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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-11-28
Used Car Bargains.

Ford Roadsters,
/ Ford Touring (l9ls),
Ford Touring tl924l,
Like new, used very little; Al
condition.,
l Chevrolet Touring (490) Cheap,
l Chevrolet Coupe Superior ly25l,
l Chevrolet Coupe Superior tl924j,
THOS. P. McDONAGH
Chevrolet Dealer
Phone Al La Plata, Md.
Hiatt.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-11-28
Pigs For Sale.

Pure bred Durocs, narrowed early in
September. The kind that make pork
quickly and cheaply. While they last
Five dollars each.
Fl. S. SWAMI,
11-21-4t. Faulkner, Md
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Wanted.

Tenant 10 raise tobacco and corn on
large waterfront farm-a tenant Who
has help that can drive tractors aud
automobiles preferred
G. G. BREcKENRIDGE,
ll-2S-4t. Aquasco, Nd,
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Naniemoy and Marbury Baptist
Churches, Rev. T. l. Scruggs, Pastor.
Services at anjemoy- Preaching
LIST and 3rd Sundays, II m. and p,
m. Sunday School, 10 a. m, and &.
Y. P. U. every Sunday, 7p.m. Prayer
Meeting O'Clock Thursday nights.
Services at Preaching 2nd
and 4th Sundays, IL a m. and p. m.
Sunday School, 10 a. m. and b. Y. z.
U. every Sunday, 8 D. m. Prayer
meeting Wednesday nights.
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Chicamuxen Circuit, Church Of the
Nazarene, Sunday, Nov. 80, preaching
as follows
Chicamuxen, ii a. m.
Pisgah, p. m.
Indian Head, 7.30 p. m.
HATTIE Z. GOODRICH,
Pastor.
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When Lomax & Fem Have Charge
Yon your mind anxiety and and feel perfectly
Qualities of the
funerals furnished at $50 $50 $i0O $3.50,
of burial robes and
fromsl o $50.
IOMAX 81 PEN N,
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 demanded any references from him. Oh dear! It was quite evident that she was not accustomed to seeking jobs Again the light flashed boldly forth ana Joan strained her ears, but not sound did she hear. Not murmur was born to her on the night air. No doors opened or closed. All was silent within and without.
 loans vivid imagination sran riot. There was mystery in the silent watches of the>night. Wondering what meaning these mysterious messages had, Joan thought again of Rupert Ran some. He had an honest look in his eyes that had appealed to her for the minute she saw him and her decisions about people were usually be to reiled on. How could she have doubted him7 Of conrse she had not met all the mem hers of the establishment, She re- membered he had spoken of his farmer. Doubtless he had a wife, perhaps fam ily. There would likely be other men on the place, and perhaps in some of the small houses they had passed were others in his employ.
 Should she tell him of what she had seen? Again the light flashed, and now she rose hurriedly from her chair. Another light flashed from a different direction. Fascinated, she leaned far out of the window. Not a sound of human voice was heard, only the peep ing basson of a bullfrog that throbbed now and then through the silence of the night. As suddenly as the lights ap- peared so suddenly did they disappear. Joan shivered, for while May was speeding on the nights were still cool The darkness was inscrutable and hear ing the old clock in the hall strike two, Joan crept quietly into bed. Would the morrow reveal the secrets of the night?
 (To be continued).
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CHAPTER XIII
A II. MISS FAIRwEATHER,

un II. MISS FAIRWEATHER. ca would you mind saying good
 night to Sonny?' asked Rupert as he met Joan at the top of the stairs. '"The little chap has done his best to keep awake as Rosanna had promised him he could see you tonight"
 sOf course, I'll go and see him, ] was hoping you'd give me the chance, Sonny's room.
 "ITullo, old chap" she said as she bent over the small white bed in which Sonny was squirming. "Did we keep you awake too long?" and Joan took him in her arms.
 q could have stayed up, but Ros- anna" Sonny hesitated.
 Well, you'd better sleep now, for you'll have such lots of things to show me tomorrow" and giving the boy loving hug she tucked jim into his bed.
 Good night, Sonny. You'll go tc sleep right away now, won't you:' said his father as they left the room.
 When Joan retired to her room that night she found that she was toe wide awake to go to sleep. As she re- moved the pins from her dark curling auburn hair she slowly reviewed the events of the day. While she was brushing her tresses little smile came and went about the corners of her mouth. Every minute it seemed as though she grew wider awake and after finishing her preparations for the night she busted herself unpacking her suit case and hat box.
 Still she felt restless and knowing from experience that it would be worse than useless to get into bed and try tc sleep,, and not feeling in the mood foI reading, she went to her windows ant flung up the shades. Then drawing a comfortable chair towards the window
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Cadrnean Circle Presents Bust
 To School <

