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Milford chronicle., 1923-12-14

shown a little sympathy for me when
I was hoofing it on the sidewalks I'd
have a little more for you, Silas."
Sllas went home. Somehow he man
aged to survive the crisis. But his
wife died, and he grew lonelier and
lonelier. If he had had a few thou
sand dollars he would have sold out
and gone south to live, somewhere
away from this bleak New England
coast. But he could just manage to
make both ends meet. Daily he cursed
his brother in his heart.
He started raising turkeys, and that
was a failure. Only the gobbler lived.
He used to watch the bird with in
terest. The gobbler would come cluck-
ing after him for crumbs. And it was
odd how it looked like John.
Ge began to call it John. 1t had a
queer way of putting its head upon
one side and calling, as John used to
do when he was boy. Gradually, to
old Silas' fancy, the gobbler became
an efigy Of John. He hated it.
He hated it, and he was attached,
too. He made a sort Of pet Of the
gobbler. He wanted It to love him,
so far as a turkey gobbler is capable
Of love. Then, when Christmas came,
he was going to cut its throat very
slowly, bending its head back to see
the terror in its eyes. He would thus
have his revenge upon his brother.
Eyes, marin, Johns thriving nicely
and putting on fiesh," he told Mrs.
James. ''dere he comes. JohnI John"
Up came the big gObbler, put its
Milford chronicle., 1923-12-14
MILK DELIVERY COST
CUT BY HARD ROADS
Bureau of Public Roads Publishes
Statistics

The Bureau of Public Roads, De-
partment of Agriculture, has made a
study of the effect of highways on
milk distribution, the results of which
emphasize that goods roads lower
milk hauling costs, that with the
spread of good roads, milk hauling by
truck becomes larger each year, and
that the motor trucks adds yearly a
greater proportion of dairy products
to the total hauling done by it in be-
half of farmers.
Studies in the Baltimore milk
shed" show that farmers on improved
highways in this area pay 3 cents a
gallon for hauling milk, on the aver
age haul, while the farmer on the
unimproved road pays half a cent
more.
Milford chronicle., 1923-12-14
PRESIDENT IN MOVIES
TO AID GOOD ROADS
Ford Film Includes Coolidge and
White House

The President of the United States
is so much interested in good roads
that he has appeared in a movie film,
which is good road propaganda, spon-
sored by Henry Ford. The hero of
the little two-reeler is a country boy,
who is presented by the President
with a scholarship for a prize essay.
Later the boy becomes a civil engi-
neer, devoting his life to the building
of better roads in order to make his
section of the country better place
in which to live.
President Coolidge is so familiar
with farms and farm life that he has
an intimate and first-hand acquaint-
ance with what good roads mean to
the farmer, and coming, as he does,
from one of the pioneer good road
States of the Union, knows personally
what hard surface highways do for
those who live along them.
Milford chronicle., 1923-12-14
SEVENTEEN MILLION
CARS IN 1924

By January l the world will have
in operation 100000 automobiles,
passenger cars and trucks, according
to an estimate by M. H. Hoepli, chief
of the automotive division of the De-
partment of Commerce. Of that total,
14,OOO,OOO will run in the United
States, about one to every eight per-
sons, whereas in the rest of the world
the proportion will be about to 112
persons. The number of cars in Op-
Grafton is expected to show on Janu-
airy 1, 1924, an increase of II per cent
over January 1, 1928.
Milford chronicle., 1923-12-14
Freak Of souIrreln.

Oak trees In California are ofteD
pitted as If by smallpox The holes
are made by woodpeckers and In
every hole is an acorn placed there
by squirrels, so firmly imbedded that
it is impossible to remove them with
the fingers.
Milford chronicle., 1923-12-14
Love and Duty in Actual Lire.

