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The Washington times., 1938-08-13
By EValyn Walsh Mclean

work and clean it up and, what is more keep
it clean until things gets Strengthened out.
If we had more organizations like this func-
tioning, we wouldn't be reading headlines Once
Famous Belle Dies q Pauper-Case No. 3-5SO49
was taken from Illinois oldage pension rolls by
death today"
This case was Mrs. Henry H. Homer, jr., once
the mistress Of great fortune, and at her death
at rs was a pennileSs old woman whose only
income was $26 month.
remember as a little child her sisterinlaw,
the beautiful Mrs. Potter Palmer, Of Chicago,
who refused to accept Mrs. Horner. Mrs. Palmer
was truly beautiful woman and devoted to my
father. At one Of his big dinners he gave at
the Elysee Palace Hotel, was allowed to see
her before the dinner. 7
That night she had on all her famous emeralds
a tiara, necklace and gorgeous emerald drop
was pinned on the front of her dress. Always
loving jewely, can remember this SO well. And
I will never forget the excitement the next day
when father told me she had lost that beautiful
emerald drop. She took it like good sport and,
as 1 remember, never did find it.
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My Say

ONE OF our most brilliant newspaper women,
" Martha Strayer, to whom am devoted,
wrote such an interesting and informative article
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But

7 AM at loss to know why one cannot reserve
for flight on a commercial airliner, Just the
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Excess Of Oo111ph

You know, ]. E., the more I
think of that Miss Popularity"
contest being sponsored by In
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ToUn's fastest

1 GUMS 0StIeSt
Original Velati Candy
Stores today will present one
pound boxes of their delicious
chocolates or caramels, on re-
quest, to:
James J. TOrpey, Coast
Guard.
Rosa Shelton, Procurement
Division.
william C. BergstrOm,
Treasury.
Candy will be presented
at either store, $40 Ninth
st. N. w., or 500 Fourteenth
st. N. W.
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Johnny FEDERAL'S MEMO:

Why will these guys and gals
send in perfectly great newstipS
and then sign a phony name? -.
It isn't very complimentary to
you, j. E., because it indicates
either one of two things: Either
the writer doesn't believe your
pledge that you will never divulge
a news source or he Cor she) be-
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one makes a mad scramble to be the first up
the gangway and into the plane, so as to get the
pick Of the seats?
This catch-ascatchcan performance does not
match the dignity with which the airline heads
claim their carriers are now operated. It leads
to needless discussions with the flight steward
stewardeSS. 1t delays boarding of planes while
passengers stand in the aisle trying to make up
their minds which seat will give them the best
view Of the countryside beneath.
CO-PilOt's Report
GONE lines have a custom of obging the CO.
pilot to make out a penciled report Of altt-
tude, speed, direction Of the wind. expected time
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Takes Lots of NerUe

DON'T think there is anything that takes more
nerve, more determination and more courage
than to go into a really poor home, start to
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What SteuUardess Can Do

What SteIU0TdeSS Can Do
WHAT is the matter with instructing the stew.
ardesses of the airlines to copy the intelligent
custom Of one airline equipped with stewards
who announce in snappy fashion at each landing:
This is Soan-So Airport. Passengers please be
seated until the plane stops. We will be on the
ground so many minutes" It sounds shippy!
1t makes passenger feel he is aboard ship
whose crew know their stuff.
Too many lines are too lazy in these matters
small, perhaps, individualy-but when added
up together tell story of either efficiency or
inefficiency on travel matters
Copyright Ledger syndcate)
(BoGke CGrter'S opinions are his otDn and not
necessarily those OF The Washington TtnGeSJ
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Speaki7S Of
aGOVERNMENT
WORKERS
By J. EARLE MosER
- I

