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BOARD OF FINANCE ELECTED GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERS- I IMPORTANT WEDDINO TO TAKE LAWSON REUNION THE END OF THE GOLD RUSH LOCAL NEWS ARY | PLACE JULY 12th RAINBOW In an election where only M votes Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lawson en- A were cast Watertown's new finance The home of Arthur G. Beach of wedding of great interest to War- tertained about 100 guests at their Many from Connecticut Joined the board were elected to office on last John L. 8cott, A. W. Barton and Main street was the scene of a hap- tertown people will take place at home on Sunday at the first family FertyNiners In the Mad Race Wees- get together held in seven years. ward But Few Returned with Any- Saturday. The polls were opened Wm. B. Reynolds beld a meeting py celebration on but Friday when Christ church on July 12, when Miss in the Town Ball and awarded the The guests started to arrive early in thing to Show for Their Trouble from 8 ajn. to 5 pjn. As there waa the golden wedding anniversary of Elisabeth Buckingham, daughter of Contrart for constructing- a sewer the day and spent an enjoyable time This spring, when tri-motored mon- • to be no contest for office the towns- Mr. Beach's parents, Ex-Supt of Wa- Mr- »nd Mrs. Charles Buckingham of renewing acquaintances, and rela- oplanes have erased toe, distance people did not, take an Interest in on De Forest street to Baivatore De Stmone of Waterbury tor a •urn of terbury police. George M. Beach and, De Forest street will become the tionships. between Connecticut'* the proceedings to any great extent. brid 115.400J00. There were aeven bid* Mrs. Beach was celebrated, there. « of Nelson A. Howard. Jr., of A dinner was served in the gym- capitoi and the City Golden Myron Wheeler, Alfred Bradshaw submitted by contractors and all The festivities were held out on the Pasadena. Calif, nasium with long tables being set Gate except for 31 hours on the and frank B. Hickox, Republicans, •even bidden were very close in Guests were present from Osalning. 'smooth highway of the air," and lawn which was attractively lighted The ceremony will be performed prospectors leisurely smoking cigar- and T. J. Kelly, Frank Relnhold and their figures for the cost of the Job. al 5 N. Y.. New York city. Hartford. John L. Beach, Democrats, wen with colored lights. In the center of o'clock in the afternoon by Rev. Thomaston, Plymouth, Terryville, ettes in de luxe offices stake invisible The sndessful bidder has done con- l elected to membership of the newly siderable contract •work for the the lawn was a table graced by a °«» « Cunningham of 6t. John's XNaugatuck, Croton. N. Y., Water- claims in the "gold rush of the air." created board of finance. ten church, Stamford, and a former well- bury and Watertown. a million dollar exhibition of sculp- large wedding cake made by John kn0Wn resident of Watertown. Fol- ture in San Francisco reminds of The board of finance will probably Strict SH Among those who attended were: Connecticut's Forty-niners, and of tSy Work on of Waterbury, a brother^ln- lowing the ceremony a lari Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Graham, Mrs. fee sworn in immediately and hold sewer wffl start at once and on com tion will take place at the home of the most hazardous as well as col- a meeting in the near future. S. Johnson, Beverly Graham, Arthur orful of the gold rushes which have the bride's parents. Johnson, Lucille Johnson, Eleanor The first selectman of the town the new highway I Miss Buckingham will have as her every now and then made a bright r being a bouquet of GO red Johnson, Dorothy Anderson, Alice stab in the history or our country. will be a member ex-offlcio of the weather seTln. * ' matron or honor Mrs. Edwin Rey- Brlnkman, Mr. and Mrs. Harry board and shall preside at all meet-j buds which was presented to nolds of Dayton, Ohio, and her maid In the yesterday that was 81 years Mrs. H. H. Camp of the Lltchfleid IM r and Mrs Beach by the j^ Qf Brinkman and son, Allan Lawson, Ings at which he is present, but of honor, her sister. Miss Harriet Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Lawson, Mr. ago a Connecticut Forty-niner, Collis shall have no vote except in case of Road is spending a month visiting u/aterbury. ' Anne Buckingham. The bridesmaids P. Huntlngton, began, in a canvas relatives in Castiie, Maine. and .Mrs. William Luddy, Mr. and a tie. The town clerk will be clerk The guests began to arrive about will include a younger sister, Miss Mrs. George Schlosser, Mr. and Mrs.tent store in Sacramento, to pile up Joseph Hanningof New York city'three in the afternoon and continued of the board and at all meetings of Nancy Buckingham, a cousin, Miss William Dolan, W. L. Baker, Vivian the fortune which, today, in the gift the board four members exclusive spent the week end at bis home oa throughout the evening. .A program I'eggy Buckingham or the Green, of $1
Immune Fi TURKEYS Just a little Paris.—The day may ba approach- IN CONFINEMENT of a divorced wtts for Fhatal* ing when mankind can be Immunised band, askad for sad received by the Rural Arms all contagious maladies, and father of tbe girl he Intends to marry I of death can be reduced to old Better Results Secured Than By a singular series of drcaav Industry has penetrated new rural stances two remarkable tetters •teas in the West. Iowa, for exam- age, the wearing out of organs or ac Where Poults Are Free. ple, BO longer ships practically all cldents. Into the of the San tan- of Chronicle They a*t the hogs to Chicago. Numerous paek- Science already baa In times past many people felt that •*•«•*» arithin that state take an. venting four of the gravest dlsesirs « father tor .^character_ " for th. i ing plants turkeys could not be raised In con- Increasing number. which have caused serious ravages who intends to marry his daugh- mfacturing In- throughout history and In France atone finement but that they should have a "Moderate awed large area over which to range. This ter, and tbe answer of tbe divorced up In out of hundreds of scientists are continuing wife. dastries have sprang their studies to provide vaccines to contention has changed now, howev- the way places throughout the United er, and tn several localities turkeys Here are the two letters, with noth- States. Plants handling cotton Immunize mankind against all the ing changed bat the names of the other ills to which we have'been heir. have been raised In confinement with com by-products are numerous. Con- . a great deal of success. principals: earns producing washing machines, The Pasteur Institute, the Curie In- "Mrs. Marion Brower, San Francisco stitute and the Academy of Medicine 'The Minnesota and Nebraska ex- fountain pens, buttons, metal products . periment stations i have been among —Dear Madam: Please pardon this of many kinds, steel and machinery are all centering their efforts on find- very personal letter aa I am writing ing vaccines, and at present the great- the leaden In Investigations! work goods, and many other articles not ~ In turkey production, In recent years, to ask a few questions about your for- directly dependent on agriculture for est attention Is being paid the anti- mer husband, Kenneth Brower. I will tuberculosis vaccine of Calmette. with some such work being done at raw materials, have chosen rural dis- other experiment stations in various state as an excuse that he hope* to tricts for their bases of operations, Smallpox 8car*. parts of the country. At both of the marry my daughter. I would like to apparently to their substantial profit. Plow With Philippine Motive Power. Already vaccination against small- stations mentioned It was found that have yon tell the following things re- American him: Is he a real, clean. Naturally, however, a large pro- pox, diphtheria, typhoid, and para- better results could be secured If the gardlng portion of the Industries located In pineapples. »tun8o. lemon, chleo and high-minded gentleman, as he appears, (Prepared b» tn* National O*osr»phl« to the typhoid fevers has proved successful. puults were raised in confinement rural districts are supported by the Society. Wohlnnton. D. O pomelo are strange names Science Is divided over the merits of or one who puts up that front to the may titan If they were allowed to range public and Is a domestic tyrant? products of.the farm. HE status of the Philippine American housewife, but ihey the-tuberculosls vaccine, which la now over n large area, the method once not long remuln so II the Philippine "Is be a man who is a good pro- Rural Industry, besides giving the islands crops up afresh with being widely used In France, and it followed In turkey production. In farmer a better local market, hetps Tthe writing of a nw tariff bill. are successful in canning and mar- will be-necessary to wait for the re- j »«»""•«••- •-•—» ••-- — vider or Is he one who spends what vlew of him to get Improved roads and keting their fruit products. suits of the next ten years before these findings, those who wish he makes on himself and leu his fam- This Island group. t.OUO miles J-«>_•.