A thousand wheels Of labor are
turned by dear affections, and kept In
motion by self-sacrificing endurance;
and the crowds that pour forth In the
morning and return at night are daily
professions Of love and duty
Chaplin.
Milford chronicle., 1923-12-14
That Gobbler
for Christmas
By CLARA DELAFIELD

They Just Gould FS71AL, marin, I
Not Kill the Bird w might let you
They Had MSM have the COB
Marched Crow HfaS bier for Christ
r. Few mas" said ST.
p.G.,LooJ las Hicks. Hell be
a fine bird by then.
But 1 dunno. He's the only one I've
reared out of that brood, and I'm
kinder attached to him"
However, he promised Mrs. James
finally to let her have the gobbler.
Sias Hicks was not a sentimental
man. He was a farmer, and in busi-
ness for the money it brought him. He
had a brother John, who had gone to
the city and made money hand over
fist. John was a crusty old bachelor
and largely devoid Of the sense Of
family obligations.
There had been a time, five years
before, when things went badly with
Silas. There was a heavy mortgage
to meet, the crops had been failure,
and he had been in danger of dispOs-
session. Besides, his wife was on her
sickbed, from which she was never to
arise.
Silas had gone in his despair to the
brother whom he had not seen tor
years. John had turned him down fiat.
"Father left you the farm because
you played up to him, and kicked me
out into the world" he said. "NOw
I've made my pile, you have the nerve
to come to me for help. don't see it,
Silas."
my wife's SICK" pleaded Silas, "and
you've got more money than you know
what to do with"
"Oh, can find a use for it," John
rejOined caustically. Maybe If you'd
The Washington times., 1923-08-06
DEVELOP MENT
Of EDGEMOOR !
STARTS.
Maddux-MarshalI mpany
Will Start Work at Once OF
Beautifying Suburb.

Comprehensive development Of the
Edgemoor tract, Immediately, along
conservative, practical and artistic
lines will be the object of the Mad
dux. Marshall Company, 1903 Six
teenth street northwest. who today
announced following taking over the
exclusive suburban colony of Edge
moor northwest of Bethesda from
the Edgemoor Land Company. The
transaction is one Of the biggest in
suburban projects reported in some
time.
Edgemoor, which is one OF the
city's most beautiful residential
colonies, comprises about 1875 acres
on the old Georgetown road and VIII
sons lane. Adjoining it on the
north Is Battery Park, which the
Maddux- Marshall Company is now
developing.
Either Battery Park or Edgemoor
can be reached by trolley. Both are
contiguous to the Chevy Chase,
Columbia, Bannockburn and the new
Congressional Country Clubs.
Major H. c. Maddux, retired. ID
president of the Maddux- Marshall
Company. He served in the army
for thirteen years and during the
war constructed three Of the Gov
ernment's largest hospitals. Lieut..
Comdr. c. K. Mallory, also retired
is vice president and secretary. The
treasurer is Gen. r. c. Marshall, jr.,
who was chief of the construction
division of the army in the late
months Of the war and is now gen.
eral manager OF the Associated Cen
eral Contractors of America.
The Washington times., 1923-08-06
Too Much Shiek Stuff Clouds Brain
and Love Gush Is Failing On Nerves

Some poetry by all means
Oughta be dished up to anybody
suffering with insomnia.
Short stories for short people.
Continued stories for tall people.
i can just imagine myself go
ing up to the trained nurse
librarian and telling her that
have pain i'm the necIR and hav-
ing her diagnose something in
the way OF a massage for my
mentality.
Some kind of a story with a
plot that will act as q chirOprac-
tic on my brain cells.
Now, when you have that lazy
good fOr-nOthing feeling, there
oughta be q book on hand that
has kick to it. One that will
Jazz you up a bit and make you
feel fit to go on fighting to daily
battle.
BRAIN NEEDS VARIETY.
The brain is more important
than the stomach, and we all
know that q variegated menu is
. good thing. We may not like
spinach, but we eat it because 1t
acts like d broom on the system
and sweeps out the rubbish.
Well, there must be lots of
books like spinach that we don't
like but we Oughta read because
they will polish the inside of our
head so we can better reflect on
the things we like to think about.
Mush is all right, but too much
mush is bound to spoil our
thinking system.
/ just finished a book that was
a regular porous plaster.
But / stuck to it, and now /
am on a diet-the dictionary!
I'm in great favor of the movies
for medicine, too.
No kid would refuse to take
castor oil il IT'S an all-star cast!
Many people suffer from film
on the eye. Marion Davies, I'm
Little Old New York." is a sure
cure for that. III she amt good
for the eyes, 1 don't know what
is!
The Washington times., 1923-08-06
XXX. CENSORS
OKLAHOMA
CONCERTS
Contract With N. Y. Music
Bureau StipuIates Order
Shall o. K. Attractions.

