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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-06-09
RUNS IN SWEETSER FAMILY
Cousin Of Jesse Captures Golf Cham
pIonship at Exeter Academy
Defeats Paul SadIer.

Alan c. Sweetser Of Wakefield,
Mass, a cousin Of Jesse Sweetser of
Siwanoy. national amateur golf cham
pion. Is following in the footsteps OF
his famous relative. Alan won the
golf championship Of Phillips Exeter
academy by defeating Paul Sadler Of
Nashua, N. H.. who held the title last
year. by s and 4 in the final match.
Jesse Sweetser won the Exeter cham
piOnship when he was q student at the
academy. His cousin has another year
at Exeter.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-06-09
USE SLOW MOTION PICTURES
Tennis Authorities Decide Upon New
Method AZ Part Of Educational
Work for Novices.

The United States Lawn Tennis as
ISOLATION, as part of educational work.
plans to take a series of slow moving
>pictures Of various leading experts In
action on the court, and send them
throughout the country in order to
show the methods and styles Of the
leading players in a manner that will
reach all those interested in studying
the game.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-06-09
Barn Infested!

Robert Hilton writes, "My barn
was infested by rats. They were do
ing constant damage. I had to get rid
of them. My druggist told me to use
Royal Guaranteed Rat Paste. I put
it around and in a short time they
disappeared" Destroy all rats NOW
Handy tubes, 25c and SOC. Sold and
guaranteed by Matthews & Landlord.
advertisement.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-06-09

During the month of May very lit.
tie rain fell in Talbot county, with
the result that the pastures and vege-
tation of all kinds are burning up
The ground is so hard that truck
farmers refuse to tear the shoulders
ftheir horses and mules in cultivat-
ing or even trying to. If rain is not
had soon the condition will be alarm
ing.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-06-09

One hundred Masons, with their
wives, daughters and friends, sat
down to the banqueting tables at the
June social night Of Nanticoke Lodge
fredericksburg, Md. Addresses were
delivered by Oliver C. Short, State
Employment Commissioner, Balti-
more; Harry B. Wright, Preston; the
Rev. Frank F. Carpenter, Cambridge;
and William L. X. Barrett, past po-
tentate of Boumi Temple, Baltimore.
Ira johnson acted as POSTMASTER
and the program was featured by Sc
lections rendered by the young wom-
ems quartet, Misses Miriam Stowell,
Elizabeth Willoughby, Louise Brooks,
and Elizabeth Dyer.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-06-09

On Friday morning of last week a
bout 6 o'clock the home Of Herschel
Maddox, near Westover, was Destroy
ed by fire with practically all the
household goods.
Mr.. Maddox, rising at the usual
hour, made fire in the kitchen range
and went out on the front porch. In
q short while negro who lives some
distance in the rear saw the roof in a
light blaze. He notified Mr.. Maddox,
who .hurriedly got Mrs. Maddox out of
the house, but the smoke was so dense
that neighhors who came to his assis-
tance were unable to save any of the
furniture except the porch chairs.
The loss is partly covered by insur-
ance.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-06-09

Late reports from the southern Sec
ton of Washington county, which was
swept by q terrific wind, hail and
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-06-09

An energetic movement looking to
the securing of an athletic field for
Hyattsville is on. Committees from
the Town Council, Snyder Farmer
Post, local American Legion, and the
Pierce Athletic Club of Hyattsville
have been named to push the project.
It is understood that the plot oppo-
site the Washington Suburban SAM
t: ry Commissions plant in West
Hyattsville is being seriously consid-
cred as a site for the field. Zant-
Fingers Park, for years the center of
athletic activities in the section of w.
Hyattesville, is now being subdivided
into building lots.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04

Miss Mary Mason is the attractiv,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kearney Mason
She recently returned from st. Louis
where she had a delightful visit witt
friends and relatives.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04

Mrs. Edward L. Blake of Chicago, who
has been the guest of her mother, Mrs.
Belle Keith, and her sister, Mrs. Percy
Rayner, for several weeks, left the early
part of the week for her home in Chicago,
accompanied by Mrs. Rayner. Mrs. Blake
and Mrs. Rayner will visit friends and
relatives in New Orleans and st. Louis
en- route.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
I&sIMNeNxe%EO
The Pictures
PHOTO
BY CONES

