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DEVOTED TO TIIE WHOLE COMMVXnY-SOTBlNO ELSE OR WATERTOWN. CONN, FBIDAV, APRIL 15, 1927 A8SOC. TO COLLECT GARBAGE W. H. 8. 1927 VOTES ITS CLA88 MUSICAL TOPICS First Meeting of the Connecticut STATISTICS Harold K. Thompson solved what j By R. Cricks Committee Held on Monday THE PIANO A DELICATE The much-to-be-desired vote of the has been a rat.ier difficult problem WHO'S WHO THIS WEEK Evening Last mo "t popular boy and girl in the for a number of residents in the MECHANISM Tl:e fir=t foimal me-ting of the Seniorcfas*of "he Watertown high Fire District when he recently an- Ti;«- piano ia out- oi r< Mhool we- To WHliam Keilty and ' nor.nc-d that he would collect garb- 'car.- mechanJMiji eve. A-- mble.i by ">- iticut i.-oa.miue* of the Amer- bcuooi gots io « . residences in •!• rrk L Peck has purclia- d 1 human hand.-. Us ciiii«;.lex;ty ot Run Historical A.-rociation endow m dlfrer)i nt Mrs. F. E, C. Low, who has been Fr couipot'ilion rivals that oi the auto-, . f j as held at the home Su Coo"and Jos'ph^rry^led '-he Fire District. Lately it has been spending the winter in New York a KM ;:,,:•! straight eight sedan. m( :n Un W The Watertown Fish and Game as- mobile. There are a;.;.:oximtaely' for the honor of being the best na- a difficult proposition to get some- city, is stopping at the M'Flngal of hf George C. F. Williams, the one to do this' work as a number of soc;a;;.ii will present a three reel'ten thousand separate parts in the. at &9y Prospect avenue, tured, and> Helen Wilson Is voted Inn. motion picture entitled "How to Fly ] average piano. The amount of la-. .""' the best natured girl. Frances the farmers have given up the hog Monday, April 11, at 8 p. raising business. Having secured a Mrs. Elliott H. Lee of New York Cast and Bait Cast" In the Commun- bor involved In the building of one j Clark of Bethlehem Is voted the most city is visiting her parents, Dr. and Ity -h-atre on Saturday evening, piano Is doubly emphasized when it: interested in class, Joseph Barry of large truck Mr. Thompson started in m. on his new work on Monday and he Mrs. Charles W. Jackson of De For- April 23. lit considered that each piece must] Every county in the state sent Watertown the most ambitious boy. est street. . Evilently the class of 1927 Is a sober- plans on making two collections each Mr. and Mrs. Charles Atwood have ' undergo many processes before it ^representatives. An address was de- minded group, for we see no "class- week. For this work he is charg- Harold C. Ashworth of , Cutler return, d to their home on Cutler becomes a part of the finished In- livered by Dixon Ryan Fox. associ- giggler" among them. Dorothy Wln- ing each family a small sum so that street Is visiting friends in Chicago. streei after spending the winter at strument. ate professor of history in Columbia debank is voted the noisiest girl. It will make a profitable job for him. Mr. and Mrs. P. J. SklVton have Daytona, Fla. This is perhaps a trifle difficult university, who described the need He also plans on carting away rub- returned to their home on Highland Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O'Neill of for the layman to conceive inasmuch for historical research in this coun- The statistics follow: Brightest bish and ashes and anyone wishing Hartiord were recent visitors in as he merely has to touch a key to reported the progress of the girl, Eleanor Johnson, Bethlehem; avenue after a visit with friends at try nbi to bet in touch with him can do so Deland. Fla. town. produce a tone. However, there are, natlonaj movement to raise *l,000.- brightest boy, Russel Beach, Water- by telephone. S. McLean Buckingham has enter- Mr.-. Theodore Ldlley of the Wood- seventy-nlne parts mil lied between 000 for the association. town; most ambitious girl, Frances bury road is a patient at St. Ra- ed the Wooster School in Danbury. The Connecticut committee, it was Clark, Bethlehem; most ambitious CLEAN-UP WEEK phael's hospital in New Haven. boy, Joseph Barry. Watertown; Mrs. H. V. Crowell is entertaining Miss Alice Swanson, former teach- most interested in class. Josephine The Watertown Civic Union has her sister from Plttsfleld, Mass. er In the' Watertown high school, Wildman, Oakvllle; best girl ath- set aside the first week in May as There are ss notes ln a piano so| tlve secretary, has already received Mrs. Charles Dayton and daughter was a week-end visitor in town. that there are necessarily 6.652 parts hree thousand dolUrs in lete, Josephine Hotchkiss, Oakville; clean-up week for Watertown and are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. George WUhelmy of more than t best boy athlete. William Keilty. all residents of the town are urged utilized between the ivory keys and subscriptions. Dr. Williams sub- Mrs. Herbert Dayton of the North- North street spent Tuesday with the strings. The many delicate hair Watertown; best looking boy, Wil- to clean up their back yards and field road. friend.- in New York city. scribed $],0v0.- liam Keilty; best looking girl, Jose- make the appearance of their prop- .springs, ba'ck checks, dampers,, lost Heminway Klimpke has purchased O;h>-r Hartford subscribers include phine Wildman; best dressed • girl, erty more presentable. Harry F. Mason of Ridgewood. N. motion absorbers and innumerable a Dui>ont touring car. Arthur A. Adams, R. Etson Phyfe, Abbie Seaver, Watertown; class Watertown has received the repu- j;, formerly superintendent in the other parts increase the number of| Heminway Silk company factor here, Tin- public schools of the town Wilbur F. Oordy, P. E. Shaw, and dude, Russel Beach; most popular tation of one of the prettiest and pli-ces in a piano to about ten thou- j Edward F. Humphrey. New Haven has been visiting ln town for the closed- cm Thursday for the Easter girl. Josephine Hotchkiss; most po-! cleanest towns in New England and sand. j subscriptions have been received past few days. vacation. Th>- manufacture of hammers lite girl, Julia Davidson, Oakvllle; the Civic Union officials are anxious Hali.ii Humiston has purchased a j f:om living Fisher, George B. Ad- Simeon Jones is alPat his home alone, n-quires the utmost skill. 1 am.-. Ciiarl'-s M. Andrews, Simeon most polite boy, Joseph Barry; to retain this high standing. Reo "Kiyi'ij; Cloud" sedan. • Foree-1 into shape und>-r tons of quietest girl, Mary McVeigh, Water- on the Northfteld road. K.'HaMwiu, H-r.ry W. Farnam. Her- GOOD ENROLLMENT pressure. ;hey mu.-t be as hard as man S. Lovi-j';-. li-iiiL'e P. Milmins, town; quietest boy, Edward Rey- bui still retain'ih'-'e.lasricl'y MANY REJECTED j \V;".U.-ton Walker, .Michael Rostovtz- nolds, Watertown: best natured Farm Boys and Girls in Lltchfield | WHERE ARE THE OAKS? of felt. An average of twelve operators a • i-ff. P.- v. .S:inii!-1 C. UUrhuell and girl, HHen Wilson. Oakville; best j County Belong to 4-H j day are refused licenses to drive mo- Tii>- ;;'.• :a;;e piano coiitaii.s ~" it>-v. Fiancis Ii. Trowbridge.. 'natured boys. Everett Cook, Water- Clubs." I State Librarian Seeks Whereabouts town, ami Joseph Barry; class vamp, tor v-^i'-l-s in Connecticut because •.rin-:s. Mar.y are wound with •••\>- A total of 110 Litchfleld county | of Constitutional Trees iia:e wire u::d soni'- a;e wound Other huti.-c:;b.:s ar'- the Litch- Abbie Seaver; noisiest girl. Doro- of faiiu:e :o pa.-s the required state fi. M Ili-voritit! S'jcifty. Mlfhtr-l A. farm boys and girls are enrolled: in j ,h,..KlUt0,. of Tn.. Courant:— wic-. thy Windebank, Oakvllle;.. noisiest police examination. An average of of •!«.:.bury arA J;.!i!-s T. ten 4-H clubs-four clothing clubs, ^"Mm* the close of the Con- The Uiick:u\-s an.'