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V L. J.XVI11 BRIDGETON, N. J.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917 WHOLE NO. 3549
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! AMERICAN LADY CORSETS
! THE LAVIN SHOPS
I“Where Economy Rules”
A Fresh, Delightful Variety of New
Fall Merchandise a! This Store
Women’s Suits, Coats and Dresses
That ac neve Distinction, Elegance, Exclusive
ness Garments that carry Fashion's- latent
thought. Note particularly the sofr fabrics,
i ticIV; ate beauties vviell lur—aiid ucrtauCa wilit
out tur.
Prices Range irom $12.50 to $35
Indescribably Handsome Millinery
$2.95, $3.95, $4.95, $5.95
In a new glory of color—of the tawny tones and
the vivid red and strong flag-blue. See them today
New, Preily Arrivals of Children's
Millinery at 75c, 98c, $1.25 to $2.50
WONDERFUL assortments of Fall Shoes, Waists, Dress
Goods, Silks, Gloves, Corsets, Accessories. .
THE LAVIN SHOPS
“WHERE ECONOMY RULES”
BIG PROPERTY
CHANGES HANDS
Oscar K. Whipple Buys
Fithian Property.
FINE PREMISES
Store and Residence Property!
Will Change Ownership In a
Few Days.
Oscar K. Whipple, the west side
druggist, has completed negotiations
for the purchase of the Fithian prop
erty at the northwest corner of Broad
and Fayette Streets. It is expected
that the deed will pass in a few days.
The purchase price is not made public.
The Fithian property is one of the
most substantial in the city. The big
brick building was erected years ago
by the late Robert J. Fithian, and for
years Mr. Fithian and his son, E. M.
Fithian, conducted a grocery store on
the corner and the residence was o«
cupied by the Fithian family.
Mr. Whipple purchases the property
for investment. He has no immediate
intention of occupying it himself. He
contemplates making some consider
able changes to the building and pro
viding desirable apartments there.
The corner store has for some years
been occupied as an office by Dr. W.
Leslie Cornwell.
The purchase made by Mr. Whipple
includes the shop on Broad Street oc
cupied by Dalbow, the pump man, the
large barns in the rear, the Maier
shoe repair shop on Franklin Street,
and the Sheeler butcher shop adjoin
ing.
PROSt CUTiON DROPPED
Prosecution was dropped last night
against Harry Bowers, charged with
stealing coal from the Central Rail
road company yard on his promise to
keep off the railroad property. He
was discharged from Justice Long’s
court.
Men Drilling for National Prepared
ess get great comfort from the use
of Allen’s Foot-Ea3e. When shaken
'i the shoes it takes the friction from
he shoes, fresnens the feet and makes
Talking easy. Gives instant relief to
red, aching, swollen, tenaer feet,
'sters and calluses. Also sprinkle
r In the foot-bath. p*'**iah and
reneh troops Use it. S-’’ lm
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BIB BOAT
ONEOF MANY
At the wharf of the Bridgeton Elec
tric Company lies the immense barge
“Patuxet”, discharging lumber for the
Cumberland Glass Manufacturing Co,
The big barge is owned by the
Southern Transportation Company
and is one of 85 great boats owned
and operated by the corporation. The
“Patuxent” has a capacity of 500 tons,
but many of the barges of the concern
will carry 1000 tons. There are be
ing continuously operated by the
Southern Transportation Company 45
barges carting coal between Newport
News, Va., and Sparrow Point.
In the Chesapeake Canal there is
all the while a boat of ihe Company
which is constantly busy hauling the
barges through the canal proper.
The Southern Transportation Com
pany handles a vast quantity of lum
ber all the time, and a part of their
wood product is groumd up in three
pulp mills owned and operated by the
corporation.
SIGNS TELL
SAVE FOOD
Two huge electric signs pleaching
the doctrine of food conservation will
be displayed on the north and south
sides of the Philadelphia city hall, as
the result of a suggestion made by
members of the food commission
which met in this city las' week.
The two signs, each forty feet long
by twenty-six feet high, will beai the
following inscription:
“Food will win the war. Don't
waste it. Use less meat and wheat.
Buy home foods. Serve just enough;
use what is left.’’
The letters on the inscription will
be five feet high.
In displaying these two signs Phil
adelphia will be taking the lead in
the matter of advertising food econo
my and the m'embers of the commis
sion are particularly anxious that the
electric feigns be displayed as soon as
possible.
NAMtD UtSTHUUOR
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J. Lawrence Pitt', now going to the
Drew Theological Seminary, has been
appointed Assistant Military Instruc
tor of Rutgers College. The duties of
the position will require two days
par'll wppIt
NEW HOME .
FOR PIONEER
Location of Offices No. 46
and 48 N. Laurel St.
NOW MOVING
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For a Liuie While the Standard j
of the Paper May Not Be
Maintained.
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Very shortly the Daily Pioneer will
announce that the Pioneer newspaper
printing plant and offices will be op
erating on the first floor of the build
ing Nos. 46 and 48 North Laurel St.
This location is just north of Church
Lane on the west side of the street.
