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DEVOTED TO fJfJl WHOLE COMMUNITY—NOTJIISQ ELBE OE LE88 VOL. XIII. NO. S3. WATERTOWN, CONIC. AUGUST 27, IMC TWO DOLLAR* ME* YKAR. Thieves Enter i | Civic Union New Books Added "Hoodlums" Active Local Hornet Field Day to Watertown Library Once Again Sometime between Saturday eve- Plans are progressing very rapid- WHO'S WHO THIS WEEK The following is a list of new A gang of Hoodlums, who have ning and Monday morning thieve* ly for the Annul Field Day pf the books which have recently been figured in making it unpleasant for forced their way into the residence Watertown Civic Union which will placed in the Watertown Library. anyone conducting a dance or a of Charles B. Buckingham ,on De J. B. Ames—Lone Hand be held Labor Day. On Monday eve- Mrs. Edward Kellty and Miss Miss Leona Keilty and M. J. Sep- party in the Community Hall on Forest street, ransacking the house ning about 30 members of the gener- Elisabeth Kellty are spending this ples have returned from a month's Donn Byrne—Hangman's House other occasions was active again from top to bottom and making off al committees held a meeting in the week at Bantam Lake . trip to Denver, Colorado. Donn Byrne—O'Malley of Shang- on Saturday evening when a private with loot of very little value. Girls Club Booms and the progress amagh party was being held In the lower Sidney KIlBHde of Stamford is Mr. and Mrs. William R. Smith The Buckingham family baa been reported by the various committees hall of the building. Five youths, visiting his sister, Mrs. Francis are living in their new borne on Sophia Cleugh—Ernestine Sophie. spending the past two weeks at was very encouraging. some of (hem decidedly under the Flynn. Main street. J. O. Curwood—Black Hunter Fisher's Island, N. Y. and their home J. Galesworthy—Silver Spoon influence of drink tried to force their Besides the various track and Joseph Hanning Is enjoying a two Arthur P. Hlckcox and family are has been closed up during their ab- 'M. K. Hall—Diary of a Lady of presence into the party despite the field events a game is be- weeks' vacation. enjoying a motor trip through Maine. sence. The place has been under Fashion objections of the ones who were ing arranged between the Water- Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Murray of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. the supervision of Mr. Buckingham's conducting the affair. The youths town team, entrant in the City Lindhurst, N. J., visited friends in Postmaster J. V. Abbott Is spend- F.. H. Lea—Dream-maker Man gardner, George Nichols, who dis- were requested to leave the place, League in Waterbury, and the town over the week-end. ing a vacation, visiting friends In Sinclair Lewis—Man-trap covered the break on starting work and falling to do so the door was Sacred Heart nine, also a member Lloyd Seaver Is spending a vaca- Boston, Mass. H. Melville—Moby Dick or the on Monday, morning. On entering locked on them. Aggravated by the of the City league. The visitors tion in the Adlrondacks with his Whale the house he found the butler's pan- Mrs. J. Gunning of Long Island is refusal they receied when they were possess one of the best teams in father and sister, Miss Abble Sea- J. T. Moore—Miss Thornton Goes try In a mussed-up condition and on visiting Miss Minnie Hanning at about to enter the hall they forced the league and a good game is look- ver. ' her home on Highland avenue. Out. a more thorough examination through ed forward to. J. T. Moore—Hearts of Hickory in the lock on the door and started the house found every room com- Ray Boden has purchased a Ford Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Black and to clean up the. party. For a time The American Legion Band of through Olson's Watertown daughter. Miss Marjorle Black have K. N'orris—Black Flemings pletely ransacked. Constable Harty Waterbury will furnish music for I. Patterson—Fourth Queen fists were flyling thick and fast and was called in on the case and Mrs. garage, local agents for the. Ford been spending several days at Ban- a regular gang warfare was in pro- the affair, starting in on their work car. ^ • . tam Lake. M. Pedlar—Tomorrow's Tangle Buckingham was notified. Later ini at 12:30. . M. J. H. Skirne—Shepherd East- gress. The intruding hoodlums re- the afternoon, Mrs. Buckingham ar-| Another event la being planned on's Daughter ceived much the "worse of the ar- rived and in a check-up of valuables | for the afternoon of the field day LEGION TO DI8PLAY WAR TRO- REPUBLICAN CAUCU8 TONIGHT M. Webb—Precious Bane gument and when'they saw the beat- found that the thieves had neglected which should prove to be a banner PHIES V. VVhltechurch—Dean and Jecin- ing their leader was netting, beat to take the valuable pieces of silver, attraction. Nick- Altrock, well- The first political caucus of the ora a hasty retreat. taking composition table ware and known baseball commedlan and his The American Legion is expect- year will be held tonight at 8:15 , Non-Fiction Compfaint has been made to the some jewelry. Thousands of dollars j partner Al Schacht, are scheduled ing the trophies which it obtained o'clock in the town hall when the W. Durant—Story of Philosophy authorities anil it Is expected that . •worth of valuable silver. Imported to appear on the program and go from the war department to arrive Republican voters of the town will Bruce Barton— Book Nobody warrants will be issued for their Bilks and four fur coats were passed through their many stunts. Altrock, at any time. The list Includes Ger- elect delegates to the state, sen- Knows arrest. It is not the first time thnt. up by HIP robbers, giving the au- who is a member of the Washing- man equipment—sabers, rifles, hel- atorial and county conventions. The Kale Rosenberg—How Britain is these young men have caused con- thorities the belief the work was ton Americans Baseball team is well mets and a machine gun. The post state convention will be held in Governed siderable trouble around the com- that of rank amatuers whose main known throughout the country and has not definitely decided where it N(-\v Haven, at which time nomina- V. Van de Water—Present Day munity building and other public hunt was for money, they not know- his services are greatly in demand. will keep this exhibit but It hopes tion* \\<\\l be made for the governor Etiquette places in town, and each time no ing which pieces of silver were of There also will be a dance in the to keep it at its rooms at. the and lieutenant governor. Four dele- Byron—Poems art ion WHS tuken atcninst them. It value. • . " ' Community Hall in the'evening and Community building. gates nre allowed from Watertown W. S. Davis—Day in Old Rome seems they haw taken the attitude . Entrance to the home was gained the entertainment committee Is Five representatives of the local and in past years It has been, cus- Marco Polo—Traveln that they are privileged characters by means of a skeleton key in open- buaily engaged in arranging special post are attending the state conven- tomary to send as two of these dele- H. Kephart—Our Southern High- about the town and can do as they ing the back kitchen door. No win- features for the evening also. Indi- tion at Now Haven, Thursday, Fri- gates the representatives to the lands • . • please. I'nloss they are curbed for dows were found open and no auto- cations point to one of the best day and Saturday of this week. state legislature. Watertown's pres- E. A. Sanford—History of Con- this offence it will only be a matter, mobile tracks were found in the field days ever staged by the They are Commander Ralph Bran- ent representatives are S. McLean necticut of time before they will repeat, the driveway. Two young men were Civic Union and .the various com- son, Adj. John Rowe, Granville Buckingham and William C. Hun- M. Sullivan—Our Times—Turn of performance of Saturday evening." A seen hanging around the premeais mittees are putting forth . every Leeke and Ralph Pasho. gerford. It now seems probable the Century. stiff line together with a 30 or fiO- and Constable Harty is looking for effort to give the Watertown people The post will also furnish a driver that Gov. Trumbull will be renom- day jail sentence imposed on each these gentlemen as he thinks they a day of real pleasure for the car which it recently pur- imited for the governorship and that one might-serve to teach then? a les- can explain the break. Someone chased lor Miss.Wheaton. thf only contest will be for lieuten- School Bells son, which should be done at this, familiar with the house and the lay ant governor, and John M. Wadhnms time. FLOWER 8H0W of ToiTlngton. will probably have in the Distance of the land pulled off the job and in Memory of Henry In less than two weeks time the their haste to get uway several vaV the. solid backing ol' Litchfleld The annual chlldrens'. flower show county. . '. schools of the town will open and WOODBURY HIGH HONORED uable clues were left behind for the Skilton Honored held this afternoon at 2:30 hundreds of children will take up The conKresslonni convention will Miss Klizabcth Fowler, graduated authorities to work on. Harty has Mr. und Mrs. Arthur N. Skilton o'clock at the Civic Union play- their duties again of trying to mas- be* held in Waterbury, at .which time from Post's Waterbury business col- been busy on the case since the and Mr. and Mrs. William Coutts crnund. The first flower show, held ter the three R's. The summer has Congressman Glynn will, be a can- lege, has a position with the Otis break was discovered and an arrest, attended the Skilton family reunion, last year, was a successful one, and been' a time of usual hours of pleas- didate for nomination.* No other Elevator company and Miss E. Eve- is expected anytime. the 61st annual, at the Community though It has been necessary .to ure and recreation, a little work and candidates are known to be in the lyn' Wheeler, also a graduate of the .11 in Watertown .Aonv.W.edn_e8duy, postpone .the show this year twice' some restraint, in which the boys field. college^ha* apposition at the Judd the 18th. Mr. Skilton was re-elected on account of the stormy weather, and girls. have equally joined. Per- TWO ACCIDENTS DURING WEEK The senatorial convention for tho & Puflri- Insurance office, in Water- to office of treasurer of the asso- the children have not lost their in- haps a doll has now and then been IN WOODBURY 32nd district is held In Woodbury bury. The pictures of these two ciation, a position which he has terest. substituted for the baseball bat but and - four delegates are elected to young' Woodbury ladies are to be Herbert Hirsch, riding his motor- held for the past 30 years. Three members of the Watertown the same implements are' largely this convention. ' seen in a circular sent out this* fall cycle, was in collision on Sunday A huge tablet of bronze, bearing Garden club, Mrs. F. B. Whiteome, used by the .two sexes, such is the . At this caucus members of tin from the college. Under Miss Fow- afternoon with a Marmon car driven the inscription, "Henry Skilton, rev- Mrs. S. T. Buzzee and Mrs. S. Kel- custom nowadays. . Republican town comittee are also ler's picture is her standing at the

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The tale- sult of the latest researches at the Tbe commissioner of police for St of tbe Mwriffli't' mine wss ascribed Boyai Society of Tropical Medicine Thomas is M. J. Nolan, former cap- to him. Chinese cooks In the gold and Hygiene, London, for tbe vene- tain in the New York police depart- country who had walked with Bret i mous little insect pest has Its uses ment in charge of the West Thirtieth Harte and fed Mark Twain shook in the sacred cause of healing. street station. New York methods their sncient heads in honorable dis> The mosquito In fact is. In certain have put the damper on St Thomas' cases, a "doctor," and be has been intentions to support home industries Bert Warrington of this city took able to do. In cases of general paralysis and have Its own little crime wave. a chance. Craftily, cannily, he tind and mental diseases, what human doe- "There Isn't a crook of any kind hi Silver made their surrey. Now the tors have been unable to accomplish St Thomas," Commissioner Nolan said whole region of Brightman's flats alone. So that -the patient need not upon his arrival. "It has become so bristles with their claim stakes. They feel too grateful to the little pest. It quiet down there that I'm ashamed to believe there Is gold In the Stanis- must be saM at once that "healing" go around and collect my salary." laus river gravel. They have posted Is no part of tbe mosquito's intentions, iii order not to feel guilty of a their notices and filed their papers. for when he inserts his needle-like holdup, Commissioner Nolan said he .Even now the shafts are being sunk proboscis In tbe flesh of the patient waits for them to send bis salary to that will teU them if their dreams are selected for biting-treatment, he fond- him. to come true. ly imagines he is pursuing his old On a visit to the Virgin Islands six Hew He Discovered It trade of "infecting." And this. In a years ago to see his son, Dr. Roger Silver says it all started-14 years way, he Is doing—although his en-Nolan of St Crotx, he told St Thomas ago. He was wandering around In ergies are now being directed by mod- officials of New York's methods of the High Sierra of Tuolumoe county ern science. cleaning up the underworld. At the when* there came a call for help from Produces Malaria. time pickpockets, thieves and holdup bis brother in 8on Jose. Silver and It has been found excellent results men bad an open season all year his partner started out immediately. have been obtained in otherwise "in- round. The officials extended an In- Down the Stanislaus river they curable" mental and general paralysis vitation to Captain Nolan to apply went along the trail that leads over cases where the patient has become these methods. Sonora pass, to Brightman's flats, 50 infected with malaria, for when the He came, he saw, he established a miles east of Sonora. Here they malaria germs have been conquered dead-line, bought new uniforms for the camped for the night