. I'-r.gth o:" the boy. Sterling Mains, Oakville; best ",j'2U a day are'taken off the road by f:: lv of bluffer, boy, William Keilty; woman club, two poultry clubs, j , ,ona, ConvPntlon n-ion of their operators' li- flei.emi upon the note in the >" hater, Edward Reynolds; champion dairyj cut in 19"2 the late Senator Joseph j ,. ,, , f j . driving priv- calf. Bass note strings and long Former Governor Frai.k B. Weeks ceaji s : r abus( o t u of Middletown" has accepted mem- candy seller. John -Maaaika, Bethle-' R. Hawley of Hartford presented to j jjegfJ_ and ihick. Treble note strings ar- hem; wittiest boy, Sterling Dains; Tne A'li clubs are composed of debate of the Constitutional siiort and thin. Then as the pitch b'-rshiii on '«he committee, other new eiich Altogether the right to operate members of which are Prof. Irving. most liteVary Ibbie Sea^: best farm boy. and girls throughouhht t thhe Conventio. n of Connecticut a smalll motor vehicles on Connecticut ncrt-ases the strings get shorter and thinner. Fisher of Yale, Rev. Oliver W. Means fancers Josephine Hotchkiss and \ whole country and are junior organ- oak witn the request that the same streets and highways was withheld, In addition to these ten thousand and Mrs. John C. Wilson of Hartford John Mazalka; most talented. Evelyn Uations of the farm bureau and ex- be Sei out and carecare:d Tor as a re- for varying periods last year, from parts, there are six or seven coats and Seth Low Pierrepont of Ridge- n»i^ nobvitio- H»aa musicians, tension service in every state of the : minder and token of the friendships 12,465" people. At the same time Balch, Oakvllle; class musicians, of varnish, a large amount of glue field. union. made during the months that the the courts found 14,865 operators soloist, Evelyn Balch; pianist, Elsie and a number of adjustment pieces. Budge; class giant. William Kellty; The clubs' emblem Is the four leaf Constitutional Convention was In guilty of motor vehicle offenses, "The time has come," says a state- session. At the opening of the world It takes six months to build a piano ment sent throughout the country class giantess. Virginia Beardslee. clover with an H In every leaf, one fined 7,836 and imprisoned 308 ot and the wood used in the sound Oakville; class baby, Eleanor John-jH for health; one, hand; one, heart, war, the Constitutional Oak which them. by the National Endowment commit- 1 was presented to the late Charles board is seasoned in the open air tee, of which former Senator Albert son. The favorite amusements in-. ami one for head. This emblem is On the other hand new operators from three to five years. i
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-All we cm afford la a THE Jane said. There waa silence. It was a glorious moonlight nlgnt SAVING and cool air blew In from the west bringing the scent of the pretty flower DIRECTIONS FOR SAWYERS garden next door. A nlghthawk cir- cled and uttered abort penetrating SETTING A FOWL With ($brD. 1. Walsh.) cries. Otherwise there was a blessed quiet. - In setting a hen the first thing la ta JOLLY group of yonpg people -Well" Sam said. -I wlsh make the nest A box should be sv sat before the gas log in Sam money enough to buy a home. arranged that the front can be doses KUIen's pretty apartment Doris { "So do I." Ted Horton spoke quick- Humor and the hen shut onto the neat The A Killen In an exquhtlte orchid- ly. "But we nerer shall have." Leroy nesting material may be of fine hay A TEST CASE tinted gown, sat on the hearth rug Bliss threw the end of a cigarette over or straw. There should be a sufficient toasting marshmallows which she the railing. . - . . quantity to fill the'corners. Make the offered In turn from the point of a hat- "1 expect to pay rent all my days, Tommy entered the parlor, when • nest nearly flat a little lower la the bis sister was entertaining Mr. Dob- pin. They were all married, junt mail- he saids . "Pegg wouldn't live out like center. ing ln life. Peggy Bliss and Leroy, this for anything, woalld yea***£. £ lelgh. Walking up to the latter, he See that the hen has been broody held out bis hand. In the open palm of Batty Horton and Ted. Cornelius Saw- -Seems lonesome to me." said lively and stays on her nest two or three which were a down small whit* ob- yer and Jane—"Plain Jane," aa they days before she Is given her new nest, called her. slrjiewgh aae was not plain •It's .'not lonesome at alL" Jane and always move her at night Put her ject*. "we have the most wonderful at all, but a fresh-faced, substantial- carefully on the nest For the first •What's themr be asked. looking young woman with gleamlug neighbors—" 'Why, those are beans." answered What are neighbour 24 hours close the front of the box. black hair. Neighbors I After a day or two, according to the Dubtelgh with an Ingratiating smile. They were talking about their plans 8am laughed. disposition which she shows on the "He does know 'em, sis." aald Tom* and prospects. Peggy Bliss had just "There's one coming now," answered nest remove the nest eggs and give my triumphantly to his sister. "To* mentioned that Leroy was going to Cornelius. her from eleven to thirteen eggs, ac- told ma last night that he didn't" buy a new Superior Six sedan, in It was Mrs. Holmes steering for the cording to the season of the year. which they expected to enjoy their va- back door with a great bowl In her After the first 24 hours see that the PARADOXICAL . cation In Canada, when 8am Killen hand. Jane whirled up and ran to hen leaves the nest at least once a aald In his lasy, downright way meet her. After a gay conversation "Well. It's too early for me to be ^^ lth a tray, spoons, day for food and water. Whole com Jane came W makes the best feed. Keep a dust box thinking of vacations. I haven't got dishes. In the pen. Keep grit and fresh wa my winter bill* paid yet" -Ice cream," she said. "They made ter before them at all times. "Why don't you pay them as you f exerful expecting company a blg re great merit and the height of all re- Set several hens at a time If nos- so, SamT' Cornelius said. He leaned and the company didn't come. So we (Pr«pmnd by th. N'tlon.l a, as the eggs can be tested about forward, the flrellght playing on his | , Made out of real cream ligious ambition. It was the chosen ftr
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Cooks Meal for Men. Fort William, Ont—from tbe lowly —Uaajr stirring talea estate of a cookee or "boll cook" In have miliariii by the terron Mow York.—Capt John Hall and atx a lumber camp to tbe exalted poattloai shipwrecked _jamen from the throe-masted schoon- of naou—or of a fortune of S2MMW0, er a J. Cherry, wrecked off Osna-Bat- waa tbe metamorpbosU atesswpllshad Their pUght baa usvally been dee to tens In the harrlcane of March 2, at- by deUvery of a letter to Robert Pollar liability to observe the aon at noon, tributes tbe fact that he and bis crow by tbe dog team post solar time. Mow, however, naval au- won saved to two things: The first Foliar, a former officer la the fa- thorities la ail parta o< the world are a modern radio sot with m metallic Black Watch, and said to be tbe showing gnat latenat to a formula box and secondly, to 448,000 fleet of coveted owner of a Victoria Cress rib- i,at worked oat by He*. Alan 8. Bawkee- lumber the ship was bringing from bon, arrived In Winnipeg recently worth of the Protestant Episcopal Charleston B. C to Mew Ton. broke and without a Job. Something | CAN VO - IET5 church, who served as a mathematl- Late to the day of March 1. Sep- had to be done right away. He con- dan to the navy'a bureau of ordnance tate Hall, tuning In with tbe broad- salted an employment agency, but the daring tbe World war. cast set bo bad purchased only last only Job offered was that of second see, you WANT -By sextant obaarratlon on tbe two November, heard a storm warning cook in a pulpwood camp near Atl- atan forming the pointer of the Great from the Richmond HU1 station kokan, Ont With characteristic A BLUE EVEP Bear, or the nprlghta of the Southern WABC. Scotch thrift he decided that $35 a Cross," he explains, -a naTigator can Richmond Hill was right, and the month and everything found was to be BLONDE HAIR tell bis exact position at any moment storm came with such violence that it preferred to sleeping in the streets, daring the night And castaway Ball- opened the seams of the ship and for so he took it - TO P6- on- with no aextant or other Inurn- 13 dsys be and the crew clung des- The former kiltie was up to bis PEtWEREP ment can approximately but definitely pentely to tbe after deckhouse of a elbows in dishwater at tbe Atlkokan tell their position within ten or fif- •hip two-thirds submerged by water, camp when the mall-waa brought In 1&-MORRO10 teen miles, thus STOldlng the horrors diving to the laxaret In the after by dogteam. The mall driver, curi- of aimless drifting. hatch for nw potatoes and catching ous to know what might be In an of- "In the northern hemisphere, for In- fish with a hook Improvised from the ficial-looking document bearing a stance, Imagine a huge clock face springs on the schooner's auxiliary Perth (Scotland) postmark, delivered around the Pole star, with twelve gas engine, which was thrown over- tbe letter in person. above and six below—In the usual board with every other removable ob- "Been left a fortune r laughingly fashion. Take as our hour hand upon ject to keep the ship from going un- Inquired the postman, as be watched this imaginary clock face the stars der. The lumber cargo kept the boat Pullar grab tbe letter and eagerly called the 'pointers' and the Great afloat The radio set was quite for- rip it open. Bear or Dipper. gotten In the struggle to keep alive I Pullar nodded his head and after "Bead the hour indicated thereby, Not Seen by Pawing Ships. he had finished reading It he re- and add to It tbe number of months, Tbe story of seven ships, sighted by sumed his work. Next morning the and fractions of the month, elapsed the watch In the mlszenmast cross lumberjacks had to forage breakfast . since January 1 Double this sum, and trees, which panned without noticing for themselves, for Pullar bad desert- subtract it from 25K or 28% or 4K. the signals of distress during the 13 ed the camp long before daybreak. days until Captain Hall and his crew the test for which of theae three con- It is understood that the relative were at last picked up by the oil tank- stants we must use being that tbe re- to whose wealth be has partly fallen er Gulf Point, has been told, but mainder must be positive, yet less heir was the late Lawrence Pullar, the part a metal cabinet of the than 24. The result will be the true owner of the Perth dye works. radto set .played was merely suggert- aolar time—reckoned from midnight— Pullar enlisted In 1014 In the Black with 12 to 24 for p. m. time." ed In the original accounts of the res- cue. Watch and for intrepid bravery dur- ing the retreat from Mons Is said to The O. J. Cherry's falley *as. of have been rewarded with the Victoria Secret of Towers Is course, submerged and the raw pota- Cross. He served during tbe whole toes salvaged and the fish caught had war, being wounded four times. Revealed by Britain to be cooked, so Captain Hall, remem- A Dark Star* London.