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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-12
South Africa Shaken by Quake

BIZ UnfteG Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa,
Nov. ia violent earth tremor was
felt this morning in wide area of
the Transvaal colony. Ornaments
were dislodged from their shelves,
and plaster walls were cracked in
houses,
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In-LaWS' Wed
!. Times Special

BU. z tUteS SUtCIuG
G OLUMBUS, Ind, Nov. r.
Wallace Blair has taken as his
bride here Mrs. Edna Blair,
his former sister-in-law. She
divorced Blair's brother, in
April, 1925, and Wallace Blair's
wife obtained a divorce from
him Oct. 81 last. The marriage
license for the "in-laws" was is
sued just a week after the Sec
ond divorce.
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QUAIL LURE GOLFERS
Links at French Lick Deserted as
Hunting Season Opens.

BIZ United Press
FRENCH LICK, Ind, Nov. IL
French Lick golfers are deserving
the green's for the covert following
the opening Of the quail hunting
season.
The hills and valleys of the ter
ritory contiguous to French Lick are
fine hunting places for the Bob
White and for other game now per-
mitted to be hunted, and golf
courses were deserted today-the
second day of the season.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-12
Gets 25-Year Term; Marries

NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-Four hours
after he had been sentenced to
twenty-five years in Sing Sing for
killing Harlem hotel clerk during
a hold-up, Edward j. Chaser, %, was
married in the Tombs prison.
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Release Aged Alimony Dodger

BIZ United Press
FRANKLIN, N. H., Nov. 11.--Pat-
rick Kennedy, 79-year- old Civil War
veteran, who refused to pay his for
mer wife alimony out Of his pen
sion money, has been released from
jail, the case having been settled
out of court.
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In the Sugar Market
(By Thomson & McKinnon)

(By Thomson & McKinnon)
NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-Some long
liquidation combined with European
selling caused slightly lower market at
the outset, which. however recovered
later. There was no snap to trading and
there was disposition to hold off in the
with Senator Tarafa would result in some
thing definite. The raw. sugar market is
at standstin with nothing, offering be-
low Isle cents. The market will con-
tinue in this uncertain position pending
the final settleemnt Of the producing prob
lem.
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Fire Hits Ancient Landmark

BU United Press
MARLBORO, Mass, Nov. IL
The home of William L. Howe, OBJ
tanned by parchment deed from the
Indians about three hundred years
ago. was partly destroyed by fire
here.
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Auto Injuries Fatal

BIZ Times Special
ELKHART, Ind, Nov. 12.-MrS.
Ruby Haley, 80, is dead here of in
juries suffered in an auto accident
Oct. %. She was the wife of the
Rev. r. L. Haley, pastor of the New
Paris and Dunlap Evangelical
churches.
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71-ACRE TRACT .GIvER
Battle Ground Assembly Will
Execute Expansion Program.

Execute Expansion Program.
BIZ Times Special
LAFAYETTE. Ind, Nov. 12.-An
anonymous donor has given seven
ty-one acres of ground adjoining
the site of the Battle Ground as
sembly to the northwest Indiana
conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church which operates the
assembly.
The gift will permit carrying out
a nexpansion program for recrea-
tional facilities. A golf course viii;
be laid out on part of the donated
tract.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-12
Negro Centenarian Destitute

= BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Nov. Ii
Plenty Keitt, 106-year-old Negro
and a former slave, who claims to
be the father Of thirty?five children,
has been taken to the almshouse.
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FOUR HOLSTERS KILLED
Fire and Trains Take Toll in One
Day at Indiana HarbOr.


