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employment census \ /.
This census in DelsTar. l
the National UnenIors
sus authorized by Co,ps.
census viii be conducts l
vem5er IS to N9ven5g |
elusive Every family n
an Unemployment Rsy
from their mail carrie, N
Der IS. Those fsnls
postofhce boxes will tss
IN the box. Rural :.ri
also deliver these forms
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men will be present: ]. G. Dawson,
Milford, President Peter Cooper,
Wilmington, Vice-President, r. K.
Colley, Centreville, Corresponding
Secretary, A. E. Franz, Treasurer,
j. Paul Lukens, ]. Harmer Rile, M.
Finn, Augustus and E. T. Negen-
dank and G. H. Wawton, of Will
mington.
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LOCAL PREACHERS MEET
AT NEWPORT

The 29th annual meeting Of the
Local Preachers Association of the
Wilmington Conference, will be
held in Newport, Del, commencing
on Friday evening, November 18th.
The programme which the curat-
ors have sent out to the different
members has some interesting
topics of theology and church
polity for discussion. The culmin-
alton of the Association in it's re-
hgious aspect is, however, on Sun
day, when they have full charge of
the church service in love feast,
preaching and Sunday school ex-
ercises.
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The Sunday School of the Pres
byterian Church is preparing for
dts annual Thanksgiving Day an
niversary.
Thomas Fennimore, administra-
tor of Jesse F'ennemore, deceased,
will sell his personal property On
Tuesday next.
John c. Stockley has added a
bay window and porch to each
part of a tenant double dwelling at
the lower end Of Commerce street.
George Heinold, in Blackbird
Hundred, has an ear of corn Of
Mammoth variety eleven inches
around it and has thirty-eight
rows.
The Knights of the Golden Eagle
will hold a festival in Hudson's
Hall, at Clayton, on the nights of
Tuesday and Wednesday of next
week.
The Smyrna Union of the w. G.
T. u, at their annual election last
week reelected the officers of the
preceding year. 1t is in a flourish
ing condition.
E. H. Beck, real estate broker,
has sold double house on Mt.
Vernon street, below Church, to
Mrs. Anna E. Buchanan, of New
ark, formerly of this town, for ST.
$50.
The young peoples prayer meet
ing at Asbury M. E. Church on
Sunday evening was more largely
attended and more spirited than
any yet held. Three persons arose
for prayers.
Mrs. Pitman, the owner, has put
an addition to the store occupied
by Mrs. Lizzie Collins opposite
Clements store, thus greatly add
dng to its size and the convenience
of the house.
At Deakyneville School, for the
month ending October 28th, the
following scholars attained an av-
erage of 90 in recitation deport-
ment and attendance: May Ben
son, Wilhelmina Hudson, and w. E.
Donovan.
DIR. John Smith, of Moortown,
(now Cheswold) has an Alderney
cow from which in the past ten
months he has received in calves
$500; milk and butter, S59.75;
besides supplying enough milk and
butter for his family of five per-
sons. The COW is from the Heit-
schu stock.
The tower on the Opera House is
about completed. The alarm bell
of the Citizens Hose Company was
placed in it last week, and is now
ready to sound the alarm of fire
whenever needed. Fortunately,
there has been no need of it, nor
for the services of the members of
our well-equipped hose company
since the fire last Christmas week.
At the present rate Of farm
wages based on the price of corn,
it is estimated that the lazy and
improvident can live week on
three days labor, and many of
them do it. In the days of the
fathers the price of a days
labor was always a bushel of corn,
and the relative condition of the
iaborers was about the same then
as now.
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MARRIAGES

Walker-Foster- the residence
of w. d. Mullin, HOP Jefferson
street, Wilmington, November Bird,
by Rev. Charles F. Sheppard.
George Walker of Kenton, to Miss
Maggie e. Foster, of Wilmington.
Garrison-Arter - At the Broad
way M. E. Parsonage, 512 Broad
way, Camden, N. j., November
End, by Rev w. p. G. Strickland,
Ezenezer Garrison, formerly of
New Castle County, to Miss rF'anc-
es A. Arter, of Camden, N. j.
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ENTERTAINMENT BENEFIT
EOR HOSE COMPANY