While the recovery from paralysis follows In tbe 40 members of tbe police force and partner was saddling tbe pack mules majority of cases. "Doctor Mosquito" In two weeks tbe crime wave disap- in the morning Silver, in true pros- Is, therefore, being called In to supply peared like a marcel In hot weather. pector fashion, panned a little gravel the malaria. The ordinary doctors The only trouble left, to the police, in the river bed. Tiny and scattered will do the rest Commissioner Nolan said, "Is that but unmistakable was the gleam of At the Horton Mental hospital at neither my force nor I have anything gold. Silver's great dream was born. Epsom Surrey there hi a "mosquito to do." He pushed oo to San Jose, helped . room," where Prof. P. O. Shute, gold his brother and started back for the medalist of the College of Pestology, SUB FROM ABOVE gold country. To his dismay, there- rears, with tender care, from 800 to was none to believe him. He knew 500 fine healthy mosquitoes, sll guar- that gold could be wrested from that existence rests heavily on the shoul- case," be tells his wife when he goes anteed to bite ferociously, and able river bed, but the experts smiled. ders,, of those who have it in their home. "You should have heard me to Infect you with any disease de- Engineer Takes a Chance. sired. Details of the case, for which •HAT goes on behind the power to make or break It. They talk It over with the judge afterward. Warrington, a civil engineer with grasp at any favoring evidence. I said to him . . . and he agreed a "loan" of good biting mosquitoes Is some knowledge of mining, finally de- 'locked doors of the required, are sent to Professor Shute, jury room? How do Not long ago, In a case tried In the with me." cided to risk it Painfully, almost Criminal court of New York, some Some peewees even bring their and he proceeds to prepare his "pets" inch by inch, they went over the terri- twelve men, sitting in for the ordeal. Judgment of evidence men were accused of having thrown wives to the courthouse, so that those tory, digging and panning. They pros- on which rests the a waiter out of a hotel window. The ladles can behold them as they stride In normal paralysis cases, about pected the side streams, Eagle creek* fate of a human being, strongest witness for the plaintiff was majestically Into the box with the air SO will do, though sometimes 200 are Cow creek, Niagara creek, and others, deport themselves? a woman who testified that she had of a toreador who Is ab,out to confront required. Shute sees his "pets" get a but found no gold. It existed only in. Lawyers and judges seen the act committed from her room the bull. good feed from a person suffering the main valley of the Stanislaus. can't tell you because they are barred window at a distance of about 100 Then there Is the "Jury lawyer." the from malaria (this may be a bit pain- After months of labor, they filed their from jury service. No one is supposed feet The Jury had been out for hours. man from the business World, who, In ful for the malaria patient, but it claims In Sonora. to know but the jurors themselves. They seemed hopelessly deadlocked. his college days, took a course in law. helps to remove the. virus, so Is cura- Graybeards of the gold country link . But Information leaks out, and in Half of. the men were unwilling to He remembers Just enough of Black- tive even In his cose). When Shute their venture with the legend of the many cases eavesdroppers have over- believe that trie woman could have stone to be convinced that he knows Is satisfied his mosquitoes have be- Mexicans' mine. The story comes heard the entire proceedings In sup- seen so far; the remainder were dis- more of the legal aspect of the trial come thoroughly Infected with ma-, down from the days when the Jumping posedly sealed jury rooms. posed to accept her testimony. The than the lawyers, and sets forth his larla he sends them to the Institution frog of Calaveras was still a gay dinner hour came and the controver- knowledge In a lengthy oration. . Recently a Jury was deciding the which has asked for them. young blade, and bad never tasted sy was temporarily brought to an end. Many a time It Is the member with Fe«d~on the Patient buckshot in his life. fate of a murderer. The case had at- When the court attendants saw the a prejudice who forms the stumbling tracted national attention. All through On arrival they are allowed to en- Two lowly Mexican sheep herders- guarded jurymen return from their biock in the way of a peaceful settle- joy themselves biting a person suffer- wandered into Sonora one morning the night and on Into the morning the evening meal they sighed, expecting ment; perhaps his prejudice Is re- jury remained out. When: the twelve ing from paralysis, though the bites with nuggets valued at $15,000. Peo- an all-night session. • ligious/perhaps racial. are carefully regulated by the doctors ple tried to vain to solve tbe mystery men finally filed out of the stuffy room Last, but not least, there Is the with their verdict they were amazed Tbe twelve returned to the jury in charge of the case. One day, per- of where they had discovered them. room. The night was hot and sultry. naturally stubborn man—the bugbear haps 80 mosquitoes are loosed on the to see morning newspapers, printed of every Jury. several hours earlier, carrying news Like caged animals they paced back patient, the next day perhaps only 60. and forth, snarling and snapping, for In civil suits one of the difficult On the fourth or fifth day he may-only French Women Sail of the verdict they were about to an- problems that confront Jurors Is the nounce. It was "Guilty," and the they wanted to get home. One man have tq entertain 30 or 40. Boat 1,700 Mile* stepped to the open window for aawarding of just compensation In per- newspapers said "Guilty." The only sonal Injury cases. Here prejudices When the patient is first bitten his Paris.—Two noted French arche- part of the proceedings the papers breath of air. Bright lights were shin- temperature rises as high as 105 de- ologists, both women, have Just pub- ing In a printing establishment more of all kinds enter. Many are the lacked was the penalty. tricks the gentlemen of the jury plaj grees Fahrenheit and It Is allowed to lished a book on a remarkable'voyage Investigation later revealed the than two blocks away. Every move- remain at that until ten readings have ment of tbe typesetters was plainly on one another in tbe settling of they have made. Alone on board a method by which the newspapers thus these disputes. On one occasion a been taken. Quinine is then admin- little 24-foot sailing boat the Per- had "scooped" the -jury Itself. A re- visible. "Here, you fellows, look 1" istered, the malaria Is treated nor- His companions crowded around him. woman sued a trucking company. lette, of the same type as that in porter, using a physician's stethoscope Her Injury was slight, and wamallys , and when It disappears the which their fellow-countryman, Alain applied to a pipe connecting with a In less than half an hour the jury was symptoms of paralysis disappear with This smart piece of photography of one mind. largely due to her own carelessness, Gerbault crossed the Atlantic, Mar- steam radiator In the Jury room, had It, in the majority of cases, at any shows the submarine 0-8, of Uncle tha Oule and Hermlne de Soussure Any one familiar with Juries and most of the JuVy felt. Eleven voted been able to overhear practically ev- to give her 1500, the twelfth held out rate. Sam's navy, as It appeared in thehave covered some 1,700 miles in the erything said In the room above.. De- jury duty will tell you that, with striking maneuvers off Block Island. rare exceptions, the men serving in for $1,000. "Let's compromise," spoke Lieut Col. 8. P. James, advisor to Aegean sea. cision as to the guilt of the defend- a man having Initiative. "Every one tbe ministry of health on tropical dis- The two women started from Pi- ant had been arrived at by the Jury criminal cases are tremendously con- scious of their responsibility. "There of us will write down the sum we eases, declares that as a result of Crop Area Fall* Off raeus In Greece, and visited Asia just In time to allow the reporter to think should be given her. We'll total giving malaria to patients suffering Minor, doing all the work themselves, inform his paper before the presses Is a genuine effort to be fair," to quote a man who has served In both crim- the figures and divide by twelve." from general paralysis, a new field as Population Gains in port as on the high seas. started rolling for the final edition. In They agreed. Much to the surprise of has been found for research Into the Washington.—For the first time in Mile. Oule has just obtained her de- three more hours the jury had fired inal and civil cases. "The Juror in a Criminal court feels the gravity of the twelfth man the answer was $500. terrors of malaria In the tropics. history there has been a decrease In gree at the Sorbonne and is well the penalty, but the big news already •I don't believe It has occurred to him tbe crop area of the United States. known for. her. excavation work In was out. the situation/Not so, however, the one in a civil court. In the civil case that I put down zero," the speaker Girl Saves Farmer Despite a marked increase in popu- Crete, where she has discovered the The secrecy that envelops the de- later whispered to his companions. lation, there was a reduction in the ancient city of Mallla, which had dis- bates held within the frequently hid- his human qualities enter Into play- Hampton, N. H.—Eighteen-year-old he Is prone to be swayed by prejudice. Justice and fair play are, on theLeila Redman Is a heroine here fol- last five years of 19,000,000 acres hi appeared. Her comrade, Mile. De- eous, dirty, smoky Jury room has a tbe area of harvested crops, the De- Regarding the seriousness with whole, the rule of the; game, says a lowing her rescue .from certain death Soussure, Is also a noted archeologlat, fascination for almost any Imagina- business man who has served on seven partment of Agriculture has disclosed who has worked In Greece. tion, says the New Tork Times. Just which the Juror takes his responslbil of Thomas Cogger, farmer, who, Ity when he Is called on to Judge be- Juries. "Several .times I have heard in an analysis of the agricultural cen- what brought the decision In such a caught In the cutting edges of hissus statistics. Notwithstanding the tween right and wrong, the well-known It discussed how a large verdict could mowing machine, was being dragged Postmaster General Out rase? What were the facts that be rendered with the probable chance decrease, the crop area still is suffi- tipped the scales In favor of a defend- example can be cited of a dozen who by his panic-stricken horses. went out to determine the guilt or that the court'would permit it to stand cient In the opinion of department to "Teach" Addressing ant whom all the world thought guilty? and not set It aside, A well man who experts, to maintain a large volume Even Judges themselves are curious Innocence of a youth accused of grand Washington.—Lack of street and larceny. They began to talk tne mat- depends on his health and strength Solon Rescue* Woman of agricultural exports. number addresses on tetters has be- about the workings of the Jury's minds to make hl« living for himself and Washington.—Senator Robert N. The 19,000,000 acres have reverted —for It is of many minds. . ter over before the guard had fairly come such a drag on the postal serv- closed and locked the door. They family, which Is the position.of nine Stanfleld, Oregon, risked his life in a to pasture or have been allowed to lie ice that Assistant Postmaster General "I'd like to hcnr those,, fellows de- weighed what the lawyers Had snid, out of ten Jurors, cannot measure In successful effort to save a drowning idle, the cause being attributed Bartlett has begun a general cam- liberate," once said adjudge, who hud they spoke of the cast In the defend- his own mind the amount of damages woman in a heavy undertow off Ocean chiefly to the agricultural depression paign to educate the business public 'charged.countless Juries. ant's eye; • they removed their coats that would compensate for the loss of City, Md. of the last five years. In the necessity of giving complete "You cnn, your honor," spoke-tip a and, as their conversation became such health. Largely as a result of the war-time uddresses on all letters. Postmasters court attendant." "There's a crack In more .heated, their collars. . They A man was Into by a motor prices, about 40,000,000 acres of pas- have been, requested to take up the the wall where we often listen to 'em. puffed great clouds of blue smoke ture land were plowed up and put Into subject with advertisers In their I'll take you there." car that was driven without proper into the dense atmosphere. regard for the rights of pedestrians. crops between 1009 and 1919. and cities with a view to having a com- Somewhat Incredulous, the JmlKe fol- Paris Now Wearing about 5,000,000 acres of forest land plete address appear In all advertise- lowed hlK guide. The crevice was After four hours they were still He was Injured so that he could not do any hard labor that required him Jewelry of Rubber cleared for crops. Nearly half of this ments In newspapers and magazines. found. • He placed his ear to It. talking. "Let's tnke a vote," at last total,' experts believe, was used to spoke up a self-constituted leader. to be on his feet. The evidence Paris.—Rubber Jewelry is tbe. Loud voices Issued forth; "What abstraction of tbe moment De- meet the increased European demand make* you. believe that?" "It's not No one had thought of that before— seemed conclusive as to the injury. He was a naturalized citizen. One of signed for wear at the beaches, for foodstuffs. Owing to the extraor- so!" "You.