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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-10
Luck in Finding Diamonds

The finding of the Cullinan diamond
was, like many great discoveries. the
result of an accident. The glance of
was caught by brilliant flash of light.
He investigated and dug out with a
pocket knife one of the wonder gems
of the world. The stone in the rough
was four inches long, two inches wide
and weighed 1924 carats. A poor
Kaffir boy found the famous Excelsior
diamond, valued at approximately $4,-
$4,000. The boy received a horse and
cart and about $500 in exchange
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-10
What's in a Name?

When Mary Edith, aged four, came
home from her first day at kinder
garten, her mother asked her the
name Of her teacher. Mary Edith re-
piled. 'Her name is Miss Buttonhook. 4"
Mother thought there must be mis-
take and told her to make sure of
teachers name on the following day.
Mary Edith dutifully reported that
the teachers name wasn't Miss But
tonhook at all; it was Miss Screw
driver. The teacher in question was
Miss Cooprider. of the Irvington kim
dergarten.-Indianap News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-10
CHAPTER XII-Continued
10


The sun rose high. 1t was begin
ming to descend. 1t ceased to illumi-
nate the gorge. Lee was nearing the
second sapling. He would work on
till that was passed, and then-what?
And now each step of each ascent
was an incredible labor. His hands
We're Jumps of bruised flesh. He was
hardly conscious what he was doing.
Still, he must reach the second sap
ling
He passed it. A sort of film de-
scended over his Consciousness. In
the declining day he saw himself
staggering round the gorge, seeking
for some other egress. Impossiblei
For forty feet there were footholds' in
cliffs; above them the hard granite
surface bulged inward. There was no
handhold for an ape. And he stag
gered from one end of the gorge TO
the other, round and round and
'round-an ape in a cage
He dropped upon the ground utterly
worn out, utterly hopeless. A little
struggle again, a short sleep
Respite? He had slept, and that
lynx sense of his had just awakened
him in time-iust in time TO antici-
pate that shadow stealing down the
gorge toward him. A missEapen,
gross thing that leaped forward, snarl-
ing, and then leaped back as Lee
struck at 1t.
Lee was alert on the instant In
that thing alone lay his chance of es-
cape. And, as it vanished into the
shadows, Lee went laundering after 1t
in the darkness, finding it. losing it.
He saw il in every moOn-shadow
among the rocks. He heard it jeering
at him. Then stones began to fly.
One graZed his cheek, one struck him
in the chest Now the thing was in
front of him. and when he rushed. it
was not there, and a shower of stones
from an unexpected quarter cut his
lip and chin.
Thus tortured, maddened. Lee was
: baited till the second dawn filtered
into the gorge. There was no respite.
All the while Lee struggled against the
bonds of sleep. He would RESI-, his
eyes closing for an instant-it was
upon him again, stone would turtle
past him; another rush would follow,
and again the thing was gone in the
dark.
Dawn-daylight-s sunlight Crouched
behind ridge or rock above him. Lee
saw the misshapen figure with the
massive shoulders and the long,
furred arms.
And, yielding to the elemental rage
that was in him, Lee whipped out his
automatic and fired two bullets. They
Clipped fragments of stone from be-
side the face, which continued to
watch him unmoved. That face, H.
lurnined by the sunlight in the gorge,
appeared so human, so intelligent. so
much at variance with the misshapen
body, that Lee was shocked at the
sight of it.
1t was only man-but such a
man! A gorilla. all but the human
face.
Lee had already pulled the trigger
a third time, but there was no third
shot Then he remembered that he
had had only two cartridges remaining.
He was unarmed.
He sprang, and stone, struck him
in the chest and hurled him backward.
Like two balloons they bombarded
each other with stones; but at last,
as fortunate shot sent the other
staggering, Lee managed 10 close with
him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-10
Made Name Immortal

In 1897 S. A. Andree stirred the
Imagination of the world by starting
from Spitzbergen for the North pole
in balloon, and, though he persisted
in the attempt, made the record of AZ
hours sustained flight, as proved by
the message brought back by car
rier pigeon, and became the pioneer
of polar exploration through the air.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-10

Women Give Up Before Little Things of Life?

thing or the other-to be as keen as
mustard or else to make no attempt.
But what about the women who are
as keen as mustard and who yet fail
through trifing petty distractions?
Their only hope is to develop a will
like iron and a heart of stone.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-10
cutieura comforts Raby,s Skin

