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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30
THOSE interesting day, when

THOSE interesting days when
i everybody believed that Ia
coma was the City OF Destiny
are recalled by a copy Of the
1Ss3-e4 catalogue Of the Uni
versity of Puget Sound" that
came to this desk the other day.
In the six years that followed
the completion OF the Northern
Pacific main line to Tacoma via
the Cascade switchback in 1887,
there was every reason TO be-
lieve that the great destiny
which the optimistic founders of
the city predicted would be ful-
filled.
Equally optimistic were the
founders of the University of
Puget Sound, and a corporation
known as the University Land
company was organized TO de-
yelop n large residential area
just west of the city limits and
provide a sixty acre campus for
the university.
The plans were all made when
there began to appear on the
financial horizon the small
clouds from which came the de-
luge and the panic OF the nine
ties" That was the end of Uni
versity Place promotion and it
came near being the end of the
university that Is now the Col
lege of Puget Sound.
The prospectus of the Uni
versity Place promoters was
nothing il not slluring and con-
vincing The site on Puget
Sound was unexeelled for view.
With an electric railway operat-
ing to the property with
five cent fare, only three miles
from the geographical center
OF Tacoma and only five miles
from the business center, with
no city taxes, slight cost for
grading streets, plenty Of pure
water, excellent and cheap
drainage, and with water
front that in the future will
TEEN with the flags of all ma
tions."
The tract of about four hun
bred acres, except sixty acres
for the campus, was TO be plat
ted and sold and the profit from
the sale of land was to pay for
the college buildings. A clause
in each deed prohibited the sale
of intoxicants on the property.
thus guaranteeing a most de-
sirable residence place for those
with families TO educate as well
as an ideal environment for a
high grade school"
II was a beautiful picture but
because the plans of men so
often go wrong it never became
anything but a picture.
An interesting section of the
university announcement relates
to the cost of an education.
Room rent could be provided
for at fifty ceents to a dollar a
week. Table board In the ladies
hall was provided for all stu
dents at $40 a month. Tuition
was SIS term and books cost
So to SIS. Total expense for the
year was estimated at $3.50. To-
day the minimum cost Is about
three times that amount and
only a few students get by for
less than $50 a month.
Regulations overn ng the
conduct OF students were in
keeping with the times. Students
were required to attend the col
lege chapel each day and 60 to
church at least once on Sunday.
Students were required to regis
ter the church OF their choice
with the principal.
Failure TO conform to these
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30

Of royalty were given a round
OF entertainments while the
home residents were making ter
rifle sacrifices. That probably
is the inside reason for the re-
quest that Washington take II
easy" In welcoming the royal
pair.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30
Before Betty COED and Joe College
Old Yeor Book Reveals Rare Pictures
Site on Norrows Planned for University
Piono Alone Remoins of Greet Dream

regulations brought a notice NJ
censure communicated orally TO
the student concerned and in
writing 10 the parent or guar
dian" Censure could be lifted
by three months of exemplary
conduct"
Use OF liquor, tobacco on the
campus. playing cards, or visit
ing drinking, gambling or bill
lizard saloons" constituted cause
for suspension or expulsion.
'Visitations and conduct NJ
gentlemen students" at the
ladies boarding hall were sub
ject to rules made by the pre-
ceptress. Gentlemen were for
hidden, under penalty of expul-
sion, to visit the rooms Of ladies
in the boarding hall without per-
mission from the preceptress.
Ladies boarding at the hall
were mot permitted to have
escorts TO or from the hall ex-
cept at the discretion of the
faculty"
Volta life" says Betty Co
ed in 1871.
You said it" echoes Joe
College.
But one thing "changeth not,T
almost. Great stress is laid on
the fact that in 1890 the Col
lege Of Music" was greatly in
debted to Mason & Hamlin, of
Boston, for furnishing full
grand piano for It's use"
And believe II or not, up In
last year the Mason e. Hamlin
relic of the nineties was the only
instrument available for the
voice students In the college con-
seervatory. II IL still there and
servatory. II Il still there and
In that connection it is sig
nificant that it was the music
department, college of Mu-
sic" that put the University of
Puget Sound on the educational
map. In 1898 100 of the 172
students were registered in the
music department. Among the
students were cara BARROW, now
teaching music here; Hattie and
Jessie Barlow and Julia Bos-
worth; Earnest and Neil Clay
pool; Lester S. Handsaker.
Frank Karasek, William F.
Reed, and the late Col. Albert
Whyte.
The comparatively large mu-
sic registration may he explain
ed partly by the fact that fifty
years ago people had to make
uheir own music and were WILL
ing to work for II. Couldn't gen
10 by turning a dial or putting a
record on the photograph. The
good old days" had something
we don't have.
Because / thought IN terms
of steel,
Of factories and mills,
And in my blindness failed
to see
The beauty of the halls;
Because / thought of trees
IN terms
OF lumber and renoer,
And missed the draperg Of
spring
That spread like 0ossd-
mer;
The pears hare brought me
gold, but oh
For f0eulth the years
denied
! stand today a mendicdnt
With soul unSdtisfied.
George A. Persell.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30

