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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-22
JUDGE WOULD RESTRICT
ALlMoNY TO MOTHERS

NEW YORK, Sept. 22.--Justice
Selah B. Strong OF the supreme
court would abolish alimony for
chiidless wives on the ground that
IL keeps certain women lazy. graft
fies their revenge, makes men mis-
cradle and serves no good ends.
Imagine" said the justice. the
man compelled to pay alimony for
five years to woman who hates
him, but who will not divorce him!
1t is nothing short of slavery.
Il do not believe in awarding ali
nacny,'' said Justice Strong, unless
there is good and sufficient reason
for it. No flimsy excuses will avail
before me. In these days OF equal
rights there is no reason why g
woman should be awarded alimony.
.'She is at liberty to leave when-
ever she wants to do SO. Of course,
If there are children the husband
must expect to support them. Gen
orally, mother Is the last person
in the world to appear in the di-
vorce court. truly believe alimony
keeps couples from becoming recon
ciled When a woman starts a
separation suit she is either hot
under the collar. or filled with a
desire for revenge"
Justice Strong added he did not
intend the lend the supreme court
when he was presiding to any
scheme of childless woman to
force alimony from her husband.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-22
No g f>color' teeth
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Beneath That Film Are
Cleaning, Glorious Teeth
Run your tongue across your
teeth, and you will feel film,
a viscous coat that covers them.
That film is an enemy to your
teeth-and your gums. You must
remove it.
1t clings to teeth, gets into
crevices and stays. 1t absorbs
and gives your teeth
that cloudy "off-color" look.
Germs by the millions breed in
fit and lay your teeth open to
decay. And they, with tartar, are
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-22
KING ALFONSO.
At PLAGUE
SCENES
Grotesque Caricatures of HUI
manity Exist in Caves.
Cobber in Spanish ,
BY international News Service.

MADRID, Sept. 22.--What must
be the most wretched colony Of
human beings in the world is ex-
posed by the Infanta Eulalia of
Spain in her latest book, Courts
and Countries After the World
War"
According to the Infanta, this
colony is hidden away in an al
most inaccessible spot in Spain,
known as Les Urdes, and it exists
In a condition which Constitutes
q plague spot on the reputation of
any civilized country"
In a most literal and horrible
sense they are the world forget
ing, by the world forgot, says the
Infanta, who tells the reader that
their origin goes back to the end
Of the nth century, when the
Jews were banished from Spain.
Some OF them refused to leave
the land of their adoption, and
escaped into the mountains, where
they founded colony which has
existed until the present day.
Few people are known to have
had any transactions with them,
according to the Infanta, and their
existence was only brought to the
knowledge of the few through the
King of Spain, who, in company
with the Bishop OF Coria, once per-
sonally visited the outcasts, and
who, after witnessing their horrible
existence, ordered the authorities
to give their plight the gravest
consideration.
The Infanta Eulalia, describing
King Alfonso's visit to the colony,
SAYS that after days of travel
through 3 fever haunted country
side, in which flies and mosquitoes
made life almost unbearable, and
after literally cutting their way
step by step through the dense I'M
dergrowth, they at length reached
their destination.
but surely they had only dis
covered the Inferno and those that
dwell therein" exclaims the In
fanta. For the creatures who adj
vanced to meet them were terrible
and grotesque caricatures of hu-
mainly; visions of monstrous heads
set on unisSshapen and shrunken
bodies; others were eaten up by
sores; some were cripp1es, some
idiots, and, above all, many were
lepers.
"These dreadful human beings
surged from cave dwellings, mud
huts, and shelters unworthy of a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-22
HEIR To THRONE.
FORMAL IN
SOCIETY
Prince of Wales Accepts Few
Invitations-Si Rings I
Up Friends, Then Calls
BY ETHEL MARSHAL
international News Service