Announcement is now made owiiig
to the fact that for a few days at least
the appearance of the Pioneer, and
mayhap the standard of the paper will
indicate the change that is for the
better. Moving a printing office with
its heavy machinery and vast equip
ment is not a slight task and especi
ally when each day a daily paper is
to be issued and once a week a week
ly edition, with the busy job plant
operating at capacity filling the many
orders that are upon the books.
The Pioneer has taken a long lease
upon the property Nos. 46 and 48 N.
Laurel Street, and is building there
an entirely new and model plant for
the Pioneer business. With a glass
frontage of 40 feet and a depth of
nearly 100 feet the offices will have an
immense floor space upon the street
level. There is a concrete basement
under all this great floor space, which
is also available for the use of the
plant, which adds tremendously to
the capacity of the place.
In taking possession of this prop
erty, the large rooms are being re
modelled to make the most modern
and complete printing plant in South
Jersey. The big power presses upon
which the newspapers and large book
forms are printed, will be in the base
ment of the print shop No. 48 North
Laurel Street. This makes an abso
lutely substantial foundation, and the
big presses can whirl away with
scarce a sound escaping and nothing
akin to vibration. The three job
presses wrill be upon the first floor in
the job department, and the linotype
machines and other machinery will
all be in the north room of the build
ing.
The business offices and editor'al
rooms will be in the street front of
No. 46, the south room, of the build
ing, with the composing room and ad.
setting department for the newspa
pers in the rear.
There will be no partitions or pri
vate offices maintained, the entire
floor being in the open and nothing to
catch or hold dirt or to aecumlate
rubbish. The new offices with the
broad glass front exposed to the east
will give excellent natural light.
There will be no steam power, over
head shaftings, belting, etc. All of
the machinery will be driven with in
dividual electric motors, so that there
will be a vast improvement over pres
ent conditions. The plant will be en
tirely operated by electricity and the
artificial lighting will be by loth elec,
tricity and gas.
The new location and the modern
plant will give the Pioneer opportun
ity to be greatly improved, and the
printing business will be augmented
by new equipment and new styles and
methods.
Just how long it will t>e before the
final announcement is made of the
change of location cannot be definite
ly fixed. It takes time and must be
done between busy business rush and
at night time3. It is during the mov
ing time that the Pioneer finds it ne
cessary to ask the public to excuse
irregular hours of publication and
sometimes appearances. This is don.‘
wijth the promise that the improve
ments to follow the moving of the es
tablishment will justify the effort and
fully compensate the patrons of the
office for any temporary inconveni
ences now endured.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER’S
C A T n R I A
RIGHTS OF
THE SOLDIERSi
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Am a Will Guard her
Men.
CIVIL RJGHTS BILL
j Bill to Protect Fighters From
Legal Injustices During Ab- I
sence Abroad.
Washington, Sept. IS.—Legislation
to protect the civil and property
rights of soldiers—in effect a mora
torium for the duration of the war in
behalf of men who are serving their
country on the fiirittg line—may be
placed upon the Administration’s pro
gramme for this session of Congress
as a necessary element of the raising
of a citizen army.
The Soldiers’ and Sailor's Civil
Rights Bill to carry out this purpose
' already has been introduced in both
Houses, hating been framed in the
j office of Judge Advocate General
Crowder. Secretary Baker, it was
learned today, has under considera
tion recommendations that the entire
weight of the Administration influ
ence be brought to bear to obtain
early enactment of the measure.
Service as a Legal Excuse
To save soldiers and sailors from
all kinds of legal injustices during
their absence from home, the meas
ure would enjoin the carrying out of
certain civil court actions until after
the close of the war, and establish as
a leg.J excuse for failure to carry out
certain contracts the fact that a man
is in the military service.
It is proposed that creditors’ suits
against officers or men may be held
up and judgment by default denied,
the framers of the bill recognizing
that a man in the army or navy
would have no opportunity to make
his defense in person or to arrange
or its proper hearing through coun
sel .
If such a judgment rested against
a man at the time of his enlistment,
the bill would prevent its execution
through the sale of his property dur
ing his absence. It would set aside
the statute of limitations so that a
debt owed to a soldier might not be
outlawed in his absence.
Would Prevent Eviction
It would prevent the eviction of his
family while he was away if they
failed to pay the rent. It would pro
tect his equity in any real estate or
other purchase contract in which he
might have been engaged at the time
he went into the army. It would pro
tect him against the ordinary results
of defaulted payments on business
mortgages and keep him from being
sold out in his absence. It would in
sure any rights he might have to pub
lic lands, although his service at th
front had prevented him front com
pleting the legal acquisition of the
property.
Another element of protection the
bill would accord to the fighting man
would be as to his life insurance,
which could not lapse through fail
ure to make any payment. His prop
erty also would be protected front
sale for taxes, and in every other way
in which the legal experts of the
War Department have been able to
devise all civil rights and interests
of men in the military service would
be safeguarded.
