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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20

President of the United
States. February II and February %
are set aside in our patriotic calendar
for reverent tribute TO the names of
Lincoln and Washington. October q,
ROosevelt's birthday, is often OBJ
served as Navy day, thus recalling
his part in building up our first line
of defense. But January % is date
for remembering not so much those
elements of craftsmanship which
twice made him Chief Executive of
his country as it is for remembering
the simple, kindly soul that was the
man named William Mckinley. There
fore this simple tribute of wearing his
favorite flower on his birthday is
singularly appropriate.
So swiftly has the world moved in
the last quarter century that, to the
present generation, at least, the name
of the twenty-fourth President is COM
paratively unknown. His fame is
greatly overshadowed by the dominat-
ing personality of his immediate sue
cessor, the strenuous American"
and by a still later strong personality
of quite another sort, whose fortune
it was to lead us in the greatest war
this country has ever known. But to
those of a previous generation the
name of Mckinley has a very definite
meaning.
Its mention recalls to them that
September day in 1901 when the word
was flashed all over the country that
an anarchist had shot the President
As he stood in Music hall at the Pan
American exposition in Buffalo, N. Y.
greeting the long line of his fellow
citizens who filed past him to shake
his hand. They remember, too, how
for the next week the whole nation
watched his valiant fight for life;
how he accepted the inevitable with
the historic words, ''Thy will, not ours,
be DONE and how, when the end
came on September IA. his favorite
hymn, Nearer, My God, to Thee!"
was the requiem of sorrow of thou
sands who mourned the loss of Will
liam Mckinley, the President, but
more the passing of William McKin-
ley, the man, whose perfect devotion
to his invalid wife had excited uni
versal admiration"
So America added third name to
make its trinity of martyred Presidents.
and as it did so little realized that it
was definitely writing "Finis" to an
era in American history. Little won
der that the present generation has
almost forgotten him and his times |!
For in at least one important respect,
the day of William Mckinley is as
remote from the present as is the day
of Abraham Lincoln or even of An
drew jackson. The year 1900 was
more than the turn of the century"
for the United States. For no years
America had been concerned with its
own internal affairs, with the prob
lens of forming union out of a
group Of jealous and wrangling col
sonies lately freed from European
domination, of conquering wilder
ness and expanding westward until
the land hunger of it's people was sat
isfied, of preserving the nation from
disunion and healing the wounds of
civil strife. But when on the 10Th OF
iApril, 1898. congress passed reso-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20
reat Potatoes
Before Planting

this solution does not weaken with
use, and no addition of formaldehyde
need be added after treatment to
maintain the original strength. For
maldehyde is also deadly poison.
The solution quickly dries from the
surface of the tubers and the treated
seed is not poisonous.
The hot formaldehyde treatment re-
quires from three to fon- minutes in
heated solution 124 to 126 degrees F..
Care should be taken that the tubers
do not come liz contact with the sides
and bottom of the treating vat, says
Professor Graves.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20
Land in Dispute.

Cooks Croft" made famous by
Dick Turpin, is the cause of a dis
pute between the British ministry OF
agriculture and the rector OF Fawk-
ham, England. The land has two
owners. yet in a sense is no mans
land, because it is in no parish, and
the rector refuses to collect any tithes
from 1t. Part of it has been sold and
the ministry of agriculture wishes to
reapportion it for tithes. but the rec
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20

The experiments on this spire, while
demonstrating its complete stability,
show interesting effects of the wind
and solar rays. As with other lofty
towers, the point of the spire de-
scribes daily an elliptical curve. the
size and precise form of which vary
with atmospheric conditions. But the
greatest displacement seldom amounts
to more than single minute of arc.
in this case less than third of an
inch. A tempest of uncommon VIC
Ience in 1922 displaced the top OF the
spire eight millimeters.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20
Nearer, My God, to Thee!

Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to NTheei
Fen though il be a cross
That raiseth me;
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Theei
Though like the wanderer,
The sun gone down,
Darkness be over me,
My rest a stone,
Yet in my dreams I'd be
Nearer, my God. to Thee,
Nearer. my God, to. Thee,
Nearer to Theei
There let the way appear,
Steps unto heaven!
AL that Thou send'st to me
In mercy given:
Angels to beckon me
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
Then, with my waking thoughts
Bright with Thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs
Bethel I'll raise;
So by my woes to be
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Theei
Or If on joyful wing
Cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon and stars forgot,
Upwards ] fly,
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, my God, to Thee.
Nearer to Theei
MRS. SARAH F. ADAMS.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20

tor claims that as it has never been
apportioned it therefore cannot be re-
apportioned and no one can claim it.
In 100. the spot was called Three
Gates" because of three gates that
stood under an old tree in the lonely
spot. Turpin stood under the tree
when he robbed the Gravesend coach
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20

start, or by reason of the favorable
location of the province in regard to
industrial cities of northern Europe.
Friesland farmers have grown pros
porous through many years of fur
nishing their neighbors with butter
and cheese
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20
Worth ThInkinu About.

Instead of spending so much time
and thought in trying to make the
submarine safe, how much better it
would be if all the nations Of the
world would agree never to build or
use another.-Christian Science Moni-
tor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20
All They Need is a Pardon.

The warden of an eastern peniten-
tiary says half his prisoners are study
ing law. What can science do for an
independent outfit like that?-Kan-
sas City Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20
And More Returns

.What is the difference" asks an
economist, between a savings account
and a checking account?" We know
the answer TO that. You can have
more fun with checking account
Woman's Home Companion. sat
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20
LARGE MACHINERY SAVES GREAT
DEAL OF MANUAL LABOR ON FARM

five times as much net profit in the
year. He had 100 acres averaging
$5.32 profit per acre, or S532. The
other man worked on 40 acres and
made but 1921 per acre, total of
SSS.40.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20
Presidential Bodyeuards

The use of bodyguards by Presi-
dents of the United States dates back
to Andrew Johnson who was the first
American President to go around
guarded.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20
Obsolete

Dab-What's a blush rose, daddyP
d-Why-er-you know-an or
binary rose.
Dab-Yes; of course know rOseS
but what's a blush?-Life.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20
Famous Breed of Cattle

Friesian cattle were mentioned by
the Roman historian Tacitus as being
of importance as early as the year Is
A. d. Perhaps because of this early
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20

When it comes to mistakes the sup
ply always exceeds the demand.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20

The next great need of the country
is a device that will shut off all neigh
boring radios when you shut off yours
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20

A woman's age is but an imaginary
quantity.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20
Nom Figure the Distance

NOW GtB0Ic eS
light from the nebular Andromeda
travelling at the rate of 10000 miles
I second takes million years toreach
+ho. earth.nsf siit.Ss %Ed i.eaEz r
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20

The more a man accomplishes tho
less time he has to talk about It.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20
WHY BETTER FEEDING PAYS
Cows Make Good Use of Surplus Over
Maintenance Requirements.

w. E. Peterson Of the dairy division
at University Farm contends that the
profit from dairy cows can just about
be increased 100 per cent by improv-
ed feeding.
Attention has often been called to
feeding experiment made at Univer-
sity Farm with cows purchased from
a farmer who had belonged to a cow
testing association and had kept rec
ords for two years. The cows were
the common kind, about the average
for Minnesota. At home they had re-
ceived timothy for roughage and
grain mixture of bran, oilmeal, mo-
lasses feed and shorts for corcen-
trates. On this feed they averaged
lit pounds butterfat production a
year at feed cost of S5S.S6 per anil
NAL, which left an income Of s2S.02
over feed cost per- COW for the year
from the sale of butterfat.
At University Farm these cows
were fed alfalfa hay and corn silage
instead of timothy hay. A mixture
of homegrown feeds consisting of
two parts oats, one part corn and one
part barley was substituted for the
grain mixture Of bran, oilmeal, mo-
lasses feed and shorts and fed
according to milk production, one
pound being given for every three
and one-half pounds of milk.
On the University Farm ration the
cows averaged 246 pounds of fat per
year instead Of the low average of
1T pounds on the original owners
place. This was an increase of 1873
per cent in production. 1t cost more
to get this production-S6420 per
COW at the university station as
against $3.50 back on the home farm,
or an increase of 9 per cent. But
the net income per COW per year was
s5S.4S at the station as against $2S.02
on the home place, or an increase OF
100 per cent, all to be attributed to
better feeding.
BY improving the ration, feeding
more and making it more pa1atable,
the cows at the university ate IL per
cent more feed that cost 9 per cent
more, increased the amount Of milk
and butterfat produced by 1873 per
cent, which in turn increased the IN
come over feed cost by 100 per cent.
MANY persons do not see why
small increase in feed should make
fp 611ff of
production" says Mr.. Petersen. The
reason becomes clear when we con-
slider what the feed is used for. It
requires a certain amount Of feed
Just to maintain the animal.
Bird Finally Got Home
King Avalon. hOming pigeon,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20