-I- _.t...it,«, ,h» I to go Into turkey production, either schools, and to bring electric power from the Pacific coast of North But if the custom of pigeonholing science can say definitely whether the ily merely exist 1 1 am thinking only on a small or large scale, are no doubt of my daughter's future happiness as to his farm. The electrification of America, furnishes at once the great- a jatlor or a district by its products, Calmette vaccine la a preventive or Interested in the practices to be ad- I ask these things, so you can do me our farms .drags. It seldom pays to est stake and the most difficult ad- such as Illinois, the Corn Belt state: In tills method of turkey Sao Paulo, the Coffee country; the a danger. hered to a great favor by giving me the facts, build high tension lines for only a ministrative problem of the United The recent smallpox scare In Europe raising. and if you think of anything more few farms, but the problem Is solved States In the Pacific South, the Land of Cotton. I* ac- cepted, then the Philippines should which followed the transport of the The United States Department of that I onght to know, please tell me" when the rural district contains pow- This Is no tiny Island territory like disease from India to England by pas- Agriculture has found that turkey And here la the ex-wife's answer: er-using Industries. • be known aas the Land of Fiber. From some of those that fly the Stars and i sengers and crews on liners caused a production has declined consistently "Mr. C. K. Robinson, Savannah. Ga. In addition. Industrial development Stripes In mld-Paclflc. but a country a banana plant Filipinos obtain prob- ably the strongest known plant liber, sudden Increase In vaccinations which since 1890. in the face of an increase —Dear Mr. Robinson:- It's rather an In agricultural districts boosts farm/ of nearly 115,000 square miles—a almost taxed to Its limit the produc- In the production of all other lines odd situation, being asked for a rec- land values, distributes tax burdens greater area than that of New York. Manila hemp, from the fibrous stalk of the cane they produce sugar, the. long tion capacity of the Pasteur institute of poultry and live stock. This de- ommendation for one's former bus- more equitably, and Improves agricul- Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Delaware, hairs on the husks of the Ml I Ion and Modern engineering baa come to the crease In production cunnot be attrib- band. However, I quite understand tural credit facilities. Also It favor- and Maryland combined; or among a half coconuts are now put to miiny aid of science, however, and by the uted to a decrease in demand, for the Interest in and care of your ably Influences farming methods.— the Islands, greater than the three demand has always exceeded the pro- your uses.'the fiber of thhe magueyauey , a mem- use of most modern American refrig- daughter's happiness. It also gives W. M. Jardlne, In the Saturday Eve- large southern Islands of Japun upon duction, or at least, there bos never ber of tbe amaryllls family and close eration machinery and methods, It is me great pleasure that I am able to ning Post which the life of that nation centered been a surplus of turkeys on the mar- relative of the century plant Is an now possible to make up serums In reassure you about Kenneth's char- while It grew to Imperial stature. ket with which to contend. Important export Buntnl hats are vast quantities and store them away acter. Small Home Requires This far-away territory of the to be ready for such an emergency as This decline In turkey production "He Is a very fine chap and should United States Is Inhabited by nearly made from the burl palm, and then there Is the wood and rattan from the that created by the British smallpox can be explained almost altogether by make some girl very happy If they Trees and Shrubbery 12.000.000 people of many races and scare the fact that farmers have always have tastes in common. Be bas al- The small borne actually needs different religions, less than a quarter forest Finally their embroidery In- dustry depends on the Imported fibers World Is Prepared. felt that turkeys should have unlim- ways held a reasonably remunerative planting more than a large house set the present population of the three Professor Lereboulet of the French ited range. Because of following this Job as far as I know, and I never In broad acres, because a house looms most Important Japanese Islands. But of silk, cotton and flux. The Philippines might be said to be Academy of Medicine, one of the out- method of production the turkeys lacked anything as far as our finances large on a small piece of ground. It the tropical Philippines with ihelr am- standing authorities on vaccination in came In contact with the chicken were concerned. Our reasons for sep- needs trees, and foundation shrubbery ple rainfall and luxuriant vegetation a jagged land both vertically and horizontally. They are very moun- Europe, snid that the world is today yards, to the detriment of the tur- to link It naturally to the ground. are capable. In spite of their moun- perfectly prepared to tight against epi- Planting will reduce the appurent sice . tainous character, of supporting a tainous and their coasts are much In- dented. Though only about one twen- demics and many contagious diseases of tbe house and make it seem In bet- much larger population than at could be forever eliminated If all na- ter proportion to the size of the lot. present ' . ty-fifth the area of the United States exclusive of Alaska, the Philippines tions would adopt the successfully did not know exactly what It Any real estate man will agree that Since pacifying the Islands, tbe have a coast line twice as great proven methods. production among farmers and farm- about. Trusting that this Informa- planting around a small home pays United States has given the Filipinos Commercially, Manila, on a com- "Smallpox has entirely disappeared ers' wives who have, in the' past tion will sufficiently allay any doubts in cold cash. Trees and shrubbery steadily Increasing political control of modious bay and with a good harbor, as an epidemic In France, although raised turkeys and chickens together that you may have ahout Kenneth's may add several hundred dollars to their affairs, the oppolntlve commis- has an excellent strategic position. It there are rare scattered cases, espe- on the same range. eligibility. I am, very sincerely jours, your home If you should ever want sion which ruled over the Islands at is a sort of oriental center, less than a cially In port towns." Professor Lere- In the Nebraska Investigations it Marion Brower." to sell It They pay good dividends, first under the American regime has u,,,^,,,,, boulet said. thoiusand miles from Important Chinese was found that tbe old method, of Select shrubs, plants and trees that now given place to an elective house ports and less than 1.500 miles from I "Every year sees several hundred raising the turkeys on the open range Bostonians Eat Frisco are native to your state. Nature ha* and senate, and five of the seven mem- • -""thorn Korea. I thousand persons vaccinated against with natural hatching and brooding southern Japan, southerlern Korea, i »..»-=-— F spent thousands of years adapting bers of the cabinet are Filipinos. The by turkey bens was not successful. Beans, Don't Know It them to your soil and climate, so why governor general and vice governor Singapore and the ports of the Dutch smallpox In France, especially school East Indies. It Is estimated~ thn" t ' children, soldiers and people living in On the other hand, artificial broVi- Sa8an Francisco.