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Milford chronicle., 1931-07-31
OBITUARY
HART

HART
James Alfred Hart, whose resi-
dent is 1O7 North stret, died at the
Marshall Hospital on Wednesday at
noon, following an illness of about
one month. He was Ga years and
one month of age. Mr.. Hart had
been affiliated with the Home Life
Insurance Company for a number of
years as their local representative,
having entered the employee of the
company in early manhood. He has
resided in Milford a number of years.
He is survived by his widow and
one son, Alfred, of Woodbury., N. j.,
and one sister, who resides in West
Chester, Pa. Funeral services will
be held at his late home Friday,
July 31st, 1881, at p. m. Inter
ment at Odd Fellows Cemetery.
SALMONS
James Fl. SalmOns, aged So years,
died at his home in Wilmington,
Delaware, Friday, July oath, 1881,
and his funeral was held on Mon
day last from his late home. The
body was brought to Milford for in
terment that afternoon, in Odd Eel
lows cemetery. He was the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph D. SalmOns, of
Milford, and his father was also an
employee of the railroad company.
Mr.. SalmOns was a retired cOnduc-
tor of the Pennsylvania railroad on
the Delaware division and had serv-
ed fOrty-three years in railroading.
He was born and raised in Milford
a1 ind Mice GnAn1oanna
ing, a sister of John w. Herring and
William B. Herring, of Milford, who
survives him and two daughters,
Miss Ethel M. Salmons and Mrs.
Marion S. Rolph, of Wilmington. Mr..
SalmOns was a member of Lafayette
Lodge No. IA, A. F. and A. NJ, and
Minqua Tribe No. 8, Improved Order
of Red Men; also WinOna Council
Jr. o. U. A. M. and the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen.
COFFIN
Mrs. Mary E. Coffin, aged n
years, wife of Robert Coffin, died
Monday, July 20, 1881, following an
illness of four months from compli-
cations due to age. Mrs. Coffin was
born and reared at Milton, Del, but
had lived in Wilmington for forty
two years. She was the daughter of
the late Mr.. and Mrs. George War
rem. Mrs. Coffin is survived by
three sons, Homer, of Midland, Pa;
Norman, of ROverdale, and r. War !
rem, of Wilmington; two sisters, Mrs. |
Clara Lofland, Philadelphia, and |
Mrs. Sallie Dodd, of Milton, and one |
brother, Edwin Warren, of Whining
ton. The funeral took place from the |
home of her son, R. Warren Coffin, |
at % West Twenty-ninth street, at 2
o'clock Thursday afternoon, the Rev.
Ivanhoe Willis, pastor, and the Rev.
George Bounds, former pastor of |
M. E. church of which |
Mrs. Coffin was a member, officiat-
ing. Burial was made in Lawncroft |
cemetery.
HOPKINS
Mrs. Mary Ann Hopkins, widow of
the late William E. Hopkins, died
July 26, 1881, at her home
near Coolspring Station, aged IS
years, 9 months and 21 days. Fu-
neral at Coolspring Presbyterian
Church at 2 o'clock Tuesday. Inter
ment in adjoining cemetery. She
leaves one son, Theodore Hopkins
of Milton; one grandson and one
granddaughter, and host of rel
atives and friends. Rev. Marker Of
ficiating.
Milford chronicle., 1931-07-31
TOADS ANIMATED BUG-TRAPS

The common, lowly, warty toad is
worth its weight in gold to any
farmer, gardener, or florist says
Leonard Haseman, chairman of the
department of entomology of the
Missouri College of Agriculture. If
those who are so ready to kill the
toad or who incorrectly look upon
it as the producer of warts only
knew how many harmful insects
toads destroy each summer, he says,
they would be more ready to pro-
tect this animated bug-trap. And
take it from him there are few ami
mails so we'll adapted or so efficient
in destroying the crawling, hop
ping, and low-fiying insect pests, as
is Mr.. Toad.
Milford chronicle., 1931-07-31
This Woman Lost
64 Pounds OF Fat

Mrs. H. Price of Woodside, L. l.,
writes: "A year ago l weighed 100
lbs. started to take Kruschen and
now l weigh 126 and never felt bet
ter in my life and what's more, l
look more like 20 yrs. old than the
mother of children, one 19 and
the other Is. Every one of my
friends say it's marvellous the way
reduced"
To lose fat with speed take a half
teaspoonful of Kruschen in a glass
of hot water before breakfast every
morning-don't miss a morning-an
S5 cent bottle lasts 4 weeks-get it
at Pettyjohn's Pharmacy or any
drug store in America. If not joy
fully satisfied after the first bottle
money back.
Milford chronicle., 1931-07-31
GlSSE

