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Milford chronicle., 1924-05-09

formed a Reed Club in Miltd IN with IS
members. They have been doing some
wonderful work with the native grasses
and pine cones, and will place their
products on sale at Rehobotlb
A Sussex boy with q tuberdSular hip
has also taken up reed work, has made
it very profitable, and is earning his
first money.
State Leader Cobb has just ISSUED an
extension circular for Corn Club men,
bers, consisting of preliminary studies
and demonstrations.
With the Boys and Girls Club york
becoming so popular among the Boys
and girls of the rural seAtions of Dfla-
ware, as shown by the enrollment \of
1000 in six years, the res Its Of the u
tensive work and practiNl educatifn
will without question be re lected in the
and scientific management If
Delaware farms and Delaware farnA
homes of the future.
Compliments of VIII. Sunday Starr
Milford chronicle., 1924-05-09
Induee sIeep.

If you are habitually long time in
going to sleep, try drinking slowly
glass Of warm milk and eating a few
crackers before retiring for the night.
The cause may be the lapse Of time
between bedtime and your last meal.
A glass of water and tin of crackers
should always be kept at the bedside.
Milford chronicle., 1924-05-09

a beautiful gold watch. District Su-
perintendent w. e. Gunby, of Dover,
and Rev. Dawson of FELTON,, were
among the out-of-toWn guests present.
An excellent program was provided
by the committee as follows: Hymn,
'Blest Be The Tie That Binds;" pray
er, w. q. Gunby; greetings, Ladies
Aid Society, Mrs. John Cordrey; well
come, Evelyn Adams and Ula Mae
Clarkson; anthem, choir; address, DR..
w. 3. Gunby; solo, George Johnson;
greetings from the official board, w.
T. Sharp; from the Sunday school, H.
j. Ramsdall; from primary depart
ment of Sunday school, Anna Lee
/ Lynch; from Sunday morning class,
A. D. McCabe; anthem, choir; read
ing, Miss Helen Betson; greetings
from Methodist Protestant Church,
Rev. G.. A. Morris; from Nazarene
Church, Rev. Donaldson; response,
Rev. E. H. Collins.
The pastor and his wife received
many provisions, also a fine cake was
presented by the Ladies Aid Society.
Following the program collation. was
served.
Dtl0C Dull
The Harrington Jr's Base Ball Club
visited FELTON, Wednesday afternoon of
last week and came home with an
other scalp tucked under their belt.
The Junior Club is playing almost as
good base ball at the high school team
having only tasted defeat once, that
at Greenwood. They are speeding
along nicely toward claiming the Jr.
State Championship.
LeKites hurled them over for the
local lads and he was well nigh in
vincible, allowing but two hits and
tanning nine. His control was very
good, considering that downpour Of
rain had fsllen just previous to the
starting of the game. Berry for the
home team twirled almost as good but
at times he was given rotten support.
His team mates made several errors
behind him.
East for FELTON, and Collins for Har-
rington were the outstanding stars Of
the afternoon. Collins after very
hard run made a star One-handed
catch, over in left field foul territory.
Moore ran the bases wild, he getting
away with the theft Of five bases.
The final score was 8 to 3 in favor
of Harrington.
One of the best games of the season
was played here last Friday, when the
Jr's came out victorious
over the Houston Jr's for the second
time this season. The fans who at
tended the game, witnessed the most |
exciting one so far this season.
Ralph Sharp who held down the hot
corner for the visitors, played his po-
sition in fine style. He also secured |
the only hit made by the visitors, a
screaming double to deep left, that
scored two of his team mates.
In the seventh inning the visitors
a rally by quick double
play, Thistlewood to Marvel to Ward.
The final score was to A in favor
Of Harrington.
Harrington News Notes
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Miller spent a
part of last week in Philadelphia.
MN and Mrs. Brintain Raughley of
Philadelphia spent the weekend with
he formers mother, Mrs. Alfred
Milford chronicle., 1924-05-09
PRODUCER-TO-CO CONSUMER
AREA INCREASED
BY GOOD ROADS