—There may be a select a foreign plant which has at are still appointed by the President of miles of cities who are most subject to con- ing and hatching, by means of which constitution as delicate as an Incu- the United States. within a radius of 3,500 difference between Boston baked beana .num..Manila. liv.....e. three-quarter,_ s of a billion tuglon. Our vaccination work has teed and environment could be kept bator baby. It has to be carefully Education has been the center of and San Francisco baked beans, but a Inhabitants—morVthan a third of the I been «o successful and the public baa under the control of the' producer, distinguished group of Bostonlana nursed to pull It through, while na- the American policy In the Islands tl population of the earth. | accepted it so heartily that today It total population of the earth. Is safe to say France has no fears ot was found to yield very good 'results. failed to detect it. tive shrubs will thrive without much A very small percentage of the na- We Lose One Island. effort on your part. tives were literate in 1888. Numerous smallpox. .' When 22 members of the Boston Recently Uncle Sam lost one of his "Similar campaigns to encourage Chamber of Commerce were luncheon languages and dialects were In use Electric Brooders Are - Small-Tows Planning and only a minority understood Snan tiniest Philippine Islands—Palmas. vaccination against diphtheria have Glean and Convenient guests of the local chamber of com- Isb. It was determined to make Eng- had good results. A half million chil- merce a huge pot of baked beans was Larger cities of Missouri may need' The New York experiment station lish the common language and to his. but found later that tbe Nether- dren are vaccinated against this dis- passed around. Tbe goodness ot the zoning laws and authority for city found electric brooders very satisfac- open thi.- necessary public schools to lid It s an putty Ing "Boston" baked bean was lauded. planning and some of them have tory except in extremely cold weath- reach the great mass of children. By thAftee speecher the beans subsideds bad bee, thn eeate visitorn ands I found ways to acquire thme rightsngnis, umbut. er,, when this type of heat-did not 1917 more than 4,000 primary schools tals. We will continue until the were told the beans were California I the smaller cities are In the best po- warm np the space in tbe house away were In operation In chnrpe of 13. the arbitrator, a Swiss, decided •- French youth, about 8.000.000 chil- grown and that the special Boston Bitlon to make Intelligent and- effectiv- ..e. from the brooder. Like electric in- 377 Filipino and 417 American teach- favor of The Netherlands. dren, Is Immune use of them. So tbe smaller communi- cubators, brooders heated by elec- baked beans brought on their train ers. About half the estimated total Few of the. many Philippine Islets "Tbe antityphoid vaccine has now ties should be vitally Interested In and tricity are clean, easy to regulate bad "mysteriously disappeared." of the children of the Islands—«00.000 are so Isolated as Palmas. It lies 48 been proven successful, and already welcome the bill passed by the Mis- and very, convenient. —were enrolled In that yenr. By 1020 miles off the nearest point of Mln hundreds of thousands of persons vol- souri house, permitting all cities of tbe the enrollment had reached 791.620. danao, Cape San Augustin, and was untarily seek immunization annually. Individual farm light plants extend Armless Girl to Tour state to adopt ordinances creating city and If has- steadily increased since the farthest southeasterni bit oMand |T"heCalmeVte vaccine against tubercu- the advantages of this electrical Europe Alone in Chair planning and zoning commissions, with until now approximately one and losis can .be said to be still in a stage equipment to farms which are dot pines, ou •««'"."- —•-—. , of observation, but we have seen only located , on an electric "high line." Leicester, England.—Miss Mary authority to lay out permanent physi- quarter million pupils are enrolled. Joyce West, twenty-fwo years old. eal lines. Under the proposed law, been that many maps.do. not show It, 1 g00(1 resuit8 go fnr and 200,000 chll- Because many farm plants are Trade Grows Rapidly. equipped with both generator and bat- and armless, la completing plans for commissions would have their work of and most of the gazetteers pass its | dren are vaccinated annually." 'The trade of the Philippines has tery power, the supply of current for making a tour of Europe In her leg- layincity gcouncil out ans dfo planninr approval.—Sg placedt beforLouies Increased tremendously since 18!*9. In name by. propelled cripple's chair. ••••-..•» ...•_ Paltnas (it Is sometimes called tlie incubator or brooder is constant; Post-Dispatch. that yenr the combined total of ex- U. S. Largest Maker, and reliable. Miss West who lost her two arms portn and Imports was $:«.0iin.000: by Miangns) is only a little over half the In an accident several years ago. says size of Central park In New York User of Chemicals ; Highway Width 1917 the total was $101.(HHMHIO: and she can'moke thirty miles a day tin city, being one and one-tliird miles Washington.—The United States is Width of the highway for safe and In 1928 It had reached .S275.O0O.O0O. Aylesbury Duck Meets her chair. She will make the tour lone by two-thirds of u mile wide: a the world's largest chemical producer expeditious movement of traffic is Nearly every mnn.lti the world who and consumer. She exported one- pay for Itself by selling handwork •uses a-rope'pays tribute to rh£ Philip mere -speck..in- the sea when Its dis- Favor as Market Fowl more and more concerning the road tance from .large'land bodies is con- fourth of the chemical products ex- fancy articles which she has made builder. Engineers of the United / pines, for "Manila hemp" Is one of the The' Aylesbury duck comes from the herself. She plans to work her way sidered.-: It lies about 20 miles west ported b> the leading countries of the Vale of. Aylesbury, from which fact States bureau of public roads are of best rope materials known. It is har- world in 1028, according to reports through France, Belgium, Switzer- vested from a species of banana tree of the 127th meridian (east lonisl- It derives Its name. It Is the market the opinion that a minimum of 20 feet tude) which forma the eastern recently, issued by the Department of duck of England. It. has a long body, land and Italy. ' should be maintained for a two-lane •'Nearly .SW.Wm.000 .worth of It "was Commerce. Germany, the United shipped In 11)27. Coconut -.products—, houmlnry of.the-region ceded by Spnin deep keel, and le'gs placed a little highway. It Is held further that In to the -L'nited States.- and about 40 States, the Onlicd Kingdom and behind the center of the body. Betrayed by Cat built-up sections the roadway should "meat" and oil—come second. Much France exported : chemical, products Montebello,..'.Calif. — A black cat of America's butter substitute is made tnjle.s north of the parallel 4 detrrfes The Pekin Is Chinese, and Is the most be 86 feet wide at least, to permit ... minutes (north latitude) which valued at $8,000,000 U. 1928. with Ger- popular market duck In America. Its brought, bad luck to Dick ttoss. parallel parking and 50 feet where from Philippine coconut oil. Ship Police Investigated a neighbor's re- ments in 1927 amounted to more than forms the southern hoiindary. If wns ...... surpassing all other countries. legs are set far back, giving an up- diagonal and right angle parking is therefore well within the area marked The United States leads In exporta- right carriage. port of seeing the cat stagger and allowed. S10.0uiMHK). As a producer of suinr. stumble out of Dick's place. -•'• the Philippines cannot yet be com out by tbe treaty for United States tion ot sulphur, phosphate, rock, cer- While the Indian Runner is not a ownership. tain prepared medicines, toiiet prep- popular market duck on account of Its They arrested Dick for violating the Ground for Fruit Growing pared with the famous "sucar isles." state dry law after finding two stills Cuba and Java, but Its -.productlon- There is no record of a .visit by aratlons, naval stores and Is an im- small size. Its flesh Is tender and pal- The extent of ground required Is anv official of the Cnlted Stains or portent contender for honors In the atable, and Its foraging habits give It of 1.000 gallons capacity each. 300 more than SriO,OfX).(KK) worth in 1927- barrels of mash and 200 gallons of i about ten or twelve square rods for the Philippines to Palmas until 19tW I dipping '"of sulphur dyes. lndlKo. gin- a game quality that will make It in | the different summer fruits, and an entltles the group to be ciiissed with seng and certain speclnwiola Ger- demand with epicures. alcohoL •"•••• ••.' "•-••"•.".'.•';•.. •..-;-/-V'•-.. ' • Hawaii. Porto Rico and Formosa when Leonard Wood, then governor of '••••• •••- ^---i-—_..i«^u.lo , n«,c acre and a half or two acres for all the adjacent Island of .Mindanao, while many markets one-naif, the United tbe others except the winter apples. .'."'• among the world's sweeteners. on an Inspection trip through the wa- States more thsn two-fifths, the Watch Young Birds I >e»e»»»