SUPERVISORS SAGA
I'll neper hire a gal that knotDS
her stuff
For she might ShoD me up and
make 1t tough.
I like a typiSt who's only learned
to peck.
The tDork might suffer, but then
tDItGt the heckl
VERSUS.
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Especial IncentiUe"
T HAVE NOTED for years that various COM
panies offering special incentive for special
achievements have pulled ahead Of competitors.
This is one reason why have never been able
to join protests against profitsharng by corpora
ton executives after an adequate return had
been earned on the capital investment.
believe that one potent reason why General
Motors, practically down and out twenty years
or more ago, has become one of the foremost au
tomotive enterprises in the world has been the in
centive proffered proft-Sharing executives to
earn better-thanordinary financial results.
Like Rockefeller and Carnegie, General Motors
has made it possible for an unusual number Of
conspicuously able executives to attain wealth.
When Schwab took hold of Bethlehem Steel
it was down-atthe-heels, decrepit, bankrupt un
important concern. For years no executive re-
ceived more than $4,000 a year in salary. All
compensation beyond that was dependent upon
the financial results attained.
There is, in my humble opinion, vast room to-
day for instituting incentives to sales forces to
excel in booking business
Copyright, 1888, by B. C. Forbes)
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twas dismantled, and had been
mailed thereupon. apologies are
due Trap, in Union Postal Clerk,
to whom q fan mailed this tale.)
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Great Business Woman

CHE was q great business woman and when
~ the Palmer House, which she and her huS-
band owned, was not making quite as much
money as she thought necessary, she walked
into the restaurant one day, took the menu and
added 10 to is cents to every article of food
printed on that card. You wouldn't believe it,
but this very quickly brought the profits up to
where she wanted them. What pathetic shame
she couldn't have been kinder and sweeter to
this poor soul who died such a tragic death!
Mrs. Caroline Hunt must have heart of gold
When she saw poor, bent old Mrs. Homer on a
park bench. she took her in and gave her a
room in a boarding house.
If Mrs Palmer had held out a helping hand
to her relative, like these gallant women are
doing in Washington to the poor and needy, she
would have reaped untold happiness herself
It is the helping hand and the cheerful word
to the ones who need it that make life worth
living.
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Mr.. Carnegie declared that the secret Of his
success was to gather around him men ADLER than
himself and then offer them generous rewards
for achievement.
Charles M. schwab, Carnegie's ablest and IA
vorite protege, is fond of relating that, from the
time he became boss Of Carnegie's largest steel
mill when still in his twenties, he followed the
principle of ignoring poor or Indifferent results
on the. part Of subordinate executives al
ways praised conspicuous accomplishments. The
incentive was the winning of &C. MS" goodwill
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One Accuracy

A PPARENTLY their only &C
"A curate calculation in the
whole business was that Con-
greSs would say nothing about
this at the next session, par
ticularly If the Democratic in
cumbents were thereby re-
elected.
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the same, he still believes he could
have beaten him in that wrestling
match if other keepers hadn't in
terfered. And the ostrich hissed
as he, too, remembered the time
he had given Holland a terrific
kick.
Old Whitley Cockatoo was espe-
cially mournful. The oldest bird
in the collection, he is the only
one still there which was present
when Holland came to work in
1908. But then Whitley brags Of
having lived at the Zoo since 1890.
LEAVES NEXT WEEK
Holland will retire officially in
September, when he becomes 70
years old. But accumulated leave
makes it possible for him to leave
next week.
Jerry, the big Golden Eagle, ana
the dictatorial boss of the flying
cage, has been Hollands most per
siStent assailant. He has several
times Swooped down to plunge his
vicious claws into Hollands head.
He goes into retirement minus
the lobe of his right ear. The
king vulture did that. When the
casSowary attacked him they both
rolled outside the cage, while the
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ANOTHER CHILD.
SENT TO CAMP.
L U N D GROWING.
Bald Eagle WaistIines
Continue to Expand