Pay day comes slowly to a man
who watches the clock.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20
Bird Finally Got Home

King Avalon, homing pigeon,
owned by Frank MaderOs of Marti-
nez, Calf, was loosed in Nevada for
race to Martinez four years ago.
After weeks had passed and the bird
had not returned Maderos gave the
bird up as lost, probably the prey of
a hawk or hunter. But the bird has
returned, very tired and apparently
from long flight, and has refused to
leave its loft.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

N JANUARY % carnations
will adorn the buttonholes
of thousands of Americans
who will chus be carrying
on a unique tradition In
honoring the memory of a
President of the United
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-20

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Smyrna times., 1928-03-28
OLDER BOYS NJ. E. CONFERENCE
Henry T. Price on Part of Epworth
League, and Allen MOffitt, Sunday
School, Are Delegates from Asbury

Allan Moffett, delegate, and Avery
Clifton, alternate, are representing
Asbury Sunday School at the older
boys session and Henry 7. Price, del
egate, and Richard c. Price, alternate,
will represent Asbury Epworth
League at the Fourth Annual Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, which will be held this week
in conjunction with the annual con-
ference session of Wilmington Con-
ference in Wilmington. The Older
Boys Conference assemblies Friday
for a three days session at Harrison
Street NJ. E. Church. These confer
ences have proven help to those who
attended in the years gone by, and it
looks this year as though the attend
ance would be far in advance of any
previous year. The nature of the con-
ference will be in the form of discus
sion groups at which the problems of
young men will be considered. An
outstanding feature of the whole con-
ference will be the annual banquet
Saturday evening when Professor Ar
thur ]. Jackson of American Univers-
ity will bring the chief message of the
banquet session. DIR. Paul E. Tits
worth, of Washington College, will
deliver the conference sermon. Other
leaders who will be present leading
the conference discussions are Stan
ley High, assistant secretary of the
Board of Foreign Missions, New York
City; Frank P. Mitchell, minister's as
sistant, Grace Church, Wilmington;
D. S. Paterson, Board of Temperance
Prohibition and Public Morals, Wash
ington, D. c.; E. H. Brewster, direc-
tor of religious education, Philadel-
phia Conference, and F. A. Lindhorst
director of religious education, Will
mington Conference Henry Graves
Lewes, is the president of the Older
Boys Conference, elected last year
and will serve until the officers are
elected Saturday, in this years con
ference. Samuel Slant, Townsend, i:
vice president; C. Franklin Stanley
Wilmington, secretary; w. McGinnes
Frankford, leader of cheers and yells
"Dick" Horner, of American Jnivers-
ity and Paul Jenkins, of W. c. l., vii
be additional speakers at the banquet
Smyrna times., 1928-03-28
FIRST TOUCH OF SPRING COMES
Warm Days of Saturday, Sunday and
Monday Starts Up Farm Work