—Nine yean after the ar- bering the metal box. tent a negro MCKJE, THE PRINTERS DEVIL mistice the British admiralty has Just sailor down to salvage It from his nn- Prince of Wales Risks now revealed for the first time the se- der-water cabin. cret of the famous floating "mystery Life to Save Pet Dog oufc "Castlron Bill." the ship's seventy- ***** UWWSNW, ***«* *"** towers," two of which were built dur- aeven-year-old cook, and "the only London.—How the prince of Wales ing the war for use off the Straits.of American among the crew," according recently risked his life to save his pet Dover. to Captain Hall, had a man dive Into Cairn terrier "Cora" from death under These towers. 80 feet, high and cost- the schooner's galley for a grate from the wheels of an express train, to a Ing $6,000,000 each, It is now stated, the atove. story that has just leaked out of Mel- were Intended to be the forerunners Ie was easy to find fuel—there was a ton Mowbray, where the prince makes of a whole series of towers which lumber cargo/They also had the food. his fox-hunting headquarters. were to be towed out to sea and What was needed now was a vessel to According to witnesses of the Inci- strung In a line across the Dover do tbe cooking in dent "Cora," who to a frisky terrier straits. Each tower was to be heavily It may have hurt the new radio fan presented to the prince during bis fortified, with powerful searchlights which the captain had turned Into to American tour In 1024, suddenly mounted on top. They wen to be tear out the colls, condensers, sock- sprang from the prince's arms as a linked together at distances of a few ets and tubes from the metal frame London express train raced Into view. hundred yards and between the towers of the receiver. But this was done, The dog Jumped from the platform to was to be strung a curtain of massive and soon the odor of sizzling sausages, the tracks In the path of the approach- steel netting reaching from a. few 13 flsh, and a few meager potatoes ing train. • • Inches below the level of the surface heartened the crew again. Shouting to the prince to stand of the water to the bottom of the "So even after the storm warning where he was, two Scotland Yard de- channel. we used the set" explained "Cast- tectives set out in pursuit of tbe dog. In this way the admiralty expected iron, BUI." But- tbe> prince dashed past them and, to put an effective end to the subma- Potatoes Gave Out scooping his pet from tbe tracks, rine menace In the channel. Tbe end On the eighth day adrift the pota- A suited back on the platform bare sec- of. the war came, however, before the toes gave out and the flsh would no onds before the express flashed by. towen could be put Into use. One longer bite, and "Castlron Bill" took The narrowness of his escape brought ' was sold and broken up for salvage. to light cooking—four saasages a day a thrill of terror to a score of per- Tbe other is now anchored off Spit- for seven men. sons on the platform. bead, when it has replaced the famous It was a bad day all around. The Nab light ship, off the eastern end of fourth steamer had passed within five Kansas City to Have the Isle of Wight miles without sighting them, and the crew voted six to one against the cap- 687-Acre Airport Seeks Prehistoric Man tain to take to the single lifeboat the Kansas City.—Believing In its fu- G. J. Cherry carried. ture as an aviation center, Kansas in Danube Salt Mines "Three hundred miles to land,".said City has. completed arrangements for Vienna, Austria.—Dr. William Fred- the captain, "and they wanted to row one of the largest municipal airports eric Bade of Berkeley, Calif., to try- it. Childish. Would have been sui- In the United States. ing to wrest from the ancient salt cide." A tract of 687 acres, situated but mines of Hallstadt the story of the "Why didn't they mutiny?" be was 1.4 miles from the post office, has been lively commerce which he believes was asked. leaved and contracts let for air mall- once carried on between early Inhabi- "Well, I persuaded them. I guess," and civilian hsngars. * tants of the Danube basin and peo- said the weatberbeaten ''old man" of J. Don Alexander, president of an ples of Asia Minor. the. ship, who has been a master of aircraft corporation In Denver, recent- His research la being conducted at sailing vessels for 85 years. ly inspected the site and declared It the request of the prehistoric section the "best field In America." of the Vienna Natural History mu- The land Is a peninsula-shaped tract seum. He Is assisted by Prof. Adolph Kentucky Town Claims on the Missouri river. It Is surround- •Hahr of Vienna. Later, Doctor Mahr Three Singing Mice ed by water on three sides and will will accompany Doctor Bade to Pales- Mayfleld, Ky.—Mayfleld claims three offer a landing place for seaplanes as THE FEATHERHEADS uue for archeologlcal research. singing mice. Oscar Boaz reports he well as land machines. It is to be has heard one of these rodents about developed In two units, each a circle What', in a Name? Ink, his house which makes a noise not 8,000 feet in diameter, and crossed unlike a "sort of song," Henry Single- by a diagonal direction runway 800 Says Bueltzingsloewen ton is accredited with catching one of feet wide. The runways will be laid Laporte, Ind.—Local mathemati- these "singing" mice a few months northeast to southwest, and north- cians an figuring out how much Ink ago, and another has been heard giv- west to southeast thus affording pos- will be saved each year If the petition ing Its merry lay about Ws premises sible takeoff or landing, no matter of Erall Bueltxlngsloewen to have his recently. what direction the wind may be from. surname changed to Buell is approved On the other hand, while these mu- by Judge John C. BIcbter in Circuit sical mice are sought as curiosities, court. As treasurer of a local factory Stirred by infoinen reports are sent out from the Ken- Samarkand, U. S. S. R.—Turkestan Ruellzlngsloewen has to sign his name tucky agricultural experiment station several hundred times a day. Is In a ferment over sweeping feminist of Injury by mice to fruit trees, loss reforms Initiated by tbe Communists. running rather high In various parts To date more than 6.000 women In M)(H)l)HHHt»*H)t»lt»MHmimUHH^ of the state. One orchard owner re- the Samarkand district have forsaken ported the' loss of 79 fottrteen-year- the veil. '•-. French Cafe Offer* old trees, and fruit growers in prac- tically every section of the state have Drinkers Good Advice suffered losses from ravages of mice. »»»«»»»»«»••••»»•»•»»•»»»J S Paris.—The gentleman drinker High water In lowlands caused mice has bis code even In this land of to migrate'to higher grounds, with English Get* Greater light wines and beers, where, so the result that many orchards have Foothold in Germany some writers say, hard liquor Is suffered exceptionally* large mouse In- Berlin.—The English language shunned and true temperance jury this year, according to W. W. Is beginning to gain a stronger reigns. Maglll. extension field agent of the foothold In the German schools. 9.AN0V "Come here freely," says a college of agriculture. The flood wa- In most of tbe Prussian 16 COMfi ,. sign on a little cafe in the sub- i ters destroyed the natural source of schools tbe teaching of French Q urns of Paris. "Drink moder- : stored feed, for the mice and forced has been started first, to pupils ately, pay honorably, leave am- ; them to eat bark of tbe fruit trees, from nine to ten yean old, with Icably, and go home quietly." *: according to Maglll. • English not following until three It further enjoins its clients < ; years later. "
