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WANTED--TO Buy Houses.

ALL CASH FOR WELL LOCATED
White or colored property; any condition;
also have many clients who wish to purchase
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924 18th st. NV. Nat. 4l22 Eve, Pot. 449l
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consider Brookland. Address Box 4lS x.
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1927 Eye st. NV. National o218.
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z. A. GARVEY, District 5770.
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Mrs. Whitney Has Van for Racers.
NEW YORK, October 5 Rl.--Mrs.
Payne Whitney has a new olive green
motor van that will transport six Of
her racing horses at once. It Is 80 feet
long feet wide and II feet inches
In height.
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COUNTRY ESTATES.
WANTED-REAL ESTATE.

WANTED-PROPERTY SUITABLE FOR
school; stocked and equipped farm with ex.
property with large acreage, near Washing
ton and Baltimore; natural beauty, stream
". care T. PARsoNs. 81 Garland St,
Everett, Mass.
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Potomac Post will hold a regular
meeting Thursday evening at the
Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Club.
Comdr. Kelly extends an invitation to
all v. F. w. members to be present.
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Under the management of State
Deputy Lola B. Heise the v. F. w.
ladies auxiliary departmental drill team
has begun rehearSals. 1t is planned to
have a team of "a to compete for
honors at the next national convention
in Baltimore
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With Comdr. d. E.. Campbell in the
chair a meeting of Equality Walter
Reed Post was held September 28.
Department Comdr. Miller, on an off,
cial visit, spoke on the progress being
made by the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Other staff officers and visiting post
commanders also spoke. . %.
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National Capital Post will hereafter
hold its regular meetings on the second
and fourth Tuesday Of the month. The
next meeting Of the post will be held
october ~. The meeting of the Ladies'
Auxiliary will be held the same night.
The occasion will be a short business
session, followed by a turkey dinner.
The annual armiStice ball will be held
at the Willard Hotel on November IL.
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ton are warned to act very promptly,
as it Is considered that Congress may
not again extend the time OF filing.
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Comdr. John L. Hart of Columbia
Post has invited all V. F. w. members
to attend a meeting of Columbia Post
at Thomas Circle Club next Wednesday.
at hich time the department COM
inspection of the post by Department
Inspector John D. WiSchusen.
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moment. At 2-cent rate there is an
enormous profit OF about one hundred
million dollars In first-class mail matter.
and. of course, it would be unfair and
unjust to place greater tax upon <hls
class. And there isn't possibility of It..
Others have suggested that the deficit
could be lessened by making second and
third class matter pay a greater rate.
The Congress tried that In 1925 and
raised the rates on second and third
class matter, and instead OF increasing
the revenue that year 1t diminished 1t.
In other words, this matter that had
gone through the mails was taken out
of the post office system and transport
ed by trucks and other methods OF
transportation.
Frequently uniformed persons give
as one of the causes of the deficit the
cost of free mail served to Representa-
tives and Senators. The cost of this
frank is Just one-half million dollars.
| In other words, If Representatives and
Senators were required TO put stamps
on the letters the deficit would be $94,-
| 500 900 instead of SOS, 200, 900. The free
mail service to Representatives and
Senators amounts TO about $3.50 each
per day. The mere answering OF letters
| to nv constituents requires on an aver
age Of more than 100 letters a day. 1t
actually costs the Government to per-
form this service not over $3.50, 900 a
year for all Representatives and Sem
ators.
| Should Not Pay Subsidies.
In my Judgment the Post ONCE De-
1 partment under the decision Of the In
| terstate Commerce Commission. Is pay
ing q subsidy to the railroads of not less
than $25, OOO, 900. If the right to con-
tract for railroad mail rates were re-
stored to the department I have no
doubt the department could obtain the
same service from the railroads for
| SOS, 900 900 less. The subsidies which
the Congress has given the steamship
companies for carrying mail amounts
to $7,500,000 a year.
In addition to this, the various execu-
tive departments of the Government use
the mail at q cost of about $1,000, 900 a
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year. Naturally these subsidies ought
not to be charged up against the Post
once Department. II deducted from
the loss, and these sums should be de-
Quoted It would reduce the deficit to
about $55, 900 900. The normal annual
increase of revenue estimated by the
late Mr.. Stuart, at about per cent an
nually, win next year wipe out the
deficit entirely. All that is necessary Is
for the department to hold its expenses
down to what they we're last year.
My conclusion Is that we have moth
ing to worry about in a deficit of $685.
600, 900. Much of the deficit has been
spent in building air mails, increasing
our foreign mail service and in increas-
ing and building up our rural route
system. It Is in the form of an invest
Uent by the Government and wall be
returned to our people many fold. OF
course, I think the situation can prob
ably be improved by giving the POST
master General the right to make rates
with all transportation companies. Hold
him responsible for any deficit that may
occur. I believe this will show good re-
suits, and with the annual steady in
crease of business within a year or two
there will be no deficit of any kind
within the postal service. Again / say
there is nothing to get excited about in
this particular post ONCE deficit. and no
reason whatever for raising rates or
cutting salaries.