Dr. Cunningham Wilson went before the Birmingham Federation of clubs last year and asked each club to adopt a rural school so as to establish more friendly feeling between the city peo- pie and their close neighbors. !
 The Cadmean Circle, a club com posed of prominent women, chose the New Merkle school. This school has just moved into a beautiful new build ing about seven miles over the noun tain and has over 300 pupils enrolled. Mir. Clarence ID. Cox is the principal with four charming young teachers to assist him.
 Last Friday, afternoon the members of the Cadmean Circle met at the school the occasion being a presentation ot a bronze bust of Woodrow Wilson, gift from Mrs. David Roberts, ST., a charter member of the club. Miss Willie Allen who is always at her best when talking to children, presented the bust in such way as to make every person Tn the room love and honor this noble man more than ever before.
 Mrs. David Roberts daughter, Mrs Hazard, unveiled the bust and, Mrs NdUulVeT, tHG bCCECtoAJ VI IAS eAA SaA Teacher association, placed a laurel wreath about it after which the chil' tlren's voices made the walls echo with "America.'-
 Mir. Cox. in a most delightful manner accepted the bust for the school. Dr Baker, president of the school board made an interesting talk and incidental ly asked the club to vote for the bond issue for rural schools. After seeing what this lovely building has done fol New Merkle the circle will line up solid for. the bond issue.
 Dr. Cunningham Wilson, in his sweet informed way, talked for few minutes and urged the needs of play grounds and flowers and suggested that next fall flower show be given to prove that New Merkle can produce roses as red as the children's cheeks, for healthier bunch of youngsters were never gather ed together than on this occasion.
 Mrs. Crawford Johnson closed the meeting by pledging loving interest and help from the Cadmean Circle to this wonderful, thriving school.
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Social Calendar

The Etude d Art club will meet to- day at o'clock with Mrs. W. D. Fon- vile.
 The Progressive Study club will met Friday with Mrs. Hubert DeBardeleben at Shadyside.
 The Clionion club will meet Friday at 1 o'clock with Mrs. T. J. Pinckard, 2225 sycamOre. street The Woman's Democratic club of Jefferson county will give a Davis rally luncheon Saturday at the Tut wiler. Phone Mrs. Margaret Copeland, Main 4567, for reservations. The Study Circle will meet Friday at i o'clock with Mrs. J. G. Johns at Norwood.
 The young matrons band of the In- dependent Presbyterian church will take orders for dressing Christmas dolls. The orders to be phoned Mrs. 5. F. Floyd, Main 6162.
 The New Era Study club will meet Friday afternoon at o'clock with Mrs. Merrill Pratt.
  The Edgewood club will meet Fri day at F 80, o'clock will meet with Mrs. Walter Brown, 2116 Twelfth ave nue, north, instead of at Katherine Inn.
 %
 The Cadmean Circle will meet Friday afternoon at 8 o'clock with Mrs. E. J. Dunn.
 % The members of the Independent Presbyterian Sunday school will enter tain the mothers with a tea this after noon at 4 o'clock at the church. Dr. J. F. Dillard's Bible class of the Southside Baptist church will meet this morning at 10 o'clock in the Sunday school room.
 
 The Twentieth Century club will meet Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock with Mrs. E. T. Rosamond, 1114 Thirtieth street, north. The topic for study will be Australia.
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Heart s Desire
By MARY BELL