ROBBED THE BOAT
One of the oyster boats owned by
S. P. Fithian and B. H. Minch, which
has been plying along the waif in the
Cohansey, was stripped the other
night of all of the provisions aboard
her. A horn, a lot of flour ,.nd a quan
tity of other edibles were stolen.
Thousands oi Mothers Worry
When the children cry in their sleeo
are peevisn and constipated and take
cold easily. Mother Gray's Sweet
Powders for Children, nas for 30 yra.
been a trusted remedy in many thou«
sand homes. They frequently breals
up colds in 24 hours, move and regu«
late the bowels and destroy worms,
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91 CENTS
FGR TOMATOES
Thtt Higii Prici Yesterday
Here.
TOT MANY IN
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Host of the Tomatoes ore Going
to the Outside Buyers Now.
I From Daily Pioneer, September 13.
I Some one v sterday posted the fol
lowing note on the picture of a candi
date for Sheriff, down at the “Tomato
Exchange.” The note had no refer
ence to the picture nor to the candi
date.
“To whom it concerns:
“Get together and go down to
the tomato wharves and drive
those sharks away so the can
house employees can make their
bread and butter for 'his winter.
It is an outrage to business and
consumer.”
The farmers who are getting .the
good money for their tomatoes do not
thinks the buyers are sharks, by any
means.
Of course the women who work in
the can houses are the sufferers, for
every thousand baskets of tomatoes
carried away means that much less
work for these women,
j Yesterday tomatoes came in quite
freely but there was but little conges
tion of teams, for buyers were on
hand with the rash at all times.
The price was all the way from 75c
a basket to 91c a basket.
Some of the local buyers are fortu
nate in getting some loads at a less
price. As an instance, one local buy
er was in the market all last week
and bought a big lot. He stated yes
terday his purchases just averaged
44c a basket.
For all the high quotations there
has not been any great congestion of
tomatoes at any time, as in years not
so long passed, when Water Street,
Vine Street and Cottage Avenue in
the Third Ward, have been packed
with loaded teams for two squares,
and watchmen would hate to be kept
there all night to guard the wagons
when farmers were compelled to take
their horses home and leave the load
ed wagons on streets. The same con
ditions being on Bank St. and Grove
and Eagle Streets.
At the same time, it can be remem
bered how the thousands of baskets
were stacked along the wharves ready
for the boats and barges.
These things go to prove that the
tomato product, notwithstanding the
anticipated high prices last spring, is
not up to normal in this locality.
The prices now being offered by
buyers certainly goes to bring every
tomato forward that is ripe enough to
pick.
At Greenwich yesterday tomato- s
1 were sold as 94 cents.
oflir o chop
Burlington county farmers are har
vesting the last pickings of the most
profitable tomato crop they ever have
‘grown. Although the area planted
was bigger than usual and the yield
was above normal, the price lias nev
er during the season gone far below
75 cents a basket. Some of the finest
specimens have been grown in the vi
cinity of Lumberton, where Oeorge
Bowne has been marketing a variety
that average over two pounds each
in weight.
SELUNlfPOULTRY
Chicken owners are getting rid of
their stock in an alarming manner be
cause, they assert, it costs more to
keep them than the returns show. A
dealer shipped more than 100 crates
of hens in one day, and the same
dealer paid one man $700 for h's en
tire flock. There has been an txtra
demand the last few days for poultry,
with rising prices, for the Jewish
holidays.
Children Ory
FOR FLETCHER S
. C _A.SLX.Qj LA
COUNTY S.S.
CONVENTION
Held Here on Wednesday,
Ociober 17.
CENTRAL CHURCH
All Day he-.-ioii With Eminent
Speakers t > Make the Ad
t'r f m
The leaders of the Cumberland
County School Association take pleas
ure in informing the public that the
coming Convention will be one - f spe
cial interest. The best musical talent,
has been secured and speaker of wide
influences have been engaged to make
'the program very attractive.
It is possible to announce part of
the program at this early date. The
following noted sneakers will be pres
ent: Mrs. F. C. Everett, Tren'on, and
J.
Miss Edna Earle Cole, of Xew„rk, ex
pert leaders in Elementary Grades;
Rev. Raymond R. West, General Sec
retary N. J. Baptist Conven 10:.; Rev.
Frank D. Law r nee, of Moorestowm;
subject, ‘‘Manning the Church to To
morrow.” J. H. Wright, Suite Presi
dent; Judge Allen B. Endicot , of At
lantic City; subject, ‘‘How May the
Adult Bible Class be of Greater Bene
fit to the Whole School'.”; Howard J
Gee, of East Orange, will have a spe
cial message for pastors and Superin
tendents only. This meeting will be
held in the lecture room of the First
Baptist Church. Mr. Gee’s subject is
"The Challenge of the Times”. The
evening speaker will be the R v. Wm.
A. Waldo, D.D., (he successful pastor
of the First Baptist Church of Pater
son, X. J., who will speak on “The
Present Day Sunday School.” Mr.
Isaac B. Burgess, General State Sec
retary, will have a helpful message.
Let every Sunday School scholar
and worker reserve Oct. 17th, for it
will be a big day.
H. G. DOOLEY,
Secretary
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