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boat lines, over auto routes and over
many million miles of improved post
roads and there is veritable network
of airplane mail service throughout the
Nation. The object of the Post Office
Department from the very beginning
has been to give the people service. 1t
has been believed, and is still believed
that intercommunication between the
various parts of our country, the carry
ing of news the circulation of literature,
has wonderful educational effect, aids
business and makes the people a hap
pier. prosperous and more contented
people.
Widening Scope Of Service.
Not only has there been this mar
velous growth OF the service and de-
velopment of the transportation facili-
ties of the mails but there has been
an enormous growth and enlargement
In the activities OF the Post ONCE De-
partment. At first 1t was confined to
letters and then few papers and then,
| as the years have gone by, it has prog
| ressed step by step until We see II
| today in its splendid state.
We have now almost every kind oil
service. We have steamship mail SerV-
| ice, we have steamboat mail service.
|. railway mail service, star route mall
service, naval mail service, rural free
delivery service, motor car mall service
| foreign mail service and air mail serV-
! ice. This mail is not only TRANSMITTED
with the greatest expedition throughout
| Continental United States, but to all OF
| our insular possessions and throughout
| the world.
In addition to this almost perfect
mail service we have enlarged the scope
| and activities of the mails. We nave
| mail insurance, we have a postal saw
ings department and money order
system and these last two are virtually
a banking system.
Again, we have the city delivery serV'
ice In the business parts OF clues
mails are delivered sometimes as often
as six times a day. In the residence
narts of cities, it is delivered at leas'
once and sometimes twice. Letters are
mailed from doors OF residences ano
they are delivered to the doors OF resi-
dences. ,.,,,,or,
Again. we have the rural free delivery
system. This was established In 1893
II was first established as an expert
ment under a bill offered by the Hon
orable Tom Watson, Of Georgia, now
deceased. It became a success almos'
| from the beginning and has been en-
| larged from time to time. ~.
| 25,OO0,0O0 Daliy.
Until now mail is delivered daily to
| over Is. 600, 900 people living in the
country, mostly farmers. The value OF
this system for educational purposes.
for news, for pleasure and for prof1t to
country people cannot be estimated. 1t
is one of the wonders of the American
| Government. It cannot be excelled.
i It costs a little more perhaps than its
| revenues, but such cost is infinitesimal
| and deserves no consideration by any
intelligent person.
Then comes the parcel post system,
F.; This was established in 1912, when /
was a member of the House of Repre-
sentatives 1t saves the American people
many millions of dollars in freight rates
! on parcels. 1t started out IS success
from the beginning and its value to the
American people can hardly be es-
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timated. It is of value to the city
people and to the country people. The
parcel post system is not yet absolutely
Self-sllStaining but in a short period of
time there is no doubt 1t Will become
such, and even now the losses on it are
comparatively small. The parcel post
rates should not be increased, but the
Congress should promote and foster this
service as it promoted and fostered the
rural free delivery service. The two
go hand In hand
The transportation of everything that
goes through the mail is never-ending
1t goes on night after night. week after
week month after month and year after
year. The mails never stop. The bust
ness of the department goes on forever.
The marvellous thing about it is that
out of the billions of pieces of mail
transported every year. 1t is the rarest
thing that a piece of mail or anything
of value going through the mails is ever
lost I believe that 1t is the most per-
feet system of transporting of mail and
parcels in all the world.
Employees Of Department.
To carry on this great business estab-
lishment of the Government, 1t requires
the services of over 1000 employees.
These employees are selected in COMPETE
tive examinations conducted by the Civil
Service Commission, with the Strictest
requirements for every part of the
service. The result is that under this
Civil Service Commission. one of the
most efficient, most successful business
personnels in the world has been de-
veloped. There is no department in the
Government that is as efficiently run
as is the Post Office Department of the
Government Irrespective of politics.
this department during the entire time
that 1t has been established, has been
successfully managed and controlled.
believe there are no finer set OF en-
ployes ever gotten together than the
employees under the Post Office Depart
ment. They are ambitious, they are
industrious, they are intelligent, and
are imbued with loyalty and zeal for
the service that is remarkable. For a
long time the Government did not per-
NIT them to organize into societies, but
in 1912 this rule was changed by the
Congress and now we have post Office
associations of every kind, and not
only have the employees been benefited
but the service of the department has
been made better and more efficient in
a remarkable degree.
AS 1 have already pointed out there
has been a deficit in the postal revenues
of the Government 125 years out of the
140 years Of our history. There was a
small surplus in one year of Andrew
Johnson's administration; there was a
small surplus in each of the two years
OF Arthur's administration. There was
surplus in the one year of Taft's adj
ministration. AS have pointed out be-
fore in Mr.. wilson's administration
there we're very considerable SURPRISES
in six out of the eight years. In 1918
there was a surplus of $64,000,000 and
in 1919 there was surplus of $73,000,-
600. However. in Mr.. Wilson's last adj
ministration there was a deficit of ST.
000,0 900. In the first year of Mr.. Hard
ing's administration there was a deficit
of 157,000.000. In the second there
was a deficit of 100000. And since
that time there has been a deficit
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ADVERTISEMENT.