-' "I—" "Who said soT* they were all novices at criminal Jury dinary demands of the war period, the "The Judge." "Well, what does he duty. Every mother's son of them his own race was on the Jury. The Its popularity bas caused it to $200 in Will for Cat; foreman asked this Juror what he appear even on tbe boulevards acreage of crop land In 1919 was near- know about It. the old fossil T". Wrote "guilty" on the page that he ly ten years ahead of what had been Relatives Get Rest j» tore from his note book! thought was fair under the circum- in the form of multi-colored "I think I have heard enough," said stances, and the Juror answered: "His the previous rate of expansion rela- New York.—"I give and be- J, his honor, removing his ear from the Gentlemen of the jury fall into cer- bracelets. For beach wear Im- lawyer will want at least $2,500; It tive to Increase of population. queath unttoo tbtb e NeN w YorYkk AX> opening—which, by the way, was tain distinct: types. The .moist amus- itated pearls of rubber composi- ing of them Is the one who,-In the has probably cost the man about $2,- tion . or wood, bracelets and Women's League for Animals A sealed up soon after. 000 thus far for the loss of time and $200 for the sole purpose of A On how slim a thread the life of a vernacular of the courtroom, Is called anklets are chosen. Plotted Path of the the "peewee." - He Is a very small for expenses. If be had $10,000 in Buttonhole bouquets of rub- taking care of my cat Bunny," A man hangs only those know who have cash he could buy a little business on read a provision In the will filed A, sat around the table In the sealed person at home, and In his place of ber for wear with beach cos- Hurricane by Radio business no one listen* to him. It is which he and his wife could support tumes are also in high favor. Washington.—The use of the radio for probate In the Surrogate's A- chamber. The slightest circumstance themselves. So I should say a verdict court of Miss Cecelia Romaln A may save a man from or condemn him when he gets Inside of a Jury room Earrings are a conspicuous compass hi plotting the course of a that he has his' Innings. of $14.r»00 would be fair." The Jury part of the Parisian woman's Stinson, who died hi Belleaire, A. to prison; yes, and even the chair. awarded him $15,000. storm has been revealed by an experi- The weight of another human belngV "I was the guy that decided that scheme of self decoration this ment made during tbe recent hurri- L. I. § summer. Tbe long pendants cane which swept the West Indies and- Miss Stinson, whose estate Is A which disappeared for a time the coast of Florida, according to a estimated to be worth more than o Egypt and the Near East was greatly remark: "I bave no pane now, dear are back In more exaggerated $11,000, made bequests to the 6 mother." One carried this warning: statement from tbe Navy department Eugenie Used Canal First strengthened. Not only was France form than ever. Long drops of Lieut E. H. Klncstd, navigator of American Society for the Pre- curbed but the British nation re- •The driver of this bus Is s Guy's chased crystal, jade or coral, ventlon of Cruelty to Animals, hospital student. The conductor is a the navy transport, Klttery, plotted The Empress Eugenie of France ceived an Investment that has more ^nearly touching the shoulders. the hurricane by taking bearings $ tbe Blde-A-Wee Home for Poor was one of the first passengers taken than quadrupled In capital value Guy's hospital student The police- |*-are much... seen . at the .race Cats- aad-AnlmaU; and an addl- ^' man-Is a Guy'»hospital-student Any while tbe srihj'was on the way from- through the Sues canal when it was daring the years that have elapsed. courses where'Paris' smartest Port^Au-ErJnee. Haiti, to St Thomas, tional legacy of $500 for the officially opened to traffic in 1869. She one .who throws a brick will be a women congregate. i Women's League for Animals. Guy's hospital patient" Virgin Islandsr" "He^took»tbe^bearJngs_ was aboard the first vessel passed . Humor During Strike Jet earrings the size of brace- of the point of heaviest static and ^^Qarollne Virginia Moyle. through. Disraeli's purchase of the Signs on some of, the omnibuses lets were worn recently at Au- trom this data computed tbe. center' "daughter^of shares In the Sues canal which had manned by volunteers during the Lon- Too Busy j | teuil. Their.- size and weight Seth Moyle," Archie—Do you think you - ronid of tbe sweeping storm. Checking this been held by the khedlve of Egypt on don strike took on a humorous tone. ! I made suspension in the ears Im- with later weather reports, he found The residue Is divided among November 28.1875. wss considered his Bald one: "A stone In the hand Is learn to love me? |j possible. relatives. Alice—No; I have as much as I eaa he hsd accurately plotted tbe path boldest and timeliest stroke. By this worth two In the bus." 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Robert Moss* (Lefty) Ore** of with large red flowers printed there- Palladriphli. A. I*, has arrived at last on. It incorporates a flowing scarf and Bone of the baseball critics are Tbe question of the moment In a Moused waistline. drdes sartorial is—what changes are calling bin another Babe WeddeU. WNUSOTto* This pitcher from the port site has to be Inaugurated for autumn? It U Reports of the Paris openings are beaten tbe Yankees four tiiMS this generally felt that then will be more being broadcast around the world, and Vflfa year. That's enough, It seems, to p«t of elegance and Intricate style, that supplementing these are tbe New York him on a pedestal with the boat left- the Moused back and the more elabo- autumn fashion shows to aid in speed- If I were asked what one fault handed pitchers of the game such rate hat are certain to be featured. Ing the new season on Its way. If you rendered the Interior of many homes southpaw (lingers as Waddell. Eddie Beyond that no one cares to predict have scanned the accounts of these Ineffective. I think I would say, too Plank, Rube Marquard and Bone asserts a Paris fashion correspondent openings In tbe past you will realise many small pictures on the walla. A Rlxey. His record of earned runs per hi the New York Herald-Tribune. that they cloud, rather than clarify, living room of noble proportions, with game Is the best In either league this The Pariglenne, having found a slim, the style situation and that ail you ample wall spaces can be. utterly season and far better than his record youthful line eminently becoming and eventually glean from them is a maxe spoiled by being dotted—yes, dotted of games won and lost practical for all purposes of a life of conflicting Ideas. is the word—with pictures ranging 1 On the former his sudden promi- that 1* filled with diverse occupations, There are several reasons for this. from ten to eighteen inches In site. nence rests. He was off to a bad start refuses to be persuaded to adopt any In the first place, as far as Paris Is Such small pictures as this are en- and fortune frowned with back turned, other. During the Grande Semalne concerned, midsummer in the bay-mak- tirely out of proportion to a room of not once but several times. at all race meetings, garden parties, any fair dimensions, especially if there Grove In one of the four baseball privute receptions and balls it wan are no big pieces of furniture to rise players who changed clubs for $100,000 the blender silhouette with the skirt against the wall space and help to fill or over. Babe Ruth, of course, holds, just covering the knee, a little longer it up. The dignity of a spacious liv- the record. The New York Yankees In the cuse of older women, with suf- ing room is lost without at least one paid the Boston Red Sox $137,500 for ficient fullness to permit freedom of or two large ' mural decorations, or the slugging outfielder, Heinle Oroh movement, that was the right one. even more, unless there are a good cost the (Hants In the neighborhood of Of course, some Individual* ap- many windows to break tbe wall $120,000. while the Chicago White Sox peared In full bell-shaped skirts, and spaces. paid $100,000 for Willie Kamm. a few In the picture gowns of the Not long ago I nat In a beautiful Connie Mack Is authority for the early eighteen thirties. There are al- home where the entrance ball, living statement thai the Athletics gave the way* certain' women who Ignore fush- room and dining room opened Into Baltimore club $100,600 for Lefty Ion and create a mode for themselves. each otlier with wide rough-plastered Grove late In 1024. For a time this During the recent weeks In Paris, arches showing no woodwork what- sensation of the International league however, they were out of harmony ever. There were very few small looked like a poor investment. He was with the picture. pictures on the walls, and what there Photograph shows a boxing pose of Gene Tunney, who has started ; with Jack Dempsey to be held some an ln and-outer last season, mixing The uneven hem Is destined to be were had been gathered together In training at Summit. N. J., for the bout up good streaks with bad streaks. a sign of chic during autumn, espe- a well-arranged group that had the time In the near future. This year the judgment of Connie cially for evening and afternoon value of a large picture. Over a Mack Is being justified. It Is too early, gowim. It gives a chance to the wom- long divan against one wall was a It seems, to rank him with such pitch- an whose ankles are somewhat short color print In quiet rich tones. It Manush Makes Good ers as Rube Waddell and Eddie Plank, of perfect, and helps her to have a but he Is a rugged fellow, and In his short skirt that still .provides some of left-handed way may yet deserve gen- the kindly veiling usually only pos- eral recognition with the greatest and sible In a long one. "Babe Ruth," says a sports writer, best The same may be said of asymmetri- "is no longer the entire Yankee team." When John X McGraw paid $11,000 cal effects. Some of tbe most success- • • • for Rube Marquard back In 1906 and ful Prix des Drags and Grand Prix Wilbur Cooper, left-handed pitcher, $5,000 for Chief Myers, the , gowns bad the fullness cleverly ar- was unconditionally, released by the the baseball world rocked over the ex- ranged so that on one side it had a Detroit Americans. travagance of the New York club. Such greater Importance than oh tbe other. • • • a price for a pitcher and a left-hand- This Is a touch that at once gives a , Ike Kahdot, shortstop of the Ard- ed pitcher at that, was unheard of. drew the atmosphere of the haute formed a background that had the more (Mass.) team, made nine asslsU John J. was charged with showing couture, for It breaks away from the effect of a tapestry. It hung low above and seven putoaU without .a miss in scant consideration for the funds In uniformity of the little straight gowns the couch and was nearly as long as his control. For two years Marquard. that are turned out In the thousands that piece of furniture. « recent game. by dressmakers of lesser grade. • • • like Grove, was up and down—mostly Over the stone mantel at the other While it may be true that Ruth has down—and fingers pointed to' him as Two-Pleee Jumpers Popular. end of the room was a long dusky fallen off In his home-running, you'll a horrible example of mistaken judg- Two-piece jumper dresses, though oil painting, a copy of a master. In notice the boys aren't passing any- ment and misguided seal. But Rub* less In the forefront of the picture another broad wait space bung an body else to get to him. Marquard eventually justified McGraw for town dresses, still carry off the oriental rug, with a massive carved • • • by developing Into one of the beat palm where sports clothes are con- Printed Chiffon Evening Gown, White chair below It There was an en- The 8t Louis Cardinal pitchers left-handed pitchers In tbe history of cerned. • Background, Large Flowers. tire absence of petty pictures. baseball. He repaid tbe Giants for the practice control by lining up before a Two-color effects have been much If small pictures are used In spa- original outlay a hundredfold. • • used In the latter part of the season. Ing season of the propagandists. Paid cious rooms, they should not be •wall at ^regulation throwing distance observers carefully watch each Parts mod aiming at certain spots. These need careful treatment for it strecbed at regular Intervals here and opening and seise the merest sugges- there over the wall, but gathered to- • • • Is not every one who can achieve the Golf Balls in Collision results that seem to come naturally to tion of their particular theme to gether Into panel-shaped groups, or Although Babe Ruth is near tbe top rashly announce Its unquestioned perhaps hung In the narrow spaee •of tbe American league batting race a Paquln, a Lelong or a Worth. The While Soaring in Air two-color scheme, however, Is an Im- vogue. Thus If only a single model between two windows. They should and is far ahead of home-run sluggers, Harry Manush, better known among An extraordinary golfing freak oc- In the Worth collection were to em- never be flung meanlnglessly over the he has only flve sacrifices credited to portant factor, and one that has met ball players as the Tuscumbla curred In the match between the Brit- with sufficient success to assure Its ploy diamante embroidery, the propa- surface of a large side wall, like bite Tbumper," Is playing,a whale of a ish Army society and St Andrews continuance in the autumn. gandists will cable to the effect that of paper afloat on a river. game for Detroit this season. His played recently at St. Andrews. Col- "Worth bponsors diamante*." and if Joe Klugman, second baseman of the The whole color question Is one fielding has been startling and he Is onel Howard and Lieut Col. Buchan- you read the cable you will Immedi- Memphis team, hit In 21 successive that preoccupies the minds of women bitting the ball hard. an Dunlop, while playing hi the four- ately form the erroneous Impression For thm Horn* Cofor-5dk«m«r igames before be was finally stopped. and dressmakers alike when It Is a somes against J. Rodger and J. that the new Worth collection, In- Not long since I called one after- .Kay Caldwell of Little Rock turned question of choosing new frocks. The Mackle, hit full iron shots for their stead of featuring only a single dia- noon upon one of my friends who told the trick. lovely pastel shades that have been seconds on the sixteenth green. Each mante