Statistics of the use of good roads
by farmers for direct marketing to
consumers show the great advantages
hard roads possess for the man who
makes his living directly from the
soil. 1t has been shown that the long
(est dairy route profitable over a good
earth road is Is miles for the round
Arip, while over a hard road the dairy
fkrmer can operate prOtitably route
with a total length of 40 miles. This
APPLIES to every truck farmer, poultry
raiser, and farmers in general with
produce to sell direct to the consumer.
MoAsover, the 15-mile trip over an
earth road is only practicable part of
the Near, while the 40-mile route over
the hard road is good all the time, re-
gardless of the season.
With hard roads, all country pro-
ducers' of foOdstuffs ca nmake prof
table daily trips to the city and back
from a distance of 20 miles, creating a
radius OF 20 miles around every city.
Not only the farmer connected with
q direct market, but he who is con-
nected. by hard road with a railroad
shipping point, reaps steady profit
from goodA highways. In many States
N has ofttN happened that fruit has
been allOwdi to rot ana Iertlle neIus
bAve cone \lncultivated because i'm
passable roads have made prontaDie
sales out of fhe question. GOOD ROADS
mean steady profits and constant ue-
maAd for farm products at goou
PRICES.
StiEl, people seldom seem narrow
minded and intof TO the man VINO
Milford chronicle., 1924-05-09

IdO my work WlCnOuC
being all tired out so
L would have to lie
down. Ono day when
4 was reading the
paperIsaw theL Lydia
q. Pinkhanl's Vege-
table Compound ad-
vartisemenAand saw
what it did fNOther
women, so 1 Il ught
/ would try /
have taken lree
botflac ond oFnOOt
Milford chronicle., 1924-05-09
HEBDACVES GONE
Tired NO MORE
Gives Credit to Lydik E. Pinkham's
Vegetable COmpOui ild. Hopes
Other WOWen VIII Benefit by
Rsl Experience

SKowhegan, Me. was sick most
of the time and could not get around to
Milford chronicle., 1924-05-09

StiSl people \seldom seem narrow
minded and intofcran@ to the man VINO
wisbeA to behave himself.
The Washington times., 1924-02-02

their later years. He continues:
Some of the greatest Senators
and members or the lower house
have done excellent work after
eighty. Farmers and business
men keep at work as long as they
live. There is no doubt that so
far as superiority in athletic
work is concerned, man passes
his prime at forty.
with regard to distinguished
old men In our own history, we
need only refer to Senator Alli-
son, Senator Nelson, and Joseph
G. Cannon among our recent
statesmen; Rockefeller, Carnegie,
and Morgan among our success
ful business men, and Charles w.
Eliot, G. Stanley Hail., and Lyman
Abbott among our literary men to
show that great capacity for work
is not limited by an age of sixty.
Among European old men l may
mention Gladstone. Bismarck. and
Clemenceau. The last census
shows there are nearly 5000, 900
people living in the United States
over the age Of sixty"
The Washington times., 1924-02-02

; When the results Of the in
vestigation were reported to the
War Department the officials
promptly adopted measures to
prevent a recurrence Of the trou-
BILE in accordance with the recon.
mendations Of the investigator.
At the time the firings were con-
Quoted it was not realized that
destruction Of wild birds might
result, but now that the danger
is known officials Of the proving
ground have arranged to modify
their operations so as to cause
no further mortality among water
fowl.
So far as possible devices will
be employed to frighten the birds
from the wild-celery beds, where
particles Of phosphorus may still
remain undissipated and officials
have agreed to limit the firing of
similar projectiles to deeper water
or land areas. Possibly some fur.
ther deaths may result from pois-
oning in the limited area where
the projectiles were dropped, but
It is hoped that the poison will be
fully dissipated before the birds
are permitted to resort there
again, undisturbed by the fright.
ening devices.
The Washington times., 1924-02-02
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
Whdt the Earthqu0ke Gould Not Shake.
By DIR. FRANK CRANE.