NEW YORK. Aug. 6.-The Ku
Klux Khan has entered a new field
of endeavor. A contract between
the Metropolitan Music Bureau and
persons in the city of Enid, Okla.
which has been made public by the
Musical Digest, bore a clause which
provided that attractions are sub
Ject to the approval of the K
K. K"
Both artists who have been en-.
gagged through the musical bureau
are American-born. Anna Case and
Francis Macmillen, who was a
lieutenant in the American army
and was decorated for distinguished
service while in France, signed the
curious contract.
Surprise was evinced that two
American artists should thus come
under the eye OF the khan. But ii
is understood that this step. small
As, it seems, Is the first leg in a
campaign by the khan in which
they will endeavor to extend their
powers.
From reports reaching this city
from Oklahoma, the khan has al
ready assigned itself to the task
of censor in matters of public
morals. political opinion and pri
vate conduct, and this last step IA
dictates that they will also make
an attempt to censor art, literature
and music on q broad scale.
The Washington times., 1923-08-06
CABBAGE CROP
REPORTED
LATE
UnfavorabIe Season Delayed
Planting in New York, Says
Field Service.

Cabbage in western New York
is unusually late this year, re-
ports OF the field service of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture say.
while the greater part of the
Danish cabbage is planted" con-
tinues q report, most of it has
gone out since July 4. From
present indications, there will be a
decrease in acreage which may
run as high as 10 per cent in some
sections. Domestic cabbage is also
late, due to unfaVorable weather
at planting time and to plant
shortage. Ontario county, the
largest producer of domestic cab
bage, had from % per cent to 40
per cent of intended acreage un-
planted on July IA. Present in
dications are for a decrease in
acreage of at least 10 per cent and
probably Is per cent for the
county.
DRY weather is retarding set
ting out of celery in some parts
of Wayne county, N. Y, but is
not expected to reduce the final
acreage, which will probably show
a slight increase over last year.
Onions at Elba, Genesee county,
N Y, show some thin fields, but
most of the crop is in fine con-
dition. In Wayne county, the acre
age is slightly under that of 1922,
but present indications are for a
much large yield, since fields show
mostly food stands and fine color.
with only slight injury from
disease and insects"
The Washington times., 1923-08-06
BOLT STRIKES CHURCH
STEEPLE DURING STORM

., PHOENIXvILLE, Pa. Aug. c.
The heaviest thunder and lightning
storm that has visited this section
In many years terrified residents this
afternoon with continuous thunder
claps that sounded like sixteen-inch
guns and the vivid lightning was
the sharpest ever experienced.
A bolt struck the tower Of the
First Baptist Church at Church and
Gay streets, partly demolished the
roof and firing the building. The
inside of the tower blazed fiercely
while fire companies fought the fire
from high ladders while the rain fell
in torrents. The loss is about $500.
Another bolt struck a pole on Main
street between Bridge and Church
and caused a wire to fall over the
trolley feed wire. Traffic was held
up for one hour. The storm lasted
about two hours and about half an
inch of rain fell.
The Washington times., 1923-08-06
STUDENTS BALK AT FRIED
SNAKE, PROF. EATS ALONE