The members of the Citizens
Hose Company are out of pocket
10 "a cents each by the late the
atrical entertainment. An expen-
sive troupe will usually pay better
when all the energies are cnncen-
trated on one night only. A 500
q night for the actors alone, not
Including the other expenses, is
little heavy for a country town.
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DEATHS

Walls - Near Downs Chapel,
November End, Laura, daughter of
Samuel and Melvina Walls, aged
Ia years.
Hynson-In this town, Novem-
Der 7th, Bessie May, daughter of
Charles and Rachel Hynson, aged
6 years, months and 25 days.
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DEATH OF
LITTLE BESSIE HYNSON

Little Bessie Hynson, a bright
member of the Band of Hope of
six or seven summers, died on
Monday morning of membranous
Group, and will be buried this af-
ternoon. The members of the band
have secured a handsome floral de-
sign as token of their regard for
their lost companion. Her last act
as a member of the association
was to present, on behalf of the
Band of Hope, a beautiful bouquet
to Mrs. S. L. Baldwin at the close
of her able temperance address at
the church on Saturday night
week.
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Terry" Phillips, Hollywood.
California, pilot of one of the
Studebaker powered Waterman
Arrowbiles, the worlds first fly
ing automobile. In flying this
ship from California to New
York, Phillips encountered all
kinds of weather sunshine,
bitter cold temperatures, rain
and binding snowstorms.
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RUNAWAY ACCIDENT IN
SMYRNA

Yesterday morning about half
past seven o'clock John P. Colds
borough drove into town from the
country and hitched his horse in
front of Denney's drug store. In
fContinued or PAGE Six
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Lingo-McGinnis Wedding

Miss Kathryn Lingo, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Lingo, of
and Marion McGinnis,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. George McGin-
mis-, of FELTON,, were married at the
home of the brides parents on
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Engagement Announced

Mr.. and Mrs. Philip H. Vivien,
of Dover, announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Miss Car
leta Mae Vivien, to Thaddeus Barr,
son of Mrs. Stephaine Barr and the
late Mr.. William Barr, of Dover.
The wedding will take place this
fall.
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careful to cboo.. Il
motor fuel which 7
plenty p, Of power, u
Blue sunocos Ii. 7''t
Mr- Phillips tried s5sa 4 q;
the Arrow5ile aSs y ora'%
Cd by Blue sunoc5, !,
fight east s III
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which gave oilr
thru / mean II,
plane f9p3ng \ IN /.
ae d aag Us wings !,
down the higbus9r
Blue Sunoco n1,s,
tankfaI II Till b.r. y
fueln,' g s's'
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SMYRNA DOINGS
OF 50 YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages. Deaths.
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
ISSUE OF NOV. 9TH, 1887

Taken from our old files Of
corresponding week, as near
date of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column,
now a regular feature of the
Times, will call to mind people
and events of the older genera
tion.
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HOMEOPATHIC DOCTORS
MEET IN SMYRNA

The Homeopathic Society, of the
Peninsula, will meet in this town
tomorrow. The following gentle
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Pilot Phillips simply drives into any Sunoco station
and fills the tank. He's The performance of the
plane is as good with Blue Sunoco as with premium
priced airplane fuels
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To Take Unemployed Census

Harry K. Heite, Dover post
advises the local Office is
prepared TO participate in the un-
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talked about. This is why their
danger is particularly great. 1t is
difficult to associate danger with
the home"
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Subscribe to The Sn,-
$3.50 per year, in advala
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Arrowbie with its wings detached When handled like
conventional automobile the propeller does not re-
volve Drveis throug the wheels The Studebaker
engine and High Geared BLUE SUNOCO give the
automobile" top road speed of 70 miles per hour.
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Look Alive, Taxpayer!

