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THE BRIDGEPORT TIMES.

don't like you, we used to like yo
When you say there ought to be a
200 day year, that we ought to have
HOO hours of education for the
children you are more unkind.
These girls think that Is adding I'M
kindness to unkindneas. They don't
like that and L don't blame them
Every man likes his job as easy. as
he can make it Unfortunately It is
the duty of those who have the duty
to look out that the other fellow does
his work. That is the way the world
has always run.
1--WE have Teachers Association,
an excellent and a proper organiza-
ton. I believe IN teachers associa-
tons. Every school system ought to
have them. Yet. when you simmer it
down to the personal aspect Of the
thing, a teachers association has GER
tain or the aspects of a labor union.
1t is concerned with shorter hours
and more pay, and with doing the
least Quantity Of work for the greatest
sum of money, as all such organiza-
tons are. and must be, even medical
and bar organizations which are con-
cerned with the fee.
'Yet the members of vour board in
dealing with this matter and attempt
ing to institute these necessary re-
forms are confronted with the objec-
ton of these highly organized and
ed women, and we have our hard
times ahead Of US.
In a republican form of govern
ment such as ours, all bodies OF pub
lie employment are necessarily some
thing in the nature o. soviet form
Every city to a certain extent runs
the risk Of being governed, not by
its citizens, but by its groups of pub
lie servants. That is threat to every
city. 1t has recently been more of
a threat to this city than it is now.
Tt is very unfortunate for a city
when it's government is administered
by those on the payroll, instead of
by its citizens who have to meet the
payroll. Members of the board of
education are just men in the COM
munity, put there by the community.
The teaching body alone in that COM
munity represents $500 votes, for
anything the society doesn't like. The
task of reforming in the way of de-
manding more service CT a great body
of public service employees isn't easy
anywhere, and isn't easier in the
Bridgeport system.
There is in the system a consid-
cradle number of farssetng and ex-
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|. ceptionally competent and able teach
ers who agree that in the interests
Of the children, in the permanent in
terests of the $4,000 school children
CT Bridgeport, the school day and the
school year ought to be longer, and
that body of public sentiment within
| the teaching body is going to be of
the greatest assistance in this move
rent, and 1t gives me some hope that
we may be successful in procuring
these superior conditions.
When we come to bridgeport with
| that proposition for an 100 hour
year, we are not depending on the
opinion Of laymen. That day and that
year is the New York day and year.
We haven't acted until we have con-
suited all the experts that we were
able to reach. Secretary Meredith
| has been in here. We have talked to
Dean Withers. Mr.. Slawson recon-
mended it before he went away. Act
ing Superintendent Cortright has re-
newed that recommendation, putting
the thing into more workable form.
| A 2O0-day year is the least we ought
| to teach. The goal in the west is
| somewhat ahead of that.
| All through the system there have
been loose spots. Our system of CIV
| ing the business of the schools hasn't
been fair. We are changing that and
| making it fair again. We have been
verbal contracts made in other days
without any species of authority, soma
| of them in the department which Mr..
Went is strengthening out.
| When you hear anything, or read
anything in the newspapers, about
what is going on IN the board Of edu-
cation, you must understand that the
board of education is composed of
men who know very well how pleasant
it is to be in perfect good standing
with 700 school teachers; who under
stand perfectly well the power that
700 voting school teachers WELD in
community, who desire just as much
as other men to have the support and
complete favor of that system, who
nevertheless by the misfortune of the
times and by what has recently hap
pened in Bridgeport, have nothing
less than a mandate Of the community
to put the schools in better shape;
who by virtue of that misfortune and
that mandate are under the necessity,
those of who are Rotarians-as
Rotarians, and all of US as citizens,
to look out for the taxpayers of this
city and the $4,000 children who at
tend these schools Of ours.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE IA, 1922
GREAT INCOMES DECLINING.