Mrs. Albert Campbell Deutsch was the
honor guest at one of the loveliest teas of
the season, when Mrs. Albert Deutsch,
Mrs. Archie HARDWOOD and Mrs. Gunther
Orsinger complimented her with smart
party Thursday. -.... wy ~.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04

Miss Helen Irwin is the daughter of Mir.
and Mrs. John Jourdan Irwin. Her en-
gagement has been announced to Homer
Ballard of Minneapolis, Mimi, the we'd
ding to take place early in March.
Evening star., 1923-10-31

frankness, that the French govern
ment did not consider 1t possible to
enter into any definite engagements
for funding or settlement OF Its
American obligations. He stated 1t
was Frances desire to postpone: con-
sideration of the matter Indefinitely,
until her financial position should be-
come more clear, particularly as to
reparation receipts from Germany.
Rumanin Sends Datn.
Rumania sent representatives to
Washington in November, 1929 for
presentation of complete figures about
the financial conditions of that eoun
try. They were without authority to
conclude a refunding agreement but
declared the Rumanian government
intended to pay las soon as possible"
They asked that their visit should be
considered preliminary to later aego-
tiationS
Czecnoslovakian delegates came to
Washington in May, 1923. and reached
an agreement concerning their coun-
try'S debt to the American RELIEF Ad-
ministration and the United States
Grain Corporation. but left for later
discussion settlement of the debs due
the War Department and Shipping
Board in connection with repatriation of
the Czechoslovakian army from Siberia.
OF the nations that owe us a grand
total OF S7.05S. .574. sos, Belgium, Czecho-
slovakia, Esthonia, France, Hungary.
Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland: Ru-
mania and Serbia have made approaches
Of one kind or another, either as here
inbefore indicated or by way of tanta-
tive negotiations overtures and TDani-
Evening star., 1923-10-31

festations of good intent through their
embassies or legations at Washington.
But the net result has been the abb
sence of any tangible progress toward
liquidation Of either principal or inter-
liberal advantage Of our patience and
proclaimed intention of harassing no.
body But Congress and the country
would probably be impressed by an ex-
hibition Of a more willing spirit even In
those regions where the flesh Is known
to be weak.
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1923-10-31

Hindenburg, Upper Silesia. for the pur-
pose of learning practical mining en-
gineering, SO that ne can develop the
valuable turquoise mines of Persia, in
the vicinity of Nishapur, which have
been worked for more than eight CEN
turtles in a primitive way
Persian turquoise has been mar
keted chiefly through Turkey. 1t is
highly regarded as a luck stone and
greatly desired because of the belief
that it Keeps sickness and the "evil
eye" away from persons and animals.
Evening star., 1923-10-31
American people with something ap-
preaching studied nonchalance.

American people with something ap-
preaching studied nonchalance.
President Coolidge's maiden message
to Congress will reveal that the ad-
ministration Is anti-cancellat1on to
the core Its attitude is typifled by
ber Of the cabinet to this writer. He
stated that he would not remain in
office an hour IL cancellation were
seriously proposed. The administra-
tion Is left quite cold by the sugges-
tion of Julius H: Barnes; president
of the United States Chamber of
Commerce. in New York this week.
Mr.. Barnes predicted in a public
address that Secretary Hughes pre-
'iminary exclusion of the allied debt
lin its ultimate analysis that in
this chain of settlements
there will then come into play a
similar consideration of the debts
due u.s." Unless there Is a revolu-
tionary change of heart upon the
part Of men like Coolidge, Mellon,
Hughes and Hoover, the Barnes
representation is doomed to be an
iridescent dream.
Three Paying Nations.
To date the governments Of Great
Britain. Cuba and Finland are the
only ones that have stepped up to the
captains s once at w dSn1nstOn ana
done business. The British have de-
posted with the Treasury $4,000
100000 of bonds, representing the
funding settlement effected here in
January, 1928, and paid us the first
annual installment of s1OO,000.00O in
terest.
Cuba holds the record-that of pay
ing us in full the s13.000,00O which
she borrowed. Finland has arranged
a settlement of her borrowings.
roundly s1O.000.000. the terms of
which will be submitted to Congress
for ratification.
Because of NJ. Poincare's insistence
that the French debt to the United
States-amounting, with accrued in
terest. to $3,917.325,974-must even
tually be part and parcel of a repara-
tions settlement, France probably
will be the center of discussion in
Congress.
When the Parmentier mission was
sent to Washington from Paris in
July. 1929, 1t placed in America s
hands elaborate data relating to the
economic situation of France. NJ Par
mentier declared, with the utmost
Evening star., 1923-10-31
SHAH'S NEPHEW WORKS
IN GERMAN MINE

