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1 * '^'-^ lra A WEEKLY PAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF A LIVE AND GROWING TOWN nw>.volume XII. NO. -7. WATERTOWN, CONNECTICUT. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, IKS SINGLE COPY SCENTS 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE H. K. H. CO. "Celebrated By Banquet n New York Cty Wednesday Evenng All of Connectcut has reason to be proud of ts part n a notable dnner n the famous old Manhattan Club n New York cty on Wednesday evenng, February 11, celebratng the seventy-ffth annversary of the spoolng of Blk. For t was. a Connectcut man, General Merrt Hemlnway, who ntroduced at Wa-» tertown n the nnovaton of puttng slk on spools whch made the sewng machne possble, vrtually revolutonsed the slk ndustry all over the world and' has saved housewlfes countless thousands of hours. The dnner, gven by The Hemlnway Slk Company,, at the same tme celebratng ts own seventy-ffth brthday, ranks wth any functon of ts knd ever held. It s not often that executve offcals of two States.. -Connectcut and New York Jon wth leadng fgures or an ndustry and outstandng merchants from 'dfferent parts of the country n pay- Ing recognton to an event of threequarters of, a century ago. New York State's logcal place n the pcture s as the present world center of tho great ndustry born here. ' It s so natu,ral nowadays to thnk of slk on spools that one can hardly conceve of resstance to the dea when t was frst ntroduced. Yet ths nnovaton, wthout whch the sewng, machne and many other developments would have been mpossble,.met wth the stoutest opposton when General Hemlnpvorlglnally sponsored t An unusual type of man was requred to persst n the face of the Intal dscouragement he was oblged to lsten to, but General Hemnway was not only such a type, accordng to reports, but also had an unusual knd of early tranng. As a youth, be exhbted bs progressve tendences by leavng hs. brthplace of East Haven, Conn., and settlng n Watertown n 1821, engagng In a general mercantle busness wth one of the pcturesque characters of that day as hs senor partner. Ths man, one James Bshop, also operated a 'tavern, blaeksmlth shop and other ventures, *o that young Hemlnway got a wde assortment of experence. Several odd stores are told 'of ths frst partner, of General Hemlnway. To advertse hs tavern. Bshop once carted all the hay from the meadow - opposte the nn to New Haven n one load drawn by twelve yoke of oxen galy decorated wth' streamers and drven by negroes In unform. A band of musc rode on the load and played n the towns and vllages they passed through. The feat requred a wagon of specal rggng wth several pars of wheels, and t was necessary to strengthen brdges, cut down trees and, n one nstance, to remove a buldng, to allow the bg load of hay to pass. HOW THE SILK THREAD SPOOL WAS BORN-Above, center, U the fnt spool on whch slk waa wound n Amerca. Prevous to 1849, all slk thread came n (kern*, a* hown at left. In that year, General Me nt Hemnway of Watertown, Conn., by puttng tllc on poola, revolutonzed the ndustry, made potable the tewng machne and laved houaewvea of later generatons countes* hour*. Above at rght s shown today's spool. The 75th annversary of the brth of- the slk el s celebrated at a dnner by The Kmnway Slk Co. n New Tack, on Feb. I Ith. At rght. General Hemmway. Durng the ll-fated serculture craze n the thrtes and early fortes, whch culmnated n the so-called "Mulberry Panc," General Hemnway frst became nterested n Blk. He also got nterested n manufacturng around that tme, makng hs start as a producer of buckles. At length he decded to make sewng slk,- and spent consderable tme studyng varous features of the new problems. Among other thngs, he vsted Oharles and Ward Cheney at South Manchester, Conn., where they already had ganed consderable ex perence n the manufacture of sewng sllk-rthough not on spools. He then returned to Watertown and embarked on the venture whch lves after hm. At that tme, all slk thread was sold n skens. General Hemlnway he was a General, by the way, n the State Mlta decded to try Bpoollng slk, as cotton and lnen thread were already spooled, and took t to varous merchants.. Though be was then ffty years old/ the ultra-conservatve merchants of the tme consdered hm a vctm of boysh enthusasm and told hm t was mpractcable to spool slk thread because of ts elastc qualtes, so dfferent from cotton and lnen. Only at hs urgng, they agreed to try the lttle spools, on each of whch was wound twelve yards of sewng slk, and see f the publc wanted to buy slk put up n that way. The Amercan publc, even n 1849, appears to have been able to detect a good thng on sght, for the slk thread on spools was a success from the start And, the merchants havng proved wrong n ther predct ton, other manufacturers adopted the dea, whch n a few years spread all over the world; The orgnal spools were, very much smaller and dfferent.n shape from those used at the present tme, and ther twelve yards of slk each consttuted less than an eghth of the amount on the 100-yard spoolb of today. General Hemlnway made hs own spools n Watertown at frst, turnng them out on a hand lathe; Nowadays more than a hundred cords of wood from the Mane woods are used every month n the machne manufacture of spools for Hemlnway slks. At the start the enterprse was known as M. Hemlnway & Sons Slk Company. So t remaned when n 1909 t was the frst of the slk thread companes to branch out nto the feld of artfcal slk, brngng out the Texto Brand. In the name was changed to The H. K. H. Slk Company upon ts consoldaton wth the Hammond-Knowlton Company and the purchase of two other companes. It now makes fabrcs and hoselry as well as threads.. Last month the name was changed agan to The Hemnway Slk. Company. And so, once -more, t s known by the name of General Hemlnway,' whose Introducton of spools for slk seventy-fve years ago s the' event celebrated at the company's brthday party on tbe nght of Wednesday, Februray 11.. t 'V' TOWN TOPICS Harold Boll has returned to hs. home h Kent after vstng at the home of hs sster. Mrs. Wllam Heynolds of Hghland avenue., John Whte la confned to hs home by njures sustaned by a fall on the ce. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Reynolds of StratfbrB were recent vstors n town. A food sale was held n the Post Offce Drug Store on Wednesday afternoon by the Ladles' Benevolent Socety of the Congregatonal church. John Walton, was a vstor n Putnam on Tuesday. James Farrell of Cherry avenue, who s confned to the U. S. Naval Hosptal In Brooklyn, N. Y., s greatly mproved and a speedy«recovery. s looked for. Mss Margaret Kervln* has resumed her dutes n the local post offce after a two weeks' llness. Frankln Panter of Cutler street was a vstor n Merden on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Wllam H. Beers of Hllcrest avenue are spendng a couple of months n Florda. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lockwood of New Haven were vstors n town over the' week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sectman of Hartford were recent vstors n town. Mss Ruth Davs of Bunker Hll was a recent vstor at the home of her sster, Mrs. Harry Downng. Henry Marndn of Waterbury has purchased the Lusk property on Cutler street through the Root & Boyd agency. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Geoghegan of Cherry avenue were recent vstors n Ltchfleld. There was a specal meetng of Court Merrltt Hemlnway No. 48, F. of A., held n Communty Buldng on Sunday*- afternoon. B. H. Hemlnway has returned after a ten days' trp to Montreal, Can- OAKVILLE BRIEF8 A three-act play enttled "Welcome Home, Jmmy" wll be presented n the parah hall of All Sants' Church, Oakvllle, Frday evenng, under the auspces of the chor: Henry Meyer entertaned a number of hs frends at hs home Saturday afternoon to celebrate hs 9th brthday. An enjoyable card party followed y a turkey supper, games and dancng was gven by Mr. and Mrs. Julen LanevlUe at ther home on Rversde' street Saturday evenng to a number of ther frends. The grls of Dept. 29 of the Oakvlle Co. enjoyed a turkey dnner at the Shangha Restaurant n Waterbury and later attended the performance of the stock company at Poll's theatre. PETITION CIRCULATED IN CHURCHE8 The followng petton whch Avas started by Harley Roberts and crculated In three churches of the town last Sunday was sgned by many members of the congregatons: "We, the undersgned duly qualfed electors of the town of Watertown respectfully petton the 'Foregn Relatons commttee of- the Senate of the Unted States, by whatever procedure s found to be best to get before the full Senate for a vote, a^ resoluton provdng for the partcpaton of the Unted States n a world court on the Hardng-Hughes plan." NEW CONTRACTOR ON THE JOB Durng the past week work has agan started on the layng of the sewer man n preparaton for the new cement road that s to be started n tbe early sprng. The con tractor ths tme Is A. Dl Marco of Planvlle and t s hoped that ths tme the Job wll be completed. In early October work was frst started on the sewer constructon by a Newngton concern who had planned on completng the work n -JO workng days. Not' beng famlar wth the ground around Watertown he dd not fgure on strkng, anyrock, but to hs surprse he found out dfferent. Great dffculty was experenced on Cutler street whch proved to be a regular ledge of rock, and at the expraton of the tme lmt, about one-thrd of- the work had been done. The company dscontnued work and forfeted the contract. There was consderable legal dscusson over the affar, the result beng the job standng dle for about three months.- Travel ovrr Cutler street has been very rough.and dangerous owng to the non-completon of the job. Man street also was left In a deplorable condton. Now It seems the entre matter has been settled and work has been resumed and ths tme n dlcatlons seem, to pont to a speedy completon of the Job. * A daughter, Nancy Rebecca, was born at the Waterbury Hosptal on February 4 to Mr. and Mrs. John O'Connor of Lower Man street. Truman Curry of Thomaston has purchased ono of the new homes on Pne street bult by Btdge & Walker. P. J. Cody of Wnsted has rented the home of Mrs. T. D. Atwood for the remander of the wnter. Mrs. B. L. Morgan and famly, who have been vstng; n Hartford, have returned to ther home on Warren way. Howard Potter of Bowers.street vsted at the home of hs mother n Norwch over the week-end. R. H. Hard, who has been ll for the past month, has recovered and has resumed hs work at the Fulton Market. Sylvester Farrell of Cherry avenue was a week-end vstor In Merden. The annual meetng and dnner of the Connectcut Assocaton of Publc School Superntendents wll be held n Hartford at the Hotel Garde on Frday evenng, February 13 at 6:30 p. m. A program has been arranged for superntendents ' of schools. and school board members and charmen and secretares of school commttees have been rtvlted. Prof. F. E. Spauldlng of Yale wll dscusb the work of the Educatonal Code Commsson apponted by the last General Assembly and Dr. A. B. Meredth, Commssoner of Educaton wll speak on "What's a School For." Opportunty wll be gven for dscusson. Communty sngng wll be led by Mr. Brown, Supervsor of Musc n the New Haven Schools. The offcers of the assocaton are H. O. Clough, Rockvllle, Pres.; Carl W. Maddocks, Deep Rver, Vlce- Pres.; Ralph Jenkns, Putnam, Secy- Treas.- TAFT WIN8 THIRD PLACE At the Interscholastc Glee Club Meet held n New York cty last Saturday, Taft School Glee Club won thrd place. Frst honors were taken by Worcester Academy and second by Loomla Insttute. For the past two years Taft has taken the frst place but due to the fact that the majorty of the members of ths year's club have lght voces they were doubtful of achevng the standard set n the two prevous years. The Club wll appear later at a concert gven for the school and repeated for the town n March and at the Commencement Concert. ADDRESS TO JUNIOR ACHIEVE- MENT LEADERS "ONE ON WINSTED" When any fsh stores are told or any extraordnary announcement la made n the press, t s generally taken for granted the report had ts start n' Wnsted. Of late Wnsted has had a hard tme to hold on to her laurels but now the tme has arrved when one better than "Wnsted Made" has come to the fore. Bethlehem, Conn., s the town that has gone one better than Wnsted ths tme and tbe subject concerns a fshng story. Ths fsh story was told to one of Watertown's Constables by one of the promnent resdents of Rep. Danels' town, who for varous reasons, dd not wsh to have hs name publshed. The story relates how a resdent or the town pf Bethlehem went fshng through the ce last Wednesday and after a couple of hours labor and sport returned home wth two bushel baskets full of fsh. Ths fsherman used nether tp-up nor bat and nssted they were caught wth the ad of a fryng pan, or In other words a "spder." A large hole was cut n the ce, whch happened to be about 10 nches thck, and when ths was done the lucky fsherman proceeded to fll hs baskets. Every fsh n the pond headed straght for ths hole and. for a short tme the fsherman had a merry tme. Another fshng trp Is planned for ths week and the town offcals of Bethlehem are gong along and they promse another bg catch. WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY EX- ERCISES Accordng to ts usual custom the Cvc Unon h;s made arrangements for an nterestng speaker, the Rev. JnmoB Gordon Gllkle of Sprngfeld, Mass., to gve an address on Sunday evenng, the 22nd, In Communty theatre. A cordal Invtaton s extended to resdents of the town and vcnty and t s hoped that a large audence wll hear ths speaker. The meetng wll be held.at 7:30 p. m. OAKVILLE 8COUT8 HEAR LEAD- ER TNe Sqy.Soouts of Oakvllle assembled on Sunday mornng and marched to the Unon Congregatonal church where a large number of people had gathered to hear Chef Scout Executve Charles R. Sumpf of Waterbury speak on the great work of the organzaton. Mr. Sumpf made a plea for leadershp and Its need" n Oakvlle, where there s a good scout membershp. He expressed a hope that n the near future some good scout master mght be avalable to take up the work here. LOSES VALUABLE PONY Paul Kllmpke, Jr., of Man street had the msfortune, to lose a valuable pony on Saturday mornng. Albert Grenler, Adam Blals, Imelda - Young Kllmpke had taken the an-bouchermal out for a short jaunt on Satur- Grener, Leondna Lamy, Mare.Alce Grenler, Azelne The fve leaders of the local Junor Achevement Club, Mss Flynn,! day mornng and on notcng that Lamy, Rose Paqun, Mare Bruneau, Mss Fenton, Mss Whlteslde,. Mss ' the pony acted very strange, returned Ceclle Bruneau, Savarla PIstllL Htchcock and Mss Lovett met to hs home and summoned a veternaran. Before the doctor arrved lne Schebutn.. Salvara Zeol, Benne Zeoll, Pau- Mss Root of the Sprngfeld ; Branch n the Grls Club * Rooms,' the pony was dead. The pony was of Saturday mornng at' ten o'clock. a pure bred stock and was a very Second' Year Englsh Mss Root outlned the work whch pretty anmal, beng very clever and Alphonse Berthlaume, Llgourl De- ~~ the classes wll take up durng the quck. lel, Erneat Groux, James Paudrer, rest of the year, explanng the Armand Dezlel, Donat Dezel, En*. steps n the doll to mother and clade Grener, Thomas Paudler, head to foot sewng classes. LEGAL NOTICE Gabrella Desruseaus, Malnna Dezlel, Esther Dezlel, Alce Deel, In May a contest wll be held n Waterbury n whch the Watertown Marguerte Desruaeaux, Dolores classes wll compete. Dezel, Ida Lennox, Joseph Waletta, Because of Mss Root's meetng Lnda Martlnelll, Rosale Moscarel- ' Saturday's sewng classes were la, Angellne D'Agostlna, Salvatore postponed untl Wednesday afternoon. Daddona, Tony Sbordone, Parudene, Alfonse Clrlllo, Joseph - AttlUo OAKVILLE VS WATERTOWN There was a large attendance at the basketball game whch was held n the Town Hall on Tuesday evenng.