A NYWAY one looks at it, the most magnificent spec
"A tacle in the world is a human being The soul of
man is quite as mysterious and imposing as the
starry heavens.
The force in is fully as strange and as efficient
as electricity, gravtaton any other physical energy
And the career Of the individual man may contain
battles as splendid Waterloo catastrophes shatter
ing as the Japanese earthquake conquests significant
as those of Caesar Napoleon.
To the most amazing thing in human being in his
unconQuerabeness.
Some time ago while in Japan visited the establish
ment of William Hoist. Hoist is Dutchman, who for
twenty years has been Of the leading dealers in OBJ
jects Of art in the Orient He lived in beautiful house
full Of the treasures Of the East He had wide business
covering all the countries of the world Then came the
earthquake His house reduced to heap OF rubbish by
the shock After the shock came the fire. which was
SO terrificany hot that the whole pile consumed
Ihe bronze dome sntegrated and the steel safe,
with its contents, melted.
All OF the mans possessions absolutely destroyed.
The labor Of twenty years devoured by fire.
Fortunately Hoist and his wife out of the city at
the time and thertwo children in Holland at school
Ihen some time afterwards met Mr.. and Mrs. Hoist
in New York City
Were they defeated? Were they whining? Did they
loudly excam that they longer believed in God that
If there were God He must be cruel? Were they
down-hearted?
They were as cheerful couple as I ever met They
were living in little room at the hotel and
bright and happy as the sun which streamed through
They said that they could never be thankful enough
that their lives had been spared Beside this they de-
clared that the whole business amazing adventure
ALI their possessions having gone they felt young
again, and had to New York to start life
They had found job Hoist to take charge of the
Oriental department of large store.
They were keen and full of the juice of life and
hope as any young couple of twenty-one.
When left them and went home and reflected how
often had accused Heaven of injustice and had aired my
complaints at thing and another felt like hiring
the janitor to kick me around the building until had
been properly punished
Once more had been taught the greatest of known
truths-that nothing defeat but himself, that
not all the spite of fate and the whips of outrageous
fortune conquer the who refuses surrender
This truth is old Prometheus, Jesus as blind
Huber and is fresh today in the of nnumerabe in
valds and failures who still smiling vctorously in
the face of pain and disaster
Where you find tragedy, bitterness sepy and snive
ling the root of it is always weakness
And where you find the hero you find the man whom
not any mischief of men angels can defeat.
Some woman made nasty remark to the effect that
the she of men the more she thought of dogs
AS for the more see of men like William Hoist the
prouder am to belong to the human race
Copyright 1924 by the Mcclure Newspaper syndseas)
The Washington times., 1924-02-02
CHESAPEAKE DUCKS KILLED
BY PHOSPHORUS

N FAD ducks in considerable
numbers at the head Of
~ Chesapeake Bay, particularly
near Spesutie Island, Maryland,
caused much speculation during
December and January as to the
cause, and resulted in an investi-
cation by the Biological Survey
Of the United States Department
Of Agriculture. The theory first
advanced was that conclusions
from heavy artillery in the vicin-
ity OF the Aberdeen proving
grounds were killing the birds,
but from the investigation 1t is
found that all the dead ducks
examined had eaten phosphorus
and died from poisoning.
The phosphorus was obtained
by the ducks while feeding in a
wild celery bed Of small area,
where smoke projectiles or gren.
ades containing that chemical had
been dropped during experimental
firings from the Aberdeen prov
ing grounds. The number Of
ducks reported killed in this way
was somewhat exaggerated as is
usual in such disasters, but it
probably totaled at least 500 birds
in the recent poisonings and may
have considerably exceeded that
number.
The Washington times., 1924-02-02
WHEN SHOULD ONE STOP
WORKING

~ r. HARVEY w. WILEY, in
February Good Housekeep-
~ ing, corrects an injustice
which has been done DIR. Osler's
memory for years. DIR. Osler has
long been accused Of making the
much-Quoted remark that men
should be chloroformed aftet
sixty. DIR. Wiley points out that
1t was Anthony Trollope who
made the original statement and
that DR.. Osler was merely quot
ing him as an after-dinner
pleasantly.
In the article in Good House
keeping, DIR. Wiley points out
that the opinion that men should
all retire at sixty is in harmony
wis the practice Of the Army
and Navy departments. He says:
"All Officers III these services are
retired shortly after reaching the
age OF sixty. 1t would be wiser to-
retire officers OF the army and
navy when they grow old, whether
this is at forty or at eighty"
n~. Wiley Ia Of The opinion hat
many men do their best work In
The Washington times., 1924-02-02
A Giant Magazine
Biggest and Best. And Amazing.

Mr.. Alexander Johnston, editor of 'MotOr" magazine
that dominates and blankets the automobile field
annual Automobile Show number Everybody interested
automobiles and modern motoring development ought
and study that extraordinary product There
describe it adequately here.
It weighed four pounds and two ounces dollar
quarter per copy and was and every year. catalogue
trade paper and NEWSPAPER Of all that the world Of
automobiles has done and is doing.
The ability to produce such complete gigantic beautifully
printed and beautifully decorated magazine only an ex
aordnay business and artistic achievement but what far
important great service to the automobile industry
There nothing you want to know about car any car
EVERY CAR and all the possible accessories for your
and every other that you can't find in Motor" the
great authority of the automobile world
The Washington times., 1924-02-02

gy Us as suy VI 'ner III IVES IN tn4' oFSO Pageant wncn
the answer to all human hunger The who knows other
is the wisest earth He may be poor ditch
digger vulgar unaveled and unread but if he understands
his fellow aborers and sway them to his WILL he
educated than Dorothy with her sptinfinitive Of
character.
One OF the most powerful intelligent and truly cultured
Women have ever known Italian midwife in q
mote Sierra mining She had gone had
could not sign her name But she had awakened
Life and stayed the hand of Death She knew the elements
which fed the souls of and the problems which assa
them as she knew the ingredients of her simple cook
cry From years of toll she had distilled mellow philosophy
she was truly great human being She knew nothing about
intnltlves but she had already laid hold of nfinty.
wonder what Dorothy would have thought of her.
The Washington times., 1924-02-02

