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Imperial Valley press., 1928-02-08
Today's Program
For Congress
BY United Press Leased Wire
SENATE

Continues debate on La Follett,
anti-third term resolution.
judiciary comm.ttce starts hear
ing on ShiPsted Labor Injunction
bill.
Foreign relations committee con-
siders French treaty and Nicaragu-
an resolutions.
Interstate commerce committee
continues hearings on Hawes con-
Wet labor bill.
Public lands committee continues
hearings on Teapot Dome.
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Library Offers
Feature Books

Two of America IS greatest men
one living and the other held in low
ing memory-will be much in the
minds of the American public dur
ing the present week: Lincoln and
Edison. With their birthdays be-
ing honored by programs and spe-
cial articles. the Ell Centre public
library realizing the current inter
est, has placed books regarding
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these two men on the inspection
rack.
Books of varying types dealing
with the lives and achievements of
these great men are particularly
recommended to patrons of the Ii
brary for this week.
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Here and There
In Sport World
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OAKLAND-The Olympic Club
bask ctball team of San Francisco
defeated the University Of Calf
Qrnia Bears 30 to 21.
SAN FRANCISCO-St. Tgnatius
won from St. Marys hoopsters %
to 18. It was the second game Of
the two teams. St. Marys won the
first.
PALO ALTO-The Stanford ouin.
tet will 60 into action again Mon
day night after an enforced vacat-
ion due to campus quarantine. The
Cardinals will play two games with
L. $. c. Monday and Tuesday.
DEL MONTE-Eddie Stanton of
Los Angeles won low gross in the
Western State Chain Grocers As
sociation IS medal play golf tourna-
ment with a 90.
CHICAGO-Ray Dodge, one of
America S best middle distance run
hers, announced he will retire after
competing, with DR.. PeltZer of Ger
many, Friday night.
Dodge, a member of the last Oily
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HOUSE

Takes up calendar bills.
Representatives Casey, Democrat,
Pennsylvania, and Laguardia, Re-
ublican, New York, speak on con-
ditions Pennsylvania coal fields.
l.. j. Taber urges debenture Farm
Relief plan before agriculture COM
mittec.
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THE WEATHER

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LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY
Fair and moderately warm tonight
ard Thursday.
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COTTON MARKET

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NEW YORK, Feb. S.-Cotton
closed up Z to 81 points.
Snntc 1S Il
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So. California
Sport Briefs
Dy United Press Leased Wire

WILMINGTON, Calf, Feb. s.
Bobbie. LaSalle and Frankie Forbes
will tangle in the 10 round main
event Of the weekly boxing card
here tonight.
Johnny Gonzales ard Art Craig
will meet in the siXrouad semi
windup willie Pabe Long and Young
Bolo will mix in the special.
In the four FOUNDERS Battling Bolo
will meet Clause Stotts and Billy
Stotts viii take On Artic ToVar.
OCEAN PARK. Calf, Feb. s.
Bobby Near and Jimmy Luger meet
in the eight round main event of a
boxing smoker here tonight.
There VIII be two SIX round bouts
in which Pobby Hayden will face
Mike Cordcra and Sammy Roth
stein will take on Clayton Gouy1.
In the four FOUNDERS Hurley Breen
Will tangle with Manuel Trevino
and Rudy Guyton viii oppose Joe
ComeauX.
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ALEXANDRIA, Calf, Feb. S.
Tommy Hitchcock, Americas great
Polo ace, will lead his Rancho San
Carlos team against the Fort Bliss.
quartet in the opening match of the
twenty goal handicap tournament at
Midwick field today.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Fair tonight and Thursday: tenn
perature above normal; moderate
northeast winds.
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The game will mark Hitchcock =
first appearance here this season.
The Incompatible Tommy was not
to start play until tomorrow, but
because of the illness of Harry East
OF the Del Monte Los Piratos, that
team ) game with Midwic& was put
over until tomorrow.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. s.-Joe An
derson, Covington, Ky, middle
weight, piled up an early lead to
win n round decision from Dave
Shade, of San Francisco, at the
Olympic auditorium here last night.
Near the end Of the bout Shade
opened an attack that put Anderson
on the defense. Stiff lefts and rights
to Anderson s face rocked him, but
lie kept boring right in.
The fight was all the Covington
boy s in the early rounds. He forced
the fighting and Shade abandoned
his weaving, crouching style. Des'
pte Shades fine finish Anderson
clearly deserved the decision.
Andrew Mitchell won decision
from Frank Muskie in the six round
semi.wiadup ard Ben Golden defeat
ca Joe Fimenthal in the special.
Jack O'Brien shaded Tony Tova'
and Fred Hawkins outpointed Arthur
Tovar in the four FOUNDERS.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8.-Jimmy
Londos. Greek heavyweight wrestler,
and Jim Browning of Texas will
grapple in the two hour main event
Of q wrestling show here tonight.
Ira Dern and Jack Roller will tangic
for one hour and Sanza Kozak will
take on j. Fujita for a half hour
Ju-Jitsu affair.
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The annual cost of higher educa-
tion in this country now is $780,
100000, educators estimated at a
recent convention in Atlantic City.
Dad says that figure is about right,
but didn t know they took his fam
lily as an example.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-02-08

