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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-02-19
PENINSULA TOMATO
GROWERS MEETING
Held At Seaford Last Week And
1t Was A Very Interesting
Affair.

The Peninsula Tomato Growers
Association meeting at Seaford, DEL
on February 10th was we'll attended
About 300 tomato growers represent
ing all the counties on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland and Delaware, as
we'll as several of the Western Mary
land counties, discussed freely the to-
mato and canning situation for the
coming season.
AS the roll call of counties was
made, the delegates from each county
responded, setting forth the condi-
tons that existed in his county.
While most of the counties report
ed very little interest being taken in
The tomato situation, it is generally
believed that the growers will be will
ing to plant a limited acreage, pro-
vided prices will permit it. The sub
Ject of price was not discussed to any
extent. 1t was believed that this could
be discussed at a later period, at
which time they believed the Gamer
would be in better position to discuss
the subject.
The Association name was changed
to the Peninsula Growers Exchange
and officers were elected for the COM
ing esason.
The meeting adjourned, to be call d
by the president when he deemed it
necessary.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-02-19

There Is more Catarrh in this section
OF the country than all other diseases
put together and for years 1t was sup
posed 70 pc incurable Doctors prescribed
local remedies. and by constantly failing
TO cure with local treatment, pronounced
It incurable. Catarrh Is local disease,
greatly influenced by constitutional con-
ditions and therefore requires constitu-
tional treatment. Halls Catarrh Medi-
cine. manufactured by F.. j. Cheney &
20, TOLEDO, Ohio, IL constitutional
remedy, 10 taken internally and acts
thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces
OF the System. One Hundred Dollars re-
ward Is offered for any case that Halls
Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials.
Fl ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. Ohio.
Sold BY Druggists, 75c.
(, Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-02-19
ATTENTION.!
PUBLIC SALE
MISSOURI MULES.

We, the undersigned, will sell at
the stables of Calvin E. Townsend, in
Pocomoke City, Maryland, on
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-02-19

we, Inc Undersigned, VIII sell at
the stables of Calvin E. Townsend, in
Pocomoke City, Maryland, on
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26th, 1921
Beginning at o'clock P. M.
a carload of choice Missouri Mules.
We do not hesitate in saying that
this is the best load of Mules ever
brought to Pocomoke. The stock is
not out of the wholesale market but
out of our own feed barns at CIar-
ence, Mo. They will range in age
from four to six years, and in weight
from 1000 to 1900 pounds. They are
the kind that will suit the trade in
this section. They will arrive here a
few days before the sale and you are
invited to look them over. They are
all well broken and are ready for i'm.
mediate use. Sale will take place, RAIN
or shine.
TERMS OF SALE-Four months
credit will be given, the purchaser to
give bankable note with approved Sc
curity, or all cash at the option of the
purchaser.
G. G. CHINN and
MCCARTHY BROS.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-02-19
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
FayOrite

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is a
favorite with the mothers of small
children for colds groups and whoop-
ing cough. It's pleasant taste and the
prompt cures which it effects has wor
the good opinion of mothers every
where. AS this remedy contains no
opium or other narcotic it may be Civ
en- as confidently to baby as to an
adult.-adv.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-02-19
Smiths and cohens Lead in New York

Smiths and Cohens Lead in New York.
New York.-In the 1,096,250 people
listed In the New York city directory
there are more than 5000 Smiths and
slightly more than 7.100 Cohens. The
Browns. Johnscps and Joheses come
next,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-02-19
A LINE O. CHEER
BY John kendrick Bangs.
AS TO THE GALLERY.

care not If they say of me
I play unto the gallery,
For in those places up on high
Where wealth and fashion seldom
fly.
l find that many a fellow sits
With solid mind and nimble wits
Who hath a soul as full of glow
AS any sitting down below,
While 'mongst the more exclusive
oft
I've found a head that's mighty
soft,
With naught for its location At
Except the cash TO pay for IL.
(Copyright)
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17

