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HARRISON

The Ladies' Aid will meet at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Hugo Kopple
next Thursday night, July 9Th.
Mrs. Cora Prettyman, who was
operated on in Beebe Hospital, re-
Gently is getting along very nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank A. DOdd, and
children, of Camden, N. j., spent the
weekend with relatives here.
Harry Walls and family, of Will
mington, visited relatives here this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Rust have pur-
chased a new Ford Sedan.
Mrs. Martha Shelley, of FELTON,,
spent a part of the week with Mr..
and Mrs. ]. Floyd Lingo.
Marie Jarvis, a student nurse at
Delaware Hospital, Wilmington, is
spending her two weeks vacation
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T..
NJ Jarvis, here.
Mrs. Carrie Kitchens, of Harring-
ton, spent last week here with her
sister, Mrs. Edith Barker.
Betty Godfrey, of Millsboro, is
spending the week with Charlotte
Lingo.
Mrs. William Landing, Mrs. Ira
Short and Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Prince, of Wilmington, spent the
weekend here with Mr.. and Mrs.
L. F. Mason.
Mrs. Hannah Coverdale, wife of
Frank Coverdale, near here, passed
away last Friday. Her funeral was
held in the Presbyterian Church at
Lewes on Sunday. Interment was
made in the Methodist Cemetery at
Lewes.
Alberta Veasey, of Wilmington, is
spending some time with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Veasey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Ralphs and
children, Walter and Anita, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Walls and son
Edgar, of Philadelphia, visited Mr..
and Mrs. U. L. Walls on Sunday.
Mr.. Peter Dutton, aged S5 years,
died at his home near here last
Wednesday. Funeral services held
at his home on Saturday. Inter
ment made in Whites Chapel Gene
terv.
Rev. Schaurer took up his new du-
ties as pastor of Lewes M. P. Church
last Sunday night. Lewes and Har-
bosom Church have Joined together
and this is now known as Harbeson
Lewes circuit. Rev. Schauer
breaches at Harbeson Sunday morn
ings, at Reynolds Sunday afternoon
and at Lewes Sunday nights. There
are no services held at the church
here on Sunday nights now. Come
out Sunday morning to Sunday
School at 10 and preaching at IL
O'Clock.
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CHAPLAIN'S CHAPEL

The festival held at the church
last Thursday night, June 22nd, was
quite a success. The total amount
was $12SS, after all the expenses
were taken out. We wish to ex-
press our appreciation to all those
who helped in any way.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Dobson, of
Millsboro, and Mr.. and Mrs. Dudley
Duluptalle, of White Plains, N. Y,
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. B.
Conoway on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. N. Russell and
Miss Ruby Sandon attended the
swimming contest at Centreville,
Md, Saturday afternoon and later
motored to Rock Hall where they
spent the weekend. On their way
home Sunday they stopped at Toll
chester.
The farmers of this community are
beginning to thresh wheat.
Don't forget the aid to be held at
the church ON June 80, Friday. A
Japanese program will be given and
refreshments will be served.
A few of the farmers of this vici
nifty have begun to pick apples.
The Home Demonstration Club
met at Mrs. Francis Morgan's on
June 81 and everyone had very
enjoyable time.
Mrs. ]. N. Russell and Miss Ruby
attended the Quarterly Con-
ference meeting at the Greenwood
Church last Tuesday afternoon.
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FELTON,