STATE COLLEGE, Pa, Aug. g.
Rattlesnakes, tried out by Pennsyl-
vania State College forestry students
as an article Of food, formed a lonely
banquet for Prof. J. A. Ferguson,
head of the forest department, at the
freshman forest camp in Stone VAL
ley, Huntingdon county, recently.
Each year Prof. Ferguson takes
the freshmen studying forestry sub
jects into camp. While on the out
ing he gives them a sample Of fried
lattler. He says 10 is a most de-
licious dish and has been relished by
former State students more than
once while in camp. But the seven.
teen men in the present camp turned
down the professors tempting NOR
sci. He shared it then with the camp
cook. They say II tastes almost ex-
actly like eel meat.
The Washington times., 1923-08-06
Right-of-Way Shylock.

IT was running east around
Washington circle for a right
turn at K street when the patrol
wagon came from my left and
tried to turn into X. l had the
right Of way because the wagon
was on my left, so l kept right
along. 1 knocked the wagon
against a lamp post, but it didn't
do much damage to either
vehicle"
II bought those tags at the
District building. and they're per-
fectly good. got EN- for a
Dodge, but I sold that car two
days later. and kept the tags for
the new car
Didn't you know that was
against the law"
II never gave the matter a
thought. l bought and paid for
the tags, and l supposed l could
do what l pleased with them"
you had better get a copy of
the traffic regulations and study
them more carefully. The law
directs you to take the tags off
YOUR car when you sell 1t. and
turn them into the License Blu
reau. The regula tons tell you,
too. that Police and Fire Depart
ment vehicles have the right Of
way at all times"
II didn't know it was the patrol
wagon. your honor"
You will become more familiar
with the patorl wagon as time
goes on, unless you pay better at
tention to the regulations"
Dumping, SIS; dead tags. SO.
The Washington times., 1923-08-06
HEALER ARRESTED WHEN
MAGIC CURE FAILS

NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-Ciovanni
Lombardo was stricken with rheu-
matism a week ago.
He, on first feeling the pangs.
visited a gypsy camp at Golden City
Park, Canarsie, and sought the ad-
vice of Miss Mary Pom, who pos,
sesses strange and devious powers
of healing, as 1t were.
He says he paid Miss Pom $120
and she hung a bag around his
neck containing a dollar bill, a
couple of pebbles and an ounce of
asafoedita.
A day passed and Mr.. Lombardo' 8
rheumatic" grew no better So he
had Miss Pom arrested. She was
held yesterday in New Jersey
avenue Court, Brooklyn, on a
charge Of grand larceny.
The Washington times., 1923-08-06
LABOR UNION WAR VETS
TO FORM LEGION POSTS

CHICAGO, Aug. 6.-World w0r
veterans who are also members OF
labor unions are to have American
Legion posts OF their own The IL
nnols Federation Of Labor, through
It's executive committee gave sane
tlon TO the organizationn of union
Legion posts. 1t is the first case
or the kind on record.
Union labor officials have hereto
fore looked upon the American lie
gloh with suspicious eye, al
though among the Legion ranks are
many thousands who carry the
union card.
Inc plan was first suggested tC
the Illinois labor officials by the
ReV. John M. Lonergan, chaplain
OF me Legion's State headquarters
at Bloomington
The Washington times., 1923-08-06
NoN-PAYING GUEST, HE
WORKED ON ST CAPITAL

NEW YORK. Aug. 6.-His efforts
to reside in METROPOLITAN hotels on
81 capital. according to the police
last night, resulted in Everett w.
Farmer, fifty-two, being locked up.
Farmer was arrested on com.
paint of Donald j. Lewis, auditor
Or the Hotel Commodore, who told
me police Farmer registered there
July 26 and, after five days. went
away without paying bill Of S47. 30
from the Hotel Commodore, the
ponce allege, Farmer went 10 the
1otel Aston. He was arrested in
MS room there. A search Of the
room revealed articles alleged to
nave been stolen from the Commo.
The Washington times., 1923-08-06
U.S.GOLDBONDS
GARY FIRST
PURCHASE
Steel Magnate Made His Initial
Investment in Safest Of
All Securities.
BY Ebert H. GARY,
Chairman Of the Board, United States
Steel COrnOra tim