Editor The Times: During the
next two months approximately
5000 persons will be hurled to
their deaths on the highways of
America. Tens OF thousands will
be crippled and disfigured, many
for the rest OF their lives. OF
course, this will not cause an
added pulse beat, or even a nip
pie in our national economy.
During the same two months,
business in many cities will be
practically suspended over the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30

weekends. millions OF dollars
viii be spent, names familiar in
America will sit with elenched
hands in an agony Of suspense,
and the nation will hold its col
lective breath over the earth
shaking question of whether or
not some young husky can lift
a muddy boot, and kick a SIS
bit Of leather overs crossbar.
SAM 4. DOUGLAS
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30
Field Marshal Foch Led
Allies in World War !

IN 1889, France fell before the
L onslaughts of the German army
in 80 days. This stunning defeat
was partly caused by inferior and
outmoded equipment, but it was.
also due in large measure TO the
rottenness Of the French general
staff.
French generals were found in
competent in World War I also.
but were removed before their
funbling led to complete defeat
Master tactician in the first World
War and the man who eventually.
led the allied armies to victory
was Field Marshal Ferdinand
Foch (ls5l-1s2sl. who was hon.
ored philatelically in the 1870
stamp above.
Foch was placed in supreme
command OF the allied armies
March 2e, 1918, following the g.
gantic German attacks which
drove back the allied lines az.
Picardy leopardLzins Paris and
Calais
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30
An Inside Picture of Finon-
Ii u IL j ciol and Political America
BY RAY TUCKER

WASHINGTON-Soon Frank Knox will throw authori-
tative light F. D. RS mysterious statement that the
L. S. navy will fire German warshps defensive
waters Thus far d. r. has declined define the
within which fleets will engage in Shooting war"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30
STRONG PROP.

hTHONG PROP.
DR. Guy Y. Williams Of Okla
homa, who worked his way
through school by acrobatic
stunts in theaters, kept a pair
of 50-pound dumbells in his of
flee, to match muscles with
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30
CURTAL CIVILIAN
CONSUMPTION

The new national defense
bosses, S. P. A. B., have agreed
upon their first major policy
with respect TO increased manu-
facture of war stuffs. They have
taken the step which, it is real
lied now, should have been made
when the administration decided
to cast our lot with the "democ-
racies."
They have agreed that full
time output of planes, tanks,
guns and ships can be attained
more quickly by curtailing Of
civilian production and consump-
ton rather than by continuing
the attempt to expand plant Ca
pacity. A confidential survey
discloses that several years
would be required to build,
equip and man factories which
would be capable OF supplying
maximum requirements Of steel,
copper. aluminium, magnesium,
etc. In view OF the deepening
crisis abroad. that would be too
late. The u. S. might become an
arsenal OF democracy" for some
future war. but not for this one.
1t is probable that a rs per
cent expansion of present ca
pacity will be needed to stop
Hitler. Even then, 1t will be
late 1912 before that sort of
production can begin to have
its effect. The immediate task
is to rush weapons TO the anti
Hitler nations, particularly to
Russia, between now and next
April. So through the winter
the war effort will make its
greatest impact upon the civilian
population. BY foregoing the
purchase OF both essentials and
luxuries. We shall release the
capacities OF factories already
existence so that they can sup
ply wars new demands.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30
EAGLE EYES

husky students. Though nearing
so, he still watts a mean weight!
EAGLE EYES
When KIN ghth d was in
flower, heraldic pictures of birds
and animals always faced the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30