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8.-The !
cotton market closed steady. No
spots.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
THURSDAY (TELEcRAeHIc,
CALIFORNIA FLOOD SITUATION
 MUH IMPROVED

Sacramento. Mar. 29, P,-The
 townspeople of the little commun- ity of Nicolaus, on the Feather riv- CT have won their fight against the
 approaching waters. The efforts of
 hundred men from the farms and from Sacramento piled up defensive bulwarks of timber and sand bags and the little towns cf Mcolaus and North Nicalaus, Virona and many thousands of acres of rich farm lands were saved from inundation..
 The community, with Northern California cut of by highway in definitely when six spans of con- crete bridge tumbled into the boil ing current north of Sacra ramento. is slowly getting back to normal. Flood waters covered the city for
 three days, but receded at the rate of a tenth of foot hourly.
 There are two hundred families in great need in the flood district.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
SWEDEN SAFEGUARDS
 TIMBER RESOURCES

Stockholm. (P,-The world faces la very serious shortage of timber within few decades. says Christ ian Storjohann, a leading industrial and forestry expert of Sweden. Sweden's effort to safeguard and maintain future supply of timber is in contrast. he says, to the indis- criminate felling of trees in many countries.
 Russia still has large forest re- serves, but only small part of them can be utilized on account of lack of transportation facilities. Among the northern countries only Sweden now keeps the cutting of trees on a level with reforestra- tion. Steps to convert waste and swamp lands into forest areas by draining are now also being taken.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
STATE CLUB LEADERS
 CHOOSE BEST FARM GIRI

Haskell. Okla. tP)-At the age of IS, Miss Thelma Mckinney. Of Haskell has been declared Okla ho- mas outstanding farmer girl by the State club leaders at the Oklahoma A. & M. College.
 In her All club work during the past year she grew crops and pre- pared household products with a total value of almost $5.000.
 She had to her credit the canning of 9O9 cans of fruit and vegetables. valued at $1,515; the cooking of 2,444 articles, valued at $1,541, and the raising of 1,253 fowls, val- ued at $1,200.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
BORED BY SOCIETY,
 STARTS BOYS CLUBS

London, [P)-society bored Mrs. Dudley Coats, reputed to be one of London's loveliest women, So she undertook to sponsor Lime house boys club.
 Despite the fact that she is a society favorite. she manages to cram much worthwhile social well fare activity into her life.
 Mrs. Coats owns ( woman's shop in Mayfair, breeds Labrador show dogs with which she has carried eff many prizes, and supervises her East End boys club She never theless finds spare time in which she hunts, plays golf, and shoots big game.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
MIR, MRS. SAM MiGIDS WIN SUIT AGAINST l.. HOFFMAN

New York, Mar. %, tPi-Mr and Mrs. Sam Magids fur raisers and dealers Of Deering. Alaska, were today rewarded for their six thousand mile mush to this city by a reward of judgment of six hundred dollars granted by the municipal court by Judge Genung. The couple soughs to recover the value of a team of thirteen husk- ies and sled borrowed from them. they said. by Louis Rotman in Feb ruary. a year ago. and not returned ill April as Rotman promised. MT Rotman wanted the dog tean fol a journey to Nenana, they testified in the capacity of fur buyer fo' Hirsch and Fretchel, a New York
 concern, The fur company said !! that Rotman was not authorized r. hire the team. but the plaintiffs re
 piled that the firm had displayed photogra phs of both man and dog ! team in their advertisements.
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REED AND WILLIS ARE ONLY
 TWO CANDIDATES STUMpING