When red, rough and itching, by hot
baths of Cuticura Soap and touches of
Cuticura Ointment. Also make use
now and then of that exquisitely scent
ed busting powder, Cuticura Talcum,
one Of the indispensable Cuticura
Toilet Trio.-Advertiseme
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-10
CHAPTER XIII
And on the Day After
Tomorrow

Lee slept the clock around, for, when
he awoke, refreshed and restored, ex-
cept for his bruised and blistered
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-10
Forced to Import DYES

Efforts to establish a dye industry
in New Zealand have proved fail
ure and all dyes are now bought in
other countries.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-10

All things are in fate, yet all things
are not decreed by fate.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-10
Dressmakers, Milliners
and Ladies

with a large circle of acquaintance can
add from SIS to $50 weekly to their
present income by representing US in
their community. No investment or
money necessary. All we want is ref
erence from a local business man or
month "a new models of high-class
dresses suitable for all occasions Your
customers save from 20% to 1919 by
buying direct from our agents. We abso-
lutely guarantee satisfaction with each
dress or the money is refunded to your
customer. II our models are not shown
in your town. write to us for details.
PEGGY O'NEIL. INC. DRESSwAKERs
81 West a2nd street. New York City
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-20

Broad street. Repairs gangs soo1
mended the breaks.
Edward Andres has gone to Phil.
adelphia where he has taken charge
of sand barge plying on the Della.
ware River.
The Frederick bowling team de-
feated the Milton team on the Will
kins alleys on Monday evening.
Front street between Walnut and
East street has been widened and a
side walk on the north side built.
This is the street leading to the Mil
ton Canning Company's plant and
makes safe walking for the en-
plOyees, especially during the can
ming season when this road is con-
gested with Vehicular traffic.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Hastings and son
were Coolspring visitors on Sunday.
~
I will have all kinds of flowers
for Easter. Visit my nursery for
your Spring planting. H. Ernest
COnWell, Milton. m20-4t
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-20
Prime Hook Neck

Prime Hook P. T. A. will hold it's
next meeting on Wednesday even
ing, March 25th, in the school house.
A program is being prepared by tea
chers and children. George S. Will
liams who is a very interesting
speaker, will present the subject for
the month which is Health and
Sanitation"
All members are requested to be
present. Delegates are to be elected
to attend the State Convention to be
held in Dover April 10Th.
After the program the social hour
will follow. Ice cream and cake will
be for sale. Teachers are planning
to have a fine social.
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-20

chairman of the meeting and intro
duced the speakers. Mr.. Odell spoke
OF the benefit to the schools of the
Parent-Teacher Associations. Mr.
DUPONT and Mr.. Odell spoke at the
coIored school before the meeting in
Fox Theatre.
oscar S. Belts who suffered a
stroke OF paralysis on Thursday
morning, died at his home late
thursday afternoon, never regain
ing consciousness. Mr.. Belts was
~ years of age and leaves a wife
and two children, Clyde Belts, a stu
dent at Beacom's Business College,
wilmington, and Ethel Belts, a stu
Gent III Milton High School. Mr..
beCts was engaged in the oyster
packing business and a large buyer
Oh Iur. Several years ago he was Sc
Verely injured about the head when
a heaVy timber fell upon him while
at work in the EdgeWater Roller
Mills, with which he was connected
at That time, and his death is direct
~ traced to this injury. Funeral SER
vices were held on Sunday after
noon at his late home by Rev. J. w.
townsend, and interment made in
Odd Fellows cemetery, Milton, by S. |
j. Wilson & Son.
Muskrat trappers have finished |
taking up their traps, the trapping
season having closed on March 10th. |
The season has not been a very pro-
ntable one owing to the unfaVorable
condition of the marshes The
marshes have been flooded a time or
two by salt water thus killing many
young rats last summer. Many trap
pers are declaring that the season |,
opens too early, causing the trapping I
OF large numbers of kits" young
rats. They claim that the season
should remain closed January 1st, to
allow the young rats to mature. It is
probable that the next legislature
VIII be asked to make the opening of
the trapping season on January 1st
IN Sussex county. Unless this is done
the extinction of the muskrat is GER
tain and sure within few years.
George Neal left on Friday morn
ing for Marcus Hook, Pa, where he
will ship as Oiler on an oil tanker
for Mexico.
Miss Margaret Misseck of Milton
spent last week with her aunt, Mrs.
Potter Coffin, Milford. She was given
surprise birthday party on Monday
by her friends. Games were
played and ice cream and cake were
served. The guests left wishing her
many more happy birthdays.
Albert Wilson has put a gas tank :
md pump at the north edge of Mil q
on, at the cross roads leading 70
Iilford, Glendale and BroadkilI
beach.
Rufus M. Reed has bought of
rank B. Carey the six acre lot On
lay street for $500.
Miss Loletta Belts has accented a
osition with NAPLES and Virden as o'
J. B. Gray was Philadelphia and bt
visitor this week.
Mr.. Cade of New York was the M
le guest of his sister, Miss Lillian ~ ~
ade, this week. II
A ladder standing at the west end
J. R. Atkins residence fell on Sat fe
rday during the high wind, tearing Al
ose light and telephone wires on "a
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-20
Cokesbury