While Bald Eagle Health Camp
ers reported "a great increase in
Waistline," the campaign for funds
to send cleft behinds" to the
camp for the summer neared its
halfway mark today.
Contributions of $72 yesterday
sent the total to $979.75, toward
the $4,000 needed to fill IS empty
beds at the camp. There are now
Ill children at Bald Eagle, with
IA beds still to be filled. One
child is to be taken to the camp
today.
$50 PER CHILD
Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing
director of the District Tuberculo-
sis Association, reported that
there is now $19.75 available
toward sending a thirteenth child
to the camp. Eighty dollars is re
quired to feed each child.
The Disabled American World
War Veterans yesterday sent SIS
to the camp, with other contribu-
tions as follows:
Mrs. j. Breckenridge Bayne,
$25; Rudolph Berger, $25; Lois H.
Hopkinson, $40; M. Gillette, S.;
Paul F. Griffin, 81, and anonymous
contribution of 81.
Donations are being received at
The washington Times, the Wash
ington Herald, and the District
tuberculosis Association.
WAISTLINES GAIN
Publication of the Health Camp
Crusader, camp weekly, the first
issue of which appeared yester-
day, reputed stories that campers
were having difficulty keeping
trousers up over slim waists.
I'VE want every one to know"
a story in the paper said, that
the pants situation is almost under
control. The buttons have already
popped; the clinic reports a great
increase in waistlines, and has
ordered more safety pins"
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LOS ANGELES, July 20.-The
$40, ,000, 900 bankroll which E. John
BrandieS. playboy poloist, inherited
from his Omaha merchant prince
forebearS received another clipping
today.
Claire BrandeiS, his third wife,
will hereafter take $7OO a month
from what is left Of the ten mil
lions. If she "emarries she will
receive $4,000 in a lump sum.
And, by a Los Angeles court or
der, she will start with an out
right $4,000 in cash. These were
the terms of the decision filed in
a separate maintenance action.
The third Mrs. Brandeis, rec
ords show, was comparatively in
expensive luxury compared with
the first two. The first, the for
mer Madelyn Franks, daughter of
a millionaire soap manufacturer,
cost Brandeis a $5O0,000 settle
ment. Her daughter, Barbara,
was the recipient Of a couple of
hundred thousand.
The second wife, Mrs. Emily
King, widow of mustard manu-
facturer. departed Brandeis' life
with $1,25O,0OO.
And now Brandeis, nothing
daunted, is reported intent on pur-
suing a divorce acton he has
strated and wedding Marjorie
Gordon, the movie bit player
whom Mrs. Brandeis No. 3 named
as the other woman in her suit.
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INJURED WOMAN
DIES, 8 HURT IN
AUTO ACCIDENT
D. C. Driver Drunk,
Police in Md. Charge

A colored woman died early to-
day from injuries received in an
automobile accident Sunday, while
eight other persons were recu-
perating from hurts suffered in
collisions last night.
Anna May Crawford, colored,
%, of the 1900 block of First St.
N. W., died in Casualty Hospital
from injuries received when the
automobile in which she was rid
ing left the highway near Muir
kirk, Md.
She was one of eight colored
people injured in the accident.
Prince Georges county police ar
rested Andrew Baylor, 46, of the
$500 block of Virginia Ave. N. w.,
driver of the car, on a charge of
driving while drunk. charging
that in a 10-mile chase from
Laurel he drove as fast as 80
miles per hour.
CRASH INJURIES THREE
Three persons were treated at
Casualty Hospital when a car
driven by Warren r. Hargiss, 20,
of 1910 Twentieth st. N. W., ran
off the road into a tree near South
Capitol and Atlantic Streets.
Gladys HargisS, "a, of the same
address, received abrasionS of both
legs; Mary Stone, "a. of Cherry
dale, suffered a sprained left leg,
and John Stone, also of Cherry
dale, a possibly fractured nose.
GIRLS SKULL FRACTURED
Louise Hanna, coIored, 10, of
l112 TWenty-Second st. N. w., suf-
fered fractured skull when struck
at Seventeenth and M Streets
Northwest by a car driven by
James w. Robinson, colored, 81,
of 402 Aiken Ct. S. w. She was
treated at Emergency Hospital and
removed to Gallinger.
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Jerry just learned from the
screaming and cackling of the
nearby birdhouse that Keeper Will
liam S. Holland is about to retire,
taking with rim the scars of re-
peated encounters with the feath-
cred and clawed creatures he has
fed and cared for during the last
80 years.
AS NEWS GOES ROUND
The king vulture was another
who realized ne was about to lose
a friend whom he had treated
roughly. The rhinoceros hornbill
wagged his big beak and wished
he hadn't used it so painfully.
There was a hollow sound IN
the cassowary's laugh as ne passed
the news on to the ostrich. Just
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Cotton Manufacture
Decline Is SIiuht