eff went in a store to pur-
chase a bottle OF Miller's Herb
Extract formerly called Herb
juice and they told me 1t was
Milford chronicle., 1929-12-13

The afternoon session begins at 1895
and ends at $3.50. The change re-
lieVes the discomfort and inconven-
ience of poor light late in the after
noon.
The Reading Circle had its first
meeting Tuesday, December 3. The
book to be discussed during the year,
adopted by the teachers, is "The
Child-Centered School," by Rugg and
Shumaker. Mrs. Evelyn 1. Morris
of Lincoln school was elected secre-
tary. Teachers attending include
those from Glendale, Lincoln,
Slaughter Neck, Cedar Neck, Lynch's
and Johnson's.
The banking system installed sew
eral weeks ago is meeting with ap-
proVal of parents, teachers and pu-
pills. Practically all the pupils from
first to eighth grades, are deposi-
tors and anxiously look forward to
Bank Day on Tuesday of each week.
In art the 7th and Sth grades have
done excellent work in designing,
having made beautiful spelling blank
covers, each one the pupils own de-
sign. Candle stick drawings, too,
typical of the Christmas season, have
been completed, many adorning the
walls of the room.
The next meeting of the S. T. S.
will be held the second Thursday in
the new year. Very interesting and
instructive program have been rem
dered by the members thus far, and
even better ones are being planned
for the future meetings. An out
standing feature of this phase of ex-
ira curricula activity is the 100 per
cent membership in all the rooms,
this being the first year since its in
ception that all have voluntarily be-
come members.
The Current Events Glass Of the
7th and Sth grades have decided to
buy the covers especially made by the
publishers to keep the issues that
come to us from week to week. In
terest in this runs high.
Quite a little repair work and i'm
provements have been made in the
different rooms recently. Mr.. Mes
sick, one of our faithful trustees, is
always willing to lend a hand in
this respect.
The next meeting of the P. T. A.
will be held Thursday, December
18th. Everyone is busy arranging
a Christmas program, including a
pageant. We are making a special
effort to have 100 per cent of the
parents of the children in the school |
and others interested become mem
bers of this association and pros
poets in this direction are very en-
couraging.
Hot lunches have been served
since Monday. The children realiz-
ing the value of this are taking ad-
vantage of it. The committee In
charge consists of Miss Heath, Mrs.
Morris and Mrs. Warren.
Call at Morrison's Store for Pet
ty's Bread.
Milford chronicle., 1929-12-13