By the Associa ted Press.
BERLIN, October 30.-Abdul Ahmed.
the young nephew of the Shah of Per-
sia, has begun work as an ordinary
miner in the Guido coal mine, near
Evening star., 1923-10-31

Until recent years the choicest bits
of turquoise were always preserved
Evening star., 1923-10-31

laborers. He ioffers no conplaint
about his blistered hands, which asi
yet have not acquired callousness. ~
Evening star., 1923-10-31
]. s. DEBTORS SEEK
CAPACITY INQUIRY
Want Investigation Like That
Proposed for Germany
by Allies.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Several of our European debtors, 1t
appears, would like the United States
to do exactly what 1t is now proposed
to do with regard to Germany - to
examine their capacity to pay.
Subtle suggestions to that end have
emanated from more than one quar-
ter. They are accompanied by the
thinly-veiled hope that such an ex-
animation would reveal debtor ma
tions as incapable of paying any
thing at all, even delinquent interest.
The American government has lent
no encouragement to these sugges-
tions except by our passive attitude
OF not pressing for payment. For
some time the world war foreign
debt commission has been compiling
and analyzing conditions in the
debtor nations. This is the only
sort of examination" to which we
are likely to resort. Our information
is kept up to date. There is little in
the way of new facts that can be
supplied US except the one chroni
cally lacking = an exhibition of a
different state of mind" Our finan-
cial authorities seem inclined to
think that. in some of the debtor
countries at least a way to fund
their American obligations might be
found if there were "a little stronger
will to do so.
Report Cold Prospect.
That is the note likely to be en-
phasiZed when the foreign debt COM
mission submits it's report to Con-
gress in December. The report will
be cold douche for the friends of
cancellation. 1t will show in detail
that sixteen debtor nations look upon
their billions of obligations to the
Evening star., 1923-10-31

Abdul Ahmed Is working with pick
and shovel and assisting in bracing
up the mine roof, the same as other
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-19
MISS LEWIS SPOKE HERE

Miss Nell Battle Lewis of
Raleigh spoke at the Tuesday
night meeting of the Institute
of Public Welfare in Saunders
Hall. Her topic was Publicity in
the Program of Public Welfare.
She emphasized the fact that it
was essential to the success of
social reform that the public public
must understand what it was
all about. The newspaper being
obviously the best avenue of ap-
proach to the public, social
workers should know how to
deal with newspapers. Miss
Lewis told her hearers what ed
itors wanted and how they
wanted it presented.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-19
Mrs. KIuttz on Taxes
Willing to Pay Fair Share,
Opposes Excessive Listings

81 am in favor of schools and
all the improvements that it
takes taxes to pay for, and I
want to pay my fair share" said
Mrs. A. A. Kluttz when she was
asked for her opinion about the
present movement to revise tax
assessments in Chapel Hill.
I"But l believe these proposed
increases in assessments go too
far. 1t doesn't seem to me that
they are just, and that is what
| told Mayor Robertson and the
commissioners the other day.
"When Mr.. Robertson told us
last year that more money was
needed to make a better school,
| was in favor of providing the
money, just as l have always
been for progress. But they
gave us to understand then that
taxes weren't going to be raised
any further.
There was a general increase
in tax listings two or three
years ago, now they are in
creasing them again. | can't
believe that in this short period,
in Chapel Hill, there has been
any such enhancement of prop
erty as to justify raising DR..
Kluttz' assessment from around
$34, ,000-I forget the exact
figure, but it's somewhere near
that-to more than 100000.
"Others besides myself feel
that the authorities are going
too far in their increases. |
was not the only one to make a
protest at the hearing. l don't
know what they'll finally do
about it; all | ask for is fah
treatment"
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-19
niight
SIS. Not, 60 Per Cent.
Aldermen Announce a Smaller
Ratio for Tax Assessments