model, makes that trimming the me that she had • • •' worn all summer will remain with a thought he had to play the ball first most Important Item In Its autumn _z v «••» every bit Little Al Nixon once played three softer and warmer note Introduced to and, hidden by a bunker, the two showing. ' of tbe decorat- Innings each In right center and left make them suitable for alliance with struck the balls simultaneously. The New York openings are not so ing In her new fields for the Boston Braves In a game A polo team from India will visit winter furs. Beautiful shades of red The balls, going toward tbe hole, prone to misconstruction, but there is home herself. against Pittsburgh, and had one put- the United States in 1027. with a touch of chocolate brown have met with such great force about always the danger that Paris may not She bad gotten out In each. • • • been seen In some of the chief dress- twenty yards from the pin as to drop be In accord. Except for a handful, the unpalnted . • • • It costs between $16,000 and $20,000 makers' ateliers. With these will be wood furniture to stage the English Henley regatta one-on each side of the hole, flve of Individual showings by some of tbe Washington university, at St Louis, yards apart Golf balls driven by exclusive shops tbe New York fashion In charming de- each year. signs and had Mo., Is the latest of the prominent col- players In opposite directions have shows are group affairs—many of the leges to drop baseball from Its list of • • • enameled and Tickets to the Army-Navy football been known to meet In midair, but models are purchased In Paris two stenciled and major sports because of lack of inter- this Is the first occasion or record of game at Chicago on November 27 will and three months before and a large decorated to her •est In the game. balls coming In contact when hit by proportion of the original designs are • • • cost $10 each. heart's content, players going to the same hole. based on tlie early professional show- with a different Baseball's vocabulary hi becoming . . • • • Ings of the French couture. Natural- complicated. Stanley Harris struck Five automobile racers wearing the color scheme In Clubs Make Mistake to ly, therefore, the American style shows . each room. She out Intentionally to get five Innings number 13 have been killed In Europe are not as advanced as their Paris played before a storm broke and was since the year 1922; had painted her plain plaster walls In - - . '."'.••••• Lengthen Their Courses prototypes, and while they usually ex- the softest of aquatints and paneled fined for "stalling." . Jack Dempsey has held the world's Chick Evans says that golf clubs ploit the keynote .of the new season, . • - • •••,#•, them by painting heavy lines up heavyweight title since he knocked out Freddie Brlckell, sensational nine-' make a mistake In lengthening their there are many times when they miss them In a slightly darker or a con-. : teen-year-old centerflelder of the Jess Wlllard In 1919. courses for championships. the mark.' trusting tone. She bad appUqued un- Scloto moved the tees back and It Is wisest, then, not to be too deep- bleached muslin curtains and bed cov- . "Wlcnlta Western League Baseball An optimist Is some one who goes «lub, has been sold to the Pittsburgh Btretched the course to: more than ly disturbed by the early autumn re- erings, after dyeing the fabric in Just out to spend a long afternoon on the 6,200 yards. ports. You are going to hear a lot of the colors she wanted. Pirates for about $15,000. links with one golf ball. •. •••••_. Golfers that can drive tbe ball a conflicting news this season. You will "But best of all," she ended trium- John C. "Red" Oldham, left-handed long way have a distinct advantage. read much of longer and shorter phantly, "are my home-decorated The duke of York, the first of the The title hongs on tee shots. Those skirts, of waistlines that are high and pitcher of the Pittsburgh National British royal family to compete at metal accessories — my door-stops, league dub, and former Detroit Tiger, who can drive long and accurately waistlines that are low, of magnifi- light sconces, bookends. Inside door Wimbledon, Is left-handed. will be In the lead. cence and of simplicity, of elegant mil- -was released to the Kansas City team • . • •'••••..• knockers, and candlesticks. I have •of the American association. "Long drives compel the fellows linery and of garconne cloches. Much discovered a foundry that turns out * Archery.to part of the prescribed whose drives are not so long to over- of this will have no greater founda- exercises In all of the universities all these things In plain gray iron The venerable Jacques Foamier tied press and by over-pressing they drive tion than the Worth Incident men- castings which one msy decorate to and higher schools In Japan. wild. You can see what disaster a tioned above. Other accounts will 'the modern record for home runs In a • • * suit her own taste. You know that single game by clouting three homers wild drive brings you on this course," come from authentic and authorita- ordinarily we bave to buy these things Nick Lutze, ex-Notre Dame football says Evans. tive sources. In a wild slugfest In which the Car- player, and now professional wrestler, already decorated, and frequently In dinals beat the Robins, 12 to 10. In Pajama Costumes. colors that fairly fight with everything Is managed by his sister Grace. It created a. sharp sensation sev- • • • In the house. This foundry realises • • • Gates to Box Firpo eral years ago when the news was re- the need for Individualism In the Heinle Manush, who has supplanted Within the past few years Lord layed' round the world that the Lido modern home, and simply turns the Ty Cobb in center field for the Ty- Astor has been rematkably successful ladles were parading the public prom- iron' castings over to us, saying: gers, Is slamming the ball so hard that as a* breeder and owner of race horses enades clad in pajama costumes. It "There! color it up yourself!" the Detroit manager is not worrying In England.. did not matter. that these costumes And she pointed to a gay cockatoo • ubout taking him out of the lineup. • * * were almost as elaborate as evening • • • Francis Oulraet, famous golfer, door-stop. In Chinese yellow and ver- dresses mid that for resort purposes milion, on a Jade green ball, which was Jimmy Uchrinsko Is a right-handed says: "Your caddie knows the course; they were comparatively discreet—the take his advice." Or, better still, let holding open the door to her bright jiltcher of Polish descent. He comes pertinent fact was. that smart mntrnns little library, where the curtains, from McKeesport, Pa. He was a semi- him make the shot had ventured Into the open, wearing candle-shades, and the decorative pro when Washington got him, pitch- • • • Beige Crape Marocaln Skirt and Beige what was formerly considered the Jersey 8weater, With 8tripea> book-Jackets (which she had made ing for the National Tube works team Harry Persson, the Swedish boxer, (Itiintessence of the robe Intlme. herself!) were In the same original, of Pittsburgh. ' who knocked out Phil Scott, the Eng- One of the characteristics of the colors, « • • used all the soft pinks and delicate lish champion, is now the heavyweight faded shades of rose that are so In- I.ldo pajama Is the Infinite variety, of "Yes. he came In plain gray Iron,'* Cy Young's attempt to set a world's champion of Europe. its form.. Some models have trousers record for consecutive games pitched finitely becoming. she said, "and I painted him my- "• •' • Perhaps It would be too rash.to that fit neatly to the ankle and have self. I decorated the Iron wall sconces. -was shattered in 1892 after he bad Sometimes one wonders vaguely a little strap passing under the foot made a run of 15 by a by prophesy that the mode could turn en- too, and the metal book-ends on the whether Bobby Jones does not miss tirely away from boyish simplicity In to hold them In place. Both Molyneux library table. Yon see when you have Mark Baldwin of the Pittsburgh club, the blissful uncertainty of wondering and Lanvln have made charming cos- who was a regular .307 bitter. a single season—undoubtedly some of Just the plain surface to work on where the ball Is going. the haute couture, clinging tenderly to tumes along these lines. you can do anything your fancy dic- • * * • • * the habit of years, will proffer styles On quite opposite lines are other tates. You can choose the colorful When one of his teammates hits a Gil Doble, football coach at Cornell which will again make a fetish of the chip models worn along the languorous silks for draperies and candle-shades, long'fly to the outfield and he Is on university, Is teaching the science, of mode garconne. But the vast majority Lido. One that has been designed for and then decorate the heavier artldee third base. Mack Hlllls, lnfielder of the game In the University of Illinois hi shades that harmonise. will turn, hungrily, to the almost for- wear at a Spanish country club hi J the Hollywood (Calif.) club, goes back summer course for coaches. gotten art of intricate styling, retain- made of an exquisite printed crepe de •This foundry also makes colonial a few' yards and takes a running start • • • ing at the same, time the attractive chine that is furnished by.Redmond. curtain holtf harks, match-holders and to tbe plate after tbe catch. William Jenkins, aged fourteen, of elements of recent fashions. Its trimming" of heavy white fringe ash-trays, lamp bases, fire dogs, .and • • • Orleans, Ind., scored 91 out of a pos- Helen Wills, the American tennis makes It a most original and appeal- other articles in the same gray. Iron. FothergUl and Manush, Detroit out- sible 100 at a trap-shooting tourna- champion, la to be seen In one of .the ing garment. Another, made of a They are decorated by using flat fielders, have Iwen-tanking tbe ball at ment of the Indiana Gun dub. more fanciful genre of sports frocks Rodier printed shawl, has a Chinese colors In ell paint In enamel, or In .a greaj dip lately. They have sup- • • • Lee Gates; a full-blooded Mohawk Indian, shown In the photograph, has which has developed since the Leng- design printed in red and green on a bronse. It leaves one free to iplled much of the club's offensive. • The news that Arnold Horween. len-Wtlto-Godfree struggles on the Rl- mauve ground and. to finished with a out just the Along with Hellmann they form one of football coach, plans no radical been signed to fight Luis Firpo, Argen* ttnlan. Tbe place and tint are to be vlera. Designed by Jean Patou. It purple-colored georgette crepe Mouse ^the hardest hitting outfields In the change In Harvard's system has consists of a beige Jersey sweater with and trousers. V.X evoked enthusiasm la Princeton and selected later on. / New Haven.

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w *•»•""«••# SisWP WWP J|K» • Tie feat New» ,_— taara of asadsty widen day, as»t—sar ISta. at ls> ANTIQUES the black rock darts* tadr „_- Standard Ttaae. Tbe Mew Haves County Horttealtwat Ai I a* taking a GARA6B P. watertownhistoricalsociety.orgare said to haw slowly turned it to are that the lane of (New Bavea), 1445; Woodstoek. 14- be winter In Hartford I win sen at Its present snowy whiteness. other yean will be Otis Oood Win «Hastonbery> lt-11; AUTOMOBILES A. Curl FUcker. .Publisher situated there are scattered a before the beginning; of the winter's wold). 1C-1S; WetkersfleM. 1*18; 8A AT, red maples, black and white birches, work in the parish are being more Brookneld (Brookfleld Center). 17- at 10 A. M, O. «. triptlon t» yearly, in advance. a couple of pine trees and one cedar. and more appreciated by the* clergy. 18; Portlanu. 17-18; Wolcott. 17-18; Part of my collection including: On the West side a white birch Is Brooklyn, 21-23; North Stoninston, Early slat arm chair, stretcher table, ftatered M lad dan matter at tbe growing on a ledge on which small 21-23; Hamburg Lyme), 22; Glaaton- ST. 8WITHIN~NOT~POPULAR porridge table, mushroom chair, Watertown postofllce under act of shrubbery is also making a start bury, 22-25; Chester, 24; Wood- winding chair, Bible box of 1C50. Telephone 14-3 March 3, 1879. In tbe summer of nineteen hun- If St. Swithin is responsible for bridge. 24; Middlebury. 24-25; Mt. sleigh bed original decorations, can- dred and twenty-five, forty-eight all the storms, humidity, beat and Carmel (Hamden), 25; Waterbury, dle sticks, sets of chairs, fire dogs, FRIDAY, AMGU8T 27, 1928. evergreens were planted about the other things tbe pant three weeks, 28-29; Guilford. 29-30; Mansfield. 3D; Hutch table of 1660, ilustrated in rock. These trees were divided into here's a motion that he be shipped Hebron, October 1; Bethany, 1-2; Wallace Nuttings' "Pilgrim Furni- An Illinois man claims to have red, and white pine and blue spruce, to Mexico at once, ror he is a little Plymouth, 2; Danbury. 4-9; Harwln- ture" 'first addition page 889, China E. A. BIERCE ton, 5; L'nlon. (Haxardville), 6; Dur- invented a material that "absorbs thus making red, whin- and blue annoying hereabouts. Last Thurs- and Staffordshire, fine crested' amber sound like a blotter takes up ink/' trees. There is a tree for each state ham, 6-7; Riverton, 12; Stafford drinking glasses presented to Dem- MOVIHQAMD day, for instance. In that storm that Stafford Springs), 12-14. It will undoubtedly be In great de- in the Union. These trees were put the local electric service out of Ing Perkins by royal house ot Aus- (ftEflgitAT. TBUGKIHG mand by people whose neighbors planted in the shape of a cross sur- commission and Interfered with tria, turnip foot chest, pine settle, play Jazx by the hour. rounding the big rock. Each tree shops 'which depend on electricity Transition Easy From Hitchcock bench, carved chest, When in need of serviee was named for a historical person for heating purposes, a barn on the chests of drawers, prints, curriers, in my line, get my Where are the prophets who as- of Cornwall, each soldier being hon- "Timepiece" to "WatdT Eli Terry clock made in Litchfield, sured us that there would be no Charles Ford farm, Washington, price first ored. Many chilldren and their par mas hit by lightening, set fire and In taking a timepiece from Ma Jacobean chairs, mirrors, cobbler's summer In 1926? What do they ents attended, planting and chris- pocket It Is aafe to guess that the candle stand, brasses, pewter, tin, call It when the thermometers regis- in spite of heroic work by the Hume 664 tening the trees. Those who plant workers was a. total loss. Another average man gives no thought to sandwich glass, inlaid boxes and 800 ter as they did last week? Gardens ed the trees were sent cards from the question of why his watch la other articles. bolt hl| the belfry in the Congre- rained a "watch." The expUoatlon are doing well, cornfields are look Washington, D. C, constituting them ing fine. All is well! gational church in that village en- dates back into history, and Fine roads completed from Litch- to be members of the "American tering the belfry and finding its way through many languages. field and Torrlngton. Tree Association." In ten more out at sill, tearing off a clapboard The original use of the word Luncheon served on premises. "Mosquitos are more troublesome years the trees should make a large "watch" was to^lndicate "keeping than usual this season. See that no on its way to the earth. At the time If rainy, next fair day following .