firm in st. Paul. While there he
heard about Bismarck and its possi-
bilities. Following his graduation in
1883 he determined to come out to
the Dakota Territory and make his
home. He arrived in Bismarck on
August Is, 1883, opened his office and
has practiced here ever since.
Leading Lawyer.
Francis Register has been one of
the leading lawyers in North Dakota
all through his residence in Bis
marck. Standing by his convictions
through every controversy he estab-
lished his character firmly as that of
an upright, fearless citizen. Being
leader on the anti-McKenzie fac
ton his chances for public office
were not many. In spite of his op-
position to that powerful political
body he was first states attorney of
Burleigh county in 1891 and again
in 1900, mayor of Bismarck from
1901 to 1905, city attorney from 1908
to 1916. He was made trustee of the
state penitentiary by Governor Roger
Allan from 1900 to 1902. Was presi-
dent OF the State Bar association.
And was at the time of his death a
member Of the state board of insan-
I.y. ne was member of the Chi
Phi fraternity, the Republican party,
the hnIghGs of Pythias, and the Ma
sonic lodge.
Five Children.
MIR. Register leaves besides his
wife, his four sons, daughter, four
brothers, three sisters and six
grandchildren. The sons who were
present at his death are Francis ID.
Register of Bismarck; Dill B. Regis
ter, Chicago, and Lieutenant Paul ].
Register of the United States Navy,
stationed on the battleship Mary
land, San Pedro Calf The daughter
is Mrs. Lewis Warren, Bismarck.
Two brothers, George M. and Sid
ney e. Register, live in Bismarck.
Elijah D. Register and Napoleon B.
Register lives in Lewes, Nd, as do
two sisters, Mrs. Ella M. Ross and
Miss Mary Elizabeth Register. The
third sister, Mrs. Cornelia w. Hurdle,
lives in Harbeson, Del.
The funeral was held at the Nc
Cabe Methodist Episcopal church
with the Rev. Walter E. Water Off
ciating. Interment was made at the
FairYiew cemetery.
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Lincoln CITY

