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Evening star., 1926-11-07
Ball to Aid Orphans
Of St. JosepEs Home
On Thanksgiving Eve
Prominent Washingtonians
Enlist as Patrons and Pa
tronesses-Appeal Made
to Public.

Among The many social events of
the Thanksgiving. season is the ball
for benefit of orphans in ST. Josephs
Home and School. 924 II street north
west. which will he held this year in
the ballroom of the Washington Hotel
on Thanksgiving eve, Wednesday, No
vember "a
St Joseph's Home and School is
managed by the Sisters of the Holy
Cross. and its doors areeopen for the
reception of male orphans of Wash
ington, where they are reared and
educated by the sisters of that order
The institution now takes care of
about 100 boys, and a far larger num-
Der seek admission each year who
cannot be accommodated because of
lack of facilities.
The orphans ball this year promises
TO outstrlp It's predecessors in splendor
and size The efficient committee in
charge of this affair is sparing no ef-
fort to make it the most enjoyable
evening for those who desire TO help
this worthy cause by attending.
The old Van Ness Home on
street. the home of this institution
since 1856. will soon, along With other
landmarks of the city. be swept away
before the tide of Greater Washing
ton The building has been sold. and
a new hotel apartment. ii is reported
snOn will be reared thereon. new
home for the orphan boys, simple but
modern in every respect. is practically
conn ,leted on the outskirts Of the city,
where the great outdoors will play
mart in the training of these untor-
tunate youths to good American man
hood.
In announcing it's plans and urging
the people of Washington to re-
newcd generosity this year. the com
mittee POINTS out that much equip
ment is needed for tire new home 10
make it comfortable for the boys ana
their guardians.
Among the 'many prominent W ASH
ingtonians who have already answered
the appeal and become patrons ana
parronesseS of this affair are Mrs.
James T.. COllif'ower, Mr.. \. B.
coppeS. Mrs. clara II. DonohCe, Mrs.
NJ. j. F.. Donohue. Mrs. Robert A.
pore. Mrs. Katie F.. Dunn. Mr.. George
+. Hamilton. Mrs. Christine Heullch.
Mr.. Thomas j. King, Mrs }. Leo
. Kolb. Mrs Charles w. Semmes. MISS
Helen G. Shecllels and Mr.. F. y. T"hln
Evening star., 1926-11-07
Autumn Engagements
To Wed Made Public

Mr.. and Mrs William M. Weigel of
st. Louis announce the engagement
of their daughter. Miss Mary Frances
weigel to Mr.. Arthur l.. BlakeSlee,
jr., of Washington. Miss Weigel is a
graduate Of George Washington Uni
versity and is provincial secretary of
Delta Zeta Fraternity. Mr.. Blake
Flee during the World War was at
tached to the French High Commits
sion in the United States and since
graduation from Catholic University
in 1923 mas been connected in COM
merrial engineering.
The exact date of the wedding has
not vet been announced hut il is un-
Cprstood that ii will take place in
Washington in the very near future.
Mrs. \. F.. Brazil announces the en-
gagement of her daughter. Marie
Eliza beth, to Mr.. Meigs f. Newkirk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Rrusilof have
announced the hethrothal of their
daughter. Edith, 10 Mr.. Jack Sperling
of Alexandria. Va, November Q.
Evening star., 1926-11-07
Mrs. Coolidge Heads
Bazaar Patronesses

Mrs. Coolidge heads the list Of pa
aronesses for the benefit bazaar and
bridge parties which are being ar
ranged for the Florence Crittenton
Home. The bazaar will open in the
Mayflower Hotel Monday. November
20. and continue through the follow
tnB day and evening. Bridge parties
wkl be held each afternoon and eve
ming.
Evening star., 1926-11-07

town were Mr.. and Mrs. James Walsh
of New York City. Mr.. and Mrs. Don
aid McKenny. of Akron. Ohio: Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin Sullivan, Miss Elizabeth
Sullivan and Miss Doris Sullivan, of
Philadelphia: Mr. and Mrs. William
Ney and William Ney. jr.. of Rich
mond: Mr.. and Mrs Joseph Paul Raj
son, Mr.. and Mrs. David Hamilton,
Miss Edith Clarke, Miss Ruth Warren
Miss Marjorie O'Neal. Miss Jeanne
Sullivan. Mr.. Herman Sullivan. Mr..
Frank Heiskell, Mr.. George Warren.
Evening star., 1926-11-07
Of Miss Anne Harrison in Louisville