Miss Thelma Isaacs who has been
visiting her parents has returned to
her work in Washington, D. c.
Miss Marie Pritchett spent We'd
nesday evening with Miss Katherine
Jester.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Warrington
of ClaymOnt were weekend guests
of their daughter, Mrs. Harvey War
ringtOn.
The P. T. A. meeting of Conaway's
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-20
"The Rats Around My Place We're
Wise," Says John TuthilI.

"Tried everything to kill them.
Mixed poison with meal, meat,
cheese, etc. Wouldn't touch it. Tried
RAT-SNAP, inside of ten days got
rid of all rats" You don't have to
mix RAT-SNAP with food. Saves
fussing, bother. Break a cake of
RAT-SNAP, lay it where rats scamp
er. You will see no more. Three
sizes, S5c, Csc, SIPS. Sold and guar
anteed by the Pierce Hardware Co.,
Milford. m6-4t
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-20
Greenwood

There will be a minstrel held at
Fishers school house on Friday ev-
ening, March 9th, starting at 1880
There will be play given after the
minstrel entitled "The Coontown
Thirteen Club" After the entertain
ments there will be refreshments for
sale. This is for the benefit of the
school picnic. There will be bushels
of fun for every member of the fam
lily, so all come and have a good time.
| Admission 20 cents and children 10
cents.
w. H. Radcliffe has been elected
as delegate to our general confer
ence for the M. P. Church to be held
in Baltimore.
Out cottage prayer meetings are
gaining each week in attendance.
There were 80 present last evening
at the home of Mrs. Lottie Lynch.
Next Friday evening it will be held
at the home of Mrs. Frank Satter-
field.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Truitt of Mills
boro spent the weekend with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Andrew.
y Our shirt factory is now running
full time and it is surely full of op-
orators. Greenwood is indeed fortu-
nate in having a place of this kind |
to give employment to so many peo- |
pie.
Mrs. Jessie Spence is very ill at
this writing.
c. B. Porter and family accompan-
led by Mrs. James BarWick motored
to Mtddletown to visit Mrs. Laura
swain who is in very poor health.
Francis Richards spent the week.
end here with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Houseman of
Philadelphia spent the weekend
here with his mother.
Mrs. Sallie Coffin of PHILADELPHIA
is here visiting her sister, Mrs. Kate
Mrs. Burtman of Bridgeville visit
ed at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Lynn
Mann last week.
Mrs. Samuel Graham suffered an
other stroke of paralysis recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lynn Mann spent the
weekend at Hurlock, Nd, with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles W.
lids oLAuSos
Mr.. and Mrs. William Appleby and
son, Teddy of Pennsylvania, are here
ior an indefinite stay with her par
9nts, Mr.. and Mrs. R. L. Coulter.
Paul Lord has returned to the !
University Of Delaware after being :
lome for several days on account of
Illness. :
Gerald Pearson is out again after
laving had scarlet fever.
Helen Lee Porter was a Delmar :
isitor this weekend. y
Mr.. and Mrs. R. T. Cahall have Il
moved back to Greenwood after be- =,
1g away for three or four years. "
- =,
Life Insurance. Chas. ]. Holzmuel-
n, Milford. f29-tf
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-20

school will be held on Friday even
ing, April 3rd, 1925. Immediately af-
ter the program a shadow and box
social will be held. Ice cream and
cake will be served. Young ladies'
bring boxes and gentlemen bring
large pocketbooks.
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-20