The warm spring-like weather of
Saturday, Sunday and Monday start
ed the buds to swell and flowers to
put thru the ground. The out-of-
doors was calling everybody. The
season up to Friday had been back
ward and following the rain, sleet and
hail, lightning and rumbles Of thunder
Of the day previous, farmers We're not
daunted in their preliminary work.
Flowing had been started and farm
work was taking on the spring pre-
paration. AS a meter of fact, the
backword spring as far as tempera-
lures 90 does not cause any displeas-
ure among farmers. On the contrary
the farmers and orchardists, are glad
because they know the danger Of too
hightemperatures early in the spring.
The warm spell was followed yester-
day BY a cold snap which sent the
thermometer down to near the freez-
ing point It is moderating to-day.
If the fruit trees can be kept from
premature development until the sec
ond or third week in April, then the
normal danger from destructive frosts
will have been passed. Strawberries
which is about the first crop to be
harvested in Delaware give promise of
bountiful yield While it is all pro-
blematical at this time, those who
have large strawberry patches say the
vines look fine. The patches are be-
ing cultivated and within seven or
eight weeks, Delaware Strawberries
will be moving to market. Early ap-
pies so far as the three indications &c
promise good returns in volume of
fruit. The buds are heavy set which
means plenty of fruit Through gov
ernment inspection and State brand
ing, the orchardists expect to obtain
good prices for their fruit. The guar
antee of the government and the State
mean much in the way of obtaining a
good market. Farmers generally, are
/ contracting with canning houses fol
their pack of tomatoes this year. The
average price is 25 cents per five
eights basket, and it is believed that
a large amount of Delaware tomatoes
will be contracted for at that price
The "bootleg" tomato grower hasn't
found conditions profitable in the past
two years and the absence of inde-
pendent demands for tomatoes have
led to more farmers arranging to sell
their tomatoes to the cannery at a
fixed price.
Smyrna times., 1928-03-28
.CHESWOLD MAN DIES DESPITE
FIRST AID OF BOY SCOUTS
KARL THUM, FOUND AT WOODS
FIRE NEAR CENTRAL CHURCH
Menacing Fire Was Put Out by Scouts
and Aged Man is Believed to Have
Became Exhausted Fighting Flames

Karl Thum, aged 81, of near Ches-
void, was found unconscious in a wood
near Central Church Sunday after
noon by a group of Dover Boy Scouts
who by chance, were out on hike.
The scouts applied first aid treatment
and did everything possible to revive
the aged man but he died few hours
later without having regained con-
sciousness. 1t is thought that Mr..
Thum became exhaused and collapsed
while fighting a woods fire. On Sun
day afternoon in charge of Herbert
Williams, assistant scout master the
following scouts, members of the Do
yer troop went out for a "hike":
Thomas Roe, Frank Danner, Harvey
Scotton, Orem Wharton, William Will
son, Baxter Mckee, Franklin Mack
and Emmitt Hearn. It developed that
on this trip the young scouts were
able to apply some training they had
received both as to first aid work and
fighting a forest fire. When a mile
from Cheswold they turned into side
road which took them to old Central
NJ. E. Church, where they stopped in
the grove to eat lunch They soon
saw smoke coming from a woods some
distance away. The delegation Of
scouts hurried to the scene and found
a fire eating its way into the woods.
BY hard work they managed to check
the flames and eventually put out the
fire. Two Of the boys Franklin Mack
and Emmett Hearn while working
some distance from the other boys
heard groans and on Investigating
found Mr.. Thum unconscious on the
ground. They called Assistant Scout
Master Williams and the other scouts.
First aid treatment was applied at
once but they were unable to revive
the aged man. One of the boys then
ran a mile to a telephone and called
DR.. @. ]. Harbordt, Of Dover and the
unconscious man was taken to the
\ residence Of Mrs. Rosie Henry short
distance away, where he boarded
When DR.. Harbrodt arrived he found
Mr.. Thum had ben overcome by smoke
and in an exhausted condition. He
died a short time later. The scouts
were highly commended for their ef-
forts to save the mans life and il
putting out the fire. Mr.. Thum had
lived in the vicinity Of Cheswold fol
some years but as far Eli could be
\ learned has no family
Smyrna times., 1928-03-28
SMYRNA HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
Much Interest in Coming Defamation
and OratoricaI Contest Contestants