it ^uL>:> Mi^^g^*^^ Property of the Watertown-.TV Historical Society .PAGE POUB i low In priee. toed UM we donf of Mt. Varnon. K. V. Published weekly on Friday In the poultry son Mrs. Ella Carliewatertownhistoricalsociety.orgk and JIUs EWe Mrs. J. H. Oalpin baa returned P. O. Box 223 » GarllcK motored to Hartford on from a week's risit with bar son. Wateitown, Conn. Or B. A. Oalpin of Bast Hampton Stephen H. Brown, manager of the 8-Carl Fiaeher • Publtah** Woodbury Cooperative Association, Francis P. Flyan, Assistant Editor c was busy unloading a car of reed at s as the Southbury railroad station the first or the week. Subscription—S2 yearly in advance Mutual Fire iinsurancn e company. ~Malwa The Pinochle club met with Mrs. held at Lighthouse Inn, New Loa- e World Symph- NOW PLAYING Mnw Entered as 2nd class mutter at thj|don. on Wednesday. The outing in- Frances was also Arnold Sanders on Thursday even- _ THE BEHBATTOHAL BIHCHHG AHD TALDHO PICTURE Watertown postoffice under act if eluded a sail on the aound. .Jii the William E. Kennedy ing. March 3, 1879. Miss Dorothy Pond of Naugatuck ¥Jnt p^ ,,„ CChememigtrigtry anand o bob- Miss Lucetta Danlell motored np wan a Sunday visitor here.h.. A little taiaaA honorable memention n In French. with friends from New York on Sat- FRIDAY. JUNE 28, 1«29. ^^, in thh e season MUMUss PonPondd ex e-x Ri Hihan urday to spend a week at her Wood- 8S MOTHER'S BOY John Hunihan. Rita Hunihan. Wts to Bpend her vacation with # bury home, Uplands. ____ ; peels to Bpena ner vwauiuu »«.- Mrs HenrHenry perrPerroo , jjosepnmogephlnee rerroPerro, I M d M S N Pond Mrs. Ida Brown of Woodbridge was with JUNE AN INTERESTING MONTH ber pparents. Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Pond LoretLoretuu BBrysoy hb and Bessi ie PartridgPrtridgee at Enlon, West Va. attended the exercises. visiting with Mends In town on Morton Donney In American History. Many Battle* Walter Brooks or Green Acre Tea • MJM Jnex R|cnnlond is at her home Sunday, I3S1 Fought and the Adoption of Rpom is having a refreshment and after j^,^ C0Bnnea vrftfc pneumenta F. c. Parkin received word last Broadway's Golden Voice Tenor the American Flag food stand erected on Main street Bt gt j^naer* hospital. New Ha- week or the death of a brother, Bur- June Is a month or battles in at the south end of hia property. He ton Parkin or New York. COMING SATURDAY American history, doubtless for the has also obtained a licence U>* »• .uugnir of Pyth- Miss Annie Allen has rented the reason that as the first month of gamine .UUon which willl shortlhrtly Accepted an upstairs part of the W. J. Burton summer It usually affords suitable be installed at the same< place. J ,^ ^v. C. R. D.erlamm house on Main street and will re- weather Tor military operations. June Ueorge Cahlll has rented the . ^ regular morning serv- move there sometime within * THE GAMBLERS is also the month which brought our floor of the Burton property on Main « •, Congregational church. Thursday afternoon at the home or with nag, for it was on the fourteenth day streetreet-. „ .Sunday, at 10:45. Mrs. Fred Curtlss. of June. 1777, that the flag of the Mr,s. Ida N. Mun Miss Helen Fenn or litchfield Is Mr,s. Ida N. Munson was called g Darrow, an George Fawcett, H. B. Warner, Lois Wilson United Sattes was officially adopted to Thomaston last week by the an* ht lt week by the an* J^™'' engagement of their sts- visiting with her aunt, Mrs. Clinton | by Congress. den death of her mother, Mrs. Julia JJ^ Rmh Podlesney. to Charles Judson. and Jensen Robarbs June brought us much or our|ReV'LNortoaortona. • A.'Buettner. Jr.. of Ozone Park, N. Claus Josephson has rented F. E. olutionary history. It was on June Positively the Tear's Outstanding Picture Mrs. Fannie Capewell attended the Tuttie's bouse on the plain and Is 15, 1775. that Georee Washington y THE STATE HAS THE PICTURES funeral of her father/Charles Beards- 'Mrg D , Abbott, Mrs. C. H. Davis working upon the grounds or the Dr. took command of the Continental Blackmer place. NOTE:—Change of program every Wednesday and every ley. in Plymouth last Saturday. | and Mr(J j E Rolllnson attended army and the great struggle for In- Miss Vella Leslie or Danbury spent Mr. and Mrs. Clinton D. Wilson tne meeting of their WaterburWaty Saturday. dependence found a master of mili- of nath. Maine, visited their parents idg club, the last of the season, Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Leah tary strategy in command of the pa- i iitd thir parents Dr e at the First church manse Tuesday held on Tuesday with luncheon at Leslie. . ' i^ triot forces. Two days later the night and left Wednesday morning Mr8# Gray's team room, Waterbury. Mr. and 'Mrs. Charles E. Beyer or Battle of Bunker Hill was fought. on their journey by automobilbil e tto Prizes for the year were given New Haven were Sunday guests at Following the struggle at Concord In Atlanta, Ga., where they are to at- Mr. and Mrs. Warren Mansfield tiie home of George H. Benham. The April of 1775 the fight at Bunker Hill tend the National Education Associ- have a new General Electric refrig Mrs. E. T. Bradley is enjoying a E. A. BIERCE definitely proved once more the ation convention. Mr. Wilson Is erator in their home. visit from her mother, Mrs. Fannie WATERBURY bravery and determination of thesuperintendent of the city schools Miss Florence Sharrow has return Burton and niece, Dorothy Lewis MO vino AND Tn» th» - - —--- • flip *-—— J ed from the Danbury Normal school both of Waterbury. GENERAL TEUOKINa GASLIGHT and will assist at the home of Mrs. Miss Amy Jane Hancock of Orlllla, CO. M. G. Allen during the summer. Canada, Is the . guest or her aunt, When in need of service Howard Minor of Hartford • Is .MIHS Louisa H. Clements. Cor. Center ft Lesvenworth Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Sanders bad [B my line, fet my ss nrr spending several days with his sis- Streets I. «-.. u r> Pnrtu-lreht. ..j their guests on Sunday, Mrs. priee first .Sanders' sister, Mrs. John Bailey, WATERBUBY, OONW. SSrrS her cousin. Mrs. James N. Sanford Mr. Bailey and Francis and Althea Phone 66-2 PHONE 6564 and administer the sacra- freedom. The story of Bunker Hill preach an and daughters Eleanor and Barbara lluiley of Forestville. is too well known to need amplificalifi - mental rite of confirmation. of Pontiue, Mich., until after the Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harvey and tionhere. I Mr. and Mrs. George W. Brewer • is months' old daughter, Elaine of It was on June 2«. 177* that the o.' Thomaston have sold their late Fourth. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Biglow enter- WaterbUry were Sunday visitors at Battte™ Monmouth was fought, in home In South Britain, the fineol d the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. which strugRle the heroic Moll Pitch- brick house oni the corner to thetallied Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rose-! °< Wlll.mantlc for the week- Harvey; also Mr. and Mrs. R. E. er distinguished herself. On the regret of all their frlenus -nr. Rice of Waterbury. Watertown Office next day June 29. this heroine was Brewer.is well known te even^ship-| Mr. and Mrs. Truman Nutting of| Members of the Troop committee made a sergeant in the continental, per throughout the of the Girl Scout organization met New York were week-end guests of METROPOLITAN CLEANERS and DYERS Inc. army. This Battle of Monraouth was Pomperaug as the Mr. Nuttings mother, Mrs. Charles on Monday afternoon at the Com- the last important combat in the express ami freight agent at munity House to talk things over. Main Street. PHONE 270 0 Nutting. NorthlurtoNoU luringV th thee Revo.utlon and|hury stationer aj.uar.er of ^cen- The principal topic was that of how Rev. and Mrs, O. W. Richardson to raise money to finance the troop. WE CALL AND DELIVER but for the disobedience of Lee might tury. and finally ^ returned home from Pleasant Valley Those attending were Mrs. W. J. have ended the war then In a victory aston because of his About 100 attene Pauls on Tuesday. Burton, chairman or the troop com' Open From 8 A. M. — 6:30 P. M. lor the Americans. ChurcAbouh tschoo 10l0 picni attendec lastAVednesdad y Mr. arid Mrs. Thomas.Fortt spent mlttee, Mrs. Jaines Travers, Mrs. F. Following the close of the war the week-end In Bridgeport and Pond E. Warner, Miss Estella Isham, sec- Saturday.Tdl8 P.M. Point. ond: lieutenant, and Mrs. C. R. Dier- and . B. Dakln is recovering from an