LONDON. Sept. 22.--Although the
Prince of Wales will not reach Lon
don ffom his tour for at least two
weekst his secretaries at st. James
Palace are beginning to receive
showers of invitations for him from
London hostesses.
Few will be accepted. at least in
the formal way. If the prince
wants to visit a certain party he
rings up the hostess-often on the
highland announces that he Is
coming along.
Princess Secretive
Princess Mary usually keeps her
uo1ngs very much to herself Even
the identity of her personal friends
- largely secret. A great deal OF
interest has been aroused, therefore.
by the revelation that one of her
best friends is the Duchess Of Rox.
burghe. nee Goelet, OF New York.
The princess and her husband have
recently been on a visit >to the Rox-
Durghe country estate. where the
work OF the Goelet millions can be
traced in the superb gardens. italian
terraces and unmistakable signs OF
ceaSeless attention and upleep.
incidentally the red carpet goes
down outside the duchess house in
Carlton House Terrace here prob
ably more frequently than at any
other private house In town. The
Prince OF Wales is there two or
mcre~times a week when he is in
London.
When, by chance, the duchess
sailed to America at the time Wales
went TO New York last year people
said she was going as his social
guide, mentor and adviser. But
though she could have filled that
role admirably it was merely a CO.
incidence.
Rowland Leigh. nephew of Lord
Leigh Of Stoneleigh Abbey, might
have owned all of Chicago If his
great grandfather had not been in
need Of a pony.
According to the story he himself
is telling his great grandfather was
given pony in exchange for the
swampy land that is now Chicago.
. Leigh, by the way. is the young
est dramatist 10 Europe. Only
twenty-three he has already had a
play produced in LondCn.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-22
TORTURED TO DEATH
AND CAST INTO LAKE

CHICAGO, Sept. 22.-Slayers Of
Mrs Marian jacobson, wife of the
wealthy owner of chain restaurants,
burned her back with lighted
matches, scalded her legs and arms
and, after, torturing her to death,
threw her body into Lake Michigan,
authorities believed, following a
pcstmorten examination. A suicide
theory has been discarded.
Police are looking for Verne
Bridgeman, waitress arraigned on
charges of assault and battery after
a quarrel with Mrs. jacobson, short
ly before the body was found afloat
off the exclusive Oak street beach.
They want to question her.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-22
Gay Young Blade, IS,
Accused AS 'Sheik
by His Wife
By International News Service

4 LIVERPOOL, Sept. 81
Alfred Howard, aged eighty-six,
is sufferidg for the frolics OF
his old age. His wife brought
him before the police magistrate
on a charge of striking her with
a broom, inflicting bruises and
cuts. She also complained that
he gave away his army pension
to his girl friends.
"He is awful with the women"
Sc said. "He gives one of them
presents of my clothes. He has
also threatened to stuff me up
the chimney and set, fire to me.
In his defence Alfred said
that his wife, Sarah, who is
only seventy-nine, had become
impossible since she came into
her old age pension. She want.
ed to live independent like,
and made his life misery with
her tongue. The magistrate
rather sympathized with Alfred.
airy to nag him less in the
FUTURE he told Sarah, and
bound the old man over to be
of good behavior for twelve
months.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-22

"a chief cause of pyorrhea and
gum disorders.
Tooth troubles and gum troubles
now are largely traced to that
film. Old-time methods fail in
successfully combating it. That's
1chy, regardless of the care yOu
tdke 1aopO, your teeth remain IN
attractive.
New Methods Removes 1t
and Firms the Gums
Now, in q new-type dentifrice
called Pepsodent, dental science
has discovered effective combat
ants. Their action is to curdle
the film and remove lit, then to
firm the gums.
Ordinary methods fail in these
results.
Thus the world has turned,
largely on dental advice, to this
new method. i.
What you see when that film is
removed-the whiteness of your
teeth-Wifl amaze you.
You are simply hiding the nat
ural beauty of your teeth.
A few days use will prove it's
power beyond all doubt.
Nail the coupon. A te1,-ddy
tube will be sent you free.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-22

eye. He nodded and chirDed;
Hello Dearfe. Z
IN that he made an error. He
sauntered toward her, another
error.
.T1l .dearie' you snapped the
voting woman from Detroit, and
proceeded to roll up her sleeves
and sail In.
Then the masher did the right
thing. He fled.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-22
MICHIGAN GIRL
,CHAST|SES
WASHER
Her Method Nof Handling
Familiar "Cakies" Is
ITO Sail In
BY international News Service.