NOT MERELY is Germany in
trouble because money is flowing
out of that country faster than it
is coming in, but many of our towns
have the same difficulty.
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A GOOD SHOW window is a fine
thing for store, but advertising is
show window that displays the
goods to many more people.
Milford chronicle., 1931-07-31
SOUND CAMP OPENS TOMORROW

The Sound Camp Meeting will
open Saturday, August 1st, and con-
tinue to August 9Th, Frank K. Nc
Corkle, pastor of Roxana, in charge.
Services: Sunrise prayer meeting,
$50; Children's meeting, p. M, in
charge of Mrs. McCorkle; afternoon
praise meeting and preaching; ear
ly service, p. M; preaching at 8
D. m. This is one of the oldest
camps of the state and we are plan
ming for a real spiritual feast Come
and enjoy it with us. DR.. Geo. w.
Smith, of Washington, D. c., is to
be with us to broadcast the services.
Milford chronicle., 1931-07-31

The Florida legislature refuses to
pass a quick divorce bill. Having
found through its land boom that
too much hurrying often results in
a headache, Florida is going to take
things deliberately in the future.
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PEOPLE who can't get ahead and
make money in a place like Milford
can't usually do so in larger cities
where competition is more intense.
Milford chronicle., 1931-07-31

Remember the Fourth of July in
the good old days when about the
worst thing that could happen was
runaway horse?
Milford chronicle., 1931-07-31

THE folks who try to make the
home town the best place on earth,
will say that it is so already.
Milford chronicle., 1931-07-31