that faced the hills, she leaned back and switched off the lights.
 "I believe that it's the very still ness of the country that is keeping me awake" she said as she sat forward in her chair and looked out into the dark. ness. "I suppose the sounds of the city are really lullabies to me now" and Joan sat smiling into the blackness There was no regret for them however for she had made up her mind about this enforced exile and had burned hel boats behind her.
 As she rested by the window a little singing breeze sprang up and the smell of freshly turned earth reached her sen sitive nostrils. "The smell of the earth" she sighed and as her eyes reered into the darkness she suddenly realized that light was flashing forth Instantly she was alert in every fibre oi her being. It vanished, and then shS heard a door being stealthily closed.
 Never afraid of burglars or other dreads of the dark, she had left hel l door unlocked. Now her hands clutcheC the arms of the chair and her body grew tense. For a few minutes she sat thu: while her thoughts raced madly as il they could solve the mystery of tht might. Then the calmness of the mid night hour seemed to seep into her in most being. Perhaps after all it wal just imagination. Her hands, relaxed their hold and again smile dimpled tn, corners of her mouth. She leaned bacl in the soft depths of the chair anC breathed deeply of the sweetness of thu night. Just as she had decided that sh' could sleep a flash of light shot across the night. .f+>.
 Instantly all thoughts of sleep de serted her. What did these flashes mean? She shivered. She was in wild country. She listened for thu closing of the door, but all was silent l Then she thought of Rupert and sh' rnnIized with a nualm that she had no
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G0SS-RANSOM WEDDING SOLEMNIZED

A wedding which came as a surprise to their many friends was that of Miss Lucia Goss and Mir. John Chusler Ransom of Decatur, which was quietly solemnized at the home of Mir. and Mrs. Edward l.. Goss at East Lake Sunday afternoon, October 12, at , 80 o'clock in the presence of only few close relatives and friends.
 The bride is the charming young daughter of Mrs. Lucy Goss and was never more charming than on her we'd ding day, when she wore a handsomely beaded blue satin dress with access sories to match.
 The Rev. Fergerson officiated.
 After a short wedding trip to De- catur, Mir. and Mrs. Ransom will be at home with their brother in North Birmingham.
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simply revel in be- ing pitied and poor thinged," and it is meat and drink to them to be regarded as one who endures a secret sorrow and smiles above an aching heart.
 T h i s morbid craving for sym pathy leads them to do many queer things. It makes many mothers ac- claim their chill dren's shortcom-
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PEAsANT POTTERY

Remarkably inexpensive for anything so beautiful is earthenware from Italy. Fall water pitchers in. gay coIored stripes, low flat bowls with wavy lines of blue and yellow on a creamy back. ground and tall jars of the same cream color with raised motifs of cat tails in blue and yellow are just the thing to give an accent of color to the living room.
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On the contrary, we warm up to the man who is a good family man, who is kind and affectionate to his wife and children, and whose wife goes about singing his praises. In fact, a happy wife is just about the best advertisement a man can have.
 Between the wife who is q booster and the wife who is a
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TEA AT INDEPENDENT
 PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

A tea will be given this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Independent Presby. terian church following the annual GUS. tom, .honoring the mothers.
 Mrs. Hudson Barker will make a short talk on Home Atmosphere" and Mary Humphrey will talk on child worship in the Sunday school. Mrs Cabot Lull will talk on Our Problems
 A musical program will be given by Mrs. South, Mrs. John Turner and Mis-. Winifred Witherspoon. Dr. Henry Ed monds will pray.
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LITTLE THEATER CHANGES PLAY FOR NOVEMBER

Mir. Bernard Zwold announces that he has changed the play for the second presentation of the Little theater from the Tanning of the -Shrew" to "Chil- dren of Earth by Alice Brown. "Chil- dren of Earth" is quite a well-known play and readings are being held every evening at the Little theater, to which the public is invited to come and try Cflt --t 1- -s
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Nor would we care to patronize the man who was such a tightwad that his wife had to screw every penny out of him, nor the one who bullied and brow beat a poor, little woman and never showed her any kindness or considera- tien. We all have a natural, kindly, human prejudice against the man who is mean enough to mistreat a defense less wife and we don't want anything to do with him,
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about her husband we take it as proof positive that it is true.

Far more important than that we think about man is what his children think about him, and they take their opinion from their mother If she is always point ing out their fathers weaknesses to them they grow up with con- tempt for him; but if she holds up his virtures for their admiration, they revere him and he has author ity and influence over them.
 Every woman should be her bus bands press agent, for she can make him or ruin him with her propaganda.
 DOROTHY DIX.
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Reflections of Dorothy Dis
The Best Advertisement That Any Mam Can Have Is A Wife Who Is Hts Loyal Press Agent Twenty -four Hours Every Day For Reputation Is Am IutanqibLe Thing

nNE of the most curious things about women is that they can never re-
 sist posing as martyrs. They
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TOdGy's Thought
By REV. KENNETH OWENS
'They hold their peace
 Isaiah-S6-21.