The preliminary statistics personal incomes made pub
lie last night most interesting from the standpoint of those
who study the economic condition Of the people country
Two facts stand broadly out from the
The number of those enjoying incomes of the smaller
has decreased during stress of hard times
lively little.
The number of those receiving incomes from 100000
million have decreased markedly and the ratio of
greater the income greater the income
showing the largest decrease the
incomes half The figures
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DIED.

HAII-In STAFFORD, Conn, June 10,
1922, Mary, daughter of JEANNE z.
and Edwin Franklin Hall, aged "a
years. / month. days.
Friends are invited to attend
funeral services at the residenc Of
her mother, 1926 Main street.
Stafford, on Thursday. June Is,
Interment at Union cemetery.
sEEKINGs - In this city, June Il.
1922, John Wardle Seekings, at his
home, 2915 North Main street, aged
Sc years.
Friends are invited to attend the
funeral at his late home. 2915
North Main street, on Friday. June
16, at $3.50 a. M. and in st. Pat
rick's church at 8 o'clock, with SOL
emn high mass.
Burial in St. MichaeFs Gem etery.
Please omit flowers. D14s*p
DEAN-In this city, Tuesday. June
Thomas J. and the late Florence
Dean, aged Is years. 10 months,
13 days.
Friends are invited to attend the
funeral from the home of her
uncle. Timothy J. Collins. $50 Res
ervoir avenue. on Friday, June Is,
at $50 a. m, and from St. Pat
rick's church at 9 a. m.
Interment st. AfchaeTs Gene
HAIL-In Stafford. Conn, June 10.
1922, Mary. daughter of JEANNE P.
and Edwin Franklin Hall, aged "a
years, 1 month. 6 days.
Friends are invited to attend the
funeral at the residence of her
mother. 1926 Main street, STRAIT
ford, on Thursday, JUNE IS. at
$3.50 p. m. Kindly omit flowers.
Interment at Union cemetery. as
BREEN-In this city, Tuesday, June
10. 1922, Francis j. Breen, aged 81
years.
Friends are invited to attend the
funeral from his late resid ence, "a
Black Rock avenue, Friday, June
6, at 8 a. m. Body will be taken
on the $40 train to Cornwall
Bridge, Conn.
Interment ST. Budgets cemetery,
Cornwall Bridge Conn D14b$
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members of his stan-Professors
Crawford and Meyer-after comput-
ing the orbit of the comet recently re-
ported as newly discovered by the
astronomer Skjellerup, of Cape Town.
South Africa, ind its similar to that
OF Griggs' comet Professor Leschner
states that the two are probably iden-
Ica1.
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MARIA BOGDANYI SUR VS.. JOSEPH
SZUR.-Order of Notice.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT, Fairfield
County, Superior Court Bridge
port, June 8, A D. 1922.
Upon the complaint of the said Maria
Bogdauyf Sur PRAYING, for reasons
set forth. for a divorce and the custody
of two minor children returnable to the
Superior curt in and for Fairfield
County, on the first Tuesday Of Septem-
Der, 1922.
It appearing to and being found by the
subscribing authority that Joseph Sur.
State and gone to parts unknown
Therefore Ordered, That notice Of the
pendency of said complaint be given by
publishing this order in The Bridgeport
Times, a newspaper printed In Bridge
port, three times successfully. commence
ing on or before the 18th day of June,
A. D. 1922.
MICHAEL T. FLANAGAN,
Clerk OF the Superior Court for Fairfield
County D14ss
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Total 7,259,944 5,33276O
tendency legislation during past ten years has
the smaller while decreasing the larger
purpose tax powerful aid Dim
extent the larger caused
by exempt bonds and by declining bus
mess relatively number of smaller
explained part by the business and economic
legislation of decades
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CaTIFORNIA PROFESSORS
INVESTIGATE NEW COMET

Cambridge, Mass. June 14-Word
has reached the Harvard AstronoIni-
cal Observatory by telegram from
Professor A. o. Leschner. of the
University OF California, that two
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-14
TODAY'S WANTS

