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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-30
NUTMEG GRATINGS..
Interesting Items Boiled Down for the
Raantit Of our Busy Readers.

Interesting lLeu.S DollOu DoNAA AoA sAiS
Benefit CT Our Busy Readers.
Mrs sarah w. Turner widow of Ezra
A. Turner, of Central avenue, East
Hartford. committed suicide yesterday
morning by drowning IN the Hook
anum river, near the causeway bridge,
on South Main street Mrs turner
was 70 years old and for some time mas
been suffering from mental infirmlty.
Michael Bowen, lamptender at the
signal tower at the eastern approach
Of the Washington bridge, bridgeport,
was struck by train late yesterday
afternoon and received injuries which
caused his death half an hour later.
Bowen was walking along the track
with his lamp when he was struck by
freight train. He lived in Stratford
and leaves a widow and one child.
Antoine Lussier who resides at / ,230
Main street, Willimantic. was cutting
wood in Coventry yesterday and while
cutting down a tree he was. knocked
down and rendered unconscious. This
was about 2:30 O'Clock and it was one
hour later when he revived and dis
covered himself lying on the ground,
wet through with the rain and his face
covered with blood. He is not fa-
tally injured.
John Fanl1o, a Hungarian, died at
the Stamford hospital last night from
injuries received by being thrown from
his bicycle yesterday afternoon. Fanko
bought new wheel yesterday and ey-
identity was not familiar with it. Yes
terday afternoon he had a collision
!
thrown to the ground. The base of
his skull was cracked and he died
soon after. The other wheelman was
injured.
A stranger who was undoubtedly
suffering from some mental derange-
ment committed suicide during the
noon hour yesterday by hanging him
SELF IN cell in the lookup in Thorn
aston. The man was about 80 years
Old was feet 6 inches in height and
weighed about 100 pounds He had
hight blue eyes and dark hair and
moustache. He wore asbrown checked
cap, blue coat and vest dark gray
pants, white shirt ana Yheavy shoes.
ana was evidently q Poland eli. I
William v. Rittau. a roll turner am
ployed at the Farrell foundry. Ansonia
DIED suddenly yesterday morning nm
ger circumstances that led to the be-
lief that death was due to strychnjna
poisoning. symptoms OF the DINO
were plainly manifest in the cas- but
whether the same was self-adminis-
tered or not cannot be told. Ha cama
- Ansonla twenty years ago from
germany, with his wife and two chill
dfen all OF whom have died DURING tba
past SIX years Last fall he married
dgaIn, put the marriage proved an I'M
happy one.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-30
DOWN ELEVATOR SHAFT.
Unconscious Patient Killed in Pri-
vate Hospital.

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New York, Aug 3o.-yictorfne Ro-
dell a patient in the private hospital
of Mrs A. l.. Aston, on West Sixty
first street was killed yesterday by
falling down the elevator shaft and
Miss Beatrice Mcmillan, nurse was
held by. the coroner to-day in $1,000
bail on charge of homicide. Miss
Mcmillan said Miss Rodel was under
the influence of ether and about TO
undergo an operation when she met
her death. She was being taken from
the fourth to the fifth floor. The ele-
vator, Miss Mcmillan said, was a new
one, and the shaft was very dark, As
the car was started, the unconscious
patient slipped off the stretcher on
wheels. Her feet struck the door of
the shaft and the door opened Miss
Rodel hit the landing and as the car
moved upward the patient fell to the
bottom Of the shaft,
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-30
Not xeeessarily the same.

sit seems to me- grumbled a mem
Der Of the committee on resolutions,
sit is taking US a mighty long time to
get up "a declaration of principles
Declaration of principles!' indig-
nantly exclaimed the chairman. '.Thun-
der! We're getting up platform! -
Chicago Tribune.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-30
Snow Cream MiddIIngs

Are like their name, white, fine midds,
and will produce more milk and cream
than any other midds made. They all
ways cost more than other kinds, but
they are worth it. We have just un~
loaded a car and the price is lower
than other grades have sold for lately.
Blatchfords Calf Meal can always
be found here. An entire calf food
want to lay they can't help it If fed
place in town it can be found Meal
Scraps for poultry. All kinds of grain
that the chickens need found here.
Any quantity of old Oats; new Oats
have not come yet.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-30

~ Il Il
The large fine brick residence with
lot of about 40 feet on North Main
street, being No 161. formerly occu-
pied by myself and family, and for
the past few years by the Union Club,
is now in the market
This is to-day one OF the pest Ioca-
lions in our prosperous city for a
DOCTORS home and offices, or can be
USED and improved for other profitable
purposes.
viii give the right party one oil
the best real estate deals that was
ever offered in central property. Will
make terms to suit purchaser. Call
on
WILLIAM ]. SCHLEGEL,
Fos this and other bargains in Water
bury real estate, in the Lewis building,
No 60 Bank street.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-30
NOTICE.