- The game brought together the fves representng Oakvllle and Watertown and as. It was the thrd and decdng game of the seres a closely contested game was looked for. The Oakvlle lads, strengthened by three players from Waterbury proved to be a lttle too much for the local lads and when the fnal whstle^ was blown, Oakvlle was n the lead by a score., In -the prelmnary game the Oakvlle grls also came home wth the vctory, defeatng the Watertown lasses by a 16-8 score. The lneup of the boys game' was as follows:- -' - Verplott Nelson Davs Perce Meade rght forward loft forward center rght guard. left guard Mller Mulhearn Cooke Dunston Rowe The legal voters of the Watertown Fre Dstrct, Inc., are' hereby notfed and warned that the annual meetng of the sad dstrct wll be held at the Town Hall, n Watertown, at 8:15 p. m. Monday evenng, February 16th, 1925, for the followng named purposes: To receve and act upon reports from the commttees. To elect a commttee of three persons for the ensung year. To elect one member of the Board of Water Commssoners, for three years. To receve and act upon the report of the Hoard of Water Commssoners, and to make appropratons for the Water Department., To take acton on any other busness proper to come before the sad mectnp.or to make any other appropratons f necessary. To act on tke' W. F. D. Sewage queston, and make appropratons for the same. To take acton upon a petton of a majorty of the legal voters resd ng wthn lmts contguous to the Dstrct prayng to be admtted as' a part of the Dstrct. To lay a Tax. Dat d at Watertown, CorA. ths 10th day of February, < CHAS. W. JACKSON, B. P. HUDSON. IRA C. HOTCHKI8S. It * Commttee. Nght School Graduaton Graduaton exercses were held- h South School Tuesday evenng, February 10th. The exercses are alternated each year between the two ends of the town. Tbe House* hold Arts' Classes of 30 young lades fnshed ther courses n December. 58 other pupls receved ther fnal certfcates Tuesday evenng. The followng program was pre- \ sented n excellent manner and showed much hard work on the part of the local drector and teachers. Nght School Program 1. March Orchestra 2. Flag salute and Amerca the Beautful 3. Worth Whle Europeans 4. February,. Contnuaton Class John Budels, Emma Martn, Tony Monterose 6. Current Events James Poudrer, Ernest Glroux, Armand Dozel, Eugene Hll Columba the Gem of the Ocean 7. What Nght School Has Done. for Me Contnuaton Class, Josephne Trotta 8. Why I Lke Amerca Angelna D'Agostlna 9. Worth whle Amercan Women Imelda Boucher; Ceclle Bruneau, Esther Dezlel, Alce Dezel 10. Evenng School Josephne Trotta 11. Artcles of World Interest- Gabrel Desreaurlaux, Marguerte Desreaurlaux, Dolores Dezlel 12. Song Sunshne School 13. Apprecaton Paul Lyss 14. Specal Number Voln and Pano 15. Remarks 16. Presentaton of Certfcates and Dplomas 17. Amerca Robert C. Demng, Drector of Amerlzaton for tbe State was present and gave the pupls a fne address on Amercan Manners, Customs and Ctzenshp. He was followed by Mr. Roberts, Presdent of the Cvc Unon who spoke very encouragngly of the work and urged the PSBSsdEb. contnue.ther studes further. Membres of the School Board who were present, Mr, Lynch and Mr. Hcock also gave remarks. Mr. Lynch presented the argument of honesty n a pleasng manner and assured the pupls of success t a contnuaton of ther efforts contnued. Mr. Hcock, Secretary of the Board presented the Dplomas and certfcates. Mr. Swft, Superntendent of Schools concluded the speeches wth an apt story and words of congratulaton. Pupls recevng dplomas and certfcates foljows:.. Frst Year Englsh. Arthur Bourncal, Eddy Paudrler, Zaccar la. Thrd Year Englsh Sylvester Zdans, Mauro Martn-, ell, Eugene Hll Grammar School Department Low 7th Josephne Gwadosk, Fanny Onofreo, Sara Mango, Elzabeth.MOBchella, Lena Maccone. t 8peeal Certfcate ' Glynn Bryan Advanced 7th ' ' Walter Good, Charles Daley, Charles Mantlno, James Leo,. Wfr Ham Marchett, Gaetone Falcone. 8pecal Certfcate Tony Monterose, Eght B Certfcate* Mchael Cassullo, Chrstne Ftore,. Peter Olczk, John Shafer, Joseph, ; Vltraks, Mchael Pazdan.. -. O The- Evenng School. Is one n> \ portant part of the Amerlzaton dev. partment n Watertown and splendd attendance ths year has greatly, aded tbe work;.the teachers have been very fathful' to ther dutes*,^ and deserve much credt The followng teachers have been employe* 1,, ths year Mss'Robnson, Ml Hearst, Mss Bnns, Mss Mss Grffn and Mrs. Madden, supervson and arrangement classes la ader drecton' of Lesle, Drector. *

2 tasda ta «*»» all amdtt to lead 4og af Ma taaa.. Tha bqlldtag ful of tha Cathedra! of IN MIDGET FORM 8t John tha Dtat, Naw fork, w ncraasad by fttsjolm brngng ths total to fmlmss. Long Stores of Bg Events Told volatons ar» Inadequate, a sub-cornmtttm of tha Honaa Commttee on Atcohalc Lquor Traffc declared n a n Bref Paragraphs for prelmnary report of Its Investgaton Quck Readng. l-to tha subject Tha Senate wll be called la extra NATIONAL CAPITAL SNAPSHOTS sesson aa usual on March 4. by Presdent Coolldge. Study of the queston of callng such a sesson to confrm leanngs of Interest From Washngton Late Happenngs In the cabnet nomnaton has shown tha Renovated, (rash It has been the unversal practce and Pmokns stock In h* opnon It should be contnued. No. cur. make. Realm of Sports Foregn and No. t ear. male* A bll desgned to prevent cloggng 22 Domestc Occurrences. of the Snpreme Court docket passed L3& S as 20 the House. The contempt case of Harry V. Sn. Extra frst* VTv 68 clalr was argued n the Dstrct of Frsts ::;;...: 66 S7 65 Columba Court of Appeals. Seconds 61 BBs>ww s w sa Medum* - (Ineludlag shptrades") 49 0 Marcus Garvey, "Negro Moses," Drtes loses appeal and most serve fve years No." 3 "and" poorer I'.', 46 n Federal prson for msusng malls. Checks, far to choce. Ivy.. 46 Nearby and Whte Ess*. Though '.he 1925 farmng outldok Is Jersey and other nearby descrbed as encouragng, the department of.agrculture warns wheat grow- Nearby and n earby West- J>""fry whte, dosng selected extra* MHO 61 ers not to ncrease plantng. 1 <Jreen Huts, ronner Kentucky home of the late James Ben All Haggn, bought by Joseph Wldener of Phladelpha as home tor Kentucky's crppled chldren. 2. O. Bascom Slemp, retrng secretary to the Presdent, re- Hennery wh.. extra frsts. 68tt0 69 Hennery wh., aver, extras 61*40 60 The bran of Dr. Bart Green Wlder, Newton Cvl War veteran, was left to Hennery wh.. frst*. B7#0 63 cevng bref case from tha Whte House correspondents. 8. Spre of Trnty, at left, whch church has been sued Cornell Unversty "for scentfc purposes," accordng to the terms of bs Nearby whte*, undergrade* Nearby gathered/ whtes, for Its ten mllon dollars' worth of property In the dovlntowa dstrct of New York by alleged hers of tha orgnal owner... ' Whte, med. (40041 lbs. frsts to extra frsts... 67V40 68*4 wll, fled for probate. net) Pullets Vfr The Natonal League of Women Voters also ssued a statement declarng ment when It Is desred to Intate In- Whte, extra frsu 67%0 68 clared the premer. "At ths very mo- Paclne coast, whte extras.. 68)40 69 Frsts "A NEWS REVIEW OF that adverse acton by one or both dustral collaboraton, there Is a large Medum* (40O41 lbs. net) 66 O S6<4 houses of 18 states does not sgnfy group In Germany returnng^ to war Pullets, pewees to full slse Other Western and Southern The Unted States has ganed two defeat It was nssted that there s Ideas as shown In ther papers, ther gathered whtes..\ 66 O 69 polo players of the hghest rank. CURRENT EVENTS a possblty of reconsderaton In some poetry, ther plays, and ther speeches, Jersey and other nearby and Western hennery browns, The four regulars of Amerca's polo of the states. where Franca Is treated dsgraceful* extra fancy M O 63 Poultry. Fresh Klled Chckens Western Boxes 24 lbs. and under to 42 lbs The House roted to restore to the Independent offces appropraton bll an tem bt $712,000 tor expenses of the Tarff Commsson durng the comng fscal year. The vote was 255 to 89. The secton was elmnated from the bll several days ago whle only a small membershp of the House was present. After the vote restorng the tem, on whch many Democrats Joned the Republcans, the bll was passed. General Mltchall declares Intentons to press tght for Ar Bureau despte crtcs. Coolldge vrtually tells Senate, Dawea payments to Amerca are none of ts busness. Blue Law backers open Naton-wde campagn. Senate commttee lmts the new power Inqury to General Electrc Company.. House leaders are In conference, seekng a way that wll nsure fnal passage of the Moses postal salares bll wthout provokng a battle between the house and the senate. The queston of unconstltutlonallty Is beng rased by house members. Whle opposton to confrmaton of Attorney General Stone to be a Supreme Court Justce has not completely collapsed, early favorable aolon by the Senate Is predcted. WORLD'S BUSINESS Reports that a $76,000,000 Argentne loan was beng negotated n ths market met wth a denal from the Argentne Mnster of Fnance, ths comng top of the statement made by Blar ft Co., fscal agents for the Argentna Government here, that they had no knowledge of such fnancng, and dd not beleve t was beng contemplated. Despte these denals, bankers actually concerned wth negotatons offer convncng proof that Such a loan s beng sought Hoover announces new wave lengths for rado oroadcastlng statons. Gasolne prces are advanced agan. Heavy fnancng expected In Wall Street German commercal treaty s favorably reported to Senate. A resoluton for a Federal Trade commsson nqury Into control of the power ndustry was reported by a Senate commttee. West Vrgna coal companes plannng $100,000,000 merger. Secretary Hughes and Hoover anpoared before the senate foregn relatons commttee and urged It to report favorably on the commercal treaty wth Germany; Excluson of the La Follette mea from the congressonal majorty commttee on assgnments s expected to facltate adopton of the Mellon Tax program n the next congress. GENERAL \ lot) establshment of a brth contol clnc n Illnos was forbdden by the Appellate court Trucks have begun dumpng lumber In front of the Captol, Washngton, the frst step In the erecton of the huge stands (or the nauguraton. Sxteen foregn rum-runnng shps sesed last year, government announces. Wthout debate or a dssentng vote, the House declared Representatve La Guarda, Republcan, of New York enttled to retan hs seat, whch was contested by Henry Frank, hs Democratc opponent Houdnl charges Dr. Hereward Carrngton aded medum Margery In sprt seance frauds n Boston. Seven b-.ndts held up. tbe Blue Island car barns In Chcago, famous as the tone of the fatal robbery of 1S03, slugged two employes Into un- 'conscousness and escaped wth $8,000. One hundred thousand dollars was the estmated loss of the fre whch destroyed Mrrgun Hall at Wells Col- I ge for women at Aurora, New York. The Nevada Assembly at' Carson Cty voted 19 to 18 aganst ratfcaton or the chld labor amendment to the federal- consttuton. Volstead act wor.lld be repealed In a week If Congressmen were forced to obey law. Stayton tells 500 "wet'' dners. ' Senator Magnus Johnson,. of Mln-* nesota. tled a petton contestng 'the electon of Thomas D. Scnall. bs opponent. In tbe Senate. Mm Emms SlRlpr of Hbrlpy WIs.. has been jpenfl to lfe Imprson men an an nthuhry ro the murder of her nhdnl Andrew Slxler. tor vrbcb APlv ludl'lt nu b-en HPrv lug a lfe n-nhue Phn wmun receved Mr- "-r'e p nl'nl Hm IHIIK and Hn I < ->h>- eft be t-uurlrunn team, whch so declsely defeated Great Brtan's best four at the. clmax of the last season, thereby retanng the. Internatonal Challenge Cup at least untl 1927, were all rased to tengoal ratngs. Thus as a result of the new handcap lst of the Unted States Polo Assocaton, made publc by Its Charman, Lous B. Stoddard, ths Naton now has four of the sx greatest players la the world. New York.State Athletc Commsson pcks sxteen boxers for lghtweght elmnaton tournament. Natonal League asks state legslatures for more drastc laws to punsh baseball gamblng. Nurml, Rtola and Plant shatter fve world ndoor record. In Western Unon games at Garden, New York... Introduce bll at Albany for partmutuel bettng In New York. Howard H. Jones, former Iowa coach and brother of Tad Jones, Yale coach, was apponted football coach of tha Unversty of Southern Calforna, to succeed ISlmer C Hendermson, who resgned last month. Wchta Falls has obtaned the servces of tha colorful Pns Bodle for next season. Edde Atnsmlth, veteran major league catcher, has been sgned by Mnneapols of tthe Amercan Assocaton. Sx and possbly seven canddates wll contest for the berth of shortstop on tha Chcago Whte Sox when tran- Ing begns at Shreveport, La. Frst Baseman Mofft, a sem-pro player who was watched last season by bg league scouts, has sgned to play wth the Columbus Senators next season. Reports, that Lancaster wll take over the Utca franchse In the Naw England-Pennsylvana Baseball League are current Tbe Blngbamton franchse Is expected to go to Allentown. The Florda Wnter League Is responsble for a startlng baseball Innovaton. Its presdent. Jack Toole, former Southern League umpre, also holds the Indcator. How does he report unruly players to the presdent? Tex Rlckard lays foundaton for bout between Tom Gbbons and Jack Dempsey. The Stanley Baldwn Cabnet s experencng dffculty n agreeng to the precse terms of a reply to the request of M. Clementel. the.french Mnster of Fnance, for a formal declaraton of Brtsh polcy on nter- Alled Indebtedness. The Warsaw Senate by unanmous vote ratfed the agreement consoldatng Poland's debt to the Unted States. The Senate further adopted a moton "thankng the great naton of the Unted States for Its proof of frendshp and good-wll shown to Poland, and wshng prosperty to the Unted States." New Italan Ambassador to tha Unted States reported to have orders to take up debt Turkey refuses to refer trouble wth Greece to Hague court A bll proposng recprocal treatment for Amerca and the colones whch treat Indans rt an Inferor, race was adopted by the Legslatve Assembly at Delh, Inda, by a vote of 49 to 41 For the frst tme, German rado fans heard tha Pttsburgh staton, K D K A. The natonal anthem was planly dstngushed, r as well as a song, "Wld Rose." John Lane, London publsher and art collector, des of pneumona. The Hotenzollerns have won another case aganst the Prussan state. A cottbus court decded that, two estates there were the prvate property of Germany's former rulng famly and that Prussa had.no Interest In them In law. Tbe Brtsh cabnet met for tha pur pose of opnslderlng memoranda regardng Interalled debts ss well a the draft of a reply to Fance's latest proposal. Museum owned by Prncess of Imb>Ion unearthed at TTr. Stone TelU Senators About Ol Conspracy and the Senator Wheeler Case. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ONFIRMATION of the Presdent's C nomnaton of Attorney General Stone to be an assocate Justce of the Unted States Supreme court has been held top by the senate Judcary commttee for many days and the rejecton of Mr. Stone by the senate threatened, because he drected the presentaton to the grand Jury In the Dstrct of Columba of evdence In a conspracy case Involvng Senator Wheeler of Montana. Frends of Wheeler, both Democrats and nsurgent Republcans, thought tha case was that In whch- the Montana senator was Indcted- n hs home state and that transfer of If to Washngton savored of persecuton. Wednesday the attorney general went before the commttee and explaned that the government has uncovered a conspracy of wde proportons to defraud the Unted States of 611 lands. Involvng the attempted brbery of government offcals; and as the alleged.crme was commtted n Washngton, the. Indctment was sought there,taxaccordance wth the law. Mr. Stone sad he had ordered a fresh Investgaton of the matter In connecton wth whch Wheeler was Indcted In Montana, and added: '. The Investgaton Indcated that Gordon Campbell's promoton schemes Involved prmarly the securng, fradulehtly, of ol and gas prospectng permts on publc lands n Montana and that the most Important element In them was the valdatng of these permts by the Interor department and the approval of assgnments of these permts by the executve offcers of de Interor department at Washngton. These subsequent Investgatons changed entrely the aspect of the crme whch seemed to have been commtted In Montana." The attorney; general offered Senator Wheeler the prvlege of testfyng before the grand Jury f he would wave Immunty from prosecuton for so dong. Ths seemed to leave Mr. Stone's opponents no ground for further, delay In approvng the nomnaton, but the commttee adjourned for several days. In the senate Itself the controversy broke out once or twce, beng checked by the presdng offcer. Senator Hefn found an opportunty to tell agan why. he was opposed to tha attorney general, rehearsng the case of Col. John Ownbey of Colorado aganst whom Mr. Stone once appeared before the* Supreme court as counsel for the estate of X P. Morgan. Senator Overman of North Carolna also supports tha charges that Ownbey fled before tha Judcary commttee allegng that he was treated unfarly. EFEAT of the chld labor amendment to the Consttuton seems to D be certan, but Its Mends have not yet gven up hope. The amendment has been accepted by the legslatures of three states, Arkansas, Arzona and Calforna, and by tha lower house In Naw Mexco. Sevan states have rejected It defntely, these beng Georga, North Carolna, South Carolna, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Delaware. In Oho, Lousana, North Dakota and South Dakota one house of tha legslature has voted aganst t A bll for a referendum was defeated In Massachusetts and In tha Washngton lower house. Wyomng has postponed acton