Kirgan, shaking his head ''Or, least
wise, if there is, 1t hasn't any rail con-
nection with our siding, just as I'm
tellin' you. Wen have to look far
ther along"
Somehow, l couldn't get it out of
my head but that / was right. Our
guesses all went as straight as a
string to that ~ siding ten miles west
of Banta, and l vas sure that if | had
been talking to Mr.. Van Britt | could
have convinced him. But Kirgan was
awfully hard-headed.
Its supper time," he said. after
we had mulled a while longer over
the map. Tomorrow, if you like,
We'll take an engine and run down
there. But we amt goin' to find any
thing. 1 can tell you that, right now"
"Yes, and tomorrow we may have
the new general manager, and then
you and l and all the others will be
hunting for some other railroad to
work on" l retOrted.
l pretty nearly had him over the
edge, but l couldn't push him the
rest of the way to a V my life.
IF there vas the least little scrap-a
reason even to imagine that Mr.. Nor
cross had gone off on that stolen
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17
ROAD"
BUILDING
DURABILITY OF ROADS VARY
Classification Of Passenger and Freight
Highways 10 Predicted by
Chairman Diehl.

Freight roads and passenger roads
are probabilities of the comparative
ly near future In congested sections
Of the country, according to Chairman
George c. Diehl Of the A. A. A. good
roads board, who has sent a communi-
cation to this effect to the office of
the chief of engineers of the Wal de-
partment. Mr.. Diehl thus comments
on the up-tO-date highways problem:
"There will be a time when
all roads are of equal durability and
carrying capacity. Highways and
railroads are analogous, in that they
are both designed to carry traffic. and
general rules which have been devel-
oped through scientific management
of railroads apply as well almost In
variably to highways. The heaviest
locomotives and rolling stock are a r
ried on roads like the New York Cen
trail and Pennsylvania and Union Pa
cifc. Their use over lighter con-
structed railroads would ruin the
roads in a comparatively brief period.
There must come a classification
Of highways. Over class l the heav-
lest motortrucks and trailers would
be permitted; each truck should have
large figures cOnspicueusly placed on
the sides to indicate the total weight
that it was permitted 70 carry; 0per-
ators and owners of trucks should Be
prosecuted for using the heaviest
trucks on roads designed for lighter
traffic. It would be comparatively
simple to enforce such provisions, as
there seems to be no defense Of the
proposition permitting one or two
heavy trucks to ruin an investment
of many thousand dollars OF the
lighter constructed highways. ~
AT the road Intersection the high
way capacity could be indicated. as
the highway department should, I be-
lieve, have a traffic department under
a chief traffic engineer, having to do.
not with construction and mainte-
nance but merely with the control Of
traffic. 1t is extremely likely that 1t
would result ultimately In a system
Of freight roads and passenger roads.
and that wider and parallel roads
would result ultimately in a system
Of freight roads and passenger roads,
and that wider and parallel roads
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17
Strike In New Zealand.

1t was in October. 1913, that New
Zealand experienced a food and fuel
shortage as a result of a general strike.
which began with a walkout Of ship
wrights. New Zealand had been re-
ferred to frequently as "a land with
out strikes" by magazine writers, who
found in its labor and social laws ma
terial for much praise. Its Industrial
laws often were held up as models.
New Zealand is a British colonial pos
session, discovered by Tasman in 1912.
The settlers have been often at wal
with the natives, the Maoris. The do
minion does not have a socialist gov.
eminent. although 1t has adopted radi.
cally socialistic policies. The govern
ment is vested In a governor. appoint.
ed by the crown. and a general Assem-.
bly, consisting of a Legislative council.
appointed by the governor. and Q
house Of representatives. elected.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17
By
LYNDE'