by EAbDCk6I N. OAn11
Chairman Of the Board. United states
Steel Corporation.
Judge Gary, 1OhO UGs born on q
farm at Wheaton, Ill.,, has, by has
own uNGtded efforts, become one
of the greatest steel masters of the
1Oorld.
He studied laW, Vus appointed
judge of one of the most important
courts IN his State, elected prest-
dent of the Chicago Bar AssociG-
ton, retired to take the presidency
of the Federal Steel Company, and
D0hen the great u. S. Steel Cor
porGtion 1VGs organized, he became
its head.
Copyright. 1923. by Cosmopolitan
News Service.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-My first
personal investment was in United
States gold bonds. There Is no safer
place in the world for ones earnings.
The late Thomas Murray, an Off
cial of the United States Steel Cor
poration, started, as young man,
in a minor position in that organize
ton.
His earnings at first were small,
but from the beginning he steadily
advanced in position and influence,
saved his money, and as the years
went by, increased his investment,
cautiously and judiciously, until he
secured substantial fortune.
His success in these directions
should be a demonstration to every
young man of today that it IL up to
him to decide whether he shall die
a poor man or whether he shall do
his part in adding to the wealth Of
the country, and In providing for the
necessities and comforts of others.
In such a country as this there
is no excuse for any young man, in
any walk of life, failing to earn and
save something for the future.
The Washington times., 1923-08-06
By FAY KING. i,

Well, it looks like pretty soon
the DANES at the desk in the pub
lie libraries will be dressed up
in caps like nurses on duty and
you'll have prescriptions instead
Of library cards.
Some wise cracker says that
reading has got to be taken &C
cOrding to what you need or
stopped according to what you
read.
Sounds safe and sane to me.
Some folks have got mental
indigestion from Over-reading.
Some people take to fiction
just like others do to pie, and al
ter filling up on a lot OF this
light pastry they need a good
dose of the castor Oil kind OF
books.
GET FAT HEADED.
Stands to reason that II you
read too much of that sugary
g0Oing kinda stuff you'd get fat
fat when you eat too much candy
headed just like you get fat
when you eat too much candy.
Some people read so much Of
the dOWn-and-Out stuff they get
all anemic in their mentality,
just like too much vinegar in the
blood.
Some of this shiek stuff is
enough to give anybody brain
fever.
Seems to me sOrta sensible to
have your pulse taken ana to
stick your tongue out to see If
you are in q fit condition to
stand the strain of some of the
stories that are circulating these
days.
Now a fellow with a weak
heart Oughfa be careful about
these nerveracking detective
stories.
The Washington times., 1923-08-06

BAD Brakes Crime, Not an Alibi.
HE turned the corner at Fourth
and p streets at such speed that
he ran over to the left side. your
honor. When I told him about it,
he asked me why I didn't charge
him with speeding If he was going
so fast. I told him I didn't know
what his speed was. but l knew
which side Of the street he was
driving on"
II just ran a little way over
the center line, your honor. but
nv truck was loaded heavy and
my brakes
YOU are charged with driving
on the wrong side OF the street.
rnt with having defective brakes"
The Washington times., 1923-08-06
SALESMAN TAKES POISON
IN NEWARK HOTEL ROOM

NEWARK, N. j., Aug. 6.-Inabil-
iity to pay his debts is believed by
the local police to have prompted
Earl D. Romano, salesman, to
commit suicide in his room at the
Hotel Berwin, here, by taking poi
son.
On the dresser was found a note
addressed to his mother, asking her
to forgive him..
The Washington times., 1923-08-06
TOWN Is ELATED OVER
GETTING NEW TROLLEYS