Mrs. John Carson met with a
painful accident on Wednesday of
last week while in the front yard at
her home, near FELTON,. A calf tied
in the yard ran around her wrap
ping the chain around her and the
chain was so tight she was unable to
untangle herself and was thrown
and dragged some distance. She
was unable to walk for a while and
no one was near to aid her. She
managed to free herself from the
chain which was no easy job. After
some time she managed to get in
the house. After Mr.. Carson came
to her aid from the field, it was
found that her side and shoulder
was hurt. She is able to get around
now, but unable to raise her right
arm yet.
There are a number of FELTON, peo-
pie attending the revival meeting
held at Harrington, where very good
and helpful messages are delivered.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Larimore was
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Porter on Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Elwood. Wyatt, of
Newark, Del, were the guests of
FELTON, friends on Sunday.
Meetings of the FELTON, W. C. T.
U. are closed until September. It
is not yet decided if a Fourth of
July meeting will be held or not.
Frank Kelly is ill at his home on
Water street.
The basket factory opened for
work last week. A number are glad
to get work there again and it will
be a great help to the people of
FELTON,, if it continues.
Mrs. Charles Cook, from Whining
ton, was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Watson on Saturday.
An interesting game of baseball
was played Sunday by the FELTON,
team and Harrington team here.
The score was to in favor of
Harrington.
The FELTON, baseball team will
against cross bats with the strong
Harrington team on the FELTON, High
School grounds at FELTON, on Satur-
day, July l, 1888.
So if you fans want to see a good
ball game come to FELTON, by 8 p. m,
Saturday, July 1, 1888, and we can
promise you a good game.
We will also have a couple of
games with Frederick Tuesday, July
4, 1888. The morning game at 1920
o'clock will be played on the High
School grounds at FELTON,, and in the
afternoon at O'Clock the game will
be played at Frederick on the school
grounds.
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u. S. To Give
State $1,819,O88
For Highways

cal biehnium, all of which moneys
will be taken from the highway fund.
The number of men to be employ
ed under the several projects cannot
be estimated until they get under
way. The road building will how
ever, furnish employment for several
hundred and comes at an opportune
time because the dual highway from
the city south is nearing completion.
Among the army projects recon-
mended for inclusion in the public
works program recently in Wash
ington is the ALLEGATION of 1921, 1892
for Fort DUPONT.
3O-HOur Week Stressed
A thirty-hour week, where feasible
and just and reasonable compensa-
ton sufficient to provide a standard
of living in decency and comfort"
were prescribed by the Public Works
Board at Washington i'm regulations
announced for governing road work
contracts, along with the stipulation
that American products be used as
much as possible.
Surveys, plans, specifications and
estimates for the road work will be
under the immediate direction of
State highway departments, along
with immediate supervision of the
construction, but several broad re-
quirements were set down by the
board in its regulations.
The state highway departments
must submit to the public works
board for approval their assignment
of funds to the following types of
projects:
Federal-aid highway systems out
side of municipalities.
Extension of Federal aid highways
into or through municipalities.
Secondary or feeder roads.
Other StipulatiOnS
In the selection of projects to be
included in these classificatiOns the
board stipulated these things must
be considered in the order named.
Closing up gaps in the Federal
aid system.
Appropriate landscaping of park
ways or roadsides.
Correlation and experimentation
of existing transportation facilities
by road rail. air and water and pro-
vision of service to freight receiving
stations airports and emergency air
fields.
truction~intended to reduce
maintenance costs and lower future
state and local highway expenditures
A large number of small projects
to employ the maximum of human
labor.
Elimination of safety hazards, such |
as railroad grade crossings, widen
ing of narrow roads or bridges, re- |
placement of unsafe bridges, con-
of routes to avoid longest
ed areas.
Designed to get as much manpOw-
er to work with pick and shovel as
possible, the regulations announced
1T will be required that the maxi
mum of human labor be used in lieu
of machinery wherever practicable
and consistent with sound economy
and public advantage"
As another point in the program to
see that as many unemployed as can
be used are given jobs, the board
ruled mo convict labor shall be en-
plOyeu anu HOI HldtSll dlS hldluldC-
-ured or produced by convict labor
shall be used on any project con-
structed under this act"
Contracts, the board decided, shall
prescribe minimum wage rates, to
De determined by the state highway
and the minimum rate
shall be announced in asking for
bids for the construction.
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LINCOLN CITY