••»•»•••••••< screen around the rock. In fifty of this excitement up on the watch" or "to be* on watch." From tin cans or anything that will hold that It was an easjwehange to use Sunday. mora years they should form green a gang of men were busy R. W. HANNA xain water are left about, for mos- chapel of evergreens. the word to indicate*the person set THE HOTCHKISS GARAGE quitos are sure to breed wherever cleaning up a wreckage of trees to do the duty of sentry In "keep- JOHN PORTER, Auctioneer water stands. HELEN MELISSA CLARK In Marbledale, the result of a Ing watch," and thla person became Woodbvy Road storm a. few days prior. All in all known as "the night watch" when his duty'was at night THE CROSS ROCK COUNTY GOLF St. Swithin has had a lovely party Now is the time to have hereabout* since the 15th of July, From this the word came to be your oar inspected and have Annual Tournament For Norfolk Tm thinking.—"Sandy" in New Mil used JIH designating the period of Cornwall's Three Rocks Well Worth time which a sentry was on duty, it ready when the good wea- Cups to be Held September ford TinieH. August 19th. ns In the phrase "the length of his ther arrives. Drop in and let Visiting 3rd, 4th and 6th wntch was three hours." Next TRY A CLASSIFIED ADV. YANKEE INVENTIVENESS came the application of the word to me give yon an estimate on In Virginia there are caverns fivo The 25th annual invitation golf a specified time of the night. This needs. hundred feet di'ep. They were hol- tournament of the Norfolk Downs The inventive and enterprising we Is found In the Gospel by St Mark In the phrnse "nbout the B. E. HOTOHKKS lowed out by water wearing and Golf Club will be held at the Nor- Yankee early begun to- show his skill at making, and his shrewdness fourth wutcli of the night" (Mark dissolving the limestone. In some folk course, September 3, 4 and 0. 0:40). )OTt cases a constant drip or water, drop On the first day the qualifying in selling things In the new United States. It was a natural development by drop charged with lime formed round in the men's tournament that this should lead to the use of stalactites, and stalagmites. These will be played. It is 18 holes, The Yankee peddler was devel the word to designate a timepiece have taken different forms and medal play, either in the morning oped by manufacture of tinware, ror keeping track of the time. In shapes . The passages in the cav- or afternoon, three 16's to qualify. clocks and other small wares In this sense Its earliest use was with erns are three or four. miles long. Connecticut. Tinware' was 'first' made reference to a candle, marked oft The Hilltop Filling Station A prize •will be given for the lowest in 1770. Into sectional lengths, each length In the Shenandoah Valley there are gross score. On Friday the first being planned to occupy a certain WATERTOWN - THOMA8T0N ROAD several of these caverns of which round, 18 holes, match play, will in 1795 Mark Leavenworth be- length of time In burning. "Luray," "Endless" and "Shenan- be played, the first, second and third gan the manufacture of axes, steel doah," are the best known. Many 16's to qualify. In the afternoon yards, bayonets and other articles TRY OUR PAN-AM OAS—More miles per gallon than any tourists visit these caves every day, the second round with the first, of steel. New HaVen. produced the other. . hiring guides and paying for the second and third 16's to qualify will inventor of vulcanizing rubber— Wood for Newspaper privilege of seeing the caverns. be played. The first round for the Goodyear. Whitney, inventor of the Since the customary unita of LUNCHES SERVED - HOT DOGS • CANDY and These caverns are considered to defeated elghjs of the first, second cotton gin was one of Connecticut's ' wood measurement—cord, log meas- SODA WATER at your ealL earliest makers of firearms. ure or lumber scale—do not repre- have the prettiest rock formation in and third 16's also comes at this sent an exact quantity, the cubic Virginia. time. In 1829 Samuel Colt of Hart foot solid wood Is" used. Even this FREE CAMPING GROUNDS for the tourist. We also have ford devised, while bound from Cal- People.of Cornwall need not go The semi-finals are to be played unit Is variable as to pulp yield ac- ideal Pionio Grounds and invite you to try it out. cutta,- a six-barrel revolver to be cording to the character ot the down five hundred feet,.nor visit Vir- on Saturday morning for the first, used with persuccion caps. By wood as to species and rate of v A. BIRD8ALL, Prop. ginia to see rock formations. There second and third 16's. The seml< growth. .However, taking the dry finals for the defeated eights of the 1858 he had factories at Hartford are rocks everywhere. Most of them turning out 60,000 revolvers' a year. weight of spruce as 24 pounds per are granite and quartz. first, second and third 16's . also cubic foot, the commercial yield of comes at this time, as does the men's Sewing machines originated here. 100 cubic feet would be about 2,300 Granite is made up of quartz, The great brass manufacturing in- pounds of mechanical pulp, and of feldspar and mica. Granite belongs handicap for 18 holes, medal play, morning and afternoon. Frizes have dustry of Connecticut was built up sulphite pulp, 1,030 pounds. Com- tp the igneous rocks which were mercially, news print Is made from been offered for the lowest and also by the metal button trade. This de- made by the cooling of liquid rock a mixture of 75 per cent mechan- for the lowest gross score in this veloped into brass making on a material. ical and 25 per cent sulphite. Con- event. On Saturday afternoon, tho large scale. sequently, a ton oft newaprlnt Storage For Silver And • Quartz is found in every rock for- finals will be played for the first, The Rogers brothers invented would contain 1,500 pounds me- nation. Most sand and pebbles second and tWrd M,s and for tne electro-silver plating in 1846. Dan- chanical and 500 pounds sulphite. consist of broken down crystallne defeated elghtB ot the flrst( Becond bury hats were Initially made at the Then * fcBOO pounds mechanical rate of three per day in 1780. The would require 66.2 cubic feet wood; Valuables quartz. Quartz is hard enough to and thlrd 16'8. Prizes will be given 500 pounds sulphite would require scratch glass, but is not so hard as the winner in each event and to the product ran over $25,000,000 in 4&0 cubic, feet wood; 1 ton of diamond, sapphire, or topaz. Ame- runner-up In the first 16. ' 1925. newsprint would require 118.7 if you intend to be absent from thyst, agate, bloodstone, and some Each player is requested to ac- As early as 1809 Maine's water cubic feet or 2.72Z8 pounds oven other precious stones are nothing company his entry with the two power attracted the attention of cot- dry spruce wood. your home and have silver plate or hut colored quartz. . best scores for 18 consecutive holes ton manufacturers. The first Amer- Mica helps make up granite. Oue made during the season on the Nor- ican cotton mill was erected In No Partner ot the DevU ' other valuables we are prepared to piece of mica an Inch thick split folk Downs course. This is to Beverly, Mass., in 1788; the first power loom was constructed in Wai- One time Servals Le Roy, the Il- would make almost a thousand the committee in fixing handicaps. lusionist, was playing in Ullwau- accept them for storage. The rate sheets as thin as tissue paper. It is Monday, September 6, there will than, Mass., in 1813. In 1804, after kee. He ran out of rabbits—a se- found in it's pure state, chiefly in be a match between teams ot six the Slaters had successfully estab- rious situation for any magician. India, North. Carolina, and New from towns in Litchfield county. lished a mill in Pawtucket, R. I., one Le Roy found that an old German is twenty-five cents a month and Hampshire. Still in many of our Play in the match will be for the of their employees constructed a who lived outside of the city raised rabbits. He immediately stones we see glittering bits.of this Norfolk cup presented by the Misses small mill at Ipswich, N. H. up, depending on the size of the The shoe - industry of Lynn and went to the farm. The rabblti material. Eldridge. Conditions are that the were there—jlenty of them—ana There are in Cornwall three rocks match must be played at Norfolk Haverhill runs far back. It was the 'the requlredWmmber was soon package. •which for some peculiar reason are and it must be won three times for old custom in these cities to put bought and paid for. Le Roy was permanent possession. In regard to out for manufacturers the cut stock so pleased that he nulled out a well-known. In Cornwall Hollow wad of his personalgpasses and there Is the "Tipping Rock." Two the eligibility of members of teams of Massachusetts factories. This sys- tem changed during the Civil War, wrote out. one for the .farmer and email rocks stand some seven or playing for the cup, the following his wife. The German took one eight feet apart, over these two rules apply: It is desired that a when machinery was applied to shae look at the pass and his eve fell The Watertown Trust Co. smaller rocks like a capstone is a member of a team be a member in manufacture. upon a picture of a devil that larger rock about fifteen feet long good standing in the club which he The tale could be lengthened to adorned the slip of paper. Then ne WATERTOWN, CONN. represents and the Norfolk captain cover many a tobl or "notion" that selzed.the rabbits and threw the and about eight feet wide. This money back In Le Roy's hands. He rock resembles a giant duck. may decide in case • of dispute reflected a native adaptability in Member American Bankers Ats'n Resources over $1,000,000.00 making and marketing. The mechan- would have nothing to do with any. « . • • • whether or not a man is eligible. transaction In which the 'devil was The second rock is in the Cathe- ical capacity of the Yankee, and dral Pines. This is a rock of about The morning play will be for 18 concerned.—Howard Thurston in the thought of head that went with; Collier's. ten feet across the top. It is about holes, medal play, two teams to qualify. In the afternoon 18 holes,'; skill of hand are no new things.' seven or eiRht feet high.' On this Like many a New England geneal-. rock is a great towering white pine. match play, along the Nassau sys-1 tern will decide the winner. | OKy, they have deep roots—Boston FUh Marketed by Radio This tree must be seventy-five or News Bureau. Five minutes after a fish Is more years old. The visiting teams "will be enter-, caught in tKe North sen, a man sit- tained with a luncheon at the Nor- ting in a London office, 400 miles There is a rock which has attract- folk Country Club. David Goort- DENIAL BYMUNN ed some attention In East Cornwall. away* decides exactly where It will Summer Comfort now is captain of the Norfolk team. be eaten. All of the trawlers be- It is called the "Cross Rock." It is a Frank B. Munn of New Hartford George GriswoW, Mrs. E. K. Gil- has issued a statement denying that longing to a big London fishing cor- large rock from twelve to fifteen lette, Arthur Knox, David Goodnow, poration- are nowVequlpped with he contemplates retiring as state wireless, and a report of every big feet long. The cross Btretches the Carroll Post jr., Thomas P. Higgins whole .length from west to east and central commltteenmn for this dis- catch Is flashed to the,London-of- and E. E. Swift constitute the tour- trict. He points out that he always fice so that marketing machinery across the ten feet of rock •width. nament committee. At 4:30, in the starts working at once. Sometimes Assured The rock Itself is of black water- has been unanimously elected to the Shelter, James P. Anderson will office and that during his incumbency the fish are advertised in the Lon- laid material, while the cross is of a award the prizes. don market before they are on the red and whitish quartzite. It is every town in the district Invariably way to port. Fish that are rarely rough and rugged and somewhat has given a republican majority for caught arrive Just In time to be pre- irregular. The Southern or right PASTORAL CONFERENCE every ticket at each election, the pared and served for special occa- Ranges arm of the cross dips down some only exception being in the last elec- sions for which they have been To Be Held at the Hartford Sem- tion for a United StateB senator booked. __ . (our feet along the edge of the ledge inary as Usual Septem- to meet the ground. when one town gave a small major- ber 13th and 14th ity, to the democratic candidate. In ' On the north side and the East A two-days ministers' conference closing he.says: Ancient People* Not Efficient Water Heaters end the rock slants down to the for clergymen of all denominations "I. am and always have been an mossy banks of earth. On the East will be held at the Hartford Semin- ardent republican, and I do not de- Really So Backward and South it is from three to four ary on September 13th and 14th, in Inhabitants of the earth 6,000 sire, and will not be relieved of any yean ago were not so backward feet high. On the South side of the institution's new buildings in responsibility I owe to the party I Dependable Service Hartford. The leader will be the as one might think,; discoveries by the dark, melancholy ledge there is love,, the party whose principles, pol- members of a joint expedition of a little outcrop of pure, snowy white Rev. Dr. John Timothy Stone, pastor icies, aims and ends have been to tbe University of PennBylvanla»and stone. An Indian legend explains of the Fourth Presbyterian Church place Connecticut in the front rank tbe British museum to Ur of"the this white coloring. As all good of Chicago, and his general theme of the states' in good government, Ghaldees have shown. Economical Fuel fairy stories should begin:—''Once will be "The Vital Mission of the prosperity and in all that is best for Flint blades, about the alie of safety-rasor blades, that were Inde- upon a time" this rock was the place Church." In the five sessions to be the welfare of its people, and to held he will treat the theme in re- structible and never needed honing of worship for the Indians. Instead make the nation what it is now, the or sharpening, were found. The of having a wigwam as a temple lation to the preacher, the pastor, greatest, best government, most pow- blade* were still as sharp aa when Insures Cemfort With Economy they probably used this huge rock. tbe membership, the community, erful and prosperous and richest used, without holders, by the pre- In the centuries' past when the the nation and the world. nation of the world. I yield, to no historic dandies. Schaghticoke Indians lived In Cora- Dr. Stone is widely known as pas- man in my loyalty to that party."