Indefntely, whch amounts to rejecton. It needs rejecton by only IS of the states to defeat the amendment Proponents of the amendment declared ther belef that t would eventually be adopte'd by a suffcent number of states. Frank Morrson, secretary of the Amercan Federaton of Labor, sad that the fght Is by no means over and that he Is confdent that a suffcent number of states eventually wll approve the amendment He further charged that large rams of money had been expended In fghtng the amendment and suggested congressonal Investgaton. < USCLE SHOALS legslaton was M sent to conference and the prospects for the Underwood bll were brght, for the senate conferees apponted are all n favor of that measure They are Keyes of New Hampshre, McKlnley of Illnos and Kendrck of Wyomng. Norrls, McNary and Smth had declned to serve. The house conferees are McKehsle of Illnos, Morln of Pennsylvana and Qun of Msssspp. The commttee wll try to obtan fnal enactment of the legslaton before March 4. RESIDENT COOLIDGB, havng re- from bs agrcultural con- Pceved ference a report urgng co-operatve marketng legslaton durng the present sesson, called to the Whte House the Republcan leaders of senate and house and the rankng members of the agrcultural; commttees and asked them to try to carry out ths recommendaton. They promsed to do ther best The report later was submtted to congress. The plan It presents contemplates the creaton of a federal cooperatve marketng board of fve members, two of. whom shall be the secretary of agrculture and the secretary of commerce and the three others to be apponted by the Presdent after beng nomnated by federally regstered co-operatve marketng organsatons. The salares of the three apponted members would be $12,000 a year. The report declares It Is the purpose of the plan to allow co-operatves a freedom to develop wthout' governmental Interference or domnaton, except for the polce powers lodged wth the secretary of agrculture under the Capper- Volstead act;. The agrcultural conference also advocates adopton of the long pendng resoluton drectng the Interstate commerce commsson to readjust freght rates so as to releve farm products of a dsproportonate share of transportaton costs. The senate already had adopted the conference report on ths resoluton and t went to the Presdent ERRIN, that bloody town In bloody H Wllamson eounty. Illnos, got on the front page agan when Glenn Young, the klan lquor rader, and hs chef foe, Deputy Sherff Ora Thomas, ''shot It out" Each was supported by a band of armed followers and when the smoke cleared away Young, Thomas and two others were lyng dead. on the street. Fve more persons were wounded. The peaceful ctlsens of Herrln there really are gome hope that wth the death of the leadng gun men the outbreaks that have brought notorety to ther town wll never recur. REMIER HERRIOT of France has Pbeen preparng a defnte statement on France's poston concernng her debt to the Unted States, but at ths wrtng It has not been made. If. Herrot, however, dd say a lot on the subject In an address to the chamber of deputes. He sad he would "solemnly repeat once more what M. Vlvlanl has sad, what M. Polncalre has sad- France does not Intend to repudate her debts. It Is not the government over whch I presde, attached as t Is to respect for treates and conventons,' that wll dsavow the prncple of debts whch France has contracted." A lttle later he sad: "Even from a commercal vewpont, our frends cannot refuse to realse the terrble dffcultes that France faces If she s forced to attempt to transport to England and Amerca products to the value of the debts. "The problem Is not only moral bnt Is economc and fscal., Regardless of what happens no one can queston our good fath. France Is always loyal and wll reman loyal on ths queston lke on all others.** Much of M. Herrot's address was devoted to an exposure of Germany's falure to dsarm In accordance wth tha terms of the treaty of Versalles. Be made It clear that France Is not contemplatng any coercve measures but that she Is determned to Insure her securty. "To dsarm the bands of our enemes Is rot suffcent so long aa ther' sprt U not dsarmed." de- E MILB DAESOHNER. the new French ambassador, haa arrved n Washngton wth hs famly and assumed the dutes of hs poet He called on Presdent Coolldge Frday and presented hs credentals. M. Juuerand, the retrng ambassador and long dean of the dplomatc corps In Washngton, saled for France. As he was leavng New York he sad, as a prvate clttsea: "I beleve France should have more tlma for the payment of her debt The frst consderaton should be Franca and all other Issues should be subordnated. France has her reconstructon problem, whch most be met There are 140,000 homes to be constructed and as a result of lack of bousng facltes there were, durng the last year 100,000 cases of tuberculoss, 18,000 resultng In death." EADERS In the Internatonal L opum. conference h Geneva decded oa the creaton of a central board to supervse the Internatonal traffc In narcotc drugs, the members to be apponted by the councl of the League of Natons and the Unted States. Ths acton s held sgnfcant of a possble way of arrangng the future, relatons of the league and Amerca and In the opnon of some It means the Unted States may become a sort of assocate member of the league, wth the understandng that It undertake no oblgatons under tbe covenant and would take no responsblty or pursue any actvtes n Internatonal poltcal problems handled by tha league. ; : ; -,. ;.'.' ^ Russan mercenares In four T mprovsed armored cars arrved In Shangha Wednesday, frghtened off the defeated thousands of Ch Helenyuan's army and took possesson 1 of the cty for ther. employer, Marshal Lu Yuhg-nsang. Two thousand of Lu's Chnese troops entered later ad consoldated the vctory, and Ch's solders fled or enlsted under Ln. Ohl hmself started for Japan and It la assumed there wll be no more lghtng In the Shangha regon, f There are 28 foregn warshps In the harbor protectng the foregn concessons, from whch the Chnese and Russan troops are barred. Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Canton government leader and frst presdent of the Chnese republc, ether s dead of cancer or has.been operated on for that alt nent and Is la satsfactory condton. Both reports have been receved and at ths tme the.truth Is not known. The Japanese offcal news agency at Tokyo says Pekng Is tryng to keep Dr. Sm's death a secret TVPHTHERIA I* epdemc In Nome, *-' Alaska; sad dog teams from Ancnorage and Nenana, 600 ' mles away, are racng across the snow-covered country wth supples of anttoxn. Meanwhle tbe physcans In Nome have been forced to rely on serum that Is at least sx months old, and have found that It retans much of Its curatve power. Most of tha deaths are among the Eskmos. H «a«m«> ERBERT EL ASQUTTH, former prme mnster of Great Brtan, at last has accepted elevaton to the peerage and has assumed the ttle of earl of Oxford, It was at frst beleved he would relnqush the actve leader* shp of the Lberal party to' Lloyd George, but he announced that he had not yet resgned that post. OUNG army offcers have over- Y. thrown the junta government of Chle whch was set up last fall by navy offcers, and for a few days there was danger of cvl warfare. Largely through the effort! of Angustn Edwards, former foregn mnster, ths has been averted and the offcers have reached an agreement by whch Arturo AlessaadrL the self-exled presdent. Is recognsed as consttutonal presdent He Is In Italy but say* he la ready to return to hs country aad hs offce. Dean Amunategnl of the medcal faculty of the Unversty of Chle was commssoned to form camaes. *' Chckens Western Bbla.,. dry 2>4 to 2*4 Iba.. 24 < 6 to 6 lbs Mxed weghts 36 Fowls Western-12 to box Under 30 lbs.; to 43 lbs 23 0 Fowls Bbla. Dry packed 8 Iba. 19 6% lbs z«old C 71...Old Iba. Cocks Western Boxes ' up to 71 lbs Iba 20 2S 48 to 69 6> Ib lbs 18 ( to 87 lbs 17 < 21 Iba. up 20 I 24 6 to 1b It 23 4 to 6 1b* 18 ( 22 3 to 4 Iba 16 O 21 Capon*, Nearby 20 O 62 Lve Poultry Fowls, va freght Q 37 Va express 39 < > 4» Leghorns, va express ( 35 Chcken*, va freght 30 < 35 Va express S3 ( ' 3* Old rooster*, va freght.' 16 Turkeys, va freght... < 25 ^Vla express 30 I ' 3b Ducks, va freght.. 33 Va express 23 ( ' 3b Long Island..... O 15 Mutcovey, va freght or express 0 IS Geese, va freght b VU express 2 35 Capon* b Brolers, va, express 40 O 4b. Pgeons, par, va freght or express.. O 40 Guneas, par...» 65 Rabbts, va exp. or freght lb Fresh Vegetables Anse, per.baakee b Artchokes, per box. 75< 8 O Beans, per package Beets, per package Brussels sprouts, per quart... Ill 3d Cabbage, per package 1 60 ' 3 75 Per ton, Carrots, per package Cuoumbers, per package... 2OO I 6 U> Celery, per crate Chcory, per barrel...!w IM Caulflower, per package... 8OO 3 25 Escarol. per basket. 8 to 4 60 Eggplants, per package Onons Eastern, yel lb. bag Eastern, red, 100-lb. bag Western, yel., 100-lb. bag.. 3OO I lo Western, red, 100-lb. bag Western, whte, 100-lb. bag GO Parsley, per package 2OO Parsnps, per barrel 00 2 SO Peas, per paclfag Peppers, per packag Radshes, per basket 261 7b Romalne, per crate Shallots, per quart < 2b Spnach, pr package Squash, per package Tomatoes, per package Turnps, per package Watercress, per 100 bunches. 3OO I 4 00 Hothouse Product* Mushroom*, whte, S-lb. bskt. 1 Brown* & creams, 3-lb. bskt 8B> Buttons, S-lb. bskt Spots and open*. 3-lb. bskt. Cucumbers, per dosen 2 Endve, per pound Radshes, per 100 bunches... 2 Rhubarb, per dosen bunches. 1 Tomatoes, per.basket 1 Potatoes New Potatoes 80 6o fsrbs Mane Green Htn» bulk. 180 Iba.. Spauldlng Rose, blk., 180 lbs 2 Carlots. cwt 1 Per 160-lb. aack 25 SUte. bulk, 180 1b* 2 Carload*, per cwt... l Par 160-lb. sack 2 10 Sweat Potatoes Jersey, fancy, par bskt S 26 Poor to good, per bskt OO Del. and ld., per bskt 1 00 Beans and Peas Beans, per 100 lb. Com. to far Harrow, dom... 9 Marrow, mp Pea. ch brn-pckw.. Pea. scrnd, prme Sed Kdney Whte kd., dom Whte kd.. Imp. 8 U > 860 Lma, Cal 14 SO >14 76 Peas, t per a#v«100 a,w as**** lbs. 3reen, Jap " Jreen, Holland Black It Eye, Cal &10 60 Splts, yel, dom. 5.. Splts, yel, Imp Choce b t 361t )!> 7 2b 16 0O. 000 < « > S* (I 6 0O b 7 5O0M BV Hay and Straw Prm* tmothy hay. No. 1, 31.30; No. 2. ll.30tbl.26; No. 1. $ clover, nomnal; rye straw c; oat straw, 70c Lve Stock. Cattle Steers, $ ; state bull*. $ : cows, $ Cyves-yeals. common to prme. 3LtM> ; culls and lttle calves, 3tt.o6».OU buttermlk* and grassen, fed calve*, f6.00o7.00. Sheep and Lamb* Sheep, : culls ; lambs. W.oo lvoo; culls I9.QO01O.UO. " Hofs^Ught " -*-- to " medum weght, lo!m: pgs. S8.76O 6U1.36; roughs, t». Spot Market* st a Glance Wheat. No. 2 red, c. I. f 2.34% Corn, No. 2 yellow 1.47%' Oats, No 1 whte 70 Rye. No. 2 western 7»v Lard, prme weat Uw Staorlne. cty oleo II Tallow, spec. louse u fe Ureaae. yellm us Lard prod. unt 17 w Dressed beef rb*. No 1 xt Dressed hoga. 14ua IJU Coffee, Ulo No 7* u\ Tea. Vormuaa, lb zl dugar, raw Cuba* MI u Sgur rellned tou Uutler, 92 score jg Uggs, lrau u Jheese, held, spec a«.ulun

3 ^--^s^rf^^f^cp-; m Borah: "We Pad It and We Pad It AT WASHINGTON. "Every and then lomebodjr dwells on the sentmental aspects of France'! assstance to us In the Revoluton and asserts that we stll owe France for loans then receved." Senator Borah sad n the senate the other day: "As a matter of fact, Sr. Presdent, the Unted States pad France every dollar of the debt Incurred at that tme a full settlement at a hgher rate of nterest than we are now proposng to ask." he sad. Here Senator Borah had for antagonst a recognzed specalst In the ntrcaces and the tradtons of Franco- Amercan fnance at the tme of the Involuton, especally In the matter of the loans whch Benjamn Frankln negotated wth the French fnancer, adventurer, and dramatst, Beaumarchals. That antagonst was Senator Wllam Cabell Brace of Maryland, author of the monumental twovolume "Benjamn. Frankln 'Self-Revealed." Mr. Brace sad: "The senator s aware, of coarse, that France made some very, large gfts to* the people of the Unted States, durng the war of tle Revoluton?" Borah repled, "I have not been able to lnd any record of them." Then they came to grps the specalst on Frankln and on Lafayette fencng wth the wdely read man who stll oatapedamsed the specalst Borah knew all the Intrcaces at tna Franklln-Beaamarchas dlckertngs how the French government refused to take any rsk n connecton wth then, how alleged gfts were no gfts at all, but loans, whch were ultmately pad In full; how Lafayette, comng to help us, had to leave France In se-. crecy In order to escape beng overhauled by a government that dd not want us to be helped. He quoted Frankln and Beaumarchals, and Alexander Hamlton and Woodrow Wlson, and, havng drven Brace of Maryland nearly frantc wth hs ctatons, he wound up by contemptuously brushng all the ctatons asde and sayng: "Mr. Presdent those thngs are only Interestng at thla tme to/stay possbly the contnued crtcsm that the Unted States Is ungrateful and Is assumng the atttude of an Ingrate In not forgvng tlls debt because of the servces of France In the Amercan Revoluton. France Joned wth Amerca n that contest, but she Joned wth Amerca because It was to her Interest to do so. France loaned Amerca money because It was to her Interest to do so. She loaned,the money. We pad t, and we pad It all.". And What a Ructon E. T. Cahll Started WHILE natons, states and ctes wage the greatest legal, legslatve and verbal battle of the present day. Involvng future navgablty of the Great Lakes, the man, aged and worn, who started the whole fght between-chcago and northern Unted Stntes and Cunuda, remans obscure, unmertoned and unrewarded. Ills part In tlls affar, whch has nrome<l more lent than any controversy In years nnd whch puts at stake hundreds of mllons of dollars, may soon receve ofllclul recognton us well as some measure of reward fntnr the Wsconsn legslature. And once Wsconsn starts, Canada, the dozen states and tle eghty large, ctes nvolved may chme n. Hut snce hs work started the brttle. Kdwanl T. Cullll, now of Washngton, D. C., has never tn much as receved publc menton. He had spent all of hs earnngs as a Chcago attorney, and almost all of Ills tme for years, to brng about tle recent.verdct of the Unted States Supreme <M>urt that ChlcaKp was llegnllly dry- -Jng up the Great Lakes. Ever snce 1008 efforts have been made to restran Chcago from turnng huge quanttes of water from the Great Lakes Into the Desplalnes rver In order to. dspose of her sewage. Cahll was of counsel representng the attorney general of Wsconsn n the acton started at that tme. He had made the study of navgable waterways and the laws governng them bs lfe work. Tle case dragged for years n the courts untl fnally just before he retred from the bench; Judge Landls decded that the dverson of water above the War department allotment was llegal. Then In 1021the Supreme couvt held the Desplalnes. a navgable rver subject to the ordnance of Mr. Cahll went to Attorney General Wllam J. Morgan of Wsconsn. Mr; Morgan became Interested at once and started the proceedngs that have resulted In a Supreme court decson.holdng Chcago to be dvertng lake water Illegally. states from Wsconsn to New York along the northern part of the Unted States and every large Great Lake cty Joned n the fray. To Restore the Robert E. Lee Manson AT TUB request of Representatve Cram ton of Mchgan, the house adopted a resoluton authorzng the restoraton of the former home of General Robert E. Lee In Arlngton cemetery, across the. Potomac rver from Washngton In Vrgna. The resoluton authorzes the secretary of war to restore the manson as nearly as possble to the. condton n whch t was pror to the Cvl war, and to procure. If possble, artcles of furnture and equpment whch were ler n the manson. Replcas are to be obtaned where the orgnal peces are not avalable. The resoluton states that "now honor Is accorded Robert E. Lee as one of the great mltary leuders of hstory, whose exulted character, noble lfe and emnent servces are recognzed and esteemed, and whose manly attrbutes of precept nnd example were compellng factors In cementng the Amercan people n bonds of patrotc devoton nnd acton aganst common external enemes n the war wth Span and In the World war, thus consummatng the hope of a renlfed country that would agan swell the chorus of the Unon." "I a*n myself the son of a Unon solder who. came from Mchgan and who served four years under Coster and Sherdan," sad Mr. Cramton. "It happened that Ills servce was manly In tlls pnrt of the country. General Lee wns the outstandng mltary fgure of the Confederacy, and I have felt that there was a proprety In the son of a Unon solder offerng ths trbute to the mltary leader of the Confederacy and to Robert E. Lee as an ndvdual. "Such acton would he a tangble recognton by the country, North. nnd South, that the btterness of otler days Is entrely gone; that we can recognze the worth of an Amercan, wherever he wns born or In whatever array he may have served. I beleve that It Is unprecedented In hstory for a naton to huve gone through as great a struggle as we dd In the Cvl war and so htter a struggle as that was, and In the lfetme of men then lvng to.see the country so absolutely reunted as Is our country at ths moment. "In tle Spansh-Amercan war and n the World war the world was gven tangble evdence, conclusve proof, of the actualty of the runlon, and I feel that there was no man n the South who dd more by hs precept and example to help brng about that condton than dd Robert E. Lee." Polcewomen Would Establsh Reforms WITH an ambtous program for the educaton of the publc regnrllng the work of the polcewomen and for curbng delnquency among grls the Internatonal Assocaton of Polcewomen, of whch Leut. Mlna C. Van Wnkle, drector of the local womnn'8 bureau. Is presdent, has announced the establshment n Washngton of Its headquarters. ' The assocaton, founded In a small way n 1015, wll seek to amelorate crme condtons among women, wth a vew to mnmzng the necessty for arrestng women and In the' hope of keepng nt a low level the number of women prsoners In the Jals of tbls unl other countres. Dr. Mary B. Hurrlu. formerly superntendent of the New Jersey State Home for Grls, has been made feld secretary In rharxe of the headquarters of the assocaton. ' ' The assocaton already has succeeded n establshng standards and requrements for woman polce. In Its new "headquarters If wll, conduct an Informaton am research servce, and /whi-crculate the'fndngs hy. means of :;; pamphlets. ardl'sn^akem.furnlshed ;to ' plnln nnfavl»".hortleau" 1 '" : -.A"y.sv f..