I %S % AE1N soMr YSS AkE xx xp RSys GUS NOW
rance has recently lent eight hundred millions Of
Poland and JugOsavie. be expended
material The French debt this country including
accrued interest," amounts to about six hundred millions
sterling.)
The above picture and the lines under reproduced
from London Punch That famous satrica London weekly
expresses with accuracy the public opinion Of large body
Of the English people, including the weOdo the prosperous
or "better' class.
This picture ought interest Mr. Box showing it does
how old England feels toward her dear and gallant ally
France of little while ago.
you want to hear Frenchman hard words, ask him
what he thinks about England you want to hear Eng
hman in the English manner express his dislike, ask him
what he thinks about France.
This picture shows Poncare of the French nation tossing
out to little nations ito buy soldiers and guns the money
that England thinks France ought to pay her debt to
England
France lends eight hundred million francs to Poland
Ruman1a and Jugoslav to buy material according
Brother Punch but France ISM paying England any
thing account Of the three thousand million dollars that
England lent her in the
We in America have nothing to do with these uuarrels
between France and England and among the various countries
q Europe their loving brotherhood has turned bitter
dishKe we regret it, but it isn't our affair.
The thing for to do is not to let any wemeanng Mr.
Box any sentimental Mr. Hughes any collection of
international bankers that get their raof all nterna
tional transactions DRAG Us INTO THAT DISCREDITED
DECAYED LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
they want to start their fighting there again. let
them start it, but WITHOUT men, money.
this picture from London Punch shows that they do-et
them 60 ahead.
AZ
to theirs And let League Of
World
The Washington times., 1924-02-02

x1lRTUE is quality more admired than rewarded
When the music plays the heart is light
Ships that badly navgated hit the rocks and human
beings are often ships without rudders
1t is astonishing how little feels poverty when one
loves.
Prudence lOOketh unto fath content to wal, solutions
by New
The Washington times., 1924-02-02
Once-Overs
Copyright 1924, by International
THINK AS YOU WORK YOUR WORK WILL nGPRC

Copyright 1924, by international
THINK AS YOU WORK YOUR WORK WILL IMPROVE.
Do you put anything into your work besides the
purely mechanical performance of it?
You perfect yourself by slow sure careful repetition
and gradually work up speed you will think of your
work while doing it.
As well you know that speed without accuracy
amounts to little.
So, because you want to be accurate you keep from
stumbling and finally accomplish it, to become speedy
dependable mechanical performer in your chosen line
But do you know that if you get into class by your
SELF at the very top, your work must represent soul
The accurate speedy mechanic gets larger salary
wage than the slow, inaccurate and it is Individual
quality which counts big.
Your individuality is different from any other somebody
and unless you show this in your work you have not
gotten to the top, which is possible for you
The Washington times., 1924-02-02

You must judge maiden at the kneading trough not
in the dance
fine cage won't feed the bird
Your Father knoweth what things ye have Of before
ye ask Him.
Pluck the and leave the thorns
One false move may lose the game.
The Washington times., 1924-02-02

consequence she is about fitted to human NATURE daily
need dose Of cyanide Dorothy steeped in the cult
of books that anything which doesn't smell of half morocco
binding doesn't circulate In her class.
The beauty and mystery of strange soul are entirely
Obscured to Dorothy if that soul happens to use split in
nitive There doubtless we'll meaning human beings
who have read Tavelock Ellis Ibsen or Friend but
though she would permit them ve Dorothy is secretly
convinced that they belong to lower order Of biology AS
for those dumb spirits who have of any era
ture outside the Funne the Police Gazette thew are
simply vegetables far Miss Havens is s.concerned
Now I'll admit that it's useful to know split infintve
wnen you meet one rarely do myself but it must be
handy knack And if you have time it won hurt Won to
delve into Ellis Shaw snortle bit over Mencken But
at best such knowledge only second-rae approach to
Life In his book Socia Life in the Insect World abre
makes the following statement:
The Washington times., 1924-02-02
ga LITTLE ANIMATED SLIME,
CAPABLE OF PLEASURE AND
PAIN, SURPASSES IN INTER
EST THE UNIVERSE OF DEAD
M TTNR -
MATTER. 4"