BIZ Times Special
INDIANA HARBOR, Ind, Nov.
12.-Fire, molten Stag and trains
cost the lives of four men here Fri
day.
Steve Mozza burned to death In
his home. Stricken by heart
disease he was trapped in the
burning structure. Frank Crund-
we'll burned to death when he fell
into pit of acid Stag at the Inland
Steel Company plant.
George w. Kite of Newcastle,
Pa, fell under the wheels of B.
& o. train, and an unidentified man
was killed by a Pennsylvania train.
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BU United Press

EAST ST. LOUIS. Nov. 11.-Hogs = Re-
sceipts, 1000; 1 haooldaeVers, S.4os market 15@
$50 lbs. s9.40@975 100000 lbs, $9.I5@
s:65; 1so.16o lbs. ss.25@9. 40: 9o-13o lbs
T75@8.85;, packing sows. $7.75@8.6o. Cat
market steers, $9.75@i2.75: light yearlins;
and heifers, $8@10; beef cows. $6.50@725;
low. cutter and cutter cows, $4.85@575;
stock and feeder steers, $6.65@9. Sheep
Receipts. $50; market. steady; top fat
lambs. $14; bulk fat lambs. $3.50; bulk
Gull lambs. $4,000; bulk fat ewes. $50
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BLAMES LENIENT JUDGES
Crime Expert Advises Eight-HOur
Day For JuristS.

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-An eight
hour day for judges as a remedy
for turning loose unpublished crimi-
nails was advocated by DR.. Raymond
Moley, Columbia University profess
sor and adviser to the State and
national crime commissions.
Speaking before the Governmental
Research Conference. which will
close a three-day session here to-
day, DR.. Moley said lenient judges
and not sentimental juries were
more toblame for the slowneSs and
laxiety of the American legal sys-
TEN.
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BIZ Times Special

500; market Csc higher; heayies. s9.7s;
mediums, $3.50: lights, So. SO; pigs 81. rs a
6;75; roughs. s6.5O@7.5O; stays. $3.50. Cat
Receipts. 200; market steady; good to
choice, .$11@13; medium to good ,$9@11;
QUITS. SO down. Sheep-Receipts. So; mar
ket steady; top lambs, $1150@12; seconds
1907: sheep, 1905. Thursdays shipments
cattle, n; calves, 1870; hogs. 522: sheep
none.
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OIL TANKER BLOWS UP
Unidentified Steamer Reported Lost
Ten Miles at Sea.

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE In.
dependent Wireless Company re-
ceived word from the steamer Han.
tlawa at las p. m. today that ar
unidentified oil tank steamer hac
blown up" at sea, ten miles from
Barnegat light.
The Hannawa was steaming Il
give aid.
The extent of the accident was not
given in the message.
Distress calls we're being sent out
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BIZ United Press

PITTSBURGH. Nov. 11.-Hogs =. Re-
eeeenipts, 5000; market steady to log down:
$3.50 10: 1850 to 200 lbs. SO 5o@1 TO- 13o to
16o lbs. $9,25@9.9o; 90 to 1870 lbs. $8.75
M9.25; packing sows, $8.25@8.75. Cattle
ket steady: calves sharply soc to 81 up
beef Steers nominally $9.50@12.5o; vealers,
$15@17. Sheep-Receipts, 1.000 market
slow to Csc down: top fat lambs, SLABS
bulk fat lambs. $12.5o@14.25; hulk Gull
lambs. $7.50@10.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-12
DELAY SUBWAY STRIKE
Labor Leaders Postpone Walkout
Until Nov. 80.

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-Labor to-
day pledged itself not to call a sub
way strike in New York city until
after Nov. 80.
Attorneys for the Amalgamated
Association of Street Car and Elec-
trio Railway Employees told Supreme
Court Justice Francis B. Delahanty
that the subway workers would not
strike until after the postponed
hearing on the Interborough Rapid
Transit Company's suit to restrain
the American Federation of Labor
from organizing its workers.
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BIZ United Press
CT.EUET. AMI