line, and it was addressed ITO the
General Managers Office" just like
that. There were only nine words
in it, but they were all strictly to the
point: whats gone wrong? Where
is Mr.. Norcross? Answer quick" .
l saw in half a second at least a
part of what had happened. Mr.. Chad
wick was back from his Canadian
trip, and somebody-the New York
people. perhaps-had wired him that
a new general manager had been ap-
pointed for Pioneer Short Line. The
old wheat kings quick shot at our
office showed that he wasn't In the
plot, and that, whatever else had be-
come of him, Mr.. Norcross hadn't as
yet turned up in Chicago!
Gee! but that brought on more
talk-a whaling lot of it. l meant
to find out, right away, if Mr.. Van
Britt had come back from the scene
of a wreck. He was the man to an
swer Mr.. Chadwick's wire. But an
interruption butted in suddenly, just
as | was signing the dinner check.
The head waiter, who knew me from
having seen me so often with the boss,
came over to say that l was wanted
quick at the telephone.
1t Was Mrs. Sheila on the wire, and
| could tell by the way her voice
sounded that she was nightly ex,
cited. rT7rrfTSs - N,rr@4
"Tve been calling you on every
phone l could think Of" was the way
she began; and then: "Where is Mr..
Van Britt?"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17
Enter Mr.. Dismuke, gen
eral manager"
CTO BE CONTINUED
IN NIGHT THOUGHTS
Brain Is Frequently at Best During the
Still, Quiet Hours of the Dark
ness.

Many writers sleep with pencil and
notebook under their pillows and a
lamp at hand, so that they may dash
off the thoughts that come to them
In the watches of the night. There
Is about these thoughts a clarity that
does not come with daytime thinking
"a sureness of vision that approaches
the clairvoyant. Misfortunes never
loom so full or realistic as after mid
night but joy and pleasure lose some
thing of their glamor, their evidence;
doubt creeps in with them.
A problem which we have wrestled
In the daylight, weighing it with all
our intelligence, Is settled in a certain
way, calmly and judiciously and after
mature reflection. Our decision seems
the right one. And then, suddenly, in
the dead of the night, that self-same
issue hobs up before our mental vi
sion, wakes us from a sound sleep and
settles itself in quite another way, in
N great flash. A strong white light
has been turned upon the brain and
has revealed there a conclusion OF
which we had no inkling before. The
processes Of arriving at it are a closed
chapter. The clairvoyant brain has
registered a result only. And again and
again 1t will be found to be the right,
tile expedient solution.
Memory, too, is peculiarly keen in
the ~silences between midnight and four
In the morning. All the cobwebs have
been swept from the brain by the first
hours Of sleep; the body and nerve
centers are singularly rested; there
are no noises to disturb and some SUBJ
conscious power is at work within US.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17

would be sent put here, and you could
bet your sweet life he wouldn't be
anybody like Mr.. Norcross. Not so
you could notice II. The New YORK
people would take blamed good care-a
that"
you think the Dunton people are
standing In with the graftY7
Nobody could've grabbed off the
m~otive-pOwer job on this railroad, as
I did. Jimmie, and not think it-and
be d-n' sure of it. Why, Lord o.
Heavens, the Red Tower bunch was
usin' us just the same as If we be-
longed to em,-ordering our men to
do their machinery repairs. helpin'
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17
Have to Be Handy With Ak.

Nearly all rural Tasmanian men are
fairly dexterous with the Ak. In the
back blocks 1t is a necessity of life, one
Of the settlers first Jobs being to con-
struct a hut or house out of the grow.
ing timber surrounding the site. On
farms fencing posts are sure to be re-
quired. and splitting them out of tree
trunks still demands skill as well as
energy, though the older post and rail
fence. the atwood rabbit-proof fence,
and the "chopping block" log fence
still in vogue in heavily timbered dis
tricts required much more nice az
work than the post and wire fence
now generally erected.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17
Totterinq for 600 Years.

The famous Leaning tower of Pisa
is of pure white Carrara marble in the
Go0fc style. Its departure from the
perpendicular has been variously in
terpreted, but there is little doubt that
it rises from the softness of the soil
on which ii stands and which has
given way. Notwithstanding its
threatening appearance, it has now
stood for more than six hundred years
without rent or decay.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17
BACK OF GOOD ROADS
Seasons Do Not Wait and Crops Must
Be sowed, Cultivated Reaped
and Marketed.

