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The Penn's Grove record., 1923-06-01
~DELAWAREAN'S; WHY "BLUE
HENS CHICKENS?"

The Delaware State Journal, way
back in 1860, answered your question
as follows:
When the Revolution broke out there
was no better known ncitizen in Della
ware than Caldwell, of Sussex County,
a breeder of horses of speed and cocks
of a combative disposition. As to the
latter, he held the theory that the
character of the progeny depended
most on the hen. In pursuing this
theory into its practical application he
professed his faith in the blue hen and
pitted her chickens in many a winning
main. So familiar was this hobby that
when Caldwell recruited for his First
Delaware Regiment, those who joined
the colors were at First called Cald-
wells Gamecocks. But as their cap
tain claimed that no cock was really
game unless it came from a blue hen
the regiment was subsequently styled
blue Hens Chickens and, after the
war, the nickname was applied to all
DelaWareans.
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-06-01
FARM AND HOME FACTS

Most any woman with muscle viii
make a good housekeeper, but It takes
a woman with q soul to make a good
homemaker.
By the way, q times q week IS the
correct number Of times to serve
greens In the Spring, 50 nutritious
experts say.
Who says home baking is a lost ant
Figure-fends tell Us that 81 Of all
the farm women bake their own
bread and nearly all bake their own
pie and cake.
And they tell as, too, that of the
110.000,000 barrels of -four consumed
in the United States annually. home
cooks use $4,000, bakeries 30.000,and
hotels, restaurants. hospitals, jails and
paperhangers all the rest that isn't
wasted by fire, water, wevils etc.
Kindness TO animals may be carried
too far. Remember that the migrate
mosquito will most certainly bite the
hand that breeds it.
When you walk, do your feet point
straight out or do you advance on the
bias?
Experts in the fine art of making
meat gravy, say most delicious results
are obtained when water in which
vegetables have been cooked is used
to thin the gravy.
SoEae folks are afraid the neigh
bors will call them lazy; others save
fatigue by sitting down at their work,
A hanger for every dress and every
dress on a hanger is a money-saying
slogan that also applies to coats.
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-06-01
OLD TINE MUSTERS

For seventy-fve years after the
Revolutionary War the State militia
was kept in practice by musters at the
county taverns once or twice a year.
The following lucid description Of a
muster in Pilesgrove written by Jacob
VI. Lippincott, Salem CoUnty's most
famous bard, which took place before
the Civil War, is most interesting.
Mr.. Lippincott was born in 1921,
served as County Clerk from 1869 to
1884, and died about 20 years ago.
After recording his boyhood scenes
in Bullet Lane, Woodstown, he tells
of the muster as follows:
From the reviving embers flashes
the memory of one notable day whose
pomp and circumstance thrilled the
village and the heart of childhood "a
never the entry of Turner's Circus
and Grand Menagerie" had enthused
it before.
Nothing 50 rare as a day in June"
writes Lowell, and of such was "train-
ing day" especially to the small-boy.
whether rain or shine. On this day
the Pilesgrove brigade of the county
militia mustered for the last time IN
der the command of General Cornelius
Burroughs, Colonel Nathaniel G.
Swing, and Major Israel r. Clawson.
Fronting Hammet's (now French's)
Hotel and Clawson's (now Hum
phrey's) mansion the bold yeomanry
We're formed in line, some in uniform
and some in rustic garb with flint
lock guns and muskets armed. Thence
up the street and down again and out
the Bullet Lane they marched, not
with grief and dread or terror
dumb but jubilant and gay with
banner and plume, sword and sash,
In battles magnifcently stern array
into or near this field where the Sta
ton is to exercise in the eyolutions OF
mimic war.
To a little lad of six or seven sum-
mers it was a most imposing and i'm
pressive spectacle, which after more
than three score years seems like
"A glorious Roll of Drums
Through the Triumph of Dream
z - sss%
Decorated in tinsel and ! ace, epau-
lettes and pompon, officers in black
eockades and waving plumes, mounted
on ~careering steeds, marching, deploy-
ing and drilling under the manual OF
the day-hither they came, and me
thinks.
q see them on the winding way
About their ranks the sunbeams pla.
With thrilling fife and pealing drum
And jingle-jacks, the soldiers come
And here they picked their fints, filleC
their priming-pans from powder horl
or flask, made ready, took aim an
fired. Some old fints emitted n
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-06-01
AVERAGE FARM BALANCE Sis
Amount Made Available To Pay Liy-
ing Expenses