The local Defamation and Orator
ical Contest will be held on Friday,
March 80, in the High School Audi
torium. Dorothy Riggs, Ellen Wal
lace and Franklyn Stats will com
pete for the oratorical honors. There
have been such a great number Of ex-
cellent declamations that a prelimin-
ary contest will be held to choose the
best six or seven contestants. These
people whose names cannot be given
at present, will appear on Friday ev-
ening.-On Friday, March %, a St.
Patrick's Party was given in the High
School Auditorium for the pleasure
Of the students of the Junior and Sen
Tor High Schools and their friends
The room was beautifully decorated in
the appropriate color and a program
Of great interest was given. Dancing
followed. The general opinion after
the party was that it was the "best
ever. Every year there is a spell
ing contest in the state of Delaware.
Pupils of the fifth, sixth, seventh and
eighth grades of each school compete
for the local honors and then the best
two from each school are sent to the
county. The survivors of the county
contest compete for state prize The
local contest by which Smyrna School
will select delegates to send to Dover
was held on Wednesday afternoon.
The contestants were as follows:
Fifth grade: Anna Marie Reynolds,
Florence Doughten; Sixth grade:
Catharine Sullivan, Ernestine Davis;
Sixth grade-2: Evelyn Wallace, Rey-
nolds Knots; Seventh grade-1: Mary
Hartnett, K Felentin; Seventh grade
2: William Stepanoff, V. Virdin;
Eighth grade-1: Isadore Handloff,
Clara Baker; Eighth grade-2: Rose
mary Night, Hilda Lockerman.
Smyrna times., 1928-03-28
WHOLE NO. 1886
MUsKRAT FARMS, NEXT VOGUE
Trappers Over Near ChestertOwn AL
ready See Advisability-Trapping
Industry Has Become Important

has 1DOCOUlt
The success of the muskrat trapp-
ing industry on the Del-Mar-Va Pen
insula in recent years has lead two
trappers over near Chestertown, Md,
to try out the experiment of estab-
fishing a muskrat farm. To those
living along bay and river shores on
both the Delaware and the Chesapeake
the trapping and fur buying industry
has meant much, many farmers realiz-
ing more from their marshes than
from their farms. This has been no
ticeably so in the Taylors Bridge
Woodland Beach-Leipsic district here
in the immediate vicinity of Smyrna.
Now news comes from over around
Chestertown (Md.) that enterprising
local muskrat trappers are going their
competitors one better. Herbert Usil-
ton and Bradford Hirons declare their
intentions of starting muskrat farm
near Chestertown. With prices of
live animals ranging from six to ten
times higher than local dealers are re-
ceiving for hides the two hunters ex-
pect to raise muskrats for the mar
ket and believe their revenue will be
considerably greater than by follow
ing the usual practice of killing the
animals and disposing of hides at the
curb market. A considerable num-
Der of muskrats have already been
penned by the two trappers, after
having been caught during the past
season and they will be retained un-
til the supply may be increased. Dur
ing the recent season black muskrats
brought from twenty to twenty-five
dollars a pair while brown animals,
from fifteen to twenty dollars. The
animals will be kept in pens similar
to chicken coops, with sheet metal
around them. Vegetable food will be
given them together with plenty Of
water In six months the young ami
mails will be ready for market.
Smyrna times., 1928-03-28
THINK PEACH CROP DAMAGED
w. T. DerricksOn, Bureau of Markets,
Believes Crop Hit During the Winter

w. i. DerrIcksOn, Bureau of Markets,
Believes Crop Hit During the Winter
w. 7. Derickson, Director of the
Bureau of Markets while on trip
through the central and lower part of
the State, says he found buds on ap-
pie trees apparently all o. X. and
making good progress which indicates
that the apple crop will be normal if
nothing unforeseen happens between
now and the blossoming season. As
to peaches, it is general believed that
the below zero weather in January did
considerable damage to peaches and
that possibly senventy-five per cent
of the crop around Bridgeville has
been killed. Mr.. Derickson stated that
the full extent of the damage done,
cannot be fully estimated until the
June drop. In Kent County while
peaches have been damaged, it is eS-
timated not over twenty to thirty per
cent has been injured.