Of Miss Anne Harrison in Louisville,
Ky.
Mrs. James H. Reid of Cro1et, Va.
is the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett
G.. Dunn on Duke street.
Mrs. George y. Dodd. who spent
several months with her son and
daughter-in-law. Mr.. and Mrs. Abner
Dodd. in Emporta. Va, was the guest
of friends in town for several days
last week and left for Aide. Va.
where she will remain for the Winter.
Mrs. c. r. Spilman has returned to
her home in Culpeper accompanied
by her sister. Miss Carolyn Burgess.
who will remain over the weekend.
Miss Dorothy Bagot entertained at
an informal Halloween party at her
home on Duke street.
Mrs. William Emhardt has returned
to her home in Philadelphia after a
visit to her son and daughter-in-law
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Emhardt. Mr.
William Emhardt, jr., of Philadelphia
now is the guest of his brother and
sisterin-law.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. ]. Wall and Mr.
George Wall of Baltimore. are spend
ing the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs
Wallis son-in-law and daughter. NJ,
and Mrs. William J. Werner.
The most popular furs for the Win
ter. according to the sales at the Ga
Smyrna times., 1926-10-13
L. B. TOWERS is NOMINATED
State Senator Nominated for Congress
From First Maryland District

Lawrence B. Towers, State Senator,
of Caroline county, was nominated
Wednesday as the Republican candi-
date for the House Of Representatives
from the First Congressional district,
which comprises the nine counties of
the Eastern Shore. The nomination
was made at luncheon and meeting
in the Wicomico Hotel, Salisbury Md,
of the state central committees in the
shore counties. w. P. Jackson, Ma
tional Committeeman, and Marion A.
Humphreys, defeated candidates for
the gubernatorial nomination, were
hosts at the luncheon. Whatever the
outcome of the general election, the
community Of Denton will furnish the
next Representative from the Eastern
Shore, for both Representative T.Alan
Goldsborough, who won the Demo-
cratic nomination again, and Mr..
Towers, are from Denton.
Both candidates have expressed OPP
position to any change in the existing
national prohibition laws. Mr.. Towers
is dry and has expressed the desire
to debate the subject with Governor
Ritchie. He is banker and philan-
thropist. In the primary fight be-
tween Senator o. E. Weller and Rep
resentative John Philip Hill, Mr.. Tow
ers supported Senator Weller and Mr.
Humphreys candidate for the Guber-
material nomination on the Hill ticket.
Caroline county gave Senator Weller
and Mr.. Humphreys majorities. Mr.
Towers was chairman of the resolu-
tions committee Of the Republican
State Convention held in Baltimore
last week. He is a brother of Albert
G. Towers, president of the Board of
Finance Commissioners and of the Su-
pervisors of City Charities of Balti-
more.
Smyrna times., 1926-10-13
CHESWoLD CANNERY BURNED
Property of Claude I'll. Pearson Suf-
fered $4,000 Damage by Flames

The fire which destroyed the can
ming plant at Cheswold at an early
hour on Wednesday morning, as an
nounced in the Times last week, re-
suited in loss of the buildings and
their contents reaching $4,000. Some
insurance was carried but not enough
to cover the loss. The canning plant
is located just north of the Cheswold
station and is one of the largest in
that section. The fire was discovered
shortly after midnight and fire COM
panies from Dover and Clayton were
summoned and worked several hours
on the scene. People living in the
town were aroused by the lurid glare
and, running to the windows of their
homes, they saw the cannery mass
of flames. The buildings destroyed
included the warehouse, office, scales,
store house in which there were 1000
empty cases, and another building
containing the labelling machinery and
the Gaping machinery. The office,
also, was burned and the safe, which
contained number of valuable pap
ers, was destroyed. The boiler house
and building adjoining were saved,
due large ly to the good work of the
fire companies, and the fact that they
were protected by a corrugated iron
roof. The origin of the fire remains
a mystery. The plant was not in op-
Grafton and there was no fire about
the building or anything else from
which blaze could have originated.
Some persons are to the opinion that
it was started from the outside while
others are inclined to believe that
sparks from a passing locomotive may
have caused the damage.
Smyrna times., 1926-10-13
CHARGED WITH ROBBING MAIL
w. w. White, Railroad Detective, is
Held in $4,000 Bail at Salisbury