$4,000 fighters. AS against this
force, still not fully trained or
equipped, Hitler has 400 divi-
sions, of which It is believed
that a third have seen scarcely
any action since the blitz-kreig
across Western Europe.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30
SPORTS CENTER INTEREST
OF THE ENTIRE L. :.

secretary Manager,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-19
CART BEFORE HORSE

Rising prices definitely not the fault of retail merchand
sing despite mistaken that effect which have recently
gone circulation The truth that retail merchandising has
done remarkable job holding price increases to the minimum
The figures tell the story Today factory payros 80
than the workers earnings
percent greater Yet retail food prices have advanced only
since June 1910 In the period wholesale food
prices increase three times great
that which took place in retail food prices.
Compared with 1929 factory workers have about AZ per-
greater food purchasing power Other workers food
chasing % percent Retail food prices 20
percent under 1929 levels
What true of food is true to large extent of other
commodities The fact that price have far been moder
in the light of the naonary tendencies produced by the
drive with it's unprecedented spending largely the
work Of merchandsers All kinds Of stores chain and ndepe
alike announced their determination protect the
countrs standard of living to the limit of their abilities They
have been signally successful in doing that.
Prices will inevitably rise in the future Higher costs Of do
business combined with increased purchasing and
dwndng supplies make that inevitable But to blame this
retail merchandising is to the cart before the horse Gener
ally speaking retail being advanced when land only
when wholesale prices and operating overhead make absolutely
unavoidable That the progressive retail policy today And it
will be the retail policy in the future.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-19
LET'S GO TO WORK

Anthony Eden recently said that help from America not
yet reaching Britain in sufficient quantyhat shipments OF
supplies speeded up Hitler be decvey beat
en- in the shortest possible time
In his Labor Day talk the nation President Roosevelt said
that military production still below the level He
called all America to abor unstngy for the defense and
perpetuaton of democracy
Manly the Federal Power Commission recently said
1--WE entering period in which Individual or corpora
reasonably properly to maintain unabated
status to which has become accustomed Everybody
will later have to make sacrifices for the good
These statements typical of what in high positions
believe today belief adds this The United States is
doing enough 1t must do morenfnitey moref the ho
critics gained the centuries to be preserved
There extremely important why our arms pro-
gram tagging That reason is the unngness OF certain labor
cent perform the gigantic tasks we have undertaken Coa
is case in Today coal miners work the 7hour day and
the 3hour established during the depression And that
mperng adequate supply of coal for the Industries which
make our weapons tools of alike coal shortage
would bring the program virtually to standsll Az
hour probably eliminate all dangers of such shortages
-yetth hour week is maintained
What is true of COAL many fields. The majority of
Americas workers willing do more But shortsghted lab
or leaders won't let them.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-19
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that the
subscriber has obtained from the Or
phans' Court for Worcester County,
Maryland, letters of administration
on the personal estate of Laura j.
Redden late of Worcester County,
deceased.
All persons having claims against
the deceased, are hereby warned to
exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof, to the subscriber on or be-
fore the 28th day of March, 1912.
They may otherwise by law be ex-
cluded from all benefits of the said
estate. All persons indebted to said
estate are requested to make imme-
date payment. Given under my hand
this 18th day of September, 1871.
James l.. Redden
Administrators
Test: Frank E. Hudson, Register of
] Wills.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-19
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that the sub
scriber has obtained from the Or
phans' Court for Worcester County,
Maryland, letters of administration
on the personal estate of Marion H.
Jones, late of Worcester County, de-
ceased.
All persons having claims against
the deceased, are hereby warned to
exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof, to the subscriber on or before
the 18th day of March 1912. They
may other wise by law be excluded
from all benefits of the said estate.
All persons indebted to said estate
are requested to make immediate pay
ment. Given under my hand this 4th
day of September, 1941.
WILLARD J. STEVENSON
Administrator
Test: Frank e. Hudson, Register of
Wills.
Sept. 5-3t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-19
Wednesday, Sept. "a, III