CLEVELAND, Nov. 1l-Butter-Extras
in tub lots. 4sIa@5lc: firsts, 42@44Hac;
seconds, 40G41c: packing stock. -2sc. Eggs
Extras. SIC; extra firsts, Sic; firsts, 4t G.
Leghorns fowls. 14616c; heavy springers,
24925c: Leghorn springers. 2l@22c; cocks,
16G17c; ducks, 22Q24c; geese, 23Q Csc. 20;
$375; plain, $40; New York, Gainesville
$375; plain. $3.35@3.40; Ohio. s3.25@3.35
Michigan. $325G3.50; wisconsin and Min
nesota, $3Q3.15; in los to 110-lb. bags.
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BIZ United Press

65c down: 250-s50 lbs. s2.75@1o.15: 200
ESQ lbs, g; 75@1o.I5; 10000 lbs; $3.50
S9@950: packing sows, $a@850. Cattle
Receipts, 400. Calves-Receipts, 800;
market steady: calves, soc up; vealers,
$16@16.50. Sheep-Receipts. $500; market,
steady to zoe down; bulk fat lambs, $14;
bulk Gull lambs. $l050@1l.50; bulk fat
ewes, $5.5007.
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BIZ United Press

CLEVELAND, Nov. 11l;-Hogs- Receipts,
@10.i0; 20 Oto $50 lbs, $10@1O10; 100 to
200 lbs. $9;85@1; 1870 to l60 lbs, $9.25@
s;S5: go to 1870 lbs. $9@s.5o; packing sows,
receipts. $50: market for cattle and calves
steady; beef cows, $6@8; low. cutters and
cutter cows. s4.50@5.s0;. .vealers. $15.5o@
ceipts. 5000; market for lambs Csc down;
top fat lambs, $l4; bulk fat lambs, $13@
$59s5o; bulk feeding s0 lambs. s11 gi al
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BU Tinted Press

CHICAGO Nov. 11.-No butter and egg
market Poultry-Receipts. 8 cars; fowls,
heavy, 22c; small. l6Gl!c; springs. 22,Sc:
ducks, heavy. 22c; small: isc; geese: isc;
Twins, Csc; young Americas, 251ac. Pota-
toes - Arrivals, 200: on track, 473 IN
whites. $i.6O6175: few fancy higher;
Minnesota and North Dakota sacked round
whites and Red River Ohios, 81 SOC so.
M1.45; idaho sacked Russets. lisa go;
fancy shade higher. partly graded, $500
ITO. Sweet potatoes-$1@2.
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BIZ United Press

NEW York. Nov. '.-Flour.--Quiet and
unchanged. .Pork-Dull; mess. $3.50. Lard
Raw, firmer: spoE 90 test delivered, duty
paid. 4.65c; refined dull; granulsted; S65
Santos SAINT sG No. 4, 22hS2akc. ' FaiiowHouiet:
special to extra, sR@s7sc. Hay.--DuIl and
lower: No. /. sf.15:. No. 8. 85cG$1; clover.
KEYS. 25G55c; chickens. 2s@ 4Oc; broilers.
22@38c; fowls. 15@32c: ducks, 22@28c:
ducks. Long Island, 23626c. Live poultry
22@32c; turkeys. 4Oc; ROSTERS. zoe: chick
ems. 15@34c: broilers. 32@40c. Cheese
Quiet; state whole milk. fancy to spe-
Potatoes-Long Islands, $2@4.35: Pennsyl-
yania, $3.10M3.35: Maine. $2.85n4. Sweets
| Jersey. basket. $1@2: southern, barrels.
$l61.75.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-12
VEGETABLES