The farmer or rural dweller. In GER
tain sections, for a long time stood
In the wayne wanted the roads, but
he didn't wan to pay for them. He
did not realize that in the long run
good roads pay for themselves out Of
savings made to the community In
haulage Of people and merchandise.
But the farmer today is reckoning in
units Of time, for seasons do not wait
and crops must be sowed and cult
waited. reaped and marketed at the
right time. Therefore the farmer is
now back Of the road Improvement.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17
Much Good Road BUILDING,

Last year recorded unthought Of
road building activities throughout
the United States. A few years ago
some narrowly bounded community
might have done something to make
the roads within its confines better.
Such an act, however, was little cause
for comment except locally. The au-
tomobile, with the range Of travel II
has brought within everyone's reach,
had not been developed and could not
have been used IL it had. This means
that the advent of the automobile has
forced good roads.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17

would be found to be the most eco
nomical method Of laying out the high
way system.
ut is impossible to lay out all roads
of the heavy form of construction; In
the first place, the money is not avail
able, and, secondly, too many years
would elapse before the more sparse
ly settled sections of the country
were developed. 1t would not be at
all difficult to break bulk when leaving
the heavy traffic roads, and in a COM
paratively brief time an excellent the
DRY Of highway construction would be
developed whereby each locality would
be able to determine the amount 1t
was feasible for them to expend on
each mile Of highway construction"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17
LoST-oNL. PERFECTLY GOOD ENGINE.

Synopds-Graham Norcross, railroad manager, nd his secretary. Jimmie
Dodds. are maroone at Sand Creek siding witt a young lady, Shena Macrae,
n her small. cousin, Maise Ann Unseen. they witness a peculiar train hold
up, in which special ear is carried off. Norcross recognizes IN car fs la
of John Chadwick, financial magnate, whom he was o meet at Portal City
He and Dodds rescue Chadwick. The after offers Norcross he management
of the Pioneer Short Line, which is in the hands OF eastern SPECTATORS headed
by eckenridg Dunton, president Of the line. Norcross, learning hat Shena
Aacrae is stopping at Portal City, accepts, Iodds overhears onversaton be-
tween Rufus Hatch and Gustave Ienckel. Portal City fnancbrs in which
they admit completely in Chadwfck's kidnapping, their object being to keep
Chadwick from attending "A meeting of directors to reorganize the Pioneer
Short Line, whichw would eopardize their interests. To curb IN MONOPOLY IN
trohed by Hatch and iIenckel the Red Tower corporation, Norcrossf forms tn
Citizens Storage and Warehouse company. He begins to manifest a deep
interest in SheiaM acrae Dodds learns that Shena is married. bt living
apart from her husband. Norcross does not know this. The Boss ppe
report has it that he has resigned and gon east
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17