-*-' Crme-preventon work wll be portrayed as a tolful feld for wunen In polce work. Investgatons wll' be made of the cause for delnquency among women and chldren and Its relaton to the prevalence of socal dseases, and efforts wll be made to show how potental offenders may be gven the knd of ad that wll prevent crme and make arrest unnecessary. It s stated. The assocaton also wll seek to have tle general standards In polce departments elevated, wll work' for unform polce records and wll press for the exchange of records for purposes of comparson. Doctor Harrs has-been wth the New Jersey State Home for Grls for more than fve years. She was connected wth the Unted States Interdepartmental- Socal Hygene board durng the war and formerly was superntendent of the New Jersey Reformatory for Women and of the women's workhouse at Blackwella sland, N. T. She s a graduate of the.unversty, of Chcago. -. As.evdencng the Interest beng shown In the work of the. assocaton by educatonal {nsttuton*;'~doctor ' Harrs*,ponted out; that courses In, nclal 5 "servce fwbrk" : ;arelbelg\'con-_ ductel n a 5 number of schools; and colleges. Includng George Washngton unversty here. - Explorer, Professor, Avator, Senator It's a far guess that Senator Hram Blngham of. Connectcut la the only explorer n congress. Also he has another dstncton: He was sworn In as governor of hs state In January and resgned the next day to take hs seat In the senate, havng been apponted to the place left vacant by the death of Senator F. & Brandegee. Senator Blngham was born In Honolulu In 1875 and has A. B., A. M. and Ph. D. degrees from Yale. Up to date he has been an educator when he wasn't explorng and an explorer when be wasn't n hs college class rooms. He began to teach n 1005, becomng a preceptor In hstory and poltes at Prnceton, snce 1015 he has been professor of Latn.,Amercan hstory at Tale. " ', Between tmes he has explored pretty much all of the wld places In northern South Amerca and has drected varous scentfc expedtons, sent out by Yale nnd the Natonal Geographc socety. He has dabbled In natonal poltcs snce The entrance of Amerca nto the World war found hm a captan In the Natonal Guard of Connectcut. He learned toflyand was placed In charge of all the Unted States schools of mltary aeronautcs. fle next became chef of the ar personnel, A. E. F. He was commandng offcer of the alled avaton Instructon center at lasoudon, August to December, So, whle there be other explorers In- congress, Senator Blngham Is undoubtedly the only combnaton explorer, avator and college professor. R. S. Baker to Be Wlson's Bographer Srs. Woodrow Wlson has announced that the long-awated authorzed bography and complaton of papers of the war presdent wll be done by Ray Stunnnrd Baker of Amlerxt, Mass. Mrs. Wlson Is satsfed thut Mr. Wlson would have chosen Mr. Baker, as she found an'unsent letter, practcally promsng hm access to tll the papers, wrtten only ten days before Mr. Wlson's death. There are stated tn be letters n the prvate correspondence and almost nnumerable documents and memoranda. Mrs. Wlson promses Mr. Baker a free hand and appeals to the publc for any matter that may prove useful. The work wll be begun.at once,, but It t evdent that It wll requre several years. Mr. Baker was born In 1870 In Mchgan.and s a Unversty of Mchgan man. He put In fve years of newspaper work In Chcago, and thereafter was a magazne edtor. In he was a specal commssoner of Canada, all of the the State department-in Great Brtan, France and Italy. He was In charge In 1910 of the press bureau of the Amercan Commsson to Negotate Peace at Pars. He s the author of several works/ncludng "What Wlson Dd at Pars" (1010); It wll doubtless surprse many to learn that as "Davd Grayson" Mr. Baker won an envable reputaton as a wrter n an entrely dfferent lne. Hs "Adventures n Contentment" (1007), "The Frendly Rood" (1013) and other works In a smlar ven are delghtful. Mrs. Wllam M. Butler of Massachusetts Here Is a brand new portrat of Mrs.. Wllam M. Butler, wfe of the senator from Massachusetts.' Senator Butler succeeded, to the seat so long - occuped by the late Henry Cabot Lodge from 1803 to hs death. The frst wfe of Senator Butler was Mnne F. Norton of Edgartown, Mass. The marrage took place In 1880 and Mrs. Butler ded n The present Mrs. Kutler was Mary Lnthrop Webster of Boston and the marrage took place Jununry The Butler home. In Boston s at 231 Commonwealth avenue. The Coolldges and Butlers are close frends, the senator havng been an. Influental backer of the Presdent for a. number of years.. Mr. Butler was born n New Bedford n 1801 nnd got hs educaton at Boston unversty. He practced lnw at New Bedford and went to Boston n Later he turned hs attenton to publc utltes and. cotton mlls. He served In the Massachusetts house.n and Then he went to the state senate, 185)2-5, servng as presdent the last two years. He was made: a member of the Republcan natonal commttee and was manager of the Coolldge campagn of Wdow Gves Croker Memoral Museum Mrs. Bula Croker,- wdow of the noted Tammany leader, has announced the gft of a $!>0O,O0O memoral museum to the cty of New York. The museum wll Include a mausoleum wthn whch the body of Rchard Croker wll be placed. The museum wll contan-many of the books, pantngs and tapestres collected by Croker. These wll be removed from the Croker home In Ireland, where Croker lved from 1007 to He ded Aprl Mrs. Croker was Bula Benton Edmonston, a Cherokee Indan "prncess'* of Oklahoma. After Croker's death hs sans hy hs frst marrage tred' to break hs wll, whereupon there was much lltlnatum In the Amercan courts. Croker was born In Ireland In 1841 and was brought here as a chld le learned Ae machnst's trade. He entered poltcs In 18O.*, sen-ing New, York,cty as alderman, coroner, fre commssoner and cty chamberlan. He was' opposed to the Tweed rng and was recognsed head»f Tammany Hall for 17 years. Croker got hs educaton. In the publc schools of New York, but he was a shrewd poltcan and a man. of domnatng personalty, as*is'shown by hs ons leadershp of Tammany;' ' After Croker's retrement and-hs establshment of a home In Ireland, he acheved Internatonal fame bj wnnng the Englsh derby of WOT wth' Orby. borne of hs own breedng. Agnes Vale Pershes on Longs Peak ENVER. Longs Peak, "Kng of the Rockes." whch towers up feet In Rocky Mountan Natonal park, has clamed two lves. In summer Lungs Peak Is genal and extends a welcome to the tourst clmbers, nearly a thousand men and women ganng ts summt each year. But n wnter Its upper slopes are Arctc regons and the ascent s seldom attempted even by experenced and durng mountaneers. Mss Agnes Vule, secretary of the Denver chamber of commerce, ded from exposure on the north sde of the Peak, Just above Boulder Feld. Herbert Sortlund, member of a rescue party, was lost In a storm above Tlmberlne House. Searchng partes faled to nnd hs body. Walter Klener of Denver, a Swss who had dune much mountan clmbng, was the companon of Mss Vale. He escaped wth badly frozen members whch sent hm to a hosptal for surgcal operaton. Mss Vule, a leadng member»f the Colorado Mountan club and locally famous us a mountaneer, accomplshed the hazardous ascent of the precptous Bast Face, arrvng on the summt In the mddle of the nght. A wnd storm bad arsen and the mercury had dropped to 14 degrees below. Attempt- Ing to make a short cut down the north sde. Mss Vale had a long fall In the snow and thereafter became exhausted. Klener went on ahead to Tlmberllne House (11,500 feet). There he found a rescue party whch had been searchng for them. He led the forlorn hope back, but Mss Vale was found dead. It was «n tlls Journey that Portland became.lost. The searchng partes reported that no lunun beng could lve for 24 hours In the sub-zero weather and the strong wnd. It wll be sprng If ever before Sortland's body s found. ' The party that recovered Mss Volte's body hud a dffcult and dangerous Job. They found the place wthout dffculty, but the descent to Tahosu Valley wtas a strenuous- tank. The body was then taken to Denver by car. Mss Vule was the daughter of F. O. Vale, retred Denver mllonare, who was In Honolulu oo a vacaton trp. She wus a graduate of Smth college, Northampton, Mass., and for two summers attended sessons, of the natonal school for commercal and trade executves at Northwestern unversty, Chcago. The East Face of Longs Peak Is largely sheer for 2,300 feet, and has only been clmbed a few tmes. It Is an all-day job n summer weather. Mss Vule made tle frst wnter ascent Ask State Park System for Illnos SPRINGFIELD, ILL. A movement to endow Illnos wth state parks whch wll preserve for future generatons the natve landscape and wld lfe "whch now s dsappearng before the ruthless march of commercal progress" Is well under way, accordng to Jens Jensen, presdent of the Frends of Our Natve Landscape. A bll Incorporatng tle deas of those actvely Interested n the establshment of state parks las been prepared and wll be Introduced n the present sesson, Jensen sad. Hs organzaton, he added; s "Interested n conservng whatever Is left of wld beauty In Illnos or anywhere else In Amerca.", A park and forest polcy devsed by Jensen and bs assocates has been sent to every member of the house and senute and reples have been receved ndcatng that many of the lawmakers expect to support the dea. In addton to the state organzaton, the park movement wll have the support of numerous groups of ndvduals In all parts of the state, Jensen sad. He lsted Warren, Savanna, Rockford, Freeport, DIxon, Rock Island, Molne and Havana as ctes n whch the state park Idea has attracted especally large followng*. Locntlons of the parks whch the state wll be urged to provde are to be restrcted/jensen declared, "to such areas as are of scenc beauty and come wthn our dea of purks; In other words, lands unft for agrculture that have been spared from the ax and quarry.", "We huve n Illnos a law that gves countes the rght to vote themselves Into a forest preserve dstrct. Under the law the dstrct Is enttled to one mll of the general taxaton for the purchase of land and the mantenance of same. Ths law wll take,.care of the small tracts. ' "So far Cook, Dupage and Wlnnebago countes have taken advantage of ths law. Every county n the state ought to take advantage of t and secure the smaller tracts n tle county for the beneft of the people and leave the state to take care of the larger areas from acres up. Poltcans may try to forget the forest preserve luw and have the state carry the burden of county parks or forest preserves. It Is, therefore, Important to have state parks of more than 1,000 acres. That elmnates the smaller tracts. "In some sectons we ought to have 10,000,15,000 or 20,000 acres as a state park. The larger the tract the easer t wll be to mantan the wld sprt o ft. Besdes, the wld lfe wll be better protected." Alton Would Honor Lews and Clark ALTON. ILL. Ctzens of Alton and vcnty plan to urge members of the general assembly to establsh at the mouth of Wood rver a memoral park In honor of tle Lews and Clark expedton, whch begun Its memorable Journey of exploraton from that spot In Tle stute hstorcal socety and other organzatons are expected to support the movement. A bll wll be ntroduced In the as. serably by Senutor H. G. Glbberson of ths cty to approprate funds for the purchase and mantenance of a sutable park ste. Governor Small wll be asked to gve t hs ndorsement and several commttees from ths and nearby ctes are expected to go to Sprngfeld and urge tle passage of the bll when It cones up for consderaton. Hstorans and others Interested In the movement pont to the Lews and Clark expedton as one of the most notable events n the hstory of the West. The explorng party, whch traversed practcally the entre length of the Mssour rver and reached a pont at tle moutl of the Columba, marked tle fonnal possesson by the Unted States of the vast and practcally unexplored tract of land whch had been bought from France n 1801 under the ttle of the Lousana Purchase. It h now dvded nto ffteen of the rchest and most prosperous stutes In the Unon. Followng the purchase of the terrtory. Presdent Jefferson decded to send an expedton to explore the country In an effort to fnd out Just what the noton had obtaned for ts expendture of $15,000,000. Capt. Merlwether Lews and Leut. Wllam Clark, younger brother of George Rogers Clark, were apponted to command the expedton and n the fall of 1803 ar-. rved at the mouth of Wood rver, where they went nto wnter quarters. The followng sprng the Spansh flag, was hauled down at St. Lous and the French flag run up In ts stead. The trcolor was then lowered and the Stars and Strpes run up to stay. Thereupon the expedton started. It wntered near what s now Bsmarck and reached the Pacfc In Tle next sprng t started on the return trp and reached St. Lous n December. Its members were haled as men returnng from the dead. Just Lke Havng a Bear by the Tal NEW YORK. Emmett Keogb, superntendent of an apartment house at 38 West Ffty-nnth street, found hmself unexpectedly In possesson of a $50,000 pearl necklace for the frst tme In hs lfe. Before the evenng waa over he suffered much the same harrowng senatons as the Impulsve gentleman who sezed a bear by the tall. The necklace belongs to the Mar-, qulse d'orgex. Wth the marqus and ther son and daughter she haa been lvng for three months In the West Ffty-nnth street buldng. The entme famly met wth Mr. Keogh's hearty approval, and he never thought the marquse would play bun the trck* of wshng upon hm a necklace of 132 matched pearls fastened wth an emerald clasp.. But le got a rado message from the marquse on the French lner that shehad left t-under the mattress. - Not wshng to become the laughng stock of the neghborhood,.the canny Mr. Keogb Invted Katherne Callahan. the telephone operator,; to accompany' hm as alwrness In! hs search.. Mss C«Halnn nl>iigjwl:«n<rwthe unbounded sfnlslunent of the skeptcal Mr. Keugl there lay the necklace. Mr. Keogh slpped It Into what he regards as bs safest pocket that reserved for flasks. He was about to seat hmself and sgh hs relef, but suddenly changed hs mnd. Then Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Nlfford arrved. They were on terms of n-' tlmacy wth the "marquse," Mr. Nlfford dsplayed a message smlar to that Keogh bad receved and sad be was ready to take charge of the neck-' lace. Mr. Keogh was poltely evasve. He ddn't doubt Mr. NUYord's honesty, of course, but Mr. Nlfford noted the perspraton startng upon tle brow of the harassed Mr. Keogh and releved hm vastly by sayng be qute understood and probably the best thng to do Jwould be to notfy the polce. They dd so, and Detectves Brady and Cammeyer were sent from - the West Forty-seventh street polce staton.'. ;_.. Fnally.the- entre. party, Mr.' Keogh stll guardng.the.necklace,- rode to the polce'staton n Mr Nlfford's car. Lleuteunt Mc^wan>Mlenuuy.5dentl-- fled the deteavea, andfmr. Keof^;Mnelllng * hls^lbu-bent^nxletrc wth" a sgh lke a pbpolm's, tum-d over the necklace.