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 6.-Mana-
yunk Is 80 elated over the sixty
three new cars that the p. r. T.
will put into operation on Sunday
in that section that it will hold a
jubilee.
Samuel T. Bantam, president of
the Business Mems Association, has
arranged a program of exercises on
Sunday to he held at Main and
Umbria streets. The cars will be
placed on Route 81.
The Washington times., 1923-08-06
Suggests U. s. Mine Control.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. g.
Government seizure and operation
of the anthracite mines in the event
Of the continued failure of the oper-
ators and miners to get together
on a new wage scale was urged
here by Isaac Bacharach, of New
Jersey, a member of the Ways and
Means Committee, in a speech at
the Lions Club
The Washington times., 1923-08-06
Car Stop Criminals.

Car Stop Criminals.
Down in southwest there's q
fight between the bus company
and the traffic regulations. Traf-
fic cop down there has been get
ting after the buses for passing
street cars that have stopped for
passengers.
Now there's talk that the cop is
to be transferred. 1t sounds like
bunk, but the Alibi Man hopes IT
isn't. Maybe they'll send the cop
over to Connecticut avenue and
Grant road. For that's the kind
of cop we need in these parts.
Talk about passing street cars!
That's what they don't do any
thing else but, out here.
Here's one that happened the
other day:
Gates Ajar.
Man standing at track side Of
roadway; lady standing at curb
side; navy yard car spinning down
the hill: Cadillac neck and neck
with car trying to pass before
reaching stop point. Lady walks
over toward track, narrowing pas
sage for Cadillac. Driver honks
and slithers past with about four
inches to spare on one side and a
slight jolt from the projecting
license plate on the other.
There're no proper facilities for
experiments Of that kind out here.
But it's only a stone throw to the
morgue from where those buses
pass.
The Washington times., 1923-08-06
Law of COMPENSATION.

MY lights were turned on when
l left the garage, your honor, but
l guess my knee must have hit
the switch and turned 'em out"
You can let your thumb and
forefinger correct the error of
your knee by peeling off SO for
the finance office.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-03-06
lSE ROMPEN LAS RELACIo-
MES DIPLOMATICAS CON
FRANCTA?

Ell "Berliaer Tageblatt'' anuncia
que el canciller Cuno no conforme aiin
con las notas de protesta enviadas {
los Gobiernos de Estados Unidos In
elate-ra relativas a la ocupacion de
Darmstadt, Mannheim Karlsruhe,
piensa reunir manana (hoy) al Reich
stag para romper las relaciones diplo-
maticas con Francia.
El Canciller ha estado conferencian-
10 durante toda la mafiana de hoy con
los miembros de su Gabihete y con los
]efes de los paItidos politicos y luego
sisit6 al presidente Ebert con quien
converse por espacio de dos horas.
Vuelve circular con bastante insis-
tencia Ell runor de que Ell Gobierno ma
enviado instrucciones a las autoridades
&c las tres ciudades oupadas recomen-
landoles una resistencia infexible a
las 6rdenes de las tropas de ocupaei6n.
La situacion Sc juzga gravisima.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-03-06
LOS sENoREs "RoLAN, TEJEDoR
g. DE HosTos" HAN s1Do MUY
FELICITADoS

rs orgullo de San Juan la esplen-
dida avenida Que pasara en- breve,-
pues su termination toca a su fin
por delante de los espaciosos almace-
nes de los senores s'Rolan, Tejedor &
de Hostos'', en- Puerta de TERRA. Por
el terreno que hasta ahora fue de 10
mas deplorabIe, por las lagunas que Sc
formaban alli, pasara la via comercial
mas bella y suntuosa de la Isla, por la
cual atraviesan a todas horas numero-
SOS AUTOMOBILES, camiones y trucks
que Sc detienen ante la mencionada y
acreditadisima casa de negocios, que
es prez y orgullo del pals, no solo por
los honnbres que la dirigen, sino por las
operaciones iniportantisimas que hace.
En- breve sera inaugurada esa ave-
nida, que ha de con ''uir poderosamen
to al ornate de la poblaci6n.