lamm, captain. every- The First and North Congregation position at Phelps1 Tavern, Lltch- al churcheB or Woodbury were rep- Thlrd and our national existence was 1 one. . resented at the ordination or Rev. fully established. During June, 1788, Mrs. Wheaton's recital it field, for the summer. Eleanor and Marjorle Clapp leave Edward Hickcox at the Federated two or our states ratified the Con- .South Britain Congregational church church, Southbury, Monday evening. stitutlon of the United States—New was enjoyed by numerous Woodbury next Monday to spend the month In Hampshire on June 21 and Virginia people who knew from past experi- Camp Klnlya, Lake Champlaln. Mr. Those attending the services were on June 26.. ence that they would be delighted. arid Mrs. Clapp will motor them up. Rev. and Mrs. C. W. Wilson, Rev. and Mrs. C. R. Dlerlamm, Mr. and JUneJune 17 1S'5 the fiftieth an- Mrs. Wheaton's capabilities In de- Fritz Holmauest of Providence Is Mrs. A. N. Skllton, Mr. and Mrs. C. o0 ; \h^"BaSe BaSee o? Bunker U.opinvelop.ngg Iinjer^^sthelrjaten her pupils te n from a recent illness P. Helnze, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Clark, BANK STRECT WATERBURY, CONN. cornerstonJ^o" Bunker Hill musical talents are wrell known and at Mrs. George B. Cowles, Mrs. C. H. Mill tne turiiersiuuc ui "»»»" — — I --~-t~t~A WATERBURY'S LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE Fh widely appreciated Harry Wolcott .of Pelfaam, N. V Davis. iMonument was laid by the French widely appreciated, spent Sunday at the home or Mrs, hero Lafayette. Daniel Webster de- Dr. Bruce Blackmer and family The Hotchkiss family or Water- Store Hours 9 to 6. Saturdays 9 to 9. Telephone 117?. Lucy Crofut. bury are occupying their jummer livered the oration. The monument of New York are expected at their Mrs. Hobart Grlswold and son Ho- home, Blighty, in the East Side dis- was dedicated on June 17, 1843, and summer home on Judson avenue the barf, Jr., are enjoying their second Daniel Webster was again the prin- first of next week. week's stay at the shore at Pond trict cipal orator of the day. Miss Nlta Leslie will spend the Edward Barto accidentally cut his All of our wars commenced In I summer In Manchester, N. H., acPoin- t wrist, causing a wound which re- ^Aprll excejpt the second struggle cording to her custom of the past Arnold Galpln is working for Pren- quired four stitches to close, one Just 10 Large against Great Britain and that start- two years. tice Judson. day the first of the week. ed in June, 1812. It was on the 12th John J. Whitehead of New York J. A. Sullivan has a new Ford ,711188 Myra Coad came home Mon- day of the month that Congress de- will sail Saturday for England, where truck. day from the West Haven hospital clared war on Great Britain. he will visit his mother, returning Miss Doris Eyre has commenced] and will enjoy a week's vacation Many events having an important to this country about August 1st. with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Refrigerators the First Congregational church worPhonke aexchanges operato. r 'a t_ th _e local _tele_- bearing on our great Civil War oc- phone exchange. Coad. wil»e«ili bh»e riocloseB«dl the month or July., I Albert Coey or Nntley, N. X. was curred In the month oif June. It was a Sunday visitor here. Mrs. Coey Howard Eyre entertained bis un- on June 16, 186n. that the Republi- durinlrlng tnthe pastorpastor's vacation.-vacation. . t— •*»••--# . i_i_~ cle, Joseph Sands and son Ward or All One Piece Porcelain Lined can National Convention nominated Mrs. George P.att and two chil- and_son I^wrence are lnlng East Orange, N. J., over the week- dren will arrive home Sunday after another week at the hom= e or Mrs. Abraham Lincoln for President. On Coey's parents, Dr. and Mrs. B. R. end. June 3, 1861, occurred the Battle of a three weeks' stay at Pond Point. Shopp. Frank W. Strong has completed Philippi. Virginia, and five days later Mr. and Mrs. John Phelan, William another year's work as principal or and Robert Phelan. Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. De France Clarke and son re- the state of Tennessee seceded. On the Durham high school, and Is at Special $35 Irving L'Hommedieu and daughter turned yesterday from a ten days' June 10. 1861, occurred the Battle of his home in Woodbury for the sum Big Bethel, Va,, and on the following Jean were week-end visitors of Mr.visit in La Vallette, N. J. and Mrs. Hobart Griswold at Bay J. Reuben Clark, former under- mer. 75 lb. size refrigerator with one inch cork board day the Battle of Romney, Virginia. It is reported that the North Wood- On June 15, 1S61. the Confederacy View. secretary or state, who leaves soon insulation. A Challenge brand refrigerator made Four of the latest Abraham Lin- for Mexico as personal advisor for bury club will have dancing with was recognized as a belligerent by muBic furnished by the Masked En- to sell for at least $50.00. Great Britain and France. coin books have been received at Ambassador Morrow, was an over- the Woodbury public library. night guest of Mr. and Mrs.. F. M. tertainer. In the following year, 1862. 'here Mrs. Grace Shaw is engaged as Huntlngton-Wilson the flret or the Buy on Club Plan - $1.00 a Week were many military movement dur- housekeeper at the home of Malcolm week ing the month of June. On the third Linsley. The Dakin home in Hotchklssville TRY A CLASSIFIED ADV. day of the month Robert E. Leo Troop 2, Girl Scouts of All Souls' is equipped with a new General Elec- assumed command of the Confeder- church, Waterbury, camped for thetric refrigerator. ate armies before Richmond. On week-end at Gardenbrook. Miss Vi- The care which the children of June 6 occurred the surrender of ola Grasso Is the leader. The girls the First church Sunday school give Memphis in the western theater of NEW AND REBUILT cash registers in camp were Etta Bavier, Elspeth thier geranium plants given to them Extra Values In the war. Other battles during tne sold on easy payments, No interest Baker. Rita Quinn. Helen DeConlnck. on Children's Day, will be shown In month of June.-lS62. were as follows: charged. Credit files with complete Bernice Relvin. Margaret Stelnmetz. an exhibit to be held at Rally Day 25th, Oak Grove: 26th. Mechanics- system for handling charge ac- Irene Carr, Virginia Schultz, Louise time in the fall. Mr. Evans, florist ville; 27th, Galnes Mill: 29th. Sxv- counts. Unusually low prices on Blacker. Evelyn Salamon, Eleanor of Watertown from whom the plants sales books. The National Cash Reg- Stick Fiber Porch Suite age Stations: 30th. • White Oalt Neale. Ruth Dowd, Florence Naka, were purchased, will give a prize or Swamp and Charles City Cross ister Co., 10 Willow St, Waterbury, Ida Blanchard. $2 to the best plant at that time. Roads. Conn. 24t4 Judson Avenue road, for some Mrs. Frederick S. fooke and Miss It was on June 15. 1S63, that Lees months provocative of profanity, has Louise Cooke are spending a rew WANTED—Experienced cook and se- 3 pieces 97.50 second invasion of the north began, been greatly improved this week by weeks at Short Beach and in the cond maid. Mrs. Sherman Perry. an invasion which was to end th-ee the application of gravel. meantime Mr. Cooke is spending his Tel. 214 Watertown. tT weeks later in the decisive Battle o£ Mr and Mrs. Louis C. Wenzel en- time outside or business hours In Handsomely styled suite suitable for living room Gettysburg which proved the turning tertained over the week-end !Mr. and | Waterbury, at the home of Mra HOUSEHOLD GOODS FOR SALE point - of the war. Mrs. Joseph Kuthmeyer. Margaret Cooke's father, George H. Benham or as well as porch.' Finished in bone and ebony. During the Spanish-Ameriran War and Francis Kuthmeyer. of/Jamaica, Woodbury. FOUR.ROOMS OF SLIGHTLY USED •we find that the heavy fighting diil 1. I., and Mrs. William Lotz and Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ferris, of FURNITURE FOR $275.00 13-pc Porch Suites ?? Odd Fibre Chairs not occur until after the month of Louis Lotz of New York city. Newtown announce the birth-or a at June but it was on June 22. 