DON'T worry little taxpayer, you'll get fright in
~ the neck, where you always get it.
Washingtonians who were amazed when the Board
of Education demanded fifty per cent increase in the
school appropriation for the fiscal year starting next
Just n Modest July, find themselves struck
1,...uo another stunning blow by the Board
of Public Welfare.
The welfare body submits it's estimates for the 1889
fiscal year with demand for a modest increase of
sixty three per cent.
Those are only two of the departmental requests.
Wait until the rest of our departmental heads send
their estimates forward.
All this while there reposes on the Presidents desk
bill which would hike the local taxpayers burden
.Aotnr during the current year by matter
,, - of between and ten million
81" 500" dollars.
If we are going to increase our expenditures next
year by approximately fifty per cent this tax BILL which
we all think of being outrageous, will be mere
drop in the bucket
We will either have to insist on more rigid economy
program for the District goyernment-and we've gone
about far in that direction as we can-or we will have
to insist the Federal Governments carrying its
ghtful share of the burden of maintaining the Fed
Oral CITY.
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Gin Weddings

u7ASHINGTON makes progress socially with the
w signing by President Roosevelt of the bill pac-
ing new restrictions local marriages.
The BILL which becomes effective thirty days from the
date of its signing last week. increases the age limit for
both bride and bridegroom, but more Importantly 1t
establishes threeday wait period between the time
of application for the marriage
mummy De'''' license and the date of the wedding.
Homes This Is marriage law that will
cut down divorces and will make for substantial
and contented homes.
Under the present law couple can walk up to the
clerk of the court get license in about five minutes,
step the street. tagger across the street, and
be married in another five minutes.
Such possibilities have invited the so-called "gin
wedding'' and the wedding induced by bit of pro-
pinquity and promiscuity.
In the very nature of things the chances against
such marriages standing up against
lucy "u"' morning hangover and reaction are
10 0et O"t small.
Youngsters who haven't the faintest notion of what
is ahead step into marriage without due and proper
consideration and few days later want to get out of it.
Making such law effective in Washington, how
ever is not enough.
It will avail little to force filing of intention to
marry in Washington if the couples can, by driv
ing short distance into Maryland Virginia. be mar
red without delay.
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Three-Minute
Journey
Temple Manning

A correspondent writes to ex-
press his opinion Of some friends,
who, after a strenuous year. have
gone mountaineering in switzer.
land on their vacation. He is
amused that they picked such
q strenuous pursuit.
I don't agree with his opinion,
for mountaineering, while it is
strenuous, is one Of the most
healthful pursuits possible. And
if it is stimulating, it also is re-
taxing and soothing.
In fact, envy those lucky
people. The man in whose breast
the real affection for the
mountains is awakened, derives
spiritual values from his visit
with nature.
Should you be able to visit
Switzerland while you are in
Europe this season, by all means
go in for mountain climbing.
But don't begin by wanting to
scale the Matterhorn.
The first days Of acclimati-
cation are important. The first
Alpine rambles tend to relax
the joints, strengthen muscles
and accustom the eye to make
a careful survey Of the terrain.
Soon the precipitous slopes be-
low the edge Of the path appear
less fearsome, the rocky bastions
of the mountain less severe, the
heights less appalling.
And we guarantee that even
when you negotiate a giant peak,
you We It be happier than when
you climbed that first crag.
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Teach the Children

THE division of vehicles and traffic has wisely COM
piled with the request of indignant residents of
block of Twenty Street off Cathedral Avenue
that the block be restricted to parking following the
killing of a child there.
We hope does every decent citizen, that the pre-
caution taken will be helpful and that greater safety
will be afforded the children of the
0O"'"'O'' O0''00 neighborhood.
warming But M. O. Eldridge, acting direc-
tor of the division, was using sense when he
wrote to the petitioners for the parking regulation
He said:
II gerry much doubt eOhether the restriction eOhich
has been agreed upon eO entirely cure The situation
in so far as small children concerned unless parents
teach their children to exercise greater 1Oher
crossing the Streets"
That may seem like hard thing to say to parents
driven to distraction by the dangers surrounding their
children, but a great deal be accomplished if
mothers and fathers will properly impress their young
sters with the hazards existing every block in the
city.
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Fearful of Jobs