There will be special meeting OF
the Brass Workers union, Local 1856.
at Congress hall, Sunday, at o'clock
p. m. BY order
PRESS CORRESPONDENT.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-30

The As You Like 1t Man has heard
q new name for trolley car transfers.
1t is receipts" and he was on a
car the other evening when one of
them was useN as documentary eyi-
dence, to the chagrin and confusion
of a very consequential conductor
The car was well filed and the con-
ductor had collected the fares once
and returned to the rear of the car
again to relieve several others who
had just got on of their nickles. He
waited in expectation before one
young man who had already paid his
fare. a fact which the conductor had
overlooked Fare he shouted at the
young man, obviously for the benefit
of the occupants of the car, accom-
paning it simultaneously with a Wig
orous punch in the ribs The young
man in very decided manner inform
ed the conductor that he had once
paid his fare you don't fool, me,
young feller,' the latter yelled again
for the edification of the passengers.
But the passenger told the conductor
that the latter couldn't fool him,
either The conductor stopped the car
and invited the young man to get off
or pay again. 1t was beginning to
look serious and the spectators were
waiting for developments when the
passenger pulled the transfer the con
ductor had given him from his pocket
aud extended an invitation to him to
go on trip to some far off region.
The conductor felt as big as a licked
postage stamp and kept in a corner
for the rest of the trip. He was con-
anered BIZ the receipt.
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will be interested in the following
opinion of Washington in the same
letter: Repairs by contract would be
less burthensome. In this case the
contractor would meet with no favor;
every man in the district would give
information of negiects; whereas neg
ligence under the present system is
winked at by the only people who
know the particulars or can inform
against the overseers." If Washington
had been writing about farmers in Illi-
nois, Iowa and other prairie states he
could not have hit the nail on the head
any harder than that.
The first turnpike road built by cor
porate interests was the Wilderness
turnpike, from the Shenandoah valley,
Virginia, over the Allegheny noun.
tains at Cumberland Gap, to central
Kentucky. This road had toll gates
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relations by means of sailboats or row.
bosts. Because of the scores or hun
6reds of miles between settlements
there was, there could have been no
concerted systematic attempt at good
road building. Indeed it may be said
ahat full four centuries elapsed before
the government undertook this work
for the whole country.
Ii was not until 1911 that a great
American road was surveyed by COM
petent engineers, and that is now
Known as the "Old York road" be-
cause it connects New York and Phil
26elphia. Thus you see that the revo-
lationary war was fought by armies
which Travelled heller skelter without
goad roads and sometimes with only
Iadian trails from point to point. How
taey ever managed to keep their regi-
mcnts and brigades in alignment is a
nuszle to modern military minds. And
not only the revolutionary war, but the
war of 1912 was fought by armies sim
irarly handicapped by crude and prim-
itIre means Of transportation.
Railroad building to-day is not so ex-
pensive as good road making was in
th0se days, when money was scarce
and property of infinitely less value.
Ia WAS great undertaking to build the
Old York road, and wa S intensely inter-
~sting to the people of that generation,
as was the building of railroads across
the prairies known Is "the great Amer
iean desert" and over the painless
Rocky mountains 40 years ago and less.
The history of roads, including rail
roads, is the history of civilization.
This is true of the whole world, as it
is In our country.
AS an example of how our colonial
leaders were slowly feeling their way
ON this subject, here is an extract from
letter written November 30, 17s5, by
George Washington to Gov. Patrick
Kenry of Virginia.:
SrDo you not think, my dear sir, that the
credit, the saving and convenience OF this
.cauntry all require that our great roads
Asading from one place to another should
he Strengthened, shortened and established
NY law, and the power In the county courts
ito alter them be withdrawn? To me these
Rulings seem indispensably necessary, and
ln Is my opinion that they will take place
'an time"
Does it not seem strange that the
great Washington knew so little of
good roads? He was reaching out into
Ethe dark, for he knew not exactly what.
He entertained the opinion that the
making of good roads twill take place
Iin time" He was right; but it was a
sSery long time after he had studied
fthe subject and many years after he
twas dead, for he had been in his grave
ten years when the Old York road
Mas taken under serious considera-
Mon.
& The people in the states where no
|nad tax is paid by the farmers, who
Hork out" their share on the roads,
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CHARTER NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that an application
will be made to the Governor OF the Common
wealth OF Pennsylvania on Friday March 2lst,
1902, by Frederick II Eston, William II Woodln
and Sterling w. Dickson, under the Act OF AS
sembly OF the commonwealth OF Pennsylvania,
entitled IAN Act to provide for the incorpora-
tion and regulation OF certain corporations"
approved April Goth, 1874, and the supplements
thereto, for the charter OF an Intended corpora
tion to be called the Berwick Land and I'M
provement Company, the character and object
of which is to purchase or lease real estate I'M
proved or unmproved, improving the same, and
holding, leasing and selling the same In such
parts or parcels, at such price and upon SUCH
terms as may be determined by the Association,
and for these purposes TO have, possess and en-
JOY, all the rights, benefits and privileges OF the
said Act OF Assembly and Its supplements.
v. II. JESSUP, JR,.
273t' Solicitor
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HISTORIAN AT WORK
What He Found Out About EarIy
Roads in America.
washington Was Deeply Interested
In the Construction Of Solid
Highways-Cnlhoun Part
I'm the Agitation.
Especial Washington Letter.l