WALTONIAMt ABE HAfT* ally uniastfil *• aitasv •««* •••• watertownhistoricalsociety.orgto make itself felt In the £**>** favorite atreasa to tk. nope of *•*• century it WM ehoaen a. the »lte ofj* fr : search the nighwaya lias haadroa otter New* iervft eivlcTSWTaaf 1^«U«U» -~ - were trstaed many of the men who ilies through aU the great agricul- and byways to discover a fishermen. R nay not he what It tural area of the central weat, there- me forethongbt of thU admirable in recent year, bare held the poal- committee and it U looking ahead who will assert that trout fishing In to be'but It still remains •to- p. o. B« m Uon of chief of staff and other high by Informing them of the big issues to the Ume when New England can Connecticut U not what It used to which the Grange is considering, as gether delightful, fasciaatlag and Watcrtowa. Ooan. commands in the army. It used to use of this tercentenaryy In *a, He might, however, be difficult g «. Curl Fitcher be said, on account of the large well as concerning the plans of that u.u« practical yet general way.- • worthwhile and to aura to be. number'of Leavenworth girl, who organizatioorganizationn for benefiting rural agrl- f r*«cu P. Flmn, AasocUte Edito Lowell Courier-Cltisen. ^ ^^ twy virtue, "a reward In ittelf." even II had been married to army officers.I cultural and started at about the hour Shelley's yearly. In advance. opening meeting of the "Badio the next momlnCa breakfart la not ••Leavenworth Is the otheri We are planning to have an after- lark and similar birds are theoretic- of the army and ram Grange" was held April 4. featured enriched greatly became of tt— toured as tad class matter at the It." In the by an address by Louis 3. Taber of noon session ot our kindergarten be- Watertown postofllee under act of world war. because of tht e large num ginning April 19 for the remainder Hartford Courant ber of graduates of the Leavenworth Columbus, Ohio, Master of the Na- ___ » rtaf i March S. 1871. tional Grange. As soon a. this plan of the school year if there are num- schools In the field, the observation bers sufficient to warrant it. This The, librarian of the Massachu- was shortened to "Leavenworth runs ls In successful operation at Station setts Historical society says: I FRIDAY. APRIL 15. 1927. WLS it is expected to extend the session beginning at 1 P- m. and do not find a record of the adop- the war." General Pershing In the closing at 3:15 will be for those course of his tribute to Fort Leav- Idea through a chain ot radio sta- tion of any provincial flag for tions covering the entire country, children who have reached five years Massachusetts, but I do Und a CENTENNIAL OF A FAMOUS | enworth said: solve passed by Massachusetts FORT carrying out simultaneous Orange of age since January 1, 1827. K ! "During the world war the grauu- there are any parents who wish to April 29. 1T78. among several S THE HQTCHK1SS GARAGE programs and thereby providing a solves relating to the encourage- tremendous medium of publicity for
AS SCNATOR 0UU» UU le«as fates*! their riolatiom U the «nd arflsbwy wfli fan into PROPHECY WHILE YOU WAIT •MITH of the senttsaeat that watertownhistoricalsociety.orgof ail * action has beea taken la Mew eraer Smith is the best Ppjttteal One man's guess may be as good set-that his candidacy Is the is the most — ways of beating sad cooking, Time was when inquirers about the earthly blessings. When finally Wit, used. the majority of beys are not get- opinion of Senator Glass of Virginia success. The South does not waat During the yean when the time Smith. There Is no doubt aboat future of parties and of candidates it cannot be purchased »y uncounted ting the fine ezervtee with the saw- that Governor Smith of New York went to some man with s high repu- was first used the farmers consid- horse and the bucksaw that their that But the South does want a millions, restored by the alienist, or can be elected President will carry tation as a -sage." He could -snally returned by the pulpit ered that it caused them groat In- fathers used to obtain, says the Sa- Democrat in the White House saa lem Mews. much weight. It will fail to con- be found only in his sylvan retreat "Health is that state of happiness, convenience and hardship, but they if the New York Governor appears have found by experience that those In the fall, as the old almanac where, far from the madding crowd,, (aith and love, whose prototype was vince thousands of people that Smith to be the only candidate, as he does. and stimulated only by a drink from were mostly imaginary and anyone says, it formerly waa customary can be elected if any Democrat can { with the strength to put up a the first man—Adam; whose Ideal Is who knows of the change in attitude for the old man gently but firmly the old oaken bucket, he could medi- the Christ" to steer his son out to the wood- —that he will, if nominated^ have the, and possibly winning fight, the f tate on things to come and allow his among the fanners will not be sur- pile and suggest that it was need- prised to see Utchfleld county lead- support of his party. Senator Glass.) old experience to attain, to something ful for him to reduce those power- a MeAdoo supporter in 1921, is one' of prophetic strain. But nowadays BU8IE8T TELEPHON E PERIOD ing in an effort to have the state ful looking sticks of four-foot wood one man's predictions are as good as law prohibiting public display of ad- to kitchen stove sire. It was sag-of the sanest of the Democratic lead-, HARRY A.SK3LT0N* another's. This is a common Impres- Connecticut Talks Most Late In vanced Ume repealed.—Ltd. county grated, more or less delicately, that era and, while he may not be in a j Morning. Second But Smaller correspondence, Hartford Courant. these youngsters had free board sion which can only be deepened by und clothes and spending money, position to predict what the country j GARAGE the recent drawing out'of two emi- Rise in Wire Conversations at large will do, hU idea of what his Comes at 3 p. m. PRACTICAt SUGGESTION unjl that the least they could do nent prophets. 8enator Borah was MUM to iKTform the allotted tusk on party will do is liio-ly to be clo.-;* AUTOMOBILES asked to cast the political horoscope Connecticut's eighty-three tele- thiit woodpile. phone central offices ure busiest be- Its Adoption Means Fewer Superflu- to the mark. on the same day with Chauncey De- ous Bills in Legislature It cannot be said thnt the hoy Not only is the s'.at. writ cf Sena-" OVERHAULED AND SEBUM pew. Both cast it in identical terms. tween nine and eleven o'clock In the el'-iiK-nt tonk hold of the woodpile lor (Jlass important a- comii:^ from Bxide Radio and Auto 1 — President Coolidge will be the Re- monning, according to figures of the As the ivsult of a su^estion made with willing zest. However..if the Southern New England Telephone by forrnvr Senator'John N. Brooks kid over in the- next ynnl Imtl <>n<; ! uc-h a slm wd ami a«-cura;>- ob.-<-rv- Battery Charging and publican candidate—if he wants to to reduce also, then the s-ptrit of ! .-r of cor.'Iitions in hi- own pa:*y. of Turrlnsf'i>n.. t!:i:f was presented 8torage 0Bi __ peak almost exactly at ten '-••M;|>i-iiiion ciiiiie in. Kin on nitiuy /.lt it ;mpor;rin: '. <•'•'• :.:ir ' in- !o.!h<- l-r. .* nt 1 --i.-laiure, and ap- •i-'.vs the old saw w PROSPECTOR WINS I AfiE-OlP GAHMENT IS watertownhistoricalsociety.org*TT?3g^_T_^__ic_r_a_^..._^_5^_aiw_B__g_^|gBtJ. 1W-. .BJEBL—li.JT-mrn-ij^t __i_-__--j__r_j TO FISHING IN GULF FOUND IN PEAT Dot Pollen on Woolen Garment Picturesque Fowl. Reveals It* Antiquity. Winnipeg. Man.—Probably there to Anstn, Texas.—Market no spectacle which wUI stir the emo- Stockholm. Sweden^-A woolen man- •a the golf coast of Texas are facing tional t-sjral-ie* of a cotiuuunlty to a tle, worn In Sweden when the early 1 Dharaohs still reigned In Bgypt has a pelican problem. They haw brought neater extent than a race, ••* "O" the race Is for gold tne tension to ZTIZTUMIW approximatelydetermineapproximaty * It to the legislature In the nope that a ii f botanical law may be passed that will solve It heightened. That la why this city still by a curious combination of botanical and geological knowledge, throaga an altogether different tadlvld- The question Is a controversial one to talking of toe sensational race to hlra and revolves around the difference of Ale ownership on a gold claim on new the researches of Dr. Lennart wn A aort of frensy Host of the Museum of National^An- _____to the bir_ d lover the Mel-el's opinion as to whether the pelicans ground at Slate lake, north of here, really deplete the waters of the bays between Mickey Gllleran, an Independ- tiquities here. The garment wwfK-* spring song Is more beautiful than buried at a depth Df several feet in a anything that Mendelssohn ever com- and gulf of marketable flah to any ent prospector and WlUlam Todd, the serious extent , representative of a wealthy mining peat bed In the district o_ ••*•*»*- posed. The aame sort of land, carefully folded up and weighted strikes his brother, the red-headed The National Association of Audu- company. bon Societies has taken a hand In the Following the strike OUleran and