Beginning at 10 o'clock A. M.
the following personal property be
longing to the Estate of Marion H
Jones, deceased: 2 Mules, Cows,
Heifer, 5 Pigs, IL Sheep, Lot of Hay
Straw, Wheat, Oats, Corn and Rye
81 bbls. Cobbler Potatoes, A Farm
Wagons, all kinds Farming Imple
ments and Tools, Lot of Household
and Kitchen Furniture, and other ar
ticles too numerous to mention.
Terms of Sale-CASH.
WILLARD J. STEVENSON
Administrator
Sept. 1926.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-19
william H. Scott, Solicitor

William Fl. Scott, Solicitor
Elsie B. Haring vs.. Robert Elwood
Haring.
In the Circuit Court for Worcester
County, Maryland.
In Equity.
No. 1927 Chancery.
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
The object of this suit is to pro-
cure a decree for divorce "a vim
culo matrimonii" by the plaintiff,
Elsie B. Haring, from the defendant,
Robert Elwood Haring.
The bin recites that the parties
were married on September 20, 1889;
that though the conduct of the plain
tiff has always been kind, affection
ate and above reproach, the defen-
dant has, without any just cause or
reason, abandoned and deserted the
plaintiff, and has declared his inten-
ton to live with her no longer, and
that such abandonment has continued
uninterruptedly for more than eigh-
teen months, and is deliberate and fl
nal and the separation of the parties
beyond any reasonable expectation
of reconciliation; that the plaintiff
has been a resident of Worcester
County, Maryland, for more than two
years past, while the defendant is a
nonresident of this County and State,
residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylva-
MAJ that the plaintiff does not know
the defendants present address and
the last address of the defendant
known to the plaintiff is Rittenhouse
Hotel, Chestnut & 22nd Sts., Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania; and that there
are no children as issue of said
marriage.
It is thereupon, ORDERED by the
Circuit Court for Worcester County,
Maryland, in Equity, this 10th day
of August, 1941, that the plaintiff,
Elsie B. Haring, by causing a copy
of this order to be inserted in some
weekly newspaper published in Wor-
cester County, Maryland. once in each
of four successive weeks before the
9th day of October, 1941, give notice
to the said absent defendant, Robert
Elwood Haring, of the object and
substance of this bill, warning him
to be and appear in this Court, in
person or by solicitor, on or before
the 22nd day of October, 1941, to
show cause, if any he has, why a de-
cree ought not to be passed as prayed.
JOSEPH E. BRIMER, Clerk
True Copy, Test: Jos. E. Brimer Clerk
Sept. sat.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-19
HARD LUCK BUT
POCOMOKE MAN
CAN TAKE IT
Jinx Follows Farmer Who
Claims Things Could
Be Worse

Through a series of unfortunate
incidents, which occurred within a
short period, Mr.. John J. Boston, of
near Pocomoke realizes "it could have
been worse" and feels thankful that
he was spared further disastrous
happenings.
Returning to his home one day re-
Gently Mr.. Boston found that bolt of
lightning had struck his barn and
killed one of his best milk cows but
he had a number left and the bolt did
not set fire to his barn.
CHANGING into his poultry house,
however, he found over six hundred
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-19
Friday, October IL, Al

at the hour of 900 o'clock A. M. to
execute the said Warrant, and to
survey the vacant land for the said
Calvin J. Evans, which is described
by the said Special Warrant as fol-
lows:
One acre, more or less, of vacant
land, situate lying and being in At
kinson's No.7 Election District of
Worcester County, State of Mary
land; bounded on the north by James
Whites land and the Government
Forest Preserve; on the east by FL
ton Powell; on the south by the lands
of Algie Mariner and William A.
Riggin; and on the west by the
county road, via Hollands Church to
Snow Hill.
w. Ballard Miles
Deputy Surveyor for Somerset COun
Sept. 1926.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-19
GODFREY CHILD. Solicitor