BOSTON, Sept. 22.-Miss Mabel
Harper, of Detroit, petite and
pretty, certainly can handle mash
ers.
Her method of dealing with them
is to roll up the sleeves and sail in.
She gave a demonstration Of this
method in the Boy1ston street sub
way station. Al masner, about
thirty-five years of age, cast his
maIevolent attentions an q fifteen.
year-old girl.
1t needed only the frightened
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-22

protesting expression and gestures
Of the girl to get Miss Harper
started.
AT this moment the masher spied
Miss Harper. In her white flannel
dress, white hose and light shoes,
with smart hat and pretty features
and petite figure. Miss Harper
pleased the Washers susceptible
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-22

beast, they gibbered and chartered
in a sort Of broken Spanish.
Social and sanitary conditions
there were none. The primary
conditions Of hygiene were nm
known. and there was little or no
water, the wretched people tapping
UP stagnant pools as cats do milk. 6
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-09-11

Miss Louis Van Devanter has
been elected to a position in the
English department of Lincoln
High School Tacoma. She will
also be the editorial advisor of
Lincoln News"
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-09-11
NOTICE OF SALE OF COUNTY
PROPERTY

II appearing to the Board thai
on the Bird day Of August, 1929
application was made for the pur
chase Of the following described
property:
Lots 5 & 6, Block 4, King
County End Addition
and that by order and advertise
ment as required by law, the 6tl
day of September, 1925, at the
hour Of 10 90 a. IN. was set for tho
hearing to determine the advisa
bility of selling said property
that on the day set for the hearing
as aforesaid the Board met and be
| ing fully advised in the premise
deemed it to be to the best inter
est Of King County that said pro
lperty be sold;
TT IS THEREFORE, ORDERED
that the Sheriff Of King County
be directed to sell said property
at the front door Of the King
County Court House, Seattle
Washington, not below the ap
praisal thereof, same being Three
Hundred ($300.00) Dollars for thu
land and One Thousand ($1000.00)
Dollars for the improvements
thereon said sale to be at 10 90 a
m. on the 18th day of October
1925.
The County Treasurer is direct,
ed to appear at said sale and to re.
celve all monies paid in thereat, is.
suing to the successful bidder at
said sale deed to said property
setting forth all the proceedings
Hereunder, said deed to be attest
ed by the County Auditor under
his official seal.
DATED at Seattle, Washington,
this Sth day of September, 1925.
BOARD OF COUNTY COM
MlSSIONERS OF KING COUN-
TY, STATE OF WASHING
TON,
By D. E. FERGUSON, Clerk
of Board
By c. F. Gage, Deputy.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-09-11
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BURTON
Mrs. A. Hunt) :
sasa 80 - . 4 .

Mr.. and Mrs. c. W. Sadler left
Wednesday for Hollywood, Cal. af-
ter two months visit with friends
here. The SadlerS were residents
Of Burton some eight years ago
and it was hoped their love for
the island would lure them here
permanently, but other duties call
them south.
Miss Charlotte Higginson, office
clerk at Finland Sanitarium is
spending her two weeks vacation
with her Aunts, at the Hunt home
in Burton.
Mrs. Albert Thompson is teach
ing this year at Lester, Wash. and
left for that place last Monday.
Mr.. Thompson is at the Tacoma
General Hospital in training for
a nurse.
Eight of our worthy young peo-
Iplc, graduates from Union j. High
School will continue their educa-
tional advancement at the follow
ing institutions of learning:
College Of Puget Sound, Lewis
Fretz, Ethel Whitfield, Una Stew
art, Alfred Lewis, Lillian Larson,
Opal Akehurst; University Of
Washington, John Gramwell; Bell
ingham Normal, Esther Lofgren;
Tacoma Business College, Minnie
Olson.
We are loath to lose two of our
best citizens, Mr.. and Mrs. G. w.
Colby, who are leaving this week
for Ovando, Montana where their
son resides. In all good things
for the uplift of our little town,
these people helped in every way
and their going will be a loss to
our community.
The Mercdiths spent three days
in the mountains near Monte
Cristo last week. Mr.. Meredith
says hunting for Mountain goats.
The first meeting for the year
of the Vashon Island Women s |
Club was held at the home of Mrs.
W. G. Parkes, Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Woody, whose parents have
moved to Tacoma, has returned to
continue her High School work at
Burton. She will board at the Ny
Stedt home.
Fred c. Hedge enjoyed one
weeks vacation at Burton and is
enjoying another at Vancouver
during the golf tournament.
Miss Louis Van Devanter has
been elected to a position in the
English department of Lincoln
High School Tacoma. She will
also be the editorial advisor of
Lincoln News"
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-09-11
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= SOUTHERN HEIGHTS .
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The Burrows family have closed
their summer cottage at Shawnee
and returned to their winter home
in Chehalis.
Master R. E. Benatts, Jr. is
having a delightful visit at the
Bcnatts ranch while mama and
daddy are taking a trip to Detroit.
R. &. Benatts, Sr. is a Ford dealer
in Tacoma, and was awarded the
trip as the dealer having the high
est per cent Of sales for the state.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. w. Hughes,
Arthur and Helen, motored over
from Tacoma Monday to spend
Labor Day on the island and take
Laurence home. If there was an
other one Of Tacoma's 21,000
school pupils who hated to see the
end Of vacation as badly as Lau-
renee Hughes did, we wonder who
| it could have been. "I'll be over
every week end Grandpa" were
his parting words.
u
On Sunday, Aug. 30, Mrs. Bit
finger was agreeably surprised by
visit from former Iowa friend,
now a resident Of Seattle, Mr..
Frank Elliot.
Robert McClelland and his wife
have an orchard near Wenatchee
but theirs fortunately was not in
the path of the flood. Mr.. and
Mrs. Bruckhart drove over Sunday
and were relieved to find them and
their belongings safe.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-09-11