4 cash balance Of S715 was all the
average farm made available to the
owner to pay his living expenses and
take care Of debts in 1922, the Depart
ment Of Agriculture announced after
q survey of 6094 representative farms.
Of the total farms c-anvassed. lac per
cent failed TO break even, 50.5 per cent
returned less than $1,000. 22.2 9
cent less than $1,000. SIS per cent less
than $1,000. and Sc per cent more
than $4,000.
The farm averaged 59I7 to the
owner-operator for the use Of an aver
age $4,000 Of capital and the labor
Of the farmer and his family. The
margin of receipts over cash outlay
averaged SID, and the average In
crease of inventories of crops live
stock and machinery was SOP. In ad-
ditjon, the average farm produced
food and fuel consumed on the farm.
estimated to be worth 1921.
Results Of individual farms. which
made up the average Of S917- ranged
from a margin Of $3.50 0 Of receipts
over expenses 70 a deficit Of $4,000.
Average receipts were 1892 and
average cash outlay, S1257.
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-06-01
Motor Fuel From Weeds.

Prof. Maflhe Toulouse believes thai
thousands of ommon weeds can Be
made to yield petrol containing large
percentages of benzine and toluene
Els process also produces a gas said
to have developed 10000 heat eaIories
which alone would pay for the neces-
sary plant installation. Scientific
American.
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-06-01

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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-06-19
The Present Hot Wave
Was Made in America
Meteorologists Place the Blame for
Midsummer Torridity.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The mid
summer torridity to which practically
ali OF the United States east OF the
Rocky mountains has been subjected
is apparently a local American phe-
nomenon, not shared abroad, say eX-
Derts in weather at the central Office
OF the United States weather bureau
here. Reports from European stations
show that temperatures there have re-
Gently been averaging somewhat be-
low normal.
The hot spell is blamed by the me-
teorologists upon a combination OF
high barometer over the western At
lantic and the southeastern states and
low barometer in the upper Missjs-
sppi valley and the northwest. This
combination gives prevailing south
and southwest winds, says Forecas-
ter c. l. Mitchell, and when that
happens for any length OF time we
get temperatures above normal. In
winter we get a January thaw'; in
summer we get a hot wave The on
y permanent relief comes from a
change in the location OF the areas OF
high and low air pressure
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-06-19
1000 FANS SEE OPENING GAME
OF BASEBALL SEASON IN DAWSON

shortfeld, robbing him. OF two sure
safe blows. Harmon also nicked Sui,
livan's delivery for two 6lngles and
was the outstanding star OF the game
Hack Hafele is going 10 set the
woods ahre at the hot corner TINS
wear. Besides playing jam-up pail at
third he is leading the club at. the bat
Sullivan was in old-time form on
Thursday, breezing them over IN me
style, never in trouble, his curve ball
was breaking foot and his last one
had a jump on it that looks ike the
silent one is good for the best season
in his career. =,
Dykes, who essayed to do the tWirl-
inc for the visitors, started off with, a
smoke ball so fast that neither the
umpire or his catcher could see 1t. ne
weakened as the game progressed but
strengthened up at the close. He real
" pitched a creditable game, and with
a little control may turn IN a rev
victories for cambridge. His support
cracked on him several times during
the game, which, coupled with his, m
ability to locate the plate, kept him
in hot water continually.
Following i the box score;
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-06-19
FOUND DEPL0RABLE
FARM CONDITIONS
EDITOR LANE, OF EDISON.
VISITS NORTH GEORGIA AND
NORTH AND S. CAROLINA.