down with three stones, but with noth- woodpecker, and be Is not happy until Ing about It to Indicate how It got be can find a tin roof upon which to dispute and Is opposing any legislation Todd suited for Winnipeg to obtain sound his reveille Ifs the madness that seeks to bring about the exter- papers necessary to enable them to there that strikes the redwing*! blackbird mination of the pelican, asserting that stake additional ground close to their IX* similarity to Bronse ago gar- - IH APRIL It Is a harmless salt-water fowl. claims. The race to the city was even menu from Denmark and elsewhere In th« shady woodland. who seems so full of the spring Joy Evary tree's _ town tbat It pours out of him In an Inco- This organization cites the results and, the papers in their possession, the suggested Its antiquity. The fact that Whin the bird* »re building herent and jumbled gurgling flood of of an Investigation made by the fed- men retraced their steps for the final It had evidently not been burled, but Homes scat and brown. sound. It hits the kingbird, too. anderal food administration in 1010. which dash to the rich dirt had lain In Its hiding place while high up In the air he swoop* and reported that there were In that year Both men got away from Winnipeg the moss grew over It to form about Chorus: From l«afy bough Just o'sr «• swerves, sounding hU war cry and only 5,000 pelicans on the coast of at the same time and on the same five feet of peat was further evidence Tim la la tra la! looking for a crow or a hawk to put train, but OUleran stopped off at a of great age. The add water of the Bear the happy chorus to Ignominious flight The market fishermen ridicule this wayside station when the train bog had preserved It from decay dur- Tra U la tra la! > ing the centuries. And these are buta few of the statement They assert that 100.000 stopped for a moment and telephoned Pollen Grains Key to Age. Blackbirds In the oak tree* CATBIRD birds who add their voices to make pelicans would be a low estimate of ahead to have a dog team In readi- Jancle all the day. the woods and orchards ring. A lit- the number that constantly feed upon ness when the end of steel was Dr. von Post found the key to Its WOT each saucy birdie fish In the waters of the gulf border- this place Todd took age In the pollen grains that were Wants bis own sweet war« day and the best proclamation of that tle later the bird lover will pass reached. At fact Is the ecstasy of song which the crested flycatcher, the phoebe, the Ing Texas, and that nearly 5.000 of passage on i motor, us which oper- thick In muddy particles clinging to Chorus: * greets him on an April morning. For the fowls can be counted any time on ated for several miles, but Gllleran the fabric. Most important among From leafy bough, etc _ ] this Is pre-eminently the month of Pelican Island In Pass Caavallo, to drove his dog team alt night and the species represented were oak, lin- den and elm, with pine, birch and Down there In the alders, , birds as It Is the month of wild- say nothing of the thousands of oth- passed the, bus unnoticed In the dark- Dressed In gold and black, flowers. • ers that make their home upon other ness. alder and hazelnut as the principal shrub. Exact count* showed that the Tellow birds are calling- Some of our birds are with us the Islands and the mainland, When bis dog team tired as a re- Tbat they're really back proportion of the pollen from the oak- year round. A walk through the for Eacn p llean sult of being pushed to the limit Gll- Average * * linden-elm forest was larger than It woods In winter, when the bare leran halted 28 miles from his'desti- Chorus. An • experiment conducted by Col. would be In Swedish springtime branches of the trees and the absence nation and sent the team back. He William O. Sterret when he was state "pollen rain" of today, Indicating the Bear the glad song sparrow of green vegetation tells us that Moth- covered the remaining distance on On the hasel spray, game commissioner, showed tbat each existence of a milder climate In the er Nature Is sleeping, will reveal to us foot • Veiling all his neighbors pelican catches an average of 1.080 north at the time the mantle waa told, He is borne to stay. an astonishingly large number of pounds of marketable fish a year, On arrival at the site of the claims away. birds. If we take the trouble to make there are 100.000 pelicans, they con- Gllleran staked them In his name and Such a mild climate to known from Chorus. a list of the different Bpecies we see. sume a total of 106.000.000 pounds of started back to Winnipeg to record geological evidences to have followed There are the bob white and ruffled fish annually, If Sterrett's estimate Hoblas In the elm trees. them." On the return trip he met Todd shortly after the disappearance of the All In bright red vests. grouse, the various species of hawks was correct It Is pointed out That and his party, who thought they had last patches of glacial Ice In the south Dropping bits of music and owls, the crow, the horned lark, means approximately 25 pounds of fish Build their downy nests. left him far behind; Disgusted at be- of Sweden, at about the time when several species of sparrows, finches, the per capita of the people of Texas. ing bested In a race he thought he the new Stone age was giving way to cedar waxwing, the chickadee and the When the bill of Representative H. Chorus. had won by a wide-margin, Todd con- the age of bronze In tbat country. It nuthatch, all listed by most ornithol- W Wells of Edna, providing for the cealed his chagrin and congratulated was followed by a period of severer And the bonnle bluebird ogists as "permanent residents," not payment of a bounty on pelicans and From the apple tree the winner. climate, ushering In the Iron age. to mention a varied assortment of pelican eggs, came before the house. Sings from morn to sunrise This mild-climate pollen thus deter- "Home's the pUce tor me." winter visitants. The plumage of It provoked.earnest and at tiroes hu- Find. Only 612 Are mines the former owner of the man- most of them is somewhat drab and morous discussion. • tle, who so carefully folded it up and Chorus. dull, in keeping with the spirit of win- Luther Descendants —Old School Son*. The measure was passed by the hid It under three stones In a ditch, ter, but It Is relieved by *uch flashes Berlin. — Descendants of Martin house and. It Is expected. It will meet as a man of the early Bronse age. of color as the bright blue of the. blue BARN SWALLOW with little opposition In the senate. It Luther are by no means as numerous By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Dagger Holes" Ravsale_. N NEARLY every state In jay and the brilliance of the cardinal's provides that the state shall pay 25 as It Is generally believed. scarlet meadowlark, the towhee, the barn cents for each pelican killed and 5 According to Rev. Otto Satorlus of The careful workmanship of the the Union the governor swallow and the yellow-bllled cuckoo weaver, who made the cloth out of a has already Issued a proc- As winter wanes and the first pre- cents for each pelican egg destroyed. Dankmarshausen, In Thurlngla. him- by with scarcely a glance. But when Each bounty claim shall be accompa- self an offspring of Luther, who after mixture of fine wool and the hair of lamation like this: "That monitions of the approaching spring they first arrive they are greeted with game animals, probably deer, is de- we possess great wealth are felt, we become aware of the fact nied by a piece of the upper part of long and careful research has brought the same thrill of delight which one the pelican's bill, not less than four Nobbes "Genealogical Luther Alma- scribed by Emelle von Walterstorff, in our trees and birds Is that our bird population will soon be feels at seeing an old friend again. and the possible romantic history of a matter of common knowl increased. Those premonitions come Inches long, as proof that the fowl nac" up to date, there are 612 living So April Is a month of mounting cli- was killed. No proof of the destruc- descendants of the reformer. the garment which has a number of edge; but this wealth, like maxes—each day to look forward to (lugger holes jabbed through It many other blessings which we en- tion of the eggs Is. provided for. None of them, however, carry their because It means the sight oi another great progenitor's name. • hinted at by Sune Lundqulst Mr. joy. Is not always fully appreciated, returning bird friend. Then late In $2 for Each Porpoise Killed. The same bill contains a provision df theologians, who formerly con- Lundqulst states also that the toga of etc" and ending, "Now, therefore, the month comes the big thrill which the Romans was quite similar In L ; , governor of the makes all others seem tame. It may for the payment of a bounty of $2 stituted the majority of the progeny, for each porpoise killed and that the there are