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OAktiiLL COMMUNITY

Delaney's' March 17-Mrs. B. F.
Paynter has returned home from
Dover hospital following an auto
mobile accident in which she sus-
tanned a head fracture, is improv-
ing slowly, but still under the SUI
pervision of the hospital. Her
friends hope she will continue to
improve and soon be out.
Mrs. Elizabeth Simpler of Colt,
Md, is spending some time with
her daughter, Mrs. Paynter and
family.
Mrs. George R. Walton of near
Massey, Nd, spent weekend re-
Gently with relatives and friends in
Wilmington.
Masters Bruce and Jackit Walton
visited their aunt, Mrs. Emma How
ell, at Colt, Md.
Master George Walton, Jr., is
visiting his grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Byron Paynter.
Miss Doris Walton was a recent
guest of her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. j. H. Walton.
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CHESWOLD

Items of Personal anu Social In
est Gleancd about Neighborhoed
ChesWold, March 17-Mrs. Addie
Luff had as her guests Saturday
MIR. and Mrs. James Tribbitt and
two daughters, of near Downs
Chapel, Mrs. Mary King, of Ches-
ter, Pa, and Mrs. Cora McCrystal
OF near Cheswold.
Mr.. Leland Massey spent the
weekend with his mother, Mrs
Marion Massey.
Mrs. George Anderson was the
guest of Miss Rhoda and Mamie
Mastin recently.
Miss Clara B. Rash entertained
Mrs. Addie Luff Sunday afternoon
Junior hamburger of cambridge,
Md, Of the service, had a nine-day
furlough with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John hamburger.
The Homemakers Club will meet
with Mrs. Lille Cooper on Friday
March 10. A good attendance is
desired.
Mrs. Cora McCrystal and son and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton Nc
Crystal and sons, of Pearsons, have
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CLAYTON NEWS
AND PERSONALS
Budget of Items From Our
Railroad Town and Their
Personal Mention
CHURCHES AND SCHOOL

Trinity Episcopal Church, Clay
ton: Evening prayer service ano
sermon, p. m. in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. w. S. Keys.
Mrs. John R. Hopkins spent last
Wednesday in Chester visiting hei
sister.
Mrs. w. S. Collision spent Thurs
day in Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Hudson
and family spent the weekend in
Georgetown.
Mrs. John t. Johnson, Mrs. w. S
Collision and Mrs. R. H. Hollett
spent Monday in Dover.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hopkins OF
Bridgevile, have ben visiting Rev
and Mrs. j. C. B. Hopkins.
Mrs. ]. w. Ford is spending some
time with her daughter, Mrs. Bel
in Pleasantville, N. ].
Mrs. ]. T. Johnson entertained
her sewing club Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Emma Meredith of Dover
has been visiting her sister, Mrs
Herman Sevil.
Mrs. Bessie Cain of Baltimore
Md, is visiting Mrs. Annie Wheat
man.
Mrs. P. R. Smith spent Wednes-
day in Wilmington.
Mrs. Leslie Wheatley is spending
sometime with her parents at Ok
ford, Md.
Mrs. Nan Sullivan is spending a
few days with her daughter in
Washington, d. c.
Mrs. Charles Stewart spent Tues
day in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Russell Massina spent sew
eral days with Mr. and Mrs. Har-
vey Boggs.
Mrs. Charley Denney and Miss
Betsy Ann Denney spent Thursday
in Philadelphia.
Pvts. Earl Ely and James Good
ing visited their parents over the
weekend.
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CONFERENCE

This is Conference week, begin.
ming with to-day. The eyes of the
Peninsula are therefore turned OF
Middletown and will be for the en-.
suing week. The official program
gives the following as the order Of
anniversaries: First night, 14tt
inst; Educational Society, w. L
Gooding, Chairman, Rev. ]. P. Otis
speaker.
This Wednesday evening, Church
Extension Society, John H. Hof
fecker, chairman, Rev. A. ]. Ky
nett, speaker
Thursday at 2,30 o'clock, Wo
mems Foreign Missionary Society
Mrs. ]. E. Tompkinson, presiding
Miss Fannie Sparks, of India
speaker. In the evening, Confer
ence Missionary Society, Hon. B. I
Biggs, chairman, Chaplain McCabe
speaker.
Friday, 2.30, Conference Histor.
ical Society, Rev. B. F. Price, pre-.
siding: History of Chesapeake dis.
trict, by Rev. N. M. Browne; His.
tory of Delaawre District, by Rev
H. S. Thompson; Methodism in
Middletown, by Rev. N. M. Browne
Sunday, 8 a. M, conference love
feast, led by Rev. j. B. Quigg
1870 a. M, preaching by Bishop
Merrill, D. D., L. L. D., followed by
ordination of deacons; 2 p. M,
ordination of elders; p. M, Temp
erance Anniversary in the Opera
House, Walter H. Thompson, chair
man; 7.30 p. M, Veterans Ami
versary, P. H. Rawlins, Chairman,
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One Pair of Horses