4 able to shoot "coons" after November 1, as tbe anmals begn to Mbe* FBSHFS GARAGE Sngle C«*y ftc nate that tme. Each facton decded that' the sport or Offupatlon NORTH WOODMJRY, CONN.. Publsher of tbe other could be dspensed wth. _.,-Many_farmors. aypeare4. at. the. atabuahed 1*04 a Year a Cart ItaeheT" Q. 8. Freeman - If ember Conn. Edtoral Aasoc Member Natonal Edtoral Aasoc Entered aa second-class matter at tbe Post Offce at Watertown, Conn., under tbe act of March FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1925 In ths day of lawlessness among tbe youth of our.land t U worthy of note that, n the case of mure than 4,000 boys who came before Supreme Court Justce Fawcett of Brooklyn, only three were members of a Sunday school at the tme of the commsson of ther crmes. The JudKe urged that parents should Rve a mom vgorous actvty n relgous educaton, and added: "Any person not euntrlbutur to the support of some church or organzed relgous. work s lvlug on charty, rdng, on some other man's transportaton. If le really ^desres uhatement of crme he 'should ally hmself wth those agences whch prevent or abate crme." GOOD REVENUE PRODUCER It s reported that hereafter Australan ctzens wll be fned $10.00 for falure to vote. Such a law n the Untnl States would produce a ' revenue of mllons amunlly lor, the Unted States treasury and <loj away wth some of the fool taxaton j we are subject to. GIRLS' SOCIETY APPOINT PORTER" "RE- Over at Oukvlle the. Grls' Pro-1 gresslve socety at a meetlr held last Thursday evenng, added ;a new ofllcer to ther lst, who wll be known as "Reporter." That s a step n the rght drecton, and the acton of the socety s commendable. Every organzaton that holds meetngs and does thngs that are worthy of publcty should follow the lead of ths grls' organzaton. The rght way to get a correct report n the local paper of a meetng of any socety or club or lodge s for some one who was present to wrte t, preferably the secretary, or one specally apponted to that duty. AMERICAN LEGION CARD PARTY Preparatons are beng made for a socal to be held n Communty Hall, Saturday evenng by the Amercan Legon. Brdge, "500," whst, penochle and checkers wll be played and attractve przes wll be awarded to those havng hgh scores.. Refreshments wll be served Ȧrrangements' are n charge of a commttee, of whch. Lester Atwood s Charman. Those who wsh to make up tables n advance are requested to notfy Mr. Atwood. The proceeds of tl* socal are to meet Items of expense whch must be met each year by the Legon and It s hoped that all wll gve ther loyal and generous support by attendng. ATTEND BANQUET Tmothy Ahearn, manager and R. H. Hard and Charles Marcoux, employers of the local branch- of the Fulton Markets, were n attendance at the Annversary Banquet gven n the Hotel Elton on Tuesday evenng by the.owners of the Fulton Markets to all the employees of ther stores. The Fulton Markets are owned by the Greenblott Brothers, Martn, Charles and Lous and at the present tme they are operatng 21 stores In Waterbury and surroundng towns. Startng out wth one small store, 16 years ago, and dong a small busness, they have had a remarkable growth, and at the present tme they are dong over a mllon dollars worth of busness a year. Several years ago they j opened up a branch store here n' Watertown. wth Mr. Ahearn as manager and wthn a short space of tme he had establshed a bg busness for hs employers. Watertown people are very much pleased wth the Fulton Market n Watertown and also wth the splendd servce that s offered by ther employees. A frm that extends courteous treatment and up to date servce to ts patrons s bound to succeed and that s what the growth of the busness of the Fulton Markets durng ths space of tme s attrbuted to. HUNTING SEASON SUBJECT OF DEBATE ' There- was a lvely. dscusson Thursday before the legslatve commttee on fsh and game over the queston of shortenng the huntng srpson' on raccoons.- Several trappers.were of the opnon that No- \t>mber l.was the proper date for openng the season for both hunters, am trappers,' assertng'.that'-'pelts wore of' practcally no value,-untl that' tme'vof \th"e7year.> The [hunters vgorously,;! protested'f changng";: thef openng}of the huntng -season 1 ;from October 7, sayng t s almost mpos- bearng n favor of "** nwmjt whch would elmnate the word shotgun from the law whch permts a land owner to kll deer damagng hs crops or orchards. It was stated that the amendment was humane as many deer were now "peppered wth small shot," and not fatally wounded, as would be tbe case were a rfle used. A bll to allow the hnd owner the carcass of deer klled destroyng crops was also favored by many formers. Hartford Courant, February 7. Con?. P. B. O'SulIlvan of the ffth Connectcut dstrct has desgnated T (. Eldrdge Keeler'of Bantam as a canddate for admsson to West Pont Mltary academy. The frst alternate s Lews W. Rollnson of Naugatuck and the second alternate Is Harold P. Han- Ion of Waterbury. AG-RICULTURAL LIME-STONE (AGSTONE) Use "Phoenx" brand for your needs. Ground to produce' most lastng results. Our Guarantee on every package. Packed n best qualty paper bags. Delveres prompt by ral and truck. Wrte \s (or your dealer) for prces. Don't wat for the "Season." Get t onto your premses early and nsure havng t for your convenence. Connectcut Agstone Co. Inc. 1 (Formerly The Stearns Lme Go.) DANBURY, CONN. Phone 2903 Box 103 DOLLAR DAY TUESDAY, February, 17 MERCHANTS' BUREAU WATERBURY CHAMBER OP COMMERCE Followngr Merchants Who Are Co-operatng Albert Furnture Co. Alng Rubber Co. Apothecares Hall Co. Barlow Bros. Co. Bedford Slk -House Bers Mllnery Co. Boston Furnture Co. Boston Slk Store Brodrb & Blar Mss Carley's Shop Clyne Glass & Mfg. Co. Colby-SHerwor-d Shoe Co. Conn. Lght & Power Co. Curran Dry Goods Co. Curts Art Co. A. Dallas. Inc. ' Davs & Nye, Inc. Famous Fan Store Fava's Shop for Women Ftz'maurce Shoe Co. Freedman & Bresser W. T. Grant Co. Greco's Shoe Store Greve Bsset & Holland Hadley Furnture Co. Lous A. Freedman EVERYONE SHOULD Hamlton Hardware Qo. Hampson-Mnte-Abbott Howland Hughes Co. Jackles Shoe Store J. Johnson & Sons Jones-Morgan Co. Katz's Mllnery Shop Lncoln Fashon Shop Man Slk Store Metropoltan Furnture Co. Mller & Peck Co. Munson & Sebert, Inc. Musler & Lebesknd.New England Musc Co. Ohrbach's Shop for Women Purtan Pastry Shop Reglno Shoe Store Scollay & Taylor Schneer*s Jewelry Store W. Easton Smth Sugenhemer Bros. C. A. Templeton, Inc. Upson-Sngleton Co. F. W. Woolworth Co. Walk-Over Shoe Store Zglatzk-Marks Co. MAKE A WILL Even f your property s very small you should make a wll. The tme to do t s when you are healthy and when your mnd s n the best possble condton. ' We shall be glad to have you consult us about ths mportant duty at any tme and wthout oblgaton. THE WATERTOWN TRUST GO. Member Amercan Bankers' Assocaton. 9ttsxx%xas3sxaw%xas%asxxx)tt^^ Packard, «tm1ftfrafrrr BEPAntnro A SPECIALTY Chevrolet Part Depot Estmate* gven before the Job la dona IBANK R1BBIE, Propretor. Every Torrngton Cleaner Durng February J. P. BANKS ELECTRIC CO. 39 Abbott Ave The NEW Fnsh For Automobles DUCO The hardest, toughest, longest wearng fnsh ever put on a car. Ressts heat, cold, road ol, acds, etc Is now beng used by most of the automoble manufacturers. > We are now equpped to properly apply ths new fnsh to your car n all the popular colors. The Automoble Pant Shopr Travers & Lndstedt, Props. WEST STREET ^^^ Mtu NEW MILFORD, CONN. Phone COMBINED ANNUAL STATEMENT Lfe Insurance Company and Afflated Companes tna Casualty & Surety Gompany Automoble Insurance Go. Standard Fre Insurance Go. OP HARTPOHD, CONNECTICUT MORGAN B. BRAINARD, Presdent Total Assets Total Surplus to Polcyholders - Total Income n 1924 r - Pad Polcyholders snce Organzaton Mu 75TH ANNUAL STATEMENT Lfe Insurance Company 1 Captal Stock $1,000,000 $291,575,895 $44,415,342 $131,398,986 $627,000,264 Lfe, Accdent and Health, Lablty and "Workmen's Compensaton Insurance Lfe, Accdent and Health Group Insurance Assets..... $246,556, Labltes.... $214,556, Surplus to Polcyholders - $31,000,130.68, Increase In Premum Income.'..$ 8, Increase In Assets $ 20,909,323 Increase n Surplus to Polcyholders.. 3,216,242 Increase In Lfe Inaurance In Force ,308,718 Lfe Insurance Pad for In ,577,688 Payments to Polcyholders durng ,086,201 Payments for Taxes n ,018,810 Pad Polcyholders snce Organzaton.. 534,003,433 18th Annual Statement ;32tna Casualty & Surety Co. Captal Stock $2,000,000 Assets».$21,440, Labltes '. 14,278,645:62 8urplus to Polcyholders 7,161, Increase n Premum Income...$1,705,64249 Increase n AsseU...' 2,440, Increase n 8urplus to Polcyholders 846, Lfe Insurance In Force $1,967,897,468. stta Annual Statement Standard Fre Insurance Co. Captal Stock 910,000,000 ; * 12th Annual Statement Automoble Insurance Co. Captal Stock 12,000,000 AsseU..$21,857, Labltes 17,318, urplus to Pollcyholdera 4,538, Increase n Premum Income...$11,102^95.11 Increase In" Assets 5,351, Increase n Surplus to Polcyholders 11, Asseta...; # $2,721, Increase In Premum Income. $ 67, Labltes. 1,006, Increase In Asseta. 1,131, urplusto Polcyholders... 1,715, Increase In 8urplus to Pollcyholdera 1,027,9a24 Automoble, Fre, Marne, and General Casualty Insurance Fdelty and 8urety Bonds. 'c.

5 »%l ~ ~ - NEWS ttmbsjlte and Wallace FUMO ap to the BtORCQOOO MCTUM* ng the advance oc. drtttsatkn. Be n Uter rota. Tfce Play, IHday evenng tte tttfc: baa ever bees a lberal publc sprted dusem Bs party} <***/ the splendd cast In a pleasng mx-op, about a health resort, wth Uajd "The Arrval Dek," nvolved» Made fwtare,- a very fanny c Republcan and under that tcket whch was releved by the arrval Hamlton. Ben Alexander wptesebtaure to- the Ck sembly n Hartford In In those Bva L GcodselL who waa taken serl- Mss Lllan Jackson entertaned a played by Henry Partrdge and Cedl Spat Famly comedy. Frday. February 20 at 7:30 wll be shown the r mld Ifto yottv nohm aj (BOW days the trp to the captal cty onsly HI recently. goodly number of the Msson at her Wentsbe; Esther Stone was a 'meant gettng up.before daylght, pretty Mare, Else'Wlson a flashng Alce. Ruth Stles a resolute one s enttled "Secrets." an out- the last of the specal pctures. Ths From "Syracuse Dally Orange": home, the Stles house, recently. of drvng a horse to Watertown (n -The Orange's 6 ponts were secured Herbert Archer and Mss Anna a specal rg. as the stage dd not Mrs. Lambert who bosses her hus-standnband through amazngly embarrasma, Talhnadge. Also a Lyman romantc drama wth Nor- far when Warner secured a 25 second Schlefer were week-enr guests at the, leave early enough) and then by a nolle*," tad Jon par an tme advantage over Lllenfleld of Stles house. ten. /Thnk ofthe Buwy tran to Waterbury and by a change sng stuatons. Davd Roulston Howe's Hodge Podge Cartoon, and enjoyment sent to your boa* Pennsylvana In a fast and* closely He Bev..Clnton W. Wlson was on to Hartford. Return could not about rght cent* a month. Halt proved a lovng husband and the "Hgh Power." a splendd Mermad rrabaerbtonand dollar sow I* contested wrestlng match." Warner t *& speaker at the unon servce held be made untl the sessons "Were Anna of Jeannetta certanly walked comedy. Next Sunday evenng, s one of our Woodbury boys of the m toe Frst Congregatonal church over for the week so that t was Off wth the berres. The next producton of the Southbury Dramatc church, the topc wll be "Great February 15, n the Federated class of '23. Sunday evenng, hs topc beng "The lke a week-end party to come home. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," Call of the Naton," featurng Lncoln Sunday. supporter and frm belever n the play. The plays under consdera- News reel and a splendd pcture A staunch churchman, an ardent Club wll fnd two casts n one long Men of Southbury," followed by a whch 1B to be shown at the Town Hall next Saturday evenng Is one Epscopal church. He was the old- communcant of St. Paul's sde the Lnes," "Successful Calam- "Story of Gasolne." ton are: "Thrteenth Char," "In- not announced. Also one enttled Patronze the of the greatest pctures ever flmed. NEW 8WITCHBOARD AND FEW-est It cost $1,500,000 to produce. It has ER POLE8 _ church, Woodbury, havng been confrmed by the late Bshop WlUamH, and "Nothng nut the Truth." One Church of the Epphany Oakvlle Conn. ty," "Good Gracous Annabelle," RAT GARNSEY OARAGE one of the most brllant casts ever gathered under one banner. Lon At a meetng of the drectors of October 31, Berore the nfrmtes of age came on he was ton of the club. servce and preach at 3 P. M. or these wll be the sprng produc- Rev. ]. K. Todd wll conduct a Chaney, the fnest Interpreter of unusual characters on ether stage or last week t was decded to order always a regular attendant at the es. Open 7 Days a Week. the Woodbury Telephone Company Supples, Servce Car, Accessor- screen. Impersonates the Hunchback. a new swtchboard of a modern type, servces and when occason requred he conducted the servces.. He TERTAINMENT VALENTINE 8UPPER AND EN- > Day Phone 254 Patsy Ruth Mller has the part of and also to rebuld the lne'through Esmeralda asssted by sxteen others Man street Ths wll be a decded was superntendent of St. Paul's Nght Phone 2C7 In Important roles, and there are ov-mprovementer three thousand n the army that ry the lnes for lghts, trolley and as the new poles car- Sunday School for over 40 years, Man Street Garage A Valentne supper at popular and a tenor snger n the chor for I storms the Catherdal. Ths flm costs telephone and' permt the removal p ' rlco» ncludng an entertanment Charles W. Atwood & Son 50 years, and he served for a long the management more than any heretofore shown In Woodbury and t s cumber the hghway and mar the of two lnes of poles whch now en- and noveltes, decoratons and Specperod of years as a Vestryman,! Jal features, wll be gven Monday STORAGE TOWING HARRYA.SKILTON'S evenng, February 16. Everyone REPAIRS ACCESSORIES to be hoped the patronage wll be beauty as well as safety of the Man GARAGE s asked to come n costume. The such as to encourage more pctures street. TIRES AND TUBES publcty manager says, "If you of ths order.. cannot come n costume, come wthout; wth or wthout wll be alrght; AUTOMOBILES Telephone 4.J4 FEBRUARY THAW PUTS An unusual volume of exteror 8TREAM8 FLOOD HIGH WATERTOWN, CONN, house-pantng was done by local only be sure to come." The hos- OVERHAULED AND REBUILT property owners last season, whch showed commendable enterprse. Ths season ths good work should t>e contnued even upon a stll larger scale. Front and back yards should also receve'more attenton, removng unsghtly objects/clearng away ltter and thus beautfyng all parts of one's premses. Work for Wood- Imry. - The Insurance company,, through the local agents, Mtchell & Capewell, has made satsfactory adjustment of losses Incdent to the late fre n the dwellng house of Mr. and Srs. Frank E. Knox, and Contractor Baldwn.and helpers are now engaged In makng repars. As soon as the prelmses are made ready the owners wll remove from the Allen Block and take possesson thereof. Attenton ts called to the ad of A. E. Knox n another column. Burton Tuttle, age 67, a farmer lvng on Carmel Hll, ded Tuesday roomng at hs home. Funeral s beng held ths afternono, wth bural n noxbury. Robert Tuttle of Woods a brother of the deceased. S. A. Klmble and C. G. Swanson were among the employees of the Connectcut Lght & Power Company to receve the 15 year servce button at the banquet held'at the Elton hotel Tuesday evenng. The basketball game Tuesday evenng between the grammar school and the Freshman team resulted n vctory for the grammar school. Tho score was Why not>haye a Dollar Day n Woodburyj(jrj}InR t over, Mr. Merchantman. Practcally everythng that Is needed n.the house wthn a ten-mle radus s obtanable n the stores of Woodbury. Workmen are busy pantng the cellng and panelng the walls of the Cannon barber shop n the Htchcock block. Hereafter t wll be n order to refer to "Jlmme" C.'s place as "Tonsortal and Pool Parlor." Mss Ruth Rolwell has accepted a poston as clerk at the Woodbury drug store; Lncoln Sunday was observed by the Sunday school of the Frst church wth approprate exercses. The Woodbury basketball team defeated the Ramblers of Waterbury Frday evenng by a score of 29 to 22. ~ The grls of the Senor class of the hgh school were entertaned on Saturday afternoon by Mr. and Mrs. Rchard Burnap at ther home on Man street Mss Frances Ftzpatrck of Watertown was a vstor Monday and Tuesday wth Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Freeman of North Man street. Mss Ftzpatrck s an accomplshed muscan and nstructor on the pano; a graduate of Oberlln college. The topc for the servce whch wll precede the showng of educatonal pctures n the Federated church at Southbury n announced fts) "The Great Men of Southbury" an unusual but approprate topc, whch should prove hghly nterest- Ing. A. E. Knox made a busness trp to Waterbury Tuesday. He reports the roads rutty and the atmosphere foggy; so that New York hasn't anythng on Waterbury, along these lnes anyway. A new fre hydrant has been placed near the Town Hall, to take the place of the one whch was broken some months ago. Mss Emma Baldwn s spendng some tme at the Stles house. The Rev. Mr. Curtss and wfe The warm weather of the past few days brought on near-flood conflltons n the lowlands about Woodbury. Yesterday mornng the Nonnewaug or Woodbury rver was over ts banks and autos gong north to Watertown plowed through water up to ther axles ths sde of the brdge at North Woodbury, and lawns and felds on the east sde of Man street were flooded.. The Pomperaug rver flowed over the road n West Sde, yesterday mornng, but there seemed to be no evdence that the huge depth of ce had gone out of the bed of the stream. The three days' fog. lfted yesterday noon and a lower temperature checked a thaw that had gven promse of a flood of unusual destructve power. BRADSHAW HA8 CLOSE CALL James Bradshaw of Naugatuck, a collector for the Prudental Insur-' ance Company, had a close call from beng struck by a trolley car over at Quassapaug Tuesday mornng. He had been to a house just off the hghway and was on hs way back. The front wheels of hs car reached the rdge of snow besde the rals when out of the fog suddenly appeared a trolley car. He hadn't tme to advance or reverse and the car Just scraped by the fender. The trolley came to a stop wth a suddenness that shook up the passengers but no were' dnner guests at the Stles house Monday evenng: Stles, and her death occurred In Mrs. Nette Brunda'ge, who hasseptember, 1893, at the age of 60, been spendng a week wth her leavng seven chldren. Henry, who frend, Mrs. Stles, has returned to resdes n Woodbury; Anna S., who Waterbury to be wth her daughter, cared for her father n hs last Mrs. Charles Beardsley, a few days, llness; Nelle (deceased); James Mrs. W. M. Stles wll attend the G., of Ansonla; Flora, wfe of L. W. md-year tea at the Waterbury Wo- Carrlngton, who resdes n Woodbury; George S. and Eva M. Curtss ' man's Club, as the guest of Mrs. Robert Denntson on Wednesday. both of whom ded young. Mrs. -Henry Traver has the next.untl physcal Infrmtes made Woman's, Club afternoon, February -' 16, at.the_communty house at three labor dffcult he.was a successful and 'progressve- farmer.'