today only three, while thir- shape to these elliptical Bronse age rtate 0_ —, in accordance with be when you catch sight of the scar- mantles, though differing In size and the provisions of the statutes, do here- let tanager's flashing beauty or when proof shall be four Inches of the tall ty-six are business men, twelve farm- of each porpoise. It Is claimed that ers and nine engineers. manner of wearing. A shorter Roman by designate Friday, April —. and courtly Lord Baltimore (Baltimore cloak, the "trabea," worn largely by Friday, October , of the present oriole) first makes his appearance. porpoises are also great enemies of The present-day descendants are the market fishing Industry, as they scattered all over the world, one even priests and soldiers, was even more year as ARBOR AND BIRD DAYS, Or It may be when you hear the song nearly similar. . upon which days suitable exercises of a robin which doesn't sound exactly eat many fish. _. being a resident of Japan and having may be held to accentuate und empha- like a robin and then, when you get a Men who have made * study of the a Japanese wife. All the children of sise the importance of the propagation glimpse of the singer, discover that habits of the pelican declare that they this couple married Japanese. Find Similar Fossils of trees, shrubs and vines, and the he Is the rose-breasted grosbeak whose gorge themselves and their young with notes resemble so closely those of fish, that the pouch which they load in Separated Region* preservation'.of our native bird life." Woman Mayor Opposes Providence, R. I.—The weird forest* Accordingly, all over the land some Robin himself. with fish Is of enormous size, and that that grew In the widely separated Friday (the date varies In different the fowls are as much of a pest to the Title of "Bull Cook" But It's more likely to be the day fishing Industry as the boll weevil to Seattle, Wash. — The time-honored swamps of what are now the states states) this.month will find the school when you see the first redstart or children singing just such songs as to the cotton Industry. nomenclature of the logging and lum- of Rhode Island and Missouri were Myrtle warbler pf the season. For The views of these men. however, ber camps of the Northwest appeared strikingly alike |n the plants that com- that which heads this article or other- then you realize that the tide of the wise taking part- In "suitable exer- are contrary to. the findings of Dr. seriously threatened when Mayor posed them, according to Dr. Eda M. spring bird migration has almost Hugh M. Smith, chief of the United Round, writing In the Botanical Ga- rises." So far as the .children art reached Its peak and that soon the Bertha K. Landes had before her for concerned, these exercises may or may warblers in all their rare beauty and States fish commission, who said that signature an ordinance, creating the rette. •''•.••. '•.••:.• •. not "accentuate and emphasize the difficulty of Identification will be here. on a trip which he made to the gulf Job of "bull cook" at the Skaglt hy- Doctor Round has made « close com- Importance of the propagation of HOUSE WREN To the true bird lover there Is no coast for the purpose of Investigating dro-electric'development project parison of fossil plant remains from the reported depredations of pelicans the sandstones and shales of these re- trees, shrubs and vines, and the thrill so keen as that of seeing and "It seems,!' declared the mayor, preservation of our native bird _ .. _ hear the first band of wild be collected pelicans all along the "that the council could have adopted gions, and states that over 50 per cent as we identifying one of these "little gems coast and the only .fish he found In of the plant species of the two locali- life," but they enter into them with geese go honking over us some night of the blrjj world" for the first time. a title suggesting some degree of dig- rest, because they offer an opportunity late In Fehruary or early In March. their pouches was the menhaden, a nity, if not culture," ties were identical. .. April days are bird days and be- None of the species that grew therw to express the kinship, which all of Remember that line from Kipling's, cause they are that April Is a month fish which Is not used for human con- She signed the ordinance, but de- us feel, with those elements in Nature "The Feet of the Young Men" . . . sumption. In Florida, In 1»18. he ex- clared such a name and others In gen- those many millions'of years ago sur- which are not hedged in and restricted "Who hath lain alone to hear the amined 3,428 specimens of the flab eral use should be made over. Bull vives into the present time, but th.e wild-goose cry?"—and the refrain of which were disgorged by pelicans and cooks, chokermen, fallen, hookers, nearest relatives of some of them are that poem only 27 Individual fish, were of a kind teeters, punks, buckers, and king, rid- now represented by ferns, club-mosseer ever sold In the markets for food. ers are among the hard-boiled han- and scourlng-rushes or horsetails. Two> Be must go—BO—go away from liere! dles attached to timber workers and classes of plants, In some ways the On the other side the world he's most Interesting of all, are.now to- overdue. German Society Urges extant for years In the Northwest Send your road Is clear before you tally extinct These were a group of when the old Spring-fret conies •'Bath a Week" for All trailing or vlnelike plants related to- o'er you Berlin.—Reviving the slogan, "A Berlin Post Office Now the fernsi and another group with And the Red Gods call for you! bath a week for every German," de- Advertises on Letters leaves like ferns but bearing true If that cry* heard In the night, vised by Prof. Oscar Lassar In the Berlin.—The German post office seeds, which are unknown among mo* stirs the gypsy struln In our blood, days when Berlin hod more beautiful hasn't adopted the system proposed era ferns.' It Is only uccentuuted when we see fountains than bathtubs, the Society and then abandoned In England of in the sky In the daytime the long V- for Free Public Baths has begun a putting private advertising matter on Sells Anything From slmped group of honkers or hear the campaign for more swimming pools letters In the form of postmarks, but whistle'of - wings as a flock of wild and bathing beaches. It is now following the method long Cougars to Grizzlies ducks.sweep over our heuds. These Even today, the society reports, used In both England and America Morton, Wash.^Any grizzly bear* are the vanguard of the migrating there are millions of persons in Ger- and doing a little advertising on its today, or would you like a real live feathered hordes which we know will many without modern home facilities own account In this way. cougar, bobcat or soft-eyed black- soon be on their way north. Then for keeping clean. The well-rounded Letters canceled In the Berlin post tailed deer? Small game, birds of any we b«>}!ln to watch for the first robin program started a quarter of a cen- offices now bear, beside the postm;irl; kind always on hulid. Thus does Vic- and the Ilrxt bluebird (of course In tury ago. by various states and cities the famllar legend prominentIj uis- tor Winner—'well named for his adopt- some nf tlie states which really are to fill the need by establishing pub- played: "Don't forget to address by ed Job—advertise his wares about th* northern states" both the robin and lic bath houses was halted by the war street and house number/' country. the bluebird are permanent residents, and Inflation. period, and never has Winner lives on the south slope of tiut to ni""t people these iwo are the been fully revived. Mount Rainier, where long protection true, liarbltiwrs of spring) and—after The society Is.now attempting to »;- _- '• Property of the Watertown Historical Society Aawrkaa Harvard Boys Out for Practice tailored Outfit extreme la ita watertownhistoricalsociety.orgiro TrioH ti\ at the wrist or a flap on the pocket Better His Sight Is conspicuous. It la surf**"! to what by His Handwriting Ira Davis was officiating extent this especial model of double- afternoon in the Virginia Hat Been Acknowl- breasted Jacket and wrap-around skirt State league, and was having is being shown, in all of die new By IDNA »URDY WALSH one of those bad days when edged Ultra-Smart for woolens, plain and mixed. The im- everybody In the stands and ported materials for men are much bleachers was roasting him. of Any Age ia demand, partly because they take The fans In the bleachers were tailoring so beautifully. (Csprrickt) particularly bad, kicking violent- There Is good news in the spring Another attractive suit has a Jacket styles for the woman who has youth, Th« Good-Natured Sweetheart ly en his decisions on balls and 1 rhlch Is cut very like a man's tuxedo. One cannot be absolutely good na- strikes. beauty and carriage, but not that de- gree of •tenderness essential to the