1SO<, Miss Evelyn Henry of Stoughton, son, Donald. Jr., on June 23. Mother ALBERT'S USED FURNITURE $39.50 $7.95 that the first-American troops landed Mass., comes on Saturday to spend and child are In the Danbury hos- DEPARTMENT in Cuba. the remainder of the summer with pital. The child is a grandson or 49 CANAL ST, WATERBURY, In the World War we find that her aunt, Mrs. D. 1. Abbott. Mr, and Mrs. H. C. Cartwrlght or CONNECTICUT Canvas Yacht Chairs the first American troops landed in The Congregational Yoang People's this town. A young couple had found it nec- France on June 28, 1917. June, how- Conference meeting at Storrs has an Robert Crane is home from the essary to break up housekeeping and $5.39 . ever, played a big part in American enrollment of over three hundred. Georgia School or Technology. • This furnitun, la on display at our operations during the World War. Rev. C. R. Dierlamm who was a Miss Louisa,Clements waspleaB- Used Furniture Department, and is — Howland Hnghes — Fourth Floor — It was oh June 5, 1917. that the first counsellor five years ago was asked antly surprised on last Saturday, her set np in individual rooms, so yon can registration for the conscripting of to accept the position again, but didbirthday, by receiving a visit from1 ••- • •-—' ^„ woul"d '--loo1k- fai «-'— . ~ all men between 21 and 30 took to HCWI i-uo ^...vu ««—, birthday, by receiving a visit from own home.,..EasEasy terms iif desired.' " pl.ice Thrpi" tlayt later it was annotTmon account or there being no her. sisters, Mrs. Wilbur Smith and own home.' For r>rticulars inquire at nounied that General Pcrxhmi: li.ul younit peoples representatives from.yisB Fannie Clements of West Ha- Woodbury Mends, Mrs.-T. 1* ALBERT'S FURNITURE CO, reaihcl England and on the 11th or\\ no fbur> ven. 268 South Main SL, Waterbnry, Conn. tho month word came that I'prshlng From 16 oneyear^ld hens A E.' Shea, Mrs George Harvey and Miss Knox gathered over 1.200 egg. from Lottie Hltchcoc,^_alsoi made recogn. Phone 4260. Ask for Mr. Griffin had arrl\pd In Franc* The npxt dav 47tf to , eggs tion of the day in Tier honor Property of the Watertown Historical Society tt Is not to be taken, I LeJaad Stanford. Jr.. Ual» residence hang paintings ill of tne happenings m June of 1 of death- tlw tMM and* whOa mL. Gam Mason of No- land, valued at fMOO.000 and with an — related to war. On Jane 3. I endowment of $30,000,000. Blue Boy" by Gelnsboroogfe costing tained three months on tlM tainted withwatertownhistoricalsociety.org dying cattle, every alone nearly a million dollars. In .867. the state of Maine adopted pro- Other Sources of Wealth of huw en nmto~-tor ha son m the party was skk with These New Hartford the white library with bronse doors hibitiott ann d the first victory of the tO bis wash- evidently belonged to a group which I Although the Bonanta Kings be- on the hilltop near are original man- dry* over John Barleycorn bad been bowl on his knee—but with Us pack ey or some other disease. immensely wealthy for the dry* o Opportunity on every Corner had money wuandi utim»e foiwr theu»yj chose>•»• • ,j, —— . uscripts and rare old books, the registeredd. little was It then dream- upon his broad back, and by tramp- choicest of the kind ever gathered ing 34 times across the Isthmus rais- On the other hand, all the brighter longest and most expensive of flaws their money came not alone ed that sixty years Utter the United .'or the darkness of the dinVsulUes. ' of sail-'from the placer diggings. They were by a private -collector and brought States would become n prohibition ed his original capital to f&MO. back, with poetic fitness, to the How He Sprat His Money gleamed the opportunities of the new , «,.* -. w York!men or native ability who appUed nation, - ..Jg city when once reached. Harlan re- a group of 10 men who • this to the problem of making mon- scene of the gold rush whose results But to go further back in our his- The pile of $10,000 of gold dust ihave made possible this treasure was to crow into a fortune from members bow, on the shores of Hap- Ip and hired a crew, dis-Jey and were not the type who spent tory, an important event took place py Valley, he picked op some dis-posing of the ship on their arrival 'a fortune, once made, in a game of hoard "more precious than gold that on June 23.1683. For it was on this which he could spend $1,000,000 to at California. They further showed pertsheth," as the old Hebrew poet pay the debts of the fiance ot a fost- carded pickle bottles and before faro in the El Dorado gambling hall date that William Penn the Quaker night had cleared $900 from pickles foresight by taking alone a printing In a single night. might have said. Its intrinsic value colonist completed his treaty with - er daughter, toss to King Leopold press in case they might not be able Is suggested If one selects only one for the suppression ot slavery and he hahadd made from some encumbers Prominent in this group was John the Indians and the great colony of to make over $500 a day at first byW. Mackay. A news dispatch from of the challenging recent tacts about Pennsylvania was made possible. Go- to Booker Washington for training and vinegar from a newly arrived picking up free gold and might need book collecting. Recently $120,000 fnnanrlpst^'1 slaves checks for fG0>- vessel. One man sold old newspa- Virginia City, N*v., February 7. Ing back still further, however, we some other way to finance their first 1929, reported the tearing down of was paid for a Gutenberg Bible, the find that it was on June 24, 14A7, 000 each; put up a 160,000 memorial pers used for packing at $1 and 12day* in El Dorado. first book printed from movable type. chapel to his mother Jn Harwinton; each. Another got his start by ex- the old private office and bullion that John Cabot, the Italian naviga- Asked if his father bad told of any warehouse of Mackay. It recalled There is a Gutenberg Bible in build a Fifth avenue "castle" with hanging with a man who was put- the Huntington collection, one of itstor, flying the British Bag, discovered murals by 15. H. Blasbfleld to please ting up a canvas tent, a box of tinhardships George Mason In his cosy that more than $300,000,000 In gold the mainland of America. little home at the toot ot Yellow and silver bullion Is said to have 125,(>Q<» Items. An interesting coin- a luxury-loving wife and still havetacks for their weight In gold. Henry cidence in that some place "the gold' It was on June 4, 1810, that the quite enough to pay his way toWash - Cbilds Merwln tells of a woman who Mountain in Nepaug said .that their passed through that office as the gold firntr house was built in Oregon Ter- greatest hardship was the loss of rush financier Bat nearby. Coming en a«e of American collecting" with' ington and back when summoned took in washing at $12 a dosen, the In the limits of the three score yean ritory and the movement for the col- for a conference with the President regular rate, while her husband was their barrel of cider-brandy which to America from Ireland as a young onization of the great Northwest and they took along to use as medicine man he became a Forty-niner. While ilnce the discovery of gold at Sut- When he died there were still at the diggings and when he return- ler's ranch, with the purchase of its incorporation In the republic was enough minions (or bis Tieirs to be ed with his bags of gold dust, hadafter their arrival Although Ms tols friends, Flood and O'Brien, went under way. On June 9, 1802, West barrel had been beaded up. in a larg- into business in San Francisco, he Gutenberg Bible by James Lenox foi able to provide for the American more money to show for the time $2,500 in 1847. Point Military Academy was estab- public such feasts of beauty as thethan he. er hogshead it was found by the sail- went to the mines and worked seven lished. Its subsequent effect on ors on the way out and the contents years making and losing a fortune sculpture exhibition In San 'Fran- "Every man on landing in San Links With the Past American history is too well known disposed of without waiting for fu-and learning thoroughly the techni- cisco today, and the art gallery and Francisco became a new man in his Like an untrained child when com- to need elaboration here. Suffice to library given to the city ot Los An- ture possible illness in California. cal end of miniug. In 1872 came the pany comes, the gold or '49 keep: say that it has turned out some of own estimation, writes 6oule, Mr. Mason remembers his father spectacular discovery ot silver at geles by Henry Edwards Huntington was prepared for anything." bobbing up to demand attention. Al the finest and most skilful military speaking ot the "parasites" who the present site ot Virginia City. military officials the world has ever —with one exception the finest pri- One such was Hammond Btoddard most daily one looking for it detect* vate collection in the world. waited until real miners had dugWitli Flood and Fair he organized -flicker at least among the sky from a Cornwall farm. Charles unt.U discouraged and gone, when the bank of Nevada. Unlike Fair known. Hardships of the Rainbow Trail Gold Of Cornwall tells of how Stod