HOGS - Seven Brood Sows and
Six Pigs.
Harness, Collars and Brides.
FARMING IMPLEMENTS, &c.
MISUNDERSTANDING FarmallTrac-
tor, tractor cultivator, Case 14-in.
tractor plows, tractor disc harrow,
cultipacker, 3-section spring-tooth
harrow, Oliver manure spreader,
Mccormick Deering drill, John
Deere Push Bar hay loader, almost
new; MISUNDERSTANDING binder, g.
ft. cut; Blount Rotary Hoe, Rock
Island sulky pillow, 3-horse Broaley
pillow, MISUNDERSTANDING sulky Gull
tivator, Low-down wagon, Prov
sled corn cutter, cement block ma
chine, Hayes 4-wheel corn planters,
grab hay fork, roller spike-tooth
harrow, saw bench and circular
saw, lot of cultivator teeth, forks,
shovels, Hammer Mill, nearly new;
Gram Tan set of scales, lot of hot
bed sash, lot of Hays Iron Pumps,
lot of blower pipes, and many other
articles too numerous to mention.
DAIRY FIXTURES = Four-can
Wilson electric milk box, milk cool
err, Universal milking machine, mo-
tor and compressor; IL 40-qt. milk
cans, buckets and strainer.
Ford Pickup Piano.
Terms-Cash
r. III. ARMSTRONG
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SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
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impression all around as a good
fellow to tie to when something is
needed to be done.
H. Shindel, of Lancaster, Pa. was
the guest of Mrs. ]. S. Gearhart
this week.
The members and congregation
of st. Paul Church, Clayton, to the
number of about sixty, made Rev.
R. K. Stephenson call at the par
sonage in this town on Monday ev-
ening, spending several hours in
social intercourse and adopting a
set of complimentary resolutions.
Rev. Mr.. Wilson was presented
last evening by his Sunday-school
Bible class, with a handsome silver
gravy ladle.
Perkins d. Brown has been in
Philadelphia for the past week try.
ing to get on the U. S. Training
Ship, st. Mary's and expects to
have his papers in a few days.
Misses Grace and Eva Swinney
are visiting friends and relatives in
New York and New Jersey.
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Born in New York
Rockwell Paints
Small Town America

NORMAN ROCKWELL, fa-
IN nous American artist, who
lives in the frosty Vermont hills
and captures on canvas the heart
and spirit of America as exempli-
fed by its small towns and their
rugged, independent inhabitants, is
a native New Yorker, born at 103rd
Street and Amsterdam Avenue, New
York City. Today, with his wife, the
former Mary Rhodes Barstow, and
their three boys, he leads the rigor-
GUS outdoor New England existence
which begins for the family early in
the Vermont morning.
Nanette Kutner, in the February
issue of Good Housekeeping Mag
azine, gives an intimate glimpse of
the life of this noted artist and his
interest in the family,
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BLACKBIRD
tIems VI Personal anu Social In
leresI uleanel From the Vicinity