Charged in Federal warrant with
robbery of the United States mails,
William w. White, a detective of the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Salisbury,
Nd, was arraigned before United
State Commissioner LIT. Hearn Tues
day of last week and bond was fixed
at $4,000 for his appearance for trial
October 13. The specific charge
against White is theft of an automo-
bile tire. Postal officials are conduct
ing further Investigations in an effort
to trace other articles missed from
the mails at Union Station at Sails
bury, which serves as a transfer point
for stations on the Pennsylvania and
B., G. and A. railroads. The missing
automobile tire, mentioned in the Fed
eral warrant, was enroute from Phil
adelphia to Preston, Md. According
to employees at Union Station, White
was seen to pass a tire through the
basement coal chute on the night of
September 27 and later put it in his
automobile. Postal tags, alleged to
have been taken from the missing tire
HOAC AOh4AO III OH ash Selll III LlIC SJd-
tion basement. The station employees
Immediately notified railroad and
postal officials.
Whites arraignment followed a
weeks investigation by Inspector J.
E. Santman, of the Postofice Depart
ment, who signed the warrant. SAINT
man recovered the tire in Crisfeld.
The detective denies that he took
the tire from the parcel post. He ad-
mits taking a tire from the basement
of the station, but asserts that it was
a worn tire that had lain there for
long time.
Employees at the station have franz
ed him, White declares, because they
dislike him.
Postal officials intimated that other
charges will be preferred against the
detective on the blanket warrant when
he is brought to trial.
White has been employed as de tee
tive by the railroad for several years.
Smyrna times., 1926-10-13

ed to say something about it in some
of these speeches.
Sixthly, Abraham Lincoln needed
every vote he could get, and especially
needed the German vote. The Irish
vote was Democratic, almost to a
man; and the Irish were engaged in
railroad building and were capable of
being loaded into wagons and trans
ported to two or three polling places
on the same day. AS an actual fact
this was done.
= The Germans were naturally Demo-
cratic, except that they did not love
slavery. Their having left Germany
as a result of the revolution of 1848
was Lincoln's basis of hope for their
vote, and mainly he got it. He left
no stone unturned to secure that vote.
He secretly bought and owned Ger
man newspaper, and personally sent
copies of "our new German newspap-
err" with letters in his own hand, to
prominent Germans in Illinois. I have
myself seen the contract, in his own
handwriting, under which he made
this purchase, and he owned the paper
till after his election as President. 1
have also seen and handled some of
those letters.
Now the Germans were not as a
rule drunkards, but they were almost
to man beer drinkers, and Lincoln
could have driven that whole vote
from him by one prohibition speech
in 1848, that would have accomplished
nothing for prohibition and have lost
him his largest single block of votes.
Lincoln was an honest man, but he
was an astute politician. He held the
German vote.
But there is one thing that ought
to be remembered, and think it sig
nificant, perhaps, in part, because, like
this story of the German newspaper,
| discovered it.
On Jan. %, 1853, while the Illinois
Legislature was in session, the Rev.
James Smith, Lincoln's pastor, deliv-
cred a sermon on "The Bottle, It's
Evils and It's Remedy" The text was
Habakkuk 2:15. Dr. Smith took the
ground that it was not fair to con-
denim the saloon keeper for making
men drunkards so long as the State
accepted his license money and deriv-
ed profit from his sales. He called
on the Legislature, then in session, to
pass a law forbidding all sale of in
toxicating liquor excepting for medi-
cal, mechanical and sacramental use.
Such sermons were common enough
forty years later, but rare enough in
1858. That sermon was heard with
profound interest, and thirty-nine men
who heard the sermon and called
themselves "Friends of Temperance"
Joined in letter thanking DR.. Smith
Smyrna times., 1926-10-13
T. NJ. Bartlett Dies at Easton Home

Thomas NJ. Bartlett, aged 81 years,
one of the best known citizens of Tai
bot county, died at his home Clifton"
near Easton, Saturday night, of heart
trouble and Bright's disease. He had
been i'll for some time. Mr.. Bartlett,
was cashier of the East0n National
Bank, a member of the board of di-
rectors of the Emergency Hospital,
president of the Easton Gazette Pub
fishing Company, and treasurer of the
local Red Cross Society of Talbot
county. In politics, he was Repub-
lican and was recognized for years as
the leader of that party in Talbot
county, and was one of the leading
Republicans in Maryland. He is sur
vived by one sister and two brothers,
Mrs. Arthur A. Thomas, of Provi-
dence, Rhode Island; Frederick r.
Bartlett,president of the Talbot Coun-
ty Branch of the Maryland State
Farm Bureau who resides on his es-
tate "Ellenborough," on the Peach
blossom, near Easton, and Ex-State
Senator George L. Bartlett, who con-
ducts large milling business in Eas-
ton, and who resided with his brother
on the old Bartlett homestead, "Clif-
ton," near Easton. Funeral services
were held from his late home We'd
nesday with interment in the Friends
burial grounds adjoining the Old
Third Haven meeting house on the
suburbs of Easton.
Smyrna times., 1926-10-13
HABITS AND VIEWS
IN REGARD TO USE OF LIQUOR
Continued from Page Two