Any one wishing an application
for fourth class post master al
Lincoln can get the same by calling
at the post office. Bids will be closed
Friday, July 9TH.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Donovan and
mother, Mrs. Eliza Donovan, spent
Sunday at Rehoboth as the guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Starr.
Earl Jewell and family, of Lin
wood, Pa, Chester Birmingham and
wife of Lewes, Edward Bader OF
Wilmington were guests of Frank
Vadakin and family on Sunday.
Mrs. Thomas Moore and daughter
Belle of Wyoming were town call
ers on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hastings, of
Milford, accompanies by Mr.. and
Mrs. Boyce Short, spent Sunday
at Ocean City, Md.
Charles Weatherley is being con-
fined to his home on account of ILL
ness.
Charles Gill, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
was among friends here last week.
Rev. and Mrs. ]. F. Willis and
Mrs. Edward Fitzgerald visited
friends at Church Creek, Nd, last
Friday.
]. A. Wallace, of Wilmington,
spent the weekend with his aunt,
Mrs. Hope Kirby.
The monthly meeting of the w. G.
T. U, will meet at the home of Mrs.
Winnie Harder on Wednesday after
noon, July 5th. A full attendance of
members is urged.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Caswell, of
Long Island, N. Y, were weekend
guests of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. L. Clendaniel.
Miss Marie Calhoun, a graduate
at Cornell's University, N. Y, re-
turned home last week.
Mrs. ]. F. Willis spent Saturday at
the Pennsylvania Graduate Hospital
where her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Bak-
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bypass or industrial highway from
the new Eleventh street bridge, in
Wilmington. North to the Pennsyl-
vania State line, paralelling the
tracks of Pennsylvania Railroad tC
a point north of Claymont. This
will be undertaken Immediately
Some of the preliminary surveys
have already been made. At con-
ference between the Highway De-
partment members and representa-
tives of business interests in Will
mington and rural New Castle
county in Dover several days ago
the Highway Department gave is
assurance that if the Federal funds
became available this bypass
would be built at once. In keeping
with this promise an official of the
department said, now that the State
is assured of the money, the final
surveys will be made without delay
so that the actual construction work
can be started by early Fall.
In addition to the industrial high
way other projects under considera-
ton are:
Grading and paving of the bypass
from the top of McKee's Hill thru
the property of Alfred 1. dupont to
Augustine bridge, the old Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad bridge which was
decided to the city of Wilmington.
Part of the grading has been COM
pleted.
Completion of extension of Wash
ington street, Wilmington, from 43rd
street north to the top of Penny Hill
and paving of this highway.
Widening of the State road from
Dover to Pennington to a width of
20 feet. This project seems to be
listed wrong, for the work has been
completed.
Completion of the dual highway
from State Road to the Maryland
State line where it will connect up
with a similar dual highway Mary
land is preparing to build.
Two-mile stretch of highway from
the State Police station north of
Dover east to the Bay road, which
highway will be 20 feet wide.
Paving of Loockerman street in
Dover after the present postoffice
has been removed and the street has
been extended, the distance being
about three-quarters of mile; the
road will be 20 feet wide.
Building of Barkers' Landing
bridge and fill near Magnolia.
The road extension at Dover, paw
ing Loockerman street, paving
Washington streets and Bankers
Landing bridge have already been
approved by the Highway Depart
ment and will be carried out this
year. The building program of the
Highway Department to be carried
out this year will call for an expen-
diture of about $1,000,000. The dual
highway from State Road to the
Maryland state line is already under
way.
Efforts will be centered on the by
pass north from Wilmington. This
new road will be without grades and
enable traffic to avoid the hills along
the Philadelphia Pike.
Relieves Financial Pressure
The grant of $1,S19,0SS from the
Government will relieve the High
way Department of a financial pres
sure that had threatened the road |
building program for the next two
years. The highway funds will be
hard hit by appropriations author
lied by the recent Legislature such
as the 25 per cent reduction in au-
tomobile registration fees and acts
authorizing the State to pay county
and State aid highway improvement
bonds maturing during the next ifs !
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er, had recently underwent an OPP
Grafton. Her condition is fine at
this writing.
Services Sunday as follows: Glass
10 a. M; church school IL a. m;
preaching, 1880 p. m.
Slaughter Neck: Church school
10 a. m. preaching a. m.
Cedar Neck: Church school 2:30
p. m; preaching 8 p. m. Rev. ]. F..
Willis, pastor.
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Lynch's mother who is ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harb. CULLEN have
purchased a cottage at Fenwick Is
land, from c. c. Hudson at Frank
ford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Murray
have purchased tract of land from
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WHEN IS A WOMAN OLD?