Blackbird, March 17-Mrs. Percy
Switzerland of Lewes, is spending
this week with her grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Weber. They
also had as Sunday guests Mrs. Ro-
land Burchard, Shirley and Betty
Burchard of Odessa, and Mr.. Good
win Garrison of Smyrna.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin Pearson at
tended a dinner at the home of
their son at the Cedars near New
port on Sunday in honor of another
son who is to enter the service
soon.
Mrs. Clifford Pryor had a cover
ed dish luncheon at her home last
Wednesday for the ladies who are
sewing at her home every Wednes-
day in March.
Mrs. Pryor entertained Mrs. Pugh
and daughter Jane of Glenolden,
Pa, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Mitchell,
Mrs. Percy Switzerland, Mr.. w. A.
Watson 3rd, and Miss Ruth Watson
were Wilmington visitors on Mon
day.
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as their guest for a few days Mrs.
Mary King, Sr., of Annapolis, a
former Cheswold resident. The Nc
Crystals are also entertaining little
Harvey Singleton, nephew of Mrs.
Clifton McCrystal, while his mother
is receiving treatment at Kent Gen.
eral Hospital.
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THE STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION

CONVENTION
The Sixth Annual Convention of
the State Sunday School Conven-
ton was held in Smyrna on Thurs
day and Friday last. All the early
morning of the first day the rain
came down in torrents, preventing
the people in most country places
from taking the trains, thus losing
that day and some possibly alto
gether, as a number of homes that
had been assigned were not filed
by guests. Yet the Convention was
quite large one.
Before the business service, Prof.
John R. Sweeney, of Chester, con-
Quoted a song service, during which
Rev. M. P. Fixes, of Dover, prayed.
The session was presided over by
Joseph Pyle. A committee of
three, which was composed of Rev.
T. E. Terry, v. Hysore and w. o.
Hoeffcker was appointed to present
resolutions on the death of the late
B. F. Murgatroyd, former men,
Der of the association. The COM
mittee on credentials was composed
of w. H. Jakes, of Wyoming, and
TT. H. H. Messenger, of Whining
ton. Rev. w. w. w. ilson delivered
the address of welcome, to which
President Pyle responded.
The report of Treasurer E. A.
Finley was then read and showed a
balance of more than $50 in the
treasury. The secretary's report
showed 397 schoolsl in the State
with a Membership of $4,000. Char
les H. Cantwell read the report of
William K. Crosby, president of the
New Castle County Association.
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of mind in matter; that this false
sense evolves, in belief, a subjective
state of mortal mind which this
same so-called mind names matter,
thereby shutting out the true sense
of Spirit.
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j. Benson Hamilton, speaker.
Monday, Up m, memorial SER
vices; 7.30 p m, Anniversary of S.
S. Union and Tract Society, Isaac
Jewell, chairman.
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the divine Mind, and that Life,
Truth, and Love are al-powerful
and ever-present; that the opposite
of Truth,-called erro, sin. sick
ness, disease, DEATHS the false
testimony of falsle material sense,
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Once great passenger trains had the
right-of-way.
and they wiN again!
But right now there is war to be
won. So trains vital to the war effort
get priority.
And we don't think there is single
American who would have it otherwise.
In fact, evidence of that grows daily.
IF their train is late, business men take
it as something that can't be helped.
They know why.
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Dead or disabled horses, cows
and mules removed FREE of
charge by calling DOVER 5595.
No animals removed unless call is
made Immediately and no animals
dying from a contagious disease
will be removed.
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"a lot OF storekeepers in town are worry.
ing about being able to get help these days.
Judge Men are mighty scarce and gettin'
more so all the time"
II know Even the big companies are
having quite job getting them. Yep. and
they need 'em too. Take the beverage dis
filling companies for example. :. they need
a lot of manpower. Though they're not
making whiskey any more. they're doing a
24-hour-a-day job of turning out alcohol for
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gun powder and synthetic rubber tor the
government
Makes me think back to the days before
repeal when a powerful number of people
were making liquor. too only they were
bunch of law-houting criminals doing it
behind closed doors. And the government
wasn't collecting billion dollar excise tax
either Ever stop to wonder where the gov
eminent could get all its war alcohol today
if it weren't for the beverage distillers?"
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH

Report of Church Services Fol-
Next Sunday
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Wilmington, at Park Place and
Van Buren, Street: morning service
IL a. m, Sunday School IL a. M,
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80 Cows & Heifers

Guernsey and Holstein, T. B. and
Blood Tested. Some are Pure Blood
Registered Guernseys. Registered
Guernsey Bull, some close spring
ers, and with Calves by their sides.
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NOTICE