"a little animated slime to Dorothy
Havens that is the proper classification of
the unlettered workers who pass her on the
street, the fishermen and cobblers, the
factory hands, stevedores, the ignorant young
wives, haggling over cabbage and carrots
Beauty and wisdom lie elsewhere for Dorothy.
Because these people do not speak her ver-
nacular, she believes that they neither suf-
fer nor rejoice, dream nor rebel as she does
Yet, if she but knew, their spirits function
exactly as hers functions, and no book, how
L
The Washington times., 1924-02-02

A LII snobs are detestable, but 1 do be-
N ieve that the most detestable snobs
4 "A are those to be found in my own class,
amongst the people who. live in and by books
I would not belittle books by a syllable
give them my love, gratitude and deep re-
speCt. l have elung to books through my life
as one cings to the warm, strong hand of
friend. But I protest that the standard
which judges folks by their degree of literary
culture is false and snobbish standard.
Take Dorothy, for instance, Dorothy
Havens is fine woman, sensitive, intelligent
"a lover of beauty. If Dorothy had been
born in the slums and bred in ignorance, she
might have been a useful and sympathetic
human being But instead Dorothy had five
years at Vassar and two years abroad. As
The Republican., 1924-09-11
BITTINGER


On last Sunday morning the villa
gers awoke to behold a decidedly
heavy frost on roof and rail. Tender
vegetation in garden and field by the
water side and near glady places suf-
fered considerably but that growing
on higher ground seems to have es-
capped the bite of the frost.
Merchant o. c. Buckle and family
motored to St. Paul, Pa, for a Sun
day afternoon call on friends.
Herbert Buckle and lady friend,
Miss Leonora Wiley, spent last Sat
urday evening and Sunday with Miss
Wiley's sister, Mrs. David Messer-
smith. at their home in Mill Run, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Broadwater, Of
Sharpsburg, Pa, spent last week with
relatives in Bittinger and other sec
tions of the county.
Miss Dorothy Huston, who spent
her vacation with her cousin, Miss
Ruth Emory, in this village, returned
to her home at Landsdowne, Pa one
day last week.
R. [. Emory spent part of last and
this week at Atlantic City and Phila-
delphia, Pa.
Mrs. G. w. Engle, of Baltimore, is
visiting relatives here this week.
Rev. E. T. Campbell, former pastor
of the Lutheran congregation Of this
village, but now of Sulphur Springs,
Ohio. will visit old friends here and
will preach in the Lutheran church at
Bittinger next Sunday morning at ten
o'clock; at Meadow Mountain in the
afternoon and at the Jennings church
the same evening at the usual hours.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mcdonnell, who will
have charge of the village school for
the winter, arrived here last week and
are located at the home of Mrs. Ellen
Engle.
The Republican., 1924-09-11

caster, Pa, who came to attend the
Gnegy family reunion at Hauser on
Sunday, were visiting relatives and
friends here on Saturday. Quite
number of our folks were at the re-
union.
Miss Anna Virginia Slabaugh was
visiting Miss Mildred Taylor on Sun
day.
Mr.. D. L. Swartzentruber and his
force of men are moving Mr.. Owen
Martins house this week to its new
site, which is quite an Improvement
over the old location.
Miss Anna Hershberger and Mr..
Eli Beachy were guests of Miss Mary
Lichty on Sunday.
Marshall, Maxine and Josephine De-
Witt spent Sunday with Margaret
Covers.
Mrs. Cora Stephens, who has been
visiting her parents here for several
weeks, has returned to Cleveland, 0.
Mr.. Grover Lee and family, of I'm
derwood, were visitors at Mr.. Joel
Slabaugh's Sunday.
Misses Susie Petersheim, Lizzie
Slabaugh, Pearle Swiers, Emma Burk-
holder and Ethel and Iona Knight and
Messrs. Isaac Beckman, Webster Sla-
baugh and "Red" Sisk called on Miss
Leila Mosser Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Dewitt and
Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Slabaugh motored
to a point east of the mountain on
Monday for peaches.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hervey Roth We're
Sunday visitors at Mr.. Ira Miller's
near Red House.
Miss Gala Dewitt, of Brownsville,
Pa, spent several days of last week
with her cousin, Mrs. w. E. Spoerlein.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Sanders, of Fair
mont, are spending this week with
Mrs. Sanders home folks.