Well, when you hear about all these
financial crises and revolutionary threats
in Europe it makes you feel that the
United States isn't such a bad place af-
ter all, even if we aren't going quite as
fast as we used to.
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dom i'm the market for charity Almost inva-
riably he has a tidy fortune sailed away with
q lot of gik-edged securities to support him IN
the style to which he has been accustomed.
So it Is that none of the monarchs whose
crowns got knocked off during the turbulent
postwar years in Europe have had to look
for financial assistance anywhere One and
ALL they are rich men. Thrones or no thrones,
they get along very nicely, and the hands that
used to hold scepters now hold nice bank books.
In part this is because royal families have
a way of laying aside valuable properties dur
ing the course Of years, for those rainy days
that come to even the best-regulated dynasties.
Then, too, it must not be forgotten that the
average reignng monarch is a salary, just
like any other government employe-and that
his salary is invariably a nice fat one.
Queen Wilhemna of the Netherlands, for
example, draws $4,000 annually from her
grateful subjects, with an extra $4,000 for
maintenance of the royal palace. Gustav
of Sweden is paid 1915, 900 a year. plus $84, 900
for his expense account. Haakon VII Of Nor
way gets $182, 900; Albert of Belgium gets ST.
600 annually; Boris III of Bulgaria gets $25, 600.
Michael the former boy King of Rumania,
drew $425,00O year when he was only 5.
And Hirohto Emperor of Japan, gets the snug
salary of $2,205 900 q year.
Thus the ordinary king can lay something
BY for emergencies Abdication, consequently,
seldom means anything more than the loss Of
SaluteS and fancy ceremonialS It almost never
means anything even approaching poverty.
Alfonso Of Spain was the most recent Euro
pean monarch to lose his throne. His case Is
typical Of such occurrences.
d ENG shrewd business man, Alfonso real
- lied some time ago that being a King now
adays is job with an uncertain future. Hence,
for more than a decade, he has been putting
his spare cash where it would do the most
good. buying heavily in sound Spanish stocks.
Today he has extensive holdings in the Madrid
subway and telephone companies and in a
number of Spanish railroad lines. When the
Spanish telephone system went into private
hands Alfonso is said to have received more
than 81 900, 900.
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amount of land in Canada. This land was
held in the name of q few young Prussian
mobiles. When the war came along and the
land was in danger Of confscation, the Kaiser
Skillfully transferred his land to an influential
American syndicate.
The General Electric Trust OF Germany also
helped the German ruler to raise his bank &C
count, and at one time he invested heavily in
the Princes Trust He pulled out just before
disaster overlook this company.
Before the war the Kaiser owned property in
the United States also. This included holdings
in the Pennsylvania and New York Central
Railroads and in u. s. Steel. After the sinking
Of the Lusitana, when it became apparent that
the United States would declare war the Kaiser's
property in the United States was transferred
very quickly to Argentina. Otherwise. it would
have been sequestrated along with other alien
property
Wilhelm used to own 500 suits Of clothing
He doesn't need so many now. But he can raise
Alfonso, no matter how many shirts the de-
throned King Of the Spaniards orders.
4 AGR. LIE DUG DE GUISE, who would be
M King of France If the French had king,
has much money that he spent 81 900 600 on
his sons wedding the other day.
His son, Prince Henry, Count of Paris and
Dauphin of France, married into a dethroned
royal family, too. His bride Is Isabelle Princess
of Orleans Braganza his third cousin, and q
descendant Of the Emperor Dom Pedro II of
Brazil. Her father, Prince Pierre, is the former
pretender to the Brazilian throne.
The Duke of Guise still known as lie Roi,"
or "the King" to the French Monarchists,
planned royal wedding. Fifty harps vibrated to
the strains of Memberships Wedding March,"
and 81 princes and princesses followed the
bride and her father over great carpet 200
yards long, into the Cathedral of Palermo, in
Sicily, where the ceremony took place.
Inpf<l 1.A1 SA~Hw -
sells lace, some 20 feet long, which two attend
ants supported. Instead Of q bridal wreath she
had a circlet Of diamonds. Her dress was en-
broidered with silver palm leaves.
The cathedral blazed with tapestries and
flowers and stole set with Byzantine Jewels
which studded the mantle Of Empress Con-
stantia once upon time, added the final royal
touch.
There were five huge pavilions at Orleans
Palace, where 1,04O guests were entertained at
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On top of this he bought heavily of Ameri-
can securities few years ago. When AleXan-
der Moore American Ambassador at Ma
drid he is said to have acted as Alfonsos I'M
official adviser in regard to investments in Wall
Street.
Hence, when the crash came Alfonso was a.
fixed-with three or four million dollars on
deposit in various French and English banks,
in addition to his security holdings. Incl
dentally. when the royal family left for France,
Queen Victoria carried with her her private
jewels, valued at $4,000 900.
So when Alfonso got to France he was able to
rent a suite of 20 rooms at the Hotel Meurice
in Paris, paying at the rate of $500 day. To
be sure, he momentarily pinched for cash.
He had taken $4,000 with him, but it didn't
last long, what with the aristocratic but i'm
poverished Spanish exiles who loyalty hurried
to the hotel to borrow money from their de-
posed monarch. However, Alfonso had no diff
fculty at all in floating loan from the banks.
He is an excellent risk.
\A/nHELM II. the former Hohensollern EN-
w peror, doesn't have q privy purse any
more, but his pocketbook is heavier since he
has gone into exile at Doorn Holland than it
was before. He remains the richest German,
either in Germany or out of 1t. His total wealth
is computed anywhere from 150,000,O00 marks
to $50 00O, 900 marks. Before the war it was
placed at lao, ZOO, 900.
Hundreds Of people still work for the former
Kaiser on his estates in Germany.
At the time that Kaiser wilhelm was exiled
he had an estate at Kadnen on which he had
established kilns for the production Of pottery
which he retailed at big prices at shops which
he maintained at Berlin, Frankfort and other
cities.
He was one Of the largest stockholders in the
Hamburg American line He also held q large
number of shares in the Krupp works at Essen
and other places in Germany. He owned vast
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q champagne breakfast, dazzling to see. and
very expensive.
THE groom's wedding gifts to the bride in
cluded two pearl necklaces. two diamond
diadems and a large amount Of other Bourbon
jewelry.
The Duke Of Guise may not have q crown, but
he has enough money to do things with q royal
gesture. He owns estates In Belgium Italy and
Morocco.
Former King George of Greece and his ex-
lied mother, Queen Sophie, widow Of the late
King Constantine, aren't doing very much
worrying about financial matters, either. King
Georges wife is the eldest daughter of Queen
Marie Of Rumania. She was left nearly q hale
million dollars by her father, the late KinA
Ferdinand. Living in exile in Rumania isn&
very hard on this particular group of the royal
family.
Ferdinand Of Bulgaria managed to salvage
enough money from his kingship to have a
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Just Canadian rancher, not the heir
apparent to throne, the Prince of
Wales photographed on his Canadian
ranch to which he could ietire if any.
thing scent wrong az hOns6
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HEN q monarchy turns into a
republic overnight, the ex-king
who gets thrown out loses his
throne-but nothing else.
A depoSed king may deserve
a lot of sympathy, but he Is sell
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
By FRANK F. LOOMS