Better to have the cart before
the horse than not to have any
horse.
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-20

The smaller the calibre of mind,
the greater the bore of a perpetually
open mouth.-Oliver wendell
Holmes.
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-20
THE WEEK OF MARCH 23 TO 28
Spring Silk Week at This Store
We will hold Exposition of the New Seasons FavOre Silks

Printed silks will be of the style favores this being
suitable and of
beautiful and coorngs be found showing
bright black white blue with figures
vaed-Aora paids
fects These quality silks only shown Salisbury this
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-20

A pay-check a week makes the
household run sleek.
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-20

Save-or slave.
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-03
12-Year Strike Ends
 On Boston & Maine

Bangor, Maine, Jan. 3-The sympa- thetic strike which for the past 12 years has prevented the Bangor & Aroostook railroad from operating its train over the tracks of the Maine centrai1 rail road was declared at an end this week and the B. & A. trains were operated by their own crews between this city and Northern Maine Junction for the first time since 1912.
 When thesi5 engine and trainmen of the Bangor & Aroostook went out OH strike in that year the Maine Central union men refused to handle the con- meeting line trains. This ban has been enforced until today when the Maine Central declared the sympathetic strike would not longer be recognized. No op- position is anticipated from the union, officials of the road said
 Bangor & Aroostook officials said the resumption of track privileges with the Maine Central would effect a consider able financial saving to their road.
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-03
N. H. PAINTERS PUT CLOSE ON CHARTER
 AND $50 TO JOIN
Joint Meeting of Local Unions Votes to Keep Craft Within
 Propr Confines.

At a meeting attended by practically the entire membership of the two local unions of Painters and Papaerhangers of New Haven held on Wednesday night the charter which has been open at a $5 initiatio fee for membership was voted closed and after considerable discussion the initiation fee was put up to $50 and action taken that will en- sure its being kept there for at least a year. At the same time the uniops voted to dispense with the services of bus mess agent until at least April 1, decid- ing that there Is at present no necessity of such an official and by the action thereby dropping John Enright who has been business agent for the past year
 The action on the charter and initia- ton fee was taken principally because of late a number of men have sought admission to the unions not because they desired to be union members but because they found 1t convenient to se- cure work on large jobs at good pay if they were members of the union As soon as the job was finished they quit being union men until the next good job came along and then they would readily put up the small $5 union initia- tion fee, pay no dues and be dropped as soon as the job was again com pleted. Then if necessary they would join over again and do the same stunt At heart they were not union men but were using their fellow craftsmen for their own selfish ends. To put an end to these fellows and their doings the fee was put up to $50 it being certain that a man who puts up that amount will take interest enough to protect it.
 Following the meeting the members enjoyed a New Years Eve package party which lasted we'll until after the New Year had arrived and was thoroughly enjoyed by all present
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-03
Bankers Commission
 Totals 1,OOO,O ,OO0

Washington, Jan. 3-A bankers commission of nearly $1,000,000 in a deal that involved the merging of southwestern roads was condemned by the interstate commerce commission. Then the commission voted to allow the claim.
 The huge fee was divided between three New York financial houses. A minority of the commission opposed the fee. MT. Campbell declared that he could not sanction "a transaction which IS to be consummated by vast ing hundreds of thousands of dollars belonging to security holders, which, if it is to be recovered at all, will have to be recovered at the expense of the shipping public
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-03
Some Job Agencies Operated Chiefly In :. Capitals Interest,
 Report Charges
By International Labor News Service.