NURSE WISHES POSITION taking
care of invalid or young infant; hos
pita1 training. G. NJ. J., 10 Jefferson St.
Bridgeport Dl4s|p
WANTFD-A white maid for general
houseHror1x; no laundry. Box A.
Grid eeDort Times D14u*
WANTED nurse girl. Box C, BRYCE
port Times. Dl4u*
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G John. N, B-Walter Hoover,
national sculling champion and win
nor oF the recent gold cup race at
phiIad eLpTlia. has been auth rized to
invita- Arthur Baynes, Australian title
holder to compete in this country
tI1is summer.
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NEGLECT OF TREE PLANTING IN
PUBLIC SCHOOL GROUNDS.

Many County superintendent took
up the work of planting trees in the
Rural school grounds on Arhor Day
Ceremonies were held and the trees
planted to commemorate the service
If the boy or boys from the neighbor-
hood. This was all very nice but the
sad tale is vet to be told.
July 10th of this same year, only
two and one-half months after the
tree planting, the trees are dying. The
weeds are three to five feet high above
the trees. The school ground as we'll
as the trees has had no care. There
is but one organization that can quick
" and easily remedy this bad prac-
tiCe of neglect. the farm bureau.
1t will be easy to point out to the
people the sad neglect of our public
school grounds and secure coopera-
tion in building them up. The coun-
try schools of our Nation should be
the beauty spots of the neighborhood.
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new CHICKEN THIEF
TRAP
HEAVY MAN STEPS ON NEGRO'S NECK
AT HOLE IN HENNERY.

Pennsgrove, n. j., July 17.-Former
Councilman Smith has decided to put
his foot down on chicken thefts in
this vicinity, and to exemplify his de-
termination he put his foot on the
neck of Nose Gaskins, Salem negro
as he was leaving the Smith hennery
with several choice hens in bag,
crawling through an opening about
Is inches square. Smith held the ne
gro in this uncomfortable position un-
til the local police arrived.
Smith said he had heard an unusual
noise in his hennery. AS it had been
visited once before. he decided to in
vestigate At the coop he heard the
negro hagging his game and waited
for him to come out of the hole, the
only means of egress, as the door was
locked Smith. who weighs around 200
pounds. nut his foot on the negro's
neck and called to his wife to tele-
phone for the police. For 20 minutes
the negro lay on the ground, his head
and shoulders outside and the remain
der of his body in the coop.
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"THE DUTCH PICNIC,

For half a century the first Satur-
day in August has been Dutch Pic
mic Day. when thousands of people
from the county and from far away
congregate in the grove adjacent to
Trinity Lutheran Church, near Small
wood. Committees of the congregation
and SUNDAY school are hard at work
planning to make the picnic, TO be
held this year on Saturday. August
5th. "big time" In the afternoon.
there will be an interesting platform
exercise by the Young people, a very
brief address by the pastor. games for
the children, a big baseball game.
The Patriotic Order Sons of America
Rand of Pleasant Valley will be on
hand all dav Several hundred gal
Ions of ice cream. and other refresh
ments will be sold at the stand. bur
as in the past there will be no wheels
of fortune. raffling. or games of
chance of anv kind. If weather is in
element on Saturday. the nicnic will
be held on the following Monday
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MISS HAUvER KILLED WHEN
TRAIN HITS AUTO.