UTHEN Maurice y. Eldridge was
wv acting director of the office of
public road inquiries for the
department of agriculture he made a
study of the history of highway con
ssruction in our republic, and the re-
suits of his research were given to-day.
80 brief, for the information of the
readers of this newspaper.
The sentiment expressed by Mr.. FL
aridge will Inject with general approval;
@,lf our first settlers had arrived when
ahe Roman empire was at the zenith
Of its glory, our republic would now
be bound together with perfect sys-
ten of magnifcently constructed
highways" True, the Romans were
good road builders, the first and the
greatest of whom we have history.
The expansion of that empire made
GOOD roads as necessary IS soldiers and
statesmen. The mighty legions of
Rome required good roads for troops
and impe dimenta; also for couriers.
civil and military. The cavalry and
chsriots, the big catapults, the am
munition wagons and supply wagons
we're heavier than those used by mod
ern armies. Moreover, Rome was
trofiicker, and as industrious in spread
lug her commerce as the Yankee ma
tion of this present day; and good
roads were necessary for commerce.
But Rome was declining when this
continent was discovered and settled.
The immigrants came from England
and France mostly, countries which
still used road systems inherited from
the dark and illiterate ages. Naturally
our first settlers knew nothing of road
building, for they had received no in
struetion to that end.
For more than a century after the
settlement at Plymouth Rock no ef-
forts were systemat tically made to pre-
pare roads over which passengers or
supplies could be safely transported.
Each individual blazed his way, as did
the Indians before them. They clung
close to seashore and streams, thereby
maintaining personal and commercial
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work, and there is a monument at
Wheeling commemorating his services.
The doctrine of "state sovereignty"
which played such an important part
in all national legislation prior to 1861,
operated against further appropria-
tions for national highways, President
Monroe having vetoed large appro-
priation bill for this purpose, on March
l3, 1917. 1t is a singular fact that
John c. Calhoun, chief champion of the
doctrine of state sovereignty, had
spoken and voted for that appropria-
tion. But instead of voting money out
of the national treasury for highways,
the different states were allowed GER
tain percentages from the sales of pub
lie lands for the purpose of building
roads and levees. The Cumberland road
received annual appropriation until
1922, when President Monroe inter
posed a veto In 1890, on similar
grounds, President Jackson vetoed an
act authorizing a government sub
scription to stock in turnpike COM
pany.
On the Fourth of July, 1928, ground
was broken for the beginning of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, the cere-
mony being performed under the direc-
tion of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton,
the then only surviving signer of the
declaration of independence. This
beginning of railroad construction by
the "state sovereignty" people as an
argument against appropriations for
turnpikes. They said that railroads
would soon supersede turnpikes, any
way. They were wrong, but they had
their way.
States and counties and cities then
began local construction Of roads.
Thousands of miles of plank roads
were built. They were popular roads
for time, particularly in the prairie
states; but the planks soon rotted
away, and the plank roads ceased to
exist. Few people living remember
them. Then came the corduroy roads
Over one of these from Cleveland to
Sandusky, in 1s42, Charles Dickens
travelled, and his description of the
journey is one of the most entertaining
and amusing of his voluminous writ
ings.
From 1854 to 1860 $1,6O0,OOO were
appropriated for military roads"
principally in western territories. In
this manner the friends of good roads
circumvented the estate sovereignty"
opponents of government appropria-
tions for good roads. But this sub
ject is becoming national once more,
although more than half of the states
are working under good road laws.
What the congress will do in the mat
ter cannot be anticipated, but the de-
partment of agriculture has ample evil
dence from all over the country that
the people are looking for national ac-
tion. SMITH d. FRY.
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EXECUTRIX'S SALE
-Or VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE.