-, o'clock. All members Vhorhaye not ' as yet pafd ther dues sjerequested, : to make an\effort to;do- so at ths' whch offce he occuped at the tme of hs death. Mr. Curtss wan consdered an authorty on hstorcal Tacts both n the town and n hs church. It has been sad that he knew Cothren'B hstory of Woodbury from cover to cover so great was hs delght n hstory. Hs mnd was clear on all these ponts of queston and many a vst was made to hs home by persons n search of nformaton. Hs lfe was a farmer's lfe n the town and hs fancy was to breed one was hurt Mr. Bradshaw was JIHIIBIIIWIlrllMIWIIMIIWIlBllnlSlllMllHIIMIIIMIIlplMIHIIBIIIIUIlBlllHll completely unnerved, and had not' recovered fully by the tme he reached Woodbury. Had he been lookng n the other drecton he would have been upon the track and would not have realzed the approach of Howland - Hughes Waterbury's Largest Department Store the trolley untl It struck hm. COMMUNITY CHORU8 GETS UN- DER WAY The frst rehearsal of the Communty Chorus. took. place, Monday evenng n the North Church Chapel, under the drecton of Mrs. E. T, Bradley wth C J. Hotchklss at the 1 pano.' The personnel of the chorus s as follows: Sopranos, Mrs.-Kate Wnton, Mds Maude Wnton, Mrs. J. D. Kmball, Mss.Ruth Saxton, Mrs. X E. Todd, Mrs. C. J. Smth, Mss Frances Tomlnson, Mrs; Sarah Knox. Altos, Mrs. George B. Cowles, Mrs. S. W. Munsell, Mrs. Samuel J.. Coad, Mrs. George Harvey, Mrs. C. *H. Capewell, Mss Lotte Htchcock, Mrs. C. P. Henze. Tenors, Austn Isham, Fred Curtss, Kenworth Kmball, Robert Fray, C. P. Henze. Basses. Wllam -Mansfeld, Howard Cartwrlght, Mnor Cartwrlght, Henry Htchcock. JAMES G. CURTISS Dwlght Curtss, James Guernsey Curtss, followng a long perod of llness, ded Saturday afternoon,.february 7, at hs home on Pomperaug avenue, and the ftneral (prvate) was held on Monday afternoon from hs late resdence. Mr. Curtss was born n the house now remodelled and owned by Sherman A. Perry of Waterbury for a summer home on August 8,1835, the son of Davd H. and Anne (Guernsey) Curtss". Hs earlest known ancestor, Wllam Curtss, came from London In A lttle after hs brth the resdence across the way became the Curtss home and as such t remaned untl 20 years ago or so when he moved to a house, whch he bought on Pomperaug avenue, n whch house he ded. Mr. Curtss was unted In marrage on -May 17, 1860, to Mary J. SOUTHBURY ENTERTAINING ACTIVITIES DOWN IN SOUTHBURY Local Dramatc Club Presents Two Delghtful Plays Valentne Socal Monday Evenng. Comng. : Pctures Two plays presented- by the Southbury Dramatc Club n the Recreaton Room Wednesday evenng proved to be very delghtful. The frst play, "Double Crossed," >was receved amd gales of laughter, wth much prase beng accorded Carlton Tyler who was the sknflnt lawyer. Cathryn Stone was a splendd sweetheart, Dorothy' Murray an excellent butter-fly, Wesley Hubbell convncng as a much embarrassed wooer, Mare Hungwford tesses wll be Mss Else Wlson and Mss Ruth Stles. Two przes wll be awarded to the gentlemen and two to the ladles for the best Costume and the Funnest Costume. The evenng wll be topped off wth specal features. The sheds and all avalable parkng the Devon catt!u.\ He was not space was taken up by the gven to travel and was hardly but autos whch brought the people to of hs natve state only n the wn-seter the plays Wednesday nght. of when he vsted The bg lght outsde the buldng Calforna n company wth hs whch lghts up the grounds s apprecated daughter, Mrs. Anna Somers. by all the drvers. Mss Esther Coe has returned from Nantucket and s wth her mother who s convalescng from- a recent operaton. Edward Scovllle's house w.hlch was damaged by fre last Saturday s beng repared. Russell Hcock, a student at Yale, spent the Week-end wth hs parents here. MISB Else Wlson and Mss Ruth Stles assure you that you wll have a fne tme f you come to the Valentno supper and Valentne party Monday nght,' February 16, at the Federated Church. They say, "If Tel. G.K) Depot St. Watertown you can't come to the supper, come Telephone 343 afterward at 7.30 to Ye Olde Fashoned. Valentnes. Favors for everyone. Fnd your partner. Whether whbnhwnnmunnnnnwnnnnnbnnt you brng your grls'-or.not s O. K. Same for the ladles; but take nsurpessed astng T»s«e flur Mlee our advce and remember Old St. f U Valentne that's all." One Week Campagn For New Cantlever Customers (Featurng Worthwhle Savngs)! To add Many. New Names.to our lst of satsfed Cantlever S Shoe customers we wll for one week only February 9th = to 14th offer a substantal reducton on each par. ' I g Ths s prmarly an ntroductory, offer, but regular Gant- I *4ever users may also take advantage of the lower prces. = It Means So Much to Walk n Comfort Shoes play an mportant part In your personal comfort. The flexble arch of the, Cantlever shoe follows the moton of your foot n the acton of walkng, promotng healthful exercse and crculaton. The comfort whch your foot fnds n the Natural outlne of Cantlevers enables you to endure long perods of walkng or standng wth unusual ease. To be happy, turn to the ad of the flexble arch. WOMEN'S CANTILEVER OXFORDS Black kd or tan calf, regularly $9.50 Specal $8.65 WOMEN'S CANTILEVER OXFORDS In brown kd, regularly $10.00 Specal $8.65 WOMEN'S CANTILEVER PUMPS In black kd, regularly $10.50 Specal $9.65 WOMEN'S CANTILEVER HIGH SHOES In black kd, regularly $11.50 Specal $10.65 and 'progressve- farmer.'- > - ;" '- l;-/,'-"^!;^*",-;..-^f,,;-'^. c, ;, -?. -^.g**^ Curthw waa f a ypungfman,but Ho- HBlMlalMIMIWIWIMIWIWIMIWM s^lkslsss «; -1th.. I I f I 1 WE BUILD AND REMODEL HOMES, BUY, SELL AND RENT PROPERTY Watertown Realty Co. Tel. 178 E. A. BIERCE MOVING AND GENERAL TRUCKING When n heed of work n my lne, get my prce frst. 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6 TOM KITTEJC3 OM KITTEN had had a hard tme Tof It ew alnce le e«ad remembev If be m had a mother hmj renumber her, and he new had a home. Tom slept anywhere he happened to tad a place when he was tred namng away from bg dogs, to fact.mostot Ma lfe. It seemed to Tom, naa oeen spent In runnng from dog fnd dodgng stones and brooma. One day Tom found hmself In a place where there were no blgbj buldtags or nosy street cars. Tom Ktten tttd not thnk there could be so many trees In the world as be wrald see now. felt so happy be ran, and the tarder he ran the ncer thngs looked. Awakened by a Bg Dog Rght In Hla Face. lttle whte houses and more trees and flowers, and. best of all, Tom found garbage cans. Ths Is a pretty good country to lve In," thought Tom that nght when he crept behnd a barrel on the soft grass to sleep, but be waa rudely awakened h the mornng by a bg dog barkng rght In hs face. Tom waa dty bred.and quck at jumpng, and he waa on top of fence before the dog had recovered from bs surprse at a scratch Tom gave hm on the tp of hla nose, and pretty soon the dog tred of barkng at Ton*, ran away, and Tom went hunt- Ing for hs breakfast. "... : - He found plenty to eat, and that nght he slept under some steps, where le found an old bag, the ncest bed Tom ever had known, and In the mornng, when the sun shone In through the cracka nce and warm and awoke Cm, Tom Ktten for the frst tme n bs lfe dd not have to jump and run. Instead he stretched hmself and yawned, and If he were not so hunery Tom. thought he would lke to Ptay there the rest of hs nne-lves, for he was certan somethng dreadful must be awatng hm outsde. But when he crawled out from under the steps and looked around all was (stll, so he walked up the steps and rat n the warm sunshne to make hs _. There waa no way of gettng anytand he had tasted mlk only a flew tmes. That waa when, someone broke a bottle and ha waa able to gat a few laps before ha waa drven away. Whle be waa washng hla face someone opened the door, and nstead of a bang from a broom a pleasant voce sad, "Hello, puss, where dd you come from 7" Tom waa qnlte surprsed at the nce sound he made as he rubbed aganst the nce voced person. He bad never done much purrng, and he was pleased wth the sound. The ktchen door waa open, and as Tom looked In be saw a mouse, and forgettng brooms and stones he ran In and caught It. "Well, If ths puss can't catch mouse 1" exclamed the nce person. -You are, a real cat You don'rwal for your breakfast to be brought to you on a plate. Ton shall have a saucer of mlk." Tom crawled under the stove. He bad never seen one before, but somebow be knew just what to do, and whue he waa dosng he heard someone say. "Well keep that ktten. He knows how to catch mce." That nght behnd the stove Tom found a nce bed made for hm. "Tbla la what I call luck," sad Tom aa he curled up for a good nght's Sleep. Not all nght, of course, for Tom knew that mce run about mostly In the dark, and be wanted to show he was grateful for such a good home, so be slept wth one ear open, ready to catch the tnest sound. «D by MeClue N.W-FH-T Syadleste.) FANNY ANNY, whch was orgnally con- a dmnutve of Frances, Fsdered has become suffcently suffcey an Indvdual entty to be regarded dd aa m m*)* ) name entrely. Its orgn U n realty very complcated as t s one of a dozen dssmlar names that come from the Prey of Teutonc mythology. Freya was the goddess of love, but she lkewse drves over the battlefelds n her car drawn by cats and chooses bnlf the alaln whom she escorts to ther seata at the banquet of Valhalla. The modern Fanny Is apparently of t0 Tom eyed a bottle of mlk on the the days of Queen Anne, comng Into ummnmmm»»s Some* mww9***** m " mmwmm ~ A RAY OF SUNSHINE r ' MATTBBS not how lowly we may be. nor how dread lfe-tdes about our Uttle selves may ebb and flow, there Is always some one among our frends and acquantances upon whom we can shed a ray of sunshne. Some one Is lvng under darker skes than we. longng for encouragng words or cheerng smles; some one Is rtarvlng for affecton whch means to hm or her a lamp of hope; some one Is strvng to overcome runous habts, too weak to hold hs or her fral craft on a safe course. Bach one needs a ray of frendshp, the blessed boon whch If used _ar8jht would make the whole world brghter, knt manknd closer In soothe achng hearts, r - tears and hde from cold stares me beggar's outstretched hand. There Is somethng In sou: that penetrates the toughest fber In human nature So send forth ths mystc cheer far and wde. There are hungry hearts everywhere, behnd walla of marble and labs of hovels, prayng for apprecaton and sympathy. Fnd one f we can and blow to the spark that kndles love, sunshne across the sea and e land untl It shall turn nght to poon-tlde. ' We' may speak dfferent dalects, but we can punctuate our wth cheer and. make ourselves un- AUNE & CHEER By John Keadrlck Bangs, derstood, not clumsly nor dmly, but easly and clearly as the sunlght of And If we have wthn us the rght sprt, we can contnue ths benefcent work untl love shall canopy the / earth, fath and hope flood the dark places wth glorous lght and sorrow turn to gladness. Whatever the number of good deeds we may have done, however far we have flung the sunshne, there wll be tmes In our lves when we shall feel that we have not done enough to mert the peace whch s ours unspeakably sweet and rch beyond prce. «««,..» < *r McClure NnqtP" Syanleate.) The Appleton Famly BS. LYSANDEB JOHN APPLE- M TON clams to be the neatest housekeeper In her town. Seven years aa an actor gave Melford a great amount of ex whch he haa uasd to advantage moton pcture busness. ** *-- the major porton of ma tme ***** Ing, and In th " - "- fc " M " l ' out some of the tlons. Melford waa born In N. V. He Is one of the leadng lghts In fllmdom. sn a Name* VafV^^ % v BBHVSjsjB* jwwt* * - w» msanfeg; whence jtwas derved: gnhrones: «our luck? da* and lucky 1 jewel notce wth the? beautful Lady Fanny Shrley, who made It a great favorte and almost a proverb for prettness and smplcty, so that the wts of George ITs tme called John, Lard Hervey "Lord Fanny" foe hla effemnacy. Fanny Is often gven at baptsm Instead of the fuu name, Frances, and by an odd caprce, It haa lately been adopted n both France and Garmany nstead of ther natonal contractons.. One poet doubtless seekng to celebrate the beauty of the lovely Lady Shrley, wrote a "Song to Fanny" whch has lyrcal charm: Nature, thy far and smlllna* faes Has now a double power to bless; For 'Us the arlass In whch I trace My absent Fanny's lovelness. Her heavenly eyes above me shne. The rose reflects her modest blush. She breathes In every eglantne She sngs In every warblng thrush. That her dear form alone I see, leed not excte surprle In any; S? Fanny's all the world to me. Lnd all the world to me Is Fanny. Fanny's Jewel Is the wondrously lovely fl«m>pal. The restless colors of the ordnary opal are far surpassed by the flre-opal whose mysterous depths are shot wth flame. The stone Is perhaps the on]y one whch superstton regards as unlucky except In cases of persons born In October. Legend has It that a plxto dad In brllant colors has' been mprsoned In the stone; he moves restlessly about seekng egress, but only human tears can melt the gem and gve hm freedom,. BO he contrves all manner of mschef for the wearer, to brng about that end. Fannle's lucky day Is Frday and 3 s her mystc number. (C by Wtwltr Syndcate. Inc.) them to eat there would be nothng.left for the Appleton famly but the neck and the gravy. Daysey Mayme Appleton has Issued a card to the publc as follows: "Perhaps, beng only a smple lttle grt, my Influence n ths great world wll never amount to much, but what lttle weght t may possess I wsh to throw In the Interests of peace. I desre to ask knd frends that they no longe nvte my father, the Honorable Lysander John Appleton, to any evenng entertanments. When he gets the Invtaton he roars tll he haa reached the hostess' door, and Is cross for a week afterward. He always says h«won't go, and. my mother alwaya kes hm, and he gets so rled up t It Is almost Impossble fur me to 1 coax any money out of- hm for a month later. If knd frends wll add I to ther Invtatons, Mr. Appleton Not Expected,' I may get hm back to that calm, submssve state of mnd when It wll no longer be necessary for ma to pck hs pockets after nght" < by Peers* Mrtthew Aduna.) WHArSTHEUSE BUT THI««UPPO4B» To CA^^T U»» THa tmming A WON -House noom»o*im «TAI»9 KBBPING AfAQTMlMT AtU THE ll*. * ITS OH B0*M /, I'M (SETTING HUNGRY Our Pet Peeve MICKIE, THE PRINTERS DEVIL HOM BUM DOWN Td 1V«6BT. A MB OP CtlSAM & A LOAf OF BREAD- 1U HAKI «OME TOA*T That Gulty Feelng MOVM VBL\% FBLT HE RETUl3(BD, HATE Tft COMB TWMI IMS LOBBY <MI1U A ffcct'aoft tlk«that 'IT MAK«S ME FEdL 40 FUNNY So It Has Come to Ths! A FEBRUARY DAY In the morane", ' "'Autumn st the. s»on. - Flowers, all a-bornlns" ;; -,% SprnsT :moon., bunched tobether:- _;_-,, ay s JV " >-';, % /,': -"'.;'' weatherc-v-c;:;-; \.^rr? noo'r;-wa"' 'Panted;'two fmonths? ago, and-she" ponts Ato} It twthlprtde Not a.vestlgeof pant left on :_,, narly/ It takes-three years.toacrnh all the pant oft a ktchen floor, but Mrs. Appleton dd It n two *~ ' - If Lyeander John Appleton gave tle gastturthe chcken nta/arua