Miss Grace Hauver, daughter of AL
bert Hauver, Foxville, was instantly
killed Sunday afternoon when an au-
tomobile in which she was riding was
struck bv the fast mail on the Western
Maryland Railroad, going east, at the
Deerfeld Crossing, near her home:
Mrs. Ferdinand Hesse, wife of the
Rev. Mr.. Hesse, pastor of the Luther
an Church. Smithburg. also in the car,
narrowly escaped by jumping
Mrs. Hesse and Miss Hauver started
from the latter's home for Baltimore
in Miss Hauver's car. AS they were
about TO cross the track they heard
the train approaching. When an at
tempt was made to speed up the ma
chine it stopped with the rear between
the rails. Miss Hauver, who was driv-
ing. quickly. opened the door and told
Mrs. Hesse to jump. The latter reach
ed a place of safety Before Miss Hau-
yer could jump the train crashed into
the car and carried portions of it some
distance along the track. Miss Hau-
yer was terribly mutilated and the
car was reduced to kindling wood
The victim was about 2S years old
and well known. She was one of the
Democratic candidates nominated for
the House of Delegates+last fan, but
later withdrew. She is survived by her
father and three brothers, one of the
latter being p. A. Hauver, faemef Of
Sykesville, until recently farm agent
for this county,
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BIRTHDAY SURPRISE.

A very enjoyable birthday surprise
pas given at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
zee SNYDER. Pennsylvania avenue.
aturdav evening, July Is, in honor
N Mrs. Snyder's birthday. The guests
began to arrive at o'clock. All had
most enjoyable evening. At 1890
o'clock all were invited to the dining
loom where a table was laden with
NE many good things of the season.
onsist!ng of ice cream. cake, fruit,
punch, bananas, peaches, plums and
delicious home made candies which
al did ample justice to. At late hour
al departed for their homes wishing
MrS. SNYDER many more happy birth
udys' Among those present were Mr..
ana Mrs. Lee Snyder, Mr.. and Mrs.
olerllng Snyder and son, Roland, Mr..
anu Mrs. VIM. Groose, Mr.. and Mrs.
0sorge Lester, Mr.. and Mrs. George
oosine. Baltimore; Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Wise. Mr. and Mrs. R. j. Wantz,
alS' ) c. Stoner. Mr.. and Mrs. Mil
W. yoh llngling. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
IiIingilng. of Mt. Washington; Mr.. and
y. Yrs Dewey Snyder, Misses Ethel
lInsllng, Elizabeth Yingling, Mar
Taleta Sta oSbine, GLADYS Spicer. Messrs.
n, oprrlS Myers. Reginald Stoner, George
'S'he' Jr.. and Edgar Yingling.
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WILSON

William T. Wilson died at his home
on Carroll street, Saturday morning
at 2 o'clock, aged SO years, months
and IA davs Mr.. Wilson has resided in
this CITY for many years. where he had
been in the farm implement and livery
business He was a well known auc-
tioneer and had cried sales in nearly
every part of the county. Politically.
he was a Democrat and was active in
the success of his party.
He is survived by his wife, who be-
fore her marriage was Miss Bird, Of
Virginia. and one daughter, Margaret,
at home: also by his mother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Wilson, and one brother and
two sisters, Charles Wilson. and Fan
ME and Edna Wilson, all Of New Wind
sor. The funeral services were held
Tuesday morning at 10 . clock at the
Brethren church, Belle Grove Square.
Elder A. P. Snader officiated, assisted
by Prof w. B. Yount. Interment was
made in Westminster cemetery. The
pallbearers were S. c. Stoner. Lee c.
Hutchins. Theodore Kaufman, Jacob
Weller. H. s. Roop, Jesse E. Royer.
Samuel Haines. Jr., and Chas. Beard.
James NJ. Stoner funeral director.
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CHARGED WITH FORGERY
TANEYTOWN YOUTH HELD IN FREDERICK
JAIL FOR HEARING.
From Frederick News.