The Census Bureau reported to-
day that on June 80 there were
26,472,512 cotton spinning spindles
in place in the United States, of
which 21,143,988 were operated
at some time during the month
compared with 21,341,750 in May
and 24,588, 1893 in June year ago.
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aid of other keepers was nee
eSSary.
Holland regards such things as
that crack on the head given him
by the rhinoceros hornbill and the
kick given him by the ostrich that
nearly lifted him out of the cage
as comparatively minor incidents.
Holland, who lives at $50 Elev-
enth st. S. E., has not said what
he will do after he retires.
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Mrs. MLedn
Tells Story

How CASTOR B. Means brought
to Evalyn Walsh Mclean what she
considers positive proof that he had
definite knowledge of the Lind
bergh baby kidnapping is revealed
in Mrs McLean's own story in the
current Liberty. This proof, she
says, was Means revelation, three
days after the kidnapping, that the
broadcast description of the Sleep
ing suit the child was wearing was
false, a Subterfuge to enable Lind
bergh to trap anyone trying to
hoax him.
My contact tells me that the
suit the child wore when it was
taken is nothing like the one the
police are describing" Means
said.
AS it turned out, Mrs. Mclean
says Means was speaking the
truth.
Mrs. McLean's emissary to Lind
bergh was very impressed" by
this and he thereupon gave his ap-
proval to her plan for ransoming
the baby.
Mrs. Mclean gives a vivid pic.
ture of the turning over of 500, 900
in old bills to Means. Mrs. Nc
Lean says:
Means said the kidnaper he
had contacted was waiting for
Means to get the money so he
could see it. The arrangement
was that Means was not to turn
over one dollar of the ransom
until the baby was in Father
Hurney's (selected by Mrs.
Mclean as the person to receive
the baby arms"
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Zoos "Bdd Boys" Sad 30.
Holland to Give Up
His Post as Keeper
Bares Scars of Many Battles With
ClQUed and FeQthered Wards
By FRED B. MARBUT

Jerry the Zoos big golden eagle cured his cruel offending
claws under him he disconsolatey his perch and
vowed he wouldn't be anymore.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-06-03
~
from the
Democrats Pen