By International Labor News Service.
 New York City, Jan. 3.-The close relation between some employers asso- ciations and some supposedly inde- pendent employment agencies; the eff forts of organized labor and of ern ployers' groups, respectively, to secure control over the means of bringing the worker and the job together; the necessity for greater degree of inn partiality in public employment offices j; the advantages and disadvantages to the working mall of. the various exist ing methods of securing jobs; and many other important phases of the employment problems of 1abor-both organized and unorganized-are the subject of report which has just been issued by the Russell Sage Foundation as the reult of fve-year sstudy of employment methods, needs, and agen- cies throughout the United States.
 Various Method. Are Compared.
 While the report-a volume of some 700 pages-is entitled Public Employ ment Ofices-Their Purpose, Struc ture, and Methods" considerable at tention is given to fee-charging ern- p1oyment agencies; and to, a compari- son of the relative advantages to employer and employe III the use of want-ad pages, in applying for work at the factory gate, in going back for work to a previous employer, and in waiting lists or application files.
 The report makes the statement that some of the employment bureaus operated by employers associations, boards of trade, and similar organiza- tions are being operated chiefy-if not exclusive1y-in the interests of em- ployers who desire to coHtrol the means through which contracts be. tween the worker and the job are (Continued on Page Four)
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-03
DUNCAN COLLAPSES FOLLOWING STRAIN
 OF CONlPERS RITES
of A. F. of L. Operated Upon in New York Hospital
 This Week.

New York, Jan. 3.-James Duncan, vice-president of the American Fed eration of Labor, is at the Lexington Hospital here, recovering from an op- eration which followed partial break down caused by the strain he experi- enced in accompanying the funeral train of Samuel Gompers from Mexico to New York.
 The hardships of the journey caused a weakened condition in MT. Duncan s blood, necessitating sinus operation last Tuesday,
 Mrs. Duncan, who is at the hospital with her husband, said they hoped soon to go to the home of a friend on Long Island, where MT. Duncan will rest.
 MT. Duncan has been vice-president of the Federation for more, than 33O years and was the leading candidate to succeed Mr. Gompers as its head His age and physical condition were the main factors in deciding the execu- tive council to name younger man Tn the person of William Green of the Miners and it is now apparent that the council knew what it was about. To have named Mr. Duncan and have him collapse immediately as he did, would certainly have caused turmoil within the organization
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-03
DAVIS HOPES FOR INDUSTRIAL PEACE
 FOR ALL IN 1925
Secretary of Labor Says No Other Country Has Such
 Opportunities.

Washington Jan. 3.-"Peace in in dustry' will be the goal of the depart ment of labor during 1925 according to a special New Years statement written Thursday by Secretary of La bor James J. Davis Davis pre- licted that the new year will bring better anI steadier production to industry with corresponding prosperity to all. His statement follows i'll part:
 By JAMES J. DAVIS,
 Secretary of Labor
 We approach the new year with confidence and gratitude In no other country Ill the world has progress and prosperity reigned so generously as in our country.
 The American worker has been steadily employed at good wages and our business enterprises on the whole have been prosperous!
 The conciliation service of the de- partment of labor is being used more and more toward the prevention of strikes and lockouts by bringing the contending interests together into joint conference.
 The American business genius and the skilled American craftsmen are surely progressing toward the goal of peace III industry.
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-03
TYPOTHETAE TO OBSERVE BIRTHDAY
 OF BEN FRANKLIN
Connecticut Locals to Unite in Big Celebration at Hotel Garde,
 New Haven, January 16.

In common with printers organ1za- tions throughout the country, the Con necticut Typothetae locals have plans under way for proper observance of the birthday of Benjamin Franklin the Patron Saint of the printing indus ticut Typothetae locals, Bridgeport Hartford and New Haven have agreed to unite in one big celebration to be held at New Haven at the Hotel Garde January 16.
 There is without doubt no occasion which appeals to the heart of every true printer, to compare with Ben Frankliil's birthday and Co take part in honoring his memory Is privilege of which every man engaged i'll the print ing industry should be proud
 In contemplation of the observance of this event, the state printers succeeded in engaging as one of the speakers of the evening man known throughout America as the greatest authority OH luC lllC diIu WOi hS VI Franklin, John Clyde Oswald, editor and publisher of The American Print er In addition to MT. Oswald s knowledge of Franklin, he is bril- liant orator and possesses vast knowledge of thetprinting industry.
 They are reasonably certain of having another speaker who ranks with the leaders, making two headliners for the evening. A good dinner and musical program is being planned, details of which will be given later.
 The meeting is open to everyone in Connecticut engaged in the printing and allied trades This includes print ing plant owners and their foremen or superintendents, newspaper publishers, trade plants, photo-engravers, electro typers and supply houses.
 The committee is leaving nothing un- done to make the occasion successful. All they ask is that those who receive notice make plans to attend. The date is January 16, at the Hotel Garde, New Haven. Dinner will be served promptly at p. m.