R. w. Slaughter, Auctioneer
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facilities are adequate but there's not
always time.
But Americans are taking all this like
good soldiers. For they know this is a
war of movement, and that movement
begins right herein Ameriaa.
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And so with any travel inconvenience
that may be encountered. Demand for
equipment is now SO great that on
arriving at terminals cars must be put
right back into service, SO you may
find them not quite SO spic and span
as we would like. Housekeeping
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-18
Sports Programs
CurtoiIed by
Eost's Big Three

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Feb. 18
-(R)- The suspension of the
Big Three's traditional athletic
programs for the duration has
been decreed by the presidents
Of Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
In q joint statement, released
by President James Bryant Co.
nant of Harvard, the heads of
those famous Eastern universe
ties cited their agreements that
1.-The continued maintenance of
athletics as usual is no longer
feasible"
I'VE have recognized the ne
cessity of drastic modification
In our schedules of intercollegi-
ate sports" DR.. Conant's state
ment said. "ve hope to continue
some such sports upon a restrict
ed and informal basis, but re-
alize the extent to which this
can be accomplished must de-
pend on the plans of the armed
forces and the Office of Defense
Transportation. as we'll as upon
the revised calendar and enroll
ment in each institution con-
cerned."
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May Be Lifted
Big Ten Expected
to Abroeote Rule

CHICAGO, Feb. ID - (R) -
The wartime athletic picture of
the Western Conference was ex-
pected to undergo considerable
retouching-- including abroga-
ton of the Freshman rule-at a
special meeting here Sunday.
No public announcement Of
the meeting was made, but it
was learned authoritively that
athletic directors would meet
then and that recommendations
would be made to declare Fresh
men eligible for varsity compe-
tition for the duration. Faculty
committee approval was expect
ed 10 be forthcoming.
Enlistment of many athletes
and the call TO duty of many
others who r Army r~eservists
was believed to have left the
conference little alternative. In
the last war, the conference also
suspended the Freshman ban.
Another probable topic of dis
cussion was 1913 football sched-
ules in relation to Mondays an
nouncement by directors of the
Army and Naval aviation physi-
cal training programs that the
pre-flight schools would contin-
ue competitive sports during the
war.
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Official Plans
Morning Comes
for War Workers

MILWAUKEE, Feb. 10 (P)
-Enterprising Bill Veeck. the
young owner of the Milwaukee
Brewers whose innovations have
helped triple his baseball clubs
home attendance, has pulled an
other one out of the hat he
doesn't wear.
He's going to put on morning
American Association baseball
games for night shift war work
ers.
Hatless and sport-shirt clad
Veeck has been making the
rounds of industrial plants and
selling the idea to their execu-
tives. and wherever he preached
the idea, he said, he was greeted
with enthusiastic response.
"There're all or it," he said.
1--WE fell that we've got a Job
to do. One reason for basebali's
existence in wartime is to pro-
vide recreation for. war workers.
SO we are going TO make il pos
sible for all of them TO see some
games.
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Three Teams Register
Slams in Minor Loop

Three sweeps in four matches,
including one by league leading
McEvoy Motor Sales, marked
play last night in the Monitor
Leader Minor League at Bowl
O-Drome. BY shutting out
Glefke company, McEvoy ex-
tended its lead owe Salters
Market from six to seven games.
Salter's had TO be content with
a 81 win over Koppitz.
The other slams were regis
tered by Cities Service over
Johnson's Service and First Ma
tional Bank over City Dairy.
Les Frederick of McEvoy had
623 for high series, while high
game of 246 was recorded by
Emmett Quinn of Cities Service.
McEvoy topped the teams with
925 in 2703.
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sey in the 18th round. SO it did
not surprise me when the freak
ishly built Cornishman knocked
out jim Corbett for the heavy
weight title six years later.
Having secuted Jim Jeffries
in a rather unsatisfactory per-
Torrance against Bob Arm
strong in New York, Aug. 5
1898, Fitzsimmons took him for
a soft M when they met at
Coney Island the following June.
Jeff knocked out Fitz in the
18th, beat Tom Sharkey in rs.
and caught up with Jim Corbett
in the 23rd round of a dramatic
match before boxing was killed
by fiascos in both New York and
Chicago.
So when Sunshine Jim Coff-
roth came east with the turn of
the century, met Big Jim Ken
nedy, and programmed the gold
en- glove days in California, he
had the field all to himself.
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Down Headpin Lane
Big IL League Roee
Tiqhtened Further