Women should know life in.
Surance understand its
functions so they may realize
its necessity in every farnily's fl
nancial program. Many a wife
has talked her husband out Of
increasing his life insurance, SIM
ply because she wanted some lux
uries, realizing her mistake too
late.
Why do women wait until
their husbands die to learn any
thing about life insurance? It
has been truly said:
IF every wife knew what
every widow knows, every man
would carry adequate life in
surance."
Lead as BeneficiarieS
Many women are ignorant Of
life insurance. When the hus-
band buys another policy he
usually offers no explanation,
keeping his plans to himself
Yet, women in this country are
estimated to be the beneficiarieS
of 80 per cent of the $11O,0O0,-
100000 of life insurance in force.
The first thing a woman should
know is in what companies her
husband is insured, and how
much in each. Next. she should
know the plan of each policy and
the manner in which the proceeds
of each will be paid in event of
her husbands death.
The wife has q right to know
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
CON TRACTOR
NET 1892

Consolidated gross earnings Of
S52,5O9, ,294 are reported FOR II
months ending December 81, $780,
in the annual report Of Stone &
Webster, Inc, and subsidiaries
released to stockholders today.
No comparison with previous
years is possible as the present
corporation has been N existence
only since July, 1929, although
the important activities of the cor
poration are of long standing,
as the organization had its lncep'
ton in 1889.
Consolidated total net earnings
end profits of $7,211,159 are
reported equaling 1882 per share
on the average of 1,888,694 shares
outstanding during that period.
OF these earnings $3.50, 1885, Cquiva-
lent to Al cents per share, was
profit carried direct to surplus on
securities acquired on orgsniza-
ton from the predecessor COM
pany and sold within the period
Dividends in stock received dur
ing the year, not included in this
statement, had market value OF
$461,175 at the end of the year.
The operations of Engineers Pub
lie Service Company aud Sierra
Pacific Electric Company as sub
sidiaries of Stone & Webster,
Incorporated, are included only
for the last nine months Divi-
dends declared applicable to this
fiscal year amounted to $4.OO
ger share.
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
OIL REFINER|F
SET RECORD

Despite unsettlement in the oil
industry and increasing gasoline
surplus stocks refinery expansion
in the year ended March /
reached record proportions, the
Oil and Gas Journal reported to-
day.
Twenty-six refineries and %
cracking plants were put into
operation. Many refineries in
creased capacity and many made
extensive Improvements.
388 Refineries Active
Active refineries totaled 388, an
increase of three from 1925, the
previous record year. Cracking
plants increased to 207. Daily
capacities of refineries on March
/ totaled 1855, 900 barrels, rise
of $4,000 from the preceding
year, and capacities of cracking
plants were 1,828,000 barrels, up
$4,000 barrels.
Production of gasoline by crack
ing increased 20,5O0,000 barrels
from that of the year before,
while straight-run and natural
gasoline plants decreased their
output by 100000 barrels.
There were on March a total
of 1O3 refineries shut down, with
capacity of PSI, 900 barrels. With
active refineries, there were 491
refineries with a daily capacity Of
4,11O,000 barrels.
Is Plants Dismantled
In the year ended March J.,
is obsolete plants were partly
or completely dismantled, their
aggregate capacity being $4,000
barrels.
A new factor in the period was
the opening of hydrogenation
plants at Railway, N. j.; Baton
Rouge, La; Baytown, Tex, and
in Canada by subsidiaries Of the
Standard Oil Company Of New
TerSAV
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
RAIL SECURITY
ISSUES IN 1880
NEAR BILLION
Domestic Offerings Were II,
With Six From Canada and
One for Railroad in France

Otto P. Schwarzschild. editor
of American Underwriting Houses
and Their Issues and manager of
National Statistical Service, re-
psrts that there were 70 public
offerings of railroad securities in
the United States in 1880, of
which 72 yere domestic issues, six
Canadian and one a French road.
Nearly a Billion
The offerings aggregated close
to $1,000 100000, the actual total
being $941, ,681 900. The domestic
issues contributed 5000, ,466, 900
toward the total, the Canadian
issues accounted for $127 ,238, 900.
while the French issue amounted
to $4,977, 900.
OF the total Of 79 issues there
were AZ mortgage issues totaling
$539, ,585, 900; debentures and un-
secured offerings were next with
six issues for 1926, ,00o, which
included two convertible issues
trusts comprised % issues for
total of $141,360,0O0, while the re-
mainder of the financing con-
sisted of three issues of collateral
securities amounting to $32,-
100000.
Loeb Heads List
From the point of view of in
vestment house originations in
this field of finance, it is found
that 10 houses headed issues
amounting to $852, 100000. Head
ing the largest volume of railroad
issues in 1880 we're Lob & Co.
The issues they headed aggregated
$282,773, 900.
J. P. Morgan & Co. ranked sec
ond with $266,420.000. The next
ranking house, Chase Securities
Corporation, headed only $685.
$4,000.
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
Women Advised to Study
Family Insurance