Editor Lane, OF the Edison News,
recently travelled by car through the
lower and upper parts Of North and
South Carolina and Georgia and in
terviewed hundreds Of farmers in these
three states. He found the situation
as to crops distressing, and gives in
the current issue OF his paper the fol
lowing information obtained from the
farmers themselves and from observa-
ton:
The cotton situation in these three
states is deplorable In North Carroll
ma the farmers are badly behind, be-
ing greatly delayed in planting due to
an extremely late spring, and the same
might be said about South Carolina.
The cotton acreage is greatly re-
duced and in many instances no cot
ton is planted on large farms that
heretofore planted hundreds d
thousands OF acres. Oats, tobacco,
hay and peanuts are being substituted
for cotton, and even though there is
not such a handsome profit shown IN
producing these crops, farmers declare
it is a safer and saner farm program.
The tobacco crop is good, and the
outlook is bright for at least normal
crop The oat crop OF South Carolina
is good and many farmers are turning
their farms into grain farms entirely.
1T might be interesting to know
that while we here in Georgia are sui
fering from too much rain the North
Carolina farmer is dry; scarcely no
rain has fallen in six weeks, and in
many instances the yards that have
a heavy sod OF grass would turn like
a sedge field.
1T is gratifying to know that we in
southwest Georgia have the best pros
peCt for a cotton crop OF any section
in the Carolinas or Georgia. Farmers
in middle and north Georgia were
blowing in mud, rather than let grass
take the fields, and around Macon the
crops appear not to have had any cul-
tivation at all other than the first
blowing.
We are not in a position to say
what the condition OF the cotton crop
might be over the entire belt, but we
can say from authority that if any
thing like a normal crop is produced
this year if will come from other
states than the Carolinas and Georgia,
unless some miraculous conditions
develop.
TO summarize the cotton crop
condition we might say that in North
Carolina the acreage has been reduc-
ed and the crop is late; in South Car
DINA the acreage has been reduced
and the fields are heavily infested with
weevils and in Georgia the heavy rains
have kept the crop from being prop
erly cultivated, and the weevil infes-
tation is heavy all over the state"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-06-19
SCIENTISTS ARE PREPARING
TO FIGHT CATERPILLARS
Creeping Inch by Inch Pests Continue
Devastation in Oregon.

PORTLAND, Ore.-Mounting the
crests Of the coast range loot hills the
advance guard OF the caterpillar army,
devastating sections of Oregon, was
creeping down the eastern side today.
Advancing inch by inch, the stur-
der OF the millions of crawlers have
entered the town of Corvallis, where
the Oregon Agricultural college is sit
uated
College professors are making plans
for concerted scientific warfare on
the pests. Already long blowpipes are
being used to burn them off trees,
where they congregate in punches,
while more modern and rapid methods
of destruction will probably be used
as the host advances. -
A train which normally requires L
minutes to traverse a grade near
Summit, Ore. required one hour and
IS minutes, 50 thiclly did the rein
forced besiegers invest the right OF
way.
Tho tracks literally were buried in
Caterpillars.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-06-19
DAWS0N-B Balm BRIDGE
IN TWO-GAME SERIES
VISITORS WIN FIRST BUT SUI
LIVAN TURNS TABLES IN
THURSDAYS GAME.
DAWSON NOW HAS FAST TEAM
Club Is Composed of Former League
Players and College Stars. Albany
And Arlington viii Play Locals
Here This Week

In a slow listless and uneventful
game Of ball Dawson lost the initial
contest OF the season to cambridge
by score OF four to one. The game
was devoid OF features except Tor the
brilliant playing OF Leon Harmon,
second baseman OF the visitors Har-
mon. besides knocking in one OF Balm
bridges tallies, nipped the only Daw-
son rally in the bud by a falling stop
OF sure hit ball off Lightioot's bat
in the sixth inning After falling
prone on the ground he threw the
sphere from that position to Webb at
first, who completed the out.
Hap Henderson, in his first start
for Dawson this year, was as wild as
a March hare and was touched pref
ty freely at times. He struck out ten
men. but walked eight and hit two.
Cordell. the opposing slabman held
the locals in the hollow OF his glove
all the way except in the sixth, when
the stop by Harmon killed the threat
ened rally.
Sullivan cast himself in star part
by his throw to the plate to catch
Webb in the sixth inning after Stack
houses long fly to center. Eddie Raw
son also made the play possible by a
perfect stop and tag OF the last flying
Bevo. Webb was best with the will
low for cambridge, while none OF the
locals could qualify enough in this
department to be mentioned especial
"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-06-19
PUT CREAM IN NOSE
AND STOP 4CATARRH
Tells How To Open Clogged Nos
trils and End Head Colds.