The Warren reorganization
bill, counterpart Of President
Roosevelt'S bill to reorganize the
entire system Of Government
personnel, is already giving
many of us fear for our jobs.
Press reports from the House
tell Of debate on the part Of
many Representatives with re-
gard to the effect on Civil
Service status. Many Congress
men have openly declared in IA
vor of dropping many employees
with Civil Service records.
In the discussions on the
measure in the House, reference
has been made to the fact that
the Presidents bill would give
him power to "reclassify" the
Government employment serv-
ice. Surely, such a bill would
do more harm than good. Thou
sands Of persons now enjoying
Civil Service status would stand
to lose out. Our homes and
hopes for future will all be dis
solved by any measure sanction.
ing this bill.
We believe that there is work
in the Government service to
be done by Civil Service EN-.
pIoyes. Public opinion, I'm
sure, would also support oppo-
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II think we
ought to keep
our h a n d S
clean in other
peoples coun.
tries. Bring
our soldiers
back he re.
where tn e y
can stay on
A m e ic q q
soil. We have
plenty of in.
re SITS for
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sition to this latest menace to
the jobs and happiness Of 50
many persons.
CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYE.
X \ X
A SacriLege
I notice in a recent issue Of
your paper that several persons
interviewed by your "Inquiring
Photographer" said they'd sane
ton the idea Of President Roose-
welt seeking a third term in
office.
I didn't happen to meet your
photographer that day, but I
wish had. He would have had
a piece of my mind, and don't
you think he wouldn't. AS next
best thing, I'm hoping you'll
print this letter, so that people
can see there aren't too many
dopes in Washington.
A third term in office would
be a sacrilege. Washington,
who had more presidential stuff
in his little finger than any
other officeholder since his
time, refused it on the grounds
that he thought himself in.
competent to run things that
long. So did several brilliant
men who followed him in Of.
flee.
The idea! INDIGNANT.
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solutely feel
We ought to
leave a suffi-
Gent force of
men to pro-
zee t Ameri.
can life and
prop erty in
C h i n a, q
country that
has remained
open to in
t ern ational
trade S lin C e
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st think we
ought to re-
call the Ma
rines from
China in or
der to save
further blood
shed and in
tern a tional
c m pile a.
tons. I con-
cede the point
that we do
have interests
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all the
Marines to
save loss Of
life a n d a
possible war.
But, on the
other hand,
a S lon g as
we h a v e
American in
tereS Il to
prot e t, I
m tickle
enough to
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think our citizens over there
should come back, and our in
vestments should be curtailed so
that there would be no need Of
losing lives in a war to protect
absentee ownership of those
investments"
Pauline A. Shadid, clerk,
1887 Massachusetts, Ave. S. E.:
1T would be a good idea to
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them to look after on our own
continent without sending them
away to fight in other lands"
DR.. E. A. Bocock, superintend.
ent of Gallinger Hospital: IT alb
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nese fig h t
t h e ir own
battles a n d
destroy their
o W n cou n
tries if they
please. Bring
our soldiers
b a C k here.
w e W a n t
the lives and
not the prop
erty. Foreign
battles aren't
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By Elsie Robinson