From Frederick News.
Charged with forging the name of
Nelson Summers, of Woodsboro, to
three checks, which he is alleged to
have cashed. Paul Horn, about Is
years old, son of Charles Horn, of
Taneytown. was arrested Sunday af-
ternoon. by Deputy Sheriff Allen
Bartgis. and lodged in Jail He denies
the charge.
The checks-two for $40 each and
one for S13-were cashed at the bank
of the Central Trust Company, this
city. some weeks ago. The checks
contained the forged signature of
Summers and were indorsed. it is
said. bv Horn. When the forgery be-
came known Mr.. Summers swore out
a warrant for Horn and placed it in
the hands of Deputy Bartgis. The lat
ter went to Taneytown. and finding
Horn at home, placed him under ar
rest and brought him to jail.
While the young man denies the
charge. the forged checks and his in
dorsement, it is claimed, are the evil
dences of his guilt. 1t is said that he
had been working on a farm in the
neighbnrhood of Tanevtown and is
well known in that community
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DIR. GOUCHER DEAD.

A scant month after the celebration
Of his seventy-seventh birthday. Rev.
DR.. John F. Goucher died at 2 a. m.
Tuesday at his country home. Alto
Dale, near Pikesville. With him at the
time of his death were two of his
daughters. Mrs. Henry C. Miller and
Miss Eleanor Goucher. A third daugh-
ter. Mrs. Burgoyne Chapman. is the
wife of A missionary at present in
China
The death of DR.. Goucher was not
unexpected by his close friends and
relatives. who had known for some
time that the famous old man was in
failing health.
DR.. GOucher was descended from a
family that came to this country prior
to 1850 During his life DR.. Goucher.
achieved fame in many directions.
as a minister. educator, philanthropist
traveller and missionary. Here he will
be particularly remembered as the
founder of Goucher College. which
will ALWAYS remain a monument in his
honor.
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GALEN L. TAFT HANDS OFF.

Galen L. TAFT, Republican State
chairman, in a statement given out
last Friday, indicates that the attitude
CT the Republican organization. so far
as he can speak for it, toward the
candidacy of Senator Joseph Irwin
France. John w. Garrett or anyone
else who NAV be a candidate for the
Republican nomination for the United
States Senate will be one of benevo-
lent neutrality.
1t is the duty of the organization,
he says in effect, to keep hands off in
the primary fight and to do the best
it can for the election of the success
full candidate. He expresses the hope
that the contest will be conducted
without undue heat and without an
excessive expenditure of money.
His statement is in the nature of a
reply to a request by subcommittee
Of the Rraddock conference committee
that he define the attitude of the or
ganization toward the candidacy of
Mr. Garrett.
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DEATHS.
YINGLNG

Ephraim ]. Yingling, following a
lingering illness of paralysis, died at
the home of his son-in-law, Weldon
r. Nusbaum. Union Mills, Md, on July
-. in the SOth year of his age.
Although a carpenter by trade. Mr..
Yingling followed other occupations,
and was a highly respected resident
of Union Mills, where he spent at least
fifty years of his life. In early life he
worked in the coal oil regions of the
west and had many interesting stor-
les to tell of the DAYS when drilling
for oil was in its infancy in the Unit
ed States.
His wife, who was a daughter of
the late Jacob Feeser, died several
years ago. Mr. Yingling is survived
by the following children; Hubert s.,
Edward j., and Norman Yingling, of
Baltimore; Mrs. Howard Stitley, Hag-
erstown. and Mrs. Weldon r. Nus
baum. Union Mills.
The funeral took place Saturday,
with interment in Silver Run ceme-
terry. Rev. John S. Adam, pastor of the
Reformed church, of which the de-
ceased was a member, conducted the
burial services.
Mr. Yingling was a charter member
of the l. O. NJ. Lodge of Union Mills.
Members of that lodge and of the
Mystic Chain. Silver Run, of which he
was also a member, acted as pail
bearers. They were f. H. Flickinger,
Daniel p Frock and Charles o. Bloom,
of the I. O. NJ and Austin A. Croft.
John T Copenhaver and Charles E..
Nusbaum. of the Mystic Chain. J. w.
Wink's Sons were the funeral direc-
tors.
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MECHANICSVILLE ALL-STARS
STAGE PECULIAR CONTESTS