Pursuant to an order OF the Orphans Court
OF Columbia County, Pennsylvania, the under
signed executrlX or the last will and testa-
ment OF Samuel Hutchings, late OF Hemlock
township, said county, deceased, Will sell, at
public sale, on the premises on
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2S, 1902,
at one o'clock p. M, the following four adjoin-
ing tracts OF land, situate In Hemlock town
ship, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, bounded
and described as follows, to wit:
TRACT NO. 1.-Bounded ON the north by land
now or late of william Branch and Philip
Tabbs, on the east by land now or late OF John
and sylvester Pursel, on the south by land now
or late OF George Fry, and on the west by land
Of James Gulllver, containing
ACRE AND SO PERCHES,
strict measure
TRACT NO. 2.-BeRinning at a stone corner,
in line OF land now or late OF VIM. Appleman
and John Kitchen; thence by land OF John
Kitchen south two and one-half degrees west,
ninety-two and eight-tenths perches to a red
oak thence by lands now or late OF John and
Sylvester Pursel south eighty-seven degrees
west, thirty.six perches to stone; thence by
land now or late OF Philip Tabb north one-nalf
perches TO a stone; thence by land of Samuel
Hutchings' estate south eighty-nine and three
rourths degrees east, one and five-tenths
perches to a stone; thence north three-fourths
OF degree east, thirteen and three-tenths
perches to a stone; thence north elghty-nine
and three-fourths degrees west, twelve perches
to a stone thence north one-half degree east,
sixty-seven perches to a stone; thence south
"a oh w. an Of m n
a stone, the place OF beginning, containing
IS ACRES AND I4s PERCHES,
strict measure.
TRACT NO. 3-Bounded on the north by other
lands OF Samuel Hutchings' estate. on the east
by the same, on the south by lands now or late
OF Philip Tabb. and on the west by land OF
James CULVER, containing
ACRE, STRICT MEASURE.
TRACT NO. 4,-Bounded on the north by land
now or late OF Philip Tabo, on the east by other
lands of Samuel Hutchings' estate, on the
south by the same, and on the west by lands OF
James CULVER, containing
4 OF AN ACRE OF LAND.
All of the aforementioned tracts are ad-
Joining and will be sold as one farm, contain
Ing, In all,
2S ACRES AND los PERCHES
OF land, on which are erected large
FRAME DWELLING HOUSE,
barn and outbuildlngs, excellent water and
good fruit, all in good state OF cultivation, ex
cept small piece OF wood land.
TERMS OF SALE Ten per cent. of one
fourth of the purchase money to be paid at the
striking down OF the property; the ne-fourth
less the ten per cent at the confirmation Of
sale, and the remaining three-fourths In one
year thereafter, with interest from contlrma- |
tion nisi. .,,e.,,,
II. Mont. SMITH. Atty. EXecutrix.
ii. j. PURsEL, Auctioneer, /
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G. c. PEACOCK AND L. e. Court OF Common
WALLER TRUSTEES, Pleas Of columbia Co,
VS.. THE MAGEE CAR No ilS, December t.,
PET WORKS. 1900
The undersigned Auditor. appointed oy the
said Court to distribute the balance OF proceeds
remaining In the hands OF the Sheriff from sale
OF real estate OF the above named dtfendant,
will sit, at his ofice, In Bloomsbury, Pa, on
Tuesday, March 18th, 1909, at ten o'clock a. M,
for the performance OF mis- duties when and
where all persons having claims upon said fund
must appear and present the same, or be for-
ever debarred from any share thereof.
22o4t j. b. ROBSON, Auditor.
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81 AND 7-Io PERCHES,
whereon is erected a two-story