7 SA %r~^ V t * L f s* Exports Exceed Those of Crrnfrnrr Untn Stattt Rwals. Washngton. For the fourth successve year.montreal ajmonneea Its supaemacy as the greatest wheat exportng cty In north Amerca. 80 great la the yellow flow throogh Mont-, real that lt ahlpments abroad 1 ceeded the combned exports of ts seren chef rvals In tbe Unted States, Mew York, Galveston. New Orleans, Phladelpha, Baltmore, Norfolk and Boston, up to. September of last year. ' "Tbe staff of lfe has been a magc wand for tbe Canadan metropols," says a bulletn of the Natonal Geographc socety from Its headquarters at Washngton. "Wavng It, Montreal rases another skyscraper on her water front Take an elevator to the ffteenth floor of No, l, st Lawrence rver, Montreal's chef wheat 'offce,' look out a wndow to the west; and the story of Montreal and Its part In supplyng that gran les revealed. "At one's feet an ocean lner rests snugly aganst a wharf,.besde a long gallery whch sprouts below lke a root of tbe skyscraper Itself..Wthn that gallery huge, wde, runnlnghelts are man-made creek beds for a stream bank full of wheat The Uner Is*recevng In Its hold the product of more than ten acres of wheat land every mnute. "Close under, the protectng shadow of the lner les a smaller steamshp. It has lnes lke a German dachshund; much open deck Ues between tbe su perstructures fore snd aft Beneath the hatches whch cut the deck Into a grdron Is more yellow wheat from Port Colboroe, Ontaro, watng to be stored n the gran elevator. In the open water of tola harbor sector frettng tugs Una up at apponted places lke cavalry horses. Now and then, wth a snort of whte steam and a puff of black smoke, they, dart from ther.'company, front'-on double quck to push some ocean levathan In or out of Its berth. Neck of Gran Bottle. "At the rght of the tug lne s the man neck of North Amerca's wheat bottle, the end of the Lachlne canal Montreal s the queen of wheat ports and more than 60 per cent of her 'yellow gold' comes down the St Lawrence by water.' Over to the left tbe sun catches the glnt of whte water on the Lachlne rapds, head of nav gaton of the 1,000-mle nature-made canal whch la ths bottle's mouth. Bravng the rapds Is the, spdery black lne of the Vctora brdge, wth trans shuntng across t almost constantly. To the rght, under wooded Mount Royal, s the cty, founded by Cheva- HINT FOR PUZZLE FANS Barry Kahne, mental wzard, work- Ing a cross-word pusxle backward, whle be was bangng by bs feet upsde down on one of the newspaper Vuldlngs n Washngton. He bung thus for 18 mnutes before he solved tbe pnssle., frarn box and brng It to Port Colborne, at.the bead of tbe Wellngton canal, or to Buffalo or Cleveland f It tfcragh.the* Unted States. At Port lar MataomMQve, but bult as anythng by wheat "Westward the canal sad ralroad bland wth tbe smoky mst throus* whch one seems to see the wmdtog mles of rver, tbe blue of the Great Lakes and tbe breadth of tbe valleys of the Bsd rver and Mlaslsspp-flst plans when tbe sky Is a cover nnssed tq earth at the boraoa sad wheat to fnng between the oasts. Montreal's lfe sprngs are- n Mantoba, Wntkafr**^T*" M*T wmt * Dakota*, where whter whts way to green In sprng, golden In summer, brown stubble n fall and back to whte agan. "Most thngs must be vewed from the bottom up, but not a Montreal gran elevator; It works from tbe top down. As soon as a boat or tran h Ootborave steamers that can Jut saueese through the locks of the Xt Lawrence canals take on tbe wheat. At Montreal, anally, huge bucket cmare lowered from tbe. elevator tbe hatches and start the to the skyscraper's top. As gran n tbe shp's bold gets low, men wth huge steel scoops go In. A rope h attached to each scoop and when the workman has dug It nto s ple of gran a wnch on sgnal pulls It up to the conveyor snout, fllng the buckets wth gran. Four lake steamer loads, or a tran of 116 cars of gran, are requred to fll an average ocean tramp. "Automatc car dampers have been Installed n some Montreal elevators. Pckng up a loaded car lke a toy. they push In the door, tp-the car on empted the wheat goes by conveyors Its sde, emptyng the wheat Into a to the top, fndng lodgng h huge pt and set It back on Its) wheels st bns. On tbe next floor below It sthe rate of one box car In a lttle weghed. Statoned at a battery of less than ten mnutes." huge contaners dusty workmen let In a flood of wheat from above. They can estmate a ton to a fracton of a Tooth Closes School pound. Beleaed by a lever, tbe gran Kelso, Wash. The entre student falls a floor to a fve-foot movng belt body of the St. Helen's school on Almost before t can settle down to a Upper Toutle rver recently had the pleasant rde It reacltes a bg steel toothache. So Mrs. Besse Hooper, cart on rals whch precptately tbe teacher, dlmnmed school ard took dumps t Into what looks lke a bottomless pt, but Isn't. Later the wheat dstant to vst a dentst. Ths trp her class to Castle Rock, thrty mles wll emerge from the pt for another requred two days, but the thrteenyear-old grl, the entre school enrol- belt rde, through galleres stretchng s mle and a quarter along the water ment, was releved of the alment. Yanks Make Lfe Secure n Hat Nne Years of Rule Transforms Condtons n Republc. Port-Au-Prlnce, Hat. The accomplshments of the Unted states durng tbe occupaton of the Island of Hat that has extended over nne years are worthy of note. All the actvtes necessary to the rehabltaton of the country have been supervsed and drected by Amercana, wth dstnct beneft to the republc. The one great outstandng result of ths work Is the knowledge of all Hatans and especally the peasant work Ing class, that they are free of the menace of confscaton of ther property-and that ther lves are safe. The poorest man In the Island knows he wll be protected h hs home, that he wll be able to enjoy the fruts of bs labors and that he Is free to go and come and carry bs possessons wth hm. Anarchy regned n Hat n July, 1018, and Amercan marnes were landed for the protecton of the lves and property of Amercan and foregn ^ctzens. Two months later the Unted States made a treaty wth Hat by whch the former country pledged tself to remedy the fnancal stuaton and to develop the economc possbltes of the republc. Bg Improvement In Fnances. At ths tme Hat was bankrupt wth a natonal debt of $32,000,000. Also she had no credt Today the natonal debt Is slghtly under 128, , the currency h at par h the world's markets, a modern budget system has been establshed and a cash reserve of $1^06,686 has been bult up. \ When the Amercan marnes landed In the summer of 1010 santaton was medeval n character and dsease was from tbe Unted States s establshng rampant Today ten hosptals are nschools and model farms where natves operaton and-dspensares are mantaned h areas outsde tbe hosptal Industry. are to be taught both sol and anmal es. Clncs are held In remote places snd santary.inspecton mantaned In all.the ctes and towns and Parlament Buldng n the most strngent regulatons are- enforced and ^carred out London. Followng tbe 'dscovery London Crumblng Away It took years of patent effort to that the dome of St Paul's cathedral overcome the Ignorance of the natves la h danger of collapsng, t baa been and the Influence of the wtchcraft and found that the house of parlament h voodoo doctors, but today the people crumblng away. Parlament h not are flockng to tbe Amercan medcal men for relec Malara Is beng checked and natve doctors and nurses are beng traned. HAIR CUTTING AND IRON WORK TAUGHT IN ALASKA Chefs Lay Groundwork Course of Home Educaton for Eskmos. for Anchorage, Alaska. Whle publc schools, unverstes and colleges n the Unted States a n forgng ahead Into the whter term's work, a wdely scattered lttle band of poneerng educators la Isolated sectons of Alaska Is layng the' groundwork for the home educaton of Eskmos. Scarcty of manual, tranng materal has-resulted In the Introducton f the teachng of har cattng, Ivory carvng and. Iroa,wprkr such M'the makng of dog chalna,tskates from old sled -'shoes rand.^ves>fromrold fllesz ' r ":, worked', out :^ chef of the. Alaaka>, Industral to be establshed at Kanakanak, Brstol Bay, Whte Mountan, Seward Pennsula and Kklunta, 28 mles north of here. o Courses to be taught Include: Anmal- husbandry Study of rendeer problems, wth specal attenton devoted to methods of slaughter /and preparaton of meat for cold and market ' Fshng Operaton of a small cannery, curng, smokng, saltng and drybg of fsh.,.-. Ivory ndustry Makng buttons, beads and curos such as butter knves and napkn Hags. ".'..'" - "~~ -,-"- '" Tannery^-Curng of subs and mast ufacture of leather, ''",. :,'V~\ V\ ^BMtbuUdJna^Cwutaucthw and operaton of gasolne engnes.^," c:' ""-'" - ^fattaatlbn In 1015 publc worka had vrtually ceased to functon.. Roads were wretched and wthout brdges and the lghthouses Inadequate to tbe large number of harbors and the dangerous coast Today then are more than 600 mles of good graveled, roads, many new brdges, 800 mles of new telephone'and telegraph lnes and a good telephone system n Port-au-Prnce. The coast Is now encrcled by a chan of lghthouses and automatcally lghted bnoys whch make navgaton along the coast and Into the harbors easy and safe. 0,000 Bandts In It s estmated that In the summer of 1915 some 6,000 bandts Infested Hat. Lfe and property were not safe and travel on publc hghways almost had ceased. For the last four years Hat has bad peace and securty. Peasants have returned to ther homes or bult new ones and the natve or foregner Is perfectly safe In any part of Hat. ' natve gendarmere of 45 commssoned offcers and 2,500 enlsted men has been traned and equpped under tbe gudance of Amercan u A : offcers. They have entre clmnje of the polcng of the IHIUIIII and ure sta tloned In every secton. Ths fnancal nu economc uplft of the sland has been accomplshed solely through Hatan resources and tbe frendly co-operaton of the Hatan government wth Brg. Gen. John H. Uussell, Unted States marble corps, the Amercan hgh commssoner, and hs staff of Amercan treaty offcals. Whle much has been accomplshed there 1B a long road ahead. Clarfcaton of the lawa and the placng of the Judcary on a hgh plane are now occupyng the attenton of offcals. Mod era agrculture Is unknown, but a corps of experts from agrcultural, colleges unsafe structurally, but the stone of whch It h bult Is unsutable for the London ellmate and all the ornaments are fast dsappearng. clerks for natve co-operatve stores Carpentry, nursng and santaton, household management and home-makng and musc and folk dancng, wth specal attenton gven, to. trbal dancng.' '. «. Lne of Horses Kept n One Famly Snce 1776 Manhattan, Kas. Rley county, Kas., boasts a horse elgble to membershp In the 80ns of the Amercan Revoluton. Tbe anmal's proud lneage recently saved ts lfe In the veternary hosptal of the Kansas State Agrcultural college here The horse wss brought to the hosptal wth an Incurable toot dsease, and veternarans BBOommendV ed kllng 'It The fanner; however, objected to partng Arth hs steed. He sad bs own grandfather, V major n the war - of the revoluton, bad rdden anfnceter(ofthe;borse. snd that hs" Itaelghsd, remaned In hs p*. *? at Ths scene, the celebraton of pontfcal mass n St Peter's, wll be repeated many tmes durng the Jublee year of 1928 and wll be wtnessed by hundreds of thousands of plgrms from all parta of the word. Ar Mal Gans n Popularty Phase of Postal Servce Here to Stay, Says Paul Henderson* Washngton. Advocates of the development of avaton on a bg scale In ths country are besegng congress to Increase appropratons and to embark upon an ar program comparable to that of other great natons. To ths end they are employng everythng from war threats and scares to rdcule, but.ther strongest argument s the record of accomplshment h tbe ar-mal servce. The ar-mall servce Is here, and here to stay. Ths statement s made wth all possble emphass by CoL Paul Henderson, second assstant postmaster general, who has charge of that phase of postal actvty. "I am not absolutely ^certan that we are, as a cvlsaton, any better off for our ablty tofly," he says. "I thnk there are many arguments on both sdes of that rather broad queston, but we are able to fly. We cannot undo what has been done and, takng that as a fact, It Is qute patently our natonal duty to fly better than anybody else, and to make every possble practcal. applcaton of ths new trck whch we have learned." Colonel Henderson ctes as the outstandng accomplshment of the armal servce that San Francsco has been permanently moved up to wthn 84 hours of New York. On one record test ths tme was beaten by almost eght hours and the schedule wll.never be longer than the lmt now act. Ths coast-to-coast servce, nvolvng the great hazard of nght flyng, h now sx months, old and s- operatng regularly seven days a week. Every day It Is becomng more popular wth the publc, and In consequence s constantly better patronsed. Not everybody uses ths servce, of course, but those who do use It have learned the value of beng able to get Important mall n New York the day after It leaves San Francsco and they are Insstent that the servce be extended rather than curtaled. 'What May Be Accomplshed. All ths has been accomplshed wthn sx years aftef the establshment of the frst ar mall route between Washngton and New York. What may be done wthn the next lke perod Is almost beyond conjecture, but perhaps tbe most Important of the thngs hoped fdr by departmental authortes Is that the cost of carryng mal by ar wll be reduced from $2.63 to less than 80 cents per ton mle. - Ths cuttng the cost of operaton to less than 11 per cent of what It s now U attacked by. some as the dream of vsonary, but Colonel Henderson says le la confdent It can be done. * "In the last analysts," he says, "effcency of transportaton may be measured by Its cost per ton mle, Its regularty and dependablty, and Its speed. The arplane has proved tself, as far as regularty and speed are concerned, but much remans to be ac-desrable. Other suggestons Included lghts proved them to be anythng but, complshed In the matter of cost The the Illumnaton by means of searchlghts on large whte concal struc- present cost of operatng tbe ar mall Is altogether too expensve. From now tures, such as the dome of the natonal forward the most urgent task of the capltol, tbe Idea beng that the reflecton would turn the trck. Post Offce department s to attempt to brng down ths cost per ton mle. Ths mean* shps wth greater carrybg capacty. That such shps are pos- But that was'found Impractcal Ht Upon by Chance. and sble of desgn and constructon, I have no doubt That they wll be bult and put. Into operaton I have no doubt" Wth reduced operatng costs the department hopes to reduce the schedule tme between coasts,- to ncrease the frequency of dspatches, and to provde addtonal servce esch nght between New York and Chcago. Then wll come a naton-wde connectng up of all Important centers, wth nghtly servce between such centers that are from 1,000 to 1,400 mtes apart. The next step wll be tbe carryng of certan cusses.of merchandse In the ar,, and, ultmately, the carryng of passengers. Colonel Henderson does not however, even suggest that tbe arplane wll ever become h the true sense of the word a compettor of the ralroads. He says It s smply a new knd of transportaton. There are more goods to transport each year, and some of these goods wll fnd ther way nto ar channels of transport, but the ralroads wll contnue to en- Joy even more traffc then than they are able to take care of. Best at Long Dstance. Many people have expressed surprse that tbe alr-mall route between Washngton and New York was abandoned, belevng that It Is of prme Importance to have the naton's poltcal and fnancal captals lnked together wth the fastest possble system of communcaton. The fact of the matter s there was very lttle savng of tune In sendng mall by arplane between the two ctes, and not enough to make It really worth whle. It Is approxmately 200 mles by ar lne from Washngton to New York and It took the mall planes at least two hours tofly that dstance. It requred the better part of an hour to carry the mal out to the flyng feld at ths end of the route, and fully as much tme was consumed In gettng It from the New York flyng feld to the post offce, ready for dstrbuton. By tran the mall could be transported from the heart of Washngton to the heart of New York In flve hours. Ths meant an advantage of about an hour on the sde of the ar servce, but that wss not deemed suffcent Early In the'expermental work the men who were studyng jhe subject became convnced that the arplane could not really begn to mean much h the matter of postal transportaton untl the dstances covered were at least 1,000 mles. Hence the drve was begun for the establshment of the transcontnental servce. When nght flyng was planned naturally the frst queston was one M FILTER HAS BEEN INVENTED TO STRAIN OUT DISCORD Professor at the Unversty of Iowa Seeke to Make Unpleasant Sounds Kll lash Other. Iowa Cty, Iowa. By causng successve waves of sound to nterfere wth eaeh other's transmsson Dr. O. W. Stewart a professor of physcs at the Unversty of Iowa, has perfected a devce whch,.he beleves, In tme may be used to elmnate undesrable noses and to adjust'sounds "to an Indvdual's esthetc taste. ' Wth the theory that sound waves would" expend themselves vware they placed In conflct wth one'another, Doctor Stewart worked out Als devce, whch he calla an acoustc wave flter. %^e^tdto:^btl^^pt ^^«dtoue^o Stewart; explslns, not stnctonsju Uelpathl by settng up> sorr of A brass tube one-half Inch In dameter and sx Inches long, contanng nothng but ar and open at both ends Is caused to transmt all tones of s pano up to a certan note, and above ths to transmt no audble sound.' Wth another and slghtly dfferent tube the tones below ths same,- or any other note, wll be refused transmsson, whereas all hlgner^ tones pass freely """ *> "Other equally of a smlar Ua sad Doctor.devce.."The. e results obtaned," lalnlng bs Xtte^ ^..,,. «open and free, fjr^obstnc^ons;)have, at.regular '"tf^w'tjr tj^w M^»g^""tul)Bs and chambere7\a't#eacb; branchng pont: waves are, reflected backward through the tul*\ The desgn of the branches caa.-bt- ""**" " toaandanl B «~ lghts. The mall plane plots must have tbe way blazed for them across the contnent by frendly beacons, the regular landng felds must be adequately Illumnated and emergency landng places must be Indcated. Almost all of the earler suggestons made, to the alr-mall servce were for the use of some sort of hgh-powered beam, shnng drectly and vertcally Into the ar, but experments wth such It was only through tbe merest chance that the effectve system was ht upon. Late one nght Colonel Henderson wss awatng a tran at a staton In a small. Illnos cty. He saw hs tran Comng, or at least he saw tbe headlght and began to get hst baggage 'together when a frend told hm that there waa no hurry, that tbe tran was stll at least seventeen mles away, and that the reason he saw t was because the track was perfectly straght for those seventeen mlfeft and he was lookng drectly Into the headlght et the locomotve. "Rght there we solved at least for the moment our problem of lghts," says the ar mall chef. "All we bad to do waa put a brllant searchlght up n the ar and revolve It so tbst at least once n each revoluton It would shne drectly Into the eyes of tbe plot" The department now has lghts, operated on ths prncple, the larger of whch Is vsble on an ordnary, nght for over 180 mles;, snd the smaller for over forty alles. Cvl War Vef Name Geared After 60 Years Kalamazoo, Mch. After efforts extendng over 60 years, Mrs. A. H. Harmon has succeeded In havng the stgma, of deserton entered aganst bar husband strcken from the records of the War department and she now wll receve a wdow's penson. Harmon, a resdent of Canada, came to the Unted States and enlsted In tbe Unon army In tbe Cvl war. He was wounded In September, 1884, and was sent home on furlough. Before he recovered the war ended, and as he never reported to..bs regment, hewas lsted as a deserter. An affdavt waa obtaned by Mrs. Harmon, showng that although her husband was anxous to return to tbe< army, he was restraned from dong so by bs physcans. The house commttee on mltary affars accepted ths affdavt and Harmon's record was. cleared. Ths WUd Boar Practced Medcne Wthout Lcense /Bourges,' s>nnc*^pursjssd?:by hunten, a wld boar dashed-into «prvate bouse n tbe vllage of Grand Mallery, near here, and made bs way nto a bedroom Nrbere an Invald bad been lyng for months. Tbe sck man ' shreked for help, then arose sad. Jumped out of the.wndow. The wld boar waa Anally Ulled. The Invald bos returned to work. Doctor Stewart explaned that be. consdered tn devce truly'a flter. It' Is s new basc method of manpulatng sound waves sad may, fnd applcaton n many acoustc bjsvtas h use. "The telephone, the phonograph and even muscal Instruments themselves ' may sooner or later proft by ths new. * devce," Doctor Stewart-sad, "b fact; " there h opened to the magnaton tbs \ possbulty of the eumtnaton of;nbds-f: slrable noses and the enjoyment of r sounds adjusted to' an^ ladlvldusl:. esthetc taste." ' ^n Bar Steal Traps ' Rusfavtlle, Mo. A natonwde mov*.;! ment aganst the steel trap: launched when x!^tep,tbs steel tr - " fwas-.ftemsae!^ ;4