about and help with her hus-
bands insurance program, for no
one knows the needs of the fam.
lily better than the mother. A
clever wife can take a leading
part in the planning of the fam
lily insurance estate. She should
educate herself to do so and
teach her daughter to do the
same when she assumes the re-
sponsibilities Of a wife.
Knows Family Needs
It is obvious that the woman
who, during her years of wife
hood has fed and clothed her
family and managed the home,
knows all there is to know about
the future financial needs, either
for herself, as a widow, or for her
husband and herself during their
old age. She also knows what
the children will need when they
are 10 or IS years old, or when
they are in high school or col
lege.
If the life insurance estate to
be left by her husband is payable
in a lump sum, the wife should
study methods of handling larger
sums Of money. But. better still,
she should help her husband ar
range his insurance to provide a
monthly income sufficient to as
sure a comfortable living after
his death. There should also be
a lump sum payable at death to
take care Of outstanding debts.
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
AVERAGE STOCK
YIELD DROPS

AS a result of the spirited
advance in stock prices during
February, the average yield on
the 371 cash dividend-paying COM
mon stocks listed on the New
York Stock Exchange registered
a sharp decline from 8.29 per
cent on February z, to 7.29 per
cent on March 2, it was an
nounced by Moody's investors
service today.
The yield at the beginning Of
this month is the lowest recorded
by Moody's since August 30, 1880,
when an average Of TIA was
attained by the entire group.
The large number of dividend
changes in February exerted ad-
ditional influence in reducing the
average stock yield, Moody's
states. Of 26 dividend revisions
last month, IA were decreases.
seven were increases, and in five
cases the dividends were omitted.
Because of the reductions, the
number of yields Of 13 per cent or
over dropped from 35 in February
to 18 in March.
Despite the improvement in
stock prices as reflected in aver
age yield decreases Moody's con-
siderS current stock yields still
attractive in comparison with
those prevailing most of the time
during the last IL years.
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
Bic GAIN FOUND
IN EMPLOYED

CHICAGO, March 1O.-Indica,
tions that more than three-quar-
ters of a million persons have
been re-employed between jan
uary 5 and March l are contained
in compilation made up from
press clippings all over the United
States by the Consolidated Press
Clipping Bureaus.
According to this compilation,
which was duly discounted for
seasonal, sporadic and temporary
unemployment, there was a wide
spread unemployment through
out the country. The report says:
"By far the largest percen-
tage of permanent re-emplOy-
ment is i'm the Middle West.
Apparently the upward trend in
business began shortly after the
first of the year and has shown
q steady increase since. From
q statistical count more than
100000 re.employments have
been reported, but due to q
quarter Of o century of steady
experience, we have very mate
rally discounted this number"
The surprising part of the sur.
vey is that a majority Of the re-
ports come from small and prac,
tically unknown corporations who
are the suppliers for larger plants
The report has to do only with
unemployment of former employees
and does not take into considera.
tion any new industries or any
increases in the personnel of in
dustrial plants over their regular
working forces.
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
RAILWAY B D n D
ISSUE TODAY

NEW YORK, March 10 I.N.SO
Public offering of two major rail-
way bond issues totaling $125, ,OOO,-
900 will be made today, represent
ing the largest financing in a
single day since the joint financ-
ing Of the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific for control of
the Chicago Burlington and
Quincy in 1921.
The offerings are $4,000, 900
for the New York Central and
$50,000,OO0 for the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
Investment banking circles
hailed the decision of bankers for
the roads to market the issues at
this time as a vote of confidence
in the stability of the bond mar
ket.
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
Output Increased
BIZ Associated Gas

Associated Gas and Electric
Systems weekly output report
shows gains for both the electric
and gas departments in the week
ended February %, 1881, when
compared with the same week in
1880 and this in face Of the fact
that the holiday, Washington's
Birthday, was observed during
this week in 1881, while it fell in
the preceding week in 1880.
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
MIDLAND STEEL co

Operating schedules of Midland
Steel Products Company for
March are at 70 per cent of ca
pacity, an increase of 20 per cent
over February and double the De-
cember level. Production of me-
chanical four-wheel brakes in
March will be the second largest
for that month since introduction
OF the product late in 1927, the
total being exceeded only by the
output in March, 1929.