Well, Sir, 1 am going to ask you
three or four people who read this
column to excuse me this week.
have been short of help in my office
and | have scarcely known which way
to turn-pretty nearly turned inside
out.
Then again, that holidays coming
in sort of shortened my week, and
now it's Wednesday, June 1. l al
ways write this column on Tuesdays,
and I can't write a thing today, to
save my life, no use trying. The
whole thing has sort of worried me
I haven't got Strengthened out.
One thing that worried me was,
that Bevans' trial. had hired man
to write me up a long account of 1T,
and had reserved column or two
of space to publish it; and now,
Phlooie! All gone up in mol pros,
non pros, or nolle PROSE-, according
to the etymology you select as most
pleasing. I was going to spread that
thing all the way across the page
lust to be sensational for once. That's
the life of an editor-full of disap-
pointments.
Then I got to worrying about the
Salisbury base ball team, and wonder
ing where all that wonder team had
hidden itself, and wondering whether
the Flowers were sending out their
usual wonderful aroma; and wonder
ing whether Cuban stock had fallen.
And. strange to say, all this wonder
ing was caused by the wonderfully
large crowds, in spite of all, attending
the games in the "Hub of the Shore"
Incidentally-tho' you people needn't
say anything about it, this is confiden-
tail have been worrying somewhat
about another ball team, little bit
nearer home. Seems to me some OF
us fans ought to get together and dig
'em out. There's one comfort-they
can stay put where they are for quite
awhile; 1 don't think anybody will
care to 'sturb 'em.
Then, I have been worrying about
this election-about all these candi-
dates from Delano (accented on first
syllable please) down to, well, down
to my own candidacy for Governor
How, in the name of Sam Hill, is a
guy to choose from all these office
seekers? For instance, look at that
list of gubernatorial candidates. There
are six of 'em. Blest if don't think
I'll name each one for a number on
one of pair of dice. Put that in a
box, rattle it scientifically, and vote
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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-06-03
1888 BANNER
YEAR IN SCHOOL
ATTENDANCE
Two Hundred And Ninety-Eight
Pupils Have Perfect At
tedance Records
FAR GREATER PERCENT
AGE THAN LAST YEAR

One hundred and eighty-four pupils
in the white schools, and ia pupils
in the colored schools have been neith-
er absent nor tardy during the school
year 1937-38. This year 1O4 more
white pupils and SO more colored pu-
pills received perfect attendance GER
tificates than in 1936-37. The white
schools were in session 1S1 days, and
the colored schools 1853 days.
The names of those with perfect
attendance in the white schools OF
Pocomoke City are as follows: POGO
moke A: Beulah Mcdaniel, Helen
Goodwin, Helen Carey, Louise Coma
way, Ruth Joyne, Jane Hill, Maude
Ward, Phyllis Ward, Adron Parks
Irene Holland, Vivian Goodwin, James
Mulvenna, Betty Ward, Verlin A.
Krabill, Hortense Bunting, Beatrice
Ward, Charles Ward, Donald Darby.
Pocomoke B: George S. Bunting,
Melvin Townsend, Frederick Bounds,
Edna Mae Bishop, Betty Watson
Frances Pierce, Hayward Drummond,
Ethel Mae Ward, Billy Mills, Billy
Mulvenna.
Atkinson School: Royce Beauchamp,
and Marvin Stevenson.
The names of the pupils with per-
feet attendance in the colored schools
as as follows: Stephen Long: Elwood
Armstrong, Frank Gillette, Stanford
James, Ralph Schoolfield, Lucille
Copes, Lola Copes, Nathaniel Costen,
Hattie Quinn, lola Gillette, Phyllis
Collins, Suvilla Mason, Gerald Long,
Elroy Archer, James Collins, Mildred
Dennis, Caruso Gillett, Samuel Costen,
John Spaddy, Stephen Long, McKin-
ley Palmer, Ardempsol Cottman, Ev-
elyn Kelley, Geraldine Waters, Mar
della Johnson, Bertha Bailey, Luetta
Teagle, James Long, Joseph w. Arm
strong, Jr., John E. Gillette, William
B. Harmon, Lavette w. Johnson,
Charles N. Palmer, Severn H. Poul-
son, Jr., Harry A. Aydelotte, Virginia
E. Harmon, Geneva E. Schoolfield.
Pauline M. Stevenson, Sylvan Leon
Collier, Edward P. Drummond, Jr.,
Carrie I. Schoolfield.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-06-03
CASE AGAINST
LUTHER BEVANS
ENDS QUICKLY
Court Room Crowded But Chief
Witness Fails To Put In
Appearance
REQUEST FOR A CON-
TINUANCE DENIED