Washington, Mar. 2S, LP)-In contrast with many past Presiden- tia1 possibilities, only two candi- dates-Reed and Willis-have talk en the stump. Watson is said to be awaiting an opportunity to get back home to look after his polit- ical fences Hoover and the others make no pretentions toward the Presidency Smith is attending to business connected with his office as Governor of New York. and Low den is on his Illinois farm.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
M. P. SAYS RAD COOKS
 MaKE,pooREsr WIVES

lfNymena, England. .7)--"Tlpe girl who has not learned cooking should never become wife. and the man who asks her to marry him is a fool believes Ronald McNeill. Member of Parliament, Parlimen- tary Secretary to the Treasury, at Pallymena.
 The Westminster Gazette conduct- ed an investigation after he spoke his opinion to pupils at Ballymena school As we'll known catering firm, the newspaper found out that all the waitresses were single, but that nearly all the girls in the cook ing department were married.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
HEADS |. S. SURVEY

Washington. (Pl-A survey of household work has been made by the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Dr. Louise Stanley, former di- rector of home economies at the University of Missouri
 A stan of 25 specialists assisted Dr. Stanley in her analyses of three main fields. foods and nutrition. economic studies. and one compris- ing clothing and textiles.
 The survey shows progress in home economics in five years.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
CHINCHJLLA SCARCE
 FOR EVEN ONE COAT

London. P)-There are not enough chinchilla skins in the world at present to make a fash ionable fur coat, according to a London court furrier.
 When skins are obtainable it is difficult to match them perfectly. he says. It takes years for a fur rier to collect sufficient skins to make, even coat.
 .Chinchilla is silver gray in the lighter shades, and has white streak in the middle of the pelt. The fur is the softest among the
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
STATE DEPARTMENT MAKING
 PLANS LINDBERG'S FUTURE

Washington, Mar. 2S, R}-The State Department is believed to have "something up it's sleeve" on Colonel Charles A. Lindberg's fu- ture plans because of it's reticence. A lot of speculation is going the riotous rounds, including report that Lindbergh will be sent as a good will ambassador around the world. Another 1umor is to the effect that he is concerned in map ping out a program for airplane service to South and Central Am erica.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
WEDNESDAY, :TeLEcRAPHlc,
GERMAN PLANE STILL
 WAITS ON WEATHER

Dublin, Mar. 2s. R)-Refusing to risk start until weather condi- tions are favorable, the crew of the German plane Bremen this morning scanned the weather charts care fully in preparation to start on the l ,.t leg of their perilous trans-At- lantic flight. Baron Huenfeld. the leader of the expedition, said he will not attempt to fly before dawn tomorrow.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
TEN PROMINENT CHICAGOANS INDICTED BY FEDERAL JURY

Chicago, Mar. 2s, R-Titus Haffa, Chicago alderman. and nine other prominent men. includ- ing former member of the Lin coin Park Board. were today indict- ed by the Federal Grand Jury on charges of conspiracy to violate the Prohibition laws in five million dollar alcohol ring which has been flooding Chicago and the Middle West with liquor for months past.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
PRospECroRs ATTENTION

On the last airplane mail Geo. S. Maynard, local agent for the Commissioner of Transportation, re- ceived another bunch of blanks for use of bona fide prospectors, and anyone desiring information on same will please call at the Nugget ofice where blanks can be obtained for prospectors' aid, which allows, not to exceed s15O.00 for transpor- tation of the prospector and his supplies to destination.
 MT Maynard also received several applications which were approved at Juneau and are TOW ready for prospeetors, who made application In December end January.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
CALIFORNIA FLOODS sUBsIDE

Sacramento. Mar. 2S. LP>-At ten o'clock this morning the Fea- ther river levee tt Nicolaus was still holding. Engineers two hours earlier predicted that it would gi way by that time. All able bodied men and women are working to strengthen the levee, but the water shows a little recession and fears are being forgotten.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
GERMANS AGAIN POSTPONE
 FLIGHT ACROSS ATLANTIC

Dublin, Mar, %, H1--The crew of the German Junker plane Bre- men have again postponed their flight across the Atlantic until to- morrow On account Of increased gales and unfavorable weather The weather bureau experts believe that the flight is likely to be de layed several days.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
MELLON RECOMMEND TAX
 REDUCTION APRIL THIRD

Washington. Mar. 27, R)-sec- retary Mellon of the Treasury De- partment will make new tax re- duction recommendation on April 3rd which is expected to be around two hundred million dollars. Pres ident Coolidge expects to indorse the recommendation.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
WILL SELL ABANDONED
 ALASKA ARMY RESERVATIONS

