Newark post., January 09, 1918, Page 5, Image 5

About Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969

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PERSONALS
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Dean Robinson attended a meet
ing ot the Council of the Women
National Farm and Garden Asso
ciation in New York City last
week. At the meeting plans
made for placing units of from five
to fifteen women on farms in sev
rai states. This plan proved very
ccessful in both New York and
Massachusetts last year.
Lt. <J. G.) F. H. Dean, U. S. N.,
is spending a five days leave, at
Linden Hall.
Lt. F. C. Hollingsworth, S. O. R.
C„ enroute south, spent several
days last week with his fiancee,
Miss Bessie Whittingham.
Miss Alice Beck has returned
after a vacation spent in Pitts
burg and Atlantic City.
Miss Edith Lewis spent the
week-end with relatives at New
Castle.
Mrs. E. C. Wilson entertained a
number of friends at a knitting
party last Friday evening.
Conrad Lewis, Joe Rhodes, and
Francis Brown are taking work at
Goldey's Business College, Wil
mington.
Lt. M. R. Mitchell who has just
completed the six weeds' course at
the Officers' School in Machine
Gunnery, at Fort Sill, Ariz., is ex
pected in Newark tomorrow, where
he will spend a six days' leave, be
fore reporting to Camp Lee, Va.
Mr. J. Raymond Blackson of Ap
pleton, has resigned from the em
ploy of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company and accepted a position
with the Edgemoor Iron Company
as superintendent of the Traffic
Department.
Miss Alice Blackson entertained
over the week-end at her home in
honor of Miss Ethel Campbell of
Newark.
Harvey Buck, of Port Deposit,
a graduate of Tome Institute, has
entered the Sophomore Class, Dela
ware College, this week.
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Dance In Old College Hall
The local chapter of the Sigma
Phi Epislon Fraternity held its an
nual dance in Old College Hall
last Friday. The hall was dec
orated with college banners and
the banners of the fraternities.
The electric lamps were softened
with shades of purple and red. A
feature of the decorations was the
fraternity house service flag with
fourteen stars.
Make Campaign
For Subscribers
The staff of the new' college
paper, "The Women's College Re
porter,'' is making a campaign for
subscriptions,
even- girl in college a subscriber
and as many outside subscribers
as possible. The paper, published
every other week, will include not
of the Women's College,
The aim is to have
only news
but also accounts of the activities
of women all over the State. The
first number was published before
Christmas, and the next will be is
sued Thursday, January tenth.
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Begin the New Year Right
Do your shopping inWilmington and do part of it at Lippincott s.
For the next two weeks, we will have our Annual Sale of
Clothing for the entire family. Wonderful values will be offered.
Blankets and quilts at bargain prices while they last. If in need
of home furnishings, now is the time and this is the place to get
them, rightly priced.
Dress Goods priced far below regular during this sale.
Our Shoe section is fairly alive with active buyers. _
of shoes, see ours before purchasing elsewhere. In fact, all of
departments offer big values during our stock-taking sale.
prompt and careful attention , and the
all purchases.
If in need
our
many
Mail orders given
famous pink stamps given
on
LIPPINCOTT & CO., Inc.
Wilmington, Del.
306-308-31 0-3 12-314 Market Street
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Dance And Box Social
Announced '• b
The Guild of St. Thomas Church
v ill hold a dance and box social on
Friday evening, January 25th at
seven-thirty. The committee in '
charge extends a cordial invitation
to everyone.
College Women Take
Patriotic Pledge
Before leaving college for their
Christmas holdiays, the following
pledge was signed by practically !
every member of the faculty and j
student body of the Women's Col
lege.
To Do My Share Of Patriotic
Service
1 I will cheerfully change my
habits of eating so as to substitute
other foods for wheat, meat,
animal fats and sugar. ' ' !
2 I will exercise every possible
care to reduce the amount of coal i
consumed for fuel or electric light.
B I will give careful attention
to exercise, diet, sleep, dress, and •
personal habits
4 I will work to contribute my
part to make up for the with
drawals from industry of large
numbers of men for the army.
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5 I will aid war philanthropies. ;
6 I will try to meet the varied.
events of the war with patience,
calmness and optimism.
Knee-deep in the snows the Old I
Year sroes
In a khaki uniform, |
With a sword and a gun and a
blanket roll,
And a tent to keep him warm.
The music of bells o'er hills and
In siilverv cadence floats
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With the stirring sounds of the fife
and drum,
And the bugle's martial notes.
A motor hums, and the New Year
come%
A girl in overalls,
With a bag of tools and box of
luncb
The New Year—1918
Closing Out Sale f
AT COST OR BELOW COST |
Entire Millinery stock to be sold before January e
25th. Great reductions for bargain seekers. o
MRS. A. R. CARLISLE f
NEWARK, DELAWARE
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A. & L. JENNY
TEMPORARY STORE
907 ORANGE STREET
25 Per Cent. Reduction on all Furs.
Also a very liberal reduction on Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats.
After alterations are completed, 203 W. Ninth St.
by
As the factory whistle calls:
'• b or women will sow and reap and
hoe,
And drive the ships and cars,
And turn the wheels of the mill
that man
May follow the stripes and stars.