The board of aldermen have
announced that they will recon-
mend to the county commission
ers that tax assessments be
placed at 50 per cent. of the es-
tinlated market values instead
of at 60 per cent. This means a
cut Of one-tWelfth in the pro-
poscti new assessments upon
which the county commissioners
have been holding hearings.
For example, if a house and lot
were judged by the aldermen to
be worth $4,000, the assess
ment was put at $4,000. Now
they are going to ask that it be
listed at $500. The purpose
of the change freenf4f OH 60 t6 te 55 IS is is
to bring Chapel Hills ratio of
assessments to actual values in
line with the ratio that prevails
throughout the county as a
whole. If Chapel Hills ratio
were higher it would mean that,
in the levy of county taxes, the
town would be standing an un-
fairly large share of the burden.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-19
Statement of Board of Aldermen

In regard to the proposed
changes in tax assessments, we
desire to make to the citizens of
Chapel Hill a brief statement of
our purpose.
1t is equalization we are ann
ing at, not primarily either an
increase or a reduction. For a
long time it has been recognized
that the tax burdens here are
not fairly distributed. There
are many cases where one prop
erty is listed at a value far
greater than that Of another
property which is plainly worth
fully as much or more. Nobody
can dispute that this is unjust.
In seeking to arrive at fair
assessments, we went about es-
timating values in a methodical
and painstaking manner. First
we considered land values, esti-
mating a valuation per front
foot and then multiplying this
by the number of front feet in
the plot under consideration.
Then we sought to estimate the
value of buildings. Adding land
values and building values to-
gether, we took go per cent. of
the total for the assessment.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-19

We used all information at
our command, market prices
Of real estate, income and pos
sible income from property, and
the representations of owners
themselves. We have not
claimed that our figures are per-
feet and necessarily a final judg-
ment, and we welcome any pro-
tests taxpayers may make.
All we ask is that protests be
directed at the facts themselves,
and that the county commits
sioners base their decisions upon
the facts as nearly as these can
be ascertained. Every taxpayer
has the right to, and ought to,
present reasons, if he has any,
why our suggested valuations
are not correct. We are ready
to explain the basis upon which
we arrived at each proposed as
sessment and to be told why the
value of any particular piece OF
property should be placed higher
or lower than we recommended
J.. M. CHEEK
.GUSTAVE M. BRAUNE
RALPH P. ANDREWS
D. D. CARROLL
II. A. WHITFIELD
w. S. ROBERTSON, Mayor
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-19
Big Music Festival
Began last Night; Paul AlthOuse
Gives Concert Tonight

!. Paul Althouse of the Metro
politan Opera Company in New
York, a famous tenor, will give
a concert in Memorial Hall
tonight (Thursday) at half past
eight o'clock. His appearance
is one of the events of the Sum-
mer School Music Festival.
The celebration began last
night with a performance by the
Summer School chorus of 100,
trained by Paul John Weaver,
head of the University's music
department. Besides the choral
singing there was a presenta-
tion of Longfellow's "The Gold
en- Legend" set to music as a
cantata by Sir Arthur Sullivan.
In this the chorus was assisted
by three singers from New
York, Miss Irene Williams, Miss
Caroline DeWitts, and Judson
House, and by William Breach,
director of the Civic Orchestra
in Winston-Salem. Mr.. Breach
brought his orchestra with him
to accompany the singers in pre-
senting the cantata.
Mr.. Weaver will play Mr.. Alt
houses accomplishments to-
niphr r---
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-19
Canning Blackberries

Some Of the people around
Chapel Hill are unusually busy
canning berries now. Mrs. F.
M. Mann and her daughter, of
Frosty, have already canned 1876
quarts of blackberries, besides
making preserves, jams and
Jelly. Mrs. T. S. Harris Of the
same locality has canned about
so quarts of blackberries.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-19
PRODUCING CREAM
BRINGS IN MONEY
Farmers Are Finding This To Be
One Of Their Best Sources Of
Income
CAN COUNT ON GOOD MARKET