Washington, March 2s, (R-A bill providing for the disposal of abandoned military reservations in Alaska was yesterday signed by President Coolidge. The bill pro- vides that the purchases shall pay for the improvements which the Government may hove added.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
BIG LOG BOOM BREAKS LOGS RECOVERED

Port Angeles, Mar. 2S, (P)-One hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of logs were today scattered again by the high wind here, after having just been gathered once following the big wind2torm on last Monday.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
SEWARD HEARS WILKINS

Seward. Mar. 2s. R-Captain Wilkins message Point Barrow heard Seward Signal Corps Okeh." was picked up by the Government radio sation here last night.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
HRS, COOLIDGE'S MOTHER
 A LITTLE BETTER TO-DAY

North Hampton, Mar. 27. P)- Mrs. Coolidge spent a half hour at the bedside of her mother after a hasty trip from Washington. Her mother seemed little improved today.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31

fur tribe, almost as soft as swans down or angora wool. Consequent- ly it does not wear we'll, and has to be cared for like a delicate plant.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
MRS. COOLIDGEs MOTHER
 SHOWS IMPROVEMENT

North Hampton, Mar. 2S, R- The condition of Mrs. Coolicge's mother is improved today. said J. .. Hayes, her physician.
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years ago but it is a wonder 1t .asn't taken longer with the 6S varieties of bureaucracy within its buondari0o.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31

It may have taken Alaska 30 years to again strike the stride of
Smyrna times., 1928-01-18
Screen and Stage
Strand Theatre. Smyrna

Friday and Saturday-So good-na-
tured that it almost cost him his life
was big, good-looking Tex Smith, cow
boy of the old west. When he saw a
few head Of cattle wandering off from
a driven-herd, how was he to know
that the drivers were rustlers? How
was he to realize that when he drove
them back into the herd wounded
cowboy guard was to see him and
identify him later as leader Of the
thieves That's what happens, at
any rate. But not before Tex has
met and fallen in love with Lucy
Blake, and she with him. Then she is
able to save him, for now both the
towns-people and the rustlers are af-
ter him - the townspeople because
they think he stole the cattle; the
rustlers because they realize he knows
their identity. How Tex clears him
self of the charges and proves his in
nOcence, how the very cattle that have
gotten him in all this trouble save his
and Lucy's lives, how he stampedes
them into a village to drive out at
tacking Indians all these thrilling
deeds and more are in the Paramount
Zane Grey picture "Open Range"
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New Dover Opera House. Dover

Monday and Tuesday-When women
think Of their sisters in France they
generally have in their minds eye vi
sions of laces and lingeries, wondrous
gowns, striking coiffures, delicate per
fumes, cosmetics that challenge ma
ture, in short, women arrayed in all
of the splendor with which the Queen
OF Sheba allrRed King Solomon and
Cleopatra bewitched the mighty
Caesar. So when they hear that the
heroine Of King Vidor's perturbation
Of Laurence Stallings' story Of our
boys overseas, "The Big Parade" is a
French girl, they naturally enough
picture such vision Of loveliness.
Renee Adoree, who plays the role Of
Melisande in "The Big Parade" is IN
deed "adorable," but she wears no
friIls or furbelows. Clad in the pic
turesque garb Of a country maid and
wearing sabots, she yet wins the heart
of the wealthy young hero, Jim Ap-
person, played by John Gilbert, and
also wins the hearts Of the audiences
as well. Glove knows no rank but
may be wooed," poet has sung
Everyone has seen many examples Of
youth Of high social position taking
unto himself for life some pretty maid
who possesses only the winsome ano
alluring qualities given her by nature
Smyrna times., 1928-01-18
SUDLERSvILLE
Items of Personal and Social Interest
Cleaned About the NeighbOrhOOd