In the Matter of Tax Sale of real
estate in the Third Election District
of Worcester County, Maryland, as
sessed to George Robins, Joseph
Spence and the other heirs of Lizzie
Robins, deceased, for the years 1888
and 1889, and reported by Roger w.
Landlord, Treasurer of Worcester
County, Maryland, and Collector of
State and County taxes for said Wor-
cester County, Gordon c. Bowen, Pur-
chaser, ex parte.
In the Circuit Court for Worcester
County, Maryland.
In Equity.
No. 5245 Chancery.
ORDER NISI
The object of this proceeding is to
procure the ratification and confirma-
ton of the sale made on the eighth
day of July, 1910, by Roger w. Lank-
ford, Treasurer Of Worcester County,
Maryland, and Collector of State and
County taxes for said Worcester
County, of all that tract or parcel of
land, together with the buildings and
improvements thereon, situate, lying
and being in the Third Election Dist
riot Of Worcester County, Maryland,
fronting 81 yards on the County road
leading to Trappe and Synepuxent,
containing Sd of an acre, more or
less, and being the same land convey
ed to Lizzie Robins from Jacob Bred
dell and Leah Breddell, his wife, ct al.
by deed dated September 10, 1910 and
of record among the Land Records of
Worcester County, Md, in Liber 0. D.
c. No. II at folios 156, ct sea-, and
assessed to George Robins, Joseph
Spence, Thomas Spence and the other
heirs of Lizzie Robins, deceased, for
the years 1888 and 1889.
The said Treasurer and Collector,
having made report to this Court of
the said sale, with all proceedings
had in relation thereto, and after
careful examination it appears to the
Court that the proceedings are regu-
lar, and that the provisions of law in
relation thereto have been complied
with, it is, this 18th day of September
1871, by the Circuit Court for Wor-
cester County, Maryland, sitting in
Equity, adjudged and ordered that
notice be given by publication of
copy of this order in some newspaper
printed and published in Worcester
County, Maryland, once a week for
three successive weeks before the
goth day of Oct. 1871, requiring all
persons interested in the said proper
ty, so sold, to be and appear in this
Court, on or before the first day of
December, 1871, to show cause, if any
they have, why said sale should not
ho ro+;f;ad ond o0nfi ~, od
The Report states the amount of
sale to be Eighty dollars ($80.00).
JAMES M. CROCKETT
Judge
True Copy Test: Joseph E. Brimer,
Clerk.
Sept. 19.-3t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-19
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF
PARTNERSHIP

This is to give notice that the part
nership existing between Francis J.
Lloyd and Cynthia P. Blaine, known
as Lloyd and Blaine, at Pocomoke
City, Maryland, was on September
18th, inst. dissolved by mutual con-
sent, Cynthia P. Blaine having pur-
chased the business and all accounts
owing Lloyd and Blaine and having
agreed to pay all accounts owed by
said Lloyd and Blaine.
Given under our hands this Sep
TENDER 18th, 1871.
Cynthia P. Blaine
Francis J. Lloyd
Lloyd and Blaine
Sent. 19-1t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-19
OIL FOR AMERICA

AS an example of how American industry responds in an
emergency initiative the Socony Oil Company
tank barges place of its
which taken by the government While this
wolves higher helps relieve the oil situation in the East
as this company moving than $4,000 additional
oil day. and expects greatly increase that figure
This example of how the oil industry doing everything
possible abnormal situation There abundance OF
oil producing capacity the problem simply of ranspo
aton resulting from the transfer of tanker to Britain
American industry of it's votion has always moved
swiftly whenever situation The oil industry is eff
GENTLY performing the biggest jobs in it's history
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-19
GODFREY CHILD, Solicitor

In the Matter of Tax Sale of real
estate in the Fifth Election District
of Worcester County, Maryland, as
sessed to Lewis r. Hampton for the
years 1897, 1888 and 1889, and re-
ported by Roger w. Landlord, Treas
urer of Worcester County, Maryland,
and Collector of State and County
taxes for said Worcester County,
Elisha w. Hudson and Gladys V. Hud-
son Purchasers, ex parte.
In the Circuit Court for Worcester
County, Maryland.
In Equity.
No. 5247 Chancery.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-19
SURVEYORS NOTICE
VACANT LAND

BY virtue of Special Land War
rant issued out of the Land Office of
the State of Maryland under date of
August 10th, 1941, for and in the
name of Calvin j. Evans, Of Somer-
set County, State of Maryland, and
to me directed as Special Deputy
Surveyor, with residence in Somerset
County, for the execution of said
Warrant, and in compliance with the
laws of the State of Maryland in such
cases made and provided, l hereby
give notice that will be on the land
and premises on