— A sewerage system in the temple of the Moon God, used to dispose wall, the Mohawks of New York tor of a large church, writer and Torrlngton Register, August 21. college preacher. After pastorates of blood from animals used for sac- would ever and again come across rifices, equaled many of those to- the Housatohic on the war-path..The in New York and Baltimore, he be- CONNECTICUT FAIR DATES, 1926 day, according to the scientists., Schaghticokea would station their came pastor of the- Chicago Church BeOcs wulbe divided equally be- watches on Sharon Mountain, Mo- in 1909. During bis ministry a new Middlesex County 4-H Club (Mid' tween-the two nnseumc'They show The Waterbury Gas IightCo. hawk Mountain' and other high hills building was erected which is known dletown), Sept 3-4; Washington, 4;, that many things thought to be to send smoke signals by day and as' one of the most beautiful and Connecticut ' Bee-Keepers' (Hart- modern inventions were used In TJr ot the Ghaldees nfore than fifty cen- most completely equipped church lord). 5-ll;xConnectlcut State (Hart- fire. signals by night. The Indian turies ago; and, It Is said; prove that maidens of generation after gener- plants in the country.: . ford), 5-T1; Goshen, 6; Haddam life then did not differ ation, kneeling here in prayer to the As in other years; lodging will be pro- Neck' (Haddam). 6; New London from ours. Great Moniteau, could, from the vided In the Seminary dormitories. County, (Norwich), 6-8; Marlbor- Property of the Watertown Historical Society

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10 4 an apple and is Cotabrook U f Do Connecticut owners of farms •NEWS Cornwall 4ff U so. find some crop more sure than this Ooshen B0 29 SfJ fruit? We can imagine what farm- M Clark Bt, Torrington. TeL MSS, Harwlnton tk IS TX ers who grow tobacco or potatoes SSJOf VaiU, Ooshen, First; Harry New- -Kent 10 50. would say in reply. 8o far as we 20 WANTED:—anything antique, sue* About the County comb, Washington, second; Addiaon Lttehfield 70 71 101. know every county in the state has ana Koyala. All qualified tor the production of ap- as furniture, glass, china, pewter, Prindle, Sharon, third. Morris 21 ra mil lane o« 4 t The home made wheeled tray ples and at least New Haven, Lttcn- mirrors, lamps, pictures, clocks owned by the Farm Bureau is now 20 yd. free stroke, boys over 15: New Hartford n 6 S&3 Machines, AIM Check-Writers Roy Hurlburt, Winchester, first; 16 field, Fairfleld, Middlesex and Hart for old homestead. Write Una in Torringford street, where it will NewMilfcrd SO 40. PEERLESS TYPEWRITER EXCH. Freeman, 310 Allston street Ralph Branson, Winchester, second; 50 48. ford counties have already demon- remain long enough to give all who Norfolk 12 Waterbury. Conn. Brookline, Mais. George Angevlne, Warren, third. North Canaan 25 6 26. strated the fact It to surprising UPald are interested a cbanoe to try it out that the growers say so little about 20 yd. free.stroke, girls over 15: Plymouth 24 9 90. • ••.• • ! the matter,—Hartford Courant Two people in Northneld wish to Dorothy Fortler, Warren, first Roxbury 10 7 70. make wheeled trays and will plan Plunge for distance: Ralph Bran- Salisbury 10 10 SSJ son, Winchester, first; Will Weik, 31 __ When Buying a Kitchen Range one of the important to do so sometime, in September. Sharon 1* factors to consider is how long your range is going to last I Morris, -second; George Angevtne, Thomaston ss U tt. NEW PARK Warren, third. Torrington •S.6 ORANGE AND FARM BUREAU 40 4T Not until Fairfleld and New Ha- When Yon Buy a 20 yard back stroke: Ralph Bran- Warren 11 73. PICNIC IS BIO EVENT IN 75 ven counties are reached * is the SPITE OF WEATHER son, Winchester, first; Roy Hurlburt, Washington 16 4ft 106. Winchester, second; George Ange- Watertown 40 fl. Housatonic valley lacking in state CRAWFORD RANGE The Annual Orange and Farm Bu- 39 parks. Pending a more definite an- vlne, Warren, third. Winchester 6S 17 82. Yon KNOW It's doing To Last Yon A Lifetime reau Picnic was held at the State nouncement from the state board, Relay Race: Ooshen, first; Win- Woodbury 46 61 78.4 Thousands of housewives will testify that Park at Lake Waramaug on Wed- chester, second; Warren, third. one Is permitted to speculate that CRAWFORD RANGES nesday, August 18. The day was Track Events: 850 567 66.7 the proposed park may be some- . Last a Lifetime. cloudy and rainy, but about 500 50 yd. dash for boys under 15: where In our region. The district CRAWFORD RANGES people gathered at the park to take Harry Eisenlohr, Winchester, first; around Brookfleld, Brldgewater, WATCH THIS THERMOMETER give you a service that you can depend upon. part in the program. Lloyd Johnson, Colehrook, second; Southbury and Newtown has great The events started about 11 Graver Atwood, Warren, third. possibilities of "large proportions o'clock with the swimming races. . Second heat: Kenneth Hurlburt, It Ii a Delight to Cook or Bake with a OBAWTOBD RANGE 850 and scenic beauty." So have the Winchester had no difficulty in walk Winchester, first; Walter Thomen, We have ready for your inspection every Crawford Model ng away with first place with a Ooshen, second; Hanna, Goshen, banks of the river on either side made. Come in and see them—on the main floor. 567 from Stevenson down. But if the score of 24. while Ooshen, her near- nurd. WE ARE ALWAYS OPEN WEDNE8DAY EVENINGS Aug. 7 "563 park Is to be anywhere in the north- est competitor, annexed 10 points. Third heat: Harry Newcomb, FREE PARKING—in the 8coville St. garage while you shop here The baseball game, which generally Washington, first; Durwin Vaill, Go- Jnly31 562 west of us, may the state board of comes off in the morning, was omit- shen, second; Franklin Angevlne, July 24 "557" park and forest commissioners have ted this year on account of the wet Warren, third. July 17 bi-tter success than any of our local weather. Fifty yard dash for girls under 15. y!6 557 authorities have had in getting the Boston Furniture Company Directly after the swimming Barbara Kibbe, Warren, first; Kath- slate high-way department to see the July 10 553 of WATBRBUBY,' Inc. event's the crowd crossed the road erlne Branson, Winchester, second; July 3 548 advisability of completing in Im- to the picnic grounds and enjoyed Frances Hurlburt. Winchester, third. proved trunk line highway up the Junction of South Main, Scovill ft Brook St. Second heat: Ethel Couch, Ca- une5 their basket lunches around the Mayl river.—Ansonia Sentinel. tables which were supplied by the naan, first; Ruby Camp, Washing- Apr. 3 park. Ice cream was sold by the ton, second; Betty Vaill, Goshen, IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE members of the Sharon Calf Club third. AT. 6 The "rain-making" experiment at and lemonade was furnished free by 100 yd. dash for boys over 15: Feb. 6 Hartford, Monday, was interesting if Nicolson & Thurston the Orange and Farm Bureau. Michand, Cornwall, first; French, Jan. 1 not wholly conclusive in its results. LITCHFIELD, CONN. At about 1:30 Mr. Buckingham in- Litchfleld, second; Clyde Bayette, An airplane, twice sprayed clouds Winchester, third. BOOK PLANTS, Main Street Garage troduced Senator Hiram Blngham CONNECTICUT APPLE8 with sand and, in both cases, 'they Charles W. Atwood A Is* who spoke in a very interesting Relay race: Cornwall, first; Win- dispersed. No rain fell, however, VIALS, ANNUALS chester, second; Ooshen, third. and it was explained that the clouds A VEGETABLE PLANTS manner about many of the agricul- The Courant has already told its STORAGE TOWING tural bills which were Introduced in Tug-o'-war for boys under 18 yrs.: were "dry," being made up of dust Hours 0 A. M. — S P. M. Winners: Goshen from Warren readers that statisticians tor the REPAIRS AOOBMOBZM the last session of Congress.. Mr. New England Crop Reporting serv- and smoke particles. The sceptics Talephona 217 Blngham was emphatic in his antag- (twice); Litchfleld from Washing- will have to feel the patter of a good TIRES AND TUBBS ton; Cornwall from Winchester; ice estimate that Connecticut's apple Kindly address all communlGSr onism of the McNary-Haugen bill crop this year will amount to 274,- many raindrops before they will be Telephone 434 and of the Fess amendment, stating Cornwall from Litchfleld; Ooshen entirely convinced.—Waterbury Am- tlona to the firm. from Cornwall. 000 barrels, and will be of a quality that the new commissions which superior to that of last year, which erican, Aug. 24th. CATALOG ON REQUE8T WATEBTOWN, OOMN. Tug-o'-war for boys under 18 yrs. these bills would create would only was larger, but not ot as nigh grade. add to the congestion of an already Goshen from Winchester; Warren The estimate, it is fair to assume, Prof. Edward F. Humphrey, of overburdened system of government from Goshen. includes only the product of or- Final scores: Winchester, 48; Trinity, college, has returned to Hart- by bureaus and commissions which chards planted and cared for, with a "CLEANERS THAT CLEAN" were numbered by the hundreds. Goshen 42; Warren, 27; Cornwall view to their commercial value. ford after three months in Alabama He heartily approved of Secretary 23; Washington 14; Litchfleld 11; Smaller groups ot trees and or- and reports that the presidential Mellon's assertion that the McNary- Canaan 5; Colebrook 3; Morris 3; chards set anywhere from 50 to 80 aspirations of Gov Smith of New Metropolitan Cleaning 4 Dye Works Haugen olll would furnish cheap Sharon 1. . years ago are not likey to be in the York form the paramount issue in food for foreign labor which would reckoning. that section. At recent Democratic STORES: primaries three candidates running give other nations an unfair advan- TWO SUCCESSFUL FARM MAN- In view of the product of or- 187 80. MAIN ST. Phone 6055 tage in competition with the United on platforms of important local is- AGEMENT FIELD TRIP8 HELD. chards in Cornwall, Greenwich and sues were defeated by a fourth 87 WILLOW ST. Phone 6027 States. perhaps a dozen other towns Of the - The rest of the athletic program Two very interesting trips were whose only issue was opposition to state, one wonders that Connecticut Gov. Smith. Prof. Humphrey says We call and deliver took place in the road directly after held last week tor the benefit of the residents pay so little attention to the speaking. Several dashes and prominent Democrats told him that Parcel Port Orders Promptly Attended to members of the Farm Management the possibilities of apple growing. if Smith were nominated the state relay race* were put on with Win- Each year the product of orchards WATERBURY, CONN. chester still winning Its share. Clubs in the County. The first took would swing into the Republican is placed on exhibition but each year column.