California. 50 per dozen.
BeanNsouthern. $3.50 per hamper.
Be T,,ssei sn e.; s5c aoT 7S
Cabbage--H. G.. 1h@2c lb.: red cab
eI 6arrots@H. G.. s5c doz.: bulk. s1@1.25
Caulihower- California. .s2.75 crate.
s1.25 lat crate; Michigan Tough. s. per
2-S crate: Michigan washed. SOC a doz.
Olives vexsS c s.. 50 doz we
Eggplant&H. c.. s2@2.5O doc.
, daqiEs4SSf oHaii 15c lib.
LETTUCE Lettuce ca liiffSrii head. 81 crate:
hothoqpse LEA leaf q 75 sod 1s lbs lbs
onionsmspanish. s2.25@25o crate: !ndi-
ana white: $3.50 per 19G-lb bag ird Indi
a aed gs psr 81 bas eoS Yellow Sas red sa5
per busheI; white. SITS blu.
oysterpiant-4o doz.
PPaaTsniypSSsi.s s0E bua
Peppers-Fingers, 7sc pee, peck: mangoes'
Rs pl%%iisas1i .Ss
MnneI9t9 Red R " ohtos s225 l i9abc
Radish sS buttons. soc dozen;
long red or white. 35c dozen.
Rutabagas-$1.75 per cwt.
Shallots-65c doZ.
Spinach-H. G., 81 bu:
Squash-Hubbard, So Dbl.
Sweet Potatoes-Indiana Jersey me
diums, s1;25 bu:: Eastern Shore s2.7o DID,;
TomatoesWH. G.. .75c IS lbs. 50 bu.;
California, $3.50 crate.
Turnips-H. G.. Bic bu:
OYSTERS
Standards-$2.50 gal: select. 50 gal.
CIDER
Cider-$5.75 IA gal.
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Bu United Press

CINCINNATI. Noy;, 11.-Hogs--,Receipts.
s5S to h ssd sT s ss Ga!E u 1889 $50 Sp
80 to iso lbs $sl5@s25 90 to 1so lbs.
ss@9.25;. packing ,sows. s7;25G8; Cattle
ket steady beef steers, $9@f3; light year.
ling steers and heifers. s7.50@13: beef
COWS, s6@s; low cutters and cutter COWS,
calves. s10@13: bulk stocker and feeder
steers. s3@s.5o. sheepEReceipts, $50:
market steady; top fat lambs, 81; bulk
%: bulk fat ewes. $4QB.
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Gohs Like Mince Pie
By Thomson g. McKinnon

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.-Mince-
meat is so popular with Uncle
SANS sailors that the Navy is ask
ing bids fer $4,000 pounds of it.
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Chicago Markets Closed

The Chicago Stock Ex-
change and Board Of Trade
are closed today in observance
of Armistice day, a legal holi-
day in Illinois. Other markets
will be open as usual.
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Wins Corn-Husking Title

BIZ United Press
SEWARD, Neb., Nov. 11.-Hilmer
Swanson, Saronville, won the Me-
braska State corn-husking chain-
pionship with q total OF 1889
pounds.
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BIZ U1ltt6d Press
NEW YORK, Nov 11.-Foreign exchange
closed higher. Demand sterling. $4.867s
5.431ac. UP ..oo14c; Belgium. 13.931sc: Ger
many N ny, 90 25.8S1ac, up ole; : Montreal
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BIZ United Press

TOLEDO. Nov. 1.-Hogs-Receipts. 300;
msdEfs 1915 se 4 RsaEs
market steady. Calves-Receipts, light;
market SOC up. Sheep and lambs - Re-
ceipts. light: market slow to Csc off.
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RAW SUGAR PRICES
Commission Row
PRICE To RETAILERS

s.55?: Delicious, ss.e5@4.5o: Crimes. sS.as.
Barrel apples: Jonthans, $780, Grimes, So;
Bellfowers, $3.50. Basket apples (4o-
pound baskets; Jonathans, $3.50
Sarames ST0g c MeaSnieS sn ~
Wolf River. So idaho Delicious. 1925.
Bsr ndesr iit ST one-half Dbl.
Cocoanuts-Jamaica, $3.50 per 100.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $4.5o@5 crate. :.
Grapes-Lady Fingers, $3.50 lug; Cali
sornia seedless, $2.75 lug: California Mala--
gas, 81 lug; California Emperorss $3.50
RemonsSFlorida, $8@1o crate.
Limes-Jamaica. SO per 100.
srate caIfornia casabas, Ss.2s crate. 'A''O
crate; Florida. So 50@5. so crate.
Pears-Washington Bose, $6.25 per box:
Florida Avocados. SIS per dozen: Washing
top D,AnJoTs: s. d box; g, en- crate
Pomegranates-Califo SO crate.
| Observation-Disclosures. $2.75 1a bu.
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Local Wagon Wheat.