The trial set for Tuesday, May 81,
in Snow Hill, which was supposed
would clear up the murder of Charles
Pusey three years ago, came, sud-
denly, to very dull finish-the state
had no case and Luther Bevans, the
accused was taken back to the State
Penitentiary where he is serving time
for other misdemeanors.
The reason for the collapse of the
States case, was the refusal of the
chief witness to testify; and she, be-
ing the wife of the accused could not
be compelled against her will to give
evidence against her husband;-she
failed to put in an appearance and
States Attorney Johnson knew moth
ing of her whereabouts. Mr.. Johnson
requested a continuance of the case,
and his request denied by full bench,
he gave up the prosecution.
Bevans, serving the last five years
of a fifteen-year sentence for arson
and assault with intent to kill, had
been charged with murdering Pusey
while free on parole, in May 1885.
1t was an act of his wife that caused
the revocation of his parole-she said
he mistreated her-and it was on her
agreement to testify that Johnson ad-
mittedly had built his case for the
murder trial
Several weeks ago she said she did
not believe her husband killed Pusey,
but added she felt he "knew some
thing about" the case and that he
should be made to tell what he knew.
At the brief court session, attended
by a crowd of spectators who jammed
the courtroom, w. William Miller,
Pocomoke City, attorney for Mrs.
Bevans, said his client had never been
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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-06-03
MANAGER EHLERS IS
SIGNING new PLAYERS

Manager Ehlers has released some
players and signed up some new ones
in order to bolster the roster of his
baseball club, the Pocomoke Red Sox.
At the present time Riggin is on
the injured list with charley horse"
and Dousha, utility catcher is playing
in his place.
Up to today, Thursday, Pocomoke
has won three of the last six games
played and at the present time stands
only two and one-half games out of
the first division.
Boyce pitched very effective ball
against Salisbury on Memorial Day
at night at Salisbury to beat them
5-2 after Pocomoke was defeated that
afternoon here by the same score.
On Wednesday the home team de-
feated Easton at Easton by the score
of 1910.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-06-03
AUDIT COMPLETE
WORCESTER CO.
LIQUOR BOARD
Four Incorporated Towns Will
Receive Huge Sum Of
S20,210.40
POCOMOKE'S SHARE
WILL BE S7,350.51

The audit just completed of the
books of the Worcester County Liq-
uor Board shows that there will be
due the County from one-haf the
profits of the Board for the year end
ing April 80, 1888, the sum of $780,
21O.37. For the year 1887 there was
first paid to the Commissioners by
the Liquor Board the sum of $4,000,
$4,000 of which was used by the
Commissioners last year to reduce the
tax rate seven cents and $4,000 used
by them for some other purposes.
The present rate could have been re-
duced one cent additional, or total
reduction of eight cents, instead Of
seven, had the Commissioners been
able to use for this purpose all the
profits turned over to them by the
Liquor Board. An additional payment
for last year of $25,517.55 makes in
the hands of the Commissioners at
this time the huge sum of $40, ,727.92
in cash, with which the tax rate OF
Worcester County can be reduced ap-
proximately % cents, as one cent on
the rate produces about $4,000.
If this money is used for reduction
of taxes, the county rate for next
year will be 65 cents instead Of SS
cents as at present.
The incorporated towns of the
county will be paid the following
amounts for one-half the profits of the
dispensary in the respective towns:
Snow Hill, $2,S27.13; Berlin, $2,971.O9;
Ocean City, $7061.67; Pocomoke ST.
35O.51.
These sums make total of $780,
21O.4O, which is the same sum paid
to the County Commissioners for this
years operation, being equally divi-
ded between the county and the
towns.
Since January 1, 1888, the Mayor
and Council of Pocomoke have re-
deemed $4,000 of the towns bonded
indebtedness. Next October $4,000.
of the 1908 Floating Debt bonds will
fall due and be paid from the present
sinking fund account. Thus 1888 will
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