of his having delivered prohibition
speeches in 1853 with the Rev James
B. Merwin. That Mr.. Merwin himself
delivered such addresses is beyond
doubt; that Lincoln joined him in a
prohibition crusade in that year is not
only improved but wholly opposed to
all probability.
1t ought not to be necessary for me
to give reasons for this opinion, but
! must do so. This is the part Of my
article which will bring protesting
letters, demanding whether | mean to
imply that that good and pious man,
the Rev. James B. MerWin, was a de-
liberate falsiier. do not mean to
imply anything except what | say,
but | am saying what mean.
First, the local newspapers in the
towns which Mr.. Merwin visited in
that year tell of his lectures, and not
one of them tells of Lincoln's being
with him and making addresses on
the same theme. Lincoln was then.
next to Stephen A. Douglas, the most
prominent man in Illinois. He could
not visit even the city of Chicago
without the daily papers noticing it,
and his coming to any down-state
town was an event of note. Had he
delivered a temperance address in
Smithville, in company with Mr.. Mer-
win, the Smithville Bugle would by
no means have failed to blow blast
that all Smithville would have heard,
and all Illinois, for that matter.
Secondly, the watch which was pre-
sented to Mr.. Merwin that fall, and in
which someone, at some time, caused
to be engraved the statement that it
was presented by Abraham Lincoln,
could have been engraved by any
jeweler to whom Mr.. Merwin took it.
then or later. A good friend of mine
who has written book on this subject
affirms that the watch is good evil
dence, because the newspaper confirms
the account of the presentation, ex-
cept for the participation in the exer-
cises of Abraham Lincoln. Precisely,
and the exception is the one thing that
interests US, and exactly the thing
that could not by any possibility have
been omitted if it had occurred.
Thirdly, Lincoln in 1858 was wholly
concerned with his debates with
Douglas and the getting of his court
work into shape, to be gone from his
Office from July to November. He
had no time for such a campaign.
Fourthly, the question of the pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic was not
an issue in the senatorial campaign of
1858 in Illinois, and Lincoln believed
that the oral aspects of the slavery
question were then paramount. He
had too good sense to confuse the is
sues.
Filthy, Lincoln made some fifty
political speeches in that year, besides
his debates with Douglas, and many
Of them are in print in local papers.
II he had been stumping the State on
prohibition, he could hardly have fail
Smyrna times., 1926-10-13
South American "Tiger"

The magnificent beast known as the
jaguar Is an animal which, as the
puma has usurped that of the lion.
takes the place of the tiger In the
South American continent. More mas
siye In build, and larger than the
leopard. he is. for his size, one of the
most powerful animals living
Throughout South America he Is pop.
ularly known as the tiger, and the
"t1ger CALL" ell tigrel used to be the
danger signal among the gauchos In
many camp on the far-reaching pam
pas.
Smyrna times., 1926-10-13
Violet Rays for Dogs

The ultraviolet ray treatment Il
now being used In connection with
the cure Of distemper In dogs.
The dog Is placed In a special basket
and is provided with blne-tinted cog
giles whilst the treatment is In prog.
ress.
1t Ia necessary to expose dogs to the
rays for about fifteen minutes at {
time, and II Is understood that tn.
treatment Is very effective.
Smyrna times., 1926-10-13

and requesting copy of his sermon
for publication. It was published,
with Abraham Lincoln's name in the
list of those who asked for its print
ing.
Now let it be said and admitted
that not all of those thirty-nine men
may have approved of every position
taken by DR.. Smith. But they GER
tainly were in hearty accord with his
Smyrna times., 1926-10-13

main position, and Abraham Lincoln
was one of those men.
So do not spend much time argu-
ing about the possible and the i'm
probable in the utterances of Abra-
ham Lincoln on the liquor question.
The indubitable truth is good enough
for me, and ought to be good enough
for all friends of temperance and
and the sanctity of law.
Smyrna times., 1926-10-13

Invitations have been received for
the wedding Of Miss Dorothy Mitten,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Fow-
Ter Mitten, of Frederick, to DIR. Coy
Cornelius Carpenter, to take place in
Trinity NJ. E. Church, Frederick, on
Saturday, October 20, at p. m. A
reception will follow at the home Of
the brides parents, Immediately after
the wedding.
Smyrna times., 1926-10-13
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Smyrna times., 1926-10-13
''i0" Is Dover Bank President

ks .Ofs N' Of the First National
Hsn.'eF nave elected John Car
|ssiSs s'st' Il president of the board,
EsE 4 'ae late John HUM, who
~ y ,9e !; Presidency since the res
> S. y lormer United States Sem
\ j. rr''y :, A. Richardson, many
,s.,.,. M. Carrow held the office
\ he lsaly !, Of the board of directors
n, ~ J: ne having been elected a
|e,d.5 y :, me bank in 1925. He
|sar !. Se ,dst late Manlove HAYES as
IN J.,i0 !, loS0' and held that Office
Tss 4 y. Jones, Mr.. c, carrow rr,g r1Tsn wsa
aFdd eIaotagS lS and b. I. Emery
Smyrna times., 1926-10-13

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