—Leslie's
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INTERESTING ST A
TISTICS QUOTED
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By V. R. Allen, President
Corn Growers' Asso
ciation
V. R. Allen of Seaford, Pres
ident of the Delaware Corn Grow
ers' Association in session at Mid
dletown, last" week, relative to the
work of the Association said,
" There has been an unnecessary'
cr >' ma d e b Y some people that our
! association, by its educational
methods, Would bring about an
i overproduction of corn and there
fore the grower would receive a
reduction in prices. I do not be
• li©ve that this will be the result,
and think I can substantiate ray
£ lai ™ ^ s0 ™ fi * ures f
Twenty years ago,
1898 - the Umted States p'anted m
rol > nd numbers 77 000,000 of acres
and produced a little more than 1,
; 000)000 000 bushels 0 f corn,
an
of 24.8 received for this
average
Grop 0 f corn an average of 28.7
cents per bushel.
"In 1915 the United States
planted more than 106,000,000 of
I acres which produced almost
000,000,000 bushels of corn,
| average of 28.2 bushels per acre^
a and with this large crop - -1 -
Per bushel, and to the farmers was
more than doubl( L th< ? pnC ® *
them in 1898. o ie ex< c
growers received on an average oi
57.5 cents per bushel. And during
1898 with corn worth less than 29
i»jö, wnn u»« VYU . , no
cents per bushel, we exported 9 2
P er cent of our crop.- .
1915, with corn wor ■
per bushel, we exported only 1.8
P er cerd; of our crop.
of "What do these export figures
indicate? Some say that we are
an
letting Argentina and other coun
tries take our export trade of corn
from us. But to me it looks as if
we are developing markets at home
by feeding a larger portion of our
corn which pays and will help to
retain the fertility of our soil bet
ter than to export our corn.
"During 1915 some of the export
trade brought about by feeding
our corn at home was that we sent
out of this country almost 500,000,
000 pounds of lard; more than 9,
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CARL RANDALL
In the latest New York Princess
Theatre Musical Comedy Produc
tion, "OH LADY, LADY!"
Playhouse, January 15-19.
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Open
8.30 a. m. * *
Close ..
5.30 p. m.
Saturday ' *
6 p.m.
The Smith-Zollinger Co.
FOURTH AND MARKET STREETS
WILMINGTON, DEL.
The January Clearance Sale
—of—
Coats, Suits, Furs, Dresses
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;; gains in interest as more of our customers come down and realize the importance of the savings;
" the style and fashion of the garments are up-to-date, yet conservative; the materials and making
are the best.
Serge Dresses now $10 Serge Dresses now$12.50
were $13.50 and $15.00
Only about twenty-five of these good all
wool serge Dresses—some pleated models,
and in navy, green and black. Now $10.
were $16.50 and $18.50
All-wool, excellent quality serge Dresses
in good models, some pleated, in green, blue
or black.
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Satin and Silk Dresses
Reduced to $13.50 and $18.50
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Were $16.50, $20.00 and $25.00 each
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Very handsome dresses that will appeal to you especially at these new
Before Christmas these sold for $16.50, $20.00 and $25.00—in the
prices.
Clearance Sale choose at $13.50 or $18.50.
$22.50 and $25 Suits ] $16.50 ::
and
1 $19.50 ::
Handsome Suits
that were up to $49.50
including sport materials and !
all wool Poplins and a few
Broadcloths
two lots reduced to
Here's Your Opportunity to
Get a Fashionable, Good Looking Suit
well suited for every' day, office or street wear
at a big saving.
Choose these $22.50 and $25.00 Suits
$23.50 and $32,50
!! Stylish, genteel models of high quality, well
;; lined and carefully tailored from the nicest
;• materials. Suits of distinction at very worth
• • while reductions.
at $16.50 and $19.50
Warm Winter Coats of latest style
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reduced from $22.50 and $29.50 to
$16.50 and $19.50 each
You'll find fine quality', all-wool materials of splendid warmth and in stylish models. Some
fur trimmed. All the wanted colors. Regularly were from $22.50 to $29.50. Now reduced to
, $16.50 and $19.50 each
Women's and Children's
Warm Winter Underwear
and the Winter Season has just begun
You'll find here the best assortments of good underwear in the State.
Merode have just come in.
and high winds.
Quality and fit are the best consideration in underwear--warmth of course,
the high standard of our underwear it is necessary to raise the price a little,
prices will be much higher later on, so you will be wise to buy now.
Men's Grey Fleece-lined Cotton Shirts and Drawers, 75c a garment, and we cannot
duplicate these today for less than $1.15 a garment.
New shipments of
It will pay you to keep warmly clad in these days of low temperature !•
To maintain "
Indications are that ••
The Smith-Zollinger Co.
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Wilmington, Del.
Fourth and Market Streets
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KENNARD & CO.
Muslin Underwear Sale
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We are offering some striking values i
MusliVi Undergarments.
While impossible to enumerate all, we mention the following, which
can be taken as an index of the whole offering :
Lace-trimmed Envelope Chemise, $1.00, from $1.25 ; $1.25 fro
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$1.50.
Neat lace-trimmed Envelope Chemise, 85c and $1.00 styles»
now 75c.
Fine tucked lace Gowns, $1.75, from $2.25 and $2.50.
Lace and medallion trimmed gowns, $1.75 from $2.50.
Real Irish lace-trin-.med Gowns, $3.25 from $4.50.
Good staple styles of good grade Gowns, neatly trimmed, $1.00,
from $1.25.
A few French batiste Gowns, $2.75 from $3.75,
Lot of Marcella Drawers at new prices.
Lot of Corset Covers and Combinations have bee
Middy Blouses, size 6 to 16 year, 75c each, from $1.00.
repriced.
Other Offerings
Wonderful values in high-grade Furs.
Top Coats, two-piece Suits and Dresses at pronounced reduc
tions.
We solicit charge accounts from those of established credit,
and prepay delivery charges on all purchases within a reason
able distance.
KENNARD & CO.
621-623 Market Street
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Wilmington, Delaware