This query ON my mirror hung:
when is a woman old?"
1t clings to me and long has chung
The answer must be told.
All! some are old before half way,
And some are never old;
For these but laugh life's cares
away,
While those both fret and scold.
And yet it is no easy task,
However well controlled;
To answer one if she should ask,
when is a woman old?
The graceful ones are still young
And those alone are old
Who try to make themselves look
young
When age has taken hold.
The oldest ones of all the old
Are those who would look young,
For they will always fret and scold
When ages sign is hung.
The old in years who live among
Those younger in their hearts,
Will find themselves remaining
young
Long after youth departs.
AS long as women cling to youth,
And disregard their age;
They never could be old, forsooth,
Their youth fills up the age.
Yes, some are old before their
Old age usurps their youth
And some are young beyond their
prime
Unless they hide the truth.
Twilight and evening bell,
Lies shadows growing dark;
Deep rolls the tide with grandeur
Swell around the bark.
o moaning bar, o boundless sea,
o life, o death, o mystery!
Safe home, safe home in port,
The heavenly haven won;
Through clouds and darkness safely
brought,
Life's journey won.
o vision fair, o boundless grace,
l meet my Pilot face to face.
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Cordrey Murray in town and in the
near future will erect a new house.
Mrs. Belle West who has been
confined to her home for sometime
is now able to attend church.
Rev. Frank McCorkle was i'll the
latter part of the week.
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GRANDMA AIS
SCRAP BOOK
CARRY 1T STRAIGHT

CARRY 1T STRAIGHT
Square your shoulders to the world!
It's easy to give in
Lift your chin a little higher!
You were made to win.
Grit your teeth, but smile, don't
frown,
We all must bear our bit;
It's not the load that weighs us
down,
It's the way we carry it.
"PM GLAD TO SEE YOU"
Folks are often glad to meet other
folks you know,
But they sometimes falter when 1t
comes to saying SO;
Or they say, Pm glad t. see 20, "
o so faint and low,
That you wonder just how far their
gladstone feelings go.
Say Pm glad to see you," when you
mean it. Speak it out;
Don't bite off a piece of it and leave
the rest in doubt,
Let your lips know what your soul
is thinking most about.
Does it take an orator to say the
sentence right?
Does it need much rhetoric to make
you feel its might?
Has it not a thousand tongues which
tell its meaning quite?
You feel it when you're going home
and some the window light.
You see it in a sweetheart's smile,
blushing warm and bright,
In a mothers morning kiss and in
the last at night.
In the baby's reaching arms, which
tell the same delight.
Glad to see your; o, you friends of
dead yesterday,
Could we only hear it from your
dear lips far away;
Could we tell it into ears which
mingle now with clay,
We might gain the meaning which
the simple words convey.
Say Pm glad to see you," then, to
friends who still are here;
Say it with a meaning that is music
to the ear,
More than simply say it; words are
cheap, but deeds are dear;
And men will say it back to you and
make their meaning clear.
STICK TO YOUR BUSH
One day, in huckleberry time, when
little Johnny fails
And half a dozen other boys were
starting with their pals
To gather berries, Johnny's pa, in
talking with him said,
That he could tell him to pick so
he'd come out ahead.
First find your bush," said John
ny's pa, land then stick to it till |
You've picked it clean. Let those
go chasing all about who will
In search of better bushes; but it's
picking tells, my SON
To look at fifty bushes doesn't |
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count like picking one"

count like picking one"
And Johnny did as he was told; and
sure enough, he found,
By sticking to his bush while all
other chased around
In search of better picking, twas
as his father said;
For while the others looked he
worked and soon came out
ahead.
And Johnny recollected this when
he became a man,
And first of all he laid him out a
well-determined plan;
So, while the brilliant trifiers failed,
with all their brains and push,
Wise, steady-going Johnny won by
sticking to his bush"
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CHAPTER XXI

TOR several moments there was
Il no reply. Sheila, waiting tremu-
lousy, wished suddenly that she
had not telephoned. But perhaps
Jerry was not at home. That would
be better
She glanced at her watch and saw
that it was not yet II o'clock If
Jerry was not at home, she could
leave a message and he could call
her later.
Yes, that would be better
Then all at once the wire became
alive again. It throbbed with that
exaggerated yet padded sound Of
footsteps approaching the instru-
ment at the other end Of the con-
nection.
Would it be the man she had
lust talked to or Jerry himself?
Surely at this hour Jerry would be
at the factory.
But it was not the buffers voice
that reached her, 1t did not seem
to be Jerry's voice either. A mans
voice, but a Strangers He said,
"Sheila? Well, how do you do?"
jerry"
1t was not stranger, after all.
1t was Jerry himself. He spoke
again, but there was no cordially
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RTGIN urpr rnnAv