Sudlersville, Md, Jan. 17.-Thirty
farmers and farmers wives of the
.Sudlersville and Barclay sections
came together last week for the
monthly meeting Of their Farm Bu-
reau units. The meeting convened at
seven thirty in Cox Memorial Hall at
Sudlersville, and was attended by peo-
pie from nearly every section Of the
two communities. John w. Smith,
local chairman at Sudlersville, presid-
ed Milton W.Seney, County Secre-
tary Of the Farm Bureau made brief
talk concerning the recent State Con-
vention in Baltimore, taking up in
some detail the automobile insurance
plans now in force under the State
office of the organization. w. Royal
Merrick spoke in high praise of the
recent Farmers Banquet at the Rem
merit Hotel in Baltimore, attended, ac-
cording to Mr.. Merrick, by nearly five
hundred farmers of Maryland. The
organization voted in favor of hold
ing banquet at Sudlersville during
the winter months. 1t will be re-
membered that a similar event last
year numbered more than one hun
dred guests Of the Sudlersville local.
Committees will be formed in the near
future to take up matters pertaining
to the staging of a banquet this year
of even greater size and Importance.
Mrs. Sallie Hart Sparks has an
nounced the marriage of her daughter
/ Miss Susanna Sparks. to Mr.. Grant
Taylor, of Boston, in Washington, D.
O., Saturday, Jan. 18th. Among those
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right to choose his wife, should see
Clara Bows picture "Get Your Man"
which is a direct refutation of such
an idea, and an amusing denial thru
out. The film "Get Your Man" is at
the Arcadia Theatre, Wilmington, for
the entire week of January 23rd and
the pretty red-headed little Clara car
ries honors throughout its vivacious
performance. The story, not heavy
with dramatic situations, but spright-
~ with its effehvescent comedy, tells
of the determination of a pretty
young American girl who fell in love
with the youthful scion Of a revered
French family and decides to marry
him despite the fact that he was en-
gagged since he was five yeas old.
Charles, sometimes known as "Bud-
dy", Rogers has the lead opposite
Clara. This handsome youth, person
able and charming, is one Of the new
sensations of the screen and is hap
PLY cast in "Get Your Man." being
the man who is "got."
Smyrna times., 1928-01-18
WELLINGTON
Items Of Personal and Social Mention
Cleaned About Town and Community

Millington, Jan. 17-Mr. Joseph
Jones moved recently from the Harris
house to Mrs. George Jones' house on
E. Cypress street, recently vacated by
Leonard Robinson.
Mrs. +. E. Fitch and three children
Frances, Jr., Charles and Arlee, have
returned to their home in Guantana-
ma Bay, Cuba, after spending several
months with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. P. Ahern.
Mrs. Eva Marvel visited her daugh-
ter, Mrs Paul Jones, near Still Pond,
last week.
Mr.. Howard Stevens is the guest of
his son, Mr.. Howard Stevens, Jr., of
Elizabeth, y. J.
Miss Elizabeth Walls, of Whining
ton, spent the weekend with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. McCosh Walls,
near town.
Mr.. Richard Comoegys has return
ed to St. Johns College, Annapolis,
after spending a couple of weeks with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Com
eggs.
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Mr.. and Mrs.Levi Rhodecker and Miss
Mary Walker, Of Delaware City; also
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Banning of town.
Miss Jessie Williams, of Moores-
town, N. j., has been spending week
with friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert E. Allen, OF
Smyrna, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
D. w. Jones on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Taylor, o1
Wilmington, were weekend visitors
at the home Of L. L. Maloney and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. John B. Reynolds, Of
Wilmington, spent the weekend at
the home Of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
|. G. Webb.
Mrs. William L. Joiner, of this town
and daughter, Mrs. Nellie Poore, O
Middletown, spent Wednesday IN Phil
adelphia.
Miss jeanette Wilson and Miss Dor
othy Mattiford were weekend visitor
at the home Of Mrs. Anna NJ. Allen
of Middletown.
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present from Sudlersville, were: Mrs.
Sparks, Mrs. George Hart, and Messrs.
George Higman and Parvis Sparks.
At the annual stockholders meeting
last week of the Sudlersville Bank Of
ficers and directors were elected as
follows: President, William Otho
Thomas; president, Dudley G.
Roe; cashier, John F. Stokes; assist
ant cashier, Miss Emma H. Gillespie;
bookkeeper, Miss Lillian Phillips; at
torney, j. H. Q. Legg; directors, Will
liam Otho Thomas, Noble L. Coppage,
Levi Il. Everett, Joseph NJ. George,
George /. Harrison, James E. Higman
James T. Knots, @. Percy Merrick
James Merrick, Jr., C. Hayden Met
calfe, Dudley G. Roe, John F. Stokes
David Wallace.
Personals.-Mrs. Leslie Wallace en-
tertained last week the Ladies Aid, O
the Nj. E. Church, South. A delight
full evening was spent.-Mrs. w. "
Rambo and little daughter have re-
turned from a pleasant visit to rela
tives in Philadelphia and Baltimore
Mr.. William Stafford has returned
from y visit in New York where h
attended the automobile show.-Capt
William Roe and Mr.. Charles Ander
son have been enjoying cunning
trip III Virginia-Miss Anna Jump
Of Dover, was a recent guest Of he
sister, Mrs. Walyter Stevens.