Local grain elevators are paying $1.27
for No. red Wheat. Other grades are
purchased on their merits.
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STEEL LEADER
I'm LAST HOUR
Squirt IN LIST
General Motors and Mer-
camille Issues Advance
on Exchange.
Average Stock Prices

Average of twenty industrials Thursday
was 190.70, up 1.39. Average of twenty
rails was 1903. up 30. Average of forty
bonds was 1888, up OF, new high.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-17

informed me, Miss Morgan. that you
have certain discriminating letters adj.
dressed by young Forsythe to YOU"
"Oh, no, Mr.. Clifford-not incrimi-
mating" she protested.
'All right. Let's say committing
letters" Clifford agreed. THE For
sythes want these back They told
me they had raised their offer to
500 600"
"A hundred thousand? That's not
a very interesting sum, Mr.. Clifford"
Then. how much do you want?'
Il don't think there will be any fig
ure, Mr.. Clifford she said, soberlv.
TN getting rather-well, tired of all
this. I'd like to settle down"
Then marriage is what you Want?"
'Dickie is nice. and | like him.
Then I'm to understand it's either
marriage or a suit for breach of prom
Use. with lots of publicity and scan
daI?''
To this she made no reply, but
Clifford understood. She was playing
the game according to Bradley's in
structions.
* x X X
BEFORE going to Lolette Morgan's
~ apartment Clifford had made an
engagement with Detective Sergeant
Jimmie Kelly of the police department,
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Quintain.

Though YOU may have never heard
of this sport under its proper name,
the Quintain. you may have seen the
apparatus described, especially In con-
nection with stories of medieval and
later sports in England.
The Quintain is an apparatus used
in military sport or as exercise by
men on horseback. 1t is simply an
upright post with a crossbar ar the
top that turns on a pivot. One end
OF this crossbar is fiat: to the other
end Is attached bag of sand.
The horseman rides at the post. en-
deavoring to strike the fiat end OF the
crossbar with lance and pass on
before the bag of sand can swing
around and strike him on the back.
To engage in this sport requires
more than an ordinary amount of
horsemanship, as we'll as a quick eye
and a steady hand
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to whom he had given much official
credit in past cases and who was al
ways eager to give him assistance in
return. The two had finished their
dinner in the Grantham Hotel, and
Clifford had completed his outline of
the Forsythe affair.
And So" commented Jimmie Kelly.
"you think there may be something
that can be pinned on Lolette Nor
GAM"
Yes. Bradley has got to operate
through her. Therefore. she knows
Bradley's game. Now, I don't want
her: / want Bradley. If / could get
the goods on her, could brighten her
SO badly that, to save herself. she'd
tell all she knows"
"Surest thing you know; the double
cross applied to a professional double
crosser. Grand little ldea-H II
works
Now, here is where you can help
me out. Jimmie" Clifford continued.
Help dig up the record OF Lolette
Morgan. Find out if there are any
spots that she'd rather give her life
than have exposed
Clifford finished his cigar then went
upstairs. AS he passed the wide door
way of the main dining room, he casu-
ally glanced.
Mary Regain was having dinner with
a woman
Mary saw him and gave him a for
bidding stare. Her companion saw the
look and turned The other woman
was Lolette Morgan
Miss Morgan arose and came swiftly
toward him with smile.
"Mr. Clifford, Again we meet. Come
you must sit at our table"
She caught his hand and led him to
where Mary sat.
Miss Regain, this is that very, very
great detective / was telling you
about" she said. And, Mr.. Clifford,
this is Miss Regain, new friend Of
mine"
Il have already met Miss Regain"
Clifford said.
"Ah, you know each other and don't
like each other" bit OF interest
flickered in Lolettes eyes. "Beauti-
full" she exclaimed. Since you
don't like each other. then for punish
ment | shall leave you together.
Instantly she had fluttered away
and was chattering with friends at
another table. Clifford sat down. his
| gaze on Mary.
Mary, haven't you anything to tell
me?''
Nothing"
| The sudden fiare.up of his love
swiftly receded at her Indifferent
! fnality.
! Scatter defying Bradley in the at.
| fair of Mrs. Hendron, you've patched
| things up, and you and he are good
! friends again You are helping put
! things Overlapping him in the mat
! ter of the young woman whose chair
| | am now occupying"
| Would it be impertinent in me TO
| ask what you thin'i I, as Bradley S
agent. am trying TO ut over with Miss
| Aiorgan?"
Helping to fleece that young Dick
! Forsythe and his mother"
| She made no response TO this. His
| scorchipg words continued:
I'm the case of Mrs. HendrOn, you
! declared to me and to Bradley that
| you would have no hand in helping TO
! hold up a woman or ruin woman's
! reputation Evidently your noble
scruples do not apply TO a man, And
! most evidently not to young For
! sythe,"
Her gaze did not waver.
Mr.. Clifford" she said. are sou
going to leave this table? Or are you
| going to oblige me to leave it?"
lie got up and abruptly turned away
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Historic Mill Becomes Civic Tea House
After Many Years as Local Landmark
BY BLANCHE {. HOWLETT.