—Waterbury American. . The tug-o'-war, which concluded place on Thursday, August 19, and sees stores and markets about the the program, was again the most twenty men, women . and children state displaying apples raised in the •/; exciting event of the day. The first from Morris attended. The group flood river section which are BABY CHICKS FOB SALE HINCKS BROS. <% CO. pull was between Warren and Oo- met at Morris Center and left for shipped across the. country and shen; Both teams were quite husky, the trait farm owned by Edson which find a ready sale here. The Purebred White Leghorn Baby but Warren seemed to have a slight Pacific coast applets teave nothing to Chicks $8.75 hundred postpaid Msmkera New Tor* Stock advantage in weight After the Davis, of Torringford at 9:46. J. W. be desired so far as their appear- •whiBtle blew for the start every man Alsop's farm in.Avon was the'second ance la concerned. Their growers the best layers out In the contest got down to business stop. Mr. Anderson, the manager are masters of the art of grading, $11 hundred and Stocks for Investaunt and the ribbon in the middle of the of the farm,-explained the methods packing and shipping and to this Tax beshpt Isauea knowledge they have added that of Rhode Island Beds, best for Trope slowly moved over the She used in handling'the large herd of Connecticut Trust Fund 8*euriuea toward the Ooshen team where it advertising their product so thor- meat ...... $11 hundred Guernseys and Ayrshlres and an- remained until the finish. Litch- oughly that it is known all over the fleld and Washington were next swered several questions about the continent While doing this their Barred Books $12 hundred SSO Main Street Bridgeport Conn. matched with Litchfleld coming out raising of alfalfa. organisation watches the individual grower in order that it may be sure All: good, healthy, purebred ahead. In the meantime a question Lunch was eaten in the shade of strong chicks. arose over an advantage that the the trees beside the large alfalfa that Interior fruit ie not permitted Ooshen team might have had in field, and the crowd moved on to to masquerade as the perfect prod- We pay postage charges and their contest with Warren. It was Charles Clark's farm In East Granby. uct All that they can do to hold guarantee live delivery. finally decided to give the teams This proved to be a well-organized their market has been done. another chance. The rope was dairy, poultry and fruit farm, and But one thing they are unable to If any are^deadptake a state- moved down to a new spot in .the after a tour of inspection about the' do. As compared with'the Connecti- ment from your Post Master. road and the teams changed ends. place, Mr. Clark treated the. visitors cut-grown apple the fruit from the This time the result was the same to oold drinks. Pacific coast is insipid, suggesting a The Fulghum Hatchery as before with Ooshen coming out Mr. Oriswold'B place in Wethers- synthetic product, something pro- LAKEVILLE, CONN, ahead. The Winchester team then field was the last stop. The busi- duced in a laboratory, rather than 29t8 pulled Cornwall and lost. Cornwall ness on this farm seemed to be well also won from Litchfleld in the semi- balanced between dairy, orchard, finals, but lost to Ooshen in thu sweet corn and potatoes. The finals. peaches were ripe and Mr. Grig- The boys were eager to try their wold's hospitality was unlimited. hand at the rope pull and three The next day thirty people from Olson's Watertown Garage teams were hastily composed of Litchfleld and Goshen Farm Man- Lower Main Street boys under 18. On thto contest agement Club's met in Bantam and Goshen won from Winchester but started for Ernest Skilton's place in lost to Warren on the next pull. Morris at 9:00 o'clock. Mr. Skllton Tires, Accessories and Repairing Upon adding up the score it was has been applying the principles WE ALSO SPECIALIZE IN WELDING JOBS found that Winchester was ahead learned in the Morris Farm Manage- with 48 points. The championship ment Club; In his business, for the The lowest price and the greatest value ever banner was-swarded to the town of past three years, and his farm has offered in a Delco-Light electric plant—a 600- Winchester by President Bucking- been improving during this period. ham and it was received by Stuart Robert Clark in Woodbury was the watt capacity, genuine Delco-Light plant for Branson of the winning team. second farmer to be visited. A only $195 f. o. b. Dayton, Ohio. This prise in- Credit is again due to Tracey great deal of interest was shown In The Out-of-Door Season is Here cludes standard Delco starter and an economical Garey, the physical director of the the splendid stands of alfalfa on this starting battery. Generates sufficient current Torrington High School for his ex- farm and in the pasture demonstra- While you are enjoying the open air season.is the time cellent work In supervising the ath- tion which proves the effectiveness to have your house made more pleasant inside, for next for twenty-four, 25-watt bulbs or for power use. letic contests. of lime in improving the quality of. winter. While the out-of-doors attracts you will hot be so The operating cost Is low. ~ A bathing suit was to be given by the pasture. greatly inconvenienced by having alterations made. the F. H. Joyce company, to the boy Mr. Hasted in Seymour was seen Have you considered how changed your rooms might The plant will be completely installed—five under 16 who had the largest num- in the afternoon. Mr. Husted is be by the laying of new hardwood floors f Our price on oak, spun-brass lighting fixtures placed wherever you ber of points, but it was found that doing a good job with dairy, poultry birch, maple or hard pine floors is right and the quality is wish—the wiring done—all ready to turn on the Durwin Vaill, ot Goshen and Harry and fruit, and his Eureka Silage the best. • " lights, for only a very little more. Newcomb, ot Washington had tied corn was a source of wonderment to A built-in china closet or ironing board will be a real with 8 points aniece. A suitable the visitors, i roe • snukii'.'.' hym. pr*»rt*nt *~m can have else* award will be made to both young The farm owned by the Beisiegel pleasure for years and will save many steps. We have them. athletes by the F. H. Joyce company. Bros., in Woodbridge was the. last Whatever changes you plan it will be our pleasure not trie lightg s immediate * balance Considering the weather there visit on the program. This place is only to give you an estimate on the material required but on easy terms, was a good crowd In attendance. always attractive to any one in- also to assist yon in making your plans., Many of the visitors from outside terested in agriculture because AskJis lor complete information. the county commented upon the every branch of- the business seems number who came and upon the hi- to be carries on In an unexcelled Watertown Lumber Co. terest and enthusiasm which was manner. His cows average around ltt Gbard Are., Hartford. shown in every event on the pro- 10,000 pounds, his orchard, yields QUALITY JUUfcVlUE gram. There is no doubt that every- bumper crops of high quality fruit, J one present woujd call' the day a and his flock of white Wyandottes Hems of "Bill Dbf" 1M big success. " are going far above standard. Phone: 158 The' result* of the games^foUow: The visitors dispersed after this DEPENDABLE Swimming events: SO yd. free visit and returned home, well sat- stroke for boys under IS; Durwin isfied with the resulti ot the day. Property of the Watertown Historical Society «a that away to in* ap w& will, that I had better wait tot I n, but B0V you lkw# cowtf X UR wit wry gtad.- Jlwatertownhistoricalsociety.orgm took tba outstretched hand and muttered soaMtalag. r -Sit down." said the old man. want you to read over my will and GEESE THRIVE ON tell me whether it has been drawn up correctly. I see very badly, you YOUNG VEGETATION (© by W. a. Chmpnuw.) know. I can manage to write, but IM stood watching tbe light In the reading Is beyond me. 1 hope every- The moat perplexing season of the window on tbe ground Hour, and thing Is correct" year for the rationing of geese seems wondering when tbe old man Jim took the will In hU hand and to be the late sammer and fall, par- would go to bed. began to scan It At the lint sen- ticularly if the season ia a dry one. HANDICAPPED JHe always pulled off a coup single- tence be started violently and stured Geeae are primarily gracing fowls and banded. To that, in his opiulou. he Into the old man's fact*. the growing stock, especially, re- Asylum Director—I know the vary owed bis Immunity from arrest. Jim •You see, I nave left all to my son quires a constant supply of young man we want for our new superintend* bad. Indeed, made the acquaintance of James,'.' said tbe old man. "I did and tender vegetation upon which to the inside of various prisons, but, gen- him a great wrong. Vou know why forage. Therefore, unless such la Doctor—Whafa bla name? •rally speaking, he had escaped de- I had to leave the home town? I told provided, they will cease to thrive, Asylum Director—It happens to be tection as a professional criminal. you?" and frequently a large percentage are George Waaheraon. "Go to u Ktruuge town," was his •Because—of James," murmured lost, writes Oscar Grow In the' Na- Doctor—Nothing doing! Sounds formula. "Dress well, live well, find Jim. tional Poultry Journal. During the too much lite George Washington— out the luy of the land, make your "Yes. Everybody knew about his hitter part of a hot dry summer the the visitors wlU be taking him far haul und disuppeur." theft from the bank, as they supposed, grass becomes tongh and fibrous, even one of the Inmates. Jim knew that the old mun In tile and I couldn't hold up my head. We though It may still appear green, and big house at the end of the street had had always been honored among the then It not only lacks nourishment, A HARD-LUCK VICTIM plenty of silver, and money, too, In the community. I couldn't go on. living but becomes Indigestible as well, jthus big safe. There ought to be a couple there with the sneers on people's resulting in malnutrition and some- of thousand dollars. Jim bad the faces. I would go down the street and times stoppage of the bowels, which. "soup" with him, uud he wus only fancy I heard them saying. 'There goes In turn. Is more likely than not to waiting for the old mun to go to bed. old Melton, whose son in a thief.' So prove fatal. He felt u little bitter as lie stood I came here. • It Is very important, therefore, to waiting there in the chill of u Novem- "It was not until a week ago that I supplement the pasturage with other ber evening. Hut for Tom he might learned what a great wrong I had rations at such times. The younger have been earning u decent living. done him. Jim took the burden of goslings may be permitted to forage Tom hud been his brother. They hud Tom's guilt upon him to save his In the corn fields, where It will be been fellow clerks In the bunk, und brother. And I had given all my found they greatly relish many of the Tom had-stolen money. He wus en- beurt to Tom after 1 sent my other weeds and grasses growing therein. In gaged to be married; Jim had shoul- boy away. Booby and Ch,lck on Uayaan Island. addition to the lower leaves and dered the blume. And now Tom wan "He fooled me for years, the smooth, "suckers" developing upon the corn doubtless living somewhere in luxuri smug hypocrite, but I've found out the by tha National Oeonraphlo feut. Ferns of five species rested both stalks. The older geese may be given ant ease, while Jim wus—a common truth ut last 1 can't live very long, Society, Wathlmtoli. D. C.) on the gentler slopes and on the steep access to second-growth clover, when thief and burglar., but I shull see that Jim gets all. U HEN tbe United States an- ledges. Tropic birds nested In holes available, or, better still, to a field of Jim had never forgotten the look my boy, If only'your old fattier could nexed Hawaii, in addition to below the summit, and the whole up- rape or similar crops, sown for this "I wear no man'a collar." on bis father's fuCe when he bude him clasp you In his arms again before the eight large, inhabited per tlilrd of the island was given over purpose. Such resources are equally -Neither do L but I get It In the farewell. he dies!" W islands thut form the terri- to the blue-faced boobies, now on suitable for the growing flock andneck Just the same." "I've bankrupted myself to pay the Jim looked up at the haggard face, tory as the tourist sees It, a chain of guard over their well-grown young. should be provided for In event they money, because our fuuiily has always and the overwhelming realization of Islets that extend from the main Laysan's Bird Hordes. are liable to be required. Wat Proof to Him bad a clean name," he suld. "You've bis own baseness came home to him group toward the northwest for more Traveling west from Gardner Island, Tonne WI11U Jeaka thought ha. than 1,800 miles -wus also acquired. A critical period in the rearing of escaped punishment. Ho out and with stunning force. one soon comes to Dowsett and Maro goslings is ushered in about the time Wu pretty Katharine's •uttor. make a man of yourself and remem- "This will is. all right, sir," he said Uninhabited by man, except for a reefs, named from ancient ship- But whan aha marrUd Fraa cable station at Midway, these have of the first frost. Something result- H* learned h* did not solf «r. ber your lesson. When you've made huskily. Jim knew thut. That was wrecks. These are mere coral rings ing from the action of the frost upon a man of yourself—don't let me see part of his business. He had Intended been little known. In 1009, through marked by breakers and without vis- the Interest of former President the grass apparently causes goose you. That's all. Don't let me see •to be a lawyer once. The old man ible land. Then, over the horizon, be- septlcemia or goose cholera. At least your face again." had made no mistake. Roosevelt, these Leeward Islands of yond the dangerous Jaws of these hid- Too Ma that man with tha high the Hawaiian group were set aside both have a habit of appearing at forehead and tha ranked eyear Jim had gone out Into the world to "Then I'll sign It," said the old man. den traps, comes Laysan island, 855 about the same time. Septlcemia la obey. But be had no training In any- "I'll sign It tomorrow. No, I'll sign as tbe Hawaiian Bird reservation, and nautical miles from Honolulu. "Tea. What la her placed under control of the United very fatal and often a large percent- "He'a an efficiency expert, ha told thing calculated to give him a start It when the girl and Jim come here An elevation rim, rising somewhat age of the flock Is lost before there Is in life. He did secure a position In a to visit me. I want Jim to see.lt States biological survey. me." From time to time parties have vis- abruptly from the beach line to a any Indication of Infection. Many In- "What on earth'a that?" bank, but he was spotted, accused, and to know that his father Intends height of 20 to 40 feet, Incloses a shal- dividuals apparently in good health, confessed, and found himself upon the to make reparation for his blindness ited Laysun, an Important bird rook- "The sort of man who doesn't en? ery, to study Its wonderful bird life, low, oblong basin, In whose center is at evening time are dead the next Joy a aaa voyage because all the salt street again. and willfulness.' I should have trusted a saline lagoon with waters concen- morning, while others may linger for Then he fell In with criminals, and him." • and perhaps en route have landed for la going to waste." a few hours at one or two other trated by evaporation under a blazing several hours or even days before sue* for five years he had lived by his "Yes, sir," said Jim huskily. sun, until they are far more heavily combing. wits. "I never thought to see the boy points. On the whole, however, the La* Hope* group, from a scientific standpoint, charged with salt than the sea Itself. He meant to live by his wits tha again," said the old man. "It was At an early date It was discovered First Man—Ah, It's a wonderful night But be felt bitter to think thu only by chance, when I was in Fair- bad been unexplored until 1028, when experience I hare on a hoUday, when arrangement was nlnde with the' Navy that there were valuable deposits of Good Summer Care an old man's Integrity had made a view, six months ago. Have you pa- guano on Laysan, or Moller, as It I go out Into tha great forest and walk thief of the son. These fits of bitter- tience to listen to an old man's story?" department for transportation and of the Chicken Flock among those splendid trees and com- other assistance, and a co-operative was then known, and .for some years ness came over him at times. Then "Surely, sir," the Islnnd was of considerable com- Summer eggs are more than fresh mune with nature, absolutely alone, be hated the world, and life. a week ago expedition was organized for a com- air and sunshine. Mash containing with no one to bore me I "I didn'ddt know until plete exploration of these outlying merclal importance. There was a girl who knew all, and, that It was Tom, not Jim, who was the Through all these years Laysan had protein, and pasture, shade and water Second Man—It must be great Next knowing all, forgave all. "Come back islands. On April 4 a party of 12 are Important factors of summer man- time I'U go with you.