It Is a trifle longer than the double- tured at all times and be very critical. Between Innings Davis went silhouette frock that has made a com- breasted coar, with the usual notched Since sharp point* and angles In the out In the bleachers and took a plicated problem for her In the mat- collar and narrow revers that taper to writing Indicate a critical nature, or aeat there among the amased tar of dress for several years. It has nothing at a low waist line, where the spectators. been not only a question of size or garment Is fastened with link buttons "You fellows can see the plate even of a modish appearance, ssys a like those a man wears. .Both of these so much better out here than I fashion writer In the New York Times, coats and others among the late mod- could from where I stood I but one of dignity, and the skill as els are made to obviate any difficulty thought rd do a little umpiring wstl as the diplomacy of coutouriers aa to curve of bust and belt, and the from here," he explained. has been severely taxed to meet the fastening In each Is pluced well below Sooopoooooooooooooooooooo requirements of those who wish to he normal waist line. I dress well without sacrifice of weight The Two-Pisee Stilt That the boyish figure Is not the pref- A less severe design In the two- PITCHERS WASTE erence with all women of fashion Is piece suit has a belted Jacket In one emphasized In the great diversity In model of navy blue cheviot the short TOO MUCH ENERGY the exhibitions of suit styles, to which original models of interest are being added for spring and early summer. one who focuses down to a point in his views of everything, we do not ex- Do Too Much Walking and French modistes, competing with pect the perpetually genial lover to the growing importance of American have many sharp points to bis writing. The photograph Dhows the "Leviathan" crew barge of Harvard, with the Throw Too Many Balls. designers In the art of dress, have It may be a combination of rounded varsity and freshmen candidates on board, on the Charles river, for their sensed the demand for variety In a writing with the few necessary points first outdoor workout Bert Haloes, new bead coach, Is In charge. Fred F. Mitchell, coach of the Har- collection of unusual Importance. In to form the letters, indicating one who vard baseball team has written • an this It Is evident that the tailored suit sees the faults, but covers them with •*«»»»»»»»»»»» mm HN*»»«»»» article on pitching. U once more In the fashion; not, of rounded soft curves to his tongue as He says the pitcher Is the most Im- course, In the form of years ago when well as his writing. India Has Sprinter portant man on the team and that It was perhaps the most distinctive The writing will have more of a he should, therefore, be in the beat Regarded as Marvel form of street dress, for the figure slant than a vertical appearance. KamondNofes possible condition. has changed radically since those man- There will be genial terminals raised, A sensational sprint perform- He should, according to Mitchell, do nish modes prevailed. The tailored at the ends of the words, the n's will ance Is reported to have been In a short time the public may be all the running he can when he Is not suit has been acknowledged as the very often look like u's, and the. base accomplished by an Indian stu- agreed on at least one point: That actually pitching or warming up to Ultra-smart' dress for the street In of letters will be wide. The margin dent, MnkerJI, of the King Ed- Babe" Ruth Is the greatest living pitch. He should dp this running to which a woman of any age, any figure, will be fairly generous, the words well American. ward Medical school, Indore. get his legs Into condition. appears to better advantage than In spaced. who, according to news from • • ••• The reason so many games are lost most other types of costume. Certain- ly few women feel as well groomed The writing of the very good-na- India, covered 100 yards In 9 Max Malone, right-handed pitcher, In the eighth or niuth innings U be- tured Individual has few down strokes, formerly with Springfield of the cause thfl pitchers' legs are not In as when wearing cloth suits, smart, seconds In the sports tournament plain and faultlessly tailored, which such as t bars struck downwardly, held at Indore recently. The Western association, has been signed shape. terminals curling back to the left, or by St Joseph. Mitchell also says that pitchers alone may account for the popularity Hon. Mr. Clancy, the British of the suit among women of taste the line of writing descending down- resident, presided at the meet • • • waste too much energy. wardly. More often It will ascend up- The Fort Smith club of the Western They work too slowly. through the years when other styles Confirmation of Mukerjl'a per- have come and gone. wardly, or remain on an even level. formance Is lacking and athletic association has signed Frank Babuse, The pitcher walks out of the box, husky young outfielder from the Kan- Letters like o are either left open authorities are anxiously await- goes behind the box, takes the catch- This enduring vogue Is Illustrated or closed lightly, In the perpetually ing the official report If Mu- sas. City semi-pro ranks. er's signal, then returns to the box. in a most entertaining manner by old good-natured Individual kerji really ran the 100 In 0 • • • He walks over the Infield, following plates and the portraits of leaders of seconds he Is the marvel of all Spring Is well advanced, at least the ball where It Is thrown, strolls fashion who have held tenaciously to Is He Nervous? time. He has won forty medals Tex Rlckard again has attempted to half way to the .catcher after each the tajlleur, from queens to manikins, and prizes In college sports In buy the Giants. Mr. Cohan Is getting pitch, then back to the box. ' through three or more generations. the last two years. In the recent rather old for that task. This useless walking tends to sap In Most Modish Fashion. meet he also won the 200-yard • • •' the energy of the pitcher and wastes The tallleur in Its present version ** race In 20 seconds. Jimmy White, a Tampa high school time. Is a triumph of adaptation. The orig- Nervous. athletic star, has signed with the College games are rarely played in inal tailored suit was built upon a Tampa team of the Florida State less than three hours.' One hour or model of curves, a tightly-corseted league. He is an Inflelder. . figure, as rigid and formal as armor. • •••••• - ' more Is used In wasting energy. As a silhouette wholly different came Brushes Off Dimes Russell Ford, whose "emery ball" College pitchers, says Mitchell, waste too many balls. They pitch into style, the conventional tailored used to puzzle batters In the Amer- costume went Into the discard, and ican league. Is now a prosperous golf- too many to each batter. This Is due to Inexperience and with the stays of steel and bone went playing citizen of Rocklnghara, N. C; that curved silhouette. The straight- Costume Compose In Oliv* Green; When you find the sign of nervous- .. • • • - • . • their failure to study the batters. line frock, coat and three-piece cos- Gown Is of Crape de Chins, They do not know what to pitch; they ness In the writing of a friend, do not John McGraw Is depending on Jack tume met the demand of the mode, encourage him to retire and refuse Cuminlngs and Al Devormer, with a try all kinds. coat Is an almost exact reproduction although there were those who re of the traditional Norfolk, plaits, belt to meet others.' Rather urge him to third catcher, to do the receiving for Mitchell then tells the collegians fused to relinquish the tailored suit get in touch with as many different the Giants this season. All are new- that there are four kinds of batters. and all. In another of these modified whatever. demand It made upon the tailored styles the Jacket is made like personalities an he cun during the day. comers to the Giants. There is the kind that prefers the ingenuity of the coutourier. The first Indication of nervousness » • • ball on the outside and the kind that the usual double-breasted model, but That the designer has been equal to Is held In low on the figure with a will be obviously u slmky looking writ-' Mr. Morlarty's ambition Is to have likes to have the ball pitched on the Ing. Variation in the size of the let- Inside. Then there Is the class that the demand is established by the tai- narrow belt at the side drawn through a team of ' good ' buse-runners, the lored suits that have been designed ters In one word will show this trait. sports writers say. Always provided, goes after low balls and the type that straps that serve as smalt pockets, for this spring. They are cut in the giving- the Jacket the effect of a T bars made fur to the left and an of course, some way can be found of always chops. angle of writing leaning far to the . He tells the collegians how to desig- most modish