Bcrapers, airplanes, railroad mergers, A tragic battle and one which Some accounts of the days of '49 they would step in and, with a small and Hearst he declined a nomina- dard hung out his shingle as a doc- murders, swindles and colorful ad- ended in a defeat, though not a de- dwell on the hardships. William amount of digging strike gold. He tion for United States Senator; like tor in San Francisco and was suc- jectives of the morning newspaper. Harlan, writing in old age from the alao recalls a ring of soft raw gold Huntington he financed the marriage cisive defeat for American arms cessful as most of his patients wen One sees, a glint of it when in acame In June, 1S76. For it was on poorhouse tells of many. Hardships? which his father brought back as a of a daughter to a foreign born title three motored monoplane flying from miners from the cu.ips who had nobleman whom she met'while liv- the 25th of the month that General To Collis Huntington, strong and Souvenir. Los Angeles to San Francisco one well, and stimulated by the chance scurvey, and he curd them by pre- ing witli her mother in Paris, so Custer and his entire command of diet of raw onions. A Cane of 8entlment swoops down at Bakers field—found- of heaping up gold on every side, scribing a i that the former Irish immigrant lad ed by Lloyd Tevia; when on a white nearly 300 United States regulars Reaneail Minormino.s. , A nifty loo'diiL walking stick that whose son is father-in-law, of Irving were slaughtered in the Block Hills there was no such thing—except in While the Connecticut Forty-niners 'I'-JM. the paveme: t of New Lltch- and blue printed form of the Postal getting enough money to financehi s Berlin, became the father-in-law of Telegraph company one makes use of the Dokotas by Chief Sitting Bull Included Yankee nhopkeepers aud Sold and Iluln st.eets, Torrington, Don Fernando di Colonna, Prince of and his Sioux Indians. This massa- ever-growing list of enterprises. One those who stayed in San Francisco accompanies to his office, George H. of the "pulse of the world" to rush a wonders about hits wife, Elizabeth Galato. In 1884 he anticipated the message of joy or sorrow or birth cre was, of course, subsequently and made their money from the! Atkins, step-non of Solon Dunbar, recem Atlantic cable from Newfound- avenged but this day has always Stoddard of Cornwall, who had tominers instead of going to the mines,' Forty-niner and nephew of Collla or death, business or pleasure, when try to "keep house" in a canvas tent land to the Azores which can carry on the Southern Pacific one whizzes remained a dark one in American there were real miners, successful iiuntington, and signifies the. suc-eight inosHUKCH at once, by financing history. at first with minus equipment on aand unsuccessful, among them too. ••'•.ssful competition of hill-encircled eg home after a winter in Southern Cal- h li f t ifornia; when a San Francisco deb- Several of our states were admit- One of these was Michael .Shean. Torrington with the Far West for with J. CJ. Dennett, the laying of two ted to the L'nlon during the month straggling, sand-blown, tree-less the affection of a native son. Made cables across the Atlantic to Eng-utante bows to society .in old Hop- Defeated - in the hour of triumph, of June: Kentucky, June 1, 1792; street of palmetto shoot with root forming land uiid France, forming the Comkins Hotel on Nob Hill; in the Michael Shean, late of Goshen, was Arkansas, June 15, 1836; Tennessee, More than once she longed for the the handle, this stick was bought on merciul Cable Company. nnnios of fon-lgn princesses 'head- homely established comforts-ot the to find an axe from his New England linei! in the great dallies of the world June 1, IT'Jfi; West Virginia, June hon.e woodshed a symbol of the netthe Isthmus of Panama for twenty- j A Jacob and Rachel Romance old farmhouse kitchen. Often -would five cents from a native' who was 15, 1863. The statehood bills for she have given all the gold of theresult of his struggle for gold in the Oklahoma and Arizona were signed placer diggings and mines of Cali- cashing in on selling such canes to Tevis, placer diggings of the Sacramento returning miners who wanted a sou- by. President Roosevelt on June 16. fornia. This relative of Walter Shean artist. for one glimpse of Golds Mills, Corn- venir of their gold rush rainbow and All lien Hagglngg,, New i that or Beatrice, Countess of Gran- 1906. wall, at the coming on of spring was a big, good-hearted, impulsive h Among the prominent Americans Irishman, a fiery lover, fighter and did not have it in nuggets. Solon was a lawyer, joined the gold rush to ada. i;randdaughter of Darius Mills, there, with arbutus and blood' root born during June were John Howard worker. He left his wife and small Dunbar, who had been employed as 'Calli'orniti in '4.9 and made his first a Forty-niner. ' blossoming daintily by a fern sur- clerk in the Huntlngton Hardware million in that state. He was the Still rings the echoes of the pros- Payne, author of "Home Sweet rounded, mosB-covered rock. She children in a Massachusetts village north of Plttsfleld when he joined store in Sacramento, • grew dlssatls- son of an Arabiatan acrobaucroDuti whmmo felicnl I - the Home," June 9, 1791; Jefferson Da- thought too of the longing back norm ui jrntoiieM* nu
watertownhistoricalsociety.orgKansas "Grasshopping Coed' SOUTHWORTH WOULD yea or not; I Jnst - ^^ -Can It! Don't try to string •» with that line o* hooey. I'm ©• to yon bigger 'n a home. I know all Teaches Him to Bos and ARTIE •boot you and the whole mob o' devil- Play Baseball. fish. Me and my friend here play a gentleman's game, nnderstandt I By HBNRT P- COWARDS might stand some show against yon. former Sports Editor of the Mala Glenn's ByGEOfcGEADE only I don'l take my meals off of a • D*al«r. pool table. I ain't no shark that hangs Every one. especially U»e news- Sulphur Sk>ap around these places all day lookin' for paper men. like Billy Southworth, for sometbln' easy, and I'm Just foolish Billy is a most likable chap. Mutual Artie Cu "Spot" 'Em enough to think that I'm too smart t« friend of onrs started to Introduce me OTH Artie and Miller had been play pool with a guy that's Just as to Billy during the world series of chained at the office unusually square as an orange!" 1920. B late because of the extra work "Say, watch your stepr said the "Say." said Billy. "Yon don't bam ^, Robust that comes at the end of the month. Intruder, who had walked away a few to Introduce me to Henry Edwards. It was nine o'clock when they left. paces and then returned, as he evi- The first big league clipping about me i HealtK dently did not wish to retreat while Miller look Artie by the arm and that went into my strapbook was an d -.- [jv- rul-> steered him toward a billiard hall, he was under (Ire. article written by him and run in tne i. p o iv where they frequently locked horns at "Is that so?" demanded Artie, who Cleveland Plain Dealer. That was fifteen-ball pool—an exciting pastime still had bis cigarette In his mouth. back in 1D1-. when I was a Cleveland prop*' r not yet prohibited by law. "W'y, say, I'll muke book right here rookie. But be found something alee I o o ci Artie was the class and usually had that you're llvln* off o' your mother to say about me although I was as .lssimiLitioii K*.-r p to "spot" three. or sister and poyln' no hoard. I know raw us they made them." the ci iocs t i v <• pro you kind o' blmboes like a book. I The corner table was not In use. Southworth has a most laudable u-iM's adiu *•>. ith With the remark that he would pru- don't come In here to give coin to no hobby during the winter time. It sucli yeggs as you. No—no—not If Miss Dorothy -Grasshopper Bollnser. star running nigh jump*• nt ceed to play pool as "old folks" played Cnlverslty of Kansas, who won the high Jump event at the annual track meet Is Billy Southworth, Jr. Billy has It. Artie removed his coat, rolled up I'm on to my job." hoiies that Billy. Jr., will surpass his Wriohts • Pill' "I guess you've said about enough, fir women held recently. Bliss Bollnger cleared the bar at four feet lo beat his sleeves, lighted a cigarette and be- 2, opposition! HeTforL I. said to be one which but few men can duplicate dud In athletic prowess and from the gan a critical Inspection of the cues remarked the young man. His cigar time the baseball season ends until In the rack. Ha vine selected a cue. he trembled between his fingers. It starts again, Billy, Sr.. puts In bis carefully deposited his cigarette at one "Mebbe— but I'm in purty good voice time in endeavoring to teach Billy, Jr., Love ia Chicago edge of the Mile and "busted" the fif- yet. If anyone should ask. I Jus» want to hit straight, throw straight and -Why on earth did yon marry that to put you wise to one thing, Archi- "Mike" Miles to Coach teen balls with a fierce stroke. 