one writes to
me in my capacity as health ad-
visor. and feel that it is my dnty
to preserve such confidence in
violate.
However, there is one peculiarly
about all these letters from persons
who are so eager to put a stranger
Gin touch" with some mysterious or
secret cancer cure" The peculi-
arity is striking one: Every letter
| is miserably scrawled, distressingly
misspelled, punctuated not at all
in short, the letters come from per
sons who are obviously extremely
ignorant. 1t is such people who
believe, or pretend to believe they
know of a sure cure for cancer.
Gullible, credulous, supplemented
| people who can least afford to be so
pitifully misled.
1t is regretably true that there
are still number of conscience
! less vultures purporting to have a
cancer cure" preying upon the
most unfortunate of all invaIids, en-
couraging them to postpone or
avoid the very straw they should
and must grasp at the outset if they
are to be saved, wheedling out of
them money which. very often, they
| can i'll afford to spend, and sub
jecting them to tortures in the way
of crude treatment compared with
surgery is solacing thought These
cancer specialists do not rely
upon former patients can't say
cured patients, for there are none
| to be found alive long after the can
Ger quack gets through with them.
No! No quack does that, for the
end would be inevitable failure by
that system He gets new victims
by canvassing them and dangling
great prospects before their eyes,
and filing their credulous minds
with horrible notions of surgery
! Honest doctors the world over rely
upon their former patients to re-
commend them to new ones-that is
| the way the reputable physician or
specialist builds a practice.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-28
The Daily Short Story

A short time after this, Old Jim
brought home wife No. 4. Strange
it was, her eyes were straight
straight from a clear brain. She
proceeded to make the money-and
other things, including Old Jim
fly. First, she bought a load of
nice, expensive wall paper and
paint and sent for the village deco
rator. He came without his paper
ing board, for he knew Old Jim had
brought fine board home from the
mill for the cross-eyed wives to do
the papering in by gone days. He
knew II was in the attic The new
Mrs. Fuller accompanied the deco
rator to the garnet in search of the
board. The man pointed to long
row of old hats and bonnets hang
ing on some nails under the caves.
You see them bunnets? Yours
will be hanging on that next empty
nail some day, keeping them com
pany."
The straight-eyed wlfe's eyes al
most burned the "bunnets" with
lightning flashes. She grabbed
them all-her two arms full. some
hanging by withered strings, and
flung them from the window, when
they slowly fIBated toward the
mill-dam.
Not by a dam-site,'' she said,
with a grin. grin. "Jim's hat will
hang theEss'
In moment they had discovered
the papering board. The paper
hanger continued his free informa-
| ton: This board has held all the
bodies of Jim's wives They were
all laid out on 1T. 1t will hold you
some day. Then it followed the
-bunnets.'
In a box near the board were
some paste brushes and pair of
casket handles. The straight black
eyes bu4ged.
What-what are those?''
The paper hanger pretended not
to hear. A female hurricane swept
toward him,
'I say what are those?"
IF you must know, they are the
7 handles of the last wife's casket-
saved to put on yours" The han
dies did not follow the +'bunnets'
and the board A laugh as when
the lightning hits z granite rock and
| skids down it's sides, split the air
The three cToSs-eyed wives had
wept, little April showers, most
days in their dreary, drRdging
| lives The straight-eyed wife
| went down to the telephone and
ordered new horse-the best in
the stable-a harness and a new
buggy. Those were the times be
! fore cars were invented or the
buggy would have been a Iimou-
sine.
| Old Jim, that winter, fell and
broke several ribs. Complications
set in and his hat hung on the attic
nail. He was buried in a cheap
coffin-exactly like that OF his
third wife's. 1t was delivered with
out handles. The handles from
The attic lowered his casket in the
grave. The straight-eyed wife
straightway found a new husband
sold the house where three stoop-
shouldered, sad and cross-eyed
wives had slayed, and departed to
another town The handles were
/ at hast beyond resurrection
! Old Jim's thrift was applied tc
himself.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-28

land cement were burned Il vas
not successful at the time Dui
methods have since been oeFLse-
that make pulVerized coal 9Uo
cessful fuel.
@. How many copies OF the p1Di'
have been printed? ID W. )"
A While it is not possiol,e, e. ~
say how many copies OF the U III
have been printed. it is known NC I1st
the British Bible society in the the. * e.
100 years has published 244,4f1'o 2oI
copies and the American BlAe
ciety 98,000,0O0.
O. When use pen and NE a -
writing, my first and seconl II
gers become ink-marked. WEE w.
remove these stains?
A. To remove ink stains Tue -
the fingers, dampen the head o. On a.
ordinary match and rub br1sRiy %
the stains.
@. What can be put in a relII -s
orator to keep it free from oooi'
". L s
A. Frequent washing OF $ae ~
box is important A small 81 ~ ~.
of air-slakei lime set in tAe III ~,
tom of the refrigeratsS VIII AOS0'
odorse caused by foCA
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-28
Orr UninhntuttR
RPfTAPH:
\ HKEEE LIES MANS ANCIENT ENkMY,
| DILL CARE
WHO prsrsTEss TIE UNLovED cUss.
1 REWAKE.
COURTESY.

~COURTESY".
apologies? o dear, yes,)
The shades OF night were falling fast
As ND the village street there passed
A car which bore lit looked real nice1
In windows two this strange device:
Courtesy"
I looked upon that queer design
And tried my durnedest to divine
Inst what il meant; L scratched my head
In puzzIement at what read:
Courtesy"
Then, just as darkness novered nlgn, =
Another car came rolling by;
/ stopped the thing, went in the door
To ascertain the meaning for r
Courtesy"
I paid my nine cents to the man,
Then 10 the sign pointed: Can
You tell me what the deuce that is? -
He spoke, frown upon his phfz: -
Courtesy" -
I eazed at him and scratched my head
~PIease tell me what it means" said.
/ thought that he might tell me, but
He answered: what il says, you nut
Courtesy"
/ try, each day board car,
To find out what the durn things are.
Nobody seems to know, and yet
There is no chance that I'll forget
Courtesy"
How can it be, do you suppose,
l can't find anyone who knows?
Won't SOMEONE tell me. for the love
OF Mike, just what's the meaning of
Courtesy?