FRAME DWELLING HOUSE.
Seized, taken In execution, at the suit of The
Cooperative Savings and Loan Association, OF
Baltimore, Md, to use OF Enoch Harlan and
Roger 7. Gill, Receivers, vs. stanley Dodson,
and 10 be sold as the property OF Stanley Dod-
son.
DANIEL KNoRR,
KARNs, Atty. Sheriff.
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SHERIFF'S SALE.

By virtue OF writ OF FL, Fa., issued out OF
the Court OF Common Pleas OF Columbia Co.,
Pa ami TO me directed, there will be exposed
to public sale, at the Court House, in Blooms
burg county and state aforesaid, on
SATURDAY, MARCH IS, 1902,
al two o'clock p. m, all that certain piece OF
land, situate In the Township OF Briarcreek,
Columbia County, Pennsylvania, bounded and
described as follows: on the north by land OF
VIM. Schuyler, now George II. Nestler, on the
east by land OF q. A. Lamon, on tie south by
land OF Geo. 4. Bown and on the west by land
OF II J. Edwards and william Hippensteel, con-
tanning
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SHERIFFS SALE.

BY virtue of writ OF Fl. Fa. issued out
OF the Court OF Common Pleas Of Columbia
County Pennsylvania and to me directed there
will be exposed to public sale at the Court
House, in Bloomsbury, county and state afore-
said, on
SATURDAY, MARCH IS, 1902,
at ten o'clock a M, all that parcel, or piece OF
land situate in Benton borough. Columbia
County, ennsylvania, bounded and described
as Follows: Beginning at a post, thence by
lands OF Martha J. McHenry south flfty-sX de-
grees thirty minutes east, four hundred thirty
five and seven-tenths feet to post thence
along land OF A. Good south eight degrees thirty
minutes west, flfty-five and two-tenths feet to
a post thence along land OF VIM. Robbins
north nfty-six degrees thirty minutes
west, four hundred ffty-eight and nine
tenths feet to a post; thence along land
OF same north thirty-eight degrees thirty min
utes east, fifty feet to the place of beginning,
containing
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IS ACRES,
FRAME DWELLING HOUSE,

board barn, chicken house and outbulidings.
There is also a well of water at the house and
small apple orchard.
Seized, taken IN execution, at the suit of W
II. Woodin, now to the use of Henry j. Ed
wards, VS.. Anna NJ. sitter Lynn and Levi S.
Lynn, and TO be sold as the property OF Anna
M, Sitter Lynn.
DANIEL KNoRR,
EVANS ATTY. Sheriff.
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20 miles apart, where tolls of two dol
lars were collected from every travel
er. The next good road constructed
was the Lancaster and Philadelphia
turnpike, which is until this day an
excellent work on the macadam plan.
In 1906 the government had received
over 100000 from the sale of public
lands in Ohio, and the congress appro-
priated $4,000 for the beginning of the
construction of the Cumberland road,
from Cumberland, Nd, to Wheeling,
Va. This was the first national high
way. 1t was we'll macadamized, the
rivers and creeks were spanned by
stone bridges and toll houses were sup
piled with strong iron gates. Henry
Clay was the chief advocate of this
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Willing to COncede 1t.

"Don't you think She has a queenly
figure"
81 never saw a queen, but if they
weigh 200 pounds and have double
shins, l guess she has."-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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DIVORCE NOTICE.

To Honora Teller, late OF Bloomsbury, Colum-
bia County. Pennsylvania:
Whereas, Frank Teller, your husband, has
filed a libel In the Court or Common Pleas or
No 8, December Term. 1901, rraying a divorce
against you Now you are hereby notified and
required to appear In said Court on the first
Monday OF May, A. d. 1902 TO answer the COM
plants OF the said FRANK Teller, and In default
OF such appearance you will De liable to have
divorce granted In your absence.
22o It DANIEL KNORR, Sheriff
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AUDITORS NOTICE.

KARNs, Atty.