1 Startling Figures shoot straight. gangster?" When the balls stopped rolling they bald: when any o you slickers try to Grid at Georgia-Tech The manager ot the St touts Car- "Because I liked his gunning little crash a game where I am and get me were scattered all over the table, but Oliver "Mike" Miles, last fall's Tiger of Pirate Rookie dinals Intends that bis son shall be an ways."; • . fullback, has accepted the offer made Probably one of the best all around athlete. As a result, be him by Georgia Tech to become back- training trip yarns, and a true boxes with him. coaches him In foot- fleld coach, he states. one at that, was pulled when ball, baseball and basket ball and also Miles journeyed to the home of tne the Indianapolis club was doing takes him hunting and engages him In Yellow Jackets at the request of the Its spring conditioning down In target practice with the rifle.* Tech Athletic association. So con- Florida. Donle Bush, now man- "When that boy of mln.i gets to tract was signed. Miles said, but ar- ager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Ohio State (the Southworths live In rangements were otherwise completed was boss of the team at that Columbus), I hope he makes his let- and the contract Is being mailed. time. ter in two sports, at least And, he The agreement calls for Miles' re- A rookie catcher Joined the has the makings if 1 do say so my- self." . inseei porting for his new position on Sep- club at Plant City and Bush tember 1. He would not divulge the asked of the newcomer, "Well, Southworth also nas a superstition, length of his contract, but It Is under- how did yon bit last season?" which Is not to change neckties as stood he will be in charge of Tech "Did fairly wel^wlth the old lung as his team is winning. wholesale backfields for. a. two ,or three-year willow." responded the rookie Tanglefoot Sptsy Is thorough period. .. with a look of pride. "The truth Open Golf Champ —UIls Insects by ine roomful. The tutor being replaced by Miles of the matter Is that I clubbed Nonscan escape—none revive. Is Don Miller, one of the famous "four the pellet for an average of The remarkable cfiecthrencM horsemen* who carried Notre Dame .C32." • of thUpow«rfol Insecticide will to intercollegiate gridiron heights. "Well. 632 Is not to be amaze you. This one sprar Miller is coaching at Ohio State. sneezed at," said Donle. "That's keeps your home free from This ajakes the fourth member of a little better than the report insects the year around. Ton the 1!)28 Princeton team who Is going I got on you from your last need nothing else if yon boy to enter upon a coaching career after mnnnger." Tanglefoot. Prices greatly re* graduation this year. Capt Chuck "Well, then, he was wrong." dnced.PayleHandgetthebcst. Howe, center, and Johnny Stlnson. the rookie affirmed. "I certajn- wlnginan. are going to report to head ly know that I hit .307 In the coach Bill Boner of Princeton on Sep- Piedmont league and .325 In the tember 13. Joe Cnldwell. Xassau line- Cotton States league last year, man. Is going to help his brother, and If that doesn't make .032 I Charley, coach at Williams. bad better go back to school." Old Ned Hanlon Boosts Chicago Cubs and Ruth Ned Hanlon, owner and manager of DIAMQNDY the Orioles when they were the sensa- tion of the country, is still Interested ""ICK-UPSA' -I Ain't No 8hark LooMi* for Somethln' Easy." In baseball. Bobby Stevens, ploying shortstop :o put up dough against your shark "The Cubs look like a great ball for the Newark Bears, Is only nineteen not one of them had gone Into a dub." he said. "When they lose It la jombiriations—w'y, you're on a dead years old. LUted below in an uurtment of MUb pocket ' close one and they are always • . • • • • • • Ished biulneMM which we offer tor uU. »ne. I may be a come-on, but it takes K of tb«« opportunltlM have been In- "A dead rank Jonah," muttered Ar- better people than you to rib a barney pounding the ball. They lose a game Johnny Hevlng, ot the Red Sox i«l b» «i aS will »tmnd «rlcte»r In- tie, as he backed a way from the ta- and then win three or four. Horrisby catching staff, always works when ;Su«.«on. The "Sorm.tlon, while noti«u.r- on me." . uteed. hu been obtained by u» from »ourcf» ble and took a deep drag on his gas- make: a big difference to the team. Big Ed Morris Is pitching.. The" stronger turned: half-wny p When he became deeply Interested He Is a great hitter. It looks like • • • •• Miss Joyce Wethered with cop around and said: "I don't care to In a game of pool, and particularly they traded him right into another Clark Griffith saya . Washington s when she beat Glenna Collett of quarrel with you In here. Til see you «4 Confederation Bldg.. Montreal. J3ue. when he was behind In tne count, he world's series." opening day crowd of over 25.000 was United States for womens* open golf Canning raetory. near Montreal, eatab- Inter." But of Ruth he waxes more eloquent the biggest In the history of the park. liahrahrd 1914- employ* tO; open to an offer. dropped his usual talkative mood and championship of Great Britain. Barr?? && CoSraSCSS!! Ltd.Ltd . 42424 ConfederatioConfederation became silently earnest and watchful. Then he started to walk away. He has always been a great follower •••••• Miller appeared to have caught a "Mel'he you will." said Artie, "hut of the Bambino. The Babe originated Elam R. Van Gilder, right-handed you won't be lookin1 for me, you yel- In Baltimore. 33R?J Ltd.£, winning stroke, and, although Artie Detroit pitcher, bus been sold to the for Bid*., Montreal.-Que. was expected to "spot" three. Miller low fish;" "Babe Is a marvelous player and I Montreal dub of the International oDDortunlty. Barry * Con- had four balls before Artie made one. And with that he chalked his cue. love to watch him." Hanlon continued. league. radT'Ltd.. «« Confederation md«.. Mon- "You never see him do anything "How was it?" be asked, grinning • • • ••-.'. Then Artie became grimly serious, California has more than 4,000 sad- '"oiriSi'on Bony Road, will sell Propwty.' studying the situation carefully before at Miller. wrong. He Is the greatest hitter in Judge Emll Fuchs says that despite1 eqiKm.ntforM.000. Barry * Conrad. Ltd.. the game, one of the best fielders, and dle horses. 424 Confederation Bid*.. Montreal. Que. undertaking n shot, like a great gen- •"I- thought he was going to right. Rabbit Muranvllle's «ge. he wouldnt ... .••••••-.. Pastry Shop, .howlng_a net profit IS.-. had his legs been stronger, he would of eral before a decisive battle. "Not that hoy. He was four-ilusliln'. •swap" him for.nny other shortstop lo Billiards Is now being taught to boys have been one of the best buse the league. s He did not observe the young man I know the brand." ners. baseball has known." and girls of eleven und twelve yeurs who had drifted over from another ta- • KB l»- George Ade.) ' . • • •• .. '.• • • .- • • hi Japan. ft ble to watch the game until this young The Atlanta Crackers Imve pur- 7 • • • , man said, in comment on one of Ar- Humble Clay Valued "Babe Ruth" of Japan chased First. Baseman MIk« Mart!-, The University of Baltimore's first tie's falldowns: "That's where you by Refiners of Oil neck from Newark of the luterne- lacrosse team will be coached by Emll ought to of made a bank." tlonal league. Budnitz. former Navy 'star. To most people mud is to be i •• • •.••'.-
Artie Klanced at him sharply. The spised and avoided, hut a certain Unlit Pitcher Floyd Johnston who was let '•••••• young man had a small dark mustache, gray mud known as fuller's Mas proven out to Springfield of the Eastern Tossing thp enher. a Rlx-foot shaft almost completely shadowed by his HO valuable as an oil refiner duriti-- league by the New fork Glauts has of heavy wood. Is one of the few an- nose, and his garments were super- the last few years that it is sough been recalled. cient sports held In Scotland. Confederation Bid*.. Montreal. Que. stylish. He seemed to believe that General More, proupprouii town, will wll the world over. nroperty anil stock for I8.S00 ca»h. garry he belonged. So great Is the demand for this cluj In the 22 years of the Texas league'* The tahernncle used by Bill Sunday k Conrad. Ltd.. 4*4 Confederation Bid*.. Artie looked hnrd at Miller, and In tl:e petroleum Industry of 'IVxsis existence Beuumont has never won * In West Frankfort. III.. In 1!»27. 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