8 far.ft* BaD to Cornwall on. Itbruary t. Mr. W. H. raw. the trat specalst, wll be present w «an a* Mss Else Trabne. tbe> OMsf Club Leader. Moves wld be shown. Supper be served at T P. M. Hvery- _. VALL8T. A communty meetng wll he held at Lterary, m» In Canaan Valley on Sat-. unlay, February 14. Mss Else Trabue wttl be present Moves wll be shown. Dplomas wn ' be awarded the grls «wbo have August. 189*. tes. They are-both attraettw and useful. The many varetes. ot aprons serve as a protecton tor Morrs school chudren In three the casual old Jobs and are atost successfully completed the ot the rural qcheola have an op-convenenportunty to have a hot dsh wth ture are bad for rubber and cold Extreme* ot tempera- course In the Clothng Clubs. Supper wttl be served at 7 P. the lunch they brng from home. n partcular makes t harden-and M. Everyone should plan to East Morrs expects to start a hot crack. Hgh temperature rulna come. lunch wthn a week or two. rubberxed fabrcs so that dress THOMASTON. A meetng wll be shelds and smlar artcles should - held at. the Town Hall In Thomaston on February 17, at 7:30 ULAR than n hot water. T B. TE8T INCREASINGLY POP-be washed In tepd water rather p. M. tor those who are nterested n vegetable growng. Mr. Wth 9,000,000 cattle already un- garments from the health stand- The contnuous, wear of rubber A. E. Wlknson, the vegetable der supervson for the eradcaton pont s bad. Rubber ressts -water and prevents evaporaton. Ev- specalst, wul be present of tuberculoss, veternary offcals IJTCHFIELD. An Insttute Meet- of the department of the varous eryone who wears rubbers knows Ing under the auspces of thestates are makng efforts to meet how quckly the feet perspre and Connectcut Darymen's Assocaton, wttl be held at the the contnued demands for addtonal testng. A summary ot the how tender and clammy Orange Hall In Lltchfleld on status of the work up to December Frday. February 20. The meetng wll begn at 11 A. M. 1 shows a watng Ust of 226,534 herds contanng more than J cattle. Ths lst represents applcatons tor testng In 34 states, Prelmnary MlUlnery Meetngs. MORRIS. There wll be a prelmnary mllnery meetng on Wednesday. February 18, at the home ot Mss Elsabeth Tyng. East Morrs, at 2 PV M. MIBS Eleanor Moss, the Home Demonstraton Agent, wttl be present. ', MORRIS. There wttl be prelmnary mllnery meetng on Wednesday, February 18. at 3 P. M., at the home of M"- **ck. The Home Demonstraton Agent wll be present BETHLEHEM. There wll be a prelmnary mllnery meetng on Thursday, February 19. at 2 and were removed from the herds, thereby leadng to the establshment ot accredted herds and /ateas. P. M. at^he home of Mrs. Albert Johnson. Mss Moss wll The Offcal Record. be present EAST CANAAN.. There wll be a meetng for reseatng chars FARMER8* DOLLAR 8HOW8 IN at Mrs. Bejamn Dbble's, on CREA8E IN VALUE Saturday, February 14, at 10:30 A. M.. Mss Eleanor S. Moss, the Home Demonstraton Agent; wll be present BAKERVILLE. There Ktchen Equpment meetng at the home of Mrs. Leon Lews. n Bakervlle on Tuesday, Feb-, ruary 17. at 2 P. M. TheHome Demonstraton Agent wfll be present About the County Most of the prospectve members of the Cow Testng Assocaton have sgned the membershp agreement It Is hoped that those.who have not, wll do so as soon as possble so that the Assocaton may be started at once. Interest Is growng n the Pure Bred Bull Campagn. Several calls have been receved at the offce durng the past week n regard to purchasng. Keep them comng. * Wll the purchasers of pure bred bulls kndly send nformaton to the Farm Bureau Offce as soon aftev the transacton Is made as Is convenent relatve to the place the anmal came from, h3 age, breed and producton behnd hm 1 d. A * > Get n touch wth your cooperatve manager about lme for ths sprng. He can quote you attractve prces. Nearly every acre n Lltchfleld county needs lme. TTse more of t and ncrease your yelds. Insst on Guaranteed Northern grown Domestc Clover Seed. It s cheap nsurance. A very successful meetng was held n Weekeepeemee on the even- Ing of February 5. Seventeen darymen gathered at the school house and heard Mr. A. R- Merrll talk on Judgng Cows. The talk was ftlustrated wth sldes. Many questons were asked afterwards concernng the management of the dary. * Walter Lake-of Bethlehem has ordered day-old chcks tor ths sprng to double the number of hs layng brds next wnter. Wnners of the home mprovement contest, conducted by the Farm and Home for 1924, wll be announced wthn a week or two.. Nne chars were fnshed at a meetng at Mrs. Wlson's In I Ltchneld Isst Thursday aftemoon. Two or three others were fnshed the precedng Thursday. Ths»s aulck *orlt : «or two afternoon meet togs, when work dd not start untfl 8 o'clock. the others havng been able to handle the testng as fast as requested. The states whch had "dear slates" In ths respect at the tme the summary was prepared were Arkansas, Deleware, Georga, Kentucky, Lousana, Mssour, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey,. Oregon, Utah, Vrgna, Washngton, Wyomng and the Dstrct of Columba. Durng November offcal vetern arlans' tested more than 50,000 herds or lots contanng more.than 600,- 000 cattle. Of ths number, about cattle reacted as tuberculoss The farmer's dollar has taken another upward step In value. It has come a few ponts nearer par wll be awth the dollar of ndustry. Ths Increase In the value of the farmers' dollar became known ths week when wholesale prces on farm pbducts reached a party wth the au commodty prce. Ths Is the frst tme snce 1920 that the wholesale prce ot farm products has been as hgh as the all conv modlty prce. The farmers', dollar s not yet on par. The farm prce of agrcultural nducts Is not yet as hgh as the RUBBER OARMtNTS a proft. au commodty prce. Costs of marketng farm products, whch cost For weeks the merchants of Wa- the farmer pays, Is stll hgher than before the war. In these. marketng costs go, frst of all. transportaton and then handlng charges and the lke. The farmers' dollar can not become worth 100 cents unless there s a reducton n these marketng costs, or unless the farm prce of farm products goes hgh er than the all commodty prce. - The past year has shown- gnat Increase In the use of robbernoret they become t the rubbers are worn all day. Too many people are allow- Ing babes to wear rubber pantes all day. The rubber pants arejj wonderful emergency garment, but when worn tor long perods are njurous snce they are heatng, prevent evaporaton and ncrease perspraton wth the M*1«.-* skn becomes tender, Irrtated and sore/ They are desgned tor occasonal and short-tme wear only. For'the same reasons, rubber corsets so much n vogue at present are a very questonable garment from the health standpont The body breathes through the pores as wen as through-the lungs. It elmnates through the pores and when rubber garments are worn the perspraton must stand on the skta and dry rather than be absorbed by the garment The wearng of robber necesstates constant bathng and takng especal care of.the skn to prevent ts becomng Irrtated, sore and 0Ter - tonde^m EDITH L. MASON. Clothng Specalst Its purchasng power two fold and The purchasng power of the farmers' dollar based on the wholesale Wth thto n vew the Merchants make hundreds ot new customers. prce of farm products -was n 1921, Bureau ot the Chamber of Commerce has worked as never before 84 cents; n 1922, 90 cents; n 1923, 92 cents; anft the present estmate arrangng bargans for that day would be 100 cents. Of course, the that wll appeal to the thrfty housewfe. actual purchasng power of the farmer s under ths, as hs Indvdual Wth sprng Just around the corner, Dollar Day on' Tuesday the purchasng power s determned by prce at.farm and not the wholesale prce. Amercan Farm Bureau wll gve' "women an opportunty to 17th has an added sgnfcance. It Weekly News Letter. buy, at a reduced fgure, curtans to fx up that spare room, a rug for COMMUNITY MEETING HELD IN BETHLEHEM, MORRI8 AND GOSHEN wth the ad ""! ^ ^ whch bare Cole enlsted In the Cwuenrtwt Ha* lehoel 4«r f. help thess. Interest tonal Guard as*prvate, an*tolesa Ing the mpr M> rtf ' day sad that Mrs. F. 3. Chares of the survey wht* than a month was promottd to the fh w eherlsh thfrtadttlott ot Va> has. the wheeled tmy «t - -. Ijramlr of sergeant A erty and Justce nspred by the» carred en tlls year to, tme. As soon as she to through a year later he was oasnan rlnee ot the Mane and Its erew. boosewfj* In obtatnfnu a flrsf leutenant, and on May wth It, It wn be sent to Mew London bounty. ed to be accompmshea n an three water. Consderable work Is._, beease ot htojrwna^br^ bs ablty to get along wth hs tal- durng th» " low offcers he was promotedto the rank of captan, beng placed In charge of Company I, Thrd Infantry. In August 1891, he was apponted assstant adjutant ot the brgade. colonel of the Thrd Infantry, and at ths post he remaned untn June, 1898, when he-was gven leave that he mght enlst n the regular army. Be entered,tbe regular amry wth the rank of Ueutenant colonel and served In Cuba durng the Spansh? Amercan War, beng In command of the V. 8. Immunes. On June 8,1899, he was mustered out of the servce and a year and a half later, on January 9, he was apponted adjutant general of the state by Governor George P. McLean, to succeed Adjutant General Van Keuren. Snce then he has held the post - General Cole's son, Lt CoL George B. Cole, s assstant chef of staff of the Forty-thrd Dvson, C. N. G. General Cole, who unul hs appontment, Uved n New London, organsed the frst camp of Spansh-Amercan War Veterans In Connectcut men. The Morrs meetng was held on Wednesday evenng and about 75 people dd ther best to make sure that tre hosptable women-folk were - burdened wth nothng but empty dshes on ther homeward journey. The supper was excellent- In State Mltary Servce Forty ly prepared and "well managed. Mr. Years. Enlsted as Prvate Merrll showed some dary sldes n 1885 The 19fe contest s.open to all CLASSIFIED ADS.and gate an nterestng talk on The farm famles and anyone stand? a Enlstng forty years ago as a prvate n th Thrd Machne Gun CA8H PAID FOR FALSE TEETH chance to wn. for the przes are dental ROld. platnum and dscarded Jewelry Hoke Smeltng a*ard«vl for Itn- rrpatcrt mprovement jtft dollar s.ppnt If & Kennng Co., Otuego, Mchgan. Interested wrte to the Farm 5t Offce Mrs. Waltnr Humphrey of bury has been usng the -whs tray loaned to ths county by State Extenson Srvlce. Mra. Humphrey found It very helpful and expects to get one *thn a short tme. Everyone who used the tray In Boxfcury Is tally convnced of Its vatw u a tme and labor saver, Three very successful and nterestng meetngs were held last week. The meetng n Bethlehem took, place n the basement of the Methodst church on Monday evenng. About ffty men, -women and chudren were present, and everyone seemed to enjoy.the moves and the sldes as well as the excellent supper. Mr. A. R. Merrll and Mr. S. McLean Buckngham were present. Mss Moss held a pck-up meetng n the afternoon wth the wo- VflwTot the ~a»ure"-bred Bull. The moves,*«>& shown sad etplanfl The-'neetug In Gosnen wns held on ""Frday" toenlng *» connecton wth ther njpnlar OAfge meetng About ffty P-ople 'attended. ThP moron «n eaoeclalbg,apprecated The.ft ^mgss^ DOLLAR DAY AT WATERBURY The day that the Bhoppers all have been watng for ^approaches and that s Dollar Day In Waterbury on. Tuesday, February 17th. It 1B announced that the merchants ot the Brass Cty are preparng the fnest array of goods ever offered on an occason ot ths knd before. Thy are co-operatng to gve thrfty men and women values that wul make bayng a pleasure as well as terbury have ben busy plannng tor DoUar Day. From ther choce stocks they wltt offer the people the fnest values ever seen for' the money, fresh goods that have an Instant appeal. They want the buyers to realle that lt Is the day wh'en values crowd values In a never endng stream. They seek to make the Jtotor more 4 elastc, Increase some other room and a few cookng utensls always needed n the sprng ot the year. It wll gve men a chance to lay In a fresh supply of shlrtb and summer stockngs, necktes and a lot o other thngs they need just about ths tme. There wttl be towels and gnghams, Bheetngs and whatnot tor thrfty women at prces that wll tempt any purse. The autosts "wll also be In then* element. There wlu be specal prces on tres and tubes as well as accessores ot au knds. The merchants also announce attractve buys n sprng footwear of the latest styles., The lst ot merchants- makng possble Dollar Day wll be found n the Dollar Day advertsement on Page Four. GENERAL GEORGE M. COLE platoon of the Thrd Infantry. Connectcut Natonal Guard wa«a young man who was later to become one of tho chef mltary fgures n the suto, Adjutant General George M. Cole. Today s the forteth annversary ot General Cole's servce In the Nsvtonal Guard. Last month marked the completon of twenty-four years of servce for hm as adjutant general. Born whle bs parents were vst- YewOw I Spray Materals the George M. Cole camp In New London, of whch he s past comr mander. He s also past commander of the Mltary Order Of Foregn Wars I We are In a poaltlon to make prompt delvery from stock of of the Unted States, and companlpn a the followng Items: of the MUtary Order of the World War. He s a member of Lt. Caldwell Colt Robnson Post No. 28, Veterans of Foregn Wars, and Rau-Locke Post, No. 8, Amercan Legon. General Cole s also a member of Bralnerd Lodge No A. F. & A. M. New London. Hartford Courant, February 7. FIRST SPRING SHIP- MENT OF 56 HEAD OF HORSES All who need Horses wll be delghted to see these anmals as they are all perfect, all sound, well-bred and well broken, ready to be put tp work. They were personally purchased by Mr. Temlrn from the western farmers and not from dealers. They come n all colors, exceptonally well-matched pars, ncludng buckskn. The weght s from 2700 lbs. to 4000 lbs. par. We also have on hand 40 head of Cattle, some new mlkers and others to freshen soon. We are ready to sell or exchange.on easy terms, and wll delver any anmal at your barn promptly. WESTERN HORSE LEOBADOH & LOUIS TEMK3N Propretors 180 East Man Street J * TOERINGTON BABY CHICKS DUCKLINGS Do you rbk ft when you seed a Lawyer, a Doctor, or M Awhtsct? Ire your eyas lav valnable than your property? Why rk your own judgment when you need glane? An Optometrst wll make a careful examnaton of each eye separately- and lt you wth just the rght glasses at a moderate cost. Galey Jewelry Co. 115 South Man Street 8te«hen,W. Hall Reo, Optometrst a CONN. 7B Varetes; Bred-To-tay, Conn. Selected, Exhbton Matlngs; Free Catalogue; Brooders $6 up. Clark's Hatchery, Dept 88 East Hartford, Conn. * a Arsenate of Calcum Arsenate ot Lead Black Leaf Forty Bordeaux Mxture Bordo Lead Copper, Sulphate (Blue Vltrol) Helebore Kayso Lme and Sulphur Dry Lme (for L. & S.- Soluton) Ncotne Sulphate 40% Lme and Sulphur Soluton Scaleclde Mall us O NE mghty snbatantal reason why- every bulder, large or small ean feel safe n purchasng lumber from us» that the master bulders and contractors of tba communty swear by and not at the lumber they purchase of us. Watertown Lumber Co- WATERTOWN. Phone 168 CONN. Para-Dchlqrobensene Pars Green Pyrox Sulfoclde Pow. Com. Sulphur (991% pure) ResubUmed Flowers.ot' Sulphur Tobacco Dust Whale Ol Soap Spray Pumps Nagara Dustng Materals Nagara Dustng Machnery In your order Apothecares Hall Company HINCKS BROS. & CO. INVESTMENT BANKERS Members New York Stock Exchange Bonds and Stocks for Investment Tax Exempt Issues. Connectcut Trust Fund Securtes ss s More Profts ram your Tobacco Crop Brdgeport, Conn.- HE profts you make on your tobacco crop T ths season wll depend largely on your success n gettng a hgh yeld of good qualty at a low cost per pound.»^,vl«*. "Experments show", says a noted expert, "that no other one factor, nfluences the economy of producton of tobacco more than the fertlzer used. 1! The soundness of ths statement s proved n thefollowngtypcal experments: O. A. Campbell of Hardln County, Ky., rased 600 lbs. of Burley tobacco per acre wthout fertlzer, 1260 lbs. per acre when he used 1000 lbs. of a mxture, and 1500 lbs. of tobacco per acre when he used 1000lbs. of a mxture. The addton of 10% aalfate ot potash, whch coat only $6.00, ncreaaed^a ncome $43.00 per acre over, the plot where no fertomer waa used. P^ASH IMPORTING C 81 FULTON ST, In n Ware Ttarawuuuf County, Oa., ^*»», Fred - - Crbbs got only 160 lbs. of Brght Fluecured per acre wthout fertuuery 1000 lbs. of 6-4rO mxture brought hs yeld up to 480 lbs. per act*. And when he used 1000 lbs. of a mxture, he got bs best yeld of 890 lbs. per acre. Thus, $6.00 worth of aalfate ofpotaah ncreased We net ncome- $76.00 per acre. ' And n Steuben County, N. Y. r Mr. C. E. Baley, rasng wrapper tobacco, ncreased hs net ' FREE The new 1M5 --dltlon of "Better Tobacco,"contaln» lound fertlser uagettont' ">r all types of tobacco. It wll hep help yu you In- create your grobt ths season. Wrte for your copy. now. POTASH PAYS I ncome $55.40 per acre by usng $7.89 worth of sulfate of\ potash n 1300 lbs. of a mxture.. Sulfata of potash mproves flavor and burnng qualty n tobacco; when needed to prevent sand drown, on lght sandy sols, specfy sulfate of potash magnesa. AMERICA. GenunQ JGerman n.. >.*:»>"