eight-wheeler, it would be different,
Jimmie" he protested. "But there
aint; and you know doggoned well
there amt. Let's go uptown and
hunt up something to eat. You'll feel
a heap clearer in your mind when you
get a good square meal inside o. your
clothes"
We left the shop Offices together,
and got shut out, crossing the yard,
by a freight that vas pulling in from
the west. There was a yard crew
shifting on the other side of the in
coming train, and rather than wait
for the double obstruction to clear itself,
we walked down the shop track, mean
ing to 90 around the lower end of
things.
This detour took us past the round
house, and when we reached the turn
table lead. the engine Of the just
arrived freight came backing down
the sklp-track. Seeing Kirgan, the
engineer swung down from the step
at the lead switch. leaving the hostler
to spot the engine on the table. l
knew the engineer by sight. His name
was Gorcher, and he was a reformed
cow-punch'-with a record for getting
out of more tight places with a heavy
train than any other man on the divi-
sion.
Here's looking at you, Mr.. Kir-
gam" he said, with q sort Of Happy
Hooligan grin on his smutty face.
You been passin' the word, quiet,
among the boys to keep an eye out
FIR that Atlantic-type that got lost in
the shuttle, amt your Well, / found
her"
whats that-wherep" snapped Kir-
gan, in a tone that made a noise like
the pop of a whip-lash.
You know that old gravel pit that
digs into the hill a mile west Of the
old ~ on the Timber Mountain grade?
Well, she's there; plumb at the far
end o. that gravel track, cold and
dead"
"Crippled?" Kirgan raped out.
mot as we could see; just dead.
She's got her nose showed a piece
into the gravel bank, but she amt
of the rail-"
Kirgan nodded. "who else saw
Nobody but the boys on our train,
I reckon"
"All right. Don't spread IT. Want
TO make a little overtimeY-
Il amt kickin' none"
That's business. After you've had
your supper. call up your fireman and
to me here at the r~ound-house.
Wen take a light engine and go down
along and get that runaway"
This seemed to settle Kirgan's half
Of the puzzle. We hadn't taken the
gravel track into our calculations sim
ply because IL wasn't marked on the
nap we had been studying; but that
merely meant that the pit had been
,pened some time after the map had
1een made.
When Gorcher had gone into the
-ound-house to wash up and tell his
fireman to report back, Kirgan and
crossed the yard and headed for
own. / left the master-mechanic at
he door of a Greek eat-shop that he
'atrOnized and went on up to the
Billiard. I was just getting around
o my piece of canned pumpkin pie
ghen the kid from the dispatcher's
flee came into the grilLroom, stretch
ng his neck as II he were looking for
Omebody. When he got his eye on
be he came across to my corner and
anded me a telegram. 1t was from
fr. Chadwick, under q Chicago date
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17
Hard Road Buudjnu.

Hard road building is going for
ward in Iowa. over a million dollars
worth Of contracts being let In one
month recently.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17
CHAPTER VII
The Lost 1915

When Kirgan told me he was
shy a whole locomotive I began to
see all sorts of fireworks. OF course,
there was nothing on earth to connect
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17
And He Did

Blossom-Did you pay for this eiec-
trio batteryT His Valet-"No. sir;
you told me to have 1t charged!-
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17

He who is unable to collect his wits
his bills is In tough luck.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17
Best Shock Abeorben.

Good roads are the best shock alb
sorbers. unless they shock the taxpay.
81 D..
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17
Cost Of 1921 Improxement..

Road improvements in the United
States In 1921 will cost close to
$6O0,OOO,0OO.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-12-05
n RIGHT ATTITUDE

. ENNSYLVANIA women a! the state con-
l yention of The Pennsylvania League of Women
Voters have gone on record against the League as a
body indorsing and supporting major candidates for
office. There can be no question as to the wisdom
of this action. AS a non partisan organization, as
sembled solely for The purpose Of educating women
voters upon political issues, contemplated laws, and
legislation in process, any attempt to back either a
democrat or a republican for office. would instantly
line up the League Of Women Voters with an actual
women's party movement, an attitude that IS disavow-
cd by the League in toto.
So long as the women Of both major parties, and
other smaller political parties can seek the League
meetings for uncolored unbiased Information leading
10 a clear understanding Of the issues at stake, and
thus be enabled 10 form personal opinions based solely
upon their knowledge Of facts presented, then the
League is faithfully and we'll fulfilling its duties. lfit
should adopt the unfortunate stand of advocating
candidates for office, and Try to induce its member
ship 10 vote as a body for ono man or another, then
ii becomes itself a political party, organized to secure
votes
There is great necessity for a League Of Women
Voters in a purely educational sense. thousands of
women had ever held a ballot in their hands until the
past election. Thousands Of them had never given a
single thought TO politics, and it is a tribute to the keen
conscience of Tie American women that great numbers
Of them refused TO use the ballot because of their sense
Of absolute ignorance in regard to the issues for which
they would be voting.
These women who SO deeply felt their lack Of 6t-
ness 10 cast an intelligent ballot are seeking the League
in order TO get political facts, and to study those issues
upon which they need information. and will then de-
eide for themselves where they Will place lk:ir votes
without dictation or question.