An unusual performance was serv-
ed UP to the Carroll county fans when
the Mechanicsville All-Star Club play
ed double-header on their home
grounds. Saturday. both games of
which resulted in a nine-inning tie
score.
In the first game the local boys sue
ceeded in stopping the long winning
streak of the White Swans of Balti-
more. but neither team could put over
the winning marker, and the game
had to he stopped at the end of nine
innings TO permit the second game to
begin. The score was 3-3.
The second game against Woodbine
A. c.. was a snappy affair which went
to "A conclusion at the end of the
ninth inning. when it became too dark
to see the ball
Skinny Barnes fielded brilliantly in
the outfield and got seven hits out of
nine triDs to the plate for the NJ. A S.
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BIRTHDAY SURPRISE PARTY.

On the evening of July 14th birth
day surprise party was given Mrs.
Levi D. Maus at their home near Ty-
rome Mrs. Maus and some of the fam
lily were in Westminster and on their
return found the house and spacious
lawn full of their many friends. After
the complete surprise and congratula-
tions, games and music were indulged
in until late hour when all were in
vited to the dining room where the
visitors had loaded the tables with
all kinds of refreshments. 1t was
great evening for all present. The fol-
lowing were present:
Mr.. and Mrs. Ruler, Miss Gertrude
Ruler and Mrs. Roy Flinchbaugh, all
of York. Pa; Rev. and Mrs. Murray
E. Ness. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Baby
Ion. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Babylon, Mr..
and Mrs. Nathaniel Lippy, Mr. and
Mrs. CLAYTON Myers, Rev. ]. W. Rein
ecke, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Lippy, Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph Warehime. Mr. and
Mrs. Wesley Warehime, Mr.. and Mrs.
Carroll Eckard. Mr.. and Mrs Howard
Maus. Mr.. and Mrs. Levi D. Maus, Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Marker, Mrs. Harry
Rinehart. Mrs. Jacob Maus, Mrs. Mar
tha Foutz, Misses Louise Warehime,
Gladys Lambert, Laura Koontz, Mar
garet Rinehart, Mary Starner. Flora
Spangler. Anna Marker Lucie Fuhr-
man, Lillian Thurman, Carrie Fuhr-
man. Evelyn Hull. Geneva Lippy, Eve
lyn Stoner, Clara Bell Reinecke, Celia
Weller. Larue Wilson. Mary Reinecke,
Naomi Kaufman. Rhoda Halter, Cora
Halter. Katherine Strevig, Grace
Koontz. Evelyn Maus, Dorothy Ecker,
Truth Maus; Naomi Rodkev. Grace
Spangler. Mary Anna Frock, Mae I'm
ger. Grace Rodkey, Gene Babylon.
Mary c. Maus. Mary Jane Flinchbaugh,
Madeline Warner, Messrs. John Ston-
er, Stanley Maus, George Harner.
Kenneth Koutz, Harry Forman, Ralph
Marker. Paul Hollinger, Guy Hahn.
Charles Graham, Stewart Bell. Chas.
Unger. Edward Morelock. Paul Hal
ter. Elmer Koontz, Ernest Bell.
Maus Rinehart, Levi D. Maus. Jr. ia
cob Marker. Rodger DeVilbiss. Rich
ard Ecker and Charles Fl. Maus.
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HOOD

Mrs. Mary Edna Hood. wife of
Ralph c. Hood, died at her home Lis
bon. Howard county, Monday, aged
q years. months and days. She
is survived by her husband and par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank T. Staubitz,
and several brothers and sisters. Fu-
neral services were held Thursday
at Lisbon Methodist Episcopal church
at 10 o'clock by Rev. Kemp. Interment
was made in Freedom Methodist Epis-
copaI South cemetery. The pallbear-
ers were II. D. Davis. Benjamin Con-
don. F.. G. Selby, George Burdette,
Harry Warthen and Roger Nell. c. NJ.
Waltz funeral director.