SHEfLA SHAYNE. dancer Is dis
charged from new play because MAR
IAN RANDOLPH the star. is jealous Of
nnallv secures q part in A musical show
soon 10 60 on tour.
DICK STANLEY. rich and socially
Prominent. asks her 70 marry him but
Sheila refuses Her idea OF marriage is
a home in a little town far from Broad
way.
The company departs on the tour and
~ little mlcwcktrn city Sheila meets
JERRY WYMAN He seems 70 D.
hard-worEng young man with little
money. Shela Us not aware that jerry
father owns the factory where he works
Jerry IS attentive and Sheila falls in
love with him After she leaves. how
ever. Jerrys affection seems 70 cool. He
writes infreauently and this makes
bheils unhappy
Back in New York again. she gets
job in a night club. Weeks pass and
then one night while dancing she sees
Jerry sitting at a table. He comes to
speak 70 her. but does not introduce her
to the others in his party.
Jerry tells Sheila he has tried to call
her. She does not believe this and re-
fuses 10 make an engagement with him.
Sheila is hired as the featured prin-
cipal In another road company. After
several months the company plays Jerry
Wvmau's home town.
Each day Sheia IS hopeful but no
word comes from Jerry. Finally, des-
perate she telephones 70 him.
now GO on WITH THE STORY
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The Bidding

South and West passed ano
North peoned in third position with
one diamond. East bid one heart
and South responded with one
Spade-a one over one force.
North jumped to three spades and
South bid four diamonds to show
support in that suit. North closed
the bidding with four spades.
The Play
In selecting his opening lead
West considered that his partner
would not bid defensively on a
foW-card suit, and therefore il
would be impossible for his side to
take more than one heart trick
Furthermore, East knew the dan
ger of weak defensive overcalls and
would not make a defensive bid
directly over the opening bidder
unless he held hand of consider
able strength.
The adverse bidding indicated
that the opponents held practically
solid spades and diamonds. SC
East's side strength, if he held any
probably was in clubs.
Accordingly, West opened the
queen of clubs, which dummy COW
cred and East won with the ace
He returned the jack of clubs
and then the deuce, which West
ruffed with the five of spades.
A heart lead enabled East to cash
his king for the fourth trick anc
the contract was defeated.
It easily can be seen that if West
had opened a heart, East coulc
have taken but one heart trick anc
one club, and the declarer woulC
have made five odd.
West selected the club lead not
by blind guess, but by a logica
process of elimination.
He decided that it was the only
defense which had a chance to de-
feat the contract, and if it failec
at least nothing important woulc
be lost.
This is the principle which un.
derlies all irregular leads. They
should not be selected aimleSsly
but only after careful thought. anc
unless a player has a logical reason
for violating the lead conventions
he usually will do better to follow
them.
'Couyrisht, 1888. by NEA Service. Incl
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CONF RACI'
Dn"0
BY WILLIAM E. M'KENNEY
BRIDGE

TINE hand illustrated today shows
H. how wisely selected irregular
lead may be the only means Of de-
feating a contract.
When the opening leader decides
to depart from established conven-
tions, he should take two things
into consideration. First, is it likely
that normal defense can defeat the
contract? Second, is there a fair
chance that the contemplated IL
regular lead can do so?
If there is a chance to defeat the
contract by regular defense, it is
best to follow that procedure.
An irregular lead is just as likely
to lose a trick as to gain a trick, and
usually should be employed only
when the situation is desperate.
In the hand given herewith, the
opening leader decided that his
normal lead would be futile and his
only hope to defeat the contract lay
in a short suit opening,
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in his tone. They were casual
words. Meaningless.
"It's-it's Sheila," she repeated
absurdly. How could she be so
inane? Of course he knew who was
speaking. He had called her by
name.
"Yes?" The same tone, noncom-
initial. impersonaI.
I'm playing at the Raymond
theater. Jerry" She laughed shak-
lily. I'd like to see you"
"Yes?" 1t was a question this
time, not merely rising infection.
Yes. I'm in Fine Feathers"
Il believe 1 did notice an adver-
tisement the other day"
But could this really be Jerry
speaking? Why, Jerry loved her He
had told her so. He had practically
asked her to marry him.
He hadn't actually said those
words, Sheila admitted to herself,
but she had been sure that he
meant them.