~ IGHT in the heart Of the Ma
tionaI Capital we have an old
n mill that the Joint Welfare
4 Service Of the office of public
buildings and parks has made
Colonial tea house. j refer TO the
old PIERCE Mill in Rock Creek Park, AT
the intersection of Tilden street ana
Beach drive.
The old mill has been retained in its
original condition. with the exception
of a partition which has been run
through TO divide off the kitchen. This
partition is Of chestnut, stained down
TO match the old woodwork of the mil.
The furniture which has been secured
for the tea room is a reproduction OF
the old Colonial period.
PIERCE Mill is one of the eight mills
that We're at enc time within the Dis
trict of Columbia. 1t is the only one
that stands today in perfect state OF
preservation. and it seems III condl.
ton to withstand the onslaughts OF
many years 10 come. 1t is built OF
rock which il known comerclally as
blue granite and was quarried on the
estate not far from the present site OF
the mill.
The inscription on the front OF the
mill "B. j. T. 1920" is commonly
thought TO mean Built by Isaac
Peirce," but descendants of the family
believe 1t to mean "Betsey and Isaac
Peifce' showing Isaac Peirce's assoc
citation Of his wife in his early under
taking.
The present structure Of Peifce Mill
was built in 1920 to replace the orig
inal wooden mill. which had been
erected in 1890
Isaac Peirce (the name was orig
inally spelled Peircel, builder OF the
mill and pioneer in the region which
was later to become the District OF
Columbia, was Of English parents, who
! had settled in Pennsylvania. In 1860
| he came to this section. and in 1868
came into possession of a portion OF
| land, which was granted under the
name of Gift" The original papers
are still in possession Of the direct de-
scendant of Isaac PIERCE and are
| signed by the then chancellor of Eng
, land. The estate was at one time
| known as "Cloverdale."
| Isaac PIERCE married Betsey Cloud
| daughter of Abner Cloud. the miller
| whose mill is generally known as.EdeS
| MILL because as far back as the oldest
! people can remember the mill was run
! by a man named Edes
! Isaac PIERCE built sawnill, spring
! house, several barns and the MILL of
| native blue granite. The mill. two
| barns and the spring house are still
: standing. On stone in the Sall of
the spring house is cut