''They hold their peace
 Isaiah-S6-21. The worlds way is so dark and drear, Yet be it sol do not fear! For I with all my slender strength Believe the Lords way comes at length. His light directs us on our way And guides us to each coming day, The day that brings us sweet release, And crowns our toll with tender peace.
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So when a woman whines that she can't have an automobile be- cause her husband doesn't know how to get along in business, we jump to the conclusion that he is6 lacking in energy and enterprise, and we pass him by if we are look ing for a good man for a big job. Or if a woman complains that her husband is grouchy and grumpy, and hard to get along with, he reg isters in our minds as a surly brute, with whom we want to have no dealings. We might know him for an expert in a certain line for which we needed a man, but we would avoid employing man who was so ill-tempered that even his own wife could hardly endure him.
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Miss Builder | Honoree At
 Lucheon '7ts -, ! E.

Mrs. Frank Nelson and Mrs. Leo K. Steiner, two of Birmingham's most charming women were joined hostesses at the beautiful home of Mrs. Nelson when they entertained at luncheon, one of the most popular of the autumn brides, Miss Margaret Builder, whose marriage to Mir. Thomas, Benners, Jr., will be brilliant event of No vember 6.
 Both Mrs. Steiner and Mrs. Nelson gre noted for their lovely parties and this was no exception. The table was artistic. in the decoration of blue and yellow, the center having pretty ar rangement of yellow roses and valley lilies, with touches of tiny blue flow CTS. The place cards were, small nose gays and held the names of Miss Mar garet Builder, Miss Virginia Raul, Miss Katherine Redd, Miss Virgna4 Foster, Miss Florence Jordan, Miss Josephine Jones, Mrs. Lee Q. Bradley, Jr., Mrs. Prince DeBardeleben, Mrs. Charles F. DeBardeleben, Jr., Mrs. Don Maring, Mrs. H. T. Benners, Mrs. John Builder, Mrs. Allie Nelson, Mrs. W. D. Smith, . Mrs. Nelson, Mrs. Leo Steiner.
 MISS DUPUY HONORED WITH DINNER PARTY
 The choir of the Ensley Highlands Presbyterian church honored their di- rector, Miss Ellen, Dupuy, who will be married on October 2S, with a dinner party Wednesday evening at the home of Mir. and Mrs. J. B. Goodman.
 Baskets of pink and white roses and .chrysanthemums were used in decora- Ations. Mir Joe Holmes acted as toast- master and Mir. Grey Tate. MT. Clem Burke and Rev. l.. D. Brubaker gave toasts to Miss Dupuy.
 Mrs. H. J. Cummings and Miss Helen Richie sang.
 Those present at this affair were Miss Ellen Dupuy, Mir. and Mrs. Joe Holmes, Mir. and Mrs. H. J. Cummings, Mir. and Mrs. c. c. Burke, Miss Helen Richie, Mir. and Mrs. w. D. Inman, Mr. l.. F. Burbaker, Mir. and Mrs. John Mclaughlin, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Dupuy, Mir. and Mrs. J. B. Goodman, Miss Lorene Curtis and Miss Stella Goodman assisted in the dining room.
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How is it that Dr. c and Lawyer D climb so quickly to the head of their professions? Mainly because Mrs. c and Mrs. D never weary of telling what great students their husbands are? and exploiting their wonderful skill and eloquence, and telling about their big cases, and of how wrapt up they are in their work.
 That's the kind of person we want to doctor us when we are sick and to handle our cases when we go to law, and we feel that we have got an inside tip on them, because the women who know them best have told us all about them. Why is it that we all look up to l as such an oracle? Because his wifi does. We know he must be simpl wonderful because his wife has told u how profound he is, and what dee books he reads, and how noble an conscientious he is. We would neve have found out these things for our selves, but when a wife feels that wa
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|. knocker lies success or failure for
 her husband in many a case.
 Why do we buy our groceries of A and our drugs of B? Simply and solely because Mrs A and Mrs. B are such nice little women, and they are so fond of their husbands and are always tell ing us what wonderful stocks of goods they keep, and how enterprising they arc
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ings to strangers and tell shameful secrets that would otherwise never be known. And, in particular, it makes complaining about their husbands the favorite indoor sport of wives.
 It is very rarely that you hear a woman admit that she is hap oily married, that she loves and ad- mires the man to whom she IS united, and that she considers that he does his duty quite as well as a husband as she does hers as wife. On the, contrary, most wives as- sume in public a meek, patient Griselda attitude, as of one who bears heavy cross with an almost superhuman courage, and when they speak of their husbands they prove they are more prone to dwell on hubby's faults than his virtues. Now, the funny part of all of this is that these women do not mean word of what they say. They are'not really djSsa tisfied with their husbands. You couldn't get one of them to take a di- yorce if you offered it to her on a silver slayer garnished with alimony. Not one of them would trade off the faulty herman she has got for an impeccable saint.
 When a wife recites the litany of her husbands weaknesses and failings she is just indulging her self in an orgy of self-pity and striking what she considers TO- mantle note-that of the misun- derstood woman who is bound to one who can never really appreclr ate her.
 It does not occur to her that she is doing the man to whom she IS married deadly wrong, and that she is putting a spoke in the wheel of her own future, which is, after all, his fortune. For the outside world takes a man very much at his wife's valuation, and she either bulls or bears his stock.
 Reputation is an intangible. thing that is made up of whispers, and care less words, and shrugs, and intimations of things not really told. But these make or mar us, and nearly always go straight back home. It is the people who are nearest to us who write our price tags.
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The Etude d Art club will meet to- day at 1 o'clock with Mrs. W. D. Fon-
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The Twentieth Century club will meet Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock with Mrs. E. T. Rosamond, 1114 Thirtieth street, north. The topic for study will be Australia.
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SHIP NEWS OF
 MOBILE PORT