FELLOW WHO IS OBVIOUS
LY REFINED AND OF GOOD
CHARACTER OR EVEN
TO MAKE ADVANCES HER
SELF?
cts possible, Of course, to
make such pick-ups anywhere.
A girl goes walking on a Sun.
day-passes a crowd Of young
people in the park-standS
watching them play tennis,
perhaps. They're line, clean
kids-as nice as any Of her
own friends. Yet there isn't
a chance in a million of being
introduced to any OF them.
Must the girl go back to her
lonely room, just because some
one hasn't mumbled q few
words Of introduction?
COR dare she use her own
good taste and intelligence and
respond to an invitation to
join the fun-OR PERHAPS
MAKE THE ADVANCES HER
SELF?
yet suppose she does?
COULD A MAN WHOM A
GIRL HAS MET IN THAT
WAY POSSIBLY RESPECT
AND TRUST HER AFTER
WARDS?
III. E. BAKsIS Gage 2o)
Pittsburgh, Pa"
($10 prize winner)
Thirty years ago that ques:
ton would have given IRE.
fined" readers pale pink fits,
H. E. Pick-ups, then. were re-
garded as only a step less seri-
Gus than first-degree murder.
But nowadays, with Working
Gals venturing as far from
home as their own brothers in
search Of jobs, times have
changed-uightily. So I'm
passing your problem on to
Young America. HOW DOES
THE CLASS OF 1887 FEEL
ABOUT THIS PICKUP FRoB-
LEM?
Next comes little ELAINE
HUDSON, aged is.
Dear Miss Elsie:
WHY DON'T DECENT
AMERICANS ADMIT THEIR
POVERTY INSTEAD OF SUI
FERING AGONIES THROUGH
FALSE PRIDE? ISN'T TT
TIME SOME ONE EXPOSED
THE MISERY CAUSED BY
KEEPING UP A FRONT?
my father died when I was
2. I was reared by my poor
but aristocratic grandmother.
All my life I have known the
pinch Of poverty. Now I am
old enough to remedy this by
going to work. I'm a high
school student, tall for my age,
healthy and strong-and rarin'
to go. YET THE THOUGHT
OF HER GRANDC HID
WORKING IN PUBLIC AND
MEETING COMMON PEOPLE
HORRIFIEs MY GRAND.
MOTHER. I must suffer in
'genteel silence instead.
my pure linen underwear
is mended until it is in shreds.
I'm misunderstood miSer.
able. The other girls think I'm
either a snob or a miSer. My
whole family is literally Starv-
ing. Yet they won't admit it
and go on relief. WE MUST
KEEP UP A FRONT!
I'm sick of it. I don't see
anything beautiful in such
pride No work in the world
could be as vulgar as this living
lie!
"E. H." Gage $50
($10 prize WINERY
Great stuff, youngster! It's
spunk like yours that made
this nation what it is. Ancestors
who are Too Proud To Sweat
are a worse disgrace than horse
thieves! Go to it, kid! Show
them how a real American acts
and here's a hand from the
whole gang and $40 toward
that new wardrobe.
Copyright 1887. by King Features
- Syndicate. Incl
A.
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the Boxer Rebellion. We should
see to it that a more adequate
force perhaps than what we
have now be sent to reinforce
protection for our citizens and
investments in the Far East"
Kathleen Preston, clerk in
the Darling Dress Shop, 709
Eighth st. S. E.:
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"No, I don't
b ii e v e we
should leave
soldier rs in
any part Of
the W orld
other tina n
the United
States. So far
as protecting
life and prop
erty in other
lands is con-
&c IN e d, I
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to safeguard there, but keeping
out of a war is more important"
C. E. Wilson, assistant super.
intendent of Congressional Gem
etery, and a World War veteran:
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Traffic Toll

The mounting list Of traffic
victims in the District Of Co
lurnbia since January !, 1897,
is graphically shown by the
death watch"
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and shouldn't be any of our
business"
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The Inquiring
Photographer
The washington Times in
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

Do you think we ought to re-
call the Marines from China as
a safeguard to keeping out of
war in the Orient?
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Voice of the People

Please gve fU name and address and confne letters
to 200 1Oords.
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THE ANSWERS
Mrs. Alice Zust, housewife,
BIO Massachusetts Ave. N. E:
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20
Santas Hold Contention;
Sheer at 'Streamliner'

NEW YORK, uec. 20. up
Delegates TO the first annual con-
vention of the Benevolent Order
Of Santa Clauses went back to
their department store pobs today.
mumbling in their boards about
the young fellow who showed up
i'm lined Santa Claus
suit with wings on his arms and
blCts - and no whiskers on his
face.
The stream-lined Santa Claus
(he says he flies instead of rid
ing in a sleigh is Arnold John
son and he works for a New York
suburb stire. He made min
GRITTY of one on every resolu'io
adopted. They even made him
SIT at the end of the table where
they could sneer at him.
Otherwise. the convention was
pretty much like all other con-
ven fons except that il was hard
= Aell one delegate from another
because they kept their red suits
ard boards OH all the time.
Santa Cluas Johnson went down
fighting. He is slender, six
foot blonde and when il came
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20
WILD RIDE
BRINGS JAIL.

wild midnight ride through
downtown FL Centro resulted Mon
day morning in a 37l2 2-day Jail SEN
tence for 50-year-old Fred Bagar.
a resident OF FL Centre for the
last 20 years.
He was charged with driving
while drunk.
Bo1ar, police said, careened west
On Main street from Fifth street to
Imperial avenue, then north on
Imperial avenue to the city limits
interseC ton before he was arrested
Sunday night by Patrolman Roy
Dupont. He narrowly missed one
parked automobile in front of the
Valley theater and struck another
in the 700 block on Main street. The
second car had been parked by F.
w Manley who attended the show
with Mrs. Manley.
Bogar pleaded guilty in police
court Monday morning and was
sentenced by Judge Lee Nuffer.