You feel fine in few moments Your
cold in head or catarrh will be gone.
Your clogged nostrils will open. The
air passages of your head will clear and
you can breathe freely. No more dull
ness, Sheadache; no hawking, snuf1ing,
mucous discharges or dryness; no strug-
CLING for breath at night.
Tell your druggist you want small
bottle Of Ely's Cream Balm, Apply a
little of this fragrant, antiseptic cream
in your nostrils, LET it penetrate through
every air passage of the head; soothe and
heal the swollen, infamed mucous men,
brane, and relief comes instantly.
It'll lust what every cold and catarrh
sufferer needs Don't stay stutfed-up
and miserable.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-06-19
Ouch! LumbagO Pain!
Rub BackaChe Away
Instant Relief with a small
trisl bottle of old
est. Jacobs OIL"

Kidneys cause Backache? Mol
They have no nerves, therefore can
not cause pain. Listen! Your back
ache is caused by lumbago, sciatica
or a strain, and the quickest relief is
soothing, penetrating st. aco0s On;
Rub it right on your painful back,
and instantly the soreness. stiffness
and 1ameness disappears. Don't stay
crippled! Get a small trial bottle OF
"St. Jacobs On'' from your druggist
and timber up. A moment after t is
applied you'll wonder what became OF
the backache or lumbago pain. 80
Rub old. honest st. Jacobs OIL"
whenever you have sciatica, neuralgia,
rheumatism or sprains, as it is abso-
lutely harmless and doesn't burn the
skin.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-06-19
AUTOMOBILE TAX NETS
MILLIONS FOR GOVERNMENT

Sale OF automobiles and automobile
accessories during April Melted the
government $10000,000 in taxes ac-
cording to a report from the revenue
bureau 1t means that, in April, Amer
leans spent S200,000,000 on their cars
and for new machines.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-06-19
lO-CENT STAMP OF 1916
IS NOW VALUED AT $500
Has Just Come to Light After Be
ing Lost IS Years.

4 United States Postmaster Stamp,
issued in Baltimore in 1915, has Just
come to light in Italy after being lost
Tor Is years. Though originally it was
worth only 10 cents a value OF s., 500
is placed upon it by Edward Stern, OF
New York, the present owner.
1t is one OF the rarest varieties OF
stamps known to philatelists, as only
few OF them were issued and only
six are known to be in existence.
They were issued by James NJ.
Buchanan, who was Baltimore post
master, two years before the first gov
ernmental postal issue. There were
and 10-cent denominations the latter
denomination now being the most val
liable.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-06-19

When an opposing batsman hits
hard one to second base it's peculiar
how the fans always predict the out.
But then it's so seldom that Bobby
Pinkston misses one that it doesn't
seem so strange after all. Bobby is
the surest fielder ever to show his
wares on the local diamond, and all
the cash customers at BALDWIN park
are unanimous in their belief that he
is the most dangerous man at the bat
in a pinch in the circuit with the pos
sible exception OF Isaac lhrasher, OF
Arlington. The honorable Ike IS more
likely to break up a ball team than
any player ever to appear IN this sec
ton. and we wish that he could have
been prevailed upon to play here this
season but Isaac had promised Iige
Stone to 90 to Arlington, and II there
IS one thing a semi-pro ball player IS
noted for it is his firm intention to
keep his promise, unless somebody
offers him more money on the way to
the town he has traded with. hen,
in that case it seems to be no breach
OF ball players etiquette iii there IS
such a thing) to stop where the mon
CIV is highest and let the other town
who has depended on his services do
the best they can without him.
Blakely has hired Wallace Wade,
coach the past season at Vanderbilt
and coach at the University OF Ala
bama next year. Wade is assembling
fast bunch OF bail tossers Tor the
hardwood city, and somebody is go
ing to have to eat his dust when he
gets his bunch together tor the trSt
game in the new schedule
Games Too Slow.
Something must be done to speed
ND the games on the local diamond.
/, The first two contests took over TWO
hours to drag through the necessary
nine innings. The people from out OF
town who attend the games, and ev-
erv one knows that they constitute
no inconsiderable amount OF the num-
Der OF spectators, will be forced TO
leave the games before they are COM
pleted. 1t IS not i'll the province OF
This column to specify the causes OF
the time consumed for each contest
hut we suggest that each team in the
loop outfit its own catcher and thus
avoid the exchange Of catching para
Dhernalia between each hall inning.
Lightfoot, who ~ast'meS at the
initial cushion ior Dawson. IS the
type of bah player who we ike to see
wearing the local insignia. LlghtIoot
IS in the game every minute from the
sound Of the gong Until the last man
is out il the final chapter. his spirit
is extraordinarily cOmmendable III
that il has been shown with such ut
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-06-19
Twelve Head of Cattle Burned to
Death!