The Ladies' Aid Society will NEE
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Cook on Friday evening, December
18th. Mrs. Arthur Walls and Mrs
Ella Beardsley will have charge Of
the social hour. A full attendance is
urged.
Burt Shockley, of New Jersey
spent the past week with his
brother, Mark Shockley and wife.
Harold Donovan has recently pur-
chase a new Ford roadster.
Mrs. Frank Postles and son, Ernest
spent Tuesday in Philadelphia.
Curtis Carey, of Chester, Pa, was
town visitor on Sunday.
Margaret and Mabel Donovan
spent the weekend with their grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. David Mill
man, near Glendale.
Mr.. George D. Reed, who has been
suffering with carbuncle for sew
eral weeks, has improved so as to be
about his room, much to the gratifi-
cation of his many friends here who
hope for him a speedy recovery.
Joseph Headley, who has occupied
the Warren property for the past
three years, has moved his family
to the Davis farm, near Cedar Creek.
VIM. Morrison has been confined
to his room during the past week on
account of illness.
The Women's Christian Temper
ance Union will meet with the Rev.
and Mrs. r. l.. Kirby at the parson-
age on Tuesday evening, December
18th. Text word, Serve A full at
tendance of members is desired.
Miss Bessie Heath, of Milford,
spent a part of Monday and Tues
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph H.
Messick.
Sherman Transue and wife, of
Yeadon, Pa, spent the weekend with
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Truitt.
Mrs. Dallas Kibler and Miss Min
ME Reed were Wilmington visitors
on Thursday.
Mrs. VIM. Truitt spent Saturday in
Wilmington.
Mrs. Richard Johnson, Of Metu-
chen, N. j.; Mrs. Robert Curtise,
VIM. Morrison and Hugh Morrison,
of Wilmington, have been at home
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Morrison during the past week.
The Christmas entertainment will
be held in the church on Tuesday
evening, December oath.
Services Sunday as follows:
Preaching, 10 a. m.
Sunday school, II a. m.
Evening service, 1880 o'clock
Slaughter Neck Sunday school,
1870 p. m.
Preaching, 2:30 p. m.
Rev. r. L. Kirby, pastor.
A slight change in the schedule
went into effect Monday, December
9th, to continue during the months
of December, January and February.
Milford chronicle., 1929-12-13

hand for some time. 1t doesn't seem
to get much better.
Norman Lord had the misfortune
to step on very large nail, runctur-
ing his foot. The doctor larced Ii on
Sunday. At this writing he is getting
along as well as can be expected.
Mrs. William Kenton, Ray, Harvey
and Marguerite have all had chicken
pox for the last week, but are all
able now to be out again.
Herbert Kenton is building COW
stable on his farm this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Reynolds spent
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Union
(Near Lincoln)

Most of the farmers have butch
cred their hogs.
Some are busy gathering and MAX
ing holly wreaths, getting ready for
Christmas.
Mrs. Charles M. Tatman, of Mil
ford, visited her niece, Mrs. Mark
Tatman, on Monday.
Mrs. Mark Tatman has been suf-
fering with neuritis in her arm and
Milford chronicle., 1929-12-13

the weekend with their daughter,
Mrs. VIM. Kenton.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Tibbett entertain
ed their son, Oliver, of Chestertown,
Ind, on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood Kenton at
tended the burial services of their
uncle, Edward Walls, of Wilmington,
on Tuesday, at Harrington.
Thieves cut the wire of Mrs. Ag-
ness Hudson's poultry yard on Mon
day night, while the sleet was ON and
entered her chicken house and took
some chickens. Mrs. Hudson is un-
Milford chronicle., 1929-12-13
MINSTREL SHOW,

Manager Marshall, Of the Audito-
rum Theatre, wishes to announce
to the public that he has secured
John r. Van Arnam's Superior Min
strels for one night, Saturday, De-
cember 14th. There will be street
parade at noon and band concert
in front of the theatre before the
performance. Reserved seat tickets
now on sale at Chambers Drug
Store. 12-13-1t
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able to tell just how many were
taken.
There will be re-opening services
at Union church on Sunday after
noon, December 18th, at o'clock.
Everyone come out and make it a
worthwhile meeting.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Webb gave them an old-fashioned
serenade on Wednesday evening.
Milford chronicle., 1929-12-13

Usually when a girl says she's all
run down she winds up in some fell
lows arms.-The Pathfinder.
Milford chronicle., 1929-12-13

Men worry a lot about their hair
when it's half gone.
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Last Pleasure at
Moderate Cost

Universal Electric Appliances
are made to stand the hard,
every day use that their con-
venience encourages.
The Soup Percolator is a
popular size. In the non-tar-
nish finish. For the break
fast table or any other occa-
sion when golden toast is de-
sired, we suggest the Auto
Toaster. The new Westing-
house Iron has automatic
heat control, speeding work
and avoiding scorches. .,
Milford chronicle., 1929-12-13

Full cut, well reinforced, beautifully
made bloomers at this low price. This
-rayon is just as lovely when it has been
washed many times.