MOBILE, June 16.-tspecial Leased Wire .)-Steamers arriving over the week end brought in cargoes of ba- nanas or else were in with cargo In transit. The United States Shipping board vessels arrived on Monday morn ing and evening, one to complete cargo and the other to be delivered to redelivery. A third United States Shipping Board bottom was an arrival on Sunday to complete cargo for the United Kingdom. The German steam CT Boloma, arrived from Gulf Port to the Aluminium line with cargo in tram sit from Gulf Port and New Orleans to the Winward Islands. this steamer will make thee ports in Trinidad, San Fernando, Port of Spain and Brighton, and will call at La Guayra and Cur acao. She docked at the government tipple for bunkers and then shifted to Turner Terminals for a loading berth.
 Effingham, United States Shipping Board, Waterman Steamship Corpor- ation, operating agents, arrived from Gulf Port Sunday and will complete here for London. Steadfast, United States Shipping Board, arrived from Galveston during Monday morning and will complete here for London, calling at Havre and Pernith. The Steadfast Is on allocation to Sgitcovich of Gal h of cotton and will complete with lum- Der.
 West Hematite, United States Ship ping Board, arrived from Dunkirk in ballast late yesterday evening for de- livery to the United States Shipping Board. No instructions on her dispo- sition had been received here last night. She also has been allocated to Egit- covich of Galveston.
 
 Fruit company, arrived Sunday from Puerto Barrios and entered 1000 stems of bananas as cargo yesterday. The barge Jackson and tug Simpson ar rived from Pensacola Sunday to the Van Heynigan Brokerage company with 100000 feet of lumber and went to Pier 6. The Jackson will load here for Cuba. The barge City of San An tonic and Jim Sid arrived from Tampa yesterday a cargo of phosphate to the Mobile and Gulf Navigation company and went to Turner Terminals to dis charge.
 The American steamer Ocmulgee, Mallory lines, arrived from Tampa with a cargo in transit from New York and went to Pier and will sail Thursday The American steamer Suportco, Trans marine Corporation, arrived from Port Arthur and will load for Port Newark, sailing via Pensacola. The Suportco is at the city wharf, the Transmarine loading berth.
 The tug Demopolis, Warrior barge line, sailed for Birmingham and up- river points with six barges of sulphur and merchandise yesterday evening. The Demopolis will pick up a barge Of lumber at Biadon Springs.
 The American steamer Munisla Is due to the Munson lines Thursday to load for north side ports of Cuba and is scheduled to sail June 20. The Ameri- can schooner Isabella Parmenter, Van Heynigen Brokerage company, shifted to stream above the schooner Thann, same agents and will load a cargo of deals for Philadelphia. The Thann also Is loading deals for the PennsylvaniS port.