a barn containing forty head OF cat
tie caught fire recently. Twelve COWS
were burned to death. Rats are indi-
rectly blamed for the hre-Builetin.
Clean oft the rats and guard against
this happening TO you! Get a 25c or
Sc tube OF Royal Guaranteed Rat
Paste. Positively DESTROYS rats!
Sold and guaranteed by w. 4. Haire
and Collier Drug Co.-adv.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-06-19
DAWSON WINS AGAIN.


Dawson made it two in a row when
they bested cambridge in her own
back ward Friday by a score OF to
3. Minchew, pitching his hrst game,
for Dawson. was lnvlnclble until
Dawson scored eight runs in the third
inning. The Norman Park boy then
let ND a trihe on account OF a sore
wing. and eased along until the game
finished. Mosely, the venerable hero
OF many diamond battles in the sweet
long ago. was unable to stem the tide
OF Dawson bats. This blushing haired
old pitcher should have been sent to
the soldiers home twenty years ago.
Shorty Poore again starred at the
plate for Dawson. The way tins
midget is hitting this year is revela-
ton. and why he did not play in ev-
cry Mercer game this year is a mys-
terry.
-Bainbridge: Mosely and
Gibson; Dawson: MincheW and Raw
son.
J. PLUVIUS TAKES ONE.
The fourth and concluding game OF
the series with cambridge was rained
out in that town Saturday afternoon,
leaving Dawson on the top with two
OF the three game series securely at
tached to her belt.
Hap Henderson was scheduled to
pitch the last game against his ancient
enemy Cordell, who won the onl "
game cambridge was able to take in
the series. The series as a whole show
ed that both clubs can still stand not
small bit OF strengthening. Balm
bridge needs much more new blood,
however, than the locals, who look to
be nearly set for the grind in every
department. Manager Stackhouse, OF
the cambridge crew, made the state
ment before he LETT here that he had
already signed a quantity OF new ma
terial which would take the field the
latter part OF the week Their catcher,
Charlie Gibson, is undoubtedly among
the best, if not the best, in his posi-
ton in the league. He has a sure arm,
is a very heady catcher and above all
he can be depended upon to hit well
above the charmed 500 circle.
Two out OF every three games this
wear would be very acceptable to To-
cal fans should the club do this well
in lust the majority OF every series,
there is no doubt that the bunting
would fly in the Dawson lot.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-06-19

Poore. Stolen bases Lightfoot. Glib
son. Sacrifice hits Daniel, Gibson
Bush Struck out by Sullivan 8, by
DYKES 5. Bases on balls off Sullivan
:, off Dykes 5. Wild pitch Dykes.
Passed balls Rawson ?, Gibson 2.
Lett on bases cambridge 9, Dawson
:. Time PTS. Umpires Daniels and
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-06-19
DAWSON EVENS SERIES.

Dawson Won the second battle
form cambridge on the home grounds
Thur sday afternoon before a large
holiday crowd. The final count was
five to three Like the one OF the
day before the game was slow and at
times lifeless. Several sparkling plays,
however. broke the monotony OF the
drab routine OF the contest. Shorty
Poore caught his pony and galloped
back in deep LETT center and shared
one off Gibson's bat which was all.
ready labeled a triple, one man was
on base at the time and two were out.
Tom Harmon again handled the
keystone sack for the visitors like a
big Lacquer He accepted eleven
chances. every one Of them difficult,
seeming to have a special grudge
against Manion, guardian Of the local
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-06-19
SUES FORMER HUSBAND
FOR BREACH OF PROMISE

An unusual breach OF promise suit
has been filed in San Francisco, Cal,
by Mrs. Lily Hayes against her di-
vorced husband, William X. Hayes,
who, she says, promised to remarry
her and then changed his mind Mrs.
Hayes seeks S25,000 from her former
spouse.