had dentistry done in the years
past have had some, if not all OF
it done in that office, will be glad
to know that it has not gone out
of business but has moved to DR..
Burns the Dentist, beautiful suite
of offices at 93712 Broadway a
cross from Rhodes Bros.
DR.. Burns, was manager OF the
Electro Dental Parlors for over
fourteen years and will be glad to
give the old dental parlor patients
the same careful attention as in
the years past.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-09-11

Try our Classified Ads.
Smyrna times., 1925-05-13

the southern part of Sussex county
this year the brokers are going to
demand that every crate of strawber-
rles carried to the stations and offer
ed for sale to the brokers have the
name of the grower and the variety
OF berry plainly stamped ON the pack
age in order that the commission
merchants to whom the fruit is sold
and shipped may be able to check up
on those who pack inferior goods.
One of the first shipping points to de-
mand this of the growers is Frank
ford, and it is understood that the
same demands will be made by the
buyers at Selbyville, which is recog-
nized as one of the largest strawber-
ry shipping points in the world. The
plan was started at Frankford last
season.
Smyrna times., 1925-05-13
SEEK TO IMPROVE SHORE ROAD
Twelve Mile Stretch Only Bad Piece
Between Penn's Grove and Atlantic

An enthusiastic meeting of the
Harding Highway Association was
held in the borough hall at Woods
town, N. j., last week, at which time
further plans looking to the improve
ment Of the twelve miles of highway
between WOOdstown and Malaga.were
discussed. Some of the most prom
lnent citizens and business men in
south Jersey attended and took part
IN the meeting and voiced their inten-
ton OF doing everything to help this
needed improvement. This route TO
Atlantic City from PENIS Grove is
the shortest by many miles, and the
only drawback to it has been this un-
improved stretch of road. There were
many addresses made at the meeting
IN which various ideas as to how best
TO gain the support of the New Jer-
sey Highway Commission were adj
vanced. 1t was finally decided to
name committee to appear before
the commission and seek to gain it's
promise to build at least a portion Of
the unimproved road some time this
fall. '7
Smyrna times., 1925-05-13

Stephen L. Purnell, aged 70 years,
died at the home of Mrs. Ernest Pur-
nell at the Laurel House, Thursday
morning. He had been suffering for
number of years from hardening of
the arteries, and was unconscious for
about two days previous to his death.
he was born at Snow Hill, Md, in
Io4o' where he lived until the death
tI oI ms wife about 15 years ago. Since
shat time he has been making his
nome IN Laurel. He was clerk of the
Smyrna times., 1925-05-13
CHESWOLD
Items of Local Mention Cleaned About
the Observation-Disclosures