—Pathfinder. scoundrel. But I took to the girl, and left Honolulu on a 1,000-ton naval been literally covered by myriad sea to me In a year, Jim, and If you have when I learned who she was I said: birds, while the grass and shrubbery agement of the laying flock. been running straight I'll marry you," mine sweeper, the U. S. S. Tanager, A large mash consumption Is neces- Hath Pledge* •Jim isn't all bad to have won tlw for a four months' cruise. that clothed the island harbored five she had said. heart of a girl like Ado."* species of land birds restricted to Its sary for the maximum number of eggs. He—Once more, I swear never to That was eleven months before, and Though rough and Inhospitable to It pays to Induce the laying hens to "My God!" muttered Jim. the voyuger, the first Island in the less than two square miles and known love anyone but you. he had tried hard—desperately hard— "I beg your pardon?" nowhere else In the world In a native eat as much mash as possible. One She—Do you tblnk you will be abta to live decently. He hud succeeded— chain. Nihoa, proved of great interest way Is to reduce the amount of grain "I beg yours, sir. Go on. Polynesians once had a colony of sev- state. These Included a tiny flightless to keep all these campaign promises? until he dropped off the train here, "I met the girl and took to her at rail,-a species of duck, a warbler, fed by feeding It only In the evening. eral hundred persons here. Level This will keep the hens hungry arid on his way Bast, and learned abou once. Somehow she reminded me of known as the mlllerblrd, and two We Hop* He Profited tbe old man In the corner house. house platforms made of flattened eating mash. Jim. We got to comparing notes, and stones rose one above the other In a species of Drepanldldae, one as large Gray—How did you list the money He bad been on his way back to I found that the boy she talked about Be sure there la space enough at little valley that during rains, evi- as a sparrow, with strong robust bill, the hoppers at any time the hens want that fortune teller got from you? Ado- with ten dollars In his pocket was my son. Think of It! It was a known as the Laysan finch, or "cana- Green—I entered It under the head Just one more coup, and he could go dently contained water. to eat or they will start to forage for miracle. I told her then, not know- The steep slopes, nOw clothed with ry," and the, other smaller, with slen- of "Prophet and Lost" to her with money enough to start Ing Jim was Innocent, that I wanted themselves. One foot of hopper space buslies, had been terraced with great der beak, the Laysan honey eater, for every five hens Is recommended their married life, and a lie on his him to come home. I told her what called from Its coloration the "red- labor to permit cultivation of the for maximum consumption. ; The Bee** Whukent lips. Why not? She had sent him an old fool I was, and how I'd spent bird." ••'.-..• Into the world to make a man of ldm- sweet potato and dry land tnro, and a Keep suggesting mash to the flock •" Diner—What Is this hair doing hi hundreds of dollars trying to trace cave or two showed signs of undent Laysan Is the metropolis of the Lay- nelf, as his father had done. Good my son. I wanted to forgive him. I by placing the hoppers where the the honey? . occupancy. A number of stone bowls aan albatross, a beautiful bird as chickens congregate during the day. If Walter—It's all right, sir. Ifs from people always turned down the re- didn't know then that It was he who large as a goose, with snowy breast, sponsibility like thut and then won- fashioned from porous volcanic rock the poultry house is stuffy during the the honeycomb you know. would have to forgive me. were found. ' black wings, and delicately tinted dered that he was base. "Well, that's about the end of it, day tbe hens will leave it and the Small groves of a slender palm bill. With It Is found the sooty al- hoppers for the orchard shade. He shook his thoughts from him sir. The girl expects Jim back in an- IN BIBLE TIMES grew In some of the gulches, while a batross, the "gooney," familiar to and crept nearer. As he watched at other month, and she's going to tell tourists on transpacific steamers, of the foot of the garden the light went' him and bring him here to live. And scrubby, woody-stemmed plant allied to our common lanib's-quarters clothed equal size, but with sober sooty-gray Laying House Should Be out, . . . they're going to be married here. And plumage. Five minutes Inter Jim's hand was the slopes. Cleaned Before Autumn I'm a very hapuy old man, and don't Stripped of Rabbits. on the'handle of the door. He was deserve It God bless you, Mr. Jen; In these were flocks of the saucy The laying house should be thor- sure that it was bolted; still, he nlngs." . • • Nihon finch (not a true finch, but a Some time in 1902 the foreman of oughly cleaned before the pullets are wished to make sure before trying the strong-billed member of the curious the guano works brought to Laysan put In It. A common method Is to "(Jod bless you, sir," muttered Jim, Hawaiian family Drepanldldae) und windows. To his astonishment it was clasping the outstretched hand. three or four pairs of rabbits, .partly remove all the interior fixtures and an occasional inillerbird (a form new to amuse his children, and partly for unfastened, in a moment, he had A moment later and he was outside clean thoroughly by sweeping down to science), botii species restricted in the fresh meat they would furnish. slipped quietly Inside and stood listen- the house, looking back ut the lighted the walls and removing all the litter range to tills barren rock, and found For a; time the animals were kept ing.. - window. He saw his father's figure, and dirt from the floor. Prepare a nowhere else In the ..world. about the houses, but 'gradually a pair No sound cume from the Interior. as he sat by the table. And in his good disinfectant by adding S parts Hordes of terns nested on the or two wandered awuy, attracted by No doubt the old man was already up- mind rose up another figure, Adu's— of some good standard stock dip to slopes, boobies ..arid frigate birds broad tracts of grass, succulent herb- stairs in his bedroom, preparing for Cod bless her—Ada, whom he was go- 95 parts of water, and with the use formed colonies In the bushes, and age, and protecting shrubs. Rabbit sleep. It might have been safer to ing East to see. of a force pump saturate the Interior •wait longer, hut'Jim was not afraid beautiful snow-white loye birds nested enemies there were none, as cats arid of the building with this disinfectant. of an old man. In pairs on tiny ledges- on the huge dogs were forbidden because of their "How old is your boy?" The same method should be used for "Fifty-seven." He bad learned that the safe .stood Moth*a Amazing Growth black cliffs. Albutrosses. found else- damage to birds. With abundant food cleaning the Interior equipment Aft- in the living room. It would l>u un Nature .presents many puzzles, and where near the seu, here nested on a and a genial climate, bunny's Increase er a day's exposure to the sunlight for "Just the right age for our cradle easy matter to force it. There would while we often read about the curi- flat 830 feet uhove the waves. was Incredibly rapid. thorough drying, the, poultry house roll." Im an unavoidable noise, hut that was osities of many of the larger animals, Ancient Ruins on Necker. Early accounts of Luysnn Island and fixtures may be put In place. Spread where Jim excelled, in the getaway. wt- are not so familiar with some of From u distance Xecker. where the photographs tuken 20 years ago de- clean sand over the floor and cover Not Yet party proceeded after completing By household cares and bllla He stood in complete silence ami the lesser-known "freaks." pleted It us u pleasant spot covered It with 3 to 4 Inches of bright clean They are not harried— darkness. He waited a moment, then Tilt.- great increast; In weight of an- work on Xlhou. uppeurs as some mis- with green vegetation. Reports of straw. This will put the house In The olgn on the car says he stretched out his hand toward the imals such as tin- elephant and hip- shapen, monstrous unlmal crouched damage to shrubbery had led the condition for the eurly maturing pul- They've Juat been married. door of the dining room. He found popotamus is'often recorded, hilt the amid the waves. recent explorers to expect some lets which should go in the next week. I he handle, turned it noiM-losly, and privet-hawk ni'jth incruast-s Its weight Nlho-u was well known to the an- changes, but had not prepared them Bound to Snip Something entered. He closed the door behind eleven thousand tiim-S; In its thirty- cient Iluwullnns, but Xecker had no for the utter desolution that they Itinerant Gardener (with large him. two day- of feeding. known native name, nor does it fig-found when they landed In the little ure In the many legpnds of that peo- shears)—Morning, mum-r-trlm your Suddenly the light was turned on. Kven tlil« l.i lit-iiten by the perform- harbor and walked slowly up the Poultry Notes grass, mum? 1 ple. There are found, however, on sandy slopes to a point near the tum- It had been one of Ilio-se epi.-odes com- ance of 'Hi* i."»ut moth, which In- "No, thank you." mon to country towns. The electric this isolated bit of rock, far below the hlediwn buildings remaining from the creases iii iirigin.il '.v>-ight seventy- "Clip your bushes, mum?" lights had been put out of coiiiiiii>sioii two ih»i]-iit:-s. .'iltiiuugh It takes horizon from distant Nllioa, many guano workings. It Is the mash feed thut makes the for a few tnimiles by-some accident. three, year- \>i •!'; -'i signs of occupancy by ancient, more On every bund extended a barren high egg-production. "No." , The IlKlits had «one out, they had . .Some li>r'"Ti!;-4 ),.\\,H no mouths or less primitive man. waste of sand. Two coconut palms, a » • * "Bob your hair, mum?" never been turned out. 'ami take no i'-m-l whatever . during A wonderful series of more than 40 stunted hull tree and tin Ironwood or Cull the flock and increase the Romance .llm was confronting the old man, their brief live,. heiaus, or stone temple platforms, two, planted by former inhabitants, profits from the laying hens later. who hud fallen u.-leep In his chair lie- rectangular In form, ranging from a where the only bits of green that • a « » Hero—Ifs wonderful to behold Isnt fore a table. Upon the tubbi wen; a few feet to sixty feet In length by greeted the eye. Other vegetation had A suitable mash, fed throughout the It dear? number of papers, pens and an ink Amen in Very Truth half as wide, were found on the high- vanished. From all appearance, Lay- summer, balances the grain ration und Heroine—Yes, but Ifs more wonder- bottle. The little t»>y lia The old mun peered at him intent- Tin-iii,' und you know what it meant, stroyers only a few hundred remained. The calcium which Is needed for feat quite well, thank you."—Ameri- 1 ly. And suddenly Jim realized that- don' you?" From Necker the explorers con- egg-shell building can usually be best can Legion Weekly. tinued west for a brfef stay among the It was necessary to destroy these .' lie was blind! The sightless eyes "What does It mean?" asked nurse. If the birds were to be protected. The furnished with oyster shell, says the "It means to tell God I'm in bed. IS Rand Islands and the pinnacle rock Nebraska experiment station. '"' were looking into his own with a that mark French Frigate shoal. Be- destruction of the majority was sim- Naturally puzzled expression. Don't you see, Tm-lu-?" ple, but the survivors became wary • • a Fortunately, she was a very sym- yond lies Gardner Islnnd, an inac- Dog Barber (beginning work on the Then, with a look of charming be- cessible rock, according to the United and It was necessary to hunt them out Some form of animal protein such —And how will yea nlghily, the old man advanced to- pathetic nurae and she saw .the little one at a time. A party sent to " - M^wt^prto^a^TrieTpp ward him, one hand-outstretched, the fellow's reasoning at once, so be was milk; or buttermilk or semi-solid but-1 have him dipped, other guiding him by the table edge. permitted to continue saying "I'm-ln" termllt a U essential as part of th» \ -with a boyish bob, of coarse.- "I am glad you buve come, Mr.— for, "Amen."—Springfield Union. there was apparently no record of the I ration for the laying hen. <

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