Farmers in the country
around Chapel Hill got about
5000 for sour cream sold to the
Burlington creamery IN June.
R. P. Harris, the agriculture
teacher in the Chapel Hill
school, who continues his work
among the farmers during the
summer, keeps adding new sell
lers on the creamery routes /;
but he says the farmers do not
yet realize the fine opportunity
that cream-production opens to
them.
There iSas sure and regular
money in this branch of farm
ing, he said yesterday when
discussing this matter. much
more than there is in trying to
make butter on your own farm.
| went out to a farm south Of
town the other day and saw a
woman wearing herself out at a
churn, hours at a time. | told
the husband he could get more
money and at the same time
save his wife all this work if
he would just put his cream out
twice a week by the side of the
road, to be collected and
shipped to Burlington. He has
not come to see it yet, but |
think he will soon, when he
hears more from his neighbors
about this kind of income.
Dairy experts who have
= looked over this county say that
there is no reason why it. should
not be as prosperous as the best
dairy country anywhere. We've
got all the needed advantages of
soil and climate and rainfall.
II wish the farmers would
come into this cream-selling end
of the game a little faster. But
we mustn't be discouraged.
Every little while there is a new
name added tothe list. Bum
Blackwood, who lives out near
Mount Carmel, is the latest.
1.-TWO separators' have been
bought in the country near here
recently, one by S. M. Oldham,
on the edge of Chatham, and
the other by Mrs. A. B. Hogan,
of the Calavander section. They
will pay for themselves in six
months by the salable cream
they add.
"The quantity of cream
shipped to Burlington from the
country around Chapel Hill is
now about 80 gallons a week.
There is no reason why it should
not be twenty times as great. I
am encouraged by the fact that
Orange county's stock of high
blooded cattle is growing stead
lily. Nearly every week a farm
er comes to me and opens nego-
tiations for the purchase of a
registered Jersey. It is this
purchase of good cattle, and
then the breeding from them,
that will make dairying in
Orange real success"
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-19

that the proposed amount was
certainly not more than so per
cent of the actual market value
of all the Kluttz holdings.
The home place has a front
age of 295 feet on Franklin and
Rosemary streets and 800 feet
on HillSboroerpad. The proposed
assessment on this. with all
houses included, is something
over $4,000.
The frontage of the store
properties is SO feet on Frank
lin street. Along here the alder
men placed a valuation on land
alone (not including buildings)
at 1925 per front foot, which
if correct, makes the market
value of this stretch OF land
$50, ,050. The value of the store
buildings and of the two homes
in the rear on Rosemary street
We're added to this. bringing the
total value, in the aldermen's
opinion, to more than 100000,
and the application of the ratio
of 60 per cent. led to a figure
of about $4,000.
Mr.. Wagstatf's place covers a
whole block front OF 400 feet or
Boundary street from Rosemary
to North street. 1t was listed
last year at $6,400. Too much,
said Mr.. Wagstaff. One point
he made was that the house it
self was not nearly so valuable
as the aldermen had estimated.
The aldermen held that $4,000
was not at all unreasonable, if
the assessment was to be put at
60 per cent. of actual market
value. AS a result of the own
er'S protest, the commissioners
cut the $4,000 to $500, but
they got to thinking about it
again and decided to reopen this
case. 1t is still to be decided, :.
Mr.. Wagstaff said that, al
though he believed the value put
upon his home was too high, he
thought it would be fair to in
crease by $1,000 the assessment
upon another house owned by
him, the one occupied by Nor
man Forester on Hillsboro road.
James S. Patterson was one
Of the hardest hit by the new
listings, but he had no protest
to make. AS trustee and as
an individual, he had Chapel
Hill property listed last year at
$4,000. The assessment now
goes up to $37, ZOO. The store
plot down Franklin street from
the pOstottice is moved up from
$4,000 to $1,000. The land
he owns back Of the postoffice,
together with that across Hen
dersOn street and Some vacant
land at Rosemary and North
streets, is raised from $4,000 to
$4,000.
Clyde Eubanks' store on
rankin street Is assessed now
at $lO,25O as against $4,64O a
year ago, and his home place
on Cameron avenue at $4,000
as against $6,4OO. The build
ing owned by w. T. McGalliard,
containing the store of the
Chapel Hill Hardware Company,
has it's listing put up from $4,-
400 to $1,000. The Andrews
store builing, owned by s. J.
Brockwell, is raised from $12,-
600 to $13,50O and the PickwieI-