H0IltiOn Uleaned About
the Observation-Disclosures
CheswOld, May 12.-Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Lord, of Salisbury, Md, have
returned from short stay at Mr.. and
MRS. Benjamin Wallace. The Lords.
who are former Cheswold citizens
came here to bring the body of their
seven year old son, Billy, who was
drowned while on his way home from
school near Salisbury. Much sym-
pathy has been felt for Mr.. and Mrs.
Lord IN the loss they have sustained.
Mrs. Clifford Anderson has return
ed to the Hospital for treatment.
The 18th annual convention of the
w. Z. 1. Z. of Kent County was held
In the Community House at Rising
Sun, Thursday, May 7. Mrs. Thomas
Moore and Mrs. Denney Morris were
elected delegates from Cheswold
Union to attend this convention.
PerSOnals.-Rev. Otis P. Jefferson
and Mrs. Jefferson are entertaining
at the parsonage, Mrs. Lank, an aunt
OF Mrs. Jefferson, who is spending
sometime with them.-Miss Ann Ber-
ry, of Philadelphia, spent a recent Wis
1t with her mother, Mrs. Belle Berry.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Price, of Wy
omlng, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hutch
ms, Miss Lillian Hutchins, of near
Pearsons' Corner and Mrs. Lizzie
Hurley, of Wilmington, were the re-
cent guests of Miss Clara Rash and
Howard Rash.-Miss Elsie Fritz, of
Wilmington has returned from a visit
with her aunt, Mrs. Willard Barcus.-
Nlrs. Mary Hoffecker, Mrs. Clara
harrison, Mrs. Anna Reed and daugh-
er, attended the funeral of Mrs. |
Maggie Yokum, near Smyrna, on Sat
lrday. Mrs. YOkum was sister of
'lr George T. Hoffecker.
Smyrna times., 1925-05-13

"On the eve of his retirement
after serving many years as a
Police Commissioner" says the
Wilmington Morning News, "the
Bureau of Police paid a graceful
and well deserved tribute to Will
liam B. Megear, formerly OF
Smyrna), the presentation Gift
being a handsome gold watch
and chain. And how apprecia-
tive the commissioner was. Ser
geant ohm 7. Gaynor, spokesman
for the 1O6 members of the de-
partment who were present.
praised Mr.. Megear for the fair
treatment of the men during his
ter moi office. The gift evi-
denced the good relations that
have existed between the COM
missioner and the police.
"The public hardly appreci-
ates the service rendered bv our
police commissioners, and by
many other public officials. for
that matter. AS Mr.. Megear
said, during his term in office he
had many unpleasant duties to !
perform in the way of enforcing |
discipline, and the like. Such |
tasks are distasteful to any
right thinking man. No matter
how careful his treatment. how
sound his judgment, he is liable
to err.
We are confident that Mr..
Megear will long cherish the
token Of esteem which came to
him so graciously from the
force.
'Mr. Megear has given much
to the city-many years of cap
able, faithful and conscientious
public service, and he has the
well wishes and thanks of the
great body of our citizenship.
Steadily for years there has
been a general improvement in
our police department, and it is
quite different from the old
days"
Smyrna times., 1925-05-13

tan Advocate, the church paper for
the Washington area of conferences
the NJ. E. Church. The cabinet also
heard Rev. Lindhorst. The conference
director of religious education. and
kev. George P. Jones, of the Minis
terlal Endowment Fund. to which DO
sItlon ne was appointed at the recent
session of the Wilmington Conference.
both seeking the cooperation of the
dlstnct superintendent in their re-
spective work.
Smyrna times., 1925-05-13

Orphans Court for Worcester eoun'"
Md, for three terms, and was a..
one of the founders of the W0HeS's'
Building Loan Bank in which organ
izntion he remained director until mt,
his death. The deceased is survns' n
by two daughters, Miss Anne . ~
nell of Salisbury, Nd and MIS- 49,. :,
nest Purnell of Laurel, also c..Ibsn ,,I
sons. William L. Purnell and Stepros y sprss
l.. Purnell of Snow Hill anu O
I. Purnell.
Smyrna times., 1925-05-13

ADVERTISEIENTS-The smvrna Times 10
the business medium not only for the town
1t represents, but for the outlying district of
which 1t is the centre, embracing the towns
OF Clayton, Kenton, Cheswold, Townsend
insertion charged for transient ADVERTISING
Season or yearly display advertising rates
quoted on application. For Sale, For Rent.
Lost and Found advertisements occupying
one inch space or less. a minimum charge
of so cents per insertion. Public SaIS aJ-
vertisements IS cents per inch first inser-
ton and so cents per inch for each sub-
sequent insertion. Locals and Reading No
tlces' Is cents per line per issue.
Smyrna times., 1925-05-13
GROWERS TO STAMP PRODUCTS

Want Delaware Shippers to Stamp
Packages to Avoid Inferior Goods
Fruit brokers throughout lower Del
aware are adopting the policy of get
ting the growers to stamp their nases
on all packages of fruit, as well as
the name and grade of the fruit. In