The slide rule and pencil may
have to be brought out to deter
mine the champion of the Mont
tor-Leader Big IL League this
season. The spirited scramble
was frightened further last nigh,
at Bowl-O-Drome when Car
ling's and j. c. Jarchow came
up with slams.
Carvings, in second place, shut
out Kreiner Grocery to gain on
pacemaking Miller Bros. Cream
cry, which dropped one game to
Rae's Shoes. Jarchow moved
into fourth place by blanking
Bar SO. Meanwhile, j. g. j,
Novelty, in third place, bowed
twice to U. S. Engineers, Rene's
Hi-Speed took the odd game
from Johnnie's Bar and Kraft's
Hi-Speed won a pair from Owls
Club.
Individual honors went to
Harry Gahlau of Johnnie's who
had a 234 game in a $50 series
while team honors we're taken
by Rene's Hi-Speed which hit
944 in 1927. Both of these
scores were second high for the
season.
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Famous(age
Coach Is Dead
Notre Dame Loses
George Keoeon, 81
SOUTH BEND, IND, Feb. Ia

SOUTH BEND, IND, Feb. ID
-(P)-Death has ended the
brilliant 20-year basketball
coaching career of George E.
(Doc) keogan at Notre Dame.
The So year old Irish mentor,
who was discovered in an OBJ
scure coaching job by the late
Knute Rockne, died suddenly in
his home last night of a heart
ailment.
Keogan had just returned to
South Bend with his squad from
an Eastern tour and although he
had been forced to curtail his
activities since a severe heart at
tack two years ago, he had not
been ailing recently and his
death came as a shock. He had
conducted practise for the Irish
cagers during the afternoon. He
was at home reading a newspa-
per when he slumped over and
was dead when a physician ar
rived.
His sudden death came as the
Notre Dame quintet, beaten only
once in Is games this season,
prepared for its clash with the
strong Great Lakes team Satur-
day night in Chicago. The Irish
cagers have seven more games
on their schedule and the coach
ing duties were expected to be-
t;ken over by Keogan's assistant
and former star player, Ed
(Moose) Krause.
During the 20 years Keogan
has coached at Notre Dame, the
Irish cage teams maintained q
III average, winning 327
games, losing 96 and tying one.
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BY BILLY {

Great fighters too frequently
are remembered by future gen.
erstions as they YER in the sere
and yellow of their careers, Of
ten as they appeared in making
tragic last stands.
This is especially true in the
case of John l.. Sullivan. The
popular conception of Sullivan
today is the rather round vet
Gran who finally fell from ex-
hauStion in the 2lst round of his
match with the sWifter and
younger jim Corbett.
| saw Sullivan in several starts
while he still was the Boston
Strong Boy. he was we'll built,
fighting best at about 100
pounds and standing S feet 1012.
He Wore a little black mustache.
He had high cheekbones and
sunken cheeks.
Sullivan was taught to box by
a Negro, who was the first box
ing instructor at Harvard. He
was a fine, stand-up fighter, as
clever a heavyweight as you
would care 10 see. He knew how
to feint, and had the best one
two punch you ever saw.
Sullivan was first to discover
that the point of the jaw was
vulnerable. He was first to
punch at the point OF the jaw to
score a knockout. Until then,
fighters aimed for the temple, or
for a point in back of the ear.
II was also a pleasure TO watch
the other two Jacks of that era
Dempsey the Nonpareil and
McAuliffe. They, too, came up
through the bare knuckle and
skin tight glove days, and were
aggressive as we'll as evasive.
SMITH AND McFADDEN
/ managed the two toughest
and toughest fighters | ever saw
Mysterious Billy Smith and
Elbows McFadden. | learned all
the tricks from this pair.
I've always said Smith was
the toughest fighter l ever saw,
but I'm drawing a line as fine as
a silkWorm's thread, for McFad-
den could also dish it out in
large quantities. .
Smith was the only fighter
who had Joe Walcott's number.
They met a half dozen times,
and, while record books may not
agree to the letter, Smith had
the best Of Is, 20 and 25-round
battles.
l recall Walcott showing up
for n match with a long pistol
in his back pocket, and Smith
saying that even if he used that
it wouldn't do him any good.
George Dixon was an amazing
little warrior of the early days.