fashion, along the lines blouse. Still another especially chic geting the boys to first base. of the silhouette of the moment, and right are unfailing points for the un- ' * * * nate each batter and how to pitch to youthful suit Is made with an etou built to flatter the most difficult figure, Jacket cut longer than the conven covering of nervousness In the writer. "Buck" Hereog, big league baseball his weakness. which the tailored suit of earlier days tlonal design. When the lines of the writing run star for twenty years, has taken up a All of which Is true. But why con- could never have accomplished. Lat In eucli of these suits the mode is down hill, lowering to the right, or new rola. Herzog has been appointed fine it to college pitchers? Many ma est models In spring suits respond to when there are two or three different - general athletic passenger agent of jor league pitchers would well profit occasionally varied by making the coat the modern Idea with a variety of de of one material and the skirt of an- degrees of slants to the writing,' you the Baltimore & Ohio railroad com- by the advice Mitchell given, writes signs never dreamed of by the orig- may be sure that a lack of poise or pany. H. G. Salslnger In the Detroit News. other. This arrangement Is partlcu inators of the type. In the severely larly good when, as In some of the calmness will be evident In the writer. « • • They, too, waste too much energy; at Little neatness is found in the script least many of them do. Also, there French suits, the coat Is made of plain Miller Hugging of the New York goods, the skirt of a mixture or check, or complete letter of the person lack- American league baseball club Is are number* In the big league who fail ing stability. If an effort Is made to to study the batter properly and who reviving another style of long ago. quoted as saying that lie Is highly In these and In the suits made all of produce a neut letter It will be plainly waste balls trying to find out what he visible to the reader. An appearance elated "at the surrender of Bube one fabric the skirt Is varied In cut Ruth." Who wouldn't surrender for might Ignore, always hoping to pitch of words being tossed on ihe paper the ball past the man at bat being plain or plaited, In side or box signifies the trait of impatience that' $210,000? v • plaits, all around or laid In clusters, •••»•' Is really called nervousness. but most often massed directly In Charles Doornbos, captain of the Waterbury of the Eastern league has signed Catcher Tom McCarthy. He Wales Is Now Emulating front. •••.•'• University of Kansas track team, and Relaxation In the lines of the tal Can He Sell? one of the best hurdlers known, has Is. the lad Detroit drafted from Water American Business Man bury In 1925. The tigers turned him lored suit Is expressed in some un Look for the signs of diplomacy perfected himself In timber topping. The prince of Wales has taken Up commonly attractive styles.. A Jacket and conversation In the writing rof He puts a-dime on the top of each over to St Paul of the American as? the favorite game of the American soclatlon In 1028. resembling very much a man's dinner your friends if you will ' tell about hurdle - he has to clear In practice, business man—squash rackets, and ac- coat Is made of black, velveteen and their selling ability. and then brushes them off with his • * • cording to the English sports writer. will be worn with a skirt of black-and A little hook will foot as he goes over. He says this Charlie White, who has been In Sir Theodore Cook, plays "Jolly well. white check wool, always a pleasing Dl* visible on the stunt aids him in getting Just the right baseball for fifty years, being the first Writing in the Sportsman, Sir Theo- combination. A Jolly little suit has secretary of the New York State height In clearing the hurdle without dore says: "In both our army cham u softened style of coat, collarless and that begins words using any unnecessary action of a league. Is probably known to more plonship and pur amateur champion' Mousing, that fastens with one button If the writer is hurdler who throws his legs too high. baseball players and fans thnn any ship the prince of Wales played a In a surplice crossing. This is of olive JJ talkative and this other living person. very sound and fast game. With his green frlska and the ' skirt of. green /•* . ,jj/ will appear espe- • * • backhand he can now return the ball and beige checked wool, laid In side OC/W* 1 dally on the letter Manager Bucky Harris of Wash- hard and low along the lefthand side plaits all around. M. • ington has started reducing his wall at a good length with plenty, of Open small let- squads. The first to feel the pruning Something different in skirt models cat on It; and he Is always so fit that is shown In i well-tailored two-piece ters, such as the knife were Jack Blair, first baseman In both his games It took a first-rate o, u and s, will and Ben Shnw, catcher, who were re- In which the coat Is. double-breasted There has been no scandal In tennis player who knew a few more strokes and the front breadth of the skirt Is prevail in the writ- and you would look for a racket there. leased unconditionally. to wear him down." The English Ing of one wlio can talk and will talk. » • • laid In plaits that are stitched part writer expects that the English squash way down, the back of the skirt being Large writing, slanting toward the Only three Americans are members Del "Gnlnor, veteran first baseman, team now In America will show our plain. These models follow the tradt right, is a good sign of the writer's of the Buenos Aires Jockey club, the tins signed with the Syracuse team of players some of the finer points of the tlons of the tailored suit translated talkativeness. Letters getting larger richest In the world. the International league. Galnor left game. Into ultra-modern terms of smartness. as the word goes on, mean an eager- the Stars last mid-season because of Many variations are. Illustrated with ness to tulk HS does the terminal that Some students make the honor roll his health. He will be used In utility runs on far from the word with pres- and plnch-hlttlng roles. the use of details. and 4othere,'can grip .a .basket ball Manager Bob O'Farrell sure Indicated. This means dramatic • from the top with one hand. •••'••. • ~ Btlted Jaektt, Finely Tucked. ability. '^ • • • Pitcher Gerald Mallett has been pur- In a model In beige twill brought When the lower part of the capital Partisans keep on Insisting that Mr. chased from Rochester of the Interna- from Paris, the short slightly bloused I Is broad nnd has the appearance of a " Dempsey didn't feel well when he was tional league r>y the Augusta team of and belted Jacket Is finely tucked In boat, tlit-re can be found a great love fighting Mr. Tunney. And that, of the Sally loop. He was with Macon oblique lines from the shoulder, cross- or travel. When one likes action this .course. Is about the truth. of that league Inst. summer, winning' ing the bust; and the skirt is plain, way. they generally like to describe IS games and losing 14. with a deep hem outlined by one tuck their experience, thus becoming able • * Beaten by Havana university, mem- • '•"•'•• Jacket of New Oxford Cloth; Skirt of that Is so slight as to resemble stitch- tulkers and salesmen. ing. Seams that are covered, with h»n of the Miami basket ball team Commissioner Landla ham reinstated Oray-and-Whlte 8trlptd Wool. Note.—Do not make final^ Judgment vowed not to shave until they could Walter Klnney, southpaw' pitcher, to stitched hands are particularly'effec- until other sla-nn In writing arj studied. -erase the loss by good standing In'organized ball. Kln- tailored suits for'Which there Is an tive ln watertownhistoricalsociety.orgWATBBTOWN NBWS vhtea ted tern {fees it by the col- are "due for an awful Jolt." «4 act 19!7 Easter 1*27. Mr. and Mr*. Herbert Somerset ony, the present bolder* of the teases appear to oppose the bill.—Torrtaf- WOODBURY NEWS Miss Fannie Ishamof NW ' aud M WEST SIDE Good Friday. » T .spent Sunday here. Sunday with their uncle, A Charles H. Norton ot Plainville James Clark and Miss Mildred An- J. Bell of HiJgt field. nominal rentals and pay no property Mis. diaries Frink of Torri:i*:ioii spent Monday afternoon and evening taxes, according to statements made The rural highways of Utehfleld nan were married in Lawrer.i->-. si»--nt Sunday with her UauRhter.i Mr.*. W. M. Stiles anS daughter, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. to the legislative nuance committee county are hi especially good condi- JIass.. ou Sunday. Attending from Mr.-. S. J. Coad of Pleasant smet. J Mrs. IL H. WUles. left on Sunday W. M- Munson. last week by officials of the tax de- tion for this time of the year. It is V. C. where Mrs. estimated that roads are in better here was Miss Julia Clark, sister of >h>. 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